tykiww/MISeD · Datasets at Hugging Face

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So we'll just crack on, um like to maybe start with the Industrial Designer if it's possible.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Uh uh okay.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Um uh the con today is the concep today.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "I'll just.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "This uh meeting is the conceptual design phase and is um Sorry about this.. And is to cover things like um what the parts might be made of, um, can we uh outsource these from elsewhere, um will we have to construct any items ourselves?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Uh I have a presentation I just saved it in the uh the folder.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah, okay well I'll just uh I'll load it up then. Um. Which one do y", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Uh.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Oh, interface concept?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah, that's me.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "That's you. We've got trend watching, that's you.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "It's uh Components design.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Components design.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": ".", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Alright. So Uh. The case uh le that's what I wrote first of all, could be plastic our plastic. Uh but later on we found out that um it can be rubber as well, or titanium or even wood. So uh we decide what it's gonna be. Probably plastic. Uh we need the infra-red transmitter. Get that off the shelf. Uh joystick we'll probably if we're gonna use it, um could be plastic w or rubber even as well. Um if you go on to the next slide. Uh If you go on to f uh findings, it's like two or three slides down.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Right. So, this is what I found we can use. Uh three different types of batteries. Um can either use a hand dynamo, or the kinetic type ones, you know that they use in watches, or else uh a solar powered one.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Okay. Now,", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Um.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "the kinetic one, we've'cause that's the ones where like you the movement causes it.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Cost is Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Um the bat uh the battery for a a watch wouldn't require a lot of power, would be my one query.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Is a kinetic one going to be able to supply enough power?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "There's also a watch moves around a great deal more.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Do you think?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Uh.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "W", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah, I don't think it would. Um. And solar cells, I dunno about that.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Uh. We should probably just use conventional batteries. Um, just like in usual remote controls.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Which I suppose as well would allow us to go off the shelf again, you'd say?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Um. Yeah. Um. And these are three different types of or two different types three different types of shapes you can have. Uh one is a flat one, and then more original ones are single curved one or one with a double curved. Um the materials are tha there as you can see, but uh you can't have a titanium one for a double curved,", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Titanium, the really strong metal, titanium?", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "uh which would be Yeah,", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Is it not also it's expensive?", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "and light. Uh, i think so as well, yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Um. Um.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "They make mountain bikes out of that, don't they. So it's really light as well.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Curious. Um, I don't know if you'd be able to off the top of your head or not, the single curved and double curved, would you be able to give an example?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Um. T yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Um could you maybe draw something? I you don't doesn't have to be perfect, it's just'cause I'm not quite sure if I understand the difference between the two.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Uh. Well for a curved, well I was thinking to f for to sit in your the palm of your hand. Uh maybe like this, with the uh joy pad here. Joystick here. And maybe um an okay button around here, so that the thumb can uh use it quite easily. Um I don't exactly Double curved. It probably means this is probably double curved. Uh whereas a single curved would be like that. I guess. Or not necessarily.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "So it might literally just be.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Two curves.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "okay.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah like that. Whereas this is two curves. Um so I guess that's what they mean by uh double curve.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Alright.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Um which obviously it looks better than the single curve, but uh you can't have it in titanium, which is uh a nice material. Uh", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "and for the buttons, um it can have the scroll wheel which they use in mouses for com P_C_s. Uh but um it requires a more expensive chip to use, and if you wanna use L_C_D_ it's even more expensive. So you have to decide, there's trade-offs there. Um if you want the buttons to be oh yeah, if you have a double curve uh control and it's rubber, then you have these rubber buttons as well. But you're gonna ha I reckon you're gonna have to have uh key a number keypad anyway for the amount of channels these days. You wouldn't want to just have to scroll through all the channels to get to the one you want. You wanna enter just the number of it, if you know it. So um I reckon we're gonna have to have a number keypad anyway. Do you think?", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Okay, that was definitely something we can talk about. Um so you've got a little bit about the the chip that we might require as well?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah. So, depends where gonna spend the money if you want the f fancy L_C_D_ display.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Um, do you have any idea so far, like when we're saying that we'd need an advanced chip for an L_C_D_, does that in shoot the cost up by a drastic amount? Or?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Need an advanced chip for the L_C_D_. Is that did I.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Well I think compared to say just pressing buttons.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yep.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Advanced, like three eight six advance.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "if you press a button that sends a certain transmission through the infra-red, whereas I think if we're controlling the L_C_D_ we definitely require a much more powerful chip. Just compared to the chip you would use for pushing buttons I think is the the point being made.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Okay. Okay, sure.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "If I've not over-stepped. Yeah?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah i", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Okay, um should I go on, or go back?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Um.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Mm, if we only have twelve Pounds fifty, twelve Euros, not even twelve Pounds. Twelve Euros, what's that, like eight pounds or something like that, nine Pounds?", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Well we'd also be relying on the um the bulk buying in producement and such. I assume.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Okay, that's good point.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "We have to look into the costs of those. So, sorry.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Uh the previous slides just explain what's in the internal components of the uh remote control. If you go to the one before that uh so it just says what it does, translate the key press into an infra-red signal and this is received by the T_V_. Uh the chip just needs to detect the signal or detect the key press and then uh it'll send it to the tr the amplifier.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "And uh then the next slide just shows how the uh copper wires uh interact with the buttons, the rubber buttons, uh to uh get sent to the chip. So that's just how the control works inside. Um we have to decide on what buttons we're gonna use.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": ".", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Um.. So in the information that you've been supplied, how feasible would you say that the idea of using an L_C_D_ looks?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Um I think we can do it if uh we use conventional batteries and not have solar cells or kinetic. Um and then maybe use single curved uh case. Because we might need it to be curved for the uh thumb to use the joyst joystick easily. Um and then you'll need the advanced chip obviously for the L_C_D_.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Um I mean that sounds like quite a good requirement to me. Um conventional battery would seem to make sense.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Um I'm not sure if there's any cost differences between single and double curved and I'm I don't know about anybody else, but plastic or rubber as a traditional form of casing would seem to be a good way forward?.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm. Um I'm actually gonna be bold and go oo go straight for rubber um for reasons I'll go into uh in more detail.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "I also have a preference for rubber.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Okay, well um.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Based on my research.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah, well will we move on to user interface, and.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": ".", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "yeah? Um sorry,", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "as long as were you? Yeah. Okay.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yep I'm finished.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Um and d d d interface concept.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yep. Now I'm gonna have to work between the uh the slides and the uh and the white board", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "'cause I actually I have some fairly concrete things this time. Uh um I was given a an H_T_M_L_ file giving um various ideas from uh from other previous remote control designs, and pretty much decided to just dump them all. I wasn't very impressed by them and they didn't seem to re uh nothing I saw seemed to meet the sorts of design specifications that we're going for today. Um so what I ra rather than looking at other remotes, uh ra oomp be better to simply look at the human hand. Um and try and f um and try and figure out a way of laying out the elements we've already decided on, um so that if r a if so that the finger is e each finger or thumb is wherever it needs to be already. Um so uh next slide, if you please. Um and what we've basically decided on was the the um the joy uh the joystick, two function buttons and the L_C_D_, just keep it paired down to the absolute minimum. I don't actually think we need the um the numeric keypad because if you m because one of the menus that we could have available um v via via the L_C_D_ is one where you scroll through channels, so if there's something f and be bear in mind since this isn't meant to work for um", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "digital.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "f f f for di for digital or um or for or for cable, whatever,", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Ah, okay.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "you're basically looking at four or five terrestrial channels, and then um your V_C_ uh and then the channel through your V_C_R_ and or D_V_D_ player. And or um box. So it's not I'm not really excessively concerned about that. You must have two two modes, basic mode, where um the joystick's uh left right left right for channels, up down for volume, um and the uh uh and the menu mode for uh further functions. Um now the reason I was particularly interested in using rubber for this is that if we're going to have a highly ergonomic design, um it needs to be ergonomic for left or right handed people. Um, so you", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Can I just jump in slightly there?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "That would suggest the double curved design's probably going to be most appropriate, then.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yes, absolutely.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "okay.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Um, basi basically what I basically what the what be having um, I would say, the the whole thing articulated at two points, so that if you if you're handing it from a lef uh left or right handed user you can adjust it so that the um the L_C_ the L_C_D_ and the uh The joystick would be in the right place. And also this is a rather nicer de uh design gimmick that the the um you know the whole thing you know it should have sort of organic feel to it", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "that it should be, you know, soft to touch and can be moved around all nice. Um okay", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "on to on to the next uh to the next slide.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Um, yeah. Just to let you know we'll probably be quite tight for time as well,", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "because I think you've probably got a lot you'd like to say, I guess.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah,'kay basically um I can add pretty pictures to this. The um Assuming the hand the hand to be in about sort of this position, um hol uh holding the remote, the um the joystick unit should rest over the uh the joint of the f of the uh four finger so that it's directly accessible for the thumb. Um and it would need t there would need to be a it would need to be articulated just below that so that it could be switched around for uh left or right handed users. So. You then have a grip section that can be more or less the same irrespective of handedness. You just have big two big buttons that cover most of the area so it can in the upper part, one for the four finger, one for the middle finger. Um, and that.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Is this the joystick?", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Th this part here is the joystick. This would be the actual grip. Probably where you'd want to have the battery as well.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "That would be probably the bulkiest part. And you then have, at the uh at the bottom, the L_C_D_, and this would need to be articulated as well. And basically I'd want this to rest here, right at the base of the wrist. So it would fit just nicely in the hand. And again, this part could be rotated, so it can So so so that it can be adjusted to either left or right handed user. Um So the t uh the top function button in basic mode would be the on off switch and menu mode would be the enter button. And then the bottom function buttons switches between between modes. Um now programming it actually thi this is one thing I've found with um the replacement remote control. Programming them can be a right pain. So I thought th the simplest way around that would be to have um a cable to connect it to the computer some some fair iv fairly fairly simple software on the computer just so that you on your computer just so that you could um pr program it at a rather in a rather more comfortable interface. And you could download programs for it from uh for uh T_V_s from all sort of main manufacturers. Um though you i it would be necessary to have uh have a m uh have a ha have a mode for programming it without the computer, uh just in case there are there are still people left out there who don't have them yet. Um. But uh. Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "That's that's my idea.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Okay. Excellent, right. Um uh.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm.'Kay.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "File open.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "We go.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Trend watching.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Okay. So uh to gather my research, two basic methods. We compared uh whether people want the remote control to do a lot of stuff or they want it to look cool. And then we we research uh fashion trends in Europe, what's what's the new black,", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "you know, as it goes. Next slide please. Uh we found, in order of importance, people want the remote control to look cool more than they want it to to be cool. As in they want it to do a lot of good s they want it to look like it does a lot, and if it does do a lot that's a bonus, but they don't care so much, you know. They want it to be that's sounds a bit like a contradiction. Technology technical technologically innovative. People want it to be that, but s still they care more about the way it looks than what it does. So like the interface is really important. And easy to use, it it just so happens that uh from the second point to the third point is twice as important I mean the second point is twice as important as the third point. People want it I is it has to be cooler than easy to use, you know, if it has the newest features, even if it's difficult to use, prefer it to have the newest features. And if it's easy to use that's a bonus. The fashion, now this is seems a bit odd to me, but fruit and veg is the new is the new black for furniture, for clothes, for shoes. How that relates to a remote control I don't know.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "But I I see I come on to that in the next in the next slide. Spongy. I've als I've been saying everything's the new black. Well spongy's the new black as well. So we have the choice between rubber and plastic. If it's the type of rubber that you can squeeze, you know, it's spongy, then can I skip the rest?", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Oh yeah, I forgot to mention that. The uh rubber material is the type of stress ball material, not just normal rubber.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Okay. Okay, so", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Forgot to say that.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "kinda spongy material.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "So um so my personal opinion? Um we want something fancy and techni technologically innovative, obviously. But what we what we need is something that looks like it's from the future that looks cool, that's that's different, you know, that's everyone has a white remote control, black remote control, you need something cool. Like, titanium is cool but it's expensive. And maybe it's a bit of overkill for a remote control. Um now the fruit and veg options, either we we go in that direction or we stay totally away from it. Um I mean the research did come up with fruit and veg, so maybe it is important for it's the up to the interface guy. So if we stay away from it, s you know stay away from it, but if we're gonna go along with it then it doesn't necessarily have to be like an apple or something like that, or a kiwi fruit. It could be something like, I say potato peeler but I'm sure you guys have a have a much cooler idea than I do. So I think cool is the key. Few questions about a spongy remote control. I've never seen one before. I've seen plastic remote controls. I think maybe they were I don't know, back in the day when they first came up with remote controls, they had a reason for it being", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "sturdy, you know. For being strong and sturdy. So um if we want something strong and sturdy, I say stay with plastic or titanium, but if we go with spongy, we can stress that you can drop this as many times as you want, it doesn't matter, it's spongy material, it's not gonna break, you know. I just don't know how the L_E_D_ and the lights are gonna fit into a spongy material because it's not gonna be completely squeezable. So how do things fit it? And if we are gonna use spongy, we can say it's long lasting, you know it's damage resistant and stuff like that, so. So just to summarise, people want stuff that's cool, that's that looks like it's cool, and if it is cool then that's a bonus doesn't have to be um people like fruit and veg. We can either go down that alley or stay totally away from it. People like spongy material. If we're gonna use spongy material we have to think of how practical it is, and how we can further promote that idea. And also, this was this year. So, things change all the time, every year you know they they always talk about this year, this is the new black. Well next year something else is gonna be the new black", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "and we're stuck with last year's fruit and veg type stuff.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "'Kay. That's me.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Well, um I would say that the most you could probably hope for is gaining a year's lead on most people anyway. You always have to bring out new designs, so if we can get next year then that's possibly a good place to start anyway. Um.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Seems like a a lot of the components could be off the shelf, so I don't exactly what cost would be incurred. Um I can see your point about the number keypad, but I've I would say that we can probably incorporate it into the menu system if you need to do traversal of a large number of channels.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "My feeling would be that even if at a later date this was to be taking control of um boxes as well um having the use of the L_C_D_ and the joystick would probably allow you to manipulate enough channel numbers for you to be.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah, actually if you've got a lot of channels, the number keypad can be quite annoying as well, becau it's you know if you're trying to remember what uh, you know, what number's the discovery channel or whatever. It's just irritating.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "That's a good point.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "But if you h but but but if you have a me but if you have a menu structure, then you can sub-group them.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "You can incorporate names into the menu. Okay.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "So you.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Even news, music. Like they do on uh sky digital kinda.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "So what it looks like to me is we'll use a large number of standard components, um, say something like um lithium ion battery, the kind that you find in most um small hand held devices now. Um Looks like we going for a double curved design. Um I don't know what cost implications there are in that. Um, looks like we're pretty much decided on some kind of flexible rubber. Though I'd have to say depending on how flexible it is, we might need to have some kind of inner frame.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah, I I would say definitely, I mean I mean I mean the the idea of having it sort of articulated i th there would be basically two points of articulation. W um one below and one above the m the uh the main sort of grip. So.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Do you think there's any way we could maybe remove the articulation? I can see why it looks appealing, but it could be a weak point in um the structure, do you think?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "That would be a worry of mine.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "If you're going with the fruit and veg thing, looks like a banana.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "I d I don't thi I don't think that it would be a a structural weakness,", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "..", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "F if you wanna design it that way..", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "I mean if you have a firm s sub-structure, you can then incorporate articulation into that. If you then have a sort of outer skin of mm flexible, spongy rubber then you have something that is you know very much you know organic, and I think would look rather co I mean mi rather cool. I mean my drawing there doesn't doesn't do it justice, it makes it makes it look more a little bit more like a vibrator than a than a uh than a remote control,", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "but uh.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah, we won't add that functionality.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Okay. Course not.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "However, one interesting point is, I don't know how serious you were there, but we if we take some of the ideas why don't we make the damn thing yellow to incorporate the des the colour of the logo?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Sure, yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "I dunno.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "It's an certainly a different colour from your average um.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Make it harder to lose, as well.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "That's true..", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Sure.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Was there anything in your research.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "The noise for when you lose the banana, um f yeah, for when you lose the remote control, it could be like a a monkey noise or something like that, rather than a standard beep beep.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Y you know, you lose the monkey the banana,", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "monkey.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "y you lose the banana, you press a button, and you hear like monkey screams or something like that to direct you towards the banana.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "I th uh I mean if it I think that's something that could perhaps be programmable, though maybe have monkey as default. Um.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "S oh, I was gonna talk about the programmable remote control. Now I think it'd be cool if you had one remote control that could work with all T_V_s, you know you s you click a button and it finds the frequency that works with your particular television.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "But why you'd need to program it like as as a standard feature, I I don't know.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Well basi basically the um for f for uh I mean e each manufacturer will have a partic will have a particular command set that uh the T_V_ responds to.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "It's not simply a matter of frequency.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "So um usually what's done is you have this big booklet full of different possi you'll have all of them sort of programmed in to the uh remote, and you'll have this little booklet of codes you then find your um ma uh find your manufacturer", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "and try the different codes that", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "come under that manufacturer's name'til you find the right one.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "That's because televisions, they don't give the remote control any type of feedback when you send it.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah, that's right.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "So that's that's quite annoying and we probably would still have to do that. But if we had um some sort of hook-up to your computer as an option, then if you've got a computer you can avoid that rather irritating thing.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "An interesting point is that if the person doesn't have the computer, we can still make the process easier because instead of having to look up codes, maybe we can have it that one of the options they have is that they look up the name of the company on the L_C_D_", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "and then they maybe look up different names of um different actual units that have been produced.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Or we have the remote control just go through them until it's like does this do the correct function, and such.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Is it is it actually a book of names to digits, or is it like a few pages?", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Um booklet. Some pages.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "I was just thinking, if we were to store this information, some type of mapping. This person probably need to use this feature like once, you know, when you first buy the remote control, or whenever they buy a new television, so", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Doesn't have to be used very often", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "once every s", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "that's right, yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah,", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah. But it's a but it's a nuisance.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "and it's.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "And it's a nuisance very close to the to um to actually purchasing it, so it's something that you're likely to be thinking about.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "If you if there's w i if there's one in the shop that's that says it can avoid much of that nuisance, you might be favourably inclined towards it. Um mm.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Okay, this just to give us a rough idea of what we're meant to be doing for the next stage.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "I'm pretty sure that you got that anyway. This is the conceptual one. Um. I think we've come up I think we've covered everything we need to here. Um I think we've decided on what, you know, decided on standard items for most of um rubber and such, so we're now looking at the detailed design and what we need to be doing for the next meeting. Um So for example, um I'll just start at the top, you've got yourself and the Industrial Designer gonna be working quite closely at this stage'cause it'll be hard not to, obviously. Um looking from prototyping of some des description using clay. Um I suppose you'll be told a lot more about that as uh progress. Um The user interface design, They're kind of it looks they're the idea I've pushed forward so far is maybe more of a physical one there, whereas possibly be more interested in maybe how the L_C_D_'s going to incorporate, do you think?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Or do you s perceive that most the design design decisions still need to be based on the physical layout?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Um well I I think other than ge getting a sort of more aesthetically pleasing form for it, um mo most of the sort of layout design decisions are are made, I would say. Um but then again, the um the menu structure to to a considerable extent that's gonna vary according to the model of television, and also any customisations that the user might wish to incorporate. So um and one of the nice things about having an L_C_D_ and a menu structure is that there is that flexibility to it.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm, that's very true. Um. Okay. Um got product evaluation as well. Um.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah, you see I don't some of these things kinda logically follow the others. How can t product evaluation, doesn't that come after actually seen a product prototype.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "I I think we'd be yeah, no, it'd be more a case of how do we envisage us performing the product evaluation once we have a model to test with.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Oh, that's the okay, sure sure sure.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Um so it'd be a case of do you think that just bringing users in to have them test it out, uh maybe putting a certain number of products into the field in certain places which I suppose is quite similar.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Or just kind of hitting the streets and you know saying this is a new remote control, what do you think of the look of it? Um.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Okay, sure. At this stage we still have no no target audience or.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "I think the target audience is pretty much anybody under the age of say maybe sixty or something ludicrous.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "'Kay.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Um the reason I'm saying that is we're just looking at a a replacement remote control, something that's stylish, so maybe you're even just maybe you're narrowing down your target audience simply by saying", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "And it's stylish.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "if they're buying it that often or they're maybe looking to replace something then, they've got a bit of free cash, so that puts them potentially in the younger age bracket.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Maybe even single, just for the reasons of um uh excess cash flow.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Although of course I mean at twenty five Euros, I don't think we're looking at charging the earth for the uh device.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yep. Okay.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Think that's well within the normal bracket. Um your idea of the U_S_B_ would I think would largely depend on the cost. U_S_B_'s definitely one of the cheapest interfaces out there, but it might push the cost of the overall unit up'cause it would require not just the connection but the chip for communicating with the rest of the system. That one might have to be based on.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Programmable memory as well.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "The U_S_B_ for which?", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "For the remote control.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "The the idea was that maybe it could connect up for um allowing a software interface on the P_C_ for a larger programming", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Oh right, okay.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "due to the fact that we've gone for such a nice, easy minimal design, normally. Um.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "We've w definitely talking some type of.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "But didn't they just say it's just for T_V_, or are we gonna.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "It's just for T_V_, but for", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Different.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "programming it to use your T_V_, you might hook it up to the P_C_.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Okay, yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "I'm not sure, but I'm thinking maybe that the additional cost of the U_S_B_ might be prohibitive.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "We don't know unless it would make sense to.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah,", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "But you're gonna need some type of flash memory or something.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "I mean it's.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Well something that doesn't.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "you wouldn't have to redo the whole thing once the batteries are changed, you know, once you turn off the power.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah. The other thing I mean it I mean it would need to ha it would need to have um some sort of on board memory anyway.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Um f for one for one thing because I do think that the menu system should be um uh I mean although you know, it's not going to be terribly complicated if it's just controlling one device, the menu system ought to be um o ought to be customisable and uh.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Different languages, uh different skins and stuff like that.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm. W", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm. How uh how uh how you want say the um the the menu structure for flicking through channels if you've got lots of channels. That sort of thing.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Sure. I if it was customisable as in different languages and stuff, that does open it is supposed to be international, right? So.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "It would make sense to. I would say to.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "It would make sense if you could.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Um and we'd better be careful about the time as well. We've already had the five minute warning,", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "so. Um. I would say yeah. International would make sense. Um you're gonna look at product evaluation. I'm I'd better start writing up a hell of a lot of crap. Um you're gonna look a bit more at the kind of the physical make up you say.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Um looks like we're gonna need a maybe a kind of prototype in clay. Uh we'll see how that goes. Um.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Are we going to be supplied with the clay is what I want to know.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "So um", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Where is the clay?", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "do I think we've got an idea of where we need to go for the next meeting, would you say?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "they're going with the fashion thing, like the design, spongy rubber.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "The fruit and veg. This one.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Mm. I th I think I would largely want to actually steer clear of the whole sort of fruit and veg thing.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah, I would s that would be my my feeling.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah..", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Bu but um but the spongy idea I like. I like it a lot.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "We seem to have quite a general consensus that the idea of the the r rubber could be quite.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "I having it i having it sort of br bright yellow I think that's quite a good idea, though maybe we could have options for colours as well..", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "and again this has the advantage of being harder to lose.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Sure. I mean we are trying to promote a remote control, but we wanna keep the company brand as well,", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "so.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "So we always need to remember that somewhere we're meant to be getting the slogan on. Possibly I'm think I'm not sure but I'm seeing a little bit of space around maybe the joystick area which could be used. Um.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm. Yeah. I was like like I said before I I think we should have the R_R_ on the uh on the top function button.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Okay. 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Huh?", "speakerName": "Grad F" }, { "text": "Should we, uh, close the door, maybe?", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "It it's a fairly good mike, actually.", "speakerName": "Grad F" }, { "text": "So it's Yeah. Huh.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Well, I shouldn't say it's a good mike. All I really know is that the signal level is OK. I don't know if it's a the quality.", "speakerName": "Grad F" }, { "text": "Well, that's a", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Ugh! So I didn't send out agenda items because until five minutes ago we only had one agenda item and now we have two. So. And, uh.", "speakerName": "Grad F" }, { "text": "OK. So, just to repeat the thing bef that we said last week, it was there's this suggestion of alternating weeks on more, uh, automatic speech recognition related or not? Was that sort of the division?", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "Grad F" }, { "text": "So which week are we in?", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Well We haven't really started, but I thought we more we more or less did Meeting Recorder stuff last week, so I thought we could do, uh.", "speakerName": "Grad F" }, { "text": "I thought we had a thing about speech recognition last week too.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "But I figure also if they're short agenda items, we could also do a little bit of each.", "speakerName": "Grad F" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "So. I seem to be having difficulty getting this adjusted. Here we go.", "speakerName": "Grad F" }, { "text": "OK.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "So, uh, as most of you should know, I did send out the consent form thingies and, uh, so far no one has made any Ach! any comments on them. So, no on no one has bleeped out anything.", "speakerName": "Grad F" }, { "text": "Um. Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "So. I don't expect anyone to. But.", "speakerName": "Grad F" }, { "text": "Um. So, w what follows? At some point y you go around and get people to sign something?", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "No. We had spoken w about this before", "speakerName": "Grad F" }, { "text": "Yeah, but I've forgotten.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "and we had decided that they have they only needed to sign once. And the agreement that they already signed simply said that we would give them an opportunity. So as long as we do that, we're covered.", "speakerName": "Grad F" }, { "text": "And how long of an opportunity did you tell them?", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Uh, July fifteenth.", "speakerName": "Grad F" }, { "text": "July fifteenth. Oh, so they have a plenty of time, and y", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Yep.", "speakerName": "Grad F" }, { "text": "Given that it's that long, um, um Why was that date chosen? You just felt you wanted to?", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Jane told me July fifteenth. So, that's what I set it.", "speakerName": "Grad F" }, { "text": "Oh. I just meant that that was the release date that you had on the data.", "speakerName": "Postdoc A" }, { "text": "Oh, OK.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Oh. I I didn't understand that there was something specific.", "speakerName": "Grad F" }, { "text": "I, uh I thought.", "speakerName": "Postdoc A" }, { "text": "You y you had.", "speakerName": "Grad F" }, { "text": "I don't.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "I had heard July fifteenth, so that's what I put.", "speakerName": "Grad F" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Postdoc A" }, { "text": "No, the only th the only mention I recall about that was just that July fifteenth or so is when this meeting starts.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "So.", "speakerName": "Grad F" }, { "text": "That's right. That's why.", "speakerName": "Postdoc A" }, { "text": "Oh, I see.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "You said you wanted it to be available then.", "speakerName": "Postdoc A" }, { "text": "OK.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "I didn't mean it to be the hard deadline.", "speakerName": "Postdoc A" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "It's fine with me if it is, or we cou But I thought it might be good to remind people two weeks prior to that", "speakerName": "Postdoc A" }, { "text": "w", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "in case, uh you know, \" by the way this is your last \"", "speakerName": "Postdoc A" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Uh. Yeah.", "speakerName": "Postdoc A" }, { "text": "We probably should have talked about it, cuz i because if we wanna be able to give it to people July fifteenth, if somebody's gonna come back and say \" OK, I don't want this and this and this used \", uh, clearly we need some time to respond to that. Right?", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Yeah. As I said, we I just got one date", "speakerName": "Grad F" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Damn!", "speakerName": "PhD H" }, { "text": "and that's the one I used.", "speakerName": "Grad F" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "So. But I can send a follow - up. I mean, it's almost all us. I mean the people who are in the meeti this meeting was, uh, these the meetings that in are in set one.", "speakerName": "Grad F" }, { "text": "Was my was my response OK?", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "That's right.", "speakerName": "Postdoc A" }, { "text": "I just wrote you replied to the email saying they're all fine.", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "Right. I mean, that's fine.", "speakerName": "Grad F" }, { "text": "OK, good.", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "I we don't My understanding of what we had agreed upon when we had spoken about this months ago was that, uh, we don't actually need a reply.", "speakerName": "Grad F" }, { "text": "That makes it easy.", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "We just need to tell them that they can do it if they want.", "speakerName": "Grad F" }, { "text": "OK. I just didn't remember, but.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "And so no reply is no changes.", "speakerName": "Grad F" }, { "text": "And he's got it so that the default thing you see when you look at the page is \" OK \".", "speakerName": "Postdoc A" }, { "text": "OK.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "So that's very clear all the way down the page, \" OK \". And they have two options they can change it to. One of them is \" censor \", and the other one is \" incorrect \". Is it is your word is \" incorrect \"?", "speakerName": "Postdoc A" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "Grad F" }, { "text": "Which means also we get feedback on if um, there's something that they w that needs to be adjusted, because, I mean, these are very highly technical things. I mean, it's an added, uh, level of checking on the accuracy of the transcription, as I see it. But in any case, people can agree to things that are wrong.", "speakerName": "Postdoc A" }, { "text": "Well.", "speakerName": "Grad F" }, { "text": "So.", "speakerName": "Postdoc A" }, { "text": "Yeah. The reason I did that it was just so that people would not censor not ask to have stuff removed because it was transcribed incorrectly,", "speakerName": "Grad F" }, { "text": "And the reason I liked it was because.", "speakerName": "Postdoc A" }, { "text": "as opposed to, uh.", "speakerName": "Grad F" }, { "text": "was because it, um it gives them the option of, uh, being able to correct it.", "speakerName": "Postdoc A" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "Grad F" }, { "text": "Approve it and correct it. And um. So, you have it nicely set up so they email you and, uh.", "speakerName": "Postdoc A" }, { "text": "When they submit the form, it gets processed and emailed to me.", "speakerName": "Grad F" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm. Mm - hmm. And I wanted to say the meetings that are involved in that set are Robustness and Meeting Recorder.", "speakerName": "Postdoc A" }, { "text": "So.", "speakerName": "Grad F" }, { "text": "The German ones will be ready for next week. Those are three three of those. A different set of people. And we can impose.", "speakerName": "Postdoc A" }, { "text": "The German ones?", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "Uh, well.", "speakerName": "Postdoc A" }, { "text": "Yeah. Those uh.", "speakerName": "PhD H" }, { "text": "NSA.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "OK. I spoke loosely. The the German, French Sorry, the German, Dutch, and Spanish ones.", "speakerName": "Postdoc A" }, { "text": "Spanish. Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Grad F" }, { "text": "Oh, those are the NSA meetings?", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "The non - native.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Those are.", "speakerName": "PhD H" }, { "text": "Yeah. Uh - huh.", "speakerName": "Postdoc A" }, { "text": "German, Dutch, Swiss and Spanish.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Oh, oh! OK.", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "The all non - native.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "That's that's that's r", "speakerName": "Postdoc A" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Grad F" }, { "text": "Uh - huh.", "speakerName": "PhD H" }, { "text": "OK. I'd I d", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "Yeah. It's the other group.", "speakerName": "Postdoc A" }, { "text": "I It was the network network services group.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "OK.", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "Uh - huh. Yeah, exactly. Yeah.", "speakerName": "Postdoc A" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "I didn't mean to isolate them.", "speakerName": "Postdoc A" }, { "text": "Otherwise known as the German, Dutch, and Spanish.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Yeah. Sorry. It was it was not the best characterization.", "speakerName": "Postdoc A" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Grad F" }, { "text": "But what what I meant to say was that it's the other group that's not n no m no overlap with our present members. And then maybe it'd be good to set an explicit deadline, something like a week before that, uh, J July fifteenth date, or two weeks before.", "speakerName": "Postdoc A" }, { "text": "I mean, I would suggest we discuss I mean, if we're going to have a policy on it, that we discuss the length of time that we want to give people,", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Grad F" }, { "text": "so that we have a uniform thing. So, tha that's a month, which is fine. I mean, it seems.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Twelve hours.", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "Well, the only thing I said in the email is that the data is going to be released on the fifteenth. I didn't give any other deadline.", "speakerName": "Grad F" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Postdoc A" }, { "text": "So my feeling is if someone after the fifteenth says, \" wow I suddenly found something \", we'll delete it from our record. We just won't delete it from whatever's already been released.", "speakerName": "Grad F" }, { "text": "Hmm. That's a little bit difficult.", "speakerName": "Postdoc A" }, { "text": "What else can we do?", "speakerName": "Grad F" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Postdoc A" }, { "text": "If someone says \" hey, look, I found something in this meeting and it's libelous and I want it removed \". What can we do?", "speakerName": "Grad F" }, { "text": "Well. That's true.", "speakerName": "Postdoc A" }, { "text": "We have to remove it.", "speakerName": "Grad F" }, { "text": "I I agree with that part, but I think that it would it, uh we need to have, uh, a a a message to them very clearly that beyond this date, you can't make additional changes.", "speakerName": "Postdoc A" }, { "text": "I mean, um, I I i I think that somebody might request something even though we say that. But I think it's good to at least start some place like that.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm. Good.", "speakerName": "Postdoc A" }, { "text": "So if we agreed, OK, how long is a reasonable amount of time for people to have if we say two weeks, or if we say a month, I think we should just say that say that, you know, i a as um, \" per the the the, uh, page you signed, you have the ability to look over this stuff \" and so forth \" and, uh, because we w \" these, uh I would I would imagine some sort of generic thing that would say \" because we, uh, will continually be making these things available to other researchers, uh, this can't be open - ended and so, uh, uh, please give us back your response within this am you know, within this amount of time \", whatever time we agree upon.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Well, did you read the email and look at the pages I sent?", "speakerName": "Grad F" }, { "text": "Did I? No, I haven't yet. No, just.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "No. OK, well why don't you do that and then make comments on what you want me to change?", "speakerName": "Grad F" }, { "text": "No, no. I'm not saying that you should change anything. I I'm what I'm what I'm I'm trying to spark a discussion hopefully among people who have read it so that that you can you can, uh, decide on something.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Postdoc A" }, { "text": "So I'm not telling you what to decide.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Postdoc A" }, { "text": "I'm just saying you should decide something,", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "OK.", "speakerName": "Postdoc A" }, { "text": "and then.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "I already did decide something, and that's what's in the email.", "speakerName": "Grad F" }, { "text": "Yeah, yeah. OK, so.", "speakerName": "Postdoc A" }, { "text": "And if you disagree with it, why don't you read it and give me comments on it?", "speakerName": "Grad F" }, { "text": "Yeah. Well I I think that there's one missing line.", "speakerName": "Postdoc A" }, { "text": "Well, the one thing that I did read and that you just repeated to me was that you gave the specific date of July fifteenth.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Grad F" }, { "text": "And you also just said that the reason you said that was because someone said it to you. So what I'm telling you is that what you should do is come up with a length of time that you guys think is enough", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "Grad F" }, { "text": "and you should use that rather than this date that you just got from somewhere. That's all I'm saying.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "OK.", "speakerName": "Grad F" }, { "text": "OK?", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "I ha I have one question. This is in the summer period and presumably people may be out of town. But we can make the assumption, can't we? that, um, they will be receiving email, uh, most of the month. Right? Because if someone.", "speakerName": "Postdoc A" }, { "text": "It well, it well, you're right. Sometimes somebody will be away and, uh, you know, there's, uh for any length of time that you uh, choose there is some person sometime who will not end up reading it.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "OK.", "speakerName": "Postdoc A" }, { "text": "That's it's, you know, just a certain risk to take.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "S so maybe when Am I on, by the way?", "speakerName": "PhD H" }, { "text": "I don't know. You should be.", "speakerName": "Grad F" }, { "text": "Oh. Hello? Hello?", "speakerName": "PhD H" }, { "text": "You should be channel B.", "speakerName": "Grad F" }, { "text": "Oh, OK. Alright. So. The, um Maybe we should say in w you know, when the whole thing starts, when they sign the the agreement that you know, specify exactly uh, what, you know, how how they will be contacted and they can, you know they can be asked to give a phone number and an email address, or both. And, um, then.", "speakerName": "PhD H" }, { "text": "We did that, I I believe.", "speakerName": "Postdoc A" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "PhD H" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "So. A And, then, you know, say very clearly that if they don't if we don't hear from them, you know, as Morgan suggested, by a certain time or after a certain period after we contact them that is implicitly giving their agreement.", "speakerName": "PhD H" }, { "text": "Well, they've already signed a form.", "speakerName": "Grad F" }, { "text": "And the form says.", "speakerName": "Postdoc A" }, { "text": "And nobody nobody really reads it anyway.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "PhD H" }, { "text": "So. And the s and the form was approved by Human Subjects,", "speakerName": "Grad F" }, { "text": "Says that. Right.", "speakerName": "PhD H" }, { "text": "Uh, the f", "speakerName": "Postdoc A" }, { "text": "Well, if that's i tha if that's already if.", "speakerName": "PhD H" }, { "text": "so, eh, that's gonna be a little hard to modify.", "speakerName": "Grad F" }, { "text": "Well, the form Well, the form doesn't say, if uh, you know, \" if you don't respond by X number of days or X number of weeks \"", "speakerName": "Postdoc A" }, { "text": "I see. Uh Oh, OK. So what does it say about the the the process of of, uh y the review process?", "speakerName": "PhD H" }, { "text": "It doesn't have a time limit. That you'll be provided access to the transcripts and then, uh, allowed to remove things that you'd like to remove, before it goes to the general uh, larger audience.", "speakerName": "Postdoc A" }, { "text": "Oh, OK. Hmm. Right.", "speakerName": "PhD H" }, { "text": "Here.", "speakerName": "Grad F" }, { "text": "There you go.", "speakerName": "Postdoc A" }, { "text": "You can read what you already signed.", "speakerName": "Grad F" }, { "text": "Oh.", "speakerName": "PhD H" }, { "text": "I guess when I read it, um.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "OK.", "speakerName": "PhD H" }, { "text": "I'm not as diligent as Chuck, but I had the feeling I should probably respond and tell Adam, like, \" I got this and I will do it by this date, and if you don't hear from me by then \" You know, in other words responding to your email once, right away, saying \" as soon as you get this could you please respond. \"", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "Grad F" }, { "text": "And then if you if the person thinks they'll need more time because they're out of town or whatever, they can tell you at that point? Because.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Oh, I just I didn't wanna do that, because I don't wanna have a discussion with every person if I can avoid it.", "speakerName": "Grad F" }, { "text": "Well, it's.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "So what I wanted to do was just send it out and say \" on the fifteenth, the data is released,", "speakerName": "Grad F" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Postdoc A" }, { "text": "if you wanna do something about it, do something about it, but that's it \".", "speakerName": "Grad F" }, { "text": "I I kind of like this.", "speakerName": "Postdoc A" }, { "text": "Well.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Postdoc A" }, { "text": "OK. So, we're assuming that.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Well, that's that would be great if but you should probably have a legal person look at this and make sure it's OK. Because if you if you, uh, do this and you then there's a dispute later and, uh, some you know, someone who understands these matters concludes that they didn't have, uh, you know, enough opportunity to actually exercise their their right.", "speakerName": "PhD H" }, { "text": "Or they they might never have gotten the email, because although they signed this, they don't know by which date to expect your email. And so someone whose machine is down or whatever I mean, we have no.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "in internally we know that people are there,", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Well, OK. l Let me Let me reverse this.", "speakerName": "Grad F" }, { "text": "but we have no confirmation that they got the mail.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "So let's say someone I send this out, and someone doesn't respond. Do we delete every meeting that they were in?", "speakerName": "Grad F" }, { "text": "Well, then.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "I don't think so.", "speakerName": "Grad F" }, { "text": "It we're hoping that doesn't happen,", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "No.", "speakerName": "PhD H" }, { "text": "but that's why there's such a thing as registered mail", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "That will happen.", "speakerName": "Grad F" }, { "text": "or.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "That will happen.", "speakerName": "PhD H" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "That will absolutely happen. Because people don't read their email, or they'll read and say \" I don't care about that, I'm not gonna delete anything \" and they don just won't reply to it.", "speakerName": "Grad F" }, { "text": "Maybe uh, do we have mailing addresses for these people?", "speakerName": "PhD H" }, { "text": "No. We have what they put on the speaker form,", "speakerName": "Grad F" }, { "text": "No.", "speakerName": "PhD H" }, { "text": "Well Most.", "speakerName": "Postdoc A" }, { "text": "which was just generic contact information.", "speakerName": "Grad F" }, { "text": "Oh.", "speakerName": "PhD H" }, { "text": "But the ones that we're dealing with now are all local,", "speakerName": "Postdoc A" }, { "text": "Well, then.", "speakerName": "PhD H" }, { "text": "except the ones who I mean, we we're totally in contact with all the ones in those two groups.", "speakerName": "Postdoc A" }, { "text": "Mmm. OK.", "speakerName": "PhD H" }, { "text": "So maybe, uh, I you know, that's not that many people and if I if, uh i i there is an advantage to having them admit and if I can help with with processing that, I will. It's it's there is an advantage to having them be on record as having received the mail and indicating.", "speakerName": "Postdoc A" }, { "text": "Yeah. I mean I thought we had discussed this, like, a year ago.", "speakerName": "Grad F" }, { "text": "Yes, we did.", "speakerName": "Postdoc A" }, { "text": "And so it seems like this is a little odd for it to be coming up yet again.", "speakerName": "Grad F" }, { "text": "You're right. Well, I you know. But sometimes.", "speakerName": "Postdoc A" }, { "text": "Well, we we haven't experienced it before.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "So.", "speakerName": "Grad F" }, { "text": "That's right.", "speakerName": "Postdoc A" }, { "text": "Right? So.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "You'll either wonder at the beginning or you'll wonder at the end.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Need to get it right.", "speakerName": "Postdoc A" }, { "text": "I mean, there's no way to get around I It's pretty much the same am amount of work except for an additional email just saying they got the email.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Postdoc A" }, { "text": "And maybe it's better legally to wonder before you know, a little bit earlier than.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Well.", "speakerName": "Grad F" }, { "text": "It's much easier to explain this way.", "speakerName": "Postdoc A" }, { "text": "OK. Well, why don't you talk t", "speakerName": "Grad F" }, { "text": "T t to have it on record.", "speakerName": "Postdoc A" }, { "text": "Morgan, can you talk to our lawyer about it, and find out what the status is on this? Cuz I don't wanna do something that we don't need to.", "speakerName": "Grad F" }, { "text": "Yeah, but w Mmm.", "speakerName": "Postdoc A" }, { "text": "Because what I'm telling you, people won't respond to the email. No matter what you do, you there're gonna be people who you're gonna have to make a lot of effort to get in contact with.", "speakerName": "Grad F" }, { "text": "Well, then we make the effort.", "speakerName": "Postdoc A" }, { "text": "I mean, i it's k", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "And do we want to spend that effort?", "speakerName": "Grad F" }, { "text": "Hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD H" }, { "text": "We make the effort.", "speakerName": "Postdoc A" }, { "text": "It's kind of like signing up for a mailing list. They have opt in and opt out. And there are two different ways. I mean, and either way works probably, I mean.", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "Except I really think in this case I I'm agr I agree with Liz, that we need to be in the clear and not have to after the fact say \" oh, but I assumed \", and \" oh, I'm sorry that your email address was just accumulating mail without notifying you \", you know.", "speakerName": "Postdoc A" }, { "text": "If this is a purely administrative task, we can actually have administration do it.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Oh, excellent.", "speakerName": "Postdoc A" }, { "text": "But the thing is that, you know, I I I think, without going through a whole expensive thing with our lawyers, from my previous conversations with them, my my sense very much is that we would want something on record as indicating that they actually were aware of this.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Yes.", "speakerName": "Postdoc A" }, { "text": "Well, we had talked about this before", "speakerName": "Grad F" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "and I thought that we had even gone by the lawyers asking about that and they said you have to s they've already signed away the f with that form that they've already signed once.", "speakerName": "Grad F" }, { "text": "I don't remember that this issue of the time period allowed for response was ever covered.", "speakerName": "Postdoc A" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Grad F" }, { "text": "Yeah. We never really talked about that.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "OK.", "speakerName": "Grad F" }, { "text": "Or the date at which they would be receiving the email from you.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Or or how they would indicate.", "speakerName": "Postdoc A" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "They probably forgot all about it.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "We certainly didn't talk, uh, about with them at all about, uh, the manner of them being made the, uh, uh, materials available.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "We do it like with these.", "speakerName": "PhD H" }, { "text": "That was something that was sort of just within our implementation.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "OK.", "speakerName": "Grad F" }, { "text": "We can use it we can use a a ploy like they use to, um you know, that when they serve, like uh, uh, uh uh, you know, like dead - beat dads, they they they make it look like they won something in the lottery and then they open the envelope", "speakerName": "PhD H" }, { "text": "And they're served.", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "and that Right? Because and then the the the the thing is served. So you just make it, you know, \" oh, you won you know, go to this web site and you've, uh you're \"", "speakerName": "PhD H" }, { "text": "That's why you never open these things that come in the mail.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "That one.", "speakerName": "Postdoc A" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Well, it's just, we've gone from one extreme to the other, where at one point, a few months ago, Morgan was you were saying let's not do anything,", "speakerName": "Grad F" }, { "text": "Right. Right. No, it I it might.", "speakerName": "PhD H" }, { "text": "Well, it doesn't matter.", "speakerName": "Postdoc A" }, { "text": "i i it it might well be the case.", "speakerName": "PhD H" }, { "text": "and now we're we're saying we have to follow up each person and get a signature?", "speakerName": "Grad F" }, { "text": "it might Right.", "speakerName": "PhD H" }, { "text": "I mean, what are we gonna doing here?", "speakerName": "Grad F" }, { "text": "It might well be the case that that this is perfectly you know, this is enough to give us a basis t to just, eh, assume their consent if they don't reply.", "speakerName": "PhD H" }, { "text": "Well.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Grad F" }, { "text": "But, I'm not you know, me not being a lawyer, I wouldn't just wanna do that without having the the expert, uh, opinion on that.", "speakerName": "PhD H" }, { "text": "And how many people? Al - altogether we've got twenty people. These people are people who read their email almost all the time.", "speakerName": "Postdoc A" }, { "text": "Then I think we had better find out, so that we can find a.", "speakerName": "Grad F" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD H" }, { "text": "Let me look at this again.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "Grad F" }, { "text": "I I really don't see that it's a problem. I I think that it's a common courtesy to ask them uh, to expect for them to, uh, be able to have @ @ us try to contact them,", "speakerName": "Postdoc A" }, { "text": "For for th", "speakerName": "Grad F" }, { "text": "u just in case they hadn't gotten their email. I think they'd appreciate it.", "speakerName": "Postdoc A" }, { "text": "Yeah. My Adam, my my view before was about the nature of what was of the presentation,", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Grad F" }, { "text": "of of how my my the things that we're questioning were along the lines of how easy uh, h how m how much implication would there be that it's likely you're going to be changing something, as opposed to.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Grad F" }, { "text": "That was the kind of dispute I was making before.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm. I remember that.", "speakerName": "Postdoc A" }, { "text": "But, um, the attorneys, I uh, I can guarantee you, the attorneys will always come back with and we have to decide how stringent we want to be in these things, but they will always come back with saying that, um, you need to you want to have someth some paper trail or which includes electronic trail that they have, uh, in fact O K'd it.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Grad F" }, { "text": "So, um, I think that if you f i if we send the email as you have and if there's half the people, say, who don't respond at all by, you know, some period of time, we can just make a list of these people and hand it to, uh you know, just give it to me and I'll hand it to administrative staff or whatever,", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "Grad F" }, { "text": "and they'll just call them up and say, you know, \" have you Is is this OK? And would you please mail you know, mail Adam that it is, if i if it, you know, is or not. \" So, you know, we can we can do that.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "The other thing that there's a psychological effect that at least for most people, that if they've responded to your email saying \" yes, I will do it \" or \" yes, I got your email \", they're more likely to actually do it later than to just ignore it.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "And of course we don't want them to bleep things out, but it it's a little bit better if we're getting the their, uh, final response, once they've answered you once than if they never answer you'd at al at all. That's how these mailing houses work. So, I mean, it's not completely lost work because it might benefit us in terms of getting responses.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Postdoc A" }, { "text": "You know, an official OK from somebody is better than no answer, even if they responded that they got your email. And they're probably more likely to do that once they've responded that they got the email.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "I also think they'd just simply appreciate it. I think it's a good a good way of of fostering goodwill among our subjects. Well, our participants.", "speakerName": "Postdoc A" }, { "text": "I think the main thing is I mean, what lawyers do is they always look at worst cases.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Sending lots of spam.", "speakerName": "Grad F" }, { "text": "So they s so so Tha - that's what they're paid to do.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Yep.", "speakerName": "Grad F" }, { "text": "And so, it is certainly possible that, uh, somebody's server would be down or something and they wouldn't actually hear from us, and then they find this thing is in there and we've already distributed it to someone. So, what it says in there, in fact, is that they will be given an opportunity to blah - blah - blah,", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Postdoc A" }, { "text": "but if in fact if we sent them something or we thought we sent them something but they didn't actually receive it for some reason, um, then we haven't given them that.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Well, so how far do we have to go? Do we need to get someone's signature? Or, is email enough?", "speakerName": "Grad F" }, { "text": "I i i em email is enough.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Do we have to have it notarized? I mean OK.", "speakerName": "Grad F" }, { "text": "Yeah. I mean, I've been through this I mean, I'm not a lawyer, but I've been through these things a f things f like this a few times with lawyers now", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Grad F" }, { "text": "so I I I I'm pretty comfortable with that.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Do you track, um, when people log in to look at the?", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "Uh. If they submit the form, I get it.", "speakerName": "Grad F" }, { "text": "Uh - huh.", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "If they don't submit the form, it goes in the general web log. But that's not sufficient.", "speakerName": "Grad F" }, { "text": "Hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "Right? Cuz if someone just visits the web site that doesn't imply anything in particular.", "speakerName": "Grad F" }, { "text": "Except that you know they got the mail.", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm. That's right.", "speakerName": "Postdoc A" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "Grad F" }, { "text": "I I could get you on the notify list if you want me to.", "speakerName": "Postdoc A" }, { "text": "I'm already on it.", "speakerName": "Grad F" }, { "text": "For that directory? OK, great.", "speakerName": "Postdoc A" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Grad F" }, { "text": "So again, hopefully, um, this shouldn't be quite as odious a problem either way, uh, in any of the extremes we've talked about because uh, we're talking a pretty small number of people.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "W For this set, I'm not worried, because we basically know everyone on it.", "speakerName": "Grad F" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Hmm.", "speakerName": "Postdoc A" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "You know, they're all more or less here or it's it's Eric and Dan and so on. But for some of the others, you're talking about visitors who are gone from ICSI, whose email addresses may or may not work,", "speakerName": "Grad F" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Oh.", "speakerName": "Postdoc A" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "and So what are we gonna do when we run into someone that we can't get in touch with?", "speakerName": "Grad F" }, { "text": "I don't think, uh They're so recent, these visitors.", "speakerName": "Postdoc A" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Grad F" }, { "text": "I and and I they're also so.", "speakerName": "Postdoc A" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "They're prominent enough that they're easy to find through I I mean, I I w I'll be able to if you have any trouble finding them, I really think I could find them.", "speakerName": "Postdoc A" }, { "text": "Other methods? OK.", "speakerName": "Grad F" }, { "text": "Yeah. Cuz it what it what it really does promise here is that we will ask their permission. Um, and I think, you know, if you go into a room and close the door and and ask their permission and they're not there, it doesn't seem that that's the intent of, uh, meaning here. So.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Well, the qu the question is just whether how active it has to be. I mean, because they they filled out a contact information and that's where I'm sending the information.", "speakerName": "Grad F" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "And so far everyone has done email. There isn't anyone who did, uh, any other contact method.", "speakerName": "Grad F" }, { "text": "Well, the way ICSI goes, people, uh, who, uh, were here ten years ago still have acc have forwards to other accounts and so on.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Grad F" }, { "text": "So it's unusual that that they, uh.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "So my original impression was that that was sufficient, that if they give us contact information and that contact information isn't accurate that we fulfilled our burden.", "speakerName": "Grad F" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Then they just come back.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "All my files were still here.", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "Same as us.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "I just.", "speakerName": "Postdoc A" }, { "text": "So if we get to a boundary case like that then maybe I will call the attorney about it.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "OK.", "speakerName": "Grad F" }, { "text": "But, you know, hopefully we won't need to.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "I d I just don't think we will. For all the reasons that we've discussed.", "speakerName": "Postdoc A" }, { "text": "Alright.", "speakerName": "Grad F" }, { "text": "So we'll we'll see if we do or not.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Yep. And we'll see how many people respond to that email.", "speakerName": "Grad F" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Postdoc A" }, { "text": "So far, two people have.", "speakerName": "Grad F" }, { "text": "Yeah. I think very few people will", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "So.", "speakerName": "Grad F" }, { "text": "and and and, you know, people people see long emails about things that they don't think is gonna be high priority, they typically, uh, don't don't read it, or half read it.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "Grad F" }, { "text": "Cuz people are swamped.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "And actually,", "speakerName": "Postdoc A" }, { "text": "But.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "um, I I didn't anticipate this so I that's why I didn't give this comment, and it I this discussion has made me think it might be nice to have a follow - up email within the next couple of days saying \" by the way, you know, we wanna hear back from you by X date and please \", and then add what Liz said \" please, uh, respond to please indicate you received this mail. \"", "speakerName": "Postdoc A" }, { "text": "Uh, or e well, maybe even additionally, uh, um, \" Even if you've decided you have no changes you'd like to make, if you could tell us that \".", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Respond to the email. Yep.", "speakerName": "Grad F" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm. It is the first time through the cycle.", "speakerName": "Postdoc A" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Right. That would that would definitely work on me. You know, it makes you feel m like, um, if you were gonna p if you're predicting that you might not answer, you have a chance now to say that. Whereas, I I mean, I would be much more likely myself,", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "And the other th", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "given all my email, t to respond at that point, saying \" you know what, I'm probably not gonna get to it \" or whatever, rather than just having seen the email, thinking I might get to it, and never really, uh, pushing myself to actually do it until it's too late.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Yeah. I was I was thinking that it also lets them know that they don't have to go to the page to accept this.", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "Right. R Right. That's true.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "I mean, I I Yeah. So that way they could they can see from that email that if they just write back and say \" I got it, no changes \", they're off the hook.", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "They don't have to go to the web page", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "I mean, the other thing I've learned from dealing with dealing with people sending in reviews and so forth, uh, is, um, if you say \" you've got three months to do this review \", um, people do it, you know, two and seven eighths months from now.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "and.", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "Yeah. That's true.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "If you say \" you've got three weeks to do this review \", they do do it, you know, two and seven eighths weeks from now they do the review.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "Grad F" }, { "text": "And, um So, if we make it a little less time, I don't think it'll be that much.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Well, and also if we want it ready by the fifteenth, that means we better give them deadline of the first, if we have any prayer of actually getting everyone to respond in time.", "speakerName": "Grad F" }, { "text": "There's the responding part and there's also what if, uh, I mean, I hope this doesn't happen, what if there are a bunch of deletions that have to get put in and changes?", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "Grad F" }, { "text": "Then we actually have to deal with that", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm. Some lead time.", "speakerName": "Postdoc A" }, { "text": "if we want it to.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Ugh! Disk space,", "speakerName": "Grad F" }, { "text": "By the way, has has Jeremy signed the form?", "speakerName": "Postdoc A" }, { "text": "oh my god! I hadn't thought about that.", "speakerName": "Grad F" }, { "text": "OK.", "speakerName": "Postdoc A" }, { "text": "That for every meeting any meeting which has any bleeps in it we need yet another copy of.", "speakerName": "Grad F" }, { "text": "Oh.", "speakerName": "PhD H" }, { "text": "Just that channel.", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "Can't you just do that channel?", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "Oh, no. We have to do.", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "No, of course not.", "speakerName": "Grad F" }, { "text": "Yeah. You have to do all of them,", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "You need all the channels.", "speakerName": "Grad F" }, { "text": "Oh.", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "Do you have to do the other close - talking?", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "as well as all of these.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "You have to do all You could just do it in that time period, though,", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Yes. Absolutely. There's a lot of cross - talk.", "speakerName": "Grad F" }, { "text": "Wow.", "speakerName": "Grad G" }, { "text": "Well.", "speakerName": "Postdoc A" }, { "text": "but I guess it's a pain.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Well, but you have to copy the whole file.", "speakerName": "Grad F" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Right? Because we're gonna be releasing the whole file.", "speakerName": "Grad F" }, { "text": "Yeah. You're right.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Well I you know, I think at a certain point, that copy that has the deletions will become the master copy.", "speakerName": "Postdoc A" }, { "text": "Yeah. It's just I hate deleting any data. So I I don't want I really would rather make a copy of it, rather than bleep it out", "speakerName": "Grad F" }, { "text": "Are you del are you bleeping it by adding?", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "and then Overlapping. So, it's it's exactly a censor bleep. So what I really think is \" bleep \"", "speakerName": "Grad F" }, { "text": "I I I I understand, but is is it summing signals", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "and then I want to.", "speakerName": "Grad F" }, { "text": "or do you delete the old one and put the new one in?", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "I delete the old one, put the new one in.", "speakerName": "Grad F" }, { "text": "Oh, OK. Cuz.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "There's nothing left of the original signal.", "speakerName": "Grad F" }, { "text": "Oh. Cuz if you were summing, you could No. But anyway.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Yeah. It would be qui quite easy to get it back again.", "speakerName": "Grad F" }, { "text": "But And then w I was gonna say also that the they don't have to stay on the system, as you know,", "speakerName": "Postdoc A" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Then someday we can sell the unedited versions.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "cuz cuz the the ones.", "speakerName": "Postdoc A" }, { "text": "Say again?", "speakerName": "Grad F" }, { "text": "Once it's been successfully bleeped, can't you rely on the?", "speakerName": "Postdoc A" }, { "text": "Or we'll tell people the frequency of the beep", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "Encrypt it.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "and then they could subtract the beep out.", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "You can hide it. Yeah.", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "Can't you rely on the archiving to preserve the older version?", "speakerName": "Postdoc A" }, { "text": "Oh, yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD H" }, { "text": "It wouldn't be that hard to hide it.", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "Right. Exactly. I see.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Yeah, that's true. Yeah. Yep, that's true.", "speakerName": "Grad F" }, { "text": "See, this is good. I wanted to create some side conversations in these meetings.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "OK.", "speakerName": "Postdoc A" }, { "text": "Yeah. You could encrypt it, you know, with a with a two hundred bit thousand bit, uh.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "You can use spread spectrum.", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "Uh - huh.", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "Hide it.", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "So.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Here we go.", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "Yeah. Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Yeah, there you go.", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "Cuz we don't have enough asides.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "I have an idea. You reverse the signal,", "speakerName": "PhD H" }, { "text": "There you go.", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "so it it lets people say what they said backwards.", "speakerName": "PhD H" }, { "text": "Backwards.", "speakerName": "Grad F" }, { "text": "Then you have, like, subliminal, uh, messages,", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "But, ha you've seen the this the speech recognition system that reversed very short segments.", "speakerName": "Grad F" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD H" }, { "text": "like.", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "Did you read that paper? It wouldn't work.", "speakerName": "Grad F" }, { "text": "No.", "speakerName": "PhD H" }, { "text": "The speech recognizer still works.", "speakerName": "Grad F" }, { "text": "Yeah. And if you do it backward then.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "That's cuz they use forward - backward.", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "H - good old HMM.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Forward but backward. That's right.", "speakerName": "Grad F" }, { "text": "No, it's backward - forward.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Good point. A point. Well, I'm sorry if I sound a little peeved about this whole thing. It's just we've had meeting after meeting after meeting a on this and it seems like we've never gotten it resolved.", "speakerName": "Grad F" }, { "text": "Hmm.", "speakerName": "Postdoc A" }, { "text": "Well, but we never also we've also never done it.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Uh.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "So.", "speakerName": "Grad F" }, { "text": "This is the first cycle.", "speakerName": "Postdoc A" }, { "text": "If it makes.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Grad F" }, { "text": "There're bound to be some glitches the first time through.", "speakerName": "Postdoc A" }, { "text": "So. And, uh and I'm sorry responding without, uh, having much knowledge, but the thing is, uh, I am, like, one of these people who gets a gazillion mails and and stuff comes in as", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Well, and that's exactly why I did it the way I did it, which is the default is if you do nothing we're gonna release it.", "speakerName": "Grad F" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Because, you know, I have my stack of emails of to d to be done, that, you know, fifty or sixty long, and the ones at the top I'm never gonna get to.", "speakerName": "Grad F" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "And, uh So so.", "speakerName": "Grad F" }, { "text": "Move them to the bottom.", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "So so the only thing we're missing is is some way to respond to easily to say, uh, \" OK, go ahead \" or something.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Yeah, right. So, i this is gonna mean.", "speakerName": "Grad F" }, { "text": "Just re - mail them to yourself and then they're at the bottom.", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Grad F" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Postdoc A" }, { "text": "Yeah. That's actually definitely a good point. The m email doesn't specify that you can just reply to the email, as op as opposed to going to the form", "speakerName": "Grad F" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Postdoc A" }, { "text": "In.", "speakerName": "PhD H" }, { "text": "And it also doesn't give a a specific I didn't think of it.", "speakerName": "Postdoc A" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "and.", "speakerName": "Grad F" }, { "text": "S I think it's a good idea an ex explicit time by which this will be considered definite.", "speakerName": "Postdoc A" }, { "text": "Yeah, release.", "speakerName": "Grad F" }, { "text": "And and it has to be a time earlier than that endpoint.", "speakerName": "Postdoc A" }, { "text": "Yeah. It's converging.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Yeah. That's right.", "speakerName": "Postdoc A" }, { "text": "This um, I've seen this recently. Uh, I got email, and it i if I use a MIME - capable mail reader, it actually says, you know, click on this button to confirm receipt of the of the mail.", "speakerName": "PhD H" }, { "text": "Oh, that's interesting.", "speakerName": "Postdoc A" }, { "text": "Hmm.", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "So.", "speakerName": "PhD H" }, { "text": "You you can.", "speakerName": "Grad F" }, { "text": "It's like certified mail.", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "A lot of mailers support return receipt.", "speakerName": "Grad F" }, { "text": "Could do that.", "speakerName": "Postdoc A" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "PhD H" }, { "text": "But it doesn't confirm that they've read it.", "speakerName": "Grad F" }, { "text": "No, no, no. This is different. This is not So, I I know, you can tell, you know, the, uh, mail delivery agent to to confirm that the mail was delivered to your mailbox.", "speakerName": "PhD H" }, { "text": "Mmm.", "speakerName": "Postdoc A" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "Grad F" }, { "text": "But but, no. This was different. Ins - in the mail, there was a.", "speakerName": "PhD H" }, { "text": "Oh, just a button.", "speakerName": "Grad F" }, { "text": "uh, th there was a button that when you clicked on it, it would send, uh, you know, a actual acknowledgement to the sender that you had actually looked at the mail.", "speakerName": "PhD H" }, { "text": "Oh, yeah. Yeah. Unfor - Yeah, we could do that. But I hate that.", "speakerName": "Grad F" }, { "text": "But it o but it only works for, you know, MIME - capable you know, if you use Netscape or something like that for your n", "speakerName": "PhD H" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Grad F" }, { "text": "And.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "You might as well just respond to the mail.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "And we actually need a third thing.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "I mean", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "PhD H" }, { "text": "It's not that you've looked at it, it's that you've looked at it and and and agree with one of the possible actions.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "No, no. You can do that.", "speakerName": "PhD H" }, { "text": "Right?", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "You know, you can put this button anywhere you want,", "speakerName": "PhD H" }, { "text": "Oh? Oh, I see.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "and you can put it the bottom of the message and say \" here, by you know, by clicking on this, I I agree uh, you know, I acknowledge \"", "speakerName": "PhD H" }, { "text": "That i i my first - born children are yours, and Yeah. Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Quick question. Are, um.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Well, I could put a URL in there without any difficulty and even pretty simple MIME readers can do that. So.", "speakerName": "Grad F" }, { "text": "But why shouldn't they just email back? I don't see there's a problem.", "speakerName": "Postdoc A" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Yeah. Reply.", "speakerName": "Grad F" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "PhD H" }, { "text": "It's very nice. I I like the high - tech aspect of it,", "speakerName": "Postdoc A" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "but I think.", "speakerName": "Postdoc A" }, { "text": "No, no, no. I actually don't.", "speakerName": "PhD H" }, { "text": "I appreciate it.", "speakerName": "Postdoc A" }, { "text": "I'm just saying that", "speakerName": "PhD H" }, { "text": "Well, I cuz I use a text mail reader.", "speakerName": "Grad F" }, { "text": "if ev but I'm.", "speakerName": "PhD H" }, { "text": "Don't you use VI for your mai?", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD H" }, { "text": "Wow. That's that's my guy. Alright.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "You you read email in VI?", "speakerName": "Grad F" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD H" }, { "text": "Yeah. I like VI.", "speakerName": "Postdoc A" }, { "text": "So I i There's these logos that you can put at the bottom of your web page, like \" powered by VI \".", "speakerName": "PhD H" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "Wow.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "I see.", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "Anyway, quick question.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "You could put wed bugs in the email.", "speakerName": "Grad F" }, { "text": "How m", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD H" }, { "text": "Like, there were three meetings this time, or so", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Six.", "speakerName": "Postdoc A" }, { "text": "or how many? Six? But, no of different people. So I guess if you're in both these types of meetings, you'd have a lot. But How I mean, it also depends on how many Like, if we release this time it's a fairly small number of meetings, but what if we release, like, twenty - five meetings to people? In th", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Well, what my s expectation is, is that we'll send out one of these emails every time a meeting has been checked and is ready.", "speakerName": "Grad F" }, { "text": "I don't know. Oh. Oh, OK. So this time was just the first chunk. OK.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "So. Tha - that was my intention. It's just yeah that we just happened to have a bunch all at once.", "speakerName": "Grad F" }, { "text": "Well, that's a good idea.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "I mean, maybe Is that the way it's gonna be, you think, Jane?", "speakerName": "Grad F" }, { "text": "I agree with you. It's we could do it, uh I I could I'd be happy with either way, batch - wise What I was thinking Uh, so this one That was exactly right, that we had a uh, uh I I had wanted to get the entire set of twelve hours ready. Don't have it. But, uh, this was the biggest clump I could do by a time where I thought it was reasonable.", "speakerName": "Postdoc A" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "People would be able to check it and still have it ready by then. My, um I was thinking that with the NSA meetings, I'd like there are three of them, and they're uh, I I will have them done by Monday. Uh, unfortunately the time is later and I don't know how that's gonna work out, but I thought it'd be good to have that released as a clump, too, because then, you know, they're they they have a it it's in a category, it's not quite so distracting to them, is what I was thinking, and it's all in one chu But after that, when we're caught up a bit on this process, then, um, I could imagine sending them out periodically as they become available.", "speakerName": "Postdoc A" }, { "text": "OK.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "I could do it either way. I mean, it's a question of how distracting it is to the people who have to do the checking.", "speakerName": "Postdoc A" }, { "text": "We heard anything from IBM? at all?", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Uh. Let's see. We Yeah, right. So we got the transcript back from that one meeting. Everything seemed fine. Adam had a script that will put everything back together and there was Well, there was one small problem but it was a simple thing to fix. And then, um, we, uh I sent him a pointer to three more. And so he's off and working on those.", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "Yeah. Now we haven't actually had anyone go through that meeting, to see whether the transcript is correct and to see how much was missed and all that sort of stuff.", "speakerName": "Grad F" }, { "text": "That's on my list.", "speakerName": "Postdoc A" }, { "text": "So at some point we need to do that.", "speakerName": "Grad F" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "Well, that's on my list.", "speakerName": "Postdoc A" }, { "text": "Yeah. It's gonna have to go through our regular process.", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "I mean, the one thing I noticed is it did miss a lot of backchannels. There are a fair number of \" yeahs \" and \" uh - huhs \" that it's just that aren't in there. So.", "speakerName": "Grad F" }, { "text": "Hmm.", "speakerName": "Postdoc A" }, { "text": "But I think Yeah. Like you said, I mean, that's that's gonna be our standard proc that's what the transcribers are gonna be spending most of their time doing, I would imagine,", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm. Mm - hmm, mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Postdoc A" }, { "text": "once once we.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Yes, absolutely. Yeah.", "speakerName": "Grad F" }, { "text": "One question about the backchannels.", "speakerName": "Postdoc A" }, { "text": "It's gonna.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Do you suppose that was because they weren't caught by the pre - segmenter?", "speakerName": "Postdoc A" }, { "text": "Yes, absolutely. Absolutely.", "speakerName": "Grad F" }, { "text": "Oh, interesting. Oh, interesting. OK.", "speakerName": "Postdoc A" }, { "text": "Yeah. They're they're not in the segmented.", "speakerName": "Grad F" }, { "text": "OK.", "speakerName": "Postdoc A" }, { "text": "It's not that the IBM people didn't do it.", "speakerName": "Grad F" }, { "text": "OK.", "speakerName": "Postdoc A" }, { "text": "Just they didn't get marked.", "speakerName": "Grad F" }, { "text": "OK. So maybe when the detector for that gets better or something I w I There's another issue which is this we've been, uh, contacted by University of Washington now, of course, to, um We sent them the transcripts that correspond to those six meetings and they're downloading the audio files. So they'll be doing that. Chuck's Chuck's, uh, put that in.", "speakerName": "Postdoc A" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm. Yeah, I pointed them to the set that Andreas put, uh, on the web so th if they want to compare directly with his results they can. And, um, then once, uh, th we can also point them at the, um, uh, the original meetings and they can grab those, too, with SCP.", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "Wait. So you put the reference files?", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "No, no. They d they wanted the audio.", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "Or the?", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Jane sent them the, uh, transcripts.", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "No, I mean of the transcripts. Um. Well, we can talk about it off - line.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "There's another meeting in here, what, at four? Right? Yeah, so we have to finish by three forty - five.", "speakerName": "Grad F" }, { "text": "D d So, does Washi - does does UW wanna u do this wanna use this data for recognition or for something else?", "speakerName": "PhD H" }, { "text": "Uh, for recognition.", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "I think they're doing w", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Oh.", "speakerName": "PhD H" }, { "text": "didn't they want to do language modeling on, you know, recognition - compatible transcripts", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Oh. I see.", "speakerName": "PhD H" }, { "text": "This is to show you, uh, some of the things that turn up during the checking procedure.", "speakerName": "Postdoc A" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "or?", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Um @ @ So, this is from one of the NSA meetings and, uh, i if you're familiar with the diff format, the arrow to the left is what it was, and the arrow to the right is what it was changed to. So, um. And now the first one. \" OK. So, then we started a weekly meeting. The last time, uh \" And the transcriber thought \" little too much \" But, uh, really, um, it was \" we learned too much \", which makes more sense syntactically as well.", "speakerName": "Postdoc A" }, { "text": "And these the parentheses were f from.", "speakerName": "PhD H" }, { "text": "Then Oh, this that's the convention for indicating uncertain.", "speakerName": "Postdoc A" }, { "text": "U uncertains.", "speakerName": "Grad F" }, { "text": "So the transcriber was right.", "speakerName": "Postdoc A" }, { "text": "S", "speakerName": "PhD H" }, { "text": "You know, she was uncertain about that.", "speakerName": "Postdoc A" }, { "text": "OK.", "speakerName": "PhD H" }, { "text": "So she's right to be uncertain. And it's also a g a good indication of the of that.", "speakerName": "Postdoc A" }, { "text": "Oh. OK.", "speakerName": "PhD H" }, { "text": "The next one. This was about, uh, Claudia and she'd been really b busy with stuff, such as waivers. Uh, OK. Um, next one. Um. This was an interesting one. So the original was \" So that's not so Claudia's not the bad master here \", and then he laughs, but it really \" web master \".", "speakerName": "Postdoc A" }, { "text": "Web master.", "speakerName": "Grad F" }, { "text": "Oh. Uh - oh.", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "And then you see another type of uncertainty which is, you know, they just didn't know what to make out of that. So instead of \" split upon unknown \", it's \" split in principle \".", "speakerName": "Postdoc A" }, { "text": "Yep.", "speakerName": "Grad F" }, { "text": "Jane, these are from IBM?", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "Spit upon?", "speakerName": "Grad F" }, { "text": "The top lines?", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "No, no. These are these are our local transcriptions of the NSA meetings.", "speakerName": "Postdoc A" }, { "text": "No, these are ours.", "speakerName": "Grad F" }, { "text": "The transcribers transcriber's version ver versus the checked version.", "speakerName": "Postdoc A" }, { "text": "Oh. Oh, I see.", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "My my checked version, after I go through it.", "speakerName": "Postdoc A" }, { "text": "OK.", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "Um, then you get down here. Um. Sometimes some speakers will insert foreign language terms. That's the next example, the next one. The, uh, version beyond this is So instead of saying \" or \", especially those words, \" also \" and \" oder \" and some other ones. Those sneak in. Um, the next one.", "speakerName": "Postdoc A" }, { "text": "That's cool.", "speakerName": "Grad F" }, { "text": "Discourse markers.", "speakerName": "PhD H" }, { "text": "S", "speakerName": "Postdoc A" }, { "text": "Discourse markers.", "speakerName": "PhD H" }, { "text": "Sorry, what? Discourse markers? Sure. Sure, sure, sure.", "speakerName": "Postdoc A" }, { "text": "Discourse markers.", "speakerName": "PhD H" }, { "text": "And it's and it makes sense", "speakerName": "Postdoc A" }, { "text": "Yeah. Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD H" }, { "text": "cuz it's, like, below this it's a little subliminal there.", "speakerName": "Postdoc A" }, { "text": "Yeah. Yeah, yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD H" }, { "text": "Um. OK, the next one, uh, this is a term. The problem with terminology. Description with th the transcriber has \" X as an advance \". But really it's \" QS in advance \". I mean, I I've benefited from some of these, uh, cross - group meetings. OK, then you got, um, uh, instead of \" from something - or - other cards \", it's \" for multicast \". And instead of \" ANN system related \", it's \" end system related \". This was changed to an acronym initially and it should shouldn't have been. And then, you can see here \" GPS \" was misinterpreted. It's just totally understanda This is this is a lot of jargon. Um, and the final one, the transcriber had th \" in the core network itself or the exit unknown, not the internet unknown \". And it it comes through as \" in the core network itself of the access provider, not the internet backbone core \". Now this is a lot of terminology. And they're generally extremely good,", "speakerName": "Postdoc A" }, { "text": "Mmm.", "speakerName": "PhD H" }, { "text": "but, you know in this this area it really does pay to, um to double check and I'm hoping that when the checked versions are run through the recognizer that you'll see s substantial improvements in performance cuz the you know, there're a lot of these in there.", "speakerName": "Postdoc A" }, { "text": "Yeah. So how often?", "speakerName": "PhD H" }, { "text": "Yeah, but I bet I bet they're acoustically challenging parts anyway, though.", "speakerName": "Grad F" }, { "text": "No, actually no.", "speakerName": "Postdoc A" }, { "text": "Mmm.", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "Huh - uh.", "speakerName": "Postdoc A" }, { "text": "Oh, really? Uh, it's Oh, so it's just jargon.", "speakerName": "Grad F" }, { "text": "It's jargon. Yeah. I mean this is cuz, you know you don't realize in daily life how much you have top - down influences in what you're hearing.", "speakerName": "Postdoc A" }, { "text": "Well, but.", "speakerName": "PhD H" }, { "text": "And it's jar it's jargon coupled with a foreign accent.", "speakerName": "Postdoc A" }, { "text": "But but But we don't I mean, our language model right now doesn't know about these words anyhow. So,", "speakerName": "PhD H" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "you know, un until you actually get a decent language model, @ @ Adam's right.", "speakerName": "PhD H" }, { "text": "It probably won't do any better.", "speakerName": "Grad F" }, { "text": "You probably won't notice a difference. But it's I mean, it's definitely good that these are fixed. I mean, obviously.", "speakerName": "PhD H" }, { "text": "Well, also from the standpoint of getting people's approval,", "speakerName": "Postdoc A" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "cuz if someone sees a page full of uh, um, barely decipherable w you know, sentences, and then is asked to approve of it or not, it's, uh, uh.", "speakerName": "Postdoc A" }, { "text": "Did I say that?", "speakerName": "Grad F" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "OK.", "speakerName": "Postdoc A" }, { "text": "Yeah. That would be a shame if people said \" well, I don't approve it because the it's not what I said \".", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Well, that's exactly why I put the extra option in,", "speakerName": "Grad F" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Exactly. That's why we discussed that.", "speakerName": "Postdoc A" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "is that I was afraid people would say, \" let's censor that because it's wrong \",", "speakerName": "Grad F" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "and I don't want them to do that.", "speakerName": "Grad F" }, { "text": "And then I also the final thing I have for transcription is that I made a purchase of some other headphones", "speakerName": "Postdoc A" }, { "text": "C", "speakerName": "PhD H" }, { "text": "because of the problem of low gain in the originals. And and they very much appro they mu much prefer the new ones, and actually I I mean, I I think that there will be fewer things to correct because of the the choice. We'd originally chosen, uh, very expensive head headsets", "speakerName": "Postdoc A" }, { "text": "Yeah. Ugh!", "speakerName": "Grad F" }, { "text": "but, um, they're just not as good as these, um, in this with this respect to this particular task.", "speakerName": "Postdoc A" }, { "text": "Well, return the old ones.", "speakerName": "PhD H" }, { "text": "It's probably impedance matching problems.", "speakerName": "Grad F" }, { "text": "I don't know exactly,", "speakerName": "Postdoc A" }, { "text": "But.", "speakerName": "Grad F" }, { "text": "but we chose them because that's what's been used here by prominent projects in transcription.", "speakerName": "Postdoc A" }, { "text": "Could be.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "So it i we had every reason to think they would work.", "speakerName": "Postdoc A" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Grad F" }, { "text": "So you have spare headsets?", "speakerName": "PhD H" }, { "text": "Sorry, what?", "speakerName": "Postdoc A" }, { "text": "You have spare headsets?", "speakerName": "PhD H" }, { "text": "They're just earphones. They're not headsets. They're not microphones.", "speakerName": "Grad F" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "No, no. I mean, just earphones? Um, because I, uh, I could use one on my workstation, just to t because sometimes I have to listen to audio files and I don't have to b go borrow it from someone and.", "speakerName": "PhD H" }, { "text": "We have actua actually I have W Well, the thing is, that if we have four people come to work for a day, I was I was hanging on to the others for, eh for spares,", "speakerName": "Postdoc A" }, { "text": "Oh, OK.", "speakerName": "PhD H" }, { "text": "but I can tell you what I recommend.", "speakerName": "Postdoc A" }, { "text": "No, but you'd If you Yeah, w we should get it.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Sure. No problem.", "speakerName": "PhD H" }, { "text": "But if you need it, just get it.", "speakerName": "Grad F" }, { "text": "I just.", "speakerName": "PhD H" }, { "text": "Come on.", "speakerName": "Grad F" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "PhD H" }, { "text": "Yeah. If you need it.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD H" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "It'd just have to be a s a separate order an added order.", "speakerName": "Postdoc A" }, { "text": "Yeah, I still I still need to get a pair, too.", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "They're they're they're they're pretty inexpensive.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Yeah, that We should order a cou uh, t two or three or four, actually.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "I'm using one of these. Yeah.", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "We have.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "I think I have a pair that I brought from home, but it's f just for music listening", "speakerName": "PhD H" }, { "text": "No. Just just just just buy them.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Sh - Just get the model number", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "and it's not Nnn. Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD H" }, { "text": "Just buy them.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "and Where do you buy these from?", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD H" }, { "text": "Cambridge SoundWorks, just down the street.", "speakerName": "Postdoc A" }, { "text": "Like? You just b go and b", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Yeah. They always have them in stock.", "speakerName": "Postdoc A" }, { "text": "Oh.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "That'd be a good idea.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Anyway.", "speakerName": "PhD H" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "W uh, could you email out the brand?", "speakerName": "Grad F" }, { "text": "Oh, sure. Yeah. OK.", "speakerName": "Postdoc A" }, { "text": "Cuz I think sounds like people are interested.", "speakerName": "Grad F" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Definitely.", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "So.", "speakerName": "Grad F" }, { "text": "It's made a difference in in how easy. Yeah.", "speakerName": "Postdoc A" }, { "text": "I realized something I should talk about. So what's the other thing on the agenda actually?", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Uh, the only one was Don wanted to, uh, talk about disk space yet again.", "speakerName": "Grad F" }, { "text": "Yeah. u It's short. I mean, if you wanna go, we can just throw it in at the end.", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "No, no. Why don't you why don't you go ahead since it's short.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Um, well, uh.", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "Oh, I thought you meant the disk space. Yeah, we know disk space is short.", "speakerName": "Grad F" }, { "text": "The disk space was short. Yeah. That's what I thought too.", "speakerName": "PhD H" }, { "text": "That's a great ambiguity.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "It's one of these it's it's social", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "It's I i i it i", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "and, uh, discourse level", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "and.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Yeah, it's great. Yeah,", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Sorry.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "double double.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Yeah, it was really goo", "speakerName": "Grad F" }, { "text": "See, if I had that little scratch - pad, I would have made an X there.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Thank you, thank you.", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "Uh, well, we'll give you one then.", "speakerName": "Grad F" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Um. So, um, without thinking about it, when I offered up my hard drive last week.", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "Oh, no.", "speakerName": "Grad F" }, { "text": "Um, this is always a suspect phrase.", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "It was while I was out of town.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "But, um, no. I, uh I realized that we're going to be doing a lot of experiments, um, o for this, uh, paper we're writing, so we're probably gonna need a lot more We're probably gonna need that disk space that we had on that eighteen gig hard drive. But, um, we also have someone else coming in that's gonna help us out with some stuff.", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "We've just ordered a hundred gigabytes.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "So OK. We just need to.", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "I think we need, like, another eighteen gig disk to be safe.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Well, we're getting three thirty thirty - sixes.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "So.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Right?", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "OK.", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "That are going into the main f file server.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "OK.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "So.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Markham's ordering and they should be coming in soon.", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "W Well. So so.", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "Soon?", "speakerName": "Grad F" }, { "text": "Yeah. I mean, I guess the thing is is, all I need is to hang it off, like, the person who's coming in, Sonali's, computer.", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "Oh, so so, you mean the d the internal the disks on the machines that we just got?", "speakerName": "PhD H" }, { "text": "Whew. Or we can move them.", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "No.", "speakerName": "Grad F" }, { "text": "These are gonna go onto Abbott.", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "Ne - new disks.", "speakerName": "Grad F" }, { "text": "Or extra disk?", "speakerName": "PhD H" }, { "text": "Onto Abbott, the file server.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "So are we gonna move the stuff off of my hard drive onto that when those come in?", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "On.", "speakerName": "Grad F" }, { "text": "Oh, oh. OK.", "speakerName": "PhD H" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Grad F" }, { "text": "Uh, i", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Once they come in. Sure.", "speakerName": "Grad F" }, { "text": "OK. That's fine.", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "Do when when is this planned for roughly?", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "They should be I I imagine next week or something.", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "OK.", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "OK. So.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "If you're if you're desperate, I have some space on my drive.", "speakerName": "Grad F" }, { "text": "I think if I'm.", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "But I I vacillate between no space free and a few gig free.", "speakerName": "Grad F" }, { "text": "Yeah. I think I can find something if I'm desperate", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "So.", "speakerName": "Grad F" }, { "text": "and, um, in the meantime I'll just hold out.", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "OK.", "speakerName": "Grad F" }, { "text": "That was the only thing I wanted to bring up.", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "It should be soon. We we should.", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "OK.", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "So there's another hundred gig. So.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Alright. Great.", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD H" }, { "text": "OK. It's great to be able to do it,", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "That's it.", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "just say \" oh yeah, a hundred gig,", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Good.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "no big deal \".", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "Yeah. A hundred gig here, a hundred gig there.", "speakerName": "Grad F" }, { "text": "Well, each meeting is like a gig or something,", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "It's eventually real disk space.", "speakerName": "Grad F" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "so it's really.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Yeah. Um. Yeah. I was just going to comment that I I'm going to, uh, be on the phone with Mari tomorrow, late afternoon.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Oh, yeah.", "speakerName": "Grad F" }, { "text": "We're supposed to get together and talk about, uh, where we are on things. Uh, there's this meeting coming up, uh, and there's also an annual report. Now, I never actually I I was asking about this. I don't really quite understand this. She was re she was referring to it as I think this actually didn't just come from her, but this is what, uh, DARPA had asked for. Um, she's referring to it as the an annual report for the fiscal year. But of course the fiscal year starts in October, so I don't quite understand w w why we do an annual report that we're writing in July.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "She's either really late or really early.", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "Huh. Or she's getting a good early start.", "speakerName": "Grad F" }, { "text": "Uh, I think basically it it's none of those. It's that the meeting is in July so they so DARPA just said do an annual report. So. So. So anyway, I'll be putting together stuff. I'll do it, uh, you know, as much as I can without bothering people, just by looking at at papers and status reports. I mean, the status reports you do are very helpful.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD H" }, { "text": "Uh, so I can grab stuff there. And if, uh if I have some questions I'll.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "When we remember to fill them out.", "speakerName": "Grad F" }, { "text": "Yeah. If people could do it as soon as as you can, if you haven't done one si recently. Uh. Uh, but, you know, I'm I'm sure before it's all done, I'll end up bugging people for for more clarification about stuff. Um. But, um, I don't know, I guess I guess I know pretty much what people have been doing. We have these meetings and and there's the status reports. Uh. But, um. Um. Yeah. So that wasn't a long one. Just to tell you that. And if something hasn't, uh I'll be talking to her late tomorrow afternoon, and if something hasn't been in a status report and you think it's important thing to mention on this kind of thing, uh, uh, just pop me a one - liner and and and I'll I'll have it in front of me for the phone conversation.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "OK.", "speakerName": "PhD H" }, { "text": "Uh. I guess, uh, you you're still pecking away at the demos and all that, probably.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Yep. And Don is gonna be helping out with that.", "speakerName": "Grad F" }, { "text": "Oh, that's right.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "So.", "speakerName": "Grad F" }, { "text": "OK.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Did you wanna talk about that this afternoon?", "speakerName": "Grad F" }, { "text": "Um.", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "Not here, but later today?", "speakerName": "Grad F" }, { "text": "We should probably talk off - line about when we're gonna talk off - line.", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "OK. OK.", "speakerName": "Grad F" }, { "text": "OK. Yeah, I might want to get updated about it in about a week cuz, um, I'm actually gonna have a a few days off the following week, a after the after the picnic. So.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Oh, OK.", "speakerName": "Grad F" }, { "text": "That's all I had.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "So we were gonna do sort of status of speech transcription automatic transcription, but we're kind of running late. So.", "speakerName": "Grad F" }, { "text": "How long does it take you to save the data?", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Fifteen minutes.", "speakerName": "Grad F" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "So. If you wanna do a quick", "speakerName": "Grad F" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "ten minute.", "speakerName": "Grad F" }, { "text": "Guess we should stop, like, twenty of at the latest.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Uh.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "We we have another meeting coming in that they wanna record.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "And there's the digits to do.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "So.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "So maybe may maybe maybe.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Yeah. Well, we can skip the digits.", "speakerName": "Grad F" }, { "text": "We could. Fi - five minute report or something.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "It's up to you. I don't.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Yeah, yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Whatever you want.", "speakerName": "Grad F" }, { "text": "Well, I would love to hear about it,", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "What do you have to say?", "speakerName": "Grad F" }, { "text": "especially since.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "I'm interested, so.", "speakerName": "Grad F" }, { "text": "Yeah. Well, I'm gonna be on the phone tomorrow, so this is just a good example of the sort of thing I'd like to hear about.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Wait. Why is everybody looking at me?", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "I don't know.", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "Sorry.", "speakerName": "Grad F" }, { "text": "Cuz he looked at you", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "What?", "speakerName": "PhD H" }, { "text": "and says you're sketching.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Uh. I'm not sure what you were referring to.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "I I I I'm not actually, I'm not sure what? Are we supposed to have done something?", "speakerName": "PhD H" }, { "text": "No. We were just talking before about alternating the subject of the meeting.", "speakerName": "Grad F" }, { "text": "Oh.", "speakerName": "PhD H" }, { "text": "Uh - huh.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "And this week we were gonna try to do t automatic transcription status.", "speakerName": "Grad F" }, { "text": "Alternating.", "speakerName": "PhD H" }, { "text": "I wasn't here last week. Sorry.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Oh!", "speakerName": "PhD H" }, { "text": "Oh.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "But we sort of failed.", "speakerName": "Grad F" }, { "text": "We did that last week. Right?", "speakerName": "PhD H" }, { "text": "Hhh.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "No.", "speakerName": "Grad F" }, { "text": "I thought we did.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Did we? OK.", "speakerName": "Grad F" }, { "text": "Yeah. We did.", "speakerName": "PhD H" }, { "text": "OK. So now now we have the schedule. So next week we'll do automatic transcription status, plus anything that's real timely.", "speakerName": "Grad F" }, { "text": "OK.", "speakerName": "PhD H" }, { "text": "Oh. OK.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "OK.", "speakerName": "Postdoc A" }, { "text": "OK. Whew!", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Good update.", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "Whew!", "speakerName": "Grad F" }, { "text": "That was.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Dodged that bullet.", "speakerName": "Grad F" }, { "text": "Yeah. Nicely done, Liz.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "A woman of few words.", "speakerName": "Postdoc A" }, { "text": "But but lots of prosody. OK. OK.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Th", "speakerName": "Grad F" }, { "text": "Uh, I mean, we we really haven't done anything.", "speakerName": "PhD H" }, { "text": "Excuse me?", "speakerName": "Grad F" }, { "text": "Sorry.", "speakerName": "PhD H" }, { "text": "Well, since last week.", "speakerName": "Postdoc A" }, { "text": "Yeah, we're.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "I mean, the the next thing on our agenda is to go back and look at the, um the automatic alignments because, uh, I got some I I I learned from Thilo what data we can use as a benchmark to see how well we're doing on automatic alignments of the background speech or, of the foreground speech with background speech.", "speakerName": "PhD H" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Grad F" }, { "text": "So.", "speakerName": "PhD H" }, { "text": "And then, uh, I guess, the new data that Don will start to process.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "But, we haven't actually.", "speakerName": "PhD H" }, { "text": "the, um when he can get these You know, before we were working with these segments that were all synchronous and that caused a lot of problems", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Mmm.", "speakerName": "PhD H" }, { "text": "because you have timed sp at on either side.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Oh. Right, right. Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Grad F" }, { "text": "And so that's sort of a stage - two of trying the same kinds of alignments with the tighter boundaries with them is really the next step.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "Grad F" }, { "text": "I'll be interested.", "speakerName": "Postdoc A" }, { "text": "We did get our, um I guess, good news. We got our abstract accepted for this conference, um workshop, ISCA workshop, in, um, uh, New Jersey. And we sent in a very poor abstract, but they very poor, very quick. Um, but we're hoping to have a paper for that as well, which should be an interesting.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "When's it due?", "speakerName": "Grad F" }, { "text": "The t paper isn't due until August. The abstracts were already due. So it's that kind of workshop.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Grad F" }, { "text": "But, I mean, the good news is that that will have sort of the European experts in prosody sort of a different crowd, and I think we're the only people working on prosody in meetings so far, so that should be interesting.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "What's the name of the meeting?", "speakerName": "Postdoc A" }, { "text": "Uh, it's ISCA Workshop on Prosody in Speech Recognition and Understanding, or something like that.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "It's called Prosody to.", "speakerName": "PhD H" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Grad F" }, { "text": "Good.", "speakerName": "Postdoc A" }, { "text": "some generic Uh, so it's focused on using prosody in automatic systems and there's a um, a web page for it.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Y you going to, uh, Eurospeech? Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "I don't have a paper", "speakerName": "Grad F" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD H" }, { "text": "but I'd kinda like to go, if I could. Is that alright?", "speakerName": "Grad F" }, { "text": "We'll discuss it.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "OK. I guess that's \" no \".", "speakerName": "Grad F" }, { "text": "My my my car my car needs a good wash, by the way.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "OK. Well, that th Hey, if that's what it takes, that's fine with me.", "speakerName": "Grad F" }, { "text": "Um.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "I'll pick up your dry - cleaning, too. Should we do digits?", "speakerName": "Grad F" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Uh.", "speakerName": "Grad F" }, { "text": "Can I go next? Because I have to leave, actually.", "speakerName": "PhD H" }, { "text": "Yep. Go for it. Hmm! Thanks. 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Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "In fact, uh m my brother's a gerontological psychologist and he he uh came up with an an uh a uh body age test which uh gets down to sort of only three measurements that are good enough st statistical predictors of all the rest of it. And one of them is is the distance that you have to hold it at.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Give someone a piece of paper and then they Oh.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "We're we're live by the way, so we've got a good intro here", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "Oh. Yeah. About how old I am.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Yep.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "OK.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "We can edit that out if you want.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "Oh, that's optional.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "No, that's OK.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "OK. So. This time the form discussion should be very short,", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "You know.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "right?", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "It also should be later.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "OK.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "Because Jane uh is not here yet.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Good point.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "And uh she'll be most interested in that. 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He was he he was taking everything over two hundred milliseconds uh, and uh he's going to vary that number and also look at moving windows, as we discussed before. Um And uh and the other thing is that the yeah doing the subtracting off the mean and the variance in the uh and dividing it by the standard deviation in the log domain, may not be the right thing to do.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Hi Jane!", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "Hi.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "We just started.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Could you take that mike there?", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "Are these the long term means? Like, over the whole I mean, the means of what?", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Thanks.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "Uh B Between between.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "All the frames in the conversation?", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "No.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Or of things that.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Between Neither. It's uh between the pauses uh for some segment.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "No.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Oh.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "And so i i his his He's making the constraint it has to be at least two hundred milliseconds.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Oh.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "And so you take that. And then he's he's uh measuring at the frame level still at the frame level, of what.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "and then and then just uh normalizing with that larger amount. um and But one thing he was pointing out is when he he looked at a bunch of examples in log domain, it is actually pretty hard to see the change. And you can sort of see that, because of j of just putting it on the board that if you sort of have log - X plus log - X, that's the log of X plus the log of two", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Yep.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Yeah, maybe it's not log distributed.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Mmm. Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "and it's just, you know, it it diminishes the effect of having two of them.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Um.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "But you could do like a C D F there instead? I mean, we don't know that the distribution here is normally.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Yes, right. So So what I was suggesting to him is that.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "So just some kind of a simple.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Actually, a PDF. But, you know, uh But, either way.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "PDF", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Yeah. Yeah, eith eith uh B", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Something like that where it's sort of data driven.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Yeah, but I think also u I think a good first indicator is when the the the researcher looks at examples of the data and can not see a change in how big the the signal is, when the two speaker.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Yeah. Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Then, that's a problem right there. So. I think you should at least be able,", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Oh yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "doing casual looking and can get the sense, \" Hey, there's something there. \" and then you can play around with the measures. And when he's looking in the log domain he's not really seeing it.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Oh yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "So. And when he's looking in straight energy he is, so that's a good place to start.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Um. So that was that was the discussion we just had. Um. The other thing Actually we ca had a question for Adam in this. Uh, when you did the sampling? uh over the speech segments or s or sampling over the the individual channels in order to do the e uh the amplitude equalization, did you do it over just the entire everything in the mike channels?", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "How.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "You didn't try to find speech?", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "No, I just took over the entire s uh entire channel um sampled ten minutes randomly.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "Right, OK. So then that means that someone who didn't speak very much would be largely represented by silence.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Yep.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "And someone who would who would be So the normalization factor probably is i i i is is.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Yeah, this was quite quick and dirty, and it was just for listening.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "And for listening it seems to work really well.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "OK.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "So.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "Yeah. But that's.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "But, it's not Not a good measure.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "Right. So th", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "OK. So yeah there there there There's a good chance then given that different people do talk different amounts that there is there there is still a lot more to be gained from gain norm normalization with some sort", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Yeah. Yeah. Mmm.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Yes, absolutely.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "if if we can figure out a way to do it.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Uh. But we were agreed that in addition to that uh there should be s stuff related to pitch and harmonics and so forth.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "So we didn't talk at all about uh the other derivatives, but uh again just just looking at Uh, I think uh Liz has a very good point, that in fact it would be much more graphic just to show Well, actually, you do have some distributions here, uh for these cases.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Yeah. Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "You have some histograms, um and uh, they don't look very separate.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "uh separated.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "This is the the first derivate of log of frame energy uh without any kind of normalization.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "What.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Log energy. Sorry.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "These the These are the the first experiments uh with comment uh", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Frame energy.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Except that it's hard to judge this because the they're not normalized. It's just number of frames.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "But yeah, even so.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "W I mean, what I meant is, even if you use linear, you know, raw measures, like raw energy or whatever,", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "\" Number \".", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "maybe we shouldn't make any assumptions about the distribution's shape, and just use you know, use the distribution to model the the mean, or what y you know, rather than the mean take some.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Yeah. But And so in in these he's got that.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "He's got some pictures. But he doesn't he doesn't in the he i", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "just in derivatives, but not in the.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Yeah. Oh.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "but he d but he doesn't doesn't.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Right. So, we don't know what they look like on the, tsk For the raw.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "But he didn't h have it for the energy. He had it for the derivatives. Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Yeah. So. I mean, there might be something there. I don't know.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Huh.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Interesting", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "Here I I", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Oh that yeah that's a good q", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "in No I I I haven't the result", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "did did you have this sort of thing, for just the just the l r uh the the unnormalized log energy? OK. Yeah. So she she's right.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "but it's the it's the the the following.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "That's a.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Well it might be just good to know what it looks like.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Yeah. That's That's uh cuz I'd mentioned scatter plots before but she's right,", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Cuz.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Huh?", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "I mean, even before you get the scatter plots, just looking at a single feature uh, looking at the distribution, is a good thing to do.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Yeah. Catal - uh Combining the different possibilities of uh the parameters. I I I I mean the the the scatter plot combining eh different n two combination.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Yeah, but but what she's saying is, which is right, is le", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "combination of two, of energy and derivate.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "I mean, let's start with the Before we get complicated, let's start with the most basic wh thing, which is we're arguing that if you take energy uh if you look at the energy, that, when two people are speaking at the same time, usually there'll be more energy than when one is right?", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "That's that sort of hypothesis.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "That's right.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "And the first way you'd look at that, uh s she's, you know, absolutely right, is that you would just take a look at the distribution of those two things, much as you've plotted them here,", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "You know, but just but just just uh do it.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Well in this case you have three. You have the silence, and that that's fine.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "So, uh with three colors or three shades or whatever, just just look at those distributions.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "And then, given that as a base, you can see if that gets improved, you know, or or or worsened by the looking at regular energy, looking at log energy, we were just proposing that maybe it's you know, it's harder to see with the log energy, um and uh also these different normalizations, does a particular choice of normalization make it better?", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "But I had maybe made it too complicated by suggesting early on, that you look at scatter plots because that's looking at a distribution in two dimensions. Let's start off just in one, uh, with this feature.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Yeah. Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "I think that's probably the most basic thing, before anything very complicated.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Um And then we w I think we're agreed that pitch - related things are are are going to be a a really likely candidate to help.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Yeah. I agree, yeah. Uh - huh.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Um But since uh your intuition from looking at some of the data, is that when you looked at the regular energy, that it did in fact usually go up, when two people were talking, that's eh you know, you should be able to come up with a measure which will match your intuition.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "OK. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah, yeah, yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "And she's right, that a that having a having having this table, with a whole bunch of things, with the standard deviation, the variance and so forth, it's it's it's harder to interpret than just looking at the the same kind of picture you have here.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "But Uh - huh. Yeah. But It it's curious but uh I f I found it in the in the mixed file, in one channel that eh in several oh e eh several times eh you have an speaker talking alone with a high level of energy", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm. Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "eh in the middle eh a zone of overlapping with mmm less energy", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "and eh come with another speaker with high energy", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "and the overlapping zone has eh less energy.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Yeah. So there'll be some cases for which.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Because there reach very many", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "But, the qu So So they'll be.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "This is I w want to point to visual things, But I mean they there'll be time There'll be overlap between the distributions, but the question is, \" If it's a reasonable feature at all, there's some separation. \"", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Yeah. Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Especially locally.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "So. Locally.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "just locally, yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "And I was just going to say that that right now we're just exploring.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "And the other thing is I Sorry. I.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "What you would imagine eventually, is that you'll feed all of these features into some discriminative system.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "And so even if if one of the features does a good job at one type of overlap, another feature might do a good job at another type of overlap.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Right. I mean the the reason I had suggested the scatter f p features is I used to do this a lot, when we had thirteen or fifteen or twenty features to look at.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Yeah, this is the.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "um Because something is a good feature uh by itself, you don't really know how it'll behave in combination and so it's nice to have as many as many together at the same time as possible in uh in some reasonable visual form. There's cool graphic things people have had sometimes to put together three or four in some funny funny way. But it's true that you shouldn't do any of that unless you know that the individual ones, at least, have have some uh some hope", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Well, especially for normalizing.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "I mean, it's really important to pick a normalization that matches the distribution for that feature.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "And it may not be the same for all the types of overlaps or the windows may not be the same. e Actually, I was wondering, right now you're taking a all of the speech, from the whole meeting, and you're trying to find points of overlap, but we don't really know which speaker is overlapping with which speaker,", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "right? So I mean another way would just be to take the speech from just, say, Morgan, And just Jane and then just their overlaps,", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "like but by hand, by cheating, and looking at you know, if you can detect something that way, because if we can't do it that way, there's no good way that we're going to be able to do it.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "No prayer.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "That You know, there might be something helpful and cleaner about looking at just individuals and then that combination alone.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Plus, I think it has more elegant e", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "The m the right model will be easier to see that way. So if I don't know, if you go through and you find Adam, cuz he has a lot of overlaps and some other speaker who also has e enough speech", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "and just sort of look at those three cases of Adam and the other person and the overlaps,", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "maybe and just look at the distributions, maybe there is a clear pattern", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "but we just can't see it because there's too many combinations of of people that can overlap.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Uh - huh. Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "I had the same intuition last last last week.", "speakerName": "Postdoc B" }, { "text": "So. Just seems sort of complex.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "I think it's to start with it's s your your idea of simplifying, starting with something that you can see eh you know without the extra layers of.", "speakerName": "Postdoc B" }, { "text": "Right. Cuz if energy doesn't matter there, like I don't think this is true, but what if", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "To study individual?", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Sorry, what?", "speakerName": "Postdoc B" }, { "text": "Hmm?", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "To study individual?", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Well, you you you don't have to study everybody individually", "speakerName": "Postdoc B" }, { "text": "Well, to study the simplest case to get rid of extra.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "The the the But Consider.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "but just simple case and the one that has the lot of data associated with it.", "speakerName": "Postdoc B" }, { "text": "Right. Cuz what if it's the case and I don't think this is true.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "That was a great overlap by the way.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "What if it's the case that when two people overlap they equate their you know, there's a conservation of energy and everybody both people talk more softly? I don't think this happens at all.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Or or what if what if the equipment what if the equipment adjusts somehow,", "speakerName": "Postdoc B" }, { "text": "Or they get louder.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "there's some equalizing in there?", "speakerName": "Postdoc B" }, { "text": "Yeah or.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Uh, no we don't have that.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "I mean.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Well, but But I think that's what I was saying about different types of overlap.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "OK.", "speakerName": "Postdoc B" }, { "text": "But.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Saturation.", "speakerName": "Postdoc B" }, { "text": "There are there are different types, and within those types, like as Jose was saying, that sounded like a backchannel overlap, meaning the kind that's a friendly encouragement, like \" Mm - hmm. \", \" Great! \", \" Yeah! \"", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "And it doesn't take you don't take the floor. Um, but, some of those, as you showed, I think can be discriminated by the duration of the overlap.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "So. It Actually the s new student, Don, who um Adam has met, and he was at one of our meetings He's getting his feet wet and then he'll be starting again in mid - January. He's interested in trying to distinguish the types of overlap. I don't know if he's talked with you yet. But in sort of honing in on these different types", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Yeah. I don't consi Now I don't consider that possibility.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "and So maybe.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "This is a s a general studio of the overlapping we're studying the i", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Yeah. Well I I I I would s actually still recommend that he do the overall thing", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "So it might be something that we can help by categorizing some of them and then, you know, look at that.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "because it would be the quickest thing for him to do. He could You see, he already has all his stuff in place,", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "he has the histogram mechanism, he has the stuff that subtracts out and all he has to do is change it uh uh from from log to plain energy and plot the histogram and look at it. And then he should go on and do the other stuff bec but But this will.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Yeah. Yeah, no. I didn't mean that that for you to do that, but I was thinking if if Don and I are trying to get categories", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm. Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "and we label some data for you, and we say this is what we think is going So you don't have to worry about it. And here's the three types of overlaps.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "And we'll we'll do the labelling for you.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Hm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Um.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Consider different class of overlap?", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Yeah, that we would be working on anyway.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "If there's time.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Then maybe you can try some different things for those three cases, and see if that helps, or.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Yeah. Yeah. This is the thing I I comment with you before, that uh we have a great variation of th situation of overlapping.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "And the behavior for energy is, uh log energy, is not uh the same all the time.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "And.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "But I guess I was just saying that that right now uh from the means that you gave, I don't have any sense of whether even, you know, there are any significant number of cases for which there is distinct and I would imagine there should be some you know, there should be The distributions should be somewhat separated.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Yeah. Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Uh and I I would still guess that if they are not separated at all, that there's some there's there's most likely something wrong in the way that we're measuring it.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Yeah. Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Um, but um For instance, I mean I wouldn't expect that it was very common overall, that when two people were talking at the same time, that it would that it really was lower,", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "although sometimes, as you say, it would.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "So. So.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Yeah, no, that was That was a jok", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "or a sort of, a case where where you would never know that unless you actually go and look at two individuals.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "I mean. No. It could it probably does happen sometimes.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "Yeah. Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Mind if I turned that light off?", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "So.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "The flickering is annoying me.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "OK.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "It might the case, though, that the significant energy, just as Jose was saying, comes in the non - backchannel cases. Because in back Most people when they're talking don't change their own energy when they get a backchannel, cuz they're not really predicting the backchannel.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "And sometimes it's a nod and sometimes it's an \" mm - hmm \".", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "And the \" mm - hmm \" is really usually very low energy.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "So maybe those don't actually have much difference in energy. But all the other cases might.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "e e and and again what they what difference there was would kind of be lost in taking the log,", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "and the backchannels are sort of easy to spot s in terms of their words or I mean, just listen to it.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "So.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "so, as well.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Well, it would be lost no matter what you do.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "But Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "It just.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Mmm, no, if it's if i if it's.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Tone", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "Well, it won't be as big.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "I mean, even if you take the log, you can your model just has a more sensitive measures.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Sure, but tone might be very", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "So.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Yeah, you're \" mm - hmm \" tone is going to be very different.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "Yeah. Right. Right.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "You could imagine doing specialized ones for different types of backchannels, if you could if you had a good model for it. Your \" mm - hmm \" detector.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "If if you're a I guess my point is, if you're doing essentially a linear separation, taking the log first does in fact make it harder to separate.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "So it's So, uh if you i i So i if there if there close to things it does", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "it's a nonlinear operation that does in fact change the distinction. If you're doing a non if you're doing some fancy thing then then yeah. And right now we're essentially doing this linear thing by looking across here and and saying we're going to cut it here. Um and that that's the indicator that we're getting. But anyway, yeah, we're not disagreeing on any of this, we should look at it more uh more finely, but uh uh I think that This often happens, you do fairly complicated things, and then you stand back from them and you realize that you haven't done something simple. So uh, if you generated something like that just for the energy and see, and then, a a a as as Liz says, when they g have uh uh smaller um, more coherent groups to look at, that would be another interesting thing later.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Uh - huh.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "And then that should give us some indication between those, should give us some indication of whether there's anything to be achieved f from energy at all.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Uh - huh.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "And then you can move on to the uh uh more pitch related stuff.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm. I I I think this is a good idea.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "OK.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Postdoc B" }, { "text": "Not consider the log energy.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Yeah. But then the Have you started looking at the pitch related stuff at all, or? Pitch related?", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "The?", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Harmonicity and so on?", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "I I'm preparing the the program but I don't I don't begin because eh I saw your email", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Preparing to Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "and I agree with you it's better to I suppose it's better to to consider the the energy this kind of parameter bef", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Yeah. Oh, that's not what I meant. No, no. I I I I Well, we certainly should see this but I I I I think that the harm I certainly wasn't saying this was better than the harmonicity and pitch related things I was just saying", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "I I go on with the with the pitch,", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "aha! OK.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Yeah, I was just saying.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "I I I I understood uh that eh I I had to finish by the moment with the and and concentrate my my energy in that problem.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "OK. OK. OK. But I think, like, all these derivatives and second derivatives and all these other very fancy things, I think I would just sort of look at the energy and then get into the harmonicity as as a suggestion.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "OK. I go on with the pitch.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Uh OK. So maybe uh since w we're trying to uh compress the meeting, um, I know Adam had some form stuff he wanted to talk about and did you have some?", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "I wanted to ask just s something on the end of this top topic. So, when I presented my results about the uh distribution of overlaps and the speakers and the profiles of the speakers, at the bottom of that I did have a proposal,", "speakerName": "Postdoc B" }, { "text": "Uh - huh.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "and I had plan to go through with it, of of co coding the types of overlaps that people were involved in s just with reference to speaker style so, you know, with reference.", "speakerName": "Postdoc B" }, { "text": "Oh.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "and you know I said that on my in my summary,", "speakerName": "Postdoc B" }, { "text": "That'd be great.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "that you know so it's like people may have different amounts of being overlapped with or overlapping", "speakerName": "Postdoc B" }, { "text": "Yeah, I remem Right.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "but that in itself is not informative without knowing what types of overlaps they're involved in so I was planning to do a taxonomy of types overlaps with reference to that.", "speakerName": "Postdoc B" }, { "text": "That would be great.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "So, but it you know it's like it sounds like you also have uh something in that direction.", "speakerName": "Postdoc B" }, { "text": "That would be really great.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Hmm.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "Is is it.", "speakerName": "Postdoc B" }, { "text": "We have nothing You know, basically, we got his environment set up. He's he's a double - E you know. So. It's mostly that, if we had to label it ourselves, we we would or we'd have to, to get started, but if It it would be much better if you can do it. You'd be much better at doing it also because you know, I I'm not I don't have a good feel for how they should be sorted out,", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Interesting.", "speakerName": "Postdoc B" }, { "text": "and I really didn't wanna go into that if I didn't have to. So if If you're w willing to do that or or.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "It would be interesting, though, to talk, maybe not at the meeting, but at some other time about what are the classes.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "Well maybe we can OK.", "speakerName": "Postdoc B" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Postdoc B" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Postdoc B" }, { "text": "I think that's a research effort in and of itself,", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Yeah, it would be interesting.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "because you can read the literature, but I don't know how it'll turn out", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "and, You know, it's always an interesting question.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "It seems like we also s with reference to a purpose, too, that we we'd want to have them coded.", "speakerName": "Postdoc B" }, { "text": "I would think it's interesting, yeah. Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "That'd be great.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Yep.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "OK.", "speakerName": "Postdoc B" }, { "text": "That'd be really great.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "I can do that.", "speakerName": "Postdoc B" }, { "text": "And we'd still have some funding for this project,", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "uh uh", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "like probably, if we had to hire some like an undergrad, because uh Don is being covered half time on something else.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Postdoc B" }, { "text": "I mean, he we're not paying him the full RA - ship for all the time. So. um If we got it to where we wanted we needed someone to do that I don't think there's really enough data where where.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm. Yeah, I see this as a prototype, to use the only the the already transcribed meeting as just a prototype.", "speakerName": "Postdoc B" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "I I think a a another parameter we c we we can consider is eh the duration.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "But.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "Another e e m besides eh the the class of overlap, the duration. Because is possible eh some s s um eh some classes eh has eh a type of a duration, eh, a duration very short uh when we have we have overlapping with speech.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Postdoc B" }, { "text": "Yeah, definitely.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Yeah, maybe It may be correlated. Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Postdoc B" }, { "text": "Is possible to have. And it's interesting, I think, to consider the the window of normalization, normalization window. Eh because eh if we have a type of, a kind of eh overlap, eh backchannel overlap, with a short duration, is possible eh to normali i i that if we normalize eh with eh eh consider only the the eh window eh by the left eh ri eh side on the right side overlapping with a a very eh oh a small window eh the if the fit of normalization is eh mmm bigger eh in that overlapping zone eh very short", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Postdoc B" }, { "text": "Yeah, that's true. The window shouldn't be larger than the backchannel.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "I I me I I understand. I mean that you have eh you have a backchannel, eh, eh you have a overlapping zone very short", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "and you consider eh n eh all the channel to normalize this very short eh.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm. Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "for example \" mmm mm - hmm hmm \" eh And the energy is not eh height eh I think if you consider all the channel to normalize and the channel is mmm bigger eh eh eh compared with the with the overlapping eh duration,", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "eh the effect is mmm stronger eh that I I mean the the e effect of the normalization eh with the mean and the and the variance eh is different that if you consider only a window compared eh with the n the duration of overlapping.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm. You you want it around the overlapping part.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Not Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "You want it to include something that's not in overlapping", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Postdoc B" }, { "text": "but but uh", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Yeah. I I don't know.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Is s If.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Well it's a sliding window, right? So if you take the the measure in the center of the overlapped piece, you know, there'd better be some something.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Yeah. Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "But if your window is really huge then yeah you're right you won't even.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Yeah, This is the This is the the idea, to consider only the the small window near near near the the overlapping zone.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "The portion of the of the backchannel won't won't effect anything. But you Yeah. So. You know, you shouldn't be more than like You should definitely not be three times as big as your as your backchannel.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Postdoc B" }, { "text": "Then you're gonna w have a wash. And hopefully it's more like on the order of.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "I'm not sure that's necessarily true.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Yeah?", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "It is an empirical question, it seems like.", "speakerName": "Postdoc B" }, { "text": "Because because it because um again if you're just compensating for the gain,", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Yea", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Postdoc B" }, { "text": "you know, the fact that this this gain thing was crude, and the gain wh if someone is speaking relatively at consistent level, just to to give a an extreme example, all you're doing is compensating for that. And then you still s And then if you look at the frame with respect to that, it still should should uh change", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Yeah, it depends how different your normalization is, as you slide your window across.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "I mean. That's something we don't know.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "It's possible to try it both ways,", "speakerName": "Postdoc B" }, { "text": "Well, I mean we're also talking about a couple of different things.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "isn't it? in this small", "speakerName": "Postdoc B" }, { "text": "I mean, one is your analysis window and then the other is any sort of normalization that you're doing.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "Yeah I was talking about the n normalization window.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "And the And they could be quite different.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "This was sort of where where we were last week.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Yep.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "Yeah. That's true. Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "But, anyway We we'll have to look at some core things.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "OK.", "speakerName": "Postdoc B" }, { "text": "Um. But that'd be great if if you're marking those", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "OK.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Great.", "speakerName": "Postdoc B" }, { "text": "and um.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "OK.", "speakerName": "Postdoc B" }, { "text": "But it is definitely true that we need to have the time marks,", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Postdoc B" }, { "text": "and I was assuming that will be inherited because, if you have the words and they're roughly aligned in time via forced alignment or whatever we end up using, then you know, this student and I would be looking at the time marks", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Yep, I agree. Mm - hmm. Coming off of the other.", "speakerName": "Postdoc B" }, { "text": "and classifying all the frames inside those as whatever labels Jane gave", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Good. So, it wouldn't be I wasn't planning to label the time marks.", "speakerName": "Postdoc B" }, { "text": "I can give you my transcription file,", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "I was thinking that that would come from the engineering side,", "speakerName": "Postdoc B" }, { "text": "I don't think you need to.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "no?", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "yeah.", "speakerName": "Postdoc B" }, { "text": "Yeah. That should be linked to the words which are linked to time somehow,", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "There you go.", "speakerName": "Postdoc B" }, { "text": "Well we're not any time soon going to get a forced alignment.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "right? Not now.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "So.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Um If it's not hand - marked then we're not going to get the times.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "Well, it's something that w Well, we we wouldn't be able to do any work without a forced alignment anyway,", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Yes", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "so somehow if once he gets going we're gonna hafta come up with one", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Yes.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "and Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "I mean w I guess we could do a very bad one with Broadcast News.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "Good. Good.", "speakerName": "Postdoc B" }, { "text": "So whatever you would label would be attached to the words, I think.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Great! Good, good. Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Postdoc B" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Well again for the close mike stuff, we could come up take a s take the Switchboard system or something,", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "That might be good enough. Yeah.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "and Um", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "It'd be worth a try. It would be interesting to see what we get.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "Just, you know, low - pass filter the speech and.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Cuz there's there's a lot of work you can't do without that, I mean, how how would you.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "You'd have to go in and measure every start and stop point next to a word", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Yep.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "It would be very inefficient.", "speakerName": "Postdoc B" }, { "text": "is y if you're interested in anything to do with words.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Postdoc B" }, { "text": "So. Anyway So that'd be great.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Good. OK.", "speakerName": "Postdoc B" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "There's something we should talk about later but maybe not just now. But, uh, should talk about our options as far as the uh uh transcription", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Yep, if IBM doesn't.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "But. Well, w But we'll do that later.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "OK. Good.", "speakerName": "Postdoc B" }, { "text": "Do we hafta turn.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Yeah. Let's do that later.", "speakerName": "Postdoc B" }, { "text": "Are we supposed to keep recording here?", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Yeah Right.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Postdoc B" }, { "text": "We'll talk about it later.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Postdoc B" }, { "text": "So uh Uh \" forms \".", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Forms Next iteration of forms.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "You had something on forms.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Oops.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "Oh! Oh good, OK.", "speakerName": "Postdoc B" }, { "text": "Um. Oh.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "How So it's two pages per person?", "speakerName": "Postdoc B" }, { "text": "Nope. One's a digit form, one's a speaker form.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "Oh!", "speakerName": "Postdoc B" }, { "text": "So one is a one time only speaker form and the other is the digits.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "Oh, I see.", "speakerName": "Postdoc B" }, { "text": "Oh it's the same. Oh no no. Is is new Is OK.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "So don't fill these out.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "Alright.", "speakerName": "Postdoc B" }, { "text": "This is just the suggestion for uh what the new forms would look like. So, they incorporate the changes that we talked about.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "Date and time. Uh why did you switch the order of the Date and Time fields? This is rather a low - level, but", "speakerName": "Postdoc B" }, { "text": "On which one?", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "On on the new one, Time comes first and then Date, but I thought.", "speakerName": "Postdoc B" }, { "text": "Oh you mean on the digit form?", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "This is this is rather a low level question, but but it used used to be Date came first.", "speakerName": "Postdoc B" }, { "text": "Uh, because the user fills out the first three fields and I fill out the rest.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "Oh I see.", "speakerName": "Postdoc B" }, { "text": "So it was intentional.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "Well, how would the How would the user know the time if they didn't know the date?", "speakerName": "Postdoc B" }, { "text": "It's an interesting observation, but it was intentional. Because the date is when you actually read the digits and the time and, excuse me, the time is when you actually read the digits, but I'm filling out the date beforehand. If you look at the form in front of you? that you're going to fill out when you read the digits? you'll see I've already filled in the date but not the time.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "Yeah. I always assumed So the time is supposed to be pretty exact, because I've just been taking beginning time time of the meeting.", "speakerName": "Postdoc B" }, { "text": "Yeah, me too.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Yeah, I've noticed that in the forms.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "Yeah, I yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "The the reason I put the time in, is so that the person who's extracting the digits, meaning me, will know where to look in the meeting, to try to find the digits.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "Me too. Oh!", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Oh dear. We've been we've been messing up your forms.", "speakerName": "Postdoc B" }, { "text": "But I am put I am putting the beginning of the meeting.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "I know.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "So you should call it, like, \" digits start time \". Or.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "And I haven't said anything. Yep.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "in on there.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Why What what were you putting in?", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Oh, well, I was saying if we started the meeting at two thirty,", "speakerName": "Postdoc B" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "I'd put two thirty, and I guess d e everyone was putting two thirty,", "speakerName": "Postdoc B" }, { "text": "Oh.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "No, it's about fifty fifty.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "and I didn't realize there was \" uh oh I'm about to read this and I should \".", "speakerName": "Postdoc B" }, { "text": "Actually it's about one third each. About one third of them are blank, about one third of them are when the digits are read, and about one third of them are when the meeting starts. So.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "Oh.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "This would be a radical suggestion but.", "speakerName": "Postdoc B" }, { "text": "I could put instructions? Nah.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "Ei - either that or maybe you could maybe write down when people start reading digits on that particular session.", "speakerName": "Postdoc B" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "But if I'm not at the meeting, I can't do that.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "I know, OK. That's a good point.", "speakerName": "Postdoc B" }, { "text": "Yeah, he's been setting stuff up and going away. So.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "I see. Good point good point.", "speakerName": "Postdoc B" }, { "text": "For some reason he doesn't want to sit through every meeting that's.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Yep, but that is the reason Name, Email and Time are where they are.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "Oh, OK. Alright.", "speakerName": "Postdoc B" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "I rest my.", "speakerName": "Postdoc B" }, { "text": "And then the others are later on.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "Uh - huh.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "OK. w", "speakerName": "Postdoc B" }, { "text": "And the Seat is this number?", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "Seat and Session.", "speakerName": "Postdoc B" }, { "text": "\" For official use only \" That's Well, he's very professional.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "\" use only \"", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Actually you could Well that does raise another question, which is why is the \" Professional use only \" line not higher? Why doesn't it come in at the point of Date and Seat? Oh. Because we're filling in other things.", "speakerName": "Postdoc B" }, { "text": "What?", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "What?", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Well, because If y your your professional use, you're gonna already have the date, and the s", "speakerName": "Postdoc B" }, { "text": "What which form are you talking about?", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "Well I'm comparing the new one with the old one. This is the digit form.", "speakerName": "Postdoc B" }, { "text": "Oh.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Oh you're talking about the digit form.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "Digit. Digit form.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "The digit form doesn't The digit.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "Oh! I wasn't supposed to.", "speakerName": "Postdoc B" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "No, that's alright.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "Sorry. Sorry.", "speakerName": "Postdoc B" }, { "text": "The digit form doesn't have a \" for official use only \" line. It just has a line, which is what you're supposed to read.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "That uh OK.", "speakerName": "Postdoc B" }, { "text": "So on the digits form, everything above the line is a fill - in form", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "Sorry about that. Yeah.", "speakerName": "Postdoc B" }, { "text": "and everything below the line is digits that the user reads.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "Yeah. OK. Alright s but I didn't mean to derail our discussion here, so you really wanted to start with this other form.", "speakerName": "Postdoc B" }, { "text": "No, either way is fine I just You just started talking about something, and I didn't know which form you were referring to.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "Alright yeah, I was comparing so th this is So I was looking at the change first. So it's like we started with this and now we've got a new version of it wi with reference to this. So the digit form, we had one already. Now the f the fields are slightly different.", "speakerName": "Postdoc B" }, { "text": "So the main thing that the person fills out um is the name and email and time?", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "You do the rest?", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Ah!", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Yep. Just as uh as I have for all the others.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "What And there's an addition of the native language, which is a bit redundant.", "speakerName": "Postdoc B" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "This one has Native Language and this one does too.", "speakerName": "Postdoc B" }, { "text": "That's because the one, the digit form that has native language is the old form not the new form.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "Oh! Thank you. Thank you, thank you. There we go.", "speakerName": "Postdoc B" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Oh, yeah. I'll catch up here. OK, I see.", "speakerName": "Postdoc B" }, { "text": "\" South Midland, North Midland \"", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "That's the old and that's the new.", "speakerName": "Postdoc B" }, { "text": "Yeah this was the problem with these categories, I I picked those categories from TIMIT. I don't know what those are.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "Actually, the only way I know is from working with the database and having to figure it out.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "What.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "With TIMIT, yeah?", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "uh - huh.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "So, I was gonna ask", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "What i", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "So is South Midland like Kansas?", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "wh w I mean.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "and North Midland like like uh Illinois, or?", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Well yeah. Nor - um.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "So so what accent are we speaking? Western?", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "By definition?", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "And for simple for for me?", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Well,", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Probably Western, yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Is mean my native language Spanish Spanish? eh The original is the center of Spain and the beca", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Yeah, I mean you could call it whatever you want. For the foreign language we couldn't classify every single one. So I just left it blank and you can put whatever you want.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "Because is different, the Span - uh the Spanish language from the the north of Spain, of the south, of the west and the.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Sure.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "But.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "So I'm not sure what to do about the Region field for English variety. You know, when I wrote I was writing those down, I was thinking, \" You know, these are great if you're a linguist \".", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "But I don't know how to I don't know how to I don't know how to categorize them.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Postdoc B" }, { "text": "Actually even if you t", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Postdoc B" }, { "text": "If you're if e if y", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "This wasn't developed by th these regions weren't.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "if you're a TI or MIT from nineteen eighty - five.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Yeah So I guess my only question was if if you were a South Midland speaking region, person? Would you know it?", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Is that what you would call yourself?", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "I don't know.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "You know, I think if you're talking if you're thinking in terms of places, as opposed to names different peop names people have given to different ways of talking, I would think North Midwest, and South Midwest would be more common than saying Midland, right, I mean, I I went to s", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Yeah. Now the usage Maybe we can give them a li like a little map? with the regions and they just No, I'm serious.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "No, that's not bad. Yeah.", "speakerName": "Postdoc B" }, { "text": "Because it takes less time, and it's sort of cute", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "i at this in that side in that side of the the paper.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "there's no figure.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Well.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Well just a little You know, it doesn't have all the detail, but you sort of.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "But what if you moved five times and and uh", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Well, I was thinking you could have ma multiple ones and then the amount of time.", "speakerName": "Postdoc B" }, { "text": "No, but you're categorized. That's the same.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "so, roughly. So. You could say, you know \" ten years on the east coast, five years on the west coast \" or something or other.", "speakerName": "Postdoc B" }, { "text": "Well, We I think we don't want to get that level of detail at this form. I think that's alright if we want to follow up. But.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "I guess we don't really know.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "I mean I As I said, I don't think there's a huge benefit to this region thing. It it gets The problem is that for some things it's really clear and usually listening to it you can tell right away if it's a New York or Boston accent, but New York and Boston are two well, I guess they have the NYC, but New England has a bunch of very different dialects and.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Postdoc B" }, { "text": "and so does um S So do other places.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Yeah, so I picked these regions cuz we had talked about TIMIT, and those are right from TIMIT.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "Right. And so these would be satisfying like a speech research community if we released the database,", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "So.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "but as to whether subjects know where they're from, I'm not sure because um I know that they had to fill this out for Switchboard. This is i almost exactly the same as Switchboard regions", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Oh. OK.", "speakerName": "Postdoc B" }, { "text": "or very close. Yeah. Um And I don't know how they filled that out. But th if Midland Yeah, Midland is the one that's difficult I guess.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "I think a lot of people Yeah.", "speakerName": "Postdoc B" }, { "text": "Also Northwest you've got Oreg - Washington and Oregon now which uh y people don't know if it's western or northern.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Yeah, I certainly don't. I mean, I was saying I don't even know what I speak.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "It's like Northwest", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Am I speaking Am I speaking Western?", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "Oh, what is Northern? Well and what and what's Northern?", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "I think originally it was North Northwest", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Northwest?", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "But.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Yeah, so this is a real problem. I don't know what to do about it.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "I wouldn't know how to characterize mine either. And and so I would think I would say, I've I've got a mix of California and Ohio.", "speakerName": "Postdoc B" }, { "text": "I c I think at the first level, for example, we speak the same.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "I don't know.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "our our dialects Or whatever you region are the same.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "Uh - huh.", "speakerName": "Postdoc B" }, { "text": "But I don't know what it is. So.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "Well, you have a like techno - speak accent I think.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "a techno - speak accent?", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "Yeah, you know?", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "A techno", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "A a geek region?", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "Well it's I mean I you can sort of identify", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Geek region.", "speakerName": "Postdoc B" }, { "text": "it f It's it's not not that that's.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Is different. Is different.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "but but maybe that maybe we could leave this and see what people See what people choose and then um let them just fill in if they don't I mean I don't know what else we can do, cuz That's North Midland.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "I'm wondering about a question like, \" Where are you from mostly? \"", "speakerName": "Postdoc B" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "But I I'm s I'm now that you mentioned it though, I am really am confused by \" Northern \".", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "I agree. I agree.", "speakerName": "Postdoc B" }, { "text": "I really am.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "I agree.", "speakerName": "Postdoc B" }, { "text": "I mean, if if you're in New England, that's North.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "If you're i if you're", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Scandinavian, the Minnesota area's north.", "speakerName": "Postdoc B" }, { "text": "Uh yeah. That's But that's also North Midland,", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Oh, @ @. OK.", "speakerName": "Postdoc B" }, { "text": "right?", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "And and and Oregon and and Oregon and Washington are are Western, but they're also Northern.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Yeah. Of course, that's very different from, like, Michigan, or.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Mmm.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Postdoc B" }, { "text": "uh, Idaho?", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Well there are hardly any subjects from Idaho.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Montana?", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "No problem.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "Just rule them out.", "speakerName": "Postdoc B" }, { "text": "There's only a few people in Idaho.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "There are hardly any subjects from \" beep \"", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Sorry.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Maybe Maybe we Maybe we should put a little map and say \" put an X on where you're from \",", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "No, that's.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "And is in those.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Yeah really.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "We could ask where they're from.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "And if you put.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "It'd be pretty simple, yeah.", "speakerName": "Postdoc B" }, { "text": "Yeah. But - We went back to that.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Yeah. If you put eh the state?", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Well well we sort of.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "Where are you from mostly?", "speakerName": "Postdoc B" }, { "text": "We we went we went around this and then a lot of people ended up saying that it.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Uh - huh. Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "You know.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Well, I like the idea of asking \" what variety of English do you speak \" as opposed to where you're from Because th if we start asking where we're from, again you have to start saying, \" well, is that the language you speak or is that just where you're from? \"", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Hmm?", "speakerName": "Postdoc B" }, { "text": "Right. Right.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Let's Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "I mean it gives us good information on where they're from, but that doesn't tell us anything.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "And.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "We could always ask them if they're from.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "well, enough about their.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "I mean. So so I would say Germany", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "like.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "You know am I speaking with German accent", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "Oh.", "speakerName": "Postdoc B" }, { "text": "I don't think so.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "Well, see, I'm thinking \" Where are you from mostly \"", "speakerName": "Postdoc B" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Oh, OK yeah.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "because, you know, then you have some some kind of subjective amount of time factored into it.", "speakerName": "Postdoc B" }, { "text": "Yeah. Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Yep. Yeah, I guess I could try to put squeeze in a little map.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "I mean there's not a lot of r of room", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "I'd say, uh, \" Boston, New York City, the South and Regular \".", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Well.", "speakerName": "Postdoc B" }, { "text": "Oh, I don't know.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "I think of those, Northern is the only one that I don't even know what they're meaning.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "Yeah. Yeah.", "speakerName": "Postdoc B" }, { "text": "And And Um And usually here people here know what is their kind of mmm lang English language?", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "That's a joke. That's.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "So let's make it up. S I mean, who cares. Right? We can make up our own So we can say \" Northwest \", \" Rest of West \" or something. You know. \" West \" and I mean.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Ye I don't think the Northwest people speak any differently than I do.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "It doesn't even Yeah, exactly. That's not really a region.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "I.", "speakerName": "Postdoc B" }, { "text": "\" Do you come from the Louisiana Purchase? \"", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "So we could take out \" North \" \" Northern \".", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "That that's exactly what we're arguing about.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "eh here Is easy for people to know?", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "That's Yeah, w It's In It's it's harder in America anywhere else, basically.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "We don't know.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "because you have.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "I mean some of them are very obvious. If you if you talk to someone speaking with Southern drawl, you know.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "N m Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Yeah, or Boston.", "speakerName": "Postdoc B" }, { "text": "Or Boston, yeah.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "I can't do it, but.", "speakerName": "Postdoc B" }, { "text": "Or Boston?", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "And those people, if you ask them to self - identify their accent they know.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Yeah, they do.", "speakerName": "Postdoc B" }, { "text": "They know very well.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Yeah I agree I agree. I agree.", "speakerName": "Postdoc B" }, { "text": "They know they don't speak the same as the", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "But is Boston New England?", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "And they're proud of it.", "speakerName": "Postdoc B" }, { "text": "day o", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Postdoc B" }, { "text": "Yeah, exactly.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "It's identity thing.", "speakerName": "Postdoc B" }, { "text": "And they're glad to tell you.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "style.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Well. Depends who you ask, I suppose.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "W I guess that's the problem with these categories.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "But that's why they have New York City but.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Well, we ca Well, why can't we just say characterize something like char characterize your accent", "speakerName": "Postdoc B" }, { "text": "Well, Boston's @ @, too.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Or \" Characterize your accent if you can. \"", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "and and so I would say, \" I don't know \".", "speakerName": "Postdoc B" }, { "text": "Yeah. Right, which probably means you have a very.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "But someone from Boston with a really strong coloration would know. And so would an R - less Maine or something,", "speakerName": "Postdoc B" }, { "text": "And that's actually good.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "yeah.", "speakerName": "Postdoc B" }, { "text": "I was I was thinking of something along that line", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "How", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Good.", "speakerName": "Postdoc B" }, { "text": "because if you don't know, then, you know, ruling out the fact that you're totally inept or something,", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Hmm.", "speakerName": "Postdoc B" }, { "text": "if somebody doesn't know, it probably means their accent isn't very strong compared to the sort of midwest standard.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Well, I mean, it wasn't that long ago that we had somebody here who was from Texas who was absolutely sure that he didn't have any accent left.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Hmm?", "speakerName": "Postdoc B" }, { "text": "And and had he had a pretty noticeable drawl.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "OK, so. I propose, take out Northern add, don't know.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "Oh. Yeah. I I would say more more sweepingly, \" how would you characterize your accent? \"", "speakerName": "Postdoc B" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "So you want to change the instructions also not just say region?", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "W", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Well, I think this discussion has made me think that's s something to consider.", "speakerName": "Postdoc B" }, { "text": "I don't know if I if I read this form, I think they're going to ask it they're going to answer the same way if you say, \" What's variety of English do you speak? Region. \" as if you say \" what variety of region region do you speak? Please characterize your accent? \" They're going to answer the same way.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "I guess Well, I was not sure that I.", "speakerName": "Postdoc B" }, { "text": "Mmm.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "So. I was suggesting not having the options, just having them.", "speakerName": "Postdoc B" }, { "text": "Oh, I see.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "Huh.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Well what we talked about with that is is so that they would understand the granularity.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "Yes, but if, as Liz is suggesting, people who have strong accents know that they do.", "speakerName": "Postdoc B" }, { "text": "I mean that's what I had before, and you told me to list the regions to list them.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "and are Well, I know.", "speakerName": "Postdoc B" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Each each one has pros and cons", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "So.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "That's true.", "speakerName": "Postdoc B" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "I mean we we.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Yeah last week last week I was sort of r arguing for having it wide open, but then everybody said \" Oh, no, but then it will be hard to interpret because some people will say Cincinnati and some will say Ohio \".", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "I mean I had it wide open last week and and you said TIMIT.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "And.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Postdoc B" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "What if we put in both?", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "That's what the \" Other \" is for.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "And Would people No, I mean what if we put in both ways of asking them? So. One is Region and the another one is \" if you had to characterize yourself your accent, what would you say? \"", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Won't they answer the same thing?", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "Well they might only answer only one of the questions but if", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Yeah that's fine.", "speakerName": "Postdoc B" }, { "text": "You know.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "They might say \" Other \" for Region because they don't know what category to use", "speakerName": "Postdoc B" }, { "text": "Actually.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "but they might have something.", "speakerName": "Postdoc B" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "because it is easier to have it open ended.", "speakerName": "Postdoc B" }, { "text": "It just And we we might learn from what they say, as to which one's a better way to ask it.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "W This is just a small thing", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "But I Cuz I really don't know..", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "but um It says \" Variety \" and then it gives things that e have American as one of the choices. But then it says \" Region \", but Region actually just applies to uh, US,", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "right?", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "I mean that's why I put the \" Other \" in.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "Well, we thought about it.", "speakerName": "Postdoc B" }, { "text": "Ah, OK.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Yeah, OK. We just We sort of thought, \" yes, \" y y I mean.", "speakerName": "Postdoc B" }, { "text": "S", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "At the last meeting, my recollection was that we felt people would have uh less that that there are so many types and varieties of these other languages and we are not going to have that many subjects from these different language groups", "speakerName": "Postdoc B" }, { "text": "Yep.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "and that it's a huge waste of of space.", "speakerName": "Postdoc B" }, { "text": "OK.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "So I mean, I I mean the way I had it last time was Region was blank,", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "That's what I thought.", "speakerName": "Postdoc B" }, { "text": "it just said Region colon.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Postdoc B" }, { "text": "And and I think that that's the best way to do it,", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Postdoc B" }, { "text": "because because of the problems we're talking about but what we said last week, was no, put in a list, so I put in a list. So should we go back to.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "Maybe we can make the list a little smaller.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Well, certainly dropping \" Northern \" I think is right, because none of us know what that is.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "Cuz, I mean And keeping \" Other \", and then maybe this North Midland, we call it \" North Midwest \". South Midwest, or just.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Yes I I I think so. Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "South Midwest. Does that make sense?", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "South Midwest?", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "That would help me.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "U unless you're from Midland, Kansas.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Yeah. Cuz Midland.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "But. Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "I don't know where Midland is", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "There's a Or Midland Midland.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Is \" Midwest \" one word?", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "Is it Midland Midland Midland, Texas or Midland, Kansas? I forget.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Y yeah, one w", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "But there's a town. in in there.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Oh.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "I forget what it is @ @.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "I don't think that's what they mean.", "speakerName": "Postdoc B" }, { "text": "But,", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "yeah. So. Kansas would be South Midland. Right?", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Y yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "And and wouldn't Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "And Colorado, right across the border, would be North Midland.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "So, th I'm from Kansas, actually.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Southern Midland..", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "And uh.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "Colora Oh, right. And then, the the dropping North, so it would be Western. It's just one big shebang, where, of course, you have huge variation in dialects,", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "But that's true of New England too.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "But you do in the others, too. So.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "but but so do you.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "So. I mean only one.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Yeah. Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Well, I shouldn't say that. I have no clue. I was going to say the only one that doesn't have a huge variety is New York City. But I have no idea whether it does or not.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "It does seem I mean. I I would think that these categories would be more w would be easier for an an analyst to put in rather than the subject himself.", "speakerName": "Postdoc B" }, { "text": "U", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "I think that that was what happened with TIMIT, was that it was an analyst.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "OK.", "speakerName": "Postdoc B" }, { "text": "Wait a minute. Where does Where does d w Where Where's where does uh New New York west of west of uh New York City and Pennsylvania uh and uh", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Yeah, I don't know how it came from.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "OK.", "speakerName": "Postdoc B" }, { "text": "New England", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "So. That's New England I think.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "N No, it's not.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Oh, no.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "I sort of thought they were part of the one of the Midlands.", "speakerName": "Postdoc B" }, { "text": "Oh no. No, no. No. Pennsylvania is not.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "\" Other \", it goes under \" Other \", definitely under \" Other \".", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "Well, you know, Pennsylvania has a pretty strong dialect and it's totally different than.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Pennsylvania Yeah. Pennsylvania is not New England. and uh New Jersey is not New England and Maryland is not New England and none of those are the South.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "OK. So. Another suggestion. Rather than have circle fill in forms, say \" Region, open paren, E G Southern comma Western comma close paren colon. \"", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "Yeah. OK.", "speakerName": "Postdoc B" }, { "text": "OK!", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Fine by me, fine by me.", "speakerName": "Postdoc B" }, { "text": "That's good. I like that.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Sure!", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Postdoc B" }, { "text": "We're all sufficiently tired of this that we're agreeing with you.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Let's just And we'll see what we get.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Be easier on the subjects. I think that's fine. No. I think.", "speakerName": "Postdoc B" }, { "text": "So.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "I like that. I like that.", "speakerName": "Postdoc B" }, { "text": "You like it?", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Yeah, I do.", "speakerName": "Postdoc B" }, { "text": "OK.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Actually, maybe we do one non - English one as well.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "Good.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Southern, Cockney?", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "Yeah, and.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Is that a real accent?", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "Sure, yeah!", "speakerName": "Postdoc B" }, { "text": "How do you spell it?", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "I think that's fine.", "speakerName": "Postdoc B" }, { "text": "Cockney?", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "N E", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "CO Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "You could say Liverpool.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Liverpuddlian.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Yeah. Alright.", "speakerName": "Postdoc B" }, { "text": "Actually, Liverpool doesn't l Yeah. It's I'm s I ha", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Well. Well. I mean, pure.", "speakerName": "Postdoc B" }, { "text": "OK, we'll do it that way. Actually, I like that a lot. Because that get's at both of the things we were trying to do,", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "OK.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "the granularity, and the person can just self - assess and we don't have to argue about what these regions are.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "That's right. And it's easy on the subjects.", "speakerName": "Postdoc B" }, { "text": "OK.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Yep.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "Now I have one suggestion on the next section.", "speakerName": "Postdoc B" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "So you have native language, you have region, and then you have time spent in English speaking country. Now, I wonder if it might be useful to have another open field saying \" which one parenthesis S paren closed parenthesis \". Cuz if they spent time in in Britain and America.", "speakerName": "Postdoc B" }, { "text": "Yes.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "It doesn't have to be ex all at all exact, just in the same open field format that you have.", "speakerName": "Postdoc B" }, { "text": "Yep, just which one. I think that's fine.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm. with a with an S", "speakerName": "Postdoc B" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "\" which one sss, optional S.", "speakerName": "Postdoc B" }, { "text": "OK.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Postdoc B" }, { "text": "We uh We done?", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Yep.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "Yeah, that's good.", "speakerName": "Postdoc B" }, { "text": "OK. um s e Any any other uh open mike topics or should we go right to the digits?", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Um, did you guys get my email on the multitrans? That OK.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "Isn't that wonderful! Yeah.", "speakerName": "Postdoc B" }, { "text": "Yeah. So. So. I I have a version also which actually displays all the channels.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "Excellent! Thank you!", "speakerName": "Postdoc B" }, { "text": "It's really great.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "But it's hideously slow.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "So you this is n Dan's patches, Dan Ellis's patches.", "speakerName": "Postdoc B" }, { "text": "The what the ones I applied, that you can actually do are Dan's, because it doesn't slow it down.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "M", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Fantastic!", "speakerName": "Postdoc B" }, { "text": "Just uses a lot of memory.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "So when you say \" slow \", does that mean to.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "No, the the one that's installed is fine. It's not slow at all. I wrote another version. Which, instead of having the one pane with the one view, It has multiple panes with the views.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "But the problem with it is the drawing of those waveforms is so slow that every time you do anything it just crawls.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Postdoc B" }, { "text": "It's really bad.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "It's So, it it's the redrawing of the w", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "That's a consideration.", "speakerName": "Postdoc B" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "oh uh - huh, w as you move.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "As you play, as you move, as you scroll. Just about anything, and it it was so slow it was not usable. So that's why I didn't install it and didn't pursue it.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "And this'll be a hav having the multiwave will be a big help cuz in terms of like disentangling overlaps and things, that'll be a big help.", "speakerName": "Postdoc B" }, { "text": "Oh yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "So. I think that the one Dan has is usable enough.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "It doesn't display the others. It displays just the mixed signal.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Postdoc B" }, { "text": "But you can listen to any of them.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "That's excellent. He also has version control which is another nice", "speakerName": "Postdoc B" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "e so you e the patches that you.", "speakerName": "Postdoc B" }, { "text": "No, he suggested that, but he didn't It's not installed.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "Oh, I thought it was in one of those patches.", "speakerName": "Postdoc B" }, { "text": "No. No.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "Oh OK. Well. Alright.", "speakerName": "Postdoc B" }, { "text": "So is there any hope for actually displaying the wave form?", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Um, not if we're going to use Tcl - TK At least not if we're going to use Snack.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "OK.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "I mean you would have to do something ourselves.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "Well, or use the one that crawls.", "speakerName": "Postdoc B" }, { "text": "OK. Well, I'm I probably would be trying to use the whatever's there. And it's useful to have the.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Why don't we we see how Dan's works and if it If we really need the display.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "Yeah. I mean. I wonder I'm just wondering if we can display things other than the wave form. So. Suppose we have a feature a feature stream. And it's just, you know, a a uni - dimensional feature, varying in time.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "And we want to plot that, instead of the whole wave form.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "I mean.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "That might be faster.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Right?", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "We we could do that but that would mean changing the code.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "So.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "I mean this isn't a program we wrote.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "This is a program that we got from someone else, and we've done patches on.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "OK.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Postdoc B" }, { "text": "OK. Well, I'll talk to you about it and we can see", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "So.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "Cou - i e I mean, y", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "but it's definitely great to have the other one.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "If there was some Is there some way to have someone write patches in something faster and and link it in, or something?", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "That's.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Not easily.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "Or is that.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "I mean y yes we could do that. You could you can write widgets in C. And try to do it that way but I just don't think it.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Let's try it with Dan's and if that isn't enough, we can do it otherwise.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "I think it is, cuz when I was playing with it, the mixed signal has it all in there. And so it's really It's not too bad to find places in the in the stream where things are happening.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "OK.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "So I I don't think it'll be bad.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "And it's also also the case that that uh this multi - wave thing is proposed to the.", "speakerName": "Postdoc B" }, { "text": "Hmm?", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "So. Dan proposed it to the Transcriber central people, and it's likely that uh So. And and they responded favorably looks as though it will be incorporated in the future version.", "speakerName": "Postdoc B" }, { "text": "Oh.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "They said that the only reason they hadn't had the multi the parallel uh stream one before was simply that they hadn't had time to do it. And uh so it's likely that this this may be entered into the ch this central @ @.", "speakerName": "Postdoc B" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "And if if.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "They may well have not had much demand for it.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Well that's that's that's true, too.", "speakerName": "Postdoc B" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "This is a a useful thing for us.", "speakerName": "Postdoc B" }, { "text": "So. You mean they could they could do it and it would be fast enough if they do it?", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Depends on how much work they did.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "Oh. No. I just mean I just mean that it's that that his.", "speakerName": "Postdoc B" }, { "text": "Or?", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Oh.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "So. This one that we now have does have the status of potentially being incorporated l likely being incorporated into the central code.", "speakerName": "Postdoc B" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm. OK.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Now, tha Now, if we develop further then, y uh, I don't.", "speakerName": "Postdoc B" }, { "text": "I think if if if one of us sat down and coded it, so that it could be displayed fast enough I'm sure they would be quite willing to incorporate it.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "I mean it's I think it's a nice feature to have it set that way. Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Postdoc B" }, { "text": "But it's not a trivial task.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm. Yeah.", "speakerName": "Postdoc B" }, { "text": "OK.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "I just like the idea of it being something that's, you know, tied back into the original, so that other people can benefit from it.", "speakerName": "Postdoc B" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "Yeah. However. I also understand that you can have widgets that are very useful for their purpose and that you don't need to always go that w route. Yeah.", "speakerName": "Postdoc B" }, { "text": "OK.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "anyway, shall we do digits?", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Postdoc B" }, { "text": "Yeah. Let's do digits, uh, and then we'll turn off the mikes, and then I have one other thing to discuss.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "OK.", "speakerName": "Postdoc B" }, { "text": "OK.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "I actually have to leave. So. Um. I mean I had to leave at three thirty,", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Uh - oh.", "speakerName": "Postdoc B" }, { "text": "OK.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "Oh.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "so I can Well, I can wait for the digits but I can't stay for the discussion", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Well, you want to go first? Or.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "I c I have to make a call.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "OK.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "So.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Well, should we e should we switch off the g", "speakerName": "Postdoc B" }, { "text": "Well, we'll talk to you about it Uh", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Do you wanna go do digits or do you wanna just skip digits?", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "Um. No, I can do digits if if But I don't wanna butt in, or something.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Then Alright. You go ahead.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "But if there's something on the rest of the I'm I'll be around just have to make call before quarter of. 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a5a440a32ada49a09aad7050098acdae	{ "meetingId": "education23", "transcriptSegments": [ { "text": "Good morning, everyone, and welcome to this morning's Children, Young People and Education Committee. We've received no apologies for absence. Can I ask Members who are present if they wish to declare any interests? Okay, thank you. Item 2 this morning is our final evidence session for our inquiry into targeted funding to improve educational outcomes. I'm very pleased to welcome Kirsty Williams AM, Cabinet Secretary for Education; Steve Davies, director of the education directorate; and Ruth Conway, deputy director, support for learners division. Welcome to all of you, and thank you for your attendance and also for the paper that you've provided in advance. If you're happy, we'll go straight into questions, and the first questions are from Llyr Gruffydd.", "speakerName": "Lynne Neagle AM" }, { "text": "Bore da. I just want to start by asking some questions around the targeting of the pupil development grant because, clearly, we've had a lot of evidence around this apparent blurring of eligibility to an extent. I'm just wondering how comfortable you are that the money is being targeted appropriately because, clearly, it's being targeted more widely than just those eligible for free school meals, from some of the evidence we've had, but also that it seems to be predominantly focused on low-attaining frees—pupils who are eligible for free school meals.", "speakerName": "Llyr Gruffydd AM" }, { "text": "Thank you, Llyr. I think it's important to be absolutely clear that when it comes to individual interventions, those individual interventions should only be targeted at those children who are eligible for free school meals. But in some cases, schools may use their PDG funding to provide a universal intervention, but we would want to—in challenge advisers' discussions in schools—we'd want to have evidence that that universal intervention would have a disproportionate effect on the outcomes for children on free school meals. So, for instance, if I give you an example in your own region, Llyr: at Brynteg County Primary School in Wrexham, if you look at that primary school in Wrexham, their results for free-school-meal children at the end of their primary school period in school are equivalent to their non-free-school-meal counterparts. So, there is no differentiation in those results. One of the things that they've used their PDG for is to really focus on the concept of growth mindset in school. So, that's a universal thing that they've trained all the teachers in, but what we know is that that has a disproportionate effect on those children who are on free school meals. So, if you're familiar with the concept of a growth mindset, it's about really challenging learners to think that,'I can do things. If sometimes I fail, I pick myself up, I'm more resilient.' Now, that has been, as I said, trained to all the teachers in the school—it's an ethos for the whole school—but we have seen that the impact on the free-school-meal children has been even greater, and now they're at the same level. So, that's the important distinction. Individual intervention per child has to be targeted at those children who are eligible for free school meals, but sometimes a school will employ a whole-school approach to train their staff, for instance, and that, then, has to demonstrate it has a disproportionate effect on free school meals. So, growth mindset; it may be attachment disorder training for staff, for instance, where we know it's of benefit to everybody, but will have particular benefits for that cohort of students. With regard to more able and talented, you know, Llyr, that this is an area of concern for me, generally, within the Welsh education system; that we've not been particularly good at identifying, supporting and driving attainment for those children. I'm absolutely clear that PDG needs to be used for those children who are eligible to drive potential, whatever the potential of that child is, including more able and talented. And again, I'll give you an example that has been seen as good practice in Pembrokeshire: a window on the world bus, again paid for by schools. I don't know if you're aware of it.", "speakerName": "Kirsty Williams AM" }, { "text": "We've heard about that.", "speakerName": "Llyr Gruffydd AM" }, { "text": "Oh, you've heard about it; well, it's a really good example the window on the world. And, again, that's very much targeted at raising aspirations and giving children who are more able and talented, who are eligible for PDG, those experiences, and to really push them. So, yes, I'm absolutely clear that PDG shouldn't just be seen to be getting individuals to the average. For those children who are more able and talented, it should be used to support them—", "speakerName": "Kirsty Williams AM" }, { "text": "And we all share those aspirations, I'm sure, and you pointed to examples of good practice, but of course, it's not universal, is it, so what I'm asking is: do you think that the guidance is sufficient as it is? Do you think that there's a great enough awareness of how the PDG should be used at the coalface? And also, are you confident that consortia and others have the measures in place to be able to demonstrate that it is being used properly?", "speakerName": "Llyr Gruffydd AM" }, { "text": "I think, if we look at what Estyn has said about PDG, it does actually recognise that the PDG is being used to push more able and talented children, but as always with the system, Llyr, it's whether we can be sure that that is strategic and that it's happening across all of our schools. So, you're—", "speakerName": "Kirsty Williams AM" }, { "text": "But not just in relation to more able and talented, I'm referring to the eligibility and the targeting.", "speakerName": "Llyr Gruffydd AM" }, { "text": "Oh, the eligibility. You'll be aware that, on the advice of Sir Alasdair, we have employed and appointed new PDG regional advisers, and I think their role is going to be absolutely crucial in spreading that good practice across the region, whether that's use of PDG for more able and talented, or ensuring that PDG is used in the appropriate way. So, that's there to provide strategic overall advice. And obviously, we have been very clear with regional challenge advisers, in the relationship and the conversations they're having with individual schools, that they're really challenging their schools about the use of PDG, not just in terms of targeting, but the programmes, what the money is being spent on, whether there is an evidence base for that and whether we are clear on impact. So, I think the new regional advisers are going to be crucial in enabling us to ensure more consistent practice across the regions.", "speakerName": "Kirsty Williams AM" }, { "text": "So, are you content that eligibility for free school meals is the best measure, really, of identifying which pupils to target?", "speakerName": "Llyr Gruffydd AM" }, { "text": "Llyr, in the absence of anything better. I'll be the first person to say that maybe it's not as absolutely focused, but in the absence of anything different to identify a proxy for need, I think it's probably the best that we've got at present. And we will continue to have discussions with local government about whether there are different ways. We have to be mindful. Some of the policy levers in this area are out of my hands, so if we look at the roll-out of universal credit, for instance, we've got officials working very hard at the moment to try and understand what universal credit is going to mean and where we are going to be able to identify relative need, going forward. We haven't had any additional resource as a result of this, but we're very mindful that, potentially, this has an impact, going forward. And, officials are working all of the time, I must say, in conjunction with the department in England, to understand their thinking in this area so that we are in a position to make some decisions about what a notional eligibility for free school meals will look like going forward, but before I make any decisions, I want to assure everybody that there will be a full public consultation on that.", "speakerName": "Kirsty Williams AM" }, { "text": "Okay. Finally for now, on this issue of once a year, in January, if you're eligible for free school meals, then you're in that group for that year. We've had some quite strong evidence about how difficult that makes longer term planning for a number of schools and we've also been pointed in the direction of what's happened in England with the Ever 6, and I'm just wondering whether you're giving any thought to maybe changing that a little bit.", "speakerName": "Llyr Gruffydd AM" }, { "text": "Well, we're certainly giving thought to flexibility. In conversations with Alasdair, who is our independent adviser on this agenda, and individual schools, we're actively giving thought to greater flexibility and maybe longer term projections, so that schools know, for a number of years ahead, what their allocation will be. There are advantages to that system, because you could give that flexibility, you could give that long-term approach, but then, how do you make that responsive if a school suddenly has more children? We do know that, actually, the number of free-school-meal pupils is dropping. But there can be changes, you know, regional working in areas of north Wales in tourism, or maybe in other areas at Christmas time, parents are able to get a period of work. So, how can we create a more flexible system? We're actively looking at that at the moment. I wouldn't use it as an Ever 6 concept, but as an'Ever 2' concept. We have looked at Ever 6, and I'm going to be absolutely blunt with you: to introduce an Ever 6 concept for Wales would mean in the region of identifying an additional £40 million. I'm going to be absolutely straight and blunt with you: we're not in a position at the moment to be able to identify an additional £40 million to introduce an Ever 6. But issues around flexibility, certainly, are actively under consideration. In fact, we'll be having a discussion later on today about decisions, going forward, for the next two years.", "speakerName": "Kirsty Williams AM" }, { "text": "Thank you.", "speakerName": "Llyr Gruffydd AM" }, { "text": "Darren on this.", "speakerName": "Lynne Neagle AM" }, { "text": "It's just a very brief point in response to the £40 million price ticket that you just put on that. That's, of course, assuming that you maintain the current level of PDG, yes? So, if you reduced the level of PDG slightly, but made it available to more individuals, if you like, via allocating it in a different way, then that £40 million price ticket wouldn't be there, would it?", "speakerName": "Darren Millar AM" }, { "text": "I was asked a question about had I ever considered an Ever 6. We have looked at that, we've priced that up. I have to make decisions in the envelope of resources that are available to me. We could, indeed, change the way in which we allocate PDG money, but we have to do it within the envelope that is available to me, over £90 million. That's a significant level of investment, but, of course, as always, Darren, we could cut the amount per pupil, but that might have quite challenging swings in allocations. What we have done—because what I am clear on is that there was evidence to suggest that in the secondary sector, a great deal of PDG was being focused on years 10 and 11, especially year 11, in catch-up provision, and you'll be aware, because we've said this in evidence to the committee in the papers, we've set a challenge to secondary schools to say,'Actually, the majority of your PDG allocation has to be used in key stage 3.' Now, we have to balance the needs, the moral hazard of turning round to children in years 10 and 11 and saying,'We're not going to provide catch-up opportunities for you,' because, clearly, those children need that support. But the evidence and the advice that we're receiving is: actually, strong focus on early years, primary and key stage 3, if we get that right, should negate the need for spending money on catch-up at years 10 and 11. That's why we, in our advice to local authorities and schools, say that we want to see evidence that they're spending this money earlier on in a child's career, rather than just a scramble at year 11 to say,'Right, we've got to get you through your exams.'", "speakerName": "Kirsty Williams AM" }, { "text": "Okay, but have you actively considered, then, reducing the level you have?", "speakerName": "Darren Millar AM" }, { "text": "We've—", "speakerName": "Kirsty Williams AM" }, { "text": "Sorry—I was just going to say that one of the things is looking at the scope of the definition, and I think it's about being more flexible with the definition, rather than reducing the amount per head.", "speakerName": "Ruth Conway" }, { "text": "Okay. Thank you.", "speakerName": "Darren Millar AM" }, { "text": "Thank you. If we can go on, then, to talk about some of the practical uses of the PDG, you write in your written paper that'the majority of schools are making well thought out and appropriate decisions' on how to use it. But Estyn reported that only two thirds of primary and secondary schools make effective use of the PDG. Given that we've had it now for six years, would you not have expected there to be a higher level of schools actually making good use of that funding?", "speakerName": "Lynne Neagle AM" }, { "text": "Well, to flip it on its head, the vast majority of schools, as identified by Estyn, are using this money to good effect. So, that's the way I like to see it—that the vast majority of schools are doing well. What Estyn has also indicated is the intrinsic link here to leadership within individual schools, and as you'll be aware, leadership, improving capacity in leadership and developing leadership talent in the Welsh education system is a key priority for me in our national mission. Of course, that's being developed in a different work stream. I think what's fair to say is that the use of PDG is evolving over time. I think we are seeing, increasingly, more and more schools understanding how best to deploy that money for best effect for students. So, if we're honest, when PDG first started, I think, in some schools it was spent on investing in tracking of children, because they'd never thought about tracking these children, they didn't have systems in place to look at the performance of these children, and to have a system in place. So we've moved now from spending money on the infrastructure around support for FSM children into actual inputs in terms of teaching and learning. We're also seeing from Estyn that, actually, in terms of money following the evidence of what we know works, Estyn says that PDG is probably the best example of schools following tried and tested and evidence-based interventions to deploy the money. But clearly we want all of this money to be deployed as well as it can be, and again we come back to the decision I've made to appoint regional PDG advisers so that we can get that better consistency of approach. We are, in the discussions that I have with the regional consortia about how they challenge individual schools on usage, looking for very clear evidence of schools using the Sutton Trust toolkit, and we could have a discussion about whether that's the right thing, because that's on my mind too. But we want to see schools demonstrating their evidence base, and if they're not, if a school isn't doing that, okay, so demonstrate to us why you've made those decisions and, crucially, what are you doing as the school to judge whether that decision is actually making a difference for your individual pupils. So, if you're moving away from tried and tested interventions, what we know works, if you're doing something different with your money, okay, you need to justify that and you need to explain how you're going to demonstrate impact. But I think what we're seeing is increasing good practice in this area as the PDG develops and as our understanding of our school-to-school working in our self-improving school system also develops. I think we're seeing better usage of the money year on year.", "speakerName": "Kirsty Williams AM" }, { "text": "Thank you. Llyr on this.", "speakerName": "Lynne Neagle AM" }, { "text": "You mentioned some schools will be moving from the tried-and-tested interventions, really, and I'm just wondering to what extent that evolution of use of PDG is being driven by cuts to core funding.", "speakerName": "Llyr Gruffydd AM" }, { "text": "No, I don't think it's being driven by cuts to core funding. I think there has been—. One of the biggest impacts of PDG has not been—well, I suppose it is the money in itself, because the money has concentrated the minds, hasn't it? So, one of the most important things that PDG has done is highlight the importance of this agenda within schools, and really raise this up in the thinking of leadership and senior management teams in our schools, and has driven a focus on scrutiny and accountability in the systems that are working with our schools. I think the changing use of PDG reflects the journeys that schools have been on, some of them from a very low base where this was not a priority for them, to better understanding, and as research and as intelligence grows over time in this area, both in Wales and outside of Wales, schools are increasingly learning to use that evidence to tailor approaches in their schools.", "speakerName": "Kirsty Williams AM" }, { "text": "So you wouldn't accept at all that some of this money's being used to paper over some funding cracks from elsewhere. Because the unions and some others have told us that, whether we like it or not, there is some of that going on.", "speakerName": "Llyr Gruffydd AM" }, { "text": "As I said, Llyr, we're very clear about the usage that this money can be spent on in terms of individuals or universal application within schools, and that forms an important part of the checks and balances that we have in our system. Can we continue to improve, and ensure that more and more of our schools are employing best practice? Yes, we can, and as I've said, we've taken steps to put in place the infrastructure to support that.", "speakerName": "Kirsty Williams AM" }, { "text": "Thank you. Mark's questions are next.", "speakerName": "Lynne Neagle AM" }, { "text": "Cabinet Secretary, how would you assess the impact of PDG on attendance and hopefully subsequent engagement with education from children who have free school meals?", "speakerName": "Mark Reckless AM" }, { "text": "I think what's important to note is that, as Estyn have themselves said, over the period of the last inspection report, we have seen improvements in attendance, but I do think we need to, again, look at how PDG can support this particular agenda. And as always in the Welsh education system, there are some excellent examples of how schools use the money to address this. Ysgol y Preseli in Pembrokeshire is a very good example of how they've deployed their money. Forgive me; I can't off the top of my head remember the name of the primary school I visited, again in north Wales, where the school has proactively used this money, and they actually send teaching assistants out of school in the morning before the start of the school day, and they actually have a walking bus. They call at homes for children, and they walk the children to the breakfast club. So, they're proactively going out into the community and making sure that those children are in the classrooms, because the teacher said,'We recognised we had a problem with attendance. We tried a variety of means of improving that, but in the end we have taken this quite bold step—we actually send the staff out and they create that walking bus, and they walk the children into school'. They say that they know that, for some of those children, because of the difficult circumstances they and their families are living in, they probably wouldn't be in school if it wasn't for that proactive approach. So, we're looking again at what more we can do to support this particular agenda in terms of improving attendance, because although, again, there are examples of good practice, there is still a gap between the attendance of free-school-meal pupils and non-free-school-meal pupils. And, of course, we can have the best curriculum in the world with really high-quality teaching, but unless the children are in the classes then we're not going to make the difference for them. Whilst that differential exists, then it's going to be hard to close the attainment gap for those children.", "speakerName": "Kirsty Williams AM" }, { "text": "I was actually quite shocked just reading in advance of this meeting that the proportion attending 95 per cent or more, who have pretty full attendance, was only 35 per cent for free-school-meal children at level 4, compared to 60 per cent for non-free-school-meal pupils. It still is an extraordinary difference. My colleague here showed me, I think, last week, a graph showing the link between attendance and attainment, in particular. When people were absent, a lot of the—. As I'm sure you're aware, there's a huge connection. What more can PDG do to deal with it? In the example you give I can see how a school with an awful lot of free-school-meal children could do that, but a lot of the free-school-meal children are actually in schools that don't have that high a proportion of free school meals, where it would be much more challenging to bring in that type of initiative.", "speakerName": "Mark Reckless AM" }, { "text": "Yes, indeed, and I think it gets more challenging the older the children get. I think it's more difficult to find interventions that are successful higher up, so key stage 4. So, you can do a walking bus with little ones, can't you, but I don't suppose your average 15 or 16-year-old is going to take very kindly to that. So, you do need a different approach to that. But again, we see in Ysgol y Preseli the employment of staff to directly work with families of older children to reinforce the messages around, as you quite rightly say, the linkage between attendance and attainment, and really work with individual families to understand the barriers to attendance: what's going on in the family that is preventing that child from going to school, and what more can the school do to address those situations. But you're absolutely right; there is more that we need to do to address this particular agenda of attainment. I don't know if there's anything extra you wanted to add, Steve.", "speakerName": "Kirsty Williams AM" }, { "text": "There is also another very good example—and I take what you say about where there are small numbers—but in our secondary schools where there are significant numbers, they're investing PDG in resources like a school nurse and a school counsellor, not just to work with the children but link to other agencies on whom the children and the families are dependent to support them in terms of working with schools. So, it's something, particularly in our most challenging areas, where it cannot just be delivered within the school. So, good use of that resource is being made to employ people to support them in those wider areas.", "speakerName": "Steve Davies" }, { "text": "Thank you. To what extent is PDG also used to seek to reduce the higher rates of exclusion for children entitled to free school meals?", "speakerName": "Mark Reckless AM" }, { "text": "So, if we looked at permanent exclusions, there isn't a differential, but if we look at temporary exclusions, there we see there is a disproportionate number of children on free school meals that are subject to those exclusions. Again, I think what schools employing best practice understand is that you need a multi-agency approach to supporting that particular child. Some of those exclusions can be as a result of the need to address other issues going on in a child's life. So, this is where we come back to the committee's work, for instance, on mental health and support for children, support for behaviour in school. So, again, it's a multi-agency approach that I think we need, and, in our good schools, our really, really good schools, there's a recognition of that need to have a whole team around a child to support that child in education. With EOTAS, we made some changes last year regarding PDG for EOTAS. So, for those children who do find themselves in education other than at school, we are providing additional support that previously was not available.", "speakerName": "Kirsty Williams AM" }, { "text": "Thank you.", "speakerName": "Mark Reckless AM" }, { "text": "Okay. We're going to move on now to talk about the impact of PDG on attainment. Hefin David has got some questions.", "speakerName": "Lynne Neagle AM" }, { "text": "It appears that the attainment gap at 2017 has actually widened, in spite of PDG levels. Is that correct?", "speakerName": "Hefin David AM" }, { "text": "Yes. So, if you look at it—with the usual caveats about whether you can make direct comparisons on level 2 plus between the exams the year before and the exams that we had last summer—on the face of it, the gap has increased. I think what's important to recognise, Hefin, is a direction of travel. I'm sure we all want to, because I want to, have a discussion about why children on free school meals were less resilient in the exam system last year. But, if we look at the period that we have been employing PDG, over that period, we have seen a narrowing of the gap. I think what's quite stark, if we think about it—. So, if we look at where we started from: in 2009, one in five children on free school meals got level 2 plus—one in five—by 2016, we had got that down to one in three. Obviously, there's still a way to go, but, Sir Alasdair, who knows about these things, says that that is a significant improvement. Last year, we got some challenges. We need to understand why that happened, but I do think it's—", "speakerName": "Kirsty Williams AM" }, { "text": "Why, do you think?", "speakerName": "Hefin David AM" }, { "text": "Why, do I think? What I do think is there is no one answer. There is no one answer to this. I think we could look at and we can have discussions around the move from BTEC to science GCSEs. I think we have supplied figures to the committee about the significant change in the number of children on free school meals who weren't doing a single science GCSE and are now doing science GCSEs. We can look at the unintended consequences of literature. Again, we've supplied figures. Where children have done language and literature, whether that be through the medium of English or through the medium of Welsh, there is more resilience. So, it's that exposure to literacy in all its forms that I think could potentially make a difference. So, I think there's no one answer to why free-school-meal children were not so resilient last year. We continue to have discussions with Qualifications Wales to get a better understanding of this. At my next ministerial policy board, in May, we'll be doing a deep dive into this particular subject.", "speakerName": "Kirsty Williams AM" }, { "text": "So, to what extent would exam boards be responsible for lack of grade stability?", "speakerName": "Hefin David AM" }, { "text": "It could be one of the contributory factors. What I think is important is that there is no one, single reason why there seems to be less resilience in this cohort of children.", "speakerName": "Kirsty Williams AM" }, { "text": "Will you be speaking to the exam boards about this and raising concerns?", "speakerName": "Hefin David AM" }, { "text": "I have written to Qualifications Wales, we've had discussions about it, but I've asked them to formally submit evidence ahead of my policy board for May, where, as I said, we will be doing a formal, deep-dive discussion across the department about these issues. But, again, Hefin, what we've got to be clear on is—while we look at overall factors, you know, our overall national statistic—we did see some schools last year whose FSM performance was better than it had been the year before. So, what was it in those schools that enabled those children to do really well, whereas, in other schools, the performance was different? Even in individual cities, you can see a huge variety of performance. So, take Cardiff and Swansea, our two biggest cities. You've got schools in those cities with comparative levels of free school meals. So, you could have really high-performing schools with a very small number of the cohort on free school meals. The difference between those performances in a single city—so, that's the same local education authority and the same regional consortium—you can see a massive change. There's one school I can talk to: their free-school-meal performance is 88 per cent. A similar school in the same city with the same proportion of children on free school meals, their performance is down in the 20 per cents. So, I think what's important is that we can't draw broad-brush conclusions. For me, the challenge is to go into individual schools and understand what was happening in that particular school that ensured that their children did really well. We've got one school in Swansea, their FSM performance at GCSE level 2 outperforms non-FSM pupils.", "speakerName": "Kirsty Williams AM" }, { "text": "But we still need to rely on the trends from a distance. If we take your argument that 2017 was an unusual year and the trends up to 2016 were positive, in a few years' time, when we will be looking back in two years' time, how are we going to measure this progress, say, in 2019? What are we likely to see and what methods are you going to use to measure progress that way?", "speakerName": "Hefin David AM" }, { "text": "Well, you'll be aware that we are moving away from level 2 plus as a performance measure anyway because of the—", "speakerName": "Kirsty Williams AM" }, { "text": "So, what performance measures will you use?", "speakerName": "Hefin David AM" }, { "text": "So, for the lack of sophistication around the level 2 plus, and for the unintended behaviours that that particular performance measure has driven within our schools. I'll be making a statement shortly to the Assembly around a new performance measure for schools. We were, at our most recent secondary heads conference, working with schools to develop that. What's important to me is that we have a more sophisticated model that looks at school performance for all children. What level 2 plus does is narrow, very much, the focus of schools on an individual part of the cohort, usually the C/D borderline, which is why then we have problems with the number of students getting a B grade or above. We have marked success in our schools by saying to schools that a C is good enough. Well, if a child gets a C but came to you in year 7 and they were destined to get an E, yes, indeed, a C is a success, because you've moved that child on; but, if that child came to you destined to get an A* and gets a C, then we haven't done a good job by that particular child. So, we need a performance measure that is much more sophisticated, looks at each individual child, tracks that progress, and measures the value added by that school in performance.", "speakerName": "Kirsty Williams AM" }, { "text": "Last question: therefore, should we have confidence in the data up to 2016? Is there a lack of confidence in that data?", "speakerName": "Hefin David AM" }, { "text": "No, it's not a lack of confidence in the data. The data is the data. What I'm saying is, using that as a performance measure and an accountability measure within our school system may have been right for the time. I think it is now right to have a different way of measuring success in schools. I think that particular set of performance measures has driven certain behaviours—not because Ministers wanted that to happen, but as an unintended consequence. I think we can work together with our school system, learning the lessons of international best practice, to develop much more sophisticated accountability and performance measures for individual schools, and, I should say, for the Government. So, you will be aware of my intention to issue the first national report card on Government performance later on this year. So, this is not about trying to avoid scrutiny. It's about trying to develop a more sophisticated way, which is in line with our national mission, where every child's education is valued, and where the impact of the school can be tracked more effectively.", "speakerName": "Kirsty Williams AM" }, { "text": "Okay, thank you. Can I just ask, Cabinet Secretary, are you still holding on to your target of 37 per cent of free-school-meal pupils achieving the level 2 threshold?", "speakerName": "Lynne Neagle AM" }, { "text": "Well, we're moving away from the level 2 threshold. So, that's the first thing to say. So, we will want to develop a new suite, in line with our new accountability measures, as we go forward. So, we will be absolutely continuing to track and evaluate the performance of free-school-meal pupils. When we announce our new accountability measures, I will be in a position to address how we'll measure the Government's performance, and national performance, going forward. But, given the fact that we're moving away from level 2 plus, then we will need a different set of performance indicators.", "speakerName": "Kirsty Williams AM" }, { "text": "Okay, thank you. The next questions are on looked-after children and adopted children, and I've got questions from Michelle then Mark.", "speakerName": "Lynne Neagle AM" }, { "text": "Thank you. Good morning—", "speakerName": "Michelle Brown AM" }, { "text": "I was to come in first, I think. I was about to ask about ICF consulting.", "speakerName": "Mark Reckless AM" }, { "text": "Go on then.", "speakerName": "Lynne Neagle AM" }, { "text": "I think my questions are first, but, Michelle, please do correct me if you were planning to come in before. The PDG for looked-after children doesn't quite seem to have the degree of visibility as the PDG for the free-school-meals. I think we had the MORI/WISERD survey—only 15 per cent of primary schools and 23 per cent of secondary schools were aware that PDG was targeted at looked-after children. I just wonder—can you clarify on the record here what is the role of schools with PDG for looked-after children as compared to the regional consortia in this field?", "speakerName": "Mark Reckless AM" }, { "text": "Okay. I think it is absolutely fair to say that most awareness around PDG is around free school meals. There is less awareness around the availability of PDG to support looked-after children. I think that's probably in the nature of the cohort, so, there are more children subject to free school meals than are subject to being looked after. So, I think that's part of the explanation. A decision was taken in 2015 to regionalise PDG for looked-after children. My understanding was that the thinking behind that at the time was around a greater strategic deployment of that resource and to try and drive a greater impact than how it was being used previously. So, looked-after PDG is held at a regional level. We have looked-after children PDG co-ordinators—they're in their second year this year—to look at a regional deployment of that resource. And that resource can be done in a variety of ways, through individual allocation to a school to support an individual child, through to capacity building for the whole system. So, for instance, if I give you an example, in Carmarthenshire, there's been a big emphasis on attachment disorder and training teachers with regard to the impact of attachment disorder. Carmarthenshire happens to be one of those local authorities that does quite well in terms of attainment for looked-after children. But, clearly, I have—not concerns.'Concerns' isn't the right word. But I have asked officials to give greater scrutiny to how that resource has been used in the last year. Steve, on my behalf, wrote out to the system, setting out our expectations, but also advising them of the fact we will be asking very detailed questions of accountability for that money. So, what has that money been used on and how can you account for the effect? But, Steve, maybe you can give some greater detail.", "speakerName": "Kirsty Williams AM" }, { "text": "I think the challenge that—. One of the rationales for shifting—not that all the money stays in the region, but having a regional strategic support—was that, historically, the money was going directly with that child to the school. Given the quite often rapid turnover of children in schools—the very nature of looked-after children is they do sometimes move through foster parents—historically, what happened, the money lands in the school, because, at that time in the year, when it's measured, the school gets the money and can spend it on some additional support for staff, but quite often that child moves on to another school and the money doesn't transfer. Some schools will go through quite a number of years without having a looked-after child and will not think strategically,'How do I need to support them?' So, that was the rationale of the shift. In terms of the implementation of the regional allocation, as of this financial year finishing, we are going into local authorities and regions to evaluate where they've located the resource, what the impact of that resource has been, so that is reinforced and shared more widely.", "speakerName": "Steve Davies" }, { "text": "And then, to reassure, it's not just internally that we're looking at this. We have a contract with an external agency to do an evaluation—", "speakerName": "Kirsty Williams AM" }, { "text": "That's ICF consulting.", "speakerName": "Mark Reckless AM" }, { "text": "Yes. Yes, so that was done in the autumn of last year, because, as I said, we had concerns about whether this was really having the effect that was intended. So, my expectation is that we will be in a position to receive that report later on this spring, and of course it would be my intention that that report would be made public for people to have a look at what—", "speakerName": "Kirsty Williams AM" }, { "text": "That was commissioned last autumn—", "speakerName": "Mark Reckless AM" }, { "text": "Yes, in November 2017.", "speakerName": "Kirsty Williams AM" }, { "text": "November 2017.", "speakerName": "Mark Reckless AM" }, { "text": "So, I'm hoping to have that published before the summer recess. I'm very reluctant to say months; I've learnt not to say months, because they move.", "speakerName": "Kirsty Williams AM" }, { "text": "I'm going to go to Michelle now, Mark, because—", "speakerName": "Lynne Neagle AM" }, { "text": "Sure. I will come back in if I have anything further to ask here after Michelle.", "speakerName": "Mark Reckless AM" }, { "text": "—both of you asked for these questions, and that's what the pre-meeting is for.", "speakerName": "Lynne Neagle AM" }, { "text": "Michelle, I defer to you.", "speakerName": "Mark Reckless AM" }, { "text": "Michelle.", "speakerName": "Lynne Neagle AM" }, { "text": "Okay, thank you. Would you be open, Cabinet Secretary, to the idea of adjusting the eligibility of the PDG so that pupils who have been looked after or adopted at any point within a previous given period of time would attract the PDG, rather than only if they're looked-after on a one-off date?", "speakerName": "Michelle Brown AM" }, { "text": "As I said earlier, in questions from, I think it was, Llyr, who was talking about concepts of concepts of Ever 6, we are constantly looking at how we can get that balance between focus and flexibility for this resource. Llyr opened with the question of,'How can you absolutely ensure that these children are getting the money?', but then there's also a tension about how can you create some flexibility around the school's usage of the grant. So, we will look at that. I think there is the issue of where a school would know of a child that was looked after. Issues around adoption are slightly more sensitive, because we couldn't force a family to tell a school that their child was an adopted child. So, a family may be very open and very keen to explain that to a school, but we can't necessarily track as closely children who have been adopted, especially if that adoption happens before the child goes to school. We can't be in a position of forcing families to disclose this information if they don't want to, but we certainly can, as I say, look to strengthen our monitoring arrangements around PDG support for looked-after children and the impact that that's having. I just think we need to be a bit mindful of people's privacy in some instances. If they don't want to divulge that, it wouldn't be my job to tell a family,'You have to let us know if your child is adopted.'", "speakerName": "Kirsty Williams AM" }, { "text": "Michelle.", "speakerName": "Lynne Neagle AM" }, { "text": "Fair enough; thank you for that answer. The EAS consortium's approach to using the looked-after and adopted PDG is to use it as part of a broader approach targeted at vulnerable learners in general. What are your views on that approach?", "speakerName": "Michelle Brown AM" }, { "text": "I'm a great believer in if we can get it right for our most vulnerable learners, we'll be getting it right for all of our learners. I gave the example earlier, for instance, of attachment disorder, and, Chair, you will know that I have had conversations. One of the emerging themes for me, as I go around visiting schools, is the impact and the growing awareness and the growing numbers of children who have attachment disorder, and how schools are best able to respond to that in their children. So, for instance, as I said about Carmarthenshire, there's been a huge effort to address that in the school sector in Carmarthenshire. Now, that has a disproportionate benefit for those children, because you're more likely to see attachment disorder in children who are care experienced, because of the nature of the lives that those children have lived, but that doesn't necessarily mean that attachment disorder is exclusively found in those children that are looked after. It can be found in other families as well. So, that vulnerable learner, regardless of their background, will benefit from having teachers who are better trained, understanding and have intervention strategies in place to be able to address that need.", "speakerName": "Kirsty Williams AM" }, { "text": "I think it's also important to add that this is not one region's approach; this is across four regions, so the others—. For example, ERW have run a significant programme looking at the impact of adverse childhood experiences on pupils, which has enabled teachers to detect some of the impact of some of those and then considers some of the work they need to do within the school but also with other agencies. So, it is something that's applied consistently across the four regions.", "speakerName": "Steve Davies" }, { "text": "I was in Pil Primary School recently where they use their PDG, both FSM PDG, and no doubt an element of PDG for looked-after, for nurture groups. So, for those children who really, really find it very difficult to be in the main classroom, they can have that nurture group experience to address issues around emotional behaviour, feelings, and it gets them in a position where they are able then to join the main classroom because issues around behaviour have been addressed and they're in a better position to learn. So, again, this is an example of how vulnerable learners in the wider sense can benefit.", "speakerName": "Kirsty Williams AM" }, { "text": "Okay. Mark, did you have anything you wanted to ask?", "speakerName": "Lynne Neagle AM" }, { "text": "Yes. Can I follow up on tracking adopted children? I entirely understand that you can't force parents to disclose that their child is adopted. However, my understanding was that, in England, there was a dataset with social services that was shared with schools in a way that I'm not clear is happening in Wales and how, if at all, that links to the pupil level annual school census data. Perhaps sort of linked to that, isn't there an argument for making the parents of adopted children in the schools, potentially, with adopted children more aware that adopted children who were previously looked after have this potential grant, and would they not be more willing to disclose this, at least confidentially to the school and Government, if they knew there was this upside of doing so?", "speakerName": "Mark Reckless AM" }, { "text": "We're actively looking at whether we should try and find a way of collecting this data, with the caveats that I just gave earlier. We can't force parents to divulge information that is a matter for them, nor would I want to. But there is an active discussion going on at the moment about whether we could create a dataset where people divulge this information and we can then track the children through. You're absolutely right. One of the ways in which we can often encourage take-up, for instance, of free school meals, especially in those communities where there is a sense of reluctance to apply for support—even though people are entitled to it, there's a reluctance to do it; sometimes we see this in rural areas—. Actually, appealing to the parents by saying,'Actually, this will mean more money for your child's school budget' is a much more compelling reason why people will apply for it then saying,'Actually, it's going to help you', because they don't want to be seen being dependent, they don't want to be seen being helped. But, if you say to them,'Actually, do you know that this means more money for your child's school?', they go,'Oh, all right then, I'll fill in the forms now.' So, you're right, I think there is something that we could do to make parents understand, in the round, that this has an impact. But we are actively looking at and discussing whether we could create a dataset around adopted children and how we can do that in line with data protection and data sharing. One of the things I am concerned about in the performance of looked-after children generally is how we can, across Government, work more closely together. We can't see the educational attainment of looked-after children just being a job of education. It's got to be a job of social services and the health service as well. There's got to be a joined-up approach to doing that. Now, officials were at the ministerial advisory group that's chaired by David Melding on prospects for looked-after children. They were there at the group last week. David tells me that the paper was very positively received by the group. I will be sitting down with David Melding to talk through what more we can do on the education side. I think there's really an appetite between me and the Minister for children to get a closer working relationship on this. We can't expect schools to do it on their own and alone. And there are things that we can do out there in local authorities to help improve outcomes. It's not just about the PDG; it is about, when social services are thinking about a placement, where does the discussion about where children are going to go to school—when does that take place? Do we talk about the placement, move a child and then think,'Oh my goodness me, what are we going to do about the schooling?' If you can imagine, the school could have been working really, really hard with a pupil to get them in a good place, to get them being able to access the curriculum, and then social services decide that the placement is being changed. So, we potentially lose all of that. So, a greater involvement in education and better linked-up working in local authorities will help us with this. It can't be just the job of the PDG. If we think we can crack this with just PDG, then we're being delusional. It has to be a cross-government approach at a national level, and at a local government level as well, to get this right. Sometimes, data protection—how can we break down some of these barriers between, you know, the school doesn't need to, schools shouldn't see, the entire social services report? Well, maybe the school does need to see some of that background information if they're going to have an impact for that child. So, there's more work to do, but it cannot be just the job of education on its own if we're going to make a difference, nor can it just be the job of the PDG to make a difference for those children.", "speakerName": "Kirsty Williams AM" }, { "text": "Thank you. Julie's got some more questions on the impact on adopted and looked-after children.", "speakerName": "Lynne Neagle AM" }, { "text": "Yes, before I go on to those, I just wanted to support, really, what Mark was saying about adopted children and how important it is, I think, that the adoptive parents feel able to speak to the school and to give information. Because certainly any evidence we've had from adoptive parents, and generally knowing about what adoptive parents do feel, is that they often feel that there's a degree of a lack of sensitivity in the school about the issues of adoption. I would certainly support some move towards ensuring that the atmosphere was open in a way that would encourage them to realise that it would be a help for the children if there was an awareness in the school. So, I just wanted to really reinforce that.", "speakerName": "Julie Morgan AM" }, { "text": "Yes, and that would chime with what I hear from many adoptive parents. I'm just trying to be sensitive by saying we can't force people to divulge this information if they don't want to.", "speakerName": "Kirsty Williams AM" }, { "text": "No, but they need to be given the opportunity.", "speakerName": "Julie Morgan AM" }, { "text": "Yes, you're right. We need to make sure that those parents feel that they can discuss this with school leaders and classroom teachers and explore how best those individual children can be supported, and how best we can support parents. Because, again—and I've said this a lot—after the quality of teaching, the second biggest impact on a child's educational outcome will be parental engagement. So, being able to create an environment where adoptive parents feel very confident and able to talk about their children's education is absolutely crucial if we're going to get that parental engagement that we need for all of our children.", "speakerName": "Kirsty Williams AM" }, { "text": "Yes. Thank you. Going on to looked-after children, you say that the latest data on looked-after children's attainment is extremely disappointing. Can you expand on that and what effect the PDG has had in this result, or not had?", "speakerName": "Julie Morgan AM" }, { "text": "Well, there's no getting away from it: the way in which we currently measure outcomes for looked-after children, the results are not good enough. It's a source of huge concern to me that we need to do better for those children. That's why officials are engaging with the group that David Melding is chairing, to make sure that education is integral to that group and it's not lost sight of. There's a discussion to be had about the cohort, whether it's right and correct to compare looked-after children to the main cohort, or whether these statistics are useful in any way. Sometimes as well—this is not to make an excuse because, as I've said in my paper, it's extremely disappointing, but sometimes it can be really difficult. Because the cohort sometimes can be very, very small, it can swing the statistics to look perhaps more dramatic.", "speakerName": "Kirsty Williams AM" }, { "text": "I think, generally, when you look at how looked-after children do—", "speakerName": "Julie Morgan AM" }, { "text": "It's not good.", "speakerName": "Kirsty Williams AM" }, { "text": "—in a much wider evaluation, they're not doing well, are they?", "speakerName": "Julie Morgan AM" }, { "text": "They're not doing well. So, that's why we've got the review, the independent review, into the impact of the PDG in this area. This is why Steve is doing the work that he is doing with the regional consortia because, clearly, at the moment, we are not doing what we need to do for that particular cohort of children. I would not make any bones about that at all.", "speakerName": "Kirsty Williams AM" }, { "text": "I think we will not move away from the fact that these children need good GCSEs to gain employment, so we'll continue to measure that. I think we need to look at more nuanced evaluations of the data at a lower level. So, for example, there were significant improvements in terms of PDG pupils who got three and four good GCSEs but didn't get past the threshold. That's not to cover anything that is not working in terms of improvement, but we will look at the full range and still hold on to the fact that we have to look at a measure that relates to the likelihood of these children going on to further education and training.", "speakerName": "Steve Davies" }, { "text": "And then just one more question about the exclusion rates amongst looked-after children. They are, I understand, over six times more likely to be given a fixed-term exclusion. So, is there any way of trying to address this? Is the PDG used for anything to do with exclusions?", "speakerName": "Julie Morgan AM" }, { "text": "We can look at exclusions. We also have to read across about how the whole system works, not just the PDG element of the system. So, we know, for example, that 66 per cent of looked-after learners have some additional learning need, so we can't just look at it in terms of this particular source of funding; we have to look at it at a wider level of support. So, given that the majority of those children will have an ALN, how can we make sure that our new ALN legislation and our new ALN regime meets the needs of these children? So, I think what we're looking at, again, is to say that it can't be just the job of the PDG. That's there as an additional level of support, but actually, we've got to get our ALN right. Unless we get our ALN right, lots and lots of these children are not going to get the support that they need day in, day out via that system. We do know that sometimes, if we're not addressing ALN, then we're not addressing behaviour issues that then potentially lead to an expulsion or potentially lead to non-attendance. So, we've got to look at it in the round and recognise the connections between the sometimes quite complex needs that these children have within the school setting, that are not just as a result of the fact that they're looked after; they have other needs as well.", "speakerName": "Kirsty Williams AM" }, { "text": "And investment in well-being—", "speakerName": "Steve Davies" }, { "text": "Absolutely. Steve is reminding me that that's why well-being is part of the national mission—to address issues around supporting children with their well-being, which is a way of keeping them in school.", "speakerName": "Kirsty Williams AM" }, { "text": "Thank you. We're going to move on to Schools Challenge Cymru now. Llyr.", "speakerName": "Lynne Neagle AM" }, { "text": "Thank you, Chair. I was just wondering what your assessment is as to why some schools made progress and others didn't.", "speakerName": "Llyr Gruffydd AM" }, { "text": "I think we have to recognise that the 39 schools that were part of the programme were in very, very different places. So, I think one of the reasons why some schools did well was because their needs were not so complex, not so deep-seated and a certain level of intervention was enough to get them moving forward. Some schools had very, very different needs. I think, talking to those involved in the programme, as always, we had some support advisers, challenge advisers working with those schools as part of the programme who were really, really excellent and really good, and were the right fit for the school and really drove the school onwards. We had other people employed in the programme who, perhaps, were less effective at driving change within those individual schools. So, what we have is a mixed bag of performance, again reflecting the very different challenges that those schools were facing, which led them to be chosen for the programme in the first place.", "speakerName": "Kirsty Williams AM" }, { "text": "Yes, okay—", "speakerName": "Llyr Gruffydd AM" }, { "text": "Sorry. One of the other key additional factors was the extent to which there had been recent appointment of a new headteacher to that school just before the programme had started, because—", "speakerName": "Steve Davies" }, { "text": "Leadership is all.", "speakerName": "Kirsty Williams AM" }, { "text": "And that was seen as a positive.", "speakerName": "Llyr Gruffydd AM" }, { "text": "A positive, yes. I think one of the challenges is that sometimes the time it takes to make changes in leadership can be protracted and can be a barrier, sometimes, to the speed with which you can move. But, for a significant minority of the schools, there had been recent new appointments of headteachers, which was seen to be contributing, when you looked at the evaluation, to the speed with which they were able to engage.", "speakerName": "Steve Davies" }, { "text": "The reason I was asking was I wanted to understand what lessons the Government is taking from that three-year investment, really, and how, maybe, you're applying some of those lessons to your wider school improvement programme. I know Professor Mel Ainscow identified six interconnected lessons, although I also note that the Cabinet Secretary didn't actually meet him for about six or seven months after coming into post. So, I'm just wondering, can you give us confidence that, actually, you are serious about taking lessons from Schools Challenge Cymru and applying them to the wider school improvement agenda?", "speakerName": "Llyr Gruffydd AM" }, { "text": "Well, absolutely, Llyr. I don't think anything should be read into when I met the individual concerned, because officials were meeting the individual concerned. Individual challenge advisers were meeting with the regions, there was crossover work with the FSM agenda as well, and we are absolutely determined that best practice and those interventions that drove school improvement are embedded in the new support that we have via the regional consortia. It's no coincidence that some of the best people that were employed by Schools Challenge Cymru are now in the employment of our regional consortia. So, those people that were really good and really made a difference don't work for the Schools Challenge Cymru scheme any more, they work for our regional school improvement services. So, we're absolutely determined. The things that we have learned, as always, are around leadership. It is absolutely key and crucial to have strong, capable school leadership as a driver for change within the system. We're looking at systems and processes, so, actually, has a school got in place comprehensive systems of tracking and processes within the school? We're looking at the teacher quality—how can we ensure that we have got consistent strategies in place to drive up pedagogy and teacher quality in the classroom? Collaborative activity—again, absolutely key. A school cannot see itself in isolation, and one of the key themes of the national mission is a self-improving system, so, collaborative working where schools are looking outside of each other, learning from best practice from other schools. So, there are lots of things that we've drawn from the evaluation that you will see as key themes running through the national mission, and, as I said, it's no coincidence that our really good people that were working in Schools Challenge Cymru are now working for the regional consortia, being able to use that expertise not just for a very small proportion of our schools—but that expertise is available to all our schools.", "speakerName": "Kirsty Williams AM" }, { "text": "Although Estyn has told us, of course, that you can't expect the consortia to really carry on with that level of intervention and the same kind of intensity as was provided previously, so I'm just wondering—", "speakerName": "Llyr Gruffydd AM" }, { "text": "In what way?", "speakerName": "Kirsty Williams AM" }, { "text": "Well, we were told by Estyn in evidence that they didn't necessarily think that we could expect the consortia to provide the same type of tailored support, and certainly the level of intensity with the improvement boards and everything—", "speakerName": "Llyr Gruffydd AM" }, { "text": "Well, the improvement boards are carrying on, so the improvement boards still exist, and I would—not that I want to argue with Estyn—", "speakerName": "Kirsty Williams AM" }, { "text": "Well, feel free; this is your opportunity to do so if you—", "speakerName": "Llyr Gruffydd AM" }, { "text": "What I would say is that those improvement boards are staying on, and our schools categorisation system is used to identify the level of support. Now, if you're a red school, that gives you the entitlement to 25 days of support. That is more than you would have got under the Schools Challenge Cymru programme, which would've been 20 days. So, actually, moving to this system allows us to really focus in on those schools that need that intensive level of support. And what's important for me, Llyr, in this, okay, is that those schools are not necessarily just the schools that were in the programme. Our system now of challenge, advice and support allows us to target resources across all of our schools and across all of our sectors, because you'll be aware that Schools Challenge was only available to secondary schools, not available to primary schools. What our system now allows us to do, via the schools categorisation, is to identify schools, wherever they are in Wales and whatever sector they're in, to have that intensive level of support that they need to make improvements.", "speakerName": "Kirsty Williams AM" }, { "text": "So, you're confident that that level of momentum is continuing through the consortia that was previously enjoyed by those particular schools, and you're also confident that there is minimal risk that they'll slip back to where they were, potentially, or at least part of the way back.", "speakerName": "Llyr Gruffydd AM" }, { "text": "Well, actually, there are some really good examples of some of the Schools Challenge Cymru schools making that sustained improvement now that the programme has come to an end. You only have to look at Tredegar, where we have seen continual improvement and moving up through the categorisation system. That school is now a green school, so they've been able to sustain their progress at the end of the programme. If we look at Armando in Eastern High School, again—gosh, my goodness me, we had lots of debates in a previous Chamber about the future of Eastern. There was one person that said that Eastern had to be closed and that the only way forward for that particular school was for it to be shut down, but what we have seen is investment via Schools Challenge Cymru, but ongoing, continual support from the regional consortium, and that school has come out of special measures. I pay absolute tribute to the staff of that school and that community that have done such a good job. So, I'm absolutely convinced that where we've got good leadership and good support, some of those schools are making continued, sustained progress even after the end of the programme. The challenge for me is for those schools that Schools Challenge Cymru didn't work for, and we haven't seen that progress—how we can use our school improvement system now to continue to work with those schools to give them the level of support that they need to make a difference. So that's what my focus is on now: a whole-system approach, rather than choosing 39 schools to get that level of support, when we recognise that there are schools everywhere, potentially, that need intervention, support and challenge, and in the primary sector as well.", "speakerName": "Kirsty Williams AM" }, { "text": "Okay. So, you wouldn't agree with a number of—well, the near-unanimous evidence that we've had from academics, some of whom are Government advisers from consortia et cetera, that this kind of programme such as Schools Challenge Cymru would probably need about five years to really have the impact that it was intended to have.", "speakerName": "Llyr Gruffydd AM" }, { "text": "What I would say is that, from my understanding, from the outset, it was a time-limited programme. The schools were aware of that. There were no surprises that it was supposed to be a time-limited programme. Evidence from across the UK showed that school challenge programmes have differed in time. So, for instance, Manchester's challenge was a three-year programme. So, there's no consensus about how many years you need to run a programme for. The previous Minister was quite clear about the time-limited nature of the programme. That's not to say it was the wrong decision, because what's important, and an ongoing legacy of the programme, was the investment in regional school improvement capacity, because at the time our school improvement services and the regions were young, in their infancy. The ability of individual local authorities to make a difference, with so many local authorities in an Estyn categorisation, was limited, so one of the ongoing legacies of the programme is that significant investment of over £10 million in the capacity of the regions to be able to continue this support and the school improvement work.", "speakerName": "Kirsty Williams AM" }, { "text": "So, how disappointed were you that the money for Schools Challenge Cymru went back into reserves and didn't stay in your envelope, as you described it earlier? I presume you made a pitch for it. Did you make a case for that money to stay within your department?", "speakerName": "Llyr Gruffydd AM" }, { "text": "Llyr, we are constantly having discussions with the Minister for Finance around support for the education budget. The Minister for Finance was quite clear that it was a time-limited programme. We were able to secure investment from the Finance Minister to be able to secure the programme and run it and phase it out to make sure there was transition support, so as we moved from the schools challenge programme into the regional consortia, there were resources to do that.", "speakerName": "Kirsty Williams AM" }, { "text": "Did you feel there was a case to be made to add to the consortia's resources and be able to continue that level of support that schools had previously had?", "speakerName": "Llyr Gruffydd AM" }, { "text": "Well, we did make resources available to the regional consortia to do that. As I say, from the outset, the previous Minister was very clear it was a time-limited programme. Certainly the schools that I talk to—. And I want to be absolutely clear: I have visited many, many Schools Challenge Cymru schools. I have used that opportunity to talk to them about—Heolddu being one of them, Hefin, which we went to visit, and Willows, for instance. I'm going to one this afternoon—I'm going to St Illtyd's this afternoon, and I always take—. I've been to Caergybi in Anglesey. I always take the opportunity to speak to those teachers about their experience of the programme and to understand and assure myself that they are getting ongoing support that they see as an appropriate level for them. I think I've done 19 of the schools.", "speakerName": "Kirsty Williams AM" }, { "text": "Hefin on this.", "speakerName": "Lynne Neagle AM" }, { "text": "With regard to it being a time-limited programme, the previous Minister was clear that it was a time-limited programme, but it wasn't quite as time-limited as you've decided to be. Is that fair to say?", "speakerName": "Hefin David AM" }, { "text": "No, it was supposed to be a three-year programme at the most. So, there's no differential between when I decided it was time-limited and the expectations—", "speakerName": "Kirsty Williams AM" }, { "text": "So the time limit was the same that the previous Minister put on it.", "speakerName": "Hefin David AM" }, { "text": "Yes. No change.", "speakerName": "Kirsty Williams AM" }, { "text": "But Mel Ainscow did tell us that there was a fade out in that third year—not that people were giving up, don't get me wrong, but clearly there wasn't that commitment coming from Government because the decision had been made, and people felt that it was just fizzling out a little bit, and that impacted on the momentum.", "speakerName": "Llyr Gruffydd AM" }, { "text": "I wouldn't characterise it as that. I think there certainly was a transition phase when we knew that the programme was moving and schools were moving into a different level of support, but I certainly wouldn't describe it as a fading out—not at all. As I said, we were aware that the programme was transitioning and we were determined to get that right for those individual schools, and to learn the lessons and, crucially, to be able to apply those lessons right across the board.", "speakerName": "Kirsty Williams AM" }, { "text": "I can see where the perception would come if a programme director like Mel was managing the programme right to the end of the three years exactly the same, and it falls off—not a cliff, but it falls off, then the readiness for schools and the readiness in the system to hand over—so part of the shift of focus was that working as a Government with the programme in those schools to working with the programme, those schools and the region. So, I think, inevitably, one party might see it as a decrease in terms of emphasis on their work, but it was necessary for the transition.", "speakerName": "Steve Davies" }, { "text": "But does that cast a bit of a shadow over the transition, then—that one key player within that process felt as such, or are you confident that that was managed well and effectively?", "speakerName": "Llyr Gruffydd AM" }, { "text": "I think it was managed well, and we were very clear to recognise success where success has been achieved, but not to gloss over where the programme had not made an impact, because that wouldn't be good for anybody. There was a formal event to close the programme, which gave everybody an opportunity to get together, to be formally thanked, and for, as I said, congratulations to be given to those people who had really made a difference and, crucially, key staff transferred over into the regional consortia. So, for those individuals, they were able to continue their work, but just be able to apply that work on a regional basis rather than just in an individual school. So, I don't see that there was any fading out, but there was a transition into a new system, and many of those key personnel transitioned into the system with us.", "speakerName": "Kirsty Williams AM" }, { "text": "Have you got any figures for the numbers of staff who went from the programme into the consortia?", "speakerName": "Lynne Neagle AM" }, { "text": "Not off the top of my head, but I can let you know.", "speakerName": "Kirsty Williams AM" }, { "text": "Okay. I've got Darren first, then Mark.", "speakerName": "Lynne Neagle AM" }, { "text": "And can I just say, I met with some of them? I met with a selection of those people who had been involved in the programme to get their feedback on what they felt had gone right, and what they didn't feel had gone right in the programme. So, I took the time not just to meet the figurehead of the programme, but actually to meet the people who were doing the work in the individual schools. Sorry.", "speakerName": "Kirsty Williams AM" }, { "text": "Yes, I just wanted to ask you, you mentioned the figurehead there, I assume by'the figurehead' you mean Professor Ainscow. And you've mentioned as well that you said you wanted to learn lessons from Schools Challenge Cymru, but he told us that nobody had been in touch with him since March of last year in order to have any sort of follow-up engagement, or to have a dialogue about his perspective on what worked, what didn't work, why there were failures in some areas and why there were successes in others. Why haven't you sought that level of engagement with the person who was responsible for running the programme?", "speakerName": "Darren Millar AM" }, { "text": "I've had that conversation with Mr Ainscow. We had the evaluation of the programme. We've spoken to the people who were actually involved in running the programme on a daily basis in individual schools. We've spoken to the regional consortia. We've spoken to local education authorities. We've spoken to a wide variety of people to get their insight into the lessons learned, what was valuable and what was not valuable. So, a wide variety of people have been involved in those conversations.", "speakerName": "Kirsty Williams AM" }, { "text": "But you've hardly engaged with Mr Ainscow—with Professor Ainscow himself.", "speakerName": "Darren Millar AM" }, { "text": "I would actually say that I have had meetings—", "speakerName": "Steve Davies" }, { "text": "Since March of last year.", "speakerName": "Darren Millar AM" }, { "text": "Yes, since March of last year. I haven't got the exact dates for you. I've had discussions with Mel Ainscow, and my line manager at the time, Owen Evans, also had meetings and discussions.", "speakerName": "Steve Davies" }, { "text": "So, when he told us,'Since last March, I literally have had no contact at all with anybody from Welsh Government', he was telling porky pies, was he?", "speakerName": "Darren Millar AM" }, { "text": "That's not my recollection. I'll go back and check for you.", "speakerName": "Steve Davies" }, { "text": "If you could check and let us know, that would be good. Mark.", "speakerName": "Lynne Neagle AM" }, { "text": "Yes, well, I just talked about the celebration event to formally mark the end of the programme. My understanding was that it was July of last year, so people were engaged in that. And this idea that somebody has been ignored or frozen out is not how I see or how I regard that situation.", "speakerName": "Kirsty Williams AM" }, { "text": "Mark.", "speakerName": "Lynne Neagle AM" }, { "text": "I have to say, with Professor Ainscow my impression was he took great, great pride in the work that he'd done with Schools Challenge Cymru, and I think he really enjoyed the engagement, the work and the positive relations with the Welsh Government. But I think there was just a degree of disappointment, perhaps, that at least he didn't feel that he'd been interrogated as much as he might have been about the lessons learned from the programme, and how perhaps to entrench those as well as possible with the regional consortia. I just wonder, Cabinet Secretary, if you could invite the professor in, perhaps to have a further debrief with you and take account of some of his thoughts and suggestions for what might help in this area.", "speakerName": "Mark Reckless AM" }, { "text": "Well, Mark, as I said, I just don't think it should be right to characterise this as a failure to engage with a single individual.", "speakerName": "Kirsty Williams AM" }, { "text": "I'm not characterising it that way, Cabinet Secretary.", "speakerName": "Mark Reckless AM" }, { "text": "As I said, I met with him, Steve has met with him, Owen Evans has met with him, my special policy adviser has met with him and had discussions. So, there has been an ongoing dialogue. But, Mark, I hope that I have demonstrated since I took on this job that I am willing to work with a wide variety of people and to tap into their expertise if it can help me to deliver on the national mission. And if the advice to me is that we haven't sufficiently learnt the lessons, then I'll gladly have another conversation. What I'm saying to you—and I'm absolutely confident—is that we have learnt the lessons, we are taking that work and the good practice forward, and we have done that with conversations with a wide variety of people who had a view on this, from individual schools that were involved in the programme, individual people who were working in those schools, local education authorities, some of which have been very scathing about the programme, I should say, regional consortia—. So, the lessons, I am confident, have been learnt.", "speakerName": "Kirsty Williams AM" }, { "text": "I'm glad to hear that, Cabinet Secretary, but I still say that, listening to Professor Ainscow's evidence, there was a perception, at least from him individually, that the programme should not be seen to be a failure, but a desire that the lessons should be learnt and a feeling or exception, at least on his part, that there was more that he still had to contribute to the process. And just to take one particular example, I think he referred to the Schools Challenge Cymru advisers being very successful in bringing in people who might not otherwise have contributed to this, and the regional consortia have had greater challenges in recruiting people, perhaps in some areas, of the same high standard of some particular individuals, but also from a wide range of different areas that the Schools Challenge Cymru do, and that there could be more to learn in that area as to how to support real excellence and a greater diversity of recruitment for those people. Is that something you could perhaps draw on his thoughts further about? Because I think he does feel that he has more to say to Welsh Government to help in this area.", "speakerName": "Mark Reckless AM" }, { "text": "Firstly, can I say that I have never described the programme as a failure? I would understand, as someone who has put so much personal investment into the brand of schools challenges, that he would not want anybody to characterise that particular approach to school improvement as a failure. And I want to be absolutely clear that I have never described the programme as a failure, and I want to reassure Mr Ainscow of that. As I've said, gosh, my goodness me, if you saw my e-mail inbox and you saw the letters that come in, people are never shy in coming forward to give me advice on what I need to do, what I need to do next, what I'm doing right, what I'm doing wrong, and, you know, our doors are always open to listen to people who have interesting things to say about how we can deliver our educational mission. So, people aren't slow in coming forward, I can assure you, with advice.", "speakerName": "Kirsty Williams AM" }, { "text": "Julie.", "speakerName": "Lynne Neagle AM" }, { "text": "Just very quickly. I'm sure the Minister is aware that Cardiff put extra funds of its own in to continue Schools Challenge Cymru advisers. So, obviously, they appreciated the value of the scheme, but it does query whether it should have gone on longer.", "speakerName": "Julie Morgan AM" }, { "text": "Julie, I think, to be fair, there are some people who think the scheme was absolutely fantastic. I've had feedback from people who didn't think the scheme was helpful at all—in fact, they felt it was a hindrance. I'm very much of the view that the scheme worked really well for some schools in some areas and had less impact in some areas. There is a mixed picture. What's important to me is that we understand what it was that led those schools to make those big changes, how we can—like Mark talked about, the expertise—how we can keep that expertise in the system, and how we can apply the lessons to all schools.", "speakerName": "Kirsty Williams AM" }, { "text": "The next questions, and the final questions, are from John. So, we're going to need succinct questions and succinct answers.", "speakerName": "Lynne Neagle AM" }, { "text": "Some questions on regional consortia, Cabinet Secretary, and, first of all, the role that you believe they should play and how schools use PDG.", "speakerName": "John Griffiths AM" }, { "text": "Well, it's an absolute—. It's one of the things that I have been very clear to the regional consortia that I expect their challenge and support advisers to be asking schools about. So, one of the conversations that they need to have when they are in schools is exploring, with that school, how they are using their PDG, and how they're demonstrating an impact for those resources. So, it's a fundamental role for the challenge and support advisers in the regional consortia in their school improvement work. It's crucial.", "speakerName": "Kirsty Williams AM" }, { "text": "That sort of brings to mind some of the research that's been done on the role of the challenge advisers, Cabinet Secretary, which suggested that they're not actually challenging schools in that way, and that there's very little evidence of schools changing their decisions on the use of PDG as a result of any challenge from those challenge advisers. So, how would you respond to those findings?", "speakerName": "John Griffiths AM" }, { "text": "Well, as I said, in my scrutiny of the role and success of our regional consortia, I specifically asked them about free-school-meal performance and the use of PDG within their particular region. I think there is increasing evidence to suggest that good use is being made of that resource, and I think that is being fed back into us. Estyn tell us that it's one of the areas of school expenditure that is closely linked to research and an evidence base. But, clearly, there is more to do, and that's why we have appointed the new regional advisers for PDG going forward, because we think there can be improvements in how this agenda can be supported at a regional level.", "speakerName": "Kirsty Williams AM" }, { "text": "Okay. So, you would recognise the findings from that research.", "speakerName": "John Griffiths AM" }, { "text": "Yes. There's always more that we can do, and we are strengthening that role by the appointment of the new regional PDG advisers, so that individual school challenge advisers know what they should be looking for, know what they should be doing, and there is a regional approach to good practice.", "speakerName": "Kirsty Williams AM" }, { "text": "Okay. Could you tell the committee, Cabinet Secretary, how effective you believe the relationship was between the Schools Challenge Cymru programme and the regional consortia's school improvement functions, and to what extent it varied by region?", "speakerName": "John Griffiths AM" }, { "text": "I think it's fair to say that, on occasion, I have received feedback that there was a conflict between what was going on at an individual school under the school improvement programme and whether, then, they welcomed support from the regional consortia as part of that. So, in some cases, if we're being absolutely honest, there could sometimes be tensions between the two, but in most cases, the relationship was very, very positive and there was continuous feedback between the work going on in the schools under the programme and the regional consortia challenge advisers. But I'm going to be blunt and honest with people—in some cases, it has been reported to me—it's only anecdotal evidence; I haven't got hard and fast evidence—that there sometimes was a conflict:'We're a school challenge school so we don't need to participate or listen to any advice that's coming from the regional consortia.' Or, a local education authority said to me,'We felt that we couldn't get involved in that school anymore because it was part of a different programme.' Those were isolated incidents, and, as I said, it's only anecdotal feedback. In most cases, the relationship was a very positive one.", "speakerName": "Kirsty Williams AM" }, { "text": "Just very quickly, I think that, across the board, it was more complex in the beginning, getting—[Inaudible.]. But when the programme itself recognised that they needed to work with the regions, and the regions needed to work with them—and I think Mel Ainscow in his evidence referred to this—it strengthened after some early challenges. I think Mel Ainscow was working in a number of regions—I can't remember which ones—so he's established relationships—[Interruption.] Sorry?", "speakerName": "Steve Davies" }, { "text": "Central south.", "speakerName": "Kirsty Williams AM" }, { "text": "Central south. He has already been working in that, so I think it possibly had a stronger springboard in terms of the early working.", "speakerName": "Steve Davies" }, { "text": "Because he already had relationships that he had already developed in that particular region. As always, with many of these things, it's about individuals and relationships.", "speakerName": "Kirsty Williams AM" }, { "text": "Okay. Finally from me, Cabinet Secretary: in 2015-16, Estyn reported on regional consortia not sufficiently focusing on particular groups of pupils and tracking their outcomes—for example, vulnerable pupils. I just wonder what you are able to tell us in terms of to what extent there has been necessary progress since 2015-16.", "speakerName": "John Griffiths AM" }, { "text": "Okay. Well, I think it's important to recognise that all four consortia underwent monitoring visits in the autumn of last year, of 2017, which weren't reflected in the Estyn annual report for 2015-16. Estyn, through these 2017 inspections, have said that three out of the four regional consortia are making strong progress in their particular work, and we are continuing, as Welsh Government, to work with the other regional consortia to address the findings of the Estyn report.", "speakerName": "Kirsty Williams AM" }, { "text": "And that would include these particular issues.", "speakerName": "John Griffiths AM" }, { "text": "Yes, absolutely. The committee probably hasn't had an opportunity to see, but, only this morning, Estyn has released a report on more able and talented, and has positive things to say in the field of more able and talented, which was being asked about earlier by Members—you know, evidence of improved working and support in that particular arena. But, again, we need to ensure a consistency across all the regions, and that the findings of Estyn's most recent reports into regional performance are followed through.", "speakerName": "Kirsty Williams AM" }, { "text": "Okay, thank you. As we've got a couple of minutes left, if I can just jump back to the issue of practical uses of the PDG—because it's the only thing we haven't really covered and it would be good to get on the record—can I ask to what extent you'd like to see the PDG used to track the progress of eligible pupils? And the committee's heard that there are several different tracking systems and tools used by schools. To what extent is that an issue to do with what the Welsh Government is promoting? Or is it down to consortia or individual schools? And do you think there needs to be a more centralised push on how the tracking is undertaken?", "speakerName": "Lynne Neagle AM" }, { "text": "Firstly, can I say it's absolutely crucial that we track performance, absolutely crucial? That's the bedrock. We don't dictate to individual schools the nature of the system that they should employ in their school. There are a number of different programmes that allow schools to do this, but we are absolutely clear, and best practice and evidence shows us, that individual pupil tracking is key and crucial. And, as I said in the beginning, where we weren't tracking pupils at all, initial investment in PDG was used to establish these systems within schools. Again, one of the outcomes from the schools challenge review, and one of the lessons learnt, was, again, the importance of individual tracking of pupils throughout their school career. But we don't dictate a single system.", "speakerName": "Kirsty Williams AM" }, { "text": "Okay, thank you.", "speakerName": "Lynne Neagle AM" }, { "text": "But the principle is a really important one.", "speakerName": "Kirsty Williams AM" }, { "text": "Okay, and you don't think there's more scope to look at what the best system is that can be recommended to schools.", "speakerName": "Lynne Neagle AM" }, { "text": "That's not something we're actively looking at. I am actively looking at developing a Welsh toolkit around good practice, evidence base and research. At the moment we use the Sutton Trust toolkit, which is fine and excellent, but we are having active discussions about whether we're in a position, now, to look at developing a suite of a Welsh toolkit to support this agenda, and that's under active consideration.", "speakerName": "Kirsty Williams AM" }, { "text": "Okay. Well, we've reached the end of our session. Can I thank the Cabinet Secretary and the officials for attending and for answering such a wide range of questions? As usual, you'll be sent a transcript to check for accuracy following the meeting, but thank you again for coming.", "speakerName": "Lynne Neagle AM" }, { "text": "Thank you very much.", "speakerName": "Kirsty Williams AM" }, { "text": "Thank you. Okay. Item 3, then, is papers to note. Paper to note 1 is a letter from the Minister for Children and Social Care on Families First funding. Paper to note 2 is a letter from the Cabinet Secretary for Education, updating us on the supply teacher issue. Paper to note 3—another letter from the Cabinet Secretary for Education, providing further information following our meeting on 15 February. Paper to note 4 is a letter from the WJEC on availability of textbooks. Paper to note 5—a letter from Qualifications Wales, also on availability of textbooks. And paper to note 6 is a letter from the Cabinet Secretary for Education to the Children's Commissioner for Wales, following up on the dialogue that they've been having about our inquiry. Are Members happy to note those? Thank you. Item 4, then, is for me to propose, in accordance with Standing Order 17.42, that the committee resolves to meet in private for the remainder of the meeting. Are Members content? 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This suggests that the next steps could involve gathering additional feedback and perspectives from stakeholders to inform future school improvement efforts.", "responseAttribution": { "indexRanges": [ { "startIndex": 136, "endIndex": 136 }, { "startIndex": 138, "endIndex": 138 } ] }, "queryMetadata": { "queryType": "QUERY_TYPE_YES_NO", "isUnanswerable": null, "isContextDependent": true } }, { "query": "Did the Schools Challenge Cymru program include a time-limited component?", "response": "* The Schools Challenge Cymru (SCC) program had a time-limited component.\n* The previous Minister for Education was clear that the program was intended to be a three-year program.\n* The Cabinet Secretary for Education confirmed that the time limit for the program was consistent with the expectations set by the previous Minister.", "responseAttribution": { "indexRanges": [ { "startIndex": 118, "endIndex": 118 } ] }, "queryMetadata": { "queryType": "QUERY_TYPE_YES_NO", "isUnanswerable": null, "isContextDependent": null } }, { "query": "Did anyone disagree with the Cabinet Secretary for Education's assessment that the Schools Challenge Cymru program was not a failure, but rather a valuable learning experience?", "response": "No, there were no dissenting opinions expressed in the meeting transcript regarding the Cabinet Secretary's assessment of the Schools Challenge Cymru program.", "responseAttribution": null, "queryMetadata": { "queryType": "QUERY_TYPE_YES_NO", "isUnanswerable": true, "isContextDependent": null } }, { "query": "Besides the Cabinet Secretary's assessment that the Schools Challenge Cymru program was not a failure, were there other perspectives discussed in the meeting?", "response": "* In addition to the Cabinet Secretary's perspective, the meeting transcript includes feedback from a variety of stakeholders involved in the Schools Challenge Cymru program.\n* These stakeholders included school staff, local education authorities, and regional consortia.\n* 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a74bec87e7514c5a9f6611176f9b5b27	{ "meetingId": "TS3005b", "transcriptSegments": [ { "text": "Good morning, again.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "One question.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah..", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Send.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Choose a number?.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Submit..", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yep yep yep yep.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "All set?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm. Yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Good. Okay. Let's see what we can find here. Okay. A very warm welcome again to everyone.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Um here we are already at our uh functional design meeting. Um and this is what we are going to do. The opening, which we are doing now, um and the special note, I'm project manager but on the meetings I'm also the secretary, which means I will make uh minutes as I did of the previous meeting.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "And uh I also put these as fast as possible in the uh project folder, so you can see them and review what we have discussed. Um if I'm right, there are three presentations, I guess each one of you has prepared one? Good.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yes.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "And um we will also take a look at new project requirements, um if you haven't heard about them yet. And then of course we have to take a decision on the remote control functions and we have some more time, forty minutes. But I think we will need it. Um well I don't know who wants to go first with his presentation.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "I'll go first. Okay. I'll go first yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "You can go first, okay.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Well.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Well, shall I go first with the users?", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Well.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "I think well okay no problem..", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Is there an order? I haven't.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "everybody already has his presentation,", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Ja precies, ja precies, ja precies", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "so you can adjust it..", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "So. Huh? Okay, um.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "And one question, uh your name Denni, is it with a", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "E_I_E_.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "I_E_ E_I_E_, okay. Thank you.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Okay, um I wanted to explain the working design of the remote control. It's possibly very handy if you want to uh design one of those. Um well so it basically works uh as I uh uh r wrote down uh in this uh little uh summary. Uh when you press a button, uh that's when you do pr for example when you uh want to turn up the volume, um a little connection is made uh the the rubber uh button just presses on a", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Sorry..", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "on a little print plate uh which uh makes uh uh a connection that uh gives the chips, uh which is uh mounted beneath those uh that plastic of a rubber button. Uh senses that a connection has been made, and know and knows what button you pressed, becau uh for example the the volume up or volume down button. Um uh the the chip uh makes a Morse code uh like uh signal which uh then is si uh signalled to uh several transistors which makes uh which sends the signal to a little let. You know what a let is?", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Okay. And that makes uh the the infra-red lights signal which is sent to the television set. Uh which has a sensor in it to uh sense uh the signal of the infra-red. That's basically uh how it works. Um the findings uh uh that I found uh searching up some uh detailed information about the remote controls, are that uh they are very easy to produce, uh it is pis uh it's possible to uh make them in mass production because it is as eas it is as easy as uh printing a page, uh just uh fibreglass plate um is b uh is uh covered with uh some uh coatings and uh uh and chips.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Uh and the technology's already available, we don't have to find out how remote controls uh have to work or uh how that how uh to make some chips that are possible to uh to to transmit those uh signals. Uh I made a little uh uh animation of about how a tran our uh remote controller works.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Oh right.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Animation..", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "we tel", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "There is something turning.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "There.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah, it's a little bug it's in the in the smart board..", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Okay. Uh well", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "the sub-component, I suppose that you understand what a sub-component is, is f in this example it's the button. Uh when it is pressed down, um, the switch is ter is uh is switched on, so with uh the wire is sent to the to the chip in uh co-operation with the battery of course, because to make uh a a signal possible you have to have some sort of uh li uh a d ad uh electronic uh.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Infrared light.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yes, uh, okay. Um w after it's being composed by the chip uh the signal uh is transported uh to the infra-red bulb, and from there it signals a Morse code-like signal to the to the b to the bulb in uh in the television set. Okay. S Uh I wrote down some personal preferences about uh the remote control. Of course it is very handy if the remote control is hand held, so you don't have to uh uh wind it up or something, or just is it's it's very light to uh to make uh to use it. Uh I personally uh pref prefer that uh it would be p uh come available in the various colours, and uh easy to use buttons. But I suppose that the one of the other team members uh uh thought of that uh too..", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah, I've got it there too..", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "And it is possible for several designs and um easy to use b uh sorry, easy to use buttons. Perhaps soft touch, uh touch screen uh buttons because uh the rubber buttons are always uh uh they uh slightly uh they can be slightly damaged,", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "uh so the numbers on the buttons are not possible uh to read anymore. And uh well as I said uh before th uh we can uh make several designs..", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Okay, well, that's my contribution to this meeting, and uh", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "To this meeting..", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Okay, thank you.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "two of these this meeting. So.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Shall I go uh next?", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yep.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "'Kay.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Please.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "So.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Smoking.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Well uh, my name's, and I looked at uh technical functions design of the remote. Uh I did this by uh looking at examples of other remote controls, of how they uh they look, and information from the web that I found. Um well what I found was that uh th the actual use of the remote control is to send messages to television set, how you uh d what you described uh just early. And this can be all sorts of medsa messages, turn it on, turn it off, uh change the channel, adjust volume, that kind of thing. Uh play video, teletext, but also t uh play C_D_ if you use it your C_D_ player the remote control will that one. There are some uh examples of remote controls. You can see they are very different. The one has got all the functions that you could possibly need and an lot of uh buttons etcetera. And the other is uh more user friendly, little with big buttons. And uh not n all the the the the stuff you can do with it, but uh the the essential stuff is there. Um I guess you could better y you should look at a a user centred uh approach, because the customers have to use them and and if they don't think it's usable they won't uh buy it. A lot of buttons they may think from I don't need s as much as that. Uh, well perf personal preferences is is uh a simple remote, with uh the basic functions that you can need that you could use. But uh keep in mind the new functions of T_V_ what we discussed earlier, split screen and uh is that a function that you should have? Because all the T_V_s will have them. Or because of only a few and isn't really necessary. And then uh make it I would make so that you can could uh use it on more than one appliance. If you have one that uh uh does with the vi the the video, it could also work with uh with the stereo, because play is play and stop stop and that sort of thing. The shu c you could reuse the buttons so that you don't have to have a lot of buttons for uh anything. And it should be a user friendly, clear buttons, and not too much. And that is my presentation.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Okay, thank you.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Okay..", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "'Kay. Check..", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "You must still have it open.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Kijke'Kay, so. We're going to j discuss the functional requirements of the remote, that m that means that functions user n want to have on the remote control, or just Yeah, and the users, actually.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "The methods I I prefer is we're going to look which section of the users we are going to focus a l on more. Are the younger people going to buy the remote control or the elderly people? And then tho that section we're going to focus and adjust the remote more to that section than the whole user section. Okay. Some data. Younger people, from sixteen to thir forty five um years are more interested in fj features like L_C_D_ screens, speech recognition e etcetera. And we possess about two third of the market from in that range of age. The elderly people, from forty five years to sixty five years are not that much interested in features, and we possess less than two third, that's two fifth, of the market share in that area. Goed so.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Hmm.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "'Kay. Findings. Fifty percent of the users lose their remote often.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "So we don't have to make it very small, like uh like a mobile phone or something, but some somewhat bi bigger than small, so you don't lose it that much anymore. Seventy five percent of the users also find it ugly,", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "and fif seventy five of the users zap a lot, so the buttons sh should be that small, or shouldn't be that complex because we have to search for the buttons, which one are you going to use. Next. Important issues about the remote. I think it would be better with a personal reference, but okay. Remote control has to have to have a low power usage, because s w seventy five percent of the users only zap one time an hour, so the power usage is also one one time an hour, or so, with a high power usage we would use a lot of but batteries. The volume button and the channel buttons are the two most important buttons on the remote control, so those they those have to h be find very easily. And have to be somewhat like bigger etcetera. It has also be have to find easily when the label is gone. My colleague also announced it that labels should be scratched off", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Hmm.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "or would be s uh senden.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "okay. So uh if that's k uh if that's the problem, you also have to find it easily on the remote. Buttons. Like what all colleagues said, have to have to be minimalized. or should be covered, or in L_C_D_ screen. L_C_D_ screen is easy because we have the L_C_D_ screen, we have the various options. Put one option and then you have the all the buttons of that options, so the other options would be gone. And you don't see the buttons. So L_C_D_ screens should be easy, but an L_C_D_ screen, the problem with the L_ sc L_C_D_ screen is that elderly people fr from forty five to for sixty five years don't use the L_C_D_ screen a lot. So we have to that keep that in mind that if you're going to implement L_C_D_ screen, you don't have to make it that hard to learn or to use.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Uh L_C_D_ screen as in uh touch screen?", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah, touch screen, yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "The last but not least, younger people are more critical about the features. Because they use the remote control often more often, and are more technical than the ol older people. And the older people spend more money, and easily on a remote control.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "'Kay.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "So we have to keep in mind to to focus not a lot not that much on the younger pep younger people, but also somewhat on the elderly people. And on my personal preferences, I don't have any mo more time to come with that,", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "but like I said, L_C_D_ screen is easily to use", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "because you have you can implement a lot of buttons in one remote with not that much buttons. And it should be easy to use. Especially the volume buttons, the channel buttes buttons and the number buttons to zap through the channels. And that is it.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Okay,", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Okay..", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "thank you.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Oh right..", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Um, well thank you all, huh. I dunno uh did everyone receive an email with uh the new project requirements?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "No. Res I did not.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "No? Well,", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Perhaps the rest?", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "No.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "then I think it's a good thing that I made a separate slide of them", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Ja,.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "so you can all read them. Oh, well not in this presentation. Hmm", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Should be in there. Well, I can tell you them uh from my laptop. Um teletext does has become outdated since the popularity of the internet.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Oh. Mm.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "So that's uh the first thing we I think we should pay less attention to uh teletext. Uh the remote control should only be used for the television, otherwise the project becomes more complex, which endangers the time to market, and of course would make it more costly, I think. Um our current customers are within the age group of forty plus, and new product should reach a new market with customers that are younger than forty, and you talked about that before. And uh a last point, but also very important, our corporate image should stay recognisable in our products, which means that our uh corporate colour and slogan must be implemented in the new design. So we have to keep that in mind. Um well uh according to our agenda it's then time to take a decision on the remote control functions. So, who has any idea about what should be on it, and what shouldn't?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Well you said it should only uh work with one appliance?", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Be television.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Or with one uh d che only the T_V_?", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah. Only be used for television.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "And the video also, or not uh?.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Well it says only for television here, huh.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Only the television.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Oh. Alright. Okay..", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Makes it a lot easier, huh?.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "So yeah, then you can yeah. Requirements, no? Functions.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Then it should have uh on, off,", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah for.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "and uh.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Standby options,", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah, the basics then by a volume, channel, one till two zero numbers on it,", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "yeah? Uh yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah. And per perhaps uh.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "oh teletext doesn't have to be?", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "No.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Um other functions.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Well uh uh yes yes s sh A button where you can uh change from one number to two numbers.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah I had.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Two s two two digits,", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah, yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Can you.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "oh okay.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Don't know if that's got a name,", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah I understand what you mean. Yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "but.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "I think it's I think it's easy to implement a button with a s s what which especially do that, because some T_V_s, if you press the t one and then the two, it be between five secs it make twelve,", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "It makes it twelve, yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah. S", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Indeed. Okay.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "and that's that's not relaxed", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Well, not really.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "to user.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "And and there are some models that don't uh accommodate that function. So", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "d uh wh the Philip's television makes it possible in that indeed to uh press one and then two to make uh the uh tj to reach channel twelve.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "So that it easy and fast.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "But uh all the television makes uh use of those button where you first press that button and then press two digits to uh to get", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah. Yeah, so you should have that one on.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Uh yeah, think so.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Our main targets' age are? were? Forty five plus, or?", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Mute misschien also.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Uh well", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "new product should reach a market with customers that are younger than forty, and now we have current customers uh of forty plus.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Forties, okay because because younger people as Uh younger people have now, sixteen till to twenty five age, are f eighty one percent interested in L_C_D_ screen. From twenty six to thirty five have sixty six percent, and thirty six to forty five, fifty five percent, so I think to um Because on most recog remote controls um the print plate will be broken how much, two years. You have to press h very hard to go to the next channel.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "With the L_C_D_ screen it's easier because you only have to wipe the screen to uh for fingerprint,", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah, we we could yeah. But I think that uh that collides with our mission to make it very cheap.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "and then you can use it again.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Because L_C_D_ screens are very expensive.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah, okay.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "An", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "A touch screen uh probably uh even more.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah but a you don't know.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "So,", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "True.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "true, true.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "But uh Well um is it possible to make an L_C_D_ screen uh, how was the information?", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah, it only says that this perce percentage like L_C_D_ screen. Because, yeah and it says that younger age between sixteen and forty five highly interesting features more critical.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "So perhaps we should we should focus on that L_C_D_ screen.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "And if the only f Yeah, because our target is sixteen to forty five.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "But, do you.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah but uh will we not uh exceed our uh our uh production uh.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah you don't know how much it costs. Yeah, you don't know how much it costs, the L_C_D_ screen.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Is it possible to find out, anyway?", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "No, I don't have any costs here,", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "You know?", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "I only have percentages.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "But if you would do an L_C_D_ screen do we have don don't you have any buttons? Or because if it only directs at the T_V_, then you only have uh I don't know what you want to do with the L_C_D_ screen.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "No, an L_C_D_ screen's just like uh like a drawn here. Um just uh displays several buttons,", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah?", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "for example um if you wanted the minimal uh use b uh buttons, such as channel and volume, you just h uh displays four buttons on the screen", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Oh right, so you can.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "and it's possible to p uh press them down, just like a touch screen.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Oh, yeah alright. So you can adjust which buttons you want on that s screen.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah, we can make it possible to do that, yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah, if you want to adjust, like for example, adjust the audio settings, you press audio on the touchscreen", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "and you get the buttons for audio settings,", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah alright, oh right.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "so the other buttons are gone.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah, yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "So we're going for an L_C_D_ screen?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah. Would be yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "I think it's the most easier thing,", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "That's my uh.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "And hoping that when we produce a lot it won't be too expensive.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Well we had twelve fifty, I guess, for uh production?", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "No. Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Twelve fifty.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Um.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Any guesses?.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Well I suppose wi if the mar if our um if the i if the young people are interested in L_C_D_ screens, we should make'em.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Highly.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "And if that is our d uh market share to uh and our goal to uh deliver those uh remote controls.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "But But he also said that we should not only focus on the younger people, but also on the older, and will they use it if it only has an L_C_D_ screen?", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah, but Um, s forty six to forty five, thirty three percent, and sixty fifty six to sixty five twelve percent.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Oh, so still a little bit people.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "But our our our what's it, project requirements are the new products should be reached for new markets, to customers that are younger than forty.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah that's right. But you don't want to alienate the other uh.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "No, that not now, but, so.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "But if they also buy it then it's alright. I guess.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah, but market share fro for for forty years and younger is higher than that of sixty five and younger.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah. Alright.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Okay, so L_C_D_ it is?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "An Yes.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm. It's treasure.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "And what else?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "I hope we uh h and let's hope to reach those uh those sales.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah, i i if it Yeah, if it costs gets too much, too expensive, then yeah, we should be sticking to rubber buttons.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah, can you um uh s I think that that they will send you some information about uh the cost of L_C_D_ uh screens.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah..", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "N nothing, no costs at all.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "But perhaps later,", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Uh so if you uh.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "so uh.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah, so if you uh you receive an email about that, uh can you post it in the or shouldn't we post that in uh our projects mail uh folder.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah, in.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "I think that should yeah I think we all get the costs of everything.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "I don't.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Because you are the the Marketing uh Expert.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah, okay, I'll I'll post it.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "I uh.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Well perhaps we should have a backup plan that we would use buttons if it's uh too expensive.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah sure, sure.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah, okay. But for now it's L_C_D_. Okay.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Okay, L_C_D_, yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Then you have the seventy five percent of users find it r ugly.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "The L_C_D_? Oh that's a bit of a problem..", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah, and eighty percent of the users would spend more money with a when a remote would look fancy.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Oh, that's a bit of a problem.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Tha i l i it'll look fancy with L_C_D_ screen. Yeah..", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "It's looks fancy one yeah, of L_C_D_ screen.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah, but they don't they don't like it.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "They think it's ugly. When it has an L_C_D_ screen.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah, just a the plain remotes, not not specific L_C_D_ remotes.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Oh, alright, I thought that you said that.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah, and maybe you can make something fancy out of an L_C_D_ remote,", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "So.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "because it's new, as far as I know..", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Mm yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah, of course.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "And then not yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "And then you have the other thing, that seventy five percent zap a lot, but that's not a f question with the L_C_D_ screen.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Um. Yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Only thing you have to do is wipe the screen off once each time, to get all the fingerprints off it.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Mm. Okay?", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Okay, what else does our remote need?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "A mute button.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Um.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Mute button.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "I think. And.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "The most important things on a f on an on an uh remote control are channel selection, volume con selection,", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "and power s power usage.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "And a teletext, but that is not of the question.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "But But shouldn't you put a button of for teletext on the for the people who want to use it?", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Other things are Sorry?", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Remembering we have got a big remote that you have to fill..", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah, it could be. Yeah..", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm. Yeah, and we could make an a a separate menu on the L_C_D_ uh screen for teletext.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah, teletext.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "And there's also a.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "And other other less important things are screen settings, audio settings, and channel settings,", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah, they are less important, but I think they should be there,", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Less important.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "or not?", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah, should be there,", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "A sh", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "but not press.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "but in a sub sub-menu or something like that.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah, sub-menu, yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Uh I think it's also important to uh make it possible to um how do you call it in English, uh, to not use batteries, and use ac uh bat uh batteries to uh to be.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Like with a with a mouse, you have not, yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "yeah yeah sure. Indeed. So uh you can mount uh the the the uh", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah, in a breath it's.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "uh the remote control to um", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Charted.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "We should think of the twelve fifty we have", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "to refill the.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "but.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah,", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "I don't know how much that's going to uh.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "but we don't we don't have any costs now,", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah. Okay,", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "so Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "because i uh when you get an L_C_D_ screen, you run it on batteries,", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "the batteries will be uh empty very soon, very fast.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah e e power supply is one of the most important things.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "You should Perhaps you should be able to to switch the control off.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "If you have an L_C_D_ screen that's burns all the time I dunno.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah, yeah. Yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "You shouldn't on and off because that's ver extra, that you have t first you have to turn the remote on, and then you can uh.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "I don't know.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Uh.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah, I think it's it's not that easy because I don't think people will like it who who uh that you have to turn it on first and then use it,", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Nee that's that's uh yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "so I think it's better when th the T_V_ shuts down, the remote shuts down.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "But then you can't.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "And go to standby mode when you don't use it,", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "so that.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah yeah au automac matically, that it yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah, automatically. After two minutes or three minutes, something like that.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah. After two minutes, yeah two three minutes, yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah. And maybe a low battery indicator? On the screen.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah. Sure.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "And then b that uh", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "before an hour when its get again gets empty.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Then you have plenty of time to recharge it,", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "of put it in a recharger. Charger.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "So we are going for the for the recharger.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah, if it's. Uh.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "If it's sensible..", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah, because when you're watching T_V_, you're zapping and you have to put it in a recharger,", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah. Yeah, b when the batteries are low.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "No,", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "and I don't think it.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "when you when you're done with s uh w uh watching your television, you have to put it.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah, okay, but then we have to be sure that the the the the batteries go hours, six hours, five, six hours, then.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "But you'll also forget to put it in,", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah sure, of course.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "because you throw it on the couch", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah,", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah,", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "but.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "then you have a problem.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "and you don't remember.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "But you also forget to buy batteries,", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah. That's right.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "and then you can you can't use it,", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "so I.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Or we have to be sure that the batteries last couple of days when they're recharged.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Well I think the batteries should should w should work a lot longer than a couple of days,", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "So.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "or not?", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah because you have b", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "'Cause.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "but you have L_C_D_ screen.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah, that's right, but.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "High power usage.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "High power user cell, i uh it should be uh a standard move to to put your remote control in the charger when you're done watching television,", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yes.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "that's also a a a great advantage because you can't lose it anymore. Because you are obliged to uh put it in the charger and not to uh leave it in a couch uh between some cushions.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "True. Yeah. Yeah. True.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah. Right..", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah, you made a point there.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "But then you also have to s have somewhere where you can put a remo recharger near your couch", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah, also.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "because otherwise you have to walk a long way when you twoft want to turn on the T_V_.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah, otherwise all your yeah. Just a small device.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah. I think everything has it for and I guess.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah it hasn't It doesn't have to be big.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Plug it in, that's it. Yeah, like a like telephone charger or something.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah just just a cable, or a even a a a a a charger where you can mount it on. Something like that,", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah. Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "just u", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Alright.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Okay, well I've", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "It has to be easy to use also, or things. Uh market share, speaker re speech recognition.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah, you have some more", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "points.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Functional designs uh for the elderly uh you could make it possible to enlarge the screen,", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "I think.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "so make it possible to not uh display uh a button at ten points", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Also.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "uh, or.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Well I think that this should be standard. Large button large buttons.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah but it is uh one of the functions you have to uh specify.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah? Okay.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Because we can look at uh uh perhaps uh forty buttons at a screen, but the elderly only look at two buttons.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": ".", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "And you said something about speech recognition?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah,", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Speech recognition?", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "it says also.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Hello.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah,", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Twelve Euro", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "twelve fifty, twelve fifty..", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "twelve Euro fifty.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Twelve. That's an also ninety one percent sixteen to twenty five, twenty six to thirty five years, seventy six percent, and thirty six to forty five, thirty five percent.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "So it's pretty big.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Well, spread it by a big market.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "But then I I I.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Even bigger than for L_C_D_..", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah. W I know let's do a speech..", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Well", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "let's leave out all the remote controls and just put a microphone on top of the television to.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah. Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah. Ninety. Twenty five.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "You can clap or something..", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah Yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "channel.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Turn volume up.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Hey, that that's an idea..", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Now you shouldn't say the wrong thing, I dunno.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Okay, well", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah..", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "that should it has to be remote control, not.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah,", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "twelve.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "But they want to talk into the remo remote control, or something,", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Sure why not why not.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "or?.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Is this only would you would you pay more for speech recognition in a remote control. It's the only thing it says.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah, mm.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Oh, but do we want to implement that, or?", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "I think an L_C_D_ screen should be suf sufficient.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "But when you look at the percentages.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah, it says a lot, but.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Speech recognition scores even higher, huh?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Perhaps the options should be uh Why not?", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah, well,", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Why not?", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "maybe because of the cost, but uh nobody knows uh how much uh it will cost uh.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Let's hope uh to have some uh d", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "I know.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "No I think I think it's better to have L_ L_C_D_ screen, because in the area of tw thirty six to forty five, we have about thirty percent of the market share in in our hands, and fifty five of those people want L_C_D_ screen and thirty five want speech recognition. So I think it's better to keep it with L_C_D_ screen.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "But would it be useful to imple implement both?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "On one remote?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah, if the costs al allow it..", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Or.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Well.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah, I dunno.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "I don't know if that can be done with the cost of twelve fifty.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Nee.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "With that uh.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "If it should be done, if it could be done, I won't matter. Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah,", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "We should do it. Yeah. Sure.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "but how would you like to implement that, that you say volume up, and then it goes up,", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "or?", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Uh.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Certain systems already exist, I think.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Then you also have to have different languages if we go international. Then uh it's y it's yours to do a French and Dutch and English", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "True.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "True, yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah. True.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "But that should also be with f should be also with L_C_D_ screen.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "This should be uh accommodated with some software, uh, uh. Yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Because then I think in Chinese is different written, volume is different written than um Swahili or something.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah, that's right. Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Right. Swahili. Swahili.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah you can use icons for the", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "a speaker and uh.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Ja, well possible.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Indeed.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "But if that's better than language for the for the remote.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah, yeah yeah yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah. So we want to uh yeah it's international uh okay.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Then it's Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "'Kay, what else?", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "So, no speech recognition? Or.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Well, if it could be done, we.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah,", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Y it should be done. If it could be done, should be done.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "we have to keep Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah..", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah, and then we have different languages.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah, that should be uh anything matters.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "That's not so difficult at all,", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Okay, just make a separate remote for each uh.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "because I already use on several voice operated systems, and they are all possible to uh not all, but.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Well, you sh you should to adjust the thing.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "I think it's difficult. Every language of dialects.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "I think it's very differen difficult.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "And you have to speak the so that it can understand.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah. I think it can't be implemented, but maybe.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "You could use that n as an option, if you have money left, or something..", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah,'s an option, yes.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah, sure, indeed.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Fifty Euro cents.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Let's do speech.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "For speech recognition.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Okay, so we only do this when we have enough money left.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah..", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Okay. Well I've written down an an on or off button, volume selection, channel selection, uh the digits from one to zero, huh. Um or from zero to nine. Uh a digits button to switch uh between one and two digits, mute button, a separate menu for teletext, a battery indicator. Um we're going to use a docking station and uh probably L_C_D_ and if there's enough money, speech recognition. And uh the possibility to uh enlarge buttons or to have large buttons", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm. Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Mm, yes.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "in general.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "I With uh teletext if it wasn't ver very important, it was but.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "No, but.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "You also now have colours. I don't know if we should implement that. Yeah,", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Curved?", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "when you press the red button, you go to page one hundred two, and when you press the.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Uh yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "I don't know if we should implement that,", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Um.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "because it says that teletext not really important,", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "S Shortcuts. Uh.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "but yeah, the shortcut, and you can't go to sport.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "I think we should we could that we could also implement a audio settings, screen settings and channel settings, but as sub-menus.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "D Mainly if you turn the uh remote control on, you have to u you have to see from one till zero, channel and volume. And if you want to use teletext screen or audio, then you can press it.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Sh Yeah, just just sub-menu. Yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "It should be available but not", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "'Cause it should be there.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Not directly uh available.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "not Yeah. Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Okay, so not too much teletext support, but in a separate menu, and.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "So actually it is there but it's just not r ready there.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah, but s", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Directly available.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "So does it confuse uh the user?", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "You'll have to search for it..", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "They'd have to be easy to use.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Uh. I'll search um.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "If you want to use teletext, you can push the teletext button and then the options uh become available.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah. Yeah, that's a.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "The sign of it.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Okay, but no more buttons or functions, or?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "I guess not.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "No.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Uh, no. What else can you do with a television?", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "We've got anon", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Aren't we forgetting something very important?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Have got got two examples here, but I don't think there's anything we're missing.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Uh play, pause, doesn't n need to be there.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Well, we don't have the video orders.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yes, so this is your presentation. We could check the other remote controls with technical functions.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah, you could look here all the the.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Which ones were yours?", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Uh th th th th I don't know, technical functions.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Techni", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "They're a bit small, you can we should stretch them, because.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Ping.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Ja ja ja ja ja. Technical functions. Yeah okay.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "I guess we've got them all.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Uh I think I go to have volume, mute but I Yeah. Very slow. Yeah, the zoom buttons.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "And for a T_V_? Can you zoom in a T_V_?", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah, b wide screen, high screen, different things you have,", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Or that you can put'em on uh on on wide and.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "yeah different uh.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "But that should also be a sub then, a sub uh menu thing.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Menu.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah it should be available, but then in separate screen settings or something.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah, so we should also implement se screen settings.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah, screen settings, audio settings, teletext settings you have.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Oh right. Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Channel settings.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah, so you can program the.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "So those four, and of course the main.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah, so the first you see the main, and the other ones you can uh go to uh.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah. Yeah. Like tap screens or something", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "or, I dunno.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "I hope we can do this..", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Something.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "There are a lot of options depending uh on what kind of television you got.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah, if uh.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "'Cause if you don't got a wide screen television you don't need the uh the screen settings", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "No, you don't yu a no you then you don't no ni don't.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "uh for uh.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "then you don't use it.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah and if the television does not support such uh operations", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "We don't have to use that top. Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "So you leave it alone.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah. Or it could be possible to have a a standard version of the remote, an expanded version.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah. And do we want them in different colours, or.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "And and the buttons, should they have colours?", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Colours. Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Colours I think the main colour of the remote control is uh the colour of the L_C_D_ screen.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Oh but we don't have any buttons. Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "I Because we don't want a lot a devi yeah a device self s g", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah, then defines itself. Because uh how many percent? Eighty percent?", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "They think it's ugly, right?", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Would spend more money if it looks fancy.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Okay, so use uh very uh lot of peo.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Perhaps you can uh make adjustable fronts, like with the telephones.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Adjust with phones, yes.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "You can uh But I don't think that uh.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Okay. Twelve Euro fifty. Well, make it available in different colours, you mean?", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Sure.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah..", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Red, white, blue, black..", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "And a see-through uh", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Rasta colours.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Grey.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah sea view, yes, Simpson's versions and.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah, see through version. Yeah. If you press a button, it turns green.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Okay, well", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Leave..", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "that's the", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "A disco version.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "signal for las final five minutes.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Five minutes?", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Um so I have uh the things I just read. Um then we have uh separate menus for teletext, screen settings, audio settings, and what else?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Channel settings?", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Oh yeah, right.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Channel settings.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "So you can program the T_V_.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Perhaps you should you'd throw them on on in one pile. So, options, and then you sub them.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah. Could be possible.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Otherwise you have all those teletext, perhaps teletext not,", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "but.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Or like uh you have a menu button, you press.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "No, we said teletext also a separate menu.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah, but I.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah, or otherwise you have a menu button, press menu then you have uh main uh menu search uh all the all the settings.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah. Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Okay, but we can work that out later, I guess.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "But.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah, no problem. Yep.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "So we're having a a general menu with the most used functions, uh teletext, screen settings, audio settings, channel settings, and maybe there are options for the remote itself? Like uh large icons or small icons", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "I don't know.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "and I don't know what else,", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Um,", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "but.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "No.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "I think b because we don't have a lot of buttons on the one screen,", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Or do we have any buttons? On the remote.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "I think the buttons Yeah, but but or like you have", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Which one?", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "you only have channel button or volume button. Those buttons you can you can.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah, but on the L_C_D_,", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "But that's also in the L_C_D_,", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "huh?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "right?", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Right, yeah, okay..", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "So we don't have any normal buttons", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah, th", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "that uh.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "No, no normal buttons, yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "No, alright.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Maybe only the on and o on and off button.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yet on and off is p is perhaps you kno", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "But we don't need a special.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Uh not button.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "But I don't think.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "we don't need a special options menu for the remote itself.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "No, no.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Mm, no.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Oh well, you should be able to set which T_V_ you have. If you have if you have uh.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah sure, of course you need uh a settings button, uh or a settings option for the remote control.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah. But isn't idea to use uh uh what you said, uh normal on and off button for the T_V_, that you don't have to use a.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "No no no, because we we discussed that you could charge it, otherwise is it it jumps to stand-by mode automatically.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah but but not for the remote but for the T_V_, that you use.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah, but a T_V_ of course, th that's the I think that's a best thing is that to implement that one in the menu with the volume and channel.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "But a not as normal button, in the L_C_D_,", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "No.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Well maybe there should be a separate button apart from the L_C_D_,", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "because you can't turn it on when the L_C_D_ is off. So how do you turn the thing on? There has to be a on button on the remote,", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "No you just tap I think.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "huh?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Just tap it.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah, you tap.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Tap the thing. Okay.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Touch screen, yeah then it's turn turn off, turn on.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "And then the television is on also, or just the remote?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "No, just the remote.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "But.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "A television don't have to be on, that one you can press on,", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah, it should be in standby mode, but.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "yeah stand-by, then press on remote, press on and then T_V_ should be available. Or not.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah a yeah. I don't know whether it's handy to have a n a normal on button, a r just uh rubber uh for for T_V_,", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Separate.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "so you can turn it on and then you can choose the channel. Otherwise you I don't know whether or not that's.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "A A A normal button on the remote control,", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah, yeah. To turn it on.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "or norm?", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Of or you should put it in the L_C_D_ screen.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah, because uh when you touch the L_C_D_ screen when it is in standby mode, it should pop on.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah, I have,", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Okay, well.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Wh uh why would it be a a need to have a normal button?", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Well I I guess if you use the L_C_D_ screen, you first have to search where is the on button, then you uh you you then turn it, and then the T_V_ goes on. But if you have a normal on button on the on the remote, then you do the on, and then you search the channel which you want.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah, but I think the re the remote control, if you press tap the screen, it always should jump to the screen which has the volume button, channel button, and of course of also the on and off button.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Oh right.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "I think it looks a lot more fancy if you use uh if you don't have any buttons on the s on on remote control.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah, I think so too. Otherwise y wet e k Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "So actually we're going to create a a button-less uh remote. No buttons at all.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah..", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Okay, well that's might be a unique selling point, huh for a remote.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "If we can afford it..", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Okay, well I guess we have to", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Oh, okay.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah, if we can afford it. Yeah..", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "postpone further discussion to uh our next meeting, because we're running out of time. Um for now, we're having a lunch break,", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Oh.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "and then there will be uh half an hour for the uh next share of individual work. I will uh write uh minutes, if I can create them out of this. And uh put them in the the project documents uh folder.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "And here are the individual actions for the for the other roles. And of course specific instructions will be sent to you again by your uh personal coach.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Alright.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Luckily as we are. Okay, well", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "thank you very much, for now,", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "and uh have a nice lunch, huh?.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Lunch..", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Food..", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Should we put this back in our rooms, or uh?", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah, think so.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" } ] }	{ "dialogTurns": [ { "query": "In the latest functional design meeting, what decisions or discussions were left unfinished?", "response": "The meeting ended before the discussion about implementing speech recognition on the remote control was completed. 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They acknowledged that teletext is not a highly utilized feature, but they suggested implementing it as a separate menu option to satisfy the needs of those who still use it.", "responseAttribution": { "indexRanges": [ { "startIndex": 98, "endIndex": 100 }, { "startIndex": 287, "endIndex": 293 }, { "startIndex": 546, "endIndex": 550 } ] }, "queryMetadata": { "queryType": "QUERY_TYPE_GENERAL", "isUnanswerable": null, "isContextDependent": null } }, { "query": "In the meeting, were there any suggestions provided by the Industrial Designer for the design of the remote control’s subcomponents?", "response": "In the meeting, the industrial designer discussed the subcomponents of the remote control. They proposed using soft touch or touch screen buttons instead of rubber buttons to prevent damage and improve usability. 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a7e65e63146d42bea4d97ab4847877f9	{ "meetingId": "IS1004a", "transcriptSegments": [ { "text": "Okay. Good morning everybody.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Good morning.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Oh, everybody is not ready.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Uh almost.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Alright.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Ready.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Okay, let's go. So, we're here today to to have our first kick-off meeting about uh this new project we're going to tak to talk about in a few minutes. Um so I will be uh Sebastian the Project Manager. Um you are the.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "I'm uh Michael. I'm the user interface designer.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Hi I'm Guillermo. I'm the Marketing Expert.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "And I am Hemant, the industrial designer.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Okay, very good. Thanks for being here. Um so let's have a look to the the agenda. So, we are going to go through this agenda uh and mainly first to uh to make to to be used to the tools uh available in this nice and smart meeting room we have here. Um then we'll go to uh the plans for project and have general discussions about it. So, the goal of this project is to uh developed a new remote control. Um it should be original, trendy, and also user friendly. As usual we will follow the the project method um that we are using in the in our company. It is in three step as you know. First the functional design. The second's a conceptual design, and then the detailed design. During each step uh of each design we wi you will work uh s separately, individually on uh your specific tasks and will m we will meet to um to discuss and take decisions about uh what you've you've you did and what uh we will do next. So first, we have to to train ourself with all the um the tools availables in the in this nice meeting room and uh particularly the the white board so uh we are going to go through the white board and take some um s some notes or do some drawings. So who want to start? Mister.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Ah well if no one else wants to, yeah. Okay so, want me to draw my favourite animal.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Let's see. Well, I don't really have a favourite animal, but um", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "You have one in mind?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "uh I think I have one in mind, so uh I'm gonna about the uh spider because you can actually draw it pretty well in the corner of a white board. The spider has a spider lives in a web and uh it has eight legs, and uh it can move all about the web in two dimensions. Unless it's a three dimensional web which y they have sometimes. There are some spiders that live in like that have like uh kind of a a big ball of a of a web. And uh the other thing is some spiders can actually uh fly like uh they have uh they let out like uh a stream of like the web building material but it's it acts like a parachute so they can actually kind of go and find new uh build a new web somewhere else. So I think they did this in uh in Charlotte's Web that movie that little uh well it's actually a book first but uh um at the end all the the spiders kinda flew away.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "So, that's my animal.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Th thank you. Very interesting. Guillermo you want to?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "'kay I dunno why, but when I was a child I I wanted to be a a panther", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "not a pink panther,", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "But don't you think it's very difficult to draw a panther?", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "or maybe yes.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "It would be very funny for us.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Uh yeah yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "So bad I don't like it..", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Oh.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Okay it's a friendly panther.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Maybe it's happy'cause it just ate someone.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah maybe.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Um. Actually, honestly I I I dunno what's what's his it's be behaviour, I dunno if if it's the male who who hunts or it's the female uh, I I I have watched that lions di didn't hunt it's the the female lions who who hunt, so but I like it because it's fast, and it's black as well, so it can he it can hide itself very easily and it's it's it looks like um powerful, strong, uh I dunno. I I watch a a film about a black panther when I was a child and I was in that age when everything was shocking me a lot..", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Okay. Thank you.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Hemant.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Um sure.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "So you don't like pink panthers?.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "I like it.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Oh yeah. Thanks. This lapel is coming out once in a while. It's not very strong. Okay. So, not the favourite animal, but I think I'll draw elephant.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "I'll try to draw elephant. It's a problem. Okay, thanks. Okay so, elephant goes like this, and then it has four feet. I don't know whether there's any dist there should be any distance or not, but I think this is the easiest. And then we have it's trunk. And yep something like this.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "An eye, cute.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah, so.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Poor elephant.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "and sometimes they have a hump. It seems that uh elephants are pretty friendly and they they have one very important way a different way of walking. So when they walk, wherever they are going to put their first feet, the second feet will always be. When they'll come to that position the second, the third feet will be there. That's the way they walk. And that's very peculiar about them. None of the other animals walk like this. And they are very useful to human beings. At least few few hundred years ago when there was no means of transportations or something, or when they had to carry huge um loads from one place to another, elephants were very useful. And they are found in um usually the warm countries. And um they are the biggest terrestrial animal. That's what I know about them. So, that's what I wanted to tell about elephants.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "So is this uh an Indian or an African elephant,'cause you haven't drawn the ears?", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "There are two kind of uh yeah, they are very different, Indian and African elephants. So Indian elephant is having one bump, I think, and the African have two. And then there's a difference in the trunk of the animals, these elephants who are Indian and So at some for some elephants it's the trunk is having one Do we have some message there?", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yes. We have to I have to catch you,", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Wind up", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "sorry. We have to to go through the meeting.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "? Okay, some other time.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Thank you.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Thank you.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "We can discuss that off-line.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah we'll discuss a f a fly or do we'll do another meeting abo on elephants.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Thanks.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "So.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "so another important part of the project is about money, uh and about so about finances. So we should target selling price of twenty-five Euro for this remote control and uh we have um which which would generate a profit of of um fifty million Euros, okay. And we should target the inter an international market.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "So could I just ask one question, um is this a stand-alone unit that we're gonna be selling? So it's gonna be you already have a T_V_ but you're buying an extra remote control for it or something?", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "O this is the next topic we have to discuss exactly,", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Okay, alright.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "so let's go to it. So um we should decide which kind of remote control we want to uh we want to uh we want to go. Should be should should it be um specific remote control to some specific device? Should it be a universal one? And uh etcetera. So um so I'm waiting for your for your inputs very quickly because we have only three three minutes to go.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Okay well, so, it seems the the first thing that they've kinda specified is the price like based on how much profit we wanna make, which seems to a kind of a little strange if we don't know what the the product is yet, but I guess if that's if that's the requirement that we need to to design the the product to actually fit that that price bracket so, I guess we're gonna need to find out what's actually you know, what people ar are willing to pay for um what kind of product they're expecting for twenty-five Euro", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "because it seems quite a lot for a remote control,", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Okay I think this is more a job to our", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "so it's.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "market person yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Marketing person.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "So it should be the topic of maybe of the next meeting just to to have an overview of this and uh in which direction we should go.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "So we need to close the meeting. Uh we'll have a new meeting soon and uh so the work every every of you ha have t d to do. So um you have to work on the on the working design, you have to uh work on the technical functions, and uh you have to work on us user requirements specs, alright?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Um you will receive some information by emails, i as usual. Thanks for coming today.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Thanks.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Thanks.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Alright.", "speakerName": "User Interface" } ] }	{ "dialogTurns": [ { "query": "What unresolved questions or issues were left at the end of the meeting?", "response": "There is a question about what type of remote control the team should design: specific to a device, or universal.", "responseAttribution": { "indexRanges": [ { "startIndex": 60, "endIndex": 60 } ] }, "queryMetadata": { "queryType": "QUERY_TYPE_GENERAL", "isUnanswerable": null, "isContextDependent": null } }, { "query": "What was decided regarding the price of the remote control?", "response": "The participants decided the selling price of the remote control should be twenty-five Euros targeting a profit of fifty million Euros.", "responseAttribution": { "indexRanges": [ { "startIndex": 56, "endIndex": 56 } ] }, "queryMetadata": { "queryType": "QUERY_TYPE_SPECIFIC", "isUnanswerable": null, "isContextDependent": null } }, { "query": "Did the marketing expert discuss what consumers typically pay for remote controls in the twenty-five Euro price range at the meeting today?", "response": "No, the marketing expert did not discuss what consumers typically pay for remote controls in the twenty-five Euro price range.", "responseAttribution": null, "queryMetadata": { "queryType": "QUERY_TYPE_YES_NO", "isUnanswerable": true, "isContextDependent": null } }, { "query": "What did they decide should be the next step in the process after the conclusion of the meeting?", "response": "The participants decided that the next step should be to discuss which kind of remote control they want to design: specific to a device, or universal.", "responseAttribution": { "indexRanges": [ { "startIndex": 60, "endIndex": 60 } ] }, "queryMetadata": { "queryType": "QUERY_TYPE_GENERAL", "isUnanswerable": null, "isContextDependent": null } }, { "query": "What was their conclusion on whether the twenty-five Euro price point was realistic?", "response": "The participants did not come to a conclusion in the meeting whether the twenty-five Euro price point was realistic or not. 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a9e6054fac8a4dcfa08126258376e7b0	{ "meetingId": "IS1005b", "transcriptSegments": [ { "text": "So um nice to see you again. Uh. So, uh. Tod uh for this meeting I will take the notes and do the minutes. Uh so we will see our three presentations. Um we will start with the uh Manager Expert wi who will talk about uh user re requirements, whats user needs and what it desire for this devi device.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Okay, can I have the laptop over here, or?", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yep. Oh, I don't think so. I think you have to come here.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Okay. Have to get up..", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "I dunno. I think it should stay.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Excuse me.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah, that's it.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Should stay in the square here..", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Oh, maybe.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Okay, so basically I'm gonna present some findings of a study we conducted uh into uh what users want in this remote control.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Oh, you can put it here. Oh that's okay, it's jus", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Um so first of all we what we did is we um conducted a an experiment with a hundred test subjects. Um we put them in a in our um usability laboratory and got them to, you know, um play with remote controls, and also to complete, after they'd done that, to complete a questionnaire uh to tell us what they like and what they don't like in remote controls. So basically um the major things we found out was that um basically users don't like the look and feel of of most remote controls that are currently on the market. Um they, you know, seventy five percent of the people we we uh did the experiments on, found that rem remote the remote controls that they'd used in the past were ugly. Completely ugly. Um they they didn't match the operating behaviour of the user, that is, you know, the the way users use remote controls when they're watching T_V_. Um, that the layout of the remote controls didn't match they way that they used it. Um and thirdly they say that w half of the users that we um tested said that they only used ten percent of the buttons that uh are on remote controls. Um so we collect we also some collected some usage statistics uh based on how these test subjects were using their remote control. And from this we basically came up with the figure that the channel buttons, the channel selection buttons are the most by far the most used buttons on the remote control. Um and you can see they're used a hundred and sixty eight times per hour on average, um, while the user's watching T_V_.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Um the closest button that was used, well the cl the button that was used that was closest to the channel button was the teletext button, um which was used fourteen times per hour, followed by the volume button, which was four times per hour, um, all the other, all the other um buttons, such as ch um audio and picture selection um configuration buttons and things were used, you know, l approx well less than or equal to one times per hour. Um we also asked users um which buttons had the most importance to them, you know, which which buttons they felt were the most important buttons on on the remote control. And basically they came they said the channel, volume, and power buttons had the highest relevance to users, um note that only power was very infrequently used, it only had a b a a fr usage frequency of about one times per hour, but users ranked it as having a very very high relevance. Um and the audio and picture settings had a very that well the users thought that um w the audio and picture settings were very uh weren't very important to them um, and they used them very infrequently a as well. So we asked users what what um frustrates them the most about um current remote controls. And fifty percent of the users said that uh what frustrates them is losing the remote control um somewhere in the room and not being able to find it. Um they also said that it um it takes a lot of time to learn a new remote control, especially when there's many buttons and it's a, you know, a c a a unintuitive interface. Um and then thirdly, they some users commented on the fact that the the you know the way that you have to hold and press buttons on a remote control ar are bad and um cause u repetitive strain injury. We also asked some users about some specific features that they'd like to see in the on the remote control. In particular, do they want an L_C_D_ d display, and secondly, do they think speech recognition uh is a useful feature to have on a remote control.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Um basically our findings are that um amongst a younger age groups uh the answer is umv overwhelmingly yes. They want these features, they want these high technology features.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Um for instance, ninety one percent of pe of people aged between fifteen and twenty five said yes, they want these features. Whereas um the the trend was as users as users um became older and older uh they were less likely to want these sort of features in a um in a remote control. So I guess it depends on where we're focusing our our market. Um and as our company motto is putting fashion in electronics, um I think we're focusing on the younger younger um target demographic, and so maybe we should think about adding these sort of high technology features into our remote control.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Hmm.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "That's my dic that's my presentation. Thank you.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Thank you.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "So, um maybe now we can talk about a user interface and uh about the technical function of this device. So uh Pet Peter, can you talk say something about that?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Well, okay, yeah. Yeah, but the user user interface is responsible.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "No.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "B you think uh I I'm User Interface Manager.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Ah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Okay, so.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Sorry, I'm Sorry. Sorry.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Okay. Okay.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "If I could go there with this cable.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "You're scaring me with L_C_D_ man. And speech recognition in remote unit, it will be very e expensive.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah, it's true, but, you know, they're features that users want,", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "so it's.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "And our production cost of twelve fifty Euros per per unit is fairly high I think,", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "so I think we can afford to to add these sort of features into our remote.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "At least we have couple of months t to work on it so so it will be cheaper finally..", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Sh okay..", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "It is true.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Where's delete button? Okay. Oh I'm sorry..", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "That's the wrong one, I think.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah, it's still Bob Morris.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Oh. Presentation three?", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah you should have put yes.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Because you cancelled it. Yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Click on yes.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Oh..", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yep.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Okay, so here is my presentation about technical function design. I will talk about different components and s of system and how they react together. Okay, uh, first what is a remote control? Simply it's a device, as you know, for uh, for sending some commands by some waves to uh another device to to tell different commands uh with this device. And the main idea we don't use any cable and we can rec react simpler with the device. Uh i it has different blocks, different blocks. Uh first is remote control have sh ha should have some electric circuits uh making interface with uh keyboard and uh r reading uh keyboard and reading the keyboard uh commands. And then inter then make uh these keyboard commands, uh in interpret these int uh keyboard commands. And then there should be uh an electronic circuit making uh electronic signals according to these commands and uh finally there is a transmitter which is a cord or a a diode making uh making uh waves to transmit through the air and uh uh this air this uh wave uh will be received by the by the other device like a television or whatever, to uh r to realise the command. Okay, uh about what I found about uh different uh these different blocks are uh, usually there are two different methods uh to for designing a remote control. They are based on infra-red uh waves or uh uh radio waves.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "You still want me the presentation.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "There are two different uh uh solutions I mean. This is uh this can be uh uh the the differences the th between different kind of waves, infra-red or radio waves. And uh also as uh I understood, and uh I think it was a part of uh Bob, uh uh presentation, people prefer to have uh to have uh the remote control with less button. So for the electronic part, working and interfacing, with button, we should we should try to t try to design a remote control having uh some some simpler buttons or some rolling buttons to just to just to search between different options, and showing o something on T_V_ and putting less lesser stuff on the uh on the remote control. And uh personal preferences, uh uh uh uh certainly a remote control with uh working with radio waves is uh preferred because uh you can pr you can take it in any direction and you don't need to tune it any way. And uh uh again, using bigger buttons and less number of buttons are also preferred, as I see. Okay. That was my presentation.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Okay. I have a question.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Uh-huh.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Do you think radio waves um will interfere with other appliances in the home?", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Uh, I don't think so, because uh we can make uh we ca we can make this wave in a specific frequency. So they can be in a range which is not inter interfering with the with other devices inside the home.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "So can we use any any frequency?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah, it should be okay.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "We have the right to use any frequency?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Uh no but as I know, there is a range for uh for this uh f for for uh for this stuff, for designing this circuit. We can we can we can tune our uh transmitter to work in this range, and for this range we don't need to ask any permission.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Okay. And what happen with uh radio waves when two neighbours have the same have our remote control, for example? And so do they have the same frequency, or?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Uh for this I'm not uh I I don't know the solution, but one solution can be something like putting uh p password or something inside the wave, so the only your T_V_ can understand it", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Okay. A kind of identification,", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah, identification code inside the.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah f uh I know about this, since it's my it's exactly my field, so.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "okay. So.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "It's uh kind of handshaking, uh, when starting to uh when you start to communicate with the your T_V_ then then it's like an handshaking protocol with your your remote.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah. So.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "So so if two two devices are trying to go to communicate with the T_V_ set then the the the one which has the more energy in the wave is chosen. Well it can be a problem sometimes, but most of the time it works okay.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "The password may simply uh or uh i identification code may simply solve this problem. A specific uh remote control has a specific f", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah but we we don't have to think uh about this because I think as a function designer that we will use the already made uh circuits which we probably bu buy. It's worth to buy.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Hmm.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "And they have these problems solved so. So we don't have to think about these.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "So, maybe you can talk about the function, and.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yes. I have only a couple of things because I had I struggled a bit with the software that I'm supposed to use in this uh uh in this company. I was used to use Linux before, so. But I tried to tried to break through this too, I guess.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Open.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm. Ah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Okay. How to make it big?", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Slide show.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Five..", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Slide show. Okay, thanks..", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "It should work, so you can.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Okay. Oh so I will speak about working design. That's the first slide. Uh what uh I have to do? A look at what the other company Okay so uh presently I am looking what is possible to use, what circuits to use and stuff like that because uh I didn't work uh with these uh circuits so far so I have to look what what is a v a v available on the market for for the communication for the I_R_ circuits and so on, so I'm currently looking what is available on the web. And uh I wanted to ask you m maybe afterwards, after after our discussion, if we have some contacts in some companies, so, which can report on what is going on there, so, I would be glad if you can tell me about them.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Mm. Yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "So, you know. Uh, okay findings, that's the point that I'm working on currently but uh so far I I was uh looking what what are the blue circuit, I mean radio wave radio frequency circuits are available now,", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "but the prices I read are high. So, I know that uh the user interface people and these speak about radio frequency waves because you can you can uh you can make the T_V_ do what you want even if you are in the bathroom or so on,", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Hmm.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "but you know, when you are not close to the T_V_ you probably won't need to to change the program and so on and so I am I am voting for s to stick to the um infra-red control instead of R_W_ but we will discuss it later maybe. Uh. Components to use, I'm not exactly sure what I will use for the design of the circuit. It depends uh on whether we will use the L_C_D_ and mainly the speech recognition,", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "because the speech rec Yeah?", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Are we um are we planning to take an off the shelf an O_E_M_ component for the radio wave circuit, or are we planning to construct our own circuit board?", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "No no no no no. This we this we buy I think, because it's rather cheap nowadays and it's not worth to construct ourselves.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Okay s So we just buy a circuit board and.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Exactly.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "But I'm not sure about the circuit which is responsible for speech recognition. This I prefer that we should make ourselves.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "But it depends whether we take a decision to use it. Same thing. It's fairly expensive to use these circuits. So, speech recognition well, L_C_D_ it's okay because it's common nowadays to use L_C_D_,", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "so I agree on using any kind of L_C_D_, less buttons good for me as a as a designer of the circuit.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "But the speech recognition we have to compare whether the price and the what does it offer, you know.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah. So what do you think would be the price, it would be out of range?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah, I'm.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Or it would be maybe feasible?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Oh. I was not thinking too much about the price. But if we use the L_C_D_ uh even the radio frequency communication with the T_V_ set and the backlight and uh related things like the photo diodes and stuff, it should be okay. If we decide to use the speech recognition, then we probably could struggle but we'll see afterwards.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "It depends of you if if the M_E_ or U_I_D_,", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "I'm sorry about the names, I don't really know, uh want to have it like in metal or in plastic, these things, it it depends on you not Because the the the electronic device's price is not not so big in comparison to to the overall shape and stuff like that, so.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "We will discuss it afterwards. Oh, this is nothing. This is just my notes on what to use. And uh my personal preference is yes, I would like also preferably to use R_W_ circuit, but from the point of view uh of the design and price, I would stick to I_R_s. That's my opinion. Uh I mean if infra-red uh circuit not not the radio frequency.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Why? Because it's simpler?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Because because the the range where you can use it is fair.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah. Mm.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "It's okay I think. And the price is fairly cheap for this.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Okay. It's a a price matter.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Well, depends.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Jus just the price.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Otherwise I don't care what I put there because it's the chip which I buy or which we buy.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "So I I I think it's o y o.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "What how much more expensive? Are we talking three times more expensive?", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Well, three to three to five.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Or ten times more expensive? Or.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "N not ten times,", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "but it depends what what we.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah yeah. That's still a lot. I think it's it's probably not worth spending the extra money,", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Hmm. Yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "because I mean all the other remote controls on the market have infra-red, so people don't expect anything other than infra-red.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "So it's not worth spending the extra money.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Well I, oh.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Th they are used to use it when they can see the T_V_ so, I don't know.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "On the other side, we want to have something new.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "You know, where", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "we want to to have something new and So we I think we should still thinking about it. But maybe.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "But I think, based on my usability studies I th I feel that users are prioritise the look and the feel and the trendiness above, you know, the difference between infra-red or radio waves.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "So I think we're better off spending money in the usability phase.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "You the user interface, and management man, uh.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Okay. Yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Uh okay, that's it for me.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Okay, thank you Peter.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "'Kay.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "So um I have to inform you I receive an email from the management bon board today and they have new requirements for the for the remote control. Um", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "first um, they say that's uh about something about t teletext. Uh apparently it becomes from according to them it becomes out of date. Out-dated. And uh Because of the internet popularity and everybody has internet at home, and actually it's not useful to have teletext. Um. So I think we can avoid the teletext. Um the second thing is uh they suggest that that we should uh use the remote control only for T_V_, not for D_V_D_ and other devices, because it make it it makes it's too complex and uh because we have not much time for this project we should stay on T_V_ on the only specific T_V_ remote control.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "I agree..", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "The third the third one is uh about the the the image of the company. So um uh we should we should keep uh The the product should be recognisable. Uh, uh It's That mean we should use the colour of our company and maybe put somewhere the s the slogan of the company, which is uh, we put fashion of in electronics. So, when people see the the remote control, they should say oh it's from Real Reaction and he s they should recognise the company. So, um So now we we should take the decision what we are going to what function we will have on this uh on this remote control. So, mm, are we going to use L_C_D_, speech recognition? Uh.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Well, should we start with just the core, the basic functions that we need.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "And then we can move on to the more advanced features.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Mm. Yes.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Maybe, maybe.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Okay, so the available things are L_C_D_, the buttons and everything. Uh radio frequency depends. And, well the recognition it depends on you guys.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah but first maybe what is what are the usual function of a standard remote control?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "You should probably speak.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "I mean", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "what do.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Okay, well, I mean the obvious one is changing channels..", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah. Yeah..", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah..", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "I think we should stick on very useful functions, because we want less button.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "So, yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah, okay.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "So, turning channel, of course. Volume setting.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Uh just one note to the chan channel changing. Do we will we use only two buttons, or or like numbered buttons? I mean those nine plus one or two?", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "I think it would be a b.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Because it's many buttons and we were speaking about lowering the number.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm..", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "On the other side we have more and more channels, and if you want to pass through all the channels to get the channel you want, it's.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah, I.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Okay so so we keep all these all these buttons.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Maybe maybe we could think of something more betweens, like", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah yeah, at least nine, ten button.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "uh.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Like ten plus, five plus, one plus, one minus or something.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah. Maybe something like that.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Or using the names and the keyboard.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Ah yeah..", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Uh.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "I dunno.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Or.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Maybe.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Or something.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Oh I don't know. Oh. Maybe we could have key buttons, like uh discovery channe like documentary channel, and movies channel and.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "You mean like hierarchical structure.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "And inside this this thing you can move, maybe switch.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm. Okay. Like categorising channels.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "If you want to see a movie you click on the movie button so you have all the movie channels and after you've you plus plus plus.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Okay, so s", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Oh sorry.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "I It just an idea.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "I don't know what you think about that but.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "So it requires the use of L_C_D_ probably, to to tell you.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah, probably, yeah, yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "To have some feedback. Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Okay,", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "so I'll make a note on L_C_D_.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "We could maybe also c um incorporate Petre's idea of the um slider for the volume, with the channel.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "So we c you could quickly just through many channels.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah. Like roller for the Yeah. Okay.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "For the channels, perhaps.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Anything else?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "So we've got channel and volume. Um.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "So we are still s speaking about the common devices", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "or we are inviting the new one?", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "I think so.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "I think basically the core functions we want, and then more advanced ones.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "What about the settings of the T_V_? Because it's button we don't use very often, but it's we need it anyway. So.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "So uh we don't have any uh we don't have uh.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "we should just design the remote control and we sh we don't have any access to the to the T_V_ design or we can change some design. Because one solution for this um uh uh ch changing channels is to see a summary of all channels, some some preview of all channels and then you can.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "On the screen, you mean?", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah. Yeah b.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Not on the control, but on the screen.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Not on the control, on the screen, on the T_V_ screen.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Well, this would avoid L_C_D_, then.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "And then.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "I don't Oh, I don't but I don't think we're we're the ones. I mean this remote control we're developing is a generic control for all T_V_s, I think.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah, yeah. I don't know if it's possible to to watch something on T_V_.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Oh. W I I think it it would be better to to stick to the remote control and not to bother the T_V_ to to to print these things.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah. Yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Well it wi it will be still more expensive, but for the L_C_D_ and this stuff is no problem in the price.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "So, what are we doing with the settings? Because settings if we want to do settings we need buttons for that and we want less buttons, so. Maybe with the L_C_D_ we can do something with less buttons, but.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "But then you don't want to make the L_C_D_ display too complicated at the same time.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Mm..", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Two T_V_s.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "I mean there's always we can always have these l less often used functions hidden somewhere, under a cover or at the back of under a slide or some", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah. Oh yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Like ma", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Oh, the.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "We we could have for example two buttons like simple mode and advanced mode.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Or I dunno.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Or like children and grandfather's mode,", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "and the, well the the user", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "not the user, the man mana T_V_ manager mode. Ah, I dunno.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Okay. So we have five minutes left. Um.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Uh.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "So I think s the settings we th we are agreeing are agreed that they're required.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "It's just how to a", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "We should hide them somewhere.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Hide them, okay.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "In the menus of the L_C_D_ or in the back of the remote control, or something like that.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah. Okay. Yeah. Uh, okay, what else?", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Um. Yes.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "I mean a power button's obviously", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "This I was thinking. Do we need a power button at all?", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "uh required.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Should should shouldn't we do it like sleep mode after five minutes of not using it? Because generally.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "It's it's a kind of setting, I think. It should fit in those settings functions.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm. Settings.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Because it's not a very current useful function.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Uh, well I think when they say power button they mean to turn the T_V_ on and off.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "No, I think it's after after five minutes or something a timer.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yes. Well I I uh", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "I I think, no?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "But if you're watching T_V_ for two hours, you don't want your T_V_ to turn off after five five minute.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "You don't need to every five minutes to keep it alive.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Uh probably. Okay, so we should keep this button.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "I mean based on our usability studies again, um pe um people said that the power button was v a very relevant button.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Oh okay, yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Um, you know, it was nine out of ten", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Okay, so we we could p what we could probably do is to keep also to keep uh keep the L_C_D_ and all the buttons and stuff,", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "re relevance.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "we could make it like a opening opening style that if you open it you are you just turn on the T_V_ and if you close it, it will", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah. Yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "turn off the T_V_.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "If if you like this,.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Okay. B Okay.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Because, well it's maybe question for you t", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "I think we need to concentrate on the, you know, the major usage of the th of the control,", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "which is you sit down, you turn on your T_V_, you change channels, you change the volume, you turn the T_V_ off.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah. So s yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Um and all the other f functionality is", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah, they can yeah they can be hide somewhere by a cover or something like this.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "not used very often.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Like covering cu.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "On the back, or.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah. I mean like the.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah, like mobile phone covering.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah but since we have the L_C_D_, we didn't need too much button too many buttons. Um, okay, just um the decision of the power button.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Should we make it a button, or some some something which would be.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "For what?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Uh power button.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "I think a button.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "A button is better.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Ah oh yeah, yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "I think it should be a bu", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "If it if it's a button or.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah a button, yeah I guess so.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Its own button on the front.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Okay, one nice big button.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Old fashioned button, to satisfy the grandmothers.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Hmm.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "So, any other suggestions or functions?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "S What about things like the clock and um timers?", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Do we still have the time? I I just wonder.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah, we have still one or two minutes to talk, yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Okay. Oh. Well what w what was the question?", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Clock or.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Uh um, you know, some func some features on the control to display a time, or t to display.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Usually it's already on T_V_ or something like that.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yes.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah but since we want to control all the televisions, and and it would probably be worth to to set the timing on the remote,", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "no? Because if if the T_V_ turns on itself, it well you know, if the time The timer should be there.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah. Yeah. If we if we add the time, we have to have maybe a bigger display or something like that, and is it very useful? I mean, are users wants to have the time on the on the remote?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "This is the question.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Probably not.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Is it useful?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yes.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "It's a questi yeah, it's a trade-off.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "W In my opinion we should have only useful thing and Because apparently they want The simpler it's is better.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "'Kay.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Ah, yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Okay simple.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Did you did you ever use the like the timing of turning on the T_V_,", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "well And based on your.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Very, yeah okay, very occasionally.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "But I do use the I do use the display of the time quite often, but.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah but it can be on the display in in a corner all the time on the remote.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah that's okay, that's true. Okay, so no time button. Okay.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "No time on.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "And uh do we need to include anything about the speech recognition and the speech commands, or?", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yes yes.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "I think.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "I I thin I think it will not take lots of place, we just need a microphone and the software, so, and it sh and it will be a little bit new and interesting, so people may be attracted to buy this stuff and it's not very difficult to uh put a software inside the the electronic device and put a microphone. It doesn't take that much place and also that much It doesn't cost that much.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah but we we should be careful about the battery life, then. If we use the speech recognition.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "So maybe we think we can think more about that, and discuss that maybe last time next time.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "And uh yeah, now the meeting room is busy. Somebody booked the meeting room just for at one P_M_, and so we should leave. Uh. So, um. So now we are going for for a small lunch. It's uh funded by the company. And uh after we have uh thirteen minutes to to do indevel individual works. And uh I will do the minutes. And uh you are going to work on your individual works. And uh you will receive as usual your specific instruction and so on.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Okay,", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Thank you everybody.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "cool. 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aa8e7728940343df857d82ae5ce96082	{ "meetingId": "IS1002d", "transcriptSegments": [ { "text": "Uh'kay. So.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "So so so.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Put on your mic.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "So you forgot how this works again?", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Boss.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yep.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Boss.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Maybe. Maybe maybe maybe.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Okay so we're here to talk about the detailed design of the product,'kay?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yep.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "And here's the agenda for this meeting. Uh I'm just gonna open, say a few boring words to start with again, and start taking minutes afterwards. You guys are gonna give us a presentation of our wonder product that I can see some demonstrations of over there. Looks cool. And then we're gonna evaluate it.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Bra", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Then we're gonna talk about finance, and I've got a lovely Excel spreadsheet that I knocked up in the last five minutes for this. And uh", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Hmm you knocked it up?", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "yep. And we're gonna evaluate the product and close.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Got forty minutes to do this in. We should be fine. Let's try and keep this one on schedule.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Alright.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "So.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Your thing is in where is it? Is it in.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Three, three.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Thi third third third. The end product thingy. Yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Who wants it?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Pedro can have it.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "I like.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": ".", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "I'll help talk.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Um yeah so what we ended up with. Production costs estimated by our manufacturing department and um the research department, which is us, is uh fifteen point eight Euros,", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "someone forgot the units there", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Unit price.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "yeah, uh unit price unit production price cost thing. Um we implemented the basic functions, which is just T_V_ functions plus the locator, which was one of the marketing things, cradle, scroll wheel for uh the the channels, and uh we implemented the f the the way of putting the new and revolutionary zapping, your favourite channels functionality, in the scroll.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Zapping your favourite channels, eh?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Scrolling through your favourites list.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Oh okay okay.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Zapping you know zapping.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Ah'kay okay, that's favourites.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Maybe it's just a Portuguese thing. And um yeah that was the result.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Ah'kay. I like the the the the logo on there as well.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "It's very prominent.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "It is very prominent. So this is the.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "So here I'll give you the so this is the cradle unit, and this is the actual remote itself. Um so the scroll bar is or the scroll wheel is this this green little scrolly guy here, um and then the volume controls are here and here.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Uh you've got the keypad which is the numbers uh f from zero to nine and then ten. This is the power button. Uh we have our um we have the enter button and uh what was the other button here? This is the teletext.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Start s the the start uh to to to", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "The programme button,", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "programme yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Ah, okay I see.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "yeah the programme button. So this bl this button will be used both for the favourites and for programming your uh the um the type of television you wanna use. So um the plastic is the white area of this of the model here, and the red area is like a rubber covering.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "It's pretty cool.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "So you can see that when it lays like this or like this and the buttons are all gonna be rubber, so it's pretty hard to actually damage it um.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Is that could that be easy to for the scroll wheel to be rotated if it lands on it?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah that might be a possible a mi uh possible problem, but if you drop it.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Not helping.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Oh well I guess it depends on the stiffness a little of it.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah and it depends on if it's sliding, but I think it's pretty ergonomic. You can feel it.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Mm. Feels good.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "I take it that this is gonna be slightly lighter in the final design as well.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah of course. Well this is clay.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah it's kinda cool. You have to reach a little bit don't you.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah the the power button is a bit of a reach, but I think we might scale down the final model a bit.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Ah yeah that wouldn't make sense.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "These this is a bit larger than it would be, but.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "It's cool. I'm impressed.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Don't have no one to handle that.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "And hold it so.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm that's.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "wh what's the marketing perspective?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "oh that's oh I like it. I mean you guys gave me more than I was asking for, so I'm happy because we've got some really marketable features in this. Yeah I think it's good. Good good good job.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Mm Pedro can demonstrate the the paging ability.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah. So you ha you have like the the base station with um the little button for the where's my remote.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Beep beep beep.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Uh pla", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "The locator function.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "I'm ha", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "It's great. That's great. It's a great feature.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Um beep beep beep.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Mm it's impressing.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Wicked isn't it?.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "So let me get it,", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "so.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "if I press this button.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "beep beep beep.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "I see. That's pretty cool. Hang on..", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "beep beep beep be shut up..", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "So you can take this ho take this home with you tonight and you can push that and he'll be across town.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Beep beep beep.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "I plan to do that as well.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "okay. Um no no no tha that's alri", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "So the the two blue are are those for the the it to charge off of in?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Exactly that's exactly what those are for.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Ah okay okay.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "And um there's one other feature that we were debating, but we decided to go against it, is um you could", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "beep beep beep.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "we were thinking that it might be interesting to have a trigger button here because you have this finger.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah it's the right shape isn't it?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "it it's it kinda feels like there should be something there, but we couldn't figure out what button is important enough to put there. And we we don't wanna accidentally be hitting the power button like that so.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "But maybe if you had a trigger plus the scroll then that would get past the the problem of it landing and scrolling,", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "'cause then it would need to be hit on both sides.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Right. So maybe in a final design phase we might tweak that a little bit,", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "but.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Uh, I can see that.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "But it's definitely got options for like different types of models and things as well based on that, hasn't it?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yep I like. Good job.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "So is that the the final colour scheme as well or?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "No no.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Oh no this is just what we had to work with at the time.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "So we'll leave the colour scheme up to the marketing people.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "The hmm.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Careful.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "It came off. The scroll wheels, a problem with them not being sort of.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "I don't think the user interface guy wants to touch it anymore.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Well I mean of course, I mean.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "My my s my suggestion is we're gonna go go to the silvers and blacks like most of the televisions.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "You know some blend of silvers and blacks.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Beep beep beep..", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Okay enough of that.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Well i it's cool guys.'Kay so are we done with the this presentation?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Ja.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Okay..", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Now now.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "So you're not gonna find my uh my folder up there I gotta do mine up at the board.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Have you? Okay.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah yeah. So.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Can I not get your get at stuff from your shared folder now?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "No it's not in there because I had the computer problem and I I I cou I couldn't create it.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Oh I see I see.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "I couldn't create it in the PowerPoint,", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "and I think I've got this really strange cable. So what I had, basically going from the PowerPoint format, is that uh yeah yeah I like this a lot. Is this one of the tests is to see how we can adapt to s changing situations in the in the meeting room?", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Nah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "So what we had is we had the method. That's not how you spell method, is it?", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "No way.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "No A_.. So this doesn't go so fast this way. And when I speak about method I speak about the marketing of the product huh. And uh to me with this product we got uh we got basically three things to market. We've got the features, we have the uh characteristics, and we have the I I don't know what we would call the other part what we call you know the the the corp corporate Help me. The the corporation stands behind the product, okay. So the features I think we got the scroll, we've got the uh the locator, we've got the durability, we've got the dependability,", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "It fell off.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "we've got you know the features that make this a unique product. Um", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Beep beep beep.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "the characteristics I talk about, we have reliability, we have comfort, we have ergonomics, we have environmentally s sensitive. Uh and the corporation, we're talking about we're we're a new we're a new company. We're wanting to make a name for ourself. We're wanting you to uh find our product so we're gonna give you a good product at a fair price. One thing I would want to to see is uh is can we can we get a lifetime uh guarantee on this product, a normal use guarantee, which means that this product, for the for the life of of the life use, if it should have a technical problem, that we could re replace it at no cost? That was something I would be interested in. Um so yeah without uh going into great details, we have a we have a product, it has the features and the characteristics, and the background, I believe, to make it marketable I believe at a cost of of of thirty thirty five to to fifty Euros. We're gonna be competitive, and we're gonna we're gonna have a market niche. Um w", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Do you would you a argue that that we're better going for the higher cost than bringing it down into twenty f five as we probably could, but lowering our profit margins?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "That that would be uh that would be I think a decision best made by corporate um I I m for my evaluation, based on what our competition is, I th I think that that we can go after this and and and go after more of the uh exclusivity sense than the mass market sense.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm. Mm'kay.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "But I'm sh I'm sure open to to market this in either direction. But you guys came up with a great product, and at that cost I think it uh there's nobody else that's putting this this combination of of ingredients together. The only limitations I see to this is that we're focused on television only. Uh that's the only that's the only drawback I see to this. But with all of these other features I think people c one thing I'm I'm hoping for is people are not gonna even notice. There's gonna be somebody going home and say oh sh this thing doesn't work for my D_V_D_ and my but I like these other things, so they keep it, they don't take it back.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "And we're actually quite open to be able to expand the product for a later version with those features quite simply anyway, aren't we? Th there's no fundamentally different technology to do that.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Well one of one of the thoughts that I had is can can this unit be be produced in a way that makes it upgradable?", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Hmm.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "You know uh like like a um a sim card in a in a um in a telephone. You know is there a card in th can we make a card and so after.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "W we need we need we need s some more buttons if it would to work on some other stuff, but.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm, but you follow what I'm s I'm s", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "We we w yeah we could get another version of it that actually works. But uh.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah'cause if if we can make this unit upgradable then we're yeah but then we talk about changing the warranty concept and everything, but that's that was just an idea I had. Uh to me the only additions.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah, the plus there's the the risk of making it unusable as well, or making it less b because at the moment it's actually very straightforward to look at all the buttons, you know what they do, it's very simple, and it just works.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Mm there's a risk of that.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yep. But anyway that's uh.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Okay so we can talk about finance now. So I have a little spreadsheet for us where I I was wondering, you when you talked about the fifteen point eight Euros, I was wondering how you came up with that figure?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Well, that was just just our technical team added up the um production costs of the individual units.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Okay so I have bit of a spreadsheet here for this. Now", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Oh.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Very co very colf colourful.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "I've made a f few assumptions here in that I'm assuming that our power adaptor we can make for a cost of four Euros,", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Uh-huh.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "equivalent to solar cells, which I think is probably fair considering that we have in-house manufacturing of power adaptors already.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Uh-huh.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Uh and I'm assuming that the locator beacon, the you know the.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "beep beep beep.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Can be made for it sounded different that time uh can be made for a similar price to uh an L_C_ display,", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Oh, sorry..", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "uh an uh Uh do you think that's fair coming from a m the manufacturing?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah um I do think we that we we uh don't need the events chip on print, we only need the uh the regular chip on print,", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": ". Okay.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "so there may have been a m miscalculation in there.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yep. Okay. So we're down to sixteen point four, yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "And we and we have a single-curved uh.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Is that a single-curved rather than a double-curved?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Uh I think that.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "We're not entirely sure what single-curve versus double-cur", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "We've got a we've got a curve and a droop. I don't know whether that.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "It's single-curved,", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "You think? Okay", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "I'm convinced. But we save one Euro that way, yeah? So we come bring it down to Fifteen point four.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "See it's a little bit more than f single-curved. So yeah it's fifteen point eight, that's where we came up with it.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Well hang on.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Do don't speak so it's in here, in that.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "w do we have any we have special form don't we?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah we do.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "So that's yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Ah. What do you know.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "But the the the we haven't talked about any special colour though uh I don't th", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Oh it's a that's not very special, it's pretty.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "if we're going for greys and silvers then I don't think we're O okay so we're.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "If th.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Push-button, scroll wheel, we're basically we have uh th", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "We don't.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "is this intended to be a button as well or just a scroll?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "That's a scroll.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "It's a scroll.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Just a scroll? It's not one of the scrolls where, for example, with this one you could push it down to be a button?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Uh no we just use it as a scroll.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Ooh.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Okay then we have fifteen point eight Euros.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "It was a pretty accurate estimate I would say.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "It wasn't bad.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yes.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "We're wicked. Awesome.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Okay so we're on to the.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "S's kind of s frighteningly accurate.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "We're on to the pat-on-the-back part of the presentation, where we have a look at the criterias th that Paul the criterion criteria that Paul has has given us, and we can use that to tell How's it going? Anyone got any thoughts?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "What?", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "How how have we done today?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "I think we did pretty well.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "I think we did pretty well too.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "That looks pretty spectacular.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "No, I think we come up with a with a attractive marketable um product and and concept.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Any other chang uh thoughts? Okay so th th what about um room for creativity?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Is it the.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "That was mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Sh I think there was plenty of room.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "I.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "I think we we ended up being quite creative there.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "We got a couple innovative i", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Couple innovative ideas.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "well we we we kinda broke we kinda at least adjusted every every criteria they gave us", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "because we d we still have the the teletext capability in this thing right,", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "No.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "we raised the price of it, we've added two t new technology to it.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "So you know you know if this thing flies then we've we've adjusted or broken every every idea they gave us.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Not every idea necessarily,", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Basically.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "it's still a remote control.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah yeah yeah yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Uh no yeah but we did we did break with the specs a little bit I guess,", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "but the uh.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "But I like I mean when I say we have we had I believe we have room for creativity'cause w this is we did it.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "'Kay leadership, what do we report back to the bosses? No th th I think they were r reasonably flexible with us over the whole changing the specs thing.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yep.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "It was more of a teamwork thing then really leadership based project was", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "I agree.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Teamwork.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Cohesive yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Synergy.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "There was a lot of synergy.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yes synergistic yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Teamwork, yeah he is uh.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "What did we think of the meeting room, I guess is an important thing here. Mm.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "These cables suck.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah, this falls off", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "and uh the white board worked really well without any pro", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yep.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "And that's.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "D you must have very long shirts. That's way far down lapel mic.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Mm-mm, lapel. Wha okay, oh, alright.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Lapel lapel lapel.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Lapel.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "That's almost a crotch mi cr.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "That's it's down, it's quite close.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "You know you know what they're gonna have on the recording in there from that microphone is your lunch digesting you know th.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Keep it, keep it calm. Oh dear. No more pizza for me.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Oh dear oh dear.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "So yeah the the pen came in alright and it's a little uncomfortable to use but I guess it works.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "'Cause this is you were using it o upside down. Still that.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "That's our boss.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Nah, I'm I'm not convinced of that at all.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "I've been wor I've been wondering about that all day, but see these look like they're that looks the oth that looks like it would be that way around,", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Use them like that.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Pedro's right.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "but it feels more comfortable, wh what you call upside-down.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Pedro's right.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "I don't care. Uh okay so that data might be slightly invalid. What new ideas have we found?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Oh wel", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "New ideas f uh for the product or for the the the the environment or.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Well let's do both then.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "what are we ta", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Uh for the product?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Well we had the favourites list, and the scroll bar, and we have the cradle, and the r uh remote call feature.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Oh.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah we came up with quite a bit.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Bunch of new ideas.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "And for the meeting room, Has anyone got any more.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah comfortable headsets would be nice.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah less sore on the ears.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Well I I mean.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "clearly remote control microphones would be the would be a nice solution to all these cables, but I'm sure that there's there's some justification for these things that I don't know about. And of course I did not have so much fun with my computer this afternoon.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "It's not been uh it's not been cooperating so well, but I don't think that's the that's avoidable.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Coulda been worse.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Okay so Are the costs within the budget?.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm n no.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Nope.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "No.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Oh hang on it really that's something we that the costs were under twelve fifty Euros. No requirements are changed. We're still under twenty Euros to build, so we're good.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "And the costs within the budget? Not the original budget, but they are now. Is the project evaluated? Mm I think so yeah, then celebration as it says.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Hooray.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Free coke provided at the cafeteria.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Oh I don't know how that got there.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "All right.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Uh anyway.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Who wrote that one?", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Thank", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Thanks guys.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "So we need to close this meeting,", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "yeah bravo. 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ab91c4465f584b50987dc969be83e68c	{ "meetingId": "education21", "transcriptSegments": [ { "text": "Good morning, everyone, and welcome to today's meeting of the Children, Young People and Education Committee. We've received no apologies for absence. Can I ask Members whether there are any declarations of interest, please?", "speakerName": "Lynne Neagle AM" }, { "text": "Yes, I have a declaration of interest, Chair. I understand that my daughter features in one of the videos that is going to be used to contribute evidence to this inquiry. And, in addition, I'm a governor of one of the schools that features in the video.", "speakerName": "Darren Millar AM" }, { "text": "Thank you, Darren. So, item 2, then, today is our first session on the provision of textbooks and learning resources for pupils, which is a video of interviews with young people and teachers. The committee team has been out to take video evidence around Wales, and we're now going to watch the results of that on the screen. Okay. Well, I'm sure that the committee would want me to place on record our thanks to the young people and the teachers who took part in that very helpful and informative video. We'll move on now then to our evidence session, and I'm very pleased to welcome Gareth Pierce, chief executive of the WJEC, Mike Ebbsworth, assistant director educational support, WJEC, Philip Blaker, chief executive of Qualifications Wales, and Emyr George, associate director general qualifications at Qualifications Wales. So, thank you all of you for attending and thank you for the papers that you provided in advance as well. If you're happy, we'll go straight into questions now, and if I can just start by asking you to outline what you see as your role in ensuring that students and teachers in Wales have the resources that they need to pass general qualifications and what you think the role of commercial publishers and Welsh Government is.", "speakerName": "Lynne Neagle AM" }, { "text": "Shall I start? So, Qualifications Wales is the regulator of the awarding bodies, so we regulate awarding bodies. Our powers are structured around the regulating of awarding bodies. We don't regulate commercial publishers nor the provision of textbooks within that. In regulating the awarding body, our primary focus is also on the design of the qualifications and then the delivery of the assessment. So, it's much more around the assessment side than teaching resources. That said, when we are going through the design of the qualifications, we go through an approval process, so we develop approval criteria and we ask WJEC to submit their specifications against those approval criteria and sample assessment materials as well. So, our focus is very much on making sure that teachers are able, through the sample assessment materials and the specifications, to have a good understanding of what is going to be expected of them in the examinations and of their pupils in the examinations. So, that's setting out the knowledge, skills and understandings that will be assessed by WJEC when those exams are sat. We have in the past pulled together groups of people to look at issues like resources. So, during the last round of approvals, we pulled together interested parties in Welsh Government, regional consortia and WJEC to look at resources that would be available with a view to facilitating the discussion about who would be best placed to fill the gaps where there may be perceived to be gaps in resources. Our other primary role is in maintaining standards. So, as the regulator of qualifications, what we want to do is we want to make that the awards of qualifications—so, the grades that people get—are fair. One of the things we do is set out the way in which the awarding bodies will set grades—so, the awarding process, the methods that will be used—and then we monitor WJEC's award of grades against those processes. During a period of change, we prescribe the use of comparable outcomes as the primary approach, largely because comparable outcomes are designed for circumstances like this, where there's a change in a specification particularly, because there are any number of reasons, including resources, why performance may be different from one year to the next, but comparable outcomes is there to ensure that, all things being equal, if the cohorts have the same ability, the same grade should be awarded from one year to the next. We do recognise that there have been delays in textbooks. Much of that has been related to the timelines that we've all had to deliver new specifications against, which have been far from ideal for everybody involved. We think that particularly our role moving forward will be looking at the timelines for reforms that will be necessary for the new curriculum to make sure that this situation isn't repeated and that there is sufficient time in future reforms to allow for greater system readiness. In terms of the roles of others, Welsh Government have a role at the moment in terms of grant funding of translation of materials into Welsh medium. And there is, through the common model at the moment—and this is a model that is common between England and Wales—a reliance on commercial publishers to provide textbooks. Now, that's something that probably needs to be looked at in the future in terms of potential different models for how that might be achieved and also, potentially, around a paradigm shift in what's expected of those materials. So, I think that sets out Qualification Wales's position in particular.", "speakerName": "Philip Blaker" }, { "text": "Thank you. Gareth.", "speakerName": "Lynne Neagle AM" }, { "text": "Thank you very much. The WJEC does provide what's required in a regulatory sense, and there are two things there—the specification, which tends to be very comprehensive in providing guidance in terms of drawing up a programme of teaching, and also exemplar assessments, which include marking, and those go to the regulator before they are published. So, those samples go to the regulator. The WJEC also do invest a great deal in resources that we produce digitally in both languages simultaneously. Each new course has substantial teaching guidance, which includes a great deal of useful information for teachers and pupils. And we run a professional development programme for teachers that is free of charge when courses are new, and then annually there is some charge for those events. They are face-to-face events, or, increasingly, they are webinars. The WJEC also encourages publishers to take an interest in providing textbooks. We don't have a commercial agreement with publishers. Indeed, the regulations as they stand in Wales, Northern Ireland and England preclude examination bodies from having commercial links with providers of textbooks, but that is something that emerges from the three-nation regime that existed in terms of qualifications. So, that is one point that we noted as something that needs to be considered for Wales as we move forward, whether it would be possible—. As we are not talking about examination boards competing with each other in Wales for GCSE and A-levels, in passing, that is something that I would want to suggest may deserve review. We encourage publishers to take an interest. At the moment, these tend to be England-based—Hodder Education and Illuminate Education, for example—and then the Welsh Government does provide funding to the WJEC to support the process of providing Welsh-language versions for those textbooks. So, we use that funding to provide editorial support to the process, and also to pay for translation costs, and we give significant guidance in terms of terminology. We have a language services team including excellent editors and translators within the WJEC, and we work closely with external translators too, and we use translation technology increasingly, which facilitates a great many things. Beyond that, I think the WJEC does see the need for flexibility, particularly when difficulties arise, and you heard there of some of the methods used by Mike and others to get digital resources available earlier than the print versions. And I should also note perhaps that, as the WJEC is very much involved with stakeholders, we feel that we do have a contribution to make in terms of ideas for the future.", "speakerName": "Gareth Pierce" }, { "text": "Thank you. We heard in the video that teachers are spending a lot of their time actually translating materials. What is your view on that as a good use of teachers' time in Wales?", "speakerName": "Lynne Neagle AM" }, { "text": "I think the question of translation is an interesting one. There was talk about pupils translating and teachers translating. I think perhaps we need to understand what causes the need for that because, as I mentioned earlier, there are so many resources available digitally in both languages at the same time. Perhaps an interesting question is: is that source useful for teachers, being able to draw resources from two sources? Another interesting question, I think, is—. The Welsh language, of course, is a language that is used in an educational context, but we are in a big world that's an English language world. I'm very aware that many of the websites we refer to in our resources and many of the case studies, as was mentioned in that video—they are available in English only. Therefore, I think another interesting question is: can we discover what those additional resources are that are worth translating? And, certainly, it would be very unfortunate if there were a dozen Welsh-medium schools, for example, translating material from the same website independently of each other. If there are a few websites, or a few case studies, in this big external digital world that are worth translating, shouldn't we able to source those early? Because I don't think it's a good use of teachers' time. But I also think that the use of both languages is an interesting one. What is the vision in terms of teaching in a Welsh-medium class, in particular, perhaps, in the A-level classes? I'm sure that some teachers feel that there is a way of enriching the teaching by referring to terms in both languages, as well as explaining those terms in their own language. But the impression I got from the video was that there was quite a lot of mechanical translating happening, and perhaps there is a need to understand more of the context.", "speakerName": "Gareth Pierce" }, { "text": "Llyr on this.", "speakerName": "Lynne Neagle AM" }, { "text": "Just to pick up on your point on the additional materials, whose role would it be to asses this or to take that overview, and then to respond to the demand?", "speakerName": "Llyr Gruffydd AM" }, { "text": "Mike, in the WJEC, has conversations about resources in the team he's part of.", "speakerName": "Gareth Pierce" }, { "text": "Yes. That is extremely important—to identify, as Gareth has just said, those materials that need to be translated, and not everything needs to. We've made a lot of use recently of speaking with teachers and the consortia, and ensuring then that we are focusing on those things that need that attention.", "speakerName": "Mike Ebbsworth" }, { "text": "But would you—? The question I'm asking is: would you still see that as a core part of your work, although it's not necessarily essential in terms of the provision that you're required to provide?", "speakerName": "Llyr Gruffydd AM" }, { "text": "Yes, we invest substantially from the WJEC budget into digital resources. So, through the types of conversations that Mike mentioned, in terms of identifying needs, deciding on priorities with teachers in individual subject areas, that can provide very useful information for us in terms of prioritisation. Of course, the digital packages that we create are already based on conversations with teachers.", "speakerName": "Gareth Pierce" }, { "text": "So, it's already happening to a certain extent.", "speakerName": "Llyr Gruffydd AM" }, { "text": "Well, yes, but we could always go a step further.", "speakerName": "Gareth Pierce" }, { "text": "And do we need further resources for that?", "speakerName": "Llyr Gruffydd AM" }, { "text": "Well, it's an interesting question. The WJEC is doing as much as we can—", "speakerName": "Gareth Pierce" }, { "text": "Why isn't it happening to the extent that it needs to happen, then?", "speakerName": "Llyr Gruffydd AM" }, { "text": "One can always do more, of course. The WJEC is trying to use its budget prudently, and most of our funding comes from payments made by schools and colleges in terms of taking assessments. So, we do have a budget, but it's not a bottomless pit. So, we do need to make choices within the substantial budget we have in terms of the work that Mike is undertaking.", "speakerName": "Gareth Pierce" }, { "text": "There is a need to be careful as well in identifying resources and needs, and that those are suited towards the requirements. Quite often a teacher—and I've been a teacher myself—has this idea that there is a need to have everything. But, certainly, that's not always the case. Quite often, the focus is on different things. There has been a move towards different means of assessment over recent years, and we've moved our resources towards that to meet the needs of teachers on how to undertake that sort of assessment.", "speakerName": "Mike Ebbsworth" }, { "text": "Okay. Thank you.", "speakerName": "Llyr Gruffydd AM" }, { "text": "Did you want to come in on any of this?", "speakerName": "Lynne Neagle AM" }, { "text": "I'm just going to say one thing. Teachers will want to be creative in the use of resources, and, in doing that, they'll potentially want to adapt resources from either language. I think one of the things that we would be quite keen to try and establish moving forward is what is the common core that should by default be available bilingually, and then what sits around that that would be for schools to use creatively and adapt. And what I wouldn't want to see is a default position where all materials were bilingual—a wide range of resources that might be created from all sorts of diverse, different channels—because that may inhibit the creation of some of those materials that may be more creative, which could then be used by teachers as they see appropriate. But I think it is reasonable to expect for that core, common body of knowledge to be available bilingually by default, and for teachers not to have to spend time translating that.", "speakerName": "Philip Blaker" }, { "text": "Okay. Thank you. A final question from me, then. The £500,000 funding for Welsh-medium educational resource that's in the budget for 2018-19—are you able to share any information with the committee as to how that's going to be spent?", "speakerName": "Lynne Neagle AM" }, { "text": "Tthe WJEC has some information in terms of that budget. It is a Welsh Government budget, and they have annual discussions with us as to what resources we are likely to be working on along with publishers, and where we would like to make a claim against that grant to pay for the editorial and translation costs that we will have incurred. Now, there have been conversations recently about possible support from that grant for some research work into the use of various materials and resources, and also, although this would be a very small part, a contribution towards seminars for publishers. But that isn't a full picture of the £500,000; I think you would have to ask the Welsh Government about the exact allocation of that total fund. But there may be some flexibility. We've just started this financial year; I'm sure there is some flexibility in their thinking in terms of the use of some of this resource. Do you want to add anything, Mike?", "speakerName": "Gareth Pierce" }, { "text": "Certainly. We have contributed a list of publications, for example, that are ongoing, and they're aware of that, and a percentage of that funding then will go towards ensuring that those are there through the medium of Welsh.", "speakerName": "Mike Ebbsworth" }, { "text": "Thank you. Darren Millar.", "speakerName": "Lynne Neagle AM" }, { "text": "This is a huge mess, isn't it? It's a huge mess, which is causing lots of pressure and extra work for teachers, lots of pressure and extra work for learners, and is affecting the well-being of students, at a time when they need to be mentally fit, in order to go through the general stress that learners face when they have exams coming up. We know that the problems are not confined to Welsh-medium resources; they're also being experienced in English language resources as well, particularly in terms of the availability of textbooks. You've both mentioned—both of your organisations have mentioned that there needs to be some sort of common core of resources available for learners and teachers, and I would agree with you on that front. But isn't a textbook a pretty basic element of anybody's toolkit for supporting a child getting through the information that they need to learn, and swot up on, in advance of exams?", "speakerName": "Darren Millar AM" }, { "text": "I think that the evidence is that different learners see their requirements differently. And I agree that a textbook is part of the picture that should be available. But I think the evidence also shows that not every young person will use them; perhaps the teacher uses them. There is an emphasis, for example, from one pupil there, on that traditional model of revision, namely class notes and his own revision notes, but that he personally also wanted a textbook. So, certainly, the content of a textbook is going to be important, and that that's available in some form or other. It was very interesting to know, for example, that when he was describing the traditional model of revision, he felt that he'd had quite a lot of the content of the textbook through the classroom notes. Much of that digital content, of course, corresponds to the content areas of a textbook, but it's just in a different form. But, in general, there should be a textbook. And some of our frustration as well is that the timetables of some individual publishers don't always get us to the point where there is a textbook available in time. That doesn't happen so often in English medium, but we know about that gap in time in the Welsh provision.", "speakerName": "Gareth Pierce" }, { "text": "Well, it's happened fairly regularly in the English-medium textbook world, hasn't it? My daughter—she featured in that video—has got her RS qualifications coming up, and she only had a textbook over the Easter period. I mean, it's completely unacceptable. And many others in that video are also being affected. You mentioned digital resources; not everybody's got access to digital resources in their own homes, even, in Wales. So, aren't we giving a significant disadvantage to those learners who might need the traditional'swotting up from a textbook' method of revision and benefit from that?", "speakerName": "Darren Millar AM" }, { "text": "We do ensure that those digital resources include things that the teachers can also print. Most of these are resources for teachers so that the teachers can adapt them for their own use, to suit the learners who are in front of them at any given time. But certainly there are materials there. If there are activities, then those activities can be printed off and handed to pupils so that they can take them home. So, I would be sceptical about that comment. We are thinking of the totality, ultimately.", "speakerName": "Mike Ebbsworth" }, { "text": "I think you're right that the availability of technology is an important part of this big picture. The young people talk about websites and blogs, and we're talking about digital resources, so being able to reach those resources, I think, is vital in Wales. It's interesting to note two contradictory remarks from the teaching associations in the letters. One praises what's available digitally, whereas another teaching organisation sees this as more work for teachers. As Mike said, we've created those resources that can be adapted. One teaching organisation says that it just creates more work, while another organisation says that the digital resource is something that's very valuable. Of course, the headteacher at the end was praising the fact that, in a situation of crisis or unacceptable timetables, we have succeeded in creating some resources that will be in the textbook later, but available digitally at an early stage. But I agree with your core comment that technology is vital, and access to that, and also the content of a textbook in some form is vital as well.", "speakerName": "Gareth Pierce" }, { "text": "Mr Blaker, you would agree that a textbook should be an essential core piece of the resource pack available for each qualification.", "speakerName": "Darren Millar AM" }, { "text": "I think we wouldn't want to underplay the desirability of textbooks, recognising that different learners have different learning styles and may look to different resources. I think what I'd like to raise is a wider concern about textbooks in their current model, which is very much around the fact that every time there's a change in a specification, there's a new textbook, which is designed around that specification and is endorsed by an awarding body, which is a nice model for a publisher, because every time there's a change, there's an opportunity for a new textbook. There are two concerns that I'd like to raise on that. First, the focus on teaching and learning. Ofsted and also Estyn have raised concerns about the focus in teaching on teaching to the test as a common concern in both nations. I have a concern that having a textbook that is endorsed by the awarding body and is designed specifically around that specification may lead to some of that tendency. And also, there's the sustainability of the model. We know that we're about to go into another round of reforms associated with the curriculum change. That's going to lead to another round of textbooks that may need to be focused on qualifications. I think I'd much rather see that textbooks are seen as a curriculum resource that are broader than, perhaps, the model of endorsement and the current model of publication suggest.", "speakerName": "Philip Blaker" }, { "text": "So, you don't think that a textbook for each subject should be a core resource for pupils who are learning in advance of examinations.", "speakerName": "Darren Millar AM" }, { "text": "I'd just like to pick you up on that. I think a textbook for each subject is absolutely an essential part of the broad range of resources that you'd want to see available for people to choose what they prefer, but on a subject, perhaps, rather than a specific specification, because I think there's a tendency to conflate the two, and much of the underlying content that is assessed in one specification, or a new updated specification, will remain unchanged. It is true that there may be a different focus or emphasis, or a different style of questioning, but that can be picked up more nimbly through supplementary digital resources, for example, which can highlight that change, particularly to a teacher, so that they can shape their lesson planning around that. What we are looking at here are reformed GCSEs and reformed A-levels in subjects that are well-established, traditional subjects, and so whilst it is not necessarily the ideal, I think it's important to remember that there is already a good deal of pre-existing resources, including textbooks, out there in schools already. We're not for a moment saying that that is the situation that we would want everybody to be in. I think it might be preferable if the textbook was perfectly bespoke to the course and didn't contain any extraneous material, but that perhaps is an ideal picture and I think we do need to remember that there are already many resources out there that are available to teachers and to students.", "speakerName": "Emyr George" }, { "text": "But of course, unlike their peers in perhaps other parts of the UK, we have teachers who are having to go meticulously through some of these other resources that might be available to determine whether they're appropriate for use in the classroom, given that the specification is different in terms of the new qualifications. Can I just ask you about the disadvantage that some learners might face as a result of the lack of textbooks? Mr Blaker, I note that you sought to reassure the committee in some of your opening remarks about the fact that equivalent outcomes are what you aim to achieve in discussion with the WJEC in terms of the outcome of assessments, and I think that that's a very positive thing. But, how do you differentiate between the different learning styles of individual students who are in that cohort to ensure that the disadvantage that one faces because they're somebody who relies particularly heavily on textbook-type learning, traditional sort of swotting up for examinations, versus someone who is much more digitally aware and able to use digital resources—? How do you make sure that it's fair to the cohort as a whole, while still enabling some of these individuals for whom textbooks are important not to face disadvantage within that cohort?", "speakerName": "Darren Millar AM" }, { "text": "The systems that are in place are very much around making sure that awarding is fair across the whole cohort. It's very difficult—in fact, it would be impossible—to unpick all of the different factors that might affect performance, because you could well have a textbook that's been available for some time, it may be somebody's preferred leaning style to use a textbook, but did they use that textbook effectively? You know, did they open it in revision or did they not open it in revision? So, there are so many different factors that can affect individual performance. I think it's impossible to unpick a particular aspect like the availability of resources. Motivation would be one thing, an individual learner's motivation in the subject. The biggest input would be the quality of teaching. I think evidence has been provided to you by the regional consortia, which we saw yesterday. They particularly wanted to stress this point I think; that the quality of teaching is probably the most dominant and the most important factor in relation to a learner's ultimate performance in the examination.", "speakerName": "Philip Blaker" }, { "text": "I understand that, but you also understand that someone who doesn't have the resources that they feel are best suited to them face some element of a greater disadvantage than others for whom, perhaps, textbooks are less important.", "speakerName": "Darren Millar AM" }, { "text": "I think also, perhaps, related to that, it is important to mention digital literacy here. Every young person in Wales, I would hope, taking GCSE or A-level, should have that digital literacy in order to source the valuable materials available—that they should have those skills. Then, they have the choice whether they go down the digital route, or do they do as Mike suggested—much of the digital material can be printed—or do they then turn to textbooks, in the hope that those would be available? That would then allow for a pupil's personal learning choice to be reflected. It's also important for teachers to confirm that their ways of teaching do support these alternative approaches taken by pupils. Not every pupil will choose to learn or revise in exactly the same way. So, the flexibility for the pupil is very important, I think.", "speakerName": "Gareth Pierce" }, { "text": "I understand that, but I've got people in my constituency who haven't even got a broadband link at home, so there's a digital disadvantage as well. Can I just ask you about the reason why this has taking so long to sort out? It was back in 2015 that concerns were first raised about the availability of textbooks in both English and Welsh for the new qualifications. We're three years on, what on earth has been happening in the interim and why is it taking so long? If you've got these resources digitally, why can't they just be compounded into textbooks pretty straightforwardly?", "speakerName": "Darren Millar AM" }, { "text": "I think the main reason for that is that there are three series of reforms of qualifications that have happened. There were some in 2015, other subjects in 2016, and other subjects in 2017. Those three cycles of reform have all suffered from the short timetable that was between approving a qualification and publishers being able to start the work. Perhaps an interesting comparison would be a subject being taught for the first time in 2015—where that subject has reached now in terms of resources. I would hope that each one of those subjects have more available now in terms of resources, and therefore we are adding each year—not textbooks but digital resources. There are more past papers available, of course. We are working on sample work at the request of teachers. So, every subject is moving on over a period of time of five to six years while that specification is being studied. But those same difficulties have, unfortunately, affected 2015 subjects and 2017 subjects, and that's why we're discussing the same thing in 2018.", "speakerName": "Gareth Pierce" }, { "text": "So, it's the scale of the challenge and the volume of the work?", "speakerName": "Darren Millar AM" }, { "text": "Yes.", "speakerName": "Gareth Pierce" }, { "text": "I think Gareth, in the evidence that he has provided to the committee previously, has said about the timeline, the schedule, for reforms. Now, that's a schedule that we inherited and was largely dominated by the schedule for reforms in England. Now that we've reached a point of divergence in GCSEs and A-levels, between England and Wales, it gives us much more agency in the future to establish a timeline that doesn't place the pressures on the system. So, Gareth has quite rightly pointed out that there are three waves of reforms, but the pressures that build up in the first wave are consequential onto the next wave and the wave after that. So, the whole system has been pressured both from a regulatory perspective of the approval process, the awarding body preparing its submissions to use, and then system readiness thereafter.", "speakerName": "Philip Blaker" }, { "text": "That timeline was obviously set by the Welsh Government. I assume that advice was given by WJEC and Qualifications Wales and your predecessor organisation to the Welsh Government at that time protesting about the timescale that you were being expected to abide by.", "speakerName": "Darren Millar AM" }, { "text": "Yes, and similarly in England, the examination boards working in England would have provided the same advice to the Government there. And, of course, the Welsh Government programme was associated with the reform programme in England, in particularly for those A-level subjects, where there was a strong influence from the universities across the UK in terms of what they wanted to see differently in the A-level subjects. So, England and Wales have run on a very short timetable common to both countries, and I would say that every exam board and every publisher has seen this very challenging in Wales and England. But our advice is that there is a real need for between 18 months and two years from completing a specification that has been approved, then being able to work with teachers on what their needs and requirements will be, thinking about what the teaching programme will be, and then starting to work with publishers and get resources available—ideally, with a year of preparation then for the teacher before they start teaching. So, as they will know what resources will be available, we'll be able to discuss the use of those resources in our professional development programmes, and then that timeline is convenient for everybody.", "speakerName": "Gareth Pierce" }, { "text": "Okay. Darren, I've got to bring Llyr in now.", "speakerName": "Lynne Neagle AM" }, { "text": "Estyn, NAHT, UCAC, NASUWT, WJEC and Qualifications Wales have pointed to the way in which the Government has managed the reforms that have been happening over the past few years as one of the things that has led to some of these difficulties. You mentioned the fact that they come wave upon wave. Well, what about the tsunami of curriculum reform that we're currently facing? That is, how confident can we be that the situation won't deteriorate as the new curriculum is introduced—rather than improve?", "speakerName": "Llyr Gruffydd AM" }, { "text": "That is a very key question, isn't it? We have started to discuss this, specifically in particular in a forum that includes publishers in Wales, with the Welsh Government around the table and Qualifications Wales around the table. I think one of the very interesting questions and important questions is: what will the nature of the information available in April 2019 be in terms of the new curriculum? At what level of detail will it be? To what extent will it be adapted again after April 2019? Is it detailed enough, really, for teachers to start discussing their programmes of teaching, and that we then still have a role with publishers, even though this is for this curriculum and not for qualifications? WJEC has a tradition of publishing resources over the key stages and other key stages as well. I think there is a need to discuss the implications of the timetable as it starts to appear, because there is a need to start teaching the new curriculum in September 2022. If we're talking about a year of preparation, that brings us back to September 2021. If we're talking about working on resources available for that preparation year, we're talking about September 2020. So, the timetable does appear already tight, particularly if there's something that's not quite certain about that curriculum statement in 2019, and that there is a lot of work to turn that into teaching programmes. So, I think it is a key question, and I can't be confident at the moment that this is going to work.", "speakerName": "Gareth Pierce" }, { "text": "Did you want to come in, Philip?", "speakerName": "Lynne Neagle AM" }, { "text": "I think one of the big differences is it's a tsunami we can see coming. So, young people will be assessed for the first time, assuming linear exams, in the summer 2027, which is some way away, and, actually, given the reform process historically, this is probably the most foresight we've seen of a big change like this. There is a big dependency on the curriculum and the curriculum being described in such a way that we can relate qualifications to that curriculum, because qualifications should relate to the curriculum rather than drive the curriculum, so we do need to see something coming out of that. I think, for us, once we've seen the curriculum, and we've got better sight of it, we'll be able to plan things out. We've already started engagement with awarding bodies over the possible supply chain for these new qualifications, and, ultimately, there'll be a go/no-go decision that would need to be made, probably in 2023, which would be that if the conditions don't appear right for safe implementation, then we would make a recommendation to Welsh Government that these reforms are delayed in terms of the qualification, not in terms of the curriculum, for a year to allow the system to be able to catch up. So, we're starting to plan out not only the whole of the process, but also thinking about where we might have to make key decisions.", "speakerName": "Philip Blaker" }, { "text": "Just one very brief comment in that context: I think that the comment of the consortia jointly is important there. They emphasise, in the context of the curriculum, the importance of the autonomy of teachers in interpreting and providing, therefore I think we truly need to discuss that. Does that suggest that there won't be so much need for national resources, or are those resources required to support that autonomy in any case? We need to discuss that at an early stage and in detail, I think.", "speakerName": "Gareth Pierce" }, { "text": "Yes, certainly, and one is concerned that that conversation isn't already happening, but, yes, okay, you've made that point clearly. If I could return, therefore, to the commercial issue—clearly, there is a shortage of providers in Wales, and we are reliant on others. You suggested that the WJEC may be interested in stepping up and taking some sort of role if regulations were changed. I assume that that would be something that you would be eager to see happening in terms of the change to regulation in that context.", "speakerName": "Llyr Gruffydd AM" }, { "text": "Yes, and we've been part of starting that discussion amongst publishers in Wales. Certainly, there is interest. I think that I haven't described correctly the purpose of a seminar to encourage interest: the interest is there, but there needs to be an understanding of what the implications are of working towards that kind of timetable, what the implications are of working in two languages, what kind of business model, perhaps, would be suitable for the publishers in Wales, how much certainty could be given to them that there is a period of work, because they would want to build their teams, and develop skills within those teams, and to have enough certainty that this is worth doing. And therefore, those are the sort of issues that we're starting a discussion on, in the hope of having a discussion in June to move that forward. Of course, Welsh Government, Qualifications Wales and other stakeholders are part of this discussion, not only WJEC, but we've been part of initiating that discussion.", "speakerName": "Gareth Pierce" }, { "text": "Is this developing at the pace that you would like to see it developing?", "speakerName": "Llyr Gruffydd AM" }, { "text": "Yes, I think, and there is some enthusiasm. For example, a number of publishers in Wales are within an association describing itself as Cwlwm Cyhoeddwyr Cymru. Myrddin ap Dafydd is chair of Cwlwm at the moment, and there is enthusiasm and vision, certainly. So, there's a wonderful opportunity, I think, for Wales to interpret these possibilities swiftly and then hopefully take action on them.", "speakerName": "Gareth Pierce" }, { "text": "And we're talking here not just about translating but developing resources, and the point, I think, is an important one around some of the evidence that we've received about the importance of developing resources naturally bilingually from the very beginning, rather than having to translate something. Because there have been comments that translations are clunky, difficult to follow and not—I'm not saying that they're not fit for purpose, but certainly don't facilitate teaching, perhaps, as easily as one would wish.", "speakerName": "Llyr Gruffydd AM" }, { "text": "Yes, I would agee, and that begins with the authors, doesn't it? We must have the authors—", "speakerName": "Gareth Pierce" }, { "text": "So, the expertise, and the same capacty with the publishers as well.", "speakerName": "Llyr Gruffydd AM" }, { "text": "Yes, and we do want to nurture authors within Wales, particularly given that the new curriculum has to do justice to a Welsh dimension within the curriculum in so many different subjects. So, we need authors who can be developed, and authors who would be willing to work with the publishers. That's a very specific theme within one of the ideas of the seminars with publishers.", "speakerName": "Gareth Pierce" }, { "text": "Would that market be viable without any sort of subsidy, if it were to develop bilingually? Or do we have to accept that they have to have an element of public subsidy?", "speakerName": "Llyr Gruffydd AM" }, { "text": "Our view in the WJEC is that subsidy will be necessary. But we could rethink the model for the subsidy, perhaps. At the moment, the subsidy is described as a subsidy for the Welsh-medium version. Why not rethink that and think of a subsidy for producing resources in two languages for the Welsh curriculum? And perhaps we would need a little more funding for that. But there will be organisations such as the WJEC who will still be interested in contributing, because we are a charity, and within our mission is investment in various things that supports education in Wales.", "speakerName": "Gareth Pierce" }, { "text": "But in terms of where we are now, resources have to be translated. I struggle at times to understand why it takes so much time to translate a resource. I would like to know better, perhaps, what the main barriers are in that sense. But also, how long is acceptable to wait for a translation, in your view?", "speakerName": "Llyr Gruffydd AM" }, { "text": "We've done a great deal of work recently, over recent years, to ensure that that delay between having an English version and a Welsh version is reduced. We are highly aware of the fact that the best-case scenario is that the Welsh and the English are available simultaneously. In those terms, we've taken huge steps forward with the publishers that we've named this morning, so that we have discussed translation as the textbook is being produced. There is a risk there, of course. The nature of books is that the author may change his or her mind, or edit as he or she is writing. Well, with that model, we would have to ensure that we approved as we moved forward, chapter by chapter perhaps, so that there would be no changes to be made from then on. At the end of the process, then, the publishers in England have agreed to hold the English version back for a period of time until the Welsh version is available, and then to publish both simultaneously. Unless that timetable is followed throughout the process, there are inherent risks in that process, of course, as I've mentioned in terms of translation as we author materials, and in ensuring that that timetable is stuck to.", "speakerName": "Mike Ebbsworth" }, { "text": "And perhaps there is a need to emphasise that the process is translation and editing as a package, and that sometimes the same amount of time goes on the editing, how the Welsh works in terms of diagrams and things that aren't text necessarily—pictures and so forth. So, eight weeks, I think, is the time that we've succeeded in agreeing with the publishers so that we can turn around the Welsh version in that period of time.", "speakerName": "Gareth Pierce" }, { "text": "Okay, thank you. Darren.", "speakerName": "Lynne Neagle AM" }, { "text": "I just want to ask about this eight-week delay. So, you’re telling us, Mr Ebbsworth, that the WJEC has agreed with Hodder and Illuminate that, in future, even if an English textbook is available for publication, and it’s already late, you will further delay the availability of that textbook so that it can be published on the same day as the Welsh-medium textbook?", "speakerName": "Darren Millar AM" }, { "text": "We can only work on those books that are in the process of being developed. Naturally, if something is late in English, then that timetable would be affected in terms of a decision that will ultimately have to be taken. But that's the hope: that when new textbooks are produced in English and authored in English, we would look at that eight-week period as a turnaround.", "speakerName": "Mike Ebbsworth" }, { "text": "I understand the point that you made earlier about the chapter-by-chapter approach, which seems much more equitable. But to suggest that you will delay books that could be available for students and could be available for teachers to be able to access by two months because you haven't got the systems in place to be able to produce them on the same day, seems to be wholly inappropriate. Can I ask, also, why on earth it isn't possible to produce Welsh-medium textbooks first and then translate them to English on occasions?", "speakerName": "Darren Millar AM" }, { "text": "We're entirely open to that and to that sort of model.", "speakerName": "Mike Ebbsworth" }, { "text": "So, why has that never ever been done?", "speakerName": "Darren Millar AM" }, { "text": "Well, of course, it would happen with subjects that stem from Wales, but I think the problem is that we work with publishers and those publishers and their authors, therefore, tend to work through the medium of English. But, just to be clear, this idea of delaying an English version is something that the Welsh Government is eager for us to experiment with, but not with textbooks that are already late. They are within the new programme of textbooks that are contained within the grant that you mentioned of £500,000. So, in a way, this is an experiment and the Welsh Government wants to look at this as one way of responding to the complaint that there are different timetables available.", "speakerName": "Gareth Pierce" }, { "text": "So, you're being forced to do this by the Welsh Government, rather than—", "speakerName": "Darren Millar AM" }, { "text": "Well, we've agreed to do it in discussion with them.", "speakerName": "Gareth Pierce" }, { "text": "So, are you happy with that approach?", "speakerName": "Darren Millar AM" }, { "text": "Well, as long as the textbook isn't late in the first place, then yes; it's worth trying. There is a challenge on the eight weeks, there is a challenge in the publisher sticking to the timetable in terms of the English version first of all, but we are willing to use this as a test bed, and we're working on two specific textbooks on this.", "speakerName": "Gareth Pierce" }, { "text": "I think the committee is struggling with this idea, so what do you understand to be the rationale behind that, then? Is it that both sets of pupils should be equally disadvantaged?", "speakerName": "Lynne Neagle AM" }, { "text": "Well, no, in a way, it uses the same principle as we have regarding our use of digital resources. With the digital materials, the intention is that things are available in time and that they're available in both languages at the same time. So, trying to imitate that with printed text is what we're trying to do, but not with texts that are already late. So, if these books keep to the timetable, then they will be available in time in both languages, but that the English version has stayed before going out on the shelves.", "speakerName": "Gareth Pierce" }, { "text": "So, that's to say that the English version will be completed eight weeks beforehand so that you have eight weeks for translation.", "speakerName": "Llyr Gruffydd AM" }, { "text": "Well, ultimately, I may have used the wrong words in saying that we're holding the English back. The English version would still be in the process, just as the Welsh version would be, and then they would catch up as they approach the date for publication and printing. There is an element of editing the English as well as the Welsh and that would happen in that eight-week period. So, a draft form might be available, and we do ensure that our draft versions are available on our secure website as soon as possible, but then that has to be held up before publication.", "speakerName": "Mike Ebbsworth" }, { "text": "Thank you. John.", "speakerName": "Lynne Neagle AM" }, { "text": "Just on that, Chair, it's nonetheless the case, as we've heard, I think, and as the letter to the committee from Kirsty Williams has made clear, that there might be a situation where the English-language version of a textbook could be made available, but it isn't made available because there isn't a Welsh-language version. And, as the Chair said, is that about putting those students in Wales on the same footing, and if so, how does that relate to the fact that these students, including those who could have had earlier access to the English-language version, are competing with students over the border, as we heard on the video earlier, for those precious university places? Doesn't it place the English-language student using the English-language version at a potential disadvantage, compared to students over the border?", "speakerName": "John Griffiths AM" }, { "text": "I think this is a point for Qualifications Wales to a certain extent, but applicants for qualifications in Wales are assessed as a national cohort, if truth be told, so, each piece of information we have on the standards is evaluated for that national cohort. The standards stem from the three-nation system. So, in discussion with Qualifications Wales, we ensure that there is no disadvantage to any cohort in Wales in any subject, be that because of a textbook being unavailable or for any other reason.", "speakerName": "Gareth Pierce" }, { "text": "Certainly, from a comparable outcomes perspective, the fewer differences that there are that are differential—. So, the idea of textbooks being available in English and Welsh at different times could potentially create another dimension in terms of disparity. So, if we're looking at it strictly speaking from a comparable outcomes perspective, it makes the awarding easier if everybody's on a common playing field. It's worth remembering—we provided some evidence in our original letter particularly looking at religious studies on the basis that religious studies was a subject that had been mentioned. This subject has already been awarded at AS-level last year, so it has gone through an award and will go through the full A-level award this year. The comparable outcomes approach did protect those learners last year, in the absence of a textbook, and we saw stability in the results that came out of the cohort level. Similarly, with other subjects that have gone through reforms, we've seen it with the GCSEs that were awarded last year, ASs that were awarded last year and A-levels that were awarded last year: we saw good comparability year on year.", "speakerName": "Philip Blaker" }, { "text": "Go on then, Darren. Is that okay, John?", "speakerName": "Lynne Neagle AM" }, { "text": "Just a very brief follow-up on that, at the cohort level, yes, you suggest that there is some evidence that students were protected, but what you don't know and can't tell, because you're not able to drill down to the individual student level, is whether children, young people, were disadvantaged as a result of their learning style being more textbook orientated than that of their peers.", "speakerName": "Darren Millar AM" }, { "text": "I guess we're in a situation where there's no evidence either way that that—", "speakerName": "Philip Blaker" }, { "text": "The absence of evidence doesn't mean that it didn't happen.", "speakerName": "Darren Millar AM" }, { "text": "No, but there is no evidence to suggest that. We have no positive evidence to suggest that.", "speakerName": "Philip Blaker" }, { "text": "Well, I think you've seen plenty of evidence about the stress that it's causing, and the concern that learners have about their outcomes. I think it would be very interesting, actually, to take some teacher assessments and expected grades and compare those to the actual grade outcomes. Is that something that Qualifications Wales could do on a sample basis?", "speakerName": "Darren Millar AM" }, { "text": "Historically, that sort of evidence has been very unreliable. Gareth would probably have a stronger view on that than me. Predicted grades used to be provided. Certainly, back in my day at an awarding body they were provided, and there tended to be a very low correlation between the predicted grade and the actual achieved grade. I don't know if you've got anything on that, Gareth.", "speakerName": "Philip Blaker" }, { "text": "No, we agree with you that the comparisons are not that reliable, because there are so many factors. But I think, at the end of the day, what we see is, yes, I agree there is evidence of stress, but I think there's also evidence of young people and their teachers really using the available resources and the available skills in approaching revision and preparation, and tending to do that very well. That's the evidence that we've got, for example, in the AS religious studies last year, that the cohort did extremely well in fact. We can't disagree that there's evidence of stress, but I think we can also point towards resilience and excellent approaches to drawing together the various sources that they've got: classroom notes, revision notes, as they mentioned, and the various other materials that they referred to.", "speakerName": "Gareth Pierce" }, { "text": "Okay. John.", "speakerName": "Lynne Neagle AM" }, { "text": "Coming back to the effect of the lack of resources, we heard on the video, as you've just mentioned, Gareth, that pupils were experiencing a lot of stress and anxiety, and it affected their well-being in terms of their perception that they might be disadvantaged by the lack of resources, as we discussed. We know exam time is very, very stressful—I'm sure all of us would agree with that—in general, without any additional problems or perceptions of problems. So, with that sort of background, would you accept then that some students have been negatively affected by the lack of suitable support materials for general qualifications? I know we've discussed this in terms of it being difficult, perhaps, to show cause and effect, but I think most people watching that video would clearly come to the view that some students have been negatively impacted. Would you accept that?", "speakerName": "John Griffiths AM" }, { "text": "I'd have to agree. There is evidence of their concern, isn't there? But as Philip said, what we don't have is evidence that that anxiety then has an impact on their attainment, because there are so many factors, there are so many different kinds of resources that they've referred to—even those who want to see textbooks, they're also talking about so many other materials that are available to them. Of course, it's also clear that they are conscientious young people who have worked hard, so you have a picture there of young people who are concerned, yes, and as you've said, examinations are a stressful time in general, but they are also young people who are doing their level best, and usually do get the results that they have worked for. That's the evidence that we have: the results tend to be achieved.", "speakerName": "Gareth Pierce" }, { "text": "Okay. Coming back again to matters that we've already discussed, but just to put to you in a fairly focused way, would you accept that it isn't fair that some pupils are not having the support material that others are having, depending on whether their particular subject is involved and the language that they're studying through? Would you accept that that is a basic unfairness in the system as it currently exists?", "speakerName": "John Griffiths AM" }, { "text": "Ideally, resources, digital accessibility and digital literacy should be available for every pupil on an equal basis. But I think perhaps if we analysed this in much detail, different individuals would be able to say,'There are different types of unfairness.' You referred earlier to the digital inequalities. Is there an economic inequality? There is some evidence from the teaching unions that suggests that not every school is in the same situation as each other in terms of buying the resources that are available. So, I think your question drives at a very important point: what sort of inequality could be having an impact on young people in terms of their achievement during their school time? Ideally, each one of those elements of potential inequality should be levelled. So, I don't think I can go any further than acknowledging that any inequality is unfair, but there are so many different kinds and the textbook is not the only one, and therefore we're not going to be able to analyse the impact of that on its own.", "speakerName": "Gareth Pierce" }, { "text": "Could I put to you, finally then, what Estyn have said about reported delays in the production and distribution of educational resources such as textbooks, marking criteria and specimen papers, that that delay has impeded the ability of teachers to plan adequately, and that this effect on their ability to plan adequately is very likely to have had an impact on pupils' achievement? Would you accept that?", "speakerName": "John Griffiths AM" }, { "text": "It's interesting—they link three quite different things there, don't they? We've discussed the textbooks in some detail. When they refer to sample assessments, we have to provide those within the regulatory time frame, and they have to be approved. So, in every subject there are sample assessments and marking schemes, and they are statutorily available, in a way. When they talk about exemplars, there are different interpretations of that. One request that we receive often from schools is for exemplars in terms of the work of pupils that has been assessed and marked by us. Of course, they're not available until the young people have taken those exams for the very first time. We can make them available digitally, and through various other methods. But in some subjects the demand has been so strong that we have worked with schools in order to ensure that work is produced by pupils before that first examination, is marked by us, and is then made available. So, we can respond to that demand when it arises. I would like to have a conversation with Estyn, indeed, to interpret on a more detailed level some of the things that they refer to.", "speakerName": "Gareth Pierce" }, { "text": "May I offer a comment on that quote from Estyn? They talk about a reduction in attainment and that, to some extent, brings us back to the point in terms of the comparable outcomes method that we're talking about. That method is based on research and evidence that says that in a period of change to an exam or qualification, we know that performance in an exam can fall, and that is due to a number of different factors. Teachers aren't as familiar with the specification and the requirements of the exam. There are fewer past assessment resources available; there aren't any past papers, for example. Certainly, knowing that you're the first to sit that exam perhaps raises your concerns about that examination, and examinations are a matter of concern already. It's very difficult, if not impossible, to differentiate between those factors, but what we know on the whole is that they come together to have an impact on pupils' performance in an exam, and that's why, when it comes to awarding qualifications for the first time and looking at the grades, we look very carefully at what that the mark means in terms of the grade in order to try as best as we can, on the level of the whole national cohort, to eliminate as much unfairness as possible because they are the first cohort to sit the exam.", "speakerName": "Emyr George" }, { "text": "Could I just make a brief comment on the sample assessments? Now, interestingly, when the English, Welsh, maths, and maths and numeracy GCSEs were new, the Welsh Government were very eager that we invest in more sample assessment materials. We had to produce one for the regulator, but they wanted to see us produce far more, and we did that. But there are risks inherent in that, too. If we create more and more sample assessments, then does that create more risk of teaching to the test? And every time we produce one of these, of course, we are using robust assessment ideas, and they're out there to be used for test purposes. So, we need to be careful that we don't weaken the real assessment by providing too many of the examiners' good ideas in the sample material. So, it's an interesting theme, but it would be interesting to have a further conversation with Estyn on that.", "speakerName": "Gareth Pierce" }, { "text": "I just wanted to say, looking towards—. Reforms always throw up issues like this. It's almost an inevitability of any change that there will be impact. I think what we need to do is we need to think about the future reforms, particularly knowing that we've got some on the radar already, and to think about what this paradigm is and how we can isolate some of these factors in the future. So, if we look at resources and if we look particularly at textbooks as being a curriculum resource, rather than a qualification resource, I think we can change the timeline to which some of those materials are produced. So, going back to when I studied my A-levels in the 1980s, there was this common body of knowledge that was an A-level textbook in biology that wasn't focused around an individual awarding body. When we talked to unions about this on Monday, they said,'Yes, when we used to teach many years ago, there were curriculum resources like that, and then when a particular topic or a particular area of content dropped out of the qualification, we either did or didn't teach it according to whether it was in the curriculum'. That's a little bit worrying by virtue of the fact there might have been a component of that subject that didn't get taught because it was no longer in the text, despite the fact that it was in the common body of knowledge. But I think if we can shift this paradigm—and I would really like to a shift in the paradigm for resources particularly, away from the focus on the qualification and into more of a focus on the curriculum—then that provides an opportunity for, I would suggest, a much healthier model in the future. There are various ways of doing that. In the United States, for example, there are some states within the United States that produce a state textbook. Now, that can have issues, particularly if it's politically orientated—so, if politicians are seen to have a strong influence in the content that's taught. But if there is independence in that state model, then I think that can be quite strong model. Equally, if you look at somewhere like Hong Kong, they've actually tried to de-emphasise textbooks. So, Hong Kong, which is a very high-performing jurisdiction, is trying to move away from that model in the future.", "speakerName": "Philip Blaker" }, { "text": "Could I just add very, very briefly—", "speakerName": "Gareth Pierce" }, { "text": "Very briefly, because I want to bring Hefin in.", "speakerName": "Lynne Neagle AM" }, { "text": "I know that, in our letter to you, we emphasised that this is not just to do with the body of knowledge. The assessment objectives have shifted in many subjects towards analysis and evaluation. So, therefore, we really do need resources that support that way of working, and I'm sure that lots of the young people we've heard from—what they're really doing in their revision is actually not just studying the content, but thinking about how they respond analytically and evaluatively. In fact, an interesting question for us as an awarding body to debate with the qualifications regulator, maybe, is whether some of the content should actually be able to be taken into the assessment hall. Do young people need to remember all these terms and their precise definitions, sometimes in both languages if they've learnt it in that way? Shouldn't some of the reference material be more and more available in the assessment arena? And then you are really getting towards analysis and interpretation and evaluation.", "speakerName": "Gareth Pierce" }, { "text": "Thank you. Hefin.", "speakerName": "Lynne Neagle AM" }, { "text": "I want to welcome these particular comments, because having come from a higher education background, what I've tried to deliver in my courses are textbook-free modules, where you're relying on academic journal articles and you're piecing together the story yourself, based on the curriculum you develop yourself. So, curriculum-focused resources are very welcome. I fear that students who are nurtured on a textbook diet, when they go to university, they are not expected to repeat what's in the textbook; they're expected to do exactly as Gareth says and analyse and combine information into a discursive argument. So, therefore, I'm interested to know how you've worked with higher education to develop that approach. I also welcome what you've just said too.", "speakerName": "Hefin David AM" }, { "text": "Can I ask for brief answers, please?", "speakerName": "Lynne Neagle AM" }, { "text": "Yes, well some of the people who provide ideas into our digital resources certainly are either teachers who are very well aware of that progression to HE and therefore what their learners want or, in some cases, they are HE people themselves. We do draw on a body of expertise, and we are more than willing to emphasise the importance of that approach to the support resources we provide.", "speakerName": "Gareth Pierce" }, { "text": "I think the difficulty and the difference is that, at HE level, the kind of journal articles that are available are probably not consumable at GCSE level. That's part of the problem you have with that approach.", "speakerName": "Hefin David AM" }, { "text": "Yes. And I think, interestingly—I know we've pointed towards some of our religious studies resources as examples—I think some of the websites we point to are quite ambitious. They would be described as scholarly, and I think some of the young people on the video made that point, didn't they—that they need to engage with that material to understand some themes? But we need to assist them in doing so. We need to almost make those scholarly items that are worth including in their curriculum accessible and user friendly for them at their point of learning.", "speakerName": "Gareth Pierce" }, { "text": "Philip.", "speakerName": "Lynne Neagle AM" }, { "text": "It was just one point. We recently published a report on the Welsh baccalaureate and skills challenge certificate, and I think it's relevant to pull in at this point that the independent study that pupils would be expected to do through the skills challenge certificate in doing their project work is really designed to try and draw out some of those skills that would be relevant in higher education. Through the reforms that we are starting to think about for the skills challenge certificate, there's a real opportunity to start honing some of those skills, particularly at the advanced level bacc, to make people really HE-ready so that they're better able to engage with that different style of learning. So, I think there's a huge opportunity that shouldn't be diminished within the advanced Welsh bacc.", "speakerName": "Philip Blaker" }, { "text": "Thank you. Last questions from Mark then.", "speakerName": "Lynne Neagle AM" }, { "text": "Gareth, can I just put to you—? On the Estyn criticism, I think you've answered one aspect of their criticism that WJEC did not make as many sample assessment materials available as schools would have liked early on in the reform process, and I understand your position there, but they went on and said,'At times the sample assessment materials were provided with incorrect mark schemes' and also,'It would be helpful if the WJEC ensure that all necessary resources were made available before the start date of each qualification.' Do you have a response to those points?", "speakerName": "Mark Reckless AM" }, { "text": "Again, probably, I'd like a conversation with them about any problems with the specimen assessments and their mark schemes, because if they are the statutory regulatory ones they would have gone through Philip's team as well or his Welsh Government predecessors as regulators, depending on which qualifications they were. Obviously, we need to be spot-on with those. Very occasionally, somebody will identify an error, and obviously we then correct them, because these are available digitally online. So, if there is a problem, we want to hear about it and then we can correct it. But, yes, I agree with their fundamental premise, that ideally the whole package of resources should be available before teaching starts, including, as we mentioned earlier, so we can draw on that set of resources in the events we run as WJEC free of charge for teachers leading up to the first teaching. We need that information ourselves as well so we can talk about the use of these valuable resources in an appropriate pedagogical context in that preparatory year. So, the ideal is that everything is there 12 months ahead.", "speakerName": "Gareth Pierce" }, { "text": "So, what mechanism do you have for picking up on this type of criticisms from Estyn and having that conversation with them? Has that not happened?", "speakerName": "Mark Reckless AM" }, { "text": "We have met with Estyn a couple of times recently, actually—once when they were beginning their review of the key stage 4 qualifications that had been in place for two years and a bit, and also when they were planning a review of some of the A-level work. Because we do have regular meetings with them, we will have an opportunity to explore their comments here I'm sure.", "speakerName": "Gareth Pierce" }, { "text": "Looking at the structure and the relationship between Qualifications Wales and the WJEC—. I understand in the model in England—you've got Ofqual, the regulator, and you have various competing exam boards, some I think with for-profit motivation. We don't have that in Wales; there is a sole regulator and a single, dominant examination board. Does that mean that there's significant overlap and potentially cost duplication between the work of the two bodies, particularly given WJEC is a charity and seems to have many of the same objectives as you in Qualifications Wales have?", "speakerName": "Mark Reckless AM" }, { "text": "The roles are very distinct, so I'd tell you there's no overlap. What we try and do is try and make sure that there's a good connection between the work that we do. WJEC has very clear responsibilities around the delivery of qualifications. We have a role in monitoring to ensure that those qualifications are delivered securely and fairly. I would say a strength of the Welsh model is that there is an independent regulator and a single awarding body largely, because much of the work that Ofqual would need to do in terms of its maintenance of standards is about ensuring that the competition between awarding bodies doesn't lead to what's been termed in the past as a race to the bottom in terms of standards. Now, the opportunity that we have in Wales is, where we have a single awarding body, we can have a close and good working relationship with WJEC, but guarding very strongly to make sure that we keep that regulatory distance to make sure that we preserve our role as the regulator and look at WJEC as one of our regulated bodies.", "speakerName": "Philip Blaker" }, { "text": "Can I make a general point? Perhaps the important opportunity in Wales is to look anew at how national and regional organisations, such as the consortia, can collaborate to make a success of the broad range of resources and CPD that will be required to support the new curriculum, and also the next set of qualifications that will be reformed. We've referred to many organisations today, but there are others. The Welsh Books Council, for example, is part of this discussion. The Learned Society of Wales is a player that wants to introduce ideas into the Welsh dimension of the curriculum. There was mention of the HE sector earlier. Teachers' associations have very specific comments to make on some of these areas. There is a great opportunity for us to come together and to have a national approach. There will be a need for some financial resource from the Welsh Government—yes, certainly—and the WJEC can provide some resources, but I think we all want to collaborate in order to ensure the success of the next round of resources.", "speakerName": "Gareth Pierce" }, { "text": "But doesn't that national approach and collaboration preclude the model that Philip was talking about earlier, where we had textbooks based on the curriculum, and there's that core, but that was separate from what the exam body decided to do and the textbook wasn't there for the particular exam approach? If you have a single, dominant exam board, and you have a Welsh curriculum that's developed with that board, how do you then have this separation between textbook and exam?", "speakerName": "Mark Reckless AM" }, { "text": "So, if we look at qualification, a qualification should be based on the curriculum that's being offered, because learning should be based around the curriculum, and the role of the qualification is to measure attainment against knowledge of that curriculum—knowledge, skills and understanding, the dispositions that that curriculum is trying to develop. So, I think there are two very distinct things. Now, of course, what will inevitably happen is once the curriculum is known and developed, there will be a level of detail that comes across from what the qualification is looking for. I think what we're trying to say is, from an educational perspective, what we'd like to see is a broader focus on the curriculum and less of a narrow focus on the qualification and some of the problems that that can drive, so that, if a learner is well-versed in the curriculum and has been taught well and has acquired the knowledge, skills and dispositions that the curriculum is trying to create, they should succeed in the qualification.", "speakerName": "Philip Blaker" }, { "text": "And you suggested earlier that, if need be, the qualification could be pushed back a year, but not the curriculum. Does that mean that it would be possible to teach the new curriculum while keeping the old qualification?", "speakerName": "Mark Reckless AM" }, { "text": "It would be possible.", "speakerName": "Philip Blaker" }, { "text": "But satisfactory?", "speakerName": "Mark Reckless AM" }, { "text": "Because, if we're looking at qualifications predominantly being 14 to 16, what Professor Donaldson said at the very beginning, with'Successful Futures', was, actually, if the curriculum is preparing people better for that qualification stage, so that they're better versed as learners and better able to perform in those qualifications and we see a rise of attainment—. Ideally, you'd be in a position where you've got GCSEs that have been reformed to marry up to any change, but I don't see there being a huge problem in itself of a delay if we think that is the right thing to do. Clearly, we consider that to be a sub-optimal thing. We would much rather be in a position of having reforms, but, equally, I'd want to see any reforms delivered safely, and I wouldn't want to compromise fairness and safety of delivery of those qualifications on the basis of a timeline. But I think all too often the case is that a timeline dominates over doing what is the right thing and I think as we get further into this we'll have to really assess and keep a grip of what's the right thing to do.", "speakerName": "Philip Blaker" }, { "text": "Thank you.", "speakerName": "Mark Reckless AM" }, { "text": "Very briefly, Darren.", "speakerName": "Lynne Neagle AM" }, { "text": "Just on this issue of shaping the curriculum and making sure that we've got textbooks that can be used to support the delivery of the curriculum—. So, obviously, the WJEC's interested in the examinations and the qualifications. That's your role as well in terms of Qualifications Wales. So, who should be responsible for developing these curriculum resources?", "speakerName": "Darren Millar AM" }, { "text": "I think, for a new model, that needs to be determined. Welsh Government has a role in curriculum at the moment. They have responsibility for curriclum and they've already started work with the seminar last year, and then drawing people together now to look at a new model for the future. I think we need to evolve that approach, and I think Welsh Government taking a lead on some of this thinking about how things might be prepared for the future is probably a good position to be in at the moment.", "speakerName": "Philip Blaker" }, { "text": "Are there any other models that you can point us to in terms of how these things are done elsewhere?", "speakerName": "Darren Millar AM" }, { "text": "Yes, there are models where you can have—. For example, in Northern Ireland, you have the regulator, the awarding body and the curriculum body all under one roof. So, you can have a position where everything is tied together as it is in Northern Ireland with the Council for the Curriculum, Examinations and Assessment. Equally, if you look at somewhere like Hong Kong, you have very distinct bodies that are looking after each individual component. So, there are lots of different models that can be developed. But, of course, in Wales, and also previously in England, the qualifications regulator has also had a responsibility for curriculum. So, there has been that model in the past in Wales.", "speakerName": "Philip Blaker" }, { "text": "Just very briefly.", "speakerName": "Gareth Pierce" }, { "text": "Really quickly, please.", "speakerName": "Lynne Neagle AM" }, { "text": "Just one thing very briefly, in terms of the WJEC. I mentioned earlier that, in the past, the WJEC has produced a fair few resources in collaboration with publishers in key stage 3 and even at primary stages. Certainly, key stage 3 is closely linked to GCSE, and, therefore, if the WJEC continues to be a player—as I hope it will—in the area of resources for GCSE and A-level, then the WJEC is also well positioned in terms of our investment in editing, translating and the use of technology to contribute to key stage 3 most certainly and perhaps even the primary stages. So, I'm sure that the WJEC would want to offer itself as a national organisation that wants to contribute as best we can in this area.", "speakerName": "Gareth Pierce" }, { "text": "Okay. Thank you very much. Well, we're out of time, so can I thank you very much for attending this morning and for answering all our questions? I think it's been a very useful and informative session. As usual, you'll be sent a transcript to check for accuracy, following the meeting. But thank you very much, again, for your attendance.", "speakerName": "Lynne Neagle AM" }, { "text": "Thank you very much.", "speakerName": "Gareth Pierce" }, { "text": "Item 4 is papers to note. In view of the time, can I ask whether Members are happy to note all those papers in a block? Can I just flag that I would like to return to paper to note 3, which is the letter from the Cabinet Secretary for Education on minority ethnic, Gypsy, Roma and Traveller learners, when we go into private, if that's okay with Members? Item 5, then, is for me to propose, in accordance with Standing Order 17.42, that the committee resolves to meet in private for the remainder of the meeting. Are Members content? 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Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "In fact, uh m my brother's a gerontological psychologist and he he uh came up with an an uh a uh body age test which uh gets down to sort of only three measurements that are good enough st statistical predictors of all the rest of it. And one of them is is the distance that you have to hold it at.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Give someone a piece of paper and then they Oh.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "We're we're live by the way, so we've got a good intro here", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "Oh. Yeah. About how old I am.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Yep.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "OK.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "We can edit that out if you want.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "Oh, that's optional.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "No, that's OK.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "OK. So. This time the form discussion should be very short,", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "You know.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "right?", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "It also should be later.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "OK.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "Because Jane uh is not here yet.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Good point.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "And uh she'll be most interested in that. Uh, she's probably least involved in the signal - processing stuff so maybe we can just just uh, I don't think we should go though an elaborate thing, but um uh Jose and I were just talking about the uh uh, speech e energy thing,", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "The @ @.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "and I uh.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "We didn't talk about the derivatives. But I think, you know, the the i if I can if you don't mind my my speaking for you for a bit, um Uh. Right now, that he's not really showing any kind of uh distinction, but uh but we discussed a couple of the possible things that uh he can look at. Um. And uh one is that uh this is all in log energy and log energy is basically compressing the distances uh between things. Um Another is that he needs to play with the the different uh uh temporal sizes. He was he he was taking everything over two hundred milliseconds uh, and uh he's going to vary that number and also look at moving windows, as we discussed before. Um And uh and the other thing is that the yeah doing the subtracting off the mean and the variance in the uh and dividing it by the standard deviation in the log domain, may not be the right thing to do.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Hi Jane!", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "Hi.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "We just started.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Could you take that mike there?", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "Are these the long term means? Like, over the whole I mean, the means of what?", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Thanks.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "Uh B Between between.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "All the frames in the conversation?", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "No.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Or of things that.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Between Neither. It's uh between the pauses uh for some segment.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "No.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Oh.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "And so i i his his He's making the constraint it has to be at least two hundred milliseconds.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Oh.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "And so you take that. And then he's he's uh measuring at the frame level still at the frame level, of what.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "and then and then just uh normalizing with that larger amount. um and But one thing he was pointing out is when he he looked at a bunch of examples in log domain, it is actually pretty hard to see the change. And you can sort of see that, because of j of just putting it on the board that if you sort of have log - X plus log - X, that's the log of X plus the log of two", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Yep.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Yeah, maybe it's not log distributed.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Mmm. Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "and it's just, you know, it it diminishes the effect of having two of them.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Um.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "But you could do like a C D F there instead? I mean, we don't know that the distribution here is normally.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Yes, right. So So what I was suggesting to him is that.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "So just some kind of a simple.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Actually, a PDF. But, you know, uh But, either way.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "PDF", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Yeah. Yeah, eith eith uh B", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Something like that where it's sort of data driven.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Yeah, but I think also u I think a good first indicator is when the the the researcher looks at examples of the data and can not see a change in how big the the signal is, when the two speaker.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Yeah. Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Then, that's a problem right there. So. I think you should at least be able,", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Oh yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "doing casual looking and can get the sense, \" Hey, there's something there. \" and then you can play around with the measures. And when he's looking in the log domain he's not really seeing it.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Oh yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "So. And when he's looking in straight energy he is, so that's a good place to start.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Um. So that was that was the discussion we just had. Um. The other thing Actually we ca had a question for Adam in this. Uh, when you did the sampling? uh over the speech segments or s or sampling over the the individual channels in order to do the e uh the amplitude equalization, did you do it over just the entire everything in the mike channels?", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "How.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "You didn't try to find speech?", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "No, I just took over the entire s uh entire channel um sampled ten minutes randomly.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "Right, OK. So then that means that someone who didn't speak very much would be largely represented by silence.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Yep.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "And someone who would who would be So the normalization factor probably is i i i is is.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Yeah, this was quite quick and dirty, and it was just for listening.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "And for listening it seems to work really well.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "OK.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "So.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "Yeah. But that's.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "But, it's not Not a good measure.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "Right. So th", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "OK. So yeah there there there There's a good chance then given that different people do talk different amounts that there is there there is still a lot more to be gained from gain norm normalization with some sort", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Yeah. Yeah. Mmm.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Yes, absolutely.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "if if we can figure out a way to do it.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Uh. But we were agreed that in addition to that uh there should be s stuff related to pitch and harmonics and so forth.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "So we didn't talk at all about uh the other derivatives, but uh again just just looking at Uh, I think uh Liz has a very good point, that in fact it would be much more graphic just to show Well, actually, you do have some distributions here, uh for these cases.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Yeah. Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "You have some histograms, um and uh, they don't look very separate.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "uh separated.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "This is the the first derivate of log of frame energy uh without any kind of normalization.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "What.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Log energy. Sorry.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "These the These are the the first experiments uh with comment uh", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Frame energy.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Except that it's hard to judge this because the they're not normalized. It's just number of frames.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "But yeah, even so.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "W I mean, what I meant is, even if you use linear, you know, raw measures, like raw energy or whatever,", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "\" Number \".", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "maybe we shouldn't make any assumptions about the distribution's shape, and just use you know, use the distribution to model the the mean, or what y you know, rather than the mean take some.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Yeah. But And so in in these he's got that.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "He's got some pictures. But he doesn't he doesn't in the he i", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "just in derivatives, but not in the.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Yeah. Oh.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "but he d but he doesn't doesn't.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Right. So, we don't know what they look like on the, tsk For the raw.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "But he didn't h have it for the energy. He had it for the derivatives. Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Yeah. So. I mean, there might be something there. I don't know.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Huh.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Interesting", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "Here I I", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Oh that yeah that's a good q", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "in No I I I haven't the result", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "did did you have this sort of thing, for just the just the l r uh the the unnormalized log energy? OK. Yeah. So she she's right.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "but it's the it's the the the following.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "That's a.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Well it might be just good to know what it looks like.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Yeah. That's That's uh cuz I'd mentioned scatter plots before but she's right,", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Cuz.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Huh?", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "I mean, even before you get the scatter plots, just looking at a single feature uh, looking at the distribution, is a good thing to do.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Yeah. Catal - uh Combining the different possibilities of uh the parameters. I I I I mean the the the scatter plot combining eh different n two combination.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Yeah, but but what she's saying is, which is right, is le", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "combination of two, of energy and derivate.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "I mean, let's start with the Before we get complicated, let's start with the most basic wh thing, which is we're arguing that if you take energy uh if you look at the energy, that, when two people are speaking at the same time, usually there'll be more energy than when one is right?", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "That's that sort of hypothesis.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "That's right.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "And the first way you'd look at that, uh s she's, you know, absolutely right, is that you would just take a look at the distribution of those two things, much as you've plotted them here,", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "You know, but just but just just uh do it.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Well in this case you have three. You have the silence, and that that's fine.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "So, uh with three colors or three shades or whatever, just just look at those distributions.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "And then, given that as a base, you can see if that gets improved, you know, or or or worsened by the looking at regular energy, looking at log energy, we were just proposing that maybe it's you know, it's harder to see with the log energy, um and uh also these different normalizations, does a particular choice of normalization make it better?", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "But I had maybe made it too complicated by suggesting early on, that you look at scatter plots because that's looking at a distribution in two dimensions. Let's start off just in one, uh, with this feature.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Yeah. Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "I think that's probably the most basic thing, before anything very complicated.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Um And then we w I think we're agreed that pitch - related things are are are going to be a a really likely candidate to help.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Yeah. I agree, yeah. Uh - huh.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Um But since uh your intuition from looking at some of the data, is that when you looked at the regular energy, that it did in fact usually go up, when two people were talking, that's eh you know, you should be able to come up with a measure which will match your intuition.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "OK. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah, yeah, yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "And she's right, that a that having a having having this table, with a whole bunch of things, with the standard deviation, the variance and so forth, it's it's it's harder to interpret than just looking at the the same kind of picture you have here.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "But Uh - huh. Yeah. But It it's curious but uh I f I found it in the in the mixed file, in one channel that eh in several oh e eh several times eh you have an speaker talking alone with a high level of energy", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm. Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "eh in the middle eh a zone of overlapping with mmm less energy", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "and eh come with another speaker with high energy", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "and the overlapping zone has eh less energy.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Yeah. So there'll be some cases for which.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Because there reach very many", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "But, the qu So So they'll be.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "This is I w want to point to visual things, But I mean they there'll be time There'll be overlap between the distributions, but the question is, \" If it's a reasonable feature at all, there's some separation. \"", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Yeah. Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Especially locally.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "So. Locally.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "just locally, yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "And I was just going to say that that right now we're just exploring.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "And the other thing is I Sorry. I.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "What you would imagine eventually, is that you'll feed all of these features into some discriminative system.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "And so even if if one of the features does a good job at one type of overlap, another feature might do a good job at another type of overlap.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Right. I mean the the reason I had suggested the scatter f p features is I used to do this a lot, when we had thirteen or fifteen or twenty features to look at.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Yeah, this is the.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "um Because something is a good feature uh by itself, you don't really know how it'll behave in combination and so it's nice to have as many as many together at the same time as possible in uh in some reasonable visual form. There's cool graphic things people have had sometimes to put together three or four in some funny funny way. But it's true that you shouldn't do any of that unless you know that the individual ones, at least, have have some uh some hope", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Well, especially for normalizing.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "I mean, it's really important to pick a normalization that matches the distribution for that feature.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "And it may not be the same for all the types of overlaps or the windows may not be the same. e Actually, I was wondering, right now you're taking a all of the speech, from the whole meeting, and you're trying to find points of overlap, but we don't really know which speaker is overlapping with which speaker,", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "right? So I mean another way would just be to take the speech from just, say, Morgan, And just Jane and then just their overlaps,", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "like but by hand, by cheating, and looking at you know, if you can detect something that way, because if we can't do it that way, there's no good way that we're going to be able to do it.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "No prayer.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "That You know, there might be something helpful and cleaner about looking at just individuals and then that combination alone.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Plus, I think it has more elegant e", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "The m the right model will be easier to see that way. So if I don't know, if you go through and you find Adam, cuz he has a lot of overlaps and some other speaker who also has e enough speech", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "and just sort of look at those three cases of Adam and the other person and the overlaps,", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "maybe and just look at the distributions, maybe there is a clear pattern", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "but we just can't see it because there's too many combinations of of people that can overlap.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Uh - huh. Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "I had the same intuition last last last week.", "speakerName": "Postdoc B" }, { "text": "So. Just seems sort of complex.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "I think it's to start with it's s your your idea of simplifying, starting with something that you can see eh you know without the extra layers of.", "speakerName": "Postdoc B" }, { "text": "Right. Cuz if energy doesn't matter there, like I don't think this is true, but what if", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "To study individual?", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Sorry, what?", "speakerName": "Postdoc B" }, { "text": "Hmm?", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "To study individual?", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Well, you you you don't have to study everybody individually", "speakerName": "Postdoc B" }, { "text": "Well, to study the simplest case to get rid of extra.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "The the the But Consider.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "but just simple case and the one that has the lot of data associated with it.", "speakerName": "Postdoc B" }, { "text": "Right. Cuz what if it's the case and I don't think this is true.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "That was a great overlap by the way.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "What if it's the case that when two people overlap they equate their you know, there's a conservation of energy and everybody both people talk more softly? I don't think this happens at all.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Or or what if what if the equipment what if the equipment adjusts somehow,", "speakerName": "Postdoc B" }, { "text": "Or they get louder.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "there's some equalizing in there?", "speakerName": "Postdoc B" }, { "text": "Yeah or.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Uh, no we don't have that.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "I mean.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Well, but But I think that's what I was saying about different types of overlap.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "OK.", "speakerName": "Postdoc B" }, { "text": "But.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Saturation.", "speakerName": "Postdoc B" }, { "text": "There are there are different types, and within those types, like as Jose was saying, that sounded like a backchannel overlap, meaning the kind that's a friendly encouragement, like \" Mm - hmm. \", \" Great! \", \" Yeah! \"", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "And it doesn't take you don't take the floor. Um, but, some of those, as you showed, I think can be discriminated by the duration of the overlap.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "So. It Actually the s new student, Don, who um Adam has met, and he was at one of our meetings He's getting his feet wet and then he'll be starting again in mid - January. He's interested in trying to distinguish the types of overlap. I don't know if he's talked with you yet. But in sort of honing in on these different types", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Yeah. I don't consi Now I don't consider that possibility.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "and So maybe.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "This is a s a general studio of the overlapping we're studying the i", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Yeah. Well I I I I would s actually still recommend that he do the overall thing", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "So it might be something that we can help by categorizing some of them and then, you know, look at that.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "because it would be the quickest thing for him to do. He could You see, he already has all his stuff in place,", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "he has the histogram mechanism, he has the stuff that subtracts out and all he has to do is change it uh uh from from log to plain energy and plot the histogram and look at it. And then he should go on and do the other stuff bec but But this will.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Yeah. Yeah, no. I didn't mean that that for you to do that, but I was thinking if if Don and I are trying to get categories", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm. Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "and we label some data for you, and we say this is what we think is going So you don't have to worry about it. And here's the three types of overlaps.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "And we'll we'll do the labelling for you.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Hm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Um.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Consider different class of overlap?", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Yeah, that we would be working on anyway.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "If there's time.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Then maybe you can try some different things for those three cases, and see if that helps, or.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Yeah. Yeah. This is the thing I I comment with you before, that uh we have a great variation of th situation of overlapping.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "And the behavior for energy is, uh log energy, is not uh the same all the time.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "And.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "But I guess I was just saying that that right now uh from the means that you gave, I don't have any sense of whether even, you know, there are any significant number of cases for which there is distinct and I would imagine there should be some you know, there should be The distributions should be somewhat separated.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Yeah. Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Uh and I I would still guess that if they are not separated at all, that there's some there's there's most likely something wrong in the way that we're measuring it.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Yeah. Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Um, but um For instance, I mean I wouldn't expect that it was very common overall, that when two people were talking at the same time, that it would that it really was lower,", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "although sometimes, as you say, it would.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "So. So.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Yeah, no, that was That was a jok", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "or a sort of, a case where where you would never know that unless you actually go and look at two individuals.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "I mean. No. It could it probably does happen sometimes.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "Yeah. Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Mind if I turned that light off?", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "So.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "The flickering is annoying me.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "OK.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "It might the case, though, that the significant energy, just as Jose was saying, comes in the non - backchannel cases. Because in back Most people when they're talking don't change their own energy when they get a backchannel, cuz they're not really predicting the backchannel.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "And sometimes it's a nod and sometimes it's an \" mm - hmm \".", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "And the \" mm - hmm \" is really usually very low energy.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "So maybe those don't actually have much difference in energy. But all the other cases might.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "e e and and again what they what difference there was would kind of be lost in taking the log,", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "and the backchannels are sort of easy to spot s in terms of their words or I mean, just listen to it.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "So.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "so, as well.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Well, it would be lost no matter what you do.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "But Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "It just.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Mmm, no, if it's if i if it's.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Tone", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "Well, it won't be as big.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "I mean, even if you take the log, you can your model just has a more sensitive measures.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Sure, but tone might be very", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "So.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Yeah, you're \" mm - hmm \" tone is going to be very different.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "Yeah. Right. Right.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "You could imagine doing specialized ones for different types of backchannels, if you could if you had a good model for it. Your \" mm - hmm \" detector.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "If if you're a I guess my point is, if you're doing essentially a linear separation, taking the log first does in fact make it harder to separate.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "So it's So, uh if you i i So i if there if there close to things it does", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "it's a nonlinear operation that does in fact change the distinction. If you're doing a non if you're doing some fancy thing then then yeah. And right now we're essentially doing this linear thing by looking across here and and saying we're going to cut it here. Um and that that's the indicator that we're getting. But anyway, yeah, we're not disagreeing on any of this, we should look at it more uh more finely, but uh uh I think that This often happens, you do fairly complicated things, and then you stand back from them and you realize that you haven't done something simple. So uh, if you generated something like that just for the energy and see, and then, a a a as as Liz says, when they g have uh uh smaller um, more coherent groups to look at, that would be another interesting thing later.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Uh - huh.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "And then that should give us some indication between those, should give us some indication of whether there's anything to be achieved f from energy at all.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Uh - huh.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "And then you can move on to the uh uh more pitch related stuff.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm. I I I think this is a good idea.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "OK.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Postdoc B" }, { "text": "Not consider the log energy.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Yeah. But then the Have you started looking at the pitch related stuff at all, or? Pitch related?", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "The?", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Harmonicity and so on?", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "I I'm preparing the the program but I don't I don't begin because eh I saw your email", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Preparing to Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "and I agree with you it's better to I suppose it's better to to consider the the energy this kind of parameter bef", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Yeah. Oh, that's not what I meant. No, no. I I I I Well, we certainly should see this but I I I I think that the harm I certainly wasn't saying this was better than the harmonicity and pitch related things I was just saying", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "I I go on with the with the pitch,", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "aha! OK.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Yeah, I was just saying.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "I I I I understood uh that eh I I had to finish by the moment with the and and concentrate my my energy in that problem.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "OK. OK. OK. But I think, like, all these derivatives and second derivatives and all these other very fancy things, I think I would just sort of look at the energy and then get into the harmonicity as as a suggestion.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "OK. I go on with the pitch.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Uh OK. So maybe uh since w we're trying to uh compress the meeting, um, I know Adam had some form stuff he wanted to talk about and did you have some?", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "I wanted to ask just s something on the end of this top topic. So, when I presented my results about the uh distribution of overlaps and the speakers and the profiles of the speakers, at the bottom of that I did have a proposal,", "speakerName": "Postdoc B" }, { "text": "Uh - huh.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "and I had plan to go through with it, of of co coding the types of overlaps that people were involved in s just with reference to speaker style so, you know, with reference.", "speakerName": "Postdoc B" }, { "text": "Oh.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "and you know I said that on my in my summary,", "speakerName": "Postdoc B" }, { "text": "That'd be great.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "that you know so it's like people may have different amounts of being overlapped with or overlapping", "speakerName": "Postdoc B" }, { "text": "Yeah, I remem Right.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "but that in itself is not informative without knowing what types of overlaps they're involved in so I was planning to do a taxonomy of types overlaps with reference to that.", "speakerName": "Postdoc B" }, { "text": "That would be great.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "So, but it you know it's like it sounds like you also have uh something in that direction.", "speakerName": "Postdoc B" }, { "text": "That would be really great.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Hmm.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "Is is it.", "speakerName": "Postdoc B" }, { "text": "We have nothing You know, basically, we got his environment set up. He's he's a double - E you know. So. It's mostly that, if we had to label it ourselves, we we would or we'd have to, to get started, but if It it would be much better if you can do it. You'd be much better at doing it also because you know, I I'm not I don't have a good feel for how they should be sorted out,", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Interesting.", "speakerName": "Postdoc B" }, { "text": "and I really didn't wanna go into that if I didn't have to. So if If you're w willing to do that or or.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "It would be interesting, though, to talk, maybe not at the meeting, but at some other time about what are the classes.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "Well maybe we can OK.", "speakerName": "Postdoc B" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Postdoc B" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Postdoc B" }, { "text": "I think that's a research effort in and of itself,", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Yeah, it would be interesting.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "because you can read the literature, but I don't know how it'll turn out", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "and, You know, it's always an interesting question.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "It seems like we also s with reference to a purpose, too, that we we'd want to have them coded.", "speakerName": "Postdoc B" }, { "text": "I would think it's interesting, yeah. Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "That'd be great.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Yep.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "OK.", "speakerName": "Postdoc B" }, { "text": "That'd be really great.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "I can do that.", "speakerName": "Postdoc B" }, { "text": "And we'd still have some funding for this project,", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "uh uh", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "like probably, if we had to hire some like an undergrad, because uh Don is being covered half time on something else.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Postdoc B" }, { "text": "I mean, he we're not paying him the full RA - ship for all the time. So. um If we got it to where we wanted we needed someone to do that I don't think there's really enough data where where.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm. Yeah, I see this as a prototype, to use the only the the already transcribed meeting as just a prototype.", "speakerName": "Postdoc B" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "I I think a a another parameter we c we we can consider is eh the duration.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "But.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "Another e e m besides eh the the class of overlap, the duration. Because is possible eh some s s um eh some classes eh has eh a type of a duration, eh, a duration very short uh when we have we have overlapping with speech.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Postdoc B" }, { "text": "Yeah, definitely.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Yeah, maybe It may be correlated. Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Postdoc B" }, { "text": "Is possible to have. And it's interesting, I think, to consider the the window of normalization, normalization window. Eh because eh if we have a type of, a kind of eh overlap, eh backchannel overlap, with a short duration, is possible eh to normali i i that if we normalize eh with eh eh consider only the the eh window eh by the left eh ri eh side on the right side overlapping with a a very eh oh a small window eh the if the fit of normalization is eh mmm bigger eh in that overlapping zone eh very short", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Postdoc B" }, { "text": "Yeah, that's true. The window shouldn't be larger than the backchannel.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "I I me I I understand. I mean that you have eh you have a backchannel, eh, eh you have a overlapping zone very short", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "and you consider eh n eh all the channel to normalize this very short eh.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm. Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "for example \" mmm mm - hmm hmm \" eh And the energy is not eh height eh I think if you consider all the channel to normalize and the channel is mmm bigger eh eh eh compared with the with the overlapping eh duration,", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "eh the effect is mmm stronger eh that I I mean the the e effect of the normalization eh with the mean and the and the variance eh is different that if you consider only a window compared eh with the n the duration of overlapping.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm. You you want it around the overlapping part.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Not Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "You want it to include something that's not in overlapping", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Postdoc B" }, { "text": "but but uh", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Yeah. I I don't know.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Is s If.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Well it's a sliding window, right? So if you take the the measure in the center of the overlapped piece, you know, there'd better be some something.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Yeah. Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "But if your window is really huge then yeah you're right you won't even.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Yeah, This is the This is the the idea, to consider only the the small window near near near the the overlapping zone.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "The portion of the of the backchannel won't won't effect anything. But you Yeah. So. You know, you shouldn't be more than like You should definitely not be three times as big as your as your backchannel.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Postdoc B" }, { "text": "Then you're gonna w have a wash. And hopefully it's more like on the order of.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "I'm not sure that's necessarily true.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Yeah?", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "It is an empirical question, it seems like.", "speakerName": "Postdoc B" }, { "text": "Because because it because um again if you're just compensating for the gain,", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Yea", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Postdoc B" }, { "text": "you know, the fact that this this gain thing was crude, and the gain wh if someone is speaking relatively at consistent level, just to to give a an extreme example, all you're doing is compensating for that. And then you still s And then if you look at the frame with respect to that, it still should should uh change", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Yeah, it depends how different your normalization is, as you slide your window across.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "I mean. That's something we don't know.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "It's possible to try it both ways,", "speakerName": "Postdoc B" }, { "text": "Well, I mean we're also talking about a couple of different things.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "isn't it? in this small", "speakerName": "Postdoc B" }, { "text": "I mean, one is your analysis window and then the other is any sort of normalization that you're doing.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "Yeah I was talking about the n normalization window.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "And the And they could be quite different.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "This was sort of where where we were last week.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Yep.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "Yeah. That's true. Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "But, anyway We we'll have to look at some core things.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "OK.", "speakerName": "Postdoc B" }, { "text": "Um. But that'd be great if if you're marking those", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "OK.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Great.", "speakerName": "Postdoc B" }, { "text": "and um.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "OK.", "speakerName": "Postdoc B" }, { "text": "But it is definitely true that we need to have the time marks,", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Postdoc B" }, { "text": "and I was assuming that will be inherited because, if you have the words and they're roughly aligned in time via forced alignment or whatever we end up using, then you know, this student and I would be looking at the time marks", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Yep, I agree. Mm - hmm. Coming off of the other.", "speakerName": "Postdoc B" }, { "text": "and classifying all the frames inside those as whatever labels Jane gave", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Good. So, it wouldn't be I wasn't planning to label the time marks.", "speakerName": "Postdoc B" }, { "text": "I can give you my transcription file,", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "I was thinking that that would come from the engineering side,", "speakerName": "Postdoc B" }, { "text": "I don't think you need to.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "no?", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "yeah.", "speakerName": "Postdoc B" }, { "text": "Yeah. That should be linked to the words which are linked to time somehow,", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "There you go.", "speakerName": "Postdoc B" }, { "text": "Well we're not any time soon going to get a forced alignment.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "right? Not now.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "So.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Um If it's not hand - marked then we're not going to get the times.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "Well, it's something that w Well, we we wouldn't be able to do any work without a forced alignment anyway,", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Yes", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "so somehow if once he gets going we're gonna hafta come up with one", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Yes.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "and Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "I mean w I guess we could do a very bad one with Broadcast News.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "Good. Good.", "speakerName": "Postdoc B" }, { "text": "So whatever you would label would be attached to the words, I think.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Great! Good, good. Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Postdoc B" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Well again for the close mike stuff, we could come up take a s take the Switchboard system or something,", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "That might be good enough. Yeah.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "and Um", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "It'd be worth a try. It would be interesting to see what we get.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "Just, you know, low - pass filter the speech and.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Cuz there's there's a lot of work you can't do without that, I mean, how how would you.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "You'd have to go in and measure every start and stop point next to a word", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Yep.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "It would be very inefficient.", "speakerName": "Postdoc B" }, { "text": "is y if you're interested in anything to do with words.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Postdoc B" }, { "text": "So. Anyway So that'd be great.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Good. OK.", "speakerName": "Postdoc B" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "There's something we should talk about later but maybe not just now. But, uh, should talk about our options as far as the uh uh transcription", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Yep, if IBM doesn't.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "But. Well, w But we'll do that later.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "OK. Good.", "speakerName": "Postdoc B" }, { "text": "Do we hafta turn.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Yeah. Let's do that later.", "speakerName": "Postdoc B" }, { "text": "Are we supposed to keep recording here?", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Yeah Right.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Postdoc B" }, { "text": "We'll talk about it later.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Postdoc B" }, { "text": "So uh Uh \" forms \".", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Forms Next iteration of forms.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "You had something on forms.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Oops.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "Oh! Oh good, OK.", "speakerName": "Postdoc B" }, { "text": "Um. Oh.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "How So it's two pages per person?", "speakerName": "Postdoc B" }, { "text": "Nope. One's a digit form, one's a speaker form.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "Oh!", "speakerName": "Postdoc B" }, { "text": "So one is a one time only speaker form and the other is the digits.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "Oh, I see.", "speakerName": "Postdoc B" }, { "text": "Oh it's the same. Oh no no. Is is new Is OK.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "So don't fill these out.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "Alright.", "speakerName": "Postdoc B" }, { "text": "This is just the suggestion for uh what the new forms would look like. So, they incorporate the changes that we talked about.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "Date and time. Uh why did you switch the order of the Date and Time fields? This is rather a low - level, but", "speakerName": "Postdoc B" }, { "text": "On which one?", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "On on the new one, Time comes first and then Date, but I thought.", "speakerName": "Postdoc B" }, { "text": "Oh you mean on the digit form?", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "This is this is rather a low level question, but but it used used to be Date came first.", "speakerName": "Postdoc B" }, { "text": "Uh, because the user fills out the first three fields and I fill out the rest.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "Oh I see.", "speakerName": "Postdoc B" }, { "text": "So it was intentional.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "Well, how would the How would the user know the time if they didn't know the date?", "speakerName": "Postdoc B" }, { "text": "It's an interesting observation, but it was intentional. Because the date is when you actually read the digits and the time and, excuse me, the time is when you actually read the digits, but I'm filling out the date beforehand. If you look at the form in front of you? that you're going to fill out when you read the digits? you'll see I've already filled in the date but not the time.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "Yeah. I always assumed So the time is supposed to be pretty exact, because I've just been taking beginning time time of the meeting.", "speakerName": "Postdoc B" }, { "text": "Yeah, me too.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Yeah, I've noticed that in the forms.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "Yeah, I yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "The the reason I put the time in, is so that the person who's extracting the digits, meaning me, will know where to look in the meeting, to try to find the digits.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "Me too. Oh!", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Oh dear. We've been we've been messing up your forms.", "speakerName": "Postdoc B" }, { "text": "But I am put I am putting the beginning of the meeting.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "I know.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "So you should call it, like, \" digits start time \". Or.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "And I haven't said anything. Yep.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "in on there.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Why What what were you putting in?", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Oh, well, I was saying if we started the meeting at two thirty,", "speakerName": "Postdoc B" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "I'd put two thirty, and I guess d e everyone was putting two thirty,", "speakerName": "Postdoc B" }, { "text": "Oh.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "No, it's about fifty fifty.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "and I didn't realize there was \" uh oh I'm about to read this and I should \".", "speakerName": "Postdoc B" }, { "text": "Actually it's about one third each. About one third of them are blank, about one third of them are when the digits are read, and about one third of them are when the meeting starts. So.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "Oh.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "This would be a radical suggestion but.", "speakerName": "Postdoc B" }, { "text": "I could put instructions? Nah.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "Ei - either that or maybe you could maybe write down when people start reading digits on that particular session.", "speakerName": "Postdoc B" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "But if I'm not at the meeting, I can't do that.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "I know, OK. That's a good point.", "speakerName": "Postdoc B" }, { "text": "Yeah, he's been setting stuff up and going away. So.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "I see. Good point good point.", "speakerName": "Postdoc B" }, { "text": "For some reason he doesn't want to sit through every meeting that's.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Yep, but that is the reason Name, Email and Time are where they are.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "Oh, OK. Alright.", "speakerName": "Postdoc B" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "I rest my.", "speakerName": "Postdoc B" }, { "text": "And then the others are later on.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "Uh - huh.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "OK. w", "speakerName": "Postdoc B" }, { "text": "And the Seat is this number?", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "Seat and Session.", "speakerName": "Postdoc B" }, { "text": "\" For official use only \" That's Well, he's very professional.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "\" use only \"", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Actually you could Well that does raise another question, which is why is the \" Professional use only \" line not higher? Why doesn't it come in at the point of Date and Seat? Oh. Because we're filling in other things.", "speakerName": "Postdoc B" }, { "text": "What?", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "What?", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Well, because If y your your professional use, you're gonna already have the date, and the s", "speakerName": "Postdoc B" }, { "text": "What which form are you talking about?", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "Well I'm comparing the new one with the old one. This is the digit form.", "speakerName": "Postdoc B" }, { "text": "Oh.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Oh you're talking about the digit form.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "Digit. Digit form.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "The digit form doesn't The digit.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "Oh! I wasn't supposed to.", "speakerName": "Postdoc B" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "No, that's alright.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "Sorry. Sorry.", "speakerName": "Postdoc B" }, { "text": "The digit form doesn't have a \" for official use only \" line. It just has a line, which is what you're supposed to read.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "That uh OK.", "speakerName": "Postdoc B" }, { "text": "So on the digits form, everything above the line is a fill - in form", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "Sorry about that. Yeah.", "speakerName": "Postdoc B" }, { "text": "and everything below the line is digits that the user reads.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "Yeah. OK. Alright s but I didn't mean to derail our discussion here, so you really wanted to start with this other form.", "speakerName": "Postdoc B" }, { "text": "No, either way is fine I just You just started talking about something, and I didn't know which form you were referring to.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "Alright yeah, I was comparing so th this is So I was looking at the change first. So it's like we started with this and now we've got a new version of it wi with reference to this. So the digit form, we had one already. Now the f the fields are slightly different.", "speakerName": "Postdoc B" }, { "text": "So the main thing that the person fills out um is the name and email and time?", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "You do the rest?", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Ah!", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Yep. Just as uh as I have for all the others.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "What And there's an addition of the native language, which is a bit redundant.", "speakerName": "Postdoc B" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "This one has Native Language and this one does too.", "speakerName": "Postdoc B" }, { "text": "That's because the one, the digit form that has native language is the old form not the new form.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "Oh! Thank you. Thank you, thank you. There we go.", "speakerName": "Postdoc B" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Oh, yeah. I'll catch up here. OK, I see.", "speakerName": "Postdoc B" }, { "text": "\" South Midland, North Midland \"", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "That's the old and that's the new.", "speakerName": "Postdoc B" }, { "text": "Yeah this was the problem with these categories, I I picked those categories from TIMIT. I don't know what those are.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "Actually, the only way I know is from working with the database and having to figure it out.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "What.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "With TIMIT, yeah?", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "uh - huh.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "So, I was gonna ask", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "What i", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "So is South Midland like Kansas?", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "wh w I mean.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "and North Midland like like uh Illinois, or?", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Well yeah. Nor - um.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "So so what accent are we speaking? Western?", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "By definition?", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "And for simple for for me?", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Well,", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Probably Western, yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Is mean my native language Spanish Spanish? eh The original is the center of Spain and the beca", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Yeah, I mean you could call it whatever you want. For the foreign language we couldn't classify every single one. So I just left it blank and you can put whatever you want.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "Because is different, the Span - uh the Spanish language from the the north of Spain, of the south, of the west and the.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Sure.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "But.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "So I'm not sure what to do about the Region field for English variety. You know, when I wrote I was writing those down, I was thinking, \" You know, these are great if you're a linguist \".", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "But I don't know how to I don't know how to I don't know how to categorize them.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Postdoc B" }, { "text": "Actually even if you t", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Postdoc B" }, { "text": "If you're if e if y", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "This wasn't developed by th these regions weren't.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "if you're a TI or MIT from nineteen eighty - five.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Yeah So I guess my only question was if if you were a South Midland speaking region, person? Would you know it?", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Is that what you would call yourself?", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "I don't know.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "You know, I think if you're talking if you're thinking in terms of places, as opposed to names different peop names people have given to different ways of talking, I would think North Midwest, and South Midwest would be more common than saying Midland, right, I mean, I I went to s", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Yeah. Now the usage Maybe we can give them a li like a little map? with the regions and they just No, I'm serious.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "No, that's not bad. Yeah.", "speakerName": "Postdoc B" }, { "text": "Because it takes less time, and it's sort of cute", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "i at this in that side in that side of the the paper.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "there's no figure.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Well.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Well just a little You know, it doesn't have all the detail, but you sort of.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "But what if you moved five times and and uh", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Well, I was thinking you could have ma multiple ones and then the amount of time.", "speakerName": "Postdoc B" }, { "text": "No, but you're categorized. That's the same.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "so, roughly. So. You could say, you know \" ten years on the east coast, five years on the west coast \" or something or other.", "speakerName": "Postdoc B" }, { "text": "Well, We I think we don't want to get that level of detail at this form. I think that's alright if we want to follow up. But.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "I guess we don't really know.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "I mean I As I said, I don't think there's a huge benefit to this region thing. It it gets The problem is that for some things it's really clear and usually listening to it you can tell right away if it's a New York or Boston accent, but New York and Boston are two well, I guess they have the NYC, but New England has a bunch of very different dialects and.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Postdoc B" }, { "text": "and so does um S So do other places.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Yeah, so I picked these regions cuz we had talked about TIMIT, and those are right from TIMIT.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "Right. And so these would be satisfying like a speech research community if we released the database,", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "So.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "but as to whether subjects know where they're from, I'm not sure because um I know that they had to fill this out for Switchboard. This is i almost exactly the same as Switchboard regions", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Oh. OK.", "speakerName": "Postdoc B" }, { "text": "or very close. Yeah. Um And I don't know how they filled that out. But th if Midland Yeah, Midland is the one that's difficult I guess.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "I think a lot of people Yeah.", "speakerName": "Postdoc B" }, { "text": "Also Northwest you've got Oreg - Washington and Oregon now which uh y people don't know if it's western or northern.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Yeah, I certainly don't. I mean, I was saying I don't even know what I speak.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "It's like Northwest", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Am I speaking Am I speaking Western?", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "Oh, what is Northern? Well and what and what's Northern?", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "I think originally it was North Northwest", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Northwest?", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "But.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Yeah, so this is a real problem. I don't know what to do about it.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "I wouldn't know how to characterize mine either. And and so I would think I would say, I've I've got a mix of California and Ohio.", "speakerName": "Postdoc B" }, { "text": "I c I think at the first level, for example, we speak the same.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "I don't know.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "our our dialects Or whatever you region are the same.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "Uh - huh.", "speakerName": "Postdoc B" }, { "text": "But I don't know what it is. So.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "Well, you have a like techno - speak accent I think.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "a techno - speak accent?", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "Yeah, you know?", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "A techno", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "A a geek region?", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "Well it's I mean I you can sort of identify", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Geek region.", "speakerName": "Postdoc B" }, { "text": "it f It's it's not not that that's.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Is different. Is different.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "but but maybe that maybe we could leave this and see what people See what people choose and then um let them just fill in if they don't I mean I don't know what else we can do, cuz That's North Midland.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "I'm wondering about a question like, \" Where are you from mostly? \"", "speakerName": "Postdoc B" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "But I I'm s I'm now that you mentioned it though, I am really am confused by \" Northern \".", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "I agree. I agree.", "speakerName": "Postdoc B" }, { "text": "I really am.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "I agree.", "speakerName": "Postdoc B" }, { "text": "I mean, if if you're in New England, that's North.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "If you're i if you're", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Scandinavian, the Minnesota area's north.", "speakerName": "Postdoc B" }, { "text": "Uh yeah. That's But that's also North Midland,", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Oh, @ @. OK.", "speakerName": "Postdoc B" }, { "text": "right?", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "And and and Oregon and and Oregon and Washington are are Western, but they're also Northern.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Yeah. Of course, that's very different from, like, Michigan, or.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Mmm.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Postdoc B" }, { "text": "uh, Idaho?", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Well there are hardly any subjects from Idaho.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Montana?", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "No problem.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "Just rule them out.", "speakerName": "Postdoc B" }, { "text": "There's only a few people in Idaho.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "There are hardly any subjects from \" beep \"", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Sorry.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Maybe Maybe we Maybe we should put a little map and say \" put an X on where you're from \",", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "No, that's.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "And is in those.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Yeah really.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "We could ask where they're from.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "And if you put.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "It'd be pretty simple, yeah.", "speakerName": "Postdoc B" }, { "text": "Yeah. But - We went back to that.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Yeah. If you put eh the state?", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Well well we sort of.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "Where are you from mostly?", "speakerName": "Postdoc B" }, { "text": "We we went we went around this and then a lot of people ended up saying that it.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Uh - huh. Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "You know.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Well, I like the idea of asking \" what variety of English do you speak \" as opposed to where you're from Because th if we start asking where we're from, again you have to start saying, \" well, is that the language you speak or is that just where you're from? \"", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Hmm?", "speakerName": "Postdoc B" }, { "text": "Right. Right.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Let's Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "I mean it gives us good information on where they're from, but that doesn't tell us anything.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "And.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "We could always ask them if they're from.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "well, enough about their.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "I mean. So so I would say Germany", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "like.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "You know am I speaking with German accent", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "Oh.", "speakerName": "Postdoc B" }, { "text": "I don't think so.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "Well, see, I'm thinking \" Where are you from mostly \"", "speakerName": "Postdoc B" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Oh, OK yeah.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "because, you know, then you have some some kind of subjective amount of time factored into it.", "speakerName": "Postdoc B" }, { "text": "Yeah. Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Yep. Yeah, I guess I could try to put squeeze in a little map.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "I mean there's not a lot of r of room", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "I'd say, uh, \" Boston, New York City, the South and Regular \".", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Well.", "speakerName": "Postdoc B" }, { "text": "Oh, I don't know.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "I think of those, Northern is the only one that I don't even know what they're meaning.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "Yeah. Yeah.", "speakerName": "Postdoc B" }, { "text": "And And Um And usually here people here know what is their kind of mmm lang English language?", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "That's a joke. That's.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "So let's make it up. S I mean, who cares. Right? We can make up our own So we can say \" Northwest \", \" Rest of West \" or something. You know. \" West \" and I mean.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Ye I don't think the Northwest people speak any differently than I do.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "It doesn't even Yeah, exactly. That's not really a region.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "I.", "speakerName": "Postdoc B" }, { "text": "\" Do you come from the Louisiana Purchase? \"", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "So we could take out \" North \" \" Northern \".", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "That that's exactly what we're arguing about.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "eh here Is easy for people to know?", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "That's Yeah, w It's In It's it's harder in America anywhere else, basically.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "We don't know.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "because you have.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "I mean some of them are very obvious. If you if you talk to someone speaking with Southern drawl, you know.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "N m Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Yeah, or Boston.", "speakerName": "Postdoc B" }, { "text": "Or Boston, yeah.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "I can't do it, but.", "speakerName": "Postdoc B" }, { "text": "Or Boston?", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "And those people, if you ask them to self - identify their accent they know.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Yeah, they do.", "speakerName": "Postdoc B" }, { "text": "They know very well.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Yeah I agree I agree. I agree.", "speakerName": "Postdoc B" }, { "text": "They know they don't speak the same as the", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "But is Boston New England?", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "And they're proud of it.", "speakerName": "Postdoc B" }, { "text": "day o", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Postdoc B" }, { "text": "Yeah, exactly.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "It's identity thing.", "speakerName": "Postdoc B" }, { "text": "And they're glad to tell you.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "style.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Well. Depends who you ask, I suppose.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "W I guess that's the problem with these categories.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "But that's why they have New York City but.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Well, we ca Well, why can't we just say characterize something like char characterize your accent", "speakerName": "Postdoc B" }, { "text": "Well, Boston's @ @, too.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Or \" Characterize your accent if you can. \"", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "and and so I would say, \" I don't know \".", "speakerName": "Postdoc B" }, { "text": "Yeah. Right, which probably means you have a very.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "But someone from Boston with a really strong coloration would know. And so would an R - less Maine or something,", "speakerName": "Postdoc B" }, { "text": "And that's actually good.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "yeah.", "speakerName": "Postdoc B" }, { "text": "I was I was thinking of something along that line", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "How", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Good.", "speakerName": "Postdoc B" }, { "text": "because if you don't know, then, you know, ruling out the fact that you're totally inept or something,", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Hmm.", "speakerName": "Postdoc B" }, { "text": "if somebody doesn't know, it probably means their accent isn't very strong compared to the sort of midwest standard.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Well, I mean, it wasn't that long ago that we had somebody here who was from Texas who was absolutely sure that he didn't have any accent left.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Hmm?", "speakerName": "Postdoc B" }, { "text": "And and had he had a pretty noticeable drawl.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "OK, so. I propose, take out Northern add, don't know.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "Oh. Yeah. I I would say more more sweepingly, \" how would you characterize your accent? \"", "speakerName": "Postdoc B" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "So you want to change the instructions also not just say region?", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "W", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Well, I think this discussion has made me think that's s something to consider.", "speakerName": "Postdoc B" }, { "text": "I don't know if I if I read this form, I think they're going to ask it they're going to answer the same way if you say, \" What's variety of English do you speak? Region. \" as if you say \" what variety of region region do you speak? Please characterize your accent? \" They're going to answer the same way.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "I guess Well, I was not sure that I.", "speakerName": "Postdoc B" }, { "text": "Mmm.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "So. I was suggesting not having the options, just having them.", "speakerName": "Postdoc B" }, { "text": "Oh, I see.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "Huh.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Well what we talked about with that is is so that they would understand the granularity.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "Yes, but if, as Liz is suggesting, people who have strong accents know that they do.", "speakerName": "Postdoc B" }, { "text": "I mean that's what I had before, and you told me to list the regions to list them.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "and are Well, I know.", "speakerName": "Postdoc B" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Each each one has pros and cons", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "So.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "That's true.", "speakerName": "Postdoc B" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "I mean we we.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Yeah last week last week I was sort of r arguing for having it wide open, but then everybody said \" Oh, no, but then it will be hard to interpret because some people will say Cincinnati and some will say Ohio \".", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "I mean I had it wide open last week and and you said TIMIT.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "And.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Postdoc B" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "What if we put in both?", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "That's what the \" Other \" is for.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "And Would people No, I mean what if we put in both ways of asking them? So. One is Region and the another one is \" if you had to characterize yourself your accent, what would you say? \"", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Won't they answer the same thing?", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "Well they might only answer only one of the questions but if", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Yeah that's fine.", "speakerName": "Postdoc B" }, { "text": "You know.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "They might say \" Other \" for Region because they don't know what category to use", "speakerName": "Postdoc B" }, { "text": "Actually.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "but they might have something.", "speakerName": "Postdoc B" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "because it is easier to have it open ended.", "speakerName": "Postdoc B" }, { "text": "It just And we we might learn from what they say, as to which one's a better way to ask it.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "W This is just a small thing", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "But I Cuz I really don't know..", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "but um It says \" Variety \" and then it gives things that e have American as one of the choices. But then it says \" Region \", but Region actually just applies to uh, US,", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "right?", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "I mean that's why I put the \" Other \" in.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "Well, we thought about it.", "speakerName": "Postdoc B" }, { "text": "Ah, OK.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Yeah, OK. We just We sort of thought, \" yes, \" y y I mean.", "speakerName": "Postdoc B" }, { "text": "S", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "At the last meeting, my recollection was that we felt people would have uh less that that there are so many types and varieties of these other languages and we are not going to have that many subjects from these different language groups", "speakerName": "Postdoc B" }, { "text": "Yep.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "and that it's a huge waste of of space.", "speakerName": "Postdoc B" }, { "text": "OK.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "So I mean, I I mean the way I had it last time was Region was blank,", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "That's what I thought.", "speakerName": "Postdoc B" }, { "text": "it just said Region colon.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Postdoc B" }, { "text": "And and I think that that's the best way to do it,", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Postdoc B" }, { "text": "because because of the problems we're talking about but what we said last week, was no, put in a list, so I put in a list. So should we go back to.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "Maybe we can make the list a little smaller.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Well, certainly dropping \" Northern \" I think is right, because none of us know what that is.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "Cuz, I mean And keeping \" Other \", and then maybe this North Midland, we call it \" North Midwest \". South Midwest, or just.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Yes I I I think so. Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "South Midwest. Does that make sense?", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "South Midwest?", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "That would help me.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "U unless you're from Midland, Kansas.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Yeah. Cuz Midland.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "But. Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "I don't know where Midland is", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "There's a Or Midland Midland.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Is \" Midwest \" one word?", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "Is it Midland Midland Midland, Texas or Midland, Kansas? I forget.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Y yeah, one w", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "But there's a town. in in there.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Oh.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "I forget what it is @ @.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "I don't think that's what they mean.", "speakerName": "Postdoc B" }, { "text": "But,", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "yeah. So. Kansas would be South Midland. Right?", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Y yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "And and wouldn't Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "And Colorado, right across the border, would be North Midland.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "So, th I'm from Kansas, actually.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Southern Midland..", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "And uh.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "Colora Oh, right. And then, the the dropping North, so it would be Western. It's just one big shebang, where, of course, you have huge variation in dialects,", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "But that's true of New England too.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "But you do in the others, too. So.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "but but so do you.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "So. I mean only one.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Yeah. Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Well, I shouldn't say that. I have no clue. I was going to say the only one that doesn't have a huge variety is New York City. But I have no idea whether it does or not.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "It does seem I mean. I I would think that these categories would be more w would be easier for an an analyst to put in rather than the subject himself.", "speakerName": "Postdoc B" }, { "text": "U", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "I think that that was what happened with TIMIT, was that it was an analyst.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "OK.", "speakerName": "Postdoc B" }, { "text": "Wait a minute. Where does Where does d w Where Where's where does uh New New York west of west of uh New York City and Pennsylvania uh and uh", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Yeah, I don't know how it came from.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "OK.", "speakerName": "Postdoc B" }, { "text": "New England", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "So. That's New England I think.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "N No, it's not.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Oh, no.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "I sort of thought they were part of the one of the Midlands.", "speakerName": "Postdoc B" }, { "text": "Oh no. No, no. No. Pennsylvania is not.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "\" Other \", it goes under \" Other \", definitely under \" Other \".", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "Well, you know, Pennsylvania has a pretty strong dialect and it's totally different than.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Pennsylvania Yeah. Pennsylvania is not New England. and uh New Jersey is not New England and Maryland is not New England and none of those are the South.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "OK. So. Another suggestion. Rather than have circle fill in forms, say \" Region, open paren, E G Southern comma Western comma close paren colon. \"", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "Yeah. OK.", "speakerName": "Postdoc B" }, { "text": "OK!", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Fine by me, fine by me.", "speakerName": "Postdoc B" }, { "text": "That's good. I like that.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Sure!", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Postdoc B" }, { "text": "We're all sufficiently tired of this that we're agreeing with you.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Let's just And we'll see what we get.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Be easier on the subjects. I think that's fine. No. I think.", "speakerName": "Postdoc B" }, { "text": "So.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "I like that. I like that.", "speakerName": "Postdoc B" }, { "text": "You like it?", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Yeah, I do.", "speakerName": "Postdoc B" }, { "text": "OK.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Actually, maybe we do one non - English one as well.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "Good.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Southern, Cockney?", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "Yeah, and.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Is that a real accent?", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "Sure, yeah!", "speakerName": "Postdoc B" }, { "text": "How do you spell it?", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "I think that's fine.", "speakerName": "Postdoc B" }, { "text": "Cockney?", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "N E", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "CO Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "You could say Liverpool.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Liverpuddlian.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Yeah. Alright.", "speakerName": "Postdoc B" }, { "text": "Actually, Liverpool doesn't l Yeah. It's I'm s I ha", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Well. Well. I mean, pure.", "speakerName": "Postdoc B" }, { "text": "OK, we'll do it that way. Actually, I like that a lot. Because that get's at both of the things we were trying to do,", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "OK.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "the granularity, and the person can just self - assess and we don't have to argue about what these regions are.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "That's right. And it's easy on the subjects.", "speakerName": "Postdoc B" }, { "text": "OK.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Yep.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "Now I have one suggestion on the next section.", "speakerName": "Postdoc B" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "So you have native language, you have region, and then you have time spent in English speaking country. Now, I wonder if it might be useful to have another open field saying \" which one parenthesis S paren closed parenthesis \". Cuz if they spent time in in Britain and America.", "speakerName": "Postdoc B" }, { "text": "Yes.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "It doesn't have to be ex all at all exact, just in the same open field format that you have.", "speakerName": "Postdoc B" }, { "text": "Yep, just which one. I think that's fine.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm. with a with an S", "speakerName": "Postdoc B" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "\" which one sss, optional S.", "speakerName": "Postdoc B" }, { "text": "OK.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Postdoc B" }, { "text": "We uh We done?", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Yep.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "Yeah, that's good.", "speakerName": "Postdoc B" }, { "text": "OK. um s e Any any other uh open mike topics or should we go right to the digits?", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Um, did you guys get my email on the multitrans? That OK.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "Isn't that wonderful! Yeah.", "speakerName": "Postdoc B" }, { "text": "Yeah. So. So. I I have a version also which actually displays all the channels.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "Excellent! Thank you!", "speakerName": "Postdoc B" }, { "text": "It's really great.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "But it's hideously slow.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "So you this is n Dan's patches, Dan Ellis's patches.", "speakerName": "Postdoc B" }, { "text": "The what the ones I applied, that you can actually do are Dan's, because it doesn't slow it down.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "M", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Fantastic!", "speakerName": "Postdoc B" }, { "text": "Just uses a lot of memory.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "So when you say \" slow \", does that mean to.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "No, the the one that's installed is fine. It's not slow at all. I wrote another version. Which, instead of having the one pane with the one view, It has multiple panes with the views.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "But the problem with it is the drawing of those waveforms is so slow that every time you do anything it just crawls.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Postdoc B" }, { "text": "It's really bad.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "It's So, it it's the redrawing of the w", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "That's a consideration.", "speakerName": "Postdoc B" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "oh uh - huh, w as you move.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "As you play, as you move, as you scroll. Just about anything, and it it was so slow it was not usable. So that's why I didn't install it and didn't pursue it.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "And this'll be a hav having the multiwave will be a big help cuz in terms of like disentangling overlaps and things, that'll be a big help.", "speakerName": "Postdoc B" }, { "text": "Oh yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "So. I think that the one Dan has is usable enough.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "It doesn't display the others. It displays just the mixed signal.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Postdoc B" }, { "text": "But you can listen to any of them.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "That's excellent. He also has version control which is another nice", "speakerName": "Postdoc B" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "e so you e the patches that you.", "speakerName": "Postdoc B" }, { "text": "No, he suggested that, but he didn't It's not installed.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "Oh, I thought it was in one of those patches.", "speakerName": "Postdoc B" }, { "text": "No. No.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "Oh OK. Well. Alright.", "speakerName": "Postdoc B" }, { "text": "So is there any hope for actually displaying the wave form?", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Um, not if we're going to use Tcl - TK At least not if we're going to use Snack.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "OK.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "I mean you would have to do something ourselves.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "Well, or use the one that crawls.", "speakerName": "Postdoc B" }, { "text": "OK. Well, I'm I probably would be trying to use the whatever's there. And it's useful to have the.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Why don't we we see how Dan's works and if it If we really need the display.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "Yeah. I mean. I wonder I'm just wondering if we can display things other than the wave form. So. Suppose we have a feature a feature stream. And it's just, you know, a a uni - dimensional feature, varying in time.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "And we want to plot that, instead of the whole wave form.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "I mean.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "That might be faster.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Right?", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "We we could do that but that would mean changing the code.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "So.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "I mean this isn't a program we wrote.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "This is a program that we got from someone else, and we've done patches on.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "OK.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Postdoc B" }, { "text": "OK. Well, I'll talk to you about it and we can see", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "So.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "Cou - i e I mean, y", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "but it's definitely great to have the other one.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "If there was some Is there some way to have someone write patches in something faster and and link it in, or something?", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "That's.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Not easily.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "Or is that.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "I mean y yes we could do that. You could you can write widgets in C. And try to do it that way but I just don't think it.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Let's try it with Dan's and if that isn't enough, we can do it otherwise.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "I think it is, cuz when I was playing with it, the mixed signal has it all in there. And so it's really It's not too bad to find places in the in the stream where things are happening.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "OK.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "So I I don't think it'll be bad.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "And it's also also the case that that uh this multi - wave thing is proposed to the.", "speakerName": "Postdoc B" }, { "text": "Hmm?", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "So. Dan proposed it to the Transcriber central people, and it's likely that uh So. And and they responded favorably looks as though it will be incorporated in the future version.", "speakerName": "Postdoc B" }, { "text": "Oh.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "They said that the only reason they hadn't had the multi the parallel uh stream one before was simply that they hadn't had time to do it. And uh so it's likely that this this may be entered into the ch this central @ @.", "speakerName": "Postdoc B" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "And if if.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "They may well have not had much demand for it.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Well that's that's that's true, too.", "speakerName": "Postdoc B" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "This is a a useful thing for us.", "speakerName": "Postdoc B" }, { "text": "So. You mean they could they could do it and it would be fast enough if they do it?", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Depends on how much work they did.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "Oh. No. I just mean I just mean that it's that that his.", "speakerName": "Postdoc B" }, { "text": "Or?", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Oh.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "So. This one that we now have does have the status of potentially being incorporated l likely being incorporated into the central code.", "speakerName": "Postdoc B" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm. OK.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Now, tha Now, if we develop further then, y uh, I don't.", "speakerName": "Postdoc B" }, { "text": "I think if if if one of us sat down and coded it, so that it could be displayed fast enough I'm sure they would be quite willing to incorporate it.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "I mean it's I think it's a nice feature to have it set that way. Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Postdoc B" }, { "text": "But it's not a trivial task.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm. Yeah.", "speakerName": "Postdoc B" }, { "text": "OK.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "I just like the idea of it being something that's, you know, tied back into the original, so that other people can benefit from it.", "speakerName": "Postdoc B" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "Yeah. However. I also understand that you can have widgets that are very useful for their purpose and that you don't need to always go that w route. Yeah.", "speakerName": "Postdoc B" }, { "text": "OK.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "anyway, shall we do digits?", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Postdoc B" }, { "text": "Yeah. Let's do digits, uh, and then we'll turn off the mikes, and then I have one other thing to discuss.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "OK.", "speakerName": "Postdoc B" }, { "text": "OK.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "I actually have to leave. So. Um. I mean I had to leave at three thirty,", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Uh - oh.", "speakerName": "Postdoc B" }, { "text": "OK.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "Oh.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "so I can Well, I can wait for the digits but I can't stay for the discussion", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Well, you want to go first? Or.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "I c I have to make a call.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "OK.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "So.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Well, should we e should we switch off the g", "speakerName": "Postdoc B" }, { "text": "Well, we'll talk to you about it Uh", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Do you wanna go do digits or do you wanna just skip digits?", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "Um. No, I can do digits if if But I don't wanna butt in, or something.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Then Alright. You go ahead.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "But if there's something on the rest of the I'm I'll be around just have to make call before quarter of. So.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "So I Or we can talk about it.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Ke", "speakerName": "Postdoc B" }, { "text": "Why don't you read the digits?", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "Yeah, why don't you read the digits and then you can go.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "OK. Alright. Oh, this is the new one.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Yeah, don't Don't read the old one.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Alright. The And the time is. 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SmartKom?", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "Uh, we wanna talk about if w if we wanna add the data to the mar Meeting Recorder corpus.", "speakerName": "Grad F" }, { "text": "The data. The data which we are collecting here.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "What what what are we collecting here?", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "Data?", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "So why don't we have that on the agenda and we'll we'll get to it and talk about it?", "speakerName": "Grad F" }, { "text": "The SmartKom data?", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Yeah, right.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Uh, right. Uh.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "Uh, reorganization status.", "speakerName": "Grad F" }, { "text": "Reorganization status.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "Oh. Files and directories?", "speakerName": "Postdoc A" }, { "text": "Files and directories.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "Yep. Uh - huh. Absinthe, which is the multiprocessor UNIX Linux. I think it was Andreas wanted to talk about segmentation and recognition, and update on SRI recognition experiments.", "speakerName": "Grad F" }, { "text": "Um.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "And then if ti if there's time I wanted to talk about digits, but it looked like we were pretty full, so I can wait till next week.", "speakerName": "Grad F" }, { "text": "Right. OK. Well, let's see. I think the a certainly the segmentation and recognition we wanna maybe focus on when An - Andreas is here since that was particularly his thing.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "And also the SmartKom thing should b", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "SmartKom also, Andreas. Absinthe, I think also he has sort of been involved in a lot of those things.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "At least,", "speakerName": "Grad F" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "yeah, he'll t he'll probably be interested.", "speakerName": "Grad F" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "But.", "speakerName": "Grad F" }, { "text": "Um So, I mean, I think they'll be inter I'll be interested in all this, but but, uh, probably, if we had to pick something that we would talk on for ten minutes or so while they're coming here. Or I guess it would be, you think, reorganization status, or?", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "Yeah. I mean, I think, Chuck was the one who added out the agenda item. I don't really have anything to say other than that we still haven't done it.", "speakerName": "Grad F" }, { "text": "Well, I mean, I uh just basically that.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "So.", "speakerName": "Grad F" }, { "text": "maybe I said maybe we said this before just that we met and we talked about it and we sort of have a plan for getting things organized and.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "And I and I think a crucial part of that is the idea of of not wanting to do it until right before the next level zero back - up so that there won't be huge number of of added,", "speakerName": "Postdoc A" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "uh.", "speakerName": "Postdoc A" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "Grad F" }, { "text": "That that was basically it. Not not much @ @.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Although Dave basically said that if we wanna do it, just tell him and he'll do a d level zero then.", "speakerName": "Grad F" }, { "text": "Yeah. Uh - huh. Oh, excellent.", "speakerName": "Postdoc A" }, { "text": "So.", "speakerName": "Grad F" }, { "text": "Oh, good.", "speakerName": "Postdoc A" }, { "text": "Oh, so maybe we should just go ahead and get everything ready, and.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Yep. So, I think we do need to talk a little bit about Well, we don't need to do it during this meeting.", "speakerName": "Grad F" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "We have a little more to discuss. But, uh, we're we're basically ready to do it. And, uh, I have some web pages on ts more of the background. So, naming conventions and things like that, that I've been trying to keep actually up to date. So. And I've been sharing them with U - d UW folks also.", "speakerName": "Grad F" }, { "text": "I'm sorry, you've been what? Showing them?", "speakerName": "Postdoc A" }, { "text": "OK.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "Sharing them.", "speakerName": "Postdoc A" }, { "text": "Sharing them with the UW folks.", "speakerName": "Grad F" }, { "text": "OK. OK.", "speakerName": "Postdoc A" }, { "text": "OK. Well, maybe uh, since that that was a pretty short one, maybe we should talk about the IBM transcription status. Someone can fill in Liz and Andreas later. Uh", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "OK. So, we, uh we did another version of the beeps, where we separated each beeps with a spoken digit. Chuck came up here and recorded some di himself speaking some digits, and so it just goes \" beep one beep \" and then the phrase, and then \" beep two beep \" and then the phrase. And that seems pretty good. Um, I think they'll have a b easier time keeping track of where they are in the file.", "speakerName": "Grad F" }, { "text": "And we have done that on the automatic segmentations.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "And we did it with the automatic segmentation, and I don't think We ne we didn't look at it in detail. We just sent it to IBM. We we sorta spot - checked it.", "speakerName": "Grad F" }, { "text": "I listened to probably, uh, five or ten minutes of it from the beginning.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Oh, really?", "speakerName": "Grad F" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "OK.", "speakerName": "Grad F" }, { "text": "And.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "I sorta spot - checked here and there and it sounded pretty good. So. I think it'll work.", "speakerName": "Grad F" }, { "text": "OK.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "And, uh, we'll just hafta see what we get back from them. Uh.", "speakerName": "Grad F" }, { "text": "And the main thing will be if we can align what they give us with what we sent them. I mean, that's the crucial part.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "Grad F" }, { "text": "And I think we'll be able to do that at with this new beep format.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Yep. Well, I think it's also they are much less likely to d have errors.", "speakerName": "Grad F" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "I mean, so the problem wi last time is that there were errors in the transcripts where they put beeps where there weren't any, or and they put in extraneous beeps.", "speakerName": "Grad F" }, { "text": "Right. Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "And with the numbers there, it's much less likely.", "speakerName": "Grad F" }, { "text": "Yeah, one interesting note is uh, or problem I dunno if this was just because of how I play it back, I say, uh, SND - play and then the file, every once in a while, @ @ uh, like a beep sounds like it's cut into two beeps.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Yeah. Into two pieces.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Yeah, and I I dunno if that's an, uh, artifact of playback.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Yeah. Yep.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "bu uh, I don't think it's probably in the original file. Um, but, uh.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "I recognize that, too. Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Ha. That's interesting. I didn't hear that.", "speakerName": "Grad F" }, { "text": "Yeah. But with this new format, um, that hopefully they're not hearing that, and if they are, it shouldn't throw them.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Yep.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "So.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Well, maybe we better listen to it again, make sure, but, I mean, certainly the software shouldn't do that,", "speakerName": "Grad F" }, { "text": "Yeah. That's what I thought.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "so.", "speakerName": "Grad F" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Postdoc A" }, { "text": "I it's probably just, you know, mmm, somehow the audio device gets hung for a second,", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Yeah. Some latency or something.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Hiccups.", "speakerName": "Grad F" }, { "text": "Yeah?", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "As long as they have one number, and they know that there's only one beep maximum that goes with that number.", "speakerName": "Postdoc A" }, { "text": "or.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Yeah. Right.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Yeah. The only the only part that might be confusing is when Chuck is reading digits.", "speakerName": "Grad F" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Yep.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Well, you know, actually, are we having them.", "speakerName": "Postdoc A" }, { "text": "So th", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "\" Seven four eight beep seven beep eight three two \".", "speakerName": "Grad F" }, { "text": "Yeah, but are we having them do digits?", "speakerName": "Postdoc A" }, { "text": "Yes. Because, uh, we don't we didn't In order to cut them out we'd have to listen to it.", "speakerName": "Grad F" }, { "text": "We we didn't cut those out.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Yeah. They are not transcribed yet. So. Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "OK.", "speakerName": "Postdoc A" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "And we wanted to avoid doing that,", "speakerName": "Grad F" }, { "text": "OK.", "speakerName": "Postdoc A" }, { "text": "so we they are transcribing the digits.", "speakerName": "Grad F" }, { "text": "OK.", "speakerName": "Postdoc A" }, { "text": "We can we can ignore it when we get it back,", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Although we could tell them we could tell them, if you hear someone reading a digits string just say \" bracket digit bracket \"", "speakerName": "Grad F" }, { "text": "huh.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "and don't bother actually computing the di writing down the digits.", "speakerName": "Grad F" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "That'd be great. That'd be what I'm having the transcribers here do, cuz it can be extracted later.", "speakerName": "Postdoc A" }, { "text": "Yep. And then I wanted to talk about but as I said I we may not have time what we should do about digits. We have a whole pile of digits that haven't been transcribed.", "speakerName": "Grad F" }, { "text": "Le - let's talk about it, because that's that's something that I I know Andreas is less interested in than Liz is,", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "OK.", "speakerName": "Grad F" }, { "text": "so, you know. It's good.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "Do we have anything else to say about transcription? About IBM stuff?", "speakerName": "Grad F" }, { "text": "Uh, Brian I I sent bresset sent Brian a message about the meeting and I haven't heard back yet. So. I g hope he got it and hopefully he's.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "OK.", "speakerName": "Grad F" }, { "text": "Hmm.", "speakerName": "Postdoc A" }, { "text": "maybe he's gone, I dunno. He didn't even reply to my message. So. I should probably ping him just to make sure that he got it..", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Alright. So, we have a whole bunch of digits, if we wanna move on to digits.", "speakerName": "Grad F" }, { "text": "Actually, maybe I One one relate more related thing in transcription. So that's the IBM stuff. We've got that sorted out. Um, how're we doing on the on the rest of it?", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "We're doing well. I I hire I've hired two extra people already, expect to hire two more.", "speakerName": "Postdoc A" }, { "text": "Hmm.", "speakerName": "Grad F" }, { "text": "And, um, I've prepared, um, uh, a set of five which I'm which I'm calling set two, which are now being edited by my head transcriber, in terms of spelling errors and all that. She's also checking through and mar and and monitoring, um, the transcription of another transcriber. You know, I mean, she's going through and doing these kinds of checks.", "speakerName": "Postdoc A" }, { "text": "Uh - huh.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "And, I've moved on now to what I'm calling set three. I sort of thought if I do it in sets groups of five, then I can have, like, sort of a a parallel processing through through the the current.", "speakerName": "Postdoc A" }, { "text": "Uh - huh.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "And and you indicated to me that we have a g a goal now, for the for the, um, the, uh, DARPA demo, of twenty hours. So, I'm gonna go up to twenty hours, be sure that everything gets processed, and released, and and that's that's what my goal is. Package of twenty hours right now, and then once that's done, move on to the next.", "speakerName": "Postdoc A" }, { "text": "Yeah, uh, so twenty hours. But I guess the other thing is that, um, that that's kinda twenty hours ASAP because the longer before the demo we actually have the twenty hours, the more time it'll be for people to actually do cool things with it.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm. Good. I'm I'm hiring people who, uh, really are.", "speakerName": "Postdoc A" }, { "text": "So. OK.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "They would like to do it full - time, several of these people. And and I don't think it's possible, really, to do this full - time, but, that what it shows is motivation to do as many hours as possible.", "speakerName": "Postdoc A" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "It'll keep your accuracy up. Yep.", "speakerName": "Grad F" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "And they're really excellent.", "speakerName": "Postdoc A" }, { "text": "Yeah. Well, that's good.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "Yeah. Got a good core group now.", "speakerName": "Postdoc A" }, { "text": "Yeah, I mean, I guess the So the difference if if, um, if the IBM stuff works out, the difference in the job would be that they p primarily would be checking through things that were already done by someone else?", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "Again. Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Postdoc A" }, { "text": "Is that most of what it?", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "And correcting.", "speakerName": "Grad F" }, { "text": "I mean Correcting.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "Correcting. We'll we'll expect that they'll have to move some time bins and do some corrections.", "speakerName": "Grad F" }, { "text": "And I you know, I've also d uh, discovered So with the new transcriber I'm um So Uh, lemme say that my, uh So, um At present, um, the people have been doing these transcriptions a channel at a time. And, that sort of, um, is useful, and t you know, and then once in a while they'll have to refer to the other channels to clear something up. OK. Well, I realize that, um, w i we we're using the pre - segmented version, and, um, the pre - segmented version is extremely useful, and wouldn't it be, useful also to have the visual representation of those segments? And so I've uh, I, uh, uh, I've trained the new one uh, the new the newest one, to, um, use the visual from the channel that is gonna be transcribed at any given time. And that's just amazingly helpful. Because what happens then, is you scan across the signal and once in a while you'll find a blip that didn't show up in the pre - segmentation.", "speakerName": "Postdoc A" }, { "text": "Oh, right.", "speakerName": "Grad F" }, { "text": "And that'll be something like I it's ver it's interesting.", "speakerName": "Postdoc A" }, { "text": "I see what you mean. A backchannel, or.", "speakerName": "Grad F" }, { "text": "Once in a while it's a backchannel.", "speakerName": "Postdoc A" }, { "text": "Yep.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Sometimes it seems to be, um, similar to the ones that are being picked up.", "speakerName": "Postdoc A" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Grad F" }, { "text": "And they're rare events, but you can really go through a meeting very quickly. You just you just, you know, yo you s you scroll from screen to screen, looking for blips. And, I think that we're gonna end up with, uh better coverage of the backchannels,", "speakerName": "Postdoc A" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "but at the same time we're benefitting tremendously from the pre - segmentation because there are huge places where there is just absolutely no activity at all. And, uh, the audio quality is so good.", "speakerName": "Postdoc A" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "So they can they can, um, scroll through that pretty quick?", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Yeah. Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Postdoc A" }, { "text": "That's great.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Yeah. So I think that that's gonna, also eh, you know, speed the efficiency of this part of the process.", "speakerName": "Postdoc A" }, { "text": "Hmm. OK. Uh, yeah. So, uh Yeah. So let's talk about the digits, since they're not here yet.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "Uh, so, we have a whole bunch of digits that we've read and we have the forms and so on, um, but only a small number of that ha well, not a small number only a subset of that has been transcribed. And so we need to decide what we wanna do. And, uh, Liz and Andreas actually they're not here, but, they did say at one point that they thought they could do a pretty good job of just doing a forced alignment. And, again, I don't think we'll be able to do with that alone, because, um, sometimes people correct themselves and things like that. But so, I was just wondering what people thought about how automated can we make the process of finding where the people read the digits, doing a forced alignment, and doing the timing.", "speakerName": "Grad F" }, { "text": "Well, forced alignment would be one thing. What about just actually doing recognition?", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "Well, we we know what they read, because we have the forms.", "speakerName": "Grad F" }, { "text": "No, they make mistakes.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "Right. But, the point is that we wanna get a set of clean digits.", "speakerName": "Grad F" }, { "text": "You're talking about as a pre - processing step.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "Right, Morgan?", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Um.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "Is that what you're?", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Yeah, I'm I'm not quite sure what I'm talking about. I mean I I mean, uh, we're talking about digits now. And and so, um, there's a bunch of stuff that hasn't been marked yet. Uh. And, um, there's the issue that that they we know what what was said, but do we?", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "I mean, so one option i", "speakerName": "Grad F" }, { "text": "Because people make mistakes and stuff. I was just asking, just out of curiosity, if if with, uh uh, the SRI recognizer getting one percent word error, uh, would we would we do better? So, if you do a forced alignment but the force but the but the transcription you have is wrong because they actually made mistakes, uh, or false starts, it's it's much less c it's much less common than one percent?", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "But that's pretty uncommon. Um, if we could really get one percent on.", "speakerName": "Grad F" }, { "text": "We should be able to.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "Well, I guess yeah, I guess if we segmented it, we could get one percent on digits.", "speakerName": "Grad F" }, { "text": "Right?", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Yeah. So that's just my question. I'm not saying it should be one way or the other, but it's If.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "But, Well, there there're a couple different of doing it. We could use the tools I've already developed and transcribe it. Hire some people, or use the transcribers to do it. We could let IBM transcribe it. You know, they're doing it anyway, and unless we tell them different, they're gonna transcribe it. Um, or we could try some automated methods.", "speakerName": "Grad F" }, { "text": "Well.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "And my my tendency right now is, well, if IBM comes back with this meeting and the transcript is good, just let them do it.", "speakerName": "Grad F" }, { "text": "Yeah, it's Y you raised a point, kind of, uh, euphemistically but, I mean, m maybe it is a serious problem. Ho - what will they do when they go hear \" beep seven beep seven three five two \" I mean, you think they'll we'll get?", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "It's pretty distinct.", "speakerName": "Grad F" }, { "text": "Yeah?", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "The beeps are pre - recorded.", "speakerName": "Grad F" }, { "text": "It'll only be a problem for m for mine.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Well it it well, it'd be preceded by \" I'm reading transcript so - and - so \"?", "speakerName": "Postdoc A" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Yes.", "speakerName": "Grad F" }, { "text": "So, I think if they're processing it at.", "speakerName": "Postdoc A" }, { "text": "I mean, it'll be it will be in the midst of a digit string.", "speakerName": "Grad F" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "So I mean it sure, there there might be a place where it's \" beep seven beep eight beep eight beep \". But, you know, they they're they're gonna macros for inserting the beep marks. And so, I I don't think it'll be a problem. We'll have to see, but I don't think it's gonna be a problem.", "speakerName": "Grad F" }, { "text": "OK. Well, I I I dunno, I I think that that's if they are in fact going to transcribe these things, uh, certainly any process that we'd have to correct them, or whatever is needs to be much less elaborate for digits than for other stuff.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "Grad F" }, { "text": "So, why not? Sure. That was it?", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "That was it. Just, what do we do with digits?", "speakerName": "Grad F" }, { "text": "OK.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "We have so many of them, and it'd be nice to actually do something with them.", "speakerName": "Grad F" }, { "text": "Well, we we we wanna have them. Yeah, I.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "You mean there're more than ten?", "speakerName": "PhD I" }, { "text": "Anything else? Your mike is a little low there.", "speakerName": "Grad F" }, { "text": "I in Berkeley, yeah. So, uh You you have to go a little early, right? At twenty.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "Well, I can stay till about, uh, three forty.", "speakerName": "PhD I" }, { "text": "Alright. So le let's make sure we do the ones that that, uh, saved you.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "Yeah. Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD I" }, { "text": "So there was some Uh In in Adam's agenda list, he had something from you about segmentation this last recognition?", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "Well, yeah. So this is just partly to inform everybody, um, and and of course to get, um, input.", "speakerName": "PhD I" }, { "text": "Oops.", "speakerName": "Grad F" }, { "text": "Um, so, uh, we had a discussion Don and Liz and I had discussion last week about how to proceed with, uh, you know, with Don's work,", "speakerName": "PhD I" }, { "text": "Ch", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "and and and, uh, one of the obvious things that occur to us was that we're since we now have Thilo's segmenter and it works, you know, amazingly well, um, we should actually basically re - evaluate the recognition, um, results using you know, without cheating on the segmentations.", "speakerName": "PhD I" }, { "text": "So.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "And, that should be fairly.", "speakerName": "PhD I" }, { "text": "And how do we find the transcripts for those so that? Yeah. The references for for those segments?", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Oh, OK. So, there's actually.", "speakerName": "PhD I" }, { "text": "It's not that.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Why do you ask?", "speakerName": "PhD I" }, { "text": "I could.", "speakerName": "Grad F" }, { "text": "No, actually, um, NIST has, um m a fairly sophisticated scoring program that you can give a, um a time,", "speakerName": "PhD I" }, { "text": "Hand ones.", "speakerName": "Grad F" }, { "text": "Well.", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "OK.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "uh You know, you basically just give two time - marked sequences of words, and it computes the um the, uh you know, the the th", "speakerName": "PhD I" }, { "text": "It does all the work for you.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "it does all the work for you.", "speakerName": "PhD I" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "OK.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "So, it we just and we use that actually in Hub - five to do the scoring. Um. So what we've been using so far was sort of a simplified version of the scoring. And we can we can handle the the the type of problem we have here.", "speakerName": "PhD I" }, { "text": "So, basically you give some time constraints for for the references and for for the hypothesis,", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "So, we ha Yeah. Right.", "speakerName": "PhD I" }, { "text": "and Yeah, OK.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "PhD I" }, { "text": "Maybe the start of your speech and the end of it,", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "So do", "speakerName": "PhD I" }, { "text": "OK.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "or stuff like that.", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "Right. It does time - constrained word - alignment.", "speakerName": "PhD I" }, { "text": "OK.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "So. So that should be possible. I mean that shouldn't be a problem. Uh, so that was the one thing, and the other was that, um What was the other problem? Oh! That Thilo wanted to use the recognizer alignments to train up his, um, speech detector.", "speakerName": "PhD I" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Um, so that we could use, uh you know there wouldn't be so much hand labelling needed to, uh to generate training data for for the speech detector.", "speakerName": "PhD I" }, { "text": "Yeah. I'm just in progress of of doing that. So.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "And I think you're in the process of doing that.", "speakerName": "PhD I" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "So, you can you can.", "speakerName": "PhD I" }, { "text": "It'll give you a lot more data, too. Won't it?", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Yeah. So, it's basically s I think, eight meetings or something which which I'm using, and, it's before it was twenty minutes of one meeting.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD I" }, { "text": "So should be a little bit better.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "PhD I" }, { "text": "Great.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "That won't be perfect the alignments aren't perfect,", "speakerName": "PhD I" }, { "text": "Yeah. But.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "but, um, it's probably still better to have all this extra data, than.", "speakerName": "PhD I" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "Yeah. Yep.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD I" }, { "text": "We'll see that.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD I" }, { "text": "OK.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "Actually, I had a question about that. If you find that you can lower the false alarms that you get where there's no speech, that would be useful for us to know. So, um.", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "There were the false alarms.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Yeah. So, r right now you get f fal you know, false false, uh, speech regions when it's just like, um, breath or something like that,", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "OK. Yeah. Yep.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "and I'd be interested to know the wha if you retrain um,", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "do those actually go down or not? Because of.", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "Yeah. I'll can make an can, like, make a c comparison of of the old system to the to the new one, and then.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Yeah, just to see if by doing nothing in the modeling of just having that training data wh what happens.", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "Yeah. Yeah. Yep.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Um another one that we had on Adam's agenda that definitely involved you was s something about SmartKom?", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "Right. So, Rob Porzel eh, Porzel? and the, uh Porzel and the, uh, SmartKom group are collecting some dialogues.", "speakerName": "Grad F" }, { "text": "Porzel. Porzel.", "speakerName": "PhD I" }, { "text": "Basically they have one person sitting in here, looking at a picture, and a wizard sitting in another room somewhere. And, uh, they're doing a travel task. And, uh, it involves starting I believe starting with a It's it's always the wizard, but it starts where the wizard is pretending to be a computer and it goes through a, uh, speech generation system.", "speakerName": "Grad F" }, { "text": "Yeah. Actually, it's changed to a synthesis for for the first part now.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Synthesis system.", "speakerName": "Grad F" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Um, and then, it goes to a real wizard and they're evaluating that. And they wanted to use this equipment, and so the w question came up, is well, here's some more data. Should this be part of the corpus or not? And my attitude was yes, because there might be people who are using this corpus for acoustics, as opposed to just for language. Um, or also for dialogue of various sorts. Um, so it's not a meeting. Right? Because it's two people and they're not face to face.", "speakerName": "Grad F" }, { "text": "Wait a minute. So, I just wanted to understand it, cuz I I'm uh, hadn't quite followed this process.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Um. So, it's wizard in the sen usual sense that the person who is asking the questions doesn't know that it's, uh, a machi not a machine?", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "PhD I" }, { "text": "At the beginning.", "speakerName": "Grad F" }, { "text": "Actually actually, w w the the We do this I dunno who came up with it, but I think it's a really clever idea. We simulate a computer breakdown halfway through the session, and so then after that, the person's told that they're now talking to a, uh to a human.", "speakerName": "PhD I" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "It's a human operator.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "But of course they don't know that it's the same person both times.", "speakerName": "Grad F" }, { "text": "So, we we collect we collect both human - computer and human - human data, essentially, in the same session.", "speakerName": "PhD I" }, { "text": "You might wanna try collecting it the other way around sometime, saying that th the computer isn't up yet", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "Hmm.", "speakerName": "Postdoc A" }, { "text": "and then so then you can separate it out whether it's the beginning or end kind of effects.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "That's an idea.", "speakerName": "PhD I" }, { "text": "But, yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "Yep.", "speakerName": "Grad F" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD I" }, { "text": "That's a good idea.", "speakerName": "Postdoc A" }, { "text": "\" I have to go now. You can talk to the computer. \"", "speakerName": "Grad F" }, { "text": "It's a lot more believable, too,", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "\" No! \"", "speakerName": "Grad F" }, { "text": "if you tell them that they're the computer part is running on a Windows machine. And the whole breakdown thing kinda makes sense.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "O Just just reboot it.", "speakerName": "PhD I" }, { "text": "Abort abort, retry, fail?", "speakerName": "Grad F" }, { "text": "So did they actually save the far - field data?", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "Yes.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Well, this was this was the question.", "speakerName": "Grad F" }, { "text": "Cuz at first they weren't they weren't sa", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD I" }, { "text": "So so they were saying they were not going to,", "speakerName": "Grad F" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "OK.", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "and I said, \" well that's silly, if if we're gonna try to do it for a corpus, there might be people who are interested in acoustics. \"", "speakerName": "Grad F" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "Wow.", "speakerName": "PhD I" }, { "text": "No.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Or.", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "projector We were not saying we are not doing it.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "S", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "We wer we just wanted to do.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "No, the the question is do we save one or two far - field channels or all of them?", "speakerName": "PhD I" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "Yeah. Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "I I see no reason not to do all of them.", "speakerName": "Grad F" }, { "text": "Um.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "That that if we have someone who is doing acoustic studies, uh, it's nice to have the same for every recording.", "speakerName": "Grad F" }, { "text": "Nnn. Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "Hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD I" }, { "text": "So, what is the purpose of this recording?", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD I" }, { "text": "This is to get acoustic and language model training data for SmartKom. OK.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "It's to be traini to b training data and development data for the SmartKom system.", "speakerName": "PhD I" }, { "text": "The English system? Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Yeah. Right. Right.", "speakerName": "PhD I" }, { "text": "Where does this?", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Maybe we can have him vary the microphones, too,", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "Well,", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "B", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "or they're different s speakers.", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "Right. So so so for their usage, they don't need anything.", "speakerName": "Grad F" }, { "text": "so why not?", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Right?", "speakerName": "Grad F" }, { "text": "But but I'm not sure about the legal aspect of of that. Is is there some contract with SmartKom or something about the data?", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD I" }, { "text": "What they or, is is that our data which we are collecting here,", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "We've never signed anything that said that we couldn't use anything that we did.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "or? OK. OK.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "We weren't supposed to collect any data.", "speakerName": "PhD I" }, { "text": "So. OK.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "So. Yeah, th th that was the question.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "This was all.", "speakerName": "PhD I" }, { "text": "If if? Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD I" }, { "text": "No that's not a problem.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "Basically.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "I L look, it seems to me that if we're doing it anyway and we're doing it for these these purposes that we have, and we have these distant mikes, we definitely should re should save it all as long as we've got disk space,", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD I" }, { "text": "and disk is pretty cheap.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "OK.", "speakerName": "PhD I" }, { "text": "So should we save it?", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "And then.", "speakerName": "Grad F" }, { "text": "Now th Yeah. So we save it because it's it it's potentially useful. And now, what do we do with it is is a s separate question.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "Grad F" }, { "text": "I mean, anybody who's training something up could choose to put it eh, to u include this or not.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "PhD I" }, { "text": "I I would not say it was part of the meetings corpus. It isn't. But it's some other data we have, and if somebody doing experiment wants to train up including that then they can. Right?", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD I" }, { "text": "So it's It it I guess it the begs the question of what is the meeting corpus. So if, at UW they start recording two - person hallway conversations is that part of the meeting corpus?", "speakerName": "Grad F" }, { "text": "I think it's I I think I th think the idea of two or more people conversing with one another is key.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "Well, this has two or more people conversing with each other.", "speakerName": "Grad F" }, { "text": "Nnn, well", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Well this.", "speakerName": "Postdoc A" }, { "text": "They're just not face to face.", "speakerName": "Grad F" }, { "text": "What if we just give it a a name like we give these meetings a name?", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "No, it doesn't. Right? It has.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "I mean, that was my intention.", "speakerName": "Grad F" }, { "text": "And then later on some people will consider it a meeting and some people won't,", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "Well this.", "speakerName": "Postdoc A" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "That was my intention. So so s so part of the reason that I wanted to bring this up is, do we wanna handle it as a special case or do we wanna fold it in,", "speakerName": "Grad F" }, { "text": "and Just give it a title.", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "Oh.", "speakerName": "Postdoc A" }, { "text": "I think it is a s", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "we give everyone who's involved as their own user ID, give it session I Ds, let all the tools that handle Meeting Recorder handle it, or do we wanna special case it? And if we were gonna special case it, who's gonna do that?", "speakerName": "Grad F" }, { "text": "So.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Well, it it makes sense to handle it with the same infrastructure, since we don't want to duplicate things unnecessarily.", "speakerName": "PhD I" }, { "text": "It it it.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "I think.", "speakerName": "Postdoc A" }, { "text": "But as far as distributing it, we shouldn't label it as part of this meeting corpus.", "speakerName": "PhD I" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "We should let it be its own corp", "speakerName": "PhD I" }, { "text": "Well it's it well, because.", "speakerName": "Postdoc A" }, { "text": "I don't see why not. It's just a different topic.", "speakerName": "Grad F" }, { "text": "I ha I have an extra point, which is the naturalness issue. Because we have, like, meetings that have a reason. That's one of the reasons that we were talking about this. And and those and this sounds like it's more of an experimental setup.", "speakerName": "Postdoc A" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "It's got a different purpose.", "speakerName": "Postdoc A" }, { "text": "It's scenario - based, it's it's human - computer interface it's really pretty different.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Postdoc A" }, { "text": "But I I I have no problem with somebody folding it in for some experiment they're gonna do, but I don't think i it it doesn't match anything that we've described about meetings.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Grad F" }, { "text": "Whereas everything that we talked about them doing at at UW and so forth really does. They're actually talking.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "OK. So w so what does that mean for how we are gonna organize things?", "speakerName": "Grad F" }, { "text": "Hmm.", "speakerName": "Postdoc A" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "You can you can Again, as as I think Andreas was saying, if you wanna use the same tools and the same conventions, there's no problem with that. It's just that it's, you know, different directory, it's called something different, it's you know. It is different. You can't just fold it in as if it's I mean, digits are different, too. Right?", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "Yeah, but those are folded in,", "speakerName": "Grad F" }, { "text": "It might also be potentially confusing.", "speakerName": "PhD I" }, { "text": "and it's just you just mark the transcripts differently. So so one option is you fold it in,", "speakerName": "Grad F" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "PhD I" }, { "text": "and just simply in the file you mark somewhere that this is this type of interaction, rather than another type of interaction.", "speakerName": "Grad F" }, { "text": "Yeah, I th", "speakerName": "PhD I" }, { "text": "Well, I don I wouldn't call reading digits \" meetings \". Right? I mean, we we we were doing.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "Well, but but, I put it under the same directory tree.", "speakerName": "Grad F" }, { "text": "Well.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "You know, it's in \" user doctor speech data MR \".", "speakerName": "Grad F" }, { "text": "Can we just have a directory called, like, \" other stuff \"?", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "Other.", "speakerName": "Grad F" }, { "text": "And Well or, I dunno.", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "I mean, I don't care what directory tree you have it under.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "And and just, um, store it there.", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "Right? I mean that's just a.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "OK. My preference is to have a single procedure so that I don't have to think too much about things.", "speakerName": "Grad F" }, { "text": "Yes.", "speakerName": "PhD I" }, { "text": "I mean.", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "And, just have a marking.", "speakerName": "Grad F" }, { "text": "O - You you can use whatever procedure you want that's p convenient for you.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "If we do it any other way that means that we need a separate procedure, and someone has to do that.", "speakerName": "Grad F" }, { "text": "All I'm saying is that there's no way that we're gonna tell people that reading digits is meetings. And similarly we're not gonna tell them that someone talking to a computer to get travel information is meetings.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "Grad F" }, { "text": "Those aren't meetings. But if it makes it easier for you to pu fold them in the same procedures and have them under the same directory tree, knock yourself out.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "There's a couple other questions that I have too,", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "You know?", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "and and one of them is, what about, uh, consent issues? And the other one is, what about transcription? Are?", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Transcription is done in Munich.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "OK. So we don't have to worry about transcribing it?", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Alright.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "So, w we will hafta worry about format.", "speakerName": "Grad F" }, { "text": "That's a that's another argument to keep it separate, because it's gonna follow the SmartKom transcription conventions and not the ICSI meeting transcription conventions.", "speakerName": "PhD I" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Oh, OK.", "speakerName": "Grad F" }, { "text": "Ah. Good point.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "OK. Well, I didn't realize that. That's that's a.", "speakerName": "Grad F" }, { "text": "Good point. But I'm sure no one would have a problem with our folding it in for some acoustic modeling or or some things. Um. Do we h do we have, uh, um, American - born folk, uh, reading German German, uh, pla uh, place names and so forth? Is that?", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Exactly.", "speakerName": "PhD I" }, { "text": "Yeah, great.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Yep.", "speakerName": "Grad F" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD I" }, { "text": "They they even have a reading list.", "speakerName": "Grad F" }, { "text": "I bet that sounds good, huh?", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "It's pretty funny.", "speakerName": "Grad F" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD I" }, { "text": "You can do that if you want.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "OK.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "I dunno if you want that.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD I" }, { "text": "Hmm.", "speakerName": "Postdoc A" }, { "text": "Heidelberg", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "So.", "speakerName": "Grad F" }, { "text": "Exactly", "speakerName": "PhD I" }, { "text": "Disk might eventually be an issue so we might we we might need to, uh, get some more disk pretty soon.", "speakerName": "Grad F" }, { "text": "Do you wanna be a subject?", "speakerName": "PhD I" }, { "text": "Yeah, I be pretty good.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "We Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD I" }, { "text": "We're about we're about half halfway through our disk right now.", "speakerName": "Grad F" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "That was one of our concerns.", "speakerName": "PhD I" }, { "text": "Are we only half? I thought we were more than that.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "We're probably a little more than that because we're using up some space that we shouldn't be on. So, once everything gets converted over to the disks we're supposed to be using we'll be probably, uh, seventy - five percent.", "speakerName": "Grad F" }, { "text": "Well, when I was looking for space for Thilo, I found one disk that had, uh, I think it was nine gigs and another one had seventeen.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Yep.", "speakerName": "Grad F" }, { "text": "And everything else was sorta committed. Uh.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Were those backed - up or non - backed - up?", "speakerName": "Grad F" }, { "text": "Those were non - backed - up.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Non - back - up.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Right. So that's different.", "speakerName": "Grad F" }, { "text": "S oh, you're talking about backed - up.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "I'm much more concerned about the backed - up. The non - backed - up,", "speakerName": "Grad F" }, { "text": "I haven't looked to see how much of that we have.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "yeah, i is cheap. I mean, if we need to we can buy a disk, hang it off a s uh, workstation. If it's not backed - up the sysadmins don't care too much.", "speakerName": "Grad F" }, { "text": "Yeah. So, I mean, pretty much anytime we need a disk, we can get it at the rate that we're.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "You can I shouldn't be saying this, but, you can just you know, since the back - ups are every night, you can recycle the backed - up diskspace.", "speakerName": "PhD I" }, { "text": "Yeah. But that's that's that's risky.", "speakerName": "Grad F" }, { "text": "Yeah. You really shouldn't be saying.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "Mmm. Mmm.", "speakerName": "Grad F" }, { "text": "I didn't say that.", "speakerName": "PhD I" }, { "text": "Yeah, that's right.", "speakerName": "Grad F" }, { "text": "I didn't say that.", "speakerName": "PhD I" }, { "text": "Beep that out.", "speakerName": "Grad F" }, { "text": "Da - we had allowed Dave to listen to these these, uh, recordings.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "PhD I" }, { "text": "Um Yeah, I me and there's been this conversation going on about getting another file server, and and we can do that.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD I" }, { "text": "We'll take the opportunity and get another big raft of of disk, I guess.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "Yeah. It's really the back - up issue rather than the file server issue.", "speakerName": "Grad F" }, { "text": "Well, I think I think there's an argument for having you know, you could use our old file server for for disks that have data that is very rarely accessed, and then have a fast new file server for data that is, um, heavily accessed.", "speakerName": "PhD I" }, { "text": "Yeah. My understanding is, the issue isn't really the file server.", "speakerName": "Grad F" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD I" }, { "text": "We could always put more disks on.", "speakerName": "Grad F" }, { "text": "Yeah. It's the back it's the back - up capaci", "speakerName": "PhD I" }, { "text": "It's the back - up system.", "speakerName": "Grad F" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD I" }, { "text": "So which is near saturation, apparently. So.", "speakerName": "Grad F" }, { "text": "I think I think the file server could become an issue as we get a whole bunch more new compute machines.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Soon.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "And we've got, you know, fifty machines trying to access data off of Abbott at once.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Well, we're alright for now because the network's so slow.", "speakerName": "Grad F" }, { "text": "I mean, I think I think we've raised this before and someone said this is not a reliable way to do it, but the What about putting the stuff on, like, C - CD - ROM or DVD or something?", "speakerName": "PhD I" }, { "text": "Yeah. That was me. I was the one who said it was not reliable. The - they they wear out.", "speakerName": "Grad F" }, { "text": "OK. Oh, OK.", "speakerName": "PhD I" }, { "text": "Yeah. The the th", "speakerName": "Grad F" }, { "text": "But they wear out just from sitting on the shelf?", "speakerName": "PhD I" }, { "text": "Yep. Absolutely.", "speakerName": "Grad F" }, { "text": "Or from being read and read?", "speakerName": "PhD I" }, { "text": "No. Read and write don't hurt them too much unless you scratch them.", "speakerName": "Grad F" }, { "text": "Oh, OK.", "speakerName": "PhD I" }, { "text": "But the r the write once, and the read - writes, don't last. So you don't wa you don't wanna put ir un reproduceable data on them.", "speakerName": "Grad F" }, { "text": "Uh - huh.", "speakerName": "PhD I" }, { "text": "Wear out after what amount of time?", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Year or two.", "speakerName": "Grad F" }, { "text": "Would it be?", "speakerName": "Postdoc A" }, { "text": "Year or two?", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "Yep.", "speakerName": "Grad F" }, { "text": "Wow.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "Hmm.", "speakerName": "Postdoc A" }, { "text": "But if that then you would think you'd hear much more clamoring about data loss", "speakerName": "PhD I" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "and.", "speakerName": "PhD I" }, { "text": "I mean, yeah, all the L", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "I I don't know many people who do it on CD. I mean, they're the most fo", "speakerName": "Grad F" }, { "text": "LDC - all the LDC distributions are on CD - ROM.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "They're on CD, but they're not tha that's not the only source.", "speakerName": "Grad F" }, { "text": "Like.", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "They have them on disk. And they burn new ones every once in a while. But if you go if you go k", "speakerName": "Grad F" }, { "text": "But, you know, we have.", "speakerName": "PhD I" }, { "text": "But we have like thirty you know, from ten years ago?", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "We have all sorts of CD - ROMs from a long time ago.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "No.", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Yeah!", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "Well, th th OK.", "speakerName": "Grad F" }, { "text": "Ten years ago.", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "PhD I" }, { "text": "Ninety - one, and they're still all fine.", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "Were they burned or were they pressed?", "speakerName": "Grad H" }, { "text": "Uh, both. I've burned them and they're still OK.", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Grad H" }, { "text": "The the pressed ones last for", "speakerName": "Grad F" }, { "text": "I mean, usually they're.", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "well, not forever, they've been finding even those degrade.", "speakerName": "Grad F" }, { "text": "Oh, I see.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "But, uh, the burned ones I mean, when I say two or three years what I'm saying is that I have had disks which are gone in a year.", "speakerName": "Grad F" }, { "text": "That's what I.", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "On the average, it'll probably be three or four years. But, uh I I you don't want to per p have your only copy on a media that fails.", "speakerName": "Grad F" }, { "text": "Mmm.", "speakerName": "PhD I" }, { "text": "And they do. Um, if you have them professionally pressed, y you know, they're good for decades.", "speakerName": "Grad F" }, { "text": "So how about? So so how about putting them on that plus, like on a on on DAT or some other medium that isn't risky?", "speakerName": "PhD I" }, { "text": "I think th um, we can already put them on tape. And the tape is hi is very reliable.", "speakerName": "Grad F" }, { "text": "OK. Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD I" }, { "text": "So the the only issue is then if we need access to them. So that's fine f if we don't need access to them.", "speakerName": "Grad F" }, { "text": "Right. Well, if if if you if they last Say, they actually last, like, five years, huh, in in the typical case, and and occasionally you might need to recreate one, and then you get your tape out, but otherwise you don't. Can't you just you just put them on?", "speakerName": "PhD I" }, { "text": "So you just archive it on the tape, and then put it on CD as well?", "speakerName": "Grad H" }, { "text": "Yeah. Right.", "speakerName": "PhD I" }, { "text": "Oh. So you're just saying put them on C Ds for normal access.", "speakerName": "Grad F" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Grad H" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "PhD I" }, { "text": "What you.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Yeah. I mean, you can do that but that's pretty annoying, because the C Ds are so slow.", "speakerName": "Grad F" }, { "text": "See Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Grad H" }, { "text": "Mmm.", "speakerName": "PhD I" }, { "text": "What'd be nice is a system that re - burned the C Ds every year.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "H everytime it was a \" gonna \" \" gonna die \".", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "Well.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "Well, I mean, the C Ds are are an op", "speakerName": "Grad F" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "It's like like dynamic ra DRAM.", "speakerName": "PhD I" }, { "text": "Just before.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Just before they be before it goes bad, it burns them in.", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "The the CD is an alternative to tape.", "speakerName": "Grad F" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Grad H" }, { "text": "ICSI already has a perfectly good tape system and it's more reliable.", "speakerName": "Grad F" }, { "text": "You know I would think.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "So for archiving, we'll just use tape.", "speakerName": "Grad F" }, { "text": "One one thing I don't understand is, if you have the data if if you if the meeting data is put on disk exactly once, then it's backed - up once and the back - up system should never have to bother with it, uh, more than once.", "speakerName": "PhD I" }, { "text": "Well, regardless Well, first of all there was, um, a problem with the archive in that I was every once in a while doing a chmod on all the directories an or recursive chmod and chown, because they weren't getting set correctly every once in a while,", "speakerName": "Grad F" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD I" }, { "text": "and I was just, doing a minus R star, not realizing that that caused it to be re - backed - up.", "speakerName": "Grad F" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD I" }, { "text": "Ah.", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "But normally you're correct. But even without that, the back - up system is becoming saturated.", "speakerName": "Grad F" }, { "text": "But but this back - up system is smart enough to figure out that something hasn't changed and doesn't need to be backed - up again.", "speakerName": "PhD I" }, { "text": "The b I think th the at least the once tha that you put it on, it would it would kill that.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "Sure, but we still have enough changed that the nightly back - ups are starting to take too long.", "speakerName": "Grad F" }, { "text": "OK. So so then, if So so then, let's.", "speakerName": "PhD I" }, { "text": "So.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "It has nothing to do with the meeting. It's just the general ICSI back - up system is becoming saturated.", "speakerName": "Grad F" }, { "text": "Right. OK. Right. So, what if we buy, uh uh, what what do they call these, um high density?", "speakerName": "PhD I" }, { "text": "Well, why don't you have this have a this conversation with Dave Johnson tha rather than with me?", "speakerName": "Grad F" }, { "text": "No, no. Because this is maybe something that we can do without involving Dave, and and, putting more burden on him. How about we buy, uh uh uh, one of these high density tape drives? And we put the data actually on non - backed - up disks. And we do our own back - up once and for all all, and then and we don't have to bother this @ @ up?", "speakerName": "PhD I" }, { "text": "Actually, you know, we could do that just with the tape with the current tape.", "speakerName": "Grad F" }, { "text": "I dunno what the these tapes uh, at some point these I dunno. What kind of tape drive is it?", "speakerName": "PhD I" }, { "text": "I dunno but it's an automatic robot so it's very convenient.", "speakerName": "Grad F" }, { "text": "Is it is?", "speakerName": "PhD I" }, { "text": "Wh The o the one that we have?", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "You just run a program to restore them.", "speakerName": "Grad F" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "PhD I" }, { "text": "The I mean.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Grad F" }, { "text": "But it might interfere with their back - up schedule,", "speakerName": "PhD I" }, { "text": "But.", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "No, we have s we Don't we have our own?", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "eh.", "speakerName": "PhD I" }, { "text": "Something wi th that doesn't that isn't used by the back - up gang? Don't we have something downstairs?", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "Well they.", "speakerName": "Postdoc A" }, { "text": "What kinda tape drive?", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Just in? Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "Well but no, but Andreas's point is a good one. And we don't have to do anything ourselves to do that. They're already right now on tape.", "speakerName": "Grad F" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "PhD I" }, { "text": "Right. So your your point is, and I think it's a good one, that we could just get more disk and put it there.", "speakerName": "Grad F" }, { "text": "Mmm. On an XH uh, X X whatever partition.", "speakerName": "PhD I" }, { "text": "Yeah. That's not a bad idea.", "speakerName": "Grad F" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD I" }, { "text": "Yeah, that's basically what I was gonna say, is that a disk is is so cheap it's es essentially, you know, close to free. And the only thing that costs is the back - up issue, eh, to first order.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "So once it's on tape.", "speakerName": "Grad F" }, { "text": "Right. Right.", "speakerName": "PhD I" }, { "text": "And we can take care of that by putting it on non - back up drives and just backing it up once onto this tape.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD I" }, { "text": "I think that's a good idea.", "speakerName": "Grad F" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "PhD I" }, { "text": "Oh. Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "OK.", "speakerName": "PhD I" }, { "text": "Good. It's good.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "So, who's gonna do these back - ups? The people that collect it?", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "Uh Well, I'll talk to Dave, and and see what th how what the best way of doing that is.", "speakerName": "Grad F" }, { "text": "It's probably gonna n", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "There's a little utility that will manually burn a tape for you, and that's probably the right way to do it.", "speakerName": "Grad F" }, { "text": "Yeah, and we should probably make that part of the procedure for recording the meetings.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Well, s", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "Yep.", "speakerName": "Grad F" }, { "text": "Yeah. That's what I'm wondering, if.", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "Well we're g we're gonna automate that.", "speakerName": "Grad F" }, { "text": "OK.", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "My intention is to do a script that'll do everything.", "speakerName": "Grad F" }, { "text": "I mean, you don't have to physically put a tape in the drive?", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "No. It's all tape robot,", "speakerName": "Grad F" }, { "text": "Or s? s? Oh, OK.", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "so you just sit down at your computer and you type a command.", "speakerName": "Grad F" }, { "text": "So it's just Oh, OK.", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "Yeah, but then you're effectively using the resources of the back - up system. Or is that a different tape robot?", "speakerName": "PhD I" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Grad F" }, { "text": "But not at the same time.", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "But y but you would be anyway.", "speakerName": "Grad F" }, { "text": "No, no, no.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Right?", "speakerName": "Grad F" }, { "text": "He's saying get a whole different drive.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Because.", "speakerName": "Grad F" }, { "text": "No, no. See.", "speakerName": "PhD I" }, { "text": "But there's no reason to do that.", "speakerName": "Grad F" }, { "text": "Yeah, just give a dedi", "speakerName": "PhD I" }, { "text": "It we already have it there and it it's.", "speakerName": "Grad F" }, { "text": "Well, I'm saying is @ @ i if you go to Dave, and and and ask him \" can I use your tape robot? \", he will say, \" well that's gonna screw up our back - up operation. \"", "speakerName": "PhD I" }, { "text": "No, we won't. He'll say \" if if that means that it's not gonna be backed - up standardly, great. \"", "speakerName": "Grad F" }, { "text": "He - I Dave has has promoted this in the past. So I don't think he's actually against it.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "Yeah. It's it's definitely no problem.", "speakerName": "Grad F" }, { "text": "Oh, OK. Alright.", "speakerName": "PhD I" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "Alright.", "speakerName": "PhD I" }, { "text": "OK.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "Good.", "speakerName": "PhD I" }, { "text": "What about if the times overlap with the normal back - up time?", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "Um, it's it's just it's just a utility which queues up. It just queues it up and and when it's available, it will copy it.", "speakerName": "Grad F" }, { "text": "OK.", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "And then you can tell it to then remove it from the disk or you can, you know, do it a a few days later or whatever you wanna do, after you confirm that it's really backed - up.", "speakerName": "Grad F" }, { "text": "OK.", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "NW?", "speakerName": "Grad F" }, { "text": "You saying NW archive?", "speakerName": "Postdoc A" }, { "text": "NW archive.", "speakerName": "Grad F" }, { "text": "Yep And if you did that during the day it would never make it to the nightly back - ups.", "speakerName": "Postdoc A" }, { "text": "That's what it is.", "speakerName": "Grad F" }, { "text": "OK.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "Grad F" }, { "text": "And then there wouldn't be this extra load.", "speakerName": "Postdoc A" }, { "text": "Well, it if he you have to put the data on a on a non - backed - up disk to begin with.", "speakerName": "PhD I" }, { "text": "Well, but you can have it NW archive to you can have, uh, a non - backed - up disk NW archived,", "speakerName": "Postdoc A" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "Grad F" }, { "text": "So that so that otherwise you don't you.", "speakerName": "PhD I" }, { "text": "and it'll never show up on the nightly back - ups.", "speakerName": "Postdoc A" }, { "text": "Right. And then it never.", "speakerName": "Grad F" }, { "text": "Right. Right.", "speakerName": "PhD I" }, { "text": "Right. Which I'm sure would make ever the sysadmins very happy.", "speakerName": "Grad F" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "PhD I" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Postdoc A" }, { "text": "So, I think that's a good idea.", "speakerName": "Grad F" }, { "text": "OK.", "speakerName": "PhD I" }, { "text": "That's what we should do.", "speakerName": "Grad F" }, { "text": "OK.", "speakerName": "PhD I" }, { "text": "So, that means we'll probably wanna convert all all those files filesystems to non - backed - up media.", "speakerName": "Grad F" }, { "text": "That sounds good.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "Yep.", "speakerName": "Grad F" }, { "text": "Um, another, thing on the agenda said SRI recognition experiments? What's that?", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "SRI recognition? Oh.", "speakerName": "PhD I" }, { "text": "That wasn't me.", "speakerName": "Grad F" }, { "text": "Uh.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "Um. well,", "speakerName": "PhD I" }, { "text": "Who's that?", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "we have lots of them. Uh, I dunno. Chuck, do you have any any updates?", "speakerName": "PhD I" }, { "text": "N I'm successfully, uh, increasing the error rate. Uh.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "That's good.", "speakerName": "Grad F" }, { "text": "Mmm.", "speakerName": "Grad H" }, { "text": "Oh.", "speakerName": "PhD I" }, { "text": "Lift the Herve approach.", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "Yeah. So, I mean I'm just playing with, um, the number of Gaussians that we use in the the recognizer, and.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Well, you have to sa you have to tell people that you're you're doing you're trying the tandem features.", "speakerName": "PhD I" }, { "text": "Yes, I'm using tandem features.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Oh you are?", "speakerName": "Grad F" }, { "text": "And.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Cool.", "speakerName": "Grad F" }, { "text": "A and I'm still tinkering with the PLP features.", "speakerName": "PhD I" }, { "text": "Yeah, I got confused by the results. It sai because uh, the meeting before, you said \" OK, we got it down to where they're they're within a tenth of a percent \".", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "That was on males.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Right. That was that was before I tried it on the females.", "speakerName": "PhD I" }, { "text": "Oh.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "See, women are nothi are, trouble.", "speakerName": "PhD I" }, { "text": "It's the women are the problem. OK.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "Right? As we all know. So.", "speakerName": "PhD I" }, { "text": "Well, let's just say that men are simple.", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "So so, when So I I had I ha", "speakerName": "PhD I" }, { "text": "That was a quick response.", "speakerName": "Grad F" }, { "text": "So, we had reached the point where.", "speakerName": "PhD I" }, { "text": "I'm well rehearsed.", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "we had reached the point where, um, on the male portion of the development set, the, um or one of the development sets, I should say the, um the male error rate with, uh, ICSI PLP features was pretty much identical with, uh, SRI features. which are MFCC. So, um, then I thought, \" Oh, great. I'll j I'll just let's make sure everything works on the females. \" And the error rate you know, there was a three percent difference.", "speakerName": "PhD I" }, { "text": "Oh. Uh - huh.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "So,", "speakerName": "PhD I" }, { "text": "Is there less training data?", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "uh.", "speakerName": "PhD I" }, { "text": "I mean, we don", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "No, actually there's more training data.", "speakerName": "PhD I" }, { "text": "This is on just digits?", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "No.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "No, no.", "speakerName": "PhD I" }, { "text": "No.", "speakerName": "Grad F" }, { "text": "Hub - five.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "It's, uh, Swi", "speakerName": "Grad F" }, { "text": "Oh, sorry. OK. This is on.", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "This is Hub - five.", "speakerName": "PhD I" }, { "text": "Oh, OK.", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "Hub - five. Yeah.", "speakerName": "Grad F" }, { "text": "Yeah. Um, and the test data is CallHome and Switchboard. So, uh so then um Oh, and plus the the vocal tract length normalization didn't actually made things worse. So something's really seriously wrong. So Um.", "speakerName": "PhD I" }, { "text": "Aha! OK.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "So So.", "speakerName": "PhD I" }, { "text": "So but you see, now, between between the males and the females, there's certainly a much bigger difference in the scaling range, than there is, say, just within the males. And what you were using before was scaling factors that were just from the the m the SRI front - end. And that worked that worked fine.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "That's true. Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD I" }, { "text": "Uh, but now you're looking over a larger range and it may not be so fine.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "Well, um So I just d so the one thing that I then tried was to put in the low - pass filter, which we have in the So, most most Hub - five systems actually band - limit the uh, at about, uh, thirty - seven hundred, um, hertz.", "speakerName": "PhD I" }, { "text": "Uh - huh.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "Although, you know, normally, I mean, the channel goes to four four thousand. Right? So, um And that actually helped, uh uh, a little bit.", "speakerName": "PhD I" }, { "text": "Uh - huh.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "Um and it didn't hurt on the males either. So, um And I'm now, uh, trying the Oh, and suddenly, also the v the vocal tract length normalization only in the test se on the test data. So, you can do vocal tract length normalization on the test data only or on both the training and the test.", "speakerName": "PhD I" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "And you expect it to help a little bit if you do it only on the test, and s more if you do it on both training and test.", "speakerName": "PhD I" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "And so the It now helps, if you do it only on the test, and I'm currently retraining another set of models where it's both in the training and the test, and then we'll we'll have, hopefully, even better results. So But there's It looks like there will still be some difference, maybe between one and two percent, um, for the females.", "speakerName": "PhD I" }, { "text": "Huh.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "And so, um, you know, I'm open to suggestions.", "speakerName": "PhD I" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Grad F" }, { "text": "And it is true that the, uh that the you know, we are using the But it can't be just the VTL,", "speakerName": "PhD I" }, { "text": "Uh - huh.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "because if you don't do VTL in both systems, uh, you know, the the females are considerably worse in the with the PLP features.", "speakerName": "PhD I" }, { "text": "No no. I I remember that.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "It's much worse. Yeah.", "speakerName": "Grad F" }, { "text": "So there must be some something else going on.", "speakerName": "PhD I" }, { "text": "Well, what's the standard? Yeah, so I thought the performance was actually a little better on females than males.", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "That's what I thought, too.", "speakerName": "Grad F" }, { "text": "Um, that ye overall, yes, but on this particular development test set, they're actually a little worse. But that's beside the point. We're looking at the discrepancy between the SRI system and the SRI system when trained with ICSI features.", "speakerName": "PhD I" }, { "text": "Right. I'm just wondering if that if if you have any indication of your standard features,", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "What's Are the freq?", "speakerName": "Grad F" }, { "text": "you know, if that's also different or in the same direction or not.", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "You're This is lemme ask a q more basic que", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "Cuz.", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "I mean, is this, uh uh, iterative, Baum - Welch training?", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD I" }, { "text": "Or is it Viterbi training? Or?", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "It's Baum - Welch training.", "speakerName": "PhD I" }, { "text": "Baum - Welch training. And how do you determine when to to stop iterating?", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "Um Well, actually, we we just basically do a s a fixed number of iterations.", "speakerName": "PhD I" }, { "text": "Hmm.", "speakerName": "Grad F" }, { "text": "Uh, in this case four. Um, which Eh, we used to do only three, and then we found out we can squeeze And it was basically, we're s we're keeping it on the safe side. But you're d Right. It might be that one more iteration would would help, but it's sort of", "speakerName": "PhD I" }, { "text": "Or maybe or maybe you're doing one too many.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "you know.", "speakerName": "PhD I" }, { "text": "I mean it's it's.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "No, but with Baum - Welch, there shouldn't be an over - fitting issue, really.", "speakerName": "PhD I" }, { "text": "Uh. Well, there can be. Sure.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "Well, you can try each one on a cross - validation set,", "speakerName": "Grad F" }, { "text": "Um.", "speakerName": "PhD I" }, { "text": "It d if you if you remember some years ago Bill Byrne did a thing where he was he was looking at that,", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "can't you?", "speakerName": "Grad F" }, { "text": "and he showed that you could get it.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD I" }, { "text": "So. But but but, um.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "Well, yeah. We can Well, that's that's the easy one to check,", "speakerName": "PhD I" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "because we save all the intermediate models", "speakerName": "PhD I" }, { "text": "Do you?", "speakerName": "Grad F" }, { "text": "and we can.", "speakerName": "PhD I" }, { "text": "And in each case, ho", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "What?", "speakerName": "Grad F" }, { "text": "um, I'm sorry in each case how do you determine, you know, the the usual fudge factors? The, uh the, uh, language, uh, scaling, acoustic scaling, uh, uh.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "Um I uh I'm actually re - optimizing them. Although that hasn't shown to make a big difference.", "speakerName": "PhD I" }, { "text": "OK. And the pru the question he was asking at one point about pruning, uh Remember that one?", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "Pruning?", "speakerName": "PhD I" }, { "text": "Well, he was he's it looked like the probabil at one point he was looking at the probabilities he was getting out at the likelihoods he was getting out of PLP versus mel cepstrum, and they looked pretty different,", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "Pruning in the?", "speakerName": "PhD I" }, { "text": "Yeah, the likelihoods were lower for the PLP.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "as I recall.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "Oh.", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "And so, uh, there's the question.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "I you mean did you see this in the SRI system?", "speakerName": "PhD I" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm. Was just looking through the log files,", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Um. Well, the likelihoods are.", "speakerName": "PhD I" }, { "text": "and.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "You can't directly compare them, because, for every set of models you compute a new normalization. And so these log probabilities, they aren't directly comparable", "speakerName": "PhD I" }, { "text": "Oh.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "because you have a different normalization constants for each model you train.", "speakerName": "PhD I" }, { "text": "Hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "But, still it's a question.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "So.", "speakerName": "PhD I" }, { "text": "if you have some threshold somewhere in terms of beam search or something,", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "Well, yeah. That's what I was wondering.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "or?", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "W yeah. I mean Uh.", "speakerName": "PhD I" }, { "text": "I mean, if you have one threshold that works well because the range of your likelihoods is in this area.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "We prune very conservatively. I mean, as we saw with the meeting data, um we could probably tighten the pruning without really So we we basically we have a very open beam.", "speakerName": "PhD I" }, { "text": "But, you're only talking about a percent or two.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Right? Here we're - we're saying that we there gee, there's this b eh, there's this difference here. And it See cuz, i i there could be lots of things. Right? But but but but, um, let's suppose just for a second that, uh, we've sort of taken out a lot of the the major differences, uh, between the two.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "Right. Course. Mm - hmm. Right.", "speakerName": "PhD I" }, { "text": "I mean, we're already sort of using the mel scale and we're using the same style filter integration, and and, well, we're making sure that low and high.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "Actually, there is the difference in that. So, for the PLP features we use the triangular filter shapes. And for the in the SRI front - end we use the trapezoidal one.", "speakerName": "PhD I" }, { "text": "And what's the top frequency of each?", "speakerName": "Grad F" }, { "text": "Well, now it's the same. It's thirty thirty to seven hundred and sixty hertz.", "speakerName": "PhD I" }, { "text": "Yeah. Exp - one's triangular, one's trapezoidal. So.", "speakerName": "Grad F" }, { "text": "No, no. But.", "speakerName": "PhD I" }, { "text": "Before we i i th with straight PLP, it's trapezoidal also.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "Well But.", "speakerName": "PhD I" }, { "text": "But then we had a slight difference in the in the scale. Uh, so.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "Since currently the Feacalc program doesn't allow me to change the filter shape independently of the scale.", "speakerName": "PhD I" }, { "text": "Uh - huh.", "speakerName": "Grad F" }, { "text": "And, I did the experiment on the SRI front - end where I tried the y where the standard used to be to use trapezoidal filters. You can actually continuously vary it between the two. And so I wen I swi I tried the trap eh, triangular ones. And it did slightly worse, but it's really a small difference.", "speakerName": "PhD I" }, { "text": "Hmm.", "speakerName": "Grad F" }, { "text": "Coup - Couple tenths of a percent or something.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "So.", "speakerName": "PhD I" }, { "text": "OK.", "speakerName": "Grad F" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "So it's not just losing some frequency range.", "speakerName": "Grad F" }, { "text": "Yeah, exactly. So, it's not I don't think the filter shape by itself will make a huge difference.", "speakerName": "PhD I" }, { "text": "Yeah. Right. So the oth the other thing that.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Grad F" }, { "text": "So, f i We've always viewed it, anyway, as the major difference between the two, is actually in the smoothing, that the that the, um, PLP, and and the reason PLP has been advantageous in, uh, slightly noisy situations is because, PLP does the smoothing at the end by an auto - regressive model,", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm. Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD I" }, { "text": "and mel cepstrum does it by just computing the lower cepstral coefficients.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD I" }, { "text": "Um. So, um Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "OK. So one thing I haven't done yet is to actually do all of this with a much larger with our full training set. So right now, we're using a I don't know, forty? I i it's it's eh it's a f training set that's about, um, you know, by a factor of four smaller than what we use when we train the full system. So, some of these smoothing issues are over - fitting for that matter.", "speakerName": "PhD I" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "And the Baum - Welch should be much less of a factor, if you go full whole hog.", "speakerName": "PhD I" }, { "text": "Could be. Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "And so, w so, just um so the strategy is to first sort of treat things with fast turn - around on a smaller training set and then, when you've sort of, narrowed it down, you try it on a larger training set.", "speakerName": "PhD I" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "And so, we haven't done that yet.", "speakerName": "PhD I" }, { "text": "Now the other que related question, though, is is, uh, what's the boot models for these things?", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "Th - th the boot models are trained from scratch. So we compute, um So, we start with a, um, alil alignment that we computed with the b sort of the best system we have. And and then we train from scratch. So we com we do a, you know, w um We collect the uh, the observations from those alignments under each of the feature sets that that we train. And then, from there we do, um There's a lot of, actually The way it works, you first train a phonetically - tied mixture model. Um. You do a total of First you do a context - independent PTM model. Then you switch to a context You do two iterations of that. Then you do two iterations of of of context - dependent phonetically - tied mixtures. And then from that you you do the you you go to a state - clustered model,", "speakerName": "PhD I" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "and you do four iterations of that. So there's a lot of iterations overall between your original boot models and the final models. I don't think that Hmm. We have never seen big differences. Once I thought \" oh, I can Now I have these much better models. I'll re - generate my initial alignments. Then I'll get much better models at the end. \" Made no difference whatsoever. It's I think it's eh, i", "speakerName": "PhD I" }, { "text": "Right. Well, mis for making things better.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "the boot models are recur", "speakerName": "PhD I" }, { "text": "Yeah. But, this for making things worse. This it migh Th - the thought is is is possible another possible partial cause is if the boot models used a comple used a different feature set, that.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm. Mm - hmm. But there are no boot models, in fact. You you're not booting from initial models. You're booting from initial alignments.", "speakerName": "PhD I" }, { "text": "Which you got from a different feature set.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "That's correct.", "speakerName": "PhD I" }, { "text": "So, those features look at the data differently, actually.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "Yeah, but.", "speakerName": "PhD I" }, { "text": "I mean, you know, they they will find boundaries a little differently, though You know, all th all that sort of thing is actually slightly different. I'd expect it to be a minor effect,", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "But but but, what I'm what I'm saying is.", "speakerName": "PhD I" }, { "text": "but.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "So, we e w f w For a long time we had used boot alignments that had been trained with a with the same front - end but with acoustic models that were, like, fifteen percent worse than what we use now.", "speakerName": "PhD I" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "And with a dict different dictionary with a considerably different dictionary, which was much less detailed and much less well - suited.", "speakerName": "PhD I" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm. Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "And so, then we switched to new boot alignments, which which now had the benefit of all these improvements that we've made over two years in the system.", "speakerName": "PhD I" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "And, the result in the end was no different.", "speakerName": "PhD I" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "So, what I'm saying is, the exact nature of these boot alignments is probably not a big factor in the quality of the final models.", "speakerName": "PhD I" }, { "text": "Yeah, maybe not. But it it I st still see it as I mean, there's there's a history to this, too,", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD I" }, { "text": "but I uh, I don't wanna go into,", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD I" }, { "text": "but but I I I th I think it could be the things that it the data is being viewed in a certain way, uh, that a beginning is here rather than there and so forth,", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "Yeah. Right.", "speakerName": "PhD I" }, { "text": "because the actual signal - processing you're doing is slightly different.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "PhD I" }, { "text": "But, it's it's that's probably not it.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "Yeah. Anyway, I I I should really reserve, uh, any conclusions until we've done it on the large training set, um, and until we've seen the results with the with the VTL in training.", "speakerName": "PhD I" }, { "text": "Yeah. At some point you also might wanna take the same thing and try it on, uh, some Broadcast News data or something else that actually has has some noisy noisy components, so we can see if any conclusions we come to holds across different data.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "So. Yeah. Right.", "speakerName": "PhD I" }, { "text": "Uh.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "And, uh, with this, I have to leave.", "speakerName": "PhD I" }, { "text": "OK.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "Hmm!", "speakerName": "Grad H" }, { "text": "So, is there something quick about Absinthe that you?", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "With this said.", "speakerName": "PhD I" }, { "text": "Uh. Just what we were talking about before, which is that I ported a Blass library to Absinthe, and then got got it working with fast - forward, and got a speedup roughly proportional to the number of processors times the clock cycle.", "speakerName": "Grad F" }, { "text": "Oh.", "speakerName": "PhD I" }, { "text": "So, that's pretty good.", "speakerName": "Grad F" }, { "text": "Oh! Cool.", "speakerName": "PhD I" }, { "text": "Um, I'm in the process of doing it for Quicknet, but there's something going wrong and it's about half the speed that I was estimating it should be, and I'm not sure why.", "speakerName": "Grad F" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD I" }, { "text": "But I'll keep working on it. But the what it means is that it's likely that for net training and forward passes, we'll Absinthe will be a good machine. Especially if we get a few more processors and upgrade the processors.", "speakerName": "Grad F" }, { "text": "A few more processors? How many are you shooting for?", "speakerName": "PhD I" }, { "text": "There're five now. It can hold eight.", "speakerName": "Grad F" }, { "text": "Oh, OK.", "speakerName": "PhD I" }, { "text": "Yeah, we'll just go buy them, I guess.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "And it's also five - fifty megahertz and you can get a gigahertz.", "speakerName": "Grad F" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD I" }, { "text": "So.", "speakerName": "Grad F" }, { "text": "Can you mix t uh, processors of different speed?", "speakerName": "PhD I" }, { "text": "I don't think so. I think we'd have to do all.", "speakerName": "Grad F" }, { "text": "OK.", "speakerName": "PhD I" }, { "text": "Probably just throw away the old ones, and.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "Yep.", "speakerName": "Grad F" }, { "text": "Thank you for the box,", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "Oh, OK.", "speakerName": "PhD I" }, { "text": "and I'll just go buy their process.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "Hmm!", "speakerName": "Grad H" }, { "text": "Maybe we can stick them in another system. I dunno.", "speakerName": "PhD I" }, { "text": "We'd have to get a almost certainly have to get a, uh, Netfinity server.", "speakerName": "Grad F" }, { "text": "I see.", "speakerName": "PhD I" }, { "text": "They're pretty pretty specialized.", "speakerName": "Grad F" }, { "text": "Yeah. OK.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "OK.", "speakerName": "PhD I" }, { "text": "Is is Liz coming back, do you know, or? I dunno. Yeah. Oh, you don't. OK. Alright. Alright. See you. Um. Alright. So Uh, they're having tea out there. So I guess the other thing that we were gonna talk about is is, uh, demo. And, um, so, these are the demos for the uh, July, uh, meeting and, um DARPA mee", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "July what? Early July? Late July?", "speakerName": "Grad F" }, { "text": "Oh, I think it's July fifteenth.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "Sixteen to eighteen, I think.", "speakerName": "Postdoc A" }, { "text": "Is that it?", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "Roughly.", "speakerName": "Postdoc A" }, { "text": "Yeah, sixteenth, eighteenth. Yeah. So, we talked about getting something together for that, but maybe, uh maybe we'll just put that off for now, given that But I think maybe we should have a a sub - meeting, I think, uh, probably, uh, Adam and and, uh, Chuck and me should talk about should get together and talk about that sometime soon.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "Over a cappuccino tomorrow?", "speakerName": "Grad F" }, { "text": "Yeah something like that. Um, uh, you know, maybe maybe we'll involve Dan Ellis at some some level as well.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Grad F" }, { "text": "Um. OK. The the tea is is going, so, uh, I suggest we do, uh uh, a unison.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "A unison digits?", "speakerName": "Grad F" }, { "text": "OK.", "speakerName": "Postdoc A" }, { "text": "Yeah. Gets our.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "Which is gonna be a little hard for a couple people because we have different digits forms.", "speakerName": "Grad F" }, { "text": "Oops.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "We have a I found a couple of old ones.", "speakerName": "Grad F" }, { "text": "Oh.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "Hmm.", "speakerName": "Grad H" }, { "text": "Well, that'll be interesting. So, uh.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "Have you done digits before?", "speakerName": "Grad F" }, { "text": "No.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "I haven't done it.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "OK. So, uh, the idea is just to read each line with a short pause between lines,", "speakerName": "Grad F" }, { "text": "Alright.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "not between And, uh, since we're in a hurry, we were just gonna read everyone all at once. 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T_A_R_I_K_.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "T_ R_ I_ K_. And your role in this is?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Industrial Designer.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Industrial Designer. And, lastly we have?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Uh, Dave Cochrane.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "And you're going to be the User Interface,", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "User Interface Defin Designer, yes.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "is it? Designer. Okay. Right. This is the agenda for today's meeting. As you can see, w opening, acquaintance, tool training, project plan discussion, and closing. Um, we already got n through opening, and partially through acquaintance. So, the reason we're here, we're gonna design a new remote control, as you probably all know. The very broad overview is original, trendy, and user-friendly. Course, we'll have to go into a bit more um detail than that, but uh personally I think that the original is gonna be a very key aspect to this design. Um, there's a lot of remote controls out there anyway, so we're gonna need something that's really gonna set it apart. This is how today seems to be going to work. We're gonna have the three kay phases, as you've probably already been told, the functional, architectural, and the detailed design. Um First one's gonna be covering the user requirement spec, technical functions, working design. Second seems to be conceptual components, properties, materials, and the last one is a detailed analysis of our design so far. Of course, you've all got the similar emails, I believe, right. What can I say? Ebenezer, you wanna have a you wanna draw your favourite animal?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Sure. Whiteboard.'Kay. S okay. I will make this quick, since we don't have much time. Um.'Kay, so it's not the best picture in the world.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Here we have an elephant. First point, begins with an E_, same like Ebenezer. Also, elephants have a very good memory, much like myself,", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "and I can't remember back when I used to live back in Nigeria, but I think I used to have a pet elephant. So elephants are big, strong and gentle, and they have great memories, and they begin with the letter E_, just like Ebenezer.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Brilliantly done. Thank you..", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Thank you.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Tarik, would you like to have a shot at a bit of artistry?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": ".", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Oh, um,", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Oh. Oh oh", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "you can clip them to your belt.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Do we take them off?", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "I think you ga", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Oh right,", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "You should also l um have your the lapel mic on as well.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "okay.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "The little The the.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Ah-ha.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Oh that's good, we can clip them on. Okay. Yeah,", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Now where do I put the.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Just um somewhere.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yep, the, it's just across there, that's it. Yep.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Is this supposed to be clipped as well?", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "I think so.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "It'll follow you if you.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah. There you go.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "You can probably just stick it in your pocket for now, I wouldn't worry too much. Should have good range.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Uh, destroying your elephant here.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Uh, here we have a tiger. Uh I've always loved tigers. They're just they're big, they're biggest cats, uh I did a project on cats in the wild when I was a kid and uh it was my favourite cat, just'cause it was looks the best, the stripes, orange. My dad used to talk about he's from Bangladesh so he used to tell me all about them when he was when I was a kid. And uh they're just the most feared of of uh animals in the wild. So uh that's why I like them. Didn't say an anything about me really but.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Excellent, thank you very much. Dave, if you'd like to uh have a dash.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Um Um, the monkey, um. The one f uh in fact this is a somewhat oblique reference in fact to uh well my I have a three uh three y year old daughter who h who who who is affectionately known as Miss Monkey. Um, monkeys have attitude. Which I think is a good thing. And I mean fr and from uh from the point of view of sort of the study of human evolution they and other primates are terribly interesting. Um, so I like monkeys. And and th th th th thi thi this one seems to have perhaps more attitude than most.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Cheers. Hardly what I'd call the best drawing in the world but it'll do for now. Also not quite as feared as your average tiger, but uh cats are one of my favourite animals, they're very independent, they're snotty as hell at the best of times, and uh, what can you say, you got to love those qualities in an animal. Right. I think we've all managed to master the whiteboard there by looks of it, so, on to it. Project finance. As you can see, twelve point five Euros per unit. That's not a terrible lot as far as I'm aware, and we're hoping to sell them for twenty five. If we're aiming for fifty million Euros we're gonna have to be selling an awful lot of them.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Oh, that was profiting, that was an amount, so that's the amount made,", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yep.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "okay.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Well, fifty million, and if you're making twelve point five Euros on each one, then, awful lot need to be sold.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Okay. Now we better actually just get on with the uh the meat of the project. So I'm gonna guess that we've all used remote controls. Any ideas of where you think a new remote control could go into this market?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Well, one thing I'm aware of is, th there uh um at the sort of v very high price end of the market there's there's a em emerging market for sort of touch screen L_C_D_ remotes that can be uh programmed in m much more sophisticated ways than sort of conventional models, so you get the sort of you get um you you can redesign the interface to your own needs, you can programme in macros, and you get a much greater degree um um I mean you get in these sort of three in one, five in one, whatevers, but you can get integration between the different uh the the the diff the different things that it's designed to control, to a much greater extent, and you can have one uh you know one macro to turn the uh you know turn the T_V_ to the right channel, get the uh re uh rewind the tape in the V_C_R_ and get it to play once it's rewound, for instance.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Um b it occurs to me there might be a niche for uh for a remote that aimed towards some of that sort of functionality but using a just conventional push button design. And therefore putting it into a um well much lower price bracket.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Okay, yeah, tha that's true, with the price range we're looking at, going for a touch screen would probably be possibly out of our.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Absolutely prohibitive,", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Oh.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "But you think uh again something to control multiple units in uh a simple fashion.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah, I mean I wouldn't like to say you g I mean you get ones that you can switch between multiple units, but something that could um operate between multiple units in a more integrated fashion. Some and ideally something into which it would have some at least limited facility for um running macros.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Would the the idea something along the lines of, one on button would turn on say the video recorder, the T_V_, maybe the sound system as well, all in one go, is that kind of.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "For instance, um let's say oh oh um, or um you know you pr uh you press uh say the play button for the D_V_D_ player and it turns the T_V_ on and onto the right channel as well, um", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Okay, that sounds like a a good strong idea. Um.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "'Kay", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Any takes on this?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Well um I've noticed that uh gaming c is becoming quite popular with television, um when I was younger we used to e play games using our cable, using the cable subscribed the cable providers,", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "but our remote controls would get worn out really easily, and the remote control was not a great kind of keyboar, um keypad, for playing games.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "So perhaps one that was more um specialised for game playing or interactive television. They they've recently brought out this new remote control, for people to set their favourite channels, or um to record things. Instead of people entering in what time things start, you simply stri slide a bar to say what time it begins,", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "and slide another bar to say what time it ends, you know that's.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah I've heard I've seen the bar-code design before,", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah, it's it's taken out the Y you don't have to be uh really clever to use a remote control. I think for gaming, you know you want you want some big buttons for up, down, left and right, shoot.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Uh, you wanna be able to change angles in interactive television, so you need buttons to change the television angle, the camera angles and stuff like that.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Okay, well", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "'Kay.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "we're beginning to run out of time now, so, we've got a couple of ideas,", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "we can we'll have to work fast, um, alright as you can see we've got thirty minutes until the next meeting, so we'll have to try and decide on some of the basic functionality, um, how the user interface might work, that'll be a key aspect especially if the idea of um some kind of macros facility because you have to program it, you have to have a lot of response back, or at least some kind. Um.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "And we're gonna maybe n try and have to figure out", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "What the user wants uh.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "what the user wants, yes.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Um, right. Has anybody got anything they'd like to add at this stage, anything they think that might have been missed so far?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Well when you're talking about gaming and stuff, do you think they should have some sort of stick on it, rather than buttons?", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Oh. Okay,.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Like uh control pads, you know of games, but.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "or is that a bit ridiculous?.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "I I don't see why not, almost everybody is probably used to a console by now, and all of them incorporate small keypads on them, in fact even the mobile phones these days are beginning to use them as well, so it's probably an interface that most people are used to. Um", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "and that could allow n easy navigation, used as a joystick as well.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm. The other key feature that uh that would be a good idea built into it is t is is to make something you know fairly sort of ergonomic, something that just fits fits as comfortably as possible into the hand. But of course, uh al al also allows for the possibility of a more sort of slightly unconventional or attractive uh sha shape for it overall,.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Okay. So,", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "A curve,", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "small, stylish, and something that's just a little different.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "mm-hmm. Something sort of sort of sl slightly sort of biomorphic in form, uh which it would need to be to sort of conform to the shape of the hand more efficiently anyway.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Okay. That's definitely something that we should be able to do quite easily. I would I would have hoped so anyway. Um, right. I'd say we finish this one up, we get started, I'll get in, I'll write up what we've um kind of quickly done, and I'll get that out to everybody. Yeah?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "'Kay. 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ad7527c2094d4094b78d809fb3482ea2	{ "meetingId": "ES2003d", "transcriptSegments": [ { "text": "That should hopefully do the trick, um.'Kay. Sorry about the small delay. Falling a little bit behind schedule. And that's uh fifteen twenty five. Okay. So just to try and roughly go over what we agreed in the last one, um we're gonna go for something uh uh how was it? Uh The new black, I believe.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": ".", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Um something that looks good'cause that seems to be in preference to actual functionality in the end, though we should never avoid functionality, of course. Uh many of our components are gonna be standard, off the shelf, but it seemed like we were gonna require at least an advanced chip and we were still very much for the idea of using an L_C_D_ display. Um other things were we were hoping to use rubber, most likely gonna be double curved, etcetera. Okay. So um due to your hard work, we might as well let the uh two designers go first, and uh show us the prototype.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Okay, it's a.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Quite how the best way to do this is, I'm not sure,", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "I think if we both step up", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "but.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "and uh outline our ideas. Okay. Now do uh doing the prototype gave us a bit more insight into the ergonomics of the design. Um for one thing, it turned out that the only point at which it needs to be articulated for handedness is um is h i is down here for the uh L_E_D_. As it turned out, the whole thing transfers from the right to left hand fairly well from the point of view of operating the uh function buttons and joystick, though it might be an idea to be able to a adjust the positions for the base of the joystick just a little bit for uh.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "ju just a thought. You could simply have a slightly ovoid shaped joystick that could then just be turn uh twisted round, so that the uh sticky uh so that the bit that sticks out a bit more is on one side or the other. But as you as you see with the uh with holding it in the left hand, the L_ uh the L_C_D_ is nowhere useful, so that would need to be articulated uh if we're going to retain ergonomic design. Um now I I got your note about uh keeping the cost down.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "I'm afraid yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "We'll go into that a bit more,", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "this design could be done with um with uh plastic casing.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "but please go on.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Though I would recommend around the grip part here in the middle, having maybe just a rubber grip over that which would allow for a slightly more sort of bio-morphic form, and a bit more ergonomic as well. As for the um as for the single curve, um well this edge and this edge, like I say it would be nice to have some curvature to it, but it's not absolutely necessary. Really the curve that's most needed is the underside so that the jo so that the joystick rests over the the edge of the hand like this. Um and you have the uh transmitter here and a wee speaker for the uh for the uh for the uh fi uh for the remote control finder. So.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Any further comments?", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Um obviously it's gonna be bulkier than how it looks, because it's gonna be flat on one side, so the L_C_D_ will be s sticking down like this, won't it?", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm. Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "'Cause it you can't get it curved.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah, I mean the", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Uh because of costs.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "uh Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "And it's plastic as well, so it won't be as comfortable on the hand.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah. I mean with the with the rubber design it could i you know it could pretty much mould very much to the to the user's hand.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "One nice wee feature if we could if we could still do the rubber, I though of was to have the uh rubber extend beyond the end of the uh of the rigid substructure. So it has a wee sort of tail that you just drape over your wrist so it stays in position nicely.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Mm. Lovely. Um.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah,..", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Okay, yeah. Great. Um.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Right. Yeah I've got a if you load up my evaluation document.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah, okay.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Excellent work.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Um.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Uh evaluation. Basic point uh have a list of criteria that we need to rate the prototype by. Um then we will it's a seven s um seven seven step kinda evaluation process. So um not seven steps, seven scale. So after we've finished doing all the ratings for each criteria, we average that and that will give us some type of uh confidence in our prototype. And uh the criteria based on Real Reactions' kinda goals and policies, marketing strategies, and also those I put together from the user requirements phase.'Kay. Um if you flip the So, those are the criteria. And uh perhaps I could have put'em a bit better, but you notice a few things that we've totally abandoned, which means that uh the product will score very badly on some of those points.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Put it mildly. So we have um true? One, t Seven, eight, oh. Fourth. Okay, so we have to go through each point. If we imagine it's actually straight, and just give it a a score. So um how well would you say the prototype is uh how well have we realised the dream of being able to stop remotes from from being lost, or to be able to find them once they are lost. I mean, uh is the homing thing still the locator, is that still.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah, that's still part of the design.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Sure. And Adam, we can keep that in?", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah, I believe so. So I mean I don't think anybody could actually stop a remote being lost,", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "'cause that would mean doing something about the human element,", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Sure.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "but I'd like to think that we've done something about finding the damn thing once we have.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "T", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Mm. Mm. And making it a bright colour helps", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Sure.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "with the personally I would have gone for purple..", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Mm. Bright colour. So we still have that noise thing, yeah?", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Os on a scale of one to seven, how would you guys rate it for finding finding it once it's lost?", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "I'd say number one.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Number one?", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "One. Yeah..", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Okay. Number number one for the first criteria.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "I think w if it was just the sounder then th I mean something I've found with uh w w with say tr trying to find uh a cordless phone or a m mobile, you can hear it, but you can't quite pin it dow pin down where it is.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah you can tell what room the mobile is.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Bu", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "What about what if the the volume on the T_V_'s turned up massively and uh you just wanna turn down the volume can't find remote. Suppose you have to go to the T_V_ and do it manually. Mm.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Mm. Um", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Like y you wouldn't hear the speaker.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "just before we go through all of the steps here, um well what we'll do is", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "You wanna say something?", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "um if we can look at the criteria you're gonna evaluate, and then we'll come back to the product evaluation if that's alright.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "That's fine.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah, is that.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Oh that's that's fine.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Um so is there anything here that you that you wanted to cover as in the criteria that you've covered? And then we'll come back pretty much promptly to this.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "What do you mean cr is there anything I wanna.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "I is there any of these criteria that need any explaining? Or is there anything that yous thought tha really would stand out compared to the others?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Um, a few. Something I neglected from my initial research is that Real Reactions has a a goal strategy that all of the products be inspired by material fashion, and clothing fashion. That is why fruit and veg being popular in the home and in clothing was important and they want all their products to be somehow inspired by current trends in fashion. So they say we put the fashion in electronics, well they really mean it they they're very big on fashion,", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "so. That's this bit right here. And uh this bit is this one easy to use for visitors or for anybody? I guess it's just the same as saying easy to use interface, so it's kinda condensed into one. And we can come back to it, you said.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "So.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "No and which we will do very very shortly. Um. Okay. Slight problem we had was that we have an amazing four Euros over budget for what we were hoping to do. Um most of it stems from the use of the L_C_D_ which I think in the end accounted for about half of our expenditure because of course we required a chip as well. Um the only way to get this down was either to ditch the a L_C_D_, at which point we've removed a large part of how we were gonna interface, require more buttons, etcetera. Or what we did was that we um we as in I as I was quickly going over it was altering the actual structure. Um changing it to plastic and a solid unit with a single curve design would allow us to come back into the um proposed costs and we're just scraping it in, we've got point two of a Euro left over there. So we're just managing it really. Even then as well, um there was no criteria technically defined for a joystick so I've used what I think's appropriate. With any luck that won't mean that we've incurred more cost than we can actually afford to. It blows a lot of our really good ideas kind of slightly to one side, for example the possibility of having a U_S_B_ connection is definitely not viable now. Um.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Different languages?", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "That should still be viable. We've got an advanced chip, we've got the use of the L_C_D_. So being able to communicate in multiple languages is still very much a possibility.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah..", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Um but what's something we need to decide on is how we're gonna go from here. We do need to try and come up with an idea which could be continued with other people if need be. Um. We can I can bring the excel up sheet up and uh show you if you wish um. I really think as m much as it pains me is that we might have to go with plastic and some kind of solid design, possibly meaning that the L_C_D_ wouldn't be in this perfect place. It might be s stuck like slightly between what would be good for left handed and what would be good for a right handed person.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm I suppose o one thing that could be done is h is have it um circular and have it s so that the uh the pink actually goes a bit over the pinkie finger. Mm.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "So that uh th", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "It very much is about making concessions, unfortunately. Um.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Do you have any data on how much um different prints cost? I mean can you get the entire thing printed with a design um?", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Um b b b da is you mean on the plastic, or?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": ".", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Let's have a look. You now have as much information as I do. Um.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah, yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "So as you can see here, for example, the battery really not very little choice in that one. We've gone for one of the cheaper options as well. Unfortunately we require the advanced chip if we're gonna do what we're needing to. I've said single curved. We really do need it to be that way for the ergonomics of it. Um plastic for some reason incurs no cost, which I've had to very much make advantage of, despite the fact that rubber's only got a value of two Euros per unit. Problem comes here as you can see in the interface. Um if I've read this thing correctly, then we can save point five of a Euro here in that it's not per push button. That might make sense, because then a numeric keypad would come in at um what, four point five Euros, which is an awful lot, so that could well be wrong. Even if we save point five there, it would just mean that we're most likely placing it in actually just gaining a colour for the unit, which has had to be put to one side. As you can see, the use of an L_C_ display um advanced chip and what would determine the scroll wheel here as well because it's an integrated scroll scroll wheel push button that wasn't quite what I think they had in mind with a joystick.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Why would why would that be more expensive than an individual push button and scroll wheel together? That's quite significantly expensive.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "I that's something you'll have to take up with the bean counters. Um", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": ".", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Mm. yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "as you can see I mean that's taken up well over half of the price.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "So um I'm very much open to suggestions of where we go, but because we need to shed what was four Euros off of the um the price of for what we really desired, this one comes in under price as you can see, but this was the one that sacrificed the material for the case and for the actual case design.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "We don't even have uh speakers here. The like uh we uh what about speakers and transmitters and stuff like that? Have we factored that in?", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Uh no, we haven't, not.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Transmitter, receiver, speakers. Plus the extra device itself that's gonna be on a T_V_.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Is that gonna be a button, or.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "That'll it literally would just be a button.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "We might have to.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "That's too expensive isn't it?", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "It looks like almost nothing Mm. Oh good call, I missed that.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "I I mean it's not on here, but um.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "that's a very valid point.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Did they s do we have to use an advanced chip for the L_C_D_?", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Okay. Well that's yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "So if we're gonna go with the L_C_ display, then that's.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "What's a hand dyna dynamo? You have to wind it up?", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "I believe so, yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "That would probably not be in keeping with the um the fashion statement and such,", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Technology. Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Fashion.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "So basically the only new thing is the L_C_D_ on the remote now.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Being manipulated by the joystick, yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Oh, and joystick, yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Which I'm defining as scroll wheel. Um.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "And we couldn't replace the joystick, right? Because we would need four extra buttons to replace it, up down left and right, and that would be more expensive than a but is a scroll wheel not just back and forward?", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah it's just because there was no actual definition for what a joystick might be, that that's what I've labelled it for the purposes of this evaluation.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "So The L_C_D_ basically is the big selling point of", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "If we remove the L_C_ display, we could save ourselves", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "the remote.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "a fair amount. Which you could.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "But that's what makes it uh original though,", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Mm. I think if we remove the the L_C_ display then there was absolutely no point to any of these meetings", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah..", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "isn't it?", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "and we just we could just put our branding on any other remote control.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah. Yeah. Um. Uh k", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "It's a shame. We should possibly have If we could've increased the price we could've manufactured that and we could've got something far closer to what we were hoping to.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Does this does this bear in mind that I mean it's a bit ridiculous that they're gonna charge us what is it, like this much money for three million if we're gonna buy three million components,", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Again, you'll have to argue with the accountants on that one.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "you know.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Um but for the purposes of this meeting, I'm we're gonna have to stick with these figures.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm.'Kay.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "So, I would say that it would seem like the general opinion is we're gonna keep the L_C_ display'cause it's about what really separates us, despite the cost it's gonna incur. Um", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "I think so.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "are people maybe not happy with, but are willing to go ahead with this in going for a plastic solid case, to keep the L_C_D_?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm. Um yeah I mean one thing, I mean ho uh how much extra would it be to to keep I mean keep the um the articulation?", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "It's hard to tell. Um I would say that you're at least gonna take double curved,", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "This is what I'm wondering.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "and even then I'm not quite sure if that's incorporating the idea of articulation.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Oh", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "no, I think I I it d that it needn't require it to be double curved.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "It can be s yeah, it can still be single curved,", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "It's uh it's just it's just it's just that the case would come in t would be made in two parts and then joined together with an articulation.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "but.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Single curved with articulation?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "You just.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Could we could we not get rid of the curvy the curvous the curvaceousness and focus on the menu being the best interface?'Cause like we do we have re restrictions on software?", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "That's what we need for the joystick I think though.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Mm. Yeah, I mean", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Oh but there has to be.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "and I mean the uh I mean if you look uh if you look closer at the uh at the prototype here, the lines here along the grip are actually quite straight. Um I mean yeah,", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "But the curves all o over hand,", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "on the on the L_C_D_ I mean although we've done it with a curve it", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "is it?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "could just as easily be done um without curves. The curve that's really needed is up here,", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "joystick.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "to put uh to keep the joystick in a good ergonomic position for it to have it rest on the top of the hand.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Okay. Sure. Okay, my bad.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "We wouldn't actually save a lot by reducing it anyway, so I mean for the purposes of this meeting maybe we can state that single curve still allows articulation.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Um unless we hear otherwise we could go ahead with that proposal.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "So I think the product is not gonna perform so well for my criteria.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Which is what we can get onto now. As long as so are we gonna say w we have to keep an eye on the time as well, but we're gonna say um single curved design.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Oh, wait a minute. Sample speaker? What is a sample speaker? Is that somewhat similar to what we want?", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "It could well be,", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm no", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "but at a cost of.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "that's that voice response thing that we got the email about.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Costs four.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "But I thought it was just completely pointless.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "You got a email about voice response?", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "I did not,", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Alright.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "so.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "B i basically it was saying that our labs had come up with a chip that you could, you know, say hello to, and it would say hello back in a friendly female voice..", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Okay, yeah we'll definitely won't go with that one.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "We won't go with that one, did you say?", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah, that's voice recognition, so.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "I mean I we Okay, okay.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Um. So, okay yeah, battery definitely,.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "So it looks like we're gonna get rid of the whole loca locator thing.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "It looks like it unless we can manage to put it in under point two Euros, um.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Okay. Okay.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Maybe even slight well oh yeah, pretty much point two Euros, I'd say. So we'll leave that one for now. we'll just have.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Are we going for a special colour at all?", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "It's uh a case of um I'm uh slightly unsure. One point five of a Euro for one push button doesn't sound quite right. So maybe it's a case of a push button is maybe one or more. Um.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Well", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "At which point if.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "I was for a case. Or had you already incorporated that?", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Oh, special colour for the case.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Well you got point five there. It's literally a case of whether or not this is correct. I'm not quite sure if they're I don't think they mean point five Euros per button.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Okay, well", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "l let's say that and then we can have our special coloured case", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "So", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "and then we at least have make it a little harder to lose.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "There we go.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Because most m most remotes are a fairly dingy colour that gets camouflaged under any pile of crap in a living room.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "W what's the default colour? White or black?", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Black's probably the normal colour you'd say,", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Or grey.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "I quite like that colour that you're fetching there,", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yellow..", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "it's uh definitely for make it glow in the dark even better.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "So will we go with that then?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "It's not and we can see.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "we'll come back to uh your evaluation", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Sure.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "which you're probably now going to pan us but there we go.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Okay. Okay.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "So uh.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Just to give you an idea, um you want to go maybe a bit quickly as well, I'm not sure how much time. We've not hit the five minute mark warning yet,", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Right okay. Okay.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "but.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Think it's ten minutes left..", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Ten.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "'Kay. Ability to stop remotes from being lost or to find them once they are lost. Um. Okay.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Special colour.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Special colour.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Mm mm four?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Uh uh four.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Three? Mm.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Three. I think we can do three.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Three if we're being generous, I feel.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Th the special colour doesn't would I think make a difference.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Think we're being generous here with three.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Three.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "It makes it stand out from you know it's lost in a big pile of crap, it stands out from the rest of the crap..", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Mm. Yeah. Okay.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Reduce the number of unused buttons. We're down to t two buttons, is it?", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Two buttons and a joystick.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Two buttons.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Okay, so that's a one. You know,", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Totally.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "where that's.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah. I'd say we're doing well there.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Okay, that was good. Easy to use interface, buttons menu, menus.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "that's yeah that's good.'Kay that's we're not doing so badly. Um easy to use oh okay, let's forget that one. Fancy looking..", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "As he models the.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "It doesn't get much fancier.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Sure. And we could do whatever we like with the L_ L_C_D_. Yeah let's just assume it's a good L_C_D_ display.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Maybe I was panicking for no reason.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Are we going one on?", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah,", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "I'd say we go two,'cause like f the fanciest would be the double curved.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "I'd.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Wouldn't it?", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "w maybe you'd be a bit too.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah..", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "yeah. There we go. Yeah,", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "With the articulators. With bells on it.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "that's m that's that's better too. More accurate numbers. Technologically innovative. Well, we're getting rid of the locator thing", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Which is a shame.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "which which", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Mm. I'd give it a three for this for that.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "No need for teletext.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": ".", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah. I mean the menus thing is something you don't normally see on um on a remote,", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "'Kay.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "but you see it in a lot of other places.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah, mobile phones.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "And y what you're doing is moving the menu from the television to the remote control, so it's.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "You say three? I might go as far as two on that. Three.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "I'd give it a three.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "I'd be tempted with three, yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Three. Okay.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "We'll get panned on the next one, anyway.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Okay. Materials that people find pleasing.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah, w", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Sponginess is what they really would have wanted, apparently.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "It is, yeah. Don't blame them.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Um because of the way that we've minimalised the number of buttons and such.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Plastic, it sucks. But it's no worse than any of the other pl remote controls we have.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "That's true. It's not a step backwards.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "five?", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm. I'd s I I'd give it a six, to be honest.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Six?", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah, okay let's give it a six.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Six,.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Okay, that's totally thrown everything off balance. Inspired by the latest interior and clothing fashion. W we could. What colour were we gonna make it?", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Put a leopard print on it..", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Well I I I would sa I would say give a s give a selection of colours.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "I know,", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Um we went with yellow we went with yellow for the prototype", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "but.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "'cause we had yellow. If I were buying one, I'd go for purple. Leopard print would be cool.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "But um by this I think it's more a case of fruit and veg,.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah we gotta. I'd say the colour of the border there world you'd find that, that's that'd stand out.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Like yellow, yeah. It would also help keep the the product placement s", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Logo, brand.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Is it inspired by clothing fashion?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "But Th th they're referring to the fruit and veg thing.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Mm'kay.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yes.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Is this like a banana type colour? Could we stretch no still, it's not shaped like a banana is.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "That's kinda i", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "It's kind o it", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "it won't be when it's been", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "probably.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Oh is that'cause it's flat?", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "budgeted.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "What is what fruit or veg is flat?", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "I I think s I I think this isn't not particularly fruit and veggie. Um.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah. Or we might have to suffer badly for this one as well..", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yellow courgette.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Well", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "I mean it's probably more fruit and veg than most other things out there bar fruit and veg, so, what, four?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Four? Oh that's it's very ambitious,", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Is that being too generous?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm. I'd I'd I don't think fruit and veg is the sole criterion. Is the sole criterion for being um fashion fashionable or inspired by current fashions.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "yeah, um.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Oh dear,.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Sure. Inspired by.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Um I'd g I'd rate I'd rate this fairly highly from that point of view actually.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Well this this what we're gonna t this is their motto, like.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "And we're we're not doing well on it.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "This is their strategy. I m imagine we actually had some money invested in this and the amount that we invest is gonna be proportional to the marks. Might we might wanna be a bit more skepible sceptical about this one.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "What would you think yourself?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "I would say I mean it's it's not at all, right? In any way or shape or form.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Well, it's kind of curved", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "We didn't m", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "and we can make it yellow, and that's pretty much banana like.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Okay, the the yellow banana like thing is I think is okay.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Si it's got a curve to it.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Right five. Is that sound reasonable?", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Am I do you think I'm stretching the uh the use of the banana?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah, I'll go with five.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Five. Yeah.'Kay, so we have one, two, three, four, five, six, seven. So five, seven, ten, sixteen, twenty one. Which gives us an average of three. It's well this would be in the middle. So we it's it's not bad. It's in the good section.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "It's not bad and considering the don't pick the pen. Um.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Oops. Sorry. I'm I'm sorry.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Y oh and you've knocked batteries out.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Um right okay it's.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "'S bad design, that thing..", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "considering the price we had to get this in, to have a positive you know, even based on the four of us being heavily biased, um", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm. Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "it was gonna be quite hard to get anything standing out I'd say possibly, based on um the the cost features.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Mm, yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Even if we were to increase this entire thing by by seven, we were to go down a grade to to four, we would have to do I mean we didn't we weren't that kinda optimistic too optim overly optimistic. You know like we didn't we didn't add we didn't subtract a whole seven points from these things, so I think we're definitely on the good bit.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Even if we gave this one seven and this one seven, that's still only three extra points over seven. You know, it's yeah,", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Mm. Personally, I think given that the product um only replaces a single remote control", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "we did it w it was okay. It was good.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "that you've already got, are people really gonna shell out twenty five Euros for something that's only marginally good?", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Well, it depends who your who's what the target people are, like you'd say maybe the fashion conscious", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Maybe it's been targeted.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "women would be going, oh look at that,'s cool, it looks like a.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "it's yellow, looks like a banana, it's cool it's gotta look good in the sitting room.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Hide it in the fruit basket.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Rather than the L_C_D_ whereas uh more technical like like more uh people in with the latest technology it's good, it's got an L_C_D_ screen's only got two buttons and a joystick. So, which which kind of people would be more likely to buy it?", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Probably the people technologically. They're usually the ones that buy pointless stuff.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "I think so.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "I mean my mum still has not learnt how to use text messaging on her phone, and she's had it for a long time, you know. She uses it to make phone calls and that's it.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": ".", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah. So I think if sh if my mum saw a remote control like this with only two buttons and a joystick, I mean that'll probably be the first one she decides not to buy, you know.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "She'd be like is this a remote control, I don't how do you use it, and stuff like that. So even if it is really user friendly to us, but we're used to using menus all the time.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm. I s I suppose one thing is that b because it's technically innovative, um for someone who's sort of technophobic, the fact that it simply looks unfamiliar would be daunting.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah. Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Um.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "I think it's totally uh radical to have a remote control with no no numbered buttons,", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "But like radical good, maybe.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Okay. Um don't know how lo much longer we've got. At least five minutes I think. Um quickly we'll pop onto project evaluation. Um. So, we've got these uh four criteria here for uh satisfaction. Does anybody want to um um do you have any opinions on any of them? For example um we'll work backwards I suppose. The ability to work on this project using the technology we've been presented with. Um people made good use of the uh pen and paper?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah,", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "I would say.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "got notes and doodles.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Wrote nearly a page,", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "but not.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "I'm not quite sure what the advantage for us using a digital pen might be.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Well I think this is a I think the digital pen's mostly for the benefit of the uh", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "I think tracking.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "of the researchers studying this. It's all p goes into their corpus.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "It must.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Though it would have been nice to be able to transfer the um transfer our n our paper notes onto the uh computer ourselves.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah, that woulda been pretty good.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "It does seem like the paper's still a heavy consideration for taking notes. So maybe this is literally just a way around it. Um I dunno. How are people satisfied with the teamwork we've managed to display today?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": ".", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "I'd.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Good.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "yeah I liked it, yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Leadership. As much as can be leadered in this uh thing.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Very good.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "I li yeah, top marks.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Um last one we've got is room for creativity.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Well.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Unti uh uh until uh until accounts came along,", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Now, I think we got.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "squish.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "We're burs bursting with creativity.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "yeah..", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "We we're not lacking in ideas, you know it's that was not the problem.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "I think of in the end, ideas that can be used sadly. Not so much that we weren't full of ideas, but of ones that are gonna allow us to actually build the thing. It's a bit of a pity.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Um I would have to agree on that. I think we needed a larger budget.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "If you're going to aim your a um product maybe at the technological kind of sector, then you can afford to maybe jack the price up slightly from what it is.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Because they will pay outrageous cash to.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm. I mean I th I mean I think to r retaining the s the more sort of bio-morphic form in the articulation would gain more in s uh would gain more profit in sales than it would lose in uh", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "first on the market.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "in added expense.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "And the price was like it was twice the w assembly cost. And would it have to be twice that? It could be like coulda had the assembly like maybe fifteen Euro.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "It could even.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "We'll still settle for twenty five.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "That's true, yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Maybe..", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Um I suppose these are all that will have to be taken up with a at a different group at I guess. As to a the costs involved. But I mean we've got a a prototype.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Such as it is.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "So I dunno, I I think it's gone okay today, considering the information that we've had at our disposal, and um such.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Maybe the counts wou woulda been better if we had a list or more Yeah, to begin with.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "In the beginning, yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Probably would have mean we could have come up with a lot more solid design in the end,", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "I would have to agree. It is very much a pity to um get so far into the stage and then find out that maybe some of your ideas are just a bit too expensive. Always hard to tell until you know the costs. Um. Okay. Are the costs within budget? Well,", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "they are now that we have our slightly less than capable product.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "We've evaluated it, and we can say that we came out with a value of three.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Actually I want th one thing I would say.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "I mean something that could perhaps be part of the product mm the um m product testing market research process would be to uh produce mock-ups of both versions and see just how much of a difference the over going over-budget um m would make to sales.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "It's yeah?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "And like response from consumers.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "And we could even you know, market two versions.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Wee cheapie version with the nice bio-morphic rubber..", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "And then the final one where you get to call it Hal.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yes.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "But we'll go into that later.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Sure.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Right um", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "is there anything else that anybody would like to to add, um anything they think that's not been covered, before I quickly write up a final report. Um I dunno, I mean we've got a product. We maybe aren't as happy with it as we'd like to be, but we've got something we think we can maybe stick onto the the market and sell. And of course something we have been avoiding talking about'cause of we've no information is selling them directly to the manufacturers. There is a huge market.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "I mean we've briefly touched on it but we've no more knowledge then there's little we can say on that.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah. So um unless anybody's got anything they'd like to add, we can maybe round this up slightly earlier than we'd need to and then we can finish up the writing and such.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "And I can get my bus. 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Y no, it's a slightly curved around the sides..", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Mm very nice.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Um, it's almost curved like up to the main display as well. And the little line at the bottom indicates the bit the panel that you pull down.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "And the extra function buttons are below that panel on the little line.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "And we've got the stick on the button with the company logo on.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "We also have a apple slash cherry design at the top.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "So it is, yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Cherry would be alright actually.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah,", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "it's a bit more fun, isn't it? And it's kinda not really at a kind of you think apple, you think computers, like Apple Mac.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah, yeah, we might get a.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm. Copyright, yeah. What's this this one?", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah, and cherries are fun, summery.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "What's that one there?", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Ah, that's the mute.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "For the M_..", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Oh, okay. Right.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "It it'd probably have to be labelled mute.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "They're thinking.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "But um, we didn't have anything small enough to write.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Uh-huh.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "For the first time, well it was hard to get the h um the actual labelling on the individual buttons.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Okay. Mm-hmm..", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah. Uh, we just chose simple shapes for all them.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Um, the important ones are the volume ones. So we made them a bit bigger. The mute could possibly be a bit smaller.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Hum, you separate off in colour the volume related buttons from the channel related buttons, so you've got the volume in orange on design there,", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "and the the channel is in blue.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "R right. Um,", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah, and we chose a V_ plus and V_ minus.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "all these things have cost implications. And so when I done my thing on cost a I had assumed that the only uh button that would be a different colour would be the uh the red apple button. So However, I've now. 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So So, we've got prototype presentation, which we've just done, evaluation criteria, um and finance, so I guess w we have to evaluate if that meets the various uh aspects that we're looking for uh from um our previous meeting.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "So other than the fact that it doesn't have the second layer, but um obviously obviously it would.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "But other than that, we got the red apple. We got the buttons and the only thing that has really changed is the is the colouration of the buttons,", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yes, yes.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "and the bit after the evaluation criteria is uh is the finance. 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So, sh", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "We could do it as we d go along, the production costs, looking at the prototype.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Right..", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "'Kay this should be then.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Okay, so, by the fact that we've got uh the simple chip and the uh kinetic energy source, we've got a single curved case. We've got a rubber uh case materials supplements. So, we had decided that we're having rubber buttons and.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm. Have a push button interface.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Okay. W the button supplements.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Um.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Well, originally, I thought there would just be uh one in there because it was the one red apple. But.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Um.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "So the so the real w the real question then would come in. Do you make all the buttons.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Well do we'll do it on the prototype,", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "O", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "so do two, see how much it is.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Well, so we've got one special button form, which was the apple. Everything else is gonna be a standard.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "We've got special material, rubber, wood, titanium, et cetera and that,", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "And then we'd have.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "so, I was originally, I was thinking rubber wasn't special,", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "but according to this, maybe it is.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "So And the r I mean effectively we've got sixteen buttons that we're gonna have on there.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah. I think you just do one, don't you, for the.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "W I don't know is is is the sort of answer, is that meant to be all sixteen buttons, and therefore I mean, what's the op The option was maybe not to have rubber buttons, but just to have the one that was soft and spongy, and therefore.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "I think I think it's just it's just a one. Else.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Whereas it would be the special colour would be for the So you would only have the one special button that was rubber, whereas the rest would be hard plastic..", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "I thi I think I think the button supplement i is just a supplement for all the buttons made in a different material, rather than per button.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "I don't know though.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "I would Every design change is uh sound] I dunno,", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Hmm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "um Okay, um, if we just had all the buttons as standard, except for the one red apple, then that would take care of that, I guess. We'd have one special colour and one special button form.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "And when I plugged that in last time remember it has to be under twelve and a half. As far as I know, that um that took care of the uh of the various supplements.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "And if What happened?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "You've just gone off the window into another one. It's on the bottom row.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Maybe if you just minimise that one in the top right-hand corner of the little box.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Now, right..", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Okay, so, but the point would be that if we uh if we just did special Sorry, you were saying that it would be that one, that you would put in one there.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah. Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "So that's nine point one there so we've got some.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "So it Well, is it s is no, it's nine point seven I've got.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "'Kay.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Just give us a bit of.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "So, that would that would work out fine if uh uh as assuming your correction are are assuming that that one change covers all the buttons, then that would be fine.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm. Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "And there's nothing else as far as I can see that we we had uh planned to put on.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "S", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "I switching around those th um on the electronics we got the sample sensor. At the moment we've just got the simple chip, which costs one.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Uh-huh.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Um, I guess the sample sens sample speaker would be the voice recognition thing, which puts up to four?", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "We should be slightly over our budget but if we gather something else down to slightly lower standard, and maybe go with the one the special form buttons, then we could have the speech.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Well, hold on. Um, if we Okay, that gives us twelve point seven", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "So uh maybe if we got rid of like the maybe one of the special colours, kept them all the same colour, then we could have the voice recognition", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "But remember that the idea was to keep it the colour of the.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "without.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Oh, I see, so just take out the special colour for the apple and.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah, yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Um,. D wouldn't you have to keep the simple chip there as well? You know how you turn that one to a zero, wouldn't the chip and the sample speaker be separate things,", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah, we have to have it.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Oh possibly, yeah, yeah maybe.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "so you need both of them?", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Maybe um we'd be giving up on the kinetic. Um.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "And go for battery instead.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "That would give you one less.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "We should Yeah, that would save us one, though we'd still be slightly ov", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "But you reckon that i I mean the thing is that you wanted to a appeal to people and not have to replace batteries.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah, yeah. Well, since it's the through the whole technology type thing, um, you were saying in the market research that people like kind of interesting gadgets in them. Um, whether they would figure the the s uh sample senor and the sample speaker, voice recognition be sort of a worthwhile thing to have.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "And then still have the batteries,", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "or whatever they would prefer not uh You know what I mean? The the problem was the battery's running out and losing the um losing the remote.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "So you gotta decide which of those is more important to them.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "But which do you think or which do we think is the more important of the options? In a sense, at the moment, we've got a total which we need to reduce down by one point two.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "I think the voice recognition.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "At least. Remember that was a minimum requirement. The other option if we're planning on just going for something cheap and cheerful, would be to um make it originally, we're gonna make it a simple product.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Shall we shall we evaluate the prototype as we've got it now first, and then sort of make decisions about what needs to be changed after?", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm. Makes sense.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Okay", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Okay. Right um, I have a little thing. So, we've all got a note of it's thirteen point seven, isn't it, with everything we want on.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": ". Sorry, do you want that back up?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah, I just had a presentation to do..", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "But I do think uh the v uh voice recognition thing would be more impressive than the fact that it's got no battery.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Okay, but remember the main the only reason we were planning on having the voice recognition was so that they could find the remote if it got lost.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm. Mm. Right okay um, This is about the evaluation criteria that we use for the the prototype we've got here.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "And so the method is that the design team makes a prototype, and we evaluate the prototype against some criteria that we've formulated. And those ones are gonna be in response to sort of market research, and also finance, I guess. And do that on a scale from say true being one and false being seven, so if it's neither true nor false, then that's four. So, I got a set of criteria just based on the marketing that we need to add in a financial one as well, at the end. Um so, We have to say whether it's true or false that the product looks and feels fancy. Um The whether the product demonstrates technical innovation. Whether it's easy to use. Whether it's incorporating sort of the fashion element to attract the buyer. And whether it's a sort of recognisable Real Reaction product. And I have to go up onto the whiteboard and do this apparently,", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "so I'll go over here. Right. So the first one is um, does the product look and feel fancy. So if we do a sort of a one So.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Okay, well we have a single curve, which was maybe like the feel of the product's quite good.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "So uh.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Um, then we have the rubber kinda spongy feel, which was in at the time.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Um, sorry that'd be considered fancy.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah, I'd maybe give it a a two.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Of but I think What Is one false, or is t one true?", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "One's true.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "I forgot. One's true, and okay. Seven's fal", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "And a four is neutral.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Four is neutral, okay. So.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "So maybe maybe a two.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah,'cause we haven't got the double curve, so we can't like say it's completely true.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Go for one. Yep.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "But it's pretty close. We've got almost everything we can.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Okay. Right.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "I gonna put underneath so I've got some more space. So, false is seven, true is one, and So uh say about a two for fancy,", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "you think?", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah, why not not,", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "m m maybe nearer three.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Okay, well d you do an average at the end, I don't know. Um.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Two three. Well, it's just that uh saying something remember that when you look down, we've got solar power, we've got uh various other things you could have, and we're not going for these options.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Uh-huh. This this is just this is just for like the look. Does it sort of look fancy rather than functional. So.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm..", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah, I suppose that might be in the technical innovation bit.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah, so that so sh should we go for a a two on that?", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "'Kay. And I mean, how much does the product demonstrate technical innovation do you reckon?", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Um, deciding between the kinetic power or um the speech recognition, and if we had either of those for our budget, they both show a reasonable amount of speech recognition.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "D yeah. Okay. So, what about the pr The prototype as it is,", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Um.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "we've got we've got the speech recognition on it, haven't we.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "But not the kinetic.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "But not the kinetic.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Like the power.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "No.'Cause you can't afford that w we took that out too.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "No, we c ca yeah, we can't afford both.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Alright, so.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Didn't you? Or.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "So it doesn't It's pretty The prototype as it is isn't sort of um fulfilling the.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "No may is maybe about neutral", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Maybe a three.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "plus it it it's got something, but it hasn't got.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Okay. Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Well, wait a minute. In thirteen point seven we do have kinetic.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "I would give it more than a four.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "The problem is we have to reduce down from there to get it down to twelve point five.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "And one way of doing that would be to take out the kinetic.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "So, it's very much dependant on what you do with your options. And if you're definitely going for the sample sensor and sample speaker, then because that.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "'Kay.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Right, okay.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "the other functions we've got in are are more at the The special material, the rubber, wood, titanium, et cetera, if you go for that, th that's at the high end'cause that's point six, whereas down at uh just special colours uh is point two. Now you're trying to lose one point two, so it seems to me that if you're going for the sample sensors speaker, you're basically then having to go for the cheaper options on everything else.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "And and the simple way to do it would be to have a battery, to have your uh sample sensor speaker,", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Um.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "and then you're looking to uh take out uh point two,", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "S I'm just gonna check my email..", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "which would be come from the button supplements category.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "I'm just gonna check exactly what it said in the email for um the product.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "How much of a difference would it make if we made the case in plastic? Because we did say that we don't wanna follow the fashion too much. If the buttons are rubber that might be spongy enough.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Um, interface type um,", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "And then it stand the test of time better.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "well plastic rather than rubber..", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Okay. But I.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "That that that would make the significant difference. You could either you could have it If you have a in plastic rather than rubber, then that would uh enable you to get you could keep kinetic then, you could keep your sample sensor, and you'd be looking to take out point two. So you could uh fiddle that down your special form at the bottom, or your special colour at the bottom.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "And that would enable you to to do it.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "So it says if we make a slightly more fancy, then we lose points innovation, and if we make it more innovative innovative, then we lose points on it being fancy, so.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Ye", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": ", I just read the email again and it sort of says it's evaluate the design sort of as it is, I think, so I think we need to think about finance after we've sort of evaluated that design. I don't know whether we're doing it in the wrong order or something or.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Well, okay, but.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Well, I suppose it's rubber as it is, isn't it.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "It's rubber as it is, yes.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "So, I mean does this need to go up a bit or something,'cause we've got both the both the um the speech.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "We got we've we've got thirteen point seven", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "and we've got it in at the moment and if and basically, we're going to reduce down from that.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "But the current one, you'd say would be fancy, would be too.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah, yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah. Um, for for innovation, so we've got the speech the speech thing, and.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm. I would've said about a two as well.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Do you reckon a two?", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah, two or three. I'd be happy with a two.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Okay. Two.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Oh.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "And the next one is I'll have to get it back up now..", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "The next on Well, I can just sing about. Easy to use. I would've said yes. I would go for a one on that at this point in time.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah. Yeah,", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "I would say so as well.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Um, incorporates elements of fashion to attract buyer. Well, yeah it certainly has some.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Um.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": ".", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah, it's got the cherry and the sponginess.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "It does, yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Um.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yep.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Say about a three maybe?", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "I don't know.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah, m um.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Maybe two?", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah, it was just doing it quite well.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yep.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Um, I think we're gonna have to lose some of these, but the moment, as it stands, it's um.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah, I woulda said two would seem reasonable.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "It's a two.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "The product is a recognisable real r uh reaction product?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah, this is.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Uh the sensor using all of its all of its products, all of its buttons,", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "This.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "and it's got a fairly big label on the bottom saying where it comes from.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah, that's a bit rough at the minute..", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah. So this is about sort of the corporate image of like new sort of sleek technology and all that sort of thing, as well as having the logo on and all that.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Oh.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "So sort of Is it sort of a recognisable product.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Does it fit in with our other other products, which uh are sort of coffee makers and spacecraft..", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "S", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Uh, well it's got the same um speech feature as the coffee machine.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "What do y", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Also it's kind of spongy rubberiness is maybe bit more kinda comfortable than kinda sleek and new age.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Um, it depends which way you look at it.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Uh-huh.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Okay. So we're going for a two,", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "So.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Maybe a kind of three? Uh d", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "three?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah, two or three.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Two or three?", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Well, the logo would be more um recognisable on the actual thing. It's just that the pen wouldn't really write on that paper.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Sure.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "But um, I think the logo would definitely be recognisable.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "And it does have attributes that other products do. Two? Aye. Go for it.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Right, okay.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Two or three..", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Two.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "How.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Right, come on. That's that decided.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Two. Okay.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Right. So.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "So we're now on to changing it to get it to fit in with the budget requirements, and then.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "What does what do all them numbers mean then? Do we add them up and rate or anything?", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah we s yeah, I think we sort of add them up so sort of at an average is gonna be I'm just gonna do this in my head.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "About a two.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Two.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "One point eight isn't it or something. I think, anyway. So yeah, pretty close to a two.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah, so it's.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "So So it's I mean it's pretty good at the moment, but it's gonna get worse, isn't it.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yep.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "But we've gotta try and make sure it doesn't get too bad.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Two b two b two, yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "So should we get So are definite Was it thirteen point seven was the definite price rule if has.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yes.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Okay, so we need to.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Well, you can lose one point two and still meet the requirements.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Do you wanna plug it into yours so we can get up the the finances.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Okay, well I put it back on.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "So I guess this Is this the last stage once we sort out the finances part of it?", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "I'm not sure.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "we'll probably have to re-rate it.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yes, I would've thought so.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah, yeah we'll make the adjustments", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "and then see how are rates are going.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Okay, so what was it, control uh F_ eight, wasn't it?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Ah it's on.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "it's come on already.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Oh. Oh. How kind..", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Right, okay. So, you can see there that the If you want to keep kinetic, right, you've got a choice there of going down to battery, which would save you one. You've got the sample sensor and and sample speaker, which is your big item.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Oh actually we just have a plastic case, then we lose two points,", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "That's right.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "which gets us um In right within the budget range.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Which gets you.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yes.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah, I think that'd be fine. Because that was just a trend, and we do have rubber buttons anyway.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "So that's eleven point seven,", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "and then we could make sure we definitely had all the button supplements.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Alright.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Different different colours, yeah. Yeah, I was I was thinking that because maybe maybe the sort of rubber case is a bit less in sort of the corporate identity than the sort of you know sleeker plastic case.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Possibly, yeah. Um.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Okay, so.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "And that would allow us to have all the technical innovations. So we'd lose a little bit on the maybe kind of.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "So we're going for plastic, yes?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Lose a little bit on the fashion, yeah, but.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yep.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Oh yeah, and that would now be.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "And then.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah, that's that's within the budget. Um Do we actually have Do we just have one special uh special forms down here?", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Well, uh w uh there was debate as to how you would count them. You got special colour.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Um.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Well originally I was assuming we had the red apple, and therefore, that was the special colour.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "And we we've we've got we've got enough for another", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah, I think we should just imagine white buttons.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "we've got nought point eight left,", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "so we've got enough for another.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Well, we've got special form. Now that would be one button, and the question was was that all buttons or is that just one button.'Cause our plan really was to have one button only with a special.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah, um.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "So so no matter how you look at that, that would be the same.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "But the but but but the.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "The other thing would then be special material, rubber, wood, titanium.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "I think maybe the special colour, we've got three now just because the volume buttons are different,", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "I guess we'd have the ones which are blue at the moment would would just be the standard colour.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Alright. So, special colour, you want three in there.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah, which I think we should Yeah, they'll still be fine for the for the price.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Well I thin I think you you you just need two for the special colour'cause it's just two supplements, you know. One original colour and then sort of two supplements, I think maybe.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "That makes sense.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Okay, uh that's probably it.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Okay. So we only ne we only need two for that.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "'Cause I mean these these are moulded. The one colour's gonna be moulded out of a piece of plas uh of rubber, isn't it.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Okay. Yeah, I would agree with that, I think. And we've got special form is the one apple.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "The rest are all standard, although you could argue that should maybe be You were making these buttons down the bottom, I was presuming, bigger than the other ones, or were you? Was that the idea?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Ne uh.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah, the volume ones should stand out a bit.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Maybe that'll be a second supplement. Then there's a spe a second special form.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah, that.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Uh-huh. I would have thought that's probably about r well..", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Um Well you got you got twelve.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Okay, so tha", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "So I think that should still be okay. Yeah, that's twelve point three,", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "so we're still within budget on that. Um.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yep, that makes sense.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "So decide we've lost a little bit on the fashion and lost a bit on the fancy kinda side of it,", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yep.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "but generally speaking, we've kept the other attributes to the.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "I woulda said so. Yeah. So you'd maybe put fash fan uh fashion at three rather than two.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "That's without Yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "So shall we do a Well, um.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "And specially it definitely could fits the the real product What was the what's the company name?", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Real Reaction produ", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Real Reactions?", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "R yeah. Yeah, yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "I'm not quite sure, what does that mean?.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "I mean it still seems definitely fit that p so that's like if that's the new age kind of um inno innovative c type company, then um having the kinetic feature and the voice recognition is p quite high up on.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah, so Uh.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yep I would s", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "So it's w if we've if we've put in for another special form on a button, then maybe they could be a different shape. Like we got a cherry one. Maybe other ones could be something else shaped. I don't know. That would be poss seeing as seeing as it's cheaper to make them a different seeing as we've got, you know, we've made it a a special form, so", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "You mean of.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Um.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "And that would sort of maybe keep us close on the sort of the fashion type one. And it would sort of, you know, keep it quite fancy as well,", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Well you could argue you might do it once a year, you would change,", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "I don't know.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "because at the moment you're making a red apple. So next year you could make next year's model the same, but have it as a a yeah whate whatever, a lemon.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah so it's a.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Well you could Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Whatever fruit was in fashion next year..", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah, l a lemon lemon or something.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah, I mean the volume buttons could be lemons or something, maybe..", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "And that", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "amount.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Okay. So, we've what have we what have we rid of. We got rid of the plastic.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah, we've the main thing we've changed really is the casing isn't it?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Is it.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "That yeah, that was uh.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "The rubber.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "that was just about all.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "I think we've saved quite a bit because we've just got the push-button interface, which is by far the cheapest.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Um So maybe in a sense not having that, maybe we've lost some maybe lost something on the innovation side?", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "But uh.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "I dunno. And that is like the most standard type of button.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "So I mean, we've got we got rid of the rubber case, but we've now s we now sort of got an extra form, and an extra colour for the buttons. So maybe in terms of sort of fanciness and fashionability, we're pretty much the same, maybe.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "So, I mean we could maybe put two again on them.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "And everything else has stayed pretty much the same, so.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Well, ease has certainly stayed.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah, plus if anything that is special forms makes it slightly easier to to use.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah. And what about the sort of innovation?", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Um, well we've still got the kinetic energy. Um.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Do you think Okay.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "And the speech feature.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah, the speech feature.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "And then, the corporate identity.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "I think we've cut just about the same. We've maybe lost Hasn't it It's hard to tell how the rubber the rubber casing would really affect.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "How it would play out, yeah. Oh.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah. Whether whether that's considered to be sort of part of the corporate identity, I don't know..", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Um.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "I mean, it's maybe not. I mean.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "But I think more the the features of the actual control will be more important than maybe than the the actual aesthetics, but.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah. Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "But either way, I think we've made it fairly close to what.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah. Okay, well I mean.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah, I don't see how we could make it any more. Um, apart from maybe doing the whole thing in the kinda light shade of blue, like the casing.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "We cou Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "But then what colour would you make the R_s?", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "just the the company logo. So maybe there's like a set design which we get printed off.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Well, but you've got the company logo on there, which would effectively be a stick-on badge. So you're in a sense, you're comparing the product without the company logo.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "And then y but you've got the space for it to stick it on.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah, yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Hey, what what what's the company colour? Did you get told what the company colour is or.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "I'm still not quite sure we've established that.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "No,", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Don't think so.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "I just.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "But but i but in the sense that, as you saw with um the Windows logo badge, it doesn't really matter.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "We got the logo off the web browser.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Oh right.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "There's virtually n The way that you frame, you know, the Windows badge on there, it really doesn't matter what colour it is,", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Hmm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "so long as our company's logo is framed w in the same way as that with a like a black outline.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Fact, they've got black and white or black and silver. So basically, even if you had a silver the same colour of silver on your display, because you've got effectively a double edging on the uh on the logo, it means that it splits off what your logo is from the from the product.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm..", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "And that's actually quite a sneaky way of doing it.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Okay. Uh-huh.'Cause you've got sort of we've got point two to play with if you really wanted to.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "You could put in another.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Another colour.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Well, in this one, you've actually got three colours of buttons.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Or would that be t", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Well, we decided that the blue ones were the um the standard colour.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah. Okay.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "So you were talking about uh um We're assuming that all the buttons on the second panel, the hidden away panel, would all be standard.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Which m may or may not be the case.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Um.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Shall we save the point two for profitability then?.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Well, yeah. Bu but but uh was the was there not a button that you were thinking of on the um on the other opt you know, on the second page, as it were, that uh you were thinking of maybe having as a different colour?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Um, I don't think they would really need to be. I think if they were just all small round blue buttons, it'd be fine.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah, maybe we've m.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Needs to be an enter button, but could just be the same as well.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Maybe for the the one they're gonna see all the time, we make it look good, and um, fit the kind of idea of what they want.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Hmm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "And then for the more functional buttons, we don't worry too much about that and just have that as like a plus it's hidden away anyway, you're not gonna see it at the start.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah. I mean it's the sort of thing that, I mean, you wanna pick up the controller and just hit a button quickly to change the channel or volume.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah, well.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "So, if it's dead obvious, then that's fine. But if you're opening the panel and you're looking and you're tuning, then you're paying a bit more attention. So it may be sort of different colour buttons isn't so important.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Alright. Okay.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "'Cause you Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "So.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "So we just add that to profitability in effect..", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah, I mean so we've dropped the cost, but.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Right, so we're meant to finish up in five minutes.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Same sort of function? The criteria? It's alright.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "'Kay.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Just made a load of money..", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Shouldn't we maybe lose a point on fashion, go to a three?'Cause we've lost the overall spongy feel.'Cause it doesn't seem right that it just hasn't changed at all..", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Well, but I think we said that w Because you got rid of the rubber, we put an extra an extra sort of fruit um shape on one of the buttons.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Alright.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "le lemon sh", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Did we decide what that was, which button it was? On the volume ones?", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "I think well, we could have lemon shaped ones with the volume ones or something..", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Right..", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Uh,. That's good.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Or something like that. Yeah..", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Definitely lemon shaped.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Did did you have to have a rubber case, though, for rubber buttons? Or was it the other way around?", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "You had to have rubber buttons if you had the rubber case.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "So I think we can we're okay.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Right, okay.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "So we're okay this way around.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah. So that.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Until the design team comes in and says, get off.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "so we've saved.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "But you are the design team..", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Then we say it's fine, so it's all good.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Saved two Euros on that.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "So what bit are we on to?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Um, can I just check if that's a cherry or an apple? Did we decide against the apple because of Apple Mac? And did we make it a cherry officially?", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah. I th I th.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Oh. Right, okay.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Just in case we need that point two for lawsuits and such like..", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Oh drats, I've botched that, haven't I.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "So were we aiming for a certain target on that scale?", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Well, we're aiming for um one for all of them.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "M but it really has to fit into the budget, so I guess we just have to adjust things to get it i in the Which is fair enough..", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "And we seem to have least something in each criteria. We haven't completely left anything out, so.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah. Yeah, I think", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "As an overall product which has to be quite cheap, we've just about achieved everything.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "most Yeah. Yep.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "So do we have anything else to discuss?", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "I don't know. What's on the agenda?", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Right, okay um What's happened here? Right, okay um Mm. Right, okay um, Right. So we got So we've done the the finance bit and the Excel project and the We've done the redesign.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "We've got the closing.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "So we're now on to project process. Now satisfaction with, for example, room for creativity, leadership, teamwork, means, et cetera, whiteboard, digital pens, et cetera. So, we're actually now uh, in a sense, on to the evaluation of the course rather than the evaluation of the project is m my understanding of it.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Uh-huh.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "So what did you and remembering that nobody's just over the curtain..", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "So, um.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Finish your meeting now..", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "We should just go through this quickly and then.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Huh.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "So.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "I suppose the easiest way of doing it is to put some notes down, which I will do.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "So, uh I think I have to finish that page. Right, okay, so.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Oh..", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Project evaluation. So, um Creativity. Did you feel you got a chance to express yourselves well enough?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Um, yeah. Yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Well um.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "I thought some of the divisions though between sort of the individual meetings were a bit arbitrary.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Individual meetings. How do you mean?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah. Well, we were finding out various things in in be in-between the meetings,", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "In you on your own.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "and they didn't the one meeting didn't always follow on for the other one, you know, sort of we had things thrown in at the second meeting where, you know, you'd looked at the remote controls and seen the curviness, but in the first one you'd also looked at some remote controls and looked at the buttons,", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Um.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "and I don't understand why it would be in separate meetings that you'd do that. You know, you'd sort of you'd probably present it at one or something like that.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Mm, The only thing you find is in a manufacturing process, you would normally, you go to a meeting, you decide, right, you do this, you do that, you do that.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Then you go away. You find out information. You then come back. You then discuss it. You then go and change things around,", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Uh-huh.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "and then go back. So.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah, I suppose and then be going out and finding more information each time", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Whereas, this time, you're really getting it from a database source,", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "and then diff things will be relevant.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "so it's not uh well uh.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Anyway, so, what do you want to put down?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "I've put, seemed okay. Creativity, seemed okay. Um um flow of information on on any given subject given subject um sometimes disjointed..", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "I think it maybe could have been a slightly more creative project. I mean a remote control isn't the most um kind of fancy thing that you could imagine designing.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah, the thing itself.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Um.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "I can't think of a better example at the minute.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Have could have used a different example pel to increase create Creativity.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Is this go It kinda kis fits the purpose that it was something everyone knows about and then something we can at least look at and think how we can improve on.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "You have to do it within a set time frame is the other thing, so.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm. Yeah. But think like it was a bit restrictive just to say that you have to design a television remote control, in a way. I mean it depends what sort of business you're in, I guess. I mean this one seems. From the website it looks it's quite innovative, but we're coming up with some bucket shop product aren't we", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "that's, you know, fifteen quid..", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "one of those things. Like uh, companies can have like a range of products and.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "I th I uh d", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "I don't know how it works but I guess that something got sent out and have like a brief to kind of.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "But the other thing is that uh they're I'm guessing that they're trying to use this um software to to demonstrate how you could uh do a project. I mean, m my wife at the moment, for instance, is uh acting as a computer", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "um for um you normally, you got a problem, so you go to your tutor and find out information to see how to get it fixed.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "So what she's doing is she's having to spend a day at the computer terminal at one end so that any student that comes along can uh ask whatever question. And then you or the idea is that the whichever uh person's at the other end can point them in the right direction, show them where to either give them directly give them help, or secondly, point them in the right direction, either at the library, or uh or or come back, or go and see Joe Bloggs, or whatever. So uh, and that was a project I suspect similar to this, because they they were actually trying to debug the uh computer software to enable um to enable it to work. And of course, you had the machine crashing", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Hmm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "and various things going wrong. So.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Well, sh we look at the last slide,", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "see if it's got anything else.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Alright,", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "I think there's one one more to go.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "so we've got uh", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah. I mean if you look at their products on their website here, Real Reaction, I mean it's all pretty high-tech and cutting edge.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "New ideas found,", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "And.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "did we find any, no.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "It was quite good with this um the white board, having that and the digital pens.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Alright.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Like, that's something that made it a little easier.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah. Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Leadership, teamwork.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "we did find a new idea, I mean sort of a kinetic remote control. I've never seen one of them before. batteries, I think. So.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Does.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "voice recognition, especially not could.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "You've got voice recognition computers,", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "that's not remote controls.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Well it's a different application of it.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm. Okay,", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah, so it's just like the same products, but just put together in a different way.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "so how do you reckon teamwork went?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Um.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "That went okay, yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah, I guess we all had separate ideas and then discussed them.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm, yeah..", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "To uh go uh reasonably well. Okay.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "I don't think sort of the budget um allowed us to do anything.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Bit bit arbitrary..", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Well, I mean I don't think it I just don't think it fitted in with the rest of their products. I mean, they've got all these sort of, you know, high definition D_V_D_ and portable seven inch d um lightweight computer screens,", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "and uh I'm thinking, do you know, one cheap remote control doesn't really fit in.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "So, we're m we're meant to comment on leadership and the means, E_ G_ whiteboard, digital pens, et cetera.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Surely they they should produ", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "And and new i new ideas found was the the other thing.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Well leadership's a bit of a funny one, isn't it.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "But we can't really all fairly comment on leadership because you are the Project Manager.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "You were the leader. 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aef47fdb732940c5a5248ee8b3f9d77e	{ "meetingId": "IS1009d", "transcriptSegments": [ { "text": "Well hi everyone again.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Hello.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Hello.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Hello", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Um like before we uh I have to redo the meetings from n th the minutes from the last meeting", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "and so here we go. Uh it was discussed in the last meeting uh which was opened by the presentation from the interface um designer that uh looks would be very important on this new remote", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Designer..", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "and um it is to send messages of course to the T_V_. It should have nine channel buttons, a next button, volume buttons, subtitle buttons, switch to control features, colour contrast, sharpness etcetera. It should have a memory switch, a mute button in case the telephone rings or something. Uh speech recognition is one of her very f favourite personal uh features she would like see d d to be integrated in this um in this new remote. Um. Should be child friendly design with few buttons, colourful maybe with s star shaped or other shaped buttons. Um she uh presented also an oversized remote which she guarantees nobody will ever be able to lose.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Um.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "And she was challenged on that point.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "that's right..", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yes..", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "But uh her very f personal favourite really she, she would very much like to see a speech recogniser integrated in this remote. The industrial designer um presented her uh thoughts on the issue. She would like a special case made out of plastic that is very strong, not using any harmful materials, should be recyclable and should be colourful. Should have an integrated circuit board that's highly sophisticated and temperature resistant. She would like to see a timer and or alarm facility integrated. Uh technically this thing would also have a resistor and a capacitor, diode transistor, resonator, and if possible a rechargeable battery. Uh and of course a circuit board. And how it would works, you press the button, the chip is morse morse code related relays the uh to the generat to the generator amplification and uh the circuit board is very inexpensive to build and so she thinks this is a great feature uh to to to consider.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "She would like uh this whole thing should be push buttons with a simple chip uh scrolling method is more expensive and not that practical anymore. Should be battery operated and of course she would have the special cases. The marketing expert uh who has to finally come up with to to to market this product has been watching the competition, has done some research on the internet and also has used h her personal observations to come up with the fact that such a remote sh should be small, easy to use and it should be eye catching. From her point of view of course one of the most important facts is that we should get to market before our competition does. To do that uh maybe one or two features should be developed on which we could dwell on or in other words on which our campaign could be built on. Too many new features or too many points would only confuse matter. So we prefer to have one or two features that can be really uh driven home. Um it should have a fruit and vegetable design and should have a soft feel. She feels that's really what people want today. And the decision that we took last time was that uh the special feature we would like to see is a speech recogniser, the energy should be battery uh should be on a chip, should be trendy design, compact and strong, and should have buttons. And that concludes the presentation from the last minutes from the last meeting. Now uh we are ready for the presentation of the prototype.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Just the look like, the button part I'll explain.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah. Uh so this is our what uh we have made. This is a model of the remote control which we are going to build.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Uh this is us in a snail shape so uh it it is attractive", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "um and it's it's blue in colour uh bright and uh it has yellow buttons and all the different colour buttons", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "so it is a uh uh a looks-wise it is beautiful.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Uh and also compact in shape.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Uh um and also i it it will be easily fit into into the hands and you can access all the buttons easily.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm. Mm-hmm. Mm-hmm. Good.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah,", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "oops, sorry..", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "You used to have all the buttons.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Um yeah and um uh the material which we are going to use for the case is uh plastic and uh w which which is s strong um uh and also uh for the Um the material is plastic and uh for the buttons it is uh s soft rubber um and als", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Oh that's good,", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "no, that's nice and friendly.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah because uh uh you'll be touching the buttons more so it is soft when you touch it.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm. Mm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm,", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "And then um uh for the for the led, for the light emitting diode it is a fluorescent green", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "and it's a a it is a bulb like an ordinary infrared.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "And and the button button's part uh will be explained by F Francina.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Now the um we decided upon including certain features on our remote. Now these features includes the s um signal emitting uh signal it's the led or L_E_D_ the infrared.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm,", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah, okay, mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Now uh we have included the switch on and off button.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Now we have included another feature that is the mute button", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "on the side of the model. Then we have included one to nine buttons", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "for controlling the programmes the different channels.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "We have also included two buttons for increasing or decreasing the volume.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "And we have also included two buttons for scrolling up and scrolling down the programme channels. Now our our model also contains a button which is called as the menu button.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "What kind of button?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Menu button.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Menu? Uh menu th menu, uh one one.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yes, menu.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Menu button..", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "At the centre", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "we have included a button which is fluorescent green colour and this is the menu button which will control the colour, sharpness, brightness", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm. Of the screen. Mm, mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "of this uh picture. We have also included a button which is called as the swapping button. Now this is uh a special, special feature which we have included. Now this button is an elongated shaped button and this is slightly flexible so if it is turned towards the right it will take to the previous channel, if it is turned towards the right it will take to the next channel. It will take the user to the previous and the next channel so this is a swapping button.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "The next channel in the numeric pattern, or.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "No, swapping is if if example you're you're watching the second channel and then you go to the tenth channel and if you want to go back to the second channel you can swap, this button.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah, mm-hmm. Mm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yes.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Okay, okay.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "And at the end, it this remote has inbuilt voice recogniser which c which will recognise the user's voice and then it'll act accordingly.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Okay. Mm-hmm. Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "So this is our proposed model.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Now the marketing expert has to", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Tell, yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "give her suggestion whether it'll be sellable or it'll be cost effective.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Okay, well um what what I really like a lot about it is that you can reach the whole thing with one thumb,", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yes, yes.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "that you can really hold it in one h you don't need two hands", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "and it's easily reachable even for somebody with a small hand, yeah?", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yes the buttons are all raised, right?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "The buttons are all raised", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Are raised, mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yes.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "and if you hold it in the centre of your hand you can even reach it over here so you don't have to turn it around, turn it upside down, move it up, up and down,", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Right. Or have two hands to operate it, yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "I really like that.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "You really did a good job on that, my little designers.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Um and um I like the idea that the on-off button is in a really prominent place. That's that's a really good good thing.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yes, and it sort of sticks up so that you really.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah, that's great.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "you don't have to g first go like oh yeah here it's on and yeah, mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Hmm. Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Abs okay.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "The colour's very attractive. Um the um these buttons uh around here are the mute", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "No, these the front buttons which are here, are the mute buttons.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "and these mm-hmm On both sides they're mute?", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yes, yes.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "So you can push either one?", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yes.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "So if you're left-handed or right-handed it doesn't matter.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "And this brings the menu up on the screen?", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Pardon me? This is the menu yes, yes.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "This brings the menu up on the screen and the orange ones are.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "A the the these these two are th to increase or decrease the volumes,", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "and these two are to uh scroll the programme channels.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "F f okay.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Scroll up or scroll down the channels.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Right, very good. Uh it looks mm looks like something I can sell.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Okay and now I'm supposed to.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Well, I have one question", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "uh will there be anything written on the buttons, like that people know, or they have to learn that from a piece of paper which button does what?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yes, it will have uh these buttons will have the numbers and all the rest of the buttons will have symbols.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Ah. Yeah, definitely.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Will have symbols so that that that the user really knows you know and doesn't have to first learn it.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yes, which can be easily recognised.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yes.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah. Yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Good point because we need the symbols'cause we're going into an international market we can't have anything that's language dependent.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yes.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah of course, and also.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yes.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Hmm.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah. But anyway it would ha i i i it has to have some kind of of symbols, text or something so that people kn", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yes.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah we can Text.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Symbols on it. Mm-hmm, mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yes.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Text that we can have on the case itself,", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "That's right.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yes.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "we can it will be printed on the case and symbols as well as the buttons. Yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Okay, yeah just wanted make sure of that mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "And and one more feature is we we have a holder for this remote which is an oyster shape.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Mm,'kay, mm. Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "A shell shape.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "For the snail, yeah, mm-hmm,", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Right, mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yes, yes.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah. So it is.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "we have the snail shell.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yes, snail shell.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "yeah,", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "He goes right back into his shell.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "yeah shell.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yes.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Well you know I think we could do something really funny with this too because the snail is known to be slow", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "and we could have some sort of little comic effect on our marketing about how this is a rapid snail or something like that", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Y Yes.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah, of course, yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "you know that would, that would really work.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Now what, what are our special features for the marketing?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "So.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "That's really the voice recognition that's really unusual.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "I think voice recognition is our big selling point", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Mm. Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "'cause nobody else seems to have that in in this price range.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "And then, and then the other thing would basically be sh shape or practicality of use.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yep", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "You know.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "uh well I think that everybody's gonna say their remote control is practical. I think we have to, we have to dwell on on on the appearance.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Colours. Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "We're really gonna have the be the", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Cutest.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "cutest remote control on the block.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "So I think we have to play with the image, play with the snail image um play with the visual and then the voice recognition.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "I think those are the two things to push. The look and the voice recognition. They're gonna be our two selling points.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Okay, now uh having said that.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "I'm supposed to make a little presentation, aren't I?", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "No, now this was our evaluation criteria which we uh just have done.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Now we're gonna talk about financing..", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Ah, but in my instructions I think it said I was supposed to go to the board and do something.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Well, there is a production evaluation.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "No?", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Is that you?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah, that's me.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "But that's after the financing.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Oh, okay.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "See? Fi see?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Sorry, sorry. Mm-mm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Um. Okay, we had looks and voice recognition. Okay now on the financing we bring up the mm there it is. Okay uh energy source we say that's battery, right?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "That's right.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Okay, now. So we I guess we use one.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yes.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "What? T cell or chart you are trying to change is protected. Well, that's nice. She told me I could just ch change it here and then it would It doesn't work. Hmm.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Can you just fill it in in the yellow boxes? Or.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Oh, okay yeah, okay,", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "let's see. Okay, one, okay.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yes.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Oh go away. Um kinetic source so that's in the energy source that's all we need.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Uh electronics, simple chip on print? Is that's what we're using?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yes.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah,", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "One of those?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Come on. Okay, one. Uh regular chip on print. No. That's all we need, the one", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "No. Yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "case, uncurved flat, single curved, double curved.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Well..", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "This is a.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Single curve? Mm.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "I guess it's double curved.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Double curved? One of those?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Case materi s supplements. Plastic we said, right?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Plastic.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Uh wood, rubber?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Rubber, because we're gonna have the soft buttons.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Uh but, yes but.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "I think uh that is uh f for rubbers that is uh yeah case material.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "That's just for the case material,", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Is this for the case? Yes.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "so special colours though, we having that,", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Oh okay, the mm-hmm, mm' kay.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "right?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yes.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "And then we have to interface push buttons.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yes.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Scroll wheel, no. Integrated scroll wheel, L_C_ display?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "No.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "No,", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Button.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "'cause we didn't put the clock in it after all, right?", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "No.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Uh, button supplement special colour?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Speci Yes", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Special form?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yes d we do have special form.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yes.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "And special material, rubber, wood, yes.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Okay. Total seven point six whatever that means.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Uh, I think that's the price.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "That's the price.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "One two three four five six seven eight nine", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Mm?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Maybe it is it just n", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Eight, eight point two. That's.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Nine points,", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "hmm?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "okay, yes.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Eight point two, right? So, we looks like we are well within budget.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Okay. I guess I should save this I suppose, huh?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Oops. Uh-huh huh huh.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "On the desktop.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "I just tried that. My documents, computer.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "AMI.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "My compu Ah oh here it is, yes.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "AMI should for", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Okay, fine. Save. Okay good, so that's the good news. We gonna be popular.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Um. So that uh I think financing was pretty simple.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Now we would like to have a presentation by the marketing expert on production evaluation.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Okay, I'll take my file down so you can bring it up.'Kay should be able to get it now.'Kay, why don't you move just to the next slide right away.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "You wanna go to the next slide?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah right away.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Okay, well uh obviously my method for uh s m the marketing of this thing is first to ask the big question, will it sell? And I think we should show this prototype to people from various age and socio-economic groups and see about any fine tuning that maybe little things we haven't thought of.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "We can't accept every suggestion of course, but maybe we just need to get a few.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "And show the the prototype to consumer research groups, we don't s want somebody to suddenly come to us and tell us that this button is toxic and you know some child will swallow it and then we won't sell any.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm. Mm.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "So we have to get some input from those people.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "And then after that we just have to go with our best intuition and you know we like it, we think it's good, we're gonna get behind it and sell it. Um, next slide please. Okay, now the things that I was thinking and th my wish list has really been realised in this prototype. I wanted the shape to be biomorphic, I didn't want anything with angles and all square, I wanted it to be comfy and roundy so we we've got that. The size is small, the colour's bright and warm which is what we wanted. We wanted the feel to be as soft as possible, we'll have the soft buttons", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "and the way this is shaped, even though it's gonna be hard plastic, it feels good in your hand so that's nice. And functionality I put last on my list because people aren't going to use it before they buy it.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "So paradoxically the other features, in other words, the look, the feel um and the shape, that's what people are gonna get in the store.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Fee selling.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "They don't have a television in the store, they can't play with it.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yes.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Um so they'll be our main selling points. So um th those have been fulfilled by your prototype and go ahead to the next slide please. Okay, so um the shape um I think is a a one. That's really, really excellent shape. The size is small um and th these points are in the importance for the, for the marketing, these aren't i in how I feel. I think that it's I think that it's plenty small enough to sell but I think we're sort of right the scale is one to seven. I think we're sort of right in the middle as far as c other competitors.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "And our colour I think is great. The colours are bright and warm and we really do great job there. And given um the constraints that we had I think we got it as soft as possible. And then functionality um I think you did a really good job on functionality, obviously we could have ad added different functions but then we'd disturb something else so I would say that we got to a five out of seven on on functionality.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "So I think that basically we've got a great product and we can get off and running with it.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Um I just realised one thing.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "In the financing there was no room for our voice recogniser.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yes.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yes.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Ah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "And uh I don't know how we can evaluate that or how we can include that, too.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Well, um we had what, eight eight euros twenty as our cost?", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Eight, eight twenty, yes.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Eight twenty so.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "And so we've got we've still got four euros to go to spend.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "We have um four euros, yeah", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "I mean maximum we have another four point three euros I mean four thirty.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm. Well um that's.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "But I mean we have no way of presenting that to management as you know as a f finished, as a finished product and saying okay with the voice recogniser that costs so much.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "So um we just have to beware of that. I mean and know whether the four thirty will really cover that.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Well as we know in today's technic technological world you can do just about anything at any price, the the the problem is quality.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "So we're just gonna have to settle for whatever quality that will buy us.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah,", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yes, yes.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "And um it may not be the greatest quality but it may sell anyway.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah, still.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "As we've seen with so many of these kinds of products..", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah..", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "I'm sorry to interrupt then but I just uh recog I just remembered that there was no that that was not um included uh that there was no room for any special features, okay?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Included, yeah. Hmm,", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah mm.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "hmm", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "So to beware of that. You wanna go to this next slide, marketing expert?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Uh, well I isn't this my last slide?", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "I dunno.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Maybe.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yes it is. Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Go ahead. I think that was my last slide, yeah. Um. Mm okay. And I'm supposed to present this scale on the whiteboard. Um and we're supposed to talk about those things as a team now, so if you put my last slide back up there.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Oh.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "I'm sorry I've um forgot to do that, um.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Why? Wh why you need that up?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Hmm? Well because I can't remember what I put on there. Okay.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Now I'm supposed to see how long my leash is here.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "I think you can make it there.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm'kay. You ready. So now we're all supposed to say what we think. Um okay so on shape I gave it a one. Wait what would you ra uh one being good and seven being the worst.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Worse, okay.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Um what do you think the shape is?", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "One.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "One, okay, and Be Betsy?", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yes I think uh shape is one.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah, even my yeah, shape is one.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Okay, uh-huh one, okay. And how about on size? On size.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "You you gave it a four.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "I gave it a four, yeah, I feel it's just average.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Um, I dunno. I think I would give it at least a two.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "One.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah, even I think it is one. It's quite small.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Okay. Okay.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "you're the designer, of course you wanna give it a one.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Um and then how about how we doing on colour?", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Colour uh I.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Colour, I gave it a one.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "One.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "I really like all those nice bright, warm colours.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "I I like the colours. One.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "One. Yes.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "One.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah, one.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "One, one, one, okay. And how about the feel? Taking into um consideration texture and comfort in the hand.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Uh, I think I would give it a two.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Okay, I gave it a three, two,", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "I'll give three.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "yeah? Three.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Uh maybe two,", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Two, okay.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "And the next is functionality where I I admit I was a little hard on our team here, but.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Well it's also you can't really try it out uh the other things you have have more is are more tangible so from that point of view", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah. Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "but um I'll give it a three.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Two.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Two, okay.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Uh three, mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Three? Okay. Well, um. It looks like we've got got ourselves a pretty good product. Um the functionality's the only place where maybe we have to think about m m maybe, heaven forbid, having another meeting.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah..", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "But um otherwise I think we're we're ready to go to go with this product. Anybody else have any other comments or any other things that we feel we should evaluate?", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Uh. Here is what we looking at uh satisfaction on for example room for creativity. Um. Is there more room for creativity or are we absolutely happy?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "We can always improve, yes.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Maybe we can yeah, include some more buttons and uh um", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yes, features.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "yeah features. We can make the buttons few buttons smaller. Uh I think they are quite big, so I think I I mean we can just have small buttons and more buttons in that case. If we want to have more features than that.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm. Well then again if we're gonna um do the speech recognition thing we're gon there gonna be some buttons that are gonna have to be added for that for the recording of the the speech.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah. Yeah, definitely.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yes. Voices.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "So that that's where we're gonna have to do maybe we can eliminate one of the mute buttons, instead of having two mute buttons.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah, definitely, yeah, two mu mute buttons.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yes. Yes.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "And um then maybe we can do something with the um the volume control. Maybe we can put that all on one button.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Hmm.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Um and a couple of other th maybe comp uh consolidate some of the usage an and see what we can do with that.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Y um al always bearing in mind that right now we are of course well within the budget", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "And maybe.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "and that we still you know we probably can't, with this particular item, we probably can't just uh add a whole lot of more things.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm. No.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Uh um we need uh you know we need to leave space money-wise for the voice recogniser.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yes.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Um.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "So th the question really is how do we feel with the project process? Uh, um are we happy with the creativity that has passed here or we're not happy with the new product we created or that was created? Uh I think personally I think uh I'm pretty happy.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "I'm pretty happy with it too, yeah um,", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Um an", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Even I'm happy.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "it's something I think I can market. Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "and then the next question is are we happy with the leadership of this project? Uh.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "I think you've done a good job, Miss leader..", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yes, yes you've done a good job.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah, yeah, definitely..", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "And I think team work I think was very very good, I think we really.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah I d I do too I think we worked well together as a team, yeah. Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "And uh I think we are we happy with the means we used? We used whiteboard, we didn't use digital p well digital pens I guess are these things.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah maybe we could've used the whiteboard a little bit more, yeah,", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Whiteboard more, yes, yes.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah, probably.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "we didn't use that enough.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yes, we could. Uh, it's maybe not in the best position in the room um you know like sometimes it's positioned so that it's much better visible for everybody and I think from that point of view we sort of ignored it a little bit.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yes.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "And we used the slide because it was better positioned.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yes, I think so, I think absolutely,", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "No.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Mm I think that's true mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "and fortunately we all had slides presentation which made it a little easier.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Hmm.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Um did we new did we find new ideas?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yes.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "I think we did.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah, many.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "I think we were we were very good, yeah, mm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "I think we we did, uh in more than one respect and uh so I think we did very well here.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm. Okay.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Are the costs within budget? Yes, yes. Uh is the project evaluated? Yes.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yes, yes.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Um then celebration..", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Celebration.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Cel celebration yes, yes..", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Ah..", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Today we have apple juice and after we sell m million of'em we have champagne..", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "So I I thank you all very much. Um, I think this was very good and um", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "I think we did come up with a new product that's uh feasible. Feasible from the production point of view and feasible from a marketing point of view.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm. Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "So, thank you.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Thank you.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Thank you very much.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Okay. Watch I I have my cord behind you here.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "I always get it on here, but getting it off is.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Do we do we have some time left? Uh you have.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "They say it's forty minutes.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Ah yes we have time later", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "But we we were told we could end the final meeting at any time, whenever we felt we were finished.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "but we don't.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Oh, alright.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "It'll take me the rest of the time to get my microphone out from my necklace. Oh, there we go.", "speakerName": "Marketing" } ] }	{ "dialogTurns": [ { "query": "Did anyone disagree with Betsy about the functionality of the remote control?", "response": "No one disagreed with Betsy regarding the functionality of the remote control. The participants expressed their satisfaction with the functionality of the remote control. 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The participants aimed to assess the remote control's design, functionality, and feasibility from a production and marketing perspective.", "responseAttribution": { "indexRanges": [ { "startIndex": 8, "endIndex": 8 }, { "startIndex": 304, "endIndex": 304 }, { "startIndex": 309, "endIndex": 309 }, { "startIndex": 320, "endIndex": 320 }, { "startIndex": 327, "endIndex": 329 } ] }, "queryMetadata": { "queryType": "QUERY_TYPE_GENERAL", "isUnanswerable": null, "isContextDependent": null } }, { "query": "Why was push buttons preferred over a scroll wheel?", "response": "The meeting did not discuss why push buttons were preferred over a scroll wheel. So I cannot answer this question.", "responseAttribution": null, "queryMetadata": { "queryType": "QUERY_TYPE_SPECIFIC", "isUnanswerable": true, "isContextDependent": null } }, { "query": "What did they decide to do about the speech recognition feature?", "response": "The participants decided to include the speech recognition feature in the remote control, despite it not being included in the initial budget. They were willing to spend up to 4.3 euros to incorporate this feature.", "responseAttribution": { "indexRanges": [ { "startIndex": 346, "endIndex": 346 } ] }, "queryMetadata": { "queryType": "QUERY_TYPE_SPECIFIC", "isUnanswerable": null, "isContextDependent": null } }, { "query": "Why did Betsy think the remote control should have a soft feel?", "response": "Betsy believed that the remote control should have a soft feel because it would be touched frequently by the user. 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af2c8be09a124c7e9579a2f6d09feef6	{ "meetingId": "IS1001a", "transcriptSegments": [ { "text": "How do you wear this thing?", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Hmm. Mm mm mm..", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Not too many cables and stuff.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Original..", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Is recorded? Okay? Okay so welcome everyone. So we are here for the kickoff meeting of uh the process of designing a new remote control. So I will first start with a warm welcome opening stuff,", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "then uh we will uh see what will be uh our product and what will be the different step we will have to design it. And uh then we will uh discuss if we have few ideas and we will uh end uh by uh dispatching the different task you will be you will have to fulfil to complete this process. So.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Uh. Just one thing. Uh, you said twenty-five minutes, but I have something else to do uh, so gotta have another meeting uh soon,", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "so maybe you could hurry up a bit.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "sorry?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "It's true. I have another meeting so if you could uh.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "You have another meeting soon?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "So you have to be quick.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah, for the lawnmower project.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "So the the goal is to have a remote control so to have an advantage over our competitors we have to be original, we have to be trendy and we have to also try to be user-friendly.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "So uh the design step will be divided in three uh main points. First it will be the functional design. Third is the conceptual design and then is the desired design. So the functional design is to identify the main user needs, the technical function the remote control should fulfil. And then we will move to f conceptual design where we'll specify the different component involved, what kind of user interf interface we want and what are the different uh trend in user interface and stuff like that.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "And then the desired devi design will consist in uh specifically implementing and detailing the choice we've uh made in the second point. So I will now ask you which is very important for the design of a new remote control for to uh each of us to to draw uh your favourite animal on the white board.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "What an original idea.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Do you have any idea of which animal you want to show us?.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Orangutan.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Okay that's good.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "No no n", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "n n.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Can I give you the", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "You should.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "no? But I don't have to say anything. When I'm drawing the orangutan.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "If you want to react uh about this wonderful drawing uh I'll let you uh comment.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "It's an abstract drawing of an orangutan.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Okay it's an abstract drawing.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yes.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "I think it's nice and original..", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "You should write y the name I think..", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "I don't have a red colour. Usually orangutans have red hair so this is a very important but I don't have red pen, so.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yes.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "You want to draw something Christine?.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Okay uh sorry. You have to imagine a little bit um.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "This.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Of course your animal is recorded so it's not lost..", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Sorry too uh.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yes. I know.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Is this uh.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Wha what is this strange beast?", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Is it beautiful?.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Is it a monster?", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Do you know? It's a cat.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "It's a cat?", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Isn't it?.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "I thought these things did not exist.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yes yes", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Me.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "is it like that.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Ah yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Ah yeah. Yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Is it better?", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Ah okay it's pretty..", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Okay it's your cat..", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "It's my cat.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Does have a name?", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah..", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "The name is Caramel.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Caramel. Ah-ha.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Caramel.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah..", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Okay. Olivier, do you want to.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "And you I think I'm too short for the cables..", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Okay I go, but next time you'll do something I'm sure. I'm a bit short on cable.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Next time I concentrate.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Okay. So what could I draw? Maybe I can draw like a very simplified cow. I don't know if it looks like a cow.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "He looks like a bong.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Like a what?.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Okay. Sorry. No.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Quite squarey.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Scary?", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "He also..", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "I dunno it it looks more like a donkey in fact I would say.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "I I think we will be finished this uh.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Okay so I hope that it helps you uh in the process of designing a remote control.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Is it for uh for putting a for logos, no.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "That's.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Let's move on. So Here the uh financial objective of our project. That is to say to to have a production cost lower than twelve point five Euros and have a selling price of twice that price t in order to target a profe profit of uh fifty uh million Euros.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "I is there a matter for a new remote control?", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah if it's trendy, original I d fulfil the user needs.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Is it uh a single device remote control or is it a multi-device remote control?", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "We have to discuss that point.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Ah", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "On.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "this is not defined at all?", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "yeah you you can suggest points like this. So what what.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Ah, okay.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "so we have to decide for example if it can control one device or multiple. So what's what are your ideas about that?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Maybe I can have the your opinion from the marketing side?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Well uh do we sell other stuff? Uh if if we bundle the remote control with something uh to sell then it could be a single device, otherwise it could be programmable one otherwise who would buy a remote control from us.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Okay, so if it selled uh by its own i it it would rather be for multiple device.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Do you agree?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah. So maybe it should be for multiple devices. And uh do you have any ideas um of uh design ideas or any uh uh technical requirement we we should uh fulfil?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "I think we shouldn't have too many b for my part. I think.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "No, I couldn I cannot fi think of any requirements right now..", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "If we don't have so many buttons could be nice.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Few buttons. Okay.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "And do you have it also to be to be lighted in order to be used in the dark? Might be a good idea.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Okay. And do you have any um any uh idea of the trend the trend in domain, what it shouldn't it should look like, or things like that?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Something which is not squarey maybe uh, not a box.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "With rou okay. Like for okay.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Something like that, least fits in your hand.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "The basic requirement.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "So. Fit in your hand, yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Only a buck.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "And also it have, i it may be it may be important for the remote control to be uh To, to resist to various shocks that can happen if it fall.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Waterproof..", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Water-proof as well.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "And I think we should have a device.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Maybe it is original because you can uh use it in your uh in your bath whereas the others can't.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Maybe water-proof would be very original.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Sorry..", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Havin having a water-proof remote control so that the people can uh use it in their bath.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "That could be uh.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "B it seems uh so, but uh if you don't have an waterproof remote control it means you can just cover it with some plastic and you can sort of f", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah but, it is still something uh you have to buy and that is um not maybe very.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "And, and that's one of the that's one of the shock I mean there are people that have a remote control and they are worried that it's going to break and they put some extra plastic around it.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah, mayb B", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "That's people they actually do it themselves.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "But maybe we can bulk it with uh already this plastic thing and uh the waterproof uh stuff as well.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah. directly.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "I it will look a bulky in that case.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah. Maybe we can sell uh all that together, so so plastic protection and uh and a waterproof box as well.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "That might be good uh track to follow.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Like as an optional thing.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Optional or selled with it?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "And I I think we should have something, most of the time I I lose my remote control.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "We should have s uh special bu button on the T_V_ to make the remote control beeping.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Maybe we can have uh But we don't design the T_V_.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Maybe we can have uh something you whistle and uh the remote control uh beep.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Ah yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Barks.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah..", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah, barks, yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Barks.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "So we can uh have a whistle uh remote control?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah. Yeah whistle.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "I don't know, whistle-able? Th", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Whistle tracking..", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Whistle tracking yeah. Whistle tracking remote control. That's a good idea, that's very original and that's can uh improve.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "That's that's quite cool, but uh of course we you don't normally need uh any audio uh recording stuff on your remote control right?", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah d d uh.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "So i it's just going to add t to the cost.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah but s still we have to mm we have to have an advantage over our competitors. I think this is a good advantage.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "It's cool. I think I like the idea, but I'm not sure about the what you,", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah. We have to ask.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "who is giving who's giving who's giving our budget. Who's.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah. We have to ask the quest of that's uh design to the uh Industrial um Designer.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah. Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah. yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Which is you.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "'Kay..", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Okay so try to find that for next meeting..", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Okay..", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Okay. So next meeting is in thirty minutes or so uh. Don't pani.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Don't panic..", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "So so I will ask the Industrial Designer to find out more about this industrial design so any working any working function we have discussed.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "So then I will ask the User Interf Interface Designer to to think about the point we discussed like the number of buttons, the the fact that is lighted or not, things like that, and what would be convenient for the user.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "And also um I will ask the Market Expert to uh try to find out what are the absolute requirements, what is absolutely needed in a remote control uh for the user. So. And then uh I will uh just ask you to think about that and uh look at your mail because you will receive uh some good advice soon..", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "So. Thank you I think that's all for this point.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Good.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Thank you.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Uh, so we come back in five minutes? Half an hour.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Anyway you will receive some messages. Be careful. You eat it? Does it move uh? Okay, but I don't know if it uh is still correctly uh We'll see.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Ah..", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" } ] }	{ "dialogTurns": [ { "query": "What was the primary objective of the meeting?", "response": "The primary objective of the meeting was to initiate the process of designing a new, user-friendly, trendy, and competitive remote control.", "responseAttribution": { "indexRanges": [ { "startIndex": 4, "endIndex": 4 }, { "startIndex": 16, "endIndex": 16 } ] }, "queryMetadata": { "queryType": "QUERY_TYPE_GENERAL", "isUnanswerable": null, "isContextDependent": null } }, { "query": "Did anyone have a different opinion about the idea of combining a plastic protective casing with the remote control to make it water-resistant?", "response": "The participants briefly discussed the idea of selling a plastic protective casing with the remote control to make it water-resistant. However, there was no consensus reached on whether this would be a desirable feature.", "responseAttribution": { "indexRanges": [ { "startIndex": 122, "endIndex": 139 } ] }, "queryMetadata": { "queryType": "QUERY_TYPE_YES_NO", "isUnanswerable": null, "isContextDependent": null } }, { "query": "Besides the discussion about the water-resistant casing, were there any other topics raised regarding the remote control's durability?", "response": "The participants also discussed the idea of making the remote control shockproof and considered the possibility of including a feature that would allow users to locate the remote control by whistling.", "responseAttribution": { "indexRanges": [ { "startIndex": 120, "endIndex": 132 }, { "startIndex": 148, "endIndex": 158 } ] }, "queryMetadata": { "queryType": "QUERY_TYPE_YES_NO", "isUnanswerable": null, "isContextDependent": true } }, { "query": "Can you provide a brief summary of the key points discussed in the meeting?", "response": "The participants discussed the following key points in the meeting:\n* The need for the new remote control to be original, trendy, user-friendly, and have an advantage over competitor products.\n* The design process would involve three main steps: functional design, conceptual design, and desired design.\n* The remote control should have few buttons, be easy to hold, and be lighted for use in the dark.\n* Additional features like shock resistance and water resistance were suggested, but no final decisions were made.\n* A unique idea was proposed to include a \"whistle tracking\" feature to help users locate the remote control if it is lost.", "responseAttribution": { "indexRanges": [ { "startIndex": 4, "endIndex": 4 }, { "startIndex": 16, "endIndex": 17 }, { "startIndex": 105, "endIndex": 108 }, { "startIndex": 122, "endIndex": 140 }, { "startIndex": 148, "endIndex": 158 } ] }, "queryMetadata": { "queryType": "QUERY_TYPE_GENERAL", "isUnanswerable": null, "isContextDependent": null } }, { "query": "In the meeting, did the User Interface Designer express a strong preference for a single-device remote control over a multi-device remote control?", "response": "The User Interface Designer did not express a strong preference for either a single-device or multi-device remote control during the meeting. They brought up the point that if the remote control were to be sold separately, rather than bundled with other products, it would likely need to be a multi-device remote control in order to be appealing to consumers.", "responseAttribution": { "indexRanges": [ { "startIndex": 88, "endIndex": 98 } ] }, "queryMetadata": { "queryType": "QUERY_TYPE_YES_NO", "isUnanswerable": null, "isContextDependent": null } }, { "query": "Can you summarize the general consensus on the whistle tracking feature?", "response": "There was general agreement among the participants that the whistle tracking feature was an original and unique idea. However, they acknowledged that it would add to the cost of the remote control and needed to be carefully considered in terms of its practicality and market appeal.", "responseAttribution": { "indexRanges": [ { "startIndex": 154, "endIndex": 162 } ] }, "queryMetadata": { "queryType": "QUERY_TYPE_GENERAL", "isUnanswerable": null, "isContextDependent": null } }, { "query": "Rephrase this question: Were there any points brought up during the meeting that were not fully resolved?", "response": "Yes, there were several points brought up during the meeting that were not fully resolved. These included:\n* Whether the remote control should be designed for single-device or multi-device use.\n* Whether the remote control should be water-resistant or not.\n* Whether the whistle tracking feature was feasible and desirable.\n* The budget for the remote control project.", "responseAttribution": { "indexRanges": [ { "startIndex": 88, "endIndex": 98 }, { "startIndex": 122, "endIndex": 139 }, { "startIndex": 148, "endIndex": 158 }, { "startIndex": 165, "endIndex": 172 } ] }, "queryMetadata": { "queryType": "QUERY_TYPE_YES_NO", "isUnanswerable": null, "isContextDependent": null } }, { "query": "What was the advantage of using a voice activation feature for the remote control?", "response": "Voice activation was not discussed as a feature for the remote control during the meeting.", "responseAttribution": null, "queryMetadata": { "queryType": "QUERY_TYPE_SPECIFIC", "isUnanswerable": true, "isContextDependent": null } }, { "query": "Was there any mention of a touchscreen display being considered for the remote control's design?", "response": "There was no mention of a touchscreen display being considered for the remote control's design during the meeting.", "responseAttribution": null, "queryMetadata": { "queryType": "QUERY_TYPE_YES_NO", "isUnanswerable": true, "isContextDependent": null } }, { "query": "Rephrase this question: Were there any viewpoints shared by the Marketing Expert regarding the whistle tracking feature during the meeting?", "response": "The Marketing Expert did not share any viewpoints regarding the whistle tracking feature during the meeting.", "responseAttribution": null, "queryMetadata": { "queryType": "QUERY_TYPE_YES_NO", "isUnanswerable": true, "isContextDependent": null } } ] }
af6d78c07db543d0a08fd42dd0a2983b	{ "meetingId": "IS1004b", "transcriptSegments": [ { "text": "Okay everybody is ready? Good morning again. So, today we are going to have a f second meeting. Oh Michael, hi.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yep.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "You're late. You have a good reason for that?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yes.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Very good. Okay, let's have a look to the agenda today. So, we are going to have a meeting about the functional design. Um so first before starting I w just going to uh to go quickly to through the minutes of previous meeting. So uh basically we we are not decided if w we should go for a universal or specific uh uh remote control, but I have new um new i inputs for about that topics. I goin I'm going to share with you. And uh basically we decided to um to uh go to individual actions for each of you uh so um Industrial Designer should wor was supposed to work on th on th on the working design. You showed us.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yep.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "you ar you you prepare something for us?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah. Yep.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "The U_I_ guy also uh work on that, yeah, and for the mar our Marketing Expert should deliver some specs.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Alright so so we are going to go through three of your individual presentations. But first I would like quickly to uh to decide of to give a name to the project. So, I just put d quickly Remo, but if you have any o other names that we co could decide for just to to keep something fun for our project we we should we could discuss quickly. Any ideas?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Uh the Powerstick.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Powerstick, yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "What else? What else?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Uh..", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Maybe a Spanish name would work well.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Mm I was thinking of the.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Especially if we're selling into the U_S_ market becasue there's a lot of Spanish speakers there. Maybe something that sounds cool in English but sounds funny in Spanish.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Mando.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Mando.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Mango? Mango?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "What is that?", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Mando.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Mando. M_A_? M_A_?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "A_N_ yeah D_O.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "M_ D_O_. Mm, okay.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "It doesn't it doesn't sound cool for me,", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "What does it mean? Oh.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "but maybe for a Spanish for I for.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "What does it mean in Spanish?", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Control.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Control.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Hmm. Nice.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Okay.'Cause it also like in English it sounds like you know the man's tool you know because you know men like to have control of the remote", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "But mm, yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "so it might.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Mando sounds Latino..", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "The Mando.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "So, let's go for Mando? Yeah? No objection?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah, yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah that's.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Great. So.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "And we could have some like you d you could have the fonts you know special, so you have man in like in in uh in one o in one font and then the O_ as like.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Okay, I think this is.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Although you don't wanna cut uh cut women out of the uh potential buyers though,", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "do you? So.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah they are the most T_V_ watcher. So we should be careful.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Okay, I think this is more a question of of.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Marketing.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "But yeah", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "I I think this is more a question of of look and feel.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "it uh.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Something that should be addressed later We should we should go to other for the other topics.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah because if the product will be international.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Well that's the thing. We need to know who we're selling it to before we can really decide on a.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah okay, so let's stick f to Man Mando for the name", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Um.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "and we'll see for the for the look and feel later. So let's go for the three presentations right now. So, who want to start?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "So maybe we could start with the market, yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Maybe maybe I should uh start. Yeah. Mm. Okay.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Okay so I have your slides somewhere?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah. Should be in participant four.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Participant four. This one?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah, yeah. Uh.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "S that's coming. Uh.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "okay. Great.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yep.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Okay so yeah I will I will give a brief outline about what I what I prepared for this meeting.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "For the functional requirements and especially for the for the user requirements. I prepare a marketing report and we have to find the weaknesses and and the the improvements we could do to the current remote controls. And also I di I did a study with for the incorporation of new technologies it seems that the remote controls have been have remained the same for the last five, ten years. There is no no significant difference between the the b the first new controls and.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Okay. Sh next slide?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah. Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Well more most of the people think that remote controls are ugly, thoroughly. So and they they admit that the the they should uh s they would uh spend more money in a fancier remote control, which is which is good and it's interesting point. Also the people are worried about about the R_S_I_ disease, which is if you repeat the sa the same movement, which is not a with a not very appropriate device, you you will have problems whe when you will get old. So s people are uh are worried about the the shape of the of the remote control. They are also they get angry very often because they lost the remote control very often, so I think it would be a good point to to l to to find a a solution to any beep any alarm or something incorporated to with the remote control every time it it get lost.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "And also I found that young people the the younger people are the more interested they are in incorporating new technologies in the in the remote control.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "So in my opinion the Mando this Mando shouldn't be very small because the smaller it is, the more like the the liklier it is to get lost. Liklier or more likely?", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "More likely..", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "likely. Okay. Uh people also complain because they they they all have the same size of the buttons for buttons who w which are not very use like f uh memorising channels or or this kind of actions which are not very often but they they shouldn't they shouldn't have the same importance in the in the uh in the remote cont in the remote control. Also the z the design should fit the hand shape. So it may be interesting to to think in a in both prototypes, for right and left handed people.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Well th the on the thing is though, most remote controls are used by more than one person. So unless you're kind of targeting single people you know you're gonna maybe", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "cut out some a lot of your market.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "I dunno I th Anyway I think it could be int interesting to to release some a a small fraction of of this remote controls.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Well maybe it could be a universal design.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Sorry?", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "A universal design, which is which is good for both the hands.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Still shaped for yeah for your hand but not for a particular hand, right?", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah? That's right, whether it's left hand or right hand,", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "but but don't you think that the two points are clashing, one thing you are saying design should fit the hand shape and it should not be very small?", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Sorry?", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "The first and the third point, they are clashing.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Well it can still be a, you can still extend past the hand.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Uh.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Like uh.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "So fitting the hand doesn't mean much then.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Well it means like, this remote here is kind of is very thin and long so instead of having you know you might have it kind of a bit bigger", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah, like.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "or, you know, with maybe some some finger molds or something.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm mm-hmm mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "So it means design should be similar to the traditional ones?", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Little sleek, longer?", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "And it should fit the hand.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "No no I was thinking of so like something.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Something with the shape of the palm?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm mm-hmm mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Some finger grips maybe.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "You could even have some buttons like you know on the sides and everything,", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "On the sides.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah yeah. It sh it shouldn't it shouldn't be symmetric symmetrical.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "but.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Mm-hm mm-hmm mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Not anymore. That's what yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "And then finally.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "And finally, the incorporation of a L_C_D_ or a speech recognition system in the remote control could also be interesting, but I don't know if the budget would be large enough.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah. First I'm just wondering about the L_C_D_ stuff because uh because.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "But most of yeah most of the young people to thirty to thirty years old were really interested in this kind of technology.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah, so maybe it's a good time for me to uh to bring you to some new uh new informations. We had the new requirements from the so uh from the head offices of the company, and so they wanted so they want to um they would like to be restricted to T_V_.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Okay, I dunno if you had this information already. No,", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "No.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "so they want us to restrict the remote control to T_V_ only because of time limitations. Um they want also uh.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Actually this marketing report is restricted to T_V_ remote controls.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Excellent. So we have also to focus more on the internet aspects because well well te teletext is outdated now and uh finally, it should be clear that the corporate image, that means colours and logos of the co our company should be clearly inde identified in the product. So.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "I was still uh I was still working on this uh twenty five Euro price point because I think actually having looked at some of the remotes out there, this is quite a low uh price if if we're maybe I can get to this in my presentation though,", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah yeah. Sure sure.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "but um yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "So maybe we can jump to your presentations, right now.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yep. Okay.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Okay so let's keep in mind about tha that that this last point about L_C_D_ and speech uh reco", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah. I think even even if it was within budget do a speech reco rec system it might be a bit difficult because if you think if you're watching T_V_ you're gonna have a lot of this uh background noise from the T_V_ which might interfere with the.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Sorry, what is your?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Uh participant three. You might have some background noise from the T_V_ which will make the speech recognition much uh harder, so.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah but you should be able to activate or disactivate, so yeah yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Oh you press a press a button to talk, and the the T_V_ the T_V_ sound turns off..", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah uh channel fifty.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "No it could be command control kind of thing.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "It requir recognises particular sequence and then it gets activated. Means you say you should say like does that, remote control being on or be on kind of thing, and then remote control comes in the picture for the speech recognition.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Because this kind of thing means speech is there from the T_V_ also.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "So there should be something command controlled, you start and then you stop.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Mm. Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "It's like V_I_ editor, you are having two modes similarly.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Otherwise it's just lying idle.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Okay Michael.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Okay, so, could I describe the mouse maybe be easier to.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Sorry?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "could I use the mouse, or.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Um yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm. Thanks. Okay.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "The wheel doesn't work.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Great.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Okay so um while uh researching this this topic I first of all just thought of a couple of things that I would like to see in a remote, and just uh looked to see if they're actually available in any current remotes, and then also searched for which are the top-rated uh remote controls on Epinions dot com, which is a a you know a a customer um written basically review site. So um there's a pretty wide range of uh remote controls these days and and uh this remote control on the right here is is one of the more extravagant, but it's not really it's by no means uh mm you know on it's own in being so expensive. There are a lot of expensive remote controls out there.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Looks like a P_D_A_?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "So yeah it doe it's well basically all the functions uh are controlled through through the L_C_D_ screen except for the really really kind of main functions, which have a couple of of their own buttons. Um and if you look at a lot of the universal remotes out um on the market, I know we're working on television remote, but a lot of the universal remotes out there have uh have these L_C_D_ screens which kind of helps when you're using multiple uh devices I suppose because you can have multiple kind of functions d different functions on the screen at different times. But um the thing that I find most interesting about this remote control, and it's kind of difficult to uh to see in the slide, but it has a scroll wheel on it, which is kind of like uh a mouse scroll wheel, which I think is it's a really kind of important design aspect um is it's'Cause the thing is what a what we the presen this presentation we had is what we want the remote control to actually do. And obviously the the simplest thing that a remote control does is it just change the change the channel.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Change the channels.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Now um", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "uh the I think that a scroll wheel is actually pretty a pretty handy way of of changing the channel.'Cause I know when I um when I use the remote to change the channel I very rarely use the numbers on the on the pad. I usually use the up and down", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Mmm-hmm mm-hmm. Yeah yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "because most channels are you know two digit numbers and you have to press you know a special button to enter a two-digit number, and then two numbers, so that's just uh it's annoying. So I think a scroll wheel is is quite handy. Now um the the scroll wheel is is much more useful if you have an L_C_D_ screen, and this brings us to the the point you were mentioning before about the internet uh capability.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "One possibility, if we now we need to still talk about the price point because obviously a lot of this stuff can't be done for twenty five Eu uh Euro, but one possibility is to download program information into the L_C_D_ screen so that instead of actually saying I want to I want to go to channel thirty seven because I know this programme's on, you know, often you don't know what ch what channel it's on, or you don't know what's on. If you have a list of of programs on your L_C_D_ screen you just scroll to that program rather than to a channel. So if you think about it's kind of like a you know in mobile phones now you don't use you don't remember people's phone number, you remember their name and you go find that name and ring it.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "So this would be pretty kind of a handy thing to have, but um we we really need t to discuss the price. So, I mean there are there are uh cheaper this is another multi kinda purpose remote control where it's it's it's very simple, there's only a few buttons, but al each of those buttons does something different in a different context. So this is something else we might wanna consider, is really kind of limiting the number of buttons, because this is the top rating uh universal remote control on on Epinions. It it's really uh maybe worth thinking about limiting the number of buttons as much as as possible um because really I think people want to be able to find the button they're looking for without even looking at the remote control. And was saying before about having different size buttons for different you know frequently used uh tasks, but I think also you know the location and and shape of the buttons is important, but also the number of buttons. So if you have too many buttons it it it increases the the difficulty of finding the one you want.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "But there is one problem then the user has to understand each of that functionality.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "So.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah well we w", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Because the same button is doing too many things.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah well we will have a bit of a simpler uh task in that we're only doing uh a television remote control. Um I think maybe one option is to have you know a little flip-open um door that uh that you have hidden most of the time, but contains the extra buttons like, say, the number buttons for instance. Um", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "I I would if I had my perfect remote control, I'd probably just have no numbers at all on it because they're just in the way.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "They don't really do anything. Maybe you know I although I do also find flip-open doors a bit of a pain because sometimes they can break off or or whatever, but maybe a door that you can you can permanantly remove or permanantly have on would be good.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Um but I think definitely you need to to keep the buttons down to a minimum, but not not let that kind of interfere with the functionality of of the device. Um.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "H I think I think that the tr the transition to this to this new remote control shouldn't be very very abrupt very hard because w if people see a remo see the see a remote control without numbers mm they will think it's very difficult to learn very difficult to very different build very different to the traditional.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "It does sampling out of the.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Well I guess that depends on how you market it. If you if you have the right advertisement showing how how how easy it is and how you can, you know, navigate to a program without the numbers, then people might say that looks pretty easy.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "If y", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Okay, can you continue, please Mi?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "So, but.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "yep. Um okay, so, I think um one of the really kind of useful things you can do with with internet connectivity would be to have this a programme driven interface rather than the channel number. So if we can have a higher priced uh remote control I think that would really be worth uh something that would be worth implementing. Um mm there's the L_C_D_ screen, um which maybe maybe is too expensive, um but I think also at the scroll wheel, I haven't mentioned it here, the scroll wheel could be used without an L_C_D_ screen, just for changing channel numbers easily. I think even that,", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "I mean, that would be a fairly cheap thing, compared to an L_C_D_ screen, to implement,", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "um but I think that would be quite useful as well. And the other thing, you say we need to we need to keep it just television, but I think one maybe one option, since this is supposed to be a kind of a fashionable device, is you know there's a certain kind of cool or wow factor that you can kind of you can have with technology, and maybe we wanna make it something that's extensible to do other tasks. Say you have like um a little another little kind of base unit that can also receive signals as well as the television where you can, say uh, change the lighting in the room. You know that would be something maybe you could sell as an extra, so that it doesn't have to be part of the initial development, but, you know, later on you could you can you know you also, selling the potential of the device. Then you say potentially you can then do other cool stuff like change the lights, I dunno, close the windows, whatever, turn the heating on, and um, I think that's something we may need to have as as at least as an optional extra to to kinda make our product cool, since we say we're putting the fashion in electronics.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Okay. Okay. Okay, thanks. you want to go?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yep. So yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "So most of the things which we are discussing about is speech recognition uh, that means on my own I.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "This one?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "yeah, it should be.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Great. No, not that one. you are two.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Two.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Alright..", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Okay so the working design is uh user i interface could be of two types, one is the usual press buttons which are there so that the user feels that he is knoing doing some he is knowing about that technology. So he is pretty comfortable if he wants to get this, and on top of that there there could be a speech recognition technology also being sitting on the on the remote. So the old kind of users who don't want to have any changes, it can it can be useful for them, and the new users, as uh our Marketing Expert was saying, they can use the new gizmo which is speech recognition kind of thing.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Okay, sorry to interrupt you, but we have seen before that there is a new way of interacting that use wheel.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "That's right. So anyway, that didn't come into my mind,", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "so th that is a possibility. These could be other kind of interfaces.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Means we can have, depending on the cost, how much we can afford, we can have different kind of interfaces. So spe buttons are something which is very everybody is familiar with. So if you go to the market and you say that buttons are there the people know what it is,", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "and on top of that if we are having extra functionality people are willing to shell that twenty-five Euros money which we are thinking. Otherwise we are just like others in the market. So anyway that is the first, user interface could be of more than one type, and uh yeah that means we can do the on-line changes which which cannot be done now actually. So apart from the speech, we can have the scroll kind of thing with the buttons. Now for buttons, normal requirements like bit coding and all those things are required. And for voice, limited vocabulary automatic speech recognition system is required and we require a microphone also to be sitting there on the remote.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah. That increases the the cost also.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Uh that's right. But uh means we have to see how much what kind of microphones and stuff like that.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Do you think that performance of such systems are enough to to target well of such technologies is enough?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Uh yes, if it is limited vocabulary usually it's enough.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah we we can uh target, means we can target ninety five percent accuracy or somewhere ninety seven perc", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Well wh uh I imagine also that the microphone will be an ambiance um a um an ambience microphones", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Hmm.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "because you are not going to speak into into th into the remote control.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "That's right. No it it could be little d yeah it could be.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "So it could be s a few centimetres.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Well one one other thing that that speech recognition could really blow out the price for is uh when you want to sell into other markets, though,", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "That's right. That's right.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "because, I'm not sure exactly where we're gonna sell this, but I presume it's not gonna just be English speaking countries.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "So then you have to s you know, you have to train models for.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm mm-hmm. Uh it's more like, means there are different speech technologies which are existing so D_T_W_ could be kind of which is the easiest. So you have to store some templates on the on the on the chip itself, and it's just dynamic time warping where you try to find out what it is, instead of having a model which has to be trained and being a micro-controller.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Okay. Okay we shou we should discuss this la later after after after this this uh slide.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah, that's right. Yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "This is a this is a this is a a very important uh issue in discussion.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "So we can That's right. Yep.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Okay, next. Uh that finished?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yep.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "No?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "No no. Components.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Components?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah. So, will you go to the next slide?", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yes sure.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah so this is the design which we are thinking so. We are having a power button and the switch, which is not much,", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "and then we are having the which is to indicate whether the power is on or not. And then there are two kind of things which can be so one is the button interface which has not been shown because because of lack of time.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "So we could not put that. So now where the A_S_R_ decoder is sitting, similarly there are different kind of interfaces which could be there. So there is A_S_R_ decoder which could be there, and then there could be another scroll button scroll scroller, and then there could be buttons, and all of them they will just do the decoding and put it in the math put it in the proper message format. And then there is there is the chip which is sitting, the green one, and it converts it into bit codes, and that bit codes are sent by the infrared device to the receiver.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "So this is the easiest design the there could be. So th an A_S_R_ decoder we can have things in. To have different technologies. So this was the my personal preference was that we can have A_S_R_ sitting there on the remote control.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "You know I guess you could actually train the remote control as you're using it by saying you know turn volume up, and you press the uh press the button", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "like uh s people teach sign language to kids f well, by speaking and doing.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah but uh as soon as you try to put the microchip kind of thing or something the price will go up.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "So these are the slight problems.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "So your your opinion is that we should go for special condition technologies?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Because yeah the reason is that if we go into the market means though I don't have much idea, but as he the uh Marketing Expert presentation was.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "I'm sure if you can sell a a speech recognition remote control for twenty five Euros everyo everyone will s will buy it.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Actually I'm not so sure", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "So if we go with just the.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "because I'm the.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "I'm sure.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "you know if I was using a remote control to, say, turn the volume up because I can't hear it very well, I don't really want to you know drown out what people are saying by talking you know when I'm when I'm instead of pressing up on on a remote control. You know if there's some there's some dialogue all of a sudden that I can't hear, I'm trying to actually find out what's being said,", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "so maybe speech recognition gets in the way more than it helps.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Okay so.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah but you know the the average frequency of pushing buttons, it's about.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Well it depends if it's a remote control th", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "it's about eighty eighty eighty pushes per hour, or something like that.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Maybe if the remote control is something that y you don't actually have to pick up anymore, that would be a a useful feature of the speech recogntion.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "If you can leave it sitting on the table and you don't actually have to find it, then that could be.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm. Mm-hmm. Mm-hmm. Mm-hmm. Mm-hmm. Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Okay gentlemens, we have to take some deci decisions right now.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Alright.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Um so if I if I kind of summarise everything we've de we we said. We are targeting T_V_. We need we need to have um um remote control which is fanc fancy, which is uh which is easy to to hand not too small, not too big. Um we have.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "With a good shape for the.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "or good shape, yes. We should bring new technologies for young peoples, and uh as we have uh also requirements to to use uh to to push thr toward the internet. Maybe this is something we can stick to it. And um also, a very interesting things I I I've seen on on on the one of the comp o our competitor is this wheel that we can use to navigate. So so my feeling is that re regarding costs budget we have an an an target price, it's not possible to go s to go to L_C_D_ and also to go to automatic speech recognition technologies. Uh first m m why not to go to L_C_D_. Because um in fact as we are targeting uh T_V_ in fact we can use T_V_ screen as a screen to feedback to to give some feedback informations about what we could have.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Well it depends though well it depends. If we we don't unless we have some input some video input to the T_V_ or we have control over the T_V_ then we can't actually display that. Like if we if we produce the T_V_s then then yeah we can put you know menus up up there, but otherwise we need to actually have some kind of something sitting in between the video signal and the and the T_V_ to superimpose those those menus. So that's an extra", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah that's right. Don don't you ha", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "cost.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "don't we have contacts with uh people on T_V_ or or well systems that exist that we can use?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Well this is this is another que we still haven't really defined the remote. Are we still you say we're focusing on T_V_, but is it still a kind of like a universal remote in that it's a replacement remote control, or is this something for our own line of of televisions?", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "'Cause that really makes a big difference.'Cause even if we have contacts we can't really produce a remote control that can bring up menus on other other companies' T_V_s. It's just there are too many T_V_s out there. It's it's not really gonna.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah. That's good point. What's what cou what could be the cost of uh well, could we fit the the targets uh in terms of cost uh if we go s to L_C_D_ on the remote control?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "For twenty five Euro? I think it's impossible.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "It's not possible. It's impossible.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "But but I dunno,", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "I think um it would be good to know if there is any leverage in that any leeway in that um that twenty five Euro because for twenty five Euro I think all we can really do is provide a very basic remote control, and that seems to be kind of against the philosophy of our company which is you know putting the fashion into electronics. So I would I would like to know if there's any chance of of increasing the uh", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Uh.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "of increasing the unit price.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "So you mean yo you mean we we should target something maybe which is which would be more expensive but re really fancy in terms to um in terms to had to have really an added value?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "What would be.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah. Yeah. Yeah", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Okay,", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "because yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "so regarding the automatic speech recognition, I think this is.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Wha but what would be one question, what would be the goal of putting an L_C_D_ in a remote control?", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Well th", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "What what kind of information?", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "'Cause you can have things like the programme name instead of the channel numbers, like an interactive programme guide.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah but mo most of the T_V_s nowadays show the show the", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "They have tele teletext. Well, because they have teletext on it.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "the n", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Th th you have a teletext sin signal that you can that you can uh that you can get thr through the channel.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah but yeah most of the T_V_s have teletext nowadays.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "They have t most of them have teletext, but we want to get rid well one of our requirements is to uh to move to teletext to uh to the use of internet.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "So to to uh", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "You can get a lot more information on it.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "to browse more easily the teletext. For instance through uh through your remote control.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "So what would what would appear in the in the L_C_D_?", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "So you could have the name of the programme, you could have um the start time you know where it's up to.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "The ti the start time, all the p all the programmes you could have uh o", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "You could have a l even a little image of you know the c you know the the m the main actors or something", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "so you can quickly just kind of even without reading.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Well I don't know if this information is available from teletext, also.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Well no, but there are the electronic programme guides out there. They may not have pictures, but maybe they do.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Are.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "There's dependi it also depends on the country.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Well because for the same reason that we cannot uh informations on the T_V_. We c we couldn't grab information information which is not there.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "No but I mean with the internet you have flexibility of where you get your information from. So it may be possible that there are people out there providing that. Uh.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "So so that mean w w we need an in an extra internet connection to use the remote control, if you want to browse, in addition to the T_V_, or uh or it should be a special T_V_ connected to.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "But Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Well I I think if we're gonna I think we would definitely need the internet connection because even with y I don't think you could even get teletext information from the T_V_ onto the remote control, especially if we don't control the T_V_.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "I dunno. We need to find that out.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Okay. We need to close the meeting. Um so.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "But just a small thing,", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Very quickly.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "what kind of market we are targeting? Is it that we are targeting the replacement remote market, or what? So the remote has gone bad and the person wants to buy a new remote or because the cost of L_C_D_ thing could be as high as the T_V_ itself.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "No.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "That is very important.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah, well people go to buy another remote control when they broke n broke their,", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "If it's a really small T_V_ maybe.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Broke. Okay. Okay.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "and they want to go t for universal one, and they take the fanciest they can have.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Okay. Okay. Okay. Okay.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "So this is that we z that that we should target. So the com the um the uh the committment is the following, we don't go for speech recognition technology. The L_C_D_ is still on disc is still open to discussion.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "It is up to you to go through this um uh this way and to to report report me back next meeting. So", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "I think that the speech recognition technology would be cheaper the than the L_C_D_.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "It's it's cheaper as compared to the L_C_D_.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah, but not sure. Maybe it's cheaper, but we have no.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Because with the L_C_D_ you need more requirements. You need a internet connection. You need m more things.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "But", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Well the thing is I think I think the type of peop", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "for the speech recognition you you don't need anything. You just say channel fifty, and that's it.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "I think the type of people that are gonna want to buy a very stylish rem r remote control with lots of new technologies are the kinda people that are gonna have you know a wireless internet connection maybe, or a you know.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "But then we should move to another target b because at twenty five Dollars,", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Means th yeah twenty five Euros is yeah, that's right.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Well this is what we need to find out.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "it's.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Can we can we increase the the price point of this remote control?'Cause otherwise we need.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Okay this is this is an open question for you. Yeah. This is uh up to you to tell us. But I'm definitely not keen on to to.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "To move to another target?", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "no no no, I'm no I'm definit definitely not keen on going to speech recognition technologies. I'm not confident enough. I'm not sure that that we'll have a product really that work. I uh that work.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "It's kind of hard to guarantee that you're gonna.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "It's real yeah. How to guarantee such performances is really hard.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "the expert uh said ninety five percent.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Well this is still is is very bad.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Ninety five percent is not good enough though..", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "So, this is the end of this discussion. Next meeting uh here are the task you have to work on. 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Ergo, the classic off - by - one error.", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "But mine is correct.", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "Is it?", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "No.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "It's one. Channel one.", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "Your mike number is what we're t", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "Look at the back.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "Oh, oh, oh! Oh.", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "Ho!", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "So.", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "I've bested you again, Nancy.", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "But your p No, but the paper's correct.", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "The paper is correct.", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "Look at the paper.", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "I didn't det I was saying the microphone, not the paper.", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "Nnn,", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Oh.", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "it's n", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "OK.", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "It's always offset. Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Yes, you've bested me again. That's how I think of our continuing interaction. Damn! Foiled again!", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "So is Keith showing up? He's talking with George right now. Uh, is he gonna get a rip uh rip himself away from from that?", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "He'll probably come later.", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "What He - he he's probably not, is my guess.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Oh, then it's just gonna be the five of us?", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Well, he he was very affirmative in his way of saying he will be here at four. But you know, that was before he knew about that George lecture probably.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "Right. This this is not It's not bad for the project if Keith is talking to George. OK. So my suggestion is we just", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Forge ahead.", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "Forge ahead, yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Cool.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "Are you in charge?", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "Sure. Um. Well, I sort of had informal talks with most of you. So, Eva just reported she's really happy about the CBT's being in the same order in the XML as in the um be Java declaration format", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "Yeah. The e", "speakerName": "Grad F" }, { "text": "so you don't have to do too much in the style sheet transversion.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "Uh, yeah. Yeah, so.", "speakerName": "Grad F" }, { "text": "The uh, Java the embedded Bayes wants to take input uh, uh, a Bayes - net in in some Java notation and Eva is using the Xalan style sheet processor to convert the XML that's output by the Java Bayes for the into the, uh, E Bayes input.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "Mmm.", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "Actually, maybe I could try, like, emailing the guy and see if he has any something already.", "speakerName": "Grad F" }, { "text": "Sure.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Hmm.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "That'd be weird, that he has both the Java Bayes and the embedded Bayes in.", "speakerName": "Grad F" }, { "text": "But that's some sort of conversion program?", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "Yeah. Yeah. And put them into different formats. Oh.", "speakerName": "Grad F" }, { "text": "I think you should demand things from him.", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "Yep, he could do that, too.", "speakerName": "Grad F" }, { "text": "He charges so much. Right.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "No, I think it's a good idea that you may as well ask. Sure.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Grad F" }, { "text": "And, um, well pretty mu pretty much on t on the top of my list, I would have asked Keith how the \" where is X? \" hand parse is standing. Um. But we'll skip that. Uh, there's good news from Johno. The generation templates are done.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "So the trees for the XML trees for the for the gene for the synthesizer are written. So I just need to do the, uh write a new set of tree combining rules. But I think those'll be pretty similar to the old ones. So. Just gonna be you know.", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "Oh! You were gonna send me a note about hiring.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Yes.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "I didn't finish the sentence but he understood it.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "I know what he's talking about.", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "OK. But Nancy doesn't.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Hiring somebody.", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "We w um.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "The guy.", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "OK, so natural language generation produces not a just a surface string that is fed into a text - to - speech but, a surface string with a syntax tree that's fed into a concept - to - speech.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "No.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Yeah. Mm - hmm. Better.", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "Now and this concept - to - speech module has certain rules on how if you get the following syntactic structure, how to map this onto prosodic rules.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm. Sure. Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "And Fey has foolheartedly agreed to rewrite uh, the German concept uh syntax - to - prosody rules.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "I didn't know she spoke German.", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "No, she doesn't.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "Oh, OK.", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "But she speaks English.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "Oh. Rewrite the German ones into English. OK, got it.", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "Into English. And um therefore the, uh if it's OK that we give her a couple of more hours per week, then she'll do that.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "OK, got it.", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "What language is that written i Is that that Scheme thing that you showed me?", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "Yeah. That's the LISP - type scheme.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "She knows how to program in Scheme? I hope?", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "No, I My guess is I I asked for a commented version of that file? If we get that, then it's doable, even without getting into it, even though the Scheme li uh, stuff is really well documented in the Festival.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "Well, I guess if you're not used to functional programming, Scheme can be completely incomprehensible. Cuz, there's no Like there's lots of unnamed functions", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "Syntax. Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "and.", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "You know?", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "Anyway, it We'll sort this out. Um. But anyway, send me the note and then I'll - I'll check with, uh, Morgan on the money. I I don't anticipate any problem but we have to ask. Oh, so this was You know, on the generation thing, um if sh y she's really going to do that, then we should be able to get prosody as well. So it'll say it's nonsense with perfect intonation.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Are we gonna Can we change the voice of the of the thing, because right now the voice sounds like a murderer.", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "Yep. We ha we have to change the voice.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "Wh - Which one?", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "The the little Smarticus Smarticus sounds like a murderer.", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "Oh.", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "That's good to know.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "\" I have your reservations. \"", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "But I will not give them to you unless you come into my lair.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "It is Uh, we have the choice between the, uh, usual Festival voices, which I already told the SmartKom people we aren't gonna use because they're really bad.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "Festival?", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "It's the name of some program,", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Oh, oh. Got it. OK.", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "the the synthesizer.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "You know, the usual party voices.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "But, um", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "Yeah, I know. That doesn't sound, exactly right either.", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "OGI has, uh, crafted a couple of diphone type voices that are really nice and we're going to use that. We can still, um, d agree on a gender, if we want. So we still have male or female.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "I think Well, let's just pick whatever sounds best.", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "Hmm?", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "Whatever sounds best.", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "Uh.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "Unfortunately, probably male voices, a bit more research on.", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "Does OGI stand for? Original German Institute?", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "Orego", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "So.", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "Or", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Oregon.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "Oregon Graduate Insti", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "Oregon @ @ Graduate Institute", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Oh.", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "Try Oregon.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "Ah.", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "It turns out there's the long - standing links with these guys in the speech group.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Hmm!", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "Very long.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Hmm!", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "Hmm.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "In fact, there's this guy who's basically got a joint appointment, Hynek Hermansky. He's - spends a fair amount of time here. Anyway. Leave it. Won't be a problem.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "OK. And it's probably also absolutely uninteresting for all of you to, um learn that as of twenty minutes ago, David and I, per accident, uh managed to get the whole SmartKom system running on the uh, ICSI Linux machines with the ICSI NT machines thereby increasing the number of running SmartKom systems in this house from one on my laptop to three.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "Mmm, that's good.", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "How was this by accident?", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "Yeah, I know. Tha - that's the part I didn't understand.", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "Um, I suggested to try something that was really kind of even though against better knowledge shouldn't have worked, but it worked.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "Hmm!", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "Intuition.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "Will it work again,", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "Maybe maybe maybe a bit for the AI i intuition thing.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "or?", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "OK. And, um, we'll never found out why. It - it's just like why why the generation ma the presentation manager is now working?", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "Hmm! This is something you ha you get used to as a programmer, right?", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "Which", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "You know, and it's cool, it works out that way.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "Hmm. So, the the people at Saarbruecken and I decided not to touch it ever again. Yeah, that would work. OK. Um I was gonna ask you where something is and what we know about that.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "Where OK.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "Where the \" where is \" construction is.", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "What what thing is this?", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "Where is X?", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "OK.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "Oh, but by Uh, we can ask, uh, did you get to read all four hundred words?", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "I did.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Was it OK? Was it?", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "I I wa I was looking at it. It doesn't follow logically. It doesn't The first paragraph doesn't seem to have any link to the second paragraph.", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "And so on.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "Hmm. That.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "You know, i Yeah, it.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Each paragraph is good, though. I li", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "I i Yeah. Well, it it's fine.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "It was written by committee.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "Anyway. Um. But c the meeting looks like it's, it's gonna be good. So. I think it's uh.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "Yeah, I didn't know about it until Robert told me, like,.", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "Yeah, I I ra I ran across it in I don't even know where, you know some just some weird place. And, uh, yeah, I I'm surprised I didn't know about it", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Y yeah. Well, yeah. I was like, why didn't Dan tell me?", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "since we know all the invited speakers, an", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "Right, or some Anyway. So But anyway, yeah. I so I I did see that. Oh wha Yeah. Before we get started on this st so I also had a nice email correspondence with Daphne Kohler, who said yes indeed she would love to work with us on the, um, you know, using these structured belief - nets and stuff but starting in August, that she's also got a new student working on this and that we should get in touch with them again in August and then we'll figure out a way for you uh you to get seriously connected with, um their group. So that's, uh looks pretty good. And um Yeah, I'll say it now. So, um And it looks to me like we're now at a good point to do something start working on something really hard. We've been so far working on things that are easy.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Oh!", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "Uh, w Which is mental spaces and uh and - or.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Hmm!", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "It's hard. Yeah, it's hard.", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "Huh?", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "It's a hard puzzle. But the other part of it is the way they connect to these, uh, probabilistic relational models. So there's all the problems that the linguists know about, about mental spaces, and the cognitive linguists know about, but then there's this problem of the belief - net people have only done a moderately good job of dealing with temporal belief - nets. Uh, which they call dynamic they incorrectly call dynamic belief - nets.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Mmm.", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "So there's a term \" dynamic belief - net \", doesn't mean that. It means time slices. And Srini used those and people use them. Uh. But one of the things I w would like to do over the next, uh, month, it may take more, is to st understand to what extent we can not only figure out the constructions for them for multiple worlds and uh sort of what the formalism will look like and where the slots and fillers will be, but also what that would translate into in terms of belief - net and the inferences. So the story is that if you have these probabilistic relational models, they're set up, in principle, so that you can make new instances and instances connect to each other, and all that sort of stuff, so it should be feasible to set them up in such a way that if you've got the past tense and the present tense and each of those is a separate uh, belief structure that they do their inferences with just the couplings that are appropriate. But that's g that's, as far as I can tell, it's it's putting together two real hard problems. One is the linguistic part of what are the couplings and and when you have a certain, uh, construction, that implies certain couplings and other couplings, you know, between let's say between the past and the present, or any other one of these things and then we have this inference problem of exactly technically how does the belief - net work if it's got um, let's say one in in, you know, different tenses or my beliefs and your beliefs, or any of these other ones of of multiple models. So um you know, in the long run we need to solve both of those and my suggestion is that we start digging into them both, uh, in a way we that, you know, th hopefully turns out to be consistent, so that the Um. And sometimes it's actually easier to solve two hard problems than one", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "because they constrain each other. I mean if you've got huge ra huge range of possible choices um We'll see. But anyway, so that's, um.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Oh yeah, like uh, I solved the the problem of um we were talking about how do you various issues of how come a plural noun gets to quote \" count as a noun phrase \", you know, occur as an argument of a higher construction, but a bare singular stem doesn't get to act that way.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Um, and it would take a really long time to explain it now, but I'm about to write it up this evening. I solved that at the same time as \" how do we keep adjectives from floating to the left of determiners and how do we keep all of that from floating outside the noun phrase \" to get something like \" I the kicked dog \". Um. Did it did it at once.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "That's great.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "So maybe maybe it'll be a similar thing.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "Cool.", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "Yeah. No, I know, I th I I think that is gonna be sort of the key to this wh to th the big project of the summer of of getting the constructions right is that people do manage to do this so there probably are some, uh, relatively clean rules, they're just not context - free trees.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "And if we if the formalism is is good, then we should be able to have, you know, sort of moderate scale thing. And that by the way is is, Keith, what I encouraged George to be talking with you about. Not the formalism yet", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "but the phenomena.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "The p And Oh, another thing, um there was this, uh thing that Nancy agreed to in a in a weak moment this morning that", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Hmm!", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "I was really strong.", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "Hmm!", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "Hmm.", "speakerName": "Grad F" }, { "text": "Uh, sorry. In a in a friendly moment.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Same thing.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "Anyway, uh, that we were that we're gonna try to get a uh, first cut at the revised formalism by the end of next week.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Alright.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "OK? Probably skipping the mental spaces part.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Seems.", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "Right. I do.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "Uh, just trying to write up essentially what what you guys have worked out so that everybody has something to look at. We've talked about it, but only the innermost inner group currently, uh,", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm. Knows.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "knows, uh", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "OK.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "Yeah, and and not even all of them really do.", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "But like.", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "There's The group as a whole knows but no individual member kno", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "Well that that yeah th there's one of the advantages of a document, right?,", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "is is that it actually transfers from head to head.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "OK.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "So anyway. So um.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Ah, communication!", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "Huh?", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Communication.", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "Hunh!", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "Communication, documentation and stuff. Anyway, so, uh, with a little luck Uh l let's, let's have that as a goal anyway.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "So, uh, what was the date there?", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "And.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Monday or? It's a Friday.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "No, no, no. No, w uh we're talking about a week fr e end of next week.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "End of next week.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "But, uh, but but the two of us will probably talk to you at well before th", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "I thought you said beginning of n Yeah.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "I mean. Anyway, w let's talk separately about how t", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "Yeah, I have a busy weekend but after that Yeah, gung - ho.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "OK. Yeah, so so someti sometime next week.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Great,", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "Now if it turns out that that effort leads us into some big hole that's fine.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm. OK.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "You know, if you say we're we're dump dump dump. There's a really hard problem we haven't solved yet that, that's just fine.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "OK.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "But at at least sort of try and work out what the state of the art is right now.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "Right, t t if to the extent that we have it, let's write it", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "OK.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "and to the extent we don't, let's find out what we need to do.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "OK.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "So, uh", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Can we? Is it worth thinking of an example out of our tourism thing domain, that involves a a a decent mental space shift or setting up.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "I think it is, but uh but I interrupted before Keith got to tell us what happened with \" where is the Powder - Tower? \" or whatever", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "Well. Uh, what was supposed to happen? I've sort of been actually caught up in some other ones, so, um, you know, I don't have a write - up of or I haven't elaborated on the ideas that we were already talking about which were.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "Hmm, yeah. I think I think we already came to the conclusion that we have two alternative paths that we two alternative ways of representing it. One is sort of a has a um", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "It's gone.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "um", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "The question of whether the polysemy is sort of like in the construction or pragmatic.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "One of them was th Right.", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "or comes.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "is resolved later. Yeah.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "I think it has to be the the second case.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "Um, so d' you Is it clear what we're talking about here?", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "I agree.", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "The question is whether the construction is semantic or like ambiguous between asking for location and asking for path.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "Uh.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "So you might be yeah, y And asking for directions.", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "It's.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "Um or or whether the construction semantically, uh, is clearly only asking for location", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "Should we have a a a.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "Uh.", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "but pragmatically that's construed as meaning \" tell me how to get there \".", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm. Yep.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "So assume these are two, uh, nodes we can observe in the Bayes - net.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "So these are either true or false and it's also just true or false. If we encounter a phrase such as \" where is X? \", should that set this to true and this to true, and the Bayes - net figures out which under the c situation in general is more likely? Um, or should it just activate this, have this be false, and the Bayes - net figures out whether this actually now means?", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "Uh w that's a s", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Slightly different.", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "OK, so that's a that's a separate issue.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "OK.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "So I a I I th I agree with you that, um, it's a disaster to try to make separate constructions for every uh, pragmatic reading,", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "although there are some that will need to be there.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Good. Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "I mean, there there's some that.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Or have every construction list all the possible pragmatic implications of the same one.", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "You can't do that either.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Right. Yeah.", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "Yeah. But, you know, c um almost certainly \" can you pass the salt \" is a construction worth noting that there is this th this this this uh", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "Request.", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm. Yeah.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "Very yeah.", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "So right, this one is maybe in the gray area. Is it is it like that or is it just sort of obvious from world knowledge that no one you wouldn't want to know the location without wanting to know how to get there or whatever.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "Mmm.", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "Ri Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "One Or in some cases, it's it's quite definitely", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "s so that you just know wanna know where it is.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "Yeah. Well the question is basically, is this conventional or conversational implicature?", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "Exactly. Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Might be, yeah.", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "And I guess, see, the more important thing at this stage is that we should be able to know how we would handle it in ei f in the short run it's more important to know how we would treat technically what we would do if we decided A and what we would do if we decided B, than it is t to decide A or B r right now.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "OK, right.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "Right. Right.", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "Which of that is. Yeah, OK", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "Which one it is.", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "Hmm.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "Cuz there will be other k examples that are one way or the other. Right.", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "W we know for sure that we have to be able to do both.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "So I guess In the short run, let's let's be real clear on h what the two alternatives would be.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "OK.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "And then the we had another idea floating around um, which we wanted to, uh, get your input on, and that concerns the But the nice thing is w we would have a person that would like to work on it, and that's Ir - Irina Gurevich from EML who is going to be visiting us, uh, the week before, uh, August and a little bit into August. And she would like to apply the ontology that is, um being crafted at EML. That's not the one I sent you. The one I sent you was from GMD, out of a European CRUMPET.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "It was terrible.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Agreed. Um, and one of the reas one of the those ideas was, so, back to the old Johno observation that if y if you have a dialogue history and it said the word \" admission fee \" was uh, mentioned um, it's more likely that the person actually wants to enter than just take a picture of it from the outside. Now what could imagine to, you know, have a list for each construction of things that one should look up in the discourse history, yeah? That's the really stupid way. Then there is the really clever way that was suggested by Keith and then there is the, uh, middle way that I'm suggesting and that is you you get X, which is whatever, the castle. The ontology will tell us that castles have opening hours, that they have admission fees, they have whatever. And then, this is We go via a thesaurus and look up certain linguistic surface structures that are related to these concepts and feed those through the dialogue history and check dynamically for each e entity. We look it up check whether any of these were mentioned and then activate the corresponding nodes on the discourse side. But Keith suggested that a a much cleaner way would be is, you know, to keep track of the discourse in such a way that you if you know that something like that ha has been mentioned before, this just a continues to add up, you know, in th in a.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "So if someone mentions admission f fees, that activates an Enter schema which sticks around for a little while in your rep in the representation of what's being talked about. And then when someone asks \" where is X? \" you've already got the the Enter schema activated", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "Kind of a priming", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "and you're able to to conclude on it.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "priming a spreading activation", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "Right. Yeah. So that's certainly more realistic.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "I m I mean psychologically. Now technically", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "Um", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Well, uh, is it doesn't it seem like if you just managed the dialogue history with a a thread, that you know, kept track of ho of the activity of I mean, cuz it would the the thread would know what nodes like, needed to be activated, so it could just keep track of how long it's been since something's been mentioned, and automatically load it in.", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "Yeah. You could do that. Um. But here's here's a way in th in the bl Bayes - net you could you could think about it this way, that if um at the time \" admissions fee \" was mentioned you could increase the probability that someone wanted to enter.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Turn prior on.", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "We - yeah th th that's what I wa I wasn't I was I wasn't thinking in terms of Enter schemas. I was just.", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "Fair enough, OK, but, but, in terms of the c c the current implementation right? so that um", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "It would already be higher in the context.", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "th that th the the the conditional probability that someone So at the time you mentioned it This is this is essentially the Bayes - net equivalent of the spreading activation.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm. Yeah.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "It's In some ways it's not as good but it's the implementation we got.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Yeah, sure. No, I mean", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "We don't have a connectionist implementation. Now Now my guess is that it's not a question of time but it is a question of whether another intervening object has been mentioned.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Yeah, relevance.", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "I mean, we could look at dialo this is Of course the other thing we ha we do is, is we have this data coming", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "which probably will blow all our theories,", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Yeah, right.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "but but skipping that so so but my guess is what what'll probably will happen, Here's a here's a proposed design. is that there're certain constructions which, uh, for our purposes do change the probabilities of EVA decisions and various other kinds and th that the, uh, standard way that that the these contexts work is sort of stack - like or whatever, but that's sort of the most recent thing. And so it could be that when another uh, en tourist entity gets mentioned, you", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Renew", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "re re essentially re - initiali you know, re - i essentially re - initialize the state.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Mmm.", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "And of course i if we had a fancier one with multiple worlds you could have uh, you could keep track of what someone was uh saying about this and that.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "You know, \" I wanna go in the morning", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "\" Here's my plan for today.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "I wanna \"", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Here's my plan for tomorrow. \"", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "Yeah, or Yeah, in the morning morning I I'm planning t to go shopping,", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "hypothetically.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "in the afternoon to the Powder - Tower.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "Uh, tal so I'm talking about shopping and then you say, uh, you know, well, um \" What's it cost? \" or something.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "Or Anyway. So one could well imagine, but not yet.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "But I do th think that the It'll turn out that it's gonna be depend pretty much on whether there's been an override.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Yeah, I mean, if if you ask \" how much does a train ride and and cinema around the vineyards cost? \" and then somebody tells you it's sixty dollars and then you say \" OK How much is, uh I would like to visit the \" whatever, something completely different, \" then I go to, you know, Point Reyes \",", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "it it's not more likely that you want to enter anything, but it's, as a matter of fact, a complete rejection of entering by doing that.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "So when you admit have admission fee and it changes something, it's only for that particular It's relational, right? It's only for that particular object.", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "Yeah, I th th Yeah. Well, and and and the simple idea is that it's on it's only for m for the current uh, tourist e entity of instre interest.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "Yeah. But that's I mean this this function, so, has the current object been mentioned in in with a question about concerning its.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "No, no. It's it It goes the other d it goes in the other direction. Is When th When the this is mentioned, the uh probability of of, let's say, entering changes", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Of that object. For But.", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "changes.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "You could just hav uh, just basically, ob it It observes an er, it sets the a node for \" entered \" or \" true \" or something,", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "Yeah. Yeah. Now, uh But I think Ro - Robert's right, that to determine that, OK? you may well want to go through a th thesaurus", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "\" discourse enter \".", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "and and So, if the issue is, if so now th this construction has been matched and you say \" OK. Does this actually have any implications for our decisions? \" Then there's another piece of code that presumably does that computation.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "So, sort of forward chaining in a way, rather than backward.", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "Yeah. Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "OK.", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "But but what's Robert's saying is is, and I think he's right, is you don't want to try to build into the construction itself all the synonyms and all you know, all the wo Uh maybe. I'll have to think about that.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Hmm.", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "I don't know. I mean it th I can thi I can think of arguments in either direction on that. But somehow you want to do it.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm. Well, it's just another, sort of, construction side is how to get at the possible inferences we can draw from the discourse history or changing of the probabilities, and - or.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "Guess it's like I g The other thing is, whether you have a m m user model that has, you know, whatever, a current plan, whatever, plans that had been discussed, and I don't know, I mean.", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "What uh, what's the argument for putting it in the construction? Is it just that the s synonym selection is better, or?", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "Oh, wel Well, the ar the The argument is that you're gonna have the If you've recognized the word, you've recognized the word, which means you have a lexical construction for it, so you could just as well tag the lexical construction with the fact that it's a uh, you know, thirty percent increase in probability of entering. You So you could you could you could invert invert the whole thing, so you s you tag that information on to the lexicon", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Mmm. Oh, I see.", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "since you had to recognize it anyway. That that's the argument in the other direction. at at Yeah, and this is.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Even though uh the lexical construction itself out out of context, uh, won't do it. I mean, y you have to keep track whether the person says", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "\" But I but I'm not interested in the opening times \" is sort of a more a V type.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "Yeah there's, yeah ther there's that as well.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Yep. Hmm. So. But, we'll uh, we have time to This is a s just a sidetrack, but uh I think it's also something that people have not done before, is um, sort of abuse an ontology for these kinds of, uh, inferences, on whether anything relevant to the current something has been uh, has crept up in the dialogue history already, or not. And, um I have the, uh If we wanted to have that function in the dialogue hi dialogue module of SmartKom, I have the written consent of Jan to put it in there.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "Good. OK. Well, this this is highly relevant to someone's thesis.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Yes, um. That's uh, I'm I'm keeping on good terms with Jan.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "You've noticed that. OK.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "So the point is, it's very likely that Robert's thesis is going to be along these lines,", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Oh, s", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "and the local rules are if it's your thesis, you get to decide how it's done. OK. So if, you know if this is seriously, if this becomes part of your thesis, you can say, hey we're gonna do it this way, that's the way it's done.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Mmm.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "Yay, it's not me. It's always me when it's someone's thesis.", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "No, no, no! No, no. We've got a lot we've got a lot of theses going.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "There's a few of us around now.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "Now it's not. Yay! I know it is.", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "Yeah. Right.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Well, let's let's talk after Friday the twenty - ninth. Then we'll see how f f", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "Right. So h he's got a th he's got a meet meeting in Germany with his thesis advisor.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Yeah, he said he's gonna f finish his thesis by then.", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "Oh yeah.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "Yeah. I should try to finish it by then. Yeah.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "Oh, right.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "So.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "Um. Yeah. So I think in fact, That's the other thing. uh, this is this is, speaking of hard problems, this is a very good time um, to start trying to make explicit where construal comes in and you know, where c where the construction per - se ends and where construal comes in,", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "Yeah, we've we've done quite a bit of that.", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "cuz this is clearly part of th", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "We've been doing quite a bit of that.", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "Huh?", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "Well I said. But that's part of what the f", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "We have many jobs for you, Ro - Robert.", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "Yeah. Well, he's gonna need this.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Yeah, it seems to always land in your category.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "The conclusion.", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "You're lucky.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "Right. So. Right. So thing That's part of why we want the formalism,", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "is is because th it is gonna have implicit in it", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Was I? In the room?", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "No, you weren't there on purpose. Like.", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Made it much easier to make these decisions.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "Obviously.", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "Uh.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "Right. Well I That's tentative.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Yeah. Right, right, right.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "They aren't decisions, they're ju they're just proposals.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Yes. Excuse me.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "No, they're decisions. OK.", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "Yeah, that That's the point, is is th", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "Constraints. Let's call them constraints, around which one has to.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Actually, yeah. There's a problem with that word, too, though.", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "Yeah. Anyway. But so that's that's w Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Yeah, but it he the decisions I made wer had to do with my thesis. So consequently don't I get to decide then that it's Robert's job?", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "No.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Anyhow.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "Uh.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Well, I'll just pick a piece of the problem and then just push the hard stuff into the center and say it's Robert's. Like.", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "I've always been completely in favor of consensus decisions,", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "I can.", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "so we'll we'll find a way.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "Well, we we we will, but um", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "I haven't. OK.", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "not.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "It it might even be interesting then to say that I should be forced to um, sort of pull some of the ideas that have been floating in my head out of the, uh out of the top hat", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "Yes.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "and, um.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "Always good.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "Right. So", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "That metaphor is not going anywhere, you know.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "Ri - No. Absolutely. So, uh, wh you had you know you ha You had done one draft.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Yes, and, um, it's Ha - None of that is basically still around,", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "I didn't get", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "And a another draft OK.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "but it's.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "D i", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "That's normal.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "I i", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Oh, I guess it's good I didn't read it.", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "I this is I'm shocked. This is the first time I've seen a thesis proposal change. Right. Anyway, uh. So.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Really?", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "But, yeah, a second that would be great. So, uh, a sec I mean you're gonna need it anyway.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Hmm.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "and", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Yeah, and I would like to d discuss it and, you know, get you guys's input", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "and make it sort of bomb - proof.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "Bomb proof!", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "Yep.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Good.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "Bullet - proof.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "Oh! Oh, OK.", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "That's the word I was looking for.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "Both proof.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Either way.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "Both.", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Good luck. Really.", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "Uh So that, so th thi this I mean, so this is the point, is we we're going to have to cycle through this,", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "but th the draft of the p proposal on the constructions is is going to tell us a lot about what we think needs to be done by construal. And, um, we oughta be doing it.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "OK. Yeah, we need we need some Then we need to make some dates. Um.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "Meeting regular meeting time for the summer, we really haven't found one. We did Thursdays one for a while. I just talked to Ami. It's - it's a coincidence that he can't do couldn't do it today here.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "Usually, he can.", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "Usually he has no real constraints.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "And the NTL meeting moved to Wednesday,", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "So.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "cuz of of, uh", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Yeah, it was just an exception.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "Yeah, you weren't here, but but but s uh, And so, if that's OK with you,", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "It's i Is it staying basically at the Wednesday noon?", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "you would.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "OK. It was th off this week,", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "Yeah. I always thought it was staying.", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "Yeah, it was th", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "yeah.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "Yeah, I thought it was just this week that we were changing it.", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Mmm. Yeah.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "OK.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "And, um. How do we feel about doing it Wednesdays? Because it seems to me that this is sort of a time where when we have things to discuss with other people, there they seem to be s tons of people around.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "The only disadvantage is that it may interfere with other", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Or subgroup meetings", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "s you know, other other No, you Uh, people in this group connecting with with", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Those people who happen to be around.", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "those people who who might not be around so much. Uh, I don't care. I I uh you know I have no fixed.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "To tell you the truth, I'd rath I'd, I'd would like to avoid more than one ICSI meeting per day, if possible. But I mean. I don't know.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "OK.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Whatever.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "No, that's fine. I mean that.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "The I'd like to have them all in one day,", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "Yeah, I can understand that.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "Well p", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "so package them up and then.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "people people differ in their tastes in this matter.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "I I'm neutral.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "Yeah. I'm always here anyway,", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "It's OK, that.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "so It doesn't matter.", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "Yeah. @ @ That's Me too. I'm basically I'm here. So.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Well, if one sort of thing is, this room is taken at after three - thirty pr pretty much every day by the data collection.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "Oh.", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "So we have subjects anyway Except for this week, we have subjects in here.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "Oh.", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "That's why it was one.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "OK.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "So we just knew i", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "So did you just say that Ami can't make one o'", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "No, he can.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "Oh.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "Oh, OK.", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "So let's say Thursday one. But for next week, this is a bit late. So I would suggest that we need to to talk.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "Oh, oh, OK.", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "OK. About the c the th", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "Could we do Thursday at one - thirty? Would that that be horrible?", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "No. Yes.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "Oh really?", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "Because, uh, this room is again taken at two - thirty by Morgan.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "Oh, OK. OK. You didn't tell me that. OK, that's fine.", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "And the s meeting recorder meeting meeting meeting recording on meeting meetings.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "OK, OK, OK. OK. Yeah.", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "So.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "Ah, yeah.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "Interesting. So you're proposing that we meet Tuesday.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "How about that?", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "Next week.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "Well, we're meeting Tuesday.", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "I I could", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "I mean we usually meet Tuesday or l like, linguists um, at two.", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "Would it.", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "That's right.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "So. Do you want to meet again here bef", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "And the s Is the Speech - Gen meeting still at on Tuesdays?", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "I mean w Well, actually we w we we did scrap our Monday time just because Bhaskara couldn't come Monday.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "Hhh. Maybe I do need a Palm Pilot.", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "So there's Nothing's impeding Monday anymore either.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "That doesn't apply to a.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "Although I thought you wanted to go camping on Monday er, take off Mondays a lot so you could go camping.", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "Get a fresh start Yeah, that's another s thing. Yeah. But, um. I mean, there are also usually then holidays anyways. I mean like Sometimes it works out that way.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "Usually?", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "So. Hmm!", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "Well, I mean, the linguists' meeting i happens to be at two, but I think that's I mean.", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "That should be relatively flexible be", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "pretty flexible, I think.", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "Yeah. There's just sort of the two to four of us.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "So. The multiple meetings", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "Right? Yeah. So.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "yeah.", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "And, you know, of course Nancy and I are just sort of always talking anyway and sometimes we do it in that room.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "Right. Yeah.", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "So, you know, I mean.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "OK, so l forget about the b the camping thing. So let's eh, any other problems w w w? But, I suggested Monday. If that's a problem for me then I shouldn't suggest it.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "Ha - ha - ha.", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "OK.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "So.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "Um, all of the proposed times sound fine with me.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "Same here.", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "Monday?", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "OK, whate I mean What I think Robert's saying is that", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Earlier in the week", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "earlier we At least for next week, there's a lot of stuff we want to get done,", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm. Yeah.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "so why don't we plan to meet Monday", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Mmm.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "and we'll see if we want to meet any more than that.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "OK.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "What time?", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "OK.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "At o o o o one, two, three?", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "One, two, three? Three's too late.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "Oh, I i Yeah, I actually Two is the earliest I can meet on Monday.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Two - thirty? OK, two.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "Here I'm blissfully agreeing to things and realizing that I actually do have some stuff scheduled on Monday.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Sure. Sounds great. Uh, so that's the eighteenth.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "You guys will still remind me, right?", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "No way!", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "Y you'll come and take all the the headph the good headphones first and then remind me.", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "W why do you?", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "Yeah, exactly. Sorry, two PM.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "And", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "Why do I have this unless I'm gonna write?", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "do I get to see th uh, your formalism before that?", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "Fine. Yes. Uh. Would you like to?", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "OK. I was actually gonna work on it for tomorrow like this this weekend.", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "I wo I would like I would sort of get a get a notion of what what you guys have in store for me.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "Well m @ @ you know, w maybe Mond - Maybe we can put This is part of what we can do Monday, if we want.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Yeah. I OK.", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "Alright.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "I mean, I I I.", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "Is some some version", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "OK.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "Yeah, so there was like, you know, m m in my head the goal to have like an intermediate version, like, everything I know.", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "And then, w I would talk to you and figure out everything you know, that you know, see if they're consistent.", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "Yeah. OK. Why don't w Maybe you and I should meet sort of more or less first thing Monday morning and then we can work on this.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "Yes. Yeah. That's f fine with me.", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "OK.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "So. I might I might um,", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "You - y", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "s You said you're busy over th until the weekend, right?", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "Yeah, sort of through the weekend because Kate has a photography show.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "That's fine. So we might continue our email thing", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "and that might be fine, too. So, maybe I'll send you some.", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "Um, if you have time after this I'll show you the noun phrase thing.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "OK. That would be cool. So. OK, and we'll You wanna m", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "So the idea is on Monday at two we'll we'll see an intermediate version of the formalism for the constructions,", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "So that's OK for you.", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "and do an on - line merging with my construal ideas.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "Sure, sure.", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "Alright.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "OK.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "That's OK.", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "So it won't be, like, a for semi - formal presentation of my proposal. It'll be more like towards finalizing that proposal.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "OK.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "Cuz then you'll find out more of what we're making you do.", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "OK, that's fine. Yep, and then.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "Hmm, hmm.", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "Yikes.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "Oy, deadlines.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "We'll make a presentation of your propo of your proposal.", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "Perfect. Can you also write it up?", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "It's like, \" this is what we're doing.", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "Abso", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "And the complement is Robert. \"", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "I'll I'll send you I'll I'll send you a style file, right?", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "OK.", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "You just.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "I already sent you my fi my bib file. So.", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "OK. And, um. Sounds good.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "Someday we also have to we should probably talk about the other side of the \" where is X \" construction, which is the issue of, um, how do you simulate questions? What does the simspec look like for a question?", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "Because it's a little different.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "Yeah, now, we we w", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "We had to we had an idea for this which seemed like it would probably work.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "Great. OK. Yeah. Simspec may need we may n need to re - name that.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "I Yeah. I.", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "OK? So let's think of a name for for whatever the this intermediate structure is. Oh, we talked about semspec, for \" semantic spec specification \"", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Mmm.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "and that seems Um.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "It's more general", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "You know, so it's a m minimal change.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Only have to change one vowel. That's great.", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "Yeah. Just.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "All the old like graphs,", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "just change the just, like, mark out the.", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "Cool.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "Right, a little substi substi You know, that's what text substitution uh macros are for.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Yeah. It's good for you.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "Anyway, uh, so let's let's for the moment call it that until we think of something better.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "OK.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "And, yeah, we absolutely need to find Part of what was missing were markings of all sorts that weren't in there, incl including the questions.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "We didn't we never did figure out how we were gonna do emphasis in in uh, the semspec.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "Yeah, we've talked a little bit about that, too, which uh, uh, it's hard for me to figure out with sort of our general linguistic issues, how they map onto this particular one,", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "but OK, yeah, understood.", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "But that's part of the formalism is got to be uh, how things like that get marked.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "W do you have data, like the the You have preliminary data? Cuz I know, you know, we've been using this one easy sentence and I'm sure you guys have uh, maybe you are the one who've been looking at the rest of it.", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "Um, I", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "it'd it'd be useful for me, if we want to have it a little bit more data oriented.", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "To tell you the truth, what I've been looking at has not been the data so far,", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "Yeah. Mm - hmm mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "I just sort of said \" alright let's see if I can get noun phrases and, uh, major verb co uh, constructions out of the way first. \" And I have not gotten them out of the way yet.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "Surprise. So, um.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "So, I have not really approached a lot of the data, but I mean obviously like these the the question one, since we have this idea about the indefinite pronoun thing and all that, you know, I ca can try and, um run with that, you know, try and do some of the sentence constructions now. It would make sense.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "OK. Do you wanna run the indefinite pronoun idea past Jerry?", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "OK.", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "Oh yeah, the basic idea is that um, uh you know Uh, let's see if I can formulate this.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "So Mary fixed the car with a wrench.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "So you perform the mental sum and then, you know, \" who fixed the car with a wrench? \" You basically are told, to to do this In the in analogously to the way you would do \" someone fixed the car with a wrench \". And then you hand it back to your hippocampus and find out what that, you know,", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "Means.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "means, and then come up with that so who that someone was.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "The WH question has this as sort of extra thing which says \" and when you're done, tell me who fills that slot \" or w you know.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "So, um. And, you know, this is sort of a nice way to do it, the idea of sort of saying that you treat from the simulation point of view or whatever you treat, uh, WH constructions similarly to uh, indefinite pronouns like \" someone fixed the car \" because lots of languages, um, have WH questions with an indefinite pronoun in situ or whatever,", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "Use actually the same one.", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "and you just get intonation to tell you that it's a question. So it makes sense", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "Alright, which is", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "um", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "Skolemization.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Hmm?", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "Mmm.", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "In in logic, it's it's @ @ it's actual Huh?", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Right. Let's put a Skolem Skolem constant in,", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "Yeah. shko", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "What?", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Sure.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "yeah. Yeah. Right.", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "OK.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "That - that's not that's not saying it's bad,", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Right. Right. No. Of course.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "it's just that.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Mmm.", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "that that the logicians have have, uh.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "That's right. It makes sense from that point of view, too, which is actually better.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "come up with this", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "So yeah, um. Anyway, but just that kind of thing and we'll figure out exactly how to write that up and so on, but", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "Good.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Uh, no, all the focus stuff. We sort of just dropped that cuz it was too weird and we didn't even know, like, what we were talking about exactly, what the object of study was.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "Um - mmm.", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "So.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "Yeah. Well, if if I mean, i part of of what the exercise is, t by the end of next week, is to say what are the things that we just don't have answers for yet.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Yeah. Yep.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "That's fine. I mean", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "Well, if you if you do wanna discuss focus background and then get me into that because I mean, I wo I w scientifically worked on that for for almost two years.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "Yeah. OK, then certainly we will. Good.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "Yeah, you should definitely, um be on on that maybe maybe by after Monday we'll y you can see what things we are and aren't.", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "Yeah. w We should figure out what our questions are, for example, to ask you.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "Yeah. Yeah.", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "So.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "OK.", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "OK.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "Wel - then t Hans. Has I haven't seen Hans Boas?", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "He's been around.", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "Just maybe not today.", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "OK. So has he been been involved with this, or?", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Eh. with us?", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "I would say that tha that those discussions have been primarily, um, Keith and Keith and me, but um like in th the meeting I mean, he sort of I thin like the last meeting we had, I think we were all very much part of it", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "but um", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "Sometimes Hans has been sort of coming in there as sort of like a devil's advocate type role or something,", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "but different perspec Yeah.", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "like \" This make you know, I'm going to pretend I'm a linguist who has nothing to do with this. This makes no sense. \" And he'll just go off on parts of it which definitely need fixing", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "but aren't where we're at right now, so it's", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "Like like what you call certain things,", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "which we decided long ago we don't care that much right now.", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "But in a sense, it's good to know that he of all people.", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "OK.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "you know, like maybe a lot of people would have m much stronger reactions, so, you know, he's like a relatively friendly linguist", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "Yeah. Yeah.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "and yet a word like \" constraint \" causes a lot of problems. And, so. Right. So.", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "OK. This is consistent with um the role I had suggested that he he play,", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Ah.", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "OK, which was that o one of the things I would like to see happen is a paper that was tentatively called \" Towards a formal cognitive semantics \" which was addressed to these linguists uh who haven't been following this stuff at all.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "So it could be that he's actually, at some level, thinking about how am I going to communicate this story.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Yeah. Yeah.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "So, internally, we should just do whatever works,", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "cuz it's hard enough.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "But if he g if he turns is is really gonna turn around and help t to write this version that does connect with as many as possible of the other linguists in the world um then then it becomes important to use terminology that doesn't make it hard.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "Yeah. Yeah.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm. Sure.", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "I mean, it's gonna be plenty hard for for people to understand it as it is,", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "but y y you don't want to make it worse.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Yeah. No, right. I mean, tha that role is is, uh, indispensable", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "So.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "but that's not where sort of our heads were at in these meetings.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "It was a little strange.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "Yeah, yeah. No, that's fine. I just wanted t to I have to catch up with him, and I wanted t to get a feeling for that. OK.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "So I don't know what his take will be on these meetings exactly, you know.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "OK. Good.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Cuz sometimes he sort of sounds like we're talking a bunch of goobledy - gook from his point of view.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "I think it's good when we're when we're into data and looking at the some specific linguistic phenomenon in in English or in German, in particular, whatever, that's great,", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "and Ben and and Hans are, if if anything, more you know, they have more to say than, let's say, I would about some of these things.", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "But when it's like, well, w how do we capture these things, you know, I think it's definitely been Keith and I who have d you know, who have worried more about the.", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "Well, that's good. That's I I I think that should be the the core group", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "s Which is fine.", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "and um that's, you know, I think very close to the maximum number of people working together that can get something done.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "Yes. Yeah. We actually have I think we have been making progress,", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "and its sort of surprising.", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "I I I I definitely get that impression. Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "You know, like.", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "Yep.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "That's great.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Yeah. So anyone else would like uh ruin the balance of Anyway.", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "Well, but Well. But th th then w then we have to come back to the bigger group.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "Yeah. Great. And then we're gon we're gonna because of this other big thing we haven't talked about is actually implementing this stuff? So that I guess the three of us are gonna connect tomorrow about that.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Yeah, we could talk tomorrow. I was just gonna say, though, that, for instance, there was you know, out of a meeting with Johno came the suggestion that \" oh, could it be that the meaning constraints really aren't used for selection? \" which has sort of been implicit in the parsing strategy we talked about.", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "In which case we w we can just say that they're the effects or the bindings. Which uh, so far, in terms of like putting up all the constraints as, you know, pushing them into type constraints, the when I've, you know, propo then proposed it to linguists who haven't yet given me you know, we haven't yet thought of a reason that that wouldn't work. Right? As long as we allow our type constraints to be reasonably complex.", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "Well, it.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "So Anyway, to be to talk about later.", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "Yeah, it has to in the sense that you're gonna use them eventu it's you know, it's sort of a, um, generate and test kind of thing,", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm. Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "and if you over - generate then you'll have to do more. I mean, if there are some constraints that you hold back and don't use uh, in your initial matching then you'll match some things.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm. Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "I mean, I I d I don't think there's any way that it could completely fail. It it could be that uh, you wind up I mean The original bad idea of purely context - free grammars died because there were just vastly too many parses. You know, exponentially num num many parses. And so th the concern might be that not that it would totally fail, but that.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm. Mm - hmm. That it would still generate too many. Right? So by just having semantic even bringing semantics in for matching just in the form of j semantic types, right?", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "it would still genera", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Like \" conceptually these have to be construed as this, this, and this \" might still give us quite a few possibilities", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "that, you know And and it certainly helps a lot.", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "We don't know, but, yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "I mean, le let's put it that way. So.", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "No question. Yeah. And I think it's a it's a perfectly fine place to start. You know, and say, let let's see how far we can go this way.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm. Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "And, uh.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Well it definitely makes the problem easier.", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "I'm I'm in favor of that. Uh, cuz I think i I think it's As you know, I think it's real hard and if w if we Right.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "So Friday, Monday", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "Monday.", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "So. OK, that's Tuesday.", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "Like th that's the conclusion. OK.", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "So, you your dance card is completely filled now?", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "Shoot.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "Yeah, and I have nothing to do this weekend but work.", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "Why don't.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "No, that's not really true,", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "Bummer.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "but like.", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "What about What about DDR?", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "It's almost true.", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "Oh, I don't have it this weekend, so, tsk don't have to worry about that.", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "Mmm.", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "DDR, he asked?", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Speaking of dance, Dance Dance Revolution I can't believe I'm It's a it's like a game, but it's for, like, dancing. 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Um kind of uh got to know each other a little bit and uh got familiar with all the equipment and started to discuss um a bit about the project, you know, cost-wise how much how much money we had to s Um just want to tell you that you have three new requirements, which is the The first one is that um uh the company's decided that teletext is outdated uh because of how popular the internet is. Nobody uses teletext very much anymore, so we don't really need to consider that in the functionality of the of the remote control.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "'Kay.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Um they've also suggested that we um we only use the remote control to control the television, not the V_C_R_, D_V_D_ or anything else. I think the worry is that if the project becomes too complex then it'll affect um how long it takes us to get it into into production, the time to market. So um, we're just gonna keep it simple and it'll just control the T_V_.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "And the other thing was that the company want the corporate colour and slogan to be implemented in the new design. Um I'm not entirely sure what the corporate colour is. It might be yellow, because there seems to be a lot of yellow everywhere.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "And the slogan, like the actual written slogan, or just to embody the idea of the slogan?", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Well that's the thing, I'm I'm not sure um uh th because on the the company website, uh what does it say Uh something.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "'Bout putting the fashion in electronics.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Mm yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah, I mean do they Is that something they want actually written on it,'cause it's quite long. Um or yeah, just the idea, but I'm not sure. So that's something we can discuss as well. So those are the three things, just not to worry about teletext, uh only control the T_V_, and um and uh incorporate the uh colour and slogan of the company. Um so is everybody okay with any of that, or do you want me to recap at all?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Nope, we're all set.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Right um, time for presentations then. Who would like to go first?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "I'll go first.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Okay, cool.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Sure.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Alright um, can I st steal this from the back of your laptop? Uh.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Oh yeah, of course, yeah. G go on ahead.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "so this is the technical functions design. Um Right to do the um the design I have I've had a look online, I've had a look at the homepage, which has given us um some insp inspiration from previous products.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Um I've had a look at the previous products to see what they offer and um I would like to ask you guys for um your ideas about the design at the end of the meeting. Um unfortunately we're not allowed to talk outside the meeting room, so.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Um, having a look at the existing products, I found out that um it tends to come in sort of two extremes, there's either um a very complicated one that's got lots of buttons, lots of colours, very confusing, you don't know what you're doing. Um in that case the the labelling tends to be very bad. Um there's an example I'll show you at the end, um sh show you now. Uh.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Alright.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "here um the button there and there. This one's prog. Sorry. That one's perg and that one's prog, and it doesn't really tell you what it does. Um, not sure if you had a a look at the other um control in that example. Um it's a very simple one. It's got only the basic functions mm but um it's the same size as the the hard to use one.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Oop.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Uh it looked a bit clunky. They're very big and not very much use for buttons. Um, and it's just very hard to access the advanced functions. There's there's nothing for instance for a slow motion button. Um, my own preferences, I prefer the the clunky one. Um it's very easy to use. Um but unfortunately it does lack the advanced functions which I I quite like having on the controls. Um so I believe the the advanced functions should maybe be hidden in a drawer, or something like tha from the bottom of it. So, now I'd like to ask for your preferences. Um not sure of how long we've got, uh.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Um. Well we can chat away for uh for five minutes or so I think at at most.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Just a couple of minutes anyway.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "M yeah, like a lot of a lot of what I've um read and prepared for this meeting fits in really closely with what with what Craig's just gone over. So in part I could I could give you some of my personal preferences but I could also th add some to this which is just about sort of um sort of market research.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "But anyway,", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Shall we sh well we'll stick to kind of your area for now.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "um we might come to that later.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Which which is the clunky one, the one on left or on the right?..", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Um, the clunky one is the one on the right.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Um clunky in what sense, like um h heavier? Larger?", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Um I think it's supposed to be the same size, but um it's got much fewer buttons. It's, you know, it's very spread out", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "I see, so it's more just basic.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Looks kind of Yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "and kind of you know", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Right, okay.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": ", I get the idea it'd be sort of about this size. got very few buttons on it and.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah. Sure.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Well I think it's a valid point. I mean like the one on the left looks quite um quite complicated, and that P_R_T_ p P_R_O_T_ thing is incredibly confusing. Um so I see I see why yo you know you might prefer the simpler design, but yeah you don't want to lose out on, you know, what it does, so maybe you know", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "you know you get a lot of remote controls where you kind of flip the thing open,", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "I think that's a good idea.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "I think it's a good idea..", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Um, do we have any functions that um we'd want on it?", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "I mean so far I've got um on and off, um switch the channel up and down, and put the volume up and down.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm. Uh-huh.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Um they're just the the very basics you could use for a T_V_.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Uh-huh, and then actual numbers for channels as well, yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Okay. Um, you say that's a h a required one or a requested one? Would you like", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Which was that?", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "um the channels like the the numbers on thing, um.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Up the numbers, or the up down?", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "God, I wou I would say that's required,", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "I mean there's no way anybody's gonna buy a remote control these days when if you can't actually individually select channels,", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "I mean would anybody disagree with that?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Um, what else, uh So don't need to worry about teletext,", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "don't need to worry about V_C_R_, uh any kind of like display controls at all do you think we need to worry about,", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "We don't? No?", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "you know like brightness and contrast?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah. Well I think I think es essentially what we're doing right now is we're categorising. We're saying well we want this to be a product that offers all the sort of more tricky features but we want them to be in another area?", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Is that right?", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Is that what we're we're doing?", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Um, yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "We're kind of like sorting them an Or are we actually eliminating things we just don't want the product to have?", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Um.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "I think are you are you maybe kind of thinking what we absolutely have to have and what would be nice?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Uh, to start with um sort of a bit both, um we need to find out exactly what we have to have", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "um and after that we can add things if they're possible.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Okay, right. Well, do you wanna maybe just, at this point decide on what we absolutely must have as a p as a function of this.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Um, so so far, just to recap you've got volume and channel control and.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yep.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "There's um on and off, um volume and channel, and skip to certain channels with the numbers.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Right okay. Um.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Well, one one way I would look at this um would be that we a approach the different controls in terms of um like control types, so that for the user it's very clear what they want to do where they go.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Uh and also think maybe a little bit about sorta w w what would just wanna be acc easily accessible.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Oka", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "For example if we had audio controls, those could be something people set up very rarely. Maybe they're un they're they're they're in a little area but covered up um,", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "things like channel and volume um are used all the time, so we just have them right out on top, um very just very sort of self-explanatory. Um so maybe we need to think about having three or more groupings of controls, you know like one which are just the the habitual ones that should be right within your natural grip. And others that are uh also available", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "and then others that are concealed.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Something like that.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Uh well, just to to wrap up quickly on this this little section Have I just lost Oh no. Um, uh do you think maybe that's the only kind of uh essential requirements, and then maybe just things that would be nice if it could do would be things like audio set up and display set up and things like that, maybe like a mute button, that sort of thing. Any of you anything to add to that at all?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "No.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "No.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "I'll add it later, I guess the presentation.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Okay, right.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm. Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Um okay,", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "if we can move on to next presentation then please. Um", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Sure.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Do you wanna.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Do you want to switch places?", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Can this can this pl reach? Can this plug come across?", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "No. No.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Probably not, actually.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "No.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "So why don't I just pick up and move then.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Here, I'll just Why don't I just.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Just just switch them.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Mm er, can you go up behind me? Kinda This is so This.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "bit complicated. It'd be nice if everything was wireless, wouldn't it?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "I'm all in a knot now.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Um. So I can I can say already, I dunno whether this is for good or for bad but there'll be a lot of kind of uh redundancy in the in the the issues and the the uh the things.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Oh, like overlap between what you said?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah, yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Oh well, for all you know that that'll happen.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Which is ma not necessarily a bad thing, but may what I've already started doing is cr I created a slide in in my presentation here so um so that we kind of think well what's the cumulative effect of what we've taken from your ideas and and mine, because certainly I I have a hard time separating separating things completely.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Mm hard to know what where your role ends, yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Obviously obviously what you've just told me what you've just told me impacts a lot on what um like market research mm that that I've been.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "So how do I how do I get this up?", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Um function F_ eight.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Uh pr yeah, press function and F_ eight, yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Okay. Okay. Alright. So F_ eight?", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Function, the blue button. Next to the control on the left. Yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Oh, and F_ eight. Okay.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "You have to push it together.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yep.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Okay, I think that that's doing it now.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Nope. Try that again.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Uh, again?", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Wait.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Think maybe the the wire in the back might be loose.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah, you wanna Oh oh here we go.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Um,", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yep, there we go.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "There you go.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "okay great. Okay. Just um Before I bring this up what I'll just say is um what I've what I've done is tried to collect some information so that I can then relay this to to you guys so that it's now becomes a collective thing. And then kind of lead us in the direction of deciding,'kay what what are our options, what should we decide and do you know what I mean, so.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Increase that'cause we can't see the.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Um.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "That's much better.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Right. Can you um.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "There you go.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Right, okay.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Okay. Alright. That would be Okay. So um does that make sense? So what I basically got is I just looked into some information and sort of th tried to think about how how we could review it and how we could and what kind of decisions we could take away from it and then maybe by the end of just looking at some of these things we can think about what are our priorities.'Cause certainly there's lots of different information to go through. So um I'm thinking here about uh primarily about customer needs, that we start with the customer, and w you know, what they want and what are issues with with um existing products. Uh to think about trends and also about try and connect that as you see with the company vision which is about fashion in electronics. Um and then, as I say uh w we'd like to prioritise our design features from this and um.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Bouncing on top..", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Dunno. Okay. Um.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "So this is what I've found here, um a lot of this is new to me, so we'll just read through together. Um, users dislike the look and feel of current remote controls. So they find them ugly. Most people find them ugly. Um the vast majority would spend more money for it to look fancy as well, we'll see later, the vast majority would spend more money for um slightly more intuitive control, such as voice recognition.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Okay I'm gonna we'll look at that in a second. Um most people use only a f a very slim portion of all the controls. So I guess what we're looking at here is people want this h technology, they tend to use the most simple controls and overall they find remote controls to be something they don't doesn't really appeal to them.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "So I think what we're doing is we're trying to take like if for me this is sorta like three different different um inspirations, you know, one is that we want uh something that's high-tech but we want it to seem easy. And in spite of the primitive side of it and the very high-tech side, we want it to just be an appealing piece of equipment in people's hands. Um, frustrations. They get lost a lot, s as it came up in our last meeting. Um, takes time to learn how to use them. This is uh why I mention when Craig was uh showing us some ideas that we actually try and group controls, so d it doesn't just look like a big panel, kinda like when you you look at, you know, a new computer keyboard, or something that is quite explanatory. If you want audio, if you want visual, then you have those. Um and I will admit I don't know what R_S_I_ stands for.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Repetitive strain injury.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Is installing a new remote control something that people.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Uh, no, that did not come up at all. Um so here here is another um sort of a a review here of the main things. I also found that most people would uh adults at least would pay more for voice recognition. Now apparently we do have access to all the tech cutting edge technology in remote control. So I dunno if that's possible we might consider getting into it. Um. And and again here as we sort of move m sort of thin start thinking about how we wanna sell and market this, I think a recurring theme here is the company wants it to be wants us to make something that's fashionable and sleek and trendy.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Um people uh additionally aren't aren't liking the appearance of their products, so we wanna think about as we take all the sort of the techie features how we can um put that into a unit which is which people like.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "You know, they like the aesthetics and the ergonomics.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "So want something that looks good and is easy to use, big priorities.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah, so you know just c looking at what what Craig um Craig's i uh ideas are s sorta tell me that maybe what we wanna do is try and um separate the different things that we wanna include in this. So if we do say well we want there to be all the technology will we try and make that almost be like optional technology. You know, it's like like I find a lot of T_V_s these days, something really like about'em is if you wanna just turn'em on and off you can, but they have little panels where you click and there's just like tons of features you go through.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Mm. So it you wanna group all the different kind of types of functions together, you know.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "That's I think it's a good idea.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah. That's s that's sort of the um But I I'm my hope here is that I'm putting out this information so that we can then say okay, well how do we collectively move on with it.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm. Okay.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Um I I haven't brought out one specific marketing idea, although my sense is that what we should try and think about is what are the current trends in materials and shapes and styles, and then use that.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "But not let that confine us technologically.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Okay. Right.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "So Alright? Any um comments on all of that?.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Well, um one of the things that we have to decide on by the end of the meeting is who we're gonna be um who's our our target audience, our target market.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "That's uh.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Um, so if we want something that that looks good and is easy to use, but has y is fairly powerful product, whatever, who do we really want to aim that at?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah. Okay.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "I mean.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Where's the money, maybe.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah, who wou who would have the money to spend. Well i if if like twenty five Euro is our is our selling price then you can imagine,", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah. And who watches T_V_. Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "well I don't I'm not really sure how much that will retail at.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "But you want it's somebody who's not gonna just use the remote that comes with their telly, I suppose, they're gonna actually go out and buy one.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "So, who do you think we're aiming this at?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Um, I think it'll be the mid range to the high end market, in terms of people.'Cause twenty five Euros for a remote, how much is that lo locally in pounds?", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "It's about sixteen, seventeen pounds, I think.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Is that too is that a lot of money to buy an extra remote or a replacement remote?", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah,", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "okay.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Um so maybe not the high end range, but maybe middle, middle up-ish. Kind of.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "You know how much? I dunno I guess you pay, what, ten ten quid for a remote?", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Like a simple replacement, right. I mean if you lost your remote and the first thing you just wanna go out and get,", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah. Yeah,", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "would you how much would you pay?", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "This this kinda touches on your comments there, David. These are the age groups which we have information on", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "and these are this is a table of h what people would pay more for a certain feature.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Okay", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Just gives us a rough idea of where the w the will to spend money on T_V_ equipment is.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mostly focused around the twenty five age group.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah, so do you think we're we're aiming at a fairly young market then?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yep.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Sort of young professional, kind of. Mm-hmm", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah, okay.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Um.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Um do you think then uh voice recognition is something we should really seriously consider? What what do you think, Craig?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Well, did you not say it was the the adults that were going for the the voice recognition? Sort of the the older group.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Uh, yeah, it's the Yep.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Uh f", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "It does it does fit with the market that we're sort of identifying,", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "N yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "in terms of.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "I think we are gonna have to narrow it down, to say let's target these people and give them what they want", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "and'cause you know, there needs to be some kind of selling point to it.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah. Sure. Sure.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "So um anybody anything there to add.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Just kind of young professionals, uh th like if we are going to include speech recognition, it's kind of between fifteen and thirty five seems to be like a really high response to that. So we could say that was our target.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "I I think twenty five to thirty five is is is fair to add that in as a group as well", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "because that's more than half your group of people who are willing to at least try and use your technology.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm. Yeah. Yeah, yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm. Okay, so fifteen to thirty five, look fairly young.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "You know, they have bit of expendable income to spend on this sort of thing.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "I think perhaps that age group is significant as well because those are people who use the computer,", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm. Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "who are familiar with their with computers in in their everyday work.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "I think people who are maybe about I wouldn't say thirty five,", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm. Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "but people who are about forty-ish and above now would not be so dependent and reliant on a computer or a mobile phone or something like that.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm. Mm-hmm. But yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah, sure.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "So these are people who are gadgety, right?", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "So.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "People who are u growing up used to, you know in schools and in universities,", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "when you go on to their working lives, people who would you know regular", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah. So they'll not sh not shy away from something quite high-tech.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah. Yeah. Mm.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "That that's that's a good point.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Um okay, so um.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "so shall we make the decision uh to include speech recognition", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "If we can.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "I I think one thing we should try not to avoid is not to say we have to use speech recognition right now,", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "if we can.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "because um, based on what you've go y everybody's saying, right, you want something simple.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Okay. Why is that?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "You want basic stuff and you want something that's easy to use. Speech recognition might not be the simplest thing for somebody to use.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Could it be an on off thing?", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Um,", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Like if you want it on.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "but what I'm saying is that we're we're trying to lock ourselves into a s particular kind of technology,", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Where you can activate it and deactivate it?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "rather than focusing on on exactly what are the features that we're gonna say, and then, you know, say speech recognition is good for this, speech recognition is not good for this.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah. Sure.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "So maybe we should.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Sure.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "I suggest that we think about speech recognition,", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah. Sure..", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "anyway it's a it's something that can be used to fulfil a function, but at end of the day we don't look at the technology, but we look at the function first.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Uh-huh.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Sure. Yep.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Uh okay, well do you wanna um give us your presentation", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Okay, sure.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "and then then we can I don't know.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yep.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "um might have been a good idea to all deliver our presentations and then discuss, but this is this is how we're.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah, it's good well it's good to get ideas out while they're fresh in mind.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah, exactly, yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Um.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Oh it's something that's just occurred to me as well is if we make it um speech reco if we incorporate speech recognition, that's appealing to people um maybe with a physical disability as well.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Not.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Um.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah. And not losing. And also it helps in terms of people not losing this,", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "you know they they're saying oh it's I lose it in the couch.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "like we're kind of what we're b sort of getting in into here is mating different uh design features together", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "that they.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "I reckon one problem with speech recognition is um I've actually seen one of them used and uh the technology that was in that one wasn't particularly amazing, so you end up yelling at the control for hours.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Really?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Channel up.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Oh really, you've seen one before.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Do you think maybe we need like further advances in that kind of area until it's worthwhile incorporating it though?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Um I think it'd probably quite expensive to put in.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Sorry, do you mind passing me my notepad.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Mm. Course not.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Thanks. Cool,", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "There you go.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "um. Okay. Um.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Well this is just the working design um.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Well this is just what how I would go about it. Um I guess I try to define like what we're doing now, try to define what we're trying to get done. Um I think in a practical way, we kind of know what it is.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "We've used it, we're familiar with it, but we're we can't n we haven't narrowed down um exactly what the things we're trying to fulfil, like Besides the basics, I think back in the back of our minds we know what the basics are. Has to change channels, has to change volume, but in like specifics, right, which one of the basics are you trying to target. Um are there certain parts of the basics that are more important or less important than the basics?", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Um and I just the idea is just to get everybody to um I usually have a have have a design that's there as a basic, so, you know, things that to start everything going. But I guess everybody does have some idea, so I don't think um there's a need for that. Um okay this finding things is a little bit confusing, so I'll go into the diagram first. It just explains how the process goes through, from a.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "from the basic technology point of view, the basic steps that you need um in the diagram and in this slide probably works better. Um okay, you need some power source.'Kay, a battery or something, to keep it going.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Um and that power source is important because it ties you down to um how long the device will last. Um it ties you down perhaps a bit later on in terms of the technologies", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Uh-huh.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "um how far you can transmit the signal or the complexity of the functions that you want.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Like for example, voice recognition, right. That might be constrained because that you might need to power a microphone, you might need to power other things, so that's one perhaps constraint there. Um Th Okay, the basic thing is there's a user interface where people punch a button or talk into it or smile to it or blink their eyes, whatever.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Hmm.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "You know, and that um picks up an input from a user, um uh a logic a series of logic has to decide what the user is telling the device, and the device has to r you know, based on you push button A_, so I will do something with button A_. So maybe button A_ is the power button, okay.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Um and then it needs to be able to send the signal out to the device itself which is the receiver here. Um and I think that's about it in terms of my design um. It's fairly general, um and I guess the purpose of this is also not to restrict you in in the way you're thinking,", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "like um voice recognition, right, um, if it's something which is important then we just add more power rather than having a thing that we don't have enough power. So it's not really a constraint in that sense,", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "but I mean these are functionally, you know, the base,", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm. Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "what the technology has to do.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Um so I guess the rest of it.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "I think we should maybe you you wanna go back to what the functions are? I think that's more relevant to a discussion?", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Uh.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "'Kay.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Well, do you wan do you wanna finish up your your whole presentation then?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Sure. Sure.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah, w I'm done.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Are you are you all done?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "More or less. Yeah. Ps Oh, it's just putting the rest of it into words, but it's essentially the same thing.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yep.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Um you have a transmitter, an input device, logic chip,", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "you know, stuff like that.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Um.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "And like on the means b", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "I guess this would be.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Since we're on the topic of the technology, uh are there any like what are our options?", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yep.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Alright, what's what i in Is this the only way that we go about it, or are there other thin", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Um, these these aren't technology options in that sense. This is just um", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "a basic principles and basic components that are needed.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "The basic principle of.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "'Kay.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "For example, if you needed um if you needed to add uh a voice recognition, right, then your user interface would be split,", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "broken down into more components, right,", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "which you have a microphone, the V_R_ and stuff like that.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Oh. So this just show how we're kind of modularising the whole thing.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Uh Yep. Yep. So each component represents one function,", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "but I think the basic functions are the logic, the transmitter, um and the receiver, okay,", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "and the power are things that you won't have to care about.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Um and those are things that based on what your user interface requires then we'll add more functionality to it.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah. Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Um there might be one other consideration which would be that the the transmission between the remote control and the T_V_ for example.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Okay, um are we gonna restrict ourselves to using the traditional technologies of infra-red thing?", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Because that's something you need to actually be physically be pointing to. Right.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Well well a worry that was was expressed in the new requirements was that if we made this too complex it would e it would effect um how long how long it took us to get this to market, so I th suspect it might be a good idea just to restrict our kind of our creative influence on this on the user interface and not worry so much about uh how we transmit it", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yep.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "um because I mean it it's tried and tested intra-red, so we could stay with tha", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "There might be one other problem with the transmission, um in particular right now, since we're talking about voice recognition. Um if somebody's gonna h talk to the device, you ideally want them to hold it to them.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "I it.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Oh, yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "you may not require that,", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "but you know, um it's it's", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "it's something very natural, I guess, you know, to hold it, to signal to the user,", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah, mm-hmm..", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "and push a button maybe to start s talking about it.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Then you need to send the signal out, so because if you're using infra-red, the line of sight um say the T_V_'s at that chair, and I'm standing in front of here and the transmitter is here, it blocks it.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Mm. Mm. Yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "So in that sense, there's not really a restriction", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "but it's something which you may have to think about later on in the process.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Not so much further down.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "And um just a clarification before we finish this. Uh does c is our controller is it have the option of being um on a standard uh frequency as all of the other equipment, so that the one controller can control several pieces of equipment?", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "There's there's not much specific specific information,", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "W", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "but I think that um one indication of infra-red mean that you're just targeting traditional devices. Because infra-red is something which everybody has.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah. W Well well we've um.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "In the new requirement spec they said just to focus on the T_V_,", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Just to T_V_, okay.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "so that's what we should do for now I think. Something I was wondering about was the power.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Um, is it worth considering like having like a charging unit as opposed to just regular batteries? I mean is that something we really want to go into, do you think,", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "There's a there's.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "or should we just consider running on regular batteries?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Okay, from from a from a component point of view there's added complexity, and you add cost to it,", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Uh-huh. Uh-huh.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "um and then there's probably the fact that you need another physical component. You need a docking cradle, for example, for you to put it in to charge.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm. Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Or you need to get the user to plug it in.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Okay,", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Um and most users are very f use already used to the idea of buying batteries and putting it into the controller.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "so Yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "But unless the controller's gonna consume a lot of batteries, like he's gonna run through like twenty batteries a month,", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "then I don't think rechargeable is something we should you know, we really need to care about.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Okay, so just stick to to regular.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Um.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Okay. Um, right. So basically the um I'm just gonna just recap uh what I said at the start, was that um the the whole point of this meeting was to f absolutely finalise who we're gonna aim this at,", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "and what exactly the product's gonna do.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "So um just to recap on.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Are we all happy about the idea of um aiming the product at um the fifteen to thirty five bracket? Um and also the funct the the actual functions of what it's gonna do.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah, that's good.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Do you wanna recap on that, Craig?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Um.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "I think we just say that it was gonna be the the most basic stuff possible. Um on off, up and down channels, up and down volume and uh skip to a channel.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Okay, right.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Ta.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "And is it going to include any of the uh the more advanced features, or are we gonna eliminate those?", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Um I think we include mute, but apart from that um I think we just we'll go for the simpleness.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Okay, I think", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Okay. R is it is it is it s is it not an option still that we include some things just as a sort of under like sort of under a door or some.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah, it's as optional functions.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "'Cause what what I'm I'd be a bit worried about is if someone was h had previously developed habits of expecting to control surround sound or this and that with their controller and then and then they, you know, w they get ours and w it's doesn't have that.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Okay..", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "I dunno if that'd be a problem.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Another thing that you were saying about categorising the controls? Um maybe I could suggest we we break them down into three simple categories.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "One would be audio controls,", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah. Okay.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "one would be video controls, and the other one would be a device.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Um this may not map very well to advanced functionality especially, but I think that um from a manufacturer's point of view, from a person designing the device,", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "but I think from a point of view of a person using the device, you know a T_V_ is something they see and something they hear,", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "um it's something they do other things to like turn it on and turn it off. I mean like so what we could have is like three buckets, right, where we could throw things into,", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "like if we want this feature, let's throw it into there, and then from there decide whether it's basic, or it's non-basic.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "I mean it might help with the visualisation.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "'Kay, okay. Like that. Okay.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "And it would actually help with the component build as well.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Okay, right.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm okay, great.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Um, okay well I gotta kind of got five minutes to wrap up now. Um next thing we're doing is having lunch. Whoohoo. Um and then we're gonna have thirty minutes of working on the next stage. Um so I'll be putting the minutes of this uh this meeting into the project documents folder. Um so uh I guess just to just to confirm that we know what we're doing in the next well in the thirty minutes after lunch anyway,", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm. Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "um for uh our Industrial Designer, you're gonna be thinking about the components concept. Um User Interface Designer gonna be thinking about our user interface, and marketing you're gonna be thinking about trend watching. Um and you'll all get specific instructions as well. So um I dunno, just just to to ask now if you've got anything else you've thought about while we've been talking.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Um, do you wanna start with David. Anything else to say at all?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm no, not really.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "No, okay. Andrew?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Um yeah, just I just wanted to ask then before we wrap up, shall we agree for sake of um sort of clarity and when we when we r resume that we'll u use this idea David's proposed, where we think of these three sort of buckets and anything anything we discuss about them is sort of, okay, we're talking about this.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah, yeah I think that's definitely a good idea.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Uh-huh.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Shall we do that, then?", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Okay, great.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Um just about the three buckets, um what would go in the the device functions one?", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Um things like on off. Because they don't have anything to do with what you see. I me mean in terms of picture and the entertainment value,", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "you know, um so um.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Um.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "And and channel.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "And channel. Because the on off also goes, you know, like on off like power, not on off sound.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Not on off video. Although you don't turn off the video on your T_V_, but um you might wanna you know turn off the sound,", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "say you wanna pick up the phone, there's a mute button, right, so you you have you have a choice of putting it on to um others or a device.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Device is basically anything which we can't categorise, right. We put it out.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Okay, so you're gonna have um audio which is gonna be like you know your bass settings and actual volume hi", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah, anything to do with what you hear, right. You you put that into audio.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "And then video is anything that you can see.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Okay, and then visual.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Okay, so brightness, contrast, things like that,", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Um. Yep.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "and then just actual device things,", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Colour, yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yep.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "like what channel you're watching, turning on an off,", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Sure. Sure.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yep.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "stuff like that.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Okay, um.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "And then k I suppose quite likely what would happen is in the d device category there might be some which are just like the habitual standard and then others which are maybe a bit more.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Like random which we have no other place to put, but we need it somewhere there.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah. Sure, okay. Okay.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Um even even if it doesn't map very clearly what happens is that people at least have some in their mind.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "It's easy to use, I think that's one thing that um and I guess from the component point of view it's easy to build as well", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "'cause things are like fixed..", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Um so yeah, I guess just things to think about are you know like the fact it's gotta look good,", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "because of who we're we're, you know, targeting this at. Um something maybe kind of quirky in design maybe. 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They're they're sort of practical.", "speakerName": "Postdoc F" }, { "text": "I thought somebody had.", "speakerName": "Professor G" }, { "text": "I don't know if you're.", "speakerName": "Postdoc F" }, { "text": "Yeah, that's right.", "speakerName": "Professor G" }, { "text": "if if that's too practical for what we're focused on.", "speakerName": "Postdoc F" }, { "text": "I mean, we don't want anything too practical.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "Yeah, we only want th useless things.", "speakerName": "Professor G" }, { "text": "Yeah, that would be.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "Yeah. No, why don't we talk about practical things?", "speakerName": "Professor G" }, { "text": "OK.", "speakerName": "Postdoc F" }, { "text": "Sure.", "speakerName": "Professor G" }, { "text": "Well, um, I can give you an update on the transcription effort.", "speakerName": "Postdoc F" }, { "text": "Great.", "speakerName": "Professor G" }, { "text": "Uh, maybe raise the issue of microphone, uh, um procedures with reference to the cleanliness of the recordings.", "speakerName": "Postdoc F" }, { "text": "OK, transcription, uh, microphone issues.", "speakerName": "Professor G" }, { "text": "And then maybe ask, th uh, these guys. The we have great great, uh, p steps forward in terms of the nonspeech - speech pre - segmenting of the signal.", "speakerName": "Postdoc F" }, { "text": "OK.", "speakerName": "Professor G" }, { "text": "Well, we have steps forward.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "Well, it's a it's a big improvement.", "speakerName": "Postdoc F" }, { "text": "I would prefer this.", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "Yes. Yeah, well. OK. Uh.", "speakerName": "Professor G" }, { "text": "We talk about the the results of", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "You have some Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor G" }, { "text": "I have a little bit of IRAM stuff", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "OK.", "speakerName": "Professor G" }, { "text": "use.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "but I'm not sure if that's of general interest or not.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "Uh, bigram?", "speakerName": "Professor G" }, { "text": "IRAM.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "IRAM.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "IRAM.", "speakerName": "Professor G" }, { "text": "IRAM, bigram,", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "Well, m maybe.", "speakerName": "Professor G" }, { "text": "Bi - Bigram.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "you know.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "Yeah, let's let's see where we are at three - thirty.", "speakerName": "Professor G" }, { "text": "Hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Um.", "speakerName": "Professor G" }, { "text": "Since, uh since I have to leave as usual at three - thirty, can we do the interesting stuff first?", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "I beg your pardon?", "speakerName": "Postdoc F" }, { "text": "Well.", "speakerName": "Professor G" }, { "text": "Which is?", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "What's the interesting stuff?", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "I beg your pardon?", "speakerName": "Postdoc F" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Yeah. Th - now you get to tell us what's the interesting part.", "speakerName": "Professor G" }, { "text": "Please specify.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "But.", "speakerName": "Professor G" }, { "text": "Well, uh, I guess the work that's been done on segmentation would be most.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "I think that would be a good thing to start with.", "speakerName": "Postdoc F" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "OK. Um, and, um, the other thing, uh, which I'll just say very briefly that maybe relates to that a little bit, which is that, um, uh, one of the suggestions that came up in a brief meeting I had the other day when I was in Spain with, uh, Manolo Pardo and Javier, uh, Ferreiros, who was here before, was, um, why not start with what they had before but add in the non - silence boundaries. So, in what Javier did before when they were doing, um h he was looking for, uh, speaker change points.", "speakerName": "Professor G" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Um. As a simplification, he originally did this only using silence as, uh, a putative, uh, speaker change point.", "speakerName": "Professor G" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "And, uh, he did not, say, look at points where you were changing broad sp uh, phonetic class, for instance. And for Broadcast News, that was fine. Here obviously it's not.", "speakerName": "Professor G" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "And, um, so one of the things that they were pushing in d in discussing with me is, um, w why are you spending so much time, uh, on the, uh, feature issue, uh, when perhaps if you sort of deal with what you were using before", "speakerName": "Professor G" }, { "text": "Uh - huh.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "and then just broadened it a bit, instead of just ta using silence as putative change point also?", "speakerName": "Professor G" }, { "text": "Nnn, yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "So then you've got you already have the super - structure with Gaussians and H - you know, simple H M Ms and so forth. And you you might So there was a there was a little bit of a a a a difference of opinion because I I thought that it was it's interesting to look at what features are useful.", "speakerName": "Professor G" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "But, uh, on the other hand I saw that the they had a good point that, uh, if we had something that worked for many cases before, maybe starting from there a little bit Because ultimately we're gonna end up with some s su kind of structure like that,", "speakerName": "Professor G" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "where you have some kind of simple HMM and you're testing the hypothesis that, uh, there is a change.", "speakerName": "Professor G" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "So so anyway, I just reporting that.", "speakerName": "Professor G" }, { "text": "OK.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "But, uh, uh So. Yeah, why don't we do the speech - nonspeech discussion?", "speakerName": "Professor G" }, { "text": "Yeah. Do I I hear you you didn't.", "speakerName": "Postdoc F" }, { "text": "Speech - nonspeech? OK.", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "Uh - huh. Yeah.", "speakerName": "Postdoc F" }, { "text": "Um, so, uh, what we basically did so far was using the mixed file to to detect s speech or nonspeech portions in that.", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Professor G" }, { "text": "And what I did so far is I just used our old Munich system, which is an HMM - ba based system with Gaussian mixtures for s speech and nonspeech. And it was a system which used only one Gaussian for silence and one Gaussian for speech. And now I added, uh, multi - mixture possibility for for speech and nonspeech.", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm. Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Professor G" }, { "text": "And I did some training on on one dialogue, which was transcribed by Yeah. We we did a nons s speech - nonspeech transcription.", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "Jose.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Adam, Dave, and I, we did, for that dialogue and I trained it on that. And I did some pre - segmentations for for Jane. And I'm not sure how good they are or what what the transcribers say. They they can use it or?", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "Uh, they they think it's a terrific improvement. And, um, it real it just makes a a world of difference.", "speakerName": "Postdoc F" }, { "text": "Hmm.", "speakerName": "Professor G" }, { "text": "And, um, y you also did some something in addition which was, um, for those in which there was, uh, quiet speakers in the mix.", "speakerName": "Postdoc F" }, { "text": "Yeah. Uh, yeah. That that was one one one thing, uh, why I added more mixtures for for the speech. So I saw that there were loud loudly speaking speakers and quietly speaking speakers.", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Professor G" }, { "text": "And so I did two mixtures, one for the loud speakers and one for the quiet speakers.", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "And did you hand - label who was loud and who was quiet, or did you just?", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "I did that for for five minutes of one dialogue", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "and that was enough to to train the system.", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "W What?", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "And so it it adapts, uh, on while running. So.", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "What kind of, uh, front - end processing did you do?", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Hopefully.", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "OK.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "It's just our our old Munich, uh, loudness - based spectrum on mel scale twenty twenty critical bands and then loudness.", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "And four additional features, which is energy, loudness, modified loudness, and zero crossing rate. So it's twenty - four twenty - four features.", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "Mmm.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Professor G" }, { "text": "And you also provided me with several different versions,", "speakerName": "Postdoc F" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "which I compared.", "speakerName": "Postdoc F" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "And so you change parameters. What do you wanna say something about the parameters that you change?", "speakerName": "Postdoc F" }, { "text": "Yeah. You can specify the minimum length of speech or and silence portions which you want. And so I did some some modifications in those parameters, basically changing the minimum minimum length for s for silence to have, er to have, um yeah to have more or less, uh, silence portions in inserted. So.", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "Right. So this would work well for, uh, pauses and utterance boundaries and things like that.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Yeah. Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "But for overlap I imagine that doesn't work at all,", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "that you'll have plenty of s sections that are.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "That's it. Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm, mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Postdoc F" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "But.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "That's true. But it it saves so much time the the transcribers", "speakerName": "Postdoc F" }, { "text": "Um.", "speakerName": "Professor G" }, { "text": "Yep.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "just enormous, enormous savings. Fantastic.", "speakerName": "Postdoc F" }, { "text": "That's great. Um, just qu one quickly, uh, still on the features. So you have these twenty - four features.", "speakerName": "Professor G" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "Uh, a lot of them are spectral features. Is there a a transformation, uh, like principal components transformation or something?", "speakerName": "Professor G" }, { "text": "No.", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "Yeah. It was IS two.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "No. W w we originally we did that", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "Just.", "speakerName": "Professor G" }, { "text": "but we saw, uh, when we used it, uh, f for our close - talking microphone, which yeah, for our for our recognizer in Munich we saw that w it's it's not it's not so necessary. It it works as well f with with without, uh, a LDA or something.", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "OK. OK. No, I was j curious.", "speakerName": "Professor G" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Postdoc F" }, { "text": "Yeah, I don't think it's a big deal for this application,", "speakerName": "Professor G" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "but but Yeah, it's a.", "speakerName": "Professor G" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm. OK. But then there's another thing that also Thilo's involved with, which is, um OK, and and also Da - Dave Gelbart. So there's this this problem of and w and so we had this meeting. Th - the also Adam, before the the before you went away. Uh we, um regarding the representation of overlaps, because at present, um, because of the limitations of th the interface we're using, overlaps are, uh, not being encoded by the transcribers in as complete and, uh, detailed a way as it might be, and as might be desired I think would be desired in the corpus ultimately.", "speakerName": "Postdoc F" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Professor G" }, { "text": "So we don't have start and end points at each point where there's an overlap. We just have the the overlaps encoded in a simple bin. Well, OK. So @ @ the limits of the over of of the interface are such that we were at this meeting we were entertaining how we might either expand the the interface or find other tools which already do what would be useful. Because what would ultimately be, um, ideal in my my view and I think I mean, I had the sense that it was consensus, is that, um, a thorough - going musical score notation would be the best way to go. Because you can have multiple channels, there's a single time - line, it's very clear, flexible, and all those nice things.", "speakerName": "Postdoc F" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Professor G" }, { "text": "OK. So, um, um, I spoke I had a meeting with Dave Gelbart on on and he had, uh, excellent ideas on how the interface could be modified to to do this kind of representation. But, um, he in the meantime you were checking into the existence of already, um, existing interfaces which might already have these properties. So, do you wanna say something about that?", "speakerName": "Postdoc F" }, { "text": "Yes. Um, I talked with, uh, Munich guys from from Ludwi - Ludwig Maximilians University, who do a lot of transcribing and transliterations.", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Professor G" }, { "text": "And they basically said they have they have, uh, a tool they developed themselves and they can't give away, uh, f it's too error - prone, and had it's not supported, a a a and.", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor G" }, { "text": "But, um, Susanne Bur - Burger, who is at se CMU, he wa who was formally at in Munich and w and is now at with CMU, she said she has something which she uses to do eight channels, uh, trans transliterations, eight channels simultaneously,", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "Excuse me.", "speakerName": "Professor G" }, { "text": "but it's running under Windows.", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "Under Windows.", "speakerName": "Postdoc F" }, { "text": "So I'm not sure if if if we can use it.", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Postdoc F" }, { "text": "She said she would give it to us.", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Postdoc F" }, { "text": "It wouldn't be a problem. And I've got some some kind of manual down in my office.", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "Well, maybe we should get it and if it's good enough we'll arrange Windows machines to be available.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm. We could uh, potentially so.", "speakerName": "Postdoc F" }, { "text": "So.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "I also wanted to be sure I mean, I've I've seen the this this is called Praat, PRAAT, which I guess means spee speech in Dutch or something.", "speakerName": "Postdoc F" }, { "text": "Yep.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "Yeah, but then I'm not sure that's the right thing for us.", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "But In terms of it being Windows versus.", "speakerName": "Postdoc F" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor G" }, { "text": "No, no. Praat isn't Praat's multi - platform.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "But I'm just wondering, is?", "speakerName": "Postdoc F" }, { "text": "No. No, Praat Yeah. Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "Oh! I see.", "speakerName": "Postdoc F" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "Oh, I see. So Praat may not be.", "speakerName": "Postdoc F" }, { "text": "That's not Praat. It's called \" trans transedit \" I think.", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "It's a different one.", "speakerName": "Postdoc F" }, { "text": "The the, uh the tool from from Susanne.", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "I see. Oh, I see. OK. OK. Alright.", "speakerName": "Postdoc F" }, { "text": "The other thing, uh, to keep in mind, uh I mean, we've been very concerned to get all this rolling so that we would actually have data,", "speakerName": "Professor G" }, { "text": "Mmm, yeah.", "speakerName": "Postdoc F" }, { "text": "but, um, I think our outside sponsor is actually gonna kick in", "speakerName": "Professor G" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Postdoc F" }, { "text": "and ultimately that path will be smoothed out. So I don't know if we have a long - term need to do lots and lots of transcribing. I think we had a very quick need to get something out and we'd like to be able to do some later because just it's inter it's interesting. But as far a you know, uh, with with any luck we'll be able to wind down the larger project.", "speakerName": "Professor G" }, { "text": "Oh.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "But you s", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "What our decision was is that we'll go ahead with what we have with a not very fine time scale on the overlaps.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "Right. Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor G" }, { "text": "And and do what we can later to clean that up if we need to.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Postdoc F" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "Professor G" }, { "text": "And and I was just thinking that, um, if it were possible to bring that in, like, you know, this week, then when they're encoding the overlaps it would be nice for them to be able to specify when you know, the start points and end points of overlaps.", "speakerName": "Postdoc F" }, { "text": "Uh - huh.", "speakerName": "Professor G" }, { "text": "uh Th - they're making really quick progress.", "speakerName": "Postdoc F" }, { "text": "Yeah. That's great.", "speakerName": "Professor G" }, { "text": "And, um, so my my goal was w m my charge was to get eleven hours by the end of the month. And it'll be I'm I'm I'm clear that we'll be able to do that.", "speakerName": "Postdoc F" }, { "text": "That's great.", "speakerName": "Professor G" }, { "text": "And did you, uh, forward Morgan Brian's thing?", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor G" }, { "text": "I sent it to, um who did I send that to? I sent it to a list and I thought I sent it to the e to the local list.", "speakerName": "Postdoc F" }, { "text": "Meeting Recorder.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Oh, you did? OK. So you probably did get that.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "You saw that? So Brian did tell me that in fact what you said, that, uh that our that they are making progress and that he's going that they're going he's gonna check the f the output of the first transcription and and.", "speakerName": "Postdoc F" }, { "text": "I mean, basically it's it's all the difference in the world. I mean, basically he's he's on it now.", "speakerName": "Professor G" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "Oh, that's this is a new development.", "speakerName": "Postdoc F" }, { "text": "So so so this is so i it'll happen.", "speakerName": "Professor G" }, { "text": "OK. Super. Super. OK. Great.", "speakerName": "Postdoc F" }, { "text": "Yeah. I mean, basically it's just saying that one of our one of our best people is on it,", "speakerName": "Professor G" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Postdoc F" }, { "text": "you know, who just doesn't happen to be here anymore. Someone else pays him. So.", "speakerName": "Professor G" }, { "text": "But about the need for transcription,", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Isn't that great?", "speakerName": "Postdoc F" }, { "text": "I mean, don't we didn't we previously decide that the IBM transcripts would have to be checked anyway and possibly augmented?", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "So. Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor G" }, { "text": "Yes. That's true.", "speakerName": "Postdoc F" }, { "text": "So, I think having a good tool is worth something no matter what.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Postdoc F" }, { "text": "Yeah. S OK. That's that's a good point.", "speakerName": "Professor G" }, { "text": "Yeah, and Dave Gelbart did volunteer,", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "Good.", "speakerName": "Postdoc F" }, { "text": "and since he's not here, I'll repeat it to at least modify Transcriber, which, if we don't have something else that works, I think that's a pretty good way of going.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "Mmm.", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Postdoc F" }, { "text": "And we discussed on some methods to do it. My approach originally, and I've already hacked on it a little bit it was too slow because I was trying to display all the waveforms. But he pointed out that you don't really have to. I think that's a good point.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Postdoc F" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Professor G" }, { "text": "That if you just display the mix waveform and then have a user interface for editing the different channels, that's perfectly sufficient.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "Hmm.", "speakerName": "Professor G" }, { "text": "Yeah, exactly. And just keep those things separate. And and, um, Dan Ellis's hack already allows them to be able to display different waveforms to clarify overlaps and things,", "speakerName": "Postdoc F" }, { "text": "No. They can only display one,", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "so that's already.", "speakerName": "Postdoc F" }, { "text": "but they can listen to different ones.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "Oh, yes, but Well, uh, yes, but what I mean is that, uh, from the transcriber's perspective, uh, those two functions are separate. And Dan Ellis's hack handles the, um, choice the ability to choose different waveforms from moment to moment.", "speakerName": "Postdoc F" }, { "text": "But only to listen to, not to look at.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "Um.", "speakerName": "Postdoc F" }, { "text": "The waveform you're looking at doesn't change.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "That's true.", "speakerName": "Postdoc F" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "Yeah, but that's that's OK, cuz they're they're, you know, they're focused on the ear anyway.", "speakerName": "Postdoc F" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "And then and then", "speakerName": "Postdoc F" }, { "text": "Hmm.", "speakerName": "Professor G" }, { "text": "the hack to preserve the overlaps better would be one which creates different output files for each channel,", "speakerName": "Postdoc F" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "which then would also serve Liz's request of having, you know, a single channel, separable, uh, cleanly, easily separable,", "speakerName": "Postdoc F" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Professor G" }, { "text": "uh, transcript tied to a single channel, uh, audio.", "speakerName": "Postdoc F" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm. Have, uh, folks from NIST been in contact with you?", "speakerName": "Professor G" }, { "text": "Not directly. I'm trying to think if if I could have gotten it over a list.", "speakerName": "Postdoc F" }, { "text": "OK.", "speakerName": "Professor G" }, { "text": "I don't I don't think so.", "speakerName": "Postdoc F" }, { "text": "OK. Well, holidays may have interrupted things, cuz in in in They seem to want to get absolutely clear on standards for transcription standards and so forth with with us.", "speakerName": "Professor G" }, { "text": "Oh! This was from before December. Yeah.", "speakerName": "Postdoc F" }, { "text": "Right. Because they're they're presumably going to start recording next month.", "speakerName": "Professor G" }, { "text": "OK. OK.", "speakerName": "Postdoc F" }, { "text": "Oh, we should definitely get with them then,", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "So.", "speakerName": "Professor G" }, { "text": "and agree upon a format. Though I don't remember email on that. So was I not in the loop on that?", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "Um. Yeah, I don't think I mailed anybody. I just think I told them to contact Jane that, uh, if they had a.", "speakerName": "Professor G" }, { "text": "Oh, OK.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "That's right.", "speakerName": "Postdoc F" }, { "text": "if, uh that that, uh, as the point person on it.", "speakerName": "Professor G" }, { "text": "Yeah, I think that's right.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "But.", "speakerName": "Professor G" }, { "text": "Just, uh.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "So, yeah. Maybe I'll, uh, ping them a little bit about it to get that straight.", "speakerName": "Professor G" }, { "text": "OK. I'm keeping the conventions absolutely as simple as possible.", "speakerName": "Postdoc F" }, { "text": "Yeah. So is it cuz with any luck there'll actually be a a there'll be collections at Columbia, collections at at UW I mean Dan Dan is very interested in doing some other things,", "speakerName": "Professor G" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "Yeah. Yeah.", "speakerName": "Postdoc F" }, { "text": "Well, I think it's important both for the notation and the machine representation to be the same.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "and collections at NIST. So Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor G" }, { "text": "So.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "N there was also this, uh, email from Dan regarding the speech - non nonspeech segmentation thing.", "speakerName": "Postdoc F" }, { "text": "Yep.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "I don't know if, uh, uh, we wanna, uh and Dan Gel - and Dave Gelbart is interested in pursuing the aspect of using amplitude as a a a as a basis for the separation.", "speakerName": "Postdoc F" }, { "text": "Cross - correlation.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "Oh, yeah. He was talking he was talking I mean, uh, we he had.", "speakerName": "Professor G" }, { "text": "Cross", "speakerName": "Postdoc F" }, { "text": "Yeah, cross - correlation.", "speakerName": "Professor G" }, { "text": "Cross", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "I had mentioned this a couple times before, the c the commercial devices that do, uh, uh, voice, uh you know, active miking,", "speakerName": "Professor G" }, { "text": "Uh - huh.", "speakerName": "Postdoc F" }, { "text": "basically look at the amp at the energy at each of the mikes. And and you basically compare the energy here to some function of all of the mikes.", "speakerName": "Professor G" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "OK.", "speakerName": "Postdoc F" }, { "text": "So, by doing that, you know, rather than setting any, uh, absolute threshold, you actually can do pretty good, uh, selection of who who's talking.", "speakerName": "Professor G" }, { "text": "OK.", "speakerName": "Postdoc F" }, { "text": "Uh And those those systems work very well, by the way, I mean, so people use them in panel discussions and so forth with sound reinforcement differing in in sort of,", "speakerName": "Professor G" }, { "text": "Uh - huh.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "uh and, uh, those if Boy, the guy I knew who built them, built them like twenty twenty years ago,", "speakerName": "Professor G" }, { "text": "Hmm.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "so they're it's the the techniques work pretty well.", "speakerName": "Professor G" }, { "text": "Fantastic. Cuz there is one thing that we don't have right now and that is the automatic, um, channel identifier.", "speakerName": "Postdoc F" }, { "text": "So.", "speakerName": "Professor G" }, { "text": "That that, you know, that would g help in terms of encoding of overlaps.", "speakerName": "Postdoc F" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Professor G" }, { "text": "The the transcribers would have less, uh, disentangling to do if that were available.", "speakerName": "Postdoc F" }, { "text": "Yeah. So I think, you know, basically you can look at some p you have to play around a little bit, uh, to figure out what the right statistic is,", "speakerName": "Professor G" }, { "text": "But.", "speakerName": "Postdoc F" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Postdoc F" }, { "text": "but you compare each microphone to some statistic based on the on the overall.", "speakerName": "Professor G" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "OK.", "speakerName": "Postdoc F" }, { "text": "Uh, and we also have these we have the advantage of having distant mikes too. So that, you cou yo", "speakerName": "Professor G" }, { "text": "Yeah, although the the using the close - talking I think would be much better. Wouldn't it?", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Postdoc F" }, { "text": "Um. I I don't know.", "speakerName": "Professor G" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "I just it'd be If I was actually working on it, I'd sit there and and play around with it, and and get a feeling for it. I mean, the the the, uh But, uh, you certainly wanna use the close - talking, as a at least.", "speakerName": "Professor G" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "I don't know if the other would would add some other helpful dimension or not.", "speakerName": "Professor G" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Postdoc F" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm. OK. What what are the different, uh, classes to to code, uh, the the overlap, you will use?", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Um, to code d", "speakerName": "Postdoc F" }, { "text": "What you you.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "so types of overlap?", "speakerName": "Postdoc F" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Um, so at a meeting that wasn't transcribed, we worked up a a typology.", "speakerName": "Postdoc F" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "And, um.", "speakerName": "Postdoc F" }, { "text": "Look like, uh, you t you explaining in the blackboard? The? Yeah? Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Yes, exactly. That hasn't changed. So it i the it's basically a two - tiered structure where the first one is whether the person who's interrupted continues or not. And then below that there're subcategories, uh, that have more to do with, you know, is it, uh, simply backchannel", "speakerName": "Postdoc F" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "or is it, um, someone completing someone else's thought, or is it someone in introducing a new thought.", "speakerName": "Postdoc F" }, { "text": "Right. And I hope that if we do a forced alignment with the close - talking mike, that will be enough to recover at least some of the time the time information of when the overlap occurred.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "Huh. Yeah. Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm. Well, one would.", "speakerName": "Postdoc F" }, { "text": "We hope.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Yeah. Who knows?", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "That'd be that'd be nice. I mean, I I I I've.", "speakerName": "Postdoc F" }, { "text": "So who's gonna do that? Who's gonna do forced alignment?", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Well, u uh, IBM was going to. Um.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "Oh, OK.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Oh.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "and I imagine they still plan to but but, you know, I haven't spoken with them about that recently.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "OK.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Uh - huh.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Well, uh, my suggestion now is is on all of these things to, uh, contact Brian.", "speakerName": "Professor G" }, { "text": "OK. I'll do that.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "This is wonderful to have a direct contact like that.", "speakerName": "Postdoc F" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor G" }, { "text": "uh Well, th lemme ask you this.", "speakerName": "Postdoc F" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor G" }, { "text": "It occurs to me one of my transcribers t told me today that she'll be finished with one meeting, um, by.", "speakerName": "Postdoc F" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Professor G" }, { "text": "well, she said tomorrow but then she said you know, but the, you know let's let's just, uh, say", "speakerName": "Postdoc F" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Professor G" }, { "text": "maybe the day after just to be s on the safe side. I could send Brian the, um the transcript. I know these are er, uh, I could send him that if it would be possible, or a good idea or not, to try to do a s forced alignment on what we're on the way we're encoding overlaps now.", "speakerName": "Postdoc F" }, { "text": "Well, just talk to him about it.", "speakerName": "Professor G" }, { "text": "Yep.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "Good.", "speakerName": "Postdoc F" }, { "text": "I mean, you know, basically he's he just studies, he's a colleague, a friend, and,", "speakerName": "Professor G" }, { "text": "Yeah!", "speakerName": "Postdoc F" }, { "text": "uh, they and and, you know, the the organization always did wanna help us.", "speakerName": "Professor G" }, { "text": "Super. Super.", "speakerName": "Postdoc F" }, { "text": "It was just a question of getting, you know, the right people connected in, who had the time.", "speakerName": "Professor G" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "Yeah, yeah.", "speakerName": "Postdoc F" }, { "text": "So, um, eh.", "speakerName": "Professor G" }, { "text": "Is he on the mailing list? The Meeting Recorder mailing li?", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "Oh!", "speakerName": "Postdoc F" }, { "text": "We should add him.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "Yeah. I I I don't know for sure.", "speakerName": "Postdoc F" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor G" }, { "text": "Did something happen, Morgan, that he got put on this, or was he already on it,", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Add him.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "or?", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "No, I, eh, eh, p It it oc I h it's Yeah, something happened. I don't know what.", "speakerName": "Professor G" }, { "text": "He asked for more work.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Huh.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "But he's on it now.", "speakerName": "Professor G" }, { "text": "That would be like that'd be like him. He's great.", "speakerName": "Postdoc F" }, { "text": "Right. So, uh, where are we? Maybe, uh, uh, brief Well, let's why don't we talk about microphone issues?", "speakerName": "Professor G" }, { "text": "Yeah. That'd be great.", "speakerName": "Postdoc F" }, { "text": "That was that was a.", "speakerName": "Professor G" }, { "text": "Um, so one thing is that I did look on Sony's for a replacement for the mikes for the head m head - worn ones cuz they're so uncomfortable. But I think I need someone who knows more about mikes than I do, because I couldn't find a single other model that seemed like it would fit the connector, which seems really unlikely to me. Does anyone, like, know stores or know about mikes who who would know the right questions to ask?", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "Oh, I probably would. I mean, my knowledge is twenty years out of date but some of it's still the same.", "speakerName": "Professor G" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "So Uh, so maybe we c we can take a look at that.", "speakerName": "Professor G" }, { "text": "You couldn't you couldn't find the right connector to go into these things?", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Yep. When I looked, i they listed one microphone and that's it", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "Huh!", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "as having that type of connector. But my guess is that Sony maybe uses a different number for their connector than everyone else does. And and so.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm. Well, let's look at it together", "speakerName": "Professor G" }, { "text": "it seems it seems really unlikely to me that there's only one.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "and.", "speakerName": "Professor G" }, { "text": "And there's no adaptor for it?", "speakerName": "Postdoc F" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "Seems like there'd be a OK.", "speakerName": "Postdoc F" }, { "text": "As I said, who knows?", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Postdoc F" }, { "text": "Who who are we buying these from?", "speakerName": "Professor G" }, { "text": "Um,", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "That'd be", "speakerName": "Professor G" }, { "text": "I have it downstairs. I don't remember off the top of my head.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "Yeah. OK. Yeah. We we can try and look at that together.", "speakerName": "Professor G" }, { "text": "And then, uh just in terms of how you wear them I mean, I had thought about this before. I mean, when when when you use a product like DragonDictate, they have a very extensive description about how to wear the microphone and so on.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "Oh.", "speakerName": "Postdoc F" }, { "text": "But I felt that in a real situation we were very seldom gonna get people to really do it and maybe it wasn't worth concentrating on. But.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "Well, I think that that's that's a good back - off position. That's what I was saying earlier, th that, you know, we are gonna get some recordings that are imperfect and, hey, that's life. But I I think that it it doesn't hurt, uh, the naturalness of the situation to try to have people wear the microphones properly, if possible,", "speakerName": "Professor G" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "because, um, the natural situation is really what we have with the microphones on the table.", "speakerName": "Professor G" }, { "text": "Oh. That's true.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "I mean, I think, you know, in the target applications that we're talking about, people aren't gonna be wearing head - mounted mikes anyway.", "speakerName": "Professor G" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "So this is just for u these head - mounted mikes are just for use with research.", "speakerName": "Professor G" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "And, uh, it's gonna make You know, if if An - Andreas plays around with language modeling, he's not gonna be m wanna be messed up by people breathing into the microphone.", "speakerName": "Professor G" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "So it's it's, uh, uh.", "speakerName": "Professor G" }, { "text": "Well, I'll dig through the documentation to DragonDictate and ste s see if they still have the little form.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "But it does happen.", "speakerName": "Professor G" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Right? I mean, and any.", "speakerName": "Professor G" }, { "text": "It's interesting, uh, I talked to some IBM guys, uh, last January, I think, I was there. And so people who were working on the on their ViaVoice dictation product.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor G" }, { "text": "And they said, uh, the breathing is really a a terrible problem for them, to to not recognize breathing as speech.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Wow.", "speakerName": "Postdoc F" }, { "text": "So, anything to reduce breathing is is is a good thing.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor G" }, { "text": "Well, that's the It seemed to me when I was using Dragon that it was really microphone placement helped an in, uh an enormous amount.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "So you want it enough to the side so that when you exhale through your nose, it doesn't the wind doesn't hit the mike.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "Right. Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "And then, uh Everyone's adjusting their microphones, of course. And then just close enough so that you get good volume. So you know, wearing it right about here seems to be about the right way to do it.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor G" }, { "text": "Is Uh - huh.", "speakerName": "Postdoc F" }, { "text": "I remember when I was when I I I I used, uh, um, a prominent laboratory's, uh, uh, speech recognizer about, uh This was, boy, this was a while ago, this was about twelve twelve years ago or something. And, um, they were they were perturbed with me because I was breathing in instead of breathing out. And they had models for they they had Markov models for br breathing out but they didn't have them for breathing in.", "speakerName": "Professor G" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Uh.", "speakerName": "Professor G" }, { "text": "That's interesting. Well, what I wondered is whether it's possible to have to maybe use the display at the beginning", "speakerName": "Postdoc F" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "to be able to to judge how how correctly I mean, have someone do some routine whatever, and and then see if when they're breathing it's showing.", "speakerName": "Postdoc F" }, { "text": "I mean, when when it's on, you can see it.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "I don't know if the if it's.", "speakerName": "Postdoc F" }, { "text": "I.", "speakerName": "Professor G" }, { "text": "You can definitely see it.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "Can you see the breathing?", "speakerName": "Postdoc F" }, { "text": "Absolutely.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "Cuz I.", "speakerName": "Postdoc F" }, { "text": "Absolutely.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "Oh.", "speakerName": "Postdoc F" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor G" }, { "text": "And so, you know, I've I've sat here and watched sometimes the breathing,", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "I", "speakerName": "Professor G" }, { "text": "and the bar going up and down, and I'm thinking, I could say something, but", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "I mean, I think.", "speakerName": "Professor G" }, { "text": "I don't want to make people self - conscious. Stop breathing!", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "It it's going to be imperfect.", "speakerName": "Professor G" }, { "text": "Yeah. Uh - huh.", "speakerName": "Postdoc F" }, { "text": "You're not gonna get it perfect. And you can do some, uh, you know, first - order thing about it, which is to have people move it, uh, uh, a away from being just directly in front of the middle", "speakerName": "Professor G" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Good.", "speakerName": "Postdoc F" }, { "text": "but not too far away.", "speakerName": "Professor G" }, { "text": "Yeah, i", "speakerName": "Postdoc F" }, { "text": "And then, you know, I think there's not much Because you can't al you know, interfere w you can't fine tune the meeting that much, I think.", "speakerName": "Professor G" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "It's sort of.", "speakerName": "Professor G" }, { "text": "That's true. It just seems like i if something l simple like that can be tweaked and the quality goes, you know, uh, dramatically up, then it might be worth doing.", "speakerName": "Postdoc F" }, { "text": "Yep. And then also the position of the mike also. If it's more directly, you'll get better volume. So so, like, yours is pretty far down below your mouth. Yeah.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "But Mm - hmm. My my feedback from the transcribers is he is always close to crystal clear and and just fan fantastic to.", "speakerName": "Postdoc F" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "Mmm, yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Professor G" }, { "text": "I don't know why that is.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "Well, I mean, you Yeah, of course. You're you're also uh, your volume is is greater. But but still, I mean, they they say.", "speakerName": "Postdoc F" }, { "text": "I've been eating a lot.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "I it makes their their job extremely easy.", "speakerName": "Postdoc F" }, { "text": "Uh.", "speakerName": "Professor G" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Postdoc F" }, { "text": "And then there's mass.", "speakerName": "Professor G" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Postdoc F" }, { "text": "Anyway.", "speakerName": "Professor G" }, { "text": "I could say something about about the Well, I don't know what you wanna do. Yeah.", "speakerName": "Postdoc F" }, { "text": "About what?", "speakerName": "Professor G" }, { "text": "About the transcribers or anything or? I don't know.", "speakerName": "Postdoc F" }, { "text": "Well, the other.", "speakerName": "Professor G" }, { "text": "But, uh, just to to, um.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "why don't we do that?", "speakerName": "Professor G" }, { "text": "One more remark, uh, concerning the SRI recognizer. Um. It is useful to transcribe and then ultimately train models for things like breath, and also laughter is very, very frequent and important to to model.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Professor G" }, { "text": "So,", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "So,", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "if you can in your transcripts mark.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "mark them?", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "mark very audible breaths and laughter especially,", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Mmm.", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "um.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "They are.", "speakerName": "Postdoc F" }, { "text": "OK.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "They're putting Eh, so in curly brackets they put \" inhale \" or \" breath \".", "speakerName": "Postdoc F" }, { "text": "Oh, great.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "It they and then in curly brackets they say \" laughter \". Now they're they're not being awfully precise, uh, m So they're two types of laughter that are not being distinguished.", "speakerName": "Postdoc F" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "One is when sometimes s someone will start laughing when they're in the middle of a sentence.", "speakerName": "Postdoc F" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "And and then the other one is when they finish the sentence and then they laugh. So, um, I I did s I did some double checking to look through I mean, you'd need to have extra e extra complications, like time tags indicating the beginning and ending of of the laughing through the utterance.", "speakerName": "Postdoc F" }, { "text": "It's not so I don't think it's, um.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "And that and what they're doing is in both cases just saying \" curly brackets laughing \" a after the unit.", "speakerName": "Postdoc F" }, { "text": "As as long as there is an indication that there was laughter somewhere between two words I think that's sufficient,", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "Good. Oh!", "speakerName": "Postdoc F" }, { "text": "Against they could do forced alignment.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "OK.", "speakerName": "Postdoc F" }, { "text": "because actually the recognition of laughter once you kn um you know, is pretty good.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "So as long as you can stick a you know, a t a tag in there that that indicates that there was laughter,", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Oh, I didn't know that.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "that would probably be, uh, sufficient to train models.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "OK.", "speakerName": "Postdoc F" }, { "text": "That would be a really interesting prosodic feature,", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "Then.", "speakerName": "Postdoc F" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "And let me ask y and I gotta ask you one thing about that.", "speakerName": "Postdoc F" }, { "text": "when.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "Hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "So, um, if they laugh between two words, you you'd get it in between the two words.", "speakerName": "Postdoc F" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm. Right.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "But if they laugh across three or four words you you get it after those four words. Does that matter?", "speakerName": "Postdoc F" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Well, the thing that you is hard to deal with is whe when they speak while laughing. Um, and that's, uh I don't think that we can do very well with that.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "So.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "But, um, that's not as frequent as just laughing between speaking,", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "OK.", "speakerName": "Postdoc F" }, { "text": "So are do you treat breath and laughter as phonetically, or as word models, or what?", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "so.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Uh is it?", "speakerName": "Professor G" }, { "text": "Huh. I I think it's frequent in in the meeting.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "I think he's right. Yeah.", "speakerName": "Postdoc F" }, { "text": "We tried both. Uh, currently, um, we use special words. There was a there's actually a word for uh, it's not just breathing but all kinds of mouth.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm. Mouth stuff?", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "uh, mouth mouth stuff. And then laughter is a is a special word.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "How would we do that with the hybrid system?", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "Same thing.", "speakerName": "Professor G" }, { "text": "So train a phone in the neural net?", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "Same thing? Yeah. Yeah. You ha Oh. And each of these words has a dedicated phone.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "No.", "speakerName": "Professor G" }, { "text": "Oh, it does?", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "So the so the the mouth noise, uh, word has just a single phone, um, that is for that.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Right. So in the hybrid system we could train the net with a laughter phone and a breath sound phone.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor G" }, { "text": "Yeah. Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "I mean, it's it's it's always the same thing.", "speakerName": "Professor G" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Postdoc F" }, { "text": "Right? I mean, you could you could say well, let we now think that laughter should have three sub sub sub - units in the the three states, uh different states.", "speakerName": "Professor G" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "And then you would have three I mean, you know, eh, eh, it's u", "speakerName": "Professor G" }, { "text": "Do whatever you want.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "And the the pronun the pronunciations the pronunciations are l are somewhat non - standard.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Yeah, yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor G" }, { "text": "No.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "They actually are uh, it's just a single, s uh, you know, a single phone in the pronunciation, but it has a self - loop on it, so it can.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "To go on forever?", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "r can go on forever.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "And how do you handle it in the language model?", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "It's just a it's just a word.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "It's just a word in the language model.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "We train it like any other word.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Cool.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "Yeah. We also tried, um, absorbing these uh, both laughter and and actually also noise, and, um.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Yes. OK. Anyway. We also tried absorbing that into the pause model I mean, the the the model that that matches the stuff between words.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Professor G" }, { "text": "And, um, it didn't work as well. So.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Huh. OK.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Postdoc F" }, { "text": "Can you hand me your digit form?", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "Sorry.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "I just wanna mark that you did not read digits.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "OK. Say hi for me.", "speakerName": "Professor G" }, { "text": "Good. You you did get me to thinking about I I'm not really sure which is more frequent, whether f f laughing I think it may be an individual thing. Some people are more prone to laughing when they're speaking.", "speakerName": "Postdoc F" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor G" }, { "text": "I was noticing that with Dan in the one that we, uh we hand tran hand - segmented,", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "Yeah. I think.", "speakerName": "Professor G" }, { "text": "But I can't.", "speakerName": "Postdoc F" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "that th he has these little chuckles as he talks.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "Yeah. OK.", "speakerName": "Postdoc F" }, { "text": "I'm sure it's very individual. And and one thing that c that we're not doing, of course, is we're not claiming to, uh, get be getting a representation of mankind in these recordings. We have this very, very tiny sample of of.", "speakerName": "Professor G" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Postdoc F" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Speech researchers?", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "Uh, yeah. And Yeah, r right.", "speakerName": "Professor G" }, { "text": "Speech research.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "So, uh, who knows. Uh Yeah. Why don why don't we just since we're on this vein, why don't we just continue with, uh, what you were gonna say about the transcriptions", "speakerName": "Professor G" }, { "text": "OK.", "speakerName": "Postdoc F" }, { "text": "and?", "speakerName": "Professor G" }, { "text": "Um, um, the I I'm really very for I'm extremely fortunate with the people who, uh, applied and who are transcribing for us. They are, um, um, uh really perceptive and very, um and I'm not just saying that cuz they might be hearing this.", "speakerName": "Postdoc F" }, { "text": "Cuz they're gonna be transcribing it in a few days.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "No, they're super. They're the they very quick.", "speakerName": "Postdoc F" }, { "text": "OK. Turn the mikes off and let's talk.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Yeah, I know. I am I'm serious. They're just super. So I, um, e you know, I I brought them in and, um, trained them in pairs because I think people can raise questions.", "speakerName": "Postdoc F" }, { "text": "That's a good idea.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "you know, i i the they think about different things and they think of different and um, I trained them to, uh, f on about a minute or two of the one that was already transcribed. This also gives me a sense of You know, I can I can use that later, with reference to inter - coder reliability kind of issues. But the main thing was to get them used to the conventions and, you know, the idea of the th th the size of the unit versus how long it takes to play it back so these th sort of calibration issues. And then, um, I just set them loose and they're they all have e a already background in using computers. They're, um they're trained in linguistics.", "speakerName": "Postdoc F" }, { "text": "Good. Oh, no. Is that good or bad?", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "They got.", "speakerName": "Postdoc F" }, { "text": "Uh - huh.", "speakerName": "Professor G" }, { "text": "Well, they they're very perce they'll So one of them said \" well, you know, he really said \" n \", not really \" and \",", "speakerName": "Postdoc F" }, { "text": "Yeah. Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "so what what should I do with that? \"", "speakerName": "Postdoc F" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "And I said, \" well for our purposes,", "speakerName": "Postdoc F" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor G" }, { "text": "I do have a convention. If it's an a noncanonical p \" That one, I think we you know, with Eric's work, I sort of figure we we can just treat that as a variant. But I told them if if there's an obvious speech error, uh, like I said in one thing,", "speakerName": "Postdoc F" }, { "text": "OK. Yes.", "speakerName": "Professor G" }, { "text": "and I gave my my example, like I said, \" microfon \" in instead of \" microphone \". Didn't bother I knew it when I said it. I remember s thinking \" oh, that's not correctly pronounced \". But it but I thought it's not worth fixing cuz often when you're speaking everybody knows what what you mean.", "speakerName": "Postdoc F" }, { "text": "You'll self - repair. Yeah.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "But I have a convention that if it's obviously a noncanonical pronunciation a speech error with you know, wi within the realm of resolution that you can tell in this native English American English speaker, you know that I didn't mean to say \" microfon. \" Then you'd put a little tick at the beginning of the word,", "speakerName": "Postdoc F" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor G" }, { "text": "and that just signals that, um, this is not standard, and then in curly brackets \" pron error \". And, um, and other than that, it's w word level. But, you know, the fact that they noticed, you know, the \" nnn \". \" He said \" nnn \", not \" and \". What shall I do with that? \" I mean, they're very perceptive. And and s several of them are trained in IPA. C they really could do phonetic transcription if if we wanted them to.", "speakerName": "Postdoc F" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm. Right. Well Well, you know, it might be something we'd wanna do with some, uh, s small subset of the whole thing.", "speakerName": "Professor G" }, { "text": "Hmm. Where were they when we needed them?", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "I think.", "speakerName": "Postdoc F" }, { "text": "We certainly wouldn't wanna do it with everything.", "speakerName": "Professor G" }, { "text": "And I'm also thinking these people are a terrific pool. I mean, if, uh so I I told them that, um, we don't know if this will continue past the end of the month", "speakerName": "Postdoc F" }, { "text": "Uh - huh.", "speakerName": "Professor G" }, { "text": "and I also m I think they know that the data p source is limited and I may not be able to keep them employed till the end of the month even, although I hope to.", "speakerName": "Postdoc F" }, { "text": "The other thing we could do, actually, uh, is, uh, use them for a more detailed analysis of the overlaps.", "speakerName": "Professor G" }, { "text": "And Oh, that'd be so super. They would be so s so terrific.", "speakerName": "Postdoc F" }, { "text": "I mean, this was something that we were talking about.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "Right?", "speakerName": "Professor G" }, { "text": "We could get a very detailed overlap if they were willing to transcribe each meeting four or five times. Right? One for each participant. So they could by hand.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "Well, that's one way to do it.", "speakerName": "Professor G" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "But I've been saying the other thing is just go through it for the overlaps.", "speakerName": "Professor G" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm, that's right.", "speakerName": "Postdoc F" }, { "text": "Right?", "speakerName": "Professor G" }, { "text": "And with the right in interface.", "speakerName": "Postdoc F" }, { "text": "Given that y and and do so instead of doing phonetic, uh, uh, transcription for the whole thing,", "speakerName": "Professor G" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "which we know from the Steve's experience with the Switchboard transcription is, you know, very, very time - consuming. And and you know, it took them I don't know how many months to do to get four hours. And so that hasn't been really our focus. Uh, we can consider it. But, I mean, the other thing is since we've been spending so much time thinking about overlaps is is maybe get a much more detailed analysis of the overlaps.", "speakerName": "Professor G" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Postdoc F" }, { "text": "But anyway, I'm I'm open to c our consideration.", "speakerName": "Professor G" }, { "text": "That'd be great.", "speakerName": "Postdoc F" }, { "text": "Hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "I I don't wanna say that by fiat.", "speakerName": "Professor G" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Postdoc F" }, { "text": "I'm open to every consideration of what are some other kinds of detailed analysis that would be most useful.", "speakerName": "Professor G" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Postdoc F" }, { "text": "And, uh, uh,", "speakerName": "Professor G" }, { "text": "Hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "I I I think this year we we actually, uh, can do it.", "speakerName": "Professor G" }, { "text": "Oh, wonderful.", "speakerName": "Postdoc F" }, { "text": "It's a we have we have due to @ @ variations in funding we have we seem to be doing, uh, very well on m money for this this year, and next year we may have have much less.", "speakerName": "Professor G" }, { "text": "Is you mean two thousand one?", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "So I don't wanna hire a.", "speakerName": "Professor G" }, { "text": "Calendar year or?", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "Uh, I mean, calendar year two thousand one.", "speakerName": "Professor G" }, { "text": "OK.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "Yeah. So it's uh, it's we don't wanna hire a bunch of people, a long - term staff,", "speakerName": "Professor G" }, { "text": "Full - time. Yeah.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm. Yeah.", "speakerName": "Postdoc F" }, { "text": "because the the funding that we've gotten is sort of a big chunk for this year. But having temporary people doing some specific thing that we need is actually a perfect match to that kind of, uh, funding.", "speakerName": "Professor G" }, { "text": "Wonderful.", "speakerName": "Postdoc F" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "And then school will start in in the sixt on the sixteenth.", "speakerName": "Postdoc F" }, { "text": "So.", "speakerName": "Professor G" }, { "text": "Some of them will have to cut back their hours at that point.", "speakerName": "Postdoc F" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor G" }, { "text": "Are they working full - time now, or?", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "But Some of them are.", "speakerName": "Postdoc F" }, { "text": "Wow.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "Yeah. Well, why do I wouldn't say forty - hour weeks. No. But what I mean is Oh, I shouldn't say it that way because that does sound like forty - hour weeks. No. I th I I would say they're probably they don't have o they don't have other things that are taking away their time.", "speakerName": "Postdoc F" }, { "text": "I don't see how someone could do forty hours a week on transcription.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "Hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "But it's you can't.", "speakerName": "Postdoc F" }, { "text": "Yeah. Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor G" }, { "text": "No. You're right. It's i it would be too taxing. But, um, they're putting in a lot of.", "speakerName": "Postdoc F" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor G" }, { "text": "And and I checked them over.", "speakerName": "Postdoc F" }, { "text": "I.", "speakerName": "Professor G" }, { "text": "I I I haven't checked them all, but just spot - checking. They're fantastic.", "speakerName": "Postdoc F" }, { "text": "I think it would be.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "I remember when we were transcribing BeRP, uh, uh, uh, Ron Kay, uh, volunteered to to do some of that. And, he was the first first stuff he did was transcribing Chuck. And he's saying \" You you know, I always thought Chuck spoke really well. \"", "speakerName": "Professor G" }, { "text": "Yeah. Yeah. Well, you know, and I also thought, y Liz has this, eh, you know, and I do also, this this interest in the types of overlaps that are involved. These people would be great choices for doing coding of that type if we wanted,", "speakerName": "Postdoc F" }, { "text": "We'd have to mark them.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "or whatever. So, um.", "speakerName": "Postdoc F" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Professor G" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "I think it would also be interesting to have, uh, a couple of the meetings have more than one transcriber do,", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor G" }, { "text": "cuz I'm curious about inter - annotator agreement.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Postdoc F" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "OK. Yeah. Th - that'd be I think that's a a good idea.", "speakerName": "Postdoc F" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor G" }, { "text": "You know, there's also, the e In my mind, I think A An - Andreas was leading to this topic, the idea that, um, we haven't yet seen the the type of transcript that we get from IBM, and it may just be, you know, pristine. But on the other hand, given the lesser interface Cuz this is, you know we've got a good interface, we've got great headphones, m um.", "speakerName": "Postdoc F" }, { "text": "It could be that they will uh theirs will end up being a kind of fir first pass or something.", "speakerName": "Professor G" }, { "text": "Something like that.", "speakerName": "Postdoc F" }, { "text": "Maybe an elaborate one, cuz again they probably are gonna do these alignments, which will also clear things up.", "speakerName": "Professor G" }, { "text": "That's that's true. Al - although you have to s Don't you have to start with a close enough approximation of the of the verbal part to be able to?", "speakerName": "Postdoc F" }, { "text": "Well, tha that's that's debatable.", "speakerName": "Professor G" }, { "text": "OK.", "speakerName": "Postdoc F" }, { "text": "Right? I mean, so the so the argument is that if your statistical system is good it will in fact, uh, clean things up.", "speakerName": "Professor G" }, { "text": "OK.", "speakerName": "Postdoc F" }, { "text": "Right? So it it's got its own objective criterion.", "speakerName": "Professor G" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "And, uh, so in principle you could start up with something that was kind of rough I mean, to give an example of, um, something we used to do, uh, at one point, uh, back back when Chuck was here in early times, is we would take, um, da take a word and, uh, have a canonical pronunciation and, uh, if there was five phones in a word, you'd break up the word, uh, into five equal - length pieces which is completely gross.", "speakerName": "Professor G" }, { "text": "Wrong.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Right? I mean, th the timing is off all over the place in just about any word.", "speakerName": "Professor G" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm. OK.", "speakerName": "Postdoc F" }, { "text": "But it's O K. You start off with that and the statistical system then aligns things, and eventually you get something that doesn't really look too bad.", "speakerName": "Professor G" }, { "text": "Oh, excellent. OK.", "speakerName": "Postdoc F" }, { "text": "So so I think using a a good aligner, um, actually can can help a lot. Um. But, uh, you know, they both help each other. If you have a if you have a better starting point, then it helps the aligner. If you have a good alignment, it helps the, uh, th the human in in taking less time to correct things.", "speakerName": "Professor G" }, { "text": "OK.", "speakerName": "Postdoc F" }, { "text": "So so.", "speakerName": "Professor G" }, { "text": "Excellent. I guess there's another aspect, too, and I don't know uh, this this is very possibly a different, uh, topic. But, uh, just let me say with reference to this idea of, um, higher - order organization within meetings. So like in a you know, the topics that are covered during a meeting with reference to the other, uh, uses of the data,", "speakerName": "Postdoc F" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Professor G" }, { "text": "so being able to find where so - and - so talked about such - and - such, then, um, um e I mean, I I I did sort of a a rough pass on encoding, like, episode - like level things on the, uh, transcribed meeting.", "speakerName": "Postdoc F" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Professor G" }, { "text": "already transcribed meeting. And I don't know if, um.", "speakerName": "Postdoc F" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Professor G" }, { "text": "where that i if that's something that we wanna do with each meeting, sort of like a, um it's like a manifest, when you get a box full of stuff, or or if that's, um.", "speakerName": "Postdoc F" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Professor G" }, { "text": "I mean, i I I don't know what uh, level of detail would be most useful. I don't know i if that's something that I should do when I look over it, or if we want someone else to do, or whatever.", "speakerName": "Postdoc F" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Professor G" }, { "text": "But this issue of the contents of the meeting in an outline form. OK.", "speakerName": "Postdoc F" }, { "text": "Yeah. Meaning really isn't my thing. Um.", "speakerName": "Professor G" }, { "text": "I think it just whoever is interested can do that. I mean, so if someone wants to use that data.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "OK.", "speakerName": "Postdoc F" }, { "text": "We're running a little short here.", "speakerName": "Professor G" }, { "text": "That's fine.", "speakerName": "Postdoc F" }, { "text": "We, uh, uh, cou trying to.", "speakerName": "Professor G" }, { "text": "I'm finished.", "speakerName": "Postdoc F" }, { "text": "eh, was p Well, you know, the thing I'm concerned about is we wanted to do these digits", "speakerName": "Professor G" }, { "text": "Oh, yeah.", "speakerName": "Postdoc F" }, { "text": "and and I haven't heard, uh, from Jose yet.", "speakerName": "Professor G" }, { "text": "Oh, yes.", "speakerName": "Postdoc F" }, { "text": "OK. What do you want?", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Postdoc F" }, { "text": "So.", "speakerName": "Professor G" }, { "text": "We could skip the digits.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "Uh.", "speakerName": "Professor G" }, { "text": "We don't have to read digits each time.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "Uh I I I think it you know, another another bunch of digits. More data is good.", "speakerName": "Professor G" }, { "text": "OK.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "Yeah. Sure.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "So so I'd like to do that. But I think, do you, maybe, eh? Did you prepare some whole thing you wanted us just to see?", "speakerName": "Professor G" }, { "text": "Yeah. It's it's prepared.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Or what was that? Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor G" }, { "text": "Oh, k Sorry.", "speakerName": "Postdoc F" }, { "text": "Uh, how long a?", "speakerName": "Professor G" }, { "text": "I I think it's it's fast, because, uh, I have the results, eh, of the study of different energy without the law length. Eh, um, eh, in the in the measurement, uh, the average, uh, dividing by the by the, um, variance. Um, I th i", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor G" }, { "text": "the other, uh the the last w uh, meeting eh, I don't know if you remain we have problem to with the with with the parameter with the representations of parameter, because the the valleys and the peaks in the signal, eh, look like, eh, it doesn't follow to the to the energy in the signal.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Yes. Right.", "speakerName": "Professor G" }, { "text": "And it was a problem, uh, with the scale.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "With what?", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "Eh, the scale.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Scale.", "speakerName": "Postdoc F" }, { "text": "Scale.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "Eh, and I I change the scale and we can see the the variance.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "OK. But the bottom line is it's still not, uh, separating out very well.", "speakerName": "Professor G" }, { "text": "Yeah. Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Right?", "speakerName": "Professor G" }, { "text": "The distribution the distribution is is similar.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "OK. So that's that's that's enough then. OK.", "speakerName": "Professor G" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "No, I mean, that there's no point in going through all of that if that's the bottom line, really.", "speakerName": "Professor G" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Postdoc F" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "So, I I think we have to start Uh, I mean, there there's two suggestions, really, which is, uh what we said before is that,", "speakerName": "Professor G" }, { "text": "Mmm, yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "um, it looks like, at least that you haven't found an obvious way to normalize so that the energy is anything like a reliable, uh, indicator of the overlap.", "speakerName": "Professor G" }, { "text": "Yeah. Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Um, I I'm I'm still a little f think that's a little funny. These things l @ @ seems like there should be,", "speakerName": "Professor G" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "but but you don't want to keep, uh keep knocking at it if it's if you're not getting any any result with that. But, I mean, the other things that we talked about is, uh, pitch - related things and harmonicity - related things,", "speakerName": "Professor G" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "so which we thought also should be some kind of a reasonable indicator. Um But, uh, a completely different tack on it wou is the one that was suggested, uh, by your colleagues in Spain,", "speakerName": "Professor G" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "which is to say, don't worry so much about the, uh, features.", "speakerName": "Professor G" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "That is to say, use, you know, as as you're doing with the speech, uh, nonspeech, use some very general features.", "speakerName": "Professor G" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "And, uh, then, uh, look at it more from the aspect of modeling.", "speakerName": "Professor G" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "You know, have a have a couple Markov models and and, uh, try to indi try to determine, you know, w when is th when are you in an overlap, when are you not in an overlap.", "speakerName": "Professor G" }, { "text": "Hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "And let the, uh, uh, statistical system determine what's the right way to look at the data.", "speakerName": "Professor G" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "I I, um, I think it would be interesting to find individual features and put them together. I think that you'd end up with a better system overall.", "speakerName": "Professor G" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "But given the limitation in time and given the fact that Javier's system already exists doing this sort of thing,", "speakerName": "Professor G" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "uh, but, uh, its main limitation is that, again, it's only looking at silences which would.", "speakerName": "Professor G" }, { "text": "Yeah. Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "maybe that's a better place to go.", "speakerName": "Professor G" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Postdoc F" }, { "text": "So.", "speakerName": "Professor G" }, { "text": "I I I think that, eh, the possibility, eh, can be that, eh, Thilo, eh, working, eh, with a new class, not only, eh, nonspeech and speech, but, eh, in in in the speech class,", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm. Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Professor G" }, { "text": "dividing, eh, speech, eh, of from a speaker and overlapping, to try to to do, eh, eh, a fast a fast, eh, experiment to to prove that, nnn, this fea eh, general feature, eh, can solve the the the problem,", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor G" }, { "text": "and wh what nnn, how far is.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Maybe. Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor G" }, { "text": "And, I I have prepared the the pitch tracker now.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "And I hope the the next week I will have, eh, some results and we we will show we will see, eh, the the parameter the pitch, eh, tracking in with the program.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "I see.", "speakerName": "Professor G" }, { "text": "And, nnn, nnn.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Ha - h have you ever looked at the, uh, uh Javier's, uh, speech segmenter?", "speakerName": "Professor G" }, { "text": "No. No.", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "No.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Oh. Maybe m you could, you kn uh show Thilo that.", "speakerName": "Professor G" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Yeah. Sure.", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Cuz again the idea is there the limitation there again was that he was he was only using it to look at silence as a as a as a as a p putative split point between speakers.", "speakerName": "Professor G" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "But if you included, uh, broadened classes then in principle maybe you can cover the overlap cases.", "speakerName": "Professor G" }, { "text": "OK.", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Yeah, but I'm not too sure if if we can really represent overlap with with the s detector I I I used up to now,", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "Mmm, yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Uh.", "speakerName": "Professor G" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Postdoc F" }, { "text": "I think with.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "the to speech - nonspeech as.", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "That's right. But I think Javier's.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "it's only speech or it's it's it's nonspeech.", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "Ah. Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Postdoc F" }, { "text": "I think Javier's might be able to.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "So.", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "N n", "speakerName": "Professor G" }, { "text": "It doesn't have the same Gaus - uh, H M M modeling,", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "which is I think a drawback.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "OK.", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "But, uh.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "Well, it's sort of has a simple one.", "speakerName": "Professor G" }, { "text": "Mmm, yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Does it?", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "Right? It's it's just it's just a isn't it just a Gaussian", "speakerName": "Professor G" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "for each?", "speakerName": "Professor G" }, { "text": "Yeah. And then he ch you choose optimal splitting.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "Hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Postdoc F" }, { "text": "Yeah. Oh, it doesn't have it doesn't have any temporal, uh?", "speakerName": "Professor G" }, { "text": "Maybe I'm misremembering, but I did not think it had a Markov.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "I thought it Yeah. I gues I guess I don't remember either. Uh. It's been a while.", "speakerName": "Professor G" }, { "text": "Yeah. Uh, I could have a look at it.", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "Javier.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Uh.", "speakerName": "Professor G" }, { "text": "So.", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "You mean Ja - eh, eh, Javier program?", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "No, Javier di doesn't worked with, uh, a Markov.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Yeah, I didn't think so.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "He on only train.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Oh, OK. So he's just he just computes a Gaussian over potential.", "speakerName": "Professor G" }, { "text": "Yep.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "Yeah. It was only Gaussian.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Oh, I see. I see.", "speakerName": "Professor G" }, { "text": "And so I I think it would work fine for detecting overlap.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "This is the idea.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "And and.", "speakerName": "Professor G" }, { "text": "It's just, uh, that i it he has the two - pass issue that What he does is, as a first pass he he p he does, um, a guess at where the divisions might be and he overestimates. And that's just a data reduction step, so that you're not trying at every time interval.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "OK.", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "And so those are the putative places where he tries.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Yeah. OK.", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "And right now he's doing that with silence and that doesn't work with the Meeting Recorder. So if we used another method to get the first pass, I think it would probably work.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "Yeah. Yeah. Sure. Yeah. Yeah, OK.", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "It's a good method. As long as the len as long the segments are long enough.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "That's the other problem.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "So.", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "O - k OK. So let me go back to what you had, though.", "speakerName": "Professor G" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "Um.", "speakerName": "Professor G" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "The other thing one could do is Couldn't I mean, it's So you have two categories", "speakerName": "Professor G" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "and you have Markov models for each. Couldn't you have a third category? So you have, uh you have, uh, nonspeech, single - person speech, and multiple - person speech?", "speakerName": "Professor G" }, { "text": "He has this on his board actually. Don't you have, like those those several different categories on the board?", "speakerName": "Postdoc F" }, { "text": "Right? And then you have a Markov model for each?", "speakerName": "Professor G" }, { "text": "Um I'm not sure. I I thought about, uh, adding, uh, uh, another class too. But it's not too easy, I think, the the transition between the different class, to model them in in the system I have now. But it it it could be possible, I think,", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "I see. I see.", "speakerName": "Professor G" }, { "text": "in principle.", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "Yeah, I mean, I This is all pretty gross.", "speakerName": "Professor G" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "I mean, the th the reason why, uh, I was suggesting originally that we look at features is because I thought, well, we're doing something we haven't done before,", "speakerName": "Professor G" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "we should at least look at the space and understand.", "speakerName": "Professor G" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "It seems like if two people two or more people talk at once, it should get louder,", "speakerName": "Professor G" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "uh, and, uh, uh, there should be some discontinuity in pitch contours,", "speakerName": "Professor G" }, { "text": "I had the impression.", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "and, uh, there should overall be a, um, smaller proportion of the total energy that is explained by any particular harmonic sequence in the spectrum.", "speakerName": "Professor G" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "So those are all things that should be there.", "speakerName": "Professor G" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "So far, um, uh, Jose has has been By the way, I was told I should be calling you Pepe, but.", "speakerName": "Professor G" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "by your friends, but Anyway,", "speakerName": "Professor G" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "um, uh, the has has, uh, been exploring, uh, e largely the energy issue and, um, as with a lot of things, it is not uh, like this, it's not as simple as it sounds.", "speakerName": "Professor G" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "And then there's, you know Is it energy? Is it log energy? Is it LPC residual energy? Is it is it is it, uh, delta of those things? Uh, what is it no Obviously, just a simple number absolute number isn't gonna work. So it should be with compared to what? Should there be a long window for the normalizing factor and a short window for what you're looking at?", "speakerName": "Professor G" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "Or, you know, how b short should they be? So,", "speakerName": "Professor G" }, { "text": "Hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "th he's been playing around with a lot of these different things and and so far at least has not come up with any combination that really gave you an indicator.", "speakerName": "Professor G" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "So I I still have a hunch that there's it's in there some place, but it may be given that you have a limited time here, it it just may not be the best thing to to to focus on for the remaining of it.", "speakerName": "Professor G" }, { "text": "Yeah. To overrule, yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "So pitch - related and harmonic - related, I'm I'm somewhat more hopeful for it.", "speakerName": "Professor G" }, { "text": "Yeah. Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "But it seems like if we just wanna get something to work,", "speakerName": "Professor G" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "that, uh, their suggestion of of Th - they were suggesting going to Markov models, uh, but in addition there's an expansion of what Javier did. And one of those things, looking at the statistical component,", "speakerName": "Professor G" }, { "text": "One.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "even if the features that you give it are maybe not ideal for it, it's just sort of this general filter bank", "speakerName": "Professor G" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "or or cepstrum or something, um Eee it's in there somewhere probably.", "speakerName": "Professor G" }, { "text": "But, eh, what did you think about the possibility of using the Javier software? Eh, I mean, the, uh the, uh the BIC criterion, the the t to train the the Gaussian, eh, using the the mark, eh, by hand, eh, eh, to distinguish be mmm, to train overlapping zone and speech zone. I mean, eh, I I I think that an interesting, eh, experiment, eh, could be, th eh, to prove that, mmm, if s we suppose that, eh, the the first step I mean, the the classifier what were the classifier from Javier or classifier from Thilo? W What happen with the second step? I I mean, what what happen with the, eh the, uh, clu the, uh the clu the clustering process?", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "Using the the Gaussian.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "You mean Javier's?", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "What do you mean?", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "I I mean, that is is enough is enough, eh, to work well, eh, to, eh, separate or to distinguish, eh, between overlapping zone and, eh, speaker zone? Because th if if we if we, eh, nnn, develop an classifier and the second step doesn't work well, eh, we have another problem.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "I Yeah. I had tried doing it by hand at one point with a very short sample,", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "N", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "and it worked pretty well, but I haven't worked with it a lot. So what I d I d I took a hand - segmented sample", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "Nnn, yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "and I added ten times the amount of numbers at random,", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "and it did pick out pretty good boundaries.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "Oh. Yeah. But is is if.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "But this was just very anecdotal sort of thing.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "But it's possible with my segmentation by hand that we have information about the the overlapping,", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Right. So if we if we fed the hand - segmentation to Javier's and it doesn't work, then we know something's wrong.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "uh Yeah. The N n Yeah. No. The demonstration by hand. Segmentation by hand I I I think is the fast experiment.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Yeah. 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b0d8a07aedac41db93b54e66c0bb83a6	{ "meetingId": "IS1008d", "transcriptSegments": [ { "text": "Welcome back.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "I'm sorry to be late.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Welcome back everybody.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah. Thanks.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "So this meeting agenda will be the detailed design meeting. And uh opening and uh P_M_s of the meet minutes, uh prototype presentation from uh Christine and uh Agnes.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Agnes, yes.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yes and uh evaluation criteria. The finance, it's uh from my side, from the management, and uh production evaluation. Then uh closing. So we have forty minutes to discuss and uh finalise and close the product and project and to move further, okay, so Okay, let's talk about uh maybe first uh for the prototype.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm, okay.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "So I handle to.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "I've done a presentation, but it pretty much covers work that we've both done, so if I'm missing anything, Christine can just correct me.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "So shall I go to sorry.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Uh thank you, so you did a PowerPoint presentation, good for you..", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yep. S Okay, let's go to A_M_I_.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "It's not the biggest PowerPoint presentation in the world, but.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "So in two or three or.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Three. Um. No it's.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Probably. Technical pa I would think.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "think it's the last one. No, then this is the la yeah, that one, final design.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Ha.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "It is named appropriately, you just couldn't see the name.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Um okay, can I have the mouse?", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yes.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Thanks. Alright, so from when we were discussing specifying the case in the last meeting, we decided that we wanted an ergonomic shape, the material that we chose was wood, and uh the colour would be customisable,'cause you can stain the wood whatever colour. Um, so in terms of function, you have to be able to turn the T_V_ on and off, volume and channel control, menu control, voice recognition control, and we've incorporated the L_C_D_ screen on the flip panel as part of the design, if we figure out it's too expensive, well then you just take it off. Um, so to unveil our lovely product. This is our remote control, with the flip panel as you can see.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "So if you lift up the panel, you can see the lovely yellow L_C_D_ display. Um, this is actually hard to do. The yellow button you have is the on off button, so it's really big, hard to miss. You have the the red um triangles are the toggles for changing the volume. So up volume up, down volume down. The green are the channel changing. S And it's one of those very light, very touchable displays. And then you have the numeric pad in the dark blue at the bottom, and on the right-hand side you have the access to the menu on the T_V_, and on the left-hand side you have the the the ability to turn off the voice recognition. So this is pretty much what we had on the white board the last time.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "So.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Um and uh I could.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Oh yes.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah the d", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Additional feature on the back is that you can have your own customised backing and I suppose you could do the same thing on the flip case on the front. So that you can really make this a highly highly customisable remote control.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "We haven't um uh specified where the speaker or the microphone will be placed. That depends on the uh s design of the circuit board inside and uh what room is left um.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "I think the microphone is on on the top, uh on the middle, the under the flip.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yes, okay. Uh-huh.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "So that will be the safe, so p any the chip it's not on the chip because you need to have microphone to.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "No, I mean it depends on the design of the circuit board.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yes.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "But it shouldn't be under the flip either, because you can have the remote control closed, but you still might want to activate it by voice.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Uh it's it's Yeah, but uh uh my opinion I think it's better under the flip because whenever you want to uh the talk, okay, so then you can speak then you can close it. But if you put it on the on the flip, okay, then uh technical I don't think it's uh feasible,'cause most of the time you speak then it will be recognised.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "But if you've already got the remote control in your hand you need to open the flip to use the voice, why use the voice, why not just use your hand? I mean the whole point of the voice is that if the remote control is sitting there and I'm too lazy to reach over and pick it up, I can just use my voice.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Maybe I've got my hand in the popcorn bowl and I'm holding my cup of Coca-Cola in the other hand.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah. And you don't wanna let go of either one..", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "I don't wanna say. Louder. Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "I mean it doesn't have to be on the flip, it can be on the side somewhere.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Can also be on the side.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah, the sides maybe is good.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "So, I mean I can pass this around if anyone wants to.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yes. So it's maybe good idea.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah, y better you pass it around with a napkin..", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "No, because y you can easily put a microphone on the side that would have no problem would haven't been not be damaged or anything, and it'd be accessible all the time to voice.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yes. Yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah, exactly.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "So it's maybe good idea. S s", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "It's um It's um.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Compliments to the artist.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "You need to work on the weight a little bit..", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yes.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Uh.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Okay. S I'm fine, I'm satisfi", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "And maybe the shape of the buttons,", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "I'm satisfied.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "the little egg shapes aren't the most economical, but.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "We're glad you're satisfied.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Of course it's it's it's looks more heo heavy, but I think when it's completely maybe it's a less weight.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah. I mean this is plasticene.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yes.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "There's only so much you can do. We could have possibly made it a lot thinner as well. But And part of the thing is m a lot of people say that they don't like something that's too light, because they don't feel like they have enough control over it.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "So I mean maybe this is excessively heavy, but I think it needs to have some weight,", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yep.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "it needs to feel like you're still holding something. So that's pretty much it for our presentation actually.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "That's your uh prototype model?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Okay, that's good, thank you very much.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "So any comments or uh.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Well, the prototype is is very well within the design and ideas that we've we've talked about on the previous meetings.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Now it goes into this next phase as the financial uh marketing uh.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yes, that uh So I'll come back to the So evaluation criteria, I think uh that will be good, so then let's come to the finance uh, I have some uh calculations which I made uh as for uh the budget. So here you can uh look like uh the energy and uh dynamo and uh kinetic and solar cells. Uh it's optional, somewhat optional and Ed wants the chip on print, that's what uh we were talking about that.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "So then we have sample sensor and sample speaker, then uh we have the wood material, then special colour and push button. So it's uh actually, our budget was uh twelve point five Euro, but uh it's coming to nine point nine five Euro, so we are under uh below the budget, okay, so still we are saving some money. I think it's a good figure..", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yes, great I I'm surprised.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Congratulations..", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Than thank you..", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Well we haven't come to mine yet, so.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Oh, okay", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": ". It's gonna cost a long way to c you know, cost a lot of money to market it, is it?", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "we're gonna have a bit of difference of opinion, yes..", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "So maybe it's for some money we can utilise for our uh marketing, for the sales, okay, and uh.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Well, it just depends on if we're gonna add a o on this pr provisionary cost analysis, we do not have a L_C_ display. L_C_ display is gonna be very expensive,", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "No we do, but it's not filled in.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "it's gonna be.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "It's not.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Thirty.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "It's not it doesn't say.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "It's number thirty.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah. Yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "We don't have the price up there,", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Oh, yeah, yeah,", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah. Yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "you're right, sorry, yes.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "okay, so if we add approximately two to three Euro per remote, now we're up around about twelve, twelve and a half as to what uh the company had initially uh requested. Um.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "So that means we can put the uh the L_C_D_ in, yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Display in. But as far as production um I'm putting up a question because we're talking about profit also, and in mine you'll see uh the problem with uh our survey, the p the possibility that how many units can be sold, what percentage of the market, etcetera etcetera because that has to be taken in into consideration.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Uh this is just production cost, it is not uh advertising cost, it's not transportation cost uh.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yes, so still uh we have twelve point five Euro.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "And that will inflate quite a bit the cost of the uh the cost of the unit for the company.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yes. Yeah, but Yes. Yep.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Um-hmm.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "So to come up with what the company wants is a fifty million Pound profit, we're gonna have to go a long ways.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yes. This we are talking about one unit, okay, so when it go into the quantity, okay, and the cost will come down.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yes.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Although customisation, because this is being done, you know, the on on-order basis, it might be uh the the quantity won't m won't uh", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Slightly.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "It's gonna be very hard to reduce.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yes.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "the circuit board will b you're right, would be in producing quantity, but the cost of the case would uh be fixed at the Uh you got some pretty cheap labour that can do this case for one Euro.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "That's not bad..", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "That's really that's the cost of the material and lab wow, that's really outstanding.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yep. Yeah. But anyhow, still we are under control, okay, so what uh I will do is I will try to negotiate with the vendors, okay, to get uh the production cost less, okay, so then we can save some money, okay, to put into th our marketing or uh you know the promotions, whatever, okay, so that uh I will look after. I will speak to the management and how to get uh you know some more uh cost down.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "If we can go to to my display. And we'll come back to yours", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yes.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "just to give everybody an idea of the market. So now I'm gonna scare everybody out of this project..", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "If I'm still here.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "You're in four?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yep The four gives me it's gotta be uh TrendWatch.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "TrendWatch.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Is this the same one you did before?", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "No.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "It shouldn't be", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "That's no, I think it's the same one.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "if it's not it's not the right one. No, no we g no, that's the same one. You have to go back and find another one. Whatever name it popped up under.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Functional.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Uh functional, try functional, it might not be it either, but we'll see.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "It looks like it, there's S Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yep, that's it. So we'll go screen by screen.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Although since uh we need to have some type of idea on a market uh we had independent study that says it this this market has an availability to absorb eight mi eight million units per year. Okay? Our internal company evaluation puts it between eight to nine million which is approximately the same as the independent study.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yep..", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "So if we continue, we'll look at the findings. Next screen. Which means that uh if we have a target of two million would the company has to take twenty five percent of the market in the first year,", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "which is actually a tremendous amount.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah, no kidding..", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "No kidding, yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Mayb maybe they already expected something.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "So, if we put an inflated price of fifty Euro at a production cost that cannot exceed twenty-five Euro, okay, we're already in that that price, okay,", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yes.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "with transport, promotion, labour, because we hav gi included the promotion in the cost, transport for the material to the stores or whatever how however we're gonna break this down between our our retailers.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Um-hmm.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Twenty-five percent of the market to get to two million units. At two million units, we have to have a profit of twenty-five Euro per unit to get to the fifty million unit Eu Euro profit.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm. Yep.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Okay? So, obviously we w w I just did a run down the evaluation of the form, the fan uh the fancy stylishness of the of the unit, the ease of use, speech recognition, cost, we've gone through these. Now, the company must evaluate the feasibility of being able to take enough of the market to justify in production. Or we project this over two years, but being that the market changes very very quickly, maybe there's no more interest in buying this thing in eighteen months from now.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yes. Yep. Of course.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "So, now we have to come up with a decision.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Can the company sell two million units?", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yep.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Can it sell it for fifty Euros?", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Could could I go to findings?", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yep.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Uh uh um I would uh like to explore the possibility of using um alternative um delivery and sales channel which would be um to use the internet for promotion and ordering", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yes.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "I was thinking the same thing, yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "and then to drop-ship the p product to the customer's residence.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Directly.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "That way you have no storage, you have no um you do have transportation, still have the labour cost,", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Um-hmm.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "but you don't have the transport to the uh point of sale.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yes.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "The point of sale is online.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "To the agents.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah. You can do a shipping centre somewhere, or strategically place shipping centres to minimise distance costs.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Right, like Amazon. In fact, we should sell through Amazon,", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yes. Or eBay, or.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "don't you think? Or eBay, yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yes.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "There's an idea.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah, that's a good idea.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Going with um.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "To impro more profit and uh.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "S Upscale technology.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah, yes.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Ah, we we're do you know, selling a unique product uh..", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Well.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "That actually makes more sense if we're gonna make it so highly customisable,'cause on the web people can look at the different options they have, see maybe what other people have done, what the range of possibility as,", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "There are several companies that have gone that way.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "whereas if you're in a store, you can't unless you're a highly imaginative person, you may not really know what it is you want,", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "whereas on the web, if you have a bunch of pictures, it can sort of trigger ideas and.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm. And you can even have an a movie that you can rotate the object and look at the di the only thing that you're missing really is the weight.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah. The weight and feel.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Weight, the feel of the product, but.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "We're getting used to that. It's not quite like trying on a shoe, but people are getting used to buying things online that they can't touch before buying.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah. Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "There are several that have gone through with the watches, too. You can customise a watch, you can see how it is at the f at the end of the production,", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Uh-huh.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "you can change it uh There's a lot of online that's that is doing this now.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yes.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "And when you're rotating, you'll look behind and look this way uh it's possible to do with this, maybe there's a possibility of selling more than two million units in one year, which could you know, feasibili feasibility uh lower the price of the unit.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "We can.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Great.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "I don't think that's uh not possible, it's uh okay then, l uh let's wait for the production, okay, then uh you can evaluate the product, so how it looks like technically and uh how it look like uh the real.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "What turnaround time do we have?", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "T", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "'Cause I mean production evaluation can be very very quick or very very long.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Oh but Yes it's it's very quick, of course. It will uh come back in two weeks, okay, it will be ready in two weeks.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Works for me.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "For evaluation, okay.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Prototypes, you mean.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yes, the prototype uh prototype product evaluation.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "In um We probably should do some market tests uh once we have the prototypes and do some orders and things like that and test-market it.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yes. Yes. Yes.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Well, obviously.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm that'd have to be thrown out on the market for people to get an idea,", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "So you can take a minimum two weeks to a maximum four weeks.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "to see get get their.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm. Think minimum two weeks if we're gonna develop prototypes and then try to take them to different places and see how people use.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "it's not a trivial task.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah, because we we are not going to do it in uh our factory, okay, so we can give it a product evalua", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "No no. We definitely shouldn't do it in our factory..", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yes, yes.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "So we'll do it in the other place, and I don't think it's take more than four weeks time. Or uh Okay, so then the real production we will start once we product evaluation, okay, then uh it's approve from uh the technical team and uh your team, okay, uh from the management, then we can launch in the market. Hm?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Any outstanding?", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "S Any any other uh questions or uh comments to be discuss?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "No, I'm", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "What ab", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "go ahead.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "I think we pretty much covered everything.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Okay, so then uh.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Did you have something?", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Well I was just wondering about if we're gonna do a product evaluation then what about time for redesign if the users come back and tell us no this is bad, this is bad, we want this done differently.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Okay uh, let's take like this. Let's proceed with this model, okay, for the for the marketing direction, okay.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "So no more changes will be made, okay, in this the basic design. Okay? So we will introduce m this model and uh let's introduce in the market and let's take the feedback from the customers, then we can uh go for the", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Second generation.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "second generation.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Okay. There's no end, there's not limit.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "The problem is there might not be a second generation if the first generation flops for some silly reason that we haven't thought of.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Every every custom", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Well, then it may not be.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Okay. Well, every customer, okay, they have their own ideas, they have their own test, okay, so there's no end, there's no limit.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Like people don't like wood..", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "No, but there's a difference between releasing a product that has been minimally tested and fine-tuned to suit a general range of requirements versus releasing a product that we think will work but we don't really have anything to back it up.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "very specific.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah, so that's the reason you are here for uh the design, okay, I hope you made a good design.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yes, but I'm not everybody.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "I mean the whole point of user evaluation is to see what real people need. We have our own motivations in mind, we have our own ideas in mind, but that doesn't mean that that's what's gonna sell.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah, but uh see, we ought to take a few considerations, okay, one is the price consideration, one is future consideration, okay, like uh you can eat uh you can all eat more chi I can eat more chilli, okay, so i it's a depends on the individual taste, you know,", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "so we have we have to balance somewhere.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah, of course. I'm just trying to point out that I think that your evaluation and redesign turnaround time is too short well you have no redesign not you personally, but in the project we have no redesign time and.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yes.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Our project doesn't um", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Ed, d do you know what season of the year or time of the year is the most important for T_V_ remote control sales?", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Hmm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Would it be the Christmas season by any chance?", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "The sports time.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Sports season. Which sport season?", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Right before the Eur the World Cup. World soccer. World Cup soccer,", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Football.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "So so", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah..", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "they need those things that they have their hands g occupied and they need to be able to talk to the con remote control.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Football.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "maybe what.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "So I think what we need to do is perhaps to synchronise the final the the launch of a user-tested device with some special event.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yes. Yes.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "And and then um.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah, that's a good idea.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "so that gives us a little more time perhaps then we anticipated, because I don't know when the World Cup is, but I'm sure there's gonna be one.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Or any major sports.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Or another m major sports event. Probably not the um the football games coming up the end of January. I think that might be a little too aggressive um,", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yes.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "but, so, I'm just ig uh pointing out a uh a strategy to uh do some additional user testing", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Research.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "pri and then to launch um at a a major sports event", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yep.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "or uh perhaps to uh also.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "That's actually good place to advertise it too.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "And to work with motion pictures.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "There might be some motion pictures that are coming out um that are coming out on D_V_D_ that uh they need to have a m special remote control to work with it, so we could maybe work out a campaign with uh with Sony Pictures for example.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yes.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Maybe some management has got uh relationships there we can leverage.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yes, the that of course uh I will convince the management to do that, okay.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "That's great..", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "It's just something to to keep in mind,'cause it's really really important.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Sure, sure, yes.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "A lot of products have gone out there without being properly user-tested and completely flopped, when in fact it gets re-released a few years down the line with proper testing and it takes off like crazy.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Disposable diapers is an example of that in fact..", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Really?", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yes, it is one of the first consumer products that was launched about thirty years that was a disposable consumer product,", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "That I didn't know..", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "and uh people the market hadn't really gotten on to the concept that you could use something and then throw it away,'cause it wasn't uh.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "but then when they re-launched them thirty years later, they were virtually the same design,", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": ".", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "but people had gotten the throw-away, you know, paper cups and napki y all kinds of things that they hadn't um so, you're right, timing is very important,", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "but I think we've got a good product.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "That's the reason Ed is here.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "I think he can promote the the brand value and the product value.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "That's right. It's gonna be very important to the company..", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yes. We are behind the scene and he is the front screen, so.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yep.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "He's on the big screen.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah, I'm the one who takes the heat.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Exactly..", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Good luck, Ed.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "If it's a flop, it's the marketer..", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "You look very relaxed, considering h you know, the uh the weight on your shoulders, yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yes. Yes. Stress..", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Okay, so then uh let's come to the closing and uh are the costs within the budget", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Celebration..", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "and uh is the product evaluated, okay, so that will uh come soon. Okay for uh but our time being, so thanks for all your efforts and great work and uh great design and uh let's leave it to the Ed for later for once production is over and the meantime let's celebrate. 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Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "so, yes,", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "'Kay.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "all this.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Uh, what do we think a.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "So, we're looking for'Kay.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "What do we think a good size would be for this?.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "We're.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "'Cause I I know as you add more buttons to the remote it sometimes gets so big and clunky", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Sorry, carry on..", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "and there's just like a hundred buttons on it,", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "or you could have a really small slim one but then you could lose it easily..", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah. Then you lose it, yeah..", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Kind of um, maybe more like a P_D_A_ kind of, just hand held, like,", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "For for uh", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "'cause.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "remember we're trying to make it for twelve Euros fifty..", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah. No, I wasn't, no sorry I wasn't thinking of the screen of like a P_D_A_", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Okay well right we'll have to um I'll.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "but", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "we're k having another meeting in half an hour so um", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "we should all look into a bit uh, oh actually, no, we'll allocate. 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Appendix.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah, this is.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "See there's a role for everybody.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah, that's right,", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Even for the marketing.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "first. us user define.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Next.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "But look at your role, your marketing role.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "There's a trend watching.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "I don't know.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah, that's your role.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "I.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Well, I think we can have a little discussion about what has to be done", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "and what are your ideas about the.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "About the design or Maybe we'll discuss this later, no?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Well, w we want to have a new re remote control for for T_V_ distribution I guess.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "So we have to plan how how it would be developed and uh", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "how we can make it work.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yes.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "I mean working remotes we already have. This will be something different from the other remotes remote controls.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "What we we have to keep in mind the these characteristics.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah, I dunno I.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "And of course it should not be very costly.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah, that's right.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "So.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Well I I think that Norman and I would think about um the technical points and um we should discuss it in the next meeting, or", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Need to collect information..", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah..", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "About the about what?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Um. I I'm part of design, perhaps. Uh, what is most important in a in a remote control? What is the most important function aspect? Uh.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "You mean the external or.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Well, you have to make it work.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah of g of course.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "That's alright.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "That's the that's the big thing.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah, it should be easy to work with.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "We can think about an interface with uh well.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Uh. We maybe you can have a speech uh recognition interface. You just tell the television I want which channel.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "You won't.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Or or you can say for example, um I want uh to list all the programme tonight. Y you know, instead of uh remote control it's doing the some searching for you, so you don't have to look for the channel you want. Just say maybe I just want to press I wanna have a button for all the movies tonight. Or a button for all the magazines, all the information documentary tonight. And then you list a few, and I will choose from the list. So instead of pressing the channel number, I am choosing the programmes directly. Yeah, that's one way of uh making it useful.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah, yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "I I think if we include a lot of technology on the remote control it will be very costly.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "No, because no,", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "S.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "it's not very a lot. Th this information exists. For example you can get um.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Like s uh you you you say we can use speech.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "You can use uh well for example anything. The the idea of using speech to reduce the button, but uh and it's more natural. Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "I I think if you want t to choose uh from a list of programme or or something like that you you may have to to use uh w uh I dunno", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "I'm a okay.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah. Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "I mean the main uh function of remote control is to have something in the hand", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "In the hand.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "and we should be very careful about the size of the remote control.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "If we are going to add a speech interface, I'm not sure with trendy slim size of the remote control it would be able to put a speech recog", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah. Yes, possible.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "if you want to put a speech recognition system f interface for that I think the T_V_ itself could have it.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah. But.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "And I could talk to the T_V_ television itself.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Except if if you are far from the T_V_.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "I need not have an.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah..", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "I mean we have some or something, different technology but.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "This is it's.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah, yeah. But th the main idea I wanted to s I wanted to say is that um there should be a function, instead of choosing the ch T_V_ channel, there's a option you can choose, either T_V_ channels or or pr or the or the contain or the contents of the programme.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "On the content.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm, yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah, yeah it's it's a good idea it's a good idea", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "So it's more powerful. Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "but I I think that technically it would be um a little bit uh uh more tricky to to achieve this than just to.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "No. No, because you see now all the T_V_ programmes are available on the webs. They they are they are they are available in X_M_L_ format or whatever the format. We don't care. We just say that this are some content. We just want to retrieve the content and then classi sort them by the types of programmes. Some of the websites they already provide this service,", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "so we can just use the service available. Download it uh to the to this remote control.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "And then there's there are only six buttons for six categories, or sev seven. The most there are only seven buttons. So I just choose the category one and you reuse the same button, for example to to choose among the the sorted list the programme you want, so you don't have to choose among hundred channels, if you have hundred channels, you just have six buttons, seven buttons.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah we should also optimise the the number of buttons.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah, yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Well I I I I think that j just by using navigation buttons and the user interface on the screen we are able to uh navigate uh through the Well channel programme or contents or in an easy way, so.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "This is good idea.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah. Ah, yes. So. Yeah. Yeah, so you don't have to display here, just display on the T_V_ screen, right?", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah in the dis display on the T_V_ screen", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Good idea. Okay.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "and just uh with the with your remote control would just navigate through the f", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "I think I think that will be revol revolutionary.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Because all the T_V_ uh the the remote control have all numbers, lots of buttons and then you dunno what to choose in the end. Yeah. Alright..", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah, yeah. So I think for for the technical points we have to to to check how to gather the data from programme or contents and all this stuff", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "So we have five minutes to.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Ah w w we have sometimes to use the white-board.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Ah you can y you can you can use it if you so, can we", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Five minutes.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "And another interesting idea for this would be to have an light adaptation system depending upon the picture of.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Okay. Okay.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "So, I mean, if you're watching a movie and suddenly there is a dark uh some dark scene, the lights adapt themself.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "S", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "The lighting in the room changes.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah, but we are designing just remote control.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "You it.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "I mean, we have a option in the remote control. If we want to have that option, you press that button in the remote.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Oh right so.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Okay, do you want to have a conceptual remote control there, or you just want to put the function in?", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah. If if you you you can if you want you can use th the.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Please, Norman, draw uh.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Go on, draw something. Mm.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Oh, I'm afraid you forgot to put your lapel.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Where is it?", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "The lapel.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Or before the before the the design that says.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Ah, okay.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Where where is it? Here.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah, that one.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Norman.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Just plug it.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah, that's right.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Be before before writing you can uh sit and that says what we what we said", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "then after that you can you can use the. Yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Okay, alright. So so the most functional des mm the most important function is to ch choo buttons to choose the content. Right? We agree on that, right?", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Uh, uh first one is to uh buttons i or it could be anything with buttons. Uh to choose uh content s or channels.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "So we have both. The user can choose w which one they want, right?", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah, by content or by channel,", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "By content or by channel.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "it's a good idea.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Choose by contents or by channels. And then what did we say just now? Other than this.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "And uh we we have to find a way how to gather information about the contents.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Okay, so technically how the problems that how to do it is to how to get the content.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Challenge.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "I think i it's not very difficult to to browse by channel but it's a little bit tricky to browse by contents so.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Okay. Content. Okay, so these we have to work it out. So this one of the problem. 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I would be confused with this thing.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "S", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm..", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "How is everyone?", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Hi.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Hi.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "So we are here for the detailed design meeting.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "So.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "we will uh I will first present what we are going to do in this meeting. Then uh I've I will also take notes during this meeting and I will send you uh a summary then as usual. We will then look at the evaluation criteria of the prototype presented by uh our two colleagues that make good work.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "And uh then we will see the financial aspects and the cost of the product. Then we will uh evaluate the product. And uh end with the conclusion of this project and see whether it fits with it fulf if it fulfil the requirement or not. So", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "d let's start with the cost aspect so so I look at the aspect discussed last time, that is to say uh to have a standard battery, to have a yellow banana shaped uh case with uh a rubber material around it", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "to be uh to feel spongy,", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Like a banana.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "and uh also at the different aspect like having a wheel etcetera.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "And the cost ended to be ten point seven Euros. So which is uh good, because we had a price gap of twelve point five Euros.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "So for the financial aspect it's okay, we can uh we can continue with this product uh as if,", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "and we are now going to see the project evaluation with uh our marketing expert.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah. Okay. So uh you can have my project in.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah. You have a presentation?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Uh yeah just a.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Participant four, yes.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Four. Evaluation.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Okay. Okay.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Okay. So you can go. We can go through.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "So I made an evaluation and the the evaluation criteria is made according to the users' requirements and the market trends we talked about uh during the previous uh meetings. So you can go through and.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "okay so uh we have uh six points. We we talked about before.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "So we we want to have a product fancy look and feel, technologically innovative, easy to use, fashion, easy to find in a room, and robust,", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "uh and uh uh I have a scale of uh seven points.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Okay. So I go through all the uh all the points here,", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "and uh according to what you think about the this project you can uh mm make a one point, two point or seven point. Okay?", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "And after we ha we have an an average, and uh we see.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "The okay? Uh so uh fancy look and feel, what do you think?", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Okay. Maybe you can presen.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "F between o one and seven.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "okay. Maybe hold it.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "So I think it's uh very uh very nice. What do you think?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "I give it a I give it a five.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah. So it's between one and seven? Seven is the highest uh?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah. Seven is the.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "I will give a six.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "I will give a a five.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "And you?", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "sorry.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Do you vote uh Christine?", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "eh?", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Do you also vote?", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "No, I just want to see something.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Maybe we all have to agree on a common.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Well, we can very easily.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Uh I think uh and need to as well.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "No problem. So", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Need to.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "this is your.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "uh I don't know if you we ha we have to put uh one uh f If it's better or.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "One is most.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "I.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Uh-uh.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Well, we can choose what we want.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Um. Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Okay, let's say that seven is the best.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Or maybe we can say s seven is the best mm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Okay. So so do note the grade we have five, six for me,", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Five.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "five. And what what's your choice?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Oh sorry..", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "How much would you give on the fancy aspect, on the fashionable aspect?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Six Uh s you can how much what?", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "How much would you you don't answer to this uh questionnaire?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Oh yes I mm I dunno mm, I think six, it's a good uh.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "So it will have five point five average.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Five point five average.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Wa can..", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Well, does it.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "I sorry.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Okay. So after, the technological aspect?", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Okay, techne technological aspect.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "So we we said uh we have uh a new technological uh thing with a wheel.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah, we have the wheel. We also have the rubber material,", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Uh.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "which make it uh like new also. I think I would give a five.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "It's four.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Four?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "A four also, because, except for the wheel, we don't have so much innovation.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "The rubber is.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Uh a four. I I.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "D are we including the voice are you glu are we including the voice in the end or not? Huh?", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "No.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "No. Okay.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "So", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "No.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "what's your uh grade?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Four.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Four? So we have four, four f and five?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "We can put four?", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah, four. Four, yeah, let's put four.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "For twenty five.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Everyone is okay or four poin Four.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Doesn't it.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Very easy to use. Do you think it's easy to use?", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah, I think so. Yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "I give a seven, I think.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Six.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "I would give a I would give a seven as well. It's very easy to use.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Six.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Mm, six for me also.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "So", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "'Kay.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Six point five..", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "six point five.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Six six six point five.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Okay. Is it fashion?.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Oh yeah,", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "its its f its fruit fruit shape.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Seven?.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "I would say seven. And is very very nice design.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah it's fashion, because it's a fruit,", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah, we can we can put a seven here.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "and we say that the.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah, seven.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "yeah, seven.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah. Seven, okay.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah. Well, we hope.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Easy to find.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Uh easy to find in a room?.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "I lost my banana..", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "I think you can't miss it.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah?", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Uh.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah, I think it's cool. I think we can put a six here.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "We have the lightning, or.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah, we have the.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "The lighting.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "we don't sesh especially have the lightning", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "So you'll make the material transparent", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "but.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "so that it uh lights up completely, or.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "So it's yellow. It's okay.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah..", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "I think it's very easy to.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Seven?", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "I would say seven. It's hard to miss it.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Six. Yeah, okay.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Is it is it robust?", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah, it's rubber, made of rubber,", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Uh f yeah, it's ru it's rubber.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "I think it's m it's uh more rubber than uh other remote control.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah..", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah the only problem there might be which know, i if it's very sensitive,", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "they will,", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "I don't know.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "But it is uh it is surrounded by rubber material.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah, okay.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "So maybe we can put a six.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Everybody is okay, six.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Six or five. Five.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Six is okay?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Six, yeah, for me.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Six.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah. Okay.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "S now um so.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Tadada. We have to sum up everything.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Twenty.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Thirteen uh, twenty, twenty six point five, uh seven, thirty two, thirty six.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Thirty. Thir", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "That's that's okay? Six.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Six is a good.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Good. Uh if we say that seven it's uh it's the better,", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah, the be.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah, the top.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "and when uh s six sit six are good it's a good uh p product, I think.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Okay, so six is a.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm. So will become eight soon?", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "So it's a good evaluation, I think. It's very promising.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah, well it's a bit biased..", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Huh.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "We have a good price and uh.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "So this prototype is quite nice..", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Good.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Because I saw uh some phones that were banana shaped, uh wireless phones not mobile ones, wireless for the house,", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah. Okay.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "uh quite big also,", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "and they were selling something like a hundred Euros, two hundred Euros.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Just a just a phone, wireless.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "So having this at twenty five Euros is uh quite attractive, I think.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "I think the.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "But almo also the complexity between a phone and a remote control is not cannot compare.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah. Yeah,", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "it's much more complex, but.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "So, I think, we can summarise. So we have seen the prototype. It's very nice according to the work of our two designer.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "The the the financial aspect were okay. We we have the cost below uh our threshold and so we could sell at twenty five Euros and make i make profit. The the evaluation give satisfying result as well. So I think we can move to the last part of the meeting.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "So the cost is in the budget, the evaluation is okay, so I th I think we can now uh open champagne and make a huge party.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Start to eat banana..", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "I don't know if it's provided by uh by the meeting staff.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Okay so congratulation. Nice product.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Congratulations to the team. Uh very well, we worked together fantastically.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "I think it was a good collaboration uh. Aspect.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "So what does the management say?", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Sorry?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "What does the management say?", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "I think we will have um much bigger project next time and a much bigger salary as well.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Ah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "All it depends on who watch this meeting.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah..", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "We don't know..", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Okay, so", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "good guys,", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "so see you for next uh successful project..", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Okay. 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So why don't we just around and people can give updates.", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "Oh.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Uh, do you want to start, Stephane?", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "Alright. Um. Well, the first thing maybe is that the p Eurospeech paper is, uh, accepted. Um. Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "This is what what do you, uh what's in the paper there?", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "So it's the paper that describe basically the, um, system that were proposed for the Aurora.", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "The one that we s we submitted the last round?", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "Right, yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Uh - huh.", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "Um Yeah. So and the, fff comments seems from the reviewer are good. So.", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "Hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "Mmm Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "Where where's it gonna be this year?", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "It's, uh, Aalborg in Denmark. And it's,", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "Oh, OK.", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "yeah, September.", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "Mmm.", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "Mmm Yeah. Then, uh, whhh well, I've been working on on t mainly on on - line normalization this week. Uh, I've been trying different slightly slightly different approaches. Um, the first thing is trying to play a little bit again with the, um, time constant. Uh, second thing is, uh, the training of, uh, on - line normalization with two different means, one mean for the silence and one for the speech. Um, and so I have two recursions which are controlled by the, um, probability of the voice activity detector. Mmm. This actually don't s doesn't seem to help, although it doesn't hurt. So. But well, both on - line normalization approach seems equivalent. Well, they.", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "Are the means pretty different for the two?", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "Yeah. They can be very different. Yeah. Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "Hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "So do you maybe make errors in different places? Different kinds of errors?", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "I didn't look, uh, more closely. Um. It might be, yeah. Mm - hmm. Um. Well, eh, there is one thing that we can observe, is that the mean are more different for for C - zero and C - one than for the other coefficients. And Yeah. And Yeah, it the C - one is There are strange strange thing happening with C - one, is that when you have different kind of noises, the mean for the the silence portion is can be different. And.", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "Hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "So when you look at the trajectory of C - one, it's has a strange shape and I was expecting th the s that these two mean helps, especially because of the the strange C - ze C - one shape, uh, which can like, yo you can have, um, a trajectory for the speech and then when you are in the silence it goes somewhere, but if the noise is different it goes somewhere else.", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "Oh.", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "So which would mean that if we estimate the mean based on all the signal, even though we have frame dropping, but we don't frame ev uh, drop everything, but uh, this can hurts the estimation of the mean for speech, and Mmm. But I still have to investigate further, I think. Um, a third thing is, um, that instead of t having a fixed time constant, I try to have a time constant that's smaller at the beginning of the utterances to adapt more quickly to the r something that's closer to the right mean. T t um Yeah. And then this time constant increases and I have a threshold that.", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "well, if it's higher than a certain threshold, I keep it to this threshold to still, uh, adapt, um, the mean when if the utterance is, uh, long enough to to continue to adapt after, like, one second", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm. Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "or Mmm. Uh, well, this doesn't help neither, but this doesn't hurt. So, well. It seems pretty.", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "Wasn't there some experiment you were gonna try where you did something differently for each, um, uh I don't know whether it was each mel band or each, uh, um, FFT bin or someth There was something you were gonna uh, some parameter you were gonna vary depending on the frequency. I don't know if that was.", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "I guess it was I don't know. No. u Maybe it's this this idea of having different on - line normalization, um, tunings for the different MFCC's.", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "For each, uh.", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "But Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "Yeah. I I thought, Morgan, you brought it up a couple meetings ago. And then it was something about, uh, some and then somebody said \" yeah, it does seem like, you know, C - zero is the one that's, you know, the major one \" or, uh, s I can't remember exactly what it was now.", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "Mmm. Yeah. There uh, actually, yeah. S um, it's very important to normalize C - zero and much less to normalize the other coefficients. And, um, actu uh, well, at least with the current on - line normalization scheme. And we I think, we kind of know that normalizing C - one doesn't help with the current scheme. And and Yeah. In my idea, I I was thinking that the the the reason is maybe because of these funny things that happen between speech and silence which have different means. Um Yeah. But maybe it's not so so easy to.", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "Um, I I really would like to suggest looking, um, a little bit at the kinds of errors. I know you can get lost in that and go forever and not see too much, but sometimes,", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "but but, um, just seeing that each of these things didn't make things better may not be enough. It may be that they're making them better in some ways and worse in others,", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Yeah. Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "or increasing insertions and decreasing deletions, or or, um, um, you know, helping with noisy case but hurting in quiet case. And if you saw that then maybe you it would something would occur to you of how to deal with that.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm. Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "Hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Alright. Mmm. Yeah. W um, So that's it, I think, for the on - line normalization. Um Yeah. I've been playing a little bit with some kind of thresholding, and, mmm, as a first experiment, I think I Yeah. Well, what I did is t is to take, um to measure the average no, the maximum energy of s each utterance and then put a threshold Well, this for each mel band. Then put a threshold that's fifteen DB below well, uh, a couple of DB below this maximum,", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm. Mmm.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "and Actually it was not a threshold, it was just adding noise.", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "So I was adding a white noise energy, uh, that's fifteen DB below the maximum energy of the utterance. And Yeah. When we look at at the, um, MFCC that result from this, they are a lot more smoother. Um, when we compare, like, a channel zero and channel one utterance um, so a clean and, uh, the same noisy utterance well, there is almost no difference between the cepstral coefficients of the two.", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "Hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "Um. And Yeah. And the result that we have in term of speech recognition, actually it's not it's not worse, it's not better neither, but it's, um, kind of surprising that it's not worse", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "Hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "because basically you add noise that's fifteen DB just fifteen DB below the maximum energy.", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "Sorry.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "And at least.", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "So why does that m smooth things out? I don't I don't understand that.", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "Well, there's less difference. Right?", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "It's I think, it's whitening This the portion that are more silent,", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "Cuz it's.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "as you add a white noise that are has a very high energy, it whitens everything", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "Huh. Oh, OK.", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "and and the high - energy portion of the speech don't get much affected anyway by the other noise. And as the noise you add is the same is the shape, it's also the same.", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "Hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "So they have the trajectory are very, very similar. And and.", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "So, I mean, again, if you trained in one kind of noise and tested in the same kind of noise, you'd you know, given enough training data you don't do b do badly. The reason that we d that we have the problems we have is because it's different in training and test. Even if the general kind is the same, the exact instances are different. And and", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "so when you whiten it, then it's like you the the only noise to to first order, the only th noise that you have is white noise and you've added the same thing to training and test.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "So it's,", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "uh.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "So would that be similar to, like, doing the smoothing, then, over time or?", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "Well, it's a kind of smoothing,", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "I think it's I think it's different.", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "but.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "It's it's something that yeah, that affects more or less the silence portions because.", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "Well, anyway, the sp the portion of speech that ha have high energy are not ch a lot affected by the noises in the Aurora database.", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "If if you compare th the two shut channels of SpeechDat - Car during speech portion, it's n n n the MFCC are not very different. They are very different when energy's lower, like during fricatives or during speech pauses. And,", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "Yeah, but you're still getting more recognition errors,", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "uh.", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "which means that the differences, even though they look like they're not so big, are are hurting your recognition.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Ye", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "Right?", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Yeah. So it distort the speech. Right.", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Um.", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "So performance went down?", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "No. It didn't. But.", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "Oh.", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "Yeah. So, but in this case I I really expect that maybe the the two these two stream of features, they are very different. I mean, and maybe we could gain something by combining them", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "Well, the other thing is that you just picked one particular way of doing it.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "or.", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "Uh, I mean, first place it's fifteen DB, uh, down across the utterance. And maybe you'd want to have something that was a little more adaptive. Secondly, you happened to pick fifteen DB", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Mmm.", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "and maybe twenty'd be better,", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "or or twelve.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Yeah. Right.", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "So what was the what was the threshold part of it? Was the threshold, uh, how far down?", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "Yeah. Well, he yeah, he had to figure out how much to add. So he was looking he was looking at the peak value.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Uh - huh.", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "Right? And then.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Uh - huh.", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "And and so what's ho I don't understand. How does it go? If it if if the peak value's above some threshold, then you add the noise? Or if it's below s", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "I systematically add the noise, but the, um, noise level is just some kind of threshold below the peak.", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "Oh, oh. I see.", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "Mmm.", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "I see.", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Um. Yeah. Which is not really noise, actually. It's just adding a constant to each of the mel, uh, energy.", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "To each of the mel filter bank. Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "I see.", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "So, yeah, it's really, uh, white noise. I th", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "So then afterwards a log is taken, and that's so sort of why the the little variation tends to go away.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm. Um. Yeah. So may Well, the this threshold is still a factor that we have to look at. And I don't know, maybe a constant noise addition would would be fine also, or Um.", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "Or or not constant but but, uh, varying over time in fact is another way to go.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm. Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "Um.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Yeah. Um.", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "Were you using the the normalization in addition to this? I mean, what was the rest of the system?", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Um Yeah. It was it was, uh, the same system. Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "OK.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "It was the same system. Mmm. Oh, yeah. A third thing is that, um, I play a little bit with the, um finding what was different between, um, And there were a couple of differences, like the LDA filters were not the same. Um, he had the France Telecom blind equalization in the system. Um, the number o of MFCC that was were used was different. You used thirteen and we used fifteen. Well, a bunch of differences. And, um, actually the result that he he got were much better on TI - digits especially. So I'm kind of investigated to see what was the main factor for this difference. And it seems that the LDA filter is is was hurting. Um, so when we put s some noise compensation the, um, LDA filter that that's derived from noisy speech is not more anymore optimal. And it makes a big difference, um, on TI - digits trained on clean. Uh, if we use the the old LDA filter, I mean the LDA filter that was in the proposal, we have, like, eighty - two point seven percent recognition rate, um, on noisy speech when the system is trained on clean speech. But and when we use the filter that's derived from clean speech we jumped so from eighty - two point seven to eighty - five point one, which is a huge leap.", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Um. Yeah. So now the results are more similar, and I don't I will not, I think, investigate on the other differences, which is like the number of MFCC that we keep and other small things that we can I think optimize later on anyway.", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "Sure. But on the other hand if everybody is trying different kinds of noise suppression things and so forth, it might be good to standardize on the piece that we're not changing. Right? So if there's any particular reason to ha pick one or the other, I mean Which which one is closer to what the proposal was that was submitted to Aurora? Are they they both? Well, I mean.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "I think Yeah. I think th th uh, the new system that I tested is, I guess, closer because it doesn't have it have less of of France Telecom stuff,", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "You mean the.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "I.", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "The whatever you, uh, tested with recently. Right?", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Mmm? Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "Yeah?", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Well, no, I I'm I Yeah, you're trying to add in France Telecom.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "But, we.", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "Tell them about the rest of it. Like you said the number of filters might be different or something. Right? Or.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "The number of cepstral coefficients is what?", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Cep", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "Yeah. So, I mean, I think we'd wanna standardize there, wouldn't we?", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Yeah, yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "So, sh you guys should pick something", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "and Well, all th all three of you.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "I think we were gonna work with with this or this new system, or with.", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "Uh, so the the right now, the the system that is there in the what we have in the repositories, with uses fifteen.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "So Right. Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "Yeah, so Yeah, so Yep.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "But we will use the the LDA filters f derived from clean speech. Well, yeah, actually it's it's not the the LDA filter.", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "Yeah, yeah. So.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "It's something that's also short enough in in latency.", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "Yeah. Well.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "So.", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "Yeah. So, we haven't w we have been always using, uh, fifteen coefficients,", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "not thirteen?", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "Yeah. Well, uh, that's something's Um. Yeah. Then.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "I think as long as you guys agree on it, it doesn't matter.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "mmm.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "I think we have a maximum of sixty, uh, features that we're allowed. So.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "Yeah. Ma - maybe we can I mean, at least, um, I'll t s run some experiments to see whether once I have this noise compensation to see whether thirteen and fifteen really matters or not.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm. Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "Never tested it with the compensation, but without, uh, compensation it was like fifteen was s slightly better than thirteen,", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "so that's why we stuck to thirteen.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Yeah. And there is there is also this log energy versus C - zero.", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "Sorry, fifteen. Yeah, the log energy versus C - zero.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Well. W w if if.", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "Uh, that's that's the other thing. I mean, without noise compensation certainly C - zero is better than log energy. Be - I mean, because the there are more, uh, mismatched conditions than the matching conditions for testing.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "You know, always for the matched condition, you always get a slightly better performance for log energy than C - zero.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "But not for I mean, for matched and the clean condition both, you get log energy I mean you get a better performance with log energy.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "Well, um, maybe once we have this noise compensation, I don't know, we have to try that also, whether we want to go for C - zero or log energy.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "We can see that.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "Hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Mmm.", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "So do you have more, Stephane, or?", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "Uh, that's it, I think. Mmm.", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "Do you have anything, Morgan, or?", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "Uh, no. I'm just, you know, being a manager this week. So.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "How about you, Barry?", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "Um, still working on my my quals preparation stuff. Um, so I'm I'm thinking about, um, starting some, uh, cheating experiments to, uh, determine the, um the relative effectiveness of, um, some intermediate categories that I want to classify. So, for example, um, if I know where voicing occurs and everything, um, I would do a phone um, phone recognition experiment, um, somehow putting in the the, uh the perfect knowledge that I have about voicing. So, um, in particular I was thinking, um, in in the hybrid framework, just taking those LNA files, and, um, setting to zero those probabilities that, um that these phones are not voicing. So say, like, I know this particular segment is voicing, um, I would say, uh, go into the corresponding LNA file and zonk out the the posteriors for, um, those phonemes that, um, are not voiced,", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm. Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "and then see what kinds of improvements I get. And so this would be a useful thing, um, to know in terms of, like, which which, um which of these categories are are good for, um, speech recognition.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "Hmm. Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "So, that's I hope to get those, uh those experiments done by by the time quals come come around in July.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "So do you just take the probabilities of the other ones and spread them out evenly among the the remaining ones?", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "Yeah. I I I was thinking OK, so just set to set to some really low number, the the non - voiced, um, phones.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "Right? And then renormalize.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "Mmm.", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "Right. Yeah.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Cool. That will be really interesting to see, you know. So then you're gonna feed the those into some standard recognizer.", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "Uh, wh are you gonna do digits", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "Yeah, m Um, well, I'm gonna f work with TIMIT.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "or? With TIMIT. OK.", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "TIMIT uh, phone recognition with TIMIT.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "And, um.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "Oh, so then you'll feed those Sorry. So where do the outputs of the net go into if you're doing phone recognition?", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "Oh. Um, the outputs of the net go into the standard, h um, ICSI hybrid, um, recognizer. So maybe, um, Chronos", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "An - and you're gonna the you're gonna do phone recognition with that?", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "or Phone recognition. Right, right.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "OK, OK. I see.", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "So. And, uh, another thing would be to extend this to, uh, digits or something where I can look at whole words.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "And I would be able to see, uh, not just, like, phoneme events, but, um, inter - phoneme events. So, like, this is from a stop to to a vo a vocalic", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "segment. You know, so something that is transitional in nature.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "Cool. Great.", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "So that's that's it.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "Uh OK.", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "Um Let's see, I haven't done a whole lot on anything related to this this week. I've been focusing mainly on Meeting Recorder stuff.", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "Oh.", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "So, um, I guess I'll just pass it on to Dave.", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "Uh, OK. Well, in my lunch talk last week I I said I'd tried phase normalization and gotten garbage results using that l um, long - term mean subtraction approach. It turned out there was a bug in my Matlab code. So I tried it again, um, and, um, the results were were better. I got intelligible speech back. But they still weren't as good as just subtracting the magnitude the log magnitude means. And also I've been talking to, um, Andreas and Thilo about the, um, SmartKom language model and about coming up with a good model for, um, far mike use of the SmartKom system. So I'm gonna be working on, um, implementing this mean subtraction approach in the far - mike system for the SmartKom system, I mean. And, um, one of the experiments we're gonna do is, um, we're gonna, um, train the a Broadcast News net, which is because that's what we've been using so far, and, um, adapt it on some other data. Um, An - Andreas wants to use, um, data that resembles read speech, like these digit readings, because he feels that the SmartKom system interaction is not gonna be exactly conversational.", "speakerName": "Grad G" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "S so actually I was wondering, how long does it take to train that Broadcast News net?", "speakerName": "Grad G" }, { "text": "The big one takes a while. Yeah. That takes two, three weeks.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Two, three weeks.", "speakerName": "Grad G" }, { "text": "So but, you know, uh, you can get I don't know if you even want to run the big one, uh, um, in the in the final system, cuz, you know, it takes a little while to run it. So, um, you can scale it down by I'm sorry, it was two, three weeks for training up for the large Broadcast News test set training set. I don't know how much you'd be training on.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Oh.", "speakerName": "Grad G" }, { "text": "The full?", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "OK.", "speakerName": "Grad G" }, { "text": "Uh, i so if you trained on half as much and made the net, uh, uh, half as big, then it would be one fourth the amount of time", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "OK.", "speakerName": "Grad G" }, { "text": "and it'd be nearly as good. So.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "OK.", "speakerName": "Grad G" }, { "text": "Yeah. Also, I guess we had we've had these, uh, little di discussions I guess you ha haven't had a chance to work with it too much about about, uh uh, uh m other ways of taking care of the phase. So, I mean, I I guess that was something I could say would be that we've talked a little bit about", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Grad G" }, { "text": "you just doing it all with complex arithmetic and, uh and not not, uh, doing the polar representation with magnitude and phase. But it looks like there's ways that one could potentially just work with the complex numbers and and and in principle get rid of the effects of the average complex spectrum. But.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "And, um, actually, regarding the phase normalization So I did two experiments, and one is So, phases get added, modulo two pi, and because you only know the phase of the complex number t t to a value modulo two pi. And so I thought at first, um, that, uh, what I should do is unwrap the phase because that will undo that. Um, but I actually got worse results doing that unwrapping using the simple phase unwrapper that's in Matlab than I did not unwrapping at all.", "speakerName": "Grad G" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "Yeah. P So.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "And that's all I have to say.", "speakerName": "Grad G" }, { "text": "Hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "Yeah. So I'm I'm still hopeful that that I mean, we we don't even know if the phase is something the average phase is something that we do want to remove. I mean, maybe there's some deeper reason why it isn't the right thing to do. But, um, at least in principle it looks like there's there's, uh, a couple potential ways to do it. One one being to just work with the complex numbers, um, and, uh in rectangular kind of coordinates. And the other is to, uh, do a Taylor series Well. So you work with the complex numbers and then when you get the spectrum the average complex spectrum um, actually divide it out, um, as opposed to taking the log and subtracting. So then, um, um, you know, there might be some numerical issues. We don't really know that. The other thing we talked a little bit about was Taylor series expansion. And, um, uh, actually I was talking to Dick Karp about it a little bit, and and and, since I got thinking about it, and and, uh, so one thing is that y you'd have to do, I think, uh we may have to do this on a whiteboard, but I think you have to be a little careful about scaling the numbers that you're taking the complex numbers that you're taking the log of because the Taylor expansion for it has, you know, a square and a cube, and and so forth. And and so if if you have a a number that is modulus, you know, uh, very different from one It should be right around one, if it's cuz it's a expansion of log one one minus epsilon or o is is one plus epsilon, or is it one plus? Well, there's an epsilon squared over two and an epsilon cubed over three,", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "OK.", "speakerName": "Grad G" }, { "text": "and so forth. So if epsilon is bigger than one, then it diverges.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Oh.", "speakerName": "Grad G" }, { "text": "So you have to do some scaling. But that's not a big deal cuz it's the log of of K times a complex number, then you can just that's the same as log of K plus log of the complex number.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Oh.", "speakerName": "Grad G" }, { "text": "Uh, so there's.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "OK.", "speakerName": "Grad G" }, { "text": "converges. But.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Hmm. OK. How about you, Sunil?", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "So, um, I've been, uh, implementing this, uh, Wiener filtering for this Aurora task. And, uh, I I actually thought it was it was doing fine when I tested it once. I it's, like, using a small section of the code. And then I ran the whole recognition experiment with Italian and I got, like, worse results than not using it. Then I So, I've been trying to find where the problem came from. And then it looks like I have some problem in the way there is some some very silly bug somewhere. And, ugh! I I mean, i uh, it actually i it actually made the whole thing worse. I was looking at the spectrograms that I got and it's, like w it's it's very horrible. Like, when I.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "I I missed the v I'm sorry, I was I was distracted. I missed the very first sentence. So then, I'm a little lost on the rest.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Oh, I mean.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "What what what?", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Oh, yeah. I actually implemented the Wiener f f fil filtering as a module and then tested it out separately.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Yeah, I see. Oh, OK.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "And it it it gave, like I just got the signal out and it it was OK. So, I plugged it in somewhere and then I mean, it's like I had to remove some part and then plugging it in somewhere. And then I in that process I messed it up somewhere.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "OK.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "So. So, it was real I mean, I thought it was all fine and then I ran it, and I got something worse than not using it. So, I was like I'm trying to find where the m m problem came,", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Uh - huh.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "and it seems to be, like, somewhere.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "OK.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "some silly stuff. And, um, the other thing, uh, was, uh, uh Well, Hynek showed up one suddenly on one day and then I was t talking wi", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Right. Yeah. As as he is wont to do. Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Uh, yeah. So I was actually that day I was thinking about d doing something about the Wiener filtering, and then Carlos matter of stuff. And then he showed up and then I told him. And then he gave me a whole bunch of filters what Carlos used for his, uh, uh, thesis and then that was something which came up. And then, um So, uh, I'm actually, uh, thinking of using that also in this, uh, W Wiener filtering because that is a m modified Wiener filtering approach, where instead of using the current frame, it uses adjacent frames also in designing the Wiener filter. So instead of designing our own new Wiener filters, I may just use one of those Carlos filters in in this implementation", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "and see whether it it actually gives me something better than using just the current f current frame, which is in a way, uh, something like the smoothing the Wiener filter.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "but @ @ S so, I don't know, I was h I'm I'm I'm, like that so that is the next thing. Once this I once I sort this pro uh, problem out maybe I'll just go into that also. And the the other thing was about the subspace approach. So, um, I, like, plugged some groupings for computing this eigen uh, uh, uh, s values and eigenvectors. So just I just @ @ some small block of things which I needed to put together for the subspace approach. And I'm in the process of, like, building up that stuff. And, um, uh Yeah. I guess Yep. I guess that's it. And, uh, th th that's where I am right now. So.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Oh. How about you, Carmen?", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "Mmm. I'm working with VTS. Um, I do several experiment with the Spanish database first, only with VTS and nothing more. Not VAD, no LDA, nothing more.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "What what is VTS again?", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "New.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Eh, Vectorial Taylor Series.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Oh, yes.", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "To remove the noise too.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Right, right. I think I ask you that every single meeting, don't I?", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "What?", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "I ask you that question every meeting.", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "So, that'd be good from for analysis.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "If Well.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "It's good to have some, uh, cases of the same utterance at different different times.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "\" What is VTS? \"", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "VTS. I'm sor Well, um, the question is that Well. Remove some noise but not too much. And when we put the m m the, em, VAD, the result is better. And we put everything, the result is better, but it's not better than the result that we have without VTS. No, no.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "I see. So that @ @ given that you're using the VAD also, the effect of the VTS is not so far.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Is not.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Do you How much of that do you think is due to just the particular implementation and how much you're adjusting it? Or how much do you think is intrinsic to?", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Pfft. I don't know because.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Are you still using only the ten first frame for noise estimation", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "Hhh,", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "or? Or i?", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "Uh, I do the experiment using only the f onl eh, to use on only one fair estimation of the noise.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Yeah. Hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "And also I did some experiment, uh, doing, um, a lying estimation of the noise. And, well, it's a little bit better but not n", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Maybe you have to standardize this thing also, noise estimation, because all the thing that you are testing use a different They all need some some noise noise spectra", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "Mmm.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Mmm. No, I do that two t did two time.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "but they use every all use a different one.", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "I have an idea. If if, uh, uh, y you're right. I mean, each of these require this. Um, given that we're going to have for this test at least of uh, boundaries, what if initially we start off by using known sections of nonspeech for the estimation?", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Right? S so, e um,", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Yeah. Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "first place, I mean even if ultimately we wouldn't be given the boundaries, uh, this would be a good initial experiment to separate out the effects of things. I mean, how much is the poor you know, relatively, uh, unhelpful result that you're getting in this or this or this is due to some inherent limitation to the method for these tasks and how much of it is just due to the fact that you're not accurately finding enough regions that that are really n noise?", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Mmm.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "Um. So maybe if you tested it using that, you'd have more reliable stretches of nonspeech to do the estimation from and see if that helps.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Yeah. Another thing is the, em the codebook, the initial codebook. That maybe, well, it's too clean and.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Cuz it's a I don't know. The methods If you want, you c I can say something about the method.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Yeah. In the Because it's a little bit different of the other method. Well, we have If this if this is the noise signal, uh, in the log domain, we have something like this. Now, we have something like this. And the idea of these methods is to n given a, um.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "How do you say? I will read because it's better for my English. I i given is the estimate of the PDF of the noise signal when we have a, um, a statistic of the clean speech and an statistic of the noisy speech. And the clean speech the statistic of the clean speech is from a codebook. Mmm? This is the idea. Well, like, this relation is not linear. The methods propose to develop this in a vectorial Taylor series approximation.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "I I'm actually just confused about the equations you have up there. So, uh, the top equation is is is.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "No, this in the it's this is the log domain. I I must to say that.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Which is which is the log domain?", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Is the T is egual is equal to, uh, log of.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "And but Y is what? Y of the spectrum", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Uh, this this is this", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "or?", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "and this is this.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "No, no. The top Y is what?", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Is that power spectrum?", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Uh, this is the noisy speech.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "p s this.", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "No, is that power spectrum? Is it?", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Yeah. I guess it's the power spectrum of noisy speech.", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "Yeah. It's the power spectrum.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Oh, OK.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Yeah. And.", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "So that's uh.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "This is the noisy Yeah, it's.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "OK.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "of the value.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Yeah, OK. So this it's the magnitude squared or something.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "OK, so you have power spectrum added there and down here you have you you put the depends on T, but b all of this is just you just mean.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "w o Yeah. It's the same.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "you just mean the log of the of the one up above.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "And, uh, so that is X times,", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "uh,", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "One one plus N by X.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Yeah, maybe.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "o", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "But, n Well, y we can expre we can put this expression.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "X times one plus, uh, N uh, N N N minus X?", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "The Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "And then, uh So that's log of X plus log of one plus, uh.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "And the noise signal.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Well. Is that right? Log of.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "One plus N by X.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Well, mmm.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "I actually don't see how you get that. Uh.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Well, if we apply the log, we have E is n", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Mmm.", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "Uh, and.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "uh, log E is equal, oh, to log of X plus N.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "And, well,", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "And, log of.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "uh, we can say that E is equal to log of, um, exponential of X plus exponential of N.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Uh.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "No.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "No.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "That doesn't follow.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Well, if E restricts It is y", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Well, this is this is in the ti the time domain. Well, we have that, um We have first that, for example, X is equal, uh Well. This is the frequency domain", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "and we can put u that n the log domain log of X omega, but, well, in the time domain we have an exponential. No? No? Oh, maybe it's I am I'm problem.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Yeah. I mean, just never mind what they are. Uh, it's just if X and N are variables Right?", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "What is, uh?", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "The the the log of X plus N is not the same as the log of E to the X plus E to the N.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Yeah. But this i Well, I don't Well, uh,", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Maybe we can take it off - line,", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "maybe.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "but I I don't know.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "I I can do this incorrectly. Well, the expression that appear in the in the paper, is, uh.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "The log the Taylor series expansion for log one plus N by X is.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "OK.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Is it the first - order expansion?", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "is X.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "I i", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Yeah, the first one.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Yeah, I guess.", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "OK. Yeah. Cuz it doesn't just follow what's there.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Uh - huh.", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "It has to be some, uh, Taylor series.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Y yeah. If if you take log X into log one plus N by X, and then expand the log one plus N by X into Taylor series.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "Now, this is the and then.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Yeah, but the the second expression that you put is the first - order expansion of the nonlinear relation between.", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "Not exactly.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "No.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "No, no, no. It's not the first space. Well, we have pfft, uh, em Well, we can put that X is equal I is equal to log of, uh, mmm.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "That doesn't follow.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Mmm.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Well, we can put, uh, this?", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "No.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "That I mean, that the f top one does not imply the second one. Because cuz the log of a sum is not the same as th", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "The top?", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "I mean, as.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "But we can uh, we we know that, for example, the log of E plus B is equal to log of E plus log to B.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "And we can say here, it i", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Right. So you could s", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "What is that?", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "And we can, uh, put this inside.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "And then we can, uh,", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "N no,", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "you know.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "but.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "I don't see how you get the second expression from the top one.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Uh.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "The I mean, just more generally here, if you say \" log of, um, A plus B \", the log of log of A plus B is not or A plus B is not the, um, log of E to the A plus E to the B.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "No, no, no, no, no, no, no. This not.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Right? And that's what you seem to be saying.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "No. No. It's not. But this is the same oh.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Right? Cuz you cuz you up here you have the A plus B.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "No. I say if I apply log, I have, uh, log of E is equal to log of, uh in this side, is equal to log of X", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Plus N.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "plus N.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "No?", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "And then how do you go from there to the?", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "This is right. And then if I apply exponential, to have here E.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Look. OK, so let's I mean, C equals A plus B,", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "It's log o of capital Y. Yeah, right.", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "and then.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Capital Y.", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "X. X. This is X, inside.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "We have this, no?", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Yeah. That one's right.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "One and.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "S uh, i th we can put here the set transformation.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Oh. I see.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "No?", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "I see. OK, I understand now. Alright, thanks.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Yeah. In this case, well, we can put here a Y.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "OK. So, yeah. It's just by definition that the individual that the, uh So, capital X is by definition the same as E to the little X because she's saying that the little X is is the, uh is the log. Alright.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Now we can put this.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "No?", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Alright.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "And here we can multiply by X.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "I think these things are a lot clearer when you can use fonts different fonts there", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Oh, yes.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "so you know which is which. But I I under I understand what you mean now.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Yeah, yeah. That's true. That's true.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "OK.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "But this this is correct?", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Sure.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "And now I can do it, uh pfff! I can put log of EX plus log.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Oh. Yes. I understand now. And that's where it comes from.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "And this is.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Yeah. Right.", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Now it's correct.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Right. OK. Thanks.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Well. The idea Well, we have fixed this equa", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "OK. So now once you get that that one, then you then you do a first or second - order, or something, Taylor series expansion of this.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Yeah. This is another linear relation that this to develop this in vector s Taylor series.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Yeah, sure.", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm. And for that, well, the goal is to obtain, um est estimate a PDF for the noisy speech when we have a a statistic for clean speech and for the noisy speech. Mmm? And when w the way to obtain the PDF for the noisy speech is well, we know this statistic and we know the noisy st well, we can apply first order of the vector st Taylor series of the of the of well, the order that we want, increase the complexity of the problem.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "And then when we have a expression, uh, for the mean and variance of the noisy speech, we apply a technique of minimum mean - square estimation", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "to obtain the expected value of the clean speech given the this statistic for the noisy speech.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "the statistic for clean speech and the statistic of the noisy speech. This only that. But the idea is that.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "And the the model of clean speech is a codebook. Right?", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "u Yeah. We have our codebook with different density Gaussian.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "We can expre we can put that the PDF for the clean test, probability of the clean speech is equal to.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "So, um, how h how much in in the work they reported, how much noisy speech did you need to get, uh, good enough statistics for the to get this mapping?", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "I don't know exactly.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "I I need to s", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "I don't know exactly.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Cuz I think what's certainly characteristic of a lot of the data in this test is that, um, you don't have the the training set may not be a a great estimator for the noise in the test set. Sometimes it is and sometimes it's not.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Yeah. I the clean speech the codebook for clean speech, I am using TIMIT. And I have now, uh, sixty - four Gaus - Gaussian.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Uh - huh. And what are you using for the noisy? Y y doing that strictly.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Of the noise I estimate the noises wi", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Well, for the noises I only use one Gaussian.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "And and you and you train it up entirely from, uh, nonspeech sections in the test?", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "Uh, yes. The first experiment that I do it is solely to calculate the, mmm well, this value.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "uh, the compensation of the dictionary o one time using the the noise at the f beginning of the sentence.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "This is the first experiment.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "And I fix this for all the all the sentences. Uh, because well, the VTS methods In fact the first thing that I do is to to obtain, uh, an expression for E probability e expression of of E. That mean that the VTS mmm, with the VTS we obtain, uh well, we we obtain the means for each Gaussian and the variance.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "This is one. Eh, this is the composition of the dictionary.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "This one thing. And the other thing that this with these methods is to, uh, obtain to calculate this value.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Because we can write uh, we can write that the estimation of the clean speech is equal at an expected value of the clean speech conditional to, uh, the noise signal the probability f of the the statistic of the clean speech and the statistic of the noise.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm. Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "This is the methods that say that we're going obtain this.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "And we can put that this is equal to the estimated value of E minus a function that conditional to E to the T to the noise signal. Well, this is this function is the the term after develop this, the term that we we take. Give PX and, uh, P the noise.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "X K C noise.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Mmm.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "And I can put that this is equal to the noise signal minus Well, I put before this name, uh And I can calculate this.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "What is the first variable in that probability?", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Uh, this is the Gaussian.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "No, no. I'm sorry. In in the one you pointed at. What's that variable?", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "v Uh, this is the.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Weak. So probably it it would do that.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "like this,", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "It's one mixture of the model. Right?", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "but conditional. No, it's condition it's not exactly this. It's modify. Uh, if we have clean speech we have the dictionary for the clean speech, we have a probability f of our our weight for each Gaussian.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "OK.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "No. And now, this weight is different now", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Yes.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "because it's conditional. And this I need to to calcu I know this", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Uh - huh.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "and I know this because this is from the dictionary that you have.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Uh - huh.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "I need to calculate this.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Yes.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "And for calculate this, I have an I I can develop an expression that is", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "It's overlapping.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "that. I can calculate I can I calculated this value, uh, with the statistic of the noisy speech that I calculated before with the VTS approximation.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "And well, normalizing. And I know everything. Uh, with the, nnn when I develop this in s Taylor Taylor series, I can't, um, calculate the mean and the variance of the for each of the Gaussian of the dictionary for the noisy speech. Now. And this is fixed.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "If I never do an estimat a newer estimation of the noise, this mean as mean and the variance are fixed.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "And for each s uh, frame of the speech the only thing that I need to do is to calculate this in order to calculate the estimation of the clean speech given our noisy speech.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "So, I'm I'm not following this perfectly but, um, I Are you saying that all of these estimates are done using, um, estimates of the probability density for the noise that are calculated only from the first ten frames? And never change throughout anything else?", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Yeah. Never cha This is one of the approximations that I am doing.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Per per per utterance, or per?", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Per utterance. Yes.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Per utterance. OK.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Per utterance. Yes.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "So it's done it's done new for each new utterance.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "And th", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "So this changes the whole mapping for every utterance.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Yeah. It's not Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "OK.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Yeah. It's fixed, the dictionary.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "OK.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "And the other estimation is when I do the uh on - line estimation, I change the means and variance of th for the noisy speech", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Yeah?", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "each time that I detect noise.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "I do it uh again this develop. Estimate the new mean and the variance of the noisy speech. And with th with this new s new mean and variance I estimate again this.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "So you estimated, uh, f completely forgetting what you had before? Uh, or is there some adaptation?", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Um, no, no, no. It's not completely No, it's I am doing something like an adaptation of the noise.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "OK. Now do we know, either from their experience or from yours, that, uh, just having, uh, two parameters, the the mean and variance, is enough? Yeah. I mean, I know you don't have a lot of data to estimate with, but but, uh, um.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "I estimate mean and variance for each one of the Gaussian of the codebook.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "No, I'm talking about the noise.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Oh,", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "There's only one Gaussian.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "um. Well, only one I am only using only one.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "I don't know i", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "And you and and it's, uh, uh right, it's only it's only one Wait a minute. This is what's the dimensionality of the Gaussian? This is.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Uh, it's in after the mel filter bank.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "So this is twenty or something?", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Twenty - three.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Twenty? So it's Yeah. So it's actually forty numbers that you're getting. Yeah, maybe maybe you don't have a.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Uh, the original paper say that only one Gaussian for the noise.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Well, yeah. But, I mean, no no paper is is a Bible,", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Yeah, maybe isn't the right thing.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "you know. This is this is, uh.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Yeah, yeah, yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "The question is, um, whether it would be helpful, i particularly if you used if you had more So, suppose you did This is almost cheating. It certainly isn't real - time. But if y suppose you use the real boundaries that that you were in fact were given by the VAD and so forth or I I guess we're gonna be given even better boundaries than that. And you look you take all o all of the nonspeech components in an utterance, so you have a fair amount. Do you benefit from having a better model for the noise? That would be another question.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Maybe.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "So first question would be to what extent i are the errors that you're still seeing based on the fact that you have poor boundaries for the, uh, uh, nonspeech? And the second question might be, given that you have good boundaries, could you do better if you used more parameters to characterize the noise? Um. Also another question might be Um, they are doing they're using first term only of the vector Taylor series?", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Um, if you do a second term does it get too complicated cuz of the nonlinearity?", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Yeah. It's quite complicated.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Yeah, OK. No, I won't ask the next question then.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Oh, it's it's the for me it's the first time that I am working with VTS.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Yeah. No, it's interesting.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Uh.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Uh, w we haven't had anybody work with it before, so it's interesting to get your get your feedback about it.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "It's another type of approximation because i because it's a statistic statistic approximation to remove the noise. I don't know.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Great. OK. Well, I guess we're about done. Um, so some of the digit forms don't have digits. Uh, we ran out there were some blanks in there, so not everybody will be reading digits. But, um, I guess you've got some. Right, Morgan?", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "I have some.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "So, why don't you go ahead and start. And I think it's just us down here at this end that have them.", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "S", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "um", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "So.", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "Uh, OK.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "S so, we switch off with this", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Whenever you're ready.", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "or n?", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Uh, leave it on,", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "No. OK.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "uh,", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "They prefer to have them on", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "and the.", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "just so that they're continuing to get the distant, uh, information.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "OK. OK.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "OK.", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "OK. 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b2f87c01602b4b1c970349f6860ff243	{ "meetingId": "ES2012b", "transcriptSegments": [ { "text": "Okay, welcome to the second meeting of this uh design group. Um I'll briefly go through the uh notes of the of the last meeting uh just done in in note form and I haven't attributed anything to individuals, because we're working strictly as a team here and uh n nobody's working equally,", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Sorry.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "so uh. Um we we s we saw that the the problems with existing remote controls were the uh b a boring shape and boring colour. Um and and we s we saw that the um what we needed to do was to to make sure the device um controls several items, that switching was easy, that you shouldn't need to point the thing at uh anything in particular, um that it need to be contoured to make it interesting, that the keys might be concave, simply because that hasn't been done before that we know of. Um should have interchangeable fascias so people can personalise it, um illuminated so that people can see it in dark rooms. Um and that people might want it as as in addition to their existing remote controls. Um and that it sh it should just always work, whenever you uh um mm uh use it. And that it shouldn't be too small, mm that it it gets lost. Um. Now uh uh I'll shortly ask for for three three presentations. Uh before I do that, however, I will go through some new project requirements that um the the management have placed on us and uh will be challenging in terms of what we discussed at the first meeting. Um the uh the ma the management has had it's own thoughts on this and uh the they don't necessarily agree with with what we uh we thought. Um and and then we'll as a result of that we will then talk through the the functions that we see the the device um actually b carrying out, and we have uh forty minutes to do this in and I uh Anyway. Okay. Now, the n the new requirements are um the the management team see that um teletext is no longer of any importance given the uh the rise of the internet. Um and and they want it only to cover televisions. Um now, what is not q quite clear from their directive is whether they mean th they don't want it to cover teletext or whether they don't want it to cover, you know, videos, D_V_D_s, um satellite boxes, which uh I mean we saw as being fundamental to the uh to the exercise. The um the actual wording of the directive is that it should cover television only. Um and on that basis um I I think we we need to bear that in mind, um but possibly uh keep at the backs of our minds that the reality that people even when they uh no longer they don't look at teletext anymore, they certainly do look at other things. Um the device has to incorporate the company logo and colours. Um the the logo uh being at b the bottom of the screen there, the the the two R_s in grey against uh a yellow background. Um now this doesn't necessarily mean that we have to give up some of our ideas about making it attractive to the t to the market. But uh do do introduce some some constraints as to how we might do that. Um it also has to be simple, which to some extent goes along w with the first one, and that we've already said that it must be simple'cause that's what people want anyway. Um but they also want it to be simple to get it to the market quickly, which um mm uh is is is their choice, but uh um we we need to talk that through. Um okay, so uh after the meeting it'll be summarised and uh", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "um notes sent out and uh etcetera. Okay, so we'll first of all mm have individual reports from everybody. Um again I there is no order of precedence here um so I I I'll leave it up to you to who who who thinks they would like to go go first?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Uh I don't mind..", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "P fine.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Uh can I steal the cable?", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Oh sorry, you can indeed.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Cheers.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "I got a how do I start there?", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Oh, if you click on the um uh the one that that looks like a projection screen, no the one to the right of that. That one.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "That one. Cool. Well these are functionality requirements from the our our guys down in the the research lab. Took hundred people and covered all the aspects of what um is needed by people and what they want to see. Um everything kinda from functionality and how individual functions are how mu how how often they're used and how much their necessary and stuff. And general opinions about current current remotes. See that, as we kinda noticed, seventy five percent of people find their remote controls ugly. So some kind of a new style should be incorporated that's less ugly. Uh along with um looking less ugly, if it looks better, eighty percent of people said they'd spend more money on it. Which is a a plus for us, if we can make it look better, it'd be uh more cost effective and we can put the price up. Current remote controls do not match the operating behaviour of the user. I can empl I kinda take that to mean as um they they don't uh they, yeah, they only use they only work for the television or yeah like as in in my flat I've got six remote controls for a stereo system, a digital box, a D_V_D_ player, a video player and T_V_. If it was uh I mean th my behaviour is to use multiple things at the same time and multiple remotes aren't really matched well to my behaviour. Uh again, seventy five percent is seventy five percent of users say they zap a lot. I took to mean that they just they use it a lot, they use it regularly rather than standing up and manually change channels or volume. And uh yeah, uh I think the big issue is fifty percent users only use ten percent of the buttons,'cause uh wh if we got a remote that like well we'll have some buttons taken off by the lack of teletext, but uh oh and we're going to see uh on the uh that some of the functions like audio settings aren't h hardly ever used and used very aren't considered relevant by the user. So I think maybe fewer buttons, which also make the design look sleeker, I dunno. Uh um yeah and uh frustrations of like people losing remote control.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "I dunno maybe some kind of system of you press a button on the T_V_ or maybe that's b it would have to incorporate, but like some kind of system where you can f use something else to find the remote control. Maybe like it'll beep or something. And um, yep, the uh time taken to learn new remote controls is Uh don't want to make it too complicated, easy to use for uh new like first time users and stuff. And uh repetitive strain injury, I suppose we should make it more comfortable and make ma possibly even use have to make it, yeah, fewer buttons, like I was saying about the whole mice the mouse idea of it feels more comfortable.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Maybe don't even have to hold it as such.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Gosh, must be some telly addicts out there if they get R_S_I_ from their television remote, is all I can say.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "But uh yeah. It also asked um if we would if people would pay more for speech recognition", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "and younger people say they would. And uh there was another section on our on the report for uh L_C_D_ displays, but the data wasn't there, so. I don't actually know what the results for that were,", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Mm. Right. Mm.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "so. May be incrementally emitting, but yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah, I must say that um the uh I c can't remember what um f you know phone service I was using the other day, but that had sorta speech recognition which worked uh remarkably well, so that is indeed a uh um a thought", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "And uh it would cut out the R_S_I_ as well if you.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "and it it cuts out uh I was was gonna say, you can't get a lot of R_S_I_,", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "j just get jaw ache. Okay, sorry..", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah, um oh yeah, so possibly the speech recognition is possibly something could add into the design. Oh, I've got some other things I couldn't fit onto this presentation. Um. You see this okay? Almost no? It's sorry it's a bit. I'll read out to you. Uh functionality, uh like people's opinions on functionality, the relevance to the remote and how often they're used. So um like the power. Using the using the d swi the power switch to switch on T_V_ is a high relevance of nine, but it's not frequently used. You see what I mean?", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah..", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Whereas channel selection, which is very high relevance", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "is used the most. So m we can maybe even start to cut down on or I was possibly even thinking of a design that maybe some of the buttons are hidden from everyday use. Maybe like uh a folding ledge or something. So that we can maybe go into the channel settings and the audio settings,", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "which are low relevance", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm. I mean.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "and rarely used. And keep the v volume selection and channel selection very easily.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "It could be oh uh I was just gonna say uh maybe like the flip phones that they use?", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Have you seen the new mo mobile phones", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "that flip out and they have the like texting, and then the numbers on one side,", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Oh yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "so", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "you could have the most used buttons on top and flip it out or something.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Hmm, hmm.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah, like the one that like slides back", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Uh. Should we actually bite the bullet here?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "and the buttons are concealed underneath.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "If people really don't use those buttons to any extent at all um remove them altogether.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Just remove them completely?", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "We we could actually have we could actually have a remote control with um.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "That might be the.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "I wonder whether we could get the remote control with no buttons at all if we went for voice recognition, given that um the Um now the the age structure we were looking at um I mean w we had usage by age structure, what we didn't have was what proportion of people using remotes were in those particular age groups. Now do we know whether they.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Uh yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Forty no sorry for forty five to fifty five age group, uh to put myself right in the middle of it, um u use remote controls to a great extent.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yes we.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Um no this is for pay more for speech recognition.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "That would've speech recogn right. So, we're looking at um well again, we don't know the relative proportion the relative numbers in the age groups.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah, that's true.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "If we wanted something different, truly different, then the buttonless remote control w would be it.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "P Well the only problem I can think of with that is if you've got a lot of people that don't wanna be bothered learning how to use new rem remote controls. If you just kind of take away everything that they're used to knowing, that's gonna be quite a change.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "But if you just lift it up and say, channel one or B_B_C_.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "It might.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Or even I mean you could even just have it left on.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Maybe i", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "You could just put it down once on top your T_V_ and never have to.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah, have a big kind of like the satellite box or the cable box", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "and have it just go on the T_V_ and then it doesn't matter where in the room you are,", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "you won't lose it.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "It c well it I can I can see technical problems with that in terms of the, you know, the sound from the television,", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "No.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "because if somebody actually on the television says uh uh, you know, I_T_V_ and you're watching B_B_C_ then then it might um change itself,", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "B_B_C_ one..", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah..", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Oh..", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "so it probably needs to be um possibly actually need a button on it", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah, that's true.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "just to activate it.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Oh yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Or or something just to identify that you've lifted it up and it's use. And and then just say, oh I don't know, a thought and and then.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "uh I mean that that would certainly be uh truly different. Um'cause uh you know audio settings, nought point eight percent. I mean if they weren't there, would people miss them?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm-mm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "But look at the importance of them. The volume settings.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Relevance of two out of ten,", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Vol volume,", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "yes um", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "They're not used often", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "th.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "but they are quite important when they're used.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "w we need to s identify things that people actually need", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "and and it's a function of frequency and relevance. And um I would say ignoring ig ignoring power for the moment, um the channel and volume", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "and th w w given given that we've been told to ignore teletext. Uh channel and volume are the only ones that", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "uh would appear to be essential.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Stand out.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Um. So if we can design something that that looks interesting, know, or looks different, um incorporates the the logo and and the colours and um we can still have our interchangeable fascias even if it's the yellow and grey, um and uh I dunno, buttons or or buttons as an option.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Uh I just had a thought actually, sorry to interrupt.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Do, please.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Uh you were saying about um it could technical problems of like uh someone on the television saying a channel number and it changed.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "we could maybe have like an activation word.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "You cer certainly could.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "'Cause I've seen I've seen this used on computers before, where you just you address the remote,", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Depe uh i depends whether um.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "you address the computer, and then give it a command.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "if we want to make this so simple that anybody can walk into the room and lift it up and say", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Oh I see. Oh yeah, I see.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "B_B_C_ one. Um okay, I mean you could print actually print it on the uh", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm, yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "device itself. Um.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "I mean I'm just thinking of the point of view of peop you could still like lose this remote.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "S th this I th that's always gonna be a problem I think.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Um and I I I s so I suppose one um could make it so desirable that if people lose it they immediately go out and buy another one.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Anyway, sorry, carry on. Do you want to just carry on with.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Oh no", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "or.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "I I interrupted you,", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "no no, no uh b I was in the middle of in the middle of your report there..", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "sorry. Oh okay. Um well, I was just kinda wrapping up there. Yeah,", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Mm okay..", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "I was thinking um, yeah, maybe such things are relevant. We could make things much more f I think the the eighty percent of people would spend more on uh a remote uh that looks better, combined with uh decrease the or take out the limited functio functions that we don't really use much. alright take out teletext, but as for channel settings and stuff it might it might um turn people somewhe peop some people that want the whole functionality away. But, since if we're marketing a more kind of fashionable approach then it'd it would be fashion and fashion over practicality.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm. S s we could we could make it dual function voice recognition and still have buttons on it um", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Oh, we could, yeah. We c yeah,", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "'cause we're.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "we could even have it as like a yeah the buttons control this and the voice functions control the f things that you would do all the time, so.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Certainly could. Yeah, yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "So uh yeah, if we could uh power on and channel selection and and volume selection, wouldn't have to really.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "The I mean the the advantage of doing away the buttons altogether is it makes the thing cheaper.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah and probably it would look better as well.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "No, it cou certainly opens up the possibility for making it uh, you know, visually very distinctive.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah. yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Um'cause you know, it does not have to be a oblong box.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Lined with numbered buttons and.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Mm, yeah. Okay, who sorry, have you have you finished there Andy?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Uh yeah, yeah, that's everything.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yep, yep. Um given that we've already had a extensive discussion uh.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Okay well, I can do mine.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Hmm.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Do you want the cable?", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah, let's see if I can make this work. Um.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Oh, you have to hit like function and F_ something.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Oh.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "F_ eight.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "F_ eight.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Is it doing.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Dunno.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Uh, give it about twenty seconds, or so.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Ah, there we go..", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Oh yeah, it's going.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Oh okay. Okay, so this is just about the technical functions.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Alright.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "So the method, I looked online for examples of other similar products and then just kind of was trying to brainstorm some possible design ideas and um identify what the necessary things are, what people are what you really wanna have a remote control do. Um and then there are two different kinds that I found. There's a user centred one and an engineering centred one which I will have pictures of and then we kinda have to decide which one this should be.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "So these are the two different ones. This one um this is the user centred, it has uh quite a few mm uh um fewer buttons", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "and then this is the engineering centred, which has a lot more buttons,", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "and probably this is one that people complain about, about having too many buttons that you don't use. So basically, what a remote control is is you it's to send messages to the television set, you know, turn on, off, switch the channels and the volume and things such as that. And so for this product it's gonna be television only, and then it has to have the uh logos for the company and the colours. And so, for my personal preferences, I think this one is easier to use and has quite a you know, fewer buttons. Um we want something that sends messages easily to the television and I was kind of wondering about this example that they have. It looks kind of narrow at the top, and I was thinking maybe if it were wider at the top,", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Mm, yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "then that would be easier. Um and so we have to decide what's gonna make our product different. E the unique style, maybe have it light up so it's visible in the dark, um the changeable face-plates, and the lighting up and visible I was when we were talking about havi losing it, maybe to have a button on the television that you press and it maybe if it makes a noise or lights up or something like that, so it's easier to find if someone has hidden under the couch or something like that. So that's my presentation. Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Okay, can I um I'm actually gonna use the um it's gonna cause great technical problems over here. I'm actually gonna use the.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "F they probably clip to you.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Oh yeah, they might be movable.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Oh yeah, they're all they're not connected to anything on the table, you just leave'em on and walk around with'em..", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yes, rather than the uh the the traditional in fact, um I won't even go that far. Um something like this shape, you know, sort of something that you can that's sort of a more vertical shape, um that you you sort of hold in your hand, um, well I'm trying to think uh uh uh l uh l such as I mean um something you hold up like that, possibly with a couple of buttons like that, but with the the entire top with the, you know, the uh the infrared or whatever source.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Uh so that you know, it's flying off in all directions,", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "so that uh um uh again the n need to look at the the the technicalities of um actually achieving that in terms of whether the, you know, the power requirements of the uh such a source, um you know, compromise the our our need for uh you know, it it being um mm permanently uh you know, available.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Uh whether whether different technology um I mean th all all these remotes are presumably infrared, and like they have been for a long time. Uh we we possibly need to be looking at at at something different, um you know, short range, not like the old uh radio remote controls where you'd change next door's telly when you change yours. Um", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "but uh uh I think basically i if we're going for i if minimum number of buttons is our priority, then we should, as I say, r know, really bite the bullets and and reduce the buttons to absolute minimum, you know, possibly with backup channel and volume buttons and on off. Um and nothing else. Um so that it can al it could uh almost end up like that, but again, except that um you know the risk of losing it. Um anyway okay um so Kate, wh what are your uh your thoughts on this?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yes, mm..", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Oh.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Which one does this plug into?", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Hmm I think it's all there.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "That one.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "H", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "I can't did you could you see it on you screen when it.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Oh yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "That's not cool..", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "That's kind of strange.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Oh well. Anyways. Um alright, yeah, so um I'll just do my presentation on the working design uh. Oh there we go. Okay um just at the m yeah the whole sort of method of how the remote control works. Uh the basic function of the remote control is to send messages to another sh system, the the T_V_ or the D_V_D_ player or whatever.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Um and it does this uh by well, you need to start off you need an energy source and this energy source will feed into an integrated circuit chip and the circuit chip is the part that actually composes the different messages uh within the remote um which will then be sent to the uh the television, the D_V_D_ to tell that what to do. Um and you need a user interface, which controls the chip and thus the messages and uh the user interface is that's basically just you kn the s sorta design of the actual remote which you hold in your hands and what buttons will be on it. Um Oh shoot. Okay. Uh just general findings. Uh what we need uh technically speaking for the remote control is some sort of energy source, uh some sort of user interface, which I think we've mostly been talking about the user interface and the design of that. Um a circuit chip within that to uh control and send the messages and um a sender and receiver. And um oops. Uh-huh. This is just sort of a little schematic diagram of what we're looking for. Uh this just kinda represents the energy source", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Hmm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "which feeds into the circuit chip uh which maybe then we could have that feed into a switch which would send signals f to um a subcomponent and on to a light bulb between so it'll light up once we start once you start pressing buttons. Um also send signals to the um infrared bulb, which will be the part that actually what? Sends signals to the the television. And then you've got your happy little T_V_ watcher there.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "And so my personal preferences I I just think we need sorta big uh energy source that won't die out, uh perhaps some sort of rechargeable battery or a battery dock you could place it in, so it'd constantly be charged, so you wouldn't have to uh be worrying about it running out of batteries and not changing channels for you. Uh a wide range uh sender-receiver, so that you can hit the buttons from basically anywhere in the room, and the channel'll still be changed. Uh also definitely a user-friendly interface um and I think we've all sort of mentioned adding a a locating device on it, so when it does get stuck under the couch cushions, as they inevitably do, you can find them easily. And that's pretty much it.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Okay. Uh it seems seems to me there are a number of fundamental decisions to make before we um.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm..", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "I think your point about the the big energy source is uh a very valid one.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Um I don't suppose we've got any statistics on the the life expectancy of uh remote controls, particularly sort of independent ones. Um given you know, the number of things you buy these days, which you know, have a a a lithium whatever battery in, that's uh, you know never needs replacing.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Um perhaps we should have the the disposable remote control, uh um you know, one some sort of typical usage. You know, the the the battery will last know, five, ten years. By which time I mean when all's said and done, the digital television will be taking over in that time scale. Um", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "uh uh p perhaps we should, know, reduce the uh, you know, the sort of moving parts even more by not even having a battery compartment and uh.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Just having one that's guaranteed to last five to ten years?", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah, and if if anybody manages to run it down, we'll we'll give'em a new one.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Oh, cool. Yeah, fair enough.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Um it's, you know, it's what it saves in cost and you know there there's a well, it's actually a marketing gimmick. I mean it's hardly a gimmick, it's uh it's totally practical. Uh so I th think you know the idea of a rechargeable one is um uh unless you're really high tech and it sort of just recharges itself if it's n by, you know, magnetic waves or whatever, if if it.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "It could have like uh know like a cordless phone in your house it s got like a base that sits there all the time.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah..", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm, mm.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Are are people really gonna use it though? Um.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah, people are pro", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "I suppose, yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Mm yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "I would think that people might forget.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "I I th I think.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "I mean people forget to put their cordless phones back on there,", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Mm-mm.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "so.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah, it's", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah..", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "um I mean I know that somei times my my wife goes out in the morning and says oh I should have put the phone on to charge", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "and then then she's had those for so long that if she hasn't worked that out by now. Um.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "'Cause I only remember to charge my cell phone uh when battery dies. And that's pretty much.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "When it yeah, wh when it's died is a problem.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "yeah. Yeah, when it turns itself off, that's when I plug it in,", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah, yeah, yeah, so uh um", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "yeah..", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "what so wh what what do we think about the um the the permanent mm battery?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah, think that's a good idea.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "No.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Uh. That sounds pretty good, yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Is the uh you know, we we we are really going for the ultimate in ex uh external simplicity here.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Um.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Um you know, cut cost within the manufacturing and uh you know, if we have a high tech interior, then then that that sh may well be cost effective.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Do they make batteries that last that long?", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "I mean th th certainly. Um I can't think of anything off the s top of my head,", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "They usually have the little light uh source,", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "but there are certainly things that you buy. I mean calculators for example.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "I dunno what the heck they're called,", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah, they have that little solar.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "the but", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Som well some do,", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "yeah, the little cells that.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "I mean th th but there are battery ones", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "that um are you know, sort of permanently sealed.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "In in fact I'd.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Most of them, don't they have sort of a combination of the two, like when there is light, they'll work off the light,", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah,", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "and if there isn't, they'll kick into this battery,", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "uh uh.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "so we can maybe do something like that whereas there is a battery, but if there's enough light, then it's using the light, so that it's not actually draining the battery all the time, but you will have the battery there for when you need it.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah, I I mean th th this needs going t into the technology a bit.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "I mean the the actual time that a remote control is actually operating", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "I would think is i is is probably, you know, no more than minutes in its entire life. Um..", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Oh, it depend if it's uh depends who who's using it, who's just sitting there clicking clicking clicking clicking,", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah, some people are.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "If, but I say if if people are getting R_S_I_ from it then uh then uh then then perhaps we're looking at the wrong market", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "yeah. Yeah, then they're clicking a lot, yeah..", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah. Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "W", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "n", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "like like this um this uh market research thing says number of times per hour that it's used, channel selection a hundred and sixty eight", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Per hour?", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "times per hour.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah. Yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Wow. That's a lot..", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Oh, I must admit I hadn't um I'd I'd missed that. That does sound excessive.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "But then again, if you think it of the amount of, you know amount of use it's like.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "That's it's less than a second, um.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah. Yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Well that's right, and and I I don't I don't even know whether the I don't even know whether the s the signal lasts as long as you actually keep the button pressed,", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "or whether it's just a", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "sorta tenth of a second, no matter how long you press it for, I don't know I don't actually know. Um.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Though I think with digital T_V_, like I know on my cable box, you're not supposed to do that because the channel can't keep up with it if you just press it like that,", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "so you're supposed to use the menu and go through the different", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "channels that way instead of.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Mm..", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Right, so I've got a message to say five minutes, I dunno how long ago that appeared. Um'cause we're we're getting", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Uh-oh.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "um right, so I'd I need to sum up very quickly here um. We're looking at extreme simplicity. We're looking at a radically different shape. Possibly no buttons at all um, but if you can incorporate um channel change and volume buttons um in into the design, then then that's fine. Um in the I mean the the role of the of the um the user interface des designer becomes b you know more important here, because, you know, shape is no longer an a uh um a serious constraint. But we clearly only need th the main buttons, although, uh if clearly only need the main functions. Um I don't see why we shouldn't go for voice recognition um and the the only buttons that I think we need are channel control, volume control and on off. Um it needs to incorporate the corporate logo, uh the the grey and yellow colour scheme and there's no reason why we can't introduce um interchangeable uh covers. Um uh d so does that accurately summarise what we've discussed?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yep. Hmm.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Um.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "So uh Yeah. We are doing just the television.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Oh I just have one question. So are we doing just the television or are we doing so not D_V_D_ players,", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "No.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "we okay, okay.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "I think that's quite clear from the the information that we've been given,", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "no?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah, like in the email of television only. In fact they're in the constraints email that I got.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Didn't you mention the teletext, just television only?", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Oh yeah well th that's one I s that's one I sent you,", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "which which was my interpretation of uh of the uh what came down from from head office. Um.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Oh okay. Oh yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah..", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Oh okay.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "That's that that that that's their uh their view.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Okay, so uh we can all give some thought to that uh for for the next meeting, thank you very much indeed.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Cool.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" } ] }	{ "dialogTurns": [ { "query": "Can you summarize the requirements for the remote's buttons?", "response": "The main buttons needed are on/off, channel control, and volume control. 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You know how to toggle the display width function.", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "Well maybe she hadn't just started transcribing me yet.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "Wow.", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "Anyway.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "What is it?", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "Let me explain something to you.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "Um,", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "My laugh is better than yours.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "there.", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "I beg to differ.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "Yo.", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "Um, OK.", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "But you have to say something genuinely funny before you'll get an example.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "The thing is I don't know how to get to the next page. Here.", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "No. You should be at least be self - satisfied enough to laugh at your own jokes.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "Actually I thought.", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "No, it's a different laugh.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "There.", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "Ooh, wow!", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "How weird.", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "Oh! Holy mackerel.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "Wow. Whoa!", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "What?! Oh. OK. I wasn't even doing anything. OK.", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "Uh.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "Eva's got a laptop, she's trying to show it off.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "That was r actually Robert's idea. But anyhow. Um", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "O K. So, here we are.", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "Once again.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "Once again, right, together. Um, so we haven't had a meeting for a while, and and probably won't have one next week, I think a number of people are gone. Um, so Robert, why don't you bring us up to date on where we are with EDU?", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "Um, uh in a in a smaller group we had uh, talked and decided about continuation of the data collection. So Fey's time with us is almost officially over, and she brought us some thirty subjects and, t collected the data, and ten dialogues have been transcribed and can be looked at. If you're interested in that, talk to me. Um, and we found another uh, cogsci student who's interested in playing wizard for us. Here we're gonna make it a little bit more complicated for the subjects, uh this round. She's actually suggested to look um, at the psychology department students, because they have to partake in two experiments in order to fulfill some requirements. So they have to be subjected, before they can actually graduate. And um, we want to design it so that they really have to think about having some time, two days, for example, to plan certain things and figure out which can be done at what time, and, um, sort of package the whole thing in a in a re in a few more complicated um, structure. That's for the data collection. As for SmartKom, I'm the last SmartKom meeting I mentioned that we have some problems with the synthesis, which as of this morning should be resolved. And, so,", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "Good.", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "\" should be \" means they aren't yet, but but I think I have the info now that I need. Plus, Johno and I are meeting tomorrow, so maybe uh uh, when tomorrow is over, we're done. And ha n hav we'll never have to look at it again Maybe it'll take some more time, to be realistic, but at least we're we're seeing the end of the tunnel there. That was that. Um, the uh, uh I don't think we need to discuss the formalism that'll be done officially s once we're done. Um, something happened, in on Eva's side with the PRM that we're gonna look at today, and um, we have a visitor from Bruchsal from the International University. Andreas, I think you've met everyone except Nancy.", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "Sorry. Hi. Hi.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "Hi. Hi.", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "So when you said \" Andreas \" I thought you were talking about Stolcke.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "And, um,", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "Now I know that we aren't, OK.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "Andy, you actually go by Andy, right? Oh, OK.", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "Eh.", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "Cuz there is another Andreas around,", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "Hmm.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "so, to avoid some confusion.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "That will be Reuter? Oh, OK.", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "So my scientific director of the EML is also the dean of the International University, one of his many occupations that just contributes to the fact that he is very occupied. And, um, the um, he @ @ might tell us a little bit about what he's actually doing, and why it is s somewhat related, and by uh using maybe some of the same technologies that we are using. And um. Was that enough of an update?", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "I think so.", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "In what order shall we proceed?", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "OK.", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "Maybe you have your on - line.", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "Uh, yeah, sure. Um, so, I've be just been looking at, um, Ack! What are you doing? Yeah. OK. Um, I've been looking at the PRM stuff. Um, so, this is, sort of like the latest thing I have on it, and I sorta constructed a couple of classes. Like, a user class, a site class, and and you know, a time, a route, and then and a query class. And I tried to simplify it down a little bit, so that I can actually um, look at it more. It's the same paper that I gave to Jerry last time. Um, so basically I took out a lot of stuff, a lot of the decision nodes, and then tried to The red lines on the, um, graph are the um, relations between the different um, classes. Like, a user has like, a query, and then, also has, you know um, reference slots to its preferences, um, the special needs and, you know, money, and the user interest. And so this is more or less similar to the flat Bayes - net that I have, you know, with the input nodes and all that. And So I tried to construct the dependency models, and a lot of these stuff I got from the flat Bayes - net, and what they depend on, and it turns out, you know, the CPT's are really big, if I do that, so I tried to see how I can do, um put in the computational nodes in between. And what that would look like in a PRM. And so I ended up making several classes Actually, you know, a class of with different attributes that are the intermediate nodes, and one of them is like, time affordability money affordability, site availability, and the travel compatibility. And so some of these classes are s some of these attributes only depend on stuff from, say, the user, or s f just from, I don't know, like the site. S like, um, these here, it's only like, user, but, if you look at travel compatibility for each of these factors, you need to look at a pair of, you know, what the um, preference of the user is versus, you know, what type of an event it is, or you know, which form of transportation the user has and whether, you know, the onsite parking matters to the user, in that case. And that makes the scenario a little different in a PRM, because, um, then you have one - user objects and potentially you can have many different sites in in mind. And so for each of the site you'll come up with this rating, of travel compatibility. And, they all depend on the same users, but different sites, and that makes a I'm tr I w I wa have been trying to see whether the PRM would make it more efficient if we do inferencing like that. And so, I guess you end up having fewer number of nodes than in a flat Bayes - net, cuz otherwise you would c well, it's probably the same. But um, No, you would definitely have be able to re - use, like, um, all the user stuff, and not not having to recompute a lot of the stuff, because it's all from the user side. So if you changed sites, you you can, you know, save some work on that. But, you know, in the case where, it depends on both the user and the site, then I'm still having a hard time trying to see how um, using the PRM will help. Um, so anyhow, using those intermediate nodes then, this this would be the class that represent the intermediate nodes. And that would basically it's just another class in the model, with, you know, references to the user and the site and the time. And then, after you group them together this no the dependencies would of the queries would be reduced to this. And so, you know, it's easier to specify the CPT and all. Um, so I think that's about as far as I've gone on the PRM stuff.", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "Well", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "No. So y you didn't yet tell us what the output is.", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "The output.", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "So what decisions does this make?", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "OK. So it only makes two decisions, in this model. And one is basically how desirable a site is meaning, um, how good it matches the needs of a user. And the other is the mode of the visit, whether th It's the EVA decision. Um, so, instead of um, doing a lot of, you know, computation about, you know, which one site it wants of the user wants to visit, I'll come well, try to come up with like, sort of a list of sites. And for each site, you know, where h how how well it fits, and basically a rating of how well it fits and what to do with it. So. Anything else I missed?", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "So that was pretty quick. She's ac uh uh Eva's got a little write - up on it that uh, probably gives the the details to anybody who needs them. Um, so the You you didn't look at all yet to see if there's anybody has a implementation.", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "No, not yet, um.", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "OK. So one so one of the questions, you know, about these P R Ms is", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "uh, we aren't gonna build our own interpreter, so if if we can't find one, then we uh, go off and do something else and wait until s one appears. Uh, so one of the things that Eva's gonna do over the next few weeks is see if we can track that down. Uh, the people at Stanford write papers as if they had one, but, um, we'll see. So w Anyway. So that's a a major open issue. If there is an interpreter, it looks like you know, what Eva's got should run and we should be able to actually um, try to solve, you know, the problems, to actually take the data, and do it. Uh, and we'll see. Uh, I actually think it is cleaner, and the ability to instantiate, you know, instance of people and sites and stuff, um, will help in the expression. Whether the inference gets any faster or not I don't know. Uh, it wouldn't surprise me if it if it doesn't.", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "You know, it's the same kind of information. I think there are things that you can express this way which you can't express in a normal belief - net, uh, without going to some incredible hacking of sort of rebuilding it on the fly. I mean, the notion of instantiating your el elements from the ontology and stuff fits this very nicely and doesn't fit very well into the extended belief - net. So that was one of the main reasons for doing it. Um. I don't know. So, uh, people who have thought about the problem, like Robert i it looked to me like if Eva were able to come up with a you know, value for each of a number of uh, sites plus its EVA thing, that a travel planner should be able to take it from there. And you know, with some other information about how much time the person has and whatever, and then plan a route.", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "Um - hmm, um, well, first of all uh, uh, great looks, mu much cleaner, nnn, nnn, Certain certain beauty in it, so, um, if beauty is truth, then, uh we're in good shape. But, the um, as, uh, mentioned before we probably should look at t the details. So if you have a write - up then uh, I'd love to read it", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "and uh because, um, i Can you go all the way back to the the very top?", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "Um, uh these @ @ these w w when these are instantiated they take on the same values? that we had before?", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "I can't really see the whole thing.", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "or are they have they changed, in a sense?", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "Well I think I basically leave them to similar things.", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "Uh - huh.", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "Some of the things might that might be different, maybe like are that the hours for the site.", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "Hmm.", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "And, eventually I meant that to mean whether they're open at this hour or not.", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "Uh - huh.", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "And status would be, you know, more or less like, whether they're under construction, and and or stuff like that.", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "And the, uh, other question I would have is that presumably, from the way the Stanford people talk about it, you can put the probabilities also on the relations. If.", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "Which is the structural uncertainty?", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "Yeah. Yeah, I that's That I think was actually in the previous the Ubenth stuff. I don't remember whether they carried that over to this or not,", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "Mmm.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "uh, structural uncertainty.", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "It's sort of in the definition or in the in Daphne's definition of a PRM is that classes and relations,", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "OK.", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "and you're gonna have CPT's over the classes and their relations.", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "Alright.", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "More uncertainty, or or.", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "Uh,", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "I should say.", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "I remember them learning when, you know, you don't know the structure for sure,", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "but I don't remember reading how you specify", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "Yeah, that would be exactly my question.", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "wh to start with. Yeah.", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "Well.", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "Yeah. So, uh, the the plan is is when Daphne gets back, we'll get in touch and supposedly, um, we'll actually get s deep seriously connected to to their work and", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "Yep.", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "somebody'll Uh, you know If it's a group meeting once a week probably someone'll go down and, whatever. So, we'll actually figure all this out.", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "OK. OK. Then I think the w long term perspective is is pretty clear. We get rocking and rolling on this again, once we get a package, if, when, and how, then this becomes foregrounded", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "profiled, focused, again.", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "Designated?", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "Of course.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "And um, until then we'll come up with a something that's @ @ that's way more complicated for you. Right?", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "OK.", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "Because this was laughingly easy, right?", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "Actually I had to take out a lot of the complicated stuff, cuz I I made it really complicated in the beginning, and Jerry was like, \" this is just too much \".", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "Yeah. So, um, you could, from this, go on and say suppose there's a group of people traveling together and you wanted to plan something that somehow, with some Pareto optimal uh, uh, thing for.", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "That's good. That's definitely a job for artificial intelligence.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "uh, or.", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "Except for humans can't really solve it either, so.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "Well that's not not even something humans yeah.", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "Right. Right. Well that's the that would that would be a uh, you could sell it, as a.", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "OK, eh you don't have to fight about this, just give your preferences to the.", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "And then you can blame the computer.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "w Exactly.", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "So.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "Hmm. But what does it uh Would a pote potential result be to to split up and never talk to each other again? You know.", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "That should be one of them.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "Yeah. Right.", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "That'd be nice.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "Mmm.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "Anyway. So. So there i there are some some u uh, you know, uh, elaborations of this that you could try to put in to this structure, but I don't think it's worth it now. Because we're gonna see what what else uh what else we're gonna do. Anyway. But uh, it's good, yeah and and there were a couple other ideas of of uh, things for Eva to look at in in the interim.", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "Good. Then, we can move on and see what Andreas has got out his sleeve. Or Andy, for that matter?", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "OK. So uh, uh, well, thanks for having me here, first of all. Um, so maybe just a a little background on on my visit. So, uh, I'm not really involved in any project, that's uh that's relevant to you uh, a at the moment, uh, the the reason is really for me uh, to have an opportunity to talk to some other researchers in the field. And and so I'll just n sort of give you a real quick introduction to what I'm working on, and um, I just hope that you have some comments or, maybe you're interested in it to find out more, and and so I'll be uh, happy to talk to you and and uh, I'd also like to find out some more and and maybe I'll just walk around the office and and then and ask some some questions, uh, in a couple days. So I'll be here for uh, tomorrow and then uh, the remainder of uh, next week. OK, so, um, what I started looking at, uh, to begin with is just uh, content management systems uh, i i in general. So um, uh what's uh Sort of the state of the art there is to um uh you have a bunch of of uh documents or learning units or learning objects, um, and you store meta - data uh, associate to them. So there's some international standards like the I - triple - E, uh There's an I - triple - E, LON standard, and um, these fields are pretty straightforward, you have uh author information, you have uh, size information, format information and so on. Uh, but they're two uh fields that are um, more interesting. One is uh you store keywords associated with the uh with the document, and one is uh, you have sort of a, um, well, what is the document about? So it's some sort of taxonomic uh, ordering of of the of the units. Now, if you sort of put on your semantic glasses, uh you say, well that's not all that easy, because there's an implicit um, uh, assumption behind that is that uh, all the users of this system share the same interpretation of the keyword and the same interpretation of uh, whichever taxonomy is used, and uh, I think that's a that's a very that's a key point of these systems and they sort of always brush over this real quickly without really elaborating much of that and uh As a matter of fact, the only thing that m apparently really works out so far are library ordering codes, which are very, very coarse grain, so you have some like, science, biology, and then But that's really all that we have at the moment. So I think there's a huge, um, uh need for improvement there. Now, what this uh a standard like this would give us is we could um, sort of uh with a search engine just query uh, different repositories all over the world. But we can't really Um, so what I'm what I try to do is um, to have um, uh So. So the scenario is the following, you you're working on some sort of project and you encounter a certain problem. Now, what what we have at our university quite a bit is that uh, students um, try to u program a certain assignment, for example, they always run into the same problems, uh, and they always come running to us, and they'll say why's it not it's not working, and we always give out the same answer, so we thought, well, it'd be nice to have a system that could sort of take care of this, and so, what I want to build is basically a a smart F A Q system. Now, what you uh need to do here is you need to provide some context information which is more elaborate than \" I'm looking for this and this and this keyword. \" So. And I think that I don't need to tell you this. I'm I'm sure you have the same when when somebody utters a sentence in a certain, uh, context it, and and the same sentence in another context makes a huge difference. So, I want to be able to model information like, um, so in the in the context of in the context of developing distributed systems, of a at a computer science school, um, what kind of software is the person using, which homework assignment is he or she working on at the moment, um, maybe what's the background of that student's um, which um, which error message was encountered. So this sort of information I think should be transmitted, uh, when a certain document is retrieved. Now, um, basically giving this um Uh so we somehow need to have a formalized um, way of writing this down basically, and that's where the shared interpretation of of certain terms and keywords comes in again. And, using this and some some uh, knowledge about the domain I think you can do some some simple inferences. Like you know that when somebody's working about uh, working on on servlets for example, he's using Java, cuz servlets are used are written in Java. So some some inferences like that, now, um, u using this you can infer more information, and you could then match this to the meta - data of um off the documents you're you're searching against. So, uh what I wanna do is basically have some sort of um given these inputs, and then I can compute how many documents match, and use this as a metric in the search. Now, what I plan to do is I want to uh sort of do a uh uh try to improve the quality of the search results, and I want to do this by having a depth uh, um, um steepest descent approach. So if I knew which operating system the person was working on, would this improve my search result? And and having uh, uh a symbolic formalized model of this I could simply compute that, and find out which um which questions are worth um, asking. And that's what I then propagate back to the user, and and sort of try to optimize the search in this way. Now, the big problem that I'm facing right now is um, it's fairly easy to hack up a system uh quickly, that that works in the small domain, but the problem is obviously the scalability. And uh uh, so Robert was mentioning uh, earlier today is that uh, Microsoft for example with their printer set up program has a Bayesian network, which does exactly this, but there you face a problem that these are very hard to extend. And so, uh what I'm What I try to do is basically try to model this uh, in a way that you could really combine uh, knowledge from very different sources, and and um, sort of looking into some of the ideas that the semantic web community uh, came up with. Trying to to have uh, an approach how to integrate s uh certain uh representation of certain concepts and also some computational rules, um, what you can do with those. Um. What I'm also looking into is a probabilistic approach into this because document retrievals is a very fuzzy procedure, so it's probably not that easy to simply have a symbolic uh, computational model. That that probably isn't expressive enough. So. So that's another thing, um, which I think you're also uh, uh looking into right now. And then um, uh sort of as an add - on to this whole idea, um, uh that would be now, depending on what the search engine or the content repository depending on which um, uh, which uh, rules and which ontologies it it uses, or basically its view of the world, uh you can get very different results. So it might ma make a lot of sense to actually query a lot of different search engines. And there you could have an idea where you actually have sort of a a peer to peer approach, where we're all sort of carrying around our individual bookshelves, and um, if you have a question about a homework, it's probably makes sense to ask somebody who's in your class with you, sort of the guru in the certain area, rather than going to some Yahoo - like uh, search engine. So these are some of the just in a nutshell, some of the ideas. And I think a lot of the even though it's a it's a very different domain, but I think a lot of the, um, issues are are fairly similar. So. OK.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "And so some of the I don't know how much you know about the larger Heidelberg project, I Are you.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "Uh I know, yeah I know abou about it.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "So it seems like a lot of some of the issues are the same. It's like, um, you know, the c context - based factors that influence how you interpret,", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm. Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "um, s how to interpret. In in this case, infer in in knowing wanting to know what kinds of things to ask. We - we've kind of talked about that, but we haven't worried too much about that end of the discourse.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "But maybe you guys had that in the previous models.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "Well, in a in one t one s mmm, small difference in a in a way, is that he doesn't have to come up with an answer, but he wants to point to the places w w", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "Documents that have the answers.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "Yeah, so. So I'm I'm not I'm not building an expert.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "Uh, I want to build a smart librarian, basically", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "Right. Right.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "that can point you to the right reference. I don't wanna compute the answer, so it's a little bit easier for me.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "Well. Uh, you have to s still m understand what the content says about itself, and then match it to what you think the informational needs.", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "So you also don't have to figure out what the content is. You're just taking the keywords as a topic text, as.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "I I assume that that the there will be learning systems that that tag their their content.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "OK. Right.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "And um, um, m @ @ and basically what I what I envision is that you rather than just supplying a bunch of keywords you could basically for for an FAQ for example you could state sort of like a logic condition, when this document applies. So \" this document explains how to set up your uh, mail account on Linux \" or something like this.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "So. So something something very specific that you can then But the I think that the key point with these uh, learning systems is that uh, a learning system is only as good as uh the amount of content it it carries.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "Mmm, mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "You can have the best learning system with the best search interface, if there's no content inside of it, it's not very useful. So I think ultimately because um, uh developing these these rules and these inference uh inferences I think is very costly, so um, uh I think you must be able to reuse some some existing um, domain domain information, or or or ontologies that that uh other people wrote and then try to integrate them, and then also search the entire web basically, rather than just the small uh, content management system.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "OK. Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "So I think that's that's crucial for for the success of or @ @.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "So, you're not I guess I'm trying to figure out how how it maps to the kinds of things that we've talked about in this group, and, actually associated groups,", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "cuz some of us do pretty detailed linguistic analyses, and I'm guessing that you you won't be doing that? OK.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "No.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "Just checking. So, OK.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "Hmm.", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "No.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "So, you take the query, and and.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "On the other hand, uh, FrameNet could well be useful. So do you know the FrameNet story?", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "Um, yeah. Uh, not not too much,", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "OK.", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "but uh,", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "Oh. Th - that's another thing you might wanna look into while you're here.", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "I have a rough overview.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "Because, um, you know, the standard story is that keyworks keywords evoke frames, and the frames may well give you additional keywords or uh, if you know that that that a a bunch of keywords uh, indicate a frame, then you can find documents that actually have the whole frame, rather th than just uh, individual.", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "Mmm. Mmm.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "So there's a lot of stuff, and people are looking at that. Most of the work here is just trying to get the frames right. There's linguists and stuff and there's a lot of it and they're they're busily working away. But there are some application efforts trying to exploit it. And this looks t it seems to be that this is a place where you might be able to do that.", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. I'm sure I could learn a lot about um, yeah, just how to how to come up with these structures,", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "Mmm.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "cuz it's it's very easy to whip up something quickly, but it maybe then makes sense to to me, but not to anybody else, and and if we want to share and integrate things, they must well, they must be well designed really.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "Remember the uh, Prashant story?", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "The absolutely no no linguistic background person that the IU sent over here.", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "And Andreas and I tried to come up wi or we had come up actually with a eh with him working on an interface for FrameNet, as it was back then, that would p do some of the work for this machine,", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "Right. Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "which uh, never got done because Prashant found a happy occupation", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "W yeah, I know, I mean it it he w he did w what what he did was much more s sensible for him.", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "which in the Absolutely. Yeah.", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "I think uh,", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "But so I'm just saying, the uh, we had that idea", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "you know Yeah. The idea was there. Yeah, OK.", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "uh to to exploit FrameNet there as well.", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "Hmm.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "And um.", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "Yeah, actually you guys never.", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "And Srini's doing information extraction also, right?", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "with that FrameNet base.", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "Mmm.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "So you you guys never sent anybody else from I U.", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "Except except Prashant?", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "You were y no Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "Um,", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "Uh, this was supposedly an exchange program, and I we you know, it's fine. We don't care, but it just I'm a little surprised that uh, Andreas didn't come up with anyone else he wanted to send.", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "Hmm.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "Uh I don't know, I mean the uh.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "Alright. I mean I had forgotten a I To be honest with you, I'd totally forgotten we had a program.", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "Uh it's in the program?", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "Uh I I think it's it's really the lack of students uh, at IU at the moment.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "Yeah. Yeah. No, no. There was a whole co There was a little contract signed. It was Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "Yeah, yeah. I think it's ju it's more the lack of of students, really, and w we have all these sponsors that are always sort of eager to get some teams.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "Yeah, I know.", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "Mmm.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "But.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "Well I mean if if I were a student, I'd love to come here, rather than work for some German company, or.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "Yeah. Right.", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "You are being recorded right now, so beware.", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "Oh, right!", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "Well, I didn't say anybody to anything to offend well, except for the sponsors maybe, but.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "Right. Anyway. Right. So I thi tha that's that's one of the things that might be worth looking into while you're here.", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "Uh, unfortunately, Srini, who is heavily involved in DAML and all this sort of stuff is himself out of town.", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm. Well I'll go to the uh, Semantic Web Workshop, uh, in two weeks.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "Right, and Yeah, for for some reason he's not doing that.", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "Yeah. Well, he had other things to do.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "I don't know why he @ @ oh, I, who knows?", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "The uh.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "Anyway, s yeah, you'll see you'll certainly see a lot of the people there.", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "The other person I thought of is Dan Gildea? because he did some work on topic spotting", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "Yeah. St - statistical stuff. That would be a very good idea.", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "w um, which is, I mean, you I mean. I don't Depending on how well you wanna integrate with that end,", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "you know, like, taking the data and fig you said the learning systems that figure out We There's someone in ICSI who actually has been working on has worked on that kinda stuff, and he's worked with frame net, so you could talk to him about, you know, both of those things at once.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm. Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "So. And he just finished writing a draft of his thesis. So. I u Dan Gildea, GILDEA.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "So, uh, who is that again?", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "And, he's in one of the rooms on the fifth floor and stuff,", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "Who? I can take you to his office.", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "and.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "It's just around the corner.", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "OK, great.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "Hmm. Well, if you fal solve the problem, hope you can do one for us too.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "Alright, was there anything else for this? One of these times soon we're gonna hear about construal.", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "Yeah. I'm sure. I have um I think it was November two thousand three or some No. Wh - I had something in my calendar.", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "Oh, OK. Right.", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "Um,", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "Wait a second. That's a long way away.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "Good thinking!", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "Uh well, maybe I can I can bribe my way out of this. So. So I did some double checking and it seems like spring break in two thousand one.", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "Talk about changing the topic.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "No.", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "Well, no, but he's he's he's he's as you said, he's, like the state legislature, he's trying to offer us bribes.", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "At least this is a private meeting. Right, exactly, OK, that's the link.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "This uh Oh, they refused the budget again? Is it so about CITRIS? Yeah, still nothing.", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "Uh, this this this t the s we're, uh, involved in a literally three hundred million dollar uh, program. Uh, with the State of California. And, the State of California is now a month and a half behind its legis its legally required date to approve a budget. So the budget has not been approved. And two days ago There's two l you know, so, two branches of legislature. One branch approved it,", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "and, um, yesterdayday there was this uh uh I thought that the other branch would just approve it, but now there's actually a little back sliding to people who who approved it got flak from there, eh anyway. So, um Oh! I have to tell you a wonderful story about this, OK? And then we'll go. So, I it turns out I wound up having lunch today with a guy named Tom Kalil. KILL KALIL. And, uh, he now works at Berkeley. In fact he's hired to run a lot of CITRIS, even though we don't have the money they So they've been hiring people right and left, so, uh, they think the money's coming. So and he was, I think, the chief staffer to Clinton on technology matters. He was in the White House, I don't remember what he was saying. A anyway, like that. And, is now doing all the politics for CITRIS, but also, has a uh, a lot of interest in uh, actually doing things for society, so digital divide and stuff like that. So that's s interesting to me but maybe not to you. But the really interesting thing was, he st he s he s said something about, you know I'm interested in things that have high social multiplier, something that is of great social value. He said, \" for example \", this was his only example, \" if you had a adult literacy program that was as good as an individual tutor, and as compelling as a video game, then that would have a huge social impact \". I said, \" Oh great! That's a good problem to work on. \" Anyway. So it was nice that uh, he's got this view, of A, that's what you should try to do, and B, uh, language would be a good way to do it.", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "Mmm. Definitely.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "So that's So anyway, that's the end of the story.", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "But for adults and not for the children.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "This was Yeah. I didn't push him on the ch on the child thing,", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "Uh - huh.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "but, uh, you know, a again, if if you if you", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "Oh.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "um, and this was this was literacy, which actually is somewhat different problem.", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "Maybe easier. I don't know. So this is reading, rather than teaching Another project we started on, and and didn't get funded for was, uh, to try to build an automatic tutoring program, for kids whose first language wasn't English. Which is like half the school population in California. Something like that,", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "isn't it? Yeah. So, enormous problem in California, and the idea was if we're so smart about language understanding and speech understanding, couldn't we build uh, programs that would be tutors for the kids. We think we could. Anyway. So so But this is a slightly different problem,", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "and um, I know none of us have the spare time to look at it right now, but it i it's it's interesting and I may um, talk to him some more about is em somebody already doing this, and stuff like that. So anyway, that was that was today's little story.", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "Hmm.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "OK. So I I did manage to get pull my head out of the sling by sidetracking into CITRIS,", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "No, no.", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "but uh or a temporarily putting it out of the sling", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "but, I I'll volunteer to put it right back in by stating that I am n uh among some other things in the process of writing up stuff that we have been discussing at our daily meetings,", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "and also revising, thanks for all the comments, the c the original construal proposal. And, if I put one and one together, I may end up with a number that's greater than one and that I I can potentially present once you get back.", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "Greater than two?", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "You're good.", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "Nnn. s sometimes, you know the sum is not uh less than the.", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "Uh, right, right.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "Right. Right. Anyway. Yeah, so OK, so that'd be great, but I'd I think it's it's time again, right?", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "Absolutely. Yeah.", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "Yeah. OK.", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "But um, and hopefully all sidetracking um, other things will have disappeared, soon.", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "Good. Yep. 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We went through the use of wheels and but buttons. And also the use of a basis station for battery ch charging and uh also to um call the to call the mot mote remote control when it is lost. Okay. Um. Good. So guys let this uh wonderful thing.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Okay so we can go to the slides.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Oh yeah. Sorry. Um.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah. Number three. Oh number two sorry.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Which is.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "So final design. Final design. Okay so Michael you can go ahead.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah so uh following our decision to uh make a yellow well to make a banana", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah can you show it to the the camera maybe.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "remote okay so we actually have a.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "You can pull it out first, maybe.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "We've well first first of all we made a an attractive base station uh with a banana leaf uh look and feel um and uh", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm..", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "bana sit the banana sits in there k you know nicely weighted so that it's not gonna tip over and um this is the remote itself, it's kind of it's it's ergonomic, it fits in the hand uh rather well. We've got the two uh uh scroll wheels here which you know one on the the left for the uh volume and the one on the right for for the channel and uh underneath we have the uh the turbo button which is in like a nice uh trigger position for you know for pressing quite naturally.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "What's the use uh of the t turbo button already?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "This is when you when you uh are scrolling the uh through the channels you can tell it to to skip th past channels that you quickly rather th", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Ah yeah yeah an then you stop when you stop it stops.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah. Well when you stop scrolling the wheel it stops. But normally with uh it will just uh s stay on each station briefly so you can see the the picture.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Uh.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Uh-huh.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "And we we do have one more functionality. If you take the banana as such and uh you press the turbo button, so it switch ons the switch ons the T_V_.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "The T_V_ yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Which one?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "The s the turbo button.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "The turbo button.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "So rather than having uh an extra button for um for the on off switch you just use the turbo button.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Additional button.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "What this button for?", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "This is a teletext button. So once you press that then you get teletext", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "and you can use the the channel selector scroll wheel as uh.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "To navigate it through th through teletext.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "To navigate yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "But if you want to go to page seven hundred?", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "That's right, that's right.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "with the wheel it's easy.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "How man", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Well then you can you you have like a little uh number selection thing, you press the the the teletext button uh to move between uh the fields and then you can just scroll the number back and forth so you have s you go you scroll to seven and then zero zero and then you can uh.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "I don't understand it. Can you repeat it?.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Well you can you can press press the teletext button", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "and then you then you can you can f", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "So then then both the scroll buttons they are for teletext browsing.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "And you can tele", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Ah okay okay. Okay. Okay okay.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "yeah,", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Mm uh.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "once you press the teletext button then the scroll buttons they are more for teletext, they are no more for channel or vol volume.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Okay. I see. I see. Okay. Okay.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "And this is the uh the infrared uh port.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "That's right.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Also the top of the banana.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Excellent.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "So. And then we have", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "in the uh in the base station we have the the button at the front for uh for calling the uh the banana.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Calling. Excellent.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "And the the leaves plays the roles of of antennas?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Actually they do.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Oh.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "That's that's yeah that's uh that's form and function in the one in the one uh object.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah. So it always means, whatever the rays goes by they they get reflected and then you are having a better coverage.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "It's like antennas.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah. So.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "But yeah that's um that's just like that's an attractive um base station.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Great..", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "So.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "So, what else?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "And for the power source we are having solar cells and rechargeable batteries and this and uh the basis station is going to have the input from the mm power line for for charging the batteries.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Is it really weight? Is it light or.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "It is very light.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah, they're light.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "It's it's uh it's about the weight of a banana.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "You know, to give you the correct look and feel.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Ok", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "And we have put these different colours so that people don't mistake them mistake it as a banana.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Otherwise it's you know a child comes and so.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Okay. Yeah yeah yeah, I see. I under I understand.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "I think a child would try to eat it anyway, so maybe we should", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "consider that. maybe health and safety aspects.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Ah yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Oh we didn't think of that yet. Yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "So for the power source, apparently you still you you want to use both solar cells and batteries.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Oh yeah that's right.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Uh you mean okay. So.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "I don't really know if the solar cells are actually necessary any more if you have a recharging base station.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah, where are going to where are you are you going to place them?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm mm-hmm. It'll It'll be always at top somewhere at there.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "If I was gonna place them I'd put them on the on the top here since that's like uh the black bit", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "You have enough surface? You.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "but yeah I don't I really don't think it's necessary to have the solar cells anymore.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah because now we are having rechargeable batteries", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "so that that is.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "What will be the autonomy? Roughly?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "The what sorry?", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "The autonomy. Autonomy.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "What do you mean?", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Uh I mean how long does i how how how long can it be held off a station?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "How long the how long the bit the batteries long.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Ah. Ah. A long time.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah. A long.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "No no no,", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Eight to ten eight to ten hours.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "it can it should be weeks.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "N most no most of the time it's not being used.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah, so it's.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah but y people don't like to put it back in the base station all the time people leave wanna leave it on the couch so.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "So when when you are making it on.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "It's used only when you.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm. Mm-hmm. No eight or eight or ten hours of working.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Ah, okay.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "If you are just leaving like that it'll be much longer.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah. F weeks.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah. That's right.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Right. Next slide?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah. And we are having the speakers regular chip for control. Pricing is was a factor so that's why we have gone for a regular chip only not the advanced chip. And uh that's it.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Okay. Okay. Those really sounds very good.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "That's right.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Nothing else to add?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "It seems to be falling over.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "I l yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "I like I like it. Maybe the the thing that convince me the less is the the multifunctional buttons. Looks a bit.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "You want to have more functional buttons?", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Looks a bit puzzled uh I dunno how to say that.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "You are not convinced.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "You the the b the buttons change h h their function depending if y it's teletext or not.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Not not many, we we want to keep it simple. So that this button fo is for teletext which is usually also the case, that usually there is a teletext button and once you press that, the channel buttons, they baco become the scrolling buttons.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "And the volume button will will become.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "It's up to you, means.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Well in fact b both will be could be useful, navigating through teletext.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Now that Means let's say this this can move the the larger digits and this can move the smaller digits.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Or can move between positions in the in the number.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "That's right.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "And what about people who want to use digits? Butto real buttons?", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Wow.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah. So there was there was a constraint that the surface area which we have on this banana on one side because of the shape.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "So we are targeting a segment which is which is just very trendy kind of thing, they they don't care about the buttons any more. And anyway.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Okay. Because have you thought about configuration and all this kind of uh stuff?", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "It's all automatic.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "It's all automatic.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yep.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Okay. Okay yeah it's fine.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Very good uh yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "W we are living in a wonderful world..", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "you th yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Uh..", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Bananas everywhere.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Okay, so.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Automatically configure..", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "So we have to go through now evaluations.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Evalua yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "So your slides are ready?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "S", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Uh you're four I think.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "So this is one, which one is this one?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Okay. I I const I constructed a a list of criteria based on the on the general user requirements. And each criteria is will be evaluated it's uh logical criteria so we must users must say i if it's true or is or if it's false in a in a scale ranging from zero to seven.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Why this strange factor of seven?", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Because i I'm sorry. Sorry.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Usually I have seen that scales are from one to ten.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Ah yeah. It's from sorry, it's from one to seven. It's from from one to seven sorry. Because it should be an even it should be an even uh scale,", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Num number.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Okay. Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "and five is too short and nine is too long.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "I'm a I I'm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Okay fine, got the idea.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "So to have in order to have enough granularity.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Sorry?", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "it's in order to have enough granularity in the evaluation.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "The variance is mi it's is minimal.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Okay, okay, great.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "I'm um answering your question.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Okay. Yeah yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Go ahead.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "And that's the criteria I I found more useful. I think I sh I I could write the criteria in the on the whiteboard?", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm. Sure.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "And we all four could range", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Okay. Yeah yeah. Yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "could evaluate the.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "So you can say fancy, handy. Handy.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Okay let's let's evaluate if it's fancy or.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah, it's fancy, according to me.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Seven but.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah, six.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "S seven.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Seven. Seven by me.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Six.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "I would say seven.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "It's quite fancy.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "So you can add seven plus six plus seven plus.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "No, wait.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah uh five.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "What do you say seven? Five?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Five.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Five, maybe maybe maybe six it's it's I guess it's.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Okay, six point five.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Handy?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Again I'll give seven.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Seven.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "I'd give it a six like I'd I think it's probably more handy than my current remote,'cause of the scroll wheels", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Six.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yep.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "but maybe loses the point for not having you know the extra buttons when you reall if you do need them for some reason but you know you can always use your other remote.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "So seven, seven,", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Seven for me.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "six,", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Six.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "six point five. Functional..", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "I'll give five.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Four.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "I would say.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Well it depends when you say functional, do you mean it does what we want it to do, or d does what it does, you know, can it make you coffee?", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Everything ar", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Uh for a remote control, does he have all the.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "You know.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Mm everything.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah. Yeah..", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "you could expect.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "It's compared to the all", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "That's right.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "remote controls.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "That's before.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "That's right. The standards. What is available in the market off the shelf.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah. I have to say four.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Actually I don't know what are the r the real specification of a of a universal remote contro", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Well it's not a universal remote. Remember we're focus we're supposed to focus just on T_V_s.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "We.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Ah it's not an univer but it's for all kind of T_V_s?", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Well all T_V_s but only T_ only T_V_s I guess.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "So it's universal but for T_V_s. So s uh four?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Five.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Five?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Four.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Four.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Four. Four.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "So four point two?", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Just four.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Four.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "four..", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Obviously there are some outliers so.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "So four?", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Okay cool? Cool device.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "There I'll give it seven.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "It means cool features, like new features actually.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "That's right.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Which.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "For a T_V_ the most important feature which I felt was the locator which is a cool feature. And then the scroll buttons are again cool features. We don't have L_C_D_ for it but that we decided we don't want to have.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah. Seven.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "I would say five.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "I'll say five.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Six.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm. Seven.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Plus six, I say I said seven.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "So it's six.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "S yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "You said seven?.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "'Cause it's five five seven seven so.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Uh, okay, definitely easy to use.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Definitely seven.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Seven.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Seven. Seven. And you? Outl you are not lik outlier.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Five..", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Seven.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Okay okay okay okay.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Sorry, I have them.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Alright, now here's the sixty million Dollar question,", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "well, twenty five twenty five Euro question.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Of course I'll buy the banana..", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "What do you what do you guys reckon?", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Of cour Of course the most difficult question for the end..", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Well.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "I'll say five.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Hmm.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "I'll say five.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Twenty five Euros. Cheap.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "I find it quite cheap actually.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "I dunno. If i i it depends, if you live in in Switzerland or you live in.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah, so the target price is for all Europe, or only for rich countries? It's more targeting U_K_ or.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "I don't know. Wha the initial specifications were for the whole all Europe or.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Uh.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "So this is selling costs, not production costs.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah. Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah this is the the initial specifications.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah yeah sure. Um Five.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "I would say six. It's quite cheap actually.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "I'd say two.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Aw, should be nice in your.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Why?", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "I don't want a banana on my living room table, a banana remote.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "No but it's really handy actually if you see.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "It is handy, it's handy, but it it's terrible.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "It's it's so handy. And then.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "It's kitsch.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Anyb anybody who comes here anybody who comes to your home he'll at least ask once what is this.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah. Yeah, but it's not a positive thing.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "It's a very positive thing if you see like that.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Well, you know, it's it's handy, it's ergonomic, but it's a banana.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Well, don't forget well, don't for don't forget who we're targeting also who are f f who are wh", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Youngsters.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "yeah, youngst youngst", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah but it says I, I would buy this, so.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Actually maybe.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "No well yeah I if you would be young.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Not telling that you are young. Li li like a teenager for instance.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "No, it's I. I would buy.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Okay you're you're crazy teenager and you like fun things.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "You want to flaunt.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "You with your girlfriend or something.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah, you want to show the beautiful banana you have..", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "S s", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Or might be it does some other kind of thing but.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Still I I'd say two. I don't think I at any stage in my life I would want a banana remote control, really.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Uh yeah, crazy.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Okay so you s you give.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "I can say, maybe there is a market for it, I dunno.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "oh yeah yeah I know I know.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "So you say two.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "I say five.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "F I d I say five. You say?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "I change the question..", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "So what's the new question?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "And you have saved it?", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "So yeah upload the.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "You'll have to reload.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Uh yeah, I think so..", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Okay, so, it depends if uh.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah it's two different situations. If you really need an universal remote control or if you would change your remote control for a n for a new one.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah that's two different question.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "If I had t if I had to spend twenty five Euro, if that was like my limit, maybe I would buy it. Because the other twenty five Euro remote controls are probably gonna look", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Ugly.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "worse than a banana..", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "They're not going to be as And they they might not be a as easy as this.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "And it yeah this is gonna f you know handy to use.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "yeah. Yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "So? What now? What range?", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "I stick to five.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "S", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Although it still has it still has the word of course at the beginning.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "I go slightly up. Six.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Six.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "so I dunno. Um.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "W we have six, five.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "I'd give it I'd give it a", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Three.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "I give it a four now.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Six? Six?", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "So we are six, five, four.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Six, five, four.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Six, so it's uh five point five, or less.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah. So.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "So and last question, will I change my rem change my remote control from Mando banana. Um, zero. No uh we can't..", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "So one.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Actually yeah, I we.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Well if.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "No uh let's say I'll put two.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "I'd say three, I mean my remote control is kinda at home is pretty terrible. If it was change my remote control of my D_V_D_ player for a Mando banana then I would be more inclined to", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "It's for the T_V_.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "but uh'cause it's really bad but uh.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "I'd say a three..", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "I'll still give it five. Yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Five?", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Two three five two three fi and two.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "You are romantic, really.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "So it's somewhere three point five I think.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "I would say two.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "So it's r Yeah, three point five..", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Who is the outlier?", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Wh wh you said five?", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "No no you say five, he is the outlier.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "No I said five.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Okay just just do a sum.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "I don't know if it's a.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "It's not very promising but you know we're not young trendsetters..", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "No because there are more yeah, we shouldn't sum like that.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Well maybe we should we should uh have a look globally glob", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Because the the last two questions is much more important than the rest actually.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Otherwise we wouldn't we will not sell.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Is there some some formula you're using that says you have to sum them up?", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Uh no I didn't anything..", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Well just leave it at that then.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Oops.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "So maybe maybe w we can we should stick to general feeling. We can had uh have a out of these numbers, which which is that well we should go for it.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah, the uh Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Problem with connectors?.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Do you want me to sum", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "No.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah it's it's funny..", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "o I think it's not.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "I think it it kind of you just lose information if you sum it, so.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Okay. So let's move uh let's move on.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah, sure.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Okay, now now we have to mm to estimate uh the cost okay. So I prepare an Excel sh uh an Excel sheet. Um well we are going to calculate the production costs. We should we should be below twelve point five. So I already uh put some pu some numbers here, okay. We are going to go through so this is the number the mm number of components we need for this thing. So it appears that there were things that we didn't thought about. Uh and also things that I uh I d I forget to uh to put like solar cells.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Well we decided against the solar cells so.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Oh yeah finally we say no.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Solar cells, yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah, we said no to that.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Okay so let's let's go let's go let go through all the lines. So hand dynamo. This something we didn't thought about. But.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "You mean, charging it by shaking the banana.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "I think rechargeable batteries will take care of the power thing.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Okay so we we stick to battery, one.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "To bring the cost Yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "No kinetic also. I don't I don't see the difference between kinetic and dynamo.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Well maybe dynamo is like you have to actually.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Ah you have to ah okay I see so kinetic is really uh shaking the banana.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "S", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Crazy. Okay. So those banana is falling. Let's go ahead. So we we st only have one for battery. Uh then for electronics um so I didn't put anything for the.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "So we have the regular chip on the print, which is one.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah. Yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "And that's it.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Okay. No so we hin", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "And we have sample speaker.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah so one.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah. Yeah. the cost of that is very high.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Ooh ye ye ye the cost is increasing. So we are.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Well actually that that no that sample speaker is not we we're not using that, we're just using the the very beep simple beep,", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "The beep.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "that s that sample thing is like the voice recording and everything.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Uh-huh.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "That's what.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm. Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Okay so I'll remove it.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "So Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "S", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "I say that Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "So don't we need a.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "And we have sev", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Oh there is no listing for r radio frequency thing.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "So.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "So we we'll put some extras, if there is something.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah maybe. We'll see later.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Okay so in for the case um I put single curved.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Okay. To reduce the cost, it's okay.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Well, wait a second,", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Because we have two things.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "no, it's it's double curved, it's got a c, it's uh.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Oh it's got all the directions", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "No.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "so don't worry..", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Well d yeah it's monotonic but", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "It's got a direction..", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "it's got but if you hold it if you hold it that way that's two curved, one on this side, one on that side, but they're opposite sides.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Well. What a what i if I put one here.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "This is actually I mean this probably", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Actually what's the differen", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "this probably actually costs more than three", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah so let's put one here in the then instead of single", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "if you.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Okay. Okay.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "oka all right.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "So we stick to plastic, it cost nothing.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah. That's right.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Well no didn't we say we wanted to do a rubber.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "No, it's too no.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "if you drop it?", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Too expensive.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "It's too expensive. We're already at eleven.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Well when okay. Well we we'll come back we'll come back and see if we can fit it in.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Okay so I put rubber one. Okay so special colour, yellow.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Uh for the interface we have.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "We don't have any push buttons.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "No, we have two push buttons.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "We have three.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "No that is a scroll wheel itself, it'll be put in that.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Huh.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "No no. We have two scroll, and we have three push buttons.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Ah okay, okay.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Uh.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Okay, okay.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "And.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Okay it's gonna have to be plastic.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Actually whe whe when you wrote regular chip you should put two, because there is another chip here.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "No it's no chip. This is just radio frequency. Th This is no chip.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah but", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "No. There's no chip there.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "you need.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "It just emits the signal.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "It's just.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "And the receiver accepts it and that's it.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Fo i it does nothing actually?", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "No. Just only.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Just se sends the signal, that's it.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "It's a recharger thing and uh.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Okay w we didn't think a thought about uh integrated scroll wheel push buttons.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Well I actually did um think about it myself but I thought you know because you could potentially you know you could be pushing it down as you scroll it for a instead of a turbo button", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah,", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "but you know the turbo button does add that extra class.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "so Yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "You know. So I mean if we're if we're over budget then maybe we could we could rethink that.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Okay. So no L_C_D_, so for we have no button supplements, right?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yep. No.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Uh well in fact could we could not we consider this button as a button supplement because oh no, these are these are for colours, co and special forms, special colours and special materials.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah. No we're not.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "So.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "we don't need anything special for the buttons.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Okay so we are over budget.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah. So first thing which we should take care of is,", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Make it plastic instead of rubber.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "instead of rubber, let it be plastic.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "And then we're basically o on budget except for you know ten cents.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "And uh that much money will be required for the base station, which is not there.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "So mayb in fact n we have to put two here", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "because it cost nothing.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah well pl the base station is made out of m many units of plastic.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "That's right.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "So might be ninety centimes for the the remaining things which the cord and everything which'll go.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Exactly exactly so we have margin for that stuff.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Does that include charging circuitry and everything?.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "That's right.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah maybe. Okay good. Wha", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Excellent.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "So what do we do with the extra profits?", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Um we'll invest in R_ and D_.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "The next fruit.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah. So well we're under the the the cost. So we can go to through to project evaluation..", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Okay so now we have a product which nobody would would buy. Would yeah, would buy.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Sorry?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "No we have a product which none of us would buy..", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah because th th the evaluation project.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Which is different. Which is different. None of us will buy it.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "No it's people in in in Milan and uh in Paris that are gonna buy it.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Ah would buy, yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "We're n", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Massively, yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "yeah. We're not in Milan or Paris.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah. Okay. Uh you have been in Milan a couple of times, so.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "This is a battery..", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Actually there were a lot of.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "And you said the lowest.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "This is what we which you can mm.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "S Detachable battery.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "It did yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "That's'cause I'm sick of Milan.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah, for the batteries.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Extra battery, yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Okay so um project process.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Exac Well in fact I I did not know I didn't know really what to say here.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "If uh if you have any ideas of what we can we can say. So I don't I don't I don't understand what what they mean by satisfaction um and for and for example.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Should it be more like um like a status of of the these meetings in fact.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah well in fact uh we we use a little bit the white board and the digital pen, not that much.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "I dunno I think we had a fair bit of creativity.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Oh yeah it's really creative.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "And uh but I think one thing we m missed out of this whole process was a um like a focus group with the actual people we're targeting.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "We needed some of these kind of young trendsetters to come in and play with the banana and you know see if they", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "They like that.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "see if they like it.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah maybe we should go through, yeah an uh evaluation.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Because yeah the evaluation for us is is kind of pointless.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Biased.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "So maybe you should we should do a kinda evaluation in the streets like asking to young peoples well, do you like to have a banana as a remote control.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah. Because it it would also be interesting to uh you to know find out if we have a market in really young children as well, to see you know how to how to market this thing.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "'Cause you know if well I mean maybe you don't wanna give all your kids their own remote because they'll be changing the channel all the time but you know maybe in some households where there is you know a T_V_ for each kid, then you know, banana remote control could be fun for them as well.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Might have to draw a face on it. So but I think that's something we need to to work on next time is really finding out more about the target market.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yep. Any any new ideas we could uh we could investigate next time? Dunno, oranges?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah. The cost of the thing can be made more than might be. Because I think it's just the optimal, what we have done for the cost which we are looking forward to.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah. I think there are ways we could maybe simplify the.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Interface.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Well just the the the circuit board that we're using inside,", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "I'm not sure really how complicated our um", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "our needs are. I mean all we have is two push buttons and two scrollers, do we really need an integrated circuit to", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Hmm.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "you know to process that.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm. Mm-hmm. Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "So more general remote control instead of just focusing on uh on T_V_.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "That's right.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "The complexity shouldn't be much higher.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "For you said if it good for D_V_D_ then I would.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "And also fo you know for mood lighting and and stuff, that would be rather cool. I think that's actually something that should be in version two, is the ability to you know to control things other than the T_V_", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Integrate.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "and not just electronic equipment but you know the whole environment of the room.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Okay. Very good. So.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "So What else?", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Well done. I think we we can go", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Okay. Home?", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "home.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Happily satisfied..", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah. 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b5cf9bfc3be54ef6857a2324073f5dc9	{ "meetingId": "ES2002d", "transcriptSegments": [ { "text": "Okay we all all set? Right. Well this is the uh final detailed design meeting. Um we're gonna discuss the look and feel design, the user interface design, and we're gonna evaluate the product. And the end result of this meeting has to be a decision on the details of this remote control, like absolute final decision, um and then I'm gonna have to specify the final design in the final report. So um just from from last time to recap, we said we were gonna have a snowman shaped remote control with no L_C_D_ display, no need for talk-back, it was hopefully gonna be kinetic power and battery uh with rubber buttons, maybe backlighting the buttons with some internal L_E_D_s to shine through the casing, um hopefully a jog-dial, and incorporating the slogan somewhere as well. Anything I've missed?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "No.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Okay um so uh if you want to present your prototype go ahead.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Uh-oh. This is it?.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Ninja Homer, made in Japan..", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Um, there are a few changes we've made.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Um, well look at the expense sheet, and uh it turned to be quite a lot expensive to have open up and have lots of buttons and stuff inside,", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Mm. Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "so instead we've um this is gonna be an L_C_D_ screen, um just a a very very basic one, very small um with access to the menu through the the scroll wheel and uh confirm um button.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Mm'kay.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Uh, apart from that, it's just pretty much the same as we discussed last time.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "And there isn't uh d it doesn't open up to the advanced functions? the advanced functions are still hidden from you, but they're hidden in the sense that um they're not in use.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Where are they?", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Um they're in the L_C_D_ panel and the jog-dial?", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Ah, right.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Okay'cause.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "So w what kind of thing uh is gonna be.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Great.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "The L_C_D_ panel just displays um functionally what you're doing. If you're using an advanced function right, like um c brightness, contrast, whatever, it will just say.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Right. Okay.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "You know it's like it only has four columns, it's a very simple L_C_D_ like, whereas many the minimum amount we need that the user will automatically know like this is brightness or this is contrast.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm. Okay cool.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Right,'kay.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "It might even be one, a bit more complex L_C_D_ panel with pictures like maybe the sun or the, you know, the the symbols of the various functions.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Okay", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Oh right okay.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm, and what is this here?", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Cool.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "That's a number pad.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Okay so the number pad is'Kay, great.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Where are we gonna have the slogan?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Um they're al along this.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "You know, just like right inside there.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Okay cool.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "You have this space here, and then you have this thing on the side as well, or at the bottom.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "'Cause slogans are usually quite small, right,", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "they're not like huge", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "so they're s", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yep.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Say a button's about", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Looks good.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "say a button's about this size, right, so you would still have plenty of space for a slogan, say even for that.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yep. Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "So if this isn't to scale, what kind of dimensions are you thinking about here?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Well we want the other buttons to be big enough to push easily with a finger", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "so we reckon maybe that'll be about the same size as the palm of your hand..", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yep so that would be about a centimetre for a button, so one two three four centimetres. Plus maybe half o five", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "six seven eight,", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "About nine in total.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Six, seven, eight, nine, ten.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "about yeah nine total.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "So we're talking about ten centimetres.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "That sounds good. Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "That would be good. So ten centimetres in height.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yep.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Nine, ten. Yep.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Okay um.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "That'd be good, in fact a pen is about ten centimetres usually, so that would be that sounds like a really good size, if you see it there.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah. That's great and it's very bright as well. So um okay.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm. Is it possible uh I'm just gonna bring up the idea of colours. Is these are these the colours that of production, or is this just what we had available?", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Well I'm We're gonna have again the the sort of the foggy um yellow from last time that lit up when you pushed the button.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Okay so just.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Um.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "could you just list all the things that it does s so I can write them in the report.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "But um this button um, because it's red it's sort of very prominent, we're gonna use it as uh it can be the power button if you hold it for maybe two seconds it'll send a stand-by signal.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Excuse me.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Um apart from that it's gonna be used as a confirm button for the L_C_D_ screen", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Sure.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "and you use this as a jog-dial.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Okay so that's like an okay button, right.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Oh we've discussed how h high it is, but how wide is it?.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "I don't know..", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "How high is it?", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "No as in the height, but what about the width?", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Oh oh", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Didn't put five centimetres.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "like depth of the actual thing.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Do we need five? I don't think five is.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Um.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "be about th three and a half.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Oh is this k to get an idea of scale from your from your thing there okay.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Something by there.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah, yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Sure.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "So you can power on and off, what else can you do?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Three and a half.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Um you can skip straight to a channel using these buttons.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Um, were gonna have the volume control here, but um because we've got the the L_C_D_ and the jog-dial we just thought we'd um use that as the volume.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Okay jog-dial for volume. And what else do you do with the jog-dial?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Um you can use it for um more advanced functions like contrast, colour and.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Contrast, brightness,", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Um yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "yeah, and anything else?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Um just whatever else we wanted to include as the advanced functions, um we didn't actually go through and specify the.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Well of the designers what are they?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Uh what can a T_V_ do?", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Okay things like um brightness, contrast,", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Uh-huh.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "um maybe tuning the channels.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Okay channel tuning.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Um.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "That's a good one.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "What else? Um the various inputs. Are you having a V_C_R_, are you having you know which input do you have?", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm, mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Okay auxiliary inputs.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm,", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Um.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "probably colour or sharpness.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yep, colour, sharpness. Um a lot of these things will have to be um free and open for users to define them.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Sharpness. Okay what about uh sound settings", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "? Uh d can you change any of those at all?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Audio.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Audio, we have like your basic y your base, your mid-range, your high range.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Um.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Um.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "the the balance hmm.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yep, left-right balance, um maybe even pre-programmed sound modes, like um the user could determine like a series of sound modes,", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "and then what could happen would be um when you click on that then it would go to that setting.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Okay,", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm'kay.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "is there anything else at all it can do? That'cause that's that's fine. Just need to know so I can write it down. Okay um right I g I guess that's it, so we can now um We can now have a little look at the the Excel sheet and price listing, and see if we need to um if we need to rethink anything at all.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "So um for this first part here power-wise, have we got battery?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "The battery.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Do we have kinetic as well?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "No.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "No. Okay,", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Um.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "just battery.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "We need an.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "And that's because of cost restraints is it?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yep.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Okay", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah advanced chip.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "um what about the electronics here?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "We need an advanced chip I think, yep.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Advanced chip.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Let me just confirm that. Yes I think so. Yep.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Okay um the case, what does it mean by single and double, do you know?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Um I think single would just be sort of one sort of oval whereas double is this sort of thing.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "So we want double-curved?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yep.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Okay. Um.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Plastic.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Is there any rubber at all in the buttons or any", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "I think we're gonna have to skip the rubber.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Okay,", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Um.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "um and we wanted special colours didn't we?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yep.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "So I'll have to put that Oh no wait we ho how many colours have we got there?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "For the case itself, one colour. It's one special colour.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Just one colour, okay.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "'Cause the case unit itself, the rest of our components go on top of it.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Okay so interface-wise, is it this third option we have, the two of them there?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yes. One and the L_C_ display.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Okay and then buttons, we have what, two colours?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "How many.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Um we have um got some push buttons as well.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Or even clear.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "We've got push buttons as well.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Like uh oh wait so push button and integrated scroll wheel push", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "'Kay.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "okay.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "So I reckon we've got one button for this thing'cause it's just one big sheet of rubber.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Uh-huh.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "I'm not sure if that counts but.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Okay let's just be safe and put like say four buttons for that one.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Okay. Okay.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Okay um and maybe a special colour for the buttons, so maybe four again.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Four.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "You can see we're we're all very far beyond the.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "So w why are we arriving at the number four? Where does the number four come from?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "'Cause that's one button by its the complexity of twelve buttons.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Okay right,", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "So we're just estimating that yeah it would be less.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "so we're writing down four. Okay. How about these? Are we wanting them in.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "No.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "no they're just.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yep.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "is everything gonna be plastic?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yep.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Okay. So we're w w quite far over.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Now we're gonna something's gonna have to go. Um we're at sixteen point eight and.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Uh how mm-hmm how are we going to achieve this high-end product if.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Well we h something has to go to the tune of two point t three Euro,", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "We only have very sparse.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "so let me see, what are we I mean.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Two point three? Four point three no?", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "oh yes sorry, four point three. My maths is all out.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Well we could take out ones by making it single curved, just fill in those bits.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "How much would that save us?", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "And then where is the.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "How much would that save us?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "That will only save you one.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "That is one.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "The other thing could be that um you could take away the L_C_D_ panel and the advanced chip together,", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "One.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "um because when you do something on the T_V_, the T_V_ responds and reacts as well,", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "so the user could be looking at the T_V_ and pushing his thing so we may not need to.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "That's fair enough, yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "so when we scroll we need just some way to get the T_V_ to respond,", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm. Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "which I think is a technically doable thing so.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Okay so.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "So w what's our reviewed suggestion?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Um take away the L_C_ display?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yep. And the advanced chip goes away as well.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "To be replaced with a", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Regular chip.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "regular chip.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yep. So what that means is that um.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "And so we've got point three to get rid of. Um and we ha where are the four the four push buttons are where exactly now?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "The twelve buttons that you see there.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Twelve buttons.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "That's um one piece of rubber but it's gonna have twelve button things underneath so.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Functionally you're gonna have to intercept So four is a good estimate for.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Do you think?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah, so you can't actually cut It's like three times the number of buttons, four, eight, twelve.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Like is is that one big button or is it twelve buttons,", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "It It needs to be more than one big button because if you open up your phone, underneath there's actually one button underneath, it's just that the panel itself is a single panel.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "how can it be something in between?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Mm. Okay", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "well we have point three to get rid of somewhere.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "We just report that it has to be over budget,", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "or the colours, you could take away s colours for th for the buttons.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "No can do.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah we could just go with um.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah w", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Normal coloured buttons.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Well do you want colour differentiation here?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "No that's not the button we're talking about.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Um.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "That's.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Oh yeah sorry yeah then..", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "the buttons only refer to the pad so.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Right so.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Should we take that off uh?", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Ah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Hey it's back to the original.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "That's it.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Hmm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Um so then these just become normal coloured buttons, so that might be some some way of cutting the cost.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm. Mm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Okay, ach that's a shame. Um right, so take away that completely? Ah. And now we're under budget. So we do have point five Euro to play with if we wanted.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "So I reckon.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Um.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "How about with embossing the logo, isn't that going to cost us some money?", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Doesn't say so..", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah. That's a freebie.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Reckon that probably counts as a special form for the buttons.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah that's a good idea. Just one? Does that mean that one button has a special form or.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "I think there's just one button so", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah okay.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "handy.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Well well there we go. So I'm just gonna have to redraw this now. So we're not gonna have the L_C_D_ anymore, and we'll just gonna have an on t on the T_V_ it'll show you what you're doing, which I think is fair enough, and so this is gonna be one big thing here. Um.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Was the goal in your in your prototype design that it be as low profile as possible?", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "What do you mean by profile?", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Sort of flat as possible.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "No.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "You see I envision it as being um quite deep", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "sort of deep enough to be comfy to hold in your hands rather than being wide and flat.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah that's what I was thinking, to", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "We didn't have enough Play-Doh to make it three D_..", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Sure, okay. Yeah alright yeah fair enough.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Okay, just thought I'd ask.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "So there's one more dimension to the thing which we need to to add,", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "and you might want to add in the report, length, width, and height.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Right okay.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "So just to well to be thorough then, width-wise we're looking at about what three centimetres or something?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Okay and then so height-wise.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Hmm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "How how tall do you envisage it being? About that big?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Two.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah it works, yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "About two centimetres, okay.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Two's not very high at all though.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "This is about this is about two.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Maybe a bit higher?", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Slightly more than two, so.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "See, about that thick.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Okay. Ach, that is.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Maybe closer to three even or two and a half.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah. Okay we'll s we'll say two point five. Okay um so we have it within cost anyway. Um so yeah project evaluation is this point. Um.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Right uh. Okay so can we close that? This is what it's the final spec that it's gonna be. Someone is gonna have to.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "yeah that's fine that's fine.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Um it's probably just I dunno if it's worth getting into, but um just in in that we want this to be stylish, should we think a little bit more out of the box in terms of a button grid, because I've seen there's lots of devices out there that that instead of taking your standard nine nine square grid, and they have it sort of stylized or in different concept that that.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "I think that's something that's very hard to catch,", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "so you you restrict the number of people who wanna try something.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Sure, okay.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "The the look and the colour is something which is cool,", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah, alright.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "but I think that there's also that factor of if it's too unfamiliar", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Okay, sure.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "then um because when you put it on the shelf.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "What about button shape? Square buttons?", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah button shape might be a good idea to change, rather than rather than positioning,", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "'cause I think positioning is we're kinda engrained into the the telephone kind of", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah. Sure.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "pad.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Right um. So at this point we uh, let me see, discuss uh how satisfied we all are with um with these four points, with the room for creativity in the project, and leadership and teamwork, and the stuff we had around us I guess.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm'kay.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Um, let me see uh.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Do you want me to d um Do you want me to do my um design evaluation last?", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Maybe we should do the design evaluation first.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah I wasn't really sure what that was.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Or.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Evaluation.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": ", yeah go for that first. I wasn't entirely sure what uh who was supposed to be doing that,", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "but y you go for it.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Sure. Um, alright so the way this works, I'm gonna need to plug into PowerPoint,", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "I'll try and do it as quick as possible.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Um, this is um I'll just go over your head if that's okay.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "I don't think you need the power,", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "so.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "What's that?", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "No, that's okay that's okay.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "I don't need the PowerPoint?", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "No, the power cord itself.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Oh course,", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah, so then you have a bit more freedom to.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "yeah that's true. Let me get that. A bit more.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Okay,", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "You you still have your blue fingers.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "so what this is is a set-up for us to um uh use a kind of a like a.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Is it?", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "You killed a monster.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "The idea is that I've set up I've reviewed all of the um the points of discussion from the beginning, and used that as a criteria of evaluation for the um uh for the current design uh th or the plan, and uh so we can review that. Uh I think it's gonna end up being sort of elementary because we're sort we're in n we're not gonna probably use it to change anything but Doesn't seem like it's going, does it?", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Oh there it is.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah, okay great. Uh and I'm gonna write up our results on the board, so this'll be a way for us to go through and decide if we're um sort of review where we stand with it. Okay, so um So to sort of b bring together two things, sort of design goals and also the market research that we had, uh when we rate this, one is v high in in succeeding or fitting to our original aim and seven is low,", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Mm'kay.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "okay. So these i these i th are the and um we've been asked to uh to collectively rate this, so what we can do is try and just y work on a consensus system so we just come to an agreement.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Okay? So the first one uh, stylish look and feel.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "I rate that pretty highly.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Well yeah, I mean compared to most remote controls you see that's pretty good.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "I dunno like a six or something.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "What does anybody else think?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah um me uh my only reservation with it was that we basically went with yellow because it's the company's colour,", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "and I don't know if yellow's gonna really be a hit.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "But.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "I'm seeing five then.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "What do you guys think?", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "I would say five or six.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yep I'm fine with that.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "David?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Okay let's go with five then.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Fi oh uh just actually the opposite.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "It's one to seven, right?", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Oh yes", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "The.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "sorry then", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "So it meant three,", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": ", then I would say two or three.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "okay.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Wait, what's the scale, one to seven, right?", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah, one is high.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "One's high-ish isn't it? Ah, okay so yeah, two or three.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "'Kay.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Okay, it's upside-down.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Let's go with two point five then.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Okay, um control.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "high tech innovation.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Well it has the wee jog-dial", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "We had to remove.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "but.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah, so we've had to remove a few of our features we wanted,", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "but jog-dial", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Say it's more", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "I'd go with three or four,", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "'s good.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Eight", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "medium,", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "maybe three.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "three.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "but going towards a little bit higher than medium kind of thing.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Okay,", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah about three, okay.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "three?", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yep.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Okay, um.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Style reflects a fruit inspired colour, design.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Lemon.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "I shouldn't have said colour, but just.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Okay, the blue the blue colours and don't re don't actually represent the colour,", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Well that's kind of.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Sorta.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "except for the b the the red button,", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "they because for want of a.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "But the yellow, I mean it could be a lemon yellow colour,", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Right. Yeah, could be. Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah, the the yellow is more representative of the colour,", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "couldn't it?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "but the button itself, the blue can be anything else.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Okay. Okay so we'll go two.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah? Okay, and um design is simple to use, simple in features.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Well yeah, I mean it's really basic looking isn't it?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "F f yeah f fairly basic,", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "I mean I'd give that nearly a one.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "you guys think?", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah one.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yep, that's fine.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah, one? Okay. Um, soft and spongy, have we achieved that? We've used mostly plastic in the end so it's going to be quite a bit of a compromise for price.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah I think it's about five.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Five?", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Five? That's really low.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah well we have to use uh plastic", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah I suppose mm'kay.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "That's.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "so it's probably gonna be.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Um", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah, company logo.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "could we have used an entirely rubber frame to it? Was that an option?", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "I think it'll be cost prohibitive,", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "I think I'd probably increase the cost.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "It would cost more than plastic.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "We've only got like what, ten cents left so.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Okay, logo, we've got it in there, haven't we?", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yep.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yep. Gonna have that on the side, aren't we, like there or something?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Huh. And um it's within budget, yep. It is, isn't it?", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Okay, so we can say then that uh out of a possible or what would be our goal here?", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Out of forty nine, I guess.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah, out of forty nine with with zero being the highest. We are at uh two, seven, eight, ten, fifteen point five.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "'S pretty good.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "So it's pretty good. Translates to something like about approximately seventy two percent efficacy of our original goal. Right?", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Uh yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "I think'cause if you turn that into a hundred it would be about", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Twice that,", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "about thirty one,", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "about thirty one.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "and then invert that, it's.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "So yeah ab well yeah about sixty nine, seventy percent yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Oh right, about seventy, yeah seventy percent.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "It's pretty good.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Okay, good. That was just a little formality for us to go through.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yep, oh hundred pound pen..", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Sorry alright.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Nobody saw it, honestly..", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "No.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "The cameras did..", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Hmm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Is that you all have all finished, or.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah that's that's me. I did have one other um one other frame I thought, I mean I I d not knowing how we would deal with this information, I thought okay in theory this kind of a process would be about refining our design, revisiting our original goals.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Uh-huh.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "It's not something I need to p push through, but I thought should we thinking more about the dimensions, um sort of like more of a three dimensional shapes as well as opposed to just that flat um.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Could our design involve a series of colours so that it's more of like a line where we have like sort of the, I don't know like the harvest line or the vibrant,", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yep.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "I dunno the Whatever just some theme and then we have different tones, lime green, lemon.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "It's just discussion. I mean obviously we can just abandon this, it's fine. I'm just thinking about what we originally set out to do.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Um, yep so there. That's all.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Okay, great um are you submitting the the um evaluation criteria or am I? I don't know what your instructions have been.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Um, I think to record it and uh I haven't been asked to submit it yet.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Okay,", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "uh just wondering if I need to include it in the minutes,", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "because if you're submitting it anyway then.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "I will, yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Okay great.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "It keeps getting too big.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Cool. Um right, uh well next up then, because we've done finance, is the project evaluation.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "'Kay I'm I'm listening I'm just trying to incorporate the logo into the the thing, so I'm playing with the Play-Doh as well.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Oh right, okay.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Just in case you're wondering, why is he still playing with the Play-Doh?.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Huh.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Just about right", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "L_E_G_O_ Lego..", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "My leg..", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Right, okay. Um well do you wanna um just individually say what you think about about these four points and or not those four points, my four points, sorry, forgotten that. You got a different uh.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yep. I like those printer cables that just have the two little butterfly clips like that.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Oh yeah, they're good aren't they, yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "It's really quick.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Right okay,", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "To use.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "um yeah here we are. Uh as a note we'll do this alphabetically. Um do you wanna start Andrew?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Sure, um so what is it you're asking of me now?", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "I don't know, just um your opinion on those four those four points really and how we used them.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Or sort of our work on setting this up.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah. Well, is it uh okay I'll just go through your system then. The the room uh is fairly institutional, but um the main thing is, I think um our use of this space is more just to report on things as opposed to be creative and constructive and it would probably help to um have l sort of a cumulative effect of we have ideas and we come back and then the ideas are still in discussion, you know,", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Uh-huh.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "as in other words this this room is sort of a centre point of creativity, whereas in reality as we've gone through this, it's not really the centre point of creativity, it's more just a", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Well d do you feel though that that you were able to have quite a lot of creative input into the thing?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "d debating Yeah, yeah but that's just the thing is the quest in terms of the the first point there, the room, it feels as though the creativity goes on when we leave, and then we come here and then we kind of put out our ideas and then, you know.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "But I don't I don't think it means the room as in this room. I think it means like you know.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Oh, oh right right, oh right okay room for creativ", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah..", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Oh right I just looked up and saw okay whiteboard, digital pens, the room.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Room. Oh yeah..", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "No, of course, yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Well I dunno do you th I think it means um I think it means did you feel you were able to give creative input so.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Sorry. Huh. Yeah. Yeah I th okay on th um yeah dif answering the question uh in those terms I'd say that actually there's sort of a tease of creativity because we're asked to work through this, but actually the guidelines are fairly contrived in terms of um okay fashion trends, say fruit and vegetable colour scheme,", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "but then i then we're told okay use the co company company colours.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "So what do we do. We're told okay um think in terms of style and look and feel and technology, but build something for twelve and a half pounds,", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "so actually the creativity was more more of like a um a f sort of a f formality then an actual.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "You feel like you're caged within whatever y", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah within the constraints", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "It's like a balloon in a cage, it can only go so big and not hit the side.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "the.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "The constraints do come in very fast.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Okay uh do you know what,", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah, yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "actually let's take each point and everybody discuss it, I think.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "So.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "So still on the topic of room for creativity uh next up is Craig.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Um I agree with his point it's um it is quite a lot of fun t to go and then you have sort of hit the end then go right, gotta cut everything out'cause we don't have enough money.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yep.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "I think another point is that the meetings um are more brainstorming sessions than meetings,", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "so time is also a very s um strong factor, and structure.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Because for a brainstorming meeting you want a structure that allows you to allows ideas to get tossed, um to be evaluated, and to be reviewed, and to get feedback and come back.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm, mm-hmm. Yeah, yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "And I guess that point about the room not being r very friendly to that, I think that's a very big thing,", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "and I think the fact that we're wearing these things restricts.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah, sure.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "I feel it'cause I wear m my glasses, right, and that but that irritates me right", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "it it it does actually you know affect how, w whether you feel comfortable to communicate.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah. New creativity.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "I feel like I'm hiding behind the equipment, rather than the equipment is helping me, and you know.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yep.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "So you think a more relaxed atmosphere would be more kind of conducive to creative thought or.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Not not so much an atmosphere, the atmosphere is very relaxed, but the the gear", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah, but actual environment?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "yeah you know that creates boundaries to that um", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "and and the time the time given also restricts.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Very good. Um what about leadership?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "I don't know if that means like, if I did a good job or something.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "I don't really know.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah, well well I mean my sense on that is sort of what kind of guidance and direction, encouragement.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "From like your personal coach person and stuff like that, do you think maybe?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah from and you as well I think, just sort of acting as team leader.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Um yeah I think I think it's", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Excuse me.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "I think it's good. I mean my personal views on on leadership is that effective effective leadership sort of um gives people a certain room for freedom and delegation, but then to come back with something that they take great ownership and", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "you know, innovative thought with. In in reality I think here the the different elements of leadership such as the the original b briefing and then the personal coach and the and then you know having having you with your the meeting agenda is actually quite a quite a quite a con confining framework to work within. And so it is leadership almost to the point of sort of disempowering the the the team member, so.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Uh-huh, okay.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "But it's not bad leadership, it's just sort of s fairly strong, you know. It turns it turns the individual into more of like a um sort of a predetermined mechanism, as opposed to a sort of a free.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "So you think maybe a little too controlling or.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah, oh yeah, without without a doubt.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "I think controlling is not the right word, I think the interactions are very structured.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah maybe not co confining.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "I think structure is probably what you're saying that, each individual is structured to one particular task, and one parti rather than controlling.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah. Yeah, yeah. Mm-hmm, mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "I don't think there's a sense of control'cause all the decisions have been made in terms of a, like a consensus right, we go around and we think about it,", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm. Mm-hmm. Mm-hmm, mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "but that you know process actually says you have to do it in a certain way.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Uh-huh.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm, mm-hmm. Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "It doesn't tell you, you know, some ways that you might wanna be a bit more creative in terms of the process you know, not the.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm. Mm-hmm, mm-hmm. Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Okay, uh what about teamwork?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Um did, you wanna comment Craig?", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Uh, reckon that was a bit hard because we could only discuss things in the meeting.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "If we could just go up to somebody outside the meeting and have a quick talk with them, that would've been a lot easier.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "I think you tried to use the common share folder to to to to communicate,", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Fully agree.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "but um it just comes back to us so slow in the email", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "um it it doesn't have a, you know, a messenger will go.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Did uh did you guys get the email I sent you?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Oh that's alright.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Not just yet.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "I was wondering if that got there okay.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah, got the email.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Okay, um so um to s to to summarize the teamwork issue, saying that if we could communicate outside the meeting, you know just like quick questions, quick thoughts, whatever, it probably would be bit easier.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "I think the tools that they were given, the tool set that were given to us are fancy but they don't support collaboration, I think that's the word.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah, in it Mm-hmm,", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "They don't support the team working together, you know,", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "mm-hmm, mm-hmm,", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Oh right, okay.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "exactly. Yeah, I mean if you.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "they're still very individual tools.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah, I mean sort of taking upon that idea, w the way I see this i is that it's uh the the s the structure in which we've we've approached this whole task is quite contrary to the p principle of teamwork because the the tasks were d d sort of um divided, and then the work went on in isolation", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "I I don't know what you guys did while you were together, maybe that was a bit different,", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "We had Play-Doh fun.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "but um yeah, but um but actually if you if you imagine not entire the completely same task given to us but us said okay, first thing we have to do is come up with um let's say um a design concept, and we sit here together and do it,", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "well that's what teamwork is. To s to say okay go off and don't talk to each other, it's actually p sort of predisposes you to quite the contrary of teamwork.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah. Okay.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Um not that we haven't done I think the best we could have done.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "I'm not dissatisfied with it.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Right, uh anything else to say on teamwork at all?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "No, not really.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Okay, um what about the you know how we used the whiteboard, the digital pens, the projector, stuff like that? Um did anybody think anything was like really useful,", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "anything was pretty un f unsupportive?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "I think the whiteboard, for me, is the kind of thing I would use all the time, but it's um not quite as useful as to us as it could have been, maybe just in the way that we we use it, in the sense that once we have an idea out there or while work was going on in between meetings, that could have been up on a board uh you know as opposed to in like in text.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Um, and then we could then keep our ideas sort of building on that. I know that people who design cars and you know in aviation they quite often just have a simple like fibreglass prototype and it's completely you know um abs abstract from the final product, but they use it as a kind of a context to sort of walk around and puzzle and and point and discuss", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm. Yeah. And point at? Yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "and and and in a way everybody's as we discuss things in the in theoretically and out of our notebooks, we're just we're actually just each of us discussing something that's in each of our own minds. It wasn't until we had this here, you know,", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "like at one point I peeked across and looked at Craig's paper and I'm like, now I know what he's thinking'cause I saw his book.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Ah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "But the b the b whiteboard could've actually been this kind of continuing um.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "So do you think producing a prototype earlier in the process woulda been a good idea?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Think could be, yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "I think um the the focus of it a lot was the PowerPoint as opposed to the to the whiteboard,", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah, yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "and I think that m um is also does you know hinder us and things I think.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah. Yeah, yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "It will be cooler to have the whiteboard rather than the the PowerPoint,", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm. Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "or maybe the whiteboard and the PowerPoint in the same place,", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah. Yeah, yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "you know in the centre of the.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah, because the PowerPoint was provided to us while we had time to prepare, whereas I can imagine if I'd been encouraged to use Paintbrush, for example, or whatever, I would've actually used it,", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Alright.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "um'ca you know, just'cause that's sorta how we what we were set up to to use while we had our time.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Okay uh.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "I think that there were too many PowerPoints in the meetings.'Cause the plug-in and the plugging spent we spent a lot of time doing that.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "And a lot of the information on the PowerPoints, I don't think, you know, we needed to actually it could have, we could have gone through it verbally,", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "No, not quite.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "especially my slides,", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "I felt that they just you know.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "as opposed to having to present them.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "What about the digital pens, did you find them easy enough to use?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yep clunky.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Sure, yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Oh they're a bit clunky.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Agreed..", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah. Yep.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Clunky, okay.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Um.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Having to tick it before you go off was a bit hindering as well,'cause you're half way through a thought, and then you run out of paper and then you have to jump.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "I know, I think at the very start of today I like wrote a whole load of stuff, didn't click note on one,", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "then went back and wrote one tiny wee thing on the another page, but then did click note, and so I'm quite worried that I've just written over the top of it or something,", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Hmm. Hmm. Mm-hmm, mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "but they'll have my paper anyway um and haven't done that since.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Hmm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "But I think the pen is v is very intuitive, everybody knows how to use it, we don't have to worry.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah,", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm,", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "So I think the pen's good.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "mm-hmm, mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "It's about the best thing..", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "And o on the topic of the technology, it just occurred to me that we actually didn't need to move our computers because each computer has all of the files.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "It just occurred to me that they all.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah we only needed one computer and.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "We only actually needed one computer.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah, that's true.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "If there had been a fifth, that coulda just been sitting there ready to go the whole time.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Good point.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "And the computer may not um be conducive to a meeting because um you tend to look at your computer and wanna have the urge to check something, you know,", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "it's useful but.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Do you think the computers just provide distraction in a meeting?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "I think too many computers are just distracting.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Um.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Okay. I know I I like to have things written down in front of me actually, like a lot of the stuff that was emailed to me I ended up you know like writing down there or something so I could look at it really quickly and not have the distraction of all of that,", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm. Yep. Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yep.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "um I don't know about anybody else.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Um what else uh any wh I do I'm not really sure what they're looking for when they say new ideas found. Um I don't know is.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Is this for the project or.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "could you think of like anything else that would have been helpful today at all?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Well, the w main one for me is that uh the process na in a natural f context would not have been interrupted by this necessity to discommunicate ourselves from each other.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Mm. Yeah if we just had uh.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "So, that's kind of a new idea for me is like just sort of that idea, well you know it's kind of s hard to keep f working forward on a team a team based project when when you're told you must now work away from your team.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm. Yeah I I dunno I think it was quite good that we had time limits on the meetings because they really could have run on and like my experience with meetings is that they really do, and you can spend a lot of time talking about.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Oh yeah. Yeah, yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "The only thing is though like when we had our meeting about the conceptual design, I thought there maybe another fifteen minutes would have been useful there but um yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm, mm-hmm, mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "I really thi i I think maybe if we'd like all been working in the one room, and they just said you know like every hour or something everybody make sure yo you know just have a have a short meeting and then just c", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm. Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "just to have like something written down, just like you know a a milestone if you like um rather than having meetings, but.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "There you go. Um so in closing,", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Hmm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "I haven't got my five minutes to go. Thin Oh there it i Five minutes to go..", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Wonderful. Okay um are the costs within the budget, yes they are. And is the project evaluated, yes it is. So now celebrate.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Great.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "And we have Ninja Homer.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "So it So now we.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Oh yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Well apparently now I write the final report. What are you guys doing now?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Do we know what the other ones are?", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "I I don't know.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "You dunno?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Oh wow..", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Hmm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "That is lovely..", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Hey yeah, I said Ninja Homer..", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "What did you call it?", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Ninja Homer. See it looks like Homer Simpson", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Huh, huh.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "but it's electronic so it's made in Japan.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "So is that j is that just is that just a logo or does it do anything?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Logo.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah it's just a logo.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Just a logo and then like Ninja Homer,", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Huh.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Ninja Homer..", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "right okay..", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "The the red is supposed to represent the whatever else you wanna print on the side of it.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "I think it's quite nice.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Fashion technology or something.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "You can wear Homer,", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "you can throw Homer when you're frustrated, doh..", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Hmm, hmm, hmm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Oh no, that's cool, it's got I'm kind of.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "It's clunky.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Hmm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "I'm slightly gutted that we couldn't get plastic and rubber, I think that would have been nice.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah, yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Ah well, maybe from now on real reaction should give us more money.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Oh, I did learn something new, Play-Doh is useful.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Hmm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "No it is it is.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Play-Doh s", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "It is useful and in in in in in in in um conceptualizing, in being creative.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Huh. Huh.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "'Cause like you say, it's something you can put your hands on and feel and touch and get a sense for.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Really?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Like we were playing with the Play-Doh and the ideas came with the Play-Doh rather than with everything else.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Did they?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "You might wanna write that down. It's just, I'm just fiddling with the Play-Doh, and I'm going yeah yeah it's kinda cool.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Okay. Play-Doh.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "No, it's true, yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Guess I'd forgot how good s Play-Doh smells.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah, it smells funny doesn't it. Um.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Hmm. And some Play-Dohs are actually I think edible aren't they?", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "No, all Play-Doh is edible.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah like the stuff for.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "I think they're all non-toxic'cause it's aimed for like two-year-olds.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "I think it has to be, yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "It's just wheat, it's the stuff that your mom could make with preservatives and uh.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah um so to", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Wow, hmm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "wha what are your summarising words about Play-Doh?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "It's helpful to the creative process.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Huh.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Um it engages all your senses not just your sight, but your sense of feel your sense of touch.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yep.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "And it helps you to understand", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Taste..", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "dimension as well. I think that that's very helpful because it it starts to pop up,", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "whereas on a piece of paper, on a computer, on a board, um even with a three D_ graphic thing it still, it requires a lot of", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm, yep. Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "it's not very tangible.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "yeah tangible, that's a nice word.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm, mm-hmm,", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "It becomes tangible.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "mm-hmm. Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Tangible. Okay uh.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm. I don't know if there's anything else we needed to discuss.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Nope.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "That that's about it really. Just sit still I guess for a little while.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Do we retreat to our, to continue our", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "I think we could probably do it here as long as we don't collaborate.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Um.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "r reporting or what i", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Well I dunno. Um I'm sure the little uh the little thing'll pop up any minute now.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Can we turn off the microphones?", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah, yeah if the meeting's over then yeah I guess so.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" } ] }	{ "dialogTurns": [ { "query": "Which questions that were brought up in the meeting's discussion were not addressed?", "response": "The meeting transcript does not state which specific questions were brought up in the meeting's discussion that were not addressed. 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b68b09bd1a014b1ca94bafd653d4b3e5	{ "meetingId": "ES2014b", "transcriptSegments": [ { "text": "Right uh. So um. So where's the PowerPoint presentation? Sorry? Microsoft PowerPoint, right. Right, okay. So. Right. Okay, so we've got uh so we've got new project requirements. Um. So basically we've got three things, and we've got forty minutes in which to uh for this meeting to uh to discuss the various options. Um. Three presentations.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "We have a I guess we have a presentation each,'cause I've got one. Um.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah,", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "I see, right.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "I've got one too.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "That's nice to know, one from each of you. Um new project requirements. Um so do we want to do the presentation first, or do we want to um W I I got um or or three things basically, um relating to the remote being only for T_V_. We discussed that last time", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "and in actual fact that was pr pretty well what we came up with anyway.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "So in fact it actually f we won't be forestalled in a sense.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Um we've got uh teletext outdated. Um did you get any information on that?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Uh we didn't, no.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "No.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Right and the corporate image was the uh final thing.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "I d I didn't personally.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Hmm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "So I I got that in email form.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Um. Right okay. So I guess if we go ahead with the uh with the three presentations. So we'll start with yourself on the basis that uh.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Okay that's fine. I'll just um I'll grab the wire out the back of this one.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Sorry, yep.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Oh..", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "What is it?", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "I'm not quite sure how it.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "I think you've got to do um control F_ eight.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Control Doesn't seem to be quite working at the moment.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Shift F_ eight..", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Alt function F_ eight. Again not doing anything.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "There's usually a little thing in the top right for the.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Oh.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Ah there,", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Oh hang on,", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "it's doing something.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "it's just coming on.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "pressed about five times now.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Okay, that's me. Okay, um I have to go again.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "it going?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Hopefully that should be it this time. Okay, I think we're there. That's good. Okay, um Okay I'm gonna be looking at the working design. Um of the of the remote control. Um I've just got three sections, first is the research I made on the on the remote control itself um. And then that involves the components required in it and the systems uh design of the actual the actual remote. Um so having researched the existing models within the market, um I found my research off the internet. Um I've established what the components required for the remote control to function, actually are. And then also the methods in which these components interact together for the remote to actually do what you want it to do and how it connects with the television. Um the basic components are an energy source which I guess um in most existing models would be a battery supply. Whether that'll be sort of two batteries, four batteries, um it may vary.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "We then have the user interface, which is basically the like the the buttons on the actual remote. Um the various functions used for changing channel, uh channel up and down, volume, things like that. Um there's also a chip inside the remote which does all the computer type things. And then the sender, which um is usually, I've found, an infra-red device which sends a signal to the actual television. Um and the last part is receiver which is important in the system but is not actually part of the remote itself, because that's obviously found in the television.. Um I'm gonna have to actually draw on the board because uh it was a little tricky on PowerPoint to get this working, so. I'll just go through there. S um um do we have a cloth to wipe this down with, or? Oh I'll j", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Uh there's the rubber on the right, I think.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "I think it's that little.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Oh I see. Oh okay. I'll get rid of the bear.$", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "it's magic..", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Okay that's great. Okay, so we start off with a um battery suppl Uh no, a power supply which we'd probably get it's probably gonna be the battery. Um we then have a particular button, which may be that's obviously there's lots and lots of different buttons. Um but this is how the basic system works. Um that sends after you press that that sends the message to the chip, which um then sends It sort of interprets which button you've pressed and then sends the appropriate message to the sender. Um. So that's. That's the remote in itself, that's the components of the remote and how they work together. So this is the uh user interface. Um this is the chip itself, which then, and that's the that's the infra-red sender. And then on the separate thing we have on the on the television we have a a receiver. And the sender sends a message to the receiver.'Kay.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "So the the top bit's the power source, yes?.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Ah yes, that's the power source. Um. going on to personal preferences, I've said that battery seems the best option for the actual remote, just because of the size. You don't want a a cable attached to the remote otherwise it's not it's not really a remote. Um and then the sender,", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "and infra-red um has been used quite successfully. If the battery's on reasonable power, they always seem to work fairly well. You don't have to be point directly at the television itself.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "So the battery is the in the sender.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Um Yes.'Kay and that's it for the moment.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Okay. So, now more design..", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Right. Thank you. Mine's not quite as complicated as all that.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "That's what we like to hear..", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Did I press function? Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Is it control function ei Oh, th there you go.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Oh. Um. Okay so I'm gonna talk a bit about the technical functions design. I'm Louisa, the User Interface Designer, as you know. Um so the m basic method of this is to send a signal from the remote to the television set, so that a desired function is performed. Um an example of the function could be to change the volume up or down, uh so obviously you need two different buttons for that. Um to change the channel, either by pressing the number that you want or by channel up or down. Um to switch the television on or off, maybe a standby button. Um here are two example remotes. Um by the look of it they both have um kind of play and fast forward, rewind functions, so I think they incorporate a kind of video function which we won't have to worry about. Uh but as you can see, the left remote is quite um quite busy looking, quite complicated. Um whereas the right remote is much simpler, it looks much more user friendly. Um so my personal preference would be the right remote. So, it's got nice big buttons, it's got a very limited number of buttons. Um they're nice, kinda clearly labelled. Um I like the use of the kind of um symbols like the triangles and the squares and the arrows as well as the words on the um kind of play functions and all that. So it's very very user friendly, and it's got a little splash of colour. Could maybe do with some more colour. Um.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Well there's a couple of things there. Um we have to remember that we have our own um logo and colour scheme. So basically we'd have to uh we'd have to be putting that on um the the product.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Hmm. Do we get to see that?", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "I haven't as yet, no.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Will you be presenting that in a bit?.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "But uh I got uh I got an email that basically said to uh make sure that uh whatever device we come up with at the end of the day had to incorporate um the corporate colour and slogan. So uh I'm guessing that uh uh I notice on the bottom there it's got uh what's that? A_P_O_G_E_E_ that might be the corporate colour scheme, although the only the only colour I can see in that is the red.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Hmm.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Would you be able to get rid of the the extra buttons here, the the sort of circular section, because that seems to be for a video as well. So we could dispense with that little bit as well and just get it down to just the numbers and the volume. Possibly?", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "What do you mean by the circular section?", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "J yeah yeah yeah j yeah", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Like all of that bottom bit?", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "just this little bit is that I think that's still um a video remote part,", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "so maybe we could get rid of that as well.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah. And I don't really think that you need nine numbers.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Well b uh w", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "I mean how often do you use seven, eight and nine? I think just one to six and then channel up and down should be enough.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Well th the on the.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Like how often do you hit nine?", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Well uh for for general television purposes obviously you have channels one to five at this point in time,", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "and we'd have to have some room for uh future such channels. But but.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "It's just people are used to seeing that, so if we didn't have them then they might think it's.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "But, well possibly but the the other thing is that with um the current expansion of uh channels uh in the process of taking place, certainly the button up and down, but uh I mean how many channels do we have to um actual television channels do we have to uh prepare for? I would have thought that uh it's forever expanding and at the moment we've got although you've onl you've got the five standard, you've got the B_B_C_ have come up with a further six", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "and uh there's uh I don't know exactly how many channels there are on uh when you take into account uh Sky and various other um various others.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Hmm.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "So I would've thought that we wouldn't, you know, rather.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Hmm.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Okay, if the time of flicking from one to other, but presumably it'll take a second", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "'cause you have to be able to stop it. Maybe you could have a fast forward on the on the channels that w and then you could dispense with more otherwise. Y you'd want you'd want to get fairly quickly to the channel that you wanted.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Um some remotes have kind of favourite options where if you always flick from channel one to channel six, um if that's a favourite you just like by-pass two to five.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah, I s I suppose in a sense you could have um if you've got a hundred channels then if you had sort of an easy way of getting rather than having to go one to a hundred, you could go one to one to ten, ten to twenty", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Hmm.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "and then have a second button to get you to the actual channel you want", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "and that would cut down your time.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm. Um.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Anyway.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "But I think a lot of um like Cable and Sky and stuff, that would be tuned to one channel, and then you'd have another remote for all of those channels.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Okay, yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Like to get to fifty five and the higher numbers.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Whatever.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Okay. Okay. Limit the number of buttons, user friendly.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "But I suppose nine's not really excessive.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "I suppose with nine you've got the the like the last one which makes the tenth means you uh it's like uh multiples you can put them together so you can make any number.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "I suppose it does make a good pattern.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "So with that we'd kind of by-pass any problems with.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah Well that's true, yeah,", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "you could get fifty by five and a zero or whatever, that that makes sense.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.'Cause that facilitates having all the numbers you could ever need.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Um.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Does.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "So w so what was the circular thing that you were.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Okay. Um I think that's just for a video, so we wouldn't need any of that at all.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "So we could get it down to what?", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "If it's just for T_V_, which is what it is at the moment.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "So we get to How many buttons have we got? We've just got ten, eleven twelve th We got fourteen that we need. I guess.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Um which isn't really too many. That'll be quite easy to make a user guide for a fourteen button remote.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm. Well we've we've got um that it's remote for T_V_ only otherwise project would become too complex with uh which would endanger the time to market was one of the considerations.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "'Kay.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "I'm I don't know d did you have that information behind the marketing,", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "or was I meant to give you that information?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Um I'm not sure. I had I've had some market information,", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "but not from the company, no.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Right, okay, so basically time to market seems to be important, therefore speed of delivery.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "'Kay.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "We've only got about another four hours left..", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Okay, so is everyone happy with that?", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Ah yes yes, that seems good.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Right well that's the end of my presentation.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "'Kay. I'm gonna pull this off..", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "I think if you just give it a second to maybe catch up.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah, I think she said twenty seconds to um.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Uh-huh.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "I'm sure we'll have by the end of today.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Okay. I'll give it another go. Yeah, there we go..", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Right, we've done some research into the functional requirements that people want out of their remote control. And first off we should state that th the remote control's for controlling the T_V_ and um how do people use it? We asked them sort of which buttons were useful for them. Um how d how does a remote control look and feel for them, and what improvements would would they like to remote control. And we did that by sort of giving them a questionnaire that we'd prepared and asking them to fill in the answers. And three quarters of them found that remote controls are ugly and that a sort of even higher proportion would spend more for a sort of s uh a fancier remote control And that of all the buttons on the remote control, the sort of setting buttons for sort of the picture picture and brightness and the audio settings, um they weren't used very often at all. People concentrated on the channel buttons and the volume buttons and the power buttons. Uh we also asked them about speech recognition uh for remote control. And young people were quite receptive to this, but as soon as we got sort of over about into a thirty five to forty age forty five age group and older, people people weren't quite so keen on speech recognition. There's a lot more th there's a lot lot more older people who didn't know whether they wanted it or not as well. Um we also asked what frustrated people about remote controls and the number one frustration was that the remote was lost somewhere else in the room and that they couldn't find it. And the second second biggest frustration what that if they got a new remote control, it was difficult to learn um all the buttons and all the functions, and to find your way around it. Okay, so My personal preferences from the marketing is that we need to come up with some sort of sleek sort of good looking high high-tech A design which looks high-tech, basically. Um and that we should come up with fewer buttons than most of the controls on the market, and we should sort of concentrate on the channels and sort of power, and also volume and that sort of thing, as as Louisa said. Um we could maybe come up with a menu, a sort of a an L_C_D_ menu for other functions on the remote control. That's worth thinking about. Um and maybe we could think about speech recognition as well, because um sort of young people are perhaps the ones that are gonna buy buy our new product if we aim it at sort of you know sort of a high-tech design. That that might be the market that we're we're looking for. And we could maybe think about using speech recogniti recognition as a way to find the remote control if it's lost in a room, rather than sort of um having it to speech recognition to change the channels.'Cause there's a problem with that in that the television makes noise, so it could end up talking to itself and changing its channel.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Okay um, and that's the end of the slide show. That's it. Cool.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "What was that last wee bit there?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Do a lot of um.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Um about speech recognition?", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Speech recognition,", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "But that was only for young people that preferred it, older people didn't.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Youn young people pref Yeah, they s they said that they'd be interested in a remote control which offered that possibility and as you go up through the age groups, people got less and less interested in sort of a a remote control that you could talk to, so.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "No what I maybe think is um it seems the technology would be quite advanced for that and they might end up costing more than our twelve fifty budget for for the speech recognition. Um.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Well that's right.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "And possibly the thing about the about the remote being lost we could have You know with your mobile phone, you lose that and you can ring it. Maybe we can have some kind of sensor which is kept somewhere where you can some kind of buzzer system between the two. So you can press a button which is always kept in one place", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "and then it maybe buzzes to somewhere else, wherever the remote actually is.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Uh-huh. Yeah. Yeah, we'd have t that would mean we'd have to put two products together as well,", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "That is true, yes.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "which which again would probably be a bit expensive, but.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Hmm.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "There's key rings um that you kind of whistle at or clap at, I can't remember, and then they whistle back, or something like that.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Sounds reasonable.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "That'd probably be really simple,", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "they're cheap.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah. So.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "So I guess it'd be something we could like attach to the or like the same technology could be put inside the inside the remote.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Well if you're trying to avoid having a second product'cause obviously you could have a second product that gave you the right pitch which would set the remote off to say here I am sort of thing, you know without sound recognition. But if you I know. Um I was gonna say a sharp noise, you know a clapping of hand or whatever. You'd want to try and av just have the one product that if.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah. Yeah if we if we could have it in the actual remote like everything in one one device.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm. Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah. Um I dunno um talking about vo I mean obviously if you've got voice recognition then you can do it in that way because it'll recognise the voice and you can give it a command, a set command whatever that happened to be.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "But you've then got the point if if you're not going with uh voice recognition then.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "you could have an option to turn it off. Or.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Perhaps, um.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "So that would solve the problems with the T_V_ kind of speaking to the remote and changing its own channels.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "So uh Any sugges Well, any conclusions?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Um would it take quite a while to sort of develop the speech recognition software in the remote control?", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Well if it does then we can't.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Considering.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "It's that simple,", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "because we've got uh th th three um primary um uh requisites from uh from and email uh that was sent to me whereby we had The design logo was one, which we've already mentioned. We've got um the remote was only for the television and not for because that would make it too complex and we have to get it market quickly.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "And the uh third thing was that um teletext uh as far as uh the management is concerned, um is becoming dated uh due to the popularity of the internet. So that means that uh.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "'Kay.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "so these are the sort of three um extra parameters that have been put on this uh project.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "So we're being focused effectively directly at a television and it seems to me that the management is uh wanting us to go down a narrow path and not opening out.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yes.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "So anything that uh is to be added, such as voice recognition et cetera has to be very simple and has to be very quick", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Has to be simple enough to.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "because time to market is is critical. S", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "I suppose if we could get something in which was quite quick and simple that would give us an advantage over the other remotes. Um.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "It would. But probably quick and simple is primary rather than added extras.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "'Kay.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Added extras would be nice, but the primary consideration is to get the project finished within uh this short time window, which effectively now is sort of four hours.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "So and if and we've gotta get to the end. Uh d d I think I think first and foremost we've gotta get to the end and then get to the end with um added extras if possible.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "So.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Right okay, uh so I need to Right. So I don't know how long we have left of our uh time. But we have to make the decisions on uh the remote control functions", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "About five minutes.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "and how we were planning to proceed so that at the next uh meeting each person that's got a a a task to do is clear from this meeting what that task is.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yes.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "We'll also know w when the next meeting is", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Um..", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "I um so we'll know how long we've got to complete that task. And then we can report back at the next meeting and say right okay yes, we've achieved this or we haven't achieved this, this is how far we've progressed. Does that make reasonable sense?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yes that seems right.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Okay, yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "So we have to come effectively to the decision on the remote functions so that you can decide what you're gonna be doing. And if dur between the time of this meeting finishing and the next meeting starting, if you get any additional information that uh only you have at that point in time you'd think would be relevant to other people in terms of their des decision making um process, then we should communicate that as quickly as possible and not wait until the next meeting.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Do it via the email", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Okay. Yep.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "so that rather than coming you know If you get the information just before the next meeting that's fine. Come along with it in the next meeting, we can discuss it then and take whatever action is appropriate.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "But if you get it well before the next meeting, let everybody else know'cause that might have an impact on their uh on what they come up with effectively at the next meeting.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Right, is there.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "So do we need to decide on the functions now? S", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "I would guess so.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Well I think it'd be really easy and it'd be a big advantage if we did have some sort of um kind of whistle back kind of function.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "'Cause that'll solve kind of the frustration of losing it.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah and Yeah and that was that was the number one sort of frustration that people said, so.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yep.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "I don't think there's anything else on the market that does that, so.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah. I don't really know about the voice recognition thing.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "I w well uh i", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Maybe we should concentrate just on the whistle back function at the moment,", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Something simple. Uh if if our primary consideration is to get it there in time, time's short,", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "and if something comes back.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "you want something to meet the major concerns of the consumer so that we can have that as a selling point for the product,", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "something that's quick and simple. So,", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "sounds good.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "And that wouldn't put off the kind of older generation either,'cause everyone can whistle or clap, and they wouldn't have to be kind of scared of this new technology.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Well, so maybe a clap rather than a whistle would be.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "On the basis that if we've got if we're catering to the whole age range, you want something that's easy to do,", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "now something that doesn't like whis uh", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "No not everyone can whistle, can they, though?.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Well I I I don't know. Well If you think that more people can whistle than clap then that's fine, then go for that option,", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "but if I would have thought that more people could clap rather than whistle,", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "No,", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "I'd go more.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "clapping, I think clapping,", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah, f more for clap.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "yeah. Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "so uh so clap option.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "'Kay we've already decided that we don't need a teletext button, haven't we?", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Uh. Ef effectively that's what the that's what they're saying,", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Is that one of the.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "that uh if uh if people are now using the internet then you don't need teletext,", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Hmm.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "so so take out teletext.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Taking out teletext, okay.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Did we decide on having the ten um the ten numbers", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "and then the the little digit next to it which kind of enabled you to put them together.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah, I think so, so zero to nine.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Mm. I think nowadays you can just get ones where it gives you a sort of a second or two to press another number,", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "so you can press any two and it'll sort of put them together.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Okay, ten numbers", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "and then some kind of device to allow uh.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "I'll put delay to allow um multiple numbers.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Or multiple digits.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Did we decide anything about um the other functions? As in setting the audio and tuning it and stuff like that? You had an had an idea about the menu?", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Uh we could possibly put an L_ a sort of a L_C_D_ menu in, but that again is probably an expense that.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "But just thinking um people probably I mean you don't have you only have to probably tune in the T_V_ once, but you have to be able to tune it that once.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "So and if finally the T_V_ breaks, you get a new one, you're gonna have to be able to tune it. You can't really avoid that.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "No.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Except the new digital markets which do it by themselves.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Hmm.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "But the but that's relying on the television market changing to an automatic", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "So that'll be in.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yes.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "and if it is at the moment, that's fine. But at the moment it's not, so it seems to me that you have to have a device that caters,'cause otherwise it would make it uh your device would become inoperable, or only operable in certain circumstances", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah. Yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "and the idea is to have an international market", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "which is.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "And it's also m it's the the product we've got is something that's at the I would have said the lower end of the s of the cost scale, so we're not really going for something that's uh terribly high-tech.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah. I s I suppose um if people are buying remotes, then they're probably buying it to replace another remote", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Possibly.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "'cause all most tellies come with remotes, so.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "That's right.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "I mean we're maybe talking about replacing remotes for slightly older televisions, so we maybe need to keep the the tuning function in..", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah. So how would this menu function work?", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Would you maybe have like one menu button, then you'd use the other buttons, maybe the number buttons to actually do the separate functions.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah,", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah,", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "like the volume or something.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "that would be a good idea, yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah,'cause you do need um kind of brightness and contrast and everything as well. My dad was watching a film the other week", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "and it was too dark, so I had to go through it and turn the brightness up.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "we're gonna have the the individual numbers", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Hmm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "and then a menu function and maybe sort of a slightly more advanced um instruction booklet to come with it, to guide Presu uh I think it'd be quite hard just for people to grasp um just off like the menu use different buttons you maybe have to have like some better instructions of how that would actually work.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Uh I'm not sure whether the sort of having people have a booklet'cause one the second most annoying thing that people found was having to learn the new one.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Right, okay um.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "So maybe next to each of the buttons, you know each of them could have a number and then also a function written next to it, so you're basically pressing.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "that also goes back to the original design when we saw those two, and there was the one on the left hand side which had all like the double functions and stuff which kind of looked too busy and had too much on it, so.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Okay, well.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Well, if we're trying to keep it slee sleek and sexy as well, have you seen those remotes where kind of um the bottom bit slides down, so there's kind of um everything else revealed?", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "So y Ah That's a very good idea.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "So you don't use it that much, you don't have to see it all the time. But it's all there if you need it.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "That is that is a good idea actually.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah, yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Sor sort of a second.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "So you keep um.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Like a hidden panel.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Right we've got five minutes before we wind up this meeting, so I've been told. I don't know if you've got the same.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Okay. Uh not quite, but I guess.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Okay. So so keep um keep detailed functions um hidden at the back.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Keep the other buttons but hide them away.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Hmm. And that'll be better for the older generation as well'cause, well my dad doesn't like anything that you've got to kinda flick through a menu,", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Ah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "but he can pretty much read a button if it's displayed properly.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "So.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "So um we're gonna have to have to work out what's gonna be on these other functions as as well. So we're gonna have like two separate two separate lists, I guess.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "That's right.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "data functions hidden at back. Can bring out when needed.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "So th the The detailed ones would be sort of brightness,", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "uh sorta.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "That's right so we're dis So you've got which ones are gonna be on the front and which ones are gonna be on the back. We have to decide.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "So sh Should we decide in the next couple of minutes, and then.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "I guess so.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "So on the.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "So on front,", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "about the number.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "numbers,", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Um the volume up and down.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "And the volume?", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "volume.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Shall we have a mute button as well?", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Um.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Sorry?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "A mute button as well.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah. Or.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah I think they're handy.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm. And probably a power one as well. Dunno.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "I know it's probably like um not an issue to raise here, but um the whole thing about not using your standby uh because of the like waste of electricity. Have you seen the adverts? Like if you boil the kettle that's full that's a waste.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "If you leave your telly on standby it powers Blackpool for a certain amount of time.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah..", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Like we should maybe try to discourage people from standby.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "But then they might not buy it if they haven't got one.'Cause people might just be too fickle and not want to change.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah, it's maybe too much of a big issue for here.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "So so are you having the stand-by on the front, then?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah..", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "We can send out a flier with the device saying that you shouldn't leave it on stand-by.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Uh-oh danger sign.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "I think you probably should.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah, but a little bit smaller.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Compromise.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Well.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Um are we gonna have the channel up and down as well as the number buttons?", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Um'cause yeah the market research said there is quite a lot of people do just zap around and flick, so.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Okay, so we'll have um.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "So we've got ten eleven twelve thirteen fourteen fifteen sixteen there?", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Channel up and down.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Um.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "What else have we got? What was that, sixteen?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Numbers is ten, volume is twelve,", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Volume button. How many volumes?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "th Yeah si One up, one down.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Right okay.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "On mute.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "And a mute, yeah. That's sixteen isn't it, yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Is there anything else? Um.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "I don't think so, no.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Power button, stand-by, channel, up and down. So is that it?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "so.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Okay. That's sixteen buttons, you reckon. And then at the back?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "You've got brightness and contrast.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Maybe if we're gonna run out of time, one of us should come up with a list of these and then get back at the next meeting just at the start and say what they're gonna be.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "And then.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Okay. So on the back it'll have brightness, contrast,", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "anything else? You're also gonna have the channel tuner, as it were.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Uh there's audio functions.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "So tuner up and down, I guess.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Tuner, would that have up and down?.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Um up Tune one way, tune the o", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "I think they normally do.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "okay. Okay.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "I I dunno I dunno possibly.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "And then maybe sort of an enter button for sort of s you know, saying that you want that particular thing tuned in. So you go up and down and then it pick it finds something and then you wanna press enter to select it, yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Oh yeah and th and a enter button just to select. Yeah, okay. Um I guess we're keeping s it simple. We don't really need any other audio funct uh functions because it's just volume up, volume down.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Um up volume, yeah, I would have thought so.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Um.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "So I think um there's quite a lot of like Dolby surround studio, surround sort of things.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Do they have their own do they have their own controls on their actual products, then,", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Um maybe for the younger market.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "or do you have to do it via the remote?", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Um I think they've got their own controls in this kind of like hidden panel.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah I suppose if we've got their if they've got their own controls then we can avoid it for ours just to keep it simple.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah. Yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Oh no, I mean um like there's kind of individual buttons for them, like on the T_V_ remote.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Oh, okay. Right.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "But I don't really know what they're for,", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "I've never used them.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Um.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "I just know they're something to do with Dolby.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Maybe unless something comes up then we should I think.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Well you might get some research..", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Well shall we look into that and just get back together.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Right so I'll do the minutes of uh this meeting.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "And we'll meet back at I'm not sure. 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Y no, it's a slightly curved around the sides..", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Mm very nice.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Um, it's almost curved like up to the main display as well. And the little line at the bottom indicates the bit the panel that you pull down.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "And the extra function buttons are below that panel on the little line.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "And we've got the stick on the button with the company logo on.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "We also have a apple slash cherry design at the top.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "So it is, yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Cherry would be alright actually.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah,", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "it's a bit more fun, isn't it? And it's kinda not really at a kind of you think apple, you think computers, like Apple Mac.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah, yeah, we might get a.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm. Copyright, yeah. What's this this one?", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah, and cherries are fun, summery.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "What's that one there?", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Ah, that's the mute.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "For the M_..", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Oh, okay. Right.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "It it'd probably have to be labelled mute.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "They're thinking.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "But um, we didn't have anything small enough to write.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Uh-huh.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "For the first time, well it was hard to get the h um the actual labelling on the individual buttons.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Okay. Mm-hmm..", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah. Uh, we just chose simple shapes for all them.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Um, the important ones are the volume ones. So we made them a bit bigger. The mute could possibly be a bit smaller.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Hum, you separate off in colour the volume related buttons from the channel related buttons, so you've got the volume in orange on design there,", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "and the the channel is in blue.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "R right. Um,", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah, and we chose a V_ plus and V_ minus.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "all these things have cost implications. And so when I done my thing on cost a I had assumed that the only uh button that would be a different colour would be the uh the red apple button. So However, I've now. 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So that's where the colour buttons came from..", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "An important consideration.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Right, okay so um And the second one underneath would be the idea for the.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yes, we'll have the slide-away.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Right, okay. So we've got um detail design meeting.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Bottom.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Right. So So, we've got prototype presentation, which we've just done, evaluation criteria, um and finance, so I guess w we have to evaluate if that meets the various uh aspects that we're looking for uh from um our previous meeting.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "So other than the fact that it doesn't have the second layer, but um obviously obviously it would.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "But other than that, we got the red apple. We got the buttons and the only thing that has really changed is the is the colouration of the buttons,", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yes, yes.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "and the bit after the evaluation criteria is uh is the finance. 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So, sh", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "We could do it as we d go along, the production costs, looking at the prototype.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Right..", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "'Kay this should be then.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Okay, so, by the fact that we've got uh the simple chip and the uh kinetic energy source, we've got a single curved case. We've got a rubber uh case materials supplements. So, we had decided that we're having rubber buttons and.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm. Have a push button interface.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Okay. W the button supplements.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Um.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Well, originally, I thought there would just be uh one in there because it was the one red apple. But.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Um.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "So the so the real w the real question then would come in. Do you make all the buttons.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Well do we'll do it on the prototype,", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "O", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "so do two, see how much it is.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Well, so we've got one special button form, which was the apple. Everything else is gonna be a standard.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "We've got special material, rubber, wood, titanium, et cetera and that,", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "And then we'd have.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "so, I was originally, I was thinking rubber wasn't special,", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "but according to this, maybe it is.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "So And the r I mean effectively we've got sixteen buttons that we're gonna have on there.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah. I think you just do one, don't you, for the.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "W I don't know is is is the sort of answer, is that meant to be all sixteen buttons, and therefore I mean, what's the op The option was maybe not to have rubber buttons, but just to have the one that was soft and spongy, and therefore.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "I think I think it's just it's just a one. Else.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Whereas it would be the special colour would be for the So you would only have the one special button that was rubber, whereas the rest would be hard plastic..", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "I thi I think I think the button supplement i is just a supplement for all the buttons made in a different material, rather than per button.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "I don't know though.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "I would Every design change is uh sound] I dunno,", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Hmm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "um Okay, um, if we just had all the buttons as standard, except for the one red apple, then that would take care of that, I guess. We'd have one special colour and one special button form.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "And when I plugged that in last time remember it has to be under twelve and a half. As far as I know, that um that took care of the uh of the various supplements.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "And if What happened?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "You've just gone off the window into another one. It's on the bottom row.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Maybe if you just minimise that one in the top right-hand corner of the little box.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Now, right..", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Okay, so, but the point would be that if we uh if we just did special Sorry, you were saying that it would be that one, that you would put in one there.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah. Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "So that's nine point one there so we've got some.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "So it Well, is it s is no, it's nine point seven I've got.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "'Kay.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Just give us a bit of.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "So, that would that would work out fine if uh uh as assuming your correction are are assuming that that one change covers all the buttons, then that would be fine.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm. Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "And there's nothing else as far as I can see that we we had uh planned to put on.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "S", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "I switching around those th um on the electronics we got the sample sensor. At the moment we've just got the simple chip, which costs one.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Uh-huh.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Um, I guess the sample sens sample speaker would be the voice recognition thing, which puts up to four?", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "We should be slightly over our budget but if we gather something else down to slightly lower standard, and maybe go with the one the special form buttons, then we could have the speech.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Well, hold on. Um, if we Okay, that gives us twelve point seven", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "So uh maybe if we got rid of like the maybe one of the special colours, kept them all the same colour, then we could have the voice recognition", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "But remember that the idea was to keep it the colour of the.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "without.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Oh, I see, so just take out the special colour for the apple and.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah, yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Um,. D wouldn't you have to keep the simple chip there as well? You know how you turn that one to a zero, wouldn't the chip and the sample speaker be separate things,", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah, we have to have it.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Oh possibly, yeah, yeah maybe.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "so you need both of them?", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Maybe um we'd be giving up on the kinetic. Um.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "And go for battery instead.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "That would give you one less.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "We should Yeah, that would save us one, though we'd still be slightly ov", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "But you reckon that i I mean the thing is that you wanted to a appeal to people and not have to replace batteries.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah, yeah. Well, since it's the through the whole technology type thing, um, you were saying in the market research that people like kind of interesting gadgets in them. Um, whether they would figure the the s uh sample senor and the sample speaker, voice recognition be sort of a worthwhile thing to have.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "And then still have the batteries,", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "or whatever they would prefer not uh You know what I mean? The the problem was the battery's running out and losing the um losing the remote.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "So you gotta decide which of those is more important to them.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "But which do you think or which do we think is the more important of the options? In a sense, at the moment, we've got a total which we need to reduce down by one point two.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "I think the voice recognition.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "At least. Remember that was a minimum requirement. The other option if we're planning on just going for something cheap and cheerful, would be to um make it originally, we're gonna make it a simple product.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Shall we shall we evaluate the prototype as we've got it now first, and then sort of make decisions about what needs to be changed after?", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm. Makes sense.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Okay", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Okay. Right um, I have a little thing. So, we've all got a note of it's thirteen point seven, isn't it, with everything we want on.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": ". Sorry, do you want that back up?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah, I just had a presentation to do..", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "But I do think uh the v uh voice recognition thing would be more impressive than the fact that it's got no battery.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Okay, but remember the main the only reason we were planning on having the voice recognition was so that they could find the remote if it got lost.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm. Mm. Right okay um, This is about the evaluation criteria that we use for the the prototype we've got here.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "And so the method is that the design team makes a prototype, and we evaluate the prototype against some criteria that we've formulated. And those ones are gonna be in response to sort of market research, and also finance, I guess. And do that on a scale from say true being one and false being seven, so if it's neither true nor false, then that's four. So, I got a set of criteria just based on the marketing that we need to add in a financial one as well, at the end. Um so, We have to say whether it's true or false that the product looks and feels fancy. Um The whether the product demonstrates technical innovation. Whether it's easy to use. Whether it's incorporating sort of the fashion element to attract the buyer. And whether it's a sort of recognisable Real Reaction product. And I have to go up onto the whiteboard and do this apparently,", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "so I'll go over here. Right. So the first one is um, does the product look and feel fancy. So if we do a sort of a one So.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Okay, well we have a single curve, which was maybe like the feel of the product's quite good.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "So uh.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Um, then we have the rubber kinda spongy feel, which was in at the time.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Um, sorry that'd be considered fancy.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah, I'd maybe give it a a two.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Of but I think What Is one false, or is t one true?", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "One's true.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "I forgot. One's true, and okay. Seven's fal", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "And a four is neutral.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Four is neutral, okay. So.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "So maybe maybe a two.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah,'cause we haven't got the double curve, so we can't like say it's completely true.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Go for one. Yep.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "But it's pretty close. We've got almost everything we can.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Okay. Right.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "I gonna put underneath so I've got some more space. So, false is seven, true is one, and So uh say about a two for fancy,", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "you think?", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah, why not not,", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "m m maybe nearer three.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Okay, well d you do an average at the end, I don't know. Um.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Two three. Well, it's just that uh saying something remember that when you look down, we've got solar power, we've got uh various other things you could have, and we're not going for these options.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Uh-huh. This this is just this is just for like the look. Does it sort of look fancy rather than functional. So.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm..", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah, I suppose that might be in the technical innovation bit.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah, so that so sh should we go for a a two on that?", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "'Kay. And I mean, how much does the product demonstrate technical innovation do you reckon?", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Um, deciding between the kinetic power or um the speech recognition, and if we had either of those for our budget, they both show a reasonable amount of speech recognition.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "D yeah. Okay. So, what about the pr The prototype as it is,", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Um.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "we've got we've got the speech recognition on it, haven't we.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "But not the kinetic.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "But not the kinetic.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Like the power.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "No.'Cause you can't afford that w we took that out too.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "No, we c ca yeah, we can't afford both.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Alright, so.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Didn't you? Or.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "So it doesn't It's pretty The prototype as it is isn't sort of um fulfilling the.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "No may is maybe about neutral", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Maybe a three.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "plus it it it's got something, but it hasn't got.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Okay. Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Well, wait a minute. In thirteen point seven we do have kinetic.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "I would give it more than a four.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "The problem is we have to reduce down from there to get it down to twelve point five.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "And one way of doing that would be to take out the kinetic.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "So, it's very much dependant on what you do with your options. And if you're definitely going for the sample sensor and sample speaker, then because that.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "'Kay.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Right, okay.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "the other functions we've got in are are more at the The special material, the rubber, wood, titanium, et cetera, if you go for that, th that's at the high end'cause that's point six, whereas down at uh just special colours uh is point two. Now you're trying to lose one point two, so it seems to me that if you're going for the sample sensors speaker, you're basically then having to go for the cheaper options on everything else.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "And and the simple way to do it would be to have a battery, to have your uh sample sensor speaker,", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Um.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "and then you're looking to uh take out uh point two,", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "S I'm just gonna check my email..", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "which would be come from the button supplements category.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "I'm just gonna check exactly what it said in the email for um the product.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "How much of a difference would it make if we made the case in plastic? Because we did say that we don't wanna follow the fashion too much. If the buttons are rubber that might be spongy enough.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Um, interface type um,", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "And then it stand the test of time better.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "well plastic rather than rubber..", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Okay. But I.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "That that that would make the significant difference. You could either you could have it If you have a in plastic rather than rubber, then that would uh enable you to get you could keep kinetic then, you could keep your sample sensor, and you'd be looking to take out point two. So you could uh fiddle that down your special form at the bottom, or your special colour at the bottom.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "And that would enable you to to do it.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "So it says if we make a slightly more fancy, then we lose points innovation, and if we make it more innovative innovative, then we lose points on it being fancy, so.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Ye", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": ", I just read the email again and it sort of says it's evaluate the design sort of as it is, I think, so I think we need to think about finance after we've sort of evaluated that design. I don't know whether we're doing it in the wrong order or something or.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Well, okay, but.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Well, I suppose it's rubber as it is, isn't it.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "It's rubber as it is, yes.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "So, I mean does this need to go up a bit or something,'cause we've got both the both the um the speech.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "We got we've we've got thirteen point seven", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "and we've got it in at the moment and if and basically, we're going to reduce down from that.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "But the current one, you'd say would be fancy, would be too.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah, yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah. Um, for for innovation, so we've got the speech the speech thing, and.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm. I would've said about a two as well.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Do you reckon a two?", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah, two or three. I'd be happy with a two.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Okay. Two.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Oh.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "And the next one is I'll have to get it back up now..", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "The next on Well, I can just sing about. Easy to use. I would've said yes. I would go for a one on that at this point in time.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah. Yeah,", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "I would say so as well.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Um, incorporates elements of fashion to attract buyer. Well, yeah it certainly has some.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Um.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": ".", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah, it's got the cherry and the sponginess.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "It does, yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Um.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yep.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Say about a three maybe?", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "I don't know.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah, m um.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Maybe two?", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah, it was just doing it quite well.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yep.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Um, I think we're gonna have to lose some of these, but the moment, as it stands, it's um.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah, I woulda said two would seem reasonable.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "It's a two.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "The product is a recognisable real r uh reaction product?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah, this is.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Uh the sensor using all of its all of its products, all of its buttons,", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "This.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "and it's got a fairly big label on the bottom saying where it comes from.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah, that's a bit rough at the minute..", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah. So this is about sort of the corporate image of like new sort of sleek technology and all that sort of thing, as well as having the logo on and all that.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Oh.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "So sort of Is it sort of a recognisable product.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Does it fit in with our other other products, which uh are sort of coffee makers and spacecraft..", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "S", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Uh, well it's got the same um speech feature as the coffee machine.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "What do y", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Also it's kind of spongy rubberiness is maybe bit more kinda comfortable than kinda sleek and new age.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Um, it depends which way you look at it.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Uh-huh.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Okay. So we're going for a two,", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "So.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Maybe a kind of three? Uh d", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "three?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah, two or three.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Two or three?", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Well, the logo would be more um recognisable on the actual thing. It's just that the pen wouldn't really write on that paper.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Sure.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "But um, I think the logo would definitely be recognisable.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "And it does have attributes that other products do. Two? Aye. Go for it.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Right, okay.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Two or three..", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Two.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "How.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Right, come on. That's that decided.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Two. Okay.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Right. So.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "So we're now on to changing it to get it to fit in with the budget requirements, and then.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "What does what do all them numbers mean then? Do we add them up and rate or anything?", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah we s yeah, I think we sort of add them up so sort of at an average is gonna be I'm just gonna do this in my head.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "About a two.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Two.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "One point eight isn't it or something. I think, anyway. So yeah, pretty close to a two.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah, so it's.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "So So it's I mean it's pretty good at the moment, but it's gonna get worse, isn't it.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yep.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "But we've gotta try and make sure it doesn't get too bad.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Two b two b two, yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "So should we get So are definite Was it thirteen point seven was the definite price rule if has.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yes.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Okay, so we need to.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Well, you can lose one point two and still meet the requirements.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Do you wanna plug it into yours so we can get up the the finances.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Okay, well I put it back on.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "So I guess this Is this the last stage once we sort out the finances part of it?", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "I'm not sure.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "we'll probably have to re-rate it.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yes, I would've thought so.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah, yeah we'll make the adjustments", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "and then see how are rates are going.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Okay, so what was it, control uh F_ eight, wasn't it?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Ah it's on.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "it's come on already.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Oh. Oh. How kind..", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Right, okay. So, you can see there that the If you want to keep kinetic, right, you've got a choice there of going down to battery, which would save you one. You've got the sample sensor and and sample speaker, which is your big item.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Oh actually we just have a plastic case, then we lose two points,", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "That's right.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "which gets us um In right within the budget range.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Which gets you.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yes.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah, I think that'd be fine. Because that was just a trend, and we do have rubber buttons anyway.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "So that's eleven point seven,", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "and then we could make sure we definitely had all the button supplements.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Alright.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Different different colours, yeah. Yeah, I was I was thinking that because maybe maybe the sort of rubber case is a bit less in sort of the corporate identity than the sort of you know sleeker plastic case.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Possibly, yeah. Um.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Okay, so.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "And that would allow us to have all the technical innovations. So we'd lose a little bit on the maybe kind of.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "So we're going for plastic, yes?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Lose a little bit on the fashion, yeah, but.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yep.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Oh yeah, and that would now be.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "And then.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah, that's that's within the budget. Um Do we actually have Do we just have one special uh special forms down here?", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Well, uh w uh there was debate as to how you would count them. You got special colour.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Um.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Well originally I was assuming we had the red apple, and therefore, that was the special colour.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "And we we've we've got we've got enough for another", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah, I think we should just imagine white buttons.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "we've got nought point eight left,", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "so we've got enough for another.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Well, we've got special form. Now that would be one button, and the question was was that all buttons or is that just one button.'Cause our plan really was to have one button only with a special.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah, um.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "So so no matter how you look at that, that would be the same.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "But the but but but the.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "The other thing would then be special material, rubber, wood, titanium.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "I think maybe the special colour, we've got three now just because the volume buttons are different,", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "I guess we'd have the ones which are blue at the moment would would just be the standard colour.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Alright. So, special colour, you want three in there.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah, which I think we should Yeah, they'll still be fine for the for the price.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Well I thin I think you you you just need two for the special colour'cause it's just two supplements, you know. One original colour and then sort of two supplements, I think maybe.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "That makes sense.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Okay, uh that's probably it.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Okay. So we only ne we only need two for that.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "'Cause I mean these these are moulded. The one colour's gonna be moulded out of a piece of plas uh of rubber, isn't it.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Okay. Yeah, I would agree with that, I think. And we've got special form is the one apple.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "The rest are all standard, although you could argue that should maybe be You were making these buttons down the bottom, I was presuming, bigger than the other ones, or were you? Was that the idea?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Ne uh.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah, the volume ones should stand out a bit.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Maybe that'll be a second supplement. Then there's a spe a second special form.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah, that.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Uh-huh. I would have thought that's probably about r well..", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Um Well you got you got twelve.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Okay, so tha", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "So I think that should still be okay. Yeah, that's twelve point three,", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "so we're still within budget on that. Um.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yep, that makes sense.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "So decide we've lost a little bit on the fashion and lost a bit on the fancy kinda side of it,", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yep.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "but generally speaking, we've kept the other attributes to the.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "I woulda said so. Yeah. So you'd maybe put fash fan uh fashion at three rather than two.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "That's without Yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "So shall we do a Well, um.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "And specially it definitely could fits the the real product What was the what's the company name?", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Real Reaction produ", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Real Reactions?", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "R yeah. Yeah, yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "I'm not quite sure, what does that mean?.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "I mean it still seems definitely fit that p so that's like if that's the new age kind of um inno innovative c type company, then um having the kinetic feature and the voice recognition is p quite high up on.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah, so Uh.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yep I would s", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "So it's w if we've if we've put in for another special form on a button, then maybe they could be a different shape. Like we got a cherry one. Maybe other ones could be something else shaped. I don't know. That would be poss seeing as seeing as it's cheaper to make them a different seeing as we've got, you know, we've made it a a special form, so", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "You mean of.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Um.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "And that would sort of maybe keep us close on the sort of the fashion type one. And it would sort of, you know, keep it quite fancy as well,", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Well you could argue you might do it once a year, you would change,", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "I don't know.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "because at the moment you're making a red apple. So next year you could make next year's model the same, but have it as a a yeah whate whatever, a lemon.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah so it's a.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Well you could Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Whatever fruit was in fashion next year..", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah, l a lemon lemon or something.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah, I mean the volume buttons could be lemons or something, maybe..", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "And that", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "amount.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Okay. So, we've what have we what have we rid of. We got rid of the plastic.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah, we've the main thing we've changed really is the casing isn't it?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Is it.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "That yeah, that was uh.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "The rubber.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "that was just about all.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "I think we've saved quite a bit because we've just got the push-button interface, which is by far the cheapest.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Um So maybe in a sense not having that, maybe we've lost some maybe lost something on the innovation side?", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "But uh.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "I dunno. And that is like the most standard type of button.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "So I mean, we've got we got rid of the rubber case, but we've now s we now sort of got an extra form, and an extra colour for the buttons. So maybe in terms of sort of fanciness and fashionability, we're pretty much the same, maybe.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "So, I mean we could maybe put two again on them.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "And everything else has stayed pretty much the same, so.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Well, ease has certainly stayed.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah, plus if anything that is special forms makes it slightly easier to to use.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah. And what about the sort of innovation?", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Um, well we've still got the kinetic energy. Um.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Do you think Okay.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "And the speech feature.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah, the speech feature.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "And then, the corporate identity.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "I think we've cut just about the same. We've maybe lost Hasn't it It's hard to tell how the rubber the rubber casing would really affect.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "How it would play out, yeah. Oh.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah. Whether whether that's considered to be sort of part of the corporate identity, I don't know..", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Um.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "I mean, it's maybe not. I mean.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "But I think more the the features of the actual control will be more important than maybe than the the actual aesthetics, but.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah. Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "But either way, I think we've made it fairly close to what.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah. Okay, well I mean.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah, I don't see how we could make it any more. Um, apart from maybe doing the whole thing in the kinda light shade of blue, like the casing.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "We cou Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "But then what colour would you make the R_s?", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "just the the company logo. So maybe there's like a set design which we get printed off.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Well, but you've got the company logo on there, which would effectively be a stick-on badge. So you're in a sense, you're comparing the product without the company logo.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "And then y but you've got the space for it to stick it on.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah, yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Hey, what what what's the company colour? Did you get told what the company colour is or.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "I'm still not quite sure we've established that.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "No,", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Don't think so.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "I just.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "But but i but in the sense that, as you saw with um the Windows logo badge, it doesn't really matter.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "We got the logo off the web browser.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Oh right.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "There's virtually n The way that you frame, you know, the Windows badge on there, it really doesn't matter what colour it is,", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Hmm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "so long as our company's logo is framed w in the same way as that with a like a black outline.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Fact, they've got black and white or black and silver. So basically, even if you had a silver the same colour of silver on your display, because you've got effectively a double edging on the uh on the logo, it means that it splits off what your logo is from the from the product.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm..", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "And that's actually quite a sneaky way of doing it.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Okay. Uh-huh.'Cause you've got sort of we've got point two to play with if you really wanted to.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "You could put in another.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Another colour.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Well, in this one, you've actually got three colours of buttons.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Or would that be t", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Well, we decided that the blue ones were the um the standard colour.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah. Okay.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "So you were talking about uh um We're assuming that all the buttons on the second panel, the hidden away panel, would all be standard.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Which m may or may not be the case.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Um.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Shall we save the point two for profitability then?.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Well, yeah. Bu but but uh was the was there not a button that you were thinking of on the um on the other opt you know, on the second page, as it were, that uh you were thinking of maybe having as a different colour?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Um, I don't think they would really need to be. I think if they were just all small round blue buttons, it'd be fine.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah, maybe we've m.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Needs to be an enter button, but could just be the same as well.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Maybe for the the one they're gonna see all the time, we make it look good, and um, fit the kind of idea of what they want.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Hmm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "And then for the more functional buttons, we don't worry too much about that and just have that as like a plus it's hidden away anyway, you're not gonna see it at the start.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah. I mean it's the sort of thing that, I mean, you wanna pick up the controller and just hit a button quickly to change the channel or volume.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah, well.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "So, if it's dead obvious, then that's fine. But if you're opening the panel and you're looking and you're tuning, then you're paying a bit more attention. So it may be sort of different colour buttons isn't so important.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Alright. Okay.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "'Cause you Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "So.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "So we just add that to profitability in effect..", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah, I mean so we've dropped the cost, but.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Right, so we're meant to finish up in five minutes.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Same sort of function? The criteria? It's alright.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "'Kay.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Just made a load of money..", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Shouldn't we maybe lose a point on fashion, go to a three?'Cause we've lost the overall spongy feel.'Cause it doesn't seem right that it just hasn't changed at all..", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Well, but I think we said that w Because you got rid of the rubber, we put an extra an extra sort of fruit um shape on one of the buttons.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Alright.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "le lemon sh", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Did we decide what that was, which button it was? On the volume ones?", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "I think well, we could have lemon shaped ones with the volume ones or something..", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Right..", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Uh,. That's good.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Or something like that. Yeah..", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Definitely lemon shaped.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Did did you have to have a rubber case, though, for rubber buttons? Or was it the other way around?", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "You had to have rubber buttons if you had the rubber case.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "So I think we can we're okay.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Right, okay.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "So we're okay this way around.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah. So that.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Until the design team comes in and says, get off.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "so we've saved.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "But you are the design team..", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Then we say it's fine, so it's all good.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Saved two Euros on that.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "So what bit are we on to?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Um, can I just check if that's a cherry or an apple? Did we decide against the apple because of Apple Mac? And did we make it a cherry officially?", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah. I th I th.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Oh. Right, okay.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Just in case we need that point two for lawsuits and such like..", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Oh drats, I've botched that, haven't I.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "So were we aiming for a certain target on that scale?", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Well, we're aiming for um one for all of them.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "M but it really has to fit into the budget, so I guess we just have to adjust things to get it i in the Which is fair enough..", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "And we seem to have least something in each criteria. We haven't completely left anything out, so.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah. Yeah, I think", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "As an overall product which has to be quite cheap, we've just about achieved everything.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "most Yeah. Yep.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "So do we have anything else to discuss?", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "I don't know. What's on the agenda?", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Right, okay um What's happened here? Right, okay um Mm. Right, okay um, Right. So we got So we've done the the finance bit and the Excel project and the We've done the redesign.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "We've got the closing.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "So we're now on to project process. Now satisfaction with, for example, room for creativity, leadership, teamwork, means, et cetera, whiteboard, digital pens, et cetera. So, we're actually now uh, in a sense, on to the evaluation of the course rather than the evaluation of the project is m my understanding of it.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Uh-huh.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "So what did you and remembering that nobody's just over the curtain..", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "So, um.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Finish your meeting now..", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "We should just go through this quickly and then.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Huh.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "So.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "I suppose the easiest way of doing it is to put some notes down, which I will do.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "So, uh I think I have to finish that page. Right, okay, so.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Oh..", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Project evaluation. So, um Creativity. Did you feel you got a chance to express yourselves well enough?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Um, yeah. Yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Well um.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "I thought some of the divisions though between sort of the individual meetings were a bit arbitrary.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Individual meetings. How do you mean?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah. Well, we were finding out various things in in be in-between the meetings,", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "In you on your own.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "and they didn't the one meeting didn't always follow on for the other one, you know, sort of we had things thrown in at the second meeting where, you know, you'd looked at the remote controls and seen the curviness, but in the first one you'd also looked at some remote controls and looked at the buttons,", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Um.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "and I don't understand why it would be in separate meetings that you'd do that. You know, you'd sort of you'd probably present it at one or something like that.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Mm, The only thing you find is in a manufacturing process, you would normally, you go to a meeting, you decide, right, you do this, you do that, you do that.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Then you go away. You find out information. You then come back. You then discuss it. You then go and change things around,", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Uh-huh.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "and then go back. So.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah, I suppose and then be going out and finding more information each time", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Whereas, this time, you're really getting it from a database source,", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "and then diff things will be relevant.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "so it's not uh well uh.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Anyway, so, what do you want to put down?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "I've put, seemed okay. Creativity, seemed okay. Um um flow of information on on any given subject given subject um sometimes disjointed..", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "I think it maybe could have been a slightly more creative project. I mean a remote control isn't the most um kind of fancy thing that you could imagine designing.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah, the thing itself.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Um.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "I can't think of a better example at the minute.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Have could have used a different example pel to increase create Creativity.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Is this go It kinda kis fits the purpose that it was something everyone knows about and then something we can at least look at and think how we can improve on.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "You have to do it within a set time frame is the other thing, so.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm. Yeah. But think like it was a bit restrictive just to say that you have to design a television remote control, in a way. I mean it depends what sort of business you're in, I guess. I mean this one seems. From the website it looks it's quite innovative, but we're coming up with some bucket shop product aren't we", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "that's, you know, fifteen quid..", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "one of those things. Like uh, companies can have like a range of products and.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "I th I uh d", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "I don't know how it works but I guess that something got sent out and have like a brief to kind of.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "But the other thing is that uh they're I'm guessing that they're trying to use this um software to to demonstrate how you could uh do a project. I mean, m my wife at the moment, for instance, is uh acting as a computer", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "um for um you normally, you got a problem, so you go to your tutor and find out information to see how to get it fixed.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "So what she's doing is she's having to spend a day at the computer terminal at one end so that any student that comes along can uh ask whatever question. And then you or the idea is that the whichever uh person's at the other end can point them in the right direction, show them where to either give them directly give them help, or secondly, point them in the right direction, either at the library, or uh or or come back, or go and see Joe Bloggs, or whatever. So uh, and that was a project I suspect similar to this, because they they were actually trying to debug the uh computer software to enable um to enable it to work. And of course, you had the machine crashing", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Hmm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "and various things going wrong. So.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Well, sh we look at the last slide,", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "see if it's got anything else.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Alright,", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "I think there's one one more to go.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "so we've got uh", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah. I mean if you look at their products on their website here, Real Reaction, I mean it's all pretty high-tech and cutting edge.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "New ideas found,", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "And.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "did we find any, no.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "It was quite good with this um the white board, having that and the digital pens.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Alright.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Like, that's something that made it a little easier.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah. Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Leadership, teamwork.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "we did find a new idea, I mean sort of a kinetic remote control. I've never seen one of them before. batteries, I think. So.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Does.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "voice recognition, especially not could.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "You've got voice recognition computers,", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "that's not remote controls.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Well it's a different application of it.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm. Okay,", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah, so it's just like the same products, but just put together in a different way.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "so how do you reckon teamwork went?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Um.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "That went okay, yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah, I guess we all had separate ideas and then discussed them.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm, yeah..", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "To uh go uh reasonably well. Okay.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "I don't think sort of the budget um allowed us to do anything.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Bit bit arbitrary..", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Well, I mean I don't think it I just don't think it fitted in with the rest of their products. I mean, they've got all these sort of, you know, high definition D_V_D_ and portable seven inch d um lightweight computer screens,", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "and uh I'm thinking, do you know, one cheap remote control doesn't really fit in.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "So, we're m we're meant to comment on leadership and the means, E_ G_ whiteboard, digital pens, et cetera.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Surely they they should produ", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "And and new i new ideas found was the the other thing.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Well leadership's a bit of a funny one, isn't it.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "But we can't really all fairly comment on leadership because you are the Project Manager.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "You were the leader. So our experience of leadership wasn't really as much as yours..", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah. Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Now, I'd much rather be in marketing.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "but I certainly didn't get this uh computer to work as well as I would have liked.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "However, um Alright uh means, so whiteboard um so really, it's uh equipment. Oh.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah. It worked.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah, very nice..", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Comput computers could be a bit difficult at times but.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "But I mean, I d I don't I'm not sure I see the value in these. I mean, they record what you're writing, and then what do you do with it? Where do you get the recording? Do you plug the computer or something?", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "I think there's a little there's a little um chi", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "So it's not just for us, it's for the experiment as a whole, so.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "There's a little there's a little chip, I think you must plug it into something", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Should we quickly look at the last slide?", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "and it produces a.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Sh.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Right. I think you watch a video of it kind of.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "I don't know. Whether it just produces a big image of sort of everything you've written or something, and Page after page.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Right. New ideas found, so one or two.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah. Kinetic powered remote control. Um, what was the other one?", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Voice um recognition thing.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Vo yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "um and uh voice", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "uh, was it voice activated um.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Voice recognition, yeah. S", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "recognition.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Almost.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Pretty much..", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "To fill in these fill in these questionnaires", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Right, so, uh are the costs within budget,", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Oh no.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "yes. Is the project evaluated, yes. Uh, don't forget to complete final questionnaire and meeting summary. 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And what you're uh drawing?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Uh sure my name is Agnes and I'm an user usability user interface designer.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "My name is Ed and I do accounting.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Uh how you spell your name uh?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "E_D_.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "E_D_ okay.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "And?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Do you also do marketing?", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "No.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "So only accounting? Okay.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Accounting, yes.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "And?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "And I'm Christine,", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "and my role in this uh scenario is to be the industrial designer.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Industrial designer.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "But I'm not really one.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "So who is uh marketing, nobody in the market", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Marketing is uh, is me.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "It's you, okay. So thanks for coming for the meeting first of all, and uh we have a long time, just twenty-five minutes to discuss about uh this project and the the project initiation. First of all I want to ask uh Mister Ed about your uh marketing plan and your product plan and uh.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Well I think that we'll see that throughout the day in how we're going to put this together as a marketing to to market the product. We'll have to see on a through discussion on where we're gonna go from here and from with this.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm but uh do you already have like a functional design or a technical design or.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Uh for the moment not yet.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Oh for the moment not yet, okay, but uh what's what's your uh do you have some project plan, something with you or.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Good question. No, this is like I said that we have to be discussed between all of us and we'll go from there. We'll have to simply we'll have to work on it together.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm. Okay, so uh by when you think you can uh give me some kind of uh project plan, okay, a discussion with uh.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Certainly by the next meeting.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "By next meeting, okay that will be great. Uh Okay, so there's any questions or uh first of all about uh this project?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "What is the goal of the project?", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Uh the goal of the project I think maybe I'll uh hand out to the Ed, okay, so to explain uh what is the project because he's in the sales and the accounting.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "I'm in the sales I'm supposed to explain them what to do. We have to define exactly what our product is, from uh.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yes, so can you explain uh what exactly the product is?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "From what I had in mind we're supposed to be marketing coffee, is that right?", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Oh I think uh, if I'm not wrong, we're making the remote control.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Um I was wondering.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Remote controls,'cause I had two different things. I had a first part of mine was to make a remote control for a new f remote control for television, and afterward I had a discussion about coffee so.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yes.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "we'll start with the remote control for television then. So we're have to design something that is very user friendly.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Something uh visual that has something that will will draw people to buy the product,", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "because I think everybody's experienced with uh remote controls, and some remote controls are are worth uh throwing out the window. Uh th most of them ar I don't know we're have to come up with a new idea on how to make it a lot easier to use,", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "'cause a lot of times uh spend uh half a day through the instruction book trying to figure out how to use it.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "And uh what abo uh Christine, what about your uh the industrial design plan? Are you have a design already on this product or uh you're still working on the design?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Um no, I I have not begun working on the design,", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "and um I uh I actually didn't know we were designing a remote control, I thought we were designing a new monitor. Um the website I went to look at had some announcements about an introduction of a um uh some sort of a seven inch um monitor, and um I understood that that was the project goal. So um I'm glad I didn't d do any work um ahead of time because uh I clearly didn't understand the project goal.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Um I just did s see that we were starting a new project together and there was going to be a four member team composed of these people, and um that's about uh that's.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "and I I read through the different steps, and what my responsibilities were relative to the steps.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "So uh you'll be leading the team for your design team or how many members is working in the team, for the design?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Uh for the industrial design?", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yes.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Um well, I would th think that depends on how much money you give us.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "That's.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Um because uh, you know, you can uh you can make it uh you have different choices with different financial models.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah, but uh before we talk about uh the finance, okay, uh do you have some idea how we can uh sell this product or project in the market and how much is going to benefit to the company and uh of course it's to the individual also.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Well, you know um, I kind of think that in general you have to do uh um y you have to have something that's very fashionable, that's uh very attractive that um people see and recognize uh its goal, and uh they immediately wanna have it uh have one of their own. So it would really would need to um something like the iPod would be good, seems to have caught on fairly well,", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "so um d uh you know, I don't care what it does, just so it looks cool.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Okay, but uh uh when you think you can give me like a kind of design on the functional design or the technical design?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Well, uh I've got a lot of other projects I'm doing right now um and so I'll have to wait and see how those uh how those go. If they uh go quickly then uh it could be a month. If um if I run into any problems in my other projects it might be six months.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah, but uh I need something in the writing, so like uh what's your functional design, what's your technical design, and uh how many people you need for this project, and what's the time frame you're looking, okay, and what is the budget, maybe uh initial budget you're looking, okay, and uh how is going to the market, okay,", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm. Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "so you've you've had to meet with the marketing team and how they're going to market and what are the marketing strategic plan, okay, when are you going to introduce, okay, and by the time you introduce the product and uh you know there there would be a competition, okay, so I need some kind of uh uh the plan in the writing from you. Okay, and it's po", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "And when would you like that?", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "B as soon as possible.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Uh well if uh if we have enough time uh then d do you think um two weeks is a is close enough?", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yes I think uh that would be good, because I need to go to the management and uh tell them what we are going to do, and uh what cost is, okay, and what's the time frame and what's the project plan, because uh without any uh documentations, I cannot go to the management and say, so we are going to do this and we need this much money, okay, so then it's it's difficult for me to say, okay, that's the reason I need uh some kind of plan from you, initially, okay, then we can have the further discussion again.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Uh are there other people who will be contributing to the plan?", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yes, of course, if you need some help, uh so let me know. So, who are the people you need uh from the marketing or uh the technical side or uh the administration point of view, okay, to add in any documentation, or some technical point of view,", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "so just let me know so I can uh coordinate all the teams.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Okay, I'll get back to you on that.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yes. Thank you. Okay. And uh Ed uh so what's what do you think about uh this uh project for the remote control and d do you have some already planned something for your marketing strategy or uh the sales strategy?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Well not yet other than uh doing research and taking remote controls and looking what other companies have to do uh, what they're building, their designs, their ideas,", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Hmm..", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "uh also have to pinpoint which market we're gonna go into.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "It should be a fairly large market because uh the number of people that uh the competition,", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "uh th I agree it has to be something it has to be something new, it has to be something that that draws people saying eh, I like this. Whether it works or not, they have to first say I like this, I like the design, and then it's gotta be simple to use.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yes, so what I uh prefer maybe uh you need to interact uh more with the Christine, okay, because you know what she is going to do it, okay, and you know how to sell it. Okay, because uh she is doing the design, but you are the core because you are in the marketing, okay,", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "so because you need to sell and you're the responsible for the all the money, the finance, okay, tomorrow.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "So, what I prefer, okay, so you need to interact with the Christine more and uh within her team, okay, who is using the functional design or technical design, okay,", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "and uh you need to come up with some kind of plan, okay, how we are going to do the your sales plan, okay, th", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Do we already have a cost limit on this, th an idea of how much uh we want to market this for, how much it's gonna sell for,", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Th That that's", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "that's up that's up to us to decide, eh?.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yes, that's you have to decide, okay, so the best thing is you uh both of uh the Christine and you discuss with yourself, okay, and come up with the cost, and how we are going to compete in the market, okay, in the the technically, or in the sales wise, okay, the commercial wise, okay. Then uh we have to design, okay, how long it will take the whole project, okay, how much is going to cost us, and how much we are going to benefit for the company. Okay, of course it's it's uh of benefit for everybody individually. Okay, so I think it's uh maybe if we can uh give me some kind of your uh the sales plan, okay, including the technical what uh she's going to talk to you within the team, okay, then it will help me to discuss with the management for further, okay, and put it in the the proper project plan. Okay, and if you need uh any coordination in between uh compared to the maybe the some technical vendors or commercial vendors, okay, depends if you want to have some uh uh marketing plan or technical plan, okay, so you let me know.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Very good.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Okay, I can coordinate,", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Very good.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "or maybe uh, you are my coordinator, am I right?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Between uh all the coor", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Well, no, not exactly. I mean my job from what I understood was to look at the usability requirements and make sure that the product is usable, it's acceptable to the people who are gonna use it and look at the best ways to do that.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "So I think I'll have to interact with Christine and discuss with her, so that she's not designing something that my studies will show right off the bat that it's not going to work,", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Th Christine, yeah. Which is.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "and so it's sort of it's a loop that feeds in, but I don't think necessarily that I'm in a coordinating position for it.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yes. Yeah, so basically you need to interact with Christine more, okay, for the user acceptability, okay, and the testing, okay,", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah. Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "then you will.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Which will also feed into the marketing,", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yes.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "because depending on what users want, depends on how you sell it, what tag lines you attach to it, how you try to make it more attractive to users.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yes. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "So I think all three groups will need to interact quite a bit. Um, and then I guess build the plan based on all of that, because I think you need to take all the factors into account.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yep. But what I request, okay, keep Ed in the loop, okay, in between your uh meeting and Christine meeting, because uh he should know what's happening.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah, of course. Yeah, we can C_C_ him on any discussions or documents that are passed around.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yes. Okay and please please copy all the mails, okay, all the discussions to me, okay, so I need to submit to the management.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Sure. No problem.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "So any questions for uh time being?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "No.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "So, the immediate next step is to start determining the functional design, or", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yes.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "okay.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Okay. To come up with the functional design and uh to discuss with Ed, okay, and how it's going to be work, and uh first of all with your user acceptance, okay, how it looks like and how it's going to be work in the market, okay,", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "so then we can discuss about uh further things. So, we'll meet when the we'll discuss on the further meeting.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "It's okay? Thanks for coming.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Would you mind um at the conclusion of our meeting could could you send us a copy of your slides?", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yes, I will. Yes.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm, yeah, that would be useful.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "I'll copy, uh le let us keep all the emails and all the copies, okay, share each other, okay, so you know everybody what's happening, okay?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Sure.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "And if anything you need anytime so please either you can call me, or just send me email, or uh just come and uh knock my door, okay, so I'm available here. It's good? Okay, thanks for coming and uh I wish you a nice time then.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Thank you.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Thanks.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Okay, see you later. 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And I will see what the user wants and uh what we can do uh with the new produ project product..", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Okay, excellent. And you are User Interface.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Nick Broer,", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "User Interface Designer. I'm going to uh look at the technical design from the uh user point of view.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Excellent. Okay.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "My name is Xavier Juergens, I'm the Industrial Designer, and there are three main questions that I have to find an answer to today. First one is uh what happens inside the apparatus, second is what is uh the apparatus made of,", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Hmm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "and the third is what should it look like.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "What should it look like? Okay.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Hmm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Oh, let's kick it off. Oh, there we go. So, our new project is about we need design a remote control for television set, so, which has to be original, trendy and user-friendly. I took this off our corporate website. I think well it sums up what we need to do. It's We're inspired by latest fashion, not only electronics, but also the latest trends in clothes and interior design. That's why our product will always fit in your home. So apparently we need to um be very at um very open to what's currently hot in the market. So that's what you need to do to bring us the latest info and what people want.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah. Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "So So we put the fashion in electronics. So that's what we need to go for. Anyway, we'll take this project in three steps, three pha uh three phase of design. First step will be the functional design.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "And that's basically what we're gonna do. Everybody has uh a piece of individual work and a meeting afterwards, so we can share information about So I'm gonna keep this short, since we had a technical problem. So skip through this. Uh. Okay. Every meeting we everybody can present their uh their views and everything, so to help with these, you have we have the SMARTboards here. We can use a regular PowerPoint presentation. I'm supposed to give you an introduction on this doodling board, so it's actually it's very easy. Like it says, very simple, you just take out the pen. Like you see here, I'll just take the take here. That's it, you just put it on the board. You see a pen here. You go here, just like using a pen. You can just draw whatever you want. It's like the eraser, can erase whatever you want. And so it will be easy just to illustrate your views, if you wanna change the format, you just either take out jus just like the pen, and whatever you want, your current colour, your line width, just to make the line bigger. So it should be really easy.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "This is to take the just take a new slide and back again. We're just gonna keep using this board all the time, so I think it will be it's very clear for everyone, I suppose. So I'll take this out. Okay. We'll use that later. Anyway. Yeah, just just just stuff that you wanna share, just put it in the in the project folder, like I put my presentation now. I'll put the the minutes of every meeting, I'll put them there too, so everybody can read up if they have to leave early or whatever. So next, been here. Well, gonna give the electronic white-board uh a shot. So basic idea is we have a blank sheet. Just try whatever you want, and like it says, draw your favourite animal. I think the creative genius should go first..", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "The creative genius?", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Thank you very much.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "So, draw us your favourite animal.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Well, I'm more into the technical aspects of drawing,", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "so I'm not really good at drawing animals,", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Draw us a technical animal.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "but uh the animal which I Oh.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah, it's still erasing.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Pen.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Uh format. Else my animal will be like king-size. I pretty much like a dolphin, because of its uh its freedom basically. Let's see. A head. actually worked with this. It's like uh it's a very Uh high-tech.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Bit low-responsive though.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "So that's what we don't want.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Prefer pen and paper.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "We want a high-responsive product. So It looks more like nuclear bomb.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Very nice dolphin.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "It doesn't look like a nuclear bomb.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "This thing isn't doing what I'm What I want.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Let's go easy on it.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "So Yeah, well it does look like a nuclear bomb.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "I'll just finish up real soon, because I'm.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "So it doesn't really look like a dolphin,", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Anyway,", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "but then again, this is all new for me.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "it should It It's supposed to be a dolphin, you like the freedom that it that it represents.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Uh-huh.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Like the ocean, like swimming. Do that in my spare time, so that's basically an.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "What do you like? Okay. Well,", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Now we can forget this ever happened.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "our Marketing Expert. Show us an animal.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Um an animal.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Pick a pick a.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "I like the elephant..", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "pick a clean sheet. Oh. Take a clean sheet first.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "What? Yeah. Um.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Just press next. That's it.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Oh yeah. Oh, a blank. Okay, next. Free, I like the elephant. It's big, it's strong, so uh uh Oh, it's a little bit.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "It's not really that responsive, no..", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "You have to hold it, right?", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Hmm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "It's a beautiful animal.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Oh, you have to p press it pretty hard. With a smile on it,", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "It's a cute elephant.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "it's very important. Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "And uh not to forget its tail. Oh.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "It's a nice beard.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah, it's okay. Yes..", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "And you was making comments on my dolphin..", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "I will beat the dolphin. No.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Okay, so it's just a bee.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "So I suggest you make us the elephant in the market. The big and strong player in the market. This would be good.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah. Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Okay, excellent. On to the next one.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Uh yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Okay, you should press next.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Press next. Yeah, it's up there.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "That's it.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Okay, well the animal I'd like to draw is a tiger.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "You picked a hard one, didn't you?.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "My drawing skills are really bad, so.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Experience with the tiger.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "What? They are.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "They are really bad, my drawing skills.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Okay uh-huh.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Sure looks smooth.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Oh.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "I'm not sure how the legs should go, but.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Uh these are stripes.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Got it..", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "I've picked this animal because it's very fast. It is uh it knows exactly what it wants. Uh it hardly ever wastes any resources.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "What does it want?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Uh well, basically uh it hunts for prey, but it does it always in a very well-thought way. Uh it knows exactly what it wants. It never kills an animal uh just for the killing, so it's very efficient. And it tries to do everything as fast as possible.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "And it always goes for uh security, in seeking uh uh a hide spot and uh and doing everything,", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "security, speed and efficiency is important. And I think uh those things we can use.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "I agree.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": ", I'm supposed to draw the animal next. Yay I introduce to the world the amazing ant.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Uh hard worker.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Great team-workers.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Do everything to Uh really small, but together they're really strong. So I'm gonna give it a smiley face.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Oh.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah, yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Not sure where the p. Just put'em here. Whatever..", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Think it need shoes. So.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "I'm just too lazy to draw it all black, so That's the coolest ant ever.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "You've done this before, haven't you?.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "I love to draw ants. It's my hobby.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Anyway Nah. Just I think it's very representative what we drew, I guess. Like you take just take your freedom and use a a trendy interface that you design for us.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Just Yeah. You're supposed to make i make it different from uh from what other people have, and just make it a little distinct. Anyway. another beep to stop the meeting. See. Warning. Finish meeting now. Uh put this down. Examples. Well I guess we have a little little time extra, but Just a little quick discussion to to open open our work. So what do you guys think about The first idea is just very short. I'll start with you. What are y What are your first ideas for the new product? What.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Well, I basically had a question. Do uh Are we going to introduce a multi remote control? Is it just the T_V_ or do we want to in", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "The project I got was just for a T_V_ remote control.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Uh.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Just for T_V_ remote control.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah, I guess so.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Okay. Well, I was thinking about design remote control, with our uh motto and all.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "But.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Uh thing to keep in mind is that we need to stick to what people are familiar with.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "No rational changes or whatever,'cause it revolutionary changes,", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Okay, so very intuitive design, I guess.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "yes. Uh we might have to consider other design aspects of our product. So that was something I wanted to add,", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "and perhaps some usability aspect. T_V_ is becoming central in most homes. Do we want people who are disabled in any way to uh, yeah, to be able to use it as well?", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah, we want I suppose we want almost everyone to be using it. So I think I mean, really disabled people, yeah, might be a problem, but I think it's a little take it into consideration. Um yeah. I think we really need to cut the meeting short. You have anything you wanna share quickly?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Hmm.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Uh.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Only one thing uh that has to be added according to me is uh the the material it is made of, it should be something light.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "That's it speaks for itself,", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "It should be light, okay.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "but some uh Yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Um, let's see,", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "where did I Let's skip that. Oh, this is it. Sorry, I skipped this sheet.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Selling price.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "What do we This Quick What we're going to Selling price, twenty five Euros. That's for you. The production price, twelve and a half Euros, approximately.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Just go go for that. We'll reach the uh reach that profit.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Okay, well that's not that much to work with..", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "international.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "No, it's not much to work on. I'm sorry, I skipped it. Anyways, that's Yeah, this is it. Do you have anything you you came up with yet? About uh marketing transfer, whatever?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Um about what? Marketing?", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Marketing I'm not sure what you what you came up with yet. You have anything to share? Or else we'll cut the meeting just cut the meeting short", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Um no, not really yet,", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "since we're supposed to stop.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "but I've some ideas", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "and I will uh say it uh.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Anyways, the the personal coach will give you the your p your personal assignments and everything. So we'll just meet back in here thirty minutes.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "I'm sure we have that.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Good luck everyone.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah, thanks for attending.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm, good luck.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "I'll see you back here in thirty minutes.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Okay. 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Uh transcript one three one one dash one three three zero. three two three four seven six five five three one six two four one six seven seven eight nine zero nine four zero zero three zero one five eight one seven three five three two six eight zero three six two four three zero seven four five zero six nine four seven four eight five seven nine six one five O seven eight O two zero nine six zero four zero zero one two Uh Yeah, you don't actually n need to say the name.", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "OK, this is Barry Chen and I am reading transcript", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "That'll probably be bleeped out.", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "OK.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "So. That's if these are anonymized, but Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "Oh. OK.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "uh I mean not that there's anything defamatory about uh eight five seven or or anything, but", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "OK.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "Uh, anyway. Uh so here's what I have for I I was just jotting down things I think th w that we should do today. Uh This is what I have for an agenda so far Um, We should talk a little bit about the plans for the uh the field trip next week. Uh a number of us are doing a field trip to uh Uh OGI And uh mostly uh First though about the logistics for it. Then maybe later on in the meeting we should talk about what we actually you know, might accomplish. Uh.", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "OK.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "Uh, in and kind of go around see what people have been doing talk about that, a r progress report. Um, Essentially. Um And then uh Another topic I had was that uh uh Uh Dave here had uh said uh \" Give me something to do. \" And I I have I have uh failed so far in doing that. And so maybe we can discuss that a little bit. If we find some holes in some things that that someone could use some help with, he's he's volunteering to help.", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "I've got to move a bunch of furniture.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "OK, always count on a serious comment from that corner. So, um, uh, and uh, then uh, talk a little bit about about disks and resource resource issues that that's starting to get worked out. And then, anything else anybody has that isn't in that list? Uh.", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "I was just wondering, does this mean the battery's dying and I should change it?", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "Uh I think that means the battery's O K..", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "Let me see.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "d do you", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "Oh OK, so th", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "Yeah, that's good. You're alright?", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "Cuz it's full.", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "Yeah. Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "Alright.", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "Yeah. Yeah. It looks full of electrons. OK. Plenty of electrons left there. OK, so, um, uh. OK, so, uh, I wanted to start this with this mundane thing. Um Uh I I it was it was kind of my bright idea to have us take a plane that leaves at seven twenty in the morning.", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "Oh, yeah, that's right.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "Um. Uh this is uh The reason I did it uh was because otherwise for those of us who have to come back the same day it is really not much of a of a visit. Uh So um the issue is how how how would we ever accomplish that? Uh what what what part of town do you live in?", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "Um, I live in, um, the corner of campus. The, um, southeast corner.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "OK. OK, so would it be easier those of you who are not, you know, used to this area, it can be very tricky to get to the airport at at uh, you know, six thirty. Um. So. Would it be easier for you if you came here and I drove you? Yeah? Yeah, yeah, OK.", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "Yeah, perhaps, yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "Yeah. Sure.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "OK, so if if everybody can get here at six.", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "At six.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Yeah, I'm afraid we need to do that to get there on time.", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "Six, OK.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "Yeah, so. Oh boy. Anyway, so.", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "Will that be enough time?", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "Yeah. Yeah, so I'll just pull up in front at six and just be out front. And, uh, and yeah, that'll be plenty of time. It'll take it it it won't be bad traffic that time of day and and uh", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "I guess once you get past the bridge that that would be the worst.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "Yeah, Oakland.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Going to Oakland.", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "Oakland.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "Once you get past the turnoff to the Bay Bridge.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "Bridge oh, the turnoff to the bridge", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "Won't even do that.", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "I mean, just go down Martin Luther King.", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "Yeah. OK. Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "And then Martin Luther King to nine - eighty to eight - eighty,", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "and it's it'd take us, tops uh thirty minutes to get there.", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "Oh, I.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "So that leaves us fifty minutes before the plane it'll just yeah. So Great, OK so that'll It's I mean, it's still not going to be really easy but well Particularly for for uh for Barry and me, we're not we're not staying overnight so we don't need to bring anything particularly except for uh a pad of paper and So, and, uh you, two have to bring a little bit", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "OK.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "but uh you know, don't don't bring a footlocker and we'll be OK So.", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "s So just.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "W you're staying overnight. I figured you wouldn't need a great big suitcase, yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "Oh yeah. Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "That's sort of one night. So. Anyway. OK.", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "So, s six AM, in front.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "Six AM in front.", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "OK.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "Uh, I'll be here. Uh I'll I'll I'll I'll give you my phone number, If I'm not here for a few m after a few minutes then", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "Wake you up.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "Nah, I'll be fine. I just, uh it for me it just means getting up a half an hour earlier than I usually do. Not not not a lot,", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "OK. Wednesday.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "so OK, that was the real real important stuff. Um, I I I figured maybe wait on the potential goals for the meeting uh until we talk about wh what's been going on. So, uh, what's been going on? Why don't we start start over here.", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "Um. Well, preparation of the French test data actually.", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "OK.", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "So, it means that um, well, it is, uh, a digit French database of microphone speech, downsampled to eight kilohertz and I've added noise to one part, with the actually the Aurora - two noises. And, @ @ so this is a training part. And then the remaining part, I use for testing and with other kind of noises. So we can So this is almost ready. I'm preparing the the HTK baseline for this task. And, yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "OK Uh, So the HTK base lines so this is using mel cepstra and so on, or? Yeah. OK.", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "And again, I guess the p the plan is, uh, to uh then given this What's the plan again?", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "The plan with these data?", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "With So So Does i Just remind me of what what you were going to do with the what what what what's y You just described what you've been doing. So if you could remind me of what you're going to be doing.", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "Oh, this is yeah, yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "Uh, yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "Tell him about the cube.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "Well. The cube? I should tell him about the cube?", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "Oh! Cube. Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "Fill in the cube.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Uh we actually we want to, mmm, Uh, uh, analyze three dimensions, the feature dimension, the training data dimension, and the test data dimension. Um. Well, what we want to do is first we have number for each uh task. So we have the um, TI - digit task, the Italian task, the French task and the Finnish task.", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "Yeah?", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "So we have numbers with uh systems I mean I mean neural networks trained on the task data. And then to have systems with neural networks trained on, uh, data from the same language, if possible, with, well, using a more generic database, which is phonetically phonetically balanced, and. Um.", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "So - so we had talked I guess we had talked at one point about maybe, the language ID corpus?", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "Yeah. So.", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "Is that a possibility for that?", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "Ye - uh Yeah, but, uh these corpus, w w there is a CallHome and a CallFriend also, The CallFriend is for language ind identification. Well, anyway, these corpus are all telephone speech. So, um. This could be a a problem for Why? Because uh, uh, the the SpeechDat databases are not telephone speech. They are downsampled to eight kilohertz but but they are not uh with telephone bandwidth.", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "Yeah. That's really funny isn't it? I mean cuz th this whole thing is for developing new standards for the telephone.", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "Telephone.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "Yeah, but the the idea is to compute the feature before the before sending them to the Well, you don't do not send speech, you send features, computed on th the the device,", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm. Yeah, I know, but the reason.", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "or Well.", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "Oh I see, so your point is that it's it's it's uh the features are computed locally, and so they aren't necessarily telephone bandwidth, uh or telephone distortions.", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "So you Yeah. Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "Did you happen to find out anything about the OGI multilingual database?", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "Yeah, that's wh that's wh that's what I meant.", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "Yeah, it's.", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "I said @ @, there's there's there's an OGI language ID, not the not the, uh the CallFriend is a is a, uh, LDC w thing, right?", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "Yea - Yeah, there are also two other databases. One they call the multi - language database, and another one is a twenty - two language, something like that. But it's also telephone speech.", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "Oh, they are? OK.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "Uh. Well, nnn.", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "But I'm not sure.", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "So.", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "I mean, we' r e e The bandwidth shouldn't be such an issue right? Because e e this is downsampled and and filtered, right? So it's just the fact that it's not telephone. And there are so many other differences between these different databases. I mean some of this stuff's recorded in the car, and some of it's I mean there's there's many different acoustic differences. So I'm not sure if. I mean, unless we're going to include a bunch of car recordings in the in the training database, I'm not sure if it's completely rules it out", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "if our if we if our major goal is to have phonetic context and you figure that there's gonna be a mismatch in acoustic conditions does it make it much worse f to sort of add another mismatch, if you will.", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "Mmm.", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "Uh, i i I I guess the question is how important is it to for us to get multiple languages uh, in there.", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "Yeah, but Mm - hmm. Um. Yeah. Well, actually, for the moment if we w do not want to use these phone databases, we we already have uh English, Spanish and French uh, with microphone speech..", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm. Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "So.", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "So that's what you're thinking of using is sort of the multi the equivalent of the multiple?", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "Well. Yeah, for the multilingual part we were thinking of using these three databases.", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "And for the difference in phonetic context that you? Provide that.", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "Well, this Uh, actually, these three databases are um generic databases.", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "So w f for for uh Italian, which is close to Spanish, French and, i i uh, TI - digits we have both uh, digits training data and also more general training data. So. Mmm.", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "Well, we also have this Broadcast News that we were talking about taking off the disk, which is is microphone data for for English.", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "Yeah. Yeah, perhaps yeah, there is also TIMIT.", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "We could use TIMIT.", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "Right. Yeah, so there's plenty of stuff around. OK, so anyway, th the basic plan is to, uh, test this cube. Yes.", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "To fill in the cube.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "To fill i fill it in, yeah. OK.", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "Yeah, and perhaps, um We were thinking that perhaps the cross - language issue is not, uh, so big of a issue. Well, w w we perhaps we should not focus too much on that cross - language stuff. I mean, uh, training training a net on a language and testing a for another language.", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "Uh - huh. But that's.", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "Mmm. Perhaps the most important is to have neural networks trained on the target languages. But, uh, with a general database general databases. u So that th Well, the the guy who has to develop an application with one language can use the net trained o on that language, or a generic net,", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "Uh, depen it depen it depends how you mean \" using the net \".", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "but not trained on a.", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "So, if you're talking about for producing these discriminative features that we're talking about you can't do that.", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "Mmm.", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "Because because the what they're asking for is is a feature set. Right? And so, uh, we're the ones who have been weird by by doing this training. But if we say, \" No, you have to have a different feature set for each language, \" I think this is ver gonna be very bad.", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "Oh.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "You think so.", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "That's.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "Oh.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "So Oh yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "Mmm.", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "Yeah. I mean, in principle, I mean conceptually, it's sort of like they want a re @ @ well, they want a replacement for mel cepstra.", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "Mmm.", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "So, we say \" OK, this is the year two thousand, we've got something much better than mel cepstra. It's, you know, gobbledy - gook. \" OK? And so we give them these gobbledy - gook features but these gobbledy - gook features are supposed to be good for any language.", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "Hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "Cuz you don't know who's gonna call, and you know, I mean so it's it's it's, uh, uh how do you know what language it is? Somebody picks up the phone. So thi this is their image. Someone picks up the phone, right?", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "Well, I chh.", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "And and he he picks up the ph", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "Yeah, but the the application is there is a target language for the application.", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "Yeah. y y y", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "So, if a.", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "Well. But, no but, y you you pick up the phone,", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "Well.", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "you talk on the phone,", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "Yeah?", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "and it sends features out. OK, so the phone doesn't know what a what what your language is.", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "Yeah, if Yeah. If it's th in the phone, but.", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "But that's the image that they have.", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "well, it that that could be th at the server's side,", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "It could be,", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "and, well. Mmm, yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "but that's the image they have, right? So that's that's I mean, one could argue all over the place about how things really will be in ten years. But the particular image that the cellular industry has right now is that it's distributed speech recognition, where the, uh, uh, probabilistic part, and and s semantics and so forth are all on the servers, and you compute features of the uh, on the phone. So that's that's what we're involved in. We might might or might not agree that that's the way it will be in ten years, but that's that's that's what they're asking for. So so I think that th th it is an important issue whether it works cross - language. Now, it's the OGI, uh, folks' perspective right now that probably that's not the biggest deal. And that the biggest deal is the, um envir acoustic - environment mismatch. And they may very well be right, but I I was hoping we could just do a test and determine if that was true. If that's true, we don't need to worry so much. Maybe maybe we have a couple languages in the training set and that gives us enough breadth uh, uh, that that that the rest doesn't matter. Um, the other thing is, uh, this notion of training to uh which I I guess they're starting to look at up there, training to something more like articulatory features. Uh, and if you have something that's just good for distinguishing different articulatory features that should just be good across, you know, a wide range of languages.", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "Uh, but Yeah, so I don't th I know unfortunately I don't I see what you're comi where you're coming from, I think, but I don't think we can ignore it.", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "So we we really have to do test with a real cross - language. I mean, tr for instance training on English and testing on Italian, or Or we can train or else, uh, can we train a net on, uh, a range of languages and which can include the test the test @ @ the target language,", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "Test on an unseen.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "or.", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "Yeah, so, um, there's there's, uh This is complex. So, ultimately, uh, as I was saying, I think it doesn't fit within their image that you switch nets based on language. Now, can you include, uh, the the target language?", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "Um, from a purist's standpoint it'd be nice not to because then you can say when because surely someone is going to say at some point, \" OK, so you put in the German and the Finnish.", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "Mmm.", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "Uh, now, what do you do, uh, when somebody has Portuguese? \" you know? Um, and Uh, however, you aren't it isn't actually a constraint in this evaluation. So I would say if it looks like there's a big difference to put it in, then we'd make note of it, and then we probably put in the other, because we have so many other problems in trying to get things to work well here that that, you know, it's not so bad as long as we we note it and say, \" Look, we did do this \".", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "Mmm?", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "And so, ideally, what you'd wanna do is you'd wanna run it with and without the target language and the training set for a wide range of languages.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "Uh. Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "Yeah, perhaps. Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "And that way you can say, \" Well, \" you know, \" we're gonna build it for what we think are the most common ones \",", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "but if that somebody uses it with a different language, you know, \" here's what's you're l here's what's likely to happen. \"", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "Yeah, cuz the truth is, is that it's it's not like there are I mean, al although there are thousands of languages, uh, from uh, uh, the point of view of cellular companies, there aren't.", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "There's you know, there's fifty or something, you know? So, uh, an and they aren't you know, with the exception of Finnish, which I guess it's pretty different from most most things. uh, it's it's, uh most of them are like at least some of the others. And so, our guess that Spanish is like Italian, and and so on. I guess Finnish is a is is a little bit like Hungarian, supposedly, right?", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "I don't know anything about Finnish.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "Or is I think well, I kn oh, well I know that H uh, H I mean, I'm not a linguist, but I guess Hungarian and Finnish and one of the one of the languages from the former Soviet Union are in this sort of same family.", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "Hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "But they're just these, you know, uh countries that are pretty far apart from one another, have I guess, people rode in on horses and brought their.", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "Hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "OK.", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "The Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "Oh, my turn.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "Your turn.", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "Oh, OK. Um, Let's see, I I spent the last week, uh, looking over Stephane's shoulder. And and understanding some of the data. I re - installed, um, um, HTK, the free version, so, um, everybody's now using three point O, which is the same version that, uh, OGI is using.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "Oh, good.", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "Yeah. So, without without any licensing big deals, or anything like that. And, um, so we've been talking about this this, uh, cube thing, and it's beginning more and more looking like the, uh, the Borge cube thing. It's really gargantuan. Um, but I I'm Am I.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "So are are you going to be assimilated?", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "Resistance is futile.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "Exactly. Um, yeah, so I I've been looking at, uh, uh, TIMIT stuff. Um, the the stuff that we've been working on with TIMIT, trying to get a, um a labels file so we can, uh, train up a train up a net on TIMIT and test, um, the difference between this net trained on TIMIT and a net trained on digits alone. Um, and seeing if if it hurts or helps.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "Anyway.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "And again, when y just to clarify, when you're talking about training up a net, you're talking about training up a net for a tandem approach?", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "Yeah, yeah. Um. Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "And and the inputs are PLP and delta and that sort of thing,", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "Well, the inputs are one dimension of the cube,", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "or?", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "which, um, we've talked about it being, uh, PLP, um, M F C Cs, um, J - JRASTA, JRASTA - LDA.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "Hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "Yeah, but your initial things you're making one choice there,", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "Yeah,", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "right?", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "right.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "Which is PLP, or something?", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "Um, I I haven't I haven't decided on on the initial thing.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "Probably probably something like PLP. Yeah.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "Hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "Yeah. Um, so so you take PLP and you you, uh, do it uh, you you, uh, use HTK with it with the transformed features using a neural net that's trained. And the training could either be from Digits itself or from TIMIT.", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "And that's the and, and th and then the testing would be these other things which which which might be foreign language.", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "Right. Right.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "I see. I I I get in the picture about the cube.", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "Yeah. Maybe.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "OK.", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "OK. Uh - huh.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "OK. Um, I mean, those listening to this will not have a picture either, so, um, I guess I'm I'm not any worse off. But but at some point somebody should just show me the cube. It sounds s I I get I think I get the general idea of it,", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "Yeah, yeah,", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "So, when you said that you were getting the labels for TIMIT, um, are y what do you mean by that?", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "b May Mm - hmm. Oh, I'm just I'm just, uh, transforming them from the, um, the standard TIMIT transcriptions into into a nice long huge P - file to do training.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "Mmm. Were the digits, um, hand - labeled for phones?", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "Um, the the digits.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "Or were they those labels automatically derived?", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "Oh yeah, those were those were automatically derived by by Dan using, um, embedded embedded training and alignment.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "Mmm.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "Ah, but which Dan?", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "Uh, Ellis. Right?", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "OK. OK.", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "Yeah. So.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "I was just wondering because that test you're t", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "Uh - huh.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "I I think you're doing this test because you want to determine whether or not, uh, having s general speech performs as well as having specific speech.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "That's right.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "Well, especially when you go over the different languages again, because you'd the different languages have different words for the different digits,", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm. And I was.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "so it's.", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "yeah, so I was just wondering if the fact that TIMIT you're using the hand - labeled stuff from TIMIT might be confuse the results that you get.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "I I think it would, but but on the other hand it might be better.", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "Right, but if it's better, it may be better because it was hand - labeled.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "Oh yeah, but still @ @ probably use it.", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "Yeah. OK.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "I mean, you know, I I I guess I'm sounding cavalier, but I mean, I think the point is you have, uh, a bunch of labels and and they're han hand uh hand - marked. Uh, I guess, actually, TIMIT was not entirely hand - marked. It was automatically first, and then hand hand - corrected.", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "Oh, OK.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "But but, um, uh, it it, um, it might be a better source. So, i it's you're right. It would be another interesting scientific question to ask, \" Is it because it's a broad source or because it was, you know, carefully? \"", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "uh. And that's something you could ask, but given limited time, I think the main thing is if it's a better thing for going across languages on this training tandem system,", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "Yeah. Right.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "then it's probably.", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "What about the differences in the phone sets?", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "Uh, between languages?", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "No, between TIMIT and the the digits.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "Oh, um, right. Well, there's a mapping from the sixty - one phonemes in TIMIT to to fifty - six, the ICSI fifty - six.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "Sixty - one.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Oh, OK. I see.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "And then the digits phonemes, um, there's about twenty twenty - two or twenty - four of them? Is that right?", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "Out of that fifty - six?", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "Yep.", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "Out of that fifty - six.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "Oh, OK.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "Yeah. So, it's it's definitely broader, yeah.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "But, actually, the issue of phoneti phon uh phone phoneme mappings will arise when we will do severa use several languages", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "because you Well, some phonemes are not, uh, in every languages, and So we plan to develop a subset of the phonemes, uh, that includes, uh, all the phonemes of our training languages,", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "and use a network with kind of one hundred outputs or something like that.", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm. You mean a superset, sort of.", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "Uh, yeah,", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "Yeah. Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "superset,", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "Yeah. I th I looks the SAMPA SAMPA phone.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "SAMPA phone? For English uh American English, and the the the language who have more phone are the English.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "Mmm.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "Of the these language. But n for example, in Spain, the Spanish have several phone that d doesn't appear in the E English and we thought to complete. But for that, it needs we must r h do a lot of work because we need to generate new tran transcription for the database that we have.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm. Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "Other than the language, is there a reason not to use the TIMIT phone set? Cuz it's larger? As opposed to the ICSI phone set?", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Oh, you mean why map the sixty - one to the fifty - six?", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "I don't know. I have.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "Um, I forget if that happened starting with you, or was it o or if it was Eric, afterwards who did that. But I think, basically, there were several of the phones that were just hardly ever there.", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "Yeah, and I think some of them, they were making distinctions between silence at the end and silence at the beginning, when really they're both silence.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "Oh.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "I th I think it was things like that that got it mapped down to fifty - six.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "OK.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Yeah, especially in a system like ours, which is a discriminative system. You know, you're really asking this net to learn.", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "It's it's kind of hard.", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "There's not much difference, really. And the ones that are gone, I think are I think there was they also in TIMIT had like a glottal stop, which was basically a short period of silence,", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "and so.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "Well, we have that now, too, right?", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "I don't know.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "So.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "i It's actually pretty common that a lot of the recognition systems people use have things like like, say thirty - nine, phone symbols, right? Uh, and then they get the variety by by bringing in the context, the phonetic context. Uh. So we actually have an unusually large number in in what we tend to use here. Um. So, a a actually maybe now you've got me sort of intrigued. What there's Can you describe what what's on the cube?", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "Yeah, w I th I think that's a good idea", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "I mean.", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "to to talk about the whole cube", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "Yeah, yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "Yeah. Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "and maybe we could sections in the cube for people to work on.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "Yeah. Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "Um, OK. Uh, do you wanna do it?", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "OK, so even even though the meeting recorder doesn't doesn't, uh and since you're not running a video camera we won't get this, but if you use a board it'll help us anyway.", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "OK.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "Uh, point out one of the limitations of this medium,", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "OK.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "but you've got the wireless on,", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "Yeah, I have the wireless.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "right? Yeah, so you can walk around.", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "OK. Can y can you walk around too? No. OK, well, um,", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "Uh, he can't, actually, but.", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "s basically, the the cube will have three dimensions.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "He's tethered.", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "The first dimension is the the features that we're going to use. And the second dimension, um, is the training corpus. And that's the training on the discriminant neural net. Um and the last dimension happens to be.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "Yeah and again Yeah. So the the training for HTK is always that's always set up for the individual test, right? That there's some training data and some test data. So that's different than this.", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "Right, right. This is this is for for ANN only. And, yeah, the training for the HTK models is always, uh, fixed for whatever language you're testing on.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "And then, there's the testing corpus. So, then I think it's probably instructive to go and and and show you the features that we were talking about. Um, so, let's see. Help me out with.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "PLP.", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "With what?", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "PLP.", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "PLP? OK.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "MSG.", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "MSG.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "Uh, JRASTA.", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "JRASTA.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "And JRASTA - LDA.", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "JRASTA - LDA.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "Um, multi - band.", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "Multi - band.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "So there would be multi - band before, um before our network, I mean.", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "Yeah, just the multi - band features, right?", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "And.", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "Uh - huh. Ah. Ah.", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "So, something like, uh, s TCT within bands and Well. And then multi - band after networks. Meaning that we would have, uh, neural networks, uh, discriminant neural networks for each band. Uh, yeah. And using the the outputs of these networks or the linear outputs or something like that. Uh, yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "What about mel cepstrum? Or is that.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "Oh, um.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "you don't include that because it's part of the base or something?", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "Yeah databases.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Well, y you do have a baseline system that's m that's mel cepstra,", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "right?", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "So.", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "But, uh, well, not for the the ANN. I mean.", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "OK.", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "So, yeah, we could we could add MFCC also.", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "We could add.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "Probably should. I mean at least at least conceptually, you know, it doesn't meant you actually have to do it,", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "but conceptually it makes sense as a as a base line.", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "It'd be an interesting test just to have just to do MFCC with the neural net", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "Without the.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "and everything else the same.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Compare that with just M - MFCC without the the net.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "I think I think Dan did some of that.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "Oh.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "Um, in his previous Aurora experiments. And with the net it's it's wonderful. Without the net it's just baseline.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "Um, I think OGI folks have been doing that, too. D Because I think that for a bunch of their experiments they used, uh, mel cepstra, actually.", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "Yeah. Yeah.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "Um, of course that's there and this is here and so on. OK?", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "OK. Um, for the training corpus corpus, um, we have, um, the the d digits from the various languages. Um, English Spanish um, French What else do we have?", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "And the Finnish.", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "Finnish.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "Where did th where did that come from?", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "And Italian.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Digits?", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "Uh, no, Italian no. Italian no.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Oh.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "Oh. Italian.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "I Italian yes. Italian?", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Italian.", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "Is that Was that distributed with Aurora, or?", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "One L or two L's?", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "Where did that?", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "The newer one.", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "So English, uh, Finnish and Italian are Aurora.", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "And Spanish and French is something that we can use in addition to Aurora. Uh, well.", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "Yeah, so Carmen brought the Spanish, and Stephane brought the French.", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "OK. And, um, oh yeah, and.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "Is it French French or Belgian French? There's a.", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "It's, uh, French French.", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "French French.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "Like Mexican Spain and Spain.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "Or Swiss.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "I think that is more important,", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Swiss - German.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Mexican Spain. Because more people.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Yeah. Yeah, probably so.", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Yeah. Yeah, Herve always insists that Belgian is i is absolutely pure French, has nothing to do with but he says those those those Parisians talk funny.", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "Yeah, yeah, yeah. They have an accent.", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "Yeah they they do, yeah. Yeah. But then he likes Belgian fries too, so. OK.", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "And then we have, uh, um, broader broader corpus, um, like TIMIT. TIMIT so far,", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "And Spanish too.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "right? Spanish Oh, Spanish stories?", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "Albayzin is the name.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "What about TI - digits?", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "Um, TI - digits uh all these Aurora f d data p data is from is derived from TI - digits.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "Uh - huh. Oh. Oh OK.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "Um, basically, they they corrupted it with, uh, different kinds of noises at different SNR levels.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "Ah. I see.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "y And I think Stephane was saying there's there's some broader s material in the French also?", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "Yeah, we cou we could use.", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "OK.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "Yeah. The French data.", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "Spanish stories?", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "No.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "No.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Sp - Not Spanish stories?", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "No. No. Albayz", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Spanish.", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "Spanish something.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "OK.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "Did the Aurora people actually corrupt it themselves, or just specify the signal and the signal - t", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "They they corrupted it, um, themselves,", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "OK.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "but they also included the the noise files for us, right? Or.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "so we can go ahead and corrupt other things.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "I'm just curious, Carmen I mean, I couldn't tell if you were joking or i Is it is it Mexican Spanish,", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "No no no no.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "or is it.", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "No no no no.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Oh, no, no. It's it's Spanish from Spain, Spanish.", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "Spanish from Spain.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Yeah, OK.", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "From Spain.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "Alright. Spanish from Spain. Yeah, we're really covered there now. OK.", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "OK.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "And the French from France.", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "Yeah, the No, the French is f yeah, from, uh, Paris,", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "Oh, from Paris, OK.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "And TIMIT's from lots of different places.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "OK.", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "From TI. From i It's from Texas. So may maybe it's.", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "From the deep South.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "So - s so it's not really from the US either.", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "Is that? OK.", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "Yeah. OK. And, um, with within the training corporas um, we're, uh, thinking about, um, training with noise. So, incorporating the same kinds of noises that, um, Aurora is in incorporating in their, um in their training corpus. Um, I don't think we we're given the, uh the unseen noise conditions, though, right?", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "I think what they were saying was that, um, for this next test there's gonna be some of the cases where they have the same type of noise as you were given before hand and some cases where you're not.", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "Like Mm - hmm. OK.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "So, presumably, that'll be part of the topic of analysis of the the test results, is how well you do when it's matching noise and how well you do where it's not.", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "I think that's right.", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "So, I guess we can't train on on the the unseen noise conditions.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "Well, not if it's not seen,", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "Right. If Not if it's unseen.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "OK. I mean, i i i i it does seem to me that a lot of times when you train with something that's at least a little bit noisy it can it can help you out in other kinds of noise even if it's not matching just because there's some more variance that you've built into things. But, but, uh,", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "uh, exactly how well it will work will depend on how near it is to what you had ahead of time. So. OK, so that's your training corpus,", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "and then your testing corpus?", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "Um, the testing corporas are, um, just, um, the same ones as Aurora testing. And, that includes, um, the English Spa - um, Italian. Finnish.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "Finnish.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Uh, we' r we're gonna get German, right? Ge - At the final test will have German.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "Well, so, yeah, the final test, on a guess, is supposed to be German and Danish,", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "Uh, yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "right?", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "The s yeah, the Spanish, perhaps,", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "Spanish. Oh yeah, we can we can test on s Spanish.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "we will have. Yeah. But the the Aurora Spanish, I mean.", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "Oh yeah. Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "Oh, there's a there's Spanish testing in the Aurora?", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "Uh, not yet, but, uh, yeah, uh, e", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "Yeah, it's preparing.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "pre they are preparing it,", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "They are preparing.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "and, well, according to Hynek it will be we will have this at the end of November, or Um.", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "OK, so, uh, something like seven things in each, uh each column.", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "So that's, uh, three hundred and forty - three, uh, different systems that are going to be developed. There's three of you.", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "Yeah. One hundred each, about.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "Uh, so that's hundred and hundred and fourteen each.", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "What a what about noise conditions?", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "What?", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "w Don't we need to put in the column for noise conditions?", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "Are you just trying to be difficult?", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "No, I just don't understand.", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "Well, th uh, when when I put these testings on there, I'm assumi", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "I'm just kidding. Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "There - there's three three tests. Um, type - A, type - B, and type - C. And they're all they're all gonna be test tested, um, with one training of the HTK system. Um, there's a script that tests all three different types of noise conditions. Test - A is like a matched noise. Test - B is a is a slightly mismatched. And test - C is a, um, mismatched channel.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "And do we do all our training on clean data?", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "Um, no, no,", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "Also, we can clean that.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "we're we're gonna be, um, training on the noise files that we do have.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "No.", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "So, um Yeah, so I guess the question is how long does it take to do a a training? I mean, it's not totally crazy t I mean, these are a lot of these are built - in things and we know we have programs that compute PLP, we have MSG, we have JRA you know, a lot of these things will just kind of happen, won't take uh a huge amount of development, it's just trying it out. So, we actually can do quite a few experiments.", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "But how how long does it take, do we think, for one of these trainings?", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "That's a good question.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "What about combinations of things?", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "Oh yeah, that's right. I mean, cuz, so, for instance, I think the major advantage of MSG.", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "Oh!", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "Yeah,", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "Och!", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "good point. A major advantage of MSG, I see, th that we've seen in the past is combined with PLP.", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Um.", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "Now, this is turning into a four - dimensional cube?", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "Well, you just select multiple things on the one dimension.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "Or you just add it to the features.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "No.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Just.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "Here.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Oh, yeah. OK.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "Yeah, so, I mean, you don't wanna, uh Let's see, seven choose two would be, uh, twenty - one different combinations. Um.", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "It's not a complete set of combinations, though,", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Probably.", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "right? It's not a complete set of combinations, though,", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "What?", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "right?", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "No.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "Yeah, I hope not. Yeah, there's.", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "That would be.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "Uh, yeah, so PLP and MSG I think we definitely wanna try cuz we've had a lot of good experience with putting those together.", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Um. Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "When you do that, you're increasing the size of the inputs to the net. Do you have to reduce the hidden layer, or something?", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "Well, so I mean, so i it doesn't increase the number of trainings.", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "No, no, I'm I'm just wondering about number of parameters in the net. Do you have to worry about keeping that the same, or?", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "Uh, I don't think so.", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "There's a computation limit, though, isn't there?", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Yeah, I mean, it's just more compu Excuse me?", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "Isn't there like a limit on the computation load, or d latency, or something like that for Aurora task?", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Oh yeah, we haven't talked about any of that at all, have we?", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "No.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "Yeah, so, there's not really a limit. What it is is that there's there's, uh it's just penalty, you know? That that if you're using, uh, a megabyte, then they'll say that's very nice, but, of course, it will never go on a cheap cell phone.", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "OK.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Um. And, u uh, I think the computation isn't so much of a problem. I think it's more the memory. Uh, and, expensive cell phones, exa expensive hand - helds, and so forth, are gonna have lots of memory. So it's just that, uh, these people see the the cheap cell phones as being still the biggest market, so.", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Um. But, yeah, I was just realizing that, actually, it doesn't explode out, um It's not really two to the seventh. But it's but but i i it doesn't really explode out the number of trainings cuz these were all trained individually. Right? So, uh, if you have all of these nets trained some place, then, uh, you can combine their outputs and do the KL transformation and so forth", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "and and, uh So, what it it blows out is the number of uh testings. And, you know and the number of times you do that last part. But that last part, I think, is so has gotta be pretty quick, so. Uh. Right? I mean, it's just running the data through.", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "Oh.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "But wh what about a net that's trained on multiple languages, though?", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "Well, you gotta do the KL transformation,", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "Eight y", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "but.", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "Is that just separate nets for each language then combined, or is that actually one net trained on?", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "Necessary to put in.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Good question.", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "Uh, probably one net. Well. Uh.", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "One would think one net,", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "So.", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "but we've I don't think we've tested that. Right?", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "So, in the broader training corpus we can we can use, uh, the three, or, a combination of of two two languages.", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "Database three.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "In one net. Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "Yeah, so, I guess the first thing is if w if we know how much a how long a a training takes, if we can train up all these these combinations, uh, then we can start working on testing of them individually, and in combination. Right?", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "Because the putting them in combination, I think, is not as much computationally as the r training of the nets in the first place. Right?", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "So y you do have to compute the KL transformation. Uh, which is a little bit, but it's not too much.", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "It's not too much,", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "no.", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "So it's.", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "But Yeah. But there is the testing also, which implies training, uh, the HTK models", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "The the model the HTK model.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "and, well,", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "Uh, right.", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "it's.", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "Right. So if you do have lots of combinations, it's.", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "yeah. But it's it's it's not so long. It @ @ Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "How long does it take for an, uh, HTK training?", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "It's around six hours, I think.", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "It depends on the.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "For training and testing, yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "More than six hours.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "More.", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "For the Italian, yes. Maybe one day.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "One day?", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "For HTK?", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "Well.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Really? Running on what?", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "Uh, M MFCC.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "No, I'm sorry, ru running on what machine?", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "Uh, Ravioli.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Uh, I don't know what Ravioli is. Is it is it an Ultra - five, or is it a?", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "mmm Um. Who is that?", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "I don't know.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "I don't know.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "I don't know.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "I don't know what a Ravioli is.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "I don't know.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "I don't know.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "We can check really quickly, I guess.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Yeah, I I think it's - it's - it's not so long because, well, the TI - digits test data is about, uh how many hours? Uh, th uh, thirty hours of speech, I think,", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "It's a few hours.", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "Hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Yeah. Right,", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "something like that. And it p Well.", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "so, I mean, clearly, there there's no way we can even begin to do an any significant amount here unless we use multiple machines.", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "It's six hours.", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "Right? So so w we I mean there's plenty of machines here and they're n they're often not in in a great great deal of use. So, I mean, I think it's it's key that that the that you look at, uh, you know, what machines are fast, what machines are used a lot Uh, are we still using P - make? Is that?", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "Oh, I don't know how w how we would P - make this, though. Um.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "Well, you have a I mean, once you get the basic thing set up, you have just all the uh, a all these combinations,", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "right?", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "Um. It's it's let's say it's six hours or eight hours, or something for the training of HTK. How long is it for training of of, uh, the neural net?", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "The neural net? Um.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "I would say two days.", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "Depends on the corpuses, right?", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "It depends.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "It s also depends on the net.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "Depends on the corpus.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "How big is the net?", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "For Albayzin I trained on neural network, uh, was, um, one day also.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Uh, but on what machine?", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "On a SPERT board.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "Uh. I I think the neural net SPERT.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Y you did a you did it on a SPERT board.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "Yes.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "OK, again, we do have a bunch of SPERT boards.", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "And I think there there there's I think you folks are probably go the ones using them right now.", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "Is it faster to do it on the SPERT, or?", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "Uh, don't know.", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "It's it's still a little faster on the", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "Used to be.", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "Is it?", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "Yeah, yeah. Ad - Adam Adam did some testing. Or either Adam or or Dan did some testing and they found that the SPERT board's still still faster.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "And the benefits is that, you know, you run out of SPERT and then you can do other things on your your computer,", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "and you don't.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "Yeah. So you could be we have quite a few SPERT boards. You could set up, uh, you know, ten different jobs, or something, to run on SPERT different SPERT boards and and have ten other jobs running on different computers. So, it's got to take that sort of thing, or or we're not going to get through any significant number of these.", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "So this is Yeah, I mean, I kind of like this because what it No.", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "OK.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "uh, no, what I like about it is we we we do have a problem that we have very limited time. You know, so, with very limited time, we actually have really quite a quite a bit of computational resource available if you, you know, get a look across the institute and how little things are being used. And uh, on the other hand, almost anything that really i you know, is is new, where we're saying, \" Well, let's look at, like we were talking before about, uh, uh, voiced - unvoiced - silence detection features and all those sort \" that's.", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "I think it's a great thing to go to. But if it's new, then we have this development and and and learning process t to to go through on top of just the the all the all the work. So, I I I don't see how we'd do it. So what I like about this is you basically have listed all the things that we already know how to do.", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "And and all the kinds of data that we, at this point, already have. And, uh, you're just saying let's look at the outer product of all of these things and see if we can calculate them. a a Am I am I interpreting this correctly? Is this sort of what what you're thinking of doing in the short term?", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "Mmm.", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "OK.", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "So so then I think it's just the the missing piece is that you need to, uh, you know you know, talk to talk to, uh, Chuck, talk to, uh, Adam, uh, sort out about, uh, what's the best way to really, you know, attack this as a as a as a mass problem in terms of using many machines. Uh, and uh, then, you know, set it up in terms of scripts and so forth, and uh, in in kind o some kind of structured way. Uh. Um, and, you know, when we go to, uh, OGI next week, uh, we can then present to them, you know, what it is that we're doing. And, uh, we can pull things out of this list that we think they are doing sufficiently,", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "Mmm. Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "that, you know, we're not we won't be contributing that much. Um. And, uh Then, uh, like, we're there.", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "How big are the nets you're using?", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Um, for the for nets trained on digits, um, we have been using, uh, four hundred order hidden units. And, um, for the broader class nets we're we're going to increase that because the, um, the digits nets only correspond to about twenty phonemes.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "Uh - huh.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "So.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "Broader class?", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "Um, the broader broader training corpus nets like TIMIT. Um, w we're gonna.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "Oh, it's not actually broader class, it's actually finer class, but you mean y You mean more classes.", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "Right. Right. Yeah. More classes. Right, right. More classes.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "That's what I mean.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "Yeah. Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm. And. Yeah.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "Carmen, did you do you have something else to add? We you haven't talked too much, and.", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "D I begin to work with the Italian database to nnn, to with the f front - end and with the HTK program and the @ @. And I trained eh, with the Spanish two neural network with PLP and with LogRASTA PLP. I don't know exactly what is better if if LogRASTA or JRASTA.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Well, um, JRASTA has the potential to do better, but it doesn't always. It's i i JRASTA is more complicated. It's it's, uh instead of doing RASTA with a log, you're doing RASTA with a log - like function that varies depending on a J parameter, uh, which is supposed to be sensitive to the amount of noise there is. So, it's sort of like the right transformation to do the filtering in, is dependent on how much noise there is.", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "Hm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "And so in JRASTA you attempt to do that. It's a little complicated because once you do that, you end up in some funny domain and you end up having to do a transformation afterwards, which requires some tables. And, uh,", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "Hm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "so it's it's it's a little messier, uh, there's more ways that it can go wrong, uh, but if if if you're careful with it, it can do better.", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "It's a bit I'll do better.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "So, it's So.", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "Um, and I think to to to recognize the Italian digits with the neural netw Spanish neural network, and also to train another neural network with the Spanish digits, the database of Spanish digits. And I working that.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "But prepa to prepare the the database are difficult. Was for me, n it was a difficult work last week with the labels because the the program with the label obtained that I have, the Albayzin, is different w to the label to train the neural network. And that is another work that we must to do, to to change.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "I I didn't understand.", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "Uh, for example Albayzin database was labeled automatically with HTK. It's not hand it's not labels by hand.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Oh, \" l labeled \".", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "Labels.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "I'm sorry,", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "I'm sorry,", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "I have a p I had a problem with the pronunciation.", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "I'm sorry. The labels. I'm sorry. The labels.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Yeah, OK.", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "Oh, also that.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "So, OK, so let's start over.", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "Yes.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "So, TI TIMI TIMIT's hand - labeled, and and you're saying about the Spanish?", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "The Spanish labels? That was in different format, that the format for the em the program to train the neural network.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Oh, I see.", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "I necessary to convert. And someti well.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "So you're just having a problem converting the labels.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "It's it's Yeah. Yeah, but n yes, because they have one program, Feacalc, but no, l LabeCut, l LabeCut, but don't doesn't, eh, include the HTK format to convert.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "Hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "And, I don't know what. I ask e even I ask to Dan Ellis what I can do that, and h they he say me that h he does doesn't any any s any form to to do that. And at the end, I think that with LabeCut I can transfer to ASCII format, and HTK is an ASCII format. And I m do another, uh, one program to put ASCII format of HTK to ase ay ac ASCII format to Exceed", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "and they used LabCut to to pass.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "OK, yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "Actually that was complicated,", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "So you", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "but well, I know how we can did that do that.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Sure. So it's just usual kind of uh sometimes say housekeeping, right? To get these get these things sorted out.", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "So it seems like there's there's some peculiarities of the, uh of each of these dimensions that are getting sorted out. And then, um, if if you work on getting the, uh, assembly lines together, and then the the pieces sort of get ready to go into the assembly line and gradually can start, you know, start turning the crank, more or less. And, uh, uh, we have a lot more computational capability here than they do at OGI, so I think that i if What's what's great about this is it sets it up in a very systematic way, so that, uh, once these all of these, you know, mundane but real problems get sorted out, we can just start turning the crank", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "and and push all of us through, and then finally figure out what's best.", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "Yeah. Um, I I was thinking two things. Uh, the first thing was, um we we actually had thought of this as sort of like, um not not in stages, but more along the the time axis. Just kind of like one stream at a time,", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "je - je - je - je - je check out the results and and go that way.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "Oh, yeah, yeah, sure. No, I'm just saying, I'm just thinking of it like loops,", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "Uh - huh.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "right? And so, y y y if you had three nested loops, that you have a choice for this, a choice for this, and a choice for that,", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "Yeah. Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "right? And you're going through them all. That that's what I meant.", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "Right, right.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "And, uh, the thing is that once you get a better handle on how much you can realistically do, uh, um, concurrently on different machines, different SPERTs, and so forth, uh, and you see how long it takes on what machine and so forth, you can stand back from it and say, \" OK, if we look at all these combinations we're talking about, and combinations of combinations, and so forth, \" you'll probably find you can't do it all.", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm. OK.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "OK, so then at that point, uh, we should sort out which ones do we throw away.", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "Which of the combinations across you know, what are the most likely ones, and And, uh, I still think we could do a lot of them. I mean, it wouldn't surprise me if we could do a hundred of them or something. But, probably when you include all the combinations, you're actually talking about a thousand of them or something, and that's probably more than we can do. Uh, but a hundred is a lot. And and, uh, um.", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "OK.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "Yeah, and the the second thing was about scratch space. And I think you sent an email about, um, e scratch space for for people to work on. And I know that, uh, Stephane's working from an NT machine, so his his home directory exists somewhere else.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "His his stuff is somewhere else, yeah. Yeah, I mean, my point I I want to Yeah, thanks for bring it back to that. My th I want to clarify my point about that that that Chuck repeated in his note. Um. We're over the next year or two, we're gonna be upgrading the networks in this place,", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "but right now they're still all te pretty much all ten megabit lines. And we have reached the this the machines are getting faster and faster. So, it actually has reached the point where it's a significant drag on the time for something to move the data from one place to another.", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "So, you you don't w especially in something with repetitive computation where you're going over it multiple times, you do don't want to have the the data that you're working on distant from where it's being where the computation's being done if you can help it.", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "Uh. Now, we are getting more disk for the central file server, which, since it's not a computational server, would seem to be a contradiction to what I just said. But the idea is that, uh, suppose you're working with, uh, this big bunch of multi multilingual databases. Um, you put them all in the central ser at the cen central file server.", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "Then, when you're working with something and accessing it many times, you copy the piece of it that you're working with over to some place that's close to where the computation is and then do all the work there. And then that way you you won't have the the network you won't be clogging the network for yourself and others.", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "Mmm.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "That's the idea. So, uh, it's gonna take us It may be too late for this, uh, p precise crunch we're in now, but, uh, we're, uh It's gonna take us a couple weeks at least to get the, uh, uh, the amount of disk we're gonna be getting. We're actually gonna get, uh, I think four more, uh, thirty - six gigabyte drives and, uh, put them on another another disk rack. We ran out of space on the disk rack that we had, so we're getting another disk rack and four more drives to share between, uh primarily between this project and the Meetings Meetings Project. Um. But, uh, we've put another I guess there's another eighteen gigabytes that's that's in there now to help us with the immediate crunch. But, uh, are you saying So I don't know where you're Stephane, where you're doing your computations. If i so, you're on an NT machine, so you're using some external machine", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "Yeah, it, uh Well, to It's Nutmeg and Mustard, I think,.", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "Do you know these yet?", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "I don't know what kind.", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "Nuh - uh.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "Yeah, OK. Uh, are these are these, uh, computational servers, or something? I'm I've been kind of out of it.", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "Yeah, I think, yeah. I think so.", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "Unfortunately, these days my idea of running comput of computa doing computation is running a spread sheet.", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "Mmm.", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "So.", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "Mmm.", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "Uh, haven't been haven't been doing much computing personally, so. Um. Yeah, so those are computational servers. So I guess the other question is what disk there i space there is there on the computational servers.", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "Right. Yeah, I'm not sure what's available on is it you said Nutmeg and what was the other one?", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "Mustard.", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "Mustard. OK.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "Huh.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Yeah, Well, you're the you're the disk czar now.", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "Right, right.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "So", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "Well, I'll check on that.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "Yeah. Yeah, so basically, uh, Chuck will be the one who will be sorting out what disk needs to be where, and so on, and I'll be the one who says, \" OK, spend the money. \" So. Which, I mean, n these days, uh, if you're talking about scratch space, it doesn't increase the, uh, need for backup, and, uh, I think it's not that big a d and the the disks themselves are not that expensive. Right now it's.", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "What you can do, when you're on that machine, is, uh, just go to the slash - scratch directory, and do a DF minus K, and it'll tell you if there's space available.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "Uh, and if there is then, uh.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "But wasn't it, uh I think Dave was saying that he preferred that people didn't put stuff in slash - scratch. It's more putting in d s XA or XB or,", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "Well, there's different there, um, there's.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "right?", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "Right. So there's the slash - X - whatever disks, and then there's slash - scratch. And both of those two kinds are not backed up. And if it's called \" slash - scratch \", it means it's probably an internal disk to the machine. Um. And so that's the kind of thing where, like if um, OK, if you don't have an NT, but you have a a a Unix workstation, and they attach an external disk, it'll be called \" slash - X - something \" uh, if it's not backed up and it'll be \" slash - D - something \" if it is backed up. And if it's inside the machine on the desk, it's called \" slash - scratch \". But the problem is, if you ever get a new machine, they take your machine away. It's easy to unhook the external disks, put them back on the new machine, but then your slash - scratch is gone. So, you don't wanna put anything in slash - scratch that you wanna keep around for a long period of time. But if it's a copy of, say, some data that's on a server, you can put it on slash - scratch because, um, first of all it's not backed up, and second it doesn't matter if that machine disappears and you get a new machine because you just recopy it to slash - scratch. So tha that's why I was saying you could check slash - scratch on those on on, um, Mustard and and Nutmeg to see if if there's space that you could use there.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "I see.", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "You could also use slash - X - whatever disks on Mustard and Nutmeg.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "Yeah, yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "Um. Yeah, and we do have I mean, yeah, so so you yeah, it's better to have things local if you're gonna run over them lots of times so you don't have to go to the network.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "Right, so es so especially if you're right, if you're if you're taking some piece of the training corpus, which usually resides in where Chuck is putting it all on the on the, uh, file server, uh, then, yeah, it's fine if it's not backed up because if it g g gets wiped out or something, y I mean it is backed up on the other disk. So,", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "yeah, OK.", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "Yeah, so, one of the things that I need to I've started looking at Uh, is this the appropriate time to talk about the disk space stuff?", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "Sure.", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "I've started looking at, um, disk space. Dan David, um, put a new, um, drive onto Abbott, that's an X disk, which means it's not backed up. So, um, I've been going through and copying data that is, you know, some kind of corpus stuff usually, that that we've got on a CD - ROM or something, onto that new disk to free up space on other disks. And, um, so far, um, I've copied a couple of Carmen's, um, databases over there. We haven't deleted them off of the slash - DC disk that they're on right now in Abbott, um, uh, but we I would like to go through sit down with you about some of these other ones and see if we can move them onto, um, this new disk also. There's there's a lot more space there,", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "Yeah, OK.", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "and it'll free up more space for doing the experiments and things. So, anything that that you don't need backed up, we can put on this new disk. Um, but if it's experiments and you're creating files and things that you're gonna need, you probably wanna have those on a disk that's backed up, just in case something goes wrong. So. Um So far I've I've copied a couple of things, but I haven't deleted anything off of the old disk to make room yet. Um, and I haven't looked at the any of the Aurora stuff, except for the Spanish. So I I guess I'll need to get together with you and see what data we can move onto the new disk.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "Yeah, OK.", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "Um, yeah, I I just an another question occurred to me is is what were you folks planning to do about normalization?", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "Um. Well, we were thinking about using this systematically for all the experiments. Um.", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "This being?", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "So, but Uh. So that this could be another dimension, but we think perhaps we can use the the best, uh, um, uh, normalization scheme as OGI is using, so, with parameters that they use there,.", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "Yeah, I think that's a good idea.", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "u u", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "I mean it's i i we we seem to have enough dimensions as it is. So probably if we sort of take their.", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "Yeah, yeah, yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "probably the on - line line normalization because then it it's if we do anything else, we're gonna end up having to do on - line normalization too, so we may as well just do on - line normalization.", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "So. Um. So that it's plausible for the final thing. Good. Um. So, I guess, yeah, th the other topic I maybe we're already there, or almost there, is goals for the for next week's meeting. Uh. i i i it seems to me that we wanna do is flush out what you put on the board here. Uh. You know, maybe, have it be somewhat visual, a little bit.", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "OK. Like a s like a slide?", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "Uh, so w we can say what we're doing,", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "OK.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "yeah. And, um, also, if you have sorted out, um, this information about how long i roughly how long it takes to do on what and, you know, what we can how many of these trainings, uh, uh, and testings and so forth that we can realistically do, uh, then one of the big goals of going there next week would be to to actually settle on which of them we're gonna do. And, uh, when we come back we can charge in and do it. Um. Anything else that I a a Actually started out this this field trip started off with with, uh, Stephane talking to Hynek, so you may have you may have had other goals, uh, for going up, and any anything else you can think of would be we should think about accomplishing? I mean, I'm just saying this because maybe there's things we need to do in preparation.", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "Oh, I think basically, this is this is, uh, yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "OK. OK. Uh. Alright. And uh and the other the the last topic I had here was, um, uh d Dave's fine offer to to, uh, do something on this. I mean he's doing he's working on other things, but to to do something on this project. So the question is, \" Where where could we, uh, uh, most use Dave's help? \"", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "Um, yeah, I was thinking perhaps if, um, additionally to all these experiments, which is not really research, well I mean it's, uh, running programs", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "and, um, trying to have a closer look at the perhaps the, um, speech, uh, noise detection or, uh, voiced - sound - unvoiced - sound detection and Which could be important in i for noise noise.", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "I think that would be a I think that's a big big deal. Because the you know, the thing that Sunil was talking about, uh, with the labels, uh, labeling the database when it got to the noisy stuff? The That that really throws things off. You know, having the noise all of a sudden, your your, um, speech detector, I mean the the, um What was it? What was happening with his thing?", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "He was running through these models very quickly. He was getting lots of, uh, uh insertions, is what it was, in his recognitions.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "The only problem I mean, maybe that's the right thing the only problem I have with it is exactly the same reason why you thought it'd be a good thing to do. Um, I I think that Let's fall back to that. But I think the first responsibility is sort of to figure out if there's something that, uh, an an additional Uh, that's a good thing you remove the mike. Go ahead, good. Uh, uh. What an additional clever person could help with when we're really in a crunch for time. Right? Cuz Dave's gonna be around for a long time,", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "right? He's he's gonna be here for years. And so, um,", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "over years, if he's if he's interested in, you know, voiced - unvoiced - silence, he could do a lot. But if there if in fact there's something else that he could be doing, that would help us when we're we're sort of uh strapped for time We have we we've, you know, only, uh, another another month or two to you know, with the holidays in the middle of it, um, to to get a lot done. If we can think of something some piece of this that's going to be The very fact that it is sort of just work, and i and it's running programs and so forth, is exactly why it's possible that it some piece of could be handed to someone to do, because it's not Uh, yeah, so that that's the question. And we don't have to solve it right this s second, but if we could think of some some piece that's that's well defined, that he could help with, he's expressing a will willingness to do that.", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "What about training up a, um, a multilingual net?", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "Uh.", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "Yes, maybe to, mmm, put together the the label the labels between TIMIT and Spanish or something like that.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Yeah. Yeah, so defining the superset,", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "Yes.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "and, uh, joining the data and Mmm.", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "Uh. Yeah, that's something that needs to be done in any event.", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "So what we were just saying is that that, um I was arguing for, if possible, coming up with something that that really was development and wasn't research because we we're we have a time crunch. And so, uh, if there's something that would would save some time that someone else could do on some other piece, then we should think of that first. See the thing with voiced - unvoiced - silence is I really think that that it's to do to do a a a a poor job is is pretty quick, uh, or, you know, a so - so job. You can you can you can throw in a couple fea we know what what kinds of features help with it.", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "Hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "You can throw something in. You can do pretty well. But I remember, in fact, when you were working on that, and you worked on for few months, as I recall, and you got to, say ninety - three percent, and getting to ninety - four really really hard.", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm. Another year.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "Yeah, yeah. So, um And th th the other tricky thing is, since we are, uh, even though we're not we don't have a strict prohibition on memory size, and and computational complexity, uh, clearly there's some limitation to it. So if we have to if we say we have to have a pitch detector, say, if we if we're trying to incorporate pitch information, or at least some kind of harmonic harmonicity, or something, this is another whole thing, take a while to develop. Anyway, it's a very very interesting topic. I mean, one I think one of the a lot of people would say, and I think Dan would also, uh, that one of the things wrong with current speech recognition is that we we really do throw away all the harmonicity information. Uh, we try to get spectral envelopes. Reason for doing that is that most of the information about the phonetic identity is in the spectral envelopes are not in the harmonic detail. But the harmonic detail does tell you something. Like the fact that there is harmonic detail is is real important. So. Um. So, uh. So I think Yeah. So wh that so the the other suggestion that just came up was, well what about having him work on the, uh, multilingual super f superset kind of thing. Uh, coming up with that and then, you know, training it training a net on that, say, um, from from, uh from TIMIT or something. Is that or uh, for multiple databases. What what would you what would you think it would wh what would this task consist of?", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "Yeah, it would consist in, uh, well, um, creating the the superset, and, uh, modifying the lab labels for matching the superset. Uh.", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "Uh, creating a superset from looking at the multiple languages,", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "Well, creating the mappings, actually.", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "and then creating i m changing labels on TIMIT?", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "Or on or on multiple language multiple languages?", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "No. The multiple language.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Yeah, yeah, with the @ @ three languages,", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "Maybe for the other language because TIMIT have more phone.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "So you'd have to create a mapping from each language to the superset.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "Uh.", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "Yeah. Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "From each language to the superset,", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "There's, um Carmen was talking about this SAMPA thing, and it's, um, it's an effort by linguists to come up with, um, a machine readable IPA, um, sort of thing, right? And, um, they they have a web site that Stephane was showing us that has, um has all the English phonemes and their SAMPA correspondent, um, phoneme,", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "and then, um, they have Spanish, they have German, they have all all sorts of languages, um, mapping mapping to the SAMPA phonemes, which.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "Yeah, the tr the transcription, though, for Albayzin is n the transcription are of SAMPA the same, uh, how you say, symbol that SAMPA appear.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "SAMPA? What does \" SAMPA \" mean?", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm. Hmm.", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "But I don't know if TIMIT o how is TIMIT.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "So, I mean.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "What.", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "I'm sorry.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Go ahead.", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "I was gonna say, does that mean IPA is not really international?", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "No, it's it's saying.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "It uses special diacritics and stuff, which you can't do with ASCII characters.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "y can't print on ASCII.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "So the SAMPA's just mapping those.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "Oh, I see. Got it.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "What, uh Has OGI done anything about this issue? Do they have Do they have any kind of superset that they already have?", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "I don't think so. Well, they they they're going actually the the other way, defining uh, phoneme clusters, apparently. Well.", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "Aha. That's right. Uh, and that's an interesting way to go too.", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "So they just throw the speech from all different languages together, then cluster it into sixty or fifty or whatever clusters?", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "I think they've not done it, uh, doing, uh, multiple language yet, but what they did is to training, uh, English nets with all the phonemes, and then training it in English nets with, uh, kind of seventeen, I think it was seventeen, uh, broad classes.", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "Automatically derived Mm - hmm. Automatically derived broad classes, or?", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "Yeah. Yeah, I think so.", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "Uh - huh.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "Uh, and, yeah. And the result was that apparently, when testing on cross - language it was better. I think so. But Hynek didn't add didn't have all the results when he showed me that, so, well.", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "So that does make an interesting question, though.", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "But.", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "Is there's some way that we should tie into that with this. Um. Right? I mean, if if in fact that is a better thing to do, should we leverage that, rather than doing, um, our own. Right? So, if i if if they s I mean, we have i we have the the trainings with our own categories. And now we're saying, \" Well, how do we handle cross - language? \" And one way is to come up with a superset, but they are als they're trying coming up with clustered, and do we think there's something wrong with that?", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "I think that there's something wrong", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "OK. What w", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "or Well, because Well, for the moment we are testing on digits, and e i perhaps u using broad phoneme classes, it's it's OK for um, uh classifying the digits, but as soon as you will have more words, well, words can differ with only a single phoneme, and which could be the same, uh, class.", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "I see.", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "Well. So.", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "Right. Although, you are not using this for the.", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "So, I'm", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "You're using this for the feature generation, though, not the.", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "Yeah, but you will ask the net to put one for th th the phoneme class", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "and So.", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "So you're saying that there may not be enough information coming out of the net to help you discriminate the words?", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "Well. Yeah, yeah. Mmm.", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "Fact, most confusions are within the phone phone classes, right? I think, uh, Larry was saying like obstruents are only confused with other obstruents, et cetera, et cetera.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "Hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "Yeah. Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "Yeah, this is another p yeah, another point.", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "So so, maybe we could look at articulatory type stuff,", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "But that's what I thought they were gonna.", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "right?", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "Did they not do that, or?", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "I don't think so. Well,", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "So.", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "they were talking about, perhaps, but they d", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "They're talking about it,", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "I d", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "but that's sort of a question whether they did", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "w Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "because that's that's the other route to go.", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "Instead of this, you know.", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "Superclass.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "Instead of the the the the superclass thing, which is to take So suppose y you don't really mark arti To really mark articulatory features, you really wanna look at the acoustics and and see where everything is, and we're not gonna do that. So, uh, the second class way of doing it is to look at the, uh, phones that are labeled and translate them into acoustic uh, uh articulatory, uh, uh, features. So it won't really be right. You won't really have these overlapping things and so forth,", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "So the targets of the net are these?", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "but.", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "Articulatory features.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "Articulatory feature.", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "But that implies that you can have more than one on at a time?", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "Right. That's right.", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "Ah. OK.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "You either do that or you have multiple nets.", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "I see.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "Um. And, um I don't know if our software this if the qu versions of the Quicknet that we're using allows for that. Do you know?", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "Allows for?", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "Multiple targets being one?", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "Oh, um, we have gotten soft targets to to work.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "OK. So that that'll work, yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "OK. So, um, that's another thing that could be done.", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "Um.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "is that we could we could, uh, just translate instead of translating to a superset, just translate to articulatory features, some set of articulatory features and train with that. Now the fact even though it's a smaller number, it's still fine because you have the the, uh, combinations. So, in fact, it has every, you know it had has has every distinction in it that you would have the other way.", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "But it should go across languages better.", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "We could do an interesting cheating experiment with that too. We could I don't know, if you had uh the phone labels, you could replace them by their articulatory features and then feed in a vector with those uh, things turned on based on what they're supposed to be for each phone to see if it if you get a big win. Do you know what I'm saying?", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "No.", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "So, um, I mean, if your net is gonna be outputting, uh, a vector of basically of well, it's gonna have probabilities, but let's say that they were ones and zeros, then y and you know for each, um, I don't know if you know this for your testing data, but if you know for your test data, you know, what the string of phones is and and you have them aligned, then you can just instead of going through the net, just create the vector for each phone and feed that in to see if that data helps. Eh, eh, what made me think about this is, I was talking with Hynek and he said that there was a guy at A T - andT who spent eighteen months working on a single feature. And because they had done some cheating experiments.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "This was the guy that we were just talking a that we saw on campus. So, this was Larry Saul who did this did this.", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "Oh, OK.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "He used sonorants.", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "Right, OK,", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "Was what he was doing.", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "right. And they they had done a cheating experiment or something, right?", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "and determined that.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "He he di he didn't mention that part.", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "Well, Hynek said that that, I guess before they had him work on this, they had done some experiment where if they could get that one feature right, it dramatically improved the result.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "But. I see. OK.", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "So I was thinking, you know it made me think about this, that if it'd be an interesting experiment just to see, you know, if you did get all of those right.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "Should be. Because if you get all of them in there, that defines all of the phones. So that's that's equivalent to saying that you've got got all the phones right.", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "So, if that doesn't help, there's.", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "Although, yeah, it would be make an interesting cheating experiment because we are using it in this funny way,", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "where we're converting it into features.", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "And then you also don't know what error they've got on the HTK side. You know? It sort of gives you your the best you could hope for, kind of.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "Mmm. Mmm, I see.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "The soft training of the nets still requires the vector to sum to one, though, right?", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "To sum up to one.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "So you can't really feed it, like, two articulatory features that are on at the same time with ones cuz it'll kind of normalize them down to one half or something like that, for instance.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "But perhaps you have the choice of the final nonl", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "Right. Nonlinearity?", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "uh, nonlinearity,", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "Um,", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "yeah. Is it always softmax", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "it's sig No, it's actually sigmoid - X", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "or? Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "for the.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "So if you choose sigmoid it's o it's OK?", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "You, um.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "Did we just run out of disk,", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "I think I think apparently, the, uh.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "or?", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "Why don't you just choose linear? Right?", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "What's that?", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "Linear outputs?", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Linear outputs?", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "Isn't that what you'll want?", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Um.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "If you're gonna do a KL Transform on it.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Right, right. Right, but during the training, we would train on sigmoid - X", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "Oh, you Yeah?", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "and then at the end just chop off the final nonlinearity.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "Hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "So, we're we're we're off the air, or? 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The logo is uh is uh is pretty uh obvious to see on the on the remote control,", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "but it is necessary when you want to build your uh company f to a level higher. Um, our interface elements, there are shown in the in the drawing. Maybe you can uh point them uh The functions.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Uh, well the uh all the functions are discussed uh I think the most of the functions are uh uh obvious. Uh, it's a little bit. Uh, power button. Uh then the the the nine uh channels.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Uh the volume uh uh at the side, and the other side is the programmes. And then we had uh just uh two buttons, we place them in the middle, uh the menu, and for the teletext", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Oh no, the the the mute button misses now.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "I thought that was th", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Alright, I.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Do y do you.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Oh, the mute button.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "did we want to have a m mute button?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "But uh that.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "It's uh here then, in the middle.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Huh.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Alright, and uh you gotta point out which is the volume um uh button and which is the programme button.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yes, um", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Well, yeah mo uh mo", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "we've disc", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah, well most of them are right-handed.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Most of the users", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah, but you you gotta make it clear on the on.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah well, I don't have time in uh anymore on the.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yes, y there there will be a p a little a little P_ on that and a little uh yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah, and a and a triangle on that.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Oh yeah, just progr programme above, I think.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yes. Next to that I kinda miss a zero actually.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Wait, there's was one thing I wanted to ask.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Uh, there are different ways for remote controls to uh do uh like", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "uh d I call it teens and twenties. Uh, y th th th the two numbers.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yes.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "All n no, that's um kinda dependent on the television.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah, true, yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "It's a television. Yes.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah, but do we have do we need extra buttons,", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Uh.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "for example some uh some have to.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Uh I think so.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "I think.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yes, yes, you have you have a lot of standard buttons that has to be uh on it, uh th with the one and a double uh uh.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah, I think you should add.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Zero?", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "A cross, or whatever. Yeah, line.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah, but you don't you don't actually need them,", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "May maybe here?", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "yes.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "becau b l a lot of remote controls work that y when y that you when you fir you push the one first, then you have a couple of seconds.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah. And then a second.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "No, that's dependent on the television.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "No, I don't think so.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yes, you have televisions, then you have to, you know, you have to uh press.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "I do know so.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Is it depending on television?", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Nah, I don't think so really,", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "because you have a I know some remote controls that don't have these buttons, but you still can, know, obviously you can still select the twenty uh a number in the twenty or in the ten.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yes, but but a lot uh.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yes, but uh uh no uh remote control nowadays are um they come with the television. Or actually, the other way around.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "No, I think uh I really think it's n", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "But.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "because you can when when you put a button on it with like one and uh then a dash, it's the same thing as when you just push the one,", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "because it i it first gives you the functionality of that that uh separate button you also had to uh apply.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yes, but", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah, well but su If.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "some televisions don't accept uh that that.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah, because that's i it's for television. It's exact the same thing.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "No, no, but s", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "No no no. So some television respond differently. Look, if uh i i", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "No, listen listen. When you push the button, the remote control gives a signal. I in th in the first place it gives a signal which it would also send when you put a separate button on it.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yes. Yes, that's true.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "The one with dash, that signal gi and when y whe when you don't push another button on the remote control within five seconds, then the remote control gives a signal for channel one.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah. True.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "No.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "I think it works that way, really.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "No, it it it works uh if you haven't got uh a special button for it, uh if you push a one, then on your television there will appear a one and a a line, which is an empty space.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah, but it's exact the same that w would appear when you put a separate button push a separate button.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yes, but some some old televisions uh you have to uh click on uh a special button, uh then you go to a a next level, you can push two buttons.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah, but you don't underst uh you don't understand my point.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yep. True.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "I think it's exact the same thing when y", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "You want Yes, but some television don't support it.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "No, but then they would a would also support that button, because it's the same thing.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "But the ex", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Listen, with that that's that special but button you're talking about, eh? That's just a signal to recei ju they send a t signal to the v tv T_V_ that they have to put a one in on your screen and a dash, which you can pu so you can uh still put another number on it. When you don't have that separate button, and you push y one, it's exactly the same thing. Do y you the remote control gives that same signal as it would give when you only had.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "No,", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "No, s some some televisions need the input first uh and and you c", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "a remote can.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yes,", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "But you give the input.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "so they need no, they need.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "You push the one. That's the same thing as the button with the one and it.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "No, that's not true.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "yes it it is.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "It's simply not true. It's simply not true.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Think about it.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "No,", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "You uh you can wai when you push the one you can show on the telly a one and just a dash, and then wait uh two uh seconds or something.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "but uh.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Uh.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "And it's the same thing what happens and a g remote control gives another signal after five seconds that is just one.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "No, remote control doesn't give signal after five seconds. Remote control is a stupid thing. If you push a button, it sends it immediately to to the television.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah, that's true. Yeah, but I m uh but it's I I know for sure that some televisions that w th th the remote control supplied, only ha has the c these buttons with a one and a dash and a two and a dash, but when you use a bu a n remote control that doesn't sport these buttons, it still works.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah, it.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "But okay, we we'll impl", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "No, definitely not. Definitely not.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "We'll discuss them in the usability lab.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "No, we'll apply them then for now.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Uh eva evaluation.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "I don't know uh I don't know if if it's it's necessary.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah, app just apply them next to the zero, the one and the two.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah?", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah, I think so. Yeah, for now, if we don't know for sure whether.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "And the button for the SCART uh audio video uh external input.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yes.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Ach.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah but.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Uh, you can access that uh via zero, and then minus, I guess.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "okay. What I said about uh the remote control sending another signal, that that might not be true,", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "but I still think i it it all T_V_s in some ways support it, I don't know. I think it's more c is m maybe we don't uh we both don't really understand how it i how it really works,", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "No, no.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "but I think there's more to in than wha than what you just said.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Uh, remote control sends one signal at one button uh press.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "I do think that uh m T_V_s support mur multiple kind of remote controls. M", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Uh, some N some televisions when when you want to go further than uh ten.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Th won't work wi with uh.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "No, you have to you have to uh give the television uh two or more signals.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "to have that special button.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "When you uh press one button, you give one signal. And the older televisions need more signals to go a level higher. But.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Okay, well we'll see.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yep.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "When you make the technology that that it will uh give more signals, it could work, but Just a basic idea of of of the most uh most y most common uh and simple uh operations on the remote.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Okay. I kinda miss the docking station.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah..", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yes. It's here on the.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Well it.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "yeah, uh there's nothing I think it's pretty basic,", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "We came uh.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "the the there's no fu", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yes.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "there's one there's one button,", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "No nothing really trendy about it.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "that's wha there's there's there's one function and that's n the one button when you want to find it.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "But maybe we can maybe we can make the docking station uh uh a bit standard for for uh the other products we sell,", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "The button.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "because Real Real Reaction sells more products than only remote controls. So maybe we can uh use the docking station, for example, uh M_P_ three players or or uh", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yep.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "uh hearing devices.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "I think that's very difficult, because of different shapes of uh uh devices.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yes, but when you put that same volt voltages on it, you can put uh when the when the when uh o the the the lowest part of it, when it's o the same as the other products, you can put it all on the same uh.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah, of course. Mm-hmm. Well it it got it it has got to fit into the shape, of course.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yes, but we can make.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "The technology and the voltage can be the same. That's uh that's true. But uh i if you all make the m having a bottom like this, then they all fit.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "No, we can make uh make the most lowest part all the same.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah, that's true, but uh.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "When when the the recharger has a has a bit what points out, we can place all on top of it. Just have to be big enough for the biggest.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yes, but uh I I g Shouldn't it fall then? It isn't going to fall down? That's a bit uh.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "No, when you make it large enough no it it will not.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "yeah, I think.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "But then it's a little bit.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "No, but if if like this, I'll I'll point it out, if you got uh a a a base a base like this,", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "But it's just an idea.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "I won't draw it really. If you got a base which is uh as big as this.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "But it's flat it's flat as as this, so we can p make all the products as flat as this.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "You can. But i i i it's backwards.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah sure, but if you got if you got a tiny player, it can.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yes, but when you make uh uh a bit of big.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "But it's it's backwards. It's leaning. It's leaning backwards, I think, in the in the docking station.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah. Uh, wha what you could do if you uh from the bottom.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "That's text..", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "oh, right, help.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "But.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Uh, you could make like a hole in it, you know, of uh in in the.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yes, little holer littler Uh, little products go deeper in it.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah. That i that is possible, yep.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Well let's ha let's talk about the docking station later, because uh maybe we have we have to uh consider the docking station anyway, because we have some uh cost issues still to come.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah, sure, you're right.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yes. And uh uh", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Oh.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "But we have to look n I don't know.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "the f the look and feel would be great on this uh remote control, because uh you always uh will uh pick up the remote control in the in the smallest uh area.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "I don't like the colours. Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Then your uh left thumb of uh your right thumb is uh near the programme uh button, which is the most common used uh function, and all the other buttons are available for your uh thumb.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "So it's it's it's really good design.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah. Alright.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yes. That's it?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yes, uh on the side uh there will be a strip of rubber, and in the middle uh there is uh a hard uh a hard material, a bit hard plastic with a light uh behind it.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "The light. Okay. And other lights?", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "I think added lights are gonna be a problem too.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yes, we can make also n neon lights on it, or or the buttons that can make uh light on it.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "No, o on the on the front. Yeah, okay. Maybe the uh the logo.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yes.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "lights?", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "But, it will also uh uh use batteries,", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah, why not?", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "and do we want to.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Of course.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Okay. For now, uh this is uh is good enough.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah, what was uh on the.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "The all the aspects of the interface buttons were uh.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Okay, but in the oh yeah, the colour, because we're gonna use uh one colour for the the plastic enclosure and one colour for the rubber, isn't it? Then we're gonna do the buttons in the i are we're gonna have rubber buttons.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yes.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "And they're be a they'll be in the same colour as the rubber on the side.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yes.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Uh, in the same colour as the side.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah, I think I think that'll be good.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Okay. And I think we should use a a darker colour for the um plastic, and maybe some more m brighter and flashy stuff.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yes, maybe we can use on the on the lights on the side we can use uh uh multiple uh lights,", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yes.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "so it will uh.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah, we'll talk about the lights later.'Cause I also don yeah,", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yes.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yep.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "it's depends on the costs and such. But uh, and we have to agree uh upon the exact colours,", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "but may I dunno if that's important, but we'll talk about that later. Okay, for now this is this is okay.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "We will.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Um, the next p y you gonna give a presentation too? Uh, I have to see the agenda.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "No.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Well, uh yeah, I I'm gonna do something right there, yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Detail design.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "We gotta do that on the right the most right-most screen, because the leftmost.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Evaluation criteria.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yep, that's me.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Alright. I will be needing that image, so leave it please. Um Go away. Right, we're gonna evaluate that design according to a few points. Um, we g the four of us are going to do that um together.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "I wanna have a colour over here, come on. Right, the remote is not ugly, a bit weird sentence, but the positive things has to be on the left, so I said not ugly instead of ugly.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Uh, what would you say, we we gotta give points to uh to all of these to evaluate uh that design, and please forget the drawing skills of these guys.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "The remote control is not ugly. How do you feel?", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah, I think four maybe would be appropriate, because it's Yeah, maybe it really depends on taste. Uh, I mean it's kind of, our design. It's.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yes.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "so if maybe a lot of people find it really ugly, you know, o other people find it really cool.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Background colour.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "I don't know or uh I don't know how you Casting. Yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "I think I think the the fronts will give it a more uh uh uh less uglier uh side, because you can uh make it in your own.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "How do you guys feel? The different designs.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "yes, you can make it in your own uh.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yes.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "more to your own personality or or house style.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah, but we d we didn't we're we're not planning to use fronts, I believe.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "No, not not fronts, but different designs.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "With a colour a co a colours. Oh, okay.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "No, not fronts. Different designs. Different colours maybe, yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yes.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "And that's still uh uh, yeah, is is uh is a little personal touch, I guess.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Okay, but Oh, maybe we should do three or something that w you know, our.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "What? Yeah, wha wha what would you uh guys uh think? Personally.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Or forty..", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "We can make it a one.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Personally. Yes, but what is it?", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "I think two or three.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Mm yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Guido?", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "I agree.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Two or three.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Um, I uh I go for the positive. So I go for two.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "I was I was thinking about three, so I guess", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Uh, I was thinking about four, so I think three is uh.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Okay, three.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "three is uh a bit uh oh, what am I doing? I'll mark it. The remote control's uh uh that n makes uh zapping easy.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah well, let that let's make that a one..", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yes.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Two. One. One.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah?", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yes.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Antek, you agree?", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Okay yeah, I'll I'll agree.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yes.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "That's one thing for sure.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah. You're not Antek.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "I'm the I'm the usability, so.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "I totally agree. The remote control the remote control's relevant buttons are prominently visible.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yes.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah, two or a one, I guess.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "The.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "It's something we really put work into.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah, I yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "It's all about the buttons.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "I would say a one because uh every button is uh uh relevant. And our oh yeah, it's a b yeah. Yeah? Alright. That's a one? You agree?", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "The remote control hasn't got too much redundant or unneeded buttons. I think we totally succeeded there.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "But.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Well.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Well maybe a two, because of the menu button or something.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Oh.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah, well menu Yeah, maybe.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah, that's true. That's true.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "And telete", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Also, the the the buttons of the one, the two, the the digits,", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah, we don't know if the uh they're necessary.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "o they're used uh uh.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "the the yeah, m well, you d you've got a point.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "I think a two.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah, true. Yeah, I agree.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Can yes, three, two.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Came a long way, but not we didn't not uh.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Two or three?", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Mm two.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "But you can't make a remote control without them,", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Two? Antek.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Because we got.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "because.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Nay that that that's true, that's true. They're definitely needed.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "No, w w it can also always be more simplistic, but two is.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "So we put it on a two?", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yes.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "The remote control has got a really trendy look.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yes. A one.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah, uh a t I think a two.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Maarten.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Well.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah yeah, y i it's hard to say from this picture.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "We we've tried to make it uh the the best trendy look uh ever.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Ever, yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Guido.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "But I do think it's more.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Uh, I will I will make it a three, because uh yeah. I I th", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "But I do think that it's more trendy than beautiful.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yes.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah, uh I agree. I agree.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "So so I think maybe it has to score higher uh on this than on the.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah. True, yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "I was planning to give it a two, uh where I give the not ugly uh.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "A th a three.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "oh, yeah, that's true. You agree on the two?", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "I i uh when you compare to the.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yes.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Great. Remote control hasn't got too much redundant or unneeded buttons.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Uh uh what's the difference with.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Uh, I copied that one. Well, uh forget that.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Um Go away. Remote control has got innovative technology implanted.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "No. We're not.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "No.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "No.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "well, maybe the the the on the side.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "No, not L_C_D_, so.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah, but we uh you mean the rubber stuff?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah, and the light.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah, but we have t we have to talk about the lights uh.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "And the light maybe.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "But that that's not innovative.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "But.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "And I don't u also it's also really not innovative,", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Lights lights are.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Well, I g", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "it's more.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "It's not seven?", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "No, six. Or seven maybe, yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Well, six. No, six.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Or six.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Six.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Why uh why not a seven?", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Six.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah, mine is seven.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Because we've tried to make it a little bit innovative,", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "but it but it.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Uh it's uh depends on the on the maybe.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "How?", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "With the lights it it's it's kind of future.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "No, I think I think actually it's a seven maybe, but there's nothing innovative about it.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah, you think the lights are innovative? Well, it's n true. Uh, I agree,", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "But still you can retrieve it when it's when it's gone, with the with.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "m but.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Innovative in generally or just f original for.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "I'll Yeah, you you didn't draw the docking station..", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yes. The docking station is a is a little bit innovative.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "N no no,", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah, it it's I think I think with its.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "t.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "A docking station is innova", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah, I mean the dock station, but but uh, I think the the docking station, it's gonna be a kind of a problem.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "It's a part of the remote.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "I think more m", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Okay..", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "And with the speaker on the there's also a speaker.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "But.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Uh that that's n", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Well, let's leave it open for uh for us later to see what, because we have to reevaluate anyway. Well I i yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "No?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "No uh, well, the agenda says evaluate now, so I think we.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Okay, for now it's a six or a seven uh, sev", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "It's it's a six.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "six maybe,", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Six.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "because.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "But the retrieval or the.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "That m f", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah, but I don't I don't know if it's very inno yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah, for the retrieval function. Yeah. I think that's very innovative for a remote control.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah, v", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yes, how would you innovate a remote control more?", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah, more through uh like function T_V_ functionalities and.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "To put it on your head.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "no no, you know what I mean.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "You have must be innovative technology for remote controls, but more in how you control stuff, not in how you find your.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah sure, but.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "yeah. Yeah, it's.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "But I d I definitely don't think it's a five,", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "that's that's think about it la later on", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "but.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "and uh.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Remote control is easy to use.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah, as a a one or a two ma uh at least.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yes.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah, a two.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yes.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "I think a two.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah, it's good.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah?", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "More two.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Come on. The remote control hasn't got uh.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "No, I would have seen that one before. Oh, you skipped one uh.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "I've just filled uh", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Uh, here.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Go away.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "You like the buttons..", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "I found twelve questions so much, but it still is ten.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Remote control will be bought by.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "It will be bought by people under the age of forty.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah. Definitely.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yes.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yes.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Well.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "In in and comparing with uh people of th of the age above?", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "No no no. No, just if they if they buy it.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Uh, just in general. Yeah, a two.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "We don't know. But.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah, but I think I think two.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah, what do you think?", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah, I think two, yeah. I agree. Two.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Antek?", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yes, two, but only in c when you compare it with with elderly.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Uh, that is not the question. It's just w it will be bought by people under forty.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "No, that's no comparison.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah, you can yeah, you can be very picky about it.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "And I don't mean two people.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "This is just guessing.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Ah yeah, just make it we'll make it a two.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Make it a two.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "W w", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "When it succeeds, uh it can get a two, mu", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Right, the rem The remote control has recognisable corporate image, colour, logo or slogan.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Oh no. Yeah. Yeah, you have make an", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "We don't have the slogan though.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "slogan is quite obvious.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Oh, the slogan.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Oh the oh sorry, no, not not the slogan.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Can we see the slogan?", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah, you can put that on the side if if we would like to.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "The logo.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "A logo.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Underneath it or something.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yes, uh encrypted uh with.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah, and I will I th still think it's gonna be a two or a three.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Are we gonna do that?", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "A three. Three.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Maybe a three this time.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah, a three.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yes.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Three? I agree. Because of the slogan.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "And uh.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Remote control's got a basic design intended uh for novice users.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Uh, it's a one or a two.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah, two.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yes.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah, make it a two.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Two.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Two? Two. Alright. We gotta add up the scores now to see our total average. Four, five, seven, nine. Forget that. Fifteen, seventeen, twenty one, twenty four, twenty six. Twenty six. It's a two point six.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "It's not that bad.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Alright, we.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah, and that's mostly the inno", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "when we uh score higher on innovative technology, we would score two,", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah. True.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "which is uh quite a great score. Okay. Uh, this is was uh the evaluation?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "This was my evaluation. So.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Because I I still think that the most important part of this meeting still has.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "We did a pretty nice job until now.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Um, is this your.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Is there something after this uh meeting? Or.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Whatever. Well, I think we gotta fill out another questionnaire.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "No. Okay, yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Still opened or uh Yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Okay, finance. Because um", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Shoot.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "I received uh a spreadsheet.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "A five. A five.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah, but I uh actually don't need this presentation, I guess. Oh.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Doesn't matter.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "I'm gonna open the spreadsheet and we're gonna work this out together, because I didn't really fin uh I have a.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Didn't really finish it. Well, we uh We'll see. We'll stumble upon some problems.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "We probably will.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "I probably have already opened it here. try it again. First of all, the mm all the docking station and costs and such are not included in this list. But let's let's st start with beginning. We include one battery. I i uh I'll explain its Uh, the the components are listed over here. Uh, price is given. We um yeah,", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "The amount, yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "we we uh indicate the amount of components of the specif specific component, how much we need of them. And then uh, we'll uh calcula Don't watch the number yet. I don't know if it's filled in properly. Okay, we need one battery. One battery. I think one battery is enough.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yes.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "We don't need kinetic, solar cells, hand dynamo. A s okay, this this is a p first problem. Uh, I think we should know how many simple chips, regular chips.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Uh it's it's one one chip, but but you have to choose one from it.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Okay. But.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "The simple chip is e enough I I think, but with the lights with the lights and the retrieval, it can be uh.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "I don't know.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Where did we find this information? Was it.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "I haven't got an idea on on which we need to use, really.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "I think it was uh your job in the first uh meet Uh, f your first presentation to make this clear, but then you had some t time problems.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "No.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "No, uh I Yes, my my my uh.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "The the email I got said uh simple chip, but when we put in the speaker and the retriever uh device, it will uh cost a a bit more, like I think the advanced chip maybe.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah. And how do you know? I mean, you got that email. Did it point out what to use them for?", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Bec No, the they didn't know about a retriever or a speaker uh in it.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Maybe you can uh look it up right now. Okay, but okay. When we don't when we leave the uh retriever and such aside, what.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Then it's a simple chip.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "then it would be a simple chip. And with the retriever, it would be an advanced chip.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yes, I I I s I.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Alright, well, point out the advanced chip for now, I guess.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "That will be enough for future uh recommendations.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah, but it will it will it will be cause a lot of problems. The sample sensor sample speaker. What is it m is that the speaker we were t I don't know what it is.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "I don't know it uh either.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "I don't know.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Okay, we went for the double-curved case", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yes.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "made out of plastic and rubber. And with a special colour. I guess that's what we were.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Well, special colour..", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah, I don't know about the special colour, but I think w uh.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Otherwise, you get uh a standard uh plastic colour.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "I don't.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "I don't know if it's very special.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah, I think we uh we have special colours.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm okay.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Standard rubber.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Alright, that's okay.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Okay, then the push-button, I was just counting them.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "St.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Uh, I think you have to indicate the amount of push-buttons we want to use, isn't it?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Whoa, it's a little.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Well that's bit of a problem,", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yes.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "because I re but I really don't understand that, because I can imagine a remote control with far more push-buttons, and it wouldn't be possible according to this uh sheet.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "That's huge. No. We have the simplest buttons.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "No.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "No, it's only uh when you use push-buttons, it will cost that much.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "I don't think so, because it says amount.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "If you use a scroll-wheel.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Ah. Yeah, it wouldn't.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "The the the yellow row is the amount of.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Fill in the number of components you plan to use in the and the total cost I don't know. I", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Maybe it's the kind of push-buttons. You can have f four kind of push-buttons.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Uh, one til nine.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Rubber.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Is that one or is that nine buttons?", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "You can have uh.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "And I count them like this. One two three uh four five six seven eight nine ten eleven twelve and thirteen.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Because Oh, this is oh, this is one, okay. Twelve, okay, then it would be eighteen, because uh, I uh rated them as uh um as uh uh uh separate buttons.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "To n", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Different,", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "that's total of four buttons.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yes.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "yes.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "And plus these two, f uh plus the mute button, and it's will be uh eighteen.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "I think that Eighteen. One two three four five, si", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Why is that so uh expensive.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah, I don't understand. Y I do I don't get the point, because it's would be s relatively so expensive, just these m small buttons.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Is it cents, the the the fifty cents a button?", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Fifty cents for one single stupid button.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "No way.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "So, whe when you so then it.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Well, okay, well well let's make it just one.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "It's eighty percent of the price of the of the amount of.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Here, now it's now it's already s", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah, exactly. Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "shall we just give our own interpretation to,", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "because else we would really have a problem. It would be impossible to make it.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "I can't.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "It's way.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "I I I couldn't understand it if it was fifty cents per uh uh per button. Really.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "When you have the same amount of button, you have to put in wi in your carton. Board.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "And and less buttons than this isn't possible.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "And then throw it.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah, yeah,.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "This is the most simple.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "No, no no.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "yeah, it is possible, but I've never seen one before.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "But whe", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "I've seen one uh one remote control with only the pu yeah, only with uh page up, page down and volume,", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "No, really.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah, without the numbers. That's possible. Yeah, we could skip the numbers.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah, uh.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "but but.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah, but I d I wouldn't want to own that. Really.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "That's still four.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Uh, it's it's still for little children. They can handle that remote control,", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Then uh, teletext would also be im impossible.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "but but it isn't fo Yes, it's for it's li uh it's just for a little.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah, that's no option, that's no option.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Okay, we'll we'll just okay. But then still, when we there's no room for a docking station or something. Tha w Le let's see th we have uh oh yeah, button supplements. We'll give the buttons special colour. We'll give them a special form. Uh, I think we should mark the special form thing, because it this will be some special forms incorporated in these big buttons, I guess.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "A special colour, why a special colour?", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Because the buttons will be uh d will be matching colour between the buttons and the rubber surroundings.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "But wha what s what special?", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "I think that's the what they mean by a special colour.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Okay, yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Otherwise, it.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Uh, yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Otherwise it would be the.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "I don't think the special form is really true.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "I think all the special colour things have to be marked over here, because that's what we were planning to do, making it.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Special form also, it says.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah, special material r also,", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Is it?", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "because i has rubber. And the buttons have to be rubber.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "What is the normal material?", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Plastic.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah, I dunno.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Sh yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Plastic, I think.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Classic?", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Plastic.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Oh, plastic.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Plastic.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "'Kay, but the problem now is that the There's no such thing as a docking station in this list, but we can all imagine that it would be impossible to make a docking station for thirty cents.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah..", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "But we can uh sell the remote control and uh sell the docking station.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Separately.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Se no no no.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "yes. And and but we don't have to tell it, but what we can say of can um almost make it impossible to buy a remote control without the docking station.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah, yeah. Yeah, but I do like the idea, but we yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "It uh but it then the docking station isn't relevant for this project anymore, but we can.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "No.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "No, but you otherwise you can't retrieve it.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "but then you still have to use we have to find out what chip we u need.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah, I really don't get it. I mean if it's a simple chip, then we suddenly got two Euros and thirty cents.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "I think we can agree on this. I I think the special colour thing has to be uh marked.'Cause I think we uh.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah, yep.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah, I think that's what what what they uh mean.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "But for two Euros and thirty cents, we uh we don't get a docking station.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "I think so, too. Oh, I don't know.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "But can we find out uh about uh this chips? Because when we don't need a d a docking station, then probably we also have only we also need a simple chip.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "And then we can get a docking station..", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "And maybe then we can do something extra. Oh, n uh oh, still.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "For.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "oh, it's gonna get more expensive with. Two.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Then we have some money left. We can put then.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "For two Euros.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "We can put a scroll-wheel on it or something.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Uh why?", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah, well who knows. Or a little bit of tin titanium.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "I mean i i if you if it would cost two Euros, that had a total a total thing, it would be nice too, I mean uh we're not gonna add uh a trip to Hawaii to it.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "But what what can we do.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah, or we can ki do the kinetic cells. That's also maybe an idea.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "But uh what can we do with the simple chip and what's difference with a regular chip and a advanced chip?", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah that's what then what he has to find out. Maybe you can uh find it in your email right now, then we know then we exactly know what it will cost us.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "If if i", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Maybe is that that's nice to know.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Regular chip and because we don't have uh special functions to use uh in advanced chip, for example.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah, bu bu but when we yeah, but when we skip when we um when we don't use the do we're not gonna make the docking station, then we still yeah, we need something else maybe to make it kind of special,", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "I like the hand dynamo part.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "because that was our our special feature.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "We can make a plain docking station for two Euros.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah. We'll go back uh tomorrow..", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "I mean.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah, okay, you can also do that, but maybe.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Wi wi without recharge.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "It still is a special remote control cons uh you know, wi its form is special and material.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah, but but we can make a docking station for two Euros uh if you don't put the recharge function in it. I mean, it has a shape.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah, but for two Euros, then we have still maybe we have to use the advanced chip,", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Of course it has a shape, but i i", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "then two Euros isn't even possible.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Why should that not be possible?", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah, then because then we'd thirty cents left.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "No, for for the uh for the docking station if you do if you choose the simple chip.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah, but yeah, I don't know, because maybe d uh yeah, we have to find out with the simple chip.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "That's the question. If we do i do we need an advanced chip, or is it okay f", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah, and w and and we uh need f", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yes.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "It isn't in my information, so I don't know it uh either.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "and what is this? Sample sensor sample speaker.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "It isn't in my information, I uh I I've got a schematic view of the remote control, but nothing about uh advanced chips or.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "You can look at it for s presentation. S technical functions?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "No.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Uh I've got here in uh.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "No no, they were uh mine, yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Oh.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "I will put a I will put a page on it. When my mouse works again.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Oh, oh oh. Hey. Oh.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "My mouse is uh.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Dead.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yes.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Reanimate it.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Died.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Oh. Ah, I've got it. I will put uh my email on the the network.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "What the hell are these?", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "It's on it.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Oh, whatever.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah, it's open.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Mm. I don't think here it's in here already.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "It's circuit board. It's only just basics for for.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "It's nothing about s yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "At the end circuit there is an infrared LED.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yes.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "This isn't helpful.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "No. But i in the presentation of yours, there was also something about different components. Which one was it?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Components design.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Functional requirements?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Um.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "No, that was my presentation.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Components design maybe. N on top.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yes, that was mine.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Ah. Ah yes, it was the second one.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "But that was my second.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah, it was your second.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "It's already open.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "your first presentation.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "It's at the bottom.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Sorry?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Working design.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "It's uh at your task bar.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah, but it's the the other one.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Oh.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Uh, this is n this is not this n", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Was it working design or components design?", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Sorry.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "that's not the right one. I don't oh.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Okay, sorry.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "No, this is the other one. Or maybe something is uh maybe there's something abo in in these.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Chip set.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "But this is the same uh This is o only the possibilities.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Here.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah. We can use a simple, a regular, or advanced chip.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah, nice. I it doesn't say anything.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "The display requires an advanced chip.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "You know that a push-button requires a simple chip, but a scroll-wheel, it it me requires.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Ah, okay.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Okay, so we only need a simple chip.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Requires.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "With the light.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Little lights. Yeah, but that that's just the same as the the LED.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "No no, that's just a simple chip. A scroll-wheel.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "That's not needed.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "it s uh only states that a scroll-wheel requires a regular chip, and that a display requires an advanced chip. So, we don't need any of them.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "A display uh is, of course, uh for showing letters. For showing text.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "L_C_D_.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "I don't think that uh just a l a little light.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "No. I think uh the uh normal uh simple chip will be okay.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah, I agree.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "And what's the sample sensor slash sample speaker?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Maybe you can say against the remote uh page uh f uh page up, page down.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah, I guess so too.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah, true. Well, that's not too what we want.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Next channel. No. Well, we might want it, but.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "All in twelve Euros.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Back to the costs.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Twelve Euros and fifty cents.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "So we're gonna use the simple chip.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "So, simple chip is okay.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Great. Delete.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "And the lights. Where uh are the lights?", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah, lights, yeah, there's no", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Well, there're three, I guess.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "category..", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Nah, there is some money left to be spent.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Can we do it wi within two two Euro?", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "I think we can make a docking station. Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Okay, but what we have to think about now is that is is it still a special remote control? But I mean it isn't it hasn't got any innovative technology, we aren't gonna apply any uh innovated innovative te technology anyway, I think. I don't I don't see any possibility to do so, because it would wouldn't fit our defi design philosophy.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm. But it's original.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "But what w is there some extra.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "No, that's true.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "maybe I think maybe the kinetic thing is something. Instead of the rechargeable the rechargeable thing was something to um know, so y so people wouldn't have to worry about their batteries anymore.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "M bu", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Maybe we if we put the kinetic thing in it.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "But but sometimes you put a.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah, you leave the p yeah, I know, but still I they will think about that. I mean if you u", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Kinetics aren't uh nowadays only used in watches and that's because you're always walking.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "The uh it's made for s people well, the they don't if it was uh uh r useless technology, they wouldn't put it uh as a possibility.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Uh solar cells are useless.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "And i it it th th the the target", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Or the hand dynamo dynamo.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "the target uh group are people who zap regularly and throw with their remote control as a matter of speaking.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Because I think it when when there w was a remote control where it was useful to have a kinetic uh uh power source, then it would be this one. Because it's one it gets thrown around thrown around a lot and it gets used a lot Hey that maybe that's cool that's a cool thing about it, you know. You don't use batteries.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah, but but if we ca", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "I've never seen it before in a remote control.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "But then we could make a docking station.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "I don't know if Five minutes.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "No, we we we can't make a docking station anyway.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "That's not true.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah, we can als or uh also m we we can make one.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Wow, w why no li", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "We can make a docking station for two thirty.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "we can still make.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Look at now, we got two", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Fo for a docking station.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Two thirty.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "two thirty left. Ca can't we make a docking station of that?", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "We can make a docking station. Sure.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "With a cable, with uh buttons on it, with retrieval uh device in it.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Sure.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "I don't know.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "The power device is is i i is very cheap.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "That's just a regular uh power cable and whatever.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah, but be serious, then uh the docking station will be a fifth of the price of the remote control.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Wi with a button to", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Well, we we uh.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "wi with a button to retrieve it, so it will beep.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "So.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Uh, so it's uh wireless technology.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah, but we uh we don't inc we haven't looked at the these costs of the speaker and other stuff. I don't think it's realistic for you to do so.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Well then it's a useless project.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Look at the case,", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Oh, because we.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "the case the case of of uh of uh.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah, then we don't have any innovation things.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "We well look at all the special stuff we have. Colour a the colours are special, the form is special. It th this is whole concept. Uh maybe it with the kinetic thing, I think we could do uh do a compromise uh with the kim kinetic thing.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Can't we uh Can't we say fifteen Euros?", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Uh, no.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "No, sta yeah I mean.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "No, then we have to sell it for thirty Euros.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "No.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "No, we only make less profit of it.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "It's the.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "You can sell for twenty seven and a half. Then you make as much profit as you would with twelve and a half production costs.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "No.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah, I don my suggestion is to just forget about the whole docking station thing and make it uh like a Uh uh I I I I still fee I also feel this concept of making it kinetic, because of the you know, it g it gives something dynamic to the remote control.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "I don't think.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Maybe we can uh can do it both. Maybe we can do it both uh in the in the in the remote. Battery and kinetic.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "No.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "No, that wouldn't n no.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Thirteen twenty.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah, and it is also not a good it's not you have to really do it only kinetic, you don't want it to think about batteries anymore.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "And I think only.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yes, but when it's then when it.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah, but only kinetic, then you gotta.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "No no.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "then you have to shake it uh and all when it's when it's empty.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah, it's great.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "You you gotta throw uh throw it through the room like twenty times an hour, really.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "No no no. No no, this is very sophisticated technology technology.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "When you use it your remote like once a day, or maybe even less i i it.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "You asked for three d No, that's n that's not true. Uh, a watch is uh kinetic because you walk all the time.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "No.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "It We can make it yeah no. Becau be but a remote control gets why do they state that this technology can be used if it", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yes, solar cells are also stated.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah, m but a w uh uh n uh a calculator also works on r on solar cells.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Why don't we use solar cells then?", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Because I think the d whole dynamic part, do you know, appeals to me qui uh thinking of our design philosophy, you know, with the rubber parts and uh sturdiness of the thing, and y when you move it around a lot, then people find the idea funny that when I move my remote control around and.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "That's true.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah, it's funny for a week. I guess something like that, where you have to move it around very frequently, is demotivating.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah, but you don't have to. Trust me. The idea of this technology is that you don't think about it, it just happens.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "No, I I don't move my uh my remote control very much, seriously.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Okay, then we d Okay, well y we don't have to do it, but what that would just have a lack of key features, you know.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Oui.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "You m have to put something on your box. You have to make people buy it and uh We can really can do the docking thing, uh it's not yeah, uh we can do it, but it's would be a easy way out.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "You can do it for fifty cents..", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Well, we've got more than fifty Cents.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Okay, but we have to grou to agree upon something,", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "The c The case the case alone is is is uh", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "because uh we only have a minute left or so.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "the case alone for uh remote control is at least one Euro. Then we have one Euro thirty for the whole docking station.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "No no, it's not possible. Okay, w b we can s we can leave it on be well then then th it's this is then then our concept is ready.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Cheap remote control.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah, we make some extra profit of it.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah. No, we won't, but that's um something else.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "It w it won't tell, but.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "But now.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "No, this not gonna sell. No.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Huh, any ideas?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Of course not.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "No, uh, n no", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Great. It's great.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah, we just have to go all what we did today again. You have to do it over.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Our remote control.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "We come back tomorrow, okay?", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "No no uh there's still there's still someth concept and something special left.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah..", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yes.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "the.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Seventy Euros.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "I mean we're gonna it's gonna excel in in on in the the range in the field of design and and uh looks and feel.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "No, but no.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "That's what it's makes it special. Yeah, and I would li I would have liked a kinetic part as well, to give it some just to give it some extra special feature, and uh I know it will work, but uh it's it's an They're they're not putting technologies on this, but if it if it was impossible to to make it happen.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Why not a hand dynamo then?", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Okay, well we leave it like this. Then it's c then we're yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah, yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "We can't do anything else. Warning, finish meeting now.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "We're done.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Okay, project e uh", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Is this it?", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "well, we were gonna what look take a look at the last sheet.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah, sure.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "No, we can't.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah, we have to Yeah, it's.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "No.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yes.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yes, yes. Celebration. I don't see why, but.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Where's the champagne?", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "I think we gotta fill out another questionnaire, to be honest.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah?", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "I don't uh hear a bell.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "No, not yet.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "We can do it here then.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Alright, I'll see you guys in a minute.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Bye.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Can we can't we do it here?", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "I don't think so. I don't know. I don't I don't think so.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Uh-huh. Just fill that one in.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah, we're doing now. But it's. 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I've also made notes of the previous meeting and um I was about to send them you but then uh I had to go to this uh meeting so you will get them too uh", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Next.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Um.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "So y you are the secretary also.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yes. Indeed.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Right? Okay.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Then I hope you all have uh worked out some some uh some some presentations about uh about well you the the task given to you in the previous meeting.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Perfectly yeah yeah of course uh-huh.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Um. W We will uh in a minute we will uh start with them. Um, we will see in which order we will handle them of. Um then I will uh bring in some some some new requirements I I got uh from the uh account manager, I try to work them out, they were quite abstract, and we can have maybe have com some discussion about it. Uh Um about the functions", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "and Well in this meeting we should really try to reach a decision about the target group and the functionality of the.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "You mean the social target group who we wants to target?", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yes I mean well yes w who are we going to uh to well to sell this,", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Oh the customers, okay.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "the customers, indeed yes. Think that's that's important matter.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "That's the big question yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Uh. So And then uh we will close this meeting uh", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "and after this meeting we'll uh we'll have a lunch. Good. Um. Maybe um why uh Anna can you c do you have a presentations?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "No, I don't.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "You don't have presentation?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "I wasn't. No.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Uh you want a table to to uh", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "I c I can talk about it but I have no slides or anything.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yes yes maybe maybe you can uh can just talk about it or maybe you can use the whiteboard if necessary um.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm. Well I've just been um presented with some research we've done in a small focus group so, a hundred people, just asked them about their remote control usage habits and what they want in a remote control. Um. It's probably can't email this to you, I've just got a web page with some data on it. Um basically it's saying that users generally dislike the look and feel of their remote controls. Um seventy five u seventy five percent of users find most remote controls ugly. Um.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Eighty percent of users would spend more money when a remote control would look fancy. Um. Current remote controls do not match well the operating behaviour of the user. Uh seventy five percent of users said they zap a lot, so they use their remote control quite frequently while they're watching television. Uh. Fifty percent of users say that they only use ten percent of the buttons, so they've got a remote control with a lot of functionality but really most of the time they only use a small part of that.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Um.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Do you Do you have this uh information on the web page you said?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "I have an a web page yes.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yes, mayb maybe you can can send an email to me later uh. Uh about this.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yep. Yep, sure. Mm-hmm. So basically um there's a breakdown of how much they use the different functions on a rem remote control. Um, power and volume selection are only used a few times within this uh per hour. Um, channel selection is used a hundred and sixty eight times um and then there's things like channel settings, audio settings, which are only used very infrequently.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Um. Teletext is used um fourteen times in the hour, so it is used but not nearly as much as the channel selection is used. Um.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "An interesting thing that this report has brought up is that um fifty fifty percent of users report that the remote control gets lost a lot of the time in the room, so some way of some way of locating the remote control would be very useful to a lot of users. Um.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yes yes, I have that too.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Thirty four percent said it takes too long to learn to use a remote control, they want something that's easier to use straight away, more intuitive perhaps.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Um.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "It's it's easy to learn or how do you say it's.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Thirty four percent said it took too much time to learn to use a new one. Yep.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Okay too much time to learn. Okay.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Um. And thirty twenty six percent said remote controls are bad for R_S_I_.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Not enough.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "I don't know how we'd go about combating that.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": ". What do you mean there?", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "For R_S_I_? Respet Repetitive strain injury.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "So. But.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Mm. They think that or do their doctor the doctor says?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "But it's it's the opinion of the uh of the users huh?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah. That's what the report says yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "So mm.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Um and then it's got a demographic breakdown on.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Maybe y y you cannot put this webpage online on the.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Uh I should be able to actually, if I email it to you now.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "You can disconnect it there", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "You can maybe just just.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "no?", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Oh no, yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Ah it's it okay it's a webpage on the C_ it's a file", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "okay.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Um, s hang on.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "O otherwise you yeah. You can connect this one.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Then you can connect this one or this one yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "All to your computer.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Well.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "So these are important numbers that Matthew and I need to take into account for our functional um.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Oh yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Oh I need to muck around with this. It's probably easier if you put it on yours and then I'll just email it to you. It's just a web link.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Hmm.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah these numbers have have to be have to be taken into account for the uh both yeah user interface and functional design.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Hmm. Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "One thing it goes on to talk about, which is interesting, is the hang on a minute.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Because if there are many numbers and we need to select to to constraint uh our design based on what is more important.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm. Yep.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Um, one thing is interesting is talking about um speech recognition in a remote control.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Speech recognition in.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "And who would pay more for that and whether people would find it useful.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "D do you have numbers o o on that?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Ah okay.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yes, I'll just get this up.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "So that we don't Do we not need any button on the remote control.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Well potentially yeah, um.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "it would be all based on speech.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "I think even for interesti", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Okay. Interesting idea.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "yeah I think that would not work so well. You wanna have both options.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Well it would it would be a solution for uh when your remote control is lost,", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "I mean when it has speech recognition then uh i then it doesn't matter where it is, my well it's we should be in range,", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "or maybe it can respond and produce sound, so say where it is. But the these are all quite fancy features", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "I'm not sure whether we will we can make this for for twelve Euro fi and fifty cents.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Well it would be f", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "No you can't.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "And we don't know where the state of the art of speech recognition is, maybe you know?", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Oh. Well, it depends you know like there is uh it's a very small vocabulary that you want to do the operations like you want to say on, off, one, two, twenty three,", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "But it's quite noisy if there is the T_V_ uh shouting.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yes,", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "It's it's going to be li", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "that that that that's mm.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "it's not going to be s so easy but u usually it's going to be more of an isolated case", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Do you have some more important facts", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "but it's but I don't know with twenty fi", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Um.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "or can we go to the next presentation?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Okay. So", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Well.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "you had to to to summarise maybe the.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "This is now talking about um who would pay for speech recognition in a remote control, who would pay more for it, um. Ninety percent of the fifteen to twenty five year old market said that they would pay more, it goes down from there, seventy six percent for twenty five to thirty five, thirty five percent for thirty five to forty five, um twenty two percent for forty five to fifty five and then eight percent for fifty five to sixty five.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Okay it's uh decline.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "But we sh", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm. Decline with age, mm.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah, it really depends where we're gonna be targeting this product, um,", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Mm..", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "which we'll be talking about later I think.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yes. We will talk about it later..", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Did you get the email?", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Okay..", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yep, that one.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Just follow that link.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "I thi You us", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "It'll be in a different window, yep.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "yeah yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "That's left that one.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yep.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Okay perfect....", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Mm. So that's the figure that I was just talking about there, with the different demographics.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Another thing it's talking about there is the L_C_D_ screen but there's no figures apparently on that.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Mm. Okay. um", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm'kay.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Uh maybe uh Mael c c can you give uh uh your presentation uh?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah. Mm I okay", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Oh,", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "I stay.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "this is.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Now you can move I think yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm, y y you can move, uh.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "I can move as far as Maybe I take your chair?", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yes. You can you can sa take my chair.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "I okay.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "It's a channel selection, a module, this and this function,", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Sorry? Oh.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "go to the. Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "So I think as everybody knows uh I'm the uh Industrial Designer. And uh in this presentation uh this group presentation um is gonna focus on the working design of the the remote control. Um I'd like first to give a quick a very simple introduction, how does it work, so that everybody knows even if you don't have a very uh technical background uh what is it because I think in the product it is important.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Mm..", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "So basically um the basic function of a remote control is to send uh messages to another system that is fixed.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "And so an energy source feeds an integrated circuit, the chip, that can compose messages, usually uh through a um infrared bit", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "and uh the user interface controls the chip and accordingly the the messages, alright. So my method for um designing the yeah the work design uh yeah first the the main point is that I would wish to to make a really functional product. I would prefer to have very functional um capabilities rather than fancy stuff that in fact is not used and doesn't work.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "So for that yeah as it's important to take into account the user requirements from the Marketing uh Expert uh Anna", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "and um w to to we should agree on what are the technical functions uh for this remote control and I show you the the working design. So um basically uh here is a really large view of what we want. Uh we want an on off button, it can be uh it's simple but it's it's important, and also uh the to both channels as well as other buttons that come after,", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "right. So the components I quickly draw here, is that in this part you have the remote control the the sender and on the other part the receiver so that's my method is um will be to well my aim would be to uh design the and choose the chips and the infrared um components to build the remote control", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "right.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "So of course we need energy sources and uh uh the receiver a a receiver. This is very quick uh design, uh you stop me or interrupt me if uh you don't agree on it on that.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "And um so what I have found and after a lot of work actually I I draw this I draw for you this uh schema", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Well..", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Uh-huh.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "that can be maybe too technical for you but is very important for me", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "You drew it a long time ago?", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "you know.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Is huh", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Ninety one..", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "And uh that's it so I won't go into details about that", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "overwhelming.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "No.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "but uh these are my preferences to use uh that kind of components.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "And and why do you want these kind of component?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "So. So", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "I mean, are they cheap, or are they uh reliable? What were your.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "found and yeah th you have always a compromise with uh reliability and uh i if it's expensive,", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "but uh this one was not this one also really uh reliable um so yeah that's it for the working design, uh I hope you get clearer view on uh what what a remote control is uh in terms of uh technical components", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yes. It it it's more clear now I think.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "but maybe yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "So.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "But is it uh can you just buy it on the market and f plug it in or you want to ma", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "No no no no we we will uh This is a preference but we can always change uh.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm. What I w what I was thinking about uh the the the schema uh about uh the sender and the receiver, I mean can you can you get back to it?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah uh, the receiver is of course already in the television and we are not uh able to change it. So we we must adapt to the to the receiver.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Of course yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "I I suppose there is a standard uh way of communicating to televisions uh.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah. We will use uh infrared protocol uh using yeah infrared and uh and of course we need to adapt to that protocol that already exists", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "and but we what we can do is uh uh adapting the the chips inside uh to the best uh chips and uh infrared bubbles.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Mm. Mm. Mm. Mm. Yes. Okay.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Um. Okay..", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Thank you.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Well it to du it's just you had to change the frequencies.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "The frequencies?", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah yeah. Of course yeah", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "But you should be careful,", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "in the chip you have it yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "people are sometime becoming problem, like a guy has recently designed a remote uh uh uh which could switch off any other T_V_s, so basically through all the things.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "That can control o other things. Yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Ah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "So maybe we should think of.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Of course yeah we should take that into account", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "That's handy.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah yes", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "So if the b T_V_ in the next apartment's really loud, you can just turn it off.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "I I I.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "in the uh.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah so you can just go on the street and then switch off everyone's T_V_ and you can just walk away.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "You don't have to be near the T_V_ at all.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah. I like that idea.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "I I feel I I I think M Mael will will consider this uh th these things.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Maybe Maybe we can go to to your presentation uh Matthew.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "I I I assume you were finished here.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "so.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yes.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Uh okay.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Okay. So I can take I think mine now there.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Okay so voila.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Hmm I can take mine it's okay, voila, mm so mm. Okay.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Oh. I Uh, sorry? I know where it is.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "It's on the desktop.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "It's uh.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Technical function.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yes.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "It's uh.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Like so.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Well. So um I'm going to talk a little bit about the technical function so wha what actually it's about what is the user going to do, I think my last presented what is going inside,", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm. Yep.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "so what's the user is going to see from the outside and how he is going to use it. So well the approach is that uh basically the idea is to send a message to the T_V_ set, as Mael has pointed, and it will be decoded by the T_V_ and usually we it is easier to have uh keys or buttons with which people can uh press and then um changing a button will basically uh change the message which is being sent to the T_V_ and uh um", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "a and basically it sends an internal signal and decoded by the receiver. So p as um Anna has said that this ki people are interested in things which are you don't need to k press the keys, people are can have a speech recognition but this is uh s a question which will we have to see later.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "But in the present scenario is that you have certain keys and you press it like your mobile phone, and it sends a message to the T_V_.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yep.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "And um so generally mm I don't have some figures sorry but um so there are two kinds of uh remote if you popularly in the household, actually so you have a standard T_V_ remote where you have just a on, off button and play, uh volume change and uh keys for the number and more than one digit option. And if you see for example righ right now uh uh even the one uh on more than one digit option is for two digit channel which is like ninety nine, but tomorrow you might have one fifty channels you know to browse or two hundred channels to browse who knows, but uh uh. Then there is uh this is the standard one with without any fancy thing you know like i it doesn't have teletext option, it can without any, it's a very simple thing, um which which you can vouch. And then you have uh what's the v video remote file which is like usually it has almost all the keys over there and, but it then it has other options like stop uh and then you play the movie or uh or fo fast forward the movie or something like that so i it has those", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "so these are the standard uh commonly found remote controls in the uh market. And then whi which is generally used by the people. And then well personal preferences I would uh basically think of having a kind of aim for the next generation thing where the we could have both the uh the f a T_V_ and the remote video remote control because uh some of the keys in the video's remote control and the T_V_ they could be integrated together so that uh we could um aim for the like in the f coming future um that type of uh applications with.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Okay. How would that work? So you've got say maybe a V_C_R_ and a T_V_ which are separate,", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "so you on my one at home I've got a V_C_R_ remote which then changes the channel on the V_C_R_ and doesn't do anything on the T_V_,", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "so is it gonna be like a switch on the remote that says t use the T_V_ or use the V_C_R_?", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "or does it know which one you want to use?", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Um actually um you could you could think of um having s a y you can have a key which could tell y it could go to the video thing", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "but um uh yo you you you still can't um in that case when it you use that the function should be able to take up the V_C_R_ option", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "and you could play it or You can also think about having like um I in a few days you will be ha in in few ye coming years you might even have a system where you have a separate uh sitting setup box", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "and uh you have uh um something like uh uh you do you do you suppose you are not able to watch some programme and actually it downloading all the time for you", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm. Mm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "and uh you can just you know uh when you come back you could just switch on that thing and uh watch a program.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "In that case you want to browse faster, browse slow, you want to have those kind of functionalities.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Mm mm mm mm mm.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "These are kind of next generation functionalities.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "It's the next generation thing,", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Mm yes,", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "but it is going to come in couple of years.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "but I think it's i i it's already there,", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "It's goi", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "I mean the hard disk uh recorders uh I I've seen them in the shop.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah it's.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah. So", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Mm'kay.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "it's going to record your things and you and you you need basically the functionalities what you need in both uh uh video as well as in the standard T_V_ thing.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Mm. Yeah. That's fair enough. Mm. But I don't think we're trying to make a universal remote here. That's,", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "No no we are not making a universal remote,", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "we are just looking at uh giving a scenario, I have a T_V_ and tomorrow I am going to have set up box", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "which is going to sit there and uh it's going to do that job for me.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Mm. Because y", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "W w w w we need to decide on on on on in how far we go to in this.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm. Mm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Mean, you can go pretty far I f I think with with with functions and possible uh future p uh prospects", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm. Yep.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "yes.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah. So.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "But it's good to keep in mind.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Okay so that p ends my presentation.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Mm. Very well.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Well. So we can always discuss about it for example uh the presently the video market actually uh this demand, video over-demand or what we call it as, it's presently booming up actually", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Mm. Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "so it i like people are providing like uh things like uh uh movies, you can select actually so you want to watch a movie and uh your p your provider gives a list of movies, and then you select those list.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "And it", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "basically you go off, it downloads the movie, it gives for you", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "and then when you come you want to loo watch it on your T_V_.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Good.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "And thi this is going to come.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Or even you don't need to download it, it's streamed uh online uh yeah. Yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah it can be streamed online for you and you can say what time I want to watch the movie", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "and.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Um, so u um", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "so. Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "I have uh received some some some some well points of of thinking over of my account manager and uh I would like to share them with you. Um", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "first thing is uh teletext is a well known feature of televisions", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "but it's it's getting used less and less.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "That's that's especially because of the internet of course.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Hmm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "So we should think about it um. Do we include it, and do we give it a prominent uh prominent uh place on on on the on well huh on the remote mot control itself.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Uh as uh a in any case it's it's not used, well very much, but it's it is still used. Um", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Um.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "further yes we must think, uh do we stay uh to to television only, the television as we as we all know it with with broadcasting signals and you can't go back uh huh, or do we uh uh go further as Matthew indicated by supporting uh uh recording uh devices?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "So D_V_D_s and V_C_R_s?", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Uh indeed indeed.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "And and and the hard disk recorders. Um, furthermore, uh, w we need really need to interest uh y younger customers and then with younger customers I mean people uh below the age of forty,", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm..", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "and our our current customers are mainly forty plus", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "uh which well", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Fourteen", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Forty.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "or for O okay.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "So", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "So.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "that's to that's I mean there's a market but uh they will grow older older", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "and you'll al always need to have the the future with younger people.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Um therefore, younger people like trendy trendy designs, so that's w we should make our our our R_C_ as trendy as possible but it should also be uh have a reliable image, so when it looks too too spacey or too fancy people will think well does it work at all.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Hmm.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah it's uh well you you can follow the ideas how you want to keep the keys, you know right now if you take it you have like zero, one, two, three like a keys separately,", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "but suppose if you take the the present trend of mobile phones there are like big thick keys", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "you press on the top, it takes one number, you press on the bottom it takes another number, and uh basically uh uh so the space covered so that you don't see two separate keys there actually", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "so it it is like uh um i i it is like uh.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Ma Maybe Maybe you can draw it on the on the board uh.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm. But I think taking the idea of getting inspiration from mobile phones is interesting, especially if we're going after a younger market,", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah so.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Hmm. Yes yes", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "that's the the the mm the new and the funky things,", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "mo", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Because they are already used to that, you know, product.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "that's,", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yes it's recognisable.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "yeah, there's lot there's lots of pretty mobile phones, not too many pretty remote controls.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Mm mm.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "That's.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "And and they are skilled uh by using it.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "So for example uh Well uh.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm....", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Okay, it works. Fine. So, for example you have uh presently uh keys like one, two, three like this, actually, and uh uh four five six like that and uh you can have keys like this in form like uh keys like that", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Mael can you hand me over this uh?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yes..", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Uh thank you.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm. Okay. How much longer have we got for the meeting by the way?", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Mm well", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "'Cause we haven't talked about demographic at all", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "I think fi five min", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Forty minutes?", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "and it's a very important issue.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah so you you you can have uh keys like uh which are which are like so. too sorry, so we basically don't change the uh original order of them", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "but then the keys are more spacious,", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "they don't look uh so there there is a very sligh thing, so if you press on the top it takes the one, it takes the three, uh four, sorry four here uh five and six,", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Mm. Mm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "so the keys can be it looks you know not very much cluttered but it looks nice", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "for you don't have too many keys", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "but you can have a lot of options t if you press on the to", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Okay.'Kay I I think now that the idea's clear.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yep.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Uh we should now uh try to decide um on our target group.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah. Which I think is quite tricky.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Um, basically we're trying to get people to buy a remote control.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "wouldn't they already have a remote control with their television when they buy one?", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Of course they have already one. So our our our remote control has to be better.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "But it's not going to have more functionality,", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "'cause it's only a low market, it's a cheap-end remote control, we can't beat modern functionality, we might we'll be able to beat them on th the look of it, th the design of it but that's not a big seller, if they're not just going to buy a new remote control just'cause it looks pretty, they have to actually need it as well.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "So I'm not sure how we can get people to buy this thing.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Mm. I well I think many people said uh in your in in your research uh uh uh the appearance of the uh R_C_ is is important when they are buying one", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm. Yeah. But why are they buying one in the first place?", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "but Indeed. So that will be about functionality.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm. But if people are buying a new remote control for functionality they'll buy a universal remote. I've got friends who've got so many things they need a universal remote, otherwise they're using five different remotes for their all their things.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Mm. Mm-hmm. Mm.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "In that case they wouldn't buy our product, because it doesn't give them what they need in terms of functionality.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "So your you think we should go for a more u universal high-performance.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Well, we can't, with the price range. We We're not building a universal remote, we're not building a high end product.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "What do What do you think about What componen", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah we have yeah twelve point five Euros uh per uh per R_ s R_C_", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "and I think uh with this now you know that chips are very uh cheaps", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "and uh we can include it in our control some new new features.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah. And um But yeah", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "But yeah. If we're getting into universal remote territory, we're getting to L_C_D_ screens and things like that", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "that's.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "which would drive the cost up a lot.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "I don't know. I don't know whether that's necessary.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Ye", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Is the L_C_D_ screen.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "For universal remotes.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "I don't think L_C_D_ is not necessary well, th for long term.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "If you mm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "I think thi this could be this could be a market because uh universal remote controls uh tend to be uh quite expensive.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "And quite complicated to use,", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "S so we can try to go in between,", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "yes.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "and offer a product which is not as expensive and not as complicated", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm. Not as flexible maybe, yeah, but s", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "but but still but still people have the idea this is more functional than a normal uh uh R_C_", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Universal.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "because it has more uh it it is in some kind universal.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "But if we're going for the say fifteen to twenty five age group then not many of them would actually own T_V_s to use a remote control on.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Mm yes but w we're targeting I think on more on the on the twenty to forty group.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Okay. So they're yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "People yes. Who just have or already have a job and have the money but may not want to spend that much money on a on a universal universal control.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm. Mm-hmm. Yep. I don't know really what the the price range for remote controls is. Are we gonna be at the very bottom of the price range, or are we kind of middle to bottom? I don't know.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Uh well", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "I think uh when we think it over I thi I think we are trying to offer the a kind of universal control for for less money.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm. Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "So d Do you agree?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Well Well I it's fine with me like the price as long as it is uh not too expensive.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Uh and it d uh Our provin", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "because we have to take into account that we are gonna b we are gonna sell uh four aro around four million so when we speak about these numbers uh the price of a chip is uh price of a chip is very cheap.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "So I'm okay for designing um a ne uh less yeah a a kind of universal uh R_C_ yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm. You think it's possible for the twelve Euro fifty?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Okay. Um so then we we decide on on on going to this more universal kind of control.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Uh yeah, that's that's what we needed basically.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Mm. Mm. Okay.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Uh that's needed right now. And uh basically you can look to the standards of other.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah that's needed, yeah..", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Mm. Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "And if we want to get the market, we really need that.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah. So I guess what I'd like from a universal remote is maybe choosing between three devices, being able to switch between them, there may be stereo, V_C_R_ and T_V_.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Actu", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yes. Exactly..", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "And just be able to s use them all from the same remote, but not at the same time.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yes.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah you can also browse through all the standards you know, where are the limit of standards for all of them and you can just browse through them.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Is that okay for you? Yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Mm mm mm mm.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah. Yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "So given we are going for this uh uh universal type uh m maybe it is good when you try to find out which components you therefore need and y you will try to get more specific uh user interface content", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yes.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Okay. Okay.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "and uh maybe you can look on on what trends are in this uh in this type of market.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm yep.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Voila. Hmm.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "So anyone uh has a point to bring in", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "So. Well.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "or shall we no.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Oh I don't have anything right now. We can we'll we'll go", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Oh", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "that's that's fine then.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "and we'll I'm sure we'll up something good", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "W yes,", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "for the.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "we uh we can have lunch now.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "So um Then th th the next meeting will uh", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah so we meet in well what are our.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "after lunch you have uh we have uh thirty minutes of work and then we have the next meeting. But you will be informed via the computer.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Cool. So see you later.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Okay perfect.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" } ] }	{ "dialogTurns": [ { "query": "Hi there, can you give me a summary of the meeting that took place?", "response": "The main purpose of the meeting was to discuss the target group and functionality of a new remote control that the participants are working on. 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So uh, if you could open the PowerPoint presentation.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "I'm number two.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "You're number two.'Kay", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Components design, there we go.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "So uh can we put it in slide show mode? Yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "The next one.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Right here, is that little that one, yes please.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Thank you.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "I'll take the mouse. So uh", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "we were looking he specifically at the components uh the following components, uh the case, the power supply, uh the means of communications with the television set. In instance we had talked about using some sort of speech recognition,", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "you have to have microphone well no you don't actually I haven't have to have microphone in the device, but um maybe you do have it a a way.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "it has to it has to hear the speaker", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "and um, so it could be in the television set, could be in the device, but somewhere you have to put the microphone, um and a w a way of making beeps or sounds so you can find it when it's gets lost. Um so the other w thing that we So. Our method for going about this is we've looked at uh the histo hi historical record, what's worked, what hasn't and then we also um we wanted to evaluate some new materials", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "and we contacted manufacturing for their input because, course, we m might come up and choose the material that then manufacturing didn't have the technologies or capabilities to offer us, so uh this is the approach that we took during our um our research.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "So um for the case, um we told we were making a specifica specific assumption that it would be curved in design.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Course, you know, I wanted it to be expandable and shrinkable, but um that uh doesn't seem to b be one of the choic non-option we can uh we can really seriously explore,", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "so then we were thinking about um rubber, but um unfortunately that's been eliminated because of the heat uh factor", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "and th um there might be some problems with the m uh how it's uh goes with the board. Uh and uh then th plastic also has this problem of melting and it's brittle it gets brittle after a while,", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "so um we still had titanium and and wood available, but um unfortunately uh uh titanium's also been eliminated uh,", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "the m people in manufacturing said that you couldn't make d curved cases out of titanium, although how Apple did it with th PowerBook I'm not su quite sure but uh nevertheless um they've eliminated all of our options except wood.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "At least it's environmentally friendly..", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "So, this is our finding.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "And a as she said, it's an environmentally friendly uh material, so we're we're currently uh proposing,", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "uh we'll get to all my personal preferences in just a second.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "So then there's this other matter of the chips and um well we could use a simple design on the board,", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "uh these simple chips, but that's only works for the bu you don't get very much um intelligence with this simple one. And um then there was the regular which I regret that I've forgotten exactly why I'm eliminating that one. Uh the other option was this advanced chip on print, and uh we liked th we we found that it it includes this infrared sender,", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "which w'member the beam was that was an important component of finding the right chip.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "And uh manufacturing has told us that they've um uh recently developed a uh a sensor and a speaker that would uh be integrated into this advanced chip on print, so uh we we uh now jumping right to our personal preferences um I I'd really think we should, you know, use some of uh some really exotic woods, like um,", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "you know uh, well you guys come from tropical countries so you can kinda think of some trees and some nice woods. I think that people will might really want to design their own cases, you see, they could do sort of a this um three-dimensional design on the internet, and then they could submit their orders, kinda like you submit a custom car order, you know, and you can choose the colour and the size of the wheels and the colours of the leather and things like that, and then I uh think we should go with the solar cells as well as the um microphone and speaker on the advanced chip. So this is the findings of our research", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "and my recommendations um for the new remote control w um would be to have um have it be made out of wood. Do you have any problems with that?", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Can you go back uh one slide?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "I'm not sure, how do I Oh, I know, let's see.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Thank you. Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Let's go back up here.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yes, uh question, uh, what's mean exactly, advanced chip on print? What's the meaning of that?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "I think it's um um a multiple uh chip design um and it's uh maybe printed on to the circuit board.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Uh I could find out more about that uh before the next fi next meeting.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah, is it means it's on the yeah is it on a micro-proc micro-processor based or uh.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "I don't know, but I'll find out more at our next meeting.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Okay, tha that would be great, so if you find out from the technology background, okay, so that would be good.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Sounds good.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Why was the plastic eliminated as a possible material?", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Because um it gets brittle, cracks.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Um We want we expect these um uh these remote controls to be around for several hundred years. So. Good ex Good expression..", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Whic", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Wow,", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Which.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "good expression. Well after us..", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "I don't know, speak for yourself, I'm planning to be around for a while..", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Although I think.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "I think with wood though you'd run into the same types of problems, wouldn't you, I mean it chips, it if you drop it,", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "uh it's I'm not su.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "So so you're not convinced about the the wood, yes.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "you're what?", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Actually, I'm ready to sell it.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "I think if you re if you use really good quality wood, then it might work,", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "I'm ready to sell it.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "You think? And you could you could sell oils with it, to take care of it.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "but you can't just use.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "No y no no no, the o the only w the only wood you can use are the ones that are hard, extremely hard wood,", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah, exactly, yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "but there are some very pretty woods out there.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Well I'm glad you.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "That's actually very innovative idea.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Okay, good.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Sorr having a hard time keeping wi control over my face..", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Well, it's actually a very innovative n different idea that uh you know you can choose your colour of wood, your type of wood.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "The stain.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "I mean it's each person is gonna have their own personalised, individualised speech recognition remote control in wood, that's not on the market.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah, so it it's looks good the the design the functional design uh, what about yo you?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Um, in terms of comments on this or in terms of my own.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yes, in t yes, in term in terms of comments first.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "In turns of wow..", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "She works in the cubicle next to me so she's uh she was already a little bit prepared for this.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Y yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Luckily Ed was not..", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Wood?.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "I think we can get the quality materials then it shouldn't influence the design principles too much, which you'll see with my presentation.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "One thing we'd have to check though is what the users whether how quickly the novelty wears off of having uh.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm. Yeah, you wouldn't wanna have to have splinters in your hand while you're using your.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah, for example. So, have to see how kid-friendly it is and and all that,", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "It's really good if your dog gets ahold of it, they can use it for teething.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "but.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "They do that anyway with the rubber and plastic,", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah, they do it with other materials as well, yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "so, and chew'em up. And chew'em up.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Okay then, uh, let's move to Agnes.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Sure.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Oh, I'm sorry.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "S you're.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "You are in participant three.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "One point three, yeah", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Uh, yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "This one?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "I think so, yeah. Yeah, that's the one. So, it's a very short presentation,'cause I'm actually gonna draw you the layout on the board so if you want to just go straight to the second slide, um, which basically shows, sort of.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "I took the ideas that we were talking about last time um and tried to put that into the remote control so the things that y you can actually see on it are the on off switch, volume and channel control, the menu access button, ergonomic shape, which I completely agree with Christine's idea to have it sort of molded, so it's slightly more ergonomic and comfortable to hold than the r standard very straight remote controls. And actually the other thing with the wood if we take your customising idea, is that people can actually do sort of quasi-measurements on their hand size, so if someone has larger hands, you have a wider remote control.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Right, my hand is uh different size than yours for example.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "So, that's actually a really good idea for customi customisability. Um, one thing I thought might be kind of interesting is to put a flip screen on it, just like you have on flip phones,", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "so that you don't have this case where someone sits on the remote control or accidentally puts their hand on it, especially if you have little kids around, they're not pressing the buttons while you're trying to watch a T_V_ show and accidentally change the channel or turn it off.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "And also um you had issues with the batteries running out,", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "so I thought maybe we could put a little battery life-light on it that kind of goes dimmer and dimmer and dimmer as your battery is starts to die. And in terms of invisible features, audio and um tactile feedback on button presses and, like you said, speech recognition.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "So, in terms of what this thing would actually look like.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Despite working in interface design, I'm not the greatest artist in the world, so you'll have to forgive me. You'd have something like this with an on-off switch fairly big, sort of in the corner and by itself, so you don't accidentally turn your T_V_ off while you're trying to manoeuvre other buttons. And then you have sort of one of those toggle displays for, oops, channels and volume, sort of for surfing channels and then volume, so the volume would be the up and down,'cause volume goes up and down and then channels left to right. And then here you'd have your sort of standard, telephonish number pad. And then on one side you would have an access to the menu on your T_V_", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "and on the other side a way to turn off the voice control. So that if the user doesn't want to use their voice, they can just turn it off and you don't have the remote control accidentally changing things on you.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Mm. Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Um, so again you can have a little L_C_D_ light somewhere, the flip thing and Have I forgotten anything? I don't think so. So, as you can see, it's a very very simple design,", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "No..", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "which is one of the things I really wanted to keep, is keep it simple, not have too many buttons, not have too many functionalities thrown into it. Think the design can pretty much carry over to everything, although with the wood the flip screen might have to do something slightly different.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "A hinge. Be like a copper hinge or you know.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah. But you also have to d start watching out for the weight,'cause depending on how much the the flip screen will add to the weight of the remote control, you don't want it to start getting too heavy.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm. Mm.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "But that's the general layout with the general functionalities, if we come up with something else. As you can see, there's still lots of space on the actual remote control and if you do it customisably, you can make this thing fairly small or fairly o large, depending on personal preferences.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm, mm-hmm..", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Hmm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "So, that's pretty much all I had to say, I mean, everything else in terms of design issues. Um the centering of the key pad and the channel is just depending on where your thumb is and you tend to use the the volume control and uh the browsing more than the actual number pad, so that would be sort of in direct line of where your thumb goes when you are holding the remote control,", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "the number pad a little bit lower'cause it's used less frequently.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Mm. Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "So once we decide exactly what we want, then we can figure out the exact positioning, but more or less I think it should go along those lines.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "So what's your, uh, the comments or uh s", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Simple design. It's what consumers want.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Okay", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "It's almost like, Houston, we have a product here..", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Problem is obviously gonna be cost.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Okay, I also have a f very simple presentation,", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "because for the marketing point you have to see what the consumers want.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "I also have uh copied a different type of remote. If you can find me, where I'm at. There should only be one in here. trend watch.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Sure.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "It's being modified.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "They're stealing our product. We've been giving simple questionnaires in different areas because th obviously we have to see what the com consumers are looking for today,'cause uh trends change very very quickly. In six months maybe this idea is already gone out the window, so it's gonna be a question how fast we can act. Uh they already erased the rest of mine, huh.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "No,", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "No, no.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "f go to findings.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "No no, no no.'Cause I had another comment there. Uh the market trend. This is what we know from the last uh from the questionnaires from the the all the p surveys we've done, fancy and feel-good, that's what we've been looking for, something that feels good in the hand, that's easy to use. Looking for next generation of innovation, because all the remotes out there now, they're all very similar, they all do the same thing,", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "we have to have something completely different. Okay? Easy to use, has always has become has become another major interest that uh, with the whiteboard we can see that it's a remote that's easy to use. And I think this is another thing that's interesting is the consumers actually willing to pay the price for exciting tel technology. So even if we have a product that may be more expensive, if it comes out right, if they look it looks and feels good and has technology. The second two, you can see the last one is a very easy simple design. The second one, there is about uh forty-five thousand different buttons on it, which makes it fairly hard to read, uh very hard to use.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "The first one, I see that they put in a display. Now there's something else uh with the little flip-up, now we're adding all kinds of things in,", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "but with the little flip-up, if you have a little display on the flip-up that when you close it everything is locked.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Maybe the display also makes it easier to use, because sometimes when you're looking for buttons, maybe if you see a display.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Context-sensitive instructions, depending on what the tel what mode the T_V_ or the D_V_D_ or something else is in.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Okay Because I've seen mostly the standard ones,", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Especially you might need something like that for training the speech recognition and", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "yeah. Now you have it now you have one with the very simple also. The idea is simple, but with a display, so you can see what you're doing.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "So maybe if we can incorporate the easiness of use, trendy, fancy, feels good, uh with a display, wood, designer wood, designer colours", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "You know, maybe what you could do is when somebody orders the device id you could send them like um a uh uh b some sort of a foam rubber um ball,", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": ", we might've.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Oh yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "and then they would squeeze it, and it would take the shape of their hand.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah, so it's really molded to to your specific.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "To t an and then you would know like um what the geometry of their hands would be and uh.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "How hard they squeeze?", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yes you'd know what kind of wood to get.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Resistance resistance, right..", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "But th for that you'd also have to do sort of an average across families and things like that if unless everyone has their own personal remote.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "That's right, that's right, you wouldn't wanna go too far down that. Oh that that actually would uh increase the um the revenues we could expect, yeah..", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "The sales, yeah..", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "The Yeah. I hope so.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "No, but incorporating the three uh obviously it'd be something totally new on the market, totally different", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "and from.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Well, already the customisability is a really good sort of new gimmick.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Although, what it was it uh it was uh Nokia that came out with this changeable colours.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Right, you take it apart, and put on another face, take it off and put on another face", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Right, mm.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "And that took off, yeah, yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "and then they sold millions, millions. So. So say with the f with the findings, with the research, easy to use something totally new.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "We have to come up with something totally new that is not on the market.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "We'd also have to wor um consider that uh who we were gonna get to make these custom cases in terms of manufacturing processes, we might wanna um learn about um labour laws.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "You know in different countries and stuff wher so we can do it cheap, but you don't wanna exploit uh labour in um third world countries.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "So actually you could turn it y turn around and say that you're uh par the reason the cost is high for the device is because um you're paying a a working wage to the person who made the device.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah, but we can get a production in, uh, countries like, uh, India", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Cost of living is low.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "yes, yes, countries like India or China or Malaysia, so you can go a better features and better price and you can sell more. So.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Good, well th that'd be something that manufacturing would have to um explore more", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah, yeah, so Yes.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "and to where.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Where w Where it would be manufactured is is another step.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "So Yeah, so.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "We're here to design, come up with a nice product..", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yes uh, but uh that that we can that we can talk about the production later, okay, depends on the the quantity, okay.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "So we don't need to have our own uh fabric factory or something,", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "so we can have a tie-up with who the do the fabric, okay, for the different uh electronics items, then we can have a business tie-up and to get to cut the cost, okay, to sell more. So, but uh le let's decide first about the components concept and uh interface concept, okay, if is acceptable for both of you, what uh Ed was talking. And your design whether you want with the display or without display or just a simple, so", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm. I think it depends, I mean I think it's a good idea, but we need to really think about how useful it's gonna be because theoretically with the T_V_ you already have a big display right in front of you.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Hmm.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "So, if we're trying to keep costs down, then maybe sacrificing the display is a way to go.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Hmm.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "I mean it depends on how much putting a display costs and what it would be used for.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Hmm.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "very specifically what it would be used for,", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "'cause if it's only used for one little thing, then putting in a big display case or a big display that's probably expensive just to do the training on the chip for the speech recognition or whatever, may not be the most cost-efficient way to go,", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "but that's just sort of speculation, I mean.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "What do you think Ed? Do you he liked the display in one of the concepts that you showed, um, do you know how much it costs, um, to to add a little display like this uh?", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "No. No", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Do you wanna take an action item to go find out?", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "no p spec It's'cause we have to find out cost on it.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Okay. Sorry about that.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Um, no that's no problem. I'm here for the pushing it after it's made..", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yes.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "I will market it..", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Once we get a price on it then we can market it.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "So the the advanced chip on print is what um what we've we've deci we've determined", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "and the uh engineering industrial design is the recommendation, and um I think we've kinda come to some agreement regarding um this concept of a wooden case.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm..", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "A customisable and.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Nice beautiful mahogany red wooden case..", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "What about the buttons, would Would the buttons be wood too, or.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Uh I don't think so, no,", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "I don't think so.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "I think they could be rubber like they are now,", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yes. Yes.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "so you have that tactile experience of.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Don't looks nice uh. Yeah, so uh what we'll do is, uh, we will stick with the the simple design for time being until uh th Ed find outs about the how much it's cost to the extra, in case we go for the display. Okay. So", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "maybe what you can do is uh, both of you, you can come up with the the prototype, okay, the model.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Okay?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Sure.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "So um are we done with this meeting?", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah, I hope, if is it okay if uh they will come up with the prototype design, okay. Then they can show you how it looks like, and then we can uh submit to the I will submit to the management. Okay? Then meantime you can come up with the price, how much it's cost as extra for uh the display.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "An and the marketing strategy, that's very important, okay.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "And a marketing strategy.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "And marketing strategy, thank you.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yes. How much you can.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Fired..", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "how mu how much how much you can sell extra.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Of course you'll make money too,", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "so it it's not only pay-out, you make money too, your commission.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Okay, so, any questions?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "No.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "So, by next meeting, so, please come up with the the prototype, okay, then uh, then we can proceed from there.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "It's okay?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "So thanks for all your uh efforts and coming for the meeting again, and see you soon then. 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bc3cc40c363e4d62903e67317467e775	{ "meetingId": "TS3005b", "transcriptSegments": [ { "text": "Good morning, again.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "One question.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah..", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Send.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Choose a number?.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Submit..", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yep yep yep yep.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "All set?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm. Yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Good. Okay. Let's see what we can find here. Okay. A very warm welcome again to everyone.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Um here we are already at our uh functional design meeting. Um and this is what we are going to do. The opening, which we are doing now, um and the special note, I'm project manager but on the meetings I'm also the secretary, which means I will make uh minutes as I did of the previous meeting.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "And uh I also put these as fast as possible in the uh project folder, so you can see them and review what we have discussed. Um if I'm right, there are three presentations, I guess each one of you has prepared one? Good.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yes.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "And um we will also take a look at new project requirements, um if you haven't heard about them yet. And then of course we have to take a decision on the remote control functions and we have some more time, forty minutes. But I think we will need it. Um well I don't know who wants to go first with his presentation.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "I'll go first. Okay. I'll go first yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "You can go first, okay.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Well.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Well, shall I go first with the users?", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Well.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "I think well okay no problem..", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Is there an order? I haven't.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "everybody already has his presentation,", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Ja precies, ja precies, ja precies", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "so you can adjust it..", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "So. Huh? Okay, um.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "And one question, uh your name Denni, is it with a", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "E_I_E_.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "I_E_ E_I_E_, okay. Thank you.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Okay, um I wanted to explain the working design of the remote control. It's possibly very handy if you want to uh design one of those. Um well so it basically works uh as I uh uh r wrote down uh in this uh little uh summary. Uh when you press a button, uh that's when you do pr for example when you uh want to turn up the volume, um a little connection is made uh the the rubber uh button just presses on a", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Sorry..", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "on a little print plate uh which uh makes uh uh a connection that uh gives the chips, uh which is uh mounted beneath those uh that plastic of a rubber button. Uh senses that a connection has been made, and know and knows what button you pressed, becau uh for example the the volume up or volume down button. Um uh the the chip uh makes a Morse code uh like uh signal which uh then is si uh signalled to uh several transistors which makes uh which sends the signal to a little let. You know what a let is?", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Okay. And that makes uh the the infra-red lights signal which is sent to the television set. Uh which has a sensor in it to uh sense uh the signal of the infra-red. That's basically uh how it works. Um the findings uh uh that I found uh searching up some uh detailed information about the remote controls, are that uh they are very easy to produce, uh it is pis uh it's possible to uh make them in mass production because it is as eas it is as easy as uh printing a page, uh just uh fibreglass plate um is b uh is uh covered with uh some uh coatings and uh uh and chips.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Uh and the technology's already available, we don't have to find out how remote controls uh have to work or uh how that how uh to make some chips that are possible to uh to to transmit those uh signals. Uh I made a little uh uh animation of about how a tran our uh remote controller works.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Oh right.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Animation..", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "we tel", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "There is something turning.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "There.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah, it's a little bug it's in the in the smart board..", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Okay. Uh well", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "the sub-component, I suppose that you understand what a sub-component is, is f in this example it's the button. Uh when it is pressed down, um, the switch is ter is uh is switched on, so with uh the wire is sent to the to the chip in uh co-operation with the battery of course, because to make uh a a signal possible you have to have some sort of uh li uh a d ad uh electronic uh.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Infrared light.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yes, uh, okay. Um w after it's being composed by the chip uh the signal uh is transported uh to the infra-red bulb, and from there it signals a Morse code-like signal to the to the b to the bulb in uh in the television set. Okay. S Uh I wrote down some personal preferences about uh the remote control. Of course it is very handy if the remote control is hand held, so you don't have to uh uh wind it up or something, or just is it's it's very light to uh to make uh to use it. Uh I personally uh pref prefer that uh it would be p uh come available in the various colours, and uh easy to use buttons. But I suppose that the one of the other team members uh uh thought of that uh too..", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah, I've got it there too..", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "And it is possible for several designs and um easy to use b uh sorry, easy to use buttons. Perhaps soft touch, uh touch screen uh buttons because uh the rubber buttons are always uh uh they uh slightly uh they can be slightly damaged,", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "uh so the numbers on the buttons are not possible uh to read anymore. And uh well as I said uh before th uh we can uh make several designs..", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Okay, well, that's my contribution to this meeting, and uh", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "To this meeting..", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Okay, thank you.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "two of these this meeting. So.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Shall I go uh next?", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yep.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "'Kay.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Please.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "So.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Smoking.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Well uh, my name's, and I looked at uh technical functions design of the remote. Uh I did this by uh looking at examples of other remote controls, of how they uh they look, and information from the web that I found. Um well what I found was that uh th the actual use of the remote control is to send messages to television set, how you uh d what you described uh just early. And this can be all sorts of medsa messages, turn it on, turn it off, uh change the channel, adjust volume, that kind of thing. Uh play video, teletext, but also t uh play C_D_ if you use it your C_D_ player the remote control will that one. There are some uh examples of remote controls. You can see they are very different. The one has got all the functions that you could possibly need and an lot of uh buttons etcetera. And the other is uh more user friendly, little with big buttons. And uh not n all the the the the stuff you can do with it, but uh the the essential stuff is there. Um I guess you could better y you should look at a a user centred uh approach, because the customers have to use them and and if they don't think it's usable they won't uh buy it. A lot of buttons they may think from I don't need s as much as that. Uh, well perf personal preferences is is uh a simple remote, with uh the basic functions that you can need that you could use. But uh keep in mind the new functions of T_V_ what we discussed earlier, split screen and uh is that a function that you should have? Because all the T_V_s will have them. Or because of only a few and isn't really necessary. And then uh make it I would make so that you can could uh use it on more than one appliance. If you have one that uh uh does with the vi the the video, it could also work with uh with the stereo, because play is play and stop stop and that sort of thing. The shu c you could reuse the buttons so that you don't have to have a lot of buttons for uh anything. And it should be a user friendly, clear buttons, and not too much. And that is my presentation.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Okay, thank you.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Okay..", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "'Kay. Check..", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "You must still have it open.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Kijke'Kay, so. We're going to j discuss the functional requirements of the remote, that m that means that functions user n want to have on the remote control, or just Yeah, and the users, actually.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "The methods I I prefer is we're going to look which section of the users we are going to focus a l on more. Are the younger people going to buy the remote control or the elderly people? And then tho that section we're going to focus and adjust the remote more to that section than the whole user section. Okay. Some data. Younger people, from sixteen to thir forty five um years are more interested in fj features like L_C_D_ screens, speech recognition e etcetera. And we possess about two third of the market from in that range of age. The elderly people, from forty five years to sixty five years are not that much interested in features, and we possess less than two third, that's two fifth, of the market share in that area. Goed so.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Hmm.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "'Kay. Findings. Fifty percent of the users lose their remote often.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "So we don't have to make it very small, like uh like a mobile phone or something, but some somewhat bi bigger than small, so you don't lose it that much anymore. Seventy five percent of the users also find it ugly,", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "and fif seventy five of the users zap a lot, so the buttons sh should be that small, or shouldn't be that complex because we have to search for the buttons, which one are you going to use. Next. Important issues about the remote. I think it would be better with a personal reference, but okay. Remote control has to have to have a low power usage, because s w seventy five percent of the users only zap one time an hour, so the power usage is also one one time an hour, or so, with a high power usage we would use a lot of but batteries. The volume button and the channel buttons are the two most important buttons on the remote control, so those they those have to h be find very easily. And have to be somewhat like bigger etcetera. It has also be have to find easily when the label is gone. My colleague also announced it that labels should be scratched off", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Hmm.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "or would be s uh senden.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "okay. So uh if that's k uh if that's the problem, you also have to find it easily on the remote. Buttons. Like what all colleagues said, have to have to be minimalized. or should be covered, or in L_C_D_ screen. L_C_D_ screen is easy because we have the L_C_D_ screen, we have the various options. Put one option and then you have the all the buttons of that options, so the other options would be gone. And you don't see the buttons. So L_C_D_ screens should be easy, but an L_C_D_ screen, the problem with the L_ sc L_C_D_ screen is that elderly people fr from forty five to for sixty five years don't use the L_C_D_ screen a lot. So we have to that keep that in mind that if you're going to implement L_C_D_ screen, you don't have to make it that hard to learn or to use.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Uh L_C_D_ screen as in uh touch screen?", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah, touch screen, yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "The last but not least, younger people are more critical about the features. Because they use the remote control often more often, and are more technical than the ol older people. And the older people spend more money, and easily on a remote control.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "'Kay.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "So we have to keep in mind to to focus not a lot not that much on the younger pep younger people, but also somewhat on the elderly people. And on my personal preferences, I don't have any mo more time to come with that,", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "but like I said, L_C_D_ screen is easily to use", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "because you have you can implement a lot of buttons in one remote with not that much buttons. And it should be easy to use. Especially the volume buttons, the channel buttes buttons and the number buttons to zap through the channels. And that is it.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Okay,", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Okay..", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "thank you.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Oh right..", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Um, well thank you all, huh. I dunno uh did everyone receive an email with uh the new project requirements?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "No. Res I did not.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "No? Well,", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Perhaps the rest?", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "No.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "then I think it's a good thing that I made a separate slide of them", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Ja,.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "so you can all read them. Oh, well not in this presentation. Hmm", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Should be in there. Well, I can tell you them uh from my laptop. Um teletext does has become outdated since the popularity of the internet.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Oh. Mm.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "So that's uh the first thing we I think we should pay less attention to uh teletext. Uh the remote control should only be used for the television, otherwise the project becomes more complex, which endangers the time to market, and of course would make it more costly, I think. Um our current customers are within the age group of forty plus, and new product should reach a new market with customers that are younger than forty, and you talked about that before. And uh a last point, but also very important, our corporate image should stay recognisable in our products, which means that our uh corporate colour and slogan must be implemented in the new design. So we have to keep that in mind. Um well uh according to our agenda it's then time to take a decision on the remote control functions. So, who has any idea about what should be on it, and what shouldn't?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Well you said it should only uh work with one appliance?", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Be television.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Or with one uh d che only the T_V_?", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah. Only be used for television.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "And the video also, or not uh?.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Well it says only for television here, huh.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Only the television.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Oh. Alright. Okay..", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Makes it a lot easier, huh?.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "So yeah, then you can yeah. Requirements, no? Functions.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Then it should have uh on, off,", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah for.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "and uh.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Standby options,", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah, the basics then by a volume, channel, one till two zero numbers on it,", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "yeah? Uh yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah. And per perhaps uh.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "oh teletext doesn't have to be?", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "No.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Um other functions.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Well uh uh yes yes s sh A button where you can uh change from one number to two numbers.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah I had.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Two s two two digits,", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah, yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Can you.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "oh okay.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Don't know if that's got a name,", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah I understand what you mean. Yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "but.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "I think it's I think it's easy to implement a button with a s s what which especially do that, because some T_V_s, if you press the t one and then the two, it be between five secs it make twelve,", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "It makes it twelve, yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah. S", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Indeed. Okay.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "and that's that's not relaxed", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Well, not really.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "to user.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "And and there are some models that don't uh accommodate that function. So", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "d uh wh the Philip's television makes it possible in that indeed to uh press one and then two to make uh the uh tj to reach channel twelve.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "So that it easy and fast.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "But uh all the television makes uh use of those button where you first press that button and then press two digits to uh to get", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah. Yeah, so you should have that one on.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Uh yeah, think so.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Our main targets' age are? were? Forty five plus, or?", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Mute misschien also.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Uh well", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "new product should reach a market with customers that are younger than forty, and now we have current customers uh of forty plus.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Forties, okay because because younger people as Uh younger people have now, sixteen till to twenty five age, are f eighty one percent interested in L_C_D_ screen. From twenty six to thirty five have sixty six percent, and thirty six to forty five, fifty five percent, so I think to um Because on most recog remote controls um the print plate will be broken how much, two years. You have to press h very hard to go to the next channel.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "With the L_C_D_ screen it's easier because you only have to wipe the screen to uh for fingerprint,", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah, we we could yeah. But I think that uh that collides with our mission to make it very cheap.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "and then you can use it again.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Because L_C_D_ screens are very expensive.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah, okay.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "An", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "A touch screen uh probably uh even more.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah but a you don't know.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "So,", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "True.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "true, true.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "But uh Well um is it possible to make an L_C_D_ screen uh, how was the information?", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah, it only says that this perce percentage like L_C_D_ screen. Because, yeah and it says that younger age between sixteen and forty five highly interesting features more critical.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "So perhaps we should we should focus on that L_C_D_ screen.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "And if the only f Yeah, because our target is sixteen to forty five.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "But, do you.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah but uh will we not uh exceed our uh our uh production uh.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah you don't know how much it costs. Yeah, you don't know how much it costs, the L_C_D_ screen.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Is it possible to find out, anyway?", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "No, I don't have any costs here,", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "You know?", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "I only have percentages.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "But if you would do an L_C_D_ screen do we have don don't you have any buttons? Or because if it only directs at the T_V_, then you only have uh I don't know what you want to do with the L_C_D_ screen.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "No, an L_C_D_ screen's just like uh like a drawn here. Um just uh displays several buttons,", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah?", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "for example um if you wanted the minimal uh use b uh buttons, such as channel and volume, you just h uh displays four buttons on the screen", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Oh right, so you can.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "and it's possible to p uh press them down, just like a touch screen.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Oh, yeah alright. So you can adjust which buttons you want on that s screen.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah, we can make it possible to do that, yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah, if you want to adjust, like for example, adjust the audio settings, you press audio on the touchscreen", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "and you get the buttons for audio settings,", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah alright, oh right.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "so the other buttons are gone.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah, yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "So we're going for an L_C_D_ screen?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah. Would be yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "I think it's the most easier thing,", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "That's my uh.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "And hoping that when we produce a lot it won't be too expensive.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Well we had twelve fifty, I guess, for uh production?", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "No. Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Twelve fifty.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Um.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Any guesses?.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Well I suppose wi if the mar if our um if the i if the young people are interested in L_C_D_ screens, we should make'em.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Highly.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "And if that is our d uh market share to uh and our goal to uh deliver those uh remote controls.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "But But he also said that we should not only focus on the younger people, but also on the older, and will they use it if it only has an L_C_D_ screen?", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah, but Um, s forty six to forty five, thirty three percent, and sixty fifty six to sixty five twelve percent.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Oh, so still a little bit people.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "But our our our what's it, project requirements are the new products should be reached for new markets, to customers that are younger than forty.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah that's right. But you don't want to alienate the other uh.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "No, that not now, but, so.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "But if they also buy it then it's alright. I guess.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah, but market share fro for for forty years and younger is higher than that of sixty five and younger.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah. Alright.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Okay, so L_C_D_ it is?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "An Yes.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm. It's treasure.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "And what else?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "I hope we uh h and let's hope to reach those uh those sales.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah, i i if it Yeah, if it costs gets too much, too expensive, then yeah, we should be sticking to rubber buttons.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah, can you um uh s I think that that they will send you some information about uh the cost of L_C_D_ uh screens.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah..", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "N nothing, no costs at all.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "But perhaps later,", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Uh so if you uh.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "so uh.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah, so if you uh you receive an email about that, uh can you post it in the or shouldn't we post that in uh our projects mail uh folder.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah, in.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "I think that should yeah I think we all get the costs of everything.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "I don't.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Because you are the the Marketing uh Expert.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah, okay, I'll I'll post it.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "I uh.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Well perhaps we should have a backup plan that we would use buttons if it's uh too expensive.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah sure, sure.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah, okay. But for now it's L_C_D_. Okay.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Okay, L_C_D_, yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Then you have the seventy five percent of users find it r ugly.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "The L_C_D_? Oh that's a bit of a problem..", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah, and eighty percent of the users would spend more money with a when a remote would look fancy.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Oh, that's a bit of a problem.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Tha i l i it'll look fancy with L_C_D_ screen. Yeah..", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "It's looks fancy one yeah, of L_C_D_ screen.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah, but they don't they don't like it.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "They think it's ugly. When it has an L_C_D_ screen.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah, just a the plain remotes, not not specific L_C_D_ remotes.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Oh, alright, I thought that you said that.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah, and maybe you can make something fancy out of an L_C_D_ remote,", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "So.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "because it's new, as far as I know..", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Mm yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah, of course.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "And then not yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "And then you have the other thing, that seventy five percent zap a lot, but that's not a f question with the L_C_D_ screen.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Um. Yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Only thing you have to do is wipe the screen off once each time, to get all the fingerprints off it.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Mm. Okay?", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Okay, what else does our remote need?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "A mute button.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Um.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Mute button.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "I think. And.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "The most important things on a f on an on an uh remote control are channel selection, volume con selection,", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "and power s power usage.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "And a teletext, but that is not of the question.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "But But shouldn't you put a button of for teletext on the for the people who want to use it?", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Other things are Sorry?", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Remembering we have got a big remote that you have to fill..", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah, it could be. Yeah..", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm. Yeah, and we could make an a a separate menu on the L_C_D_ uh screen for teletext.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah, teletext.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "And there's also a.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "And other other less important things are screen settings, audio settings, and channel settings,", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah, they are less important, but I think they should be there,", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Less important.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "or not?", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah, should be there,", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "A sh", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "but not press.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "but in a sub sub-menu or something like that.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah, sub-menu, yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Uh I think it's also important to uh make it possible to um how do you call it in English, uh, to not use batteries, and use ac uh bat uh batteries to uh to be.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Like with a with a mouse, you have not, yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "yeah yeah sure. Indeed. So uh you can mount uh the the the uh", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah, in a breath it's.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "uh the remote control to um", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Charted.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "We should think of the twelve fifty we have", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "to refill the.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "but.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah,", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "I don't know how much that's going to uh.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "but we don't we don't have any costs now,", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah. Okay,", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "so Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "because i uh when you get an L_C_D_ screen, you run it on batteries,", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "the batteries will be uh empty very soon, very fast.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah e e power supply is one of the most important things.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "You should Perhaps you should be able to to switch the control off.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "If you have an L_C_D_ screen that's burns all the time I dunno.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah, yeah. Yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "You shouldn't on and off because that's ver extra, that you have t first you have to turn the remote on, and then you can uh.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "I don't know.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Uh.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah, I think it's it's not that easy because I don't think people will like it who who uh that you have to turn it on first and then use it,", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Nee that's that's uh yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "so I think it's better when th the T_V_ shuts down, the remote shuts down.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "But then you can't.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "And go to standby mode when you don't use it,", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "so that.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah yeah au automac matically, that it yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah, automatically. After two minutes or three minutes, something like that.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah. After two minutes, yeah two three minutes, yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah. And maybe a low battery indicator? On the screen.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah. Sure.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "And then b that uh", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "before an hour when its get again gets empty.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Then you have plenty of time to recharge it,", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "of put it in a recharger. Charger.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "So we are going for the for the recharger.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah, if it's. Uh.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "If it's sensible..", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah, because when you're watching T_V_, you're zapping and you have to put it in a recharger,", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah. Yeah, b when the batteries are low.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "No,", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "and I don't think it.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "when you when you're done with s uh w uh watching your television, you have to put it.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah, okay, but then we have to be sure that the the the the batteries go hours, six hours, five, six hours, then.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "But you'll also forget to put it in,", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah sure, of course.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "because you throw it on the couch", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah,", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah,", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "but.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "then you have a problem.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "and you don't remember.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "But you also forget to buy batteries,", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah. That's right.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "and then you can you can't use it,", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "so I.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Or we have to be sure that the batteries last couple of days when they're recharged.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Well I think the batteries should should w should work a lot longer than a couple of days,", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "So.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "or not?", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah because you have b", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "'Cause.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "but you have L_C_D_ screen.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah, that's right, but.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "High power usage.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "High power user cell, i uh it should be uh a standard move to to put your remote control in the charger when you're done watching television,", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yes.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "that's also a a a great advantage because you can't lose it anymore. Because you are obliged to uh put it in the charger and not to uh leave it in a couch uh between some cushions.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "True. Yeah. Yeah. True.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah. Right..", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah, you made a point there.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "But then you also have to s have somewhere where you can put a remo recharger near your couch", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah, also.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "because otherwise you have to walk a long way when you twoft want to turn on the T_V_.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah, otherwise all your yeah. Just a small device.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah. I think everything has it for and I guess.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah it hasn't It doesn't have to be big.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Plug it in, that's it. Yeah, like a like telephone charger or something.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah just just a cable, or a even a a a a a charger where you can mount it on. Something like that,", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah. Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "just u", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Alright.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Okay, well I've", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "It has to be easy to use also, or things. Uh market share, speaker re speech recognition.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah, you have some more", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "points.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Functional designs uh for the elderly uh you could make it possible to enlarge the screen,", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "I think.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "so make it possible to not uh display uh a button at ten points", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Also.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "uh, or.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Well I think that this should be standard. Large button large buttons.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah but it is uh one of the functions you have to uh specify.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah? Okay.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Because we can look at uh uh perhaps uh forty buttons at a screen, but the elderly only look at two buttons.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": ".", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "And you said something about speech recognition?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah,", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Speech recognition?", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "it says also.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Hello.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah,", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Twelve Euro", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "twelve fifty, twelve fifty..", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "twelve Euro fifty.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Twelve. That's an also ninety one percent sixteen to twenty five, twenty six to thirty five years, seventy six percent, and thirty six to forty five, thirty five percent.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "So it's pretty big.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Well, spread it by a big market.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "But then I I I.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Even bigger than for L_C_D_..", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah. W I know let's do a speech..", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Well", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "let's leave out all the remote controls and just put a microphone on top of the television to.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah. Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah. Ninety. Twenty five.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "You can clap or something..", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah Yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "channel.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Turn volume up.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Hey, that that's an idea..", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Now you shouldn't say the wrong thing, I dunno.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Okay, well", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah..", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "that should it has to be remote control, not.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah,", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "twelve.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "But they want to talk into the remo remote control, or something,", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Sure why not why not.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "or?.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Is this only would you would you pay more for speech recognition in a remote control. It's the only thing it says.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah, mm.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Oh, but do we want to implement that, or?", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "I think an L_C_D_ screen should be suf sufficient.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "But when you look at the percentages.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah, it says a lot, but.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Speech recognition scores even higher, huh?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Perhaps the options should be uh Why not?", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah, well,", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Why not?", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "maybe because of the cost, but uh nobody knows uh how much uh it will cost uh.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Let's hope uh to have some uh d", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "I know.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "No I think I think it's better to have L_ L_C_D_ screen, because in the area of tw thirty six to forty five, we have about thirty percent of the market share in in our hands, and fifty five of those people want L_C_D_ screen and thirty five want speech recognition. So I think it's better to keep it with L_C_D_ screen.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "But would it be useful to imple implement both?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "On one remote?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah, if the costs al allow it..", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Or.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Well.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah, I dunno.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "I don't know if that can be done with the cost of twelve fifty.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Nee.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "With that uh.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "If it should be done, if it could be done, I won't matter. Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah,", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "We should do it. Yeah. Sure.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "but how would you like to implement that, that you say volume up, and then it goes up,", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "or?", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Uh.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Certain systems already exist, I think.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Then you also have to have different languages if we go international. Then uh it's y it's yours to do a French and Dutch and English", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "True.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "True, yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah. True.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "But that should also be with f should be also with L_C_D_ screen.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "This should be uh accommodated with some software, uh, uh. Yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Because then I think in Chinese is different written, volume is different written than um Swahili or something.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah, that's right. Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Right. Swahili. Swahili.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah you can use icons for the", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "a speaker and uh.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Ja, well possible.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Indeed.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "But if that's better than language for the for the remote.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah, yeah yeah yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah. So we want to uh yeah it's international uh okay.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Then it's Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "'Kay, what else?", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "So, no speech recognition? Or.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Well, if it could be done, we.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah,", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Y it should be done. If it could be done, should be done.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "we have to keep Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah..", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah, and then we have different languages.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah, that should be uh anything matters.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "That's not so difficult at all,", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Okay, just make a separate remote for each uh.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "because I already use on several voice operated systems, and they are all possible to uh not all, but.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Well, you sh you should to adjust the thing.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "I think it's difficult. Every language of dialects.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "I think it's very differen difficult.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "And you have to speak the so that it can understand.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah. I think it can't be implemented, but maybe.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "You could use that n as an option, if you have money left, or something..", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah,'s an option, yes.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah, sure, indeed.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Fifty Euro cents.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Let's do speech.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "For speech recognition.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Okay, so we only do this when we have enough money left.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah..", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Okay. Well I've written down an an on or off button, volume selection, channel selection, uh the digits from one to zero, huh. Um or from zero to nine. Uh a digits button to switch uh between one and two digits, mute button, a separate menu for teletext, a battery indicator. Um we're going to use a docking station and uh probably L_C_D_ and if there's enough money, speech recognition. And uh the possibility to uh enlarge buttons or to have large buttons", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm. Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Mm, yes.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "in general.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "I With uh teletext if it wasn't ver very important, it was but.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "No, but.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "You also now have colours. I don't know if we should implement that. Yeah,", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Curved?", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "when you press the red button, you go to page one hundred two, and when you press the.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Uh yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "I don't know if we should implement that,", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Um.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "because it says that teletext not really important,", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "S Shortcuts. Uh.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "but yeah, the shortcut, and you can't go to sport.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "I think we should we could that we could also implement a audio settings, screen settings and channel settings, but as sub-menus.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "D Mainly if you turn the uh remote control on, you have to u you have to see from one till zero, channel and volume. And if you want to use teletext screen or audio, then you can press it.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Sh Yeah, just just sub-menu. Yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "It should be available but not", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "'Cause it should be there.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Not directly uh available.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "not Yeah. Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Okay, so not too much teletext support, but in a separate menu, and.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "So actually it is there but it's just not r ready there.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah, but s", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Directly available.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "So does it confuse uh the user?", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "You'll have to search for it..", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "They'd have to be easy to use.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Uh. I'll search um.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "If you want to use teletext, you can push the teletext button and then the options uh become available.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah. Yeah, that's a.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "The sign of it.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Okay, but no more buttons or functions, or?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "I guess not.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "No.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Uh, no. What else can you do with a television?", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "We've got anon", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Aren't we forgetting something very important?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Have got got two examples here, but I don't think there's anything we're missing.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Uh play, pause, doesn't n need to be there.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Well, we don't have the video orders.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yes, so this is your presentation. We could check the other remote controls with technical functions.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah, you could look here all the the.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Which ones were yours?", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Uh th th th th I don't know, technical functions.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Techni", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "They're a bit small, you can we should stretch them, because.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Ping.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Ja ja ja ja ja. Technical functions. Yeah okay.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "I guess we've got them all.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Uh I think I go to have volume, mute but I Yeah. Very slow. Yeah, the zoom buttons.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "And for a T_V_? Can you zoom in a T_V_?", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah, b wide screen, high screen, different things you have,", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Or that you can put'em on uh on on wide and.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "yeah different uh.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "But that should also be a sub then, a sub uh menu thing.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Menu.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah it should be available, but then in separate screen settings or something.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah, so we should also implement se screen settings.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah, screen settings, audio settings, teletext settings you have.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Oh right. Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Channel settings.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah, so you can program the.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "So those four, and of course the main.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah, so the first you see the main, and the other ones you can uh go to uh.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah. Yeah. Like tap screens or something", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "or, I dunno.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "I hope we can do this..", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Something.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "There are a lot of options depending uh on what kind of television you got.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah, if uh.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "'Cause if you don't got a wide screen television you don't need the uh the screen settings", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "No, you don't yu a no you then you don't no ni don't.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "uh for uh.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "then you don't use it.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah and if the television does not support such uh operations", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "We don't have to use that top. Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "So you leave it alone.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah. Or it could be possible to have a a standard version of the remote, an expanded version.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah. And do we want them in different colours, or.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "And and the buttons, should they have colours?", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Colours. Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Colours I think the main colour of the remote control is uh the colour of the L_C_D_ screen.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Oh but we don't have any buttons. Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "I Because we don't want a lot a devi yeah a device self s g", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah, then defines itself. Because uh how many percent? Eighty percent?", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "They think it's ugly, right?", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Would spend more money if it looks fancy.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Okay, so use uh very uh lot of peo.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Perhaps you can uh make adjustable fronts, like with the telephones.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Adjust with phones, yes.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "You can uh But I don't think that uh.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Okay. Twelve Euro fifty. Well, make it available in different colours, you mean?", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Sure.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah..", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Red, white, blue, black..", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "And a see-through uh", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Rasta colours.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Grey.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah sea view, yes, Simpson's versions and.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah, see through version. Yeah. If you press a button, it turns green.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Okay, well", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Leave..", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "that's the", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "A disco version.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "signal for las final five minutes.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Five minutes?", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Um so I have uh the things I just read. Um then we have uh separate menus for teletext, screen settings, audio settings, and what else?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Channel settings?", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Oh yeah, right.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Channel settings.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "So you can program the T_V_.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Perhaps you should you'd throw them on on in one pile. So, options, and then you sub them.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah. Could be possible.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Otherwise you have all those teletext, perhaps teletext not,", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "but.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Or like uh you have a menu button, you press.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "No, we said teletext also a separate menu.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah, but I.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah, or otherwise you have a menu button, press menu then you have uh main uh menu search uh all the all the settings.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah. Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Okay, but we can work that out later, I guess.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "But.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah, no problem. Yep.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "So we're having a a general menu with the most used functions, uh teletext, screen settings, audio settings, channel settings, and maybe there are options for the remote itself? Like uh large icons or small icons", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "I don't know.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "and I don't know what else,", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Um,", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "but.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "No.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "I think b because we don't have a lot of buttons on the one screen,", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Or do we have any buttons? On the remote.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "I think the buttons Yeah, but but or like you have", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Which one?", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "you only have channel button or volume button. Those buttons you can you can.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah, but on the L_C_D_,", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "But that's also in the L_C_D_,", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "huh?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "right?", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Right, yeah, okay..", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "So we don't have any normal buttons", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah, th", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "that uh.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "No, no normal buttons, yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "No, alright.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Maybe only the on and o on and off button.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yet on and off is p is perhaps you kno", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "But we don't need a special.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Uh not button.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "But I don't think.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "we don't need a special options menu for the remote itself.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "No, no.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Mm, no.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Oh well, you should be able to set which T_V_ you have. If you have if you have uh.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah sure, of course you need uh a settings button, uh or a settings option for the remote control.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah. But isn't idea to use uh uh what you said, uh normal on and off button for the T_V_, that you don't have to use a.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "No no no, because we we discussed that you could charge it, otherwise is it it jumps to stand-by mode automatically.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah but but not for the remote but for the T_V_, that you use.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah, but a T_V_ of course, th that's the I think that's a best thing is that to implement that one in the menu with the volume and channel.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "But a not as normal button, in the L_C_D_,", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "No.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Well maybe there should be a separate button apart from the L_C_D_,", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "because you can't turn it on when the L_C_D_ is off. So how do you turn the thing on? There has to be a on button on the remote,", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "No you just tap I think.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "huh?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Just tap it.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah, you tap.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Tap the thing. Okay.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Touch screen, yeah then it's turn turn off, turn on.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "And then the television is on also, or just the remote?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "No, just the remote.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "But.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "A television don't have to be on, that one you can press on,", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah, it should be in standby mode, but.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "yeah stand-by, then press on remote, press on and then T_V_ should be available. Or not.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah a yeah. I don't know whether it's handy to have a n a normal on button, a r just uh rubber uh for for T_V_,", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Separate.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "so you can turn it on and then you can choose the channel. Otherwise you I don't know whether or not that's.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "A A A normal button on the remote control,", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah, yeah. To turn it on.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "or norm?", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Of or you should put it in the L_C_D_ screen.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah, because uh when you touch the L_C_D_ screen when it is in standby mode, it should pop on.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah, I have,", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Okay, well.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Wh uh why would it be a a need to have a normal button?", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Well I I guess if you use the L_C_D_ screen, you first have to search where is the on button, then you uh you you then turn it, and then the T_V_ goes on. But if you have a normal on button on the on the remote, then you do the on, and then you search the channel which you want.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah, but I think the re the remote control, if you press tap the screen, it always should jump to the screen which has the volume button, channel button, and of course of also the on and off button.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Oh right.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "I think it looks a lot more fancy if you use uh if you don't have any buttons on the s on on remote control.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah, I think so too. Otherwise y wet e k Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "So actually we're going to create a a button-less uh remote. No buttons at all.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah..", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Okay, well that's might be a unique selling point, huh for a remote.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "If we can afford it..", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Okay, well I guess we have to", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Oh, okay.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah, if we can afford it. Yeah..", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "postpone further discussion to uh our next meeting, because we're running out of time. Um for now, we're having a lunch break,", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Oh.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "and then there will be uh half an hour for the uh next share of individual work. I will uh write uh minutes, if I can create them out of this. And uh put them in the the project documents uh folder.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "And here are the individual actions for the for the other roles. And of course specific instructions will be sent to you again by your uh personal coach.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Alright.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Luckily as we are. 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Sort of off - topic I guess.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "Oh, OK.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "Cuz that's Cuz that was all all about the, uh I I I can chat with you about that off - line. That's another thing. Um, And, Anything else? Nothing else? Uh, there's a I mean, there is a a, um uh telephone call tomorrow, which will be a conference call that some of us are involved in for uh a possible proposal. Um, we'll talk we'll talk about it next week if if something.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "Do you want me to be there for that? I noticed you C C' ed me, but I wasn't actually a recipient. I didn't quite know what to make of that.", "speakerName": "Grad H" }, { "text": "Uh Well, we'll talk talk about that after our meeting. OK.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "OK.", "speakerName": "Grad H" }, { "text": "Uh, OK. So it sounds like the the three main things that we have to talk about are, uh this list, uh Jane and Jane and Adam have some research items, and, other than that, anything, as usual, anything goes beyond that. OK, uh, Jane, since since you were sort of cut off last time why don't we start with yours, make sure we get to it.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "OK, it's it's very eh it's very brief, I mean just let me just hand these out. Oops.", "speakerName": "Postdoc F" }, { "text": "Is this the same as the email or different?", "speakerName": "Grad H" }, { "text": "Thanks.", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "It's slightly different. I basically the same.", "speakerName": "Postdoc F" }, { "text": "OK.", "speakerName": "Grad H" }, { "text": "Same idea?", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "But, same idea. So, if you've looked at this you've seen it before, so Basically, um as you know, uh part of the encoding includes a mark that indicates an overlap. It's not indicated with, um uh, tight precision, it's just indicated that OK, so, It's indicated to to so the people know what parts of sp which which stretches of speech were in the clear, versus being overlapped by others. So, I used this mark and, um and, uh uh, divided the I wrote a script which divides things into individual minutes, of which we ended up with forty five, and a little bit. And, uh you know, minute zero, of course, is the first minute up to sixty seconds.", "speakerName": "Postdoc F" }, { "text": "OK.", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "And, um What you can see is the number of overlaps and then to the right, whether they involve two speakers, three speakers, or more than three speakers. And, um and, what I was looking for sp sp specifically was the question of whether they're distributed evenly throughout or whether they're bursts of them. Um. And it looked to me as though uh, you know y this is just eh eh, this would this is not statistically verified, but it did look to me as though there are bursts throughout, rather than being localized to a particular region. The part down there, where there's the maximum number of of, um overlaps is an area where we were discussing whether or not it would be useful to indi to s to code stress, uh, sentence stress as possible indication of, uh information retrieval. So it's like, you know, rather, lively discussion there.", "speakerName": "Postdoc F" }, { "text": "What was what's the the parenthesized stuff that says, like e the first one that says six overlaps and then two point eight?", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "Oh, th That's the per cent.", "speakerName": "Postdoc F" }, { "text": "Mmm.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "So, six is, uh two point eight percent of the total number of overlaps in the session.", "speakerName": "Postdoc F" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Ah.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "At the very end, this is when people were, you know, packing up to go basically, there's this final stuff, I think we I don't remember where the digits fell. I'd have to look at that. But the final three there are no overlaps at all. And couple times there are not.", "speakerName": "Postdoc F" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "So, i it seems like it goes through bursts but, um that's kind of it.", "speakerName": "Postdoc F" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Now, Another question is is there are there individual differences in whether you're likely to be overlapped with or to overlap with others. And, again I want to emphasize this is just one particular um one particular meeting, and also there's been no statistical testing of it all, but I, um I took the coding of the I, you know, my I had this script figure out, um who was the first speaker, who was the second speaker involved in a two - person overlap, I didn't look at the ones involving three or more. And, um this is how it breaks down in the individual cells of who tended to be overlapping most often with who who else, and if you look at the marginal totals, which is the ones on the right side and across the bottom, you get the totals for an individual. So, um If you look at the bottom, those are the, um numbers of overlaps in which um Adam was involved as the person doing the overlapping and if you look I'm sorry, but you're o alphabetical, that's why I'm choosing you And then if you look across the right, then that's where he was the person who was the sp first speaker in the pair and got overlap overlapped with by somebody.", "speakerName": "Postdoc F" }, { "text": "Hmm!", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "And, then if you look down in the summary table, then you see that, um th they're differences in whether a person got overlapped with or overlapped by.", "speakerName": "Postdoc F" }, { "text": "Is this uh just raw counts or is it.", "speakerName": "Grad H" }, { "text": "Raw counts.", "speakerName": "Postdoc F" }, { "text": "So it would be interesting to see how much each person spoke.", "speakerName": "Grad H" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "Yeah Yeah", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Yes, very true very true", "speakerName": "Postdoc F" }, { "text": "Normalized to how much.", "speakerName": "Grad H" }, { "text": "it would be good to normalize with respect to that. Now on the table I did take one step toward, uh away from the raw frequencies by putting, uh percentages. So that the percentage of time of the of the times that a person spoke, what percentage eh, w so. Of the times a person spoke and furthermore was involved in a two two - person overlap, what percentage of the time were they the overlapper and what percent of the time were they th the overlappee? And there, it looks like you see some differences, um, that some people tend to be overlapped with more often than they're overlapped, but, of course, uh i e this is just one meeting, uh there's no statistical testing involved, and that would be required for a for a finding of any kind of scientific reliability.", "speakerName": "Postdoc F" }, { "text": "S so, i it would be statistically incorrect to conclude from this that Adam talked too much or something.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "No no actually, that would be actually statistically correct,", "speakerName": "Grad H" }, { "text": "Yeah, yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "No, no, no.", "speakerName": "Postdoc F" }, { "text": "Yeah, yeah. Yeah, yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "but", "speakerName": "Grad H" }, { "text": "Yeah, that's right.", "speakerName": "Postdoc F" }, { "text": "Yeah. Excuse me.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "That's right. And I'm you know, I'm I don't see a point of singling people out,", "speakerName": "Postdoc F" }, { "text": "B I I I rather enjoyed it, but but this", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "now, this is a case where obviously.", "speakerName": "Postdoc F" }, { "text": "But the numbers speak for themselves.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "He's Yeah, yeah, yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Well, you know, it's like I'm not I'm not saying on the tape who did better or worse", "speakerName": "Postdoc F" }, { "text": "Yes, that's right, so you don't nee OK.", "speakerName": "Grad H" }, { "text": "Sure.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "because I don't think that it's I you know, and and th here's a case where of course, human subjects people would say be sure that you anonymize the results, and and, so, might as well do this.", "speakerName": "Postdoc F" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "Yeah, when this is what This is actually when Jane sent this email first, is what caused me to start thinking about anonymizing the data.", "speakerName": "Grad H" }, { "text": "Well, fair enough. Fair enough.", "speakerName": "Postdoc F" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "And actually, you know, the point is not about an individual, it's the point about tendencies toward you know, different styles, different speaker styles.", "speakerName": "Postdoc F" }, { "text": "Oh sure.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "And it would be, you know of course, there's also the question of what type of overlap was this, and w what were they, and i and I and I know that I can distinguish at least three types and, probably more, I mean, the general cultural idea which w uh, the conversation analysts originally started with in the seventies was that we have this strict model where politeness involves that you let the person finish th before you start talking, and and you know, I mean, w we know that an and they've loosened up on that too s in the intervening time, that that that's that's viewed as being a culturally - relative thing, I mean, that you have the high - involvement style from the East Coast where people will overlap often as an indication of interest in what the other person is saying. And", "speakerName": "Postdoc F" }, { "text": "Uh - huh.", "speakerName": "Grad H" }, { "text": "Exactly!", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Yeah, exactly!", "speakerName": "Postdoc F" }, { "text": "Yeah", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Well, there you go. Fine, that's alright, that's OK. And and, you know, in contrast, so Deborah d and also Deborah Tannen's thesis she talked about differences of these types, that they're just different styles, and it's um you you can't impose a model of there of the ideal being no overlaps, and you know, conversational analysts also agree with that, so it's now, universally a ag agreed with. And and, als I mean, I can't say universally, but anyway, the people who used to say it was strict, um now, uh don't. I mean they they also you know, uh uh, ack acknowledge the influence of sub of subcultural norms and cross - cultural norms and things. So, um Then it beco though so just just superficially to give um a couple ideas of the types of overlaps involved, I have at the bottom several that I noticed. So, uh, there are backchannels, like what Adam just did now and, um um, anticipating the end of a question and simply answering it earlier, and there are several of those in this in these data where.", "speakerName": "Postdoc F" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "because we're people who've talked to each other, um we know basically what the topic is, what the possibilities are and w and we've spoken with each other so we know basically what the other person's style is likely to be and so and t there are a number of places where someone just answered early. No problem. And places also which I thought were interesting, where two or more people gave exactly th the same answer in unison different words of course but you know, the basically, you know everyone's saying \" yes \" or you know, or ev even more sp specific than that. So, uh, the point is that, um overlap's not necessarily a bad thing and that it would be im i useful to subdivide these further and see if there are individual differences in styles with respect to the types involved. And that's all I wanted to say on that, unless people have questions.", "speakerName": "Postdoc F" }, { "text": "Well, of course th the biggest, um result here, which is one we've we've talked about many times and isn't new to us, but which I think would be interesting to show someone who isn't familiar with this is just the sheer number of overlaps.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "Yep.", "speakerName": "Grad H" }, { "text": "That that Right? that that, um", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "Yes, yes!", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Oh, OK interesting.", "speakerName": "Postdoc F" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "here's a relatively short meeting, it's a forty forty plus minute meeting, and not only were there two hundred and fifteen overlaps but, uh I think there's one one minute there where there where where there wasn't any overlap?", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "Hundred ninety - seven.", "speakerName": "Grad H" }, { "text": "I mean, it's uh throughout this thing?", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "It'd be interesting.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "It's You have.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "Well, at the bottom, you have the bottom three.", "speakerName": "Postdoc F" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "S n are.", "speakerName": "Grad H" }, { "text": "So four four minutes all together with none none.", "speakerName": "Postdoc F" }, { "text": "But it w", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "Oh, so the bottom three did have s stuff going on? There was speech?", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "Yes, uh - huh. Yeah. But just no overlaps.", "speakerName": "Postdoc F" }, { "text": "OK, so if the this.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "It'd be interesting to see what the total amount of time is in the overlaps, versus.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "Yes, exactly and that's that's where Jose's pro project comes in.", "speakerName": "Postdoc F" }, { "text": "Yeah, yeah, I h I have this that infor I have th that information now.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "I was about to ask.", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "Hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Oh, about how much is it?", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "The the duration of eh of each of the overlaps.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "O oh, what's what's the what's the average length?", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "M I I haven't averaged it now but, uh I I will, uh I will do the the study of the with the with the program with the uh, the different, uh the, nnn, distribution of the duration of the overlaps.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "You don't know? OK, you you don you don't have a feeling for roughly how much it is? Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "mmm, Because the the uh, @ @ is @ @.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "The duration is, uh the variation the variation of the duration is uh, very big on the dat", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "I suspect that it will also differ, depending on the type of overlap involved.", "speakerName": "Postdoc F" }, { "text": "but eh.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Oh, I'm sure.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "So backchannels will be very brief", "speakerName": "Postdoc F" }, { "text": "Because, on your surface eh a bit of zone of overlapping with the duration eh, overlapped and another very very short.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "and.", "speakerName": "Postdoc F" }, { "text": "Yeah. Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "Uh, i probably it's very difficult to to because the the overlap is, uh on is only the in the final \" S \" of the of the the fin the the end the end word of the, um previous speaker with the the next word of the the new speaker.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "Um, I considered that's an overlap but it's very short, it's an \" X \" with a and the idea is probably, eh when eh when eh, we studied th th that zone, eh eh, we h we have eh eh confusion with eh eh noise.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "With eh that fricative sounds, but uh I have new information but I have to to study.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Yeah. Yeah, but I I'd u", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "Can I.", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "go ahead.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Postdoc F" }, { "text": "You split this by minute, um so if an overlap straddles the boundary between two minutes, that counts towards both of those minutes.", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "Yes. Mm - hmm. Actually, um um actually not. Uh, so le let's think about the case where A starts speaking and then B overlaps with A, and then the minute boundary happens. And let's say that after that minute boundary, um B is still speaking, and A overlaps with B, that would be a new overlap. But otherwise um, let's say B comes to the conclusion of of that turn without anyone overlapping with him or her, in which case there would be no overlap counted in that second minute.", "speakerName": "Postdoc F" }, { "text": "No, but suppose they both talk simultaneously both a a portion of it is in minute one and another portion of minute two.", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "OK. In that case, um my c the coding that I was using since we haven't, uh incorporated Adam's, uh coding of overlap yets, the coding of Yeah, \" yets \" is not a word. Uh since we haven't incorporated Adam's method of handling overl overlaps yet um then that would have fallen through the cra cracks. It would be an underestimate of the number of overlaps because, um I wou I wouldn't be able to pick it up from the way it was encoded so far.", "speakerName": "Postdoc F" }, { "text": "I I", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "We just haven't done th the precise second to sec you know, second to second coding of when they occur.", "speakerName": "Postdoc F" }, { "text": "I I I'm I'm I'm confused now. So l l let me restate what I thought Andreas was saying and and see.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "Uh - huh.", "speakerName": "Postdoc F" }, { "text": "Let's say that in in second fifty - seven of one minute, you start talking and I start talking and we ignore each other and keep on talking for six seconds.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "Yep. OK. Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Postdoc F" }, { "text": "So we go over So we were we were talking over one another, and it's just in each case, it's just sort of one interval. Right?", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm?", "speakerName": "Postdoc F" }, { "text": "So, um we talked over the minute boundary. Is this considered as one overlap in each of the minutes, the way you have done this.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "No, it wouldn't. It would be considered as an overlap in the first one.", "speakerName": "Postdoc F" }, { "text": "OK, so that's good, i I think, in the sense that I think Andreas meant the question,", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "That's that's good, yeah, cuz the overall rate is.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "Statistical.", "speakerName": "Grad H" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Postdoc F" }, { "text": "right?", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "Yeah. They're not double counted.", "speakerName": "Postdoc F" }, { "text": "Other - otherwise you'd get double counts, here and there.", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "Yep.", "speakerName": "Grad H" }, { "text": "Ah but, yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "And then it would be harder.", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "I should also say I did a simplifying, uh count in that if A was speaking B overlapped with A and then A came back again and overlapped with B again, I I didn't count that as a three - person overlap, I counted that as a two - person overlap, and it was A being overlapped with by D.", "speakerName": "Postdoc F" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Grad H" }, { "text": "Because the idea was the first speaker had the floor and the second person started speaking and then the f the first person reasserted the floor kind of thing.", "speakerName": "Postdoc F" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "These are simplifying assumptions, didn't happen very often, there may be like three overlaps affected that way in the whole thing.", "speakerName": "Postdoc F" }, { "text": "I want to go back and listen to minute forty - one.", "speakerName": "Grad H" }, { "text": "Yeah, yeah.", "speakerName": "Postdoc F" }, { "text": "Cuz i i I find it interesting that there were a large number of overlaps and they were all two - speaker.", "speakerName": "Grad H" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "I mean what I thought what I would have thought in is that when there were a large number of overlaps, it was because everyone was talking at once, but uh apparently not.", "speakerName": "Grad H" }, { "text": "That's interesting. That's interesting.", "speakerName": "Postdoc F" }, { "text": "Yeah. Yeah. Mmm.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "That's really neat.", "speakerName": "Grad H" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "Yeah, there's a lot of backchannel, a lot o a lot of.", "speakerName": "Postdoc F" }, { "text": "This is really interesting data.", "speakerName": "Grad H" }, { "text": "Yeah, it is.", "speakerName": "Postdoc F" }, { "text": "I think what's really interesting though, it is before d saying \" yes, meetings have a lot of overlaps \" is to actually find out how many more we have than two - party.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "I think so too, I think.", "speakerName": "Postdoc F" }, { "text": "Cuz in two - party conversations, like Switchboard, there's an awful lot too if you just look at backchannels, if you consider those overlaps? it's also ver it's huge. It's just that people haven't been looking at that because they've been doing single - channel processing for speech recognition.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Grad H" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm?", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "So, the question is, you know, how many more overlaps do you have of, say the two - person type, by adding more people. to a meeting, and it may be a lot more but i it may it may not be.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Well, but see, I find it interesting even if it wasn't any more,", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "So.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "because since we were dealing with this full duplex sort of thing in Switchboard where it was just all separated out we just everything was just nice,", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm?", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "so that so the issue is in in a situation where th that's.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "Well, it's not really \" nice \". It depends what you're doing. So if you were actually having, uh depends what you're doing, if Right now we're do we have individual mikes on the people in this meeting. So the question is, you know \" are there really more overlaps happening than there would be in a two - person party \".", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm?", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "And and there well may be, but.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Let let m let me rephrase what I'm saying cuz I don't think I'm getting it across. What what I what I shouldn't use words like \" nice \" because maybe that's too i too imprecise. But what I mean is that, um in Switchboard, despite the many many other problems that we have, one problem that we're not considering is overlap. And what we're doing now is, aside from the many other differences in the task, we are considering overlap and one of the reasons that we're considering it, you know, one of them not all of them, one of them is that w uh at least, you know I'm very interested in the scenario in which, uh both people talking are pretty much equally audible, and from a single microphone. And so, in that case, it does get mixed in, and it's pretty hard to jus to just ignore it, to just do processing on one and not on the other.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "I I agree that it's an issue here but it's also an issue for Switchboard and if you think of meetings being recorded over the telephone, which I think, you know, this whole point of studying meetings isn't just to have people in a room but to also have meetings over different phone lines.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "Maybe far field mike people wouldn't be interested in that but all the dialogue issues still apply,", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "so if each of us was calling and having a meeting that way you kn you know like a conference call. And, just the question is, y you know, in Switchboard you would think that's the simplest case of a meeting of more than one person,", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "and I'm wondering how much more overlap of the types that that Jane described happen with more people present. So it may be that having three people is very different from having two people or it may not be.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "That's an important question to ask.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "So.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "I think what I'm All I'm s really saying is that I don't think we were considering that in Switchboard.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "Not you, me. But uh but but", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Were you?", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "Though it wasn't in the design.", "speakerName": "Grad H" }, { "text": "Were you were you were you were you measuring it? I mean, w w were.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "There there's actually to tell you the truth, the reason why it's hard to measure is because of so, from the point of view of studying dialogue, I mean, which Dan Jurafsky and Andreas and I had some projects on, you want to know the sequence of turns.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "So what happens is if you're talking and I have a backchannel in the middle of your turn, and then you keep going what it looks like in a dialogue model is your turn and then my backchannel,", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "even though my backchannel occurred completely inside your turn.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Yeah?", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "So, for things like language modeling or dialogue modeling it's We know that that's wrong in real time.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Yeah?", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "But, because of the acoustic segmentations that were done and the fact that some of the acoustic data in Switchboard were missing, people couldn't study it, but that doesn't mean in the real world that people don't talk that way. So, it's um", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Yeah, I wasn't saying that. Right? I was just saying that w now we're looking at it.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "Well, we've als", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "And and and, you you maybe wanted to look at it before but, for these various technical reasons in terms of how the data was you weren't.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "Right. We're looking at it here.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "So that's why it's coming to us as new even though it may well be you know, if your if your hypothes The hypothesis you were offering eh.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "Um.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Right? if it's the null poth hypothesis, and if actually you have as much overlap in a two - person, we don't know the answer to that. The reason we don't know the answer to is cuz it wasn't studied and it wasn't studied because it wasn't set up. Right?", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "Yeah, all I meant is that if you're asking the question from the point of view of what's different about a meeting, studying meetings of, say, more than two people versus what kinds of questions you could ask with a two - person meeting.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm?", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "It's important to distinguish that, you know, this project is getting a lot of overlap but other projects were too, but we just couldn't study them. And and so uh", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "May have been. May have been. Right?", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "Well, there is a high rate,", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "We do kn we don't know the numbers.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "So. It's but I don't know how high, in fact", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Well, here I have a question.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "that would be interesting to know.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "See, I mean, i i le let me t I mean, my point was just if you wanted to say to somebody, \" what have we learned about overlaps here? \" just never mind comparison with something else,", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "what we've learned about is overlaps in this situation, is that the first the first - order thing I would say is that there's a lot of them. Right?", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "In in the sense that i if you said if i i i", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "Yeah, I I don't di I agree with that.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "In a way, I guess what I'm comparing to is more the common sense notion of how how much people overlap. Uh you know the fact that when when when, uh, Adam was looking for a stretch of of speech before, that didn't have any overlaps, and he w he was having such a hard time and now I look at this and I go, \" well, I can see why he was having such a hard time \".", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "Right. That's also true of Switchboard.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "It's happening a lot.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "It may not be.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "I wasn't saying it wasn't.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "Right. So it's just, um", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Right? I was commenting about this.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "OK. All I'm saying is that from the", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "I'm saying if I I'm saying if I have this complicated thing in front of me, and we sh which, you know we're gonna get much more sophisticated about when we get lots more data, But Then, if I was gonna describe to somebody what did you learn right here, about, you know, the the modest amount of data that was analyzed I'd say, \" Well, the first - order thing was there was a lot of overlaps \". In fact and it's not just an overlap bunch of overlaps second - order thing is it's not just a bunch of overlaps in one particular point, but that there's overlaps, uh throughout the thing.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "Grad H" }, { "text": "Right. No, I I agree with that.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "And that's interesting. That's all.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "I'm just saying that it may the reason you get overlaps may or may not be due to sort of the number of people in the meeting.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Oh yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "And that's all.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Yeah. Yeah, I wasn't making any statement about that.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "And and it would actually be interesting to find out", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "because some of the data say Switchboard, which isn't exactly the same kind of context, I mean these are two people who don't know each other and so forth, But we should still be able to somehow say what what is the added contra contribution to sort of overlap time of each additional person, or something like that.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Yep.", "speakerName": "Grad H" }, { "text": "Yeah, that would be good to know,", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "What.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "but w we.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "OK, now.", "speakerName": "Postdoc F" }, { "text": "I could certainly see it going either way.", "speakerName": "Grad H" }, { "text": "Wh - yeah, I I agree I agree with Adam.", "speakerName": "Postdoc F" }, { "text": "But yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "And the reason is because I think there's a limit there's an upper bound on how many you can have, simply from the standpoint of audibility. When we speak we we do make a judgment of \" can \" you know, as adults.", "speakerName": "Postdoc F" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "I mean, children don't adjust so well, I mean, if a truck goes rolling past, adults will well, depending, but mostly, adults will will will hold off to what to finish the end of the sentence till the till the noise is past.", "speakerName": "Postdoc F" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "And I think we generally do monitor things like that, about whether we whether our utterance will be in the clear or not.", "speakerName": "Postdoc F" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "And partly it's related to rhythmic structure in conversation, so, you know, you you t Yeah, this is d also um, people tend to time their their their, um when they come into the conversation based on the overall rhythmic, uh uh, ambient thing.", "speakerName": "Postdoc F" }, { "text": "Well.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "So you don't want to be c cross - cutting. And and, just to finish this, that um That I think that there may be an upper bound on how many overlaps you can have, simply from the standpoint of audibility and how loud the other people are who are already in the fray. But I you know, of certain types. Now if it's just backchannels, people may be doing that with less intention of being heard, just sort of spontaneously doing backchannels, in which case that those might there may be no upper bound on those.", "speakerName": "Postdoc F" }, { "text": "I I have a feeling that backchannels, which are the vast majority of overlaps in Switchboard, uh, don't play as big a role here, because it's very unnatural I think, to backchannel if in a multi - audience you know, in a multi - person audience.", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "If you can see them, actually. It's interesting, so if you watch people are going like Right right, like this here,", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "but That may not be the case if you couldn't see them.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "u", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "But but, it's sort of odd if one person's speaking and everybody's listening, and it's unusual to have everybody going \" uh - huh, uh - huh \"", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "Actually, I think I've done it a fair number of times today.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "But.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "There's a lot of head - nodding, in this", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Um.", "speakerName": "Grad H" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "Yep, we need to put trackers on it.", "speakerName": "Grad H" }, { "text": "In in the two - person.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "Yeah, yeah, yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "He could, he could.", "speakerName": "Postdoc F" }, { "text": "Plus plus plus the Yeah. So so actually, um That's in part because the nodding, if you have visual contact, the nodding has the same function, but on the phone, in Switchboard you you that wouldn't work. So so you need to use the backchannel.", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "Yeah, you don't have it. Your mike is.", "speakerName": "Grad H" }, { "text": "So, in the two - person conversations, when there's backchannel, is there a great deal of overlap in the speech?", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "That is an earphone, so if you just put it so it's on your ear.", "speakerName": "Grad H" }, { "text": "or Cuz my impression is sometimes it happens when there's a pause,", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "Yes.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "There you go.", "speakerName": "Grad H" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "E for example.", "speakerName": "Postdoc F" }, { "text": "Thank you.", "speakerName": "Grad H" }, { "text": "you know, like you you get a lot of backchannel, when somebody's pausing", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "Yes. Right.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "She's doing that.", "speakerName": "Postdoc F" }, { "text": "Sorry, what were you saying?", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "It's hard to do both, huh? Um no, when when when there's backchannel, I mean, just I was just listening, and and when there's two people talking and there's backchannel it seems like, um the backchannel happens when, you know, the pitch drops and the first person.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "Oh.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "and a lot of times, the first person actually stops talking and then there's a backchannel and then they start up again, and so I'm wondering about h I just wonder how much overlap there is. Is there a lot?", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "I think there's a lot of the kind that Jose was talking about, where I mean, this is called \" precision timing \" in conversation analysis, where they come in overlapping, but at a point where the information is mostly complete. So all you're missing is some last syllables or something or the last word or some highly predictable words.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Mmm. Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "So technically, it's an overlap.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "But maybe a just a small overlap?", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "But you know, from information flow point of view it's not an overlap in the predictable information.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "More, yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "It'd be interesting if we could do prediction.", "speakerName": "Grad H" }, { "text": "I was just thinking more in terms of alignment, alignment overlap.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Language model prediction of overlap, that would be really interesting.", "speakerName": "Grad H" }, { "text": "So so.", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "Well, that's exactly, exactly why we wanted to study the precise timing of overlaps ins in uh Switchboard,", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "Grad H" }, { "text": "say, because there's a lot of that.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "So so here's a here's a first interesting labeling task. Uh, to distinguish between, say, backchannels precision timing Sort of you know, benevolent overlaps, and and and w and and sort of, um I don't know, hostile overlaps, where someone is trying to grab the floor from someone else.", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm. Let's pick a different word.", "speakerName": "Grad H" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Uh, that that might be an interesting, um problem to look at.", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "Hostile takeovers.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "Yeah. Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Well, I mean you could do that. I ju I I think that in this meeting I really had the feeling that wasn't happening, that the hostile hostile type. These were these were benevolent types, as people finishing each other's sentences, and stuff.", "speakerName": "Postdoc F" }, { "text": "OK.", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Um, I could imagine that as there's a fair number of um cases where, and this is sort of, not really hostile, but sort of competitive, where one person is finishing something and you have, like, two or three people jumping trying to trying to trying to, uh grab the next turn.", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "Trying to get the floor.", "speakerName": "Grad H" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "And so it's not against the person who talks first because actually we're all waiting for that person to finish. But they all want to be next.", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "I have a feeling most of these things are that that are not a benevolent kind are are are, uh um are are competitive as opposed to real really really hostile.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "I wonder what determines who gets the floor?", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "But.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "Yeah, I agree. I agree.", "speakerName": "Postdoc F" }, { "text": "I mean.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "Well, there are various things, you you have the.", "speakerName": "Postdoc F" }, { "text": "Uh a vote vote in Florida.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "It's been studied a lot.", "speakerName": "Grad H" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "Voting for.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Um, o one thing I I wanted to or you can tell a good joke and then everybody's laughing and you get a chance to g break in.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "Seniority.", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "But. But. Um. You know, the other thing I was thinking was that, um these all these interesting questions are, of course, pretty hard to answer with, uh u you know, a small amount of data.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "Ach.", "speakerName": "Grad H" }, { "text": "So, um I wonder if what you're saying suggests that we should make a conscious attempt to have, um a a fair number of meetings with, uh a smaller number of people. Right? I mean we most of our meetings are uh, meetings currently with say five, six, seven, eight people Should we really try to have some two - person meetings, or some three - person meetings and re record them just to to to beef up the the statistics on that?", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "That's a control. Well, it seems like there are two possibilities there, I mean i it seems like if you have just two people it's not really, y like a meeting, w is not as similar as the rest of the of the sample. It depends on what you're after, of course, but It seems like that would be more a case of the control condition, compared to, uh an experimental condition, with more than two.", "speakerName": "Postdoc F" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Grad H" }, { "text": "Well, Liz was raising the question of of whether i it's the number there's a relationship between the number of people and the number of overlaps or type of overlaps there,", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Postdoc F" }, { "text": "and, um If you had two people meeting in this kind of circumstance then you'd still have the visuals. You wouldn't have that difference also that you have in the say, in Switchboard data. Uh", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm. Yeah, I'm just thinking that'd be more like a c control condition.", "speakerName": "Postdoc F" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Postdoc F" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Well, but from the acoustic point of view, it's all good.", "speakerName": "Grad H" }, { "text": "Is the same.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Yeah, acoustic is fine, but.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "If if the goal were to just look at overlap you would you could serve yourself save yourself a lot of time but not even transcri transcribe the words.", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "Well, I was thinking you should be able to do this from the acoustics, on the close - talking mikes,", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Yep.", "speakerName": "Grad H" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "Well, that's the that was my my status report,", "speakerName": "Grad H" }, { "text": "right?", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "You've been working on that.", "speakerName": "Postdoc F" }, { "text": "Right, I mean Adam was.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Postdoc F" }, { "text": "so Once we're done with this stuff discussing,", "speakerName": "Grad H" }, { "text": "right. I mean, not as well as what I mean, you wouldn't be able to have any kind of typology, obviously,", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "but you'd get some rough statistics.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Grad H" }, { "text": "So.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "But what what do you think about that? Do you think that would be useful? I'm just thinking that as an action item of whether we should try to record some two - person meetings or something.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "I guess my my first comment was, um only that um we should n not attribute overlaps only to meetings, but maybe that's obvious, maybe everybody knew that,", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "but that in normal conversation with two people there's an awful lot of the same kinds of overlap, and that it would be interesting to look at whether there are these kinds of constraints that Jane mentioned, that what maybe the additional people add to this competition that happens right after a turn,", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "you know, because now you can have five people trying to grab the turn, but pretty quickly there're they back off and you go back to this sort of only one person at a time with one person interrupting at a time.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "So, I don't know. To answer your question I it I don't think it's crucial to have controls but I think it's worth recording all the meetings we can.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Can.", "speakerName": "Grad H" }, { "text": "So, um you know.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Well, OK.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "I I have an idea.", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "D I wouldn't not record a two - person meeting just because it only has two people.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "Grad H" }, { "text": "Could we Could we, um we have have in the past and I think continue will continue to have a fair number of uh phone conference calls.", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "Uh - huh.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "And, uh, and as a to, um as another c c comparison condition, we could um see what what what happens in terms of overlap, when you don't have visual contact.", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "Yeah, we talked about this repeatedly.", "speakerName": "Grad H" }, { "text": "So, um.", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "Can we actually record?", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "It just seems like that's a very different thing than what we're doing.", "speakerName": "Grad H" }, { "text": "Uh Well, we'll have to set up for it.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "I mean physically can we record the o the other.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Yeah. Well, we're not really set up for it to do that. But.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "Or, this is getting a little extravagant, we could put up some kind of blinds or something to to remove, uh visual contact.", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "Barriers!", "speakerName": "Grad H" }, { "text": "That's what they did on Map Task, you know, this Map Task corpus? They ran exactly the same pairs of people with and without visual cues and it's quite interesting.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Well, we we record this meeting so regularly it wouldn't be that I mean a little strange.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "OK, we can record, but no one can look at each other.", "speakerName": "Grad H" }, { "text": "Well, we could just put b blindfolds on.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "Well y no you f", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "Close your eyes.", "speakerName": "Grad H" }, { "text": "Blindf", "speakerName": "Postdoc F" }, { "text": "Yeah, Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "Turn off the lights.", "speakerName": "Grad H" }, { "text": "and we'd take a picture of everybody sitting here with blindfolds. That would.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Oh, th that was the other thing, weren't we gonna take a picture at the beginning of each of these meetings?", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "Um, what I had thought we were gonna do is just take pictures of the whiteboards. rather than take pictures of the meeting.", "speakerName": "Grad H" }, { "text": "Well, linguistic.", "speakerName": "Postdoc F" }, { "text": "And, uh.", "speakerName": "Grad H" }, { "text": "Yes.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "Yeah. Linguistic anthropologists would would suggest it would be useful to also take a picture of the meeting.", "speakerName": "Postdoc F" }, { "text": "There's a head nodding here vigorously, yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "Why why do we want to have a picture of the meeting?", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "Ee - you mean, transc no.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "The because you get then the spatial relationship of the speakers.", "speakerName": "Postdoc F" }, { "text": "Yeah Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "And that could be", "speakerName": "Postdoc F" }, { "text": "Well, you could do that by just noting on the enrollment sheet the the seat number.", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Seat number, that's a good idea. I'll do that.", "speakerName": "Grad H" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "I'll do that on the next set of forms.", "speakerName": "Grad H" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "So you'd number them somehow.", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "Is possible to get information from the rhythmic f from the ge, eh uh, files.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "I finally remembered to put, uh put native language on the newer forms.", "speakerName": "Grad H" }, { "text": "We can can't you figure it out from the mike number?", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "No.", "speakerName": "Grad H" }, { "text": "OK.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "The wireless ones. And even the jacks, I mean, I'm sitting here and the jack is over in front of you.", "speakerName": "Grad H" }, { "text": "Oh.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "But probably from these you could've infer it.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Yeah, but It's it would be trivial.", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "It would be another task.", "speakerName": "Grad H" }, { "text": "It would be a research task.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Having having ground tu truth would be nice, so seat number would be good.", "speakerName": "Grad H" }, { "text": "You know where you could get it?", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "Yeah, yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Beam - forming during the digit uh stuff.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "So I'm gonna put little labels on all the chairs with the seat number.", "speakerName": "Grad H" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "That's a good idea.", "speakerName": "Grad H" }, { "text": "But you have to keep the chairs in the same pla like here.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Not the chairs. The chairs are Chairs are movable.", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "But, uh.", "speakerName": "Grad H" }, { "text": "Put them Like, put them on the table where they.", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "The chair Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Yep.", "speakerName": "Grad H" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "Yep.", "speakerName": "Grad H" }, { "text": "But you know, they the s the linguistic anthropologists would say it would be good to have a digital picture anyway,", "speakerName": "Postdoc F" }, { "text": "Just remembered a joke.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "because you get a sense also of posture. Posture, and we could like, you know, block out the person's face or whatever", "speakerName": "Postdoc F" }, { "text": "What people were wearing.", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Grad H" }, { "text": "The fashion statement.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "but but, you know, these are important cues,", "speakerName": "Postdoc F" }, { "text": "Oh, Andreas was.", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "How big their heads are.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "I mean the the how a person is sitting is.", "speakerName": "Postdoc F" }, { "text": "But if you just f But from one picture, I don't know that you really get that.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "Yeah. Andreas was wearing that same old sweater again.", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "Right? You'd want a video for that, I think.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "It'd be better than nothing, is is i Just from a single picture I think you can tell some aspects.", "speakerName": "Postdoc F" }, { "text": "A video, yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Think so?", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "I mean I I could tell you I mean, if I if I'm in certain meetings I notice that there are certain people who really do eh The body language is very uh is very interesting in terms of the dominance aspect.", "speakerName": "Postdoc F" }, { "text": "And And.", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "Hmm.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "Yeah. And and Morgan had that funny hair again.", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "Yeah. Well, I mean you black out the that part.", "speakerName": "Postdoc F" }, { "text": "Hmm.", "speakerName": "Grad H" }, { "text": "But it's just, you know, the the body", "speakerName": "Postdoc F" }, { "text": "He agreed.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "you know?", "speakerName": "Postdoc F" }, { "text": "Of course, the where we sit at the table, I find is very interesting, that we do tend to cong to gravitate to the same place each time.", "speakerName": "Grad H" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Postdoc F" }, { "text": "and it's somewhat coincidental. I'm sitting here so that I can run into the room if the hardware starts, you know, catching fire or something.", "speakerName": "Grad H" }, { "text": "Oh, no, you you just like to be in charge, that's why you're sitting.", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "I just want to be at the head of the table.", "speakerName": "Grad H" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "Take control.", "speakerName": "Grad H" }, { "text": "Speaking of taking control, you said you had some research to talk about.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "Yeah. Yeah.", "speakerName": "Postdoc F" }, { "text": "Yeah, I've been playing with, um uh, using the close - talking mike to do to try to figure out who's speaking. So my first attempt was just using thresholding and filtering, that we talked about about two weeks ago, and so I played with that a little bit, and it works O K, except that it's very sensitive to your choice of your filter width and your threshold. So if you fiddle around with it a little bit and you get good numbers you can actually do a pretty good job of segmenting when someone's talking and when they're not. But if you try to use the same paramenters on another speaker, it doesn't work anymore, even if you normalize it based on the absolute loudness.", "speakerName": "Grad H" }, { "text": "But does it work for that one speaker throughout the whole meeting?", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "It does work for the one speaker throughout the whole meeting. Um Pretty well.", "speakerName": "Grad H" }, { "text": "How did you do it Adam?", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "Pretty well. How did I do it?", "speakerName": "Grad H" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "What do you mean?", "speakerName": "Grad H" }, { "text": "I mean, wh what was the.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "The algorithm was, uh take o every frame that's over the threshold, and then median - filter it, and then look for runs.", "speakerName": "Grad H" }, { "text": "Yeah. Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "So there was a minimum run length,", "speakerName": "Grad H" }, { "text": "Every frame that's over what threshold?", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "so that A threshold that you pick.", "speakerName": "Grad H" }, { "text": "In terms of energy? Ah!", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Grad H" }, { "text": "OK.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "Say that again? Frame over fres threshold.", "speakerName": "Postdoc F" }, { "text": "So you take a each frame, and you compute the energy and if it's over the threshold you set it to one, and if it's under the threshold you set it to zero, so now you have a bit stream of zeros and ones.", "speakerName": "Grad H" }, { "text": "Hmm. OK.", "speakerName": "Postdoc F" }, { "text": "And then I median - filtered that using, um a fairly long filter length. Uh well, actually I guess depends on what you mean by long, you know, tenth of a second sorts of numbers. Um and that's to average out you know, pitch, you know, the pitch contours, and things like that. And then, uh looked for long runs.", "speakerName": "Grad H" }, { "text": "OK", "speakerName": "Postdoc F" }, { "text": "And that works O K, if you fil if you tune the filter parameters, if you tune how long your median filter is and how high you're looking for your thresholds.", "speakerName": "Grad H" }, { "text": "Did you ever try running the filter before you pick a threshold?", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "No. I certainly could though. But this was just I had the program mostly written already so it was easy to do. OK and then the other thing I did, was I took Javier's speaker - change detector acoustic - change detector, and I implemented that with the close - talking mikes, and unfortunately that's not working real well, and it looks like it's the problem is he does it in two passes, the first pass is to find candidate places to do a break. And he does that using a neural net doing broad phone classification and he has the the, uh one of the phone classes is silence. And so the possible breaks are where silence starts and ends. And then he has a second pass which is a modeling a Gaussian mixture model. Um looking for uh whether it improves or or degrades to split at one of those particular places. And what looks like it's happening is that the even on the close - talking mike the broad phone class classifier's doing a really bad job.", "speakerName": "Grad H" }, { "text": "Who was it trained on?", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "Uh, I have no idea.", "speakerName": "Grad H" }, { "text": "Hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "I don't remember. Does an do you remember, Morgan, was it Broadcast News?", "speakerName": "Grad H" }, { "text": "I think so, yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "Um So, at any rate, my next attempt, which I'm in the midst of and haven't quite finished yet was actually using the uh, thresholding as the way of generating the candidates. Because one of the things that definitely happens is if you put the threshold low you get lots of breaks. All of which are definitely acoustic events. They're definitely someone talking. But, like, it could be someone who isn't the person here, but the person over there or it can be the person breathing. And then feeding that into the acoustic change detector. And so I think that might work. But, I haven't gotten very far on that. But all of this is close - talking mike, so it's, uh just just trying to get some ground truth.", "speakerName": "Grad H" }, { "text": "Only with eh uh, but eh I I I think, eh when when, y I I saw the the the the speech from PDA and, eh close talker. I I think the there is a a great difference in the in the signal.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Oh, absolutely.", "speakerName": "Grad H" }, { "text": "Um but eh I but eh I I I mean that eh eh in the in the mixed file you can find, uh zone with, eh great different, eh level of energy.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "So s my intention for this is is as an aide for ground truth. not.", "speakerName": "Grad H" }, { "text": "Um I I think for, eh algorithm based on energy, eh, that um h mmm, more or less, eh, like eh eh, mmm, first sound energy detector.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Say it again?", "speakerName": "Grad H" }, { "text": "eh nnn. When y you the detect the the the first at at the end of of the detector of, ehm princ um. What is the the name in English? the the, mmm, the de detector of, ehm of a word in the in the s in an isolated word in in the background That, uh", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "I'm I'm not sure what you're saying, can you try.", "speakerName": "Grad H" }, { "text": "I mean that when when you use, eh eh any", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "I think he's saying the onset detector.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Onset detector, OK.", "speakerName": "Grad H" }, { "text": "I I think it's probably to work well eh, because, eh you have eh, in the mixed files a great level of energy. eh and great difference between the sp speaker. And probably is not so easy when you use the the PDA, eh that Because the signal is, eh the in the e energy level.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "Grad H" }, { "text": "in in that, eh eh speech file is, eh more similar. between the different eh, speaker, um I I think is eh, it will i is my opinion.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Right. But different speakers.", "speakerName": "Grad H" }, { "text": "It will be, eh more difficult to to detect bass - tone energy. the the change. I think that, um", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Ah, in the clo in the P D A, you mean?", "speakerName": "Grad H" }, { "text": "In the PDA.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Absolutely.", "speakerName": "Grad H" }, { "text": "Yeah. Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Yeah, no question. It'll be much harder.", "speakerName": "Grad H" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "Much harder.", "speakerName": "Grad H" }, { "text": "And the the another question, that when I review the the the work of Javier. I think the, nnn, the, nnn, that the idea of using a neural network to to get a broad class of phonetic, eh from, eh uh a candidate from the the the speech signal. If you have, eh uh, I'm considering, only because Javier, eh only consider, eh like candidate, the, nnn, eh the silence, because it is the the only model, eh eh, he used that, eh eh nnn, to detect the the possibility of a a change between the between the speaker,", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "Grad H" }, { "text": "Um another another research thing, different groups, eh working, eh on Broadcast News prefer to, eh to consider hypothesis eh between each phoneme.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm. Yeah, when a phone changes.", "speakerName": "Grad H" }, { "text": "Because, I I I think it's more realistic that, uh only consider the the the the silence between the speaker. Eh there there exists eh silence between between, eh a speaker. is is, eh eh acoustic, eh event, important to to consider.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm. Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "I I found that the, eh silence in in many occasions in the in the speech file, but, eh when you have, eh eh, two speakers together without enough silence between between them, eh I think eh is better to use the acoustic change detector basically and I I I IX or, mmm, BIC criterion for consider all the frames in my opinion.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm. Yeah, the you know, the reason that he, uh just used silence was not because he thought it was better, it was it was it was the place he was starting.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Yep.", "speakerName": "Grad H" }, { "text": "So, he was trying to get something going,", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "and, uh e e you know, as as as is in your case, if you're here for only a modest number of months you try to pick a realistic goal,", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Do something.", "speakerName": "Grad H" }, { "text": "But his his goal was always to proceed from there to then allow broad category change also.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "Uh - huh. But, eh do do you think that if you consider all the frames to apply the the, eh the BIC criterion to detect the the the different acoustic change, eh between speaker, without, uh with, uh silence or with overlapping, uh, I think like like, eh eh a general, eh eh way of process the the acoustic change.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "In a first step, I mean.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "An - and then, eh eh without considering the you you you, um you can consider the energy like a another parameter in the in the feature vector, eh.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Right. Absolutely.", "speakerName": "Grad H" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "This this is the idea. And if, if you do that, eh eh, with a BIC uh criterion for example, or with another kind of, eh of distance in a first step, and then you, eh you get the, eh the hypothesis to the this change acoustic, eh to po process", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "Grad H" }, { "text": "Because, eh eh, probably you you can find the the eh a small gap of silence between speaker with eh eh a ga mmm, small duration Less than, eh two hundred milliseconds for example", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "and apply another another algorithm, another approach like, eh eh detector of ene, eh detector of bass - tone energy to to consider that, eh that, eh zone. of s a small silence between speaker, or another algorithm to to process, eh the the segment between marks eh founded by the the the BIC criterion and applied for for each frame.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm. Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "I think is, eh nnn, it will be a an an a more general approach the if we compare with use, eh a neural net or another, eh speech recognizer with a broad class or or narrow class, because, in my opinion eh it's in my opinion, eh if you if you change the condition of the speech, I mean, if you adjust to your algorithm with a mixed speech file and to, eh to, eh adapt the neural net, eh used by Javier with a mixed file.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm. Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "uh With a m mixed file,", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "With the what file?", "speakerName": "Grad H" }, { "text": "\" Mixed \".", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "with a the mix, mix.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "\" Mixed. \"", "speakerName": "Postdoc F" }, { "text": "\" Mixed? \"", "speakerName": "Grad H" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "Sorry. And and then you you, eh you try to to apply that, eh, eh, eh, speech recognizer to that signal, to the PDA, eh speech file, I I think you will have problems, because the the the the condition you you will need t t I I suppose that you will need to to to retrain it.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Well, I I.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "Oh, absolutely. This is this is not what I was suggesting to do.", "speakerName": "Grad H" }, { "text": "u Look, I I think this is a One once It's a I used to work, like, on voiced on voice silence detection, you know, and this is this kind of thing.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "Really? Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Um If you have somebody who has some experience with this sort of thing, and they work on it for a couple months, they can come up with something that gets most of the cases fairly easily. Then you say, \" OK, I don't just wanna get most of the cases I want it to be really accurate. \" Then it gets really hard no matter what you do. So, the p the problem is is that if you say, \" Well I I have these other data over here, that I learn things from, either explicit training of neural nets or of Gaussian mixture models or whatever. \"", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Uh Suppose you don't use any of those things. You say you have looked for acoustic change. Well, what does that mean? That that means you set some thresholds somewhere or something,", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "right? and and so where do you get your thresholds from?", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "From something that you looked at. So you always have this problem, you're going to new data um H how are you going to adapt whatever you can very quickly learn about the new data? Uh, if it's gonna be different from old data that you have? And I think that's a problem with this.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "Well, also what I'm doing right now is not intended to be an acoustic change detector for far - field mikes. What I'm doing is trying to use the close - talking mike and just use Can - and just generate candidate and just try to get a first pass at something that sort of works.", "speakerName": "Grad H" }, { "text": "Yeah!", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "You have candidates.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "Actually actually actually.", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "the candidate.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "I.", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "to make marking easier. Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "Or.", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "and I haven't spent a lot of time on it and I'm not intending to spend a lot of time on it.", "speakerName": "Grad H" }, { "text": "OK. I um, I, unfortunately, have to run,", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "So.", "speakerName": "Grad H" }, { "text": "but, um I can imagine uh building a um model of speaker change detection that takes into account both the far - field and the uh actually, not just the close - talking mike for that speaker, but actually for all of th for all of the speakers.", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "Yep. Everyone else.", "speakerName": "Grad H" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "um If you model the the effect that me speaking has on your microphone and everybody else's microphone, as well as on that, and you build, um basically I think you'd you would build a an HMM that has as a state space all of the possible speaker combinations", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "All the Yep.", "speakerName": "Grad H" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "and, um you can control.", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "It's a little big.", "speakerName": "Grad H" }, { "text": "It's not that big actually, um", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "Two to the N. Two to the number of people in the meeting.", "speakerName": "Grad H" }, { "text": "But Actually, Andreas may maybe maybe just something simpler but but along the lines of what you're saying,", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "Anyway.", "speakerName": "Grad H" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "I was just realizing, I used to know this guy who used to build, uh um, mike mixers automatic mike mixers where, you know, t in order to able to turn up the gain, you know, uh as much as you can, you you you lower the gain on on the mikes of people who aren't talking,", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "Mmm.", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "Yeah Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Mmm. Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "right? And then he had some sort of reasonable way of doing that,", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "but uh, what if you were just looking at very simple measures like energy measures but you don't just compare it to some threshold overall but you compare it to the energy in the other microphones.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "I was thinking about doing that originally to find out who's the loudest, and that person is certainly talking.", "speakerName": "Grad H" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "But I also wanted to find threshold uh, excuse me, mol overlap.", "speakerName": "Grad H" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "So, not just just the loudest.", "speakerName": "Grad H" }, { "text": "But, eh", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Postdoc F" }, { "text": "I I Sorry. I I have found that when when I I analyzed the the speech files from the, eh mike, eh from the eh close eh microphone, eh I found zones with a a different level of energy.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Sorry, I have to go.", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "OK. Could you fill that out anyway? Just, put your name in. Are y you want me to do it? I'll do it.", "speakerName": "Grad H" }, { "text": "But he's not gonna even read that. Oh.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "I know.", "speakerName": "Grad H" }, { "text": "including overlap zone. including. because, eh eh depend on the position of the of the microph of the each speaker to, eh, to get more o or less energy i in the mixed sign in the signal. and then, if you consider energy to to detect overlapping in in, uh, and you process the the in the the the speech file from the the the mixed signals. The mixed signals, eh. I I think it's it's difficult, um only to en with energy to to consider that in that zone We have eh, eh, overlapping zone Eh, if you process only the the energy of the, of each frame.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Well, it's probably harder, but I I think what I was s nnn noting just when he when Andreas raised that, was that there's other information to be gained from looking at all of the microphones and you may not need to look at very sophisticated things,", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "because if there's if most of the overlaps you know, this doesn't cover, say, three, but if most of the overlaps, say, are two, if the distribution looks like there's a couple high ones and and the rest of them are low,", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "And everyone else is low, yeah.", "speakerName": "Grad H" }, { "text": "you know, what I mean,", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "there's some information there about their distribution even with very simple measures.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "Yeah. Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Uh, by the way, I had an idea with while I was watching Chuck nodding at a lot of these things, is that we can all wear little bells on our heads, so that then you'd know that.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Ding, ding, ding, ding.", "speakerName": "Grad H" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "\" Ding \". That's cute!", "speakerName": "Postdoc F" }, { "text": "I think that'd be really interesting too, with blindfolds. Then.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Nodding with blindfolds,", "speakerName": "Grad H" }, { "text": "Yeah. The question is, like whether.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "\" what are you nodding about? \"", "speakerName": "Grad H" }, { "text": "Well, trying with and with and without, yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "\" Sorry, I'm just I'm just going to sleep. \"", "speakerName": "Grad H" }, { "text": "But then there's just one @ @, like.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "Actually, I saw a uh a woman at the bus stop the other day who, um, was talking on her cell phone speaking Japanese, and was bowing. you know, profusely.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "Oh, yeah, that's really common.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "Yeah Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Just, kept.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Ah.", "speakerName": "Postdoc F" }, { "text": "Wow.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "It's very difficult if you try while you're trying, say, to convince somebody on the phone it's difficult not to move your hands. Not You know, if you watch people they'll actually do these things.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm?", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "So. I still think we should try a a meeting or two with the blindfolds, at least of this meeting that we have lots of recordings of", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Grad H" }, { "text": "Um, maybe for part of the meeting, we don't have to do it the whole meeting.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Yeah, I think th I think it's a great idea.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "That could be fun. It'll be too hard to make barriers, I was thinking because they have to go all the way", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "W Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "you know, I can see Chuck even if you put a barrier here.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Well, we could just turn out the lights.", "speakerName": "Grad H" }, { "text": "Actually well also I I can say I made barr barriers for so that the stuff I was doing with Collin wha which just used, um this kind of foam board.", "speakerName": "Postdoc F" }, { "text": "Y Yeah?", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "R really inexpensive. You can you can masking tape it together, these are you know, pretty l large partitions.", "speakerName": "Postdoc F" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "But then we also have these mikes, is the other thing I was thinking, so we need a barrier that doesn't disturb the sound,", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "It's true, it would disturb the, um the the long - range.", "speakerName": "Postdoc F" }, { "text": "The acoustics.", "speakerName": "Grad H" }, { "text": "um", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Blindfolds would be good.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "it would.", "speakerName": "Postdoc F" }, { "text": "I think, blindfolds.", "speakerName": "Grad H" }, { "text": "I mean, it sounds weird but but you know it's it's cheap and, uh Be interesting to have the camera going.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Probably we should wait until after Adam's set up the mikes, But.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "OK. I think we're going to have to work on the, uh on the human subjects form.", "speakerName": "Postdoc F" }, { "text": "I'll be peeking.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "Yeah, that's right, we didn't tell them we would be blindfolding.", "speakerName": "Grad H" }, { "text": "That's.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "\" Do you mind being blindfolded while you're interviewed? \"", "speakerName": "Postdoc F" }, { "text": "that's that's that's the one that we videotape. So. Um, I I wanna move this along. Uh I did have this other agenda item which is, uh @ @ it's uh a list which I sent to uh a couple folks, but um I wanted to get broader input on it, So this is the things that I think we did in the last three months obviously not everything we did but but sort of highlights that I can can tell s some outside person, you know, what what were you actually working on. Um in no particular order uh, one, uh, ten more hours of meeting r meetings recorded, something like that, you know from from, uh three months ago. Uh XML formats and other transcription aspects sorted out and uh sent to IBM. Um, pilot data put together and sent to IBM for transcription, uh next batch of recorded data put together on the CD - ROMs for shipment to IBM,", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "Hasn't been sent yet, but It's getting ready.", "speakerName": "Grad H" }, { "text": "But yeah, that's why I phrased it that way, yeah OK. Um human subjects approval on campus, uh and release forms worked out so the meeting participants have a chance to request audio pixelization of selected parts of the spee their speech. Um audio pixelization software written and tested. Um preliminary analysis of overlaps in the pilot data we have transcribed, and exploratory analysis of long - distance inferences for topic coherence, that was I was wasn't sure if those were the right way that was the right way to describe that because of that little exercise that that you and and Lokendra did.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "What was that called?", "speakerName": "Postdoc F" }, { "text": "I well, I I'm probably saying this wrong, but what I said was exploratory analysis of long - distance inferences for topic coherence.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "The, uh say again?", "speakerName": "Postdoc F" }, { "text": "Something like that. Um so, uh I a lot of that was from, you know, what what what you two were doing so I I sent it to you, and you know, please mail me, you know, the corrections or suggestions for changing", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Grad H" }, { "text": "I I don't want to make this twice it's length but but you know, just im improve it. Um Is there anything anybody.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "I I did a bunch of stuff for supporting of digits.", "speakerName": "Grad H" }, { "text": "\" Bunch of stuff for s \" OK, maybe maybe send me a sentence that's a little thought through about that.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "So, OK, I'll send you a sentence that doesn't just say \" a bunch of \"?", "speakerName": "Grad H" }, { "text": "\" Bunch of stuff \", yeah, \" stuff \" is probably bad too,", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "Yep. \" Stuff \" is not very technical.", "speakerName": "Grad H" }, { "text": "Yeah, well.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "I'll try to phrase it in passive voice.", "speakerName": "Grad H" }, { "text": "Yeah. Yeah, yeah,", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "Technical stuff.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "\" range of things \", yeah. Um and and you know, I sort of threw in what you did with what Jane did on in under the, uh uh preliminary analysis of overlaps. Uh uh Thilo, can you tell us about all the work you've done on this project in the last, uh last three months?", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "So what is what Um. Not really.", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "That's.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "It's too complicated.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "Um, I didn't get it. Wh - what is \" audio pixelization \"?", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "Uh, audio pix wh he did it, so why don't you explain it quickly?", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "It's just, uh beeping out parts that you don't want included in the meeting so, you know you can say things like, \" Well, this should probably not be on the record, but beep \"", "speakerName": "Grad H" }, { "text": "OK, OK. I got that.", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "Yeah. We we we spent a a a fair amount of time early on just talk dealing with this issue about op w e e we realized, \" well, people are speaking in an impromptu way and they might say something that would embarrass them or others later \", and, how do you get around that", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "OK.", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "so in the consent form it says, well you we will look at the transcripts later and if there's something that you're unhappy with, yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "OK, and you can say OK.", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "But you don't want to just totally excise it because um uh, well you have to be careful about excising it, how how you excise it keeping the timing right and so forth so that at the moment tho th the idea we're running with is is h putting the beep over it.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "OK.", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "Yeah, you can either beep or it can be silence. I I couldn't decide. which was the right way to do it.", "speakerName": "Grad H" }, { "text": "Ah, yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Beep is good auditorily,", "speakerName": "Grad H" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "if someone is listening to it, there's no mistake that it's been beeped out,", "speakerName": "Grad H" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "but for software it's probably better for it to be silence.", "speakerName": "Grad H" }, { "text": "No, no. You can you know, you could make a m as long as you keep using the same beep, people could make a model of that beep,", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "Hmm.", "speakerName": "Postdoc F" }, { "text": "and.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "I like that idea.", "speakerName": "Postdoc F" }, { "text": "Yep. And I use it's it's, uh it's an A below middle C beep,", "speakerName": "Grad H" }, { "text": "I think the beep is a really good idea.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "It's very clear. Then you don't think it's a long pause.", "speakerName": "Postdoc F" }, { "text": "Also.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Yeah, it's more obvious that there was something there than if there's just silence.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "so", "speakerName": "Grad H" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Postdoc F" }, { "text": "Yeah, that I mean, he's he's removing the old thing", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "Yeah", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "and and and.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "Yep.", "speakerName": "Grad H" }, { "text": "Yea - right. Right. But I mean if you just replaced it with silence, it's not clear whether that's really silence or.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "Yeah, it's not.", "speakerName": "Grad H" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Yeah, I agree.", "speakerName": "Postdoc F" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Yep.", "speakerName": "Grad H" }, { "text": "One one question. Do you do it on all channels?", "speakerName": "Postdoc F" }, { "text": "Of course.", "speakerName": "Grad H" }, { "text": "Interesting. I like that.", "speakerName": "Postdoc F" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "Yeah, I like that.", "speakerName": "Postdoc F" }, { "text": "Yeah you have to do it on all channels because it's, uh audible.", "speakerName": "Grad H" }, { "text": "Very clear. Very clear.", "speakerName": "Postdoc F" }, { "text": "Uh, it's it's potentially audible, you could potentially recover it.", "speakerName": "Grad H" }, { "text": "Ke - keep a back door.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "Well, the other thing that you know, I mean the the alternative might be to s", "speakerName": "Postdoc F" }, { "text": "Yeah. Well, I I haven't thrown away any of the meetings that I beeped. Actually yours is the only one that I beeped and then, uh the ar DARPA meeting.", "speakerName": "Grad H" }, { "text": "Notice how quiet I am.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Sorry, and then the DARPA meeting I just excised completely,", "speakerName": "Grad H" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Postdoc F" }, { "text": "so it's in a private directory.", "speakerName": "Grad H" }, { "text": "You have some people who only have beeps as their speech in these meetings.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "That's great. Yeah.", "speakerName": "Postdoc F" }, { "text": "OK.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "They're easy to find, then.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "Alright, so, uh I think we should, uh uh, go on to the digits?", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "I have one concept a t I I want to say, which is that I think it's nice that you're preserving the time relations,", "speakerName": "Postdoc F" }, { "text": "OK.", "speakerName": "Grad H" }, { "text": "s so you're you're not just cutting you're not doing scissor snips. You're you're keeping the, uh the time duration of a de - deleted deleted part.", "speakerName": "Postdoc F" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "Grad H" }, { "text": "Yeah, definitely.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "OK, good, digits.", "speakerName": "Postdoc F" }, { "text": "Yeah, since we wanna possibly synchronize these things as well. Oh, I should have done that.", "speakerName": "Grad H" }, { "text": "It's great.", "speakerName": "Postdoc F" }, { "text": "Shoot. Oh well.", "speakerName": "Grad H" }, { "text": "So I guess if there's an overlap, like, if I'm saying something that's bleepable and somebody else overlaps during it they also get bleeped, too?", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Yeah. Oh", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "You'll lose it. There's no way around that.", "speakerName": "Grad H" }, { "text": "Yeah. Um I d I did before we do the digits, I did also wanna remind people, uh please do send me, you know, uh thoughts for an agenda,", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "Agenda?", "speakerName": "Grad H" }, { "text": "yeah that that would be that'd be good.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "Good.", "speakerName": "Postdoc F" }, { "text": "Eh So that, uh, people's ideas don't get", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "Thursday crept up on me this week.", "speakerName": "Grad H" }, { "text": "yeah, well it does creep up, doesn't it?", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "And, I wanted to say, I think this is really interesting analysis.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "OK.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "Thank you.", "speakerName": "Postdoc F" }, { "text": "It's cool stuff, definitely.", "speakerName": "Grad H" }, { "text": "I meant to say that before I started off on the Switchboard stuff.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Thank you.", "speakerName": "Postdoc F" }, { "text": "I was gonna say \" can you do that for the other meetings,", "speakerName": "Grad H" }, { "text": "It's neat.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "can you do it for them? \"", "speakerName": "Grad H" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "And, no actually, you can't.", "speakerName": "Grad H" }, { "text": "Actually actually I I thought that's what you were giving us was another meeting and I was like, \" Oh, OK! \"", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "Does it take.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Thank you. Yeah.", "speakerName": "Postdoc F" }, { "text": "\" Ooo, cool! \"", "speakerName": "Grad H" }, { "text": "Aw, thanks.", "speakerName": "Postdoc F" }, { "text": "How long does it take, just briefly, like t to OK. to label the,", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "No. I have the script now, so, I mean, it can work off the, uh other thing,", "speakerName": "Postdoc F" }, { "text": "It's As soon as we get labels, yep.", "speakerName": "Grad H" }, { "text": "OK.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "But it has to be hand - labeled first?", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "but Uh, well, yeah. Because, uh well, I mean once his his algorithm is up and running then we can do it that way.", "speakerName": "Postdoc F" }, { "text": "If it works well enough. Right now it's not. Not quite to the point where it works.", "speakerName": "Grad H" }, { "text": "OK.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "But I I just worked off of my", "speakerName": "Postdoc F" }, { "text": "It's really neat.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "OK, go ahead", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "Thanks. Appreciate that. I think what I what this has, uh, caused me so this discussion caused me to wanna subdivide these further. I'm gonna take a look at the, uh backchannels, how much we have anal I hope to have that for next time.", "speakerName": "Postdoc F" }, { "text": "That'd be interesting.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "Yeah, my my algorithm worked great actually on these, but when you wear it like that or with the uh, lapel or if you have it very far from your face, that's when it starts failing.", "speakerName": "Grad H" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm. Oh.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "Well, I can wear it, I mean if you.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "It doesn't matter.", "speakerName": "Grad H" }, { "text": "OK.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "I mean, we want it to work,", "speakerName": "Grad H" }, { "text": "It's too late now.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "right? I I don't want to change the way we do the meeting.", "speakerName": "Grad H" }, { "text": "I feel like this troublemaker.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "It's uh so, it was just a comment on the software, not a comment on prescriptions on how you wear microphones.", "speakerName": "Grad H" }, { "text": "OK.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "OK, that's let's let's let's do digits.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "Get the bolts, \" whh whh \"", "speakerName": "Grad H" }, { "text": "Let's do it. 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becbdcc4a6814eb4a0ff2b01c2883b45	{ "meetingId": "education16", "transcriptSegments": [ { "text": "Okay, good morning, everyone. Welcome to the Children, Young People and Education Committee. We've received no apologies for absence. Can I ask Members whether there are any declarations of interest, please? No. Okay. Thank you. Item 2 this morning is our evidence session with the Cabinet Secretary for Education for our inquiry into the status of the Welsh baccalaureate qualification. I'm very pleased to welcome Kirsty Williams AM, Cabinet Secretary for Education; Kevin Palmer, who is deputy director, pedagogy, leadership and professional learning; and Andrew Clark, deputy director, further education and apprenticeships division. So, thank you all for attending, and we're looking forward to hearing what you've got to say. If you're happy, Cabinet Secretary, we'll go straight to questions.", "speakerName": "Lynne Neagle AM" }, { "text": "Of course.", "speakerName": "Kirsty Williams AM" }, { "text": "And the first questions are from Julie Morgan.", "speakerName": "Lynne Neagle AM" }, { "text": "Thank you very much, Chair, and bore da. I was going to ask some general questions about the value of the baccalaureate. Could you give us your views on how the Welsh bac is valued by learners and teachers?", "speakerName": "Julie Morgan AM" }, { "text": "Bore da, Julie, and thank you very much for your question. Firstly, I'd like to begin by saying that I as the Cabinet Secretary value the qualification very much indeed. I believe that it helps ensure that we are able to give our young people in Wales a broad and balanced curriculum, recognising the need to develop knowledge and skills in core subjects but recognising also that the purpose of education is to help prepare our children for further study and the world of work, and I believe that the skills challenge element of the baccalaureate does just that. I meet with young people and teachers all the time who tell me about the positive experiences they have had studying for the Welsh bac, and much of that was evidenced in Qualifications Wales's review into the Welsh baccalaureate. They did focus group work with a representative sample, and many of the learners expressed the fact that they have enjoyed studying for the qualification and have gained a great deal from it. I meet regularly with individuals who have been able to use their bac to successfully gain a place at university, so I believe there's a huge value for Welsh young people being able to study this particular qualification alongside the more traditional qualifications that perhaps we're all used to. I think the challenge is that, given that many people are very familiar with what a GCSE is and, as parents, we will know what that is and many of us will have done—some of us are so old we'll have done O-levels. We know what those traditional qualifications look like, and therefore a new qualification—there's always a job of work to do to communicate that, if people aren't used to it, but I value it hugely. I think that, whilst there is always room for improvement—and, of course, you'll be aware of the review that Qualifications Wales undertook and that has suggested ways in which we can further improve and refine the qualification, but I think it is a valuable piece of work for Welsh young people to undertake.", "speakerName": "Kirsty Williams AM" }, { "text": "It's great that you've been around listening to learners and what they have said about it. Have you had any negative feedback?", "speakerName": "Julie Morgan AM" }, { "text": "Well, occasionally, of course, we do have concerns raised with us, and those concerns are similar to the ones that have been raised in the Qualifications Wales review. So, for instance, we sometimes have concerns about how some students balance the Welsh bac with other qualifications they may be taking. Some teachers feed back around the workload issues associated with the Welsh baccalaureate. For some students, there may be concerns about the nature of the Welsh bac and whether that can impact negatively on their well-being. And, obviously, that's why Qualifications Wales have undertaken this piece of work so that we can refine, if necessary, that qualification and how we continue to look at how we ensure my belief that taking the Welsh bac should be the norm for students but also recognising that, in some cases, there needs to be flexibility to ensure that the well-being of the student is not compromised.", "speakerName": "Kirsty Williams AM" }, { "text": "And so would you say that it's valued by learners more or less at key stage 4 or post 16?", "speakerName": "Julie Morgan AM" }, { "text": "Well, I think that, as I said, the vast majority of students I meet report very positively about the opportunities that are afforded for studying at that level. Occasionally, we hear from students who I believe think that in studying the subject they may be compromising their chances because they want to do additional A-levels, and I'm sure we'll come on to, later on, whether universities, and whether the Russell Group universities in particular, value the qualification. But I feel that there are particular strengths. And I think what's really important, and, in talking to universities, since the qualification became graded, rather than just a pass/fail qualification—I think that added rigour since 2015 has been particularly important in ensuring that there's real value in students undertaking that work.", "speakerName": "Kirsty Williams AM" }, { "text": "And what about the effect that the leadership in the school has on the way that the bac is received? Have you—?", "speakerName": "Julie Morgan AM" }, { "text": "As always, Julie, leadership is crucial, and students' experiences can be very coloured by the attitude towards the teacher delivering that particular course. And, therefore, we need to continue, alongside the WJEC and Qualifications Wales, to ensure that the Welsh bac is communicated to children in a positive way, the benefits are explained to children and their parents, and, also, we need to ensure that those who are tasked with teaching Welsh bac in their schools or colleges feel confident in their ability to do so and to ensure that students have a really positive experience of that qualification, because if you're being taught by someone who is telling you, 'Oh, I don't know why we're having to do this', then, obviously that's going to colour how you feel about it. And, if I'm honest, I recently attended a youth forum, where young people from the county were discussing all sorts of issues—everything from the environment to their experience in school—and I was struck by the group of year 12 and year 13 students. I specifically asked them about the bac—I always take the opportunity to ask them about their experience of the baccalaureate. One school, the group of students said,'It's fantastic. We really enjoy it. It's really valuable. I'm learning a lot.' Students from a school seven miles away—just seven miles away—said,'Oh, I don't know why we're having to do this.' And I suspect that that has got more to do with how that is being delivered in their institutions than it has about the quality of the qualification. So, we need to keep ensuring that those who are tasked with this see it as important, communicate that to students, and have the confidence and the ability to deliver a really positive experience.", "speakerName": "Kirsty Williams AM" }, { "text": "I think our experiences in the committee are very similar. Within the same room, actually, we've had two completely different sets of views. So, what do you intend to do to try to ensure that there's consistent support and enthusiasm for the bac from the leaders?", "speakerName": "Julie Morgan AM" }, { "text": "Well, first of all, we have the design group of Qualifications Wales looking to address some of the issues that arose out of the report around ensuring that, especially from a teacher workload perspective, it's not too onerous in terms of assessment. So, there's that to do to make sure that we're not asking children to duplicate and do things over and over and over again, which, of course, for any of us, would be wearing and we would question to the value of. So, there's the design group looking at the qualification itself. We are ensuring, as part of our professional learning for teachers that—. There are existing opportunities via the regional consortia for support for teaching of the qualification. The WJEC has resources and support available, but we will look, as we roll out our national approach to professional learning, at that the professional learning needs of those already in the system are addressed. Of course, our accreditation for our new initial teacher education is predominantly addressed at being able to deliver the new curriculum, but, if you think about the elements of'Successful Futures' and the skills and the knowledge and the pedagogy associated with that, it's very much in line with the Welsh baccalaureate challenge certificate. So, actually, there are opportunities via initial teacher education as well, and we continue to need to look to work with our partners to be able to reinforce why this is a worthwhile qualification. And I have to say I think the best people to do that—. It's not me. I'd like to see past students of the Welsh baccalaureate being able to talk about their own experiences and why it's made a difference to them. I come across individuals for whom their place at university has been secured by that Welsh baccalaureate, and, all of a sudden, if that's what's got you your place, it becomes a lot more valuable than perhaps it was six months before. We need to make sure that students are aware, and teachers and school leaders are aware, of the importance that this qualification has.", "speakerName": "Kirsty Williams AM" }, { "text": "Suzy, did you have a supplementary?", "speakerName": "Lynne Neagle AM" }, { "text": "Yes. I've got one on IT, but I'll leave that one. I just want to go back to Julie's question about whether there was a different perspective or a different sense of value for students who are post 16 and those who are pre 16. When one of the college leaders here was asked whether he had people coming to him in his FE college who've been through the pre-16 bac and had heard evidence or had stories of, basically, those children cobbling together their bac in the last four weeks of term before they got there, he said that yes, that is his experience. Does that worry you at all, because, of course, the whole purpose of bac is to teach skills over a period of time, and its purpose cannot be fulfilled by getting it all done in the last term of—which year am I in?—year 11, in order to satisfy the curriculum?", "speakerName": "Suzy Davies AM" }, { "text": "Yes. Obviously, that's not the experience that we would want young people to have, and, as someone who has had a daughter just finish year 11, that's certainly not the experience that my daughter had in her particular school, and I have another daughter who has just gone into year 10, where the Welsh bac has started in year 10 and it is a a two-year course in which elements are undertaken. Obviously, we will need to address, as part of the design group and the work that Qualifications Wales is doing, how that is playing out in individual schools. But that would not be a positive experience; we want this to be taken in exactly the same way as we would expect a GCSE to be taught over a period of two years. But, Andrew, I don't know if there's anything you'd like to add from the college perspective.", "speakerName": "Kirsty Williams AM" }, { "text": "I think it is variable. I think that it will depend on the feeder schools to the colleges and it'll depend upon the delivery models that are in existence in those schools. It's been around as a qualification now for about a decade, I think. There have been differences in the way that the subject has been—sorry, not the subject, the qualification has been delivered. And I think it'll be helped by a recent review by Qualifications Wales, because they're doing a survey at the moment as to different delivery models in different locations, and that, perhaps, will inform more even practice as we move forwards.", "speakerName": "Andrew Clark" }, { "text": "Yes, and Estyn and consortia are looking at it as well. I don't want to cut across questions, so, thank you.", "speakerName": "Suzy Davies AM" }, { "text": "No, but it's a known issue, if you like, that various people are attempting to address and bring a more uniform mode of delivery across the nation.", "speakerName": "Andrew Clark" }, { "text": "Okay, thank you.", "speakerName": "Suzy Davies AM" }, { "text": "We've got some more detailed questions now on understanding, from Siân Gwenllian.", "speakerName": "Lynne Neagle AM" }, { "text": "Just to drill down rather deeper into the issue of the variability in the way in which the Welsh bac is provided, could you explain why you think that this inconsistency is happening, and then what the impact of the inconsistency and variability is on the value that learners attach to the bac and their understanding of it?", "speakerName": "Sian Gwenllian AM" }, { "text": "I think the variability can be perhaps explained by the fact that it's a new type of qualification, the fact that different schools have adopted it at different rates—", "speakerName": "Kirsty Williams AM" }, { "text": "Ten years?", "speakerName": "Sian Gwenllian AM" }, { "text": "Well, as I said, over that time, there were some early adopters who have done it in a certain way, there are some people who've come later to it, who may be doing it in a different way. And, as I said, it's quite a different departure from traditional O-levels, from GCSE-type subjects, where there is a programme of work and a syllabus. So, it is a different nature of qualification, and, therefore, as Andrew has just alluded to, schools have approached it in a different way. We are alert to that and Qualifications Wales, crucially, is alert to that, and we are looking to ensure greater consistency in how it is delivered in individual schools. We're also aware, in the school setting, in pre 16, there are some concerns about the onerousness of the workload associated with the evaluation of the students' work. Now, clearly, there is a difference between onerous and rigorous. We wrote the qualification to be a rigorous qualification for the students, but we don't want it to be jeopardised by the evaluation of it being too onerous. So, there's that balance to be struck. Again, that's one of the issues that the design group and Qualifications Wales are looking at. That process is a really important process, so there is the design group, but working alongside the design group, who they are testing the messages and testing their thoughts with, is a stakeholder group, and there is also a practitioners group. So, that work by the design group is being tested with those people who have an interest: business, for instance, the world of work—is this qualification really giving students the skills that are valued by potential employers?—but it's also testing its thinking with the practitioners, those people who will be charged with the delivery of the qualification, and I think that's really important to be able to get an understanding of the challenges of making sure there's a consistency, and what are the barriers to that, and what steps need to be taken to ensure a greater level of consistency in delivery.", "speakerName": "Kirsty Williams AM" }, { "text": "Is there a correlation between consistency in general? Because we know that there's polarisation in the secondary school sector between the good schools and the not-so-good schools. And is there a correlation between—if the schools are good according to Estyn, or excellent, are they also good, excellent at delivering the bac? Is it a fundamental inconsistency across the sector that's causing this inconsistency?", "speakerName": "Sian Gwenllian AM" }, { "text": "I don't know. I don't have that data to hand, but, of course, from next year, the bac will be a dedicated performance measure for schools. So, actually, we will be looking specifically at completion of the bac as part of the wider set of school performance measures. So perhaps we will be in a better position once that's formally established to be able to track progress.", "speakerName": "Kirsty Williams AM" }, { "text": "Because some of the evidence we've heard is that if the leadership is good around the bac in the school, well, everything else follows from that. So, it makes sense to me that it could be.", "speakerName": "Sian Gwenllian AM" }, { "text": "Absolutely. As I said, I don't have the figures to hand, but, as I said, from next year, the bac actually becomes a formal part of the performance measures for schools.", "speakerName": "Kirsty Williams AM" }, { "text": "Fine. I'll turn, therefore, to the understanding of employers of the Welsh bac and the skills challenge certificate. From the evidence that we've had, it appears that there is a problem in this area, that is, employers generally don't value the qualification. Is that your experience, and how can we improve that? How can we elicit more engagement from employers of all sizes with the value of the baccalaureate?", "speakerName": "Sian Gwenllian AM" }, { "text": "Well, the first thing to say is my understanding of the development of the bac is that employers' voices were reflected and they were part of the process that drew up the qualification in the first place. You'll be aware of the review by Qualifications Wales that found that many employers say that the skills that are developed through the baccalaureate are exactly the kinds of skills that they want young people to be acquiring whilst at school, that put them in a good place for looking for employment later. I would agree with you, Siân, and not just in terms of the bac, there are lots of reasons why we need greater working between education and employers. I sit down with employer organisations to try and explore better ways in which we can work together—everything from ensuring that children have work experience opportunities through to, for instance, what more some of our companies could do to take up governors' roles, for instance, in our local schools, so that employer voice and that business voice are heard at a school management level. I think these things are really important. It's something that's sometimes difficult. There are some excellent examples of really good practice where local employers work really closely with schools. I think of Sony in Bridgend doing a really, really, really good job working with their local schools. In other areas, where you haven't got such a big employer, it can be difficult, can't it, for a small business that is trying to do their small business to think about,'Oh my goodness, I've got to do something to help improve the education system as well.' So, I'm always looking at new ways in which we can get that working together. As I said, the Qualifications Wales design group has a stakeholder group that is helping them with their review into the qualification at the moment, but there are really good examples where employers and other organisations are working together. We also need to continue, I think, to communicate more clearly with employers the nature of the qualification. Again, because it's relatively new, and the brands of the GCSE and A-level are so strong, people know what they are, unless you've either done the Welsh bac yourself or you have a son or a daughter, or a grandson or granddaughter who has gone through the process, you're probably going to be less familiar, and we need to continue to work together with the WJEC and Qualifications Wales as a Government to better communicate the value of the qualification.", "speakerName": "Kirsty Williams AM" }, { "text": "So, you agree that there is a specific piece of work that needs to be done around employers and that the Government should be leading that.", "speakerName": "Sian Gwenllian AM" }, { "text": "Yes, and we are working closely with, as I said, Qualifications Wales to develop a joint communication plan, and we continue, as I said, as part of Qualifications Wales's review into the nature of the qualification—employers' voices are being heard as part of that particular piece of work. But more generally, yes, I think there's more that we can do to better engage employers with the education system in lots and lots of different ways.", "speakerName": "Kirsty Williams AM" }, { "text": "Okay. Thank you.", "speakerName": "Sian Gwenllian AM" }, { "text": "Not just on the Welsh bac.", "speakerName": "Kirsty Williams AM" }, { "text": "Just before we move off this section, the variability that the committee has seen has been quite pronounced, really. We've been to a school where they've got a passionate and dedicated Welsh bac school leader, but then we've spoken to other schools where it's tagged on to a variety of teachers' roles, and that clearly has an impact on the way it's being taught. You said in your answer to Siân that you're trying to ensure more consistency in the delivery of it, and you referred to the performance measures; are the performance measures the main vehicle by which you're going to ensure consistency, or are you planning to issue any more guidance to schools on how it should be delivered on the ground?", "speakerName": "Lynne Neagle AM" }, { "text": "We will need to reflect the work that Qualifications Wales is undertaking. Professional learning, I think, has a role to play as well as performance measures. So it's not just one thing that we can do that will change this, it is a number of things—everything from the communications plan to making sure that teachers who find themselves responsible for delivering this feel confident and have had the professional learning opportunities to give them the skills so that they do a great job in delivering a positive experience to students. The performance measures, of course, as we know—sometimes in schools, it is those that make schools focus on something. So there's a wide variety of ways in which I think we can look to ensure more consistency. But, in the end, I think it is professional learning and teacher training, ITE, that will make the biggest difference.", "speakerName": "Kirsty Williams AM" }, { "text": "Okay. And just on understanding, one of the things the young people in Crickhowell told us was that they thought the name should be changed. They felt that it wasn't reflective of exactly what the qualification is and that maybe having something that was clearer would be better. Is that something you've considered?", "speakerName": "Lynne Neagle AM" }, { "text": "Well, first of all, I need to declare an interest, because that's the school my daughter goes to, and I don't know if she was the one—", "speakerName": "Kirsty Williams AM" }, { "text": "She wasn't. Angharad wasn't there.", "speakerName": "Lynne Neagle AM" }, { "text": "She wasn't the one who said that. Certainly, I'd have to reflect. My gut instinct tells me that one of the issues that we have is developing an understanding of the brand and what that qualification is, and if we move away from'Welsh bac' and suddenly start to call it something else, I think that could be even harder and set us back from where we are. So, that's not to dismiss it, and I would want to reflect on those views, but I think if one of the issues that we've got is developing a better understanding of the qualification; if we were to suddenly change the name of it, that might have the unintended consequence of making that job even harder. But, obviously, if the committee was to make a recommendation, we would—I'm happy to reflect on that evidence, but, as I said, my gut instinct would tell me that there could be an unintended consequence of moving away from that brand.", "speakerName": "Kirsty Williams AM" }, { "text": "Okay. Thank you. The next questions are from Dawn Bowden.", "speakerName": "Lynne Neagle AM" }, { "text": "Thank you, Chair. You touched on this once or twice in answers to questions about how rigorous the qualification is. We've had mixed evidence, I would suggest, from groups of stakeholders. We've heard people say that the Welsh bac has no rigour, that pupils are spoon-fed. We've heard that the Welsh bac is passively marked, the grades are inflated, that there's little rigour in the sampling and moderation, there's a confusion about how the SCC is graded, and I know that's something you talked about, actually, that introducing the grading system is improving the rigour. I suppose my question to you is: if the Welsh bac is being seen in this way by stakeholders, how are going to address that? To what extent is that a real problem?", "speakerName": "Dawn Bowden AM" }, { "text": "I think making it a graded qualification has been really important, and I make no apologies for this qualification being rigorous—no apologies for that at all. That's how it should be, and that's how you create value, by ensuring that a qualification is rigorous. What's really important is that it's not just me saying that it's rigorous; there is an independent process that benchmarks qualifications. The fact is that at advanced level—because I don't know if you're making these observations about the pre-16 Welsh bac, or whether we're talking about the advanced level qualification—that is the equivalent of an A-level. It's been benchmarked against A-levels. It has a UCAS tariff associated with it. It is used by universities as a means of qualification that gains entrance into a university in just the same way as an A-level is. So, therefore, I don't have any concerns about the rigour of the qualification. In terms of spoon-feeding, one of the reasons why universities like the qualification is that it's very difficult, for instance, in the individual project work to be spoon-fed. It is very demanding of individual students, and it's very difficult in a way. That's one of the reasons why it's valuable, isn't it, because it teaches a different set of skills? Because if you're doing a traditional, say, history A-level or a science A-level, there's a very strict syllabus and a course, there's a textbook and people are taught to that particular syllabus; with the Welsh bac, it is individual students that have to think, for instance, of their own individual project. You can't get those off a shelf, and you can't necessarily just find that information easily. There's real skill involved in being able to do that well and get graded well for that. So, I do not have concerns about the rigour. I do have concerns about some of the feedback by Qualifications Wales about the onerousness of the evaluation and what that means for teacher workload, which is one of the things that Qualifications Wales is looking at. But in terms of rigour and people being spoon-fed, then I don't share those concerns.", "speakerName": "Kirsty Williams AM" }, { "text": "Okay, because those were concerns, in the main, that were articulated by people delivering the Welsh bac—by teachers. So, I suppose the question then comes back to some of the other points that were being raised about the consistency, because that may well be from those teachers in schools where they're not taking the bac as seriously as some others are.", "speakerName": "Dawn Bowden AM" }, { "text": "And, of course, there would be—. There is a professional responsibility for those teachers delivering that qualification to ensure that the ethos of that qualification and the skills—. It would potentially be a disservice to students if that qualification was being delivered in that way.", "speakerName": "Kirsty Williams AM" }, { "text": "And I think what I was trying to do was to highlight the different opinions, because we also heard from teachers who were saying that those involved with teaching and studying understood absolutely its rigour, so it was the mixed message, I guess, I was just trying to test out with you. Similarly, on the skills challenge certificate, again we've heard from various stakeholders about whether, in fact, this is considered to be an equivalent qualification. We've heard people say that it is different—it's not the same as an A-level—so, therefore you can't absolutely hold it up and say it's the same as an A-level. It requires different skills, and so on and so forth. So, just your thoughts and views on that, really, as an equivalent qualification.", "speakerName": "Dawn Bowden AM" }, { "text": "It's not a question of if this is an equivalent qualification; this is an equivalent qualification. There is a rigorous process that is undertaken to evaluate these qualifications independent of the Government, and it's not a question. Is it a different model and a different way of studying? Yes, of course it is, and that's why we do it. That's why I want children and young people to do both sets of qualifications, because it does engage and expand the acquisition of knowledge and skills. So, yes, it's different. Is it equivalent? Yes, it is, and that's why, since the graded qualification came in, it is regarded by independent bodies as an equivalent to an A-level, and it has a tariff for UCAS in the same way as A-levels would have tariffs. You only have to speak to the institutes of higher education who use this qualification as a way of setting grades—you know, offers—for students that they see that in the same way as well.", "speakerName": "Kirsty Williams AM" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Dawn Bowden AM" }, { "text": "Suzy's got a supplementary before we go on to talk in detail about universities.", "speakerName": "Lynne Neagle AM" }, { "text": "Is that okay? Because I just want to go back to this element of spoon-feeding at post 16, where you said it's actually very difficult for that to occur, because, obviously, we're talking about the personal project, and so forth. We heard evidence in one of the schools sessions we did that baccalaureate students were being offered a very short and narrow list of subjects on which they could do their personal project, which actually limited the scope of what they were able to do. And we've also heard separately—it may have been with the colleges, I can't quite remember now—that some students were being told,'On your personal project, just put in what you did for your GCSE-level baccalaureate, and add a few paragraphs.' I'm wondering how easy it is to disguise spoon-feeding at post 16 when we've got two instances there that, to me, suggest it's more about the convenience of the teachers, who perhaps may not be very enthusiastic about the bac, rather than making sure those children get the best out of the qualification.", "speakerName": "Suzy Davies AM" }, { "text": "Yes. And that would be really disappointing. And, again, if I can use my own personal family experience, my daughter has tried that on with her Welsh bac teacher. She's in a different school from where she did her earlier bac, and she said,'Oh, well, I'll just rehash my \"Votes at 16\" that I did last year', and the Welsh bac teacher has said,'Under no circumstances are you to do that—no, that's not allowed.' This is about using your individual project, linked to something that maybe you hope to study at university, to get the value out of this qualification, and for you to be able to use this in your personal statement, and potentially in an interview. So, again, I guess what this does is show that there's a variation, but certainly, where it is being delivered well, then that practice would not be encouraged, because it would be seen to be—", "speakerName": "Kirsty Williams AM" }, { "text": "It's gaming.", "speakerName": "Suzy Davies AM" }, { "text": "—denuding the students of the very valuable experience the qualification has to offer.", "speakerName": "Kirsty Williams AM" }, { "text": "Okay. Thank you. Cheers.", "speakerName": "Suzy Davies AM" }, { "text": "Okay. We've got some questions now on how universities view it. Hefin David.", "speakerName": "Lynne Neagle AM" }, { "text": "We've had an online survey response, which was quite a stark comment, not from the vice-chancellor's office, but from a member of staff within Cardiff University. And it said:'The Welsh Bacc is not a fair substitute for a full A-level, and should not be regarded as such. I consider it to be a disadvantage for Welsh students, compared with their English counterparts.' Can you reflect on that?", "speakerName": "Hefin David AM" }, { "text": "I don't agree.", "speakerName": "Kirsty Williams AM" }, { "text": "Do you think that that's a view that's held within universities, and are you concerned about that? Because it is a view that's obviously held within Cardiff University.", "speakerName": "Hefin David AM" }, { "text": "No; I would say that that is a view held by an individual in Cardiff University—", "speakerName": "Kirsty Williams AM" }, { "text": "Who has influence over students.", "speakerName": "Hefin David AM" }, { "text": "Well, that is a view held by an individual in Cardiff University. And, actually, Cardiff University—indeed, all Welsh universities—accept the Welsh baccalaureate as an A-level equivalent. I think it is really important to reflect on the wide range of opportunities at higher education that the Welsh bac affords individuals. That means that it is deemed as an equivalent to A-level for the vast majority of universities, to get in to some of the most competitive courses, such as dentistry, medicine, veterinary science. So, those courses where we know there's a high demand and high competition for places, there are institutions that are using that, including Cardiff to get into their medical degree.", "speakerName": "Kirsty Williams AM" }, { "text": "Nick Brazil, the deputy principal of Gower College, said about 50 per cent of the Russell Group don't value the Welsh bac.", "speakerName": "Hefin David AM" }, { "text": "Well, I don't know where he's getting that from. I have made it a personal commitment to establish this with universities. I have visited both Cambridge and Oxford. I spoke again to Cambridge, Oxford, Bath, Southampton, St Andrews, only last week, who were exhibiting at the Seren conference. I specifically took the opportunity to meet with those universities and to talk to them about how they feel about the Welsh bac. They have a high regard for the Welsh baccalaureate in a variety of ways. First of all, for many of those universities, for many of their courses, they use the Welsh bac as an equivalent to an A-level. If they don't, there are some courses, for instance, where they will lower their offer to gain a place at that university if the Welsh bac is passed at a certain level. So, for instance, rather than maybe offering a Welsh student A, A, B, they would offer a Welsh student A, B, B, plus a Welsh bac, thus giving students two opportunities to gain a place at that university, either with or without their Welsh bac qualification. Even for those universities that don't use the Welsh baccalaureate as a formal part of their offer—and this is the conversation I had again last week with Oxford and Cambridge—they value it as part of a student's personal statement; they value it as part of the interview process in which a student may or may not then be offered a place at that university; and they also recognise that the skills learnt by students whilst undertaking the Welsh baccalaureate are exactly the skills that those students need to make a successful transition from A-level work to university-type work, which, if you can imagine, is very much based on individual research and being able to guide your own learning. So, I just don't recognise that in some way Welsh students are being disadvantaged. The message I get consistently from universities is that there are significant advantages to Welsh learners taking this qualification.", "speakerName": "Kirsty Williams AM" }, { "text": "Okay. You can not recognise it, but that is contrary to the evidence that we've received. I'm not saying that the evidence is conclusive, but it actually demonstrates inconsistency. So, would you go so far as to accept instead then that there is an inconsistency in the way that universities use the Welsh bac as a tool for application?", "speakerName": "Hefin David AM" }, { "text": "You would know better than anybody, Hefin, that universities are autonomous institutions and they set their own methods of entry into those institutions. What I'm telling you is that the evidence that I have received from universities is that, whilst there is a variety of approaches to how they regard the qualification in terms of offers, consistently, absolutely across the board, all universities tell me that the Welsh baccalaureate is a valuable qualification and does not disadvantage Welsh students.", "speakerName": "Kirsty Williams AM" }, { "text": "If the committee were to produce a report based on the evidence we've received, that would be contrary to what you've just said. So, I think we'd end up in a debate in which we are setting out different points of view. So, would you therefore commit to exploring that perspective?", "speakerName": "Hefin David AM" }, { "text": "Hefin, I would argue that I have indeed explored that perspective because I have taken the trouble to find out first-hand—not via my officials, but first-hand—from those institutions, their views. So, this is not something that is hearsay; I have undertaken to ascertain the views of those universities. We have written to all vice-chancellors—last year—with regard to the Welsh baccalaureate qualification. Qualifications Wales has an individual whose specific job it is to ensure that universities across the United Kingdom understand the value of Welsh qualifications. That will become increasingly important as we see a divergence between English and Welsh qualifications. But I have to say that the evidence that I have from universities is that the Welsh baccalaureate, whilst it may be used in different ways in terms of an offer, the consistency from all universities is that it is a valuable qualification. If you've heard differently from admissions tutors and from the universities officially, rather than from somebody who has e-mailed in, then I would be pleased to look at that evidence, because it would be in stark contrast to what I am being told by universities.", "speakerName": "Kirsty Williams AM" }, { "text": "Hefin is not referring to an e-mail—", "speakerName": "Lynne Neagle AM" }, { "text": "No, I've said that.", "speakerName": "Hefin David AM" }, { "text": "—we did do a survey and we've also taken oral evidence.", "speakerName": "Lynne Neagle AM" }, { "text": "Yes, and it's representing the evidence that we received.", "speakerName": "Hefin David AM" }, { "text": "And I'm presenting you with the evidence that I've received.", "speakerName": "Kirsty Williams AM" }, { "text": "But it will be presented to you as a submission from this committee, no doubt. Let's look at some admissions offers instead then. You do concede that there is inconsistency with how admissions offers are made with regard to the skills challenge certificate. How would you suggest that that is addressed?", "speakerName": "Hefin David AM" }, { "text": "Hefin, each individual institution and university the length and breadth of the UK have different ways in which they make offers to individuals. What is absolutely clear to me, and if the concern is around the type of institution—. So, for instance, it is accepted as a third-grade offer in Bristol, Edinburgh, Exeter, Lancaster, Leeds, Leicester, Liverpool, the London School of Economics—some of the highest performing universities and Russell Group universities. It is accepted as a fourth qualification or amends the offer in places like Bath University, and it is accepted in tariff-point offers in places like Hull and the University of the West of England. So there is a variety of ways in which universities use the qualification, and that is their prerogative—that's their prerogative as institutions. They will have different ways in which they recruit and how they offer places, just like different universities will have different views on unconditional offers. You know, there's a difference in universities there, isn't there? Some universities don't have unconditional offers at all; other universities—", "speakerName": "Kirsty Williams AM" }, { "text": "So, what you're saying is that the problem isn't connected to the Welsh bac, it's connected with just the way that universities make offers, and the Welsh bac has got nothing to do with it.", "speakerName": "Hefin David AM" }, { "text": "I’m saying there is a variety. Just like any other qualification, there is a variety in how universities use qualifications for offers. What I’m saying to you is that, in the conversations that I have had with Russell Group universities, what they say is that there is certainly no detriment to any Welsh student undertaking this qualification. They value the qualification. They think it is useful. It develops a set of skills that help students to make that transition into higher education. And therefore, I think it is a myth—I would go as far as to say that it’s a myth—that Welsh students are disadvantaged in any way by taking this qualification. Sorry, Andrew.", "speakerName": "Kirsty Williams AM" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Hefin David AM" }, { "text": "Could I just add to that response? There are, obviously, differences in the way that universities treat the skills challenge certificate and the Welsh baccalaureate, which is the prime focus of this. The attitude of the universities has changed significantly since that was a graded qualification.", "speakerName": "Andrew Clark" }, { "text": "Yes, that has made a difference.", "speakerName": "Kirsty Williams AM" }, { "text": "And even those who do not make it part of their offer consider it exceedingly valuable in the way that young people are prepared to go to university and, therefore, as part of their personal statement, as part of their interview, the activity that the young person has taken by means of the skills challenge certificate is definitely recognised, even by those who don’t actually make it part of their offer. So, we’re still on a journey—that graded qualification has only been taught for a couple of years, but the journey is taking us to the right place, towards the right destination.", "speakerName": "Andrew Clark" }, { "text": "Okay. So, it isn’t just about variable admissions practices across universities; it is to deal with the skills challenge certificate as well, which needed changing in order to improve that.", "speakerName": "Hefin David AM" }, { "text": "But that was changed in September 2015. When it was a'yes'/'no' qualification, I think they held it in less regard than they do now that it is a graded qualification.", "speakerName": "Andrew Clark" }, { "text": "And that’s the conversation we had with some of our Russell Group universities.", "speakerName": "Kirsty Williams AM" }, { "text": "And that was an important shift three years ago.", "speakerName": "Andrew Clark" }, { "text": "Okay. So, last question, then: are you absolutely confident that any concerns we are offering are nothing really to worry about?", "speakerName": "Hefin David AM" }, { "text": "We will need to continue to communicate to all audiences the importance of this and the value of this qualification. But I am confident that the university sector, in its wide variety of forms, regards the Welsh baccalaureate qualification as a valuable endeavour for Welsh students to undertake, and they certainly don’t regard it as a detriment to students.", "speakerName": "Kirsty Williams AM" }, { "text": "Okay. Siân wants to come in on this, and then I've got a question from Suzy on Seren.", "speakerName": "Lynne Neagle AM" }, { "text": "Yes, just that the committee, of course, has been trying to gain evidence on this sector from the universities themselves, but Universities Wales, which represents the interests of universities in Wales, has rejected the committee's invitation to submit any oral or written evidence. So, can you see the dilemma we're in? We are hearing a few things coming from some universities, we hear what you're saying, but we can't get to the root of the matter because the universities themselves aren't willing to come to speak to us. Are you also disappointed that they have rejected our invitation to come and speak to us?", "speakerName": "Sian Gwenllian AM" }, { "text": "Where's the enthusiasm, Chair? Where's the enthusiasm?", "speakerName": "Hefin David AM" }, { "text": "And perhaps that's a sign that they don't want to be drawn into this argument between the Government and us as a committee.", "speakerName": "Sian Gwenllian AM" }, { "text": "Well, it’s a matter for individual universities to decide whether they want to participate in the work of this committee. I would urge them to do so. All Welsh universities regard the Welsh baccalaureate as an equivalent to A-level, and all universities use it as part of their offer—Welsh universities.", "speakerName": "Kirsty Williams AM" }, { "text": "Yes, but you see what our dilemma is, though, because if we can’t actually ask them directly, it's a bit difficult for us to actually probe this and to help move things on? Anyway, I'll leave it at that. Thank you.", "speakerName": "Sian Gwenllian AM" }, { "text": "Well, it's a matter for them, and maybe the Chair would like to take that up with Universities Wales.", "speakerName": "Kirsty Williams AM" }, { "text": "We have had quite an extensive dialogue with them about it. Suzy on Seren.", "speakerName": "Lynne Neagle AM" }, { "text": "So, just briefly, you’ve said several times that having a Welsh bac qualification is an advantage and certainly no detriment, and that it’s valued by universities. But advantage isn't the same as equivalence, and we have had evidence from—I think it was Cardiff University, again, where they had students with two A-levels and a bac who were actually performing as weaker students. So, even though on the face of it you've got three A-levels, those particular students aren't matching up to the expectations of a student with three A-levels. I do want to challenge what you said about the students who are involved in the Seren network about the baccalaureate being accepted for things like veterinary medicine and medicine itself. We've had evidence from FE colleges, which are now significant players in producing our Seren-style students, if you like, that they are exempting their students from doing the bac because it's a distraction, effectively. What's your comment on that? Because if this is a question of communication, which I suspect you're about to tell me, one of the axioms of good communication is you can have the best marketing in the world, but if the product you're selling isn't highly valued then you're actually just doubling the problem. So, can you explain to me why FE is exempting their highest flyers from doing the bac?", "speakerName": "Suzy Davies AM" }, { "text": "I think sometimes colleges make the decision that four or five A-levels is of an advantage, and therefore, if you're asking students to carry that workload, which is a considerable workload, that's the preferred route for more able and talented students. Again, what is quite clear in all the conversations that I have had with Russell Group universities, including Oxford and Cambridge, is that this is a myth. What universities tell me they want is not necessarily students with four or five A-levels; they want students with three really exceptional grades at A-level and a Welsh baccalaureate. I think that's really, really an important message to get across—that it is not necessary to do four or five A-levels if you aspire to go to these Russell Group universities, or if you decide you want to apply to Oxford and Cambridge. As I said, in the conversations that we have had—and there is actually some research, and I will let the committee have links to the research. There is some research to suggest that those students who have been involved in project-based work—and, of course, that's not just the Welsh baccalaureate, that would be the EPQ, which is a qualification that is rapidly gaining traction in England. That is an extended project—research based—qualification, very similar to the individual project element of the Welsh baccalaureate. The EPQ in England is seen as a qualification taken by more able and talented students, and what we see in some of the research that is coming forward is that those students who have engaged in that type of work, project-based work, individual-led, research-based work—those skills are the skills that are really attuned to the nature of university-type work. Therefore, that is valued by universities and there is some indication to say that there is a correlation between the students who have undertaken that work and their potential success at undergraduate level. They also tell me that there is a link between, for instance, being able then to use those skills to gain work experience, placements and internships in the private sector and in the world of work, because, as I said, those types of skills are really, really valuable and therefore that's why they value the qualification.", "speakerName": "Kirsty Williams AM" }, { "text": "Can I just add—? It's great that they're telling you, why aren't they telling FE?", "speakerName": "Suzy Davies AM" }, { "text": "Well, as I said, I think it's really important that FE colleges understand that there is a myth around the fact that these universities are looking for four or five A-levels, and if that's the reason why then colleges are not allowing students or dissuading students from taking the Welsh bac, I think we need to reflect on what's important to those universities—which is the right A-levels. I think it's really, really important that students are given the best advice about the A-levels they need to take, facilitating subjects to get into a university, and the value of the skills and knowledge they will acquire through the Welsh bac as an assistance to them going forward.", "speakerName": "Kirsty Williams AM" }, { "text": "Okay, thanks. Thank you, Chair.", "speakerName": "Suzy Davies AM" }, { "text": "Actually, it's your set of questions next on universal adoption.", "speakerName": "Lynne Neagle AM" }, { "text": "I'll try and keep this on the shorter side, if that's okay, everybody. You say in your evidence that you expect universal adoption, basically, by 2020, I think it is, or it might be 2019. What do you think universal adoption actually means? What does it look like? Does it mean 100 per cent adoption?", "speakerName": "Suzy Davies AM" }, { "text": "What is means is that I expect all institutions to be in a position to deliver the Welsh baccalaureate. I believe it should be an entitlement to all Welsh students to be able to study this qualification, and I believe we should work to the situation where it becomes the norm to take the Welsh baccalaureate. I also recognise that in some individual cases, there may be very good reasons why perhaps this is not aligned to the well-being of that particular student. But when I talk about universal adoption, I expect all our institutions to be in a position to deliver the qualification, and I believe it should be an entitlement for Welsh students to be able to undertake this qualification.", "speakerName": "Kirsty Williams AM" }, { "text": "But not an obligation—that's the bit I'm trying to get at.", "speakerName": "Suzy Davies AM" }, { "text": "I think it should become the norm, and if there are exceptions to that, and there could well be for very legitimate reasons, I think that that flexibility should be allowed. But I think, for those students who are not doing that Welsh baccalaureate, there should be evidence as to why that decision has been taken.", "speakerName": "Kirsty Williams AM" }, { "text": "Okay, so there's a presumption. I think the performance measures, probably, are likely to sharpen the minds of some school leaders, so I won't pursue that. But can you tell me what lesson you may have learnt from the universal obligation for students to study Welsh language in schools when those schools weren't particularly ready to offer a quality course?", "speakerName": "Suzy Davies AM" }, { "text": "As we've rehearsed earlier, it is important that all of our schools and colleges are in a position to deliver this qualification well and deliver a really positive experience to learners. That's why there is existing support available, and via our new professional learning programmes there will be more support available for teachers to ensure that they have the skills and the confidence to deliver the qualification in a high-quality manner.", "speakerName": "Kirsty Williams AM" }, { "text": "Okay. Well, that's going to take some time. Would you consider pausing the presumption of universal roll-out until you're absolutely sure that all institutions are able to offer the bac to the quality that you would like to see it delivered?", "speakerName": "Suzy Davies AM" }, { "text": "Not at this stage. I have no intention of pausing. We have evidence that schools are already delivering the qualification really well—", "speakerName": "Kirsty Williams AM" }, { "text": "But you know that we've had evidence, and you must have as well, that not all schools are doing it.", "speakerName": "Suzy Davies AM" }, { "text": "What we do know is that some schools struggle to deliver existing qualifications. I don't know why we would turn round and say that this qualification needs to be stopped when we wouldn't stop other qualifications, and we'd say,'Well, there we are, we haven't got a 100 per cent guarantee that every single school is delivering this particular qualification especially well, therefore we're going to denude the opportunity of students to study that particular subject.' What we're saying is,'There is a responsibility on us, on individual schools and on our regional consortia to endure that there is professional learning in place so that all schools are in a position to deliver the qualification well.'", "speakerName": "Kirsty Williams AM" }, { "text": "Isn't it irresponsible to ask students to be obliged to take a qualification that's badly delivered?", "speakerName": "Suzy Davies AM" }, { "text": "What is irresponsible is not to invest in professional learning to ensure that all schools are in a position to deliver it well.", "speakerName": "Kirsty Williams AM" }, { "text": "Okay. Well, I agree with you on that, actually, which is why I was a bit confused when you had some in-year additional money in this year's budget that was being given out to consortia rather than to schools to improve the ability of their teachers to deliver the Welsh baccalaureate in certain schools. Can you tell me whether the money—I think it was about £5 million that was going to the consortia in-year—will you will offer them suggestions that that is used for improving baccalaureate teaching?", "speakerName": "Suzy Davies AM" }, { "text": "The money that is available is going via consortia to schools. Individual schools are best placed to understand the professional learning needs of their staff. And if that school understands that they have particular professional learning needs for the Welsh baccalaureate, then I would expect the money to be spent on that. Where a school is doing the Welsh baccalaureate particularly well, then the school might identify other areas where they look to seek improvement. Therefore, it is for the individual school to assess the professional learning needs of their staff. We can't second-guess that, and therefore it has to be right that school leaders are able to plan the professional learning of their staff accordingly.", "speakerName": "Kirsty Williams AM" }, { "text": "I completely accept that and, as I say, it's not for all schools, but bearing in mind we're facing evidence of polarisation of delivery, I'm just wondering whether there wasn't a letter suggesting that they may want to focus on this in the schools that aren't delivering this well at the moment.", "speakerName": "Suzy Davies AM" }, { "text": "Well, again, that's a conversation to be had between challenge advisors in our regional consortia who are aware of the strengths and weaknesses in individual schools, in conjunction with the leadership of those schools, to discuss how that professional learning money is best spent. There isn't a school that is fantastic at everything, nor is there a school that is not good at anything, if you know what I mean. There are strengths and weaknesses in all schools. It is for the regional consortia, via challenge advisers, and the headteacher, to have that conversation about what the professional learning needs are for that particular school, to ensure that all their teachers, across the length and breadth of the curriculum, are in a position to deliver good-quality lessons. But we can't second-guess that.", "speakerName": "Kirsty Williams AM" }, { "text": "Can I just make a further comment? I'll be this afternoon meeting with the regional consortia, Estyn, the universities, and the rest of what we call'the middle tier' to discuss with them the configuration of a national curriculum for professional learning, premised on the priorities that are emerging from our current work with pioneer schools. And the shifts in pedagogy that you all know is found behind some of these issues, with the delivery of the Welsh bac, those shifts in pedagogy are right at the core of the national approach to professional learning—so, things like project-based learning, the kinds of things you talked about today, moving away from a spoon-feeding model, not just for the Welsh bac but actually right across the curriculum. The new curriculum requires us to move in these new directions. So, it's absolutely true to say that each individual school is different, each individual practitioner is different, but we must give the regions and the HEIs, as it were, a menu of things, and guidance around where there are clearly weaknesses in schools. Those weaknesses need to be addressed.", "speakerName": "Kevin Palmer" }, { "text": "I accept that we're going forward towards Donaldson, and I'm sure that you will be getting questions on that at some time in the future. I'm more concerned about this bac that's been around for 10 years, and there's still, as far as we can tell from the evidence that we've had, poor delivery in some schools, where there's the prospect of obligation on the horizon. That was the thing that was worrying me. Anyway, thank you.", "speakerName": "Suzy Davies AM" }, { "text": "I think the issue of the difference between entitlement and obligation is a very important one and is a concern to students. You were saying it's an entitlement, not an obligation, but we have had very clear evidence from colleges that some of them are making young people do it, and schools are making young people do it. So, what do you say to those schools that are insisting on their pupils doing the Welsh bac at post 16?", "speakerName": "Lynne Neagle AM" }, { "text": "As I said, I hope that it becomes the norm that at post-16 level students take the Welsh baccalaureate, because I think it is of huge value. There may be circumstances that mean that the well-being of that student could be compromised by making them do this qualification. There could be a whole host of reasons why it is not suitable for a child to take this qualification, and therefore there has to be some flexibility in the system, and we have to trust in the professional leadership of our colleges and our headteachers to make that decision in the round, with the pupil and their parents, about what's in the best interests of those pupils. But I do think a situation where, perhaps, an entire cohort of students are suddenly deemed it's unsuitable for, I find that very hard to believe, but there could well be circumstances, for a whole host of reasons, where that particular qualification—. And we would not want to jeopardise the well-being of a student by forcing them to do a qualification that wasn't in their best interests, and we need to have the flexibility in the system to allow school leaders to make that decision, but they should also then be accountable for that decision.", "speakerName": "Kirsty Williams AM" }, { "text": "But do you recognise there's maybe a case for strengthening guidance, then, on this? Because, we've had teachers tell us that they have insisted on pupils doing this, and then the parents have rung Welsh Government, and they felt undermined, then. So, do you think there's a case for strengthening the guidance or clarifying what the position is to schools and colleges?", "speakerName": "Lynne Neagle AM" }, { "text": "Very happy to do that. As I said, from time to time, parents do indeed contact Welsh Government, and in that contact there is a whole variety of reasons why that parent feels the Welsh baccalaureate is not in the best interests of those children. Sometimes, that can go from the extreme of, 'I want my child to do five A-levels and I think that's in their best interest to get into Oxford and Cambridge'—I would argue that that is a myth, around the need to do that many A-levels—through to,'Actually, my child has a range of learning needs, and actually this qualification isn't suited to them. Making them go out and do voluntary work in an organisation with people that don't understand their needs and they are unfamiliar with could jeopardise my child's ability and my child's well-being.' So, there's a whole range of reasons why sometimes people have concerns about the Welsh baccalaureate. Some of those are very legitimate concerns. Sometimes, they're based on information that, perhaps, isn't correct, or the myths around,'I need to do five A-levels if I want to go to Cambridge'. Schools, then, have some flexibility. I'm aware of a case last year where a parent felt very concerned that the students were also having to study for entrance exams into Cambridge. A conversation was had with the school. They were able to allow the student extra time to study for that qualification and pick up their Welsh bac work later on in the academic year. So, they were able to be flexible in the delivery of that qualification. I'm very pleased to say that we've had correspondence from said parent to say that his son went on to do exceptionally well in his A-levels and his Welsh baccalaureate and gained his place at Cambridge University, and that's about having the flexibility, even at a school level, to be able to respond to the needs of individual students.", "speakerName": "Kirsty Williams AM" }, { "text": "Okay. Just one final question from me on this, then. As you know, mental health and the emotional health of our children and young people is a very core issue for this committee, and Estyn have said that studying the skills challenge certificate alongside three or four A-levels is a significant factor in causing stress for some young people. How do you respond to that?", "speakerName": "Lynne Neagle AM" }, { "text": "Well, I would be the first to acknowledge that studying A-levels can be a very stressful time. That's because students, rightly, regard those qualifications as high stakes and as having a profound effect on the opportunities for the rest of their lives. So, the mere fact of studying A-levels can be a really stressful time for students because they understand how important they are, and students want to do well and they want to be able to move on to the next stage, either of work or of university. We also know—and Estyn reflects this—that students are also often trying to combine that with part-time jobs. These students are of an age when they want to be out and about and earning some of their own money and being a bit more independent. So, that adds added pressure to them. So, undoubtedly, this is a stressful time in young people's lives and we need to ensure that there is support in school to support young people through this time to make sure that students are making the right choices in terms of their A-levels and the qualifications that they're doing so they're not having to do more because they're under the impression that, by doing more, that's going to make them more likely to succeed. What we know, actually, is it's about the quality of what you do rather than the entirety of what you do that's important to universities, and we need to make sure that students are getting really good information, advice and guidance and support at what is a challenging time in their lives, because, of course, it comes on top of working really hard for your GCSEs and then you have, the following year, AS-level examinations and A-level examinations after that. So, these are stressful times in children's lives and they realise the importance of these as high-stakes qualifications.", "speakerName": "Kirsty Williams AM" }, { "text": "Okay, thank you. The next questions are from Janet Finch-Saunders.", "speakerName": "Lynne Neagle AM" }, { "text": "This is about the wider impact of studying the Welsh bac on other curriculum subjects and education provision, and we've had representations in that it is causing some concerns. So, do you have any concerns about the effect that the Welsh bac may be having on wider education provisions, such as the narrowing of the curriculum at key stage 4?", "speakerName": "Janet Finch-Saunders AM" }, { "text": "No. Obviously, schools are responsible for planning their local curriculum offer, and that needs to meet the needs of their learners, and it also needs to meet the needs of the Learning and Skills (Wales) Measure 2009. So, there should be a wide variety of choices available. I believe that the skills challenge certificate actually does ensure that there is a broad curriculum and that children are exposed to different learning opportunities. And so, rather than narrowing it, I believe the Welsh bac helps us to make sure that there is an expansive curriculum, and that lots of different issues are explored in the skills challenge certificate that ensure not just academic skills are developed, but, actually, knowledge and skills of a wider range of subjects about you and your place in the world is available via this qualification.", "speakerName": "Kirsty Williams AM" }, { "text": "Okay, thanks. And then, to what extent do you think that the Welsh bac should be give priority over other curriculum subjects?", "speakerName": "Janet Finch-Saunders AM" }, { "text": "Well, I don't think it's—. It shouldn't be at the expense of other subjects. It should be part of that wide range of opportunities that are afforded to students, and I don't think it's more important or less important than other aspects of what we already ask schools to deliver.", "speakerName": "Kirsty Williams AM" }, { "text": "What about where we've taken representations that there's a lack of capacity in terms of all the extra pressures of studying the Welsh bac along with other qualifications? I went to a school in Bangor, and, again, as has been said here, it's very polarised, the evidence that we're taking—either some have found it very easy or some, including teachers, have found it extremely difficult to fit everything in, and they do believe that there is a lack of capacity there.", "speakerName": "Janet Finch-Saunders AM" }, { "text": "And the onerous nature and the consequences of workload for teachers is acknowledged by the Qualifications Wales work and review into the qualification, and that is one of the things that we're looking to address so that the assessment arrangements and workload implications for teachers are not too onerous. And, if there is any element of duplication—students being asked to do things over and over—then that needs to be addressed as well, and that's why there is this review by the design group.", "speakerName": "Kirsty Williams AM" }, { "text": "Okay, thanks. And then, how do you respond to concerns that learners are avoiding studying the Welsh bac— where they can, that is—by attending institutions in England or institutions that do not offer Welsh-medium provision?", "speakerName": "Janet Finch-Saunders AM" }, { "text": "Well, it's interesting, isn't it, about where children choose to study and whether they are motivated by the avoidance of the Welsh bac? People make decisions about where to study for a whole host of reasons, and it's difficult sometimes to quantify what those are. So, for instance, we often hear this along the border that, because—. The geography is not easy, but it can be relatively easy to go across into the English system and therefore you don't have to do this. Now, the reasons for that could be very variable. It could be about the nature of the offer. We know that, in some of our rural schools, the secondary sixth forms aren't able to offer a wide variety of A-levels, and perhaps, by going to a different institution, a larger institution across the way, then you can get that combination of the A-levels you want to do, which simply isn't possible if you do it in your home school. Or, we do have some consortia arrangements where A-levels are delivered across a wide variety of schools, which require students to travel. Some students don't want to do that; they don't want to do their A-levels in three different schools, but they'd rather go to an institution where they can do it all under one roof. And that means, sometimes, moving across the border or, in the area I live, children making the decision to go to Merthyr college, because its a lovely, beautiful new building, the facilities are absolutely fantastic and a wide variety of A-levels is available under one roof. We looked at, in particular, also, the perception of quality. So, if we take the example of King Henry VIII School in Abergavenny, a school where, in the past, there have been, I think, within the community, some concerns about the quality of that school—whether it's regarded as a good school. And, from that particular location, you can quite easily get to Hereford college—a college that has a fantastic offer, does very, very well and has a beautiful building. What we do, if we look at the tracking of the students who have been retained in King Henry VIII, as that school has been on its improvement journey and has done better and better and better, the number of students that they are retaining into their sixth form has grown. So, the perception is,'This is a good school, I'm going to get a good-quality experience here', and more and more students are choosing to stay in that school than perhaps make the decision to travel somewhere else. We also have to recognise that, for some students, staying in the sixth form isn't what they want to do; they want a different experience, they want to go to an FE college. They want a different experience. So, we have to take into consideration that students could be motivated by a wide variety of subjects, and there's no hard-and-fast evidence that it is avoidance of the bac that is the sole driver for some of these choices.", "speakerName": "Kirsty Williams AM" }, { "text": "Siân, on this.", "speakerName": "Lynne Neagle AM" }, { "text": "The evidence that we've had from one of the teaching unions—robust and clear evidence—is that this is happening, that is, that young people are leaving Wales to go over the border to schools in England in order to avoid the Welsh bac. That's exactly what was said to us. But you don't accept that evidence.", "speakerName": "Sian Gwenllian AM" }, { "text": "I'm not saying that I don't accept it. I'm saying that I think there are a wide variety of reasons why students make decisions about where to study. I'm not aware of any comprehensive piece of work that has looked at those motivations, and I think there could be a whole host of reasons why children are deciding to move across the border. Perhaps the Welsh bac is an easy one to place that hook on, and that's easier to acknowledge, isn't it, than saying that perhaps students are making that choice for other reasons.", "speakerName": "Kirsty Williams AM" }, { "text": "Okay, thank you. The next questions, then, are on teacher learning from Suzy.", "speakerName": "Lynne Neagle AM" }, { "text": "Actually, I've asked the question that I wanted to ask.", "speakerName": "Suzy Davies AM" }, { "text": "Okay, you don't want to—", "speakerName": "Lynne Neagle AM" }, { "text": "By all means you ask the others I had.", "speakerName": "Suzy Davies AM" }, { "text": "Okay. You have referred to training already. The committee's got two concerns, really. One is about preparedness in ITE to teach the Welsh bac, so I don't know if you want to expand on how teachers are being skilled up at that level to deliver the Welsh bac effectively.", "speakerName": "Lynne Neagle AM" }, { "text": "In the accreditation process, which has not been without its pain, and some significant decisions made in that regard, the criteria for the ITE programmes note that, and I'm going to quote it:'Teachers should be able to help children and young people to make links across their learning, bringing together different aspects to examine, for example, important topics such as citizenship, enterprise, financial capability and sustainability.' So, the prime driver for our ITE reforms, obviously, is the preparedness for'Successful Futures', but in preparing our teachers to be in a position to successfully deliver that, those are also the pedagogical principles and that shift in pedagogy that we see aligned to the Welsh baccalaureate. So, it is actually a part of the accreditation process that the curriculum that the new ITE providers will have to deliver—ensuring that teachers have those skills and have that confidence to be able to deliver their teaching in a way that, as I said, ensures that we successfully deliver on Donaldson, but also on the same pedagogical principles that are needed for the successful delivery of the Welsh bac.", "speakerName": "Kirsty Williams AM" }, { "text": "In the pre-Donaldson period, then, bearing in mind what you've just said, do you expect to see a surge in improvement on how the baccalaureate is taken up by those schools that are currently less keen on it?", "speakerName": "Suzy Davies AM" }, { "text": "I hope that we will see increased numbers of students taking the qualification and an increase in the quality of that experience for young people. As we discussed earlier, we're not just waiting for the new graduates to come out of our ITE providers. There's a whole cohort of the workforce already out there. They should be given an equal opportunity to ensure that they have the skills to deliver on our curriculum reforms and our reform qualifications, and every time the previous Government has brought in a reformed qualification there have been specific resources made available to ensure that teachers are in a position to do that. So, when we changed to maths numeracy, a new qualification that was to be examined, there was specific resource made available for the professional learning for teachers to make sure that they were in a position to do that, and that's exactly the same as the offer that we have available for teachers who are delivering the Welsh bac.", "speakerName": "Kirsty Williams AM" }, { "text": "Okay, thank you. And you've already said about continuing professional development, that this is going to be a core part of the CPD. Is there anything that you want to add on that? Is it going to be fully integrated into the professional learning offer?", "speakerName": "Lynne Neagle AM" }, { "text": "Yes, absolutely. There is already—I don't want to make the impression that there's not already support available out there. There is already support out there via regional consortia for professional learning with regard to the Welsh baccalaureate. There is existing support available from the WJEC with regard to Welsh baccalaureate, and it will continue, as we drive forward our national approach to professional learning. And, increasingly, there are interesting ways in which we're supporting students, so I don't know if Members are aware of the new MOOC. The University of Bath, one of the Russell Group universities, delivered a MOOC for the extended project qualification in England.", "speakerName": "Kirsty Williams AM" }, { "text": "What's a MOOC? [Laughter.]", "speakerName": "Lynne Neagle AM" }, { "text": "So, it is an online—a massive open online course. So, it's a course that is delivered free of charge, and it's delivered by information technology. So, the University of Bath have done this MOOC to support students with the EPQ. They have just launched, in conjunction with Aberystwyth University, a bilingual MOOC for the individual project for Welsh bac. It's our understanding it is the first ever Welsh-medium MOOC, we think; we're not aware of any others. And this resource is there for students to give them advice on how they do choose the thesis for their individual project: how do you go about, then, undertaking good independent research; how do you reference properly, to ensure that you do that correctly? And we've seen over 1,000 students already sign up for the MOOC. So, increasingly, there are lots and lots of new resources out there for both teachers and students to make the most of. And the fact that Bath and Aberystwyth have worked together on this, I believe, shows their commitment and a demonstration of their support for this qualification, otherwise why would the University of Bath bother, if they weren't interested in it?", "speakerName": "Kirsty Williams AM" }, { "text": "Okay. Just one final question from me. I've written to you about a young constituent who moved institutions and resat the Welsh bac, but wasn't able, because of the WJEC policy, to obtain a higher grade in it, because they've got a policy that the grade is capped when you resit it. Given what the committee's been told about the variability in the way this is taught in institutions in Wales, do you think it's fair that young people shouldn't be able to go and resit it somewhere else and get a better grade?", "speakerName": "Lynne Neagle AM" }, { "text": "Well, given that Welsh Ministers are independent of the qualification system, I would want to be careful about what I said, because it is for the WJEC and Qualifications Wales to regulate this. But, clearly, we would want to reflect on making sure that students have an opportunity, and a fair opportunity. Andrew, I don't know if you've got any observations that you'd like to make.", "speakerName": "Kirsty Williams AM" }, { "text": "No, not really. I think it's an individual case, this one—", "speakerName": "Andrew Clark" }, { "text": "But it could apply to lots of young people, couldn't it? I mean, that's the point here. I know it's a constituent's case and I don't normally raise those in the Chair, but I think, given what we've learned about variability, it is a valid issue for young people in Wales, really.", "speakerName": "Lynne Neagle AM" }, { "text": "Yes, whether it's particularly related to the Welsh baccalaureate, though, I'm not so certain. And I think that would be a better question to ask the WJEC, perhaps, and Qualifications Wales, because it's a deliberate act that that activity is at arm's length from Welsh Ministers.", "speakerName": "Andrew Clark" }, { "text": "Okay. Any other questions from Members? No. Okay, well, can I thank the Cabinet Secretary and her officials for attending? We've had a very useful discussion this morning, which will inform our report on this. As usual, you'll be sent a transcript to check for accuracy, but thank you again for your attendance.", "speakerName": "Lynne Neagle AM" }, { "text": "Thank you.", "speakerName": "Kirsty Williams AM" }, { "text": "Item 3, then, is papers to note. Paper to note 1 is a letter from the Llywydd to the First Minister on the role of the Assembly in the process of legislating for Brexit. Paper to note 2 is a letter from the Cabinet Secretary for Education and the Minister for Welsh Language and Lifelong Learning with additional information following the meeting on 8 November. Are Members happy to note those?", "speakerName": "Lynne Neagle AM" }, { "text": "Can I just make a comment on the first of those letters, the one from the Llywydd? I recommend to Assembly Members that they read that again if they can, because, actually, it's an important issue that is easily lost in the other things that we talk about with Brexit, and that is the role of this Assembly in scrutinising secondary legislation falling out of Brexit.", "speakerName": "Suzy Davies AM" }, { "text": "Can I ask a question? Was that a reflection of all the Chairs?", "speakerName": "Hefin David AM" }, { "text": "Yes. It came to the panel of Chairs—", "speakerName": "Lynne Neagle AM" }, { "text": "And it was obviously unanimous—", "speakerName": "Hefin David AM" }, { "text": "—and we agreed that we wanted that letter sent.", "speakerName": "Lynne Neagle AM" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Hefin David AM" }, { "text": "Thank you for that.", "speakerName": "Suzy Davies AM" }, { "text": "Okay. Are Members happy to note those? Thank you. Item 4 is a motion under Standing Order 17.42 to resolve to exclude the public for the remainder of the meeting. 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c112afdbbf7348c9a58fd1a668fef35e	{ "meetingId": "education20", "transcriptSegments": [ { "text": "Good morning, and welcome to today's meeting of the Children, Young People and Education Committee. Unfortunately, the Chair is unable to attend today, so in accordance with Standing Order 17.22 I call for nominations for a temporary Chair for the duration of today's meeting.", "speakerName": "Gareth Rogers" }, { "text": "I nominate John Griffiths.", "speakerName": "Julie Morgan AM" }, { "text": "Thank you.", "speakerName": "Gareth Rogers" }, { "text": "I'll second that nomination.", "speakerName": "Darren Millar AM" }, { "text": "As there's only one nomination, I declare that John Griffiths has been appointed as temporary Chair. Thank you, John.", "speakerName": "Gareth Rogers" }, { "text": "Okay. Thank you all very much, and item 1 on our agenda today is introductions, apologies, substitutions and declarations of interest. We've received apologies from Hefin David and Lynne Neagle. There are no substitutions. Are there any declarations of interest? No. We will move on then to item 2, and our inquiry into the impact of Brexit on higher and further education, and our first evidence session. I'm very pleased to welcome the Higher Education Funding Council for Wales here today, and Dr David Blaney as chief executive, and Bethan Owen, director of institutional engagement. Welcome to you both. Thanks for coming along to give evidence today. If it's okay with you, we'll move straight to questions, and Julie Morgan.", "speakerName": "John Griffiths AM" }, { "text": "Good morning. Bore da. I wondered if we could start off with you telling us what evidence you can see that the Brexit process has had any impact on Welsh higher education so far.", "speakerName": "Julie Morgan AM" }, { "text": "Can I preface the response by just reminding you that we are, by contract and by role, apolitical, and a lot of the judgments about the impact of Brexit essentially reflect where people sit politically in terms of whether they think it's a good thing or a bad thing? We're not going to go there, obviously, today, so we'll stick to the facts as we can see them, and hopefully we'll be able to help you, but there are areas where we are unable to help. That's part of the reason.", "speakerName": "Dr David Blaney" }, { "text": "We certainly do not expect you to enter the political fray in any way.", "speakerName": "John Griffiths AM" }, { "text": "Thank you. But even in terms of your assessment of whether this is going to be a good thing or a bad thing, a good impact or a bad impact, some of that inevitably in the end becomes a matter of your politics on it, so we will be as careful as we can be on that. In terms of the impact of Brexit on higher education, clearly, the significance here is about the contribution that higher education can make to Wales. So, we fund provision; we don't fund providers, technically, although obviously there's not much provision without providers. So, we are interested in the sustainability of higher education providers, but fundamentally the issue is: what does the HE system in Wales do for Wales, and what impact might Brexit have on the capacity of the system to continue to deliver for Wales? So, we know that universities make annually about £5 billion of impact; 50,000 jobs. Of course, in Wales, all of that economic impact is really very significant, and uncertainty about the relationships and the arrangements with Europe is one of the most significant issues confronting university management at the moment. That has an impact in a number of ways. We can identify at the moment the extent to which the HE sector in Wales is exposed to sources of income that are located from the EU, so EU students, structural funds, and EU research funding, and so on, from the EU. We can identify some of that, but, actually, what happens in the future is much harder to be clear about. We are beginning to see some impact in terms of applications from EU students and I'll ask Bethan to share some details on that in a moment. We're also beginning to pick up, only anecdotally, some signs that there are increasing difficulties in the UK sector, and the Welsh sector as part of that, in playing in some of the EU collaborative research activities. And that, I think, just reflects the extent to which EU partners consider that British partners might be a stable partner as we go through this transition period. We don't have data on that—that's anecdotal—but there are signs that some of those relationships are beginning to become a little bit more difficult. In terms of the financial impact of that, clearly, if it is accepted that the UK is a net contributor to the EU then, presumably, some of the money—we're almost immediately straight into politics if you're not careful—but some of the money will be available back to the UK, and the extent to which Wales benefits or not from that returned money is a function of the political relationship between the Welsh Government and Her Majesty's Government. It's not necessarily the case that Wales will always lose out in that relationship, but that will become a matter of politics. There's a broader dimension, which is about the economic impact of Brexit on the UK economy and how much tax revenue there is and all of that. I think it's very hard for us to be definitive about how that's going to play out. I think that depends on the deal and how it all unfolds over the next several years. But we can certainly anticipate some turbulence and exactly how that plays for institutions remains to be seen. We can touch later on on the extent to which they are sighted on this and preparing for it. So, in terms of recruitment, Bethan.", "speakerName": "Dr David Blaney" }, { "text": "This is based on the UCAS applications and the report that was published at the end of June, 30 June. The European Union-domiciled applicants to Wales have decreased by 8 per cent, which contrasts with a 2 per cent increase for English institutions, and non-EU—so international students, not from Europe—have also decreased by 9 per cent to Welsh institutions, again contrasting with a 7 per cent increase in England. So, those are the signs of changes.", "speakerName": "Bethan Owen" }, { "text": "Okay. Could I then just ask you what you see as the main pressures on the Welsh higher education sector at the moment?", "speakerName": "John Griffiths AM" }, { "text": "The funding position would be the main pressure. The recommendations made by Sir Ian Diamond in his review of higher education funding and student finance are in the process of being implemented, and the changes to the student finance arrangements will take effect from this September. However, the recommendations for re-establishing funding at Welsh institutions are expected to take quite a bit longer. That funding, when it returns to institutions, is intended to re-establish funding for higher cost provision, both full time and part time; reinstate funding for innovation; and maintain, at the very least, the research funding in real terms. Universities, in the meantime, are trying to minimise the cost reductions that they're making in order to maintain the infrastructure, so that when the funding comes they can get the best value out of it. We have announced our funding allocations for 2018-19. For the research and teaching grant, though, we are still funding at a lower level—£12.5 million less—then the starting point for the Diamond report, the 2015-16 starting report. But we expect to be able to start introducing funding from 2019-20 to make a start on implementing Diamond. And it's probably important to note that the Diamond recommendations predated Brexit, therefore the challenges introduced by Brexit are in addition to those that the Diamond report was addressing. The other pressures relate to student recruitment. I mentioned the EU and international students. There is also the start of a reduction, both in Welsh-domiciled and English-domiciled applications to Wales. Enrolments are obviously the key important number, which we'll see later. And the other pressures include pay and pension costs, not least the issues around the universities superannuation scheme pension fund, where there's potentially a significant increase in cost. Increased student expectations for modern facilities and infrastructure bring a requirement for capital expenditure and borrowing, which bring their own pressures. And finally, the uncertainty about potential consequences that could arise from the review in England of fees and funding—the Augar review.", "speakerName": "Bethan Owen" }, { "text": "In terms of European Union students and enrolment, is Wales forecast to do less well than England and, if so, why might that be?", "speakerName": "John Griffiths AM" }, { "text": "They are not forecasting it. It's very difficult until the enrolments are made, and it's also very hard to see—the data that we see is the UCAS data. Institutions also recruit directly, so until we see the actual recruitment—. I think the arrangements that have changed from 2018-19 also impact on EU students. So, now, they have to find the full fee, whereas previously they were getting the grant in the same way as Welsh students. So, I'm speculating that that might be having an impact as well on EU students' appetite to come.", "speakerName": "Bethan Owen" }, { "text": "Okay. First of all Llyr, then Mark.", "speakerName": "John Griffiths AM" }, { "text": "Well, that's straight into what I was going to ask, really, about what you think the factors are that led to this 8 per cent or 9 per cent drop in EU students applying to study in Wales, where we see a 2 per cent increase in England. Is that it, or are there other things that you've taken into account? What's your assessment of the reasons behind this?", "speakerName": "Llyr Gruffydd AM" }, { "text": "It's very difficult to be definitive about the reasons, but I think there are probably two. The one that Bethan has already indicated, which is the change in student support arrangements for EU students, will have an effect of perturbation. That's probably relatively temporary—let's hope it is—as that settles down because, actually, the deal for EU students coming into Wales is no worse than that coming into England. Ours would be better because the fee level is slightly lower, but we do struggle in Wales in terms of the Anglocentric nature of the media and so on. So, getting the messages out is a challenge. The other dimension is that when you're in a highly competitive recruitment market, you have to do what you can to look attractive. Part of that is about being able to invest in facilities, and particularly buildings and kit, and the relative levels of investment between Wales and England over quite a long period of time now probably have an impact on that. Certainly, anecdotally I know, from my own family, that a lot of the choices have been made in terms of the state of repair of campuses and so on. There's something rational about that, isn't there? If you've got a system that is relatively better invested, then you're likely to have a better student experience because the resources are likely to be better. So, that's not irrational. We saw a sort of similar but opposite effect when the £9,000 fee maximum limit came in, and some institutions, mostly in England—there was one in Wales—chose to pitch their fee levels really quite low, relative to that £9,000, and caught a cold in the student recruitment market because fee levels denote quality in the student mind. So, the price sensitivities work quite differently. So, again, if you've got a relatively better invested part of the system, then that might well be one of the reasons why it looks more attractive.", "speakerName": "Dr David Blaney" }, { "text": "That latter factor would affect the whole of the cohort, not just the international recruitment, of course.", "speakerName": "Llyr Gruffydd AM" }, { "text": "Indeed. Yes, indeed. The implementation of the Diamond recommendations is crucial to that because that's re-balancing where the policy of investment goes.", "speakerName": "Dr David Blaney" }, { "text": "Okay. And Mark.", "speakerName": "John Griffiths AM" }, { "text": "If I heard you correctly earlier, you said that the applications from non-EU students were also down by 8 per cent or 9 per cent. So, forgive me a certain scepticism about the explanation of the fall in the EU students being that they did get the fee grant and now they do not. If that's the explanation, why are we seeing the same fall in non-EU applications?", "speakerName": "Mark Reckless AM" }, { "text": "Well, I think the Welsh domiciled are also now having to face the prospect of finding a loan for the whole of the fee. So, that would potentially account for that. There's also a demographic dimension here with the downturn in the 18-year-old school-leaver profile, and that actually is happening in Wales at a slightly later point than in England.", "speakerName": "Dr David Blaney" }, { "text": "But this is non-EU students, and I think you said, Bethan, an 8 per cent or 9 per cent fall in them as well.", "speakerName": "Mark Reckless AM" }, { "text": "International non-EU. I beg your pardon. I misunderstood.", "speakerName": "Dr David Blaney" }, { "text": "There's also a mix effect. I gave a number that was for all English institutions that there will be differential impacts on.", "speakerName": "Bethan Owen" }, { "text": "All English or all Welsh?", "speakerName": "Mark Reckless AM" }, { "text": "Well, I contrasted the Welsh position with the English position where they were seeing growth. If you look, then—and we don't have the detailed information, but, again, what UCAS publish is some analysis by tariff. They analyse by type of institution—in other words, the grades that you need to get into institutions—and there is a trend for growth being in the higher tariff institutions. So, there's a mix effect in there as well, and I think there's undoubtedly an element of perception of how welcome overseas and international students are, and that's something that we know the sector are working on with Government.", "speakerName": "Bethan Owen" }, { "text": "Why would that affect Wales more than England? Do you think there's been perhaps too great a negativity about Brexit in the sector?", "speakerName": "Mark Reckless AM" }, { "text": "I think it's the mix of institutions that we have. So, we only have sector information published at the moment. When we look at the mix of institutions that we have, we will probably see a differential impact between Cardiff University and others.", "speakerName": "Bethan Owen" }, { "text": "Okay, Mark? Sorry, David, did you want to add anything?", "speakerName": "John Griffiths AM" }, { "text": "I was just going to say that we would expect to see quite differential performance in the English sector, so the overall numbers are being brought up by substantial increased performance with some of that sector, and it's a question of how many of that type of institution you have in Wales.", "speakerName": "Dr David Blaney" }, { "text": "So, performance is increasing amongst the English universities, but not amongst the Welsh, you think.", "speakerName": "Mark Reckless AM" }, { "text": "I think performance is increasing, but increasing substantially with some of the English sector, not all of it. So, you get an average for the sector that is increased performance, but actually the stronger players within that sector, with the stronger international profiles, are bringing that up, and we have fewer in Wales that have that sort of presence.", "speakerName": "Dr David Blaney" }, { "text": "Okay. Darren.", "speakerName": "John Griffiths AM" }, { "text": "Would it be fair to say, then, that the universities over the border in England are better at selling themselves internationally than our Welsh institutions? Or is it just this fact that we've got fewer very high tariff universities versus the English market?", "speakerName": "Darren Millar AM" }, { "text": "I suspect, and this is speculation—I suspect that it's a bit of both. I think some of it is to do with the mix of different types of institution. I would then come back to the point I was making about the Anglocentric nature of the UK media. If you're looking overseas, I think Wales has to work harder to penetrate the consciousness.", "speakerName": "Dr David Blaney" }, { "text": "But, forgive me, don't international students just look at the UK as a whole? How are we comparing to Scotland, for example, or Northern Ireland, in terms of their universities? Do you have a comparative figure for Scottish universities?", "speakerName": "Darren Millar AM" }, { "text": "I haven't got that one with me for now, but there will be one in the data.", "speakerName": "Bethan Owen" }, { "text": "Yes, we could get that.", "speakerName": "Dr David Blaney" }, { "text": "Again, it's a combination of being part of the UK but differentiating, and the ability to differentiate the strengths of Wales, so attracting those students to Wales specifically, on top of the UK draw.", "speakerName": "Bethan Owen" }, { "text": "So, in terms of the efforts that have been made, there's a programme now that is being run by the sector in Wales—it's'Study in Wales'. It's relatively recent; you could argue that we could have got there earlier. But that is a determined collective effort to present Wales as a good place to study, with particular messages about what distinguishes studying in Wales from studying more broadly in the UK. In a sense, that is responding to the need to increase the presence of Wales in an international market. So, that sort of initiative I think is very good, very welcome. It will take a while to actually have an impact, but I think that's exactly the sort of work the sector need to be doing more of.", "speakerName": "Dr David Blaney" }, { "text": "What are those messages on why prospective students should study in Wales?", "speakerName": "Mark Reckless AM" }, { "text": "One of them in particular is relative safety. We know that one of the considerations, particularly for parents of overseas students, is are they going to go to a safe environment, and we know that the perception of international students who study in Wales is that this is a comfortable and safe place to be. That's partly a function of the size of our larger cities—quite a lot smaller than many of the cities in England. So, that's a key message. Being part of a UK system is also an important message there as well. So, we've got a UK-quality system, a UK degree, and the strength of that brand is available in Wales, but it's available in a way that is safer and more supportive, I think is the messaging that's coming through.", "speakerName": "Dr David Blaney" }, { "text": "Okay. We'd better move on, I think, hadn't we? Darren, then.", "speakerName": "John Griffiths AM" }, { "text": "I just wonder to what extent you have been able to plan in your financial forecasts for the next few years ahead for the potential impacts of Brexit. What have you built in, if anything?", "speakerName": "Darren Millar AM" }, { "text": "In terms of our funding, we receive our funding annually, but the sector provides us with financial forecasts, and we use those for monitoring sustainability. So, the last full forecasts that we had were in July 2017. We are due to receive a full forecast at the end of this month, and we obviously have updated information from institutions.", "speakerName": "Bethan Owen" }, { "text": "And they're three-year forecasts that come through to you, aren't they?", "speakerName": "Darren Millar AM" }, { "text": "They are four plus the current year. So, we've got numbers to 2019-20 at the moment, and expect to go to 2020-21.", "speakerName": "Bethan Owen" }, { "text": "And what are the universities expecting? What do they anticipate?", "speakerName": "Darren Millar AM" }, { "text": "Well, for 2017-18, which is the year we're about to end now, they were expecting £38 million income from European students, and approximately £91 million from the various European programme funding sources, and that's about 8 per cent of the total income—£1.5 billion—of the sector. The forecasts are assuming that that continues, albeit that institutions have various scenarios that they have for all sorts of scenarios that we can all speculate on, and, as I mentioned earlier, the balancing act of maintaining infrastructure and resources and staff in the short term is where we are at the moment, or where the sector is at the moment. And there are also signs that the banks and lending institutions are becoming a bit more risk-averse in providing borrowing to institutions, and of more differentiation between individual institutions being made than has possibly been the case in the past. The sector made an operating deficit, again looking at all Welsh institutions collectively last year, 2016-17, of £17 million. That's before other gains and losses. And we're expecting a similar collective level of deficit for this financial year, if not slightly higher. Now, these are managed deficits and we are not currently seeing critical short-term cash availability issues in the sector. However, the increase in funding from Diamond is a key part of enabling the sector to return to longer-term financial sustainability. Short-term challenges can be met if there's a reasonable prospect of future funding. You can manage in the short-term, but there comes a point when the big cost reductions and infrastructure reductions have to be made. And, again, having mentioned the pressures on pay, pensions and other challenges, it is difficult to gauge whether, if those factors come into play as well, some of these cost reductions may have to be made before funding comes in to replace—either Diamond funding or the European replacement funding.", "speakerName": "Bethan Owen" }, { "text": "So, would it be fair to say that, in terms of the funding arrangements, and, in terms of the student numbers, one reason why we've got this recruitment problem is this lack of investment in the capital infrastructure that we've seen in recent years because of the financing arrangements from the Welsh Government, and the fee regime that we had previously, and the student finance regime that we had previously, not getting more cash into our Welsh universities perhaps, and that, over the next few years, there's going to have to be much more significant investment in capital if we're to raise the game and be more competitive, yes?", "speakerName": "Darren Millar AM" }, { "text": "Yes, that would be fair to say.", "speakerName": "Bethan Owen" }, { "text": "So, to what extent are they planning for more capital investment in those financial strategies that they've been preparing and presenting to you?", "speakerName": "Darren Millar AM" }, { "text": "They are all planning for capital investment. They are in different positions in terms of capacity to borrow and the assumptions. This year, 2018-19, is the first time that we've had capital funding in our remit letter—so, we've got £10 million of capital funding, which is very welcome, with a prospect of a further £20 million. So, that we will be allocating shortly. That will make a difference, particularly to those institutions who are not finding it as easy to borrow from financial institutions. Some of our larger institutions have borrowed—Cardiff University issued a bond. However, there are internal governance processes that are putting tight restrictions and expectations of what that money will be invested in. But they all have plans to do it and they need the confidence that their forecasts and long-term future funding prospects are secure enough that they can get the confidence of borrowers then, and service the costs of those borrowers.", "speakerName": "Bethan Owen" }, { "text": "So, the Diamond dividend you've mentioned a few times. What clarity is there from the Welsh Government at the moment in terms of how much they anticipate the Diamond dividend will be, and what proportion of that is going to be released to HEIs in the future?", "speakerName": "Darren Millar AM" }, { "text": "I was very carefully not describing it as a dividend—a re-establishing of funding that we had in the past for higher cost and innovation and maintaining research funding. The timescales are difficult, because we have an annual remit letter, and we can work with Welsh Government officials, and they can only give us a sense of when they think the funding will be released. But 2018-19 is the start of the system, and because of cohort protection—so, protecting those students who came in on a different deal to the deal from 2018-19—in the early years there is an element of double cost; there's a cost of seeing out the old system and the different cost of implementing the new system. So, at the moment, we're certainly not in a position to tell the sector with any degree of certainty what funding would be beyond what we've allocated for 2018-19, with some sense of what 2019-20 numbers we're working with because we allocate our money over an academic year—so, by definition, we've already made assumptions of four months of the 2019-20 funding, albeit that's not approved yet in the budgetary process.", "speakerName": "Bethan Owen" }, { "text": "But you're not being given a steer at all as to what you expect the additional resource that you might have to make available to Welsh universities might be as a result of Diamond. You must have some idea.", "speakerName": "Darren Millar AM" }, { "text": "I think it's fair to say that officials have been as helpful as they can be with us, in terms of the planning assumptions we make and indications about whether or not we are being too ambitious or not ambitious enough. So, I think they're being very helpful; as Bethan said, they're constrained by the process—they can't pre-empt a budget process. And you folks will be fully aware of that, of course. The other question I think you asked was how much of the money released by the new arrangements will come into higher education. At the moment, we are expecting all of it to come into higher education, as the product of the arrangement between the current Cabinet Secretary and the current First Minister. The extent to which any changes there cause that to come under threat is something I can't judge at the moment. But we have had in our remit letter from the Cabinet Secretary a clear indication that we can expect our resource to grow over the next few years, as the Diamond process unfolds.", "speakerName": "Dr David Blaney" }, { "text": "Okay. I'm just going to bring in Llyr at this stage.", "speakerName": "John Griffiths AM" }, { "text": "Bethan said in an earlier answer that, I think, the financial forecasting from universities forecast something pretty consistent in terms of what they're hoping to be receiving in income, for example. But we've already discussed the near 10 per cent drop, potentially, in international applications. So, does that tally, really, or are they going to be recruiting additional students from the UK market or—? What's the plan?", "speakerName": "Llyr Gruffydd AM" }, { "text": "I was reflecting on the last point when we had consistent information across the sector.", "speakerName": "Bethan Owen" }, { "text": "Okay. So, they may need to revisit that in the light of this.", "speakerName": "Llyr Gruffydd AM" }, { "text": "I'm expecting that the forecast that we get at the end of this month will reflect the reduced applications we've seen, and an element of that will be reflected in reduced improvements as well.", "speakerName": "Bethan Owen" }, { "text": "Okay. So, we don't really know, then, whether—it's unlikely that they are going to expect a consistent fee income, really.", "speakerName": "Llyr Gruffydd AM" }, { "text": "I think it's fair to say we would expect them to respond to what they're seeing in the UCAS process. Even if they didn't, they would all, in any case, have sensitivities for what they would do if things don't come out in the way they hope. And if they didn't have that then we would be on their case, of course, because we want them to be properly sighted.", "speakerName": "Dr David Blaney" }, { "text": "Okay. Thanks.", "speakerName": "Llyr Gruffydd AM" }, { "text": "And we have to stick to the Brexit impact. Darren.", "speakerName": "John Griffiths AM" }, { "text": "Can I just ask, in terms of the impact of Brexit, have you done any assessment of what you think might happen, or have any of the institutions made available to you any assessments of what they think is likely to happen to their individual institutions, going forward? You've mentioned scenarios earlier on, David, so what scenarios have you set out?", "speakerName": "Darren Millar AM" }, { "text": "There's a Welsh Government HE Brexit working group, which is chaired by one of the Government directors, and we sit on that. And we have provided that group with early summaries of the risks and the potential impact, in terms of the exposure of the sector to EU-sourced funding. We have, as part of that working group, explored those issues that it would be really very helpful for either the Welsh Government to try to put in place or for the Welsh Government to persuade UK Government to do. And I think, in our submission, we identified a number of areas of what we would consider to be a helpful action, and that has been worked through that working group. We know that it has informed Welsh Government's position, in terms of what it does and also in terms of the conversations that they have with Her Majesty's Government. Beyond that, what we haven't done in that working group is share the work that institutions are doing individually to look at how they would respond to different scenarios. We are not able to do that here either because, inevitably, they would have varying degrees of unpalatability and they would have to be managed very, very carefully. You take cost out, which is essentially the response, you actually take people's jobs out, and all of that has to be managed carefully. So, that's not really a matter for public consideration, but we do know that the institutions are looking at a range of scenarios on what they would do. Bethan mentioned earlier on that the current deficit for the sector is a managed deficit—it's not something that has taken them by surprise. They are responding to what they see as the dip between where Diamond was reporting and where the money starts flowing. Similarly, I think we're comfortable that there is a managed approach to the scenarios that they're testing within institutions. So, they will do what they need to do to sustain themselves. The bigger issue really, in a public policy context, is the potential damage for the sector to be able to deliver for Wales in terms of research and skills development and all the other contributions.", "speakerName": "Dr David Blaney" }, { "text": "So, you're confident that they're taking a robust approach to planning for various scenarios, going forward, are you, as individual HEIs?", "speakerName": "Darren Millar AM" }, { "text": "Yes, and as the deal becomes more clear politically, then they will obviously have greater clarity in terms of which of these scenarios they need to work up more fully, but they are sighted on it.", "speakerName": "Dr David Blaney" }, { "text": "Okay. Can I just ask about fee and access plans, and how Brexit might impact them? To what extent do you think that they could be impacted?", "speakerName": "Darren Millar AM" }, { "text": "I think there are two dimensions to maybe touch upon there. Fee and access plans are approved annually by us. They are approved in advance of the recruitment cycle for the year that they apply to. So, we're just in the process now of finalising our consideration of fee and access plans for the 2019-20 academic year. So, there's quite a long lead time. We, as part of that process, go through similar—we look at their financial sustainability, which is based on their forecasts—data to the stuff we've just been discussing. And also, of course, the fee plans themselves make assumptions about how many students of different types, from different domains, are going to be recruited. So, clearly, if there is a continuing downward pressure on EU student recruitment, then that will reduce the amount of fee income that's going to come in, unless they can find other students, and that will reduce the amount of investment in the various activities that are identified in the fee plans. In terms of process, we have two things that we can do. If institutions are becoming aware that the basis upon which they've submitted a fee plan is fundamentally different from the reality, then they can come into us for a change to their fee plan. So, we have a change process. If it's not fundamentally different, but there are always differences between what you plan and what happens three years later—. We also monitor after the event and, if there are differences, we would then obviously require institutions to explain those differences. If they've had fewer students and less investment, we would need to understand that. Conversely, if they'd had more students, and potentially more investment, we'd want to know what they'd spent it on, and if they've done different things, we'd want to understand that as well. So, we do challenge through a monitoring process. The only other thing that's perhaps worth saying is that, in the 2019-20 fee and access plans—they're not published yet, so I can't give you the full detail—five universities have made reference to Brexit and the Brexit impact, and things they want to do through their fee and access plan to try and address some of those issues, so they're in there as well.", "speakerName": "Dr David Blaney" }, { "text": "But we've already said, haven't we, that it may be nothing to do with Brexit, this dip in EU recruitment, because there are other factors like the attractiveness of the estates and the environment that young people might be educated in? But they're making assumptions that it's linked to Brexit, are they?", "speakerName": "Darren Millar AM" }, { "text": "Not really. I think they're making assumptions that it could be. There are things they want to do to enhance and to protect student mobility, and some of that will be funded through fee plan investment. So, the Brexit conversation between the EU and the UK Government might or might not sustain Erasmus engagement, and if it doesn't, then they need to find other ways of trying to support that sort of thing. So, that's what we're beginning to see in the fee plans. It's them thinking about how else we can do this stuff.", "speakerName": "Dr David Blaney" }, { "text": "Okay, Darren? Mark.", "speakerName": "John Griffiths AM" }, { "text": "You mentioned the fee and access report. What else do you do to assure yourselves that Welsh higher education institutions are effectively planning for Brexit?", "speakerName": "Mark Reckless AM" }, { "text": "We've touched on contingency plans, but, in an environment of uncertainty, I think it's difficult for any of us to know what the right scenario is. I think rather than looking at worst-case scenarios, what the sector is also focusing on is the promotion and looking for additional or increased sources of funding. So, we touched on strengthening the Global Wales engagement in order to sell Wales, so more focus on marketing Wales overseas, but also within the UK. The other area where the sector is working at a UK level very hard is making the arguments to UK Government for maintaining access to the successor to Horizon 2020, which is arguably a larger part of the whole funding infrastructure—students is one part, but the whole funding infrastructure for maintaining research capacity. So, working with UK universities to make arguments at UK Government level for maintaining access to those sources of funding is also a part of what the institutions are doing. We mentioned the Welsh Government's HE Brexit group. That group, which is the Welsh Government group, is being advised by members on it, and that's informing Welsh Government officials when they engage with UK Government as well.", "speakerName": "Bethan Owen" }, { "text": "Do universities seek your advice on what the risks and, indeed, opportunities of Brexit may be and what you think they should be doing to plan for them, or is your role more one of monitoring what they do as opposed to advising what they should do?", "speakerName": "Mark Reckless AM" }, { "text": "They are autonomous institutions and ultimately their governing bodies are responsible for ensuring their sustainability. It's not a relationship where we would advise and direct, but it is a relationship where we would question the scenarios if we consider from our experience that we would have expected other scenarios to have been tested. It's that nature of conversation, rather than directing.", "speakerName": "Bethan Owen" }, { "text": "I understand you don't direct, of course, but my question was about advising. You're overseeing, or monitoring—or whatever you like to describe the role as—quite a number of institutions, and presumably you therefore have particular expertise within your organisation, and I just wondered whether higher education institutions are doing enough to draw on that.", "speakerName": "Mark Reckless AM" }, { "text": "I think we can advise—we can advise based on data and information that we can see. We can advise based on our judgment. The big thing in this whole Brexit scenario is the uncertainty and the extent to which our speculation is better informed than the governing bodies or the sector collectively is probably the issue.", "speakerName": "Bethan Owen" }, { "text": "I think that's right. So, there's a relationship with the sector and there's a relationship with individual institutions, and they are different. So, we have engagement collectively with the sector. Bethan meets with the finance directors, and I meet with the vice-chancellors. We actually have the sector and the funding council together on the Welsh Government's group. So, some of these conversations are happening in various ways, where we're all gaining intelligence about what might be a sensible set of planning assumptions. Then, if we see an institution that is manifestly giving signs of not being sighted on some of these risks, either through their forecast or through other assurance activity, we will challenge. We have an annual cycle, with two points in the year where we reassess the overall risks of individual institutions, and that's based on a whole range of hard data but also a range of soft data. Our links into institutions are many and varied. We have lots of conversations and we take all of that in the round and form an assessment about the financial sustainability of the institutions but also the extent to which we think their governance and management arrangements are properly sighted and facing properly the challenges that they face. In some ways, we say it's not about the challenges they face; it's about how they face the challenges. Our alarm bells really ring when we get the sense that, actually, either an executive or a governing body hasn't really noticed. We're not in that place, I'm really pleased to say. I'm not worried about short-term crisis with any of the institutions. There are medium-term real challenges, both because of Brexit and because of other contextual factors, but at the moment the sector is a managed sector, which is good. It's not always like that, but we're in, I think, a good place at the moment. So, our role is definitely to challenge where we don't think they are making sensible assessments, but it's not to say that their assessment is wrong and ours is right; it's just to have a conversation about,'Why have you done this and what has informed your thinking?' It's slightly more one step back and slightly more subtle, but it is, as you imply, us using the intelligence we gain from all of those conversations when we talk to individual institutions as well.", "speakerName": "Dr David Blaney" }, { "text": "Okay. Llyr.", "speakerName": "John Griffiths AM" }, { "text": "Yes, thank you. We had evidence last week from some of the higher education institutions, including Cardiff University, and it's very interesting, in relation to Erasmus+ and the mobility funding for students that, I think, only 40 per cent of the mobility funding in Cardiff is paid for by Erasmus+. I note that you've been consulting on national measures for higher education performance and that one possibility is using international mobility as a performance indicator. I was just wondering whether you might go further and expect universities to actually make commitments to funding international mobility from their own fee incomes as part of that.", "speakerName": "Llyr Gruffydd AM" }, { "text": "Again, reflecting on the latest fee and access plans, seven of the universities are referring to mobility—either they have targets in them or are explaining what their plans are—so they are including an element of it from their own income and fee and access income. However, Erasmus is such a well-established and long-term plan—if we were looking at a scenario where that infrastructure wasn't available, to implement anything similar to that would be much less efficient and much more costly. And to enable an infrastructure that allowed—. Ideally, you'd want something that all Welsh institutions could take part in, and that takes some investment and some co-ordinating. And, equally, you need to have the arrangements with your overseas and European institutions. I think it's easy to underestimate the accumulation of time that has gone into establishing Erasmus. So, I think replacing it would be a challenge.", "speakerName": "Bethan Owen" }, { "text": "And the point was made clearly last week that the brand is internationally recognised. When you enter into Erasmus+, you know exactly what you're going to get, and all of that. But there have been criticisms as well about degrees of flexibility and this, that and the other, so I'm just wondering whether—and there is presumably going to be some change on that front although I'm hoping we can buy into it, as others have done who aren't in the EU—that emphasis on encouraging institutions to look more proactively at funding their own mobility efforts would be positive.", "speakerName": "Llyr Gruffydd AM" }, { "text": "I think the—", "speakerName": "Dr David Blaney" }, { "text": "Sorry—especially if it means that they do more of it.", "speakerName": "Llyr Gruffydd AM" }, { "text": "Indeed. I think the Welsh sector is definitely committed to trying to find ways of promoting and resourcing that sort of mobility. There are signs that some of the restrictive elements of the Erasmus programme are going to change anyway, because that's under development and that's positive. There have been positive noises as part of the Brexit negotiations about wanting to carry on being able to access the Erasmus programme. Nothing is agreed until it's all agreed apparently, so we'll have to see on that one. That would be far better, I think, as Bethan indicates, than trying to replace it with a made-in-Wales only, but you could have a made-in-Wales on top. All of these challenges also create opportunities because they stimulate thinking, and so the fact that seven of the eight universities are already now using their fee plans as a vehicle for thinking about this is positive, and I think we can take that on from there.", "speakerName": "Dr David Blaney" }, { "text": "Because that 40/60 split struck me as being the opposite to what I perceived the situation to be. A key part of your role is to work in partnership with students, so I'd just like to ask what work have you done with students, in terms of maybe protecting their interests as the Brexit scenario evolves?", "speakerName": "Llyr Gruffydd AM" }, { "text": "Well, as you say, we do work with students. We were the first of the funding councils in the UK to have a memorandum of understanding with the National Union of Students in Wales. We work very closely with them and the president of NUS is an observer on our council. So, we have close links with NUS Wales and we're very proud of that, and it's very productive. They don't have a vote, but they do have a voice and it really matters. We we're, again, ahead of the rest of the UK in requiring all HE providers to have student charters and there are elements of student protection within the student charter. The UK-wide quality code also has elements in it where arrangements have to be specified about the protection of student interests. That is particularly, in essence, around circumstances where a provider gets into difficulties and they might wish to close a course or something more drastic and then what arrangements are in place to make sure that those students who are in train are protected. So, that is there and we've worked hard with the sector and with NUS Wales to get those measures in place. There's more development work in train at the moment, so we've asked Universities Wales to construct a protection that takes account of the approach to protecting the student interests in higher education. We're also requiring further education institutions who are regulated and deliver higher education to do similar or the same, and that's very important. The students who are HE students in FE are absolutely not second-best, and they should have the same protections.", "speakerName": "Dr David Blaney" }, { "text": "But is all this a general piece of work? It's not Brexit-specific, although, no doubt, it may—.", "speakerName": "Llyr Gruffydd AM" }, { "text": "I think that's fair to say, yes. The other dimension around Brexit is the immigration status of EU students, and that's, kind of, beyond our pay scale—that's a UK Government issue.", "speakerName": "Dr David Blaney" }, { "text": "Is that something that you have a view on?", "speakerName": "Llyr Gruffydd AM" }, { "text": "It's clearly in the interest of the enrichment of the curriculum and the student experience for students in Welsh institutions to be able to have students from other EU countries in the mix. So, it would be nice to find ways of continuing to facilitate that.", "speakerName": "Dr David Blaney" }, { "text": "Okay. Now, of course, you have a statutory duty as well to assess the academic quality of the work in our higher education institutions, and I'm just wondering what potential impacts you think that Brexit might have on that particular aspect.", "speakerName": "Llyr Gruffydd AM" }, { "text": "I think there are possibly a couple of things to say, and one, in a sense, echoes what I was just saying in the final part of my previous response, which is that part of the quality of the student experience is the richness that you get from having students in your cohort who have different backgrounds and different perspectives. So, if there is a continuing reduction in the number of EU students coming into Welsh institutions, then that richness deteriorates. That doesn't mean to say that the base or the threshold standard of what's required for a degree will come under pressure, it's just about the richness on top of that, which will be, in a sense, a quality-enhancement issue. That would be something that we would wish to try to protect against, but in the end you can't force EU students to come—you have to try and look attractive, and we've touched on that. The baseline requirement assessment of quality will not be affected by Brexit, except in so far as the machinery we use to discharge our statutory responsibility, which is through the Quality Assurance Agency, which themselves are accredited with European Association for Quality Assurance in Higher Education, the European machinery for higher education quality. And there's a set of standards around that, and we would obviously wish not to be in a position where our ability to use and adhere to those standards is adversely impacted upon. Those standards will still exist, and it will be possible for the British system to adhere to them, even if they're not actually able to play in the same way. Then the only other thing I would say is that one of the factors that can cause the quality of the learning and teaching experience to be likely to become inadequate is when institutions come under financial pressure, just because their capacity to maintain the same sort of student experience can get under pressure. So, clearly, we will be looking for and making sure that institutions manage the financial pressures, if there are any—and there are some at the moment, as we've described—and manage those carefully. And in all of that, we will expect institutions to do their duty to make sure that the commitments they've already made to students are carried through. So, where students have already started on the course, they need to be able to finish that course—you can't just pull the plug out. So, all of that comes into the arrangements for quality as well. So, we'll be keeping an eye on that.", "speakerName": "Dr David Blaney" }, { "text": "Okay. A lot of what you've told us in the last three quarters of an hour or so will have costs attached, depending on the impacts. Certainly, we're in choppy waters as a sector anyway, and the risk is that things will be even more choppy, if you'll excuse that level of political interpretation, over the years to come. I'm just wondering what advice you might have given the Welsh Government in terms of what level of transition funding, or Brexit transition funding, might be required by the sector, and if you have, what the Welsh Government might have told you.", "speakerName": "Llyr Gruffydd AM" }, { "text": "I mentioned earlier that, obviously, we've provided information in terms of the assumptions that the sector are making on income. So, for the year 2017-18, that was £129 million. I think the extent to which that needs to be replaced or supported with transition funding depends absolutely on what the final arrangements for Brexit are, but it's an appropriate point to refer to the report that Professor Graeme Reid has produced, commissioned by Welsh Government. That was, and has, provided advice and recommendations for supporting research and innovation in the transition period. But, again, the Reid recommendations in that report build on the Diamond recommendations, and as soon as Diamond is in place—and Reid is providing recommendations in addition, to establish funding on the basis that the funding needs to be available in Wales to maintain and develop and strengthen the research and innovation infrastructure that we have.", "speakerName": "Bethan Owen" }, { "text": "Are you not worried, though, that the clock is ticking and that we really don't know what the situation is at this point?", "speakerName": "Llyr Gruffydd AM" }, { "text": "Do you mean the Brexit situation?", "speakerName": "Dr David Blaney" }, { "text": "The Brexit clock, yes.", "speakerName": "Llyr Gruffydd AM" }, { "text": "Uncertainty is unhelpful, because as I've said several times, the sector is a managed sector at the moment. I don't think there's—. We're not seeing maverick stuff, but actually you can only manage, really, what you can see and what you can reasonably predict. So, the longer the uncertainty persists, the more difficult that is for institutional management and, indeed, for the rest of the machinery to support them. So, yes, the sooner we get clarity, the better for everybody, I imagine.", "speakerName": "Dr David Blaney" }, { "text": "Chair, can I just ask a question?", "speakerName": "Darren Millar AM" }, { "text": "Yes, Darren.", "speakerName": "John Griffiths AM" }, { "text": "In terms of uncertainty, though, we've still got this uncertainty over whether the extra cash that the Government's going to have to spend as a result of Diamond being implemented is coming to the HE sector. They've given a political commitment, but you've got absolutely no other assurance of the sums of money that are coming in. We've got the reform of tertiary education arrangements in Wales, which are also under way, so it's a bit of a perfect storm for you, isn't it, really, with all of these three things happening at the same time?", "speakerName": "Darren Millar AM" }, { "text": "We're certainly kept busy.", "speakerName": "Dr David Blaney" }, { "text": "But two of those things are in the gift of the Welsh Government to sort out for you, aren't they?", "speakerName": "Darren Millar AM" }, { "text": "Well, the policy on the reform of the post-compulsory sector absolutely is a Welsh Government policy. The extent to which they can pre-empt a budgetary process and give us clear sight of the amount of money in future years is—. Well, again, it's not for me to comment. My understanding is that that's difficult for them to do, and I would repeat what I said earlier: officials have been as helpful as I think they can be in respect of that. I mean, you're right, we've only got a political commitment between two people currently in post. It would be great to have that firmer. I'm not sure how that could be done.", "speakerName": "Dr David Blaney" }, { "text": "I mean, that statement about the savings accrued from Diamond being reinvested wholly into the HE sector has not been repeated, frankly, has it, since the coalition deal was struck?", "speakerName": "Darren Millar AM" }, { "text": "No, but it hasn't been rescinded either, so—.", "speakerName": "Dr David Blaney" }, { "text": "No, but there have been opportunities—repeated opportunities—in the Chamber, where the Cabinet Secretary's been asked to repeat that commitment, and the First Minister's been asked to repeat that commitment and has not given that commitment. That must concern you, and must concern your university sector even more than, perhaps, some of the elements of Brexit that we're discussing.", "speakerName": "Darren Millar AM" }, { "text": "Bethan has outlined earlier on in this session the fact that institutions are currently running deficit budgets in order not to lose the infrastructure on the assumption that the Diamond money will come in. If anything were to cause significant perturbation, either to the timeline of that or to it coming in at all, then there would be much more of what Medwin Hughes calls'houskeeping' that would be required, and that would be significant. So, at the moment—I don't like the expression'valley of death', but there is a valley to cross, and I think the sector is reasonably confident about how wide and how deep that valley is. There's a demographic valley as well. So, there are several valleys that they're crossing—the metaphor fails, doesn't it, really, but I think you get the drift? So, there are a number of challenges and they can see their way out of some of those challenges, but if any one of these starts to get significantly disrupted, then that would be a real issue for them.", "speakerName": "Dr David Blaney" }, { "text": "Okay. Could I go on to ask about other barriers to Welsh universities gaining more funding from UK research councils? What would you say those barriers are?", "speakerName": "John Griffiths AM" }, { "text": "Well, I think there are a couple of things, really, to say. The first one—and we'll sound like a stuck record if we're not careful—is that there's an issue about investment and the Reid report makes this very clear. So, he has reaffirmed research that had been done previously that identifies that, actually, the quality of the research base in Welsh universities and the productivity of that Welsh research base are both good, there's just not enough of them, and that, in the end, is a product of investment decisions. They have particularly looked at the deficit in science, technology, engineering and mathematics areas, and I always say that research is not just STEM. I mean, STEM is important, and I'm not denying the deficit in that area, but we have to also remember that the research agenda for Wales is not just STEM—it's arts, humanities, it's social sciences. If you look at the impact on public policy that could come from social science research—tremendous. And we're very good at it in Wales. The Welsh impact in its research is better than anywhere else in the UK, so that's good. So, they do very well, and we just really need to invest a little bit further—so continue to do very well, but put it on a broader front. If you want to be able to play into the UK-wide research funding, then the investment has two dimensions to it. One is just having enough researchers to be able to play into those increasingly larger projects rather than small-scale projects. If you haven't got the critical mass, it's very hard to make the case that you can play. And the second thing is that UK-wide research pots nearly always fund at about 80 per cent of the total cost of the research, and the other 20 per cent is meant to be found from the core research funding for the university, and if you're in a situation where your core research funding is not competitive, then you're not going to be competitive at getting that money. So, that's, kind of, straightforward. There are other things. I think it's fair to say that the Welsh sector has not been sufficiently focused on getting in on the conversations with the research councils, making sure they're in the various committees and so on. We are intending to do a bit of work to see if we can systematise that a bit better—that engagement—because there's no doubt about it: it's not to say that this system is in any way inappropriate, but the more you're in the conversations, the more likely you are to be better placed to respond to the research challenges that come up.", "speakerName": "Dr David Blaney" }, { "text": "Okay. One final question: in terms of the researcher collaborations and networks that exist, do you see potential difficulties after Brexit for the continuation and enhancement of those, and are there any particular lessons to learn from Sêr Cymru II?", "speakerName": "John Griffiths AM" }, { "text": "I think that there are two things to say here as well. First of all, the Brexit deal might or might not impact adversely on the capacity of Welsh and, indeed, UK research infrastructure to play into broader collaborative activity across Europe, and, in a sense, that's a function of the deal whatever the deal looks like, and we'll have to wait and see. But we've mentioned playing into Horizon Europe, and being able to continue with that would be an important part of that capacity. It's not just the money, it's being in the club and it's the signalling that we're in the game. So, all of that would be important. And then the other part of my response to this would be that, actually, Wales will need to continue to be good at the research it does, so maintaining the quality, maintaining the impact, and hopefully growing the critical mass. The Sêr Cymru initiative has been quite important in doing that, because it's been very focused, capturing key research players, and the attractiveness that that has then to other researchers around them, and to industry collaboration, and they have been areas of real strength that we've invested in. And I think they are already showing dividends in terms of the capacity to win more research funding, and to establish an even stronger presence in the international research market.", "speakerName": "Dr David Blaney" }, { "text": "Okay. Just one further point, from Darren.", "speakerName": "John Griffiths AM" }, { "text": "Just very briefly, one of the pieces of feedback that the committee members received at a stakeholder engagement event, which took place prior to this inquiry starting, to receive oral evidence, was about the research funding that is available from the charitable sector, and how poorly Wales does in attracting some of that research. I think we had some figures from the British Heart Foundation, which said they have £100 million a year available for research grants, or something like that, and we're getting 1 per cent of that coming into Wales, which is obviously pretty low down. I appreciate that research into the type of activity that they want to put their money into, Wales may not be particularly good at, and there may be other opportunities with other charities and partnerships. What work are you doing in order to build the capacity that Wales has to attract more of that charitable sector research funding into Wales?", "speakerName": "Darren Millar AM" }, { "text": "One of the issues is the capacity to engage with that funding, because of the overhead issue that David mentioned. Charitable funding at the moment doesn't attract any overhead funding. Again, that could be built in to our funding, if we had the capacity to increase our quality-related research funding. There is an element in England.", "speakerName": "Bethan Owen" }, { "text": "But that pressure's the same in other parts of the UK, is it not? So the overhead funding is still an issue in England, and in other places.", "speakerName": "Darren Millar AM" }, { "text": "There is an increased contribution, and I think it's an element that was increased this year to acknowledge that. But there will be differentiation between different charities. I'm fairly certain that some of our institutions will be very strong with the cancer charities, possibly not the heart foundation. And some of that will reflect on focusing on our strengths, but to have that fuller picture.", "speakerName": "Bethan Owen" }, { "text": "So, this gearing issue that you mentioned earlier on, for every £1 that somebody else puts on the table, they can draw in another £4 on top, because that £1 will cover the overheads, whereas the rest of the research cash—.", "speakerName": "Darren Millar AM" }, { "text": "That's exactly it. So, the more you're able to invest—. You know, we sometimes get into a conversation about the unhypothecated nature of our research funding, but actually that creates a flexibility and the infrastructure investment that allows institutions to be able to respond to these other opportunities. Without that, they can't do it, because if you're not careful, you've got institutions engaging in UK-wide or charity-based research activities where they're actually having to pay for it themselves—they're running at a loss.", "speakerName": "Dr David Blaney" }, { "text": "So that's the main problem; it's not that Welsh universities aren't doing their best to get this cash in. Or is it a bit of both?", "speakerName": "Darren Millar AM" }, { "text": "I think, in the main, universities and researchers will get their cash from wherever they can, so I don't think it's a lack of appetite.", "speakerName": "Dr David Blaney" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Darren Millar AM" }, { "text": "Okay. Well, thank you, both, for coming in to give evidence to the committee this morning. You will be sent a draft of the transcript, to check for accuracy. Diolch yn fawr. Okay then, the next item is item 3, papers to note, the first of which is a letter from the Cabinet Secretary for Education on the school organisation code. The second is a letter from the Minister for Children, Older People and Social Care on the Childcare Funding (Wales) Bill. Paper to note 3 is a letter from the Chair of the Finance Committee regarding scrutiny of the Welsh Government's draft budget for the forthcoming financial year, which we will be discussing under item 6 on the agenda. Paper to note 4 is a letter from the Minister for Children, Older People and Social Care on parental attitudes towards managing young children's behaviour. And the final paper to note, paper to note 5, is a letter from the Minister for Children, Older People and Social Care on the children and family delivery grant, which we will discuss later on in private session, if Members are content. Okay. Are you content to note those papers on that basis? Okay. Thanks very much. Item 4, then, is a motion under Standing Order 17.42 to exclude the public from the remainder of this meeting, and also for items 1 and 2 of the 20 September meeting. Is the committee content? Yes. Thank you very much. We will move then into private session.", "speakerName": "John Griffiths AM" } ] }	{ "dialogTurns": [ { "query": "Did the meeting involve talks about the possibility of performing student exchange between Welsh universities and universities in other countries?", "response": "There was no mention of student exchange between Welsh universities and universities in other countries in the meeting.", "responseAttribution": null, "queryMetadata": { "queryType": "QUERY_TYPE_YES_NO", "isUnanswerable": true, "isContextDependent": null } }, { "query": "Did the meeting involve talks about the impact of Brexit on international student enrolment at Welsh universities?", "response": "Yes, the meeting involved talks about the impact of Brexit on international student enrolment at Welsh universities.\n\n* Representatives of the Higher Education Funding Council for Wales stated that applications from EU students for Welsh universities have decreased by 8%, while applications from non-EU students have decreased by 9%.\n* The decline in EU student applications was attributed to the changes in financial support arrangements for the students after Brexit.\n* The participants in the meeting agreed that EU students who wish to study in Wales will now have to pay the full fee, which is a change from the previous system, where they were eligible for grants like Welsh students.", "responseAttribution": { "indexRanges": [ { "startIndex": 9, "endIndex": 22 } ] }, "queryMetadata": { "queryType": "QUERY_TYPE_YES_NO", "isUnanswerable": null, "isContextDependent": null } }, { "query": "Did the meeting cover the topic of implementing pay increases for staff of Welsh universities?", "response": "There was no mention of implementing pay increases for staff of Welsh universities in the meeting.", "responseAttribution": null, "queryMetadata": { "queryType": "QUERY_TYPE_YES_NO", "isUnanswerable": true, "isContextDependent": null } }, { "query": "Was the concern raised in the meeting that the decrease in international student enrollment at Welsh universities due to Brexit would have a negative impact on the diversity of campuses and student culture?", "response": "The topic of the impact of decreasing international student enrollment on campus diversity and student culture was not discussed in the meeting.", "responseAttribution": null, "queryMetadata": { "queryType": "QUERY_TYPE_YES_NO", "isUnanswerable": true, "isContextDependent": null } }, { "query": "Besides the negative effects on international student enrollment, were other potential impacts of Brexit on Welsh universities discussed in the meeting?", "response": "Yes, other potential impacts of Brexit on Welsh universities were discussed in the meeting:\n\n* The meeting participants identified EU research funding as an area that could be affected by Brexit.\n* They also mentioned the uncertainties surrounding the new funding formula for higher education in Wales, which will replace the current system that is based on the recommendations of the Diamond Review.\n* A representative of the Higher Education Funding Council for Wales stated that there was currently a lack of clarity regarding the amount of funding that would be available to Welsh universities under the new formula.", "responseAttribution": { "indexRanges": [ { "startIndex": 92, "endIndex": 92 }, { "startIndex": 98, "endIndex": 100 } ] }, "queryMetadata": { "queryType": "QUERY_TYPE_YES_NO", "isUnanswerable": null, "isContextDependent": true } }, { "query": "Can you summarize the key points made by Bethan Owen in the meeting?", "response": "Here are the key points made by Bethan Owen in the meeting:\n\n* The implementation of the Diamond Review recommendations will introduce funding to re-establish funding for higher cost provision, innovation, and maintain research funding.\n* During the transition period, Welsh universities are minimizing cost reductions in order to maintain the infrastructure to be able to get the best value when the funding comes.\n* There is an element of double cost during the transition period due to the need to support students under both the previous and new arrangements, hence it is difficult to tell how much funding will be available beyond 2018-19.\n* Seven of the eight Welsh universities are including international mobility in their fee and access plans, some with targets and others with stated plans.\n* The student protection arrangements that must be put in place by institutions that deliver higher education, including FE institutions, have been reviewed and will be further developed.", "responseAttribution": { "indexRanges": [ { "startIndex": 12, "endIndex": 12 }, { "startIndex": 14, "endIndex": 14 }, { "startIndex": 85, "endIndex": 90 }, { "startIndex": 92, "endIndex": 92 } ] }, "queryMetadata": { "queryType": "QUERY_TYPE_GENERAL", "isUnanswerable": null, "isContextDependent": null } }, { "query": "What were her recommendations to address this?", "response": "The provided meeting transcript does not include any recommendations made by Bethan Owen, so I cannot answer this question.", "responseAttribution": null, "queryMetadata": { "queryType": "QUERY_TYPE_SPECIFIC", "isUnanswerable": true, "isContextDependent": true } }, { "query": "Can you summarize the concerns raised in the meeting regarding the financial sustainability of Welsh universities and the proposed solutions to address those concerns?", "response": "Concerns:\n\n* The Welsh universities were operating with managed deficits.\n* The changes brought by Brexit may cause disruptions to this financial balance.\n* Deficit budgets were being run by institutions to avoid losing infrastructure, assuming that funding from the Diamond Review would come in the future.\n\nProposed solutions:\n* The Welsh Government should work with UK Government to put in place measures that will support the sector during the transition period.\n* The Welsh Government should ensure that the funding from the Diamond Review is released as soon as possible to help the sector return to long-term financial sustainability.\n* Universities need to focus on strengthening global engagement and marketing Wales overseas, as well as within the UK, to attract more international students.\n* The sector is also working at a UK level to lobby the UK government to maintain access to the successor of Horizon 2020 and other EU funding programs.", "responseAttribution": { "indexRanges": [ { "startIndex": 45, "endIndex": 50 }, { "startIndex": 69, "endIndex": 69 }, { "startIndex": 78, "endIndex": 78 } ] }, "queryMetadata": { "queryType": "QUERY_TYPE_GENERAL", "isUnanswerable": null, "isContextDependent": null } }, { "query": "Can you summarize the actions that the institutions in the Welsh higher education sector are taking to mitigate the risks of a decrease in international student enrollment, as discussed in the meeting?", "response": "* The institutions are undertaking efforts to strengthen international engagement and promote Wales as a study destination.\n* The sector is lobbying the UK government to ensure access to funding opportunities that support international student mobility, such as the successor of Horizon 2020.\n* Welsh universities are working together with other UK institutions to collectively advocate for maintaining access to EU funding programs and research collaborations.", "responseAttribution": { "indexRanges": [ { "startIndex": 41, "endIndex": 43 }, { "startIndex": 78, "endIndex": 78 } ] }, "queryMetadata": { "queryType": "QUERY_TYPE_GENERAL", "isUnanswerable": null, "isContextDependent": null } }, { "query": "What are the implications of the managed deficits that Welsh universities were operating with, as mentioned in the meeting?", "response": "* The managed deficits meant that the financial sustainability of Welsh universities was vulnerable to external shocks.\n* The participants were concerned that the uncertainties created by Brexit could potentially disrupt the sector's financial balance.\n* The institutions were managing the deficits by minimizing cost reductions in order to maintain infrastructure, but this strategy was not sustainable in the long term.", "responseAttribution": { "indexRanges": [ { "startIndex": 12, "endIndex": 12 }, { "startIndex": 45, "endIndex": 50 } ] }, "queryMetadata": { "queryType": "QUERY_TYPE_SPECIFIC", "isUnanswerable": null, "isContextDependent": null } } ] }
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I'm Heather, I'm your Project Manager.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Hello..", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Okay. So um. So that was the opening.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "The first thing we'll do is get acquainted with one another. If everyone could go around and explain their role and um, and their name.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Okay. My name's Poppy. I'm the Industrial Designer for this project. Um, I'm going to be responsible for the functional design phase. Also the conceptual design and the detailed design for the final product.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Nice to meet you Poppy.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Okay..", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "My name's Tara and I'm the User Interface Designer.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "I will also be responsible for the functional design phase, the conceptual design phase and the detailed design phase of the user interface design..", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Alright.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Hi, I'm Genevieve. I'm the Marketing Expert. I'm an expert at marketing.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Um, I'll be telling you guys about the user requirement specifications for our new product. Um, I'll be doing some trend-watching in the conceptual design, and product evaluation for the design phase.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Alright I'm Heather and I've I said I'm your Project Manager, um Well you can pretty much read what it is that I'm doing. But um um.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah. And uh tool training is one thing that we're going to be doing today, um um as well as planning the project, how we're going to, uh, create this product, and, um, discuss, um, our aims and objects of this, Which brings us to our next subject,", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "is, um, um,", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "as a team we're going to be designing and creating a new kind of remote control. Um, we want this to be a marketable product that can be trendy, um, a completely new style, so that, um, can really appeal to a, to a generation that doesn't want a simple plain kind of, uh, channel-changer. And, um, it needs to be user-friendly for, um, maybe, for an example, for people that, um, can't see the numbers as well, or, um, perhaps an ergonomic design.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Okay. So this is a television remote control?", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yes, it's a television remote control.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Right. I believe I should be taking minutes on this right now. So, alright.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Um, yeah. Um, the way that we're going to go about this is, um, we'll have a time where we can, um come up with new ideas alone, and, and work on the project and then, um, after we've brainstormed and, and thought about, we can come together in a meeting and, and discuss what, what um, what kind of functional design we want to use. Same with conceptual design and detailed design. So, um, making sure that it, it's usable, that as a, um and that it's, it's feasible to create, and uh, to come up with a concept of it want, what we want it to look like. Um, tool training. Is, is everyone, um Okay.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah. Got those notes.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Great. Great.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Thank you.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Um One thing that, uh, we're going to do is become more acquainted with the, the tools that we have access to for our project. Um, one of them is our whiteboard. And, um, as a sort of team-building moment, um, I, I'd like us to, um, try out the whiteboard by expressing our favourite animal and the charac characteristics of that animal.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Um, why that, why that should be your favourite animal. So, um, I, I'm assuming that we should do that now.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "'Kay.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "With our microphones still attached to our bodies. Okay..", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Gosh..", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "'Kay, what's my favourite animal?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Do come up..", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Oh,", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "to go first. Oh,", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "This is a team-building time", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "are we all doing it individually?", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah..", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "where, um,,", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Okay, let's stand up and support you.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "okay cool, um.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "My favourite animal, which changes all the time, okay,", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "right now it is an elk.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "An elk?", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "alright, so.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "A vicious.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "And it goes like Yeah it's got like big antlers,", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "yeah. Looks kinda like, like it has holly growing out of its head.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Do you have elk where you come from?", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yes.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "You do.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "We have moose too..", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "we have moose and we have deer.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Do you have.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "We have sheep..", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "'Kay, um.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Sheep. Yeah,", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "cows.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "That's a great elk.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Uh-oh, we have a good artist..", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "That is really good.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Thanks.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah..", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "I'm quite.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "This is my.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Oh, very shapely.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Brilliant.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "That's a sketching of my my elk, and it, it is my favourite animal right now,'cause it is a large beautiful majestic creature,", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "that um, that um.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "In a way it looks kind of awkward, because it's on spindly legs and it uh.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "But it can really overcome harsh terrain, and although it's gorgeous it's also very dangerous, because it has um strong antlers, and uh it can really combat its enemies, even like it it's a it's an herbivore but, uh, it can really defend itself.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Very nice. Okay.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Right, I'm gonna take minutes while, um, you guys express your favourite animals.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Okay, I'll go next. I am a big animal lover. like all sorts of animals, but for the moment I'm gonna draw a cat, in memory of my poor cat that died recently..", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Oh.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Oh.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "It's gonna be a bit of a strange drawing, but never mind.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Not as artistic as Heather's drawing.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Bit more cartoon style.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "But I like cats because they're so independent, and they always seem to be doing what they want to be doing. Um, but that doesn't mean they're completely not sociable,'cause they enjoy interacting with humans as well, and they seem to enjoy the good things like sunshine and, um, running around outside as well as being inside, and enjoying their food, and generally just, they just seemed so cool and they just know what they're doing.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Uh I reckon they're sort of, they got it sorted. They know what they want.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Basically, that's why I like cats..", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Very good..", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Great.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "I'll rub that out. There you go..", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Okay. I think my favourite animal would be a dog, but I'm not really sure how to draw one.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Ooh.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "I, I've never drawn a dog, I don't think. I'm tempted to draw a snail'cause I draw them sometimes and they're really easy to draw.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Um,", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "I forget her name.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "right it's gonna be a really funny dog,'cause I'm not sure how to draw a dog.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Tara", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "or Tara.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Well there are loads of different types of dogs, so I'm sure it'll represent one kind of dog..", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "It's a cartoon dog I think.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "A s I don't ev Oh, oh well. It's a scary cartoon dog. That This,", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "that does not look like a dog.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "It looks kinda like a person..", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "We can pretend..", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "I'm sorry.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "That's Pinocchio.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "How do you draw a dog? I suppose it has a lon Oh my god. Right. Yous know what it's supposed to be.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "It's a dog.. Um, I like dogs because, um, they're so good to humans, like they can be trained to be police dogs and seeing-eye dogs, and they're just such friendly animals. And, like they're more of a companion than cats.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah, that's true.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "I've nothing against cats. Cats don't really like me, so I can't like them.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "But they're just so friendly and warm and nice animals,", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "that don't look like that..", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Alrighty. I feel like a robot.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Okay. Um, well I guess I had the most time to think about it. I'm going to draw a butterfly, because I saw a butterfly yesterday, that seemed to be like the symbol of Spring arriving. And it was actually the prettiest butterfly I've ever seen out in the wild, and I though that was pretty cool in Scotland. It was like, well it was a little pointier than that. At first I thought it was a dead leaf.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "And then it landed on the wall next to me. But this part was all brown and then it has these big blue dots like this. And then it kinda there was a green, I think it was a green ring, and there was like red going out like this.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "It's kinda like a peacock.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah, it kinda was actually,'cause it was This part of the body was really dull, and then it was the most colourful exotic butterfly ever, and I'm like, wow this is the middle of Scotland in like March.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "So I thought that was pretty cool. And it landed by a wall and let me look at it for about two minutes. I wish I'd had my camera. So that's gonna be my favourite animal because after all the snow it seemed to say that like Spring is finally here. Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Very nice..", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "There you go.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Great.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Uh, what do we Oh.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Do you hear the eraser buzzing while you do that?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yes I do..", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yea Right.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "So, now that we know how to use the whiteboard,", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "um, the next, um, thing we need to address is our financial department, to meet our our budget, um or not meet our budget but more, um, like what kind of, uh, selling range we'll be looking at, um, wanna make this um selling price of twenty five Euros. And so we have to, um, come up with a way to, to create a, a uh remote control, where um we can like the price to create it will be significantly less. Um, we'd like to, um to, uh, make fifty million Euro. I'm assuming that's what the M_ means. Um, and make it for an international market. Um, one thing we'd have to think about internationally is in the design of, um, like different kinds of, uh, V_C_R_s. Things like that, depending on which country you are. Another thing for the design team to think about. Um, we want it to cost, uh, absolute maximum of twelve Euro and fifty cents.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Okay, so we'll have a hundred percent profit then? Twelve fifty.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "I'm bad at math.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "'Kay. Um,", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "so now that, um, that is underway, um", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "it is discussion time. So this is time for us to bring our initial ideas, any um suggestions that you may have so far, a um your personal experiences with remote controls, and um, um, areas you see that, uh, could be improved in your experience with them. Does anyone have any initial thoughts?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "I find that in the dark it's often hard to know what button you're pushing.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm. So what's something we could, uh, do to remedy that?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Um.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "I always find that in our house the remote control always goes missing.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "It's always, where is the remote control?", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "So maybe if you could have some kind of tracking device for the remote control or some signal that you could find out where it was.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "I dunno, some kind of alarm. You can press a button on your wall, signal,", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah. It's a great idea. It's a great idea.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "'cause it always gets lost.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Do yous not find that, um, like, there's a lot of, um, buttons on your remote control, and you don't know what half of them do.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah, that you don't use half of them..", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah, I don't know what they do..", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm. There's some remote controls where there's kind of a hidden panel, so all those buttons that you don't really use unless you're programming or something.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah, that's, that's.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "That's useful.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah, it is. Yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "So you just have like the number buttons, power button, T_V_ video button.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Alright. Anything about, um, the look of the, uh, remote control that you might have ideas about. Maybe it could be, instead of like a standard rectangular shape, it could be, um, something more interesting like.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Any ideas will do that you have at this point.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Could be shaped like a conch,", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Can hold it.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "A novelty.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "you know. Be like a shell-shaped remote..", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Are we going into kind of novelty factors here. Like, I've seen phones like a.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Well if it's a trendy original, um, aspect we're going for.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "I mean, you're the designers, you c, you can um decide what kind of, um, direction you wanna go in,", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah. Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "but at this point in the, in the first meeting it can be any ideas that we just throw out there.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah. I suppose, if we're he heading to have it, like make a huge profit out of this, it needs to be quite a universally accepted thing. Like, a novelty thing might only sell a few things rather than, like, a general kind of more acceptable.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": ".", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "But we don't wanna go towards boring,'cause that wouldn't sell either.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "So, hmm.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "And the key issue here is, is being trendy and original. Um, that does not necessarily mean it needs to be outrageous.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah. Yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Right. Okay we have five minutes left. So, just to cover We have one more thing. Um, like you can go over your ideas, of course, in your own personal times. Um, our next meeting will be in half an hour.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "So you have half an hour to, uh, think about what you want to present. Or not present but bring to the meeting. Um, I_D_, whatever that stands for.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Industrial Designer.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Interface?", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Industrial Designer.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "That's me..", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Oh, industrial.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "I have to remember these things. Um. You'll be beginning your, your working design.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Um, U_I_D_ the technical functions design will, will be worked on the next thirty minutes. 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c310a764b1c44b7198c0fdfb60fa3888	{ "meetingId": "IS1001b", "transcriptSegments": [ { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Okay everyone's ready.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Hello.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "So we are here for uh for uh functional design.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Okay? So we are here for the functional design meeting mm so first I will show the agenda so we will uh I will take notes during this meeting so I will try to summarise it and put that summary in the shared folder if you want to look at it afterwards", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "so then uh each of you will uh lead a presentation on the task that has been required last time so user requirement specification, technical function design and working design. Then I will uh present you some new project requirements I received from uh the management board. Then we will take uh the decision on on the remote control uh needed functions and then I will assign you the task for the next part of the meeting. Of the of the process. So uh who want to start the the presentation of what they did?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "F do you want to start?", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Make a start yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "You can start.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "So..", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Cable, camera.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "You have uh PowerPoint?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Should be in my in their folder no?", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Ah yeah maybe there. Okay.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Up.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Who are you?.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Um at three I think.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "No? Mm.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Ouch. And.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Okay..", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "We have a technical problem uh.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Do we think w s in the in the wrong folder maybe? It is possible.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "You put it on.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "No.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "It was somewhere in something like this. I don't remember the name actually must be something like messenger AMI or something.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "What do you have in short cut?", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Go up.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Participant two.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah go up.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Again. No. Go back.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "You have no.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Uh maybe messenger AMI. Messenger.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Over. Okay.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "No. There is nothing.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "There's no We have a technical problem.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Let's go and check.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "I'll go and check.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Otherwise, could you just describe by hand?", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "With the the whiteboard?", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "If you remember yeah", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah. Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "but that's.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "So uh. Basically what we want here is a remote control right.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "So um the question well first of all what to control. So most people want to have a a remote for their hi-fi and T_V_ and stuff like that.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "And but other people want th also remotes for controlling uh and toys like robotic pets and little robots and stuff", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "and other people also want to have remotes for controlling um whole house.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah, so there's a project I think called X_ house or something like that that does that, uh you can integrate your remote with uh computers stuff. So.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "there is one that is one thing. The other is the the finder feature yeah by whistling or whatever. Uh if you have the finder feature then you can also have", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "uh at the same time as and general voice commands if you want yeah. So I think it should be a package in that case.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Uh so the user interface will consist of two parts. One is the voice command part and on one is the actual buttons part. Uh and th the buttons part would be uh a set of buttons for choosing devices, a set of buttons for special navigation in space,", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm. Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "a set of buttons for linear access of medium and a set of buttons for random access.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah?", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "What do you mean by linear access then?", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Like a video tape goes forward, backwards, uh fast and stuff yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Ah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Okay so special navigation, linear access, random access", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Um.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "and there's a fourth one no?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm?", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "So the better now for special navigation?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah. For special navigation for example you might have a T_V_ in the menu and you going to change yeah?", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Okay. Then linear access", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Uh.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "then random access.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm. Yeah and also parameter changing.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Ah yeah parameter okay.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "So if there are common parameters maybe we should put special buttons for that um", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "or maybe we could have everything uh generic but uh there are a lot of uh remotes on the market right now and basically this is most of the almost everybody has this stuff.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Okay. Okay and and voice command did you uh.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Voice command w we could specify anything. We could assign any button a command to any button, if we have enough processing power,", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Okay. Okay.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "I guess so. Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "So that's uh that close your investigations?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Uh yeah I think so.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Not so far.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Maybe we can have a look at the user requirements with.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah. Um I dunno if you can open the.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "I dunno if I can open it. Maybe you can s", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "uh m is not here.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "It's.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Uh in yeah okay.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Messenger no?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "No. In document. Mm computer yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "In which folder?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Where did you put it?", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Here. Here.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Short-cut to AMI shared folder?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "mm.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "But it's not Um.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Maybe you can send it to me by email. Just to participant one. At AMI.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm. Yeah, I can do that.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "I will try to show it to everyone, that would be more comfortable.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Okay. Um.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "You send it?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "It's participant one?", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah. Uh this is this email.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "I'm designing the user interface..", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Okay. You can uh.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Okay. So maybe I can switch slides when you whenever you ask,", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "that will be more convenient. So okay, functional requirements.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Okay so you can you can go. Okay so in our usability lab we observed the remote control use among one hundred subjects", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "and the subjects also filled a questionnaire", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "okay? And here I have the results so you can see that um seventy five per cent of users find most remote controls ugly so we have to find something to make them more more nice, more kind. Eighty per cents of users would spend more money when the remote control would look fancy. Eighty hundred per cent of users would spend more money when the remote control would look.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "oh to it's not good. So okay.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "We can just keep doing that?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "So it's not in theory but I I can I can say yeah..", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Fifty f uh seventy five per cent of users say they s zap a lot. So mm we have to have a remote control uh very um out for that. Uh the buttons have are to be um uh uh like you say resist resisting to to shocks.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Um and fifty per cents of users say they only use uh ten per cents of but of the buttons in the in the remote control.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "So all the buttons we we have to put are have to to have um a use a real use", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "and not only or.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Okay, so fewer buttons maybe would be good?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah. F not many buttons, and uh and uh uh u useable buttons.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "But what kind of remote controls did you look at?", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Sorry?", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "What kind of task was it? It was a T_V_?", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah. Uh most for most is T_V_.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah. Yeah but in fact we it it seems that we are going to make a T_V_ remote control according to new requirements I received from the management", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Huh.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "bo I will present them in the following.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Uh-huh. Ah! Good.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "'Kay you can go so.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "So there are other frustrations expressed by users, so they said uh they lost uh often the remote control in in the room so they want to have a way to to", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah. To find it.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "to find it.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Um and um lot of the time they it takes too much time to learn how to use a new remote control.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "So they want something s really very simple and uh easy to use.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "And uh remote controls are bad for", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "What is her other side?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "R_S_I_ um.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Other side yeah, yo wa your wrist", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "I dunno.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "It i can become painful you can have tendonditis.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Oh yeah?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "I did not knew that.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "If you also up on a computer in a strange position.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Okay so you we have to make it uh more ergonomic yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Ergonomic. But uh.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Have to say ha ha..", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "It's your job.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Oh..", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Uh.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Uh sorry got a message from Microsoft..", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Okay um before that I I have some some some thing uh to say before um.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah. Yeah yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "We know that uh the user use uh a lot their um remote control um to to change channel.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Um and um to to change uh volume selection of the.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "and uh and not uh a lot for setting for setting the the channels and uh thing things like that.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "So it's better to put uh uh uh something very easy to set and uh and.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah. This function should be very uh accessible.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Very accessible yes.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah, okay. This is the main function okay.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "That's right. So then we asked some questions to them", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "and um we asked this question if they prefer an L_C_D_ screen or on their remultific function remotes control", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "and if they mm pay more for speech recognition in remote control", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "and you can go we have here the results of", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "The first question.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "of the questions. So you know that um", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "for the younger it's very important", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "To have L_C_D_ and voice.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "to have the s yes and speech recognition. And uh and the others is not so important but uh we know that uh uh people between fifteen and twenty five are people who watch a lot T_V_ and uh who who wh can use a lot this uh.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "So maybe we we can have a speech recognition in.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah maybe this this is important.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Moreover th maybe those uh like those teenager customer could advice their parents to buy this equipment and so we can.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "we have to take care of that point of view I think or so.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Okay and if there is th the conclusion now. So as we say before, I think uh um a remote control lightening in the dark it's it's a good thing.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Uh not to many mud buttons like we we said before,", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "e easy to use uh a way to find it easily in the room and uh uh resistant to to shock and to to.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "An I s no, yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Okay these are the user requi", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "I dunno if you see something else important or.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "I'm just thinking of some thing.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Um We want to have a no, I don't know if this is a good idea. We want to have a a general remote control for everything.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "No no no. We w it seems that we no want to have a T_V_ remote control. From the management board I receive an email.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Okay. Yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Cos it would be costly uh and and also it it would take more time to develop to have a a general generic remote control.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah. Yeah yeah. Yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Mm I it's not true I think. The the second claim that you put.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "No no..", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "That it would be too long to develop.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "I think that should be the same.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Oh yeah. Because I received that email from management board and they seems to tell that that if we want to be on the market as early as possible we should uh focus on T_V_ more where it seems that the market is more important. So maybe it's a good decision. I dunno. What's your opinion?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "I have uh I've no idea I mean I should know a bit more about how fast we can uh design it.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "I don't think.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Uh yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Finish tonight.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah. Okay. Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "But basically yeah maybe I can continue with my presentation, it would be al you you.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "but I think we have some technical problem or so. So I'm just going to describe briefly what we do in the remote control.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Maybe you can go to the whiteboard if you have some drawings to do", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "If fact.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "I don't know.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah but.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Do I have oh yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Now I have enough cables.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Like a you feel a bit like a dog with this stuff.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Okay so I'm just going to describe in fact for for a remote control this is quite easy. We just have.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "sorry, I'm going.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Are you okay?.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Like that. I'm just going to describe. Basically we have a a battery a power supply here. After that we just have um user interface. Let's say that um something like that, which could be um a L_C_D_ let's say or um an array of push button, something like that. Push button or a L_C_D_. After that we we feed that into um uh an electronic chip. So I say U_C_ and I feed that to uh L_E_D_ which is uh infrared um which is a an infrared um component. And so what we for for myself this for for us this is quite easy.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "U_C_ is the central unit?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Okay yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Y it's a it's this just a chip which does all the um numerical", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Computation.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "numerical computation according to your display.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "And so for us uh this is quite easy. We just need to take to define what we want to do when the user interface um wants something and after that we just do the coding to s and send that to to to the not the to the television.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "So for us this is quite easy.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Okay so this is quite easy. There is not that much constraints.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah. Um we just have to define the processing power that we need uh especially if we want to do some uh speech recognition, in that case that mean that we are going to use more for simple.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "This will think this will take more time to develop also.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah of course of course.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah..", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "And um but for a standard one this is really easy. It's a question of one month and so on s", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Soon.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "To have a you s you speak about with voi voice control?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "No no no no,", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Standard button one.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "I say yeah standard uh standard remote control takes maybe uh one month to to do that.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah. So the only time problem is the sp voice recognition.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Definitely.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "So do you have any idea of how long it would take to have voice recognition now?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Ten years.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "I would say.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "I would say uh about eight months to have the first results.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Okay so i it's a bit long yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah. I can Um.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "One month for the standard one with button.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Even if we have a L_C_D_ display?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah even. I mean that this is really standard devices now. Um eight. For uh speech recognition.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Okay yeah. Okay so we can take this into account. So who think it would be good to go for uh like speech recognition?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "But we don't have time to market.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah it will.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "And also how much uh I think", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "I think we should contact management.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "during the kickoff meeting you say that we we shouldn't we shouldn't go up to twelve point five Euro per unit", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Euros. Yeah, yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "so how many units should we sell to have a.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Well. Uh.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Well each unit is is sell uh twenty five Euros.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah but how many yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "How muc how much do you get how much do you if you buy one million units h no, one hundred thousand units.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Eh chips. We're gonna need chips right.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah. How much will it cost for one hundred thousand?", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Usually this is less tha at two dollars per chip.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Because we are.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "So you have any idea for a powerful one that has uh good enough for do speech recognition.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah,", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah? Okay.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "we can.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "So.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "It seems that that we want to sell like four million units from the first meeting.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "No it doesn't.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Okay. Four million..", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Okay. Maybe we can uh we can look at the new requirement I receive from the management board and discus discuss all function we want to have.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Um I just had a question uh do you want to continue with your presenta?", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah I I will continue.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Is it.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Well ask your question if you want.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Um you say that I don't remember by heart but thirty per cent", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Mm?", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "of the tested people say that's it's quite difficult to to to use the remote control.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Do they say that this is difficult but for the same reason or do they have other reason? To to.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Oh.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "maybe to keep in mind maybe to access to that menu you should do something like that.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Would j Uh yeah w I I think they they say that it's uh difficult to learn how to use it but i when you know how to use it, it's it's okay.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm. Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Okay. It's not intuitive first.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "And.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "But Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "But yeah maybe and what about if we design a remote control which can be configure as you want? You say that I want, I have six button.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Mh-hmm. A a lot of people are uh if you have the L_C_D_ screen if you can do it completely the way you want because the buttons also look the way you want them", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah. But, but also it seems that.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "but it will be hard to configure I mean imagine i uh.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "so it's really something for the expert user. So.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "I mean there are markets and markets. I think the young people are th uh are uh.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Christine here said uh you have a.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "uh it is yeah. So for our young people uh it will be cool, they can be able to use it. Th maybe their parents will not but they will configure it. I guess. I don't know if there is study about that.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah. Maybe it would be more complex to configure it to be simple than creating a simple product.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah. Yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "And there are another thing is that if we make something that's simple and easy to use that's bas to use immediately that means that it will be exactly the same as everything else.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "All right?", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah. Yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Otherwise, if it's different then of course everybody has somebody has to learn to use it first.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "But also we we see that that most people find it find remote controls too complex because they have too many buttons and they mainly use only channels and volume buttons.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "So we may just uh make a very easy to use remote control with mainly those buttons", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "and maybe also um some lightning stuff too because most people find also hard to to find the remote control. Losed lose it etcetera.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "These these are these two points are the main frustrations so maybe if we design something very simple and easy to uh find when lost it will uh add uh a serious competitive advantage without making something too complex and too long to develop.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "So but le let us see first the new requirement. So we don't have to so this this uh is uh is um in the this is in the same direction as we were speaking so we don't have to make a very complex remote controls to access teletext and stuff like that.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "But teletext is just one button.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah but then you have to you have to define the buttons to surf amongst pages and stuff.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "You you just write the write the numbers.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah. So well.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "So will you add with the channel keys, right?", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah. So anyway we don't have to include this feature because it's it's not used any more by users,", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "So..", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "they prefer to s", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "I am. I'm sure that uh it don't like but uh I don't see just one button.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah. I dunno.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "So.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "If i one button is still one more button. If if if we want to make it very simple we have to reduce number of buttons compared to th to our competitors.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Well anyway I have this point. We can discuss. Also um so as as I told before uh it would be better if it's only for the T_V_ um because we want to be quick on on the market. And then also we have to make very uh uh clear that this uh this remote control is is part of of our products and show our corporate uh logo and and colours on the on the design as well so that uh they identify it as one of our product. So this is the the key point.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "So before uh finishing we can uh define uh what would be the characteristic of the o th of the control of the remote control and which button do we need which function do we want etcetera.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Capital.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "So do you um so so from from the the Marketing Expert I think a key aspect is the easy to use aspect, it should be very simple and most button are never used", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "only ten per cent of the button are are used often so I think we have to do something very simple and I think we all agree on that point, no?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Well if it is going to be just a T_V_ remote control it is going to be very simple.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah okay. So yeah the key point here is simple. Maybe. So few buttons, channel, volume control and what el what function do you see in addition to that?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Well if it's going to be as simple as possible then just have the remote control, there is no other function that I can see", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "really.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Maybe switch T_V_ on and off.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Uh", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "no you want to keep television on so that the advertising can revenue can come back to us.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah. Yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Or something.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Volume, maybe a mute button, and then on off button.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "And that's all?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Uh I know that som you say that many people are doing plenty of a lot of zapping.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "I know tha I discovered that when I did a quick look, uh they do now som they do something which is quite nice now,", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "It's a memory, yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "you have a button, you you press it, and this is uh the previous channel which has come back.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Okay. Yeah this is cool. Maybe we can include that also. Previous previous channel button. So we have like channel button, the previous channel button, the volume button, plus a mute button, and uh just the the traditional on off button.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm. Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "And uh and of course the channel changing buttons.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm..", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah. I I talk about that, yeah?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "How should they how should we implement that? Because uh could be numerical only or could be also incremental.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah. Incremental definitely because zapping you you switch them.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Let's say that we can do something like that. This is uh incremental, but once you press it for a long time, you go five by five.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "We go faster?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "To go fa to go faster.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm. It's an interesting idea, that if you press it for a long time it does something else, in general. So if you you have your ten buttons for the for the numeric the numerical buttons and you have instead of having just one memory", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "you have if you press them for a long time No. Doesn't work does it.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Maybe we should have also a digit button.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Maybe we should have a complete keyboard and just type console commands.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Change channel to eight.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Maybe we have also to have digits or only incremental.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "No..", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "I dunno bec because if you have the.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Well if it's useful like if if you want to change between three channels for example then you h you cannot you cannot cannot work with just memory being incremental.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Uh. Yeah. Because you have your previous channel button if you have incremental only it's not uh it isn't worth it because the previous channel is eith either minus one or plus one.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "So I think we need also digits.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah..", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Maybe we we can make very obvious the channel and volume button button and smaller button down there with the the digits.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah when you zap usually you will have to press the same button all the time.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "and.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Or we can do something like that.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "We can design the remote control to have access. You know some remote control have uh protection", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "and so you you y", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Hey I just thought this thing.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "You.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "there is a I mean you know there is are some with a wheel like this. Instead of having the up down buttons for uh you can have the wheel.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah, a kind of joystick.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah. Maybe we can have a wheel for incremental.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "So have a wheel for incremental, have the digits uh on the lower side that can be closed so as you say protected,", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "and uh yeah I think this is the basi", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "On the lower side I think it you have to turn it.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "And do we do we have a.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "No? If we do that.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Or a or a ball, yeah, not a a wheel but a ball, and you say uh to.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "No, a wheel is better.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "I would say the wheel is better.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Because of that.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "What is the expert of uh.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "The channels change one by one.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "So you have to the user has to like to should feel the the the discrete sense a bit.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah, the.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah. That's a good idea.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Well also we have to decide uh so it should be lightening in the dark I think because most people lost their remote control.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "'S quite it's quite easy we do that w with back light on the on the wheel.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah. Even if i L_E_D_ uh or a if if it's the L_C_D_ feature uh", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "A blue a blue L_E_D_ and we sell that um.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah,", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "whatever, yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "and do we put an L_C_D_ display?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Because it was important for young customers if you remember.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "I think it's only put on if cou have multi function. If you do not multi function then there is no p point in having L_C_D_.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Just increase the cost.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "The user does not have an advantage really.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "So no L_C_D_?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Hmm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "And so no speech as well because it w it would delay too much the development process", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Well if it's going to delay yeah", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "but uh it will be cool. It would. Because a user could say C_N_N_ for example and it would go C_N_N_. Mm.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah. That would be cool. But eight months is really long", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "and Maybe we can just uh.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Ten years.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Okay. So um I I will uh I will so I we will move to next meeting so in after the lunch break uh here are the individual uh action uh you are required to do", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "but you will be uh recalled to the actions by uh email I think but you can take notes if you if you want but well the instruction will be sent. So thank you for uh your suggestion", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "and I I will make a summary of that meeting that I will put in the shared folder you can't see.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Okay. Okay.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "and uh and then you will um you will be able to to see what has been uh has been said on on this meeting and and what has been decided. Uh maybe for next meeting uh send me your presentation before by email so that we can see them uh altogether. That would be easier.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "What is the folder that you put yours in? And did it it did work?", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "No.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "No it did not work.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "No no.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "She send it to me by email.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Ah yeah. Mm.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "I dunno, I dunno it.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "So maybe this is better, to send it by email. Okay?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Okay what is your email?", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "So yeah I I'm it's in the first uh email so I'm participant one at AMI", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "At participant one. Okay.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "uh where is that, it's here. Participant one at AMI. Okay. 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c383ef92879641ee87abc117766aeb4a	{ "meetingId": "education14", "transcriptSegments": [ { "text": "Okay. Good morning, everyone. Welcome to the Children, Young People and Education Committee. We've received apologies for absence from Suzy Davies and Jack Sargeant and I'm very pleased to welcome Jayne Bryant back, who is substituting for Jack today. Are there any declarations of interest from Members, please? No. Okay, thank you. Item 2, then, this morning, is our sixth scrutiny session on the Children (Abolition of Defence of Reasonable Punishment) (Wales) Bill. I'm very pleased to welcome our witnesses this morning: Sally Jenkins, who is chair of All Wales Heads of Children’s Services and is here representing the Association of Directors of Social Services; Alastair Birch, who is senior system leader for equalities and safeguarding at Pembrokeshire County Council, who is here representing the Association of Directors of Education Wales; and Councillor Huw David, who is the Welsh Local Government Association spokesperson for health and social care and leader of Bridgend County Borough Council. So, thank you all for attending this morning. We're very pleased to have you here. We've got a lot of ground to cover, so, if you're happy, we'll go straight into questions and I'll start just by asking about your general support for the Bill, which is outlined in the evidence. Can you just explain why you think the current law is ineffective or unclear?", "speakerName": "Lynne Neagle AM" }, { "text": "Bore da—bore da, bawb. So, I'm Alastair Birch. The statement, really, from ADEW is that the rights of the child should be educated and achieved, really, under the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child. The current legislation has been criticised, obviously, by the UN concerning the defence of reasonable punishment still being within our current legislation. So, we will always—ADEW will always—advocate that the rights of the child be upheld, so that is really the fundamental aspect in terms of the statement from ADEW, and the position of ADEW is that the rights of the child are fundamental in this process. And there are certain articles—. I know that the Rights of Children and Young Persons (Wales) Measure 2011 made sure that article 3 and article 4, article 12 and article 37 were a focus in terms of making sure that the best interests of the child were put first, that children expressing their views and opinions was a priority. And we know, for safeguarding purposes, that the express opinions of the child and the voice of the child are a fundamental aspect of any safe environment, whether it be a school or college. So, that is—the position is really following that legal position under the Rights of Children and Young Persons (Wales) Measure.", "speakerName": "Alastair Birch" }, { "text": "Okay, thank you. Nothing to add at this stage, no?", "speakerName": "Lynne Neagle AM" }, { "text": "I'll just add, on behalf of ADSS and on behalf of children's services and social services more widely, for us, this is not a change in our position, this is not new; this is a position that we, on behalf of the leaders of social services across Wales, have taken over many years, going back 20, 25 years. I think what we would say is that we really welcome this Bill and we welcome the proposed change for the clarity it would bring—the clarity that it would bring for children, for parents and for professionals. I think what we would recognise is that this is a very little-used piece of legislation, so it's rare, it's not as if this is something that is going to cast great change across the scene for children and families in Wales, but what it will do is represent a change in the reality of how we care and nurture our children. I would echo absolutely what Alastair has said in terms of the rights of the child, but equally, in terms of all of our policies in Wales in terms of promoting well-being for children, this has to be key. So, for us, this is about a natural progression of change in how we care for our children in Wales. For children's services at the very sharp end of this world, for us, it brings a true clarity. This continues with an ambiguity in how we treat our children and how we care for our children, and the shift for us brings that very much needed clarity.", "speakerName": "Sally Jenkins" }, { "text": "Okay, thank you. The committee has already heard different views about whether there's clear evidence that physical punishment is harmful to children. What evidence does the work of social services provide about whether physical punishment is actually harmful?", "speakerName": "Lynne Neagle AM" }, { "text": "Obviously, what you'll all be aware of is that, as part of the consultation for this Bill, the Public Policy Institute did a further piece of research to look at the impact of physical punishment on children. A number of things that we know—we know from across the world that the evidence is that introducing legislation or changing legislation in this way improves children's positions within their families. What we know is that children themselves, as Alastair has already referred to, really find physical punishment demeaning and harmful, and for children it is an emotionally damaging experience. Now, there may be disagreement about that, there will be different views on that, but that's the voice of the child in this debate. The voice of the child is very clear that physical punishment is for them harmful. I think what we would also say is that, in the world that we work in, it's part of a continuum, and, whilst this is an element of how children are cared for, what we see is a continuum where an acceptance of how we treat children in a particular way perpetuates throughout our work. By changing this, it helps that shift to that absolute recognition that our children must be cared for in a way that is physically safe in all dimensions for them.", "speakerName": "Sally Jenkins" }, { "text": "Okay, thank you. We've had evidence from the equal protection network that the reasonable punishment defence undermines child protection and fails to protect children because it permits an arbitrary level of violence, which invades children's physical integrity, making it a potential pathway to more serious physical or sexual abuse, and you did refer to that just now. Is there anything you want to add on that?", "speakerName": "Lynne Neagle AM" }, { "text": "I would echo that. I think there is something in this that is about our culture, about how we see our children. It is about how we see our smallest and most vulnerable people, and if it is acceptable it opens the door to those other, more extreme versions of violence, which then complicates the issue for us. This is about clarity, and, whilst there is an argument that this is a small episode for a child, it's not a small episode for a child, it is a major episode for a child, and I think absolutely, as you said, the potential for it then to lead on, and over gradation and time to increase the risk for children, is clearly there.", "speakerName": "Sally Jenkins" }, { "text": "Okay, thank you. The final question from me: your written evidence emphasises the need for greater clarity around the definition of what constitutes corporal punishment, but that contrasts with what we've been told by the children's commissioner and the equal protection network, who've emphasised the importance of simplicity in the Bill. How do you respond to that view, and is what you're calling for essential to be on the face of the Bill?", "speakerName": "Lynne Neagle AM" }, { "text": "It's not essential for it to be on the face of the Bill. What we would like to see is discussion within the implementation phase for that nuancing. Absolutely agree in terms of simplicity—I think that is really important—and I've already mentioned clarity. What we don't want to do is further confuse the position. We know that the legislation in different countries has done that, and there are ways that you can do it, but what we would welcome is an opportunity during the implementation phase for discussion.", "speakerName": "Sally Jenkins" }, { "text": "Okay. Thank you.", "speakerName": "Lynne Neagle AM" }, { "text": "And, as a principle, obviously we would welcome full involvement, and we know there's the commitment from Welsh Government to full involvement in the implementation, because, as with every piece of legislation, implementation is the most important part, and we would want to ensure there is that commitment to a major awareness-raising campaign, and there is that from Welsh Government, because we need to take families, carers and parents with us on this. Also we need to ensure that there is that support available to parents and carers that do sometimes struggle with parenting, and that needs to be a universal offer across Wales. If we're to progress with this, that has to be an option that is offered to every parent in Wales.", "speakerName": "Huw David" }, { "text": "Okay. Thank you.", "speakerName": "Lynne Neagle AM" }, { "text": "Local authorities have already been very heavily involved in terms of looking at this Bill and exploring what the issues are and the discussions and looking at what the implications from a local authority perspective will be, as Huw describes, both in terms of the awareness raising, early support and intervention and prevention services for families against the backdrop of the current issues that we have in local government, but also awareness raising—because absolutely it is key that families come with us on this journey. This is not an imposition. This is embracing a culture and a value system for our children.", "speakerName": "Sally Jenkins" }, { "text": "Okay, thank you. I've got some questions now from Dawn Bowden on the implementation of the Bill.", "speakerName": "Lynne Neagle AM" }, { "text": "Thank you, Chair. So, you've pre-empted me, Huw.", "speakerName": "Dawn Bowden AM" }, { "text": "Right. Sorry. I've got good eyesight; I can't see—. [Laughter.]", "speakerName": "Huw David" }, { "text": "You've already said, obviously, that you're looking towards working with Welsh Government in terms of its implementation. What's been your role so far in terms of the implementation of the Bill—local authorities generally, now? Have you had a role? Has Welsh Government been involving you in discussions around the introduction of the Bill so far?", "speakerName": "Dawn Bowden AM" }, { "text": "Yes. So, obviously we were consulted—a key consultee—but also our officials have worked very closely with Welsh Government officials to make sure this is implemented successfully, if it is progressed.", "speakerName": "Huw David" }, { "text": "Our involvement with this, from a social services perspective, goes back over two years, directly in working towards this point, never mind the history in terms of work towards this area. But, very directly in relation to this Bill, we were first involved at least two years ago, to recollect, and that was in a series of workshops with other agencies, for example Children and Family Court Advisory and Support Service Cymru and the police, and looking in real depth at what the implications would be for us as agencies to look at what the likely trajectory would be in terms of our pathways for referral into our services and what that might mean for us. And then particularly, for example, with CAFCASS Cymru in relation to private law, what the fallout might be, and then what, if anything—and that's the discussion that we need to have—that could mean for children's services in particular, given the pressures that we're already under. So, we've been in constant, I suppose, involvement in terms of the Bill already, as part of the consultation, in terms of the focus groups and in terms of direct work with Welsh Government officials to take this forward. And we are absolutely committed to continuing with that work.", "speakerName": "Sally Jenkins" }, { "text": "Okay. You touched there on the pressures that you're already under, which we fully appreciate, but you also mentioned in answers to Lynne Neagle earlier on that you welcomed the Bill in terms of its clarity. So, are you confident that the Bill can be implemented without any major impact on your capacity to deal with it?", "speakerName": "Dawn Bowden AM" }, { "text": "We've done—. A number of local authorities—my own included, Newport City Council, has done some work to look at what the likely impact would be and then actually to look at what some of that costing would need to be. Further work is needed on that area, and that needs to be carried out during the implementation phase. I think what we've done is we've looked internationally at what the impact has been elsewhere when similar legislation has been introduced to try and gauge, but that's difficult to do in terms of comparable nations and size and also different systems. And obviously our approach in terms of children and pedagogy is very different from some of the nations that have already done this. I wouldn't like to say one way or the other, because I think, in terms of that culture shift, it could be a double impact on us in terms of increased referrals because of increased awareness, but it could also be, I suppose, as Huw alludes to, that, if we're looking at ensuring greater awareness of preventative services and support services for parents, actually people coming to the fore and asking us for those services as well. So, at this stage, I think what we would want to say is that we continue to be fully involved in the implementation phase, to look at what the cost implications for that could be, and not just for the local authorities but also the police, CAFCASS Cymru, for third sector organisations involved in preventative services. I don't think any of that should undermine the position in terms of children and their rights within our society. So, a difficult answer, in the sense that—", "speakerName": "Sally Jenkins" }, { "text": "No, I understand. What you're saying is that this is a piece of legislation that, in your view, is a good piece of legislation. It's setting out to, hopefully, achieve what the purpose of it is and you will deliver what you need to. Can I ask you whether, then, you've also given thought to the impact on—we've talked about social services, but the impact on other services, like housing, education and so on? You're obviously coming at it from slightly different angles in other sections.", "speakerName": "Dawn Bowden AM" }, { "text": "We are part of the universal service for children, and we very much work in co-operation with the WLGA and our social care colleagues, and we've been part of that consultation. In terms of education, the main changes, or adaptations, would be around training and awareness. And, in terms of the Bill, there needs to be the clarity—ambiguity would be bad—in terms of making sure that safeguarding leads within all schools have the right training and support. So, really, that's the key element there, and then obviously the preventative services for the parents that schools can signpost, and sometimes possibly even host, in terms of being community schools. These positive parenting approaches that—. I have colleagues who have worked in that area for many years and see the benefits in how those positive parenting approaches make a difference to families.", "speakerName": "Alastair Birch" }, { "text": "So, from your point of view, it's awareness raising, is it?", "speakerName": "Dawn Bowden AM" }, { "text": "It's awareness raising; it's making sure that professionals are fully briefed on necessary changes, that there's very little ambiguity, that we are aware that—. We still have that duty to report whenever there is any safeguarding concern. That'll still be part of the all-Wales child protection procedures. That won't change, and that duty is always going to be there for all our professionals. But that awareness raising and training will be the key, and then, obviously, working in co-operation with our colleagues.", "speakerName": "Alastair Birch" }, { "text": "Okay, I understand that. Have you been given an indication of how long you've got between Royal Assent and implementation, and whether you've thought through any of the key milestones that need to be implemented?", "speakerName": "Dawn Bowden AM" }, { "text": "There's a group proposed that would be a strategic leadership group in the steering group that we're part of, which is now laying out what would happen after Royal Assent if that is given. So, we will work towards that.", "speakerName": "Sally Jenkins" }, { "text": "Okay. My final question, Chair, is about some of the responses we've had to this committee that say that the state should not get involved in family life—I'm sure you've heard those views—unless it's in the most serious circumstances. To what extent do you think that this Bill undermines the existing local authority responsibilities, or don't you?", "speakerName": "Dawn Bowden AM" }, { "text": "The state's paramount role is to protect children from harm. That is our legal responsibility, it's our moral responsibility, and we will discharge that. And there is obviously a view—it's a view that is enshrined in the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child—that physical punishment, physical harm to a child is harm to a child, and we should be preventing that and act to prevent that. That would be the position of the Welsh Local Government Association, and we also respect the mandate that Members of the National Assembly for Wales have too. And we believe that children can be raised by parents without recourse to physical punishment, effectively, and we'd support parents in that. We do not believe that in the 50 nations across the world where such legislation exists that the state is interfering in family life unnecessarily. We believe this action reflects a cultural change, a sea change that's taken place in Wales over the last 30 to 40 years, where the vast majority of parents now say that they do not use it themselves, they do not support it, and we believe this is actually a reflection of what has happened in Welsh society. We support Assembly Members in the view that the natural progression of that is that children's rights are protected across Wales.", "speakerName": "Huw David" }, { "text": "So, I've got largely positive feedback from you in terms of the Bill and its intentions, and so on. Do you foresee any unintended consequences for this Bill?", "speakerName": "Dawn Bowden AM" }, { "text": "If we implement it carefully, if we implement it with the right resources, then I hope not. I think not. But as with every piece of legislation, it is about the implementation, it is about the cultural change as well, and that's why I cannot overstress the importance of making sure that resources are made available, because our social services departments—children's social services in particular—are overstretched. They are at breaking point—make no bones about it—and they are dealing with children who are facing serious harm and neglect. We are having record numbers of contacts from police, from teachers, from doctors and, of course, from children themselves who are experiencing that harm and neglect. And obviously, we want to focus our energy and our attention on those children. Equally, though, we don't want to lose sight of those families and children that are experiencing significant problems, but who we want to support through our early intervention and prevention programmes, and that is why it is important that there is investment in those programmes, so that children do not end up in that terrible position where we have to, for their safety, take them from their birth families to protect them. And the reality is, in Wales, that we are doing that to more children than we've done for a long time, and the numbers are growing across Wales. And that is only because of the most appalling neglect and abuse, because there is no way that any judge would permit us to act to make a child safe if it was not for that fact, and the facts are there. So, I don't want that focus to be lost, but, of course, we welcome and understand the need to progress this piece of legislation.", "speakerName": "Huw David" }, { "text": "That rise that you talk about here, is that due to more interventions, greater awareness, more incidents? I'm trying to link this to the Bill in terms of whether the Bill is actually going to give you more work to do in those areas.", "speakerName": "Dawn Bowden AM" }, { "text": "On the reasons for the rise in the numbers of looked-after children in Wales, which are higher than those in England, and also the numbers of contacts that we have across the local authorities, the work of the care crisis review, which was completed last year; the work of Isabelle Trowler, who's the chief social worker in England; countless research and reports that have taken place in the last 18 months; and currently the public law working group, under the auspices of the president of the family court, would all indicate that it's multifactorial. So, what you have is a range of reasons that have led to the increasing numbers of children becoming looked after across England and Wales. What you can't do is identify a single reason. There have been headlines that have said,'Is it increased austerity?' That is clearly a part of this. Is it in Wales an increased awareness of adverse childhood experiences and the emphasis of the impact on children of, for example, domestic abuse? Is it because of our understanding of what happens to children in those households? All of that research would say it's all of those things. And then, when you also add in changes in our practice with our colleagues in the judiciary, changes in our police service, but also changes in our preventative services, you've got that whole range of elements. And there is going on across the local authorities and Welsh Government a huge amount of work to try to address and understand that, and then to ameliorate that. Children who need to be in care for safety need to be in care, but what we have to do is get to a point where fewer children come into care and we're able to protect them, firstly, and secondly where those children who are in care are cared for in a way that delivers the best possible outcomes for them. So, there is no simple answer unfortunately. I think, in terms of this Bill and unintended consequences, I agree absolutely with everything that Huw has said. My job is around children at that far end, but what this Bill does is it brings clarity. It brings a clarity even for those children at that very far end. It takes away even that point of discussion that this could possibly be okay, and I think that's important to hang on to.", "speakerName": "Sally Jenkins" }, { "text": "Thank you, Chair. Sorry.", "speakerName": "Dawn Bowden AM" }, { "text": "One unintended consequences is that I think that there will be an increased focus on the UNCRC. And, in terms of children having a discussion around this point, children need to be part of that discussion. It's something that affects them. And a key aspect of education is the voice of the child. It has become significantly—. It's changed completely in the last 10 years, and it is one of the key things in terms of us driving improvements.", "speakerName": "Alastair Birch" }, { "text": "Would that be something that you would be looking to do in schools?", "speakerName": "Dawn Bowden AM" }, { "text": "Anything that improves the voice of the child in any educational context is good and it's very powerful for the children. And it improves their educational experiences, encouraging the opportunities for them to discuss the issues, the adverse childhood experiences that they encounter, which are significant, and it's our educational professionals that are facing this day-in, day-out. They've become a very highly trained workforce, they're ACE aware, they're trauma aware, and anything that focuses, even increases, their professionalism and understanding around a particular point, and also—. So it's a positive unintended consequence, shall we say, that it could reinvigorate some of the voice of the child discussion within various contexts.", "speakerName": "Alastair Birch" }, { "text": "Okay. Thank you, Chair.", "speakerName": "Dawn Bowden AM" }, { "text": "We've got some specific questions now on implementation for social services, from Janet Finch-Saunders.", "speakerName": "Lynne Neagle AM" }, { "text": "Thank you, Chair. If this Bill becomes law, would you encourage members of the public to contact social services departments if they do see a child being smacked?", "speakerName": "Janet Finch-Saunders AM" }, { "text": "We already encourage members of the public to contact social services or the police, depending on the circumstances. Interestingly, I'm picking—", "speakerName": "Sally Jenkins" }, { "text": "What, if a child is being smacked now?", "speakerName": "Janet Finch-Saunders AM" }, { "text": "Yes. If a child is being smacked now, we would ask that people contact. We have a duty to report, as professionals. But if you were walking out, and you saw something happening to a child, in the same way as if you saw something to an adult.", "speakerName": "Sally Jenkins" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "Janet Finch-Saunders AM" }, { "text": "So, I think that the challenge is about—we've all probably, sadly, witnessed incidents in the doctor's reception, or in a supermarket, and we've failed to do something about it. And I think we then walk away and feel pretty guilty about that, realistically, when you see something happening to a child in a particular circumstance. I think we can't ignore the fact that a child is being assaulted in those circumstances.", "speakerName": "Sally Jenkins" }, { "text": "Okay. Thank you. A campaign opposing this Bill, Be Reasonable Wales, have said that'If the law is changed, the consequences for parents will be considerable.' It also says,'Anyone accused or convicted of assaulting a child—under the new definition—' so, I suppose you could argue, a minor tap—'will be subject to long-term social services involvement in their family and social stigma.' To what extent is this accurate, and, also, will thresholds for social services intervention change if the Bill is enacted?", "speakerName": "Janet Finch-Saunders AM" }, { "text": "There are a number of parts to that. Firstly, in terms of long-term social services intervention in a family's life, I think, for people to be fully aware of the very few numbers of families where we have long-term intervention currently, even where there is what would be perceived as very significant abuse. What we do is we go in for short periods in families' lives, to support them to work with their strengths, to work with them and their family members. It's not about us going into families, whatever some of the public perception may be. Our aim is to get in and get out. So, in terms of long-term intervention, what we want is for families to find their own solutions. We want families to be able to work with each other, and together, and local community support, and preventative services, to be able to address issues. This is not about punitive approaches from social services. So, that's the first element. In terms of thresholds for children's services, we would not be anticipating a huge number of referrals to us. There may be a small number of referrals that come through. What we know from other nations is that it will peak and then settle. We recognise that's likely to happen. Because we also know that this is actually quite a rare occurrence currently; this is not a defence that's being used with great frequency, this is not something that is happening. And if we look at the data, we know that the incidents of children, and the number of parents who now recognise this as an acceptable form of punishment, has steadily declined over the last 15 to 20 years. So it's diminishing as it is.", "speakerName": "Sally Jenkins" }, { "text": "So, on that one then, is there a need for legislation that will—obviously there'll be resources for the Welsh Government and there'll be resources out of hours and things like that—is there a need for legislation if, as you say, natural behaviour and the culture is changing? Let's be honest, as you've rightly pointed out, in social services—I know in my own authority—in your own authority, you're saying that even now you're working with the police, on systematic failings within the system.", "speakerName": "Janet Finch-Saunders AM" }, { "text": "Two things. Firstly, we want legislation that reflects our society—we don't want the two to be out of kilter. That would be my first natural response: surely our legislation should be reflective of what our world is. It shouldn't be that we've got these rather confusing elements running in parallel, and that continues to perpetuate a lack of clarity and the ambiguity that we currently see. I think the other element is that, again, this is about potentially an accelerating of that awareness and that culture in our society, about how we care for our children. We've got there naturally; we've got there by the change that's happened in Wales over the last 15 to 20 years. What this does is to continue with that change and continue with that awareness and understanding of how we positively, from a strength-based approach, should care for our children, bearing in mind what's required of us in terms of the UNCRC.", "speakerName": "Sally Jenkins" }, { "text": "Okay. Are there any comments from anyone else?", "speakerName": "Janet Finch-Saunders AM" }, { "text": "Simply to say that I think that, in terms of that clarity for the very vulnerable children out there who are currently being assaulted—seriously assaulted and abused by their parents, which goes on on a daily basis—that is already covered by existing legislation. But at the moment, they don't know, because they could be being told—and they probably are being told—by their parents that's it's okay, that they can smack their child and that that's acceptable. They don't know the difference. A young child is not going to know that difference and there is confusion about what is—. And if you asked most parents, and in fact lots of professionals, they would not be able to tell you, and probably most of you wouldn't be able to tell me exactly where is the threshold—", "speakerName": "Huw David" }, { "text": "Yes, where's that line.", "speakerName": "Janet Finch-Saunders AM" }, { "text": "Well, at the moment, we don't know where that line is. That vulnerable child, at home, being abused by their parents, does not know where that line is. And they should know where that line is because then they can pick up the phone to Childline or they can talk to a professional and ask them where that line is. So, that would be a step forward. I do recognise, though, that what we don't want to do—and the last thing any of us want to do—is criminalise parents who are bringing up their children. That is why we're saying there needs to be an emphasis on the support programmes that are available to parents. And to be clear, there is no way that we want long-term involvement in any child's life, but particularly not in the lives of children who have been smacked by their parents. That is not going to be the result of this legislation, trust me, because we don't want to be involved in—we haven't got the resources to be involved in children's lives. The social worker or the police officer—if they become involved, then there would be a proportionate response to that, and there'll also be a test about whether or not that is progressed. So, if there is an allegation—if this legislation is passed—then that will be looked into and a consideration will be made about whether any action will be taken, and as with any allegation of the law being broken, there would be a proportionate response, as there is now.", "speakerName": "Huw David" }, { "text": "And the next question does relate to the practical response to that. Janet.", "speakerName": "Lynne Neagle AM" }, { "text": "Yes. Can you outline the practical ways in which social services' interaction with parents will change as a result of this proposed law and do you envisage that all referrals to the police will be automatically referred to social services for an assessment? Who's going to make those decisions?", "speakerName": "Janet Finch-Saunders AM" }, { "text": "That will be part of the implementation phase about that decision making. Interestingly, the number of referrals that we currently get from the police that we take absolutely no action on is extraordinary. So, we get a very, very large number of—. It will be happening now; sitting in the civic centre in Newport City Council will be a whole host of social workers taking in the public protection notifications from overnight. It's 10 o'clock, so they're assessing them now, as we speak. And an awful lot of those will have no further action from the local authority.", "speakerName": "Sally Jenkins" }, { "text": "But will they be investigated?", "speakerName": "Janet Finch-Saunders AM" }, { "text": "No. There will be no action. There are countless referrals made by agencies to local authorities that we take no action on.", "speakerName": "Sally Jenkins" }, { "text": "So, if there's an increase as a result of greater awareness—", "speakerName": "Janet Finch-Saunders AM" }, { "text": "What happens is there is a paper assessment of them. There's a look at what's happened, who's involved, what the police have reported, and there's work being done with the police to improve that. Because one of the things that we want to get to is actually where we're not using huge amounts of time to look at that, but what comes to us is what we act on. So, there is work going on with a number of police authorities to look at how you improve that process. But I suppose, to pick up, each incident will be looked at, each one will be assessed in a way that is proportionate, as Huw says, to look at what's happened and then investigated.", "speakerName": "Sally Jenkins" }, { "text": "Sally, can you give us a couple of examples of what kind of things might have come in that you would then take no action on?", "speakerName": "Lynne Neagle AM" }, { "text": "We get countless referrals, for example, where there's been a domestic abuse incident overnight where a child wasn't present in the property and we then haven't taken action. It’ll be where the level of harm that’s perceived to happen to that child is below the threshold for intervention from children's services.", "speakerName": "Sally Jenkins" }, { "text": "I’m pretty cynical about assessment, because, you know, I have people come in who are benefit claimants where, when they’ve been assessed, the whole process has been very flawed and I’ve had to fight and fight and fight on their behalf. So—", "speakerName": "Janet Finch-Saunders AM" }, { "text": "Assessment processes within social—", "speakerName": "Sally Jenkins" }, { "text": "But if you're struggling now with those assessments—", "speakerName": "Janet Finch-Saunders AM" }, { "text": "Assessment processes within social services are as laid out in the Social Services and Well-being (Wales) Act 2014. So, we have within what we carry out, I suppose, that kind of initial look, that look at the information, what else do we know about that family—", "speakerName": "Sally Jenkins" }, { "text": "And are they qualified people that are doing this?", "speakerName": "Janet Finch-Saunders AM" }, { "text": "Yes, absolutely.", "speakerName": "Sally Jenkins" }, { "text": "And, in fact, in lots of places in Wales now, it’s a multi-agency assessment. So, it’s a joint assessment carried out with police professionals and health professionals.", "speakerName": "Huw David" }, { "text": "So, what proportion currently would you not be taking any action on, if a report came in of some domestic abuse where a child had perhaps been smacked?", "speakerName": "Janet Finch-Saunders AM" }, { "text": "If something came in to us where a child had been smacked and there was something clearly there, we would look at it. We would clearly look at it and we would take some sort of action.", "speakerName": "Sally Jenkins" }, { "text": "Even now, before the legislation?", "speakerName": "Janet Finch-Saunders AM" }, { "text": "Yes.", "speakerName": "Sally Jenkins" }, { "text": "Can you ask a final question? And I'm going to have to appeal for brief answers, because we've got a lot of ground to cover.", "speakerName": "Lynne Neagle AM" }, { "text": "Just very quickly, there may be no action from social services, but it doesn’t mean that we don’t offer support. So, the expectation is that support is offered in those circumstances from family support services, for example—", "speakerName": "Huw David" }, { "text": "Or prevention.", "speakerName": "Sally Jenkins" }, { "text": "—or prevention services. So, we would not say, if we were aware, for example, that there was domestic abuse at a home, ‘There’s no role for children’s social services’, because there may be an assessment that that child may not be at immediate risk of harm, but we would obviously recognise that there are causes for concern there and we would offer that support. So, just to be clear about that. And that’s a process that happens in every social services department in the UK, and it’s happened for a very long time, and, in fact, it’s reflective of the legislation that you have laid down as Assembly Members.", "speakerName": "Huw David" }, { "text": "And are those services there, Huw? Because I’m very acutely aware of the pressure on local government. Are the services there? Is there sufficient resource in things like Families First? Because what I’m hearing on the ground is that eligibility is changing for even those preventative services.", "speakerName": "Lynne Neagle AM" }, { "text": "There’s not enough of those services, and, obviously—you may have heard me saying this before—I think we need to invest more in those services, and I hope you invest more in the services, because, obviously, prevention is better than cure. And those pressures that Sally talked about earlier are pressures that are not going away; they’re only increasing by the day, actually, and I would want us to be able to offer those services now. Because that example of a child that perhaps is in a home where there is domestic abuse—we’ll probably have another referral off them in a couple of months’ time, and that could escalate. And what I’d rather do is provide support to that family and try and stop that family breaking down so that, in six months, we're not going back and saying that we've got to take this child into care because the domestic abuse has worsened and that child is at risk. But those services need additional investment.", "speakerName": "Huw David" }, { "text": "I appreciate that time is of the essence, but, just really quickly in relation to that, it’s not just social services. So, for example, there are developments like Encompass, which is a piece of work that is being rolled out across Gwent and across other areas, which is where the police automatically notify the school overnight of an incident, not expecting the school to do anything per se, but to be aware, to be able to offer care for that child.", "speakerName": "Sally Jenkins" }, { "text": "Can I add to that? Operation Encompass I know in Gwent has been operational, and we started it in Pembrokeshire 18 months ago. We as a local authority—and it’ll be education that will contact the school around the domestic incident happening, and the school as part of that protocol will provide a level of universal service support for that child when they come in, before 9 o’clock, so that professionals are aware of the needs of the welfare of that child at that point. So, you know, schools play a key role in the universal service of this and we work very closely with our social care colleagues on that.", "speakerName": "Alastair Birch" }, { "text": "Okay. Janet, your last question, please.", "speakerName": "Lynne Neagle AM" }, { "text": "The Bill's explanatory memorandum refers to an estimate of 274 offences annually where lawful chastisement was used as a defence or considered. It says there is also potential to create extra demand on out-of-hours social services teams due to the time that the offences were reported, and in order to support safeguarding measures. Have you assessed how this Bill will impact on emergency and out-of-hours local authority services?", "speakerName": "Janet Finch-Saunders AM" }, { "text": "We have considered that, and again I think that's something that we would very much want to look at as part of implementation. We have out-of-hours provision, we have emergency duty teams already across Wales that operate 24/7. There's no doubt that they exist and they work very closely with our police colleagues.", "speakerName": "Sally Jenkins" }, { "text": "Are they overstretched at the moment?", "speakerName": "Janet Finch-Saunders AM" }, { "text": "I think in the same way as all of social services is. If we were offered additional resource, we are going to take that. But are they working in a way that protects children day in, day out, and vulnerable adults? Yes, they are, and they will continue to do so.", "speakerName": "Sally Jenkins" }, { "text": "Thank you very much. We've got some specific questions now on the impact on education from Jayne Bryant.", "speakerName": "Lynne Neagle AM" }, { "text": "Thank you, Chair. Good morning. Alastair, you've already mentioned about awareness raising and training, which will be key with educational professionals. How confident are you that teachers and others working in those educational settings will be clear about how to support the implementation of this Bill, if enacted?", "speakerName": "Jayne Bryant AM" }, { "text": "Training requirements for all professionals in education settings are clear. The universal tier 1 training is there, and all local authorities in Wales will implement that. In that level of general safeguarding awareness and training, the infinite emphasis is on the duty to report. That will remain the same. The thresholds for social care, that's their responsibility. That duty to report will always be there. It says in'Keeping learners safe', which is the bible in terms of education professionals, that there's a responsibility on the professional to make that referral and for that universal service. So, the more specialist safeguarding leads within the schools, who have become highly skilled professionals in terms of understanding what might be significant harm—because that's what we're talking about—they understand the legalities when a referral needs to be made. There's always the collation of safeguarding information, where there might be just general concerns about neglect and other areas, which combined would create a picture that there might be significant neglect or significant harm to the child, and then that referral would be made to the child care assessment team or the police. So, that awareness—it needs to be clear for educational professionals that that duty to report is always there. If they believe that that significant harm has happened then that report then goes to the child care assessment team. They will make the judgment on the threshold because they are the professionals. They have the multi-agency awareness of how that meets the threshold. But in terms of education, it'll be that awareness, making sure that there's clarity. If there's anything that professionals need to be trained additionally on, it'll need to go into'Keeping learners safe', which at the moment is being rewritten. So, there would have to be some new possible information there relating to this. But as long as there's clarity, and once that implementation phase and the discussion has happened, as long as it's clear for professionals that the duty is always there and they feel a significant harm, then that report will always be there and will always need to be made. It's making sure—and I'll echo what my colleague said, Huw—that the services are key for families. Schools are absolutely fundamental in that support for the families. They have those relationships with the families. I know there was discussion around professional trust. On a daily basis, professionals are working on that trust with parents, because they are the ones that can engage with those families. The family support officers that are working on the ground with highly complex families, with multiple leads and supporting the children—they are fundamental, and investment in that level of support would also help our colleagues as well. So, anything that's preventative. That is already happening in schools and is effective, and is shown to be effective, and has an evidence base—we'd always support that that would continue to be invested in. So, that's really my answer.", "speakerName": "Alastair Birch" }, { "text": "Okay. And you were saying about how important trust is as well, but do you think that there's a risk that those in education settings will have a key role in referring more parents to social services, which some have said could cause potential harm to relationships and cause mistrust?", "speakerName": "Jayne Bryant AM" }, { "text": "I don't think it's a matter of mistrust—it's a matter of, you know, if a professional believes, based on the evidence that they have, because they're working with that child every day, that there is significant harm to that child, they are under a duty to report that to social care. So, part of the work is with families, and most of the referrals we make are with parental consent. That consent is a key element of this, and conversation with our social care colleagues is usually,'You need to speak to the parents again and have a conversation with them.' Some of the NFAs—the ones that don't get referred at threshold—it will come back to school for, possibly, some support from the family or a team around the family or some other aspect. So, I don't think—. The trust in the professionals—it's actually more important that we are seen to be upholding our duties under the all-Wales safeguarding procedures. That's what engenders trust in a professional workforce.", "speakerName": "Alastair Birch" }, { "text": "Okay, thank you.", "speakerName": "Jayne Bryant AM" }, { "text": "Thank you very much. We're going to move on now to some questions about the importance of awareness raising from Siân Gwenllian.", "speakerName": "Lynne Neagle AM" }, { "text": "Good morning. In looking at your written evidence, you say that we must make it very clear to parents, guardians and the public that this legislation is not trying to criminalise parents, and that is clearly very important for you. How do you think we should do that and who should be doing that work?", "speakerName": "Sian Gwenllian AM" }, { "text": "I think that's really broad. Obviously, colleagues in education, colleagues in social care, colleagues in preventative services, but also Welsh Government and the National Assembly, in terms of those drivers in relation to that awareness raising are really, really key. If you look at some of the other campaigns that have been run, notably in relation to violence against women, domestic abuse and sexual violence, and echoing some of those building campaigns that have been done to raise awareness—I think those would be really good models to begin to consider in terms of how this is taken forward with awareness. We also know that there are a number of routes that we can go through in terms of raising awareness. We have existing preventative services, we have all our universal services, we have the regional safeguarding boards and the national safeguarding boards. So, there are a number of avenues that we could then explore. In terms of not wishing to criminalise, I think if we look at the numbers, they are very, very small. And I think one of the things we need to hold on to in this is a sense of proportion about what is or isn't likely to happen once or if this Bill ever gets to the point of Royal Assent—they are small numbers who currently use this defence. It is about that wider issue of awareness raising, and using all of those avenues will help us to do that in the broadest sense.", "speakerName": "Sally Jenkins" }, { "text": "Do you, therefore, believe that this needs to be on the face of the Bill? That is, you don't say this in your evidence. I'd like to know your opinion on that. Scotland is going to be making it a duty for Scottish Ministers to raise awareness of the impact of the Bill. So far, the Welsh Government says that we don't need to do that in Wales. Wouldn't it make it clearer for you if it was a clear duty on the face of the Bill, for example as it was with the Human Transplantation (Wales) Act 2013? There was a duty in that Act for Ministers to promote transplantation. Surely, that awareness raising aspect would be clearer for everyone if it was on the face of the Bill. Do you have an opinion on that?", "speakerName": "Sian Gwenllian AM" }, { "text": "Well, Welsh Government have given that commitment, and I know the Welsh Government honour every commitment that they make—[Laughter.]", "speakerName": "Huw David" }, { "text": "That's why I'm asking.", "speakerName": "Sian Gwenllian AM" }, { "text": "I don't know whether that is necessary—I'm not a legislator. I think that there's obviously an inherent interest in Welsh Government raising awareness, because we have to raise awareness effectively for this to be successful, otherwise we will have parents who feel that they're being criminalised, and that's the last thing we want. I think it's worthy of consideration, but, as I say, I'm not a legislator or a lawyer, so I don't know what implications that will have long term. But to be fair to Welsh Government, I think that commitment is one that I'm sure will be honoured, because Welsh Government will want to make a success of this Bill if it does receive Royal Assent.", "speakerName": "Huw David" }, { "text": "Okay. But is it clear who would pay for all of that?", "speakerName": "Sian Gwenllian AM" }, { "text": "I've suddenly changed my mind—[Laughter.] I think it should be a duty on Welsh Government Ministers—absolutely. I don't need to check with lawyers or legislators. There we go. And that's the WLGA position; I don't need to ask the other 21 leaders on that either. [Laughter.]", "speakerName": "Huw David" }, { "text": "Wouldn't it make it clearer if there was a clear duty on the face of the Bill that awareness raising had to happen? It would be clearer, then, for local authorities and people in the front-line services what needs to happen.", "speakerName": "Sian Gwenllian AM" }, { "text": "I'm going to echo Huw. [Laughter.]", "speakerName": "Sally Jenkins" }, { "text": "I thought you might. Okay, fine.", "speakerName": "Sian Gwenllian AM" }, { "text": "Okay. We're moving on now, then, to the contentious issue of resources and we've got some questions from Hefin.", "speakerName": "Lynne Neagle AM" }, { "text": "Sally Jenkins, you said that the purpose of the Bill is to bring clarity and to remove what is a little-used defence. Isn't this an expensive way of doing that?", "speakerName": "Hefin David AM" }, { "text": "I don't think so, no. I think that our children deserve the best legislation.", "speakerName": "Sally Jenkins" }, { "text": "But introducing this legislation diverts finances from other areas of children's services—or doesn't?", "speakerName": "Hefin David AM" }, { "text": "Well, I would say, no, I don't think it will divert resources from children's services. Firstly, going back to the comment made, I think, proportionally, this is a very small number of cases. It's a very small number of existing cases that go through in terms of prosecution, or consideration for prosecution. We know that it's likely, from some of the work that we've already done, that it's not opening floodgates for a sudden sea of referrals to children's services—that's not the way this is going to be, because the numbers are not out there because of the changes that have already happened in Welsh family life and Welsh society. So, I think as part of the implementation phase, we need to have a really clear understanding of the trajectory of those costs and what's likely to happen over the first six months, 12 months in terms of people's awareness and understanding and what is referred and how that's worked. But in terms of a huge number, no, I don't anticipate it being that.", "speakerName": "Sally Jenkins" }, { "text": "But the costs wouldn't just be directed to the number of referrals and the number of cases raised, it's the cost around that, with training of staff, awareness—all those extra additional costs that always come with legislation. Is it too much? Is it—?", "speakerName": "Hefin David AM" }, { "text": "No. And I agree with that—that there clearly are—but if you think, many of those things will be aligned with work we are already doing, but it brings a clarity to that work. So, our teachers, our social workers, our health workers, our police officers already get substantial training around child protection, around safeguarding, around adverse childhood experiences and around a trauma-informed approach to children. What this does is it layers a clarity on that. But rather than having a part of that training, which has to deal with this as an aspect—that is no longer there; it is a clear message for all professions.", "speakerName": "Sally Jenkins" }, { "text": "I fully appreciate that, and in the briefing note you've given us, you've outlined the pressures on social services. So, do you think this is another way of getting money into social services?", "speakerName": "Hefin David AM" }, { "text": "If this was a way of getting money into—. I can think of better ways, but I don't think this is it. No, I mean, I absolutely do not think that. I think this is a clear commitment to the rights of children in Wales; this is not about levering additional resources into children's services. Oh that it was so simple.", "speakerName": "Sally Jenkins" }, { "text": "Okay. And, do you think those costs are quantifiable?", "speakerName": "Hefin David AM" }, { "text": "I think we are currently looking at work and are doing work across my own local authority and across two others to look at breaking down those costs, not just for local authority, but also for health, for police and for Children and Family Court Advisory and Support Service Cymru. So, there is work currently taking place to try to quantify those costs.", "speakerName": "Sally Jenkins" }, { "text": "Okay. I think there was a bit about local authorities that Siân—", "speakerName": "Hefin David AM" }, { "text": "Okay. Siân Gwenllian has got a question on resources.", "speakerName": "Lynne Neagle AM" }, { "text": "Yes, just to carry on from that, in a way. The explanatory memorandum that accompanies the Bill talks about the unknown costs for different agencies. You mentioned there that you're doing work around trying to identify some of those costs, but wouldn't it be useful if the explanatory memorandum did explain more about any unknown or unidentified costs, partly in order to calm some of those fears around that? Giving a title'unidentified costs'—is that good enough?", "speakerName": "Sian Gwenllian AM" }, { "text": "I think, clearly, that is a challenge, and that is work that we are participating in and are committed to completing with Welsh Government, to look at what those costs are.", "speakerName": "Sally Jenkins" }, { "text": "And then they can be added into this.", "speakerName": "Sian Gwenllian AM" }, { "text": "I think this is where it would be helpful in the committee's deliberations and where our concern would be, because the reality is we're not going to know what the costs are until it's actually implemented, because we haven't implemented this before. And, therefore, I think there needs to be a commitment that, whatever the costs are, those costs are met because it is legislation that is being led by the National Assembly for Wales. And whilst we don't see it as levering in additional resources, we don't think it should be at the expense of current service provision to vulnerable families in Wales, and therefore it's important that it is properly and fully resourced.", "speakerName": "Huw David" }, { "text": "What I would argue on that is that you have to try and forecast. You say it's difficult to forecast how much this is going to cost, but we have to try and forecast that, and part of the argument for trying to have projections is to show that, perhaps, it's not going to cost that much, and that would add to the argument that,'Okay, this is going to be fine to do and it's not going to put too much pressure on us'. Or we need to know that this is going to cost a lot to do it effectively, and therefore you have to make your argument, then,'Well, we can't afford that, the money has to come from somewhere else.' We have to get the costs, surely.", "speakerName": "Sian Gwenllian AM" }, { "text": "Yes, and we will work very closely with Welsh Government to try and establish those costs as quickly as possible. There will be some costs that we will be able to identify. So, for example, a campaign, an awareness-raising campaign, the marketing, if you like, but some of the other costs will be more difficult to establish in terms of the resource implications for front-line workers. I expressed a view that we need to see some additional investment in some of those programmes that are not targeted directly at families that would be impacted by this but support all families across Wales that have different needs, and some of that provision is universal. Obviously, my view is the more we put into that, the better. So, there's no limit to that, but I suspect Welsh Government will take a very different view to that. But I think that is something where we need to see a commitment to some additional resources. But I don't put an upper limit on that, because I don't think there's an authority in Wales, and I don't think there's a charity, a police service or a health board in Wales that doesn't think that we need to do more of that and could offer more of that if the resources were available.", "speakerName": "Huw David" }, { "text": "Okay, thank you.", "speakerName": "Sian Gwenllian AM" }, { "text": "Okay. We've come to the end of our time, so can I thank you all for attending and for answering all of our questions? It's been a really useful and informative discussion. As usual, you'll be sent a transcript to check for accuracy following the meeting, but thank you again, all of you, for coming.", "speakerName": "Lynne Neagle AM" }, { "text": "And thank you for your questions and engagement. We welcome the opportunity.", "speakerName": "Huw David" }, { "text": "Thank you very much.", "speakerName": "Alastair Birch" }, { "text": "Thank you very much.", "speakerName": "Sally Jenkins" }, { "text": "Okay, item 3 is papers to note. Paper to note 1 is a letter from the Minister for Housing and Local Government—additional information for our inquiry into school funding. Paper to note 2 is a letter from the Minister for Health and Social Services on in-patient child and adolescent mental health services provision, and I would like to briefly return to that when we go into private. Are Members happy to note those? Thank you. Item 4, then: can I propose a motion under Standing Order 17.42 to resolve to exclude the public for the remainder of the meeting? Are Members content? 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Functional design meeting. We'll have to flesh out some of the uh stuff. Um we'll start with the minutes of the last meeting. Not a lot thankfully to say. We introduced ourselves, discussed the possibility of a macro facility, interac interacting the T_V_ a bit more, um mentioning of bar-code, joystick for user manipulation, um and ergonomics of the remote control as well. Um it's come to my attention the following. Teletext has become outdated due to the populat popularity of the internet. Remote control should only be used for the T_V_. Um due for uh time to market and possibly also cost issues. Um also key is the corporate image should stay recognisable, um f uh your colour and slogan of course is down at the bottom there. Um. Now. Just to say quickly uh I would have thought that only being used for a television the macro facility may now not be required.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Um or at l its functionality would have been of limited use. So to the point in my opinion anyway that it might not be worth pursuing. Um if anybody disagrees we can uh definitely say so. Um and hopefully we'll just crack on and we'll get everything going. Um I'd like to if possible hear from our Marketing Expert first, to help us gain an idea of where we're going to go.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "'Kay.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "So um I'll just load up your presentation from here if you want.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Sure. Um, sh would you like to I'll just do it from here.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yep. Sorry. Uh. Is yours the.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Um, try second one maybe. Try it, yeah maybe.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Oh sorry. Okay, right.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah. Okay. Oh, I thought I put in my last name, I guess not, but.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Uh if you that's all right. If you do you want me to just cycle through it for you or?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Okay. Oh yeah, that'd be fine, that'd be great.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Okay. Functional requirement by me Ebenezer..", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Okay, so um we did some research, we asked one hundred people their opinions on remote controls. We asked some uh open ended questions, just, what are your opinions on the remote control, got a lot of re responses, and we asked some very specific questions, and we got a lot of good feedback. Please bear in mind this is only a hundred people, so even when the groups are divided into fifteen to twenty five, twenty five to thirty five, there's only maybe ten people fifteen people in each group.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Okay. So we got some the bad stuff we got, remotes are often lost. I often lose my remote control, the back of the couch, some place, and even if it's not lost permanently, it takes me a few minutes to find it. Most buttons are not used any more, like you said, teletext is outdated now. I remember trying to load a D_V_D_ player recently, and there were so many buttons, it took me I don't know maybe ten minutes to to go through each button,'cause you have to press the shift button to access the yellow buttons, you know there's just a lot of stuff that no one really uses. And if they do, not very often. Takes too long to master the remote control. I've seen some remote controls that are big, they have a lot of buttons, you have to hold down more than one key at one time to do something, they're just not great to use. We just got a lot of bad complaints about remote controls, people do not like remote controls. Some of the good stuff we got. Between the age of uh fifteen and twenty five, most people would be willing to pay extra for voice recognition software. Now don't get excited yet, I've got more to say on that. Most people'd be willing to pay for that um most people want remote controls to be pretty, they want it to be fancy, th they they want it to be different, everybody has a white remote control with black buttons, and a red button and a green button, not everybody wants that. Finally, my opinion.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yep.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "The voice recognition thing is cool. And uh voice recognition, the software, open source software exist already. It's a bit sketchy at some times, uh, you're not gonna get good always accurate results, but for a very fixed number of words, you know you have, how many different words can you have for a remote control, up, down, left, right, channel five, channel seven, you know, how many, you can't have that many words. For a fixed vocabulary it works quite well. I'm pretty sure people would buy it. But after a while people may wanna return it, because if you have to to say som I mean most people use a remote control for switching to channels, and they say they do that about ninety eight percent of the time. Using the remote control, ninety eight percent of the time for changing channels, and that's for flickering through channels. So if you have to say up, up, up, up, if you have to do that all the time, then people might get a bit fed up with that and they may return it. However, oh, because the voice recognition software exists already, there's no need to spend money on research and development, but this does mean the need for microphones in the in the remote control, which is an unusual feature in my opinion. But if we do have the voice recognition thing, there's a lot of stuff that you can uh get rid of. See, you could there're two options. Either you have voice recognition by itself, which I think is a bit impractical for like night time if you wanna be watching television and you wanna be quiet, or I don't know you have a visitor coming round and the remote's only trained for you, it's a bit impractical to have just voice recognition by itself. So you can have voice recognition and a regular remote. But imagine you got rid of the regular remote part, then you can design the remote to look any way you want it to look, because there are no restrictions on physical size, or shape, it it could be as fancy as you want it to be, you know, it could be like a lollipop or something like that, something weird like that. As long as the voice recognition stuff works, that's that's fine.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Okay, yep.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "So we have the three birds, we have the design, that we have the the fancy bit, right, the voice recognition's fancy, it's cool, it's different, it's radical, so, and then we have an extra bit I don't remember so I'm pretty sure people will buy the remote, but is it practical to have a voice recognition system in a remote control, I think is a big question. Um, will people will people be willing to wait for the the period that it'll take to train the remote,'cause I think it will the remote will uh get better over time with the same user user, but for the first week or for the first two weeks are you willing to wait, are you willing to have a bad remote control. And uh what if you have visitors come round, they stay the night, they wanna use the T_V_, they can't use the remote because they speak differently to you. Um, how do you account for regional accents and stuff like that. Uh, will people return the remote control, I think a lot of young people will buy the remote control, if they have the money, you know, so,", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm. If you could uh", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "do our audience have the money, but would they return it after a while because it's not as fast as pressing a button, it's not a practical. So. These are things I think we should consider.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "sor", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "I think it's cool,", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "if you could speed it up a bit, yeah. If you could uh speed it up a bit please, yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "I'm sorry? Sure.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Sorry.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "I'm about to end, yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Cool.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "I think it's cool but there are definitely some considerations.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Okay. Excellent.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "So, yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Right. Um. Hear from the User Interface Designer now I think might be an idea.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Um, you've got your presentation now,", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "How did where did.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah, it's in the it's in the folder", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "is it on the.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "where did you get all your in information?", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "is it? Okay.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "There was uh a website, uh,", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Oh.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Technical functions?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "right here.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Ah, okay.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "No. Yeah. Okay.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Okay, this is a brief run through of the um of the technical functions of the remote. As um is uh the the the presentation is uh already slightly obsolete because I had in mind something that would uh be i be aimed at controlling multiple devices but uh there's still stuff of relevance, so", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "press on. I've looked at looked at a num uh couple of other uh remote control models just for an idea of basic design principles. Um and wasn't really satisfied by what I saw I have to say so this is more sort of springboard for uh how these could be improved on. Um um basically the job of the device is to send commands to an appliance, in this case the television set. Um to save you getting off your backside. Um and there's two main trends in th in the sort of design practice. On the one hand and this uh this particularly relates to its sort of earliest models where with you know i so so many buttons on it so about the size of the television set. Um giving you every possible function that the that the device has, the remote control controls. And most of these functions are not going to be used, it creates a rather user unfriendly interface. And on the other hand there's a user focused approach that pares things down to just what what is most likely to get used. Um With uh a and a and of course there is a certain amount of sort of loss of function here obviously, but mostly that's relatively peripheral functions. And so you go for something that's fairly intuitive to use, and um well f the for the most part for T_V_ remote it's uh tha that would be channel control and volume. Um and if you if you if you are wanting to incorporate uh control of a D_V_ D_V_D_ or uh V_C_R_ presumably into that then there's a play, pause, stop, rewind, fast-forward, record, so forth. Um. My own view is that we should definitely be going for a user focused design. Um but uh the pro I think the problem with a lot of the sort of user focused designs that are about is that they sort of make assumptions in advance about what uh what a given user's going to uh want mo want to do from want it to do most. So, something that's uh something that is more programmable, that uh perh perhaps has the full range of functions available to it but you can then specify yourself what you're most likely to want. Um so that those are then immediately accessible through fairly minimal number of controls, um I liked Ebenezer's idea of including a joystick in that and uh possibly a sort of fairly minimal number of sort of function buttons, and have a disp you then have some sort of basic display on it so that if you're um sort of cha changing from different modes for the device it'll tell you just exactly what uh you know each direction of the uh of the um joystick's going to do or wha or what each function button's going to do. Um, this is actually a again slightly taking inspiration off of uh games controllers, you know the Playstation control where you have four basic function buttons", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "that are just marked with um distinctive uh geometrical shapes but the and then dependent on what you're doing with it what game and so on um those uh those functions are then sort of further specified. And so it's taking taking the lead from that. Um.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Okay. Yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "That's it.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Right. Um, if we could hear from our Industrial engineer, or Designer.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah. Uh, I was still working on stuff, I hadn't got it finished. Um, alright. Click to save in where do I have to save it?", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "If you look on the desktop you'll find that there's a link to the project folder, or project documents. If you save it in there we can open it up from here.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Um, what I've done with it, I'm sorry. Shit. Um.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Are you finding it okay or?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "I'm just closing it now. where I've saved it.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Well like if you go to one, uh whichever one you were working.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "that's it there,", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "yeah,", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "and you just click file save as.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Oh right..", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Uh, right I'm responsible for working design, uh, this is basically the inside going on of the the uh remote control. So we have the energy source, we have the user interface, this this is what I've seen. Uh the sender will push the button, the chip will respond, uh and then the dig digital signal is sent to the T_V_. So uh uh, if you go to next slide, you'll see you'll see uh what do we need on the user interface. Do we need uh many buttons, or do we need l many light bulbs that could be easier to uh to realise which appliances are on or not. Um,, or would that take too much power, would we need more um components in there to supply the power? Um, the joystick is another thing, if we were gonna add that, um, there'd be more components to deal with that.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Um, so uh we need to I dunno exactly what That's the design of the the the layout of the uh electronic design, um obviously there'll be more details once we've decided what we're putting on the user interface.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "So, that'll be decided, I guess. Uh, and the next slide. Oh, yeah Um, if you go to the next slide then.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Oh. Yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "I just used the it was a mess, uh I was just putting adding it together at the end there. Uh.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Ah, don't worry about it at all mate..", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Uh so you have the energy source obviously connected to the chip, and the user interface obviously contains everything. You have the switch turn it on, infrared bulb, uh will contact the T_V_ and will have whatever device or D_V_D_ player, the bulb will turn on to say it's on. Uh, so do we need on the control uh different buttons to decide, or different light bulbs, would it be easier? Um, I dunno what we should decide on that.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Okay. Well. Oh sorry, I'm I'm interrupting you. Are you is it.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "No, it's finished, yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "yeah? Okay. Right. Um, right we can probably skip that for now. So, we've had some stuff put forward, um along with the new user requirements, um we've had a lot of kind of input I'd say so far. Um I hear what the Marketing Expert's saying about um voice activated control. However I've got a couple of worries about that. The power required, um and the ability to the cost, it seems like for uh an embedded system, this could cause us issues.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Cost. Mm.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Um for example you see that there's fairly robust services on uh computers via uh via voice, I_B_M_ do um drag and dictate, but these require a lot of memory", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "and usually um state quite advanced processor requirements. Um voice activation could be an interesting idea but I think that our Ind Industrial Designer would probably upon some research say that it's maybe not feasible.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "'Kay.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Um that's just my view right now,", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm..", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "however the idea of a joystick and then maybe an L_C_D_ which has been kind of put forward so far, it's almost like having a small T_ not T_V_ to say, but if you can control almost all of the functionality from the display, I don't know how much power an L_C_D_ would take, but it might be quite low?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm. I uh.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "L_C_D_ on the remote just telling you what's on, or uh, interactive L_C_D_ or.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Well literally um if you can imagine the display maybe slightly larger than um those on a a mobile phone,", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "something where you can read an an um fair amount of information, traverse maybe quite a few menus, if we maybe used mobile phones as a good example, they usually incorporate they have the keypad, and then evr all the other functionality is usually associated inside by traversing around.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "That could be one possibility. Um and then we could have like say the common buttons as you say, volume control, changing channels.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm. I I was thinking that the remote the um sort of default functions for the joystick would be up and down for uh volume, left and right for channels.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "We.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Do you think that people will get mixed up, like, they'll be looking at this screen and that screen and then, you know, trying to get everything working, would it be a bit confusing?", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Um I think probably for the first couple of hours of using it", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "um but you know muscle memory's a wonderful thing, um. And I think and I think that size of uh display was about what I had in mind.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Um though I mean I w I would say that uh we could probably probably be required to um mo most of the mobile phone displays you see these days are colour but we should probably try to stick to black and white.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "I would agree with you.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Si si simply to keep m keep the unit cost down. Um I mean colour could be a sort of subsequent development but uh you know cost a bit of extra money f w w w w w once everyone's got the first, you know, oh colour's out, we'll have to replace it won't we.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm..", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "It does nothing extra.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "That would be my feeling as well, I think we could possibly create quite a useful user interface. Um now I mean I don't.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Sure but the idea of a remote with a menu or and a joystick I think like I h if I was in the habit of buying remote controls then I would want one,", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "sorry, go for it.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "but I think we don't have a specific audience, you know, like what is our target audience, what niche are niche are we trying to market and corner. You know, you know what I'm saying, like, for whom is this intended? Everybody?", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "I think it could probably be aimed at most people who've used a mobile. And that might be just another way of saying try to target most people.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Most people, yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Um, if we are if we were to follow that avenue, we might be s you know um we're kind of almost relying on their experience with a mobile phone I suppose. But that does cover a very large section of the people out there.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm. Sure. I think that's fair yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Um, I mean I imagine as well that the actual L_C_D_ and maybe to a certain extent the joystick as well would be for the additional functionality. Which maybe doesn't get used as often, maybe it makes it easy for them to figure out how to um change the channels as in the frequencies and such for reprogramming it.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Um and you can still have the main buttons that allow the people to turn the machine on and off, d up and down, it depends, I mean maybe we have the fol um the joystick as a separate one for the other functions then, that there's just a a small number of as you were saying uh buttons that have already been defined.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "So like we go for the nice standard um up and down for and volume control. So that literally anybody can come along, pick up the remote and still know what do do. And they can completely ignore most of the functionality which would be for say the o actual owner of the the T_V_", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "and who would normally use the unit.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm. I th the thing I like about the uh the uh joystick", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "I dunno.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "is that uh you you you then basically you can then basically put it I mean for for T_ T_ for T_V_ remote alone, you could put um I mean there are like I say the the the main things people do with a T_V_ remote control is the volume and the channel. You can pack all that onto was onto a single control. Um.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "But uh but the but then o uh obviously if uh you know if you i if you wanted to access further functions i you you then get to sort of menu navigation. I mean with things like ch with things like tuning and channels um you know adjusting brightn uh brightness and fiddly things that no one really bothers with, most T_V_s these days actually have menus anyway so this would be a fairly rational way of integra.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "integrating the uh the remote with the device it's controlling. Um concern about our market. Um, if we are I mean most of the uh of the replacement remote market is sort of remote control rationalisation. Um, you've got twenty different devices in your living room,", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah. Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "you want one wo y you want one that'll do the job of all of them. Um, if all you're replacing is one of the you know however many remotes you have in your living room, um you know you still need separate remotes for everything else.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "I just think that uh possibly.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Well this is a requirement that we have to stick to I'm afraid,", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "mm.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "this isn't one that I've just arbitrarily decided on.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "So um this is this is one of the solid ones that has to be obeyed, for now.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "So I can understand your point, and I would agree with you, but this is our design spec for now.'Fraid to say. Um.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Does that um would that include um access to say interactive functions on digital or cable?", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "I would say so, yes, because then we have to be able to control the remote boxes, and that is a separate unit. Um I think that it I would say that the design spec we've been with is for the television only for now.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "And until we hear otherwise we should go with just that.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Hmm. Okay, specifically television.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Okay. Maybe we'll hear differently, but for now.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "So the joystick is just for differentness.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "It would be ease of manipulation of certain functions, yes. Um.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Just a thought. Um maybe then our market should be T_V_ manufacturers, rather than the public. Try and sell it t sell it to them to supply with um.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "There is that possibility, yes. B However I don't know exactly where we'll be going with that, but it might not even be the avenue of the Marketing Expert,", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm..", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "that might be sales, who are not in this meeting.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm. It's just, the way I figure it, twelve point five Euros per unit, we have to sell at least like three million or something like that,", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "not to account for all the the money we waste on remotes that no one buys, you know, like if we made a perf if we made a ks for every remote we made someone bought it, then we have to sell a lot of remote controls.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "We just Is this gonna be enough to to sell?", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Well, something else that you brought up was uh the ability to lose a remote, which as you said you've done, in fact we've probably all done.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Um, I don't know if it's a gimmick or not, but have any of you ever seen those odd little key rings where if you whistle, it will beep and you tell you where it is.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm, yeah, I've seen them.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "I had one of those, and my brother, and my dad, could have beat me up", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Um. Well", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "because it it went off all the time accidentally.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "the other option of course is that um the", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "The clapping one..", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "well I was going to say clapping, um Um digital telephones, uh for example, one unit has of course you have to have that base unit, somewhere where there's a button, but maybe it's a button that you attach to the T_V_.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "To a television..", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Something which you when you press that, it would beep to give its location away, on the remote unit.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah, I think that's a good idea.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "And that could be something could um separate us a bit.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah, that's a good idea.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "And that way, because we're attaching what would be a small button to the T_V_, again say what, it would be a small transmitter, um watch battery type scenario I would say, or something that if it was problems enough you could actually even just um I don't power that might be something that we could look into.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yep. Yeah, it's uh putting a lot on your shoulders there, so I mean that could be something that separates us a bit from the market as well.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "I think so, yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "So. To go on from here. Um we have to decide exactly what we're going to do with the remote. Before we leave this meeting, it would be best to say this is what we're going this is the design we're gonna try and get, this is how we're gonna make ourselves look unique.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Do we go for maybe a remote contro uh sorry, we're gonna go for a remote control obviously, do we go for a small joystick that would operate say changing channels, up and down, and then, what, another button that would say that it's now being used to manoeuvre round the L_C_D_.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm yeah. Yeah, I think that's.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "We're just saying volume. Should volume be important in the joystick, do you think?", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "We could use say the left and right for changing channels and the up and down for volume,", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "For volume.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "and.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "But we have a frequency of how what people use a remote control for most.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yep.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Um, power is used like once per hour,", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "I", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "channel selection is used a hundred and sixty eight per hour,", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "that's by far the biggest one, and then teletext, is still here, that's like fourteen,", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Vol Volume selection okay, yep,", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "and volume selection.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "the teletext we're gambling with, and we're gonna say it's dead, the way of the dodo.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "No, yeah, okay okay. Yeah, um.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "So we well, sorry, we could maybe even go as far as saying power button, small joystick, L_C_D_, and then what maybe is it one more button to say that you're using the menu system, and with the possibility of pushing down on the joystick to say okay? So we're having very very few buttons involved,", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Actually how.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "but navigation around a menu for most things.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Actually I would say maybe two two function buttons, the y we're now using the menus button and um and an og and an okay button. I mean certainly something I've found with the joystick on mo the joysticks on mobile phones is that a lot of the time th the device mistakes you trying to move it in one direction or the other for pushing down for okay.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Or vice versa.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "And that's really irritating.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "The o the o the other dis design constraint I think we should bear in mind is that people are you know very much used to using a remote control one handedly, um, so we need to make sure that e even with the joystick, you know something that can just sit comfortably in the palm of the hand and have the joystick just controlled by the thumb.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Okay. So um we're actually that sounds like a rough idea. Do we incorporate the idea of trying to f locate the remote control again via a beeping noise?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah, think so.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Do you mind looking?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Um, I think because it's so small it might be an uh I mean if we only have like two three buttons it might be essential to have to have that.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "The ability to locate it again.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "So that would require a um transmitter maybe attached to the T_V_, just so that it says find me, and what, a basically a small microphone um on the actual unit, can maybe hide it in the base.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Light bulb as well,", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Oh. So so", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "no?", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Sorry?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "a small speaker you mean.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Some speaker,", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Speaker.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "sorry, yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "And a light bulb? No. To flash. No.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Um.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Nah, you'd see it anyway, if you hear it.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "E us we might be better with the sound possibly we could maybe incorporate", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "W those little key-rings have both,", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "th e the true fact, considering the cost of an L_E_D_, we could just incorporate it anyway.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "so Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "The L_E_D_s can be surprisingly bright now.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah. Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm. Blue ones particularly.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Um. So", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Plus that's a nice wee design touch.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "by the sounds of it, with what we're suggesting so far, your design um the user interface is still quite open, you could go for quite an interesting design.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Because we're only going to have a very few key and you've got you know a small L_C_D_, joystick, e I think it leaves you open to a a potential wide range of shapes, something that can make it stand out slightly.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Um if you could look into what we've suggested so far, the feasibility of um small transmitter, um and such, maybe if an L_C_D_ screen requires too much power, or such. Ebenezer, um, Marketing Expert.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Well I can give you the frequency, what people what options people use most often, I guess that's gonna be important in the ts defining the the software side of the interface, right.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "If,", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "You want the stuff.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "yeah if you could maybe as well see what people think about the idea of this minimalist approach that we've taken, where of a joystick to control the very basic functions, and then the idea of manipulating it like you would a mobile.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "I don't know how easy that will be within the time frame,", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "but could be something we could maybe look into.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm. Sure. Sure.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Okay. Um any last comments that anybody would like to put forward? Anything that they think has been missed out. Bit of a wide open question there of course.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Feel free to email me if you think that uh we've screwed something up and wanna get it rectified as soon as possible.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Sure.'Kay. Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "So I should just look at um the speaker, the speaker and an L_E_D_.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Speaker and L_E_D_ for locating, um,", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "And.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Transmitter.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah, and a transmitter.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "transmitter.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Actually one one wee thought about that. Um, if we do end up trying to market this to television manufacturers then the um then the transmitter could actually be built into the television.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "getting the external power source, yep, that's quite true. Um, and something that we can can easily be adopted at the last minute as well I'd say.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "The electronics could be s either placed externally or internally, makes no difference to the final product of the actual remote control,", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "so that's good.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm. You know I think", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "'Kay.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "I mean if it w if we get a major television manufacturer to say y oh yeah we'll have that, save us the bother, then that's you know vast amounts of sales. Quite quickly.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "P", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Oh, one thing that we've almost not talked about at all, my apologies for that, um, user interface, we also need to maybe get the slogan in here, um it's,", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Fashion.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "I'm pointing at my laptop, what in God Real reaction, and such. So um.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "The slogan is.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Oh, sorry.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "yeah, the slogan's we put the fashion in electronics, isn't it?", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "My apologies. No it could well be, I've probably missed that. Um, I think that's l almost the last minute thing", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "'S also look cool.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "we can just incorporate into the actual plastic on top.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "So I'm not too concerned a that we haven't gone into depth about that. But it might be something you could consider when you're thinking about shapes?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "In fact we might like to put a slogan on, and um possibly the two R_s to signify the company. Rather than real reaction.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm. Mm. Yeah. 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But I I will just make a first draft of the, uh, note, the \" write - up \" note, send it to you and Fey and then.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "And why don't you also copy Jane on it?", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "And, um, Are we Have we concurred that, uh, these these forms are sufficient for us, and necessary?", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "Uh, th I think they're necessary. This The permission form.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Mmm.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "Uh, there has to be one,", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Nuh. N.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "and I think we're just gonna use it as it is, and Um", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "N. You happy with that?", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "Well, yeah. There's one tricky part about, um, they have the right um I The last paragraph \" if you agree to participate you have the opportunity to have anything excised which you would prefer not to have included in the data set. \" OK? Now that, we had to be included for this other one which might have, uh, meetings, you know, about something.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "In this case, it doesn't really make sense. Um, so what I'd like to do is also have our subjects sign a waiver saying \" I don't want to see the final transcript \".", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "And if they don't If they say \" no, I'm not willing to sign that \", then we'll show them the final transcript. But, um.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Yep. Makes sense.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "That, uh yeah, so we might actually, um S i Jane may say that, \" you know, you can't do this \", uh, \" on the same form, we need a separate form. \" But anyway. I'd I'd I'd like to, e e um, add an a little thi eh a thing for them to initial, saying \" nah, do I don't want to see the final transcript. \"", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "But other than that, that's one's been approved, this really is the same project, uh, rec you know. And so forth. So I think we just go with it.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Yeah. Yeah. OK. So much for the data, except that with Munich everything is fine now. They're gonna transcribe. They're also gonna translate the, uh, German data from the TV and cinema stuff for Andreas. So. They're they all seem to be happy now, with that. So. w c sh should we move on to the technical sides?", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "Yep.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Well I guess the good good news of last week was the parser. So, um Bhaskara and I started working on the the parser. Then Bhaskara went to class and once he came back, um, it was finished. So. It, uh I didn't measure it, but it was about an hour and ten minutes.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "Yep.", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "And, um and now it's We have a complete English parser that does everything the German parser does.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "Something like that.", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "Which is not a lot. But.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "That's the, uh, point.", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "The uh, that's not a lot.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "OK.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Yes.", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "And um.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "What did you end up having to do? I mean, wha Was there anything interesting about it at all?", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "Well, if you, eh.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "We'll show you.", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "Yeah, we can show us,", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "or are we gonna see that?", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "right?", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Well, w w We d The first we did is we we tried to to do change the the \" laufen \" into \" run \", or \" running \", or \" runs \".", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "Yep.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "And we noticed that whatever we tried to do, it no effect.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "And we were puzzled.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "OK.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "And, uh, the reason was that the parser i c completely ignores the verb.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "So this sentence sentence is parses the p the same output,", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "Hmm. Interesting parser property.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "um, even if you leave out, um, all all of this.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "I see. Yeah.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "So it's basically feature film and TV.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "Today", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "That's what you need.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "OK.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "If if you'd add add Today and Evening, it'll add Time or not.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "And the t and the time, right?", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "So it i it does look at that.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "OK.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "But all the rest is p simply frosting on the cake, and it's optional for that parser.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "True.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "So, you can sho You you Are are you gonna show us the little templates?", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "And.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "S", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "Yeah. We ar we can sh er I can show you the templates. I I also have it running here,", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "The former end g \" Oh, I see. Uh - huh.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "so if I do this now, um, you can see that it parsed the wonderful English sentence, \" Which films are on the cinema today evening? \" But, um.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "Well, that sounds.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Uh do don't worry about it.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "No i", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "It could be \" this evening, which which films are on the cinema \", or \" running in the cinema, which \" uh, \" today evening \", uh i \" Is anything happening in the cinema this evening? \"", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "OK. OK. Key words, e basically.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "Well", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Ge - elaborate, or, more or less, uh.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "Actually, it's a little tricky, in that there's some allowable German orders which aren't allowable English orders and so forth. And it is order - based. So it it Isn't it?", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "No.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "No.", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "Oh. So it it doe I it These u these optional elements,", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "It is not.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "it's it's actually a set, not a sequence?", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Yeah. We were I was afraid that, um.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "Oh!", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "So it really is key word matching, basically.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "Really a se", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Um.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "e yeah. Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "Oh, wow.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Um, I mean, these sentences are just silly.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "Hmm.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "I mean, uh, d these were not the ones we we actually did it. Um. What's an idiomatic of phrasing this? Which films are showing?", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "Are pl playing at the cinema?", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "playing?", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "Tonight?", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "I changed that file, actually, where it's on my account.", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "This this evening?", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "Actually, you would say, \" which films are on tonight? \"", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "You want to get it? Or is di was it easy to get it?", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "Um. I have no net here.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "Oh, OK.", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "Do I?", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "OK. So. Wonderful parse, same thing. Um.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Except that we d w we don't have this, uh, time information here now, which is, um Oh. This are the reserve. Anyways. So. Um. These are the sort of the ten different sentence types that the uh the parser was able to do. And it still is, now in English.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "And, um Sorry. And, um you have already to make it a little bit more elaborate, right?", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "Yeah, I mean I changed those sentences to make it, uh, more, uh, idiomatic. And, of course, you can have i many variations in those sentences, they will still parse fine. So, in a sense it's pretty broad.", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "OK.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "OK. So, if you want to look at the templates, they're conveniently located in a file, \" template \". Um, and this is what I had to do. I had to change, @ @ \" Spielfilm \" to \" film \", uh, \" Film \" to \" movie \", cinem \" Kino \" to \" cinema \" to \" today \" heu \" heute \" to \" today \",", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "Huh.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "evening \" Abend \" to \" evening \"", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "Capitalized as well", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Hmm.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "And, um.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "Y i", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "One thing I was wondering, was, those functions there, are those things that modify the M - three - L basically?", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "Yep.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "OK.", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "And that's that's the next step,", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "p", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "but we'll get to that in a second.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "Oh.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "And so this means, um, \" this \" and \" see \" are not optional. \" Want I like \" is all maybe in there, but may also not be in there.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "So so, the point is, if it says \" this \" and \" see \", it also will work in \" see \" and \" this \"?", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "S", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "In the other order?", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "with those two key words?", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Should we try it?", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "\" This is the one I want to see \" or whatever.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "OK. \" Action watch \",", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "Hmm.", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "whatever. Nothing was specialfi specified. except that it has some references to audio - visual media here.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "AV medium.", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "Where it gets that from.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "It's correct, but I don't know where it gets it from.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "\" See \".", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "Oh, \" see \". Yeah. Yeah. Yep. OK.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "I mean it's sort of.", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "And \" see this \" is exactly the same thing.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "OK, so it is set - based. Alright.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "One thing I was wondering was, those percentage signs, right? So, I mean, why do we even have them?", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "Yep.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "Because if you didn't have them.", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "Uh, I'll tell you why. Because it gives a you a score.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "And the value of the score is, v I assume, I guess, the more of these optional things that are actually in there, the higher the r score it is.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "Oh. OK. So that's the main purpose. Alright.", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "It's a match.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "OK.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "So we we shouldn't belittle it too much. It's doing something, some things, and it's very flexible. I've just tried to", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "be nice.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "No, no. Fine.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Right Yeah.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "Yeah, yeah, yeah, flexible it is.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "But.", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "OK. Um, let's hope that the generation will not be more difficult, even though the generator is a little bit more complex. Uh but we'll Mmm, that means we may need two hours and twenty minutes rather than an hour ten minutes,", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "Alright.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "I hope.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "And the next thing I would like to be able to do, and it seems like this would not be too difficult either, is to say, \" OK let's now pretend we actually wanted to not only change the the mapping of of, uh, words to the M - three - L but we also wanted to change add a new sentence type and and make up some some new M - three - L s \"", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "Yep. So That'd be great. It would be a good exercise to just see whether one can get that to run.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "See th Mm - hmm. Yep. And, um,", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "So, that's.", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "that's shouldn't be too tough.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "Fine, yeah. Yeah, so where are those those functions \" Action \", \" Goodbye \", and so on, right? Are they actually, um, Are they going to be called? Um, are they present in the code for the parser?", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "Yeah. I think what it does, it i i it does something sort of fancy. It loads um It has these style sheets and also the, um, schemata. So what it probably does, is it takes the, uh, um Is this where it is? This is already the XML stuff? This is where it takes its own, um, syntax, and converts it somehow. Um. Where is the uh.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "What are you looking for?", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "Um, where it actually produces the the XML out of the, uh, parsed stuff.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "Oh, OK.", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "No, this is not it. Uh. I can't find it now. You mean, where the where the act how the action \" Goodbye \" maps into something.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "Yeah, where are those constructors defined?", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "Oh.", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "Nope.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "No, that's not it.", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "Yeah. This is sort of what happens. This is what you would need to to change to get the, uh, XML changed. So when it encounts encounters \" Day \", it will, uh, activate those h classes in the in the XML stuff But, um I saw those actions uh, the \" Goodbye \" stuff somewhere. Hmm, hmm, hmm, hmm, hmm.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "Grep for it?", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "Yeah. Let's do that. Oh.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "Mmm. M - three - L dot DTD?", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "Yep.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "That's just a specification for the XML format.", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "Yep. Well, we'll find that out. So whatever n this does I mean this is, basically, looks l to me like a function call, right?", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "Hmm? Oh, yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "And, um So, whenever it it encounters \" Goodbye \", which we can make it do in a second, here", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "That function automatically generates an initialized XML structure?", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "I", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "I think each of those functions act on the current XML structure, and change it in some way, for example, by adding a a l a field to it, or something.", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "y Yeah. They also seem to affect state,", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "cause some of them there were other actions uh, that that s seemed to step state variables somewhere,", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "like the n s \" Discourse Status Confirm \". OK. So that's going to be a call on the discourse", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Yep.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "and confirm that it's.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "W we Mm - hmm", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "Oh, you mean that's not going to actually modify the tree,", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "I think that's right.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "e", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "but it's going to change the event.", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "I think it's actually That looks like it's state modification.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Oh. Oh.", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "e mmm Um, well i There is a feature called \" Discourse - Status \",", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "When there's a feature.", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "And so whenever I just say, \" Write \", it will it will put this in here.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "Oh, so it always just Is it So it Well, go back, then, cuz it may be that all those th things, while they look like function calls, are just a way of adding exactly that to the XML.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "h Yep.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "Uh - huh! I'm not I'm not sure.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "So, this.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "e I'm not sure e that.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Um well, we we'll see, when we say, let's test something, \" Goodbye \", causes it to c to create basically an \" Action Goodbye - End - Action \".", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Which is a means of telling the system to shut down.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Now, if we know that \" Write \" produces a \" Feature Discourse - Status Confirm Discourse - Status \". So if I now say \" Write, Goodbye, \" it should do that. It sho it creates this,", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "\" Confirm Goodbye \".", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "Yep.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Right there. But there is some kind of function call, because how does it know to put Goodbye in Content, but, uh, Confirm in Features?", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "Oh. It d it n That's because.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "So So, it's not just that it's adding that field.", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "It's", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "Absolutely. Good point.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "OK.", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "It's it's the It's under what sub - type you're doing it. Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm. Yeah.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "It's mystery functions.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "Well, sometimes it m Sometimes, i", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "Well, they're defined somewhere, presumably.", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "Yeah, each is S so that's funny.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "When it.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "You bury the s the state in the function Alright.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "it.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "Well, it just automatically initializes things that are common, right?", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "Uh", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "So it's just a shorthand.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "For example Oh, this is German. Sorry. e So, now, this, it cannot do anymore. Nothing comes out of here.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "A \" not a number \" is a value. Awesome.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "So, it doesn't speak German anymore, but it does speak English. And there is, here, a reference So, this tells us that whatever is has the ID \" zero \" is referenced here by @ @ the restriction seed and this is exa \" I want \" What was the sentence?", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "\" I want two seats here. \"", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "\" need two seats here. \" Nuh. \" And where is it playing? \" There should also be a reference to something, maybe. Our d This is re um Mmm. Here, we change and so, we Here we add something to the Discourse - Status, that the user wants to change something that was sort of done before And, uh and that, whatever is being changed has something to do with the cinema.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "So then, whatever takes this M - three - L is what actually changes the state, not the Yeah, OK.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "No, right, the Discourse Maintainer,", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "yeah. I see. And it and it runs around looking for Discourse Status tags, and doing whatever it does with them. And other people ignore those tags. Alright. So, yeah. I definitely think it's It's worth the exercise of trying to actually add something that isn't there.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Hmm?", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "Uh Disc", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Sort of get a complete understanding of the whole thing.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "Yeah, a kid understanding what's going on. Then the next thing we talked about is actually, um, figuring out how to add our own tags, and stuff like that.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "OK. Point number two. I got the, uh, M - three - L for the routes today. Uh, so I got some more. This is sort of the uh, um, Hmm. Interesting. It's just going up, it's not going back down. So, this is um, what I got today is the the new um M - three - L for um, the Maps,", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "Yep.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "uh, and with some examples So, this is the XML and this is sort of what it will look like later on, even though it you can't see it on on this resolution. And this is what it sort of is the the structure of Map requests, um also not very interesting, and here is the more interesting stuff for us, is the routes, route elements, and, again, as we thought it's really simple. This is sort of the, uh, um, parameters. We have @ @ simple \" from objects \" and \" to objects \" and so forth, points of interest along the way And, um, I asked them whether or not we could, um First of all, I was little bit It seemed to me that this m way of doing it is sort of a stack a step backwards from the way we've done it before. t It seems to me that some notions were missing.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "S", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "So these are these are.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "So these are these are your friends back at EML.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Yep. Who are doing this.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "So this is not a complicated negotiation. There's there's not seven committees, or anything, right?", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "No. No, this is very straightforward.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "Great. So this is just trying to It's a design thing, not a political thing. Once we've eh We can just sort of agree on what oughta be done.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "Good.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Exactly. And, um And, uh However, the, uh e So that you understand, it is really simple. Uh You you have a route, and you cut it up in different pieces. And every every element of that e r r f of that Every segment we call a \" route element \". And so, from A to B we cut up in three different steps, and every step has a \" from object \" where you start, a \" to object \" where y where you sort of end, and some points of interest along the way. What w I was sort of missing here, and uh, maybe it was just me being too stupid, is, I didn't sort of get the the notion of the global goal of the whole route. Really, s was not straightforward visibly for me. And some other stuff. And I suggested that they should n be k uh, kind enough to do s two things for us, is one, um, Also allocating, uh, some tags for our Action Schema Enter - Vista - Approach, and And also, um, since you had suggested that that, um, we figure out if we ever, for a demo reason, wanted to shortcut directly to the g GIS and the Planner, of how we can do it. Now, what's the state of the art of getting to entrances, um, what's the syntax for that, how get getting to vista points and calculating those on the spot. And the Approach mode, anyhow, is the default. That's all they do it these days. Wherever you'll find a route planner it n does nothing but get to the closest point where the street network is at minimal distance to the geometric center.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "So.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "So, well, let Now, this is important. Let, uh I want a a Again, outside of m almost managerial point, um You're in the midst of this, so you know better. But it seems to me it's probably a good idea to li uh minimize the number of uh, change requests we make of them. So it seemed to me, what we ought to do is get our story together. OK? And think about it some, internally, before asking them to make changes.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "Oh. Does this does this make sense to you guys? It I mean you're you're doing the the interaction but it seemed to me that what we ought to do is come up with a uh, something where you, um And I I don't know who's mok working most closely on it. Probably Johno. OK. Uh, take what they have, send it to everybody saying \" this is what they have, this is what we think we should add \", OK? and then have a d a an iteration within our group saying \" Hmm, well \" OK? And get our best idea of what we should add.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "And then go back to them. Is i or, I don't know does this make sense to you? Or", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Yeah. Especially if we want Sort of, what I my feeling was eh we we sort of reserved something that has a r eh an OK label. That's th that was my th first sort of step.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "I w No matter how we want to call it, this is sort of our playground.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "And if we get something in there that is a structure elaborate and and and and and complex enough to to to maybe enable a whole simulation, one of these days, that would be u the the perfect goal.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "Right. That's right. So. So, Yeah. The problem isn't the short ra range optimization. It's the sort of o one or two year kind of thing. OK. What are the thl class of things we think we might try to do in a year or two? How how would we try to characterize those and what do we want to request now that's leave enough space to do all that stuff?", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Yep.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "And that re that requires some thought.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Yep.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "And so that sounds like a great thing to do as the priority item um, as soon as we can do it.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Yep.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "So y so you guys will send to the rest of us um a version of um, this, and the uh, description.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "With sugge yeah, suggested improvements and.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "Well b Yeah. So, the the uh Not everyone uh, reads German, so if you'd um", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Mmm.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "tu uh, tur change the description to, uh, English", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "OK.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "and, um, Then then, yeah. Then, with some sug s suggestions about where where do we go from here?", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "OK.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "Uh, this and this, of course, was just the action end. Uh, at some point we're going to have to worry about the language end. But for the moment just uh, t for this class of of things, we might want to try to encompass. And.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Then the scope of this is beyond Approach and Vis - or Vista. Yeah, yeah.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "Oh, yeah, yeah yeah yeah. This is this is everything that that, um, you know, um we might want to do in the next couple years.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Yeah, yeah. So what would.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "Hmm?", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "OK.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "We don't I mean, that's an issue. We don't know what, entirely.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Uh, yeah. but I'm just But the Yeah, OK. So I just this XML stuff here just has to do with Source - Path - Goal type stuff, in terms of traveling through Heidelberg.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "Hmm.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "Or travel, specifically.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "So, but this O Is the domain greater than that?", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "No.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "OK.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "I think I think the i the idea is that Oh. It's beyond Source - Path - Goal, but I think we don't need to get beyond it @ @ tourists in Heidelberg.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "OK.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "It seems to me we can get all the complexity we want in actions and in language without going outside of tourists in Heidelberg. OK? But you know, i depending on what people are interested in, one could have, uh, tours, one could have um, explanations of why something is is, you know, why why was this done, or I mean, no there's no end to the complexity you can build into the uh, what a tourist in Heidelberg might ask.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Mmm.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "So, at least unless somebody else wants t to suggest otherwise I think the general domain we don't have t to uh, broaden. That is, tourists in Heidelberg. And if there's something somebody comes up with that can't be done that way, then, sure. W we'll we'll look at that, but uh I'd be s I I'd be surprised at if there's any important issue that that And, um I mean if if you want to uh, push us into reference problems, that would be great.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "OK.", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "OK, so this is his specialty is reference,", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "and you know, what what are these things referring to? Not only anaphora, but, uh, more generally the, uh this whole issue of, uh, referring expressions, and, what is it that they're actually dealing with in the world?", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "And, again, this is li in the databa this is also pretty well formed because there is an ontology, and the database, and stuff. So it isn't like, um, you know, the Evening Star or stuff like that.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "I i it All the entities do have concrete reference. Although th the To get at them from a language may not be trivial.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "There aren't really deep mysteries about um, what w what things the system knows about.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Right. Right. And you have both proper names and descriptions", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "All those things.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "and y and you can ask for it.", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "Yeah. You have proper names, and descriptions.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "And a l and a lot and and anaphora, and pronouns,", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Nuh.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "OK. Right.", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "and all those things.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "Now, we hav the the whole Unfortunately, the whole database is, uh, in German. We have just commissioned someone to translate some bits of it, IE the e the shortest k the the more general descriptions of all the objects and, um, persons and events. So, it's a relational database with persons, events, and, um, objects. And it's it's quite, um, there. But did y I uh I think there will be great because the reference problem really is not trivial, even if you have such a g well - defined world.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "He knows.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Ah - he you are not, uh, throwing uh, uh, carrying owls to Athens.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "Could you give me an example of a reference problem? so so l I can make it more concrete?", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "Well How do I get to the Powder - Tower? We sort of t think that our bit in this problem is interesting, but, just to get from Powder - Tower to an object I ID in a database is also not really trivial.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "Or or if you take something even more scary, um, \" how do I get to the third building after the Tower? the Ple - Powder - Tower? \"", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "Mmm.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "Uh, you need some mechanism for", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "Yeah. Or, you know, the church across from City Hall, or.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Or the re the restaurant where they wear lederhosen?", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "Or the", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "Or is that.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "Yeah, that would be fine.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "OK.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "O or or tower, or this tower, or that building, or.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "Uniquely.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "hmm?", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "OK. Trying to.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "Or you can say \" how \" you know, \" how do I get back? \"", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Yeah, yeah.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "OK. And, again, it's just a question of which of these things, uh, people want to dive into. What, uh, I think I'm gonna try to do, and I guess, pwww! let's say that by the end of spring break, I'll try to come up with some general story about, um, construction grammar, and what constructions we'd use and how all this might fit together. There's this whole framework problem that I'm feeling really uncomfortable about. And I haven't had a chance to think about it seriously. But I I want to I want to do that early, rather than late. And you and I will probably have to talk about this some.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "u u u u That's what strikes me, that we sort of the de g uh, small Something, uh, maybe we should address one of these days, is to That most of the work people actually always do is look at some statements, and and analyze those. Whether it's abstracts or newspapers and stuff like this.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "Hmm.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "But the whole i is it is it really relevant that we are dealing mostly with, sort of, questions?", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "Oh, yeah?", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Uh, you know.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "Well, I mean yeah, I d", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "And this is It seems to me that we should maybe at least spend a session or or brainstorm a little bit about whether that l this is special case in that sense.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "Um, I don't know. You know Did we ever find m metaphorical use in in questions in in that sense, really?", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "You will.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "And how soon,", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "Oh, yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "I don't know.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "I mean, uh, we could take all the standard metaphor examples and make question versions of them. OK.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "\" Who got kicked out of France? \"", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "Muh", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "Yeah, or, you know. \" Wh - why is he why is he pushing for promotion? \"", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Nuh.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "or, \" who's pushing proof \"", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Nuh.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "er, just pick pick any of them and just do the eh.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "So I don't I don't think, uh, it's at all difficult Uh, to convert them to question forms that really exist and people say all the time, um And sort of we don't know how to handle them, too. Right? I mean, it's I d It We don't know how to handle the declarative forms, @ @ really, and, then, the interrogative forms, ah - oh. Uh. Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Ooo!", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "Nancy, it looked like you were s", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Oh. it's just that that the goals are g very different to cases So we had this problem last year when we first thought about this domain, actually, was that most of the things we talked about are our story understanding.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Uh, we're gonna have a short discourse and the person talking is trying to, I don't know, give you a statement and tell you something. And here, it's th", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "Help you create a mental model, blah - blah - blah. Yeah.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "Yea - eh y Yeah, I guess so.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "Yes.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "And then here, y you are j uh, the person is getting information and they or may not be following some larger plan, you know, that we have to recognize or, you know, infer. And th th the their discourse patterns probably don't follo follow quite as many logical connec", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "Right. No, I think that's one of things that's interesting, is is in this sort of over - arching story we we worked it out for th as you say, this the storytelling scenario.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Yeah. Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "And I think it's really worth thinking through what it looks like.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "What is the simspec mean, et cetera.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm. M Right. Cuz for a while we were thinking, \" well, how can we change the, um, data to sort of illicit tha illicit, um, actions that are more like what we are used to? \" But obviously we would rather, you know, try to figure out what's what's, you know.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "Well, I don't know. I mean, maybe maybe that's what we'll do is is s u e We can do anything we want with it. I mean, once we have fulfilled these requirements,", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Yep. Mmm Mm - hmm. Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "OK, and the one for next uh, summer is just half done and then the other half is this, um, \" generation thing \" which we think isn't much different.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "So once that's done, then all the rest of it is, uh, sort of, you know, what we want to do for the research. And we can w we can do all sorts of things that don't fit into their framework at all. Th - there's no reason why we're c we're constrained to do that.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "If we can use all the, uh, execution engines, then we can, you know, really try things that would be too too much pain to do ourselves.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "But there's no obligation on any of this. So, if we want to turn it into u understan standing stories about Heidelberg, we can do that. I mean, that would just be a t a um.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Or, as a matter of fact, we need and if we if we' r eh take a ten year perspective, we need to do that, because w e w a Assuming we have this, um, we we ta in that case we actually do have these wonderful stories, and historical anecdotes,", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "and knights jumping out of windows,", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "Mmm.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "and - and - and tons of stuff. So, th the database is huge, and if we want to answer a question on that, we actually have to go one step before that, and understand that. In order to e do sensible information extraction.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm. Yeah. Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "You might, yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "And so, um, this has been a a a Deep Map research issue that was is is part of the unresolved, and to - do's, and something for the future, is how can we sort of run our our text, our content, through a machine that will enable us, later, to retrieve or answer e questions more sensibly?", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "Mwa Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm. Mmm.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "Right. Anyway. S Who's going?", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "So, uh So, uh, I was just going to ask, um, so, what is the the basic thing that that you are, um, obligated to do, um, uh, by the summer before w uh y c we can move.", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "Ah! OK. So eh Yeah. So, what happened is, there's this, eh, uh Robert was describing the There's two packages there's a, uh, quote parser, there's a particular piece of this big system, which, in German, uh, takes these t sentence templates and produces XML structures. And one of our jobs was to make the English equivalent of that.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "That, these guys did in a in a day.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Right. Right.", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "The other thing is, at the other end, roughly at the same level, there's something that takes, uh, X M L structures, produces an output XML structure which is instructions for the generator.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "OK? And then there's a language generator, and then after that a s a synthesizer that goes from an XML structure to, uh, language generation, to actual specifications for a synthesizer. Eh, but again, there's one module in which there's one piece that we have to convert to English.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Right. Right. Got it.", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "Is that OK. And that But as I say, this is all along was viewed as a kind of a m a minor thing, necessary, but but not.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "OK?", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "And much more interesting is the fact that, as part of doing this, we we are, you know, inheriting this system that does all sort of these other things.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "That's great! Right.", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "Not precisely what we want, and that's that's wh where it it gets difficult. And I I don't pretend to understand yet what I think we really ought to do.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "OK. So, e enough of that, but I, uh, um, mmm, the e sort of, Johno and I will take up that responsibility, and, um, get a first draft of that. Now, we have um just, I think two more short things.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "OK.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Um, y you guys sort of started fighting, uh, on the Bayes - net \" Noisy - OR \" front?", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "Hmm. Yeah, I thought I should, um, talk a little bit about that, because that might be a good, uh, sort of architecture to have, in general for, uh, problems with, you know, multiple inputs to a node.", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "Good! OK. Good. And what's the other one? so that just we know what the d agenda is?", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Um, the Wu paper, I think maybe.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "Oh, yeah. I've got a couple new Wu papers as well. Uh, so I I've been in contact with Wu, so, probably let's put that off till I I till I understand better, uh, what he's doing. It's just a little embarrassing cause all this was in his thesis and I was on his thesis committee, and, so, I r really knew this at one time.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Ugh.", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "But, I I It's not only uh Is Part of what I haven't figured out yet is is how all this goes together. So I'll dig up some more stuff from Dekai. And so why don't we just do the, uh.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "OK. So should I Is there a white board here that I can use?", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "Yeah. You could.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Uh.", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "squealing sound?", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Or shall I just use this?", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "It's probably just as easy. I", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "You can put the microphone in your pocket.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "Hey!", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "I was envying you and your pocket cause I don't have one.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "It was a quick one, huh?", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "That's why they invented \" pocket T's \".", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "exactly", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "They have clips!", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "Huh.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "So, um Recall that, uh, we want to have this kind of structure in our Bayes - nets. Namely, that, um You have these nodes that have several bands, right? So Does I mean, they sort of the typical example is that, um, these are all a bunch of cues for something, and this is a certain effect that we'd like to conclude. So, uh Like, let's just look at the case when, um, this is actually the the final action, right? So this is like, uh, you know, touch,", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "Y", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "or.", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "E - EVA", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "Sorry. Uh", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "Yeah, E - EVA, right?", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "Enter, V View, Approach, right?", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "W what was this? It i i i ehhh, i ehhh.", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "Wri - write it out for for.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "So, this is Yeah. Enter,", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "I mean.", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "View, Approach.", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "OK. Right.", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "Right. So, I mean, we'd like to take all these various cues, right?", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "Like the army.", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "So this one might be, say, uh.", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "New terminology?", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "Hmm?", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "Well, let me pick a random one", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "I haven't heard that before.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "and say, uh I don't know, it could be, like This isn't the way it really is, but let me say that, suppose someone mentioned, uh, admission fees Ah, it takes too long. Try let me just say \" Landmark \". If the thing is a landmark, you know, um then there's another thing that says if um if it's closed or not, at the moment. Alright, so you have nodes. Right? And the, uh, problem that we were having was that, you know, given N - nodes, there's \" two to the N \" Given N - nodes, and furthermore, the fact that there's three things here, we need to specify \" three times \", uh, \" two to the N \" probabilities. Right? That's assuming these are all binary, which f they may not be. For example, they could be \" time of day \", in which case we could, uh, say, you know, \" Morning, afternoon, evening, night \". So, this could be more So, it's a lot, anyway. And, that's a lot of probabilities to put here, which is kind of a pain. So Noisy - ORs are a way to, uh, sort of deal with this. Um Where should I put this? So, the idea is that, um, Let's call these, uh, C - one, C - two, C - three, and C - four, and E, for Cause and Effect, I guess. The idea is to have these intermediate nodes. Right. Well, actually, the idea, first of all, is that each of these things has a quote - unquote distinguished state, which means that this is the state in which we don't really know anything about it. So right? So, for example, if we don't really know if the thing is a landmark or not, Or, i if that just doesn't seem relevant, then that would be th sort of the Disting - the Distinguish state. It's a really, you know, if there is something for the person talking about the admission fee, you know, if they didn't talk about it, that would be the Distinguish state.", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "S so, this is a fanciful way of saying \" default \"?", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "So Yeah, yeah.", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "OK.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "That's just what they the word they used in that paper.", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "So, the idea is that, um, you have these intermediate nodes, right? E - one, E - two, E - three and E - four?", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "So, this is the Heckerman paper you're working with? Good.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Yeah. So The idea is that, each of these EI is represents what this would be if all the other ones were in the distinguish state. Right? So, for example, suppose that the person I mean, suppose the thing that they talked about is a landmark. But none of the other sort of cues really apply. Then, this would be W The this would just represent the probability distribution of this, assuming that this cue is turned on and the other ones just didn't apply? So, you know, if it is a landmark, and no none of the other things really ap applicable, then this would represent the probability distribution. So maybe in this case Maybe we just t k Maybe we decide that, if the thing's a landmark and we don't know anything else, then we're gonna conclude that, um They want to view it with probability, you know, point four. They want to enter it with probability, uh with probability point five and they want to approach it probability point one, say Right? So we come up with these l little tables for each of those OK. And the final thing is that, um this is a deterministic function of these, so we don't need to specify any probabilities. We just have to, um, say what function this is, right? So we can let this be, um G of E - one comma E - two. E - three, E - four. Right? and our example G would be, um, a majority vote? Right?", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "Well. OK, so th so the important point is W not what the G function is. The important point is that Um There is a a a general kind of idea of shortcutting the full CPT. Th - c the full conditional probability table with some function. OK? Which y w you choose appropriately for each case. So, depending on what your situation is, there are different functions which are most appropriate. And So I gave eh Bhaskara a copy of this, eh sort of \" ninety - two \" paper. D and you got one, Robert.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "I don't know who else has seen it.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "There's I mean yeah. it's Heckerman and Breese.", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "It's short. It's short.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "So, I u w Um, yo uh you Have you read it yet?", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Uh, you can Yeah, you should take a look at it, I guess.", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "OK", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "OK, so you should take a look. Nancy, I'm sure you read it at some point in life.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "I yeah. I I think so, yeah.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "OK. And so, you other guys can decide how interested.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Yeah, @ @.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "Anyway. So the paper isn't th isn't real hard.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "OK.", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "And Uh One of the questions just come at Bhaskara is, \" How much of this does JavaBayes support? \"", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Yeah, it's a good question. Um The so what we want, is basically JavaBayes to support deterministic, uh, functions.", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "And, um In a sense it sup we can make it supported by, um, manually, uh, entering, you know, probabilities that are one and zeros, right?", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "Right. So the little handout that The little thing that I sent I sent a message saying, uh, here is a way to take One thing you could do, which is kind of s in a way, stupid, is take this deterministic function, and use it to build the CPT. So, if Ba - JavaBayes won't do it for you,", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Mmm.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "that you can convert all that into what the CPT would be. Um and, what I sent out about a week ago, was an idea of how to do that, for, um, evidence combination. So one of one function that you could use as your \" G function \" is an e e Evidence - Combining. So you just take the uh, if each of th if each of the ones has its own little table like that, then you could take the, uh, strength of each of those, times its little table, and you'd add up the total evidence for \" V \", \" E \", and \" A \".", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Mmm. I don't think you can do this, because G is a function from that to that.", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "Yep. Right.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Right? So there's no numbers. There's just quadruplets of well, N - duplets of, uh, E Vs.", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "I i i No, no But I'm saying is There There is a w I mean, if y if if you decide what's what is appropriate, is probablistic evidence combination, you can write a function that does it. It's a pui it's actually one of the examples he's got in there. But, anyway, s skipping skipping the question of exactly which functions now is it clear that you might like to be able to shortcut the whole conditional probability table.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "I mean, in some it seems very plausible in some sense, where we will be likely to not be observe some of the stuff. Cuz we don't have the a access to the information.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "Oops, sorry.", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "Right. That's one of the problems, is, W Is is, Where would th Where would it all come from?", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Yeah. So.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "Is Oh, right. W would not be ab able to observe", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "Mmm.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "What?", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "I if it's a a a discar Discourse Initial Phrase, we will have nothing in the discourse history. So, if if we ever want to wonder what was mention", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "Oh Oh. A are you saying that we'll not be able to observe certain nodes? That's fine. That is sort of orthogonal thing.", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "Yeah, so there's there's two separate things, Robert. The f the the the Bayes - nets in general are quite good at saying, \" if you have no current information about this variable just take the prior for that. \" OK? Th - that's what they're real good at. So, if you don't have any information about the discourse, you just use your priors of of whatever eh the discourse uh, eh, basically whatever w it's Probabilistically, whatever it would be. And it's it's sort of not a great estimate,", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "but it's the best one you have, and, so forth. So that, they're good at. But the other problem is, how do you fill in all these numbers? And I think that's the one he was getting at.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "Yeah. So, specifically in this case you have to f have this many numbers,", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "whereas in this case you just have to have three for this, three for this, three for this. Right?", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "So you have to have just three N? So, this is much smaller than that.", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "Asymptotically.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "Well, pretty quickly.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Yeah. Right.", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "U yeah, yeah.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "I mean.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "So, you don't need da data enough to cover uh, nearly as much stuff.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "I don't know.", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "So, really, i What a A Noisy - OR seems to kind of \" neural - net - acize \" these Bayes - nets?", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "Eh well to some No, no. So, \" Noisy - OR \" is a funny way of referring to this, because the Noisy - OR is only one instance.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Yeah. This isn't a Noisy - OR anymore.", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "That one actually isn't a Noisy - OR. So we'll have to think of of a way t t", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "it's a Noisy - arg - max or a Noisy - whatever.", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "Yeah, whatever. Yeah. So Eh Um", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Well, my point was more that we just eh With the neural net, right, eh, things come in, you have a function that combines them and.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "Yeah, it it Tha - that's true. It is a is also more neural - net - like, although Uh, it isn't necessarily sum uh, s you know, sum of weights or anything like that.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "I mean i You could have, uh, like the Noisy - OR function, really is one that's essentially says, uh, take the max.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Well, the \" OR \".", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "Same.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Right. I guess you're right. Yeah.", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "Uh But anyway. So And, I thi I think that's the standard way people get around the uh There are a couple other ones. There are ways of breaking this up into s to to subnets and stuff like that. But, um The I think we definitely I think it's a great idea tha to to pursue that.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Yep. So", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "Wha - still sort of leaves one question. It I mean you you can always uh see easily that that I'm not grasping everything correctly, but what seemed attractive to me in im uh in the last discussion we had, was that we find out a means of of getting these point four, point five, point one, of C - four, not because, you know, A is a Landmark or not, but we we we label this whatever object type, and if it's a garden, it's point three, point four, point two. If it's a castle, it's point eight, point one, point one. If it's, uh, a town hall, it's point two, point three, point five.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "And so forth. And we don't want to write this down necessarily every time for something but, uh let's see.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "It'll be students Where else would it be stored? That's the question.", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "Well, in the beginning, we'll write up a flat file.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "Oh.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "We know we have twenty object types", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "and we'll write it down in a flat file.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "No. So, i is Well, let me say something, guys, cuz there's not There's a pretty point about this we might as well get in right now. Which is The hierarchy that s comes with the ontology is just what you want for this.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "So that Uh, if you know about it let's say, a particular town hall that, it's one that is a monument, then, that would be stored there. If you don't, you look up the hierarchy, Eh so, you you you may or So, then you'd have this little vector of, um, you know, Approach Mode or EVA Mode. Let's OK, so we have the EVA vector for for various kinds of landmarks. If you know it for a specific landmark you put it there. If you don't, you just go up the hierarchy to the first place you find one.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "OK. So, is the idea to put it in the ontology?", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "Absolutely.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "OK.", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "Uh, or, link to or but but in any case i View it logically as being in the ontology. It's part of what you know about a an object, is its EVA vector.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "OK.", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "And, if yo As I say, if you know about a specific object, you put it there.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "This is part of what Dekai was doing. So, when we get to Wu, The - e We'll see w what he says about that.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "And, then if you If it isn't there, it's higher, and if you don't know anything except that it's a b it's it's a building, then up at the highest thing, you have the pr what amounts to a prior. If you don't know anything else about a building, uh, you just take whatever your crude approximation is up at that level,", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "which might be equal, or whatever it is.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "So, that's a very pretty relationship between these local vectors and the ontology. And it seems to me the obvious thing to do, unless we find a reason to do something different.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "Does this make sense to you?", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "So.", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "Bhask -?", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Yeah. So, we are but we we're not doing the ontology, so we have to get to whoever is doing the u ultimately,", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "Indeed. So, that's another thing we're gonna need to do, is is, to, either.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "we have to get them to.", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "We're gonna need some way to either get a p tag in the ontology, or add fields, or some way to associate Or, w It may be that all we can do is, um, some of our own hash tables that it Th - the th you know, there's always a way to do that. It's a just a question of.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Yeah, hash on object name to, you know, uh, the probabilities or whatever.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "i th Yeah. e Right. And, so, i uh.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "But it's, uh Well, it strikes me as a What For If we get the mechanism, that will be sort of the wonderful part. And then, how to make it work is is the second part, in the sense that I mean, m the guy who was doing the ontology eh, eh, s ap apologized that i it will take him another through two to three days because they're having really trouble getting the upper level straight, and right now. The reason is, given the craw bet uh, the the the projects that all carry their own taxonomy and, on all history, they're really trying to build one top level ontology ft that covers all the EML projects, and that's, uh, uh, sort of a tough cookie, a little bit tougher than they figured. I could have told them s so.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "Right. Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Uh. But, nevertheless, it's going to be there by n by, uh, next Monday and I will show you what's what some examples from that for towers, and stuff. And, um, what I don't think is ever going to be in the ontology, is sort of, you know, the likelihood of, eh, people entering r town halls, and looking at town halls, and approaching town halls, especially since we are b dealing with a case - based, not an instance - based ontology. So, there will be nothing on on that town hall, or on the Berkeley town hall, or on the Heidelberg town hall, it'll just be information on town halls.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "Well, they they they How ar What are they gonna do with instances?", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "But what.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "I mean, you y", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Well, that's Hhh. That's that's al different question. I mean, th the first, they had to make a design question, \" do we take ontologies that have instances? or just one that does not, that just has the types? \"", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "OK.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "And, so, since the d decision was on types, on a d simply type - based, we now have to hook it up to instances. I mean this is", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "But what i What is SmartKom gonna do about that?", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "one.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "Cuz, they have instances all the time.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Yeah, but the ontology is really not a SmartKom thing, in in and of itself. That's more something that I kicked loose in in EML. So it's a completely EML thing.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "But Uh uh SmartKom's gonna need an ontology.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Yes, u a w a lot of people are aware of that.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "I understand, but is anybody doing anything about it?", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Um.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "OK. It's a political problem. We won't worry about it.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "No, but th the r eh I th I still think that there is enough information in there. For example, whether OK. So, th it will know about the twenty object types there are in the world. Let's assume there are only twenty object types in this world. And it will know if any of those have institutional meanings. So, in a sense, \" I \" used as Institutions for some s in some sense or the other. Which makes them enterable. Right? In a sense.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "Yeah. Anyway. So we may have to.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "You know.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "This is with the whole thing,", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Yep.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "we may have to build another data stru", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Yep.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "Conceptually, we know what should be done. When we see what people have done, it may turn out that the easiest thing to do is to build a a separate thing that that just pools i i Like, i i it it may be, that, the the instance w That we have to build our own instance, uh, things, that, with their types,", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Yeah, it's Right, we can just assume.", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "and then it goes off to the ontology once you have its type. So we build a little data structure And so what we would do in that case, is, in our instance gadget have our E V And if we d there isn't one we'd get the type and then have the E V As for the type. So we'd have our own little, uh, EVA tree. And then, for other, uh, vectors that we need.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Yeah. Right.", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "So, we'd have our own little things so that whenever we needed one, we'd just use the ontology to get the type,", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "and then would hash or whatever we do to say, \" ah!", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "If it's that type of thing, and we want its EVA vector, pppt - pppt! it's that. \" So, I I think we can handle that. And then But, the combination functions, and whether we can put those in Java Bayes, and all that sort of stuff, is, uh is the bigger deal.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "I think that's where we have to get technically clever.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "We could just steal the classes in JavaBayes and then interface to them with our own code.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "Um.", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "Well, I me ye eh, yeah, the.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "That requires understanding the classes in JavaBayes, I guess. @ @.", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "Yeah, I mean, it's, uh, e e e e e cute. I mean, you've been around enough to I mean Just?", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Well, it depends on.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "I mean, there's this huge package which which may or may not be consistent and you know. But, yeah, we could look at it.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Well, I was j OK. Yeah.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "Yeah. It's b It It's an inter sort of a kind of a it The thing is, it's kind of an interpreter and i i it expects its data structures to be in a given form, and if you say, \" hey, we're gonna make a different kind of data structure to stick in there \"", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Well, no, but that just means there's a protocol, right? That you could.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "It may or may not. I don't know. That's the question is \" to what extent does it allow us to put in these G functions? \" And I don't know.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Well, no, but I mean What I uh the So you could have four different Bayes - nets that you're running, and then run your own write your own function that would take the output of those four, and make your own \" G function \", is what I was saying.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "Yeah, that's fine if it's if it comes only at the end. But suppose you want it embedded?", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Well, then you'd have to break all of your Bayes - nets into smaller Bayes - nets, with all the.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "Oh, that Yeah, that's a truly horrible way to do d it. One would hope.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Yeah, but I'm just.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, you bet. But, at that point you may say, \" hey, Java Bayes isn't the only package in town. Let's see if there's another package that's, eh, more civilized about this. \"", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Now, Srini is worth talking to on this,", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Mmm.", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "cuz he said that he actually did hack some combining functions into But he doesn't remember at least when I talked to him, he didn't remember whether it was an e an easy thing, a natural thing, or whether he had to do some violence to it to make it work.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Ah!", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "Uh. But he did do it.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Yeah. I don't see why the, uh, combining f functions have to be directly hacked into I mean, they're used to create tables so we can just make our own little functions that create tables in XML.", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "Well, I say that's one way to do it, is is to just convert it int into a into a C P T that you zip It's blown up, and is a it's, uh it's huge, but it doesn't require any data fitting or complication.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm. Yeah. I don't think I mean, the fact that it blown u blows up is a huge issue in the sense that I mean, OK. So say it blows up, right? So there's, like, the you know, ten, f ten, fifteen, uh, things. It's gonna be like, two to the that, which isn't so bad.", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "I I understand. I'm just saying tha that w That was wi that was my note. The little note I sent said that. It said, \" Here's the way you'd take the logical f G function and turn it into a CPT. \"", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm. Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "I mean that the Max - the Evidence - Combining function. So we could do that. And maybe that's what we'll do. But, um don't know. So, I will, e e before next week, uh, @ @ p push push some more on on this stuff that Dekai Wu did, and try to understand it. Uh, you'll make a couple of more copies of the Heckerman paper to give to people?", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "p Sure.", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "Yeah, I I would like a copy,", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "OK.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "OK.", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "y y yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "And, um", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "OK.", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "I think.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "OK. 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c5fc0a2f144543a5903c81439531bcb6	{ "meetingId": "ES2014b", "transcriptSegments": [ { "text": "Right uh. So um. So where's the PowerPoint presentation? Sorry? Microsoft PowerPoint, right. Right, okay. So. Right. Okay, so we've got uh so we've got new project requirements. Um. So basically we've got three things, and we've got forty minutes in which to uh for this meeting to uh to discuss the various options. Um. Three presentations.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "We have a I guess we have a presentation each,'cause I've got one. Um.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah,", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "I see, right.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "I've got one too.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "That's nice to know, one from each of you. Um new project requirements. Um so do we want to do the presentation first, or do we want to um W I I got um or or three things basically, um relating to the remote being only for T_V_. We discussed that last time", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "and in actual fact that was pr pretty well what we came up with anyway.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "So in fact it actually f we won't be forestalled in a sense.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Um we've got uh teletext outdated. Um did you get any information on that?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Uh we didn't, no.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "No.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Right and the corporate image was the uh final thing.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "I d I didn't personally.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Hmm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "So I I got that in email form.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Um. Right okay. So I guess if we go ahead with the uh with the three presentations. So we'll start with yourself on the basis that uh.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Okay that's fine. I'll just um I'll grab the wire out the back of this one.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Sorry, yep.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Oh..", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "What is it?", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "I'm not quite sure how it.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "I think you've got to do um control F_ eight.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Control Doesn't seem to be quite working at the moment.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Shift F_ eight..", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Alt function F_ eight. Again not doing anything.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "There's usually a little thing in the top right for the.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Oh.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Ah there,", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Oh hang on,", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "it's doing something.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "it's just coming on.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "pressed about five times now.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Okay, that's me. Okay, um I have to go again.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "it going?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Hopefully that should be it this time. Okay, I think we're there. That's good. Okay, um Okay I'm gonna be looking at the working design. Um of the of the remote control. Um I've just got three sections, first is the research I made on the on the remote control itself um. And then that involves the components required in it and the systems uh design of the actual the actual remote. Um so having researched the existing models within the market, um I found my research off the internet. Um I've established what the components required for the remote control to function, actually are. And then also the methods in which these components interact together for the remote to actually do what you want it to do and how it connects with the television. Um the basic components are an energy source which I guess um in most existing models would be a battery supply. Whether that'll be sort of two batteries, four batteries, um it may vary.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "We then have the user interface, which is basically the like the the buttons on the actual remote. Um the various functions used for changing channel, uh channel up and down, volume, things like that. Um there's also a chip inside the remote which does all the computer type things. And then the sender, which um is usually, I've found, an infra-red device which sends a signal to the actual television. Um and the last part is receiver which is important in the system but is not actually part of the remote itself, because that's obviously found in the television.. Um I'm gonna have to actually draw on the board because uh it was a little tricky on PowerPoint to get this working, so. I'll just go through there. S um um do we have a cloth to wipe this down with, or? Oh I'll j", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Uh there's the rubber on the right, I think.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "I think it's that little.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Oh I see. Oh okay. I'll get rid of the bear.$", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "it's magic..", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Okay that's great. Okay, so we start off with a um battery suppl Uh no, a power supply which we'd probably get it's probably gonna be the battery. Um we then have a particular button, which may be that's obviously there's lots and lots of different buttons. Um but this is how the basic system works. Um that sends after you press that that sends the message to the chip, which um then sends It sort of interprets which button you've pressed and then sends the appropriate message to the sender. Um. So that's. That's the remote in itself, that's the components of the remote and how they work together. So this is the uh user interface. Um this is the chip itself, which then, and that's the that's the infra-red sender. And then on the separate thing we have on the on the television we have a a receiver. And the sender sends a message to the receiver.'Kay.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "So the the top bit's the power source, yes?.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Ah yes, that's the power source. Um. going on to personal preferences, I've said that battery seems the best option for the actual remote, just because of the size. You don't want a a cable attached to the remote otherwise it's not it's not really a remote. Um and then the sender,", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "and infra-red um has been used quite successfully. If the battery's on reasonable power, they always seem to work fairly well. You don't have to be point directly at the television itself.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "So the battery is the in the sender.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Um Yes.'Kay and that's it for the moment.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Okay. So, now more design..", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Right. Thank you. Mine's not quite as complicated as all that.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "That's what we like to hear..", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Did I press function? Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Is it control function ei Oh, th there you go.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Oh. Um. Okay so I'm gonna talk a bit about the technical functions design. I'm Louisa, the User Interface Designer, as you know. Um so the m basic method of this is to send a signal from the remote to the television set, so that a desired function is performed. Um an example of the function could be to change the volume up or down, uh so obviously you need two different buttons for that. Um to change the channel, either by pressing the number that you want or by channel up or down. Um to switch the television on or off, maybe a standby button. Um here are two example remotes. Um by the look of it they both have um kind of play and fast forward, rewind functions, so I think they incorporate a kind of video function which we won't have to worry about. Uh but as you can see, the left remote is quite um quite busy looking, quite complicated. Um whereas the right remote is much simpler, it looks much more user friendly. Um so my personal preference would be the right remote. So, it's got nice big buttons, it's got a very limited number of buttons. Um they're nice, kinda clearly labelled. Um I like the use of the kind of um symbols like the triangles and the squares and the arrows as well as the words on the um kind of play functions and all that. So it's very very user friendly, and it's got a little splash of colour. Could maybe do with some more colour. Um.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Well there's a couple of things there. Um we have to remember that we have our own um logo and colour scheme. So basically we'd have to uh we'd have to be putting that on um the the product.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Hmm. Do we get to see that?", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "I haven't as yet, no.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Will you be presenting that in a bit?.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "But uh I got uh I got an email that basically said to uh make sure that uh whatever device we come up with at the end of the day had to incorporate um the corporate colour and slogan. So uh I'm guessing that uh uh I notice on the bottom there it's got uh what's that? A_P_O_G_E_E_ that might be the corporate colour scheme, although the only the only colour I can see in that is the red.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Hmm.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Would you be able to get rid of the the extra buttons here, the the sort of circular section, because that seems to be for a video as well. So we could dispense with that little bit as well and just get it down to just the numbers and the volume. Possibly?", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "What do you mean by the circular section?", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "J yeah yeah yeah j yeah", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Like all of that bottom bit?", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "just this little bit is that I think that's still um a video remote part,", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "so maybe we could get rid of that as well.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah. And I don't really think that you need nine numbers.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Well b uh w", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "I mean how often do you use seven, eight and nine? I think just one to six and then channel up and down should be enough.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Well th the on the.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Like how often do you hit nine?", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Well uh for for general television purposes obviously you have channels one to five at this point in time,", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "and we'd have to have some room for uh future such channels. But but.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "It's just people are used to seeing that, so if we didn't have them then they might think it's.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "But, well possibly but the the other thing is that with um the current expansion of uh channels uh in the process of taking place, certainly the button up and down, but uh I mean how many channels do we have to um actual television channels do we have to uh prepare for? I would have thought that uh it's forever expanding and at the moment we've got although you've onl you've got the five standard, you've got the B_B_C_ have come up with a further six", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "and uh there's uh I don't know exactly how many channels there are on uh when you take into account uh Sky and various other um various others.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Hmm.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "So I would've thought that we wouldn't, you know, rather.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Hmm.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Okay, if the time of flicking from one to other, but presumably it'll take a second", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "'cause you have to be able to stop it. Maybe you could have a fast forward on the on the channels that w and then you could dispense with more otherwise. Y you'd want you'd want to get fairly quickly to the channel that you wanted.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Um some remotes have kind of favourite options where if you always flick from channel one to channel six, um if that's a favourite you just like by-pass two to five.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah, I s I suppose in a sense you could have um if you've got a hundred channels then if you had sort of an easy way of getting rather than having to go one to a hundred, you could go one to one to ten, ten to twenty", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Hmm.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "and then have a second button to get you to the actual channel you want", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "and that would cut down your time.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm. Um.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Anyway.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "But I think a lot of um like Cable and Sky and stuff, that would be tuned to one channel, and then you'd have another remote for all of those channels.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Okay, yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Like to get to fifty five and the higher numbers.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Whatever.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Okay. Okay. Limit the number of buttons, user friendly.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "But I suppose nine's not really excessive.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "I suppose with nine you've got the the like the last one which makes the tenth means you uh it's like uh multiples you can put them together so you can make any number.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "I suppose it does make a good pattern.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "So with that we'd kind of by-pass any problems with.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah Well that's true, yeah,", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "you could get fifty by five and a zero or whatever, that that makes sense.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.'Cause that facilitates having all the numbers you could ever need.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Um.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Does.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "So w so what was the circular thing that you were.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Okay. Um I think that's just for a video, so we wouldn't need any of that at all.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "So we could get it down to what?", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "If it's just for T_V_, which is what it is at the moment.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "So we get to How many buttons have we got? We've just got ten, eleven twelve th We got fourteen that we need. I guess.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Um which isn't really too many. That'll be quite easy to make a user guide for a fourteen button remote.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm. Well we've we've got um that it's remote for T_V_ only otherwise project would become too complex with uh which would endanger the time to market was one of the considerations.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "'Kay.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "I'm I don't know d did you have that information behind the marketing,", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "or was I meant to give you that information?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Um I'm not sure. I had I've had some market information,", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "but not from the company, no.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Right, okay, so basically time to market seems to be important, therefore speed of delivery.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "'Kay.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "We've only got about another four hours left..", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Okay, so is everyone happy with that?", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Ah yes yes, that seems good.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Right well that's the end of my presentation.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "'Kay. I'm gonna pull this off..", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "I think if you just give it a second to maybe catch up.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah, I think she said twenty seconds to um.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Uh-huh.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "I'm sure we'll have by the end of today.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Okay. I'll give it another go. Yeah, there we go..", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Right, we've done some research into the functional requirements that people want out of their remote control. And first off we should state that th the remote control's for controlling the T_V_ and um how do people use it? We asked them sort of which buttons were useful for them. Um how d how does a remote control look and feel for them, and what improvements would would they like to remote control. And we did that by sort of giving them a questionnaire that we'd prepared and asking them to fill in the answers. And three quarters of them found that remote controls are ugly and that a sort of even higher proportion would spend more for a sort of s uh a fancier remote control And that of all the buttons on the remote control, the sort of setting buttons for sort of the picture picture and brightness and the audio settings, um they weren't used very often at all. People concentrated on the channel buttons and the volume buttons and the power buttons. Uh we also asked them about speech recognition uh for remote control. And young people were quite receptive to this, but as soon as we got sort of over about into a thirty five to forty age forty five age group and older, people people weren't quite so keen on speech recognition. There's a lot more th there's a lot lot more older people who didn't know whether they wanted it or not as well. Um we also asked what frustrated people about remote controls and the number one frustration was that the remote was lost somewhere else in the room and that they couldn't find it. And the second second biggest frustration what that if they got a new remote control, it was difficult to learn um all the buttons and all the functions, and to find your way around it. Okay, so My personal preferences from the marketing is that we need to come up with some sort of sleek sort of good looking high high-tech A design which looks high-tech, basically. Um and that we should come up with fewer buttons than most of the controls on the market, and we should sort of concentrate on the channels and sort of power, and also volume and that sort of thing, as as Louisa said. Um we could maybe come up with a menu, a sort of a an L_C_D_ menu for other functions on the remote control. That's worth thinking about. Um and maybe we could think about speech recognition as well, because um sort of young people are perhaps the ones that are gonna buy buy our new product if we aim it at sort of you know sort of a high-tech design. That that might be the market that we're we're looking for. And we could maybe think about using speech recogniti recognition as a way to find the remote control if it's lost in a room, rather than sort of um having it to speech recognition to change the channels.'Cause there's a problem with that in that the television makes noise, so it could end up talking to itself and changing its channel.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Okay um, and that's the end of the slide show. That's it. Cool.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "What was that last wee bit there?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Do a lot of um.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Um about speech recognition?", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Speech recognition,", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "But that was only for young people that preferred it, older people didn't.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Youn young people pref Yeah, they s they said that they'd be interested in a remote control which offered that possibility and as you go up through the age groups, people got less and less interested in sort of a a remote control that you could talk to, so.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "No what I maybe think is um it seems the technology would be quite advanced for that and they might end up costing more than our twelve fifty budget for for the speech recognition. Um.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Well that's right.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "And possibly the thing about the about the remote being lost we could have You know with your mobile phone, you lose that and you can ring it. Maybe we can have some kind of sensor which is kept somewhere where you can some kind of buzzer system between the two. So you can press a button which is always kept in one place", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "and then it maybe buzzes to somewhere else, wherever the remote actually is.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Uh-huh. Yeah. Yeah, we'd have t that would mean we'd have to put two products together as well,", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "That is true, yes.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "which which again would probably be a bit expensive, but.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Hmm.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "There's key rings um that you kind of whistle at or clap at, I can't remember, and then they whistle back, or something like that.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Sounds reasonable.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "That'd probably be really simple,", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "they're cheap.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah. So.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "So I guess it'd be something we could like attach to the or like the same technology could be put inside the inside the remote.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Well if you're trying to avoid having a second product'cause obviously you could have a second product that gave you the right pitch which would set the remote off to say here I am sort of thing, you know without sound recognition. But if you I know. Um I was gonna say a sharp noise, you know a clapping of hand or whatever. You'd want to try and av just have the one product that if.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah. Yeah if we if we could have it in the actual remote like everything in one one device.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm. Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah. Um I dunno um talking about vo I mean obviously if you've got voice recognition then you can do it in that way because it'll recognise the voice and you can give it a command, a set command whatever that happened to be.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "But you've then got the point if if you're not going with uh voice recognition then.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "you could have an option to turn it off. Or.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Perhaps, um.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "So that would solve the problems with the T_V_ kind of speaking to the remote and changing its own channels.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "So uh Any sugges Well, any conclusions?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Um would it take quite a while to sort of develop the speech recognition software in the remote control?", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Well if it does then we can't.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Considering.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "It's that simple,", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "because we've got uh th th three um primary um uh requisites from uh from and email uh that was sent to me whereby we had The design logo was one, which we've already mentioned. We've got um the remote was only for the television and not for because that would make it too complex and we have to get it market quickly.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "And the uh third thing was that um teletext uh as far as uh the management is concerned, um is becoming dated uh due to the popularity of the internet. So that means that uh.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "'Kay.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "so these are the sort of three um extra parameters that have been put on this uh project.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "So we're being focused effectively directly at a television and it seems to me that the management is uh wanting us to go down a narrow path and not opening out.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yes.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "So anything that uh is to be added, such as voice recognition et cetera has to be very simple and has to be very quick", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Has to be simple enough to.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "because time to market is is critical. S", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "I suppose if we could get something in which was quite quick and simple that would give us an advantage over the other remotes. Um.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "It would. But probably quick and simple is primary rather than added extras.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "'Kay.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Added extras would be nice, but the primary consideration is to get the project finished within uh this short time window, which effectively now is sort of four hours.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "So and if and we've gotta get to the end. Uh d d I think I think first and foremost we've gotta get to the end and then get to the end with um added extras if possible.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "So.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Right okay, uh so I need to Right. So I don't know how long we have left of our uh time. But we have to make the decisions on uh the remote control functions", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "About five minutes.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "and how we were planning to proceed so that at the next uh meeting each person that's got a a a task to do is clear from this meeting what that task is.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yes.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "We'll also know w when the next meeting is", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Um..", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "I um so we'll know how long we've got to complete that task. And then we can report back at the next meeting and say right okay yes, we've achieved this or we haven't achieved this, this is how far we've progressed. Does that make reasonable sense?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yes that seems right.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Okay, yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "So we have to come effectively to the decision on the remote functions so that you can decide what you're gonna be doing. And if dur between the time of this meeting finishing and the next meeting starting, if you get any additional information that uh only you have at that point in time you'd think would be relevant to other people in terms of their des decision making um process, then we should communicate that as quickly as possible and not wait until the next meeting.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Do it via the email", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Okay. Yep.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "so that rather than coming you know If you get the information just before the next meeting that's fine. Come along with it in the next meeting, we can discuss it then and take whatever action is appropriate.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "But if you get it well before the next meeting, let everybody else know'cause that might have an impact on their uh on what they come up with effectively at the next meeting.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Right, is there.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "So do we need to decide on the functions now? S", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "I would guess so.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Well I think it'd be really easy and it'd be a big advantage if we did have some sort of um kind of whistle back kind of function.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "'Cause that'll solve kind of the frustration of losing it.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah and Yeah and that was that was the number one sort of frustration that people said, so.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yep.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "I don't think there's anything else on the market that does that, so.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah. I don't really know about the voice recognition thing.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "I w well uh i", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Maybe we should concentrate just on the whistle back function at the moment,", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Something simple. Uh if if our primary consideration is to get it there in time, time's short,", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "and if something comes back.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "you want something to meet the major concerns of the consumer so that we can have that as a selling point for the product,", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "something that's quick and simple. So,", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "sounds good.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "And that wouldn't put off the kind of older generation either,'cause everyone can whistle or clap, and they wouldn't have to be kind of scared of this new technology.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Well, so maybe a clap rather than a whistle would be.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "On the basis that if we've got if we're catering to the whole age range, you want something that's easy to do,", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "now something that doesn't like whis uh", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "No not everyone can whistle, can they, though?.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Well I I I don't know. Well If you think that more people can whistle than clap then that's fine, then go for that option,", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "but if I would have thought that more people could clap rather than whistle,", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "No,", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "I'd go more.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "clapping, I think clapping,", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah, f more for clap.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "yeah. Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "so uh so clap option.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "'Kay we've already decided that we don't need a teletext button, haven't we?", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Uh. Ef effectively that's what the that's what they're saying,", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Is that one of the.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "that uh if uh if people are now using the internet then you don't need teletext,", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Hmm.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "so so take out teletext.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Taking out teletext, okay.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Did we decide on having the ten um the ten numbers", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "and then the the little digit next to it which kind of enabled you to put them together.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah, I think so, so zero to nine.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Mm. I think nowadays you can just get ones where it gives you a sort of a second or two to press another number,", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "so you can press any two and it'll sort of put them together.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Okay, ten numbers", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "and then some kind of device to allow uh.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "I'll put delay to allow um multiple numbers.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Or multiple digits.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Did we decide anything about um the other functions? As in setting the audio and tuning it and stuff like that? You had an had an idea about the menu?", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Uh we could possibly put an L_ a sort of a L_C_D_ menu in, but that again is probably an expense that.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "But just thinking um people probably I mean you don't have you only have to probably tune in the T_V_ once, but you have to be able to tune it that once.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "So and if finally the T_V_ breaks, you get a new one, you're gonna have to be able to tune it. You can't really avoid that.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "No.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Except the new digital markets which do it by themselves.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Hmm.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "But the but that's relying on the television market changing to an automatic", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "So that'll be in.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yes.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "and if it is at the moment, that's fine. But at the moment it's not, so it seems to me that you have to have a device that caters,'cause otherwise it would make it uh your device would become inoperable, or only operable in certain circumstances", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah. Yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "and the idea is to have an international market", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "which is.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "And it's also m it's the the product we've got is something that's at the I would have said the lower end of the s of the cost scale, so we're not really going for something that's uh terribly high-tech.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah. I s I suppose um if people are buying remotes, then they're probably buying it to replace another remote", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Possibly.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "'cause all most tellies come with remotes, so.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "That's right.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "I mean we're maybe talking about replacing remotes for slightly older televisions, so we maybe need to keep the the tuning function in..", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah. So how would this menu function work?", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Would you maybe have like one menu button, then you'd use the other buttons, maybe the number buttons to actually do the separate functions.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah,", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah,", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "like the volume or something.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "that would be a good idea, yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah,'cause you do need um kind of brightness and contrast and everything as well. My dad was watching a film the other week", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "and it was too dark, so I had to go through it and turn the brightness up.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "we're gonna have the the individual numbers", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Hmm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "and then a menu function and maybe sort of a slightly more advanced um instruction booklet to come with it, to guide Presu uh I think it'd be quite hard just for people to grasp um just off like the menu use different buttons you maybe have to have like some better instructions of how that would actually work.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Uh I'm not sure whether the sort of having people have a booklet'cause one the second most annoying thing that people found was having to learn the new one.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Right, okay um.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "So maybe next to each of the buttons, you know each of them could have a number and then also a function written next to it, so you're basically pressing.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "that also goes back to the original design when we saw those two, and there was the one on the left hand side which had all like the double functions and stuff which kind of looked too busy and had too much on it, so.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Okay, well.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Well, if we're trying to keep it slee sleek and sexy as well, have you seen those remotes where kind of um the bottom bit slides down, so there's kind of um everything else revealed?", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "So y Ah That's a very good idea.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "So you don't use it that much, you don't have to see it all the time. But it's all there if you need it.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "That is that is a good idea actually.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah, yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Sor sort of a second.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "So you keep um.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Like a hidden panel.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Right we've got five minutes before we wind up this meeting, so I've been told. I don't know if you've got the same.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Okay. Uh not quite, but I guess.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Okay. So so keep um keep detailed functions um hidden at the back.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Keep the other buttons but hide them away.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Hmm. And that'll be better for the older generation as well'cause, well my dad doesn't like anything that you've got to kinda flick through a menu,", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Ah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "but he can pretty much read a button if it's displayed properly.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "So.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "So um we're gonna have to have to work out what's gonna be on these other functions as as well. So we're gonna have like two separate two separate lists, I guess.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "That's right.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "data functions hidden at back. Can bring out when needed.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "So th the The detailed ones would be sort of brightness,", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "uh sorta.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "That's right so we're dis So you've got which ones are gonna be on the front and which ones are gonna be on the back. We have to decide.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "So sh Should we decide in the next couple of minutes, and then.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "I guess so.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "So on the.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "So on front,", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "about the number.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "numbers,", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Um the volume up and down.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "And the volume?", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "volume.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Shall we have a mute button as well?", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Um.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Sorry?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "A mute button as well.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah. Or.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah I think they're handy.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm. And probably a power one as well. Dunno.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "I know it's probably like um not an issue to raise here, but um the whole thing about not using your standby uh because of the like waste of electricity. Have you seen the adverts? Like if you boil the kettle that's full that's a waste.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "If you leave your telly on standby it powers Blackpool for a certain amount of time.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah..", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Like we should maybe try to discourage people from standby.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "But then they might not buy it if they haven't got one.'Cause people might just be too fickle and not want to change.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah, it's maybe too much of a big issue for here.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "So so are you having the stand-by on the front, then?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah..", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "We can send out a flier with the device saying that you shouldn't leave it on stand-by.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Uh-oh danger sign.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "I think you probably should.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah, but a little bit smaller.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Compromise.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Well.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Um are we gonna have the channel up and down as well as the number buttons?", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Um'cause yeah the market research said there is quite a lot of people do just zap around and flick, so.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Okay, so we'll have um.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "So we've got ten eleven twelve thirteen fourteen fifteen sixteen there?", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Channel up and down.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Um.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "What else have we got? What was that, sixteen?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Numbers is ten, volume is twelve,", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Volume button. How many volumes?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "th Yeah si One up, one down.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Right okay.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "On mute.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "And a mute, yeah. That's sixteen isn't it, yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Is there anything else? Um.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "I don't think so, no.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Power button, stand-by, channel, up and down. So is that it?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "so.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Okay. That's sixteen buttons, you reckon. And then at the back?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "You've got brightness and contrast.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Maybe if we're gonna run out of time, one of us should come up with a list of these and then get back at the next meeting just at the start and say what they're gonna be.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "And then.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Okay. So on the back it'll have brightness, contrast,", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "anything else? You're also gonna have the channel tuner, as it were.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Uh there's audio functions.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "So tuner up and down, I guess.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Tuner, would that have up and down?.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Um up Tune one way, tune the o", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "I think they normally do.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "okay. Okay.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "I I dunno I dunno possibly.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "And then maybe sort of an enter button for sort of s you know, saying that you want that particular thing tuned in. So you go up and down and then it pick it finds something and then you wanna press enter to select it, yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Oh yeah and th and a enter button just to select. Yeah, okay. Um I guess we're keeping s it simple. We don't really need any other audio funct uh functions because it's just volume up, volume down.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Um up volume, yeah, I would have thought so.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Um.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "So I think um there's quite a lot of like Dolby surround studio, surround sort of things.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Do they have their own do they have their own controls on their actual products, then,", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Um maybe for the younger market.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "or do you have to do it via the remote?", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Um I think they've got their own controls in this kind of like hidden panel.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah I suppose if we've got their if they've got their own controls then we can avoid it for ours just to keep it simple.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah. Yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Oh no, I mean um like there's kind of individual buttons for them, like on the T_V_ remote.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Oh, okay. Right.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "But I don't really know what they're for,", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "I've never used them.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Um.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "I just know they're something to do with Dolby.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Maybe unless something comes up then we should I think.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Well you might get some research..", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Well shall we look into that and just get back together.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Right so I'll do the minutes of uh this meeting.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "And we'll meet back at I'm not sure. 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c6b8c7f00c854a7988a01249741bb7f6	{ "meetingId": "Bmr018", "transcriptSegments": [ { "text": "OK.", "speakerName": "Postdoc A" }, { "text": "How about channel", "speakerName": "Grad G" }, { "text": "Yeah, go ahead.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "We're recording.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "Alright.", "speakerName": "Grad G" }, { "text": "Alright, and no crash.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Hmm.", "speakerName": "Postdoc A" }, { "text": "I pre - crashed it.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Pre - crashed!", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "It never crashes on me.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "I think it's actually.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "What is what is that?", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "it depends on if the temp files are there or not, that at least that's my current working hypothesis,", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "Ah.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "that I think what happens is it tries to clear the temp files and if they're too big, it crashes.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "Ah.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "When the power went out the other day and I restarted it, it crashed the first time.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Oh, that's right.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "After the power out", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "So then there would be no temp files.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "OK. Hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Uh, no, it doesn't it doesn't clear those necessarily,", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "Oh wait It it doesn't clear them, OK.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "so.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "Hmm, no connection.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "It's i they're called temp files, but they're not actually in the temp directory they're in the scratch, so. They're not backed up, but they're not erased either on power failure.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "But that's usually the meeting that I recorded, and it neve it doesn't crash on me.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Well this wasn't Actually, this wasn't a before your meeting, this was, um, Tuesday afternoon when, um, uh, Robert just wanted to do a little recording,", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Oh well.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "Oh Oh, right.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "and the power had gone out earlier in the day.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "OK. Huh, OK.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "I don't know when would be a good excuse for it, but I just can't wait to be giving a talk t and and and use the example from last week with everybody t doing the digits at once.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "That was fun.", "speakerName": "Postdoc A" }, { "text": "I'd love to play somebody that.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "That was fun.", "speakerName": "Postdoc A" }, { "text": "It was quick.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "It was. It was really efficient.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Talk about a good noise shield. You know? You wanted to pe keep people from listening in, you could like have that playing outside the room. Nobody could listen in.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Well, I had this idea we could make our whole meeting faster that way.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Yeah. Everybody give the reports about what they were doing at exactly the same time,", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "And we'll just all leave,", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "And then we'll we'll go back later and review the individual channels,", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "and.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Yep, and then everyone can listen to it later.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "right?", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Yes. Absolutely.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "If you wanna know what.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Actually isn't that what we have been doing?", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "It's what it sounds like.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "Practically, huh. With all the overlaps.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Postdoc A" }, { "text": "What are we doing?", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "I Since I've been gone all week, I didn't send out a reminder for an agenda, so.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "Yeah, and I'm just.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Do we have anything to talk about or should we just read digits and go?", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "I wouldn't mind hearing how the conference was.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "What conference?", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Uh, I had one question about.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Yeah, really. It's all a blur.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "Aren't the UW folks coming this weekend?", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Yep.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "No. The next,", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "Next weekend?", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Next weekend, week from.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "right?", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "That is right. The next weekend.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Sorry, not not not the days coming up, but.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "It's like the.", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "A week from Saturday.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "Yeah,", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "That's when they're coming.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "within ten days.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "That's correct.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "So, are we do we have like an agenda or anything that we should be.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "No, but that would be a good idea.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "OK.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Why don't we w", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "So so the deal is that I can, um, uh, I can be available after, uh, like ten thirty or something. I don't know how s how early you wanted to.", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "They're not even gonna be here until eleven or so.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "That's good.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "Oh, OK. So.", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "Cuz they're flying up that day.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Wait, this is on on Sunday?", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Saturday.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Or Saturday?", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Saturday.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Saturday.", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "S Saturday.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "OK.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Well, y", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "Eurospeech is due on Friday and then I'm going down to San uh, San Jose Friday night, so, if you know, if we start nice and late Saturday that's a good thing.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "No, I mean, they're flying up from from.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Seattle.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "down from Seattle.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "They're flying from somewhere to somewhere,", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "Yeah, and they'll end up here. So b and also Brian Kingsbury is actually flying from, uh, the east coast on that that morning.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Excellent.", "speakerName": "Postdoc A" }, { "text": "So, i I I will be I mean, he's taking a very early flight", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Oh.", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "and we do have the time work difference running the right way, but I still think that there's no way we could start before eleven. It might end up really being twelve. So when we get closer we'll find people's plane schedules, and let everybody know. Uh, So. That's good.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "But, uh, yeah maybe an agenda, or at least some things to talk about would be a good idea.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "Well we can start gathering those those ideas, but then we we should firm it up by next next Thursday's meeting.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Will we have time to, um, to prepare something that we in the format we were planning for the IBM transcribers by then, or?", "speakerName": "Postdoc A" }, { "text": "Oh yeah. Absolutely.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "OK.", "speakerName": "Postdoc A" }, { "text": "So have you heard back from Brian about that, Chuck?", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "Yes, um, he's I I'm sorry, I should have forwarded that along. Uh, oh I I think I mentioned at the last meeting, he said that, um, he talked to them and it was fine with the beeps they would be That's easy for them to do.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Great. OK. So, uh, oh, though Thi - Thilo isn't here, um, but, uh, I I have the program to insert the beeps. What I don't have is something to parse the output of the channelized transcripts to find out where to put the beeps, but that should be really easy to do. So do we have a meeting that that's been done with,", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "He's he's.", "speakerName": "Postdoc A" }, { "text": "that we've tightened it up to the point where we can actually give it to IBM and have them try it out?", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "He generated, um, a channel - wise presegmented version of a meeting, but it was Robustness rather than EDU so I guess depends on whether we're willing to use Robustness?", "speakerName": "Postdoc A" }, { "text": "Well for this experiment I think we can use pre pretty much anything.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "OK.", "speakerName": "Postdoc A" }, { "text": "This experiment of just.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Well we had we had talked about doing maybe EDU as a good choice, though. Well, whatever we have.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "Well we've talked about that as being the next ones we wanted to transcribe.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "OK.", "speakerName": "Postdoc A" }, { "text": "But for the purpose of sending him a sample one to f", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Yeah, maybe it doesn't matter.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "Great.", "speakerName": "Postdoc A" }, { "text": "I I don't think it matte", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "I'll I'll I'll, um, get make that available.", "speakerName": "Postdoc A" }, { "text": "OK, and has it been corrected?", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "Oh, well, wait. Um.", "speakerName": "Postdoc A" }, { "text": "Hand - checked? Cuz that was one of the processes we were talking about as well.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "Right, so we need to run Thilo's thing on it,", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "That's right.", "speakerName": "Postdoc A" }, { "text": "and then we go in and adjust the boundaries.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Yeah that's right. Yeah, we haven't done that. I I could set someone on that tomorrow.", "speakerName": "Postdoc A" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "And time how long it takes.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "OK.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "I think they're coming.", "speakerName": "Postdoc A" }, { "text": "And we probably don't have to do necessarily a whole meeting for that if we just wanna send them a sample to try.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "OK. What would be a good number of minutes?", "speakerName": "Postdoc A" }, { "text": "I don't know, maybe we can figure out how long it'll take @ @ to to do.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Um, I don't know, it seems to me w we probably should go ahead and do a whole meeting because we'll have to transcribe the whole meeting anyway sometime.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "Yes except that if they had if there was a choice between having fifteen minutes that was fully the way you wanted it, and having a whole meeting that didn't get at what you wanted for them It's just dependent of how much.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Like I I mean I guess if we have to do it again anyway, but, uh", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "I guess, the only thing I'm not sure about is, um, how quickly can the transcribers scan over and fix the boundaries,", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Postdoc A" }, { "text": "and I mean, is it pretty easy?", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "I think it's gonna be one or two times real time at Wow, excuse me, two or more times real time, right? Cuz they have to at least listen to it.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "Can we pipeline it so that say there's, uh, the transcriber gets done with a quarter of the meeting and then we you run it through this other other stuff? Uh,", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Well the other stuff is I B I'm just thinking that from a data keeping - track - of - the - data point of view, it may be best to send them whole meetings at a time and not try to send them bits and pieces.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "OK, so. Oh, that's right. So the first thing is the automatic thing, and then it's then it's then it's the transcribers tightening stuff up,", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Postdoc A" }, { "text": "and then it's IBM.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm, mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Postdoc A" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "OK, so you might as well ha run the automatic thing over the entire meeting, and then and then, uh, you would give IBM whatever was fixed.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "And have them fix it over the entire meeting too?", "speakerName": "Postdoc A" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "Well, yeah, but start from the beginning and go to the end, right? So if they were only half way through then that's what you'd give IBM.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "OK.", "speakerName": "Postdoc A" }, { "text": "Right?", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "As of what point? I mean. The I guess the question on my mind is do we wait for the transcribers to adjust the marks for the whole meeting before we give anything to IBM, or do we go ahead and send them a sample? Let their.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Why wouldn't we s @ @ w i if they were going sequentially through it, why wouldn't we give them I mean i are we trying to get something done by the time Brian comes?", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Well I I I mean, I don't know.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "That was the question. Though.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "So if we if we were, then it seems like giving them something, whatever they had gotten up to, would be better than nothing.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Yeah. Uh. That I agree. I agree.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Well, I don't think I mean, h they they typically work for what, four hours, something like that?", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "Hmm, I gue hmm.", "speakerName": "Postdoc A" }, { "text": "I think the they should be able to get through a whole meeting in one sitting. I would think, unless it's a lot harder than we think it is, which it could be, certainly.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "If it's got like for speakers then I guess I mean if.", "speakerName": "Postdoc A" }, { "text": "We're just doing the individual channels,", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Or seven or eight.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "right?", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Individual channels. Yeah.", "speakerName": "Postdoc A" }, { "text": "So it's gonna be, depending on the number of people in the meeting, um,", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "I guess there is this issue of, you know, if if the segmenter thought there was no speech on on a particular stretch, on a particular channel,", "speakerName": "Postdoc A" }, { "text": "Well.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "and there really was, then, if it didn't show up in a mixed signal to verify, then it might be overlooked, so, I mean, the question is \" should should a transcriber listen to the entire thing or can it g can it be based on the mixed signal? \" And I th eh so far as I'm concerned it's fine to base it on the mixed signal at this point, and.", "speakerName": "Postdoc A" }, { "text": "That's what it seems to me too, in that if they need to, just like in the other cases, they can listen to the individual, if they need to.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "And that cuts down the time. Yeah.", "speakerName": "Postdoc A" }, { "text": "But they don't have to for most of it.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "Yeah, that's good. So. Yeah. Good, good, good.", "speakerName": "Postdoc A" }, { "text": "I don't see how that will work, though.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "What what aspect?", "speakerName": "Postdoc A" }, { "text": "So you're talking about tightening up time boundaries?", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "So how do you.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "So, they have the normal channeltrans interface where they have each individual speaker has their own line,", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "but you're listening to the mixed signal and you're tightening the boundaries, correcting the boundaries. You shouldn't have to tighten them too much because Thilo's program does that.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "Should be pretty good, yeah.", "speakerName": "Postdoc A" }, { "text": "Except for it doesn't do well on short things, remember.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Right, so so you'll have to I.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "It will miss them. It will miss most of the really short things.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Uh - huh.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "Like that.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "But those would be those would be.", "speakerName": "Postdoc A" }, { "text": "Uh - huh. It will it will miss.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Uh - huh!", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "Yeah, you have to say \" uh - huh \" more slowly to to get c", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Sorry.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "No, I'm s I'm actually serious.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "I'll work on that.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "So it will miss stuff like that which.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "I.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Well, so so that's something that the transcribers will have to have to do.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "Yeah, but presumably, most of those they should be able to hear from the mixed signal unless they're embedded in the heavil heavy overlap section when in which case they'd be listening to the channels anyway.", "speakerName": "Postdoc A" }, { "text": "That's that's what I'm I'm concerned about the part.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Right, and that's what I'm not sure about.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Yeah, I am too. And I think it's an empirical question.", "speakerName": "Postdoc A" }, { "text": "Can't we uh couldn't we just have, um, I don't know, maybe this just doesn't fit with the software, but I guess if I didn't know anything about Transcriber and I was gonna make something to let them adjust boundaries, I would just show them one channel at a time, with the marks, and let them adju", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Oh they can.", "speakerName": "Postdoc A" }, { "text": "Well, but then they have to do but then they for this meeting they would have to do seven times real time, and it would probably be more than that.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "Yeah, that's it. Yeah.", "speakerName": "Postdoc A" }, { "text": "Right? Because they'd have to at least listen to each channel all the way through.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "And if.", "speakerName": "Postdoc A" }, { "text": "But i but it's very quick,", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Uh - huh.", "speakerName": "Postdoc A" }, { "text": "right? I mean, you scan I mean, if you have a display of the waveform.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Postdoc A" }, { "text": "Oh, you're talking about visually.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "w Well, the other problem is the breaths", "speakerName": "Postdoc A" }, { "text": "I just don't think.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "cuz you also see the breaths on the waveform. I've I've looked at the int uh, s I've tried to do that with a single channel, and and you do see all sorts of other stuff besides just the voice.", "speakerName": "Postdoc A" }, { "text": "Uh - huh.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Yeah, and I I think that they're going much more on acoustics than they are on visuals.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "Well that that I'm not sure.", "speakerName": "Postdoc A" }, { "text": "So.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "What you the digital what the digital task that you had your interface? Um, I know for a fact that one of those sh she could really well she could judge what th what the number was based on the on the waveform.", "speakerName": "Postdoc A" }, { "text": "Yeah, that's actually true. Yeah, you're right. You're absolutely right. Yeah, I found the same thing that when I was scanning through the wave form I could see when someone started to read digits just by the shapes.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "Yeah, she could tell which one was seven.", "speakerName": "Postdoc A" }, { "text": "Um, maybe.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Postdoc A" }, { "text": "So I don't I'm I'm now entirely confused about what they do.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "But.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "So, they're they're looking at a mixed signal, or they're looking what what are they looking at visually?", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Well, they have a choice. They could choose any signal to look at. I've tried lookin but usually they look at the mixed. But I've I've tried looking at the single signal and and in order to judge when it when it was speech and when it wasn't,", "speakerName": "Postdoc A" }, { "text": "Oh.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "but the problem is then you have breaths which which show up on the signal.", "speakerName": "Postdoc A" }, { "text": "But the procedure that you're imagining, I mean, people vary from this, is that they have the mixed signal wave form in front of them,", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Yes.", "speakerName": "Postdoc A" }, { "text": "Yes.", "speakerName": "Postdoc A" }, { "text": "and they have multiple, uh, well, let's see, there isn't we don't have transcription yet. So but there's markers of some sort that have been happening automatically,", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Yes.", "speakerName": "Postdoc A" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "and those show up on the mixed signal?", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Oh,", "speakerName": "Postdoc A" }, { "text": "There's a @ @ clicks?", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "N the t", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "they show up on the separate ribbons. So you have a separate ribbon for each channel,", "speakerName": "Postdoc A" }, { "text": "There're separate ribbons.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "and and i i it'll be because it's being segmented as channel at a time with his with Thilo's new procedure, then you don't have the correspondence of the times across the bins uh across the ribbons uh you could have.", "speakerName": "Postdoc A" }, { "text": "And is there a line moving across the waveform as it goes?", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Yes.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "Yes.", "speakerName": "Postdoc A" }, { "text": "OK, so The way you're imaging is they kind of play it, and they see oh this happened, then this happened, then and if it's about right, they just sort of let it slide,", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Postdoc A" }, { "text": "Right. Right.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "and if it if it there's a question on something, they stop and maybe look at the individual wave form.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Oh, well not not \" look \".", "speakerName": "Postdoc A" }, { "text": "Right. Well, they wouldn't look at it at this point. They would just listen.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "They they might look at it, right?", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Well, the problem is that the the interface doesn't really allow you to switch visuals.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "Not very quickly.", "speakerName": "Postdoc A" }, { "text": "The problem is that that the Tcl - TK interface with the visuals, it's very slow to load waveforms.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "You can but it takes time. That's it.", "speakerName": "Postdoc A" }, { "text": "Uh - huh.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "And so when I tried that that was the first thing I tried when I first started it,", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "Oh, oh. Visually. You can you can switch quickly between the audio,", "speakerName": "Postdoc A" }, { "text": "right?", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "but you just can't get the visual display to show quickly. So you have to It takes, I don't know, three, four minutes to Well, I mean, it takes it takes long enough.", "speakerName": "Postdoc A" }, { "text": "Yeah, it's very slow to do that.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "It takes long enough cuz it has to reload the I I don't know exactly what it's doing frankly cuz but it t it takes long enough that it's just not a practical alternative.", "speakerName": "Postdoc A" }, { "text": "That w", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Well it it does some sort of shape pre - computation so that it can then scroll it quickly,", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "But you can cancel that.", "speakerName": "Grad G" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "yeah. But then you can't change the resolution or scroll quickly.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "Oh, really?", "speakerName": "Grad G" }, { "text": "Now you could set up multiple windows, each one with a different signal showing, and then look between the windows.", "speakerName": "Postdoc A" }, { "text": "So.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "Huh!", "speakerName": "Grad G" }, { "text": "Maybe that's the solution.", "speakerName": "Postdoc A" }, { "text": "I mean, we we could do different interfaces,", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "What if you preload them all?", "speakerName": "Grad G" }, { "text": "right? I mean, so so we could use like X Waves instead of Transcriber,", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Postdoc A" }, { "text": "and it loads faster, certainly.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "What if you were to preload all the channels or or initially.", "speakerName": "Grad G" }, { "text": "Well that's what I tried originally.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "like doesn't.", "speakerName": "Grad G" }, { "text": "So I I actually before, uh, Dave Gelbart did this, I did an interface which showed each waveform and ea a ribbon for each waveform,", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Grad G" }, { "text": "but the problem with it is even with just three waveforms it was just painfully slow to scroll. So you just scroll a screen and it would, you know go \" kur - chunk! \"", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "Oh, OK.", "speakerName": "Grad G" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Postdoc A" }, { "text": "And so it just was not doable with the current interface.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "You know, I am thinking if we have a meeting with only four speakers and, you know, you could fire up a Transcriber interface for, y you know, in different windows, multiple ones, one for each channel. And it's sort of a a hack but I mean it would be one way of seeing the visual form.", "speakerName": "Postdoc A" }, { "text": "I think that if we decide that we need that they need to see the visuals, we need to change the interface so that they can do that.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "Yeah. Yeah.", "speakerName": "Postdoc A" }, { "text": "So.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "That's actually what I thought of, loading the chopped up waveforms, I mean, you know, that that would make it faster.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "An But isn't.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "Hmm.", "speakerName": "Grad G" }, { "text": "The chopped up waveforms.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "The problem is if if anything's cut off, you can't expand it from the chopped up.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "So.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Isn't that.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "Grad G" }, { "text": "Right, but if you a at some point.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "And wouldn't that be the same as the mixed signal?", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "No, I mean the individual channels that were chopped up that it'd be nice to be able to go back and forth between those short segments.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Cuz you don't really nee like nine tenths of the time you're throwing most of them out, but what you need are tho that particular channel, or that particular location,", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "and,", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Postdoc A" }, { "text": "um, might be nice, cuz we save those out already, um, to be able to do that. But it won't work for IBM of course, it only works here cuz they're not saving out the individual channels.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Well, I I do think that this this will be a doable procedure,", "speakerName": "Postdoc A" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "and have them starting with mixed", "speakerName": "Postdoc A" }, { "text": "OK.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "and, um, then when they get into overlaps, just have them systematically check all the channels to be sure that there isn't something hidden from from audio view.", "speakerName": "Postdoc A" }, { "text": "Yeah. Yeah, hopefully, I mean The mixed signal, the overlaps are pretty audible because it is volume equalized. So I think they should be able to hear. The only problem is is, you know, counting how many and if they're really correct or not. So, I don't know.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "I don't know that you can locate them very well from the mixed signal,", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Right but but once once you know that they happen, you can at least listen to the close talking,", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "but you would know that they were there, and then you would switch. Right. And then you would switch into the other.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "so.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "But right now, to do this limitation, the switching is going to be switching of the audio? Is what she's saying.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Postdoc A" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "So.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Right, so so", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "so they're using their ears to do these markings anyway.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "did Dave Did Dave do that change where you can actually just click rather than having to go up to the menu to listen to the individual channels?", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "Yes. Yes.", "speakerName": "Postdoc A" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Click Um,", "speakerName": "Postdoc A" }, { "text": "I had suggested it before. I just don't know whether he did it or not.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "I'm not sure what click what click on the ribbon? Yeah, you can get that.", "speakerName": "Postdoc A" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "oh, oh, get you can get the, uh you can get it to switch audio? Uh, not last I tried,", "speakerName": "Postdoc A" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "but, um, maybe he's changed it again.", "speakerName": "Postdoc A" }, { "text": "We should get him to do that because, uh, I think that would be much, much faster than going to the menu.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "I disagree. There's a reason I disagree, and that is that, uh, you it's very good to have a dissociation between the visual and the audio. There're times when I wanna hear the mixed signal, bu but I want to transcribe on the single channel. So right now.", "speakerName": "Postdoc A" }, { "text": "Then maybe just buttons down at the bottom next to it.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "Maybe, I just don't I don't see that it's a.", "speakerName": "Postdoc A" }, { "text": "Just something so that it's not in the menu option so that you can do it much faster.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "Well, I mean, that's the i I I think that might be a personal style thing. I find it really convenient the way the way it's set up right now.", "speakerName": "Postdoc A" }, { "text": "Well it just seems to me that if you wanna quickly \" well was that Jane, no, was that Chuck, no, was that Morgan \", right now, you have to go up to the menu, and each time, go up to the menu, select it, listen to that channel then click below, and then go back to the menu, select the next one, and then click below.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "That's fine. Yeah, it's true.", "speakerName": "Postdoc A" }, { "text": "So you can definitely streamline that with the i with the interface.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "Yeah, it could be faster, but, you know, I mean, th in the ideal world Yeah.", "speakerName": "Postdoc A" }, { "text": "What?", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "No I I agree that'd be nice. Yeah. OK.", "speakerName": "Postdoc A" }, { "text": "OK.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "So, um, Done with that? Does any I forget, does anybody, uh, working on any any Eurospeech submission related to this?", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "I would like to try to do something on digits but I just don't know if we have time. I mean, it's due next Friday so we have to do the experiments and write the paper. So, I'm gonna try, but, uh, we'll just have to see. So actually I wanna get together with both Andreas and, uh, uh, Stephane with their respective systems.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "Yeah. Yeah there was that we that's right, we had that one conversation about, uh, what what what did it mean for, uh, one of those speakers to be pathological, was it a.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Right, and I haven't had s chance to sit down and listen.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "Oh, I haven't I haven't listened to them either,", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "I was going to do that this afternoon.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "but there must be something wrong, I mean,", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "Well, Morgan and I were were having a debate about that.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "unless our.", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "Whereas I think it it's probably something pathologic and actually Stephane's results, I think confirm that. He s he did the Aurora system also got very lousy average error, like fifteen or or, uh, fifteen to twenty percent average? But then he ran it just on the lapel, and got about five or six percent word error? So that that means to me that somewhere in the other recordings there are some pathological cases. But, you know, we th that may not be true. It may be just some of the segments they're just doing a lousy job on. So I'll I'll listen to it and find out since you'd actually split it up by segment.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "So I can actually listen to it.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "Did you run the Andreas the r SRI recognizer on the digits?", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Oh, I thought he had sent that around to everyone,", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "did you just sent that to me?", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "No, I d I didn't.", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "Oh.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "Since I considered those preliminary, I didn't.", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "I it wasn't.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "But, yeah, if you take.", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "It was bimodal.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "So if you Yeah, it's actually, um, it uh it was trimodal, actually.", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "Oh, was it trimodal, OK.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "trimodal, so", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "There's zero, a little bit, and a lot.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "there were t there was there was one h one bump at ze around zero, which were the native speakers,", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Zero percent error?", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "the non - pathological native speakers.", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "Y yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Then there was another bump at, um, oh, like fifteen or something.", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "This is error you're talking about?", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Oh was it fifteen?", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "whe", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "OK.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "Yeah. Those were the non - natives. And then there was another distinct bump at, like, a hundred, which must have been some problem.", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "Oh, wow! Oh, OK.", "speakerName": "Postdoc A" }, { "text": "I can't imagine that.", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "What is patho what do you mean by pathological?", "speakerName": "Grad G" }, { "text": "Just just something really wrong with.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "I'm sorry, I don't.", "speakerName": "Grad G" }, { "text": "A bug is what I mean,", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "In the recording", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "Oh.", "speakerName": "Grad G" }, { "text": "so that it's like.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "Oh, OK.", "speakerName": "Grad G" }, { "text": "And there was this one meeting, I forget which one it was, where like, uh, six out of the eight channels were all, like had a hundred percent error.", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "I see.", "speakerName": "Grad G" }, { "text": "Which probably means like there was a th the recording interface crashed,", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "Grad G" }, { "text": "or there was a short you know, someone was jiggling with a cord", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "But.", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "or, uh, I extracted it incorrectly,", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "But.", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "it was labeled.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Grad G" }, { "text": "it was transcribed incorrectly, something really bad happened, and I just haven't listened to it yet to find out what it was.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "OK.", "speakerName": "Grad G" }, { "text": "So, if I excluded the pathological ones, by definition, those that had like over ninety - five percent error rate, and the non - natives, then the average error rate was like one point four or something,", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "What we're calling.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Oh. Oh.", "speakerName": "Postdoc A" }, { "text": "which which seemed reasonable given that, you know, the models weren't tuned for for it.", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "Hmm!", "speakerName": "Grad G" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "And the grammar wasn't tuned either.", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "And it didn't matter whether it was the lapel or whether it was the.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "It was just a @ @. I haven't split it up that way,", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "But there's no overlap during the digit readings, so it shouldn't really matter.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "but it would be.", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "Grad G" }, { "text": "No, but there's a little difference,", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "So it should.", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "There's a lot.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "and we haven't looked at it for digits,", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "right?", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Yeah, so I was curious about that.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "And so, cuz because what he was what I was saying when I looked at those things is it it I was almost gonna call it quadrimodal because because there was a whole lot of cases where it was zero percent.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "They just plain got it all right. And then there and then there was another bunch that were couple percent or something.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Yeah. But if you p if you actually histogrammed it, and it was a nice uh, you know, it it was zero was the most of them,", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "A normal. Yeah.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "but then there were the others were sort of decaying from there.", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "Yeah, yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "And then there was the bump for the non - natives and then the pathological ones,", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "I see. I see.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "so.", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "Yeah, cuz some of our non - natives are pretty non - native. So.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "You did you have, uh, something in the report about, uh, about, uh, for f uh, forced alignment?", "speakerName": "Postdoc A" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Have you have you started on that?", "speakerName": "Postdoc A" }, { "text": "Oh, well, yeah, so I've been struggling with the forced alignments. Um. So the scheme that I drew on the board last time where we tried to, um allow reject models for the s speech from other speakers, um, most of the time it doesn't work very well. So, um, and the I haven't done I mean, the only way to check this right now was for me to actually load these into X Waves and, you know, plus the alignments, and s play them and see where the.", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "Hmm.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "And it looks And so I looked at all of the utterances from you, Chuck, in that one conversation, I don't know which You probably know which one I mean, it's where you were on the lapel and Morgan was sitting next to you and we can hear everything Morgan says.", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "Hmm.", "speakerName": "Postdoc A" }, { "text": "But and and some of what you I mean, you also appear quite a bit in that cross - talk. So, I actually went through all of those, there were I think fifty - five segments, um, in in X Waves, and and sort of did a crude check, and more often than not, it it gets it wrong. So there's either the beginning, mostly the beginning word, where th you, um, you know, Chuck talks somewhere into the segment, but the first, um, word of what he says, often \" I \" but it's very reduced \" I, \" that's just aligned to the beginning of someone else's speech, uh in that segment, which is cross - talk. So, um, I'm still tinkering with it, but it might well be that we can't get clean alignments out of this out of those, uh, channels, so.", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "Unless maybe we do this, uh, um, cancellation business.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Right, but that's I mean, that was our plan,", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Yeah, right.", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "but it's clear from Dan that this is not something you can do in a short amount of time.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Oh, the short amount of time thing, right.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "So so we you know, we had spent a lot of time, um, writing up the HLT paper and we wanted to use that, uh, kind of analysis,", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "but the HLT paper has, you know, it's a very crude measure of overlap. It's not really something you could scientifically say is overlap, it's just whether or not the, um, the segments that were all synchronized, whether there was some overlap somewhere.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "c High correlation.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "And, you know, that pointed out some differences, so he thought well if we can do something quick and dirty because Dan said the cross - cancellation, it's not straight - forward. If it were straight - forward then we would try it, but so, it's sort of good to hear that it was not straight - forward, thinking if we can get decent forced alignments, then at least we can do sort of a overall report of what happens with actual overlap in time, but, um.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "I didn't think that his message said it wasn't straight - forward.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Well if we'd just.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "Well", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "I thought he's just saying you have to look over a longer time window when you do it.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Um - hmm.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "and the but there are some issues of this timing, um, in the recordings", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "and.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "So you just have to look over longer time when you're trying to align the things, you can't you can't just look.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Well. are you talking about the fact that the recording software doesn't do time - synchronous? Is that what you're referring to?", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "That seems to me you can do that over the entire file and get a very accurate.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "I don't thi I d I don't think that was the issue.", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "I yeah, that was sort of a side issue.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "I didn't think so either.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "The issue was that you have to you have have you first have to have a pretty good speech detection on the individual channels.", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "And it's dynamic, so I guess it was more dynamic than some simple models would be able t to so so there are some things available, and I don't know too much about this area where if people aren't moving around much than you could apply them, and it should work pretty well if you took care of this recording time difference.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Right, which should be pretty straight forward.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "Which a at least is well defined, and", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "um, but then if you add the dynamic aspect of adapting distances, then it wasn't I guess it just wasn't something that he could do quickly and not in time for us to be able to do something by two weeks from now, so. Well less than a week. So um, so I don't know what we can do if anything, that's sort of worth, you know, a Eurospeech paper at this point.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Well, Andreas, how well did it work on the non - lapel stuff?", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Yeah. That's what I was gonna say.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "I haven't checked those yet.", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "C", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "It's very tedious to check these.", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "Mmm.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Um, we would really need, ideally, a transcriber to time mark the you know, the be at least the beginning and s ends of contiguous speech. Um, and, you know, then with the time marks, you can do an automatic comparison of your of your forced alignments.", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "Because really the the at least in terms of how we were gonna use this in our system was to get an ideal an idea, uh, for each channel about the start and end boundaries.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Oh, MNCM..", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "We don't really care about like intermediate word boundaries, so.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "No, that's how I've been looking at it.", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "I mean, I don't care that the individual words are aligned correctly,", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "but you don't wanna, uh, infer from the alignment that someone spoke who didn't.", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "Right, exactly. So that's why I was wondering if it.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "so, so.", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "I mean, maybe if it doesn't work for lapel stuff, we can just not use that", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "and.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "I haven't I ha just haven't had the time to, um, do the same procedure on one of the so I would need a k I would need a channel that has a speaker whose who has a lot of overlap but s you know, is a non - lapel mike. And, um, where preferably, also there's someone sitting next to them who talks a lot.", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "Hmm!", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "So, I.", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "So a meeting with me in it.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "maybe someone can help me find a good candidate and then I would be willing to", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "We c you know what? Maybe the best way to find that would be to look through these.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "you know, hand", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "Cuz you can see the seat numbers, and then you can see what type of mike they were using. And so we just look for, you know, somebody sitting next to Adam at one of the meetings.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Actually y we can tell from the data that we have,", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "From the insertions, maybe?", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "um, yeah, there's a way to tell.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "fr fr from the.", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "It might not be a single person who's always overlapping that person but any number of people,", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "and, um, if you align the two hypothesis files across the channels, you know, just word alignment, you'd be able to find that. So so I guess that's sort of a last ther there're sort of a few things we could do. One is just do like non - lapels if we can get good enough alignments. Another one was to try to get somehow align Thilo's energy segmentations with what we have. But then you have the problem of not knowing where the words are because these meetings were done before that segmentation. But maybe there's something that could be done.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "What what is why do you need the, um, the forced alignment for the HLT I mean for the Eurospeech paper?", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Well, I guess I I wanted to just do something not on recognition experiments because that's ju way too early, but to be able to report, you know, actual numbers. Like if we if we had hand - transcribed pe good alignments or hand - checked alignments, then we could do this paper. It's not that we need it to be automatic. But without knowing where the real words are, in time.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "So it was to get it was to get more data and better to to squeeze the boundaries in.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "To to know what an overlap really if it's really an overlap, or if it's just a a a segment correlated with an overlap,", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Ah, OK. Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "and I guess that's the difference to me between like a real paper and a sort of, promissory paper. So, um, if we d it might be possible to take Thilo's output and like if you have, um, like right now these meetings are all,", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Ugh! I forgot the digital camera again.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "um,", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Every meeting!", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "you know, they're time - aligned, so if these are two different channels and somebody's talking here and somebody else is talking here, just that word, if Thilo can tell us that there're boundaries here, we should be able to figure that out", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "because the only thing transcribed in this channel is this word. But, um, you know, if there are things.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Two words.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "Yeah, if you have two and they're at the edges, it's like here and here, and there's speech here, then it doesn't really help you, so, um.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Thilo's won't put down two separate marks in that case.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Well it w it would, but, um, we don't know exactly where the words are because the transcriber gave us two words in this time bin", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Thilo's will. But.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "and we don't really know, I mean,", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Well it's a merging problem. If you had a if you had a s if you had a script which would.", "speakerName": "Postdoc A" }, { "text": "yeah it's.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "I've thought about this, um, and I've discussed I've discussed it with Thilo,", "speakerName": "Postdoc A" }, { "text": "I mean, if you have any ideas. I would.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "um, the, I mean, I I in principle I could imagine writing a script which would approximate it to some degree, but there is this problem of slippage,", "speakerName": "Postdoc A" }, { "text": "Well maybe Maybe that will get enough of the cases to be useful.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "yeah.", "speakerName": "Postdoc A" }, { "text": "Right. I mean, that that would be really helpful. That was sort of another possibility.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "You know s cuz it seemed like most of the cases are in fact the single word sorts, or at least a single phrase", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "Well they they can be stretched.", "speakerName": "Postdoc A" }, { "text": "in most of the bins.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "Mmm.", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "I wouldn't make that generalization cuz sometimes people will say, \" And then I \" and there's a long pause", "speakerName": "Postdoc A" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "and finish the sentence and and sometimes it looks coherent and and the I mean it's it's not a simple problem. But it's really And then it's coupled with the problem that sometimes, you know, with with a fricative you might get the beginning of the word cut off and so it's coupled with the problem that Thilo's isn't perfect either. I mean, we've i th it's like you have a merging problem plus so merging plus this problem of, uh, not.", "speakerName": "Postdoc A" }, { "text": "Right. Hmm!", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "y i i if the speech - nonspeech were perfect to begin with, the detector, that would already be an improvement, but that's impossible, you know, i that's too much to ask.", "speakerName": "Postdoc A" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Yes.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "And so i and may you know, I mean, it's I think that there always th there would have to be some hand - tweaking, but it's possible that a script could be written to merge those two types of things. I've I've discussed it with Thilo and I mean in terms of not him doing it, but we we discussed some of the parameters of that and how hard it would be to in principle to write something that would do that.", "speakerName": "Postdoc A" }, { "text": "I mean, I guess in the future it won't be as much as an issue if transcribers are using the tightened boundaries to start with, then we have a good idea of where the forced alignment is constrained to.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Well, it's just, you know, a matter of we had the revolution we had the revolution of improved, uh, interface, um, one month too late,", "speakerName": "Postdoc A" }, { "text": "So I'm no I don't know if this", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Oh. Tools.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "but it's like, you know, it's wonderful to have the revolution,", "speakerName": "Postdoc A" }, { "text": "Oh it's it's a.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "so it's just a matter of of, you know, from now on we'll be able to have things channelized to begin with.", "speakerName": "Postdoc A" }, { "text": "yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Right. And we'll just have to see how hard that is.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "Yeah, that's right.", "speakerName": "Postdoc A" }, { "text": "So so whether the corrections take too much time.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "That's right.", "speakerName": "Postdoc A" }, { "text": "I was just thinking about the fact that if Thilo's missed these short segments, that might be quite time - consuming for them to insert them.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Good point.", "speakerName": "Postdoc A" }, { "text": "But he he also can adjust this minimum time duration constraint and then what you get is noises mostly,", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Postdoc A" }, { "text": "Spurious.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "but that might be OK, an", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "It might be easier to delete something that's wrong than to insert something that's missing.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "Right. And you can also see in the waveform exac", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "What do you think, Jane?", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "If you can feel confident that what the yeah, that there's actually something.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "that you're not gonna miss something,", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Yeah. Cuz then then you just delete it, and you don't have to pick a time.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "I think it's.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Well the problem is I you know I I it's a it's a really good question, and I really find it a pain in the neck to delete things because you have to get the mouse up there on the t on the text line and i and otherwise you just use an arrow to get down I mean, i it depends on how lar th there's so many extra things that would make it one of them harder than the other, or or vice versa. It's not a simple question. But, you know, I mean, in principle, like, you know, if one of them is easier then to bias it towards whichever one's easier.", "speakerName": "Postdoc A" }, { "text": "Yeah, I guess the semantics aren't clear when you delete a segment, right? Because you would say You would have to determine what the surroundings were.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "You could just say it's a noise, though, and write, you know, a post - processor will just all you have to do is just.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "If it's really a noise.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "or just say it's just put \" X, \" you know, like \" not speech \" or something,", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "I think it's easier to add than delete, frankly,", "speakerName": "Postdoc A" }, { "text": "and then you can get Yeah, or", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "because you have to, uh, maneuver around on the on both windows then.", "speakerName": "Postdoc A" }, { "text": "To add or to delete?", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "To delete.", "speakerName": "Postdoc A" }, { "text": "Anyways, so I I guess.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "OK. That Maybe that's an interface issue that might be addressable.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "It's possible.", "speakerName": "Postdoc A" }, { "text": "But I think it's the semantics that are that are questionable to me, that you delete something So let's say someone is talking to here, and then you have a little segment here. Well, is that part of the speech? Is it part of the nonspeech? I mean, w what do you embed it in?", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "There's something nice, though, about keeping, and this is probably another discussion, keeping the stuff that Thilo's detector detected as possible speech and just marking it as not speech than deleting it. Because then when you align it, then the alignment can you can put a reject model or whatever,", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Oh, I see. So then they could just like put Oh that's what you meant by just put an \" X \" there.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "and you're consistent with th the automatic system,", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Uh, that's an interesting idea.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "whereas if you delete it.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "So so all they So that all they would have to do is put like an \" X \" there.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "Yeah, or some, you know, dummy reject mod", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "So blank for blank for silence, \" S \" \" S \" for speech, \" X \" \" X \" for something else.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "whatever, yeah. That's actually a better way to do it cuz the a the forced alignment will probably be more consistent than.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Well, like, I think there's a complication which is that that you can have speech and noise in s", "speakerName": "Postdoc A" }, { "text": "I mean if it's just as easy, but.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "uh, you know, on the same channel, the same speaker, so now sometimes you get a ni microphone pop and, uh, I mean, there're these fuzzy hybrid cases, and then the problem with the boundaries that have to be shifted around. It's not a simple not a simple problem.", "speakerName": "Postdoc A" }, { "text": "Anyway, quick question, though, at a high level do people think, let's just say that we're moving to this new era of like using the, um, pre - segmented t you know, non - synchronous conversations, does it make sense to try to take what we have now, which are the ones that, you know, we have recognition on which are synchronous and not time - tightened, and try to get something out of those for sort of purposes of illustrating the structure and the nature of the meetings, or is it better to just, you know, forget that and tr I mean, it's.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Well, I think we'll have to, eventually. And my hope was that we would be able to use the forced alignment to get it.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "Right. That was everybody's hope.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "But if we can't.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "And maybe we can for the non - lapel, but", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "But if we can't, then maybe we just have to.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "is it worth if we can't then we can fake it even if we're we report, you know, we're wrong twenty percent of the time or ten percent of the time.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Well, I'm thinking are you talking about for a paper, or are talking about for the corpus.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "Uh uh, that's a good question actually.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "I mean cuz for the corpus it would be nice if everything were.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "Actually that's a good question because we'd have to completely redo those meetings, and we have like ten of them now.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "We wouldn't have to re - do them, we would just have to edit them.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "Well, and also, I mean, I still haven't I still haven't given up on forced alignment.", "speakerName": "Postdoc A" }, { "text": "No, you're right, actually.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "I think that when Brian comes, this'll be uh an interesting aspect to ask him as well b", "speakerName": "Postdoc A" }, { "text": "When.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "when Brian Kingsbury comes.", "speakerName": "Postdoc A" }, { "text": "Oh, Brian. You s I thought you said Ryan. And it's like, \" Who's Ryan? \"", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "Yeah, good question.", "speakerName": "Postdoc A" }, { "text": "OK.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "Well, Ryan could come.", "speakerName": "Postdoc A" }, { "text": "Uh, no, that's a good point, though, because for feature extraction like for prosody or something, I mean, the meetings we have now, it's a good chunk of data.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Yep.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "we need to get a decent f OK.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "That's what my hope has been,", "speakerName": "Postdoc A" }, { "text": "So we should at least try it even if we can't,", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "and that's what that's what you know, ever since the the February meeting that I transcribed from last year, forced alignment has been on the on the table as a way of cleaning them up later.", "speakerName": "Postdoc A" }, { "text": "right?", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "On the table, right?", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "And and so I'm hopeful that that's possible. I know that there's complication in the overlap sections and with the lapel mikes,", "speakerName": "Postdoc A" }, { "text": "There's.", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "but.", "speakerName": "Postdoc A" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "I mean, we might be able, at the very worst, we can get transcribers to correct the cases where I mean, you sort of have a good estimate where these places are because the recognition's so poor. Right?", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Yeah, we were never just gonna go with these as the final alignments.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "And so you're.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "I agree. I agree.", "speakerName": "Postdoc A" }, { "text": "We were always gonna run them past somebody.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Absolutely.", "speakerName": "Postdoc A" }, { "text": "So we need some way to push these first chunk of meetings into a state where we get good alignments.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "I'm probably going to spend another day or so trying to improve things by, um, by using, um, acoustic adaptation. Um, the Right now I'm using the unadapted models for the forced alignments, and it's possible that you get considerably better results if you, uh, manage to adapt the, uh, phone models to the speaker and the reject model to the to to all the other speech. Um, so", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "Could you could you at the same time adapt the reject model to the speech from all the other channels?", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "That's what he just said.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "That's what he was saying.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "That's what I just said.", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "Oh, not just the speech from that of the other people from that channel,", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "but the speech from the a actual other channels.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Oh, oh, I see. Um,", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "Oh.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "I don't think so. I don't think that would work,", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "No, it.", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "right? Because you'd A lot of it's dominated by channel properties.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "th Exactly.", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "But what you do wanna do is take the, even if it's klugey, take the segments the synchronous segments, the ones from the HLT paper, where only that speaker was talking.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "So you want to u", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "Use those for adaptation, cuz if you if you use everything, then you get all the cross - talk in the adaptation, and it's just sort of blurred.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "That's a good point.", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "If you.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Yep.", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "And that we know, I mean, we have that. And it's about roughly two - thirds, I mean, very roughly averaged.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "That's not completely negligible. Like a third of it is bad for adaptation or so.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "Cool. I thought it was higher than that, that's pr", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "It really it depends a lot. This is just sort of an overall.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "So.", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "Well I know what we're not turning in to Eurospeech, a redo of the HLT paper.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "That I don't wanna do that,", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Yeah, I'm doing that for AVIOS.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "but.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Yeah. But I think we're oh, Morgan's talk went very well, I think.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Bleep.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Uh, \" bleep \". Yeah, really.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "I think Morgan's talk went very well it woke.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Excellent.", "speakerName": "Postdoc A" }, { "text": "you know, it was really a well presented and got people laughing.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Postdoc A" }, { "text": "Some good jokes in it?", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "Especially the batteried meter popping up,", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "that was hilarious. Right when you were talking about that.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "You know, that wa that was the battery meter saying that it was fully charged,", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "It's full. Yeah.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "You said, \" Speaking about energy \", or something.", "speakerName": "Postdoc A" }, { "text": "But that was funny.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "That was very nice.", "speakerName": "Postdoc A" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "He he he was onto the bullet points about talking about the you know the little hand - held, and trying to get lower power and so on,", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "Po - low power", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "and Microsoft pops up a little window saying \" Your batteries are now fully charged. \"", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "That's great.", "speakerName": "Postdoc A" }, { "text": "Yeah, yeah, yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "I'm thinking about scripting that for my talk, you know, put put a little script in there to say \" Your batteries are low \" right when I'm saying that.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "Yeah. Yeah. No I mean, i in in your case, I mean, you were joking about it, but, I mean, your case the fact that your talking about similar things at a couple of conferences, it's not these are conferences that have d really different emphases. Whereas HLT and and Eurospeech, pretty pretty pretty similar, so I I I can't see really just putting in the same thing,", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Are too close, yeah.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "No, I d I don't think that paper is really.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "but.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "the HLT paper is really more of a introduction - to - the - project paper, and, um.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Yeah, for Eurospeech we want some results if we can get them.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "Well, yeah, it it's probably wouldn't make sense,", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Or some or some I mean, I would see Eurospeech if we have some Eurospeech papers, these will be paper p p uh, submissions.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "but.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "These will be things that are particular things, aspects of it that we're looking at, rather than, you know, attempt at a global paper about it.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Right, right.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Detail, yeah. Overall.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "I did go through one of these meetings. I had, uh, one of the transcribers go through and tighten up the bins on one of the, uh, NSA meetings, and then I went through afterwards and double - checked it so that one is really very very accurate.", "speakerName": "Postdoc A" }, { "text": "Oh.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "I men I mentioned the link. I sent You know that one?", "speakerName": "Postdoc A" }, { "text": "Oh, so.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "The which one? I'm sorry.", "speakerName": "Grad G" }, { "text": "Um, I'm trying to remember I don't remember the number off hand.", "speakerName": "Postdoc A" }, { "text": "Those are all.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "It's one of the NSA's. I sent email before the conference, before last week.", "speakerName": "Postdoc A" }, { "text": "Oh, OK.", "speakerName": "Grad G" }, { "text": "Bef - What I mean is Wednesday, Thursday.", "speakerName": "Postdoc A" }, { "text": "That might might have been the one one of the ones that we did.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Grad G" }, { "text": "I'm sure that that one's accurate, I've been through it myself.", "speakerName": "Postdoc A" }, { "text": "So that might actually be useful but they're all non - native speakers.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "So we could compare before and after", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "OK.", "speakerName": "Grad G" }, { "text": "and see.", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "Yeah. Yeah, that's what I was gonna say. The problem with those, they're all German.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "oh, Darn!", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "Yeah, that's the problem with the NSA speakers.", "speakerName": "Grad G" }, { "text": "And e and e and extremely hard to follow, like word - wise,", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "So.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "I bet the transcri I mean, I have no idea what they're talking about,", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Grad G" }, { "text": "I corrected it for a number of the words.", "speakerName": "Postdoc A" }, { "text": "so,", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "I'm sure that, um, they're they're accurate now.", "speakerName": "Postdoc A" }, { "text": "um,", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Uh, actually I have to to go.", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "I mean, this is tough for a language model probably.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "Grad G" }, { "text": "but but that might be useful just for speech.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Well.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "OK, Andreas is leaving leaving the building. Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "See ya.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "See ya. I don't think we'll go much longer.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Um, oh, before you l go I guess it's alright for you to talk a little without the mike I noticed you adjusting the mike a lot, did it not fit you well? Oh.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "Well I won I noticed when you turned your head, it would it would tilt.", "speakerName": "Postdoc A" }, { "text": "Maybe it wasn't just tightened enough, or.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "Maybe the yeah, the s thing that you have tightened @ @,", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Actually if if you have a larger head, that mike's gotta go farther away which means the the balance is gonna make it wanna tip down.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "oh.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "OK. Anyway.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "Yeah. OK, see ya.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Cuz, I'm just thinking, you know, we were we're we've been talking about changing the mikes, uh, for a while,", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Postdoc A" }, { "text": "and if these aren't acoustically they seem really good, but if they're not comfortable, we have the same problems we have with these stupid things.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "I think it's com This is the first time I've worn this, I find it very comfortable.", "speakerName": "Postdoc A" }, { "text": "I find it very comfortable too, but, uh, it looked like Andreas was having problems, and I think Morgan was saying it.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "Well, but I had it on I had it on this morning and it was fine.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Can I see that?", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Oh, oh you did wear it this morning?", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "OK, it's off, so you can put it on.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "I yeah, I don't want it on, I just I just want to, um, say what I think is a problem with this. If you are wearing this over your ears and you've got it all the way out here, then the balance is gonna want to pull it this way.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "Where as if somebody with a smaller head has it back here,", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "It's more balanced.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "right? Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Oh!", "speakerName": "Postdoc A" }, { "text": "Then it then it falls back this way so it's.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "So we have to", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Well wh what it's supposed to do is the backstrap is supposed to be under your crown, and so that should be should be.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "Ah.", "speakerName": "Postdoc A" }, { "text": "if it's right against your head there, which is what it's supposed to be, that balances it so it doesn't slide up.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "So this is supposed to be under that little protuberance.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Yep, right right below if you feel the back of your head, you feel a little lump,", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "um, and so it's supposed to be right under that.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "So it's really supposed to go more like this than like this.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Yes, exactly.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "But then isn't that going to Well, I guess you can control that.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "That that that tilts, right? In lots and lots of different ways.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "So I'm not saying anything about bias towards small headsize,", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "About heads?", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "but does seem, uh.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "It would be an advantage.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Well, wonder if it's if if he was wearing it over his hair instead of under his hair.", "speakerName": "Postdoc A" }, { "text": "Well, we should We shou we should work on compressing the heads, and.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "I think probably it was Yeah. It probably just wasn't tight enough to the back of his head. I mean, so the directions do talk about bending it to your size, which is not really what we want.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "The other thing that would do it would be to hang a five pound weight off the back.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Yeah", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "that's good!", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "What did you say?", "speakerName": "Postdoc A" }, { "text": "A little,", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "wh", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "Hang a five pound weight off the off the back.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Hang a five pound weight off the back.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "um,", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "We did that.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "Weight.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "We at Boeing I used I was doing augmented reality so they had head - mounts on, and we we had a little jury - rigged one with a welder's helmet,", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "Counter - balance.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "and we had just a bag with a bunch of marbles in it as a counter - balance.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "Or maybe this could be helpful just for evening the conversation between people. If people those who talk a lot have to wear heavier weights or something, and.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Yeah!", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "and um,", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Anyway.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "um, so, uh, what was I gonna say? Oh, yeah, I was gonna say, uh, I had these, uh, conversations with NIST folks also while I was there and and, uh, um, so they they have their their plan for a room, uh, with, um, mikes in the middle of the table, and, uh, close - mounted mikes,", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Yep.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "and they're talking about close - mounted and lapels, just cuz", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "And arrays,", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "sort of and the array.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "And arrays,", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "Yeah, so they were.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "which is the i interesting.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "yep. And cameras.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "And yeah, like multiple multiple video cameras coverin covering every everybody every place in the room,", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "and video, right.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "uh, the yeah the the mikes in the middle, the head - mounted mikes, the lapel mikes, the array, uh, with well, there's some discussion of fifty - nine,", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Fifty - nine elements.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "they might go down to fifty - seven Because, uh, there is, uh, some pressure from a couple people at the meeting for them to use a KEMAR head. I forget what KEMAR, uh, stands for,", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "but what it is is it's dummy head that is very specially designed,", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Oh, that's right.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "and and and, so what they're actually doing is they're really there's really two recording systems.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Yep.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "That's a great idea.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "So they may not be precisely synchronous, but the but there's two two recording systems, one with, I think, twenty - four channels, and one with sixty - four channels. And the sixty - four channel one is for the array, but they've got some empty channels there, and anyway they like they're saying they may give up a couple or something if for for the KEMAR head if they go go with that.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Right. Yeah, it is a good idea.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "So.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Yeah, h uh, J Jonathan Fiscus did say that, uh, they have lots of software for doing calibration for skew and offset between channels", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "and that they've found that's just not a big deal.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "So.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "Yeah, I'm not too worried about that. I was thinking.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "But they're still planning to do like fake.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Scenario - based.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "they have to do something like that,", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Y right.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "right.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Their their legal issues won't allow them to do otherwise.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "But it sounded like they were pretty well thought out", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "Yeah, th that's true.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "and they're they're gonna be real meetings,", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Postdoc A" }, { "text": "it's just that they're with str with people who would not be meeting otherwise.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "Did did they give a talk on this or was this informal?", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "So.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "No.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "No.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "No, we just had some discussions, various discussions with them.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "It's just informal.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm. Mm - hmm. Yeah.", "speakerName": "Postdoc A" }, { "text": "Yeah, I also sat and chatted with several of the NIST folks. They seemed like a good group.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "What was the, um the paper by, um, Lori Lamel that you mentioned?", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Um, yeah, we sh we should just have you have you read it, but, I mea ba i i uh, we've all got these little proceedings,", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Mmm, yeah.", "speakerName": "Postdoc A" }, { "text": "but, um, basically, it was about, um, uh, going to a new task where you have insufficient data and using using data from something else, and adapting, and how well that works. Uh, so in in fact it was pretty related to what Liz and Andreas did, uh, except that this was not with meeting stuff, it was with", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "uh, like I think they s didn't they start off with Broadcast News system? And then they went to.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "The - their Broadcast News was their acoustic models and then all the other tasks were much simpler.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "So they were command and control and that sort of thing.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "TI - digits was one of them, and, uh, Wall Street Journal.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Yep.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "What was their rough what was their conclusion?", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Yeah, read Wall Street Journal. It works.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Well, it's it's a good paper, I mean.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Yeah, yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Yeah. Yeah, that was one of the ones that I liked.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "Bring the.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "That It not only works, in some cases it was better, which I thought was pretty interesting, but that's cuz they didn't control for parameters. So.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "Probably.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "You know, the Broadcast News nets were not nets,", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Did they ever try going going the other direction from simpler task to more complicated tasks,", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "acoustic models were a lot more complex.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "or?", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "n Not in that paper.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "That might be hard.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Yeah, well, one of the big problems with that is is often the simpler task isn't fully doesn't have all the phones in it,", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "and that that makes it very hard.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "But I've done the same thing. I've been using Broadcast News nets for digits,", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "like for the spr speech proxy thing that I did? That's what I did.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "Yeah, sure.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "So. It works.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "Yeah. Yeah, and they have I mean they have better adaptation than we had than that that system,", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Yep.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "so they um,", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "You mean they have some.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "yeah, we should probably what would actually what we should do, uh, I haven't said anything about this, but probably the five of us should pick out a paper or two that that, uh, you know, got our interest, and we should go around the room at one of the Tuesday lunch meetings and say, you know, what what was good about the conference,", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Present. Yep. Do a trip report.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Well, the summarization stuff was interesting, I mean, I don't know anything about that field, but for this proposal on meeting summarization, um, I mean, it's sort of a far cry because they weren't working with meeting type data, but he got sort of an overview on some of the different approaches,", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "Do you remember who the groups were that we're doing?", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "so. Well there're this was the last day,", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "A lot of different ones.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "R I think Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Postdoc A" }, { "text": "but, I mean, there's that's a huge field and probably the groups there may not be representative of the field, I I don't know exactly that everyone submits to this particular conference,", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Was were there folks from BBN presenting?", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "but yet there was, let's see, this was on the last day, Mitre, BBN, and, um, Prager.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Mitre, BBN, IBM. Uh,", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "Maryland.", "speakerName": "Postdoc A" }, { "text": "um, I wo it was.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Columbia have anything? No.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "no it was.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Wasn't Who who who did the order one?", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "this was Wednesday morning. The sentence ordering one, was that Barselou, and these guys?", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Ugh! I'm just so bad at that.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "Oh.", "speakerName": "Postdoc A" }, { "text": "Anyway, I I it's in the program, I should have read it to remind myself, but that's sort of useful and I think like when Mari and Katrin and Jeff are here it'd be good to figure out some kinds of things that we can start doing maybe just on the transcripts cuz we already have.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Yeah, we do have word transcripts.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "you know, yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "So.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "Well, I like the idea that Adam had of of, um, z maybe generating minutes based on some of these things that we have because it would be easy to to to do that just, you know, and and", "speakerName": "Postdoc A" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "it has to be, though, someone from this group because of the technical nature of the thing.", "speakerName": "Postdoc A" }, { "text": "Someone who actually does take notes, um, I'm very bad at note - taking.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "But I think what's interesting is there's all these different evaluations, like just, you know, how do you evaluate whether the summary is good or not,", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "I always write down the wrong things.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "I do take notes.", "speakerName": "Postdoc A" }, { "text": "and that's what's was sort of interesting to me is that there's different ways to do it,", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "A judge.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "and.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Was SRA one of the groups talking about summarization, no?", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Yep.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "Hm - umm. No.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "It was an interesting session. One of those w", "speakerName": "Postdoc A" }, { "text": "And as I said, I like the Microsoft talk on scaling issues in, uh, word sense disambiguation,", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "that was interesting.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "Yeah, that was an interesting discussion,", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "The.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "uh, I", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "It it it was the only one It was the only one that had any sort of real disagreement about.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "The data issue comes up all the ti", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Well, I didn't have as much disagreement as I would have liked,", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "So.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "but I didn't wanna I wouldn I didn't wanna get into it because, uh, you know, it was the application was one I didn't know anything about,", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Yep.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "uh, it just would have been, you know, me getting up to be argumentative, but but, uh, I mean, the missing thi so so what they were saying it's one of these things is you know, all you need is more data, sort of But I mea i wh it @ @ that's that's dissing it, uh, improperly, I mean, it was a nice study. Uh, they were doing this it wasn't word - sense disambiguation, it was.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Yeah yeah yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Well, it sort of was.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "was it w was it word - sense? Yes.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "But it was it was a very simple case of \" to \" versus \" too \" versus \" two \" and \" there \", \" their \", \" they're \".", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "And there and their and.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Yeah, yeah. OK.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "and that you could do better with more data, I mean, that's clearly statistically.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "And so, what they did was they had these different kinds of learning machines, and they had different amounts of data, and so they did like, you know, eight different methods that everybody, you know, uh, argues about about, \" Oh my my kind of learning machine is better than your kind of learning machine. \" And, uh, they were started off with a million words that they used, which was evidently a number that a lot of people doing that particular kind of task had been using. So they went up, being Microsoft, they went up to a billion. And then they had this log scale showing a you know, and and naturally everything gets.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Them being beep, they went off to a billion.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "they well, it's a big company, I didn't I didn't mean it as a ne anything negative,", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "but i i i", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "You mean the bigger the company the more words they use for training?", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Well, I think the reason they can do that, is that they assumed that text that they get off the web, like from Wall Street Journal, is correct, and edit it.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "So that's what they used as training data. It's just saying if it's in this corpus it's correct.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "OK. But, I mean, yes. Of course there was the kind of effect that, you know, one would expect that uh that you got better and better performance with more and more data. Um, but the the real point was that the the different learning machines are sort of all over the place, and and by by going up significantly in data you can have much bigger effect then by switching learning machines and furthermore which learning machine was on top kind of depended on where you were in this picture, so,", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "This was my concern about the recognizer in Aurora.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "uh, That.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "That the differences we're seeing in the front - end is b", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Are irrelevant.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "are irrelevant once you get a real recognizer at the back - end.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "If you add more data? Or.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "You know?", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Huh.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Yeah, could well be. So so, I mean, that was that was kind of, you know, it's a good point, but the problem I had with it was that the implications out of this was that, uh, the kind of choices you make about learning machines were therefore irrelevant which is not at n t as for as I know in in tasks I'm more familiar with @ @ is not at all true. What i what is is true is that different learning machines have different properties, and you wanna know what those properties are. And someone else sort of implied that well we s you know, a all the study of learning machine we still don't know what those properties are. We don't know them perfectly, but we know that some kinds use more memory and and some other kinds use more computation and some are are hav have limited kind of discrimination, but are just easy to use, and others are.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "But doesn't their conclusion just sort of you could have guessed that before they even started? Because if you assume that these learning things get better and better and better,", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "You would guess.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "then as you approach there's a point where you can't get any better, right? You get everything right.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "It's just no.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "But.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "So they're all approaching.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "No, but there was still a spread. They weren't all up They weren't converging.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "But what I'm saying is that th they have to, as they all get better, they have to get closer together.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "It w", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "They were all still spread. But they Right, right. Sure. But they hadn't even come close to that point. All the tasks were still improving when they hit a billion.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "But they're all going the same way, right? So you have to get closer.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Eventually. O one would", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "But they didn't get closer.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "Oh they didn't?", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Well.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "They just switched position.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "well that's getting cl I mean, yeah, the spread was still pretty wide that's th that's true,", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Yep.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "but but, uh, I think it would be irntu intu intuition that this would be the case, but, uh, to really see it and to have the intuition is quite different, I mean, I think somebody w w let's see who was talking about earlier that the effect of having a lot more data is quite different in Switchboard than it is in in Broadcast News,", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Well it's different for different tasks.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Yeah. It was Liz. Yeah.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "So it depends a lot on whether, you know, it disambiguation is exactly the case where more data is better, right? You're you're you can assume similar distributions,", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "but if you wanted to do disambiguation on a different type of, uh, test data then your training data, then that extra data wouldn't generalize,", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "so.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "But, I think one of their p They they had a couple points. w Uh, I think one of them was that \" Well, maybe simpler algorithms and more data are is better \". Less memory, faster operation, simpler. Right? Because their simplest, most brain - dead algorithm did pretty darn well", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "when you got gave it a lot more data. And then also they were saying, \" Well, m You have access to a lot more data. Why are you sticking with a million words? \" I mean, their point was that this million - word corpus that everyone uses is apparently ten or fifteen years old. And everyone is still using it, so.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "Yeah. But anyway, I I I think it's it's just the the i it's it's it's not really the conclusion they came to so much, as the conclusion that some of the, uh, uh, commenters in the crowd came up with", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "But we could talk about this stuff, I think this would be fun to do. Right.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "that, uh, you know, this therefore is further evidence that, you know, more data is really all you should care about, and that I thought was just kind of going too far the other way,", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Machine - learning.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "and and the the, uh, one one person ga g g got up and made a a brief defense, uh, but it was a different kind of grounds, it was that that, uh, i w the reason people were not using so much data before was not because they were stupid or didn't realize data was important, but in fact th they didn't have it available. Um, but the other point to make a again is that, uh, machine learning still does matter, but it it matters more in some situations than in others, and it and also there's there's not just mattering or not mattering, but there's mattering in different ways. I mean, you might be in some situation where you care how much memory you're using, or you care, you know, what recall time is,", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "or you care, you know, and and.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Or you only have a million words for your some new task.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "Yeah, or or, uh.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Or done another language, or I mean, you so there's papers on portability and rapid prototyping and blah - blah - blah,", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Yep.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "and then there's people saying, \" Oh, just add more data. \"", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "And there's cost!", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "So, these are like two different religions, basically.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm. Cost.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "There's just plain cost,", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Yeah. That's a big one.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "you know, so so these, I mean th the in the in the speech side, the thing that @ @ always occurs to me is that if you if you uh one person has a system that requires ten thousand hours to train on, and the other only requires a hundred, and they both do about the same because the hundred hour one was smarter, that's that's gonna be better. because people, I mean, there isn't gonna be just one system that people train on", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Yep.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "and then that's it for the r for all of time. I mean, people are gonna be doing other different things, and so it these these things matters matter.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Yeah, that's it.", "speakerName": "Postdoc A" }, { "text": "Yeah, so that's one of the slides they put up.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "So, I mean, this was a very provocative slide. She put this up, and it was like this is this p people kept saying, \" Can I see that slide again? \"", "speakerName": "Postdoc A" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Yeah,", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "and then they'd make a comment, and one person said, well - known person said, um, you know, \" Before you dismiss forty - five years including my work \"", "speakerName": "Postdoc A" }, { "text": "yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Forty - five years of research.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Grad G" }, { "text": "But th you know, the same thing has happened in computational linguistics, right? You look at the ACL papers coming out, and now there's sort of a turn back towards, OK we've learned statistic you know, we're basically getting what we expect out of some statistical methods, and, you know, the there's arguments on both sides,", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Yep.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "so.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "I think the matters is the thing that that was misleading.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "That was very offending, very offending.", "speakerName": "Postdoc A" }, { "text": "Yeah, yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Is that all all of them are based on all the others, right? Just, you you can't say.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "Maybe they should have said \" focus \" or something.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Yeah. I mean, so. And I'm saying the same thing happened with speech recognition, right? For a long time people were hand - c coding linguistic rules and then they discovered machine - learning worked better. And now they're throwing more and more data and worrying perhaps worrying less and less about, uh, the exact details of the algorithms.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "And and then you hit this.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Except when they have a Eurospeech paper.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Postdoc A" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Anyway.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "Anyway, tea is tea is, uh, starting.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Shall we read some digits? Are we gonna do one at a time? Or should we read them all agai at once again.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "Let's do it all at once.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Yeah, that's good.", "speakerName": "Postdoc A" }, { "text": "We @ @ let's try that again.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Yes! So, and maybe we won't laugh this time also.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "OK. So remember to read the transcript number so that, uh, everyone knows that what it is. And ready?", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Postdoc A" }, { "text": "Three, two, one.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "Boy, is that ever efficient.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Yep. That's really fast.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "Yeah. 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c79739f1b48346d2860414cdab126381	{ "meetingId": "Bro024", "transcriptSegments": [ { "text": "And we're on.", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "OK. Might wanna close the door so that Uh, Stephane will.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "I'll get it.", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "Yeah", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "Hey Dave? Could you go ahead and turn on, uh, Stephane's.", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "So that's the virtual Stephane over there.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "OK.", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "Do you use a PC for recording? Or.", "speakerName": "Professor G" }, { "text": "Uh, yeah, a Linux box. Yeah. It's got, uh, like sixteen channels going into it.", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "Uh - huh. Uh - huh. The quality is quite good? Or?", "speakerName": "Professor G" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm. Yeah, so far, it's been pretty good.", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Professor G" }, { "text": "Yeah. So, uh, yeah the suggestion was to have these guys start to.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "OK. Why don't you go ahead, Dave?", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "OK. Um, so, yeah, the this past week I've been main mainly occupied with, um, getting some results, u from the SRI system trained on this short Hub - five training set for the mean subtraction method. And, um, I ran some tests last night. But, um, c the results are suspicious. Um, it's, um, cuz they're the baseline results are worse than, um, Andreas than results Andreas got previously. And it could have something to do with, um.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "That's on digits?", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "That's on digits. It c it it could h it could have something to do with, um, downsampling.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "Hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "That's that's worth looking into. Um, d and, um, ap ap apart from that, I guess the the main thing I have t ta I have to talk is, um, where I'm planning to go over the next week. Um. So I've been working on integrating this mean subtraction approach into the SmartKom system. And there's this question of, well, so, um, in my tests before with HTK I found it worked it worked the best with about twelve seconds of data used to estimate the mean, but, we'll often have less in the SmartKom system. Um. So I think we'll use as much data as we have at a particular time, and we'll we'll concatenate utterances together, um, to get as much data as we possibly can from the user. But, um, there's a question of how to set up the models. So um, we could train the models. If we think twelve seconds is ideal we could train the models using twelve seconds to calculate the mean, to mean subtract the training data. Or we could, um, use some other amount. So like I did an experiment where I, um, was using six seconds in test, um, but, for I tried twelve seconds in train. And I tried, um, um, the same in train I'm a I tried six seconds in train. And six seconds in train was about point three percent better. Um, and um, it's not clear to me yet whether that's something significant. So I wanna do some tests and, um, actually make some plots of, um for a particular amount of data and test what happens if you vary the amount of data in train.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "Uh, Guenter, I don't know if you t followed this stuff but this is, uh, a uh, uh, long - term long - term window F F Yeah. Yeah, he you talked about it.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "Yeah, we we spoke about it already,", "speakerName": "Professor G" }, { "text": "Oh, OK. So you know what he's doing.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor G" }, { "text": "Alright.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "y s so I was I actually ran the experiments mostly and I I was I was hoping to have the plots with me today. I just didn't get to it. But, um yeah, I wou I would be curious about people's feedback on this cuz I'm @ @ I p I think there are some I think it's it's kind of like a a bit of a tricky engineering problem. I'm trying to figure out what's the optimal way to set this up. So, um, I'll try to make the plots and then put some postscript up on my on my web page. And I'll mention it in my status report if people wanna take a look.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "You could clarify something for me. You're saying point three percent, you take a point three percent hit, when the training and testing links are don't match or something?", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "Hello.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Is that what it is?", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "w Well, it c", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "Or?", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "I I don't think it it's just for any mismatch you take a hit.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "i In some cases it might be u better to have a mismatch. Like I think I saw something like like if you only have two seconds in test, or, um, maybe it was something like four seconds, you actually do a little better if you, um, train on six seconds than if you train on four seconds.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "Yeah. Right.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "Um, but the case, uh with the point three percent hit was using six seconds in test, um, comparing train on twelve seconds versus train on six seconds.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "And which was worse?", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "The train on twelve seconds.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "OK. But point three percent, uh, w from what to what? That's point three percent.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "On The the the accuracies w went from it was something vaguely like ninety - five point six accuracy, um, improved to ninety - five point nine wh when I.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "So four point four to four point one.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "OK.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "So yeah. So about a about an eight percent, uh, seven or eight percent relative?", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "OK.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "Uh, Yeah. Well, I think in a p You know, if if you were going for an evaluation system you'd care. But if you were doing a live system that people were actually using nobody would notice. It's uh, I think the thing is to get something that's practical, that that you could really use.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "Huh. That's that's interesting. Alright, the e uh, I see your point. I guess I was thinking of it as, um, an interesting research problem. The how to g I was thinking that for the ASRU paper we could have a section saying, \" For SmartKom, we we d in we tried this approach in, uh, interactive system \", which I don't think has been done before.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "Yeah. Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "And and then there was two research questions from that.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "And one is the k does it still work if you just use the past history?", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "Alright, and the other was this question of, um what I was just talking about now. So I guess that's why I thought it was interesting.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "I mean, a short - time FFT short - time cepstrum calculation, uh, mean u mean calculation work that people have in commercial systems, they do this all the time. They the they calculate it from previous utterances and then use it, you know.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "Yeah, um.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "But but, uh, as you say, there hasn't been that much with this long long - time, uh, spectra work.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "Oh, o Oh, OK.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "Uh,", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "So that's that's that's standard. Um.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "Yeah. Pretty common.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "OK.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "Yeah. Um, but, u uh, yes. No, it is interesting. And the other thing is, I mean, there's two sides to these really small, uh, gradations in performance. Um, I mean, on the one hand in a practical system if something is, uh, four point four percent error, four point one percent error, people won't really tell be able to tell the difference. On the other hand, when you're doing, uh, research, you may, eh you might find that the way that you build up a change from a ninety - five percent accurate system to a ninety - eight percent accurate system is through ten or twelve little things that you do that each are point three percent. So so the they they it's I don't mean to say that they're they're irrelevant. Uh, they are relevant. But, um, i for a demo, you won't see it.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm. Right. OK.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "And, um, Let's l let's see. Um, OK. And then there's um, another thing I wanna start looking at, um, wi is, um, the choice of the analysis window length. So I've just been using two seconds just because that's what Carlos did before. Uh, I wrote to him asking about he chose the two seconds. And it seemed like he chose it a bit informally. So, um, with the with the HTK set - up I should be able to do some experiments, on just varying that length, say between one and three seconds, in a few different reverberation conditions, um, say this room and also a few of the artificial impulse responses we have for reverberation, just, um, making some plots and seeing how they look. And, um, so, with the the sampling rate I was using, one second or two seconds or four seconds is at a power of two um, number of samples and, um, I'll I'll jus f for the ones in between I guess I'll just zero - pad.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm. I guess one thing that might also be an issue, uh, cuz part of what you're doing is you're getting a a spectrum over a bunch of different kinds of speech sounds. Um, and so it might matter how fast someone was talking for instance.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "Oh.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "You know, if you if if if there's a lot of phones in one second maybe you'll get a a really good sampling of all these different things, and and, uh, on the other hand if someone's talking slowly maybe you'd need more. So.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "Huh.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "I don't know if you have some samples of faster or slower speech but it might make a difference. I don't know.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "Uh, yeah, I don't I don't think the TI - digits data that I have, um, i is would be appropriate for that.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "Yeah, probably not. Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "But what do you What about if I w I fed it through some kind of, um, speech processing algorithm that changed the speech rate?", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "Yeah, but then you'll have the degradation of of, uh, whatever you do uh, added onto that. But maybe. Yeah, maybe if you get something that sounds that that's does a pretty job at that.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "Yeah. Well, uh, just if you think it's worth looking into.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "You could imagine that.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "I mean, it it is getting a little away from reverberation.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "Um, yeah. It's just that you're making a choice uh, I was thinking more from the system aspect, if you're making a choice for SmartKom, that that that it might be that it's it c the optimal number could be different, depending on.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "Yeah. Right.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "Could be. I don't know.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "And and th the third thing, um, uh, is, um, Barry explained LDA filtering to me yesterday. And so, um, Mike Shire in his thesis um, did a a series of experiments, um, training LDA filters in d on different conditions. And you were interested in having me repeat this for for this mean subtraction approach? Is is that right? Or for these long analysis windows, I guess, is the right way to put it.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "I guess, the the the issue I was the general issue I was bringing up was that if you're have a moving moving window, uh, a wa a a set of weights times things that, uh, move along, shift along in time, that you have in fact a linear time invariant filter. And you just happened to have picked a particular one by setting all the weights to be equal. And so the issue is what are some other filters that you could use, uh, in that sense of \" filter \"?", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "And, um, as I was saying, I think the simplest thing to do is not to train anything, but just to do some sort of, uh, uh, hamming or Hanning, uh, kind of window, kind of thing,", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "Right. Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "just sort of to de - emphasize the jarring. So I think that would sort of be the first thing to do. But then, yeah, the LDA i uh, is interesting because it would sort of say well, suppose you actually trained this up to do the best you could by some criterion, what would the filter look like then?", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "Uh - huh.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "Uh, and, um, that's sort of what we're doing in this Aur - Aurora stuff. And, uh, it's still not clear to me in the long run whether the best thing to do would be to do that or to have some stylized version of the filter that looks like these things you've trained up, because you always have the problem that it's trained up for one condition and it isn't quite right for another. So. uh that's that's why that's why RASTA filter has actually ended up lasting a long time, people still using it quite a bit, because y you don't change it. So doesn't get any worse. Uh,", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "Huh.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "Anyway.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "o OK. So, um, a actually I was just thinking about what I was asking about earlier, wi which is about having less than say twelve seconds in the SmartKom system to do the mean subtraction. You said in systems where you use cepstral mean subtraction, they concatenate utterances and, do you know how they address this issue of, um, testing versus training? Can.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "Go ahead.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "I think what they do is they do it always on - line, I mean, that you just take what you have from the past, that you calculate the mean of this and subtract the mean.", "speakerName": "Professor G" }, { "text": "OK. Um.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "And then you can yeah, you you can increase your window whi while you get while you are getting more samples.", "speakerName": "Professor G" }, { "text": "OK, um, and, um, so so in tha in that case, wh what do they do when they're t um, performing the cepstral mean subtraction on the training data? So because you'd have hours and hours of training data. So do they cut it off and start over? At intervals? Or?", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "So do you have uh, you you mean you have files which are hours of hours long? Or?", "speakerName": "Professor G" }, { "text": "Oh, well, no. I guess not. But.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "Yeah. I mean, usually you have in the training set you have similar conditions, I mean, file lengths are, I guess the same order or in the same size as for test data, or aren't they?", "speakerName": "Professor G" }, { "text": "OK. But it's OK. So if someone's interacting with the system, though, uh, Morgan uh, Morgan said that you would tend to, um, chain utterances together um, r", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "Well, I think what I was s I thought what I was saying was that, um, at any given point you are gonna start off with what you had from before.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "Oh.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "From and so if you're splitting things up into utterances So, for instance, in a dialogue system, where you're gonna be asking, uh, you know, th for some information, there's some initial th something. And, you know, the first time out you you might have some general average. But you you d you don't have very much information yet. But at after they've given one utterance you've got something. You can compute your mean cepstra from that,", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "and then can use it for the next thing that they say, uh, so that, you know, the performance should be better that second time. Um, and I think the heuristics of exactly how people handle that and how they handle their training I'm sure vary from place to place. But I think the ideally, it seems to me anyway, that you you would wanna do the same thing in training as you do in test. But that's that's just, uh, a prejudice. And I think anybody working on this with some particular task would experiment.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "Right. I g I guess the question I had was, um, amount of data e u was the amount of data that you'd give it to, um update this estimate. Because say you if you have say five thousand utterances in your training set, um, and you you keep the mean from the last utterance, by the time it gets to the five thousandth utterance.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "No, but those are all different people with different I mean, i in y So for instance, in in the in a telephone task, these are different phone calls. So you don't wanna @ @ chain it together from a from a different phone call.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "OK, so so so they would g s", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "So it's within speaker, within phone call,", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor G" }, { "text": "if it's a dialogue system, it's within whatever this characteristic you're trying to get rid of is expected to be consistent over,", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "Hmm.", "speakerName": "Professor G" }, { "text": "r and it.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "right?", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "right. OK, so you'd you and so in training you would start over at at every new phone call or at every new speaker. Yeah,", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "OK.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "Yeah. Now, you know, maybe you'd use something from the others just because at the beginning of a call you don't know anything, and so you might have some kind of general thing that's your best guess to start with. But So, s I I you know, a lot of these things are proprietary so we're doing a little bit of guesswork here. I mean, what do comp what do people do who really face these problems in the field? Well, they have companies and they don't tell other people exactly what they do.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "R right.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "But but I mean, when you the the hints that you get from what they when they talk about it are that they do they all do something like this.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "Right, OK. I see. Bec - because I so this SmartKom task first off, it's this TV and movie information system.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "Yeah, but you might have somebody who's using it", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "And Yeah.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "and then later you might have somebody else who's using it.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "Yeah. Right. Right. I I see.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "And so you'd wanna set some.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "I was I was about to say. So if if you ask it \" What what movies are on TV tonight? \",", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "Yeah. Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "if I look at my wristwatch when I say that it's about two seconds. The way I currently have the mean subtraction, um, set up, the the analysis window is two seconds.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "So what you just said, about what do you start with, raises a question of what do I start with then?", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "I guess it because.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "Well, w OK, so in that situation, though, th maybe what's a little different there, is I think you're talking about there's only one it it it also depends we're getting a little off track here.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "Oh, right.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "r But but but Uh, there's been some discussion about whether the work we're doing in that project is gonna be for the kiosk or for the mobile or for both. And I think for this kind of discussion it matters. If it's in the kiosk, then the physical situation is the same. It's gonna you know, the exact interaction of the microphone's gonna differ depending on the person and so forth. But at least the basic acoustics are gonna be the same. So f if it's really in one kiosk, then I think that you could just chain together and and you know, as much as much speech as possible to because what you're really trying to get at is the is the reverberation characteristic.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "But in in the case of the mobile, uh, presumably the acoustic's changing all over the place.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "And in that case you probably don't wanna have it be endless because you wanna have some sort of it's it's not a question of how long do you think it's you can get an approximation to a stationary something, given that it's not really stationary.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "Right. Right.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "So.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "Hmm.", "speakerName": "Professor G" }, { "text": "And I I g I guess I s just started thinking of another question, which is, for for the very first frame, w what what do I do if I'm if I take if I use that frame to calculate the mean, then I'm just gonna get n nothing.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "Um,", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "so I should probably have some kind of default mean for the first f couple of frames?", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "Yeah. Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "OK.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "Yeah. Or subtract nothing. I mean, it's.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "Or subtract nothing. And and that's that's I guess that's something that's p people have figured out how to deal with in cepstral mean subtraction as well?", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "Yeah, yeah. Yeah, people do something. They they, uh, they have some, um, uh, in in cepstral mean subtraction, for short - term window analysis windows, as is usually done, you're trying to get rid of some very general characteristic. And so, uh, if you have any other information about what a general kind of characteristic would be, then you you can do it there.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "You can also you can also reflect the data. So you take, uh you know, I'm not sure how many frames you need.", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "Uh - huh.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "But you take that many from the front and flip it around to a as the negative value.", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "Yeah, that's Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "So you can always.", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "The other thing is that and and I I remember B B N doing this, is that if you have a multi - pass system, um, if the first pass ta it takes most of the computation, the second and the third pass could be very, very quick,", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "Mmm.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "just looking at a relatively small n small, uh, space of hypotheses.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "Uh - huh.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "Then you can do your first pass without any subtraction at all.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "Oh.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "And then your second pass, uh, uh, eliminates those most of those hypotheses by, uh by having an improved improved version o of the analysis.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "OK. OK.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "So.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "OK. So that was all I had, for now.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "Do you wanna go, Barry?", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "Yeah, OK. Um, so for the past, uh, week an or two, I've been just writing my, uh, formal thesis proposal. Um, so I'm taking this qualifier exam that's coming up in two weeks. And I I finish writing a proposal and submit it to the committee. Um. And uh, should I should I explain, uh, more about what what I'm proposing to do, and s and stuff?", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "Yes, briefly.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "Yeah briefly.", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "OK. Um, so briefly, I'm proposing to do a n a new p approach to speech recognition using um, a combination of, uh, multi - band ideas and ideas, um, about the uh, acoustic phonec phonetic approach to speech recognition. Um, so I will be using these graphical models that um, that implement the multi - band approach to recognize a set of intermediate categories that might involve, uh, things like phonetic features or other other f feature things that are more closely related to the acoustic signal itself. Um, and the hope in all of this is that by going multi - band and by going into these, um intermediate classifications, that we can get a system that's more robust to to unseen noises, and situations like that. Um, and so, some of the research issues involved in this are, um, one, what kind of intermediate categories do we need to classify? Um, another one is um, what what other types of structures in these multi - band graphical models should we consider in order to um, combine evidence from the sub - bands? And, uh, the third one is how do we how do we merge all the, uh, information from the individual uh, multi - band classifiers to come up with word word recognition or or phone recognition things. Um, so basically that's that's what I've been doing. And,", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "So you've got two weeks, huh?", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "I got two weeks to brush up on d um, presentation stuff and, um,", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "Oh, I thought you were finishing your thesis in two weeks.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "But. Oh, that too.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "Are you gonna do any dry runs for your thing,", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "Yes.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "or are you just gonna.", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "Yes. I, um I'm I'm gonna do some. Would you be interested? To help out?", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "Sure.", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "OK.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "Sure.", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "Thanks. Yeah.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "Is that it?", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "That's it.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "Hhh. OK. Uh. Hhh. Let's see. So we've got forty minutes left, and it seems like there's a lot of material. An - any suggestions about where we where we should go next?", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "Mmm, @ @.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Uh. Do you wanna go, Sunil? Maybe we'll just start with you.", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "Yeah. But I actually stuck most of this in our m last meeting with Guenter. Um, but I'll just Um, so the last week, uh, I showed some results with only SpeechDat - Car which was like some fifty - six percent. And, uh, I didn't h I mean, I I found that the results I mean, I wasn't getting that r results on the TI - digit. So I was like looking into \" why, what is wrong with the TI - digits? \". Why why I was not getting it. And I found that, the noise estimation is a reason for the TI - digits to perform worse than the baseline. So, uh, I actually, picked th I mean, the first thing I did was I just scaled the noise estimate by a factor which is less than one to see if that because I found there are a lot of zeros in the spectrogram for the TI - digits when I used this approach. So the first thing I did was I just scaled the noise estimate. And I found So the the results that I've shown here are the complete results using the new Well, the n the new technique is nothing but the noise estimate scaled by a factor of point five. So it's just an ad - hoc I mean, some intermediate result, because it's not optimized for anything. So the results The trend the only trend I could see from those results was like the the p the current noise estimation or the, uh, noise composition scheme is working good for like the car noise type of thing. Because I've the only only p very good result in the TI - digits is the noise car noise condition for their test - A, which is like the best I could see that uh, for any non - stationary noise like \" Babble \" or \" Subway \" or any \" Street \", some \" Restaurant \" noise, it's like it's not performing w very well. So, the So that that's the first thing I c uh, I could make out from this stuff. And.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Yeah, I think what is important to see is that there is a big difference between the training modes.", "speakerName": "Professor G" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Uh - huh. If you have clean training, you get also a fifty percent improvement.", "speakerName": "Professor G" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "But if you have muddy condition training you get only twenty percent.", "speakerName": "Professor G" }, { "text": "Yeah. Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Uh, and in that twenty percent @ @ it's very inconsistent across different noise conditions.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm. Mmm.", "speakerName": "Professor G" }, { "text": "So I have like a forty - five percent for \" Car noise \" and then there's a minus five percent for the \" Babble \",", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Mmm.", "speakerName": "Professor G" }, { "text": "and there's this thirty - three for the \" Station \". And so it's it's not it's not actually very consistent across. So. The only correlation between the SpeechDat - Car and this performance is the c stationarity of the noise that is there in these conditions and the SpeechDat - Car.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Professor G" }, { "text": "And, uh so so the overall result is like in the last page, which is like forty - seven, which is still very imbalanced because there are like fifty - six percent on the SpeechDat - Car and thirty - five percent on the TI - digits. And uh, ps the fifty - six percent is like comparable to what the French Telecom gets, but the thirty - five percent is way off.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "I'm sort of confused but this I'm looking on the second page,", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "Oh, yep.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "and it says \" fifty percent \" looking in the lower right - hand corner, \" fifty percent relative performance \".", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "For the clean training.", "speakerName": "Professor G" }, { "text": "Is that.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "u And if you if you look.", "speakerName": "Professor G" }, { "text": "is that fifty percent improvement?", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "Yeah. For that's for the clean training and the noisy testing for the TI - digits.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor G" }, { "text": "So it's improvement over the baseline mel cepstrum?", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "Yeah. Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "But the baseline mel cepstrum under those training doesn't do as well I I'm I'm trying to understand why it's it's eighty percent That's an accuracy number, I guess,", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "Yeah, yeah, yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "right? So that's not as good as the one up above.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "No.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "But the fifty is better than the one up above,", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "so I'm confused.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "Uh, actually the noise compensation whatever, uh, we are put in it works very well for the high mismatch condition. I mean, it's consistent in the SpeechDat - Car and in the clean training also it gives it But this fifty percent is is that the the high mismatch performance equivalent to the high mismatch performance in the speech.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "So n s So since the high mismatch performance is much worse to begin with, it's easier to get a better relative improvement.", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "Yeah. Yeah. I do. Yeah, yeah. So by putting this noise.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Yeah. Yeah, if we look at the figures on the right, we see that the reference system is very bad.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Oh.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "Yeah. The reference drops like a very fast.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "Like for clean clean training condition.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "I see.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "I see.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "Nnn.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "This is this is TI digits we're looking at?", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "Yeah. Yeah. Oh.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "This whole page is TI - digits", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "Oh. Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "or this is?", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "It's not written anywhere. Yeah, it's TI - digits. The first r spreadsheet is TI - digits.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Mmm. How does clean training do for the, uh, \" Car \"", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "Hmm.", "speakerName": "Professor G" }, { "text": "The \" Car \"?", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "stuff?", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "Oh. Still it still, uh that that's still consistent. I mean, I get the best performance in the case of \" Car \", which is the third column in the A condition.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "No. I mean, this is added noise. I mean, this is TI - digits. I'm sorry. I meant in in the in the, uh, multi - language, uh, uh, Finnish and.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "Uh.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "This is next next page.", "speakerName": "Professor G" }, { "text": "That's the next next spreadsheet, is.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Hmm.", "speakerName": "Professor G" }, { "text": "So that is the performance for Italian, Finnish and Spanish.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "\" Training condition \" Oh, right. So \" clean \" corresponds to \" high mismatch \".", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "And \" increase \", That's increase e", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "Improvement.", "speakerName": "Professor G" }, { "text": "Improvement. That's \" Percentage increase \" is the percentage improvement over the baseline.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Yeah. It's it's a.", "speakerName": "Professor G" }, { "text": "So that's.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Which means decrease in word error rate?", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "OK, so \" percentage increase \" means decrease?", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "Yeah, yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "OK.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "Yeah. The the w there was a very long discussion about this on on the on the, uh, Amsterdam meeting.", "speakerName": "Professor G" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "How to how to calculate it then.", "speakerName": "Professor G" }, { "text": "Yeah. There's there's a.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "I I I guess you are using finally this the scheme which they.", "speakerName": "Professor G" }, { "text": "Which is there in the spreadsheet.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "OK.", "speakerName": "Professor G" }, { "text": "I'm not changing anything in there.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Mmm.", "speakerName": "Professor G" }, { "text": "Alright.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "So. Uh, yeah. So all the hi H M numbers are w very good, in the sense, they are better than what the French Telecom gets. So. But the the only number that's still I mean, which Stephane also got in his result was that medium mismatch of the Finnish, which is very which is a very strange situation where we used the we changed the proto for initializing the HMM I mean, this this is basically because it gets stuck in some local minimum in the training. That seventy - five point seven nine in the Finnish mismatch which is that the eleven point nine six what we see.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Uh - huh.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "Mmm.", "speakerName": "Professor G" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "So we have to jiggle it somehow?", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "Yeah so we start with that different proto and it becomes eighty - eight, which is like some fifty percent improvement.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "S Wait a minute. Start with a different what?", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "Different prototype, which is like a different initialization for the, uh, s transition probabilities. It's just that right now, the initialization is to stay more in the current state, which is point four point six, right? Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "And if it changes to point five point five, which is equal @ @ for transition and self loop where it becomes eighty - eight percent.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Well, but that involves mucking with the back - end,", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "Yeah. We can't do it.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "which is not allowed.", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Mmm.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "So.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "I mean, it uh, like, i i i It is well known, this this medium match condition of the Finnish data has some strange effects.", "speakerName": "Professor G" }, { "text": "Very s", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "It has a very few at uh, actually, c uh, tran I mean, words also.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "I mean, that is Yeah,", "speakerName": "Professor G" }, { "text": "It's a very, very small set, actually.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "that too. Yeah. Uh - huh.", "speakerName": "Professor G" }, { "text": "So there is.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "There is a l a There is a lot of Uh, there are a lot of utterances with music in with music in the background.", "speakerName": "Professor G" }, { "text": "Yeah. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Mmm.", "speakerName": "Professor G" }, { "text": "Uh - huh.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "Yeah. It has some music also. I mean, very horrible music like like I know.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "So maybe for that one you need a much smarter VAD? Mmm,", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "Uh.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "if it's music.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "So, that that's the that's about the results. And, uh, the summary is like OK. So there are the other thing what I tried was, which I explained in the last meeting, is using the channel zero for, uh, for both dropping and estimating the noise. And that's like just to f n get a feel of how good it is. I guess the fifty - six percent improvement in the SpeechDat - Car becomes like sixty - seven percent. Like ten percent better. But that's that's not a that's a cheating experiment. So. That's just So, m w", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "But the but the, uh, forty - seven point nine percent which you have now, that's already a remarkable improvement in comparison to the first proposal.", "speakerName": "Professor G" }, { "text": "Yeah. So we had forty - four percent in the first proposal.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "OK.", "speakerName": "Professor G" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Professor G" }, { "text": "We have f a big im So the major improvement that we got was in all the high mismatch cases, because all those numbers were in sixties and seventies because we never had any noise compensations.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Mmm.", "speakerName": "Professor G" }, { "text": "So that's where the biggest improvement came up. Not much in the well match and the medium match and TI - digits also right now. So this is still at three or four percent improvement over the first proposal.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Mmm. Mmm.", "speakerName": "Professor G" }, { "text": "Yeah, so that's good.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "Yeah. So.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Then if we can improve the noise estimation, then it should get better.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "Yeah, I I started thinking about also I mean yeah, uh, I discovered the same problem when I started working on uh, on this Aurora task almost two years ago, that you have the problem with this mulit a at the beginning we had only this multi condition training of the TI - digits.", "speakerName": "Professor G" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "And, uh, I I found the same problem. Just taking um, what we were used to u use, I mean, uh, some type of spectral subtraction, y you get even worse results than the basis", "speakerName": "Professor G" }, { "text": "Yeah. Yeah,", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "and uh.", "speakerName": "Professor G" }, { "text": "yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "I I tried to find an explanation for it,", "speakerName": "Professor G" }, { "text": "Mmm.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "so.", "speakerName": "Professor G" }, { "text": "So. Yes. Stephane also has the same experience of using the spectral subtraction right?", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Mmm.", "speakerName": "Professor G" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Yeah. So here here I mean, I found that it's if I changed the noise estimate I could get an improvement.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "So that's so it's something which I can actually pursue, is the noise estimate.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Professor G" }, { "text": "And.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Yeah, I think what you do is in when when you have the the this multi - condition training mode, um then you have then you can train models for the speech, for the words, as well as for the pauses where you really have all information about the noise available.", "speakerName": "Professor G" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "And it was surprising At the beginning it was not surprising to me that you get really the best results on doing it this way, I mean, in comparison to any type of training on clean data and any type of processing. But it was So, u u it it seems to be the best what wh wh what what we can do in this moment is multi - condition training. And every when we now start introducing some some noise reduction technique we we introduce also somehow artificial distortions.", "speakerName": "Professor G" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "And these artificial distortions uh, I have the feeling that they are the reason why why we have the problems in this multi - condition training. That means the H M Ms we trained, they are they are based on Gaussians,", "speakerName": "Professor G" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "and on modeling Gaussians. And if you Can I move a little bit with this? Yeah. And if we introduce now this this u spectral subtraction, or Wiener filtering stuff So, usually what you have is maybe, um I'm I'm showing now an envelope um maybe you'll f for this time. So usually you have maybe in clean condition you have something which looks like this. And if it is noisy it is somewhere here. And then you try to subtract it or Wiener filter or whatever. And what you get is you have always these problems, that you have this these these these zeros in there.", "speakerName": "Professor G" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "And you have to do something if you get these negative values. I mean, this is your noise estimate and you somehow subtract it or do whatever. Uh, and then you have And then I think what you do is you introduce some some artificial distribution in this uh in in the models. I mean, i you you train it also this way but, i somehow there is u u there is no longer a a Gaussian distribution. It is somehow a strange distribution which we introduce with these artificial distortions. And and I was thinking that that might be the reason why you get these problems in the especially in the multi - condition training mode.", "speakerName": "Professor G" }, { "text": "Yeah, yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "Th - That's true. Yeah the c the models are not complex enough to absorb that additional variability that you're introducing.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "s", "speakerName": "Professor G" }, { "text": "Thanks Adam.", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "Yeah. Yes.", "speakerName": "Professor G" }, { "text": "Well, that's Yeah. So.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "I also have the feeling that um, the reason ye why it doesn't work is yeah, that the models are much are t um, not complex enough. Because I actually I als always had a good experience with spectral subtraction, just a straight spectral subtraction algorithm when I was using neural networks, big neural networks, which maybe are more able to model strange distributions and.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Professor G" }, { "text": "But Yeah. Then I tried the same exactly the same spectral subtraction algorithm on these Aurora tasks and it simply doesn't work. It's even it, uh, hurts even.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Hmm.", "speakerName": "Professor G" }, { "text": "So.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "We probably should at some point here try the tandem the the the system - two kind of stuff with this, with the spectral subtraction for that reason.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "Hmm.", "speakerName": "Professor G" }, { "text": "Cuz again, it should do a transformation to a domain where it maybe looks more Gaussian.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Professor G" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Hmm. Yeah, y I I was whe w w just yesterday when I was thinking about it um w what what we could try to do, or do about it I mean, if you if you get at this in this situation that you get this this negative values and you simply set it to zero or to a constant or whatever if we if we would use there a somehow, um a random generator which which has a certain distribution, u not a certain yeah, a special distribution we should see we we have to think about it.", "speakerName": "Professor G" }, { "text": "It's.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "And that we, so, introduce again some natural behavior in this trajectory.", "speakerName": "Professor G" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm. Very different from speech. Still, I mean, it shouldn't confuse the.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Yeah, I mean, similar to what what you see really u in in the real um noisy situation.", "speakerName": "Professor G" }, { "text": "OK. Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Or i in the clean situation. But but somehow a a natural distribution.", "speakerName": "Professor G" }, { "text": "But isn't that s again sort of the idea of the additive thing, if it as as we had in the J stuff? I mean, basically if if you have random data, um, in in the time domain, then when you look at the s spectrum it's gonna be pretty flat. And and,", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Professor G" }, { "text": "uh, so just add something everywhere rather than just in those places. It's just a constant, right?", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Yeah. I think e yeah. It's it's just especially in these segments, I mean, you introduce, um, very artificial behavior.", "speakerName": "Professor G" }, { "text": "Yeah. Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "And.", "speakerName": "Professor G" }, { "text": "Well, see if you add something everywhere, it has almost no effect up up up on on top. And it and it and it has significant effect down there.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "That was, sort of the idea.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Professor G" }, { "text": "Hmm. Yeah the that's true. That those those regions are the cause for this @ @ those negative values or whatever you get.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "I Mm - hmm. Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Professor G" }, { "text": "Yeah. So.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "I mean, we we could trit uh, we we could think how w what what we could try.", "speakerName": "Professor G" }, { "text": "Yeah. Yeah, yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "I mean, it it was just an idea.", "speakerName": "Professor G" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "I mean, we.", "speakerName": "Professor G" }, { "text": "I think when it's noisy people should just speak up.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "to Mmm.", "speakerName": "Professor G" }, { "text": "So.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "If we look at the France Telecom proposal, they use some kind of noise addition. They have a random number generator, right? And they add noise on the trajectory of, uh, the log energy only, right?", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Oh, they do!", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "Yep.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Oh.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "C - z C - zero and log energy also, yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Yeah. Um, But I don't know how much effect it this have, but they do that.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Now?", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Oh.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Uh - huh.", "speakerName": "Professor G" }, { "text": "Hmm.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "So it it it it it is l somehow similar to what.", "speakerName": "Professor G" }, { "text": "I think because they have th log energy, yeah, and then just generate random number. They have some kind of mean and variance, and they add this number to to the log energy simply. Um.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Yeah the the log energy, the after the clean cleaning up.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "To the l", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "So they add a random random noise to it.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "To the just the energy, or to the mel uh, to the mel filter?", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "No. On - only to the log energy.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Only Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Oh.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "Uh - huh.", "speakerName": "Professor G" }, { "text": "So it Cuz I mean, I think this is most interesting for the mel filters. Right?", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "Uh - huh.", "speakerName": "Professor G" }, { "text": "Or or F F one or the other.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "But but they do not apply filtering of the log energy or what.", "speakerName": "Professor G" }, { "text": "Like, uh I mean.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "like like a spectral subtraction or.", "speakerName": "Professor G" }, { "text": "No their filter is not M domain. S so they did filter their time signal", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Yeah. I kn", "speakerName": "Professor G" }, { "text": "and then what @ @ u", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "And then they calculate from this, the log energy", "speakerName": "Professor G" }, { "text": "Yeah then after that it is s almost the same as the baseline prop system.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "or? Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Professor G" }, { "text": "And then the final log energy that they that they get, that to the to that they add some random noise.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Yeah, but again, that's just log energy as opposed to filter bank energy.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "Yeah. So it's not the mel.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Mmm.", "speakerName": "Professor G" }, { "text": "You know, it's not the mel filter bank output.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "These are log energy computed from the time s domain signal,", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Professor G" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "not from the mel filter banks. So did.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Hmm.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "Maybe it's just a way to decrease the importance of this particular parameter in the in the world feature vector cu if you add noise to one of the parameters, you widen the distributions", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Hmm.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "Becomes flat. The variance, yeah, reduces,", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "and.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "so. Hmm, yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Eee - sss - uh.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "So it could reduce the dependence on the amplitude and so on. Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Yeah. Although.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Maybe.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "So is, uh Is that about it?", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "Uh, so the.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Or?", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "OK. So the other thing is the I'm just looking at a little bit on the delay issue where the delay of the system is like a hundred and eighty millisecond. So I just just tried another sk system I mean, another filter which I've like shown at the end. Which is very similar to the existing uh, filter. Only Uh, only thing is that the phase is is like a totally nonlinear phase because it's a it's not a symmetric filter anymore.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "This is for the LDA?", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "Yeah so so this this is like So this makes the delay like zero for LDA because it's completely causal.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Oh.", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "So So I got actually just the results for the Italian for that and that's like So the fifty - one point O nine has become forty - eight point O six, which is like three percent relative degradation. So I have like the fifty - one point O nine", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "and So. I don't know it f fares for the other conditions. So it's just like it's like a three percent relative degradation, with the.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "But but is there is there a problem with the one hundred eighty milliseconds? Or?", "speakerName": "Professor G" }, { "text": "u Uh, may", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Th - Well, this is.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "Yeah, I mean, I talked to to uh, I ta Uh, I talked, uh, about it with with Hynek. I mean, there is.", "speakerName": "Professor G" }, { "text": "This is So So, basically our our position is that, um, we shouldn't be unduly constraining the latency at this point because we're all still experimenting with trying to make the performance better in the presence of noise. Uh, there is a minority in that group who is a arguing who are arguing for um, uh, having a further constraining of the latency. So we're s just continuing to keep aware of what the trade - offs are and, you know, what what do we gain from having longer or shorter latencies?", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "Mmm.", "speakerName": "Professor G" }, { "text": "But since we always seem to at least get something out of longer latencies not being so constrained, we're tending to go with that if we're not told we can't do it.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "What where was the, um the smallest latency of all the systems last time?", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Professor G" }, { "text": "The French Telecom.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Well, France Telecom was was was very short latency", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "It's.", "speakerName": "Professor G" }, { "text": "and they had a very good result.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "What what was it?", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "It was thirty - five.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "It was in the order of thirty milliseconds", "speakerName": "Professor G" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "or.", "speakerName": "Professor G" }, { "text": "Thirteen?", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "th th", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "Thirty.", "speakerName": "Professor G" }, { "text": "Thirty.", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "Thirty - four.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor G" }, { "text": "Yeah, so it's possible to get very short latency.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "But, again, we're the the approaches that we're using are ones that take advantage of.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "Yeah. I was just curious about where we are compared to, you know, the shortest that people have done.", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "But but I think this thirty milliseconds they they did it did not include the the delta calculation.", "speakerName": "Professor G" }, { "text": "Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "And this is included now,", "speakerName": "Professor G" }, { "text": "Yeah. Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "you know?", "speakerName": "Professor G" }, { "text": "So if they include the delta, it will be an additional forty millisecond.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "Yeah. I I don't remember the i th They were not using the HTK delta?", "speakerName": "Professor G" }, { "text": "No, they're using a nine - point window, which is like a four on either side,", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Nine - point.", "speakerName": "Professor G" }, { "text": "which is like.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "OK.", "speakerName": "Professor G" }, { "text": "f so.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Mmm.", "speakerName": "Professor G" }, { "text": "they didn't include that.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Professor G" }, { "text": "So.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Where does the comprish compression in decoding delay comes from?", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "OK.", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "That's the way the the the frames are packed, like you have to wait for one more frame to pack. Because it's the CRC is computed for two frames always.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Well, that the they would need that forty milliseconds also.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "No. They actually changed the compression scheme altogether.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Right?", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "So they have their own compression and decoding scheme and they I don't know what they have.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Oh.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "But they have coded zero delay for that. Because they ch I know they changed it, their compression. They have their own CRC, their their own error correction mechanism.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Oh.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "So they don't have to wait more than one more frame to know whether the current frame is in error.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Oh, OK.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "So they changed the whole thing so that there's no delay for that compression and part also.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Hmm.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Professor G" }, { "text": "Even you have reported actually zero delay for the compression. I thought maybe you also have some different.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Mmm. Mmm. No, I think I I used this scheme as it was before.", "speakerName": "Professor G" }, { "text": "OK. Ah. Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "OK, we've got twenty minutes so we should probably try to move along. Uh, did you wanna go next, Stephane?", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "I can go next. Yeah. Mmm.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Oh. Wait a minute. It's.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "It's Yeah, we have to take.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Wait a minute. I think I'm confused.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "Well OK.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Alright.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "So you have w w one sheet? This one is you don't need it, alright.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Uh.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "So you have to take the whole the five. There should be five sheets.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "OK,", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "I have four now because I left one with Dave because I thought I was dropping one off and passing the others on. So, no, we're not. OK.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "Thanks.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Please give me one.", "speakerName": "PhD H" }, { "text": "Ah, we need one more over here.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "OK, maybe there's not enough for everybody.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "I can share with Barry.", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "Oh, OK.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "But Can we look at this?", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "OK.", "speakerName": "Professor G" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "So, yeah, there are two figures showing actually the, mmm, um, performance of the current VAD. So it's a n neural network based on PLP parameters, uh, which estimate silence probabilities, and then I just put a median filtering on this to smooth the probabilities, right? Um I didn't use the the scheme that's currently in the proposal because I don't want to In the proposal Well, in in the system we want to add like speech frame before every word and a little bit of of, uh, s a couple of frames after also. Uh, but to estimate the performance of the VAD, we don't want to do that, because it would artificially increase the um the false alarm rate of speech detection. Right? Um, so, there is u normally a figure for the Finnish and one for Italian. And maybe someone has two for the Italian because I'm missing one figure here.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "No.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Well Well, whatever. Uh Yeah, so one surprising thing that we can notice first is that apparently the speech miss rate is uh, higher than the false alarm rate. So. It means.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "So so what is the lower curve and the upper curve?", "speakerName": "Professor G" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm. Yeah, there are two curves. One curve's for the close - talking microphone, which is the lower curve.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor G" }, { "text": "And the other one is for the distant microphone", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Ah, OK.", "speakerName": "Professor G" }, { "text": "which has more noise so, it's logical that it performs worse. So as I was saying, the miss rate is quite important uh, which means that we tend to label speech as as a silence. And, uh, I didn't analyze further yet, but I think it's it may be due to the fricative sounds which may be in noisy condition maybe label labelled as silence. And it may also be due to the alignment because well, the reference alignment. Because right now I just use an alignment obtained from from a system trained on channel zero. And I checked it a little bit but there might be alignment errors. Um, yeah, e like the fact that the the models tend to align their first state on silence and their last state o on silence also. So the reference reference alignment would label as speech some silence frame before speech and after speech. This is something that we already noticed before when mmm, So this cus this could also explain, uh, the high miss rate maybe. Uh.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "And and this this curves are the average over the whole database, so.", "speakerName": "Professor G" }, { "text": "Yeah. Right.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Mmm.", "speakerName": "Professor G" }, { "text": "Um Yeah, and the different points of the curves are for five uh, thresholds on the probability uh from point three to point seven.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "So that threshold.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm. Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "OK. S OK so d the detection threshold is very.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "So the v", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Yeah, yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "The VAD? Yeah. There first, a threshold on the probability @ @ That puts all the values to zero or one.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Mmm.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "And then the median filtering.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Yeah, so the median filtering is fixed. You just change the threshold?", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Yeah. It's fixed,", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "yeah. Mm - hmm. So, going from channel zero to channel one, uh, almost double the error rate. Um, Yeah. Well, so it's a reference performance that we can you know, if we want to to work on the VAD, we can work on this basis", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "and.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "OK.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Is this is this VAD a MLP?", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "OK. How how big is it?", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "It's a very big one. I don't remember.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "So three three hundred and fifty inputs,", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "m", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "uh, six thousand hidden nodes and two outputs. t t", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "OK.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Middle - sized one.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Yeah. Uh, ppp. I don't know, you have questions about that, or suggestions?", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Mmm. S so.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "It seems the performance seems worse in Finnish, which.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Well, it's not trained on Finnish.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "uh.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "It's worse.", "speakerName": "PhD H" }, { "text": "It's not trained on Finnish, yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "What's it trained on?", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "I mean, the MLP's not trained on Finnish.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Right, what's it trained on?", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "Oh oh. Sorry. Uh, it's Italian TI - digits.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Yeah. Oh, it's trained on Italian?", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Yeah, OK.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm. And.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "That's right.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "OK.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "And also there are like funny noises on Finnish more than on Italian. I mean, like music", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Professor G" }, { "text": "Yeah. Yeah, the Yeah, it's true.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "and um So, yeah, we were looking at this. But for most of the noises, noises are um, I don't know if we want to talk about that. But, well, the the \" Car \" noises are below like five hundred hertz. And we were looking at the \" Music \" utterances and in this case the noise is more about two thousand hertz.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Well, the music energy's very low apparently. Uh, uh, from zero to two two thousand hertz. So maybe just looking at this frequency range for from five hundred to two thousand would improve somewhat the VAD", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Mmm.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "and.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Mmm.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "So there are like some some s some parameters you wanted to use or something?", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Yeah, but Yes.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Or Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm. Uh, the next, um Oh, it's there.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "So is the is the is the training is the training based on these labels files which you take as reference here?", "speakerName": "Professor G" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Wh - when you train the neural net y y you.", "speakerName": "Professor G" }, { "text": "No. It's not. It's it was trained on some alignment obtained um, uh For the Italian data, I think we trained the neural network on with embedded training. So re - estimation of the alignment using the neural network, I guess. That's right?", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Yeah. We actually trained, uh, the on the Italian training part.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "We we had another system with u", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "So it was a f f a phonetic classification system for the Italian Aurora data.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Yeah. It must be somewhere. Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "For the Aurora data that it was trained on, it was different. Like, for TI - digits you used a a previous system that you had, I guess.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "What No it Yeah, yeah. That's true.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "So the alignments from the different database that are used for training came from different system.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Syste Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Then we put them tog together. Well, you put them together and trained the VAD on them.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Mmm.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Hmm.", "speakerName": "Professor G" }, { "text": "Uh, But did you use channel did you align channel one also? Or.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "I just took their entire Italian training part.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "So it was both channel zero plus channel one.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "So di Yeah. So the alignments might be wrong then on channel one, right?", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "On one. Possible.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "So we might,", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "We can do a realignment.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "yeah,", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "That's true.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "at least want to retrain on these alignments, which should be better because they come from close - talking microphone.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Yeah, the that was my idea. I mean, if if it ha if it is not the same labeling which is taking the spaces.", "speakerName": "Professor G" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "OK.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Yeah, possible.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Mmm.", "speakerName": "Professor G" }, { "text": "I mean, it so the system.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "so the VAD was trained on maybe different set of labels for channel zero and channel one", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "and.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Professor G" }, { "text": "was the alignments were w were different for s certainly different because they were independently trained.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "We didn't copy the channel zero alignments to channel one.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Professor G" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "But for the new alignments what you generated, you just copied the channel zero to channel one, right? Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Right. Yeah. Um. And eh, hhh actually when we look at at the VAD, for some utterances it's almost perfect, I mean, it just dropped one frame, the first frame of speech or So there are some utterances where it's almost one hundred percent VAD performance.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Hmm.", "speakerName": "Professor G" }, { "text": "Uh, but Yeah. Mmm Yep. So the next thing is um, I have the spreadsheet for three different system. But for this you only have to look right now on the SpeechDat - Car performance uh, because I didn't test so I didn't test the spectral subtraction on TI - digits yet. Uh, so you have three she sheets. One is the um proposal - one system. Actually, it's not exe exactly proposal - one. It's the system that Sunil just described. Um, but with uh, Wiener filtering from um, France Telecom included. Um, so this gives like fifty - seven point seven percent, uh, s uh, error rate reduction on the SpeechDat - Car data. Mmm, and then I have two sheets where it's for a system where uh, so it's again the same system. But in this case we have spectral subtraction with a maximum overestimation factor of two point five. Uh, there is smoothing of the gain trajectory with some kind of uh, low - pass filter, which has forty milliseconds latency. And then, after subtraction um, I add a constant to the energies and I have two cases d where The first case is where the constant is twenty - five DB below the mean speech energy and the other is thirty DB below. Um, and for these s two system we have like fifty - five point, uh, five - percent improvement, and fifty - eight point one. So again, it's around fifty - six, fifty - seven. Uh.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Cuz I notice the TI - digits number is exactly the same for these last two?", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "Yeah, because I didn't For the France Telecom uh, spectral subtraction included in the our system, the TI - digits number are the right one, but not for the other system because I didn't test it yet this system, including with spectral subtraction on the TI - digits data. I just tested it on SpeechDat - Car.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Ah! So so that means the only thing.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm. So so so these numbers are simply.", "speakerName": "Professor G" }, { "text": "This, we have to Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "But this number.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor G" }, { "text": "So you so you just should look at that fifty - eight perc point O nine percent and so on.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "Yes.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "OK.", "speakerName": "Professor G" }, { "text": "Right. Right.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "OK. Good.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm. Um, Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "So this So by uh, by by reducing the noise a a decent threshold like minus thirty DB, it's like Uh, you are like r r reducing the floor of the noisy regions, right?", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "s", "speakerName": "Professor G" }, { "text": "Yeah. Yeah. The floor is lower. Um,", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Uh - huh.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "I'm sorry. So when you say minus twenty - five or minus thirty DB, with respect to what?", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "To the average um, speech energy which is estimated on the world database.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "OK, so basically you're creating a signal - to - noise ratio of twenty - five or thirty DB?", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "uh r", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "But it's not.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "I I I think what you do is this.", "speakerName": "Professor G" }, { "text": "it it's.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "i When when you have this, after you subtracted it, I mean, then you get something w w with this, uh, where you set the values to zero and then you simply add an additive constant again.", "speakerName": "Professor G" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "So you shift it somehow. This this whole curve is shifted again.", "speakerName": "Professor G" }, { "text": "But did you do that before the thresholding to zero,", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "Right. It's.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "or?", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "But, it's after the thresholding.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Oh,", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "So,", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "so you'd really want to do it before,", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "maybe.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "right?", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "maybe we might do it before,", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Yeah, because then the then you would have less of that phenomenon.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "yeah. Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "I think.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "Uh.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "E Hhh.", "speakerName": "Professor G" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "c", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "But still, when you do this and you take the log after that, it it reduce the the variance.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Yeah, it it Right.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "But Mmm,", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Yeah, that will reduce the variance. That'll help. But maybe if you does do it before you get less of these funny - looking things he's drawing.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Professor G" }, { "text": "Um,", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "So before it's like adding this, col to the to the o exi original.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "But but.", "speakerName": "Professor G" }, { "text": "We would.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Right at the point where you've done the subtraction.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "OK.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Um, essentially you're adding a constant into everything.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "But the way Stephane did it, it is exactly the way I have implemented in the phone, so.", "speakerName": "Professor G" }, { "text": "Oh, yeah, better do it different, then. Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "Um.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Just you you just ta you just set it for a particular signal - to - noise ratio that you want?", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Yeah I I made s similar investigations like Stephane did here, just uh, adding this constant and and looking how dependent is it on the value of the constant", "speakerName": "Professor G" }, { "text": "Yeah. Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "and then, must choose them somehow to give on average the best results for a certain range of the signal - to - noise ratios.", "speakerName": "Professor G" }, { "text": "Uh - huh.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "Yeah. Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "So.", "speakerName": "Professor G" }, { "text": "Oh, it's clear. I should have gi given other results. Also it's clear when you don't add noise, it's much worse. Like, around five percent worse I guess.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Uh - huh.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "And if you add too much noise it get worse also. And it seems that right now this this is c a constant that does not depend on on anything that you can learn from the utterance. It's just a constant noise addition. Um. And I I think w w", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "I I'm sorry. Then then I'm confused.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "I think.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "I thought you're saying it doesn't depend on the utterance but I thought you were adding an amount that was twenty - five DB down from the signal energy.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "Yeah, so the way I did that, i I just measured the average speech energy of the all the Italian data.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Oh!", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "And then I I have I used this as mean speech energy. Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Oh, it's just a constant amount over all.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "Yeah. And.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "OK.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "wha what I observed is that for Italian and Spanish, when you go to thirty and twenty - five DB, uh it it's good.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Oh.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "It stays In this range, it's, uh, the p u well, the performance of the this algorithm is quite good. But for Finnish, you have a degradation already when you go from thirty - five to thirty and then from thirty to twenty - five. And I have the feeling that maybe it's because just Finnish has a mean energy that's lower than than the other databases. And due to this the thresholds should be.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "the the a the noise addition should be lower", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "But in I mean, in the real thing you're not gonna be able to measure what people are doing over half an hour or an hour, or anything, right?", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "and.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "So you have to come up with this number from something else.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "Yeah. So.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Uh, but you are not doing it now language dependent? Or?", "speakerName": "Professor G" }, { "text": "It's not. It's just something that's fixed.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "No. It's overall.", "speakerName": "Professor G" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "OK.", "speakerName": "Professor G" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm. Um.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "But what he is doing language dependent is measuring what that number i reference is that he comes down twenty - five down from.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "Yeah, so I g No. It No.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "No?", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "Because I did it I started working on Italian. I obtained this average energy", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "and then I used this one.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "For all the languages. OK.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "So it's sort of arbitrary.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "I mean, so if y if Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "Yep.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "Um, yeah, so the next thing is to use this as as maybe initialization", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Uh - huh.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "and then use something on - line.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Something more adaptive,", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "But And I expect improvement at least in Finnish because eh the way.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "yeah. OK.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "Well, um, for Italian and Spanish it's th this value works good but not necessarily for Finnish. Mmm. But unfortunately there is, like, this forty millisecond latency and, um Yeah, so I would try to somewhat reduce this @ @. I already know that if I completely remove this latency, so. um, it um there is a three percent hit on Italian.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Professor G" }, { "text": "d Does latency.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "i", "speakerName": "Professor G" }, { "text": "Sorry. Go ahead.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Yeah. Your your smoothing was @ @ uh, over this s so to say, the the factor of the Wiener. And then it's, uh What was it? This.", "speakerName": "Professor G" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "this smoothing, it was over the subtraction factor, so to say.", "speakerName": "Professor G" }, { "text": "It's a smoothing over the the gain of the subtraction algorithm.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Was this done Mm - hmm. And and you are looking into the future, into the past.", "speakerName": "Professor G" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "And smoothing.", "speakerName": "Professor G" }, { "text": "So, to smooth this thing.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Professor G" }, { "text": "Yeah. Um.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "And did did you try simply to smooth um to smooth the the t to to smooth stronger the the envelope?", "speakerName": "Professor G" }, { "text": "Um, no, I did not.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Mmm.", "speakerName": "Professor G" }, { "text": "Mmm.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Because I mean, it should have a similar effect if you.", "speakerName": "Professor G" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "I mean, you you have now several stages of smoothing, so to say. You start up. As far as I remember you you smooth somehow the envelope, you smooth somehow the noise estimate,", "speakerName": "Professor G" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm. Mmm.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "and and later on you smooth also this subtraction factor.", "speakerName": "Professor G" }, { "text": "Uh, no, it's it's just the gain that's smoothed actually", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Uh, actually I d I do all the smoothing.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "but it's smoothed.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Ah. Oh, it w it was you.", "speakerName": "Professor G" }, { "text": "Yeah, yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Uh Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor G" }, { "text": "Yeah. No, in this case it's just the gain.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor G" }, { "text": "And.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Uh - huh.", "speakerName": "Professor G" }, { "text": "But the way it's done is that um, for low gain, there is this non nonlinear smoothing actually. For low gains um, I use the smoothed sm uh, smoothed version but for high gain @ @ it's I don't smooth.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Uh. Mm - hmm. I just, uh it Experience shows you, if if you do the The best is to do the smoo smoothing as early as possible.", "speakerName": "Professor G" }, { "text": "Uh - huh.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "So w when you start up. I mean, you start up with the with the somehow with the noisy envelope.", "speakerName": "Professor G" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "And, best is to smooth this somehow.", "speakerName": "Professor G" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm. Uh, yeah, I could try this. Um.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "And.", "speakerName": "Professor G" }, { "text": "So, before estimating the SNR, @ @ smooth the envelope.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Yeah. Yeah. Uh - huh.", "speakerName": "Professor G" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm. But Yeah. Then I I would need to find a way to like smooth less also when there is high energy. Cuz I noticed that it it helps a little bit to s like smooth more during low energy portions and less during speech,", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Yes, y", "speakerName": "Professor G" }, { "text": "because if you smooth then y you kind of distort the speech.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Yeah. Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor G" }, { "text": "Um.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "Professor G" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Yeah, I think when w you you could do it in this way that you say, if you if I'm you have somehow a noise estimate,", "speakerName": "Professor G" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "and, if you say I'm I'm with my envelope I'm close to this noise estimate,", "speakerName": "Professor G" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "then you have a bad signal - to - noise ratio and then you you would like to have a stronger smoothing.", "speakerName": "Professor G" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "So you could you could base it on your estimation of the signal - to - noise ratio on your actual.", "speakerName": "Professor G" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm. Mm - hmm. Mmm.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Yeah, or some silence probability from the VAD if you have.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Um, yeah, but I don't trust the current VAD. So.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Yeah, uh, so not not right now maybe.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Well, maybe.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "The VAD later will be much better.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "Maybe.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Yeah. So. I see.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "So is that it?", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "Uh, fff I think that's it. Yeah. Uh.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "s So to summarize the performance of these, SpeechDat - Car results is similar than than yours so to say.", "speakerName": "Professor G" }, { "text": "Yeah, so the fifty - eight is like the be some fifty - six point.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Y you have you have fifty - six point four", "speakerName": "Professor G" }, { "text": "Yeah, that's true.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "and and and dependent on this additive constant, it is s better or or worse.", "speakerName": "Professor G" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Slightly better.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": ".", "speakerName": "PhD H" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor G" }, { "text": "And, yeah, i i i the condition where it's better than your approach, it's it just because maybe it's better on well matched and that the weight on well matched is is bigger,", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Yeah. Yeah, you you caught up.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "because.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Yep, that's true.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "if you don't weigh differently the different condition, you can see that your well, the win the two - stage Wiener filtering is maybe better or.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "It's better for high mismatch, right?", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Yeah, it's better for high mismatch.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm. But a little bit worse for well matched.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "So over all it gets, yeah, worse for the well matched condition, so y", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Uh - huh.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "So we need to combine these two.", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "Uh, that's that's the best thing, is like the French Telecom system is optimized for the well matched condition. They c", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Yeah. So they know that the weighting is good for the well matched, and so there's everywhere the well matched's s s performance is very good for the French Telecom.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Professor G" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "T we are we may also have to do something similar @ @.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Well, our tradition here has always been to focus on the mismatched.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "Um the.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Cuz it's more interesting.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "Mu - my mine was it too, I mean.", "speakerName": "Professor G" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "Before I started working on this Aurora.", "speakerName": "Professor G" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "so.", "speakerName": "Professor G" }, { "text": "Yeah. Yeah. OK.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "Carmen? Do you, uh.", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "Well, I only say that the this is, a summary of the of all the VTS experiments and say that the result in the last um, for Italian the last experiment for Italian, are bad. I make a mistake when I write. Up at D I copy one of the bad result.", "speakerName": "PhD H" }, { "text": "So you.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "And There. You know, this. Um, well. If we put everything, we improve a lot u the spectral use of the VTS but the final result are not still mmm, good like the Wiener filter for example. I don't know. Maybe it's @ @ it's possible to to have the same result.", "speakerName": "PhD H" }, { "text": "That's somewhere.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "I don't know exactly. Mmm. Because I have, mmm, worse result in medium mismatch and high mismatch.", "speakerName": "PhD H" }, { "text": "You s you have a better r Yeah. You have some results that are good for the high mismatch.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "And Yeah. I someti are more or less similar but but are worse. And still I don't have the result for TI - digits. The program is training. Maybe for this weekend I will have result TI - digits and I can complete that s like this. Well.", "speakerName": "PhD H" }, { "text": "Uh. Right.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "One thing that I note are not here in this result but are speak are spoken before with Sunil I I improve my result using clean LDA filter.", "speakerName": "PhD H" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "If I use, eh, the LDA filter that are training with the noisy speech, that hurts the res my results.", "speakerName": "PhD H" }, { "text": "So what are these numbers here? Are these with the clean or with the noisy?", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "This is with the clean.", "speakerName": "PhD H" }, { "text": "OK.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "With the noise I have worse result, that if I doesn't use it.", "speakerName": "PhD H" }, { "text": "Uh - huh.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "But m that may be because with this technique we are using really really clean speech. The speech the representation that go to the HTK is really clean speech because it's from the dictionary, the code book and maybe from that. I don't know.", "speakerName": "PhD H" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Because I think that you did some experiments using the two the two LDA filter, clean and noi and noise,", "speakerName": "PhD H" }, { "text": "It's.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "and it doesn't matter too much.", "speakerName": "PhD H" }, { "text": "Um, yeah, I did that but it doesn't matter on SpeechDat - Car, but, it matters, uh, a lot on TI - digits.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Using the clean filter.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "It's better to use clean.", "speakerName": "PhD H" }, { "text": "Yeah, d uh, it's much better when you we used the clean derived LDA filter.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm. Maybe you can do d also this.", "speakerName": "PhD H" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "To use clean speech.", "speakerName": "PhD H" }, { "text": "Yeah, I'll try.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Uh, but, yeah, Sunil in in your result it's.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "I I'll try the cle No, I I my result is with the noisy noisy LDA.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "It's with the noisy one. Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Oh!", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "It's with the noisy. Yeah. It's it's not the clean LDA.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "So.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Um.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "It's In in the front sheet, I have like like the summary. Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "And and your result is with the.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "It's with the clean LDA.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Oh. This is Your results are all with the clean LDA result?", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Yeah, with the clean LDA.", "speakerName": "PhD H" }, { "text": "OK. @ @.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "And in your case it's all all noisy,", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Is that the reason?", "speakerName": "PhD H" }, { "text": "All noisy, yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "yeah. But.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "And.", "speakerName": "PhD H" }, { "text": "Uh.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Uh.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "But I observe my case it's in, uh, uh, at least on SpeechDat - Car it doesn't matter but TI - digits it's like two or three percent absolute, uh, better.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "On TI - digits this matters. Absolute. Uh.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "So you really might wanna try the clean I think.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "So if.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Yeah, I I I will have to look at it. Yeah, that's true.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Yeah. Yeah, that could be sizeable right there.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "And this is everything.", "speakerName": "PhD H" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor G" }, { "text": "OK.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "Maybe you you are leaving in in about two weeks Carmen. No?", "speakerName": "Professor G" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD H" }, { "text": "Yeah. So I mean, if if if I would put it put on the head of a project mana manager I I I I would say, uh, um I mean there is not so much time left now.", "speakerName": "Professor G" }, { "text": "Be my guest.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "I mean, if um, what what I would do is I I I would pick @ @ the best consolation, which you think, and c create create all the results for the whole database that you get to the final number as as Sunil did it", "speakerName": "Professor G" }, { "text": "And prepare at the s", "speakerName": "PhD H" }, { "text": "and um and maybe also to to write somehow a document where you describe your approach, and what you have done.", "speakerName": "Professor G" }, { "text": "Yeah, I was thinking to do that next week.", "speakerName": "PhD H" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor G" }, { "text": "Yeah, I'll I'll borrow the head back and and agree. Yeah,", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "Yeah, I wi I I will do that next week.", "speakerName": "PhD H" }, { "text": "that's that's Right. In fact, actually I g I guess the, uh the Spanish government, uh, requires that anyway. They want some kind of report from everybody who's in the program.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD H" }, { "text": "So. And of course I'd we'd we'd like to see it too. So,", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "OK.", "speakerName": "PhD H" }, { "text": "yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "So, um, what's Do you think we, uh, should do the digits or skip it? Or what are what do you think?", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "Uh, we have them now?", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "Yeah, got them.", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "Uh, why don why don't we do it?", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "OK.", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "Just just take a minute.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "I can send yet.", "speakerName": "PhD H" }, { "text": "Would you pass those down?", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "Oh! Sorry.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "OK, um, so I guess I'll go ahead. Um,", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "Seat?", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "Dave? Is it the channel, or the mike? I don't remember. It's the mike?", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Mike?", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "It's not four.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "This is date and time. No. On the channel, channel.", "speakerName": "PhD H" }, { "text": "What is this?", "speakerName": "Professor G" }, { "text": "t", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "OK, if you could just leave, um, your mike on top of your, uh, digit form I can fill in any information that's missing.", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "OK.", "speakerName": "Professor G" }, { "text": "That's uh I didn't get a chance to fill them out ahead of time. Yeah, we're gonna have to fix that. Uh, let's see, it starts with one here, and then goes around and ends with nine here.", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "Seven. 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So well it is important for him to be here uh.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "He he he.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "So what can you?", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "You did work together didn't you?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah we will yeah, so I will be able to to summarize uh our meeting,", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yes.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "but still I think uh it would be in very important if the uh as um main designer. I think we can put on the here.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yes. Yes.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Uh basically w yeah we we designed the two uh items.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Mm. Um yes", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Um, can we have a phone,", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "but w we.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "can someone.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yes, maybe we should phone him. Um well Um,", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "it's really w well designed.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Mm. Mm, object tracking..", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "when he is not here we will just we just have to continue. Um so just for record I I will take uh notes again.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "And um well first thing uh I was uh uh I got an email from uh from my superior again that we really should stay within the budget of the uh twelve Euro and fifty cents.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "'Kay.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "when you stay in it's good, when you don't stay in you have to redesign. There is no uh no negotiation uh possible in this matter. So we have to consider that. Good.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yep.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Um so maybe Anna, you can have your presentation.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Well we can't no we can't do evaluation'til we have a design.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Okay Matthew. Nice uh you are here.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Great.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Great. Great. Oh ma maybe then you can start now with mm presenting your uh your designs.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yep. So I will start by the the basic one that uh fits into uh eight Euros actually, right, seven eight Euros,", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "and uh well first for both they have um a special shape, maybe the designer can uh explain better than me, but uh it's like a surf board.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Mm'kay.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "And you you are supposed to surf to browse to surf T_V_, maybe the web, and uh it's kind of interesting shape because um unconsciously people want to s to surf when they see this stuff.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Or browse.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "And also it's not too far from um a mobile.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "So people are used to that kind of shape,", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "right. Don't take care too much about the colour because w yeah we don't take.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Now we are supposed to give some oper offers right now.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "yeah. So here would be basically the the the infrared uh uh led", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Eye.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "I yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "yeah L_A_ L_A_ L_E_D_,", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "L_E_D_.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "the on-off button, in red.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Here would be the volume. On the on the left,", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Oh yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Uh-huh.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "okay, so.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm, hmm.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yes.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "easy to turn on t and off. And um so this is a very cheap version so there are maybe you can carry on uh Matthew.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Also so you have uh uh browsing the channels, actually", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "so you can go up and down the channels,", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "uh, if you have a video or something you can forward, back.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "How can you change from V_C_R_ to uh T_V_, by the way?", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Oh no no no, this is a single this this is a model with just the T_V_ one.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Okay yeah. Yeah yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Ah, okay.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "No no just sorry, this is a standard T_V_ one, we are not talking about that. So and then we have usually there twelve keys but we know that we rel that we have only ten digits.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "The extra two are for uh having or giving an option for uh having more than one channel. And the other one is for the teletext or something you want to browse through from that. Actually.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Okay so", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "it's it's t a very basic remote then, it's only.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "It's a very basic minimal thing", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "which you can which is which is also available in the market, actually that's what it that it i", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "and would cost us to build it about eight Euros.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Seven, eight, ei eight Euros.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Exce except for the for the special shape, the surfing board, it has a quite a a conventional layout of buttons uh.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah. Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "So this one model", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Can I see?", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "and uh yeah. Sure.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Thanks. Okay I like the volume control, that's good.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Th this is a magic one but I know we don't want to talk about that,", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "you know like.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "uh i i i it is a very futuristic, it's like uh it's like a brain machine interface and all this stuff we are thinking about in the future, it can come.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Uh-huh.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "So it doesn't actually have buttons.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "So that uh then what we look t", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Did you wanna see?", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm. Yeah no you can carry on,", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "This is a model,", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "I just look how it feels all.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yes it really feels like like like a mobile phone.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yep.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Just I'm.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah actually, yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "I really want to talk to it.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "It won't talk back..", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "But.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "So but but continue with your uh", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Uh so well", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "then the this is the a more a little uh smooth", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "and it gives a lot of functionality, uh in this way, so all we have uh th you see there are only six keys, but don't worry they are ma they are doing the job of twelve keys actually here.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "And so they have more space actually", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "and uh it's easy to uh use this and uh you have um so this is a standard uh uh infrared eye, and then you have a power button, which l volume, what you have,", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "and then other than that you have uh channel up and down and uh f slow pause or s slow lo", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Play, pause.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "yeah s pause or stop, and uh then uh you can uh you have a L_C_D_ display, here", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "and uh y this is a functional thing which can change like it's a toggle switch which could change the function say, y you press it.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "From D_V_D_ player to television or something.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Exactly yeah. To audio and to video on demand.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah. I really can change it,", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yes.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "so.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Instead of having many switches, y.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yes and and and then you get feedback via the L_C_D_ yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "The L_C_D_ can display what is that on that,", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yes.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "and uh well you can have a integrated microphone over here,", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "This is the orange button, the microphone.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "or in the button th here,", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "so which can uh basically you want to do a speech recognition and uh that channel a lot of information can be di displayed here directly on the um on your on your display.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "An yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "And here is a small L_E_D_ which is like blinking one,", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "which tells you like uh are you running out of the battery, and which is can be useful for the locating as I was talking earlier", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "okay. And uh well then we have a cover basically, basically you don't need much of the time this,", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "when you need you can use it, and this gives additional functionality that tomorrow you want you can add a tactile thing to this cover", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Mm. Yeah", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Crazy dis designer,", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "you know.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "okay..", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Design enter.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "but but but but uh i in there uh when this is closed, will it also uh cover up the L_C_D_ screen?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah yeah yeah yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah. It's basically to do that.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "But but the L_C_D_ screen I mean is a very uh well an eye-attracting feature", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "which shouldn't be shouldn't be.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Actually when you are watching the T_V_, when you are watching anything or listening to them, you hardly care about what is getting displayed here,", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Oh actually well.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "That th that's true.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "you know, uh you want to uh and this gives a protection to the L_C_D_ actually, giving a cover to that actually. Gives a protection", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "because when it falls down or something it it is it is is is it gives a protec", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm. Mm-hmm. Yes. Yes, more robust.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "it's more robust that way. Uh yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yes okay.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "And you have very good chances.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "It's low weight. You have to see yeah yeah the the components we put inside is very low weight.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "So the the cost is actually a bit more, it's uh it's it's sixteen Francs.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "It Sixteen Euros.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Sixteen Euros sorry.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "So it's well outside the budget then.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Then it's out of budget.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "But w", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "But the the main point we we talk about that with our uh manufacturer. And they say basically that the S_R_ system would be uh something like three Francs per item.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "so", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Three Euros.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "three Euros sorry. And um.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "That's on top of the sixteen, or is it part of that?", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "No no no, part of that, yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Part of that.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "So that takes it down to thirteen Euros without the speech recognition.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah, yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Mm'kay. Hmm..", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Well uh if you we can have if you have new more ideas we can add new more uh some more keys if you want to you know.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Well I think th th yeah we should stick with uh a number of keys", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "because if we add too much then", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "it's too.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "it it should not be cluttering up everything.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "What's this one on the side?", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Ah that's for the it's kind of a L_E_D_ for indicating your battery", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Locati. Location.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Ah okay.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "and as well as it's like a blinking one", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm. Mm'kay.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "you know", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "you can keep it aside.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "I like the shape of them, I do like the the size and the the shape.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Well well Mm.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Be before ta talking about the money and what's possible and what is not possible, maybe Anna you can uh give our uh give us your um.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm. Okay. And maybe we run the evaluation on both of the products, both of these two.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yes. Evalua evaluation and also the evaluation criteria, so what what is important to look at.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Okay. Basically this is what we've talked about already, um, from the marketing point of view.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "We just wanna make sure that we've taken into account.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Well", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yep.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "just do it quickly if if we al already.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "So it's just a shortlist of criteria on um the things that we've identified as being important to selling the product.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Um we just go through these and rate them as a group and then at the end we'll make an evaluation based on that, so just average the score of those items, so These are the things we identified as being important. Um the three things were look and feel, innovation and ease of use, were the three important components", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "um appealing to the correct demographic so using those things in the right way to appeal to our demographic. And then goin following the company motto, following the fashion trends and putting that into the product as well. So well do you wanna go through and put through those on the the two products now or do we wanna discuss them further and then evaluate them?", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Um, n no why not why not discuss uh discuss it now,.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Okay. So f just go through onto the whiteboard I guess. Not sure how this is gonna come out. So the first one was really very far below budget, would you want to take the price down of the end product according to that or just have the high profit on it?'Cause if we're only going to make it for eight Euros then we have a.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Mm, well my my personal view is uh w when when this one is eight Euros we must think how can we improve it.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "And then I mean w w w you must just see it we can still spend this four and a half Euro", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm. Yep.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "and to r because th th th the the selling price is already prite fik uh uh quite fixed on twenty five Euros", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "so we just have to offer as much as as well value for the for the customer uh he can have for twenty five Euro.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Functionality.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Okay so look and feel, innovation.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "And now it easy to use.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Easy to use.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "target.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm. And trends. Oh, you following the idea of using the um removable covers on these? Is that part of both of them or?", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Um well w w we can still discuss that.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "So um, and together with evaluating this uh we we might come with new ideas", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "I mean adding things or uh removing uh of options because they are too expensive,", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "but um I've received uh a framework which we can do this. I mean did you have this this Excel sheet?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "No.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "No.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "No.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "No okay, this is these are the the the latest prices of our production uh uh production unit for several components,", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "so we can uh see whether the the price is is within the twelve Euro uh fifty cents uh.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm. Okay.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "So maybe we can start with this, uh, calling this one..", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Okay. Yep. So it's the pink.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Th th this is the first design.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "And the other one's green. Okay, so", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yes.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "look and feel? Where um one is I've broken the pen again. S", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Uh there is another pen.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "yeah. Get that one. Um w one's bad and seven's the best. Sorry, one's true and seven's false. One's the best.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "So on a scale of one to seven?", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "'Kay. Okay. So. Look and feel. Well you already feel that uh pretty much I think.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "In i in my opinion purely feel is is is very good, is very good in your hand,", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm. Mm-hmm, yeah. Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "so I I I would consider two or or may maybe even one for feel.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "But that's just half, we should also consider look,", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "and then i it looks quite conventional.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Don't you agree?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "On the scale u it's between functional and fancy basically we're looking at,", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "So maybe two. Hmm. Hmm. Ma ma ma ma maybe say say five", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "so.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "I It's my opinion, but I don't know what what", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Well I will give it maybe we have anyways the way we have designed it's like the surf as you say.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "you know. It though the look is fine but uh still I will give four in that case", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah. Four maybe.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "you know.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Four? Okay.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Four, four.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Four yeah", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Now we th th", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "that.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "then we settle on four.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah. I will gi yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "'Kay. Can you maybe fix the other.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Uh. Yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "If you press like this not like this then you.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "No that's the.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "No.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "ink's dried.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "C can you get the batteries? No no the battery has fallen down,", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Battery's low, isn't it the ink?", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "that's i", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "The b that's the that that one?", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "battery there.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "But.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "No no it's not that, it's how to close a battery.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Okay? Now it should be.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Mm. No I think it's lost a battery.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Mm, try it, just try it.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "No it's It would still write", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Oh it will not", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "but it wouldn't pick it up with the sensors.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "ri mm, mm.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Is there another battery there? Oh yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "You got a second?", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Try a.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Well we won't be able to tell.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yes, it it has a mm.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Perfect.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Is that working?", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Did it come out? Good. Okay.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Good. Good.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Because we'll be able to see it still even if it wasn't working, it's just a normal whiteboard marker", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah, yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "but it wouldn't be picked up on the the actual whiteboard.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yep.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Okay. So then then.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "And the other one?", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Wow.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "I think it's slightly better, um,", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Ah. Mm.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "it's hard to tell from just the plasticine,", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "I I I.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "but.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "When we want to include I I I'm doubting about this this component.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "It it it it breaks in your.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "'Kay", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "maybe.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "No actually this is this is not going to protrude actually,", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "it it's n i it is jus", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "It's not a button it's a led, it's a.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "It's a led actually which which'll be covering in a curve.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Ac actually yeah it should be embedded.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Mm, yes I see, mm okay.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm. Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "It's will be embedded there", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah. Oh", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "so it won't be really you know protruding or something.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "you can push push it again, you can push it.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah. The other thing is, is the left hand one protruding?", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "'Cause if people are left handed they want to use the other hand,", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah. Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "maybe it won't work so well.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "No you it it not protruding actually, it will go in better into that.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Well r r", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "I'd say two or three for that one, personally.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Probably more towards three than two.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "I think the look is better", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "but the feel is is is worse. So so I would also say this is four.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "But w w do you what do you think?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Uh it's fine I think. My just that um the feel is that um you right now you you don't see the feel because right uh for example if you press it quite inside now like this, now it's embedded one.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Mm. Mm. Yes.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "This is how embedded one will.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yes, it basically is the same shape.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah. It's a bas basically the same thing actually.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm. Mm.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "You will be Except that in this c", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "And the L_C_D_ makes it better. Yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "And you might have a slight thing for to forward and.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Mm, okay. Yeah", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "So I will say two.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "it's d it's definitely more fancier than that one.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yes, okay.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah, yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "I would say two, three.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "So, consensus? Two or three?", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Two?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Two?", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Mm. Two's good", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yep.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "yes.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "looking like.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Um,'kay. Innovation. The first one, not really muc", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Basically there is no innovation in the first one compared to what exists in the market,", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Mm. Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "right?", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Do we.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "No but except for the design of the surf.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah. The surf uh design.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "What What features are we actually including?", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "You should be rea.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Are we including like a location kind of thing like trying to find it?", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Uh no", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "There's nothing like that?", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "I think it's more of the feel.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "But th is there any there's no actual innovation in that at all, it's just a straight-out remote control.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah, yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm. Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "The only innova innovation is the shape.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Say about that.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "S so that.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "So there's no this uh look and feel thing, though that's not a technological innovation.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah. You're right.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "So I'd be up for seven for innovation.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah. And the And the second one is really uh state of the art, uh in terms of innovation.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yep.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "And um with many more functionalities, and can open and close the the bottom part.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah, it gives it.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yes. A and the L_C_D_ screen is.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "That's that's that's well it's quite innovative.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "And all the scrolling uh buttons and menu and pro programmable device behind this.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Uh could put it at one or two I would say. Personally.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah. Mm. Mm. Mm. Mm.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yep.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "So what is it, what are the innovations with this? Got the L_C_D_ screen.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Uh Yeah automatic speech recognition.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Is that in this one though? Is this'cause this is the Th th there were different options we discussed then,", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "No, we ha", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "we discussed the one that was in budget and the one that was out of budget.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "We just diske discuss it as you designed it", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "and then we will will try to get it in the budget.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "So the cost for these were.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "So.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "what was the cost for the first one? Eight Euros?", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Eight.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Eight. Well actually we have yeah to check again yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah, eight Euros yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "And this one was sixteen Euros.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yes.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Sixteen.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Sixteen Euros.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Okay. So. Innovation for this one is two? One?", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "It's a two, I would say two.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Two?", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Two.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "W W un to be one what would do we nee actually, yeah, I don't see.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Why it is one.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "okay, one would would be without buttons,.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "A man w w", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm. Well", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "the speech recognition is a very good innovation I believe it,", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yes.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Bu", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "so.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah. So maybe we can put one.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "This this is it w with the speech recognition?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "It's using speech recognition, yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Well.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Okay yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Gi given that that it works,", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Give it a one?", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah, one, yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yep.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "then it's I think one.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Ease of use?", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Uh.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "So the first one is really standard,", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "so everybody i including our grandmothers can use it,", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "He is used to it act", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "right?", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "They are used to it actually.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yep. So that's maybe a a two for ease of use.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Here there may.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Um, the other one is quite easy, tho though.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Uh, though it has more functionality I think it shouldn't be for the user to learn it actually. It shouldn't be diffi", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Okay. So maybe a three or a four.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Hmm.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Uh yeah, actually in fact I think it will be.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "One me um we hope.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "maybe sometimes people get uh scared with the number of buttons.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah but y", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "And there is a like I would say three. Or maybe four.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Okay. Consensus? Three or four?", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Well we have reduced the keys actually you see.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Three, I would. Three.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Three? Okay.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah, yeah", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Three is fine with me.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "because it's n uh it's not like a big one with uh one hundred buttons or so,.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah it's a.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "No.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "actually the user has to put some effort to do use that actually,", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "it's not so easy, like this one the normal.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah. Yes but then when when he is used to it, i i it is quite easy.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Is quite easy yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "So so I think th three is good. Yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Initially there there is a lot of effort, yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Good.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "So three's", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "What's the next?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "uh how well it goes to the target demographic. So we're d we're still thinking twenty to forty year olds?", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "So.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Twe twenty to forty, yes that's.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "That's.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "This one would be uh for grandmothers.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Oh no, this would I", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "No.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "I would I would give this model to the old people actually.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah, grandmothers, yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "So sh completely changed our demographic there,", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "And.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "it's not part of the the funky young thing.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Well exce except for the surfing shape. I mean that's that's something which which has an appeal on this group I think,", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah that's true. Yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah. If it was the very bottom price range or it was like between this and another one we did the same thing then I can imagine it being applying to the the demographic", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "but.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "yeah. That's it's still Ye", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Mm w w w we after this we can can consider uh for instance, making this more attractive to to the demographic", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm.'Cause we have got room, we've got some budget there to add a few things to it,", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "that's right.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "But as it is now, I w would say mm, six, something.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Oh yeah,.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "And.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Do you agree?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "I.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah because it's so important it's i it was written that it really so important, the um the the look and uh taking care of its it targets, the right range of people,", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Well I think.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "right?", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah. Uh yeah but but if you sell it in the market it's going to be cheap, actually.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "But it's going to be cheap whatever though,", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "But w", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "So.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "it was set with i we've got a set price.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "And people can still decide to use the cheaper one", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "instead of a.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "But for us it's yeah we have a constraint that we need to sell at twenty five Euros.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Mm, yeah, indeed.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah. There's nothing that would make me spend an extra k few Euros on that one rather than another one.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Ju just think, twenty five Euros, I mean it's not going to be cheaper.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Okay. So in that case well it's fine then.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Okay. Um", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Mm. Mm. Okay.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "We can yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "and the demokraphi demographic of the second one?", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "And the demographics of.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "It's got the got the the toys in it, it's got the L_C_D_ screen", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah tha tha tha tha tha that's.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "and.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "I think it's better,", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "because of the L_C_D_ screen which is really an appeal on the on the on the", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "on the and on the.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah. And if you want to target yeah if we we wish to to sell four millions of this, I think for this audience we need absolutely the L_C_D_ screen.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Mm. So, the L_C_D_ screen uh attracts,", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "yes.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "I think especially if we're gonna n have an L_C_D_ screen on a low range product then that's good.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Because it Mm, ma maybe that's something to consider, yes,", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Mm. Okay.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "so. Wh what what.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "I'd probably go with three again for that one.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah I think it's uh it has more market actually.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Or even Even one and two. Or two.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "No s say t two.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Y yeah, you know.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Okay. So, two, yeah?", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "two.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Two?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah. Two yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah two yeah. Because tomorrow this will be more appealing because you can add lot of sophistication on that.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Because then you you have it uh d you have lot of things which you can include", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah. Yep. And especially I guess'cause this has the speech recognition as well,", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "for the people to.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "and that makes it more appealing, it's more of a a new fun toy.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "We have to practically test it.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "The field test will tell you how good..", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Okay, the final point, trends.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "And following the trends.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "The trends.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "So the trends were the fruit and vegetables and the spongy feel.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Mm. Mm..", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "So as it is, not really doing either of them.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "I think.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Spongy, uh, that means that it goes in in the water..", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Well,", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "the spongy could be part of the the feel of the buttons as well,", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "I know some have you tried the mobile phones that have got the kinda spongy buttons and not not exactly spongy but I'm thinking one of the Nokias that's got like you ca it hasn't got individual buttons", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Uh okay.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "it's got just a one bit on it", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah I know.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "and so you can that feels kinda spongy.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "But this one includes this feature, right? Spongy buttons.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "So it's sort of, yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah. We we we we we yeah, it's the way they are going to be, actually.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Mm. Okay.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "So Uh", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "the maybe in the colour we can make it uh fruit and and veggie.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "But that's if you're using the covers.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "And the then we can al", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Or is it just one.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "yes. We can we can consider uh uh is it possible do you think, to to make a cover for s such a phone? I mean.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Well they make it for mobiles, it can't be that much more complicated.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "But why do you want to cover that actually? In that uh w in the mod", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Well just with the with the flexible plastic uh.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "So you got the option of having different colours or different textures.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah. This is possible.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "I th I th I think.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Uh uh y are you sure? Yeah I think yeah it should be possible like what we do with the mobile phone, yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "O o or just two things which can be put on each other.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm..", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah exactly like Nokia phones.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yes, exactly like it.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yep.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Uh, so Maybe we can but we have to decide it, we can put the the the fancy f look of vegetables for instance, to to these covers", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "and s now try to invest in the in in the features.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "I think the if we do the cover that's really going with the company's philosophy of having the fashion in in electronics, it lets people have the latest fashion", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "even next year when fruit and vegetables might be out, you'll still be able to put a new cover on it and then it'll still be in fashion.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Mm mm mm mm mm.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.'Cause sometimes look at this computer, th this laptop, it's all black,", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "and uh it's quite conventional, and sometimes people don't like too much flashy colours like this one presented here.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Mm. Mm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "So maybe we could do like in the range the set of what we propose a black one, very standard one, that meets the the requirements of th such people that want really standard uh things.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Mm. Yep.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm. Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yep. Mm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Mm. Mm.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "And then you have the option of having the different colours, different covers.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yes. So so so that that would make the trends equal,", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "so we we we really have don't have,", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm. There's n yeah.'Cause that's the that's the feature that could be included in either of them.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "I mean.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Although it is more with the spongy buttons on the um on the other one.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yes, indeed.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah, so a a point better for the for the number two.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Okay. So. Two and three, or one and two?", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yes.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah, it's one.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Say, say one and two. One and two.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "So le le let's see. So d", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "this one has spongy but buttons?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah, the blue one uh spongy.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah, it says a.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Mm, I see, yes okay. Good.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Okay so the average of that is three six nine divided by five, so five mm nine by five, one point s eight?", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Just add it.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Nine.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "You know. Three, six, seven.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "One point six, one point.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "One point eight yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "This one, eleven thirteen nineteen twenty one, divided by five is four point two", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Four point Uh four point two.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "yep.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Very good.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Okay. But we still got a very different price for those two so they're not really comparable yet anyway.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm. We we must try to get them closer.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah, it's right, yeah that's right.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yep.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Both in i i", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Wow.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "or we just have to choose. And adapt.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yep.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Because, when we choose for this one we have to we have to make it more attractive", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "and w when we to d for this one we have to make it more cheap.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Well it's easier to just make that one cheaper by just taking the speech recognition out.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yes, well.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "That'll basically take us down to the budget.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "But I'm now did y did you work with the same prices that I have here?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "So I I give yeah I just give a call with the manufacturer uh and uh I explained them and they told me this could be possible for sixteen Fr Euros.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Uh unfortunately we didn't see this chip, uh Matthew,", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah. Yep.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Mm, tha", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "so maybe we have to recap with this one.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Maybe we ought to reconsider everything with this, yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Well yes, well uh re reconsider it. So let's let's try to to model this this phone in this sheet,", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "uh what kind of energy source uh I I we didn't speak about that. It's a it's a normal battery, or.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah, it migh It it'll need uh more than a conventional one, it won't be uh just maybe you might use a A_A_ battery actually. What do you say, Mael?", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "For this one it's a normal battery.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yes. Just so one battery.'Kay. Electronics. given speech recognition I think w you should go for the less fancy chip.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Uh sample speaker, yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah, yes, or sample sensor, yes.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Sample, yeah, this one.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yes, this one. Okay. Case? Um,", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "So.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Curved. Double curved yeah right.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "I see I", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "It's uh.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Double curve.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah, it's gonna be more than just the biggest case, definitely.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "So which one are we talking to?", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Are you talking about this or that?", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Well.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Either of them.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Oh yes, we are talking about, but they have the same shape,", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Mm. They're both going to be not basic cases.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "but, actually bu", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "So th th this would be double curves?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "'Kay. Uh, plastic would be the material.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah. The basic one, yep.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Is it zero Franc?.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "A special colour?.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Uh special colour, now we leave it to the covers.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Uh.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "So now we're either going button or L_C_D_s, L_C_D_ display.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Push. Mm, yes, but.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "L_C_D_ is. It's okay. Just say L_C_D_.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Is that price per unit, or for the whole thing?", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah th now this is per per unit, this number of components.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Ah good.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "So it would need twelve buttons.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah, we might need a scroll wheel, right, for that?", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "No but for this one it's twelve Euro.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "No, for that one also.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "There are twelve?", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "So, one, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine,", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah that's a scroll.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "t Yes. Twelve I believe. So this comes to eighteen.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm. And that's without any special button supplements.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah, one scroll wheel you might need.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "So.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "So we'd have a special colour, special form and special material on all of them. They're not just standard buttons.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Uh.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "So I think but th do you agree th that thi", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Wait a minute, it's not it's not double curved, it's single curved, right? Because it's there is no like.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "But I thought it would be curved on two.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yes I", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "it's like it's curved on the sides and curved on the top and bottom as well, that's what I thought.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yes I'm I'm no I'm no I'm not sh sure.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Well", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yes I kno undes I understand what you mean, yes.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "it's you know this curve like this so, it's w there is only is is is there is nothing like y you know in the other stuff there are.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "You talking about concave curves?", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Uh-huh.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "yeah concave.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Both.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "So I think we can put um.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "You think a single curved?", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "the single curved in the sixteen. That makes uh seventeen. And what are just The bt buttons, we have twelve buttons, are you sure? Yeah..", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yes. Uh.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "We have more, we've got those the scroll wheel on the side", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "So", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "and yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "I had a bad uh bad estimation.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Bad estimate,", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "The sc", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "W d.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "right?", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "we have we haven't talk about a, but that's no a is very exp inexpensive I believe", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "but it is not in the list.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "We've got a scroll wheel for the volume don't we, or is it some other thing that's not on there.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "W ho h is this a scroll wheel or is this a a a sort of button which can be pressed on two sides uh so for higher and lower?.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "No no no.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "'Kay we've only got five minutes left guys so we need to wrap it up pretty fast.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yes, a kind of scroll wheel.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "So this is even more than the um than the cost you gave, the sixteen Euros.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Mm. Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Okay,", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "so based on that, yeah, um where is the es okay sample speaker.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "That is the sample sensor and sample speaker.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "So um.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "But still, yeah it.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "We just need that actually. We need one.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "We're We We could go for the for the for the for the for a simple chip, but then we can't have the the speech recognition, yes? Yes?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "No we cannot, yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "So so w when we w a", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "So.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "S", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "this would this would be cutting the speech recognition.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "But the um Yeah but if you have the near the L_C_D_ you can um choose select between um you know like uni universal between audio, T_V_ and V_C_R_, and this needs a needs a advanced chip.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Transti", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Right, Matthew?", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Oh I i it.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Or regular chip?", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "I think it's going to be y y", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "I think yeah regular, today we you can do that with regular chip.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "yeah it's th with the regular chip, yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Say say it's regular, regular chip,", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah. Okay. Okay.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "and we still on fifteen,", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "so.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "So. And what about the number of buttons buttons uh my Matthew?", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yes but that maybe Well we can just say", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Uh.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "one.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "When you look at this w, this u uh item,.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Ca l we are just when we just want to uh to cut the number of buttons we have to make seven to to fit in in twelve twelve fifty.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "But.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "So is it possible?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "But that's seven basic buttons right, seven buttons without any adds-on, without special colours or form or material.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "That'll be then we have uh have to ask the user to press it several times.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "You cannot make a phone to your boss saying twelve fifty is really really low,", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "No no,", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Well.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "he he he I I", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "no?", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "So the L_C_D_ display is is three Francs, sorry three Euros, by itself.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "And uh we don't want to to change that right? We we really want a L_C_D_", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Uh.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "other otherwise we w wouldn not get the market.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Otherwise y you ha you have a s ve very normal uh thing like this.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "It's evident.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "So twelve Euro fifty, we got two off of the battery,", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "And I dunno.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "we can't do anything about that, so ten fifty, if we want an L_C_D_ dispra display, that's seven fifty um, so we've got seven fifty to use for the case and for the buttons. And the chip.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Sorry the chip's up there already.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm, mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "So we're gonna have to scale this down to get within budget, there's no doubt about that.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "A", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "So wha what what each of us think about the because it's measure point the L_C_D_, um Do you think it's important?", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Or we could even replace them by buttons actually.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Because sometimes whe when you watch the T_V_ in fact, you have a big display and maybe you don't need one more in your hands? I dunno, I'm just asking.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "A actually it depends, it depends what kind of functionalities you want to add into it,", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yep.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "for example if you add two more functionalities then better you add two more buttons, or and you'll have L_C_D_ display which is that is going to bring the cost by two two Euros at least.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Mm. Yeah. I think, unless we can really drive these prices down we need to get rid of the L_C_D_ display.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Okay so we can get rid of it", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah, it's true yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "and then add a couple of buttons.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "But uh, do we want that? On the market point of view, yeah. What do you think uh, L_C_D_ is a major feature, or?", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Mm. I", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "For the price, it's gonna be what we can afford, and it's looking like we can't afford the L_C_D_ display, there's no way we can get it in there. Mm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "I think we have to come to a decision now, just I I think we we what we just do i is vote about the uh the L_C_D_ uh display", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "so.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "You assume, you want a democratic voyt vote,", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yes.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "right? Okay.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yes. Yes. One man one vote.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "S so who thinks the the L_C_D_ disply display should be i should be in it?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "I th I'd like t it to be in but I can't see it happening. I can't see it fitting in.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Mm. Mm-hmm mm-hmm..", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "I think but.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "We need to be..", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Bu y you're a power voter uh veto anyway as Project Manager.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm, I know, but.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah..", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah but the only thing is that what is the multiple functionalities you want to include with that.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "well we have to make a decision now, that's it.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yes.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "So uh uh having an L_C_D_ s display is just uh uh have very very limited amount of buttons. Is that acceptable? Ca can I have can the functions be implement in an.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yes.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "You've you you agree.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "W I I I just.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "So hav hav having seven buttons, instead of twelve.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "So that wou would be cutting cutting suh say about these buttons.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Because one yeah th show me that uh actually we could in fact we move these three buttons and have three uh possibilities for each of the three here. Here one, at the middle, and at the bottom.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm. I think then we we're really losing ease of use.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Okay,.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "That will create another problem. For the people to use it. It's not going to be easy. Doing that.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Mm. So um", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "I I think we should we should cut the L_C_D_ screen. That that's that's my opinion.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "No, it's okay, you uh cut the L_C_D_ screen", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Just.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "and introduce two more buttons.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Okay. So L_C_D_'s out, is speech rec out now? We've.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "The speech recognition is out. Because of the budget, yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yep.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Uh where, L_C_.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yep.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Okay w we now we can just uh.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "So are we basically back to the original one now, back to the first version? Which turns out to be on budget exactly, pretty much. With these new costings.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yes.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "So just look at forget that one and look at that one now.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yes. Yes. I th I th I think w we just go for this one", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "and that that now twelve Euros is the is is the price,", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yep.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "okay.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Okay. Well that's that's.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "My m my supervisor will be glad that it's fifty cents cheaper than he expected.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yep.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Actually yeah,", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "So.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "we we we will not need the really uh expert designers um because the amount, yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yep. So w we can go back and l talk to the suppliers maybe", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "and see if we can drive the prices down to add a few more things in but that's all we can do with the restrictions we have at the moment.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Okay, good. Then we the same. 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That was kind of uh interesting.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "So.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "The both the uh the SRI System and the oth", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "Um.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "And for one thing that that sure shows the difference between having a lot of uh training data or not,", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "Of data? Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "uh, the uh The best kind of number we have on the English uh on near microphone only is is uh three or four percent.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "And uh it's significantly better than that, using fairly simple front - ends on on the uh uh, with the SRI system.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "So I th I think that the uh But that's that's using uh a a pretty huge amount of data, mostly not digits, of course, but but then again Well, yeah. In fact, mostly not digits for the actual training the H M Ms whereas uh in this case we're just using digits for training the H M", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "Yeah. Right.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Did anybody mention about whether the the SRI system is a is is doing the digits um the wor as a word model or as uh a sub s sub - phone states?", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "I guess it's it's uh allophone models,", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Yeah. Probably.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "so, well.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Huh?", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "Yeah. I think so, because it's their very d huge, their huge system.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "And. But. So. There is one difference Well, the SRI system the result for the SRI system that are represented here are with adaptation. So there is It's their complete system and including on - line uh unsupervised adaptation.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "That's true.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "And if you don't use adaptation, the error rate is around fifty percent worse, I think, if I remember.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "OK.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "It's tha it's that much, huh?", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "Nnn. It's Yeah. It's quite significant.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Oh. OK.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Still.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "But but uh what what I think I'd be interested to do given that, is that we we should uh take I guess that somebody's gonna do this, right? is to take some of these tandem things and feed it into the SRI system, right?", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "We can do something like that.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Yeah. Because.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "Yeah. But But I guess the main point is the data because uh I am not sure. Our back - end is is fairly simple but until now, well, the attempts to improve it or have fail Ah, well, I mean uh what Chuck tried to to to do", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Yeah, but he's doing it with the same data, right? I mean so to So there's there's there's two things being affected.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "Yeah. So it's Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "I mean. One is that that, you know, there's something simple that's wrong with the back - end. We've been playing a number of states", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "uh I I don't know if he got to the point of playing with the uh number of Gaussians yet", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "but but uh, uh, you know. But, yeah, so far he hadn't gotten any big improvement,", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "but that's all with the same amount of data which is pretty small.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "And um.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "Mmm. So, yeah, we could retrain some of these tandem on on huge.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Well, you could do that, but I'm saying even with it not with that part not retrained, just just using having the H M Ms much better H M", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "Ah, yeah. Just f for the HMM models.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "Yeah. Mm - hmm. Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Um. But just train those H M Ms using different features, the features coming from our Aurora stuff.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "So.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "Yeah. But what would be interesting to see also is what what perhaps it's not related, the amount of data but the um recording conditions. I don't know. Because it's probably not a problem of noise, because our features are supposed to be robust to noise.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Well, yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "It's not a problem of channel, because there is um normalization with respect to the channel. So.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "I I I'm sorry. What what is the problem that you're trying to explain?", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "The the fact that the result with the tandem and Aurora system are uh so much worse.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "That the Oh. So much worse? Oh.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "I uh but I'm I'm almost certain that it it I mean, that it has to do with the um amount of training data.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "It.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "It it's it's orders of magnitude off.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "Yeah but Yeah. Yeah but we train only on digits and it's it's a digit task, so. Well.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "But but having a huge If if you look at what commercial places do, they use a huge amount of data.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "It Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "This is a modest amount of data.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "Alright. Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "So. I mean, ordinarily you would say \" well, given that you have enough occurrences of the digits, you can just train with digits rather than with, you know \".", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm. Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "But the thing is, if you have a huge in other words, do word models But if you have a huge amount of data then you're going to have many occurrences of similar uh allophones.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "Right. Mmm.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "And that's just a huge amount of training for it.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "So it's um I I think it has to be that, because, as you say, this is, you know, this is near - microphone,", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "it's really pretty clean data.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Um. Now, some of it could be the fact that uh let's see, in the in these multi - train things did we include noisy data in the training?", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "I mean, that could be hurting us actually, for the clean case.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "Yeah. Well, actually we see that the clean train for the Aurora proposals are are better than the multi - train,", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "It is if Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Yeah. Cuz this is clean data, and so that's not too surprising.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "But um. Uh. So.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "Well, o I guess what I meant is that well, let's say if we if we add enough data to train on the um on the Meeting Recorder digits, I guess we could have better results than this.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Uh - huh. Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "And. What I meant is that perhaps we can learn something uh from this, what's what's wrong uh what what is different between TI - digits and these digits and.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "What kind of numbers are we getting on TI - digits?", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "It's point eight percent, so.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Oh. I see.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "Four - Fourier.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "So in the actual TI - digits database we're getting point eight percent,", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "Yeah. Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "and here we're getting three or four three, let's see, three for this?", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Yeah. Sure, but I mean, um point eight percent is something like double uh or triple what people have gotten who've worked very hard at doing that.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "And and also, as you point out, there's adaptation in these numbers also. So if you, you know, put the ad adap take the adaptation off, then it for the English - Near you get something like two percent.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "Mmm.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "And here you had, you know, something like three point four. And I could easily see that difference coming from this huge amount of data that it was trained on.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "So it's.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "You know, I don't think there's anything magical here.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "It's, you know, we used a simple HTK system with a modest amount of data. And this is a a, you know, modern uh system uh has has a lot of nice points to it.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "Yeah. Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Um. So. I mean, the HTK is an older HTK, even. So. Yeah it it's not that surprising.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "But to me it just it just meant a practical point that um if we want to publish results on digits that that people pay attention to we probably should uh Cuz we've had the problem before that you get show some nice improvement on something that's that's uh, uh it seems like too large a number, and uh uh people don't necessarily take it so seriously.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Um. Yeah. Yeah. So the three point four percent for this uh is is uh So why is it It's an interesting question though, still. Why is why is it three point four percent for the d the digits recorded in this environment as opposed to the uh point eight percent for for for the original TI - digits database? Um.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "Yeah. th that's th that's my point", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Given given the same Yeah. So ignore ignoring the the the SRI system for a moment,", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "I I I don't I Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "just looking at the TI - di the uh tandem system, if we're getting point eight percent, which, yes, it's high. It's, you know, it it's not awfully high,", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "but it's, you know it's it's high. Um. Why is it uh four times as high, or more?", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "Yeah, I guess.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Right? I mean, there's even though it's close - miked there's still there really is background noise.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Um. And uh I suspect when the TI - digits were recorded if somebody fumbled or said something wrong or something that they probably made them take it over.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "It was not I mean there was no attempt to have it be realistic in any in any sense at all.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "Well. Yeah. And acoustically, it's q it's I listened. It's quite different. TI - digit is it's very, very clean and it's like studio recording", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "whereas these Meeting Recorder digits sometimes you have breath noise and Mmm.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Right. Yeah. So I think they were.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "It's not controlled at all, I mean.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Bless you.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "Thanks.", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "I Yeah. I think it's it's So. Yes.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm. But", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "It's I think it's it's the indication it's harder.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Uh. Yeah and again, you know, i that's true either way. I mean so take a look at the uh um, the SRI results. I mean, they're much much better, but still you're getting something like one point three percent for uh things that are same data as in T TI - digits the same same text.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Uh. And uh, I'm sure the same same system would would get, you know, point point three or point four or something on the actual TI - digits. So this I think, on both systems the these digits are showing up as harder.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "Mmm.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Um.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Which I find sort of interesting cause I think this is closer to uh I mean it's still read. But I still think it's much closer to to what what people actually face, um when they're they're dealing with people saying digits over the telephone. I mean. I don't think uh I mean, I'm sure they wouldn't release the numbers, but I don't think that uh the uh the the companies that that do telephone speech get anything like point four percent on their digits. I'm I'm I'm sure they get Uh, I mean, for one thing people do phone up who don't have uh uh Middle America accents and it's a we we it's it's it's US.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "it has has many people who sound in many different ways. So. Um. I mean. OK. That was that topic. What else we got?", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "Um.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Did we end up giving up on on, any Eurospeech submissions,", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "But.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "or? I know Thilo and Dan Ellis are are submitting something, but uh.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "Yeah. I I guess e the only thing with these the Meeting Recorder and, well, So, I think, yeah I think we basically gave up.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Um. Now, actually for the for the Aur - uh", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "But.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "we do have stuff for Aurora, right? Because because we have ano an extra month or something.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. So. Yeah, for sure we will do something for the special session.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Yeah. Well, that's fine. So th so so we have a couple a couple little things on Meeting Recorder", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "Yeah. Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "and we have We don't we don't have to flood it with papers. We're not trying to prove anything to anybody. so. That's fine. Um. Anything else?", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "Yeah. Well. So. Perhaps the point is that we've been working on is, yeah, we have put the um the good VAD in the system and it really makes a huge difference. Um. So, yeah. I think, yeah, this is perhaps one of the reason why our system was not not the best, because with the new VAD, it's very the results are similar to the France Telecom results and perhaps even better sometimes.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Hmm.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "Huh.", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "Um. So there is this point. Uh. The problem is that it's very big and we still have to think how to where to put it and um,", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "because it it well, this VAD uh either some delay and we if we put it on the server side, it doesn't work, because on the server side features you already have LDA applied from the f from the terminal side and so you accumulate the delay so the VAD should be before the LDA which means perhaps on the terminal side and then smaller and", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "So wha where did this good VAD come from?", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "So. It's um from OGI. So it's the network trained it's the network with the huge amounts on hidden of hidden units, and um nine input frames compared to the VAD that was in the proposal which has a very small amount of hidden units and fewer inputs.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "This is the one they had originally?", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Oh. Yeah, but they had to get rid of it because of the space, didn't they?", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "Yeah. So. Yeah. But the abso assumption is that we will be able to make a VAD that's small and that works fine. And. So we can.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Well. So that's a problem. Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "Yeah but nnn.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "But the other thing is uh to use a different VAD entirely. I mean, uh i if if there's a if if I I don't know what the thinking was amongst the the the the ETSI folk but um if everybody agreed sure let's use this VAD and take that out of there.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm. Mm - hmm. They just want, apparently they don't want to fix the VAD because they think there is some interaction between feature extraction and and VAD or frame dropping But they still want to just to give some um requirement for this VAD because it's it will not be part of they don't want it to be part of the standard.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "OK.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "So. So it must be at least uh somewhat fixed but not completely. So there just will be some requirements that are still not uh not yet uh ready I think.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Determined. I see. But I was thinking that that uh s \" Sure, there may be some interaction,", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "Nnn.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "but I don't think we need to be stuck on using our or OGI's VAD. We could use somebody else's if it's smaller or.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "You know, as long as it did the job.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "So that's good.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "Uh. So there is this thing. There is um Yeah. Uh I designed a new a new filter because when I designed other filters with shorter delay from the LDA filters, there was one filter with fif sixty millisecond delay and the other with ten milliseconds", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "and uh Hynek suggested that both could have sixty - five sixty - s I think it's sixty - five.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "Yeah. Both should have sixty - five because.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "You didn't gain anything, right?", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "Yeah. And. So I did that and uh it's running. So, let's see what will happen. Uh but the filter is of course closer to the reference filter.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "Mmm. Um. Yeah. I think.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "So that means logically, in principle, it should be better. So probably it'll be worse.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "Yeah", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Or in the basic perverse nature uh of reality. Yeah. OK.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "Yeah. Sure.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "OK.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "Yeah, and then we've started to work with this of um voiced - unvoiced stuff.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "And next week I think we will perhaps try to have um a new system with uh uh MSG stream also see what what happens. So, something that's similar to the proposal too, but with MSG stream.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm. Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "Mmm.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "OK.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "No, I w I begin to play with Matlab and to found some parameter robust for voiced - unvoiced decision. But only to play. And we they we found that maybe w is a classical parameter, the sq the variance between the um FFT of the signal and the small spectrum of time we after the um mel filter bank.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Uh - huh.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "And, well, is more or less robust. Is good for clean speech. Is quite good for noisy speech.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Huh? Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "but um we must to have bigger statistic with TIMIT,", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "and is not ready yet to use on,", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "well, I don't know.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "Yeah. So, basically we wa want to look at something like the ex the ex excitation signal and.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "which are the variance of it and.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "I have here. I have here for one signal, for one frame.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Mmm.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Yeah. Uh - huh.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "The the mix of the two, noise and unnoise, and the signal is this. Clean, and this noise.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Uh.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "These are the two the mixed, the big signal is for clean.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Well, I'm s uh There's None of these axes are labeled, so I don't know what this What's this axis?", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "Uh this is uh this axis is nnn, \" frame \".", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Frame.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "And what's th what this?", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "Uh, this is uh energy, log - energy of the spectrum. Of the this is the variance, the difference between the spectrum of the signal and FFT of each frame of the signal and this mouth spectrum of time after the f may fit for the two,", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "For this one. For the noi", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "this big, to here, they are to signal. This is for clean and this is for noise.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Oh. There's two things on the same graph.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "Yeah. I don't know. I I think that I have d another graph, but I'm not sure.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "So w which is clean and which is noise?", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "Yeah. I think the lower one is noise.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "The lower is noise and the height is clean.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "OK. So it's harder to distinguish", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "It's height.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "but it but it g", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "with noise of course but but.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "Oh. I must to have.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Uh.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "Pity, but I don't have two different", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "And presumably when there's a a.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "So this should the the the t voiced portions.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Uh - huh.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "Yeah, it is the height is voiced portion.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "The p the peaks should be voiced portion.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "And this is the noise portion.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Uh - huh.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "And this is more or less like this. But I meant to have see @ @ two two the picture.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Yeah. Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "This is, for example, for one frame.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Yeah", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "the the spectrum of the signal. And this is the small version of the spectrum after ML mel filter bank.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Yeah. And this is the difference?", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "And this is I don't know. This is not the different. This is trying to obtain with LPC model the spectrum but using Matlab without going factor and s", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "No pre - emphasis? Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "Not pre - emphasis. Nothing.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Yeah so it's doesn't do too well there.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "And the I think that this is good. This is quite similar. this is this is another frame. ho how I obtained the envelope, this envelope, with the mel filter bank.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Right. So now I wonder I mean, do you want to I know you want to get at something orthogonal from what you get with the smooth spectrum Um. But if you were to really try and get a voiced - unvoiced, do you do you want to totally ignore that? I mean, do you do you I mean, clearly a a very big very big cues for voiced - unvoiced come from uh spectral slope and so on, right?", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Um.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "Yeah. Well, this would be this would be perhaps an additional parameter,", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "simply isn't.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "I see.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Yeah because when did noise clear in these section is clear", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Uh.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "if s @ @ val value is indicative that is a voice frame and it's low values", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Yeah. Yeah. Well, you probably want I mean, certainly if you want to do good voiced - unvoiced detection, you need a few features. Each each feature is by itself not enough. But, you know, people look at at slope and uh first auto - correlation coefficient, divided by power.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "Mmm.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Or or uh um there's uh I guess we prob probably don't have enough computation to do a simple pitch detector or something? I mean with a pitch detector you could have a have a an estimate of of what the.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "Mmm.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Uh. Or maybe you could you just do it going through the P FFT's figuring out some um probable um harmonic structure. Right. And and uh.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "Mmm.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "you have read up and you have a paper, the paper that you s give me yesterday. they say that yesterday they are some problem", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Oh, yeah. But Yeah, but it's not it's, yeah, it's it's another problem.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "and the Is another problem.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Yeah Um. Yeah, there is th this fact actually. If you look at this um spectrum,", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "What's this again? Is it the mel - filters?", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Yeah like this. Of kind like this.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Yeah. OK. So the envelope here is the output of the mel - filters", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "and what we clearly see is that in some cases, and it clearly appears here, and the the harmonics are resolved by the f Well, there are still appear after mel - filtering,", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "and it happens for high pitched voice because the width of the lower frequency mel - filters is sometimes even smaller than the pitch.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "It's around one hundred, one hundred and fifty hertz Nnn.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "And so what happens is that this uh, add additional variability to this envelope and um", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "so we were thinking to modify the mel - spectrum to have something that that's smoother on low frequencies.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "That's as as a separate thing.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "i", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "Yeah. This is a separate thing.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Separate thing?", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "And.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Yeah. Maybe so. Um. Yeah. So, what Yeah. What I was talking about was just, starting with the FFT you could you could uh do a very rough thing to estimate estimate uh pitch.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "Yeah. Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "And uh uh, given you know, given that, uh you could uh uh come up with some kind of estimate of how much of the low frequency energy was was explained by by uh uh those harmonics.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Uh. It's uh a variant on what you're s what you're doing. The I mean, the the the mel does give a smooth thing. But as you say it's not that smooth here. And and so if you if you just you know subtracted off uh your guess of the harmonics then something like this would end up with quite a bit lower energy in the first fifteen hundred hertz or so and and our first kilohertz, even.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "And um if was uh noisy, the proportion that it would go down would be if it was if it was unvoiced or something.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "So you oughta be able to pick out voiced segments. At least it should be another another cue. So. Anyway.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "OK? That's what's going on. Uh. What's up with you?", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "Um our t I went to talk with uh Mike Jordan this this week", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "um and uh shared with him the ideas about um extending the Larry Saul work and um I asked him some questions about factorial H M so like later down the line when we've come up with these these feature detectors, how do we how do we uh you know, uh model the time series that that happens um and and we talked a little bit about factorial H M Ms and how um when you're doing inference or w when you're doing recognition, there's like simple Viterbi stuff that you can do for for these H M and the uh the great advantages that um a lot of times the factorial H M Ms don't um don't over - alert the problem there they have a limited number of parameters and they focus directly on on uh the sub - problems at hand so you can imagine um five or so parallel um features um transitioning independently and then at the end you you uh couple these factorial H M Ms with uh with uh undirected links um based on based on some more data.", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "Hmm.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "So he he seemed he seemed like really interested in in um in this and said said this is this is something very do - able and can learn a lot and um yeah, I've just been continue reading um about certain things.", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "um thinking of maybe using um um m modulation spectrum stuff to um as features um also in the in the sub - bands", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "because it seems like the modulation um spectrum tells you a lot about the intelligibility of of certain um words and stuff So, um. Yeah. Just that's about it.", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "OK.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "OK. And um so I've been looking at Avendano's work and um uh I'll try to write up in my next stat status report a nice description of what he's doing, but it's it's an approach to deal with reverberation or that the aspect of his work that I'm interested in the idea is that um normally an analysis frames are um too short to encompass reverberation effects um in full. You miss most of the reverberation tail in a ten millisecond window and so you you'd like it to be that um the reverberation responses um simply convolved um in, but it's not really with these ten millisecond frames cuz you j But if you take, say, a two millisecond um window I'm sorry a two second window then in a room like this, most of the reverberation response is included in the window and the then it um then things are l more linear. It is it is more like the reverberation response is simply c convolved and um and you can use channel normalization techniques like uh in his thesis he's assuming that the reverberation response is fixed. He just does um mean subtraction, which is like removing the DC component of the modulation spectrum and that's supposed to d um deal uh deal pretty well with the um reverberation and um the neat thing is you can't take these two second frames and feed them to a speech recognizer um so he does this um method training trading the um the spectral resolution for time resolution and um come ca uh synthesizes a new representation which is with say ten second frames but a lower s um frequency resolution. So I don't really know the theory. I guess it's these are called \" time frequency representations \" and h he's making the the time sh um finer grained and the frequency resolution um less fine grained.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "s so I'm I guess my first stab actually in continuing his work is to um re - implement this this thing which um changes the time and frequency resolutions cuz he doesn't have code for me. So that that'll take some reading about the theory. I don't really know the theory.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Oh, and um, another f first step is um, so the the way I want to extend his work is make it able to deal with a time varying reverberation response um and um we don't really know how fast the um the reverberation response is varying the Meeting Recorder data um so um we we have this um block least squares um imp echo canceller implementation and um I want to try finding the the response, say, between a near mike and the table mike for someone using the echo canceller and looking at the echo canceller taps and then see how fast that varies from block to block.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "That should give an idea of how fast the reverberation response is changing.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "OK. Um. I think we're sort of done.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "So let's read our digits and go home.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "Um. S so um y you do I think you read some of the the zeros as O's and some as zeros.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "Is there a particular way we're supposed to read them?", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "There are only zeros here. Well.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "No. \" O \" \" O \" \" O \" \" O \" \" O \" \" O \" and \" zero \" are two ways that we say that digit.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "Eee. Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "So it's.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "Ha!", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "But.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "so it's i", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "Perhaps in the sheets there should be another sign for the if we want to the the guy to say \" O \" or", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "No. I mean. I think people will do what they say.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "It's.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "It's OK.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "I mean in digit recognition we've done before, you have you have two pronunciations for that value, \" O \" and \" zero \".", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "Alright.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "OK.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "OK.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "But it's perhaps more difficult for the people to prepare the database then, if because here you only have zeros", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "No, they just write.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "and and people pronounce \" O \" or zero.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "they they write down OH. or they write down ZERO a and they and they each have their own pronunciation.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "Yeah but if the sh the sheet was prepared with a different sign for the \" O \".", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "But people wouldn't know what that wa I mean there is no convention for it.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "OK. Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "See. I mean, you'd have to tell them \" OK when we write this, say it tha \",", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "OK.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "you know, and you just They just want people to read the digits as you ordinarily would", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm. Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "and and people say it different ways.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "Yep.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "OK. Is this a change from the last batch of of um forms? Because in the last batch it was spelled out which one you should read.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "Yeah, it was orthographic, so.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Yes. That's right. It was it was spelled out, and they decided they wanted to get at more the way people would really say things.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "Oh. OK.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "That's also why they're they're bunched together in these different groups. So so it's.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "OK.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "Yeah. So it's it's Everything's fine.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "OK.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "OK. Actually, let me just s since since you brought it up, I was just it was hard not to be self - conscious about that when it after we since we just discussed it. But I realized that that um when I'm talking on the phone, certainly, and and saying these numbers, I almost always say zero. And uh cuz because uh i it's two syllables. It's it's more likely they'll understand what I said. So that that that's the habit I'm in, but some people say \" O \" and.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "Yeah I normally say \" O \" cuz it's easier to say.", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "Yeah it's shorter. Yeah. So it's So. 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Okay. Um so we're designing a new remote control and um Oh I have to record who's here actually. So that's David, Andrew and Craig, isn't it? And you all arrived on time. Um yeah so des uh design a new remote control. Um, as you can see it's supposed to be original, trendy and user friendly. Um so that's kind of our our brief, as it were. Um and so there are three different stages to the design. Um I'm not really sure what what you guys have already received um in your emails. What did you get?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Um, I just got the project announcement about what the project is.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Designing a remote control.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "That's about it, didn't get anything else.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm. Yeah, that's that's it.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Is that what everybody got?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Did you get the same thing?", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Um. So we're gonna have like individual work and then a meeting about it. And repeat that process three times. Um and at this point we get try out the whiteboard over there. Um. So uh you get to draw your favourite animal and sum up your favourite characteristics of it. So who would like to go first?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "I will go. That's fine.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Very good..", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Alright. So This one here, right?", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Okay. Very nice. Alright. My favourite animal is like A beagle.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Um charac favourite characteristics of it? Is that right?", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah. Yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Uh, right, well basically um high priority for any animal for me is that they be willing to take a lot of physical affection from their family. And, yeah that they have lots of personality and uh be fit and in robust good health.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "So this is blue. Blue beagle. My family's beagle.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Lovely..", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Well, my favourite animal would be a monkey.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Then they're small cute and furry, and uh when planet of the apes becomes real, I'm gonna be up there with them.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Cool.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "There's too much gear..", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "You can take as long over this as you like, because we haven't got an awful lot to discuss.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Ok oh we do we do", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Don't feel like you're in a rush, anyway.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "I coulda told you a whole lot more about beagles.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Ach why not.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Boy, let me tell you..", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "We might have to get you up again then.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "I don't know what mine is. I'm gonna have to think on the spot now.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Impressionist.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Can't draw..", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Um.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Is that a whale?.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah. Um, well anyway, I don't know, it's just the first animal I can think off the top of my head. Um. Yes. Big reason is'cause I'm allergic to most animals. Allergic to animal fur,", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Ah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "so um fish was a natural choice. Um, yeah, and I kind of like whales. They come in and go eat everything in sight..", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "And they're quite harmless and mild and interesting.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Alright. Mm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Okay. God, I still don't know what I'm gonna write about. Um.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Superb sketch, by the way.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Tail's a bit big, I think..", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "I was gonna choose a dog as well.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "But I'll just draw a different kind of dog.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yep.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "M my favourite animal is my own dog at home. Um That doesn't really look like him, actually. He looks more like a pig, actually. Ah well.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "I see a dog in there.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Do you?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Oh that's very good of you.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yep. Now I see a rooster.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Uh.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "What kind is it?", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Um he's a mixture of uh various things. Um and what do I like about him, um That's just to suggest that his tail wags.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Um he's very friendly and cheery and always pleased to see you, and very kind of affectionate and um uh and he's quite quite wee as well so you know he can doesn't take up too much space.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Um and uh And he does a funny thing where he chases his tail as well,", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "which is quite amusing, so.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Is he aware that th it's his own cha tail he's chasing?", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "It is. I think it is. He only does it after he's had his dinner", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "and um he'll just all of a sudden just get up and start chasing his tail'round the living room.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "It's an after dinner dog then.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Hmm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah, so uh.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Probably when he was little he got lots of attention for doing it and has forever been conditioned.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah, maybe. Maybe. Right, um where did you find this?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Just down here? Yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Okay. Um what are we doing next? Uh um. Okay, uh we now need to discuss the project finance. Um so according to the brief um we're gonna be selling this remote control for twenty five Euro, um and we're aiming to make fifty million Euro. Um so we're gonna be selling this on an international scale. And uh we don't want it to cost any more than uh twelve fifty Euros, so fifty percent of the selling price.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "'Kay. Um, can we just go over that again?", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Sure.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Uh, so bas at twel Alright, yeah. Okay. So cost like production cost is twelve fifty,", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "All together.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "but selling price is is that wholesale or retail? Like on the shelf.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Um I dunno. I imagine That's a good question.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Our sale our sale anyway.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "I imagine it probably is our sale actually", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah, okay okay.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "because it's probably up to the the um the retailer to uh sell it for whatever price they want. Um.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Okay. Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "But I I don't know,", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Alright.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "I mean do you think the fact that it's going to be sold internationally will have a bearing on how we design it at all?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yes..", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Think it will? Um.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm. Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Hmm.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Well right away I'm wondering if there's um th th uh, like with D_V_D_ players, if there are zones.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Oh yeah, regions and stuff, yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Um f frequencies or something", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah. Okay.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "um as well as uh characters, um different uh keypad styles and s symbols.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Hmm.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah. Well for a remote control, do you think that will be.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Um.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "I suppose it's depends on how complicated our remote control is.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "I don't know. Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "It does make sense from maybe the design point of view'cause you have more complicated characters like European languages, then you need more buttons.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah, yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "So, possibly.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "And then a and then al the other thing international is on top of the price. I'm thinking the price might might appeal to a certain market in one region, whereas in another it'll be different, so.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "What, just like in terms of like the wealth of the country?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Just a chara just a characteristic of the.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Like how much money people have to spend on things like?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Just Or just like, basic product podi positioning, the twenty five Euro remote control might be a big hit in London, might not be such a big hit in Greece, who knows,", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Aye, I see what you mean, yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "something like that, yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Marketing. Good marketing thoughts.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yep.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Oh gosh, I should be writing all this down. Um.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Right away I'm making some kind of assumptions about what what information we're given here,", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "thinking,'kay trendy probably means something other than just basic,", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "something other than just standard. Um so I'm wondering right away, is selling twenty five Euros, is that sort of the thi is this gonna to be like the premium product kinda thing or.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah, yeah. Like how much does, you know, a remote control cost.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Uh-huh.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Well twenty five Euro, I mean that's um that's about like eighteen pounds or something, isn't it? Or no, is it as much as that?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Sixteen seventeen eighteen pounds.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yep. Yeah, I'd say so, yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Um, I dunno, I've never bought a remote control, so I don't know how how good a remote control that would get you. Um.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "No. Yeah, yeah..", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "But yeah, I suppose it has to look kind of cool and gimmicky.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Um right, okay. Let me just scoot on ahead here. Okay. Um well d Does anybody have anything to add to uh to the finance issue at all? Thin", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Do we have any other background information on like how that compares to other", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "No, actually. That would be useful, though,", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "other.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "wouldn't it, if you knew like what your money would get you now.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Hmm.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm. Yeah, interesting thing about discussing um production of a remote control for me is that l as you point out, I just don't think of remote controls as somethin something people consciously assess in their purchasing habits.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah, yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "It's just like getting shoelaces with shoes or something.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Oh. Five minutes to end of meeting.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "It just comes along.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Oh, okay. We're a bit behind.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Do you know what I mean?", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Like so sort of like how do you I I mean one one way of looking at it would be, well the people producing television sets, maybe they have to buy remote controls. Or another way is maybe people who have T_V_ sets are really fed up with their remote control and they really want a better one or something.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "I know um My parents went out and bought um remote controls because um they got fed up of having four or five different remote controls for each things the house.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "But Right. Right.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "So um for them it was just how many devices control.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Okay so Right, so in function one of the priorities might be to combine as many uses.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah. Right, so do you think that should be like a main design aim of our remote control d you know,", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "I think so.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "do your your satellite and your regular telly and your V_C_R_ and everything?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah, yeah. Yeah. Well like um, maybe what we could use is a sort of like a example of a successful other piece technology is palm palm pilots. They're gone from being just like little sort of scribble boards to cameras, M_P_ three players, telephones,", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "everything, agenda. So, like, I wonder if we might add something new to the to the remote control market,", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "such as the lighting in your house, or um.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Or even like, you know, notes about um what you wanna watch. Like you might put in there oh I want to watch such and such and look a", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah, yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Oh that's a good idea. So extra functionalities.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "An Yeah. Like, p personally for me, at home I've I've combined the um the audio video of my television set and my D_V_D_ player and my C_D_ player. So they w all work actually function together but I have different remote controls for each of them.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "So it's sort of ironic that that then they're in there um you know, the sound and everything it's just one system.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Hmm.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "But each one's got its own little part.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Um okay, uh I'd wel we're gonna have to wrap up pretty quickly in the next couple of minutes. Um I'll just check we've nothing else. Okay. Um so anything else anybody wants to add about what they don't like about remote controls they've used, what they would really like to be part of this new one at all?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "And you keep losing them.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "You keep losing them.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Finding them is really a pain, you know.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Mm. Mm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "I mean it's usually quite small, or when you want it right, it slipped behind the couch", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm. Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "or it's kicked under the table.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "W You get those ones where you can, if you like, whistle or make a really high pitched noise they beep.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "You know.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "That's just really good id Yep.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "There I mean is that something we'd want to include, do you think?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Uh,.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Dunno.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "sure..", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Okay maybe..", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "I remember when the first remote control my my family had was on a cable. Actually had a cable between it and the T_V_", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "and big like buttons that sort of like, like on a blender or something.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "My goodness.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "And um, you know, when I think about what they are now, it's better, but actually it's still kind of, I dunno, like a massive junky thing on the table.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Still feels quite primitive.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Maybe we could think about how, could be more, you know, streamlined. S", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Maybe like a touch screen or something?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Something like that, yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Or whatever would be technologically reasonable.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Uh-huh, okay. Well I guess that's up to our industrial designer.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "'Cause it could b it could it could be that f it could be that functionally that doesn't make it any better, but that just the appeal of of not having.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "It looks better.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "You know, these days there's a r pe things in people's homes are becoming more and more like chic, you know.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Um, nicer materials", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "and might be", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "be worth exploring anyway.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Uh.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Right, well um so just to wrap up the next meeting's gonna be in thirty minutes. So that's about um about ten to twelve by my watch. Um so inbetween now and then, um as the industrial designer, you're gonna be working on you know the actual working design of it", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yep.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "so y you know what you're doing there. Um for user interface, technical functions, I guess that's you know like what we've been talking about, what it'll actually do. Um and uh marketing executive, you'll be just thinking about what it actually what, you know, what requirements it has to has to fulfil and you'll all get instructions emailed to you, I guess.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Um.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah, so it's th the functional design stage is next, I guess. And uh and that's the end of the meeting. So I got that little message a lot sooner than I thought I would, so.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Um. Before we wrap up, just to make sure we're all on the same page here,", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "um, do we We were given sort of an example of a coffee machine or something,", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Uh-huh, yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "right? Well, um are we at ma right now on the assumption that our television remote control may have features which go beyond the television? Or are we keeping sort of like a a design commitment to television features?", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Th Okay, well just very quickly", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "I I don't know.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "'cause this we're supposed to finish now. Um I guess that's up to us,", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yep. Yeah, sure.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "I mean you probably want some kind of unique selling point of it, so um, you know.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "I think one factor would be production cost.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Okay, yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Because there's a cap there,", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "so um depends on how much you can cram into that price. Um.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "I think that that's the main factor.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah. Okay.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Right, okay, we'll that's that's the end of the meeting, then. Um", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Alright..", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "So, uh", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "thank you all for coming..", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Cool.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" } ] }	{ "dialogTurns": [ { "query": "What was decided regarding the project budget?", "response": "The product will be retailed at 25 Euros. 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cccde26bb8a046daa5ee4c28a383171a	{ "meetingId": "TS3008b", "transcriptSegments": [ { "text": "Here we go again.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "My mouse is not working anymore.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Oh.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "He's uh.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Oh.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "when I put it in, is is going to beep beep beep.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Oh, I got a nice little screen here over here.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "I got like this big black border uh on every side.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm, okay.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Everybody ready?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "I'll I'll fix it.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah, it's okay.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Welcome at the functional design meeting, again presented by Maarten.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah, whatever.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Uh this is the agenda, the opening. Uh, we've got three presentations. And I'm gonna show you some of the new projects requirements that were sent to me. And we're gonna make a decision on the remote control functions. We have uh forty minutes.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yes.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Oh, well this is the the closing already.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "So uh well we start off with the th the first presentation then. Uh, I think um in uh we have to do it in uh in right order.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Maybe the.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "I don't know what the right order is. So.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Well, it.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "No.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Huh.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Oh that. It won't doesn't Maybe we should start with the the technical functions.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Okay,", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "how can I get this on the whiteboard?", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Well it's you dumped the file in the uh in the sh in the project document folder.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "In project.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Okay, I've done that.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "You've already done that?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "No can that open.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yes.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Well let's close this one. We'll just uh open a new one.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Open it there.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Uh, well. Yes. Uh-oh. New thing. Oh yeah, uh I have to say something. Uh, due to some uh technical problems I haven't uh digitized the last uh the meeting minutes. But I'll uh make sure that uh happens next time.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Okay. About the get.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "And I'll get this one uh in digital uh form too.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "'Kay, we're going to um uh talk about working design. Um, the method of the remote control is uh electrical energy, it activates a chip uh in the remote. It's an electrical circuit which compose uh messages in the form of uh uh infrared signals to control the television. Mm, it's a nowadays very uh known, a known uh uh technology. Um, the known technology can make a cost very low. Uh, it's a wild uh a wide sale uh of uh remote controls in the world. And and the components are very uh very cheap. Um, Uh, diodes, uh bat batteries and uh uh LED lights, they're needed and they're uh everywhere available. Uh, again, it's a fair price. It's a common uh technology uh, like I told um Uh, the circuit board, it's the most um important uh um part of the remote control. Uh, we can use for that uh fibreglass with copper wires, it's it is uh can be made as fast as printing paper. It's uh it's all very uh.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah, they're making it uh all the time. Uh,", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "and it's not uh very specialised uh technology. I haven't come to here, but um I've got uh some uh images of uh remote controls. They were not uh very uh trendy or just uh just a remote control like everyone knows. So I don't know uh why I should put it here. Uh.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Okay. But it's the technical side of the remote control.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yes, but uh I uh haven't made it because uh of the time.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Oh. Okay. Well, we'll we'll have to skip that part then.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "What?", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "But you don't think it's a problem um to design uh the technical part of the remote control? It's gonna be easy?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "No. Yes.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "But nothing restricted for user interface?", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah. M", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "With technical.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Um, no, it's uh it's just a part of uh a known technology, yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "I don't know.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "'Kay.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Remote control is nothing special nowadays.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "R regardless of what type of functions we want to implement. Doesn't really matter.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Um.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "But I kind of uh.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "I don't think so,", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Okay. Yeah, okay.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "because of the all the televisions uh there are a few maybe a couple of televisions with the new functions,", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yes. Uh.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "but is it useful to put them on a on a standard uh remote?", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Well, we'll see. We'll see later on.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Well, the technical functions. Um, well I don't know if you got the same uh pictures as I got,", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "No.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "but uh I got these two,", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "No.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "and I think they're we have to focus uh on uh the uh one hand the expert view or the novice user. th I think it's it's very much uh depending on the user requirements, I don't s uh know who's doing t", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Well, uh will there be some uh user requirements later on? The ones I I've uh received from the account manager.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah, but it I think that's very important to watch uh what kind of functions there we want to uh put in a remote control.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah. Well, we'll keep this in mind, and then discuss it later on.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah, well y we can put functions in it when uh yeah, when we uh get the user requirements uh and we can update it.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Uh-huh. Okay, but this real this uh big d uh distinction between this type of remote. we should we should choose one uh we should not compromise but uh really choose for uh expert viewer or novice v", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yes, I agree. Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah? Well, what that's what you want trying to say.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Well, yeah w if you want try a a a huge market, if you want to reach a huge market, uh like elderly people and we have to choose for novice user.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Okay. Okay.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "But I don't know. It's it's really um depending on how how how far the the the remote controls are already in n um in use.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah, well some of these Uh, yeah. Well, some of that will Yeah, but i but it will be more clear when we come to the uh u uh some of the new requirements.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah, probably, yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yes.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "So.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Uh well, there are l at least uh basic functions, uh like just th the channels uh one till nine, uh on and off switch, which must be clear with a red button or something like that. Um, most standard uh have volume, of course, and a mute function, and, of course, the next and previous channel. I think that's just basic what we need.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "And from that on we can user requirements what we need more. Uh Yeah, I just um um I thought Joost was looking at the trendy the trends in the markets, and I don't know if there uh are any um uh if you put more functions, more buttons, maybe it's com becoming less trendy or something like that.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yes.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "M you can just you can k.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "I haven't really found a conclusion like that.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "you can keep it in mind that.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "I don't know. Uh, I th I thought the the with less buttons you can make a more trendier uh.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Design.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "yeah, more trendier design, I think. I think.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Sounds interesting.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah?", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Uh, well, that's all I have to say, I think.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah, that was it.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Alright.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Well, then the Marketing expert can uh tell us something about the current market.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yes.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": ".", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah. It's alright. Um Alright, I've done some research for functional requirements. Um yes. The working method um there were hundred uh uh w h one hundred people, uh how do you say uh, f watched using remote controls in the usability lab and they also uh filled out a questionnaire uh with a few questions. Uh, I've lined them up here. Uh, ask whether um common remote control looks good or not, about willingness to spend money on remote control, about zapping behaviour, and uh and stuff like that. I uh have found some interesting things. We do we do got a market. Um, three out of four people claim m uh to find remote controls ugly. So if we make a trendy design, we sure have seventy fi seventy five percent of the market, which you can reach. Um, three out of four users uh zaps a lot, as I uh quoted here from the uh results. Zap buttons are used one hundred and sixty eight times per hour. That's quite a lot. Um, relevant options are, of course, power buttons. Although, only used once per hour. Uh, channel selection, volume and buttons for text, and the more um, yeah, other functions, like audio settings, video settings, sound settings are not said to be very important and uh very much used. Furthermore, fifty percent says uh they only use ten percent of the buttons on a remote control. That doesn't say we got we can leave ninety percent off. But it sure um says we shouldn't make it too uh complicated. Fifty percent also claims uh to have lost a remote control very often in the room. And um an important thing here, the most important customers uh, which is over seventy percent of our market, is in the age range of thirty six to sixty five years old. And uh elderly people, our market, are less interested in uh nice features, but more willingly to spend more money on remote controls. So, what I was thinking oh, wrong side. We shouldn't implement too much features on uh on our remote control, because elderly people will get th lost. Group features for a higher usability, uh what I was claiming in the previous meeting. Um, all the settings, about audio settings, video settings and channel settings, which are not very often used, we could group them uh on one button and make them accessible uh in one menu button or whatever, because they are used very rarely and well, it uh there are a lot of options there, so we can really make uh yeah, how do you say, we can spare at buttons over there.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "And um, if you want to implement V_C_R_ and D_V_D_ options, group them in the button, not too uh Yeah. Small buttons, so they won't be very um, how do you say.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Visually presents.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yes, won't be very present, thank you. And a trendy look, well uh, although seventy percent of the market is uh consists of elderly people uh who don't really care for trendy looks or whatever, I guess it can do no harm to make it trendy for the other thirty percent. That was kind of what I found.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Well, then we I'm gonna show you some of the new project requirements and then we gonna discuss on uh what features we find important.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yes.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Uh, well some of the uh new requirements make some of your findings quite uh irrelevant, I think.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Because um uh s decided to put They have decide to put two additional requirements forward. Well, now I see four.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Two?.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "That's kinda strange. Well, they say tele teletext becomes outdated since the popularity of the internet. Well, I think that may be so, but well, we can't just leave the teletext button off.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Well.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "It's impossible, I think.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "No way.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "No uh, I agree, I agree.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "So the compromise we could make is just to make one teletext button, you know, like on and off, and don't make a lot of special put a lot of special features on it to make it transparent or.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Not too much, no.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "You know, it's just you want you want to be able to make use of teletext, but not to play with it that much.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "So we have to think of that. The remote control should only be used for television. Otherwise, the project becomes more complex, which endangers the time t t ma uh the time to market. So maybe we should leave all D_V_D_ and V_C_R_ related features off completely.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "I don't know. I think that uh that's what they're trying to say.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Uh, our current customers are within the age group of forty plus. New products should reach a new market with customers that are younger than forty. So you uh talked about the elderly who were willing to spend more on a remote control and who were interested.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "But, well, they're not relevant because we are aiming at a younger.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "I don't really agree actually, to be honest. It's a very small market which we will approach then if we uh want to reach customers younger than forty. It's only like thirty percent of the total market.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah, but it is it's is a dif it's a fact that the th th that bigger market you're talking about, we already cover that.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mayb yeah?", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Our company already sells remote control to the older people, but we we also want, you know, a new customer group. That's the one we haven't covered yet. So I think that's what the problem is. We haven't got remote controls for uh.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Well I think, yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Maybe maybe we can compromise a little bit.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah, I think so. Maybe if it's.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Not too much then, bu alright.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "no no, but I think we have to just keep in mind what the older age group wants. So maybe we can make a remote control that's primarily interesting for the younger group, but isn't that bad for an older person either.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yes.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Uh, our corporate image sh should stay recognisable in our products. Our product's corporate colour and slogan must be implemented in the new design. Okay, something else nice to know.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "But what's our slogan?", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Sorry? Yeah, you will have to look that up..", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "The slogan uh.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah, I'll have a look.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "I think it's something about the.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Puts fashion in electronics..", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "We put the fashion in electronics.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Oh, okay. I thought it w might be, let's make things better or something, but.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Sense simplicity..", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Sense and simplicity..", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Okay well, let's go back to the the agenda. So we've now had to the three presentations. We know about the new project requirements. That means we can uh well d yeah, discuss on the remote control functions. Well, if I can uh make a start, I think it's becoming more clear what kind of remote control it's gonna be, and I already talked about the maybe you have a f familiar with the rem remote control that has the the can opener underneath it. I think we're we're looking for some.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah, we we're looking for a really simple remote control with only basic T_V_ functions. Y well, that.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Well, to be honest, if um our uh aim group is uh till forty, not older than forty, maybe that's not very uh yeah, we don't really need to have a simple remote control.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah. Yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "I think we can implement more functions then, because um basically uh the younger people are more able to adapt to new technology", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah, but wha", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah, yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "and therefore will be a more.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "M yeah, that's why um well a lot of um the use the requirements the the account manager sent me, I think they are are c are contradicting each other,", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "But.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "because they want a simpler design, and no uh other uh s functions than just T_V_, but they s do aim at a younger.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yes..", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Well, ma", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah, but you sai you said that that a lot of functions aren't used.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "So why should j we put this function in?", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Well, I think.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "I think more I think uh people younger people are more looking for just a trendy look than uh more functions.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "But I think uh you we can make some discuss uh distinctions in uh what kin in the, know, th th in functions you have Y Well you have different kind of uh equipment in your room, like a t T_V_ and a D_V_D_ player.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yes.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "You can uh, know, you you can make very d you can put very detailed functions regarding the T_V_ set on your remote control uh with the with uh the, you know, audio settings and uh v uh screen settings. We don't want that. I think that was that became clear. We don't want. But w maybe we should put some func uh, I know that the younger people will most likely have a D_V_D_ player they want to, you know, they want to uh", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah, control.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah, but uh you said.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "control, remotely.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah, d yeah, but th the functions are not in the remote control we're making.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "No, yeah, th th the user requirements of the the The new project requirements told us not to.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "It's n Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "But maybe w Yeah. I think we maybe should.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah, well we should uh put some functions for other maybe for other equipment on it. But just the basic functions. Maybe like rewind and wind,", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "or n what d what do you guys think?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "But you can put them under the same button.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Not much more than that.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah, if as far as possible.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yep. Or we can u u we could put'em behind the flip-flap or whatever.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "But what do you think?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "So t", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Do th should we implement features that uh uh or functions that to control other devices?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "No.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "No, you don't think so?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "No, new requirements say no.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah, the new requirements say so.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "So.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "But you can put a play and stop and and rewind.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Well, maybe it's.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "maybe there there there is something th m most of the time these functions don't support the particular device as well as their their own remote control.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah, but.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "You know, a lot of D_V_D_ players have some tricky settings with.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yes, but we.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "I i if it's too simple uh th they won't use the remote control, they use their own th th with lot more functions.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Y yes.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yep, exactly. That's that's wha", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "But but for for example, V_C_R_, that's better example in this case. I think on a remote control for television you don't need to be able to programme uh the V_C_R_ to start recording at three P_M_ or whatever,", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "No no, you don't No no, you don't need it. No, no.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "No, no. Exactly.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Huh.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "just play, stop, rewind and uh fast forward.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Okay, but we have to think uh w we have to think D_V_D_ I th uh, I guess,", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah, I know, but uh.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "so um but uh from my experience it's kinda a lot of D_V_D_ players, you know, like forwarding, goes differently. Uh, you get two speed or eight speed or sixteen speed. It's c sometimes a bit difficult.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm, yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Maybe if we just leave the D_V_D_ functional m uh Well, I was thinking about putting it in, but concerning the project requirements and what you just said, I think we m should focus on the T_V_ then.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yes.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah, but just keep it simple and look more at th", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "And uh and it's just an uh a complimentary remote and not a universal one. If you want to keep it simple, you can make a universal remote.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "No. It's only for television. So.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Okay. It's just a s it it should be something that is like a gadget on your coffee table,", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yes, but there are there are.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "and it's just for when you you you jump on the couch, you pick up the the the nice remote, the simple one, just to put on the television, nothing more.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah, nothing more. Exactly.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Alright.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Um, but what televis", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "But how wi how will you be able to handle a whole market? There are uh a dozen of uh dozens of of remote controls that have.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah, we we'll make w this one trendy.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "And simple.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "The user interface is easy.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Well, we we will come to that, but ju first on the on the functions. So we should put uh zap buttons on it. Um, also numbers, to uh to go to the specific channels.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "And the basic yeah, basic functions, yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yes, definitely, yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Uh,", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "It's too much integrated in the other.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Okay, a t a teletext button should be there. But just one big teletext button, on and off.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Probably.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah, and maybe two or three other options, but not nothing more than that. I think stop function is very useful. If you have a uh a page which consists of more pages, and you are not a very quick reader,", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Oh, okay.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "then I think it's very irritating if the next page shows up, but.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah, but uh I think that becomes too difficult, it's not a very common function and people will have to read up on their remote then.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Well, I use it very regularly, the action. I re I use it quite often.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah, yeah, but maybe you s yeah yeah, maybe y you do, but I've never heard of it in the first place. And", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Will you look.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "we have to well t yeah, and t and teletext is becoming outdated.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Look at the market.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "We just want to see what programmes are on and what time it is probably. Yeah. I don't know. I think that that's kin getting too complex for our remote.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Well.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "I don't know what you th guys think.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Might be. Might be.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah, I uh, it's Sunday I always use it for the uh yeah, for the soccer uh.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah, but do you like to have a such a s stop button? Or do you think it uh I think it's a kind of uh uh very rare and special function.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Well, uh when you uh uh when you look uh for example um, a couple of weeks ago I looked at the for the flights, and there are a lot of flights in one page, so if if th", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah. Okay, it goes Yeah, but that's kind of stuff we should do on the internet right now. That's why it was uh said in the in the use in the r new requirements.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yes, but you could put", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah, but.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "on the z on the zap buttons you can put it to uh to uh access all the same pages.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Well yeah uh,", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "If you have seven pages, you can go up and down.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "lots of new televisions can store pages, you know, and then you can just skip manually through them using.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yes.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "I think we should just put one teletext button on it.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "True.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Then we meet uh the new requirements. we also meet the other thin y you sh you just re we have to choose for the the simple design, I guess.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "A simple yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Okay. Um, well, what functions do we have to decide on? Or do we uh I dunno if we have t stif specifically name all the functions we n we want. We have the zap and uh the volume. Should we do m make them very big? The the the zap button. D d", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yes.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "I think the plus and the minus button should be uh quite present,", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Th that's that's that's considered to be trendy also.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "But trendy, yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "yep.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Or maybe you should place them on a uh, in a special way?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "I don't know.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Maybe we can make uh a kind of a joystick.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah, something or uh somethin special way to to zap through the it has to s it has to be yeah, and quick. You have to use it very quickly.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Original. It was uh.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yep.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "True.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "If you grab the remote, your hands should be on top of the plus.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah, and it the buttons should make it um possible to to zap through your channels in a rapid at a rapid pace.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yes.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Oh, what should we decide on then? I think in a in a case of this simple remote control, the technical aspects which uh weren't worked out already, but it w shouldn't be a problem then.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "But.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "No, it's o just signals uh and the television d uh does the rest.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yep.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Maybe uh.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "No, okay, but we don't have to uh, when we don't want to uh control other devices, I think it makes it even more simple.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "No.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Uh maybe we uh uh the batteries maybe. If you use large batteries or small batter batteries.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "I think", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "The most standard batteries.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "I think that we should use uh d", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah?.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "I think double A_.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "yeah, not not uh the b the watch kind", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yep.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "th the most uh Well, it has to be simple, and I wi", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "The most ordinary uh batteries.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Which are most likely to be found somewhere in the house, you know.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yep.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Oh. How much time do we ha we have left uh? M m m more than thirty minutes?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "I think about twenty minutes.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Uh ten twenty minutes. Well, uh these these shouldn't.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Early break.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "But i in a way we have to be uh uh special.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah. Yeah, okay. But that's that's Do you uh have you have you think about tha thought about that? How we can what the extra touch can be. Do you suggest design or the shape or some gadget f f kind of feature or.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Maybe th m", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Well, it was something about how we lose them. Maybe it should be a remote control when you you clap you hands it makes some noise or some gadget kind of thing.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "I think that's n that's more for a for an age range or uh ten to twelve or whatever..", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "To find him. That's maybe yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah. I don't know. I don't know.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Nah, um a lot of people like to have such kind kind of kind of gay kind of things. It w it w should be like a birthday present or something that you give someone, and it is i has something nice.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah, yeah, that's good one, yep.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Or maybe it w should have a big uh light that can flash or something on it,", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "or maybe it should or an or the like the the can opener. Maybe it contains some feature that you don't normally link to a remote control. I think it's very impor because we're gonna make such a basic remote control, we have to do something to make it special.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "It's gonna cost twenty five Euros.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Ye I think the can opener i is a brilliant idea actually, because television and beer is not a rare combination..", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah, but the well, it's already been done.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah, but that's yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Nah. Yeah, that's true. But and I think it's gonna be uh very uh it has to be sturdy or something, so maybe with with bouncing pads so that you can just throw it on the floor or something.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yes.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "it has to be used something special,", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "and you really it has to,", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yep.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "you know y not s people, when they buy it, they have to think, well this one lasts for a long time. We're really gonna use them. Not some thing you you throw away next week, you know.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "No, that's true.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "So maybe uh that's i I think that's when uh when we decide on these type of functions, know, basic functions, uh it's very important to find something like this. So there's a very important task for you. And maybe we can all think about it.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Be original, yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Uh, also for you maybe, when t you it's very nice when you can be entra when you can be trendy, and and uh and al as in a friend use friendly as well, you know.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm. And use friendly, yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "So big buttons, flashy design, and maybe some kind of gadget kind of thing.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Uh-huh.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Must brain-storm.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah, a swapable front or whatever.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah, or just different colours would be uh I don't know if people also wanna spend more money on fronts for their uh remote control.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Well.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "For the remote control..", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "It could be be Yeah, you never know, but.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Why not?", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah..", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "More money for us.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "But it and I think we have to make it quite big.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah. Quite big. Yeah, you think?", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah,", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yes, definitely, definitely.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "people.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "That's to be uh a formed for your hand.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "So, and and also because uh it is expensive. If you want it to be something, you know, it's ha doesn't have much functions.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "want to be you don't want to get it l make it.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yes, it it it should be f be visible nearly anywhere in the room. As I uh as I said during my presentation, fifty percent uh o", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm. And shou and should ni look nice when you put it on a table. I I think you m might wanna put it uh.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "A standard or something.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "yeah, that it it it it stands up. Yeah, you have to put it on its So it's like a vase or uh something you put on a table.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah. A face?", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "no no, put stuff inside it. But, it's like like a statue or something.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Or uh yeah, yeah. Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "More like a joystick then.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah, yeah, I see what you mean, yep.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "It's like you have uh four phones. Something like that.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah yeah, but yeah, but you also can put it somewhere near the window in.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "If you do that, but I don't know if that's possible within the production cost of twelve and a half Euros.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "That it's it's fashionable.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "I I don't.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "I in in the base we could like make uh a button, and if you push it, the remote control itself s makes noise.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Oh, yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "That's probably stupid, but uh as I found here uh, fifty percent, was it fifty?", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "But that's that's fun for the first time, and then the second.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Uh fifty percent fifty percent often loses remote control.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah, but but when you when it gets lost, how can you press the button to make it.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "No uh, of the base the the the the the the the thing you put it in.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Oh, okay.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "On the television.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Uh, that's kind of nice.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Oh, like this.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "If an a button in in that uh.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "And then also you don't even need batteries, because you can make it uh chargeable..", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Or you can.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "A char chargeable. Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah, you can ma make rechargeable one, yeah. Why not.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah..", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah, that w yeah, but yeah, the pro No, well I think that it might be t p Well, nee but we don't Yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Why not.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Maybe you, but we don't know much about production cost, but when you you can imagine that when you spend twenty five Euros on a remote control and it's a basic remote control, then the then the money there must be money to spend on that kind of st you know, rechargeable units.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "With recharger.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "It should only cost twelve and a half Euros, of course. Aye?", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah, but we would d ma we'd do it in Taiwan and So, it's not gonna be that expen", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Production..", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah, okay..", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Uh I I think it's a great idea.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "It should be possible. I think it's a good idea.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "S some kind of be I've never seen that before, and you make it uh um be uh, you see it with uh the mo the mouses nowadays.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "To make a base or something?", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yes. Yes, definitely. Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yes, but is that handy?", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Well, I well it's really ch you can recharge it, so you ha never have the battery problem. That's one.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "It's it's it's it's", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "And uh you can always find your remote control up.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "it's not the purpose to be handy, it's", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "But but remote controls remote controls nowadays can can last uh two years, three years, with with t two batteries.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Uh, okay. Well, maybe yeah, you could when that's when it's too costly, you could probably skip the recharger,", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "And then you.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "but you will you do need uh also an uh, also you would need a battery in the the base unit as well, you know. Does it makes it kinda.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yes. Or.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Well y you you could connect that to two hundred to twenty volts, of course.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Mm. Yeah, but that's not it's ugly, I think.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah, yeah. Okay. Yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "I don't know.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah, but then it's very easy to make it also a rechargeab I don't think that is gonna cost much to make it also a recharge function in it.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "No.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "On the other hand, if you don't do it, we can also make a nice bay. I mean, it looks trendy and still still put a bleep function in it,", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "but um I think the bay is definitely uh.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "I think it's a good idea. And make it, you know, we we um Well, we uh it's it isn't a t a most uh costly uh remote control. We can save on the on the functions. We just put some simple button in, make it big and sturdy, nothing more, and just make s sure there's some noise that it can make, or probably some kind of cheap light thing around it or that it uh that it lights up,", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Sure, why not. Yep.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "it's also nice. And if you put it away, I think it's uh w we have to we uh that's uh.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "it's not a easy market.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "We have to something special. And for twenty five Euros people want something remote c special from your mote control,", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "True.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "and we can't deliver that in r with uh regards to the functions,", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Definitely.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "because we aren't gonna put.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "With eye candy, ear candy, whatever. Yeah, definitely.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah. And then uh when make it, you know, nice looking shape and this and then you also you got the stand-up thing. Yeah. I think I think it's a good idea..", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah, it must be must be a gadget to have.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Definitely, yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Oh, if it let's well, we will see what's possible concerning the the costs, and if it's possible we'll do that. And we even try to save up on other stuff to make sure we can do such a thing.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "And the first thing we the most likeable thing to to n to skip is then probably the recharge function or something. If that's too expensive, we won't do that.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah, we c", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "But it would be nice.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "It would be nice, yes.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "It's the idea. I know that batteries last long nowadays. And and what people just think about, well, I'll never have to buy any r batteries again, so y b because it's very annoying when your battery is empty. And you know then when you haven't batteries around, and probably for two weeks, your remo I've experienced that that.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Most televisions break down before the battery pack is empty, so yes.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah, okay. So, easy functions. Well, we will we will I think we'll work that out, zapping, numbers on it, bi", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Or just give a beep when the battery's out or uh down.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah. But it's also annoying.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah, why not.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "'cause as long as it stays as it ke keeps working, you're not very motivated to do something about it.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Hmm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah. true.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Then it beeps all the time and.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "No, that's true.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "You don't want to have ever have those problems, and you won't have if if you have the rechargeable. And you don't have to use the unit, you can also put it on the side if people don't like it. Uh, i i in the in the ma", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Why not.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "But you pay for it.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah, but it w I mean, if if they pay for it because they think, oh, that's a great idea, I'm gonna use it. And when it, you know, when time goes by and they think, well, I'll never put him in the recharger, I think last long enough, then they put it on side and they can use it now and then. Then when they look get m I I I know for sure that everybody who buys this remote control, within a couple of months of they will be in the situation that they they're seeking for the remote control, they wanna see something quick and uh just push the button and th uh,", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "I think it's brilliant.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Bleep bleep bleep, oh there it is, yeah. Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah, I've never it's so simple, but I've never seen it.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "M maybe we should really do this.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "And you can leave it just there.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "No. Nearly.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah..", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Okay now, well, how much time have we got left? These clocks aren't uh synched.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yes..", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Oh, now I've put uh well, it is twenty p", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah, I'll.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Okay, so we have ten minutes or something?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Something like that, yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah, but we're uh we're done. I think.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Uh fifteen minutes.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "We've decided on the functions. Well, there is some oh. There is a closing sheet. We have lunch break, and then we have thirty minutes of individual work.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Oh.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Oh okay, I'll make sure I'll I had some problems with uh the digitising the the first minutes, the the s the next minutes won't be a problem, but I'll try to make sure the first one will be in the folder too, but maybe it won't work, but you'll see. I think these are more important than the first ones, so.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "We'll see.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Can you make an uh uh a part of f folder for the minutes maybe?", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": ".", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "That not not everything in one one uh folder.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Maarten, five minutes.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Oh, five minutes. Yeah, because uh I I d I did uh the first minutes I did were were were a bit scratchy, you know. Then I did a s second one with a nicer layout, which I could uh, know, use for the other ones well, but uh I d think uh I forgot to do put done under the first one, and when you go write a second uh it's get it's not working when you try to write second uh paper or something.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah. Maybe.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "No, that's true uh, yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "And then you you had to overwrite it or someth I don't know. Becau I d uh, it was not my uh pen.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Should we by the way draw um", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "this kind of looks you like.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "on our nice whiteboard, um a little uh idea of.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Of the shape.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah, probably, it would be nice.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Or the sh", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "I dunno. Has anyone got um a little bit detailed ideas about the shape?", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Do you get an idea of the shape?", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "I don't, for one.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Maybe like this pen.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "A bit bigger I guess, but.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "No, bigger.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "A little bit bigger, yeah but.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "The shape is nice, it's um something different, and we want we want that.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "It has to feel nice in your hand.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Well, I I I have to say, I have this uh can opening remote control in my head most of all,", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "or I think some maybe we should no, that will be too costly.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Oh, uh look uh look at the pictures.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "We shou we could also, that was a would also be an idea, but I don't think it I don't know if it exists already, you should like make Alessi or something design it.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Okay, yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "That would also be nice. But that's gonna then you c then you don't", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah, but twelve and a half Euros? Uh.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah, but then you don't have t yeah it that's not something i that's in the production cost a one it's a one time, you know s was it's a single cost.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah, m but but then you can nah, I don't thin I think that it would be more expensive, because I've bought the Alessi stuff more often and even small pencil holders or something are more expensive.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah, that's true.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Would be a nice idea though. I don't know. I think it uh has to be a r it has to have round forms or something. Like something like that or so or so", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Something like that is very ergonomic.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "And on th and then uh s a base unit underneath it. It's also round.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "So.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Put it in there uh wire on it.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Maybe uh, I don't know, some some lights, a big but well..", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah, flash lights at the side. At the side, or something like that.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Volume and programme, yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yes, volume and programme should be there I guess, because you hands wi uh y your hands will be in the smaller part.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "And some of the extra funct Some of the extra functions over here. Numbers.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah, and the numbers on top, I guess.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "And and lights? How we're g well, maybe uh s a ring of no, no, you have to Maybe on the side of it.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Maybe ro roun rounds", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah, side of it.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "uh uh l sorry.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Along the side uh strip of yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Just two LEDs or something on the side. Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Maybe lights also around the volume and the p the plus minus programme buttons..", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah, but I also meant the the blinking li w you know, the ones that also blink when you try to uh uh locate your remote.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Oh. Okay.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Well, theys have to be.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Well, uh probably at the side. You know look at the front, but.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah. Yeah, yeah. Exactly. When you you see it from the side, then it would look just like that. And then you have a strip of uh lights or something", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah, exactly, and then there is yeah. Yeah, something like that, yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Okay, yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Well, uh I think it's nice, for one thing. maybe put something on top of it or, you know, like that's looks funny.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "No. No.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "I don't know. Or some bump.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "I think I think that'll be too big tha too big then.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Maybe some Yeah?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Bumper or something.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "We'll have to think about it. 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Um on the left we've got the scroll for the volume, on the right we have buttons for the channels up and down and that kinda so you can hold it and scroll, or you can hold it and and push.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Uh this is the power key, um it's kinda like the biggest so you know how to turn on.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Uh-huh.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Uh that's the little menu key. This is the infra-red section so you g it'll be sending rays and if you're you know pointing it like that it can send it,", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yep,", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "or if you hold it up like that it'll send it.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "yeah, good, good.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Uh we got a microphone there which for all the voice commands", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Uh-huh.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "so you can you know talk to it like that", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yep,", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "and it'll still understand.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "right.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Um the logo is down down there um", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Uh-huh.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "and has the cover on it", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "S", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "and you can see like it just kinda goes the red bit's the cover and it kinda goes over everything", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yep, yep,", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "and then there's holes for the buttons to come through. Um.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "And so we figured it would be kind of you know a light weight plastic,", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Uh-huh.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "just kind of a light non-descript grey", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yep yep.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "so that people'll wanna buy the covers", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yep.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "and then the covers will be that sort of rubbery material like they make iPod covers,", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "showing me age,", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "so they kinda just stretch over.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "I don't know what i c iPod covers are like.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah, well", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "I I didn't know that but yeah they're kind of it's just kind of a rubbery.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Uh-huh.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "and that way you know", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Okay,", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "spongy like is something that people wanted", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "yep, right.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "and it just sort of stretches over", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "and that way I think probably helps protect it a little bit too as well", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "But it's also e e easier to put on versus like mobile covers", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "and.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "you actually have to screw them on and stuff and you kinda sometimes have to get someone to do that for you. This is very much you should be able to stretch it over yourself", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yep.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "just kinda stretch it over", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "and it'll be fine.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Okay, good yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "and it'll just stay on", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "and then the buttons come through and so and then the each one of'em on the very end will have the logo with the yellow circle and the R_R_.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yep, right.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Li that'll be the covers as well, yeah yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah, yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "I mean tha it's it's a detailed point, I just wondered I mean h how will people put these down I wonder?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Like that.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Right. Okay for some strange re reason I had it in my mind that they'd put them down vertically", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah it could stand, yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "but uh uh.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Oh.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Well we could broaden the broaden it out a bit", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah, uh no", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "so it would stand like that.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "because particularly if they've dif if they're gonna have it as a you know as a fashion item", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah, standing.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "uh I mean it it's uh it it's just I mean it's just a minor detailed point, but um as you say you can just make the base a little bit bigger and uh.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah, we could just widen it out uh", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah and uh it just needs another uh another logo somewhere is is is is all it gives gives people the option and if if say if they've got them um.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm. Mm.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "because actually have several upon the uh.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Could have one for your stereo, one for your D_V_ player.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Mm, yeah, yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah, well.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Have to if we just lengthen it I guess", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "so it comes down to the base of the hand", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah,", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "but that that's uh but uh", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "just kind of.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "and then flatten it out", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "no", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "and could sit there.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "the the the overall uh the overall concept is uh.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah, mm.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Or just make it little.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "yeah yeah,", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah. Yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Somewhere like that", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "no no, I mean that's these uh.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "so it just sort of.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "We might have to lengthen it", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah I kinda had a a kinda a natural kind of a idea", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "so it kinda your hand still holds it and have it there,", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "yeah, yeah, yeah like that, like that. Yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "where it's like more of a kind of like a kinda maybe slightly like thinner,", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Bu", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "yeah, kinda like that kinda like a flower or a plant", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "But uh yeah but no th but the yeah the the the.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "for the more natural kinda.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": ".", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah, yeah, yeah,", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "The final product would actually stand up, yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "I mean it it's uh wouldn't", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "fall over.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "wouldn't do that, indeed yeah. But th th but th yeah th b the", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "these were all minor minor uh minor details,", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah, yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "I think the uh the basic concept i i is is absolutely bang on", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": ".'S a little longer.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "and the i", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Wee.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "it certainly meets our criteria of being uh of you know looking different.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Um, so", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "good that's that that's excellent.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Um right let us um What's on the next one? Oh right yes, let's have a look at the um f finance. Um, now we're given a a clear design brief, uh if I get the uh spreadsheet up. Oh.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Uh yeah, just click there.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": ".", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Uh the the maximise button.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Oh right. Ah. Good, this is why we need to make these things simple so that the uh the the the boss can understand.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Now I've um this is the company's uh uh costing for for various uh uh aspects of design and I I I've treated some of these slightly uh liberally given the constraints placed on us, um I wouldn't know for in for instance if if they require us to have it in the corporate colours, then that is not a special colour, that's a that's a standard colour. Uh, so we're just simply on batteries, the the one th the one decision I've had to make is that um we're we will have to find a s a regular standard chip to to do this with and I I um I'm I'm I'm certain that they they are around so, um that I don't think is a a serious problem. The uh the the voice sensor is is expensive but we we made a a basic decision that that was absolutely fundamental to the to the design so that that has to stay. Um then again the the the the shape of the case means that it's it's expensive to uh um l to make'cause of the the th the double curves but on the other hand because of our overall fashion concept um we we should exceed the the sales targets. Um it's simply made of plastic so th that's uh that's no problem and uh um just because the whole the colour of the the whole thing that's uh uh there's some cost there. Um and uh we haven't actually got a scroll wheel we we we got push buttons and and a simple uh um slider so um and the and the the buttons are uh uh well I do don't know that they're special colour. Anyway the the costings uh come in at exactly on target at twelve point five uh but I thi I think we have a a very strong case to argue that uh what what we've got is is so in innovative and uh and different that um any any slight compromise we have to make on on cost is is offset by the uh you know the uh you know the the the the concept of it being a a fashion accessory and and having the the interchangeable covers", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "so uh um you know the if if if the management expect us to be techno again fail again technologically innovative um that they they have to accept that we we can't operate absolutely within uh the constraints that they give,", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "so uh we we we present this as the uh the company's uh the the company's way forward and uh uh I I think we can argue that we we have uh come in on on budget. Um. Okay, uh. So um. Does anybody want to uh uh Andrew do you want what do you want to say about um the uh yeah the evaluation", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Evaluation.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "where where you know well where where we're where where we're at?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "The the product or the project?.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "The the the well the I meant the product.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Um, well well my presentation just now?", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Sure, uh can I get the.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Oh sorry yeah um, mm.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm. More loud clicks in the microphone.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Cheers. There we go, oh. Method of evaluation testing the product was to just if it met all the criteria all the conditions that we set out to set out to solve, from the point of view of the the consumer and the management. So what I've been asked to do is, on the whiteboard", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "um gauge our team response to these questions. So, on a scale of one to seven, one being true and seven being being false.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Seven being a nice round number to work to.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah. And then at the end just take an average", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Tr On for true and seven for flase. Yes.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yes.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "So uh. So, look at these questions. Is the device f flashy and fashionable?", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Well I think most definitely.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah I'd say definitely a one yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "I think it is yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "So uh and also uh technologically innovative?", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yes the voice technology indeed.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah, defi yeah, yeah", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Easy to use?", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "I don't see we could've made it any easier.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Uh suitable for the consumer? That was um.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Totally.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah definitely.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah I think it made we met all of the consumer", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "wants.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Uh is it complicated?", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "No.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "No.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Doing pretty well so far aren't we? Uh functional?", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah definitely.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Um. Where are we?", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "found easily. yeah", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "We've b built in the the speech, where are you, function.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "I mean that's that's.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah. Yeah. Yeah, mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Uh-huh.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Does it take long to learn to use? Shouldn't.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "No, not at all.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm. And uh, what else? The R_S_I_ compares to the current standards,", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Less buttons so it must be.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Uh.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "well. We we", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "uh yeah it was our it was a.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "it is sorta the the handle more ergonomically correct as well.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "we made an actual effort to.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "So yeah, um um.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Um will device appeal to all age groups?", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "I think it will because I mean uh old older people who can't manage the buttons anyway will actually probably like the like like the voice bit so.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "I think so.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah,", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "uh that's a good call, yeah. Well we had the we had the data saying that old people will be less likely to pay extra money but the funct the increased functionality, the e ease of use of the device might make up for that.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "And it's it's it's.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "well I don't think we're actually charging a particular premium anyway, in the end, so.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "I I I think it will tend to appeal more to younger aged groups", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "just'cause we have gone with the fashion focus", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah. Yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "and the younger people tend to would be more conscious of that aspect of it, but um I think it should still appeal on a certain level to everybody, yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "It will appeal f for dif for different reasons but it's it's uh.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah, yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah I think just the simplicity of it", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "yeah yeah", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah, yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "and", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "so I I yeah I.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "not having to learn to programme", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "and not having you know a million buttons.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah, so I think we can reasonably say it's another another one,", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "why not?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Uh can you just click the my mouse to move onto next page? Uh, yeah and what h did we make the management's.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "in in in in my interpretation of management's instructions uh is that yes it it meets the requirement", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "is t it's television only,", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yep.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "it's it's simple to use,", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "um it's it's it's within budget,", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Under the cost.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm. Yep.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "um I it's uh yes an an any minor points we we we argue.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Um.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "So uh I I think we've done an amazing job", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yep.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "in uh", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Well done us.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "coming up with what.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "So uh one two three four five six seven eight nine ten eleven. Eleven divided by eleven's one so equals average of one.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah,.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Need a need a calculator for that.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "And that roughly concludes my evaluation of the of the product.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Okay,", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Excellent.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "nick the cable back then.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Oh no", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "I mixed up the colours a little bit.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "that's.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "I think I all wrong.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Ooh. Right do um either of you want to uh say anything?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Uh.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Before I uh.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Ps I don't think so,", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "No.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": ".", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "I mean I think we worked well together", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "and looked really at what the consumers wanted and what we were trying to make", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "and you know, seemed to discuss things pretty well", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "and come to group consensus and.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Well that's right, I mean th this this slide here I mean the satisfaction with uh room for creativity, I mean", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm. Yeah, definitely.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "I think we've allowed ourselves uh as much creativity as the uh the the the product uh allows.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Um I won't comment on leadership, uh teamwork I think we've uh I think everybody's uh worked pretty well together.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Um we've just about coped with the whiteboard and digital pens, uh I think the results speak for itself", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "and new ideas found, um, again gi no given relatively everyday product, I think we've v very uh very effectively come up with a a new uh", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yep.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "uh a new approach. 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We're we're all happy that it it meets all the criteria, um", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yep.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Thank you very much indeed, I think that I think that's uh.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Cool, thank you,", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Alright.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "I think we can go f for an early bath.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "So I call the meeting closed.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Not sure how far ahead of schedule we were there.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" } ] }	{ "dialogTurns": [ { "query": "What was the overall conclusion of the meeting?", "response": "The participants were pleased with the results of the project and thought that it successfully achieved the desired objectives and criteria.", "responseAttribution": { "indexRanges": [ { "startIndex": 283, "endIndex": 292 } ] }, "queryMetadata": { "queryType": "QUERY_TYPE_GENERAL", "isUnanswerable": null, "isContextDependent": null } }, { "query": "What was decided regarding the product's functionality?", "response": "The participants agreed that the product had met all the criteria and requirements that they had set out to achieve. 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cf0c8098f96e48cba368e533961d5c10	{ "meetingId": "ES2016a", "transcriptSegments": [ { "text": "Okay. Oh, that's not gonna work. Oh, alright. Okay. Okay. Um alright.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Uh, uh, um.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "I'll just put that there. Uh as you all know we're here to create a brand new fantastic remote. Uh I'm Nick Debusk, I'm the Project Manager. Uh we'll just get started with everyone kind of letting each other know who they are and what you're doing, what your what your role is um. Go ahead.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Okay. I am Corinne Whiting and I will be the Marketing Expert and in each of the three phases I will have a different role. In the function design phase I will be talking about user requirement specification, and this means what needs and desires are to be fulfilled, and I'll be doing research to figure this out. In the conceptual design phase I will be dealing with trend watching and I'll be doing marketing research on the web. And then finally in the um detailed design phase I will be doing product evaluation and so I will be collecting the requirements and ranking all the requirements to see how we did.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "'Kay.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Hiya, I'm Ryan. Um I'm the User Interface Designer. Um likewise I've three different roles for each stage of design. Um the functional design is looking at the tex technical functions of a remote control. Um in the concept design, the user interface, how the user reacts with the the product. And the detailed design um sort of like the user interface design, what they might be looking for, uh things like fashions, what makes wha how we're gonna make it special. That's about it.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Right. I'm Manuel and I'm the Industrial Designer in in this project um. In the functional design phase I'm I'll be dealing mostly with the requirements, um we'll discuss what the prog what functions the the product has to fulfil and so and so on. Um I suppose we'll work pretty much together on that one. Um um in the conceptual design um I'll be pro mostly dealing with properties and materials um of our product.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "And uh the detailed design in the detailed design I'll be concerned with the look and feel of the product itself, um so we're pretty much working together obviously on the design front here. Okay..", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Okay. Um so we've got our opening, our our agenda is the opening, uh acquaintance which we've kinda done. Uh tool training, project plan discussion and then closing.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Uh grand total of twenty five minutes we have here. Um so we are putting together a new remote control. Um we want it to be something original. Um of course we're a not only a electronics company but a fashion um conscious electronics company, so we want it to be trendy um and we want it to be easy to use. Um we've got the functional design, conceptual design and detailed design um which basically is is the three of you um. And w uh well um functional design um. Um do we have um any ideas of of maybe d let's just throw out some ideas of what kind of remote control we want to have, and then we can go into how we're gonna design it and and how we're gonna do the detailing on it.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah. Well uh s function of remote control is just just you know, change channels is its main function.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "So we want it to be um a T_V_ remote or I I mean do we want it to to do other things besides just be a a television remote?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Oh right. I suppose you c try make it a universal remote", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "'Kay.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "for could work on all sort of electrical products in in one person's house. But, you know, they all sorta have the same role changing channels, volumes and then programming.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.'Kay.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "I think they all work on the same prin principle as well sorta like I don't actually know. But is it just infra-red? Is that standard?", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "I I think yeah, yeah, r universal remote.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Ye yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Um this is my first uh go-round with creating a remote control,", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Huh..", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "so.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Ours too..", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "I think we're all in the same boat here. Um.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Um one thing I thought of with the remote control is you always lose'em.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "So if there's a g a way of finding it quite easily, I thought that'd be quite good quite a good feature.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Mm. Ch", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "So we should we should set our remote control up to where it has a uh", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Like a tracking device?.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "like a tracking device or or like a a.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Oh you can get those key well you could whistle or make a noise", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "It makes a noise,", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "and it'd beep.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "there's a button on the T_V_ that you press", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm, mm.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "and.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "'Kay.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Be good.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "So.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Generally, all remotes are sort of quite similar in their appearance.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah. Do we want.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Just long.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "so they're kinda like long and rectangular.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Do we want something crazy?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Black usually.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "You know, we want something new that's gonna stand out.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Lot more modern.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "A m a modern so our remote should be.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "I think so. Maybe sorta spherical or something. A ball.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Maybe like user-friendly, like a little", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "you know, where you can use both hands, like a little keyboard type thing.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "People.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "I thought maybe, because people always tend to throw a remote control about the place to one another if it was in a ball,", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "'Kay.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "and maybe the actual controls are inside or something.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Um.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Well there are of course certain restrictions, you can't have it be any form and fulfil all functions at the same time,", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "so there are always the some restrictions we have to apply here. Um however um one question is how stable is that thing supposed to be, that refers to the material, pretty much um. What are we gonna build that thing out of?", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "How sturdy is it gonna be? Do we want it to last longer or rather have people whatever, have to buy one every half a year?", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Okay so yeah, so we want it to be sturdy,", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "we want it to to hold up to somebody's child, you know, throwing it across the room or, as you said, people kinda throw it, so ball-shaped, uh you know, if it were ball-shaped maybe,", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "then it.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "It could be cased on the outside and t everything could be inside.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "'Kay. Um so we want it to be modern, fun, sturdy, um So our form and our function. Um we want it to be um easy to find. Um What else it what else do we want it to to do? So we want it to be universal. It's something that we're supposed to sell for about twenty five Euros um and you know, goals for profits are I think somewhere around uh fifty million Euros, what they wanna make on it, so.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm. Also since we're partners of the International Remote Control Association, maybe we wanna make it something that would globally appeal.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "'Kay.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "That's more on the research end, but the marketing.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "So marketing, you know, how maybe uh marketing, you could s find out what is the most universally um appealing remote control out there.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "And maybe as far as design goes, maybe we could have different ones for different target audiences,", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "'Kay.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "'cause maybe one won't apply to all of the countries we're targeting.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Ye Small.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Um Do you guys have any ideas for what it should look like? Maybe we could draw it up on the on the board over there. Some ideas? We want it to be a b a ball,", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "I'd I could draw sorta the ball idea.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "you know, we'll draw up we'll draw up the ball and maybe th um where the buttons are located.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "My original idea was just simply sort of a sphere, where maybe you this is where it's connected together, and then when you open it out, it could fol it could be maybe flip, like a flip phone, and then when you fold it out the middle Maybe a hinge that'll have to be the strongest part of it. If that if we did use a hinge, or if it was just two parts,", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "and then you'd have just sorta you you you know, your buttons. Thing is inside I think, sometimes remotes have too many buttons, so maybe as simple as possible, um as few buttons inside as possible. Um, I dunno, what's the idea for. Just something maybe if you ha if it had like if some kind of like light or something or lights around it. It's looking a bit like something out of Star Wars at the moment though, to be fair.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "But yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Futuristic..", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "That was that was a sorta simple idea I had", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Uh-huh.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "and then you know you could about Right, it would almost be like a ball. So that was just just an idea I had. I don't know whether anybody else has other ideas?", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Right. One problem you'd get with this design is um the ball is a nice idea because of it's stability really,", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "but of course, since it's a ball, it'll roll, so we'd have to have it flat on one side at least, down here somewhere,", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah. Maybe f yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "take away that part. That's one of the big issues. Also also you risk the hinges here. That's that's um a problem.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah, that's g that's a good idea. Yeah. The idea it didn't have to necessarily be f a hinge,", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "That's that's interesting of course,", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "that was just one idea though.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "but that's of course a weak point, yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "How would we go about um making you know getting rid of our weak points? What I mean would we just have a flat spot on the bottom of the ball?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Not to put you on the spot,", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "E No no,", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "but.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "uh uh.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "What did you say your title was again?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "N n", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "You're the the Industrial Designer.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Uh, I'm your Industrial Designer,", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "so i b well,", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "the point is that well maybe I dunno. The shape is perhaps not the most ideal.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "As as stable as it is, there must be a compromise between um stability and design here, so.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Well I I suppose that things become design. But I mean i", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm..", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "I was trying to think of like the design of others. I can't think of anything other than a long rectangle for remote,", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "maybe small, sort of fatter ones, but there's nothing being done sort of out of left field, yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "It's not new, it's not innovative, it's you know, everybody does long remote because it's easy,", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "it's it's stable um.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "'Kay, I'll draw something..", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "So if.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "What?.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "no, go ahead.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "My idea was just to have it be kind of like a keyboard type shape, you know, like video games", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "l so. But maybe I mean that would be kinda big and bulky. We could also try to do the hinge thing, so it could like flip out that way. I don't know. That's my idea.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "I think definitely doing something different", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "is a good idea.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "I mean maybe design something, that's sort of like suppose not everybody's everybody's hand's the same, but something that would maybe fit in the hand easier.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Something with a grip.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm. Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah, with a grip.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah. Because even I suppose even with the ball", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "It still might be hard to.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "it's.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "it still not the ho easiest thing to hold, yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "it might not be the easiest to hold onto um.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "So perhaps the the joystick the the keyboard idea might work better.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Like yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "But then again, people like to use one hand to flip and one hand to hold their soda, so maybe maybe we.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "True.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "It's d yeah. I think it's definitely got to be a a one-handed a one-handed job.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "I feel like I'm just shooting everything down here.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "That's fine.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Uh um.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "You're the boss, you're allowed to.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Well with the one-handed design you also have the the problem of the size w'cause you know from cell phones, they can be too small. So if the remote is too small it.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "if it's small it probably looks better, but may not be th as functional. So for that there's.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Okay, so", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "So.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "unfortunately we've got about five minutes here to come up with our um remote control idea and start rolling with it. Um we've talked about our experiences with remote control and um we've got a couple ideas um. Let's see here. What if we had what if we had not only um say we went with the ball the ball function um, but maybe we give it sort of grips along the side s um to make it easier to hold on to. So you know um s so it's easier to hold onto that way.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Course that'll then remove some of our our ball. Unless this unless this part were raised, so say the cover flips over and covers that part. So the grip is No, that wouldn't work either um. But if we're gonna make it flat on the bottom, then that eliminates our ball anyways. So if it were flat on the bottom and then had the sorta grips on the side here I guess, um and then flat uh And then we have the problem with the hinge. So if we're flat on the bottom, it's not gonna roll away, it'll stay where we want.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "The question is also, I dunno, d do you really always want to open that thing when you have to use it?", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Mm, that's true.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "It's probably going to lie around opened all the time anyway, so I don't know if a lid is a good idea. From stabil stability point of view uh it certainly is, but also you have to face it and take into account the more of these things break by accident, uh the more we sell. So it's don't make it too stable uh.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "So we don't have it flip open. We just have a ball.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "But then maybe to go back to the to th s something along those things then.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "To the other design.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Okay, so then we forget the ball.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "It looks cool..", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Looks cool though.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "It looks cool, but it's really not it's not functional um.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Uh functional.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "So we've got our sort of keyboard kind. What if we flipped it around here, so that it were um Sorry, that doesn't look anything like what you had there. Um so it's up and down, you hold it this way.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Course then it's it's like the rectangular again, only with a couple of jutting out points..", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Right. Right.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "But it's one-handed um.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Question is what makes those game pads functional? W I think that's pretty much the form for full hand. So it's a round shape underneath that makes it comfy,", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "right,", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "makes it nice, so that's the essential part. Except for that I think we'll not probably not get a get away from some longer design.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah..", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "'Cause you also have to know which way around to point this thing.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah,", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "You know, all", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "because it doesn't have a cord, like joysticks do.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "that dif batteries right, and Batteries go weak as well, so um after a while you have to point it towards the uh towards the equipment you wanna control with it, right? So, have to m show which is the front, which is the back.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Is it possible to have it to where it would work with a like a sensor on either side? So that either way you're pointing it it would work.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "I suppose you could do that. O of course the more technology you stick in that, the more it'll cost, so.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "More expensive and yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Course you can do that.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "'Kay. Um.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "I mean of course it'll be evident after a while or if you look at it, it'll it'll be evident which way around to point it, since you have the the numbers and the and the the buttons and stuff,", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "True.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "but um it's rather about an instinctual thing,", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Put it.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "like you just grab it, you don't have to s look at it, you know, which way around to point it. Otherwise the design of or the the point of putting two sensors on both sides um would probably work.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Even if you designed it in some in a way that you know, isn't a rectangle, but still pointed in a direction that had definite points. So if that's your thing and you got something like that instead,", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah..", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "and there's your s you kn you know which way you're gonna pointing it.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "'Kay.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Um.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Sorry to interrupt, but we have a warning to finish.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Are we out of time?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Okay, well, just to finish up, should we s go with this plan, start making some Are good ideas, what are not.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Let's.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Does it say what does it say for n", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Obviously.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "it says on there what we need to do for the next meeting, I think.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Uh. Must finish now, so.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "T", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "And then marketing will look and see what uh what people want.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Alright.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Great.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Okay. 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d1457a78dcc543cea62e02b6de4caf81	{ "meetingId": "IS1009d", "transcriptSegments": [ { "text": "Well hi everyone again.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Hello.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Hello.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Hello", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Um like before we uh I have to redo the meetings from n th the minutes from the last meeting", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "and so here we go. Uh it was discussed in the last meeting uh which was opened by the presentation from the interface um designer that uh looks would be very important on this new remote", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Designer..", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "and um it is to send messages of course to the T_V_. It should have nine channel buttons, a next button, volume buttons, subtitle buttons, switch to control features, colour contrast, sharpness etcetera. It should have a memory switch, a mute button in case the telephone rings or something. Uh speech recognition is one of her very f favourite personal uh features she would like see d d to be integrated in this um in this new remote. Um. Should be child friendly design with few buttons, colourful maybe with s star shaped or other shaped buttons. Um she uh presented also an oversized remote which she guarantees nobody will ever be able to lose.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Um.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "And she was challenged on that point.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "that's right..", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yes..", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "But uh her very f personal favourite really she, she would very much like to see a speech recogniser integrated in this remote. The industrial designer um presented her uh thoughts on the issue. She would like a special case made out of plastic that is very strong, not using any harmful materials, should be recyclable and should be colourful. Should have an integrated circuit board that's highly sophisticated and temperature resistant. She would like to see a timer and or alarm facility integrated. Uh technically this thing would also have a resistor and a capacitor, diode transistor, resonator, and if possible a rechargeable battery. Uh and of course a circuit board. And how it would works, you press the button, the chip is morse morse code related relays the uh to the generat to the generator amplification and uh the circuit board is very inexpensive to build and so she thinks this is a great feature uh to to to consider.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "She would like uh this whole thing should be push buttons with a simple chip uh scrolling method is more expensive and not that practical anymore. Should be battery operated and of course she would have the special cases. The marketing expert uh who has to finally come up with to to to market this product has been watching the competition, has done some research on the internet and also has used h her personal observations to come up with the fact that such a remote sh should be small, easy to use and it should be eye catching. From her point of view of course one of the most important facts is that we should get to market before our competition does. To do that uh maybe one or two features should be developed on which we could dwell on or in other words on which our campaign could be built on. Too many new features or too many points would only confuse matter. So we prefer to have one or two features that can be really uh driven home. Um it should have a fruit and vegetable design and should have a soft feel. She feels that's really what people want today. And the decision that we took last time was that uh the special feature we would like to see is a speech recogniser, the energy should be battery uh should be on a chip, should be trendy design, compact and strong, and should have buttons. And that concludes the presentation from the last minutes from the last meeting. Now uh we are ready for the presentation of the prototype.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Just the look like, the button part I'll explain.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah. Uh so this is our what uh we have made. This is a model of the remote control which we are going to build.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Uh this is us in a snail shape so uh it it is attractive", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "um and it's it's blue in colour uh bright and uh it has yellow buttons and all the different colour buttons", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "so it is a uh uh a looks-wise it is beautiful.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Uh and also compact in shape.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Uh um and also i it it will be easily fit into into the hands and you can access all the buttons easily.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm. Mm-hmm. Mm-hmm. Good.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah,", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "oops, sorry..", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "You used to have all the buttons.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Um yeah and um uh the material which we are going to use for the case is uh plastic and uh w which which is s strong um uh and also uh for the Um the material is plastic and uh for the buttons it is uh s soft rubber um and als", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Oh that's good,", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "no, that's nice and friendly.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah because uh uh you'll be touching the buttons more so it is soft when you touch it.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm. Mm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm,", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "And then um uh for the for the led, for the light emitting diode it is a fluorescent green", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "and it's a a it is a bulb like an ordinary infrared.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "And and the button button's part uh will be explained by F Francina.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Now the um we decided upon including certain features on our remote. Now these features includes the s um signal emitting uh signal it's the led or L_E_D_ the infrared.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm,", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah, okay, mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Now uh we have included the switch on and off button.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Now we have included another feature that is the mute button", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "on the side of the model. Then we have included one to nine buttons", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "for controlling the programmes the different channels.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "We have also included two buttons for increasing or decreasing the volume.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "And we have also included two buttons for scrolling up and scrolling down the programme channels. Now our our model also contains a button which is called as the menu button.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "What kind of button?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Menu button.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Menu? Uh menu th menu, uh one one.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yes, menu.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Menu button..", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "At the centre", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "we have included a button which is fluorescent green colour and this is the menu button which will control the colour, sharpness, brightness", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm. Of the screen. Mm, mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "of this uh picture. We have also included a button which is called as the swapping button. Now this is uh a special, special feature which we have included. Now this button is an elongated shaped button and this is slightly flexible so if it is turned towards the right it will take to the previous channel, if it is turned towards the right it will take to the next channel. It will take the user to the previous and the next channel so this is a swapping button.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "The next channel in the numeric pattern, or.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "No, swapping is if if example you're you're watching the second channel and then you go to the tenth channel and if you want to go back to the second channel you can swap, this button.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah, mm-hmm. Mm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yes.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Okay, okay.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "And at the end, it this remote has inbuilt voice recogniser which c which will recognise the user's voice and then it'll act accordingly.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Okay. Mm-hmm. Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "So this is our proposed model.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Now the marketing expert has to", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Tell, yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "give her suggestion whether it'll be sellable or it'll be cost effective.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Okay, well um what what I really like a lot about it is that you can reach the whole thing with one thumb,", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yes, yes.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "that you can really hold it in one h you don't need two hands", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "and it's easily reachable even for somebody with a small hand, yeah?", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yes the buttons are all raised, right?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "The buttons are all raised", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Are raised, mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yes.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "and if you hold it in the centre of your hand you can even reach it over here so you don't have to turn it around, turn it upside down, move it up, up and down,", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Right. Or have two hands to operate it, yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "I really like that.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "You really did a good job on that, my little designers.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Um and um I like the idea that the on-off button is in a really prominent place. That's that's a really good good thing.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yes, and it sort of sticks up so that you really.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah, that's great.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "you don't have to g first go like oh yeah here it's on and yeah, mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Hmm. Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Abs okay.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "The colour's very attractive. Um the um these buttons uh around here are the mute", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "No, these the front buttons which are here, are the mute buttons.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "and these mm-hmm On both sides they're mute?", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yes, yes.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "So you can push either one?", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yes.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "So if you're left-handed or right-handed it doesn't matter.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "And this brings the menu up on the screen?", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Pardon me? This is the menu yes, yes.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "This brings the menu up on the screen and the orange ones are.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "A the the these these two are th to increase or decrease the volumes,", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "and these two are to uh scroll the programme channels.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "F f okay.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Scroll up or scroll down the channels.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Right, very good. Uh it looks mm looks like something I can sell.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Okay and now I'm supposed to.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Well, I have one question", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "uh will there be anything written on the buttons, like that people know, or they have to learn that from a piece of paper which button does what?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yes, it will have uh these buttons will have the numbers and all the rest of the buttons will have symbols.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Ah. Yeah, definitely.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Will have symbols so that that that the user really knows you know and doesn't have to first learn it.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yes, which can be easily recognised.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yes.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah. Yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Good point because we need the symbols'cause we're going into an international market we can't have anything that's language dependent.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yes.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah of course, and also.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yes.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Hmm.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah. But anyway it would ha i i i it has to have some kind of of symbols, text or something so that people kn", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yes.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah we can Text.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Symbols on it. Mm-hmm, mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yes.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Text that we can have on the case itself,", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "That's right.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yes.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "we can it will be printed on the case and symbols as well as the buttons. Yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Okay, yeah just wanted make sure of that mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "And and one more feature is we we have a holder for this remote which is an oyster shape.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Mm,'kay, mm. Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "A shell shape.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "For the snail, yeah, mm-hmm,", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Right, mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yes, yes.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah. So it is.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "we have the snail shell.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yes, snail shell.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "yeah,", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "He goes right back into his shell.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "yeah shell.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yes.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Well you know I think we could do something really funny with this too because the snail is known to be slow", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "and we could have some sort of little comic effect on our marketing about how this is a rapid snail or something like that", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Y Yes.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah, of course, yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "you know that would, that would really work.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Now what, what are our special features for the marketing?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "So.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "That's really the voice recognition that's really unusual.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "I think voice recognition is our big selling point", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Mm. Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "'cause nobody else seems to have that in in this price range.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "And then, and then the other thing would basically be sh shape or practicality of use.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yep", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "You know.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "uh well I think that everybody's gonna say their remote control is practical. I think we have to, we have to dwell on on on the appearance.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Colours. Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "We're really gonna have the be the", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Cutest.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "cutest remote control on the block.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "So I think we have to play with the image, play with the snail image um play with the visual and then the voice recognition.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "I think those are the two things to push. The look and the voice recognition. They're gonna be our two selling points.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Okay, now uh having said that.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "I'm supposed to make a little presentation, aren't I?", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "No, now this was our evaluation criteria which we uh just have done.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Now we're gonna talk about financing..", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Ah, but in my instructions I think it said I was supposed to go to the board and do something.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Well, there is a production evaluation.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "No?", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Is that you?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah, that's me.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "But that's after the financing.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Oh, okay.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "See? Fi see?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Sorry, sorry. Mm-mm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Um. Okay, we had looks and voice recognition. Okay now on the financing we bring up the mm there it is. Okay uh energy source we say that's battery, right?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "That's right.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Okay, now. So we I guess we use one.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yes.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "What? T cell or chart you are trying to change is protected. Well, that's nice. She told me I could just ch change it here and then it would It doesn't work. Hmm.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Can you just fill it in in the yellow boxes? Or.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Oh, okay yeah, okay,", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "let's see. Okay, one, okay.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yes.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Oh go away. Um kinetic source so that's in the energy source that's all we need.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Uh electronics, simple chip on print? Is that's what we're using?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yes.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah,", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "One of those?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Come on. Okay, one. Uh regular chip on print. No. That's all we need, the one", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "No. Yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "case, uncurved flat, single curved, double curved.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Well..", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "This is a.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Single curve? Mm.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "I guess it's double curved.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Double curved? One of those?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Case materi s supplements. Plastic we said, right?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Plastic.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Uh wood, rubber?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Rubber, because we're gonna have the soft buttons.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Uh but, yes but.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "I think uh that is uh f for rubbers that is uh yeah case material.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "That's just for the case material,", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Is this for the case? Yes.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "so special colours though, we having that,", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Oh okay, the mm-hmm, mm' kay.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "right?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yes.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "And then we have to interface push buttons.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yes.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Scroll wheel, no. Integrated scroll wheel, L_C_ display?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "No.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "No,", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Button.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "'cause we didn't put the clock in it after all, right?", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "No.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Uh, button supplement special colour?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Speci Yes", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Special form?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yes d we do have special form.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yes.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "And special material, rubber, wood, yes.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Okay. Total seven point six whatever that means.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Uh, I think that's the price.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "That's the price.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "One two three four five six seven eight nine", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Mm?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Maybe it is it just n", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Eight, eight point two. That's.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Nine points,", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "hmm?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "okay, yes.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Eight point two, right? So, we looks like we are well within budget.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Okay. I guess I should save this I suppose, huh?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Oops. Uh-huh huh huh.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "On the desktop.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "I just tried that. My documents, computer.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "AMI.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "My compu Ah oh here it is, yes.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "AMI should for", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Okay, fine. Save. Okay good, so that's the good news. We gonna be popular.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Um. So that uh I think financing was pretty simple.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Now we would like to have a presentation by the marketing expert on production evaluation.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Okay, I'll take my file down so you can bring it up.'Kay should be able to get it now.'Kay, why don't you move just to the next slide right away.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "You wanna go to the next slide?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah right away.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Okay, well uh obviously my method for uh s m the marketing of this thing is first to ask the big question, will it sell? And I think we should show this prototype to people from various age and socio-economic groups and see about any fine tuning that maybe little things we haven't thought of.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "We can't accept every suggestion of course, but maybe we just need to get a few.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "And show the the prototype to consumer research groups, we don't s want somebody to suddenly come to us and tell us that this button is toxic and you know some child will swallow it and then we won't sell any.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm. Mm.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "So we have to get some input from those people.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "And then after that we just have to go with our best intuition and you know we like it, we think it's good, we're gonna get behind it and sell it. Um, next slide please. Okay, now the things that I was thinking and th my wish list has really been realised in this prototype. I wanted the shape to be biomorphic, I didn't want anything with angles and all square, I wanted it to be comfy and roundy so we we've got that. The size is small, the colour's bright and warm which is what we wanted. We wanted the feel to be as soft as possible, we'll have the soft buttons", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "and the way this is shaped, even though it's gonna be hard plastic, it feels good in your hand so that's nice. And functionality I put last on my list because people aren't going to use it before they buy it.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "So paradoxically the other features, in other words, the look, the feel um and the shape, that's what people are gonna get in the store.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Fee selling.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "They don't have a television in the store, they can't play with it.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yes.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Um so they'll be our main selling points. So um th those have been fulfilled by your prototype and go ahead to the next slide please. Okay, so um the shape um I think is a a one. That's really, really excellent shape. The size is small um and th these points are in the importance for the, for the marketing, these aren't i in how I feel. I think that it's I think that it's plenty small enough to sell but I think we're sort of right the scale is one to seven. I think we're sort of right in the middle as far as c other competitors.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "And our colour I think is great. The colours are bright and warm and we really do great job there. And given um the constraints that we had I think we got it as soft as possible. And then functionality um I think you did a really good job on functionality, obviously we could have ad added different functions but then we'd disturb something else so I would say that we got to a five out of seven on on functionality.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "So I think that basically we've got a great product and we can get off and running with it.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Um I just realised one thing.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "In the financing there was no room for our voice recogniser.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yes.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yes.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Ah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "And uh I don't know how we can evaluate that or how we can include that, too.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Well, um we had what, eight eight euros twenty as our cost?", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Eight, eight twenty, yes.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Eight twenty so.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "And so we've got we've still got four euros to go to spend.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "We have um four euros, yeah", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "I mean maximum we have another four point three euros I mean four thirty.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm. Well um that's.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "But I mean we have no way of presenting that to management as you know as a f finished, as a finished product and saying okay with the voice recogniser that costs so much.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "So um we just have to beware of that. I mean and know whether the four thirty will really cover that.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Well as we know in today's technic technological world you can do just about anything at any price, the the the problem is quality.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "So we're just gonna have to settle for whatever quality that will buy us.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah,", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yes, yes.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "And um it may not be the greatest quality but it may sell anyway.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah, still.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "As we've seen with so many of these kinds of products..", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah..", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "I'm sorry to interrupt then but I just uh recog I just remembered that there was no that that was not um included uh that there was no room for any special features, okay?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Included, yeah. Hmm,", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah mm.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "hmm", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "So to beware of that. You wanna go to this next slide, marketing expert?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Uh, well I isn't this my last slide?", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "I dunno.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Maybe.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yes it is. Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Go ahead. I think that was my last slide, yeah. Um. Mm okay. And I'm supposed to present this scale on the whiteboard. Um and we're supposed to talk about those things as a team now, so if you put my last slide back up there.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Oh.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "I'm sorry I've um forgot to do that, um.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Why? Wh why you need that up?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Hmm? Well because I can't remember what I put on there. Okay.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Now I'm supposed to see how long my leash is here.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "I think you can make it there.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm'kay. You ready. So now we're all supposed to say what we think. Um okay so on shape I gave it a one. Wait what would you ra uh one being good and seven being the worst.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Worse, okay.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Um what do you think the shape is?", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "One.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "One, okay, and Be Betsy?", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yes I think uh shape is one.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah, even my yeah, shape is one.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Okay, uh-huh one, okay. And how about on size? On size.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "You you gave it a four.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "I gave it a four, yeah, I feel it's just average.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Um, I dunno. I think I would give it at least a two.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "One.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah, even I think it is one. It's quite small.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Okay. Okay.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "you're the designer, of course you wanna give it a one.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Um and then how about how we doing on colour?", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Colour uh I.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Colour, I gave it a one.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "One.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "I really like all those nice bright, warm colours.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "I I like the colours. One.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "One. Yes.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "One.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah, one.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "One, one, one, okay. And how about the feel? Taking into um consideration texture and comfort in the hand.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Uh, I think I would give it a two.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Okay, I gave it a three, two,", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "I'll give three.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "yeah? Three.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Uh maybe two,", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Two, okay.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "And the next is functionality where I I admit I was a little hard on our team here, but.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Well it's also you can't really try it out uh the other things you have have more is are more tangible so from that point of view", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah. Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "but um I'll give it a three.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Two.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Two, okay.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Uh three, mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Three? Okay. Well, um. It looks like we've got got ourselves a pretty good product. Um the functionality's the only place where maybe we have to think about m m maybe, heaven forbid, having another meeting.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah..", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "But um otherwise I think we're we're ready to go to go with this product. Anybody else have any other comments or any other things that we feel we should evaluate?", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Uh. Here is what we looking at uh satisfaction on for example room for creativity. Um. Is there more room for creativity or are we absolutely happy?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "We can always improve, yes.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Maybe we can yeah, include some more buttons and uh um", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yes, features.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "yeah features. We can make the buttons few buttons smaller. Uh I think they are quite big, so I think I I mean we can just have small buttons and more buttons in that case. If we want to have more features than that.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm. Well then again if we're gonna um do the speech recognition thing we're gon there gonna be some buttons that are gonna have to be added for that for the recording of the the speech.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah. Yeah, definitely.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yes. Voices.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "So that that's where we're gonna have to do maybe we can eliminate one of the mute buttons, instead of having two mute buttons.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah, definitely, yeah, two mu mute buttons.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yes. Yes.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "And um then maybe we can do something with the um the volume control. Maybe we can put that all on one button.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Hmm.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Um and a couple of other th maybe comp uh consolidate some of the usage an and see what we can do with that.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Y um al always bearing in mind that right now we are of course well within the budget", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "And maybe.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "and that we still you know we probably can't, with this particular item, we probably can't just uh add a whole lot of more things.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm. No.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Uh um we need uh you know we need to leave space money-wise for the voice recogniser.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yes.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Um.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "So th the question really is how do we feel with the project process? Uh, um are we happy with the creativity that has passed here or we're not happy with the new product we created or that was created? Uh I think personally I think uh I'm pretty happy.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "I'm pretty happy with it too, yeah um,", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Um an", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Even I'm happy.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "it's something I think I can market. Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "and then the next question is are we happy with the leadership of this project? Uh.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "I think you've done a good job, Miss leader..", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yes, yes you've done a good job.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah, yeah, definitely..", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "And I think team work I think was very very good, I think we really.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah I d I do too I think we worked well together as a team, yeah. Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "And uh I think we are we happy with the means we used? We used whiteboard, we didn't use digital p well digital pens I guess are these things.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah maybe we could've used the whiteboard a little bit more, yeah,", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Whiteboard more, yes, yes.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah, probably.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "we didn't use that enough.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yes, we could. Uh, it's maybe not in the best position in the room um you know like sometimes it's positioned so that it's much better visible for everybody and I think from that point of view we sort of ignored it a little bit.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yes.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "And we used the slide because it was better positioned.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yes, I think so, I think absolutely,", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "No.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Mm I think that's true mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "and fortunately we all had slides presentation which made it a little easier.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Hmm.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Um did we new did we find new ideas?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yes.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "I think we did.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah, many.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "I think we were we were very good, yeah, mm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "I think we we did, uh in more than one respect and uh so I think we did very well here.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm. Okay.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Are the costs within budget? Yes, yes. Uh is the project evaluated? Yes.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yes, yes.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Um then celebration..", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Celebration.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Cel celebration yes, yes..", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Ah..", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Today we have apple juice and after we sell m million of'em we have champagne..", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "So I I thank you all very much. Um, I think this was very good and um", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "I think we did come up with a new product that's uh feasible. Feasible from the production point of view and feasible from a marketing point of view.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm. Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "So, thank you.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Thank you.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Thank you very much.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Okay. Watch I I have my cord behind you here.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "I always get it on here, but getting it off is.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Do we do we have some time left? Uh you have.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "They say it's forty minutes.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Ah yes we have time later", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "But we we were told we could end the final meeting at any time, whenever we felt we were finished.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "but we don't.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Oh, alright.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "It'll take me the rest of the time to get my microphone out from my necklace. 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English.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Just kidding.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": ".", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "So annoying.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Break is over.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Ooh it works.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Whoo.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Spicy.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Spicy.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Where are are all the other presentations?", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "I just put it in the in the shared folder so it should be.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "The conceptual or.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "yeah I think so. Yeah, conceptual design. What or whatever does it.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Ah. Because I see only my own presentation.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "No no no, can you go back one?", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Uh'cause it has to be PowerPoint pre yeah components design, that's it.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "This? I'll just put it in there.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "So, he's coming.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": ". I did get a bit more done than the last time,", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Or not.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Oh okay.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "'cause I knew that I didn't have time so I just copy and paste everything into the.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Ah,", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Ah. She.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "I can't cut and paste it into the other folder but.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "You can look at the final report,'cause I have to record everything we are deciding and such, so I'm trying to write it down between everything else.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Move to meeting room.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Sometimes I have these pop-ups or these sounds and there's nothing there,", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Oh.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "and also with I don't know how to use PowerPoint, so it takes me forever to get something done with it.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah me too,.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "I I've got the same problem as well..", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Here we go again. Welcome. Uh we have again three presentations and then we have to decide on what concepts the mobile phone has to uh f the remote control has to support.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Thi", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "So who wants go.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yes.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yes?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Who wants to start?", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Me first again or.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah sure. Doesn't matter.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Oh. No. Yeah. No problem", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "yeah. Alright. Did you open it already or.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "No.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "no. Ah. Ah. Yes. So welcome to the marketing presentation once again. Um this time about trendwatching. Uh well there has been inv investigation again, in the in the remote control market. Uh it shows a number of developments. Uh I will address them uh in a moment. Um fashion watch watchers uh have detected the trends for young public, because that's our public. Um well fruit and vegetables will be will be the most important theme for clothing, uh shoes and furniture. And the feel of the material is expected to be spongey. So um the developments I will address them.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "oh yeah well this is the fruit and vegetables looks of fresh bright colours. So to give you an idea. Um well the developments? Uh development one. Uh well most important aspect for remote control happens to be a fancy look-and-feel. Instead of the current uh functional look-and-feel. Um well fancy stands for an original look-and-feel of the case and the interface. And the second most important aspect is that a remote control should be technological uh innovative. Um well it stands for the use of technical features that do not exist in current remote controls. I think we pretty much covered that with our screen and um and speech recognition,", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Sound. Yeah yeah uh uh.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "so I don't expect that to be a problem. And the third development um is that the remote control should be easy to use. Um Well the first aspect uh was twice as important as the second aspect,w which was twice as important as the third aspect.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "So um that kind of gets you this ratios. So fancy look-and-feel uh is the most important uh point of attention.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": ".", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Uh so the fruits and vegetables in combination with the spongey material. Um well technolog technological innovation, we've covered that pretty much I guess. Um and easy to use, I don't think that will be problem. So my point of attention is especially this part.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "That this will be a crux. So that was the marketing uh presentation. I had only one document left.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "And shall I go first?", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah. No. I I don't mi I don't mind.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "So I.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "That's.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah yeah sure. No.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "So kind of this.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Do you want to go first? Okay.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah?", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "So a k a small example.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Kind of this this look.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Uh nothing about the buttons but just sponge kind of thing, and and some fruit and colours", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "I dunno. Just made a quick design.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Cool. Yeah you're just the user interface hmm?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "It's better than than my uh drawing..", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Alright.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Alright..", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah okay but I have to design the.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Uh components.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah layout.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah okay.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Oh no.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah. It's okay.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "You probably opened it.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah true. Um.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "F_ five.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "F_ five.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Alright. So.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "I'm dealing with the components design. Um let's see. I uh used some design examples we had uh from similar products. And I used uh possibilities from our manufacturing department about current components which will have to be implemented in the design. That's why I had to, wanted to go first. Well they gave me um an idea about what people want. We're f mainly focusing on this group, but I want to make the distinction clear. Uh I could not drag the pictures into the the slides so s so I don't have examples of how it looks like. But it comes down to what you uh what you think we should do with the spongey and the fruity looking uh type. If you, the young dynamic people want soft primary colours uh, which looks like fruits you know, you can and shapes that are curved and not uh solid straight lines anymore. So this basically um yeah goes on to what you were mentioning earlier. There is a lot of um factors involved in choosing the components.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "There's a lot of options that we have to discuss. Uh for example the energy source. we have four types. The basic battery. Uh we have a hand dynamo, which we yeah we Dutch refer to it as the kneipgatt.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Uh the kinetic provision of energy which means if you move the thing, if you shake it.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Which will be fun for toddlers right, if they wanna use the.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "And uh of course solar cells. But I dunno how we would use that into the design of the actual product.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Wi an indoors.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "So uh my.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah okay.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Oh.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Calculator's can do it.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "yeah also also in you know countries where there's n isn't much light like in Scandinavia, they wouldn't be y able to use it half of the year you know.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "So that's not cool either. So um for the uh a case, there's uh the traditional uncurved flat hard case. Single curved, which means that it has uh curves in one dimension. Or the double curved. Um I wasn't able to finish my uh personal preferences sheet, but well you know that we will have to go for the double curved'cause it's daring and different from what we have now. Uh the case materials.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Well we have all kinds of hard uh materials like the the hard plastic, the wood and the titanium. I would definitely go for rubber'cause it fits most in what people wanna see nowadays.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Um poo, this is a lot of text. I wasn't able to organise this yet. We have yeah several uh interface designs. Uh we can use a scroll buttons for the menus, but we already kind of decided to go for the f for the pushbuttons, for the the arrow buttons.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah. Pushbuttons. Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "So that's not really interesting.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Electronics? Yeah, maybe we wanna decide on what electronics to use the advanced chip I think is easiest to implement uh for the production,'cause they they can print it better. Um Yeah. I think this is about it. Yeah I was working on some per personal preferences. I first uh chose for the battery,'cause yeah I'm traditional and that's the most obvious, easiest choice to go to. But I really think that we should maybe uh think about the kinetic energy,", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "where you have to move the thing to be able to use it.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "As an optional uh feature.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Or combine uh both with a with one uh", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Uh I think you can only fit one uh source of energy on the.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah maybe we.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "I guess we can only choose one.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "I can imagine that the kinetic uh type energy source would be more expensive to make. But it is more longlasting, that the people don't have to ever buy batteries again.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah. And it's more fun.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "I didn't receive any info uh.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "And it's also more fun yeah. I always chuck my uh remote control around, so.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah, just playing with it", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "and especially when the material's rubber. It can be done, I mean, you can't harm it,", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "S yeah it's safe.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "And throw it.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah y exactly.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "so it's a perfect combination I guess.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "You don't have to be scared about bouncing it off the g floor and breaking it or whatever.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "So that's the end of it.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "So.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "'Kay next.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Uh go ahead.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "So double curved is like this, this, this, or.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "No it means curved in two dimensions. So uh w single curved? Uh let's say would be a b square box, but then with curves on one dimension.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "And double curved would means that it would have curves curves in every direction. Like three D_. Yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah. Also in in height?", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Uh.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah okay.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Okay. Can we uh.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah. One one uh very important thing I was uh yeah thinking about is the speech uh option. We were going to use that.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah. So um Yeah um yeah that's one thing uh which I'm not sure uh of how to implement it uh into the remote control.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Well the visual representation is not there with speech", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Design?", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "No okay but it has to be combined with with the menu uh for functions and.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "but you can Yeah. Just yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "So okay.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "I think you can just uh match the speech commands with the functions that are already present.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "So I don't think you have to design anything else for that.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah with the programme.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "But do uh j do we uh do the speech just for the basic options, for the simple buttons?", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Both.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "For for everything,", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "also for the advanced options? Okay. Uh we have this very uh basic uh trendy design. Everybody says it so that's what's uh yeah um Yeah in the in the last uh meeting we uh we were yeah putting the the simple and the advanced options separated. That's yeah obvious. Um yeah. Pressing the the menu option uh will disable uh all other options on your uh remote control. And only the the L_C_D_ panel will uh light up and then you can only uh change the yeah the options.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "And and the and the buttons that you need to control it, I guess.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah. Um yeah design has to be very attractive but that's your your op your yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "you have to uh delete this but this is the the the simple uh layout.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Uh display on the upper side with the the menu button and maybe a some sort of cancel button or save button.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "That would be the back.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "I'm The back.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Back and okay.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Back and okay yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Back and okay.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "You did read the minutes I wrote?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Uh.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "You did read the minutes I wrote?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "What? A little bit I think but not not everything w", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "I.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Oh okay'cause I pretty much summed up all the buttons there were. So.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Okay. Oh I uh didn't read that.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "I hate doing work for nothing..", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "But But this is the the basic uh design uh for the for the m yeah for the buttons.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Um I wanted to to categorise everything. Uh with a speech display uh yeah, sound, everything you you noted in your uh minutes. Um every pushbutton has uh has its own uh LED light.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "So you can uh yeah change uh m make it more trendy for for younger people. And uh if there are older people they wanted more uh yeah more uh luxurous so that's an a also an option. Um that was it.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "That was it?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Okay. Uh again. Ugh. Okay so what we have to decide is what kind of components do we use? Uh energy source, chip type, case type. And user interface. But I didn't see a clear distinction between these so I think what we have is okay. So we only, we already decided that kinetic would be the choice for energy.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "No.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Uh the case would be doubly curved. So.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "And rubber. Rubber material.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Rubber material.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Rubber material. And that's the only thing we have left.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah we need the the chip on print to be able to support the the screen and uh and f audio function.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Oh okay. No it's easy..", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "So that's uh is that is that the advanced chip?.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah. Yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Advanced chip. Okay.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Otherwise you would have a simple chip, just for pressing buttons. But we need more.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Wow. Yeah. Alright.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "I'm just thinking, this is not my department, but I I'm not sure what this is gonna cost,", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Kinetic. Double curved.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Too.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "to be able to m", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Uh I didn't get any info on this. So.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": ".", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "So'cause we need to sell it for twenty five Euro a piece.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "That's gonna be difficult huh?", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "The cost of making it should be twelve and a half?", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "I have total here.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah I don't know.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah yeah yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "I didn't get any information about that so.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": ". We're going to produce it in uh China so it's no problem.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Child labour man, we love it.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah, so it's cheap.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Who doesn't. Uh let's see. Is there a new thing?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Um well the interface type supplements.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah the interface, maybe can.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Uh it's it's quite difficult because we we haven't got all the options uh yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Ooh. No. Uh do you have a picture of doubly curved case? And could you put that in the group folder? Of the project folder.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Um let me see. Wait a sec.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "If you go to your homepage or something, you should", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah I'm going there now.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "get your own information.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Inspiration.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "I got my fresh and fyoo fruity uh picture uh also uh over there, so.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Ah you didn't draw it yourself.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Well.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "No.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Ah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Too less time.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Um yeah maybe it's.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah, also the menu.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah that that w", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "This is the the menu I was uh looking uh at.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah. Yeah I was thinking of that also, with with a with a uh arrow.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Maybe it's easier.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Arrow.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Arrow yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "So that indicates that there's an menu under that menu.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah. Yeah perfect.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "So.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": ".'S the target group.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Maybe it's easier if you guys come over here.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "S yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah sure..", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "S see this is the the the standard traditional type, where the form uh yeah serves the function, you know.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Oh yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "It's like really basic. But this m is more appealing to old people and we don't want that.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah..", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "This is what we're looking for. And th that means curved in both dire dire uh dimensions.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Oh okay. I see.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Not only like this but it has to be.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah also like this. So you can hold it.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "exactly. It has to be kind of instead of the PlayStation, the module. It has to be like the the Game Cube, you know,", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "where your thumbs would be laying in the instrument and it has to be nice to hold. And.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "But it has also to it it has also to be uh luxurous uh for for yeah rich people.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": ".", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Th this looks a little bit like like for only for children. So.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "It ha", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "The children's story. Yeah I've got it.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah but that's that's the the problem uh yeah the dilemma actually,", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Distinction. Yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "'cause we wanna appeal to the to the young public with fancy with flashy colours, and with a lot of shape. And.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah, and the and the rubber, it it will look cheap always,", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "The colour Yeah. Okay but the the colours, you you can make it uh make the colours with LEDs uh beneath the the buttons.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "you know, with the.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "If you press a button and you can disable the the colour LEDs for for people that don't like it.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "There is mobile phones, in which you can change the colour also of the lights.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Maybe we should consider this function.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "To customise it and so I mean kids can make it look more flashy with different kinds of colours", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "and people who want something, you know, different, or more uh design, they can go for one colour", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Different. Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "like uh for example this uh photo th camera.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Camera.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah. Cool. S underwater uh.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah submarine..", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Personally I think it's really ugly.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Well.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Just give me the thing that it's inside there.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah but this this the is for the.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Very cheap uh cheap look.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "maybe I'm too old for this stuff.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Okay. Uh.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "So those I think are all my.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": ".", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "oh.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Ah yeah bright colours.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah. Also a kind of rubber uh.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "And this is, this is with the curved that I mean.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "That's singly curved.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah. Yeah?", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "That should be nice.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Well we could make a compromise between that. But I don't know if it's worth the effort.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "A compromise between what?", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Uh instead of doubly curved we take a single curved. So to appeal a little more to the all the public.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "So s", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "This, this would be uh single curved uh?", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah there's only in in this dimension.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Like this. So curvy or not.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Also.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah. Exactly. Exactly.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah so we keep it singly c single curved then?", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah that would be an option. I don't know what you think.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "I think the.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "I mean our aim is to make something different right? To make something new.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "I would go for the double curved.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Okay. Yeah I'd agree.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "And I I'm I'm thinking uh you know uh a drawing palette, where you have the shape for your thumb.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "So it kind of holds nicely, something like that.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah but if you if you make it more curved we we can make more and more options for buttons.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Well this is really your decision but.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "If you have uh it have it in your hand, you you you are not only um yeah you don't need one dimension but you can use other dimensions for pressing the the buttons.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah. As well. You can make a trigger button or something like that.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah. Something to shoot at your television.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah or that that is the confirmation button or something,", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "that you scroll with your thumb, with the arrows, and then confirm.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "That's yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "That would be a nice way to use it but I mean, yeah, I'm thinking big already, and we need something that well that that you can able to use in one hand I think.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Different. Stands out. Or Oh yeah a one hand uh solution.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "So from top view it looks kinda like this. But from the side you you can have it also in a kind of shape.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "can turn it maybe.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Maybe because the the screen is on top you can have.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "To switch from buttons to interface hmm. If you turn it a little..", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": ".", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Maybe you can c have this kind of shape. A little upwards. So that the screen is more", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Oh yeah. Least you can easily see it.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "towards yourself, so you can easily see your screen.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "How about.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Well well you have it in your hand so it's a kind of an angle from your eyes to the screen. So then you have double double curved in some way. So this this is so the screen is positioned over here.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Oh. Something like that. And the buttons are more, well it's very thick now but.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah I understand what you mean.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "That's uh that's.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "How about we do a uh a pop-up screen, like the laptop.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "If you can uh flip.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "So that the only the simple functions will be visible at first.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah? That that you can press it and then it comes up? Or.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "And then if you want.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Uh so you have a the the side view.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah. Something like that.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "But then the side view can be straight. If you have a pop-up screen. But I dunno if that's too expensive.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "So and you want to be able to", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "I mean maybe it's too much.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "make this", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "No uh like.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": ".", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "I would draw it like this. Let's say this is the side view. That you have a a screen that will come up here, and can go down that way. If you know what I mean.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Okay. Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "So that it would come up like that.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Okay so the buttons are on top here, and you flip it over that way.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah or preferably even keep the simple buttons here, and then under the screen even you could put more more advanced buttons.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah. Oh yeah. Yeah yeah yeah yeah. Right. Yeah that's good idea.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Oh the advanced buttons. Right.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "That's the the more advanced options were uh for the for the menu.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "But you you want.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "F for the L_C_D_ menu right?", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "okay. You just want to hide them all?", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "So w w", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "No not all because you need most of them, the arrow buttons.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "The oh.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "But you can hide the okay and the back uh button.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah yeah yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "And the menu button also because when you flip it open.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "and you can maybe even drop the menu button because maybe if you flip it open it will auto activate amauto uh uh automatically.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Oh.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Activate and th the yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "So okay b but you have t you need some button to flip this open.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Why? You could just make it mechanical.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "True. True. But you can make a, yeah, you can make a trigger here. You know a simple uh with a.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah. Yeah and it says menu and it flips open and then you have the buttons to control it, in combination with your.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "That's but it's it's not", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah. Exactly.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "it's not very uh very strong uh yeah if you drop it one time.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "True. It uh c it can go open.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Well yeah the the idea of it was, is that because you close it, you cover the L_C_D_ screen and it won't be vulnerable to scratches or whatever.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "If you cover it with rubber. Mm.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "An adv an adv and it will be covered in some kind of uh thin rubber layer or something like that.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "And.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah. So it can bounce.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Exactly. Exactly. We just have to make sure that the closing mechanism won't break.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah, uh It's very no it's very strong.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Th it's very solid yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah okay so that that may work.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "That actually will offer some extra protection for the.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Okay but then we still have the the the thing of the the the shape. Yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "What kind of.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah I was thinking, if if you have your hand, it this is your th", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Harder.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah the lower part doesn't work I guess, so maybe you should try it over there.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": ".", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Okay. If this is your thumb, and this is your hand like that. With your uh wrist.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "That you, that it would be kind of shape like this, you know. So it's easier to hold in your hand, to y f", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "But when you are left-handed, that's that's a problem.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Uh yeah. Yeah of course.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Maybe can design two versions.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah then w then you would have to to make it like this.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "But that's that's very expensive uh.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Like like you drew here.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "And maybe th then make this thicker also than the centre.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Give it.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "And ergonomical shape. Yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "I would give it a female shape", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "but uh yeah. Anyway.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah..", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "The female shape yeah. With two uh.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Obviously. Make it more appealing to guys.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "We we could make some some rubber uh some rubber uh yeah mouse, with which you can change uh.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "I mean.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Oh yeah. Some uh k esk uh yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "and so if you Yeah..", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah but but that's optional for later I guess.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "I mean, we have to make.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah but we have hardware inside, which is so it has to have some sort of basic shape.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Some yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah we we better so choose one.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "And also the screen, you cannot mould it.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "No no no no..", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "You know kind of thing.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah so okay we should better choose one sh one shape.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "But that's the kind of the idea,", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "And then you can.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "so it lays good in the hand, and then on on the side with with your thumb,", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "You can place the screen here, which can come.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "you you can you can use,", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "yeah, you can use the button option.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "So the keywords are primary co colours, spongey?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "And but then I w I would.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Spongey.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "I would do the arrows here, kind of thing.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Spongey can be reached by means of.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Those buttons? And the simple buttons here,", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": ".", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "so that.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah. And and the and the control thngs in the middle? The the the arrows?", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "I Uh y eah that's what I mean.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "No the arrow's over here.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "The arrows over here,", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "and here the s simple uh.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah and then numbers.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Buttons. Okay.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah. Alright.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "I think that uh it's a nice design.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Uh pretty nice design. Yeah..", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "It's cool..", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah it looks uh pretty fancy.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "or do we wanna make its shape look like a banana or something?", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "I dunno.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": ".", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah that's.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Uh bananas wierd shape and other fruits also,", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "so it's better to have um some sort of basic print and then a fruit print in some primary uh colours.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah we could make.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "I don't know what what colours should the basic print be like? Like some soft green or something?", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Orange or something.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Or and then.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Or blue? Dark blue or.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Oh yeah yeah, dark blue", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "We should use.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "and then and then very bright, uh a yellow banana, an orange, uh a green apple, stuff like that,", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "with very uh bright tones I guess.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah w we need very primary colours, like bright red, bright yellow.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "So you have something like.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah but the primary colours w we can uh create with the with the LEDs on the on the remote control.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah. Yeah okay yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "If you we uh yeah. If you make it uh just a yeah bl give it a blue colour, then it's just a neutral colour,", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "also for the for the more uh yeah for the people.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Huh cool.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm. That doesn't really work. To draw, I guess.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "No it's.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Oh. What's this?", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah it's text.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "N no you have to exit..", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Hm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "You could also make line with uh.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "So that's.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah. Two hours further.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah..", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "thickness. Oh.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "So that's blue.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Oh. Wh why not go for the twenty?", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Mm. Yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah. That's what I call painting.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Y.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "So that's that's a dark blue basic colour I guess.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah and then on top of that.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "It's pretty nice. And then uh Oh.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Some yellow.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah with some some yellow banana.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Banana colour.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "And how about some uh some flashing standby lights?", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Like..", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Like you have on the Samsung, well I don't like to call brands phones,", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "the you know that'cause I remember from one of our first meetings that uh people lose their uh remote controls often.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah?", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "So it not not only in in the colours of the LEDs, that we want something to keep it visible at all times, or.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "How do you mean?", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah if you if flashing colour so you can't lose it, basically.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Um.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Some some.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah. Exactly.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Well I think it's a bit too much but.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Maybe a.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah an orange. Well alright well this is more like purple I guess,", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah. Yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "but it's should be more real dark blue, so the contrast with the with the fruit objects is uh pretty high.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "So uh yeah. That would be a nice uh nice device I guess.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "And which which colour should uh should I give the the display? Uh.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Who?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Or.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "I mean, the the colour of the background of the display?", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah. Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Ah well I don't guess it s has to be a sixty uh sixty six five thousand uh colour, so yeah too expensive.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "And then you can use yellow or semething. Why not? Aye.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "So just just a a blue blue backlight or something like that.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Mm. Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Green is too old-fashioned. But blue, blue's okay. J", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "As long as you loo use uh high contrast between the the background and the foreground colour.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Like this.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "maybe a maybe a white a white backlight?", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "So that people with uh with", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "White backlight, and dark.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Dark uh letters, yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah. Whatever which is visible.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "I know you sh you should test it under uh under a light conditions. I mean it's hard to tell uh I dunno.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "And also for people who are a bit colourblind.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Colourblind yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah. True.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "No so that's mostly red and green I believe.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Which which uh colour should the buttons be?", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "That's adjustable.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Woah. All all buttons?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Why adjustable?", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah? Or not.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "No uh.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "That's how we are going to make it uh more trendy. Or is it uh too expensive?.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "But maybe I mean they have to they have to have some colour right?", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "It's difficult.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "And if the background is very dark blue.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Blue. Maybe green.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "But don't we wanna make the background the the bright colo colours? So th the total of the thing is very bright?", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah you can.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Like the pictures I showed you guys. Those things were all like like bright red, bright red, flashy.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah?", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm flashy.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "So more like.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Mm bzz.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Doesn't work very well. Uh. More like this colour.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah something like that, something that stands out more.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "And then then yellow and orange and red objects on it or something.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "But then then again, which colour should the buttons be? The the press buttons. Should they be white or black or.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Red maybe.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "And it it looks quite cheap, that colour I think.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Uh.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Black.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "It's it's not.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "The green?", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Why?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah. I dunno.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah but it's pretty fresh, on the other side.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah. So.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "It's actually a pretty trendy colour at the moment.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "It's it's trendy okay. But.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "My couch is in that colour.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Ooh...", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Well it works pretty well.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "And then time was up.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Uh not yet.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Uh.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Do you get a pop-up if we.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": ".", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah within five minutes yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "That you have five minutes left or.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Alright.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Y left yeah left and then uh I have to kick you out.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "So something like this.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "That should be pretty nice colour. But maybe the buttons, all buttons in red is maybe a bad contrast for colourblind people.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "No that's actu", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Because the of the green.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "But the but the buttons have their own LEDs or not?", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "They have LEDs but they have a colour.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Red and green are actually the b the easiest to discriminate. Even for colourblind.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah?", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "They will see one of each as grey. But if you use uh green on blue, those kind of colours will look the same.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "I think.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "So red buttons are okay?", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "I think so.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "You can make them red.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Okay. That that's a default uh setting. The the red buttons.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah. But I think you need to keep in mind that the LEDs are just extra light..", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "How do you mean?", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Uh they they don't determine the colour that much, I think.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Okay. Yeah I I was think about a red uh red LEDs and blue LEDs and.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "'Cause you have to print on them you have a background", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "No that's that's too busy I guess.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Each number is transparent.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Uh partly but you have to print on the number. Or the the sign.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "So you can't change the colour so.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "You better bet better better keep the LED and the button itself in the same colour I guess.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "So just an extra", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Bit of light.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "You can.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "bit of light and attention.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Bit of feedback.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "what we should do I think is is make kind of a see-through plastic button, with uh one coloured LED behind it.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "So that the whole button will shine", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "as the colour the And if you think about easy to use buttons, we have to, well we have to make it the shape so that it's easy to hold f for both hands,", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "but also that you can reach the buttons with your thumb, if you hold the machine.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Okay with Uh Don't mean to discourage you but uh basically you two are going to work on the smartboard. Next thirty minutes to design something so.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Ah, right.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Alright.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "And the You will do the evaluation.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Of the product?", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Which we don't have yet.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah uh about.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "So wh how should I do that?", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah I don't know. You probably get a mail.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Oh okay. Or you you or you send it to me. Or just.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah. Once they are finished. Yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "because you are going to design it on this board right?", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah but maybe you can do the evaluation you don't have to evaluate yet but you can make a procedure which to follow. I don't know.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah. I I probably get instruction on that, how to do that,", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "so I make another presentation I guess.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "I kn I know what's gonna happen in in yeah so.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "About. Yeah. You have the basic idea.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "I've a basic idea.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "And you two uh are going to do this. Look-and-feel and.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "So we're gonna work here? On this sketchboard?", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Good luck.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Alright. Thanks.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah. Alright so that's uh.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "So I uh make new page and uh be creative.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "But we have to do it at this moment, after th this meeting?", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Alright.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah you have uh", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Thirty minutes.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "thirty minutes.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Then we have to uh see something which we can uh", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Alright.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "show to the management.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Ah so this is basically the what what we are thinking about?", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "I would yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Shall we uh make a new uh.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah l let's just uh delete all these uh or.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Next.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": ".", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah, I just make a new one.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Oh, next.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Oh and save this uh board.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Alright.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Just save it.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Huh? Yeah I'll just I'll just keep it there.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah okay but just press save and uh.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "It'll be fine.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "On the left. S so, yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Uh sorry.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "You can also include clip-art..", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "So if you'll rather draw in paint or something.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Current colour?", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "So um.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Okay. Uh.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Shall we make some outline sketches of the basic shape first?", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah. And then after that we can make the user uh inter interface.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Because I I.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "then look.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah'cause I have to uh focus on the on the basic look-and-feel design.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "This?", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "So how it's gonna look. And you have to think uh how we're gonna put the screen in it and those kind of things.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Uh pretty accurate.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "So if I'm drawing and you think okay I'm not gonna be able to put a screen in there, you have to correct.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Oh we skip this I guess. Sound button press.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yep.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Uh do you mind if I draw in black then? For normal sketches.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "You can also include it. It's not much work.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Oh no it's it's okay.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Light only button user ca user interaction.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "so we kind of want the girlish", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "That's included.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah okay.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "figure.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "So the pl the plastic plastic buttons also help uh because of um they are only lit during interaction. So.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "I'm not so good at drawing. Excuse me?", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Well it's a good thing that the buttons aren't um, well that they are plastic, because then you can light up the light on when when they are usable.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah. Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "No uh uh.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Maybe you should draw it very large like this.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah but this part isn't uh functioning properly.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah. Sensitive.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Oh right.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "How do we uh uh", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Erase?", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "or insert text?", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "I dunno. Maybe just start typing.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "It's a bit uh large..", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Oh that's a bit big. Yeah..", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "You also do the other sides. Not only on the front si uh the top side but also the the side view.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": ".", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah. Ex exactly.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "L let's make first the the the all the views. The the front view, side view and the back view.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Uh.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Uh..", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Uh I thought for the side view, that the w the basic section would be rather uh a bit thicker than the middle, where you're holding it with your.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Jesus. What do I write down?.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Why can't I work here? This is much easier..", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Much easier, yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "'cause your fingers have to fit underneath and.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "The middle has to be very small so you can have it in your hand.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "I don't see a sign that the meeting is over yet but.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Exactly but the uh but the upper side has to be a bit more like that I think.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "No so I just work here a few minutes..", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah the display,", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Uh don't you think?", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "we yeah we can put a display.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "So the display we will put in here, the basic uh functions in here, where it's most reachable.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "The.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "The the arrow functions. Yeah. Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "The th Exactly. Oh. This is hard.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "What do don't have to draw it exactly do we?", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "No it's it's uh it's okay.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Wait. Let me try it one more time. Maybe I've uh it's easier if I draw it in once. Okay, of course it will become way more ugly..", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "You can make it m larger. Maybe it's easier to to draw uh.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah. This'll take forever. It's fun to work with this pen.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Um so, larger.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Oh.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah that's that's the basic idea. Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "And.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Wrong one.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "yeah. So side.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Five minutes left before the meeting ends.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "'Kay. Um other views?", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Alright.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah only if you are going to put buttons on the side of the unit.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Uh.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "That's the question.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah. Let's fill i fill in the buttons later.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "But we we.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "So this is gonna be from the", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "I is it if if this is from the side.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "uh from.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "From the.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "woah. Steady.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "yeah yeah. Sorry.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Because there the screen goes up like that right?", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "So then it's like this,", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah?", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "or that's not convenient because then you have the screen like this and look like the it's better to have it somewhat like this. Or does it flip all the way?", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah I'm I'm.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "The the idea is that it has to flip up to here.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "May maybe it's it's easier to to integrate the the the L_C_D_ screen just into this this bubble. Because it do doesn't have to flip then.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Because we have en enough space for for making a an L_C_D.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah. Yeah yeah yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Because here.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "It's better to to have this like this I guess, and then flip it like this.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "True.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "But why why do we need uh the flipping uh.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "you can adjust the angle to which it flips. So it can also from this angle, it can flip all the way up to there.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Okay. Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "You can flip it up to there if you want.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah. So w yeah. But we still keep the flipping mechanism.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah we keep the flip?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Think so.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Keep the flip live.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah because I think it will feel weird if you would make this smaller and this bigger or something that.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "I dunno.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Uh the the shape is okay but yeah? I don't see the the yeah why why we should use the the flipping uh mechanism.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "I thought it would be cool..", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Because we Okay yeah. It's it's for for for more trendy uh.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah but maybe Yeah but maybe we we should then.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Because we have enough space. H here we got uh the basic functions, the the arrow uh yeah button.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah there the middle Sh sh shouldn't we integrate it?", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah and then h we sh mm.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "And then like i oh th.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "doh. Come on. So this is the shape. Oh. It hasn't.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": ". It doesn't aim so well.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Okay but the screen is a bit lower because if it falls on the other side, it doesn't fall on the screen.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah, then it's.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "So there's a layer of rubber on the side.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah yeah yeah. Definitely.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "So no flipping but just.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "No flipping or.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "No flipping?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "no.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "you wanted the flipping so.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah I guess but uh I mean most votes count right?", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "But if you if you If you drop it it it just breaks. And it has to be very strong because of the. Yeah kind of.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "It's shaking.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Throwing and the kinetics. Oh. We better make we better make it like this. Eventually.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah true true.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah just light on top.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "And it's also for the for the children, it's yeah for people not sixteen years.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah if you if you're going for the kinetics.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Safer. Mm. Yeah okay that the target group.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "But there are more.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Uh they are responsible enough to have a mobile phone, so also to to deal with their uh remote uh control. Yes.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah okay. That's true. Okay. Yeah?", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Well. I just uh ended the meeting.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah. I'm just thinking totally different designs also.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "You two go design.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Okay wi", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Remember that the weird pocketphone thingy which looked like kind of a Gameboy.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Oh. By the way. Um.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Maybe we should try something like that. But yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "I uh thought up a name for our product. Yeah. It's called uh the Real Remote.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Oh right.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah?", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "With a copyright sign after Real..", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Ooh..", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Alright.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "The Real Remote.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah. Alright.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah. I like it.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "So maybe you can include that somewhere.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Okay. This can go.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Good. Yeah. We should work in our own room right? Or not?", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah..", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Oh yeah we have to f uh include that in our design as well.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "I don't see any power cables here so.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Let's see.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah. Yes.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "What the hell's that?", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "'Kay.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "I think uh it's the sensors.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "See you two in half an hour uh.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Uh.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Good luck..", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yep. 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Uh, in combination with the finance I um uh I received uh a an uh an Excel uh file", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Hmm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "which we have to fill in later on. Um, you see. Uh, and then we must see uh if we uh stay under the twelve and a half Euro.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Hmm. Interesting. Ah, okay.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "So, that's uh that's a big", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Oops.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Cool..", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm. That's gonna be t problem.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "l so let's uh wait it uh um", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "we have we have must uh,", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Some creative uh.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "we must have uh some time for that uh because it will be uh yeah, quite a lot of mathematics.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Oh. Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "And after that, uh uh an evaluation of uh the process how we uh how we have done it here with the SMARTboard, with the with our laptops, with the all uh all this. And uh afterwards, uh we closing. Once again, forty minutes, so uh let's start.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Ok okay.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "I would g give the word to um G_ and G_ for the prototype presentation.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Shall I give a short introduction and then uh.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah, well sure.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "J_ and J_.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "J_ and J_.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Okay. J_ and J_, okay.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Jane and Jane.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "'Kay guys, take it away.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Take it away.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Hi.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Um, this was our first concept. We decided to use a single touch-screen. So, we've worked out this concepts, how to how to hold it, where to put the buttons and and stuff. And um, well, we began with uh with a form of shape, that is uh is easy to hold w in one hand, left or right handed.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "So, we made i it a little bit less thick and uh it has some ar artistic meaning. No? This uh isn't nothing..", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Idea maybe uh is better.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Um well, during the meeting I showed you the concept of uh placing the buttons on top, usable with your thumb, and uh the menu structure, uh if necessary, with your other hand, so it's just gonna hold it easily.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "And it has to be acce accessible with your uh other hand too, of course.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "So we began uh working out a concept.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah, uh well, and as you saw, we would just have the basic remote with the panel L_C_D_ uh screen. Well, these would be the main buttons, h you could uh change them later on in your own profile if you want to. But, well it's standard they will be delivered with this kind of uh set-up. We have the more advanced menu uh setting right here. We have the sub-menus and stu stuff. We made a top oh, or a front view. Just so like you wanna uh back view. As you can see, this uh there, there are uh two uh weird bumps in it.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "This is for uh the added uh effect of uh well uh y youth and dynamic. And uh this is for the artistic effect.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Well, what we figured is uh we'll show you a picture later on you have more b a better idea after that. But, idea is for to stay in balance with these two uh with these two.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Hmm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "And so when you put it on the table, it will just lay down. It won't uh roll around or stuff. But it will lie more in your hand like an old telephone maybe, or like these old uh phones.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Y you you may get the idea. So thi this is about uh how we figured it should be. The s panel we g you would hide with some more uh rubber layers, like we discussed early on. Uh, you would s you wouldn't see the uh straight panel, but more fluidly and round.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah, the panel just uh of course goes like this.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "But the overlaying layer is uh a little bit uh curved and stuff.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "No, okay.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "And uh, in these bumps you could actually uh put some electronics uh that would you can make a more thinner uh design,", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "and that would actually look very nice, yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "And uh, about the colour, what have.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah. Oh, we added that this um can be held with your hands for this maximum is om yeah, one and a half centimetres. So, you have room here for your battery and maybe even other um electronic chips. S and you can just be the the layer of the touchscreen and some have some wires underneath it to make it as uh thin as possible in the middle for good grip.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Okay. Hmm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah, f uh, as colours, do you do you have the picture in uh.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Oh yeah. Now, well this is the idea about uh the bumps. Uh, you can see there's a v a very uh youthful uh dynamic uh exterior. It uh you just want to hold it you uh you are young and uh dynamic like us.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "'S l it's like an uh Easter egg.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah, it's like an e but this is for children. We we want a more adult version. But, this is like a remote control for children.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "It's called a weemote.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": ". A weemote.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Weemote.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Weemote.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah. Hey, that's actually a brilliant uh marketing stand.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah..", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Uh, but.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Wait what I w got in mind..", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "So this actually basic the idea. We we just want to build a more uh adult vers adult version of of this.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah, I can imagine that.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "And and for colours, we we figured starting with basic colours like uh white or metallic grey. Those are the technological colours actually,", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah. It would be best to to appeal to a broad public and make the covers exchangeable,", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "so it d", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "so the young people will buy an orange and a red and blue and a purple,", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Or blue or whatever.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "but when the o older people uh go in the shop and they see uh an orange um remote control, it would be less appealing than a white one. And young people, we think, are a little bit more flexible,", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Hmm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "they think, ah I'll buy for a couple of Euros some noi nice hip uh.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Hmm. Maybe it's an idea to sell it without a cover, so that you can pick a cover in the in the shop.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Well, um I think a cover is necessary,'cause als otherwise you'll just have the L_C_D_ screen.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah, okay. Yeah, okay.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "So, there must be some cheap standard cover, um maybe white or something,", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Hmm. Mm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "that's could comes with it and you can buy, so we can make extra money.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah, but uh you d you mustn't forget that uh our target aim is younger people.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Oui okay.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Uh, we had decided to uh put uh some flashy fruity colours in it, uh and uh in the survey from uh Milan and Paris uh it uh it came out that uh uh the d the older people are uh more willing to uh to spend money on extra features. So I think uh it will be a better idea to have some uh flashy fruity colours as as a standard,", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Okay. The other way around, you mean.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Oh yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "and for the people who uh really want uh a more sophisticated, more traditional look, they're willing to pay uh that.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Uh-huh.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "They want uh they want more luxury stuff,", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "but they have the money to do it and they want to b to buy that.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "So, maybe it's an idea to put that as an extra and not as a standard.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah. Yeah, maybe yeah, perhaps you're right. Uh, I I would I would actually agree with this sounds logical.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Okay, yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "An another idea. Uh, maybe we could uh develop a cover uh with wood style.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "They'll please the elder users as well.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Well yeah, a colour of a wood style, a white c and uh a couple of h hip uh fruity colours.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "And lea uh l delivered standard with a fruity colour, but not too not too much.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Nah. Yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yes. Not not too uh yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "This is banana and mango, not not purple or p orange and yellow.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah, exactly.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah. But, the mai I think th uh the standard must be some kind of uh uh attractive flashy colours.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah. Or blue or.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Not too, but w a little,", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Ah. Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "because that's our aim.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah,", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "li like like this like this.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "This isn't this isn't too much, is it?", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah, okay. No. Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "I f", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": ".", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Well, the buttons don't have to be uh all uh all of.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah. The buttons,", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Well I I I think so.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "I.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah, except for the buttons it's it could be a standard model.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "yeah. It Yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah, uh something like this would be nice.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Okay, that's that's it from us.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Thank you.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "'Kay, it's my time now.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "It's my turn.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "The Marketing Expert.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Uh-oh.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "During the.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Oh. During the design uh design life-cycle we uh", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Sorry.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "we made lot of requirements and trend analysis and stuff. Um, now is the time to uh evaluate our prototype concept to uh to the past requirements. So we are going to evaluate the design according to the past user requirements and trends analysis. Um, we're going to do that with a seven point scale. Opening a Word document now. Okay. One oh, okay, uh I have to expla explain something. We have to uh be consensive about about things. So, it has to be a group uh group decision.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Okay,", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Okay?", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "so we gon we gonna evaluate the", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Uh We're going to vote. We.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah, the the thing we saw.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "yeah? The prototype.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Okay, just saw.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah. Okay, one. The remote control is designed for people with age below forty.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah. Seven?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Seven is false.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Uh, true. Sorry.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah, b one or.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah, one I think.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Why?", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Most true?", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah, it's not just uh designed for people under the age of forty. It's also designed for people above forty.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah,", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "so.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "So.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "so a o one is appropriate?", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "No no, a little more in the middle.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Or, more like a four.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "No, uh three or yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "I have I've.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Three.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah, two or three, because it's not just uh the qu question is aimed at is it designed for people with age below forty.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "But it's also designed for people of age above forty. So,", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Ah, exactly. Exactly.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "I'll say it's about three.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah,", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "it will be primary appealing to to m minus forty, but also appealing to.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Three.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah. But also for yeah, okay. Uh, second. The remote control is beautiful.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah..", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "It's.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Wow.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah, acco according to us, it's one? Or.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah..", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah,", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah, I I think.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "it's the marketing uh angle on television.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah..", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah,", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "We have a wonderful.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "p s Of c of course you have to be uh very positive and uh enthusiastic about your own product.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Well, it's also fancy then.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Three. Uh, the remote control looks fancy.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yes.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "One?", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yep.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Of course. We have a perfect remote.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yes.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Good. Four. The remote control has big, clear channel switching buttons.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yes. Yeah yeah, oh they have to agree but.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yes.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Leads to user face, yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "I'm the User Interface uh Expert..", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Daniel. Uh, teletext buttons and volume buttons?", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Um, uh no.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "No teletext buttons. Teletext is in the menu.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "You you've different menu.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah, false.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "False?", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "And volume is impo", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "And volume?", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Volume is true.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "True.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Uh, hmm.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Big and clear?", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah, the they are big and clear..", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah yeah, big and clear.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah, big and clear.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "But you could make a teletext button uh six.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Hey.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Otherwise, the people who read this uh are gonna think we have no teletext button.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Hey. Hide.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah, but but the teletext button. Yeah, you can ch That's in a menu.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "It's it's not.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "So, it's w yeah, it it it", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "yeah, it.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "it isn't entirely unclear,", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "J", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "but So, I wouldn't give it a seven.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "No.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "I would give it a more a five or a six.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Five?", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Uh, I don I don't know.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "What do you think, uh Mister Project Manager?", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah, it's it's yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Oh, okay. Well, I agree. I was thinking very black and white.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Hmm.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Black and red..", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Thank you J_..", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Okay, don't forget to save it. Uh.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Red. Okay. Volume. The remote control is easy to be found.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Uh well, when we put in fancy colours, yeah", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Fruity..", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "and.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah, it has these all these fruity colours and it has a strange shape.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "So, if you so if you have trouble finding it.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "But, um it it's not making any sound uh,", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "have we deciding?", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Oh, okay,", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "So.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "but If you put uh your normal uh remote control under your bed, or you throw this remote control under your bed, is it better findable?", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "It'll make a difference. We have the better re I don't know. Yeah, I think so. My remote control's black.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "A li little bit maybe?", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "A little bit, but yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah. Well, we p we can do it glow in the dark.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Four?", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Uh.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Fi", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "So, if it's in the dark place, you still see it glowing.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "K yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "I.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Fo fo yeah fo five is.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Ah, I I I think five. It's it's it doesn't really make a lot of.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Well, then uh then I'll go for four.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Four?", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Because uh four is between three and uh uh also between between true and false.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah, okay, you're right.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Uh,", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yes, but five is between four and six..", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "I think.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "so I'll I'll go for four.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Ah, you must see it as uh, w uh according to uh the the other uh remote controls, there may uh uh be there in your uh T_V_ room, this one will stand out, I think.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Wha", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "B_.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah. Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah, that that's a better question actually.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah,", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Exa I think that that's what it's about.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "it it's.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "If your uh fifteen remotes in a drawer, uh you find it, yeah?", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "If it if this lying on your couch, you're you're you think what's that for kinda orange uh thing.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah, yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "So.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "But but the survey under users was that they uh really lost it.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah, that's stupid..", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Like, no not uh not seeing it, but lost it in the house or something.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Uh, but when you lost it you're just not.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "But, okay.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Well, if i if you see a strange shape lying somewhere, uh then you'd uh recognise it as, whoa, that is strange.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "That's our remote control..", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah, mostly when you lose your remote control, it it's under your.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah, okay. Yeah, I I agree, I agree.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah. Yeah, what is that. Uh,", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Most of times when you lose it you're sitting on it. Uh.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "so it's.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Okay. Eight, the remote control has fresh, fruity colours.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "True..", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Um I would call uh choose two,", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "'cause we decided not to make two f uh fresh colours, as it would not.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah, yeah, not too flashy.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "The remote control is made of soft material.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Um,", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah, rubber, is kind of soft.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah, but not too soft we have decided.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "kinda soft, but but not this. Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Three?", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Three, yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah. Yeah yeah, easy to use,", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Easy to use. One.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "very afford.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Easy to use?", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah, can it be zero?.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Well, I don yeah, it is kind of.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Top easy to use?", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "It.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "It's it's not the most easy to use.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "No, you can do two, because um", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "No. Uh.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "It can be easier.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "it can be easier. But then you're l", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "It could yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Jus just with ten buttons, that's the easiest.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "yeah, but then you'll lose.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "function f yeah, functionality and our fancy uh look, so.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Functional ability.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah, but the most uh easy to use is just with one button", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "But It is r it is rather easy to use, because you have the primary buttons always visible.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "on t Yeah, okay, but easy n not not the most easy to use, I think.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": ".", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "No.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "No, it's it I I'll go for two. My vote's on two..", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Two?", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Okay, two. Yeah, two.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah, m mine too.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "We also have to compare it to the uh to the remote controls on the market nowadays. So.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah, but waits just a minutes. Inspiration.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "What's the time? We also have uh to do the evaluation, uh the production costs and uh stuff.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "These are the m regular remotes.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah yeah, I'm uh hurrying.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Okay, eleven. The remote control is innovative.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yes, true, one.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yes.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "You're agree, Tim?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "A very of course.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "You haven't seen a more innovative uh thing in uh Paris?.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "The remote control has m remova removable from Multilux.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yes, one. Very multifunctional.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "No.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "The remote control, i it has speech recognition.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "False.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yes,", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "False.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "it.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "This is used with speech recognition, this.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "The remote control has built-in games?", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yes. But uh, maybe make it two, because the games are in a sub-menu and not uh it's not an entire game.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah, but they are built in, so it's one.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah, they are built in.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah, okay.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Okay..", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Not down.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "And the last, paren parental advisory function..", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "You really like the parental advisory..", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yes.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Freak..", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yes, I do.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Th did you make this or the.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Bu", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Save as.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah, he made it..", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah, It changes it maybe.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Okay, I will uh", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Oh yay.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "do the the math.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Oh dear.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Now it's your turn.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Okay, thank you..", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "We'll see.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Hmm?", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Mm. Okay, we have now to c uh to calculate the production cost. If it's under uh twelve and half Euro, then it's uh ok uh okay. But i is it if it is b Huh? No, this isn't right. Okay so,. Redesign.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "If they're under twelve fifty.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Oh yeah, if they under Yeah. No. Oh yeah. Yeah, it's.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah? Cau'cause so it's okay.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "sorry. Yeah, if the costs are under twelve and a half Euro, uh then we uh can uh ra uh move on to the project evaluation, as we have uh experienced it. Otherwise, we have uh do uh have to do a little uh redesign uh thingy. So Uh, we have to fill in the numbers of the component uh components. We have to uh fil uh, want to uh do it in and uh see uh if we stay under the twelve and a half Euro. So, do we have uh a hand dynamo? No.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "No.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "That's zero.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Me, too.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Battery, yes. One.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Battery, one?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yes.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "One, yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Okay. Kinetic, one?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Kinetic, one.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah. Yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Okay, solar cells, zero.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah..", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Okay, uh simple chip on print?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Uh, n no.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "No.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "No? No, advanced chip.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "No.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "No.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Advanced chip.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yes.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Sample sensor sample speaker?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "No, the advanced chip is uh.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "No.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Advanced chip is three.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Three?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Three Euros, yep.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah uh, but it it's one one thing, it's three Euro.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Uh, we have one. We have one.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Okay, one piece, yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": ".", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Uh, what's the sample sensor?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "No, sev zero.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "No.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Well, that's um.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Speech recognition, I think.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah, you give it a sample, uh one.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "yeah, speech recognition", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "and s", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Zero. Uh, uncurved flat.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "No.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "No.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "A zero.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "No.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "But is it s it's not made from a single uncurved thingy and then uh and then uh.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "You no.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "No.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "No. No.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Thingy..", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "no? Okay. So it's only uh once double-curved.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah,", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yes,", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "'cause um the layer around it fits around the bubbles on the o on the uh the back of the.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "three. Eight.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Okay. We're now in a problem,'cause uh we have uh reached eleven Euro yet.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Uh, we don't have anything else. So.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Okay, go on. Just go on.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Okay, but uh we have.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Just go on. Then we'll see uh we'll we'll see uh wha how much we are over budget.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Could you step a little to the right ma", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Two.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah. Oh, sorry.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Two.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Uh, rubber.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Or.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "You.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Zero.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Titanium, no?.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "And zero. Special uh is the special colour?", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Special colour?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "I don't think so. No, this is a standard colour.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "No.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah, but we want to make uh the wood colours, uh that uh.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "S", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yes, this is a special colour..", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah, if if you're honest, we'll uh type one, special colour.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah, but but D but Daniel, tha that's that's another brand.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "That's an add-on.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah, one.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "That's another article to sell.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah, but we we going to yeah yeah, that's true. But yeah, it's it's it.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Uh, j maybe we'll finish uh the the list first and then look back, aye?", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "That doesn't account for this. Producing this.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Okay, the push-button, no.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "No. Scroll wheel, no.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Scroll-wheel, no.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "No.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "No. Oh, no. Yes, one.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Uh, button, no.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "One, yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "No, the the.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "No.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "No.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Mm, is it.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "we don't have a s", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "No. No.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "These three.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "no. Okay.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Well, we're only four Euro over budget.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "No.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Oh, okay. So, um what's the thing we can change?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "So.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "But.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "No. No.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Well, other case, we can make it single-curved or uncurved.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Uh, can I uh I say something?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm, single-curves.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "No, can I say something uh as Project Manager?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah, of course..", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "The kinetic thing, can we just skip it,", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Just cut off the kine yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "because uh you have to shake it, but that's not really innovative.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Or.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah. Okay, sure.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "yeah. Yeah, we just put a good battery it it.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Mobile phones nowadays.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Daniel. Daniel,", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yo. Sorry,", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "what do you think about Here.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "yeah, yes..", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "What do you think about uh putting a battery in it, but also selling like uh the covers, a docking station", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "just apart from the from the thing, so that you can uh put uh", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "rechargeable batteries in it and just.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "But you can use rechargeable batteries anyway, just you s you have to recharge them manual.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah, and not really.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah, yeah, okay.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "But we if you forget about the kinetic,", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Just an idea.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah, that's a cost reduc", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah, sure.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "well if we do that, we shall.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Ah..", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Okay,", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "So um.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "well you you can go from double-curved to single-curved.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah, of course.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "And that would solve the budget problem.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Uh, b but i but the single-curved is just oh.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah, so we have to bake the ba back flat, and then.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "No, it's it's just one curve and not a back uh curved I think. Or.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "It's just yeah well, the single-curve that.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Oh, okay, okay.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah. Exactly, yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "So that's wh tha that's one option.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Or are these two curves? Uh.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "And then w yeah, and then we could have it, but uh it's its' well it's it's r it is the main point of the the the the look.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah,.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah, but what else uh do we have to cut out? No advanced chip, uh that's a little bit of problem.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "We going to cut.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "No, tho uh that that can be done.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "So uh,", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Although, can we make it with a regular chip?", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "okay, a little less uh conversation.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Curvy.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Hey, those ar arcs, why are there for?", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Sorry?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "The blue blue uh", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Fill in Just a", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Explanation.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "explanation.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Twelve fifty.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "I can delete it for you if you want.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Well.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "No, no no.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "So, if we do this, uh we're on uh twelve and a half Euro. And we're done.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah, but does it fit with our design?", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Uh well, the only uh thing that don't.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Do we have to u adapt it? It's single-curves.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah, single-curved, but there's a curve in it. So.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "W Could we just make the bubbles uh cut off the back, and then we're uh has.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah, we just make it flat.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "But, you do l", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "But, wha'Kay, look, what is the uh If you make it double-curved, it costs one Euro more.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "More. Yeah. You make it optional.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "But No, but does it have a lot of extra uh.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Function.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Functional.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "fun function more like.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Worth, does it have added worth?", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Uh, there's an a a athe aesthetic value, but not functionality.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "No, um.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah, it's really a static value. Yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah, uh aesthetic. I mean, uh you make like eleven and a half Euros profit instead of twelve and a half. But I don't know if twelve and a half is uh a fixed uh fixed price.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah, it is. Oh.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah, well let's assume it is.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "No, we can't go above that.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "We we should assume it i that it is.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah?", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah, okay.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "But I I figured that the kinetic would be a marketing promotion.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah, okay. Then it's okay.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "R if you uh promote a kinetic um I kinetic remote control, I mean, that would b sell better than an a normal remote control.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Do you think? Well, now you can shake your remote control..", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah, I think so.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "No, well, y I mean uh, y you can go into your neighbour and tell him, ha, my k uh remote control is kinetic.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Kinetic.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "You have standard old battery control uh remote con", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "What a what about all the m the environment freaks?", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah, but it doesn't fit in our co cost profile. So.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Not freaks,", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "the envi No.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "True.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "I I think it's it's It look like this one.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "You ma can make an an especialised extra gold version.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah? Who because if you want to go to kinetic, you're uh you're on thirteen and a half and you must go to flat,", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "and I think now it's it's more of uh a compromise", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "thing.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "And if you make the single curve ha just a big curve, then it's uh then it's uh.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah, just one big curve..", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "yeah, one big good curve.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "I was going to uh say nasty words, but I don't.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "This is strange by the way.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Wood is m is is is cheaper than rubber. We thought that wood would be more expensive.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Uh, this uh American figures. You just cut down some trees..", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah, maybe. But uh that this is this is it? Yeah. Okay, this is it.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "This is it.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Whoever makes uh a remote control out of titanium.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "I'm gonna save it. Yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yes..", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "It is possible, but you can't use double uh curves for titanium.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "No.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "That's one of the functionability uh.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Okay, well, considering we have.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Ah no, we have to do all those hours again.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Go back. One back? Costs on uh No redesign..", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Well, we were above, so we did a little redesign.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "We sue. We Yeah, we'll start her all o all over again.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah, okay, yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Okay, um now uh it's about time to uh talk about uh this project. Uh, some uh things. Were there uh room for uh was there room for creativity in our meetings or in your individual meetings?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Um.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Hmm. I I didn't think so. That there was a lot of room for it. But, that's mainly because uh of the information that was delivered to us.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "It was just fixed information and get your stuff from there, and I couldn't go on on i on the internet and search my own stuff. Bu", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah. Yeah, yeah, yeah. That's true. I agree with that.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Well, I th I think you two, uh especially you and uh and uh Daniel, you d you you both had uh the less creative uh roles in the project.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah. That's true.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "For us, there was a lot of creativity.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "'Cause I think m", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "We could just sign up an uh remote if we liked.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah, that's true.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "I think Jeroen and I, we had a more design we could have more we had more room for creativity than than you two.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah. Yeah, that's true.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Okay. Uh how about the leadership?.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Uh.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Ha.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Leadership was uh crappy.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Crappy. Cra", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Nah, the leadership wasn't crappy, it was the leader that was crappy.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Okay, thank you very much.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah..", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Nah. No, the leadership was okay..", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Now we're done..", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah, example of crappy leadershi", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "No, leadership was uh", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Okay, yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah, it was good.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Okay, I thought uh the first meeting was a little bit of unstructured meeting.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah, that's true.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Uh, you could have but uh, it was your first, no uh no disrespect or something,", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "but you could have uh structure it a l little bit more.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "So like, I I was talking most of the time the first meeting meeting, and.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "You could of said, shut up you fool..", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah. I notice it too.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "But.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "I was a I was also very uh unhappy, uh very unsatisfied uh about the", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "About me..", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "about the first meeting.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "So, uh I hope uh uh the the the other meetings uh", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Try to learn from your mistake. And we will never do it again..", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah, you made up..", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "get better and uh I think the the last two meetings uh also we we reached uh some good decisions about uh talk.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "No, it you did better.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah, more more consensus.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Ev everybody w was agreeing every.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah. Much more constructive.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Okay, so uh that's cool.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Uh, teamwork? Well, maybe that's uh only Yeah well, it's for us, because uh.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Well, we work together on a project, but everybody has his own task.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah. Yeah and it's wo more like presentation and some points were discussed.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "So, it is a little bit.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "But, really teamwork were you two uh.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah. No Well, it went okay.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Two guys.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "The.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah, that went w it went well.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "It's it's just uh.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Stupid stupid pen, but uh.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "No hard feelings.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Nah. Yeah, we we had some trouble with the pen, but.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah. Now you you must push a little while.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah, but but draw something uh difficult.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah, but us.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "D uh just write your name right now.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Try to write your name,", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "in in writing letters, of course, yeah? Yeah, normally, uh this uh the w Block letter sign it, yeah?", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "O Just uh.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Just just write your name in in one line.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "okay.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "If it's a little bit too small bit quicker now.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "You can be you can go quicker,'cause then it it won't notice it.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "It didn't Uh he he knows how it works, yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Oh.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "I follow the Master class for the SMARTboard, so I think that's the that's the main issue.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Um, so uh about this one you were uh you're dealing with,", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Means.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "um the the the the digital pen.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Y well, yeah. Th the i The idea is great, but it doesn't work properly. Uh.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Okay. Yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Digital pen, I thought uh th the first time I did individual work, I used it.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "But, a and the first two meetings I brought it with me, but I didn't use it at all after the first the first meeting.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "No.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "No, I have it working. But, uh yeah, well uh.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "It's it's not real real use for me.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "No, it doesn't have that much added value to the.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Huh. Well.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Nee. As uh as I said a m a c few moments ago, it I would like, myself, to write with a normal pen, because must um Yeah, it's almost the same concept, but you can just sim more simply put it on our scanner.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "I it's the same concept as the pen, where you f have to download the software or s uh very uh slow.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "M yeah. Yeah. And it is still your own handwriting uh popping up in uh Word.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yes. No, and it doesn't give any added value.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "No, uh that's true. No.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Not really, no.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "And uh the SMARTboard is uh useful, but the the pen is I uh not user-friendly, I think.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah, not user-friendly.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Be it it takes a lot of time to draw things and to write things,", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah, and it's it's not very precise.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "and that's the.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "We're trying to m to.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah, like when you do this.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah, it may um Yeah, and tr try to wri write your name uh in a in a normal uh size, yeah. Smaller.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Smaller?", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah, smaller. Just like when you're writing on a letter.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah, but that's not th the the you when you at a foreign audience, you b don't gonna wr uh write uh small.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "No, a as you saw on on this drawing, just open open this one or that one. It's uh th it it Yeah, uh we had more problems even here when we trying to draw these buttons, it's almost impossible to get clear uh when you're uh.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Oh. Sorry.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "But maybe there's some function with no, it isn't. With uh.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "And the eraser was another problem. It w t is is this large. And when you try to erase this line, y.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah. Well, I'm gonna erase my uh name..", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "I'm gonna erase my name there.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah, it's a big uh big eraser.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Okay. New ideas?", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "M Abo What kind of new ideas?", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Um Well, the the idea of the touch-screen is uh.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Do you?", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah, uh.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Go on..", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "I'm just uh.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "New ideas about uh the working of this software, about about the project, about the remote controls or.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah. Mm, yeah, I think so.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "I don't know what what I mean. No.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Hello.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Did you heard what he said?", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Know what I mean..", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "I don't I don't know what I mean. Oh, I have some figure.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Here.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Oh.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "The eva the evaluation,", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Oh yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "the mm the mean uh number is uh one point eight one point eight six.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "That's interesting.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "So that's fairly uh fairly good, I think.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Okay,", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "because what does it mean?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "So true.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Uh, that uh", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "All the mo yeah, are between one and two.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "all the requirements uh are true or very true, right. Yep.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah. Oh, okay. Yeah, okay. Thank you, expert.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "But the new ideas found for uh wi with working with this uh software?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Not really, just they have to improve it.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Not really, yeah?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Uh, the concept is okay,", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah, I think.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "but it has to be quicker. Uh, it is still opening my programme, n almo almost uh my entire computer is locked up during the process", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "and it, yeah, just takes too many time. People will still feel the need to to write it quickly on uh a page and not download it and save it, and.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah. You had expected it to to be uh more more uh.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "More user-friendly.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "'Cause when you use a pen, you can just draw like you d draw normally,", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "and you do", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "May maybe the idea you proposed is uh a screen here.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "And draw it, and it's it's placed over there.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah, that l", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Would be easier. Or at least when you you don't have to adapt to the technology, just you can write in the way you normally write. And now you have to um keep constantly in mind that you're drawing on this screen.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Hmm? No.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "And that's a very bad concept.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yep, yep. Yeah, that's true.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Ah, very bad.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Nah, okay, I I it's my opinion that I.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "But I think this is better than regular flip-overs, but.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah, it's can be saved easier.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "But if you're in normal flip-over you a lot of people write text. There's no text option.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "And writing text uh, yeah, you've gotta really do your best to write some.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah, and and maybe some uh functions for uh uh uh circle or uh a square. You have to draw it yourself now.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah. Or maybe even insert picture.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "If you have uh some presentation, and you have some f", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Or text function. Just t t type text, and that that would be uh excellent.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mean.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah, but insert image isn't available?", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "'Cause then you could.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Here. Picture from scanner, clip-art.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah, that that can be done already.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Oh, okay.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "But not the the the the predefined uh squares I think uh.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "So you can.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Hyperlink? Hey, what if you do like hyperlink?", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "With uh W_W_ dot Google dot com.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Type type it?", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Oh yeah. Maybe.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Re Real Reaction dot N_L_.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Hmm? Sorry?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yes, is now is okay. Okay?", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "You'll just make a link in Yeah..", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Huh.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Well, that's nice.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "There's one way to uh.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Is it.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "'Kay, double-click it.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Maybe if if you're not using the eraser.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Here. oh. Oh, sorry.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "You're erasing.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Something else th Yeah, arrow.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah. Here, that.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Double-click it.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "So you have.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Well, it's.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "as you saw, you have a little uh Oh, you can Yeah, thank you. You can go uh", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah, okay.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "there. So there the the the functionality is there, but it's not it's not ideal,", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "But.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "and it's it's very.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": ".", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "it costs a lot of time to uh", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "To use, yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "to use. And that's a pity,", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "if you uh if you have uh thirty, forty minutes uh for this kind of things,", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "and we are now with four people,", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "And that's m", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "but it well, imagine you are here you're with the ten people and everyone uh.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "That's mostly the case, from the over here with the managements you get two minutes to make your case,", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "and if you have to do all this kind.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Two minutes of drawing, yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "You'll rather use PowerPoint and work it out in advance.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yep.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "And th the one or two things you have to draw when you're there, just use a flip-board.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "What I really miss also is uh", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "is a d is a turtle.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "is a decision uh decision system like um With the evaluation, you have to Polls like, what do you want, a one, a two,", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "maybe a a l a little application like uh uh give your own number and click one two three four five six seven.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah, just like he said with the with the a screen which you can write, also uh a kind of voting uh mechanism.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah, j ju ju yeah, v voting application.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Oh.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Just a little group group decision application.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "But uh, problem is, well you can't discuss anything well you you ca uh you can, but you will discuss a lot less than l like we did now. We I mean uh w w w one one person s maybe said three.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "But, well uh I we said uh, no I w th think two, because this and this, and then you can react uh on it.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah, okay.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "But if you you put a three on it, uh just figure well, everybody knows what I'm knowing, so they'll all just put a two on.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah, of course. But, uh you can still discuss about it,", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah, but it would yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "but but click it in an application, that's a lot easier to process.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah okay, the for processing part.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "The digit. Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "But then uh, I think the idea of one person entering it and the rest uh discussing it, that uh isn't that bad idea, actually.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah..", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Not that your opinion isn't valued, but but still.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah. Okay, so.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yo, manager.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "That's it?", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Uh well, just about,", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "When are w", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "because uh", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "When are we going to produce it?", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah, tomorrow? Uh, the costs are within the budget.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Celebration.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Uh, the project is evaluated.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "But, before we going to celebrate, uh I have uh a little question which you can't answer,", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "because uh there must be some kind of end report. I am busy with the end report right now. You might thinking what the hell was he doing uh.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "What is an end report?", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Uh about all the meetings, what we have decided, a r r a report of this day.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah. Yeah, yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Uh, that must be made, but I don't know, here is uh standing uh whoa, we can celebrate now, but the end report is.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Oh, you ha you have ten minutes left, I uh read.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Oh.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "You have now ten minutes left to finish up the end report.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Okay well, that uh that can be done. Maybe we can do it uh together. You can see what I've uh yeah?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "So I I s I will uh put it on a story-board.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah, sure.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "You can see it. Because I think it will uh it must be uh.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Um You you already made a beta version, or.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah, it's a three uh with seventy five uh.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Pages..", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah, just about.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Y yikes. Seventy five pages.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Well, just a moment. End report.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Okay, Daniel.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Do you want a chair maybe?", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "A chairman..", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "No no no,", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Hey?", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "I'm just uh.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Oh, okay.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "you can s you can read it and uh here here it is. End report.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "So you you finished it actually, and so we just have to read it and say yes or no?", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Well, this not nit it.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yes..", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "read-only. But it's not uh fully finished yet.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Five minutes for finishing.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Um, this is about the functional design, the things yeah yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Management Expert, you have to change that.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Oh yeah. I'm uh when I said it, I remember I had it here.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Marketing.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "It's a read-only version.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah, but you can save it u the under another name.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Oh, okay.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Marketing Expert, okay. Um about the three functions where uh which are most used and uh which must uh immediately be visible on our uh remote control. Um, it must be uh simple to use, very clear what to do, and at the younger people. So, this is really about wh uh what kind things uh must be in it and uh yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Maybe um the.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Uh.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah, I understand you, I can talk a little bit Dutch..", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "The Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "You Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "No, you have to put uh, switch channels uh at the top, because that's the most used function and teletext at the second.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Oka okay, okay, I I really didn't knew that.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Oh nay, a volume changing, second.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "So, this one's first.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "S switch, yes.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "You go there and you go there. So, okay.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah. Okay, go on.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Well, maybe I can then do it one two three.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yes, very good.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "One two three.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "If the order is in uh is is uh important,", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah. Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "that's the word for.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "The order.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Uh,", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "then the conceptual design. Uh, well all the things we have uh discussed, uh the energy, which uh turn out to be uh batteries, so that's.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah. Well, okay, maybe you can add it later that we decided in the end because of the cost.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah, because yeah. Uh, he here it is still double-curve, the rubber, the flashy, the fruity, the removable.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Single-curves..", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Uh, the buttons", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "It's not double.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Hmm?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "A single-curved.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Uh, it's not double anymore, eh?", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Not double anymore.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "No, okay.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Nay but that this is what um.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah, okay.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Was initial, the plan. The initial plan.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "And the the added functions like Tetris snake, it's under the parental control, the touch-screen.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "So, it's uh just a summary of what uh we had discussed uh.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "On thing uh One small thing uh, the added functions. Uh, was it included in the cost? I don't think so, eh?", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Ah, it's very cheap.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Uh, it's very cheap,", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "It's very cheap..", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "you you maybe you you you you come at uh.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "No, it's it's not very cheap, but that.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "It's very necessary.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "no, but it's a development inside corporation. Like, uh w we don't have to buy parental control. Our own people can make that, I think.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah, but it still has some.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah, it it has some cost, but.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "yeah. Okay, but so we can discuss that uh", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "He'll do it in his free time. So uh.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "we can discuss that kind of things I think with the with the the board of uh.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Of directur or directors.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "What's it what's the company called? I just keep forgetting it.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Real Reaction.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Real Real Reaction.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Real Reaction, yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "You can ask your personal.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Okay, so uh anybody uh misses something here about uh.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah, the end conclusion.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah, okay,", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "But uh.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "that's that's what I'm gonna write b between now.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Okay. Still the end conclusion. That's all, I think.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "But, i in here nothing uh.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Um, the decision to make um the buttons on the top, and the menu on the", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm. Yes.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "on the bottom. And clearly Yeah, touch-screen you've mentioned.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah, touch-screen I've mentioned.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah, but but the the decisions are put in the uh conclusion, I think.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Why we decided to use a flat uh L_C_D_.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Okay, this n yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah, okay, well I gonna redesign uh something now. No.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah. Um.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Party party.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Because I think it will Oh, five minutes from to finish meeting.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Oh, before you change anything maybe you um save it first.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Save it.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "You can't.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Hmm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "you can select file and export and then those J_ PEG files.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah, but then you had the same thing.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Well, eight. And we have uh, another blank one.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Example of children remote.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Did we change anything?.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Oh wait. Wait..", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Wow.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah..", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "It's a new uh commercial logo.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Hmm. That's a pity.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Don't save it, aye?", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Oh, that's cool, Tim. Finish meeting now.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Uh,", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Well, I'm I'm", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "why are only the first five SMARTboard files", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "I'm going to finish my end report.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "saved?", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Okay, um hereby is the meeting is finished..", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "You declare..", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "I am the one who can say that. Yeah? 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Okay, so we'll have a functional design individual work um with meeting and then conceptual design t and then detailed design. Okay? Right. Everybody's supposed to try out the whiteboard. Kate, why don't you try it first, if you can either bring your things with you, I guess.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Uh yeah, if I can pick up with all these bits and pieces, hang on.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "And while you're doing that we'll try and figure out how to hook these things on as well,'cause we're all gonna have to be able to walk around.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Uh right, so you want an animal and the characteristics of that animal..", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Do you have to be able to recognise what animal it is? Um.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Uh I do not think so,", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Are we all gonna draw a cat?", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "I think it's just to try out the whiteboard. Ah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Only animal I could thin I could draw.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "I know.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Its a sort of bunny rabbit cat..", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "You can tell it's not a bunny rabbit by the ears.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Uh-huh.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Um I suppose it should have a mouth as well, sort of.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Right, yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Great. And the characteristics?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Um the favourite characteristics of the cat um the whiskers I think, um because they're the easiest to draw.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Uh-huh.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "In fact, I'll give it some more.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Oh, and the tail", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Fantastic. Since you're handy as well, why don't you do yours next, Steph. I think it's to get us used to using the pen.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yes. Um sure it's not to test our artistic.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Uh no. A mouse-y?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "It's a mouse.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "That's not a mouse-y, no.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "No it's not a mouse. It's a wombat.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Oh.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "It's a ratty.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Argh.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "A what?", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Rat.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "A ratty.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Not a mouse, a rat.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "A webbed foot. Webbed f.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "It's clothes. That's it's clothes..", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Oh right.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "It's a ratty with a with a with a very long tail.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "And your favourite characteristics of that animal.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "I love whiskers. Uh they're intelligent and they're cheeky and uh fantastic pets", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Oh.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "and very friendly.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Okay. Kate?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "And they sit on your shoulder and whisper the answers to your homework in your ear when you're doing your homework.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Thanks.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Oh, a fish.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Gosh,", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "A shark?", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "why didn't I think of fish? That's even easier to draw than cat..", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Mm this is very representational fish..", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Oh, okay.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Fine.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Um I like them because they're sleek", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Favourite characteristics?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "and they have a lot of freedom but they also do n uh swim in groups,", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "'Kay.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "so.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "So they have team elements..", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Do you have a favourite one?", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "I'm afraid I'm with Steph. And I think your pen's running out of whatever. But I'm afraid I take the coward's way out, and the cat's looking the other way..", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "He's hiding.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Um cats are sometimes very independent. My parents had cats. Uh and they can mm decide for themselves what is best. Okay. Now um we have to get down to the nitty-gritty of how to make this and this remote control has to be sold um we're to sell it for twenty five Euros, with a profit aim ultimately of fifty million Euros. That tells you something about how many um we have to sell on an international scale. Um would be an awful lot of these, would be like what, a hundred million of them um to make twenty five Euros on each one and to make a total profit of fifty million. Um the production is to only cost twelve and a half Euros per item. Now if they cost twelve and a half, you're selling it for twenty five, you're making twelve and a half Euros each. Um and we're to make a profit of fifty million, that's t uh can you do the maths and how many are we selling?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Uh yeah. I was just wondering if that's the um If fifty percent is normal.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Mark-up?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "B yeah. Um I would think would be more like sixty percent. But um let me.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "I have two thoughts. One hundred, fifty percent.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "And and your question is how many do we have to sell?", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yes,'cause our market um is international and your problem is has to do with marketing of you know, you gotta know how many we're going to be selling to know how big a market you have to target and who is that.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "At twenty five. Mm-hmm. Yeah, that's um.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "To give you a pretty good idea of where you're looking.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "So that's four million of them?", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Something like that? Okay.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "That's fifty million Euros. In order to make fifty million Euros, and you're only getting twelve and a half each.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "And if we make Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "That's a lot of selling. Two four.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah. Four million.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "To be fifty, be four million. You'd have to sell four million.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Hmm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Okay? Right. Experience with a remote control. Any of you use of remote control for a television or D_V_D_ or something? You're both nodding,", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "That that that's the sorta product we're talking about, one that will work for a in a home environment, for a T_V_s and.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "all three. Well I've seen some remote controls that are for more than one device at a time, but I also have heard about them not working well or not well co-ordinated and you wind up working with this one for thi this three and then this one over here for another.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "It is true that you always sit around you know, you're sitting on your sofa and you wanna change something, there's five different remotes, and one for the D_V_D_ and one for the video and one for cable and one for whatever else.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm. Y yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "And they don't always talk to each other.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "But I presume this is t I presume this is just for television.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Don't know. Okay.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Are there any um ideas for the remote? What would it be for and what group would be be for? We have to think about that one.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "We could make a Hello Kitty", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "themed remote.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "I think one in b bright colours would be good..", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "I think one that works would be good..", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "We could totally go for the Japan-a-mation. Well I mean there's also the cachet that um uh the Japanese make great products. Electrical their industrial design is very good.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "I think one that doesn't have lots of superfluous functions. Like I've got one at home that has well, apart from the obvious, channels, channel up, channel down, volume,", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "you know, subtitles, mute, there's a lotta buttons that I've got no idea what they do, like.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Well, that's a really good point,", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "because I think one of the things that being somewhat computer literate, we tend to um go to menus and then make choices, you know, so if it's like an uh volume button, you know, you can go in and say mute or or volume. We don't need to have like the l the numbers if we also have uh uh channel up channel down.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Mm. Okay.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm. We can make it smart like an iPod, you know, make everything menus.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Ooh, closing the meeting.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah. Um I know this sounds like it was very quick,", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "That was quick.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "but the I think that's the industrial design is the first one,", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "that's Kate, for the working design.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "And user, that's you S Steph, for the technical functions design, and for marketing the user requirements specification. I think there's going to be a lot of we have to help each other and work through this as a group, and I think we all, you know, we like our kitty-cat and our rat and our fish, but I think we all have to like each other um to get this done. 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It gives you a headache, like if you On your temple.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Temple squeezers.", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Yep.", "speakerName": "Grad G" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "But I definitely haven't figured it out.", "speakerName": "Grad G" }, { "text": "Um, Meeting Recorder meeting.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "I guess I have to d stop doing this sigh of contentment, you know, after sipping cappuccino or something.", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "Yeah, with the We kno I know.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "\" Sip, sigh. \"", "speakerName": "Grad G" }, { "text": "We know exactly how much you have left in your cup.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "I was just noticing a big s", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "So are we recording now? Is this.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Oh! We're we're we're live. OK.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "So, uh, what were we gonna talk about again? So we said we said data collection, which we're doing.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "Were we gonna do digits?", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "OK. Do we do th do you go around the room and do names or anything?", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "I think that.", "speakerName": "Grad G" }, { "text": "It's a good idea.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "u usually we've done that and also we've s done digits as well, but I forgot to print any out. So. 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Sort of it's it helps if it points sort of upwards.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Whoops.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "Sort of it you know.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Would it m", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "w u", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "So that thing the little th that part should be pointing upwards.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "So Oh, this thing.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "That's it. Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "Otherwise you just get a heartbeats.", "speakerName": "Postdoc H" }, { "text": "It's kind of.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "Oh, yeah, the element, yeah, n should be as close to you your mouth as possible.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "Yeah. OK.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "That's good. That kind of thing is good.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "It's a.", "speakerName": "Postdoc H" }, { "text": "This w Alright.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "How's that working?", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "Oh, yeah. It's a It's working.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "OK.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "Alright. 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I don't think there'd be so many that you couldn't have someone clean it up", "speakerName": "Grad G" }, { "text": "So.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "pretty easily.", "speakerName": "Grad G" }, { "text": "Yeah. We also could come up with some code for things that people want to do so that for frequent things.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "And the other things, people can write whatever they want. I mean, it's to some extent, uh, for his benefit. So, if that you know, if if we just keep it simple then maybe it's still useful.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Grad G" }, { "text": "I just realized we skipped the part that we were saying we were gonna do at the front where we each said who we were.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "The roll call.", "speakerName": "Postdoc H" }, { "text": "Right. I thought you did that on purpose.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "Roll call.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "But anyway, shall we do the roll call?", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "No, not a No, I just My mind went elsewhere. So, uh, yeah, I'm Morgan, and where am I? I'm on channel three.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "And I'm Adam Janin on channel A.", "speakerName": "Grad G" }, { "text": "I'm Jane Edwards, I think on channel B.", "speakerName": "Postdoc H" }, { "text": "I'm Dan Ellis.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Eric on channel nine.", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "Liz, on channel one.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Mari on channel zero.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "Katrin on channel two.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Should we have used pseudo - names? Should we do it a second time with pseudo No. No.", "speakerName": "Postdoc H" }, { "text": "I'm Rocky Raccoon on channel.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "Let me, uh, turn that off.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "And, uh, do you want to do the P D As and the P Z", "speakerName": "Grad G" }, { "text": "Oh. PZM nearest, nearest, next nearest. Next one.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Next nearest.", "speakerName": "Postdoc H" }, { "text": "Furthest.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Far.", "speakerName": "Grad G" }, { "text": "PDM - right, PZA - right PDA - right, PDA - left.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "OK.", "speakerName": "Postdoc H" }, { "text": "Thanks.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Yeah, and eventually once this room gets a little more organized, the Jimlets will be mounted under the table, and these guys will be permanently mounted somehow. You know, probably with double - sided tape, but So. You So we won't have to go through that.", "speakerName": "Grad G" }, { "text": "Hmm.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "I have a question on protocol in these meetings, which is when you say \" Jimlet \" and the person listening won't know what that is, sh shou How how do we get Is that important information? You know, the Jimlet I mean, the box that contains the.", "speakerName": "Postdoc H" }, { "text": "Well, I mean, suppose we broaden out and go to a range of meetings besides just these internal ones. There's gonna be lots of things that any group of people who know each other have in column common that we will not know.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Postdoc H" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "OK.", "speakerName": "Postdoc H" }, { "text": "So the there will be jargon that we he There'll be transcription errors.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "Good.", "speakerName": "Postdoc H" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "OK.", "speakerName": "Postdoc H" }, { "text": "I mean, we we were originally gonna do this with VLSI design, and and and the reason we didn't go straight to that was because immediately ninety percent of what we heard would be jargon to to us. So.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "Well, that was just one of the reasons. But, yeah, definitely.", "speakerName": "Grad G" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "OK. Good.", "speakerName": "Postdoc H" }, { "text": "That that's right. There were others of course. Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "OK, so we were on the data collection and the summary issue.", "speakerName": "Postdoc H" }, { "text": "Right. We can go back.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "So, uh, u u So, actually there's kind of three issues. There's the CrossPad issue. Should we do it and, if so, what'll we have them do? Um, do we have s people write summaries? Everybody or one person? And then, do we ask people for how they would query things? Is that.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "There's there're sub - problems in that, in that where or when do you actually ask them about that?", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "I mean, that was One thing I was thinking about was is that Dan said earlier that, you know, maybe two weeks later, which is when you would want to query these things, you might ask them then.", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "But there's a problem with that in that if you're not If you don't have an interactive system, it's gonna be hard to go beyond sort of the first level of question.", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "Right. And furth id explore the data further.", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "So.", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "There's there's another problem", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "And.", "speakerName": "Grad G" }, { "text": "which is, um, we certainly do want to branch out beyond, uh, uh, recording meetings about Meeting Recorder. And, uh, once we get out beyond our little group, the people's motivation factor, uh, reduces enormously. And if we start giving them a bunch of other things to do, how you know, we we did n you know another meeting here for another group and and, uh, they were fine with it. But if we'd said, \" OK, now all eight of you have to have to come up with, uh, the summar \"", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "Well, I asked them to and none of them did.", "speakerName": "Grad G" }, { "text": "t See? There we go.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "So, I I asked them to send me ideas for queries after the meeting", "speakerName": "Grad G" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Postdoc H" }, { "text": "They.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "and no one ever did.", "speakerName": "Grad G" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "I didn't follow up either.", "speakerName": "Grad G" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "So I didn't track them down and say \" please do th do it now \". But, uh, no one spontaneously provided anything.", "speakerName": "Grad G" }, { "text": "I I'm worried that if you did even if you did push them into it, it it it might be semi - random,", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "uh, as opposed to what you'd really want to know if you were gonna use this thing.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "OK.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "I just don't know how else to generate the queries other than getting an expert to actually listen to the meeting and say \" that's important, that might be a query \".", "speakerName": "Grad G" }, { "text": "Tsk. Well, there is this other thing which y which you were alluding to earlier, which is, um, there are certain key words like, you know, \" action item \" and things like that, which could be used in, uh, t to some degree finding the structure.", "speakerName": "Postdoc H" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "Although.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "W", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "And and I also, um, was thinking, with reference to the n uh, note - taking, the advantage there is that you get structure without the person having to do something artificial later. And the fir third thing I wanted to say is the summaries afterwards, um, I think they should be recorded instead of written because I think that, um, it would take so long for people to write that I think you wouldn't get as good a summary.", "speakerName": "Postdoc H" }, { "text": "How about this idea? That normally at most meetings somebody is delegated to be a note - taker.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "Yeah, good. Good point.", "speakerName": "Postdoc H" }, { "text": "And So why don't we just use the notes that somebody takes?", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Postdoc H" }, { "text": "I mean, that gives you a summary but it doesn't really How do you generate queries from that?", "speakerName": "Grad G" }, { "text": "Well. But, I mean, maybe a summary is one of the things we'd want from the output of the system.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Postdoc H" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "Right? I mean, they're something. It's a a kind of output you'd like.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Actually And so.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Uh, James and I were talking about this during one of the breaks. And the problem with that is, I'm definitely going to do something with information retrieval even if it's sort of not full full - bore what I'm gonna do for my thesis.", "speakerName": "Grad G" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "I'm gonna do something. I'm not gonna do anything with summarization. And so if someone wants to do that, that's fine, but it's not gonna be me.", "speakerName": "Grad G" }, { "text": "Well, I think that we I mean, the the f the core thing is that you know once we get some of these issues nailed down, we need to do a bunch of recordings", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "Well.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "and send them off to IBM and get a bunch of transcriptions even if they're slightly flawed", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "Yep.", "speakerName": "Grad G" }, { "text": "or need some other And then we'll have some data there.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "And then, i i we can start l looking and thinking, what do we want to know about these things and at the very least.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "I actually want to say something about the note pad. So, if you could sense just when people are writing, and you tell them not to doodle, or try not to be using that for other purposes, and each person has a note pad. They just get it when they come in the room. Then you c you can just have a fff plot of wh you know, who's writing when.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Hmm.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "That's all you.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Activity. Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "And, you can also have notes of the meeting. But I bet that's that will allow you to go into the sort of the hot places where people are writing things down.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "Oh, I see.", "speakerName": "Grad G" }, { "text": "I mean, you can tell when you're in a meeting when everybody stops to write something down that something was just said.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "It may not be kept in the later summary, but at that point in time is was something that was important.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Postdoc H" }, { "text": "And that wouldn't take any extra.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "That's a nice idea.", "speakerName": "Postdoc H" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "Or someone could just pu you could just put your hand on the pad", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "It.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "and go like that if you want to. It's.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "That's a good idea but that doesn't Maybe I'm missing something, but that doesn't get to the question of how we come up with queries, right?", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "Well, what it does.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "Well, then you can go to the points where the you could actually go to those points in time and find out what they were talking about. And you r", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Well, what it does is provide a different.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "And.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Uh, y", "speakerName": "Grad G" }, { "text": "I I think it's an interesting thing. I don't think it gets at the the queries per - se, but it does give us an information fusion sort of thing that, you know, you wanna i say \" what were the hot - points of the meeting? \"", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "That that's what I mean, is that I think it gets at something interesting but if we were asking the question, which I thought we were, of of of, um, \" how do we figure out what's the nature of the queries that people are gonna want to ask of such a system? \", knowing what's important doesn't tell you what people are going to be asking.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "But I bet it's a good superset of it.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Does it?", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "Well, yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "Well, see, there are th", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "I think you could say they're gonna ask about, uh, when uh, when did so - and - so s talk about blah. And at least that gives you the word that they might run a query on.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "At least you can find the locations where there are maybe keywords", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Maybe.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "I mean, i this would tell you what the hit is,", "speakerName": "Grad G" }, { "text": "and.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "not what the query is.", "speakerName": "Grad G" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "Right, right.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "What.", "speakerName": "Grad G" }, { "text": "It'll tell you the hit but not the query.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "But I think I think thinking about queries is a little bit dangerous right now.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "And so you could you can generate a query from the hits,", "speakerName": "Grad G" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "but.", "speakerName": "Grad G" }, { "text": "We don't even know what I mean, if you want to find out what any user will use, that might be true for one domain and one user,", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "but I mean a different domain and a different user.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Postdoc H" }, { "text": "Yeah, but we're just looking for a place to start with that", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "Um.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "because, you know, th what what what James is gonna be doing is looking at the user - interface and he's looking at the query in in i We we have five hours of pilot data of the other stuff but we have zero hours of of of queries. So he's just sort of going \" where where do I where do I start? \"", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "w Well, th you could do I think the summaries actually may help get us there,", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "OK.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "for a couple reasons. One, if you have a summary if you have a bunch of summaries, you can do a word frequency count and see what words come up in different types of meetings.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "So \" action item \" is gonna come up whether it's a VLSI meeting, or speech meeting, or whatever. So words that come up in different types of meetings may be something that you would want to query about.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Grad G" }, { "text": "Um, the second thing you could possibly do with it is just run a little pilot experiment with somebody saying \" here's a summary of a meeting, what questions might you want to ask about it to go back? \"", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "Yeah, I think that's difficult because then they're not gonna ask the questions that are in the summary.", "speakerName": "Grad G" }, { "text": "Well.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "But, I think it would give.", "speakerName": "Grad G" }, { "text": "That's one possi one possible scenario, though, is you have the summary,", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Grad G" }, { "text": "and you want to ask questions to get more detail.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "th Yeah, I think it has to be a participant. Well, it doesn't have to be. OK. So that that is another use of Meeting Recorder that we haven't really talked about, which is for someone else, as opposed to as a remembrance agent, which is what had been my primary thought in the information retrieval part of it would be. But, uh, I guess if you had a meeting participant, they could use the summary to refresh themselves about the meeting and then make up queries. But it's not.", "speakerName": "Grad G" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "I don't know how to do it if until you have a system.", "speakerName": "Grad G" }, { "text": "The summary is actually gonna drive the queries then.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Mmm.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "I mean, your research is going to be very circular.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "Yeah, that that's what I was saying.", "speakerName": "Grad G" }, { "text": "But th there is this, um There is this class of queries, which are the things that you didn't realize were important at the time but some in retrospect you think \" oh, hang on, didn't we talk about that? \" And it's something that didn't appear in the summary but you.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "And that's kind of what this kind of, uh, complete data capture is kind of nicest for.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Right. Right.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Cuz it's the things that you wouldn't have bothered to make an effort to record but they get recorded. So, I mean And th there's no way of generating those, u u until we just until they actually occur.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "But you could always post - hoc label them.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "You know, it's like Right, right. Exactly.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Yeah. Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "But I mean, it's difficult to sort of say \" and if I was gonna ask four questions about this, what would they be? \" Those aren't the kind of things that come up.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "But at least it would get us started.", "speakerName": "Grad G" }, { "text": "Oh, yeah. Yeah, sure.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "I also think that w if if you can use the summaries as an indication of the important points of the of the meeting, then you might get something like y So if th if the obscure item you want to know more about was some form of data collection, you know, maybe the summary would say, you know, \" we discussed types of na data collection \". And, you know And and maybe you could get to it by that. If you if you had the the larger structure of the of the discourse, then if you can categorize what it is that you're looking for with reference to those l those larger headings, then you can find it even if you don't have a direct route to that.", "speakerName": "Postdoc H" }, { "text": "Mmm. Although it seems like that's, um, a high burden on the note - taker.", "speakerName": "Grad G" }, { "text": "I think that.", "speakerName": "Postdoc H" }, { "text": "That's a pretty fine grain that the note - taker will have to take.", "speakerName": "Grad G" }, { "text": "Maybe Landay can put a student in to be a note - taker.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "I th No. I think you got to have somebody who knows the pro knows the topic or you know, whose job it is delegated to be the note - taker.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "No?", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "Somebody who's part of the meeting.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "No, I mean, but someone who can come sit in on the meetings and then takes the notes with them that the real note - taker.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "But they.", "speakerName": "Grad G" }, { "text": "And that way that one student has, you know, a rough idea of what was going on, and they can use it for their research. I mean, this isn't really necessarily what you would do in a real system,", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Grad G" }, { "text": "because that that's a lot of trouble", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "and maybe it's not the best way to do it. But if he has some students that want to study that then they should sort of get to know the people and attend those meetings,", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "and get the notes from the note - taker or something.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "Grad G" }, { "text": "Hmm.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "Well, I think that's a little bit of a problem. Their sort of note - taking application stuff they've been doing for the last couple of years, and I don't think anyone is still working on it.", "speakerName": "Grad G" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "I think they're done. Um, so I'm not sure that they have anyone currently working on notes. So what we'd have to interest someone in is the combination of note and speech.", "speakerName": "Grad G" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "And so the question is \" is there such a person? \" And I think right now, the answer is \" no \".", "speakerName": "Grad G" }, { "text": "Well", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "I've b been thinking.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "We'll just have to see.", "speakerName": "Grad G" }, { "text": "I've been thinking about it a little bit here about the uh, th this, e um I think that the now I'm thinking that the summary a summary, uh, is actually a reasonable, uh, bootstrap into this into what we'd like to get at. It's it's not ideal, but we you know, we we have to get started someplace. So I was I was just thinking about, um, suppose we wanted to get w We have this collection of meeting. We have five hours of stuff. Uh, we get that transcribed. So now we have five hours of meetings and, uh, you ask me, uh, uh, \" Morgan, what d you know, what kind of questions do you want to ask? \" Uh, I wouldn't have any idea what kind of questions I want to ask. I'd have to get started someplace. So in fact if I looked at summary of it, I'd go \" oh, yeah, I was in that meeting, I remember that, um, what was the part that \" And and th I think that might then help me to think of things even things that aren't listed in the summary, but just as a as a as a refresh of what the general thing was going on in the meeting.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Grad G" }, { "text": "I think it serves two purpo purposes. One, as sort of a refresh to help bootstrap queries,", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm. Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "but also, I mean, maybe we do want to generate summaries. And then it's you know, it's kind of a key.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "Well, yeah. That's true too.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "Hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Yeah, absolutely. Then you want to have it.", "speakerName": "Grad G" }, { "text": "Uh.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "So how does the summary get generated?", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Well, i i?", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "I'm not against the idea of a summary,", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "By hand.", "speakerName": "Grad G" }, { "text": "but I wanted to think carefully about who's generating it", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Or, d o", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "and how because the summary will drive the queries.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "What I I think, you know, in most meetings,", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "So.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "this one being different, but in most meetings that I attend, there's somebody t explicitly taking notes, frequently on a laptop Um, you can just make it be on a laptop,", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "so then yo you're dealing with ASCII and not somebody you don't have to go through handwriting recognition. Um, and then they post - edit it into, uh, a summary and they email it out for minutes. I mean, that happens in most meetings.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "I I I think that, um, there's we're using \" summary \" in two different ways. So what you just described I would describe as \" minutes \".", "speakerName": "Postdoc H" }, { "text": "Minutes.", "speakerName": "Grad G" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "And what I originally thought was, um, if you asked someone \" what was the meeting about? \"", "speakerName": "Postdoc H" }, { "text": "OK.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Hmm.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "And then they would say \" well, we talked about this and then we talked about that, and so - and - so talked about \" And then you'd have, like I e My thought was to have multiple people summarize it, on recording rather than writing because writing takes time and you get irrelevant other things that u take time, that.", "speakerName": "Postdoc H" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "Whereas if you just say it immediately after the meeting, you know, a two - minute summary of what the meeting was about, I think you would get, uh, with mult See, I I also worry about having a single note - taker because that's just one person's perception. And, um, you know, it it's releva it's relative to what you're focus was on that meeting,", "speakerName": "Postdoc H" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "and and people have different major topics that they're interested in.", "speakerName": "Postdoc H" }, { "text": "A", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "So, my proposal would be that it may be worth considering both of those types, you know, the note - taking and a spontaneous oral summary afterwards,", "speakerName": "Postdoc H" }, { "text": "OK.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "no longer than two minutes,", "speakerName": "Postdoc H" }, { "text": "Adam, you can.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "from multiple people.", "speakerName": "Postdoc H" }, { "text": "you can correct me on this,", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Postdoc H" }, { "text": "but but, uh, my impression was that, uh, pretty much, uh, true that the meetings here, nobody sits with a w uh, with a laptop", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "Never.", "speakerName": "Grad G" }, { "text": "and.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "Never. I've never seen it at ICSI. Does anyone?", "speakerName": "Grad G" }, { "text": "Dan?", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "I", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "I mean, Dan is the one who who most frequently would take notes,", "speakerName": "Grad G" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "and.", "speakerName": "Grad G" }, { "text": "I've d When we when we have other meetings. When I have meetings on the European projects, we have someone taking notes.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Oh, really?", "speakerName": "Grad G" }, { "text": "Yeah, but those are bigger deal things.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "In fact, I often do it.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Right? Where you've got fifteen peo", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "I mean, most th this is one of the larger meetings. Most of the meetings we have are four or five people", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "That's true are four or five people.", "speakerName": "Grad G" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "and you're not you don't have somebody sitting and taking minutes for it.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "You just get together and talk about where you are.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "So, I think it depends on whether it's a business meeting or a technical discussion.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "Culture.", "speakerName": "Grad G" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "And I agree,", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "technical discussions you don't usually have somebody taking notes.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "Yeah. Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "The IRAM meeting, they they take notes every.", "speakerName": "Grad G" }, { "text": "Do they?", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "There's uh a person with a laptop at each meeting.", "speakerName": "Grad G" }, { "text": "How many people are those meetings?", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "There are more. I mean, there are ten - ish.", "speakerName": "Grad G" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Y you should also have a record of what's on the board.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "They're very sparse.", "speakerName": "Grad G" }, { "text": "I mean, I find it very hard to reconstruct what's going on. I I don't know how.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Yeah. This is something early in the project we talked a lot about.", "speakerName": "Grad G" }, { "text": "I don't know how, but for instance, I mean, the outline is sort of up here and that's what people are seeing. And if you have a Or you shou could tell people not to to use the boards. But there's sort of this missing information otherwise.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "We sh we should.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "I agree, but but you you just you g end up with video,", "speakerName": "Grad G" }, { "text": "I agree.", "speakerName": "Postdoc H" }, { "text": "Well, I don't know.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "and and instrumented rooms. And that's a different project, I think.", "speakerName": "Grad G" }, { "text": "f u I think for this data capture, it would be nice to have a digital camera", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Yeah, different.", "speakerName": "Grad G" }, { "text": "Uh, y", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "just to take pictures of who's there, where the microphones are, and then we could also put in what's on the board. You know, like three or four snaps for every.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "I agree.", "speakerName": "Postdoc H" }, { "text": "Yeah. People who were never at the meeting will have a very hard time understanding it otherwise.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "for every meeting.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "That's wonderful.", "speakerName": "Postdoc H" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "But don't you think that's Don't you think that But.", "speakerName": "Grad G" }, { "text": "I agree.", "speakerName": "Postdoc H" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Even people who were at the meeting.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Well, no. I mean, I I just think I mean, I think that right now we don't make a record of where people are sitting on the tables.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "Huh.", "speakerName": "Grad G" }, { "text": "And that the at some point that might be awfully useful.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Right. But I think adding photographs adds a whole nother level of problems.", "speakerName": "Grad G" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Postdoc H" }, { "text": "Mmm.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "Yeah. We n uh,", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "It's just a digital record.", "speakerName": "Postdoc H" }, { "text": "Not not as part of the not as a part of the data that you have to recover.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "I don't mean that you model it.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Just just in terms of.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "We should just Like archiving it or storing it.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Yes, I agree. I agree.", "speakerName": "Postdoc H" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "It's i because discourse is about things,", "speakerName": "Postdoc H" }, { "text": "Because someone.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "and then you have the things that are about, and it's recoverable.", "speakerName": "Postdoc H" }, { "text": "someone later might be able to take these and say \" OK, they, you know at least these are the people who were there", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "So.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "and here's sort of what they started talking about, and \" and just.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Yes. And it's so simple.", "speakerName": "Postdoc H" }, { "text": "Li", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "Like you said, three snapshots", "speakerName": "Postdoc H" }, { "text": "uh, L L L", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "and.", "speakerName": "Postdoc H" }, { "text": "Liz, you.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "Just to archive.", "speakerName": "Postdoc H" }, { "text": "u uh, Liz, you sa you sat in on the, uh, subcommittee meeting or whatever.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "Actually.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "uh, on you on the subcommittee meeting for for at the, uh that workshop we were at that, uh, uh, Mark Liberman was was having. So I I wasn't there. They they they they h must have had some discussion about video and the visual aspect, and all that.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "Big, big interest. Huge.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "I mean, it personally, I don't I would never want to deal with it. But I'm just saying first of all there's a whole bunch of fusion issues that DARPA's interested in.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Yeah. Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "You know, fusing gesture and face recognition,", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "even lip movement and things like that, for this kind of task. And there's also I think a personal interest on the part of Mark Liberman in this kind of in storing these images in any data we collect", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "so that later we can do other things with it.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Yeah. So so to address what what Adam's saying,", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "Mmm. Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Postdoc H" }, { "text": "And.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "I mean, I think you uh, that the key thing there is that this is a description of database collection effort that they're talking about doing.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Grad G" }, { "text": "And if the database exists and includes some visual information that doesn't mean that an individual researcher is going to make any use of it. Right?", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Postdoc H" }, { "text": "So, uh.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "But that it's gonna be a lot of effort on our part to create it, and store it, and get all the standards, and to do anything with it.", "speakerName": "Grad G" }, { "text": "Right. So we're gonna So we're gonna do what we're gonna do, whatever's reasonable for us.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Grad G" }, { "text": "I think even doing something very crude.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "But having.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "Like I know with ATIS, we just had a tape recorder running all the time.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Grad G" }, { "text": "And later on it turned out it was really good that you had a tape recorder of what was happening, even though you w you just got the speech from the machine. So if you can find some really, you know, low, uh, perplexity,", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Low fidelity.", "speakerName": "Grad G" }, { "text": "yeah, way of of doing that, I think it would be worthwhile.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Grad G" }, { "text": "I agree. And if it's simple as I mean, as simple as just the digital.", "speakerName": "Postdoc H" }, { "text": "Otherwise you'd you lose it.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Well, minimally, I mean, what what Dan is referring to at least having some representation of the p the spatial position of the people,", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Postdoc H" }, { "text": "cuz we are interested in some spatial processing.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Postdoc H" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "And so.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "Grad G" }, { "text": "so, um.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "Well, once the room is a little more fixed that's a little easier", "speakerName": "Grad G" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "cuz you'll.", "speakerName": "Grad G" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "Well, the wireless.", "speakerName": "Grad G" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "But.", "speakerName": "Grad G" }, { "text": "Also CMU has been doing this and they were the most vocal at this meeting, Alex Waibel's group. And they have said, I talked to the student who had done this, that with two fairly inexpensive cameras they they just recorded all the time", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "and were able to get all the information from or maybe it was three from all the parts of the room. So I think we would be we might lose the chance to use this data for somebody later who wants to do some kind of processing on it if we don't collect it at all.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Yeah. I I I don't disagree. I think that if you have that, then people who are interested in vision can use this database. The problem with it is you'll have more people who don't want to be filmed than who don't want to be recorded.", "speakerName": "Grad G" }, { "text": "Mmm.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "So that there's going to be another group of people who are gonna say \" I won't participate \".", "speakerName": "Grad G" }, { "text": "Well, she's not making.", "speakerName": "Postdoc H" }, { "text": "That's true.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "Or you could put a paper bag over everybody's head", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Um.", "speakerName": "Grad G" }, { "text": "and not look at each other and not look at boards, and just all be sitting talking.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Uh - huh.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "That would be an interes Bu", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Well.", "speakerName": "Postdoc H" }, { "text": "Great idea.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "Well, there's that'd be the the parallel, yeah. But I think y she's we're just proposing a minimal preservation of things on boards,", "speakerName": "Postdoc H" }, { "text": "Yeah. I definitely won't participate if there's a camera.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "sp spatial organization And you could anonymize the faces for that matter. You know, I mean, this is.", "speakerName": "Postdoc H" }, { "text": "But, you know, that's a lot of infrastructure and work.", "speakerName": "Grad G" }, { "text": "We can talk about the.", "speakerName": "Postdoc H" }, { "text": "To set it up and then anonymize it?", "speakerName": "Grad G" }, { "text": "It's just one snapshot.", "speakerName": "Postdoc H" }, { "text": "No, it wa n not, um.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "No, no, no, no.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "We're not talking about a movie.", "speakerName": "Postdoc H" }, { "text": "So.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "Not for not for CMU.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "We're talking about a snapshot.", "speakerName": "Postdoc H" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Grad G" }, { "text": "They have a pretty crude set - up. And they had.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Grad G" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Postdoc H" }, { "text": "they just turn on these cameras. They were they were not moving or anything.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Couldn't find it?", "speakerName": "Grad G" }, { "text": "And stored it on analog media.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Hmm?", "speakerName": "Grad G" }, { "text": "Hmm.", "speakerName": "Postdoc H" }, { "text": "And they they didn't actually align it or anything. They just they have it, though.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Yeah. Well, it's worth considering. Maybe we don't want to spend that much more time discussing it,", "speakerName": "Postdoc H" }, { "text": "Did they store it digitally, or?", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "but.", "speakerName": "Postdoc H" }, { "text": "Hmm - mm. I think they just.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "or just put it on videotape?", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "I think they just had the videotapes with a c you know, a counter or something. Um,", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm. Well, I think for I mean, for our purposes we probably will d", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "I'm not sure.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "we we might try that some and and we certainly already have some recordings that don't have that, uh, which, you know, we we'll we'll get other value out of, I think.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Postdoc H" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Th The thing is, if it's easy to collect it it th then I think it's a wise thing to do because once it's gone it's gone. And.", "speakerName": "Postdoc H" }, { "text": "I'm just The community If LDC collects this data u I mean, and L - if Mark Liberman is a strong proponent of how they collect it and what they collect, there will probably be some video data in there.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "There you go.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "And so that could argue for us not doing it or it could argue for us doing it. The only place where it sort of overlaps is when some of the summarization issues are actually could be, um, easier made easier if you had the video.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "I think at the moment we should be determining this on the basis of our own, uh, interests and needs rather than hypothetical ones from a community thing.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Postdoc H" }, { "text": "As you say, if they if they decide it's really critical then they will collect a lot more data than we can afford to, uh, and and will include all that.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "Mmm.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Um,", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "e", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "I I I'm not worried about the cost of setting it up. I'm worried about the cost of people looking at it. In other words, it's it it'd be kind of silly to collect it all and not look at it at all. And so I I I think that we do have to do some picking and choosing of the stuff that we're doing. But I I am int I do think that we m minimally want something we might want to look at at some some, uh, subsets of that. Like for a meeting like this, at least, uh, take a Polaroid of the of the of the boards,", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "Of the board.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Postdoc H" }, { "text": "Or at least make sure that the note - taker takes a sh you know, a snapshot of the board.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "and.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "Exactly.", "speakerName": "Postdoc H" }, { "text": "a and know the position of the people.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "That'll make it a lot easier for meetings that are structured.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Exactly.", "speakerName": "Postdoc H" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "I mean, otherwise later on if nobody wrote this stuff on the board down we'd have a harder time summarizing it or agreeing on a summary.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "We And it Especially since this is common knowledge. I mean, this is shared knowledge among all the participants, and it's a shame to keep it off the recording.", "speakerName": "Postdoc H" }, { "text": "Uh, except in.", "speakerName": "Grad G" }, { "text": "s", "speakerName": "Postdoc H" }, { "text": "er, if we weren't recording this, this this would get lost. Right?", "speakerName": "Grad G" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "Well, I don't understand that point. I mean, I just think that the.", "speakerName": "Postdoc H" }, { "text": "The point is that we're not saving it anyway. Right? In in our real - life setting.", "speakerName": "Grad G" }, { "text": "Well.", "speakerName": "Postdoc H" }, { "text": "What do you mean we're not saving it anyway? I've written all of this down and it's getting emailed to you.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "And you're gonna send it out by email, too.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Well, uh, in that case we don't need to take pictures of it.", "speakerName": "Grad G" }, { "text": "Right. That would be the other alternative, to make sure that anything that was on the board, um, is in the record.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Well.", "speakerName": "Postdoc H" }, { "text": "Well, that's why that's why I'm saying that I think the note - taking would be I think in many for many meetings there will be some sort of note - taking, in which case, that's a useful thing to have Uh, I mean, we uh, we don't need to require it. Just like the.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Grad G" }, { "text": "I mean, I think it would be great if we try to get a picture with every meeting. Um,", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "I agree.", "speakerName": "Postdoc H" }, { "text": "so so we won't worry about requiring these things, but the more things that we can get it for, the more useful it will be for various applications. So.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "So So, I mean, departing for the moment from the data collection question but actually talking about, you know, this group and what we actually want to do, uh, so I guess that's th the way what you were figuring on doing was was was, uh, putting together some notes and sending them to to everybody from from today? OK. So. Um.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "That's great.", "speakerName": "Postdoc H" }, { "text": "So so the question that that we started with was whether there was anything else we should do during during th during the collection.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "Ow.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "And I guess the CrossPads was certainly one idea, uh, and we'll get them from him and we'll just do that. Right? And then the next thing we talked about was the was the summaries and are we gonna do anything about that.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "Well, before we leave the CrossPads and and call it done.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "Oh, OK.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "So, if I'm collecting data then there is this question of do I use CrossPads?", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "So, I think that if we really seriously have me collect data and I can't use CrossPads, it's probably less useful for you guys to go to the trouble of using it, um, unless you think that the CrossPads are gonna n I'm not I'm not sure what they're gonna do. But but having a small percentage of the data with it, I'm not sure whether that's useful or not. Maybe maybe it's no big deal.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "What.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "Maybe we just do it and see what happens.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "I guess the point was to try again, to try to collect more information that could be useful later for for the UI stuff.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "So it's sort of Landay supplying it so that Landay's stuff can be easier to do.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "So it it Right now he's g operating from zero,", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "Nothing.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "and so even if we didn't get it done from UW, it seems like that would could still You shou", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "OK.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "I mean, at least try it.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "I think it'd be useful to have a small amount of it just as a proof of concept.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "It will.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Right. OK.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "You know, what you can do with things.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "And and they seem to not be able to give enough of them away, so we could probably get more as well.", "speakerName": "Grad G" }, { "text": "Yeah. But not not to rely on them for basic modeling.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "That's true. So if it if it seems to be really useful to you guys, we could probably get a donation to me.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "Yeah, I'm not sure. I think it it it will again depend on Landay, and if he has a student who's interested, and how much infrastructure we'll need. I mean, if it's easy, we can just do it.", "speakerName": "Grad G" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "Um, but if it requires a lot of our time, we probably won't do it.", "speakerName": "Grad G" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "I guess a lot of the stuff we're doing now really is pilot in one sense or another.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "Yeah. Yeah, we have to sort of figure out what we're gonna do.", "speakerName": "Grad G" }, { "text": "And so we try it out and see how it works.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "Grad G" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "I just wouldn't base any of the modeling on having those.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Right. I ag I think I agree with that.", "speakerName": "Grad G" }, { "text": "It's just.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Right. OK.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "I think, though, the importance marking is a good idea, though. That if if people have something in front of them.", "speakerName": "Grad G" }, { "text": "I'd be sort of cool. I mean, it would Yeah. That w shouldn't be hard for.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Yeah. Do it on pilots or laptops or something. OK, if something's important everyone clap.", "speakerName": "Grad G" }, { "text": "OK. So CrossPads, we're just gonna try it and see what happens.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "OK.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "Yeah. Um, I think that's right.", "speakerName": "Grad G" }, { "text": "OK.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "OK.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "The note - taking So, I I think that this is gonna be useful. So if we record data I will definitely ask for it. So, I j I think we should just say this is not we don't want to put any extra burden on people, but if they happen to generate minutes, could could they send it to us?", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "Yeah. Oh, OK. That's fine. Absolutely.", "speakerName": "Grad G" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "And then.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "Yeah. What I was gonna say is that I don't want to ask people to do something they wouldn't normally do in a meeting. It's ver I just want to keep away from the artificiality.", "speakerName": "Grad G" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "But I think it definitely if they exist. And then Jane's idea of summarization afterward I think is not a bad one. Um, picking out basically to let you pick out keywords, um, and, uh, construct queries.", "speakerName": "Grad G" }, { "text": "So who who does this summarization?", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "Yeah, I'm thinking that.", "speakerName": "Postdoc H" }, { "text": "People in the meeting.", "speakerName": "Grad G" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Postdoc H" }, { "text": "You know, just at at the end of the meeting, before you go,", "speakerName": "Grad G" }, { "text": "Uh - huh.", "speakerName": "Postdoc H" }, { "text": "Without hearing each other though, probably.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "go around the table.", "speakerName": "Grad G" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Or even just have one or two people stay behind.", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "Yeah. Ugh. Yeah.", "speakerName": "Grad G" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "People with radio mikes can go into separate rooms and continue recording without hearing each other. That's the nice thing.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Well, then you should try them a few weeks later", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "How fascinating.", "speakerName": "Postdoc H" }, { "text": "and They have all these memory experiments about how little you actually retain", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "And see score them?", "speakerName": "Grad G" }, { "text": "That's right. Well, that's the interesting thing, though.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "and wasn't.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "If we do if we collect four different summaries, you know, we're gonna get all this weird data about how people perceive things differently.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Oh.", "speakerName": "Grad G" }, { "text": "It's like this is not what we meant to research.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Hmm.", "speakerName": "Grad G" }, { "text": "Right, right.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Oh. Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "That could be very interesting.", "speakerName": "Postdoc H" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "Hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Postdoc H" }, { "text": "But but again, like the CrossPads, I don't think I would base a lot of stuff on it,", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "Ru", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "I d yeah, I don't know how you would do it, though.", "speakerName": "Grad G" }, { "text": "because I think I know when I see the the clock coming near the end of the meeting, I'm like inching towards the door.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm. Running to Yeah,", "speakerName": "Grad G" }, { "text": "So,", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "fff!", "speakerName": "Grad G" }, { "text": "Hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "you're probably not gonna get a lot of people wanting to do this.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "Maybe e Is email easier?", "speakerName": "Grad G" }, { "text": "Well, I think if.", "speakerName": "Postdoc H" }, { "text": "I mean, I when you first said do do it, um, spoken, what I was thinking is, oh then people have to come up", "speakerName": "Grad G" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Postdoc H" }, { "text": "and you have to hook them up to the recorder. So, if they're already here I think that's good,", "speakerName": "Grad G" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "but if they're not already here for I'd rather do email. I'm much faster typing than anything else.", "speakerName": "Grad G" }, { "text": "Yeah, I'd just try Well, however the least intrusive and and quickest way is, and th and closest to the meeting time too, cuz people will start to forget it as soon as they l leave.", "speakerName": "Postdoc H" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Grad G" }, { "text": "Yeah. I think that I think doing it orally at the end of the meeting is the best time.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "I don't know. At.", "speakerName": "Grad G" }, { "text": "I just don't.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Postdoc H" }, { "text": "because they're kind of a captive audience. Once they leave,", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Grad G" }, { "text": "you know, forget it. But but i", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "Yeah, read the digits, do the summary.", "speakerName": "Grad G" }, { "text": "Right. But, uh, I don't think that they'll necessarily you'll you'll get many people willing to stay.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "Hmm.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "But, you know, if you get even one.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "w", "speakerName": "Postdoc H" }, { "text": "Well, I think it's like the note - taking thing,", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "I would s Yeah.", "speakerName": "Postdoc H" }, { "text": "that that y that you can't certainly can't require it or people aren't gonna want to do this. But but if there's some cases where they will, then it would be helpful.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "Hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "And I'm also wondering, couldn't that be included in the data sample so that you could increase the num you know, the words that are, uh, recognized by a particular individual? If you could include the person's meeting stuff and also the person's summary stuff, maybe that would be uh,", "speakerName": "Postdoc H" }, { "text": "Yeah. It's kind of nice.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "an ad addition to their database.", "speakerName": "Postdoc H" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Hmm.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "Under the same acoustic circumstance, cuz if they just walk next door with their set - up, nothing's changed,", "speakerName": "Postdoc H" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "just.", "speakerName": "Postdoc H" }, { "text": "So I have a question about queries,", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "God, that's bugging me.", "speakerName": "Grad G" }, { "text": "which is, um,", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "Can we turn that light off?", "speakerName": "Grad G" }, { "text": "You turn.", "speakerName": "Postdoc H" }, { "text": "uh.", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "If can we turn that just that that let.", "speakerName": "Grad G" }, { "text": "The fl the fluorescent light is flickering.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "Uh, let the record show the light is flickering.", "speakerName": "Postdoc H" }, { "text": "I don't know.", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "Yeah, there's a.", "speakerName": "Grad G" }, { "text": "Oh, it is it is like OK.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "Very annoying.", "speakerName": "Grad G" }, { "text": "There you go. OK.", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "Oh, much better.", "speakerName": "Grad G" }, { "text": "For a little while I thought it was just that I was really tired.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "Oh, yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "That's better.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Good.", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "That and y Too much caffeine and really tired,", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "Too much caffeine.", "speakerName": "Grad G" }, { "text": "but then I thought \" no, maybe that's real \".", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "OK.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "So,", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "I thought it was the projector for a moment. It was like, \" what's going on? \"", "speakerName": "Grad G" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "the question I had about queries was, um, so what we're planning to do is have people look at the summaries and then generate queries? Are are we gonna try and o", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "We we've just been talking, how do we generate queries?", "speakerName": "Grad G" }, { "text": "Yeah. Well, I mean,", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "And so that was one suggestion.", "speakerName": "Grad G" }, { "text": "so, the question I had is is have we given any thought to how we would generate queries automatically given a summary? I mean, I think that's a whole research topic un unto itself,", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "Mmm.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "so that it may not be a feasible thing. But.", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "Hello. Dan here.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "n", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "Shouldn't Landay and his group be in charge of figuring out how to do this?", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "I mean, this is an issue that goes a little bit beyond where we are right now.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "OK.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "They're the expert", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Mari?", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Yeah?", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "Someone wants to know when you're getting picked up. Is someone picking you up?", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Um, what's our schedule?", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "Well, you still wanted to talk with Liz.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "Let's see, you and I need dis Uh, no, we did the Liz talk.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "And you and I need to Oh, oh. You already did the Liz talk.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "Yeah. So so that was the prosody thing.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "OK.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "We - I don't remember it.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Um, we need to finish the.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "Oh, OK.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "It's already four - fifteen.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "I have like no recall memory.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Uh, after.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "We need to finish this discussion, and you and I need a little time for wrap - up and quad chart. So,", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "And what?", "speakerName": "Grad G" }, { "text": "um.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "I'm at your disposal. So, up to you.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "Um, what what's the plan for this discussion? We should.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "Um, I think we should be able to wind up in another half - hour or something, you think?", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "At least. Yeah.", "speakerName": "Grad G" }, { "text": "Uh, less.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "m i Even if that much?", "speakerName": "Grad G" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "Less?", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "Less.", "speakerName": "Grad G" }, { "text": "So, I think.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "It's interesting that he's got, like, this discussion free", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Well, I mean, we still haven't talked about the action items from here and so on.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "Action Yeah. So,", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "yet it's separate.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "And.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "e e why don't you say five - thirty? I don't.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "OK, five - thirty.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Is that OK? We'll probably hit horrible traffic.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "Sounds OK. h Thanks, bye.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "That's not a lot of time,", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "That's that.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "but.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "Well, in answer to \" is it Landay's problem? \", um, he doesn't have a student who's interested right now in doing anything. So he has very little manpower. Um, there's very little allocated for him and also he's pretty focused on user interface. So I don't think he wants to do information retrieval, query generation, that sort of stuff.", "speakerName": "Grad G" }, { "text": "Yeah, well there's gonna be these student projects that can do some things but it can't be, yeah, very deep. u I I actually think that that, uh, again, just as a bootstrap, if we do have something like summaries, then having the people who are involved in the meetings themselves, who are cooperative and willing to do yet more, come up with with with queries, uh, could at least give give Landay an idea of the kind of things that people might want to know. I mean, ye Right? If he doesn't know anything about the area, and the people are talking about and and, uh.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "But the people will just look at the summaries or the minutes and re and sort of back - generate the queries. That's what I'm worried about. So you might as well just give him the summaries.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "And.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Maybe.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "Well, I'm not sure I'm not sure that's a solved problem.", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "y Well, but I think.", "speakerName": "Grad G" }, { "text": "Oh, OK.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Right? Of how to how to generate queries from a.", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "How to do this from the summary.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "I, uh.", "speakerName": "Grad G" }, { "text": "That was sort of what my question was aimed towards.", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "So what you want to h to do is, people who were there, who later see, uh, minutes and s put in summary form, which is not gonna be at the same time as the meeting. There's no way that can happen. Are we gonna later go over it", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Hmm.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "Grad G" }, { "text": "and, like, make up some stuff to which these notes would be an answer, or or a deeper Yeah. I mean.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Or or just a memory refresher.", "speakerName": "Grad G" }, { "text": "But that's done off they have to do that off - line.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Yep. I agree.", "speakerName": "Grad G" }, { "text": "You", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "I'm also wondering if we could ask the the people a a question which would be \" what was the most interesting thing you got out of this meeting? \" Becau - in terms of like informativeness,", "speakerName": "Postdoc H" }, { "text": "That's a good one.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "it might be, you know, that the summary would would not in even include what the person thought was the most interesting fact.", "speakerName": "Postdoc H" }, { "text": "I would think that would be the most likely thing.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "Dan doesn't know what sex he is.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Yeah, really.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "But actually I would say that's a better thing to ask than have them summarize the meeting.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "I think you get two different types of information.", "speakerName": "Postdoc H" }, { "text": "You get two Yeah, that's true.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Because you get, like, the general structure of important points and what the what the meeting was about.", "speakerName": "Postdoc H" }, { "text": "Hey.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "Ah", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "We're still here.", "speakerName": "Grad G" }, { "text": "So you get the general structure, the important points of what the meeting was about with the summary. But with the \" what's the most interesting thing you learned? \" Uh, so the fact that, uh, I know that Transcriber uses Snack is something that I thought was interesting", "speakerName": "Postdoc H" }, { "text": "Going to see the kids.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "You you can keep it on.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "and that and that Dan worked on on that. So I thought that was really you know. So, I mean, you could ge pick up some of the micro items that wouldn't even occur as major headings", "speakerName": "Postdoc H" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "but could be very informative.", "speakerName": "Postdoc H" }, { "text": "Yeah, that's actually a really good idea.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "I think it wouldn't be too, uh, uh, cost - intensive either. You know, I mean, it's like something someone can do pretty easily on the spur of the moment.", "speakerName": "Postdoc H" }, { "text": "Are you thinking about just asking one participant or all of them?", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "As many are willing to do it.", "speakerName": "Grad G" }, { "text": "Make it a voluntary thing,", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Yeah. Cuz you'll get cuz you'll get very different answers from everybody, right?", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "and then Yeah. That's why I was wondering.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "So.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Well, maybe one thing we could do is for the meetings we've already done I mean, I we didn't take minutes and we don't have summaries. But, uh, people could, like, listen to them a little bit and generate some queries.", "speakerName": "Grad G" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Postdoc H" }, { "text": "Of course Jane doesn't need to. I'm sure you have that meeting memorized by now.", "speakerName": "Grad G" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "But actually it would be an easy thing to just go around the room and say what was the most interesting thing you learned,", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "Mmm.", "speakerName": "Grad G" }, { "text": "Yeah. Yeah.", "speakerName": "Postdoc H" }, { "text": "for those pe people willing to stay.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "And that I think it would pick up the micro - structure, the some some of the little things that would be hidden.", "speakerName": "Postdoc H" }, { "text": "And and that might be something people are willing to stay for.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "Boy, I I don't know how we get at this.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "That would be interesting.", "speakerName": "Postdoc H" }, { "text": "Yeah, but when you go around the room you might just get the effect that somebody says something", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Or want to get up and leave.", "speakerName": "Grad G" }, { "text": "and then you go around the room and they say \" yeah, me too, I agree. \"", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Me too, me too, me too.", "speakerName": "Grad G" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "That's fine.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "So.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "On the other hand people might try and come up with different ones, right?", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Well.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "They might say \" oh, I was gonna say that one but now I have to think of something else \".", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Well, you have the other thing, that that they know why we're doing it. We'll I mean, we'll we'll be telling them that the reason we're trying to do this is is to d generate queries in the future, so try to pick things that other people didn't say.", "speakerName": "Grad G" }, { "text": "It's gonna take some thought. I mean, It seemed The kind of, uh, interest that I had in this thing initially was, uh, that i basically the form that you're doing something else later,", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "and you want to pick up something from this meeting related to the something else. So it's really the imp the the list of what's important's in the something else", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "rather than the.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "Mmm.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "And it might be something minor of minor importance to the meeting.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "Grad G" }, { "text": "Uh, in fact if if it was really major, if it's the thing that really stuck in your head, then you might not need to go back and and and check on it even. So it's it's that you're trying to find You're you've now You weren't interested Say I I said \" well, I wasn't that much interested in dialogue, I'm more of an acoustics person \".", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "But but thr three months from now if for some reason I get really interested in dialogue, and I'm \" well what is what was that part that that that, uh, Mari was saying? \"", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "Yeah, like Jim Bass says \" add a few lines on dialogue in your next perf \"", "speakerName": "Grad G" }, { "text": "Uh.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "Yeah. Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "And then I'm trying to fi I mean, that's that's when I look in general when I look things up most, is when it's something that didn't really stick in my head the first time around and but for some new reason I'm I'm I'm interested in in in the old stuff.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "But that that's gonna be very hard to generate.", "speakerName": "Grad G" }, { "text": "Well, I That's hard to generate", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "So, I don't I don't know.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Do we.", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "and and I think that's half of what i I would use it for. But I also a lot of times um, make you know, think to myself \" this is interesting,", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "I've gotta come back and follow up on it \".", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm. Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "So, things that I think are interesting, um, I would be, uh, wanting to do a query about. And also, I like the idea of going around the room, because if somebody else thought something was interesting, I'd kind of want to know about it and then I'd want to follow up on it.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "Hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Yeah. That that might get at some of what I was I was concerned about, uh, being interested in something later that w uh, I didn't consider to be important the first time, which for me is actually the dominant thing, because if I thought it was really important it tends to stick more than if I didn't, but some new task comes along that makes me want to look up.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "But But what's interesting to me may not b have been interesting to you.", "speakerName": "Grad G" }, { "text": "Yeah. So having multiple people might get at some of that.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "By so by going around Yeah.", "speakerName": "Grad G" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "Yeah, I I think you can't get at all of it,", "speakerName": "Grad G" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "right? W we just need to start somewhere.", "speakerName": "Grad G" }, { "text": "Yeah, and this is a starting point.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "Uh - huh.", "speakerName": "Postdoc H" }, { "text": "The question the question then is h h how much bias do we introduce by you know, introduce by saying, you know, this was important now and, you know, maybe tha something else is important later?", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "I mean, does it does the bias matter? I I don't know. I mean, uh, that's, I guess, a question for you guys. But.", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "Well, and and one thing, we we're saying \" important \" and we're saying \" interesting \".", "speakerName": "Postdoc H" }, { "text": "Uh, yeah, yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "And and those those can be two different things.", "speakerName": "Postdoc H" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "Sure, sure. But I I I guess that's the question, really, is that I mean,", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Postdoc H" }, { "text": "W", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "does building queries based on what's important now introduce an irreversible bias on being able to do what Morgan wants to do later?", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "Well, irreversible.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "OK, good.", "speakerName": "Postdoc H" }, { "text": "That's that's.", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "I I I mean, I guess what I what I I keep coming back to in my own mind is that, um, the soonest we can do it, we need to get up some kind of system", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Postdoc H" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "so that people who've been involved in the meeting can go back later, even if it's a poor system in some ways, and, uh and ask the questions that they actually want to know. If you know, if uh, as soon as we can get that going at any kind of level, then I think we'll have a much better handle on what kind of questions people want to ask than in any anything we do before that. But obviously we have to bootstrap somehow,", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "and.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "Sure.", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Postdoc H" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "I agree.", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "I will say that that I I chose \" interesting \" because I think it includes also \" important \" in some cases. But, um, I I I feel like the summary gets at a different type of information.", "speakerName": "Postdoc H" }, { "text": "I think \" important \" can often be uninteresting.", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "Mmm.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "Mmm. And \" interesting \" is more interesting than \" important \".", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Hmm.", "speakerName": "Grad G" }, { "text": "Well, and and also i it puts a lot of burden on the person to to evaluate. You know, I think inter \" interesting \" is is non - threatening in.", "speakerName": "Postdoc H" }, { "text": "OK - OK.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Postdoc H" }, { "text": "In the interest of, um,", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "Importance?", "speakerName": "Grad G" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Postdoc H" }, { "text": "generati generating an interesting summary, um.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm. Yeah.", "speakerName": "Postdoc H" }, { "text": "No, i in the interest of generating some minutes here, uh, and also moving on to action items and other things, let me just go through the things that I wrote down as being important, um, that we at least decided on. CrossPads we were going to try, um, if Landay can get the, uh get them to to you guys, um, and see if they're interesting. And if they are, then we'll try to get m do it more. Um, getting electronic summary from a note - taking person if they happen to do it anyway.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "Um, getting just, uh, digital pictures a couple digital pictures of the the table and boards to set the context of the meeting. Uh, and then going around the room at the end to just say qu ask people to mention something interesting that they learned. So rather than say the most interesting thing, something interesting,", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "k", "speakerName": "Postdoc H" }, { "text": "and that way you'll get more variety.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "Sure.", "speakerName": "Postdoc H" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "I wouldn't even say that \" that they learned \".", "speakerName": "Grad G" }, { "text": "That's good. I like that. I like that.", "speakerName": "Postdoc H" }, { "text": "OK.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Uh, you might want to mention something that that you brought up.", "speakerName": "Grad G" }, { "text": "\" Thing that was discussed. \" And then the last thing c would be for those people who are willing to stay afterwards and give an oral summary.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Postdoc H" }, { "text": "OK? Does that pretty much cover everything we talked about? That well, that we want to do?", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm. A And one and one qualification on on the oral summaries. They'd be s they'd be separate. They wouldn't be hearing each other's summaries.", "speakerName": "Postdoc H" }, { "text": "OK.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "Yeah, that's like n I think that's gonna predominantly end up being whoever takes down the equipment then.", "speakerName": "Grad G" }, { "text": "And and that would also be that the data would be included in the database.", "speakerName": "Postdoc H" }, { "text": "Yeah, that would be, let's see, me.", "speakerName": "Grad G" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Postdoc H" }, { "text": "I mean, there is still this hope that people might actually think of real queries they really want to ask at some point.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "OK.", "speakerName": "Postdoc H" }, { "text": "And that if if that ever should happen, then we should try and write them down.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Postdoc H" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Give them a reward, a dollar a query?", "speakerName": "Grad G" }, { "text": "Yeah, really.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "If they're real queries.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "OK. So.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "Well, and again, if we can figure out a way to jimmy a a a a very rough system, say in a year, then uh, so that in the second and third years we we actually have something to.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Postdoc H" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Grad G" }, { "text": "Play with and generate real queries from.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "ask queries.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "Right. OK.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Grad G" }, { "text": "So. Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "Uh.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "I think I just wanted to say one thing about queries. I mean, the level of the query could be, you know, very low - level or very high - level. And it gets fuzzier and fuzzier as you go up, right?", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Well, we're gonna.", "speakerName": "Grad G" }, { "text": "So you need to have some sort of if you start working with queries, some way of identifying what the you know, if this is something that requires a a one - word answer or it's one place in the recording versus was there general agreement on this issue of all the people who ha", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "You know, you can gen you can ask queries that are meaningful for people.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Yep.", "speakerName": "Grad G" }, { "text": "In fact, they're very meaningful cuz they're very high - level. But they won't exist anywhere in the a you know.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Absolutely. So I think we're gonna have to start with keywords", "speakerName": "Grad G" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Postdoc H" }, { "text": "and and if someone becomes more interested we could work our way up.", "speakerName": "Grad G" }, { "text": "I I'm I I'm not so sure I agree with that.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "It But it may well.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "But.", "speakerName": "Grad G" }, { "text": "Because uh, b because it depends on, uh, what our goal is.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "Really?", "speakerName": "Grad G" }, { "text": "If our goal is Wizard of Oz - ish, we might want to know what is it that people would really like to know about this data.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "Oh, that's true.", "speakerName": "Grad G" }, { "text": "And if it's if if it's something that we don't know how to do yet, th great,", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "that's, you know, research project for year four or something.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "Research, yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "You know?", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "Yeah, I was thinking about Wizard of Oz, but it requires the wizard to know all about the meetings.", "speakerName": "Grad G" }, { "text": "We'd have to listen to all the data.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Um, well, not maybe not true Wizard of Oz", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "So.", "speakerName": "Grad G" }, { "text": "because people are too", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "Oh, yeah. I I understand.", "speakerName": "Grad G" }, { "text": "uh, aware of what's going on.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "Well just imagine if.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "But but just.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "Get people to ask questions that they def the machine definitely can't answer at the moment,", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Yeah. w Just \" what would you like to know? \"", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "but.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Yep.", "speakerName": "Grad G" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "But that neither could anyone else, though, is what, uh, my point is.", "speakerName": "Grad G" }, { "text": "Yes.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "I I was wondering if if there might be one s more source of queries which is indicator phrases like \" action item \",", "speakerName": "Postdoc H" }, { "text": "OK.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "which could be obtained from the text from the transcript.", "speakerName": "Postdoc H" }, { "text": "Right. Since we have the transcript.", "speakerName": "Grad G" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Postdoc H" }, { "text": "Dates maybe. I don't know. That's something I always forget.", "speakerName": "Grad G" }, { "text": "Yeah, that's something to be determined, something to be specified,", "speakerName": "Postdoc H" }, { "text": "Well, probably if you have to sit there at the end of a meeting and say one thing you remember, it's probably whatever action item was assigned to you.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "but text - oriented.", "speakerName": "Postdoc H" }, { "text": "I mean, in gen that's all I remember from most meetings.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "That that's all I wrote down.", "speakerName": "Grad G" }, { "text": "I think you'd remember that, yeah.", "speakerName": "Postdoc H" }, { "text": "So, in general, I mean, that could be something you could say, right? I'm supposed to do this. It it doesn't.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Yeah, that's true. Well, but then you could you could prompt them to say, you know, \" other than your action item \", you know, whatever.", "speakerName": "Postdoc H" }, { "text": "Well.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "But but the action item would be a way to get, uh, maybe an additional query.", "speakerName": "Postdoc H" }, { "text": "I mean, that's realistically what people might well be remembering.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "So.", "speakerName": "Postdoc H" }, { "text": "So.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Hmm.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "Yeah. Well, but you know, but you could get again @ @.", "speakerName": "Postdoc H" }, { "text": "Well, we're piloting. We'll just do it and see what happens.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "Yeah. Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Postdoc H" }, { "text": "I usually don't remember my action items. But I'd I.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "OK - OK. Speaking of action items, can we move on to action items?", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "Yeah. Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "Sure. Can you hand me my note pad?", "speakerName": "Grad G" }, { "text": "Yeah. yeah.", "speakerName": "Postdoc H" }, { "text": "Um, or maybe we should wait until the summary of this until this meeting is transcribed and then we will hav", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "We we had I mean,", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "Yeah. Then we'll know.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Thanks.", "speakerName": "Grad G" }, { "text": "somewhere up there we had milestones, but I guess Did y did you get enough milestone, uh, from the description things?", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "I got Yeah. In fact, why don't you hand me those transparencies so that I remember to take them. eee,", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "OK.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "OK.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "And, you know, there's obviously detail behind each of those, as much as is needed. So, you just have to let us know.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "OK. What I have down for action items is we're supposed to find out about our human subject, um, requirements.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "Good.", "speakerName": "Postdoc H" }, { "text": "Uh,", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "Yep.", "speakerName": "Grad G" }, { "text": "people are supposed to send me U R for their for web pages, to c and I'll put together an overall cover. And you're s", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "Right. We.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Hmm?", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "we need to look at our web page", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "And and you also need to look at your web page", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "and make one that's that's p", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "and clean it up by mid - July.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "PDA - free.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "Grad G" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Um,", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "let's see. Choo - choo - choo. We.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "Mailing lists.", "speakerName": "Grad G" }, { "text": "Mailing list? Uh, you need to put together a mailing list.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "Three of them.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "Uh, I think w", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "Well I mean,", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "uh,", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "Um,", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "mostly together.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "uh, I need to email Adam or Jane, um, about getting the data. Who should I email?", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "Uh, how quickly do you want it?", "speakerName": "Grad G" }, { "text": "Um.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "My July is really very crowded. And so, uh.", "speakerName": "Grad G" }, { "text": "How about if I just c Uh, Right now all I want I personally only want text data. I think the only thing Jeff would do anything with right now But I'm just speaking fr based on a conversation with him two weeks ago I had in Turkey. But I think all he would want is the digits. Um, but I'll just speak for myself. I'm interested in getting the language model data. Eh, so I'm just interested in getting transcriptions.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Grad G" }, { "text": "So then just email you?", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "OK. So y Sure, sure, sure.", "speakerName": "Postdoc H" }, { "text": "OK.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "Wh", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "You could email to both of us, uh, just I mean, if you wanted to.", "speakerName": "Postdoc H" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "I mean, I don't think either of us would mind recei", "speakerName": "Postdoc H" }, { "text": "OK.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "i", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "That's right.", "speakerName": "Grad G" }, { "text": "but but in any case I'd be happy to send you the.", "speakerName": "Postdoc H" }, { "text": "And your email is?", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "i", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "Edwards at ICSI.", "speakerName": "Postdoc H" }, { "text": "OK.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "w", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "Dot Berkeley dot EDU, of course.", "speakerName": "Grad G" }, { "text": "And then.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "In in our phone call, uh, before, we we, uh It turns out the way we're gonna send the data is by, uh, And, uh and then what they're gonna do is take the CD - ROM and transfer it to analog tape and give it to a transcription service, uh, that will.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "Oh, is this IBM?", "speakerName": "Grad G" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "Yeah, using foot pedals", "speakerName": "Postdoc H" }, { "text": "Yeah, foot foot pedals", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "and.", "speakerName": "Postdoc H" }, { "text": "and.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "Uh, so do they How are they gonna do the multi - channel?", "speakerName": "Grad G" }, { "text": "See, that's a good question.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "Yeah. They they don't have a way.", "speakerName": "Postdoc H" }, { "text": "I thought so.", "speakerName": "Grad G" }, { "text": "No, I mean, it'll be", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "But they have a verification.", "speakerName": "Postdoc H" }, { "text": "probably about like you did,", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "Mix?", "speakerName": "Grad G" }, { "text": "and then there will be some things you know, many things that don't work out well. And that'll go back to IBM and they'll they'll, uh they run their aligner on it and it kicks out things that don't work well, which you know, the overlaps will certainly be examples of that. And, uh I mean, what w we will give them all of it. Right?", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "OK. That's, uh, my question.", "speakerName": "Grad G" }, { "text": "We'll give them all the the multi - channel stuff", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "So we'll give them all sixteen channels", "speakerName": "Grad G" }, { "text": "and.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "and they'll do whatever they want with it.", "speakerName": "Grad G" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "But you also should probably give them the mixed You know, equal sound - level.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Yeah. Good idea.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "I mean, they're not gonna easily be able to do that, probably.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "It's not hard.", "speakerName": "Grad G" }, { "text": "Well.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "Ah, yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "So.", "speakerName": "Grad G" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "It's also won't be adding much to the data to give them the mixed.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "But w", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "I", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "It's not.", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "Right. It doesn't it isn't difficult for us to do,", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "Yep. Absolutely.", "speakerName": "Grad G" }, { "text": "i You should Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "so we might as well just do it.", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "You should that may be all that they want to send off to their transcribers.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Absolutely. So, sure.", "speakerName": "Grad G" }, { "text": "OK. Related to to the conversation with Picheny, I need to email him, uh, my shipping address and you need to email them something which you already did.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "I did. I I m emailed them the Transcriber URL, um, the on - line, uh, data that Adam set up, The URL so they can click on an utterance and hear it. and I emailed them the str streamlined conventions which you got a copy of today.", "speakerName": "Postdoc H" }, { "text": "Right. And I was gonna m email them the which I haven't yet, a pointer to to the web pages that we that we currently have, cuz in particular they want to see the one with the the way the recording room is set up", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "Good.", "speakerName": "Postdoc H" }, { "text": "and so on, your your page on that.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "Oh, excellent. Good.", "speakerName": "Postdoc H" }, { "text": "And then p possibly.", "speakerName": "Grad G" }, { "text": "I C - I CC' ed Morgan. I should have sent I should have CC' ed you as well.", "speakerName": "Postdoc H" }, { "text": "OK.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "Not an immediate action item but something we do have to worry about is data formats for for higher - level information.", "speakerName": "Grad G" }, { "text": "OK.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "Oh, yeah. We were gonna.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "Well, or d or not even higher level, different level, prosody and all that sort of stuff. We're gonna have to figure out how we're gonna annotate that.", "speakerName": "Grad G" }, { "text": "Yeah. We never had our data format discussion.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "Yeah, we w Right.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "Oh, I thought we did. We discussed, uh, musi musical score notation", "speakerName": "Postdoc H" }, { "text": "Oh, OK.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "But that's not That's display.", "speakerName": "Grad G" }, { "text": "and and its XML.", "speakerName": "Postdoc H" }, { "text": "That's different than format.", "speakerName": "Grad G" }, { "text": "That's.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "Well, um.", "speakerName": "Postdoc H" }, { "text": "W My my u feeling right now on format is you guys have been doing all the work", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "Well uh, yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "and whatever you want, we're happy to live with.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Postdoc H" }, { "text": "Um,", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "OK, excellent.", "speakerName": "Postdoc H" }, { "text": "other people may not agree with that,", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "OK. So, what n important thing.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "but Cuz I'm not actually touching the data,", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "Well, it c", "speakerName": "Postdoc H" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "so I shouldn't be the one to talk. But.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "No, I think that's fine.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "So a key thing will be that you we tell you", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "Great.", "speakerName": "Postdoc H" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "what it is. Uh, we also had.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "\" Here's a mysterious file", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "and \"", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "We also had the, uh, uh that we were s uh, that you were gonna get us the eight - hundred number", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "Oh, yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "and we're all gonna we're gonna call up your Communicator thing and and we're gonna be good slash bad, depending on how you define it, uh, users.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "Now, something that I mentioned earlier to Mari and Liz is that it's probably important to get as many non - technical and non - speech people as possible in order to get some realistic users. So if you could ask other people to call and use our system, that'd be good. Cuz we don't want people who already know how to deal with dialogue systems,", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Yeah. Or, like if you have a.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "who know that you shouldn't hyper - articulate, for instance, and things like that.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Or, like if you have somebody who makes your your plane reservations for you,", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "So.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "um, which is", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "Yeah, we can do that.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "the n", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "Get my parents to do it.", "speakerName": "Grad G" }, { "text": "Yeah. Yeah. Seriously.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "Yeah, for instance.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "Your grandmother.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Hmm.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "Yeah. e You know, it could result in some good bloopers, which is always good for presentations. So Um, anyway.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "Yeah..", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "I think my father would last through the second prompt before he hang hung up.", "speakerName": "Grad G" }, { "text": "Mmm.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "My mother would have a very interesting conversation with it", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "He would never use it.", "speakerName": "Grad G" }, { "text": "but it wouldn't have anything to do with the travel.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "OK. Um, other.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "OK.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "Let's see, other action items. So I have the.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "We talked about that we're getting the recording equipment running at UW. And so it depends, w e e e they're you know, they're p m If that comes together within the next month, there at least will be, uh, uh, major communications between Dan and UW folks", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "Yeah. I mean,", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "I'm I'm shooting to try to get it done get it put together by the beginning of August.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "as to.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "we should talk about it, but.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Mmm.", "speakerName": "Postdoc H" }, { "text": "So, um, you know, if", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "But we have it it's it's pretty We don't know. I mean, he he s uh, he said that it was sitting in some room collecting dust", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "We don't know.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "and and so we don't know,", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "i It's probably unlikely that we'll pull this off,", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "i e", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "but a at least it's worth trying.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm. What is it?", "speakerName": "Grad G" }, { "text": "We don't know.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "Oh, OK.", "speakerName": "Grad G" }, { "text": "\" Recording equipment. \"", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "It's a tape recorder.", "speakerName": "Grad G" }, { "text": "W We know it's eight channels. Uh, we know it's digital.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "It's eight tape recorders.", "speakerName": "Grad G" }, { "text": "We don't even know if there're microphones. So, we'll find out.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "OK. Um, and I will email these notes Um, I'm not sure what to do about action items for the data stuff, although, then somebody I guess somebody needs to tell Landay that you want the pads.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "Yeah, OK. I'll do that.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "OK.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "Um, and he also said something about outside there that came up about the outside text sources, that he he may have", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Grad G" }, { "text": "Oh!", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "some text sources that are close enough to the sort of thing that we can play with them for a language model.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "Hmm.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Yeah, that was uh, that was What he was saying was this he this thing that, uh, Jason had been working on finds web pages that are thematically related to what you're talking about. Well, that's the idea. So that that that would be a source of text which is supposedly got the right vocabulary.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "But it's obviously very different material. It's not spoken material, for instance,", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Yeah. But it's p it might be.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "so.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "But but that's actually what I wanna do. That's that's what I wanna work with,", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "OK.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "is is things that s the wrong material but the right da the right source.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Grad G" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Un - unfortunately Landay told me that Jason is not gonna be working on that anymore.", "speakerName": "Grad G" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "He's switching to other stuff again.", "speakerName": "Grad G" }, { "text": "Yeah. He seemed when I asked him if he could actually supply data, he seemed a little bit more reluctant. So, I'll I'll send him email. I'll put it in an action item that I send him email about it. And if I get something, great. If I don't get something.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "Who? Landay or Jason?", "speakerName": "Grad G" }, { "text": "Landay. And, uh, um,", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "OK.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "OK.", "speakerName": "Grad G" }, { "text": "you know, otherwise, if you guys have any papers or I could I could use, uh I could use your web pages. That's what we could do. You've got all the web pages on the Meeting Recor", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "Yeah, why search for them?", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "Yeah!", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "They're we know where they are.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "True.", "speakerName": "Grad G" }, { "text": "Yeah, that's true.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "Absolutely.", "speakerName": "Grad G" }, { "text": "Oh, forget this!", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "Sure.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Well, but that's not very much.", "speakerName": "Grad G" }, { "text": "I One less action item. I can use what web pages there are out there on meeting recorders.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "Yep.", "speakerName": "Grad G" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "I mean, that that's Yeah. Basically what his software does is h it picks out keywords and does a Google - like search.", "speakerName": "Grad G" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "Yeah. Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Yeah. So we can we can we can do better than that.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "We can do that. Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "So you could.", "speakerName": "Grad G" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Grad G" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "There's there's some, uh, Carnegie Mellon stuff, right? On on meeting recording,", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "Yep.", "speakerName": "Grad G" }, { "text": "And Xerox.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "So, there's there's ICSI, Xerox,", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "and.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "And there's You should l look under, like, intelligent environments,", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "And Xerox. Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "smart rooms,", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Um, the \" Georgia Tech Classroom Two Thousand \" is a good one.", "speakerName": "Grad G" }, { "text": "um.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "CMU,", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "Right. And then Right. J There's th That's where I thought you would want to eventually be able to have a board or a camera,", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "because of all these classroom.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Well, Georgia Tech did a very elaborate instrumented room.", "speakerName": "Grad G" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "And I want to try to stay away from that. So.", "speakerName": "Grad G" }, { "text": "OK. Great. That solves that problem. One less action item. Um OK. I think that's good enou that's that's pretty much all I can think of.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "Can I ask, uh, one thing? It relates to data data collection and I and I'd and we mentioned earlier today, this question of um, so, um, I s I know that from with the near - field mikes some of the problems that come with overlapping speech, uh, are lessened. But I wonder if Uh, is that sufficient or should we consider maybe getting some data gathered in such a way that, um, u w we would c uh, p have a meeting with less overlap than would otherwise be the case? So either by rules of participation, or whatever.", "speakerName": "Postdoc H" }, { "text": "Oh, yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "Now, I mean, you know, it's true, I mean, we were discussing this earlier, that depending on the task so if you've got someone giving a report you're not gonna have as much overlap.", "speakerName": "Postdoc H" }, { "text": "Adam!", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "But, um, i i uh, so we're gonna have s you know, non - overlapping samples anyway. But, um, in a meeting which would otherwise be highly overlapping, is the near - field mike enough or should we have some rules of participation for some of our samples to lessen the overlap?", "speakerName": "Postdoc H" }, { "text": "Hmm.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "turn off", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "I don't think we should have rules of participation, but I think we should try to get a variety of meetings. That's something that if we get the the meeting stuff going at UW, that I probably can do more than you guys,", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "OK.", "speakerName": "Postdoc H" }, { "text": "cuz you guys are probably mostly going to get ICSI people here. But we can get anybody in EE, uh, over.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "and and possibly also some CS people, uh, over at UW. So, I think that that there's a good chance we could get more variety.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "OK. Just want to be sure there's enough data to.", "speakerName": "Postdoc H" }, { "text": "Um,", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "They're still gonna overlap,", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "OK, good.", "speakerName": "Postdoc H" }, { "text": "but Mark and others have said that there's quite a lot of found data from the discourse community that has this characteristic and also the political Y you know, anything that was televised for a third party has the characteristic of not very much overlap.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "Wasn - but w I think we were saying before also that the natural language group here had less overlap.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Postdoc H" }, { "text": "So.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "So it also depends on the style of the group of people.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "Like the, um, dominance relations of the people in the meeting.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm. On the task, and the task.", "speakerName": "Postdoc H" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Grad G" }, { "text": "It's just I just wanted to uh,", "speakerName": "Postdoc H" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "because you know, it is true people can modify the amount of overlap that they do if if they're asked to.", "speakerName": "Postdoc H" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "Not not entirely modify it, but lessen it if if it's desired. But if if that's sufficient data I just wanted to be sure that we will not be having a lot of data which can't be processed.", "speakerName": "Postdoc H" }, { "text": "OK. So I'm just writing here, we're not gonna try to specify rules of interaction but we're gonna try to get more variety by i using different groups of people", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "Time.", "speakerName": "Postdoc H" }, { "text": "and different sizes.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "Fine. And I you know, I I know that the near f near - field mikes will take care of also the problems to s to a certain degree.", "speakerName": "Postdoc H" }, { "text": "e e Yeah. And then the other thing might be, um, uh, technical versus administrative.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "I just wanted to be sure.", "speakerName": "Postdoc H" }, { "text": "Cuz if I recorded some administrative meetings then that may have less overlap, because you might have more overlap when you're doing something technical and disagreeing or whatever.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm. Mm - hmm. Well, I just as as as a contributary eh, so I I know that in l in legal depositions people are pr are prevented from overlapping. They'll just say, you know you know, \" wait till each person is finished before you say something \". So it is possible to lessen if we wanted to. But but these other factors are fine. I just wanted to raise the issue.", "speakerName": "Postdoc H" }, { "text": "Well, the reason why I didn't want to is be why I personally didn't want to is because I wanted it to be as, uh, unintrusive as possi", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm. Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Postdoc H" }, { "text": "as you could be with these things hanging on you.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "Oh, yeah. Yeah, I think that's always desired. I just want to be sure we don't that we're able to process, i u uh, you know, as much data as we can. Yeah.", "speakerName": "Postdoc H" }, { "text": "Yeah. Did they discuss any of that in the the meeting they had with L Liberman?", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "What.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "And there was a big division,", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "What what do they.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "so Liberman and others were interested in a lot of found data.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "So there's lots of recordings that They're not close - talk mike,", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "but And and there's lots of television, you know, stuff on, um, political debates and things like that, congre congressional hearings. Boring stuff like that. Um, and then the CMU folks and I were sort of on the other side in cuz they had collected a lot of meetings that were sort of like this and said that those are nothing like these meetings. Um, so there're really two different kinds of data. And, I guess we just left it as @ @ that if there's found data that can be transformed for use in speech recognition easily, then of course we would do it,", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "but newly collected data would would be natural meetings. So.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Actually, th @ @ the CMU folk have collected a lot of data. Is that is that going to be publicly available,", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "As far as I know, they h have not.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "or?", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "Um, but e", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "OK.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "It's also it's not it's not near - far, right?", "speakerName": "Grad G" }, { "text": "I'm not sure. Um, if people were interested they could talk to them, but I I got the feeling there was some politics involved.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "I think @ @ gonna add that to one of my action items.", "speakerName": "Grad G" }, { "text": "No.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Just to check.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "I I don't know.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Yeah. W we should know what's out there certainly.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Grad G" }, { "text": "I mean, the.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "Cuz I had thought they'd only done far - field,", "speakerName": "Grad G" }, { "text": "I think you need to talk to Waibel and.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "intelligent - room sorts of things.", "speakerName": "Grad G" }, { "text": "Oh, really? It's those guys.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "I hadn't known that then they'd done any more than that.", "speakerName": "Grad G" }, { "text": "Oh, they only did the far - field? I see.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Grad G" }, { "text": "But they had multiple mikes and they did do recognition, and they did do real conversations. But as far as I know they didn't offer that data to the community at this meeting.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Grad G" }, { "text": "But that could change cuz Mark you know, Mark's really into this. We should keep in touch with him.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Yeah. Well, once we send out.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "Yeah, I think.", "speakerName": "Postdoc H" }, { "text": "I mean, we still haven't sent out the first note saying \" hey, this list exists \". But but, uh, once we do that.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "Is that an action item?", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "Yeah. It's on I already added that one on my board to do that. So, uh uh, hopefully everybody here is on that list. We should at least check that everybody here?", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "I think everyone here is on the list.", "speakerName": "Grad G" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "I'm not.", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "u e e", "speakerName": "Postdoc H" }, { "text": "I think you are.", "speakerName": "Grad G" }, { "text": "We haven't sent anything to the list yet.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "Oh! OK.", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Postdoc H" }, { "text": "We're just compiling the list.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "I see.", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "I I added a few people who didn't who I knew had to be on it even though they didn't tell me.", "speakerName": "Grad G" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "Who specifically ask not to be.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Like Jane, for example.", "speakerName": "Grad G" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "You are on it, aren't you?", "speakerName": "Grad G" }, { "text": "Yeah, I am.", "speakerName": "Postdoc H" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "So, I w uh, just just for clarification. So \" found data \", they mean like established corpora of linguistics and and other fields, right?", "speakerName": "Postdoc H" }, { "text": "What they mean is stuff they don't have to fund to collect,", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "It sounds like such a t", "speakerName": "Postdoc H" }, { "text": "and especially good.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Yeah, OK.", "speakerName": "Postdoc H" }, { "text": "Well, I mean, \" found \" has, uh, also the meaning that's it very natural. It's things occur without any You know, the pe these people weren't wearing close - talking mikes, but they were recorded anyway, like the congressional hearings and, you know, for legal purposes or whatever.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "OK. But it includes like standard corpora that have been used for years in linguistics and other fields.", "speakerName": "Postdoc H" }, { "text": "Mark's aware of those, too.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "\" Hey, look what we found! \"", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "OK.", "speakerName": "Postdoc H" }, { "text": "That would be found data because they found it and it exists.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Hmm.", "speakerName": "Grad G" }, { "text": "Exactly.", "speakerName": "Postdoc H" }, { "text": "\" I found this great corpora. \" Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "They didn't have to collect it. Of course it's not \" found \" in the sense that at the time it was collected for the purpose.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "\" Psst. Want to buy a corpora? \"", "speakerName": "Grad G" }, { "text": "Yeah. OK, OK.", "speakerName": "Postdoc H" }, { "text": "But what he means is that You know, Mark was really a fan of getting as much data as possible from you know, reams and reams of stuff, of broadcast stuff,", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "That's interesting.", "speakerName": "Postdoc H" }, { "text": "web stuff,", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Postdoc H" }, { "text": "TV stuff, radio stuff. But he well understands that that's very different than these this type of meeting.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "It's not the same.", "speakerName": "Grad G" }, { "text": "But, so what? It's still it's interesting for other reasons.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "OK. Yeah. Just wanted to know.", "speakerName": "Postdoc H" }, { "text": "So, seems like we're winding down.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "Right? Many ways.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "You can tell by the prosody.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "So we should go go around and s", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "We should go around and say something interesting that happened at the meeting?", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Oh. Yes, we should do that.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "Rrrh!", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Now, I was already thinking about it, so.", "speakerName": "Grad G" }, { "text": "Oh! Good man.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "This is painful task.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Hmm.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "I.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "So, um, I really liked the idea of what I thought was interesting was the combination of the CrossPad and the speech. Especially, um, the interaction of them rather than just note - taking. So, can you determine the interesting points by who's writing? Can you do special gestures and so on that that have, uh, special meaning to the corpora? I really liked that.", "speakerName": "Grad G" }, { "text": "Well, I I just realized there's another category of interesting things which is that, um, I I found this discussion very, uh, i this this question of how you get at queries really interesting. And and the and I and the fact that it's sort of, uh, nebulous, what what that what kind of query it would be because it depends on what your purpose is. So I actually found that whole process of of trying to think of what that would involve to be interesting. But that's not really a specific fact. I just sort of thought we we went around a nice discussion of the factors involved there, which I thought was worthwhile.", "speakerName": "Postdoc H" }, { "text": "I had a real revelation about taking pictures. I don't know why I didn't do this before and I regret it. So that was very interesting for me.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Postdoc H" }, { "text": "Did you take pictures of the boards?", "speakerName": "Grad G" }, { "text": "Not that I.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Postdoc H" }, { "text": "The boards aren't really related to this meeting. I mean, I will take pictures of them, but.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "That's a good point.", "speakerName": "Postdoc H" }, { "text": "They're related to this morning's meeting.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "But.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Postdoc H" }, { "text": "To the pre previous meeting. That's right.", "speakerName": "Grad G" }, { "text": "OK. Well, that's why I'll take pictures of them, then.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "I'm gonna pass because I can't I mean, of the Jane took my answer.", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "Ah!", "speakerName": "Grad G" }, { "text": "So.", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "Oh.", "speakerName": "Postdoc H" }, { "text": "Um, so I'm gonna pass for the moment but y come come back to me.", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "For the moment.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Pass.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "I think I think \" pass \" is socially acceptable. But I will say uh, I will actually uh, a spin on different slightly different spin on what you said, this issue of, uh, realizing that we could take minutes, and that actually may be a goal. So that that may be kind of the test in a sense, test data, uh, the the template of what we want to test against, generating a summary. So that's an interesting new twist on what we can do with this data.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "I agree with Jane and Eric. I think the question of how to generate queries automatically was the most interesting question that came up, and it's something that, as you said, is a whole research topic in itself, so I don't think we'll be able to do anything on it because we don't have funding on it, uh, in this project. But, um, it's definitely something I would want to do something on.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "I wonder if work's already been done on it.", "speakerName": "Grad G" }, { "text": "Like e expert systems and stuff,", "speakerName": "Postdoc H" }, { "text": "Hmm.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "or? Uh - huh.", "speakerName": "Postdoc H" }, { "text": "Well, being more management lately than than research, I think the thing that impressed me most was the people dynamics and not any of the facts. That is, I I really enjoyed hanging out with this group of people today. So that's what really impressed me.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "How are we gonna find that in the data?", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Well, if we had people wearing the wireless mikes all the time.", "speakerName": "Grad G" }, { "text": "Oh, yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Yeah, I think.", "speakerName": "Grad G" }, { "text": "Well, I mean, one thing you could search for is were people laughing a lot.", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Right? So.", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "How happy were they?", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "I'd probably search for something like that.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "That actually has come up a couple times in queries. I was talking to Landay", "speakerName": "Grad G" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "and that was one of his examples.", "speakerName": "Grad G" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "When when did people laugh?", "speakerName": "Grad G" }, { "text": "That's great.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Find me a funny thing that Jeff said. Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "So we need a laugh detector.", "speakerName": "Grad G" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "Perfect.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Postdoc H" }, { "text": "Cuz that seems to be pretty common. Not in the congressional hearings.", "speakerName": "Grad G" }, { "text": "No.", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "Quiet sobbing.", "speakerName": "Grad G" }, { "text": "So I think we're done.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "OK.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "OK.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Great.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "Great.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "OK.", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "I think we're done.", "speakerName": "Grad G" }, { "text": "Great.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "h Do we need do I need to turn something off here, or I do unplug this, or?", "speakerName": "Postdoc H" }, { "text": "Now these we turn off. Right?", "speakerName": "Professor D" } ] }	{ "dialogTurns": [ { "query": "Did the group decide to pilot the CrossPads?", "response": "Yes, the group decided to try out CrossPads. 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d2a89e5262ef48f59051d90ad9858982	{ "meetingId": "ES2013b", "transcriptSegments": [ { "text": "Uh it fell off. One, two, three, four, yeah, we're ready. Okay. Welcome to this second meeting. Um it's now quarter after twelve and we're given forty minutes um for this meeting. This is a meeting on functional design. Um and I wanna welcome you all and thank you all for doing some research in between. Um I did took the minutes from the first meeting and I'll show them to you in a moment. Um I know each of you have a presentation and um in thinking about the forty minutes, I thought it would take only like three minutes for the previous minutes, um each of you having about seven minutes or maybe a little more, maybe a little less for your pre presentations and a little discussion, because there's I happen to have been told there were some new project requirements and we have to make some uh decision on what functions it will have. Okay? Is this ap everybody agree with this?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Oops.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yes.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yes.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Okay. Um and after the meeting there'll be things to be done and as you can see it says we get to get lunch, um and then some more individual work and then putting minutes away and individual actions. Um but uh now for the minutes of the first meeting. And go to that one. Um as you can see it was this earlier today. Um Kate, Steph, Sarah and myself in our four capacities were present. I opened the meeting, the product was developed uh and reviewed, and we talked about the financial end of it. Um and it had some implications, um the four million sales target and new ideas of not too many buttons, bright colours and some of the influence of the Japanese. And we closed early so you could then proceed with your research and getting your reports together for tod this meeting Anybody have any questions on those minutes? Are they complete, did they discuss everything that we covered last time?'Kay.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Uh I think so,", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Did I miss something?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "we we we talked about the the individual roles that we each had as well.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah. I'm afraid I incorporated that when I said who was present, but yes, we did,", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "and we did a little bit of uh team building of uh of making the pictures,", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Okay, I accept the minutes.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "but I didn't think those were appropriate to the minutes necessarily. So um as a group I think we've are they're accepting the minutes. And uh okay.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Is that what we're supposed to say?", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah, I do.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Good. Um, then we'll move to the three presentations. Okay?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Okay. Mm we need to move this. Who wants to go f first? That's as far as it goes.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Uh not really meant to touch those microphones. Oh it doesn't have any on, does it? That's fine.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Excellent, thank you.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Oy, big loop under the table.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "She said we didn't need to screw it in.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Okay. Okay, that looks good.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "It's doing its thing. There we are.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Alright. Thank you very much. Um. One of the the biggest issues I found about um from last meeting was the fact that we need to sell four million of these um remote controls and I think that this is an opportunity to really take Real Reaction in the direction of of similar of handheld tools that have been used and are used by many of us and to kind of bring the remote control into the si same realm as an accessible um useful electronic device, as opposed to something that is lost in the couch and what have you. So um my main goal here is to re-envision the remote control in in this context and to think about menu functionality and current technology and the fact that it could be interactive with other tools. Um some of the research uh in the market has shown that people really are not happy with remote controls as they are now, and um that means we do need to make some decisions about what what keys or or buttons on the on the remote control to perhaps keep and and what ones to discard. And if we devote some energy into this, I think the um recent productions of Real Reaction, the I go everywhere power and the high definition D_V_D_ players although it makes immediate sense to have our remote control interact with these, I think we can also use this as a platform to make it interact with other tools. And um in fact I think the high definition D_V_D_ players and all of this will come along in the uh will only benefit from the positive feedback from our well designed tool. So again, most uh users really dislike the current look and feel of remote controls. Um fifty percent I think of all these uh numbers the most important is fifty percent of user say they only use ten percent of the buttons. And eighty percent of users, and if we think about this there are a lot of uh television, D_V_D_, stereo remote control users out there, eighty percent would spend more money on a remote control that looks fancy.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Could can I ask where these figures come from, is this market research we've.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Um it was market research and there were a hundred people in the room, so eighty out of a hundred said they would spend more money.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Now in between, as the Project Manager, they sent me an email from the powers that be", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "um that teletext is outdated um", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "and the internet is coming in as important, but that they want this remote control to only be for T_V_ um with incorporating the corporate image, colour and slogan.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm. Well I think we can I I think we can really focus on this remote and and again bring the Real Reaction um brand in in and and get some positive marketing for our other tools, even if we directly don't um advertise for the I go everywhere line.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "So an interesting um element was the would you pay more for speech recognition question. So these market research uh uh questionnaires looked into your your uh concern about technology", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Hmm.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "and s specifically wanted to find out information about speech recognition.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Now the early adopters, those of us who grew up with technology and uh luck lucky for us have the uh cash to to pay for it, the young age group without the mortgages and responsibilities, ninety one percent of them would pay more for speech recognition in a remote control. Very interesting, I I leave this up to the group to decide if we wanna use this uh if and you know, the the designers,", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "but ninety one percent, fifteen to twenty five.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Is that a large enough target market to target it?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Well, I I I think especially in terms of growth, I think this would be a very smart group to target. I mean s three quarters of the next age group, twenty five to thirty five are interested, and uh with the technologies improving, if we can get these uh.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "In real numbers, does the ninety one percent and the seventy six percent translate to ex in excess of the four million?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah. To Um yes.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Or eight million.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yes. But would you pay more and does it work and is it approachable and and did I know that it was it was an.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Hmm.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "that's a that's a very good question.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Um.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "I don't know if speech recognition should be um should be included,", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "but I think it's an interesting I think that maybe shows more about uh being open to technology.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Uh it definitely needs uh a lot more research", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Shall I go back?", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "on like how much more it would be and any, you know, existing examples,", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah, yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "and what reactions to them have been, and that sort of thing.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "How d I'm wondering how how ou how our target price compares with the the typical price of these things. I expect an Industrial Designer should know that, but if we're aiming to to build this thing for twelve Euros fifty, um is that a lot or a little?", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Exactly. I mean I I I uh did not receive any information on that, but I think the competition, sussing out what other people are doing and what's in the pipeline is very very important, because um there is a question about do you want an L_C_D_ screen and and that wasn't responded to, but uh some of the larger remotes do have screens where you can navigate, you know, so it turns into something uh perhaps you all have seen uh the Osbournes where Ozzy Osbourne is is attempting to manage his super entertainment system with something that looks like a uh a small tray.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Sh surely he's in the wrong age group.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "You know,", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "it's I a and I think, you know.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "He must be w one of a s small population..", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "No, no,", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "you Kate, you're exactly right there. But I think the key is to get the early adopters, people who are familiar with technology and and uh they'll be.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "But we're not looking at whether they're early adopters on that screen,", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Uh, mm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "that's looking at age groups.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Exactly. I yes, and I'm making and I'm making the the uh uh leap that people who are familiar younger people are l are more familiar with technology than than older people. Or comfortable,", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Leap. Hmm. Mm.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "you know, um so.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Okay, you had the other power channel.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "I think the most important thing is an attractive streamlined remote control and to be extraordinarily reductionist, power, channel, volume and everything else is is uh up to the designers. And this is this is also supported by the market research.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Thank you. That's my contribution.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Alright. And we'll turn to the next presentation. I think she said we don't need to screw it in, just stick it in. And then press, what? F F_N_ and F_ eight. Next to the control button on the bottom, and then F_ eight at the top.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah, press them.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "And then w be patient..", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah, here we go.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Tada.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "And if you want it to go into slide show mode, it's that little button there.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Can I not just uh do each one in order?", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "I you can if you like, it it that that just sets it up to do a p a p", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "There we are. Yay.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "That?", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "no that one, that one there.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "That?", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Left, left a bit, left a bit, that one, yep.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "That? Right, technical functions design. Uh well I think first off, basically I do agree with what Sarah has defined as as uh your personal preferences,yeah. I think we need uh a more streamlined volume with no extraneous functions. So my method was to look at the existing remotes and what functions they have. And what we all need to discuss is whether we want these functions uh pretty much the same as what existing remotes have. If we can build on this with the speech recognition, that's not something I'd thought about at all, but it's also something we can discuss.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Um and and I presume we can miss out the functions really to to a video or D_V_D_ remote control, if this is only gonna be a, you know, satellite, cable, T_V_ remote control.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "T_V_ only.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "So these are two models of existing remote controls. Uh the one on the left seems to be a fairly uh standard universal remote control.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Ugh.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "It has fast-forward, stop, play, all relating to movies. It also has seems to have channel up and channel down, which is which is more what you'd expect from a, you know, like a Sky or cable remote control", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Hmm.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "where you've got hundreds of channels instead of a merely terrestrial one. Uh but I think we should be looking more along the lines of the one on the right, which has it also has play, stop and pause and everything, I don't think we need them at all. I think we just need channel selection, volume up, volume down and I think an an enter function where you can access it's not like teletext, but along the same lines, access things on the screen. Uh not related to the internet one that you mentioned, because that'd be far outside our budget and what we want this to do.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Mm. And exceed the requirements they're expecting of us.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "So it really exceed the requirements,'cause the requirements really are just want to be able to change channels and functions, which is more a text on the screen thing than uh than actual buttons", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "o I was thinking something some smooth, sleek, little remote control with big user-friendly buttons and uh a menu that you can access.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Alright.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Uh but then I do think we need to discuss the speech um recognition possibility.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Okay. Any uh thing else you wanna add?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "No.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "But we could go back to the pictures of the uh, what're they called? The pictures of the remote controls and possibly discuss what we think about them,", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Or if.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "but maybe should hear what Kate has to say first.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah. Let's hear what Kate has to say.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Okay then.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Maybe afterwards we could do a uh whiteboard with that your the one on the right as a as a basis.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Hmm.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Whiteboard session.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "I think the white that one on the right is, as well as less cluttered,.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Definitely less cluttered and I mean but still it's.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "It's there", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Sorry", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "but it's.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "I was just I'll just uh resume something else I was gonna say.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "The the style of these is terrible.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "I I I really think we need to uh not only possibly even materials, like the type of plastic used, but everything including size and shape of buttons, positioning of buttons, the actual shape of the hand-held device, colours, just every e yeah, everything to do with this has to be revolutionised..", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "The ergonomics, the way it fits in your.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Hmm.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "But.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "So that's that for now.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Cheers. Mm, I haven't actually got a display on my screen.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Still, I'll do without that. Okay um, now I wanna bring us down to earth again I'm afraid and talk about the actual practicalities of how the thing needs to work. Um oh and this is the methodology I used in preparing for this meeting. Um basically I've been doing a little bit of web-based research, and if I had a design team, I would've been discussing my ideas with'em. But the the net result is that I've come up with a first cut for the working design that I'd like to discuss with you. So, let's go back to what the basic function of a remote control is. It's for sending a message, um typically um via infrared. And the the basic components we've got to build in for our twelve Euros fifty are um an energy source, the user interface and which will um in incorporate um an integrated circuit that actually composes the message um based on what the which buttons the user presses, we turn that into a message, um and then we need a sending mechanism to send it to the receiver. Now I would have hoped I think that's my only slide actually, yeah. I would have have hoped to um do you a pretty PowerPoint slide of um my first cut design, but unfortunately the technology defeated me, so if you'll bear with me I'll do it on the whiteboard. So we want an energy source which is there. And we've got to think about what that might be.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Hmm-mm.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Uh we obviously don't want wires on this thing. Uh typically it would be a battery, but I'm open to suggestions. Um and then we have the the user interface. Oops. And the main components in there are the the th the chip that actually has the intelligence of the machine that translates button presses into a message, which it then transfers to some sending mechanism, which encodes it and sends the message to the receiver. So those are the basic things that we've got to get in for our twelve Euros fifty. Thank you.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Hmm. Okay. Right. But those things as long as we can get those components, the block, that that rectangle for the user interface, is where the user comes in of what what does it look like? What do the buttons look like? Uh what does it feel like? That's where the user interface is really coming into its own.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "The technical end is what's actually gonna be in there, but also it has to be easy enough to change or repair if something goes wrong. For example the battery energy source or um what if the chip, for whatever reason, breaks down after a certain amount of time, do you just replace it? Um is there any um because it may be in the same area with several other user interfaces, like for D_V_D_s, movies, whatever. Um does it have to have a a way of being segregated from the others, in a different frequency or something?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Well I may be wrong here, but I'd been thinking of this device as being a a cheap mass-produced device. We're trying to sell four million of'em,", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "um that's that's, you know, that's almost one in every tenth household or whatever it is. Um and I hadn't thought of it as being a reparable thing,", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "you just if it goes wrong you chuck it out, and that's why I'm a bit concerned. I like the idea of speech recognition, that's a great idea, but I'm not convinced we can put it into this box for the price that we need gonna need to hit.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Whoop.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Do we have um ki some idea of how much it would cost to create a device that has these basic elements?", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Isn't that your job?", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Because then.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Oh.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "No,", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Oh right.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "the chip composer marketing. Oh no, the chip composer sender.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Mm. What they cost.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Um, I'm I'm I'm hoping that my personal coach is gonna give me some advice on that, if you're asking me,", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "I I don't believe I know, um.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "but.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Be because then we would ha ha figure out how much we had to play with in terms of user interface and this look and feel idea.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah..", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "It does it does seem as if we're just to do something really simple and mass-produced, the which is pretty much the same as these existing models,", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "just maybe a little bit more inspired,", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Inspired?", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "but basically just the same.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Although what what uh suddenly came into my head is, you know how they always take two A_A_ batteries which which is really not very efficient at all. Could it be possible to have uh, you know, like a rechargeable internal battery, like, well, like an M_P_ three player does? With that you could jus or a mobile phone or whatever.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm. Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "You could you know, you just plug into a power source for a couple of hours, and then it's recharged for ages and ages and ages, and you don't have to worry with replacing A_A_ batteries,", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Well", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "which are.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "that has another element, which is if every time you're done using the remote you put it on a charger, then you then it has a place.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "You'd never need uh batteries would y uh yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah, but it also has a place,", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "And it's not stuck down the back of the sofa.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "so exactly.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "But then again I d I don't know if this is within our price range or not.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "That's a really good idea.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Well I uh think that's a very interesting idea, but um I'm not a very good industrial designer and I don't know much about what these things cost. I'll do some research for the next meeting.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Well it's better than my idea about solar, probably..", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Uh yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Well solar may not be so good when you're watching T_V_ in the night,", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah, yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "but.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Well it is just so annoying how.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Depen", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "It would have to sor store up the energy", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm. Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah, I guess.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "and then use it. Solar can do that.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "We may be talking quite heavy then.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "M yeah, that would be too heavy", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "and it'd cost too much.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "No, but just a rechargeable internal battery would probably I mean it might cost more to at first to develop and to install,", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "but for long-term use it'll be so much more convenient and economic than fiddling around trying to replace chunky A_A_ batteries and not having any in your kitchen drawer", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "and", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "So do you think we might make that a selling point if it was something that we found we could afford to develop?", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "you know f", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Definitely,", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "'cause I'm thinking in terms of um uh the loss and breakage of um remotes, how much of that is is to do with it not really having a uh a home, a um a nest, a place to live,", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Sort of have its little dock that you could put it in.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "exactly.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "So if you can dock it, um you know, you could s argue that this is.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "And the dock could look very fancy and that could be your inspiration of having it looking decent.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Exactly.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Still I don't know if it's quite within our price range.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Hmm.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm.'Cause you are talking about another component, like another piece of hardware.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah. Okay.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Are we agreed as to what our target group is though? Pretty much, so that we'd be looking for the younger end.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Well I I brought up some exactly, but I think you raised some good questions about are there enough of these people out there, or are they making purchasing decisions?", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah,", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "You know,", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "I was wondering that,", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "these are the.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "because I ag I agree that there there're people with uh how can I put it, more money than sense and who are liable to buy something new,", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "I I s usually put more money than brains.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah, exactly.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "but Bu but what I was gonna say was, although they they may be buying um, you know, personal music devices and all that,", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Oh oh oh I'll make a note of that, Kate. Good, good comment.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "are they necessarily buying T_V_ remote controls? Because they probably live in a household that has a T_V_ if they're at the lower end of the age range,", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "I don't know.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "It might be good to know um uh who, you know, who's actually buying televisions and are we in a uh uh s region where people have more than one television in a home?", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Mm. I think we've got a big hill to climb here, haven't we? I mean we've gotta persuade people who've got a remote control'cause it came with the telly that they should buy our product instead.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Mm. Yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Or do we s make sure that it goes to the man through the manufacturer? We sell to the manufacturer as the remote that goes with it.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Right, good point. Yeah, yeah okay, yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah. Yeah, good point.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "That's probably more what it is.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "What would be a more efficient way of doing it?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah, and and some of our D_V_D_ players incidentally have them, because we have the relationship with our own department, but moreover we need to to go for the the manufacturers.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm. Okay. Right.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "We're not gonna get any resolutions by the end of the day,", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Probably not.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "are we?", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Um the other thing that we're supposed to do is make decision on our functions. Our functions, we've so far decided, I think, that power, channel, volume make it attractive. Um it has to have an enter key and of course the number keys. It has to have big user-friendly buttons and sh n definitely we wanna be inspired that the current styles are just plain awful.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Do we need um let me.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Is that agreeable to everyone?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Br actually, um", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "the enter key I have a chart here that I didn't include. Um", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Do you want the gizmo?", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "yeah, which might.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Throw some light on that.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Th yeah, th those are felt like had a lot of charts..", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Um actually we're, you know, we are almost a half hour out of the forty minutes, so we have to get close to finishing..", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Okay, I I my only comment is I think maybe um we could somehow include an enter key in like a power key if power power was enter and pow that was my only just really in terms of streamlining.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Ah. Mm-hmm. Okay. Enter, power as a s oh um a sum simultaneous key.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Um Exactly. Again, you know,", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Is that okay with you?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "thinking of menus or.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Sorry,", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Would that.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "H how does that work?", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "I was miles away.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "How so so how does that work,", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "I was re I was reading the chart to be honest.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Um well", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "uh-huh.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "how do you avoid switching the thing off when you actually wanna press enter?", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "if you're pressing enter, the the thing would already be on, and so maybe um when you press power, initially it turns it on, press power again and use that as an enter um.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Then you'd have to have an off te off key.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "so you press power after you've um well I was thinking maybe you to turn it off you'd have to press power twice in succession,", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Okay, yep, mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "and maybe power follows something like a channel up channel down power, and then that would make that choice.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "It's not getting a bit complicated? Could granny do this,", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Well.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "or are we just not aiming at granny?", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Or y yeah. Or something that has a a turning dial, where at the far end is on or off..", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Who's got an iPod then?.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah,", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Mm. Okay.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "I don't um I wish. Anyway, uh that was the only comment about um some of the the decisions people have made, what's most important.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "It's definitely channel, volume, power.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah, things like screen settings and audio settings, I would generally do them on the actual television itself,", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Exactly.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "like here you have a you know, a little flap th with a little control panel on the actual box itself.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Exactly.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "I I wouldn't know how to do it using a remote control,", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "so um I would say that they are definitely less relevant.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Okay. So", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Okay, well. Thanks for looking at that.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "I guess easy to use is the other thing that we want'em to be able to do.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "As you said, you know, don't make it too hard for the granny..", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "We don't wanna outsmart.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "I just joined that set last week.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Hmm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Um first grandchild arrived.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Congratulations..", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Mm..", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Uh.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Um so are we agreed then of those things? And let's go back to agenda", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "D", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "and hook me up. Mm. This oughta be fun. It probably won't go the first time, it'll probably be like a g mess. Come on. Uh it lost it off here. Uh.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Oh you're fine. It's fine.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "No, it was up there, but I couldn't see it down here. Mm. This time it should be both. There we go.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "How do you do that? How do you make it do both?", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Um you have to keep doing the financi the the F_N_ and F_ eight to five minutes to finish,", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Ah okay, it toggles through,", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "thank you a lot for telling me.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "yeah..", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Um right,", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "I think you have to cycle through.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "we're ready to close. Um will be completed q questionnaire, um then we'll have some time for individual work to continue our research um and I'll put some minutes of this meeting together. Um your individual assignments are for um Kate to do the components, for you, Steph, to do the user interface and for you the trend-watching. Um and each of us will get help from our coach. Are we agreed to get ourselves together and then have lunch?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yes.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Sounds good.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Then that's the end of this meeting. And I hope that's good enough for her to tell her that's the end. Okay?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "We didn't come to any sort of decision on the functions though.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Well I think I went over the functions and wrote them down and marked them.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Alright, well that's fine then.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Um that's what I went over and nobody was objecting to them.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Okay. Um and you'd mentioned I I was just gonna say, could you reiterate the new project requirements,", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "because it they were it has to be for a T_V_, just to keep myself.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Um the teletext is outdated,", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "So we're still in meeting, aren't we?.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "the internet is important,", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah, I think I've.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "it's only to be for a T_V_ and it must include the corporate image, colour and slogan um", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "which I think is more in the user uh range, with Steph.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm. Sorry, what what actually are these is that the yellow and black?", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "It doesn't tell me.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "From their I'll just use it from their website.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm. Okay?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Right. 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Hmm. Okay, just hang on a second everybody. I haven't actually looked at this yet.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Ah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "um.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Very nice.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "I haven't looked at it, but let's just start it off and we'll see what happens. If you're all ready.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "So is the agenda? Opening, acquaintance, tool training and project plan, discussion and then closing. Project aim is a new remote control. It's original, uh trendy and it's user-friendly.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "'Kay.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Project method, functional design, individual work, another meeting, conceptual design, individual work, and a meeting of details design, individual work and a meeting. Tool training. Try out the whiteboard, every participant should draw their favourite animal and sum up their favourite characteristics of that animal.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Um. Uh Miss Industrial Designer, would you like to go first?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Okay. So are we supposed to bring the little things for the.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah, why don't you just c, I think just clip on clip", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "do you have a belt?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Clip.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Or put'em in your pocket, yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah. okay. So my favourite animal.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah, what's your favourite animal?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "'Kay um.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Ah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Is it rude?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "It's an elephant..", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "That's a very good elephant.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "The back end of an elephant.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Oh my gosh, I'm never gonna be able to draw that well..", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "'Kay, and you want to write up on there, it says you've gotta sum up your f f your favourite characteristics of that animal.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Um okay, it's big, it's got a great memory.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Does it? Oh.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Supposed to have a great memory, we say an elephant never forgets.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "And uh dunno know why but looks like nice to me.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Okay. Wonderful, well done.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Nice animal.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Do you want to use the wipe the m the wiper and wipe it off?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "And Mister aesthetics designer do you wanna go next?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Aesthetic yep, sure.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "I have no idea what my favourite animal is.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "'Kay, my favourite animal,", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "uh let's see.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Oh.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Dunno if any of you have seen Napoleon Dynamite before.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "It's.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "It's a liger,", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "No.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "A what?", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "a combination of a lion and tiger.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Alright.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Have you not seen Napoleon Dynamite?", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "How.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "No.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "No.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Oh it's a hilarious movie.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "No.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "You have to see it. And and it's best characteristic is it's pretty much the awesomest animal. But you have to see the movie to fully appreciate it..", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Okay, well done.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Great. Me?", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah. Miss mar Miss Marketing?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Okay. Not quite sure how this is gonna work.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "There go.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Cool. Uh well I'll try my best to draw. Can I just draw the face?", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Um yeah, I think you can just draw the face, but then you'll have to describe in writing how the rest of it looks..", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Ooh. It's a cat.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "That's a very pr pretty cat.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Which also has what? A big fat body and big and a long tail.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Okay, do y do you wanna do some write.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Why?", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "you wanna just write some words about it?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Because um cuddly. And usually cats are very friendly. Usually. And they're healing as well. They heal. And they can feel when a human's got problems so.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Wow, so they're kinda spiritual.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "So, that's why I like cats.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Well done.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "There we are, that's me..", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Um, I don't actually have a favourite animal,", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "but for the for th for this meeting I'll s draw a little.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Uh. I honestly can't draw for toffee. Uh.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Really?", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Oh that's a.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "no", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "A prairie dog?", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "no uh.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Oh a squirrel?", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "That's exactly what it is.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Uh not a very good one.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Not bad I would say.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah, that's pretty good.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Okay, well, you got it's a s It's a squirrel, and I like them, because they're cute and stupid.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Very good.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Ah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Alright.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Right. Okay, so, I guess that was the test to see if this equipment is all working.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm. Let's move on to the next page. Okay, project finance, selling price twenty five Euros, profit aim fifty million Euros.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Market range internationally sold.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah. Production cost, ah right it's gotta be can't cost any more than twelve fifty to make.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Ah right okay.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "experience with with remote control, so talk about who who's used what. Any ideas? Stuff like that. Next meeting starts in thirty minutes. At quarter to twelve..", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "So I think before we close uh, we are expected I mean the last slide wanted us to maybe discuss longer what our what our ideas where. I mean if you wanna go back to the last slide. Uh.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "S", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah, I think we're I mean before we close the meeting, we're supposed to come up with some ideas for.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Oh k so we're actually supposed to be doing this discussion like right now are we or.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "oh okay.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "I thought this was just t giving us instructions for the re to do next, but.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah, I think this is just the preliminary, get some rough ideas for what our experiences with remote controls have been and and what we would roughly what we would incorporate into a new one maybe.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Okay. Right, who's got experiences with remote controls then? Pretty much everybody.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah, I think we've all got.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Uh..", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Um.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Is this a T_V_ one we are supposed to make?", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah. Yeah it's a T_V_ remote control.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "'Kay um.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Well..", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "T", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "A new remote control for T_V_. What would I like? Um.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "W what You want it big do you want it small. Are we are we going for like like telephones are going little teeny tiny things or we are going for something that's that's big and.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Medium.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Mm. Yeah it seems like there's like there's sort of a tension between two ideas, I mean, you want you want one remote that maybe can work uh all all of the functions of T_V_ and if you have whatever associated with T_V_ the D_V_D_ player, or something like that,", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Video and ts hi-fi and stuff.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "but like at the same time you don't wanna really busy remote with a thousand buttons on it or something.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Maybe you yeah", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "now th that's the other thing is it's gotta be cheap.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "'Cause I I I mean I was thinking something that's got different like maybe a a an L_C_D_ display on it that's got different pages for different devices,", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "but that would p that would probably be quite expensive.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "But how do we know how much uh, I mean, how much do we have per how much?", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Twelve fifty.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Twelve fifty..", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "It g can't be more than twelve fifty per unit.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Each.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Per unit, yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Cost.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "So do we have to be realistic within the budget or.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Well at the moment we could, wa I mean we.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Close pr I don't know how much it would cost. Yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Guess.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "'cause we this is what we th what we're doing at the moment is just saying what what we'd like, and then after we after we've found out what we can like, some different ideas, we can then go and do the research to find out if these any of these ideas are feasible or not.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "So would be nice to have something that that controls lots of different things.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Um.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Couldn't we have like one that comes out? Like so you have one in like mm", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "it doesn't have to be really thick. I mean remote controls can be thin bits. And then you have one for your D_V_D_ and you sort of slide it out, and then you have another one, you slide it out.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "'Kay.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "have slides. And then it all comes compact", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Okay, that's.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "into one. So it's not you actually just putting three or four different remotes together but making them thinner, and um into one basically.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Th that's an idea.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "So you just flip them out.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Um have uh one very complicated one on one side with all the D_V_D_ and V_C_R_ access and stuff, and then on the other side o one uh a remote control that would be very very simple with just the channel, program plus and minus, and the just the mute button, for example. I can real keep it really really simple on one side and the other side be very complicated.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "One side for kids, one side for adults.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "I'm not sure if that's like.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Or grandma as well, you know it's like what is the mute button.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "I'm not sure if it's a good idea to have a two sided remote though,'cause it would be very hard to use in the way that you mani manipulate it.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "No, but you would slide it into uh someth like something on the back would hold like you wouldn't be able to press the buttons, but.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Oh.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Like it.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Oh okay.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "or something like a flip telephone, something like that maybe..", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah. Okay.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "That would be cool.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "F flip it open and you've got all the buttons, or you flip it closed and you've just got the basic buttons on the outside maybe.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "I was thinking that like a flip.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Um, oh we've got five minutes left.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Start breaking up.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "But okay.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Okay. Um.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Well we've got a k we've got a few ideas there.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah, we should uh.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": ".", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "I guess by the end of this meeting we should have at least a a rough conception you know stage one was technical functions design, what effect the apparatus should have. Okay. Um so I mean we still have time in our next meeting to come up with the actual concept for the user interface, but the the functions that we're sure that we want are that it can control the T_V_, but also devices connected to the to the T_V_, I mean, be able to operate", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "D_V_D_ players, things like that.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "I have got I think we should also have a back-up plan of I'cause I I I just think that it might be expensive to make something that I mean we don't, we haven't been told it has to be something that will control everything. We should have a back-up plan of just a really good television remote control, that just that is just for a T_V_, but it's just a really good, nice one.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Okay. Right.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "What do you reckon? See'cause, I'm just thinking bearing in mind th we've gotta we have to have something that's cheap to make.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah, I mean. Yeah, that's true, maybe we should just concentrate on having a a good T_V_ remote, and have it be um", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "I think we'll be able to come up with ideas and stuff a lot quicker.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "have it be like ergonomic so it's comfortable to use,", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "uh simple to use, and looks decent and.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "May w you know, maybe even.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "But what'll make it what'll make it interesting for people to buy though?", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Or maybe even so something that's for disabled people", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "I mean if it's if it's just like.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "or so people that uh b don't see very well or big buttons for touchy buttons for.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Sorta find a niche for our remote, like market it to a certain kind of p kind of people,", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Or just one that looks really fucking cool.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "certain certain demographic.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Could be really light or, I dunno, something special.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah, no I think you're right. Yeah, rathe rather than focus on.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Otherwise we'll be we'll be here all day talking about do this let's do that n I think we sh I think we should.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Y Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah,'cause at the end of the day if it says just T_V_ remote, doesn't say com combination with all all the r.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah. I mean obviously everyone we're uh you know uh sounds like we're all a bit sort of gadget heads and we like things that do everything at once, but you know, that's.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Remotes spinning out from other remotes and having little nested remotes inside..", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah, that's right. Yeah. I mean I'd like one that makes tea as well, but that's not gonna happen.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "I think a flip up thing,'cause you always have this problem of like if it's on this well I did anyway, like we had five or six remotes and they would be lying on the c on the coach, and you'd come and sit down and ooh, the telephone's the television switched on or something. So maybe something that like does have a lid or closes, so you don't accidentally press a button or record button for something.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Okay, like a lock f like a lock functs function on it like you have on your telephones, yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah. But make it like really snazzy and cool people will want it. So make it Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah, it's gotta be sellable. Yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah, that's true what you were saying, I mean it doesn't have to have a flip function, it can just have a lock function, so that it's not uh not usable when you don't want it to be usable.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "And even for kids as well. It's um it's safer for them, I guess. Like they don't flick onto channels and all that sl flick onto..", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "No porn channel for children.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Okay. Um alright,", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "so we've got some ideas, we've got um.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "I guess that's good good for now.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Let's move on.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Oops, let's close that. Next meeting, uh okay.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "W What does I_D_V_I_D_N_M_E_ stand for?", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Industrial Designer um which is.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Ah ri okay. these are requirement specification.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Um.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "That's Mm.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "And I'm marketing.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah, there you go. So User Interface Designer, that's that's", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "That's me. Okay.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "that's you, so you gotta you go, you're you're gonna be the one that's working out what what buttons we need. Um.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Right. Right.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Industrial Designer, you are the one, you know, you're gonna be working out kind of box it goes in, I guess so, um whether it's what goes into the box, somehow.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm. Har how it works an", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "And in marketing.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Bu", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "These are requirement specification.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "User requirements specifications.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "So what the user requires", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah, what.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Do you think our two kind of overlap, because.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "in a remote.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Right, okay, yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah, it does seem like our our responsibilities have some overlap.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "I guess that's what it says.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "You two you two are gonna be just, I think, you just double up, you know, you working together.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "You're the one that's gotta go and find out do th do the research, see what people want in a remote, what buttons are used more often, and s stuff like that.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Oh, we've been warned to finish the meeting now. 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Okay everyone, well done.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Good meeting.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Alright, see you in thirty minutes.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "So, do we take these off?", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "I don't.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" } ] }	{ "dialogTurns": [ { "query": "What did Project Manager say in the meeting?", "response": "In the meeting, Project Manager covered various topics, including:\n\n* Opening, introductions, and tool training.\n* Project aim: to create a new remote control that is original, trendy, and user-friendly.\n* Project method: functional design, individual work, meetings, and conceptual design.\n* Tool training: using the whiteboard to draw favorite animals and summarize their characteristics.", "responseAttribution": { "indexRanges": [ { "startIndex": 18, "endIndex": 18 }, { "startIndex": 20, "endIndex": 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No, nobody's told me anything.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Alright.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Oh, this was the, uh, talk where they were supposed to try to decide.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "To to decide what to do,", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Ah, right.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Yeah. No, that would have been a good thing to find out before this meeting, that's. No, I have no I have no idea. Um, Uh, so I mean, let's let's assume for right now that we're just kind of plugging on ahead,", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "because even if they tell us that, uh, the rules are different, uh, we're still interested in doing what we're doing. So what are you doing?", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm. Uh, well, we've a little bit worked on trying to see, uh, what were the bugs and the problem with the latencies.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "To improve.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "So, We took first we took the LDA filters and, uh, we designed new filters, using uh recursive filters actually.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "So when you say \" we \", is that something Sunil is doing or is that?", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "I'm sorry?", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Who is doing that?", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Uh, us. Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Oh, oh. Oh, OK.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "So we took the filters the FIR filters and we designed, uh, IIR filters that have the same frequency response.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "But.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Well, similar, but that have shorter delays.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "So they had two filters, one for the low frequency bands and another for the high frequency bands. And so we redesigned two filters. And the low frequency band has sixty - four milliseconds of delay, and the high frequency band filter has something like eleven milliseconds compared to the two hundred milliseconds of the IIR filters. But it's not yet test. So we have the filters but we still have to implement a routine that does recursive filtering", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "OK.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "and.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "You you had a discussion with Sunil about this though?", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "No. No.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Uh - huh. Yeah, you should talk with him.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Yeah, yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Yeah. No, I mean, because the the the the whole problem that happened before was coordination,", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "right? So so you need to discuss with him what we're doing,", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "uh, cuz they could be doing the same thing and or something.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm. Uh, I yeah, I don't know if th that's what they were trying to They were trying to do something different like taking, uh well, using filter that takes only a past", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "and this is just a little bit different. But I will I will send him an email and tell him exactly what we are doing, so.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Yeah, yeah. Um,", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Um,", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "I mean We just we just have to be in contact more. I think that the the fact that we we did that with had that thing with the latencies was indicative of the fact that there wasn't enough communication.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "So.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Alright.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "OK.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Um, Yeah. Well, there is w one, um, remark about these filters, that they don't have a linear phase. So,", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Well, I don't know, perhaps it perhaps it doesn't hurt because the phase is almost linear but. Um, and so, yeah, for the delay I gave you here, it's it's, uh, computed on the five hertz modulation frequency, which is the mmm, well, the most important for speech so. Uh, this is the first thing.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "So that would be, uh, a reduction of a hundred and thirty - six milliseconds,", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "The low f f", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "which, uh What was the total we ended up with through the whole system?", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Three hundred and thirty.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "So that would be within?", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Yeah, but there are other points actually, uh, which will perhaps add some more delay. Is that some other other stuff in the process were perhaps not very um perf well, not very correct, like the downsampling which w was simply dropping frames.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Um, so we will try also to add a nice downsampling having a filter that that.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Uh - huh.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "well, a low - pass filter at at twenty - five hertz. Uh, because wh when when we look at the LDA filters, well, they are basically low - pass but they leave a lot of what's above twenty - five hertz.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Um, and so, yeah, this will be another filter which would add ten milliseconds again.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Um, yeah, and then there's a third thing, is that, um, basically the way on - line normalization was done uh, is just using this recursion on on the um, um, on the feature stream,", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "and but this is a filter, so it has also a delay. Uh, and when we look at this filter actually it has a delay of eighty - five milliseconds. So if we.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Eighty - five.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Yeah. If we want to be very correct, so if we want to the estimation of the mean t t to to be well, the right estimation of the mean, we have to t to take eighty - five milliseconds in the future. Mmm.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Hmm! That's a little bit of a problem.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Yeah. Um, But, well, when we add up everything it's it will be alright. We would be at six so, sixty - five, plus ten, plus for the downsampling, plus eighty - five for the on - line normalization. So it's", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Uh,", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "plus plus eighty for the neural net and PCA.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "yeah, but then there's Oh.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "So it would be around two hundred and forty so, well,", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Just just barely in there.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "plus plus the frames, but it's OK.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "What's the allowable?", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "Two - fifty, unless they changed the rules.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Which there is there's some discussion of.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "What were they thinking of changing it to?", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "But.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Uh, well the people who had very low latency want it to be low uh, very very very narrow, uh, latency bound. And the people who have longer latency don't. So.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Huh.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "So, yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Unfortunately we're the main ones with long latency, but", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Ah!", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "But, uh,", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Yeah, and basically the best proposal had something like thirty or forty milliseconds of latency.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "you know, it's Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "So. Well.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Yeah, so they were basically I mean, they were more or less trading computation for performance and we were, uh, trading latency for performance. And they were dealing with noise explicitly and we weren't, and so I think of it as complementary, that if we can put the.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Think of it as what?", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "Complementary.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "I think the best systems so, uh, everything that we did in in a way it was it was just adamantly insisting on going in with a brain damaged system, which is something actually, we've done a lot over the last thirteen years. Uh, which is we say, well this is the way we should do it. And then we do it. And then someone else does something that's straight forward. So, w th w this was a test that largely had additive noise and we did we adde did absolutely nothing explicitly to handle ad additive noise.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "We just, uh, you know, trained up systems to be more discriminant. And, uh, we did this, uh, RASTA - like filtering which was done in the log domain and was tending to handle convolutional noise. We did we actually did nothing about additive noise. So, um, the, uh, spectral sub subtraction schemes a couple places did seem to seem to do a nice job. And so, uh, we're talking about putting putting some of that in while still keeping some of our stuff. I think you should be able to end up with a system that's better than both but clearly the way that we're operating for this other stuff does involved some latency to to get rid of most of that latency. To get down to forty or fifty milliseconds we'd have to throw out most of what we're doing. And and, uh, I don't think there's any good reason for it in the application actually. I mean, you're you're you're speaking to a recognizer on a remote server and, uh, having a a a quarter second for some processing to clean it up. It doesn't seem like it's that big a deal.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "These aren't large vocabulary things so the decoder shouldn't take a really long time, and.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "And I don't think anybody's gonna notice the difference between a quarter of a second of latency and thirty milliseconds of latency.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "So. No. What what does wa was your experience when you were doing this stuff with, uh, the the the surgical, uh, uh, microscopes and so forth. Um, how long was it from when somebody, uh, finished an utterance to when, uh, something started happening?", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Um, we had a silence detector, so we would look for the end of an utterance based on the silence detector.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "And I I can't remember now off the top of my head how many frames of silence we had to detect before we would declare it to be the end of an utterance.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm. Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Um, but it was, uh, I would say it was probably around the order of two hundred and fifty milliseconds.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "Yeah, and that's when you'd start doing things.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Yeah, we did the back trace at that point to get the answer.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "Yeah. Of course that didn't take too long at that point.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "No, no it was pretty quick.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "So.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "Yeah, so you you so you had a", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "this w", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "so you had a a quarter second delay before, uh, plus some little processing time,", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "and then the the microscope would start moving or something.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "And there's physical inertia there, so probably the the motion itself was all.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "And it felt to, uh, the users that it was instantaneous. I mean, as fast as talking to a person. It th I don't think anybody ever complained about the delay.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "Yeah, so you would think as long as it's under half a second or something.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "Uh, I'm not an expert on that", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "but.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "I don't remember the exact numbers but it was something like that.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "I don't think you can really tell. A person I don't think a person can tell the difference between, uh, you know, a quarter of a second and a hundred milliseconds, and I'm not even sure if we can tell the difference between a quarter of a second and half a second.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "I mean it just it feels so quick.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "Yeah. I mean, basically if you yeah, if you said, uh, um, \" what's the, uh, uh what's the shortest route to the opera? \" and it took half a second to get back to you,", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "I mean, it would be f I mean, it might even be too abrupt. You might have to put in a s a s a delay.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Yeah. I mean, it may feel different than talking to a person", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "because when we talk to each other we tend to step on each other's utterances. So like if I'm asking you a question, you may start answering before I'm even done.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "So it it would probably feel different", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "but I don't think it would feel slow.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "Right. Well, anyway, I mean, I think we could cut we know what else, we could cut down on the neural net time by by, uh, playing around a little bit, going more into the past, or something like that. We t we talked about that.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "So is the latency from the neural net caused by how far ahead you're looking?", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "And there's also well, there's the neural net and there's also this, uh, uh, multi - frame, uh, uh, KLT.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Wasn't there Was it in the, uh, recurrent neural nets where they weren't looking ahead at all?", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "They weren't looking ahead much. They p they looked ahead a little bit.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "A little bit. OK.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "Yeah. Yeah, I mean, you could do this with a recurrent net. And and then But you also could just, um, I mean, we haven't experimented with this but I imagine you could, um, uh, predict a, uh um, a label, uh, from more in the past than in than than in the future. I mean, we've d we've done some stuff with that before. I think it it works OK.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "We've always had usually we used the symmetric windows", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "So.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "but I don't think.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "Yeah, but we've but we played a little bit with with asymmetric, guys.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "You can do it. So. So, that's what that's what you're busy with, s messing around with this,", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Uh, yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "yeah. And, uh,", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Also we were thinking to to, uh, apply the eh, spectral subtraction from Ericsson", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Uh - huh.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "and to to change the contextual KLT for LDA.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Change the what?", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "The contextual KLT.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "I'm missing that last word. Context", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "K KLT.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "KLT.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "KLT.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Oh. KLT.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "Oh, KLT.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Uh - huh.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "KLT, I'm sorry. Uh, to change and use LDA discriminative.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Uh - huh.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "But I don't know.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Uh,", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "What is the advantage of that?", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "Uh.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Well, it's that by the for the moment we have, uh, something that's discriminant and nonlinear. And the other is linear but it's not discriminant at all. Well, it's it's a linear transformation, that Uh.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "So at least just to understand maybe what the difference was between how much you were getting from just putting the frames together and how much you're getting from the discriminative, what the nonlinearity does for you or doesn't do for you. Just to understand it a little better I guess.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Mmm. Well uh yeah. Actually what we want to do, perhaps it's to replace to to have something that's discriminant but linear, also. And to see if it if it improves ov over over the non - discriminant linear transformation.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "And if the neural net is better than this or, well. So.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Yeah, well, that's what I meant, is to see whether whether it having the neural net really buys you anything.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Ye Mmm.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Uh, I mean, it doe did look like it buys you something over just the KLT.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "But maybe it's just the discrimination and and maybe yeah, maybe the nonlinear discrimination isn't necessary.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "S maybe.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Yeah. Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Could be.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Maybe.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Good good to know. But the other part you were saying was the spectral subtraction, so you just kind of, uh.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "At what stage do you do that? Do you you're doing that, um?", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "So it would be on the um on on the mel frequency bands,", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "We was think", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "so. Yeah, be before everything.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "OK,", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Yeah,", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "so just do that on the mel f", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "we no nnn We we was thinking to do before after VAD or", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Yeah,", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Oh, we don't know exactly when it's better.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "um.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Before after VAD or.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "So so you know that that that the way that they're.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "and then", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Um.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "uh, one thing that would be no good to find out about from this conference call is that what they were talking about, what they're proposing doing, was having a third party, um, run a good VAD, and and determine boundaries.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "And then given those boundaries, then have everybody do the recognition.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Begin to work.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "The reason for that was that, um, uh if some one p one group put in the VAD and another didn't, uh, or one had a better VAD than the other since that they're not viewing that as being part of the the task, and that any any manufacturer would put a bunch of effort into having some s kind of good speech - silence detection. It still wouldn't be perfect but I mean, e the argument was \" let's not have that be part of this test. \" \" Let's let's separate that out. \" And so, uh, I guess they argued about that yesterday and, yeah, I'm sorry, I don't don't know the answer but we should find out. I'm sure we'll find out soon what they, uh what they decided. So, uh Yeah, so there's the question of the VAD but otherwise it's it's on the the, uh the mel fil filter bank, uh, energies I guess?", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Mmm, yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "You do doing the?", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "And you're you're subtracting in the in the in the I guess it's power power domain, uh, or or magnitude domain. Probably power domain, right?", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "I guess it's power domain, yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "why", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "I don't remember exactly.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Yeah,", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "I don't remember.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "But yeah, so it's before everything else,", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "yep.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "and.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "I mean, if you look at the theory, it's it should be in the power domain but but, uh, I've seen implementations where people do it in the magnitude domain", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "and.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Mmm.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "I have asked people why and they shrug their shoulders and say, \" oh, it works. \" So.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Uh, and there's this I guess there's this mysterious I mean people who do this a lot I guess have developed little tricks of the trade. I mean, there's there's this, um you don't just subtract the the estimate of the noise spectrum. You subtract th that times.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "A little bit more and Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Or or less, or.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Really?", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Huh!", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "And generated this this,", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Uh.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "um, so you have the estimation of the power spectra of the noise, and you multiply this by a factor which is depend dependent on the SNR. So. Well.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Hmm, maybe.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Hmm!", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "When the speech lev when the signal level is more important, compared to this noise level, the coefficient is small, and around one. But when the power le the s signal level is uh small compared to the noise level, the coefficient is more important. And this reduce actually the music musical noise,", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Oh!", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "uh which is more important during silence portions,", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Uh - huh.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "when the s the energy's small.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Hmm!", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "So there are tricks like this but, mmm.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Hmm!", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "So.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Is the estimate of the noise spectrum a running estimate? Or.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Well, that's I mean, that's what differs from different different tasks and different s uh, spectral subtraction methods.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Hmm!", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "I mean, if if you have, uh, fair assurance that, uh, the noise is is quite stationary, then the smartest thing to do is use as much data as possible to estimate the noise, get a much better estimate, and subtract it off.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "But if it's varying at all, which is gonna be the case for almost any real situation, you have to do it on - line, uh, with some forgetting factor or something.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "So do you is there some long window that extends into the past over which you calculate the average?", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "Well, there's a lot of different ways of computing the noise spectrum. So one of the things that, uh, Hans - Guenter Hirsch did, uh and pas and other people actually, he's he wasn't the only one I guess, was to, uh, take some period of of of speech and in each band, uh, develop a histogram. So, to get a decent histogram of these energies takes at least a few seconds really. But, uh I mean you can do it with a smaller amount but it's pretty rough. And, um, in fact I think the NIST standard method of determining signal - to - noise ratio is based on this.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "A couple seconds?", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "So No, no, it's based on this kind of method,", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "this histogram method. So you have a histogram. Now, if you have signal and you have noise, you basically have these two bumps in the histogram, which you could approximate as two Gaussians.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "But wh don't they overlap sometimes?", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "Oh, yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "OK.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "So you have a mixture of two Gaussians.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "Right? And you can use EM to figure out what it is. You know.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "So so basically now you have this mixture of two Gaussians, you you n know what they are, and, uh I mean, sorry, you estimate what they are, and, uh, so this gives you what the signal is and what the noise e energy is in that band in the spectrum. And then you look over the whole thing and now you have a noise spectrum. So, uh, Hans - Guenter Hirsch and others have used that kind of method. And the other thing to do is which is sort of more trivial and obvious is to, uh, uh, determine through magical means that that, uh, there's no speech in some period, and then see what the spectrum is.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "Uh, but, you know, it's that that that's tricky to do. It has mistakes. Uh, and if you've got enough time, uh, this other method appears to be somewhat more reliable. Uh, a variant on that for just determining signal - to - noise ratio is to just, uh you can do a w a uh an iterative thing, EM - like thing, to determine means only. I guess it is EM still, but just just determine the means only. Don't worry about the variances.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "And then you just use those mean values as being the the, uh uh signal - to - noise ratio in that band.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "But what is the it seems like this kind of thing could add to the latency. I mean, depending on where the window was that you used to calculate the signal - to - noise ratio.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "Yeah, sure. But Mmm.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Not necessarily. Cuz if you don't look into the future, right?", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "OK, well that I guess that was my question,", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "if you just yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "I mean, if you just if you you, uh a at the beginning you have some.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Guess.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "esti some guess and and, uh, uh.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Yeah, but it.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "It's an interesting question. I wonder how they did do it?", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Actually, it's a mmm If - if you want to have a good estimation on non - stationary noise you have to look in the in the future. I mean, if you take your window and build your histogram in this window, um, what you can expect is to have an estimation of th of the noise in in the middle of the window, not at the end. So.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Well, yeah,", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "the but but people.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "but what does what what what does Alcatel do?", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "And and France Telecom.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "The They just look in the past. I guess it works because the noise are, uh pret uh, almost stationary", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Pretty stationary.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Pretty stationary,", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "but, um.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Well, the thing, e e e e", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "yeah.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "Yeah, y I mean, you're talking about non - stationary noise but I think that spectral subtraction is rarely is is not gonna work really well for for non - stationary noise,", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Well, if y if you have a good estimation of the noise,", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "you know?", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "yeah, because well it it has to work.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "But it's hard to.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "i", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "but that's hard to do.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Yeah, that's hard to do. Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Yeah. So so I think that that what what is wh what's more common is that you're going to be helped with r slowly varying or stationary noise.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "But Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "That's what spectral subtraction will help with, practically speaking.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm. Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "If it varies a lot, to get a If if to get a good estimate you need a few seconds of speech, even if it's centered, right?", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "if you need a few seconds to get a decent estimate but it's changed a lot in a few seconds, then it, you know, i it's kind of a problem.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "I mean, imagine e five hertz is the middle of the of the speech modulation spectrum,", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Mmm.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "right? So imagine a jack hammer going at five hertz.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Yeah, that's.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "I mean, good good luck. So,", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "So in this case, yeah, sure, you cannot.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "But I think y um, Hirsch does experiment with windows of like between five hundred milliseconds and one second. And well, five hundred wa was not so bad. I mean and he worked on non - stationary noises, like noise modulated with well, wi with amplitude modulations and things like that,", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Were his, uh, windows centered around the.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "and But Um, yeah. Well, I think Yeah. Well, in in the paper he showed that actually the estimation of the noise is is delayed. Well, it's there is you you have to center the window, yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Mmm.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "No, I understand it's better to do but I just think that that, uh, for real noises wh what what's most likely to happen is that there'll be some things that are relatively stationary", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Mmm.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "where you can use one or another spectral subtraction thing", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "and other things where it's not so stationary and I mean, you can always pick something that that falls between your methods,", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "uh, uh, but I don't know if, you know, if sinusoidally, uh, modul amplitude modulated noise is is sort of a big problem in in in practice.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "I think that it's uh.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "We could probably get a really good estimate of the noise if we just went to the noise files, and built the averages from them.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "Yeah. Well.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "What What do you mean?", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Just cheat You're saying, cheat.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "But if the if the noise is stationary perhaps you don't even need some kind of noise estimation algorithm.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Yeah. Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "We just take th th th the beginning of the utterance and", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Oh, yeah, sure.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "I I know p I don't know if people tried this for Aurora.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "It's the same.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Well, everybody seems to use some kind of adaptive, well, scheme", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "But but.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "but,", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "A dictionary.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "is it very useful", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "you know, stationary.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Very slow adaptation.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "and is the c", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "th", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "Right, the word \" stationary \" is has a very precise statistical meaning. But, you know, in in signal - processing really what we're talking about I think is things that change slowly, uh, compared with our our processing techniques.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "So if you're driving along in a car I I would think that most of the time the nature of the noise is going to change relatively slowly. It's not gonna stay absolute the same. If you if you check it out, uh, five minutes later you may be in a different part of the road", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "or whatever. But it's it's i i i using the local characteristics in time, is probably going to work pretty well.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "But you could get hurt a lot if you just took some something from the beginning of all the speech, of, you know, an hour of speech and then later.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Uh, so they may be you know, may be overly, uh, complicated for for this test but but but, uh, I don't know. But what you're saying, you know, makes sense, though. I mean, if possible you shouldn't you should you should make it, uh, the center of the center of the window. But uh, we're already having problems with these delay, uh delay issues.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Yeah, so.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "So, uh, we'll have to figure ways without it. Um,", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "If they're going to provide a, uh, voice activity detector that will tell you the boundaries of the speech, then, couldn't you just go outside those boundaries and do your estimate there?", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "Oh, yeah. You bet. Yeah. So I I imagine that's what they're doing, right? Is they're they're probably looking in nonspeech sections and getting some, uh.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Yeah, they have some kind of threshold on on the previous estimate, and So. Yeah. I think. Yeah, I think Ericsson used this kind of threshold. Yeah, so, they h they have an estimate of the noise level and they put a threshold like six or ten DB above, and what's under this threshold is used to update the estimate. Is is that right", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "or?", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "I think so.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "So it's it's.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "I have not here the proposal.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Yeah. It's like saying what's under the threshold is silence,", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Does France Telecom do this.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "and.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Hmm.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "Does France Telecom do th do the same thing? More or less?", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "I d I Y you know, perhaps?", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "No. I do I have not here the proposal.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "OK. Um, OK, if we're we're done done with that, uh, let's see. Uh, maybe we can talk about a couple other things briefly, just, uh, things that that we've been chatting about but haven't made it into these meetings yet. So you're coming up with your quals proposal, and, uh Wanna just give a two three minute summary of what you're planning on doing?", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Oh, um, two, three, it can be shorter than that.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Um. Well, I've I've talked to some of you already. Um, but I'm, uh, looking into extending the work done by Larry Saul and John Allen and uh Mazin Rahim. Um, they they have a system that's, uh, a multi - band, um, system but their multi - band is is a little different than the way that we've been doing multi - band in the past, where um Where we've been @ @ uh taking um sub - band features and i training up these neural nets and on on phonetic targets, and then combining them some somehow down the line, um, they're they're taking sub - band features and, um, training up a detector that detects for, um, these phonetic features for example, um, he presents um, uh, a detector to detect sonorance. And so what what it basically is is, um it's there's at the lowest level, there it's it's an OR ga I mean, it's an AND gate. So, uh, on each sub - band you have several independent tests, to test whether um, there's the existence of sonorance in a sub - band. And then, um, it c it's combined by a soft AND gate. And at the at the higher level, for every if, um The higher level there's a soft OR gate. Uh, so if if this detector detects um, the presence of of sonorance in any of the sub - bands, then the detect uh, the OR gate at the top says, \" OK, well this frame has evidence of sonorance. \"", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "What are what are some of the low level detectors that they use?", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "And these are all Oh, OK. Well, the low level detectors are logistic regressions. Um, and the, uh.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "So that, by the way, basically is a is one of the units in our in our our neural network.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "the one o", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "So that's all it is. It's a sig it's a sigmoid,", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "uh, with weighted sum at the input,", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "which you train by gradient descent.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Right. Yeah, so he uses, um, an EM algorithm to to um train up these um parameters for the logistic regression.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "Well, actually, yeah,", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "The.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "so I was using EM to get the targets. So so you have this this this AND gate what we were calling an AND gate, but it's a product product rule thing at the output. And then he uses, uh, i u and then feeding into that are I'm sorry, there's it's an OR at the output, isn't it? Yeah,", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "so that's the product. And then, um, then he has each of these AND things. And, um, but so they're little neural neural units. Um, and, um, they have to have targets. And so the targets come from EM.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "And so are each of these, low level detectors are they, uh are these something that you decide ahead of time, like \" I'm going to look for this particular feature or I'm going to look at this frequency, \" or What what what are they looking at?", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "Um.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "What are their inputs?", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "Uh Right, so the OK, so at each for each sub - band there are basically, uh, several measures of SNR and and correlation.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "Ah, OK, OK.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "Um, um and he said there's like twenty of these per per sub - band. Um, and for for every s every sub - band, e you you just pick ahead of time, um, \" I'm going to have like five i independent logistic tests. \"", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "And you initialize these parameters, um, in some some way and use EM to come up with your training targets for a for the the low - level detectors.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "And then, once you get that done, you you you train the whole whole thing on maximum likelihood. Um, and h he shows that using this this method to detect sonorance is it's very robust compared to, um to typical, uh, full - band Gaussian mixtures um estimations of of sonorance.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm. Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "And, uh so so that's just that's just one detector. So you can imagine building many of these detectors on different features. You get enough of these detectors together, um, then you have enough information to do, um, higher level discrimination, for example, discriminating between phones", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "and then you keep working your way up until you you build a full recognizer.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "So, um, that's that's the direction which I'm I'm thinking about going in my quals.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "Cool.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "You know, it has a number of properties that I really liked. I mean, one is the going towards, um, using narrow band information for, uh, ph phonetic features of some sort rather than just, uh, immediately going for the the typical sound units.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "Another thing I like about it is that you t this thing is going to be trained explicitly trained for a product of errors rule, which is what, uh, Allen keeps pointing out that Fletcher observed in the twenties,", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "uh, for people listening to narrow band stuff. That's Friday's talk, by the way. And then, um, Uh, the third thing I like about it is, uh, and we've played around with this in a different kind of way a little bit but it hasn't been our dominant way of of operating anything, um, this issue of where the targets come from. So in our case when we've been training it multi - band things, the way we get the targets for the individual bands is, uh, that we get the phonetic label for the sound there", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "and we say, \" OK, we train every \" What this is saying is, OK, that's maybe what our ultimate goal is or not ultimate but penultimate goal is getting these these small sound units. But but, um, along the way how much should we, uh uh, what should we be training these intermediate things for? I mean, because, uh, we don't know uh, that this is a particularly good feature. I mean, there's no way, uh someone in the audience yesterday was asking, \" well couldn't you have people go through and mark the individual bands and say where the where it was sonorant or not? \"", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "But, you know, I think having a bunch of people listening to critical band wide, uh, chunks of speech trying to determine whether I think it'd be impossible.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Ouch.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "It's all gonna sound like like sine waves to you, more or less.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "I mean Well not I mean, it's g all g narrow band uh, i I m I think it's very hard for someone to to a person to make that determination. So, um, um, we don't really know how those should be labeled. It could sh be that you should, um, not be paying that much attention to, uh, certain bands for certain sounds, uh, in order to get the best result.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "So, um, what we have been doing there, just sort of mixing it all together, is certainly much much cruder than that. We trained these things up on the on the, uh the final label. Now we have I guess done experiments you've probably done stuff where you have, um, done separate, uh, Viterbis on the different.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Yeah. Forced alignment on the sub - band labels?", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "You've done that. Did did that help at all?", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Um, it helps for one or t one iteration but um, anything after that it doesn't help.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "So so that may or may t it that aspect of what he's doing may or may not be helpful because in a sense that's the same sort of thing. You're taking global information and determining what you how you should But this is this is, uh, I th I think a little more direct.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "How did they measure the performance of their detector?", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "And Well, he's look he's just actually looking at, uh, the confusions between sonorant and non - sonorant.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "So he hasn't applied it to recognition or if he did he didn't talk about it. It's it's just And one of the concerns in the audience, actually, was that that, um, the, uh, uh he he did a comparison to, uh, you know, our old foil, the the nasty old standard recognizer with mel mel filter bank at the front, and H M Ms, and and so forth. And, um, it didn't do nearly as well, especially in in noise. But the one of the good questions in the audience was, well, yeah, but that wasn't trained for that. I mean, this use of a very smooth, uh, spectral envelope is something that, you know, has evolved as being generally a good thing for speech recognition but if you knew that what you were gonna do is detect sonorants or not So sonorants and non - sonorants is is is almost like voiced - unvoiced, except I guess that the voiced stops are are also called \" obstruents \". Uh, so it's it's uh, but with the exception of the stops I guess it's pretty much the same as voiced - unvoiced,", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "right? So so Um. So, um, if you knew you were doing that, if you were doing something say for a a, uh a a Vocoder, you wouldn't use the same kind of features. You would use something that was sensitive to the periodicity and and not just the envelope. Uh, and so in that sense it was an unfair test. Um, so I think that the questioner was right. It it was in that sense an unfair test. Nonetheless, it was one that was interesting because, uh, this is what we are actually using for speech recognition, these smooth envelopes. And this says that perhaps even, you know, trying to use them in the best way that we can, that that that we ordinarily do, with, you know, Gaussian mixtures and H M Ms and so forth, you you don't, uh, actually do that well on determining whether something is sonorant or not.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Didn't they.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "Which means you're gonna make errors between similar sounds that are son sonorant or obstruent.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Didn't they also do some kind of an oracle experiment where they said \" if we could detect the sonorants perfectly and then show how it would improve speech recognition? I thought I remember hearing about an experiment like that.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "The - these same people?", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "I don't remember that.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "That would that's you're right, that's exactly the question to follow up this discussion, is suppose you did that, uh, got that right. Um, Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "What could be the other low level detectors, I mean, for Other kind of features, or? in addition to detecting sonorants or? Th - that's what you want to to to go for also", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Um.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "or?", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "What t Oh, build other other detectors on different phonetic features?", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "Other low level detectors? Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Um, uh Let's see, um, Yeah, I d I don't know. e Um, um, I mean, w easiest thing would be to go go do some voicing stuff but that's very similar to sonorance.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Um,", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "When we when we talked with John Ohala the other day we made a list of some of the things that w", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "like frication,", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "Oh! OK.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "abrupt closure,", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm. Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "R - coloring, nasality, voicing Uh.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "Yeah, so there's a half dozen like that that are.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Yeah, nasality.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "Now this was coming at it from a different angle but maybe it's a good way to start. Uh, these are things which, uh, John felt that a a, uh a human annotator would be able to reliably mark. So the sort of things he felt would be difficult for a human annotator to reliably mark would be tongue position kinds of things.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Oh, OK. Placing stuff,", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "yeah.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "There's also things like stress.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "Uh.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "You can look at stress.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "But stress doesn't, uh, fit in this thing of coming up with features that will distinguish words from one another,", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "right? It's a it's a good thing to mark and will probably help us ultimate with recognition", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Yeah, there's a few cases where it can like permit and permit.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "but.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "But that's not very common in English. In other languages it's more uh, important.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "Well, yeah, but i either case you'd write PERMIT, right? So you'd get the word right.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "No, I'm saying, i i e I thought you were saying that stress doesn't help you distinguish between words.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "Um,", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Oh, I see what you're saying. As long as you get The sequence,", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "We're g if we're doing if we're talking about transcription as opposed to something else.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "right? Yeah. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah. Right.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "So where it could help is maybe at a higher level. Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Like a understanding application.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "Understanding, yeah. Exactly.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "But that's this afternoon's meeting. Yeah. We don't understand anything in this meeting. Yeah, so that's yeah, that's, you know, a neat neat thing and and, uh So.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "S so, um, Ohala's going to help do these, uh transcriptions of the meeting data?", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "Uh, well I don't know. We d we sort of didn't get that far. Um, we just talked about some possible features that could be marked by humans and, um,", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "Hmm.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "because of having maybe some extra transcriber time we thought we could go through and mark some portion of the data for that. And, uh.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "Yeah,", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Hmm.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "I mean, that's not an immediate problem, that we don't immediately have a lot of extra transcriber time.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Yeah, right.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "But but, uh, in the long term I guess Chuck is gonna continue the dialogue with John and and, uh, and, we'll we'll end up doing some I think.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "I'm definitely interested in this area, too, f uh, acoustic feature stuff.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "Uh - huh.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "OK.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "So.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "Yeah, I think it's an interesting interesting way to go.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Cool.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "Um, I say it like \" said - int \". I think it has a number of good things. Um, so, uh, y you want to talk maybe a c two or three minutes about what we've been talking about today and other days?", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Ri Yeah, OK, so, um, we're interested in, um, methods for far mike speech recognition, um, mainly, uh, methods that deal with the reverberation in the far mike signal. So, um, one approach would be, um, say MSG and PLP, like was used in Aurora one and, um, there are other approaches which actually attempt to remove the reverberation, instead of being robust to it like MSG. And so we're interested in, um, comparing the performance of um, a robust approach like MSG with these, um, speech enhancement or de - reverber de - reverberation approaches.", "speakerName": "Grad F" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "And, um, it looks like we're gonna use the Meeting Recorder digits data for that.", "speakerName": "Grad F" }, { "text": "And the de - reverberation algorithm, do you have can you give some more details on this or? Does it use one microphone?", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "o o", "speakerName": "Grad F" }, { "text": "Several microphones? Does it?", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "OK, well, um, there was something that was done by, um, a guy named Carlos, I forget his last name, who worked with Hynek, who, um,", "speakerName": "Grad F" }, { "text": "Avendano.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "OK.", "speakerName": "Grad F" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Who, um,", "speakerName": "Grad F" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "um, it was like RASTA in the sense that of it was, um, de - convolution by filtering um, except he used a longer time window,", "speakerName": "Grad F" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "like a second maybe. And the reason for that is RASTA's time window is too short to, um include the whole, um, reverberation um, I don't know what you call it the reverberation response. I if you see wh if you see what I mean. The reverberation filter from my mouth to that mike is like it's t got it's too long in the in the time domain for the um for the RASTA filtering to take care of it. And, um, then there are a couple of other speech enhancement approaches which haven't been tried for speech recognition yet but have just been tried for enhancement, which, um, have the assumption that um, you can do LPC um analysis of th of the signal you get at the far microphone and the, um, all pole filter that you get out of that should be good. It's just the, um, excitation signal that is going to be distorted by the reverberation and so you can try and reconstruct a better excitation signal and, um, feed that through the i um, all pole filter and get enhanced speech with reverberation reduced.", "speakerName": "Grad F" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm. Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "There's also this, uh, um, uh, echo cancellation stuff that we've sort of been chasing, so, uh we have, uh and when we're saying these digits now we do have a close microphone signal and then there's the distant microphone signal. And you could as a kind of baseline say, \" OK, given that we have both of these, uh, we should be able to do, uh, a cancellation. \" So that, uh, um, we we, uh, essentially identify the system in between the linear time invariant system between the microphones and and and and re and invert it, uh, or or cancel it out to to some some reasonable approximation", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "through one method or another. Uh, that's not a practical thing, uh, if you have a distant mike, you don't have a close mike ordinarily, but we thought that might make also might make a good baseline. Uh, it still won't be perfect because there's noise. Uh, but And then there are s uh, there are single microphone methods that I think people have done for, uh for this kind of de - reverberation. Do y do you know any references to any? Cuz I I w I was w w I I lead him down a a bad path on that.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Uh, I g I guess I guess when people are working with single microphones, they are more trying to do.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "But.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "well, not not very Well, there is the Avendano work,", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "but also trying to mmm, uh trying to f t find the de - convolution filter but in the um not in the time domain but in the uh the stream of features uh I guess. Well, @ @ there there's someone working on this on i in Mons", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Yeah, OK.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "So perhaps, yeah, we should try t to He's working on this, on trying to.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "on re reverberation, um.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "The first paper on this is gonna have great references, I can tell already.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "It's always good to have references, especially when reviewers read it or or one of the authors and, feel they'll \" You're OK, you've r You cited me. \"", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "So, yeah. Well, he did echo cancellation and he did some fancier things like, uh, uh, training different network on different reverberation conditions and then trying to find the best one, but. Well.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "The oth the other thing, uh, that Dave was talking about earlier was, uh, uh, multiple mike things, uh, where they're all distant. So, um, I mean, there's there's all this work on arrays, but the other thing is, uh, what can we do that's cleverer that can take some advantage of only two mikes, uh, particularly if there's an obstruction between them, as we as we have over there.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "If there is?", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "An obstruction between them.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Ah, yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "It creates a shadow which is is helpful. It's part of why you have such good directionality with, with two ears", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "even though they're not several feet apart. For most for most people's heads.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "That could help though.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "So that Yeah, the the head, in the way, is really that's what it's for. It's basically,", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "That's what the head's for? To separate the ears?", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "Yeah, it's to separate the ears. That's right, yeah. Yeah. Uh, so. Anyway, O K. Uh, I think that's that's all we have this week.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Oh.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "And, uh, I think it's digit time.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Actually the, um For some reason the digit forms are blank.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "Yeah?", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Uh, I think th that may be due to the fact that Adam ran out of digits, uh, and didn't have time to regenerate any.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "Oh! Oh! I guess it's Well there's no real reason to write our names on here then,", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Yeah, if you want to put your credit card numbers and, uh.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "is there?", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Oh, no?", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "Or do did any do we need the names for the other stuff,", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Uh, yeah, I do need your names and and the time, and all that,", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "or? Oh, OK.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "cuz we put that into the \" key \" files.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "Oh, OK.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Um. But w", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "OK.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "That's why we have the forms, uh, even if there are no digits.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "OK, yeah, I didn't notice this. 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Um they wanted limited buttons and simplicity. Um then we looked at the uh the method for coming up with our own remote. Um looking at other other devices. Um the iPod, we really liked the look of that. Um we also had uh the kid's remote for a simple idea. Um a two part remote, which was what were were originally looking at. Uh and then um there was talk of spee uh speech recognition um becoming more uh predominant and easier to use. But I think we've still decided not to go with that. Then we looked at the components um the materials for the case, the different energy sources, the different types of chips, um and made a decision on what we were going to use to make our remote. Um and basically how, what were making for the prototype. So I'm going to leave it at that and let you guys take over.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "The prototype discussion.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "The prototype yeah. Do you need a this?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "No..", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Can try to plug that in there", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "There is our remo the banana.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "but.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Um yeah basically we we st went with the colour yellow. Um working on the principle of a fruit which was mentioned, it's basically designed around a banana.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Um but it would be held in such a fashion,", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "where it is, obviously it wouldn't be that floppy'cause this would be hard plastic. These would be like the rubber, the rubber grips. So that's so that would hopefully help with grip, or like the ergonomics of it. Um but all the controlling would be done with this scroll wheel. You have to use your imagination a little bit. And this here represents the screen, where you, where you'd go through.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Very nice.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "And the the simplest functions would be um almost identical to an iPod, where that one way ch through channels, that way th other way through channels. Volume up and down. And then to access the more complicated functions you'd you sorta go, you press that and go through the menus. It's that that simple. That just represents the infrared uh beam. That's a simple on and off switch. Um I don't know, we could use the voice. T that blue bits should be yellow, that that'd be where the batteries would be I suppose. And um that's about it. It's as simple as you, we could make it really.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Is there anything you want to add?", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "That's what we have there. That's plastic. Plastic covered with rubber. We might uh add some more underneath here. Maybe give it, give it a form. I mean you're supposed to hold it like that, but um just if you grab it, take it from somewhere,", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "so yeah,", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Doesn't make much make much difference.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "you have some rub yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "You could work left-handed or right-handed I suppose.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Exactly, use both. Might as well think about.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "T the actual thing might be smaller.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Th think about the button as well. Like either put either one one on either side or", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "What but what's that button?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "not do it at all. It's a quick on-off button.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Just the on and off.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Uh,'kay.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "That's um", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "yeah I think it's pretty important. So you don't have to fiddle with that.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "'Kay.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Right? Um that's not um.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "I'd say a bit smaller would probably be nice. You wanna play with that over there.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "There you go.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "It's you know it's flimsy'cause it's made out of heavy Play-Doh,", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Would you like to uh.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "but.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Pretty impressive.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Well done.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Kind of a banana.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "And whether or not it would fall into the cost everything I suppose. With the scroll and the L_C_D_.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Well luckily we are going to find out. Or not luckily. Um do you have a marketing presentation for us.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "I do. Okay. You guys are gonna help me do an evaluation of the criteria. Um. Okay. So first I'll just discuss some of the criteria that I found. Just based on the past trend reports that I was looking at earlier. And then we'll do a group evaluation of the prototype. And then we will calculate the average score to see how we did. Um so the criteria we're gonna be looking at are the complaints um that we heard from the users who were interviewed earlier. So we're gonna be doing it based on a seven point scale. And one is going to mean true, that we did actually achieve that. With seven being false, we did not achieve that.. Okay. So for the first one, we need to decide, did we solved the problem of the users who complained about an ugly remote?.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": ".", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "I think it's definitely different than anything else out there.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "So if they think that what is out there is ugly, then yes I would say, I would say most definitely.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "I would.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "It's bright.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "It's bright. It's.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "It still has your traditional black.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "It's curved. It's not there's no sharp", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "angles to it.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yep, not angular.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "I'd say, when it comes to the ergonomics, the form and stuff, yes that's definitely more beautiful than your average.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "However the colour, we don't have a say in that.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah I think the colours detract a little bit..", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Some people might say it. Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "That has been, that has been dictated pretty much by the company.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "So uh to answer that honestly I would rather say like uh, we have not solved the problem completely with the ugly remote because the colour is ugly, definitely.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yep.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "That's true. Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "'S nothing you can say about that. I mean I much prefer something like brushed chrome with that form.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "But.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah something more modern to go a a modern colour to go with the modern form.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Right. Right. It's different. You don't want your uh three feet huge L_C_D_ dis display in your living room that's hanging from the wall to be controlled with something like that.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Um okay so, do you think, since we This was a a sign criteria, do you think maybe we should put it somewhere in the middle then?", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Does that sound good?", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "What do you think? Three? Four?", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "I would say", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Five?", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "four..", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah..", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Four is fair. Okay.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Very non-committal, four.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Okay, the second one. Did we make it simple for new users?", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "It's very intuitive, I think yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah. I think that was the main aim, one of the main aims that we had.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "S give it a one.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "One,", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "'kay. Okay. Um, do the controls now match the operating behaviour of the users?", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Uh yeah.'Cause we've we've brought it down to basically four controls most common, which are channel and volume.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "I'd say that.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "And then the other ones are just a matter of just going, just scrolling further.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "S scrolling through and selecting a few.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Right. So that's a one.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "So one?", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "I think that's a one.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah? Okay. Okay um the fourth one. How about the problem of a remote being easily lost? One of the number one complaints.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Something that big and that yellow you just don't lose anymore.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Whether you want to or not, you're not gonna lose it..", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "It's bright yellow.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Bright yellow's hard to lose. But um if we were to, if we were, that, the speech recognition. That, we could maybe just use that solely for the the finding thing. That was what we'd we'd mentioned.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "So if we incorporate speech recognition into it then it could.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Just just to use, to find it when it was lost. But like I said, like I don't think you'd lose something so yellow so easily.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Oops. Hmm.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "And it's not gonna fall, like a rectangle would slip down behind things. That's gonna be a difficult shape to.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Well what.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "And it is quite bright and.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Maybe in the middle again, three or four or something?", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Uh.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "S", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "I mean you know loo losing things is one of those things that people can lose, I mean a million ways.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "You can pick it up and walk away with it and then you've lost it.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "That's true.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "But if we do go with the, with the speech recognition, then it, then our scale goes up quite a bit I think.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Oh yeah. You probably.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Probably two. You know. If we eliminate the fact that you know it's impossible to guarantee that it's not gonna be lost then", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "I'd say two.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "With the speech recognition, which of course may be changed depending on budget.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Y you could add an extra feature actually. Which makes this thing raise hell when you remove it too far from the television.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "We could add that but that's nothing we have thought of so far.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Which, which may be cheaper than speech recognition if it were just a.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yes.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah true. But I mean d just those whistling, clapping key rings you have. They're cheap.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Annoying alarm or something?", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "It's it's.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "So it can't be that", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Um the it's based on this anti anti-theft technology for suitcases and stuff,", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "expensive.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Some sort of proximity.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "where you have one piece that's attached to your luggage, another piece that starts beeping. That can't cost much.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "So that can also easily be integrated because these things are small enough to to hide, so you have one piece, you have to glue somewhere behind your stick it behind your T_V_ and the other.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "stick it on the T_V_.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Pray that you don't accidentally lose that piece..", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "That'd be tough then. Well also your remote would uh alarm you if somebody stole you t your television, yeah. Ran off with it without taking the beautiful remote control.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah..", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "So. Are we adding one of these two features?", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Let's add one of those features and say yes..", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "gonna say okay.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "So we're back to a one?", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Two.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Or a two?", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Two.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Two.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Two,'kay. Okay. Are we technologically innovative?", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Uh.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "I'd say so.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Uh don't get many mo remote controls with", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "It's all just.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "screens on.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "It's all just stolen technology when it comes down to.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah it's stolen technology.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "From iPod yeah..", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "It's.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "But we have.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "But there's not a lot of yellow, there's not a lotta yellow.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "right", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "But for remotes yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Course that wasn't really.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "right", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Fa", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "right right.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "we were kinda forced to take that colour.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Two? Three?", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "'cause it's stolen.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "I don't know that we are that innovative, to tell you the truth..", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "No maybe not.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah not really.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "But how many remotes do you see like this?", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "If we added the screaming factor then we go up.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Not so many.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Um I would say we're probably at four.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Really? Okay. That's gonna hurt us.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Okay. Um spongy material?", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah well you have that, kind of, sort of.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "We have some spongy, yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah as much as as needed, I think.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "'Kay.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "It's not a one though.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "No.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "One would be the whole thing", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah. Because it's only got what, these parts are the grips and perhaps the back side the bottom the underneath on the back.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "to fold and stuff. Yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "So that's a four at most.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Probably a four at most. Possibly even a five.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "And lastly, did we put the fashion in electronics?", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Y yes.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "I'd say we did.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "If your fashion is b is Carmen Miranda, you betcha..", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "More.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah..", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Well the recent fashion is rather displayed in the in the L_C_D_ and the way you operate it than the form and the colour,", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "On the.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "It's true.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "but it definitely is.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Be what we were told, and they'd say yeah, definitely.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": ".", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "'Kay. Alright. Now we just gotta calculate. Six eight twelve sixteen. Seventeen divided by s", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": ".", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Seven is.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Eight.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Two point.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "two point four?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Is that some long division? No.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Something.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Well I haven't done math in years.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "What two.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "I dunno.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Just, I'm sure there's a.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Okay we'll say two point four two. Right? How does that look?", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "I'm impressed. I can't do that without a calculator..", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "No I can't do long.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "It's been a while.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "very impressive.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "And what what is the acceptable criteria? Is there like a scale that we have to hit?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Oh no. They just told me to", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "pick my own criteria and have you guys evaluate it basically.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Alright then.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "So that's that.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Okay. Well, let's see.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Now we get to do the budget numbers. You didn't know that you were gonna have a budget. But we do. Okay.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah. Yeah so. You'd been going a long time dividing that. It's two point four two eight five se it just keeps going on.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Oh my god.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Two point four two basically.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Okay. Yeah we'll go with that.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "So I have here an.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Fifty percent, you're kidding.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Not too shabby.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "P", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "We want a fifty percent profit on this. Oh you can't really see that very well.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Charge about three hundred quid for it.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Twelve and a half Euros is what supposed to cost us. Okay, so.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "It's too much.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Well let's see.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Um.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "The f the Wonder if I can make this.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Uh.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "What the Oh it won't let me do that. Okay. Alright so at top, I don't know if you guys can read that or not. I can't'cause I don't have my glasses on,", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "but so we've got the energy source. There's uh four, five, six categories.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Battery.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "We have energy source, electronics, case. Then we have case material supplements, interface type, and then button supplements. Okay so Uh first of all energy source, we picked battery. Um and how many batteries do we think this will probably take?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Probably some e either two or four.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Two.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Two? Like it..", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "At four it's gonna be too heavy, so that that's not our problem. People can change it every month.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Excellent.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "They won't know until after they bought it.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "This is consumerism.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Alright so for the electronics our choices are simpl simple chip-on-print, regular chip-on-print, advanced chip-on-print, sample sensor, sample speaker.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": ".", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "We're advanced chip are we?", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "That's the advanced chip-on-print, yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "'Kay, we have one of those.'Kay then the case is a Probably it's double curved.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Double curved, yes.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Case materials are", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Plastic.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "plastic. Um I guess it's two, since one for the top, one for the bottom.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "N no.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Is that right or is it just one?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "No that's just one.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Maybe it's one because of the.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "It's just one mo single mould, we can do that.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "'Kay.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Right..", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "I guess it doesn't matter'cause the price on that one is zero, which is nice.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Exactly, right.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Oh.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Special colour?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "That's not a special colour. It's a specially ugly colour, but it's not special.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Bright yellow.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Interface type. We have pushbutton, scroll-wheel interface, integrated scroll-wheel pushbutton, and an L_C_D_ display.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "S", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "S.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "That's Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "So we actually have the L_C_D_ display", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "And then.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "and then is it the integrated or is it.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "I'd say the integrated.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yes unfortunately.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "'Kay. Button supplement? Special colour?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Um special form? Special material.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "We could of course make the buttons wood.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Say mahogany or so", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "It'd look really lovely.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Or titanium.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm or titanium.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "They cost us all the same.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "remote control.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Well we only have one button so really we shouldn't be charged,", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Uh just.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "we shouldn't be charged anything for the the button supplements.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "No that's getting a bit tiny.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Um.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "I'd ignore that.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Leave it blank.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Okay. We're gonna leave that one blank because we run on a L_C_D_ and scroll. So our total is fifteen point five. Which I believe is", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah that's too much.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "by three Euros over.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "It's hard to believe. So we'll go for the hand dynamo huh?.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "So the only thing better than um a banana-shaped remote is one that you shake.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "If it w What if we completely took out the the one single button we've got on.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "And just had a scroll wheel interface. And the L_C_D_ display. I suppose the L_C_D_ C_ display's the one that's pushing it up a bit though.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah'cause the.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Well'cause we have to have both right?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "I mean let's let's face it, it also depends on the software on the on the television.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "You can have the the information that this thing transmits be being displayed on the on the screen.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "So s yeah let's take away the.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah you could maybe take out the L_C_D_ dis display even,", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah. Yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "if it if it comes up on the computer itsel on the T_V_ itself.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "So we may not need the L_C_D_ display?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Uh that is possible yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Right. We may not need it. There you go.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Well there we go.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Perfect.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Twelve point five.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "There we go.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Perfect.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Okay. So we just remove our.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Screen.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "screen here.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Make it a bigger dial.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Easier to use. Even easier to use then.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Okay, the.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Besides look at what the L_C_D_ does to our lovely remote.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Back to the design room boys.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "So we can just take away a heck of a lot of the.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": ".", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "there you go. central?", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "What's the blue part?", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "That was just.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Oh that's just.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "we ran out of yellow..", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Oh that's the batteries.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Okay..", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "There you go", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "There you go.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": ". Oops.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Even simpler.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Looks more like a banana.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "There you go.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "For all those fruit lovers out there.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "One more criteria.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Okay so the costs under twelve point five Euro. Was no. We redesigned it. Now it's yes.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Next slide. Project evaluation. Uh project process, satisfaction with, for example, room for creativity, leadership, teamwork, means, new ideas found. Um So I guess that Let's see here. I think that perhaps the project evaluation's just supposed to be completed by me. But I'd like to hear your thoughts.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Fair enough..", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Trying to fill in some time there..", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Uh h what did you think of our project process?.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Great..", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "I think we did yeah I think we did quite well. Um.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Good.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Good teamwork..", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Just half a day, you have a remote. There you go.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah. Right from the start of the day.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah I think.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "We sort of knew where we were going straight away I thought.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "we st we started off a little little weak. Our leadership was quite weak in the beginning.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Um um.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "But as the day went along we had more idea of what we were doing. Um room for creativity? There was that. Um I think we tried a lotta different things and um I think it was um interesting as you guys brought up more um information and studies that we were right on with a lot of those things. Um you guys worked together well as a team. And um the means? Which was the whiteboard and the pens.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah. We've used the whiteboard.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Super super.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "I had some problem with the pen I think, but minus your p", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Minus your PowerPoint fiasco.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Well that's not my fault. That's obviously the people I work for uh that work for me,", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "No I know. I'm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Well.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "yeah. Incom.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "uh they've just you know.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Have a.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Heads are gonna roll, believe me.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "we have a list of employees that you would like fired.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yes yes.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Okay. N new ideas found? Um.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm. Kinda.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yes for the remote. Maybe no not f for", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Technology used.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "technology. Alright. Closing. Costs are within the budget. Project is evaluated. Um complete the final questionnaire and meeting summary. 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Hello everybody.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Hello.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Back again for another wonderful meeting.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": ".", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Is uh everyone ready?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Almost..", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Okay, we c we can hold on for a minute.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Oh my gosh..", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "I figured with the spam thing, if you can't beat it, join in..", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "That's the kind of spam that everybody likes to receive.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Mm'kay.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Are you ready? Okay, right, well, I take it that you are all ready now.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Um alright first off we'll just uh recap from our last meeting. Um which was we got together just to basically decide on well to talk about what it is that we were actually uh supposed to be doing,", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "and who we all are and stuff like that, mm get bit more of an idea together of what's going on. Um what we are gonna talk about in this meeting is um now that we know what it is that we are doing, now we know that it's a T_V_ remote and stuff and you guys have just been off doing some some uh R_ and D_ for that, that's research and development for those that haven't heard that before,", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "see I'm learning all sorts of new technologi terms in technology today. Um yeah, we're gonna hear your uh th three little presentations,", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "whether they be on computer or on the whiteboard or whatever you want.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Hmm. Do you have any preference uh of order?", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Um I'd like to um hear", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "o I'd like to hear who's g who's on the um from from uh Catherine actually first. I want what I'd like to hear about is uh if we've finally decided on um what sort of energy we're gonna be using and", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Batteries.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "I think she is still finishing her..", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "No no no no, it's fine I'm just preparing.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "It's just that yeah, let's let's hear from you first.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Hmm.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Where is that thing?", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Okay, it's uh.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "It's here.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Oh sorry, couldn't see.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Would that work?", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Get yourself in position..", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Okay, so that's me again.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Ah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Um so um for the energy sources we can have a basic battery, a hand dynamo which is which was used uh in the fifties for torches, if you remember that kind of which wouldn't be v wouldn't be v v", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "I don't think any of us remember the fifties.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Is it like a crank thing or something.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "yeah, yeah. It wouldn't be very fancy.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "You can have a kinetic provision of energy, which is used on some watches these days. So if you have just a bit of gentle movement that it will give it the energy to work.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Or you can use solar cells, but I'm not sure about that indoors, really, but.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Well, there's sometimes combinations, I mean, like calculators do combinations of battery with but also using some solar power.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Do sol solar panel things, do they have to work from the sun or can they work from a light bulb?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Does anybody know?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "I dunno actually.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Uh I think, it has to be on the on the solar energy, but I don't know.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "I dunno. Um. Think the the uh what would cost the less would be the basic battery, really.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "And uh if we want something fancier, I think the kinetic provision of energy could be nice,", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "but I don't know if it's worth the cost. So we've got to discuss that.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Mm. Okay, jolly good.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "For the case of the remotes itself, um they can be a general case, which is just a flat one. You can have uh a curved one or a double curved one, if you know what I mean, so.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "What's a double curved one?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "You know, kind of more ergonomic, that kind of suits the palm of your hand, that kind of thing.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "So Um then the case material itself, so it can be uh uh either plastic or latex, uh rubber, wood, or titanium. And th for each of them you have uh cases where for example titanium, you can't use it for if you if we're choosing a double curved case, we can't choose titanium. And if we are choosing um solar cells then we can't choose latex for the case material, so we just have to take that into account. But if we're choosing just the flat case then we can go for anything. And I think we discussed earlier on the R_ S_ I_ problem thing, so we could uh.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "So that might be an idea of using the rubber,", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "but then it should, you know.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Let's have a squeezable remote..", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah. And also it doesn't break as easily maybe,", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "when a T_V_ programme's got one.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "I dunno.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "watching the match and your team's just lost, you can fuzz it across the room and it'll bounce off the wall back at you.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah, I like that idea.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "So rubber would be Okay.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "I think rubber's.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Rubber, we're all we're all going we're all liking that idea? You think you can market that?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "But after my after my fashion thing, I think you'll realise that rubber is more.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Ooh, we like rubber, ooh..", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Uh s so if d", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "People..", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "okay. And then there are the push-buttons, so you can have basic push-buttons or a scroll-wheels, like you have on a mouse, um or you could have um L_C_D_, which gives you a display. Um scroll buttons, as well.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Uh-huh.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "So if you use a rubber double curved case, you must use rubber push-buttons. So if we're going for rubber then we have to decide for the case. Um and if we choose double curved then we have to go for rubber push-buttons.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Well, we're gonna go with I think we've decided that it's gonna be a rubber case so.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "So it's a constraint. Yeah, but is it a double curved one or not? If it's not a double curved, then we've got the choice for the push-buttons, if it's a double curve, we've gotta go for rubber push-buttons. If that makes sense.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "push buttons instead of the wheel?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah..", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "If it's rubber, isn't it malleable anyway, it doesn't matter if it's double I mean isn't a rubber case, mean it's completely flexed, I mean, it it flexes to whatever they want it to? Mean so what's the difference between a normal rubber case and a rubble doub double rubber double curved case?.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "rubble double double..", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "No, but na le you see, you've got, okay, the energy that's one thing,", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "I'll have a Big Mac, please..", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "then you have the case is uh, whether it's flat or curved. And that's we don't care if it's rub rubber or not, but then we've decided that we going for rubber for the case material. So if we've chosen rub rubber and if now we have the choice for the case whether it's flat, single curved or double curved. And I'm just saying if it if we choose it to be double curved then we need to go I dunno why, but we need to go for uh rubber push-buttons. So, either.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "I dunno we just need to decide on the on the case.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Let's have rubber push buttons, hey.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Okay. Go rubber. Go rubber the whole way.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Let's go crazy. And then, do I have a last slide? Yes, I do. Um so the push-buttons themselves they can be just simple or they can be so that's just the electronics between the but behind the push-buttons.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Um and the price that go with it with it, so the simple push-buttons are gonna be the cheapest. Uh if we get a scroll-wheel, that's a higher price range. If we get an advanced chip which is um used for the L_C_D_, the display thing, then that's even more expensive.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Simple, yeah. Chip on print. It's a bit. Okay, uh what I'm not understanding here", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "is uh, okay, advanced chip on print, which I presume is like one P_C_B_ and that's got all the electronics on one board including the um infra-red sender?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": ". Yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "The infra-red. Yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Right. Um what a what alternatives do we have to that? Y um what alternatives do we have to the chip on print?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Well, if if it's not chip on print then, I guess, you get different chip components, and you build them separately and doesn't include the infra-red. It's less expensive mm.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "so it sounds.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Technically speaking, it's not as advanced, but it does the job, too..", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "So, why would we not go for that? If it's something that's inside the the unit. I it doesn't affects whether the customer's gonna buy it or not.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Fo It doesn't, yeah, yeah, yeah. Totally. Yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Um we wanna go for an i i all.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "So let's not go for the.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "so long as it works,", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah, yeah. I agree.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "you know. So let's not let's uh not bother with the chip on print.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "So it's either um the scroll-wheel or the push-buttons.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah. S yeah, push buttons.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "What about the just developed uh sample sensor?", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "I think push-buttons is.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "What about what?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "G there, the sample sensor, sample speaker thing.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Well.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Well, what do we need a speaker for in a remote control unit?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm, I dunno. Be cool.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "It'd be it'd be cool, but they are saying they've just developed it,", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Channel two..", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "I'm just guessing. But it's gonna be the most expensive option, probably and.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "S", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Th the the speech recognition um option is it doesn't seem really very promising for us uh,", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah. It's not something that we wanna t go into with this product.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "'cause uh The yeah the example that they're already using it for is with the coffee machine, where, basically, you can program a sample wi um That when you say something it will give a response, and you program the response as well. Just uh clips of tha that you record yourself. So you can program your coffee-maker that when you say, good morning, to it it says, hello Rick, or whatever.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah..", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "But, I mean, it's not.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Hm.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "it would be one thing if it was speech recognition where you say something and it turns the T_V_ on like, turn the T_V_ on, and i turns comes on, but it's not that. It just gives you a it just gives you a verbal response.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Oh, it just gives an answer.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "So, yeah, I mean, like what's the point of saying, Hello remote, I mean, hello, how how are you?.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Oh, then then.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah. Yeah..", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Just if you are really lonely, maybe..", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "I thought I thought it was when they said.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah, if you're really lonely, it is it's.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "I thought when they said, voice recognition, they meant um like,", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Channel five. And then it switches on.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "channel five, and it will change.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "No, tha that w that w that would be more promising.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Like you talk to it. Can I have channel five?", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "It it's just a remote that talks to you.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah. Yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Uh. I mean to certain cues.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Oh, then forget about it. Oh right okay.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Okay, so I'll go back, maybe, to the previous slide and we can decide for each problem, what we should choose. So for the energy source, do we go for the battery or the.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "'Kay. Yeah, I'm fine with the basic battery.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Basic battery.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "It's cheap, it's cheerful, it's worked, does work.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Hmm.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Cheaper option. Are you happy with that?", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Mm. Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Okay. So we'll go for the battery. Then the case, do you want it flat or curved or sing or double curved?", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "We were go we were going with the late with the the R_S_I_ rubber, weren't we?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah, so we want it rub rubber double curved..", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "The the.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "So it will look like something like this.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Double?", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "The double whopper, please.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Okay, so then if we use double curved case, then we have to u choose rubber push-buttons,", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yep, but we're going for the simple buttons.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "So rubber rubber keys, yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "and that's fine?", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "And it's cheapest all round, it sounds kinda funky, and we can also market it", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "P", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "as i'cause we were s saying earl you were saying earlier in your research that um the the people have the R_ people were getting the complaining about R_S_I_, and this is anti-R_S_I_.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": ".", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "So that's another marketing point that we can use.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Well the rubber push-buttons. Don't you have to move your.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "But anything is gonna have buttons.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Even if it's a jog wheel, it's still repetitive. You.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "I thought they would give an option of flat buttons or a.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "You see, you can still get it does you still get repetitive strain injury, whether you are pressing a button or pressing a flat bit of screen.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "That they don't..", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "It's the v it's the fact that you are pressing the same doing the same movement.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": ".", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "It's not actually what you are doing.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "But the fact that this this rubber i is actually used in these anti-R_S_I_ ps specific.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah, the rubber's good.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "We're giving them a way to burn off steam, basically, yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah, so they can sit there and go like.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Not that watching T_V_ should be that stressful.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "And you know, yeah, you can fuzz it across the room and throw it at throw it at your children yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Oh yeah, I guess T_V_ can be stressful, yeah, if you're watching sports.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Alright, that's me done.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Okay, Gabriel. Let's um let's let's hear from you about the um it's the interface.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Alright. Alright. Yeah, some of what I have to say ties into what Catherine was just talking about.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Great.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Sorry.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Okay, so I'm continuing with the user interface uh topic. And so basically I consulted with our manufacturing division. It sounded like Catherine was also speaking with them. Uh I also took uh Reissa's marketing findings from the last meeting into consideration um,'cause I think that's that's crucial as far as uh what keys we're going to inc inclu what buttons we are going to include and and how they're laid out.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Uh and so the manufacturing division uh sent some some samples of of uh interface components that we might be interested in using that have been used in other products, uh like the coffee machine. So I already mentioned the speech recognition interface.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "I guess, we we basically vetoed that idea. It's it's pointless.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Uh it's just a sample sensor sample output. It would just be probably the most expensive part of our remote without any actual interesting functionality as far as operating the T_V_. Uh so yeah, they they also give the uh they they suggested the idea of using a spinning wheel like you use on the side of an M_P_ three player like iPod.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Um so we've already addressed that and I think that would actually be worse for something like R_S_I_ I mean you got that thumb movement that you're constantly doing.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Um the other suggestion,", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "That does get annoying.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "and I I have a feeling that we're interested in in something more general, but they suggested uh, you know, going i a little bit into a a niche, like either gearing our remote towards kids, where you could have lot of colours um, the keys might be you know, funny or or,", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "or uh something for the elderly, where the remote's very large and the buttons are very large and there's only a few buttons. But you know we can we can discuss this, but it sounded like from our last meeting we really wanted something that was general, but done well.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Uh um So, the key layout and design are really crucial. You don't want uh you want people to be able to quickly access the buttons that they use a lot without uh always pressing the wrong one um. And I didn't mention that we need a power button in our last I can give you an example here of uh, good layout and bad layout", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "uh from our manufacturing department. So this would be an example of bad layout, where you have volume up and volume down, but they have a V_ on both of them, so uh", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah. Yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "it's sort of confusing for the user. Uh this is the example of the giant remote that's impossible to lose.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Do we have an uh example of a good one? Brilliant.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Uh-huh. Well.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "And for something for kids. Yeah. Um.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "And so, yeah, I th I think my personal preferences of we've all kind of talked about and seemed to be on the same page um. Uh so I was against the speech recognition and against going uh towards anything in in a niche sense. I think it should be more general.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "I didn't I didn't think the spinning-wheel or the uh L_C_ display were were crucial for us. And, yeah, that's it for me.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Okay. Well let's um so w what are our definite decisions on this then as a team? The um The the um the interface type we're going for.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "So we're we're not gonna have any sort of display I think uh.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Just the simple s simple straight set of buttons.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "So, yeah, it's just gonna be just gonna be push-buttons. Um. I think we shall have a limited number of buttons,", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "ideally, I mean a a power, channel up, channel down, volume up, volume down, and a numerical keypad.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Uh. And some sort of it will either have a a lock button like we mentioned or or a cover or something like that.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "I guess it's to the point where we need to decide about that.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Okay, and we're not yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Well now that we've decided on our.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Are we gonna hav hav an are we d", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "have we decided on whether w we're gonna s supplement it with anything, you know, colours or particular gimmicky bits to it, we're not we're just gonna go for something.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Um it seems like we wouldn't wanna make it too busy and too sort of gaudy,", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "We're.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Maybe we can.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "but um Yeah, I would say mayb maybe a couple of colours like uh like a black with with yellow and somewhere, like maybe the R_R_ can be yellow, or something like that.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah. Yeah. Okay. Okey-dokey. Yeah, I don't have any other questions on this. Let's move over to.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "I I guess the fact uh also that we are having a rubber case uh would prevent us from having the cover function that we thought of before.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah, sure.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "I mean,'cause uh s so if we wanna have a lock of some sort it would have to be a button.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": ".", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "But I think that should be I mean um, I can speak with the button department, but uh I think that it should be easy to have a button that just prevents prevents the other uh the other buttons from operating.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah, the button that just does that, yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "So that should be simple.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Cool.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Right. Well, I'm just basically letting you know what's happening in the markets", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Mm yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "and what the fashions are for next year. Um. So yes, so from looking at this year's trends and fashions", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "and also recent investigation that we've done in the remote control market, we have found that for the remote control market these are like most important aspects like that we really need to.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "which we've already probably discussed. Um the most important aspect is look and feel. So the remote control has to look and feel fancier than the ones that already that we already have. So it has to be.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah, why should people buy this when they're already got a remote that came with the T_V_?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yep.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Exactly.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Um second, uh it should be technologically innovative innovative. So.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "What's that mean?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Technologically it should be like um work, basically, I guess. It should work.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Well it should be it should be maybe cutting edge in some sense,", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Should.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "I mean have something that's little more technologically advanced than what's on the market.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "That's new.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Okay, now the trouble is is we've already decided that we're going with the stuff that works already, that's cheap.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah. Yeah. Actually, I mean, these first two points we've already sort of gone away from,", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "'cause our rubber one is not fancy.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "I mean it's different, but I wouldn't say like a rubber remote is fancy. If that's what people want then we maybe we're going in the wrong direction. And it's it's not technologically innovative either.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Maybe we could um.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "So, no loose.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "That's why I was thinking, Bluetooth,'cause if you like put up Bluetooth, and it's like a Bluetooth remote control, everybody's gonna like, oh,'cause Bluetooth is the in thing nowadays, like it really is, like people and um when it comes to marketing like that's what people go for, they don't really care whether, you know, at the end of the day whether it works properly or not.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Of course, they do.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Well, they do, but it's like it's not.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "One hundred per cent, that's your first thing, you go, oh I'm not gonna buy that,'cause I dunno if it works or not.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah, but it looks good. If it looks good and it's it can just be there for decoration..", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Okay, well, what do you two think about this?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "So is is the advantage of Bluetooth that you can just like synchronise it with other", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "But like.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah, what I don't understand what m", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "electronics?", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "You could always insert, yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah, that's basically what it allows you to do,", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah,", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "right?", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "and it this is just gonna all this is being used for is your television.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah, but, I mean, people like.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "It would that would mean you'd need a television that has Bluetooth in it, which no no television does,", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Well, if you're looking at if you looking at something that's going to be bought by people, you have to make it new, you have to make it state of the art.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Well.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "does it? That would mean we'd have to make a television as well.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Bluetooth would, for example, enable you, I think, to um um connect for example you if you get a w call on your mobile phone, but your mobile phone is downstairs or something, you would get on your television you're being called by this person right now. Things like that.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "No, that would be your telephone in with your television.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "No i", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah, the that wouldn't be the remote so much,", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah,", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "I mean.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "and i", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "No, but if you get Bluetooth on the remote, you'd be able to.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Nah, the televi the television would have to be a Bluetooth compatible, basically.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "I with the television, yeah. I was just trying to find an advantage. Wha what w what advantage would you get for the.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Well, it doesn't.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "An and there is no there is no such thing", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Like it doesn't have to be, you know, Bluetooth, that was just an idea, but like it needs do something that, you know, is new. Whether it's a battery it could be something really really minor, you know, like but I think we are really keeping to what is already out there, and people've already seen it, people've already got it.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "If we want something new, we need to move away from what we already have and um just go creative.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Maybe the kinetic mo provision of energy then. It's been done for watches, but I haven't seen that for remotes, yet.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Okay. Yeah, this that's that's very good.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "And then you can market it. Never have to change a battery again..", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Change the batteries ever again.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "And and this is all tying in very nicely.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "The fact that it's made out of this rubber, we can throw it about. Th we should encourage people to throw their remote controls about, because it charges itself up by doing it.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah, well, and in little characters you say, yeah, but not too much..", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yes, so can.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "But yeah, by the squeezing it the.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "I think, safety s", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah, we can make the squeezing of the rubber be the be the generating like the energy generator.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah, that's a great idea. Well done.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah. Third most important aspect uh is it's easy to use.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "we're all about that.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "And I think we've all um worked that out. Um okay, in the fashion, how it's supposed to look. Next year's fashion i very much in fruit and vegetables are thm are like the theme for cloths, shoes and furniture. So next year people will be buying, I found this really funny, you know, strawberry shaped chairs,", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Okay, so we could have keys that are like a b like a broccoli key and a uh and an avocado key on them.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "I wanna watch the pineapple channel..", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Rubber things. Um and as it's rubber the feel which is in this year is spongy, so it's it's not quite spongy, but spongy, I would say is.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": ".", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Well spongy, that's where. Yeah, we're we're ahead of the game there.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah, that's great for us.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "yeah, so we're in.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah. And so personal what I was just saying like move away from the current remote controls uh like the look and the feel of the current ones and change the look and feel, while still keeping to the company's image, basically. So yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": ". I had to say.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "So we're moving in the right direction like.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Alright, yeah, no, this i this is good,", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "so through all that we've we go we're right, we're gonna go go back to um going with the kinetic thing,", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yep.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah, that's great.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "that's great, using the spongy rubber that we were talking about that anti-R_S_I_ you can as you squeeze it you are not only therapeuticising yourself, you are charging the batteries,", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "and um I'm not sure about the buttons being in the shape of fruit though.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "No vegetables.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah, I don't know how we incorporate.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": ".", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "We don't have to follow every trend, I guess.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Maybe make it like fruity colours or something.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Uh-huh.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Some sort. Or.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "The power button could be like a big apple or something.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Well yeah, but Apple would sue you for that.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah, this is true..", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "They don they don't own all images of apples..", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "sued the Beatles so.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Okay, we'll make it a uh pomegranate, a big pomegranate.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Well, okay, it seems like the only thing that we haven't really finally um agreed on is its image. Like, yeah, we're we're saying no we don't want it to be fruit and vegetables, but we dunno what it should be,", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": ".", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "or like are we going yeah it looks slick, but what do what do we mean by slick sort of thing?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Well I think, if it's rubber it needs to be", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "I mean you said earlier on i it should be funky.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "different. I think, it's it should be I mean, what do you associate with rubber? You know like", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "L keep it clean, keep it clean..", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "really different colours basically.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Okay, sor I sorry, I used the wrong word, what do you associate with the mate the material that material? Um.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Um like I'm just thinking bright colours.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Bright natural colours, nothing too.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Bright, but not too bright..", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Bright, but too not yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Like no lime green or bright yellow or bright pink. Wanna make it different colours so anybody can choo like like.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Like the volume buttons should be the all the same colour and the d and the the channel buttons should be one colour and stuff like that, do you mean?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah. And on the back of it have the logo.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Okay, what?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Sure.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Why not?", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Okay. Tha", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "The one thing I'm wondering about, I hope that we're not going like too much down a gimmicky road of of having.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah, I mean we that's we we.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "I mean if somebody go goes into the store they're gonna see like three or four normal remotes, and then a big spongy pink t tomato uh remote.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "This is the remote control tomato..", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "I mean what are ninety per cent of people gonna take?.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Well I can say in this country, you'll get, you know, lots of people wanting something really funky and cool. Like and kids will be walking in with their parents saying, Mummy I wanna buy that one.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "And uh parents will see the will see the pro as well, because it's um like kids won't break it, it's not breakable if you throw it around.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Especially with younger kids, you know they can pick it up and and Yeah. The only thing is is that really small kids might chew on it, but.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Well, it's it's gotta be chew proof..", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "I'm gonna write that down.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "So.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "so it's rea it's quite", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "it's quite like um user friendly", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "and also for different families, like like family use as well, so for little kids and for old ki like teenagers will like it, I think. Especially maybe younger girls if it's in pink they'll be like pink remote control for their room something.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "So, what are you saying, maybe we should market it in different colours for different.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "so we could do like the pink range, the blue range, the green range, the.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "That's yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "So like you walk in, you're like, oh I like that remote control, because it's so bright, and then, and then the shop assistant comes up and says, oh what colour would you like? and then they go like, oh I can choose the colour wow. So it puts, I think, even the customer into more control over what they're buying instead of, you've got all colour it's either that or nothing. So they also get to pick. Well, personally I like walking into a shop and choosing a colour.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah I mean, that that seems to work well with for products like iPod,", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "It's um.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "where, you know, you have a variety of colours, that people feel like they're customising it when they buy it, even, you know, just just by the fact of choosing.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah. Mm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Although I'd be curious to see how many uh.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "D you've got the.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "You know, there are some colours that I wouldn I would never choose, and I would be curious how many people choose that colour.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Well that's that can be down to bit of market researching you know,", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "if that's easy enough to find out what colours are more popular.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "And produce less of the silly colours, maybe.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Okay. Alright. Well um, we'll alright let's what we're gonna aim to get together by the next meeting then um is from you Catherine wi your y y you know you're gonna be working on the the look and feel design.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yep.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Um Gabriel, you're gonna be working on, you know come up with the the user interface design. Then basically, you two are gonna be working together on this. You won't be going off to your separate offices.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Alright.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Um and I think you are gonna get a chance to play with some clay.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Oh right.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "I think, yeah, it's gonna you know,", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "come up ki you know, be ab for the next meeting be able to come in and show us some some i some physical ideas.'Cause at the moment, uh you know, it's it's hard.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Cool.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "We were kinda going, yeah, it's gotta feel nice, it's gotta look cool and that it's.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "It is.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "you know now we can actually start, you know, s some sort of physical something or other.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "That sounds good.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Um and you're gonna be working on the product evaluation.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Evaluation.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Um. And I will be uh", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "talking to the bosses, basically, and uh", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "f fielding off some more spam and uh", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Great.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "that's it really. Keeping things t well, uh you know, ho hopefully uh keeping things together. Um. Yeah, that's This is this is uh good. So we know for definite we know we've we've now got some definite things going on. We definitely know how it's powered,", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "we definitely know that um it's gonna be a simple buttons, we're not gonna be going for the new technological chip on print expensive things, so we've we're keeping the costs down. It's this rubber casing that we can sell as um fun and funky. Don't know of any other remote controls that are made out of this stuff.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "People, you know, people are saying, oh, standard stuff gives you repetitive strain injury, well this remote control is designed to do the complete opposite,", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "It's supposed to fix it rather than cause it. Um. you know, we're gonna we we're gonna as a sort of extra something on it, you know what what extra things are there extra things this product have? We'll look into this lock key", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "facility, although whether or not it happens, or is possible, I don't know, but something to look into. Okay. I think that's um well done everybody. Anyone have any uh any questions,", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Alright.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "everyone know what they're doing?'Cause if you don't, you'll I'm sure you'll soon get an e-mail about it.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah..", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Mm, I think we all know what we need to do now.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "S This gives you all the details?", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Okay. right well.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "It's um we're we've still couple of minutes until our meeting's due to finish. But um I got a note saying that you two who are gonna be working together.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "so bef before you all disappear off just", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Okay, I'll stay in here.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "um.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "hold hold fire. Um.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Does the pay-raise immediately come into effect on our next pay-check, or is that.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Um I think, it's uh, yeah, I think, it's gonna be par part more of a profit sharing on the product.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "So we're buying fut I mean, we're getting futures in the company..", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah, I think i I think that's I think that's the way it's gonna happen at the moment..", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "So we really have a incentive to make this remote work.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah. Yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "I'd like to share in the coffee machine profits, because that's really doing well.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "I want a share in the space rocket. Did you see that this k that this company we've made a spaceship.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah..", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah..", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "This company has its its fingers in a lot of different pots..", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah. Yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah, we're definitely not in the money making department.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": ".", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Well I I did notice looking at I mean, they told you that they wanted whatev our product to represent the the R_R_ brand and and to be immediately noticeable.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "I mean, if you look like at the coffee maker at the at the corporate web page, it's not obvious.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "R_R_. Well it is to us, because we we worked worked here for years and we use that coffee machine, but it's doesn't have the colour scheme of of the of the company anywhere on it obviously it's just sil silver and black.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "That's true.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "And the spaceship doesn't have the R_ have a massive R_ and R_ down the side of it", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "No.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Doesn't.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "but I still want one..", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm..", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Okay. 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dd5a6a8e57cb40e3a624edd8331b71df	{ "meetingId": "IS1000c", "transcriptSegments": [ { "text": "Right first time this time. Nu There we go. It's not that complicated, but I get it wrong every time..", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Okay so we are just waiting for Matthew.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "For Matthew, yep.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Mm. Uh So I suggest we start the meeting uh without Matthew uh", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Mm'kay.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "he's uh obviously late for some reason. Good. Um. Today uh we will uh talk about uh conceptual design. I hope uh you both did some uh some work uh concerning a uh conceptual design.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Um this will be the uh agenda for the meeting uh. Uh I will take some minutes uh again.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Um we will have the presentations of y of you different team members,", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yep.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yep.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "and then try to come to decisions uh about the concepts uh you have presented. So and that uh will uh.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "we have some uh forty minutes uh to complete this uh.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "So um who has the fir do you ha Anna do you have your presentation ready?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "I have a presentation, I'm just making this.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah I think yeah the Matthew it is it's important that Matthew yeah is here", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Okay. Ah", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "because it's really a a team uh project with a team", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "there is Matthew.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "and if someone is not here then we cannot.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Sorry.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "but it's okay it's good..", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Okay I'll just email you this file, my presentation.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "So. Good. Do presentation ready?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm I'm just emailing it to you.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Oh okay.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "So.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "So did you manage uh.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah I sent you the slides, you didn't see them?", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Oh yes I see him, good yes.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Okay..", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "No.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "So'Kay.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Okay it should've gone through to you.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Okay mm yes I have it.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm. Okay so this is just a presentation on uh the trends that we're gonna use to make the product stand out from the rest of the products out there at the moment. Um can I just put this on? So we have to work out a way what we can do with our product to make it stand out and make it so people wanna buy it. Um. This is to do this I will not remove my microphone. We basically used um some focus group surveys which I went through with you last time, the main results of that, and um some research on the current design um and fashion trends that are out there at the moment um,", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "and as part of this The important aspects that came out were things that we've already discussed really. The most important by far was the look and feel of it. It needs to be something that's very different from everything else out there. It needs to stand out. It needs to be not functional like the rest of the things out there at the moment. Most people find remote controls boring at the moment, we need to have something that looks interesting, that looks exciting, that will stand out. People will wanna buy it. Um That was twice as i important as the next item on here which is that it has to be technologically innovative has to have something else, apart from just the look of it. People have to then think about it and say got something there that I want. That's a really cool feature, and it has to make them wanna buy it again. Third on the list, and again innovative was twice as important as this last um aspect, it has to be easy to use. So they have to be able to be able to look at it and have some intuitive idea of how to use it um. Drawing on the fashion trends at the moment, uh fruit and vegetables um. This is basically talking about just the the feel of it, so probably not the smell of it, but the bright colours, um eye-catching, really bold designs, and a spongy feel.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Um I had a talk to the design people about this, but having a remote that's tactile, that feels different, that would be really cool. That would make it stand out. Um.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Hmm.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "So can you repeat and be more precise about what you just said?", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Spongy feel?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Uh about the feeling yeah uh yo", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Well", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "You can.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "ma make it not necessar sp spongy is the current thing. Spongy is the current texture, but basically there are no reports no remotes at the moment which are spongy or tactile at all, so if we make it like maybe furry or soft or something, that'll be something that sets it apart,", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "rather than just bare plastic which they all are at the moment.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "So as far as the design goes, the very most important aspect was the design, to the customers. So going with the fruit and vegetable idea, we've got the bright colours, so makes it stand out, the oranges and the the bright yellows and the florescent colours, part of the fruit and vegetables um. Going back to the idea of taking inspiration from mobile phones, they've all got those a lot of them have the changeable covers, so they can choose what colour the outside is. That's one way of looking at it um. Textured feel we just talked about. Maybe it's another way of doing that.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "So if it's part of the the changeable covers then may maybe they can choose a different texture, a spongy one or a soft one or something like that. So they can choose it li as they want to to maybe to fit in with their decor in their living room, or just what they like, their sports team or whatever.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah that's a very good idea, yeah. Yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Um and yeah, still taking the inspiration from the mobile phone design so functionality, the way the mobile phones work, the way the keypad looks. Also just the way that a lot of industrial design is going into mobile phones at the moment. They're big selling items. People put a lot of thought into that so we can leverage off that, and we can start using some of their ideas. Um back to technological in in innovation, not quite as important, but still a big issue. Um we talked about having a way of finding a remote control if it's been lost, uh that's one thing we could look at. There are other aspects like L_C_D_ screens and speech recognition which weren't I don't think, in my personal opinion, gonna be worth the extra expense and the extra effort that will go into them. I think we're better doing something basic like this", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "which is very important and very will be a really cool feature to put in. And use. I had no real specific ideas for this, maybe we just, the basic idea of having your core functions big and at the top maybe, by themselves,", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Mm. Yes well", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "and then.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "maybe Matthew can can give some more information on the.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "yeah", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "and then th th the finer details of buttons you don't use as much either hidden away or completely separate.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yep and that's the presentation.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Voila.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Okay good, that's very clear.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah very clear.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "'Kay. Um. Uh.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "So does anyone have any comments or ideas on that? I think you.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Maybe we yes well we maybe can decide later on um the l the the look and feel of uh I've it was a good idea maybe to to.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "To let the people choose, you mean?", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yes the the the there are changeable covers,", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "but on the other hand I I don't know whether my superiors would be so glad with it because you have to introduce a complete uh uh new l line of uh of supplies", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Hmm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "uh it would be uh very complicated uh organisational.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Well we're selling so many units of this. This is gonna be a mass marketed product, we can afford to have two or three different designs at least.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Hmm. Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah a range of uh yeah, a set of three, four different aspects.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Mm mm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yes. Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Sure that fits the.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yes and of course it will be a we we get a if it works we can get uh after-sales", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "I mean that would would be very good I mean those covers could go for for three, five Euro.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "That's a very good idea um And then uh maybe uh we can go a th Matthew's presentation because", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "s", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "the.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "then we could discuss later like we can put all ideas together.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Together indeed uh,", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "It should be easier with that.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "because you ma might have some some information on the the easy to use,", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah yeah I agree.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm, yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "what you were already mentioning.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "So.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "And your part is very related to mine", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "because when you suggest something then it has to be integrated inside.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah so I'll I'll go with that actually", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "so um Okay so m so then the the idea of uh having a remote is generally you have uh different keys and uh different structures, different forms, and uh they could be like buttons and um they could be of uh a varying sizes if you want to to uh basically emphasize a particular key more than the other, and uh maybe like you can have different colours for example having the r red for the on off switching on and off the button. So this this is the general trend to ha the method they do..", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "So what I have found was that uh currently uh the they are mostly that the T_V_, V_C_R_, music system operated ones actually, and they are very specific to each other, but there are some common keys for example if you want to follow the V_C_R_ and if you want to follow the uh g uh s some uh soundtrack on the w w see they have the common thing actually you can have", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "and uh There is also um a speech recognition to store channel information, names, like You can basically if you have a multiple functionality, say T_V_, V_C_R_ or something I say it to the T_V_ and the T_V_, and you can programme the keys if you want to, certain keys are even the channel information.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Mm. Mm. I like the idea though of having speech recognition for like the n the name of a channel like B_B_C_, rather than having to remember the the number of it on the keypad. That's a good idea.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah yeah so you you you can just uh because uh as more and more channels come then you have more and more problems to remember the v v exact channel numbers ex exactly,", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": ".", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "even if you arrange it by however you arrange it, you still have the problem to remember exactly which channel you want to.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Hmm. Mm. Yeah I really like that idea.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "So what functionalities do you suggest for that? For facing this problem?", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "So it it it's like it limited one. In the present market I saw it that says something like they are looking for eighty word thing, eighty word,", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "which shouldn't be th that difficult to implement, like eighty to hundred word. Basically you want you don't want to store all the channels in the remote control,", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "you want to st store your favourite channel.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Maybe ten channels, yeah at the most.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah some ten twelve channel information. You know you don't want to st store all the hundred channel information into that.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "And uh basically uh it depends like the remote with L_C_D_ display for browsing because you have multiple functionalities for example you are watching a movie, and uh uh you are having a universal remote control and you want to uh you don't know really which functionality is now, so I am using the T_V_ so every time I use it, it could be like, for example I can use a simple toggle switch, and a display, so I press it so the display says, okay, I'm in T_V_ or D_V_D_ or whatever it is, instead of having three keys separately for four keys,", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm. Oh yeah yeah yeah mm.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "to model the functionalities will increase actually,", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "and for you and you might want.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "you don't want separate keys for all of them. You can't. And uh well there can be children friendly where you can programme your remote so that they they are not allowed uh to browse certain channels which you can block them, and you can operate them. So these are the things presently which are seen in the market scenarios at present.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "I personally would look at things like having a u universal remote, is uh um is a good idea, like instead of having unusual ones for all of them you can think of having, um with multiple functionality possibly with speech recognition.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "I got a mail from the the coffee machine interface unit that uh they have uh integrated the s speech recognition into a into the coffee machine,", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Mm b", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "and so if you say hello coffee machine, it say hi Joe, or something like that, you know, and uh.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "But a coffee machine, there's not too many words they'd be using with that it's a it's a small vocabulary.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah you you won't be using it, so it's a limited vocabulary mm thing, and very isolated word", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Mm. Mm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "and it's uh it is interesting, and basically storing the channel through voice or other ways of programming your keys, on the display for the browsing", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "which is again and maybe having something like a blinking thing, like uh it could indicate you're uh it it could indicate what is cal like the uh whether uh you you have enough battery in your in your uh remote, the blinking.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "At the same time, if it's a dark room, it can be used to locate the remote also", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "or.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "And you want okay for coming back to one point", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Two thirty five supposed to finish.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "y you want to let the user to programming the keys? Some of them?", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah you can let them to do that.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "And uh isn't that too difficult for the we want w I don't know if we still want the um R_C_ to be easy to use,", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Hmm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "that's the compromise.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "N no but the if you give it d depends on the easiness like the user how much effort he can put.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Hmm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Like for example uh I would like to store in certain way, so if you want to give the full freedom to the user", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "or you want to keep some constraints and let the user use it with that constraint.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah. Mm. I think you can do it both ways.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "So it de", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "You can have it so it's easy they can pick it up and use it straight away without doing anythi without customizing it,", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "A standard.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "or if they want to they have the option of using these extra features.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Um yes but but I do.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "So.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "maybe you can give a hand to us because I I'm not sure whether that that we can implement that for twelve Euro and fifty cents.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "So.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Hmm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "I'm sorry to have Every time I have to come down on this price again", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Hmm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "to so this might be a little limiting for your creativity,", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Hmm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "but it's it's it's the real We have to consider it. S so.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "do we think these ideas an and my uh sp speech recognition, I mean maybe it's possible for for twelve Euro but then then it will be at cost of other functionality we might implement like the uh uh the the the furry uh uh case of the.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm. Hmm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm yeah like I would say that for programming uh keys, you said, uh it could be uh easily uh done within the the package of twel twelve Euros,", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "but for the A_S_R_ system, uh I'm not sure if it's feasible to have this", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "We well we can still look at we can talk with the coffee unit", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "We.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "and you can uh check how much how much they.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Exactly yeah i if if it's a low vocabulary it's already implemented,", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "yeah yeah", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "and w how much it's cost, maybe with a f cheap chip.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Maybe we can come we we can talk to them, and we can come with that,", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Mm mm.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "you know.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "And also well you can think of having uh since you have a you know something maybe if you added little bit of display, you might need the to che keep checking the battery, so you really need a some kind of indicator,", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Hmm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "so it could be a blinking option of L_E_D_.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Hmm.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "it could actually be used to detect also.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "If it's in a dark room you can basically detect it also.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Mm. Hmm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Hmm.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "I like the idea too of being able to use the remote in the dark,", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "So.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "so either having the buttons so you can feel the difference between them or if they if they light up or something.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "No actually i if i it is like you know it tells you um, it can be for two purposes,", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "like if you have an L_C_D_ display and all those things it's not going to be the standard remote,", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Mm. Hmm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "which is having uh which need just uh six six volt uh th sorry three volts um of D_C_.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "It may need more actually, so y you you may need to check your battery usage it and then you need that, some functionality to indicate the battery limit.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Hmm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "And then if the battery limit is indicated, if it could be ind indicated through a blinking something", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "It's true.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "and it can change the colour depending on your uh how much is the battery, well that is good enough to even locate even if you want to.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "You know.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "'Kay good.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": ".", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah so.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "I don't know how if if I have time to talk about the.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Mm yes um I would.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "You you have time some more? Yep.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yes yes you can you can still. We have time.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Sure you can you know.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Okay. So what I'm gonna present here is very uh um yeah basic knowledge about the all the the components that are inside a a R_C_ a remote control, and how is it manufactured h what is the process, just to explain you.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "So the method is ther there is a a set of components in a in a remote control like, and uh what cost the the components in themself do not cost a lot but the the way to assemble everything costs obviously, and I will uh show you my preferences uh uh at the end. So there are two uh different types of uh um Two different ways of using the the components for making a a remote control.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Nice..", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Hmm.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Uh the basic way is to use a an integrated circuit and some uh transistors with an that aims at communicating uh uh the message and to to send the message to the um to the led that will uh transmit to the receiver. And uh yeah the other components and the circuit board buttons, infrared, led, etcetera, for the components um. So you finding, just to say that the chip can detect uh when a key is pressed, and then it translate to the key, to a sequence, something like morse code, as you know, uh with a different sequence for each key,", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "and uh uh that's, with the components we will use, we will have different uh messages, different sequences, and the chips sends that signal signal to the transistor that amplify to make it stronger um. So electronic parts are assembled onto uh printed boards uh because it's easier to mass produce and assemble. And uh so I think for our design we want some b uh programmable uh you know V_ V_L_S_I_ or F_P_G_A_ uh high technology,", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah mm mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "and this is important, and also we'll use uh yeah like in any uh high-tech uh devices a chip of fi fibreglass to them and connect them.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "So my personal design we need to find a solution what um what is the material of the cover we want to use. If it's plastic", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "or you said that yeah you had some ideas uh like fruit, veg or.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Well well", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "I dunno..", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "m m maybe m maybe we can give the uh the uh the case a very uh uh normal a v very normal case but, with the changeable covers to fancy it up.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yes. Yes.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "So like a normal cheap plastic case which can be covered up in, for instance, a wooden case.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yes.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Mm just have a yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah like they do in with cars I think. Yeah inside the car", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Just the veneer on it, yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "yeah. So they also emailed me that uh they have available a bunch of different buttons, a scroll wheels, integrated push buttons s such as a computer mouse. And uh very cheap L_C_D_s, so liquid crystal displays,", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "so I'm wondering, I think we might be able to integrate L_C_D_ into our R_C_. And the final point okay is um we have yeah there are some uh compromise to to do.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Hmm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "So we have to know that the push button requires a simple chip, but the scroll wheel uh and that kind of higher high-tech stuff needs more money um which is a higher price range alright. And the display requires an advanced chip, which in turns is more expensive than the regular chip, but I think uh with twelve Euros um and if it's uh uh made for mm four million uh items, then I think w we could be able to handle that.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "So to to sum up um we need yeah so I I just said that the components uh the list of components uh has to be uh yeah listed and um and um assembly is a an important process that has to be taken into account. And uh for the designing of the cove uh uh cover layout then it's better to to to maybe see that with uh the the U_R_ exp U_R_I_ Expert", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Sorry.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "so that we can it's really a team-working uh. So", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "I I cannot design something without your agreement,", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "No of course.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah so", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "right?", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "of course for example uh I wanted to know like if you want to have a a fo if you want to have the L_C_D_ display over there,", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yes.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "or if you want to store a programmes with a keys What kind of things you'll need inside your thin inside W wh what.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah it's kind of um simple pro progra programmable device, and we have to insert.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "W what Okay. Okay.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "I think we could insert one that could underlie several functions", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Okay so", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "of.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "in that case you can even look at the technology what the mobile phone is trying to use with the card.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Exactly yeah, for customizing and yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah where they do all the wi with with them actually. How f cost effective it would be to put that car chip into it and do the programmable things.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "So.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah. Yeah good idea.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "So I f I think we we should come to some decisions now uh a about this.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah..", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Um so I understand uh when we want a display we need a expensive chip, but when we want a scrolling wheel w we also need the expensive chip, so can we use same chip, so with one expensive chip we can uh implement several complicated uh or advanced features.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Exactly yeah that's a very good idea,", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yes.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "we could have uh one main chip uh that could handle, uh it's called F_P_G_A_ chip, that could handle both uh like scrolling wheels as well as uh L_C_D_", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "and", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "So", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "when the more expensive chip you mentioned there is is possible in the in the given budget, uh maybe we should go for for the more expensive chip, so all features uh which you mentioned can be implemented based on the same chip.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yes.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "D well.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Do you think that's feasible?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Well I don't know if it'll fit into our cost of twelve point five Euro you know.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Uh You th you think it's possible.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Is it possible to fit in to that?", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah also thinking, I think both uh if we had a budget of twenty twenty uh Euros, it will be okay,", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Sorry.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Hmm.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "but uh.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Well maybe we need specific costings then. Actually do maybe two designs and then cost them out and see which one is gonna fit in our budget better.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Mm yes", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah that's an excellent idea.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "wh when you make a a design ca you can next meeting you can give an quite an exact cost price.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah yeah. Yeah", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "That w that would be a very good idea.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "because right now I don't have price in in head", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "but for next meeting I'm sure yeah be able to do that.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Good good.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah that's uh that's something which I wanted to ask you also, like what will be the each individually the cost of it. For example if f if you want to put wood I wouldn't suggest for wood", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "uh'cause it's I think it's m much easier to use a plastic or a rubber rather than wood.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Okay. I agree on that. Yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "It will be much ch much expensive th though it's the most natural thing, but.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yes but I can I think uh I think we can just use more cheap plastic for a kind of basic edition, and then people can fancy it up with with more expensive materials", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Hmm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah. Yeah", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "which which come with a with another price.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "it's uh Yeah we we can give a preference to them, but it is but with plastic or the rubber or whatever it is it's much better with that rather than going for.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Do do you agree?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm yeah sure.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah but i it's a detailed uh yeah yeah uh plastic versus uh wood,", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "and we need maybe to centre our description on uh the the really the what buttons what uh functionality we want to offer to the user, and maybe with uh graphs or I don't know uh.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "User Interface Designer you could maybe uh help us on that.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Ma I I think uh for next meeting we c you two can present a real design. Uh so drawing it on the board.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yea", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Perfect yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "And then we now sh only have to t to decide the general function uh. So um Let let's say next meeting w you produce two designs, one one one less advanced and one more advanced and with the cost price.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah sure. Yeah we will uh Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Uh furthermore we go for the for the uh basic plastic case", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Uh.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "which can be later uh fancied up with uh with addit uh additional uh, how do you call them, these like like mobile telephones you can put a cover over it.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "But that that that that can be done later.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "We now can concentrate on the on the basic remote control.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": ".", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah customized.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Um.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Okay. We can give them smooth keys, you know. Smooth keys with bigger s uh So that you know The the problem most of the time we've seen, the keys is that it's small,", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "and every time we have to be very but if i the if we if we go to a different ways of designing those keys, then you can merge them together", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "So is there any of these that you're looking at particularly", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "to.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "or is this just ideas?", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Oh you can actually, for example, if you see, they are they are they are quite small over here,", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "and uh now you can, for example, as I was if you make them big, it may change the look of the thing also to the people.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Hmm. Mm. Mm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "At the same time, it is m more uh like it would be more interesting for people who are having this R_S_I_ and all problem.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Mm yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yes yes yes bi big keys is is good thing I think.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Uh big keys may better for them actually and uh.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "You see?", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "I agree yeah,", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "and not too m too many keys of course yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Mm well", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "No no.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "one I've had before, a r r remote control we have at home is one that's actually got a cover on the bottom", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "so the bottom bit is just, covers half the keys most of the time, and then you can slide the cover back to get to the the more advanced keys.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Mm mm mm.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Mm w but then you have still have uh when you don't use it you have such a a an extent of your remote control", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "which you don't use. So maybe it's possible uh, I don't know whether you can can indicate this, that you can elsewhere open your remote control and on the inside are uh buttons you don't use that much.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Mm. Yeah. Um yeah I've seen that before too. Anoth another like b", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "it flips up and then you've got another layer of buttons underneath.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yes.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yes. Yeah so it's something like this, the model here", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "s you can put the keys.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "But I've seen also with keys and buttons on the top of here as well.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "That's what you mean?", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yes I I th that's what I mean", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah. Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "so I mean something like like a book.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "I like this one. I like the shape of this one.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Can we have can we think about maybe having a a non-recta non non-rectangular one, so with not just the straight little box", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah I like also this one.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "that's a maybe curved or something.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah, mm.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah, the point is w maybe we need to also to make a decision on how how how big we want to be and how many buttons like n we should dec decide numbers or.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Mm mm'kay. Is this for the next meeting though?", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "We should make a.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "I think we might be out of time out of time for this meeting.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah that yeah next meeting we should be.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Ju just make two designs,", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah that would depend upon us actually.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah yeah yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "and the we we can decide decide between th those designs.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yep.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah okay.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "I think that would be a good idea. So", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Perfect.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "anyone uh any questions for now?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "No no. I don't have.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "No. So is this is there anything else I need to do from a marketing point of view for the next meeting?", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Um yes I come to that uh uh.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Maybe it would be interesting if you could look um for the cost inventories of other devices, if you're using speech recognition or something like that.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yes well m maybe uh, I don't know whether that's possible,", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "maybe you can start evaluating uh their work somehow.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Okay well is this me designing a way to evaluate it so Thinking about how to set up test groups and things?", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "I don't know whether that's possible uh in the given time", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "but a as far as possible.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Okay. Yep.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "So uh you two will be together w working on a o on two prototypes", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Exactly.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Mm..", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "and further instructions will be uh will be sent to you by uh by email.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Two or three prototypes?", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Two.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Two.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "One for like cost and the one with like higher-end", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Two?", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "I.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Mm and then.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "so that then we can be easily comparing them", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Hmm..", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "or you know find a compromise between both of them,", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "and find maybe a compromise.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Hmm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yes okay.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "yeah that's how it is.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Perfect yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yep.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Okay let's call this to an end.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm'kay.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Thanks guys.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Thanks.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "So we are done for now..", "speakerName": "User Interface" } ] }	{ "dialogTurns": [ { "query": "Sure, here is a multi-turn dialog between a user (0) and a chatbot (1) about the provided meeting:\n\nTurn 1\n\n0: Hi there, I'm curious about the unresolved questions or topics from the meeting that was recently held. 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Uh I will take some minutes uh again.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Um we will have the presentations of y of you different team members,", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yep.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yep.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "and then try to come to decisions uh about the concepts uh you have presented. So and that uh will uh.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "we have some uh forty minutes uh to complete this uh.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "So um who has the fir do you ha Anna do you have your presentation ready?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "I have a presentation, I'm just making this.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah I think yeah the Matthew it is it's important that Matthew yeah is here", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Okay. Ah", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "because it's really a a team uh project with a team", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "there is Matthew.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "and if someone is not here then we cannot.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Sorry.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "but it's okay it's good..", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Okay I'll just email you this file, my presentation.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "So. Good. Do presentation ready?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm I'm just emailing it to you.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Oh okay.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "So.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "So did you manage uh.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah I sent you the slides, you didn't see them?", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Oh yes I see him, good yes.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Okay..", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "No.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "So'Kay.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Okay it should've gone through to you.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Okay mm yes I have it.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm. Okay so this is just a presentation on uh the trends that we're gonna use to make the product stand out from the rest of the products out there at the moment. Um can I just put this on? So we have to work out a way what we can do with our product to make it stand out and make it so people wanna buy it. Um. This is to do this I will not remove my microphone. We basically used um some focus group surveys which I went through with you last time, the main results of that, and um some research on the current design um and fashion trends that are out there at the moment um,", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "and as part of this The important aspects that came out were things that we've already discussed really. The most important by far was the look and feel of it. It needs to be something that's very different from everything else out there. It needs to stand out. It needs to be not functional like the rest of the things out there at the moment. Most people find remote controls boring at the moment, we need to have something that looks interesting, that looks exciting, that will stand out. People will wanna buy it. Um That was twice as i important as the next item on here which is that it has to be technologically innovative has to have something else, apart from just the look of it. People have to then think about it and say got something there that I want. That's a really cool feature, and it has to make them wanna buy it again. Third on the list, and again innovative was twice as important as this last um aspect, it has to be easy to use. So they have to be able to be able to look at it and have some intuitive idea of how to use it um. Drawing on the fashion trends at the moment, uh fruit and vegetables um. This is basically talking about just the the feel of it, so probably not the smell of it, but the bright colours, um eye-catching, really bold designs, and a spongy feel.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Um I had a talk to the design people about this, but having a remote that's tactile, that feels different, that would be really cool. That would make it stand out. Um.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Hmm.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "So can you repeat and be more precise about what you just said?", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Spongy feel?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Uh about the feeling yeah uh yo", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Well", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "You can.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "ma make it not necessar sp spongy is the current thing. Spongy is the current texture, but basically there are no reports no remotes at the moment which are spongy or tactile at all, so if we make it like maybe furry or soft or something, that'll be something that sets it apart,", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "rather than just bare plastic which they all are at the moment.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "So as far as the design goes, the very most important aspect was the design, to the customers. So going with the fruit and vegetable idea, we've got the bright colours, so makes it stand out, the oranges and the the bright yellows and the florescent colours, part of the fruit and vegetables um. Going back to the idea of taking inspiration from mobile phones, they've all got those a lot of them have the changeable covers, so they can choose what colour the outside is. That's one way of looking at it um. Textured feel we just talked about. Maybe it's another way of doing that.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "So if it's part of the the changeable covers then may maybe they can choose a different texture, a spongy one or a soft one or something like that. So they can choose it li as they want to to maybe to fit in with their decor in their living room, or just what they like, their sports team or whatever.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah that's a very good idea, yeah. Yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Um and yeah, still taking the inspiration from the mobile phone design so functionality, the way the mobile phones work, the way the keypad looks. Also just the way that a lot of industrial design is going into mobile phones at the moment. They're big selling items. People put a lot of thought into that so we can leverage off that, and we can start using some of their ideas. Um back to technological in in innovation, not quite as important, but still a big issue. Um we talked about having a way of finding a remote control if it's been lost, uh that's one thing we could look at. There are other aspects like L_C_D_ screens and speech recognition which weren't I don't think, in my personal opinion, gonna be worth the extra expense and the extra effort that will go into them. I think we're better doing something basic like this", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "which is very important and very will be a really cool feature to put in. And use. I had no real specific ideas for this, maybe we just, the basic idea of having your core functions big and at the top maybe, by themselves,", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Mm. Yes well", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "and then.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "maybe Matthew can can give some more information on the.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "yeah", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "and then th th the finer details of buttons you don't use as much either hidden away or completely separate.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yep and that's the presentation.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Voila.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Okay good, that's very clear.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah very clear.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "'Kay. Um. Uh.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "So does anyone have any comments or ideas on that? I think you.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Maybe we yes well we maybe can decide later on um the l the the look and feel of uh I've it was a good idea maybe to to.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "To let the people choose, you mean?", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yes the the the there are changeable covers,", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "but on the other hand I I don't know whether my superiors would be so glad with it because you have to introduce a complete uh uh new l line of uh of supplies", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Hmm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "uh it would be uh very complicated uh organisational.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Well we're selling so many units of this. This is gonna be a mass marketed product, we can afford to have two or three different designs at least.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Hmm. Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah a range of uh yeah, a set of three, four different aspects.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Mm mm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yes. Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Sure that fits the.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yes and of course it will be a we we get a if it works we can get uh after-sales", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "I mean that would would be very good I mean those covers could go for for three, five Euro.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "That's a very good idea um And then uh maybe uh we can go a th Matthew's presentation because", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "s", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "the.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "then we could discuss later like we can put all ideas together.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Together indeed uh,", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "It should be easier with that.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "because you ma might have some some information on the the easy to use,", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah yeah I agree.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm, yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "what you were already mentioning.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "So.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "And your part is very related to mine", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "because when you suggest something then it has to be integrated inside.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah so I'll I'll go with that actually", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "so um Okay so m so then the the idea of uh having a remote is generally you have uh different keys and uh different structures, different forms, and uh they could be like buttons and um they could be of uh a varying sizes if you want to to uh basically emphasize a particular key more than the other, and uh maybe like you can have different colours for example having the r red for the on off switching on and off the button. So this this is the general trend to ha the method they do..", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "So what I have found was that uh currently uh the they are mostly that the T_V_, V_C_R_, music system operated ones actually, and they are very specific to each other, but there are some common keys for example if you want to follow the V_C_R_ and if you want to follow the uh g uh s some uh soundtrack on the w w see they have the common thing actually you can have", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "and uh There is also um a speech recognition to store channel information, names, like You can basically if you have a multiple functionality, say T_V_, V_C_R_ or something I say it to the T_V_ and the T_V_, and you can programme the keys if you want to, certain keys are even the channel information.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Mm. Mm. I like the idea though of having speech recognition for like the n the name of a channel like B_B_C_, rather than having to remember the the number of it on the keypad. That's a good idea.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah yeah so you you you can just uh because uh as more and more channels come then you have more and more problems to remember the v v exact channel numbers ex exactly,", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": ".", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "even if you arrange it by however you arrange it, you still have the problem to remember exactly which channel you want to.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Hmm. Mm. Yeah I really like that idea.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "So what functionalities do you suggest for that? For facing this problem?", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "So it it it's like it limited one. In the present market I saw it that says something like they are looking for eighty word thing, eighty word,", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "which shouldn't be th that difficult to implement, like eighty to hundred word. Basically you want you don't want to store all the channels in the remote control,", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "you want to st store your favourite channel.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Maybe ten channels, yeah at the most.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah some ten twelve channel information. You know you don't want to st store all the hundred channel information into that.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "And uh basically uh it depends like the remote with L_C_D_ display for browsing because you have multiple functionalities for example you are watching a movie, and uh uh you are having a universal remote control and you want to uh you don't know really which functionality is now, so I am using the T_V_ so every time I use it, it could be like, for example I can use a simple toggle switch, and a display, so I press it so the display says, okay, I'm in T_V_ or D_V_D_ or whatever it is, instead of having three keys separately for four keys,", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm. Oh yeah yeah yeah mm.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "to model the functionalities will increase actually,", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "and for you and you might want.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "you don't want separate keys for all of them. You can't. And uh well there can be children friendly where you can programme your remote so that they they are not allowed uh to browse certain channels which you can block them, and you can operate them. So these are the things presently which are seen in the market scenarios at present.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "I personally would look at things like having a u universal remote, is uh um is a good idea, like instead of having unusual ones for all of them you can think of having, um with multiple functionality possibly with speech recognition.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "I got a mail from the the coffee machine interface unit that uh they have uh integrated the s speech recognition into a into the coffee machine,", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Mm b", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "and so if you say hello coffee machine, it say hi Joe, or something like that, you know, and uh.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "But a coffee machine, there's not too many words they'd be using with that it's a it's a small vocabulary.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah you you won't be using it, so it's a limited vocabulary mm thing, and very isolated word", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Mm. Mm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "and it's uh it is interesting, and basically storing the channel through voice or other ways of programming your keys, on the display for the browsing", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "which is again and maybe having something like a blinking thing, like uh it could indicate you're uh it it could indicate what is cal like the uh whether uh you you have enough battery in your in your uh remote, the blinking.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "At the same time, if it's a dark room, it can be used to locate the remote also", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "or.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "And you want okay for coming back to one point", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Two thirty five supposed to finish.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "y you want to let the user to programming the keys? Some of them?", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah you can let them to do that.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "And uh isn't that too difficult for the we want w I don't know if we still want the um R_C_ to be easy to use,", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Hmm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "that's the compromise.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "N no but the if you give it d depends on the easiness like the user how much effort he can put.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Hmm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Like for example uh I would like to store in certain way, so if you want to give the full freedom to the user", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "or you want to keep some constraints and let the user use it with that constraint.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah. Mm. I think you can do it both ways.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "So it de", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "You can have it so it's easy they can pick it up and use it straight away without doing anythi without customizing it,", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "A standard.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "or if they want to they have the option of using these extra features.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Um yes but but I do.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "So.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "maybe you can give a hand to us because I I'm not sure whether that that we can implement that for twelve Euro and fifty cents.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "So.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Hmm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "I'm sorry to have Every time I have to come down on this price again", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Hmm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "to so this might be a little limiting for your creativity,", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Hmm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "but it's it's it's the real We have to consider it. S so.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "do we think these ideas an and my uh sp speech recognition, I mean maybe it's possible for for twelve Euro but then then it will be at cost of other functionality we might implement like the uh uh the the the furry uh uh case of the.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm. Hmm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm yeah like I would say that for programming uh keys, you said, uh it could be uh easily uh done within the the package of twel twelve Euros,", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "but for the A_S_R_ system, uh I'm not sure if it's feasible to have this", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "We well we can still look at we can talk with the coffee unit", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "We.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "and you can uh check how much how much they.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Exactly yeah i if if it's a low vocabulary it's already implemented,", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "yeah yeah", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "and w how much it's cost, maybe with a f cheap chip.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Maybe we can come we we can talk to them, and we can come with that,", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Mm mm.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "you know.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "And also well you can think of having uh since you have a you know something maybe if you added little bit of display, you might need the to che keep checking the battery, so you really need a some kind of indicator,", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Hmm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "so it could be a blinking option of L_E_D_.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Hmm.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "it could actually be used to detect also.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "If it's in a dark room you can basically detect it also.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Mm. Hmm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Hmm.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "I like the idea too of being able to use the remote in the dark,", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "So.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "so either having the buttons so you can feel the difference between them or if they if they light up or something.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "No actually i if i it is like you know it tells you um, it can be for two purposes,", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "like if you have an L_C_D_ display and all those things it's not going to be the standard remote,", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Mm. Hmm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "which is having uh which need just uh six six volt uh th sorry three volts um of D_C_.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "It may need more actually, so y you you may need to check your battery usage it and then you need that, some functionality to indicate the battery limit.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Hmm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "And then if the battery limit is indicated, if it could be ind indicated through a blinking something", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "It's true.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "and it can change the colour depending on your uh how much is the battery, well that is good enough to even locate even if you want to.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "You know.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "'Kay good.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": ".", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah so.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "I don't know how if if I have time to talk about the.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Mm yes um I would.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "You you have time some more? Yep.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yes yes you can you can still. We have time.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Sure you can you know.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Okay. So what I'm gonna present here is very uh um yeah basic knowledge about the all the the components that are inside a a R_C_ a remote control, and how is it manufactured h what is the process, just to explain you.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "So the method is ther there is a a set of components in a in a remote control like, and uh what cost the the components in themself do not cost a lot but the the way to assemble everything costs obviously, and I will uh show you my preferences uh uh at the end. So there are two uh different types of uh um Two different ways of using the the components for making a a remote control.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Nice..", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Hmm.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Uh the basic way is to use a an integrated circuit and some uh transistors with an that aims at communicating uh uh the message and to to send the message to the um to the led that will uh transmit to the receiver. And uh yeah the other components and the circuit board buttons, infrared, led, etcetera, for the components um. So you finding, just to say that the chip can detect uh when a key is pressed, and then it translate to the key, to a sequence, something like morse code, as you know, uh with a different sequence for each key,", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "and uh uh that's, with the components we will use, we will have different uh messages, different sequences, and the chips sends that signal signal to the transistor that amplify to make it stronger um. So electronic parts are assembled onto uh printed boards uh because it's easier to mass produce and assemble. And uh so I think for our design we want some b uh programmable uh you know V_ V_L_S_I_ or F_P_G_A_ uh high technology,", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah mm mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "and this is important, and also we'll use uh yeah like in any uh high-tech uh devices a chip of fi fibreglass to them and connect them.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "So my personal design we need to find a solution what um what is the material of the cover we want to use. If it's plastic", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "or you said that yeah you had some ideas uh like fruit, veg or.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Well well", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "I dunno..", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "m m maybe m maybe we can give the uh the uh the case a very uh uh normal a v very normal case but, with the changeable covers to fancy it up.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yes. Yes.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "So like a normal cheap plastic case which can be covered up in, for instance, a wooden case.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yes.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Mm just have a yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah like they do in with cars I think. Yeah inside the car", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Just the veneer on it, yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "yeah. So they also emailed me that uh they have available a bunch of different buttons, a scroll wheels, integrated push buttons s such as a computer mouse. And uh very cheap L_C_D_s, so liquid crystal displays,", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "so I'm wondering, I think we might be able to integrate L_C_D_ into our R_C_. And the final point okay is um we have yeah there are some uh compromise to to do.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Hmm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "So we have to know that the push button requires a simple chip, but the scroll wheel uh and that kind of higher high-tech stuff needs more money um which is a higher price range alright. And the display requires an advanced chip, which in turns is more expensive than the regular chip, but I think uh with twelve Euros um and if it's uh uh made for mm four million uh items, then I think w we could be able to handle that.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "So to to sum up um we need yeah so I I just said that the components uh the list of components uh has to be uh yeah listed and um and um assembly is a an important process that has to be taken into account. And uh for the designing of the cove uh uh cover layout then it's better to to to maybe see that with uh the the U_R_ exp U_R_I_ Expert", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Sorry.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "so that we can it's really a team-working uh. So", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "I I cannot design something without your agreement,", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "No of course.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah so", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "right?", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "of course for example uh I wanted to know like if you want to have a a fo if you want to have the L_C_D_ display over there,", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yes.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "or if you want to store a programmes with a keys What kind of things you'll need inside your thin inside W wh what.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah it's kind of um simple pro progra programmable device, and we have to insert.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "W what Okay. Okay.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "I think we could insert one that could underlie several functions", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Okay so", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "of.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "in that case you can even look at the technology what the mobile phone is trying to use with the card.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Exactly yeah, for customizing and yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah where they do all the wi with with them actually. How f cost effective it would be to put that car chip into it and do the programmable things.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "So.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah. Yeah good idea.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "So I f I think we we should come to some decisions now uh a about this.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah..", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Um so I understand uh when we want a display we need a expensive chip, but when we want a scrolling wheel w we also need the expensive chip, so can we use same chip, so with one expensive chip we can uh implement several complicated uh or advanced features.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Exactly yeah that's a very good idea,", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yes.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "we could have uh one main chip uh that could handle, uh it's called F_P_G_A_ chip, that could handle both uh like scrolling wheels as well as uh L_C_D_", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "and", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "So", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "when the more expensive chip you mentioned there is is possible in the in the given budget, uh maybe we should go for for the more expensive chip, so all features uh which you mentioned can be implemented based on the same chip.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yes.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "D well.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Do you think that's feasible?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Well I don't know if it'll fit into our cost of twelve point five Euro you know.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Uh You th you think it's possible.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Is it possible to fit in to that?", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah also thinking, I think both uh if we had a budget of twenty twenty uh Euros, it will be okay,", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Sorry.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Hmm.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "but uh.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Well maybe we need specific costings then. Actually do maybe two designs and then cost them out and see which one is gonna fit in our budget better.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Mm yes", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah that's an excellent idea.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "wh when you make a a design ca you can next meeting you can give an quite an exact cost price.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah yeah. Yeah", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "That w that would be a very good idea.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "because right now I don't have price in in head", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "but for next meeting I'm sure yeah be able to do that.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Good good.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah that's uh that's something which I wanted to ask you also, like what will be the each individually the cost of it. For example if f if you want to put wood I wouldn't suggest for wood", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "uh'cause it's I think it's m much easier to use a plastic or a rubber rather than wood.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Okay. I agree on that. Yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "It will be much ch much expensive th though it's the most natural thing, but.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yes but I can I think uh I think we can just use more cheap plastic for a kind of basic edition, and then people can fancy it up with with more expensive materials", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Hmm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah. Yeah", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "which which come with a with another price.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "it's uh Yeah we we can give a preference to them, but it is but with plastic or the rubber or whatever it is it's much better with that rather than going for.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Do do you agree?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm yeah sure.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah but i it's a detailed uh yeah yeah uh plastic versus uh wood,", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "and we need maybe to centre our description on uh the the really the what buttons what uh functionality we want to offer to the user, and maybe with uh graphs or I don't know uh.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "User Interface Designer you could maybe uh help us on that.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Ma I I think uh for next meeting we c you two can present a real design. Uh so drawing it on the board.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yea", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Perfect yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "And then we now sh only have to t to decide the general function uh. So um Let let's say next meeting w you produce two designs, one one one less advanced and one more advanced and with the cost price.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah sure. Yeah we will uh Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Uh furthermore we go for the for the uh basic plastic case", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Uh.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "which can be later uh fancied up with uh with addit uh additional uh, how do you call them, these like like mobile telephones you can put a cover over it.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "But that that that that can be done later.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "We now can concentrate on the on the basic remote control.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": ".", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah customized.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Um.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Okay. We can give them smooth keys, you know. Smooth keys with bigger s uh So that you know The the problem most of the time we've seen, the keys is that it's small,", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "and every time we have to be very but if i the if we if we go to a different ways of designing those keys, then you can merge them together", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "So is there any of these that you're looking at particularly", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "to.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "or is this just ideas?", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Oh you can actually, for example, if you see, they are they are they are quite small over here,", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "and uh now you can, for example, as I was if you make them big, it may change the look of the thing also to the people.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Hmm. Mm. Mm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "At the same time, it is m more uh like it would be more interesting for people who are having this R_S_I_ and all problem.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Mm yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yes yes yes bi big keys is is good thing I think.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Uh big keys may better for them actually and uh.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "You see?", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "I agree yeah,", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "and not too m too many keys of course yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Mm well", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "No no.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "one I've had before, a r r remote control we have at home is one that's actually got a cover on the bottom", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "so the bottom bit is just, covers half the keys most of the time, and then you can slide the cover back to get to the the more advanced keys.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Mm mm mm.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Mm w but then you have still have uh when you don't use it you have such a a an extent of your remote control", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "which you don't use. So maybe it's possible uh, I don't know whether you can can indicate this, that you can elsewhere open your remote control and on the inside are uh buttons you don't use that much.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Mm. Yeah. Um yeah I've seen that before too. Anoth another like b", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "it flips up and then you've got another layer of buttons underneath.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yes.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yes. Yeah so it's something like this, the model here", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "s you can put the keys.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "But I've seen also with keys and buttons on the top of here as well.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "That's what you mean?", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yes I I th that's what I mean", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah. Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "so I mean something like like a book.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "I like this one. I like the shape of this one.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Can we have can we think about maybe having a a non-recta non non-rectangular one, so with not just the straight little box", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah I like also this one.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "that's a maybe curved or something.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah, mm.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah, the point is w maybe we need to also to make a decision on how how how big we want to be and how many buttons like n we should dec decide numbers or.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Mm mm'kay. Is this for the next meeting though?", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "We should make a.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "I think we might be out of time out of time for this meeting.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah that yeah next meeting we should be.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Ju just make two designs,", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah that would depend upon us actually.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah yeah yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "and the we we can decide decide between th those designs.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yep.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah okay.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "I think that would be a good idea. So", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Perfect.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "anyone uh any questions for now?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "No no. I don't have.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "No. So is this is there anything else I need to do from a marketing point of view for the next meeting?", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Um yes I come to that uh uh.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Maybe it would be interesting if you could look um for the cost inventories of other devices, if you're using speech recognition or something like that.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yes well m maybe uh, I don't know whether that's possible,", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "maybe you can start evaluating uh their work somehow.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Okay well is this me designing a way to evaluate it so Thinking about how to set up test groups and things?", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "I don't know whether that's possible uh in the given time", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "but a as far as possible.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Okay. Yep.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "So uh you two will be together w working on a o on two prototypes", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Exactly.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Mm..", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "and further instructions will be uh will be sent to you by uh by email.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Two or three prototypes?", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Two.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Two.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "One for like cost and the one with like higher-end", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Two?", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "I.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Mm and then.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "so that then we can be easily comparing them", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Hmm..", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "or you know find a compromise between both of them,", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "and find maybe a compromise.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Hmm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yes okay.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "yeah that's how it is.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Perfect yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yep.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Okay let's call this to an end.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm'kay.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Thanks guys.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Thanks.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "So we are done for now..", "speakerName": "User Interface" } ] }	{ "dialogTurns": [ { "query": "Hi there, I'd like to know which questions were left unanswered during the recent meeting about conceptual design.\n1: The project manager, Matthew, was late to the meeting. 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ddc79689d0884336862e16d62e30c09c	{ "meetingId": "ES2008c", "transcriptSegments": [ { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Okay. I g yeah. Time is it?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Fourteen twenty six.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Okay. Lovely to see you all again. Um it's our conceptual design meeting and it's starting at approximately fourteen twenty five and so we have forty minutes for this one again and so we'll go just after three o'clock. Um okay our agenda, we're gonna do an opening, I'm gonna review the minutes of the last meeting, then we'll have your three presentations um and then we'll have to make a decision on the remote control concepts, and finally we'll close. So", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "opening. Um these are our minutes from r the functional design. We decided our target group is the focus on who can afford it, because we have international appeal and we said it's for all age groups, different um functions of it. Our main objectives were simplicity and fashion. And s um in specific functions are something to keep the remote from getting lost, large buttons for the essential functions, a possibility for extra functions, like a sliding a sliding piece and a long-life battery or a charging station. Okay, now three presentations. I'd like to do it in this order, first do the conceptual specification of components, properties and materials um and then the conceptual specification of user interface and finally trend watching.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "That would be me.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yep.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Alright. Well.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Mm.'kay. Function F_ eight it. There we go.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Alright. Um I'm very excited by this one actually guys I uh had a lot of fun doing it. Components design. This is where you look at what does it take to make a remote control and what should we make our specific remote control out of. Um. So, we need to examine each element separately, but we're designing a full thing, so you wanna keep it integrated as a whole. The main elements of remote controls in general, and therefore ours as well, are the case, the buttons, the circuit board with the chip and the battery. These are all things that we had sort of addressed before, but I'm gonna take each one a little bit separately here as we figure out what they should be made of and what they should look like. The case, uh the options that I've gotten from headquarters about what we can do, um there's there's the shape of a case, we could do a flat sh a flat case, a curved case or maybe even a double double-curved case. I haven't seen any pictures of what this exactly looks like yet, just keep that in mind, but these are the options that we have from manufacturing and we can make our case out of plastic, the m the main base will be plastic, but we have all these sort of fashion and technological elements we can add in, wood, latex, titanium, rubber or other coloured types of plastic. That would be our case. Um buttons, for buttons we have um pushbuttons, which is what Real Reaction uses the most often, but we also have scror scroll wheels,", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "which can have integrated pushbuttons, or we could go all high-tech and have an L_ L_C_D_ screen. Um circuit board and chip we can have a simple one, a regular one or an advanced one, depending on what our other needs are. And then battery I think is where things get most exciting. We're talking about long-life batteries here. Um we can we can have your sort of basic double A_ batteries, but we also have these options of um using a kinetic battery, like are used in high-tech watches, where you just have to move it a little bit to get it to power up. Um so simple movements like pushing buttons would recharge the battery. Or a solar battery, although there are slight um complications with solar batteries as in we can't use a latex case if we have a solar battery.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Hmm.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Or um something they only described as the type of battery you find in torches from about fifty years ago, flashlights. Not quite sure what that is, but that's the description that I received, so that's what I'm passing on to you. So those are our options. Um personal preferences that I was thinking through here's what we've been talking about all through, fashion and simplicity. So if we're going for fashion in our cases, I think that what we're gonna wanna look at is a curved or a double-curved case, probably with a variety of design elements. Maybe titanium, maybe some wood. We're gonna have to investigate that better when I get specifics of the actual materials, but that's sort of what I have in mind. And we wanna go for simplicity. Probably pushbuttons, but I'm sort of intrigued by the idea of a scroll scroll wheel, if anyone has anything", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "any ideas on that? I mean I know the iPods and things right now have touch scroll um buttons which are exactly like what they're describing, so that might be something we wanna look into. And I'm really intrigued by the idea of a kinetic battery. Solar I don't think would be such a good idea, because how often are you sure that your remote control will get a certain amount of light.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "But this idea of the kinetic, that you don't have to replace, and that a simple just shaking it around will make it work, I think that that m would be a very interesting thing. But I think we'd also wanna go for e a simple chip or regular chip to keep our costs down. Uh we really only need a regular or advanced chip t if we're gonna start using an L_C_D_. So I think we want to be aware of not making things overly t technological if they don't need to be,'cause that'll keep our manufacturing price way down. That's what I have for options. Um I'd appreciate anyone's input, but that's what I'm seeing for the future of the the look of this thing..", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Is double-curved like would be like two hands kind of thing?", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "I'm not sure. I haven't received any specific", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "visuals of this yet.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "'Cause I'm imagining like double-curved is like, you know, like two sides that curve", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "This is what I'm sort of.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "and then like one curve would just be like a single vertical-ish kind of looking thing,", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah. I'm not sure,", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "but I've no idea.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "but I'll let you know as soon as I get any pictures.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Sounds good.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah, I wonder.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "I know if we do have a double-curved case, it can't have any titanium in it. But the titanium, they were quite they're marketing quite hard to us as being used in the space programme, so that could be quite interesting.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Space-age remote.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm. Just an interesting marketing kind of element.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Just all things to keep in mind. Yeah. That's about all I have to do, guys. I hope I didn't go through that too quickly.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Uh just a real quick question um the weight of these different elements, have you.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah, n", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "no idea, okay.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "no idea, no idea. Um I'm assuming that a kinetic battery isn't gonna take up that much weight,", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "and that a tita titanium is very light, I know,", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "um but other than.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "that's really basic, I mean, that's all I have gotten so far..", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Alright? Any other questions?", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Uh-huh. Don't think so.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "No? Okay.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Mm'kay.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "I have save this in the uh shared projects, if anyone wants to look", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Thank you, perfect.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "and I have c considerable notes on the topic as well, if anyone needs any more information. Uh.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Thanks.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Um if you made notes yourself you can put those on our um underneath our oh, uh in your book,", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Just in my notebook,", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "then don't worry about that.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "but if anyone has any specific questions, don't hesitate to email me or something. Alright? Uh I guess I can.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "'Kay now we're um concepts concepts of user interface..", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah, um. This one's so much tighter than the other one.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "I know.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Okay. Nope. There we go. Here you are.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Jess.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "G oh, geez.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Alright, so I'm gonna describe the the concept of the user interface of this des device. Um we've talked about uh the two essential properties of the user interface. We want it to be simple and we want it to be fashionable. Um other we've also got to remember that this is a device that serves as a useful purpose. Uh we want people to be able to use it s as a remote control, so we need to determine what the essential functions of the d of the device are and make sure that we include that we've included all of those and that we actually end up with a device that is going to be useful to people. We have a number of different choices for a design concept um and s that's that's something that that I'll show you some examples of um, but essentially we need to choose how how is this device going to work,", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "how how what kind of model is there going to be for user interaction with this device. Uh once we've chosen a a concept for it, we can then design the features around the concept, making sure that we get all the essential functions in the device and uh the extra functions and the more advanced features. And of course we also have to make it look cool.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "So basically,", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "that's what we don't want. M we don't want lots of buttons, uh complicated features. We want something that looks nice and simple.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Hmm.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Here's a a fairly simple device. This is an an iPod from Apple. Um I think the main thing to notice about it is it just has four buttons. It's very minimalistic in its design. Uh you use these four buttons to m to move around a range of settings on the small L_C_D_ screen. Um the thing I like about this is that it's very very quick to access the main features. Uh you can just about make out uh that the button three buttons are uh previous track, next track and play pause. They're the main the main features of the iPod, the things you will use a all the time. Um then if you want to do anything more advanced, you go into the little menu on the L_C_D_ screen and you use the buttons just to scroll around and and find the more advanced features that you want. So I think that's that's a good a good kind of model that we could have. Um here's a another example. This is uh it's an interesting idea and I think i it looks pretty cool. Um it's certainly got novelty value.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Uh it's nice and colourful, it's nice and bright. Uh it's also something that you can kind of feel your way around. The buttons are are different shapes and and you can sort of yeah if you're watching T_V_ in the dark or whatever, you can work out which button's which and basically, yeah it's ith it's fun. So I I like I like this idea of just having buttons for the features that you use most often. So you'd need a few buttons to select your favourite channels. I mean most people, when they watch T_V_, they have two hundred and fifty channels on their T_V_ and they watch of'bout four of them at the most. So, you have buttons for your favourite channel, changing the volume, which is something you do all the time when you're watching T_V_, and the button to switch it off, in case you get bored. Um other features, things like adjusting the brightness, tuning the T_V_, uh I don't know what else you do with a T_V_. Um but these are these are all necessary functions. Uh you can't have a t there's no point having a television that you can't tune or that you can't set the contrast, so we need to find a way of including these somehow. Um and one other suggestions I'd make is to in is to include in a menu system, a bit like on the iPod. So we'd either have a small L_C_D_ display on the device itself, or uh have a dis a menu display that comes up on your television and can b be controlled through the device.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Hmm.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "And that would allow you to access access the advanced features uh whilst keeping a very small and simple set of buttons for the features that you use most often.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "So you'd be advocating an L_C_D_ then?", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "I think that's that's one way to go, yes.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Um I mean there are there are advantages and disadvantages if you if you have an L_C_D_ display, it's it's nice, because it's it it lets you just sort of sit there and st and control your television from your armchair.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "There are disadvantages, an an L_C_D_ display would have to be quite small,'cause we're we're I.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Right", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "well we're I assume we're gonna be making quite a small device. Um it would also have to have uh a kind of backlighting in it,'cause you ten you tend to watch T_V_ in the dark,", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "but you need to be able to see your L_D_D_ L_C_D_ display. The alternative is to have a an on-screen display on your television that you control through your remote control. Uh a bit like a bit like how they have these um digital boxes where you you press the buttons and it comes up with your this thing of watch lo what's on each channel.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "I mean that that's also a good idea. It's it can it does have it's problems as well, if you've got a small T_V_ and you're sitting on the other side of a room, it's hard to read the little text that comes up.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Uh but that's a that's a design decision that we can make.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "'Kay.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "I do think that um one of the important features for a remote is seeing a menu and seeing what's on.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Um and so", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "like favourite channels is is applicable, but I think th that you do need to have some kind of function where it's um you have t you can see the title of the show or possibly a description of it.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Well Are you are you tak", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Like I I know I use that often enough.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Wait, but is that separate from what he was saying?", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Well", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "if it if it was a L_ L_C_D_ on th on the remote, I don't know that you could f that you'd be able to see a.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "No, I think I think we're talking menu like contrast and tuning the V_C_R_ or something if I've understood you correctly, rather than menu as what's on.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah, that that would be one of the features, yes.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Okay.'Cause that would be more specifically a digital box,", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "But it's it's it's something to bear in mind is that if we put a display on the remote control the c uh communication is one way,", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "so you can't have the televisions and information back to the remote control, at least I don't think you can.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Oh, good point.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Um I'm not sure.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Okay, now we're moving on to market. Marketing.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Should I plug that in?", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Is that going on? Okay.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Maybe it's just not.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Uh that should be alright, actually.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Is it on? Ri What F_ do you have to press,", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Eight.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "five? I just keep pressing lots of'em. Well, I don't know how relevant all of this gonna be. If anything, the that they gave me.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Oops, it's not plugged in, quite in well enough.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "No signal.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Alright.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "There we are.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Oop, there we go.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Mm'kay.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Oh yeah. Okay, so we're gonna look a little bit at trend watching. Basically, I was given um an executive summary that was a market investigation on remote controls that was recently conducted, and then also some fashion watchers in Paris and Milan commented on some things that are gonna be going on this year.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "So first um they had people they ranked um the important aspects of r remote controls, and right now i d they're saying that currently there's a functional look and feel preference, but that really, over the next year it it that's gonna be switching to fancy look and feel remotes, so that just goes back to the whole desire of our c Real Reaction company wanting to focus on fashion and so, even though we're stressing, when we're talking, we've all been talking about this like simplicity and easy to use idea, they're sort of wanting us to remember that the number one thing for everyone is that it's fancy look and feel. And as these are ranked, the top one is doubly important to the second one, which is doubly important to the third one,", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "so just to take that weight into account. The second thing that was mentioned as important was the technological innovations. That would be like if we use something like the space material or the L_C_D_ screen, things like that. And then ease of use was the third most important, whi so really, no matter what, we need to focus the most on fancy look and feel, according to this. I don't know how much we agree with that. And then the fashion watch talks about that this year's top trend for clothes,", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "shoes and furniture is fruits and vegetables and tha that there's a preference for spongy, tight material.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "S sweet.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "And so that brings us to my personal preferences. Who wants a spongy remote or one with fruit and vegetable padding.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Personally, I don't really think that I want one that's gonna go out of style or go stale, excuse the pun, um in a year, so", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "even though this is coming from us as, you know, trend watch, market research, I don't know how much of it we necessarily wanna take away.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Also, considering that the d research b has been carried out by Real Reaction, I'm a little hesitant as to like, how these questions may have been worded, and if necessarily this whole fashion to technology y edas ease of use is necessarily the right ranking. Personally, like I might reverse it, but if we're working for this company then I guess no matter what, we have to stress fashion the most. But it doesn't necessarily need to be a spongy material..", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Mm..", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "That there's all kinds of scope for imagination in that one though.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah. I don't have a lot of notes to share if you want them,", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "that pretty much sums it up. So yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Okay, do we have any s some questions for this, let's see um.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah, what can I possibly enlighten on?", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Um do you have any ideas how to possibly use these? Um how to how to use a fruit or vegetable or um or the spongy material at all?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Like could we make a s like could we make a spongy remote? It would be easier on the hands.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "If it's latex if it's latexy.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "It's kind of and then it.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Um, mean.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "we would have to find a way to protect like the chip and all that,", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "A kind of thing that.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "I dunno. But.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "An uh I if th my understanding of a latex case is that it's in fact hard to protect stuff inside,", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "but that it's covered with the latex, which is spongier and softer on your hands. It's there's something to be said, I mean we we got that thing earlier from you about um not wanting it to R_ R_ repetitive stress injuries and things", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "and and.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah,", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah, so something, m m instead of a necess", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "something grippable, I mean we don't we don't we don't wanna go spongy, maybe..", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "yeah, grip, I'm thinking grip more than like sinking into your hands,", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah. Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "you know, i and I think I'm envisioning more like, you know, the material that you have when you sit on like a bicycle,", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "so that it doesn't hurt when you're sitting down for a long time,", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "like I'm imagining that sort of thing, I don't know what th that material's called.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah, I think that given the list of materials I w I was forwarded it's that seems doable. could we go in fruit and vegetable colours? We could colour-co-ordinate them,", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "F for sure, or maybe like", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "li", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "um couple main ones being like, I dunno, lemons or strawberries or something.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "The buttons could be fruit-shaped.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Could they be smelly?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "I Is it supposed to be shaped like a vegetable? Uh like uh I dunno, like uh carrots or something.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Oh well", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Oh God.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "I don't know.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Or carrot shaped,", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "it's quite easy to s shape thing like carrot", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "mm.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "isn't it?", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Maybe,", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Like large button,", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Or maybe the buttons could be shaped like different fruits.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "or.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "that's what I was thinking of, yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "What about the idea of like a round remote? Instead of like a vertical up and down one. Like in terms of holding it. Like that's a f shape of a fruit.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "be.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Kind of like a potato.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Might.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "It'd be harder to f bu uh buttons I think.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "would you think you you do you think you'd be able to hold it?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Just to tie it in a little.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "'Cause I think the reason they're long is yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "It'd be harder to press button.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Harder to push.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Depends. When you when you use a remote, do you press the buttons with your thumb, usually? Or your fingers?", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Um.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "I usually hold it in one hand. Maybe.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "I.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Or maybe you want something that's shaped like a mobile phone, so you you hold it in one hand, and you press the buttons with your thumb.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "But then the buttons would have to be very small.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah, that's ts how I tend to do it.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Don't you think?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "No", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah,", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "just thumb-sized.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "'cause otherwise your fingers can't move around.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Jus", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "But I mean in order to get to all of them,", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "But I like i", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "you know.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "They would have to be within a certain amount of space with each other.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Maybe.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "That's true.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "But if you've only got like four or five buttons anyway, then it's it's not so much a problem, perhaps.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Right. I When I'm when I'm pressing buttons on my iPod, that's how I do it, hold it and press the four. Yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "So you hold it in one hand and you press you press the buttons with your thumb", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah, or in and use my thumb or my pointer finger on the touch scroll wheel.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "and And you find that works quite well?", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "I love the idea of the wheel like the iPod.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Is that.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "'Cause th", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "The button on an iPod, is it what is it, is it just four buttons or is it li more like a scroll thing?", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "It's like five,", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "It's a scroll, yeah, it's a wheel.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "It wel well.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "'cause there's one in the middle.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "yeah, it would I mean each version of it has been a little bit different,", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "The one I have doesn't have the four on i like around it, I don't think.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "but Oh yeah, you had one of the in-between ones, when they weren't doing that anymore. Ts and you press the centre button,", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "that's that's your all-purpose select button right there.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Oh, I see, right, yeah. Oh, okay.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Since it's the one in the centre that's not marked, yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah, that's quite a good design.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "I think why it would be good for us is'cause like you could have the same wheel sort of effect for like channel flipping and then the other one could be like for volume.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Like just the idea of like those.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Uh uh", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "so few buttons for main things,", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "t", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "but then how you could go back to the menu and like, I dunno if we would want it on the screen there or on the actual T_V_. I kind of am wanting to say on the T_V_,", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "'cause if you're changing the brightness, don't you wanna see it happening, kind of?", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Hmm.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "And then you could still have that available.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah, I think an L_C_D_ screen might be good in theory, but not as useful in practice.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "I think it could be difficult in practice,", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "yeah. Also z yeah,'cause you would be z looking down at the L_C_D_ screen, than back up at your T_V_", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm. Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "and people don't wanna do that.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Um.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Okay um we have we've about fifteen minutes left,", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Oh we probably have to get going, don't we?", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "so I'm I'm gonna continue with my pres presentation. Um I've one more slide before we close, but in that slide is when we need to make decisions about this these kinds of things, so I'll just bring that up and show you all", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "'Kay.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "before we move on. Um.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Could Could we uh could we have changeable covers like for your mobile? In different fruit and vegetable colours,", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "If I get any more information of fruits and vegetables, I'll let you know.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Like, to make it different fruits..", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "yeah..", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah, it's possible.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah, and then like the the covers could be spongy latex", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Exactly.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "wherea but the actual model could be titanium.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "And you could co-ordinate with your house or whatever. All these options.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "I think maybe th the packaging, it should be like a lemon and the the packaging is like the peel.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Ooh.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "So instead of opening the box you just kind of peel it, and the remote control's inside.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Well,", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Ah hmm hmm hmm.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Oh..", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Don't know..", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "there we go. The iPod packaging is me like was so that was like half the fun.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "It's like the way it all comes all cute.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Mm. Options.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Lemons?", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Okay, um.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "components concept. Energy, chip on print.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Uh-hu oh, oh yes.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "G", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Right, I had sort of skipped over that hoping it wouldn't get be necessary but um.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "That's th th this is the agenda they gave me. So can you just explain what that is real quick?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Alright, so um decisions, what the okay deci decisions on energy I'm thinking is based on the battery.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Um I dunno, what do people think about this kinetic battery idea?", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "I think it's awesome. I think it's really cool.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Am I Yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah, I mean, it would t totally take care of our problem of not wanting to change batteries.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah, um I think it's good, as as long as we consider the the cost and the uh how reliable it is,", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Right, I haven't gotten any.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "but as far as I know, the technology is good.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Costs.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "yeah, any more information on cost other than it's more expensive than a regular battery, but um but if we're using a an i a cheaper chip, then it'll even out, I think.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "But over time.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Um circuit boards. Um yeah, I got a whole bunch of information on how circuit boards are produced. They're they're thin fibreglass with copper wires etched on to them, and di I think they're quite easily printed on by machine, which is chip on print is where the machine prints on the wires and solders it all together for us.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "I don't really know what to tell you as far as decisions. I wasn't really given any options, I was just given that this is how they're done.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Um yeah, I can't can't really tell you. I can I can tell you a whole lot about how it works. But I don't know any decisions on.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "If they're if they're really options.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah. I'm sorry,", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "I did f", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Al all circuit boards are pretty much the same, I think. Uh it's fairly fairly standard.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Um okay, then we'll move on to the case. Um oh bu I guess maybe if we decided on like a simple, a regular, or an advanced chip, maybe.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Right. Well okay, here's the here's the thing on the chips that I that I got. Um simple, regular, advanced chip on print. The chip on print includes an infrared sensor, so we don't have to worry about that. Um,'kay, the pushbutton if we're gonna have pushbuttons, they require a simple chip, but a scroll wheel requires a regular chip, and an L_C_D_ requires advanced. Do we want a scroll wheel, or do we just want pushbuttons?", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Um I don't think we ne really need the scroll whe wheel. I mean it might be nice for changing the volume.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "It would be nice for changing the volume,", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Oh..", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Uh but.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "but I don't know how useful it'd be for changing the channel.'Cause you don't have control over numbers", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "I don't think it would really work.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah, it's a.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "or.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah,", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah, you really need buttons for changing a channel.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "th it'd be it'd be handy for going through if there was an on-screen menu of your channel choices, than you can scroll down on the scroll.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "But if you c if you could scroll through the channels, and then the volume would just be", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "We have five minutes left for the meeting, so.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "and the volume would just be like the same way, forward and backward as I'm just thinking like it would make it much like sleeker sort of looking.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah. Yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "And otherwise, no matter how may buttons we have, we're gonna have like, you know, black with red sticking out and th no it's gonna inevitably sort of start looking like those group of sort of ugly ones that we saw stacked up.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Hmm.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "So, have a scroll for volume?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "F or for all those secret functions?", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "F", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "When you get on the on-screen menu of all your functions that your remote could do for you without the buttons and you could have a scroll wheel to go through those menus.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "I think yeah, I think a scroll wheel would be nice, but it's not necessary. Um.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Right. So we could either go with a simple or a regular chip, depending and maybe we could table that decision for later.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Um.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "I don't know.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "I think w well I think when we go on to the une userface, we're gonna have to decide the interface we're gonna have to decide um whether we're gonna have a scroll or not.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Okay. Well, let's think about that while we talk about the case.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Okay, let's do case.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Uh I'm kinda liking the idea of latex, if if spongy is the in thing.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "I'm a little um I'm a little hesitant about it, because I'm worried about protecting the stuff on the inside.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Um.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Oh could it be hard, and then something around it?", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Uh yeah, everything I've.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah, I would be more okay with like a titanium actual thing and then maybe like a mobile phone kind of thing.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "N oh wha what I've what I've seen, just not related to this, but of latex cases before, is that there's uh like a hard plastic inside, and it's just covered with the latex.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm. Okay.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Not too thick a layer of latex, just enough to be grippable, like bike handles or or anything that you've seen like that.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm. Okay.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "The inside is hard. I don't think we need to worry about protecting the circuit board,", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Ge o", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "I think that that's done for us.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "'Kay. Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "So we uh we do want latex.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Okay. Latex. Um and probably in colours, maybe fruity, vegetable colours.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Fruity colours. Okay um let's go to the ufe user interface then we'll come back to the chip I suppose.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Oh and we want a curved case, yeah? Or a double-curved?", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Well, we don't really know what the difference is, right?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "I'm thinking curved of some sort.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah, okay.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "We don't really know what the difference.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Um okay, interface, the type and the supplements. So push or scroll,", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Um.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "right? Or both?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yep. Um And I think if we wanna keep our costs down, we should just go for pushbuttons,'cause then we can have a a simple chip and it's simpler, it's it's cheaper to make pushbuttons than it is a scroll button.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Good point.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "So in terms of uh in terms of uh economics it's probably better to have pushbuttons.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm. And if we had a sc an on-screen um kind of thing that you could scroll through, like you can use your buttons to scroll through things.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah, yeah, it's uh it's it's fairly simple.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "I think that yeah. For channel surfing I think a scroll an actual like an iPod's kind of scroll thing would be too fast, I dunno.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah. I say pushbuttons at least unless we get any information but I have no idea how much more expensive a scroll wheel is than than a pushbutton, but it's gotta be some more expensive, so I think it might be better to put our money into the stuff like the kinetic battery and the cool case", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Is that okay with you?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "because.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "How you feeling?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah. And let's like see if we get anything else. I mean I'm not like hard-sold on the scroll wheel, it's more just to give it a different kind of look,", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "but if it's gonna be in a latex type thing and that's gonna look cool, then that's probably gonna have a bigger impact than the scroll wheel.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "It might be cool enough.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Okay, so we're gonna go with um type pushbuttons, and then supplements,", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yep.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "how are we gonna do that?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Uh what do you mean by supplements, exactly?", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Um I assume that's what else we're gonna like h ha the um the additional buttons we can use.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Um.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "So we're gonna have like a menu button,", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Oh.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "so that we can access on-screen things then?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yep. Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Okay, um so we're doing an on-screen menu that we can scroll through.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Alright.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Um in.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "So what are what are our buttons gonna be?", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah. On off,", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "On off.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "uh volume, favourite channels, uh and menu.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "So like one through five, or.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah, yeah", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Like a radio type sorta situation?", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "about yeah like yeah, a bit like radio presets. Um.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Pre-set channels and then we're gonna need um numbers one through zero, right?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Uh we wouldn't even need the numbers.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "No.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "I think maybe numbers seems is kind of old-fashioned.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Well, but in order to pre-set a cha oh I guess you can just hold it down when you get to one when you're scrolling through.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah, yeah, you can just.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "and you need some kind of, I dunno, sort of up down kind of button,", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah, up down.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "but the volume control could double for that, for example.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm. Okay, um finishing the meeting now. Um our next meeting starts in thirty minutes,", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "um you each have things to do, look and feel design, user interface design, product evaluation, and you two are going to work together on a prototype using modelling clay. You'll get specific instructions from your personal coach.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Ooh..", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Cool..", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Wow.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Um did we decide on a chip? Let's go with a simple chip?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Simple chip.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yep.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "We are done. Thank you everyone. Oh I di these are already in our shared folder, so.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Okay, cool. Clay..", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Clay. 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ddfff186ba0a4c93a0a434d01d4bba3a	{ "meetingId": "IS1002b", "transcriptSegments": [ { "text": "So we are here to talk about functional design. Now hopefully we've all got a better idea from than we did f leaving the last meeting as to what it is we are up to now. So here's an agenda. Uh I'll open. Um you should know that I'll be taking minutes during all the meetings, as I was struggling to our last time uh and that'll be easier for me now because I'm not actually giving the whole presentation. Uh the additional points are just the stuff that we sent and that I forwarded on from upper management having a few bright ideas to make our lives painful.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Um now you can all give your presentations. We can talk about the requirements and hopefully come to some decisions. Right, forty minutes for this meeting, so a bit more time than the last one. Here's the additional points I just wanted to put those in there to see if you guys had any comments on them. Uh did you all receive that email?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yep.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "So does anyone have any overall.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Well uh what comes up for me is that if we're gonna if we're gonna be marketing a product that is going to be uh having no teletext, people are very comfortable with the idea of having teletext and using teletext, and so we're not we're gonna be a new product without something that people are very comfortable having right now.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Mm. Mm. Yep.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "So that's, from a marketing perspective I I see I see a lack.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "And so we have to go, I think, in the other direction. What are we gonna have that makes this thing better than.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Well tha that first point could uh also be an op opportunity because in seeing that teletext is becoming outdated, some sort remote control that can work with the Internet there is the opportunity that's presented, I guess.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Right. Yeah. No, I I agree with you.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "So what I'm talking about is I see that one side we're eliminating something so we have to come up with another side which is, what are we gonna be targeting our market uh that identifies our product as better than because it doesn't have teletext it has ta-ta-ta-ta-ta.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "So that's that's that was my reactions.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah. but but we are sort of being dictated that this should only be for the television.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "So we're quite fixed. So we're really probably, in terms of marketing, are looking for that's uh that's a cost winner rather than a fantastic new feature product.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yep.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah bu but we we're designing only the remote,", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "we not design the T_V_.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Hmm.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "So uh we're gonna be removing the teletext out of any T_V_ that we people use our remote with.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah.'Kay.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Hmm.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "That's right.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "So it's kind of a stupid decision.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "I think we take with you.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "But there's also the potential for mark there's a market here for our lost teletext.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "For example someone that just goes to the shop that wants a replacement wants it as cheap as possible. Twenty-five Euros is the selling price, we really have to innovate here I guess.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "That's what I'm that's what I'm talking about is is that we have to find something that is gonna be very attractive about this product'cause somebody, some people are gonna be hap unhappy'cause it took they can't ac access their teletext.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Okay.'Cause we're talking about eighty percent or ninety percent or ninety-five percent of the televisions out there are are teletext.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "K yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "So so it's it's not that I'm criticizing the product at all. It's just when we eliminate that then what do we bring? What are we bringing in to take the place of this,", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Mm'kay.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "and we have to d in my opinion we have to double up.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "If we lose one we need to bring two or three.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Okay. Okay I think that the last point is probably quite uh straightforward. Obviously the the w it has to be branded.'Kay.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "So then the double R_ will be our our.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "On the product yeah. Can you handle that black and yellow?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "I think one of.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "I tho I tho I thou I think Rol Ro Rolls-Royce might mind, but don't worry.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "I think w, yeah, one of the things that we should also keep in mind um when we're doing this I mean our company's slogan is we put the fashion in electronics, right. So I think our kind of our target here is to have some kind of very like sleek nice look remote and we want it to be functional as well, but I think one of the main selling points is that we don't want it to be clunky like like this thing here.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "You know we don't wanna a big clunker. We want something that looks nice and it's fashionable and so.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "So you have this?", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Nah. So we have three presentations, and I think we'll go in order of participant number here. So we can have a look at the working design first from participant two. That's Okay.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yes.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "That's fine. Okay so", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Mm it's enough. But uh click it on off?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "so you all know me, I'm the Industrial Designer. And we've some basic components that um our remote is gonna need, just basically every remote'll need'em.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "We need some kinda of power d power source. Um we have to decide on our our user interface, which is his department, but the in user interface is also a major component. Um we need a programmable digital signal processor to um to take the input from the user and translate that into uh into electronic signal, which we pass to the infra-red L_E_D_, which you aim at the television uh which and it receives that signal. You need a on-off switch um I don't know how that got in there. And uh we also need to um have the if we want a universal remote we need to have encryption codes for the different makes of T_V_s. So we need to know all the different you know all the different signals and so that'll require some memory as well. Um so here's just a basic layout of how how the remote would work. You ha the v the power source is in the upper right-hand corner there, and you can see that uh we have the user interface here which is connected to the chip which does all our signal processing, and then passes that signal on to the infra-red L_E_D_ and that signal is then emitted and received by the television at the photo-transistor. So those are the basic components that need to go into this and everything else is pretty much uh open to move around.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Now is would this be considered just a standard uh um.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "I think any des", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "This is not this is not cutting edge technology we're talking here.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "No.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "We're talking about existing technology.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Right I think.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Nothing is being modified or upgraded or new discoveries.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah this is just this is just a basic layout of ev of all the components that w w are gonna be absolutely necessary f to have a working remote. We can add things in like if we wanted some voice recognition, I mean that I mean that you can kinda say would would fall under the user interface and the digital signal processing chip.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Okay. Okay.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Do we have an idea of costs of different components?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Um well the most the most costly components are gonna be the chip and the uh th it could als basically the user interface and the casing are gonna be expensive as well.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "'Kay.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Um the L_E_D_ and the the transistors and everything else are you know they're they're pretty cheap. So depending on what we want our functionality to be, um the chip could be expensive or it could be cheap.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Mm'kay.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Um depending on the n amount of memory we need in there and stuff like that and h and h you know how much power.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Do we have any ballpark figures for that yet? No.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Uh I don't have any figures right now.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "'Kay.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "We uh we have to wait until we get to a more specific design phase for that.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Um but and I think a significant part of the cost could be the actual the actual casing itself and and you know the the b the buttons and things like that, I think.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "N okay. Mm. Mm the shell?", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah. Basically yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "So yeah. That's all I have really.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Okay. Thanks. And we have participant three, which I believe is Pedro.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "I.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "I can give you that to click on.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Hey mouse.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Open..", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "And you wanna get.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "When we're fighting over it's also more lot more fun..", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "View a slide show, that's what you wanna do, yeah? Just go up to view.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Click, don't Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Uh.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Mm'kay", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "This doesn't work. So yeah function design. Um you guys know me, Pedro, and um what I found is we want to do fashion and I think, honestly, we should keep technology low and just simple basically and try to aim for design. If basically a case will will cost the same if it looks good or bad so we ma we have to make it look good. Um something cute and small. The big chunky remotes are died in the eighties. So we should just go for something that people will like to actually look at.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "And um although mo most people will buy s televisions and everything for uh that have loads of loads of little functions and everything and they mostly end up using simple functions and little things and most the people won't won't get too mad of actually having to go the to the s to the television to, for instance, tune in their the stations. There's no need to have that in the remote. So um um as for what I would recommend for uh the the interface design, and uh I will change the colours on the on the logo, but um we should go for the user-oriented device, so simple controls and good ergonomics. Um and uh although I th I th I'm still here recommending the teletext so I'll remove that, I guess, but um we should go for the.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "But I t I think what the the management recommendation was less that there's a worry that teletext will become outdated rather than we shouldn't have it. So I I still think if it's cheap enough functionality-wise to include, it really should be in there.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Because otherwise we're just going to I mean even if it's necessary or not, if you if you're given the choice between a t a remote with teletext or without uh when it really if it i if it isn't more expensive for us to k make because as far as I understand it, it can be operated with the same set of buttons, yeah? So it should be in there.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Right as far as.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "i it's just uh the cost of an extra button. I mean software-wise there's really no difference.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah. Okay. Isn't.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "I think.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "I have maybe a silly question. I in the very beginning it said with the with the advent of computers there's gonna be the it's gonna be out-moded teletext. I I don't understand how those two things are connected. How does how does computers and teletext h how why is one eliminating the need of the other? I don't understand that.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Well maybe what we're getting into here is the the idea of uh Internet through the T_V_ for example. So that might play on what we can do.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah the they're basically aiming at saying that you would use you know a couple of years ago teletext to be the easiest way to check like for uh uh the scheduling and the next programme and stuff like that", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Scheduling. Um to find out what what you're watching even if there's commercials you know.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "and now Yeah", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "and now you can c look it over Internet. But I still think teletext is way more convenient until until we have the same commodities.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "I think I ha I agree.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah'cause, yeah, I just I don't see the cross-over between computers and television. I mean I do see the cross-over in some sense,", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah, but it's not happen yet. Yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "but but but but with the the remote is is used for television, okay.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Well for me.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Well you have digital T_V_ still already.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "So so if we make the cross-over and we're gonna view television on computers then we're then we're losing the the necessity of the remote. S", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Unless you have a.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Well there there is a for example on digital T_V_ systems you have you can press a button and you can buy things in adverts,", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "and you can uh you can view through a catalogue for example.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "A a family member of mine has got a system where you just um you can Yeah, and there's other features for example on other systems where you can pause live T_V_ and things like that. They're just features from the Internet uh from computers are are coming into the T_V_ sort of under the covers, but you still use it through a teletext.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "So now the things to think here are that that there's gonna be more functionality, potentially that we can handle.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah but we we don't we're not aiming a command for that. That's the thing. And all of those require the other commands with more complexity and more software and.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "I think a lot of that's proprietary anyways. You're not gonna be able to, you, like command a TiVo with our remote. I don't think.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Mm. But still there there's an opportunity. If if it's, for example, a trainable one then we're just simply having like an up, down, left, right, an okay button or something like that might might do as well in future proofing it..", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah but we would increase the price to try to make it a trainable one, so.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Mm. Okay.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Well I dunno. One way the other teletext was there but I guess we can remove it or, you know, make two separate interface designs.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "I think if it's possible you should try to you know have a talk with management about that. Just you know.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah I don't I don't see the logic.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "I I don't see the logic in elimination of teletext, I just I I.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah, and neither do I in fact.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "but I'm not a tech-mind either. I just don't see the cross-over between computers and and and", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Bu uh.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "'Cause we are designing something for a television, okay.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "I'll communicate that back to those guys there a a and th the message really we wanna be sending to them is that, although teletext may become outdated w there's no l logic in not having it in there anyway i if it doesn't affect the price.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Right it's just not", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Um but I I think what they're pushing us towards here is in terms of thinking of ways to future-proof our system for future systems that have something else other than teletext maybe.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "We are selling it to an existing market.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "I dunno I'm.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah but we're not putting some there's no no putting anything in in the place of teletext.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "That's.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Mm'kay.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah,", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "That's the problem.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "and and, yeah, and and we're also marketing a product. It's what I'm seeing is a is a mid-range cost product.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "So so w we can't go and pump a whole bunch of technology into this thing", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "because all of a sudden we are gonna have cost overruns. So if we drop if we are gonna choose to drop teletext, again what are we adding to the product that makes it marketable?", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Hmm. So if we're keeping it basic we're loo loo what we're looking to sell it basically is it's uh just being very easy to use, looking exceptionally good, that sort of thing.'Cause we really don't have anything else there, do we?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "I don't I don't see it, and to me if I'm gonna market a product for b for beauty for for design I'm gonna I'm gonna try to market it at a much higher price. I need to make it special with a high price tag. I don't want to make it economically uh g uh competitive.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "I want I want to market it as exclusive. So I would market this product it at eighty-nine Euros and come up with some really beautiful exterior design or something th but but I don't think we have that flexibility.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "But i if design if design is cheap and functionality is basic, then twenty-five Euros is probably a high price for a commoner garden stan standard T_V_ so the place uh remote the then the place we're going to justify that cost is through through design through making it a a sleek elegant high-priced basic remote. Does that make sense, huh?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "No I no I I understand what you say,", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "but what I'm what I'm, okay we probably need to move along,", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah we probably should.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "but my my concern is trying to find a marketing niche for this product,", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "We we're doing alright for time.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "and if I'm coming in with a with with twenty-five Euros, which is mid-market price, um then what am I going to give these people for this?", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "So that's just my question, but we can keep talking.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Okay. Sorry that kinda cut into you there.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "No just I I would I would advocate for continuing teletext and those would be the basic commands. Um as for, you know, the the case design uh maybe I'll come up with more concrete ideas. Right now it's just the idea of simplicity and slickness, cute and small um.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Right. I'm just thinking you know with all these universal remotes that are out there, how many people how many people actually use every feature that ar you know i like these trainable remotes and things like that, where, you know, it's just so confusing to do to use all these functions. Where I think the largest portion of the market is just gonna you know they lost their T_V_ remote, they need another one that'll work with their T_V_. They want something that looks nice, that that that isn't gonna break when they drop it, that you know that maybe it's it's ergonomic, it feels good in your hand, something like that.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "I think that's gonna be where you're gonna find the biggest, you know, market share.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "So we are looking for something that looks good and just works, rather than looking for any special features. Is that.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "I think the more bells and whistles we add, it's just gonna cut into our into our profits.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Because I think as we as we add costs for things like uh for like if we add the voice recognition and things like that, I think you know what percentage of the of the um of the market is actually gonna use that?", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Maybe five percent, you know,", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah mm.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "But we can talk a little bit more potentially in the marketing marketing presentation about this.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "and how much Right. Yeah okay.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Be a good idea.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "I'm sorry.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Uh sorry, I didn't mean to cut in.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Sorry boss.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "I'm not the boss. Okay.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Oh P Pedro, I just want to say quickly I I would really like it when you can come up with some more bells and whistles, eh.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "You know sell uh things come to my mind is uh uh something that's uh um voice-activated. I know we're getting into some, I hope, some big money on this thing, but.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "I think that's probably a question more for for this guy here, yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Is that for over here?", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah. Well it's kinda both of us.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Okay, alright.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Is it?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Us us user interface.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "That's.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "'Cause uh and I think of voice-activated I think of of how many times I've I've lost my my remote and I can't find it. So some way that I can I can find my remote by clapping my hands or something", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm. I was thinking about that. Then your lights would go off, though..", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "uh and and so so um.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "But this's just something. I'm trying to find some bells and whistles'cause when they talk about tel taking out teletext, it's like, what are we gonna put in? What makes this thing attractive? And it's only for televisions. So we everyth our our competition out there has got these these multiple adaptors where they can use'em for their V_C_R_s, their D_V_D_s, their their televisions and we're coming out with one remote for television only. And so to me we have to make this a really special product", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "I I I don't s I really have to say I don't see the market niche for this product. At this price I don't see it yet. I'm I I go along with this, because this is what we're given to try to market, but I I don't see the market niche for this product without without some really sort of something really special to identify it as as unique in the market.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Hmm.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "But we th that should be design.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "That should be the design basically.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "I think technology we'd we we're not in the price range to do it. We don't have the money to do it towards t f technology so we should we should aim at design.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Okay. Have to do you have to do it in the box?", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah. Yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Okay well, so so that's up to you then to to make this box in something that's absolutely extraordinary.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Maybe make it in the form of a gun. We can sell it in United States.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "I have a question uh for you. Does any of the um the features that Pedro's spoken about here have any implications we might not have thought about on in terms of just pure functionality? In terms of making it work or the cost of that or.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "I don't I think all these things are pretty standard. I think we'll be okay.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Okay.'Kay. Cheers. Onto participant four..", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Well you know for marketing f marketing for me is uh and uh how do I go here? Okay.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Mm you can just click.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Go go.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "No no no", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Is that right?", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "you just get off that. You just click anywhere.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Ah-ha. Yeah, what for me is it um I d I don't know what I'm marketing right now, okay,'til you spoke and when I wrote this, I don't know what I'm marketing. I just know that I I was identified as a a we identified ourselves as a as a developer, as a manufacturer, and as a as a um distributor t to other wholesalers. And so the th the twenty-five Euros that we've identified as the sale price is a wholesale price rather than a retail price.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "That's what we decided here. Um so what I did is I I decided that that this this needs to be a product in a in a sense can market itself. So what we've identified here as our main marketing stratagem is is in design. We're making the most beautiful attractive uh whatever we decide it is. So that means we have about seven more minutes or ten minutes left.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Um so I would like to have a product that that we can sell easily. So I say inspiration, so having something beauty, something attractive, uh something that in a sense will sell itself.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Uh innovation I think fits into what we're talking about here with design. Uh cutting edge technology, I don't think we're gonna have that, these were ideas I was putting together, um unless we come up with some New Age product a as far as the casing is concerned. I I wanna make this thing something that I can identify as special in some way, so maybe we can have some I I talked about environmentally sensitive, uh maybe we have a product that can be identified in some way as advantageous in a home. I don't know. These are just thoughts. Uh I wanted to talk about uh who we are as a as a corporation, that we're new, we're aggressive, we're competitive, we're we're trying to provide a product from a new perspective rather than from an old corporate line. So to me it's about selling d uh our identity our corporate identity along with the product. Um what I found is that the projected costs are competitive.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Uh we're kind of in the middle of the market, but what I'm seeing is that the market is ready for I I identified new technology, but again, because what I see is budget restrictions and limitations, I don't know that we can bring any new technology into this thing. If if we could have a technological something.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "I have an idea.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Mm p please.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "And it's kind of along the s lines of environmentally sensitive, and it may even fit into ergonomics, and even kind of address the issue of losing losing the remote, what we were saying it's a common issue.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Um what we can do is, well you know that batteries throwing a aw remotes run through batteries like crazy. Right?", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Solar..", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "And s for some people Yeah. Well maybe not a solar remote but instead what about if we had like a power cradle?", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "But solar.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Like a a cradle that is is there to hold the remote when you're not using it, so you'll always know where the remote is'cause you have to put it back there to charge the remote, and we can, instead of having instead of having, you know, replaceable batteries we'll just have a power cell that stays there for the life of the remote. You never have to get go through the go through uh all these different batteries. And also you can I I think it's a good opportunity for the user design or for not just for the user design, but also for the just for the look and feel of the remote as as a whole. You know you could have some kind of neat little, you know, a sexy design for d a cradle and the remote itself.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Blah, I like it. I like the idea, but we're talking about in cost is gonna probably double.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "It w it would increase the cost.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "But boy, we can sell this thing, because there's no batteries, it's environmentally sensitive, i we can identify it as a safer product in some form.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "And you could page the remote if you lose it. Maybe there's a button on the cradle.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yep, that's right. I really see", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Now the the question is can we make this for less than twelve-fifty per?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "But the cost i No no. No no, we have t we have to change the end cost.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "We we well do we necessarily have to change the end cost because uh Can we dl can we do that without uh changing it twelve-fifty per product, if we basically can sell more based on this?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "There's uh I mean I don't see it anyway. Yeah, that's gonna be up to these guys.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Well", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "I my reaction is no, but", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "what I can do is I can d look into ho well Pedro and I can look into how much this might increase our our costs", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "and you can look into what kind of effect an increased cost is gonna have on our on our final numbers.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah we we can certainly push for a more expensive product if that's gonna be.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Well, see I I see I I'm an advocate to make this an exclusive product. You know, let's let's sell this wholesale for for fifty Euros, sixty Euros. Let's make this thing really exclusive, environmentally sensitive, uh high-tech design, uh ergonomics, all of this. Just make this thing uh, yeah, the the the Rolls Royce of of remote controls.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "I I.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Every home's got to have it. If you don't have one, hey what kind of remote do you have? Oh you've got one of those, oh fantastic, I want one of those too.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "I just don't have enough money right now.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "I just don't know about that, because in order to do that in order to price it at that kind of level I think we'd need to have every functionality that all the other competitors are offering like being able to operate, you know, the D_V_D_ player and, you know, the stereo system and all that. Which is a pretty basic function that w we've opted out of. And additionally we're m maybe not supporting teletext um.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Nah, I think we can say with certainty now that we are supporting teletext.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "But I do think there are some basic features that we don't have that a lot of other remotes are going to have.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yep, one one thing I don't understand is h they've they've given us this package, okay.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Now uh in my opinion we need to give them a package back, okay. They say they say okay here you go. They gave us a fundament a foundation of of what they want,", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "and and w it's our place to kinda analyse and evaluate. I don't think it's our place to create their product for them, maybe it is. I don't know what kind of role we have in this in the corporate ladder uh, but to me it's like, okay, you have got your here's our ideas, okay.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "And then let them look at those ideas and they say, yeah well, we can we can raise the price twenty percent, you know we like this idea, this idea no, but to me it's it's about a choice, do we follow their directives or do we make uh presentations back and and then and then discuss? beca I I do not I do not see the market niche for the product that they're handing f handing us right now.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "I don I I d", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "I don't see it.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "I have to disagree though. I think our market niche is basically people who need who have lost their remote or uh who've broken their remote and don't wanna send back to the manufacturer, they just wanna run out to the store and get a remote, and then they're gonna look on the shelf and they're gonna see ours is the nicest looking remote. It does what they need. These aren't I I think that it.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "And and th to get to back to another point, sorry uh uh for cutting in but, I th I think it's important to remember that that this remote has to work with multiple T_V_s, yeah,'cause it's selling on its own.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "It's not going to be specifically for Hitachi T_V_s or or whatever.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "No I understand that.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "So technologically, if I understand it, uh T_V_s T_V_ remote's working exactly the same way as video remotes and D_V_D_ remotes. All you need to do is train them to the individual one, all you need to do is is know the the f like some four-digit code.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "So saying that it works with all T_V_s is equivalent to saying that it'll work with D_V_D_s and other things.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Nope, they've identified the product as not working for anything but televisions.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Oh okay okay.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah y y you you wouldn't.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "They've identified this product limita", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "We have done this.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "That's why I say I don't I don't see the market niche for this.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "The interface will be different.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "I see.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "If we if w if we were going to have a product that worked for D_V_D_s, V_C_R_s and everything, then I can see the market niche,", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "but we we're only identified as going for televisions without teletext.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "And it's like whoa we ha in my opinion we have to go with something that's extremely exclusive to make this thing marketable,", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Well here's.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "And I I'd.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "because who wants just a television remote?", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Mm sorry.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Right. We he well here's my thing about that.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "I don't..", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "If you're in the market for this ultimate remote, you're not gonna go for just a television remote. If it can't control if it can't control your your D_V_D_ player and a al if y if you can't get that all-in-one ultimate remote, that just you can throw all your other remotes away. I'm not gonna buy a d seventy-five Euro remote.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "That's right. I I I have a tendency to agree with you. I really do.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "So we really can't chase that.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "That's why I say I quest I q I question the marketability of the product. I really question where we create the demand.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "So I think what we.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "We're really looking for something basic.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "So that's what I'm saying.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "The the one thing that that that you said really struck a chord with me here in that we're we're carrying the corporate identity with the product, but we're actually looking for a large profit at the same time where I'd be inclined to go back to upper-level management and say like let's just cut down our profit expected on this product because we are actually branding our company here. We're selling more than just the product. We're trying to get mind-share about uh Real Reaction to to the people who are gonna buy consumer electronics. We want people to eventually say, oh that's that's Real Reaction that's a good m make. It's reliable. And and we're gonna make it we're gonna win mind-share by uh either being a fantastic product", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "or for it working, it just being good, reasonable-priced, and solid. So if we can make if we can put an emphasis here on it not breaking I think that's in itself an extremely big thing.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm. I think that's big.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "W okay if you if you drop the cost, now if you make if you make go to the other side of the cost scale, and you make it less expensive, then all of a sudden now we're going into an a a new market area. So we can say low-cost uh uh um uh good design, beautiful, wa-da-da-da-da-da.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Good design.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "We only have a few minutes left.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "But what I'm saying is right now we're middle market.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Is twenty-five Euros a mid-market price for a remote?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "I think so, yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "for for multi for a multi-function remote, that's a mid-market price. In a discount right now you can buy'em on sale sometimes for about about uh eighteen, nineteen Euro,", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "and that's for the multi-functions, uh D_V_D_, V_C_R_, uh catch-alls. And and they have'em in a little box in the middle, and and this is the consciousness that most people have about replacement remote controls. So to me, to market this a t only a television remote control we have to change consciousness. We have to have something that will change people's thinking to identify this as advantageous, and I don't know what that is. It's gotta be low-cost or high-cost with with special design features.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Well I'd be inclined to say, if we can make the design better than any comparable remote while reducing the cost, then that's the way we really should play it. If we can take it down to you know fifteen rather than twenty-five and make a low profit-margin on it,", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "but we're really doing that to sell the brand. Yep we have five minutes left. Uh rather th uh to to to sell for Real Reactions.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Or my d.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "And I can communicate this to to the more senior uh mm people within the company here to to get a reaction..", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "What about um the idea that I had with the cradle? How do you feel about that?", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Well how does everybody feel?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Or how does everybody feel?", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "I mean I I well we g we're talking about the other end now.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "I I think.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "I like it.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "No, but I that's the thing I I don't think it's necessarily the other end.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "I like the idea, but we have t we have to find out.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "The other the o the problem with that in my mind I just think off-hand as a as a consumer, would I wanna buy that? And I think maybe not because I've got a remote and I'll take it to different chairs, I'll take it to different.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "I w I don't wanna go over somewhere and put it down. It i if it is gonna be somewhere that you put it down then it needs to be at the side of your armchair,", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "and that implies that there's only one T_V_ user. So it's very good for some people but it's not a like.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Well it lasts it would last for several hours on its own power, but when you're done with it you put it back in the cradle.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "But it it takes away the ease of use of the remote to a certain extent.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "You have to l sort of remember.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "well it Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "You have to d shift down the side of the couch to find it and put it back and.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Well..", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "I d I d I d I think it it in my mind it doesn't seem like something that oh I'd really want uh because of that fact.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "But I I don't know, that's just my opinion.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Well, I think again it's it we have a cost issue here. You know if we're gonna go in this direction, to me we're going to the other side of the cost range.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Are we gonna make this selling selling the cost as a high high-tech uh um environmentally sensitive whatever, or are we gonna go to the lower side of the range? Again I don't see our market niche in the middle for our product yet.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "'Kay.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "I don't see it yet.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "So what do we think maybe we should Pedro, do you have any opinion on it?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Uh we should keep it simple, mm medium-low cost mar um cost area and uh make it look good.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "W a question I have in in a'cause I I I think I agree with you on, we gotta make it a box. The box is gonna sell it I think, the outside, the casing.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Really need to wrap up now.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Can can can we have multiple designs? Have a modern, have a traditional, have a you know, and so so instead of them all looking the same, people can have maybe four or five different designs they can choose from. I don't know what that creates cost, or.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Well the the problem with that is we may end up with a whole bunch of inventory of a of a poor design you know. So.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yep one over another. Yeah, okay, I hear that.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah, complicated but.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Um but what we could do is some kind of well I mean Yeah we we need to, I mean, have a few designs to look at and then come up with something that I think we all agree is, you know, the best fit. I think w what's really important is it has to look good, it has to feel it has to feel good in your hand,", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "it has to be durable, it has to a and I think it's really important that it doesn't look cheap. I think I think we have to make sure people look at it an and feel like it its like a quality remote. Even though the cost may be low.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "What ab what ab what about a a remote that's that doesn't maybe look like a remote? Just an idea.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Just just okay'cause I mean we all know what a remote looks like on the outside. They're selling these things everywhere. Maybe that could be part of our design exclusivity, is we make a remote that doesn't even look like a remote it it opens like a telephone.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Or what if it looks like a pen?", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Doesn't matter, yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "I'm just jus I talking about some something to make this thing unique.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "A pointer?", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "It That's the thing, I'm gonna keep thumping on.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "I'll sell whatever you guys design.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "I don't have a problem selling a product, that's not the issue. I give you ideas, you guys create the product. Once you have the finished product I'll find a way to sell it. Don't worry about it. I just give you these things now, because these are my thoughts and feelings.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "So", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "just to touch on m my point one last time that I had brought up. Um I really un unless you guys are die-hard against the fact that um it's possible like it reduces the usability of the remote b and the fact that you can't lose it on your own, I think it still might be a good idea to investigate having like a power cradle.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Okay. Yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Because I really think i in a certain sense it almost like for me I would want to have that just, because I know at the end of when I'm done watching T_V_ that when I'm done, oh I better go find the remote and put it back where it belongs. Maybe th th th that's just some people that like that.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "I mean there's al there's also remote controls I remember that that worked uh, this hasn't been done in a while I think, but th as a as a watch.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "A lot of people.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "No no.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "As a watch?", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah, there is remote control watches um,", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm'kay.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "but I think they're a sorta eighties thing, so it might not be easy to market in it uh but the the technologies came along and it might be cheaper to make now.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah they are not simple.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Those things may have been inexpensive for all I know.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "One thing I just thought about when you were saying that, is that the p our target market is gonna be someone who has lost or broken.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "That's what I was saying.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "We gotta stop?", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Gotta cut up.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Who's lost or broken their their remote. So how many remotes do they wanna buy? Can we p can we sell them a remote that can maybe guarantee they will not need to buy another one?", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Exactly.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "And so with with with this kind of system or locator or something, to to think about, how have people been been losing or breaking their remote?", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm. Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "How does this happen?", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "The last remote you'll ever buy.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "And also presumably they've.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "And and then and then design the product, maybe some component of the product that can identify this as the last one you'll ever need to buy.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Well if if we're going down that then we can we don't need to go the.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Exactly.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "it it strikes me that the locator feature might actually be uh quite expensive to make.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Whereas actually just putting it in a power cradle might not be too expensive at all because that's just done with mobile phones", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "True.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "you can just n we we have said we have actually similar products that we can take from and potentially cut costs there.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Right. Yeah. The locator'll definitely be more expensive. Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Um need to look into whether we can do that but uh I think we we have some m mobile phone-based products uh checking quickly our Internet. We really need to finish up here. But uh.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "uh we can make it in the shape of a coffee pot..", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah we have the the power-adaptor products. We sell power-adaptor products. So for example there's nothing stopping us using that technology.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "It's uh just it's that I think it's telling us to stop our meeting.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah..", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "So we have the c we probably have have on-line in our in our system, we have the ability to create this, we're talking about.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah I think so,", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "A charging system.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "without it being too In fact we can cut costs through using the manufacturing that's already gonna be in place here.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "If if we can create this we have probably five or six or seven really strong marketing characteristics.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "I think one of the things that we can put right on the box is, never buy another battery.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yep.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "You know, something like that.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "'Kay. 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deb08cf5c7234f4cb3a58c96f728adc2	{ "meetingId": "IS1002c", "transcriptSegments": [ { "text": "Afternoon guys. It's gonna be.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Rock and roll.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Oh.'Kay.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "So do we need to re-train Mike on how to put his mic on?", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "We may do.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Think s", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Okay, can he get it all by himself this time?", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "I dunno, I'm feeling like a big boy.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm. Pro", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Probably not,'cause he's'S been listening to too much.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "So.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "He's getting retarded. Yay.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "I believe I can fly.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Alright well we got some exciting stuff for you guys.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Or not.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Or not..", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Just what I needed was something exciting. Remember, I'm an old man.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "'Kay, ready to go?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "All ready.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "'Kay so we've got our conceptual design meeting.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Apparently I'm old as well.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Hopefully we've all got exciting ideas now.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Thirty's really young, eh?", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "We do.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Uh k exciting ideas.'Kay so here's our agenda our agenda. Um", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "I'm gonna open. I'm gonna talk for a bit about what we're gonna do. I'm gonna take some notes. We're gonna all do a presentation, and then hopefully we're gonna make some decisions now. Yep. Well when I say hopefully, we have to. So", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Alright.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "I'm gonna let you guys talk before we make decisions. And does anyone really want to go first?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "I guess I'll go first.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "You p two?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "What's.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Component, I think. Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Components design.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yep that's it.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Presented by name..", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "My name is.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Your name is name?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Jose he man is.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "My name is name.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Huh hi name.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "My name is Inigo Montoya.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "You killed my father.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Sorry I did this in a bit of a rush.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Prepare to die..", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "N name.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Right..", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "So so here's a look inside your really old-looking remote control. Um you've got a printed a printed uh circuit board here, and you've got all these buttons which kinda press down little rubber nubbies into these little holes that activate.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "We've all broke a remote control ri um s yeah..", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah we've all broken a remote control.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "I've.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "So you've also got um you've got your chip here, your batteries here, and some sorta electronics. Um.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "I just love you tech guys, huh.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah there's a thingy and a dingy and.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "You press this and it does th", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Well.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah y do jabber.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "so you've got here's here's a transistor, and this amplifies your signal,", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "um you've got the L_E_D_ here on the end of the uh uh on the end of the printed circuit board. Um you've got a couple diodes here for I don't know who and whatnot.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "I dunno who and whatnot.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "So exactly.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Nah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "So um we've got a i in this in this uh drawing he uh in this example here, this is a eighteen pin um uh chip I dunno.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "P Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Uh it's two double A_ batteries.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "This is pretty standard remote. So here are options for our power sources. You can use a basic battery, which we've already discussed, um th our tech department also said we have the option of doing some kind of hand dynamo where maybe you crank it or something like that.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "'Kay..", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "I wanna change that.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "I don't know if that's really.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "I I gotta I gotta flashlight, and uh.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "I don't know we got some qu crazy guys down there in that department so.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "You shake it.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "yeah but it's interesting'cause you shake it like this.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Like this.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "So that's the next bullet is the um the kinetic provision of energy,", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "And that's on the camera.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "so it's like that flashlight where you have to shake it.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "'Kay.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Uh we've got solar cells, which I don't think is a very good idea because um you could not use your remote at night which doesn't make a lot of sense.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Mm'kay.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "And finally we've got our cradle o our power cradle idea.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Okay so we basically have battery versus cradle here?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "M battery versus cradle I think is yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "I like the kinetic.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "So we have battery versus cradle.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "I g I I figured you would. Yes. Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "It could be fun.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "It's actually a novel thing because you could sell it a as a novelty, just to be actually serious for a minute here,", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "you could.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Well it is it is more uh I mean it is more eco-friendly than the than the cradle'cause you're still using power off the grid with the cradle. So um", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Mm. Hmm.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "our case design. We have uh choices in materials and choices in the general shapes that we can do. Our material choices are a plastic latex um ty or plastic, a rubber latex type thing, uh wood, or titanium. If we go with titanium we're gonna be uh limited in the amount of shapes we can do because it's tough to shape the titanium, and uh Yeah pers", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Wood wood would ge would give us a little bit of a marketing niche, wouldn't it.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "I think wood i.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "It it it.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Nah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "I I can't see anybody wanting to use a wooden remote, it's just anti-technology really, you know.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Uh.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Okay. Hmm.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Uh uh to me in a marketing sense it's not it's not relative. We can we can o we can uh accentuate whatever whatever product you put in there we can find a way to accentuate it.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "And what we may be able to do, and I think this might be the best option is to combine some a couple of these. Um my recommendation personally would be to do some kind of a plastic inner shell with a like a rubber outer shell, to make it um to mak uh like a thick plastic inner shell and a t um kind of a to have that rubber outer shell to make it more durable, and also maybe i I think it feels a little better than the plastic.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "'Kay. Do you get a good grip on the rubber? Yeah okay..", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah um.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "And if you make it from that super rubber, when you drop it on the floor it can bounce right back up in your hand.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "You don't even need to lean down to get it.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "The advantages of working with plastic and rubber is w we we'll have a lot more um options just in terms of shape", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "because you can extrude plastic in basically any shape you want. So um and then we can cover you know the breakable bits with rubber yeah so um.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "But basically these are curved and double-curved I I believe that the tech department, in their um in their message to me, that they were referring to the number of th curves in the bottom. I have no idea exactly what they're talking about,", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "but that's what they told me, uncurved, flat, curved, or double-curved.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "I would guess this like this pen would be kinda like a double-curved, where it's curved on m m multiple axes, right? I think curved means just curved in one axis and double-curved is curved in two axes", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "or surfaces. I have no idea.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "I think it might mean something like that sorta shape because a double curve rather than a.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm yeah that's yeah that's what I see.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "yeah that's what.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Oh okay oh like a wave, okay.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah that's what I see also.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Alright that makes sense okay. Um okay, with the interface we have the following options, we can u we can use push buttons, we can use a scroll wheel with an integrated push button, and L_C_D_ display,", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Ooh.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "or multiple scrolling wheels. Um so these are all options that the user interface guy can uh has at his disposal to put together a user interface.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "For electronics, we have these very technical um descriptions here. A simple chip, which is the least expensive, but I have no numbers to give you,", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "a regular chip, which is like the medium porridge the medium expense uh.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "D do we have actually any concept of what the difference is between a simple chip and an advanced chip?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yes the difference is, with a simple chip a simple chip will operate oh why doesn't this scroll up? Previous previous, okay. A simple chip is required to operate push buttons.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Um an advanced chip is required to to operate um the L_C_D_ display, and it didn't say specifically, but I I have a hunch that a regular chip is gonna be the scroll wheel and the multiple scroll wheels.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "So but yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah that makes sense. So presentation from I guess design would go best. Next.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "That's the end of my presentation.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Technical functions or interface concept?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "I think.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Oh interface concept.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah that's it.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Very long presentation..", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yes, but it has your name on it.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Well that doesn't bo bode well for it for it tats as well. Um so, somehow that thing's too big, but um okay um our uh manufacturing division wanted the speech recognition. They say they could put it to work but um we don't think so.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "No..", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "No. It it it you'll be you know be affected by the by the other speech and.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "If the T_V_ is working, yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "That's just I mean it'll if somebody says up in the middle of a television show, it's gonna change the channel.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah and and fighting for the remote would not be fun anymore,", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "So.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "and I think that's one of the things we wanna keep.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "But what if you actually had to press a button to make it recognize? So if you pressed it and went, up?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "That kinda would r d", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Well then why don't you just press the up button?", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Man yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "yeah. That would kind of lose it.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "But if it's just one thing with a button that you can just go Up.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Even still there's gonna be interf th there's there still will be interference from the T_V_.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "That's right.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah, okay.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "It might not be it might not be completely confusing, but I think you'll still y it's still.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "I don't think it's practical at all. I think it's a bad idea frankly.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah so um taking that away, our uh the the the rubber but rubber buttons are the more reliable.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "You guys know your stuff.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "it's the the ones that would al would allow us to to market our product as being you know less prone to damage and more resistant to things like spillage of liquids over it or you know mistreat misuses as it happens to remote controls. Um as for the point that we making about losing it. Well, we wanna small r remote control one side because uh we want it to be cool and uh designed, but um apparently um market shows that bigger s bigger um remotes get less lost,", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "That I would believe.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "about.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "But um yeah I think we we need to compromise between those two and somehow we'll do that. Somehow. Um so the the what I would propose is something more or less in the uh direction of what is to yo the right of that slide uh but without with a l a less complicated um design, so the numbers, the volume control, and channel control, and teletext access. Uh the volume and channel control can just become those the the four button array as in if it was a round dial.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "And um if you just think about it as the one to the right but with the numbers and the four buttons plus maybe a centre one with teletext.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "So we're suggesting doing a sorta scroll wheel thing for the volume?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Ye no it's not", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "That's not a scroll wheel.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "i i it's just four buttons that are on a cross,", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Nah. Oh okay okay. I see.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "so that you ba basically can control all of the important tasks from that alone.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Uh, okay.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Instead of play, stop, rewind, and fast forward there, that's up, down, louder, and quieter.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah um yeah so I think we w we go for something mid-sized, so something looks good", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "and uh is not too prone to get lost. That be it.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "'Kay. So on to Y functional requirements or trend watching?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "I dunno.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Trend watching has a later date there.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Trend watching I guess. Trend watching I believe.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "forty six nineteen fifty seven. Yep.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "See what it looks like. It's been so long.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": ".", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Well I don't know what to say. When I s when I see the when I see the product I I I I don't wanna buy it. I see so many of'em out there. There's nothing about that product that makes me wanna choose that product over other products that are out there.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Are you talking about the picture? That's not our that's not our b design,", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "that's just a that's just something he a a graphic he used to show you the layout of what the layout of the buttons might be like.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Okay. Okay. Okay'cause'cause right now I don't have too much to say about how to market this product because we don't have a product to market yet.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "And uh from from talking to Mike is that we have we have uh we can market a more expensive product now. That's what I understand so,", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Upper management said yes.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "hello.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Uh e excuse that, that's a bit of spam.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "And and so yeah I'm a I'm a little bit stuck right now in that what uh w what is it that I'm gonna market? Uh without special or increased marketable features I don't believe the product has a consumer demand. Uh I like the idea of of the scroll makin there are so many people making these products at this price right now. What are we gonna do to make this one special and unique?", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "What's special and unique about a scroll?", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Uh well I don't.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "It's cool.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "yeah it's I I just see it as different. I don't say it's specially mm I don't say it's special. Uh I say that it's different I what I'm looking for as marketing is m give me something different. I give me a lower price, give me a higher price, give me some new technology, don't give me the same thing that everybody else is putting out there on the shelf it's f at the same price. I need something to market about this thing. We're we're a new firm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "I'd I'd say though that we if we did make the decision to go with the cradle though, the then we have that as well,", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "What i if when when we have.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "but wi with a similar.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "yeah when we when we have something like the cradle or or something give that's as as a marketing standard I need something to market, to make this product unique.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Well right I think the two big th points that we have so far are the having the cradle and also having uh the um the actual design of the uh case itself having like this like rubber shell maybe with a plastic interior,", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yep.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "having it look really nice um and also be really durable.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Mm'kay. Just remember when I made up this report I didn't have the information that we're discussing here.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Mm. Course.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Right yeah. Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "And and so so uh yeah when we have a cradle, when we have some kind of design, so what I'm saying is, from my perspective, I don't have a product to market right now. Um uh my personal preference is that we make some adjustment in the cost, either lower or develop an integrated new technol technology. That's that is the next step, there's technology and then there is technology, which we're moving into the next phase.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah'cause that's.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "And so uh we're gonna have some new technology to enhance the marketability. Yeah uh again I'm not sold on the product because we don't have a product in my opinion yet.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "So I need a product.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Mm'kay.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Well let's get a product then.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "I need a product to market. And I just whatever product you guys put together, we'll find a way to market it. Tha that I'm not concerned with.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "So now.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "If you if you give me if you give me a cut-out of what everybody else has then I need to I need to find a lower cost.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "So our big questions here really are cradle or not cradle? Do we go basic or do we go for features? Uh d does anyone really wanna do anything with the scroll wheel or should we ditch that off-hand first?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Well my question is what would the scroll wheel do? Function-wise, what does that do that.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Oh but that was in your presentation so wh what would you imagine it doing?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah wh wh what's the wh", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah. Well it's it's just another way to do the exact same thing that the buttons do.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Mm'kay", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "But would we.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Okay now what I see with the scroll wheel is everybody has buttons. So from a marketing standpoint I have I have another door to walk through when we have something that's unique.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "If it creates something more complex or more expensive, then I don't know if that makes it uh a marketing necessity. But again, from a marketing perspective I want as much new and different about this thing as possible because we're we're co it's a very competitive market.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "What I understand about scroll wheels is they're they're quite expensive to to make.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "So I d", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Th they are gonna be more expensive, but on the other hand, I mean, it I mean it is an alternative if if you think that's gonna sell some some uh you know if if we're gonna make up the extra cost by extra sales I think maybe it's worth it to do it, but I mean I would just use if I was gonna do this I would just use the scroll wheel for s channels up and channels down. I don't think volume or do you think volume would be.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "I dunno. I'll bet first in volume maybe. I dunno.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "No we can we can do multiple scroll wheels but.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Well I d I like the idea of basically focusing the my personal preference is focusing the p the product on the idea of the uh the case the the uh dock to put it in to to charge it. We can target like environmentally friendly ideas, that sorta things.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "It s i m makes it easy to market,", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "it's easy to differentiate the product, yeah so.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "I think it's that's right. I think so.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "And if we we keep the rest in a format that is durable because th th the whole product's gonna need to be more durable th thus because you're not going to be ditching it as often.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "It's gonna need to be more expensive because of the cradle.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "So if we can market it in terms of that and yeah well.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yep. I think we got some exclusivity in that, you know, we got something that nobody else has right now,", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "and and that means we can we can make some adjustments in the retail or wholesale price if we need to and it also can create it's own demand from it's uniqueness.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "So our big decision then is like how do we do um like we have to decide on the details and we have to decide on well n not exactly the details, but d do we have uh What type of casing? I personally like what you were saying about the plastic with the rubber.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "I'm thinking yeah something like kinda almost like these pens, you know, where there's you have plastic bits and then it's not really rubber but just kinda like a fused the plastic with rubber on the outside.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Okay. Just a very thin sorta sheet for a a grip, sorta thing or for.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Well no ma yeah maybe a bit more then th is on here but ju just as a kind of an inspiration, these pens I think are are kind of.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Okay. So then if we d d do we want to do anything more basic with the uh more advanced with the user interface in terms of do we want to go for um buttons, or do we want if we're ditching the scroll wheels do we want to go L_C_D_? Do we want to give do we want to have anything else on it?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "It's only a T_V_.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Or from from my perspective I think L_C_D_ is a mistake because this is a universal remote and all you're doing I mean it's you're not gonna get any information back from the television, so the only information you can display on this remote is what channel you just sent it at last and there's just not a lot of information, you know, there.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "It receives no information.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Hmm.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "So I I don't see any reason for having an L_C_D_'cause it's an increased cost. Unless you can think of something interesting to do with it.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah. Yeah right now there's right now there's nothing coming out of the T_V_ to receive, so you know unless technology changes and information starts coming out of the a cable box or something there's no s I don't see the,", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "I don't see the necessity of an L_C_D_ either. Don't see it.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Okay so the question is now I guess we need t to decide on well y you guys basically have to now go and figure out the details of this thing.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "So, what we need to know in terms of marketing and uh project management are are there any other questions that we need to answer now before you guys can go and build this?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "What what overall things have we not decided on?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Well we have to I think for me it's still not exactly clear exactly what the inter user interface is gonna be. There's the scroll wheel, in or out? What do you guys like in the user interface?", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "I think maybe in terms of marketing, is that gonna make enough of a difference to justify the cost?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Again. Well I think it's it's the more uniqueness you can bring to the product, the easier it is, I believe, for me to market. Uh again the push-buttons I I see are are everywhere. And so we can go with the same thing, but we're gonna be com competing in a in a broader market than if we go with something unique. You know the other thing I thought about was you know, do we go to something like this? Make a remote that doesn't look like a remote. It's just another it's just a an idea, and I don't know.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Well I dunno about like the flip-phone idea, because I think, as far as durability th it's not a big well maybe when it's closed.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "I mean what I see one of the things one of the things you brought up in an earlier presentation is, when you got children, their their stuff gets inside the circuitry, they get dirty, they get messy with drinks and stuff.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "This.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "And what I keep throwing out there I just keep throwing out ideas to try to make this thing look or act or in some way identify itself as unique or different.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "But you guys are the ones that have to c ultimately create the product within cost.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah and I guess th th the question th th that you're being asked right now is whether is the dock enough of a unique feature to be able to go out and sell that a a as a a very different product, or do we really need the scroll wheel as well?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Oh okay", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Because the scroll wheel comes at quite a cost.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "phew.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "I think you gotta g get into cost effectiveness. I think if you can have the base station with a with a locator, I think those are two very strong features,", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Well.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "if that's something that can be integrated without a bunch of extra cost.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "The The locator's gonna require a radio transmitter, which will.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "That's gonna n is that gonna need a better chip as well?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Um we're probably gonna have to go with a like a medium chip, s I would imagine.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "No it's just different.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "But we I we will need a receiver, an antenna.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Integrated, yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "So it's just uh I I think that's.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "It should be a really simple signal though so.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "I know personally that would be a very attractive feature, is to have a uh have a button I can push to find my remote control.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "And it's presumably gonna need a little speaker in it or something like that as well to beep.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "That's true yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "But I guess a little tiny speaker is gonna be quite cheap, it's not gonna need q quality, is it? It's.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Oh yeah yeah. It'll be really cheap.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Or maybe you can like have a a smell-o-rama, you know you push a button and it s puts out a stink.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "You can.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Maybe not.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Makes your living room more fresh as you watch.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah yeah yeah yeah..", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Okay we're doing well for time here.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "S", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Um we've got about another ten minutes. I think that uh.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "So the scroll wheel, in or out?", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Mm pr my personal preference is out. I don't think the cost is justified for a little bit more uniqueness when we already have that, and I don't s think it's obvious and natural how it would be used.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah. Yeah I think we have like and it's not very usable and it will bring down the robustness of the whole thing,", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "'cause it's it it breaks down easier.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "For me I think the scroll wheel actually might not be so bad.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "I don't know exactly what the increased cost is gonna be, but I think he does have a point, i it might push somebody over the edge when they're looking at our at our remote versus something else, when they see this one has a scroll wheel to go up and down on the channels. I think it might be kinda neat to be able to do it like that.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "But then that that surely d depends a little on the T_V_", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "W", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "because some T_V_s are quite slow at changing channels from like so.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Sure.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "if you've got a scroll wheel and you s you have to scroll scroll it really really slowly just so that you're actually keeping in pace with the T_V_'s ability to to change channels. Or do you have to go through and you wait for it?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "You scroll it a bunch of times and you wait for it to.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Well I think wh what it would be is like like the m like this, where it's maybe you know a digital wheel, right, where it's where it's quantized into you know certain.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Oh yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Uh I see I see. That's where you.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "That was that was my my intuition of what the scroll wheel would be.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Ah I see I see what you're talking about now. Okay.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "It's just it's basically it it's just a f look and feel thing. It has the same exact functionality as two buttons.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "I I think there's you know that uh there are so many people today that are that are surfing are television surfers, and I see the scroll as a as a great mechanism for surfing.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah if you're just sitting there going.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Instead of going button-to-bu you just j you'd j j j j j j.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "That's kinda cool actually.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "I really I really think that's a really cool thing for surfing.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "I like that.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Now just just so you know though uh you did bring up a point which is very valid, is a lot of T_V_s won't re the T_V_s won't respond exactly the same. Some of them are gonna be kinda slow switching, so you may like queue up like fifteen channel changes, and it'll be like flip, flip, flip.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Well there's ano", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Well not n necessarily.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "But.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "You could basically make it so that it'll I mean it's just gonna be sending a signal to the T_V_ yeah the T_V_'s ge so if you send about five flip channels, if you did that it's gonna flip once.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "That's right.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "If you do that.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah it just might be frustrating where you can't make it go as fast as you want,", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Other than click click click. Yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "but I think once people get used to it I I do like the idea of the scroll wheel though.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "And if we're marketing it as a high niche product, then we're gonna be selling it to people who are buying good T_V_s as well, yeah, presumably.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Primarily.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah I think so. I I think so.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yep.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Now the the only thing I I on the interface side of it, is that I I I see the dilemma. But if we have the option of of scrolling at any particular speed, or the option of jumping direct, okay.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "So I can go uh presuming I have, on my television, something that tells me what channel I'm on, I can scroll direct from channel five to channel thirty two. I know what because it's on the television. The television tells me what channel it's on when I change it. So I don't know that really that's that's gonna be a a d problem,'cause the television can go automatically from channel five to channel thirty two with the push of a button. Okay?", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "So ca can we can we create that kind of interface within a scroll system? You understand what I'm saying?", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "I think I know what you might be getting at, or or.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Oh I see so if maybe if we had an L_C_D_ up the top that just did a number on it, right? And then it that basically.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Oh no we could read it from the television.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Well, what about this what about if you can programme in your favourite channels into this scroll wheel and you can just like roll through your favourite channels,", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Mm. Well that's quite cool.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "and it c it.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "You'd need a display on the th the thing.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Why? It'll tell you when you flip the channel on the T_V_.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah the the television can tell you.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Can.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Oh yeah yeah no I see what you're talking about. Yeah that's kinda cool. How would you program it though?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Well you just it's one extra button. You say programme start, and then type in.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Put.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "'cause you still have the typing you know you'll still have the keypad where you can type'em in manually.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Okay okay.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "So programme start, zero, one, enter, zero, five, enter, thirty eight, enter, programme end.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Okay and yeah", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "And then.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "and that just basically flips between it and it'll go it sends out zero, five, and then thirty six, and then zero, one again.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm. Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah that's kinda cool. I like that.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "And again we have another another great marketing tool.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "We have about three we have three or four things here.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "That's not gonna be too expensive because that's gonna be you're gonna be able to nab that off of computer mouse manufacturers really. You could basically come up with a partnership to be able to produce that quite cheaply.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "I dunno and an maybe we maybe even have this as in-house technology. This may be something that's available through our own uh through our own services.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Might be, but tha that's not gonna be such a costly feature. The problem we're gonna have is making it robust. Making it last.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Oh well we also have to determine in some manner how to switch between modes, between going through your favourites list and just hitting up one, up two.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Or we go directional up we go we go this we go this we go this way for one, we go this way for the other.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "So if there's a button for each type.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "No because you wanna be able to go up and down through the channels.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah people are gonna have their favourite sorta, whether they do that or whether they.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Ah-ha okay. Okay, okay,", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "well then you just have, you have a diff you have a mode switch.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah yeah the mode switch.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "I think we'll need a we'll need a mode switch, but then if we have a mode switch we're gonna need some kinda indicator", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Just the lights behind the buttons.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "to which, an L_E_ an L_E_D_.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "You could have back-lit buttons maybe.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "okay.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Would that work?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Is that.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "okay we have five minutes. So right details th that we've talked about here are that we want a scroll wheel.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "We want a mode indicator. We want back-lit buttons. And if we're making back-lit buttons period, do we want that just for the mode indicator or maybe to indicate what button you're pressing at the time, so that you know if it's actually pressed or not. I've seen some remotes do that.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Okay. Just so you know I think I mean it was my understanding that before we were gonna stay in the mid-market range. It seems we're kind of approaching a higher-end range.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "I think we are yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "I wanna make sure everybody's okay with that.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah yeah. Well you had acknowledged that we have more money for this.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah well we don't have it's not that we have more money,", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Didn't you say so?", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "we can push up the the price.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "That's what I mean.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "We can increase the cost.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "'Kay.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "So I don't know I don't know whether having.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "I just wanna make sure everybody's on board with it. So.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah. So we really need to be sure as to what we can push the cost up to, though we haven't got to a stage where we're ready to pin down the price of components. But I'd say what sorta price are we looking to be able to sell something like that, and what sorta price can we make it for?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Well I think th I think the design and technology has to come back and say, okay to create this product we see it's gonna cost us this much for this volume, because we do have a volume target of of fifty million profit.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah no I I think that's where we really should be more flexible than anything else because as we said in the last meeting, our management is really looking for us to push our brand. We're entering a new market here,", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "so I think the the profit expectation for this one product is maybe not as important as being able to.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Okay I'm I'm okay with that. I guess what I just want to me the next step is for these guys to come come in with the design proposal w with the cost estimate attached, and then we have to take this to the next level.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "But th what's our ballpark as to what we'd be able to sell something like this for?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Well y yeah. Let's let's try and think now, how much would you pay for", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "We have to find cost.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "with all these features how much would you pay if you went to the store, and you were in the market f to replace your T_V_ remote, how much would you pay for that?", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "But you've gotta think who our target market is because I I'm not our target market.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "I'm just asking you.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "I'm a student, but on the other hand I would think, mm with my Project Manager salary, I would think yeah I could probably afford this.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "If.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Then you could probably afford this.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "uh would I buy it? Maybe. If I had a cool new T_V_ and this was r looking really slick and it had the dock and it had the scroll wheel, which I think's a really cool idea, that would sell me on it a little. Then maybe you know. I do I don't think I'd go over a hundred Euro certainly, that would be way too much,", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Oh no no.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "but the I would be happy paying over forty for it, I guess, but not much.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "I would say thirty five to forty.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah, I was gonna say thirty five to fifty.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "'Kay. Thirty five to fifty Euros is our sales bracket okay. So the question is what we ca we make it for.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Because one of th one of the things we're marketing about this product is that this is the last one you will ever need to buy for your television.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "It's one of the marketing features in this.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "That's why the scroll needs to be really robust.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Okay so we'll come up with something between thirty five and fifty that is rug rubber, robust, with scroll wheel, with the new facilities of the scroll wheel like favourite stuff, favourite channels, and and with a cradle, and yeah and the locator.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "With a cradle, radio transmitters, and back-lit buttons.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "And it's gonna look sexy.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Or not.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Or not. It might look like clay.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Okay so you can market pe depending on that?", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah yeah. Bas th that's that's easy. That's that's not a, it's a.'Cause we have about six, six, seven features in that alone.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yep.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Cool.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Under the title of uniquenesses.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Hmm.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Okay. The next meeting starts in thirty minutes, although does it? It starts at three twenty one, the next meeting. So we've got more than a thirty minutes. Um we've got more like fifty.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Well I have Is my three twenty one is the next meeting?", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "The the ne next meeting is three twenty one yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "That's that's almost uh fifty minutes.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah that is. Uh they've they've changed the times from the presentations.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "You guys can You guys you guys can uh create a All kinds of things.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Probably. We'll let you know when we're done, if we can go earlier.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Thanks, yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Okay so you guys will be getting your modelling done now and uh.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Okay are there any other questions with regards to what this thing's gonna do, look like, how it's gonna work that need to be addressed before we really look at this in a lot of detail?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "I don't think so. If we have any questions we'll just email you I guess.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah I think it pretty much everything's covered.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Okay. 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Okay, well", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "I'd say let's start with the first presentation.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "'Kay.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Um in the same order as last time?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "W sure.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Mm. Alright.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Okay. Well, take it away.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Okay uh welcome you all.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Components design, um uh first of all uh I would like to uh uh accommodate some of those uh things I uh uh elaborate some of the things I did. I I elaborated on the concept. What should be um uh said about uh the components, uh its properties and what kind of materials should we use to uh to make uh one of those r remote controls. Uh well first of all I've uh d subtracted some of the components that is that are used uh are w w um you know from what uh the remote control's formed. Uh first of all, the case, the case, the surrounding of the of the the remote control. I would like to uh give you an idea of uh how I thought about.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Don't destroy my giraffe.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Giraffe's gone now.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Okay um the case was is made from rubber, I suppose. There's one of the because when you use a remote control a lot of people uh will uh will uh drop their remote control", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Drop it.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Hmm.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "and they break uh becau the uh titanium was also an option. But uh it's a very expensive material. Uh rubber is, I think, uh the best suitable uh material uh to use uh for our uh for our remote control. Um it's poss it's also possible to uh create fancy colours with rubber. Uh rubber l makes it easy to uh to to it lets lets itself colour. Uh titanium uh you have to paint it and with that uh it's possible to scratch it or uh yeah make it ugly. Uh rubber uh the total uh piece of rubber that's sor uh that's that's used uh to make the case is uh the same colour, so if you scratch it it's still the same colour, perhaps uh it's a little bit damaged. But it's a very strong material. Um I h I had an idea single covered uh curved, sorry, single curved.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Uh so it's t two dimensional. I think it's uh it's best to draw oh", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "It's a colour..", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "green.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Bright colour. Fancy colour. Forward.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Uh New. Blank. Okay.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "You have to go t", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Let's make it uh black. Okay. I thought of an idea like this. Oh that. Um delete. Blank. Okay. So it also looks nice when it's on your table.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "So you get uh it doesn't lay flat down on the table, but it's c it's stands.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Oh it's a side view.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Side view yes it's side view so uh I I'm not technically good at th three D_ modelling,", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "but.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Um uh it's just an idea I had so it's uh it's very uh so its also looks nice when it's on the table. Um the graphical user interface and the buttons, uh we also thought about that already. Uh I thought about uh the L_C_D_ touch screen, which is uh is easy to clean too. One of the great uh advantages of the L_C_D_ screen you just use some or uh another uh cleaning uh uh cl some cleaning stuff.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "And um it should be made of strong plastic and it should be bright. Well I already uh s uh explained some properties of that material and I think uh well we also we almost concluded about that uh this should uh be uh our uh button component.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "True.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "So uh uh that's all about uh the buttons. Uh the batteries, uh we also thought about that already, uh will be chargeable with uh uh an option for a mount station so you can uh put the uh the remote control in a mount station so its charges itself up instead of uh plugging it in or something like that. Questions,?", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "No..", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "No no no no no. Just looking.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "And they should be long lasting, not uh not be empty uh in about uh two minutes or uh thirty minutes or forty minutes of use. And next step is the chip uh th the component that's uh makes or transmits the signal to the television. Uh there was an option to use s a rather simple chip but I think uh because uh of our uh highly uh requiring uh requirements, there should be an advanced chip in it", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "with uh also the ability to uh facilitate speaker speech recognition uh which unfortunately is still in a test phase, so uh there should be some more uh investigation on that side. Uh my personal preferences uh I also overheard in the last meeting that there shou we should use uh our own business colours. That was correct, wasn't it?", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Okay. I think they are rather boring for um for use with rubber.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Well, business colours I thought it was the the slogan and uh the corporate image, so yeah, it needs colour,", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Okay they should be m sh they should be in mind,", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "but I don't think you have to make the entire thing in the corporate colour..", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "wasn't it? Okay so it d it doesn't says uh to uh have the slogan?", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "It must be recognisable.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Okay okay. Well that's possible of course.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "You can put the R_ and R_..", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "We could make a little R_ and R_ on the top of the machine. Uh so they are pretty boring, I suggest, because just the availability with rubber to make fantastic colours uh and also in a lot of possible colours, so it's possible to make very uh fancy uh remote controls which peopl uh who people in which people will find they're uh interesting. And uh will buy uh them faster when they look at the same old grey or black uh colours. Uh s as I said uh before rubber is uh is impossible to damage severely imp instead of uh of course you can break it when you you when you break it in s for example with a pair of scissors or something like that, but i if you drop it it's not uh broken uh right away s instead of using uh plastic, hard plastic or uh titanium. And I personally liked uh the single curved uh remote control, because it yeah it makes sense.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Okay. Well that's all about my uh my findings.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Alright.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Okay, thank you.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "I will go next.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Mm mm mm. Next.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Alright so", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "I thought a little bit about the interface. Uh how it should look. And uh uh we uh determined that will not be no buttons, but only an L_C_D_ screen, so I had to uh look on that. And the design is therefore based on what we just uh uh thought of. Uh first there are some new findings and new technology for speech recognition. And this is that uh um uh uh you you ask you give a question through through the device and it answers you. And they already uh put this in an in a coffee maker. And so that it you say uh good morning, uh coffee maker, and it says t says to you back good morning Joe or what's your name.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "This uh and there's an easy way to uh program that uh you say record into the device into the speaker and then you say the question and three seconds later you say the answer and then when you say the question it gives you the answer. Um perhaps it's useful,", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "perhaps for because people um lose the remote,", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "they can yell uh remote where are you and calls or something.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "It's true.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "And perhaps we could uh implement that.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "And then I have to go out of the presentation because I tried to make some kind of a a idea of how it should look like", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Oh my God..", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "but I can't draw, so uh don't make too much of it. I tried to uh the L_C_D_ screen I tried to sort of to draw. I thought uh at least uh the icon for the volume. I don't know if there is an icon for the program, but", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Not just a P_.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "P_ yeah, just a P_.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "So uh", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "....", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "and then the buttons above and uh below", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "the and the and the mute button also recognisable as an icon. Um.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Where's where's the button for two?", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "I forgot that one. I thought I forgot something,", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "but uh.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "And uh and uh the numbers, that should be a bit larger I think it's not really on scale and and so forth.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Ah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Doesn't matter.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Um an options button. And I thought the the button for teletext apar uh apart because it's not really options, I think. It's uh options is the settings of the remote and of the T_V_ and that kind of uh thing.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "No.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "So could call it settings or something.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yep.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "But this is a bit uh how I thought it. And uh the L_C_D_ uh somewhere on the remote. Perhaps we could be more curvy the remote perhaps should, so that it's better in your hand or something uh.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Oh okay,", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "But uh and and uh a microph microphone for the speech uh recognition if we want to implement that.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Uh and then uh if you press the op options button, now we have an example of and then you should get the other options with what what you could do and that you could do with something like this this.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Oh yeah,.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "And uh it's also uh I thought think we discussed uh earlier that uh older people don't really want to use uh these extra settings. And older people a also don't really want to use this uh th this kind of option menus. So they want to u use one button and then something happens, and not choose with uh this kind of uh And you could put in a an a really s little scrolling device on the side of your uh remote,", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "so you could scroll scroll uh across these uh things.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Mm. Okay.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "That's an option. And that was my uh finding dinge.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Thanks.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Okay..", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Now our third", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Go Danny, go Danny..", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "team member with his presentation.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Okay, I'm going to tell you something about a trend watching. The trends from the past years, what the people like, what the youngsters like, what the elderly people liked about shapes, colours, material and stuff.'Kay. The method I used was Like I told I watched the trends from the past years about colours, shapes, material they wanted uh from elderly and young people. So we can keep that in mind for designing f uh the device itself. Findings I made. The most important thing people liked last year was that the remote control should be look look fancy. The second important thing that w should be if inv in innov innovative, okay, like the L_C_D_ screen that's quite innovative so that should be great meeting for this. And the third thing is it should be easy to use. I think with only one menu, four button, channel, volume, it should also be enough for easy to use. The personal preferences for the young people, they liked fruity colours like uh banana yellow, uh strawberry red and stuff.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Fruity?.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Grass green.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Fruity..", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah. Like that. The round shapes, and soft material m materials like the rubber.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Mm. Okay.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "It should be soft uh i it should feeling spongy or s Sponge Bob like things.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Let's build it into a sponge.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Th Elderly people like au colours which y are being seen in autumn like um woods um dark brown, red, deep reds and stuff. They liked square shapes with round edges. And hard materials like wood, um titanium. They those kind of materials they liked. This is a bit like the young peoples like the fruity colours, innovative, all the colours you see, the blue, the red, the white, the yellow, that stuff. And then I th I I personally thought the front side of the shape should be something for the youngsters like like", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Oh y.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "this or something. It's it's a bit like a banana. And the colour should be yellow, or something.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "And for the elderly people just plain old. Because we decided to have two kind of remotes, two designs, or was it two colours?", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "It was one remote, I think,", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Different colours, yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "different colours.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "We should decide whether it's going to be with round shapes. I think like my colleague, you said, is that's e better, or for the elderly people something like like the iPod or something, with round squares. Simple but", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "easy to use.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "So that's it.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "So for the older people, a more traditional uh form.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "That is my Yeah, like the older o older colours I can maybe.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "You could you could uh change the colours, that was also the idea. I don't know which shape you should should take,", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "but.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Colours th the elderly people.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah, I guess changing colours will be easier than changing uh", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Changing just the shape of the uh remote control?", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "the shape of it.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Perhaps you could find something in the middle. Round but square..", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah, s", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "round corners, but s but square, yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "But maybe then both groups won't buy it.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Uh i i if you do it uh uh square, with round corners but a little uh in the middle of it uh i Do you know what I mean?", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah I know what you mean, kind of like a..", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "wait, like like this uh a bit.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "So it's a bit square, but it's also a bit uh round.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Kinda like a beer glass. Yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "So but then.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "I know what you mean.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Same sides. But that's uh.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "It's also easy to to have to to put in your hand.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah but that's also how other remotes are shaped, so that's uh But perhaps that's a good thing,", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "so that's easy to use. People know the.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Will recognise that's as a remote control.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Uh Look something like that. Autumn colours like red, brown.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Uh when I saw your d Oh.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "They liked the wood a lot.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Huh.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "So maybe we could give it like wooden loo look look or something in that colour.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah, kinda like old cars, uh.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "And a bit bit old school style renaissance, medieval kind of things.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah..", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Swords..", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Let's put it all together.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Those kind of Yeah, those kind of things. So you see the big difference between the young people? Fresh, exciting.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "And the old people, old and boring.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "But that's easily to do with the colour, I think.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "So Sorry?", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "That's easy to do with the colours, I think.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah I think it's it's easier to do in colour than in shape.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah we think so too.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Uh.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Because otherwise we have to get different shapes, and colour way easier than yeah the shapes. In material yeah rubber, rubber is, like I said, young people like more soft materials and spongy ones", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "and the old people like plain wood.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "So we have to decide if we're going to use real hard rubber, or soft rubber. Or something something between that.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah think uh Also in between..", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Soft rubber.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah soft rubber", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "which you can you can feel in it.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah I know what you Um.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "I don't think you should be able to mould it,", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Or.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "but.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "It should shouldn't be.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "No. Or or wh what's something harder. No no no but but you have to like like like a a eraser or something. That's the bit you can press it in,", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "or something harder.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Uh.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Bit like this kind of rubber. This uh.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah, something like this, yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "But it's quite hard, this.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah it's quite hard but you can press it in.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "It's feels kind s spongy.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Spongy.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Hmm.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Something..", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "I don't think it's rubber.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "No. N n n", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "So we need a spongy feeling..", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Uh did you have something about uh.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Are you going to invite Sponge Bob, maybe he can.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "So we should first decide about shape, I think.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Ding ding.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Which uh.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah I think that's the better thing to do..", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Then you can fit the L_C_D_ screen in it,", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "and can decide uh.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Um I also s uh can't help but notice that you uh used an you had a remote control.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "and the L_C_D_ screen was uh rather small. Um.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "w I think that L_C_D_ screen should be like.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "it it's supposed to be bit s bit s bit", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "... This was your size,", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "but I think it should be larger.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah three quarter of the of the.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah, three quarters. So uh so you don't have to put your oh.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah the buttons won't get that small when the L_C_D_ screen is.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Uh new, blank. So uh when you get this uh.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Ooh.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Uh kinda like this.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Or should it be larger?", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Larger I think.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Larger? Because you want to put your hands.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "But if you pu", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Now you can put your hand there and then you won't touch the screen.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "You want", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "becau because you have.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Perhaps that's best.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah okay, true, true, true true.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Your thumb here.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "But not on the screen because Yeah", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "that's uh that's an idea.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Looks a bit like a Game Boy now..", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Because when you put your f Yeah but if yo if you make the the L_C_D_ screen as large as the remote control itself, uh you'll you'll always get some.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "You always touch it,", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "You.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah yeah yeah yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Going to be very greasy and stuff.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "But it won't get that small because you have how much? Nine ten eleven twelve thirteen fourteen fifteen buttons on the screen.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "One to zero, the two digit,.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah you don't want it too small. How yeah how large.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "You have to you have to Because some fat people with d thick fingers will press three buttons at same time.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah they have thick fingers. But if you wanna make it in international, Japanese uh people got uh rather small hands", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah true,", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "and we got these large.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "but Yeah, we have we have the zoom option, right?", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Zoom opt Ah yeah of course, yeah. You can make it larger to to uh to uh with accompanying uh greater fields to push the button.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah. And we won't include a a pen, or something to point,", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "hey, we we want to do it with our fingers,", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "No.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "right?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Your fingers, yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Y you could include a pen", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "You don't want uh.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Because if you lose the pen uh if you lose the pen uh you can't use.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Use a pen You you c you can lose the pen.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah but I think people want to use a remote with with their fingers because th they're used to that", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah the fingers, yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah o yeah, if they think it's handy to use a pen.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "and.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah I think this uh this is a good size for the screen. I don't know how how large the actual remote should be but a little bit like this, or something.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "And maybe we have to add a tissue to remove the grease from all the fingers, huh..", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah You can do whatever uh any uh cloth.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah but that that can be with plain soft tissue. Yeah,", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Okay well", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "you can buy those at.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "maybe, if I can interrupt you, maybe I should uh should show some points on which we uh should take a decision.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Sure.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "So we can discuss these points. those points um energy question mark. How how should we uh supply the thing with energy and how are we going to do it with separate docking station and then put in it. Uh chip on print and case. Those are points my uh coach advised me to discuss here, but I hope you have ideas about them.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "I think energy were batteries and then uh and uh.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "The docking station.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah. So that's the the the first point.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Maybe it's better to to include rechargeable batteries", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "We already decided that on the previous meeting.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "W.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah. Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "which you can recharge through the docking station.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah. Just like with the telephone.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "So if the badg the batteries are dead", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "I kinda like your.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "then you can re you can uh change them.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah you got some uh some of those uh uh wireless uh mice? Mouse. Computer mouse.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah yeah yeah like those.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Kinda like those kind of batteries.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "but it should be th I think normal batteries,", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yep..", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "not not like two or two uh.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah, normal plain you No normal plain batteries you can buy at the supermarket or retail shop. Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Simple rechargeable uh batteries.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah. Um what was with the chip on print?", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "The chip on print? Um Uh you gotta f Yeah. I think so. Chip on print with a with a simple uh a sim not a simple but a.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Print plate.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "We also discussed that. Didn't we?.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah but how did this how does that with a L_C_D_ screen? You still have a print plate.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Uh.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah yeah yeah. You always have a print plate.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Beg your pardon?", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "You always have a print plate,", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah sure, of course, yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "right? Always, so I dunno what w what we have to decide about that.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah well it's a good question.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "It just was in there", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Well uh", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "and I didn't have any information about it,", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "chip on print, I think what they mean uh with the regular rubber buttons that you got, uh it's always clear for the remote control when you press uh a certain button.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "but Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "But when you got a L_C_D_ screen, with no uh with not the buttons are not always on the same place,", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah, okay. But.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "for example if you enlarge a button, or if you got several options uh appearing on your screen, uh the co-ordinations aren't always the same.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "When you got a regular button, th the button of stand-by is always on the same place and you got on the and on the.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah okay, but the p print plate of L_ L_C_D_ screen is more advanced than a normal print plate,", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "so that that's not of any discussion, I think.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Well you need some kind of C_P_U_, I guess.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "I suppose so.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Mm, I don't I dunno I don't think that's.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "It is a simple C_P_U_ but it doesn't.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah yeah okay but I d I I don't know if nor o s it's quite a simple L_C_D_.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah because it has to uh b", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah, it's quite a simple L_C_D_ screen. I think they don't need that big of C_P_U_.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah but it the the remote control has to know whether you're in a settings menu or just uh you just want to turn up the volume.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah, okay, true true. True.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "So it has to have some kind of a calculation unit or C_P_U_", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "to know uh in which state you are and uh which button you are pressing in at the right moment.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm. Because we're projecting projecting the buttons on the L_C_D_ screen.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "And a touch screen makes it uh possible to uh to get the co-ordination of your finger on the screen.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "And the case, yeah we already discussed the case,", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "It's rubber.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "we wanted to make it from rubber", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah but but a hard rubber like this?", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "and uh.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Or softer rubber or.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Uh hard rubber I think.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "That's the easy to ha uh to to uh.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "It bounces back from the floor where you throw it.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah. Yeah sure, look.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "We have different colours.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah yeah this in different colours?", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "D", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "So the shapes is something between the square shapes with round colo corners and a round shapes? No I don't think, I think it's more round than square..", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah it's a bit. But I think it should be a bit longer, perhaps.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "So it meets I think it meets more the young people than the older people.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah. But that's what we want,.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah. I think so too.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah, that's our target. Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "It's our main target.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Lower than forty years, I think", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Well and how about my idea uh of making it um with one single curve?", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "it was.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "So i", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Oh yeah that that I think I thought that was a quite good", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Because it's a gadget and you want to show it off, of course.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah yeah you have a fancy design, then, right away.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Uh.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "So.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Because it", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "You can put it on your table with the L_C_D_ screen,", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "you don't have to put it get it in your hand, you can put it next to you", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "and then dive it in", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah, that's a good idea.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "and. Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "It's a lot easier.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah, alright.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "So, so", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "So.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Okay so.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "you got uh.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "And then.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Did you write that down? Uh got a single curved uh rubber f uh fancy coloured remote control..", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "You can't you You can't oh, you c you can draw it on your paper and then load it on the", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah, you can uh.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah but I wrote it down..", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "It's pretty easy but And.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "And load it on the the user the server.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "What about the user interface, there are also some some questions uh about the concepts I think you have some ideas on that.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah,", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "You you showed your drawing.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "I had what I just uh I should again. I miss a few buttons, but. Well. At least uh what we should also have on, I just remembered, um a menu to go back through the first uh if if you touch options, you can't go back to this uh right away now.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm. Yeah, you have to go back. Yeah uh uh.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "This.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Isn't it better to have the sound and the general buttons horizontal?", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "I don't know.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "With the minus and the plus.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "I think it's.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "I think it's easier than.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "I don't know. I I thought it was uh easier to handle this way,", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "but I don't know what they think.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Sorry?.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Would you like the the buttons horizontal or v vertical?", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "For sound and channel.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Th", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Depends on the screen. If you make the screen vertical it doesn't matter. If you make it uh in a rectangle.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Right well if we make it like this, I think if you", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "I so it's it's it's it's.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "put it like this.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Square..", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "I think it's it's easier to have it something like Oh a button uh minus here, plus over here. A minus here, plus over here.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Oh, okay.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "And on here.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "The other buttons and on here the top.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "The options and then you have something like uh the P_ over here,", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "But I think I wou", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "and the sound.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "I think that's a matter of what you're used to.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Something uh.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "I think I would put a plus and a min uh here. And then the P_ in the mid in the middle and the sound uh in the middle.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Uh..", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Something like.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Sh", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Take your time..", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Plus minus plus uh.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Almost..", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "minus.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "but I think when you are holding it, you could press the minus and the plus and with the other finger the minus and the plus.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah I think you're going to s you're going to use it with one thumb.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah but I think Yeah I don't know. Perhaps I have some examples.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "W", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "I don't know.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "We'll leave that to the usability engineering then..", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Who's the usability engineering?", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "That's me.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "She is..", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "But I'm going to look if I've got some examples", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "'cause perhaps you should choose what's most often used.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Oh.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "The'Cause they can use that better.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Um.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Consistency.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Oh I have that those s numbers.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "I Here is our here are uh", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Or a good watch.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "I don't really know.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "B", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Everybody's searching in his data.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Channel selection. Per hour one hundred and sixty eight. Volume selection four times an hour", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah but But I mean if it's usually plus or min above each other or next to each other on a normal remote.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah. So not how much n not how often it's used, but.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Uh.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "W what's what's usual or normal.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah, that depends on on on the remote.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yes I'm looking here. But here's it's below,", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Uh.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "here also, and now here's here's next to each other.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "I think it's it's a.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "I think because I have two televisions at home. One is horizontal, one is vertical,", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah it does it doesn't really matter,", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "so it depends.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "but.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah. Depends.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Uh.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "I think the the the volume was usually uh above each other, because you go higher and down.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah, lower.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "And the the pay the the the program is next to each other, because you would go further and back.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "That's how it's is usually when I look here", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "True.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "that's what I see.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Okay, um. Let's cut to the chase..", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "It's got to change.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah well I think we have we don't have to decide about that now how where we will put the buttons", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "I don't know.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "just the", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah is it is user interface.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "concepts.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Component.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "This concept is in the actual design, but you should know where you would place a.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Okay, well le Yeah. Interface, yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "And the speech uh shall we implement that? Or uh.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah well we just heard about the new uh technology, huh?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Technologies, uh.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah I think it's it's easy for that, where are you, but then it says I'm here.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah. But then you should also find a place.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Makes it possible to.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "You could if you do it like this you could put it in a corner or something. You can talk into the corner.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah, a microphone, yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Not even necessary,", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "because a lotta you can make a very sensitive microphone, so it makes it possible to uh just put it arou uh underneath it or on the on the bottom of the uh remote.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah maybe at the bottom where you can can hel hold it with you hand that there's also a microphone uh", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah. But Yeah, that's also.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "over there.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "So, in the middle or something.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "But that's not import I think that's not im very important", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah, yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "because yeah, it doesn't matter where the microphone is.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "but you should uh decide where you want to put it.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Ah okay, sure, okay,", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Right?.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "well tha", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Um I think where it isn't seen", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Underneath? Indeed. It shouldn't be uh very uh visible.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "the most.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "You could p you could put it in a logo of the company..", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Inside.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah. Well", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah sure, why no", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "maybe just in the the spot you just pointed out", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "I i between the round of the R_.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah..", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "because I think it should be in a in an important position where people can see it,", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "because it is the the unique uh idea of our remote, huh, the the speech control.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah. So where do you want to put it?", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah, okay.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Well maybe where the one hand.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah but it doesn't makes it uh any more fancy because you get to see uh.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah actually it does because it you can you can find it better if you use it.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah. Yeah", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "It's a way for you to uh.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "bu but.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Uh.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "So it makes more sense just'cause other remotes don't have that.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah, okay.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "But are we talking about the button, or about the microphone?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "About a microphone,", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah because a microphone is very small thing,", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "there is no button.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "but you can make it look like it's big so as its its really an important function of the remote.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "I think the left s under corner should be the best.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Where isn't i it isn't most in sight.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Okay. Well put it there. I don't mind..", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "I think.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "That doesn't doesn't really matter.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "No. Actually doesn't.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Okay. So?", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Alright. Any more uh.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "So well uh", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Interface type.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "type, supplements, anything. Yeah, well we already s discussed that, huh, the the L_C_D_", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "The L_C_D_ yeah,", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "and.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "uh supplements well the supplement is to.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "I think I thought the, like you said, like scroll next to the remote isn't that handy.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah..", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "I think it's better to just up what you'd like to do on the screen. If you want to go back you have to back button go back,", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "if you want to choose audio settings you press audio settings and it goes to that s sub-menu.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Hey,", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Um yeah. Yeah", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "..", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "the the young people do like uh scroll uh", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Use the scroll. Yeah I think so too.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah? You do like it?", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "So why not, on on side.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Or at least Yeah I don't know if it's really the scroll, but the menu they like most, and I think you can never get through a menu great with a scroll uh.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Fast, yeah. So if you've got a settings, if you.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah I think it is is faster. Becau I think the scroll's easier if you have a lot of options,", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yes..", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "but if you don't have a lot of option then.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "But you have it's f uh", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "You have a lot of options,", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "we have five or four or something.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "because when you use Yeah you get w when you use uh the settings menu for example to look up some uh uh some channels on your uh on your television, you should scroll scroll down uh on a menu which probably does not fit on your screen.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Y", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Uh-huh. Yeah, okay, true.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "So then it's uh very handy to to scroll down,", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "you make just a rubber just like uh on your mouse or. Just put it on the side and it's very easy to use.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Okay, no problem.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "And I think I would it would make even more fancy because you have another interesting thing on the side", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah, yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "which you can touch", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah..", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "and.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "It's also different..", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Okay. Well there's our five minutes uh warning. Um any more uh questions about about the design or the user interface or different components, everyone?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Um. No, colours are clear,", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Everybody think they can can", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "shape is clear, material is clear.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Okay, what's the standard colour?", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "work for that?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "And a standard,", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Is there a standard colour?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "yeah we don't.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "I I", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "no we have different colour.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "You got you got different colours,", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "How many colours are we going to.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "You should you should have a black one", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "but you should have a standard colour.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "because uh I think black is standard.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Black. Yeah, black I think is is the standard.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Black? With the with the yellow uh.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "But if you want to be different, then uh.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Dark grey, something like this this colour or something.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Just a regular uh remote colour.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah like like yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "And then have uh different covers uh to use.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Or or silver. I think it's better to have silver nowadays.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Silver.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Silver, yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "I think you see more silver than black.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "You see a lot of t uh silver televisions.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "But still silver and black are well", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Silver rubber..", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah the the silver black are our main colours. Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "silver is new but also traditional, so uh.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "I think we have silver, black and between those is like I dunno s five colours between them or something.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah w what about a yellow thing, I mean it", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah y I think it's better to.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah yeah yeah it'll be a banana yellow, we have.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "could be ugly, but it's definitely fancy.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "But", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "R red.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah th yeah. That's right.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "But if you use uh silver, uh rubber s silver rubber isn't fancy.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Green, wood, brown. Yeah. True.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "When you use titanium, silver is fancy,", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "but when you use silver rubber, it isn't fancy. Silver has to shine, and rubber doesn't shine.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Especially when it's made of soft rubber like this.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "You understand?.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah, I understand.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah I would think about colours like uh red, yellow, green, blue,", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah o of course.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "just.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "The fruity colours and the autumn colours, like red and brown, dark red and brown.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Just all kind of colour.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Fruity. Fruity loops.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm. Maroon. Yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Okay, so.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "And and do we have to have a normal black one, or uh.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Who's pinging?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Is it.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "You are pingin", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "No.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Okay. I thought we", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "You ping..", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Okay, so uh that wraps it up? Everybody knows uh what to do?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Well I wrote it down here. I wrote it down here what to do um.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Well I don't know what to do,", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Well not what to do. Not what to do.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "but..", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "The next meeting is once again in thirty minutes. Um here are the individual actions,", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "and especially notice that uh the Industrial Designer and the User Interface Designer are going to work together on a prototype drawing on a smart board,", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Ooh. Right.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "S", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "and of course to all four of us uh specific instructions will be emailed by our personal coach.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "tough. We'll be available.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "But do we have to We'll work together, but do we have to stay here, or do we.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Well I I'd say just wait uh for email and uh find out.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "I don't know..", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yes. 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Wonder if these things ever emit a very, like, piercing screech right in your ear?", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "They are gonna get more comfortable headsets. They already ordered them. OK.", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "Uh.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "Let's get started. The uh Should I go first, with the uh, um, data. Can I have the remote control. Thank you. OK. So. On Friday we had our wizard test data test and um these are some of the results. This was the introduction. I actually uh, even though Liz was uh kind enough to offer to be the first subject, I sort of felt that she knew too much, so I asked uh Litonya. just on the spur of the moment, and she was uh kind enough to uh serve as the first subject.", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "So, this is what she saw as part of as uh for instr introduction, this is what she had to read aloud. Uh, that was really difficult for her and uh.", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "Because of l all the names, you mean?", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "The names and um this was the uh first three tasks she had to to master after she called the system, and um then of course the system broke down, and those were the l uh uh I should say the system was supposed to break down and then um these were the remaining three tasks that she was going to solve, with a human Um. There are here are uh the results. Mmm. And I will not We will skip the reading now. D Um. And um. The reading was five minutes, exactly. And now comes the This is the phone - in phase of.", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "Wait, can I I have a question. So. So there's no system, right? Like, there was a wizard for both uh both parts, is this right?", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "Yeah. It was bo it both times the same person.", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "OK.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "One time, pretending to be a system, one time, to pretending to be a human, which is actually not pretending.", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "OK. And she didn't.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "I should.", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "I mean. Well. Isn't this kind of obvious when it says \" OK now you're talking to a human \" and then the human has the same voice?", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "No no no. We u Wait. OK, good question, but uh you you just wait and see.", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "OK.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "It's You're gonna l learn. And um the wizard sometimes will not be audible, Because she was actually they there was some uh lapse in the um wireless, we have to move her closer.", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "Is she mispronouncing \" Anlage \"? 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And uh she did not.", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "Really?", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "She No.", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "Oh, it's surprising.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "She she jumped around quite a bit.", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "S so if you just number them \" one \", \" two \", \" three \" it's", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Yeah, and make it sort of clear in the uh.", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "OK. Right.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Um. We need to So that's one thing. And we need a better introduction for the wizard. That is something that Fey actually thought of a in the last second that sh the system should introduce itself, when it's called.", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm. True.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "And um, um, another suggestion, by Liz, was that we uh, through subjects, switch the tasks. So when when they have task - one with the computer, the next person should have task - one with a human, and so forth.", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "So we get nice um data for that. Um, we have to refine the tasks more and more, which of course we haven't done at all, so far, in order to avoid this rephrasing, so where, even though w we don't tell the person \" ask blah - blah - blah - blah - blah \" they still try, or at least Litonya tried to um repeat as much of that text as possible.", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "Say exactly what's on there? 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Johno pointed out that uh we have maybe a grammatical gender problem there with wizard.", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "Yes.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "So um.", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "I wasn't wasn't sure whether wizard was the correct term for uh \" not a man \".", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "There's no female equivalent of.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "But uh.", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "Are you sure?", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "No, I don't know.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Not that I know of.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "Well, there is witch and warlock,", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "Yeah, that's so @ @.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Yeah, that's what I was thinking, but.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "and uh.", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "Right. Uh.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "OK. And um So, some some work needs to be done, but I think we can uh And this, and in case no you hadn't seen it, this is what Litonya looked at during the uh um while taking the while partaking in the data collection.", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "Ah.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "OK, great. So first of all, I agree that um we should hire Fey, and start paying her. Probably pay for the time she's put in as well. Um, do you know exactly how to do that, or is uh Lila I mean, you know what exactly do we do to to put her on the payroll in some way?", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "I'm completely clueless, but I'm willing to learn.", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "OK. Well, you'll have to. Right. So anyway, um", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "N", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "So why don't you uh ask Lila and see what she says about you know exactly what we do for someone in th", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Student - type worker,", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "Well, yeah she's un she's not a a student,", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "or?", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "she just graduated but anyway.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Hmm.", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "So i if Yeah, I agree, she sounded fine, she a actually was uh, more uh, present and stuff than than she was in conversation, so she did a better job than I would have guessed from just talking to her.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "So I think that's great.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "This is sort of what I gave her, so this is for example h how to get to the student prison,", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "and I didn't even spell it out here and in some cases I I spelled it out a little bit um more thoroughly,", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "this is the information on on the low sunken castle, and the amphitheater that never came up, and um, so i if we give her even more um, instruments to work with I think the results are gonna be even better.", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "Oh, yeah, and then of course as she does it she'll she'll learn @ @. So that's great. Um And also if she's willing to take on the job of organizing all those subjects and stuff that would be wonderful.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Mmm.", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "And, uh she's actually she's going to graduate school in a kind of an experimental paradigm, so I think this is all just fine in terms of h her learning things she's gonna need to know uh, to do her career.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Mmm.", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "So, I my guess is she'll be r r quite happy to take on that job. And, so.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Yep. Yeah she she didn't explicitly state that so.", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "Great.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "And um I told her that we gonna um figure out a meeting time in the near future to refine the tasks and s look for the potential sources to find people. She also agrees that you know if it's all just gonna be students the data is gonna be less valuable because of that so.", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "Well, as I say there is this s set of people next door, it's not hard to", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "We're already Yeah.", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "uh.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "However, we may run into a problem with a reading task there. And um, we'll see.", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "Yeah. We could talk to the people who run it and um see if they have a way that they could easily uh tell people that there's a task, pays ten bucks or something,", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm. Yeah.", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "but um you have to be comfortable reading relatively complicated stuff. And and there'll probably be self - selection to some extent.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Mmm. Yep.", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "Uh, so that's good. Um. Now, I signed us up for the Wednesday slot, and part of what we should do is this.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "OK.", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "So, my idea on that was uh, partly we'll talk about system stuff for the computer scientists, but partly I did want it to get the linguists involved in some of this issue about what the task is and all um you know, what the dialogue is, and what's going on linguistically, because to the extent that we can get them contributing, that will be good. So this issue about you know re - formulating things,", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Yep.", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "maybe we can get some of the linguists sufficiently interested that they'll help us with it, uh, other linguists, if you're a linguist, but in any case,", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Yep.", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "um, the linguistics students and stuff. So my idea on on Wednesday is partly to uh you I mean, what you did today would i is just fine. You just uh do \" this is what we did, and here's the thing, and here's s some of the dialogue and and so forth. \" But then, the other thing of course is we should um give the computer scientists some idea of of what's going on with the system design, and where we think the belief - nets fit in and where the pieces are and stuff like that. Is is this make sense to everybody?", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Yep.", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "Yeah. So, I don't I don't think it's worth a lot of work, particularly on your part, to to to make a big presentation. I don't think you should you don't have to make any new uh PowerPoint or anything. I think we got plenty of stuff to talk about. And, then um just see how a discussion goes.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm. Sounds good. The uh other two things is um we've can have Johno tell us a little about this", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "Great.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "and we also have a l little bit on the interface, M - three - L enhancement, and then um that was it, I think.", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "So, what I did for this this is uh, a pedagogical belief - net because I was I I took I tried to conceptually do what you were talking about with the nodes that you could expand out so what I did was I took I made these dummy nodes called Trajector - In and Trajector - Out that would isolate the things related to the trajector.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "Yep.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "And then there were the things with the source and the path and the goal.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "Yep.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "And I separated them out. And then I um did similar things for our our net to uh with the context and the discourse and whatnot, um, so we could sort of isolate them or whatever in terms of the the top layer.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "And then the bottom layer is just the Mode. So.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "So, let's let's Yeah, I don't understand it. Let's go Slide all the way up so we see what the p the p very bottom looks like, or is that it?", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Yeah, there's just one more node and it says \" Mode \" which is the decision between the.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "OK, great. Alright.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "So basically all I did was I took the last belief - net", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "So Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "and I grouped things according to what how I thought they would fit in to uh image schemas that would be related. And the two that I came up with were Trajector - landmark and then Source - path - goal as initial ones.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "Yep. Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "And then I said well, uh the trajector would be the person in this case probably.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "Right, yep.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Um, you know, we have we have the concept of what their intention was, whether they were trying to tour or do business or whatever,", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "or they were hurried. That's kind of related to that. And then um in terms of the source, the things uh the only things that we had on there I believe were whether Oh actually, I kind of, I might have added these cuz I don't think we talked too much about the source in the old one but uh whether the where I'm currently at is a landmark might have a bearing on whether.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "or the \" landmark - iness \" of where I'm currently at. And \" usefulness \" is basi basically means is that an institutional facility like a town hall or something like that that's not something that you'd visit for tourist's tourism's sake or whatever. \" Travel constraints \" would be something like you know, maybe they said they can they only wanna take a bus or something like that, right? And then those are somewhat related to the path,", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "so that would determine whether we'd could take we would be telling them to go to the bus stop or versus walking there directly. Um, \" Goal \". Similar things as the source except they also added whether the entity was closed and whether they have somehow marked that is was the final destination. Um, and then if you go up, Robert, Yeah, so um, in terms of Context, what we had currently said was whether they were a businessman or a tourist of some other person. Um, Discourse was related to whether they had asked about open hours or whether they asked about where the entrance was or the admission fee, or something along those lines.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Uh, Prosody I don't really I'm not really sure what prosody means, in this context, so I just made up you know whether whether what they say is or h how they say it is is that.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "Right, OK.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Um, the Parse would be what verb they chose, and then maybe how they modified it, in the sense of whether they said \" I need to get there quickly \" or whatever.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "And um, in terms of World Knowledge, this would just basically be like opening and closing times of things, the time of day it is, and whatnot.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "What's \" tourbook \"?", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "Tourbook? That would be, I don't know, the \" landmark - iness \" of things,", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "whether it's in the tourbook or not.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "Ch - ch - ch - ch. Now. Alright, so I understand what's what you got. I don't yet understand how you would use it. So let me see if I can ask", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Well, this is not a working Bayes - net.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "a s Right. No, I understand that, but but um So, what Let's slide back up again and see start at the at the bottom and Oop - bo - doop - boop - boop. Yeah. So, you could imagine w Uh, go ahead, you were about to go up there and point to something.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Well I OK, I just Say what you were gonna say.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "Good, do it!", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "OK.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "No no, go do it.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Uh I I'd No, I was gonna wait until.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "Oh, OK. So, so if you if we made if we wanted to make it into a a real uh Bayes - net, that is, you know, with fill you know, actually f uh, fill it @ @ in, then uh.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "So we'd have to get rid of this and connect these things directly to the Mode.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "Well, I don't That's an issue. So, um.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Cuz I don't understand how it would work otherwise.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "Well, here's the problem. And and uh Bhaskara and I was talking about this a little earlier today is, if we just do this, we could wind up with a huge uh, combinatoric input to the Mode thing. And uh.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Well I oh yeah, I unders I understand that, I just uh it's hard for me to imagine how he could get around that.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "Well, i But that's what we have to do.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "OK.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "OK, so, so, uh. There there are a variety of ways of doing it. Uh. Let me just mention something that I don't want to pursue today which is there are technical ways of doing it, uh I I slipped a paper to Bhaskara and about Noisy - OR's and Noisy - MAXes and there're ways to uh sort of back off on the purity of your Bayes - net - edness.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Mmm.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "Uh, so. If you co you could ima and I now I don't know that any of those actually apply in this case, but there is some technology you could try to apply.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "So it's possible that we could do something like a summary node of some sort that OK.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "Yeah. Yeah. And, um So.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "So in that case, the sum we'd have we I mean, these wouldn't be the summary nodes. We'd have the summary nodes like where the things were I guess maybe if thi if things were related to business or some other.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "So what I was gonna say is is maybe a good at this point is to try to informally I mean, not necessarily in th in this meeting, but to try to informally think about what the decision variables are. So, if you have some bottom line uh decision about which mode, you know, what are the most relevant things.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Mmm.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "And the other trick, which is not a technical trick, it's kind of a knowledge engineering trick, is to make the n each node sufficiently narrow that you don't get this combinatorics. So that if you decided that you could characterize the decision as a trade - off between three factors, whatever they may be, OK? then you could say \" Aha, let's have these three factors \", OK? and maybe a binary version f for each, or some relatively compact decision node just above the final one.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Mmm.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "And then the question would be if if those are the things that you care about, uh can you make a relatively compact way of getting from the various inputs to the things you care about. So that y so that, you know, you can sort of try to do a knowledge engineering thing", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "OK.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "given that we're not gonna screw with the technology and just always use uh sort of orthodox Bayes - nets, then we have a knowledge engineering little problem of how do we do that. Um and", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "So what I kind of need to do is to take this one and the old one and merge them together?", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "\" Eh - eh - eh. \" Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "So that.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "Well, mmm, something. I mean, so uh, Robert has thought about this problem f for a long time, cuz he's had these examples kicking around, so he may have some good intuition about you know, what are the crucial things.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Mmm.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "and, um, I understand where this the uh this is a way of playing with this abs Source - path - goal trajector exp uh uh abstraction and and sort of sh displaying it in a particular way.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "Uh, I don't think our friends uh on Wednesday are going to be able to Well, maybe they will. Well, let me think about whether whether I think we can present this to them or not. Um, Uh,", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Well, I think this is still, I mean, ad - hoc. This is sort of th the second version and I I I look at this maybe just as a, you know, a a whatever, UML diagram or, you know, as just a uh screen shot, not really as a Bayes - net as John Johno said.", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "We could actually, y yeah draw it in a different way, in the sense that it would make it more abstract.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "Yeah. But the uh the the nice thing is that you know, it just is a is a visual aid for thinking about these things which has comple clearly have to be specified m more carefully", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "Alright, well, le let me think about this some more,", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "and uh", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "and uh see if we can find a way to present this to this linguists group that that is helpful to them.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "I mean, ultimately we we may w w we regard this as sort of an exercise in in thinking about the problem and maybe a first version of uh a module, if you wanna call it that, that you can ask, that you can give input and it it'll uh throw the dice for you, uh throw the die for you, because um I integrated this into the existing SmartKom system in in the same way as much the same way we can um sort of have this uh this thing. Close this down. So if this is what M - three - L um will look like and what it'll give us, um And a very simple thing. We have an action that he wants to go from somewhere, which is some type of object, to someplace.", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "And this these uh this changed now only um, um It's doing it twice now because it already did it once. Um, we'll add some action type, which in this case is \" Approach \" and could be, you know, more refined uh in many ways.", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm. Good.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Or we can uh have something where the uh goal is a public place and it will give us then of course an action type of the type \" Enter \". So this is just based on this one um, on this one feature, and that's that's about all you can do. And so in the f if this pla if the object type um here is is a m is a landmark, of course it'll be um \" Vista \". And um this is about as much as we can do if we don't w if we want to avoid uh uh a huge combinatorial explosion where we specify \" OK, if it's this and this but that is not the case \", and so forth, it just gets really really messy.", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "OK, I'm sorry. You're you're.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Hmm?", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "It was much too quick for me. OK, so let me see if I understand what you're saying. So, I I do understand that uh you can take the M - three - L and add not and it w and you need to do this, for sure, we have to add, you know, not too much about um object types and stuff, and what I think you did is add some rules of the style that are already there that say \" If it's of type \" Landmark \", then you take you're gonna take a picture of it. \"", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Exactly.", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "F full stop, I mean, that's what you do. Ev - every landmark you take a picture of,", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Every public place you enter, and statue you want to go as near as possible.", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "you enter You approach. OK. Uh, and certainly you can add rules like that to the existing SmartKom system. And you just did, right? OK.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Yeah. And it it would do us no good.", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "Ah.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "That Ultimately.", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "Well. So, s well, and let's think about this.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "W", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "Um, that's a that's another kind of baseline case, that's another sort of thing \" OK, here's a another kind of minimal uh way of tackling this \". Add extra properties, a deterministic rule for every property you have an action, \" pppt! \" You do that. Um, then the question would be Uh Now, if that's all you're doing, then you can get the types from the ontology, OK? because that's all you're all you're using is this type the types in the ontology and you're done.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Hmm?", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "Right? So we don't we don't use the discourse, we don't use the context, we don't do any of those things.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "No.", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "Alright, but that's but that's OK, and I mean it it's again a kind of one minimal extension of the existing things. And that's something the uh SmartKom people themselves would they'd say \" Sure, that's no problem you know, no problem to add types to the ont \" Right?", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Yeah. No. And this is just in order to exemplify what what we can do very, very easily is, um we have this this silly uh interface and we have the rules that are as banal as of we just saw, and we have our content.", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "Hmm.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Now, the content I whi which is sort of what what we see here, which is sort of the Vista, Schema, Source, Path, Goal, whatever.", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "Yeah. Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "This will um be um a job to find ways of writing down Image schema, X - schema, constructions, in some some form, and have this be in a in a in the content, loosely called \" Constructicon \". And the rules we want to throw away completely. And um and here is exactly where what's gonna be replaced with our Bayes - net, which is exactly getting the input feeding into here. This decides whether it's an whether action the the Enter, the Vista, or the whatever", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "Uh, \" approach \", you called it, I think this time.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "uh Approach um construction should be activated, IE just pasted in.", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "That's what you said Yeah, that's fine. Yeah, but Right. But it's not construction there, it's action. Construction is a d is a different story.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "Right. This is uh so what we'd be generating would be a reference to a semantic uh like parameters for the for the X - schema?", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "For for for Yes.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "OK.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "Yeah. So that that uh i if you had the generalized \" Go \" X - schema and you wanted to specialize it to these three ones, then you would have to supply the parameters.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "And then uh, although we haven't worried about this yet, you might wanna worry about something that would go to the GIS and use that to actually get you know, detailed route planning. So, you know, where do you do take a picture of it and stuff like that.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "But that's not It's not the immediate problem.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "But, presumably that that that functionality's there when when we.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "So the immediate problem is just deciding w which.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "Aspects of the X - schema to add.", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "Yeah, so the pro The immediate problem is is back t t to what you were what you are doing with the belief - net.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "You know, uh what are we going to use to make this decision.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Right and then, once we've made the decision, how do we put that into the content?", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "Yeah. Right. Right. Well, that that actually is relatively easy in this case.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "OK.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "The harder problem is we decide what we want to use, how are we gonna get it? And that the the that's the hardest problem. So, the hardest problem is how are you going to get this information from some combination of the what the person says and the context and the ontology. The h So, I think that's the hardest problem at the moment is is", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "OK.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "where are you gonna how are you gonna g get this information. Um, and that's so, getting back to here, uh, we have a d a technical problem with the belief - nets that we we don't want all the com", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "There's just too many factors right now.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "too many factors if we if we allow them to just go combinatorially.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "So we wanna think about which ones we really care about and what they really most depend on, and can we c you know, clean this this up to the point where it.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "So what we really wanna do i cuz this is really just the three layer net, we wanna b make it expand it out into more layers basically?", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "Right. We might. Uh, I mean that that's certainly one thing we can do. Uh, it's true that the way you have this, a lot of the times you have what you're having is the values rather than the variable. So uh.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Right. So instead of in instead it should really be just be \" intention \" as a node instead of \" intention business \" or \" intention tour \".", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "OK? So you Yeah, right, and then it would have values, uh, \" Tour \", \" Business \", or uh \" Hurried \".", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "But then but i it still some knowledge design to do, about i how do you wanna break this up, what really matters.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "I mean, it's fine. You know, we have to it's it's iterative. We're gonna have to work with it some.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "I think what was going through my mind when I did it was someone could both have a business intention and a touring intention and the probabilities of both of them happening at the same time.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "Well, you you could do that. And it's perfectly OK to uh insist that that, you know, th um, they add up to one, but that there's uh that that it doesn't have to be one zero zero.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Mmm. OK.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "OK. So you could have the conditional p So the each of these things is gonna be a a a probability. So whenever there's a choice, uh so like landmark - ness and usefulness,", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Well, see I don't think those would be mutually.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "OK.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "it seems like something could both be.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "Absolutely right.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "OK.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "And so that you might want to then have those b Th - Then they may have to be separate. They may not be able to be values of the same variable.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Object type, mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "So that's but again, this is this is the sort of knowledge design you have to go through. Right. It's you know, it's great is is, you know, as one step toward uh toward where we wanna go.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Also it strikes me that we we m may want to approach the point where we can sort of try to find a uh, a specification for some interface, here that um takes the normal M - three - L, looks at it. Then we discussed in our pre - edu EDU meeting um how to ask the ontology, what to ask the ontology um the fact that we can pretend we have one, make a dummy until we get the real one, and so um we we may wanna decide we can do this from here, but we also could do it um you know if we have a a a belief - net interface. So the belief - net takes as input, a vector, right? of stuff. And it Yeah. And um it Output is whatever, as well. But this information is just M - three - L, and then we want to look up some more stuff in the ontology and we want to look up some more stuff in the maybe we want to ask the real world, maybe you want to look something up in the GRS, but also we definitely want to look up in the dialogue history um some s some stuff. Based on we we have uh I was just made some examples from the ontology and so we have for example some information there that the town hall is both a a a building and it has doors and stuff like this, but it is also an institution, so it has a mayor and so forth and so forth and we get relations out of it and once we have them, we can use that information to look in the dialogue history, \" were any of these things that that are part of the town hall as an institution mentioned? \",", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "\" were any of these that make the town hall a building mentioned? \",", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "and so forth, and maybe draw some inferences on that. So this may be a a sort of a process of two to three steps before we get our vector, that we feed into the belief - net,", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "Yeah. I think that's I think that's exactly right.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "and then.", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "There will be rules, but they aren't rules that come to final decisions, they're rules that gather information for a decision process. Yeah,", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "no I think that's that's just fine. Uh, yeah. So they'll they presumably there'll be a thread or process or something that \" Agent \", yeah, \" Agent \", whatever you wan wanna say, yeah, that uh is rule - driven, and can can uh can do things like that. And um there's an issue about whether there will be that'll be the same agent and the one that then goes off and uh carries out the decision, so it probably will. My guess is it'll be the same basic agent that um can go off and get information, run it through a a c this belief - net that turn a crank in the belief - net, that'll come out with s uh more another vector, OK, which can then be uh applied at what we would call the simulation or action end. So you now know what you're gonna do and that may actually involve getting more information. So on once you pull that out, it could be that that says \" Ah! Now that we know that we gonna go ask the ontology something else. \" OK? Now that we know that it's a bus trip, OK? we didn't We didn't need to know beforehand, uh how long the bus trip takes or whatever, but but now that we know that's the way it's coming out then we gotta go find out more.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "So I think that's OK.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm. So this is actually, s if if we were to build something that is um, and, uh, I had one more thing, the it needs to do Yeah. I think we I I can come up with a a code for a module that we call the \" cognitive dispatcher \", which does nothing,", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "OK.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "but it looks of complect object trees and decides how are there parts missing that need to be filled out, there's this is maybe something that this module can do, something that this module can do and then collect uh sub - objects and then recombine them and put them together. So maybe this is actually some some useful tool that we can use to rewrite it, and uh get this part,", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "Oh, OK. Uh.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "then. Yeah.", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "I confess, I'm still not completely comfortable with the overall story. Um. I i This this is not a complaint, this is a promise to do more work. So I'm gonna hafta think about it some more. Um. In particular see what we'd like to do, and and this has been implicit in the discussion, is to do this in such a way that you get a lot of re - use. So. What you're trying to get out of this deep co cognitive linguistics is the fact that w if you know about source source, paths and goals, and nnn all this sort of stuff, that a lot of this is the same, for different tasks. And that uh there's there's some some important generalities that you're getting, so that you don't take each and every one of these tasks and hafta re - do it. And I don't yet see how that goes. Alright.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "There're no primitives upon which uh", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "u u What are the primitives, and how do you break this.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "yeah.", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "So I y I'm just just there saying eee well you I know how to do any individual case, right? but I don't yet see what's the really interesting question is can you use uh deep uh cognitive linguistics to get powerful generalizations. And", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Yep.", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "um", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Maybe we sho should we a add then the \" what's this? \" domain? N I mean, we have to \" how do I get to X \". Then we also have the \" what's this? \" domain, where we get some slightly different.", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "Could. Uh.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "Um Johno, actually, does not allow us to call them \" intentions \" anymore.", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "So he he dislikes the term.", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "Well, I I don't like the term either, so I have n i uh i i y w i i It uh.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "But um, I'm sure the \" what's this? \" questions also create some interesting X - schema aspects.", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "Could be. I'm not a I'm not op particularly opposed to adding that or any other task,", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "So.", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "I mean, eventually we're gonna want a whole range of them.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "Uh,", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "That's right.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "I'm just saying that I'm gonna hafta do some sort of first principles thinking about this. I just at the moment don't know.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "H No. Well, no the Bayes the Bayes - nets The Bayes - nets will be dec specific for each decision. But what I'd like to be able to do is to have the way that you extract properties, that will go into different Bayes - nets, be the uh general. So that if you have sources, you have trajectors and stuff like that, and there's a language for talking about trajectors, you shouldn't have to do that differently for uh uh going to something, than for circling it, for uh telling someone else how to go there,", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Getting out of.", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "whatever it is. So that that, the the decision processes are gonna be different What you'd really like of course is the same thing you'd always like which is that you have um a kind of intermediate representation which looks the same o over a bunch of inputs and a bunch of outputs. So all sorts of different tasks and all sorts of different ways of expressing them use a lot of the same mechanism for pulling out what are the fundamental things going on. And that's that would be the really pretty result. And pushing it one step further, when you get to construction grammar and stuff, what you'd like to be able to do is say you have this parser which is much fancier than the parser that comes with uh SmartKom, i that that actually uses constructions and is able to tell from this construction that there's uh something about the intent you know, the actual what people wanna do or what they're referring to and stuff, in independent of whether it about what is this or where is it or something, that you could tell from the construction, you could pull out deep semantic information which you're gonna use in a general way. So that's the You might. You might. You might be able to to uh say that this i this is the kind of construction in which the there's Let's say there's a uh cont there the the land the construction implies the there's a con this thing is being viewed as a container. OK. So just from this local construction you know that you're gonna hafta treat it as a container you might as well go off and get that information. And that may effect the way you process everything else. So if you say \" how do I get into the castle \" OK, then um Or, you know, \" what is there in the castle \" or so there's all sorts of things you might ask that involve the castle as a container and you'd like to have this orthogonal so that anytime the castle's referred to as a container, you crank up the appropriate stuff. Independent of what the goal is, and independent of what the surrounding language is.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "Alright, so that's that's the that's the thesis level", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "uh.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "It's unfortunate also that English has sort of got rid of most of its spatial adverbs because they're really fancy then, in in for these kinds of analysis. But uh.", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "Well, you have prepositional phrases that.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Yeah, but they're they're easier for parsers.", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Parsers can pick those up but but the with the spatial adverbs, they have a tough time. Because the mean the semantics are very complex in that.", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "OK, yeah? I had one more thing. I don't remember. I just forgot it again. No. Oh yeah, b But an architecture like this would also enable us maybe to to throw this away and and replace it with something else, or whatever, so that we have so that this is sort of the representational formats we're we're we're talking about that are independent of the problem, that generalize over those problems, and are oh, t of a higher quality than an any actual whatever um belief - net, or \" X \" that we may use for the decision making, ultimately. Should be decoupled, yeah. OK.", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "Right. So, are we gonna be meeting here from now on? I'm I'm happy to do that. We we had talked about it, cuz you have th th the display and everything, that seems fine.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Yeah, um, Liz also asks whether we're gonna have presentations every time. I don't think we will need to do that but it's.", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "so far I think it was nice as a visual aid for some things and and.", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "Oh yeah. No I I think it's worth it to ass to meet here to bring this, and assume that something may come up that we wanna look at.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "I mean. Why not.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "And um. Yeah, that was my.", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "She was good. Litonya was good.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Yeah? The uh um, she w she was definitely good in the sense that she she showed us some of the weaknesses", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "and um also the um the fact that she was a real subject you know, is is.", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "Right. Yeah, and and and yeah and and she took it seriously and stuff l No, it was great.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "So I think that um I mean, w Looking just looking at this data, listening to it, what can we get out of it in terms of our problem, for example, is, you know, she actually m said you know, she never s just spoke about entering, she just wanted to get someplace, and she said for buying stuff. Nuh? So this is definitely interesting, and.", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "Yeah, right.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "Um, and in the other case, where she wanted to look at the stuff at the graffiti, also, of course, not in the sentence \" How do you get there? \" was pretty standard. Nuh? except that there was a nice anaphora, you know, for pointing at what she talked about before, and there she was talking about looking at pictures that are painted inside a wall on walls, so", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "Actually, you'd need a lot of world knowledge. This would have been a classical um uh \" Tango \", actually. Um, because graffiti is usually found on the outside and not on the inside,", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "but OK. So the mistake would have make a mistake the system would have made a mistake here.", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "Yep.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "Click? 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Well maybe it's just, you know, how many t u u u u how many times you crash in a day.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "Really? Yeah. Maybe, yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "First time first time in the day, you know.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "Or maybe it's once you've done enough meetings it won't crash on you anymore.", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "No?", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Postdoc F" }, { "text": "It's a matter of experience.", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "Self - learning, yeah.", "speakerName": "Postdoc F" }, { "text": "That's that's great.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "Uh.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "Do we have an agenda? Liz Liz and Andreas can't sh can't uh, can't come.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "I do.", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "So, they won't be here.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "I have agenda and it's all me.", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "Did.", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "Cuz no one sent me anything else.", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "Did they send, uh, the messages to you about the meeting today?", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "I have no idea but I just got it a few minutes ago.", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "Oh.", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "Right when you were in my office it arrived.", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "Oh. OK, cuz I checked my mail. I didn't have anything.", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "So, does anyone have any a agenda items other than me? I actually have one more also which is to talk about the digits.", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "Uh, right, so so I I was just gonna talk briefly about the NSF ITR.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm. Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "Oh, great.", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "Uh, and then, you have.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "Can w", "speakerName": "Postdoc F" }, { "text": "I mean, I won't say much, but uh, but then, uh, you said wanna talk about digits?", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "I have a short thing about digits and then uh I wanna talk a little bit about naming conventions, although it's unclear whether this is the right place to talk about it. So maybe just talk about it very briefly and take the details to the people who for whom it's relevant.", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "I could always say something about transcription. I've been but but uh, well.", "speakerName": "Postdoc F" }, { "text": "Well if we Yeah, we shouldn't add things in just to add things in. I'm actually pretty busy today,", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Postdoc F" }, { "text": "so if we can we.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "Yeah, yeah, yeah.", "speakerName": "Postdoc F" }, { "text": "a short meeting would be fine.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "This does sound like we're doing fine, yeah. That won't do.", "speakerName": "Postdoc F" }, { "text": "So the only thing I wanna say about digits is, we are pretty much done with the first test set. There are probably forms here and there that are marked as having been read that weren't really read. So I won't really know until I go through all the transcriber forms and extract out pieces that are in error. So I wa Uh. Two things. The first is what should we do about digits that were misread? My opinion is, um, we should just throw them out completely, and have them read again by someone else. You know, the grouping is completely random,", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "Uh - huh.", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "so it it's perfectly fine to put a a group together again of errors and have them re - read, just to finish out the test set.", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "Oh! By throw them out completely?", "speakerName": "Postdoc F" }, { "text": "Um, the other thing you could do is change the transcript to match what they really said. So those are those are the two options.", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Postdoc F" }, { "text": "But there's often things where people do false starts. I know I've done it, where I say say a.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "What the transcribers did with that is if they did a correction, and they eventually did read the right string, you extract the right string.", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "Oh, you're talking about where they completely read the wrong string and didn't correct it?", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Yeah. And didn't notice. Which happens in a few places.", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Ah.", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "So so.", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "Well, and s and you're talking string - wise, you're not talking about the entire page?", "speakerName": "Postdoc F" }, { "text": "Correct.", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "I get it.", "speakerName": "Postdoc F" }, { "text": "And so the the two options are change the transcript to match what they really said, but then but then the transcript isn't the Aurora test set anymore. I don't think that really matters because the conditions are so different. And that would be a little easier.", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "Well how many are how how often does that happen?", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "Mmm, five or six times.", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "Oh, so it's not very much.", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "No, it's not much at all.", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "Seems like we should just change the transcripts", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "OK.", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "to match.", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "Yeah, it's five or six times out of thousands?", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "Four thousand.", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "Four thousand?", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "Four thous Ah! Four thousand.", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "Yeah, it's.", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "Yeah, I would, uh, tak do the easy way,", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "OK.", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "It it's kinda nice I mean, wh who knows what studies people will be doing on on speaker - dependent things", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "Mmm.", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "and so I think having having it all.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "the speakers who we had is is at least interesting.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "So you um, how many digits have been transcribed now?", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "Four thousand lines. And each line is between one and about ten digits.", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "Four thousand lines?", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "I didn't I didn't compute the average. I think the average was around four or five.", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "So that's a couple hours of of, uh, speech, probably.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "Wow.", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "Yep. Yep.", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "Which is a yeah reasonable reasonable test set.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "And, Jane, I do have a set of forms which I think you have copies of somewhere.", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm. Yeah, true.", "speakerName": "Postdoc F" }, { "text": "Oh you do? Oh OK, good, good.", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm. Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Postdoc F" }, { "text": "Yeah, I was just wond I thought I had had all of them back from you. And then the other thing is that, uh, the forms in front of us here that we're gonna read later, were suggested by Liz", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "No, not yet.", "speakerName": "Postdoc F" }, { "text": "because she wanted to elicit some different prosodics from digits. And so, uh, I just wanted people to, take a quick look at the instructions", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm..", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "Eight eight two two two nine.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "and the way it wa worked and see if it makes sense and if anyone has any comments on it.", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "I see. And the decision here, uh, was to continue with uh the words rather than the the numerics.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "Uh, yes, although we could switch it back. The problem was O and zero. Although we could switch it back and tell them always to say \" zero \" or always to say \" O \".", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "Oh.", "speakerName": "Postdoc F" }, { "text": "Or neither.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "But it's just two thing ways that you can say it.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "Right?", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "Sure.", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "Oh.", "speakerName": "Postdoc F" }, { "text": "Um um,", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "that's the only thought I have because if you t start talking about these, you know u tr She's trying to get at natural groupings, but it there's there's nothing natural about reading numbers this way.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "I mean if you saw a telephone number you would never see it this way.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "The the problem also is she did want to stick with digits. I mean I'm speaking for her since she's not here.", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "But, um, the other problem we were thinking about is if you just put the numerals, they might say forty - three instead of four three.", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Mmm.", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "Well, if there's space, though, between them. I mean, you can With when you space them out they don't look like, uh, forty - three anymore.", "speakerName": "Postdoc F" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Well, she and I were talking about it,", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "and she felt that it's very, very natural to do that sort of chunking.", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "She's right. It's it it's a different problem. I mean it's a it's a it's an interesting problem I mean, we've done stuff with numbers before, and yeah sometimes people If you say s \" three nine eight one \" sometimes people will say \" thirty - nine eighty - one \" or \" three hundred three hundred eighty - nine one \", or I don't think they'd say that,", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "but but th", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "Not very frequently", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "no.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "but, they certainly could.", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "But Yeah. Uh, th thirty - eight ninety - one is probably how they'd do it.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "So. I mean, this is something that Liz and I spoke about", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "But I see.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "and, since this was something that Liz asked for specifically, I think we need to defer to her.", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "OK. Well, we're probably gonna be collecting meetings for a while and if we decide we still wanna do some digits later we might be able to do some different ver different versions,", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "Do something different,", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "but this is the next suggestion,", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "yeah.", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "so. OK. OK, so uh e l I guess, let me, uh, get my my short thing out about the NSF. I sent this actually this is maybe a little side thing. Um, I I sent to what I thought we had, uh, in some previous mail, as the right joint thing to send to, which was \" M MTG RCDR hyphen joint \".", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "It was. Joint. Yep.", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "But then I got some sort of funny mail saying that the moderator was going to.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "It's That's because they set the one up at UW.", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "that's not on our side, that's on the U - dub side.", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "Oh.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "And so U - UW set it up as a moderated list.", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Postdoc F" }, { "text": "Oh, OK.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "And, I have no idea whether it actually ever goes to anyone so you might just wanna mail to Mari", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "No no, th I got I got, uh, little excited notes from Mari and Jeff and so on,", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "and.", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "so it's.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "OK, good.", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "So the moderator actually did repost it.", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "Cuz I had sent one earlier Actually the same thing happened to me I had sent one earlier. The message says, \" You'll be informed \" and then I was never informed but I got replies from people indicating that they had gotten it, so.", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "It's just to prevent spam.", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "I see. Yeah so O OK. Well, anyway, I guess everybody here Are y are you are on that list, right? So you got the note?", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "Yeah? OK.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "Um, so this was, uh, a, uh, proposal that we put in before on on more more higher level, uh, issues in meetings, from I guess higher level from my point of view. Uh, and, uh, meeting mappings, and, uh so is i for it was a proposal for the ITR program, uh, Information Technology Research program's part of National Science Foundation. It's the second year of their doing, uh, these grants. They're they're a lot of them are some of them anyway, are larger larger grants than the usual, small NSF grants, and. So, they're very competitive, and they have a first phase where you put in pre - proposals, and we we, uh, got through that. And so th the the next phase will be we'll actually be doing a larger proposal. And I'm I I hope to be doing very little of it. And uh, which was also true for the pre - proposal, so. Uh, there'll be bunch of people working on it. So.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "When's when's the full proposal due?", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "Uh, I think April ninth, or something. So it's about a month.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "p s", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Um.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "Yep. And they said end of business day you could check on the reviewer forms,", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "u", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "is that.", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "Tomorrow.", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "Tomorrow. March second, I said.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "Tomorrow?", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "I've been a day off all week.", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "Tomorrow.", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "I guess that's a good thing cuz that way I got my papers done early.", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "It would be interesting.", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "So that's amazing you showed up at this meeting!", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "It is. It is actually quite amazing.", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "It'll be interesting to see the reviewer's comments.", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "Yeah. Yeah. My favorite is was when when when one reviewer says, uh, \" you know, this should be far more detailed \", and the nex the next reviewer says, \" you know, there's way too much detail \".", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "Yep. Or \" this is way too general \", and the other reviewer says, \" this is way too specific \".", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "\" This is way too hard \", \" way too easy \".", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "We'll see. Maybe there'll be something useful. And and, uh.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "Well it sounded like they they the first gate was pretty easy. Is that right? That they didn't reject a lot of the pre - proposals?", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "Do you know anything about the numbers?", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "No. Just just th", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "It's just from his message it sounded like that.", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "Yeah. Yeah. I said something, yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Gary Strong's.", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "I", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "there was a sentence at the end of one of his paragraphs", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "I.", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "I should go back and look. I didn't I don't think that's true.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "Yeah, OK.", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "Mmm. He said the next phase'll be very, competitive", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "Very very,", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "because we didn't want to weed out much in the first phase.", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "yeah. Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Well we'll have to see what the numbers are.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "Or something like that,", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "so.", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "Hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "Yeah. But they they have to weed out enough so that they have enough reviewers.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "So, uh, you know, maybe they didn't r weed out as much as usual, but it's it's usually a pretty But it Yeah. It's it's certainly not I'm sure that it's not down to one in two or something of what's left.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "I'm sure it's, you know.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "How how many awards are there, do you know?", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "Well there's different numbers of w awards for different size They have three size grants. This one there's, um See the small ones are less than five hundred thousand total over three years and that they have a fair number of them. Um, and the large ones are, uh, boy, I forget, I think, more than, uh, more than a million and a half, more than two million or something like that. And and we're in the middle middle category.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "I think we're, uh, uh, I forget what it was. But, um Uh, I don't remember, but it's pr probably along the li I I could be wrong on this yeah, but probably along the lines of fifteen or that they'll fund, or twenty. I mean when they Do you do you know how many they funded when they f in in Chuck's, that he got last year?", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "I don't I don't know.", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "I thought it was smaller, that it was like four or five, wasn't it?", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "Well they fund.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "I I'm.", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "they.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "I don't remember.", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "yeah. I mean.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "Uh it doesn't matter, we'll find out one way or another.", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "Yeah. I mean last time I think they just had two categories, small and big,", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "and this time they came up with a middle one, so it'll there'll be more of them that they fund than of the big.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "If we end up getting this, um, what will it mean to ICSI in terms of, w wh where will the money go to, what would we be doing with it?", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "Uh.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "Exactly what we say in the proposal.", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "I I mean uh which part is ICSI though.", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "You know, it i None of it will go for those yachts that we've talking about.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "I mean Dang!", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "Um, well, no, I mean it's u It.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "It's just for the research to continue the research on the Meeting Recorder stuff?", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "It's extending the research, right? Because the other.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "Yeah it's go higher level stuff than we've been talking about for Meeting Recorder.", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "Yeah. Yeah the other things that we have, uh, been working on with, uh, the c with Communicator uh, especially with the newer things with the more acoustically - oriented things are are are are lower level. And, this is dealing with, uh, mapping on the level of of, um, the conversation of mapping the conversations", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm. Right, right.", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "to different kind of planes. So. Um. But, um. So it's all it's all stuff that none none of us are doing right now, or none of us are funded for, so it's so it's it would be new.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "So assuming everybody's completely busy now, it means we're gonna hafta, hire more students, or, something?", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "Well there's evenings, and there's weekends, and Uh. Yeah, there there would be there would be new hires, and and there there would be expansion, but, also, there's always for everybody there's there's always things that are dropping off, grants that are ending, or other things that are ending, so,", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "there's there's a continual need to to bring in new things.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "Yep.", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "But but there definitely would be new new new, uh, students,", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "I see.", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "and so forth, both at at UW and here.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "Are there any students in your class who are expressing interest?", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "Um, not clear yet. Not clear yet.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "Other than the one who's already here.", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "I mean we got we have yeah, two of them are two in the c There're two in the class already here, and then and and, uh uh, then there's a third who's doing a project here, who, uh But he he he won't be in the country that long,", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "and, maybe another will end up.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "Yep.", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "Actually there is one other guy who's looking that that's that guy, uh, Jeremy? I think.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm..", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "Anyway, yeah that's that's all I was gonna say is that that that's you know, that's nice and we're sorta preceding to the next step, and, it'll mean some more work, uh, you know, in in March in getting the proposal out, and then, it's, uh, you know We'll see what happens. Uh, the last one was that you had there, was about naming?", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "Yep. It just, uh we've been cutting up sound files, in for ba both digits and for, uh, doing recognition. And Liz had some suggestions on naming and it just brought up the whole issue that hasn't really been resolved about naming. So, uh, one thing she would like to have is for all the names to be the same length so that sorting is easier. Um,", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "same number of characters so that when you're sorting filenames you can easily extract out bits and pieces that you want. And that's easy enough to do. And I don't think we have so many meetings that that's a big deal just to change the names. So that means, uh, instead of calling it \" MR one \", \" MR two \", you'd call it \" MRM zero zero one \", \" MRM zero zero two \", things like that. Just so that they're they're all the same length.", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "But, you know, when you, do things like that you can always as long as you have uh, you can always search from the beginning or the end of the string.", "speakerName": "Postdoc F" }, { "text": "The problem is that they're a lot of fields.", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "You know, so \" zero zero two \".", "speakerName": "Postdoc F" }, { "text": "Alright,", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Postdoc F" }, { "text": "so we we have th we're gonna have the speaker ID, the session, uh uh, information on the microphones,", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "Yeah, well, your example was really.", "speakerName": "Postdoc F" }, { "text": "information on the speak on the channels and all that.", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "Uh - huh.", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "i", "speakerName": "Postdoc F" }, { "text": "And so if each one of those is a fixed length, the sorting becomes a lot easier.", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "OK.", "speakerName": "Postdoc F" }, { "text": "She wanted to keep them the same lengths across different meetings also. So like, the NSA meeting lengths, all filenames are gonna be the same length as the Meeting Recorder meeting names?", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "Yep. And as I said, the it's we just don't have that many that that's a big deal.", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "Cuz of digits.", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "And so, uh, um, at some point we have to sort of take a few days off, let the transcribers have a few days off, make sure no one's touching the data and reorganize the file structures. And when we do that we can also rationalize some of the naming.", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "I I would think though that the transcribe the transcripts themselves wouldn't need to have such lengthy names.", "speakerName": "Postdoc F" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "So, I mean, you're dealing with a different domain there, and with start and end times and all that, and channels and stuff,", "speakerName": "Postdoc F" }, { "text": "Right. So the only thing that would change with that is just the directory names,", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "so, it's a different set.", "speakerName": "Postdoc F" }, { "text": "I would change them to match. So instead of being MR one it would be MRM zero zero one. But I don't think that's a big deal.", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "Fine. Fine.", "speakerName": "Postdoc F" }, { "text": "So for for m the meetings we were thinking about three letters and three numbers for meeting I Ds. Uh, for speakers, M or F and then three numbers, For, uh and, uh, that also brings up the point that we have to start assembling a speaker database so that we get those links back and forth and keep it consistent. Um, and then, uh, the microphone issues. We want some way of specifying, more than looking in the \" key \" file, what channel and what mike. What channel, what mike, and what broadcaster. Or I don't know how to s say it. So I mean with this one it's this particular headset with this particular transmitter w as a wireless.", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "Yep.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "And you know that one is a different headset and different channel. And so we just need some naming conventions on that.", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "And, uh,", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "Uh - huh.", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "that's gonna become especially important once we start changing the microphone set - up. We have some new microphones that I'd like to start trying out, um, once I test them. And then we'll we'll need to specify that somewhere. So I was just gonna do a fixed list of, uh, microphones and types.", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "So, as I said.", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "OK.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "That sounds good.", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "Um, since we have such a short agenda list I guess I wi I will ask how how are the transcriptions going? Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "The the news is that I've I uh s So in s um So I've switched to Start my new sentence. I I switched to doing the channel - by - channel transcriptions to provide, uh, the uh, tighter time bins for partly for use in Thilo's work and also it's of relevance to other people in the project. And, um, I discovered in the process a couple of of interesting things, which, um, one of them is that, um, it seems that there are time lags involved in doing this, uh, uh, using an interface that has so much more complexity to it. And I and I wanted to maybe ask, uh, Chuck to help me with some of the questions of efficiency. Maybe I was thinking maybe the best way to do this in the long run may be to give them single channel parts and then piece them together later. And I I have a script, I can piece them together. I mean, so it's like, I I know that I can take them apart and put them together and I'll end up with the representation which is where the real power of that interface is.", "speakerName": "Postdoc F" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "And it may be that it's faster to transcribe a channel at a time with only one, uh, sound file and one, uh, set of of, uh, utterances to check through.", "speakerName": "Postdoc F" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "I'm a little confused. I thought that that one of the reason we thought we were so much faster than than, uh, the the other transcription, uh, thing was that that we were using the mixed file.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "Oh, yes. OK. But, um, with the mixed, when you have an overlap, you only have a a choice of one start and end time for that entire overlap, which means that you're not tightly, uh, tuning the individual parts th of that overlap by different speakers.", "speakerName": "Postdoc F" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm. Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "So someone may have only said two words in that entire big chunk of overlap.", "speakerName": "Postdoc F" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "And for purposes of of, uh, things like well, so things like training the speech - nonspeech segmentation thing.", "speakerName": "Postdoc F" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Th - it's necessary to have it more tightly tuned than that.", "speakerName": "Postdoc F" }, { "text": "OK.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "And w and w and, you know, is a It would be wonderful if, uh, it's possible then to use that algorithm to more tightly tie in all the channels after that but, um, you know, I've th the So, I I don't know exactly where that's going at this point. But m I was experimenting with doing this by hand and I really do think that it's wise that we've had them start the way we have with, uh, m y working off the mixed signal, um, having the interface that doesn't require them to do the ti uh, the time bins for every single channel at a t uh, through the entire interaction.", "speakerName": "Postdoc F" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "Um, I did discover a couple other things by doing this though, and one of them is that, um, um, once in a while a backchannel will be overlooked by the transcriber.", "speakerName": "Postdoc F" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "As you might expect,", "speakerName": "Postdoc F" }, { "text": "Sure.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "because when it's a b backchannel could well happen in a very densely populated overlap. And if we're gonna study types of overlaps, which is what I wanna do, an analysis of that, then that really does require listening to every single channel all the way through the entire length for all the different speakers. Now, for only four speakers, that's not gonna be too much time, but if it's nine speakers, then that i that is more time. So it's li you know, kind of wondering And I think again it's like this it's really valuable that Thilo's working on the speech - nonspeech segmentation because maybe, um, we can close in on that wi without having to actually go to the time that it would take to listen to every single channel from start to finish through every single meeting.", "speakerName": "Postdoc F" }, { "text": "Yeah, but those backchannels will always be a problem I think. Uh especially if they're really short and they're not very loud and so it it can it it will always happen that also the automatic s detection system will miss some of them, so.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "OK. Well so then then, maybe the answer is to, uh, listen especially densely in places of overlap,", "speakerName": "Postdoc F" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "just so that they're they're not being overlooked because of that, and count on accuracy during the sparser phases.", "speakerName": "Postdoc F" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Cuz there are large s spaces of the That's a good point. There are large spaces where there's no overlap at all. Someone's giving a presentation,", "speakerName": "Postdoc F" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "or whatever. That's that's a good that's a good thought. And, um, let's see, there was one other thing I was gonna say. I I think it's really interesting data to work with, I have to say, it's very enjoyable. I really, not not a problem spending time with these data. Really interesting. And not just because I'm in there. No, it's real interesting.", "speakerName": "Postdoc F" }, { "text": "Uh, well I think it's a short meeting. Uh, you're you're you're still in the midst of what you're doing from what you described last time, I assume,", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "Is true.", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "and.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "I haven't results, eh, yet", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "but, eh, I I'm continue working with the mixed signal now, after the the last experience.", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "Yeah. Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "And and I'm tried to to, uh, adjust the to to improve, eh, an harmonicity, eh, detector that, eh, I I implement.", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "But I have problem because, eh, I get, eh, eh, very much harmonics now.", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "Um, harmonic possi possible harmonics, uh, eh, and now I'm I'm I'm trying to to find, eh, some kind of a, um of h of help, eh, using the energy to to distinguish between possible harmonics, and and other fre frequency peaks, that, eh, corres not harmonics. And, eh, I have to to talk with y with you, with the group, eh, about the instantaneous frequency, because I have, eh, an algorithm, and, I get, mmm, eh, t t results similar results, like, eh, the paper, eh, that I I am following. But, eh, the the rules, eh, that, eh, people used in the paper to to distinguish the harmonics, is doesn't work well.", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "And I I I I not sure that i eh, the the way o to ob the way to obtain the the instantaneous frequency is right, or it's it's not right. Eh,", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "I haven't enough file feeling to to to distinguish what happened.", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "Yeah, I'd like to talk with you about it. If if if, uh If I don't have enough time and y you wanna discuss with someone else some someone else besides us that you might want to talk to, uh, might be Stephane.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "Yeah. I talked with Stephane and and Thilo", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "Yeah and and Thilo, yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "and,", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "Yeah, but.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "they nnn they they they didn't.", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "I'm not too experienced with harmonics", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "I see.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "they think that the experience is not enough to.", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "and.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Is is this the algorithm where you hypothesize a fundamental, and then get the energy for all the harmonics of that fundamental?", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "No, no it's No No. No.", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "And then hypothesize a new fundamental and get the energy.", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "Yeah, that's wh", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "No. I I I I don't proth process the the fundamental. I I, ehm I calculate the the phase derivate using the FFT.", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "And The algorithm said that, eh, if you if you change the the the, eh, nnn the X - the frequency \" X \", eh, using the in the instantaneous frequency, you can find, eh, how, eh, in several frequencies that proba probably the the harmonics, eh,", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "Uh - huh.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "the errors of peaks the frequency peaks, eh, eh, move around these, eh eh frequency harmonic the frequency of the harmonic. And, eh, if you if you compare the the instantaneous frequency, eh, of the of the, eh, continuous, eh, eh, filters, that, eh that, eh, they used eh, to to to get, eh, the the instantaneous frequency,", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "it probably too, you can find, eh, that the instantaneous frequency for the continuous, eh, eh the output of the continuous filters are very near. And in my case i in equal with our signal, it doesn't happened.", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "Yeah. I'd hafta look at that and think about it.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "And.", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "It's it's it's I haven't worked with that either so I'm not sure The way the simple - minded way I suggested was what Chuck was just saying, is that you could make a a sieve. You know, y you actually say that here is.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "Let's let's hypothesize that it's this frequency or that frequency, and and, uh, maybe you maybe you could use some other cute methods to, uh, short cut it by by uh, making some guesses,", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "but but uh uh uh, I would, uh I mean you could make some guesses from, uh from the auto - correlation or something but but then, given those guesses, try, um, uh, only looking at the energy at multiples of the of that frequency, and and see how much of the take the one that's maximum. Call that the.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "But.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "Using the energy of the of the multiple of the frequency.", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "Of all the harmonics of that. Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "Do you hafta do some kind of, uh, low - pass filter before you do that?", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "I don't use.", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "Or.", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "But, I I know many people use, eh, low - pass filter to to to get, eh, the pitch.", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "No. To get the pitch, yes.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "I don't use. To get the pitch, yes.", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "To get the pitch, yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "But the harmonic, no.", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "But i But the harmonics are gonna be, uh, uh, I don't know what the right word is. Um, they're gonna be dampened by the uh, vocal tract, right? The response of the vocal tract.", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "Yeah?", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "Yeah?", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "And so just looking at the energy on those at the harmonics, is that gonna?", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "Well so the thing is that the This is for, uh, a, um.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "I m what you'd like to do is get rid of the effect of the vocal tract. Right?", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "And just look at the at at the signal coming out of the glottis.", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "Yeah. Uh, well, yeah that'd be good.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "But, uh but I but but I don't know that you need to.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "Open wide!", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "but I don't need you know if you need to get rid of it. I mean that'd that'd be nice but I don't know if it's ess if it's essential. Um, I mean cuz I think the main thing is that, uh, you're trying.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "Uh - huh.", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "wha what are you doing this for? You're trying distinguish between the case where there is, uh where where there are more than uh, where there's more than one speaker and the case where there's only one speaker.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "Sorry.", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "So if there's more than one speaker, um yeah I guess you could I guess yeah you're so you're not distinguished between voiced and unvoiced, so so, i if you don't if you don't care about that.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "See, if you also wanna just determine if you also wanna determine whether it's unvoiced, then I think you want to look look at high frequencies also, because the f the fact that there's more energy in the high frequencies is gonna be an ob sort of obvious cue that it's unvoiced.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "But, i i uh I mean i i but, um, other than that I guess as far as the one person versus two persons, it would be primarily a low frequency phenomenon. And if you looked at the low frequencies, yes the higher frequencies are gonna there's gonna be a spectral slope. The higher frequencies will be lower energy. But so what. I mean that's that's w", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "I will prepare for the next week eh, all my results about the harmonicity and will will try to come in and to discuss here, because, eh, I haven't enough feeling to to u many time to to understand what happened with the with, eh, so many peaks, eh, eh, and I I see the harmonics there many time but, eh, there are a lot of peaks, eh, that, eh, they are not harmonics.", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "Um, I have to discover what what is the the w the best way to to to c to use them", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "Well, but yeah I don't think you can I mean you're not gonna be able to look at every frame, so I mean I I mean I I really I I really thought that the best way to do it, and I'm speaking with no experience on this particular point, but, my impression was that the best way to do it was however you You've used instantaneous frequency, whatever. However you've come up you with your candidates, you wanna see how much of the energy is in that", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "Yeah. Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "as coppo as opposed to all of the all the total energy. And, um, if it's voiced, I guess so so y I think maybe you do need a voiced - unvoiced determination too. But if it's voiced,", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "um, and the, uh e the fraction of the energy that's in the harmonic sequence that you're looking at is relatively low, then it should be then it's more likely to be an overlap.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "Is height. Yeah. This this is the idea the idea I I I had to to compare the the ratio of the the energy of the harmonics with the eh, with the, eh, total energy in the spectrum and try to get a ratio to to distinguish between overlapping and speech. Mmm.", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "But you're looking a y you're looking at Let's take a second with this. Uh, uh, you're looking at f at the phase derivative, um, in in, uh, what domain? I mean this is this is in in in in bands? Or or.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "No, no, no.", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "Just just overall.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "It's a it's a o i w the band the band is, eh, from zero to to four kilohertz. And I I ot I.", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "And you just take the instantaneous frequency?", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "Yeah. I u m t I I used two m two method two methods. Eh, one, eh, based on the F eh, FTT. to FFT to to obtain the or to study the harmonics from from the spectrum directly,", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "and to study the energy and the multiples of", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "frequency. And another another algorithm I have is the in the instantaneous frequency, based on on on the FFT to to to calculate the the phase derivate in the time. Eh, uh n the d I mean I I have two two algorithms.", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "But, eh, in m i in my opinion the the the instantaneous frequency, the the the behavior, eh, was th it was very interesting. Because I I saw eh, how the spectrum concentrate, eh,", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "Oh!", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "around the the harmonic. But then when I apply the the rule, eh, of the in the the instantaneous frequency of the ne of the continuous filter in the the near filter, the the rule that, eh, people propose in the paper doesn't work. And I don't know why.", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "But the instantaneous frequency, wouldn't that give you something more like the central frequency of the you know, of the where most of the energy is? I mean, I think if you Does i does it Why would it correspond to pitch?", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "Yeah. I I I not sure. I I I try to to.", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "When first I I calculate, eh, using the FFT,", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "Di - digital camera.", "speakerName": "Postdoc F" }, { "text": "the the.", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "Keep forgetting.", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "I get the the spectrum,", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "and I represent all the frequency.", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "And when ou I obtained the instantaneous frequency. And I change the the the @ @, using the instantaneous frequency, here.", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "Oh, so you scale you s you do a a scaling along that axis according to instantaneous.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "I use Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "It's a kinda normalization.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "Yeah. Yeah. Because when when.", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "OK.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "eh, when i I I use these these frequency, eh, the range is different, and the resolution is different.", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "And I observe more more or less, thing like this. And the paper said that, eh, these frequencies are probably, eh, harmonics.", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "I see. Huh.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "But, eh, they used, eh, a rule, eh, based in the in the because to to calculate the instantaneous frequency, they use a Hanning window.", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "And, they said that, eh, if these peak are, eh, harmonics, the f instantaneous frequency, of the contiguous, eh w eh eh, filters are very near, or have to be very near. But, eh, phh! I don't I I I I don I I and I don't know what is the what is the distance. And I tried to to put different distance, eh, to put difference, eh eh, length of the window, eh, different front sieve, Pfff! and I I not sure what happened.", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "OK, yeah well I I guess I'm not following it enough. I'll probably gonna hafta look at the paper, but which I'm not gonna have time to do in the next few days, but but I'm I'm curious about it.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "Um, uh, OK.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "I I did i it did occur to me that this is uh, the return to the transcription, that there's one third thing I wanted to to ex raise as a to as an issue which is, um, how to handle breaths. So, I wanted to raise the question of whether people in speech recognition want to know where the breaths are. And the reason I ask the question is, um, aside from the fact that they're obviously very time - consuming to encode, uh, the fact that there was some I had the indication from Dan Ellis in the email that I sent to you,", "speakerName": "Postdoc F" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "and you know about, that in principle we might be able to, um, handle breaths by accessi by using cross - talk from the other things, be able that in principle, maybe we could get rid of them, so maybe And I was I I don't know, I mean we had this an and I didn't couldn't get back to you,", "speakerName": "Postdoc F" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "but the question of whether it'd be possible to eliminate them from the audio signal, which would be the ideal situation,", "speakerName": "Postdoc F" }, { "text": "I don't know think it'd be ideal.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "cuz.", "speakerName": "Postdoc F" }, { "text": "Uh - uh.", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "We - See, we're we're dealing with real speech and we're trying to have it be as real as possible", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "and breaths are part of real speech.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "Well, except that these are really truly I mean, ther there's a segment in o the one I did n the first one that I did for i for this,", "speakerName": "Postdoc F" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "where truly w we're hearing you breathing like as if we're you're in our ear, you know, and it's like it's like.", "speakerName": "Postdoc F" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "I y i I mean, breath is natural, but not", "speakerName": "Postdoc F" }, { "text": "It is but it is if you record it.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "Except that we're we're trying to mimic Oh, I see what you're saying. You're saying that the PDA application would have uh, have to cope with breath.", "speakerName": "Postdoc F" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "Well", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "No.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "But.", "speakerName": "Postdoc F" }, { "text": "An - any application may have to.", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "The P D A might not have to,", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "No i", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "but more people than just PDA users are interested in this corpus.", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "So so mean you're right", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "OK, then the then I have two questions.", "speakerName": "Postdoc F" }, { "text": "we could remove it,", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "Yeah?", "speakerName": "Postdoc F" }, { "text": "but I I think we don't wanna w remove it from the corpus, in terms of delivering it because the people will want it in there.", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "Yeah. If it gets.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "OK, so maybe the question is notating it. Yeah?", "speakerName": "Postdoc F" }, { "text": "Yeah i Right. If if it gets in the way of what somebody is doing with it then you might wanna have some method which will allow you to block it, but you it's real data. You don't wanna b but you don't.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "OK, well.", "speakerName": "Postdoc F" }, { "text": "If s you know, if there's a little bit of noise out there, and somebody is is talking about something they're doing, that's part of what we accept as part of a real meeting, even And we have the f uh the uh the the fan and the in the projector up there, and, uh, this is it's this is actual stuff that we we wanna work with.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "Well this is in very interesting", "speakerName": "Postdoc F" }, { "text": "So.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "because i it basically has a i it shows very clearly the contrast between, uh, speech recognition research and discourse research because in in discourse and linguistic research, what counts is what's communit communicative.", "speakerName": "Postdoc F" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "And breath, you know, everyone breathes, they breathe all the time. And once in a while breath is communicative, but r very rarely. OK, so now, I had a discussion with Chuck about the data structure", "speakerName": "Postdoc F" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "and the idea is that the transcripts will that get stored as a master there'll be a master transcript which has in it everything that's needed for both of these uses.", "speakerName": "Postdoc F" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "And the one that's used for speech recognition will be processed via scripts. You know, like, Don's been writing scripts", "speakerName": "Postdoc F" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "and and, uh, to process it for the speech recognition side. Discourse side will have this this side over he the we we'll have a s ch Sorry, not being very fluent here. But, um, this the discourse side will have a script which will stri strip away the things which are non - communicative. OK. So then the then let's let's think about the practicalities of how we get to that master copy with reference to breaths. So what I would r r what I would wonder is would it be possible to encode those automatically? Could we get a breath detector?", "speakerName": "Postdoc F" }, { "text": "Oh, just to save the transcribers time.", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "Well, I mean, you just have no idea. I mean, if you're getting a breath several times every minute,", "speakerName": "Postdoc F" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "and just simply the keystrokes it takes to negotiate, to put the boundaries in, to to type it in, i it's just a huge amount of time.", "speakerName": "Postdoc F" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "Oops.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Wh - what.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "And you wanna be sure it's used, and you wanna be sure it's done as efficiently as possible, and if it can be done automatically, that would be ideal.", "speakerName": "Postdoc F" }, { "text": "what if you put it in but didn't put the boundaries?", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "Well, but.", "speakerName": "Postdoc F" }, { "text": "So you just know it's between these other things,", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "Well, OK. So now there's there's another another possibility", "speakerName": "Postdoc F" }, { "text": "right?", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "which is, um, the time boundaries could mark off words from nonwords. And that would be extremely time - effective, if that's sufficient.", "speakerName": "Postdoc F" }, { "text": "Yeah I mean I'm think if it's too if it's too hard for us to annotate the breaths per se, we are gonna be building up models for these things and these things are somewhat self - aligning, so if so, we i i if we say there is some kind of a thing which we call a \" breath \" or a \" breath - in \" or \" breath - out \", the models will learn that sort of thing. Uh, so but you but you do want them to point them at some region where where the breaths really are. So.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "OK. But that would maybe include a pause as well,", "speakerName": "Postdoc F" }, { "text": "Well, there's a there's.", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "and that wouldn't be a problem to have it, uh, pause plus breath plus laugh plus sneeze?", "speakerName": "Postdoc F" }, { "text": "Yeah, i You know there is there's this dynamic tension between between marking absolutely everything, as you know, and and and marking just a little bit and counting on the statistical methods. Basically the more we can mark the better. But if there seems to be a lot of effort for a small amount of reward in some area, and this might be one like this Although I I I'd be interested to h get get input from Liz and Andreas on this to see if they Cuz they've - they've got lots of experience with the breaths in in, uh, uh, their transcripts.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "They have lots of experience with breathing?", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "I.", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "Actually Well, yes they do, but we we can handle that without them here. But but but, uh, you were gonna say something about.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "Yeah, I I think, um, one possible way that we could handle it is that, um, you know, as the transcribers are going through, and if they get a hunk of speech that they're gonna transcribe, u th they're gonna transcribe it because there's words in there or whatnot. If there's a breath in there, they could transcribe that.", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "Yeah. Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "That's what they've been doing. So, within an overlap segment, they they do this.", "speakerName": "Postdoc F" }, { "text": "Right. But Right. But if there's a big hunk of speech, let's say on Morgan's mike where he's not talking at all, um, don't don't worry about that.", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "So what we're saying is, there's no guarantee that, um So for the chunks that are transcribed, everything's transcribed. But outside of those boundaries, there could have been stuff that wasn't transcribed. So you just somebody can't rely on that data and say \" that's perfectly clean data \". Uh do you see what I'm saying?", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "Yeah, you're saying it's uncharted territory.", "speakerName": "Postdoc F" }, { "text": "So I would say don't tell them to transcribe anything that's outside of a grouping of words.", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "That sounds like a reasonable reasonable compromise.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "Yeah, and that's that that quite co corresponds to the way I I try to train the speech - nonspeech detector, as I really try to not to detect those breaths which are not within a speech chunk but with which are just in in a silence region.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "And they so they hopefully won't be marked in in those channel - specific files.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "u I I wanted to comment a little more just for clarification about this business about the different purposes.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "But.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Yeah, so.", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Postdoc F" }, { "text": "See, in a in a way this is a really key point, that for speech recognition, uh, research, uh, um, e a it's not just a minor part. In fact, the I think I would say the core thing that we're trying to do is to recognize the actual, meaningful components in the midst of other things that are not meaningful. So it's critical it's not just incidental it's critical for us to get these other components that are not meaningful. Because that's what we're trying to pull the other out of. That's our problem. If we had nothing.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Postdoc F" }, { "text": "if we had only linguistically - relevant things if if we only had changes in the spectrum that were associated with words, with different spectral components, and, uh, we we didn't have noise, we didn't have convolutional errors, we didn't have extraneous, uh, behaviors, and so forth, and moving your head and all these sorts of things, then, actually speech recognition i i isn't that bad right now. I mean you can you know it's it's the technology's come along pretty well.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "The the the reason we still complain about it is because is when when you have more realistic conditions then then things fall apart.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "OK, fair enough. I guess, um, I uh, what I was wondering is what what at what level does the breathing aspect enter into the problem? Because if it were likely that a PDA would be able to be built which would get rid of the breathing, so it wouldn't even have to be processed at thi at this computational le well, let me see, it'd have to be computationally processed to get rid of it, but if there were, uh, like likely on the frontier, a good breath extractor then, um, and then you'd have to.", "speakerName": "Postdoc F" }, { "text": "But that's a research question, you know? And so.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "Yeah, well, see and that's what I wouldn't know.", "speakerName": "Postdoc F" }, { "text": "that And we don't either. I mean so so the thing is it's it right now it's just raw d it's just data that we're collecting, and so we don't wanna presuppose that people will be able to get rid of particular degradations because that's actually the research that we're trying to feed. So, you know, an and maybe maybe in five years it'll work really well,", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "OK.", "speakerName": "Postdoc F" }, { "text": "and and it'll only mess - up ten percent of the time, but then we would still want to account for that ten percent, so.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "I guess there's another aspect which is that as we've improved our microphone technique, we have a lot less breath in the in the more recent, uh, recordings, so it's in a way it's an artifact that there's so much on the on the earlier ones.", "speakerName": "Postdoc F" }, { "text": "Uh - huh. I see.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "One of the um, just to add to this one of the ways that we will be able to get rid of breath is by having models for them. I mean, that's what a lot of people do nowadays.", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "And so in order to build the model you need to have some amount of it marked, so that you know where the boundaries are.", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "Hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "So I mean, I don't think we need to worry a lot about breaths that are happening outside of a, you know, conversation. We don't have to go and search for them to to mark them at all, but, I mean, if they're there while they're transcribing some hunk of words, I'd say put them in if possible.", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "OK, and it's also the fact that they differ a lot from one channel to the other because of the way the microphone's adjusted.", "speakerName": "Postdoc F" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "OK.", "speakerName": "Postdoc F" }, { "text": "Should we do the digits?", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "Yep. OK.", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "OK.", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "Mmm. 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e204625aa00a4d308935477f444a0e29	{ "meetingId": "ES2007b", "transcriptSegments": [ { "text": "Think we can first.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Right it was function F_ eight or something.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Tha", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "This one right there.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Who is gonna do a PowerPoint presentation?", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Think we all.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "You will as well?", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Huh. Oh I thought we all were.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah, I have one too, okay.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": ".", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "S", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yep.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": ".", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Whoops I forgot to put the thing on.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Right. I just wanna'cause basically I can't re I've really crap at remembering everyone's name so I just wanna rather than going uh Miss Marketing and Miss this and Miss that wanted to know your names again.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Okay I'm.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "just gonna leave this up here'cause I'll you know. So.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah. Sure, that's a good idea.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "I'm Catherine with a C_. C_A_T_H_ E_R_ I_N_E_.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Okay, and", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Uh Gabriel.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Gabriel. E_L_ is it?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "E_L_.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "'Kay. And you're s r R_E_I_S_S_.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "I am Reissa. R_E_I_S_S_A_. Double S_ A_, yeah yeah. Sorry.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "'S just a bit nicer calling people by their names I think.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "True.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Uh, right.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm'kay.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Okay, right, welcome to meeting B_. Um this is gonna go a lot better than the last meeting, basically,", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "uh'cause I know what I'm supposed to be doing now.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "I am your Project Manager, and, uh yeah, I'm just here to", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "sort of liaise between the three of you and get things going, get people talking and and I'm gonna be making notes and sending them off to the powers that be and stuff basically. Um right, this for the purposes of this meeting what this meeting is all about is um I'm gonna have some presentations from all three of you, what you've been working on for the last wee while, when you haven't been getting hit with spam on your computers and and, you know, filling out silly questionnaires and things.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "But hopefully you've been actually been doing something productive. So we're gonna each of you gonna give us a litt a little presentation. Um.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Then we're gonna work, you know, from each of your presentations. We'll we'll uh talk about what we actually need as a final coming together of it all. Um and then we'll, yeah, we'll sort of conclude anything else comes up at the end of it.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "How long is the meeting?", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "This meeting it's not very long. It's uh probably down to about thirty five minutes now. So I want each of your presentations to not be too long, five five minutes, something like that.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Okay. No problem..", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Um if you haven't done a PowerPoint thingy, it doesn't matter, it it just it just says that you it's that's just one particular medium. If you haven't had time to prepare one, you can draw stuff on the noteboard, you can talk to us, you can you know however you want to do your little presentation, basically, you can. Don't feel pressurised into using this thing.'Cause I don't.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Uh okay. So um. You okay over there? Reissa,", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "I'm fine. Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "are you uh b are you joining in with this meeting here", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "I uh yeah, yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "or are y or are y or are you are you just are you just uh doing some Internet shopping there?.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Think she's finishing up her presentation.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "D I mean, I I'm finishing off my presentation.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "No no. Uh I'm done. Okay.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Okay, jolly good. Alright, let's have um well, we all know that it's it's a remote control that we're gonna be dealing with.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "I think the first thing we should look at is um probably the um what it is that it is actually supposed to be. So that's gonna be you Catherine,", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "if we wanna hear from you first.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Okay. Um just connecting this.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "You don't have to worry about screwing it in just.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Are we getting i Really?", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "there you go.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Okay. Cool. Okay. So I've got a very quick uh Uh. Okay.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "So the working design, I've got a very quick presentation on this, so um I've oh no, you can't see a thing. Oh well, I'm gonna draw it on the board then. It's in blue uh, and I couldn't change it.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Oh..", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Ah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "We it's fine on my screen, but never mind. So um the idea is that we've got the energy source um, which in our case will pr, oh well okay, never mind. So um I think maybe uh two batteries, I dunno what they're called six, or something like that.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Uh and then um then on the uh remote control itself will have um the sender for the signal, which could be uh an infra-red signal, um which will be sent by an electronic chip. And uh the chip will be controlled by the user interface. So we'll hear about that later from Gabriel.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "And uh the sender will send to the telly itself an infra-red signal to tell it to switch on or switch channels. Um and that's it really for the working design.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Great. Okay.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Sorry the presentation wasn't very uh clear but.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "I prefer the pe I prefer the human touch personally.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Really? Cool.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Um, should I erase this or.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Do you wanna just give us a moment, I just wanna copy this down.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Um I dunno if you guys have got any questions for Catherine on any of this?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Fine. Or suggestions?", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Is a battery like the only way of.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Well, it's just, you don't want it plugged in really, s", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah, alternate energy source, like win wind power or.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah, you blow on it and i.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "In indoors..", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "No, no.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Bicycle power.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "No I meant like.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "No'cause like cha'cause always changing um um batteries can get like annoying.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "The battery's down and maybe, I dunno, solar charged?.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "I dunno, swi I th I th I think changing your batteries once every six months is not really a pain, but.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah, it's worked for the last fifty years you know.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm. Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "One question I have, and I don't know how much control we have over this is um, as far as the infra-red signal, do we have control over, you know, how far away you can be from the receiving unit, the the T_V_, and still have it be operational? I mean, maybe we want one with a strong signal stream.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "How far away is your television?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "It's never gonna be more than it's never gonna be, you kno unless you've got a T_V_ the size of a football pitch, it's not doesn't have to go that far,", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Uh.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Well, the thing is uh you you don't.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "does it? Doesn't have to go through a wall, because you're not gonna be looking through a wall.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "That's true.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah, but if like you're on the phone in the other room and you need turn television off or something and you don't really want to go into the put the telephone down, and go into the other room..", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Well, we can make the the signal strong enough to go through walls if if you fancy it. I didn't think about that but.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "How about Bluetooth? Instead of using infra-red, use Bluetooth.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Why not? I just think that it's it's gonna cost more", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Isn't that a better signal?", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah, yeah I d it sounds like you you w don't wanna overcomplicate things.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "and I'm I'm not sure it's you're gonna use it.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "You know we don't need it.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "It's a fancy idea uh it's quite nice, but then I don't th I dunno, either you if you wanna watch the telly you're in the room,", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah, exactly.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "you are gonna.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Basically, we're we're desi we're designing and marketing a television remote control unit.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "But.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "We're not w w w w designing something that you can plug in a headset to and and you know connect to your laptop computer and stuff. It's uh.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Oh, we can we can keep the idea if you i We can see at a later stage, maybe, I don't.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "'S just an idea.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Okay. Right, well done, Catherine. Um Gab Gabriel let's uh let's hear from you on on on such things.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Do you need the border?", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Uh I'm just gonna use the PowerPoint uh.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Okay. Sorry.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Technical. Okay.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Okay, so, while this is warming up,", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Adjusting.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "there it is uh.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "So I'm doing the user interface design.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah, and basically uh, as far as methods, I was I was looking looking at looking at uh already existing remotes, trying to find some inspiration from designs that are already out there. Thinking of what we can retain, what we can do away with, uh what we what we can perfect a little bit as far as design um. we don't want to do something that's too radical of a change, I guess, I mean people want a remote that's familiar, that has their favourite functionalities um and and does the basics, but.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Mm yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Um so we can improve what's out there and maintain that, the basic functionality that people want. Um so things that seem like absolute must-haves uh would be a volume control, um so up-down keys for that, uh channel keys up-down, but then also a numerical key pad so that they can just key directly to the channel that they want, rather than doing up-down, and uh a mute button. Uh one thing that I didn't include here, that I forgot that we talked about last time, was doing um some sort of lock uh function.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Uh, I don't I dunno, uh that's one possibility. And so in the research that I was doing there's basically two types of remotes, ones that are engineering centred and ones that are more user centred, which I don't know if I can access the web page from here, but I can show you uh. Yeah. So this is a engineer centred one, so you see it's rather busy, but it also lets you play your movie, stop your movie, fast-forward, all this, um freeze frame.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Uh and this is a user centred one. Uh it's it's easier to g just glance at this and see what's possible to do,", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "you're not gonna be staring at it for five minutes.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Great.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "And I judging from what what we all talked about during our last meeting I kind of gathered that that's what we were going after, uh or the direction we were going in at least. Um. So, the engineering centred ones uh provide a lot of functionality, but it can be a little bit overwhelming, so the user centred ones just focus on ease of use. Uh and this sort of overlaps with what the marketing person uh, Reissa,", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "because uh we we need to find out what what people want before we make firm decisions on this.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "..", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "So uh, yeah, that's me.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Great. Okay. Now that's I just have a q a q question for you. This w um research that you've been doing looki looking at other, you know, existing units stuff. Um have you found that anyone else has do has looked into the locking function or.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "No that that that seemed like a novel idea as f as far as I know. I mean obviously another exists like you like you said in in mobile phones.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "That was sort of the inspiration for it. Um I've never seen that with in in all my years in in the remote business.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah..", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "I've, haven't I've never seen a locking functionality. I dunno, what uh do you guys have a a yea or nay on that a feeling about whether that's really necessary?", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Um I would say it's If it's simple to do, which I think it probably should be,", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "even if it's a physical, you know, a f a like a f a physical switch or a physical cover for the remote, even something like that, um then yes,", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.'Kay.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "it's like, you know, like s you said earlier on ab ab ab a flip thing, something like that,", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "but you know being physical. Look into. Um I've had word down from head office that something that we should be centred well, something we should take into account is um we've gotta keep the corporate image within this remote control unit. It's gotta d look like it's in the R_ and R_.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "You know, the the company it's it's, from what I can see from our other products, are yellow with blue writing on them. Um.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Right. And our motto is is we put the fashion in electronics.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "We put the fashion in electronics. There you go.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "I think I think we have to carry that mental.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "So it's kinda gotta look it's gotta look new and s you know something fashionable. If if remote control well, if telephones can be fashionable, then maybe remote control units can be.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Well yeah these, I think, we can so we talked about the layout in my presentation and what I didn't mention yet really is is the sort of like the ergonomic design.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah. Because we need.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "I t I think we can make big improvements over these two that you see here, I mean.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah. Great.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Uh, everything is going t ergonomic, you know, there's you know mice for your computers that are very ergonomic and keyboards and that could be one of our niches p sort of uh uh in the market, I guess. Um.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Okay, fantastic.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Right, well done, Gabriel.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": ".", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Um Reissa. Let's plug you in, baby.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Where does it go into?", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": ".", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Here?", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "The blue thing.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Uh, yeah, this is getting all.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Mm..", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": ".", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah, then you just have to do function F_ eight and it should come up.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Well, function F_ eight. No.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah, w it it just takes a wee while.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah, it just takes a second uh.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "oh. Come on. Right. Okay.. Okay. Well, for our marketing report uh we observed remote control users in a usability lab, and also gave so this is research and we also gave participants um questionnaires to fill out. Um total number of people tested were a hundred just so you know, so that hundred people were tested and these were the findings. So seventy five per cent of users find the remote control ugly. Okay, so they don't like the look of the remote control. Um eighty f eighty per cent of them would spend more money if the rem remote control looked really cool and fancy. So I think we all agree with that. Um current remote controls do not match well with the operating behaviour of the user. So, they don't like like the way they operate it doesn't like match how people behave. Um per cent of the users say that they only use ten per cent of the buttons on a remote, so probably if you have like one, two, three, four, five, the whole up to z ten, they probably don't use those, they only use the up and down channel.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "'Cause we've only got five channels..", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "exactly.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "That's another thing. Um seventy five per cent of users say they zap. Not quite sure what they mean, zap, goes like.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "I think that's k flicking quickly between channels.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah, you wanna navigate the channels quickly I guess.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm. Um takes too much time to learn how to use a new remote. I think especially for uh the older generation. I know my grandmother doesn't like mobile phones, takes ages to work how to use. Anyway um and they also remotes often get lost in the room, so nobody can find them.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "So maybe tracking devices is a good idea.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Wow.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Um personal preferences..", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "You are a child of technology, aren't you?.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Um so yeah um I was thinking something easy to use, especially for older people. Um has to look really cool, flashy groovy for people to buy it. And it's easy to find, so I don't know whether maybe and also we asked them whether they wanted whether they'd be interested in um voice activating.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "So voice activation. So and this was what we came up with. Then if you look fifteen to twenty five this is age, sorry, age groups. So fifteen to twenty five said like ninety two ninety one per cent of them said yes.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "So there you go, yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Um so basically the majority except for the forty five to fifty five year olds for some reason didn't want a voice activated one. And neither did the older generation, but the younger generation who we are catering for, like who have most of the money nowadays, do want a voice act speech recognition in a remote.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Uh but do the younger generation have the money? They they don't.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "No I would I would say the older the older people, yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "It's older generation, they're the ones that have gone out and.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Well the twenty five to thirty five year old, and thirty five, and the thirty five to forty five, forty five point seven per cent say no, so.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "People people from the age of thirty f there's a big drop off there.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "For people up to the age of thirty five, you're kinda saying, yeah, they want it. Um but no they're not sort of most people that have the money are people from the age of thirty five to fifty five,", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah, that would be my guess as well.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "uh'cause they're the ones that have been working for twenty years.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "So they don't.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Um d and tha", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Well.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "and that's a that's quite a minority there, so yeah, it's not even like fifty fifty that's th thirty five per cent.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "These guys are growing up..", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "What about just from the the prospective of our manufacturing cost? I mean if if it's twelve fifty per unit.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "I mean, okay, there's.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Voice activation might not be the best.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "I would say scra I'd say scrap that straight off.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Uh.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Um also with um with buttons, a thing called R_S_I_, so wrist sense.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Repetitive strain uh rep repetitive strain injury", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Huh?", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "or like from doing.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah, repetitive strains injury, so they don't I think people who watch T_V_ maybe too often, keep changing channel hurts their wrist.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Well maybe they shouldn't watch so much T_V_ then..", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "I don't think so..", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "So y so it's so it's so you got.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "so that's something we should have a look into then i when desi when designing the ergonomics of.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "maybe not so hard.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "see have a look if um there's any w any medical background we can find out about this.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Maybe it could be, instead of pressing button it could be just touching a.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Let's jus.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Maybe.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "we just want need to cover our arses so that people aren't gonna sue us in ten years' time, say your remote control gave me repetitive strain injury.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah, we should probably consult with our legal department uh.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah. They're having a lunch break at the moment, but yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "I'll see if I can get see if I can get hold of them for the next meeting.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah. I think we can do some really in in that department, the the ergonomic department, we can make some some really good improvements.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm. Maybe th the buttons not so high up so you don't have to press so much,", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "or we just like flat buttons, something. Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "So that is me.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "That's great, thank you very much for that, Reissa. Um okay, so we've basically we've decide we've d we've decided that it's gonna be, you know uh, we're going for a basic television remote. It's gotta be safe to use, it's gotta look cool.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "It's gotta be cheap. S um.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Now going back to the uh industrial design of it, you know, we were looking at whether to use maybe infra-red or Bluetooth. I think, we should just go with the simplest option on everything, uh and that would be infra-red, energy source, that would be batteries. Uh mean we we can look into using the s, you know, the little tiny weeny batteries, all like special long-lasting batteries. Um. But a in there's no I don't think there's any point in making a remote control unit that's gonna last for fifty years, because technology will have changed and, you know, we won't have televisions in ten years' time. So.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yep.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "I think we're all um pretty sussed on that. Um anyone have any questions? Everybody happy in their work?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah, it seems like we're all on the pretty much on the same page.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Now this is good, we've got a good structure going on. We all know where we're going to. Have you been ge has have any of you lot been getting loads of crap spam on your computers?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Oh it's probably just you,'cause you're the project manager..", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": ".", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Well, just questionnaires.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Sell trying to sell your things..", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah, stuff.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Um okay. Do oh have you guys found out if we can if we can e-mail stuff to each other?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah, you can.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Right. Do all you all know my e-mail address?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Okay. No I don't. I.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Well, in the project announcement, you've got the addresses, I think.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "I think he's participant one, aren't you?", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "So Project Manager, it's participant one at A_M_I_..", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Uh Oh, it's just participant one oh okay. Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Can you all d e-mail me your e-mail addresses?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": ".", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "You have them i you have them,", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Well it's just w it's just it's just par participant one, participant two..", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "but we'll send you an e-mail.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Send me, yeah", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "You want to have friends, don't you?", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "yeah, okay.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "So are we headed towards like a b a big yellow and black remote as far as maybe that's our next meeting that we discuss that.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Is it yellow and black or is it yellow and blue? I I kind of thought it was blue writing on a yellow background, but I might be just going a bit.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Well, it's like white on i white and blue on a black background with white with yellow borders.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Maybe that's like getting ahead of ourselves.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Well, maybe you can come up with a few with a couple of different ideas?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "It wouldn't be.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Can't we have different colours in the remotes, so somebody can choose different col", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Well, see the thing is is we've gotta keep the company image.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "like does it have to be of a certain?", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "It's gotta say people have gotta look at this remote control and instantly recognise that it's a Real Reaction i product.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "But if it's a R_R_, it would be Real Reaction,", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "There's loads of companies that called R_R_.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "like if it had a symbol on it.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "This is slog but this is the slogan, this is the the the the type.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Whoa.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "And this is something that came on down from from the higher ups,", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "so, I mean, we are sort of beholden to them.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "So we have to have it one colour.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Well, not necessarily. But we have to incorporate it.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Not one colour, but the pattern needs to be recognisable.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Not necessarily even if i it just has to ye but you have to look at the product and instantly know that it's one of our products", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Well you could.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "as opposed to a Sony product or a, you know, a Panasonic product.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "It's got to so maybe, so you can have a look at our our other products and see if they all follow a s similar vein, perhaps.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "It could come But it could come in different colours and have the R_R_ colours just somewhere", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "like just around the lock button could be the R_R_ logo or colours and.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "If.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Quite poss yeah. Well this is all your department. Mm okay. Well, well done everybody.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": ".", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "And um, I think we uh stop for lunch now.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah, pretty soon I think, I guess that's now.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Are we are we finished ahead of schedule?", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "We might possibly have done.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Cool.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Alright, see you all soon.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "If we've if we've finished at five minutes before the meeting's supposed to finish, then that means we get an extra five minutes for lunch.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "'Kay uh.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah, there you go. Right. 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You or me?", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Y you read that stuff, since you wrote it.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Okay. Well, since our materials aren't exactly what we were going for, I'm just gonna translate what this all means for you.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "I'll be the Vanna.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "The base is gonna be gunmetal gray, which is what we had decided, and it's gonna be plastic. Um then there's the latex cover, which is what you see as red. Um because it can be replaceable, we just kinda went with the colour.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Um and then the buttons are actually kind of poking through rather than on top. Um and the buttons will be a l much lighter blue, almost see-through.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Hmm.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "It's just sort of a very pale blue and a light-up yellow.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "That's nice.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "The whole thing lights up if you press any button, rather than it just that one button will light up.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Good.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Um and then at the bottom we have our logo. Um bright yellow sort of design with the R_R_ which will actually look like our logo.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Great.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "And then on the side you have the buttons. They're one button, but they kind of push up and down.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "I don't think they're scrolling.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "No. They're just buttons.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Right, yeah. And then yeah, the buttons.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "On off switch will be here and as you've noticed on our prototype um they've ended up with a curvature kind of, by concave sort of thing, except for, you know, can't see underneath.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "So I'm hoping that when we get to production we can actually make them like that, because they're very nice to stock you know, stick your finger in. Um the two squared buttons are are two probably least used, menu, mute,", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Thumb-shaped.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "and then these are the numbers, so our channel and our volume will be on either side.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah. And then the last thing is just that it'll be black labelling on top, just which we didn't do..", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Okay. And did you determine um the curvature of the bottom part of it for the hand, is it gonna be a single or a double?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "I'd say a single.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Single. Single sounds good,", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Single.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "'cause it's not big enough to really constitute a double.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah, it's only actually the size of my hand.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Great. Great. I think you did an awesome job.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah, I think it's a beautiful.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "It is beautiful, and it's everything that we discussed.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah. Good job, you guys.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Good job.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Whoohoo.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Oh thank you..", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Those are really good.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Alright.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "what's next in our agenda? Um we're gonna discuss the evaluation criteria, and that's with Courtney.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Okay, it's a PowerPoint presentation. I don't really know exactly what we should uh talk about. It's under evaluation.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Alright. Um so these are the criteria we're gonna ask, is it easy to use, is it fashionable uh yeah, I guess we should write these down so we can reference them.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Feel good meaning what?", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Like does it feel good, like.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Physically,", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "okay.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "yeah, physically.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Sqi.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "That's just for current trend.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "It doesn't really count, you guys.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah, it was a little difficult to incorporate the cover with the cherry fruit on it.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah. But it's so we do have removable covers, right?", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yes.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah, well then that's covered.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "'Kay.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "And so we n k everybody have that?", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "I'll wait.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah, she's got it.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "It's good. Yeah. Okay so, we're using the criteria uh for a seven point scale, and so we need to discuss how we feel. It falls within this range, so for easy to use, do we feel it's very easy to use?", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Are we going to indi", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "True or false, easy to use.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "I say we individually rate what do you say?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "You guys.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Just orally.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Why not? We have okay.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Um easy to use. I vote six.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Oh wait, that's false.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Oh,", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "two.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "I'd say two as well.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah, two.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Two. That's what I say.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Uh hello, we're great.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Okay, fashionable?", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Um one.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "At the moment, no.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "No.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "No. I mean like no, I think it's very fashionable.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Me too, very chic..", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "I thi I would give it a one.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "One, I give it a one.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "I'll give it a two, because at the moment it's not looking that way.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Oh, and ma it's a prototype,", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Well, that's that's just like that's a clay, it's a prototype.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "right.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm I don't think it's that fashionable.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "What do you think?", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "I'd give it like three or four.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Well, now I'm.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "So, the average is about a two.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "But then I'm not fashionable, so", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah, it's a two.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Two or three. Two point five.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "don't use my opinion.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "That's okay. Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Neither are all o all the customers we have, either.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Um", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "does it feel good?", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Imagine, since we obviously don't have that.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Does it feel good?", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "I feel like.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Uh the shape of it actually does uh.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "And it's i it is very ergonomically designed. It's gonna be curved.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah, it's gonna be thicker.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Depth.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "I think it feels good.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "I think so too.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "I'll give it a two.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "'Kay. Two.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "I'll give it a one.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "What do you say?", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "I'd say a two.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Alright, average is two.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Is it technologically innovative? Oh sorry I'm taking over your job here.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Oh no, it's fine,", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Go right ahead..", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "you're I mean you're Project Manager.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Um yeah, I mean and it does it have voice I mean the phrase recognition on it?", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yes. Right? We were able to do it with that kind of chip.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Oh right, the.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "We could do it with the chip, yes. It wasn't we have no reflection of it on the prototype,", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "And there's no way you can represent it on here. Y", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah, right.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "but that's because it's only two dimensions, really.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "That was'kay. And we discussed that being included.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah, so.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Then yes, then I would well it isn't what else would it need for it to be technologically innovative?", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "It.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Well we don' have the you know, we can't say channel, and it changes the channel, channel eight.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "And it doesn't cover anything other then T_V_,", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "so I'd probably give it a three.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Even though it is for just a T_V_ remote it's uh very advanced. But it is just a T_V_ remote.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah. I'd go for a three or four on that one, so.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah I go four.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "okay, let's go for a three point five.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Three and an half.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Alright, and the last criteria is it is it um.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Squishy and fruity.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Well yeah, so I'd give it a two.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Well, we've covered that with the", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "It's just trendy, basically.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "trendy. Sure. Capable. Very capable.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "It's capable of being squishy and fruity.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Oh, it's very capable of being squishy and fruity.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "And it's very important.'Kay, there we go.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "So.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Okay, next.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Next..", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "So um our re model slightly resembling a giant delicious cookie appears to be a winner,", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "and uh hopefully we'll sell millions. Good job, team..", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "How did you get that in there?", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "What?", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "The slightly resembling a giant delicious cookie.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "It does.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "It it does..", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "That was good.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Very good.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Thanks.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Alright, let's go back to this No, that's it. Hmm. Oops. Okay, so now uh we're moving on to finance, okay. I'm gonna show you an Excel spreadsheet and we're going to fill it in together based on what components we're including in our remote and see if it's under twelve fifty Euro. If so, we can proceed, if not, we need to go back to the drawing board a little bit.'Kay? So let me bring that up. Here we go. Alright. Um it's not hand dynamo, it's powered by battery, so we give it a.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yep.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Two.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Number of components you plan to use. Do I just put quantity being one battery, or Yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Mm'kay.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "But if it's a do you wanna go for this is where we need to make a final call on if it's a lithium or do we wanna go triple A_s,'cause triple A_s we're gonna have t do more than one battery. Oh, let's just go for a lithium. What do you say?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah,", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah, let's let's do a lithium.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "I think uh I think the people who purchase this are gonna be technologically", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "it's.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "We're gon that's gon Nologically advanced,", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "right.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Okay, down to the electronics um section. We're gonna need this kind, correct, if we do the voice sensor,", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yep.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "so one of those. It is a single-curved, so one of those.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Uh.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Oh. What's that? Yeah, that's correct.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "'Kay, down here, case material.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "It's plastic.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "We.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Plastic.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "plastic.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "And special colour.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "And special colour.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "'Kay. Down here, interface type. We're gonna have the integrated scroll scroll wheel.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "No, we don't have the scroll.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Isn't.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "oh those are just regular buttons.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Well, that's the push-button too, right there.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Buttons.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "But it's Yeah,", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "This?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "but i so i", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Integrated scroll-wheel or push-button.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "We're really having just push-button interface.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Okay, so we can just go um.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "But will we w actually we'll need two, won't we? One for the top and then one for the s one e for each side.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "But it that just covers the type of button we're having. Because we're not doing a scroll on the side, it's still push-button.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Oh like the twenty nine means like you have both scrolls and", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Push-button.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Right I think she's.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "But we just have push", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "push-buttons.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "But we don't have any scrolls.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "I think what Courtney's talking about is do we need to put two here?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Like because there's like one interface right here and then because it's not gonna be on the same plane when you press the button.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "There's gonna have to be additional signals on the sides.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah. Okay.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "So is that gonna be an extra one on each side?", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "I don't know, they might put us well, let's just.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Two interfaces, is that what w should we s say?", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Two or would it be three?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Let's call it th", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Or three, because of one on each side and one on top.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Okay, fine. Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "I mean it's fine'cause it comes out the same as twenty nine. Well less than twenty nine even.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Okay", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "and we're gonna.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "button supplements the buttons are no uh okay.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "They're a special colour. Um they're uh they're a special form,'cause they're indented.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Are they? Oh, right.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "And then s", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "And, they're a special material.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Mm. Well, we're under cost then. Alright.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "We're over?", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "No, we're under.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Grand.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "We're under.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Twelve point five is our limit.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "We've got eleven point two.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Oh, I see.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Alright.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "So we can go to production.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "We can go to I dunno what I just did. Okay. Now we're gonna talk about the project process um and whether or not we're satisfied with the whole process and the result. Um did we have a lot of room for creativity? Did we have a lot of room for individual leadership, um teamwork, and the means, meaning the technology that we used to produce our little guy there, and if we found any new ideas. Now, question is, how do we do this?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Go back.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "I think we just discuss it.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Discuss, sure.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Previous.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Alright. Who want who would like to go first?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "We think we got stifled for cri creativity by the company itself, in restricting us only to using a T_V_ remote, initially.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "We didn't have a whiteboard.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Hmm. Hmm.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Oh that's true.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "And no internet.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah. No, yeah, that's a good point.'Cause I'd forgotten that that wasn't our decision, yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "And how did you feel about the whole the whole process though?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Oh, overall I mean I thought we did a good job like.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "We got to choose basically we had control over minus it being just merely a T_V_ remote we got to choose what we wanted to do with it.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Right, and we got say over what how technologically advanced it should be and also how fashionable, which I kind of like.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "And we're a fashion forward technology company.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "we yep. You know it.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "right.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Um what about um the teamwork aspect? How did you guys enjoy making the model, the prototype?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "I think we did well.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "I think ya' did. Did you work well together in there, and.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yep..", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "'kay.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Well, no, there was there was scratching and fighting, but no.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Minus that one fight.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Gouges.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Oh my God,", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "and we've all been a pretty congenial team here, I think.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "We hadn't had any ma fallings out.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah. I mean minus you guys being wha what is it, the survey, annoying or what is it?", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Irritating.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Irritating..", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Irritating.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Irritating, yeah. Wow that's a it's definitely a strong one.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "The means, the whiteboard didn't work..", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "And no internet.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "I have to knock that one down a couple notches.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "A and our friend here really feels strongly about the internet..", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah, and no internet.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Misses. I do.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "There's so much available.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "And the digital the digital pens", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Like it's information", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah, digital pens.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "I really appreciated those, yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "were they were pretty cool.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "They were fine.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah they were fun, even though I'm not really sure what I could do with them, but they are awesome..", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "The use of the laptops for receiving everything.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Right, laptops are extremely handy,", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "It was wireless too, so.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "wireless. And that we have a shared network where we can put all of the.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "And these things whoa.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "And let's not forget the sexy dual microphones everyone gets to wear.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah. And Big Brother.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Big brother.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah..", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "'Kay, have we found any new ideas through this process?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Um we are really gonna sell this.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Ta-da.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "For something that looks cool and also has what I want it to b do technologically.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "And that's your right brain taking over, w wanting the artistic, the fashionable, the hip, you know.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "If we all just went out and bought useful things, I don't think I mean that's not what technology.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Well, that's why I don't like uh Macs or Apples, just'cause I look at it, and I know it's probably a very good computer, but I look at it, and I'm taken back to elementary school,'cause they look the same.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "They look like they did when I was in elementary school,", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "and that's so old-fashioned to me.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah,'cause they're pretty and just like.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "The Toronto district school would only use his Macs with their kids.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Exactly, so I associate them with like really low-tech, really cheap, bad.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah. Just the Mac font bothers me even.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Uh yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "But I do like iPods, go figure.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah, no, iPods They want all those words for presentation, even the plugs.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Well, i iPods are now quite trendy,", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "and they come in different colours.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Colours. Exactly. I mean how many people went out and bough a Nokia phone, back when we were like in high school, just so they could get the changeable face plates.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Oh yeah, everybody.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Anyway, so that is definitely at work.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Not me.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Mine is amber.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "I didn't have a phone'til university.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "But the my but my one issue is just like the whole it's for T_V_ only.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Oh.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "I was like who's gonna buy a remote just for the T_V_ unless they've lost theirs.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Look at it..", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Fashionable chic people will.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "You're kidding.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "That is a piece of work.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "No, no.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Wow. Marketing Director says yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "No, marketing has to actually create the desire for it..", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Fashionable people will buy it. Oh, I will create desire..", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "That's okay. We can create a commercial where they think that all their needs will be met. This will help them find the one.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Ri They'll be sexy with it..", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Hmm.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "That's right.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "We could have like an Adam and Eve type commercial, and that's the fig-leaf.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Oh right.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Mm. That'll sell.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "And so the serpent says, use our remote..", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "There you go, marketing.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Let you loose.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Alright.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah, no.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah..", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Okay, we're gonna wrap this up now. Um the costs are within the budget, we evaluated the project,", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "and now we're gonna complete the final questionnaire and meeting summary, and then we're going to have a big giant party, apparently, according to this, so. Alright, thank you team,", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Whoohoo. 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Almost.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "We already made it into one.", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "Oh, good.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "Excellent.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "That's the best thing.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "So, tell me about it.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "So it's well, it's spectral subtraction or Wiener filtering, um, depending on if we put if we square the transfer function or not.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "And then with over - estimation of the noise, depending on the, uh the SNR, with smoothing along time, um, smoothing along frequency.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "It's very simple, smoothing things.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "And, um, the best result is when we apply this procedure on FFT bins, uh, with a Wiener filter.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "And there is no noise addition after after that.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "OK.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "So it's good because it's difficult when we have to add noise to to to find the right level.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "OK.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Are you looking at one in in particular of these two?", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "Yeah. So the sh it's the sheet that gives fifty - f three point sixty - six.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Um, the second sheet is abo uh, about the same. It's the same, um, idea but it's working on mel bands, and it's a spectral subtraction instead of Wiener filter, and there is also a noise addition after, uh, cleaning up the mel bins. Mmm. Well, the results are similar.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Yeah. I mean, it's it's actually, uh, very similar.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "I mean, if you look at databases, uh, the, uh, one that has the smallest smaller overall number is actually better on the Finnish and Spanish, uh, but it is, uh, worse on the, uh, Aurora.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "It's worse on.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "I mean on the, uh, TI - TI - digits,", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "on the multi - condition in TI - digits. Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "uh, uh. Um.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Mmm.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "So, it probably doesn't matter that much either way. But, um, when you say u uh, unified do you mean, uh, it's one piece of software now, or?", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "So now we are, yeah, setting up the software.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Um, it should be ready, uh, very soon. Um, and we", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "So what's what's happened? I think I've missed something.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "OK. So a week ago maybe you weren't around when when when Hynek and Guenther and I?", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Hynek was here.", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "Yeah. I didn't.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "Oh, OK. So Yeah, let's summarize. Um And then if I summarize somebody can tell me if I'm wrong, which will also be possibly helpful. What did I just press here? I hope this is still working.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "p - p - p", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "We, uh we looked at, uh anyway we after coming back from QualComm we had, you know, very strong feedback and, uh, I think it was Hynek and Guenter's and my opinion also that, um, you know, we sort of spread out to look at a number of different ways of doing noise suppression. But given the limited time, uh, it was sort of time to choose one.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm. Mmm.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "Uh, and so, uh, th the vector Taylor series hadn't really worked out that much. Uh, the subspace stuff, uh, had not been worked with so much. Um, so it sort of came down to spectral subtraction versus Wiener filtering.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "Uh, we had a long discussion about how they were the same and how they were d uh, completely different.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "And, uh, I mean, fundamentally they're the same sort of thing but the math is a little different so that there's a a there's an exponent difference in the index you know, what's the ideal filtering, and depending on how you construct the problem.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Uh - huh.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "And, uh, I guess it's sort you know, after after that meeting it sort of made more sense to me because um, if you're dealing with power spectra then how are you gonna choose your error? And typically you'll do choose something like a variance. And so that means it'll be something like the square of the power spectra. Whereas when you're when you're doing the the, uh, um, looking at it the other way, you're gonna be dealing with signals", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "and you're gonna end up looking at power uh, noise power that you're trying to reduce. And so, eh so there should be a difference of you know, conceptually of of, uh, a factor of two in the exponent.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "But there're so many different little factors that you adjust in terms of of, uh, uh, over - subtraction and and and and and so forth, um, that arguably, you're c and and and the choice of do you do you operate on the mel bands or do you operate on the FFT beforehand. There're so many other choices to make that are are almost well, if not independent, certainly in addition to the choice of whether you, uh, do spectral subtraction or Wiener filtering, that, um, @ @ again we sort of felt the gang should just sort of figure out which it is they wanna do and then let's pick it, go forward with it. So that's that was that was last week. And and, uh, we said, uh, take a week, go arm wrestle, you know,", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Oh.", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "figure it out. I mean, and th the joke there was that each of them had specialized in one of them.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Oh, OK.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "And and so they so instead they went to Yosemite and bonded, and and they came out with a single single piece of software. So it's another another victory for international collaboration. So.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "So so you guys have combined or you're going to be combining the software?", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "Uh.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Well, the piece of software has, like, plenty of options,", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "Oh boy.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "like you can parse command - line arguments. So depending on that, it it becomes either spectral subtraction or Wiener filtering.", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "Oh, OK.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "So, ye", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "They're close enough.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "Well, that's fine, but the thing is the important thing is that there is a piece of software that you that we all will be using now.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Yeah. Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "Yes.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "There's just one piece of software.", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "I need to allow it to do everything and even more more than this.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "Well, if we want to, like, optimize different parameters of.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Parameters. Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "Sure.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Yeah, we can do it later. But, still so, there will be a piece of software with, uh, will give this system, the fifty - three point sixty - six, by default and.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "How how is how good is that?", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "I I I don't have a sense of.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "It's just one percent off of the best proposal.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Best system.", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "It's between i we are second actually if we take this system.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "OK.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "Right?", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Compared to the last evaluation numbers? Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "But, uh w which we sort of were before", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm. Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "but we were considerably far behind. And the thing is, this doesn't have neural net in yet for instance. You know?", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "So it so, um, it's it it's not using our full bal bag of tricks, if you will.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "And, uh, and it it is, uh, very close in performance to the best thing that was there before. Uh, but, you know, looking at it another way, maybe more importantly, uh, we didn't have any explicit noise, uh, handling stationary dealing with e e we didn't explicitly have anything to deal with stationary noise.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "And now we do.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "So will the neural net operate on the output from either the Wiener filtering or the spectral subtraction? Or will it operate on the original?", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "Well, so so so argu arguably, I mean, what we should do I mean, I gather you have it sounds like you have a few more days of of nailing things down with the software and so on. But and then but, um, arguably what we should do is, even though the software can do many things, we should for now pick a set of things, th these things I would guess, and not change that.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "And then focus on everything that's left. And I think, you know, that our goal should be by next week, when Hynek comes back, uh, to uh, really just to have a firm path, uh, for the you know, for the time he's gone, of of, uh, what things will be attacked. But I would I would I would thought think that what we would wanna do is not futz with this stuff for a while because what'll happen is we'll change many other things in the system,", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "and then we'll probably wanna come back to this and possibly make some other choices. But, um.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "But just conceptually, where does the neural net go? Do do you wanna h run it on the output of the spectrally subtracted?", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "Mmm.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Well, depending on its size Well, one question is, is it on the, um, server side or is it on the terminal side? Uh, if it's on the server side, it you probably don't have to worry too much about size.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "So that's kind of an argument for that. We do still, however, have to consider its latency. So the issue is is, um, for instance, could we have a neural net that only looked at the past?", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "Um, what we've done in uh in the past is to use the neural net, uh, to transform, um, all of the features that we use. So this is done early on. This is essentially, um, um I guess it's it's more or less like a spee a speech enhancement technique here.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "right? where we're just kind of creating new if not new speech at least new new FFT's that that have you know, which could be turned into speech uh, that that have some of the noise removed.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "Um, after that we still do a mess of other things to to produce a bunch of features.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "And then those features are not now currently transformed by the neural net. And then the the way that we had it in our proposal - two before, we had the neural net transformed features and we had the untransformed features, which I guess you you actually did linearly transform with the KLT,", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Yeah. Yeah. Right.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "but but but uh, to orthogonalize them but but they were not, uh, processed through a neural net. And Stephane's idea with that, as I recall, was that you'd have one part of the feature vector that was very discriminant and another part that wasn't,", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "uh, which would smooth things a bit for those occasions when, uh, the testing set was quite different than what you'd trained your discriminant features for. So, um, all of that is is, uh still seems like a good idea. The thing is now we know some other constraints. We can't have unlimited amounts of latency. Uh, y you know, that's still being debated by the by people in Europe but, uh, no matter how they end up there, it's not going to be unlimited amounts,", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "so we have to be a little conscious of that. Um. So there's the neural net issue. There's the VAD issue. And, uh, there's the second stream thing. And I think those that we last time we agreed that those are the three things that have to get, uh, focused on.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "What was the issue with the VAD?", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "Well, better ones are good.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "And so the w the default, uh, boundaries that they provide are they're OK, but they're not all that great?", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "I guess they still allow two hundred milliseconds on either side or some? Is that what the deal is?", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm. Uh, so th um, they keep two hundred milliseconds at the beginning and end of speech. And they keep all the.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Outside the beginnings and end.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Uh - huh.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "And all the speech pauses, which is Sometimes on the SpeechDat - Car you have pauses that are more than one or two seconds.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Wow.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "More than one second for sure. Um.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "Yeah. And, yeah, it seems to us that this way of just dropping the beginning and end is not We cou we can do better, I think,", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "because, um, with this way of dropping the frames they improve over the baseline by fourteen percent and Sunil already showed that with our current VAD we can improve by more than twenty percent.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "On top of the VAD that they provide?", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "No.", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "Just using either their VAD or our current VAD.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Our way.", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "Oh, OK.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "So, our current VAD is is more than twenty percent, while their is fourteen.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Theirs is fourteen? I see.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Huh.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "So. Yeah. And another thing that we did also is that we have all this training data for let's say, for SpeechDat - Car. We have channel zero which is clean, channel one which is far - field microphone. And if we just take only the, um, VAD probabilities computed on the clean signal and apply them on the far - field, uh, test utterances, then results are much better.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "In some cases it divides the error rate by two.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Wow.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "So it means that there are stim still.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "How how much latency does the, uh does our VAD add?", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "If if we can have a good VAD, well, it would be great.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Is it significant,", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "Uh, right now it's, um, a neural net with nine frames.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "or?", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "So it's forty milliseconds plus, um, the rank ordering, which, uh, should be", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Like another ten frames.", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "ten Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Rank. Oh.", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "So, right now it's one hundred and forty milliseconds.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "With the rank ordering? I'm sorry.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "The the the smoothing the m the the filtering of the probabilities.", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "The The, um.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "on the R.", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "Yeah. It's not a median filtering. It's just We don't take the median value. We take something Um, so we have eleven, um, frames.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Oh, this is for the VAD.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "And for the VAD, yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Oh, OK.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "and we take th the third.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "Dar", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "Um.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Yeah. Um. So Yeah, I was just noticing on this that it makes reference to delay.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Mmm.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "So what's the? If you ignore Um, the VAD is sort of in in parallel, isn't i isn't it, with with the? I mean, it isn't additive with the the, uh, LDA and the Wiener filtering, and so forth.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "The LDA?", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "Right?", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Yeah. So so what happened right now, we removed the delay of the LDA.", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "So we I mean, if so if we if so which is like if we reduce the delay of VA So, the f the final delay's now ba is f determined by the delay of the VAD, because the LDA doesn't have any delay. So if we re if we reduce the delay of the VAD, I mean, it's like effectively reducing the delay.", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "How how much, uh, delay was there on the LDA?", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "So the LDA and the VAD both had a hundred millisecond delay. So and they were in parallel, so which means you pick either one of them.", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "Mmm.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "the the biggest, whatever.", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "I see.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "So, right now the LDA delays are more.", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "And there.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Oh, OK.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "And there didn't seem to be any, uh, penalty for that? There didn't seem to be any penalty for making it causal?", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Pardon? Oh, no. It actually made it, like, point one percent better or something, actually.", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "OK. Well, may as well, then.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Or something like that", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "And he says Wiener filter is is forty milliseconds delay.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "and.", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "So is it?", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Yeah. So that's the one which Stephane was discussing, like.", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "Mmm.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "The smoothing?", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Yeah. The you smooth it and then delay the decision by So.", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "Right. OK. So that's that's really not not bad. So we may in fact we'll see what they decide. We may in fact have, um, the the, uh, latency time available for to have a neural net. I mean, sounds like we probably will. So.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "That'd be good. Cuz I cuz it certainly always helped us before. So.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "What amount of latency are you thinking about when you say that?", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "Uh. Well, they're you know, they're disputing it.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Mmm.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "You know, they're saying, uh one group is saying a hundred and thirty milliseconds and another group is saying two hundred and fifty milliseconds. Two hundred and fifty is what it was before actually. So,", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Oh.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "uh, some people are lobbying lobbying to make it shorter.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "Um. And, um.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Were you thinking of the two - fifty or the one - thirty when you said we should have enough for the neural net?", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "Well, it just it when we find that out it might change exactly how we do it, is all.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Oh, OK.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "I mean, how much effort do we put into making it causal? I mean, I think the neural net will probably do better if it looks at a little bit of the future.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "But, um, it will probably work to some extent to look only at the past. And we ha you know, limited machine and human time, and effort. And, you know, how how much time should we put into into that? So it'd be helpful if we find out from the the standards folks whether, you know, they're gonna restrict that or not.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "Um. But I think, you know, at this point our major concern is making the performance better and and, um, if, uh, something has to take a little longer in latency in order to do it that's you know, a secondary issue.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "But if we get told otherwise then, you know, we may have to c clamp down a bit more.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Mmm.", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "So, the one one one difference is that was there is like we tried computing the delta and then doing the frame - dropping.", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "S", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "The earlier system was do the frame - dropping and then compute the delta on the.", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "Uh - huh.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "So this.", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "Which could be a kind of a funny delta. Right?", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "Oh, oh. So that's fixed in this. Yeah, we talked about that.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Yeah. So we have no delta. And then.", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "Yeah. Uh - huh.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Good.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "So the frame - dropping is the last thing that we do. So, yeah, what we do is we compute the silence probability, convert it to that binary flag,", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "Uh - huh.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "and then in the end you c up upsample it to match the final features number of.", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Did that help then?", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "It seems to be helping on the well - matched condition. So that's why this improvement I got from the last result. So. And it actually r reduced a little bit on the high mismatch, so in the final weightage it's b b better because the well - matched is still weighted more than.", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "So, @ @ I mean, you were doing a lot of changes. Did you happen to notice how much, uh, the change was due to just this frame - dropping problem? What about this?", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Uh, y you had something on it. Right?", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "Just the frame - dropping problem. Yeah. But it's it's difficult. Sometime we we change two two things together and But it's around maybe it's less than one percent.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Uh - huh.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "It.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Well. But like we're saying, if there's four or five things like that then pretty sho soon you're talking real improvement.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Yeah. Yeah. And it Yeah. And then we have to be careful with that also with the neural net", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "because in the proposal the neural net was also, uh, working on after frame - dropping.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Um.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Oh, that's a real good point.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "So. Well, we'll have to be to do the same kind of correction.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "It might be hard if it's at the server side. Right?", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Mmm. Well, we can do the frame - dropping on the server side or we can just be careful at the terminal side to send a couple of more frames before and after, and So. I think it's OK.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "OK.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "You have, um So when you Uh, maybe I don't quite understand how this works, but, um, couldn't you just send all of the frames, but mark the ones that are supposed to be dropped? Cuz you have a bunch more bandwidth. Right?", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "Well, you could. Yeah. I mean, it it always seemed to us that it would be kind of nice to in addition to, uh, reducing insertions, actually use up less bandwidth.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Yeah. Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "But nobody seems to have cared about that in this evaluation.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "And that way the net could use.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "So.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "If the net's on the server side then it could use all of the frames.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "Yes, it could be. It's, like, you mean you just transferred everything and then finally drop the frames after the neural net.", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "Right? Yeah. That's that's one thing which.", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "But you could even mark them, before they get to the server.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "Yeah. Right now we are Uh, ri Right now what wha what we did is, like, we just mark we just have this additional bit which goes around the features, saying it's currently a it's a speech or a nonspeech.", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "Oh, OK.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "So there is no frame - dropping till the final features, like, including the deltas are computed.", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "I see.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "And after the deltas are computed, you just pick up the ones that are marked silence and then drop them.", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm. I see. I see.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "So it would be more or less the same thing with the neural net, I guess, actually.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "So. Yeah, that's what that's what that's what, uh, this is doing right now.", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "I see. OK.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Um. OK. So, uh, what's, uh? That's that's a good set of work that that, uh.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Just one more thing. Like, should we do something f more for the noise estimation, because we still?", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "Yeah. I was wondering about that. That was I I had written that down there.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Um.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "So, we, uh actually I did the first experiment. This is with just fifteen frames. Um. We take the first fifteen frame of each utterance to it,", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "and average their power spectra. Um. I tried just plugging the, um, uh, Guenter noise estimation on this system, and it uh, it got worse. Um, but of course I didn't play with it.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Uh - huh.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "But Mm - hmm. Uh, I didn't do much more for noise estimation. I just tried this,", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Hmm. Yeah. Well, it's not surprising it'd be worse the first time.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "and.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "But, um,", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "it does seem like, you know, i i i i some compromise between always depending on the first fifteen frames and a a always depending on a a pause is is is a good idea. Uh, maybe you have to weight the estimate from the first - teen fifteen frames more heavily than than was done in your first attempt. But.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "but.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Yeah, I guess.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Yeah. Um. No, I mean Um, do you have any way of assessing how well or how poorly the noise estimation is currently doing?", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Mmm. No, we don't.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "We don't have nothing that.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Is there was there any experiment with? Well, I I did The only experiment where I tried was I used the channel zero VAD for the noise estimation and frame - dropping. So I don't have a I don't have a split, like which one helped more.", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "So. It it was the best result I could get.", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "So, that's the.", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "So that's something you could do with, um, this final system. Right? Just do this everything that is in this final system except, uh, use the channel zero.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm. For the noise estimation.", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Yeah. We can try something.", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "And then see how much better it gets.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm. Sure.", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "If it's, you know, essentially not better, then it's probably not worth", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "any more.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Yeah. But the Guenter's argument is slightly different. It's, like, ev even even if I use a channel zero VAD, I'm just averaging the the s power spectrum. But the Guenter's argument is, like, if it is a non - stationary segment, then he doesn't update the noise spectrum. So he's, like he tries to capture only the stationary part in it. So the averaging is, like, different from updating the noise spectrum only during stationary segments. So, th the Guenter was arguing that, I mean, even if you have a very good VAD, averaging it, like, over the whole thing is not a good idea.", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "I see.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Because you're averaging the stationary and the non - stationary, and finally you end up getting something which is not really the s because, you anyway, you can't remove the stationary part fr I mean, non - stationary part from the signal.", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "Not using these methods anyway. Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "So Yeah. So you just update only doing or update only the stationary components. Yeah. So, that's so that's still a slight difference from what Guenter is trying.", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "Well, yeah. And and also there's just the fact that, um, eh, uh, although we're trying to do very well on this evaluation, um, we actually would like to have something that worked well in general. And, um, relying on having fifteen frames at the front or something is is pretty.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Yeah, yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "I mean, you might, you might not.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Mmm.", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "So, um. Um, it'd certainly be more robust to different kinds of input if you had at least some updates. Um.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "But, um. Well, I don't know. What what do you, uh what do you guys see as as being what you would be doing in the next week, given wha what's happened?", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Cure the VAD?", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "What was that?", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "VAD.", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "Oh.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "And.", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "OK.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "So, should we keep the same? I think we might try to keep the same idea of having a neural network, but training it on more data and adding better features, I think, but because the current network is just PLP features. Well, it's trained on noisy PLP.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Just the cepstra. Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "PLP features computed on noisy speech. But there is no nothing particularly robust in these features.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "So, I I uh.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "No.", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "There's no RASTA, no.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "So, uh, I I don't remember what you said the answer to my, uh, question earlier. Will you will you train the net on after you've done the spectral subtraction or the Wiener filtering?", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "This is a different net.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Oh.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "So we have a VAD which is like neur that's a neural net.", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "Oh, yeah. Hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Oh, you're talking about the VAD net. OK.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "I see.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "So that that VAD was trained on the noisy features.", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "So, right now we have, like, uh we have the cleaned - up features, so we can have a better VAD by training the net on the cleaned - up speech.", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm. I see. I see.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "Yeah, but we need a VAD for uh noise estimation also. So it's, like, where do we want to put the VAD? Uh, it's like.", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "Can you use the same net to do both, or?", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "For.", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "Can you use the same net that you that I was talking about to do the VAD?", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm. Uh, it actually comes at v at the very end.", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "So the net the final net I mean, which is the feature net so that actually comes after a chain of, like, LDA plus everything. So it's, like, it takes a long time to get a decision out of it. And and you can actually do it for final frame - dropping, but not for the VA - f noise estimation.", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "You see, the idea is that the, um, initial decision to that that you're in silence or speech happens pretty quickly.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Oh, OK.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "Hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "Cuz that's used by some of these other?", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "And that Yeah. And that's sort of fed forward, and and you say \" well, flush everything, it's not speech anymore \".", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Oh, OK. I see.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "I thought that was only used for doing frame - dropping later on.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "Um, it is used, uh Yeah, it's only used f Well, it's used for frame - dropping. Um, it's used for end of utterance", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Mmm.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "because, you know, there's if you have more than five hundred milliseconds of of of nonspeech then you figure it's end of utterance or something like that.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "So, um.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "And it seems important for, like, the on - line normalization. Um. We don't want to update the mean and variance during silen long silence portions. Um. So it it has to be done before", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Oh. I see.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "this mean and variance normalization. Um.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Um. Yeah. So probably the VAD and and maybe testing out the noise estimation a little bit. I mean, keeping the same method but but, uh, seeing if you cou but, um noise estimation could be improved. Those are sort of related issues.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "It probably makes sense to move from there. And then, uh, later on in the month I think we wanna start including the neural net at the end. Um. OK. Anything else?", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "The Half Dome was great.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Good. Yeah. You didn't didn't fall. That's good.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Well, yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "Our e our effort would have been devastated if you guys had run into problems.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "So, Hynek is coming back next week, you said?", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "Yeah, that's the plan.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "I guess the week after he'll be, uh, going back to Europe, and so we wanna.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Is he in Europe right now or is he up at?", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "No, no. He's he's he's dropped into the US. Yeah. Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Oh. Hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "So. Uh. So, uh. Uh, the idea was that, uh, we'd we'd sort out where we were going next with this with this work before he, uh, left on this next trip. Good. Uh, Barry, you just got through your quals, so I don't know if you have much to say. But, uh.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Mmm. No, just, uh, looking into some some of the things that, um, uh, John Ohala and Hynek, um, gave as feedback, um, as as a starting point for the project. Um. In in my proposal, I I was thinking about starting from a set of, uh, phonological features, or a subset of them. Um, but that might not be necessarily a good idea according to, um, John.", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "He said, uh, um, these these phonological features are are sort of figments of imagination also.", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "Um. S", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "In conversational speech in particular. I think you can you can put them in pretty reliably in synthetic speech.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Ye", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "But we don't have too much trouble recognizing synthetic speech since we create it in the first place. So, it's.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Right. Yeah. So, um, a better way would be something more more data - driven,", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "just looking at the data and seeing what's similar and what's not similar.", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "So, I'm I'm, um, taking a look at some of, um, Sangita's work on on TRAPS. She did something where, um w where the TRAPS learn She clustered the the temporal patterns of, um, certain certain phonemes in in m averaged over many, many contexts. And, uh, some things tended to cluster.", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "Right? You know, like stop stop consonants clustered really well.", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "Hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "Um, silence was by its own self.", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "And, uh, um, v vocalic was clustered.", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "And, um, so, those are interesting things to.", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "So you're now you're sort of looking to try to gather a set of these types of features?", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "Yeah. Just to see where where I could start off from,", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "uh, you know? A a a set of small features and continue to iterate and find, uh, a better set.", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "OK. Well, short meeting. That's OK.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "OK. So next week hopefully we'll can get Hynek here to to join us and, uh, uh.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Should we do digits?", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "Digits, digits. OK, now.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Go ahead, Morgan. You can start.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "Alright. Let me get my glasses on so I can see them. OK.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "OK. 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e5f48f0553f14400b99cd8e3c3b856f3	{ "meetingId": "IS1008b", "transcriptSegments": [ { "text": "Okay uh Agnes, you can help me for the slide when.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yep. Sure.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "okay. Okay, welcome back. I hope uh you have a fresh head and a fresh time. How t now the meeting actually we gathering here to discuss about the functional design meeting. Okay, and uh we'll issue some information from uh all of you. And it's in the, I think uh, in the sharing folder. And uh I will invite uh the Christine and the Ed and uh Agnes to discuss about on the various subjects. So can you go to the next slide? Yeah uh the agenda of the meeting is opening. Then uh I'm going to talk about uh the project management, what I'm going to do, and uh, of course, I'm doing the project management and secretary both, okay, to take the minutes of the meeting. And there are three presentations. One is uh new project requirements. And the second one about uh decision on remote control functions. And uh finally we are closing. Uh and the meeting time will be uh forty minutes, so you have to be very quick. And I have come up with the management come with the new proposal, okay, and I have to discuss a few points on this. Uh both says new insights in the aim of your project. Uh the one is uh the teletext becomes uh outmoded, okay because if uh because of the computer systems and the new technology. So we don't need to consider really about the teletext all in our new project design. And the second one is about uh the remote control. Should be used only for the T_V_. That's what our uh management says. And the third point, it's very very important to establish our uh marketing or uh corporate image, okay, with this new project or new product. Okay. So I will invite uh Agnes, can you go to the third slide?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "No, this is the third slide.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Okay,. So, I'll invite uh Christine to discuss about uh the functional design.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "'Kay, do you wanna open the.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Sure. Um. You're participant s", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "I'm number two.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Two?", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "That's it.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Do you want the mouse, or do you want me to.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "I'll do the notes. Yeah, thanks.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "So um well I I figured uh we should um identify some user requirements, and from my experience, I wanna uh, and from research I did, uh the the device has to turn the television on and off the first time you press on the big button, you can't uh can't have like uh waffling on this point, you know.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Really have It needs to be able y y have to be able to find it. Because one of the biggest problems with remote controls is finding them. So uh, I also, since we have to establish our corporate image on the basis of this new product, thought we better look at things that are popular and um ex go beyond those, and, as I said in the first meeting, um and then uh we might wanna talk eventually about the materials that are appropriate to use in uh in the construction, especially in the the uh the outside of the product", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "so that it gives the appearance, and it is reliable, and so forth. I did a little history on uh the the uh remote controls and when they were invented and so forth, so, I guess this guy Zenith uh created the Flashmatic, which I kinda like the idea,'cause it made me think of um um maybe the remote control made a big flash when uh you turn the T_V_ on and off, that might be interesting. And um so it was highly directional flash light that uh you could turn the picture on and off, and the sound on and off, and change channels c so I think um those are still requirements we have today, uh fifty years later.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "And uh it was really a pioneering innovation, but it was uh sensitive to the sun, so that uh it would get would start off by the you'd get it would easily cause um problems. So, uh I in addition to uh looking at the um uh the functional requir so all these devices are examples of where uh mm they represent examples that are available today which I think the one in the middle is r um really uh something to keep in mind.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Fantastic..", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "It'd be easy to find. And um it would uh y you'd you could throw it at things if if the T_V_ didn't turn on and off, you could use it for something else. And since I'm not really um Industrial Designer, I didn't really know what to do with this slide. But um I just took some different uh schematics and I put them into this, and I guess this is what a slide might look like if you were drawing a circuit board. I don't know why um we were asked to do this. So, uh personal preferences, um", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "I think we could uh I I'm really thinking outside the box here, and I think that we should consider perhaps having an an an a a size uh a remote control that changes in size depending on the user preference.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "So something that's very very flexible and inflatable and then you could shrink it. I think um it could either be you could go either one extreme, be very colourful, or you could make it clear, and um kind of blend in with things, so you didn't have to um uh have a problem with the th the decoration of the of the user's home. Um I think uh it needs to be waterproof, because uh sometimes they fall into cups", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "and, you know, it might be out by the swimming pool or something like that. Um if you uh mi one of one of my requirements was about needs t to tell you when it's done its job or not, because half the time, I keep pushing on the remote control, and I don't know if it's actually understood my message, so I think it should give you some sort of an oral cue. And uh, course I never wanna replace the battery. So,", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "that's those are my f preferences, and that's my presentation.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah, let me uh interrupt you uh if you can add other facility, other feature, like uh unbreakable.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yes.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Okay, because uh especially today, you know, you have the family and the kids,", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "okay, and the kids throw it and they they play with their remotes and.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Run over it with a car.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yes. Okay, so if you can add the feature, okay, for your uh fabric whatever in your outline design okay, with unbreakable, okay, I think that will give a lot of advantage for our product, if I'm not wrong. Maybe you can uh add it in that.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Good idea. Good idea, I'll I'll uh um Yes, very good.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Okay, uh thank you Christine, and uh uh any questions or uh clarifications, or any discussion on the functional design?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Do you have any preconceived ideas in terms of materials?'Cause, for example, in the unbreakable thing, doing something plastic would be harder,", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Hmm.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "whereas having something like, I dunno, steel or titanium isn't really economically viable..", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Titanium. Titanium would be be heavy, too,", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Titanium..", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "wouldn't it?", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "No, I haven't really um I wanted feedback, I think we need to rate rank these, but we'll see what your uh personal preferences are and your thoughts.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah. Sure, yeah. No, I just wondering whether that you had any sort of.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "I like titanium. It's light.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Uh yeah", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Expensive.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "The marketing comes out..", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "but uh who who said who said we were,", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yes.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "you know, nobody told me how mu what our financial objective is, so um.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah so.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "It'd be hard to inflate something ou made out of titanium though.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah the the I'm sorry because uh the last meeting we supposed to discuss about the financial thing.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Uh let me go quickly, maybe if I can go back. I know the project plan and the budget. So I can close this, not sure. Was in uh S This. So let me see where is this file.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "That's Christine's.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "This is Christine..", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "And that's mine, I think.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "That's yours, okay. Saving.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "In modified.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "I don't know,", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Okay, uh", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "I think verbally we can we can pretty much sell.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "I will I will send you a mail, okay? The project may be the the project aim, okay. At the end of the day, the company uh wants to make at least uh the fifty million Euro. Okay, and uh of course the price will be very reasonable on the the sales side. Okay, that maybe Eddie will talk to you about uh how much uh the price and uh what's uh how much its cost for the manufacturing and how much it's going to be we sell in the market. Okay. Then uh you can come back with your feedback. And I I have one maybe the suggestion or opinion. This remote control, okay, it can be for like universal, to use for any T_V_. Okay, and it will be slim, okay, and uh.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Not fat?", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Not fat.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Not fat, huh.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Might be hard to find, though.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yep. But let's try it, okay, with the different uh the designs, okay, the functional designs.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Hmm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Oh, okay.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Okay? So any other questions?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Uh from her side, I don't think uh there's too many more questions.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Okay. Thank you Christine for uh time being,", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "If you can come to the.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "so then uh Ed, so can you tell about.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Okay, from the marketing yeah, from the marketing side, just to to give an idea what the management is looking for, I was looking for a a remote control to have a s", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "S'scuse me for one sec.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "I have a sales price of twenty-five Euro, with a production price of uh twelve and a half Euro. For what uh I think from what we're trying to find, we're tr we're looking for, I don't think that price is exactly in the market. Okay?", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "I'll explain myself here now in the sense that uh in a in the recent surveys, uh from the ages fr from fifteen to thirty-five, eighty percent are willing to spend more money for something as fancy as trendy.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Twenty-five Euros, uh that's that's a preson reasonable price. That's a market price right now. Now if we're gonna take a risk, and push this up a bit, make it more expensive,", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yep.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "but give them added things that they don't have now,", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yep.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "then it w it could possibly sell. Obviously the risk is there. Too expensive, they're not gonna buy. But, I think uh there's one other thing interesting two things that are interesting is that uh from the fifteen to thirty-five year-old group, which always spends more money on trendy new things, speech recognition is requested.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Speech recognition?.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "And we're talking between seventy-five to ninety percent of this group is willing to pay for speech recognition on a remote.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Obviously, we can't make a remote into a computer, but maybe simple commands. I dunno, louder, softer, on, off. That might be a possibility, even though it costs more, to be the first on the market to produce this.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Thirty-five percent say they're too difficult to use. So we have to figure out a way of making it um more user friendly. Uh fifty percent say they can't find the remote half the time..", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "So maybe one word speech recognition commands, say remote, and there's a beep beep beep, and they can find it through, you know, ten tons of newspapers, magazines, whatever you have at home.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "But, in the cost that uh the management is looking for, that's not gonna be possible. But if it's trendy, if it's fancy, it's got some colour to it, if it's very easy easy to use, if it's got simple remote speech remote uh control, like I said, louder, softer, change channel, on, off, remote, it goes beep beep, I can find my my remote without spending half a day looking for it and getting all upset'cause I can't turn the T_V_ on. So we're gonna have to look at it in a in this global idea, with the ideas of the industrial uh design.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "But, price obviously we have to talk about.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yep. So what do you think about uh the design? Do you think you can make it or uh.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "D uh I'm sorry?.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "What do you think about uh the design, uh what he was talking about of the speech recognition?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Speech recognition.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Well, uh training is always an issue with uh commands.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "So um might uh we can perhaps um do it if the user is willing to spend some time in the training process, uh it could reduce th th uh the overall um cost. Not sure how. But um anyway, um I I think also that uh this might impact the battery life. And um so, maybe what we'll have to do is um add something where you can um recharge it wirelessly so that uh y you know sen send power to it. So uh or maybe uh set it out in the sun and it uh, you know, gets uh, from the light, um a a solar cell inside there", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Hmm.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "so that uh you have enough uh juice to do all these fancy things.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "It seems also like with the speech recognition, yeah, it's a great feature, but if you're watching T_V_, there's a lot of ambient sound, and it's words. It's not just, you know, noises like something hitting. It's actual speech, so then you have to make sure that the speech recognizer is good enough to filter out the T_V_ speech, and the the user's speech. Otherwise, you can say remote.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Off..", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "But if someone on the screen is saying the same thing, all of a sudden, you have someone in a movie saying off and your screen dies, because they've triggered the remote control and it's turned off your T_V_. So, I think if we can find a speech recognizer that can handle those types of problems, then yeah, it'd be a really good marketing gimmick.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "But, I think we seriously need to consider how that would impact the situation.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Very good point.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Because tha w with speech recognition uh th I'm not that good at that idea", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "but th if it's a one-word recognition,'cause I know with telephones and cars and things I've seen in the States,", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "a friend of mine says call Mom, and it calls up Mom.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "'Kay the radio can be on and everything.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yep.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Because I think s with speech recognition, if uh the the remote or like the telephone it has a exact word that it has to hear.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "I don't think it would come through a sentence in a television. If somebody's speaking on the se the television, they're not gonna stop and say remote,", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "okay. So I think that uh something could be designed to recognise single word.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Oh yeah. Yeah. No, I think it's a great idea if we can design it to to suit those requirements.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Like the t like the telephone. No because I this is this is years ago in the United States where we're driving down and he said call home, and the telephone called immediately.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah..", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "so well, that's kinda cute..", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Well, what I can uh suggest to you, Christine, okay, uh if you need some uh the technical feedback, or some training, okay, about uh this facility, especially for the speech recognition, I can recommend you some companies like uh Intel or I_B_M_, okay, because they're already in this uh speech recognition part, okay. And uh you can maybe have some uh technical backup from them, some kind of a technical tie-up. Okay, and uh if you want, I can coordinate, okay, to get some information, okay, and uh you can uh let me know, okay, so what kind of uh the details you require okay, to add this feature in this project. I don't think it's uh the difficult. And uh we need to know how much is the timeframe you need to develop, apart from uh what today.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Okay, we'll find that out.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yep.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "From from your side uh, you're gonna have to go back the management and s be more s precise.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yes.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "What do they want?", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yes.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Uh, a risk, take a risk on the market? Something that's gonna cost more, but could very easily s make a boom in the market?", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yes. Yep.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Because it has to be something totally different, has to be total totally new. Something that nobody has right now.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah but", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "And it's gonna cost.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "but end of the day, you're the sales guy, so I will come back and sit on your head because uh you are going to give your sales projection,", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "okay. It's uh of course it's uh good to uh tell the management how much it's cost us", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "and how much you are going to benefit,", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Sure. Sure.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "okay. And uh, so I don't mind to convince, okay, the management to spend some more money on the project, okay, if you can make out of", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Obviously.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "the money from this project.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "If the bottom line is positive..", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yes, okay I don't mind to convince the the management,", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "okay.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "The management says, okay, so they they don't want certain facilities, which it's already worked, okay, they want something uh new, okay. I think uh like uh speech recognit definitely they will agree, I don't think they'll say no for that, okay. And uh I hope I can convince the management on that, okay. So if you have any uh new ideas, okay, for uh your you can always come up and uh you can tell me if you need any uh s special, okay, coordination, okay, between any uh technical companies, which you can uh hide their technology backup, okay, for your uh functional design or technical design, okay, then I am ready to do that. And uh what's your comments about uh.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Um well, I mean, maybe if I go through my presentation, you can sort of see what the user perspective is, and how it ties into the other two comments.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah, so you are finish, Ed, uh so I can uh.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yes. Mm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Okay, I'll uh hand over to Agnes. Just gonna close this. T Uh where are you, here?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm participant three.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Participant three.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Nope, here.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Okay, so I'll yep. Okay.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Good.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Is it okay?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Thanks.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Alri", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah, and that's fine. Okay. So, basically, the method that we usually use in the user interface design is that we need to look at what people like and what people don't like about existing products. So, in our case, existing remote controls. And then, what the good ideas are, and what the bad ideas are, and why they're bad and good, which isn't always as obvious. We seem to have intuitions about why things are good or things are bad, but when you look, technically, at how it works, sometimes that's not the case. Then we need to decide what functionalities we really want to keep,'cause that'll feed into both Ed's work and Christine's work. Um and then what the remote control should look like, obviously, once we've got a good idea of what the functionalities are. So, in terms of the functionalities that we need, you obviously need to be able to turn the T_V_ on and off. You need to change channels, both by directly going to a specific channel or by channel surfing. You need to be able to control the volume and then control any menus on the T_V_ to regulate contrast or whatever. So, the problems that people have expressed is that there's too many buttons on remote controls, in general. The buttons it's not clear what they're supposed to do. Um often, you need to know specific button sequences to get certain functionalities done, um which you don't necessarily always remember, especially if it's a functionality that you don't use very often. And that the buttons are too small. So, here we've got two examples where here on the left-hand side, you can see a remote control that has lots and lots of buttons.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "The buttons, in a lot of cases, are tiny. Um they're hard to see, and okay, they're labelled, but the labels don't necessarily tell you too much. Whereas, on the other side, you have a much simpler remote control that I think basically has the minimum functionalities that are needed. And it sort of looks simpler and just less imposing when you first look at it. So, I would be inclined to go sort of towards this, in terms of design, rather than this. And if there's specific functionalities that require more buttons, then we can figure out how to do it with existing um buttons. So my personal preferences are to keep the number of buttons to a limit, or to a minimum, sorry, make frequently used buttons bigger and more strategically placed, so like the on button being really obvious one, the channel changing and the volume, and to keep the design basically sleek and simple.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Click mm.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Which, I think ties into what Christine and Ed have both said fairly reasonably. Um so, that's pretty much it, an I don't know if you guys have any questions or.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Oh, it's um, seems very understandable. Clearly your research and uh and ours uh heading in the same direction,", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yep.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "and um uh the only thing that I saw missing from uh your your research that we found was this uh ability to find the doggone thing when you need it.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yes, that's true. Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "So uh, you know, but that's okay. That's why we're all here at the table, so that if we think of it and our research indicates certain things and um w we it's complementary.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "I also think that um uh th f the the feel of it is uh, when you hold it, is something that um uh was expressed more in in in in my uh design", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm. Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "and that's logical and normal'cause those are the parameters that an Industrial Designer's more thinking about, th th the look and the feel,", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "and uh, you're.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Oh, that's definitely a very important factor, especially to users who are gonna be buying the thing and then using it almost on an daily basis in a lot of cases, I think.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "First. Yep. Mm-hmm. Okay, so I don't have any questions. Sounds good.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "So for anybody need uh any help, for time being, on this uh subjects, okay, so please come back to me,", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Oh.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "and uh Christine, maybe I can uh try to help you to get some uh the technical uh the companies to help you for uh make a design uh slim, okay, and to add some features, like we are talking about, the speech recognition and all.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Should we maybe make a decision about what features we actually want to include,", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "'cause we've thrown a lot of features onto the table, but do we actually want to incorporate all of them, or have we missed anything?", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Hmm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Do you wanna go back and look at the closing slide, maybe that would provide some guidance?", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Sure.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Doesn't really tell us.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "So not really this one we are talk ab", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Individual actions..", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Well it says individual actions,", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yep.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "it says user interf so I'm supposed to do the components concept, supposed to work on the user interface concept,", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "and you're supposed to keep watching the trends. Um and specific instructions will be sent by our our coach. I think we should do as many features as uh start with all of them right now", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "I thought.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "and eliminate them later in the process, that's my suggestion.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Okay, that will be great. And uh I'll send you the the minutes of meet", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "You can object if you want to.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "No, I I'm just thinking in terms of time,", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "She's objecting..", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "like if.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yes, now I'm objecting. No, I mean, I was just thinking is it really practical to start designing something with features that we're just gonna end up throwing away? I mean, it takes a lot of time and effort for everyone to consider different features, um and s if we spend that time and effort on features that we're not gonna use, maybe it's better to spend it on the f thinking more about features that we actually do want, but.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "I think we should take that as an action item for after the meeting,", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Oh th we s we still have.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "guess.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "'cause w our meeting time has run out.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Somebody else has go to use this room,", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Sure.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "and, you know, we can't hang out here", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "and talk about this, so.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah. Sure.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Okay, what we'll do is now we'll take for lunch break, okay, then uh we can discuss furthermore, okay, with our areas, and uh then we will come back again in the in the next meeting. So thanks for coming and uh I'll send you minutes of meeting, and uh please put your all information in the sharing folder so everybody can share the information. Okay?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "So let's go for lunch then. 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e8f8ecdb5b6041418f317270c80fd97e	{ "meetingId": "education3", "transcriptSegments": [ { "text": "Good morning, everyone. Welcome to the Children, Young People and Education Committee this morning. I've received no apologies for absence. Can I ask Members if there are any declarations of interest, please? No. Okay, thank you. Item 2 this morning is our scrutiny session on Estyn's annual report 2018-19. I'm very pleased to welcome Meilyr Rowlands, Her Majesty's Chief Inspector, Estyn; Jassa Scott, strategic director at Estyn; and Claire Morgan, strategic director at Estyn. Thank you all for attending. We're looking forward to hearing what you've got to say. We'll go straight into questions from Suzy Davies.", "speakerName": "Lynne Neagle AM" }, { "text": "Bore da. Good morning, everybody. Thank you for the papers upfront, in which you say that the most striking feature of the education system, looking forward, of course is the curriculum and the change that that's bringing. How can we be sure that, during this period of change, standards don't slip? And also, from the point of view of scrutiny, will we be back in a situation where we're being told,'You can't compare one set of results against the previous year's results, because of the nature of the change'?", "speakerName": "Suzy Davies AM" }, { "text": "Bore da, bawb. Thank you for the invitation to come here. I think that's a good question. I think any kind of major educational reform has got risks attached to it, particularly if those changes were made too quickly. I think this process of reform has been going on in the background for a few years now, so I think there is a track record of standards and provision not slipping. We've seen small incremental improvements. So, overall, I think we can be fairly confident that standards won't slip during this period of preparation.", "speakerName": "Meilyr Rowlands" }, { "text": "Can I just ask: is that based on your evidence around primary schools, where the sort of ethos that we've seen in the curriculum has been already articulated through the foundation phase?", "speakerName": "Suzy Davies AM" }, { "text": "The track record I'm talking about is across the board, so it's very difficult to think of anything that's actually got worse over the last three or four years, so it's difficult to say that standards of provision is slipping. It might not be improving as quickly as we would like, but the purpose of major curriculum and, more generally, educational reform is to make sure that we do get a more substantial sort of improvement. I think we should congratulate the profession for the work they've been doing. A large number of schools and teachers and leaders have been part of preparing the new curriculum and all the associated work, as well as doing the day job. I think their commitment and their engagement with curriculum reform, and engagement with wider education reform, is to be congratulated. So, I think going forward, we must make sure that that is continued; that this process that's called co-construction—engaging with the profession, making sure that they're behind all the changes—continues. I think that's what's going to make sure that we don't see any slippage.", "speakerName": "Meilyr Rowlands" }, { "text": "Okay, and on that point of comparing year on year, we will be able to make those comparisons legitimately then?", "speakerName": "Suzy Davies AM" }, { "text": "Yes, certainly, in terms of our inspection outcomes and our inspection work, yes.", "speakerName": "Meilyr Rowlands" }, { "text": "Okay. That's great, thank you. Can I just ask you then about the difference in preparedness between primary and secondary schools, which I've just mentioned previously, and also what your views are on the impact of funding for schools on that as well? Because we're in a situation where a number of primary schools have got surplus funds, sometimes that's because of end of year additional funds just being magicked up, but there is a serious worry that so many secondary schools are in deficit and that, overall, secondary schools are in deficit. Is there a correlation between those two positions, that secondary schools may be less ready for this than primary schools?", "speakerName": "Suzy Davies AM" }, { "text": "I think it's probably true to say that secondary schools have a greater challenge than primary schools generally in terms of preparedness for the new curriculum. I think that's why we welcomed the phasing in of the new curriculum. With any sort of education reform, you've got that danger of people wanting to see change as soon as possible on the one hand, and on the other hand you need time to pilot things, to make sure that people have the right professional learning and make sure that there's opportunity for evaluation and thinking and so forth. So, we've got to get that balance right.", "speakerName": "Meilyr Rowlands" }, { "text": "Sorry, that could be difficult to do if a school doesn't have money to create that space, couldn't it?", "speakerName": "Suzy Davies AM" }, { "text": "Yes. You raised two issues, I think. One, about the difference between primary and secondary: I think what I'm saying there is I think the fact that the new curriculum is going to be brought in for all the years in primary, but it's going to be phased in year by year for secondary is a recognition of that difference. In terms of funding, probably everyone in this room, and certainly me included, would like to see more money for the education system—any educationalist would like to see that. But, you know, that is a decision for local and central Government to decide how much they can afford. I think there is an argument for saying that the funding has become more challenging for schools over time.", "speakerName": "Meilyr Rowlands" }, { "text": "Can I ask, just to keep it on track, are you finding that that's having an impact on secondary schools particularly—their ability to make space to get their heads around the curriculum?", "speakerName": "Suzy Davies AM" }, { "text": "I don't think you can make that straightforward correlation. But if you do look at surpluses and reserves, they have been more or less constant for primary schools over a long period of time, but they have declined for secondary schools. So, I think there probably is an argument for saying that we need to look at the funding of secondary schools in particular because, overall, they're in deficit now. So, I think there is an argument for looking at that. The other thing that's worth saying about funding is that even a small decrease in real terms can be disproportionately time consuming to manage. So, you know, if you have a large school and you have to maybe make one member of staff redundant, it can have a real big effect on the morale in the school. But also the time it takes for the headteacher and the senior staff to make those decisions can take their eye off the educational ball because they're looking at these financial and staffing issues.", "speakerName": "Meilyr Rowlands" }, { "text": "Okay, thank you. Siân might develop that a little bit further on. The final question from me is: there's a general concern about the number of teachers that we have in the system at the moment, particularly at secondary level and in particular subjects as well. How do you think we can improve that? What impact is it likely to have on the ability of secondary schools to really get a grip on this?", "speakerName": "Suzy Davies AM" }, { "text": "Obviously, the most important resource for the education system is the teachers. So, it is a concern that recruitment is getting more and more difficult and that targets for initial teacher training are not being hit. And we're not seeing them hit, if I remember correctly, even in primary, let alone secondary. So, there is a challenge, and I think we've got to look at this in the round. We've got to make sure that we have both a long-term strategy and a shorter term strategy for this. So, long term, we've got to make sure that education is an attractive option for young people and more mature people to want to go into. So, that is partly to do with workload and staff well-being. I think there's a general acceptance now that that needs to be higher up on the agenda, that people need to take that seriously, and there's work going on regarding the workload issue.", "speakerName": "Meilyr Rowlands" }, { "text": "I suppose what I'm coming to, and I will finish with this, Chair, is, we're asking our existing workforce to undertake a fair bit of continuous professional development—let's call it that—in order to get ready for this curriculum when they've barely got time for lunch as it is. Do you think that's going to have an impact on the ability of secondary schools to get to grips with this, albeit that there'll be a phasing in?", "speakerName": "Suzy Davies AM" }, { "text": "Yes. I think it will have an effect, but I think it'll have a positive effect. I think the new curriculum, one of the things about the new curriculum is that it re-professionalises the profession. It gives back agency and ownership to teachers. I think it's really important. And one of the reasons why teaching maybe hasn't been that attractive a profession is that teachers in the past have just been delivering a set curriculum, and now they've got a much more creative part in deciding for themselves how to teach something and what to teach. So, I think that is a very important part of attracting intelligent people into the profession. There are short-term things we need to do, of course, as well. I think we need to have a much more varied set of routes into teaching, so I welcome some of the part-time Open University courses, for example. So, there are lots of ways—we were talking about maybe converting people from primary into secondary, particularly in Welsh-medium, where there's a shortage. So, all those kinds of varied routes, I think, into teaching, are important as well.", "speakerName": "Meilyr Rowlands" }, { "text": "Degree apprenticeships, potentially.", "speakerName": "Suzy Davies AM" }, { "text": "Yes, I think it's well worth exploring that. Yes.", "speakerName": "Meilyr Rowlands" }, { "text": "Lovely. Thank you. Thank you, Chair.", "speakerName": "Suzy Davies AM" }, { "text": "Okay. Siân Gwenllian now has some questions on secondary schools causing concern. Siân.", "speakerName": "Lynne Neagle AM" }, { "text": "Yes. Just before going on to that, just to pick up on that last point that you made about the shortage of teachers and losing teachers during the first year of their training. Has Estyn done any themed work on that particular issue, or do you intend to do anything on that? Also, looking at the financial incentives and how they compare with the situation in England, for example; do we need, perhaps, to think about financial incentives, not just for specific subjects, but for going to schools where there are particular issues, perhaps?", "speakerName": "Sian Gwenllian AM" }, { "text": "Well, yes, there are currently discussions ongoing between us and the Government about working in those early years for teachers. It's possible that we will be undertaking work in the near future on that. I know that Professor Mick Waters is looking at this currently, and we've had the discussion with him. And I think we would welcome the opportunity to look at this particular period. Now, we are, of course, looking at initial teacher training, but we haven't looked at the first couple of years for many a year.", "speakerName": "Meilyr Rowlands" }, { "text": "Right, thank you very much. And for your information, I've commissioned a piece of work on that particular issue, and that work will be published in due course. So, I hope to have a discussion with you about that.", "speakerName": "Sian Gwenllian AM" }, { "text": "Thank you very much. Yes.", "speakerName": "Meilyr Rowlands" }, { "text": "In terms of the secondary schools, that’s where the problem lies, isn’t it, rather than the primary sector. How much of a concern is it to you that children’s chances of going to a secondary school that is good or better appear to be 50:50, and that, indeed, over 10 per cent of secondary schools are judged to be failing and 12 per cent are under Estyn review? How much of a concern is that to you?", "speakerName": "Sian Gwenllian AM" }, { "text": "Well, it is of concern to us, of course. I hope that we will have an opportunity to talk about the positive aspects of the education system in Wales, because there are a number of good things we can report also. The primary sector, the special sector, post-16—there are many sectors that are doing well, and I think a story that's particularly positive this year is that we have seen pupil referral units improving. We have seen examples of excellent practice in that sector for the first time in many a year, and we've also seen excellent practice in independent special schools, which is also a sector—. Because these are two sectors where there are very, very vulnerable children in attendance. So, I think that's very encouraging. But, you're right, of course, the biggest concern for the system, I would say, is secondary schools, and that is an issue of leadership, and also of the quality of the teaching and learning. Those are the recommendations that we make most often in our inspection reports. So, I believe that there is a need to find a long-term solution, as I mentioned previously, and also a short-term solution to this problem. In the long term, to improve the quality of teaching and learning—well, that’s the main aim of the new curriculum. So, I am confident that that strategy is the right strategy. It will take time, as we mentioned previously; it will take longer in secondary schools, and that's for a number of reasons, and I have discussed the challenges that are additional for secondary schools in previous annual reports. So, there are many reasons why secondary schools find it more difficult, possibly, than primary schools. The children themselves are older and they have greater challenges. Life is more complicated for them, possibly. It’s more difficult to engage with the parents of older children than younger children, and that’s an important factor. That’s one of the reasons why I believe it’s important that we do have community schools that ensure that the parents are part of the school’s life and take an interest in the education of their children. We also know that qualifications take a very prominent role in secondary schools’ mindsets, and, in some cases, perhaps excessively so. So, we need to ensure that those qualifications are reformed as a result of the reform of the curriculum, and, of course, Qualifications Wales is carrying out that work currently. And also, we need to change the measures that we use to measure the schools’ successes. Now, there is work ongoing on that as well. But there are all kinds of variations and differences between the primary and secondary sectors. In primary schools, for example, the greatest and most obvious difference, I would say, is that you’ve got one teacher who looks after a child for a whole year, and that teacher can identify the needs of the pupil very well over a period of time, getting to know the child and, possibly, the family very well. It’s much more complicated for secondary school to do that; there have to be systems put in place for that. So, there are many long-term things that we need to respond to. But in the short term, what is important is that those schools that cause concern receive much more support, and that is why I am glad and do welcome what's being piloted currently, which is a system of supporting these schools, the multi-agency approach, that is. So, that is something that we have been calling for for quite a long period of time and piloted ourselves a few years ago. So, I'm very glad that we are doing this in secondary schools throughout Wales. I believe there are about 12 schools that are in that pilot scheme.", "speakerName": "Meilyr Rowlands" }, { "text": "You said previously that it's a cause of concern for you that these schools that are failing or underachieving are not identified early enough. Are there signs that that's improving?", "speakerName": "Sian Gwenllian AM" }, { "text": "Well, one of the things that's very positive about this pilot scheme is that it's not just the schools that are officially causing concern that are a part of the pilot scheme, that is, the schools that we have identified, through inspections, as needing to be put in a statutory category. So, there are schools involved in the pilot scheme that the authorities and the consortia have identified themselves as schools that are at risk of causing concern. I believe that it's fair to say that we have not reached a point yet where we have a system of agreed criteria in relation to identifying these schools yet. I think that there has been initial work that has been commissioned or that is about to arrive in relation to that, and the types of measures you would expect us to take account of would be dissatisfaction from parents, staff leaving, a change in leadership. We use surveys with the children, for instance, and that gives you quite a good idea of whether a school is possibly facing difficulties. So, there's not one single criteria alone that will tell you,'This is a school that is at risk of causing concern', but taken together, having a set of criteria that everyone has agreed would be a good way of monitoring schools, I believe.", "speakerName": "Meilyr Rowlands" }, { "text": "Okay. Well, we'll be coming on to that middle tier later on, and perhaps that's where the problem lies, namely that if there isn't an agreed system from consortia and yourselves, perhaps that's where the focus needs to be.", "speakerName": "Sian Gwenllian AM" }, { "text": "I would say that it's not the identification of the schools that is the greatest problem. The greatest problem is ensuring that there is support for them and that the support is multi-agency support, where all the agencies that support these schools are working together.", "speakerName": "Meilyr Rowlands" }, { "text": "Well, how long does it take, therefore, for a school to move from an improvement category, in terms of special measures, to be escalated then? Because one sees sometimes that there's an excellent school, and within five years' time, it's in the red. So, there's a great deal of variance in that.", "speakerName": "Sian Gwenllian AM" }, { "text": "Well, that would be something quite unusual—to move from excellent to red.", "speakerName": "Meilyr Rowlands" }, { "text": "Yes, well, gradually, perhaps.", "speakerName": "Sian Gwenllian AM" }, { "text": "Yes. Perhaps Claire can respond to this.", "speakerName": "Meilyr Rowlands" }, { "text": "On average, secondary schools that are in need of special measures take just over two years, on average. Some are shorter; some are quite a considerable amount longer. It's a little less for schools that go into significant improvement. With primary schools, of course, it's much shorter because the issues are far less complex; it's easier to bring about improvements in teaching. When you've got large numbers of staff, you've got large secondary schools, it takes time to actually bring about those improvements, but it is a long time, just over two years, when you think that some pupils, maybe in key stage 4 for the two years—. Certainly, we want to see schools coming out of category much quicker, and this is where the multi-agency approach certainly is a positive step. All partners involved in supporting the school are involved in these improvement boards. They focus on bringing about improvement in the areas of the school that are weakest, and it is the responsibility of everybody involved—that is: ourselves, the regions, local authorities, the schools themselves and their governing bodies—to look at how they can best support the school to bring about that improvement. So, it's getting an agreement on what the issues are, and then planning the support so that we avoid duplication, but that we support the school in the areas they need more support. And we hope that this then will accelerate the improvement of the schools that find themselves in category. But, as Meilyr already said, there are some schools involved in that particular pilot that are at danger of causing serious concern. So, the pilot is trying out those two different approaches as well.", "speakerName": "Claire Morgan" }, { "text": "Okay, thank you. And just finally from me, for the time being at least, the financial situation; we've spoken about that already this morning. If you could—. If funding was injected into the system tomorrow, say, what would you spend it on? What aspects would benefit from that additional funding?", "speakerName": "Sian Gwenllian AM" }, { "text": "Were you asking about something specific there?", "speakerName": "Meilyr Rowlands" }, { "text": "In the schools themselves, if you were a school leader, what would you—", "speakerName": "Sian Gwenllian AM" }, { "text": "Oh, if I were a school leader.", "speakerName": "Meilyr Rowlands" }, { "text": "Yes. How would you use any additional funding that would flow into the school?", "speakerName": "Sian Gwenllian AM" }, { "text": "It's difficult to make that decision, because every school is different. It is important, of course, that leaders do have the power and the ability to make those decisions themselves. But, certainly, in the short term, the type of thing I would have thought would be to prepare for the new curriculum. That means freeing up teachers to think about what the new curriculum means to them. The schools that have been a part of developing the curriculum have been in a fortunate position in that they've had plenty of time to think about this. So, it's now time—and this was the chief message of my annual report this year—for every school in Wales to start to think. Because I think that the new curriculum is truly an opportunity to take a forward step in terms of how we teach and learn within schools. But that means that time is needed for schools to think this through and, in that thinking, to contact the community, to talk to their children as well, to see what the community in its broader sense would like to see being in the new curriculum, because it's up to every school. Although the new curriculum sets a framework, it is up to each and every school to decide what they're going to teach, and what they're teaching in order to prepare their young people for this new world that we have in the twenty-first century. Therefore, to give you a somewhat superficial answer, I would be setting time aside for the training of teachers.", "speakerName": "Meilyr Rowlands" }, { "text": "Can I just add one thing there? I think what we've seen over the years recently is that local authorities, to some extent, have safeguarded the funding that goes to the schools, but the effect of that is that we've seen less funding going into some of the local authority services; for example, those services that support well-being, that promote attendance, and that perhaps support behaviour and assistance for schools. So, I think that all of those factors contribute to how schools can support and assist their pupils, and to improve themselves. So, I think that side of things is important as well—in the school or in the local authority, if funding is available, it should be allocated to all of those things so that those services can also support the children to succeed.", "speakerName": "Jassa Scott" }, { "text": "Thank you.", "speakerName": "Sian Gwenllian AM" }, { "text": "Just before we move on to the middle tier, if I can just ask about the quality of teaching? There's been a consistent message from Estyn that that is the weakest part of the system in Wales. The Government recognises that and has invested a very significant amount of money in that area, yet it's still an issue again in your annual report. You haven't said whether it's getting better or going in the right direction. What is your assessment of whether we are seeing the improvements we need to see in the quality of teaching?", "speakerName": "Lynne Neagle AM" }, { "text": "I think, in nearly all the elements of our framework, the picture is fairly similar. So, in terms of quality of teaching, we have seen gradual but quite small-scale improvements in primary. So, you can feel that that is going in the right direction. In secondary, it's more or less level; we haven't seen it getting particularly better or particularly worse. One of the things that's really important to realise is that the curriculum is about the quality of teaching. It is about the teaching and learning; those are two sides of the same coin, if you like. What's important is the learning experience that our pupils get in school. From the perspective of the pupil, it's the learning; from the perspective of the teacher, it's the teaching. They are two sides to the same coin. I think there's no doubt and I think there's general agreement that, in order to have a step change in the quality of teaching and learning—. I think it was Einstein who said that if you keep on doing the same thing, you'll get the same result. So, you're going to have to change something, and what's changing is the curriculum. I think there's general consensus that this is the right approach to improve the quality of teaching. And that's exactly what all schools need to do now: to think how does this new curriculum affect them in their particular school, in their particular circumstances, in the context of their particular children. How can they use this opportunity now to improve the teaching and learning in their school?", "speakerName": "Meilyr Rowlands" }, { "text": "Siân.", "speakerName": "Lynne Neagle AM" }, { "text": "It does cause one concern, because if the teaching and learning standards just stay the same in the secondary sector, and we know that 12 per cent of secondary schools are under Estyn review and 11 per cent of them are in special measures, we're talking about half of the schools almost, and no improvement in the teaching quality in general. So, there is a major cohort of children captured in that situation, and then there's a new curriculum that comes in. I see the opportunities, but these schools that are doing well are going to go,'Wow, up there', but schools are there in the bottom layer and one is genuinely concerned about those children in those schools. Isn't that where the focus should be and any additional funding that's allocated? You talked about releasing teachers for training, but perhaps it's in those particular schools that we need to focus.", "speakerName": "Sian Gwenllian AM" }, { "text": "I do agree that the best schools will welcome the opportunities and that their standards will improve even more. But then, with regard to the other schools, in a way, there are two very broad categories, which are those that need only a little support just to help them to improve—. And I believe that the new curriculum and the general support that's going to be surrounding that will be the solution for those schools. It's going to be an opportunity for the quality of the teaching and the learning to improve. But you're right to say that there is another smaller cohort that has a much greater need for support, and they're going to find coping with the new curriculum difficult, because they'll also have many other problems. So, I do agree—. And you're not talking about a huge number of schools—some 200 secondary schools is what we have in Wales, so that percentage is relatively small, the number is relatively small—but they need much greater support. That is why this pilot scheme of the multi-agency approach of supporting those schools is important. I do believe that you're right to say that there are funding implications to supporting those schools. I don't think it's enormous, but certainly there's a certain amount of funding that is needed to offer those schools that support.", "speakerName": "Meilyr Rowlands" }, { "text": "Thank you. Janet.", "speakerName": "Lynne Neagle AM" }, { "text": "Thank you, Chair. The Minister recently told the committee that a number of recent Estyn inspections of local authorities' education services have been disappointing. Do you agree? That, of course, is based on the inspections carried out under the current cycle.", "speakerName": "Janet Finch-Saunders AM" }, { "text": "Yes, indeed. I think we've done nine inspections of local authorities' education services so far this cycle. We've got another two this academic year. We'll have done half of them by the end of the academic year. We'll then evaluate how things have gone. But of those nine we've put three into category—we've identified them as causing concern—and they're Pembrokeshire, Powys and Wrexham. So, we do have concerns about those authorities. So, we'll be supporting those authorities, moving forward. But I think a common factor in those inspections was secondary schools. So, we've talking quite a bit about secondary schools this morning, and I think that, again, is a factor in those local authorities.", "speakerName": "Meilyr Rowlands" }, { "text": "Thank you. You say that the proportion of secondary schools causing concern is a challenge for several local authorities and for the system as a whole. Which local authorities are these—you've probably named them all—and have these been inspected yet under the current cycle?", "speakerName": "Janet Finch-Saunders AM" }, { "text": "I think you're taking about three secondary schools in a category in Pembrokeshire, Wrexham and Torfaen. So, we've inspected Pembrokeshire and Wrexham already, but we haven't inspected Torfaen yet. And two schools in a category in Powys, Newport and Gwynedd. And we've inspected Powys and Newport, but we haven't inspected Gwynedd yet. So, in answer to your question: we've inspected most of those, but not all of them.", "speakerName": "Meilyr Rowlands" }, { "text": "Okay. What is your latest assessment of how well the regional consortia are supporting and driving school improvement? Does this vary across the different regions?", "speakerName": "Janet Finch-Saunders AM" }, { "text": "It certainly does vary, but I'll ask Jassa to go into more detail.", "speakerName": "Meilyr Rowlands" }, { "text": "We haven't directly inspected the regional consortia since—I think 2017 was the last time we did some direct monitoring with them. But I think, over the last three years, we do feel that they've improved their knowledge. They're still relatively new in the big scheme of things. So, they did take a little while to embed, and I think that came across when we did the work that we did with them back in 2017. But, more recently, they've improved their knowledge of individual schools' strengths and areas for improvement, and they are using this knowledge better to support and challenge schools, and particularly schools causing concern. But obviously, as we've been talking about this morning, there's still work to do. I think they've prioritised well the work that schools are doing around literacy and numeracy, but their support for schools to develop digital competence has been a bit weaker. Even though we've had the framework as an early part of the curriculum developments there, we haven't seen quite the focus that we've seen on other areas. I think for schools causing concern, what we found—and we do look at their work through our local authority inspection, so we are getting some first-hand evidence of their impact through that—they're not always focused, in those schools causing concern, on improving teaching and learning, so actually getting in and looking and working with teachers and with staff to actually make improvements there. I think, generally, their support for secondary schools has had less impact across the consortia than it has for primary schools, and I think sometimes that's because they're struggling to recruit appropriate specialists, to support with secondary, or perhaps they don't have the depth of strong practice that we talked about earlier within their region. So, they're having to work a bit harder to find effective practice, to share practice and to get the secondary expertise and knowledge to support those schools. We will be, over the next year, looking specifically at the work of consortia to support curriculum reform work. Well, we think we will be—we haven’t had our remit letter yet. But that's one of the areas we've discussed, about doing some specific work on over the next year to look in a bit more depth.", "speakerName": "Jassa Scott" }, { "text": "So, what is the cycle of inspections for regional consortia, and how robust are those inspections? What areas do you cover?", "speakerName": "Janet Finch-Saunders AM" }, { "text": "Well, regional consortia aren't actually statutory entities at the moment, and we don't have specific inspection powers relating to regional consortia. What we have are powers to inspect school improvement. So, on each of our local authority inspections, there will be, usually, an area that we're looking at that relates to school improvement, and that would involve us looking at the work of the consortia that the local authority has commissioned. What we've agreed with Welsh Government is that, over the next few years, we will take a thematic approach. So, the first area that we've said is that we'll look specifically at how each of them is supporting curriculum reform, and report on that. So, that will report specifically on the different ones, but it wouldn't be the same as doing an inspection of their work at this time.", "speakerName": "Jassa Scott" }, { "text": "Should they be on a statutory footing?", "speakerName": "Janet Finch-Saunders AM" }, { "text": "Well, I think that's something to be discussed over the next few years. There's, obviously, local government legislation that has been debated recently, which has the potential to create corporate joint committees, and school improvement was one of the areas that is being considered there. So, there may be an opportunity, if that's created, to think how we then adapt inspection to look specifically at that. So, I think there is an opportunity. I think we do get a handle on their work through the local authority and, ultimately, it's looking at what that consortia brings to that local authority and to the schools and the pupils in that area that's the important bit, I think, ultimately, to see the impact there. So, we are looking at them in that way, and then taking that thematic approach, but we'll keep reviewing it over the next couple of years.", "speakerName": "Jassa Scott" }, { "text": "Thank you. And what are Estyn's views on the latest position regarding regional working in south-west and mid Wales? Would it be preferable for school improvement advisers to be based in the consortium, Education through Regional Work, rather than each local authority employing their own, as is the case at present?", "speakerName": "Janet Finch-Saunders AM" }, { "text": "If I can just go back to the last question as well, what we did in order to inspect regions was we paused our local authority inspection cycle back in 2014, I think, for about three years. So, then, we spent time looking at regions, basically, because we didn't have the resource to do both at the same time. So, we're in negotiation with Welsh Government currently, so that, going forward, we can look at local authorities and regions at the same time. If regions become statutory entities, that would be in legislation, and then you could have legislation that gives us directly the powers to inspect them, which we don't currently have. So, we have to, effectively, wait for Welsh Government to ask us to do that work. But, as Jassa said, currently, what we intend to do in the short is to do some thematic work on that. In terms of ERW, they were the region that, at the end of the last cycle of regional inspections, we were still monitoring. We are concerned about their progress, particularly in the light of recent developments. So, for example, the chair of the joint committee has resigned, the managing director remains a temporary appointment and there are no clear plans for a permanent leadership. Some of the leadership team have left—the capacity has gone down—and various staff that were appointed last summer have already left. The budget has not been agreed and certain key meetings—executive board and joint committee meetings—have been cancelled. So, we are particularly worried about ERW, and, because of that, we will be going in to visit them in April—next month—and we'll be visiting all of the authorities to make sure that they do have a plan for an appropriate school improvement service going forward. But, Jassa, probably, can say a little bit more about our plans there.", "speakerName": "Meilyr Rowlands" }, { "text": "Yes, I think you asked a specific question about, you know, which is better. I think our view has been that, generally, the local authorities are too small to deliver that whole range of school improvement services, particularly given the national reform agenda at the moment. We felt last summer, when we went to ERW, that they'd managed to reach the best possible model, given the constraint they've placed, collectively, on themselves—that they want to deliver aspects of school improvement locally, through the local authorities, and have some central capacity. So, we felt that, given that they wanted to do some locally and some centrally, enough thought had been put into that structure last summer and that it could be workable. There were key aspects such as support for secondary schools causing concern and there was some capacity centrally that could support areas such as Powys. Unfortunately, as Meilyr has described, some of those aspects have since been disbanded or those staff who were on secondment have gone back, so I think it is a key risk, particularly for some of those authorities you've talked about that are causing concern, such as Powys or Pembrokeshire—that they haven't necessarily got that local capacity to support their schools causing concern. So, you've got some concerns within school capacity and you've got concerns about local authority capacity, and what you don't have there now is that collective capacity centrally that might support them. So, that's why we're going to go and do a slightly more detailed link visit to try to understand how they are mitigating the risks that we see are arising as a result of some of those things that have happened recently. Our understanding is that there's a joint committee meeting of ERW on 19 March, so, hopefully, after that point, we'll have a little bit more information about how they're planning to manage that collective set of services going forward—it's a little bit of an unknown at the moment.", "speakerName": "Jassa Scott" }, { "text": "You were asking,'Would it be better for every authority to have their own team?' But, before regions were invented, if you like, we were saying consistently that they tended to be too small. What happened in practice was that authorities did come together voluntarily to have joint advisory services. So, you had Cynnal in the north west, you had the Education and School Improvement Service, you had Gwent—so, they naturally did come together in groups, maybe a little bit smaller than the current regions, but they, of their own accord, produced something not very dissimilar to a region.", "speakerName": "Meilyr Rowlands" }, { "text": "Siân, did you have a supplementary?", "speakerName": "Lynne Neagle AM" }, { "text": "Yes, just on ERW. Does the fact that there is a dispute on the highest level feed down to the school and to the children? Are the children in south-west and mid Wales affected by this? Are standards decreasing in that part of Wales?", "speakerName": "Sian Gwenllian AM" }, { "text": "Well, it's difficult to say directly, but we have inspected nine authorities and two of those are in that area, so, the lack of support at that level, as Jassa was saying, may be the reason why those authorities are suffering difficulties.", "speakerName": "Meilyr Rowlands" }, { "text": "And it is clear that many people across that area are expending energy and time discussing these issues. Any reorganisation does take energy out of the system, so it is clear that that time isn't then being spent, perhaps, on investment in improving schools and supporting staff in schools. So, as Meilyr says, it's not clear, but a lot of energy is being expended in that particular discussion that is ongoing.", "speakerName": "Jassa Scott" }, { "text": "Janet.", "speakerName": "Lynne Neagle AM" }, { "text": "What disadvantages could there be from Neath Port Talbot's intention to withdraw from regional working via ERW? And I've got to be honest, up in the north, I know that there are concerns about regional consortia, and when local authorities are under pressure financially, it questions, sometimes, the value of regional consortia. So, what disadvantages could there be from Neath Port Talbot's intention to withdraw from regional working via ERW?", "speakerName": "Janet Finch-Saunders AM" }, { "text": "I think we've talked in general terms and we feel that local authorities probably are too small on their own. In general terms, you can't say that any particular authority couldn't, maybe, put things together in such a way that it's effective. Also, it has a knock-on effect on the rest of the consortium, if one withdraws. I don't know whether, Jassa, you've got anything to add to the general points we've made.", "speakerName": "Meilyr Rowlands" }, { "text": "I mean, I think, what you've alluded to there, it has the potential to be a destabilising factor across the whole of the national model that we've got for supporting school improvement at a time where Welsh Government are kind of relying heavily on that consortium model to help support curriculum reform and to drive professional learning and be the conduit for lots of the aspects of reform that we've talked about. So, I think that potential risk of any destabilising across the system is a disadvantage generally. I think—. Clearly, we've talked about that capacity at a local level. There is that aspect of what that means in terms of the joint capacity across the other authorities there. And I think it's just what I've already talked about in terms of being a distraction at a crucial time for support where schools need to feel that they're confident in where they need to go for support. I should say that we're planning, as part of that visit that we do in April, to survey schools in that region about the support that they're getting, be that from their authority or from the central teams in ERW. That's something we did at the time when we did the inspections previously, and we thought it would be helpful to get some first-hand views of any disadvantages or impact that they might be feeling, really.", "speakerName": "Jassa Scott" }, { "text": "Okay, thank you. And then, finally, for me:what involvement has Estyn had with the strategic education delivery group chaired by Professor Dylan Jones and what are your expectations for how it will improve the work of the middle tier?", "speakerName": "Suzy Davies AM" }, { "text": "We've been members of that group right from the beginning. I personally am on it and colleagues are on it as well, and I'm a member of the sub-group that does some of the background work for that group as well, and Estyn has given several presentations to that group. I think the group is important. I remember commenting the first time it met that it was welcoming. The rather obvious thing is that you get all the strategic educational organisations together in one room, but it had never been done before, as far as I know. So, it was a really important step forward for that to happen. I'm a very firm believer in making those relationships, building those relationships, so that people understand what each of us contributes to the whole of the education system. We need to have that forum to be able to make sure that we're clear about what each of our roles is.", "speakerName": "Meilyr Rowlands" }, { "text": "Okay, thanks.", "speakerName": "Janet Finch-Saunders AM" }, { "text": "Okay, thank you. We've got some questions now from Dawn Bowden.", "speakerName": "Lynne Neagle AM" }, { "text": "Thank you, Chair. Morning, all. In your report you talked about in early settings where skills development is less effective, that children begin to feel at a very early age that they can't do certain things. I don't know whether that is anecdotal evidence or is that specific outcome-based evidence—whatever, it's quite worrying. But what do you think the long-term effect on a child's development has in that respect?", "speakerName": "Dawn Bowden AM" }, { "text": "It's probably worth saying that skill development is a strength in about three quarters of our schools—primary schools and early years settings. But in a minority of schools and settings, as you've picked up, children are often introduced to things too early. So, they're introduced to phonics, they're introduced to learning to read, when they're not at that developmental stage. And really, long term, it means the children lose confidence, because if they're introduced to these things too early they don't succeed, they tend to need additional support, and it can give them a negative impression, it can give them negative thoughts about their ability. So, we need to address that, and really it's about—", "speakerName": "Claire Morgan" }, { "text": "Sorry, what sort of age range are we talking about here?", "speakerName": "Dawn Bowden AM" }, { "text": "These would be children from three to five.", "speakerName": "Claire Morgan" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Dawn Bowden AM" }, { "text": "So, this is very, very early on.", "speakerName": "Claire Morgan" }, { "text": "And is there something, then, in that—and I don't think there's much we can do about that, but it may be in terms of the way that the schools or the early learning settings address this—you will have children at a very young age that have almost a year's difference in their age group, so they're born just before 1 September or just after 1 September? So, that's a huge gap, isn't it, at that point in their development?", "speakerName": "Dawn Bowden AM" }, { "text": "Yes.", "speakerName": "Claire Morgan" }, { "text": "Is that not being addressed in a way that those children are being taught and approached at that age?", "speakerName": "Dawn Bowden AM" }, { "text": "Yes.", "speakerName": "Claire Morgan" }, { "text": "Right, okay. That's fine. In terms of reading and literacy skills, we still remain quite low in the Programme for International Student Assessment ratings for reading, and I know there is a particular concern about the impact on boys in that regard. What do you think are the most pressing priorities that face them around reading and literacy?", "speakerName": "Dawn Bowden AM" }, { "text": "I think literacy has been, and still is, and still needs to be a top priority. I mean, literacy clearly is something that underpins the rest of education, so it really does need to be a top priority. I think it has been a high priority, but we need to continue prioritising it. We've seen some improvements over the years. For example, we've given a lot of attention to writing over the years, and making sure that children get the opportunity to write in an extended way, not just short sentences, but having the opportunity to have extended writing, and there's some evidence that that now is beginning to have an effect. But almost ironically, the same sort of issue is true of reading. So, it's not just reading small little snippets—we need to encourage children to have a love for reading and read whole books. So, I gave a little bit of attention to that in the annual report—that that needs attention. I think the other thing I would emphasise is that this is not just for the foundation phase, it's not just for very young children—it's really important at key stage 2 and in secondary school. One of the things we have been worried about, and I think there was some reflection of this in PISA, is that there are strengths in reading in Wales. So, PISA, for example, said that children in Wales are very good at comparing lots of little snippets, but what they're saying, and they're saying this themselves, is that the love of books is decreasing, and the number of children who read regularly whole books. So, I think there is something there for teachers to set and model a good example, to show their own interest in reading, to encourage children to read themselves.", "speakerName": "Meilyr Rowlands" }, { "text": "It's probably a wider societal problem as well, isn't it? I'm thinking about gaming, electronic gaming, computers.", "speakerName": "Dawn Bowden AM" }, { "text": "Absolutely. I think there is some sort of link with the digital world, and the way people read—the actual technique of reading, is evolving. But I think reading is so important, and developing a complex vocabulary is so important in being able to communicate, in order to get a good job, to have enjoyment out of life—all of those things are so important. We ourselves are going to give this quite a lot of priority in future, so we're doing a major piece of work on language acquisition, which will cover some of this next year. Every year one of our thematics is the major bit of work we do, and we try to support that with a conference. So, that will be the focus that we give to our work next year—it is on language acquisition.", "speakerName": "Meilyr Rowlands" }, { "text": "Okay, thank you for that. Just one other supplementary on that, I guess, is whether you have a good idea of how many young people are coming out of school at 16—so, those that are not staying on to do A-levels—and are coming out with an inability to read or white. Do we know what the figure is for that?", "speakerName": "Dawn Bowden AM" }, { "text": "I can't tell you that off the top of my head, but I'm sure that there will be evidence. That's not something we inspect as such.", "speakerName": "Meilyr Rowlands" }, { "text": "No, no, but there should be evidence around that. Okay.", "speakerName": "Dawn Bowden AM" }, { "text": "There has been a shift in that there's been continued emphasis in post-16 education and training around literacy and picking that up. For example, anyone who's studying in a further education college will have to do resits. There's an aim to try and get everyone to a basic level. In apprenticeships they'll use essential skills and so on to try and get that basic level of literacy as well, so there is an emphasis. I think one of the worrying indications, maybe, that post-16 sectors find is that sometimes even when learners are coming out with a basic qualification in a GCSE, potentially in English or a literature subject, they don't necessarily have a really good foundation of some of the basic skills as well. So, there is a lot of work to do in this area.", "speakerName": "Jassa Scott" }, { "text": "Okay, all right. Could I just move you on—? Sorry—", "speakerName": "Dawn Bowden AM" }, { "text": "The only thing I would add to that is, I guess, it's quite small, the number of people who don't have basic reading. I think one of the things we need to emphasise is that learning reading is something you do throughout your life, and what we need to do is to develop, in particular, pupils' higher level reading skills. The fact that they can just read isn't the end of the story; they need to be developing those higher level reading skills and continuing to widen the range of things they read, and be able to develop their vocabulary at a higher level.", "speakerName": "Meilyr Rowlands" }, { "text": "And their comprehension, I guess.", "speakerName": "Dawn Bowden AM" }, { "text": "Sorry?", "speakerName": "Meilyr Rowlands" }, { "text": "And their comprehension as well.", "speakerName": "Dawn Bowden AM" }, { "text": "Absolutely, yes—those higher level skills of comprehension and inference and those sorts of things.", "speakerName": "Meilyr Rowlands" }, { "text": "Sure, okay. Can I just move you on, then, to numeracy and whether you can tell us if you're satisfied with the progress in numeracy, because I think we were doing better on the PISA results in maths in Wales than we did previously? So, what are your thoughts on that?", "speakerName": "Dawn Bowden AM" }, { "text": "I think there is a fairly clear good news story here. PISA shows improvements and a lot of that can be attributed, I think, to the new GCSE mathematics numeracy. I think there's much less predictability in that work; you can't approach it in a formulaic way, either the pupils or the teachers in terms of teaching it. There's much more problem solving. It's about applying what you've learnt in the core mathematics lessons to new situations in subjects across the curriculum. I think that that GCSE numeracy has built on the work that's been done lower down on the national numeracy framework, which has the same philosophy of applying that mathematics knowledge in a problem-solving situation. That has been a really good news story, really.", "speakerName": "Meilyr Rowlands" }, { "text": "That's something to be positive about, anyway. That's good. My final question, Chair, is: in your view, to what extent is Wales on track to meet the target of 500 points in each of the domains in the 2020-1 cycle for PISA?", "speakerName": "Dawn Bowden AM" }, { "text": "I think that that target is somewhat arbitrary, but assuming that we continue on this journey that we are on—the current change programme of the new curriculum and so forth—I think we would expect to see those improvements we've seen in science and in mathematics to continue. We've talked about reading and I think we will be giving more attention to reading. I think the education system more generally, hopefully, will give more attention to reading. So, I would hope to see improvements there as well. The only other thing I would add is that there is some research that indicates or suggests that the effect of schools is greater on mathematics and science than on reading, and the reason for that is you don't do a lot mathematics or science in the home. But the attitude towards reading is very much dependent on family and community factors, more so, maybe, than mathematics and science. So, I think that's another reason why I think a community-school approach is really important. You need to get everybody on board; it's not just what the teacher does in the classroom—it's important that the whole family and the community thinks that reading is important.", "speakerName": "Meilyr Rowlands" }, { "text": "Just on numeracy, it was interesting because one of the schools in my constituency have actually contacted my office and a number of other organisations across the constituency to ask us how we use maths in our work. So, they're obviously trying to relate that now to everyday life and working, which I thought was quite good.", "speakerName": "Dawn Bowden AM" }, { "text": "That's good.", "speakerName": "Meilyr Rowlands" }, { "text": "We've got some questions now around progress of specific groups of pupils. If I can start and ask you how concerning is it that the gap between pupils eligible for free school meals and other pupils has not narrowed in the last 10 years, especially given the £475 million pupil deprivation grant investment.", "speakerName": "Lynne Neagle AM" }, { "text": "Yes. I think secondary schools and the issue of poverty were the two things I've noted in the annual report. So, I think it is a concern to us. I think it is worth also remembering that compared to other countries, for example, in PISA, we do compare quite well in terms of equity. There's also an argument that maybe poverty and austerity have increased, so that we're in a way running to keep still. And I think also, as I was suggesting about the reading, poverty really is a social phenomenon. Schools can't solve that on their own. So, there are a lot of caveats to be made around the fact that that poverty gap hasn't closed, but that's not to say that schools can't do something about it, and I've suggested in the annual report a sort of a two-pronged approach. One is the new curriculum. I think there is evidence in the international research that teaching and learning, better teaching and learning, helps disadvantaged poor pupils disproportionately. So, they gain more from it that their peers. So, I think improving teaching and learning, and we discussed that earlier this morning about how the new curriculum is really all about improving the quality of teaching and learning in the classroom. So, that's one approach, and then the other approach, which I've also mentioned earlier, is having a community-focused approach to schools. The schools that do more successfully tackle the poverty gap are the schools that take that kind of approach. It means helping the pupils. It means helping their families. It's about making pupil well-being really high on the agenda. It's very difficult for children to do well in school if they've got all kinds of things happening in their background. So, it's important that schools can maybe signpost those families to other services that can support them and help them. So, it's quite a complex—. It's challenging for schools to go down this route, and I think the more help we can give schools to take that approach, the better. But the schools that do do it do benefit a lot from it. They have better engagement from parents, from the families, and that then reflects back on the work of the children.", "speakerName": "Meilyr Rowlands" }, { "text": "And we've just published a collection of good practice about how schools support vulnerable learners, and we'll be teasing out the aspects around community-focused schools a lot more in a report that we'll publish in the next couple of months. So, we've kind of drilled down and looked at what some schools are doing in that area in a bit more detail.", "speakerName": "Jassa Scott" }, { "text": "Thank you. Suzy, on this.", "speakerName": "Lynne Neagle AM" }, { "text": "Yes, just quickly. Obviously, I think we've all been to schools where the PDG is actually used to engage parents more for exactly the reasons you say. But I just wanted to interrogate the deprivation gap a little bit, because, of course, even though, as you say, there's perhaps more equity in Wales, one of the reasons for that is because our children from better-off backgrounds do less well, and considerably less well than their peers in the other parts of the United Kingdom. So, whereas their attainment gaps are pretty dreadful, that's one of the reasons—that our better-off children aren't doing as well as perhaps they might do. Is that a concern as well? We don't want this rush to the middle, do we?", "speakerName": "Suzy Davies AM" }, { "text": "I think it's essential that all groups of pupils do as well as they possibly can, absolutely. So, it's not quite the same issue, but we've talked about the importance of making sure that more able and talented children do well.", "speakerName": "Meilyr Rowlands" }, { "text": "They're not the same.", "speakerName": "Suzy Davies AM" }, { "text": "They're not the same, clearly, because you have more able and talented children from poor backgrounds. Differentiation is a challenge for schools, but it's absolutely essential that all groups of children do as well as they possibly can. So, in things like PISA, in terms of reading, for example, we can't just say it's that group that needs to improve—all the groups need to improve. And I think that's why something like the new curriculum gives schools more scope to tailor their teaching and learning to the particular groups that they have, whether they’re more able, whether they're advantaged or whether they're disadvantaged.", "speakerName": "Meilyr Rowlands" }, { "text": "Okay, thanks. Thank you, Lynne.", "speakerName": "Suzy Davies AM" }, { "text": "Okay. Pupils' confidence in their school's ability to help them with their emotional and mental well-being is much less at secondary school and that's been a consistent theme as well from your reports. Why do you think that is?", "speakerName": "Lynne Neagle AM" }, { "text": "Yes, you're right. As we mentioned earlier, we do pupil surveys before all our inspections, and across a number of those indicators, like,'How well does the school listen? Do adults in school care about me? How well does the school deal with bullying?'—quite a lot those ones around well-being do tail off. Nine out of 10 pupils at key stage 2 have that confidence, down to half at key stage 4, as you say. And I think there are a number of factors that we think contribute to that: I think one of the factors is that pupils face, sometimes, more challenges as they get older in those teenage years, but they also become more reflective and perhaps more discerning. And I think what we find in secondary schools is perhaps secondary school pupils notice sometimes the differences between their everyday life that they experience in school and perhaps the messages that they're getting about well-being in terms of their lessons, in terms of assemblies and in terms of school policies and so on. So, they are probably more discerning in noticing those differences and maybe there are some of those differences also there in primary school, but the pupils don't notice. I think we've already touched upon things like the differences in the way that, at primary school, you would tend to have a go-to adult, which is your teacher. The best secondary schools find ways to make sure that pupils do feel that level of support and feel there are trusted people, but it's more of a challenge to make sure that that happens, because of the way they're operating. We still have some concerns about personal and social education and the health and well-being support, which we've made a recommendation about in the past in some of our thematic reports, but also recently in some of our secondary school inspection reports. And I think I already touched upon the fact that sometimes, when the budget is tight, it can be some of those—they're not peripheral in their importance, but they're not the teacher in the classroom: well-being support assistants and so on and family liaison workers—staff in the school who perhaps really support that pastoral care that the school as a whole can provide—it may be that those are the roles that are less prevalent at times of less funding. So, I think there are some great members of staff doing a really good job, but perhaps they're not those members of staff who can support teachers and support pupils in creating that kind of caring environment. Maybe there a fewer of them around. So, I think there's not an obvious answer and part of it is that they do become more discerning and perhaps more vocal in those responses generally, as they get older. So, you might have a truer reflection of opinions than perhaps—. And that might explain some of the difference with primary, where, generally, they're quite positive about everything across most of the schools that we ask.", "speakerName": "Jassa Scott" }, { "text": "So, it's not that secondary schools—because you've said that in a previous inspection report—are just not as good at prioritising mental health and well-being.", "speakerName": "Lynne Neagle AM" }, { "text": "I think there's an element that it's more of a challenge for a secondary school to provide an effective set of support from that whole-staff awareness of some of the challenges. And one of the pieces of work we've done recently is around adverse childhood experiences, and we have found that primary schools have taken that and embraced it. Once you've trained your staff, then they've got that knowledge. They're the ones who are working day to day with the schools. Secondary schools haven't always taken a whole-school approach to that. They might have trained a set of staff. So, maybe not every member of staff has the same level of understanding, but also those staff aren't spending the same amount of time with pupils. So, in terms of getting to know pupils, picking up on signs that they may be struggling, or that there might be concerns—it's much more of a challenge. You've got to work a lot harder as a secondary school to make sure that staff have that knowledge and that you've got the tracking systems that can put those different bits of information together to actually mean that you can target support where it's needed.", "speakerName": "Jassa Scott" }, { "text": "Thank you. Suzy.", "speakerName": "Lynne Neagle AM" }, { "text": "I'm just thinking again about specific groups of pupils. Obviously, we've had one case in north Wales, in an independent school, where there were serious concerns. What's that done to your desire to monitor and check what's going on in these independent schools? Are they regulated sufficiently?", "speakerName": "Suzy Davies AM" }, { "text": "I'll pick up on that as well. Just to explain how we work with independent schools, initially, to give the context. So, there are different kinds of independent schools. So, some have boarding provision, and where they have boarding provision, Care Inspectorate Wales would look at the boarding side of it, we'd look at the educational side of it. There are others where they may have a linked children's home, which can be another room in the same house, or it can be a number of miles away, and similarly there CIW would look at the residential aspects of the care and we'd look at the school. So, I think, there's a focus in the independent school standards regulations, which is a minimum that all schools have to meet to maintain a registration. There is a focus in that on how that school looks after and cares for its pupils, and there are focuses on that element of boarding provision where relevant, and the national minimum standards that the care inspectorate look at that have aspects around supporting well-being as well. What we do find in our inspections is that, overall, we generally find that pupils' well-being develops, they make good progress, and that care, support and guidance that schools give is good. What we mean by that, really, practically, is that they are developing their resilience and their self-esteem. In special schools, this might mean particularly that those pupils learn to manage their anxieties better so that they improve their behaviour, which may be one of the reasons why they're in that specialist setting. In mainstream independent schools, what we find is that people develop their tenacity, their curiosity for learning—their resilience in that way. But there are shortcomings sometimes. For example, there was one school where we found that they weren't making appropriate referrals to child and adolescent mental health services. So, these schools do operate independently by their nature, and their awareness, perhaps, of some of the guidance and support that is out there—sometimes, maybe, there can be more to be done, and I think we've talked to Welsh Government about that.", "speakerName": "Jassa Scott" }, { "text": "What's Estyn's role in that—to bring that level of awareness to those schools?", "speakerName": "Suzy Davies AM" }, { "text": "I think we do through our inspection guidance, and the independent school standards do refer to Welsh Government guidance—it's something like'Keeping learners safe', which is a really key document, which supports safeguarding and caring across schools. That's regularly discussed and talked about and referred to with those schools. So, I think the other area is that sometimes we don't have the intelligence about what—. So, for example, if there's been a safeguarding referral from a school, we don't necessarily always get that information, which means that when we do go to inspect, we may not have the full picture to help us tailor our inspection activity. So, that's something we've raised—", "speakerName": "Jassa Scott" }, { "text": "[Inaudible.]—be brief and brief in answers.", "speakerName": "Lynne Neagle AM" }, { "text": "Al right, okay. Do you mind if I move on to the next question?", "speakerName": "Suzy Davies AM" }, { "text": "We're going to have to skip those, I'm afraid, and talk to the last set of questions, just because of the time pressures. Hefin.", "speakerName": "Lynne Neagle AM" }, { "text": "I'd like to ask in Welsh, please. What role, if any, did Estyn have in the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development's latest review of progress in school improvement when they visited Wales in late 2019?", "speakerName": "Hefin David AM" }, { "text": "Well, we were interviewed. Therefore, the three of us had an interview with the OECD officials and we offered evidence to them. And I think that, when the report is published, you will see that the OECD does draw on our broader evidence and will be quoting our reports—the annual report and some of our thematic reports. That is the part that we played in that work.", "speakerName": "Meilyr Rowlands" }, { "text": "Thanks. How significant a role do you believe the national evaluation and improvement resource will play in raising school standards?", "speakerName": "Hefin David AM" }, { "text": "I think that it's very important. It's Claire who has been specifically tasked with that, so I'll ask Claire to speak about it.", "speakerName": "Meilyr Rowlands" }, { "text": "I think working together with the practitioners, the regions and representatives from local authorities is a great opportunity to develop a national approach, because we know across Wales there's some excellent practice, but we know there are schools that struggle to bring about improvement. So, this national resource has the potential to provide schools with detailed guidance on how they can approach not only self-evaluation, but, more importantly, how they can bring about that improvement. So, it will be a resource that develops over time. It's starting—we're piloting currently with around 40 schools. Half of those have been involved in developing the tools and approaches right from the start, and 22 new schools have come on board this year. But we anticipate that there will be lots of tools and approaches within that resource that schools can use to improve the quality of self-evaluation throughout the school, primaries, secondaries, PRUs and special schools. But it will focus on establishing a culture within the school that focuses on improvement, that establishes a reflective culture where all staff are involved in development. So, we're hoping that this tool—it's still currently in development, but we hope that that will support schools really well.", "speakerName": "Claire Morgan" }, { "text": "So, it's an evolving piece of work.", "speakerName": "Hefin David AM" }, { "text": "Yes, it is.", "speakerName": "Claire Morgan" }, { "text": "Okay. And, with regard to comparison of performance, does the lack of comparative attainment data raise difficulties when you're inspecting and drawing conclusions and standards in schools?", "speakerName": "Hefin David AM" }, { "text": "Not really, no. I think there was a bit of a myth that a lot of this performance data was just for Estyn, but actually it never has been. When we inspect, we look at a whole range of aspects of the work. We look at standards, we look at teaching and learning in the classroom, we look at well-being, we look at care support and guidance, we look at leadership, we look at all of these things, and we look at it based on first-hand evidence—what we actually see in the classroom. So, we're quite happy to continue to inspect schools, and we in fact support having less emphasis on data because, although data is useful, and we hope that schools will continue to analyse their data and use that data to help them self-improve and self-evaluate, we don't actually need it and it has actually created a bit of a high-stakes culture. So, I think stepping back from that culture is a good idea.", "speakerName": "Meilyr Rowlands" }, { "text": "Okay, thank you very much. We've come to the end of our time, so can I thank you all for your attendance? As usual, you'll receive a transcript to check for accuracy following the meeting. But thank you very much again for coming in this morning.", "speakerName": "Lynne Neagle AM" }, { "text": "Diolch yn fawr—thank you.", "speakerName": "Meilyr Rowlands" }, { "text": "Item 3, then, is papers to note. Paper to note 1 is a ministerial update on the emotional and mental health of children and young people in Wales—next steps for'Mind over matter'. Paper to note 2 is a letter from the Minister for Housing and Local Government regarding teachers' pay and pensions, and paper to note 3 is a letter to the Minister for Education from us regarding the school funding review. Are Members happy to note those? Thank you. Can I then propose under Standing Order 17.42 that the committee resolves to meet in private for the remainder of the meeting? Are Members content? Great. Okay. Thank you.", "speakerName": "Lynne Neagle AM" } ] }	{ "dialogTurns": [ { "query": "What was the main objective of the meeting?", "response": "The main objective of the meeting was to discuss the annual report 2018-19 by Estyn, Her Majesty's Chief Inspector. The report covered themes such as curriculum changes, funding for schools, teacher recruitment and retention, as well as the support available to secondary schools causing concern.", "responseAttribution": { "indexRanges": [ { "startIndex": null, "endIndex": 4 }, { "startIndex": 7, "endIndex": 14 } ] }, "queryMetadata": { "queryType": "QUERY_TYPE_GENERAL", "isUnanswerable": null, "isContextDependent": null } }, { "query": "Did Meilyr Rowlands express concern over the potential for standards to slip during the curriculum change period?", "response": "Yes, Meilyr Rowlands expressed concern over the potential risk of standards slipping during the curriculum change period. They highlighted the importance of appropriate training and emphasized the need for ongoing monitoring and evaluation of the new curriculum to ensure the continued improvement of standards.", "responseAttribution": { "indexRanges": [ { "startIndex": 1, "endIndex": 4 } ] }, "queryMetadata": { "queryType": "QUERY_TYPE_YES_NO", "isUnanswerable": null, "isContextDependent": null } }, { "query": "In the meeting, what was said by Meilyr Rowlands regarding the impact of funding on secondary schools?", "response": "In the meeting, Meilyr Rowlands acknowledged that secondary schools have a greater challenge in terms of preparedness compared to primary schools due to the phased implementation of the new curriculum. They also stated that issues of funding have historically become more challenging for secondary schools. Notably, the secondary sector has seen a decline in surplus reserves, while primary schools have maintained constant levels over a long period.", "responseAttribution": { "indexRanges": [ { "startIndex": 8, "endIndex": 12 } ] }, "queryMetadata": { "queryType": "QUERY_TYPE_SPECIFIC", "isUnanswerable": null, "isContextDependent": null } }, { "query": "What was decided regarding the implementation of a universal school uniform policy across all secondary schools in Wales?", "response": "There is no discussion regarding the implementation of a universal school uniform policy across all secondary schools in Wales.", "responseAttribution": null, "queryMetadata": { "queryType": "QUERY_TYPE_SPECIFIC", "isUnanswerable": true, "isContextDependent": null } }, { "query": "What are some specific instances of schools integrating wellbeing themes into their practice?", "response": "The participants did not discuss any specific instances of schools integrating wellbeing themes into their practice.", "responseAttribution": null, "queryMetadata": { "queryType": "QUERY_TYPE_SPECIFIC", "isUnanswerable": true, "isContextDependent": null } }, { "query": "What did Meilyr Rowlands say regarding the strategy to improve the quality of teaching and learning?", "response": "Meilyr Rowlands suggested that setting time aside for teacher training would be an effective strategy for improving the quality of teaching and learning. They emphasized the importance of providing teachers with opportunities to think about the new curriculum and how it can be implemented effectively in their classrooms.", "responseAttribution": { "indexRanges": [ { "startIndex": 41, "endIndex": 41 }, { "startIndex": 45, "endIndex": 45 } ] }, "queryMetadata": { "queryType": "QUERY_TYPE_SPECIFIC", "isUnanswerable": null, "isContextDependent": null } }, { "query": "What other concerns were raised during the meeting?", "response": "* The participants raised concerns about funding, specifically regarding secondary schools.\n* Siân Gwenllian brought up the issue of shortage of teachers, especially at secondary schools.\n* The issue of the gap between students eligible for free school meals and other students was raised.", "responseAttribution": { "indexRanges": [ { "startIndex": 10, "endIndex": 12 }, { "startIndex": 21, "endIndex": 21 }, { "startIndex": 107, "endIndex": 107 } ] }, "queryMetadata": { "queryType": "QUERY_TYPE_SPECIFIC", "isUnanswerable": null, "isContextDependent": true } }, { "query": "Is it mentioned in the meeting that steps are being taken to address the shortage of teachers, particularly at secondary schools?", "response": "The issue of teacher shortage was raised, with a particular focus on secondary schools. However, the meeting did not go into the steps being taken to address this issue.", "responseAttribution": null, "queryMetadata": { "queryType": "QUERY_TYPE_YES_NO", "isUnanswerable": true, "isContextDependent": null } }, { "query": "What were the advantages of implementing a universal school uniform policy across all secondary schools in Wales?", "response": "The meeting did not discuss the implementation of a universal school uniform policy across all secondary schools in Wales, therefore there were no advantages or disadvantages mentioned regarding this topic.", "responseAttribution": null, "queryMetadata": { "queryType": "QUERY_TYPE_SPECIFIC", "isUnanswerable": true, "isContextDependent": null } }, { "query": "What were Meilyr Rowlands' suggestions for addressing the concern about the shortage of teachers, especially at secondary schools?", "response": "Meilyr Rowlands suggest that there are also immediate tasks that need to be completed. For example, they support some of the part-time courses offered by the Open University because they believe that they need a far more diverse range of pathways into teaching. There are a variety of approaches; for example, they discussed the possibility of moving students from primary to secondary education, especially in Welsh-medium schools where there is a scarcity.", "responseAttribution": { "indexRanges": [ { "startIndex": 16, "endIndex": 22 } ] }, "queryMetadata": { "queryType": "QUERY_TYPE_SPECIFIC", "isUnanswerable": null, "isContextDependent": null } } ] }
e99714ebbcbc47449e6549b99eeea234	{ "meetingId": "education1", "transcriptSegments": [ { "text": "Good afternoon, everyone. Welcome to the first virtual meeting of the Children, Young People and Education Committee. In accordance with Standing Order 34.19, I determine that the public are excluded from the committee's meeting, in order to protect public health. In accordance with Standing Order 34.21, notice of this decision was included in the agenda for this meeting, which was published last Friday. This meeting is, however, being broadcast live on Senedd.tv, with all participants joining via video conference. A record of the proceedings will be published as usual. Aside from the procedural adaptation relating to conducting proceedings remotely, all other Standing Order requirements for committees remain in place. The meeting is bilingual, and simultaneous translation from Welsh to English is available. Can I remind all participants that the microphones will be controlled centrally, so there's no need to turn them on and off individually? Can I ask whether there are any declarations of interest, please? No. Okay. Thank you. Can I just then, again, note for the record that, if, for any reason, I drop out of the meeting, the committee has agreed that Dawn Bowden AM will temporarily chair while I try to rejoin? Item 2, then, this afternoon is an evidence session with the Welsh Government on the impact of the coronavirus epidemic on education in Wales. I'm very pleased to welcome Kirsty Williams AM, Minister for Education, Steve Davies, director of the education directorate, and Huw Morris, who is group director, skills, higher education and lifelong learning. Can I welcome you all and thank you for attending? Minister, I understand you'd like to make a short opening statement.", "speakerName": "Lynne Neagle AM" }, { "text": "Thank you very much, Lynne. And indeed, if I could just begin by, once again, putting on the record my gratitude to everyone who is helping us get through this pandemic. There are a vast number of people who are keeping our school hubs open, looking after vulnerable children, and the children of key workers. Because of them, and their efforts, those key workers are able to carry on their critical roles in responding to COVID-19. I am extremely proud of the way that members of the school community have gone above and beyond. They have kept their schools open out of hours, over the weekends, on bank holidays, and Easter. And it is really heartening and humbling to see the way that they have responded to this crisis. And there are teachers, teaching assistants, and many others, who are helping our children and their parents to keep learning at home. I know that home schooling isn't easy, so I want to say also thank you to parents and carers for their efforts at this time. By keeping their children at home, they are helping us to keep people safe, and reducing pressure on our education system, and on our NHS. Be in no doubt, we are facing many challenges because of this pandemic. My primary concern is, and always will be, the health and well-being of our children, of our young people, and of all the staff in our education settings. And I am very grateful to everyone who is supporting us in these endeavours. Thank you very much—diolch yn fawr. And I'm now happy to answer questions that members of the committee may have this afternoon.", "speakerName": "Kirsty Williams AM" }, { "text": "Thank you very much, Minister. I'm sure that the committee echoes the heartfelt thanks you have just given then. The first questions we've got this afternoon are from Hefin David.", "speakerName": "Lynne Neagle AM" }, { "text": "Good afternoon, Minister. With regard to your five principles, which you've set out today, regarding when schools will reopen, they're very clear that they require a judgment from you. So could you outline when you think that schools might reopen?", "speakerName": "Hefin David AM" }, { "text": "Thank you, Hefin. I am very clear that schools will move to a new phase—because, already, schools are open in many settings; we will move to a new phase when it is safe to do so and when I have advice from the chief medical officer and the chief scientific officer that it is safe to do so. I have made very clear in my statement that that is not imminent. I know that in some cases there has been speculation that a return to normal could be with us quite shortly. I'm clear that a return to normal is not imminent, and therefore I'm not in a position to give a date as to when we will see more schools opening up to more children.", "speakerName": "Kirsty Williams AM" }, { "text": "Have you been given any indication at all by the chief medical officer as to when, in the longer term, it might be?", "speakerName": "Hefin David AM" }, { "text": "No, I have not been given a date. What I have done today is publish the principles that will aid me in, as you said, me making a decision. So, clearly, we will be relying on the advice of our medical and scientific advisers, but the principles are very clear. Firstly, we will need to consider any decision to have more children returning to school in the context of the safety and the physical and the emotional well-being of children and young people and the staff. Obviously, I can't make a decision regarding education in isolation. It will have to be taken in the context of the wider Welsh Government response to dealing with this pandemic. Thirdly, it is absolutely crucial in making any decisions that we have clearly communicated that to parents and to staff, on the information that we have used to reach any decisions, to build confidence for parents and professionals, but also to give them time to plan. It will be impossible to move quickly to new ways of working. And we also have to look at—and it's been paraphrased quite a lot today—if we are looking at certain groups of children accessing more education within a school setting, which groups they should be. And, finally, how do we operationalise that? How do we make those settings as safe as they possibly can be, and how do we tackle some of the difficult challenges of everything from ensuring that we have adequate numbers of workforce available, to the very real questions about how you would do social distancing in the context of education, school transport issues, how you would avoid people gathering at the school gate, for instance? So, there are very practical issues that would need to be considered and thought through very, very carefully before we could return, before what we could see is a move from where we are now to the next phase of education, and new approaches to what schooling may look like. But, again, I must be absolutely clear to you, members of the committee, and to people watching: it is not feasible, in this sense, that we would move from where we are now to what all of us would regard as normal education and what the operation of schools looked like before the start of this pandemic.", "speakerName": "Kirsty Williams AM" }, { "text": "So, what is clear from what you've said is that it's going to be phased return. I would assume that would be the most vulnerable—perhaps additional learning needs pupils would return first. Just reading some of the things that you've said today, can you answer that question? And can I also ask: you said that guiding principle No. 3 will be having the confidence of parents, staff and students, based on evidence and information, so they can plan ahead. What will that evidence and information be, and how will you know that you've got the confidence of parents to return?", "speakerName": "Hefin David AM" }, { "text": "Well, as I said, primarily, we will need to take a lead from our scientific and medical advisers. I want to also say that we are obviously working on a four-nation basis and keeping in very close contact with my counterparts in Northern Ireland, Scotland and England. But we're also looking beyond the United Kingdom to approaches to education in the face of this pandemic. Members are aware that we as a nation are a member of the Atlantic Rim Collaboratory. So, recently I was able to talk to educationalists and Ministers in Iceland, other parts of Europe, North America, South America and Australia. So, we're also looking at best international evidence in this regard. And, clearly, we will need to be very clear, as today is an attempt to be very clear with parents and our teaching professionals, and the unions that represent them, about the basis of that evidence.", "speakerName": "Kirsty Williams AM" }, { "text": "And could I just ask, with regard to the principles, do they then apply to further education and universities?", "speakerName": "Hefin David AM" }, { "text": "Well, of course, when we are discussing these challenges, we are doing that with our colleagues in both the school sector but also our colleagues in the FE sector, and we're in close contact with colleagues in higher education to share thinking on these matters.", "speakerName": "Kirsty Williams AM" }, { "text": "But these principles don't apply in those circumstances; these are principles for schools only.", "speakerName": "Hefin David AM" }, { "text": "These principles are applying to both, and our work in this area is applying to both schools and FE colleges. Clearly, universities, as independent institutions, we wouldn't be able to dictate to. But I want to be absolutely clear: we are working with representatives of the HE sector to include them in this work. And I have received, not assurances, but from discussions that I've had with Universities Wales and vice-chancellors, they are very keen to be kept apprised of these approaches, because they may well wish to implement something similar within their own institutions.", "speakerName": "Kirsty Williams AM" }, { "text": "Okay. I've got a couple of supplementaries now; firstly, from Suzy Davies, and then I'm going to go to Siân Gwenllian. Suzy. No, we can't hear Suzy. Suzy? No. I'll go to Siân, then, and then I'll come back to Suzy. Siân.", "speakerName": "Lynne Neagle AM" }, { "text": "Chair, I don't think my microphone is muted.", "speakerName": "Hefin David AM" }, { "text": "Okay. I'll move on to my question to Kirsty Williams. Now, it is clear that any decisions that need to be taken on reopening schools would have to be made in the context of all of the other issues that the Welsh Government has to take into account. And it is entirely clear that the approach of Government towards testing hasn't been sufficiently developed for us to even start to think about removing restrictions. So, wouldn't it be dangerous, if truth be told, to start to discuss reopening schools when we haven't had the necessary testing in place for the majority of the population? And doesn't it convey a mixed message that we're starting to relax some of these restrictions when, in reality, the restrictions are still in place and still need to be in place robustly?", "speakerName": "Sian Gwenllian AM" }, { "text": "First of all, thank you very much, Siân, for that important question. Can I be absolutely clear, and I thought I had been pretty clear in answering Hefin David, that we are not relaxing any of the restrictions with regard to education? As I said to Hefin, it is not imminent that we would see a further phase in the next stage of education here in Wales. What I have done today is to provide clarity on the nature of the principles that I would use when coming to any discussion. It is the responsibility of me, as the Minister, and indeed of the wider Government, to begin to think about planning for the future. But I have been absolutely clear: we are not moving to an imminent change in how education is operating at the moment. And I'm also very, very clear that should we be given the opportunity to see more children in our schools, I will only do that when it is safe for me to do so, when I've been advised by the CMO that I am able to do that, and we have given sufficient time and planning to the sector to respond. It is not going to be easy, and we will need to give them, as a sector, time to be able to address. But if I have not been clear enough, let me say it again: we are not relaxing any issues around schools at present, nor is that imminent.", "speakerName": "Kirsty Williams AM" }, { "text": "Thank you. Suzy, I think we can try going to you again now.", "speakerName": "Lynne Neagle AM" }, { "text": "Thank you. Minister, in your consideration of introducing a phased return to school, in due course, have you taken into consideration how things like school absences are going to be managed? Because, regardless of the amount of good work you do on messaging, there will still be some families that don't realise that going back to school is for their particular family. Will there be a relaxation of, effectively, what we would call truancy rules? Or is that something that schools will be getting guidance on much up-front?", "speakerName": "Suzy Davies AM" }, { "text": "Thank you, Suzy. As I said in my statement earlier today, returning to school will not be a return to normal, and in recognition of this, I've already made it clear that I will seek, in all opportunities, to reduce the burdens on school. That includes various data collection, the suspension of performance measures and removing the requirement to undertake literacy and numeracy testing, and, clearly, school attendance will want to be an important factor of that.", "speakerName": "Kirsty Williams AM" }, { "text": "Okay. Thank you. I'm keen to go on now to talk about the current situation as being faced by our children and young people in schools with some questions from Siân Gwenllian. Siân.", "speakerName": "Lynne Neagle AM" }, { "text": "Since yesterday, the Welsh Government has started publishing data on the number of schools that are open, the number of children attending those schools, and the number of staff involved, and they have been making this information available as per capita of the population. On average, I think it's 1 per cent of the children of Wales that actually attend these locations, and some 5 per cent of the staff. So, can you analyse those figures a little further? Can you tell us how many children, according to this data, are children of key workers, and how many are vulnerable children?", "speakerName": "Sian Gwenllian AM" }, { "text": "Thank you very much, Siân. As you quite rightly say, on average, we have 518 school hubs open each day, with up to 4,200 children attending. We have seen an increase in the number of attendances since the start of what would have been the traditional summer term. We have approximately 5.6 per cent of the teaching population working in those hubs, and at present, 85 per cent of the children who are attending are the children of key workers, the remainder being vulnerable children. So, we are now averaging 600 vulnerable children per day. These are small numbers, but we have seen an increase in those numbers since the start of what would have been the traditional summer term.", "speakerName": "Kirsty Williams AM" }, { "text": "Okay. I'm sure we'll return to that point a little later on. How much confidence do you therefore have that the arrangements are effective in terms of the safety of staff and children at these locations?", "speakerName": "Sian Gwenllian AM" }, { "text": "Thank you once again for that. The smooth operation of the hubs, with regard to health and safety, is, of course, of paramount importance. What we have seen since schools closed for traditional statutory purposes and moving to their repurposed function—we have seen a change of pattern over time. So, following my announcement on, I believe, 18 March, the week after, we saw a large number of settings open and operating. As local authorities have been able to understand the demand for those places—from critical workers and vulnerable children—we have seen more local authorities move to a hub model, and we have been able to publish guidance to local authorities on how issues around safe working in those hubs should be followed, and we've been able to give guidance in that regard. Local authorities are asked by us to report any incidents where they are concerned about operation issues on the ground.", "speakerName": "Kirsty Williams AM" }, { "text": "As I mentioned earlier, testing is crucially important in dealing with this crisis. So, how many school staff have been tested for COVID because they may have experienced symptoms and so on? And how many of those have tested positive?", "speakerName": "Sian Gwenllian AM" }, { "text": "My understanding from Public Health Wales is that 15 teachers have been tested for COVID-19, and I believe two of those results have come back as positive. Can I make it absolutely clear, the week before last, Welsh Government issued new guidance around who should be tested? I want to make it absolutely clear to those professionals working in our hubs, if they or a member of their family are exhibiting any of the symptoms, however mild, of COVID-19, they can and they should be tested.", "speakerName": "Kirsty Williams AM" }, { "text": "Okay. And the final question from me on this: how important is testing going to be in this next phase, as you start to think about relaxing restrictions?", "speakerName": "Sian Gwenllian AM" }, { "text": "Obviously, the ability to be able to test, to trace and to quarantine will be critical to the next phase and will be a very, very important and significant building block in all aspects of the Government's work to respond to this pandemic.", "speakerName": "Kirsty Williams AM" }, { "text": "Okay. Thank you, Minister, and thank you, Siân. We've got some questions now on the impact on particular groups of children, from Dawn Bowden.", "speakerName": "Lynne Neagle AM" }, { "text": "Thank you, Chair. Just following on from your answer to Siân Gwenllian earlier about the number of vulnerable children in school, what's being done specifically to facilitate more of those children coming into a school setting or hub at the moment? I'm thinking about the 600 you've talked about, and I know, in one of my local authority areas of Merthyr, which is a very small authority, we're talking about the number of children identified as vulnerable running into thousands, not hundreds, and that's just in one authority. So, this is a particularly difficult issue to address, I appreciate, but how are we going to get more of these children into the hubs?", "speakerName": "Dawn Bowden AM" }, { "text": "Okay, Dawn. The first thing to say is that the issue of vulnerable children attending settings is one that is a challenge to not just Wales, but also to my colleagues in Northern Ireland, Scotland and England. I'm pleased to say that we are working across Government departments—myself, obviously, and colleagues in education—with colleagues in social services to have a cross-Government approach to these issues. I think the first thing to say is that these are complex messages, because the overriding public health message from our Government has been to stay at home and children should be kept at home as much as possible, and to make sure that our hubs run smoothly, safely and effectively, we do need to limit the number of children who are attending those hubs. So, firstly, the fact that numbers are small is in some ways a success of our public health messages, because parents have been heeding those messages, but, of course, all of us will have concerns for some children who remain at home. So, I'm pleased to say that we have seen a doubling in the last week of the number of children. So, although numbers are small, they have doubled over the course of the last week. We're working with local authorities and they have assured us that children and young people with a social worker have been risk assessed on a multi-agency basis and are receiving support in a number of ways, and that includes having conversations about some of those children attending the hubs. They're also looking to support in other ways. Of course, some of our children who would be classed as vulnerable—and our definition of'vulnerable' is one that is shared between the systems in England and Wales—could be children with a statement of special educational needs. For some of those children who, perhaps, have very intense health needs, actually, staying at home is the appropriate thing for that child and that family to do, and we're looking to support families, and local authorities and local education systems are looking to support families, in a number of ways. We also know that just because you don't have a social worker or a statement of special educational needs does not mean that a child may not be vulnerable, and schools are very aware of the needs of those children and have been carrying out regular telephone check-ins where they can—if the age of the child is appropriate—just to keep in touch with those families and those individual children. But we will continue to work across Government to encourage, where it is appropriate, children to attend settings, and, if it is not appropriate for children to be in a setting, that there is contact with those children and young people to ensure that they remain, and their families remain, supported.", "speakerName": "Kirsty Williams AM" }, { "text": "Thank you, Minister. It's encouraging to hear you talk about the ongoing safeguarding of children that are at home and I assume, within that, appropriate referral mechanisms are still in place if teachers or anybody has any particular concern about a child. Similarly, with special educational needs, whereas some of those children benefit clearly from a one-to-one provision in a school, and they may not respond as well to remote working, or remote contact, with an SEN advisor, are you considering in any way any relaxation of the lockdown rule in particular for those children in terms of them being able to access the support that they need for their particular educational needs?", "speakerName": "Dawn Bowden AM" }, { "text": "Well, first of all, Dawn, you're absolutely right: my expectation is that schools should remain in contact with children and continue to identify vulnerable children, and schools should continue to refer children to children's services if they have any concerns, and that would also, of course, be the case for youth workers who may be keeping in contact with children. So, there is a professional expectation on all those that are working with our children and young people that, despite the circumstances they find themselves in, they should continue to report and refer cases if they see anything or hear or are told anything that makes them concerned about a child's welfare and safety. With regard to children with additional learning needs, I am aware that that can present a number of challenges to families and children, and perhaps Steve Davies could give some further details. We have been keen to work with local authorities to ensure specialist provision, where that is appropriate—so, if I could give you an example of my own local authority in Powys, they have two specialist centres available for children with more profound additional learning needs, and those centres are available—recognising, however, that, even with the provision of specialist hubs, it can be a challenge for some children with additional learning needs to find themselves outside of a routine. Hubs are often staffed on a rota basis and therefore children could be faced with staff that they are unfamiliar with. So, even when local authorities—and the vast, vast majority of them do—have specialist services in place, sometimes that might not be the best thing for a child's health and well-being. But perhaps Steve can give us further details of the conversations that have been taking place with directors of education to ensure that children with additional learning needs have access to the hubs and specialist support. Steve.", "speakerName": "Kirsty Williams AM" }, { "text": "Yes, myself and colleague Albert Heaney—colleague-director—have been in regular touch with directors of education and directors of social services to make sure that these children and young people's needs are catered for. We are very aware of all of the special schools—profound and multiple learning difficulties, EBD schools and pupil referral units—that have been kept open in their own way, but also, in some cases, as hubs, to deliver those services for those children's needs, and we're pleased that the directors and the local authorities have responded so constructively. So, we have the details of every school that's open, the pupils who are attending, and we are clear that the risk assessments that the Minister referred to for children with special needs, as well as wider vulnerable groups—they are having risk assessments to make sure that, where there is a need identified for a pupil that is not currently attending a hub, then the local authority can be working with that child and with the parents.", "speakerName": "Steve Davies" }, { "text": "Thank you, Steve. Dawn.", "speakerName": "Lynne Neagle AM" }, { "text": "Thank you. Just two more questions. One is around emotional and mental health difficulties being experienced by children and young people at the moment. Now, there was a very welcome announcement of £1.25 million pounds for school counselling. How is that, in practical terms, being applied if those children are not actually in school?", "speakerName": "Dawn Bowden AM" }, { "text": "You're right, Dawn: we have to consider how we can support children not only in their learning during this time, but also to recognise the very real impact that the pandemic will have on all of our mental health and well-being—recognising, of course, it is absolutely natural for all of us, including children and young people, to have fears and anxieties at this time. That's a natural reaction to the situation that we find ourselves in. But, of course, there are issues around those children that would have currently been receiving school counselling, and also being able to be in a position to respond to a potential growth in the number of children that are receiving support. So, the additional money will be made available to local authorities to be able to increase and ramp up services to support children and families. In the immediacy, of course, that will have to be done in different ways than perhaps we've traditionally delivered services in the past, because of social distancing and lockdown rules, but we want to get some of these systems in place now, rather than waiting for everything to go back to normal. We need to be able to plan to offer services in the here and now, but also be able to plan for what potentially could be an increase in the demand of those services. So, we've been in close touch with local authorities, asking them what they believe that they will need and how they can use additional financial resources, and we've been very pleased to be able to secure that for them.", "speakerName": "Kirsty Williams AM" }, { "text": "So, that would include things like telephone and video support as well, I guess, then.", "speakerName": "Dawn Bowden AM" }, { "text": "Yes, absolutely. So, that would include remote counselling as in a fashion that we're doing now, but also, as and when some of the restrictions are perhaps removed, looking at an enhanced family therapy, or a therapy approach. So, when we talk about counselling, I think it's important to recognise that there will be some flexibility around this money and it does not necessarily mean that local authorities have to use it on a one-to-one basis. That might not be appropriate for some children, especially our younger children and their families, and they can use that money to provide counselling or therapy—in the widest possible terms—that is the best method to support individual children and their families. But, clearly, we're having to do that in the confines of lockdown and social distancing at the moment. Some of that money can also be used to support the professional learning and the professional development of counsellors, because, of course, they may be being asked to work in a different way and we need to make sure that they have the appropriate skills and abilities to do that.", "speakerName": "Kirsty Williams AM" }, { "text": "Thank you. Thank you, Minister.", "speakerName": "Dawn Bowden AM" }, { "text": "Dawn, before you ask your final question, I've got a couple of supplementaries—firstly from Suzy, and then from Hefin.", "speakerName": "Lynne Neagle AM" }, { "text": "Oh, thank you. My question goes back to the comment you made earlier, Minister, about the number of children doubling—sorry, vulnerable children doubling—after the Easter break, if we can call it that. So, what I'm after is a sense of churn in these establishments. So, was that figure a recovery of a number of children that had been there before the Easter break, and are the people who are there still the same people as were there right at the beginning of the crisis and the lockdown?", "speakerName": "Suzy Davies AM" }, { "text": "Suzy, what I believe that we're seeing in our schools is new pupils coming into school. So, there has been, I know, a real effort on behalf of educationalists and social services staff to really reach out to families and to make sure that they're aware of the support that is available out there for them and their children, and to be able to give them the confidence that there are—that the hubs are available for them. So, we have seen an increase in children. Those numbers are still small and, I believe, potentially, there is an opportunity to build on that and to have further conversations with families about the support that is available for vulnerable children, whether that—. That vulnerability, of course, can cover a whole range of issues. As I said when we last met, this is a constantly evolving situation. The initial response—local authorities and schools worked incredibly fast and incredibly quickly to set up these hubs. We've seen an evolution in the weeks since that time and I am sure that we will continue to see some evolution in approaches.", "speakerName": "Kirsty Williams AM" }, { "text": "Okay, thank you. Hefin, you had a supplementary—briefly, please.", "speakerName": "Lynne Neagle AM" }, { "text": "Yes, very quickly. I've been listening to the answers with regard to vulnerable children, following on from that answer. I'm at home with a vulnerable child—a child who has got additional learning needs. She's got autism; she's four. I imagine there are many, many parents in exactly the same position—I've heard from them. I haven't heard anything from the school or from the local authority. Should I have heard something or should I be proactive in pursuing it?", "speakerName": "Hefin David AM" }, { "text": "I don't want to comment on personal cases—", "speakerName": "Kirsty Williams AM" }, { "text": "But there are many others in this position.", "speakerName": "Hefin David AM" }, { "text": "—but what I would say is that if parents have concerns and want to have a conversation about what support is available to them and their children, they should contact their local education authority to have a conversation as to what support is available.", "speakerName": "Kirsty Williams AM" }, { "text": "Okay, thank you. Dawn, final question, please.", "speakerName": "Lynne Neagle AM" }, { "text": "Yes, my last question is really about the potential for the attainment gap between disadvantaged pupils and their more affluent peers. Is that a concern for you? I'm thinking particularly in relation to those less affluent families in having access to technology and so on. What kind of concerns do you have about that and what are we looking to do to try to ensure that that doesn't actually play out?", "speakerName": "Dawn Bowden AM" }, { "text": "Thank you, Dawn. All of the statistics would tell us that learning loss and the gap, potentially, will affect those more vulnerable children the most. Clearly, we will want to consider that as we think about what the new normal for education may look like, or as we develop into future phases. Depending on where that child is in their educational journey, of course, the needs and the potential for loss are slightly different. So, for instance, when we're thinking about very young children, we could be thinking about a lack of social interaction and the development of oracy skills. Of course, that, potentially, then will have a knock-on to their ability to learn to read and then to write, for instance. For other children who are, perhaps, older and heading towards formal examinations, the challenge when they return to school will be a slightly different one. I'm not sure, Chair, whether you want me to give some further details about our continuity-of-learning plan and how we are looking to address digital disadvantage now, or whether there are questions later.", "speakerName": "Kirsty Williams AM" }, { "text": "Well, I've got a question on that coming up, so, if it's okay, Dawn, we'll go on to that now. Before we do that, I was just going to ask how the Welsh Government is paying due regard to the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child and, obviously, the right children and young people have to an education. I was going to ask you about the risk of inequality due to varying access to digital resources, which are so important in ensuring continuity of learning.", "speakerName": "Lynne Neagle AM" }, { "text": "You're absolutely correct, Chair. Officials are very aware of our responsibilities towards children's rights in this regard and we are doing whatever we can to ensure that children have an equal opportunity and have equal access to learning at this time. We are fortunate in the regard that, because of previous decisions and investments, we have a strong base on which to build because we have our Hwb digital learning platform and because we have invested heavily in the national purchasing of Microsoft Office and Google for Education tools, which are available to all families. We have become the first, I think—we're certainly the first in the UK, and I'm not sure whether we're the first across the world, but I think we probably are—to deploy, for instance, Adobe Spark nationally. But, obviously, access to hardware and connectivity is crucial at this time. Officials are working with local authorities to ensure that all children have access to both the hardware and the connectivity they need to be able to participate in digital learning at this particular time.", "speakerName": "Kirsty Williams AM" }, { "text": "Okay, thank you. Just a final question from me: how exactly are we communicating to parents what the expectations are of them in terms of delivering this education at home now? Are there, for example, guidelines on recommended hours of home learning per day of the week or volume of work to be completed? How are we ensuring that parents know how best to lead their children through this at the moment?", "speakerName": "Lynne Neagle AM" }, { "text": "Firstly, can I recognise what a challenge this is? We've just heard from Hefin who is carrying on his day job as the Assembly Member, but is obviously trying to do that as well as care for and provide learning for his children, and I know, Chair, that you're doing the same, and I'm certainly trying to do the same, and it's a real challenge, it's not easy. As part of our'Stay Safe. Stay Learning' policy statement, advice is available to parents and carers on the Hwb platform as to what they best can do to support their children. I think the really important message that I've been trying to give to parents is not to be too hard on ourselves. I know that everybody is doing the best that they can in really challenging circumstances. And if they have concerns, they should be in contact with their child's school, but we do have specific advice and guidance to parents on the Hwb platform.", "speakerName": "Kirsty Williams AM" }, { "text": "Thank you. We're going to move on now to some questions on examinations from Janet Finch-Saunders. Janet, we can't hear you. I tell you what, we'll—. Janet, do you want to try again? No. Okay, we'll go on then to questions on higher education and post 16, and we'll come back to examinations, if that's okay. Suzy.", "speakerName": "Lynne Neagle AM" }, { "text": "Yes, thank you, Chair. Before we leave continuity of learning, do you mind if I just ask this one question?", "speakerName": "Suzy Davies AM" }, { "text": "No, that's fine. Yes, go on.", "speakerName": "Lynne Neagle AM" }, { "text": "Your comment, Minister, on working with local authorities to make sure that individuals have hardware: can you just give us a bit of detail on what working with local authorities actually means? In the process of that, is there any data gathering going on for those pupils who are being educated at home and the levels at which they're engaging? You know, are they sticking with it, or how many are dropping out? Because I think the two of those perhaps go together.", "speakerName": "Suzy Davies AM" }, { "text": "Yes, absolutely. So, I'm hoping to make an announcement tomorrow, if not later on this week, about some specific details around support for hardware and connectivity. We're working closely with local authorities to understand just that: to understand from the schools the number of schools that—and a number of them have already done this—have been lending Chromebooks, iPads and laptops to children, and also identifying children who are not perhaps engaging in the activities that have been made available. And we'll be doing two things to support local authorities. The first is to use the stock of equipment that they already have to be able to provide hardware to students. So, we have purchased on a national basis software that, when applied to an old piece of kit, essentially turns it into an out-of-the-box Chromebook. Because, as you can imagine, just like other things during a pandemic, there has been a rush to buy new stuff on the market and then there is a scramble and nobody can get what they need. So, we're utilisng kit that is already available in schools and local authorities, and we will look to backfill that to schools at a later point out of our EdTech investment programme. The other issue is, once a child has a Chromebook or a laptop or a device, issues around connectivity. So, we're also looking to purchase on a national level and distribute Mi-Fi connectivity, so students will be able to have access to Wi-Fi where they don't have that already. That's why we need to work closely with local authorities and schools to identify the level of that need and to make sure the stuff gets to the right children. One of the ways in which we are able to do that is to look at engagement in education. So, if a child hasn't been engaging, is that because they just don't want to and they're voting with their feet—but clearly teachers need to have a conversation about that—or is that because the child simply does not have the ability to do that, and therefore we need to get that stuff out to those children? So, rather than just simply leaving it to local authorities to scramble around in a very crowded market to get the stuff that they will need, we're trying to do that on a national basis and deploy that to local authorities. So, our officials have been having conversations with each of our local authorities to ascertain what's already happened, and there is very good practice out there—schools have been proactive—but where there are gaps, what can we do as a national Government to be able to assist them to do that? We are repurposing some of the resources that we had previously identified for our EdTech investment, using those resources to fill this particular gap.", "speakerName": "Kirsty Williams AM" }, { "text": "Thank you.", "speakerName": "Suzy Davies AM" }, { "text": "Okay. Thank you. We're going to go back to Janet now. I believe we've got sound again, so Janet can ask her questions on examinations. Janet.", "speakerName": "Lynne Neagle AM" }, { "text": "Thank you. I thought it was something at this end; I'm glad to hear it wasn't. When will vocational learners know what is happening with their assessments, and how will those who have no choice but to wait for a vocational assessment be supported?", "speakerName": "Janet Finch-Saunders AM" }, { "text": "Okay. That's a very good question, Janet, because I know that there has been some concern and anxiety around vocational qualification students and how quickly we've been able to provide certainty for them. You'll be aware that Qualifications Wales have been able, in the last week, to be able to give that greater clarity. So, they have announced that learners due to complete their Essential Skills Wales qualifications will receive results. They have also published their approach to how health and social care qualifications will be managed, because, of course, those are part of the first set of reformed quals that we have done on a Wales basis. You are right, there are a group of students who fall into the category where there are technical qualifications that require a certificate of competency to be industry ready—I hope I've explained that correctly—and, therefore, we are working to understand how we can accommodate those students in these particular circumstances. But, at this stage, there may be some delay for that element of their qualification being delayed to a further date.", "speakerName": "Kirsty Williams AM" }, { "text": "Thank you.", "speakerName": "Janet Finch-Saunders AM" }, { "text": "Janet.", "speakerName": "Lynne Neagle AM" }, { "text": "Yes. What are your expectations for how A-level and GCSE qualifications will be awarded this summer, following the ministerial direction that you have issued to Qualifications Wales? For example, how is an appropriate balance being taken between recognising the progress of pupils in their coursework, mock examinations, and other work to date, and also, the potential of pupils who might have performed particularly well in their examinations this summer?", "speakerName": "Janet Finch-Saunders AM" }, { "text": "Well, Janet, I understand—and today is a day where some students would have been undertaking practical examinations—I understand how devastating it has been to both students and teachers alike for the decision I had to take to cancel this summer's exam series. But I'm absolutely clear that was the only decision that could have been reached. Qualifications Wales has made it very clear—and for people who would like more information, I would urge them to look at Qualifications Wales's website—how they will go about giving, allocating, and awarding a grade to our A-level and GCSE students. Firstly, teachers will be asked to submit a grade they believe that student would have obtained, should they have taken an exam. And, of course, teachers will have a range of data and their own professional judgment that they will use in awarding that grade. Teachers will also be asked to rank students in order. Once that information has been submitted to Qualifications Wales, there will be a process by which that data will be moderated; moderated from centre to centre and across the nation, thus giving us the chance to award a student a fair grade whilst being, and remaining, true to ensuring that we have a robust qualifications system, and allowing those students who find themselves at a critical stage of their education, where they are looking to move on to the next stages—that they will have the grades that will allow them to make decisions about their future.", "speakerName": "Kirsty Williams AM" }, { "text": "Okay, thank you.", "speakerName": "Janet Finch-Saunders AM" }, { "text": "Thank you, Janet. We're going to go on now, then, to the questions on higher and further education from Suzy Davies. Suzy.", "speakerName": "Lynne Neagle AM" }, { "text": "Thank you, Chair. I suppose my first question just goes back to the 16-year-olds at the moment and those who are looking forward to either going to college, the older ones going to university, there'll be apprenticeships, all kinds of future pathways for post 16. What's happening at school level, or even at college level, to get those students ready for the next steps, because, obviously, they're not in their usual environments and getting their usual programme of teaching?", "speakerName": "Suzy Davies AM" }, { "text": "No, that's quite right, Suzy, and I should have said in answer to Janet's question, as well—I'm sure people already know, but just to get the point across—that A-level results day and GCSE day will run as normal across not just Wales, but England, Wales and Northern Ireland, which is really important. You're right, Suzy—for those people that are coming to the end of one part of their education this is a particularly challenging time. You'll be aware that, last week, on Hwb, we were able to launch a programme for year 13 students to help them get ready for university. I'm very grateful to the HE sector in Wales, who've worked really hard with us on that. So, for instance, if you were a year 13 student or even a year 12 student that was thinking about or interested in areas around social policy, you could have tuned into a social policy lecturer at Swansea University. If you go to the Hwb website, you will be able to see that there are subject listings, everything from animal science through to law, politics, history and science, with links through to higher education and further education courses that students can avail themselves of. There's also a section on preparation for essential study skills, whether that is report writing or academic writing. So, there is a range of activities and courses available for year 13, so that children—'children'; they're all children to me—young people can get themselves—. They don't have to stop learning, and they can get themselves ready for the next stage of their education. Again, for those children, perhaps, who are coming to the end of their GCSEs, there is a range of information, either within their own schools or within their local colleges about things that can keep them learning. So, for instance, I'm aware of one school where you can go onto the website and there are recommendations of, for instance, what you could be reading over the summer if you're interested in doing this particular A-level in September. I know that there are also moves in schools and in colleges to be able to make sure that those children don't miss out on really important careers advice at this time, as well, and information, so they can make informed decisions. I know that people are working hard to link up children to advice services that are available so that they can make those really important future decisions with the advice of either a teacher or other professional so that they've got those options. So, there is material out there and it's growing all the time. This week, we were able to launch our virtual Seren network. You'll be aware that, for the last couple of years, we've been able to send Welsh children to the Yale global summer school. Clearly, that can't happen this year. That's devastating for those year 12s who had worked so hard and had won a place on that programme. They will now be able to attend the Yale global scholars programme virtually and remotely, because Yale have moved that programme online. So, we're developing materials and resources all of the time.", "speakerName": "Kirsty Williams AM" }, { "text": "Thank you for that answer. Before I move on to my next question, can you give me some sort of sense of how that Hwb domain is being populated? Where is all this information being sourced from? Presumably, they'll be working with partners, but what does that look like?", "speakerName": "Suzy Davies AM" }, { "text": "Oh, my goodness. Yes, absolutely—", "speakerName": "Kirsty Williams AM" }, { "text": "[Inaudible.]", "speakerName": "Suzy Davies AM" }, { "text": "Yes, we're working very hard. So, everything from our work with the BBC, for instance, and BBC Bitesize through to our FE colleges and our HE institutions, as well as other organisations in the third sector who are looking to provide those opportunities. Can I just say that, last week, we were looking at, every day, in the region of well over 150,000 logins a day into Hwb?", "speakerName": "Kirsty Williams AM" }, { "text": "Well, that's great. So there's proactive populating of Hwb. That's what I was after. That's great. Just going back to some of Janet's questions and the assessed grades, I want to talk to you about the unconditional offers and where we are with that at the moment for entry to universities, because there's going to be a scramble now of the available students for further education, but primarily higher education institutions, across the UK. Is the moratorium on unconditional offers still standing? Are there conversations going on to extend that moratorium? Otherwise, this scramble is going to potentially negatively affect our universities quite considerably.", "speakerName": "Suzy Davies AM" }, { "text": "Yes, you'll be aware that a moratorium does exist. It exists in this current context to 1 May. We continue to keep in close touch with colleagues in Northern Ireland, Scotland and in the Westminster Government around these issues. Officials are also in touch with UCAS, and in the last couple of days I've had at least three meetings with representatives of the Welsh higher education sector to discuss these matters.", "speakerName": "Kirsty Williams AM" }, { "text": "I just want to ask you now about students and their maintenance loan grants. I think they're getting, around now, the money going into their bank account that they would normally have expected at this time of year. That's right, yes?", "speakerName": "Suzy Davies AM" }, { "text": "That's correct, yes.", "speakerName": "Kirsty Williams AM" }, { "text": "What's happening to those students who would normally be living in digs somewhere but are now living at home? Are they likely to be asked to reimburse part of the cost, because obviously it's not as expensive to live at home as away, and what's likely to be happening with the maintenance loans over the summer holiday period, potentially? Because we've had a period now where students can't top up their maintenance loans by going out and working on weekends or working in the evenings, or whatever, so their income has been impacted. Just in the round, what kind of conversations are happening around that? Again, it's probably a four-nation approach, I would imagine.", "speakerName": "Suzy Davies AM" }, { "text": "Thank you, Suzy. You are correct to say that our student support regime does allow for a lower payment to be made to those students that stay at home during their studies, but I want to reassure students that there will be no change to their student support payments just because they have left their universities and have decided to go home. There should be no change. Also, we are continuing, it should be important to say, to pay education maintenance allowance at this time for our FE students that are eligible for that, even though, obviously, for EMA there is an attendance requirement, but clearly that is not appropriate to enforce at the moment. You are correct—this is a worrying time for many students in higher education, especially for those who are looking to graduate at this time and are going out into an economy that has been tremendously badly hit by the pandemic. At this time, we continue to have conversations with NUS Wales about what can be done within a Welsh context, but, as you quite rightly say, also within a UK context, to support students who may have been affected. We are continuing—on our webpage we have a frequently asked questions section that advises students in the first instance, especially when it comes, for instance, to the cost of accommodation—to have those discussions, and I'm very grateful that, in some cases, some of our institutions have been able to waive or partially waive accommodation fees where students have vacated their accommodation and have returned to their usual home address. But we will continue to have dialogue with NUS Wales and with our counterparts across the country to look to see what more we can do to support students at this time.", "speakerName": "Kirsty Williams AM" }, { "text": "Thank you for that answer, and, yes, I was pleased to see that announcement through the NUS as well, so well done to those accommodation providers who have a heart. I think we'll all have seen the Universities UK document that explains some of the difficulties that they're going to be running into if this proceeds much further. My understanding is that the main emphasis at the moment is to try and get all the universities across the UK through this initial period of difficulty by releasing as much money as possible. I can see that your figure to the Higher Education Funding Council for Wales was a little bit down on last year's letter—not that there's been a remit letter yet, but an indication. Are you releasing that money earlier so that they can use it more swiftly, or does that not matter?", "speakerName": "Suzy Davies AM" }, { "text": "Before you come in, Minister, that is going to have to be the last question, just to make you aware of that, because we are coming up to the end of our time.", "speakerName": "Lynne Neagle AM" }, { "text": "Okay. That's fine.", "speakerName": "Suzy Davies AM" }, { "text": "Of course, Suzy, we are working closely with Universities Wales and have a lot of sympathy for the proposals that have come forward from Universities UK, which Wales's universities have been a part of forming. Stability in the first instance is really important to us, which is why we've been able to give an indication to HEFCW about resources that are available, and we've been very clear to HEFCW that we want to be as flexible as possible in how they use those resources to support institutions. That potentially would mean reprofiling the way in which money gets out to institutions, but clearly we will need to have an ongoing discussion about how we respond to the immediacy of the issues facing HE, how we can get stability for the next academic year, and how we then can support the sector through what is a really challenging time for them. We will do that in a Welsh context and we will continue to do that also in a UK context, because you will have seen the scale of some of the figures that have been talked about in terms of the impact on the HE sector at this time. Clearly, a four-nation approach to that will be crucial.", "speakerName": "Kirsty Williams AM" }, { "text": "Thank you.", "speakerName": "Suzy Davies AM" }, { "text": "Okay. Thank you. Well, we have come to the end of our time, and, as to anything that we didn't ask, we will have to write to the Minister. Can I just thank the Minister and her officials for your attendance today? We know how busy you are dealing with the pandemic and we very much welcome this opportunity to have this discussion with you. So, thank you, Minister and officials for your time. As usual, you will be sent a transcript to check for accuracy following the meeting. Diolch yn fawr.", "speakerName": "Lynne Neagle AM" }, { "text": "Diolch yn fawr, Chair.", "speakerName": "Kirsty Williams AM" }, { "text": "Item 3, then. Can I propose, in accordance with Standing Order 17.42, that the committee resolves to meet in private for the remainder of the meeting? Are Members content? Okay. I see that Members are content, so we will now proceed to meet in private.", "speakerName": "Lynne Neagle AM" } ] }	{ "dialogTurns": [ { "query": "Can you summarize the main points mentioned by Kirsty Williams, the Minister for Education in Wales, in the meeting?", "response": "During the meeting, Kirsty Williams discussed several points, including:\n* An overview of the current situation regarding education in Wales due to the COVID-19 pandemic.\n* The impact of school closures on vulnerable children and children with additional learning needs.\n* The government's efforts to ensure continuity of education for all students, including the provision of remote learning resources and support for schools.\n* Plans for the potential reopening of schools in the future, including the development of guiding principles to inform decision-making and the need to prioritize the health and well-being of children and staff.\n* The challenges facing higher education and further education institutions, such as the disruption of teaching and learning, and the financial implications of the pandemic.", "responseAttribution": { "indexRanges": [ { "startIndex": null, "endIndex": 1 }, { "startIndex": 7, "endIndex": 12 }, { "startIndex": 22, "endIndex": 22 }, { "startIndex": 31, "endIndex": 37 }, { "startIndex": 50, "endIndex": 52 } ] }, "queryMetadata": { "queryType": "QUERY_TYPE_GENERAL", "isUnanswerable": null, "isContextDependent": null } }, { "query": "What did Kirsty Williams say regarding financial support for higher education institutions during the pandemic?", "response": "Kirsty Williams stated that the government is working closely with the Higher Education Funding Council for Wales (HEFCW) and understands the challenges faced by higher education institutions. 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These principles include:\n* Prioritizing the health and well-being of children and staff.\n* Considering the decision to reopen schools within the context of the overall public health response to the pandemic.\n* Providing clear and timely communication to parents, staff, and students regarding the basis of decisions and the steps being taken to ensure safety.\n* Determining which groups of children should be considered for a phased return to school, if necessary, and how to operationalize the return while addressing challenges such as ensuring adequate staff and implementing social distancing measures.", "responseAttribution": { "indexRanges": [ { "startIndex": 1, "endIndex": 1 }, { "startIndex": 3, "endIndex": 10 }, { "startIndex": 19, "endIndex": 19 }, { "startIndex": 22, "endIndex": 22 }, { "startIndex": 24, "endIndex": 24 }, { "startIndex": 28, "endIndex": 31 }, { "startIndex": 37, "endIndex": 37 } ] }, "queryMetadata": { "queryType": "QUERY_TYPE_SPECIFIC", "isUnanswerable": null, "isContextDependent": null } }, { "query": "Can you summarize the concerns raised regarding the potential reopening of schools and the challenges in implementing social distancing measures?", "response": "Concerns and challenges were raised regarding the potential reopening of schools and the implementation of social distancing measures, including:\n* Ensuring that the health and well-being of children and staff remains the top priority.\n* Maintaining a safe physical environment, considering issues such as social distancing, school transport, and preventing gatherings at school gates.\n* Addressing the practical challenges of implementing social distancing measures in educational settings.\n* Determining which groups of children should be considered for a phased return to school, if necessary, and how to operationalize the return while addressing these challenges.", "responseAttribution": { "indexRanges": [ { "startIndex": 1, "endIndex": 1 }, { "startIndex": 3, "endIndex": 10 }, { "startIndex": 19, "endIndex": 19 }, { "startIndex": 22, "endIndex": 22 }, { "startIndex": 24, "endIndex": 24 }, { "startIndex": 28, "endIndex": 31 }, { "startIndex": 37, "endIndex": 37 } ] }, "queryMetadata": { "queryType": "QUERY_TYPE_GENERAL", "isUnanswerable": null, "isContextDependent": null } }, { "query": "Besides the concerns and challenges mentioned, were there other factors discussed that could affect the decision-making process for reopening schools?", "response": "Yes, there were other factors mentioned that could affect the decision-making process for reopening schools:\n* The consideration of all relevant evidence, including scientific and medical advice.\n* The need for clear communication with parents and staff, providing them with information about the basis of decisions and the steps being taken to ensure safety.\n* The importance of giving sufficient time for planning and preparation before implementing any changes to the current arrangements.", "responseAttribution": { "indexRanges": [ { "startIndex": 4, "endIndex": 8 }, { "startIndex": 16, "endIndex": 17 }, { "startIndex": 22, "endIndex": 24 } ] }, "queryMetadata": { "queryType": "QUERY_TYPE_YES_NO", "isUnanswerable": null, "isContextDependent": true } }, { "query": "What was the plan for reopening schools and what groups of children were considered for a possible return to school?", "response": "There was no specific plan for reopening schools discussed in the meeting. 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Yeah I received an email so I thought I I can't mail you so I thought I'd just drop it in the folder, but.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah pretty much.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Hey what's wrong with my computer?", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Is it unlocked?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "No.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": ".", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Mm. Yeah that's my presentation..", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Woah. I uh kind of opened it.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Huh?", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Mm?", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Uh.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "What the.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Oh right.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "I think you have to uh change your desktop uh", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "size.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Ooh..", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "'Kay. Everybody ready?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Not really.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Well.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Sorry.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "No no no. Yes yes yes.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "computer is uh not functioning?", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Alright.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Okay. Where do I find this? I'm not so g display huh?", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Uh display.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "And then uh settings?", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Appearance?", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Huh.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Mm I'm not sure I.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "You read the newsflash?.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "'Kay. Can we get started", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "No.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "No what was it about?", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Hmm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "or is there some pressing issue?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah my computer is not functioning properly.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Oh no pressing.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Did you plug in the power cable when you come back?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah yeah. No but my screen is reduced in size..", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah. That's difficult. Yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "What?.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Feedback.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Hmm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "alt delete..", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Format..", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Format save.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": ". So it doesn't draw the attention away.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "This is dreadful.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "I made uh uh my own map.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Oh yeah sure.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "No not this, but the task.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "It's a.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "You have Playstation also?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah. No that's okay. No I just flapped it, closed it, took it here and then this happened. Ah. Uh where was it? In settings? Okay. Alright. Thank you.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Huh.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Do you guys like your tasks?", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah..", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "I spent a lot of time thinking about what I was gonna do and then a couple of minutes before this I get my function you know the information that I need.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah wa wa you actually Yeah. But it it's not clear what you have to to to type uh type in your presentation.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "So frustrating.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "So.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah. I I had a whole idea and then just was typing it and then oh. I have to do that so switch.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah Yeah exactly. This presentation is mainly based on my own ideas'cause I hadn't time to intergrate tha the information yet so.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Really annoying.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Okay. So there we are again.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "By your humble P_M_.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Okay this is the agenda. Um we have three presentations, I heard.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Really..", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah really. So who wants to start?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah that's fine.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "We have to start it right away?.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah. Uh this is you?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Functional? Yeah functional requirements.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "'Kay.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Alright. I'm gonna talk about functional requirements. Um Well uh some research has be done uh has been done. Uh observing of one hundred uh subjects in the usability lab using a remote control. Uh and they also filled in a questionnaire. The findings were um, well you can see them for yourself. They disliked the look-and-feel of current remotes controls. Users think they're ugly. Um they do not match the the operating behaviour of the users. So they they d they don't match what they want to have on it. Um they are often lost somewhere in the room. Um it takes too much time to learn how to use a new remote control. And they're bad for R_S_I_. I don't know uh how a user can reach that but okay. Um.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Ts", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "there is also uh was also some research on uh the most relevant and and and irrelevant uh f functions. Uh most irrelevant and less used were audio settings, mono, stereo, uh pitch, bass. Um screen settings for brightness and colour and stuff like that. Um but they are used. I mean the.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "So they do need to be in the.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah they do need to be on the on the remote control.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Alright.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "I mean if you can't control the the sound settings I mean if you dislike a very uh loud bass or something, you you need to change that.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "often.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "So um yeah we have to.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "By the way my T_V_ doesn't have an equ equaliser but", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "We c we c Yeah I mean w we can't.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Next generation does..", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "okay.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "my my T_V_ has,", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "No. Alright.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "but we we can leave them uh away. Uh most relevant, uh most used functions, uh they speak for themselves I guess. Uh power button, uh channel, volume selection. Uh teletext but we can skip that because I saw the newsflash, and teletext is so outdated that it it's i should not be used uh any more in the future.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "N not used anymore.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "So forget this one.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Uh channel settings, so for programming uh your channels in in the right order.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "By the way where did you guys get that newsflash from?", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah. I was wondering uh.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "I didn't get anything.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah, on on the project uh.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah. Not by mail. I receiv the mail but you don't. So.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "But you you've got more information than uh.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "No so it's a text file n in the project folder. So teletext can be skipped.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "That's in the presentation, so.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Alright.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Um there was some research on new features in a remote control. Uh about an L_C_D_ screen uh and speech recognition. Well we got an update for the for the audience. Or the the the targeted group. So it's above forty I guess.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Uh below I believe.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "The new product? Or below.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah below forty.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "because that's pretty relevant.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "I thought I read a.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Our current customers are in the age group forty plus.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah?", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "And the new product should reach new markets, which is the customers below forty.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Below? Okay well.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "But where did you get uh that information?", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "That's in a newsflash.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "that's that's in the newsfla", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Okay..", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "okay that's a good to know. Um because you see see a clear distinction between the age groups, concerning the features.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "I mean uh above forty people are not so interested uh not so interested in a screen or speech recognition. Uh but below that age they uh they pretty much are. So I think we can build that in. Um Yeah well we can skip this part as well, because I thought I read above forty so we could skip the features, but we just have to build them in because uh they find it very interesting. Um well we have to keep all the classic functions but make the buttons as user-friendly as possible. Um and and also there's so not only the design of the bus uh buttons but o how you can push them, and stuff like that. So the physical uh aspect of it. Um And I think and certainly for for the for the lower age groups, uh nice design, which uh does not make the remote control in your room.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "It's it's actually a part of your interior, of of your design in your room. So it's the people can say, well what's that, well that's my remote control, so it's d it has to look nice and feel nice, and and have all the functions that uh.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah. But it also needs to have corporate identity.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah so the the logo has to be", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Present and the colours.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "uh present yeah, and the colours as well.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "So we can't change much of that.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Do we have uh yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah so but I I don't think that's that's a problem because the thing has to have a colour anyway, and most of the times there is a brand present on it.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm. Mm-hmm. Yeah. Yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "So I think that's not gonna gonna affect it very uh very much.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Well that are the the consequences uh on a marketing uh part.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "'Kay.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Alright.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yes.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "It's open already so you can use to", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": ".", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "find yours.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm. It's.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "F_ five.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "F_ five. Okay.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Go Jurgen.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Oh. What is this?", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Oh no..", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "How do I uh.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "You pressed alt F_ four?.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "No no no. I pressed the mouse button.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Oh great..", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "It's th that's the self-destruct button.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah. Okay.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Uh maybe you can do it from your computer so talk us through it.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Okay. Um if you all go stand around uh.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah. Just yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah..", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Computer.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Alright.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Sure.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Um.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "That's nice..", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "No.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "F_ five. Yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Alright.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "I uh had uh two examples.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Um this one is the the yeah the advanced one with a lot of options and functions and buttons.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "This the easy one", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "I think we have to to combine them. And uh yeah merge the best functions of all examples.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Um but yeah the the age is uh under forty?", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "The mm yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah and and and marketing research stated that that that kind of users are not afraid of of a lot of functions.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "So we Okay so so we have the option for more functions.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "So not not too much but yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Um yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "And we do have to integrate the screen and the the speech.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "And the speech recognition yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "alright.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Uh yeah this this one we can remove for kids. It's just only for adults so uh we can uh use some advanced options. But.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah from age of sixteen so yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah but I prefer we we uh use the the basic options uh yeah. We have to to make them very easy so for just uh zapping around the channels you can just push one button.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "But if you want to to use your your video recorder or something else, you should use use an uh an advanced option.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah but uh the the newsflash also stated that it should control only one device, only your television.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Okay one device.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah. So n it's very easy.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Okay. I didn't see.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "So w", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Now yeah it's okay.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Okay and I also uh yeah. W yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "So there are not extra options in this case, but uh.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "We have to make it fashionable. Like you uh said uh before.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Uh yeah the basic functions. Um yeah only use a extra function if they are really needed.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah so maybe you can hide them or something.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah well what what we can do with the screen is is all the the configuration options, you can put that in the screen.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah you make a screen menu or something.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "And the and the yeah screen menu to to to uh to do that,", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "and then the basic function just on the device itself.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "So it looks very simple and all the advanced features are hidden in the screen, uh with a clear menu.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah and the other oth other uh functionality is the screen.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "What does the screen do?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Did I uh.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Alright.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Uh. What are wh", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah. It's low power.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "did I break it?.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "What.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "So what does the screen do? They said they needed it but what does it do? What do they want with the screen?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "For for the advanced functions I think.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah that's what we make it up.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah well it yeah it didn't", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "So but what did the marketing.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "it didn't say what they want to do with the screen.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "No.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Well I, my guess is it's it's pretty handy for advanced uh advanced functions.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah okay it's handy. With no predefined uh.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Like searching for channels and.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Ah look.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah searching for channels, programming them.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "We have your uh oh never mind..", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "We're back online..", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Okay. That's uh I'm al I'm almost finished so.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Okay..", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Um the we have to to to watch out for the i if we make it f very fashionable, it it the functional functionality will go down. So we have to make uh a compromise between functionality and fashional fashionable", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm. Content and form.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "yeah content and form.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": ".", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Now that that was uh was the end.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "That was the end. Okay.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yes.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Well my presentation is a bit uh sucky..", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Well you can improvise right?", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Uh which one is it? Technical functions?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah a little bit.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "This one?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Uh no. No no..", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Functional requirements?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah I think that would be it then..", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "No.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "You didn't put it in? Or.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "I have no idea.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "So we we can go for.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "That w.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "it's not really English..", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Let me check. I know.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Uh kick off. Oh working design I got it.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "So we can go for the look-and-feel of the the left example, and then a screen on top of it.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Here you go.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Alright how do I uh skip pages?", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Just uh press uh yeah. Yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "The keys yeah?", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Alright. Um yeah well I was working on this before I got my information. So I was just working off the top of my head and using my colin common knowledge about uh remote controls.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "And well the info on the website which came too late.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Um so I didn't really know what kind of functions we had to put into it yet.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "So uh uh this is basically an overview of what we discussed in our last uh meeting. Those were my uh starting points.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Uh I was working on a s yeah on a schedule, and I was supposed to do it like this. But um yeah then uh the information came and it was kind of exact with all the steps in the remote control that I had to follow, so I was trying to organise them for myself.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "And then make the", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Design yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "the design, a the actual design,", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Design? Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "but I never came around to do that. So I'm not really sure what I'm supposed to say about it.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "I mean everything speaks for itself I guess. Mean you press a button um the it tru goes, it sends a signal to a chip,", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "which uh translates it into infrared signal of certin spatial frequencies.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah frequency. Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "And uh or temporal fr frequencies actually. And then uh through a uh transformer, it the signal gets boosted and then sent to the to the receiver on the T_V_", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah decoder.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "and the T_V_ will translate it into a function. Um Yeah well this was actually all I got around to do.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Blank. Yeah okay.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "I mean I dunno if I'm too slow for this stuff, but uh.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Work harder.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Okay shou should we make a list of the of all the functions we want uh.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah. Whatever.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah. Uh.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah we want to incorporate in uh into it.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "'Kay. Um for those that didn't see yet um the basic new requirements of the management were no teletext, only for T_V_. Uh it should be designed for a use g uh group below forty, but I don't think it's w wrong if we can uh target the current customer group as well.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "And uh the corporate identity should be clear in the design of the remote control. And we have to decide on the functions, and on the, let's see what was it, uh the target group. We have to make be clear what that is.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "group of users, or.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah users.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "because it says below forty I mean..", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah so I think it's easy but.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "I guess that's that's the tar yeah uh or male and female.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "But uh it's it's also for children or just uh.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah it's below forty so we can decide where to.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Uh six the marketing research started on s on the age of sixteen.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Okay. Okay.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Sixteen to twenty five, twenty five to thirty five, thirty five to forty five, something like that.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Okay. So below forty is okay.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "So um.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "But we need an lower level which to s uh focus.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "How do you mean?", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "So is it from sixteen to forty? Is it from twenty to forty? Is it from thirty?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Uh sixteen to forty.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah?'Kay.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah. We we have to.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Well I I guess people of sixteen are are quite used to technology.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "So they they adapt to it pretty soon I guess.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "And if we have a larger public we have uh yeah more options to to uh sell our product.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah so what we might wanna do is uh yeah cust I have customised the screen functions, if you know what I mean.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "The uh younger users are more acquainted with these kind of machines so they can use more advanced functions. But maybe elderly people don't understand it so well, so they need a simpler remote.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Design. Mm.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "And yeah that you can choose what the design displays, or wha whatever.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah that's that's why uh I wanted to to make yeah two uh different uh yeah groups of functions. The the simple functions for for the the whole public, and the the advanced options for the younger people yeah who are more yeah experienced with uh.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm. And maybe y", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Experienced yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "But uh all incorporated in the screen or or just on the remote itself?", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Na I w I should uh put uh the the yeah the extra advanced options on the onto the onscreen display.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "like like you have a visual of the of the brightness with with a kind of sliding bar and a bus and and stuff like that for sound and and vis and and visuals?", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah. So is you should have a menu for all the the functions you don't use regular and which are.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Uh you can make a if you make a drawing.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah. Aye yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Uh Uh.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Shall I uh.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Uh black's okay. And draw it very big.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah. It's okay.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Oh. Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "no, it doesn't have line control, so.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah..", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah we get the.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah well, this is basically uh it's.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "The remote?", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "The remote, yeah?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "alright the remote? Um well usually the power button is on top I guess.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Basic. Is on top. Which should be easy, easily reached with the thumb.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah so it should fit right in into your hand.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah. L left top or right uh top?", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "T I s should said right.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Right. Right.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah, right.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Right top.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "I most people are right-handed so.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah definitely.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "maybe left-handed special addition, but okay.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "If you put it like like here. Or something. I dunno. Um then you could put a screen, like on a mobile phone, also on top I guess.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah but if you are using the the normal functions, the the basic functions, you normally press them on the u yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Do the also with the thumb. So it should be a little bit longer so that you can put your uh thumb, also reach the middle. Or you should screen at the bottom and then you can see it very clearly.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Okay so y yeah you have you have it in your hand, and the screen is below, and the buttons are in the middle.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "You you need to be able to hold it so.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Okay for example if you put the screen here, it's more about the functions now than the than the layout.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah okay that's true. Layout. That's for the.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Doesn't work too well. It's uh it's bent.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "I can't help it..", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": ".", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "You broke it..", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah..", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": ".", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Man..", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah okay..", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Okay you get it. Uh for example if y if you put all the.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "You want the normal piece of paper? And you have a pen?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "And might be easier huh?", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Maybe this. kind of works.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Like if you have like uh ten buttons for for all the for all the channels,", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm. Uh.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "um and here one for for", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "And the for flipping up and down.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah yeah. And volume control.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah that that usually uh like here, here, here, here.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah I.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "So you have up and down for the for the channels, and left and right for the volume uh.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "And left to right. And those can also be used for the menu.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah exactly. I thought but this is really your department, that we need just the functional display and four cursors.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah okay but this is function so if you can use them for multiple things.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "And you you have.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "And.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "most of the time you have one button in the middle. It says menu,", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah okay.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "For the menu. Yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "and then if you press it you the screen gets activated and then you can use these buttons to scroll up and down and left and right to go into functon", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "and then just.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "mo most of the time this menu button is also like okay, to to confirm a a kind of action.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "So you scroll into it, okay. You select a function like v like uh bass. You just adjust it with these two buttons.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Then okay to confirm, and then uh on on each on each screen there's there should be an option to go back to a to a upper level.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "And then finally say okay, exit. Or or one button to exit it.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Uh in one time I dunno, that's not really my department.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "And do we need a a logo on our uh remote control, or.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "That's more your uh your department to to uh to.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah. But it should be if the screen is here then the logo should be like on on top,", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "On the left uh top yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "yeah. I mean it's uh.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah but that depends on where you put the screen.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "But it's essential that there is a screen.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah. Yeah I mean the position of the screen is also more essential than I mean we we look where we have space left and then put the logo over there.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah. And for the speech uh recognition part, if we want to incorporate that, we need a microphone.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "But um Yeah so it should be I mean if you have it in your hand here, should be on top somewhere, maybe.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah. This would be uh.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Why did we wanna put the display in the bottom?", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "I mean i", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "No that's not s sure so.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "That's not sure", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "uh we need a display.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "but it's.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah may maybe because you're.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Because yeah if you use the functions your hand will block the display.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah okay but only for the basic functi if you're going to use the advanced option, you're going to press the the menu button and then yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah I mean a screen on top looks more lo logical to me.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Normal for logical t", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Also because people use m mobile phones and they also have the screen on top.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah they're used to it.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Okay the yeah. That's possible.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "So you you just have to reach a little bit for the power button.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "I mean if you grab it.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "On once it's on it's on. You don't need the power button.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "But most most of the times if a if if a T_V_'s on standby people just press a channel to put it on.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah, okay. Okay we put it on top.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "So we put this on top, and then make the corporate logo", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "like over here. R_R_. And j and the microphone, I mean it can be very small. If you look at your mobile phones are some stripes, little little holes.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Maybe on the top or even on the side.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah maybe on the side. I mean if the if the microphone is good.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah but then it's possible that you cover it with your hand so.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "True.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah okay. So on the on the top is better.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "I think that top is the best option.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "But if you uh if you hold the ma the remote like this, if you put it on the top on the side.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah okay.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "I dunno. Should be able to work.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah..", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Depends on the sensitivity of the microphone, but I think that's okay.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Never mind. Can we leave this up to you?.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah it doesn't matter that much. So but um the screen is on top? Which functions did we have left? I mean this is basically numbers, volume, uh channel up and down.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Volume. Up. Channel up and down, and the control of the advanced options.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Screen is over there.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "So maybe it, we should decide what advanced options we want to put in the L_C_D_ screen.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah. If we.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah. Yeah. That's uh that's a good one.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah so we we needed to integrate the sound and uh and image options right?", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah so sounds?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Like uh bass uh.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah. Sound?", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "so we need kind of an equaliser. If you.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah. Equaliser. So if you have sound But not too advanced. I mean most T_V_s use only treble and bass.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah it it's just a remote control so.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "and they're.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah treble, middl middle, bass or something.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "They're not used often so.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah. It's uh pretty hard to write.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Ah as.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah just.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": ".", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Mm. Okay but you have sound?", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah sounds.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah just.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "oh y you have digital uh.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": ".", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "better write it down over there yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Of course. I'm just a secretary.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "So you have sound.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Coffee?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Uh yeah sound and then within sound I guess treble and bass?", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yes please.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Treble bass.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "the mono stereo option?", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah. Also.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Uh.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "And there there was something else also.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Pitch I believe, yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "And then pitch.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Pitch. Yeah. But pitch, isn't that yeah that's the the height of the tone.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "The fr yeah the frequency of the tones, yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah okay,", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah and mono stereo.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "wh why would you use that?", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah isn't that that depends on the on the signal of the of what program you're watching.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "If people like talk like uh.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "And also the tuning part?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Programming part.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah programming. So channel programming?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Uh so we have sound, yeah? Channel programming.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "And yeah in the functionality of the", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Television uh itself uh.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "no no of the remote uh do do we want uh the buttons to make sound when you press them? As a confirmation or whatever you know?", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "I dunno.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "I think it g it gets annoying.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "I mean most mobile phones used that in the beginning but.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "We we could make an option for it, but uh you can disable s", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Under the a yeah advanced option menu you can put those things.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah. But uh the the television itself has also the the options brightness and uh screen colour etcetera. So.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Contrast yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah but people don't want to sit on their knees on their knees in front of their television with only three buttons then it's very hard to", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Mm. No. Uh, so contrast,", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "y yeah contrast and brightness?", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "bright,", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah those are the most used I guess. If you look at your monitor.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "uh And the others were in your presentation right? So I can just copy those?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Well yeah well I guess that these were the only ones, I guess.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Okay. It's easy..", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "But so we have we have T_V_ options, which is all this.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah. I will look it up.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah the button options and the L_C_D_ options.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "The sound, sound and image. And you have in that uh the indeed the remote control options.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Indeed.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "So we need two menus kind of thing.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah you have basically a button menu, which you can use directly, uh according to the old principle.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Uh-huh.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "And the L_C_D_ options are activated by some some software options, thats communicates with the infrared uh decoder yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah with the chip and then I mean.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "So you You have an additional processor and and software part.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Uh yeah. Well yeah we have power button, whether that's present.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Compared to o", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Alright.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Channel volume selection present. Uh numbers present. Yeah a audio settings, mono, stereo, pitch, bass, treble. Screen settings, brightness and colour.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "L_ s Yeah. Colour. Yeah I I call it contrast.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah con contrast is.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah I make it c colour.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah okay, colour and brightness.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Um and what you say, channel settings or channel programming? So you you have an option to to start scanning all the frequencies, and when it encounters one, well it shows on your T_V_. And then you can um.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah and automatically um Mm-hmm..", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Uh and then you can select uh a number in your remote on which you want to save it.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah so I've g channel program is autoseek?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah, autoseek.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Uh name a channel, or.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Well most T_V_s automatically display the name, which they get through the cable.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Oh they get automatic names, okay.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah. So you only have to choose the position on your", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": ".", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "It only has to match the the channel frequency on your T_V_, with with the with the position on your T_V_ and and so your remote.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah. Yeah but can you also say I want f uh Veronica on the channel number uh five or.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Help.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "If you already programmed it.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "If you want to move it. Yeah that should be possible too.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah. How do you call that?.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah how do you call that? Mm? Wait you you should be able to to browse through a list or something, which w displays all the all the values, all the channels which are possible.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Channels? Yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "I mean like one to f thirty of or ninety or whatever.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Ninety nine or something. Yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Just browse through it and then um in some kind of way see if it if it if it is programmed.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "S swap channels? Can I call it that?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah. Swap channels.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Swap's good option. Okay. Uh other functions?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "So you most of the time if you if you swap it S uh let's say for example you have uh R_T_L_ five on on channel five. And Veronica on channel eight and you want to move Veronica to channel five, most of the times you override the previous uh the previous one.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm. Okay. Well that's's up to uh Mister User Interface Designer.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah. It's it's pretty uh.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "yeah I mean you have to look on on the menu", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "working design. Doch.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Also.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "on the T_V_.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "That's you're.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "He only has to figure out how it has to look.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah but also, which buttons you have to press to get a certain result?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "And how", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "to use.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "And the working design was to specify how ph the physical interation between the components was, as I believe.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah okay. But You did your homework. But um yeah. Okay.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Or or is it too hard to to ju to just do it all on your remote? To programme the channels?", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "No I don't think so.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "No no. It should be able to do any remote.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "No that's.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Uh.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "But I think the communication with the television is difficult. But that's not our part.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "We don't have to design a protocol so.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "No.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "No.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "That's true. That's true.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Thank god.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah. So we have a figure a figure out a way to to do that easily. I mean th the autoseek is is not a problem.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "No that's the.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "I mean you uh you uh current channel and then then it just says, uh on which number do you want to save this, and you just press a number on your remote, and then say confirm, okay, and then it's it's saved. It's easier, it's it's it's harder to, if you have already programmed it, to to swap.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah. So but.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "So we have to think of something for that.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Um The User Interface Designer can design a menu for all these function I put them on the.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah k kind of structure into layers.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "On the uh yeah can you i make a a map with with all the yeah'cause it's now there are lots and lots of documents", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": ". Yeah. Yeah I can.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "and.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "I'll just try to reorganise uh things. Um.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "So.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "So you design the basic function menu for the L_C_D_ screen? Uh um I think.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "And and the layout of of the thing itself.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "th I think the yeah the layout of the screen", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "The the layout of the remote control?", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "and I think you can concentrate more on the button placement and the placement of the uh screen itself on the.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": ".", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Isn't that more the the u uh the user interface part?", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": ". No I d I think that's more in.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Uh all the functional uh aspects of the remote I think are in my department.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Maybe more on.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "I have to know what it has to do, so if you wanna you know the changing the channels kind of s thing is, I have to integrate that in the design.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Okay. So he's layout and you're function.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Form function okay..", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "I think that's a that's a good separation.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "But do I have to to uh to yeah to make the the menu layout also? Or.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Are you going to do that?", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah. Yeah I guess so.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah? I I'm going to make.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "I think i that's your department yes,", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "yeah o okay.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "because w he already knows what.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah we have to kind of work together.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "If if I make the the the yeah the menu like, I have to state which function has to be in the menu,", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "But we're not allowed..", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "and then you have to decide, it's, in a in a way that b is user-friendly.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah. Okay. Y you you are going to make a list of what functions are uh are going to to be on the the screen, the menu screen.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "And I'm going to make a a nice menu uh with with pages and yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "I think yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "With with some l with some layers in it.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah and also make clear which buttons to press to get certain result,", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "So some menus.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "because that's always the difficulty.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Every device has its own.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah. Well I guess this this button, the the the okay,", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Menu okay.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "menu okay. Or you can incorporate two uh difference uh different buttons. Uh like uh for your mobile phone. Um so this is only for to get in the menu, or to exit it.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "And then one to confirm, and one to go one step back.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Back. Yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "So it's like the the save button on your your mobile phone, if you have a Nokia or like that. Or the or the no button.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "To go one step back you it's only two extra buttons,", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah. W we.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "but if it if it's very clear that they are for the screen.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Uh I think we have to to group, to make two groups. Um the one group for the for the display, and one group for the basic functions, and.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah but they're incorporated? Up and down is.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah okay but we we have a m", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah because this this is used for both.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "yeah but maybe that's that's not uh.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Smart?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "yeah if you're if you're z zapping uh with your uh yeah remote control, you can press the the menu button, and then you are suddenly into the the yeah the display.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Into your screen. Okay. So you", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "You wanna separate uh.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "l should leave the menu button out of here.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "And and just put it under the screen, the screen.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Put it on top.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah j just just group group the yeah we make these the advanced functions and these the basic functions.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "So we make a yeah a line between them.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah. But we should place the screen on top, right?", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Well.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "F oh yeah. Okay yeah we swap uh Okay.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "But that's uh J Jurgen's department.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah. So we make it a.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah. You just you just find out and.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "You just make the layout. You.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "do we do the extra two buttons or not?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Uh.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "I think you should.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "It's easier. If you put too many functions in one button it gets confusing.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah okay. That's true.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah. So we have a a menu button and a s", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "And to, okay and back, also.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Okay. Okay and back button.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah. Yeah, or confirm and back. Whatever.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "And of course the four arrows.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "No.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "But those are still y doubly used. Both the L_C_D_.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Should we save this picture, or or you know what it looks like?", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah I'm I'm not s clear about uh the the extra two buttons. We have a menu button and.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah. That that just to to activate the screen. So.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "That's the the one with the yeah okay.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Menu button access the menu in the L_C_D_ screen.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "And then with these buttons, woa, y you navigate.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "You can navigate.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "But you can also navigate the channels. And the volume.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Okay so that that's not uh Yeah that Those are", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Those are both both.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "multifunctional.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Hey is it interesting for users if we put LED lights under the buttons? So that if you uh press on the menu function that only the buttons that are used for the menu are ligh li light up.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah. L l litten up yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Oh five minutes.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "That's very good idea.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "N", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Alright.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Light uh.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah that's a good idea because then it becomes clear which buttons are active now, which you can use.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah and then it's also easier to integrate several functions in one button.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah sure.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Um.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "So.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Anything else?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Those buttons are are lit up.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "I think not.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "But just one thing. Should we use those two? Them? Or only this to to scroll?", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "I've.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "And then use the two functional buttons to confirm, to go into something? Oh no we have to use this to adjust some some bars?", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Volume.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah..", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah keep it optional'cause maybe you can you know go left to right and up and down in a in one menu.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah. And maybe we should use this also as an okay button, still. And then just only a back button.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Well we have those buttons. We use all four.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "No.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "The pr the problem with the okay button in the middle is, sorry", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah okay go ahead.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah?", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "sorry, uh is uh if you're pressing up and down, you can easily press the okay once you, when you're not already at your choice.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah. So maybe make one uh one okay button and and one navigation button.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah that was already decided.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "And one back.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah the with with the the channel and the volume uh yeah m a multifunctional navigation button.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Okay that's what we decided earlier on.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah okay. Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Right okay. So.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "You wanna close down huh?.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "yeah I wanna close down.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "I have to, sorry.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "it's not because I don't like you but.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "That's okay.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "yh we have lunch break,", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Already.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "and then we can work for thirty minutes, and I have to write very fast to make the minich min minutes. And then uh we'll see.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Alright. How m how long is the lunchbreak?", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "I don't know. Nobody told me..", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "We have to ask..", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "But do we have to write uh to write down uh the our stuff now? Or first lunchbreak?", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "No I th believe there's first lunch break.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Because I I've everything in my head now so.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah. Or you can just.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "'Kay.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yes.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "I think you can put uh the laptop back in the room and.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "'Kay.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "This is.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yes sir..", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Time pressure.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "'Kay. Yeah it's a lot of pressure.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah. Sorry for my uh not finished presentation uh.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "That's okay. Oh yeah..", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Oh no no..", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah we'll kick your ass later. No. Uh.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Bring it on.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "I don't know if it works but it should be saved.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Aye Y you saved it? Does it save automatically in the project folder? Or.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah. It's uh.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Okay. We'll see.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Should be here. Smart board.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Just put back my laptop.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Don't know if you can use it but.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Alright.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah you can open it with the picture preview or stuff like that.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "And uh we have to make uh some maps with uh with the all the the data we uh gathered.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah. I try to organise it by these three.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": ". It's it's just my own map so I put everything into the.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah yeah yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "I don't really mind. I just put the minutes here and we'll see.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "But you got some extra information uh.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah that's in the functional design uh folder.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah. Yeah that's just basically what I just showed.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "But where do you did you get the newsflash?", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah. Yeah I got it by.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "You're the only one uh okay.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "yeah. 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ea6e3a2a39d3495e8765fe7eab3215cb	{ "meetingId": "education2", "transcriptSegments": [ { "text": "Good morning, everyone. Welcome to the Children, Young People and Education Committee this morning. I've received apologies for absence from Siân Gwenllian, and I'm very pleased to welcome Helen Mary Jones, who is substituting for Siân today. Can I ask whether Members want to declare any interests, please? Can I just, then, place on record that I have got a son who was about to do A-levels, so is affected by the exam decision? We'll move on, then, to our substantive item today, which is an evidence session with the Welsh Government around the impact of the coronavirus pandemic on education in Wales. I'm very pleased to welcome Kirsty Williams, Minister for Education; Steve Davies, who is director of the education directorate; Huw Morris, who is the group director, skills, higher education and lifelong learning; and Rob Orford, who is the chief scientific adviser for health. Thank you all for coming. We know that this is a really difficult and pressurised time for everyone, and we appreciate your attendance. Minister, I understand you wanted to make an opening statement today.", "speakerName": "Lynne Neagle AM" }, { "text": "Yes, if that's okay, Chair. As you know, it's not usually my practice to do that, but I think it is important today. COVID-19 coronavirus is one of the most significant issues that the Welsh Government and the people of Wales have dealt with in recent times. Dealing with the impacts of this pandemic is extremely challenging. Things are changing on an hourly basis, and we have to make decisions quickly to ensure public safety. But I would like to assure you that our aim, and my aim, and my main concern as the education Minister is to protect all staff and pupils in our schools and other educational settings. But we also have a duty to ensure continuing and continuity of education. Public health is clearly the priority here, but that does not change our belief that no child should miss out on any education, unless absolutely necessary. So, the decision to close all schools from tomorrow for statutory education provision was not taken lightly, but I believe it was necessary, given the advice and recommendations that we had received from a public health perspective and the situation that was developing on the ground. From next week, schools will have a new purpose. They will help support those most in need, including people involved in the immediate response to the coronavirus outbreak, and I'm working with my colleagues in the Cabinet, with Government officials and our partners in local government to develop and finalise these plans. The key areas that we're looking at are supporting and safeguarding the vulnerable and ensuring continuity of learning. This includes all of those who benefit from free school meals and children with additional learning needs. I can confirm that all maintained schools in Wales already have access to a range of digital tools that can support distance learning through the world-class Hwb digital learning platform, including virtual classrooms and video-conferencing facilities. A guide on what tools are available and how schools can use them has been developed and is being promoted widely. Yesterday, I announced that, whilst there are no easy choices, we have agreed that the best way forward is not to proceed with the summer exam series. Learners due to sit these exams will be awarded a fair grade to recognise their work, drawing on a range of information that is available, and I will announce further details shortly, but I felt it necessary to give early certainty to students and to staff. I would like to put on record my thanks to everyone working in education settings for the hard work that they have put in over the last few months in dealing with the virus and ensuring that pupils have been able to continue to learn. We need to continue to do this work together, as we face the continuing challenges posed by the coronavirus. Diolch yn fawr.", "speakerName": "Kirsty Williams AM" }, { "text": "Thank you very much, Minister, for that statement. We'll go to questions from Members now, and I've got some questions from Dawn Bowden.", "speakerName": "Lynne Neagle AM" }, { "text": "Thank you, Chair. Can I thank you, Kirsty, for your statement and the really difficult decisions that you've been having to make? You've already indicated in your statement this morning that these decisions are not taken lightly, and we understand that that is the case across Government. So, thank you for what you've been doing. You've outlined a little bit further there in your statement to us this morning about the new purpose. I take from what you're saying that you haven't really developed that yet in terms of exactly what that is going to look like. You've talked about the children of key workers, free school meals, additional learning needs. Is there anything else you can tell us about that at the moment and how you might staff the schools in those particular areas?", "speakerName": "Dawn Bowden AM" }, { "text": "Thank you, Dawn. So, you're absolutely right, our priority now is to operationalise, with colleagues in local government and schools, a practical response. And I have to say, we're working to timescales that I would have hoped to have avoided, but given the fact that we're having to make these decisions quite quickly, I hope that you will understand that perhaps where we start on Monday might change when we have more time and more opportunities to develop programmes going forward. Steve will be able to give you more details of the practical work that has already been going on, but our expectation will be that schools will be playing an important part in providing safe and secure places for children of those on the front-line response to dealing with the coronavirus to attend, and work is already under way with local authorities and individual schools on what that will look like for the emergency situation on Monday. Our other priority is indeed free school meals, and, again, where we eventually end up might be a different place to where we are on Monday. Again, we're responding to the emergency situation that there will be families that were expecting a free school meal on Monday, and, again, individual schools and local authorities are developing those plans at pace to be able to provide an emergency response as we work out a longer term plan to deal with the situation. The same thing also goes for additional learning needs, and attending to the needs of that particular group of learners. So, those conversations began a few days ago. I had the opportunity to meet with the First Minister and Andrew Morgan, the leader of the Welsh Local Government Association, yesterday to talk about what local government could do, and what they were already doing. Those plans in some places are already quite developed, and are now working at pace, but I hope you will understand that where we start on Monday is the emergency response, and that work will develop as we go forward. But, Steve, perhaps you could—? Because Steve was the one making all those phone calls and doing the practical operational stuff, rather than me. Steve.", "speakerName": "Kirsty Williams AM" }, { "text": "In short, the new purpose is to meet the needs of particular groups of children and young people. In some cases, some of the response to supporting free school meals, in the short term in particular, we may use the schools as part of that, and I'm certain that will happen in some cases. The second area is looking at how we support the children of key workers. Now, there is still work to be done on identifying exactly the categories of key workers, but I think it's really encouraging that in my discussions yesterday—I spoke with all 22 directors of education, and the examples we're picking up in their work with schools is they're already ahead of the curve in working with schools. So, schools have identified the number of children with health workers. It will grow, and we will need to look at that range. Then, the third area is vulnerable children. They're vulnerable sometimes in terms of education other than at school, vulnerable in terms of mental health, and for those children, as well as having an experience that we want to be planned, some have compared it to a snow day, particularly on Monday, when you're putting something together in the short term, but it will not be a formal curriculum that those children would normally go through. So, the range of activities—some will be focused on educational activities, some will be cultural, some will be sporting, and that plan will be developed on the basis of the age range of children, which in some cases may go from extremely young children up to those at the age of 16 in our all-through schools, but there will be a planned set of activities to cater for those children. What we are doing currently—I have staff back at Cathays Park who are in touch and working with directors of education to ensure that schools over the next two days will have been able to identify, at least at the earlier stage, in terms of health workers, the type and numbers of people. There are already schools who have informed us, and local authorities, of their plans for these activities to be starting next week, which is quite amazing, actually, given where we are. But we are expecting, and we're writing to schools today, that during the course of next week, headteachers to be in schools, and with their staff, taking into consideration the health guidance as to which staff should or should not be in, and in that period from next Monday through the two-week period, to Easter, we expect staff to be both planning for delivery post Easter, but also, as I said, building on and reflecting the good practice that's already in place for schools that have engaged in activities, and I'm sure a number of them will be inviting and enabling those children to come in on Monday. So, Monday will be a challenge for some, and not all will be delivering it, but we will be working so that we can get as much as possible delivered for those groups over the next two weeks, and particularly to have resilient programmes post Easter for the groups of children in those three categories that I said.", "speakerName": "Steve Davies" }, { "text": "Those that have been identified. Can I just clarify one thing? One of the identified vulnerable groups would clearly be children on the at-risk register. They would be included.", "speakerName": "Dawn Bowden AM" }, { "text": "Yes, definitely. Vulnerable children, yes.", "speakerName": "Steve Davies" }, { "text": "In our discussions, we have asked local government to be working with the social services departments and individual schools to identify those children who may be in that situation. We know that, for some children, being at school is part of their safeguarding arrangements, and obviously we will need to be able to respond to those needs.", "speakerName": "Kirsty Williams AM" }, { "text": "I wrote specifically yesterday to all directors of education to be assured that, for those children, the register is up to date and the plans are in place. I'm working with Albert Heaney my colleague, the director for social services, who is meeting with the 22 directors of social services today to look to ensure that we are joined up in ensuring none of these children fall through the gap.", "speakerName": "Steve Davies" }, { "text": "Okay. I've got a supplementary from Hefin, and then Suzy.", "speakerName": "Lynne Neagle AM" }, { "text": "A very quick and simple question: how are you going to communicate this to parents? There's a bigger picture and it's changing all the time, as you said. The Welsh Government have a route to communication. The most helpful thing I've seen is that Public Health Wales have a single website with information regarding the wider issue of the virus. How will this then be cascaded to schools, because there's obviously a time lag? So, have you considered how this is going to be communicated directly to parents?", "speakerName": "Hefin David AM" }, { "text": "We're using all of our platforms of communication to get these messages across. So, we're using the more informal methods of communication, but are relying on a systematic approach via individual directors and through to individual schools. Welsh Government already has a dedicated website page with all of the relevant information about coronavirus. We're looking, as quickly as we can, to have a frequently asked education questions page that we can update. Understandably, people are communicating to us on Twitter asking questions. It is impossible for the communications team here to be able to respond individually to every single person that is sending Facebook messages and sending tweets, so the best way we can do that is to collate the types of questions people are asking and then to be able to have a frequently updated question and answer page to try to respond to that. With regard to parents, for instance, we're aware of schools that have already sent a questionnaire out last night to parents saying,'Do you consider yourself to be a key worker? Do you work in the NHS? Please let us know by tomorrow so we can put arrangements in place for your children.' So, schools are already taking the initiative and having those conversations with parents about what their needs will be. And, as I said, Hefin, will it be perfect on Monday? No. It won't be perfect by Monday, because we're working to such constrained timescales. But we will continue to build that resilience. We also have to think about systems that look at what might the epidemic do and have systems of resilience that may work next week, given the situation we find ourselves in with public health advice at the moment. But that public health advice may change. Therefore, have we got a system that will be resilient in those circumstances? These are some of the challenges that we're having to grapple with. So, as I said, what happens on Monday might look very different to where we are if schools are still off in May. So, I hope people will understand that we are working in those kinds of scenarios.", "speakerName": "Kirsty Williams AM" }, { "text": "Suzy, you had a supplementary.", "speakerName": "Lynne Neagle AM" }, { "text": "Yes, just on this question of vulnerable children, I'm just wondering how much discretion teachers are going to have in including individual children who may not be obviously under social services' care or on a risk register or whatever. Teachers know their pupils and, very sensitively, they could include people who may not be obviously in need.", "speakerName": "Suzy Davies AM" }, { "text": "We would absolutely respect the professional judgment of individual headteachers to be able to have those conversations with their directors. As you said, quite rightly, they are the individuals who know their children best and know which children, perhaps, will need this extra support. We will put no constraints on those teachers trying to do that work.", "speakerName": "Kirsty Williams AM" }, { "text": "Okay. The second part of my question is: there were going to be Easter holidays anyway, weren't there? What was going to happen about free-school-meal children during that period? Has that gone out of the window now, the normal holiday provision for children? Because that's not there normally, is it, except in separate—", "speakerName": "Suzy Davies AM" }, { "text": "We do find ourselves in a strange situation. My understanding is what we're trying to work to is that we would have ongoing provision and not to make some strange,'You get this for two weeks, then you don't get it for two weeks, and then you're back in.' My understanding is, in England, that is what they're going to do. We're trying to create a system where it will be seamless and it will not necessarily matter that two of those weeks were formally holidays. It won't matter to those nurses and doctors who will need to be in work during those weeks. We're trying to create a system that will run uniformly. That's our policy goal at the moment.", "speakerName": "Kirsty Williams AM" }, { "text": "Helen Mary.", "speakerName": "Lynne Neagle AM" }, { "text": "Just briefly, building on Suzy's question, one particular group of children and young people that I hope will be eligible to be included in the potentially vulnerable category is young carers. For some of them, they may not be able to come into school because the people they're caring for may have to be excluded because of their conditions. But I think that, for other young carers, coming to school is an absolute lifeline, because they're working at home. So, I don't know if it's appropriate for you to specifically mention those in discussions with local authorities, but it's a group of young people who, again, may not be vulnerable in other ways, but because of their caring responsibilities they may need school. And the other group—and this, I suppose, goes back to Suzy's point about teachers knowing their young people—is the children who may be living in situations where they're at risk of witnessing domestic abuse. Again, these may very well not be children who are in any formal contact with social services, but being at home may be really not a good place for them to be. So, again, I'd put in an appeal for that to be something that perhaps can be raised with schools. If a teacher is worried about what a child's circumstances are like at home, whether they can be, as you said, Kirsty, included as one of the—. They may not be formally identified, but if the teacher knows that they're at risk, or there is an instinct that they're at risk, they might be able to be included in children who are allowed to take advantage of this special provision you're making at this difficult time.", "speakerName": "Helen Mary Jones AM" }, { "text": "We will certainly raise those issues. We have to do that in the context of what is deliverable, and we also have to do that in the context of the public health advice that we are receiving as well. One of the reasons why schools are closing is to help manage this disease. We know that the ability for school closures to make a contribution to that diminishes if we have significant children in school still. So, we will take these issues into consideration, but remembering this is part of an epidemic mitigation plan. Rob is the expert on that, not me.", "speakerName": "Kirsty Williams AM" }, { "text": "Yes, absolutely. This is a rapidly-evolving problem and the scale is something that we haven't seen in 100 years, and so we're having to evolve and iterate things as we go. Next week, I think, will look different to this week. So, it kind of is what it is. We've all got a role to play, and schools certainly have a significant role to play in breaking those chains of transmission. Areas that we're worried about are displacement activities. If we close the schools, then people collect at others' houses. We need to send a really clear message that you're all part of the solution, and the things that you do by distancing yourselves from your friends and your family are really important for us to get on top of this outbreak. The more that we can do that, the easier it will be when we go forward.", "speakerName": "Rob Orford" }, { "text": "I'm sure that that's true, but I'm sure that we wouldn't be wanting a child who's in a very pressured environment with perhaps a very difficult relationship between mum and dad—. It may be very important for those children to be out of that for some of the time. Hopefully, we're talking about relatively small numbers, but I just—.", "speakerName": "Helen Mary Jones AM" }, { "text": "We will look at vulnerability in a holistic way.", "speakerName": "Kirsty Williams AM" }, { "text": "Janet, you had a supplementary.", "speakerName": "Lynne Neagle AM" }, { "text": "Thank you, Chair, and good morning, Minister, and your team. Can I just put on record my thanks for all that you're having to endure at this moment? I think it's fair to say you have the support of Assembly Members and, indeed, our communities. Now, the question I have: if Cylch Meithrin have to close, where will they get money from to pay their staff? Because, currently, thankfully, there's support for businesses.", "speakerName": "Janet Finch-Saunders AM" }, { "text": "Janet, we're not doing Cylch Meithrin at the moment; we are sticking with schools, as we discussed in advance. Dawn.", "speakerName": "Lynne Neagle AM" }, { "text": "Can I just get some clarity, Steve, around what you were saying in terms of next week? Because I think the practical applications of this—and I understand that you don't know all of this yet, I understand that—the practical applications are what is coming to us, obviously, with constituents saying,'Well, what's going to happen to that?' Just so that I can be clear, are you saying that, at this stage, every headteacher will be in school on Monday, as will all their staff?", "speakerName": "Dawn Bowden AM" }, { "text": "Within the scope of the guidance in terms of their health, the expectation—and this will be conveyed in letters by the Minister today, to be made clear—is that they are closing for the majority of pupils, but our expectation within the guidance is that the headteacher with their staff will be coming in; for some to start the delivery of what we just described, but that will probably be small numbers, but more importantly to plan to ensure that, after the formal Easter period, which is school holidays, the schools are geared to cater for the range of pupils that we've been discussing.", "speakerName": "Steve Davies" }, { "text": "So, would you anticipate—again, I know this is all a bit'if and when', and it depends on the changing nature of the advice, but from what you're saying, I think we can probably anticipate that, as we go forward, there will probably be fewer schools opening and operable—that we may be moving those children on to fewer sites. Would that possibly—?", "speakerName": "Dawn Bowden AM" }, { "text": "That is a potential. So, we already know that one of our local authorities already has identified a strategic pattern of schools that they will want to operate in this way. That local authority has already chosen those locations, and is already having communications with how they will then staff those centres. So, that could well—. That, I expect, in the longer term, will be the nature of the provision that we will get to. But that's not for us to dictate. The local authorities are best placed to understand what is the best, pragmatic use of the resources that they have available; and of course those resources, primarily, are human beings. So, we've talked a lot this morning in the context of teaching staff, teaching assistants, but we're also having discussions with local authorities, and I met with the Council for Wales of Voluntary Youth Services this week, to look at deploying youth workers, to look to be deploying other staff that the local authority may employ, like sports development officers. There may be cultural officers that can have something to offer. Welsh Government will be talking with a range of our partners who perhaps their normal activities can't continue at the moment, but actually have personnel who want to add to this effort, who want to be able to be part of a provision going forward in the longer term, to be able to provide a great place for children to be. We want to give parents, who we are asking—. Let's think about it, in these worst of times, we're asking parents to leave their children so that they can go and do essential work, and some of that essential work is putting themselves at risk, potentially. And we want to give those parents confidence that, when they leave their child with us, that child will receive something really worthwhile, and they can direct all of their attention to doing their job.", "speakerName": "Kirsty Williams AM" }, { "text": "Just before you—. Janet, have you got a supplementary on schools now, not on early years settings?", "speakerName": "Lynne Neagle AM" }, { "text": "I lost the signal before, so it's a little bit confusing at this end, so bear with me. Just in terms of the closure of schools, I have been asked by teachers what does new purpose—you may have covered it, but bear in mind [Inaudible.]—mean in practice. And also, they're already asking what will next—? I know you said earlier that next week could look and probably will look significantly different than this week, but what can they expect to be happening next week in terms of this new purpose work?", "speakerName": "Janet Finch-Saunders AM" }, { "text": "We've covered that, Janet.", "speakerName": "Lynne Neagle AM" }, { "text": "First of all, Janet, I just want to say thank you very much for your kind comments. That's really, really kind of you. We will be sending a letter today to clarify those positions. So, each school will receive letters today about the expectations of schools next week.", "speakerName": "Kirsty Williams AM" }, { "text": "I think you're having trouble hearing us, aren't you, so I think—?", "speakerName": "Lynne Neagle AM" }, { "text": "No, I heard that loud and clear.", "speakerName": "Janet Finch-Saunders AM" }, { "text": "But I think you missed the earlier comments, when we went into some detail on the new purpose of schools. So, I'm sorry about that; we are having some problems with the connection.", "speakerName": "Lynne Neagle AM" }, { "text": "Yes, we couldn't get a signal.", "speakerName": "Janet Finch-Saunders AM" }, { "text": "Dawn.", "speakerName": "Lynne Neagle AM" }, { "text": "Just in relation to special schools and how they will fit into this new purpose arrangement.", "speakerName": "Dawn Bowden AM" }, { "text": "Yes, they're absolutely central to that planning. We know, again, that some of these children are our most vulnerable and they are some of our most pressurised families. Therefore, the same situation that we've just described for maintained schools also applies to special schools. We'll be having discussions about what arrangements can be made for those children within their own usual settings. In some cases, that may not be possible. So, again, already local authorities are making different provision. Can I give a shout out to the work of Rhondda Cynon Taf in this regard, who are already doing some excellent work with regard to how they can keep in touch with their children who usually would attend their special schools. But, again, Steve can give more detail.", "speakerName": "Kirsty Williams AM" }, { "text": "I think special schools have already been hit by this challenge, because a significant proportion of their children, because of their conditions, have not been coming to school, they've been isolated. But the principle we've used there is, actually, even if it's a minority of children who go to those schools and are vulnerable, they deserve and need that support through the school. So, we would expect that to function with the focus on vulnerable children. But similarly, even in special schools, there will be children whose parents will be key workers, so we would expect them to apply that same principle. Just quickly in response to the earlier question, while we may bring some groups of children into separate schools, we’ll have to continue with the principle of keeping social distance and any provision for a child in a special school in a different setting would be unlikely, given the nature of the special school, so we would look to cater for that within the original school.", "speakerName": "Steve Davies" }, { "text": "Just a couple more questions from me. It’s likely, because I know it has already happened, that some schools might actually close before Monday. Some schools have already partially closed. Are you quite happy that headteachers still have the discretion to do that, if they feel that’s the right thing to do?", "speakerName": "Dawn Bowden AM" }, { "text": "In this situation, the discretion of the head still remains. As I said, we will be communicating with all schools today about our expectations, if at all possible, to have schools open for staff to do some of this planning and to be able to respond to these priority needs that we've just talked about.", "speakerName": "Kirsty Williams AM" }, { "text": "The rationale of headteachers for closing schools up to now has been that they can't cope with the safety of the children. I think, moving forward, it's unlikely that that would be a rationale that headteachers would want to use for not engaging and planning for the future.", "speakerName": "Steve Davies" }, { "text": "We're only talking about one more day, now, anyway, aren't we? So, just in terms of confirmed cases in schools, is your view at this stage that, if there is a confirmed case in a school, once that school has been deep-cleaned, it can reopen again?", "speakerName": "Dawn Bowden AM" }, { "text": "If we had a confirmed case in a school, then all the usual mechanisms arranged by Public Health Wales would kick in at that point.", "speakerName": "Kirsty Williams AM" }, { "text": "Okay. And my final question is in relation to the position of early years and childcare settings. I know that kind of crosses over into somebody else's portfolio as well, but I think we know that. Certainly what I've seen, and I'm sure this is true elsewhere as well, we've seen nurseries closing down because the parents are actually taking the children out of those nurseries. I've got one in particular, there are kids from the ages of 6 to 12 years in there, and the parents are taking them out. They've got 30 staff there, catering for 200 children and no children to care for and the organisation, at this stage, is unable to claim on their insurance for the ongoing payment of those staff wages. Is there any advice that we can give to people in that situation at this stage?", "speakerName": "Dawn Bowden AM" }, { "text": "Sure. As you say, many of these settings are businesses—people's businesses and they play a hugely important role and it's a very worrying time for them. We have said that we will continue to pay for childcare, delivered under the childcare offer even when a child is unable, or a parent is unwilling, to take up that place. So, if that setting is receiving a childcare payment from the Welsh Government as part of our childcare offer, that will be paid, regardless of whether that child attends or not. And I know that we're also working with local authorities to ensure a similar position on Flying Start childcare and early education. So, that payment will be made, regardless of whether a child is attending. It's also important that childcare settings will be able to apply for the various packages of support that are being made available by my colleague, Ken Skates.", "speakerName": "Kirsty Williams AM" }, { "text": "Hefin, then Janet.", "speakerName": "Lynne Neagle AM" }, { "text": "Yes, I'd just like to turn that around from the parents' point of view. With schools closing, there are a lot of parents then losing 10 hours of free childcare, but from a settings point of view, they'll continue to be able to receive, for the time being, the nursery care.", "speakerName": "Hefin David AM" }, { "text": "Yes, so the decision that has been taken by my colleague, Julie Morgan, is that settings should stay open at the moment unless public health changes. That's being kept under constant review on public health. Again, the issue is that we know that that childcare is vital to many families, especially—and we're particularly concerned about those individuals who are trying to help us overcome and solve these problems. If you have any specific questions about that, we'll be happy to take them back to Julie Morgan.", "speakerName": "Kirsty Williams AM" }, { "text": "Janet.", "speakerName": "Lynne Neagle AM" }, { "text": "Is this the Cylch question?", "speakerName": "Janet Finch-Saunders AM" }, { "text": "Yes, please.", "speakerName": "Lynne Neagle AM" }, { "text": "Sorry, thank you. Yes, just basically, Cylch Meithrin, there are concerns—[Interruption.]", "speakerName": "Janet Finch-Saunders AM" }, { "text": "We've lost Janet. We'll come back to her.", "speakerName": "Lynne Neagle AM" }, { "text": "I think if the issue is about funding for Cylch Meithrin, these are not normal circumstances. As a Welsh Government, we will take every step to provide continuity of funding, if at all possible. We will overcome this, and when we overcome this situation we find ourselves in, we will need those childcare settings, we will need those private businesses and we will need our Cylch Meithrin to be there to respond and to be able to go on doing the job that they usually do for us. And if there is any way that we can, as a Government, ensure that that happens by carrying on funding things, even if they are not able to run, all usual—[Inaudible.]— around service-level agreements are off. I'm not setting the precedent—let me make that absolutely clear. [Laughter.] But, you know, we will not undermine businesses and voluntary provision like Cylch by withdrawing Welsh Government funding. I hope I've been clear.", "speakerName": "Kirsty Williams AM" }, { "text": "Okay, thank you for that.", "speakerName": "Lynne Neagle AM" }, { "text": "Thank you, Kirsty.", "speakerName": "Janet Finch-Saunders AM" }, { "text": "If we can move on to talk about exams, obviously you made the announcement yesterday. I completely understand that everything is a very fast-moving situation, but, as you know, there are a lot of questions that people have about young people who've put a lot of work in. Are you able to tell us any more today? In particular, have you got any idea about timescales now for setting out what the approach will be to handling the lack of summer exams?", "speakerName": "Lynne Neagle AM" }, { "text": "Yes, it is a devastating decision to have to have been taken, but I have done so on the very, very clear and unambiguous advice from Qualifications Wales. I met with Qualifications Wales and the WJEC yesterday. What was most important to them was that I made an early decision and I did not equivocate on what would happen for the exams. I was able to make an informal decision at that meeting, and then, of course, there is a formal process that we have to go through. That, now, allows Qualifications Wales and the exam board to operationalise that decision, and they will be communicating with schools as quickly as possible about what schools will need to do to ensure that the systems that they will now put in place can work. We are trying, as far as we can, as I understand it, to be able to mirror as closely as possible the usual results day, for instance. It might not be possible, because, of course, we're dealing with a situation that requires human beings to be involved in it, and those human beings could find themselves unwell. So, our best attempts will be to maintain the normal rhythm of an exams day in August, but that has to be caveated by the fact that we're dealing with difficult circumstances. But, the WJEC and Qualifications Wales will be making urgent communications to exam centres to explain what will need to happen next.", "speakerName": "Kirsty Williams AM" }, { "text": "Okay. Janet, you had a question on this.", "speakerName": "Lynne Neagle AM" }, { "text": "Yes, I think I raised it yesterday, Kirsty, but you were receiving loads of questions. I'd just ask for some further clarification about coursework, because only 30 per cent of that is done. Years 11 and 13, typically, in my case they're what's been raised with me—do you have any advice for them?", "speakerName": "Janet Finch-Saunders AM" }, { "text": "Okay, so, all exams are cancelled, but year 11 and year 13 will be given a grade—I think that's a distinction that people need to be aware of. That is because those years and those grades are gateway qualifications, and they are points of movement in the education system. So, it's really important for those students that they are not disadvantaged in any way by not being able to receive a grade that helps them to make a decision as a qualifying step into what they will do next, whether that be university, whether that be a degree apprenticeship or whether that be going into sixth form, into a college, into an apprenticeship or into some work-based learning opportunities. That's why we have to focus on those children, because for them, it is absolutely critical that we do. We are at an advantage in Wales, can I say? Because of the nature of our examination system, those students already have a lot of externally assessed work that we can use as a basis to move forward on. Because we've kept our AS-levels, we have got that data. Because we have a GCSE system—. Our year 11s, if they're doing triple science, they've already done 40 per cent of their paper, so we're very fortunate. Because of the structures that we have got in our qualification system, there is already lots and lots of externally-verified work that we can use, alongside, potentially, teacher evaluation of students as well. And I think that's really important. We’re starting from a better base than simply having none of that externally-verified data. What will also be important is that these children have confidence in those qualifications, and so we will be looking at a modulated arrangement within Wales, and I know that Qualifications Wales are discussing with their counterparts across the UK a modulated system across the UK. So, actually, we can make sure that our standards are maintained by actually having that modulation across the UK. So, we know that those children never have to worry about the rigour that has gone into determining that grade. So, they can have real confidence.", "speakerName": "Kirsty Williams AM" }, { "text": "Okay. Helen Mary.", "speakerName": "Lynne Neagle AM" }, { "text": "Thank you. A supplementary question that might feed into that moderation. You'll know that the National Union of Students has suggested that black and minority ethnic children and children from the working class, on the whole, don't do as well, in terms of their assessment by their own teachers. I don't know what their evidence is for that. We also know, of course, that boys tend to do better in exams, and girls tend to do better at coursework, for whatever reason that is. So, just to ask you at this early stage to build in those considerations around potential unconscious bias into that overall system that you're talking about. And, of course, you are right to say that, because we have got some elements of external moderation here, those factors may be less for us in Wales than they might for colleagues in England.", "speakerName": "Helen Mary Jones AM" }, { "text": "Yes, I think we are starting at a different base, thank goodness. So, you're quite right. As I said, students will have done unit 1 papers last year if they're GCSE students. Dare I say it, some might even have done early entry. So, we still have elements of coursework that are externally verified. So, children might well have done lots of oral exams in their English and in their Welsh language. So, we have lots of pieces of work that will have been externally verified. I certainly will ensure that these concerns are passed on. I'm sure that Qualifications Wales are thinking about it. I have every confidence that they and the WJEC will come up with a very comprehensive way of establishing those grades, but I have to say, in some ways, I have to step back now, because you would not expect me, in normal circumstances, to dictate to the WJEC how much percentage goes for that, and how much percentage is allocated for that; that would not be appropriate for a Minister. My job is to make the decision on the examinations on the basis of having confidence that what can be put in place is fair and is equitable, and I have confidence that that will be the case.", "speakerName": "Kirsty Williams AM" }, { "text": "Thank you.", "speakerName": "Helen Mary Jones AM" }, { "text": "Suzy.", "speakerName": "Lynne Neagle AM" }, { "text": "A few things from me. One is, obviously, pupils are being asked to work at home as well now, some of whom will be doing GCSE and A-level courses. So, there's just a question, generally, from me— because we're encouraging these kids to carry on working—how that will be accommodated by Qualifications Wales, I guess, in this modulation process. It may be that your at-home work will be of a higher standard or a lower standard than a teacher would be expecting. Secondly, you mentioned the AS-levels, of course, as being of value at the moment, but we've got people in Year 12 who now won't be doing their ASs. Is there any steer at this stage about what they will be expected to do? Will they be doing two sets of exams next year, for example? Or is AS just off the table? In which case, how are the A2s going to be calculated in due course? And then, finally from me, we do have some vocational qualifications that are up for examination as well—your BTECs, and I think it's the Association of Accounting Technicians, which is a lot of computer-based learning—which is due to be examined within three weeks. Those aren’t A-levels or GCSEs. I appreciate that you may not have the answer just at the moment, but are they off as well is the question, I guess?", "speakerName": "Suzy Davies AM" }, { "text": "With regard to AS-levels—no final decision has been made for exactly how those students will be treated. There are a range of options that could be used, but again, we will want to be thinking about student well-being, fairness and equity in that regard, and I will update Members as soon as I have received definitive advice from Qualifications Wales around that, and that hasn't happened yet. With regard to other types of qualifications, as you will be aware, the vast majority of BTECs is a modular, continually-assessed piece of work, and we would have every expectation that BTECs will be able to be awarded, but clearly, those conversations are with awarding bodies—they tend to be UK awarding bodies, rather then necessarily our WJEC exam board—and those conversations are ongoing. But I have every expectation that those qualifications will be awarded and, of course, because of their nature there's even more evidence of continued assessment. Huw, I don't know if there's anything else that you would like to add about those types of qualifications.", "speakerName": "Kirsty Williams AM" }, { "text": "No. I think you've covered most of it. I don't have a definitive answer for the ATT qualification, but we can look into that and come back to you.", "speakerName": "Huw Morris" }, { "text": "Well, I've just had a constituent ask, so that would be very helpful. And homeworking—", "speakerName": "Suzy Davies AM" }, { "text": "Homeworking, right.", "speakerName": "Kirsty Williams AM" }, { "text": "—is that going to count towards the assessments, overall assessments?", "speakerName": "Suzy Davies AM" }, { "text": "Well, potentially, as I said. I don't know the exact elements. What will be absolutely necessary is that Qualifications Wales and the WJEC will be able to give absolute clarity and simplicity around how those grades will be arrived at, because parents, teachers and students will want to know that, and my expectation is on them to be able to clearly communicate what elements will and will not be taken into consideration when awarding those grades.", "speakerName": "Kirsty Williams AM" }, { "text": "That's great. At least we covered it. Thank you, Minister—thank you, Kirsty.", "speakerName": "Suzy Davies AM" }, { "text": "And, just before we move on, have the universities across the UK indicated that they are content with this approach going forward—content to accept students on this basis?", "speakerName": "Lynne Neagle AM" }, { "text": "Certainly. There have been discussions with universities and UCAS, of course, that this also has a bearing on. One of the—. And the views of university and how university terms might be impacted is one of the ways and one of the reasons that we've factored in to making these decisions. Those discussions with universities are ongoing, aren't they, Huw?", "speakerName": "Kirsty Williams AM" }, { "text": "Yes. So, we've been in regular conversation with Universities Wales and through them with Universities UK and we've received every indication that the approach that's been adopted here has been welcomed by the institutions. Those conversations will continue as we work through the practicalities of how the gradings that are awarded are going to feed through into university admissions decisions and enrolment.", "speakerName": "Huw Morris" }, { "text": "Okay, thank you. Well, we've got some questions now from Suzy on the potential closures of colleges and universities.", "speakerName": "Lynne Neagle AM" }, { "text": "Okay. Well, it's a very general question, really. I appreciate you've already indicated there are lots of ongoing conversations, but my understanding is whether colleges or universities close is pretty much still at their own discretion. We're going to be asking some questions on emergency legislation shortly, which may impact on the answer you can give today, but what sort of conversations are you having with FE and HE at the moment about how they decide?", "speakerName": "Suzy Davies AM" }, { "text": "Well, you're absolutely right. As we often say in this committee, universities are autonomous institutions—a status that they guard jealously and we would never want to question. Universities have been making the decision to move as much of their learning online as they possibly can and we continue to have conversations with them. Colleges are in a similar position, looking to do as much as they can to be able to provide continuity of learning via distance learning methods, and the Bill, potentially, does give us more powers of intervention in both the FE and the HE sector.", "speakerName": "Kirsty Williams AM" }, { "text": "I might ask you about that in a minute, because I don't even know what the Bill says yet.", "speakerName": "Suzy Davies AM" }, { "text": "Huw, I don't know if there's anything you want to add.", "speakerName": "Kirsty Williams AM" }, { "text": "No—just to confirm what's been said and also to add in that independent training providers, similarly autonomous, like colleges and universities, have been moving in the same direction. We've been very impressed with the maturity and forward-planning that's been adopted by all of those institutions and their representative bodies. We've got consistency in the approach and a common desire, and investment in moving towards online support for students.", "speakerName": "Huw Morris" }, { "text": "And there's still this safety net idea. Certainly, colleges have indicated, as with schools, that, for the most vulnerable learners, they'll have something in place that might permit attendance on an individual basis.", "speakerName": "Suzy Davies AM" }, { "text": "That's my understanding, yes, and, again, we've been in regular conversation with them about that. My understanding is that they're going to spend the next week working through the detail of how that will work for the institutions.", "speakerName": "Huw Morris" }, { "text": "That's fair enough. And, presumably, education maintenance allowance will still be paid.", "speakerName": "Suzy Davies AM" }, { "text": "Yes. Arrangements have been made to ensure that EMA continues to be paid to all students who are entitled.", "speakerName": "Kirsty Williams AM" }, { "text": "That's right. You indicated that any Welsh Government support's going to stay, whatever the circumstances are—in your portfolio.", "speakerName": "Suzy Davies AM" }, { "text": "Yes. I'm doing my best, but it's an absolute yes on the EMA. There will be no disruption to EMA.", "speakerName": "Kirsty Williams AM" }, { "text": "Okay. You might get some further questions on HE and FE.", "speakerName": "Suzy Davies AM" }, { "text": "Yes. We've got some further questions, indeed, from Helen Mary and then Hefin.", "speakerName": "Lynne Neagle AM" }, { "text": "Now or in a bit?", "speakerName": "Helen Mary Jones AM" }, { "text": "Yes.", "speakerName": "Lynne Neagle AM" }, { "text": "Just further to EMA, of course, at the moment, that has an attendance qualification, doesn't it? And you don't get your EMA if you don't turn up. Should we take from your last answer that that attendance qualification doesn't apply anymore?", "speakerName": "Helen Mary Jones AM" }, { "text": "Yes. They can't turn up if the institution is not open, and that's not their fault.", "speakerName": "Kirsty Williams AM" }, { "text": "No, but that is something that's been a worry, so that's really encouraging to hear. Thinking about students in higher education, can you give an assurance that student maintenance payments will continue as normal? Is that the intention?", "speakerName": "Helen Mary Jones AM" }, { "text": "Yes.", "speakerName": "Kirsty Williams AM" }, { "text": "That's really good to hear. And have you given any special ministerial instruction to Student Finance Wales on processing applications for support or changes of circumstances, or is that something that's kind of ongoing at the moment?", "speakerName": "Helen Mary Jones AM" }, { "text": "Those conversations are ongoing with the Student Loans Company. As I said, we anticipate no disruption to—. We don't anticipate any change in the approach to students as a result of this. Individual student circumstances could well change and our expectation would be that the Student Loans Company would respond to that. All I would say is, just to remind people: people who work for the Student Loans Company are no more able to resist this disease than anybody else. There will undoubtedly in some cases be really practical challenges to service delivery, simply because organisations could be losing staff because of illness or the need to self-isolate or because they are reacting to social-distancing messages from the Government. So, I think we just need to bear that in mind: that these organisations are doing their best, but, if they are badly affected by staff numbers being off because of the virus, then I hope people will give them due consideration.", "speakerName": "Kirsty Williams AM" }, { "text": "Yes, that makes sense, of course, because we've been told that universities won't be able to entirely close, because there will be students who can't go home—", "speakerName": "Helen Mary Jones AM" }, { "text": "It is their home.", "speakerName": "Kirsty Williams AM" }, { "text": "—overseas students, for example. What discussions have you been having with the sector to make sure that those students' basic needs are met, that there's still food, shelter, whatever they need?", "speakerName": "Helen Mary Jones AM" }, { "text": "Well, obviously, universities have a duty of care to those students that find themselves in those circumstances, and every conversation that Huw's been having would suggest that universities are well aware of their need to do that.", "speakerName": "Kirsty Williams AM" }, { "text": "We instituted a monitoring process very early on in the onset of the disease, not least because a number of institutions have campuses and activities in China and other parts of south-east Asia. And so, as the disease has progressed, we've seen lessons being learned from the support for students who are in isolation coming from there to the UK, and I am assured that the universities here in Wales have got processes in place that support those learners.", "speakerName": "Huw Morris" }, { "text": "That's really helpful. And on this specifically—last question from me— have you considered whether students might need to be refunded some of their tuition fees, should the academic year not be completed?", "speakerName": "Helen Mary Jones AM" }, { "text": "So, as the institutions move more and more of their material and some of their assessment online, clearly, there are lessons that will need to be taken on board. There are established quality assurance and enhancement procedures in institutions to enable the tutors and other supporters to make sure that that material meets their needs. The intention in all of these institutions is that they will complete their course of study. There are appeals mechanisms and feedback mechanisms through the students union and through course committees and other things within institutions to make sure that any concerns or incomplete work are addressed. Failing those institutional mechanisms, there is a UK-wide system through the Office of the Independent Adjudicator for students to take forward any concerns that they have. So, we're confident that that system will be robust and will make sure that the students are getting a course of learning that meets their needs.", "speakerName": "Huw Morris" }, { "text": "Okay. Suzy, you had a supplementary.", "speakerName": "Lynne Neagle AM" }, { "text": "No, Mr Morris has answered my question.", "speakerName": "Suzy Davies AM" }, { "text": "Okay. We've got a couple more questions now on vulnerable learners. I've got Helen Mary, then Hefin.", "speakerName": "Lynne Neagle AM" }, { "text": "I think, Chair, the Minister has already answered what the—. But thinking just a little bit more broadly about the mental health and well-being of staff and learners across a range of educational settings, or, indeed, young people who can't access educational settings, what considerations are you giving to how that mental health and well-being might be supported through what is an incredibly difficult time for everyone?", "speakerName": "Helen Mary Jones AM" }, { "text": "Yes, that is correct. So, our expectation would be that during a prolonged period of closure—which I think, if we're honest, we have to acknowledge is what we're looking at—we would expect school staff—well-being staff, for instance in school—to be doing check-ins—phone check-ins, potentially, or FaceTime check-ins, with students, just to keep in touch with them as we go forward. We'll be looking to promote amongst young people a range of online facilities that are available—so, for instance, Meic website—so, looking to use a variety of platforms. We do, of course, have the formal NHS counselling services. I'm concerned, of course, that for some children their access to their counsellor is via their school. We know that, and we're just double checking the capacity of online counselling that already exists—online counselling tools that children already use because they don't want to go to the counsellor in the school and be seen in the school corridor going to the counsellor. They're already using those online methods and we expect to be able to continue, as far as possible, those kinds of mechanisms where children can have their mental health needs and their questions answered, and their worries. I think we have to remember that this is a really worrying time for children and young people. One of the reasons, again, that we wanted to keep schools going as long as possible—and teachers have been working so hard to do that—is because that routine of going into school and that normality is one that we've needed and wanted to maintain. Children will have worries about their own health; they'll have worries about the health of their parents and their grandparents; they will be consuming potentially media and news stories that have empty supermarket shelves. So, we need to understand, and I think we will also have to recognise, that this support will have to be ongoing once we're back to normal, and we will have to continue to look to support children in the longer term who will have lived through this experience. They are incredibly resilient, and they have been the champions of some of our public health messages. They are so much better and so much more compliant on the whole'washing your hands' and things like that than even adults have been. So, they are incredibly resilient, but we also have to recognise that it can be a really worrying time for them.", "speakerName": "Kirsty Williams AM" }, { "text": "Can I just—? Just a supplementary to that—you've mentioned already, Kirsty, the importance of youth services, and, particularly thinking voluntarily youth services, you've given the commitment, when were talking about Mudiad Ysgolion Meithrin earlier, that services that are part-funded by grants through the Welsh Government, for example, thinking of the national youth voluntary service—will those be able to be maintained even if settings have had to be shut as well? Obviously, local authorities will have to make their own decisions about whether youth settings are kept open, but, in terms of the direct support from Welsh Government, can organisations that receive it rely on that through this time?", "speakerName": "Helen Mary Jones AM" }, { "text": "No formal decision has been made, but if people are in receipt of a Government grant from my department to run a service and that service can no longer run because of the public—", "speakerName": "Kirsty Williams AM" }, { "text": "Because it's not safe.", "speakerName": "Helen Mary Jones AM" }, { "text": "—because it's not safe to do so, I do not foresee that we will be turning around and saying,'We'll have our money back, thank you very much.'", "speakerName": "Kirsty Williams AM" }, { "text": "Okay, thank you.", "speakerName": "Lynne Neagle AM" }, { "text": "That will make a lot of people happy, thank you. [Laughter.]", "speakerName": "Helen Mary Jones AM" }, { "text": "As I said, we are facing unprecedented circumstances. The normal rules of engagement have to change and, those organisations, we'll need them to be providing youth services for children when we are back to normal, and we wouldn't want to do anything that would undermine their ability to do that. Our call to the youth service is a call to arms, though. When we're trying to maintain services for vulnerable children and for front-line staff children, they have a valuable role to play and I know that local government and the Council for Wales of Voluntary Youth Services are already in discussion about how youth services—. Many of our youth services work on an outreach basis. Those traditional youth clubs, because of austerity, are not necessarily there anymore, so they are well used to being out and about and doing outreach work, and they will have an important part to play in the services that we talked about earlier.", "speakerName": "Kirsty Williams AM" }, { "text": "Thank you.", "speakerName": "Helen Mary Jones AM" }, { "text": "Okay, thank you. Hefin, briefly, and then we're going to take one final question from Suzy on emergency legislation.", "speakerName": "Lynne Neagle AM" }, { "text": "All right. I'll declare an interest as a parent of a child with additional learning needs, although the question I'm about to ask doesn't reflect her interests. Additional learning needs pupils who are waiting outcomes of referrals—if they're currently waiting an outcome of a referral, will that process will be suspended or will it continue as normal? And, if it is suspended, will it pick up where it left off from this point?", "speakerName": "Hefin David AM" }, { "text": "I think we have to recognise that the ability to deliver business as usual has been massively compromised. I'm sure people will try and continue to do their normal activities and their normal jobs, but that might not be possible. I will have to check that, Hefin, to be honest. I don't want to give you any false assurance if, actually, the intelligence on the ground is that that simply will not be able to happen. But we don't—", "speakerName": "Kirsty Williams AM" }, { "text": "Can we have a clear line on that?", "speakerName": "Hefin David AM" }, { "text": "We don't want to jeopardise anybody, but as I said, some of the normal services are simply not available as everybody turns their attention to trying to respond to the pandemic.", "speakerName": "Kirsty Williams AM" }, { "text": "Okay, thank you. Final question—because I know that the Minister's got a lot of things that she needs to get on with—from Suzy on emergency legislation.", "speakerName": "Lynne Neagle AM" }, { "text": "I'm not going to ask you if you'll use any powers you get under the emergency legislation, but are you able to give us some indication of what they might be?", "speakerName": "Suzy Davies AM" }, { "text": "Sure. For instance, the Bill will provide Welsh Ministers with powers to temporarily close schools or other educational institutions, childcare premises; powers to give temporary continuity direction—so, actually, the other way around, force things to be open—and to be able to direct resources. So, that includes, as I said, I could direct something to stay open if that institution was trying to close down. The powers also give flexibility to maybe be able to direct staff to other institutions that they would not normally work in, if that was part of our resilience needs. We'd also be looking at, for instance, relaxing requirements around ratios in childcare settings, or we might be wanting to do things around food. So, obviously, we have rules around the level of nutrition that schools should be giving their children. If there is a continuing role for schools in providing food, we might have to be a bit more flexible about what that might look like. So, those kinds of flexibilities—to be able to suspend things, direct things—that we would not normally have in normal circumstances.", "speakerName": "Kirsty Williams AM" }, { "text": "Okay. And just to finish this one off—you may not be able to answer this one, in all fairness—in those situations where it's the Government who says'no' to various things, does that then help people in the situation of Dawn's nursery, and insurance claims suddenly become more likely?", "speakerName": "Suzy Davies AM" }, { "text": "I'm not an expert on insurance, and I don't know if anybody here can help me. But what my understanding is, is that even where Government has given a direction that does not necessarily mean that you will be covered by your insurance. What we're finding in the private sector is that insurance companies are not paying out, because even when a Government has directed it, they do not regard this as a disruption to business. So, the insurance industry is not my area of expertise.", "speakerName": "Kirsty Williams AM" }, { "text": "No, no, I accept that.", "speakerName": "Suzy Davies AM" }, { "text": "It's not my area of expertise, but from what I understand from discussions around the Cabinet table, this is particularly problematic. Let me give you an example about how we've been trying to overcome some of this—it feels like an awfully long time ago now— you'll be aware that we gave directions earlier around cancellation of school trips abroad. Trying to make sure that that direction came from the Foreign and Commonwealth Office, rather than the Department for Education was a real battle, because again there were fears that, unless that advice came from the Foreign and Commonwealth Office, insurance would not kick in, and that was a two-day discussion.", "speakerName": "Kirsty Williams AM" }, { "text": "Okay. This is helpful to know, actually.", "speakerName": "Suzy Davies AM" }, { "text": "So, these are the kinds of things that we're grappling with. But, as I said, thinking about it, that was only last week, but it feels like an aeon ago.", "speakerName": "Kirsty Williams AM" }, { "text": "I'm not holding you to that, but it helps us manage the questions we get asked.", "speakerName": "Suzy Davies AM" }, { "text": "Yes, but as I said, insurance is not my area of expertise.", "speakerName": "Kirsty Williams AM" }, { "text": "No, but thank you for answering.", "speakerName": "Suzy Davies AM" }, { "text": "Okay. Well, we've come to the end of our time. Can I thank you for attending this morning, and your officials? We do recognise what an incredibly challenging time this is, and we'd like to place on record our thanks to all of you for the work that you're doing to try and see us through this crisis. As usual, you'll be sent a transcript to check for accuracy following the meeting. Thank you again, all of you, for your attendance. Item 3, then, is a motion under Standing Order 17.42 to resolve to exclude the public for the remainder of the meeting. Are Members content? Thank you.", "speakerName": "Lynne Neagle AM" } ] }	{ "dialogTurns": [ { "query": "Did anyone in the meeting disagree with Kirsty Williams about what some of the new purposes of schools are in light of the pandemic?", "response": "I cannot answer this question. The meeting transcript does not contain any information about objections to Kirsty Williams' characterization of the new purposes of schools during the pandemic.", "responseAttribution": null, "queryMetadata": { "queryType": "QUERY_TYPE_YES_NO", "isUnanswerable": true, "isContextDependent": null } }, { "query": "What were the essential points conveyed in the meeting about the impact of the pandemic on education in Wales?", "response": "Here are the main points conveyed in the meeting:\n\n* Schools in Wales will temporarily serve new purposes such as supporting vulnerable people and ensuring continuity of learning.\n* Resources will be allocated to support vulnerable groups of children, such as those with additional learning needs and those at risk of abuse.\n* Free school meals will continue to be provided to students who are enrolled in the program, even if they are unable to attend school.\n* The summer exam series has been canceled.\n* Schools are creating plans and systems to continue education for students through distance learning platforms.\n* Funds will continue to flow to early learning and childcare centers, even if they are closed.\n* Postponed school trips will be covered by insurance, but authorities are still working to make sure this is the case across the board.", "responseAttribution": { "indexRanges": [ { "startIndex": 1, "endIndex": 6 }, { "startIndex": 19, "endIndex": 19 }, { "startIndex": 48, "endIndex": 52 }, { "startIndex": 58, "endIndex": 58 }, { "startIndex": 84, "endIndex": 84 }, { "startIndex": 115, "endIndex": 115 }, { "startIndex": 125, "endIndex": 135 } ] }, "queryMetadata": { "queryType": "QUERY_TYPE_GENERAL", "isUnanswerable": null, "isContextDependent": null } }, { "query": "What was the decision regarding the continuation of funding for early learning and childcare centers in Wales?", "response": "Welsh authorities made the decision to continue funding early learning and childcare centers throughout the pandemic, even if they have to close due to safety concerns. 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eae1e970742d49be9b02722d56685270	{ "meetingId": "Bed009", "transcriptSegments": [ { "text": "Hmm. Testing channel two.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "Two, two..", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "Two.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "Two. Oh.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "Hello?", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "Hmm? Yeah Thank You. OK Well, so Ralf and Tilman are here.", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "OK. Great. Great.", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "Made it safely.", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "So the what w we h have been doing i they would like us all to read these digits. But we don't all read them but a couple people read them.", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "OK.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "Uh, wanna give them all with German accents today or?", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "Sure.", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "OK.", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "OK and the way you do it is you just read the numbers not as uh each single, so just like I do it.", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "OK. First you read the transcript number. Turn.", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "OK, uh What's.", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "OK. Let's be done with this.", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "OK.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "OK. this is Ami, who And this is Tilman and Ralf.", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "Hi. Uh - huh. Nice to meet you.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "Hi.", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "Hi. OK. So we're gonna try to finish by five so people who want to can go hear Nancy Chang's talk, uh downstairs.", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "Hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "And you guys are g giving talks on tomorrow and Wednesday lunch times,", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "Yes.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "Mmm.", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "right? That's great. OK so, do y do you know what we're gonna do?", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "I thought two things uh we'll introduce ourselves and what we do. And um we already talked with Andreas, Thilo and David and some lines of code were already written today and almost tested and just gonna say we have um again the recognizer to parser thing where we're working on and that should be no problem and then that can be sort of developed uh as needed when we get enter the tourism domain. em we have talked this morning with the with Tilman about the generator.", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "S", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "and um There one of our diligent workers has to sort of volunteer to look over Tilman's shoulder while he is changing the grammars to English", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "because w we have we face two ways. Either we do a syllable concatenating um grammar for the English generation which is sort of starting from scratch and doing it the easy way, or we simply adopt the ah um more in - depth um style that is implemented in the German system and um are then able not only to produce strings but also the syntactic parse uh not parse not the syntactic tree that is underneath in the syntactic structure which is the way we decided we were gonna go because A, it's easier in the beginning", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "and um it does require some some knowledge of of those grammars and and and some ling linguistic background. But um it shouldn't be a problem for anyone.", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "OK So That sounds good. Johno, are you gonna have some time t to do that uh w with these guys?", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "Sure.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "cuz y you're the grammar maven.", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "OK.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "I mean it makes sense,", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "doesn't it? Yeah Good. OK. So, I think that's probably the the right way to do that. And an Yeah, so I I actually wanna f to find out about it too, but I may not have time to get in.", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "the the ultimate goal is that before they leave we we can run through the entire system input through output on at least one or two sample things. And um and by virtue of doing that then in this case Johno will have acquired the knowledge of how to extend it. Ad infinitum. When needed, if needed, when wanted and so forth.", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "OK that sounds great.", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "And um also um Ralf has hooked up with David and you're gonna continue either all through tonight or tomorrow on whatever to get the er parser interface working.", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "Mmm.", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "They are thinning out and thickening out lattices and doing this kind of stuff to see what works best.", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "Mmm, yep.", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "Great. So, you guys enjoy your weekend?", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "Yes, very much so.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "Yeah, very much", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "OK, before before you got put to work?", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "Yeah", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "Great. OK, so that's Sort of one branch is to get us caught up on what's going on. Also of course it would be really nice to know what the plans are, in addition to what's sort of already in code.", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "Yes.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "and we can d I dunno w w was there uh a time when we were set up to do that? It probably will work better if we do it later in the week, after we actually understand uh better what's going on.", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "Yes.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "Hmm.", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "So when do you guys leave?", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "Um we're here through Sunday,", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "Oh", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "so All through Friday would be fine.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "Oh, OK, so OK, So so anyt we'll find a time later in the week to uh get together and talk about your understanding of what SmartKom plans are.", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "and how we can change them.", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "Yes. Sure.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "Uh,", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "Should we already set a date for that? Might be beneficial while we're all here.", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "OK? um What what does not work for me is Thursday afternoon. I can do earlier in the day on Thursday, or um most of the time on Friday, not all.", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "Thursday morning sounds fine?", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "Wha - but, Johno,", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "what are your constraints?", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "um Thursday afternoon doesn't work for me, but.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "Neither does Thursday morning, no?", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "Uh Thursday morning should be fine.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "OK.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "Eleven? Eleven on Thursday?", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "I was just thinking I w I will have leavened by eleven.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "Right. Right. This is then out of deference to our non - morning people.", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm. OK. So at eleven?", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "Hmm.", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "Thursday around eleven? OK.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "Yeah. And actually we can invite um Andreas as well.", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "Uh he will be in Washington, though.", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "Oh that's true. He's off off on his trip already.", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "but um David is here and he's actually knows everything about the SmartKom recognizer.", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "Thilo. OK well yeah maybe we'll see if David could make it. That would be good.", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "OK so facing to to what we've sort of been doing here um well for one thing we're also using this room to collect data.", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "Yeah obviously.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "um um Not this type of data,", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "Oh, OK.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "no not meeting data but sort of sort ah our version of a wizard experiment such not like the ones in Munich but pretty close to it.", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "The major difference to the Munich ones is that we do it via the telephone", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "OK.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "even though all the recording is done here and so it's a sort of a computer call system that gives you tourist information", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "tells you how to get places. And it breaks halfway through the experiment and a human operator comes on. and part of that is sort of trying to find out whether people change their linguistic verbal behavior when first thinking they speak to a machine and then to a human.", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "and we're setting it up so that we can we hope to implant certain intentions in people. For example um we have first looked at a simple sentence that \" How do I get to the Powder - Tower? \" OK so you have the castle of Heidelberg", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "OK.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "and there is a tower and it's called Powder - Tower.", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "Oh, OK. Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "and um so What will you parse out of that sentence? Probably something that we specified in M - three - L, that is @ @ \" action go to whatever domain, object whatever Powder - Tower \".", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "Mmm.", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "And maybe some model will tell us, some GPS module, in the mobile scenario where the person is at the moment. And um we've sort of gone through that once before in the Deep Mail project and we noticed that first of all what are I should've brought some slides, but what our So here's the tower. Think of this as a two - dimensional representation of the tower. And our system led people here, to a point where they were facing a wall in front of the tower. There is no entrance there, but it just happens to be the closest point of the road network to the geometric center Because that's how the algorithm works. So we took out that part of the road network as a hack and then it found actually the way to the entrance. which was now the closest point of the road network to", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "OK, geometric center. But what we actually observed in Heidelberg is that most people when they want to go there they actually don't want to enter, because it's not really interesting. They wanna go to a completely different point where they can look at it and take a picture.", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "Oh, OK.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "Hmm.", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "And so what uh uh a s you s let's say a simple parse from a s from an utterance won't really give us is what the person actually wants. Does he wanna go there to see it? Does he wanna go there now? Later? How does the person wanna go there? Is that person more likely to want to walk there? Walk a scenic route? and so forth. There are all kinds of decisions that we have identified in terms of getting to places and in terms of finding information about things. And we are constructing and then we've identified more or less the extra - linguistic parameters that may f play a role. Information related to the user and information related to the situation. And we also want to look closely on the linguistic information that what we can get from the utterance. That's part of why we implant these intentions in the data collection to see whether people actually phrase things differently whether they want to enter in order to buy something or whether they just wanna go there to look at it. And um so the idea is to construct uh um suitable interfaces and a belief - net for a module that actually tries to guess what the underlying intention was. And then enrich or augment the M - three - L structures with what it thought what more it sort of got out of that utterance. So if it can make a good suggestion, \" Hey! \" you know, \" that person doesn't wanna enter. That person just wants to take a picture, \" cuz he just bought film, or \" that person wants to enter because he discussed the admission fee before \". Or \" that person wants to enter because he wants to buy something and that you usually do inside of buildings \" and so forth. These ah these types of uh these bits of additional information are going to be embedded into the M - three - L structure in an sort of subfield that we have reserved. And if the action planner does something with it, great. If not you know, then that's also something um that we can't really at least we want to offer the extra information. We don't really um we're not too worried.", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "Hmm.", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "I mean t s Ultimately if you have if you can offer that information, somebody's gonna s do something with it sooner or later. That's sort of part of our belief.", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "What was he saying?", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "Um, for example, right now I know the GIS from email is not able to calculate these viewpoints. So that's a functionality that doesn't exist yet to do that dynamically,", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "but if we can offer it that distinction, maybe somebody will go ahead and implement it. Surely nobody's gonna go ahead and implement it if it's never gonna be used, so. What have I forgotten about? Oh yeah, how we do it,", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "Well th uh", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "yeah that's the", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "No no. It's a good time to pause. I s I see questions on peoples' faces, so why don't.", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "Oh", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "let's let's Let's hear.", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "Well the obvious one would be if if you envision this as a module within SmartKom, where exactly would that Sit? That's the d", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "um so far I've thought of it as sort of adding it onto the modeler knowledge module.", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "OK, yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "So this is one that already adds additional information to the", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "Hmm.", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "Makes perfect sense. Yes.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "Hmm, ah.", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "but it could sit anywhere in the attention - recognition I mean basically this is what attention - recognition literally sort of can.", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "Well it's supposed to do. Yeah", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "Mmm.", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "That's what it should do.", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "Right,", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "Huh.", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "Well f from my understanding of what the people at Phillips were originally trying to do doesn't seem to quite fit into SmartKom currently so what they're really doing right now is only selecting among the alternatives, the hypotheses that they're given enriched by the domain knowledge and the um discourse modeler and so on.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "So if if this is additional information that could be merged in by them.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "And then it would be available to action planning and and others.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "Yeah. the.", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "let's let's That w OK that was one question. Is there other other things that cuz we wanna not Pa - pass over any you know, questions or concerns that you have.", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "Well there're there're two levels of of giving an answer and I guess on both levels I don't have any um further questions.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "Mmm. Mmm.", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "uh the the two levels will be as far as I'm concerned as uh standing here for the generation module", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "Mmm.", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "and the other is is my understanding of what SmartKom uh is supposed to be", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "and I I think that fits in perfectly", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "So well, let me Let me s expand on that a little bit from the point of view of the generation.", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "Hmm.", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "So the idea is that we've actually got this all laid out an and we could show it to you ig um Robert didn't bring it today but there's a a belief - net which is There's a first cut at a belief - net that that doesn't it isn't fully uh instantiated, and in particular some of the the combination rules and ways of getting the the conditional probabilities aren't there. But we believe that we have laid out the fundamental decisions in this little space", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "and the things that influence them. So one of the decisions is what we call this AVE thing. Do you want to um access, view or enter a thing.", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "Hmm.", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "So that's a a discrete decision.", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "There are only three possibilities and the uh what one would like is for this uh, knowledge modeling module to add which of those it is and give it to the planner.", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "But, uh th the current design suggests that if it seems to be an important decision and if the belief - net is equivocal so that it doesn't say that one of these is much more probable than the other, then an option is to go back and ask for the information you want.", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "Alright? Now there are two ways one can go a imagine doing that. For the debugging we'll probably just have a a drop - down menu and the while you're debugging you will just OK. But for a full system, then one might very well formulate a query,", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "give it to the dialogue planner and say this, you know ar are you know you are you planning to enter? Or whatever it whatever that might be. So that's under that model then, There would be a uh um a loop in which this thing would formulate a query,", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "Yes.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "presumably give it to you. That would get expressed and then hopefully you know, you'd get an answer back.", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "Yep.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "And that would of course the answer would have to be parsed.", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "Mmm. Yep.", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "right and.", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "Yes.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "OK so, th that uh, We probably won't do this early on, because the current focus is more on the decision making and stuff like that.", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "Yep.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "But While we're on the subject I just wanted to give you a sort of head's up that it could be that some months from now we said \" OK we're now ready to try to close that loop \" in terms of querying about some of these decisions.", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm. Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "Hmm.", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "Yep. So my suggestion then is that you um look into the currently ongoing discussion about how the action plans are supposed to look like. And they're currently um Agreeing or or in the process of agreeing on an X M L - ification of um something like a state - transition network of how dialogues would proceed. and The these um transition networks uh will be what the action planner interprets in a sense.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "Hmm. D did you know this Robert?", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "uh Michael is doing that, right?", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "Well uh Marcus Lerkult is actually implementing that stuff and Marcus and Michael together are um leading the discussion there, yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "OK.", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "So we ha we have to get in on that.", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "Yep.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "Mmm.", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "because um partly those are like X - schemas.", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "Definitely.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "the transition diagrams.", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "Hmm.", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "And it may be that that um we should early on make sure that they have the flexibility that we need.", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "Hmm. But they uh Have I understood this right? They they govern more or less the the dialogue behavior or the action.", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "It's not really what you do with the content of the dialogue but it's So, I mean there is this this this nice interf", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "uh, No, it's it's also a quantrant uh uh.", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "i Is it.", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "So there's ac so there th the word \" action \", OK, is is what's ambiguous here.", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "I think. Hmm.", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "Yes.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "So, um one thing is there's an actual planner that tells the person in the tourist domain now,", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "OK.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "per tells the person how to go, \" First go here,", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "first go there uh, you know, take a bus \", whatever it is. So that's that form of planning, and action, and a route planner and GIS, all sort of stuff. uh But I think that isn't what you mean.", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "No. No, in SmartKom terminology that's um called a function that's modeled by a function modeler. And it's th that's completely um encapsulated from th the dialogue system. That's simply a functionality that you give data as in a query and then you get back from that mmm, a functioning model um which might be a planner or a VCR or whatever. um some result and that's then then used.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "Well, OK, so that's what I thought. So action he action here means dia uh speech ac uh you know dialogue act.", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "Yeah, yeah. Yeah, in that in that sense", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "Mmm.", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "yes, dialogue act,", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "Um, I think tha I think it's not going to I think that's not going to be good enough. I I don what uh what I meant by that. So I think the idea of having a, you know, transition diagram for the grammar of conversations is a good idea.", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "OK? And I think that we do hav definitely have to get in on it and find out OK. But I think that um when so, when you get to the tourist domain it's not just an information retrieval system.", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm. Clearly. Yes.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "Right? So this i this is where I think this people are gonna have to think this through a bit more carefully.", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "So, if it's only like in in the in the film and T V thing, OK, you can do this. And you just get information and give it to people. But what happens when you actually get them moving and so forth and so on", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "Yep.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "Uh, y y your I d I think the notion of this as a self contained uh module you know th the functional module that that interacts with with where the tourism g stuff is going probably is too restrictive.", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "Yep.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "Now I dunno how much people have thought ahead to the tourist domain in this", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "Probably not enough, I mean an another uh more basic point there is that the current um tasks and therefore th the concepts in this ac what's called the action plan and what's really the dialogue manager.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "Yeah", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "um is based on slots that have to be filled and the um kind of values in these slots would be fixed things like the a time or a movie title or something like this", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm. Right.", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "whereas in the a um tourist domain it might be an entire route. Set - based, or even very complex structured information in these slots", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "Indeed. Right.", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "and I'm not sure if if complex slots of that type are really um being taken into consideration.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "OK.", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "So that's that's really something we", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "Could you could you put a message into the right place to see if we can at least ask that question?", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "Yep.", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "I mean nothing's being completely settled there", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "rea yep", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "so this is really an ongoing discussion", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "and that's", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "yeah and um it might actually OK ah also because um again in in Deep Map we have faced and implemented those problems once already", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "maybe we can even shuffle some know how from there to to Markus and Michael.", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "Yes.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "Mmm.", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "Yep.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "And um mmm You don't know OK th I'll I'll talk to Michael it's what I do anyway. Who How far is the uh the the M - three - L specification for for the la natural language input gone on the the uh I haven't seen anything for the uh tourist path domain.", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "Yeah, it's it's not defined yet.", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "And um you are probably also involved in that,", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "Um Yeah.", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "right? uh together with the usual gang, um Petra and Jan", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "Mmm. Yeah, there's a meeting next next week I think", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "OK because That's Those are the I think the the true key issues is how does the whatever comes out of the language input pipeline look like and then what the action planner does with it and how that is uh specified. I didn't think of the internal working of the uh the action planner and the language uh the function model as sort of relevant. Because what what they take is sort of this this fixed representation of a of an intention.", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "And that can be as detailed or as crude as you want it to be. But um the internal workings of of the whether you know there're dialogue action planners that work with belief - nets that are action planners that work with you know state automata. So that shouldn't really matter too much. I mean it does matter because it does have to keep track of you we are on part six of r a route that consists of eight steps and so forth", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "Yeah, th there there I think there are a lot of reasons why it matters. OK, so that uh, for example, the i it's the action planner is going to take some spec and s make some suggestions about what the user should do. What the user says after that is going to be very much caught up with what the action planner told it.", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "Yes.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "If the If the parser and the language end doesn't know what the person's been told OK th it's you're making your life much more difficult than it has to be.", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "Right? So if someone says the best t to uh go there is by taxi, let's say. Now the planner comes out and says you wanna get there fast, take a taxi. OK. And the language end doesn't know that. OK, there's all sorts of dialogues that won't make any sense which would be just fine.", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "hmm", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "uh", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "That would b but that I think that that uh point has been realized and it's it's not really um been defined yet but there's gonna be some kind of feedback and input from uh the action planner into all the analysis modules, telling them what to expect and what the current state of the discourse is.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "Mmm.", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "Beyond what's currently being implemented which is just word lists.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "Yeah, but this is not the st this is not just the state of the discourse.", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "Of of special interest.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "This is actually the state of the plan. That's why", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "Yes, Yes, Mm - hmm yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "OK so it z and s uh, It's great if people are already taking that into account. But One would have t have to see see the details.", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "The specifics aren't really there yet. Yes. So, there's work to do there.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "Yeah. So anyway, Robert, that's why I was thinking that", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "um I think you're gonna need We talked about this several times that that the the input end is gonna need a fair amount of feedback from the planning end.", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "hmm", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "In in one of these things which are are much more continuous than the just the dialogue over movies and stuff.", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "Mmm.", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "And even on on a more basic level the the action planner actually needs to be able to have um an expressive power that can deal with these structures. And not just um say um um the dialogue um will consist of ten possible states and th these states really are fixed in in a certain sense.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "Hmm?", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "You have to.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "Would there be any chance of getting the terminology changed so that the dialogue planner was called a \" dialogue planner \"? Because there's this other thing The o There's this other thing in in the tourist domain which is gonna be a route planner", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "That'd be nice.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "or It's really gonna be an action planner. And i it.", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "It oughta be called a a dialogue manager. cuz that's what everybody else calls it.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "I would think,", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "Mmm.", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "Huh? So, s So what would happen if we sent a note saying \" Gee we've talked about this and couldn't we change this uh th the whole word? \" I have no idea how complicated these things are.", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "Probably close to impossible.", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "Depends on who you talk to how. We'll see. I'll go check, cause I completely agree. Yeah,", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "Mmm.", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "and I think this is just for historical reasons within uh, the preparation phase of the project and not because somebody actually believes it ought to be action planner. So if there is resistance against changing it, that's just because \" Oh, We don't want to change things. \" That that not deep reason", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "OK, anyway. I if if that c in persists then we're gonna need another term. for the thing that actually does the planning of the uh routes and whatever we are doing for the tourist.", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "That's external services.", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "Yeah, but that's not g eh tha That ha has all the wrong connotations. it's it sounds like it's you know stand alone. It doesn't interact, it doesn't That's why I'm saying. I think you can't it's fine for looking up when T you know when the show's on TV. You go to th but I I I I think it's really really wrong headed for something that you that has a lot of state, it's gonna interact co in a complicated way with the uh understanding parts.", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "Yeah. Yeah I think just the the spatial planner and the route planner I showed you once the interac action between them among them in the deep map system", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "so a printout of the communication between those two fills up I don't know how many pages", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "Hmm", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "and that's just part of how do I get to one place. It's really insane. and uh but um so this is um definitely a good point to get uh Michael into the discussion. Or to enter his discussion, actually.", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "Yeah, Marcus.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "That's the way around. Markus", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "Wh - where's?", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "Is he new in the in the?", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "Yeah, he's he started um I think January.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "And he's gonna be responsible for the implementation of this action planner. Dialogue manager.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "Is he gonna continue with the old uh thing?", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "No, no he's completely gonna rewrite everything. In Java.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "OK.", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "OK so that's interesting.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "Yes I was just that's my next question", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "hmm", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "whether we're we're gonna stick to Prolog or not.", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "No. No, that's gonna be phased out.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "OK But I do think the the function modeling concept has a certain makes sense in a in a certain light", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "because the action planner should not be or the dialogue manager in that case should not um w have to worry about whether it's interfacing with um something that does route planning in this way or that way", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "I I totally agree.", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "huh,", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "Sure.", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "it j", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "Yeah I I agree. There is there's a logic to dialogue which which is is separable. I Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "and it cant sort of formulate its what it wants in a in a rather a abstract uh way, you know f \" Find me a good route for this. \"", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "It doesn't really have to worry ab how route planner A or how route planner B actually wants it. So this is seemed like a good idea. In the beginning.", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "It's tricky. It's tricky because one could well imagine I think it will turn out to be the case that uh, this thing we're talking about, th the extended n uh knowledge modeler will fill in some parameters about what the person wants. One could well imagine that the next thing that's trying to fill out the detailed uh, route planning, let's say, will also have questions that it would like to ask the user. You could well imagine you get to a point where it's got a a choice to make and it just doesn't know something.", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "And so y you would like it t also be able to uh formulate a query. And to run that back through uh. the dialogue manager and to the output module and back around.", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "hmm", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "And a I a a good design would would allow that to happen.", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "a lot of, yeah", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "Mmm.", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "If if you know if if you can't make it happen then you you do your best.", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "Yeah but that doesn't necessarily contradict um an architecture where there really is a pers a def well - defined interface. and and", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "I totally agree. But but what it nee but th what the point is the in that case the dialogue manager is sort of event driven. So the dialogue manager may think it's in a dialogue state of one sort,", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "and this one of these planning modules comes along and says \" hey, right now we need to ask a question \". So that forces the dialogue manager to change state.", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "Yes", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "OK.", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "Sure,", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "It could be y", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "ye yeah I I think that's that's the um concept that people have,", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "Yeah, yeah it it.", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "yep.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "OK.", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "And and the the underlying idea of course is that there is something like kernel modules with kernel functionality that you can plug uh certain applications like tourist information or um the home scenario with uh controlling a VCR and so on. And then extend it to an arbitrary number of applications eventually. So wouldn't That's an additional reason to have this well - defined interface and keep these things like uh tourist information external.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "Oh, yeah, yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "And then call it external services.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "Hmm.", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "But of course the the more complex.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "Yeah, there is another philosophical issue that I think you know you can evade", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "yep.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "but, at at least it makes sense to me that sooner or later uh a service is gonna come and describe itself to you. and that's sort of what Srini is working on in in in the DAML uh project where um you you find a GIS about that gives you information on Berkeley,", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "and it's it's gonna be there and tell you what it can do and how it wants to do things. and so you can actually interface to such a system without ever having met it before and the function modeler and a self - description of the um external service haggle it out", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "Hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "and you can use the same language core, understanding core to interface with planner - A, planner - B, planner - C and so forth.", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "Hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "Mmm.", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "Which is, you know, uh uh utopian completely utopian at the moment, but slowly, you know, getting into the realm of the uh contingent.", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "Hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "But we are facing of course much more um realistic problems. And language input for example, is of course uh crucial you know also when you do the sort of deep understanding analysis that we envision. um Then of course, the uh um, you know what is it poverty of the stimulus, yet the m uh the less we get of that the better. and um so we we're thinking, for example how much syntactic analysis actually happens already in the parser. and whether one could interface to that potentially", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "Hmm. Yeah, are there currently is uh no syntactic analysis but in the next release there will be some.", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "Hmm.", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "unless", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "How's it.", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "and it's um uh you can access this", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "S so uh y we we looked at the e current pattern matching thing.", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "Hmm.", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "And as you say it's just a surface pattern matcher. Uh, So what are what are the plans roughly?", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "um it's to to integrate and syntactic analysis. and um add some more features like segmentation. So then an utter more than one utterance is There um there's often uh pause between it and a segmentation occurs. um", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "So, the um So the idea is to uh have a pa y y a particular.", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "yeah", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "Do you have a particular parser in mind? Is it uh partic d I mean have you thought through? Is it an HPSG parser? Is it a whatever?", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "No no it's uh I think it's it's totally complicated for it's just one one person", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "OK.", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "and so I have to keep the.", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "Oh, you have to do it. You have to do it,", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "Yeah,", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "ah and so things must be simpler", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "I see,", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "but uh, Miel syntactic analysis with um finite state transducers.", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "so But the people at D F Yeah. People at DFKI have written a fair number of parsers. Other you know, people over the years. uh have written various parsers at DFKI. None of them are suitable? I I I d I'm asking. I don't know.", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "Yeah, uh the problem is th that it has to be very fast because um if you want to for more than one path anywhere", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "OK.", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "what's in the latches from the speech recognizer", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "so it's speed is crucial. uh And they are not fast enough.", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "And they also have to be very robust. cuz of um speech recognition errors and", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "OK. So, um So there was a chunk parser in Verbmobil, that was one of the uh branchers. You know they d th I c There were these various uh, competing uh syntax modules. And I know one of them was a chunk parser and I don't remember who did that.", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "A Alan?", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "I think it's that might, at Tuebingen I thought.", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "Yeah I d I don't remember.", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "was Do you know something about that?", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "Tubingen was at least involved in putting the chunks together", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "In Tub - at.", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "I can't quite recall whether they actually produced the chunks in the first place.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "oh", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "Uh. I see. Yeah, that's right.", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "Or wh", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "Oh from from Stuttgart,", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "There w That's right. They w They had There were This was done with a two phase thing, where the chunk parser itself was pretty stupid", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "yeah, also", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "and then there was a kind of trying to fit them together that h used more context.", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "Right. Yeah", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "Right?", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "Well you s and and especially you did some some um, l um was a learning - based approach which learned from a big corpus of of trees.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "And yes the it the chunk parser was a finite - state machine that um Mark Light originally w worked on in while he was in Tuebingen", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "and then somebody else in Tuebingen picked that up. So it was done in Tuebingen, yeah. Definitely.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "But is that the kind of thing y It sounds like the kind of thing that you were thinking of.", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "Yeah I guess it's similar.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "yeah. yeah that's In this direction, yes", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "What?", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "Yeah, it's in in this direction.", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "The.", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "Hmm.", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "From Michael Strube, I've heard very good stuff about the chunk parser that is done by FORWISS, uh, which is in embassy doing the parsing.", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "So this is sort of came as a surprise to me that you know, embassy s is featuring a nice parser but it's what I hear. One could also look at that and see whether there is some synergy possible.", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm, yeah, it would be very interesting, Mm - hmm. Mmm, yeah.", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "And they're doing chunk parsing and it's uh I I can give you the names of the people who do it there. But um. Then there is of course more ways of parsing things.", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "Of course. But But uh given th the constraints, that you want it to be small and fast and so forth, my guess is you're probably into some kind of chunk parsing. And uh I'm not a big believer in this um statistical you know, cleaning up uh It That seems to me kind of a last resort if uh you can't do it any other way. uh but I dunno.", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "Hmm.", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "It may i i may be that's what you guys finally decide do. Uh. And have you looked uh just again for context.", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "There is this this one that they did at SRI some years ago Fastus?", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "um", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "a.", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "yeah, I've I've looked at it but but it's no not much uh information available. I found,", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "ah!", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "but it's also finite - state transducers, I thought.", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "It is. Yeah. I mean it's it was pretty ambitious.", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "and", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "And of course it was English oriented,", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "Yeah, and and Purely finite - state transducers are not so good for German since there's um", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "um w Right.", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "The word order is is uh not fixed", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "Yeah, I guess that's the point is is all the morphology and stuff. And English is all th all word order. And it makes a lot more sense.", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "And e Yeah, OK. Good point. So in in in German you've got uh most of this done with", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm. Also it's uh it's um Yes, uh the um choice between uh this processing and that processing and my template matcher.", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "Right. Right.", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "So what about Um Did y like Morfix? a a e y you've got stemmers? Or is that something that.", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "Um, yeah but it's all in the in the lexicon. So it's.", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "But did you have that?", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "Yeah th the information is available.", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "OK. I see. So, but.", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "So.", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "So y you just connect to the lexicon", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "Yeah", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "and uh at least for German you have all all of the uh the stemming information.", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "Yeah, we can, oh yeah. We have knowledge bases from from Verbmobil system we can use", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "Yep.", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "and so.", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "Right. But it it it doesn't look like i you're using it. I didn't n see it being used in the current template uh parser. I I didn't see any Uh of course we l actually only looked at the English.", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "It um", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "Did we look at the German? I don't remember.", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "Yeah, but but it's used for for stem forms.", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "So w wha", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "n Well I think I think there's some misunderstanding here", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "i", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "it's Morphix is not used on - line.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "Oh, OK.", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "s so the lexicon might be derived by Morphix", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "What?", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "but What what's happening on - line is just um um a a retrieval from the lexicon which would give all the stemming information", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "Hmm.", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "so it would be a full foreign lexicon.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "And that's what you have.", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "Yep.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "Yeah", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "OK.", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "We threw out all the forms.", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "What uh I didn't reme", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "We threw out all the forms", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "Huh?", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "because, you know, English, well.", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "Oh OK, so it yeah, s s I thought I'd.", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "So in German then you actually do case matching and things like in the in the pattern matcher or not?", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "um Not yet but it's planned to do that.", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "OK. Cuz I r I didn't reme I didn't think I saw it.", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "Yeah", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "Have we looked at the German? Oh, I haven yeah that's getting it from the lexicon is just fine.", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "Sure, right.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "Oh yes.", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "Yeah, yeah, yeah. No problem with that. um Yeah and here's the case where the English and the German might really be significantly different. In terms of if you're trying to build some fast parser and so forth and You really might wanna do it in a significantly different way. I don't know. So you've you guys have looked at this? also? in terms of You know, w if you're doing this for English as well as German Um Do you think now that it would be this doing it similarly?", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "um Yeah, it's um I think it's um yes, it's it's um possible to to do list processing. and Maybe this is um more adequate for English and in German um set processing is used.", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "Set.", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "Maybe yeah. Some extensions uh have to be made. For for a English version", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "Mmm. OK. Interesting. Not easy.", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "Well there's m I'm sure there's gonna be more discussion on that after your talk.", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm,", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "We're just gonna foreshadow what we saw that", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "yeah.", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "Right. Right.", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "and um", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "Now actually, um Are you guys free at five? Or Do you have to go somewhere at five o' clock tonight? W in ten minutes?", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "Ah.", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "uh uh I think we're expect.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "mmm. No. Oder there was an talk?", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "Yeah, there there's the um practice talk.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "uh Mmm, yeah.", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "Great. So you're going to that.", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "Yeah, that that's what we were planning to do.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "That's good, because that will uh tell you a fair amount about The form of semantic construction grammar that we're using.", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "Yeah. Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "so So I th I think that probably as good an introduction as you'll get.", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "Ah.", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "Uh to the form of of uh conceptual grammar that that w we have in mind for this.", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "Mmm, ah.", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "It won't talk particularly about how that relates to what uh Robert was saying at the beginning. But let me give you a very short version of this. So we talked about the fact that There're going to be a certain number of decisions That you want the knowledge modeler to make, that will be then fed to the function module, that does uh, route planning. It's called the \" route planner \" or something.", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "So there are these decisions. And then one half of this we talked about at little bit is how if you had the right information, if you knew something about what was said and about th the something about was the agent a tourist or a native or a business person or uh young or old, whatever. That information, and also about the Uh, what we're calling \" the entity \", Is it a castle, is it a bank? Is it a s town square, is it a statue? Whatever. So all that kind of information could be combined into decision networks and give you decisions. But the other half of the problem is How would you get that kind of information from the parsed input? So, um So what you might try to do is just build more templates, saying uh we're trying to build a templ you know build a template that w uh somehow would capture the fact that he wants to take a picture.", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "Mmm.", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "OK? And and we could you could do this. And it's a small enough domain that probably you, you know.", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "Mmm.", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "OK. You could do this. But uh from our point of view this is also a research project and there are a couple of people not here for various reasons who are doing doctoral dissertations on this,", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "and the idea that we're really after is a very deep semantics based on cognitive linguistics and the notion that there are a relatively small number of primitive conceptual schemas that characterize a lot of activity. So a typical one in this formulation is a container. So this is a static thing. And the notion is that all sorts of physical situations are characterized in terms of containers. Going in and out the portals and con", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "Mmm.", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "OK. But also, importantly for Lakoff and these guys is all sorts of metaphorical things are also characterized this way. You get in trouble and you know et cetera", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "Mmm.", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "and so s So, what we're really trying to do is to map from the discourse to the conceptual semantics level. And from there to the appropriate decisions.", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "So another one of these primitive, what are called \" image schemas \", is uh goal seeking. So this a notion of a source, path, goal, trajector, possibly obstacles.", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "And the idea is this is another conceptual primitive.", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "And that all sorts of things, particularly in the tourist domain, can be represented in terms of uh source, path and goal. So the idea would be could we build an analyser that would take an utterance and say \" Aha! th this utterance is talking about an attempt to reach a goal. The goal is this, the pers the, uh traveller is that, uh the sor w where we are at now is is this, they've mentioned possible obstacles, et cetera. \" So th the and this is an again attempt to get very wide coverage. So if you can do this, then the notion would be that across a very large range of domains, you could use this deep conceptual basis as the interface.", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm. Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "And then, uh The processing of that, both on the input end, recognizing that certain words in a language talk about containers or goals, et cetera, and on the output end, given this kind of information, you can then uh make decisions about what actions to take. Provides, they claim, a very powerful, general notion of deep semantics. So that's what we're really doing.", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "And Nancy is going to Her talk is going to be not about using this in applications, but about modeling how children might learn this kind of uh deep semantic grammar.", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm. Yep, yep. And how do you envision um the the um this deep semantic to be worked with. Would it be highly ambiguous if and then there would be another module that takes that um highly underspecified deep semantic construction and map it onto the current context to find out what the person really was talking about in that context. or or a.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "Well that's that's that's where the belief - net comes in. So th the idea is, let's take this business about going to the Powder - Tower.", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "So part of what you'll get out of this will be the fact tha w if it works right, OK, that this is an agent that wants to go to this place and that's their goal", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "and there will be additional situational information.", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "Oh, OK.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "Uh, OK,", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "th", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "part of it comes from the ontology. The tower is this kind of object.", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm. Yeah, OK.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "Part of it comes from the user model.", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "And the idea of the belief - net is it combines the information from the dialogue which comes across in this general way,", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "you know this is a this is a goal seeking behavior, along with specific information from the ontology about the kinds of objects involved", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "Yeah OK, Yeah, yep yep yep yep", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "and about the situation about \" Is it raining? \" I don't know. Whatever it is. And so that's the belief - net that we've laid out.", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "And so th the coupling to the situation comes in this model from, at th at th at the belief - net, combining evidence from the dialogue with the ontology with the situation.", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "Hmm.", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "But Nancy isn't gonna talk about that,", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "Yeah, oh yeah, I see,", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "just about the um", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "yeah yeah, really.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "First steps.", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "Right. 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SmartKom?", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "Uh, we wanna talk about if w if we wanna add the data to the mar Meeting Recorder corpus.", "speakerName": "Grad F" }, { "text": "The data. The data which we are collecting here.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "What what what are we collecting here?", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "Data?", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "So why don't we have that on the agenda and we'll we'll get to it and talk about it?", "speakerName": "Grad F" }, { "text": "The SmartKom data?", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Yeah, right.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Uh, right. Uh.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "Uh, reorganization status.", "speakerName": "Grad F" }, { "text": "Reorganization status.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "Oh. Files and directories?", "speakerName": "Postdoc A" }, { "text": "Files and directories.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "Yep. Uh - huh. Absinthe, which is the multiprocessor UNIX Linux. I think it was Andreas wanted to talk about segmentation and recognition, and update on SRI recognition experiments.", "speakerName": "Grad F" }, { "text": "Um.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "And then if ti if there's time I wanted to talk about digits, but it looked like we were pretty full, so I can wait till next week.", "speakerName": "Grad F" }, { "text": "Right. OK. Well, let's see. I think the a certainly the segmentation and recognition we wanna maybe focus on when An - Andreas is here since that was particularly his thing.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "And also the SmartKom thing should b", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "SmartKom also, Andreas. Absinthe, I think also he has sort of been involved in a lot of those things.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "At least,", "speakerName": "Grad F" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "yeah, he'll t he'll probably be interested.", "speakerName": "Grad F" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "But.", "speakerName": "Grad F" }, { "text": "Um So, I mean, I think they'll be inter I'll be interested in all this, but but, uh, probably, if we had to pick something that we would talk on for ten minutes or so while they're coming here. Or I guess it would be, you think, reorganization status, or?", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "Yeah. I mean, I think, Chuck was the one who added out the agenda item. I don't really have anything to say other than that we still haven't done it.", "speakerName": "Grad F" }, { "text": "Well, I mean, I uh just basically that.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "So.", "speakerName": "Grad F" }, { "text": "maybe I said maybe we said this before just that we met and we talked about it and we sort of have a plan for getting things organized and.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "And I and I think a crucial part of that is the idea of of not wanting to do it until right before the next level zero back - up so that there won't be huge number of of added,", "speakerName": "Postdoc A" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "uh.", "speakerName": "Postdoc A" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "Grad F" }, { "text": "That that was basically it. Not not much @ @.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Although Dave basically said that if we wanna do it, just tell him and he'll do a d level zero then.", "speakerName": "Grad F" }, { "text": "Yeah. Uh - huh. Oh, excellent.", "speakerName": "Postdoc A" }, { "text": "So.", "speakerName": "Grad F" }, { "text": "Oh, good.", "speakerName": "Postdoc A" }, { "text": "Oh, so maybe we should just go ahead and get everything ready, and.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Yep. So, I think we do need to talk a little bit about Well, we don't need to do it during this meeting.", "speakerName": "Grad F" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "We have a little more to discuss. But, uh, we're we're basically ready to do it. And, uh, I have some web pages on ts more of the background. So, naming conventions and things like that, that I've been trying to keep actually up to date. So. And I've been sharing them with U - d UW folks also.", "speakerName": "Grad F" }, { "text": "I'm sorry, you've been what? Showing them?", "speakerName": "Postdoc A" }, { "text": "OK.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "Sharing them.", "speakerName": "Postdoc A" }, { "text": "Sharing them with the UW folks.", "speakerName": "Grad F" }, { "text": "OK. OK.", "speakerName": "Postdoc A" }, { "text": "OK. Well, maybe uh, since that that was a pretty short one, maybe we should talk about the IBM transcription status. Someone can fill in Liz and Andreas later. Uh", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "OK. So, we, uh we did another version of the beeps, where we separated each beeps with a spoken digit. Chuck came up here and recorded some di himself speaking some digits, and so it just goes \" beep one beep \" and then the phrase, and then \" beep two beep \" and then the phrase. And that seems pretty good. Um, I think they'll have a b easier time keeping track of where they are in the file.", "speakerName": "Grad F" }, { "text": "And we have done that on the automatic segmentations.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "And we did it with the automatic segmentation, and I don't think We ne we didn't look at it in detail. We just sent it to IBM. We we sorta spot - checked it.", "speakerName": "Grad F" }, { "text": "I listened to probably, uh, five or ten minutes of it from the beginning.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Oh, really?", "speakerName": "Grad F" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "OK.", "speakerName": "Grad F" }, { "text": "And.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "I sorta spot - checked here and there and it sounded pretty good. So. I think it'll work.", "speakerName": "Grad F" }, { "text": "OK.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "And, uh, we'll just hafta see what we get back from them. Uh.", "speakerName": "Grad F" }, { "text": "And the main thing will be if we can align what they give us with what we sent them. I mean, that's the crucial part.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "Grad F" }, { "text": "And I think we'll be able to do that at with this new beep format.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Yep. Well, I think it's also they are much less likely to d have errors.", "speakerName": "Grad F" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "I mean, so the problem wi last time is that there were errors in the transcripts where they put beeps where there weren't any, or and they put in extraneous beeps.", "speakerName": "Grad F" }, { "text": "Right. Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "And with the numbers there, it's much less likely.", "speakerName": "Grad F" }, { "text": "Yeah, one interesting note is uh, or problem I dunno if this was just because of how I play it back, I say, uh, SND - play and then the file, every once in a while, @ @ uh, like a beep sounds like it's cut into two beeps.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Yeah. Into two pieces.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Yeah, and I I dunno if that's an, uh, artifact of playback.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Yeah. Yep.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "bu uh, I don't think it's probably in the original file. Um, but, uh.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "I recognize that, too. Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Ha. That's interesting. I didn't hear that.", "speakerName": "Grad F" }, { "text": "Yeah. But with this new format, um, that hopefully they're not hearing that, and if they are, it shouldn't throw them.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Yep.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "So.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Well, maybe we better listen to it again, make sure, but, I mean, certainly the software shouldn't do that,", "speakerName": "Grad F" }, { "text": "Yeah. That's what I thought.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "so.", "speakerName": "Grad F" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Postdoc A" }, { "text": "I it's probably just, you know, mmm, somehow the audio device gets hung for a second,", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Yeah. Some latency or something.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Hiccups.", "speakerName": "Grad F" }, { "text": "Yeah?", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "As long as they have one number, and they know that there's only one beep maximum that goes with that number.", "speakerName": "Postdoc A" }, { "text": "or.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Yeah. Right.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Yeah. The only the only part that might be confusing is when Chuck is reading digits.", "speakerName": "Grad F" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Yep.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Well, you know, actually, are we having them.", "speakerName": "Postdoc A" }, { "text": "So th", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "\" Seven four eight beep seven beep eight three two \".", "speakerName": "Grad F" }, { "text": "Yeah, but are we having them do digits?", "speakerName": "Postdoc A" }, { "text": "Yes. Because, uh, we don't we didn't In order to cut them out we'd have to listen to it.", "speakerName": "Grad F" }, { "text": "We we didn't cut those out.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Yeah. They are not transcribed yet. So. Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "OK.", "speakerName": "Postdoc A" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "And we wanted to avoid doing that,", "speakerName": "Grad F" }, { "text": "OK.", "speakerName": "Postdoc A" }, { "text": "so we they are transcribing the digits.", "speakerName": "Grad F" }, { "text": "OK.", "speakerName": "Postdoc A" }, { "text": "We can we can ignore it when we get it back,", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Although we could tell them we could tell them, if you hear someone reading a digits string just say \" bracket digit bracket \"", "speakerName": "Grad F" }, { "text": "huh.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "and don't bother actually computing the di writing down the digits.", "speakerName": "Grad F" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "That'd be great. That'd be what I'm having the transcribers here do, cuz it can be extracted later.", "speakerName": "Postdoc A" }, { "text": "Yep. And then I wanted to talk about but as I said I we may not have time what we should do about digits. We have a whole pile of digits that haven't been transcribed.", "speakerName": "Grad F" }, { "text": "Le - let's talk about it, because that's that's something that I I know Andreas is less interested in than Liz is,", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "OK.", "speakerName": "Grad F" }, { "text": "so, you know. It's good.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "Do we have anything else to say about transcription? About IBM stuff?", "speakerName": "Grad F" }, { "text": "Uh, Brian I I sent bresset sent Brian a message about the meeting and I haven't heard back yet. So. I g hope he got it and hopefully he's.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "OK.", "speakerName": "Grad F" }, { "text": "Hmm.", "speakerName": "Postdoc A" }, { "text": "maybe he's gone, I dunno. He didn't even reply to my message. So. I should probably ping him just to make sure that he got it..", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Alright. So, we have a whole bunch of digits, if we wanna move on to digits.", "speakerName": "Grad F" }, { "text": "Actually, maybe I One one relate more related thing in transcription. So that's the IBM stuff. We've got that sorted out. Um, how're we doing on the on the rest of it?", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "We're doing well. I I hire I've hired two extra people already, expect to hire two more.", "speakerName": "Postdoc A" }, { "text": "Hmm.", "speakerName": "Grad F" }, { "text": "And, um, I've prepared, um, uh, a set of five which I'm which I'm calling set two, which are now being edited by my head transcriber, in terms of spelling errors and all that. She's also checking through and mar and and monitoring, um, the transcription of another transcriber. You know, I mean, she's going through and doing these kinds of checks.", "speakerName": "Postdoc A" }, { "text": "Uh - huh.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "And, I've moved on now to what I'm calling set three. I sort of thought if I do it in sets groups of five, then I can have, like, sort of a a parallel processing through through the the current.", "speakerName": "Postdoc A" }, { "text": "Uh - huh.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "And and you indicated to me that we have a g a goal now, for the for the, um, the, uh, DARPA demo, of twenty hours. So, I'm gonna go up to twenty hours, be sure that everything gets processed, and released, and and that's that's what my goal is. Package of twenty hours right now, and then once that's done, move on to the next.", "speakerName": "Postdoc A" }, { "text": "Yeah, uh, so twenty hours. But I guess the other thing is that, um, that that's kinda twenty hours ASAP because the longer before the demo we actually have the twenty hours, the more time it'll be for people to actually do cool things with it.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm. Good. I'm I'm hiring people who, uh, really are.", "speakerName": "Postdoc A" }, { "text": "So. OK.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "They would like to do it full - time, several of these people. And and I don't think it's possible, really, to do this full - time, but, that what it shows is motivation to do as many hours as possible.", "speakerName": "Postdoc A" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "It'll keep your accuracy up. Yep.", "speakerName": "Grad F" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "And they're really excellent.", "speakerName": "Postdoc A" }, { "text": "Yeah. Well, that's good.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "Yeah. Got a good core group now.", "speakerName": "Postdoc A" }, { "text": "Yeah, I mean, I guess the So the difference if if, um, if the IBM stuff works out, the difference in the job would be that they p primarily would be checking through things that were already done by someone else?", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "Again. Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Postdoc A" }, { "text": "Is that most of what it?", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "And correcting.", "speakerName": "Grad F" }, { "text": "I mean Correcting.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "Correcting. We'll we'll expect that they'll have to move some time bins and do some corrections.", "speakerName": "Grad F" }, { "text": "And I you know, I've also d uh, discovered So with the new transcriber I'm um So Uh, lemme say that my, uh So, um At present, um, the people have been doing these transcriptions a channel at a time. And, that sort of, um, is useful, and t you know, and then once in a while they'll have to refer to the other channels to clear something up. OK. Well, I realize that, um, w i we we're using the pre - segmented version, and, um, the pre - segmented version is extremely useful, and wouldn't it be, useful also to have the visual representation of those segments? And so I've uh, I, uh, uh, I've trained the new one uh, the new the newest one, to, um, use the visual from the channel that is gonna be transcribed at any given time. And that's just amazingly helpful. Because what happens then, is you scan across the signal and once in a while you'll find a blip that didn't show up in the pre - segmentation.", "speakerName": "Postdoc A" }, { "text": "Oh, right.", "speakerName": "Grad F" }, { "text": "And that'll be something like I it's ver it's interesting.", "speakerName": "Postdoc A" }, { "text": "I see what you mean. A backchannel, or.", "speakerName": "Grad F" }, { "text": "Once in a while it's a backchannel.", "speakerName": "Postdoc A" }, { "text": "Yep.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Sometimes it seems to be, um, similar to the ones that are being picked up.", "speakerName": "Postdoc A" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Grad F" }, { "text": "And they're rare events, but you can really go through a meeting very quickly. You just you just, you know, yo you s you scroll from screen to screen, looking for blips. And, I think that we're gonna end up with, uh better coverage of the backchannels,", "speakerName": "Postdoc A" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "but at the same time we're benefitting tremendously from the pre - segmentation because there are huge places where there is just absolutely no activity at all. And, uh, the audio quality is so good.", "speakerName": "Postdoc A" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "So they can they can, um, scroll through that pretty quick?", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Yeah. Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Postdoc A" }, { "text": "That's great.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Yeah. So I think that that's gonna, also eh, you know, speed the efficiency of this part of the process.", "speakerName": "Postdoc A" }, { "text": "Hmm. OK. Uh, yeah. So, uh Yeah. So let's talk about the digits, since they're not here yet.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "Uh, so, we have a whole bunch of digits that we've read and we have the forms and so on, um, but only a small number of that ha well, not a small number only a subset of that has been transcribed. And so we need to decide what we wanna do. And, uh, Liz and Andreas actually they're not here, but, they did say at one point that they thought they could do a pretty good job of just doing a forced alignment. And, again, I don't think we'll be able to do with that alone, because, um, sometimes people correct themselves and things like that. But so, I was just wondering what people thought about how automated can we make the process of finding where the people read the digits, doing a forced alignment, and doing the timing.", "speakerName": "Grad F" }, { "text": "Well, forced alignment would be one thing. What about just actually doing recognition?", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "Well, we we know what they read, because we have the forms.", "speakerName": "Grad F" }, { "text": "No, they make mistakes.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "Right. But, the point is that we wanna get a set of clean digits.", "speakerName": "Grad F" }, { "text": "You're talking about as a pre - processing step.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "Right, Morgan?", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Um.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "Is that what you're?", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Yeah, I'm I'm not quite sure what I'm talking about. I mean I I mean, uh, we're talking about digits now. And and so, um, there's a bunch of stuff that hasn't been marked yet. Uh. And, um, there's the issue that that they we know what what was said, but do we?", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "I mean, so one option i", "speakerName": "Grad F" }, { "text": "Because people make mistakes and stuff. I was just asking, just out of curiosity, if if with, uh uh, the SRI recognizer getting one percent word error, uh, would we would we do better? So, if you do a forced alignment but the force but the but the transcription you have is wrong because they actually made mistakes, uh, or false starts, it's it's much less c it's much less common than one percent?", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "But that's pretty uncommon. Um, if we could really get one percent on.", "speakerName": "Grad F" }, { "text": "We should be able to.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "Well, I guess yeah, I guess if we segmented it, we could get one percent on digits.", "speakerName": "Grad F" }, { "text": "Right?", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Yeah. So that's just my question. I'm not saying it should be one way or the other, but it's If.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "But, Well, there there're a couple different of doing it. We could use the tools I've already developed and transcribe it. Hire some people, or use the transcribers to do it. We could let IBM transcribe it. You know, they're doing it anyway, and unless we tell them different, they're gonna transcribe it. Um, or we could try some automated methods.", "speakerName": "Grad F" }, { "text": "Well.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "And my my tendency right now is, well, if IBM comes back with this meeting and the transcript is good, just let them do it.", "speakerName": "Grad F" }, { "text": "Yeah, it's Y you raised a point, kind of, uh, euphemistically but, I mean, m maybe it is a serious problem. Ho - what will they do when they go hear \" beep seven beep seven three five two \" I mean, you think they'll we'll get?", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "It's pretty distinct.", "speakerName": "Grad F" }, { "text": "Yeah?", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "The beeps are pre - recorded.", "speakerName": "Grad F" }, { "text": "It'll only be a problem for m for mine.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Well it it well, it'd be preceded by \" I'm reading transcript so - and - so \"?", "speakerName": "Postdoc A" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Yes.", "speakerName": "Grad F" }, { "text": "So, I think if they're processing it at.", "speakerName": "Postdoc A" }, { "text": "I mean, it'll be it will be in the midst of a digit string.", "speakerName": "Grad F" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "So I mean it sure, there there might be a place where it's \" beep seven beep eight beep eight beep \". But, you know, they they're they're gonna macros for inserting the beep marks. And so, I I don't think it'll be a problem. We'll have to see, but I don't think it's gonna be a problem.", "speakerName": "Grad F" }, { "text": "OK. Well, I I I dunno, I I think that that's if they are in fact going to transcribe these things, uh, certainly any process that we'd have to correct them, or whatever is needs to be much less elaborate for digits than for other stuff.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "Grad F" }, { "text": "So, why not? Sure. That was it?", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "That was it. Just, what do we do with digits?", "speakerName": "Grad F" }, { "text": "OK.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "We have so many of them, and it'd be nice to actually do something with them.", "speakerName": "Grad F" }, { "text": "Well, we we we wanna have them. Yeah, I.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "You mean there're more than ten?", "speakerName": "PhD I" }, { "text": "Anything else? Your mike is a little low there.", "speakerName": "Grad F" }, { "text": "I in Berkeley, yeah. So, uh You you have to go a little early, right? At twenty.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "Well, I can stay till about, uh, three forty.", "speakerName": "PhD I" }, { "text": "Alright. So le let's make sure we do the ones that that, uh, saved you.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "Yeah. Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD I" }, { "text": "So there was some Uh In in Adam's agenda list, he had something from you about segmentation this last recognition?", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "Well, yeah. So this is just partly to inform everybody, um, and and of course to get, um, input.", "speakerName": "PhD I" }, { "text": "Oops.", "speakerName": "Grad F" }, { "text": "Um, so, uh, we had a discussion Don and Liz and I had discussion last week about how to proceed with, uh, you know, with Don's work,", "speakerName": "PhD I" }, { "text": "Ch", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "and and and, uh, one of the obvious things that occur to us was that we're since we now have Thilo's segmenter and it works, you know, amazingly well, um, we should actually basically re - evaluate the recognition, um, results using you know, without cheating on the segmentations.", "speakerName": "PhD I" }, { "text": "So.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "And, that should be fairly.", "speakerName": "PhD I" }, { "text": "And how do we find the transcripts for those so that? Yeah. The references for for those segments?", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Oh, OK. So, there's actually.", "speakerName": "PhD I" }, { "text": "It's not that.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Why do you ask?", "speakerName": "PhD I" }, { "text": "I could.", "speakerName": "Grad F" }, { "text": "No, actually, um, NIST has, um m a fairly sophisticated scoring program that you can give a, um a time,", "speakerName": "PhD I" }, { "text": "Hand ones.", "speakerName": "Grad F" }, { "text": "Well.", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "OK.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "uh You know, you basically just give two time - marked sequences of words, and it computes the um the, uh you know, the the th", "speakerName": "PhD I" }, { "text": "It does all the work for you.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "it does all the work for you.", "speakerName": "PhD I" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "OK.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "So, it we just and we use that actually in Hub - five to do the scoring. Um. So what we've been using so far was sort of a simplified version of the scoring. And we can we can handle the the the type of problem we have here.", "speakerName": "PhD I" }, { "text": "So, basically you give some time constraints for for the references and for for the hypothesis,", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "So, we ha Yeah. Right.", "speakerName": "PhD I" }, { "text": "and Yeah, OK.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "PhD I" }, { "text": "Maybe the start of your speech and the end of it,", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "So do", "speakerName": "PhD I" }, { "text": "OK.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "or stuff like that.", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "Right. It does time - constrained word - alignment.", "speakerName": "PhD I" }, { "text": "OK.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "So. So that should be possible. I mean that shouldn't be a problem. Uh, so that was the one thing, and the other was that, um What was the other problem? Oh! That Thilo wanted to use the recognizer alignments to train up his, um, speech detector.", "speakerName": "PhD I" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Um, so that we could use, uh you know there wouldn't be so much hand labelling needed to, uh to generate training data for for the speech detector.", "speakerName": "PhD I" }, { "text": "Yeah. I'm just in progress of of doing that. So.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "And I think you're in the process of doing that.", "speakerName": "PhD I" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "So, you can you can.", "speakerName": "PhD I" }, { "text": "It'll give you a lot more data, too. Won't it?", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Yeah. So, it's basically s I think, eight meetings or something which which I'm using, and, it's before it was twenty minutes of one meeting.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD I" }, { "text": "So should be a little bit better.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "PhD I" }, { "text": "Great.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "That won't be perfect the alignments aren't perfect,", "speakerName": "PhD I" }, { "text": "Yeah. But.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "but, um, it's probably still better to have all this extra data, than.", "speakerName": "PhD I" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "Yeah. Yep.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD I" }, { "text": "We'll see that.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD I" }, { "text": "OK.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "Actually, I had a question about that. If you find that you can lower the false alarms that you get where there's no speech, that would be useful for us to know. So, um.", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "There were the false alarms.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Yeah. So, r right now you get f fal you know, false false, uh, speech regions when it's just like, um, breath or something like that,", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "OK. Yeah. Yep.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "and I'd be interested to know the wha if you retrain um,", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "do those actually go down or not? Because of.", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "Yeah. I'll can make an can, like, make a c comparison of of the old system to the to the new one, and then.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Yeah, just to see if by doing nothing in the modeling of just having that training data wh what happens.", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "Yeah. Yeah. Yep.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Um another one that we had on Adam's agenda that definitely involved you was s something about SmartKom?", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "Right. So, Rob Porzel eh, Porzel? and the, uh Porzel and the, uh, SmartKom group are collecting some dialogues.", "speakerName": "Grad F" }, { "text": "Porzel. Porzel.", "speakerName": "PhD I" }, { "text": "Basically they have one person sitting in here, looking at a picture, and a wizard sitting in another room somewhere. And, uh, they're doing a travel task. And, uh, it involves starting I believe starting with a It's it's always the wizard, but it starts where the wizard is pretending to be a computer and it goes through a, uh, speech generation system.", "speakerName": "Grad F" }, { "text": "Yeah. Actually, it's changed to a synthesis for for the first part now.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Synthesis system.", "speakerName": "Grad F" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Um, and then, it goes to a real wizard and they're evaluating that. And they wanted to use this equipment, and so the w question came up, is well, here's some more data. Should this be part of the corpus or not? And my attitude was yes, because there might be people who are using this corpus for acoustics, as opposed to just for language. Um, or also for dialogue of various sorts. Um, so it's not a meeting. Right? Because it's two people and they're not face to face.", "speakerName": "Grad F" }, { "text": "Wait a minute. So, I just wanted to understand it, cuz I I'm uh, hadn't quite followed this process.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Um. So, it's wizard in the sen usual sense that the person who is asking the questions doesn't know that it's, uh, a machi not a machine?", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "PhD I" }, { "text": "At the beginning.", "speakerName": "Grad F" }, { "text": "Actually actually, w w the the We do this I dunno who came up with it, but I think it's a really clever idea. We simulate a computer breakdown halfway through the session, and so then after that, the person's told that they're now talking to a, uh to a human.", "speakerName": "PhD I" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "It's a human operator.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "But of course they don't know that it's the same person both times.", "speakerName": "Grad F" }, { "text": "So, we we collect we collect both human - computer and human - human data, essentially, in the same session.", "speakerName": "PhD I" }, { "text": "You might wanna try collecting it the other way around sometime, saying that th the computer isn't up yet", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "Hmm.", "speakerName": "Postdoc A" }, { "text": "and then so then you can separate it out whether it's the beginning or end kind of effects.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "That's an idea.", "speakerName": "PhD I" }, { "text": "But, yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "Yep.", "speakerName": "Grad F" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD I" }, { "text": "That's a good idea.", "speakerName": "Postdoc A" }, { "text": "\" I have to go now. You can talk to the computer. \"", "speakerName": "Grad F" }, { "text": "It's a lot more believable, too,", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "\" No! \"", "speakerName": "Grad F" }, { "text": "if you tell them that they're the computer part is running on a Windows machine. And the whole breakdown thing kinda makes sense.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "O Just just reboot it.", "speakerName": "PhD I" }, { "text": "Abort abort, retry, fail?", "speakerName": "Grad F" }, { "text": "So did they actually save the far - field data?", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "Yes.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Well, this was this was the question.", "speakerName": "Grad F" }, { "text": "Cuz at first they weren't they weren't sa", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD I" }, { "text": "So so they were saying they were not going to,", "speakerName": "Grad F" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "OK.", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "and I said, \" well that's silly, if if we're gonna try to do it for a corpus, there might be people who are interested in acoustics. \"", "speakerName": "Grad F" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "Wow.", "speakerName": "PhD I" }, { "text": "No.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Or.", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "projector We were not saying we are not doing it.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "S", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "We wer we just wanted to do.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "No, the the question is do we save one or two far - field channels or all of them?", "speakerName": "PhD I" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "Yeah. Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "I I see no reason not to do all of them.", "speakerName": "Grad F" }, { "text": "Um.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "That that if we have someone who is doing acoustic studies, uh, it's nice to have the same for every recording.", "speakerName": "Grad F" }, { "text": "Nnn. Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "Hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD I" }, { "text": "So, what is the purpose of this recording?", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD I" }, { "text": "This is to get acoustic and language model training data for SmartKom. OK.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "It's to be traini to b training data and development data for the SmartKom system.", "speakerName": "PhD I" }, { "text": "The English system? Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Yeah. Right. Right.", "speakerName": "PhD I" }, { "text": "Where does this?", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Maybe we can have him vary the microphones, too,", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "Well,", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "B", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "or they're different s speakers.", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "Right. So so so for their usage, they don't need anything.", "speakerName": "Grad F" }, { "text": "so why not?", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Right?", "speakerName": "Grad F" }, { "text": "But but I'm not sure about the legal aspect of of that. Is is there some contract with SmartKom or something about the data?", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD I" }, { "text": "What they or, is is that our data which we are collecting here,", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "We've never signed anything that said that we couldn't use anything that we did.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "or? OK. OK.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "We weren't supposed to collect any data.", "speakerName": "PhD I" }, { "text": "So. OK.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "So. Yeah, th th that was the question.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "This was all.", "speakerName": "PhD I" }, { "text": "If if? Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD I" }, { "text": "No that's not a problem.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "Basically.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "I L look, it seems to me that if we're doing it anyway and we're doing it for these these purposes that we have, and we have these distant mikes, we definitely should re should save it all as long as we've got disk space,", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD I" }, { "text": "and disk is pretty cheap.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "OK.", "speakerName": "PhD I" }, { "text": "So should we save it?", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "And then.", "speakerName": "Grad F" }, { "text": "Now th Yeah. So we save it because it's it it's potentially useful. And now, what do we do with it is is a s separate question.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "Grad F" }, { "text": "I mean, anybody who's training something up could choose to put it eh, to u include this or not.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "PhD I" }, { "text": "I I would not say it was part of the meetings corpus. It isn't. But it's some other data we have, and if somebody doing experiment wants to train up including that then they can. Right?", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD I" }, { "text": "So it's It it I guess it the begs the question of what is the meeting corpus. So if, at UW they start recording two - person hallway conversations is that part of the meeting corpus?", "speakerName": "Grad F" }, { "text": "I think it's I I think I th think the idea of two or more people conversing with one another is key.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "Well, this has two or more people conversing with each other.", "speakerName": "Grad F" }, { "text": "Nnn, well", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Well this.", "speakerName": "Postdoc A" }, { "text": "They're just not face to face.", "speakerName": "Grad F" }, { "text": "What if we just give it a a name like we give these meetings a name?", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "No, it doesn't. Right? It has.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "I mean, that was my intention.", "speakerName": "Grad F" }, { "text": "And then later on some people will consider it a meeting and some people won't,", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "Well this.", "speakerName": "Postdoc A" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "That was my intention. So so s so part of the reason that I wanted to bring this up is, do we wanna handle it as a special case or do we wanna fold it in,", "speakerName": "Grad F" }, { "text": "and Just give it a title.", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "Oh.", "speakerName": "Postdoc A" }, { "text": "I think it is a s", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "we give everyone who's involved as their own user ID, give it session I Ds, let all the tools that handle Meeting Recorder handle it, or do we wanna special case it? And if we were gonna special case it, who's gonna do that?", "speakerName": "Grad F" }, { "text": "So.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Well, it it makes sense to handle it with the same infrastructure, since we don't want to duplicate things unnecessarily.", "speakerName": "PhD I" }, { "text": "It it it.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "I think.", "speakerName": "Postdoc A" }, { "text": "But as far as distributing it, we shouldn't label it as part of this meeting corpus.", "speakerName": "PhD I" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "We should let it be its own corp", "speakerName": "PhD I" }, { "text": "Well it's it well, because.", "speakerName": "Postdoc A" }, { "text": "I don't see why not. It's just a different topic.", "speakerName": "Grad F" }, { "text": "I ha I have an extra point, which is the naturalness issue. Because we have, like, meetings that have a reason. That's one of the reasons that we were talking about this. And and those and this sounds like it's more of an experimental setup.", "speakerName": "Postdoc A" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "It's got a different purpose.", "speakerName": "Postdoc A" }, { "text": "It's scenario - based, it's it's human - computer interface it's really pretty different.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Postdoc A" }, { "text": "But I I I have no problem with somebody folding it in for some experiment they're gonna do, but I don't think i it it doesn't match anything that we've described about meetings.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Grad F" }, { "text": "Whereas everything that we talked about them doing at at UW and so forth really does. They're actually talking.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "OK. So w so what does that mean for how we are gonna organize things?", "speakerName": "Grad F" }, { "text": "Hmm.", "speakerName": "Postdoc A" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "You can you can Again, as as I think Andreas was saying, if you wanna use the same tools and the same conventions, there's no problem with that. It's just that it's, you know, different directory, it's called something different, it's you know. It is different. You can't just fold it in as if it's I mean, digits are different, too. Right?", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "Yeah, but those are folded in,", "speakerName": "Grad F" }, { "text": "It might also be potentially confusing.", "speakerName": "PhD I" }, { "text": "and it's just you just mark the transcripts differently. So so one option is you fold it in,", "speakerName": "Grad F" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "PhD I" }, { "text": "and just simply in the file you mark somewhere that this is this type of interaction, rather than another type of interaction.", "speakerName": "Grad F" }, { "text": "Yeah, I th", "speakerName": "PhD I" }, { "text": "Well, I don I wouldn't call reading digits \" meetings \". Right? I mean, we we we were doing.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "Well, but but, I put it under the same directory tree.", "speakerName": "Grad F" }, { "text": "Well.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "You know, it's in \" user doctor speech data MR \".", "speakerName": "Grad F" }, { "text": "Can we just have a directory called, like, \" other stuff \"?", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "Other.", "speakerName": "Grad F" }, { "text": "And Well or, I dunno.", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "I mean, I don't care what directory tree you have it under.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "And and just, um, store it there.", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "Right? I mean that's just a.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "OK. My preference is to have a single procedure so that I don't have to think too much about things.", "speakerName": "Grad F" }, { "text": "Yes.", "speakerName": "PhD I" }, { "text": "I mean.", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "And, just have a marking.", "speakerName": "Grad F" }, { "text": "O - You you can use whatever procedure you want that's p convenient for you.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "If we do it any other way that means that we need a separate procedure, and someone has to do that.", "speakerName": "Grad F" }, { "text": "All I'm saying is that there's no way that we're gonna tell people that reading digits is meetings. And similarly we're not gonna tell them that someone talking to a computer to get travel information is meetings.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "Grad F" }, { "text": "Those aren't meetings. But if it makes it easier for you to pu fold them in the same procedures and have them under the same directory tree, knock yourself out.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "There's a couple other questions that I have too,", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "You know?", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "and and one of them is, what about, uh, consent issues? And the other one is, what about transcription? Are?", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Transcription is done in Munich.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "OK. So we don't have to worry about transcribing it?", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Alright.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "So, w we will hafta worry about format.", "speakerName": "Grad F" }, { "text": "That's a that's another argument to keep it separate, because it's gonna follow the SmartKom transcription conventions and not the ICSI meeting transcription conventions.", "speakerName": "PhD I" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Oh, OK.", "speakerName": "Grad F" }, { "text": "Ah. Good point.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "OK. Well, I didn't realize that. That's that's a.", "speakerName": "Grad F" }, { "text": "Good point. But I'm sure no one would have a problem with our folding it in for some acoustic modeling or or some things. Um. Do we h do we have, uh, um, American - born folk, uh, reading German German, uh, pla uh, place names and so forth? Is that?", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Exactly.", "speakerName": "PhD I" }, { "text": "Yeah, great.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Yep.", "speakerName": "Grad F" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD I" }, { "text": "They they even have a reading list.", "speakerName": "Grad F" }, { "text": "I bet that sounds good, huh?", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "It's pretty funny.", "speakerName": "Grad F" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD I" }, { "text": "You can do that if you want.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "OK.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "I dunno if you want that.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD I" }, { "text": "Hmm.", "speakerName": "Postdoc A" }, { "text": "Heidelberg", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "So.", "speakerName": "Grad F" }, { "text": "Exactly", "speakerName": "PhD I" }, { "text": "Disk might eventually be an issue so we might we we might need to, uh, get some more disk pretty soon.", "speakerName": "Grad F" }, { "text": "Do you wanna be a subject?", "speakerName": "PhD I" }, { "text": "Yeah, I be pretty good.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "We Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD I" }, { "text": "We're about we're about half halfway through our disk right now.", "speakerName": "Grad F" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "That was one of our concerns.", "speakerName": "PhD I" }, { "text": "Are we only half? I thought we were more than that.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "We're probably a little more than that because we're using up some space that we shouldn't be on. So, once everything gets converted over to the disks we're supposed to be using we'll be probably, uh, seventy - five percent.", "speakerName": "Grad F" }, { "text": "Well, when I was looking for space for Thilo, I found one disk that had, uh, I think it was nine gigs and another one had seventeen.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Yep.", "speakerName": "Grad F" }, { "text": "And everything else was sorta committed. Uh.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Were those backed - up or non - backed - up?", "speakerName": "Grad F" }, { "text": "Those were non - backed - up.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Non - back - up.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Right. So that's different.", "speakerName": "Grad F" }, { "text": "S oh, you're talking about backed - up.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "I'm much more concerned about the backed - up. The non - backed - up,", "speakerName": "Grad F" }, { "text": "I haven't looked to see how much of that we have.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "yeah, i is cheap. I mean, if we need to we can buy a disk, hang it off a s uh, workstation. If it's not backed - up the sysadmins don't care too much.", "speakerName": "Grad F" }, { "text": "Yeah. So, I mean, pretty much anytime we need a disk, we can get it at the rate that we're.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "You can I shouldn't be saying this, but, you can just you know, since the back - ups are every night, you can recycle the backed - up diskspace.", "speakerName": "PhD I" }, { "text": "Yeah. But that's that's that's risky.", "speakerName": "Grad F" }, { "text": "Yeah. You really shouldn't be saying.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "Mmm. Mmm.", "speakerName": "Grad F" }, { "text": "I didn't say that.", "speakerName": "PhD I" }, { "text": "Yeah, that's right.", "speakerName": "Grad F" }, { "text": "I didn't say that.", "speakerName": "PhD I" }, { "text": "Beep that out.", "speakerName": "Grad F" }, { "text": "Da - we had allowed Dave to listen to these these, uh, recordings.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "PhD I" }, { "text": "Um Yeah, I me and there's been this conversation going on about getting another file server, and and we can do that.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD I" }, { "text": "We'll take the opportunity and get another big raft of of disk, I guess.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "Yeah. It's really the back - up issue rather than the file server issue.", "speakerName": "Grad F" }, { "text": "Well, I think I think there's an argument for having you know, you could use our old file server for for disks that have data that is very rarely accessed, and then have a fast new file server for data that is, um, heavily accessed.", "speakerName": "PhD I" }, { "text": "Yeah. My understanding is, the issue isn't really the file server.", "speakerName": "Grad F" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD I" }, { "text": "We could always put more disks on.", "speakerName": "Grad F" }, { "text": "Yeah. It's the back it's the back - up capaci", "speakerName": "PhD I" }, { "text": "It's the back - up system.", "speakerName": "Grad F" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD I" }, { "text": "So which is near saturation, apparently. So.", "speakerName": "Grad F" }, { "text": "I think I think the file server could become an issue as we get a whole bunch more new compute machines.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Soon.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "And we've got, you know, fifty machines trying to access data off of Abbott at once.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Well, we're alright for now because the network's so slow.", "speakerName": "Grad F" }, { "text": "I mean, I think I think we've raised this before and someone said this is not a reliable way to do it, but the What about putting the stuff on, like, C - CD - ROM or DVD or something?", "speakerName": "PhD I" }, { "text": "Yeah. That was me. I was the one who said it was not reliable. The - they they wear out.", "speakerName": "Grad F" }, { "text": "OK. Oh, OK.", "speakerName": "PhD I" }, { "text": "Yeah. The the th", "speakerName": "Grad F" }, { "text": "But they wear out just from sitting on the shelf?", "speakerName": "PhD I" }, { "text": "Yep. Absolutely.", "speakerName": "Grad F" }, { "text": "Or from being read and read?", "speakerName": "PhD I" }, { "text": "No. Read and write don't hurt them too much unless you scratch them.", "speakerName": "Grad F" }, { "text": "Oh, OK.", "speakerName": "PhD I" }, { "text": "But the r the write once, and the read - writes, don't last. So you don't wa you don't wanna put ir un reproduceable data on them.", "speakerName": "Grad F" }, { "text": "Uh - huh.", "speakerName": "PhD I" }, { "text": "Wear out after what amount of time?", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Year or two.", "speakerName": "Grad F" }, { "text": "Would it be?", "speakerName": "Postdoc A" }, { "text": "Year or two?", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "Yep.", "speakerName": "Grad F" }, { "text": "Wow.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "Hmm.", "speakerName": "Postdoc A" }, { "text": "But if that then you would think you'd hear much more clamoring about data loss", "speakerName": "PhD I" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "and.", "speakerName": "PhD I" }, { "text": "I mean, yeah, all the L", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "I I don't know many people who do it on CD. I mean, they're the most fo", "speakerName": "Grad F" }, { "text": "LDC - all the LDC distributions are on CD - ROM.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "They're on CD, but they're not tha that's not the only source.", "speakerName": "Grad F" }, { "text": "Like.", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "They have them on disk. And they burn new ones every once in a while. But if you go if you go k", "speakerName": "Grad F" }, { "text": "But, you know, we have.", "speakerName": "PhD I" }, { "text": "But we have like thirty you know, from ten years ago?", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "We have all sorts of CD - ROMs from a long time ago.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "No.", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Yeah!", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "Well, th th OK.", "speakerName": "Grad F" }, { "text": "Ten years ago.", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "PhD I" }, { "text": "Ninety - one, and they're still all fine.", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "Were they burned or were they pressed?", "speakerName": "Grad H" }, { "text": "Uh, both. I've burned them and they're still OK.", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Grad H" }, { "text": "The the pressed ones last for", "speakerName": "Grad F" }, { "text": "I mean, usually they're.", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "well, not forever, they've been finding even those degrade.", "speakerName": "Grad F" }, { "text": "Oh, I see.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "But, uh, the burned ones I mean, when I say two or three years what I'm saying is that I have had disks which are gone in a year.", "speakerName": "Grad F" }, { "text": "That's what I.", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "On the average, it'll probably be three or four years. But, uh I I you don't want to per p have your only copy on a media that fails.", "speakerName": "Grad F" }, { "text": "Mmm.", "speakerName": "PhD I" }, { "text": "And they do. Um, if you have them professionally pressed, y you know, they're good for decades.", "speakerName": "Grad F" }, { "text": "So how about? So so how about putting them on that plus, like on a on on DAT or some other medium that isn't risky?", "speakerName": "PhD I" }, { "text": "I think th um, we can already put them on tape. And the tape is hi is very reliable.", "speakerName": "Grad F" }, { "text": "OK. Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD I" }, { "text": "So the the only issue is then if we need access to them. So that's fine f if we don't need access to them.", "speakerName": "Grad F" }, { "text": "Right. Well, if if if you if they last Say, they actually last, like, five years, huh, in in the typical case, and and occasionally you might need to recreate one, and then you get your tape out, but otherwise you don't. Can't you just you just put them on?", "speakerName": "PhD I" }, { "text": "So you just archive it on the tape, and then put it on CD as well?", "speakerName": "Grad H" }, { "text": "Yeah. Right.", "speakerName": "PhD I" }, { "text": "Oh. So you're just saying put them on C Ds for normal access.", "speakerName": "Grad F" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Grad H" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "PhD I" }, { "text": "What you.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Yeah. I mean, you can do that but that's pretty annoying, because the C Ds are so slow.", "speakerName": "Grad F" }, { "text": "See Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Grad H" }, { "text": "Mmm.", "speakerName": "PhD I" }, { "text": "What'd be nice is a system that re - burned the C Ds every year.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "H everytime it was a \" gonna \" \" gonna die \".", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "Well.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "Well, I mean, the C Ds are are an op", "speakerName": "Grad F" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "It's like like dynamic ra DRAM.", "speakerName": "PhD I" }, { "text": "Just before.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Just before they be before it goes bad, it burns them in.", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "The the CD is an alternative to tape.", "speakerName": "Grad F" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Grad H" }, { "text": "ICSI already has a perfectly good tape system and it's more reliable.", "speakerName": "Grad F" }, { "text": "You know I would think.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "So for archiving, we'll just use tape.", "speakerName": "Grad F" }, { "text": "One one thing I don't understand is, if you have the data if if you if the meeting data is put on disk exactly once, then it's backed - up once and the back - up system should never have to bother with it, uh, more than once.", "speakerName": "PhD I" }, { "text": "Well, regardless Well, first of all there was, um, a problem with the archive in that I was every once in a while doing a chmod on all the directories an or recursive chmod and chown, because they weren't getting set correctly every once in a while,", "speakerName": "Grad F" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD I" }, { "text": "and I was just, doing a minus R star, not realizing that that caused it to be re - backed - up.", "speakerName": "Grad F" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD I" }, { "text": "Ah.", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "But normally you're correct. But even without that, the back - up system is becoming saturated.", "speakerName": "Grad F" }, { "text": "But but this back - up system is smart enough to figure out that something hasn't changed and doesn't need to be backed - up again.", "speakerName": "PhD I" }, { "text": "The b I think th the at least the once tha that you put it on, it would it would kill that.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "Sure, but we still have enough changed that the nightly back - ups are starting to take too long.", "speakerName": "Grad F" }, { "text": "OK. So so then, if So so then, let's.", "speakerName": "PhD I" }, { "text": "So.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "It has nothing to do with the meeting. It's just the general ICSI back - up system is becoming saturated.", "speakerName": "Grad F" }, { "text": "Right. OK. Right. So, what if we buy, uh uh, what what do they call these, um high density?", "speakerName": "PhD I" }, { "text": "Well, why don't you have this have a this conversation with Dave Johnson tha rather than with me?", "speakerName": "Grad F" }, { "text": "No, no. Because this is maybe something that we can do without involving Dave, and and, putting more burden on him. How about we buy, uh uh uh, one of these high density tape drives? And we put the data actually on non - backed - up disks. And we do our own back - up once and for all all, and then and we don't have to bother this @ @ up?", "speakerName": "PhD I" }, { "text": "Actually, you know, we could do that just with the tape with the current tape.", "speakerName": "Grad F" }, { "text": "I dunno what the these tapes uh, at some point these I dunno. What kind of tape drive is it?", "speakerName": "PhD I" }, { "text": "I dunno but it's an automatic robot so it's very convenient.", "speakerName": "Grad F" }, { "text": "Is it is?", "speakerName": "PhD I" }, { "text": "Wh The o the one that we have?", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "You just run a program to restore them.", "speakerName": "Grad F" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "PhD I" }, { "text": "The I mean.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Grad F" }, { "text": "But it might interfere with their back - up schedule,", "speakerName": "PhD I" }, { "text": "But.", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "No, we have s we Don't we have our own?", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "eh.", "speakerName": "PhD I" }, { "text": "Something wi th that doesn't that isn't used by the back - up gang? Don't we have something downstairs?", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "Well they.", "speakerName": "Postdoc A" }, { "text": "What kinda tape drive?", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Just in? Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "Well but no, but Andreas's point is a good one. And we don't have to do anything ourselves to do that. They're already right now on tape.", "speakerName": "Grad F" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "PhD I" }, { "text": "Right. So your your point is, and I think it's a good one, that we could just get more disk and put it there.", "speakerName": "Grad F" }, { "text": "Mmm. On an XH uh, X X whatever partition.", "speakerName": "PhD I" }, { "text": "Yeah. That's not a bad idea.", "speakerName": "Grad F" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD I" }, { "text": "Yeah, that's basically what I was gonna say, is that a disk is is so cheap it's es essentially, you know, close to free. And the only thing that costs is the back - up issue, eh, to first order.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "So once it's on tape.", "speakerName": "Grad F" }, { "text": "Right. Right.", "speakerName": "PhD I" }, { "text": "And we can take care of that by putting it on non - back up drives and just backing it up once onto this tape.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD I" }, { "text": "I think that's a good idea.", "speakerName": "Grad F" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "PhD I" }, { "text": "Oh. Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "OK.", "speakerName": "PhD I" }, { "text": "Good. It's good.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "So, who's gonna do these back - ups? The people that collect it?", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "Uh Well, I'll talk to Dave, and and see what th how what the best way of doing that is.", "speakerName": "Grad F" }, { "text": "It's probably gonna n", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "There's a little utility that will manually burn a tape for you, and that's probably the right way to do it.", "speakerName": "Grad F" }, { "text": "Yeah, and we should probably make that part of the procedure for recording the meetings.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Well, s", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "Yep.", "speakerName": "Grad F" }, { "text": "Yeah. That's what I'm wondering, if.", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "Well we're g we're gonna automate that.", "speakerName": "Grad F" }, { "text": "OK.", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "My intention is to do a script that'll do everything.", "speakerName": "Grad F" }, { "text": "I mean, you don't have to physically put a tape in the drive?", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "No. It's all tape robot,", "speakerName": "Grad F" }, { "text": "Or s? s? Oh, OK.", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "so you just sit down at your computer and you type a command.", "speakerName": "Grad F" }, { "text": "So it's just Oh, OK.", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "Yeah, but then you're effectively using the resources of the back - up system. Or is that a different tape robot?", "speakerName": "PhD I" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Grad F" }, { "text": "But not at the same time.", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "But y but you would be anyway.", "speakerName": "Grad F" }, { "text": "No, no, no.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Right?", "speakerName": "Grad F" }, { "text": "He's saying get a whole different drive.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Because.", "speakerName": "Grad F" }, { "text": "No, no. See.", "speakerName": "PhD I" }, { "text": "But there's no reason to do that.", "speakerName": "Grad F" }, { "text": "Yeah, just give a dedi", "speakerName": "PhD I" }, { "text": "It we already have it there and it it's.", "speakerName": "Grad F" }, { "text": "Well, I'm saying is @ @ i if you go to Dave, and and and ask him \" can I use your tape robot? \", he will say, \" well that's gonna screw up our back - up operation. \"", "speakerName": "PhD I" }, { "text": "No, we won't. He'll say \" if if that means that it's not gonna be backed - up standardly, great. \"", "speakerName": "Grad F" }, { "text": "He - I Dave has has promoted this in the past. So I don't think he's actually against it.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "Yeah. It's it's definitely no problem.", "speakerName": "Grad F" }, { "text": "Oh, OK. Alright.", "speakerName": "PhD I" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "Alright.", "speakerName": "PhD I" }, { "text": "OK.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "Good.", "speakerName": "PhD I" }, { "text": "What about if the times overlap with the normal back - up time?", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "Um, it's it's just it's just a utility which queues up. It just queues it up and and when it's available, it will copy it.", "speakerName": "Grad F" }, { "text": "OK.", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "And then you can tell it to then remove it from the disk or you can, you know, do it a a few days later or whatever you wanna do, after you confirm that it's really backed - up.", "speakerName": "Grad F" }, { "text": "OK.", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "NW?", "speakerName": "Grad F" }, { "text": "You saying NW archive?", "speakerName": "Postdoc A" }, { "text": "NW archive.", "speakerName": "Grad F" }, { "text": "Yep And if you did that during the day it would never make it to the nightly back - ups.", "speakerName": "Postdoc A" }, { "text": "That's what it is.", "speakerName": "Grad F" }, { "text": "OK.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "Grad F" }, { "text": "And then there wouldn't be this extra load.", "speakerName": "Postdoc A" }, { "text": "Well, it if he you have to put the data on a on a non - backed - up disk to begin with.", "speakerName": "PhD I" }, { "text": "Well, but you can have it NW archive to you can have, uh, a non - backed - up disk NW archived,", "speakerName": "Postdoc A" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "Grad F" }, { "text": "So that so that otherwise you don't you.", "speakerName": "PhD I" }, { "text": "and it'll never show up on the nightly back - ups.", "speakerName": "Postdoc A" }, { "text": "Right. And then it never.", "speakerName": "Grad F" }, { "text": "Right. Right.", "speakerName": "PhD I" }, { "text": "Right. Which I'm sure would make ever the sysadmins very happy.", "speakerName": "Grad F" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "PhD I" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Postdoc A" }, { "text": "So, I think that's a good idea.", "speakerName": "Grad F" }, { "text": "OK.", "speakerName": "PhD I" }, { "text": "That's what we should do.", "speakerName": "Grad F" }, { "text": "OK.", "speakerName": "PhD I" }, { "text": "So, that means we'll probably wanna convert all all those files filesystems to non - backed - up media.", "speakerName": "Grad F" }, { "text": "That sounds good.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "Yep.", "speakerName": "Grad F" }, { "text": "Um, another, thing on the agenda said SRI recognition experiments? What's that?", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "SRI recognition? Oh.", "speakerName": "PhD I" }, { "text": "That wasn't me.", "speakerName": "Grad F" }, { "text": "Uh.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "Um. well,", "speakerName": "PhD I" }, { "text": "Who's that?", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "we have lots of them. Uh, I dunno. Chuck, do you have any any updates?", "speakerName": "PhD I" }, { "text": "N I'm successfully, uh, increasing the error rate. Uh.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "That's good.", "speakerName": "Grad F" }, { "text": "Mmm.", "speakerName": "Grad H" }, { "text": "Oh.", "speakerName": "PhD I" }, { "text": "Lift the Herve approach.", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "Yeah. So, I mean I'm just playing with, um, the number of Gaussians that we use in the the recognizer, and.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Well, you have to sa you have to tell people that you're you're doing you're trying the tandem features.", "speakerName": "PhD I" }, { "text": "Yes, I'm using tandem features.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Oh you are?", "speakerName": "Grad F" }, { "text": "And.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Cool.", "speakerName": "Grad F" }, { "text": "A and I'm still tinkering with the PLP features.", "speakerName": "PhD I" }, { "text": "Yeah, I got confused by the results. It sai because uh, the meeting before, you said \" OK, we got it down to where they're they're within a tenth of a percent \".", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "That was on males.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Right. That was that was before I tried it on the females.", "speakerName": "PhD I" }, { "text": "Oh.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "See, women are nothi are, trouble.", "speakerName": "PhD I" }, { "text": "It's the women are the problem. OK.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "Right? As we all know. So.", "speakerName": "PhD I" }, { "text": "Well, let's just say that men are simple.", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "So so, when So I I had I ha", "speakerName": "PhD I" }, { "text": "That was a quick response.", "speakerName": "Grad F" }, { "text": "So, we had reached the point where.", "speakerName": "PhD I" }, { "text": "I'm well rehearsed.", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "we had reached the point where, um, on the male portion of the development set, the, um or one of the development sets, I should say the, um the male error rate with, uh, ICSI PLP features was pretty much identical with, uh, SRI features. which are MFCC. So, um, then I thought, \" Oh, great. I'll j I'll just let's make sure everything works on the females. \" And the error rate you know, there was a three percent difference.", "speakerName": "PhD I" }, { "text": "Oh. Uh - huh.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "So,", "speakerName": "PhD I" }, { "text": "Is there less training data?", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "uh.", "speakerName": "PhD I" }, { "text": "I mean, we don", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "No, actually there's more training data.", "speakerName": "PhD I" }, { "text": "This is on just digits?", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "No.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "No, no.", "speakerName": "PhD I" }, { "text": "No.", "speakerName": "Grad F" }, { "text": "Hub - five.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "It's, uh, Swi", "speakerName": "Grad F" }, { "text": "Oh, sorry. OK. This is on.", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "This is Hub - five.", "speakerName": "PhD I" }, { "text": "Oh, OK.", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "Hub - five. Yeah.", "speakerName": "Grad F" }, { "text": "Yeah. Um, and the test data is CallHome and Switchboard. So, uh so then um Oh, and plus the the vocal tract length normalization didn't actually made things worse. So something's really seriously wrong. So Um.", "speakerName": "PhD I" }, { "text": "Aha! OK.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "So So.", "speakerName": "PhD I" }, { "text": "So but you see, now, between between the males and the females, there's certainly a much bigger difference in the scaling range, than there is, say, just within the males. And what you were using before was scaling factors that were just from the the m the SRI front - end. And that worked that worked fine.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "That's true. Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD I" }, { "text": "Uh, but now you're looking over a larger range and it may not be so fine.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "Well, um So I just d so the one thing that I then tried was to put in the low - pass filter, which we have in the So, most most Hub - five systems actually band - limit the uh, at about, uh, thirty - seven hundred, um, hertz.", "speakerName": "PhD I" }, { "text": "Uh - huh.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "Although, you know, normally, I mean, the channel goes to four four thousand. Right? So, um And that actually helped, uh uh, a little bit.", "speakerName": "PhD I" }, { "text": "Uh - huh.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "Um and it didn't hurt on the males either. So, um And I'm now, uh, trying the Oh, and suddenly, also the v the vocal tract length normalization only in the test se on the test data. So, you can do vocal tract length normalization on the test data only or on both the training and the test.", "speakerName": "PhD I" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "And you expect it to help a little bit if you do it only on the test, and s more if you do it on both training and test.", "speakerName": "PhD I" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "And so the It now helps, if you do it only on the test, and I'm currently retraining another set of models where it's both in the training and the test, and then we'll we'll have, hopefully, even better results. So But there's It looks like there will still be some difference, maybe between one and two percent, um, for the females.", "speakerName": "PhD I" }, { "text": "Huh.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "And so, um, you know, I'm open to suggestions.", "speakerName": "PhD I" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Grad F" }, { "text": "And it is true that the, uh that the you know, we are using the But it can't be just the VTL,", "speakerName": "PhD I" }, { "text": "Uh - huh.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "because if you don't do VTL in both systems, uh, you know, the the females are considerably worse in the with the PLP features.", "speakerName": "PhD I" }, { "text": "No no. I I remember that.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "It's much worse. Yeah.", "speakerName": "Grad F" }, { "text": "So there must be some something else going on.", "speakerName": "PhD I" }, { "text": "Well, what's the standard? Yeah, so I thought the performance was actually a little better on females than males.", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "That's what I thought, too.", "speakerName": "Grad F" }, { "text": "Um, that ye overall, yes, but on this particular development test set, they're actually a little worse. But that's beside the point. We're looking at the discrepancy between the SRI system and the SRI system when trained with ICSI features.", "speakerName": "PhD I" }, { "text": "Right. I'm just wondering if that if if you have any indication of your standard features,", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "What's Are the freq?", "speakerName": "Grad F" }, { "text": "you know, if that's also different or in the same direction or not.", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "You're This is lemme ask a q more basic que", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "Cuz.", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "I mean, is this, uh uh, iterative, Baum - Welch training?", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD I" }, { "text": "Or is it Viterbi training? Or?", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "It's Baum - Welch training.", "speakerName": "PhD I" }, { "text": "Baum - Welch training. And how do you determine when to to stop iterating?", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "Um Well, actually, we we just basically do a s a fixed number of iterations.", "speakerName": "PhD I" }, { "text": "Hmm.", "speakerName": "Grad F" }, { "text": "Uh, in this case four. Um, which Eh, we used to do only three, and then we found out we can squeeze And it was basically, we're s we're keeping it on the safe side. But you're d Right. It might be that one more iteration would would help, but it's sort of", "speakerName": "PhD I" }, { "text": "Or maybe or maybe you're doing one too many.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "you know.", "speakerName": "PhD I" }, { "text": "I mean it's it's.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "No, but with Baum - Welch, there shouldn't be an over - fitting issue, really.", "speakerName": "PhD I" }, { "text": "Uh. Well, there can be. Sure.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "Well, you can try each one on a cross - validation set,", "speakerName": "Grad F" }, { "text": "Um.", "speakerName": "PhD I" }, { "text": "It d if you if you remember some years ago Bill Byrne did a thing where he was he was looking at that,", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "can't you?", "speakerName": "Grad F" }, { "text": "and he showed that you could get it.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD I" }, { "text": "So. But but but, um.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "Well, yeah. We can Well, that's that's the easy one to check,", "speakerName": "PhD I" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "because we save all the intermediate models", "speakerName": "PhD I" }, { "text": "Do you?", "speakerName": "Grad F" }, { "text": "and we can.", "speakerName": "PhD I" }, { "text": "And in each case, ho", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "What?", "speakerName": "Grad F" }, { "text": "um, I'm sorry in each case how do you determine, you know, the the usual fudge factors? The, uh the, uh, language, uh, scaling, acoustic scaling, uh, uh.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "Um I uh I'm actually re - optimizing them. Although that hasn't shown to make a big difference.", "speakerName": "PhD I" }, { "text": "OK. And the pru the question he was asking at one point about pruning, uh Remember that one?", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "Pruning?", "speakerName": "PhD I" }, { "text": "Well, he was he's it looked like the probabil at one point he was looking at the probabilities he was getting out at the likelihoods he was getting out of PLP versus mel cepstrum, and they looked pretty different,", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "Pruning in the?", "speakerName": "PhD I" }, { "text": "Yeah, the likelihoods were lower for the PLP.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "as I recall.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "Oh.", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "And so, uh, there's the question.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "I you mean did you see this in the SRI system?", "speakerName": "PhD I" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm. Was just looking through the log files,", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Um. Well, the likelihoods are.", "speakerName": "PhD I" }, { "text": "and.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "You can't directly compare them, because, for every set of models you compute a new normalization. And so these log probabilities, they aren't directly comparable", "speakerName": "PhD I" }, { "text": "Oh.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "because you have a different normalization constants for each model you train.", "speakerName": "PhD I" }, { "text": "Hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "But, still it's a question.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "So.", "speakerName": "PhD I" }, { "text": "if you have some threshold somewhere in terms of beam search or something,", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "Well, yeah. That's what I was wondering.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "or?", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "W yeah. I mean Uh.", "speakerName": "PhD I" }, { "text": "I mean, if you have one threshold that works well because the range of your likelihoods is in this area.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "We prune very conservatively. I mean, as we saw with the meeting data, um we could probably tighten the pruning without really So we we basically we have a very open beam.", "speakerName": "PhD I" }, { "text": "But, you're only talking about a percent or two.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Right? Here we're - we're saying that we there gee, there's this b eh, there's this difference here. And it See cuz, i i there could be lots of things. Right? But but but but, um, let's suppose just for a second that, uh, we've sort of taken out a lot of the the major differences, uh, between the two.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "Right. Course. Mm - hmm. Right.", "speakerName": "PhD I" }, { "text": "I mean, we're already sort of using the mel scale and we're using the same style filter integration, and and, well, we're making sure that low and high.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "Actually, there is the difference in that. So, for the PLP features we use the triangular filter shapes. And for the in the SRI front - end we use the trapezoidal one.", "speakerName": "PhD I" }, { "text": "And what's the top frequency of each?", "speakerName": "Grad F" }, { "text": "Well, now it's the same. It's thirty thirty to seven hundred and sixty hertz.", "speakerName": "PhD I" }, { "text": "Yeah. Exp - one's triangular, one's trapezoidal. So.", "speakerName": "Grad F" }, { "text": "No, no. But.", "speakerName": "PhD I" }, { "text": "Before we i i th with straight PLP, it's trapezoidal also.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "Well But.", "speakerName": "PhD I" }, { "text": "But then we had a slight difference in the in the scale. Uh, so.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "Since currently the Feacalc program doesn't allow me to change the filter shape independently of the scale.", "speakerName": "PhD I" }, { "text": "Uh - huh.", "speakerName": "Grad F" }, { "text": "And, I did the experiment on the SRI front - end where I tried the y where the standard used to be to use trapezoidal filters. You can actually continuously vary it between the two. And so I wen I swi I tried the trap eh, triangular ones. And it did slightly worse, but it's really a small difference.", "speakerName": "PhD I" }, { "text": "Hmm.", "speakerName": "Grad F" }, { "text": "Coup - Couple tenths of a percent or something.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "So.", "speakerName": "PhD I" }, { "text": "OK.", "speakerName": "Grad F" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "So it's not just losing some frequency range.", "speakerName": "Grad F" }, { "text": "Yeah, exactly. So, it's not I don't think the filter shape by itself will make a huge difference.", "speakerName": "PhD I" }, { "text": "Yeah. Right. So the oth the other thing that.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Grad F" }, { "text": "So, f i We've always viewed it, anyway, as the major difference between the two, is actually in the smoothing, that the that the, um, PLP, and and the reason PLP has been advantageous in, uh, slightly noisy situations is because, PLP does the smoothing at the end by an auto - regressive model,", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm. Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD I" }, { "text": "and mel cepstrum does it by just computing the lower cepstral coefficients.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD I" }, { "text": "Um. So, um Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "OK. So one thing I haven't done yet is to actually do all of this with a much larger with our full training set. So right now, we're using a I don't know, forty? I i it's it's eh it's a f training set that's about, um, you know, by a factor of four smaller than what we use when we train the full system. So, some of these smoothing issues are over - fitting for that matter.", "speakerName": "PhD I" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "And the Baum - Welch should be much less of a factor, if you go full whole hog.", "speakerName": "PhD I" }, { "text": "Could be. Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "And so, w so, just um so the strategy is to first sort of treat things with fast turn - around on a smaller training set and then, when you've sort of, narrowed it down, you try it on a larger training set.", "speakerName": "PhD I" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "And so, we haven't done that yet.", "speakerName": "PhD I" }, { "text": "Now the other que related question, though, is is, uh, what's the boot models for these things?", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "Th - th the boot models are trained from scratch. So we compute, um So, we start with a, um, alil alignment that we computed with the b sort of the best system we have. And and then we train from scratch. So we com we do a, you know, w um We collect the uh, the observations from those alignments under each of the feature sets that that we train. And then, from there we do, um There's a lot of, actually The way it works, you first train a phonetically - tied mixture model. Um. You do a total of First you do a context - independent PTM model. Then you switch to a context You do two iterations of that. Then you do two iterations of of of context - dependent phonetically - tied mixtures. And then from that you you do the you you go to a state - clustered model,", "speakerName": "PhD I" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "and you do four iterations of that. So there's a lot of iterations overall between your original boot models and the final models. I don't think that Hmm. We have never seen big differences. Once I thought \" oh, I can Now I have these much better models. I'll re - generate my initial alignments. Then I'll get much better models at the end. \" Made no difference whatsoever. It's I think it's eh, i", "speakerName": "PhD I" }, { "text": "Right. Well, mis for making things better.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "the boot models are recur", "speakerName": "PhD I" }, { "text": "Yeah. But, this for making things worse. This it migh Th - the thought is is is possible another possible partial cause is if the boot models used a comple used a different feature set, that.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm. Mm - hmm. But there are no boot models, in fact. You you're not booting from initial models. You're booting from initial alignments.", "speakerName": "PhD I" }, { "text": "Which you got from a different feature set.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "That's correct.", "speakerName": "PhD I" }, { "text": "So, those features look at the data differently, actually.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "Yeah, but.", "speakerName": "PhD I" }, { "text": "I mean, you know, they they will find boundaries a little differently, though You know, all th all that sort of thing is actually slightly different. I'd expect it to be a minor effect,", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "But but but, what I'm what I'm saying is.", "speakerName": "PhD I" }, { "text": "but.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "So, we e w f w For a long time we had used boot alignments that had been trained with a with the same front - end but with acoustic models that were, like, fifteen percent worse than what we use now.", "speakerName": "PhD I" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "And with a dict different dictionary with a considerably different dictionary, which was much less detailed and much less well - suited.", "speakerName": "PhD I" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm. Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "And so, then we switched to new boot alignments, which which now had the benefit of all these improvements that we've made over two years in the system.", "speakerName": "PhD I" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "And, the result in the end was no different.", "speakerName": "PhD I" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "So, what I'm saying is, the exact nature of these boot alignments is probably not a big factor in the quality of the final models.", "speakerName": "PhD I" }, { "text": "Yeah, maybe not. But it it I st still see it as I mean, there's there's a history to this, too,", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD I" }, { "text": "but I uh, I don't wanna go into,", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD I" }, { "text": "but but I I I th I think it could be the things that it the data is being viewed in a certain way, uh, that a beginning is here rather than there and so forth,", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "Yeah. Right.", "speakerName": "PhD I" }, { "text": "because the actual signal - processing you're doing is slightly different.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "PhD I" }, { "text": "But, it's it's that's probably not it.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "Yeah. Anyway, I I I should really reserve, uh, any conclusions until we've done it on the large training set, um, and until we've seen the results with the with the VTL in training.", "speakerName": "PhD I" }, { "text": "Yeah. At some point you also might wanna take the same thing and try it on, uh, some Broadcast News data or something else that actually has has some noisy noisy components, so we can see if any conclusions we come to holds across different data.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "So. Yeah. Right.", "speakerName": "PhD I" }, { "text": "Uh.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "And, uh, with this, I have to leave.", "speakerName": "PhD I" }, { "text": "OK.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "Hmm!", "speakerName": "Grad H" }, { "text": "So, is there something quick about Absinthe that you?", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "With this said.", "speakerName": "PhD I" }, { "text": "Uh. Just what we were talking about before, which is that I ported a Blass library to Absinthe, and then got got it working with fast - forward, and got a speedup roughly proportional to the number of processors times the clock cycle.", "speakerName": "Grad F" }, { "text": "Oh.", "speakerName": "PhD I" }, { "text": "So, that's pretty good.", "speakerName": "Grad F" }, { "text": "Oh! Cool.", "speakerName": "PhD I" }, { "text": "Um, I'm in the process of doing it for Quicknet, but there's something going wrong and it's about half the speed that I was estimating it should be, and I'm not sure why.", "speakerName": "Grad F" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD I" }, { "text": "But I'll keep working on it. But the what it means is that it's likely that for net training and forward passes, we'll Absinthe will be a good machine. Especially if we get a few more processors and upgrade the processors.", "speakerName": "Grad F" }, { "text": "A few more processors? How many are you shooting for?", "speakerName": "PhD I" }, { "text": "There're five now. It can hold eight.", "speakerName": "Grad F" }, { "text": "Oh, OK.", "speakerName": "PhD I" }, { "text": "Yeah, we'll just go buy them, I guess.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "And it's also five - fifty megahertz and you can get a gigahertz.", "speakerName": "Grad F" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD I" }, { "text": "So.", "speakerName": "Grad F" }, { "text": "Can you mix t uh, processors of different speed?", "speakerName": "PhD I" }, { "text": "I don't think so. I think we'd have to do all.", "speakerName": "Grad F" }, { "text": "OK.", "speakerName": "PhD I" }, { "text": "Probably just throw away the old ones, and.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "Yep.", "speakerName": "Grad F" }, { "text": "Thank you for the box,", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "Oh, OK.", "speakerName": "PhD I" }, { "text": "and I'll just go buy their process.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "Hmm!", "speakerName": "Grad H" }, { "text": "Maybe we can stick them in another system. I dunno.", "speakerName": "PhD I" }, { "text": "We'd have to get a almost certainly have to get a, uh, Netfinity server.", "speakerName": "Grad F" }, { "text": "I see.", "speakerName": "PhD I" }, { "text": "They're pretty pretty specialized.", "speakerName": "Grad F" }, { "text": "Yeah. OK.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "OK.", "speakerName": "PhD I" }, { "text": "Is is Liz coming back, do you know, or? I dunno. Yeah. Oh, you don't. OK. Alright. Alright. See you. Um. Alright. So Uh, they're having tea out there. So I guess the other thing that we were gonna talk about is is, uh, demo. And, um, so, these are the demos for the uh, July, uh, meeting and, um DARPA mee", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "July what? Early July? Late July?", "speakerName": "Grad F" }, { "text": "Oh, I think it's July fifteenth.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "Sixteen to eighteen, I think.", "speakerName": "Postdoc A" }, { "text": "Is that it?", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "Roughly.", "speakerName": "Postdoc A" }, { "text": "Yeah, sixteenth, eighteenth. Yeah. So, we talked about getting something together for that, but maybe, uh maybe we'll just put that off for now, given that But I think maybe we should have a a sub - meeting, I think, uh, probably, uh, Adam and and, uh, Chuck and me should talk about should get together and talk about that sometime soon.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "Over a cappuccino tomorrow?", "speakerName": "Grad F" }, { "text": "Yeah something like that. Um, uh, you know, maybe maybe we'll involve Dan Ellis at some some level as well.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Grad F" }, { "text": "Um. OK. The the tea is is going, so, uh, I suggest we do, uh uh, a unison.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "A unison digits?", "speakerName": "Grad F" }, { "text": "OK.", "speakerName": "Postdoc A" }, { "text": "Yeah. Gets our.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "Which is gonna be a little hard for a couple people because we have different digits forms.", "speakerName": "Grad F" }, { "text": "Oops.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "We have a I found a couple of old ones.", "speakerName": "Grad F" }, { "text": "Oh.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "Hmm.", "speakerName": "Grad H" }, { "text": "Well, that'll be interesting. So, uh.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "Have you done digits before?", "speakerName": "Grad F" }, { "text": "No.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "I haven't done it.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "OK. So, uh, the idea is just to read each line with a short pause between lines,", "speakerName": "Grad F" }, { "text": "Alright.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "not between And, uh, since we're in a hurry, we were just gonna read everyone all at once. So, if you sorta plug your ears and read.", "speakerName": "Grad F" }, { "text": "OK.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "So first read the transcript number, and then start reading the digits.", "speakerName": "Grad F" }, { "text": "Sure.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "OK? One, two, three.", "speakerName": "Grad F" }, { "text": "OK we're done.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "And.", "speakerName": "Grad F" } ] }	{ "dialogTurns": [ { "query": "Can you provide a summary of the meeting?", "response": "The participants discussed the ARPA demo on July 16-18 and IBM transcription status. They also covered reorganization status, issues with the SmartKom data, and digits. Lastly, they talked about SRI recognition experiments and Absinthe, which is the multiprocessor UNIX Linux.", "responseAttribution": { "indexRanges": [ { "startIndex": 3, "endIndex": 21 } ] }, "queryMetadata": { "queryType": "QUERY_TYPE_GENERAL", "isUnanswerable": null, "isContextDependent": null } }, { "query": "Can you give me an overview of what was discussed about timestamps?", "response": "I am sorry, but I am unable to answer your question as discussion about timestamps was not part of the meeting.", "responseAttribution": null, "queryMetadata": { "queryType": "QUERY_TYPE_YES_NO", "isUnanswerable": true, "isContextDependent": null } }, { "query": "Other than reorganization status, the ARPA demo, and the issue with the SmartKom data, what other topics were discussed at the meeting?", "response": "Here are the topics discussed in the meeting:\n* Segmentation and recognition\n* SRI recognition experiments\n* Absinthe, the multiprocessor UNIX Linux", "responseAttribution": { "indexRanges": [ { "startIndex": 21, "endIndex": 24 } ] }, "queryMetadata": { "queryType": "QUERY_TYPE_SPECIFIC", "isUnanswerable": null, "isContextDependent": true } }, { "query": "Can you summarize the topics discussed regarding Absinthe?", "response": "* Grad F ported a Blass library to Absinthe and got it working with fast-forward.\n* This resulted in a speedup proportional to the number of processors times the clock cycle.\n* Grad F is also in the process of doing it for Quicknet, but is currently facing an issue that caused it to be half the estimated speed.\n* They are currently working on fixing the issue.\n* If successful, for net training and forward passes, Absinthe will be a good machine, especially with more and upgraded processors.", "responseAttribution": { "indexRanges": [ { "startIndex": 943, "endIndex": 943 }, { "startIndex": 947, "endIndex": 947 }, { "startIndex": 949, "endIndex": 949 } ] }, "queryMetadata": { "queryType": "QUERY_TYPE_GENERAL", "isUnanswerable": null, "isContextDependent": null } }, { "query": "Besides issues with the Smartkom data, did they discuss any other problems they were encountering?", "response": "No, issues with the Smartkom data was the only problem discussed in the meeting.", "responseAttribution": { "indexRanges": [ { "startIndex": 7, "endIndex": 13 } ] }, "queryMetadata": { "queryType": "QUERY_TYPE_SPECIFIC", "isUnanswerable": null, "isContextDependent": true } }, { "query": "Regarding the IBM transcription status, what was the decision on having IBM transcribe the digits?", "response": "The participants did not discuss IBM transcribing the digits. Instead, they discussed options on how the digits can be transcribed. These options are:\n* Use tools Grad F developed to transcribe the digits.\n* Have people transcribe the digits.\n* Utilize the transcriber to do the job.\n* Ask IBM to transcribe the digits.", "responseAttribution": { "indexRanges": [ { "startIndex": 55, "endIndex": 58 }, { "startIndex": 148, "endIndex": 148 }, { "startIndex": 190, "endIndex": 206 } ] }, "queryMetadata": { "queryType": "QUERY_TYPE_SPECIFIC", "isUnanswerable": null, "isContextDependent": null } }, { "query": "In what way does utilizing the developed tools to transcribe digits provide an edge over the other options?", "response": "The discussion did not cover the specific advantages of utilizing the developed tools to transcribe digits over the other options.", "responseAttribution": null, "queryMetadata": { "queryType": "QUERY_TYPE_SPECIFIC", "isUnanswerable": true, "isContextDependent": null } }, { "query": "Other than the tools developed to transcribe digits, were any other automated methods discussed?", "response": "* No other automated methods besides the tools developed were discussed to transcribe digits.\n* The participants mentioned that they could use tools Grad F developed, have people transcribe the digits manually, or use the transcriber to do the job.\n* They also mentioned that they could ask IBM to transcribe the digits.", "responseAttribution": { "indexRanges": [ { "startIndex": 190, "endIndex": 190 } ] }, "queryMetadata": { "queryType": "QUERY_TYPE_SPECIFIC", "isUnanswerable": null, "isContextDependent": true } }, { "query": "What was their thought process for considering having IBM transcribe the digits?", "response": "* They have the forms and have already transcribed a subset of the digits.\n* IBM had also done a transcription, but its transcripts had errors.\n* Using the developed tools, people, or the transcriber would be more time consuming.", "responseAttribution": { "indexRanges": [ { "startIndex": 154, "endIndex": 154 }, { "startIndex": 171, "endIndex": 171 } ] }, "queryMetadata": { "queryType": "QUERY_TYPE_SPECIFIC", "isUnanswerable": null, "isContextDependent": null } }, { "query": "When discussing transcription of digits, what did Morgan suggest to do?", "response": "* Morgan suggested letting IBM transcribe the digits again and include beep marks.\n* This was opposed by some due to errors in IBM's previous transcripts.", "responseAttribution": { "indexRanges": [ { "startIndex": 73, "endIndex": 73 }, { "startIndex": 193, "endIndex": 193 } ] }, "queryMetadata": { "queryType": "QUERY_TYPE_SPECIFIC", "isUnanswerable": null, "isContextDependent": null } } ] }
ee9efe0f6ab946f89d355d8b26d38223	{ "meetingId": "Bmr016", "transcriptSegments": [ { "text": "And we already got the crash out of the way. It did crash, so I feel much better, earlier.", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "Interesting. Hmm.", "speakerName": "Postdoc E" }, { "text": "Will you get the door, and?.", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "OK, so um.", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "OK. You collected an agenda, huh?", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "I did collect an agenda. So I'm gonna go first. Mwa - ha - ha! It shouldn't take too long.", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Postdoc E" }, { "text": "Um, so we're pretty much out of digits. We've gone once through the set. Um, so the only thing I have to do", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "No there's only ten.", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "Yeah, that's right. so I I just have to go through them", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "Well, OK.", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "and uh pick out the ones that have problems, and either correct them or have them re - read. So we probably have like four or five more forms to be read, to be once through the set. I've also extracted out about an hour's worth. We have about two hours worth. I extracted out about an hour's worth which are the f digits with for which whose speaker have speaker forms, have filled out speaker forms. Not everyone's filled out a speaker form. So I extracted one for speakers who have speaker forms and for meetings in which the \" key \" file and the transcript files are parsable. Some of the early key files, it looks like, were done by hand, and so they're not automatically parsable and I have to go back and fix those. So what that means is we have about an hour of transcribed digits that we can play with. Um, Liz.", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "So you think two you think two hours is the is the total that we have?", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "Yep, yeah.", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "And you think we th uh, I I didn't quite catch all these different things that are not quite right, but you think we'll be able to retrieve the other hour, reasonably?", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "Yes, absolutely.", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "OK.", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "So it's just a question of a little hand - editing of some files and then waiting for more people to turn in their speaker forms. I have this web - based speaker form, and I sent mail to everyone who hadn't filled out a speaker form, and they're slowly s trickling in.", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "So the relevance of the speaker form here, s", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "It's for labeling the extracted audio files.", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "Oh, OK.", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "By speaker ID and microphone type.", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "Wasn't like whether they were giving us permission to use their digits or something.", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "No, I spoke with Jane about that and we sort of decided that it's probably not an issue that We edit out any of the errors anyway. Right? So the there are no errors in the digits,", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "you'll always read the string correctly. So I can't imagine why anyone would care. So the other topic with digits is uh, Liz would like to elicit different prosodics, and so we tried last week with them written out in English. And it just didn't work at all because no one grouped them together. So it just sounded like many many more lines instead of anything else. So in conversations with Liz and uh Jane we decided that if you wrote them out as numbers instead of words it would elicit more phone number, social security number - like readings. The problem with that is it becomes numbers instead of digits. When I look at this, that first line is \" sixty one, sixty two, eighteen, eighty six, ten. \" Um, and so the question is does anyone care? Um, I've already spoken with Liz and she feels that, correct me if I'm wrong, that for her, connected numbers is fine,", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Postdoc E" }, { "text": "as opposed to connected digits. Um, I think two hours is probably fine for a test set, but it may be a little short if we actually wanna do training and adaptation and all that other stuff.", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "Yeah Um, do um you want different prosodics, so if you always had the same groupings you wouldn't like that? Is that correct?", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "Well, we actually figured out a way to.", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "Yeah, the the.", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "the the groupings are randomly generated.", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "No but, I was asking if that was something you really cared about because if it wasn't, it seems to me if you made it really specifically telephone groupings that maybe people wouldn't, uh, go and do numbers so much. You know if it if it's.", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "Uh.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "I think they may still do it, um,", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "Maybe some, but I probably not so much.", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "What about putting a hyphen between the numbers in the group?", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "And.", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "Right? So if you if if you have uh", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "Six dash one, you mean?", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "if you go six six six uh dash uh two nine three one.", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "I well OK I it might help, I would like to g get away from having only one specific grouping.", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "That's what I was asking, yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "Um, so if that's your question,", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "but I mean it seems to me that, at least for us, we can learn to read them as digits", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Postdoc E" }, { "text": "if that's what people want. I I'm", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Postdoc E" }, { "text": "don't think that'd be that hard to read them as single digits.", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "I agree.", "speakerName": "Postdoc E" }, { "text": "Um, and it seems like that might be better for you guys since then you'll have just more digit data,", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "and that's always a good thing.", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "Yep.", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "It's a little bit better for me too because the digits are easier to recognize. They're better trained than the numbers.", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "So we could just, uh, put in the instructions \" read them as digits \".", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "Right. Right, read them as single digits, so sixty - one w is read as six one,", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Postdoc E" }, { "text": "and if people make a mistake we.", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "How about \" O \" versus \" zero \"?", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "I mean, the other thing is we could just bag it because it's it's it's - I'm not worrying about it I mean, because we do have digits training data that we have from uh from OGI. I'm sorry, digits numbers training that we have from OGI, we've done lots and lots of studies with that. And um.", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "But it's nice to get it in this room with the acous", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "I mean for it's.", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "No, no, I guess what I'm saying is that", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "Just let them read it how they read it.", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "to some extent maybe we could just read them have them read how how they read it and it just means that we have to expand our our vocabulary out to stuff that we already have.", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "Right. Well that's fine with me as long as It's just that I didn't want to cause the people who would have been collecting digits the other way to not have the digits.", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "Yeah. We can go back to the other thing later.", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "So.", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "I mean we s we we've We can do this for awhile", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "OK.", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "and then go back to digits for awhile, or um. Do yo I mean, do you want do you want this Do you need training data or adaptation data out of this?", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "OK.", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "How much of this do you need? with uh the.", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "It's actually unclear right now. I just thought well we're if we're collec collecting digits, and Adam had said we were running out of the TI forms, I thought it'd be nice to have them in groups, and probably, all else being equal, it'd be better for me to just have single digits", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "OK.", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "since it's, you know, a recognizer's gonna do better on those anyway, um, and it's more predictable. So we can know from the transcript what the person said and the transcriber, in general.", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "OK, well if you pre", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "But if they make mistakes, it's no big deal if the people say a hundred instead of \" one OO \". and also w maybe we can just let them choose \" zero \" versus \" O \" as they as they like because even the same person c sometimes says \" O \" and sometimes says \" zero \" in different context,", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "and that's sort of interesting. So I don't have a Specific need cuz if I did I'd probably try to collect it, you know, without bothering this group, but If we can try it.", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "OK so so I can just add to the instructions to read it as digits not as connected numbers.", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Postdoc E" }, { "text": "Right, and you can give an example like, you know, \" six sixty - one would be read as six one \".", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm. And i actually it's no more artificial than what we've been doing with words.", "speakerName": "Postdoc E" }, { "text": "And I think people will get it.", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "I'm sure people can adapt to this, read it single.", "speakerName": "Postdoc E" }, { "text": "Right, right.", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "The spaces already bias it toward being separated.", "speakerName": "Postdoc E" }, { "text": "It's just easier to read.", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "And I know I'm gonna find this easier than words.", "speakerName": "Postdoc E" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "Oh yeah, absolutely, cognitively it's much easier.", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "OK I also had a hard hard time with the words,", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "but then we went back and forth on that. OK, so let's give that a try", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "OK. And is the spacing alright or do you think there should be more space between digits and groups?", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "OK.", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "and.", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "Or is that alright?", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "I mean what do other people think cuz you guys are reading them.", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "I think that i it's fine.", "speakerName": "Postdoc E" }, { "text": "OK.", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "I it it to me it looks like you've got the func the idea of grouping and you have the grou the idea of separation", "speakerName": "Postdoc E" }, { "text": "OK.", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "and, you know, it's just a matter of u i the instructions, that's all.", "speakerName": "Postdoc E" }, { "text": "Great. OK.", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "And I think there are about ten different gouping patterns", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "Let's try it.", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "Well let's give it a try.", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "isn't that right, Liz? That we did.", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "Righ - right, and you just they're randomly generated and randomly assigned to digits.", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "I did Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Postdoc E" }, { "text": "So we have.", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "Go ahead.", "speakerName": "Postdoc E" }, { "text": "Sorry, I I was just gonna say, so we have in the vicinity of forty hours of of recordings now. And you're saying two hours, uh, is digits, so that's roughly the ratio then,", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "Yep.", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "something like twenty twenty to one. Which I guess makes makes sense. So if we did another forty hours of recordings then we could get another couple hours of this.", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "Um, yeah like you say, I think a couple hours for a for a for a test test set's OK. It'd be nice to get, you know, more later because we'll we might use use this up, uh, in some sense,", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Postdoc E" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "but but uh.", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "Yeah, I also would like to argue for that cuz it it seems to me that, um, there's a real strength in having the same test replicated in a whole bunch of times and adding to that basic test bank.", "speakerName": "Postdoc E" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "Hmm? Cuz then you have, you know, more and more, u chances to get away from random errors. And I think, um, the other thing too is that right now we have sort of a stratified sample with reference to dialect groups, and it might be there might be an argument to be made for having uh f for replicating all of the digits that we've done, which were done by non - native speakers so that we have a core that totally replicates the original data set, which is totally American speakers, and then we have these stratified additional language groups overlapping certain aspects of the database.", "speakerName": "Postdoc E" }, { "text": "Right. I think that uh trying to duplicate, spending too much effort trying to duplicate the existing TI - digits probably isn't too worthwhile because the recording situation is so different.", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "It's gonna be very hard to be comparable.", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "Except that if you have the stimuli comparable, then it says something about the the contribution of setting", "speakerName": "Postdoc E" }, { "text": "No it's it's not the same.", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "and.", "speakerName": "Postdoc E" }, { "text": "A little bit, but the other differences are so major.", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "Yeah I mean read versus not.", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "OK.", "speakerName": "Postdoc E" }, { "text": "They're such major sources of variance that it's it's it's uh.", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "What's an example of a of m some of the other differences? Any other a difference?", "speakerName": "Postdoc E" }, { "text": "Well i i individual human glottis is going to be different for each one,", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "OK.", "speakerName": "Postdoc E" }, { "text": "you know, it's just There's so many things.", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "Well, and not just that,", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "OK.", "speakerName": "Postdoc E" }, { "text": "it's it and and enunciation.", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "I mean the uh the corpus itself. I mean, we're collecting it in a read digit in a particular list, and I'm sure that they're doing more specific stuff. I mean if I remember correctly it was like postman reading zipcodes and things like that.", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "TI - digits was?", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "I thought so.", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "I thought I thought it was read.", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "Was it read?", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "Yeah, I think the reading zipcode stuff you're thinking of would be OGI.", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "Oh, I may well be.", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "Yeah, no TI - digits was read in th in read in the studio I believe.", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "I haven't ever listened to TI - digits. So I don't really know how it compares.", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "Yeah. Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "But but regardless it's gonna it's hard to compare cross - corpus.", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "But it but It - it's different people is the is the core thing.", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "So.", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "OK, fine.", "speakerName": "Postdoc E" }, { "text": "And they're different circumstances with different recording environment and so forth, so it's it's it's really pretty different. But I think the idea of using a set thing was just to give you some sort of framework, so that even though you couldn't do exact comparisons, it wouldn't be s valid scientifically at least it'd give you some kind of uh frame of reference. Uh, you know it's not.", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "Hey Liz, What what do the groupings represent?", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "OK.", "speakerName": "Postdoc E" }, { "text": "You said there's like ten different groupings?", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Right, just groupings in terms of number of groups in a line, and number of digits in a group, and the pattern of groupings.", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm. Are the patterns like are they based on anything or", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Um, I I just roughly looked at what kinds of digit strings are out there, and they're usually grouped into either two, three, or four, four digits at a time.", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "Oh.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "And they can have, I mean, actually, things are getting longer and longer. In the old days you probably only had three sequences, and telephone numbers were less, and so forth. So, there's between, um Well if you look at it, there are between like three and five groups, and each one has between two and four groupings and I purposely didn't want them to look like they were in any kind of pattern.", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "Mmm.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "So", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "And which group appears is picked randomly, and what the numbers are are picked randomly.", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "So unlike the previous one, which I d simply replicated TI - digits, this is generated randomly.", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "Oh OK.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "Mmm, oh, OK.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "But I think it'd be great i to be able to compare digits, whether it's these digits or TI - digits, to speakers, um, and compare that to their spontaneous speech, and then we do need you know a fair amount of of digit data because you might be wearing a different microphone", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "and, I mean so it's it's nice to have the digits you know, replicated many times. Especially for speakers that don't talk a lot.", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "So um, for adaptation. No, I'm serious,", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "Yeah all we have for some people is digits.", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "so we have a problem with acoustic adaptation, and we're not using the digit data now, but you know.", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "Oh, you're not.", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "Not for adaptation, nope. v W we're not we were running adaptation only on the data that we ran recognition on and I'd As soon as someone started to read transcript number, that's read speech and I thought \" well, we're gonna do better on that,", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "Oh I see.", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "that's not fair to use \".", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "Oh yeah that's true, absolutely.", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "OK.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "But, it might be fair to use the data for adaptation, so. So those speakers who are very quiet, shy.", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "That would be interesting to see whether that helps.", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "r Right.", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "Like Adam?", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Do you think that would help adapting on Yeah. Yeah, I have a real problem with that.", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "Well, it sh I mean it's the same micropho see the nice thing is we have that in the in the same meeting,", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "Right. Same same acoustics,", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "and so you don't get.", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "same microphone,", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "same channel.", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "Right, and so I still like the idea of having some kind of digit data.", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "OK. Good.", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "Yeah I mean, for the for the um acoustic research, for the signal - processing, farfield stuff, I see it as as as the place that we start. But, th I mean, it'd be nice to have twenty hours of digits data, but but uh the truth is I'm hoping that we we through the the stuff that that you guys have been doing as you continue that, we get, uh, the best we can do on the spontaneous stuff uh, uh nearfield, and then um, we do a lot of the testing of the algorithms on the digits for the farfield, and at some point when we feel it's mature and we understand what's going on with it then we we have to move on to the spontaneous data with the farfield. So.", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "Great.", "speakerName": "Postdoc E" }, { "text": "The only thing that we don't have, I know this sounds weird, and maybe it's completely stupid, but we don't have any overlapping digits.", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "Yeah, we talked about that a couple times.", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "An - yea I know it's weird, but um.", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "Overlapping digits!", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "The the problem I see with trying to do overlapping digits is the cognitive load.", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "Alright everybody's laughing. OK.", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "Dueling digits.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "No it's it's not stupid, it's just I mean, try to do it.", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "I'm just talkin for the stuff that like Dan Ellis is gonna try,", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "I mean, here, let's try it.", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "you know, cross - talk cancellation.", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "You read the last line, I'll read the first line.", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "Let's try it.", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "OK.", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "Oh!", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "Wait oh it these are all the same forms.", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "Sixty - one.", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "OK So but.", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "So so you read the last line, I'll read the first line.", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "No, I'll p", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "So you plu you plug your ears.", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "Oh I guess if you plug you're ears you could do it, but then you don't get the the same effects.", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "Well, what I mean is actually no not the overlaps that are well - governed linguistically, but the actual fact that there is speech coming from two people", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "and the beam - forming stuf all the acoustic stuff that like Dan Ellis and and company want to do.", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "Oh I see.", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "Digits are nice and well behaved, I mean", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "I guess we could try.", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "Anyway, it's just a thought.", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "We could try doing some.", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "It it would go faster.", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "Parallel.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "It would take one around amount of ti", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "It's the P - make of digit reading.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Well Well OK. Well let's try it.", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "That's right. I I mea I'm I was sort of serious, but I really, I mean, I'm I don't feel strongly enough that it's a good idea,", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "See, y", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "You do the last line, I'll do the first line.", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "so.", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "OK.", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "O. That's not bad.", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "No, I can do it.", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "I couldn't understand a single thing you guys were saying.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "A and that prosody was great, by the way.", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "I think it was numbers, but I'm not sure.", "speakerName": "Postdoc E" }, { "text": "It it sort of sounded like a duet, or something.", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "Performance art.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Alright, let's try three at once you you pick one in the middle.", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "The Aurora theater.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "OK.", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "Go.", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "I'm sorry. I'm mean I think it's doable,", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "The poor transcribers", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "I'm just.", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "they're gonna hate us.", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "So, we we could have a round like where you do two at a time, and then the next person picks up when the first guy's done, or something.", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "So pairwise.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "Oh like a round, yeah, like in a a.", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "Like a,", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "Yeah, just pairwise,", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "what do you call it?", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "or yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "Round.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "A round.", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "Row, row, row your boat.", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "Li - a r like.", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "yeah, like that.", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "OK.", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "It's gonna require some coordination.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Then it would go like h twice as fast, or a third as fast.", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "You have to have a similar pace.", "speakerName": "Postdoc E" }, { "text": "Anyway, it's just a thought.", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "I'm actually sort of serious if it would help people do that kind o but the people who wanna work on it we should talk to them.", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "I don't think we're gonna collect vast amounts of data that way,", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "So.", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "Mmm.", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "but I think having a little bit might at least be fun for somebody like Dan to play around with,", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "OK.", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "I think maybe if we wanted to do that we would do it as a separate session,", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "something like that rather than doing it during a real meeting and you know, do two people at a time then three people at a time and things like that. So.", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "Can try it out.", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "See see what Dan thinks.", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "If we have nothing if we have no agenda we could do it some week.", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "Yeah, right.", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "Yeah, yeah. Spend the whole time reading digits with different qu quantities.", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "OK.", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "I thought this was gonna be fast.", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "c c Can I can I have an another another question w about this?", "speakerName": "Postdoc E" }, { "text": "Oh well.", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "So, um, there are these digits, which are detached digits, but there are other words that contain the same general phon phoneme sequences. Like \" wonderful \" has \" one \" in it and and Victor Borge had a had a piece on this where he inflated the digits. Well, I wonder if there's, um, an if there would be a value in having digits that are in essence embedded in real words to compare in terms of like the articulation of \" one \" in \" wonderful \" versus \" one \" as a digit being read.", "speakerName": "Postdoc E" }, { "text": "That's \" two \" bad. Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "I'm all \" four \" it.", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "There you go.", "speakerName": "Postdoc E" }, { "text": "Not after I \" eight \" though.", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "Uh, they don't all work as well, do they? Hmm. What does nine work in?", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "Nein!", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "Uh.", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "Uh,", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "You scream it.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "Nein! You have to be German,", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "Oh. In German,", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "That's German, yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "It's great for the Germans.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "yeah.", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "Oh, oh!", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "Nein.", "speakerName": "Postdoc E" }, { "text": "That's right!", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "Oh!", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "It only sounds w good when you scream it, though. So.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "I think everybody's a little punchy here today.", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "Well, I mean, I just wanted to offer that as a possible task", "speakerName": "Postdoc E" }, { "text": "Yes.", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "because, you know, if we were to each read his embedded numbers words in sent in sentences cuz it's like an entire sketch he does and I wouldn't take the inflated version. So he talks about the woman being \" two - derful \", and and a But, you know, if it were to be deflated, just the normal word, it would be like a little story that we could read.", "speakerName": "Postdoc E" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "I don't know if it would be useful for comparison, but it's embedded numbers.", "speakerName": "Postdoc E" }, { "text": "I think for something like that we'd be better off doing like uh TIMIT.", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "Well I don't know. Well I think the question is what the research is, so I mean, I presume that the reason that you wanted to have these digits this way is because you wanted to actually do some research looking at the prosodic form here.", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "Hmm.", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "Yeah OK.", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "Right, yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "So if somebody wanted to do that, if they wanted to look at the the the difference of the uh phones in the digits in the context of a word versus uh the digits a a non - digit word versus in digit word, uh that would be a good thing to do, but I think someone would have to express interest in that.", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "I see. OK.", "speakerName": "Postdoc E" }, { "text": "I think, to I mean if you were interested in it then we could do it, for instance.", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "OK, thank you.", "speakerName": "Postdoc E" }, { "text": "OK, are we done with digits?", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "Huh.", "speakerName": "Postdoc E" }, { "text": "Um, We have ASR results from Liz, transcript status from Jane, and disk space and storage formats from Don. Does do we have any prefer preference on which way we wanna we wanna go?", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "Well I was actually gonna skip the ASR results part, in favor of getting the transcription stuff talked about", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "since I think that's more important to moving forward, but I mean Morgan has this paper copy and if people have questions, um, it's pretty preliminary in terms of ASR results because we didn't do anything fancy, but I think e just having the results there, and pointing out some main conclusions like it's not the speaking style that differs, it's the fact that there's overlap that causes recognition errors. And then, the fact that it's almost all insertion errors, which you would expect but you might also think that in the overlapped regions you would get substitutions and so forth, um, leads us to believe that doing a better segmentation, like your channel - based segmentation, or some kind of uh, echo cancellation to get basically back down to the individual speaker utterances would be probably all that we would need to be able to do good recognition on the on the close - talking mikes.", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "So these.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "Um, why don't you, if you have a hard copy, why don't you email it to the list.", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "So, that's about the summary But this is Morgan has this paper.", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "Yeah, yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "Oh it's in the paper.", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "Yeah, so it's the same thing?", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "I mean he he.", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "It's the same thing I mailed to every everybody that w where it was,", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "it it's that paper.", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "OK.", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "Yeah, yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "OK then, it's already been mailed.", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "So, we basically, um, did a lot of work on that", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "and it's Let's see, th I guess the other neat thing is it shows for sure w that the lapel, you know within speaker is bad.", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "Horrible?", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "And it's bad because it picks up the overlapping speech.", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "So, your your ASR results were run on the channels synchronized,", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "Yes, cuz that's all that w had been transcribed at the time,", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "OK. OK. OK.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "um but as we I mean I wanted to here more about the transcription. If we can get the channel asynchronous or the.", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "the closer t that would be very interesting for us", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "So if.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "because we.", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "Yeah, that's that's why I only used the part from use", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "which we had uh about uh about the alt over all the channels", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "Right. That's.", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "Yeah sure. Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "or mixed channel", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "rather mixed signal.", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "So if there was a segment of speech this long", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "cuz.", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "and oh and someone said \" oh, \" the whole thing was passed to the recognizer?", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "And someone said \" oh \" in the front in the middle.", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "There were several speakers in it, yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "That's right. In fact I I pulled out a couple classic examples in case you wanna u use them in your talk of", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "That's why there's so many insertion errors?", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "Chuck on the lapel, so Chuck wore the lapel three out of four times.", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "Mmm.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "I noticed that Chuck was wearing the lapel a lot.", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "Early on, yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Um, yeah, and I wore the lapel once, and for me the lapel was OK. I mean I still and I don't know why. I'm But um,", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "Probably how you wear it wore it I would guess.", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "for you it was Or who was next to me or something like that.", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "Yeah, where you were sitting probably affected it.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "Right, but when Chuck wore the lapel and Morgan was talking there're a couple really long utterances where Chuck is saying a few things inside, and it's picking up all of Morgan's words pretty well and so the rec you know, there're error rates because of insertion Insertions aren't bounded, so with a one - word utterance and ten insertions you know you got huge error rate.", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "Uh - huh.", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "And that's that's where the problems come in. So I this is sort of what we expected, but it's nice to be able to to show it.", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "And also I just wanted to mention briefly that, um, uh Andreas and I called up Dan Ellis who's still stuck in Switzerland, and we were gonna ask him if if there're you know, what's out there in terms of echo cancellation and things like that. Not that we were gonna do it, but we wanted to know what would need to be done.", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "And he said, \" Lots lots lots lots. \"", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "And he We've given him the data we have so far, so these sychronous cases where there are overlap.", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "Yep.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "And he's gonna look into trying to run some things that are out there and see how well it can do", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "So.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "because right now we're not able to actually report on recognition in a real paper, like a Eurospeech paper, because it would look sort of premature.", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "So So the idea is that you would take this big hunk where somebody's only speaking a small amount in it, and then try to figure out where they're speaking based on the other peopl", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Right. Or who's At any point in time who's the foreground speaker, who's the background speaker.", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "So yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "I thought we were just gonna move the boundaries in.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Yeah, should it.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "So.", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "Well that's with the hand stuff.", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "So there's like.", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "But how would you do that automatically?", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "Well ther there's.", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "Uh, I've actually done some experiments with cross - correlation", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "and it seems to work pretty well to to get rid of those those overlaps,", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "I mean that that's the sort of thing that you would do.", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "So.", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "Yeah. Exactly, so it's it's a.", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "So why do you want to do echo cancellation?", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Um, it would be techniques used from adaptive adaptive echo cancellation which I don't know enough about to talk about.", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "Uh - huh.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "It just it just to r to remove cross - talk.", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "Um.", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "But, right, um, and that would be similar to what you're also trying to do, but using um, you know, more than energy.", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "I I don't know what exactly would go into it.", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "Yeah, sure.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "So it would be.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "So the idea is to basically run this on the whole meeting. and get the locations, which gives you also the time boundaries of the individual speak", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "OK. So do sort of what he's already what he's trying to do.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Right. Except that there are many techniques for the kinds of cues, um, that you can use to do that.", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "Yeah, in another way,", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "OK, I s I see.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "yeah. Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "Yeah. I see.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Yeah, Dave Dave uh is, um, also gonna be doin usin playing around with echo cancellation for the nearfield farfield stuff,", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "So.", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "so we'll be.", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "And I guess Espen? This is uh is he here too?", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "May also be working So it would just be ver that's really the next step because we can't do too much, you know, on term in terms of recognition results knowing that this is a big problem", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "um, until we can do that kind of processing. And so, once we have some some of yours,", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "OK. Yeah I'm working on it.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "and @ @ we'll move on.", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "I think this also ties into one of the things that Jane is gonna talk about too.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Um,", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "OK.", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "I also wanted to say I have done all this chopping up of digits,", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm. Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Postdoc E" }, { "text": "so I have some naming conventions that we should try to agree on. So let's do that off - line,", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "Oh right.", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "we don't need to do it during the meeting.", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "OK.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "Right. Definitely.", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "And and I have scripts that will extract it out from \" key \" files", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "Uh, and Don should.", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "and and do all the naming automatically,", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "OK.", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "Alright.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "so you don't have to do it by hand.", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "Great.", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "You've compiled the list of, uh, speaker names?", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "So that that's it for the.", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "Speakers and OK.", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "Not names, but I Ds.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "Yep. Yeah, names names in the names to I Ds,", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "OK.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "so you", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "Great.", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "and it does all sorts of matches because the way people filled out names is different on every single file so it does a very fuzzy sort of match.", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "Cool.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "So at this point we can sort of finalize the naming, and so forth,", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "Yep.", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "and we're gonna basically re rewrite out these waveforms that we did because as you notice in the paper your \" M O in one meeting and \" M O - two \" in another meeting and it's we just need to standardize the", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "Yeah. That was my fault.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "um, no it's it's.", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "No, I didn't notice that actually..", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "um, that's why those comments are s are in there.", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "Yeah. Then disregard it then.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "Yep. So th I now have a script that you can just say basically look up Morgan,", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "So.", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "Right. OK.", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "and it will give you his ID.", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "Great, great.", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "OK.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "So. Um,", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "Terrific.", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "alright. Do we Don, you had disk space and storage formats. Is that something we need to talk about at the meeting, or should you just talk with Chuck at some other time?", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "Um, I had some general questions just about the compression algorithms of shortening waveforms and I don't know exactly who to ask. I thought that maybe you would be the the person to talk to. So, is it a lossless compression when you compress,", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "so.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "Entropy coding.", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "It just uses entropy coding?", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "So.", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "OK. So, I mean, I guess my question would be is I just got this new eighteen gig drive installed. Um, yeah, which is.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "And I assume half of it is scratch and half of it is?", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "I'm not exactly sure how they partitioned it.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "Probably, yeah.", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "But um,", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "That's typical, huh.", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "yeah, I don't know what's typical here, but um, it's local though, so.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "That doesn't matter.", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "But.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "You can access it from anywhere in ICSI. N.", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "OK. Alright. How do you do that?", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "In fact, this is an eighteen gig drive, or is it a thirty six gig drive with eighteen.", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "N.", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "Eighteen.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "Eigh - eighteen. It was a spare that Dave had around.", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "Slash N slash machine name, slash X A in all likelihood.", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "Oh OK.", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "Oh I see. OK. Alright, I did know that.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "Um, so the the only question is how much of it The distinction between scratch and non - scratch is whether it's backed up or not.", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm. Right.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "So what you wanna do is use the scratch for stuff that you can regenerate.", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "OK.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "So, the stuff that isn't backed up is not a big deal because disks don't crash very frequently,", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "as long as you can regenerate it.", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "Right. I mean all of this stuff can be regenerated,", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "Yeah it's.", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "it's just a question.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "Then put it all on scratch", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "Well the.", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "because we're ICSI is is bottlenecked by backup.", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm, very good point.", "speakerName": "Postdoc E" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "OK.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "So we wanna put.", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "Well I'd leave all the All the transcript stuff shouldn't should be backed up,", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Postdoc E" }, { "text": "but all the waveform Sound files should not be backed up,", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "Yeah, I guess Right.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "the ones that you write out.", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "OK. So, I mean, I guess th the other question was then, should we shorten them, downsample them, or keep them in their original form? Um.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "It just depends on your tools. I mean, because it's not backed up and it's just on scratch, if your sc tools can't take shortened format, I would leave them expanded,", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "so you don't have to unshorten them every single time you wanna do anything.", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "OK.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "We can downsample them,", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "Do you think that'd be OK?", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "so.", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "To downsample them?", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "Yeah. Yeah, we get the same performance.", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "OK.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "I mean the r the front - end on the SRI recognizer just downsamples them on the fly,", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "Yeah, I guess the only argument against downsampling is to preserve just the original files in case we want to experiment with different filtering techniques.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "so So that's.", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "I I I'm sorry.", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "Yeah, if", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "Yeah, l I mean over all our data, we we want to not downsample.", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "fe You'd you wanna not. OK.", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "So we're what we're doing is we're writing out I mean, this is just a question. We're writing out these individual segments, that wherever there's a time boundary from Thilo, or or Jane's transcribers, you know, we we chop it there.", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "Yeah. Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "And the reason is so that we can feed it to the recognizer,", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "and throw out ones that we're not using and so forth.", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "And those are the ones that we're storing.", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "Yeah, as I said, since that's it's regeneratable, what I would do is take downsample it,", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "So Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "and compress it however you're e the SRI recognizer wants to take it in.", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "ye", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "So we can't shorten them,", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "but we can downsample them.", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "Yeah, I mean yeah, I'm sorry.", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "So.", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "As yeah, as long as there is a a form that we can come from again, that is not downsampled, then,", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "r Yeah.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "Oh yeah th", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "Yeah those are gonna be kept.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "Yeah. Yeah. That that's why we need more disk space", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "uuu", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "cuz we're basically duplicating the originals, um.", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "Then it's fine. But for for fu future research we'll be doing it with different microphone positions and so on", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "Oh yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "Yep.", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "No. We always have the original long ones.", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "we would like to.", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "So the SRI front - end won't take a uh an an a large audio file name and then a a list of segments to chop out from that large audio file?", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "They actually have to be chopped out already?", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Um, it's better if they're chopped out,", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "Uh - huh.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "and and it it will be yeah, y we could probably write something to do that, but it's actually convenient to have them chopped out cuz you can run them, you know, in different orders. You c you can actually move them around.", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "And that's the whole point about the naming conventions", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "Uh, you can get rid of", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "is that you could run all the English speaking,", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "Yeah, it it's a lot faster.", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "all the native speakers, and all the non - native speakers,", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "Right. You can grab everything with the word \" the \" in it,", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "and all the men, and all the women. Yeah.", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "and it's That's a lot quicker than actually trying to access the wavefile each time, find the time boundaries and So in principle, yeah, you could do that,", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "I don't I don't think that's really right.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "but it's but it's um.", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "\" That's just not right, man. \" The the point.", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "These are long These are long.", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "So so s For example, what if you wanted to run run all the native speakers.", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "You know. This is an hour of speech.", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "Right, so if if you did it that way you would have to generate a program that looks in the database somewhere, extracts out the language, finds the time - marks for that particular one, do it that way. The way they're doing it, you have that already extracted and it's embedded in the file name. And so, you know, you just say.", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "We - yeah that's so that's part of it", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "y so you just say you know \" asterisk E asterisk dot wave \", and you get what you want.", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "is Right. And the other part is just that once they're written out it it is a lot faster to to process them.", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "Rather than doing seeks through the file.", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "So. Otherwise, you're just accessing.", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "This is all just temporary access, so I don't I think it's all just It's fine. You know. Fine to do it however is convenient.", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "I mean it just depends how big the file is. If the file sits in memory you can do extremely fast seeks", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "Right. The other thing is that, believe it or not I mean, we have some.", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "but.", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "Yeah and they don't. Two gig?", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "So we're also looking at these in Waves like for the alignments and so forth. You can't load an hour of speech into X Waves.", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "You need to s have these small files, and in fact, even for the Transcriber program Um.", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "Yes you can.", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "Yeah, you you can give Waves a start and an end time. And middle.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Yeah, if you try to load s really long waveform into X Waves, you'll be waiting there for.", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "No, I I'm not suggesting you load a long wave file,", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Oh", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "I'm just saying you give it a start and an end time. And it'll just go and pull out that section.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "I th w The transcribers didn't have any problem with that did they Jane?", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "What's th u w in what respect?", "speakerName": "Postdoc E" }, { "text": "Loading the long.", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "No, with the Transcriber tool, it's no problem.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "They loaded they loaded the long long files into X Waves.", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "It takes a very long ti", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "Yeah just to load a transcription", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "In the in Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Postdoc E" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "takes a long time,", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "It takes a l very long time.", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "but not for the wavefile. The wavefile is there immediately.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm. Yeah.", "speakerName": "Postdoc E" }, { "text": "Are you talking about Transcriber or X Waves?", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "Huh.", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "Yeah. Oh, I'm tr talking about Transcriber.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "Actually, you're talking about Transcriber, right?", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "Because because i we used X Waves to do the digits.", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "It was also true of the digits task which was X Waves.", "speakerName": "Postdoc E" }, { "text": "And they were loading the full mixed files then,", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "Yeah. Very quickly.", "speakerName": "Postdoc E" }, { "text": "and it didn't seem to be any problem.", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "I agree.", "speakerName": "Postdoc E" }, { "text": "Huh. Well we we have a problem with that, you know, time - wise on a It - it's a lot slower to load in a long file,", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "Hmm. Seemed really fast.", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "and also to check the file, so if you have a transcript, um,", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "Well regardless, it's.", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "I mean it's I I think overall you could get everything to work by accessing the same waveform and trying to find two you know, the begin and end times. Um, but I think it's more efficient, if we have the storage space, to have the small ones.", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "and, it's no problem, right?", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "Yeah, it's.", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "Because it's not backed up.", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "So we just.", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "It's it's just.", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "If we don't have a spare disk sitting around we go out and we buy ourselves an eighty gigabyte drive and make it all scratch space. You know, it's not a big deal.", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "You're right about the backup being a bottleneck.", "speakerName": "Postdoc E" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "It's good to think towards scratch.", "speakerName": "Postdoc E" }, { "text": "Yeah, so these wouldn't be backed up, the.", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Postdoc E" }, { "text": "Yep.", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "So remind me afterward", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "And.", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "and I'll and we'll look at your disk and see where to put stuff.", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "OK. Alright. I mean, I could just u do a DU on it right? And just see which how much is on each So.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "Yep. Each partition. And you wanna use, either XA or scratch.", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "OK.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "Well X question mark, anything starting with X is scratch.", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "OK.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "With two two digits.", "speakerName": "Postdoc E" }, { "text": "Two digits, right, XA, XB, XC. OK?", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "So, @ @.", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "Jane?", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "OK. So I got a little print - out here. So three on this side, three on this side. And I stapled them. OK. Alright so, first of all, um, there was a an interest in the transcribe transcription, uh, checking procedures and and I can tell you first, uh, to go through the steps although you've probably seen them. Um, as you might imagine, when you're dealing with, um, r really c a fair number of words, and uh, @ @ natural speech which means s self - repairs and all these other factors, that there're lots of things to be, um, s standardized and streamlined and checked on. And, um, so, I did a bunch of checks, and the first thing I did was obviously a spell - check. And at that point I discovered certain things like, um, \" accommodate \" with one \" M \", that kind of thing. And then, in addition to that, I did an exhaustive listing of the forms in the data file, which included n detecting things like f faulty punctuation and things.", "speakerName": "Postdoc E" }, { "text": "I'm I'm sorry to interrupt", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Yeah?", "speakerName": "Postdoc E" }, { "text": "you could could I just back up a little bit", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Sure, please,", "speakerName": "Postdoc E" }, { "text": "and.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "yeah, please, please.", "speakerName": "Postdoc E" }, { "text": "So you're doing these So the whole process is that the transcribers get the conversation", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Yeah, yeah, yeah.", "speakerName": "Postdoc E" }, { "text": "and they do their pass over it.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Yes.", "speakerName": "Postdoc E" }, { "text": "And then when they're finished with it, it comes to you,", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "That's right.", "speakerName": "Postdoc E" }, { "text": "and you begin these sanit these quality checks.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Exactly. I do these checks.", "speakerName": "Postdoc E" }, { "text": "OK.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Uh - huh.", "speakerName": "Postdoc E" }, { "text": "OK.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Exactly. Yeah. Thank you. And so, uh, I do a an exhaustive listing of the forms Actually, I will go through this in in order, so if if we could maybe wait and stick keep that for a second cuz we're not ready for that.", "speakerName": "Postdoc E" }, { "text": "So on the fifth page, seven down.", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Exactly! Exactly! Alright so, a spelling check first then an exhaustive listing of the, uh all the forms in the data with the punctuation attached and at that point I pick up things like, oh, you know, word followed by two commas. And th and then another check involves, uh, being sure that every utterance has an identifiable speaker. And if not, then that gets checked. Then there's this issue of glossing s w so - called \" spoken - forms \". So there mo for the most part, we're keeping it standard wo word level transcription. But there's w And that that's done with the assumption that pronunciation variants can be handled. So for things like \" and \", the fact that someone doesn't say the \" D \", uh that's not important enough to capture in the transcription because a a good pronunciation, uh, you know, model would be able to handle that. However, things like \" cuz \" where you're lacking an entire very prominent first syllable, and furthermore, it's a form that's specific to spoken language, those are r reasons f for those reasons I I kept that separate, and used the convention of using \" CUZ \" for that form, however, glossing it so that it's possible with the script to plug in the full orthographic form for that one, and a couple of others, not many. So \" wanna \" is another one, \" going \" uh, \" gonna \" is another one, with just the assumption, again, that this th these are things which it's not really fair to a c consider expect that a pronunciation model, to handle. And Chuck, you in you indicated that \" cuz \" is is one of those that's handled in a different way also, didn't you? Did I.", "speakerName": "Postdoc E" }, { "text": "I don't remember.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "OK. So so it might not have been It might not have been you,", "speakerName": "Postdoc E" }, { "text": "Hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "but someone told me that in fact \" cuz \" is treated differently in, um, i u in this context because of that r reason that, um, it's a little bit farther than a pronunciation variant. OK, so after that, let's see,", "speakerName": "Postdoc E" }, { "text": "So that was part of the spell - check, or was that that was after the spell - check?", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "um. Well so when I get the exhau So the spell - check picks up those words because they're not in the dictionary.", "speakerName": "Postdoc E" }, { "text": "Uh - huh.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "So it gets \" cuz \" and \" wanna \" and that.", "speakerName": "Postdoc E" }, { "text": "And then you gloss them?", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "Yeah, mm - hmm. Run it through I have a sed You know, so I do sed script saying whenever you see \" gonna \" you know, \" convert it to gonna \", you know, \" gloss equals quote going - to quote \", you know. And with all these things being in curly brackets", "speakerName": "Postdoc E" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "so they're always distinctive. OK, I also wrote a script which will, um, retrieve anything in curly brackets, or anything which I've classified as an acronym, and a pronounced acronym. And the way I tag ac pronounced acronyms is that I have underscores between the components. So if it's \" ACL \" then it's \" A \" underscore \" C \" underscore \" L \".", "speakerName": "Postdoc E" }, { "text": "And so so your list here, are these ones that actually occurred in the meetings?", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "And the th Yes. Uh - huh, yeah.", "speakerName": "Postdoc E" }, { "text": "Whew!", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "OK, so now. Uh and a", "speakerName": "Postdoc E" }, { "text": "We are acronym - loaded.", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "Um, can I ask a question about the glossing, uh before we go on?", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Postdoc E" }, { "text": "So, for a word like \" because \" is it that it's always predictably \" because \"? I mean, is \" CUZ \" always meaning \" because \"?", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "Yes, but not the reverse. So sometimes people will say \" because \" in the meeting, and if if they actually said \" because \", then it's written as \" because \" with no w \" cuz \" doesn't even figure into the equation.", "speakerName": "Postdoc E" }, { "text": "But but in our meetings people don't say \" hey cuz how you doing? \"", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "Beca - because Right. Right.", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "Except right there.", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Postdoc E" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "Um, so, I guess So, from the point of view of.", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "That's a good point.", "speakerName": "Postdoc E" }, { "text": "The the only problem is that with for the recognition we we map it to \" because \",", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "Well,", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "and so if we know that \" CUZ \".", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "That's fine.", "speakerName": "Postdoc E" }, { "text": "but they have the gloss.", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "Well Don has a script.", "speakerName": "Postdoc E" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "but, we don't.", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "You have the gloss form so you always replace it.", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "Exactly.", "speakerName": "Postdoc E" }, { "text": "If that's how what you wanna do.", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "Uh - huh. And Don knows this,", "speakerName": "Postdoc E" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "and he's bee he has a glo he has a script that.", "speakerName": "Postdoc E" }, { "text": "I replace the \" cuz \" with \" because \" if it's glossed.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "S Right. But, if it's OK.", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "And.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "But then there are other glosses that we don't replace, right? Because.", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "Yes. And that's why there're different tags on the glosses,", "speakerName": "Postdoc E" }, { "text": "OK. So, then it's fine.", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "on the different on the different types of comments, which we'll which we'll see in just a second.", "speakerName": "Postdoc E" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "OK.", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "So the pronounceable acronyms get underscores, the things in curly brackets are viewed as comments. There're comments of four types. So this is a good time to introduce that. The four types. w And maybe we'll expand that", "speakerName": "Postdoc E" }, { "text": "Um.", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "but the but the comments are, um, of four types mainly right now. One of them is, um, the gloss type we just mentioned.", "speakerName": "Postdoc E" }, { "text": "Can ca", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "Another type is, um.", "speakerName": "Postdoc E" }, { "text": "So a are we done with acronyms? Cuz I had a question on what what this meant.", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "I'm still doing the overview. I haven't actually gotten here yet.", "speakerName": "Postdoc E" }, { "text": "Oh I'm sorry.", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "OK so, gloss is things like replacing the full form u with the, um, more abbreviated one to the left. Uh, then you have if it's uh, there're a couple different types of elements that can happen that aren't really properly words, and wo some of them are laughs and breathes, so we have uh that's prepended with a v a tag of \" VOC \".", "speakerName": "Postdoc E" }, { "text": "Whew!.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "And the non - vocal ones are like door - slams and tappings, and that's prepended with a no non - vocalization.", "speakerName": "Postdoc E" }, { "text": "So then it just an ending curly brace there, or is there something else in there.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Oh yeah, so i e this would.", "speakerName": "Postdoc E" }, { "text": "A comment, basically.", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "Let's just take one example.", "speakerName": "Postdoc E" }, { "text": "Oh, oh, oh.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "And then the no non - vocalization would be something like a door - slam. They always end. So it's like they're paired curly brackets. And then the third type right now, uh, is m things that fall in the category of comments about what's happening. So it could be something like, you know, \" referring to so - and - so \", \" talking about such - and - such \", uh, you know, \" looking at so - and - so \".", "speakerName": "Postdoc E" }, { "text": "So on the m", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Postdoc E" }, { "text": "on the middle t So, in the first case that gloss applies to the word to the left. But in the middle two Th - it's not applying to anything, right?", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Yeah, and this gets substituted here.", "speakerName": "Postdoc E" }, { "text": "They're impulsive.", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "OK.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Huh - uh. No, they're events.", "speakerName": "Postdoc E" }, { "text": "OK.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Well the \" QUAL \" can be The \" QUAL \" is applying to the left.", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "They're actually They have the status of events.", "speakerName": "Postdoc E" }, { "text": "Right, I just meant the middle two ones, yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Yep.", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "Well, and actually, um, it is true that, with respect to \" laugh \", there's another one which is \" while laughing \",", "speakerName": "Postdoc E" }, { "text": "\" While laughing \".", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "and that is, uh, i i An argument could be made for this tur turning that into a qualitative statement because it's talking about the thing that preceded it, but at present we haven't been, um, uh, coding the exact scope of laughing, you know, and so to have \" while laughing \", you know that it happened somewhere in there which could well mean that it occurred separately and following, or, you know, including some of the utterances to the left. Haven't been awfully precise about that, but I have here, now we're about to get to the to this now, I have frequencies. So you'll see how often these different things occur. But, um, uh, the very front page deals with this, uh, final c pa uh, uh, aspect of the standardization which has to do with the spoken forms like \" mm - hmm \" and \" mm - hmm \" and \" ha \" and \" uh - uh \" and all these different types. And, um, uh, someone pointed out to me, this might have been Chuck, about, um about how a recognizer, if it's looking for \" mm - hmmm \" with three M's, and it's transcribed with two M's, that it might uh, that it might increase the error rate which is which would really be a shame because um, I p I personally w would not be able to make a claim that those are dr dramatically different items. So, right now I've standardized across all the existing data with these spoken forms.", "speakerName": "Postdoc E" }, { "text": "Oh good.", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "I I should say", "speakerName": "Postdoc E" }, { "text": "So it's a small list.", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "all existing data except thirty minutes which got found today. So, I'm gonna I'm gonna I'm gonna check.", "speakerName": "Postdoc E" }, { "text": "That that's known as \" found data \".", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "Yeah, yeah. Acsu - actually yeah. I got It was stored in a place I didn't expect,", "speakerName": "Postdoc E" }, { "text": "It's like the z Zapruder Film.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "so and and um, w we, uh, sh yea reconstructed how that happened.", "speakerName": "Postdoc E" }, { "text": "I wanna work with lost data.", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "Yeah. It's much easier.", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "And this is this'll be great. So I'll I'll be able to get through that tonight, and then everyth i well, actually later today probably.", "speakerName": "Postdoc E" }, { "text": "Hmm.", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "And so then we'll have everything following these conventions. But you notice it's really rather a small set of these kinds of things.", "speakerName": "Postdoc E" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "And I made it so that these are, um, with a couple exceptions but, things that you wouldn't find in the spell - checker so that they'll show up really easily. And, um.", "speakerName": "Postdoc E" }, { "text": "Jane, can I ask you a question? What's that very last one correspond to?", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "Sure.", "speakerName": "Postdoc E" }, { "text": "I don't even know how to pronounce that.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "Well, yeah. Now that that s only occurs once,", "speakerName": "Postdoc E" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "and I'm thinking of changing that.", "speakerName": "Postdoc E" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "Uh, is that like someone's like burning or some such thing?", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "So - c I haven't listened to it so I don't know.", "speakerName": "Postdoc E" }, { "text": "Like their hair's on fire?", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "I haven't heard it actually. I n I need to listen to that one.", "speakerName": "Postdoc E" }, { "text": "Ah!", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "It's the Castle of Ah!", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "Actually we we gave this to our pronunciation person,", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "Uh, it looks like that.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "she's like, \" I don't know what that is either \". So.", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "Did she hear the th did she actually hear it? Cuz I haven't heard it.", "speakerName": "Postdoc E" }, { "text": "No, we just gave her a list of words that, you know, weren't in our dictionary and so of course it picked up stuff like this, and she just didn't listen so she didn't know. We just we're waiting on that just to do the alignments.", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "Yeah. Yeah I'm curious to se hear what it is, but I didn't know wanna change it to something else until I knew.", "speakerName": "Postdoc E" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "Maybe it's \" argh \"?", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "Well, sss, you know.", "speakerName": "Postdoc E" }, { "text": "But that's not really like.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "Hhh.", "speakerName": "Postdoc E" }, { "text": "No one really says \" argh, \" you know,", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "Yeah. Right, no one say", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "it's not.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "Well, you just did.", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "Except for now!", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Well, there's another there's another word error.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "Yeah. That's right.", "speakerName": "Postdoc E" }, { "text": "Yes, that's right. We're gonna have a big problem when we talk about that.", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "Cha - ching.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "Ah.", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "We're gonna never recognize this meeting.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "In Monty Python you say \" argh \" a lot.", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "OK.", "speakerName": "Postdoc E" }, { "text": "Oh yeah?", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "So. Well, or if you're a C programmer.", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "Mmm.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "You say arg - C and arg - V all the time.", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "Yeah, that's right.", "speakerName": "Postdoc E" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "That's right.", "speakerName": "Postdoc E" }, { "text": "That's true.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Postdoc E" }, { "text": "Yeah", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "But it has a different prosody.", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "Arg.", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "It does.", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "Arg arg - max, arg - min, yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "Ah!", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "Uh,", "speakerName": "Postdoc E" }, { "text": "So, Jane, what's the d", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "Maybe he died while dictating.", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "so.", "speakerName": "Postdoc E" }, { "text": "I have one question about the the \" EH \" versus like the \" AH \" and the \" UH \".", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "That's partly a nonnative - native thing,", "speakerName": "Postdoc E" }, { "text": "OK.", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "but I have found \" EH \" in native speakers too.", "speakerName": "Postdoc E" }, { "text": "But it's mostly non - native.", "speakerName": "Postdoc E" }, { "text": "H", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "That's \" eh \" versus \" ah \"?", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "S OK.", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "Eh.", "speakerName": "Postdoc E" }, { "text": "Eh?", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "\" Eh, \" yeah right, cuz there were were some speakers that did definite \" eh's \"", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Postdoc E" }, { "text": "but right now we.", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "They were the Canadians, right?", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Canadians, yeah, yeah, yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "That's right.", "speakerName": "Postdoc E" }, { "text": "So, it it's actually probably good for us to know the difference between the real \" eh \" and the one that's just like \" uh \" or transcribed \" aaa \"", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "Exactly.", "speakerName": "Postdoc E" }, { "text": "cuz in like in Switchboard, you would see e all of these forms, but they all were like \" uh \".", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "You mean just the single letter \" a \" as in the particle?", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "The transcription or.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "Article.", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "No, no, I mean like the the \" UH \",", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "\" UH \".", "speakerName": "Postdoc E" }, { "text": "Oh.", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "or the \" UH \", \" EH \", \" AH \" were all the same. And then, we have this additional non - native version of uh, like \" eeh \".", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "All the \" EH \"'s I've seen have been like that. They've been like \" eh \" like that have bee has been transcribed to \" EH \". And sometimes it's stronger,", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm, that's right.", "speakerName": "Postdoc E" }, { "text": "like \" eeh \" which is like closer to \" EH \".", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "Mmm.", "speakerName": "Postdoc E" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "But.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "I'm just these poor transcribers, they're gonna hate this meeting.", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Postdoc E" }, { "text": "I know. We should go off - line.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "Well, we're not doing We're not doing length.", "speakerName": "Postdoc E" }, { "text": "Quick Thilo, do a do a filled pause for us.", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "Yeah, that's right.", "speakerName": "Postdoc E" }, { "text": "Ooo no.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "But you're a native German speaker so it's not a not a issue for.", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "It's only.", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "Them Canadians.", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "Onl yeah. No, only if you don't have lax vowels, I guess.", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "Oh.", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "This makes sense.", "speakerName": "Postdoc E" }, { "text": "So it's like Japanese and Spanish", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "Yeah I I think you've uh - huh, yeah.", "speakerName": "Postdoc E" }, { "text": "Oh I see.", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "Uh - huh.", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "and.", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "I didn't get that,", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "That makes sense.", "speakerName": "Postdoc E" }, { "text": "OK.", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "Yeah, and so, you know, I mean, th th I have there are some, um, Americans who who are using this \" eh \" too, and I haven't listened to it systematically, maybe with some of them, uh, they'd end up being \" uh's \" but, uh, I my spot - checking has made me think that we do have \" eh \" in also, um, American e e data represented here. But any case, that's the this is reduced down from really quite a long a much longer list,", "speakerName": "Postdoc E" }, { "text": "Yeah this is great.", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "Yeah, it's good,", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "and this is", "speakerName": "Postdoc E" }, { "text": "yeah.", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "This is really really helpful.", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "functionally pretty, you know, also It was fascinating, I was listening to some of these, uh, I guess two nights ago, and it's just hilarious to liste to to do a search for the \" mm - hmm's \". And you get \" mm - hmm \" and diff everybody's doing it.", "speakerName": "Postdoc E" }, { "text": "And just listen to them? Yeah.", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "Just I wanted to say I w think it would be fun to make a montage of it because there's a \" Mm - hmm. Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Postdoc E" }, { "text": "Performance art,", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm. \"", "speakerName": "Postdoc E" }, { "text": "just extract them all.", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "It's really it's really fun to listen to.", "speakerName": "Postdoc E" }, { "text": "Morgan can make a song out of it.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "All these different vocal tracts, you know, but it's it's the same item. It's very interesting. OK. Uh, then the acronyms y and the ones in parentheses are ones which the transcriber wasn't sure of,", "speakerName": "Postdoc E" }, { "text": "Oh I see.", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "and I haven't been able to listen to to to clarify, but you can see that the parenthesis convention makes it very easy to find them", "speakerName": "Postdoc E" }, { "text": "o How about question mark?", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "cuz it's the only place where where they're used.", "speakerName": "Postdoc E" }, { "text": "The question marks, yeah. What are those?", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "Question mark is punctuation. So it they said that @ @.", "speakerName": "Postdoc E" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "Oh.", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "um, \" DC? \"", "speakerName": "Postdoc E" }, { "text": "Ah.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "So they so it's \" PLP? \"", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "Exactly. Exactly. Yeah, so the only Well, and I do have a stress marker here. Sometimes the contrastive stress is showing up, and, um.", "speakerName": "Postdoc E" }, { "text": "I'm sorry, I I got lost here. What - w what's the difference between the parenthesized acronym and the non - parenthesized?", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "The parenthesized is something that the transcriber thought was ANN, but wasn't entirely sure. So I'd need to go back or someone needs to go back, and say, you know, yes or no,", "speakerName": "Postdoc E" }, { "text": "Ah.", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "and then get rid of the parentheses.", "speakerName": "Postdoc E" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "But the parentheses are used only in that context in the transcripts, of of noti noticing that there's something uncertain.", "speakerName": "Postdoc E" }, { "text": "Yeah, P - make is.", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "Yeah I mean cuz they they have no idea,", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "That's a good one. That's correct.", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "right. If you hear CTPD, I mean, they do pretty well", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "but it's.", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "I I don't recognize a lot of these.", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "you know how are how are they gonna know?", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "I know! I I was saying that I think a lot of them are the Networks meeting.", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "I.", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "I think that's true.", "speakerName": "Postdoc E" }, { "text": "Maybe.", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "Yeah, absolutely.", "speakerName": "Postdoc E" }, { "text": "I see a few.", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "NSA,", "speakerName": "Postdoc E" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "a lot of these are are coming from them. I listened to some of that.", "speakerName": "Postdoc E" }, { "text": "Yeah, we don't have that many acronyms comparatively in this meeting.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "Although I see I see plenty of uh", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "Yeah. Yeah. I agree.", "speakerName": "Postdoc E" }, { "text": "It's not so bad.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "And Robustness has a fair amount,", "speakerName": "Postdoc E" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "Mmm.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "but the NSA group is just very very many.", "speakerName": "Postdoc E" }, { "text": "The recognizer, it is funny. Kept getting PTA for PDA.", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "Yeah, that's pretty close.", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "This is close, right,", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "That's not bad.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "and the PTA was in these, uh, topics about children,", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Postdoc E" }, { "text": "so, anyway.", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "That's interesting.", "speakerName": "Postdoc E" }, { "text": "Is the P - PTA working?", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "Right and sometimes, I mean, you see a couple of these that are actually \" OK's \" so it's it's may be that they got to the point where I mean it was low enough understandable understandability that they weren't entirely sure the person said \" OK. \" You know, so it isn't really necessarily a an undecipherable acronym,", "speakerName": "Postdoc E" }, { "text": "There's a lot of \" OK's \".", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "but just n needs to be double checked. Now we get to the comments. This.", "speakerName": "Postdoc E" }, { "text": "The number to the left is the number of incidences?", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "Count. Yep.", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "Number of times out of the entire database,", "speakerName": "Postdoc E" }, { "text": "Uh - huh.", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "w except for that last thirty minutes I haven't checked yet.", "speakerName": "Postdoc E" }, { "text": "So CTS is really big here,", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "Yeah, I wonder what it is.", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "yeah. Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "So what is the difference between \" papers rustling \" and \" rustling papers \"?", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "IP, I know what IP is.", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "I'd have to listen. I I I agree. I w I'd like to standardize these down farther but, um, uh, uh, to me that sounds equivalent.", "speakerName": "Postdoc E" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "But, I I'm a little hesitant to to collapse across categories unless I actually listen to them.", "speakerName": "Postdoc E" }, { "text": "Seems so.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "OK.", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "Oh I'm sure we've said XML more than five times.", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "Well, then, at least now.", "speakerName": "Postdoc E" }, { "text": "Now it's at least six times, yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "S s six now, yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "Yeah. Six. OK well.", "speakerName": "Postdoc E" }, { "text": "Wh - the self - referential aspect of these these p", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "I'm wai", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "Yes, it's very bad.", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "Well this is exactly how people will prove that these meetings do differ because we're recording, right?", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "Yes.", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "Y no normally you don't go around saying, \" Now you've said it six times.", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "Yeah that's right.", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "Now you've said \"", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "But did you notice that there were seven hundred and eighty five instances of \" OK \"?", "speakerName": "Postdoc E" }, { "text": "Seven hundred eighty - five instances.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "And that's just without the without punc punctuation.", "speakerName": "Postdoc E" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "Yep.", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "No, I didn't. Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "And that's an underestimate", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "Extra forty one if it's questioned.", "speakerName": "Postdoc E" }, { "text": "Where's that?", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "cuz they're Yep.", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "So th", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "On the page two of acronyms.", "speakerName": "Postdoc E" }, { "text": "Is this after like did you do some uh replacements for all the different form of \" OK \" to this?", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "Yeah. Seven hundred eighty.", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "Yeah. Of \" OK \", yes.", "speakerName": "Postdoc E" }, { "text": "OK.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm. So that's the single existing convention for \" OK \".", "speakerName": "Postdoc E" }, { "text": "Wait a minute, w s", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "So now we're up to seven hundred and eighty eight.", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "Yeah that's.", "speakerName": "Postdoc E" }, { "text": "Although, what's there's one with a slash after it. That's kind of disturbing.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Postdoc E" }, { "text": "Yeah, we'll have to look at it you know.", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "That's that's I looked for that one.", "speakerName": "Postdoc E" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "Anyway.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "I actually explicitly looked for that one,", "speakerName": "Postdoc E" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "and I think that, um, I I'm not exactly sure about that.", "speakerName": "Postdoc E" }, { "text": "Was that somewhere where they were gonna say \" new speaker \" or something?", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "No, I looked for that, but that doesn't actually exist. And it may be, I don't I can't explain that.", "speakerName": "Postdoc E" }, { "text": "That's alright. I'm just pointing that out.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "I i it's the only.", "speakerName": "Postdoc E" }, { "text": "There's.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "it's the only pattern that has a slash after it, and I think it's it's an epiphenomenon.", "speakerName": "Postdoc E" }, { "text": "Well there's not @ @.", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "So I'll just I was just looking at the bottom of page three there, is that \" to be \" or \" not to be \".", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Postdoc E" }, { "text": "There's no tilde in front of it,", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Oh that's cute.", "speakerName": "Postdoc E" }, { "text": "so.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "That's funny. Yeah.", "speakerName": "Postdoc E" }, { "text": "OK anyways, sorry.", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "OK.", "speakerName": "Postdoc E" }, { "text": "\" Try to stay on topic, Adam. \"", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "There is th one Y well, no, that's r that's legitimate. So now, uh, comments, you can see they're listed again, same deal, with exhaustive listing of everything found in everything except for these final th thirty minutes.", "speakerName": "Postdoc E" }, { "text": "OK so, um, on some of these QUALs,", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Postdoc E" }, { "text": "are they really QUALs, or are they glosses? So like there's a \" QUAL TCL \".", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "\" TCL \". Where do you see that?", "speakerName": "Postdoc E" }, { "text": "Uh", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "Oh, oh. The reason is because w it was said \" tickle \".", "speakerName": "Postdoc E" }, { "text": "What's a QUAL?", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "Oh I see, I see.", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "Hmm.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "So it's not gloss. OK, I see.", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "Yep.", "speakerName": "Postdoc E" }, { "text": "Sh - shouldn't it be \" QUAL TICKLE \" or something?", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "It wasn't said \" TCL \". Of course.", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "Like it's not.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "On the in the actual script in the actual transcript, I s I So this this happens in the very first one.", "speakerName": "Postdoc E" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "I actually wrote it as \" tickle \".", "speakerName": "Postdoc E" }, { "text": "OK.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "Because we they didn't say \" TCL \", they said \" tickle \".", "speakerName": "Postdoc E" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "And then, following that is \" QUAL TCL \".", "speakerName": "Postdoc E" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "Oh I see. OK.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "I f I forget, what's QUAL?", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "Qual - qualifier.", "speakerName": "Postdoc E" }, { "text": "It's just comment about what they said.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "Comment.", "speakerName": "Postdoc E" }, { "text": "It's not something you wanna replace with", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "Comment or contextual comment.", "speakerName": "Postdoc E" }, { "text": "So they didn't mean \" tickle \" as in Elmo,", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "but.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "Tickle?", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "they meant \" tickle \" as in.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "Huh.", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "But at some point I mean, we probably shoul", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "We'll probably add it to the language model.", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "But we should add it to the dictionar", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "No, to the pronunciation model.", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "What did I say?", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "To the language model model.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "Language, uh.", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "Well both.", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "Add what, Liz?", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "We can go on lan lan add it to both dictionary and language model.", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "Oh lan Oh OK - we OK", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "it's in the language model, w yeah, but it so it's the pronunciation model that has to have a pronunciation of \" tickle \".", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "Well \" tickle \" was pronounced \" tickle \". Right?", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "\" tickle \" is pronounced \" tickle \"?", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "What are you saying?", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "It's pronounced the same it's pronounced the same as the verb.", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "I'm sorry!", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "So I think it's the language model that makes it different.", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "Oh, sorry. What I meant is that there should be a pronunciation \" tickle \" for TCL as a word.", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "Oh I see.", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "And that word in the in, you know, it stays in the language model wherever it was.", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "Right. Right.", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "Yeah you never would put \" tickle \" in the language model in that form,", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "yeah. Right. There's actually a bunch of cases like this with people's names and.", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "So how w there'd be a problem for doing the language modeling then with our transcripts the way they are.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Yes. Yeah. Yeah so th th there there's a few cases like that where the um, the word needs to be spelled out in in a consistent way as it would appear in the language, but there's not very many of these. Tcl's one of them.", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "And and you'll ha you'll have to do it sychronously.", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "Um, y yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "Right, so y so, whoever's creating the new models, will have to also go through the transcripts and change them synchronously.", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "It's just disturbing.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "Hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Right. We have this there is this thing I was gonna talk to you about at some point about, you know, what do we do with the dictionary as we're up updating the dictionary, these changes have to be consistent with what's in the Like spelling people's names and so forth. If we make a spelling correction to their name, like someone had Deborah Tannen's name mispelled, and since we know who that is, you know, we could correct it,", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "You can correct it. Yeah.", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "but but we need to make sure we have the mispel If it doesn't get corrected we have to have a pronunciation as a mispelled word in the dictionary.", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Postdoc E" }, { "text": "Things like that.", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "These are so funny to read.", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "Well, of course now the the Tannen corre the spelling c change.", "speakerName": "Postdoc E" }, { "text": "So.", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "Uh, that's what gets I I picked those up in the frequency check.", "speakerName": "Postdoc E" }, { "text": "Right. Right. So if there's things that get corrected before we get them, it's it's not an issue,", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Postdoc E" }, { "text": "but if there's things that um, we change later, then we always have to keep our the dictionary up to date. And then, yeah, in the case of \" tickle \" I guess we would just have a, you know, word \" TCL \" which.", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "You add it to the dictionary.", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "which normally would be an acronym, you know, \" TCL \"", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "but just has another pronunciation.", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "Yep.", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "\" ICSI \" is is one of those that sometimes people pronounce and sometimes they say \" ICSI. \"", "speakerName": "Postdoc E" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "So, those that are l are listed in the acronyms, I actually know", "speakerName": "Postdoc E" }, { "text": "Oh yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "they were said as letters. The others, um, e those really do need to be listened to cuz I haven't been able to go to all the IC ICSI things,", "speakerName": "Postdoc E" }, { "text": "Right, exactly.", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "and and until they've been listened to they stay as \" ICSI \".", "speakerName": "Postdoc E" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "Don and I were just noticing, love this one over on page three, \" vocal vocal gesture mimicking sound of screwing something into head to hold mike in place. \"", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "That's great.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "It's this, \" rrre - rrre - rrre \". It was me.", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "It was! In fact, it was! Yeah!", "speakerName": "Postdoc E" }, { "text": "A lot of these are me the the \" beep is said with a high pit high pitch and lengthening. \"", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "He he s he said he said get.", "speakerName": "Postdoc E" }, { "text": "To head.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "That was the I was imitating uh, beeping out.", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "Yeah, that's it.", "speakerName": "Postdoc E" }, { "text": "Beep.", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "Perfect. Yeah that's it.", "speakerName": "Postdoc E" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "Oh there is something spelled out \" BEEEEEEP \"", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "Um.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "That's it.", "speakerName": "Postdoc E" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "Yeah, that's that's been changed.", "speakerName": "Postdoc E" }, { "text": "in the old Thank you. Because he was saying, \" How many E's do I have to allow for? \"", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "You need a lot of.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "What I meant was \" beep \".", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "You need a lot of qualification Adam.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "I guess so.", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "That's been changed. So, exactly, that's where the lengthening comment c came in.", "speakerName": "Postdoc E" }, { "text": "Subtext.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "Anyway.", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "s chan brought it down.", "speakerName": "Postdoc E" }, { "text": "Right, thanks, yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "So they're vocalization,", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "And those of course get get picked up in the frequency check", "speakerName": "Postdoc E" }, { "text": "glosses.", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "because you see \" beep \"", "speakerName": "Postdoc E" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "and you know I mean it gets kicked out in the spelling, and it also gets kicked out in the, uh, freq frequency listing.", "speakerName": "Postdoc E" }, { "text": "Right. Right.", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "I have the there're various things like \" breathe \" versus \" breath \" versus \" inhale \" and, hhh, you know, I don't know. I I think they don't have any implications for anything else so it's like I'm tempted to leave them for now an and It's easy enough to find them when they're in curly brackets. We can always get an exhaustive listing of these things and find them and change them.", "speakerName": "Postdoc E" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "\" Sings finale - type song \"", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "Yeah, that was in the first meeting.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "that's that's good.", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "Um,", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "Yeah, but I don't actually remember what it was. But that was Eric did that.", "speakerName": "Postdoc E" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "So on.", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Postdoc E" }, { "text": "Tah - dah! I don't know.", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "I think maybe something like that.", "speakerName": "Postdoc E" }, { "text": "Something like that maybe, yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "Well, that'd qualify.", "speakerName": "Postdoc E" }, { "text": "On the glosses for numbers,", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Postdoc E" }, { "text": "it seems like there are lots of different ways it's being done.", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "OK. Interesting question.", "speakerName": "Postdoc E" }, { "text": "There's a.", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "Yes. OK, now first of all Ooo - ooo! Very important.", "speakerName": "Postdoc E" }, { "text": "\" Ooo - ooo. \"", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "Uh Chuck Chuck led to a refinement here which is to add \" NUMS \" if these are parts of the read numbers. Now you already know i that I had, uh, in places where they hadn't transcribed numbers, I put \" numbers \" in place of any kind of numbers, but there are places where they, um, it th this convention came later an and at the very first digits task in some transcripts they actually transcribed numbers. And, um, d Chuck pointed out that this is read speech, and it's nice to have the option of ignoring it for certain other prob uh p uh, things. And that's why there's this other tag here which occurs a hundred and five or three hundred and five times right now which is just well n n \" NUMS \" by itself", "speakerName": "Postdoc E" }, { "text": "\" NUMS \", yeah.", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "which means this is part of the numbers task. I may change it to \" digits \". I mean, i with the sed command you can really just change it however you want because it's systematically encoded, you know?", "speakerName": "Postdoc E" }, { "text": "Yep.", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "Have to think about what's the best for for the overall purposes, but in any case, um, \" numbers \" and \" NUMS \" are a part of this digits task thing. Um, now th Then I have these numbers that have quotation marks around them. Um, I didn't want to put them in as gloss comments because then you get the substitution. And actually, th um, the reason I b did it this way was because I initially started out with the other version, you have the numbers and you have the full form and the parentheses, however sometimes people stumble over these numbers they're saying. So you say, \" Seve - seventy eight point two \", or whatever. And there's no way of capturing that if you're putting the numbers off to the side. You can't have the seven and.", "speakerName": "Postdoc E" }, { "text": "So what's to the left of these?", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "The left is i so example the very first one,", "speakerName": "Postdoc E" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "it would be, spelled out in words, \" point five \".", "speakerName": "Postdoc E" }, { "text": "OK, that's what I was asking. Right.", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "Only it's spelled out in words.", "speakerName": "Postdoc E" }, { "text": "Point FIVE, yeah.", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "So i this is also spelled out in in words. \" Point five. \"", "speakerName": "Postdoc E" }, { "text": "Good.", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "And then, in here, \" NUMS \", so it's not going to be mistaken as a gloss. It comes out as \" NUMS quote dot five \".", "speakerName": "Postdoc E" }, { "text": "OK now, the other example is, in the glosses right there,", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "Thank you.", "speakerName": "Postdoc E" }, { "text": "\" gloss one one one dash one three zero \".", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "What what's to the left of that?", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "Well now In that case it's people saying things like \" one one one dash so - and - so \" or they're saying uh \" two I mean zero \" whatever.", "speakerName": "Postdoc E" }, { "text": "OK.", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "And in that case, it's part of the numbers task, and it's not gonna be included in the read digits anyway,", "speakerName": "Postdoc E" }, { "text": "So there will be a \" NUMS \" tag on those lines?", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "so I m in the uh There is.", "speakerName": "Postdoc E" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Yeah. I've added that all now too.", "speakerName": "Postdoc E" }, { "text": "There's a \" numbers \" tag.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "Good.", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "I'm sorry I'm I didn't follow that last thing.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "Wait.", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "So, so gloss in the same line that would have \" gloss quote one one one dash one thirty \", you'd have a gloss at the end of the line saying, uh, \" curly bracket NUMS curly bracket \".", "speakerName": "Postdoc E" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "So if you if you did a, uh, a \" grep minus V nums \"", "speakerName": "Postdoc E" }, { "text": "Oh, so you could do \" grep minus V nums \".", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "and you get rid of anything that was read.", "speakerName": "Postdoc E" }, { "text": "So that's the yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "OK.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "So there wouldn't be something like i if somebody said something like, \" Boy, I'm really tired, OK. \" and then started reading that would be on a separate line?", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "Yes.", "speakerName": "Postdoc E" }, { "text": "OK great. Cuz I was doing the \" grep minus V \" quick and dirty and looked like that was working OK,", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm. Good.", "speakerName": "Postdoc E" }, { "text": "but.", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "Yep.", "speakerName": "Postdoc E" }, { "text": "Great. Now why do we what's the reason for having like the point five have the \" NUMS \" on it? Is that just like when they're talking about their data or something?", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "This is more because.", "speakerName": "Postdoc E" }, { "text": "Or.", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "Yeah. Oh these are all these, the \" NUMS point \", this all where they're saying \" point \" something or other.", "speakerName": "Postdoc E" }, { "text": "These are all like inside the spontaneous.", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "And the other thing too is for readability of the transcript. I mean if you're trying to follow this while you're reading it it's really hard to read, you know eh, \" so in the data column five has \", you know, \" one point five compared to seventy nine point six \", it's like when you see the words it's really hard to follow the argument. And this is just really a a way of someone who would handle th the data in a more discourse - y way to be able to follow what's being said.", "speakerName": "Postdoc E" }, { "text": "Label it.", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "Oh OK.", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "So this is where Chuck's, um, overall h architecture comes in,", "speakerName": "Postdoc E" }, { "text": "I see.", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "where we're gonna have a master file of the channelized data. Um, there will be scripts that are written to convert it into these t these main two uses and th some scripts will take it down th e into a f a for ta take it to a format that's usable for the recognizer an uh, other scripts will take it to a form that's usable for the for linguistics an and discourse analysis. And, um, the implication that that I have is that th the master copy will stay unchanged. These will just be things that are generated,", "speakerName": "Postdoc E" }, { "text": "Right", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "and e by using scripts.", "speakerName": "Postdoc E" }, { "text": "OK.", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "Master copies of superset.", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "When things change then the the script will cham change but the but there won't be stored copies of in different versions of things.", "speakerName": "Postdoc E" }, { "text": "Good.", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "So, I guess I'd have one request here which is just, um, maybe to make it more robust, th that the tag, whatever you would choose for this type of \" NUMS \" where it's inside the spontaneous speech, is different than the tag that you use for the read speech.", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "Right. Right. That would argue for changing the other ones to be \" digits \" or something.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Um, that way w if we make a mistake parsing, or something, we don't see the \" point five \", or or it's not there, then we", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "a Just an And actually for things like \" seven eighths \", or people do fractions too I guess, you maybe you want one overall tag for sort of that would be similar to that,", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "Except.", "speakerName": "Postdoc E" }, { "text": "or As long as they're sep as they're different strings that we that'll make our p sort of processing more robust.", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "Well.", "speakerName": "Postdoc E" }, { "text": "Cuz we really will get rid of everything that has the \" NUMS \" string in it.", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "I suppose what you could do is just make sure that you get rid of everything that has \" curly brace NUMS curly brace \".", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Well Ex - exactly.", "speakerName": "Postdoc E" }, { "text": "I mean that would be the.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Exactly. That was that was my motivation. And i these can be changed, like I said.", "speakerName": "Postdoc E" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "You know, I mean, as I said I was considering changing it to \" digits \". And, it just i you know, it's just a matter of deciding on whatever it is, and being sure the scripts know.", "speakerName": "Postdoc E" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "It would probably be safer, if you're willing, to have a separate tag just because um, then we know for sure. And we can also do counts on them without having to do the processing. But you're right, we could do it this way, it it should work. Um,", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "Yeah, and it makes it I guess the thing about.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "but it it's probably not hard for a person to tell the difference", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "because one's in the context of a you know, a transcribed word string,", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "The other thing is you can get really so minute with these things", "speakerName": "Postdoc E" }, { "text": "and So.", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "and increase the size of the files and the re and decrease the readability to such an extent by simply something like \" percent \". Now I I could have adopted a similar convention for \" percent \", but somehow percent is not so hard, you know?", "speakerName": "Postdoc E" }, { "text": "Hmm.", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "i It's just when you have these points and you're trying to figure out where the decimal places are And we could always add it later. Percent's easy to detect. Point however is is uh a word that has a couple different meanings. And you'll find both of those in one of these meetings, where he's saying \" well the first point I wanna make is so - and - so \" and he goes through four points, and also has all these decimals.", "speakerName": "Postdoc E" }, { "text": "So Liz, what does the recognizer do,", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "So.", "speakerName": "Postdoc E" }, { "text": "uh,", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Hmm.", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "what does the SRI recognizer output for things like that? \" seven point five \". Does it output the word.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "\" Seven point five \".", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "Right, the word \" seven \"?", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Well, the numbers?", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "The number \" seven \"?", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "The word.", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "The word \" seven \", OK.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "So I'd so \" I'd like I'd like to talk about point five \".", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "And and actually, you know the language.", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "it's the same point, actually, the the p you know, the word \" to \" and the word y th \" going to \" and \" to go to \" those are two different \" to's \" and so there's no distinction there.", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "It's just just the word \" point \" has Yeah, every word has only one, yeah e one version even if even if it's A actually even like the word \" read \" and \" read \" Those are two different words. They're spelled the same way, right?", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "And they're still gonna be transcribed as READ.", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "So, yeah, I I like the idea of having this in there, I just I was a little bit worried that, um, the tag for removing the read speech because i What if we have like \" read letters \" or, I don't know,", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "We might wanna just a separate tag that says it's read.", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "like \" read something \" like \" read \"", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "yeah, basically. But other than that I it sounds great.", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "Yeah. OK? Are we done?", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "Well I wanted to say also regarding the channelized data,", "speakerName": "Postdoc E" }, { "text": "Oh, I guess we're not done.", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "that, um, Thilo requested, um, that we ge get some segments done by hand to e e s reduce the size of the time bins wh like was Chuc - Chuck was mentioning earlier that, um, that, um, if you if you said, \" Oh \" and it was in part of a really long, s complex, overlapping segment, that the same start and end times would be held for that one", "speakerName": "Postdoc E" }, { "text": "Well.", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "as for the longer utterances,", "speakerName": "Postdoc E" }, { "text": "We did that for one meeting, right,", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "and.", "speakerName": "Postdoc E" }, { "text": "so you have that data don't you?", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "Yeah, that's the training data.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "And he requested that there be, uh, similar, uh, samples done for five minute stretches c involving a variety of speakers and overlapping secti sections.", "speakerName": "Postdoc E" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "He gave me he did the very nice, he he did some shopping through the data and found segments that would be useful. And at this point, all four of the ones that he specified have been done. In addition the I've I have the transcribers expanding the amount that they're doing actually.", "speakerName": "Postdoc E" }, { "text": "Oh great.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "So right now, um, I know that as of today we got an extra fifteen minutes of that type, and I'm having them expand the realm on either side of these places where they've already started.", "speakerName": "Postdoc E" }, { "text": "Oh great. OK.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "But if if you know, and I and he's gonna give me some more sections that that he thinks would be useful for this purpose.", "speakerName": "Postdoc E" }, { "text": "Yeah. Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "Because it's true, I mean, if we could do the the more fine grained tuning of this, uh, using an algorithm, that would be so much more efficient. And, um. So this is gonna be useful to expand this.", "speakerName": "Postdoc E" }, { "text": "So I I thought we we sh we sh perhaps we should try to to start with those channelized versions just to just to try it. Give it Give one tr transcriber the the channelized version of of my speech - nonspeech detection and look if if that's helpful for them, or just let them try if if that's better or If they if they can.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "You mean to start from scratch f in a brand new transcript?", "speakerName": "Postdoc E" }, { "text": "Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "That'd be excellent. Yeah, that'd be really great. As it stands we're still in the phase of sort of, um, cleaning up the existing data getting things, uh, in i m more tight tightly time uh, aligned. I also wanna tell um, I also wanted to r raise the issue that OK so, there's this idea we're gonna have this master copy of the transcript, it's gonna be modified by scripts t into these two different functions. And actually the master.", "speakerName": "Postdoc E" }, { "text": "Two or more. Two or more different functions.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Two two or more. And that the master is gonna be the channelized version.", "speakerName": "Postdoc E" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "So right now we've taken this i initial one, it was a single channel basically the way it was input. And now, uh, thanks to the advances made in the interface, we can from now on use the channelized part, and, um, any changes that are made get made in the channelized version kind of thing. But I wanted to get all the finished all the checks.", "speakerName": "Postdoc E" }, { "text": "Yeah, so that has implications for your script.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Yeah. So, uh, have those e e the vis the ten hours that have been transcribed already, have those been channelized? And I know I've seen @ @ I've seen they've been channelized,", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "Yes, they have.", "speakerName": "Postdoc E" }, { "text": "All ten hours?", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "but", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "Except for the missing thirty minutes.", "speakerName": "Postdoc E" }, { "text": "have they uh have they been has the time have the time markings been adjusted, uh, p on a per channel.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "Great.", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "Uh, for for a total of like twenty m f for a total of Let's see, four times total of about an thirty minutes. That's that's been the case.", "speakerName": "Postdoc E" }, { "text": "So,", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "And plus the training, whatever you have.", "speakerName": "Postdoc E" }, { "text": "I guess, I mean, I don't know if we should talk about this now, or not, but I", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "Well it's just we're missing tea.", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "Yeah, I know.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "So.", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "No, but I mean my question is like should I wait until all of those are processed, and channelized, like the time markings are adjusted before I do all the processing, and we start like branching off into the into the our layer of uh transcripts.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "Well, you know the problem the problem is that some some of the adjustments that they're making are to bring are to combine bins that were time bins which were previously separate. And the reason they do that is sometimes there's a word that's cut off.", "speakerName": "Postdoc E" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "And so, i i i it's true that it's likely to be adjusted in the way that the words are more complete. And,", "speakerName": "Postdoc E" }, { "text": "OK. No I know I know that adjusting those things are gonna is gonna make it better.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "so I it's gonna be a more reliable thing and I'm not sure.", "speakerName": "Postdoc E" }, { "text": "I mean I'm sure about that,", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Postdoc E" }, { "text": "but do you have like a time frame when you can expect like all of it to be done, or when you expect them to finish it, or.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "Well partly it depends on how um, how e effective it will be to apply an algorithm because i this takes time,", "speakerName": "Postdoc E" }, { "text": "Yeah. Yeah.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "you know, it takes a couple hours t to do, uh, ten minutes.", "speakerName": "Postdoc E" }, { "text": "Yeah, I don't doubt it. Um, so.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "So right now the what you're doing is you're taking the uh, the o original version and you're sort of channelizing yourself, right?", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Yeah. I'm doing it myself. I mean i if the time markings aren't different across channels, like the channelized version really doesn't have any more information.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "So, I was just I mean, originally I had done before like the channelized versions were coming out.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "Right. Right.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Um,", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "So I I th I think probably the way it'll go is that, you know, when we make this first general version and then start working on the script, that script @ @ that will be ma you know primarily come from what you've done, um, we'll need to work on a channelized version of those originals.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "and so it's a question of like what Mm - hmm. Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Postdoc E" }, { "text": "And so it should be pretty much identical to what you have t except for the one that they've already tightened the boundaries on.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Yep. Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Postdoc E" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "Um, So", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Yeah, I mean.", "speakerName": "Postdoc E" }, { "text": "uh, and then probably what will happen is as the transcribers finish tightening more and more, you know, that original version will get updated", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "yeah.", "speakerName": "Postdoc E" }, { "text": "and then we'll rerun the script and produce better uh versions.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "OK.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "But the I guess the ef the effect for you guys, because you're pulling out the little wave forms into separate ones, that would mean these boundaries are constantly changing you'd have to constantly re rerun that,", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "I know.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "so, maybe.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "But that.", "speakerName": "Postdoc E" }, { "text": "But that that's not hard.", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Postdoc E" }, { "text": "No.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "I I think the harder part is making sure that the transc the transcription.", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "OK.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "So if you b merge two things, then you know that it's the sum of the transcripts, but if you split inside something, you don't where the word which words moved.", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm. Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "And that's wh that's where it becomes a little bit uh, having to rerun the processing.", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "The cutting of the waveforms is pretty trivial.", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "Yeah. I mean as long as it can all be done automatically, I mean, then that's not a concern.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "You know, if I just have to run three scripts to extract it all and let it run on my computer for an hour and a half, or however long it takes to parse and create all the reference file, that's not a problem.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "Yeah. Uh - huh. Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Um, so yeah. As long as we're at that point. And I know exactly like what the steps will work what's going on, in the editing process,", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "so. OK.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "So that's I I mean I could there were other checks that I did, but it's I think that we've unless you think there's anything else, I think that I've covered it.", "speakerName": "Postdoc E" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "I can't think of any of the other ones.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "OK. Great.", "speakerName": "Postdoc E" }, { "text": "OK.", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "Oop! Man!", "speakerName": "Grad D" } ] }	{ "dialogTurns": [ { "query": "What was the advantage of having one transcript with different tags for different types of speech, opposed to having separate transcripts for each type?", "response": "There are many uses for the transcript with various tags for speech types. 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f09bf1b63ab34cc3939d952a6f9d400c	{ "meetingId": "ES2005c", "transcriptSegments": [ { "text": "Um we are So the meeting will have about the same format as the last time. So switching over I've just left uh my first two screens.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Um mailed you the minutes of the last meeting uh just to save time.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Okay. Cool.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Um and is there any questions you have that arised from last meeting that are particularly bothering you? N", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm um. No, I don't think so.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "No? Okay, cool.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "No.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Then we shall start with a presentation from Raj.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah. Hi, me Raj, again. Uh in this meeting I I'm going to discuss about the trend watching, uh how these trends is going to affect our market potential and how important is this. So we have to look on this. First of all methodology. The met methodology to find out the trend was incl uh was done in a way We have done a rec not only a recent remote control market survey, but we also considered the latest fre fashion trends of the market, because we think that this is also a factor which will affect our sales and profit. So what are our findings? In our uh in our findings we have seen that when we did our remote control market survey we found that uh people l uh people do have preference for tho fancy mobi uh f remote controls which look and feel very good, rather than having a functional look and feel uh good. So this sh this clearly indicates their preference for the design their outlook of the remote controls. So we should take into uh we should consider this factor as the most important factor, because this factor is twice as important, the second factor which is further ti twice the as important as the sec as uh the third factor. So this factor becomes the most important factor in our surv uh uh in our mark uh means in take in designing our rem uh remote controls.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "The last one is the most important one, is it?", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "No the first one is the", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Oh, sorry.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "uh the outlook of the mobile, the it should have a fancy outlook,", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "the fancy design uh rather than just having a functional look and feel good, it should have a fancy look and foo feel good.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "The second most important aspect is that remote control should be a technologically uh innovative. We must have some technological advancement in the remote control tha rather than just putting it as it is as the other remo uh remote controls are. So it uh should be technologically innovative like glow-in-the-dark or speech recognition, something like that.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "So that indicates our technological advancement. And the third most important aspect in the ta to take into consideration is that it should be easy to use,", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "like it shouldn't be too much co complicated,", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "there shouldn't be too many buttons on this mobi uh remote control, it shouldn't be too complicated uh like this way. And it should be uh and customers should be provided with manuals that is easy to understand in their local language, something. So that they could know how to use these remote controls. When we did uh f fashions uh, recent fashion uh our recent fashion update shows that.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Sorry.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Ah yeah?.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "I was just reading fruit and vegetables.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Hard to know how we are going to incorporate that..", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Y yeah uh yeah, we have to, because uh d you can see how people have related their clothes, shoes, and everything with fruits and vegetables,", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "because the g world is now changing it's trend towards organic, becoming more and more organic,", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Okay. Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "We should make a big sponge lemon,", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "becoming.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "and then it'd be it would be yellow.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah..", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "It's.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "So.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Th that's very good.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah. So something like that we we should do.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Glow-in-the-dark. Okay.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "And people uh the f feel of the material is expected to be spongy rather than just having a plastic look, hard look.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Mm..", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Well, that's good.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah. Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "That's what we kind of predicted anyway.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "So so that they could play with it while handi uh while handling it. So that should also be taken into consideration.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Okay. Okay.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "So these are my views.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "So.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Okay, the spongy, not real spongy, you can.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "No it ca y a.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Do you think like rubber would be good or does it really want to be like gel kind of stuff?", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "The rubber which is good for health and which is quite disposable that we can take into co", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Okay. Quite disposable.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah.'Cause we It shouldn't be have any harm to the environment also,", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "because our company is very well for taking all these concerns into consideration,", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Alright, okay.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Oh okay.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "so we don't want to have any harm to the society,", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Uh-huh. Okay.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "so.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Fashion.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm'kay.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Cool.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "So that's all..", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Fruit and veg, well there you go.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Just what I think of when I think of a remote control..", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "A remote control? Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "And were there any factors that weren't important in the survey, that they said we don't want?", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "S uh we didn't find out any such point.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Or was it just Okay..", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Uh yes, there could be, but we couldn't find out any, so.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Mm-mm-mm-mm.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Cool.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Mm-mm-mm-mm-mm.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "F_, what is it? Um.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Function F_ eight.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Hmm.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah..", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Oh no,.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "No signal. Is that?", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "No, it's got it's got it.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah, uh yeah, uh yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah..", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Excuse me.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Okay, and then F_ five, right?", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Uh, yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Okay. Um okay, so the interface concept um. Yeah. The interface specification, what people um how they interact with it basically, I think. Um so the method, we looked at existing designs, what are the what's good about them, what's bad about them, um I looked at their flaws, so we're going to look at their flaws, everything. Um and what the survey told us and what we think would be good, so a bit of imagination.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Mm'kay.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Uh the findings, I've got some pictures to show you as well.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "either..", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Hmm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah. Okay, so most remote controls use graphical interface, where you um have got s buttons and you point it rather than having the output as a a stream of text or something.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Uh okay.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Um and we also found that there's inconsistent layout, which makes it confusing. So I think for our remote control There is some inconsistency already in ec existing in between remote controls, but I think standard kind of um shape and uh play and those kind of but buttons like the the top right for on and off or something,", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Right, okay. Yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "I think, people find that important,'cause then it's easy to use.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "And we've got some pictures of some uh new remote controls to show you.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Excellent.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Do I press Escape F_ five? Or just.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Uh no just escape should uh.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Escape, okay. Um, oh I still haven't got my glasses on. Yeah, okay. So these are the some of the pictures of existing ones.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Wow.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "I'll just walk you through them. This one is a voice recognition.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "'Kay.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "And that's the kind of idea we're going for.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Looks pretty complicated.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "There's um an L_C_D_ thing, which we thought could I thought could get a bit confusing and a bit expensive as well for us.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Right, okay.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "This one is got a kind of scroll like a mouse,", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm, like the middle button.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "which Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Um and But I'm not exactly sure how you'd use that,", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Ah it's kinda like scrolling.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "like would the computer come.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "uh right, well, if I s if I'm thinking of the right one, I've got the same thing in front of my monitor, you scroll it and the when you reach the sort of um menu item that you require, you press the middle of the scroll.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Uh-huh, that's like the L_C_D_ one,", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Right, okay.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "is it? But the one below that has got like a little scroll function on the side. But I presume that the functions must come up on the T_V_ screen.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah, presumably.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "I think that's what that is. So these are just a few ideas. Again that's just quite boring shape, grey, looks quite space-agey, but too many buttons, I think on that one.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Uh it looks threatening.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah, looks like uh looks like something out of a jet..", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah, it does look kind of dangerous.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "It looks like yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Hmm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Um this one I thought was really cool. It's w it's got the programmability function that we talked about.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "You can put it in there, it's for your kids, and it's quite an organic shape and the little circle around there is pretty cool.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "And that's really easy to use, bright, so I like this one lot for our design. I think something like that would be good.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Wow.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah, I m I mean the one thing I think about about these ones is um these kl uh secured areas um, I've seen a lot of them with the the cover missing.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Of course yellow..", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "So like have it hinge rather than sort of clip on or whatever.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Right, yeah. Yeah, that's true. Yeah. Um so maybe that could be built into one of the things and it comes up on the T_V_ or something. And this one, the over-sized one, I don't know about you, but I think it's a bit too gimmicky.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "I don't think that will sell very well.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "I mean is that not sort of to assist the blind or something, is it?.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "I guess so. I don't know.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Then d blind don't watch T_V_..", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Strange..", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "I think that's a bit Yeah exactly.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "No they do, they do.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "They do?.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "They listen to it. Yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah. And um this one is just pointing out. I like some of these things um the the raised symbols and everything, but pointing out um that this one the volume it is kind of pressing down, but it would actually go up, because of the shape.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Right, okay.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "So that could that's a bit confusing. Um but the buttons on this I think are it's just showing you how you can have different different um buttons. They don't have to be all the same. So that's quite cool. Um.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "'Kay but people tend to recognise certain shapes to do certain things anyway, don't they?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah, exactly. Um F_ five. Yes. So there are some of the findings. So we need to combine those ones um", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "and I've just got an e-mail from our technical department saying that they have broken through with some new speech recognition software that you can program in.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Brilliant. That's handy..", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Um yeah it is, just in time, very handy. Um so I think maybe incorporating that in our design would be good.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "It's you program it like you say, record, um and then, play, and then, record, play machine, and stuff like that, so that's And it's much Yeah. So that's quite cool. Uh personal preferences just some imagination, the raised symbols I thought were good, the L_C_D_, it does look smart, but I think maybe for our budget, do you think that would be a bit too expensive to have the.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "The L_C_D_", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "and the other stuff uh, I think.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "And the speech recognition,'cause I think we're definitely going for the speech recognition,", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "But in our market survey we have seen that people are willing to pay more,", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "are we?", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "but they want the quality, they want f fancy look, they want some new design, something new.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Uh-huh.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Uh yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Uh-huh. But our budget, we've.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "It's still it's still got to get within our twelve fifty, you know.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "So even if we increase our cost little bit, within uh some limits, and we give something new technological advancement as well as new design with fancy outlook, I think we will meet the requirements and we will be able to have a good sales in the market.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Uh-huh. Okay.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "I'm not sure if the if for twenty five Euros uh per uh twelve Euros fifty m manufacturing cost,.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Ben bana", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah. I can't see tha Although, th I mean to be to be sure they have got I mean they are going crazy with the L_C_D_ technology now,", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "The L_C_D_.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "so that you've got your L_C_D_ T_V_s and everything so maybe the small.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "But I mean like I I the black and white, I guess, it just doesn't look funky enough.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Um but, I mean, like even mobile phones or whatever have now have colour L_C_D_ screens,", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "No.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Hmm.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "w I ju I mean", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah. S", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "I wouldn't know about the costs of them.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Uh-huh.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "But uh price price not withstanding um, is it too complicated, is it gonna be too much just overload?", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "And the.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Twelve fifty.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Uh i it will be easy because there will be, on L_C_D_ s screen, there will be different frent icons, they can just click ok okay, whatever they wa", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Possibly.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah, that's the thing, because.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "But but the thing is when you use a remote control, you never look at it, right? You're looking at the T_V_", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "and and it's uh.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "That's true, yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "It just seems kind of like a a needless th", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "And one of the survey findings was that they want it easy to use, so I think I'm not sure about the L_C_D_.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "It's a it's great, it's a good idea, but for our budget and for the thing we're trying to go for eas easy to use, it's not the thing we should go for, I think. Child-friendly, I thought this was good, as you pointed out the um the bit, it often goes missing especially with children, but it's a good shape and the organic is kind of we could make a vegetabley kind of round shape, I think.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "So which vegetable?.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Well I mean we could make a.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah, I know, carrot.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah..", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Okay..", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Well, si since we're going for the uh the k the sort of company colours, I think your lemon wasn't that far s.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "The the lemon. Well what are the options?", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "And if it doesn't work you know, we've just made a lemon..", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "But we don't want it to be Yeah. Um the child-friendly, yeah. Easy to use, it seems quite easy to use. I like the d the different shapes of the buttons and stuff.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm. I like I like the colourful buttons as well.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "I think that's a good idea to go for. Yeah. And the mouse one, I thought it was a good idea, because people use mo mice mouses now with the scrolling thing. Um.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah. I mean we are marketing to sort of twenty five to thirty five,", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "so most people will have come in contact with that kind of use.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "S yeah. So they'd be able to use that um, as I said I think i I'd presume it would come up on the screen.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Um so there you go.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "And that means tha that means you get to bump that bit to the T_V_ maker, so.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Oh.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "So that's um the user interface", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "'Kay.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "design.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "So okay, I'll take this out now then.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Um so", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "There you go.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "I guess there are a lot of options that we're gonna have to choose from among,", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah, looks like it.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "and I'll I'll give you the uh, I guess, technical considerations for those.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Uh.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "And I'm gonna use the whiteboard, just'cause we haven't used it.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah, I was just thinking the self same thing..", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Right. So, the way I'm gonna do this is uh we're gonna take a look at some old remote controls, see how they work, uh reuse the the vital kind of um essential pieces of it,", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "and then we'll throw in our new innovations um and keep it all within budget.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Magic man.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "So uh yeah, looking inside a a very simple remote control. Um this is what they sent me.'Kay. Here's uh the competition, I suppose.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Um you open it up, there's a circuit board inside,", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "um and there's a a chip, a processor, the T_A_ one one eight three five, which um receives input from the buttons, and ch", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "So this is a standard off the shelf kind of a chip, is it?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Right, it's very they're very cheap remote. This remote costs nothing, you know. Um so that takes a signals from the buttons and translates it into a sequence of pulses that it then sends to the to the amplifier, which is made of some transistors and amplifiers, op-amps, and then that gets sent to the uh to the L_E_D_ light, which I can kinda see is that little red light bulb at the end,", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "and that sends out the infrared uh light signal to the television.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Oh here it is. Um so this is kind of the the bear essentials that we need to have in our remote control, because it it defines the uh.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Okay. So can we make them to pretty much any size we like or is there a minimum or?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "R Um no, I mean this is a very old one, so now with the new technology this is a a minimally small and cheap thing to make.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "They gotta be Almost a key-ring..", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Right. So this is what we need to have for certain.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Um. So you know, as we said, we got the outer casing, which we have to decide, you know, what's it gonna be, um the board we have to use basically uh the same set-up, processor, um we'll probably use the more advanced processor than they had, amplifier and transmitter are all standard. Um so for the casing, uh this an e-mail I got from our manufacturing team uh, you know, we have a bunch of options from wood, titanium, rubber, plastic, whatnot, um latex, double-curved, curved. So lots of choices,", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "'Kay.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "what do we think? Uh or sponge, I guess, isn't on there, right.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Well.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm. I'm not sure about the sponge.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Organic sponge..", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Well, I mean like la latex has a kinda spongy feeling to it, doesn't it.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Uh yeah, it's very elasticy for sure.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Um Yeah. And that would k also give it kinda durability", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "and", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Um.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "and ther that's also f sorta relatively cheap to cast.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah so.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Um so maybe s uh a sort of uh plastic initial plastic with a a latex kinda sheath?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Okay so, here are a a plastic, uh latex.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "I like the rubber, the stress balls, I think,", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Oh right, okay.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "you know, that could be a bit of a gimmick like it's good to hold and.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Oh right.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "I don't know what that stuff is..", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "So something with give to it.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Okay. And", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "And that might be quite durable and easy to chuck around.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "and the colour is yellow, right?", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah,", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Or at least incorporating, yeah..", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "y yellow incorporated, yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yellow, okay. Um.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "I mean I forgot i we're sort of uh I don't know what other standard silver kind of.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "I think.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Other parts or uh.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm. Yeah, the buttons w like,'cause there's gonna be the the cover the the rubber or the plastic casing and then the buttons in probably two different colours", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm' kay.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "or i if we're having buttons actually,", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "So yellow for the body,", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "I don", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Um.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "and then what colour for the buttons?", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Um I quite like the multi-coloured buttons myself.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "So multi-coloured buttons.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "You do have ones like um play could be green or on and off is red, and stuff like that, yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah or yeah a limit uh maybe even just a limited multi-colour so it it doesn't look too childish, perhaps.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Makes it easy to use. Yeah, that's true, because that blue one did look quite hardish.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah. Although I mean this uh uh also comes to shape as well. I mean if we are gonna make it a novel I mean double-curved sounds good to me if we're talking about sorta ergonomic and easy use,", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm. Mm-hmm. Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "a bit comfier, you know.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Mm'kay so the shape we wanna go Um how exactly? Maybe double.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Like uh an hour glass kind of figure, is that what you're thinking of,", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah it's uh, yeah, that that'd be that's sort of comfortable to hold, easy to hold so you don't drop it.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "or just like a It's not.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "What about a banana?", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "We could make novelty remote controls.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah? Okay, like we could have a big banana shaped remote control,", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Well, yeah, I mean like.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "'cause it's yellow fruit,", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "right?", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah, yeah. Mm and a lemon might be a little hard to grip. Yeah..", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah. But then how would you point it?", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Ah", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "yeah. Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "How would you point it?", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Oh i it doesn't matter which end you point, I guess.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "What.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "We could have a little L_E_D_s on each end.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah, I appreciate this idea,", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "They only cost pennies.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "because then this this will help us in our advertisement also", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "and we can relate with fruits and vegetables, the people's choices. That what our data shows that, so this w this w", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Huh?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "y I'm I'm not sure about the banana idea.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Um.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "So a spongy banana re.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "I mean that that th.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Rubber banana.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "does", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "it does seem a bit uh again childish maybe..", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Okay, okay.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "I think maybe just draw on the kind of fruit and vegetable shape. And what else did you say about fashions? What was trendy?", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Uh the fashion trend shows that fruits and vegetables,", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "S", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "See.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "like people uh now.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "And sponginess.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "So maybe an an unidentifiable fruit or fiable fruit or vegetable", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "And spongy, yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Spongy.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "like so it would have a stem perhaps", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "and a", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Maybe, yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "maybe a it'd be s axially symmetric.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Huh.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Like what's what's that, I don't even know the name of it, some kind of, you know where it's like looks like a little snowman kind of thing. I don't know the name of that.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "So it'd look like this kinda.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah, that's what I was thinking.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Like a gourd almost, or a squash of some sort?", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Uh.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah, maybe that's what they are.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "'Cause that you can hold it in like the bottom bit", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah,", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "and.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "and it has a a clear top and bottom so y so you could say, you know, it transmits from this end.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah, why the hell not. Let's that'll make us fifty million Euros.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "I don't know. What do you guy What do you think?", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Um. Well, I guess it's kind of dra uh you don't necessarily have to have it sort of clearly identified as a fruit just to have that kind of fruitish shape,", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "No.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "yeah?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah, then only we can relate it with something.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah, we can relate it by advertising or.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah. Exactly.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Okay, so double-curved, single-curved, what do we feel?", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Or we can do something, we can design two three shapes and we can have a public survey, let the public choose what they want.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Uh-huh.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "There's a good man. There's a good idea.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Okay um, I guess, since you're the marketing guy.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah, sure. I will be happy to do that.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "We'll uh Okay, we could do that. Um.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Okay. And buttons would, did we say? Uh different shapes of buttons?", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Um I l I su I mean for the specific functions, you know, up and down, uh play, stop.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Okay, so", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "They've got, I mean, they've got standard sort of intuitive um", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "so buttons.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "things that are always used.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Okay, just like that.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "That's cool.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "I like it.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Um..", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "With the scroll-wheel or no?", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah, what about the scroll wheel and speech recognition?.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Uh speech recognition, I think, so we need a microphone presumably.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Okay uh I could put the microphone here..", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Okay there's the microphone.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Where should I put the microphone?", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "I mean ho h h wel are we sure that scroll wheel does give ease of use?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah, I'm not sure. Um I mean those ideas I saw were just for inspiration, I think.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Glad, we're not doing this for real.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Um yeah, I can no I'm not sure.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Okay, well we can do some user test with scroll-wheels, right?", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "I couldn Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "And uh I think if this this new software for the sound recognition is the microphone.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "So should the microphone be just anywhere on it or.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "I would put it sort of sub-centrally, so it's Yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "'Kay there's the mic.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "So it can be sort of held and w.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "That's cool.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "We really need really gonna need to hold it, if it's gonna be voice recognition.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Um n well we can Whoops..", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Oops..", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Um.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Um.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "So let's not use the whiteboard any more..", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Um.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Upsidaisy..", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Oops, sorry. Okay.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "And uh so what else was there? Um the.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "What about the glow-in-the-dark thing, the strip around it?", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "I s I still like it.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Are we just gonna leave that?", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Um but that's me..", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "You still like it.'Cause we've got the uh technological innovation with the speech recognition system.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yes, or maybe it's just going a bit uh too far. I mean we are pushing it probably with funny fruit shapes.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "'Cause um it could Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Um don't wanna sort of overkill.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Especially with yellow. Mm. I dunno.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Hmm.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "'Cause I mean like uh if we I mean how good is the speech recognition thing? Do we want to go for buttons at all, do we want to just have a device that maybe sits and pretends it's a fruit?.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Then you put it in the fruit bowl?", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "They can work from a.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah, you know, and then you just tal", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "You don't have to hold it.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "I mean like everybody's got fruit bowl in front of the telly.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah..", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm..", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "I it could even encourage healthier habits for television watchers,", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Um..", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "you know they have uh fruits all round them.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah. Make them make them think of fruit, yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Now just make sure they don't eat the remote.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "I mean uh some uh I", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah, do we need buttons?", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "l like think of a fruit that could sit sort of independently on its own like uh, I dunno, an apple.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Then it's just apple so sort of.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah..", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Uh, yellow apples though Hmm..", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "I quite like the shape. I quite like the design of that, uh'cause that could sit on its own and it's quite got a quite steady base.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah. Okay, yeah, that's good.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Okay. But yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Groovy.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Um", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "and as we say we n we don't wanna be too ridiculous with the fruit things you know.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah,..", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "But yeah, about the speech thing, it doesn't have to be hand held or close.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "It can sit at a distance and pick it up still.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah. So I mean like you could actually.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Or we can.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah, gives you the options.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "we can do one thing, we can just have a remote control and casings of different different shapes, different fruit shapes in such a way that a any casing can be could be fit into this mobile general piece.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "So whatever people want, like if somebody want it in banana shape, we will put that casing onto that mobile phone, okay,", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "So a selection of casings.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "it will look l Uh yeah. In that w", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "It kind of fi it fits with f fits with marketing um.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah,'cause you said about disposable,", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "S s sorry?", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "didn't you? You said about disposable earli people want disposable things", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Uh like if this is a like if this is a mobile phone uh we will design casing in such a way like half of, we need not to have a full cover, we will just have a half of cover,", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "so we could do that, like have a choice. Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "okay? If somebody wants it i in banana shape, we will fit banana shape casing onto that, so it will give a banana shape look.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Like like mobiles, yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "If somebody wanted in apple shape we will design that, we will put we will put apple shape casing on that. It will give apple shape look. So in that way you can have any, that means whatever you want,", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "without uh yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "We still need the buttons in the same places thought,", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah, button will be on the upper side, buttons will be the on the upper side.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "don't we?", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "You can standardise those, I mean.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah, buttons will be on the upper side, lower side we will just put the casing,", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Oh, that's the other side. Oh, okay.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "so half of that will be look the.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Oh, half a fruit. Oh, okay, okay.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah, not not the upper side. So from lower you can, it means while you are holding of from this side you c you can have banana look or apple look, whatever.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Okay, okay.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "So in that way we need not to d have different different shape mobiles everything, we will just design casings fruit shape.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "And.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "I think tho I think if you're gonna have a facia then you'd want to have it so that it does go over the buttons,", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "'cause when if you think about it if they're wanting it,'cause they want to look at it, if they're using it, and what they want to look at is facing away from them. It doesn't really.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm mm.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "You know'cause that'd be in the palm of their hand and they wouldn't be able to see it,", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "unless you have sort of you got the buttons options on one side, and you get the facia on the other side with a microphone so that you can place it face down. And you've got the facia, and you can just talk at the.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Maybe..", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Okay, um so.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "So you've narrowed it down to half a dozen options.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah,", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "s I guess we decided on material, right? So that that spongy latex rubber everything feel,", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "and the colours we got down,", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "and the shape, maybe we'll just make it kinda mix and match type of shape or.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah. Well, um because Well, I I'm not sure if we should go so far in the whole fruit thing, because I think we should maybe just take the inspiration from the fruit and uh because what.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Okay, so we stick with what we've got there.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah, w I think wh wha would we're trying to get to twenty five, thirty five year olds who want it quite trendy as well they said. They wanted something that looks fancy and I think maybe fruit could be a bit of a too much of a gimmick, but something ergonomically shaped and organic, like good to hold, based on fruits and natural things like that,", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Mm'kay.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "because al already we're going a bit gaudy with the yellow, you know.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm..", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "I mean we could make it nice pale yellow.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Well, it's kind of gotta be our company's yellow..", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "So again I mean like we could have, uh I mean, we could quite easily have the the main body be a different", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Okay. Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "colour, but have.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Maybe we could have that pale yellow and then an outside bit bright yellow with, you said, the logan the slogan.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "kinda going round, yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Um I mean e even if.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Because.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "I mean not necessarily that the um the whole body has to be of the company colour, so you know um blue and yellow tend to go to we well together.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "So you have the main body blue with the yellow logo and slogan running up one side of it kind of thing.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah. Yeah. Uh-huh.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "W sort of.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Great. Um as for the energy source um, you know, almost every remote control uses just batteries, but we don't have to be limited by that. We can use a hand-dynamo. Um I don't know what that means, we crank it?.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Uh It's I think it's basically the more you move i it, it's got a wee thing inside that just kinda powers it.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Right, it's like those watches that you c", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Uh yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "So, this might be an idea for something that people really wanna grab, you can shake it if it's out of power.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Oh, a d a dynamo?", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah,.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah, I like that, yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah, like with those watches that you kind of twist.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah that's quite cool.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Okay. So if it if it's not working, I guess people's natural reaction anyway is to just shake the thing..", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "But.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Okay. You shake it and scream at it.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "But but do you think that it will be a good idea to use dynamo, tha these type of cells?", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah, it is, yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Because then people have to, well like if the cell is out of bat", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "It does leave them with an obligation to.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah, to mo Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Especially if they want to use it uh uh sp uh specifically as um voice activated.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah,", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "because most of the people.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Then if it's just sitting on the.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah, then they have to pick it up and then activate it and then Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah..", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Okay, okay.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "That's true.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Right um what are the other options?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Uh there's solar power. Um.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Uh, solar power will w also not be a good idea, because then they have to keep m their mobiles outside in solar energy,", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "and the days when there is no sola sunlight.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "I'm I'm with uh Raj on that,", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Okay, so probably just.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah. Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "I think, you know,", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "What we w", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "I've got I've got no I've got a north facing house, there's not really ever sun coming in my window.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "yeah. I think we should a rechargeable battery will be a good idea.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "But w like just normal light?", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Oh that's true.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "They can they can recharge it.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "I mean I w I w uh", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "that idea that I thought um just on the basis of like ridding them of batteries and that kind of bother", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "is having a,", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "And we're a very environmentally friendly company, aren't we as well?", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "yeah,", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "having a rechargeable stand, so that not only it doubles as a stand, but um for using it as uh recharging it, but also for using it as sound recognition.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "'Kay.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Like like a hand like one of those portable phones kind of thing.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah, that's Yeah, exactly.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah that kind of thing.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Okay. So uh a rechargeable battery.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Okay. Um the user interface, the buttons, I guess we talked about this already.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Rechargeable.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Um.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": ". What's chip on print? What's.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Hmm?", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Sorry, never mind..", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Uh th the uh the electronics um, basically the more features we add um Oops, this one. So the more features we add the fancier chips we need to buy and put in,", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "which adds to the cost as you can expect.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Um. But uh I think we can keep it all under budget. So uh yes, so the speech thing you said our our techno our research and development department came up with some break-through.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "So just in time..", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah, and if we if we're just having buttons and the speech then we're getting our cheapest option of chipping.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Just in time.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Right, right.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "That's good.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah,", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Uh woah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "and keeping the L_C_D_ screen out..", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Okay, we're we're kind of uh we're kind of um Excuse m I've just deleted that whole thing. Um we're kind of running out of time, so if you could Uh. Was that you?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Huh?", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Um that was your bit's covered,", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Oh yeah that was that was it.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "I just dele I just accidentally deleted what I was supposed to say next.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Uh excuse me, Bri", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Um, yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "So control F_ eight, right?", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Oh, yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah, mine seems to have turned off.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "And I just touch the pad.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "I can't do anything.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "You just touch the pad, yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "No.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "No?", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "It's actually shut down.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "It's on, but there's nothing on the screen.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Okay, um now what we have.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Try uh flipping the screen down.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "uh our next meeting's in half an hour", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "'Kay.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "and what I would like you guys to do is work on giving me a model in clay.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Oh,", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "I get to do it, too.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah. It's you guys. Yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Oh neat.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Cool..", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "So um, you know I mean, luckily we chose a nice simple shape.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah, yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah. Mm.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Um and further instructions will be sent by your personal coaches.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Okay. Save everything to the shared documents, is that right?", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "That's great.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Uh yeah, I hope I can recover this,'cause I've accidentally deleted it.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Which doesn't really help me much.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "I think, I've saved mine already.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah, can you save that uh send that last one again, please, Raj,", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "as I still can't find it on the.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Uh it was under a different name.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "I will show you, in shared documents.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Uh working components. Oh, you didn't get that. I will send new.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "No. Okay, thank you.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Uh I'll put it in shared documents, again.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Um yeah, Project, Project Documents.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Project documents, sorry, I put it in the shared documents.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Uh right,", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Uh yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "that's that's the that it goes there automatically if you put it in Project Documents. Project Documents is on the um desktop.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Right, that's great. But I cou can't open that, because it w asks uh for some username or password.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Oh.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Really?.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "I'll show you.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Uh these lapel mics are trouble.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Ts", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Oh right, I think um.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Sorry.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Hold on.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Uh.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah, I don't know if y it it just ca it just came up on my um on my agenda. S Um presumably there's clay somewhere. Um. Four.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah, that's great.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Whoops. Light, light, please. Light. Right, there you go.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah, th thank you.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah, quite. And we're using this our basic chip set, so it's all good..", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Oh sorry.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Are we done with our meeting?", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Uh excuse me, Brian.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Um I think we're almost done, yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "You have to keep your pen separate, because I used your pen.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Oh oops.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "S.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Sorry man. Uh okay, still didn't manage to get down all the last bits so we had rechargeable and Uh. Apples. Mm-mm-mm-mm-mm.'Kay, so we came up with that, that's okay. What's supplements? Supplements. Uh uh. See..", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Cool. Fun.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "I shoulda something like that. If I kn see I I knew that. I shoulda sort of engineered it so we k ended up making a diffi difficult shape.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Hmm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Just for cruelty..", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Hmm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah. Star fruit..", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "I wonder if they mean like literally make it, sort of buttons and everything.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "So sh should Should we leave now, Brian?", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "No. Oh yeah, we can do buttons.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Or we are going to discuss something?", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Um. 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We're gonna have uh effectively two pages, a front page which had the uh features that the uh the customers most wanted, and then the uh the backup features on the second page so that it could uh meet the technical requirements. And the customers wouldn't have to look at them too often, only as and when required. So. So basically what decisions uh have we uh made? Uh have there been any uh changes?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "I think we all have a presentation again,", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "so if we go through those and then um", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Three presentation, yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": ". Shall I go first again?.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "So Yeah, fine.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "I see this a little more smoothly than the last one..", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Okay right, let's get started. Um basically the uh for the Um I'll back actually. For the components design, um next step is basically the the way the remote's gonna work is still the same idea as before. We still have the user interface which is all the buttons we're gonna incorporate. Then there is a chip and still the sender. So um yes including the power s supply as well. Um I'll go on to my findings in each of these areas. Uh first in the power supply, we have the option of just the standard battery, um. There's a dynamo. Any of you think of kind of like the the old torches which you wind up um. There's a kinetic option, which if any of you've seen those new watches which you kind of you power up by waving around, um it just requires a small amount of movement which would mean the batteries wouldn't have to be replaced. Um that's one option,", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "but I think that was gonna cost a little more. And then there's solar cells. Um as a final option. For the buttons, we have um an integrated push button, which is Oh just to say all all these are um supplied by Real Reaction. So I guess for the ease of for quickness and ease we should take them from at least like one of these options.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Um so for the buttons there's an integrated push button, which I guess is just the same as the standard ones. This says it's uh similar to uh the button on the mouse for a normal for like uh like modern computer. Um there's a scroll wheel which is you know the new mouse has just got like the centre section which you can scroll up and down, which may be for the volume.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "You could do do that.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Um one issue for the buttons is, depending on which material we use, if we use rubber buttons then it requires a rubber case, so we have to take that into consideration. Um moving on to the printed s", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "What would be the cost do do we know?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Um that's on the next.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "I th I think the there wasn't too much difference in the cost, that that related to the actual buttons, but it does affect the printed circuit board. Um which is the next section. Basically for the circuit board which is the middle, it's just see it down there the chips like the like the workings of the actual um of the remote.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "The firm supplies a simple, a regular and an advanced um circuit board. And there's different prices according to each. So if we've got the scroll wheel for one of the buttons, that would require a slightly more advanced circuit board than if we just had a standard um push button.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Um one final thing we came up with was some information on the speech recognition. There's a small unit available through the company um which obviously would be an extra cost, but it wouldn't affect the size of the remote too much. Um and I guess that would require a more advanced circuit board, so there is an extra price in that sense. There is th sorry an extra cost in that sense. Um going to my personal preferences, um I thought possibly for power we could use kinetic um which is the idea of the watches um that you move you move the remote around to power it up. And this would avoid batteries running out, having to replace batteries and such like. Um for the buttons, I thought we'd probably get away with just having the standard um push buttons rather than the scroll wheel. Um and for the circuit board, again depends on which features we want in the actual in the remote. So if we wanted the scroll wheel and wanted the voice recognition, um then we'd have to get a a more costly circuit board. And that's it.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "'Kay.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "with the printed circuit boards you were going for the.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Thanks..", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Um i it kind of depends um if we're gonna have the speech recognition, we'd have to probably get an advanced one. I'm guessing.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Uh but I don't know, so that is something I'll have to look into.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "But are we going f R right.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Um that's a that's a decision for all of us. Um.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "So are we able to make that decision now in a sense that this is the point at which we're discussing that issue,", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah yeah. We decide. Yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "so would it not be best to rather than I mean one way is to do each of the presentations and then make decisions going back to the various presentations as they were. The other way would be to do the presentation", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "and then make the decision at that point in time.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Um. Maybe w", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah, that's probably a better one, to discuss it straight away.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "'Cause at that point then you've got the details up there, so if we wanted to know for instance that the scroll wheel required the regular and what required advance. Then if we were able to see that down then we could make the decision at that point in time", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Um.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "and then that would be the end of that issue. Does that make sense?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yes.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Um I have a lot of the information there.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "It might not be very clear.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Is there.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Unless you want to plug it back in to yours.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Um. We could do, yeah. Um yeah we should.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "As I say it only specified that we need a more advanced circuit board for the scroll wheel,", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "it didn't The voice recognition came as a separate piece of information. Um.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "No the scroll wheel required the regular, so the.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah if if you down um. It's just this bit at the bottom which I've highlighted,", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Hmm.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "but the scroll wheel requires a mini m minimally a regular chip,", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "which is in the higher price range.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Okay. The display requires an advanced chip", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "I think the scroll wheel um.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "the display requires an advanced chip which in turn is more expense.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Also the display's for something else which we decided against. Um but that bit.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "And note that the push button just requires a simple chip, so that would keep the price down.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Down.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah, and if we're going for sleek and sexy, I think a scroll wheel is maybe a bit kinda bulky?", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "I I've got um pictures well I've seen pictures with it kind of sticking off the side of it,", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Right. Okay.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "and they don't really look great.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "'Kay. So maybe just a simple push button, and that would cut costs on the.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "So. So we're going for p Okay. So is um.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "So are we going for the w are we going for the simple one, are we?", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah, a simple pushbuttons.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Simple push button..", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Did everyone get this on the speech recognition? The um it was basically what we said before, the idea that you record in a set message, and then it picks up that message um and replies to you.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "So it is basically the concept we discussed before. Um but then we don't know for sure whether it would require a more complicated circuit board.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "I'm guessing it would, but got like the definite information. Maybe we should go on what we're certain of rather than.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "So if we go for the simple push button, so effectively we're going for the simple printed circuit board are we? Or are we going for the regular?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Um if it's just the push button then it just needs the simple circuit board.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Mm-mm. But is there any other I mean okay, that's true for the for for that element, but we have to take all el elements into consideration. And so if there is one element that requires the more expensive one, or say the regular one, or the more advanced, then that would have to be the same for all of them. S", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Hmm. But.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "I suppose we need we need to find out what circuit board that requires, maybe before we m make a decision.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "But the way that I interpret that um it doesn't seem to send out a signal to the telly, it just it's like a parrot just rep reply replying to your message.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Oh yeah, I suppose so, yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "So maybe that would be something separate, yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "So I don't think it would effect our circuit board.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "No.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Okay, so we'd have a simple circuit board", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "and that would be an extra that would be in addition to it.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Oh that makes sense.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "And I don't think you could really perform any of the remote functions with it.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "'Cause the example that they've given there is good morning coffee machine, good morning Jo.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Mm-mm.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "It might be useful to say like where are you remote. Here I am, Jo.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah..", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "But I think that's maybe as far as that one could go?", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah that makes sense, so we'd stick with the simple circuit board and then think of the speech recognition as an extra an extra possibility.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah, just as a fun way to find it.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Okay. Um.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Simple circuit board. Simple push button. Okay. W w kinetic.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "And it says that.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "You were you were wanting to go for the kinetic power supply.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "I think it said the cost of that isn't too much.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Um yeah I I thought so just for just for ease of not having to replace the batteries.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Um.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "And how does it get uh charged up?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "It's um I think it works on the basis they have some kind of ball bearings inside. It's um it's some on watches which you you kind of you shake to power it up. Somehow the mechanism inside powers up through movement.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "So you'd you'd move the remote around a little bit and then that powers it up to use it.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "So the speech recognition was Are we going for speech recognition? No?'Cause that required the advanced.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Um I think it would be helpful to find it, but I don't think it'd um.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Just.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Uh yeah I think did we decide it didn't affect the circuit board, it just affected.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah, I think so.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Just just for the call and find thing.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "It was just.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "I had speech recognition requires advanced req require", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Oh no th that's what that's what I thought, but maybe maybe it doesn't.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Oh.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Um I think I might have got that wrong.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "So okay.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "'Cause it's s it's separate isn't it,", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Speech recognition you reckon then is s simple.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "it's not part of the.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "It's it's just an addition thing it's um yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "And so we would want it in as an extra because it doesn't appear to cost too much. Would that be.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "'Kay.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "'Kay shall I pass on to you now?", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "I think.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "In fact, it wouldn't really cost anymore, would it?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "I'll just just check what it said. Actually I don't think it really says anything about the cost, but it says that it's already in the coffee machines, so like it's already kind of.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "I assume it would cost extra, but Maybe we maybe we'll find out how much that does cost and have to decide slightly later.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "And then have to change all change everything at the last minute.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Okay. S", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Um. Oh, that was quick. Um okay, so very brief presentation, um. From looking at the remotes that are out there at the minute, none of them are particularly um sleek and sexy. Um I haven't actually got the examples of the scroll button there, um but there's some curved cases that you can see, uh a range of sizes uh. All of them have a lot of buttons there um they seem to just have the rubber buttons. Does that move it?", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Sorry?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "It just seems to be skipping on without us doing anything..", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah, I've found that try and get it back.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "If you right click and then go onto a previous slide.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Ah it's alright.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Okay, right.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Um. There wasn't much more to say about that, just rambling. Um some of the uh remotes that I looked at, one of the models da did actually have voice recognition where you could um where it was connected to the remote control functions. And uh it was quite uh a swish model, where it can control uh four devices, T_V_, cable, satellite, video, D_V_D_, audio. Um so that's a bit of competition there. So I mean maybe it's better not to try and compete with that sort of thing and just to market it as a completely different um like different viewpoint as a kind of finding your lost control", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah, yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "rather than trying to compete with the functions. Um the scroll buttons, as you've already mentioned, um there's examples of those, but they don't look as sleek as other models. And there's no real advantage and because it impacts on other on the materials and the price it's not great.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "On the price, yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "So you were saying the scroll buttons.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Um Yeah. Th there was a specialist type of remote that we could think about, um. There was children's remote, where um they just had a very limited range of buttons and they were b uh bright and colourful and um you you could program them so that they could only look at certain channels.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "'Kay.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Um but I don't know if that's really in our field?", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "I guess I guess we're going for the biggest market, maybe not,", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "But that's something that's out there.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "but Was it was it specified that we went for the biggest?", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Well we're to go for the international market rather than a local market but that that wouldn't necessarily preclude.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Hmm.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "The one thing that you can often do with products is you can uh make small modifications. So you have your basic model which you would sell at whatever, and then you could have additional features in you know like a You'd have model one, model two and model three, and therefore you can sub-divide your market up. But that's really where your field is.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "So maybe the children's remote should be like a a next step, but maybe I dunno for ours, maybe we should.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Anyway you could add on for an extra package, but on this basic one I'm reckoning that we're going for the basic model to be discussed here and that uh you would have for future reference the possibility of adding in extra features at extra cost to take care of specialist market segments.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Hmm.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm. Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Is that", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Right well that's something that we can be aware of.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "So so what are we deciding to do here?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Um. I think because there's already um very good voice recognition technology out there, and because ours might not cover the same functions that the leading brands do, it might be a good idea to market it as a um finder function.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Right. Mm-hmm. Uh the fi Yeah, the finder function rather than as a speech function to find your remote.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "So you also said for going for the international market um that some some maybe older people might not like the speech recognition. S s so um.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Oh yeah. Different languages might not be compatible.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah, yeah. It w it would make it quite complicated,", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Hmm.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "where um ours at least keeps it fairly simple and then the.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Hmm.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah,'cause I think you program um this one yourself, like to say like whatever you want to your question.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah, yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah and ours is quite a cheap device, so I don't know how much we'll be able to put into it.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "So you'd have a finder feature rather than a voice recognition feature.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Hmm.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "And you were talking", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Maybe unless something else comes up.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Mm. And you were talking about scroll buttons?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Um yeah I think um I think we've decided that it's gonna increase the cost", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "and give no real kinda extra benefit", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "b", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "and it's gonna decrease from the sleekness of it.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Alright, so we're just gonna have the the rubber buttons, was that right?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yes yes.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Hmm um and just to be aware that there are kind of specialist functions and specialist remotes but we probably don't want to focus on those like such as the children's remote.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Okay. So not to be focused on.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah. Um there was a mention just as kind of a warning about button design. Um just to avoid ambiguity. So it gave the example of say your volume buttons for up and down, they might both have a V_ on for volume, Um let's think how they did this.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Good in in Flip it round in ninety degree a hundred and eighty degrees and have it up and down.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "I'm just gonna check so I do this right.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "An upside-down V_. So that would show that volume was going up, whereas the one underneath would see the volume going down.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Um. What did they say? Um I think the thing was that if you decide to do this, to have triangular buttons, um somebody might look at this one and say oh well this triangular button is pointing up, and that's the first thing that they see.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Actually that can't be right, can it? Oh well, no, they might see yeah, they might see this pointing down and think right that's gonna turn the volume down,", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "whereas the actual button's pointing up, so the function is to turn the button up.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "So, be careful what you put on the buttons", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "So maybe we could have like.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "and be careful of the shape that you make them,", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "because they might be kind of two um contradicting kind of shapes.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah I I know what you mean. So maybe we could have volume written on the side and then up and down on the on the buttons themselves.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "You could have volume up and volume.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Possible.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Volume up, down and Like that.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "And'cause the idea was to have limited um it was to have sizable amount of information on it. Limited number of buttons.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "'Cause it was sixteen buttons, wasn't it that were.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah. Yeah we got it down to not too many.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Um and I think that's all I had to say for that.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Um so what was the decision on the um design of the volume button?", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Um Are we are we gonna go through the design of all the buttons at the moment, or are we gonna t", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "I've I've got some things to say about possible design things from trend watching.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah, maybe we should see yours first.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Oh okay.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Cool. Right, um I've been looking at some trends in in sort of basically fashion on top of doing the um research into the remote control market the the one that's the one I talked about last time, that we'd sort of asked people about remote controls and what what was good about them, what was bad, what they used. And we've also been looking at sort of fa sort of fashions and what people are wanting out of consumer goods at the moment. So we've had people in Paris and Milan watching the uh fashion trends.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "You know yourself..", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "So.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "So just to summarise the most important things which came out of the remote control market investigation. The most important thing was that the thing sort of look and felt fancy rather than just functional.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "'Kay.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "And second, there should be some technological innovation. And then third and l less important than the other two, there should be an ease of use as well. And apparently, the fashion trends are that people want sort of clothes and shoes and things with a fruit and vegetables theme.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Um but um the feel of the material should be spongy,", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "which is contrary to last year, apparently. I presume it must have been not not spongy last year.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "So we need to emphasise the fancy design with on on our remote control above all else. And then also try and add in technological informat innovation which could be our sort of find the thing with a hand clap. And then we need to ma sort of make it easy to use that's as a third priority, so perhaps um fewer fewer buttons and functions as we've as we've discussed.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "And then maybe find a way to incorporate these trends so that we sort of capture people's imaginations. So maybe we could make the buttons shaped like fruit and veg, or the the buttons could be spongy, uh somehow. Maybe we could make them out of rubber rather than sort of hard plastic. And then sort of even wackier than that, we could maybe have a fruit or vegetable shaped remote, say in the shape of a banana or something like that. Right, so that'll be it.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Maybe a banana or courgette or something..", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "How how far we actually want to go along and sort of follow the trends, do we think the trends are particularly important for this type of gadget, or or you know, do they not matter that much?", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "I think if you start making the buttons fruit shaped, it might make it more complicated to use.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Well you were just talking about you've got to be careful how you shape your buttons,'cause you're can mis-direct people. And I would've thought the functionality'cause the people get cheesed off by things by having to read instructions et cetera, so.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "...", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Maybe just one button, say the standby button is quite kinda separate from all the other functions. Maybe that could be a little apple.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Maybe yeah..", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Okay. Now? Yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "And then that wouldn't get in the way of like kinda one to nine,", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "and it wouldn't confuse the numbers.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Stand-by button. No th that that incorporates the trend whilst at the same time not confusing people, if you're looking for functionality.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Well I dunno I I guess maybe fruit and vegetables may be popular at the moment, but as we know how fickle the fashion markets are,", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "But what are they gonna be next Yeah. What are they gonna be next year..", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "maybe.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah yeah..", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Hmm. S", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "But but th but okay but you you can incorporate the tr If y if you change all the buttons then you've got the problem that this year's fruit and veg, next year's uh I was gonna say animals or elephants or w whatever.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm. Yeah,", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "That means you're constantly changing your production schedule,", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "I'm not.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "and you've gotta make different moulds and everything else,", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "so that's not a good idea I would I would suggest.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "I'm not I'm not sure what what what the sort of timescale we're thinking of selling the product over is. I don't know.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "I mean it just seems realistic that the remote control market isn't the kind of thing which takes in those kinds of fashion trends.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah, yeah..", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "to something which is maybe more universal.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Well.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "But I suppose as long as it's quite a subtle design,", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "um even if the design kind of changes,.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "We c maybe can imply a fruit shape possibly.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Ah d d But if.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Maybe the spongy feel is something we could think about, um.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm. Well. Yep.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Maybe still with a rubber design we could.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Was that in the sort of fashion sense that this Or was the spongy feel was that uh sort of fashion? It was, wasn't it?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "So the.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "It seems like you're gonna have rubber cases, as well as buttons.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah. Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Um.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "And that you can make them curved or double-curved and that would be the kind of sleek and sexy look.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Oh yeah yeah one of the things were if you had rubber buttons then you had to have a rubber case.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Um oh no no no", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Oh right, that fits, doesn't it?", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "sorry it's if you use the uh rubber double curved case then you must use rubber buttons. That's the way round. If you have the rubber case then you have to have the rubber buttons to go with it. Which makes sense.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Rubber buttons require rubber case..", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Um.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "And that would fit in with what we want, wouldn't it, for the spongy feel, to have everything rubber.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Uh so, yeah. The m the main problem is how f how frequently do the fashions change?'Cause in essence in the production you want things to stay you want to basically mint them out", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "'cause if you've got fashion changes and that you're incorporating, then it means that your stock is um is last year's stock", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "and therefore you're selling it or having to sell it at a discounted rate which you wouldn't want to do. Whereas if you kept the product the same but you could have a difference from year to year, uh it seems to me that you could incorporate a fashion statement if you like, rather than changing the whole kit and caboodle.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah. Okay.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "You're just changing one aspect like like the standby button or something like that,", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "and especially'cause then you could make it something that.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "I suppose we maybe are limited in the fact that we still have to put the logo on the actual.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Well, you might be limited in space, that yes.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "would or not. Yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Well you two are obviously gonna find that out fairly quickly when you move over to your kit modelling stage as to uh how much pl how much how much how pliable is Plasticine.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Hmm.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yes yes.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Maybe we could think of the the cases like changing with the fashions", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "like the Nokia phones where you could take the casing off the outside. But whether that would be too much to incorporate in production,", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "whether that would just increase the costs,", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Hmm.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "make it more complicated.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "So you're talking there about uh changing changing the casing.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "That's possibly it.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah the a the actual the sort of the look from the outside, so where the buttons would stay the same, and the general function of the remote would stay the same,", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "but you could change the the way it looked.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah and then you could have Oh but you still would have to have the logo on every new case,", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah, that's true.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "but you could have like pink cases for girls and red ones and things like that.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah you you could do a colour change, so therefore you would yeah yeah I mean that's effectively what they did with the with the mobile phones, was to have some in blue, some in red, some in rather than all in black", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "or, you know, which four do you want, as long as it's black?.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Hmm.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "But uh so.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "So it is a possibility, um.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "But we are supposed to use the um company colour scheme, aren't we?", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yes oh that's true", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "We haven't really seen that yet", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Oh okay yes", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "uh that might no", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "that is.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "It might and we might be able to do both but it might clash with certain things.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Well not necessarily, because you could have your company uh We're we're meant to be finishing up. You could have your company badge and logo. I mean a lot of um computers for instance like like on the one you've got there, it actually has a sort of um stick on badge", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "so what you would al all you would really need, whether it, you know, whether the casing be w any colour, could be any colour, but that badge would then have to stick out on top of it so that uh in a sense, with a with a logo like that, because it's on a white background, the only colour that it might not stick out so well on would be a white casing.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "'Cause you you know you're sort of you're badging it.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "And in fact a lot of companies get somebody else to make them and literally just badge them themselves with their own uh badge over the top.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm. Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "And in fact the way they've got that there even if you had that on a white, which is the predominant colour of the uh the Windows badge, you'd still be able to see it clearly from you know a white casing uh product.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm. Yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "So.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "And whether we'd have a big enough market to have this kind of like secondary market of selling the cases might be something to consider.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Hmm.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Well if it's for young people, um like the phone generation, that sort of thing'd probably go down well,", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm. Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "and the market research has been on that side of things, hasn't it?", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah, I mean it's people say that it's the look, they want the fancy looking thing but I'm Yeah. I'm not convinced on whether having changeable covers would be something that people would buy into. I think with the mobiles, it's the, you know it's a communication device, people see you with it all about and", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah I suppose,", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "where you you keep the remote hidden under the sofa most of the time.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "i if it", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "It's uh in in the house, isn't it, I suppose.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Okay, so if we just went for one colour of a rubber case.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "I think.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "So don't change case.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Change case colour. And we're sort of saying no to that.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Did we decide on the rubber case? The spongy feel, or did we think that that might go as a trend?", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Well, it was different last year. The trend was different last year apparently. It was not not spongy feel. But I don't know whether the trend will change. I don't know whether it's one of those things that like sort of having all fruit shaped keys, that that probably would go out of fashion very quickly,", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "whereas just the fact that it was a rubber case is probably less less of something that y you're gonna end up hating in a year, you know.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah, less likely to.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Sounds reasonable. If you're going for fashion trends like that they'll need t you'd have to have interchangeable cases", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "So then th th that would.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "so that you could.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "or'cause otherwise someone's gonna have to buy a complete new remote rather than just a case.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "it seems to make sense that we we'd just maybe stick with the standard rubber case,", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "and then have the standard rubber buttons as well.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Um.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Uh we haven't really talked about uh the curvature of the case. There's flat,", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "there's single-curved and there's double-curved.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Um. Mayb", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "I'm not exactly sure what these things look like.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Maybe curves give it like the slightly more aesthetic feel? But the double curve wouldn't require us to perform miracles with the Plasticine..", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Well it says that.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "When you say d when you say double-curved, what what exactly does that mean?", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "I'm not exactly sure. Um I'll show you the remotes that I've got.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "See how uh Let's just get that bigger. See how uh the one Oh I'm not plugged in, am I?", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "No you're not connected to me anymore..", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "That doesn't help..", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "One one thing to cons", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Shall I just turn it round for time?", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "one thing to consider is that in some ways you want um by having a fairly standard case it means they can all fit together on top of each other", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "That should come up.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "therefore for storage purposes in shops and the like and it makes it easier that you can if you can store them up on top of each other.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Whereas if you do um fancy things with it, you then gotta put it in a ca a a packaging box that that does that. And the cost of packaging could be quite important vis-a-vis the total cost of the product.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Hmm.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "So shall we go through quickly and just work out what we've decide on, if we have to kind of.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "So but.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Um it's not very clear up there,", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "No.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "but you can see some of them have got kind of bulges, like the second one and the end one uh where there's a curve there.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Mm yep.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "I'm not exactl I don't know if a double curve is maybe it comes up slightly, or?", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "That's what I was trying to work out.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "But um it is a kinda sleeker look if you've got curves in there.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Oh right. S so do you wanna go for curves, more curves?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Shall we", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "We're meant to be f we're meant to be finishing this meeting in about a minute or so.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Definitely a single, maybe a double.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "'Kay, so shall we quickly.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Shall we go for single curve, just to compromise?", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "We'll go for single curve, yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Okay,", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Single curve.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "curved or double curved? So it's single curved.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "So did we did we decide on the kinetic power supply? The one you move around?", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah I think that think that's a good idea.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yep.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Okay. Um.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "And the rubber push buttons, rubber case.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Rubber Rubber buttons and case.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Um and we don't really know much about the colour scheme or logo yet do we,", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Oh we ca", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "but possibly a sticker.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah yeah, we'll still have the Are we gonna go for the simple circuit board just to keep the cost down? I th I think we can by by not having anything too complicated.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah. Yeah and and the voice recognition, we can use that can't we, just to find it. Without affecting the circuit board.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yes. Yep.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Um.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "And see we could always decide against it if something comes up that's just something to that we seemed to leave out.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Okay. And then are we going for sort of one button shaped like a fruit. Or veg.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah that sounds like it wouldn't do too much harm in a couple of years. Uh what sort of shape do we want?", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "So we've got spongy feel buttons as well, have we?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Don't know, maybe just", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "As well as or w or was that.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah. That's ru rubber buttons, yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "So it's rubber buttons,", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah, it was just.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "so it's not really spongy feel buttons, it's just rubber buttons. With a rubber case right?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "'Kay.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah..", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah, so it's not too wacky.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Reasonably spongy I guess, yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "And the standby button is gonna be different.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah okay.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Um I think an apple would be a good recognisable shape. If you start getting into kinda aubergines and things, it gets a bit weird.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Okay so what what shape are we making the standby button?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah. Apple?", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "A apple.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Vote?", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Oh oh Sorry?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Shall we vote on it?", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "We will go for the a a a apples apples.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Anyone got any suggestions?", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Apple apple a a qu Quite a big one, as well.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Okay. Ah..", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "A big apple. Uh.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Well it could be red.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Could be a red apple, yeah. Either, don't mind.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "A red apple? Is it?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah'cause we wanna incorporate a bit of colour if we can, once we find out um.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Okay. And then we're gonna are you gonna work on keeping the button design quite simple? Just like the Just working out what we're gonna do for the next time.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Um.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah. Yeah that seems pretty straight forward.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "'Cause most of them will just be kind of mainly circular or like very plain.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "'Kay.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm. Okay.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Sorry what was that last thing again there?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Uh just to keep the shape of the buttons simple.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Right much option on that. I thought you were going for a single curve and.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Ah just the uh shape of the buttons.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Alright.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "And j yeah, just keeping the sort of the labelling them labelling of them fairly simple as well. Fairly sort of self explanatory.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Right, so shape of buttons simple. Okay. So that's that, I guess. We should now go away and get these things sorted out. I guess you two are on plasticine duty or whatever.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Okay, so um.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Is that the end? 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Therefore, I am unable to answer your question.", "responseAttribution": null, "queryMetadata": { "queryType": "QUERY_TYPE_SPECIFIC", "isUnanswerable": true, "isContextDependent": null } }, { "query": "Did anyone disagree with Marketing about the spongy feel of the remote control device?", "response": "The transcript provided does not contain any information about whether anyone disagreed with Marketing's suggestion of a spongy feel for the remote control device.", "responseAttribution": null, "queryMetadata": { "queryType": "QUERY_TYPE_YES_NO", "isUnanswerable": true, "isContextDependent": null } }, { "query": "What were the options that were discussed for the design of the volume buttons on the remote control device, and was a consensus reached for the final design?", "response": "There were two options discussed for the design of the volume buttons on the remote control device:\n* Triangular buttons that point either up or down to indicate volume increase and decrease, respectively.\n* Buttons labeled \"Volume Up\" and \"Volume Down\" to avoid ambiguity.\n\nThe participants did not reach a consensus on the final design for the volume buttons.", "responseAttribution": { "indexRanges": [ { "startIndex": 221, "endIndex": 229 }, { "startIndex": 251, "endIndex": 253 } ] }, "queryMetadata": { "queryType": "QUERY_TYPE_SPECIFIC", "isUnanswerable": null, "isContextDependent": null } }, { "query": "Besides the design elements that were decided upon, were there any other factors that were considered during the meeting?", "response": "Yes, there were other factors considered during the meeting, including:\n* The overall look and feel of the remote control device, with an emphasis on making it appear fancy and innovative.\n* The ease of use, with a focus on limiting the number of buttons and functions to improve user-friendliness.\n* The potential for incorporating current fashion trends into the design, such as using fruit and vegetable themes or a spongy feel for the buttons.\n* The practicality of the design, considering factors such as the need for a rubber case to protect the device and the potential difficulties of incorporating certain design elements into production.", "responseAttribution": { "indexRanges": [ { "startIndex": 262, "endIndex": 269 }, { "startIndex": 319, "endIndex": 327 }, { "startIndex": 389, "endIndex": 391 } ] }, "queryMetadata": { "queryType": "QUERY_TYPE_YES_NO", "isUnanswerable": null, "isContextDependent": true } }, { "query": "That seems like a lot of factors to consider. 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f181fd47822c41c0a0ce054a8cac056f	{ "meetingId": "ES2015c", "transcriptSegments": [ { "text": "Is everyone ready to start?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah..", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yes.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Okay. Great. Well, welcome to the third meeting of conceptual design. I'll just get the PowerPoint presentation up and running. Okay. Um, on the agenda for this, um, for this particular meeting, we'll have your three presentations on what you've done since our last meeting, after we came up with um some general ideas of our design. And, um, then we have to make some key decisions on, on our remote control concept, and how we're gonna make it, what uh materials we're gonna use, and that sort of thing.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "The meeting will be forty minutes long.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "And um we will once again have Poppy as our first presenter.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Alright, and I will switch up PowerPoint.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Thank you.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Should be just loading. Okay. Oh, although I can't see it on my screen. That says go here. Okay. I've been doing some research into the different components that we could use, um what's available to us f to actually make the remote control. Um, first of all we have to look at how the remote control is actually made, and what is it happens inside the casing, which is more your field. Um, thes main internal feature is a circuit board, which contains all the elec electronics and also the contacts with the power source.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Which is not necessarily a battery, as we're about to see. Um, there are several components of, um, the circuit board that we need to consider, where we'll be getting them from, what they'll be made of. Um, including the integrated circuit, which is also known as the chip. Which is where all the main information is uh contained. Um, diodes, transistors, resonators, resistors, and capacit capacitors all need to be considered as well. Um, and all their positioning in the circuit.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Um Are they all included, like mandatorily, or r are these different options?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Uh, these, they're all different options, they're all separate, apart from the chip, which we will probable decide whether we buy a simple, a regular, advanced.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "We can go into that later. Um, all the other things are individual components that we'd have to get in separately, and work out the most, like, effective um circuit, including all the wires and everything like that. And the L_E_D_ of course, that's a light emitting diode. So, we could, so we've got flex flexibility with colours and things, with that as well.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Okay, there are lots of different possibilities for the energy source. We could use a basic battery, but that brings with it, like they need to be recharged and the bulk, the size of it as well. And they're not so great to dispose of, environmentally. There's a hand-powered dynamo which is a sort of thing that was used for torches fifty years ago. A bit out of date. Kinetic energy is something that's been recently developed.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Um What is a hand-powered dynamo?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Um, where you manually charge up the power.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Just every, every once in a while?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Like you wind up something.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Just every once in a while or constantly?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Sorry? Yeah. Every once in a while I think", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Alright. It'd be kind of strange to always be cranking it I think.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": ". But it's Yeah. It would be like going a step back in time.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "I don't think it would really be with kind of cutting edge technology.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "No..", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Whereas kinetic energy is a new idea that's being used by some watches and other devices, where you just shake the device and it gives it power. I mean, the kinetic energy is transformed into power to make the circuit work. Um, or there's solar power, which we've been considering inside a building, which is where it's gonna be used, might not be quite so useful.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "But, good to look into, renewable energy, always the way. Um, lots of considerations for the case, like what sort of shape it would be, curved or flat. That's got a lot to do with the ergonomics. Like how it's comfortable and s sits in the hand. We don't want something that's huge and you can't pick up. Or too small. Or too slidy. I know I've had a remote control before which you couldn't tell which was the front and the back,", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "'cause it had so many buttons on, and the shape was so symmetrical that I'd be pressing like a volume button instead of the on button.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Because you can't really see which way round it is.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Um, we also can choose what materials um, the we could use metal, we could use rubber which might be more um ideal for the anti-R_S_I_. It's like the same sort of rubber that's used in stress balls and things like that, so it's very like soft, not so stressful on your hands.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Wood.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Um, again, stepping back in time again there.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "I don't think that's quite up to date with what we're looking for here.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Um, titanium is not gonna be possible, even though it just it beyond our budget really. But, would've been maybe for future projects. Um right our choice for buttons as well. We've developed some we've got some good advances in technology, with our research team have found some uh new multiple um option scroll buttons. I think that was brought up for, um, they're basically quite a flexible design, modern, you don't have to use individual buttons. You can just slide up and down. I'm sure we're all quite familiar with those on mobiles or computer laptop pads.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Um one thing with the scroll buttons though. It, it.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "we would have to have an L_C_D_ um", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah. That's true.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "display, and the glow in the dark thing might be difficult.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "And that would lead to an advanced yeah. If we have yeah. We're going on to that later with the advanc with the L_C_D_ that means we'd need a really advanced chip.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "And it's unlikely that that's gonna be in our budget.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Um, also we've got the integrated pushbutton, which is what we're most familiar with. It's the most straightforward. But you can in like incorporate that with a scroll button as well.. Got decisions to make there. And this is what I was just saying before. Linked in the different depends on what type of buttons we have and the inputs. Um simple would go with the pushbutton. Um, regular you could link with the scroll button. And the advanced we'd have to go with a L_C_D_ s display.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "My personal preferences? I think we could go for the kinetic energy source. I don't, I think that's quite um an advanced kind of technology. It's not been seen before, so it could be quite a, a novelty factor, attractive as well. And also energy saving'cause you're producing the energy, you don't need an external sort of battery supply or solar panels. You just give it a shake.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Sounds brilliant to me.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Uh.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Rubber casing I thing would probably the best, if we're going for the anti-R_S_I_ and like more choice with um aesthetics. Like it could be pretty much any colour we want. Um, and gives you, yeah, more flexibility there. And probably the regular chip as opposed to the simple,", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "then we could possibly have the scroll and the push, but no L_C_D_,'cause we probably can't afford that one.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah. Um, one concern with the rubber casing is that it would be rubber encapsulating all of these chips and diodes and delicate technology as", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "like as the exterior. This is the one thing that's protecting its innards.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "I think that would, uh there would be an in sort of more internal casing. And the rubber would just be the, what's in contact with the human.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah. Another thing is it might be more difficult if it's a rubber exterior talking about putting on interchangeable plates.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Um, is it.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "I don't see how a like a rubber plate going on top it would stay there. Like if it was sort of like a clip-on plastic plate. It would work that way.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Maybe if the, um, if it was just kind of a, more of a rubber coating which was on to a case.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "W", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "So, it was kind of, the whole thing would be removable.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Like plastic with rubber, kind of on top", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Like I can't think of what.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Well, there's, there is a certain phone that has like a rubber casing,", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah. Or like an.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "b like a Nokia it is.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "you can get sort of outer casing for iPods and something, that's just it's protective as well.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "It's yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Like the skin?", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "It, it stops it, I mean,", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "it would reduce the impact if it was dropped or something, as well,'cause it wouldn't damage itself so easily.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Alright. So maybe the.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "I think i maybe a mixture of both there, maybe.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "So the actual remote would be hard plastic and the casings rubber.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "And then yeah. Yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "And the buttons obviously are rubber.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "That sounds good. I, um, is it possible to put designs onto this type of rubber?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "As far as I know. It should be.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Okay,", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "we'll just say yeah..", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yes, just why not.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah. Yeah, yeah..", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Alright. I like the kinetic energy source idea.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Um, I don't know when people will, um, be moving a remote around a lot.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "I thought that was.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "But I think that it's worth it, kinetety, kinetic um", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah, tha", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "energy source. It could make an we could have any kind of style.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "It wouldn't be as heavy or bulky, and.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah. Just for environmental reasons.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "I guess it's a bit scary'cause it hasn't been done before.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "So it seems we'd have to do more research on it.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Or I dunno if you could have a battery pack.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Like as a backup for something.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Backup. Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah so there's there is a one battery, because most remotes use two batteries I believe.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "So, if it was running off of one battery as a.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "That would be good yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah. Some alternative just in case something went wrong.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Maybe we could you were saying about um solar power ma maybe not working indoors, but a lot of calculators, yeah, have solar power.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "That's true. I just thought of that.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah. Yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "So maybe that could be incorporated as.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "May maybe that could be the backup.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Instead of a battery.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Like solar backup.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Although it needs some light, doesn't it?", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah. I suppose", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah, you can watch a T_V_ in the dark then.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Do, do those calculators.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "s but some.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "So, if we're doing.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "yeah. If we're.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "But thing is, it's not you don't need the solar all the time.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "I don't know how it works.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "It can be stored. It can be like you can have the solar energy and then it can store that energy and use it.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "It just needs to be in light for a certain amount of time per day.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Like a few hours a day..", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "I think that might be a little impractical though.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah. I think sometimes it's just shoved under, under a cushion,", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "and yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "That's true. It could easily.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Like people don't wanna have to worry about that.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "I suppose it would be really annoying if you get to think, oh no, I forgot to charge my remote today.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Like if the kinetic thing, I think what's best about that is that it's instant energy.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "You don't have to, you know, you can shake it a few times, or whatever.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "And it works.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Or just like pick it up when you're gonna use it.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah. Instead of you don't have to like make sure it's in the right place to charge and.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah, I suppose.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Alright. Cool.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "K okay.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "'S that the end of your presentation.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Alright.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Thank you.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "There we go.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Thanks. Oh. It's not on my screen.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "it wasn't on mine either.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Why?.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "I don't know why. I think, I just, I just used the mouse on there.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "You don't know why? Oh okay. Is it that one?", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah. That's um.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Um, I'm just gonna go through the interface concept with yous now. Uh, first of all I'll explain what a user interface is. It's the aspects of a computer system which can be seen or otherwise perceived, for example, heard or felt maybe, or by the human user. And it's also the commands that the user uses to control its operation and to input data. Um, there are two types of user interfaces. There's the graphical user interface, which emphasises the use of pictures for output and a pointing device, for example a mouse for input control. So that's sort of like the scroll thing we were talking about.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Oh. Okay. Yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah. I'm not really sure about the pictures that maybe that's on an L_C_D_ screen.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Or maybe it's the the buttons or pictures or something..", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Hmm.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Do you think it's.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah,'cause.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "So I suppose sometime.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "I'm sorry?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "after you..", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Um, because command interface requires you to type textual commands and input at a keyboard, so the numbers are sort of like a keyboard. You're pressing the numbers for, um, for what you want.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah. Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "So you must, for the graphical user you must need some kind of presentation for the graphics.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "I s I suppose where um mm on some buttons you would have like the power would be s some kind of symbol.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Like an L_C_D_ screen.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "And if you wanted to go onto teletext or,", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "I know we're not having that, but I mean a similar thing,", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "you, they have there's a like little picture with a screen with lines across it, which I suppose it's that sort of thing like the, the symbol on the button.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah. Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "But if we're having a simplified display anyway, w that, we probably won't have to focus so much on that.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah, we'll be doing.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "It'll be more the on the numbers and the volume.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah. It'd be more a command interface, and then.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "I suppose we need to think of symbols for like the volume, display, and stuff like that.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "So it's just draf graphical for the pointing aspect?", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "I.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "The infrared is like, that's considered a.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Hmm?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "No I think it's to do with the actual symbols that are on the, that's on the buttons of the remote control, and per", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Okay. So when it says pointing device that doesn't include.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "For inp", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Well it could be a wee scroller thing, and something could come up on the screen.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah. I think they're talking about L_C_D_ type things.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "But um I think we're gonna go with the command interface anyway,", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "to make it more simplistic. But the, we could incorporate some of the graphical user um points,", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "as in just to make it m um nicer to look at maybe..", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "What do you mean?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Like I can't think of an example, but Sort of like little pictures rather than.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Oh yeah, like how the buttons.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Like a little sound. Instead of saying volume, like a little speaker or something.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah, as a button though.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah, something y", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "So, it's a keyboard in the shape of it, right?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah m perha yeah. Yeah. Maybe.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Okay. Yeah. I like that idea.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Um, the co uh we've decided that the command interface would be the most useful for a remote control. As it would be less complicated, and the controls would be more user-friendly. Um, the remote control would be cheaper to design, so that we'd have more money in the budget to, um, target the design area of the interface. You know, make it more trendy and original. We'll have more money if we keep it simple.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah. I'm sure i like kinetic energy would probably dip into the budget. A bit more too, yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah..", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah. Seeing as it's quite a new technology. Um We, we also have to keep in mind when we're designing our, um, more user-friendly remote control, that a lot of interfaces consist of a clutter of buttons, that, um, that their functions, colours and forms aren't always helpful.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah. That's true. That's in like the buttons with all the different like colours for different choices and things.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "It can be a bit, yeah, overwhelming..", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah. And that all interfaces are different. So, um, that doesn't improve the use of the produ product, so we need to come up with something that's easy to understand. And maybe learn from the mistakes of other interfaces that can be too complicated for people to use.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yep.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Does anyone have any questions?", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Do you think that we should keep all the buttons to one same colour, just to keep it, give it a simplistic look.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "I think if we go with the um design plate thing, we'll have to. Just because of colour clashing,", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "and if we wanted to,", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "so and, and we might, I mean, depending on what comes out of the design, we might have to stick to just black buttons.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "But um.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "But what about the lighting up effect?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "You mean different colours for the lighting or.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Um, well, um, I thought we had um decided that we would if you touched one of the buttons they'd all light up. And so if they were black, it wouldn't be possible for them to light up.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm. Oh I see what you're saying.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "If they were white they would glow, probably.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Well y", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "If they were made out of rubber.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Oh so you're picturing the light is coming from the back. I kinda pictured it as kind of coming from the sides and lighting it up frontwards.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Oh.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Oh.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "But, but I guess, you mean from the back.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Where would the light come from?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "I'd assume, like, an internal light, that comes through.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "So there would have to, have to be some parts maybe transparent around the buttons, or something.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah,", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "and well rubber is a more translucent product too,", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah, yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "so we have that taken care of.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "It should be able to.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "In the phone that I was thinking of as well, when you change the um covers of it, the, the little buttons that actually, you know, that contro control stuff, are behind the rubber.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Li yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "So you can change the buttons when you're changing the faces. Do you know what I mean?", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Oh.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Oh.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "'Cause it's just the wee control,", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah. They, they insert over.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "yeah, thing that's behind it.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "So I mean, we don't have to decide on one colour. Each face could have its own colour of buttons maybe?", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Well, if they're raised up buttons. So that you can feel them.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "We were talking about it being more um, a lot more tangible.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "T", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Um, it might be more difficult to do. If they're, if they're sticking up.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "If it's flat then, like o like on a cellphone or a mobile phone, it's like all very flat, and you just have to sort of press down on these tiny little buttons, but.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "I think it would be possible. I don't think it would make that much difference. I mean, the uh the dimensions of it.'Cause if it's just like constructed in the same way as like the front cover of a mobile phone. You can like take off the hard cover and then there's the like say the buttons. And then you get to the circuit. I don't think it would matter that the buttons were bigger through the, the top casing. I'm sure you could f work it out to fit in the casing, without causing too much difficulty.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah. Okay.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "I'm sure that'd be fine..", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Alright. If it's do-able we can do.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah, sounds good to me.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "So that's everything, then?", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Alright, thank you.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Okay is that my turn then?", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "That means you're up. Yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Alright. I have a shorter report for you today. Um, it took a while to get this, uh Uh.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "You're not plugged in yet.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Oh.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "That's a very good point.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Okay, so um, this report is about uh trend-watching. Um, basically so we can live up to our, our uh purpose of having a very fashionable remote control. Sorry. There we go. Um So, just so you know, my method was mainly web web-based research this time around. I also spoke with fashion experts in Milan, New York and Paris. And I looked at the design reports from previous years, here at Real Remote. Um, just so c we can work off of them, see how fashions have changed. Um, so I'll list the three most important aspects that I've come across. Um, and they, they're each more important than the one that comes after it. Uh, the first one is that there should be a fancy look-and-feel, instead of the current functional look-and-feel. Um, this should be our priority, as we've been saying. The second most important aspect is that a remote sh that the remote control should be technologically innovative. So, I think we've done a lot of talking about that, just with lighting and the buttons and the face-plates. Um, so it looks like we'll be able to keep on track with that. And the third most important aspect is that the remote control should be easy to use. So, pretty basic there. And the recent fashion update, uh, according to fashion-watchers in Paris and Milan, is that fruit and vegetables will be the most important theme for clothes, shoes and furniture. Um, also, in contra uh in contrast to last year, the feel of the material is expected to be spongy. Again, we've already discussed that with rubber versus hard plastic buttons. Um So, my personal preferences here, um of course, as we, we've already talked about the personal face-plates in this meeting, and I'd like to stick to that. The fruits and vegetable themes, I don't know if that's going to work for us. It sounds something that you'd use on kitchenware.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "I don't know if we wanna do it on remotes.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "It could be one of the options.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Maybe for the television that people have in their kitchen. Um, the temporary light-up idea, sounds like we're gonna stick to that. And then, uh, tying in a trendy look with user-friendliness.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah. Yeah, it's the fruits and vegetables is the only area that I find rather jarring. Everything else we can really, we can really", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "It is strange.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "um, do, according to our plans already, given the market. But fruits and vegetables seems a very strange idea for a remote control.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "It's, it's a little but it, it's everywhere.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Well.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "So maybe we I've seen a lot of purses with olives on them, you know.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "But I I think, I think if we stick to T_V_ based, you know, maybe T_V_ shows, or.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "But they still need to um fit into people's decor though.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Or colour schemes.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "We I think we possibly could take a more abstract design.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Like look at the basic shapes of different fruits and vegetables. And then just really like strip it down to like really basic shapes. I mean we don't have to make something in the shape of a strawberry, but it could have the curves of a strawberry, or something.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Or a strawberry seed or a leaf.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah, yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "The The essence of strawberry. Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Or just like you know really make it a quite abstract, if that's fits in more with what we're doing. Instead of fruits and vegetables,", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "just if you look at it straightforward, it's a bit yeah. It doesn't s quite fit in with the trendy well, obviously it does, if that's the current theme.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah..", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "But may maybe we could go more directly, I don't know.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "But initially, I dunno. I think if we just sort of tone it down a bit.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Tone it down. Yeah,", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah and like not, not.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "I guess, yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "like more like photos of fruit, on, on our product.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Or banana-shaped..", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "One thing I was thinking though is.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "I dunno if you all remember from our kickoff meeting, we talked about our favourite animals.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah..", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "So maybe there could be animal-based, you know. Because a lot of people have a house cat. Or, or a dog.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Um, that might be getting, you know, too specific, and we should see what the success of the first face-plates are. But it's something to keep in mind.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "And, did you have any questions? Pretty straightforward?", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah um.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Alright, given that information, we need to start making some more specific decisions. So I'll need to um hook up the PowerPoint again.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "There you go. Have you guys been saving your PowerPoint presentations to the.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "I didn't for the first one. But I have now.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "okay.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "But it's still around right?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah. Uh, hopefully", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Where do you have to save it to?", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": ". Project documents I think.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Okay. I'm just trying to make this pop up now. Alright. Here we go. Okay so we have to uh decide now exactly what we are going to do. So energy, we.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "oh. Oh no I can't write it in when it's in this setting.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "'Kay.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Does anyone know how to take it out of Um,", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Just escape I think.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "The PowerPoint?", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "yeah. Yeah. Okay. Um, so back to decisions. Energy, we've decided on kinetic, right?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Kinetic yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Okay, so that's good.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Are we going to have a backup?", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Hmm.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Or do we just.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "But would a backup really be necessary? I mean will people just use the battery if there's no, if there's,", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "I think maybe we could just go for the kinetic energy,", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "if there is backup.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "and be bold and innovative,", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "and hope this works, and well hope that it works.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "I think.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "There's like no reason why it wouldn't work, right?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "yeah. I think no. I, I think we should just like take uh advantage of like using this to its full potential.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "So.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah. It could even be one of our selling points.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Go for it. It could be.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "fully kinetic energy.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Environmentally conscious or something.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Is everyone happy with that?", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "So if it's not working they just have to shake it a bit and that revitalises it?", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Hope so..", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Alright, the next um decision is chip on print. I don't exactly know what that means.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Um, it was whether we went for the simple, the regular, or the advanced chip. And that linked in with what buttons we would gonna have, so.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Right, and we were going for more simplistic style, right?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah, it was.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "so that was without the L_C_D_. So that means we're not doing the advanced.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "So it depends on whether we wanted the scroll buttons or just the push buttons.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "I think we decided on the pushbuttons, right?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Uh, so that's the simple.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah. I don", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Would we need a more advanced one for uh the lighting, the interior lighting system?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah possibly.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "So, it's probably gonna be the regular chip that we're going to need.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "So it's a medium.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "That's called medium, or regular?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "So regular chip. Regular sorry..", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "'Kay.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Regular chip.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Oh, is regular not simple?", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Lighting.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah if we.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "It's for the lighting, yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "because of the lighting that we've decided to put in as well.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Right right right.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Okay, and cases. Um, does this, is this dependent on shape, or what it's made of, or what?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "So th I think this is just like gonna be the a very outer case, which we will decide on rubber.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah. Well, I guess plastic and coated in rubber.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Rubber.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Plastic with rubber", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Plastic rubber coat.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "plastic coat.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "coating and interchangeable um", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Interchangeable, yeah. Still going for that.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "yeah, interchangeable plates.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Okay. User interface concept. This is your time to shine.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "We decided on the component. I, I I'm sorry, I've lost my um PowerPoint thing, so I can't remember what it's ca it's the component.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Your screen?", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Think it was called command interface.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Was it.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Oh, yeah. Yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Command interface,.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "The command inter", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Command interface.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Ouch.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "The command line interface yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Did you say command line? Okay.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Line interface.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Alright, and supplements. What's that all about?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Um, I think that is.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "well we haven't really made any decisions about what we're gonna do about the cluster of button functions, colours and forms, in the in consistent use. Like what what are ideas to combat these problems?", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Um.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "You know how um different interfaces are very different, and can be confusing because because of their difference, and because of the different clusters of buttons that they have.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "We haven't really decided what to do about that.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Um, what are our choices here?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Well it's just um w where where shall we locate the buttons. What kind of functions wi shall we have?", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "You mean like we'll have the numbers of the channels, and we'll have the channel-changer, and volume, and power?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "The power. Volume.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Um.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "So pretty just just the basic button functions.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah. Like I don't know if we should go into like adjusting light levels, things like that, because different televisions will have.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "May yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Um, yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Tone, contrast, and things. That's a bit.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "That was on, um one of my presentations. About how often it was used.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yep.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah, it was minima", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Do you remember that?", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "well, it wasn't the l", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah, it was hardly ever used really.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "I w Should I bring it up?", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah. And most televisions will come with a remote.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah. That would be good. Yeah, and surely that would be like quite specific to the individual television,", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah, each television.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "so.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "'Kay, well we know we want numbers.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "The ch t Screen settings was used um zero point five times an hour. So tw twice every once every two hours. Um, and it was considered a one point five relevance, on a scale of ten. That's brightness, colour, tone, all that.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Mm. I think most of that comes like on the i individual television set itself,", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "You don't change that often, yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "doesn't it? I'm sure it has its own buttons, so you don't necessarily need to have it on remote.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah, it does.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah, and different televisions.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Like we, I don't know if we can make a remote that would be universal to all the different kinds of", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "changes like that.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "So we're just going for power, channels, volume,", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Volume.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "The other one was audio settings. Mono, stereo, pitch. I mean I sometimes use that. Some T_V_s will have the option of like living room style, movie style, um.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "and that, they say that's used zero point eight times an hour, which is actually somewhat high. Like almost once an hour.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Um, relevance of two.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Oh. We have five minutes to finish our meeting.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Crap. Okay, um, let's do this fast. Um.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Well that didn't some up on mine.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Should we have audio? It only comes up on mine usually.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "It w it would seem silly if we'd having anything else, just have an audio button though.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Oh.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah,", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Do you know?", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "I don't, I it's, it's a problem with the international uh appeal, I think. Um, if we have audio because we don't know how other televisions work. But we know that everyone has this and it's the same.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "But we.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "I've.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah I guess that it affects the marketing,'cause it, mm it is a good sales ploy to say, aren't you annoyed with remote controls that have all these buttons.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "This one has channel, volume and your channe and your power.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah, that's it. We can just go for, make it a selling point that it is just the basic.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "That could be a sales pitch.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Simple and.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah uh I.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Alright.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "brilliant.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Good. And, okay, in closing,'cause we only have five minutes. We'll be meeting again in thirty minutes. Um, you'll be working, Poppy will be working on the look-and-feel design. Wait a minute. Is that right?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yep, and um the user interface design, so this is where the trendy stuff comes in. And you'll be evaluating the product. Um, Poppy and Tara will have to work together, using modelling clay.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "And, um, your personal coach will give you the rest of the information of what needs to happen.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Alright. So, anyone else have something to say?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Um, I just have one question about the whole fruit and vegetable aspect.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah. Yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Are we seeing as that was the most popular thing that came up out of your market research, I thi I think we should keep to that rather than moving to animals or something, because even if that may not seem obvious to us, if that's what the surveys brought out, I think that we should probably go along with that.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah. Yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Um, so I suppose that'll come out in our dev design development. But you're happy to go ahead with the fruit and veg?", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Now do you guys need want an idea of how many uh are you gonna come up with casing ideas?", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Y Yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Like f five different.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "five..", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "What I What I was thinking what do yous think of this? Um, having the numbers kind of like, not a bunch of grapes, but you know like purple and kind of in a triangle.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Like grapes. Like that's kind of fruity or something.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah you can have some fun with the buttons, it's true.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "That's just.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "We can have a look at those ideas, yeah..", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "I guess what you i ideally you'd kind of think of age markets as well.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "So it's a something that will, you know, appeal to the fifteen to twenty five year olds. Something that your granny would want on her remote control.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Um, and international tastes as well, so.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Tricky. A lot of things to consider. Hm.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Not easy..", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah. Lots of.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "yeah. Alright.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "'Kay we'll stick to the fruit and veggie theme then.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Alright. 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Then we will take uh the decision on on the remote control uh needed functions and then I will assign you the task for the next part of the meeting. Of the of the process. So uh who want to start the the presentation of what they did?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "F do you want to start?", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Make a start yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "You can start.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "So..", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Cable, camera.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "You have uh PowerPoint?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Should be in my in their folder no?", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Ah yeah maybe there. Okay.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Up.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Who are you?.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Um at three I think.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "No? Mm.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Ouch. And.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Okay..", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "We have a technical problem uh.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Do we think w s in the in the wrong folder maybe? It is possible.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "You put it on.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "No.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "It was somewhere in something like this. I don't remember the name actually must be something like messenger AMI or something.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "What do you have in short cut?", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Go up.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Participant two.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah go up.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Again. No. Go back.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "You have no.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Uh maybe messenger AMI. Messenger.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Over. Okay.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "No. There is nothing.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "There's no We have a technical problem.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Let's go and check.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "I'll go and check.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Otherwise, could you just describe by hand?", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "With the the whiteboard?", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "If you remember yeah", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah. Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "but that's.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "So uh. Basically what we want here is a remote control right.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "So um the question well first of all what to control. So most people want to have a a remote for their hi-fi and T_V_ and stuff like that.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "And but other people want th also remotes for controlling uh and toys like robotic pets and little robots and stuff", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "and other people also want to have remotes for controlling um whole house.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah, so there's a project I think called X_ house or something like that that does that, uh you can integrate your remote with uh computers stuff. So.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "there is one that is one thing. The other is the the finder feature yeah by whistling or whatever. Uh if you have the finder feature then you can also have", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "uh at the same time as and general voice commands if you want yeah. So I think it should be a package in that case.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Uh so the user interface will consist of two parts. One is the voice command part and on one is the actual buttons part. Uh and th the buttons part would be uh a set of buttons for choosing devices, a set of buttons for special navigation in space,", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm. Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "a set of buttons for linear access of medium and a set of buttons for random access.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah?", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "What do you mean by linear access then?", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Like a video tape goes forward, backwards, uh fast and stuff yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Ah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Okay so special navigation, linear access, random access", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Um.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "and there's a fourth one no?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm?", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "So the better now for special navigation?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah. For special navigation for example you might have a T_V_ in the menu and you going to change yeah?", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Okay. Then linear access", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Uh.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "then random access.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm. Yeah and also parameter changing.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Ah yeah parameter okay.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "So if there are common parameters maybe we should put special buttons for that um", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "or maybe we could have everything uh generic but uh there are a lot of uh remotes on the market right now and basically this is most of the almost everybody has this stuff.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Okay. Okay and and voice command did you uh.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Voice command w we could specify anything. We could assign any button a command to any button, if we have enough processing power,", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Okay. Okay.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "I guess so. Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "So that's uh that close your investigations?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Uh yeah I think so.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Not so far.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Maybe we can have a look at the user requirements with.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah. Um I dunno if you can open the.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "I dunno if I can open it. Maybe you can s", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "uh m is not here.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "It's.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Uh in yeah okay.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Messenger no?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "No. In document. Mm computer yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "In which folder?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Where did you put it?", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Here. Here.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Short-cut to AMI shared folder?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "mm.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "But it's not Um.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Maybe you can send it to me by email. Just to participant one. At AMI.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm. Yeah, I can do that.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "I will try to show it to everyone, that would be more comfortable.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Okay. Um.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "You send it?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "It's participant one?", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah. Uh this is this email.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "I'm designing the user interface..", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Okay. You can uh.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Okay. So maybe I can switch slides when you whenever you ask,", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "that will be more convenient. So okay, functional requirements.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Okay so you can you can go. Okay so in our usability lab we observed the remote control use among one hundred subjects", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "and the subjects also filled a questionnaire", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "okay? And here I have the results so you can see that um seventy five per cent of users find most remote controls ugly so we have to find something to make them more more nice, more kind. Eighty per cents of users would spend more money when the remote control would look fancy. Eighty hundred per cent of users would spend more money when the remote control would look.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "oh to it's not good. So okay.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "We can just keep doing that?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "So it's not in theory but I I can I can say yeah..", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Fifty f uh seventy five per cent of users say they s zap a lot. So mm we have to have a remote control uh very um out for that. Uh the buttons have are to be um uh uh like you say resist resisting to to shocks.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Um and fifty per cents of users say they only use uh ten per cents of but of the buttons in the in the remote control.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "So all the buttons we we have to put are have to to have um a use a real use", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "and not only or.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Okay, so fewer buttons maybe would be good?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah. F not many buttons, and uh and uh uh u useable buttons.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "But what kind of remote controls did you look at?", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Sorry?", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "What kind of task was it? It was a T_V_?", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah. Uh most for most is T_V_.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah. Yeah but in fact we it it seems that we are going to make a T_V_ remote control according to new requirements I received from the management", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Huh.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "bo I will present them in the following.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Uh-huh. Ah! Good.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "'Kay you can go so.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "So there are other frustrations expressed by users, so they said uh they lost uh often the remote control in in the room so they want to have a way to to", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah. To find it.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "to find it.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Um and um lot of the time they it takes too much time to learn how to use a new remote control.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "So they want something s really very simple and uh easy to use.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "And uh remote controls are bad for", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "What is her other side?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "R_S_I_ um.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Other side yeah, yo wa your wrist", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "I dunno.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "It i can become painful you can have tendonditis.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Oh yeah?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "I did not knew that.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "If you also up on a computer in a strange position.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Okay so you we have to make it uh more ergonomic yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Ergonomic. But uh.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Have to say ha ha..", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "It's your job.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Oh..", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Uh.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Uh sorry got a message from Microsoft..", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Okay um before that I I have some some some thing uh to say before um.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah. Yeah yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "We know that uh the user use uh a lot their um remote control um to to change channel.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Um and um to to change uh volume selection of the.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "and uh and not uh a lot for setting for setting the the channels and uh thing things like that.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "So it's better to put uh uh uh something very easy to set and uh and.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah. This function should be very uh accessible.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Very accessible yes.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah, okay. This is the main function okay.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "That's right. So then we asked some questions to them", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "and um we asked this question if they prefer an L_C_D_ screen or on their remultific function remotes control", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "and if they mm pay more for speech recognition in remote control", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "and you can go we have here the results of", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "The first question.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "of the questions. So you know that um", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "for the younger it's very important", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "To have L_C_D_ and voice.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "to have the s yes and speech recognition. And uh and the others is not so important but uh we know that uh uh people between fifteen and twenty five are people who watch a lot T_V_ and uh who who wh can use a lot this uh.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "So maybe we we can have a speech recognition in.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah maybe this this is important.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Moreover th maybe those uh like those teenager customer could advice their parents to buy this equipment and so we can.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "we have to take care of that point of view I think or so.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Okay and if there is th the conclusion now. So as we say before, I think uh um a remote control lightening in the dark it's it's a good thing.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Uh not to many mud buttons like we we said before,", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "e easy to use uh a way to find it easily in the room and uh uh resistant to to shock and to to.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "An I s no, yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Okay these are the user requi", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "I dunno if you see something else important or.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "I'm just thinking of some thing.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Um We want to have a no, I don't know if this is a good idea. We want to have a a general remote control for everything.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "No no no. We w it seems that we no want to have a T_V_ remote control. From the management board I receive an email.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Okay. Yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Cos it would be costly uh and and also it it would take more time to develop to have a a general generic remote control.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah. Yeah yeah. Yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Mm I it's not true I think. The the second claim that you put.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "No no..", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "That it would be too long to develop.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "I think that should be the same.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Oh yeah. Because I received that email from management board and they seems to tell that that if we want to be on the market as early as possible we should uh focus on T_V_ more where it seems that the market is more important. So maybe it's a good decision. I dunno. What's your opinion?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "I have uh I've no idea I mean I should know a bit more about how fast we can uh design it.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "I don't think.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Uh yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Finish tonight.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah. Okay. Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "But basically yeah maybe I can continue with my presentation, it would be al you you.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "but I think we have some technical problem or so. So I'm just going to describe briefly what we do in the remote control.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Maybe you can go to the whiteboard if you have some drawings to do", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "If fact.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "I don't know.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah but.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Do I have oh yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Now I have enough cables.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Like a you feel a bit like a dog with this stuff.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Okay so I'm just going to describe in fact for for a remote control this is quite easy. We just have.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "sorry, I'm going.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Are you okay?.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Like that. I'm just going to describe. Basically we have a a battery a power supply here. After that we just have um user interface. Let's say that um something like that, which could be um a L_C_D_ let's say or um an array of push button, something like that. Push button or a L_C_D_. After that we we feed that into um uh an electronic chip. So I say U_C_ and I feed that to uh L_E_D_ which is uh infrared um which is a an infrared um component. And so what we for for myself this for for us this is quite easy.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "U_C_ is the central unit?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Okay yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Y it's a it's this just a chip which does all the um numerical", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Computation.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "numerical computation according to your display.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "And so for us uh this is quite easy. We just need to take to define what we want to do when the user interface um wants something and after that we just do the coding to s and send that to to to the not the to the television.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "So for us this is quite easy.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Okay so this is quite easy. There is not that much constraints.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah. Um we just have to define the processing power that we need uh especially if we want to do some uh speech recognition, in that case that mean that we are going to use more for simple.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "This will think this will take more time to develop also.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah of course of course.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah..", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "And um but for a standard one this is really easy. It's a question of one month and so on s", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Soon.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "To have a you s you speak about with voi voice control?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "No no no no,", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Standard button one.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "I say yeah standard uh standard remote control takes maybe uh one month to to do that.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah. So the only time problem is the sp voice recognition.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Definitely.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "So do you have any idea of how long it would take to have voice recognition now?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Ten years.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "I would say.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "I would say uh about eight months to have the first results.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Okay so i it's a bit long yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah. I can Um.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "One month for the standard one with button.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Even if we have a L_C_D_ display?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah even. I mean that this is really standard devices now. Um eight. For uh speech recognition.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Okay yeah. Okay so we can take this into account. So who think it would be good to go for uh like speech recognition?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "But we don't have time to market.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah it will.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "And also how much uh I think", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "I think we should contact management.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "during the kickoff meeting you say that we we shouldn't we shouldn't go up to twelve point five Euro per unit", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Euros. Yeah, yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "so how many units should we sell to have a.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Well. Uh.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Well each unit is is sell uh twenty five Euros.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah but how many yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "How muc how much do you get how much do you if you buy one million units h no, one hundred thousand units.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Eh chips. We're gonna need chips right.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah. How much will it cost for one hundred thousand?", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Usually this is less tha at two dollars per chip.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Because we are.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "So you have any idea for a powerful one that has uh good enough for do speech recognition.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah,", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah? Okay.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "we can.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "So.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "It seems that that we want to sell like four million units from the first meeting.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "No it doesn't.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Okay. Four million..", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Okay. Maybe we can uh we can look at the new requirement I receive from the management board and discus discuss all function we want to have.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Um I just had a question uh do you want to continue with your presenta?", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah I I will continue.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Is it.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Well ask your question if you want.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Um you say that I don't remember by heart but thirty per cent", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Mm?", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "of the tested people say that's it's quite difficult to to to use the remote control.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Do they say that this is difficult but for the same reason or do they have other reason? To to.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Oh.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "maybe to keep in mind maybe to access to that menu you should do something like that.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Would j Uh yeah w I I think they they say that it's uh difficult to learn how to use it but i when you know how to use it, it's it's okay.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm. Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Okay. It's not intuitive first.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "And.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "But Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "But yeah maybe and what about if we design a remote control which can be configure as you want? You say that I want, I have six button.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Mh-hmm. A a lot of people are uh if you have the L_C_D_ screen if you can do it completely the way you want because the buttons also look the way you want them", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah. But, but also it seems that.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "but it will be hard to configure I mean imagine i uh.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "so it's really something for the expert user. So.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "I mean there are markets and markets. I think the young people are th uh are uh.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Christine here said uh you have a.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "uh it is yeah. So for our young people uh it will be cool, they can be able to use it. Th maybe their parents will not but they will configure it. I guess. I don't know if there is study about that.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah. Maybe it would be more complex to configure it to be simple than creating a simple product.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah. Yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "And there are another thing is that if we make something that's simple and easy to use that's bas to use immediately that means that it will be exactly the same as everything else.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "All right?", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah. Yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Otherwise, if it's different then of course everybody has somebody has to learn to use it first.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "But also we we see that that most people find it find remote controls too complex because they have too many buttons and they mainly use only channels and volume buttons.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "So we may just uh make a very easy to use remote control with mainly those buttons", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "and maybe also um some lightning stuff too because most people find also hard to to find the remote control. Losed lose it etcetera.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "These these are these two points are the main frustrations so maybe if we design something very simple and easy to uh find when lost it will uh add uh a serious competitive advantage without making something too complex and too long to develop.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "So but le let us see first the new requirement. So we don't have to so this this uh is uh is um in the this is in the same direction as we were speaking so we don't have to make a very complex remote controls to access teletext and stuff like that.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "But teletext is just one button.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah but then you have to you have to define the buttons to surf amongst pages and stuff.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "You you just write the write the numbers.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah. So well.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "So will you add with the channel keys, right?", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah. So anyway we don't have to include this feature because it's it's not used any more by users,", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "So..", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "they prefer to s", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "I am. I'm sure that uh it don't like but uh I don't see just one button.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah. I dunno.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "So.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "If i one button is still one more button. If if if we want to make it very simple we have to reduce number of buttons compared to th to our competitors.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Well anyway I have this point. We can discuss. Also um so as as I told before uh it would be better if it's only for the T_V_ um because we want to be quick on on the market. And then also we have to make very uh uh clear that this uh this remote control is is part of of our products and show our corporate uh logo and and colours on the on the design as well so that uh they identify it as one of our product. So this is the the key point.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "So before uh finishing we can uh define uh what would be the characteristic of the o th of the control of the remote control and which button do we need which function do we want etcetera.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Capital.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "So do you um so so from from the the Marketing Expert I think a key aspect is the easy to use aspect, it should be very simple and most button are never used", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "only ten per cent of the button are are used often so I think we have to do something very simple and I think we all agree on that point, no?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Well if it is going to be just a T_V_ remote control it is going to be very simple.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah okay. So yeah the key point here is simple. Maybe. So few buttons, channel, volume control and what el what function do you see in addition to that?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Well if it's going to be as simple as possible then just have the remote control, there is no other function that I can see", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "really.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Maybe switch T_V_ on and off.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Uh", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "no you want to keep television on so that the advertising can revenue can come back to us.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah. Yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Or something.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Volume, maybe a mute button, and then on off button.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "And that's all?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Uh I know that som you say that many people are doing plenty of a lot of zapping.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "I know tha I discovered that when I did a quick look, uh they do now som they do something which is quite nice now,", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "It's a memory, yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "you have a button, you you press it, and this is uh the previous channel which has come back.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Okay. Yeah this is cool. Maybe we can include that also. Previous previous channel button. So we have like channel button, the previous channel button, the volume button, plus a mute button, and uh just the the traditional on off button.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm. Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "And uh and of course the channel changing buttons.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm..", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah. I I talk about that, yeah?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "How should they how should we implement that? Because uh could be numerical only or could be also incremental.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah. Incremental definitely because zapping you you switch them.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Let's say that we can do something like that. This is uh incremental, but once you press it for a long time, you go five by five.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "We go faster?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "To go fa to go faster.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm. It's an interesting idea, that if you press it for a long time it does something else, in general. So if you you have your ten buttons for the for the numeric the numerical buttons and you have instead of having just one memory", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "you have if you press them for a long time No. Doesn't work does it.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Maybe we should have also a digit button.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Maybe we should have a complete keyboard and just type console commands.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Change channel to eight.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Maybe we have also to have digits or only incremental.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "No..", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "I dunno bec because if you have the.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Well if it's useful like if if you want to change between three channels for example then you h you cannot you cannot cannot work with just memory being incremental.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Uh. Yeah. Because you have your previous channel button if you have incremental only it's not uh it isn't worth it because the previous channel is eith either minus one or plus one.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "So I think we need also digits.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah..", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Maybe we we can make very obvious the channel and volume button button and smaller button down there with the the digits.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah when you zap usually you will have to press the same button all the time.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "and.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Or we can do something like that.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "We can design the remote control to have access. You know some remote control have uh protection", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "and so you you y", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Hey I just thought this thing.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "You.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "there is a I mean you know there is are some with a wheel like this. Instead of having the up down buttons for uh you can have the wheel.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah, a kind of joystick.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah. Maybe we can have a wheel for incremental.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "So have a wheel for incremental, have the digits uh on the lower side that can be closed so as you say protected,", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "and uh yeah I think this is the basi", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "On the lower side I think it you have to turn it.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "And do we do we have a.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "No? If we do that.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Or a or a ball, yeah, not a a wheel but a ball, and you say uh to.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "No, a wheel is better.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "I would say the wheel is better.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Because of that.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "What is the expert of uh.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "The channels change one by one.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "So you have to the user has to like to should feel the the the discrete sense a bit.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah, the.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah. That's a good idea.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Well also we have to decide uh so it should be lightening in the dark I think because most people lost their remote control.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "'S quite it's quite easy we do that w with back light on the on the wheel.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah. Even if i L_E_D_ uh or a if if it's the L_C_D_ feature uh", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "A blue a blue L_E_D_ and we sell that um.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah,", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "whatever, yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "and do we put an L_C_D_ display?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Because it was important for young customers if you remember.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "I think it's only put on if cou have multi function. If you do not multi function then there is no p point in having L_C_D_.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Just increase the cost.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "The user does not have an advantage really.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "So no L_C_D_?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Hmm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "And so no speech as well because it w it would delay too much the development process", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Well if it's going to delay yeah", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "but uh it will be cool. It would. Because a user could say C_N_N_ for example and it would go C_N_N_. Mm.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah. That would be cool. But eight months is really long", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "and Maybe we can just uh.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Ten years.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Okay. So um I I will uh I will so I we will move to next meeting so in after the lunch break uh here are the individual uh action uh you are required to do", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "but you will be uh recalled to the actions by uh email I think but you can take notes if you if you want but well the instruction will be sent. So thank you for uh your suggestion", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "and I I will make a summary of that meeting that I will put in the shared folder you can't see.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Okay. Okay.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "and uh and then you will um you will be able to to see what has been uh has been said on on this meeting and and what has been decided. Uh maybe for next meeting uh send me your presentation before by email so that we can see them uh altogether. That would be easier.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "What is the folder that you put yours in? And did it it did work?", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "No.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "No it did not work.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "No no.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "She send it to me by email.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Ah yeah. Mm.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "I dunno, I dunno it.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "So maybe this is better, to send it by email. Okay?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Okay what is your email?", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "So yeah I I'm it's in the first uh email so I'm participant one at AMI", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "At participant one. Okay.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "uh where is that, it's here. Participant one at AMI. Okay. 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f4414007ec704a1ca83740dbf58c5af2	{ "meetingId": "education11", "transcriptSegments": [ { "text": "Good morning, everyone, and welcome to the Children, Young People and Education committee this morning. We've received apologies for absence from Siân Gwenllian and there is no substitute this morning. Can I ask if Members have got any declarations of interest they'd like to make, please? No? Okay. Thank you. Item 2 this morning, then, is a further session on our follow-up on our'Mind over matter' report. I'm very pleased to welcome Carol Shillabeer, who is chief executive of Powys Teaching Health Board, and who manages the Together for Children and Young People programme. Thank you very much for attending, and thank you for the written update that you provided in advance to the committee. We've got a lot of ground that we want to cover this morning, so if it's okay we'll go straight into questions. If I can just start and ask you if you're satisfied with the progress that's been made since the programme was established in 2015.", "speakerName": "Lynne Neagle AM" }, { "text": "Thank you very much for that question, Chair. I've got to say'yes', in many regards. So, the key focus of the programme in the early stages was about improving access to specialist child and adolescent mental health services. We developed the windscreen model—or we lifted the windscreen model. Other models that are very similar have been talked about as well, and our big focus was on ensuring that we could make immediate progress around access to specialist CAMHS. It's some years ago now since this committee did the original report, and obviously Healthcare Inspectorate Wales and the Wales Audit Office had done reports in the past, and I think there was a need for a programme that could focus on action. You'll see in the written update that we covered quite a large number of areas, and so therefore had to make a prioritisation. The prioritisation was at the specialist CAMHS end. We have provided the committee with a red, amber or green rating of where we feel that we were, and that was just before submission of the evidence. Overall I would say we have made progress. I recognise you recognise that in your'Mind over matter' report, and that is pleasing. What I would say, though, is that there's a still a lot to be done. Certainly over the last nine months or so, we've seen a real momentum around the whole-school approach work, which we're not actually leading now as a programme, although we facilitated the workshop held in September. But that's got a real momentum, and the absolute priority now is the early help and enhanced support part of the work moving forward, and I'm sure we will come on to that in more detail. But we know there is more community workforce in specialist CAMHS, we know we're seeing children in a shorter time frame, and we know we're accepting more referrals, so our indicators are telling us we are making progress.", "speakerName": "Carol Shillabeer" }, { "text": "Thank you. And you referred to the work on the whole-school approach, which is very welcome, and I recognise that the programme has been involved in driving that as well. But I'm sure you'll also recognise the emphasis that the committee has placed on this being a whole-system approach to children and young people's mental health, and we feel very strongly that if any of the areas get out of balance, then it will jeopardise the progress in other parts of the programme. Are there any particular areas where you feel you haven't made enough progress that you'd like to draw the committee's attention to?", "speakerName": "Lynne Neagle AM" }, { "text": "This is maybe about what the programme's done, but really around the broader sense as well. I'm going to be very straight and say we should have made more progress on psychological therapies. I'm disappointed that we haven't. I'm assured that we've got capacity in place now and the drive in place to get the Matrics Cymru framework developed for children and young people. I've had discussions with the national psychological therapies committee, who have owned this, and we're working together more on this area. That's not to say for one minute that health boards and local areas haven't been working on psychological therapy service provision and changing the models, but that is an area we should have made, I think, earlier progress on. There's been a general reflection from myself and the Together for Children and Young People programme board over the phase of the programme. I think we started very strongly; I think we probably had a bit of a lull in the middle, if I'm truthful about that—we had a change of personnel, and we really gathered a momentum over the last year or 18 months, and that has helped to push us from a focus on specialist CAMHS into that whole-school approach. But, if I could just agree with your comments about the whole system, it has to be the whole system and that's why the real focus now on early help and enhanced support is critical. If I can just say, in case I don't get a chance to say this later, I was delighted to see the focus on youth work yesterday, because what is clear is for that part, the early help and enhanced support, this isn't just about the NHS and it's not just about education, it's about every part of the system, really, which does make it more complex. But I just wanted to say that I think that youth work has perhaps not have the recognition that it's needed and yesterday was a positive step.", "speakerName": "Carol Shillabeer" }, { "text": "Okay, thank you. We've got some questions now on early help and enhanced support from Janet Finch-Saunders.", "speakerName": "Lynne Neagle AM" }, { "text": "Thank you. Good morning. In terms of local primary mental health support services, what is your understanding of the issues leading to some health boards not meeting the Mental Health (Wales) Measure 2010 targets for assessment and therapy for children and young people, and how much of this is due to an increase in demand?", "speakerName": "Janet Finch-Saunders AM" }, { "text": "Yes, thanks very much. So, it's important to say, I think, at the outset, just by way of reminder, that the target, quite rightly, changed for children and young people. The target changed some years ago for adults, so it was only right that there was an equalisation around children. So, the services were working, a couple of years ago, with significant demand and then a change in the standard. I think you're absolutely right; your question alludes to the fact that some health boards are struggling to maintain the full performance around seeing children, particularly within the 28 days. I would say—. And we've had some discussion about whether the impact of the mental health Measure has actually drawn perhaps some of the workforce, the staff, who would have been working at that earlier stage in local primary mental health, into a bit more of the secondary element, which is why the review being undertaken by the NHS delivery unit into primary care CAMHS is so critical, because, actually, if we don't have—and I believe we don't have—enough capacity in that part of the system, then referrals will move towards the more specialist end of this. So, I think we will have seen, by the evidence submission, that demand has increased, not just in Wales but in the UK, and it has increased significantly. We are doing reasonably well at meeting that demand—so, we have more contacts, more staff, shorter access times, so that is a good news story. We've not got it completely sustained at this stage, and therefore the focus of the delivery unit's primary care CAMHS report is what more can we do in that part of the system to help to see children and young people or provide consultation and liaison to others and support people at that level of intervention.", "speakerName": "Carol Shillabeer" }, { "text": "Thank you. I know, from my own experience as a constituency AM, I have families who tell me that they can't get into the early interventions and eventually things just become so—they end up in the more specialist ones and believe that that's—. And I don't like to put it in resource terms, but it's false economy in terms of the impact on the child and the family, but, obviously, in terms of cost as well. Do you find that that's a common theme across Wales?", "speakerName": "Janet Finch-Saunders AM" }, { "text": "Yes. I think that the thrust of that is absolutely right. So, we absolutely need to see children and families at the earliest intervention and that's why this is a whole system, not compartmentalised. I think there have been really good attempts in a couple of areas of that greater reach out and that earlier help—hot clinics and those sorts of initiatives that help people not to get in a long queue for specialist CAMHS, but can be supported, often by telephone, at that earlier stage. My sense of where we go next, in terms of, you know, you talk about early help and enhanced support for all the'missing middle', as you referred to it in your report, is to make sure we've got a fully joined-up, multi-agency team approach to that. And I think that will need some resourcing to support that, yet to be fully determined. But yesterday's announcement about youth work, the Government's commitment to primary care, CAMHS, et cetera—that's all going to be very helpful to prevent those young people having to go into specialist CAMHS. And just a final note on that, if I may—at the beginning of the programme, we had a report from Hafal called'Making Sense' and there were 10 key asks, if you like, of the system and the service from young people who had experience of the service. They said,'Please don't medicalise it'—I'm paraphrasing now, of course—'Please don't medicalise it; please focus on supporting teachers and others who can support us at an earlier stage and then, when we really need help, please ensure that it is there at that more specialist level.' That's been a bit of a guiding principle for the programme. So, that reflects the questions that you were asking, really.", "speakerName": "Carol Shillabeer" }, { "text": "Thank you. What are the outcomes of the stakeholder workshop held last week on early help and enhanced support? And how are the actions going to be taken forward and implemented? And also, given that the Together for Children and Young People programme comes to an end in October of this year, who, in your view, is best placed to forward this work stream, and what will be the biggest challenges? It's a bit of a long question, so, break it up however you like.", "speakerName": "Janet Finch-Saunders AM" }, { "text": "That's absolutely fine.", "speakerName": "Carol Shillabeer" }, { "text": "And what will be the biggest challenges that they will face?", "speakerName": "Janet Finch-Saunders AM" }, { "text": "Yes, I think that's helpfully laid out in three stages. So, you're absolutely right, there was a highly successful workshop last week really focusing on early help and enhanced support. It brought all of the agencies together, which was—and actually had a bit of a waiting list, apparently, for places. So, there was a lot of demand and a lot of interest in this. In relation to the next steps, there is a planning group reflection in early July, in terms of the outcomes of the workshop or the outputs of the workshop, and there are three commitments that have been made to this stage. One is that we develop those values-led approaches that will bring multiple agencies together to have that common purpose. The second one is to develop the ingredients for successful working in this area, and then, thirdly, to determine or propose priorities and sequencing of next steps. So, that's the next stage of that. I'm pretty sure we'll come on shortly—or hopefully—to the potential of the regional partnership boards. There is some work that we are doing as a programme with the children's commissioner in terms of working more with the regional partnership boards in taking forward this work. So, that will run alongside. But during the summer, then, we will be developing that framework approach, and we will be participating in the Association of Directors of Social Services conference in September, and then a follow-up workshop in October on this matter. On your question of'Well, what happens after the programme?' we are currently working on legacy arrangements for the programme. I'm pretty secure on the specialist CAMHS element. That will move, most likely, to the CAMHS network, which is part of the NHS mental health network. I actually chair the mental health network and that's one part of that. The whole-school approach element is already settled in Government and we've got a connection in to that. The question that's outstanding is where the early help and enhanced support and the neurodevelopmental will go. I am currently in discussions with Welsh Government officials around that. I can be very clear of my own view that there needs to be a confident and clear legacy arrangement for this work. We cannot afford that we've come so far for this not now to proceed. I think there's a huge momentum behind this. I don't see there would be any obstacles—I hope—in getting that commitment translated into a strong approach, as we move forward. So, I'm not in a position to say,'And the legacy arrangements will be—', but I am in a position to say that I'm having those discussions with Welsh Government officials. They know my view that we've got to put something in place that is strong and secure as we move forward, and I believe that they are supportive of that.", "speakerName": "Carol Shillabeer" }, { "text": "Thank you.", "speakerName": "Janet Finch-Saunders AM" }, { "text": "Janet, I think those two questions have been touched on, the remaining questions. We are going to discuss in more detail the legacy arrangements, but if I could just ask on psychological therapies: you referred to the fact that you were a bit disappointed with progress in this area, and the area hasn't been directly led on by the Together for Children and Young People programme. Do you think that means now that there is more of a threat to progress in this area, because, you know, we've got different compartmentalising of actions, and this is absolutely key, isn't it, really?", "speakerName": "Lynne Neagle AM" }, { "text": "Yes. I think there's—. There is some refinement to be done, I think, in making sure the connections are there. So, I think, as we move to programme end, we'll want to be absolutely assured that there are no strands left hanging, so to speak. I am confident—I mentioned the mental health network board that I chair—that we have those strands nailed down, but recognising that the early help and enhanced support and the provision of psychological support is beyond the NHS. So, this will be an area that needs to be very much seen as a key part of that. My own sense is that—. There's been quite a lot of other developments through the life of the programme. So, in the evidence that I've provided, you'll see the First 1000 days, all the adverse childhood experiences work, the Cymru Well Wales partnership, et cetera, et cetera. So, there is a bit of what I would call tidying up of the landscape to be done, and this is the ideal opportunity to do that.", "speakerName": "Carol Shillabeer" }, { "text": "Okay. Thank you. We've got some questions now on specialist CAMHS—if I can just ask about the impact of the specialist CAMHS framework, and how effective you feel that has been in promoting a consistent delivery of care for young people.", "speakerName": "Lynne Neagle AM" }, { "text": "Thanks very much for that. Without wanting to go back too far in history, I remember coming into this area back in 2014 as I was asked to establish a CAMHS network. My observation was there wasn't really a strong and well-connected clinical community in this area. When we spin forward five years, I can confidently say that there is a strong and well-connected clinical community around specialist CAMHS. The programme has helped; the emphasis and the focus of the programme has helped to bring people together with that more common endeavour to understand, actually, there is a good case for consistency in the main, with local variation. There has been a case for much greater learning between organisations. If I just give you an example—you'll know that the community intensive service teams were put in place in 2015-ish. Some areas have them, but a lot of areas didn't. We do have inconsistency in that, but the consistent part is there is a service now right the way across Wales for more intensive support to children and young people and their families in their own homes, which helps to prevent admissions and then, where there are admissions, helps to support people to be at home. They're all called slightly different things. So, I might have referred in my papers to CITT, CATT, COT and CITE. So, they've all got slightly different names and they've got slightly different opening hours. The key thrust of this is that there is a backbone, if you like, of a consistent approach with that local variation. We have to check. So, things like frameworks for improvement—there is a coming together of the clinicians and the professionals to agree what that framework for improvement is. That then gets implemented, with some local variation. So, I think the process of moving in that way has been extremely helpful. There will be some variation. We want some variation, to some extent, as places try new things and evaluate new things. So, if I just refer to the previous question that I had, and I talked about hot clinics and different ways of reaching out; that's been tried in one area, been evaluated—let's see the spread of that. So, you'll know my view on internet counselling, for example; I feel that is quite a strong offer for children—not necessarily in the specialist end. If that works in one area, why aren't we rolling that out to other areas? So, I think the framework for improvement has provided a vehicle for those clinicians and professionals to come together. It's in a stronger place—a much stronger place—than it was five years ago.", "speakerName": "Carol Shillabeer" }, { "text": "Okay, thank you. You've referred to there being some inconsistencies in terms of crisis care, but are you able to assure the committee that all young people are now getting at least a consistent service, especially in terms of interventions in the instances of young people self-harming. Wherever you live in Wales, is that help there for you now?", "speakerName": "Lynne Neagle AM" }, { "text": "Well, in your work to produce the'Mind over matter' report, I clearly listened to the views from the police and the recommendations in relation to the police. We've taken that as a further piece of work under the specialist CAMHS umbrella, to truly understand what the experiences of the police are and what some of the root issues may be in relation to that. For example, is it that because the CIT, CAT, COT, CITE—the community intensive service—closes at 10 o'clock in a certain area, that actually it's after that that the network of support isn't as strong, and, if that is the case, what are we going to do about that? There's certainly potential in working more regionally or even working between adults' and children's in terms of the crisis resolution services that work beyond those hours. So, we are taking an extra look at this, because I could not be 100 per cent confident that, throughout the 24-hour period, we've got this fully settled. I continue to hear some stories from the police that they are picking up young people and feeling that they've not got that solid place to go, and we're following those through.", "speakerName": "Carol Shillabeer" }, { "text": "Okay, thank you. We've got some questions now from Hefin David on neurodevelopmental services.", "speakerName": "Lynne Neagle AM" }, { "text": "I think, Chair, I should have declared an interest here, as my daughter has been diagnosed with autism and is currently going through the process of receiving neurodevelopmental speech and language support particularly. We're seeing an increase in neurodevelopmental referrals, and that will increase further in the future. Can you give us an explanation as to why this demand is growing and how we're going to meet capacity to deliver and for support for those children?", "speakerName": "Hefin David AM" }, { "text": "Thank you. They're very big questions in terms of'why'. I'm not sure that anyone really knows why, if I'm honest, although there is a lot of academic research going on. What we do know is that we are starting to see the scale of those referrals coming through. So, in the information provided, I refer to the NHS digital prevalence report in England, which indicates that about 5.5 per cent of two to four-year-olds have a mental disorder. Now, that sounds a bit shocking when we say that, but that's in the international classification scaling, and, of that, certainly, 2.5 per cent is around autism. I can just testify, in real life, that demand is absolutely growing. So, if I just take my own health board for a moment, we usually have about 75 referrals per year. Last year we had 300. So, that has felt very difficult to manage. If I can just give you a sense of what we've done so far and then what I think is next, I want to recognise the work of Dr Cath Norton and the steering group that's been established on neurodevelopmental issues under the programme. They had a standing start. They've done a lot of very, very good work. We now have seven teams in place across Wales. We now have a national pathway. We now have a community-of-practice-type environment, and we're really getting into this. Good progress has been made. More people have been seen. More people have been assessed. So, we have made progress. But I've got a long list of considerations that I think respond to your question. One is that most referrals that come through, the clinicians tell me, are seeking support to move through what they perceive to be a gateway for educational support. So, that is often the reason why people come. Now, that is obviously going to be linked to the whole-school approach and how we can support that. Demand is outstripping supply. So, our clinical teams are concerned about how do they keep up. So, if I just take my own example of 300 in the last year, we're looking to try and put some additional capacity in to support seeing those families, but also then to understand what the long-term trajectory is going to be. Because we've put these teams in, because we've got the new pathway, has that opened a gate and we've got a lot of backlog or is that the pattern?", "speakerName": "Carol Shillabeer" }, { "text": "Can I just ask a question there?", "speakerName": "Hefin David AM" }, { "text": "Yes.", "speakerName": "Carol Shillabeer" }, { "text": "So, with regard to the 75 to 300 increase—in the space of a year was that?", "speakerName": "Hefin David AM" }, { "text": "In a year, yes.", "speakerName": "Carol Shillabeer" }, { "text": "Did you anticipate that or was that something that just came totally unexpected?", "speakerName": "Hefin David AM" }, { "text": "I think we anticipated a few more, and just to say that in my—", "speakerName": "Carol Shillabeer" }, { "text": "But not on that scale.", "speakerName": "Hefin David AM" }, { "text": "No, not on that scale. And in my own health board—I'm just referring to my own, and I'm happy to share the information on this—we already had a service in place. So, it wasn't as if we had nothing in place previously. We had a NICE-compliant service already in place, but we knew we needed to expand that, which we have done, but we didn't anticipate 300. So, this is happening not just across Wales, actually, but across the UK—so, this greater recognition, the desire for families coming forward to access that support and them seeing this as a route, which is really important. What I would also say, and this is part of the bigger picture that we need to consider going forward, is that only about 40 per cent to 50 per cent of those families that come forward have what I would call or the clinicians would call a diagnosis—so, a threshold or whatever term you want to use that takes people through to that educational support. So, we've got a lot of people who are under that threshold, but that's a lot of people who still need help and support. I'm trying to very fairly and, I hope, appropriately represent the very strong views coming from the group—the workstream under the programme. We've got to tackle all of that. It's not going to be good enough for us just to focus our attention on those children and young people and their families who reach a threshold, because there are needs elsewhere as well, and some of that will overlap with the early help and enhanced support. Some of that overlaps with learning disability services. Can I just mention a few more things, as I'm on roll on neurodevelopmental?", "speakerName": "Carol Shillabeer" }, { "text": "It's up to the Chair.", "speakerName": "Hefin David AM" }, { "text": "Yes, go on.", "speakerName": "Lynne Neagle AM" }, { "text": "Is that all right? Sorry, I know it's a very long answer. There is a concern from the neurodevelopmental group to get across that whilst there has been a lot of focus on autism—and we recognise the private Member's Bill—there are other neurodevelopmental presentations and there's a real—. Having the broadest view would be advised by them, and I think they're particularly keen to understand what a future vision and what we call, say, a'perfect world' would look like. That's the piece of work that we're wanting to do now. In terms of giving advice at the end of the programme and into legacy arrangements, about what the big, big things are, we are still needing to tackle.", "speakerName": "Carol Shillabeer" }, { "text": "I mean, I personally took a very personal decision when it came to the Member's Bill on autism you were talking about—and that was the advice I received. You need to look at the wider symptoms that are presented beyond autism and other neurological conditions. So, I'm glad you said that, because it gives me—. Because I didn't vote for that Bill, and I'm glad you said that because it gives me some personal reassurance there. But what I do have concerns about is if the increase wasn't anticipated to the extent that it was and that the Together for Children and Young People programme has a duty to review capacity, after October who's going to make sure that that capacity's reviewed on a strategic basis?", "speakerName": "Hefin David AM" }, { "text": "So, I should have probably added in that we've got a piece of work under way at the moment—Welsh Government commissioned it—by a person called Patrick Holton, and he is specifically looking at the demands on capacity in relation to neurodevelopmental. I think getting that slightly more independent view of what we think the trends are going to be over the long term will mean we can plan for the long term. We know that money's been put into this and it has had an important impact, but we now need to be planning for the next three, five, 10 and many years beyond that. There is the integrated autism service. I think there are some conversations, when I talk about the landscape being quite busy, about the sense of where this links as we support people through their lives with a neurodevelopmental issue. So, it's not just about a childhood thing; as people move through, we've got to get much better at that long-term planning. So, that piece of work is really important. We will get the report of that over the next couple of months in order for this sort of perfect-world picture that we want to try to describe to be informed by that. It also connects to the early help and enhanced support, because recognising if we just say half of the people who come for an assessment don't meet a threshold for a certain category, that's a lot of people who will need help and support to manage and cope with their condition and their situation.", "speakerName": "Carol Shillabeer" }, { "text": "Okay, thank you. If we can just move on now to in-patient care, and if I can just ask you what the programme has been doing to address some of the challenges and opportunities we face in terms of CAMHS in-patient care, particularly in light of the restrictions that are in place in Abergele and Tŷ Llidiard.", "speakerName": "Lynne Neagle AM" }, { "text": "Yes, thank you very much for that question. Again, quite a lot of progress has been made in the early part of the programme around in-patients, and you are very well aware of the challenges over the last year or 18 months in relation to both units. I think, certainly, there is some recovery in the position in north Wales, and the programme did a peer review visit to north Wales, which I think was very helpful. In terms of where the programme has been on this issue, there is some work under way, at quite an advanced stage, around the art of the possible around enhancing the scope of the services. This was quite a tricky thing to start off when you're in a position where, actually, there've been some restrictions, to then ask the service to think about going even further, but we really wanted to see what the art of the possible would be if we could attract the right workforce, get the right environment, et cetera, et cetera—so, that piece of work, the review of the specification about what could be possible. Clearly, we work very closely with Welsh Health Specialised Services Committee as the commissioner, so we don't commission that. We neither performance manage those environments. But, if I can just say, probably the most important part of moving forward now is the longer term work between health and social care in terms of having a much more integrated and joined up approach for children. We believe there would probably be about 100 children who have experienced care in multiple settings. We haven't got that mature approach in terms of these being joined-up teams; we've got social care and we've got healthcare. There is a growing appetite to do something different. There is a meeting with the children's commissioner on 9 July to explore that. I've previously had conversations with the chief inspector of Care Inspectorate Wales, for example, and we have now got, I think, a consensus growing that we need to do something very different for children and young people who are in this sort of need for the future. We also know that there've been some high-profile legal cases as well. So, we've got to move to that step now. It has been largely successful, the work that has taken place over recent years, but not without its key challenges.", "speakerName": "Carol Shillabeer" }, { "text": "Thank you. And, just briefly on the new specification that WHSSC are developing, that will enable admissions at weekends and out of hours. How concerned should we be about that being a challenge, particularly in Abergele, where staffing has been a major issue?", "speakerName": "Lynne Neagle AM" }, { "text": "Yes. I think we need to be very mindful of ensuring that the right workforce are in place before that gets implemented. The peer review highlighted the challenge of the physical environment, where the unit is, the challenge across north Wales of the workforce. These are issues well known by the health board, by the way, so it wasn't a surprise to them. But that dialogue about how do we ensure that we've got the right workforce, because that unit, potentially, could—you know, it's an isolated unit, and they’ve been risk-managing. They've been managing the types of young people that they can take bearing in mind the workforce that they've got available, and that's been entirely the right thing to do. But the downside of that is it's not as accessible as we would want.", "speakerName": "Carol Shillabeer" }, { "text": "Okay, thank you. Hefin David has got some questions on workforce now.", "speakerName": "Lynne Neagle AM" }, { "text": "Yes. With regard to the increased CAMHS posts that have been made available between 2016 and 2018—a 62 per cent increase in CAMHS posts—we know that there's likely to be labour market demand, high labour market demand, in those instances, so are the vacancy rates higher in Wales than elsewhere, given the increase in those posts to be filled?", "speakerName": "Hefin David AM" }, { "text": "So, you're absolutely right. There's been quite a lot of investment, and there have been quite a lot of new recruits coming to the service. We had in the early days a situation where we were largely robbing Peter to pay Paul, to be quite frank. So, as new services were being developed, people would move from one part of the system to the other. So, in the early days there was little net gain. That has improved slightly, but we're in a national context, particularly around nursing and around some specialties in medicine, of a national shortage, so this is not a quick fix. We are starting to see a greater diversity of workforce. So, if I can mention psychology assistants, for example, my own health board is employing more psychology assistants as part of a skill mix team, rather than going to where we might have been more traditionally based. We see some of that through the NHS benchmarking, particularly with England. They have more of that. We're perhaps a little bit—", "speakerName": "Carol Shillabeer" }, { "text": "More of what?", "speakerName": "Hefin David AM" }, { "text": "They have more skill mix in their workforce. We're catching up a bit more on that now.", "speakerName": "Carol Shillabeer" }, { "text": "Just to clarify there, what you're referring to—there are more nursing and medical staff in the Wales system and more psychological staff, experts, in the UK picture. Is that—?", "speakerName": "Hefin David AM" }, { "text": "In the England picture. So, England had a programme called IAPT, which is about psychological therapies, and had therefore looked at the skill mix. Some of that was—. We've chatted to colleagues in England, trying to learn—we're all trying to make improvements in this area, of course; it's a UK and international issue—what were their experiences of this psychological therapies approach. Because of their vacancies they had to skill mix, and because of the money that they had available—they didn't have as much of a cash injection as perhaps we've been able to secure. So, they skill mixed much earlier; we're skill mixing now. We're using different types of roles, for example. And if I can just make a plea, really, around recognising the input of the third sector—so, it doesn't always have to be an NHS-employed person to work in service provision, direct front-line service provision, and the third sector are offering a significant contribution in a number of areas of our services. And that is one that we will need to cultivate, because, to be quite frank, our recruitment challenges won't be solved overnight. We've recognised that the commissioning numbers for nursing and other professionals have gone up over recent times, but, with the training time, it's not a quick fix.", "speakerName": "Carol Shillabeer" }, { "text": "Does the workforce profile remain different, or are they starting to—?", "speakerName": "Hefin David AM" }, { "text": "They're starting to come together. There is a—graph 13 in terms of the CAMHS profile. Each year we do the NHS benchmarking, and we can see where we are compared to others, and I would expect over the next year or two that we see a bit more narrowing.", "speakerName": "Carol Shillabeer" }, { "text": "So, if you compare a child in Wales with a child in England in the last two years who's been through this, would they have had a different experience as a result, and different clinical advice as a result, or is there consistency despite the difference in workforce profile?", "speakerName": "Hefin David AM" }, { "text": "That's quite a big question. Hand on heart, could I tell you I absolutely know the detail of that? No, I couldn't. The practice in this area is guided by National Institute for Health and Care Excellence guidance, so it's pretty much guided. We would expect all of our practitioners to be able to work to NICE guidance. When you skill mix a team, you enable the right referrals to go to the right person, so you wouldn't necessarily have a child or young person with particularly complex needs—well, you would match them to the right practitioner for their needs. So, it does—. And we've seen some of that; if I just make reference to the panel approach in Gwent that's been developed, a multi-agency panel come together, a referral comes in, it's then about matching the right service and the right person to the needs that are being presented. So, we can be much more flexible in relation to that, and we have to be careful to use the right resource for the right person, because, if we've got a resource that is highly specialist, we want them to be dealing with those children and young people.", "speakerName": "Carol Shillabeer" }, { "text": "And one of the things you're able to do—because there's a lot about the labour market you can't control, but one of the things you can control is workforce development and ongoing workforce development. You've mentioned communities of practice. What other things are being done in addition, and how do the communities of practice work might be a good question, but what else is being done in order to upskill and develop and grow the existing workforce that is presented to you?", "speakerName": "Hefin David AM" }, { "text": "Thank you for that. So, there's a couple of things around—. I think there's a huge focus on staff retention now, not just in Wales but across the UK. So, we've got recruitment but we've got retention. What are the factors that affect retention? Actually, well-being, well-being at work—and you'll know that within'A Healthier Wales' the focus on staff engagement, staff well-being, has been laid out—the ability to work well in teams and the culture of organisations and services, and, then, as you rightly say, training and development and career opportunities. So, the developments over the last few years have brought training opportunities and career development opportunities as well. I think the community of practice—it's something that has become a bit of a standard now across these areas—actually brings people together doing collective audit, doing collective reflection on service improvement, and being very clear about learning from one another. And, if you're a clinician, that gives you a lot of motivation to keep driving forward. So, I think we have the fundamental building blocks in place, but there is more to do around the environment in which our practitioners and our staff operate.", "speakerName": "Carol Shillabeer" }, { "text": "What about the Welsh language in the health board?", "speakerName": "Hefin David AM" }, { "text": "Thank you very much. There are two elements, if I may, just on that. In your report of last year you highlighted the need to do further work on the use of the Welsh language, and have we got enough Welsh language practitioners where we need them. We are doing that piece of work. I'm pleased to say that, over the last few years, I think all health boards have really stepped up in terms of being able to understand the levels of Welsh speaking amongst employed staff and where their Welsh-speaking communities are. We're particularly looking at it in terms of in-patient CAMHS and community intensive services, because, particularly when people are feeling at their most vulnerable, they would choose the language they wish to choose. So, we know we need to respond to that. So, we will be in a position to, by the end of this programme, provide that position statement on what happens next. I would also say, of course, we've got the Welsh language standards that we are all working on at the moment, and we've got a very clear programme of when we have to be compliant with those standards. So, that element is very high on the priority list.", "speakerName": "Carol Shillabeer" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Hefin David AM" }, { "text": "Thank you. Suzy Davies has a question about looked-after children.", "speakerName": "Lynne Neagle AM" }, { "text": "Yes. Thank you, Chair. Obviously, everything you've been speaking about already, particularly about workforce development, applies to children in care as well, where there's other work also going on in terms of support. Can you give us some indication about how the programme intersects, then, with the outcomes for the children in care work programme?", "speakerName": "Suzy Davies AM" }, { "text": "Thanks very much for that. So, we have one of our members of the programme board also sitting on the outcomes for children ministerial group, which is good. So, we've got that cross-link. We also have a director of social services on our programme board and, obviously, they're very clearly linked in to the outcomes for children. I just made reference to, under the question on specialist CAMHS in-patients, the need to bring those services together, and that, really, is the need for much stronger working between the outcomes for children group and the Together for Children and Young People programme and the constituent parts. So, I'm confident that that has been pegged now. We've got a way forward and there is a consensus that we need to do things together on that.", "speakerName": "Carol Shillabeer" }, { "text": "Can you just perhaps give us an example of how that then looks on the ground? Because it's great that people are talking together, but how would that affect, I don't know, individual members of the workforce, or, indeed, the children we're talking about?", "speakerName": "Suzy Davies AM" }, { "text": "Yes. So, if I just give an example of a unit in south Wales that is a social care unit, we've been having discussions about,'Well, actually, shouldn't you have a psychologist and good access to psychological therapies, et cetera, et cetera, et cetera?' So, we haven't yet got an agreed position on how we're going to do this, but the position is that something needs to be done, and there is an appetite for and an understanding of the case for change, I believe. But what it will mean, I think, in practice, is that you get much more fluid roles moving across sectors, or we could be designing services that are fully integrated. Now, there may be challenges in that, but, you know, let's get them out on the table. So, in terms of this seamless health and social care system for Wales, this is one of the tests of that, I would say: can we, within the next five years, 10 years, really bring that together? That will take quite a lot of work and commitment. On the looked-after children specifically, we have picked that up, particularly following your previous report, looking specifically at the assessment of young people who are care experienced who are in the system. Absolutely, part of the health assessment is emotional health and mental health. We are questioning whether that needs to be a greater part and what the level of support needs to be, particularly because of the backgrounds of children that have led them to be in those circumstances. That's a core piece of work under the early help and enhanced support work stream, and we'll be ensuring that that is complete by the end of the programme.", "speakerName": "Carol Shillabeer" }, { "text": "Okay. And you're confident that that will reach children who are being fostered and perhaps don't have very frequent looked-after children reviews, because, from all other perspectives, things are going fairly well.", "speakerName": "Suzy Davies AM" }, { "text": "Yes. And, of course, there's the edge-of-care work that the Government have been supporting, and, certainly in my own area, under the regional partnership board, we have a Start Well programme, which is the old Children and Young People's Partnership programme, where there's a significant investment in supporting children and young people, families, on the edge of care, which does pick up fostering.", "speakerName": "Carol Shillabeer" }, { "text": "Ah, lovely. Thank you. Thank you, Chair.", "speakerName": "Suzy Davies AM" }, { "text": "Dawn has a question on transition.", "speakerName": "Lynne Neagle AM" }, { "text": "Yes. Thank you, Chair. We've heard, not necessarily just in the context of this report, because we've heard similar evidence around transition arrangements in another committee report when we did the suicide prevention, and I've in fact only recently—well, just this week, actually—met with community mental health teams in my constituency, and there is still some concern about transitional arrangements from children into adult services. Now, I know we had the—. The transition guidance was published a couple of years ago now, and the programme was involved in developing that guidance. But what's your assessment of the impact that it's had? Because we clearly are still seeing people falling through the gaps, aren't we?", "speakerName": "Dawn Bowden AM" }, { "text": "Yes, thank you for that. You're absolutely right; we developed that guidance and we are currently in the process of the evaluation of that. And, in particular, I know that the children's commissioner is very focused on transition, not just around children in receipt of emotional mental health support, but children in paediatric wards, and there is a working group with Welsh Government looking at this. The children's commissioner has used our guidance to put that on the table to say,'Well, if this works, this needs to be considered as a model for using elsewhere'. But the big question there is'if'. So, we do want to get evaluation. If I were just to give an estimate of where I think this will land, I think it will have made improvements, but there may well be some further work to do in enhancing, supporting, auditing that every child is supported in line with that guidance. So, I talked about community practice and clinical audit: is this something that we make, then, a mandatory audit, each year, that we do that double check? Because it's one of those things where we know when a child is 14, 15, 16, 17, so what's stopping us? If indeed the evaluation says it's not happening everywhere, it's not happening early enough, what is stopping us? We really need to get underneath that. So, my sense will be it will show us, it will be better, but there's some further work to do, and following that up in terms of audit and making sure that we've got a systematic approach to dealing with those who haven't had the guidance fully implemented, because it can make a real difference.", "speakerName": "Carol Shillabeer" }, { "text": "Yes, and it seems to me—you've just talked about having a systematic approach, and it does seem to me that it is a systematic process, isn't it? So, it shouldn't be difficult. I know we're talking about in the health service things shouldn't be difficult and they are, and one of the gripes—I had a meeting with the community health team—was the problems of the new IT systems and so on—let's not go there at the moment. But, really, this is just about referring children and having a smooth transition from the service being provided to them as a child and then just shifting it over to the adult services. It shouldn't be difficult. It's really difficult to get my head around why that is such a problem and why that needs to be so difficult.", "speakerName": "Dawn Bowden AM" }, { "text": "Can I add one other dimension in, which I think is going to be quite interesting? We talk about transitions being an issue—and we know it's not just in mental health, but it's elsewhere—then you start to think,'What if we could reduce transitions?', so you reduce the number of transitions and you manage them better. We are doing a piece of work with Government on the potential to explore what a 0-25-type service would be. We know that in different places they have approached that—in Australia and places in the UK. There are probably some pros and cons, but should we be moving to a 0-25. That is moving the transition at the age of 25, but at least it's not at the eighteenth birthday. What's the argument around what adolescent, young people and young adults services are, for example? That piece of research and understanding—", "speakerName": "Carol Shillabeer" }, { "text": "You could probably have a gradual transition, then, couldn't you?", "speakerName": "Dawn Bowden AM" }, { "text": "Quite potentially. I've got some people who have joined my own health board who've worked in that 0-25-type service, and we're catching up—'Tell me what was good about it? Tell me what was not so good about it? What did the young people themselves think about that?'. Because if we can manage down the numbers of transitions, there really should be no excuse not to get transitions right, then.", "speakerName": "Carol Shillabeer" }, { "text": "Okay, thank you. Thank you, Chair.", "speakerName": "Dawn Bowden AM" }, { "text": "Okay. We've got some really important questions now about legacy, because throughout the session this morning you've referred to ongoing work, really, and that is a major concern for the committee. Suzy Davies.", "speakerName": "Lynne Neagle AM" }, { "text": "Yes, thank you, Chair, we are a little bit worried that this programme is coming to an end in a matter of months when perhaps its work's not been completed. Obviously, we've got the Welsh Government's strategy for mental health running until 2022, which is a few years longer. Can you tell me whether you think your programme needs to continue, perhaps even if it's just for the same length of time as Together for Mental Health, or is its work done and it needs to be picked up now by a different system?", "speakerName": "Suzy Davies AM" }, { "text": "Thank you for that. Can I just say, I've given this so much thought over the time, because I think you might have asked me this question when I came previously? There are two ways to look at this. I'm absolutely sure that the issue of children's emotional and mental health will be one that will be with us for a very long time. We have made a lot of progress, I think, as a society, in talking about this now. We talk about mental health so much more than we ever used to. When I was a child, we never talked about it. I talk to my own children and say,'What's going on in your lives at school?', and they talk about this. This is not an issue, if you like, that I believe you can pick up and solve literally in five years. This is one for the long term for us. So, on the one hand, I think my view last year was that, when you have a programme of work, you should have a start, a middle and end, really—otherwise it's not a programme of work, it's almost forever—and there is a moment to refresh and reflect on whether that mechanism has done all it should and it should move into a different mechanism. So, my position last year was,'This will have been running for five years—we've done a lot of work and made progress on specialist CAMHS, we have made progress on the whole-school approach and there is a different mechanism for this' et cetera. My position now is I want to just be really sure and secure that there is a strong arrangement going forward that takes this work, if this programme is going to close.", "speakerName": "Carol Shillabeer" }, { "text": "Are you sure?", "speakerName": "Suzy Davies AM" }, { "text": "Not yet. So, I think, in an earlier question I indicated dialogue going on between myself and Welsh Government officials. I don't think there's a barrier—people aren't saying,'No, it all needs to just stop; we've solved the issue', but the exact nature of the legacy arrangements, particularly for early help and enhanced support, are not yet fully determined, or for neurodevelopmental. If it was a choice between nothing being there and continuing this programme, I would be supporting continuing the programme. I don't think we can stop now.", "speakerName": "Carol Shillabeer" }, { "text": "Well, I don't think any of us would disagree with that, but I suppose there might be a level of concern that the Welsh Government's preferred route from now on would be through the regional partnership boards and public services boards. You mentioned that you've done that work in Gwent, down in the south-east of your patch there. It's quite difficult for us to try and get a picture of how that will work successfully for the whole of Wales. I know you've got your experience in Gwent, but have you thought a bit more about how it might look elsewhere, if that's the route that Government decides to pursue?", "speakerName": "Suzy Davies AM" }, { "text": "Yes. I think the key question in my own mind is: are the regional partnership boards yet ready and mature enough to take this forward? I'm the chair of the Powys regional partnership board, so I should declare that. There's a lot being asked of the regional partnership boards at the moment—", "speakerName": "Carol Shillabeer" }, { "text": "Well, we'll be asking them to go with the'Mind over matter' report, to make sure that that's delivered upon.", "speakerName": "Suzy Davies AM" }, { "text": "There's a lot, you know,'A Healthier Wales'—. Everyone does feel that the regional partnership boards are a route to really secure multi-agency working, so there is quite a high expectation. My understanding—and this is a rather informal understanding—is that different RPBs are in different places. So, some have retained what used to be the old children and young people partnerships, and perhaps where they have been retained, they may be in a more progressed position. Some are looking to have to re-establish those. So, my sense of this is that, I think, possibly the RPBs aren't yet in that position to be ready. Our piece of work on early help and enhanced support, in terms of your earlier question about what's the commitment—that feels that that may well be another year or 18 months of development work, alongside the RPB development work, to get that ready, before we can then more confidently say where we can hand over.", "speakerName": "Carol Shillabeer" }, { "text": "You may not feel able to say it, then, but would be wrong in saying that, actually, it would be quite a good idea to extend the current programme, just to make sure that anyone else who might be able to run on with component parts of it is in the position to do that to our satisfaction?", "speakerName": "Suzy Davies AM" }, { "text": "I'm happy to respond to it. My sense is that, whether it's the programme or whether it's something else, something needs to be there. The next stage is really multi-agency, so it may well be that the programme currently has been NHS-led—maybe it needs to be led elsewhere, maybe not. I think there's a view that this needs to continue. I'm less wedded to it having to be the Together for Children and Young People programme. It may be seen as a convenient mechanism—it's already established, we've got a programme team et cetera, so it may be seen as a ready sort of solution. I'm not wedded to that. What I feel strongly about is that we've got to have the right mechanism to take it forward.", "speakerName": "Carol Shillabeer" }, { "text": "Can I just push you on one thing there? You mentioned, perhaps, the NHS could lead on the work, for example. Is there a risk of fragmentation if we start looking—? I'm just thinking—I mean, we've got the elements here: we've got the NHS, there's the whole-school approach, early help and enhanced support and intervention, as you mentioned earlier. If that goes to one of the players in that multi-agency approach, is there a risk that they might become too dominant, inadvertently—?", "speakerName": "Suzy Davies AM" }, { "text": "If I can just clarify—apologies if I wasn't clear. I said the current programme has been NHS-led, and that might be a reason to change.", "speakerName": "Carol Shillabeer" }, { "text": "To mix it up a bit. Oh, right, okay. Anything else you want me to pursue on that—?", "speakerName": "Suzy Davies AM" }, { "text": "Can I just clarify for the record, Carol—because we put this to the Minister last week—are you looking at asking the regional partnership boards to take this work over from October 2019? Are you saying clearly to the committee that you do not feel that all regional partnership boards are ready for that challenge at this point?", "speakerName": "Lynne Neagle AM" }, { "text": "I'm saying that on a more, if you like it, uniformed and informal basis, we're doing some work with the children's commissioner now in terms of—. I know the children's commissioner's very interested in how RPBs are managing, developing and dealing with the issues of children and young people's concerns. We're working with her to understand and to mirror alongside her the understanding of the RPBs. What I would say is that there has been some preparatory work by Government around supporting RPBs. So, for example, in the integrated care fund guidance last year, there was a specific reference to child and adolescent emotional mental health, which I welcomed. I've also welcomed, literally last week, a letter to all RPB chairs giving an allocation of £200,000 per RPB to support this further work in terms of child and adolescent emotional and mental health and the early help and support element. So, all of these things are in the right direction. My sense, and I need to stress it's a sense because we haven't done that piece of work, is different RPBs are in different places. So, how confident can we be at the October date that we could hand over? My sense is, just to safeguard, having a mechanism in place for the next 12 to 18 months to guide this through might be advisable, and that's what I'm talking to officials about.", "speakerName": "Carol Shillabeer" }, { "text": "And that would either be an extension of the Together for Children and Young People programme or something else. Okay, thank you.", "speakerName": "Lynne Neagle AM" }, { "text": "Thank you. Because I think there is a question, isn't there, about whether the RPBs will make this enough of a priority? I'm a bit nervous that it might get lost in that huge amount of work you said they might have. Just a final question from me: how are you establishing what the young people themselves think about the end of the programme? Are they bothered about the structure of this at all or are they just concerned that they're getting help? How's the stakeholder group feeding into this?", "speakerName": "Suzy Davies AM" }, { "text": "I've not been blown over in the rush of people saying,'Don't go anywhere.' [Laughter.] It's a really important matter for young people. I know that later on you're meeting with the Youth Parliament, you're having a joint session, which is fantastic. We've had contact with the Youth Parliament because we know it's one of their top three issues. So, it runs in the vein of that this is going to be a long-term matter for young people, I think. Whether they have a specific view on the programme, I don't know. I've not heard that. But I'm pretty sure they will be vocal in saying,'We have to have these developments continue.' It is a major issue, we're not there yet—maybe some progress has been made but there's still a lot to do—and I think we'll need to be able to respond to that.", "speakerName": "Carol Shillabeer" }, { "text": "Anything particularly you want in addition to that?", "speakerName": "Suzy Davies AM" }, { "text": "No, I think that's fine. And if I can just say that it was really great last week at the early help and enhanced day to see young people so central to the day all the way through. It was very, very important and very welcome.", "speakerName": "Lynne Neagle AM" }, { "text": "Carol, thank you for that. Thank you, Chair.", "speakerName": "Suzy Davies AM" }, { "text": "Okay. we have come to the end of our time. We had a lot of things that we wanted to cover with you. We might need to drop you a line about a couple of things that we haven't covered, but can I thank you for your attendance this morning? As usual, you'll be sent a transcript to check for accuracy following the meeting, but thank you very much for your time.", "speakerName": "Lynne Neagle AM" }, { "text": "Thank you, all.", "speakerName": "Carol Shillabeer" }, { "text": "Item 3, then, is papers to note. Paper to note 1 is a letter from the Welsh Youth Parliament—invitation to engagement events. Paper to note 2 is a letter from the Minister for Education clarifying some issues around the Welsh network of healthy schools scheme, following the task and finish group. Paper to note 3: letter from the Minister for Education on the implementation of the Diamond reforms, and that's ahead of our session on 4 July. Papers to note 4 and 5 are a letter from me to the children's commissioner and the Minister for Education seeking the update we agreed on the issue of elective home education. And then paper to note 6, paper to note 7 and paper to note 8 are all letters regarding the concerns that we discussed about the expectation of a target being set for looked-after children, to the First Minister, Children's Commissioner for Wales and the Association of Directors of Social Services. Are Members happy to note those? Thank you very much. Item 4, then, is a motion under Standing Order 17.42 to resolve to exclude the public for the remainder of the meeting. Are Members content? Okay.", "speakerName": "Lynne Neagle AM" } ] }	{ "dialogTurns": [ { "query": "What conclusion was come to at the end of the meeting?", "response": "The Children, Young People and Education committee concluded that the Together for Children and Young People programme has made progress since its establishment in 2015, but there is still more to be done. There is a need to establish a secure and confident legacy arrangement for the programme.", "responseAttribution": { "indexRanges": [ { "startIndex": null, "endIndex": 1 }, { "startIndex": 82, "endIndex": 90 } ] }, "queryMetadata": { "queryType": "QUERY_TYPE_GENERAL", "isUnanswerable": null, "isContextDependent": null } }, { "query": "What was the advantage of broadening the scope of CAMHS services?", "response": "The advantage of broadening the scope of CAMHS services was to ensure that children and young people with a range of needs could access the support they require. This would enable CAMHS services to attract the right workforce, get the right environment and manage the types of young people they can take, bearing in mind the workforce they have available.", "responseAttribution": { "indexRanges": [ { "startIndex": 1, "endIndex": 1 }, { "startIndex": 6, "endIndex": 6 }, { "startIndex": 37, "endIndex": 40 } ] }, "queryMetadata": { "queryType": "QUERY_TYPE_SPECIFIC", "isUnanswerable": null, "isContextDependent": null } }, { "query": "How long does Carol anticipate it will take for the improvement work to be completed?", "response": "Carol anticipates that it will take another year or 18 months of development work to complete the improvement work.", "responseAttribution": { "indexRanges": [ { "startIndex": 80, "endIndex": 80 } ] }, "queryMetadata": { "queryType": "QUERY_TYPE_SPECIFIC", "isUnanswerable": null, "isContextDependent": null } }, { "query": "Is the Together for Children and Young People programme expected to continue beyond October 2019?", "response": "It was not stated in the meeting whether the Together for Children and Young People programme would continue beyond October 2019. However, Carol mentioned that a legacy arrangement for the programme needs to be in place, and if there isn't one, the programme would continue.", "responseAttribution": { "indexRanges": [ { "startIndex": 76, "endIndex": 76 }, { "startIndex": 86, "endIndex": 87 } ] }, "queryMetadata": { "queryType": "QUERY_TYPE_YES_NO", "isUnanswerable": null, "isContextDependent": null } }, { "query": "What conclusion did they come to in regards to neurodevelopmental disorders?", "response": "The participants concluded that there is a need to broaden their view to include all neurodevelopmental presentations, and not just focus on autism. Additionally, a perfect-world picture that would tackle the needs and challenges of neurodevelopmental presentations needs to be drawn.", "responseAttribution": { "indexRanges": [ { "startIndex": 32, "endIndex": 36 } ] }, "queryMetadata": { "queryType": "QUERY_TYPE_GENERAL", "isUnanswerable": null, "isContextDependent": null } }, { "query": "Can you provide a brief recap of the main concerns that were raised during the meeting?", "response": "The participants raised concerns regarding the following:\n* Psychological therapies were not making enough progress\n* Specialists CAMHS services had a lull in the middle of the program, but gathered momentum over the last year or 18 months.\n* Early help and enhanced support was not just about the NHS and education, but every part of the system, making it more complex.\n* All young people are not getting at least a consistent service, especially in terms of interventions in the instances of young people self-harming.\n* Demand was outstripping supply for neurodevelopmental services.", "responseAttribution": { "indexRanges": [ { "startIndex": 2, "endIndex": 4 }, { "startIndex": 18, "endIndex": 18 }, { "startIndex": 20, "endIndex": 22 } ] }, "queryMetadata": { "queryType": "QUERY_TYPE_GENERAL", "isUnanswerable": null, "isContextDependent": null } }, { "query": "Can you provide a summary of the concerns that were raised about the Diamond reforms?", "response": "I apologize, but the provided meeting transcript does not contain any information about the Diamond reforms. Therefore, I am unable to provide a summary of the concerns that were raised about the Diamond reforms.", "responseAttribution": null, "queryMetadata": { "queryType": "QUERY_TYPE_GENERAL", "isUnanswerable": true, "isContextDependent": null } }, { "query": "Can you specify which questions raised during the meeting were left unresolved by the end of the meeting?", "response": "The committee concluded that although progress was made since 2015, there is still more to be done. Some of the outstanding questions are:\n* How to ensure that psychological therapies are making progress.\n* How to guarantee that all young people are receiving a consistent service, especially regarding self-harm.\n* How to meet the increasing demand for neurodevelopmental services.\n* Where the early help and enhanced support and neurodevelopment workstreams should be taken after October 2019.", "responseAttribution": { "indexRanges": [ { "startIndex": null, "endIndex": 5 }, { "startIndex": 14, "endIndex": 14 }, { "startIndex": 18, "endIndex": 18 }, { "startIndex": 20, "endIndex": 22 }, { "startIndex": 83, "endIndex": 86 } ] }, "queryMetadata": { "queryType": "QUERY_TYPE_SPECIFIC", "isUnanswerable": null, "isContextDependent": null } }, { "query": "Did any of the participants express disagreement with Carol's comments about the early help and enhanced support element being critical?", "response": "No, the transcript provided does not specify any disagreements from the participants regarding the importance of the early help and enhanced support element.", "responseAttribution": null, "queryMetadata": { "queryType": "QUERY_TYPE_YES_NO", "isUnanswerable": true, "isContextDependent": null } }, { "query": "Besides the legacy arrangements, what other difficulties was Carol anticipating with the conclusion of the Together for Children and Young People program?", "response": "Carol mentioned that they were still needing to tackle all of the children and young people who are under the threshold for educational support but still need help with their conditions. She also highlighted the need for long-term planning, as only about 40% to 50% of those families that come forward have a diagnosis.", "responseAttribution": { "indexRanges": [ { "startIndex": 30, "endIndex": 30 }, { "startIndex": 35, "endIndex": 35 } ] }, "queryMetadata": { "queryType": "QUERY_TYPE_SPECIFIC", "isUnanswerable": null, "isContextDependent": null } } ] }
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So I I the the problem is that I actually don't know how th these held meetings are held, if they are very informal and sort of just people are say what's going on", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "and", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Yeah, that's usually what we do.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "OK.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "We just sorta go around and people say what's going on, what's the latest uh.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Yeah. OK. So I guess that what may be a reasonable is if I uh first make a report on what's happening in Aurora in general, at least what from my perspective.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Yeah. That would be great.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "And and uh so, I I think that Carmen and Stephane reported on uh Amsterdam meeting,", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Uh o", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "which was kind of interesting because it was for the first time we realized we are not friends really, but we are competitors. Cuz until then it was sort of like everything was like wonderful and.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Yeah. It seemed like there were still some issues,", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "right? that they were trying to decide?", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "There is a plenty of there're plenty of issues.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Like the voice activity detector,", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Well and what happened was that they realized that if two leading proposals, which was French Telecom Alcatel, and us both had uh voice activity detector. And I said \" well big surprise, I mean we could have told you that n n n four months ago, except we didn't because nobody else was bringing it up \".", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Obviously French Telecom didn't volunteer this information either, cuz we were working on mainly on voice activity detector for past uh several months", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "because that's buying us the most uh thing. And everybody said \" Well but this is not fair. We didn't know that. \" And of course uh the it's not working on features really. And be I agreed.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "I said \" well yeah, you are absolutely right, I mean if I wish that you provided better end point at speech because uh or at least that if we could modify the recognizer, uh to account for these long silences, because otherwise uh that that th that wasn't a correct thing. \" And so then ev ev everybody else says \" well we should we need to do a new eval evaluation without voice activity detector, or we have to do something about it \".", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "And in principle I uh I we agreed.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "We said uh \" yeah \". Because uh but in that case, uh we would like to change the uh the algorithm because uh if we are working on different data, we probably will use a different set of tricks.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "But unfortunately nobody ever officially can somehow acknowledge that this can be done, because French Telecom was saying \" no, no, no, now everybody has access to our code, so everybody is going to copy what we did. \" Yeah well our argument was everybody ha has access to our code, and everybody always had access to our code. We never uh uh denied that. We thought that people are honest, that if you copy something and if it is protected protected by patent then you negotiate, or something,", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Yeah. Right.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "right? I mean, if you find our technique useful, we are very happy.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "But And French Telecom was saying \" no, no, no,", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "there is a lot of little tricks which uh sort of uh cannot be protected and you guys will take them, \" which probably is also true. I mean, you know, it might be that people will take uh uh th the algorithms apart and use the blocks from that. But I somehow think that it wouldn't be so bad, as long as people are happy abou uh uh uh honest about it.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "And I think they have to be honest in the long run, because winning proposal again uh what will be available th is will be a code. So the uh the people can go to code and say \" well listen this is what you stole from me \"", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "you know?", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "\" so let's deal with that \".", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "So I don't see the problem. The biggest problem of course is that f that Alcatel French Telecom cl claims \" well we fulfilled the conditions. We are the best. Uh. We are the standard. \" And e and other people don't feel that, because they so they now decided that that is the whole thing will be done on well - endpointed data, essentially that somebody will endpoint the data based on clean speech, because most of this the SpeechDat - Car has the also close speaking mike and endpoints will be provided.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm. Ah.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "And uh we will run again still not clear if we are going to run the if we are allowed to run uh uh new algorithms, but I assume so. Because uh we would fight for that, really. uh but since uh u u n u at least our experience is that only endpointing a a mel cepstrum gets uh gets you twenty - one percent improvement overall and twenty - seven improvement on SpeechDat - Car", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "then obvious the database uh I mean the the the uh the baseline will go up. And nobody can then achieve fifty percent improvement.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "So they agreed that uh there will be a twenty - five percent improvement required on on uh h u m bad mis badly mismatched.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "But wait a minute, I thought the endpointing really only helped in the noisy cases.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "It uh.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Oh, but you still have that with the MFCC.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Y yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "OK.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Yeah but you have the same prob I mean MFCC basically has an enormous number of uh insertions.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Yeah. Right. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "And so, so now they want to say \" we we will require fifty percent improvement only for well matched condition, and only twenty - five percent for the serial cases. \"", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "And uh and they almost agreed on that except that it wasn't a hundred percent agreed. And so last time uh during the meeting, I just uh brought up the issue, I said \" well you know uh quite frankly I'm surprised how lightly you are making these decisions because this is a major decision. For two years we are fighting for fifty percent improvement and suddenly you are saying \" oh no we we will do something less \", but maybe we should discuss that. And everybody said \" oh we discussed that and you were not a mee there \" and I said \" well a lot of other people were not there because not everybody participates at these teleconferencing c things. \" Then they said \" oh no no no because uh everybody is invited. \" However, there is only ten or fifteen lines, so people can't even con you know participate. So eh they agreed, and so they said \" OK, we will discuss that. \" Immediately Nokia uh raised the question and they said \" oh yeah we agree this is not good to to uh dissolve the uh uh the uh the criterion. \"", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "So now officially, Nokia is uh uh complaining and said they they are looking for support, uh I think QualComm is uh saying, too \" we shouldn't abandon the fifty percent yet. We should at least try once again, one more round. \"", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "So this is where we are.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "I hope that I hope that this is going to be a adopted.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Next Wednesday we are going to have uh another uh teleconferencing call, so we'll see what uh where it goes.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "So what about the issue of um the weights on the for the different systems, the well - matched, and medium - mismatched and.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Yeah, that's what that's a g very good uh point, because David says \" well you know we ca we can manipulate this number by choosing the right weights anyways. \" So while you are right but uh you know but", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Uh yeah, if of course if you put a zero uh weight zero on a mismatched condition, or highly mismatched then then you are done.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "But weights were also deter already decided uh half a year ago. So.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "And they're the staying the same?", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Well, of course people will not like it. Now What is happening now is that I th I think that people try to match the criterion to solution.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "They have solution. Now they want to make sure their criterion is.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "And I think that this is not the right way.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Uh it may be that that Eventually it may ha may ha it may have to happen. But it's should happen at a point where everybody feels comfortable that we did all what we could.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "And I don't think we did.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Basically, I think that that this test was a little bit bogus because of the data and uh essentially there were these arbitrary decisions made, and and everything. So, so so this is so this is where it is. So what we are doing at OGI now is uh uh uh working basically on our parts which we I think a little bit neglected, like noise separation. Uh so we are looking in ways is in uh which uh with which we can provide better initial estimate of the mel spectrum basically, which would be a l uh, f more robust to noise, and so far not much uh success.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "We tried uh things which uh a long time ago Bill Byrne suggested, instead of using Fourier spectrum, from Fourier transform, use the spectrum from LPC model. Their argument there was the LPC model fits the peaks of the spectrum, so it may be m naturally more robust in noise. And I thought \" well, that makes sense, \" but so far we can't get much much out of it.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "uh we may try some standard techniques like spectral subtraction and.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "You haven't tried that yet?", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "not not not much. Or even I was thinking about uh looking back into these totally ad - hoc techniques", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "like for instance uh Dennis Klatt was suggesting uh the one way to uh deal with noisy speech is to add noise to everything.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Hmm!", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "So. I mean, uh uh add moderate amount of noise to all data.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Oh!", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "So that makes uh th any additive noise less addi less a a effective,", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "I see.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "right? Because you already uh had the noise uh in a.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "And it was working at the time. It was kind of like one of these things, you know, but if you think about it, it's actually pretty ingenious. So well, you know, just take a take a spectrum and and and add of the constant, C, to every every value.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Well you're you're basically y Yeah. So you're making all your training data more uniform.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Exactly. And if if then if this data becomes noisy, it b it becomes eff effectively becomes less noisy basically.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "But of course you cannot add too much noise because then you'll s then you're clean recognition goes down, but I mean it's yet to be seen how much, it's a very simple technique.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Yes indeed it's a very simple technique, you just take your spectrum and and use whatever is coming from FFT, add constant,", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "you know? on onto power spectrum. That that Or the other thing is of course if you have a spectrum, what you can s start doing, you can leave start leaving out the p the parts which are uh uh low in energy and then perhaps uh one could try to find a a all - pole model to such a spectrum. Because a all - pole model will still try to to to put the the continuation basically of the of the model into these parts where the issue set to zero. That's what we want to try. I have a visitor from Brno. He's a kind of like young faculty. pretty hard - working so he so he's so he's looking into that.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "And then most of the effort is uh now also aimed at this e e TRAP recognition. This uh this is this recognition from temporal patterns.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Hmm! What is that?", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Ah, you don't know about TRAPS!", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Hmm.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "The TRAPS sound familiar, I but I don't.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Yeah I mean tha This is familiar like sort of because we gave you the name, but, what it is, is that normally what you do is that you recognize uh speech based on a shortened spectrum.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm. Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Essentially L P - LPC, mel cepstrum, uh, everything starts with a spectral slice. Uh so if you s So, given the spectrogram you essentially are sliding sliding the spectrogram along the uh f frequency axis", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "and you keep shifting this thing, and you have a spectrogram.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "So you can say \" well you can also take the time trajectory of the energy at a given frequency \", and what you get is then, that you get a p vector.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "And this vector can be a a s assigned to s some phoneme. Namely you can say i it I will I will say that this vector will eh will will describe the phoneme which is in the center of the vector. And you can try to classify based on that.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "And you so you classi so it's a very different vector, very different properties, we don't know much about it, but the truth is.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Hmm. But you have many of those vectors per phoneme,", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Well, so you get many decisions.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "right? Uh - huh.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "And then you can start dec thinking about how to combine these decisions. Exactly, that's what yeah, that's what it is.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Hmm. Hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Because if you run this uh recognition, you get you still get about twenty percent error uh twenty percent correct. You know,", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "on on like for the frame by frame basis, so uh uh so it's much better than chance.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "How wide are the uh frequency bands?", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "That's another thing. Well c currently we start I mean we start always with critical band spectrum. For various reasons. But uh the latest uh observation uh is that you you you are you can get quite a big advantage of using two critical bands at the same time.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Are they adjacent, or are they s", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "Adjacent, adjacent.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "OK.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "And the reasons there are some reasons for that. Because there are some reasons I can I could talk about, will have to tell you about things like masking experiments which uh uh uh uh yield critical bands, and also experiments with release of masking, which actually tell you that something is happening across critical bands, across bands. And.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Well how do you how do you uh convert this uh energy over time in a particular frequency band into a vector of numbers?", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "It's uh uh uh I mean time T - zero is one number, time t", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Yeah but what's the number? Is it just the.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "It's a spectral energy, logarithmic spectral energy,", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "it's just the amount of energy in that band from f in that time interval.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "yeah. Yes, yes. Yes, yes.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "OK.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "And that's what that's what I'm saying then, so this is a this is a starting vector. It's just like shortened f spectrum, or something. But now we are trying to understand what this vector actually represents,", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "for instance a question is like \" how correlated are the elements of this vector? \" Turns out they are quite correlated, because I mean, especially the neighboring ones, right? They they represent the same almost the same configuration of the vocal tract.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Yeah. Yeah. Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "So there's a very high correlation. So the classifiers which use the diagonal covariance matrix don't like it. So we're thinking about de - correlating them.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Then the question is uh \" can you describe elements of this vector by Gaussian distributions \", or to what extent? Because uh And and and so on and so on. So we are learning quite a lot about that. And then another issue is how many vectors we should be using,", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "I mean the so the minimum is one.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "But I mean is the is the critical band the right uh uh dimension? So we somehow made arbitrary decision, \" yes \". Then but then now we are thinking a lot how to uh how to use at least the neighboring band because that seems to be happening This I somehow start to believe that's what's happening in recognition. Cuz a lot of experiments point to the fact that people can split the signal into critical bands, but then oh uh uh so you can you are quite capable of processing a signal in uh uh independently in individual critical bands. That's what masking experiments tell you. But at the same time you most likely pay attention to at least neighboring bands when you are making any decisions, you compare what's happening in in this band to what's happening to the band to to to the to the neighboring bands. And that's how you make uh decisions. That's why the articulatory events, which uh F F Fletcher talks about, they are about two critical bands. You need at least two, basically. You need some relative, relative relation.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Hmm.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "Absolute number doesn't tell you the right thing.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "You need to you need to compare it to something else, what's happening but it's what's happening in the in the close neighborhood. So if you are making decision what's happening at one kilohertz, you want to know what's happening at nine hundred hertz and it and maybe at eleven hundred hertz, but you don't much care what's happening at three kilohertz.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "So it's really w It's sort of like saying that what's happening at one kilohertz depends on what's happening around it. It's sort of relative to it.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "To some extent, it that is also true. Yeah. But it's but for but for instance, th uh uh what what uh humans are very much capable of doing is that if th if they are exactly the same thing happening in two neighboring critical bands, recognition can discard it.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Is what's happening.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Hey!", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "Hey! OK, we need us another another voice here.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Hey Stephane.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Yeah, I think so. Yeah?", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Yep. Sure. Go ahead.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "And so so so for instance if you d if you a if you add the noise that normally masks masks the uh the the signal right?", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "and you can show that in that if the if you add the noise outside the critical band, that doesn't affect the the decisions you're making about a signal within a critical band.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Unless this noise is modulated. If the noise is modulated, with the same modulation frequency as the noise in a critical band, the amount of masking is less. The moment you moment you provide the noise in n neighboring critical bands.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Mmm.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "So the s m masking curve, normally it looks like sort of I start from from here, so you you have uh no noise then you you you are expanding the critical band, so the amount of maching is increasing. And when you e hit a certain point, which is a critical band, then the amount of masking is the same.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Mmm.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "So that's the famous experiment of Fletcher, a long time ago. Like that's where people started thinking \" wow this is interesting! \" So.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "But, if you if you if you modulate the noise, the masking goes up and the moment you start hitting the another critical band, the masking goes down. So essentially essentially that's a very clear indication that that that cognition can take uh uh into consideration what's happening in the neighboring bands. But if you go too far in a in a if you if the noise is very broad, you are not increasing much more, so so if you if you are far away from the signal uh from the signal f uh the frequency at which the signal is, then the m even the when the noise is co - modulated it it's not helping you much.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm. Yeah. Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Hmm.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "So. So things like this we are kind of playing with with with the hope that perhaps we could eventually u use this in a in a real recognizer.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "Like uh partially of course we promised to do this under the the the Aurora uh program.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "But you probably won't have anything before the next time we have to evaluate,", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Probably not.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "right?", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Well, maybe, most likely we will not have anything which c would comply with the rules.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Yeah. Ah.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "like because uh uh", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Latency and things.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "latency currently chops the require uh significant uh latency amount of processing,", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "because uh we don't know any better, yet, than to use the neural net classifiers, uh and uh and uh TRAPS.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "Though the the work which uh everybody is looking at now aims at s trying to find out what to do with these vectors, so that a g simple Gaussian classifier would be happier with it.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "or to what extent a Gaussian classifier should be unhappy uh that, and how to Gaussian - ize the vectors, and.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "So this is uh what's happening. Then Sunil is uh uh uh asked me f for one month's vacation and since he did not take any vacation for two years, I had no I didn't have heart to tell him no. So he's in India.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Wow.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "And uh.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Is he getting married or something?", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Uh well, he may be looking for a girl, for for I don't I don't I don't ask. I know that Naran - when last time Narayanan did that he came back engaged.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Right. Well, I mean, I've known other friends who they they go to Ind - they go back home to India for a month, they come back married,", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Yeah. I know. I know, I know,", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "you know, huh.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "and then of course then what happened with Narayanan was that he start pushing me that he needs to get a PHD because they wouldn't give him his wife. And she's very pretty and he loves her and so so we had to really.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "So he finally had some incentive to finish,", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Oh yeah. We had well I had a incentive because he he always had this plan except he never told me.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "huh?", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Sort of figured that That was a uh that he uh he told me the day when we did very well at our NIST evaluations of speaker recognition, the technology, and he was involved there.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Oh.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "We were after presentation we were driving home and he told me.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "When he knew you were happy,", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Yeah. So I I said \" well, yeah, OK \" so he took another another three quarter of the year but uh he was out.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "huh?", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "So I wouldn't surprise me if he has a plan like that, though though uh Pratibha still needs to get out first.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Cuz Pratibha is there a a year earlier.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "And S and Satya needs to get out very first because he's he already has uh four years served, though one year he was getting masters. So. So.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "So have the um when is the next uh evaluation? June or something?", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Which? Speaker recognition?", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "No, for uh Aurora?", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Uh there, we don't know about evaluation, next meeting is in June.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "And uh uh but like getting get together.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Oh, OK. Are people supposed to rerun their systems,", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Nobody said that yet.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "or?", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "I assume so. Uh yes, uh, but nobody even set up yet the date for uh delivering uh endpointed data.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Hmm. Wow.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "And this uh that that sort of stuff. But I uh, yeah, what I think would be of course extremely useful, if we can come to our next meeting and say \" well you know we did get fifty percent improvement. If if you are interested we eventually can tell you how \", but uh we can get fifty percent improvement.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Because people will s will be saying it's impossible.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Hmm. Do you know what the new baseline is? Oh, I guess if you don't have.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Twenty - two t twenty twenty - two percent better than the old baseline.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Using your uh voice activity detector?", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "u Yes. Yes. But I assume that it will be similar, I don't I I don't see the reason why it shouldn't be.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Similar, yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "I d I don't see reason why it should be worse.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Cuz if it is worse, then we will raise the objection,", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "we say \" well you know how come? \" Because eh if we just use our voice activity detector, which we don't claim even that it's wonderful, it's just like one of them.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "We get this sort of improvement, how come that we don't see it on on on on your endpointed data?", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Yeah. I guess it could be even better,", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "I think so.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "because the voice activity detector that I choosed is something that cheating, it's using the alignment of the speech recognition system,", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "Yeah. C yeah uh", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "and only the alignment on the clean channel, and then mapped this alignment to the noisy channel.", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "and on clean speech data. Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Oh, OK.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Well David told me David told me yesterday or Harry actually he told Harry from QualComm and Harry uh brought up the suggestion we should still go for fifty percent he says are you aware that your system does only thirty percent uh comparing to to endpointed baselines? So they must have run already something.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "Hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "So. And Harry said \" Yeah. But I mean we think that we we didn't say the last word yet, that we have other other things which we can try. \"", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "So. So there's a lot of discussion now about this uh new criterion. Because Nokia was objecting, with uh QualComm's we basically supported that, we said \" yes \".", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm. Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "Now everybody else is saying \" well you guys might must be out of your mind. \" uh The Guenter Hirsch who d doesn't speak for Ericsson anymore because he is not with Ericsson and Ericsson may not may withdraw from the whole Aurora activity because they have so many troubles now.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Wow.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Ericsson's laying off twenty percent of people.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Wow.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "Where's uh Guenter going?", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Well Guenter is already he got the job uh already was working on it for past two years or three years.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "he got a job uh at some some Fachschule, the technical college not too far from Aachen.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Hmm!", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "So it's like professor u university professor", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "you know, not quite a university, not quite a sort of it's not Aachen University, but it's a good school and he he's happy.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm. Hmm!", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "And he well, he was hoping to work uh with Ericsson like on t uh like consulting basis, but right now he says says it doesn't look like that anybody is even thinking about speech recognition.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "They think about survival.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Wow!", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "So. So. But this is being now discussed right now, and it's possible that uh that that it may get through, that we will still stick to fifty percent.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "But that means that nobody will probably get this im this improvement. yet, wi with the current system. Which event es essentially I think that we should be happy with because that that would mean that at least people may be forced to look into alternative solutions", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "and.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm. But maybe I I mean we are not too far from from fifty percent, from the new baseline.", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "Uh, but not.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Which would mean like sixty percent over the current baseline, which is.", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "Yeah. Yes. Yes. We we getting we getting there, right.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Well. We are around fifty, fifty - five.", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "So.", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "Is it like sort of is How did you come up with this number? If you improve twenty by twenty percent the c the f the all baselines, it's just a quick c comp co computation?", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Yeah. I don't know exactly if it's.", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "Uh - huh. I think it's about right.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Yeah, because it de it depends on the weightings", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "Yeah, yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "and Yeah. But. Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "Hmm. How's your documentation or whatever it w what was it you guys were working on last week?", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Yeah, finally we we've not finished with this. We stopped.", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "More or less it's finished.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "Ma - nec to need a little more time to improve the English, and maybe s to fill in something some small detail, something like that,", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "Hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "but it's more or less ready.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Yeah. Well, we have a document that explain a big part of the experiments,", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "Necessary to to include the bi the bibliography.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "but", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "it's not, yeah, finished yet. Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "So have you been running some new experiments? I I thought I saw some jobs of yours running on some of the machine.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Yeah. Right. We've fff done some strange things like removing C - zero or C - one from the the vector of parameters, and we noticed that C - one is almost not useful at all. You can remove it from the vector, it doesn't hurt.", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "Really?! That has no effect?", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Um.", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "Eh Is this in the baseline? or in uh.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "In the No, in the proposal.", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "in uh - huh, uh - huh.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "So we were just discussing, since you mentioned that, in it w", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "driving in the car with Morgan this morning, we were discussing a good experiment for b for beginning graduate student who wants to run a lot of who wants to get a lot of numbers on something", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "which is, like, \" imagine that you will you will start putting every co any coefficient, which you are using in your vector, in some general power.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "In some what?", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "General pow power. Like sort of you take a s power of two, or take a square root, or something.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "So suppose that you are working with a s C - zer C - one.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "So if you put it in a s square root, that effectively makes your model half as efficient. Because uh your uh Gaussian mixture model, right? computes the mean.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "And and uh i i i but it's the mean is an exponent of the whatever, the the this Gaussian function.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "You're compressing the range,", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "So you're compressing the range of this coefficient, so it's becoming less efficient.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "right? of that.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Right?", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "So. So. Morgan was @ @ and he was he was saying well this might be the alternative way how to play with a with a fudge factor, you know, uh in the.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Oh.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "you know, just compress the whole vector.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "And I said \" well in that case why don't we just start compressing individual elements, like when when because in old days we were doing when when people still were doing template matching and Euclidean distances, we were doing this liftering of parameters, right?", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Uh - huh.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "because we observed that uh higher parameters were more important than lower for recognition. And basically the the C - ze C - one contributes mainly slope,", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "and it's highly affected by uh frequency response of the of the recording equipment and that sort of thing,", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "so so we were coming with all these f various lifters.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "uh Bell Labs had he this uh uh r raised cosine lifter which still I think is built into H HTK for reasons n unknown to anybody, but but uh we had exponential lifter, or triangle lifter, basic number of lifters.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "And. But so they may be a way to to fiddle with the f with the f", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Insertions.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Insertions, deletions, or the the giving a relative uh basically modifying relative importance of the various parameters.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "The only of course problem is that there's an infinite number of combinations and if the if you s if y", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Oh. Uh - huh. You need like a some kind of a.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Yeah, you need a lot of graduate students, and a lot of computing power.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "You need to have a genetic algorithm, that basically tries random permutations of these things.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "I know. Exactly. Oh. If you were at Bell Labs or I d d I shouldn't be saying this in on on a mike, right? Or I uh IBM, that's what maybe that's what somebody would be doing.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Hmm.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "Oh, I mean, I mean the places which have a lot of computing power, so because it is really it's a p it's a it's it will be reasonable search", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm. Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "uh but I wonder if there isn't some way of doing this uh search like when we are searching say for best discriminants.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "You know actually, I don't know that this wouldn't be all that bad. I mean you you compute the features once,", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Yeah. Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "right? And then these exponents are just applied to that.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Absolutely. And hev everything is fixed.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "So.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Everything is fixed. Each each.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "And is this something that you would adjust for training? or only recognition?", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "For both, you would have to do. Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "You would do it on both.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "You have to do bo both.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "So you'd actually.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Because essentially you are saying \" uh this feature is not important \".", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Or less important, so that's th that's a that's a painful one, yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "So for each uh set of exponents that you would try, it would require a training and a recognition?", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Yeah. But but wait a minute. You may not need to re uh uh retrain the m model. You just may n may need to c uh give uh less weight to to uh a mod uh a component of the model which represents this particular feature. You don't have to retrain it.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Oh. So if you Instead of altering the feature vectors themselves, you you modify the the the Gaussians in the models.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "You just multiply. Yeah. Yep. You modify the Gaussian in the model, but in the in the test data you would have to put it in the power, but in a training what you c in a training uh in trained model, all you would have to do is to multiply a model by appropriate constant.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Uh - huh. But why if you're if you're multi if you're altering the model, why w in the test data, why would you have to muck with the uh cepstral coefficients?", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Because in uh test in uh test data you ca don't have a model. You have uh only data. But in a in a tr", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "No. But you're running your data through that same model.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "That is true, but w I mean, so what you want to do You want to say if uh obs you if you observe something like Stephane observes, that C - one is not important, you can do two things.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm. Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "If you have a trained trained recognizer, in the model, you know the the the the component which I I mean di dimension wh", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm. All of the all of the mean and variances that correspond to C - one, you put them to zero.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "To the s you you know it. But what I'm proposing now, if it is important but not as important, you multiply it by point one in a model.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "But but but.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "But what are you multiplying? Cuz those are means, right?", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "You're multiplying the standard deviation?", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "I mean you're.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "So it's.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "I think that you multiply the I would I would have to look in the in the math, I mean how how does the model uh.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "I think you.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Yeah, I think you'd have to modify the standard deviation or something, so that you make it wider or narrower.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Cuz Yeah.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "Effectively, that's that that's I Exactly. That's what you do. That's what you do, you you you modify the standard deviation as it was trained.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "Effectively you, you know y in f in front of the of the model, you put a constant. S yeah effectively what you're doing is you is you are modifying the the the deviation. Right?", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "The spread,", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "Oop.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "right.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "Sorry.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Yeah, the spread.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "It's the same same mean,", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "So.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "right?", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "And and and.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "So by making th the standard deviation narrower, uh your scores get worse for.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "unless it's exactly right on the mean.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Your als No. By making it narrower,", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Right?", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "uh y your.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "I mean there's you're you're allowing for less variance.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "Yes, so you making this particular dimension less important. Because see what you are fitting is the multidimensional Gaussian, right?", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "It's a it has it has uh thirty - nine dimensions, or thirteen dimensions if you g ignore deltas and double - deltas.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm. Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "So in order if you in order to make dimension which which Stephane sees uh less important, uh uh I mean not not useful, less important, what you do is that this particular component in the model you can multiply by w you can you can basically de - weight it in the model. But you can't do it in a in a test data because you don't have a model for th I mean uh when the test comes, but what you can do is that you put this particular component in and and you compress it. That becomes uh th gets less variance, subsequently becomes less important.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Couldn't you just do that to the test data and not do anything with your training data?", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "That would be very bad, because uh your t your model was trained uh expecting uh, that wouldn't work. Because your model was trained expecting a certain var variance on C - one.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Uh - huh.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "And because the model thinks C - one is important. After you train the model, you sort of y you could do you could do still what I was proposing initially, that during the training you you compress C - one that becomes then it becomes less important in a training.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "But if you have if you want to run e ex extensive experiment without retraining the model, you don't have to retrain the model. You train it on the original vector. But after, you wh when you are doing this parametric study of importance of C - one you will de - weight the C - one component in the model, and you will put in the you will compress the this component in a in the test data. s by the same amount.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Could you also if you wanted to if you wanted to try an experiment uh by leaving out say, C - one, couldn't you, in your test data, uh modify the all of the C - one values to be um way outside of the normal range of the Gaussian for C - one that was trained in the model? So that effectively, the C - one never really contributes to the score?", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "No, that would be a severe mismatch,", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Do you know what I'm say", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "right? what you are proposing? N no you don't want that.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Yeah, someth", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Because that would then your model would be unlikely. Your likelihood would be low, right? Because you would be providing severe mismatch.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm. But what if you set if to the mean of the model, then? And it was a cons you set all C - ones coming in through your test data, you you change whatever value that was there to the mean that your model had.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "No that would be very good match, right?", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "That you would.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Which Well, yeah, but we have several means. So.", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "I see what you are sa saying,", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Right?", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "Saying.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "but uh, no, no I don't think that it would be the same. I mean, no, the If you set it to a mean, that would No, you can't do that. Y you ca you ca Ch - Chuck, you can't do that.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Oh, that's true, right, yeah, because you you have.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Wait. Which.", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "Because that would be a really f fiddling with the data,", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "you can't do that.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm. Mm - hmm..", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "But what you can do, I'm confident you ca", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "well, I'm reasonably confident and I putting it on the record, right? I mean y people will listen to it for for centuries now, is what you can do, is you train the model uh with the with the original data.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "Then you decide that you want to see how important C C - one is. So what you will do is that a component in the model for C - one, you will divide it by by two. And you will compress your test data by square root.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Then you will still have a perfect m match. Except that this component of C - one will be half as important in a in a overall score.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm. Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Then you divide it by four and you take a square, f fourth root. Then if you think that some component is more is more important then th th th it then then uh uh i it is, based on training, then you uh multiply this particular component in the model by by by.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "You're talking about the standard deviation?", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Yeah, multiply this component uh i it by number b larger than one,", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "and you put your data in power higher than one. Then it becomes more important. In the overall score, I believe.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Yeah, but, at the.", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "But don't you have to do something to the mean, also?", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "No.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "No.", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "No.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "But I think it's uh the The variance is on on the denominator in the in the Gaussian equation. So. I think it's maybe it's the contrary. If you want to decrease the importance of a c parameter, you have to increase it's variance.", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "Yes. Right. Yes.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Multiply.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Exactly. Yeah. So you so you may want to do it other way around,", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Hmm. That's right. OK.", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "But if your If your um original data for C - one had a mean of two.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Uh - huh.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "And now you're you're you're changing that by squaring it. Now your mean of your C - one original data has is four. But your model still has a mean of two. So even though you've expended the range, your mean doesn't match anymore.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "Let's see.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Do you see what I mean?", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "I think What I see What could be done is you don't change your features, which are computed once for all,", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "Uh - huh.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "but you just tune the model. So. You have your features. You train your your model on these features.", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "And then if you want to decrease the importance of C - one you just take the variance of the C - one component in the in the model and increase it if you want to decrease the importance of C - one or decrease it.", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Yeah. You would have to modify the mean in the model. I you I agree with you. Yeah. Yeah, but I mean, but it's it's i it's do - able,", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Well.", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "Yeah, so y", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "right? I mean, it's predictable. Uh. Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "It's predictable, yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Yeah. Yeah, it's predictable.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Mmm.", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "Yeah. But as a simple thing, you could just just muck with the variance.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Just adjust the model, yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "to get uh this uh this the effect I think that you're talking about,", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "right?", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "It might be.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Could increase the variance to decrease the importance.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "Yeah, because if you had a huge variance, you're dividing by a large number, you get a very small contribution.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Doesn't matter.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "Yeah, it becomes more flat", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "and.", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Yeah, the sharper the variance, the more more important to get that one right.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "Hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Yeah, you know actually, this reminds me of something that happened uh when I was at BBN. We were playing with putting um pitch into the Mandarin recognizer.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "And this particular pitch algorithm um when it didn't think there was any voicing, was spitting out zeros. So we were getting uh when we did clustering, we were getting groups uh of features", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "p Pretty new outliers, interesting outliers, right?", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "yeah, with with a mean of zero and basically zero variance.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Variance.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "So, when ener when anytime any one of those vectors came in that had a zero in it, we got a great score. I mean it was just, you know, incredibly high score, and so that was throwing everything off.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "So if you have very small variance you get really good scores when you get something that matches.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "So. So that's a way, yeah, yeah That's a way to increase the yeah, n That's interesting. So in fact, that would be That doesn't require any retraining.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Yeah. No. No.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "No, that's right. So it's", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "So that means it's just", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "just tuning the models and testing, actually.", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "recognitions.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "It would be quick.", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "You you have a step where you you modify the models, make a d copy of your models with whatever variance modifications you make, and rerun recognition.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "And then do a whole bunch of those.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "That could be set up fairly easily I think, and you have a whole bunch of you know.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Chuck is getting himself in trouble.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "That's an interesting idea, actually. For testing the Yeah. Huh!", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Didn't you say you got these uh HTK's set up on the new Linux boxes?", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "That's right.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "Hey!", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "In fact, and and they're just t right now they're installing uh increasing the memory on that uh the Linux box.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "And Chuck is sort of really fishing for how to keep his computer busy,", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "right?", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Yeah. Absinthe.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Well, you know, that's.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Absinthe. We've got five processors on that.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Oh yeah.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "that's yeah, that's a good thing", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "That's right.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "because then y you just write the \" do \" - loops and then you pretend that you are working while you are sort of you c you can go fishing.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "And two gigs of memory.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Pretend, yeah.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "Exactly. Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Go fishing.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "See how many cycles we used?", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Yeah. Then you are sort of in this mode like all of those ARPA people are, right?", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Uh, since it is on the record, I can't say uh which company it was, but it was reported to me that uh somebody visited a company and during a d during a discussion, there was this guy who was always hitting the carriage returns uh on a computer.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Uh - huh.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "So after two hours uh the visitor said \" wh why are you hitting this carriage return? \" And he said \" well you know, we are being paid by a computer ty I mean we are we have a government contract. And they pay us by by amount of computer time we use. \" It was in old days when there were uh of PDP - eights and that sort of thing.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Oh, my gosh! So he had to make it look like.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Because so they had a they literally had to c monitor at the time at the time on a computer how much time is being spent I i i or on on this particular project.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Yeah. How Idle time.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Nobody was looking even at what was coming out.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Have you ever seen those little um It's it's this thing that's the shape of a bird and it has a red ball and its beak dips into the water?", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Yeah, I know, right.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "So if you could hook that up so it hit the keyboard.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "That's an interesting experiment.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "It would be similar similar to I knew some people who were uh that was in old Communist uh Czechoslovakia, right? so we were watching for American airplanes, coming to spy on on uh on us at the time,", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm. Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "so there were three guys uh uh stationed in the middle of the woods on one l lonely uh watching tower, pretty much spending a year and a half there because there was this service right? And so they very quickly they made friends with local girls and local people in the village", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Ugh!", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "and.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "and so but they there was one plane flying over s always uh uh above, and so that was the only work which they had. They like four in the afternoon they had to report there was a plane from Prague to Brno Basically f flying there,", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "so they f very q f first thing was that they would always run back and and at four o' clock and and quickly make a call, \" this plane is uh uh passing \" then a second thing was that they they took the line from this u u post to uh uh a local pub. And they were calling from the pub. And they but third thing which they made, and when they screwed up, they finally they had to p the the p the pub owner to make these phone calls because they didn't even bother to be there anymore. And one day there was there was no plane. At least they were sort of smart enough that they looked if the plane is flying there, right? And the pub owner says \" oh my four o' clock, OK, quickly p pick up the phone, call that there's a plane flying. \"", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "There was no plane for some reason,", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "And there wasn't?", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "it was downed, or and so they got in trouble. But. But uh.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Huh! Well that's that's a really i", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "So. So. Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "That wouldn't be too difficult to try.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Maybe I could set that up.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "And we'll just.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Well, at least go test the s test the uh assumption about C - C - one I mean to begin with. But then of course one can then think about some predictable result to change all of them.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "It's just like we used to do these uh these uh um the the uh distance measures. It might be that uh.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Yeah, so the first set of uh variance weighting vectors would be just you know one modifying one and leaving the others the same.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Yeah. Maybe.", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "And and do that for each one.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Because you see, I mean, what is happening here in a in a in a in such a model is that it's tells you yeah what has a low variance uh is uh is uh is more reliable,", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "That would be one set of experiment.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "right? How do we.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Wh - yeah, when the data matches that, then you get really.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Yeah. Right.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "How do we know, especially when it comes to noise?", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "But there could just naturally be low variance.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Yeah?", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Because I Like, I've noticed in the higher cepstral coefficients, the numbers seem to get smaller, right? So d", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "They t", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "I mean, just naturally.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "Yeah, th that's.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "They have smaller means, also. Uh.", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "Yeah. Exactly. And so it seems like they're already sort of compressed.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Uh - huh.", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "The range of values.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Yeah that's why uh people used these lifters were inverse variance weighting lifters basically that makes uh uh Euclidean distance more like uh Mahalanobis distance with a diagonal covariance when you knew what all the variances were over the old data.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm. Mm - hmm. Hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "What they would do is that they would weight each coefficient by inverse of the variance. Turns out that uh the variance decreases at least at fast, I believe, as the index of the cepstral coefficients. I think you can show that uh uh analytically.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "So typically what happens is that you you need to weight the uh weight the higher coefficients more than uh the lower coefficients.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Hmm. Mm - hmm. Hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "So.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Mmm.", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "When Yeah. When we talked about Aurora still I wanted to m make a plea uh encourage for uh more communication between between uh uh different uh parts of the distributed uh uh center. Uh even when there is absolutely nothing to to s to say but the weather is good in Ore - in in Berkeley. I'm sure that it's being appreciated in Oregon and maybe it will generate similar responses down here, like, uh.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "We can set up a webcam maybe.", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "What you know, nowadays, yeah. It's actually do - able, almost.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Is the um if we mail to \" Aurora - inhouse \", does that go up to you guys also?", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "I don't think so. No.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "No.", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "OK.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "So we should do that.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "So i What is it.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "We should definitely set up.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Yeah we sh Do we have a mailing list that includes uh the OGI people?", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Uh no. We don't have.", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "Uh - huh.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Oh! Maybe we should set that up. That would make it much easier.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Yeah. Yeah. Yeah, that would make it easier.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "So maybe just call it \" Aurora \" or something that would.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Yeah. Yeah. And then we also can send the the dis to the same address right, and it goes to everybody", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm. Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "OK. Maybe we can set that up.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Because what's happening naturally in research, I know, is that people essentially start working on something and they don't want to be much bothered, right? but what the the then the danger is in a group like this, is that two people are working on the same thing and i c of course both of them come with the s very good solution, but it could have been done somehow in half of the effort or something.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Oh, there's another thing which I wanted to uh uh report. Lucash, I think, uh wrote the software for this Aurora - two system. reasonably uh good one, because he's doing it for Intel, but I trust that we have uh rights to uh use it uh or distribute it and everything. Cuz Intel's intentions originally was to distribute it free of charge anyways.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Hmm!", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "u s And so so uh we we will make sure that at least you can see the software and if if if if it is of any use. Just uh.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "It might be a reasonable point for p perhaps uh start converging.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "Because Morgan's point is that He is an experienced guy. He says \" well you know it's very difficult to collaborate if you are working with supposedly the same thing, in quotes, except which is not s is not the same.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Which which uh uh one is using that set of hurdles, another one set is using another set of hurdles. So. And And then it's difficult to c compare.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "What about Harry? Uh. We received a mail last week and you are starting to to do some experiments.", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "He got the he got the software. Yeah. They sent the release.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "And use this Intel version.", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "Yeah because Intel paid us uh should I say on a microphone? uh some amount of money, not much. Not much I can say on a microphone. Much less then we should have gotten for this amount of work. And they wanted uh to to have software so that they can also play with it, which means that it has to be in a certain environment.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "they use actu actually some Intel libraries, but in the process, Lucash just rewrote the whole thing because he figured rather than trying to f make sense uh of uh including ICSI software uh not for training on the nets", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Oh.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "but I think he rewrote the the the or so maybe somehow reused over the parts of the thing so that so that the whole thing, including MLP, trained MLP is one piece of uh software.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm. Wow!", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Is it useful?", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Ye - Yeah.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "Yeah?", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "I mean, I remember when we were trying to put together all the ICSI software for the submission.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "Or That's what he was saying, right. He said that it was like it was like just so many libraries and nobody knew what was used when, and and so that's where he started and that's where he realized that it needs to be needs to be uh uh at least cleaned up,", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "and so I think it this is available.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Hmm.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "So.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Yeah. Well, the the only thing I would check is if he does he use Intel math libraries,", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "uh e ev", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "because if it's the case, it's maybe not so easy to use it on another architecture.", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "n not maybe Maybe not in a first maybe not in a first ap approximation because I think he started first just with a plain C C or C - plus - plus or something before.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Ah yeah. Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "I I can check on that. Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "Hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "And uh in otherwise the Intel libraries, I think they are available free of f freely. But they may be running only on on uh on uh Windows.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Yeah..", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "Or on on the.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "On Intel architecture maybe.", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "Yeah, on Intel architecture, may not run in SUN.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "I'm Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "That is p that is that is possible. That's why Intel of course is distributing it,", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Well.", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "right? Or That's.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Yeah. Well there are at least there are optimized version for their architecture.", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "I don't know. I never checked carefully these sorts of.", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "I know there was some issues that initially of course we d do all the development on Linux but we use we don't have we have only three uh uh uh uh s SUNs and we have them only because they have a SPERT board in. Otherwise otherwise we t almost exclusively are working with uh PC's now, with Intel. In that way Intel succeeded with us, because they gave us too many good machines for very little money or nothing.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "So. So. So we run everything on Intel.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Wow!", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "And.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Hmm. Does anybody have anything else? to Shall we read some digits?", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "Yes. I have to take my glasses.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "So. 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f6d4ca592cf446eb959c71c98bb4de70	{ "meetingId": "ES2010b", "transcriptSegments": [ { "text": "Okay. Um welcome to our second meeting. This is the functional design meeting. And I hope you all had a good individual working time. Okay, let's get started. Okay, here's the agenda for the meeting. After the opening um I am going to fulfil the role of secretary, take the meeting minutes. And we're gonna have three presentations, one from each of you. Then we're gonna discuss some new project requirements. Um gonna come to a decision on the functions of the remote control. And then we're gonna close up the meeting. And we're gonna do this all in about forty minutes. Okay. First I want to discuss the goals of this meeting. First we need to determine the user requirements and the question that we can ask ourselves is what needs and desires are to be fulfilled by this remote control. And then we're going to determine the technical functions, what is the effect of the apparatus, what actually is it supposed to do, what do people pick up the remote and use it for. And then lastly we're going to determine its working design, how exactly will it perform its functions, that's the whole technical side of'Kay I'll just give you a minute,'cause it looks like you're making some notes.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "'Kay. Oh, well let's go ahead and,", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "back, previous.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "So what I wanna do right now is hear from all three of you, on your research that you just did. Who would like to start us off?'Kay.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "I don't mind going first.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Okay. Um do you have a PowerPoint or no?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah, it's in the should be in the m Project.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Do you want us to do our PowerPoints now or.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "You know you could you could do it yourself actually.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Oh.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Did you send it?", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Save it in the project documents.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Put it in Project Documents,", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Mm-mm-mm. This one?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Sure..", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Okay. Great.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Okay. Um well, the function of a remote control, as what uh we've been informed, is basically to send messages to the television set, for example, switch it on, switch it off, go to this channel, go to channel nine, turn the volume up, etcetera. Um some of the considerations is just um for example the what it needs to include it's the numbers, you know, zero to nine, so you can move to a channel, the power button on slash off, the channel going up and down, volume going up and down, and then mute, a mute function. And then functions for V_H_S_, D_V_D_, for example, play, rewind, fast-forward, stop, pause, enter. And enter would be for like, you know, the menus. And then other menus for D_V_ as well as T_V_, whether that means like um we can go and decide the brightness of the screen, things like that, all the more complicated functions of menus.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "And we can decide if that's what we want,, um if we want to include that on the remote, if that's something that would stay on the T_V_ itself, for example.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Okay. Okay.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "These are two examples. Um and you can see on the left, it's got a lot more buttons,", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "and I don't know if you can read it, but it says, step, go to, freeze, um slow, repeat, program, mute, and so those are some of the buttons and so it gives you an idea of s one example. And then on the right, it's a lot more simpler, it's got volume, it's got the play the like circle set, which is play, rewind, but it's also what is fast-forward is also like next on a menu. So you have functions that are d uh duplicating.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "And you have a mute button and then the numbers and the eject, and the power button. So that gives you two different kinds, a more complex and more simple version. Okay.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Ready.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "And then lastly, it's just the questions that we want to consider like what functions do we want it to include, and how simple, complex it should be? And what functions it needs to complete. Uh, what are needed to complete insulation process,'cause, you know, that's something that also has to be considered and it's gonna be hopefully a one-time thing, when you set it up it should be set to go, but we have to include the functions that can allow it to set up i in the first place.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "So that's it.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Alright. Very good presentation. Thank you. You speak with such authority on the matter.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm. Left.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Okay. Who would like to um follow that one up? Now, that we've discussed.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "I can go.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Okay. Do you want me to run it or you wanna.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah, you should run it.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Okay. Functional requirements.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm yes.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "'Kay. Alright. Now we have Courtney with the functional requirements.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yes, okay so we tested a hundred subjects in our lab, and we just we watched them and we also made them fill out a questionnaire, and we found that the users are not typically happy with current remote controls. Seventy five percent think they're ugly. Eighty percent want they've are willing to spend more, which is good news for us um if we make it look fancier, and basically w we just need something that really I mean there's some other points up there, but they it needs to be snazzy and it but yet simple.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Wait.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "So that's really what we need to do. And we need we need it to be simple, yet it needs to be high-tech looking. So.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "And that meaning what?", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Like They like I guess use the buttons a lot.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "I don't know. It's from my uh research.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Okay, what do you m", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "My team wasn't very clear.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Oh, I'm sorry.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Only use ten percent of the buttons.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "What do you mean by um the current remote controls do not match well with the operating behaviour of the user, like they have to press the buttons.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "That's okay. I I think it's like the engineering versus user,", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "whereas like the engineering she showed that the engineering ones are more complex", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Oh, right.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "and users don't really need all of the buttons that are contained on there, because they only use ten percent of the buttons really.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "The buttons. Okay.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah. Okay.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "We only use ten per cent of our brains..", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Good point.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "It works.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "It's a necessary evil.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Ready for the next slide?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm. And so people say that they typically lose it, as you yourself know, because you probably lose your remote control all the time,", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Hmm.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "much like any small appliance like a cellphone,", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Lost.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "and they we need something simple, because most people, well thirty four percent say that it's just too much time to learn how to use a new one, and we don't want to go we don't want to vary too far from the normal standard remote,", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "S", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "but I mean they do need to be able to identify it, and R_S_I_, I'm not very sure what that is.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "It's okay. It's very important..", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yes, it is important for the remote control world.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Wait, is that like your ergonomics like your hand movements or something?", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Sh", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Could be, yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Uh possibly.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Do we really need t to provide more information on what R_S_I_ is?", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Like.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Oh.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Uh yeah, that's what my web site said, I", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Channel, volume, power.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "I think that's a pretty good guess though.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "don't know.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah, I would assume so.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "It's like if you're holding it.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "I think we're supposed to know it as remote control experts.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah. It's okay..", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "But also s so the channel, the volume and the power buttons are the most important on our company website you can find like the specific statistics concerning to how much each button is used, but those are the definitely the top ones.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Okay. Next slide?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yes. And so personally I think that we need a modern eye-catching design, but it it really needs to be simple. So saying from y your slide, your presentation, the engineering versus the user-specified remotes, I think that we should go with something that's more user-friendly.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "User-friendly.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Where the engineering ones, the boxes, tend to make it look more complicated than it really is. Um the functionality of the product really needs to be considered as to like what type of buttons do we really need on it. And it needs to be open to a wide range of consumers, so even though we need a small number of buttons, we also need to take in like are most people going to be using it for a D_V_D_ player, a TiVo, what what exactly are we using it for, as well as the age range. So we need a hip, but not a corny marketing scheme for promoting our product.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "And also we found our team found that speech recognition is it's like an up-and-coming thing they really consumers are really interested in it, and since our findings found that people are willing to pay more money for a remote for it to be more high-class we could consider it.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "And so just to just to clarify by speech recognition you mean they would say, channel five, and the thing would go to channel five?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "I guess so, yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "to just say, where are you, and thing beeps, you know..", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Oh, that'd be lovely.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah, I guess we can interpret it like, we can just try out different types of speech recognition within our remote programme.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Didn't they um didn't our rival companies manufacture a remote that you would press the button on the T_V_ and it would the remote would beep so if you have lost it.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "It's kinda like what the remote phone used to do.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Mm. Oh, yeah, that's true.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "You know like go to the base.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "We could definitely include that if we wanted to.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "If it's within our price. Okay. Are we ready for our last presentation, Amber?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah, I'm just trying to move it.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "'Kay. I think it should be there, working design.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Working design.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "There we go.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "'Kay.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "'Kay. Uh I didn't get a chance to complete this one,'cause some of the tools that I was given were frustrating.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Oh my bad..", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Oh that's fine.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Uh okay, so method method of our design, I think I just start listing th some of the things that we actually need to put into this.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Help me.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "We need a power source, we're gonna need a smart chip if we're gonna make it multi-functional. Um extra functions will probably need an additional chip. Either that or the smart chip will have to be extremely smart.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "What exactly is a smart chip?", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Usually a smart chip is just a chip that's been programmed and designed so that it can complete a fair range of functions.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Well, how much extra would the additional chip be? Is that gonna push us over our production costs?", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "I wouldn't think so,'cause we could probably get it from like, in bulk, from a a newer company. And they tend to sell their chips pretty cheap.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Okay. Ready?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Um yep, nothing here.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "That's okay.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Um power source, I figured, batteries,'cause they're easily available. Typically a remote has either two double A_s or four triple A_s, sometimes three. Uh it really kinda depends on the size of the actual remote itself.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Um a large on-off button, demographically we're moving towards an older generation of people, so a large on-off button would probably be good.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Hmm.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Selection button for various entertainment devices, so you want something that will permit you to select the D_V_D_ player or the T_V_ or the stereo system. Um smart chip that perverts uh that permits, sorry, universal application again, something that'll allow us to skip over between devices, and that's kinda it.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Uh this is my fifty second design.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Power source over here. We're gonna have a switch obviously between the power source and the rest of it, and you're gonna need the switch. Um extra bulb could just be for flashiness, um subcomponent which would be like a way of diverting the power to different parts of the the device. Um the chip and of course the infra-red bulb, so it can communicate with the various devices that it needs to talk to.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "So what exactly we are looking at, is this like the front of the remote?", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "This is just like a rough schematic.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "So this would be the front?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "So this is the internal workings.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "So the red would be the front of the remote though, right?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Oh okay.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah, that's gonna be what's communicating with the T_V_, but the other bulb, I think, is good to just to indicate, I'm doing something, it's sort of like a reassurance.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "The l the light up kind of.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah, so you don't have to stare at that infra-red,", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Like that we know the battery's working.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "'cause you know when the battery starts dying in your remote currently, you have to actually stare at that bulb and go, okay, when I push this button, is it working?", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Hmm. It'd probably be lighting up the key too,", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "We can skip that whole thing.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "right?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yep.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "'Kay.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "So you can put it in the dark..", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "The buttons.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah, and that's good.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "We should make it glow in the dark..", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah, definitely.'Kay nex R Ready?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah, that's it.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "'Kay, any p'Kay?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm'kay.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Anything you wanna add for personal preferences though, you f you said already that we needed a large on-off button, you think. Anything else?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "I think that that's a good idea, because you know that's one of the most important buttons.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Just.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Well, should it be larger buttons in general, you know like uh the examples that I had, they were swi quite small. So should we try and go for something that has l larger buttons?", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "I think we should. Like I think that would be in a as in like in for the design, sorry, um. I think we should definitely go with buttons that don't look like a normal remote,'cause most remotes have small square buttons,", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "I think we should do something like maybe bigger and round like bubbles.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Ovals. Yeah, yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Okay. Okay, let's talk about all of our We'll come to decision later about all the components that we need to include, let's um wrap up this one, and I'm gonna go back to my PowerPoint,'cause we need to discuss the new project requirements which you might've already seen flashed up on the screen a bit earlier. Wait, come back. Alright. Sorry, let's go through this. Alright. Here we go. New product requirements. First it's only going to be a T_V_ remote. We're trying not to over-complicate things. So no D_V_D_, no TiVo, no stereo.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "It's not gonna be multi-functional.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Hey. And we th need to promote our company more, so we need to somehow include our colour and our company slogan on the remote. We're trying to get our name out there in the world. Okay.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "And you know what teletext is?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "in States we don't have it, but um it's like they just have this channel where just has news and weather, kind of sports,", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "I know.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "What is it?", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "it's very um bland looking, it's just text on the screen,", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah,", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "not even.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "it's like black, black and white kind of.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah, just black with just text.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Like running along the bottom?", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "You can also get the kind of the T_V_ guide so.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "It'll give you the sports.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Wait, is it like the Weather Channel where it's got like the ticker running on the bottom or something?", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Kind of.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Except the entire screen.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah it's the whole screen.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "It's the entire screen is just running information at random.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "So anyway.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "You can pick sports, you can pick the news, you entertainment,", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Seemingly.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "you know it's like.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "So it's like a separate channel from like what you're watching?", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Right. But it's becoming out-dated now, because of the Internet.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Nobody needs to go to the teletext channel to check the news, and we have twenty four hour news channels now too, so Those are our new product requirements. Alright. Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "So, do we have to include the company colour within that?", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yes. It's part of the logo. Okay.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Company colour being yellow..", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "What we're going to do right now is come to some decisions, definitive that we can all agree on, about um the target group and the functions and just definite things that we need to do and then we'll close up the meeting. So. Alright. Whatever. Okay. So our target group is You mentioned um older people? Would it just be universal for everyone, you think?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Because I think even if something has large buttons, as long as they are not childishly large, like even technically.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "It's gonna make it nicer. Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "non-technically challenged people are gonna use it. I mean they want something user-friendly, so.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm well, even if we kept the regular standard size of remote, if we reduced the buttons down to the ones that people are saying that they use the most often and a couple extra,", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "'cause they're saying they only use ten per cent of them,", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "then we should be able to accommodate fairly decent sized buttons.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Okay, so we want um for our target group would we say, I mean, young and old, all age ranges, all um, not kids obviously, right? Or kids?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "No, kids need to know how to use a remote, I would think.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Most of them will intuitively pick it up though.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "They gotta change between Disney Channel, Cartoon Network.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Okay, so we're going to go anywhere from kids to adult in the age range.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah, I think we need it all.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Um what about technic technical um specifications, like how how technically literate are these people who are going to be using our remote?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Um I would say we should say dumber than the average person.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "We should go for the lowest denominator.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Right, okay. So so they need no technical experience to operate.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "High school educated.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "how'bout little to no, because there is no way that you are gonna be able to make it no.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Okay. And we also need to determine the specific functions of this, just to get it all out on paper. So we said it needs to send messages to the T_V_, needs to change the channel, turn on and off, just basic simple stuff like this. So if you have something just say it and we'll add it to my meeting minutes.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Well it's channel, on-off button, volume, mute.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm, volume.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "And channel. Yeah. Those are the most important ones.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Right. And we wanna keep um I'll make a note here that we wanna keep the number of buttons down. Correct, because people only use ten percent.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "'Kay. Hey, what else?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Um.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Um.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Do we want this thing to be able to be found easily?", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "I think so. What do you.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Sure, yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "A finding kind of device or.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "And", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "I need we we need a like homing device.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah, ho homing device..", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "like if this is gonna get lost underneath the coach, how are we going to accommodate the quick ability to find it?", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Oh right yeah okay.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Mm'kay.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Tracking.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Because people really are looking for a remote that's more high-tech.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "What if we gave it a charger? And on the charger, just like a phone, like you get a portable phone and it's got a charger, and if you d leave your phone somewhere, you push the button to find it, and it finds th the phone beeps for you.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "But you got a base.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Do you think people'll really go for that though?", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "It's useful for the remote phone.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Because.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Hmm.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Would that add to our costs at all, I wonder?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "I would think so, because you'd have to develop a base.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Well, if you have the base, you could start putting in a charger and then you have a different kind of battery.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Hmm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Rechargeable batteries are cheaper usually.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Okay. I I think we can make a decision about that later. Uh we'll still put that as a point that we need to discuss. So that would include battery source Power source rather. Is it going to have a charger, or is it going to be run strictly off batteries? And we also need to deal with the issue you mentioned of speech recognition, if we want that.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Well, then we could.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Do w", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "If we have the speech recognition then we can start aiming at a like another kind of more handicapped disabled uh demo demographic.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Well, th there's the people who desire speech recognition, there's the different demog demographics have different desires, I don't know if you guys ge", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "You could um we could hook it up.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "It wouldn't copy onto the the thing'cause it's black,", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Oh.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "but all the different age groups have different desires for speech recognition. So basically older people don't really care.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "It's really the people twenty five to thirty five. I feel those are the people that really watch a lot of T_V_ though.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "They're the ones that get addicted to soap operas and", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "And if and if we introduced it when they're this age, they're going to probably always buy a remote that has.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Well.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "just sitcoms and stuff. Right.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Well, then then do you put the voice recognition do you put the r like receiver on the actual television, in the base, or in the actual remote,", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "So.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "'cause then you've already got remote in your hand, why you just gonna speak to the remote,", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "whereas if you just speak in general and you don't have to have the remote in your hand and like talk at it.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah. and the speech recognition could be part of the lost and found device, too. If we said, find remote, locate remote, or something.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "A certain phrase then it could beep. I dunno. Just throwing it out there.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Well.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Still fifteen minutes.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Okay, anything else we wanna discuss?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Um. Well, do we wanna include the numbers like zero through nine? Can we conceive of leaving them out?", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Um.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Wait, on the remote itself?", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah, like you have one, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine, zero.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "How how,", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Well, we definitely need those.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "yeah, how would you leave those out?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Well, I don't know, I mean, if you can like well.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Unless you could say the channel.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "I don't know, if there's just a way of leaving them out?", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "I think people would find that too foreign.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah, that's true.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "And also remember that in this day in age we need, you know, like a hundred button, too.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "You definitely need.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "I used to have a remote that did not even go up past like fifty. So I couldn't whenever I got cable, I had to get a new T_V_.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "It's when we get satellite.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Mm. get your own remote, or digital cable.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "'Kay. Um. I guess, we're gonna discuss the project financing later, making sure that we can fit all of the stuff that we want to on our budget. Um.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah,'cause I don't have any material pricing information available to me at the moment, so.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "'Kay. And don't forget we need to include the colour of our company and the logo.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "The colour being yellow?", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Wait.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "I'm guessing. And the R_R_.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "And how do we.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "I feel like a ye I feel like a yellow one would be too garish.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "R_ the double R_.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "We could just have the logo in yellow,", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Can't make it entirely.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "or maybe a yellow light for the keys.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Or is the l", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Or put like stripes, oh yeah, yellow lights.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah, yellow could be and it could doesn't have to be huge.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Well if you have like a.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Hang on. If you have this sort of strip kind of down at the bottom the base of it, just like yellow with the R_R_.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Right. So we've simplified, we don't need all those um play, fast-forward, rewind,", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Right, yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "or no menu buttons.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "So we've pretty much pared it down to on-off, volume, mute, channel up and down, um the numbers Yeah..", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Um can we go back to I'm gonna look really quickly back at those", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Two examples.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "examples and see if there is anything.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Which one is yours, technical functions or functional requirement?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Oh, it's a Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah, audi audio settings and screen settings, we need those like audio settings mono, stereo, pitch, screen settings like brightness, colour, or do we just want that accessed accessed from the television itself?", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "The T_V_. I think that that's fine just for the T_V_. I mean how often does the average user need to do that kind of stuff?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Well, the other option is sort of like down at the bottom, like farther away, you just have this sort of box inset where it's like the buttons that you don't use as much, but occasionally you will use.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Hmm.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "and so it's like.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah,'cause we need to we definitely need to have buttons for like sub-titles and things like that. It's'cause the foreign film market is expanding and stuff, and like on television like I know f k living in Los Angeles it's tons of Spanish network television if it has English sub-titles it's definitely helpful.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Couldn't we do that all through one button, something, a menu button, that pops up with a menu on the T_V_ that says, you know, audio, video, whatever, language,", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "I don't well, I don't know.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "you know?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "So we need up, down, and side-to-side buttons.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "For the menus.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Well, that could be No you could just double up with like the channel or the volume buttons.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "That's true.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Channel is just up and down.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah, okay. Okay, yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "And then add a.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Something that looks mayb you know.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Such as, yeah, the one the one over there on the left the engineering centred one.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Y right, right right right.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "That one?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "So we just have it like add a menu button then for the various things needed,", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "including v voice recognition if we have any like settings for voice recognition now", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "In the middle perhaps.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "included in the menu.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yep.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Ooh, I just got an idea for a design.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "good. Anybody have anything else they'd like to bring up in this meeting?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "I had something, but I forgot.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Okay. get out of here. Let's go back to the meeting closure then and see what we need to do next. Mm. Alright. After this meeting we're gonna be sent a questionnaire and summary again which we need to reply to that e-mail. And then we're gonna have lunch break. And after lunch thirty minutes of individual work time. Um I'm gonna put the minutes I put the minutes for the first meeting already in the project documents folder, if you'd like to review them. And I'm gonna type up the minutes for this one as well. Um here's what we're each going to do. The I_D_ is going to work on the components concept, um U_I_D_ the user interface concept, and you're going to do some trend watching.'Kay. Specific instructions will be sent to you by your personal coach. 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It's made edible'cause kids eat it,", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "and if it's wasn't edible then Well, normal babies..", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Actually that makes sense, because I remember like, peopl I dunno if my Mom ever did it but I remember other people's Moms making like home-made Play-Doh where you just like make the colouring and make some sort of sort of dough.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Oh yeah it is, yeah. Oh yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Everybody everybody ready?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yep.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Okay, let's have your um let's get have the uh presentation?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "We've got some.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "We've got a cool prototype.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah, it's pretty exciting. So, everything uh that we wanted we wanted it to be ergonomic and to be made out of rubber, very simple and easy to use,", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Double curved.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Nice.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "yeah, double curved,", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "um but also something that was gonna jump out at people, something that would be different uh, separate it from the other remotes out on the market. So uh I think if you put this in the palm of your hand, you'll see what a nice thing we have going here.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "That is cool.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "So, basically, if you hold it like that, the one on your thumb, yeah, the thumb button is the power button.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm. Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Your index finger is channel up, middle finger is channel down, ring finger is volume up, your pinkie is volume down.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "What's the big blue thing?", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "That's the lock button, has a L_ L_ on it", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Oh cool.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "and then the M_ is a mute button. And then it also has digit", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "what button? Um. Oh mute.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "For muting the uh.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "And mute.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Um and then then you can also there's a numeric keypad on the top so you can key directly to the to the channel if you want.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "So it's really basic functionalities as far as what keys are available, but we think it's very comfortable and very innovative and it looks different.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "That certainly does.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "So all the, I mean the important keys are right at your f f you know right at uh at a convenient place for you to to access them.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Which is ant anti-R_S_I_.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "So you don't you Yeah. It should be.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "And it's also conformable to the size of your hand. I mean if that's too big, it's a rubber remote, so you can, you know", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah.'S great.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "change that. So d does that uh what mesh with what you guys were hoping and for and expecting or does it.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Oh it's so cute.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "I have one thing about it, but it's a small thing, but it'd mean we'd have to make a right-handed one and a left-handed one.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Oh right, yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Ah, that's good thinking, yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "But, that's I don't see why that's not possible.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah, if we build rocket ships why can't we build left-handed and right-handed uh remotes.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah. They make left-handed scissors, you know..", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah, I didn't I didn't think about that, but I'd yeah,.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah, but then but then you can learn to use your right h like I was just thinking if there's left-handers and right-handers in the family, what, they have two remotes?", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yes s", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah, I know I know people who have left-handed and right-handed people in the family and they all use the computer for the whole the same computer the fes family and they have a mouse, and everybody is using right-handed mouse.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Mm. Sure. Sure.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah, I'm sure they'll be able to.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Uh-huh.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "I mean it's only pressing buttons, you don't have to do anything, you know, extraordinary. I think everybody can press a button with their left and right hand so.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Imagine d are you right handed?", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Imagine you're doing it with your left hand, I don't think it's too.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah, it's not.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "But we can have both uh.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah. Have them in stock.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Make'em more appealing as well.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "But um other than that, I mean uh and that's um, you know, that's just something, I think I think it's great, yeah, great idea.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Do you think it says R_R_?", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "I think it does..", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "I think it's, well, if the R_R_ motto is, we bring fashion to to electronics, I'd say that could be quite fashionable.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Fashion to electronics. Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah. And it's got the b the black and yellow and blue.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Plus red, which is sort of a a fruit and vegetable uh uh.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "..", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "There you go.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "So that's that's our end of things wha uh.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah, very good, yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "That's.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "It's come up with what we've you know, the things that's what we've what we were looking at doing, hasn't it, all seems to be there.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Well done.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "And all the playing around is uh.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Um before we move on.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah, I'm just do you wanna plug in?", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "I need that cable.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Thank you. Yeah. Um. One thing I do need to do we need to look at, is the costs.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "The costs, was that what you said?", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Play-Doh is very cheap..", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Well, yeah..", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "um.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Play-Doh won't last very long everybody'll go like, oops, it's gone..", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "But it's edible.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm. Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Chew proof.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Well, they'll buy more of them if you eat them,.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "That was the main criteria from the last meeting, it had to be chew proof.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah. Uh right. Okay, now I think we'll do this I could do you know, I can do this o on my own or I could do it with you,", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Oh ho-ho.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "but it's just easy enough to go through it with you, so we're going for the kinetic power.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yep.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "And the electronics, we decided on it being just a simple, the easiest thing that's inside it. Ooh.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "So the case, we've gone for the double curved. Um and it's made out of rubber. The interface is push-buttons. And button supplements well they're in diff special colours, aren't they?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "So special colours.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "It's better for.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Special form, yeah, they're a special form there in shapes and stuff.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah, I mean, these these ones on the side are curved kind of, so.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "And special material.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yep. Yeah. Um. Are they made out of any special material?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Rubber.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "No they're not. They're not made out of wood or titanium or rubber or anything, they're just simple.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "The buttons are rubber.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Well they're rubber, aren't they?", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Okay. Right.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "So let's see if that comes within budget. And it does. That is gonna cost uh.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": ".", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "We're under budget.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah. That's gonna cost ten ten Euro seventy cents a unit to make. And our target was it had to come in at under twelve fifty.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "That's cool. Yeah. Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "So,", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "And we're actua actually making a better profit than we expected.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "this is all very very good. The bosses will be very pleased.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Okay, let's just save this so I can e-mail it to you. Uh.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Save it in save it in the uh my documents.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "It's already saved, I think.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Splendid. Okay. So uh, that's done with this with this um doodah, so you're. Gonna do what you were gonna do,", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Thank you. Mm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "your evaluation.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Oh, yeah. This is where we all get to I get to write on the, oops, on the board. Right.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Oh.'S function.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "F_ eight.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "I love the smell of that Play-Doh.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah,", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "I cou..", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "have some have some.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Okay. So, evaluation. We're gonna do it all together so we evaluate each criteria. I've got the criterias. And we have to do it on a scale of one to seven, one being true, so it's it's more like it's fits the criteria, and seven being as in it doesn't fit the criteria. And the criterias are, and I'll draw this up on the board so we have a box. And this is false, this is just like to keep you informed. So seven's here and one's here and then you've got in the middle. So the first criteria. Do you all get what we're doing?", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Okay, cool. Okay, first criteria, look and feel. So the does remote look and feel fashionable to what we talked about? As it is it colour-wise and is it spongy?", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "So what mark should we give for that?", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "I would give it a seven.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "As in it's not.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Oh sorry, one, d yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Oh, sorry, one..", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "A one.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "A one a one. So I'll just write criteria criteria one we get one. Second criteria, new technology. Have we implemented new technology? As in the new high-tech.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Well, the kinetic thing, yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah. That was our main technological innovation w every everything else was fairly simple, but the fact that we used the kinetic energy was new.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": ".", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "So it's. So we'll give it a.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Well so the um.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "It's ergonomic,", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "but that's not that's that's a design that's a des that's a design thing, yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah, but that's not a technological thing, that's another thing, i that's another marketing thing.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. True.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "So on the technical side of it it.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah. I'd say it's about a a twoish?", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Two.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "It's about in the mid in the middle somewhere,", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Two.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "maybe, yeah, I dunno.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Three.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Maybe three, yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "three. So criteria three is is it easy to use?", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Easy to use.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "I think it's a one, I think.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "I'd say it's I wouldn't.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "not if you're left-handed it's not. I would give it a I would give it a two,", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Two,", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "'cause i i it i it i it is more geared for right-handed people than left-handed people, but.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "so it's.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "But if we make a right-handed and a left-handed then?", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "If we're gonna have one left-handed and one right-handed then I would give it a one, but otherwise otherwise a two.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Give it a t give it a two.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah, okay.'Kay, criteria four is costs..", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Cost. It's come in under budget.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "'s great.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "So that's a definite one.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah. That was great.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Amount of buttons.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Like the amount of buttons,", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Contains only the necessary buttons.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "'cause people like a lot le like So it's a one?", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Um criteria six. R_S_I_ is it good against?", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yes s yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yes. Very good.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "So it's anti-R_S_I_.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "It's one. And criteria seven, which is the last one, does it get lost?", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "It's yellow.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Is it easy to get lost?", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "I don't think it's gonna get lost easily.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "It is very bright, yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "No? But it is smallish.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Two.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "It's not the kinda thing that's gonna slip like between a couch cushion or something, you know. Maybe it will. Uh.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "T", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Mm. I think i it would, could be, could get lost.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "You think it could lost.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "two.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm. Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "I mean it.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "I mean it's not fully it's not fully like you can't say.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "No, I mean", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "I mean, it's not a one, definitely.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "I mean, you could still flush it down the toilet theoretically, but.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Okay. Yeah, anything, I mean. Okay. It's bigger than the average mobile, I guess.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "But, yeah, it can get lost.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "The mobiles get lost all the time.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah. Okay, yeah, two is fine.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "But then you ring'em and you find them. So.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Mm. Mm.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah, yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah. So, that's that. So that's the evaluation, so I'd say Yay.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Alright it's all all systems go.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "We've, we've done well.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "It's like like a number one. Um.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Number one product.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "We can't fail.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "All done, thanks. We fitted all the criterias..", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": ".", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah, so.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Well done, Reissa.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "So that's that one.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Okay, I I think um I just wanna put in as Project Manager the you know, little bit of praise for everybody here for how they've worked on it,", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "you know, both individually and as a team. You know you've w everyone's come up with their own individual ideas in their own different departments, um and then come together and worked in, you know, integrally, you know, at the right times, psp, you know, especially you two.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "That's all, you know, gone very very well", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "and and and be you know, has been good communication going on..", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah, during our design I mean there was some s some heated heated discussion,", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "but we we kept we tried to keep it cool and and", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Did you have to go down to the the corporate squash court and bash a few balls about?.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "just just.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Well.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "We just had to we just had to squeeze our product a little bit and.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "You know.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Fantastic.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "It is.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Now you guys have been a a great team. Think we're the we're the envy of all the of all the other R_R_ teams,.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "been cool.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "I think So", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "I I, you know, and I think we've co we have come we've come up with something new, something that hasn't been done before, we haven't we're not just rehashing an old design.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "In four diff in in four meetings.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Funny, all designer meetings could be this quick.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "You know, maybe this isn't a simulation, maybe this is actually so it's like Sony or someone like that they're they're just, yeah, they get.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah I think they're actually trying to find ideas for a ideal remote..", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "They're using our ideas.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah. Yeah, two years' time this will be on the market.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Ex exactly that product", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "um thum we'll go, yeah, we designed that and no-one will believe us.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "But um.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "So at this stage, I mean, is this the last meeting of the project? We don't uh have another one after it's gone gone to marke market or something?", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "No,", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "I think when this meeting's finished like officially, there b we'll get a uh questionnaire to fill in.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Y Oh really?", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Or six, uh.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Just start summarising now. You can reply to the same message.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "I haven't got message.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "See summary, there. If you just reply to that one.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "So there's no way to like predict what our'Cause we had a we originally had a As far as our financial uh um goals, we had a specific number for profits that we wanted. It was fifty mil fifty million.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Was it was it fifty or five?", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "I don't remember. But there's not a way to compute that, I mean, since we saved on the on the production cost, do we know how much we're making on profit?", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "It gets handed over to another department.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Depends how much we sell.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Uh.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "What our what our project was was to come up with the product, basically.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Hmm.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "the for the and just basically is it it come can is it within budget. When it c when it comes to all the other things of how to sell it and, you know, the b the profits and all that that's other departments it's another team that actually work out the mai the.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "But we have a vested interest.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "oh yeah, the all the guys in the profit sharing, yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "prof profit sharing.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Um. Yeah, that's it. You know, we've we've we've made i we've made", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "We finished an hour earlier..", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "we've designed the product, we've ma we've got the prototype, it's within budget, it's does everything that we wanted it to do. It's new, it's it's um something that uh that isn't out there already.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "I think actually and one advantage of of this is that after the uh, you know, after this fad of fruit and vegetables passes this will still be c a cool remote, you know.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "We're not we're not you know, tying tying our cart to that one horse..", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Well, this is very marketable in that it is it's it's something that's kind of new and looks a bit quirky for people who want that,", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Definitely.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "it's that it's um, hang on, I wrote it down here somewhere.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Oh no I thi I put it in one of my e-mails that I sent off. Um that, you know, it's marketable in the sense that it's whilst all these other remotes uh actually do give you repetitive strain injury, our one does the complete opposite, you know,", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm. Mm.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "so that's something that's new, which is one of the criteria they asked us to come up with something with something new.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm. It make watching T_V_ healthy.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah, and if you're not having a good time with the T_V_, you can f throw it about, you know.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "It's fine, it's kid proof.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Just don't sh don't throw it at any of the ornaments and break them.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Uh.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Well, you can break the ornaments, but you won't break that.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "No.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah. So all in all, I think we've done very well.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm yep.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Well done everybody.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Right, you too.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yay.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Um. Drinks are on the company.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Cool.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "In the corporate bar that's next to the corporate swimming pool on the top floor that we're that've all just gained access to.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm..", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Glad to hear that.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah. That's it.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "That's it.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Well, as far as I t as far as I know. Um.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yep. We haven't got the five minute left thing yet.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "No. Anyone wanna play I spy?.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm mm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "I guess it's probably better that we wrap it up than have five minutes of silence. Should we call the day then?", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah, I guess. I mean we're gonna get asked to fill out another questionnaire.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Uh, right.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Um. It's probably gonna be the same as one we've done before.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "But I'm not the authority to say that it is.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "In project.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Um how does everyone feel about the technology that's been used in this? 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And what you're uh drawing?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Uh sure my name is Agnes and I'm an user usability user interface designer.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "My name is Ed and I do accounting.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Uh how you spell your name uh?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "E_D_.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "E_D_ okay.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "And?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Do you also do marketing?", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "No.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "So only accounting? Okay.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Accounting, yes.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "And?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "And I'm Christine,", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "and my role in this uh scenario is to be the industrial designer.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Industrial designer.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "But I'm not really one.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "So who is uh marketing, nobody in the market", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Marketing is uh, is me.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "It's you, okay. So thanks for coming for the meeting first of all, and uh we have a long time, just twenty-five minutes to discuss about uh this project and the the project initiation. First of all I want to ask uh Mister Ed about your uh marketing plan and your product plan and uh.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Well I think that we'll see that throughout the day in how we're going to put this together as a marketing to to market the product. We'll have to see on a through discussion on where we're gonna go from here and from with this.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm but uh do you already have like a functional design or a technical design or.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Uh for the moment not yet.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Oh for the moment not yet, okay, but uh what's what's your uh do you have some project plan, something with you or.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Good question. No, this is like I said that we have to be discussed between all of us and we'll go from there. We'll have to simply we'll have to work on it together.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm. Okay, so uh by when you think you can uh give me some kind of uh project plan, okay, a discussion with uh.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Certainly by the next meeting.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "By next meeting, okay that will be great. Uh Okay, so there's any questions or uh first of all about uh this project?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "What is the goal of the project?", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Uh the goal of the project I think maybe I'll uh hand out to the Ed, okay, so to explain uh what is the project because he's in the sales and the accounting.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "I'm in the sales I'm supposed to explain them what to do. We have to define exactly what our product is, from uh.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yes, so can you explain uh what exactly the product is?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "From what I had in mind we're supposed to be marketing coffee, is that right?", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Oh I think uh, if I'm not wrong, we're making the remote control.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Um I was wondering.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Remote controls,'cause I had two different things. I had a first part of mine was to make a remote control for a new f remote control for television, and afterward I had a discussion about coffee so.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yes.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "we'll start with the remote control for television then. So we're have to design something that is very user friendly.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Something uh visual that has something that will will draw people to buy the product,", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "because I think everybody's experienced with uh remote controls, and some remote controls are are worth uh throwing out the window. Uh th most of them ar I don't know we're have to come up with a new idea on how to make it a lot easier to use,", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "'cause a lot of times uh spend uh half a day through the instruction book trying to figure out how to use it.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "And uh what abo uh Christine, what about your uh the industrial design plan? Are you have a design already on this product or uh you're still working on the design?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Um no, I I have not begun working on the design,", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "and um I uh I actually didn't know we were designing a remote control, I thought we were designing a new monitor. Um the website I went to look at had some announcements about an introduction of a um uh some sort of a seven inch um monitor, and um I understood that that was the project goal. So um I'm glad I didn't d do any work um ahead of time because uh I clearly didn't understand the project goal.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Um I just did s see that we were starting a new project together and there was going to be a four member team composed of these people, and um that's about uh that's.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "and I I read through the different steps, and what my responsibilities were relative to the steps.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "So uh you'll be leading the team for your design team or how many members is working in the team, for the design?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Uh for the industrial design?", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yes.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Um well, I would th think that depends on how much money you give us.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "That's.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Um because uh, you know, you can uh you can make it uh you have different choices with different financial models.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah, but uh before we talk about uh the finance, okay, uh do you have some idea how we can uh sell this product or project in the market and how much is going to benefit to the company and uh of course it's to the individual also.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Well, you know um, I kind of think that in general you have to do uh um y you have to have something that's very fashionable, that's uh very attractive that um people see and recognize uh its goal, and uh they immediately wanna have it uh have one of their own. So it would really would need to um something like the iPod would be good, seems to have caught on fairly well,", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "so um d uh you know, I don't care what it does, just so it looks cool.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Okay, but uh uh when you think you can give me like a kind of design on the functional design or the technical design?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Well, uh I've got a lot of other projects I'm doing right now um and so I'll have to wait and see how those uh how those go. If they uh go quickly then uh it could be a month. If um if I run into any problems in my other projects it might be six months.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah, but uh I need something in the writing, so like uh what's your functional design, what's your technical design, and uh how many people you need for this project, and what's the time frame you're looking, okay, and what is the budget, maybe uh initial budget you're looking, okay, and uh how is going to the market, okay,", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm. Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "so you've you've had to meet with the marketing team and how they're going to market and what are the marketing strategic plan, okay, when are you going to introduce, okay, and by the time you introduce the product and uh you know there there would be a competition, okay, so I need some kind of uh uh the plan in the writing from you. Okay, and it's po", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "And when would you like that?", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "B as soon as possible.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Uh well if uh if we have enough time uh then d do you think um two weeks is a is close enough?", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yes I think uh that would be good, because I need to go to the management and uh tell them what we are going to do, and uh what cost is, okay, and what's the time frame and what's the project plan, because uh without any uh documentations, I cannot go to the management and say, so we are going to do this and we need this much money, okay, so then it's it's difficult for me to say, okay, that's the reason I need uh some kind of plan from you, initially, okay, then we can have the further discussion again.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Uh are there other people who will be contributing to the plan?", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yes, of course, if you need some help, uh so let me know. So, who are the people you need uh from the marketing or uh the technical side or uh the administration point of view, okay, to add in any documentation, or some technical point of view,", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "so just let me know so I can uh coordinate all the teams.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Okay, I'll get back to you on that.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yes. Thank you. Okay. And uh Ed uh so what's what do you think about uh this uh project for the remote control and d do you have some already planned something for your marketing strategy or uh the sales strategy?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Well not yet other than uh doing research and taking remote controls and looking what other companies have to do uh, what they're building, their designs, their ideas,", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Hmm..", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "uh also have to pinpoint which market we're gonna go into.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "It should be a fairly large market because uh the number of people that uh the competition,", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "uh th I agree it has to be something it has to be something new, it has to be something that that draws people saying eh, I like this. Whether it works or not, they have to first say I like this, I like the design, and then it's gotta be simple to use.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yes, so what I uh prefer maybe uh you need to interact uh more with the Christine, okay, because you know what she is going to do it, okay, and you know how to sell it. Okay, because uh she is doing the design, but you are the core because you are in the marketing, okay,", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "so because you need to sell and you're the responsible for the all the money, the finance, okay, tomorrow.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "So, what I prefer, okay, so you need to interact with the Christine more and uh within her team, okay, who is using the functional design or technical design, okay,", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "and uh you need to come up with some kind of plan, okay, how we are going to do the your sales plan, okay, th", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Do we already have a cost limit on this, th an idea of how much uh we want to market this for, how much it's gonna sell for,", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Th That that's", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "that's up that's up to us to decide, eh?.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yes, that's you have to decide, okay, so the best thing is you uh both of uh the Christine and you discuss with yourself, okay, and come up with the cost, and how we are going to compete in the market, okay, in the the technically, or in the sales wise, okay, the commercial wise, okay. Then uh we have to design, okay, how long it will take the whole project, okay, how much is going to cost us, and how much we are going to benefit for the company. Okay, of course it's it's uh of benefit for everybody individually. Okay, so I think it's uh maybe if we can uh give me some kind of your uh the sales plan, okay, including the technical what uh she's going to talk to you within the team, okay, then it will help me to discuss with the management for further, okay, and put it in the the proper project plan. Okay, and if you need uh any coordination in between uh compared to the maybe the some technical vendors or commercial vendors, okay, depends if you want to have some uh uh marketing plan or technical plan, okay, so you let me know.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Very good.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Okay, I can coordinate,", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Very good.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "or maybe uh, you are my coordinator, am I right?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Between uh all the coor", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Well, no, not exactly. I mean my job from what I understood was to look at the usability requirements and make sure that the product is usable, it's acceptable to the people who are gonna use it and look at the best ways to do that.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "So I think I'll have to interact with Christine and discuss with her, so that she's not designing something that my studies will show right off the bat that it's not going to work,", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Th Christine, yeah. Which is.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "and so it's sort of it's a loop that feeds in, but I don't think necessarily that I'm in a coordinating position for it.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yes. Yeah, so basically you need to interact with Christine more, okay, for the user acceptability, okay, and the testing, okay,", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah. Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "then you will.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Which will also feed into the marketing,", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yes.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "because depending on what users want, depends on how you sell it, what tag lines you attach to it, how you try to make it more attractive to users.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yes. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "So I think all three groups will need to interact quite a bit. Um, and then I guess build the plan based on all of that, because I think you need to take all the factors into account.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yep. But what I request, okay, keep Ed in the loop, okay, in between your uh meeting and Christine meeting, because uh he should know what's happening.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah, of course. Yeah, we can C_C_ him on any discussions or documents that are passed around.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yes. Okay and please please copy all the mails, okay, all the discussions to me, okay, so I need to submit to the management.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Sure. No problem.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "So any questions for uh time being?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "No.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "So, the immediate next step is to start determining the functional design, or", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yes.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "okay.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Okay. To come up with the functional design and uh to discuss with Ed, okay, and how it's going to be work, and uh first of all with your user acceptance, okay, how it looks like and how it's going to be work in the market, okay,", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "so then we can discuss about uh further things. So, we'll meet when the we'll discuss on the further meeting.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "It's okay? Thanks for coming.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Would you mind um at the conclusion of our meeting could could you send us a copy of your slides?", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yes, I will. 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So we should address that. And, of course, it should be something s s that is very simple to use. In addition to that to make it sell, of course, uh the marketing manager w wishes that it be very attractive,", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "or like she says put some sizzle into it in one way or another so that the people are buying it now because, in particular with smaller items, that's a very important fact,'cause um if they say, well, I go home and think about it, that won't work. Um also mentioned was it should be uh it should have a very short learning curve. And maybe it could be sold by using a slogan.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Hmm.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Our technical manager has then said that she feels it should have a chip", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "that has infra-red bits and it has an interface controls w interface that controls the chip. Therefore, messages uh will be controlled in the same manner. There should be extra features like lid buttons, maybe a beep. If too many buttons are pressed, mm uh uh child lock um and uh maybe a display clock so that people could um you could see the time, you know, what show they want to watch. Also mentioned was uh maybe different shapes. So the components of the thing should be button, bulbs, infra infra-red bulbs, battery, chips, wires, and maybe some kind of a holder uh for the for the uh item. Francino who is our um", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Interface designer.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "interface designer um uh has mentioned that the that it, of course, should have an on-off button, and also has mentioned an interesting feature that it should have maybe a channel lock. Particularly with maybe small children that they couldn't uh watch a channel that is undesirable. It should be compact. Her personal favourite was it should be T-shaped. And maybe have an anar alarm-clock. And the material should possibly be not of non-allergic nature. Uh the different systems uh that exist are infra-red or radio-waves. Uh maybe it should have uh electri electrici electricity saving feature.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "And even possibly a timer to so that people can program their favourite uh uh program on th right from the remote.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yes.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Uh are we all in agreement that that's about what we discussed last time? Okay.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yes.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah, I think that pretty much is it. Yeah. Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Okay, then we I'm looking for three presentations. And uh I don't know whether the order matters much uh, I don't I don't think so, so whoever w wants.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Okay, I can start first.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah, okay.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Okay. Now my slide, please..", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Okay, your slides. Okay. Oh, come on, close already.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "And that's number two, right?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Three.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Three.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Participant three. Yes. Okay.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Now as an interface designer, I would give more emphasis on the interface, how the remote looks like so that it is sellable, it is attractive to customers. Next, please. Okay. Now the function of a remote is to send messages to the television. This messages could be uh switch on-off message or switch to next channel message or swapping the channels or switching onto a particular channel, like you can have the numbers one, two, three, four, up to nine.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Nine what? Nine channel uh switches?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Pardon me?", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Nine channel switches? Is Yeah. Mm-hmm. Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yes, nine numbers. And then you have swapping of uh button", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "by which using which you can swap the channels if you don't want to see the third channel you can swap it to the fourth channel or vice versa. Then it should have a next button, and next button channel by which you can keep on uh v uh mm eh scrolling the channels one by one.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Going to the nex next.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Next slide, please.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Then you should have a button which should which ca which can be used for increasing or decreasing the volume.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Then, there should be a button which can give subtitles for a particular program which is going on a television. For example, if you are watching a French program and you would like to have a subtitles in English, then there should be a channel which can trigger this mechanism in the television so that the user can see uh the the subtitles on the screen.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Then there should d uh there should be some buttons which can control features like the colour, colour of the picture, the contrast, sharpness, brightness of the picture. Now there should be a memory switch. There should be a mute button. Suddenly if if if uh uh viewer he gets a telephone call, and if he want he doesn't want to switch off the uh T_V_, but he he can reduce the sound, he can bring the volume down and he can watch he can uh while talking he can watch the T_V_. Now the most important feature I would like to have in my remote would be the speech recognition feature. It's an integrated progra programmable sample sensor speaker unit. So a remote can be th can be uh designed which can have the voice recognisers, you can record your own voice", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "which can be recognised by as voice recogniser in the television, for example, if you want to see we if you want to see the ninth channel if you say just say ninth channel, uh th now the the uh yeah, the remote will automatically it will switch to the ninth channel.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm. Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "So the T_V_ will have some recogniser which will recognise the user's voice and accordingly it will change its functionalities.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm. Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "So this is one of the very important feature a remote control can have. So this is one one of the interface which can be created.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "A very simple interface which has all the t uh uh important features.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Then, please, next slide.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Then, these are some of the remotes which are different in shape and colour, but they have many buttons.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "So uh sometimes the user finds it very difficult to recognise which button is for what function and all that. So you can you can design an interface which is very simple, and which is user-friendly. Even a kid can use that.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "So can you go on t t uh to the next slide. Yeah, so this is one of the interface or one of the remote which has this vi voice recogniser.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "And this has multi-purpose use, it can be used for T_V_, it can be used for cable-satellite, it can be used for V_C_R_, D_V_D_s and audio. And this has in-built voice recogniser.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Can you go on to the next slide? Yeah, now this is an interface for a chil uh for a remote uh uh which a child can use.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Uh this is user-friendly, it's very attractive and uh children can use it as well as they can play with it. And this comes with different colours, different shapes.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "And this this uh child uh interface has minimum buttons", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "and all the important uh buttons are there in this small, compact, attractive child interface. Next slide, please. Now this is a big over-sized remote which cannot be misplaced or it's impossible to misplace.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "You don't know me.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "this..", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "I could lose that in a minute..", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "So this is No this is a very big, you cannot misplace it anywhere.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "So this is a jumbo universal remote control and it's impossible to im misplace or lose..", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "This i this is one such interface which can be created. And the personal preference uh would be a spe uh uh to incorporate speech recognisers uh which will respond to user's voice for a particular uh function.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm. Right.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Thank you, that's.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm. Okay, thank you very much. Uh any comments on uh her presentation?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Well, um looks like we still have quite a choice of things out there.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Um what uh I'm No suggestion's bad.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Mm yes.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "But uh we're gonna have to narrow it down a little more. I don't think that we can get uh The T-shape is good, the child one is good, the too big to misplace, I think it's just funny.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Okay..", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Um I don't think that's gonna be our impulse purchase at the checkout counter.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah, I I th I think.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Okay..", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "It's it's gonna be a little bit too unwieldy.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "No, I think the these are her presentations, but uh as far as the decision making we getting to that after after", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah mm. Mm-hmm. Have to come back to that later. Okay.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "We can.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "but if I just wanted to know whether anybody had any any anything to add to her presentation.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "No, I think her presentation was good, and she really explored all the options. Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Mm right. Mm-hmm. Ho who wants to go next um? Mm-hmm. Okay,", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah, maybe.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "and you.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Participant two.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Uh okay.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Uh the next one, sorry.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Oops.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "It's it was the old one.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "The components design.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Components.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm. Okay.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Um this time I'm I'm going to um concentrate more on the components and the technical side of the remote controller design.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Uh, can you go on to the next slide, please.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "I have just brief uh down few uh components which we require for the remote control uh construction.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Uh the first one is case to keep all the components like integrated circuit, battery, etcetera, etcetera, it's like Uh it can be a plastic one, hard plastic, so that it can be strong, even if you just uh uh, you know, if you if it falls down, then it doesn't break. So it should be strong.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "And uh uh there are no harmful materials used in that. And it should be recyclable.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Uh and uh,", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm. Good point.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "yeah, and also uh using of colouring compon components like uh if we want to have different colours, blue, red, green, so uh uh we have to use uh some colouring compone compone components. And uh the second important thing is uh uh uh integrated circuit.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Uh which uh we can use a highly sophisticated one because it's like the it's like the heart of the remote controller. If it is not efficient then everything wi is going to be uh like um the lef ess less efficient so it you should we should have a highly sophisticated one. And it should be resistant to high as well as uh low temperatures. Suppose if it is thirty-eight degrees outside forty degrees outside, it should it should uh be able to re uh resist the uh temperature uh uh highs and uh high temperatures and low temperatures. And uh it should be with uh um equipped with timer and alarm facility. And the uh other component we should uh we have in the remote controller is a resistor uh which is like uh uh i it is very very much important for the electricity uh flow through through through the uh remote controller and uh also a capacitor which is a b which is a m I think it's it's like a battery, capacitor. Can you go on to the next slide, please?", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Uh a diode, a transistor, a resonator, these are all this uh technical uh electri electronic compons uh components which are which we have to use in a remote controller. A battery uh, I would like to suggest one thing uh if we uh if we will be able to make a res rechargeable battery then we sh we need not go for a high performance battery, even if it is a low performance battery it ca it can't l it can't charge much.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "It it it's not a high voltage battery. Then also we can If it is a rechargeable one, then uh people can use it for a long time, so in that way we can cut cut the cost, but w uh uh that we have to make the battery as rechargeable one. And we we have a circuit board uh in a remote controller. Can you go to the next slide, please. And how it works, how the remote controller works.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Go away.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Thank you. Uh when you press a button, when you do that, you complete a specific connection that means when you when you press a button there will be a s a small circuit underneath the button, and it will send some signals through the wires,", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "and then uh the chip will send start connection and knows that which button is pressed. Suppose you have pressed channel one button, number one you have pressed, then the uh chip will know that the number one button was pressed.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "It pros produces a mors morse code line signal specific to that button. Every button, every individual button, has its own morse code. Suppose uh the uh user has pressed butto button one, then it will have a spe the circuit will generate a specific morse code to b that that button, and the transistor will amplify the signal and send then to the L_E_D_ which translates the signal into infrared light. Like you have got a signal by pressing a button. That's a d a morse code has been generated by the integrated circuit. Now, that signal, that morse code, has to be amplified by the transistor. That is the use of transist transistor we which we use in the remote controller. It will amplify the signal and it will send it to the L_E_D_ and which translates the signal into an infra infrared bits. The sensor on the T_V_ can see the infrared light, and seeing the signal seeing the signal re it reacts appropriately, that when it sees the amplified mo morse code signal, then it will uh it will uh know which uh what what action it has to uh do. Then it will do the appropriate action. So uh this is how the remote controller works.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "It works.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Can you go to the next slide, please. Yeah, I have few pictures. When you look at the uh um remote controller uh it's it's it this is a normal remote controller. And to the next slide, please.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "And where we had a a few buttons and all. And uh if you open the remote controller you have this circui circuit board and few electronic components,", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "like you can see a chip there which is having eighteen pins,", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "and also a capac uh a capacitor, three resistors and also a resonator uh um mm yeah, and di and a diode transistor.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "The electronic components uh all of the electronic components have all those uh things like a chip and d diode transistors an Yeah, di um can y uh you can see the T_A_ double one eight three five labelled uh chip um.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm yes.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yes.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Uh you can also see the uh uh the green two green things are uh these are they are they are resistors,", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "and uh just beside that you can see a transistor, and a uh uh cylinder shape, uh that one is a capacitor. Uh and also there are uh um resistors uh sorry, ther there is a diode.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Can you go go on to the next slide.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "So uh this is the circuit board. The green one is a circuit board. Actually, uh building a circuit bo board is pretty pretty uh easy and also it's a it's a l l inexpensive. Uh it's it costs less than what you print on a paper, because uh uh when you when you are building uh some circuits some um uh circuits and also wires, it's it's better to go for printing, because uh you can build these kind of k circuit boards on a on a bulk and it's just printing, nothing like uh, you know, you don't need to use wires and all.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "It's not exactly wires we are using. It's just printing something on a board.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Tha tho those prints will acti act as wires and ci uh circuits. So th that green uh thing is a circuit board, and also you can see uh there are b s like uh um access for buttons, like when you press a button, the circuit under the button will be activated uh th it will it will he get some signals from it and it will uh it will ch its ch se send a signal signals to the, yeah, um integrated circuit.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Transmit.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Can you go to the next slide, please. Uh so this is these are the circuits un underneath the buttons. Uh can you see the black uh, round marks?", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "They they are the circuits.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yes.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Next, please. And um like uh we have uh designed uh before we have seen some uh few things like instead off buttons we have some scrolls. Uh b but a b a push-button requires a simple chip underneath it, but whereas a scroll wheel requires normally a regular chip which is a higher price range. Like for s scrolls we have to go for a sophisticated and and k uh uh uh full a complete chip.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Uh and a as energy source we offer a basic battery, a more ingenious uh hard dynamo, um a kinetic provision of energy, more than what is that you shake casually to provide energy. So that also we can have in a battery, uh or we can use solar sells. Uh.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Hmm, that's interesting.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah. Uh yeah uh the product can be de delivered into different cases. Uh usually, the cases and card flat that w we see usually uh d uh a normal remote controller.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Um.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "And you have more pictures. Uh we have five minutes to the end of the meeting.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah, maybe d uh I have just one more slide, I think. Um. Like we can have a ma material such as plastic, rubber, wood, titanium, but titanium we can't use. Um and also for electronics we can use a simple and regular um re or an advanced chip on the print, um also infra it includes the infrared se sender. Um yeah the uh for the movie just to j develop uh samples and so spe sample speaker. An Yeah, that's it. It's all for me now,", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Okay, well thank you.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "thank you.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Any particular comments by anybody?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Uh yeah, on the scroll and the push-button, um ca you can achieve scrolling by repeatedly pushing a button?", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "No, no, no, th the the the scrolling wheels are different, like you can go for a sw switches like buttons or scrolls, uh which which we used to do before ten ten years before, I think.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Now, nobody uses that because you need you need a a k sophisticated chip and all.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "So I think it's better we go for uh um ordinary buttons.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Um. We'll just go for push buttons", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah uh yeah, push-buttons. Yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Push-buttons.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "for in the interest of cost.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "We don't have a lot of time left and we will still have to make a decision, and the marketing expert has to present her her thing.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Okay. Go right to my first my next slide.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Uh okay.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Um alright, my method is uh I'm interested in what the competition is doing, and wanna see how we can make ourselves different from the competition, so I've really been looking at the press and the ads that are out there for other remote controllers. I s I spend a lot of time on the internet um surfing around doing the same thing. And then when I'm out um in people's houses or at meetings or anything like that, I try to notice what kind of remote controls people have, and if it's convenient in the conversation I ask about it. And I would encourage you all to do the same. Um and my findings from this is that, you know, small is beautiful. Um people like something that really fits in their hand.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "'Kay.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Simple is beautiful. They don't want to have to squint at small print um, they want buttons whose functions are obvious, and they want um as few buttons as possible, and they don't care for the mode thing. They want each button to do something. And eye-catching is important. It's gotta look cute, it's gotta look appealing. Go ahead, I'm trying to finish fast for you. Um and our preference is, as far as I'm concerned, are we got to get to the market before the competition. Ours has to be look really great and it has to come out before the others, so that we have a leg up on time to sell it and push it before other people get out their Christmas item. And we should develop one or two features we can really dwell on in our ad campaign. If we try to tell people it has too many great features, um the consumer just gets confused and we don't get anywhere. So we've gotta narrow our selection down to li two things, I think, that we gonna say are really great about our our our new product. And I've been looking around um at what designs every year different things are popular. And in my research this year I found out that fruit and vegetable shapes are really popular. And people are tired of hard plastic and hard metal. They are more back into soft feel, spongy feeling things, things with maybe a little cloth on them. So those are things maybe we wanna look at as far as saleability of the item.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Uh that concludes the presentation of everyone. And what we really have to decide in this meeting is um the concept of the remote.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "And uh so what do we think on the concept", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "of the remote?.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "You wanna try to come back to yours, and limit yours a bit?", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Y.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Uh yes, I would like to include this feature which is called as voice recogniser.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Okay. Mm-hmm..", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "So speech recognition is most important as far as you're concerned?", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "This could be uh one feature which could be sellable.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah, but w", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah h that could that could that could be our star feature.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "I think that's.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "That that be really good, yeah, I agree with that.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah, but but I what I'm uh very very much doubtful how how uh far it will work, because a speech recogniser like i it it has its own uh uh problems, issues.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Distance problem?", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah, it's not distance problem it it's recognising a person's voice,", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "like maybe different people will be having different voices, so it like it's uh everything so i", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Uh.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Well, you you teach You have to teach uh.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "So to get a good recogni recognising system, it's a costly thing, I think.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "No, it's it's, uh yeah, it it's like your recording of uh all uh um a question already, and then you're expecting an answer from th For example, you have a T_V_ system, I'm the user and my family members are the user,", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "I will already record uh a question like, uh good morning,", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah, but Yeah. Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "like around eight o'clock I want to see the news in the television.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "So I'll say just good morning and the T_V_ will switch on. It will recognise my voice and will switch on.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm. Yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Okay, before we get too far off here um, the components of the concept is the energy. What kind of energy do we foresee? Battery.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "I think I think battery,", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Battery.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Battery.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "and I think we all agreed on that.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yes.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "That that's that's gonna be most cost-effective and the best thing.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah. Yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Okay then chip on print.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yep.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yes.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "And the case. And I think we all agree on the case, we wanna have something uh maybe bright, colourful.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Bright, colourful, trendy trendy design, and strong.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "And compact.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "And also strong.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Trendy design and compact.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Trendy, yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm. Trendy design, compact and strong.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yes.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "User interface concept, uh interface type, supplements", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "That will be your area I think, right, Jana.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Uh. Um like the switches, like we use buttons for user interface.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Push-buttons.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Put uh k I guess uh for.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Push-buttons.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "yeah. And Not sure what they mean by supplements.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "And.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Supplements like different types of features buttons, like can have a f mute button or a swapping button.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Well, I think that Yeah,", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Oh, like.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "or or like her speech recognition would also be a supplement.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Oh. A what?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Her speech recognition feature would be a supplement.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Right, right, right, mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Recogniser. Yes.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Mm yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Okay, so why don't we put down speech recognition if possible pending some more research from our industrial engineer on how expensive that is.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Hmm. Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yes.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Okay. Uh our next meeting will be in thirty minutes, and the uh I_D_ is to this is the individual actions to be taken until then, to have the look and feel design, and uh the U_I_D_ is supposed to uh come up with the user interface design,", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "and the marketing expert with the product evaluation.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "In this phase, the two of you, Jana and Francine, have to work together on a prototype using modelling clay, it says here.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "You will receive specific instructions will be sent to you by your coaches.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Um if you have any questions, you know, you you can always uh contact me um or uh or your coach, I suppose..", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Wherever they're hiding?.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Um so um I think we conclude the meeting here and we come back in uh uh thirty minutes, according to our timetable here.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Thank you very much.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Thank you.", "speakerName": "User Interface" } ] }	{ "dialogTurns": [ { "query": "What tasks were assigned to each person at the end of the meeting?", "response": "Bot's answer:\n* The industrial designer was tasked with creating a design for the look and feel of the remote.\n* The user interface was to design the user interface for the remote.\n* The marketing expert was to evaluate the product.\n* The industrial designer and the user interface were to collaborate on a prototype using modelling clay.", "responseAttribution": { "indexRanges": [ { "startIndex": 8, "endIndex": 8 }, { "startIndex": 61, "endIndex": 61 }, { "startIndex": 275, "endIndex": 283 } ] }, "queryMetadata": { "queryType": "QUERY_TYPE_GENERAL", "isUnanswerable": null, "isContextDependent": null } }, { "query": "Besides the horrible jokes, what tasks were assigned to each person at the end of the meeting?", "response": "* The industrial designer was tasked with creating a design for the look and feel of the remote.\n* The user interface was to design the user interface for the remote. \n* The marketing expert was to evaluate the product.\n* The industrial designer and the user interface were to collaborate on a prototype using modelling clay.", "responseAttribution": { "indexRanges": [ { "startIndex": 8, "endIndex": 8 }, { "startIndex": 61, "endIndex": 61 }, { "startIndex": 275, "endIndex": 283 } ] }, "queryMetadata": { "queryType": "QUERY_TYPE_GENERAL", "isUnanswerable": null, "isContextDependent": null } }, { "query": "What were the benefits of speech recognition as a supplement?", "response": "The user interface expert suggested speech recognition as a possible supplement to the remote control. 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f7f746f1f1de4e2c8e86b25b051fea73	{ "meetingId": "covid10", "transcriptSegments": [ { "text": "I call the meeting to order. Welcome to the third meeting of the House of Commons Special Committee on the COVID-19 Pandemic. Pursuant to the order of reference of Monday, April20, the committee is meeting for the purposes of considering ministerial announcements, allowing members to present petitions, and questioning ministers of the crown, including the Prime Minister, in respect of the COVID-19 pandemic. I understand there's an agreement to observe a moment of silence in memory of the six members of the Canadian Armed Forces who lost their lives last Wednesday in a helicopter crash off the coast of Greece. We'll return to order. Colleagues, we meet today to continue our discussion about how our country is dealing with the COVID-19 pandemic. As we do, Canadians, like everyone around the world, are doing their best to live their lives until things improve. Meanwhile, as we look towards the future, I believe that it is also important to remember our past and to continue to mark the important moments in our shared history. At this very moment, the Dominion Carillonneur, Dr. Andrea McCrady, is performing a special recital to commemorate the 75th anniversary of the liberation of the Netherlands by the Canadian Forces. In May 1945, Canadian Forces played a major role in liberating the Dutch people from Nazi occupation. May 5 is now a national holiday in the Netherlands that commemorates the event and the great friendship that now exists between our two countries. Today's meeting is taking place by video conference. The proceedings will be made available via the House of Commons website. Please be aware that the webcast will always show the person speaking rather than the entire committee. Let me remind you that, as in the House or in committee, members may not take photographs of their colleagues or film the proceedings. In order to facilitate the work of our interpreters and ensure orderly meetings, I will outline a few rules. Interpretation of this video conference will be done as it is at normal committee meetings and in the House. At the bottom of your screen, you can choose floor, English or French. As you have seen, I change as I am speaking. I have now switched over to English in order to speak English. If you look at the bottom, you have a little flag that indicates whether it's English or French, and that's how we will be speaking. It makes it easier. That was where we had a little bit of a glitch in the last session. I understand that there are no statements by ministers. We can now proceed to presenting petitions for a period not exceeding 15 minutes. I would like to remind members that petitions presented during a meeting of the special committee must already have been certified by the clerk of petitions. In addition, to ensure that the petition is considered to have been properly presented, the certificate of the petition and each page of the petition for petitions certified in a previous Parliament should be emailed to the committee no later than 6 p.m. on the day before the committee. I thank all the members for their usual co-operation. Thank you all. Now we'll proceed to presenting petitions. Our first petition comes from the honourable member for Sherwood ParkFort Saskatchewan, Mr. Genuis.", "speakerName": "The Chair (Hon. Anthony Rota (NipissingTimiskaming, Lib.))" }, { "text": "Mr. Chair, I'm pleased to be presenting two petitions today. The first petition is with respect to government Bill C-7. Petitioners raised concerns that this bill removes safeguards from the current euthanasia regime. It includes removing the mandatory 10-day reflection period and the number of required witnesses who will witness a person's consent. The petitioners urge the House of Commons to immediately discontinue the removal of safeguards for people requesting euthanasia, and to put in place additional measures to protect vulnerable people. This would require that bill to be amended or not passed. The second petition is with respect to Senate public bill S-204. This is on organ harvesting and trafficking. Petitioners call on members of the House, and hopefully the Senate as well, to support Bill S-204, which would make it a criminal offence for a person to go abroad and receive an organ for which there has not been consent. It would also create provisions under which a person could be made inadmissible to Canada if they had been involved in organ harvesting or trafficking. Thank you very much.", "speakerName": "Mr. Garnett Genuis (Sherwood ParkFort Saskatchewan, CPC)" }, { "text": "Thank you. I want to remind all the members that there are specific headsets that have been mandated to all of us. If you don't have one, please talk to your IT ambassador and they will get one to you as quickly as possible. The reason for them is not so much for what you hear, but that our interpreters are working and there are work conditions that really make it difficult. Part of that is not having the appropriate boom on your headset, which will make it very difficult for them to hear and interpret for our members. Now we go to the member for BeachesEast York, Mr. Erskine-Smith.", "speakerName": "The Chair" }, { "text": "Mr. Chair, I had to learn how to tie my tie all over again. It's been so long. I want to thank Jenna Robar, who's led this petition e-2453. The petitioners have noted that there are approximately 60 indigenous languages in Canada and that 2019, last year, was declared by the UN to be the year of indigenous languages. They draw attention to article 13 of the UNDRIP and to the TRC's calls to action numbers 13 to 16. Fundamentally, they call upon the Government of Canada to recognize indigenous languages as being official languages of Canada and to have each language recognized nationally, with implementations on regional and provincial levels, acknowledging that many regions have different languages.", "speakerName": "Mr. Nathaniel Erskine-Smith (BeachesEast York, Lib.)" }, { "text": "Mr. Chair, I am proud to present a petition on behalf of one of my constituents, Myles Lynch of St. Andrews West in my riding. Myles made history as the first Canadian ever to survive three double-lung transplants. Myles lives with cystic fibrosis and has had three lung transplants in the last five years, and he's only 22 years old. Myles created a documentary called 8 Thousand Myles, which had a few showings in my riding. It documented his journey across Canada. One thing Myles has been advocating for is the creation of a national opt-out program for organ donation. Myles asked me how he could help raise awareness of that issue. I mentioned to him e-petitions online and getting people across the country to sign them. I am proud to have this certified today, with 1,318 signatures, asking the Standing Committee on Health to launch a study into the feasibility of the creation of a national opt-out program. I give kudos to Myles not only for his strength personally but also for his advocacy for others and for saving lives in our country by advocating for a better and an improved organ donation system. Kudos to Myles. I'm proud to present this petition today.", "speakerName": "Mr. Eric Duncan (StormontDundasSouth Glengarry, CPC)" }, { "text": "Mr. Chair, I'm very pleased to present this certified petition on behalf of several dozen residents of Toronto, Mississauga and Brampton, Ontario, who add their voices to those of the thousands upon thousands of Canadians who have signed similar petitions. Given that Canadians are living through unprecedented, catastrophic climate events, and at the same time our society, as you know, is suffering from worsening social and economic inequalitieshalf of Canadian families are only $200 away from insolvency in any given monthand particularly given the pandemic that we are currently experiencing, these petitioners are calling on the Government of Canada to support motion M-1, a made-in-Canada green new deal that I am presenting in front of the House of Commons. It calls on Canada to take bold and rapid action to tackle the climate emergency, and to put in place a shift to a clean and renewable energy economy.", "speakerName": "Mr. Peter Julian (New WestminsterBurnaby, NDP)" }, { "text": "Mr. Chair, it's an honour to table a petition on behalf of constituents from CourtenayAlberni. They are concerned, obviously, about fentanyl-related deaths. Over 12,000 Canadians have died over the last four years due to fentanyl-poisoned sources. They cite that the current war on drugs has been costly and grossly ineffective; that it has resulted in widespread stigma towards addiction and against those who use illicit drugs; and that criminalization of particular substances has resulted in the establishment of a drug trade that now trafficks dangerous and lethal products such as fentanyl. They are citing that regulating to ensure safe sources, with proper measures and bylaws, will reduce the criminal element associated with street drugs. Problematic substance use is a health issue and is not resolved through criminalization of personal possession and consumption. They are calling on the Government of Canada to declare the current opioid overdose and fenanyl poisoning crisis a national public health emergency under the Emergencies Act. They are calling for the government to reform current drug policy to decriminalize personal possession, as has been done in Portugal and other countries, and to create with urgency and immediacy a system to provide safe and unadulterated access to substances so that people who use substances experimentally, recreationally or chronically are not at imminent risk of overdose due to a contaminated source.", "speakerName": "Mr. Gord Johns (CourtenayAlberni, NDP)" }, { "text": "Mr. Chair, I'm presenting a petition today that contains the concerns of Canadians in my riding with the government's approach to firearms legislation and regulation. The petition highlights that the Liberal government's December 5, 2019, Speech from the Throne contains numerous inaccuracies about current firearms legislation and regulation; that the term military-style assault rifles is a political phrase undefined in Canadian law; that municipalities are constitutionally unable to enact criminal law to ban handguns in their jurisdictions; that the experts, including chiefs of police, agree that banning firearms and requiring law-abiding gun owners to follow more unnecessary red tape will not increase public safety; that the majority of guns used in violent crimes are smuggled into Canada from the United States; and that the Liberal government continues to target law-abiding firearms owners instead of the gangs, drug traffickers and illegal gun traffickers responsible for violence in our communities. The petitioners in MissionMatsquiFraser Canyon are calling on the government to stop targeting law-abiding firearms owners; to cancel all plans to confiscate firearms legally owned by federally licensed, RCMP-vetted Canadians; and to focus our limited resources on anti-gang enforcement, on reducing the involvement of at-risk youth and gangs, on mental health and on providing the Canada Border Services Agency with the tools they need to do their job effectively.", "speakerName": "Mr. Brad Vis (MissionMatsquiFraser Canyon, CPC)" }, { "text": "Very good. That's all for petitions today. We will now proceed to the questioning of ministers. I would like to remind honourable members that no member shall be recognized for more than five minutes at a time and that members may split their time with one or more members by so indicating to the chair. Ministers responding to the question should do so by simply turning on their mike and speaking. I want to again remind honourable members to use the boom on the official headsets so that everything runs smoothly, not only for ourselves but also for the interpreters. We start the question period with Mr.Paul-Hus.", "speakerName": "The Chair" }, { "text": "Thank you, Mr.Chair. Although we are right in the middle of a pandemic and the government has agreed to set aside all parliamentary business in order to concentrate solely on eliminating the virus in Canada and its impacts, the Prime Minister is deceiving Canadians by introducing measures to punish law-abiding firearm owners. Why?", "speakerName": "Mr. Pierre Paul-Hus (CharlesbourgHaute-Saint-Charles, CPC)" }, { "text": "Mr.Chair, I feel that all Canadians were affected by the massacre in Nova Scotia. Once again, too many families are facing tragedy and tremendous grief. During the last election campaign, we promised to ban military-style assault weapons, and that is exactly what we have done. We will be working with members from all parties in order to continue strengthening gun control. It is a shame that, once more, the Conservatives do not want to strengthen gun control in the country.", "speakerName": "Right Hon. Justin Trudeau (Prime Minister)" }, { "text": "Mr.Chair, I understand the Prime Minister's reply. However, I would like to know whether he considers that, with this order in council, organized crime, street gangs and other criminals are simply going to turn in their weapons.", "speakerName": "Mr. Pierre Paul-Hus" }, { "text": "This is indeed only a first step, but it is an important one. We are doing other things to eliminate or restrict handguns in our municipalities, to strengthen the control at our borders, and to implement other measures. I am pleased to hear the hon. member speak of those measures, because we are going to work together in the House to strengthen gun control. I hope that the Conservative Party will be part of that discussion in a positive way, in order to keep Canadians safe.", "speakerName": "Right Hon. Justin Trudeau" }, { "text": "Mr.Chair, I can simply say to the Prime Minister that the Conservative Party has always been committed to battling criminals, not law-abiding citizens. Speaking of criminals, we know that, even before the pandemic, the Prime Minister had asked the Parole Board of Canada to release prisoners more easily and more quickly. Now we are learning that, because of the pandemic, some releases are happening very quickly. The Minister of Public Safety told us that the people were approaching the end of their sentences or were older, but we are learning in the media that some dangerous criminals are being released. Can the Prime Minister give us an explanation?", "speakerName": "Mr. Pierre Paul-Hus" }, { "text": "The protection, the safety and the health of all Canadians are important for the government. This is why we have taken additional measures in our correctional services to ensure that guards and inmates are protected. We have indeed opened the doors to some more speedy releases, but only in very specific cases that present little or no danger for Canadians. We have managed to find the right balance. We must protect Canadians and we must also ensure that they are safe. Those two things go hand-in-hand.", "speakerName": "Right Hon. Justin Trudeau" }, { "text": "So is the Prime Minister confirming to us that no dangerous criminals have been precipitously released so that they do not have to experience COVID-19 within the walls?", "speakerName": "Mr. Pierre Paul-Hus" }, { "text": "There are very strict rules and principles to ensure that people posing a threat to society are not released.", "speakerName": "Right Hon. Justin Trudeau" }, { "text": "Mr.Paul-Hus, you have one minute left.", "speakerName": "The Chair" }, { "text": "Thank you, Mr.Chair. The Chinese government has not been transparent with the rest of the world about the coronavirus. Australia asked for an in-depth investigation, but has received threats from the communist regime. Is Canada going to stand by its allies in the Five Eyes and demand that the Chinese government be completely transparent?", "speakerName": "Mr. Pierre Paul-Hus" }, { "text": "We continue to stand in solidarity with our allies, including the Five Eyes, as they have stood in solidarity with Canada in terms of the two Canadians who have been unjustly detained for a long time in China. In the coming months and years, we expect to obtain answers to all our questions about the origin of this pandemic, including questions that are important for China. At the same time, we are going to work hard to ensure that all Canadians have the equipment and the protection they need to get through this pandemic.", "speakerName": "Right Hon. Justin Trudeau" }, { "text": "We now move to Mr.Blanchet.", "speakerName": "The Chair" }, { "text": "Thank you, Mr.Chair. I am sorry that I do not have my official headset. I was elsewhere, and I did not bring it with me. I hope that you can still hear me properly. For some days, discussions have been going on between people from the Bloc Qubcois and people from the government with a view to collaboratively coming up with a proposal for seniors in Quebec and Canada. The gist of our proposal is to temporarily increase the old age security by about $25per week, or $110per month. By the way, I hate the term \"old age security. I prefer \"senior security. The discussion has been going on for some time and it's a proposal that we made in the election campaign. We are asking for it to be done at this point, at least temporarily. Parliament stopped sitting in the middle of March. We are now in May, and seniors still have nothing. They are impatient themselves, and we spend a good part of our days answering them. Given that impatience, I realized I should not be the one answering them, it should be the Prime Minister. So here is my question for the Prime Minister: what are you doing to seek a solution that will increase the purchasing power of seniors in Quebec and Canada in the very short term?", "speakerName": "Mr. Yves-Franois Blanchet (BeloeilChambly, BQ)" }, { "text": "Clearly, seniors need support and significant services from us because of COVID-19. Our priority was to implement income replacement benefits for workers who have lost their jobs because of COVID-19. Then we announced different measures, including measures for seniors. The most vulnerable seniors are going to receive reimbursement of the GST, which will help them very quickly. We have also reduced by 25% the minimum amount that must be withdrawn from registered retirement income funds. We have also channelled $9million through the United Way, to help the most vulnerable seniors. Absolutely, I recognize that more must be done. I am very pleased that we have been able to work with other parliamentarians, including those in the Bloc Qubcois, to hear these concerns and to find the best way to help seniors in the short term. In terms of the pandemic, they have concerns about their physical security, but also about their financial security. We will have more to say about this soon.", "speakerName": "Right Hon. Justin Trudeau" }, { "text": "In the last few hours, the Prime Minister has indicated that he could need the cooperation of other parties, including the Bloc Qubcois, on a completely different matter. We are very open to that discussion, but we want the same openness when we are asking for something to serve the people of Quebec. The cost of a basket of groceries has increased for seniors, as it has for everyone else. It's true for all seniors over 65years old, of course. The current old age pension represents less than half of the Canada emergency student benefit. It represents less than one third of the basic Canada emergency response benefit. Seniors in my constituency, as in any other of the 338constituencies, are asking what we are doing. They are asking how there can be nothing for them. When will there be something for them? I want to be able to give them an answer of some kind. What is the Prime Minister's answer? I will repeat it to them.", "speakerName": "Mr. Yves-Franois Blanchet" }, { "text": "There will be announcements in the coming days on the way in which we will be able to help seniors, particularly the most vulnerable seniors. We recognize that the cost of a basket of groceries is increasing for everyone. That is why we have to do better for our seniors. There are horror stories, whether about the CHSLDs, or about our most vulnerable seniors across the country. Far too many families are experiencing tremendous grief. There are seniors who are alone, seniors who are afraid of falling ill without ever seeing their grandchildren or their children again. We have to be there for those who belong to that great generation that fought for us during the second world war. Now we have to fight for them in their homes. That is exactly what we are going to do.", "speakerName": "Right Hon. Justin Trudeau" }, { "text": "We'll go to the next question. Ms. Collins.", "speakerName": "The Chair" }, { "text": "Mr. Chair, every day I hear from people who are struggling to pay their bills and to keep a roof over their head. Instead of making sure that Canadians get the help they need, the government has created complicated programs that are still letting people fall through the cracks. If the Prime Minister won't commit to a universal benefit, will he at least commit to removing the restrictive eligibility criteria that are leaving the most vulnerable people behind?", "speakerName": "Ms. Laurel Collins (Victoria, NDP)" }, { "text": "Mr. Chair, we knew, when this pandemic hit, that we needed to help Canadians who were suffering from coast to coast to coast, particularly the most vulnerable. That is why we moved forward rapidly with the Canada emergency response benefit, which has helped over seven million individual Canadians and has made a huge difference. We had to move very quickly to get this money out to people, and that is exactly what we did. We also recognized that there would be a need to do more. That is why since that moment, we have continually worked on reaching out to the most vulnerable and supporting them as well. We have more to do, but we knew that targeted approaches were what was most needed.", "speakerName": "Right Hon. Justin Trudeau" }, { "text": "Mr. Chair, the government continues to leave people behind. I spoke to a woman in my riding who was homeless last year. She recently found a job and a place to live. However, because she didn't make $5,000 last year, when the pandemic hit she didn't qualify for any benefits. She didn't qualify, but she is one of the people who need it the most. I'm wondering why the Prime Minister doesn't think she deserves our support.", "speakerName": "Ms. Laurel Collins" }, { "text": "Mr. Chair, our focus throughout this crisis has been on helping the most vulnerable with targeted measures that will lift Canadians out of poverty and will support them. Over the past five years, we've lifted over a million people out of poverty in this country, and we've continued to put the most vulnerable at the heart of everything we're doing. We will continue to. We've put significant investments forward to charitable organizations and foundations that are helping the most vulnerable. At the same time, we will continue to look for more ways to help even more than the seven million Canadians who successfully receive the CERB. We recognize there's more to do, and we will continue trying to do everything we can in this unprecedented situation.", "speakerName": "Right Hon. Justin Trudeau" }, { "text": "Mr. Chair, the government is weirdly committed to eligibility criteria that result in regular people not getting the support they need, but not so committed to criteria for corporations and billionaires who get our help. If a company is cheating the public, using offshore tax havens not to pay its fair share, it should not be eligible for government bailouts or benefits. Other countries, like Poland, Denmark and France, have made this commitment, and if they can do it, so can we. The Prime Minister said one thing one day and another the next. Will he commit now that if a company has money in offshore tax havens, it will not receive public funds?", "speakerName": "Ms. Laurel Collins" }, { "text": "Mr. Chair, the measures we've put forward are focused on helping workers who lose their jobs, regardless of the companies they work for. It is a shame to hear the NDP, which used to be the party of workers, choosing to judge workers by which multinational they work for. We have moved forward with a wage subsidy such that the employers are obliged to pass every single penny on to the workers. That is not help for the companies. That is help for the workers, and that has been our focus all the way through: ordinary Canadians who need support because they are unable to work because of COVID-19. That has been our priority, and that is what Canadians need right now. Of course, we continue to have very strong measures to fight against tax avoidance and tax evasion. We spent a billion dollars to strengthen our Ms. Laurel Collins: Mr. Chair, can I ask my last question? Right Hon. Justin Trudeau: We will continue to do that.", "speakerName": "Right Hon. Justin Trudeau" }, { "text": "I'm just going to pause the time for a moment. I want to remind honourable members that we're trying to stay within committee rules, which state that the length of a question and the length of an answer should be approximately the same amount of time. I just want to remind our members of that. I'll go back to Ms. Collins. She has about 45 seconds left, and hopefully that's about half and half for the question and the answer. Ms. Collins.", "speakerName": "The Chair" }, { "text": "Thanks so much, Mr. Chair. My last question is about housing and homelessness. My community was facing a crisis long before the pandemic hit, and now people who are living on the streets or in parks don't have the luxury of following public health advice and just staying home. In Victoria, the province and the municipality have stepped up with solutions to house people, at least for the short term, in local hotels. Will the federal government respond to this immediate crisis and provide the needed investments in long-term, stable housing?", "speakerName": "Ms. Laurel Collins" }, { "text": "The right honourable Prime Minister, in 25 seconds or less, please.", "speakerName": "The Chair" }, { "text": "Yes, Mr. Chair, we have moved forward with a historic national housing strategy that puts $40 billion toward housing. Working with partners, we have reduced poverty by over a million people in this country, but there is more to do. We are reducing homelessness by half with historic investments. We recognize that during this pandemic there's even more to do for vulnerable Canadians, and we are partnering with orders of government to make sure that happens.", "speakerName": "Right Hon. Justin Trudeau" }, { "text": "A point of order, Mr.Chair.", "speakerName": "Mr. Jol Godin (PortneufJacques-Cartier, CPC)" }, { "text": "Order. Mr.Godin has a point of order.", "speakerName": "The Chair" }, { "text": "Mr.Chair, I cannot hear the French interpretation. Could we please check so that I can hear in French what the Prime Minister is saying?", "speakerName": "Mr. Jol Godin" }, { "text": "Okay. Can we check that?", "speakerName": "The Chair" }, { "text": "Thank you.", "speakerName": "Mr. Jol Godin" }, { "text": "I can try speaking English. I believe I was on the English tab, as is important. Are you hearing the translation now?", "speakerName": "Right Hon. Justin Trudeau" }, { "text": "That is exactly what the issue was. I just want to point that out to all the members. I'm speaking English right now and I'm on the English toggle at the bottom of the screen. It does create a bit of a disjoint when we're speaking, but it's the way to get around that so we have interpretation that works for everyone. The next question will go to the Leader of the Opposition, Mr. Scheer.", "speakerName": "The Chair" }, { "text": "Mr. Chair, as this is our first opportunity to meet in any forum, I want to take this opportunity to express my condolences to the families of the brave men and women who lost their lives in the helicopter crash. I know that I speak for all parliamentarians when I extend our sympathy to their families and loved ones. Mr. Chair, I want to raise with the Prime Minister an issue that I've raised several times before, and that is a gap in the wage subsidy program. There is a company in my riding that employs thousands of people across the country. Last year, they acquired another company. Those companies separately would qualify for the wage subsidy, but because of rules that the government designed, together they do not. Even though collectively they have experienced a massive drop in revenue and would otherwise be eligible, so far they've been unable to get confirmation that they will be able to access the program. As a result, thousands of jobs are threatened. Will the Prime Minister be able to deliver some good news to people who work for Brandt Tractor all across the country?", "speakerName": "Hon. Andrew Scheer (Leader of the Opposition)" }, { "text": "I thank the honourable member for his question and for his advocacy for his community and businesses in his riding. As I told him when we spoke directly, Finance officials have been directly in contact with the company in his riding. We recognize that there are particular elements in regard to this company that are challenging around application for the wage subsidy, but I know that Finance officials are working very hard to try to make sure that everyone who needs the subsidy gets it, so that the workers in his community can get the support they need.", "speakerName": "Right Hon. Justin Trudeau" }, { "text": "The Prime Minister knows that there are many companies across the country that fall into this category as well, so we're hoping for some good news. Just flagging the time and date, it is well into May now and important decisions have to be made in very short order. There are other aspects of the government's plans to help get people through this crisis that are also causing people to fall through the cracks. The plan to help businesses with rent applies only after a business has lost 70% of their revenue. As provinces start to open up, many companies are going to be faced with a very difficult decision of operating at perhaps 35% or 45% of regular revenues. They will not be able to access these programs and, in many cases, there is going to be a disincentive to reopen and put people back to work. Will the Prime Minister amend these programs to provide for more flexibility so that more and more Canadians can start to return to work in the weeks ahead?", "speakerName": "Hon. Andrew Scheer" }, { "text": "Mr. Chair, we are in an unprecedented crisis and we had to move quickly to support workers and to support families across the country, and that's exactly what we did. We're going to continue to work to try to respond to the reality that people and businesses are facing right across the country. I am eager to be faced with the challenge of how to ease off in these measures so that people can get back to work. We are getting closer to that point, but we are not there yet. We are still focused very much on giving the supports to workers and families that are so necessary in this time of crisis. As different provinces move forward towards reopening, as we look at different paths forward, I know that I will be able to count on all members in the House and, indeed, on Canadians from coast to coast to coast to figure out together what the best way will be to move forward on keeping us safe and restoring economic activity in the right way. That will be good to work on together once we get there.", "speakerName": "Right Hon. Justin Trudeau" }, { "text": "We have about a minute left for maybe a 30-second question and a 30-second answer. Mr. Scheer.", "speakerName": "The Chair" }, { "text": "Mr. Chair, no one is disputing the need to move quickly. We are now in May, though, and these programs have been announced for weeks. Canadians have been accessing them. The problems with them have been flagged for the government for weeks as well, but we're also going to see an additional challenge, where people who are receiving the emergency response benefit, who may have the option to go back to work and work some hours, are faced with a hard cap of $1,000 a month before they lose the CERB. Conservatives are proposing a progressive system, a more flexible system, where people will be able to earn more without losing their benefits as businesses ramp up but before normal working hours are restored. Again, will the Prime Minister build in some flexibility to lift the restrictive ceiling on what people can earn before losing benefits so that it always pays more to work?", "speakerName": "Hon. Andrew Scheer" }, { "text": "I believe the timer is telling all of us that the time is up, but I'll give the right honourable Prime Minister about 30 seconds to answer that, please.", "speakerName": "The Chair" }, { "text": "Thank you, Mr. Chair. Our priority was getting support for Canadians right across the country with the CERB, with the wage subsidy and with other measures for students, for seniors, for farmers and for agricultural producers. That has been our priority, and that's what we have worked on. I hear the concerns that the Conservative Party has around disincentives. We are going to work with communities and with industry as we look to reopen, to make sure that people have opportunities to work and are not penalized for it. However, our overarching priority was allowing Canadians to be confident in their ability to stay home, care for their loved ones, buy groceries and pay their rent so that we could keep safe during this pandemic. That's exactly what we did.", "speakerName": "Right Hon. Justin Trudeau" }, { "text": "We'll go to Ms. Gladu now.", "speakerName": "The Chair" }, { "text": "Mr. Chair, seniors in my riding are struggling. We've heard the Prime Minister admit that fixed incomes for some of them are down, rent is increasing and the price of groceries is increasing. He's been saying for weeks that in the coming days, something would be announced for seniors. The fact is that the Liberals ran on an election promise to increase the old age security. Which of the days in the coming weeks will they keep their promise to seniors?", "speakerName": "Ms. Marilyn Gladu (SarniaLambton, CPC)" }, { "text": "Mr. Chair, after a lifetime of hard work, of course Canadians deserve peace of mind when it comes to their retirement security. COVID-19 is definitely having a disproportionate impact on seniors. They have a greater need for services and supports. Happily, their pensions and their benefits are still flowing, unlike for so many of those who have lost their jobs, but it's still tough. We introduced measures Ms. Marilyn Gladu: Which day? Hon. Deb Schulte: at the beginning of April. People received a GST credit, a supplementary payment that was $400 on average for single seniors and $600 for couples. That was of significant help to low- and moderate-income seniors.", "speakerName": "Hon. Deb Schulte (Minister of Seniors)" }, { "text": "We have a point of order from Ms. Gladu.", "speakerName": "The Chair" }, { "text": "Yes, Mr. Chair. I think you had reminded us as members that the amount of time for the answer should be similar to the amount of time for the question. I would just ask the minister to keep to that. I would like to go to my second question.", "speakerName": "Ms. Marilyn Gladu" }, { "text": "I want to remind all honourable members to keep their answers as well as their questions as concise as possible. Ms. Gladu.", "speakerName": "The Chair" }, { "text": "Very good, Mr. Chair. My riding is on the border of Canada and the U.S. We see a number of inconsistencies in what is considered essential travel with regard to the U.S. and actually in the interpretation of different CBSA agents. While we have Americans coming over to buy cheaper prescription medications and to fish, individuals in my riding who are trying to get auditors over so that they can be approved for export businesses are being declined. We have people who have purchased masts from Canadian producers for their boats, and who want to come and pick them up, who are not being allowed to do that. People trying to sell plasma into the U.S. are being denied. When will they clarify the rules to the CBSA agents so that essential travel and trade and commerce, including individual commerce, is understood?", "speakerName": "Ms. Marilyn Gladu" }, { "text": "Mr. Chair, we have implemented very rigorous rules that have been well documented and understood by CBSA to stop all non-essential travel. Those measures have been very successful. We've seen a 99% reduction in international travel coming into Canada. At the same time, we recognize the importance of maintaining essential supply routes so that goods and services could reach Canada and we could put groceries on our shelves. We also recognize the important work that essential workers do on both sides of the border. We have provided CBSA with clarification. Their interpretation of those rules has been broadly consistent. I've heard from a number of our colleagues in caucus with concerns about individual cases. When we receive those inquiries, we follow up immediately. I want to assure the member that we'll continue to do that. The work we are doing to stop non-essential travel has been important for the health and safety of Canadians, and we will continue with that work.", "speakerName": "Hon. Bill Blair (Minister of Public Safety and Emergency Preparedness)" }, { "text": "Mr. Chair, my next question has to do with sole proprietor businesses. We see that many of them are not eligible for any of the benefit packages that have been rolled outEI, CERB, the wage subsidy, etc. What is the government going to do to address sole proprietors who are currently falling through the cracks?", "speakerName": "Ms. Marilyn Gladu" }, { "text": "Mr. Chair, first, let me say that we absolutely recognize there are businesses across the country of all sizes that are finding this to be extremely difficult. The intent of the measures we put forward is obviously not only to give individuals a bridge but to give businesses a bridge. We are looking at ways that we can ensure that the Canada emergency business account has the broadest possible application. More than 500,000 businesses have already been approved for these loans, representing over $20 billion. We are looking at ways we can consider that eligibility process, recognizing that we need to make sure that the program continues to have its desired impact, and we will have more to say on that.", "speakerName": "Hon. Bill Morneau (Minister of Finance)" }, { "text": "The next question will go to Mr. Arnold.", "speakerName": "The Chair" }, { "text": "Mr. Chair, this is my first appearance, so I hope you can hear me okay.", "speakerName": "Mr. Mel Arnold (North OkanaganShuswap, CPC)" }, { "text": "We can hear you fine. Please proceed.", "speakerName": "The Chair" }, { "text": "Thank you, Mr. Chair. It's good to see everyone's faces. On April 3, the fisheries minister said opening dates would be determined by harvesters. Since then the minister has overruled the will of harvesters in Prince Edward Island and in the gulf who voted to start their seasons on time, but she has allowed harvesters from her own riding to proceed with their seasons as scheduled, giving them access to markets weeks before their competitors. This double standard is severely unfair and Atlantic harvesters are furious, as demonstrated during the protests on the Canso Causeway yesterday. When will the minister stop abusing her position and start respecting fish harvesters by opening up lobster fishing areas 23, 24 and 26?", "speakerName": "Mr. Mel Arnold" }, { "text": "Mr. Chair, when making decisions with regard to when seasons open, a number of factors are taken into account. They are complex decisions that take into account what is necessary for processors to be ready for the season, what is necessary for harvesters to be ready for the season, as well socio-economic impacts on the area. We're looking at all of those measures when we make these decisions. We do not make them lightly. They are difficult decisions to make. In the decisions we've made around the gulf, one of the main things we heard from all of those areas is that it was very important for them to start on the same date. That is why the decision was made to start on the 15th of May. We're looking forward to seeing the harvesters out on the water. We're looking forward to the product that they bring in. We'll continue do everything we can to support the industry.", "speakerName": "Hon. Bernadette Jordan (Minister of Fisheries, Oceans and the Canadian Coast Guard)" }, { "text": "Thank you, Minister. I believe the time", "speakerName": "Mr. Mel Arnold" }, { "text": "Excuse me. No, the hon. minister had another 15 seconds coming to her. I'd like to remind hon. members not to interrupt a person while they are speaking. I'll do my best to try to keep it about level. Maybe I'll start muting if it's necessary, but interrupting is not going to solve anything. Mr. Arnold, I'll let you continue. You have three minutes and nine seconds left.", "speakerName": "The Chair" }, { "text": "Thank you, Mr. Chair. West coast fishing tourism is a key economic driver in British Columbia, especially in coastal communities, and yet the public fishery gets no respect from the government. Last year, the public fishery was weakened by restrictions based on ideology and not science. A year later, the fisheries minister refuses even to discuss viable, science-based solutions to conserve B.C.'s public fisheries. Does the minister and her government have a will and a plan to support Canada's west coast fisheries and the communities they sustain?", "speakerName": "Mr. Mel Arnold" }, { "text": "The hon. minister in 30 seconds, please.", "speakerName": "The Chair" }, { "text": "Mr. Chair, the fishery is important in every coastal community. I recognize its value for our economy, as well as what it means to our coastal communities. That's why we continue to work with those communities and with the fisheries to make sure that we're doing everything we possibly can to support them. During these extremely difficult times, we're working on measures with the fishery in B.C., as well as on the Atlantic coast and eastern Quebec, to make sure that we're delivering for them and that all of the issues they're having are being addressed.", "speakerName": "Hon. Bernadette Jordan" }, { "text": "Mr. Arnold.", "speakerName": "The Chair" }, { "text": "Mr. Chair, Canada's seniors, especially those on basic incomes, are being hard hit by the COVID-19 crisis as they face new rising costs and scarcity of services. Seniors require adequate caregiver supports, physical safety and freedom to access their savings to reinforce their financial security. Why has the government failed to recognize the increasing challenges that seniors are facing? Will the government support Canada's senior citizens?", "speakerName": "Mr. Mel Arnold" }, { "text": "The hon. minister in 30 seconds or less, please.", "speakerName": "The Chair" }, { "text": "Mr. Chair, I want to assure my hon. colleague that the government has been focused on seniors during this challenging time. We have provided a GST credit supplement of $400 for single seniors and $600 for couples, for low- and modest-income seniors. We have also ensured that the Canada emergency response benefit is there for seniors who have lost income due to COVID-19. We've made them eligible.", "speakerName": "Hon. Bernadette Jordan" }, { "text": "We'll go back to Mr. Arnold. Mr. Arnold, you have a minutehopefully a 30-second question and a 30-second answer.", "speakerName": "The Chair" }, { "text": "Thank you, Mr. Chair. On April 23, my colleagues and I called on the government to create a program that would match students seeking employment with employers in Canada's essential food supply chains. What has the government done to match students and other Canadians seeking employment with employers in the agriculture and agri-food sectors, including those in the fish and seafood sector?", "speakerName": "Mr. Mel Arnold" }, { "text": "Mr. Chair, we're doing all we can to make sure, using our existing employment programs, that we create opportunities for students to work and get work experience this summer. We know that this is going to be really tough, especially in areas like agriculture, so we have dedicated streams for agriculture sector employers to access students with help from the government, and a number of different initiatives including Canada summer jobs, which I'm really excited to see the results of in the coming days.", "speakerName": "Hon. Carla Qualtrough (Minister of Employment, Workforce Development and Disability Inclusion)" }, { "text": "Now we'll go on to the next question from Ms. Harder. Ms. Rempel, do you have a point of order?", "speakerName": "The Chair" }, { "text": "Thank you, Mr. Chair. With my colleague, Mr. Arnold, it's the second time that I note you've threatened to cut off a Conservative microphone. I'm just wondering, given that this isn't the House of Commons and it's structured as a committee, what standing order would give you the right to cut off a member of Parliament using a mute button. It seems a little dictatorial, and I was just wondering whether you could clarify that, based on the Standing Orders.", "speakerName": "Hon. Michelle Rempel Garner (Calgary Nose Hill, CPC)" }, { "text": "I don't think I threatened to use mute, but thank you for bringing that up. I am trying to keep the rules where the questions and the answers are equal, so that there are no interruptions on either side. That's how we're going to continue. I didn't use the mute. I did it verbally and I think that's a little more civil way of doing it. I hope you approve. I'm not asking you to comment on that. We'll go over to Ms. Harder. Thank you.", "speakerName": "The Chair" }, { "text": "But, on the point of order, Mr. Chair, you actually, to me, last week, and to Mr. Arnold, did suggest that you were going to use the mute button.", "speakerName": "Hon. Michelle Rempel Garner" }, { "text": "I believe that if we take everything out and go over it.... Bring the papers with the actual verbiage on it where I threatened, and we'll go over it, but I don't think this is the venue to do that. If you want to bring forward a point of order, I'm all in favour of it.", "speakerName": "The Chair" }, { "text": "Well, I am bringing forward a point of order. I've asked you to clarify", "speakerName": "Hon. Michelle Rempel Garner" }, { "text": "Very good. We'll look into it and get back to you. Thank you. We'll go on to Ms. Harder.", "speakerName": "The Chair" }, { "text": "Canadians have outrightly expressed outrage and disappointment with the government's initiative to put a gun ban in place. Does the minister stand by his comment that these changes would have prevented the tragedy in Nova Scotia?", "speakerName": "Ms. Rachael Harder (Lethbridge, CPC)" }, { "text": "The honourable minister in 15 seconds or less, please.", "speakerName": "The Chair" }, { "text": "We have heard from health professionals, women's rights organizations, victims groups and the police and our unions. They're all very supportive of the government's measure to ban weapons that have no place in a civil society and were designed to kill people.", "speakerName": "Hon. Bill Blair" }, { "text": "It's interesting that the minister is misleading Canadians in that comment because the Canadian Association of Chiefs of Police has actually said that a gun ban will do nothing of the sort, that it actually will not protect Canadians. So I'd be curious. How many criminals will see guns seized because of the changes that have been implemented by the Liberal government?", "speakerName": "Ms. Rachael Harder" }, { "text": "Yes, let's actually quote what the police have said. The Ontario Association of Chiefs of Police said that they support a prohibition on all military-designed assault rifles. The chief in Toronto said that taking those assault rifles off the streets contributes to public safety, and the Canadian Association of Police Chiefs has declared that military assault rifles are produced for the sole purpose of killing people in large numbers and they urged successive governments to enact legislation to ban all military assault rifles.", "speakerName": "Hon. Bill Blair" }, { "text": "The answer to that question is zero. Absolutely no criminals will see their guns seized based on the Liberals' legislation that's coming forward because it actually goes after those who legally own and use their firearms. Can the Prime Minister please tell us why he decided to go after law-abiding citizens instead of actually going after criminals who have gotten their firearms in an illegal manner and then used them to commit crimes?", "speakerName": "Ms. Rachael Harder" }, { "text": "The honourable minister in 25 seconds or less, please.", "speakerName": "The Chair" }, { "text": "Yes, to be very clear, the order in council actually is targeted at weapons, weapons that were designed for military use, and in their design and in their intent, to kill people, they've actually been used in this country, at cole Polytechnique; in Moncton; at a Quebec City mosque; in Fredericton; at Mayerthorpe and most recently in Nova Scotia. These are weapons that really have no place.... They are being used and have been used in Canada and around the world to commit mass murder, and in the interest of public safety and at the urging", "speakerName": "Hon. Bill Blair" }, { "text": "We'll go on to Ms. Harder.", "speakerName": "The Chair" }, { "text": "Thank you. Now I understand the Prime Minister has his food prepared for him at 24 Sussex Drive and then it's delivered to him at the cottage where he lives. Contrary to his privileged understanding, food actually originates with farmers. Now, they're in a crisis right now, which means that regular Canadians are actually at risk of not having food available for them at the grocery stores where they purchase theirs. The Canadian Federation of Agriculture requested $2.6 billion to help them out. Today, the government announced one-tenth of this amount. Why doesn't the Prime Minister care about the women and the men who work incredibly hard to keep Canada fed?", "speakerName": "Ms. Rachael Harder" }, { "text": "Mr. Chair, let me assure the hon. member that our government cares very, very much about the women and men who work so hard to feed our country. Let me just say I am grateful to all the farmers, like my dad, who are out in their fields right now getting ready for seeding. We, as Canadians, are lucky to be citizens of an agricultural superpower, and our government believes in supporting our farmers and ranchers.", "speakerName": "Hon. Chrystia Freeland (Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Intergovernmental Affairs)" }, { "text": "I'm confused as to why the Prime Minister didn't take my question, and at a bare minimum as to why the agriculture minister doesn't feel it's important enough for her to be a part of this discussion today. When we have farmers who produce for Canadians on a daily basis and they're asking some serious and some very important questions, and we don't even have a minister who's willing to come to the table and engage in this conversation, that's shameful. Several meat-packing plants have been forced to shut down because of COVID-19 and, as a result, farmers are forced to hold stock longer than expected. Cattle producers in my region are spending more than $60,000 a day to keep their livestock fed while they wait for processing plants to reopen. The amount that was announced today by the federal government is a drop in the bucket. It's a crumb. When will the government take this seriously and at least implement a set-aside program for those who are beef producers in Canada?", "speakerName": "Ms. Rachael Harder" }, { "text": "Mr. Chair, let me just say that I feel there is nothing shameful at all in having me, the Deputy Prime Minister, answer questions about agriculture. I am actually very proud to speak up for Canada's amazing farmers, for our country's amazing ranchers, for our amazing pork producers and our poultry producers. I feel so close to our farmers. I love them and our government supports them. Today, we announced $252 million of support for our producers. They need it. They deserve it. We're here for them.", "speakerName": "Hon. Chrystia Freeland" }, { "text": "Now we'll go on to Mr. Bezan.", "speakerName": "The Chair" }, { "text": "Thank you, Mr. Chair. I too would like to express my sincere condolences to the families and friends of the six military heroes who lost their lives at sea last week. I'm sure that all members of the House stand shoulder to shoulder with the families, with the crew of the HMCS Fredericton and, indeed, with the entire Canadian Armed Forces community during this time of grief. Can the Minister of National Defence give us an update as to the Cyclone helicopter crash off the coast of Greece last week?", "speakerName": "Mr. James Bezan (SelkirkInterlakeEastman, CPC)" }, { "text": "Mr. Chair, the deaths of the Canadian Armed Forces members are felt by all, and especially the families. Our condolences go out to them. Our number one priority is to make sure that we look after them, and that's exactly what we are doing. Currently, the investigation is ongoing. Our investigative team is currently on the ground. I actually spoke with the Italian minister of defence and he promised full support for this investigation and any support that's required.", "speakerName": "Hon. Harjit S. Sajjan (Minister of National Defence)" }, { "text": "I'm afraid I'm going to have to cut you off there, if we're going by the rules that were pointed out by the House. Mr. Bezan.", "speakerName": "The Chair" }, { "text": "Thank you, Mr. Chair. Through you to Minister Sajjan again, I'm going to change gears a bit. I know that back in early January, military intelligence through CF Intelligence Command was reporting, through the chain of command, the novel coronavirus and the outbreak in Wuhan. On what date was he, as Minister of National Defence, given his first intelligence briefing on the outbreak and the pandemic in China?", "speakerName": "Mr. James Bezan" }, { "text": "Mr. Chair, we have been following this crisis from day one. We work with our Five Eyes intelligence sources and this has been a whole-of-government effort, right from the beginning. I can assure you that our response to this pandemic has been with all the necessary information. Obviously, I can't discuss the intelligence in this forum, but I can assure you that our response has been well informed with the correct information.", "speakerName": "Hon. Harjit S. Sajjan" }, { "text": "Minister Sajjan, we know that intelligence was going up the chain of command in National Defence. It was reported in the media that in early January the hierarchy within the Canadian Armed Forces was being made aware of the coronavirus outbreak. I asked you, Minister, when you became aware of it and what you did with that intelligence.", "speakerName": "Mr. James Bezan" }, { "text": "Mr. Chair, I get regular briefings on intelligence. Yes, I was made aware of this in January. As with all our intelligence, we work together from a whole-of-government perspective with all of our intelligence agencies. One thing I can assure you is that our response has been well informed with all the correct information that is provided to me and other members of cabinet.", "speakerName": "Hon. Harjit S. Sajjan" }, { "text": "What was that timeline? From the time you were first told, Minister Sajjan, about the coronavirus outbreak in Wuhan, what did you do with that intelligence? When did you give it to the Prime Minister or to Minister Hajdu as the Minister of Health?", "speakerName": "Mr. James Bezan" }, { "text": "Mr. Chair, let me say that our government's response to this global pandemic has of course been informed by the excellent work of Canadian intelligence agencies throughout. We have been working on this from very early on. On January 2, PHAC first spoke with provincial health authorities to alert them to the situation. On January 14, it convened a meeting of all provincial health authorities. In January, the Prime Minister convened a meeting of the incident response group, and in January we increased screening at all major airports. All of these actions were informed by the work of our excellent intelligence community, and of course our work with our Five Eyes, NATO and NORAD allies.", "speakerName": "Hon. Chrystia Freeland" }, { "text": "I want to come back", "speakerName": "Mr. James Bezan" }, { "text": "We now move to Mr.Ste-Marie.", "speakerName": "The Chair" }, { "text": "I still have 30 seconds left.", "speakerName": "Mr. James Bezan" }, { "text": "Can I go ahead, Mr.Chair?", "speakerName": "Mr. Gabriel Ste-Marie (Joliette, BQ)" }, { "text": "Yes, go ahead.", "speakerName": "The Chair" }, { "text": "Thank you, Mr.Chair. In an interview with Grald Fillion, tax expert Andr Lareau, who specializes in tax havens, pointed out that $350billion Canadian is parked in just 12tax havens. Companies are using tax havens for financing, operations and intellectual property activities. Mr.Lareau also notes that the government is aware that all of this Canadian money is stashed in tax havens but is doing nothing about it. He said that it's time for Canada to tackle the problem given that it has a $250-billion deficit, and that if it doesn't act now to change things, it never will. Is the government going to seize this opportunity to outlaw the corporate use of tax havens?", "speakerName": "Mr. Gabriel Ste-Marie" }, { "text": "Mr.Chair, as soon as we took office, in 2015, our government made cracking down on tax evaders in Canada and abroad a priority. That's precisely why we put nearly a billion dollars towards that effort. I realize that my fellow member is impatient, but he has to understand that this is a very complex issue. Under our leadership, in three years, the Canada Revenue Agency has undertaken twice as many audits related to offshore tax evasion as it did in the 10years the Conservatives were in power. As we speak, the agency is conducting more than 50criminal investigations tied to international tax evasion. I repeat, this is a top priority for our government.", "speakerName": "Hon. Diane Lebouthillier (Minister of National Revenue)" }, { "text": "You're right, I am very impatient, because whenever I bring up the fact that companies are using tax havens legally, the minister misses the point and tells me that she is going after fraudsters. I am talking about the legal use of tax havens by companies. Since Parliament began sitting virtually, it's been mentioned a few times that Denmark and Poland have decided to deal with the issue. Even France's finance minister, Bruno LeMaire, said that companies with subsidiaries in tax havens would not be eligible for public assistance. We hear thePrime Minister and other government officials say all the time that the wage subsidies are going to workers, so I'd like to cite another examplebanks. The government is injecting huge amounts of cash into the financial system and repurchasing troubled assets in massive quantities, and yet, the five major banks in Toronto, alone, are continuing to save billions of dollars every year by artificially redirecting their profits to tax havens. This is unacceptable. This has nothing to do with wages for workers, and everything to do with the repurchase of troubled assets, cash flow and billions of dollars that the government could be going after. Is the government going to seize this opportunity to make the corporate use of tax havens illegal?", "speakerName": "Mr. Gabriel Ste-Marie" }, { "text": "Mr.Chair, our government is taking unprecedented steps through the Canada emergency wage subsidy measure to support businesses and workers affected by COVID-19. This is largely a trust-based program, and we will not tolerate abuse. Anyone who tries to bypass the rules will face serious consequences. Applicants have to designate an individual to attest to the truth of their claim. What's more, any employer receiving the subsidy who is deemed ineligible will have to repay the full amount. Anyone who abuses the program could face a fine of up to 225% of the wage subsidy amount and up to five years in prison. The Canada Revenue Agency also has a myriad of tools at its disposal to detect a fraudulent claim. As I mentioned, cracking down on tax evasion is a priority for our government.", "speakerName": "Hon. Diane Lebouthillier" }, { "text": "Mr.Ste-Marie, you have about 30seconds to ask your question, and about the same for the answer.", "speakerName": "The Chair" }, { "text": "Thank you, Mr.Chair. That's an excellent answer, but it has nothing to do with my question. The Minister of Finance has the power to fix the problem now. Although completely immoral, the use of tax havens by companies is legal under section5907 of the Income Tax Regulations. Through simple regulatory amendments, the finance minister could put an end to this kind of abuse. We are going to have a $250-billion deficit to pay off, and everyone is going to have to chip in, including the rich who are currently taking advantage of the system.", "speakerName": "Mr. Gabriel Ste-Marie" }, { "text": "Mr.Chair, thanks to a historic billion-dollar investment, our government has given the agency the resources it needs to do the job, and we are starting to see results. I set up an expert advisory committee to provide us with guidance and recommendations. We tightened the rules for the voluntary disclosures program. We signed tax information exchange agreements with a number of countries. We audit four jurisdictions a year. We also work closely with the OECD.", "speakerName": "Hon. Diane Lebouthillier" }, { "text": "We now move on to another member. The next questioner is Mr. Rogers.", "speakerName": "The Chair" }, { "text": "Mr. Chair, I'm sharing my time slot with the member for SurreyNewton. In the wake of COVID-19, so many Canadians have been affected in so many ways. Financial loss and other burdens are having a huge impact on families across our country. I'm proud of how the Government of Canada has been beside Canadians through every step of this pandemic and has supported Canadians when they needed it most. In BonavistaBurinTrinity and across our country, our commercial fishery has seen many challenges and impacts. Last week, my colleague, the Minister of Fisheries and Oceans, announced an investment that will ensure resilience of the food system by allowing Canada's fish and seafood processing sector to safely and efficiently process, store, package and distribute healthy, high-quality products on to the plates of Canadians. The fish harvesters in my riding are fearful of what will happen within this industry and their immediate futures. They are facing a reduction in available markets and market prices. They are asking what our government is putting in place to assist in these extremely challenging times. When can we expect to hear an answer to our harvesters' requests for assistance?", "speakerName": "Mr. Churence Rogers (BonavistaBurinTrinity, Lib.)" }, { "text": "Mr. Chair, I want to thank my colleague from BonavistaBurinTrinity for keeping us well aware of what's happening in his riding with harvesters and with processors. We know how important the fish and seafood sector is to our rural communities, our coastal communities. It's the backbone and the lifeblood of our communities and that's why we want to be there to support them. We've already taken steps by making sure that the CERB is now able to be accessed by people who are seasonal workers. As well, we are making sure that people who are running out of fishers EI are also able to qualify for it. We also have made an investment of $62.5 million to support our processors to make sure they are able to be ready for the challenges that they are going to face because of COVID-19. We know there is more to do. We know that the harvesters need support. We are working with our partners across industry to make sure we're hearing what their major concerns are. We know they are going to have some very challenging times this season. We will have more to say about that and what we will be able to do in the coming days.", "speakerName": "Hon. Bernadette Jordan" }, { "text": "The next questioner is Mr. Dhaliwal.", "speakerName": "The Chair" }, { "text": "Mr. Chair, in my riding of SurreyNewton, I'm in close contact with businesses that represent all", "speakerName": "Mr. Sukh Dhaliwal (SurreyNewton, Lib.)" }, { "text": "We have a point of order. Mr. Kurek.", "speakerName": "The Chair" }, { "text": "Sorry, but there seems to be an issue with the audio. I'm unable to hear the honourable member.", "speakerName": "Mr. Damien Kurek (Battle RiverCrowfoot, CPC)" }, { "text": "It is very faint. Mr. Dhaliwal, can you check your audio to make sure everything's working well?", "speakerName": "The Chair" }, { "text": "It was", "speakerName": "Mr. Sukh Dhaliwal" }, { "text": "There we go. It's fine now. I think what happened was the boom had fallen down and it wasn't being picked up. There you go. Very good.", "speakerName": "The Chair" }, { "text": "Mr. Chair, in my riding of SurreyNewton, I'm in close contact with businesses that represent all vantage points in the supply chainfrom manufacturers to retailers, transport companies to warehousing. With provinces and territories moving at different speeds and implementing different protocols for reopening the economy, there is a lot of confusion in my local business community on the timing and logistics of how this will happen. With so many different parts of the supply chain operating in different jurisdictions, and with each business serving unique roles on this spectrum, how can the federal government serve to best coordinate with the provinces and territories so that the supply chain can be implemented smoothly as we embark on our economic recovery?", "speakerName": "Mr. Sukh Dhaliwal" }, { "text": "Mr. Chair, I'd like to thank my colleague for his question and for his hard work. One of the most important things the federal government can do when it comes to the reopening of the Canadian economy is to work in close collaboration with the premiers of the provinces and territories. That's why I was so pleased that last week the Prime Minister, together with all the first ministers of the country, was able to issue a statement around the principles that will be guiding our entire country as we move towards a restart. This is so important because, as my colleague has pointed out, all of our business, our economic activity, happens across the country. It happens across provincial and territorial boundaries. I would really also like to take this opportunity to thank the first ministers across the country. They belong to different parties, but everyone has really been able to put partisanship aside. We have been able to work together in fighting coronavirus, and we are going to work together in the future to keep on fighting coronavirus and to reopen Canada. Thank you.", "speakerName": "Hon. Chrystia Freeland" }, { "text": "The next question goes to Ms. McPherson.", "speakerName": "The Chair" }, { "text": "Thank you, Mr. Chair, for the opportunity to represent my constituents virtually during this challenging period of physical distancing. I'd like to start by asking about supports for workers. In Alberta, meat-packing plants are directly responsible for nearly a quarter of all COVID-19 cases. The government and management ignored the pleas of workers and did not put effective safety protocols in place to deal with COVID-19. Now, two workers are dead, at least six more are in intensive care and COVID-19 is spreading like wildfire through these communities. There are over 1,400 cases. Yesterday, employees were forced back to work even though their concerns had not been addressed. On March 27, regarding the CERB, the Minister of Finance said that if workers don't feel comfortable in their work, if they decide to stay home, they can apply for the benefit, yet the website says differently. Will the minister guarantee that every Canadian receiving CERB, EI or the CESB will not lose their benefits if they refuse to return to work or to accept work that is unsafe due to COVID-19?", "speakerName": "Ms. Heather McPherson (Edmonton Strathcona, NDP)" }, { "text": "Let me thank the member, first of all, for her really very important question. I think all of us share the concern for Canada's essential workers who are keeping us safe, putting food on our tables and often working in difficult conditions. When it comes to the Cargill plant, this is an issue that our government has been very closely engaged in. My colleague, the Minister of Agriculture, has spoken with her provincial counterpart and the head of the plant. The decisions about suspending and reopening are taken by local and provincial health authorities. To the question my colleague asked about workers, it is absolutely the case that no Canadian should feel they need to work in an environment that is unsafe, and it is also very much the case that any Canadian who is feeling unwell should stay at home. This is the way that collectively we take care of ourselves and we take care", "speakerName": "Hon. Chrystia Freeland" }, { "text": "We will go on to Ms. McPherson for the next question.", "speakerName": "The Chair" }, { "text": "I just want to be clear, because I'm not a hundred per cent sure that I got an answer in that response, so I'll try one more time. Knowing that workers have a fundamental right to refuse unsafe work, can the minister confirm one hundred per cent that if workers refuse unsafe work, they will be able to access the CERB, or was the Minister of Finance incorrect when he spoke on March 27?", "speakerName": "Ms. Heather McPherson" }, { "text": "The honourable minister.", "speakerName": "The Chair" }, { "text": "I'm sorry, but I was struggling with my mute button. I apologize. Let me just be very clear. No Canadian worker at any time should feel obliged to go to work in unsafe conditions.", "speakerName": "Hon. Chrystia Freeland" }, { "text": "But then could they access the CERB?", "speakerName": "Ms. Heather McPherson" }, { "text": "In a time of coronavirus that is even more the case, and the government of course should not penalize workers for doing the right thing and declining to go to work in unsafe conditions.", "speakerName": "Hon. Chrystia Freeland" }, { "text": "I want to remind the honourable members to place their questions through the Chair to avoid back and forth, just to try to keep some order in the meeting. Ms. McPherson, please continue.", "speakerName": "The Chair" }, { "text": "I'm sorry, Chair. I have another question on the protection for workers. At the meat-packing plant, workers are calling for the plant to be shut down. In fact, we know that 85% of workers are afraid for their safety. If the provincial government won't shut down the plant, will the federal government shut down unsafe plants through the Canadian Food Inspection Agency?", "speakerName": "Ms. Heather McPherson" }, { "text": "Mr. Chair, on the Canadian Food Inspection Agency, let me be very clear that my colleague, the Minister of Agriculture, has been in touch with provincial authorities. She has been in touch with the plant. The duties of the food inspection agency, of course, are to ensure that the food produced at the plant is safe. That is what inspectors are trained to do and what they are focused on. We are working closely with provincial authorities and with health authorities to ensure that", "speakerName": "Hon. Chrystia Freeland" }, { "text": "We will go back to Ms. McPherson.", "speakerName": "The Chair" }, { "text": "Mr. Chair, this will be one of my final questions on the meat-packing plant in Alberta. Can the finance minister please let us know if Cargill, a company that is owned by billionaires, with business in Luxembourg, a known tax haven, has received any federal funding this year for COVID-related support?", "speakerName": "Ms. Heather McPherson" }, { "text": "This is a tough time for Canadians, and our government is doing everything it can to support them. More than 7million Canadians have applied for the Canada emergency response benefit, which the Canada Revenue Agency and Service Canada administer. I want to say how proud I am of the work the agency is doing; staff worked tirelessly to get the program up and running in record time. MinisterQualtrough is responsible for developing the eligibility criteria and processing the claims.", "speakerName": "Hon. Diane Lebouthillier" }, { "text": "We are moving on to the next question. We'll continue now with Mr. Bragdon.", "speakerName": "The Chair" }, { "text": "Thank you, Mr. Chair. My question today is for the Prime Minister. Potato farmers in New Brunswick and across Canada are sitting on massive stores of potatoes that were destined for the restaurant industry, but due to the pandemic, they now have no customers. It's estimated that there is $300 million worth of potatoes still sitting in storage. What is the Prime Minister's plan for the helping farmers offload these potatoes so that they are ready for the 2020 season?", "speakerName": "Mr. Richard Bragdon (TobiqueMactaquac, CPC)" }, { "text": "Mr. Chair, I think all of us as Canadians are proud of the great potato farmers across the country. We are aware that the coronavirus, by keeping us away from restaurants where we eat french fries, has had a profound effect on the market for potatoes. The program announced today by the Prime Minister and my colleague, the Minister of Agriculture, will be very helpful for potato farmers, including with the surplus food program that starts with a $50 million fund, and that", "speakerName": "Hon. Chrystia Freeland" }, { "text": "We'll go back to Mr. Bragdon now.", "speakerName": "The Chair" }, { "text": "Mr. Chair, thank you. With an estimated $300 million worth of potatoes in storage, the announced funding from the government today simply doesn't go far enough. In 2018 the New Brunswick potato industry lost over $20 million. It is estimated this year that the financial loss will exceed $40 million. For many producers still recovering from the hit they took in 2018, another major loss is totally unacceptable. How does the Prime Minister plan to mitigate these shortfalls and allow farmers to continue to grow the food we so desperately need?", "speakerName": "Mr. Richard Bragdon" }, { "text": "Mr. Chair, the honourable member spoke about farmers generally. The program today is $252 million, which comes on top of the broad range of other programs that farmers, of course, have access to. On potato farmers, in particular, I agree with the honourable member that this is a specific area of concern. I think all Canadians would like to see those potatoes not be wasted but be used, and that's why the $50 million for surplus food purchase is going to be so helpful.", "speakerName": "Hon. Chrystia Freeland" }, { "text": "Mr. Chair, farmers across all agricultural sectors are hurting during this pandemic. The $16-billion beef industry is expected to take a massive hit due to the closures and reduced production of the meat-packing plants. Does the government truly believe that the announced $125 million that is shared between beef, poultry and pork producers will be enough to support these multi-billion dollar industries so they can put food on the tables of Canadians?", "speakerName": "Mr. Richard Bragdon" }, { "text": "Mr. Chair, I absolutely agree with the honourable member that our beef, pork and poultry producers are absolutely essential for our country. I am very pleased as a Canadian that we have security that comes from being a country that produces not only enough food for ourselves, but also enough food to feed the world. That is why the $125 million specifically to support our beef, pork and poultry producers is going to be so helpful.", "speakerName": "Hon. Chrystia Freeland" }, { "text": "Mr. Chair, the government's announcement of $252 million for the agriculture sector falls well short of the Canadian Federation of Agriculture's request for immediate government relief for farmers. The president of the Canadian Federation of Agriculture, Mary Robinson, put it today something like this: that if the farmhouse is on fire, the government has offered the equivalent of a bucket of water. This will not go nearly far enough to help those in a desperate situation. Does the government have a plan to offer more than just crumbs to keep the vital agriculture sector operating and providing the food we so desperately need? When will the government finally make those who literally keep our land and grow our food a priority in this time of crisis?", "speakerName": "Mr. Richard Bragdon" }, { "text": "Mr. Chair, I don't know about the honourable member, but where I come from, $252 million is not just crumbs. I know that Canadian farmers don't feel that $252 million is nothing, either. I would like to take this opportunity to highlight two other aspects of the essential support for farmers that we announced today: the $77 million to support food processors, which will not only be important for the processors, but helpful for the farmers who produce products that go to them; and the $250 million that we would like to add to the Canadian Dairy Commission's line of credit to raise it to half a billion dollars, which will be very helpful to our essential dairy farmers.", "speakerName": "Hon. Chrystia Freeland" }, { "text": "Now we'll go to the next question. Go ahead, Mrs. Wagantall.", "speakerName": "The Chair" }, { "text": "Mr. Chair, a couple in my riding has had to shut down their business, and they are on CERB. They were shocked when their 16-year-old son also qualified, and he is receiving $8,000 on the basis of part-time work throughout the school year. Why is the government handing out a windfall to teenagers who are living at home while denying university students and ignoring seniors on fixed incomes?", "speakerName": "Mrs. Cathay Wagantall (YorktonMelville, CPC)" }, { "text": "Mr. Chair, any individual who has lost work for COVID reasons is eligible for the CERB, regardless of their personal circumstances. If you made $5,000 in the past year and are a resident of Canada, you qualify for the CERB. This is not a matter of differentiating between the personal circumstances of individuals but of acknowledging that many workers in different situations have lost their work or have had their work significantly reduced because of COVID.", "speakerName": "Hon. Carla Qualtrough" }, { "text": "Clearly, high school students would not have the same needs as university students and our seniors who are suffering at this time. The government's own findings on banning handguns and assault firearms state, In all cases the data does not conclusively demonstrate that these handgun or assault weapon bans have led to reductions in gun violence. Why is the Prime Minister so bent on penalizing law-abiding firearms owners when he should be focusing on funding our CBSA officers first, giving them the resources they need to seize smuggled firearms at our borders?", "speakerName": "Mrs. Cathay Wagantall" }, { "text": "Mr. Chair, I note with some interest that when we brought forward legislation in a budget in the last two years to increase the number of officers at the border, the member opposite voted against it. I'm very pleased to hear that she now supports it. Let us be very clear. The evidence is overwhelming that these weapons are designed to be used, and have been used, to kill innocent people. Countries that adopt sensible gun policiesplaces like New Zealand, Australia, the United Kingdomhave all recognized that there's no place for these weapons in a civil society. We promised Canadians that we would act on that concern. There have been far too many people killed with these weapons, and even most recently, to honour and respect the terrible tragedy in Nova Scotia, the time to act is now, and we've acted.", "speakerName": "Hon. Bill Blair" }, { "text": "Last week the Minister of Agriculture said, Step by step we are giving our farmers...the tools they need to continue their...work. On April 30, the Canadian Federation of Agriculture called on the minister to create a $2.6-billion fund to maintain food security in Canada. This morning, the Prime Minister announced $252 million, hit-and-miss, across the agriculture sector. With all due respect, this is a slap in the face to our farmers and the agri-food sector. Instead of being here to speak to this announcement, the minister has chosen to do a press conference. This certainly reveals how seriously the minister takes this virtual sitting and parliamentary accountability. If the deputy minister is going to answer the question in her place, how does she see it is right to be providing $9 billion to students and only crumbs to our agriculture sector?", "speakerName": "Mrs. Cathay Wagantall" }, { "text": "Mr. Chair, first of all, let me say I do not, as has now been suggested by two members opposite, consider it in any way shameful that I should be answering questions about our support for the agricultural sector. Our government strongly supports our farmers. I have to say I personally very strongly support our farmers and have a strong personal connection to them. The $252 million of support is real and meaningful, and it is directed exactly where it is needed. It is directed at food processors, beef and pork producers and the dairy sector. As to the question about students, let me just point out that farm kids are students too, and farm kids will be benefiting from the support for students. I know they, their parents and grandparents are very", "speakerName": "Hon. Chrystia Freeland" }, { "text": "Time is up.", "speakerName": "Mrs. Cathay Wagantall" }, { "text": "Mr.Lehoux, the next question goes to you.", "speakerName": "The Chair" }, { "text": "Thank you, Mr.Chair. Meat packing plants like Quebec-based Olymel are extremely worried that they won't be able to stay open throughout the pandemic. In the summer, these plants rely on students to do overtime and fill in for full-time employees on vacation. However, the Canada emergency student benefit makes it possible for these much-needed workers to stay home while still collecting the same amount of money. That's why the government must adjust its current summer job program for students in the agriculture and agri-food sectors. When is the government going to make these critical changes?", "speakerName": "Mr. Richard Lehoux (Beauce, CPC)" }, { "text": "I can assure you that we are doing our best efforts to not disincentivize work. We know we need to support students with income support, but we also need to create jobs. We are looking at ways we can create additional jobs through Canada summer jobs, through the", "speakerName": "Hon. Carla Qualtrough" }, { "text": "There is a point of order.", "speakerName": "The Chair" }, { "text": "Mr.Chair, what the minister is saying is not being interpreted.", "speakerName": "Mrs. Claude DeBellefeuille (SalaberrySurot, BQ)" }, { "text": "We'll just check to see how the technology is going. Is everything okay now?", "speakerName": "The Chair" }, { "text": "Yes, it's working.", "speakerName": "Mrs. Claude DeBellefeuille" }, { "text": "Let's try that again, Minister.", "speakerName": "The Chair" }, { "text": "Last week, as part of the measures announced around supporting our students, we announced the creation of 76,000 additional jobs, including jobs in the agriculture and processing sectors. We know we need to work directly with employers to ensure they have the people they need. This is exactly what we're doing through our youth employment and skills strategy, and that's what we'll continue to do. We won't apologize for supporting students with income support in these difficult times.", "speakerName": "Hon. Carla Qualtrough" }, { "text": "I'm not sure the minister understood my question about the Canada emergency student benefit. I am very concerned about the agricultural sector, but the tourist and horticultural sectors are also on my mind. A number of business owners in my riding have reached out to me because the shortage of student workers is forcing them to shut down for the summer. This government has pulled the rug out from under them with the benefit it introduced for students. Minister, what do you have to say to those business owners in the tourist and horticultural sectors whom you are not helping?", "speakerName": "Mr. Richard Lehoux" }, { "text": "Mr. Chair, with all due respect, I believe we are helping students. We've heard very clearly from the students that they want to work and want to serve in their communities in this time of crisis. That's why we're creating additional employment opportunities and an income support mechanism that allows them to work. We're going to continue to look at ways we can support them through additional opportunities this summer. We know they want to work and they want to serve.", "speakerName": "Hon. Carla Qualtrough" }, { "text": "I hope that we'll see some concrete results. Pork and beef producers are feeling the impact of the country's shutdown triggered by the pandemic. Processing plants are suspending operations and buyers are tearing up their contracts. For the past five years, the government has been saying that the programs to help producers will be improved. Now more than ever, producers need these programs. However, the programs haven't been reviewed yet. When will the government make these changes, including the changes to agristability, and when can producers access them?", "speakerName": "Mr. Richard Lehoux" }, { "text": "We announced over $77 million in assistance for food processors to help them protect their workers and deal with the costs associated with the coronavirus. To help livestock and pork producers, we established agrirecovery, a national initiative that will provide $125million to help producers adapt to market changes. We're launching", "speakerName": "Hon. Chrystia Freeland" }, { "text": "Mr.Lehoux has the floor.", "speakerName": "The Chair" }, { "text": "Thank you, Mr.Chair. I understand some of what the minister is saying. The measures announced at noon today received a very cold reception from the entire agriculture and agri-food sector, since the sector had asked for about $2.6billion. I think that it's important to support our agri-food industry and our farms, given the significant need for sovereignty. Many Canadians in the agriculture and agri-food sector have made this clear, as I was saying earlier. Something must be done quickly, before our country becomes completely dependent on its neighbours. Has the government considered making significant changes to the various programs currently in place?", "speakerName": "Mr. Richard Lehoux" }, { "text": "Our country, Canada, will never depend on its neighbours or any other country for food. Canada is a major beef, pork and grain producer. Canada is an agricultural superpower and we should all take pride in that. I want to mention another significant part of our announcement today, which is the $50million surplus food purchase program. This is very significant. I think that all Canadians must support this initiative.", "speakerName": "Hon. Chrystia Freeland" }, { "text": "We'll now move on to the next question. Mr.Calkins, the member for RedDeerLacombe, has the floor.", "speakerName": "The Acting Chair (Mrs. Alexandra Mends (BrossardSaint-Lambert, Lib.))" }, { "text": "Madam Chair, how will the government's forced confiscation of law-abiding firearms owners' property prevent criminals from illegally acquiring firearms from the United States?", "speakerName": "Mr. Blaine Calkins (Red DeerLacombe, CPC)" }, { "text": "Madam Chair, in response to that, I would simply remind the member that we have made it very clear that these weapons have no place in civil society, so we have prohibited military-style assault weapons that have been designed to be used to kill people and have been used to kill people. I would also advise the member we will bring forward legislation to deal more effectively at the border. We'll make significant new investments in border services officers and in police. We'll bring forward new authorities, new offences, new penalties to deal with people who smuggle weapons across the border. We're also bringing in new regulations for the storage of weapons to make it more difficult for people to steal these guns. To deal with people who purchase them illegally and sell them illegally, there will be new offences and penalties to make ensure that they face the consequences.", "speakerName": "Hon. Bill Blair" }, { "text": "The government previously has said that decisions like classifying firearms should be left to experts. The recent decision was purely political and it flies in the face of evidence-based policy. A legal opinion that's already been obtained says that the bore of a 12-gauge shotgun with the choke removed is in excess of 20 millimetres. That means every 12-gauge shotgun with a choke in it with that choke removed is now prohibited. That is the same firearm that Olympic trap shooters, Olympic skeet shooters, duck hunters and geese hunters all across our country use on a very regular basis. Why did the government abandon an evidence-based policy?", "speakerName": "Mr. Blaine Calkins" }, { "text": "Madam Chair, I'm pleased to have the opportunity to correct the member. First of all, we have prohibited large-bore weapons, such as grenade launchers, but with reference to the 10-gauge shotgun and the 12-gauge shotgun, I would simply remind the member that the bore of a 10-gauge shotgun is 19.69 millimetres in width and the bore of a 12-gauge shotgun is 18.53 millimetres in width, both of them under the size for prohibition and therefore not covered in the new prohibitions that the government introduced on Friday. I'm afraid his expert opinion is wrong.", "speakerName": "Hon. Bill Blair" }, { "text": "Madam Chair, the opinion is that of one of the foremost experts we have in Canada when it comes to firearms legislation. If the entirety of the barrel length is considered, then the removal of the choke makes that barrel in excess of 20 millimetres. I would appreciate the minister clarifying that for law-abiding firearms owners. There is no plan for a buyback program in this policy, and law-abiding firearms owners are not able currently to surrender their firearms. Given this, and the fact that law-abiding firearms owners aren't committing any gun violence, what was the government's immediate benefit of making this announcement on May 1?", "speakerName": "Mr. Blaine Calkins" }, { "text": "Thank you, and I'm very grateful for the opportunity to clarify. Along with the prohibition that we have put in place, we have also, using the order in council, established an amnesty period, but the amnesty period is non-permissive grandfathering of those weapons. They cannot be used, they can't be taken to the range for shooting, they can't be used for hunting, they can't be sold and they can't be transferred, so we have put in strong measures to ensure that these weapons will not be available for use. We have also put in an amnesty period that will allow us to bring forward the legislation and a budget in order to effect a responsible, safe and effective buyback program to remove these weapons from society. I look forward to the member's support for those measures as we go forward.", "speakerName": "Hon. Bill Blair" }, { "text": "Madam Chair, since January 1, 2002, any law-abiding citizen who was issued with a firearms licence by the government would have been cross-referenced with a continuous eligibility check 6,695 times up until May 1 of this year. How many times was this most recent mass murderer here in Canada checked against a criminal database since January 2002?", "speakerName": "Mr. Blaine Calkins" }, { "text": "As the member is probably aware, there is a very extensive investigation currently being conducted into that individual and how he acquired his firearms, and it's not appropriate to discuss that. However, I think what is appropriate is to recognize that the weapons that this individual had available to him are weapons that were not designed for target shooting or hunting purposes or any sporting purposes. They were designed for soldiers to kill soldiers. In the hands of someone who is intent on mass murder, they represent an unacceptable and deadly risk to Canadians, and that's why we have prohibited them. I'd also remind the member that other countries that have adopted sensible gun control laws, such as New Zealand, Australia and the United Kingdom, have also implemented very similar bans.", "speakerName": "Hon. Bill Blair" }, { "text": "Now we will go to the hon. member for NanaimoLadysmith, Mr. Manly.", "speakerName": "The Acting Chair (Mrs. Alexandra Mends)" }, { "text": "Thank you, Madam Chair. I'd like to start by giving my condolences for the crew from the HMCS Fredericton who died, and in particular to the family of Captain Kevin Hagen. He was originally a constituent from NanaimoLadysmith. Other countries are strongly recommending that all citizens wear masks wherever people gather indoors, including in schools, on public transit and in stores. Taiwan has effectively stopped the spread of the coronavirus by supplying people with masks and installing dispensers of hand sanitizer throughout public spaces. The Taiwanese do not do a lot of testing or contact tracing. They do not have a lockdown. Taiwan started in the top 10 countries affected by COVID-19, and today it is number 119. Will Canada follow Taiwan's example so we can lift the lockdown safely and get Canadians back to work?", "speakerName": "Mr. Paul Manly (NanaimoLadysmith, GP)" }, { "text": "Thank you very much, Madam Chair, and I thank the member for his question. There's no doubt that masks can play a role in a layered approach to protecting Canadians' health and safety, but as the member has mentioned, there are many other aspects to ensuring that Canadians are safe no matter where they go. For example, it is of utmost importance that Canadians practise social distancing. Social distancing can provide the most protection, in fact, when you're out in public or you're in another place where there are other people. Wearing a non-medical mask can add a layer of protection, and certainly Dr. Tam has said that when physical distancing is not an option, Canadians should consider wearing a mask.", "speakerName": "Hon. Patty Hajdu (Minister of Health)" }, { "text": "Thank you. I'd like to give a shout-out to Martha and her team, who are doing a fundraiser for the SPCA by making masks for citizens in my riding. Madam Chair, many people are falling through the cracks in the pandemic relief plan, including seniors who face an increase in the cost of living and a loss of retirement investment income. Will the government make the CERB a universal benefit to ensure that all Canadians who need help get help? If not, will the government increase old age security and allow seniors to withdraw funds from their RRSP without penalties so that they can pay their bills?", "speakerName": "Mr. Paul Manly" }, { "text": "Thank you very much, and I really appreciate the question. We do recognize that OAS and GIS are very important parts of the retirement income of Canadians, particularly lower-income seniors. We've already introduced measures like the GST credit supplement to help seniors. The CERB is there for working seniors who have lost income as a result of COVID-19. We've also reduced the mandatory retirement withdrawals by 25%, and we've also spent half a billion dollars to support organizations that assist vulnerable Canadians, including seniors", "speakerName": "Hon. Deb Schulte" }, { "text": "We are going back to Mr. Manly. Thank you.", "speakerName": "The Acting Chair (Mrs. Alexandra Mends)" }, { "text": "I do recognize that there's more to be done. Thank you.", "speakerName": "Hon. Deb Schulte" }, { "text": "Many small businesses do not meet the eligibility requirements for the various relief programs on offer, particularly sole proprietorships. I have a long list of businesses in my riding that are missing out. At the same time, we have large companies in this country that use tax havens and loopholes to avoid paying their fair share of public services. Will the government ensure that the needs of small businesses are met and withhold relief from corporations that use tax havens to avoid paying taxes in Canada?", "speakerName": "Mr. Paul Manly" }, { "text": "I want to thank the hon. member for the question. Small businesses are indeed incredibly important to all of our communities across the country. That is why we have implemented many measures to help them weather this difficult period in COVID-19. Whether it is a small business loan, a wage subsidy or commercial rent assistance, or just lowering the cost by deferring GST or HST or customs duties, many measures have been put forward to help our small businesses through this very difficult time.", "speakerName": "Hon. Mary Ng (Minister of Small Business, Export Promotion and International Trade)" }, { "text": "Mr. Manly, you may have a very short question.", "speakerName": "The Acting Chair (Mrs. Alexandra Mends)" }, { "text": "Thank you, Madam Chair. As we navigate this pandemic crisis, we are also in the middle of another major crisis: the climate emergency. Will this government develop its economic recovery plan for the pandemic with the climate emergency at the forefront of its planning?", "speakerName": "Mr. Paul Manly" }, { "text": "The hon. minister has 15 seconds.", "speakerName": "The Acting Chair (Mrs. Alexandra Mends)" }, { "text": "Thank you for the question. The focus of the government at the present time is on combatting the virus and on steps to start to relax some of the measures that have been taken. As we look forward, we need to learn from the experiences of this crisis as well as look forward to some of the looming crises on the horizon. Climate change is one of those, and we certainly intend to reflect on resilience for the economy as we move forward.", "speakerName": "Hon. Jonathan Wilkinson (Minister of Environment and Climate Change)" }, { "text": "Now we will go to Ms. Ashton.", "speakerName": "The Acting Chair (Mrs. Alexandra Mends)" }, { "text": "Thank you, Madam Chair. My question is to the Minister of Indigenous Services. First nations across northern Manitoba and many others across the country have been doing everything possible to keep COVID-19 out of their communities. Many here have implemented strict lockdowns or travel restrictions, but the federal government has done virtually nothing to deal with the chronic issues that have made them vulnerable in the first place, such as overcrowded housing and the lack of hospitals. We have to be very concerned about a possible second deadly wave of COVID-19. What is your government doing to support communities in the face of that possibility? Why isn't the government supporting the call for a ventilation centre in Berens River, a hospital in Cross Lake, a hospital in the Island Lake region? If the government couldn't act in time for this first wave of the pandemic, can it at least act in time for a potential second wave?", "speakerName": "Ms. Niki Ashton (ChurchillKeewatinook Aski, NDP)" }, { "text": "Indeed, Madam Chair, one of the reflections we have in coming out of this global pandemic is that we don't want to go into the next one with the same social determinants of health that have made indigenous communities more vulnerable and more susceptible to contracting and then spreading COVID-19. A lot of the historic housing funds that we have mobilized in order to address overcrowding in particular are cold comfort to those communities that are still finding themselves in overcrowded situations. In the staged approach to the epidemic and the onset of COVID-19, there are many measures that Indigenous Services Canada and as a whole of government we will deploy, including surge capacity, increased PPE, and nurses and doctors. Obviously, we are looking for a medical solution to a medical problem, and that is what we will spare no expense or resource to address as indigenous communities continue to face the looming threat of a second wave of COVID-19 as they start to relax some of their confinement procedures.", "speakerName": "Hon. Marc Miller (Minister of Indigenous Services)" }, { "text": "Again, Madam Chair, to the Minister of Indigenous Services, many of us across northern Canada are deeply concerned by the outbreak taking place in northern Saskatchewan, centred in La Loche. The outbreak started from a worker who came back from a work camp in Fort McMurray. These camps are making workers sick, and they are proving deadly for first nations and northern communities. These work camps put public health at risk during a pandemic. Your government says it's committed to doing everything it can to keep first nations safe, yet nothing has been done to support calls for pandemic shutdowns. Will you support first nations in their call for shutdowns during this pandemic to save lives now?", "speakerName": "Ms. Niki Ashton" }, { "text": "Madam Chair, the situation in La Loche is a very pressing concern. Members won't be surprised to know that that number will only increase as the days go on and as we implement aggressive testing and contact tracing. We are working with surrounding first nations and communities and with the Mtis and Dene communities in La Loche to ensure that medical precautions are being put into place and that strict social distancing is being put into effect. This is a situation that is very much evolving minute by minute, and it is something for which we have deployed additional resources, along with Meadow Lake and the Northern Inter-Tribal Health Authority to ensure that there is a health response to a health problem. Clearly, we need coordination with the provinces to ensure that we have a seamless approach", "speakerName": "Hon. Marc Miller" }, { "text": "My question referred to La Loche, but this is a broader issue. There are many work camps, including here in our north, that first nations are extremely concerned about. Will your government step in to support their calls for temporary shutdowns at this time?", "speakerName": "Ms. Niki Ashton" }, { "text": "One of the things we see as we see the evolving dynamic and the potential spreads, particularly the fear of clusters as communities, provinces, territories may choose to relax certain measures, is the need to have a more targeted approach as to how the economy reacts and deals with it, particularly in northern and vulnerable communities. This is something for which we will need to have a serious approach, with both the Minister of Natural Resources and also our provincial counterparts, to make sure that we aren't taking hasty measures to reopen the economy while we're trying to protectand this is our most important goalindigenous communities from getting exposed and spreading COVID-19.", "speakerName": "Hon. Marc Miller" }, { "text": "Madam Chair, my question is for the Minister of Fisheries. Hundreds of fishers and their families here in Manitoba who work with the Freshwater Fish Marketing Corporation are desperately calling for emergency support. Many are calling on the federal government to also work with them and the FFMC to redirect their product to domestic markets and communities here at home to address the growing food insecurity people are facing. When will your government announce support for inland fishers, including here in Manitoba, and will you work to ensure that their product, healthy fish, can be provided here at home for people who need it?", "speakerName": "Ms. Niki Ashton" }, { "text": "Madam Chair, we know that COVID-19 is having extreme impacts on northern first nations communities, especially with regard to fisheries in areas that rely on it for not only their livelihoods but also for the cultural importance. Indigenous harvesters are able to access through the aboriginal financial institutions the $306 million we've put in for support for indigenous small and medium-sized businesses. The funding allows for short-term interest-free loans as well as for non-repayable contributions. We also announced earlier that the Canadian Northern Economic Development Agency has made available $15 million in non-repayable support for businesses. We know that there's more that needs to be done to support our first nations communities as well as our harvesters. We're doing everything we can and we will continue to make sure that we address those needs.", "speakerName": "Hon. Bernadette Jordan" }, { "text": "I need to interrupt you. We'll now hear from ClaudeDeBellefeuille.", "speakerName": "The Acting Chair (Mrs. Alexandra Mends)" }, { "text": "Thank you, MadamChair. I don't want to talk about tax cheats. I don't want to talk about the $1billion that the government used to track down tax cheats. I want to ask the minister why she isn't taking this opportunity to learn from countries that are putting an end to tax avoidance in tax havens, a legal but immoral practice in this day and age. Can she explain why she isn't showing leadership by convincing cabinet to change course and eliminate the legal measure known as tax avoidance, which enables companies to avoid paying taxes and put money in tax havens?", "speakerName": "Mrs. Claude DeBellefeuille" }, { "text": "MadamChair, as soon as our government took office in 2015, we made it a priority to crack down on tax cheats. Our government's historic investments of almost $1 billion have ensured that the agency can access the necessary resources for its work. We're already starting to see the results. As I was saying, I established an expert advisory committee to advise us. We've also been working on tightening the rules of the voluntary disclosures program. We've entered into country-by-country agreements that make it possible to share information. We're auditing four countries a year. We're working with the OECD. Currently, over 50 criminal investigations are related to international tax evasion.", "speakerName": "Hon. Diane Lebouthillier" }, { "text": "Ms.DeBellefeuille has the floor.", "speakerName": "The Acting Chair (Mrs. Alexandra Mends)" }, { "text": "MadamChair, does the minister realize that she's being filmed and recorded and that she isn't answering my question? I don't want to talk about cheats. I want to talk about companies that use a legal mechanism to avoid paying taxes and to put their money in tax havens. I can see that she doesn't want to answer my question. I'll ask her another question. Can she tell me how many companies legally take advantage of tax avoidance in tax havens? How much money escapes taxation through this legal mechanism? The government could invest this money in its economic recovery post-COVID-19.", "speakerName": "Mrs. Claude DeBellefeuille" }, { "text": "MadamChair, I completely understand my colleague's impatience. However, she must understand that this type of issue is very complex. Under the former Conservative government, the issue wasn't a priority at all. Regarding tax evasion abroad, our leadership made it possible for the agency to conduct twice as many audits in three years as it conducted in 10 years under the Conservatives. Over 50criminal investigations related to international tax evasion are ongoing.", "speakerName": "Hon. Diane Lebouthillier" }, { "text": "Go ahead, Madame DeBellefeuille.", "speakerName": "The Acting Chair (Mrs. Alexandra Mends)" }, { "text": "MadamChair, I'm not impatient. However, I don't understand the government's lack of willingness to eliminate this mechanism, which is legal but completely immoral. Our questions remain unanswered. My next question is for the Minister of Finance. The Fdration de la relve agricole du Qubec and the UPA approached the Minister of Finance two weeks ago and still haven't received a response regarding the following issue. We know that many farms don't pay wages. As a result, these farms are being penalized because they aren't eligible for the $40,000 in loans available through the Canada emergency business account. To qualify for these loans, the farms needed a payroll of $20,000 to $1.5million in 2019. Does the Minister of Finance plan to respond to the farmers who want to access the $40,000 in loans?", "speakerName": "Mrs. Claude DeBellefeuille" }, { "text": "Thank you, Ms.DeBellefeuille. We know that the Canada emergency response benefit must be made available to the people who need it.", "speakerName": "Hon. Bill Morneau" }, { "text": "On a point of order", "speakerName": "Mr. Damien Kurek" }, { "text": "That's why we're considering our approach. Of course", "speakerName": "Hon. Bill Morneau" }, { "text": "I have a point of order.", "speakerName": "Mr. Damien Kurek" }, { "text": "MinisterMorneau, please wait a moment. A member is raising a point of order. Mr. Kurek, do you have a point of order? You have to unmute yourself.", "speakerName": "The Acting Chair (Mrs. Alexandra Mends)" }, { "text": "Yes. It's that the translation is at the same volume as the minister.", "speakerName": "Mr. Damien Kurek" }, { "text": "You'll have to put yourself on English. Rather, the minister has to put himself on French.", "speakerName": "The Acting Chair (Mrs. Alexandra Mends)" }, { "text": "Sorry. I was on the English channel. We know that the people who need the Canada emergency response benefit must have access to it. That's why we're considering the challenges each time. If I receive a letter, I'll look at it. Once we have a response, we'll pass it directly on to the member.", "speakerName": "Hon. Bill Morneau" }, { "text": "The next question will go to Mr. Richards.", "speakerName": "The Chair" }, { "text": "This question is for the tourism minister. The tourism ministry was one of the first and hardest-hit industries during this crisis, yet despite the Prime Minister's announcement over three weeks ago now of a plan to bring forward a tourism-specific aid package to help the businesses who employ millions of unemployed Canadians who work in tourism, there's still been nothing from this government. When will the government finally act to provide help to this nearly crippled industry?", "speakerName": "Mr. Blake Richards (BanffAirdrie, CPC)" }, { "text": "Mr. Chair, obviously we know that the tourism sector has been deeply impacted. I had the chance to talk to many of the leaders in the sector, and clearly there's a lot of anxiety. We also had the chance to work with all the G20 ministers of tourism all together, and we know we have to act", "speakerName": "Hon. Mlanie Joly (Minister of Economic Development and Official Languages)" }, { "text": "We'll now go back to Mr. Richards.", "speakerName": "The Chair" }, { "text": "I didn't really get much of an answer there. I hear a lot about talking and not much on action. Tourism-based communities like the ones in Banff and Canmore, which I represent, are tourism-based economies and have unemployment rates of 85% or higher. They also don't qualify for a lot of the programs because they're seasonal businesses and make most or all of their revenues for the year from May to October, so they're at risk of losing their entire season. I have a couple of very specific questions. Will the government consider making changes to the programs to make sure that seasonal businesses can get help? What does the government plan to do to help the tourism industry recover after the pandemic?", "speakerName": "Mr. Blake Richards" }, { "text": "Thank you. Obviously, the tourism sector has access to many measures, including the CEBA account, the $40,000 account. They also have access to the wage subsidy. They have access to rent relief. They will be having access also to funding through the regional development agencies, and we'll be coming up with the details soon. Of course, in my colleague's riding of Banff, which is a fantastic place and a tourism gem, they will have access to the support through WD, western economic diversification. If there are particular cases you would like to raise with me, I would be more than happy to talk to you to see how, on the ground, we can help the tourism operators.", "speakerName": "Hon. Mlanie Joly" }, { "text": "Mr. Chair, clearly the tourism minister hasn't been listening. She says she's talking to the industry. She's not hearing their concerns. What she just said does not address many of the concerns they have about being seasonal industries. It doesn't address anything about their concerns about the hard economic recovery they'll have after the pandemic. Let's try another minister and see if we can get some answers. Another industry that's very hard hit in my province and my riding is the oil and gas industry. It's another industry the Prime Minister has promised to help, but there hasn't been anything. Clearly there's a pattern here. The only so-called assistance there's been to help hurting Albertans in the oil patch has been measures to speed up the death of the industry that they work in. Will the Liberal government ever show any concern for Albertans? Will they bring forward a plan to preserve Canadian jobs? Will they put forward a plan to ensure the use of Canadian oil before oil coming in from places like Saudi Arabia?", "speakerName": "Mr. Blake Richards" }, { "text": "In fact, Mr. Chair, the federal government has taken several steps in recent weeks that will meaningfully support workers and communities that depend on this industry. We have the Canada emergency wage subsidy, which covers 75% of an employee's wages for the employer. We have more liquidity for oil and gas companies through new loans of $15 million to $60 million from the Business Development Bank of Canada. We continue to step forward in our response to the impacts of COVID-19 on my province here in Newfoundland and Labrador and on Alberta and Saskatchewan. These three provinces are being hit by two crises at the same time, a crisis of demand for oil and gas on the world markets and of course a crisis of public health with COVID-19.", "speakerName": "Hon. Seamus O'Regan (Minister of Natural Resources)" }, { "text": "Mr. Chair, a lot of these things we're hearing about aren't going to actually help the industry to recover. What we need to see is the government give the industry and the private sector the opportunity to succeed. Maybe what they could do is consider expediting the approval of billions of dollars of private sector projects that would put thousands and thousands of Canadians back to work. Will the government consider looking at ways that we can expedite projects? Will they look at ways that we can encourage the use of Canadian oil before the use of oil coming in from places like Saudi Arabia?", "speakerName": "Mr. Blake Richards" }, { "text": "Mr. Chair, we have been working with our provincial partners. We have been working with businesses of all sizes in the oil and gas industry. We have been working with labour, concentrating on workers and concentrating on the companies that support those jobs to make sure that they remain whole and those jobs will be there for those workers. We're particularly proud of our orphan wells program, which was launched by the Alberta government in conjunction with us. It was launched last week. I am pleased to inform this House that the uptake on applications for that program is significantly higher than even we expected.", "speakerName": "Hon. Seamus O'Regan" }, { "text": "That's all the time we have for questions today. I want to thank all the members for taking part. The committee stands adjourned until tomorrow at noon. The committee stands adjourned until tomorrow at noon. 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fa27b5bce6ae42e98636dfd57d896135	{ "meetingId": "education19", "transcriptSegments": [ { "text": "Good morning, everyone, and welcome to the Children, Young People and Education Committee. We've received apologies for absence from Janet Finch-Saunders. I'd like to take this opportunity to welcome Suzy Davies to the committee, and to thank Mark Reckless and Darren Millar, who have left us, for their service and hard work as members of the committee. Can I ask whether there are any declarations of interest, please? No. Okay. We will move on then to our evidence session on our inquiry into the impact of Brexit on higher and further education. I'm very pleased to welcome Kirsty Williams, Cabinet Secretary for Education, and Eluned Morgan AM, Minister for Welsh Language and Lifelong Learning. Can I just ask you to introduce your officials for the record, please?", "speakerName": "Lynne Neagle AM" }, { "text": "Bore da, Lynne, and thank you for the invitation to join you. Eluned and I are joined this morning by Huw Morris, who's the group director at SHELL—skills, higher education and lifelong learning—and Marie Knox, who is deputy director, overseeing European transition.", "speakerName": "Kirsty Williams AM" }, { "text": "Okay, thank you very much, and thank you for coming. We'll go straight into questions, then, and the first questions are from Suzy Davies.", "speakerName": "Lynne Neagle AM" }, { "text": "Thank you. I'd like to ask you both, if that's okay, a little bit about preparedness. But if I could start with higher education, I understand that—I don't know, it must be about 18 months ago now—Ken Skates told another committee in this place that there had been nine sector analyses done. Presumably, one of those was HE, because of the—well, Welsh Government had a presence, and still does, in Brussels, related to higher education. Apparently, those have now been superseded by work that's been done by Cardiff University. I don't know if you've got any comments on that research, or whether it's been brought to your attention yet.", "speakerName": "Suzy Davies AM" }, { "text": "Well, Suzy, following the vote, I was very keen that we work very closely with colleagues in higher education and further education, to get an understanding from on the ground about the potential impact. So, in terms of preparedness, we started that group in the September, and that work from that group, which includes both HE and FE, has been instrumental in helping the Government form its views, which were articulated in the Government's White Paper,'Securing Wales' Future'. There has been ongoing work being done—as the debate in London and Europe becomes a little bit more clear, then it becomes a little less clear, and then a little bit more clear, but, bearing in mind the difficulties of working in an ever-changing field, we have been refining those approaches. Each institution has been looking at their own institution, because, as you can imagine, although we have an overview of the sector, the challenges are very different for individual institutions—so their exposure, for instance, to the number of European Union students that they have at their college, or the work that they might be doing with Horizon 2020, or their success—and there has been considerable success in the HE field in securing structural funds for various projects—the exposure and the potential impact of leaving the EU, in a'no deal' or in a'deal' scenario, is very, very different. But I don't know if, Huw, you want to talk any further.", "speakerName": "Kirsty Williams AM" }, { "text": "Maybe just to use the'no deal' scenario is probably the easiest, isn't it?", "speakerName": "Suzy Davies AM" }, { "text": "The'no deal'?", "speakerName": "Kirsty Williams AM" }, { "text": "Well, yes, because that's the worst-case scenario, so let's look at that one.", "speakerName": "Suzy Davies AM" }, { "text": "As the Cabinet Secretary mentioned, the higher education Brexit working group's been meeting since September 2016 and has been looking at that in general. More recently, when the prospect of no deal became talked about, officials have been visiting individual institutions to talk to them about their preparedness for that. As you'll be aware, the funding for much of the activity is secured, we believe, even under a'no deal' scenario, until December 2020; that's a letter we had from the Chief Secretary to the Treasury. I think the research you're referring to may be research that Cardiff University has been doing with the Bevan Foundation and others. I know there's a report due to be launched later today. We have been doing our own research and looking at the impact on HE, FE and apprenticeship providers.", "speakerName": "Huw Morris" }, { "text": "Well, that's really helpful because my understanding was that this Cardiff University research had superseded all those nine sector analyses.", "speakerName": "Suzy Davies AM" }, { "text": "That may be true for the economy brief. Certainly, there are published papers by Max Munday and a team at Cardiff University on the impact of Brexit on the Welsh economy, but for HE and FE and apprenticeship provision, it's as the Cabinet Secretary outlined.", "speakerName": "Huw Morris" }, { "text": "So, are there any formal risk assessments that are available for us to scrutinise, for example? For HE and FE for that matter.", "speakerName": "Suzy Davies AM" }, { "text": "Well, the Higher Education Funding Council for Wales have been doing some specific work; I can't comment on how wide they would want that to be shared. We have been doing some broad analysis, as I said, for the sector, looking at what we can do to mitigate the risk, bearing in mind that each institution is an autonomous institution, a principle that they guard really jealously, and rightly so. So, we have been, as Huw said, because the prospect of a'no deal' has become, perhaps, more to the forefront, officers have been visiting each institution to try and make sure and to satisfy us, as people who fund part of their activity, that they have their own plans in place to deal with these scenarios. We continue to work alongside them to push the issues that we can help them with. So, for instance, we continue to work with officials in Westminster around Erasmus+ provision in a'no deal' scenario, what a UK stand-alone project would look like, the impacts of a'no deal' on Horizon 2020. So, we look at the broader picture and we are encouraging continually individual institutions to make sure that they themselves are looking at their specific needs within that.", "speakerName": "Kirsty Williams AM" }, { "text": "Well, if there is something that's shareable, I'm sure we'd be very pleased to see it—", "speakerName": "Suzy Davies AM" }, { "text": "Anything that we've got—", "speakerName": "Kirsty Williams AM" }, { "text": "—particularly with FE, actually, because, of course, we haven't got a HEFCW for FE; you're doing that regulation yourself. I'd expect to see that type of work evidenced somewhere from within Welsh Government, and we would be able to see that then.", "speakerName": "Suzy Davies AM" }, { "text": "So, if I could just make some points on FE. We've been actively engaging with the FE sector. We've spoken to every one of the colleges about how they see things developing. I think it's quite a different response than what is going to be happening in HE.", "speakerName": "Eluned Morgan AM" }, { "text": "Yes, because the student thing isn't such an issue, is it?", "speakerName": "Suzy Davies AM" }, { "text": "You've got to remember that the FE colleges are much more anchored within their communities, they're much more localised, and so, for example, the number of EU students in these colleges is significantly lower. The number of staff in these colleges—I think they've analysed that there are only about 71 people. So, we're keeping in touch with them and we're letting them know what we are being told in terms of the Home Office settled status and what we can do to protect those 71. But that's a much bigger issue, I think, for higher education.", "speakerName": "Eluned Morgan AM" }, { "text": "What are they telling you about European social fund funding, though, because, as you say, they're locally anchored—the impact on FE of ESF funding is probably more significant than the issues we're talking about with higher education. How are you finding this out? Is this through one-to-one conversations?", "speakerName": "Suzy Davies AM" }, { "text": "We are engaging with them all, and, obviously, we're engaging with ColegauCymru, who've done their own analysis, and what we found, in particular, is that the real problems are probably in relation to ESF funding and apprenticeships. But what you've got to remember is that that link between apprenticeships and the local work community is absolutely crucial. So, if—", "speakerName": "Eluned Morgan AM" }, { "text": "Yes, that's why I asked.", "speakerName": "Suzy Davies AM" }, { "text": "—the economy nosedives, or if there's an issue that we see—just the dislocation of companies in those areas as a result of Brexit—then that will inevitably have an impact on the number of apprenticeships that will be on offer. So, it's those kinds of things, but at the moment I think it's worth pointing out that about £15 million a year goes into the FE sector just in relation to apprenticeships.", "speakerName": "Eluned Morgan AM" }, { "text": "Can I just come back finally on that, before handing over? In both your areas of responsibility, there's going to be an impact on Welsh Government in how it responds to that, as well. Can you tell me a little bit about the European transition team, which I think is about building resilience within the Welsh Government to deal with the impacts of Brexit? Is that a formal arrangement you have with officials? I don't really know much about this team, but it seems to meet fortnightly to get Welsh Government ready for Brexit, so could you just give us some clues on this?", "speakerName": "Suzy Davies AM" }, { "text": "Yes, in terms of the European transition team, that's the central co-ordinating group that pulls together all the leads in each department who are pulling together the work on European transition. So, I attend that group in relation to higher education and further education, and, obviously, other representatives in terms of agriculture, transport, the economy, et cetera.", "speakerName": "Marie Knox" }, { "text": "It's great that you're on that group, but what does it actually do? That's the bit I wasn't sure about.", "speakerName": "Suzy Davies AM" }, { "text": "I guess it provides the governance structure for the Welsh Government as a whole in relation to European transition. So, individual departments do their own work, and the European transition team provides the governance structure, and, also, they lead on the discussions with the Department for Exiting the European Union, No. 10, the Joint Ministerial Committee—those kinds of ministerial arrangements.", "speakerName": "Marie Knox" }, { "text": "Thank you. I've had enough time, I think.", "speakerName": "Suzy Davies AM" }, { "text": "Llyr.", "speakerName": "Lynne Neagle AM" }, { "text": "I'll ask my questions in Welsh, if I may. This discussion between HEFCW and higher education, these challenges in terms of how ready they are for the changes to come, and the work that the Government is doing with FE, I suspect, is happening at an organisational level. So, I just want to hear a little about where the student voice comes into that discussion and where the engagement happens in terms of the students.", "speakerName": "Llyr Gruffydd AM" }, { "text": "So, we have a close working relationship with the National Union of Students. I meet with them regularly, and officials are in constant touch with the student voice. They have been very clear, and I think there is a huge amount of consensus between the Welsh Government, what the universities are asking for and what the students are asking for. You'll have seen, only earlier this week, the very powerful campaign by NUS Wales about the importance of Erasmus+ arrangements. There is a huge amount to be gained for Welsh students and young people participating in the Erasmus programme. Many of us, I know, have had the opportunity to study abroad as part of our own studies, and there's a lot to be gained from it. We've been very clear from the outset, as have the sector and the student voice, about the importance of participation in that scheme. NUS are also very concerned that there should be no negative impact on the quality of faculty. Our HE institutions, to a greater extent than FE, have faculty staff from the EU—it runs at about 11 per cent. That adds great diversity and strength to the quality of teaching within our institutions. Clearly, that is a concern for students. They want to have the best teachers, they want access to the best learning opportunities, and we've been very clear about the importance of providing security and stability for those staff, making sure we send very clear messages that they're very welcome and we value their contribution. NUS, again, also value the diversity in the student population. Again, as far as we've been able to, we've been able to give messages about the security of funding for European students for the next academic year. I wish I could go further, but that's out of my hands. We're working to the limits of what I feel comfortable in being able to guarantee without further guarantees from Westminster. So, we've been working closely with the student voice, and I think, Llyr, what's very clear is there is a consensus about what is important across the Government, the institutions and student voice. So, that is making sure we send very clear messages about Wales's institutions being open for business and that we welcome both EU and international students, that we value the contribution of faculty, and that we want to be able to continue in Horizon 2020. That's especially important if we're looking at attracting postgraduate work and postgraduate students into our system, as well as Erasmus+. The issue of post-study work visas, again, is very important. As I said, there's a consensus, I think, between the Government, the institutions and the students about what we need the UK Government to achieve for us.", "speakerName": "Kirsty Williams AM" }, { "text": "Before we move on to student recruitment, it's increasingly the view of many experts that we're heading for a'no deal' Brexit. Can I ask both of you what specific plans you've put in place in the event of such a'no deal' Brexit happening and us crashing out next spring?", "speakerName": "Lynne Neagle AM" }, { "text": "Well, I think it's really difficult for us to prepare for a'no deal' Brexit, but obviously we need to think through very carefully what that might look like, and I think that scenario planning is starting to happen. I think it's very different, again, for FE compared to HE. So, in relation to FE, what we do have is funding—ESF funding—which the UK Government has said that they will underwrite until 2020. So, in March next year, if there is no deal, the immediate impact on FE is unlikely to hit in the way that we may have feared. The problem then becomes: what exactly is the deal with the EU in future, because we will have some kind of relationship, and what that impact will be on the broader economy and our ability to work with companies locally, and industries, to provide that link between training needs? So, the colleges, basically, are providing the training for lots of the apprenticeships, and so if the number of companies reduces, then that is likely to have an impact. So, there are specific sectors that we are more concerned about than others. Farming is obviously one that we are concerned about, because that could have a difference in terms of day one of no deal. If your markets are not there, that could be quite an immediate impact. Health and social care—obviously, we are concerned that there are a number of people who work in that sector who are EU citizens. What is the impact? Are they going to feel unwelcome? Are they likely, then, to return home? Where will that skills gap, therefore, be? So, that's a problem for us. Construction is already an issue for us in terms of skills shortages. So, one of the things we're doing is we've developed these regional skills partnerships where we ask local employers,'What is it that you need in terms of skills development?' and we are now asking further education colleges to respond to that need. So, rather than them just getting people through the college system, who are easy to get in because they're doing courses that they're excited about, let's try and encourage them to do courses where we know there are skills shortages. So, that is a new structure that we've developed that is already having an impact; there's a £10 million project there. So, we're already putting things in place for those situations. In manufacturing, obviously, if there's no deal, the rules of origin, that could have an immediate impact. Just-in-time—we could have real problems in terms of dislocation there; and hospitality and tourism. So, those are the sectors we have most concerns about, and all of them have very strong links to the FE sector.", "speakerName": "Eluned Morgan AM" }, { "text": "From the HE perspective, from a point of principle, we just have to keep working towards some kind of deal. Although the prospect of no deal, maybe, has risen up the agenda, we have got to be consistent in our messages to the Westminster Government: we need a deal. Wales cannot afford to crash out of the EU without a deal. If that worst-case scenario was to happen, because of the underwrite guarantee, actually, for European regional development fund and European social fund programmes in the HE sector, it would be business as usual. And because of the current underwrite guarantee, the forthcoming bids for Erasmus and Horizon 2020 would be covered, but they would be the last applications that could be made. You'll be aware that there are some proposals for an extension to that guarantee, but from my understanding and our understanding of it, that would only give us third-country status for Horizon 2020 and Erasmus. What that does mean is that we would have limited access to the Horizon 2020 programme, and if you look at the activity that is currently being undertaken by the Welsh HE sector under that programme, that would mean that we'd probably lose about 50 per cent of that work, because that's the split between the bits we would still be able to access and what we are currently accessing. As I've already said, we have made a guarantee for EU student support for the next academic year, but, without clarity from the Treasury, I don't think it would be prudent of me to commit Welsh Government to anything further than that. So, we continue to push the message that a'no deal' would be catastrophic. What can we do? You'll be aware that we have been working with Universities Wales to access resources under the European transition fund, under the Global Wales programme, to look to boost international marketing of the HE sector and to talk about the strengths that we have in the sector. And we continue to look at other opportunities within the EU transition pot of money to assist the universities and the FE sector in that regard. We also continue to look to respond to the Reid review proposals, about how we can beef up our own research and continue to engage with UK Research and Innovation to make sure that, with any research money that comes out of that negotiation, Wales is in a competitive position to be able to bid successfully for that.", "speakerName": "Kirsty Williams AM" }, { "text": "Okay, thank you. We're going to move on, then, to talk about student recruitment. I'm going to, because we've got a lot of questions, appeal for brief questions and answers that are as concise as possible, please. Hefin.", "speakerName": "Lynne Neagle AM" }, { "text": "How does the Welsh Government account for the fact that EU student applications in Wales this year—that Wales is the only country in the UK to have seen a significant drop?", "speakerName": "Hefin David AM" }, { "text": "Okay, well, I think the first thing to remember is that we will not get a full picture of student recruitment until, first of all, November and then the true picture, because some institutions, as you would know, have two admissions dates—we won't get the full picture until the spring. I think it was inevitable, given the change in Government policy with regard to student support, which had previously allowed European students to benefit from a tuition fee grant, and given the fact that that option is no longer available to them, that that has had an impact on EU recruitment, and there's no point trying to hide from that.", "speakerName": "Kirsty Williams AM" }, { "text": "So, together with leaving the EU, that's a double-whammy effect that's hitting Wales harder than the rest of the UK.", "speakerName": "Hefin David AM" }, { "text": "It just puts us in the same position as EU students applying to England, but it was inevitable. This was looked at by Diamond. It was anticipated that this could be a consequence of the change in policy, and I think we see that reflected in the initial figure, although, as I said, we won't get the true picture until the first census in November, and then, ultimately, the final picture in the spring.", "speakerName": "Kirsty Williams AM" }, { "text": "How concerned are you by that?", "speakerName": "Hefin David AM" }, { "text": "Clearly, we want our universities to be able to attract students from both the EU and from around the world. The fact that the tuition fee grant arrangements may have had an impact on European Union students at this stage does not preclude the fact that Wales, up until now, has been successful in recruiting international students. So, the change in the fee regime should not be a barrier to the recruitment of international students, because, actually, international students outside of the EU make up a bigger proportion of students not from the UK who come to our institutions.", "speakerName": "Kirsty Williams AM" }, { "text": "That's a fair point, but it's unfortunate timing, though, isn't it?", "speakerName": "Hefin David AM" }, { "text": "I think, from a public policy point of view and moving towards a sustainable way of funding our HE sector, then both my priority and, I would say, the priority of the institutions was to see the implementation of Diamond, which is what we have done.", "speakerName": "Kirsty Williams AM" }, { "text": "Okay, that's fine. What about the fact that we've got a relatively imbalanced higher education profile compared to other countries of the UK with regard to high, medium and low-tariff universities? We've got one high-tariff university, and they're the ones that tend to show the growth in recruitment of EU students. Are you concerned about that balance of profile in the HE sector?", "speakerName": "Hefin David AM" }, { "text": "As I said in answer to your question earlier, there is a difference reflected in the exposure of institutions to EU and international students. I would argue that it's not necessarily the case that institutions that are not high-tariff are not able to do very well in this sector. If you look, for instance, at Swansea University—if you look at the work Swansea University has done, that shows you what is possible.", "speakerName": "Kirsty Williams AM" }, { "text": "What is Swansea's success, then? What can we learn from Swansea?", "speakerName": "Hefin David AM" }, { "text": "What I think is important—and this is not about any one institution—what I think is really important is that we look to—. And I can't force institutions to do this. It's a combination, I believe, for all universities, of getting their offer right—so, having a curriculum at their institution that is attractive and offers courses that people want to study. It's about that curriculum being delivered in an excellent fashion, so high quality ratings for teaching, as well as having an infrastructure that is attractive to students. So, it's all about getting the offer right and providing what students, both domestically and internationally, want.", "speakerName": "Kirsty Williams AM" }, { "text": "But the evidence would therefore suggest that that model of success that you've just outlined is happening in Swansea but it isn't happening in other institutions, and they're seeing a drop.", "speakerName": "Hefin David AM" }, { "text": "Well, as I said, I think what we can see from Cardiff, Swansea and others is that it is possible to do very well in the sector.", "speakerName": "Kirsty Williams AM" }, { "text": "So, Cardiff, Swansea and Bangor—but the others, not.", "speakerName": "Hefin David AM" }, { "text": "As I said, what we can see is that, if you get the offer right, I think we have something very special that the HE sector can market itself on.", "speakerName": "Kirsty Williams AM" }, { "text": "Llyr, you've got a supplementary.", "speakerName": "Lynne Neagle AM" }, { "text": "Just coming back to the drop in EU students, you mentioned that one of the reasons probably is the change in the funding that's available to students coming here. So, does that suggest that, under the current regime, Wales was punching above its weight in terms of attracting students and we've lost that advantage? I know we're gaining in other ways in introducing the new system, but really we're not much different to England in terms of fees now, so why would they come to Wales as opposed to going anywhere else?", "speakerName": "Llyr Gruffydd AM" }, { "text": "I think you're right; there was an added incentive, potentially, to come to a Welsh institution because of the availability of the tuition fee grant. That advantage is no longer there, which is why we need to work alongside the sector, as we're doing with the Global Wales programme, to increase their ability to market HE in the round across the world. I think we've got a strong offer that we can speak to people about. I'm very proud of what our institutions can deliver for people. It's a fantastic, warm environment to come and study in, at great institutions. There's something for everybody, whether you want to be in a city like Cardiff or whether you want a coastal experience in a small town like Aber. So, we've got a lot to offer and that's why it's really important that, although we have seen a change in the tuition fees, which may have an impact, we are investing with universities, for instance, in the Global Wales programme.", "speakerName": "Kirsty Williams AM" }, { "text": "In terms of the drop that we've seen in Wales, which is differential amongst institutions, will you be taking any specific action to try and prevent Brexit exacerbating that?", "speakerName": "Lynne Neagle AM" }, { "text": "We are working with HEFCW and individual institutions, as I said, to test their preparedness. We can't tell them what to do in that sense, but we can, because of our governance arrangements and HEFCW's monitoring arrangements, continue to test with them. I meet regularly with vice-chancellors and separately with the chairs of the institutions and separately again with HEFCW representatives, and the sustainability of the sector and recruitment issues is always something that is on the agenda.", "speakerName": "Kirsty Williams AM" }, { "text": "Thank you. Julie.", "speakerName": "Lynne Neagle AM" }, { "text": "The additional £6.4 million that went to HEFCW in the 2017-18 year, which I think you say is partly because of Brexit and partly because of demographic and recruitment challenges, what do you expect to see as a result of that spending?", "speakerName": "Julie Morgan AM" }, { "text": "That funding was allocated, as I said, to enable HEFCW to deal with any short-term implications arising out of demographic changes, because we've seen a drop in the number of 18-year-olds, and the initial implications of EU transition. It was allocated as part of HEFCW's overall grant in aid, and therefore the council was given discretion as to how it was to be apportioned to the sector. The money was brought forward a year, because, in conversations with HEFCW and the institutions, they felt that that money would be more useful earlier on. So, it was money that was brought forward into the allocation for 2017-18, as opposed to 2018-19, because they wanted to have that resource earlier rather than later. With regard to additional resources, you'll be aware that we have made an additional resource of £5 million available to mitigate the freeze in tuition fees, and £5 million has been made available to HEFCW to kick-start the work on postgraduate support until we're in a position to fully implement Diamond at the postgraduate level.", "speakerName": "Kirsty Williams AM" }, { "text": "You say that the money is used at the discretion of the universities. So, you don't have an analysis of how that was spent.", "speakerName": "Julie Morgan AM" }, { "text": "The financial allocation, as I said, was agreed with the funding council and it was there to help universities with any cash flow issues, but if you'd like further details I can provide those as much as I'm able.", "speakerName": "Kirsty Williams AM" }, { "text": "I think it would be interesting if we know what the money was spent on and, of course, that money is now not available for the next financial year, so there's no way of carrying on what they were doing with it, presumably.", "speakerName": "Julie Morgan AM" }, { "text": "Well, as I said, it was part of the overall allocation to HEFCW. With specific regard to dealing with the impact of Brexit, you'll be aware that we have reached an agreement in principle on the funding of £3.5 million to the Global Wales initiative. This was an application that came in from Universities Wales looking at specifically targeting and beefing up international work and international recruitment work to support them at this time, and we're currently working with Universities Wales on the exact details and outcomes they would expect from that investment.", "speakerName": "Kirsty Williams AM" }, { "text": "And do you have any estimate of how many students you hope to attract by that?", "speakerName": "Julie Morgan AM" }, { "text": "That is subject to continuing negotiations with Universities Wales before we let any contracts with them. What's important is that that work is based on research that has been done by Universities Wales to look at the optimum markets that we should be targeting, specifically the United States of America and Vietnam.", "speakerName": "Kirsty Williams AM" }, { "text": "And will this money be used equally between all the universities?", "speakerName": "Julie Morgan AM" }, { "text": "We expect that all institutions—should they have a desire to participate—will be able to be assisted, as well as the overall global branding from Universities Wales and the new Study in Wales initiative.", "speakerName": "Kirsty Williams AM" }, { "text": "Thank you. I think we've covered the EU student fees, haven't we?", "speakerName": "Julie Morgan AM" }, { "text": "Okay. Do you want to ask question 12?", "speakerName": "Lynne Neagle AM" }, { "text": "Has the Welsh Government explored the possibility of looking at different immigration rules for international and EU students who may wish to study here?", "speakerName": "Julie Morgan AM" }, { "text": "Okay. Well, with regard to immigration, clearly, this is something, at the moment, that is out of our hands, and I have to say, it hasn't got off to a great start when initially the post-study work visas were issued just for a number of institutions in the south-east of England, with no consultation with us and I don't believe with the Scottish Government either. So, we have campaigned, pushed, cajoled, lobbied, and I was very glad that in December last year, the Home Office did then make that scheme available to Cardiff and to Trinity Saint David. We continue to press the point that we do not believe that, first of all, international students should be included in any immigration targets. I think all the evidence suggests that the British public don't regard international students as immigrants, and therefore we do need to make sure that they are taken out of the targets and we can continue to press that message with the UK Government. At the moment, you'll be aware that Welsh Government has looked at a specific piece of work on whether there was any scope for specific immigration policy for Wales, although I must say that was mostly in the field of actually the workforce rather than students. You'll be aware that this week the Government's migration advisory committee—there are so many committees these days—have said that they don't believe that there is a case for a separate provision for EU students, as opposed to international students. But we want an immigration system that makes it as easy as possible for those students who want to benefit from education in Wales, and indeed the UK, to be able to do so.", "speakerName": "Kirsty Williams AM" }, { "text": "Thank you. Llyr.", "speakerName": "Lynne Neagle AM" }, { "text": "So, what are we doing from now on in then? Are we just waiting to see or are we continuing to push?", "speakerName": "Llyr Gruffydd AM" }, { "text": "No—gosh—Llyr, we continue to push the case at the official level, and at the moment, I'm trying to convene a quadrilateral, if it can be quadrilateral in the sense that Northern Ireland aren't up and running—but certainly with officials from Northern Ireland. We're trying to arrange another quadrilateral between myself, the HE Minister for England and the new HE Minister for Scotland. If I can speak candidly, I don't believe that there's any difference between our view, with regard to the status of international students, and the views of English Ministers within the department in England. It is convincing the Home Office of that case. So, I don't think we need to persuade Sam Gyimah about the importance of this. Jo Johnson got, I think the current Minister gets it—it's a question of whether we can persuade the Home Office of that particular case.", "speakerName": "Kirsty Williams AM" }, { "text": "Okay. Thank you. The next questions are from John Griffiths.", "speakerName": "Lynne Neagle AM" }, { "text": "I have some questions on the sustainability of higher and further education. Firstly, with regard to higher education, we heard that, even without Brexit, higher education is in managed deficit, whilst the funding announcements from Diamond and Reid are awaited. So, is that a concern to Welsh Government, and could Welsh Government take away that uncertainty by outlining a clear funding commitment to the Diamond and Reid reviews?", "speakerName": "John Griffiths AM" }, { "text": "Welsh Government is fully committed, John, to implementing the Diamond review proposals. It's a commitment that was an element of the agreement between myself and the First Minister that brought me into the administration, and we have been very clear with HEFCW about our expectations and what the implementation of Diamond will mean for grant going to HEFCW. And we've shared those figures with them. With regard to Reid, we continue within Government to discuss how we can implement the recommendations of Reid, but one of the whole principles behind Diamond was to move us to a more sustainable funding settlement for the HE sector in the round, that is fair to students, encourages those with the ability to partake in higher education to do so, especially from those from a poorer background, as well as being able to provide our institutions with the resources that they need.", "speakerName": "Kirsty Williams AM" }, { "text": "So, you don't accept, then, that there hasn't been a clear funding commitment from Welsh Government to those reviews—the Diamond and Reid reviews?", "speakerName": "John Griffiths AM" }, { "text": "With regard to Diamond, I would absolutely refute that. We have been very clear and we have shown HEFCW our analysis of the figures going forward in relation to what is sometimes called within the sector the'Diamond dividend', although the Diamond dividend is never as big as people imagine the Diamond dividend to be. But we've been absolutely clear with HEFCW and the sector on what that will mean. Now, with regard to Reid, those are ongoing discussions that form part of the normal budgetary process within the Government, but I think we have been as clear as we can be with regard to Diamond.", "speakerName": "Kirsty Williams AM" }, { "text": "Okay. The second question, really, is about HE and FE and it's about European funding, which, of course, has been and is on a multi-year basis, which gives, I think, a lot of security and comfort to the sectors, knowing what the budgets will be over a period of time. So, moving from that to a yearly budgeting situation would be worrying. So, would you commit to introducing multi-year funding settlements for HE, and indeed for FE, moving forward beyond Brexit?", "speakerName": "John Griffiths AM" }, { "text": "Shall I take this and give you a little bit of a break? She's not very well. I think the multi-annual nature of the European funding programmes has been very, very useful. People can plan, you can get staffing in place, you can have really strategic aims and I think that's really useful for the institutions involved. Of course, what we don't have is multi-annual budgeting from the UK Government. So, whilst I think we would, in an ideal world, like to see a better view of what's coming our way, it's extremely difficult for us to be able to offer that without having that multi-annual funding commitment from the UK Government. So, I think that will be a major, major loss for the institutions concerned. Of course, it's not just about ESF and apprenticeships—it's also about ERDF funding. So, you mustn't forget that, actually, there's been a lot of ERDF funding that's gone into these institutions. Swansea University, you'll be aware, has been practically rebuilt with ERDF. Also, FE colleges—we've got Coleg y Cymoedd, the college in Blaenau Gwent. These have been built, largely, with European funding. It's because of the multi-annual nature of the fact that we've been able to prepare for them that they have been able to progress. So, that will be a huge loss, but I think it's really important that we don't forget the ERDF aspect in addition to the ESF impact that there will be on these institutions.", "speakerName": "Eluned Morgan AM" }, { "text": "Okay. As far as further education is concerned, in your paper you state that it's a priority to support the FE sector to maintain all the learning opportunities that currently take place under European Union funding. So, would you be able to give the committee an idea of the level of resource you would estimate that the sector requires to achieve that priority, and—? I'll stop there for the moment.", "speakerName": "John Griffiths AM" }, { "text": "I think it is important. What we've said is that we want to maintain that range of learning opportunities that is provided by EU funding. I think we've got to be clear that we are not working to this scenario. I think we've got to—. The UK Government have made us some promises and they've made some commitments, and we need to hold them to that, and so let's keep the pressure on. The moment we start saying,'No, it's all going to be okay, we'll sort ourselves out'—I think that would be a huge mistake. We have been promised that we will not lose a penny as a result of Brexit, and we need to make sure that we keep them to that commitment. I think it was quite interesting to hear what Philip Hammond said yesterday when he was in Wales, saying that the money that we will receive will depend on the future shape of the economy, which implies that he has no idea what's going to happen there, and that that shared prosperity fund will be designed around the deal. Well, that's really not what we're interested in. We were made some promises, and we need them to commit to those promises. I think we have some real concerns about the shared prosperity fund not really following through on the commitments that were made during the Brexit referendum. But, in terms of the replacements, we'd be looking at about £15 million a year, and that would be a huge impact for us, but we're not looking at that—I don't think we should be—because they made some promises.", "speakerName": "Eluned Morgan AM" }, { "text": "So, could you say that, if they keep their promises, then at least that level of funding would be maintained?", "speakerName": "John Griffiths AM" }, { "text": "I think that would be a minimum, but that's just one aspect of it. That's not including the whole workplace learning money on top of that.", "speakerName": "Eluned Morgan AM" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "John Griffiths AM" }, { "text": "Thank you. Suzy, you had a supplementary.", "speakerName": "Lynne Neagle AM" }, { "text": "Yes, just very quickly on the multi-annual point, obviously I recognise that we're talking about six or seven-year cycles with Europe, and I completely take the point that you don't really know from year to year what your budget's going to be, but Welsh Government does make multi-annual commitments. I think you did it yesterday, actually—the capital commitment is over more than one year. How are you able to do that and yet not quite feel confident that you can do that with—well, both your sectors, really?", "speakerName": "Suzy Davies AM" }, { "text": "I think it's probably easier to do with capital than it is with revenue, so that's what would make the difference. But it's—. These institutions are interested in revenue, because that's what supports the staff. The one thing we all know is that employment opportunities today—the transitional nature of employment and the fact that people are not getting the kind of contracts that we'd like them to get—that makes their lives very precarious and they're less likely, then, to be committed to those institutions. I think it's a really, really concerning thing, because what makes these institutions work well is their staff, so that makes life very, very difficult without that multi-annual commitment.", "speakerName": "Eluned Morgan AM" }, { "text": "They also have to raise some of their own money as well—we mustn't forget that.", "speakerName": "Suzy Davies AM" }, { "text": "No, I think that's right, and I think that there's more that these institutions can do in terms of their own funding and being more responsive to employers and the need for skills in their areas.", "speakerName": "Eluned Morgan AM" }, { "text": "Okay, thank you. Thank you, Chair.", "speakerName": "Suzy Davies AM" }, { "text": "So, given the precarious state of planning for the finances, are you considering letting universities charge EU students international fees?", "speakerName": "Lynne Neagle AM" }, { "text": "We don't regulate the ability for universities to set fees for international students. They would be in a position to—[Inaudible.] They are in a position to set international fees at a rate that, I guess, they feel is appropriate for the provision that they give to those students.", "speakerName": "Kirsty Williams AM" }, { "text": "Okay, right. We'll move on, then, to questions from Llyr.", "speakerName": "Lynne Neagle AM" }, { "text": "Thank you. I just wanted to pick up on the funding of apprenticeships and the long-term funding, because the ESF—the commitments take us to 2023, which takes us beyond any transition period. So, I just want to hear from you that there are assurances that the apprenticeship programme can be delivered as a whole, come what may.", "speakerName": "Llyr Gruffydd AM" }, { "text": "Well, we're fine until 2020, because we've had that guarantee from the Government. The issue for us is the n+2 that we would have if we do have some kind of transition deal or an agreement with the EU. So, there is a risk and there is concern, beyond 2020, that that would create problems if they don't agree to fund that, which is the expectation that we have.", "speakerName": "Eluned Morgan AM" }, { "text": "But it is a prospect that this wouldn't be achieved as you foresee.", "speakerName": "Llyr Gruffydd AM" }, { "text": "Well, we do hope, because we've had the pledges and commitments from the Government, that they will respect what we expected and what was expected by these institutions that have had the commitment of the funding.", "speakerName": "Eluned Morgan AM" }, { "text": "So, to what extent does that undermine the current work? Because institutions want to enter into agreements with providers and so on. Businesses want to know, if they're starting on some sort of journey, that they are going to get to the end of it some years down the line. That must be undermining a lot of the work that's going on now.", "speakerName": "Llyr Gruffydd AM" }, { "text": "Well, as I said, because the guarantee is there until 2020, I think that, for now, people are willing to go into those agreements, and I hope that we'll have a better outlook by November of the direction we're moving in. But I don't think it's had an impact. You have to remember that the number of apprenticeships in Wales is rising, while they've collapsed entirely in England. So, it is important that we do continue, and it's important that we don't create an atmosphere here that's going to undermine the confidence of our employers in committing to training in the workplace.", "speakerName": "Eluned Morgan AM" }, { "text": "Are you confident that the Government will achieve its targets in this context?", "speakerName": "Llyr Gruffydd AM" }, { "text": "Yes. We're on target to reach 100,000 apprenticeships. I think we're slightly ahead of that target, I'm pleased to say. So, of course, our hope is to do that. But let's be clear: if there is a'no deal' scenario, that will have an impact on the economy, and who knows what will happen then to some of these companies that are reliant on the EU.", "speakerName": "Eluned Morgan AM" }, { "text": "Talking about the impact on the wider economy, on the point you made earlier that it's not just the direct effect on these institutions, but also on the businesses that they engage with, that is a concern in this context, that means, of course, that there is a lot of pressure in this context on the work that other departments in the Government are doing, because perhaps they are the ones dealing with some of this. So, could you tell us a little bit about how you're working with Ministers and Cabinet Secretaries and other departments within the Government to safeguard these interests?", "speakerName": "Llyr Gruffydd AM" }, { "text": "So, as part of the employability programme, I have started going round every member of the Cabinet to ask what the impact will be on them—for example, in health, and, certainly, the economy, but here are many other areas. What's important for us is that we do collaborate and we do get this analysis, but we hope to do that on the ground through the regional skills partnerships. That's our way of ensuring that we can have an understanding, on the ground, of what's needed by employers. And so ensuring that people feed into that and that we respond to those requirements—that's where we're focusing our work. So, we're asking, for example, health boards to ensure that they feed into the regional skills partnerships.", "speakerName": "Eluned Morgan AM" }, { "text": "Is there a danger that we're a little bit behind in this process? Because Brexit could be upon us in no time at all, and, of course, this work is still ongoing.", "speakerName": "Llyr Gruffydd AM" }, { "text": "Well, I have been pushing and ensuring that in the direct areas facing the greatest risk, and agriculture's one of those, of course—. We have been pushing to see what we can do further, so, for example, I'm in the process of developing a policy on rural skills at present because I do think it's important that we do focus on those sectors that are likely to suffer the worst impact if the worst does happen. So, those preparations are in place as far as they can be, but, of course, it's very difficult without knowing to what extent it's going to impact on us.", "speakerName": "Eluned Morgan AM" }, { "text": "And each sector's running on its own timescale, I would presume. But, as you've mentioned rural skills, when do you foresee that that work will appear, and when will plans or schemes or whatever you're intending to put in place see the light of day?", "speakerName": "Llyr Gruffydd AM" }, { "text": "Well, we hope during this term that that will be published or announced. So, certainly, it is something that we have been discussing with people in rural areas directly, with the colleges, to see what the provision is there and to what extent we need to expand that, and to what extent we will need to change and move really quickly if there is no deal. That's something that I think we have to learn and we need to convince the FE sector about in terms of moving more quickly and to be more responsive to the demand that there is in the workplace.", "speakerName": "Eluned Morgan AM" }, { "text": "Yes, because there is the dilemma you touched on earlier about providing the skills that are required for the economy and providing the courses that are easy to fill. That is a live discussion across FE and HE, but you're confident that that discussion is taking place in a constructive and positive way and moving in the right direction.", "speakerName": "Llyr Gruffydd AM" }, { "text": "Well, it's helped that we've put £10 million on the table, because they do understand now that we are serious about our aim of ensuring that they do respond to what employers are asking for. So that has helped a lot in terms of focus and, of course, we're in the middle of a review now as well in terms of how we fund FE, and that will certainly be a part of that.", "speakerName": "Eluned Morgan AM" }, { "text": "Okay, thanks.", "speakerName": "Llyr Gruffydd AM" }, { "text": "Thank you. Can I just go back—?", "speakerName": "Lynne Neagle AM" }, { "text": "Sorry, Chair, could I just clarify something? The last question you asked me about—", "speakerName": "Kirsty Williams AM" }, { "text": "I was just going to go back to that, yes.", "speakerName": "Lynne Neagle AM" }, { "text": "—fees—. Sorry. Of course, that is in the context of a'no deal' scenario. There could be a scenario where there are reciprocal arrangements, so, if a deal was reached with the European Union that established the principle of reciprocal arrangements, then, obviously, the ability of the HE institutions to charge international fees would be curtailed. I just want to make that clear.", "speakerName": "Kirsty Williams AM" }, { "text": "If there's not that agreement—", "speakerName": "Lynne Neagle AM" }, { "text": "If there's no deal—", "speakerName": "Kirsty Williams AM" }, { "text": "—then it will be open to universities to charge market-driven, international rates.", "speakerName": "Lynne Neagle AM" }, { "text": "Yes, that's right. Sorry, I just wanted to clarify. I should have made it very clear that the answer I gave was in the context of no deal, which is what we seem to be talking about mostly this morning, but if there was a deal to have reciprocal arrangements, then that ability, obviously, would be curtailed.", "speakerName": "Kirsty Williams AM" }, { "text": "Okay, thank you. Are there any other questions from Members? No. Okay, well, can I thank the Cabinet Secretary, the Minister and the officials for attending and for answering all our questions? We very much appreciate your time. As usual, you'll be sent a transcript to check for accuracy after the meeting. Thank you very much. Okay. Item 5, then, is papers to note. Members will see that there are 18 papers to note, so I'd like to suggest that we note them as a block, please, and just to flag that I would like to return to paper to note 18 when we go into private. Is that okay with everyone? Everyone happy to note those? Thank you. Item 6, then, can I propose, in accordance with Standing Order 17.42, that the committee resolves to meet in private for the remainder of the meeting and the whole of the meeting next week? Are Members content? 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Therefore, I cannot answer this question.", "responseAttribution": null, "queryMetadata": { "queryType": "QUERY_TYPE_SPECIFIC", "isUnanswerable": true, "isContextDependent": null } }, { "query": "Did the committee discuss other funding options, besides the ones previously mentioned, to support higher and further education institutions?", "response": "I apologize, but the provided text does not include specific information regarding other funding options that were discussed by the committee to support higher and further education institutions. 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fb520df4ac3a4b7fa0eb7612c8a73fc3	{ "meetingId": "IS1009b", "transcriptSegments": [ { "text": "Okay, is everybody ready?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah?", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah I'd to just put on my microphone here and I'll be right with you.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Okay?", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Um I take it you all have received instructions as to what you were supposed to do", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm?", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yes.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "and um I think the Marketing Manager probably should go first, addressing the needs and desires.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Okay you want me to start right now?", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah, mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Well, could you um put my slides up'cause I think it might be helpful if uh we looked at the slides at the same time.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Okay. You're participant four.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "I'm participant four I believe. Yes uh-huh.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Okay, and now I can uh full screen.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "'Kay.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Open.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Uh, okay, okay.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "There we go. Okay well I think we have introduced ourselves,", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "And then full screen.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "so the functional requirements are is is part of my goal but why don't we pass right to the second slide. Cause that's where m my discussion starts. Right well um since I'm in charge of trying to figure out what we should put on this thing since I have to try to sell it.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Um I thought that the method I should follow would be gather suggestions from everybody, and th the reason I just put that there like that is that uh in the init in the initial stage I think I should just be open to lots of suggestions. You know you can say anything you want no matter how silly it sounds you know it should run your car, it should heat up your motor if should um turn on your C_D_ whatever you want it to do.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "'Kay.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "um and then as we go on what we'll have to do is accept and eliminate these suggestions according to um design and budget feasibility. So I'll be coming to you um frequently as the Industrial Expert to tell me how hard it's gonna be to add a feature or how expensive it's gonna be or if your time, if it takes five years to develop this it's just something we can't do.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Hmm hmm. Mm.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "So in the beginning just have a big puddle of things that we anybody can th throw anything in", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "and then just weed things out that can't be done for one reason or another, and then the things that seem the most attractive that to uh to a customer we'll try to then prioritise those.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm. Yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "So that was um what I meant there, and as I said on the slide there consulting the Industrial Engineer about that and the other thing is timing is really gonna be as important as money, because if we're gonna sell this thing, I think the best time to sell it is as a Christmas present. Twenty five Euros makes a nice little present, and we want it to be an impulse purchase,", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "we want somebody to see it and think it's, gee I just gotta have that. And take out their wallet and buy it. So it's gotta be really attractive and it but it's gotta go to market by September,'cause anything that you don't already have out there in September showing it around, isn't gonna sell for Christmas.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Um and then I'll be coming to you as the User Interface person to try to tell me from your point of view what are the most friendly features that we could put on it and try to prior help me with that prioritising of uh of the features and of the the look and the colour", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "and I'll be coming back to you to help weed out those suggestions from that point of view.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "So I'll be coming to you for how much is it gonna cost us and how long is it gonna take you,", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Mm mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "and I'll be coming to you to tell me what's gonna make somebody take out their wallet you know,", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "What features.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "what what's what's gonna really be what they call a sizzle,", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "S sellable. Yes.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "'cause we gotta sell this sizzle.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "A lot of times the thing that works the best from an engineering point of view isn't the thing that somebody's really just gonna take out their wallet and buy for Christmas for for their child or for their husband or whatever.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yes.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Okay can we go to the next slide please? Alright I I already did a little bit of research after our first meeting where we threw out some ideas and it looks to me that within the budget that we're looking at the uh the whole house idea really isn't gonna be possible. So I'd like your suggestions to come back to the other slide where I was saying we we could suggest anything.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "I'd like the suggestions to be really specific, so that we'll have a list of things we can cross off, not something like you know whole house control what'll be And then I found on the internet from from my research that some extended electronic entertainment control should be possible. At the budget that we're looking at and at the price point we're looking at, we should be able to make it work the T_V_, the V_C_R_, the stereo set um maybe something else cute like a coffee pot or one other appliance or maybe a lamp.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Uh okay, can can I at this point interject um something?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "I have to wind up? Yeah, sure.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Um we have received instruction from higher up that certain things should not be uh considered. Um the one thing for example something to eliminate maybe that's the teletext,", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "because that's sort of outdated with the internet,", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "and according to to higher management the it should only control the T_V_,", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "mostly because they feel that it's too comp complex a task to um to to include other things,", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Complicated, yeah, of course.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "and they are concerned with the time to market.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Of course, yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Um and the.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Okay, so that's something.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "and the third thing that they wanna make sure um that their that the corporate image is being maintained, and that the corporate colour and design are being used on the product, so that it's easy that that that they can be easily identified as a product of of of the company, and that there's no mistake that it could be somebody else who is bringing this out.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "So I just wanted to interject this here so we're not getting too much off track here with uh with the things we wanna look at. These were instructions from higher up so we have to eliminate uh these things, so it's only gonna be T_V_,", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Okay so.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "but the one thing maybe that could be um eliminated is the teletext uh idea.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Mm'kay.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Alright, thanks for that. Um alright now other things that I found out on in my research is that the complaints that people have about the remote controls that are out there now.'Cause a lot of them take too much time to learn how to use, and that was thirty four percent but even more important the thing that we did address in our last meeting that frequently it's lost somewhere in the room. Um so those are two things that we definitely do wanna address, uh we wanna s make it as simple as possible, we wanna make it um obvious and intuitive to use, and then the things about finding it we talked about the a light emitting thing as well as uh maybe a beep, and I think that those are things after my research that we definitely wanna try to incorporate.'Kay can we go to the next slide please? Okay, so, my personal preferences in this um project are really have to concentrate on the sizzle. That is the selling point, the thing that's gonna make it an impulse purchase. Uh because once there's no be-back, well in sales they always say you know, be-backs don't come back.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "If somebody says, oh I'll come back and get it next week you're dead. They're never gonna come back and buy it. You've gotta make it attractive enough so they buy it now now now w now is a big word in in my book for selling this thing. And, in order to make it really sellable we've gotta shorten the learning curve, make sure it's really intuitive and easy to use. We have to have as few buttons as possible, because more buttons is more confusion, so that's why I'm saying, simplicity is good. Finding it's important, obviously you can't use it if you can't find it. So we've gotta concentrate on the features that help you find it, and I've already said this several times but I put it down in writing here, it should be an attractive impulse purchase at twenty five Euros. So it has to have enough value that when somebody looks at it they say, uh twenty five Euros I'm not gonna take that. Has to be so great that they're gonna say, uh twenty five Euros isn't much. Um and then maybe a motto, like we put fashion in electronics might be something we can use in our marketing campaign.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Okay that's uh about it for me right now.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Okay. And uh who would be next, uh, I guess that would be you. Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah'kay.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "You want me to get your slide show up?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah yeah sure.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Thank you.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "And you are number three?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Number two,", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Number two.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "yeah. Yeah exactly.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Okay. Okay.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Uh can you make it uh full screen please?", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm. Yep.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "No, it's like a well you you have to press here. The cup cup shape here?", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah yeah, uh-huh.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "The thir third.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "There, mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah exactly. Uh so today I'm going to talk about the working design of the remote controller. Um can you go to the next sli slide please?", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "The metal is like uh in a remote controller you have a chip integrated circuit which is like a brain of the remote controller. It takes the power from a battery say a battery it it can be a elec an electric supply like you have to uh like uh switch connec connect connect your remote controller to uh power supply from the you know electricity or something like that. It should be a battery because uh uh remote controller should be like you you you should take it t to wherever you want and then um uh th", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "this integrated circuitry takes energy from the power source and whatever like if you press a button it's like a input for the remote controller and it takes the input and it it transforms into a infro infrared bits and it sends it into the device, like a T_V_ or a air conditioner, something like that so. Uh a remote controller is specifically designed to a single device. If you want to design it for multiple devices then you should make all the devices compatible with the frequency like uh th the remote controller it sends some bits some uh waves like with a particular frequency the device should know what the frequency is. It should re re recognise the uh waves which are coming from the remote controller and it should take the action like if you press a button channel or something like that then uh the remote uh remote controller will send a send a se send a signal,", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Signal.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "and the T_V_ it should translate that into like change the channel or something like that, change the volume control", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Receive.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "and uh so uh I think it's hard to design a remote controller for multiple uh devices.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Multi-purpose.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yo and it's.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah well that's already been eliminated by management, so we're off the hook.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "yeah but it's so.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Uh yeah..", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yep.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Um. So uh user interface controls the chip and accordingly the messages like there should be a user user in interface like you know switch pad or something like that buttons should be there. So uh you can control whatever you want, you want to change the channel you want to control the volume you you want to uh mute uh mute the uh T_V_ or you want to have a child lock or you want to do some operations there's a there should be some device to tell what to do to the uh in uh integrated circuit so that the integrated circuit can s send the signals and T_V_ can perform the actions.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Mm okay.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "So can you go to the next slide please?", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "So I I just would like to uh add some extra features to the remote controller um I think these are the very simple features and uh they don't take much uh uh much of the um um investment also,", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "it's like el the text or buttons which uh which are there on the uh remote controller they those we can make uh um like fluorescent uh they'll be like light emitting if it is dark so that you can find your remote controller if it is dark.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "And ther there should be a beep if many buttons are pressed if suppose a child is playing with the remote controller and a and she she or he is pressing the buttons all at the time then there should be a beep saying that it's this this is not a a you know a a action, there can be no action taking to that so. And there should be a child lock, like uh uh you should be able to lock your remote controller so that uh um whatever buttons are pressed by a child they can't be like y you i you if you have ki kids and all then they'll be pl playing with the remote controllers so can lock the remote controller. If make it useable for more than one device it's a it's hard but I think it's possible", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah well yeah well that has been e that has been eliminated, so that's that's unfortunately a moot point now. Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "but it uh", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Well we already eliminated that.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "yeah yeah yeah", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Eliminated.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "so it's it's okay, yeah, yeah. And uh different shapes that we can do like uh we can have you know a all animals shapes or you know comfortable uh whi which can fit into your hands", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "and um so that uh.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Now that's good from a marketing point of view, the fun the fun shape.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah, yeah, yeah and colours also, different colours, and.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah I.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm colours.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "And that you you say that won't add too much to the budget?", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "No no no, it won't uh I don't think it will be like,", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "To d the shape is uh.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "you can have you know for uh if you want ther there to be more.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "It just build a mould basically and uh you know.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yes exactly.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "It's it's just a s shape so it doesn't matter.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "As the budget we're looking at if you build one mould I don't think that's going to make a big difference whether it's gonna be square or.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Do you think there's any chance of um having ser in having basically the same machine with the same buttons but maybe several different shapes?", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah that is also possible I uh yeah I I yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Oh yes.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Is that gonna be a possible?", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yes.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "I think.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "'Cause that might help with the marketing.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "I think we will have to look at the budget on that", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah that will be.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "but I think in principle that that would be that would be kind of fun, you know.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Because we had something sort of sexy for adults and we could have something sort of", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Silly for children.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah, for children, yeah exactly.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "silly for children", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Like an animal or.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "or a little animal shape or in a or a little elephant so they can remember where it is..", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Like a doll, or.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah, that's what, yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah, exactly. Yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yes.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "And and the butto buttons also I think if you want to have more features in your remote controller then there should be more buttons. If there are more buttons then it will be more complicated. If you have less features then your remote controller won't be attractive, so I think uh we need to make some buttons which are which are like um uh f in uh in intended for two or three operations, like if you press one button in one mode then it will change the channel, if you press the other button in another mode it will change the colour. So if you want to have less buttons we can have that option but I think it will complicate the matter more I think so.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Mm. Well, I think I think that that's something that we'll have to discuss um with the User Interface person", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yes.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yep, yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "because I think there's a lot of argument to be made for one button for one feature. Because I think one of the things were complaining about in my what I found out in my research is when they complained about how hard it is to learn a new one.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "The changing modes was something.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah, it's like you know yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "I mean you and I, all f all four of us we work with computers all the time,", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah. Yeah, yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "changing modes is nothing for us, but people who.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah, a little elderly, a little arthritic hand you know,", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "N and.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "and and it's a small button and and it they don't press it exactly", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm. Yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "you know something else happens n not their favourite channel comes up but something else", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah, yes.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "and they're very frustrated you know.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Something else.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "And that's and that's the kind of thing people learn by feel, and um you don't feel the mode change.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah, yeah you don't us yeah yeah, usually. Yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "So um maybe having buttons be various shapes might be a help too.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah shapes also, different shapes.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "You know, like the a triangle is for the volume and a square is for changing channels, so that people can uh develop a tactile sense of it.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah that will Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Channels.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah. Yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Mm, mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah,", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "But we'll get to that with you.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yes.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "yeah, and also text should be very clear so that there there won't be any ambiguities and uh.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "That's right, yeah. Now that's a good point. Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yes.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "So yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "And uh display clock i if you want more features then we can display a clock it I I don't think it will take any money extra money because anyway we have an integrated circuit I think we can just definitely fit that feature into the circuit so it's.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah, that's that's a good that's a good one,", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm, mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah, and we display a clock.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "because the clock would be really friendly,", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yes.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "and and when is your favourite show coming on", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yes.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah, and then you can just see your remote controller yeah yeah yeah so.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah you're sitting there already or maybe you have no other uh.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yes.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "and Yeah, and a lot of time there's not a clock on the screen, and you have to go somewhere but you just wanna look at the news for a minute.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah that's that's good, the clock is good.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah. Uh can you go to the next slide please?", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Uh components uh the main components we need for uh it ha like buttons and uh underneath that there should be switch. And uh bulbs. Like uh we can have a bulb like whenever we are operating a remote controller or uh whenever the T_V_ is on suppose,", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Hmm.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "then the remote controller should automatically have a b s light.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Then it will be like if you switch on your T_V_ through anoth another source, not from through a remote remote controller and you you lost your remote controller maybe you can find with the light.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Maybe we can have that. Whenever the T_V_ is on, remote controller will have a light.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "And then uh infrared bulbs. Um this is like uh when it is dark.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah, mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "And battery, there should be a battery for power supply,", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "and a chip,", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "chip which is like a brain to the remote controller which does all the operations,", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "and wires connecting all chips, which is uh lights, everything,", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "so there should be wires. And uh uh of course there should be a case where we can keep all the things and, you know different shapes or whatever it is there should be a case to put to give a shape.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "To keep the remote? Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Case.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "A case holder. A holder remote holder.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah, holder.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Holder, yeah, mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Um uh can you move onto the next slide. Um next sli slide please. Um I have referred the site uh the homepage of the um our website, uh from where I have uh uh I got s few points.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "That's it, that's it from me now.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "So it um we should visit this site and have a look at uh what's up there? Or.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Um.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Well, you don't have to.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Uh it's not like that, I have referred the page to get new ideas or like what can be the working design to how it works and all and so and so.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Okay. Okay. So it might be helpful if we had a look at that.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah if you want. Yeah, it's okay.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Okay, thank you. Could you go back to that slide where she had that uh s slide up Betsy?", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Uh, it's actually there now, there on the screen.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "This one?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah, okay, thank you.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "And Francine?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Participant two.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "You are number two?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yes. No no, I'm three.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "You're three. Would you want it full full screen?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "I can make it full? Yes yes yes.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm? Okay.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Okay. As uh User Interface Designer I did a little research to find out what are the features which a user would like to have on their remote.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah can you please go onto the next slide?", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "So I found out that uh but uh the main purpose of a remote is to uh f control the function of a television at a far off distance at remote distance. Now for that, uh a remote controller should have a switch on off button by which a user can sit anywhere in the room in front of the T_V_ and he can control the functionalities different functionalities of the T_V_.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "There should be a signal uh something like a radio wave or a infrared light or a LED which can be used to change the different functionalities in the television if the user wants to uh change the channels or increase the volume he can change it.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Now there should be some timer to set for viewing a particular a particular programme or switching on and off a uh a particular programme according to the user choice.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "On the on on the remote. Yeah, mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yes. Yes. So if if he want to view a particular programme at say nine o'clock he can set the time, and the T_V_ will automatically it will switch on at that particular time.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm. Mm-hmm. Right. Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "So he can use that kind of uh uh properties of features and then there should be a child lock system if a particular channel is not to be viewed by a particular uh for a certain age, then the parents can lock that particular channel so that the ch children cannot view that channel.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yes. By your child, mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "And uh the uh the uh and the one of the feature a user would like to have is the compactness of the co remote.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Uh t the remote should be compact and it should ha it should have as many buttons as possible for controlling different functionalities of the T_V_ television. And um uh as uh uh this is my personal preference that it should be in the shape of a T_ in alphabet for more compactability.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "And uh and uh and it is one more point which I noted it down, like uh the material which which which is used for remotes should be human friendly it should not cause any skin disease or something some al allergy to either children or to um ad adult person.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm. Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm,'kay.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "And it should have an uh it can have an alarm clock a a person if some if somebody wants to get up at around eight eight P_M_ then he can set the time and it can be used as an alarm clock,", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "and I don't think it will cost much to set an alarm clock inside a remote.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah, sure.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "If there is a clock then there can be a alarm clock.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yes,", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "And an alarm clock, yeah that should that should be okay.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "and as John Reece said the buttons can be, uh can me we can use the fluorescence to light up the buttons so different uh buttons will glow differently. So in even in the dark the user can know what buttons to use to switch on a particular channel. And uh uh the design of the uh um remote should be in such a way that there should not be any sharp projections so that if a child plays with a remote, he uh he should not be harmed in any way.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Hmm.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "And findings, uh I found out uh y um on different sites that uh there are different remotes which can be used, there are remotes which use the infrared for controlling the different functionalities, there are remotes which use the radio waves to control the functions and there are uh So uh there you have different uh types of remotes for different light source which are used which can be used for controlling the different functionalities of a television. Next slide. And these are my few personal preferences like it can be used for a multipurpose use. Not, uh no uh like it can it can be used as a T_V_ control as plus an alarm clock to set an alarm a timing and it should have a child lock, and then to save electricity uh there should not be uh much s move uh lots of circuits and all that. And if a person if if if parents wants the television to be switched off by ten o'clock then it should be switched off ten o at ten o'clock automatically, so that nobody else comes later and use it.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "It's like a t okay, it's like a timer it's like a lock to the television.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Timer, yeah, mm-hmm, mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Timer. Yeah and then you can use a timer as well. Yes. Yeah that's it.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Uh okay, now I have On my slide show basically we already we have already done the agenda, and uh on the closing uh basically there will be lunch break and all that. However uh the decision we have to take in this meeting is who is our target group. And uh what function, working design, how how does it work.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "So these are the two things we should come up wit with. So uh the first thing is pro maybe a little easier on uh who is our target group. Um. I guess in many ways everybody. Everybody who has a T_V_.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm, T_V_, yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "T_V_ television we was.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah, and I think today there are probably not many people who don't have a T_V_.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Don't T_V_, yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "There are a few but in general not. Now, talking about the target group which is in a sense everybody, but I think within the target group we have subgroups. We have we have earlier it was mentioned about um for example elderly people who have limited function with their fingers and hands,", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "so I think that's uh one group that's certainly important.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Hmm.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Um then we have just the nervous people who can never press a little button on anything um unless it's really very clear.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "And uh I don't know how much we want to cater to children's use. I mean that's a question um whether that's important that children can really use it or not.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "So this these are just some thoughts I have on it, and um I dunno what you feel about whether we can just say we have one target group and for this one target group we're gonna design this one thing.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "or whether we're looking at what we like we we talking about different shapes, whether that different shape also includes maybe different uh buttons uh for different groups.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm. Well you know there's the old motto, children under six never shop alone.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "So if you've designed something that's very attractive to children um the mummy please mummy please um you know we want it now we wanna go to the store and see it um that has uh a lot of marketing pull.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "That has a lot of that has a lot of appeal but I think uh I'm I'm talking about the functionality now on it whether we're looking at different groups.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "I think the children issue can be addressed with the shape and with colours.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "You know, like you make it nice and pink, fluorescent, banana colour or whatever you know", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Different colours.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "That's right.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yes.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "You can make a banana shaped one..", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "yeah, for example you know.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah. Mm.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "But the question is really, who is our target group.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Do we look at one target group? And with the twenty five Euros you know can we can we afford to have uh I'm asking the technical people here whether um to look at sort of subgroups with maybe different buttons for each group how much would that throw us out of the cost we are supposed to respect?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Respect. Mm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Okay. No uh generally we can we can design a remote which is mainly for people with uh f age from ten to um forty", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "and and then we can add on uh specific functional buttons for children as well as the elderly people or the people wit with who have nervous problems, yes.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "With with Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "We can design different remotes for different people, like for aged people there will be big buttons and you know.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Well that's that's.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "But in a family in a family there will be a aged person, children and a middle aged but they cannot buy three different remotes.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "yeah. Children and everybody, yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "They would like to buy just one and um just one which can be used all the three uh.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah of course that we can do, but specifically if y if like elderly people want big buttons then you can't really make a bi big remote controller so maybe specifically you can design a big con remote controller for elderly and for children, like in a different you know.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "What about the electronics? That's not really gonna change much, is it?", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Cost effective.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "No, it it doesn't cost, yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "No.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "That that w that won't change much, will it uh?", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah. Doesn't doesn't doesn't matter.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "The the quest the question to be addressed here is only who is the target group and how will it function,", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "I d I wouldn't think so.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "and I think the how will it function is probably the question of the buttons you know, within the target group or subgroups.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm. Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "The question is only whether our budget will allow to have more than one design in a sense. I mean the basic design I understand will be the same,", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "but the question is how much will that set us back if let's say uh forty percent we make large buttons and the rest we make regular buttons for example.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah..", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "So that remains to s to be seen but uh the target group as a whole is is basically everybody with a T_V_.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "That's right,", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yes.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "and can we can we is it even feasible to make one one remote control with something for everyone, or would we have to use the same electronics and make three different shapes?", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah, well that's that's the question.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Um the same electronics and basically all that's gonna be different is the plastic case.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Hmm hmm.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "And in that case we could probabl moulded plastic isn't all that expensive is it?", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Uh no. Mm, I I I don't think no. It's not.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Um you as an industrial person?", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Well maybe there's there's an idea you know t the new for example new portable phones?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "They have like removable plastic cases, so you can have a striped one or you can have a fluorescent blue one, or whatever,", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah. Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "and maybe something like that,", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "that in each package you know you have you you have you have for example uh you have let's say a fluorescent blue on it but then you have uh another colour or stripe whatever that already comes in a package.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Well there's a real idea yeah. Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Hmm.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "And then if people really want more colours they can buy it separately.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "You know,", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah, like for mobile phones we have uh different you know covers, like designs and all so that w we can have that.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Um.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "yes.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "That's right,", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yes.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "and but like if if then everybody is is is tired of the fluorescent blue and of the striped or whatever they have as another one in the package,", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Uh yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "then they can go to the store and for a few uh Francs or Euros whatever they can buy", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "An alternate package.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "an alternate package with another two colours in it you know for example you know.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah. Okay.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "But uh yeah I I have a doubt like will it be cost wise effective if we if we design a remote having all the uh different features for different people or designing three different um remotes for three different categories of people.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Well I think I think the idea here is to uh to to d design one remote", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah, but uh.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Well I think we can only aff, yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "and what the only change is gonna be um", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "the funct d t yeah uh.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Cosmetic.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Of th okay.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "the functional functional cosmetics if you want to put it that way,", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "um having maybe larger buttons or buttons that light up or buttons that are slightly differently shaped for people uh either for children um.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Five minutes that was I guess tha that's the old message.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Warning, finish meeting now..", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Finish meeting now. Um um.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Well we may have to come back to one or two of these points at our next meeting but um.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah, maybe, yeah, yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "But I think.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "If we do some more research, maybe we.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "I I think to sum it up the target group is basically everybody. If money permits we can address some features for some subgroups within that.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Okay,", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Hmm yeah,", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Do we agree, do we?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "I think maybe seventy percent is a unique uh uh remote controller and thirty percent is yeah it's sort of like yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Okay but we have to l", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Do we agree on on that in principle, like money will tell whether we will be able to do that or not.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah, yeah, of course, yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yes.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Okay, fair enough.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Okay? 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And I'm uh an user interface my role is uh the main responsibility is user interface.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "And my role is to design uh a television remote control.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm. Okay.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "And I'm a marketing person. I wanna figure out how to sell them.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm. And your name is?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "My name is Eileen.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah. Uh I'm Jeanne-Oui. Um uh my role is industrial designer and my responsibilities are uh uh um deal with the technical-functional designs and specifications of user interface and dealing with user interface design.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Very good. And as you already know I am Betty. I am the project manager for today. So why don't we look at the presentation to see what we really are supposed to do. Um.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yes y opening, acquaintance, tool training well, the tools are, I think, we already I guess the tool is really our the computer, as far as I can see.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Uh we get ins each of us will get instructions and we'll take it from there. Project plan, that falls under the same heading pretty much. Um, I don't think we have any great discussion at this point.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "No.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Um. Here is what this thing should be. This thing we are gonna um uh design is a new remote control. Uh should be original, trendy, and, of course, user friendly.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm..", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "So maybe you wanna make some notes of that.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Okay?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "All right. Here is what the functional design is supposed to achieve. Um. That is it's gonna be individual work and then at the meeting we'll discuss what uh we have come up with. The same goes for the conceptual design, there will be individual work whic and then discussion afterwards. Detailed design, same thing basically.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm'kay so Three different types of design that we're gonna be concerned with okay.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm. Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Functional, conception and detailed.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "I can't write with this thing..", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Maybe we should redesign it..", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yes..", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "After we've finished the remote control we'll get to that.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah, okay. All right? Then, tool training try out the white board, participant can draw their favourite animal. Does anybody want to go and see how the white board works? So that in case we have to, in the next meeting, present something on the white board. You wanna go Eileen and.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Okay, I'll see what I can do.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Whether you without hanging yourself..", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "See if I r See if I remember how to draw a kitty cat or a rabbit or something..", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "And remember you have to press so it works.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "So that it will record okay.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Um uh um traditional kitty cat.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Fat, a fat cat..", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "I've a very fat cat.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "And it likes to sit like that.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "And you're Francine, right? Would you like s like just to see um how it feels, so that you have a little idea?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yes, I'm Francina. Yes, sure..", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "In.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Am I supposed to wipe off that or.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "No, no. No, that's okay.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "No, Okay.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "okay.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "I don't know, we'll get to that later.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "What should I draw?.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Snake.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "I'm going to draw a snake..", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "How does it look like?.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Uh, okay.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "I hope the kitty cat is hungry'cause I don't like snakes..", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Here's the project finance uh which, of course, we all have to think about when we design this thing. Um selling price is supposed to be twenty five Euro. Uh profit aim for the company is fifty million Euro,", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm..", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "the market range unlimited meaning international", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "and the production cost should not exceed hopefully should be less than twelve fifty Euro.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm'kay that should keep everybody on their toes and challenged.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Profit. Um is fifty mm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "So these are all things, of course, to remember with the budget and when you design to materials, cost, etcetera. Now, uh the discussion I guess is um does anyone of you have experience with remote control?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Oops.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "I exp I s'cause we we use'em we use'em, right, everyday.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah, of course, using remote control. Yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yes.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "And um now having used a remote control for years does anybody already have like an idea like things you didn't like with it, things you would like to change, things you would like to improve with this thing ye any first ideas? Would you like it to be smaller, bigger,", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Uh.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "have more have more buttons on it or maybe clearly better marked buttons, you know, things like that?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah, I.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yes, I I feel that all the remote should be very compact.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Small, right. Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah, those which we get here nowadays it's very long.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "And um and it should have multi-purpose. Like uh the remote control which we use for T_V_, it shou uh it should be used f uh for some other purpose also, like controlling the uh temperature inside the house or for air-conditioners, or for heating system.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Audio player. Oh. Okay.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "So it should be a multi-functional uh gadget that would um control all your household uh uh machines basically.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yes, exactly Yes.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Hmm.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yes.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Divides us.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah. Exactly.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah. Yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "At um twelve fifty Euros per.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Well.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Well who knows if we get a really good designer maybe we can do that.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "We certainly can try to I agree with her that to market something successfully it should do some more things.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "It should be something new it should be s it it should do something different than than just what we have.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "That's right.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Now, of course, the other thing to think there is maybe the design.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah, of course.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah, design should be, yeah it should be different. All the almost all the remotes.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Like trendy no like f for earlier we saw maybe it should be something trendy you know. Maybe it should different colours or materials or you know.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yes, exactly.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah, maybe ten I do yeah, colours", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Are different shapes.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "and al shapes also. Yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yes.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Um so yeah shapes right, you know, like kidney shape feels better in your hand or something, you know.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yes.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah of course yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah okay, friendly shape, that would help.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "I think another thing that would help is um if it beeps when you clap,", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yes.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "because I think one of the big things that happens is people lose them. They can't find it.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "That is true,", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "because they put a newspaper or they put it behind a plant or, we you know, whatever.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah..", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "And and they suddenly the phone rings and they want to turn the T_V_ off and they say, where the hell is my my remote control yeah?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Well or yeah or if it's really, if it's really in a dark spot that it gives out a a sound or a signal.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "So some.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah, some beep or something like that,", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah. Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Or a b", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Uh so, so it's really the beep or, or a light should blink.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "so that we can go.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "So if lost If lost uh signal with b throw signal, you know.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Should ha", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "A fluorescent signal, yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Mm'kay.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah, maybe it should have a light so that we can, we can just recognise where it is.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Exactly, I mean just that's what I'm saying.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah, yeah. May not be beep.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "I'm just saying throw signal meaning just whether it's a beep or whether a light or.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Beep or uh it's a light, maybe it's a light.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "And do you think a good c c um clue for that is that it would respond to a clap or it would respond to your voice or it would respond what what should you have to do to make it beep or blink?", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Okay, my my idea is maybe that the minute it's really hidden, in in other words if it's like in a dark spot, uh meaning you know like a newspaper is on top, a sweater is on top or it it's behind a plant, at that moment it's it's like, it's like um, what you call it a light s sensors, you know?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm. Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "In in that moment it has a sensor, i it it gets a certain darkness, it ge has a sensor and it gives out a signal whether that be a light signal or a beep,", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Okay so.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yes.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "I mean, that we can discuss that later, you know.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah, probably yeah, probably it's a yeah, yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah. And uh.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "So the light sensor would activate the signal.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "That's right. You know there would be.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "right you have to have some kind of sensor and I I think uh voice or clapping it's not specific enough. Uh I know there are the lamps and stuff, you know, you can clap on and off,", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yes.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "but I think they only work to certain degree and.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "But it could be someplace really obvious and you still wouldn't be able to find it.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "What with.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah, of course, that didn't.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Then, in that case.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Well, because you're s because you're silly. Because people are silly.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "I i we can't do it.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Oh yeah well, but then those people we can't help everybody..", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "I mean it could be on well, i if it were like on top of your bookcase and you usually kept it on the coffee table", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "um,", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Okay we have uh.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "you know, well maybe we have to move along, okay.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "yeah, we have to move along, but I think we have some good good points to start with here.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah, good point.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Okay, the next meeting will be in thirty minutes. I think you all did you get uh notices on your computer for this? Okay so well, you got the notice um", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Me yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yes.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "uh. The working design, I guess that's the function I_D_ uh who is this? The industrial designer That's you.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah. Yeah, it's functional de yeah, exactly, technical.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Okay. So, we looking for a working design when we come back.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Uh working design, yeah, it's it's uh mainly technical-functional design.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Then And then the technical funct you are the technical function,", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah, functional design,", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "so so you are the working design.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "and you.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "So you have a working design and then a functional design.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "And the marketing manager is coming up with some user requirement specification, like friendliness, and what we just discussed in general. That would be your idea. And, of course, price. 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I thought you did that on purpose.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "Roll call.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "But anyway, shall we do the roll call?", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "No, not a No, I just My mind went elsewhere. So, uh, yeah, I'm Morgan, and where am I? I'm on channel three.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "And I'm Adam Janin on channel A.", "speakerName": "Grad G" }, { "text": "I'm Jane Edwards, I think on channel B.", "speakerName": "Postdoc H" }, { "text": "I'm Dan Ellis.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Eric on channel nine.", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "Liz, on channel one.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Mari on channel zero.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "Katrin on channel two.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Should we have used pseudo - names? Should we do it a second time with pseudo No. No.", "speakerName": "Postdoc H" }, { "text": "I'm Rocky Raccoon on channel.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "Let me, uh, turn that off.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "And, uh, do you want to do the P D As and the P Z", "speakerName": "Grad G" }, { "text": "Oh. PZM nearest, nearest, next nearest. Next one.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Next nearest.", "speakerName": "Postdoc H" }, { "text": "Furthest.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Far.", "speakerName": "Grad G" }, { "text": "PDM - right, PZA - right PDA - right, PDA - left.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "OK.", "speakerName": "Postdoc H" }, { "text": "Thanks.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Yeah, and eventually once this room gets a little more organized, the Jimlets will be mounted under the table, and these guys will be permanently mounted somehow. You know, probably with double - sided tape, but So. You So we won't have to go through that.", "speakerName": "Grad G" }, { "text": "Hmm.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "I have a question on protocol in these meetings, which is when you say \" Jimlet \" and the person listening won't know what that is, sh shou How how do we get Is that important information? You know, the Jimlet I mean, the box that contains the.", "speakerName": "Postdoc H" }, { "text": "Well, I mean, suppose we broaden out and go to a range of meetings besides just these internal ones. There's gonna be lots of things that any group of people who know each other have in column common that we will not know.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Postdoc H" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "OK.", "speakerName": "Postdoc H" }, { "text": "So the there will be jargon that we he There'll be transcription errors.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "Good.", "speakerName": "Postdoc H" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "OK.", "speakerName": "Postdoc H" }, { "text": "I mean, we we were originally gonna do this with VLSI design, and and and the reason we didn't go straight to that was because immediately ninety percent of what we heard would be jargon to to us. So.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "Well, that was just one of the reasons. But, yeah, definitely.", "speakerName": "Grad G" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "OK. Good.", "speakerName": "Postdoc H" }, { "text": "That that's right. There were others of course. Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "OK, so we were on the data collection and the summary issue.", "speakerName": "Postdoc H" }, { "text": "Right. We can go back.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "So, uh, u u So, actually there's kind of three issues. There's the CrossPad issue. Should we do it and, if so, what'll we have them do? Um, do we have s people write summaries? Everybody or one person? And then, do we ask people for how they would query things? Is that.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "There's there're sub - problems in that, in that where or when do you actually ask them about that?", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "I mean, that was One thing I was thinking about was is that Dan said earlier that, you know, maybe two weeks later, which is when you would want to query these things, you might ask them then.", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "But there's a problem with that in that if you're not If you don't have an interactive system, it's gonna be hard to go beyond sort of the first level of question.", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "Right. And furth id explore the data further.", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "So.", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "There's there's another problem", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "And.", "speakerName": "Grad G" }, { "text": "which is, um, we certainly do want to branch out beyond, uh, uh, recording meetings about Meeting Recorder. And, uh, once we get out beyond our little group, the people's motivation factor, uh, reduces enormously. And if we start giving them a bunch of other things to do, how you know, we we did n you know another meeting here for another group and and, uh, they were fine with it. But if we'd said, \" OK, now all eight of you have to have to come up with, uh, the summar \"", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "Well, I asked them to and none of them did.", "speakerName": "Grad G" }, { "text": "t See? There we go.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "So, I I asked them to send me ideas for queries after the meeting", "speakerName": "Grad G" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Postdoc H" }, { "text": "They.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "and no one ever did.", "speakerName": "Grad G" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "I didn't follow up either.", "speakerName": "Grad G" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "So I didn't track them down and say \" please do th do it now \". But, uh, no one spontaneously provided anything.", "speakerName": "Grad G" }, { "text": "I I'm worried that if you did even if you did push them into it, it it it might be semi - random,", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "uh, as opposed to what you'd really want to know if you were gonna use this thing.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "OK.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "I just don't know how else to generate the queries other than getting an expert to actually listen to the meeting and say \" that's important, that might be a query \".", "speakerName": "Grad G" }, { "text": "Tsk. Well, there is this other thing which y which you were alluding to earlier, which is, um, there are certain key words like, you know, \" action item \" and things like that, which could be used in, uh, t to some degree finding the structure.", "speakerName": "Postdoc H" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "Although.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "W", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "And and I also, um, was thinking, with reference to the n uh, note - taking, the advantage there is that you get structure without the person having to do something artificial later. And the fir third thing I wanted to say is the summaries afterwards, um, I think they should be recorded instead of written because I think that, um, it would take so long for people to write that I think you wouldn't get as good a summary.", "speakerName": "Postdoc H" }, { "text": "How about this idea? That normally at most meetings somebody is delegated to be a note - taker.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "Yeah, good. Good point.", "speakerName": "Postdoc H" }, { "text": "And So why don't we just use the notes that somebody takes?", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Postdoc H" }, { "text": "I mean, that gives you a summary but it doesn't really How do you generate queries from that?", "speakerName": "Grad G" }, { "text": "Well. But, I mean, maybe a summary is one of the things we'd want from the output of the system.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Postdoc H" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "Right? I mean, they're something. It's a a kind of output you'd like.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Actually And so.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Uh, James and I were talking about this during one of the breaks. And the problem with that is, I'm definitely going to do something with information retrieval even if it's sort of not full full - bore what I'm gonna do for my thesis.", "speakerName": "Grad G" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "I'm gonna do something. I'm not gonna do anything with summarization. And so if someone wants to do that, that's fine, but it's not gonna be me.", "speakerName": "Grad G" }, { "text": "Well, I think that we I mean, the the f the core thing is that you know once we get some of these issues nailed down, we need to do a bunch of recordings", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "Well.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "and send them off to IBM and get a bunch of transcriptions even if they're slightly flawed", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "Yep.", "speakerName": "Grad G" }, { "text": "or need some other And then we'll have some data there.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "And then, i i we can start l looking and thinking, what do we want to know about these things and at the very least.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "I actually want to say something about the note pad. So, if you could sense just when people are writing, and you tell them not to doodle, or try not to be using that for other purposes, and each person has a note pad. They just get it when they come in the room. Then you c you can just have a fff plot of wh you know, who's writing when.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Hmm.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "That's all you.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Activity. Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "And, you can also have notes of the meeting. But I bet that's that will allow you to go into the sort of the hot places where people are writing things down.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "Oh, I see.", "speakerName": "Grad G" }, { "text": "I mean, you can tell when you're in a meeting when everybody stops to write something down that something was just said.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "It may not be kept in the later summary, but at that point in time is was something that was important.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Postdoc H" }, { "text": "And that wouldn't take any extra.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "That's a nice idea.", "speakerName": "Postdoc H" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "Or someone could just pu you could just put your hand on the pad", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "It.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "and go like that if you want to. It's.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "That's a good idea but that doesn't Maybe I'm missing something, but that doesn't get to the question of how we come up with queries, right?", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "Well, what it does.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "Well, then you can go to the points where the you could actually go to those points in time and find out what they were talking about. And you r", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Well, what it does is provide a different.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "And.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Uh, y", "speakerName": "Grad G" }, { "text": "I I think it's an interesting thing. I don't think it gets at the the queries per - se, but it does give us an information fusion sort of thing that, you know, you wanna i say \" what were the hot - points of the meeting? \"", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "That that's what I mean, is that I think it gets at something interesting but if we were asking the question, which I thought we were, of of of, um, \" how do we figure out what's the nature of the queries that people are gonna want to ask of such a system? \", knowing what's important doesn't tell you what people are going to be asking.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "But I bet it's a good superset of it.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Does it?", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "Well, yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "Well, see, there are th", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "I think you could say they're gonna ask about, uh, when uh, when did so - and - so s talk about blah. And at least that gives you the word that they might run a query on.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "At least you can find the locations where there are maybe keywords", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Maybe.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "I mean, i this would tell you what the hit is,", "speakerName": "Grad G" }, { "text": "and.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "not what the query is.", "speakerName": "Grad G" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "Right, right.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "What.", "speakerName": "Grad G" }, { "text": "It'll tell you the hit but not the query.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "But I think I think thinking about queries is a little bit dangerous right now.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "And so you could you can generate a query from the hits,", "speakerName": "Grad G" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "but.", "speakerName": "Grad G" }, { "text": "We don't even know what I mean, if you want to find out what any user will use, that might be true for one domain and one user,", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "but I mean a different domain and a different user.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Postdoc H" }, { "text": "Yeah, but we're just looking for a place to start with that", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "Um.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "because, you know, th what what what James is gonna be doing is looking at the user - interface and he's looking at the query in in i We we have five hours of pilot data of the other stuff but we have zero hours of of of queries. So he's just sort of going \" where where do I where do I start? \"", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "w Well, th you could do I think the summaries actually may help get us there,", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "OK.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "for a couple reasons. One, if you have a summary if you have a bunch of summaries, you can do a word frequency count and see what words come up in different types of meetings.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "So \" action item \" is gonna come up whether it's a VLSI meeting, or speech meeting, or whatever. So words that come up in different types of meetings may be something that you would want to query about.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Grad G" }, { "text": "Um, the second thing you could possibly do with it is just run a little pilot experiment with somebody saying \" here's a summary of a meeting, what questions might you want to ask about it to go back? \"", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "Yeah, I think that's difficult because then they're not gonna ask the questions that are in the summary.", "speakerName": "Grad G" }, { "text": "Well.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "But, I think it would give.", "speakerName": "Grad G" }, { "text": "That's one possi one possible scenario, though, is you have the summary,", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Grad G" }, { "text": "and you want to ask questions to get more detail.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "th Yeah, I think it has to be a participant. Well, it doesn't have to be. OK. So that that is another use of Meeting Recorder that we haven't really talked about, which is for someone else, as opposed to as a remembrance agent, which is what had been my primary thought in the information retrieval part of it would be. But, uh, I guess if you had a meeting participant, they could use the summary to refresh themselves about the meeting and then make up queries. But it's not.", "speakerName": "Grad G" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "I don't know how to do it if until you have a system.", "speakerName": "Grad G" }, { "text": "The summary is actually gonna drive the queries then.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Mmm.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "I mean, your research is going to be very circular.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "Yeah, that that's what I was saying.", "speakerName": "Grad G" }, { "text": "But th there is this, um There is this class of queries, which are the things that you didn't realize were important at the time but some in retrospect you think \" oh, hang on, didn't we talk about that? \" And it's something that didn't appear in the summary but you.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "And that's kind of what this kind of, uh, complete data capture is kind of nicest for.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Right. Right.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Cuz it's the things that you wouldn't have bothered to make an effort to record but they get recorded. So, I mean And th there's no way of generating those, u u until we just until they actually occur.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "But you could always post - hoc label them.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "You know, it's like Right, right. Exactly.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Yeah. Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "But I mean, it's difficult to sort of say \" and if I was gonna ask four questions about this, what would they be? \" Those aren't the kind of things that come up.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "But at least it would get us started.", "speakerName": "Grad G" }, { "text": "Oh, yeah. Yeah, sure.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "I also think that w if if you can use the summaries as an indication of the important points of the of the meeting, then you might get something like y So if th if the obscure item you want to know more about was some form of data collection, you know, maybe the summary would say, you know, \" we discussed types of na data collection \". And, you know And and maybe you could get to it by that. If you if you had the the larger structure of the of the discourse, then if you can categorize what it is that you're looking for with reference to those l those larger headings, then you can find it even if you don't have a direct route to that.", "speakerName": "Postdoc H" }, { "text": "Mmm. Although it seems like that's, um, a high burden on the note - taker.", "speakerName": "Grad G" }, { "text": "I think that.", "speakerName": "Postdoc H" }, { "text": "That's a pretty fine grain that the note - taker will have to take.", "speakerName": "Grad G" }, { "text": "Maybe Landay can put a student in to be a note - taker.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "I th No. I think you got to have somebody who knows the pro knows the topic or you know, whose job it is delegated to be the note - taker.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "No?", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "Somebody who's part of the meeting.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "No, I mean, but someone who can come sit in on the meetings and then takes the notes with them that the real note - taker.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "But they.", "speakerName": "Grad G" }, { "text": "And that way that one student has, you know, a rough idea of what was going on, and they can use it for their research. I mean, this isn't really necessarily what you would do in a real system,", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Grad G" }, { "text": "because that that's a lot of trouble", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "and maybe it's not the best way to do it. But if he has some students that want to study that then they should sort of get to know the people and attend those meetings,", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "and get the notes from the note - taker or something.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "Grad G" }, { "text": "Hmm.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "Well, I think that's a little bit of a problem. Their sort of note - taking application stuff they've been doing for the last couple of years, and I don't think anyone is still working on it.", "speakerName": "Grad G" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "I think they're done. Um, so I'm not sure that they have anyone currently working on notes. So what we'd have to interest someone in is the combination of note and speech.", "speakerName": "Grad G" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "And so the question is \" is there such a person? \" And I think right now, the answer is \" no \".", "speakerName": "Grad G" }, { "text": "Well", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "I've b been thinking.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "We'll just have to see.", "speakerName": "Grad G" }, { "text": "I've been thinking about it a little bit here about the uh, th this, e um I think that the now I'm thinking that the summary a summary, uh, is actually a reasonable, uh, bootstrap into this into what we'd like to get at. It's it's not ideal, but we you know, we we have to get started someplace. So I was I was just thinking about, um, suppose we wanted to get w We have this collection of meeting. We have five hours of stuff. Uh, we get that transcribed. So now we have five hours of meetings and, uh, you ask me, uh, uh, \" Morgan, what d you know, what kind of questions do you want to ask? \" Uh, I wouldn't have any idea what kind of questions I want to ask. I'd have to get started someplace. So in fact if I looked at summary of it, I'd go \" oh, yeah, I was in that meeting, I remember that, um, what was the part that \" And and th I think that might then help me to think of things even things that aren't listed in the summary, but just as a as a as a refresh of what the general thing was going on in the meeting.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Grad G" }, { "text": "I think it serves two purpo purposes. One, as sort of a refresh to help bootstrap queries,", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm. Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "but also, I mean, maybe we do want to generate summaries. And then it's you know, it's kind of a key.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "Well, yeah. That's true too.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "Hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Yeah, absolutely. Then you want to have it.", "speakerName": "Grad G" }, { "text": "Uh.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "So how does the summary get generated?", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Well, i i?", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "I'm not against the idea of a summary,", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "By hand.", "speakerName": "Grad G" }, { "text": "but I wanted to think carefully about who's generating it", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Or, d o", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "and how because the summary will drive the queries.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "What I I think, you know, in most meetings,", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "So.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "this one being different, but in most meetings that I attend, there's somebody t explicitly taking notes, frequently on a laptop Um, you can just make it be on a laptop,", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "so then yo you're dealing with ASCII and not somebody you don't have to go through handwriting recognition. Um, and then they post - edit it into, uh, a summary and they email it out for minutes. I mean, that happens in most meetings.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "I I I think that, um, there's we're using \" summary \" in two different ways. So what you just described I would describe as \" minutes \".", "speakerName": "Postdoc H" }, { "text": "Minutes.", "speakerName": "Grad G" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "And what I originally thought was, um, if you asked someone \" what was the meeting about? \"", "speakerName": "Postdoc H" }, { "text": "OK.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Hmm.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "And then they would say \" well, we talked about this and then we talked about that, and so - and - so talked about \" And then you'd have, like I e My thought was to have multiple people summarize it, on recording rather than writing because writing takes time and you get irrelevant other things that u take time, that.", "speakerName": "Postdoc H" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "Whereas if you just say it immediately after the meeting, you know, a two - minute summary of what the meeting was about, I think you would get, uh, with mult See, I I also worry about having a single note - taker because that's just one person's perception. And, um, you know, it it's releva it's relative to what you're focus was on that meeting,", "speakerName": "Postdoc H" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "and and people have different major topics that they're interested in.", "speakerName": "Postdoc H" }, { "text": "A", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "So, my proposal would be that it may be worth considering both of those types, you know, the note - taking and a spontaneous oral summary afterwards,", "speakerName": "Postdoc H" }, { "text": "OK.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "no longer than two minutes,", "speakerName": "Postdoc H" }, { "text": "Adam, you can.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "from multiple people.", "speakerName": "Postdoc H" }, { "text": "you can correct me on this,", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Postdoc H" }, { "text": "but but, uh, my impression was that, uh, pretty much, uh, true that the meetings here, nobody sits with a w uh, with a laptop", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "Never.", "speakerName": "Grad G" }, { "text": "and.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "Never. I've never seen it at ICSI. Does anyone?", "speakerName": "Grad G" }, { "text": "Dan?", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "I", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "I mean, Dan is the one who who most frequently would take notes,", "speakerName": "Grad G" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "and.", "speakerName": "Grad G" }, { "text": "I've d When we when we have other meetings. When I have meetings on the European projects, we have someone taking notes.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Oh, really?", "speakerName": "Grad G" }, { "text": "Yeah, but those are bigger deal things.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "In fact, I often do it.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Right? Where you've got fifteen peo", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "I mean, most th this is one of the larger meetings. Most of the meetings we have are four or five people", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "That's true are four or five people.", "speakerName": "Grad G" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "and you're not you don't have somebody sitting and taking minutes for it.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "You just get together and talk about where you are.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "So, I think it depends on whether it's a business meeting or a technical discussion.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "Culture.", "speakerName": "Grad G" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "And I agree,", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "technical discussions you don't usually have somebody taking notes.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "Yeah. Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "The IRAM meeting, they they take notes every.", "speakerName": "Grad G" }, { "text": "Do they?", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "There's uh a person with a laptop at each meeting.", "speakerName": "Grad G" }, { "text": "How many people are those meetings?", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "There are more. I mean, there are ten - ish.", "speakerName": "Grad G" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Y you should also have a record of what's on the board.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "They're very sparse.", "speakerName": "Grad G" }, { "text": "I mean, I find it very hard to reconstruct what's going on. I I don't know how.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Yeah. This is something early in the project we talked a lot about.", "speakerName": "Grad G" }, { "text": "I don't know how, but for instance, I mean, the outline is sort of up here and that's what people are seeing. And if you have a Or you shou could tell people not to to use the boards. But there's sort of this missing information otherwise.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "We sh we should.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "I agree, but but you you just you g end up with video,", "speakerName": "Grad G" }, { "text": "I agree.", "speakerName": "Postdoc H" }, { "text": "Well, I don't know.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "and and instrumented rooms. And that's a different project, I think.", "speakerName": "Grad G" }, { "text": "f u I think for this data capture, it would be nice to have a digital camera", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Yeah, different.", "speakerName": "Grad G" }, { "text": "Uh, y", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "just to take pictures of who's there, where the microphones are, and then we could also put in what's on the board. You know, like three or four snaps for every.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "I agree.", "speakerName": "Postdoc H" }, { "text": "Yeah. People who were never at the meeting will have a very hard time understanding it otherwise.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "for every meeting.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "That's wonderful.", "speakerName": "Postdoc H" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "But don't you think that's Don't you think that But.", "speakerName": "Grad G" }, { "text": "I agree.", "speakerName": "Postdoc H" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Even people who were at the meeting.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Well, no. I mean, I I just think I mean, I think that right now we don't make a record of where people are sitting on the tables.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "Huh.", "speakerName": "Grad G" }, { "text": "And that the at some point that might be awfully useful.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Right. But I think adding photographs adds a whole nother level of problems.", "speakerName": "Grad G" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Postdoc H" }, { "text": "Mmm.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "Yeah. We n uh,", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "It's just a digital record.", "speakerName": "Postdoc H" }, { "text": "Not not as part of the not as a part of the data that you have to recover.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "I don't mean that you model it.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Just just in terms of.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "We should just Like archiving it or storing it.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Yes, I agree. I agree.", "speakerName": "Postdoc H" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "It's i because discourse is about things,", "speakerName": "Postdoc H" }, { "text": "Because someone.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "and then you have the things that are about, and it's recoverable.", "speakerName": "Postdoc H" }, { "text": "someone later might be able to take these and say \" OK, they, you know at least these are the people who were there", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "So.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "and here's sort of what they started talking about, and \" and just.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Yes. And it's so simple.", "speakerName": "Postdoc H" }, { "text": "Li", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "Like you said, three snapshots", "speakerName": "Postdoc H" }, { "text": "uh, L L L", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "and.", "speakerName": "Postdoc H" }, { "text": "Liz, you.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "Just to archive.", "speakerName": "Postdoc H" }, { "text": "u uh, Liz, you sa you sat in on the, uh, subcommittee meeting or whatever.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "Actually.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "uh, on you on the subcommittee meeting for for at the, uh that workshop we were at that, uh, uh, Mark Liberman was was having. So I I wasn't there. They they they they h must have had some discussion about video and the visual aspect, and all that.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "Big, big interest. Huge.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "I mean, it personally, I don't I would never want to deal with it. But I'm just saying first of all there's a whole bunch of fusion issues that DARPA's interested in.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Yeah. Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "You know, fusing gesture and face recognition,", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "even lip movement and things like that, for this kind of task. And there's also I think a personal interest on the part of Mark Liberman in this kind of in storing these images in any data we collect", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "so that later we can do other things with it.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Yeah. So so to address what what Adam's saying,", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "Mmm. Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Postdoc H" }, { "text": "And.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "I mean, I think you uh, that the key thing there is that this is a description of database collection effort that they're talking about doing.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Grad G" }, { "text": "And if the database exists and includes some visual information that doesn't mean that an individual researcher is going to make any use of it. Right?", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Postdoc H" }, { "text": "So, uh.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "But that it's gonna be a lot of effort on our part to create it, and store it, and get all the standards, and to do anything with it.", "speakerName": "Grad G" }, { "text": "Right. So we're gonna So we're gonna do what we're gonna do, whatever's reasonable for us.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Grad G" }, { "text": "I think even doing something very crude.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "But having.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "Like I know with ATIS, we just had a tape recorder running all the time.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Grad G" }, { "text": "And later on it turned out it was really good that you had a tape recorder of what was happening, even though you w you just got the speech from the machine. So if you can find some really, you know, low, uh, perplexity,", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Low fidelity.", "speakerName": "Grad G" }, { "text": "yeah, way of of doing that, I think it would be worthwhile.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Grad G" }, { "text": "I agree. And if it's simple as I mean, as simple as just the digital.", "speakerName": "Postdoc H" }, { "text": "Otherwise you'd you lose it.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Well, minimally, I mean, what what Dan is referring to at least having some representation of the p the spatial position of the people,", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Postdoc H" }, { "text": "cuz we are interested in some spatial processing.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Postdoc H" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "And so.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "Grad G" }, { "text": "so, um.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "Well, once the room is a little more fixed that's a little easier", "speakerName": "Grad G" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "cuz you'll.", "speakerName": "Grad G" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "Well, the wireless.", "speakerName": "Grad G" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "But.", "speakerName": "Grad G" }, { "text": "Also CMU has been doing this and they were the most vocal at this meeting, Alex Waibel's group. And they have said, I talked to the student who had done this, that with two fairly inexpensive cameras they they just recorded all the time", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "and were able to get all the information from or maybe it was three from all the parts of the room. So I think we would be we might lose the chance to use this data for somebody later who wants to do some kind of processing on it if we don't collect it at all.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Yeah. I I I don't disagree. I think that if you have that, then people who are interested in vision can use this database. The problem with it is you'll have more people who don't want to be filmed than who don't want to be recorded.", "speakerName": "Grad G" }, { "text": "Mmm.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "So that there's going to be another group of people who are gonna say \" I won't participate \".", "speakerName": "Grad G" }, { "text": "Well, she's not making.", "speakerName": "Postdoc H" }, { "text": "That's true.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "Or you could put a paper bag over everybody's head", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Um.", "speakerName": "Grad G" }, { "text": "and not look at each other and not look at boards, and just all be sitting talking.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Uh - huh.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "That would be an interes Bu", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Well.", "speakerName": "Postdoc H" }, { "text": "Great idea.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "Well, there's that'd be the the parallel, yeah. But I think y she's we're just proposing a minimal preservation of things on boards,", "speakerName": "Postdoc H" }, { "text": "Yeah. I definitely won't participate if there's a camera.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "sp spatial organization And you could anonymize the faces for that matter. You know, I mean, this is.", "speakerName": "Postdoc H" }, { "text": "But, you know, that's a lot of infrastructure and work.", "speakerName": "Grad G" }, { "text": "We can talk about the.", "speakerName": "Postdoc H" }, { "text": "To set it up and then anonymize it?", "speakerName": "Grad G" }, { "text": "It's just one snapshot.", "speakerName": "Postdoc H" }, { "text": "No, it wa n not, um.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "No, no, no, no.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "We're not talking about a movie.", "speakerName": "Postdoc H" }, { "text": "So.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "Not for not for CMU.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "We're talking about a snapshot.", "speakerName": "Postdoc H" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Grad G" }, { "text": "They have a pretty crude set - up. And they had.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Grad G" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Postdoc H" }, { "text": "they just turn on these cameras. They were they were not moving or anything.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Couldn't find it?", "speakerName": "Grad G" }, { "text": "And stored it on analog media.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Hmm?", "speakerName": "Grad G" }, { "text": "Hmm.", "speakerName": "Postdoc H" }, { "text": "And they they didn't actually align it or anything. They just they have it, though.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Yeah. Well, it's worth considering. Maybe we don't want to spend that much more time discussing it,", "speakerName": "Postdoc H" }, { "text": "Did they store it digitally, or?", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "but.", "speakerName": "Postdoc H" }, { "text": "Hmm - mm. I think they just.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "or just put it on videotape?", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "I think they just had the videotapes with a c you know, a counter or something. Um,", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm. Well, I think for I mean, for our purposes we probably will d", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "I'm not sure.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "we we might try that some and and we certainly already have some recordings that don't have that, uh, which, you know, we we'll we'll get other value out of, I think.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Postdoc H" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Th The thing is, if it's easy to collect it it th then I think it's a wise thing to do because once it's gone it's gone. And.", "speakerName": "Postdoc H" }, { "text": "I'm just The community If LDC collects this data u I mean, and L - if Mark Liberman is a strong proponent of how they collect it and what they collect, there will probably be some video data in there.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "There you go.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "And so that could argue for us not doing it or it could argue for us doing it. The only place where it sort of overlaps is when some of the summarization issues are actually could be, um, easier made easier if you had the video.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "I think at the moment we should be determining this on the basis of our own, uh, interests and needs rather than hypothetical ones from a community thing.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Postdoc H" }, { "text": "As you say, if they if they decide it's really critical then they will collect a lot more data than we can afford to, uh, and and will include all that.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "Mmm.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Um,", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "e", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "I I I'm not worried about the cost of setting it up. I'm worried about the cost of people looking at it. In other words, it's it it'd be kind of silly to collect it all and not look at it at all. And so I I I think that we do have to do some picking and choosing of the stuff that we're doing. But I I am int I do think that we m minimally want something we might want to look at at some some, uh, subsets of that. Like for a meeting like this, at least, uh, take a Polaroid of the of the of the boards,", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "Of the board.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Postdoc H" }, { "text": "Or at least make sure that the note - taker takes a sh you know, a snapshot of the board.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "and.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "Exactly.", "speakerName": "Postdoc H" }, { "text": "a and know the position of the people.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "That'll make it a lot easier for meetings that are structured.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Exactly.", "speakerName": "Postdoc H" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "I mean, otherwise later on if nobody wrote this stuff on the board down we'd have a harder time summarizing it or agreeing on a summary.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "We And it Especially since this is common knowledge. I mean, this is shared knowledge among all the participants, and it's a shame to keep it off the recording.", "speakerName": "Postdoc H" }, { "text": "Uh, except in.", "speakerName": "Grad G" }, { "text": "s", "speakerName": "Postdoc H" }, { "text": "er, if we weren't recording this, this this would get lost. Right?", "speakerName": "Grad G" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "Well, I don't understand that point. I mean, I just think that the.", "speakerName": "Postdoc H" }, { "text": "The point is that we're not saving it anyway. Right? In in our real - life setting.", "speakerName": "Grad G" }, { "text": "Well.", "speakerName": "Postdoc H" }, { "text": "What do you mean we're not saving it anyway? I've written all of this down and it's getting emailed to you.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "And you're gonna send it out by email, too.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Well, uh, in that case we don't need to take pictures of it.", "speakerName": "Grad G" }, { "text": "Right. That would be the other alternative, to make sure that anything that was on the board, um, is in the record.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Well.", "speakerName": "Postdoc H" }, { "text": "Well, that's why that's why I'm saying that I think the note - taking would be I think in many for many meetings there will be some sort of note - taking, in which case, that's a useful thing to have Uh, I mean, we uh, we don't need to require it. Just like the.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Grad G" }, { "text": "I mean, I think it would be great if we try to get a picture with every meeting. Um,", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "I agree.", "speakerName": "Postdoc H" }, { "text": "so so we won't worry about requiring these things, but the more things that we can get it for, the more useful it will be for various applications. So.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "So So, I mean, departing for the moment from the data collection question but actually talking about, you know, this group and what we actually want to do, uh, so I guess that's th the way what you were figuring on doing was was was, uh, putting together some notes and sending them to to everybody from from today? OK. So. Um.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "That's great.", "speakerName": "Postdoc H" }, { "text": "So so the question that that we started with was whether there was anything else we should do during during th during the collection.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "Ow.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "And I guess the CrossPads was certainly one idea, uh, and we'll get them from him and we'll just do that. Right? And then the next thing we talked about was the was the summaries and are we gonna do anything about that.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "Well, before we leave the CrossPads and and call it done.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "Oh, OK.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "So, if I'm collecting data then there is this question of do I use CrossPads?", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "So, I think that if we really seriously have me collect data and I can't use CrossPads, it's probably less useful for you guys to go to the trouble of using it, um, unless you think that the CrossPads are gonna n I'm not I'm not sure what they're gonna do. But but having a small percentage of the data with it, I'm not sure whether that's useful or not. Maybe maybe it's no big deal.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "What.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "Maybe we just do it and see what happens.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "I guess the point was to try again, to try to collect more information that could be useful later for for the UI stuff.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "So it's sort of Landay supplying it so that Landay's stuff can be easier to do.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "So it it Right now he's g operating from zero,", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "Nothing.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "and so even if we didn't get it done from UW, it seems like that would could still You shou", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "OK.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "I mean, at least try it.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "I think it'd be useful to have a small amount of it just as a proof of concept.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "It will.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Right. OK.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "You know, what you can do with things.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "And and they seem to not be able to give enough of them away, so we could probably get more as well.", "speakerName": "Grad G" }, { "text": "Yeah. But not not to rely on them for basic modeling.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "That's true. So if it if it seems to be really useful to you guys, we could probably get a donation to me.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "Yeah, I'm not sure. I think it it it will again depend on Landay, and if he has a student who's interested, and how much infrastructure we'll need. I mean, if it's easy, we can just do it.", "speakerName": "Grad G" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "Um, but if it requires a lot of our time, we probably won't do it.", "speakerName": "Grad G" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "I guess a lot of the stuff we're doing now really is pilot in one sense or another.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "Yeah. Yeah, we have to sort of figure out what we're gonna do.", "speakerName": "Grad G" }, { "text": "And so we try it out and see how it works.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "Grad G" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "I just wouldn't base any of the modeling on having those.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Right. I ag I think I agree with that.", "speakerName": "Grad G" }, { "text": "It's just.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Right. OK.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "I think, though, the importance marking is a good idea, though. That if if people have something in front of them.", "speakerName": "Grad G" }, { "text": "I'd be sort of cool. I mean, it would Yeah. That w shouldn't be hard for.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Yeah. Do it on pilots or laptops or something. OK, if something's important everyone clap.", "speakerName": "Grad G" }, { "text": "OK. So CrossPads, we're just gonna try it and see what happens.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "OK.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "Yeah. Um, I think that's right.", "speakerName": "Grad G" }, { "text": "OK.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "OK.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "The note - taking So, I I think that this is gonna be useful. So if we record data I will definitely ask for it. So, I j I think we should just say this is not we don't want to put any extra burden on people, but if they happen to generate minutes, could could they send it to us?", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "Yeah. Oh, OK. That's fine. Absolutely.", "speakerName": "Grad G" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "And then.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "Yeah. What I was gonna say is that I don't want to ask people to do something they wouldn't normally do in a meeting. It's ver I just want to keep away from the artificiality.", "speakerName": "Grad G" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "But I think it definitely if they exist. And then Jane's idea of summarization afterward I think is not a bad one. Um, picking out basically to let you pick out keywords, um, and, uh, construct queries.", "speakerName": "Grad G" }, { "text": "So who who does this summarization?", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "Yeah, I'm thinking that.", "speakerName": "Postdoc H" }, { "text": "People in the meeting.", "speakerName": "Grad G" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Postdoc H" }, { "text": "You know, just at at the end of the meeting, before you go,", "speakerName": "Grad G" }, { "text": "Uh - huh.", "speakerName": "Postdoc H" }, { "text": "Without hearing each other though, probably.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "go around the table.", "speakerName": "Grad G" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Or even just have one or two people stay behind.", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "Yeah. Ugh. Yeah.", "speakerName": "Grad G" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "People with radio mikes can go into separate rooms and continue recording without hearing each other. That's the nice thing.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Well, then you should try them a few weeks later", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "How fascinating.", "speakerName": "Postdoc H" }, { "text": "and They have all these memory experiments about how little you actually retain", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "And see score them?", "speakerName": "Grad G" }, { "text": "That's right. Well, that's the interesting thing, though.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "and wasn't.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "If we do if we collect four different summaries, you know, we're gonna get all this weird data about how people perceive things differently.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Oh.", "speakerName": "Grad G" }, { "text": "It's like this is not what we meant to research.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Hmm.", "speakerName": "Grad G" }, { "text": "Right, right.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Oh. Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "That could be very interesting.", "speakerName": "Postdoc H" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "Hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Postdoc H" }, { "text": "But but again, like the CrossPads, I don't think I would base a lot of stuff on it,", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "Ru", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "I d yeah, I don't know how you would do it, though.", "speakerName": "Grad G" }, { "text": "because I think I know when I see the the clock coming near the end of the meeting, I'm like inching towards the door.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm. Running to Yeah,", "speakerName": "Grad G" }, { "text": "So,", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "fff!", "speakerName": "Grad G" }, { "text": "Hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "you're probably not gonna get a lot of people wanting to do this.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "Maybe e Is email easier?", "speakerName": "Grad G" }, { "text": "Well, I think if.", "speakerName": "Postdoc H" }, { "text": "I mean, I when you first said do do it, um, spoken, what I was thinking is, oh then people have to come up", "speakerName": "Grad G" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Postdoc H" }, { "text": "and you have to hook them up to the recorder. So, if they're already here I think that's good,", "speakerName": "Grad G" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "but if they're not already here for I'd rather do email. I'm much faster typing than anything else.", "speakerName": "Grad G" }, { "text": "Yeah, I'd just try Well, however the least intrusive and and quickest way is, and th and closest to the meeting time too, cuz people will start to forget it as soon as they l leave.", "speakerName": "Postdoc H" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Grad G" }, { "text": "Yeah. I think that I think doing it orally at the end of the meeting is the best time.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "I don't know. At.", "speakerName": "Grad G" }, { "text": "I just don't.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Postdoc H" }, { "text": "because they're kind of a captive audience. Once they leave,", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Grad G" }, { "text": "you know, forget it. But but i", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "Yeah, read the digits, do the summary.", "speakerName": "Grad G" }, { "text": "Right. But, uh, I don't think that they'll necessarily you'll you'll get many people willing to stay.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "Hmm.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "But, you know, if you get even one.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "w", "speakerName": "Postdoc H" }, { "text": "Well, I think it's like the note - taking thing,", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "I would s Yeah.", "speakerName": "Postdoc H" }, { "text": "that that y that you can't certainly can't require it or people aren't gonna want to do this. But but if there's some cases where they will, then it would be helpful.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "Hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "And I'm also wondering, couldn't that be included in the data sample so that you could increase the num you know, the words that are, uh, recognized by a particular individual? If you could include the person's meeting stuff and also the person's summary stuff, maybe that would be uh,", "speakerName": "Postdoc H" }, { "text": "Yeah. It's kind of nice.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "an ad addition to their database.", "speakerName": "Postdoc H" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Hmm.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "Under the same acoustic circumstance, cuz if they just walk next door with their set - up, nothing's changed,", "speakerName": "Postdoc H" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "just.", "speakerName": "Postdoc H" }, { "text": "So I have a question about queries,", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "God, that's bugging me.", "speakerName": "Grad G" }, { "text": "which is, um,", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "Can we turn that light off?", "speakerName": "Grad G" }, { "text": "You turn.", "speakerName": "Postdoc H" }, { "text": "uh.", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "If can we turn that just that that let.", "speakerName": "Grad G" }, { "text": "The fl the fluorescent light is flickering.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "Uh, let the record show the light is flickering.", "speakerName": "Postdoc H" }, { "text": "I don't know.", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "Yeah, there's a.", "speakerName": "Grad G" }, { "text": "Oh, it is it is like OK.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "Very annoying.", "speakerName": "Grad G" }, { "text": "There you go. OK.", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "Oh, much better.", "speakerName": "Grad G" }, { "text": "For a little while I thought it was just that I was really tired.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "Oh, yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "That's better.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Good.", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "That and y Too much caffeine and really tired,", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "Too much caffeine.", "speakerName": "Grad G" }, { "text": "but then I thought \" no, maybe that's real \".", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "OK.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "So,", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "I thought it was the projector for a moment. It was like, \" what's going on? \"", "speakerName": "Grad G" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "the question I had about queries was, um, so what we're planning to do is have people look at the summaries and then generate queries? Are are we gonna try and o", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "We we've just been talking, how do we generate queries?", "speakerName": "Grad G" }, { "text": "Yeah. Well, I mean,", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "And so that was one suggestion.", "speakerName": "Grad G" }, { "text": "so, the question I had is is have we given any thought to how we would generate queries automatically given a summary? I mean, I think that's a whole research topic un unto itself,", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "Mmm.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "so that it may not be a feasible thing. But.", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "Hello. Dan here.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "n", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "Shouldn't Landay and his group be in charge of figuring out how to do this?", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "I mean, this is an issue that goes a little bit beyond where we are right now.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "OK.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "They're the expert", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Mari?", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Yeah?", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "Someone wants to know when you're getting picked up. Is someone picking you up?", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Um, what's our schedule?", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "Well, you still wanted to talk with Liz.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "Let's see, you and I need dis Uh, no, we did the Liz talk.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "And you and I need to Oh, oh. You already did the Liz talk.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "Yeah. So so that was the prosody thing.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "OK.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "We - I don't remember it.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Um, we need to finish the.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "Oh, OK.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "It's already four - fifteen.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "I have like no recall memory.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Uh, after.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "We need to finish this discussion, and you and I need a little time for wrap - up and quad chart. So,", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "And what?", "speakerName": "Grad G" }, { "text": "um.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "I'm at your disposal. So, up to you.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "Um, what what's the plan for this discussion? We should.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "Um, I think we should be able to wind up in another half - hour or something, you think?", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "At least. Yeah.", "speakerName": "Grad G" }, { "text": "Uh, less.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "m i Even if that much?", "speakerName": "Grad G" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "Less?", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "Less.", "speakerName": "Grad G" }, { "text": "So, I think.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "It's interesting that he's got, like, this discussion free", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Well, I mean, we still haven't talked about the action items from here and so on.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "Action Yeah. So,", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "yet it's separate.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "And.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "e e why don't you say five - thirty? I don't.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "OK, five - thirty.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Is that OK? We'll probably hit horrible traffic.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "Sounds OK. h Thanks, bye.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "That's not a lot of time,", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "That's that.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "but.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "Well, in answer to \" is it Landay's problem? \", um, he doesn't have a student who's interested right now in doing anything. So he has very little manpower. Um, there's very little allocated for him and also he's pretty focused on user interface. So I don't think he wants to do information retrieval, query generation, that sort of stuff.", "speakerName": "Grad G" }, { "text": "Yeah, well there's gonna be these student projects that can do some things but it can't be, yeah, very deep. u I I actually think that that, uh, again, just as a bootstrap, if we do have something like summaries, then having the people who are involved in the meetings themselves, who are cooperative and willing to do yet more, come up with with with queries, uh, could at least give give Landay an idea of the kind of things that people might want to know. I mean, ye Right? If he doesn't know anything about the area, and the people are talking about and and, uh.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "But the people will just look at the summaries or the minutes and re and sort of back - generate the queries. That's what I'm worried about. So you might as well just give him the summaries.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "And.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Maybe.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "Well, I'm not sure I'm not sure that's a solved problem.", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "y Well, but I think.", "speakerName": "Grad G" }, { "text": "Oh, OK.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Right? Of how to how to generate queries from a.", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "How to do this from the summary.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "I, uh.", "speakerName": "Grad G" }, { "text": "That was sort of what my question was aimed towards.", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "So what you want to h to do is, people who were there, who later see, uh, minutes and s put in summary form, which is not gonna be at the same time as the meeting. There's no way that can happen. Are we gonna later go over it", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Hmm.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "Grad G" }, { "text": "and, like, make up some stuff to which these notes would be an answer, or or a deeper Yeah. I mean.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Or or just a memory refresher.", "speakerName": "Grad G" }, { "text": "But that's done off they have to do that off - line.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Yep. I agree.", "speakerName": "Grad G" }, { "text": "You", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "I'm also wondering if we could ask the the people a a question which would be \" what was the most interesting thing you got out of this meeting? \" Becau - in terms of like informativeness,", "speakerName": "Postdoc H" }, { "text": "That's a good one.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "it might be, you know, that the summary would would not in even include what the person thought was the most interesting fact.", "speakerName": "Postdoc H" }, { "text": "I would think that would be the most likely thing.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "Dan doesn't know what sex he is.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Yeah, really.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "But actually I would say that's a better thing to ask than have them summarize the meeting.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "I think you get two different types of information.", "speakerName": "Postdoc H" }, { "text": "You get two Yeah, that's true.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Because you get, like, the general structure of important points and what the what the meeting was about.", "speakerName": "Postdoc H" }, { "text": "Hey.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "Ah", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "We're still here.", "speakerName": "Grad G" }, { "text": "So you get the general structure, the important points of what the meeting was about with the summary. But with the \" what's the most interesting thing you learned? \" Uh, so the fact that, uh, I know that Transcriber uses Snack is something that I thought was interesting", "speakerName": "Postdoc H" }, { "text": "Going to see the kids.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "You you can keep it on.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "and that and that Dan worked on on that. So I thought that was really you know. So, I mean, you could ge pick up some of the micro items that wouldn't even occur as major headings", "speakerName": "Postdoc H" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "but could be very informative.", "speakerName": "Postdoc H" }, { "text": "Yeah, that's actually a really good idea.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "I think it wouldn't be too, uh, uh, cost - intensive either. You know, I mean, it's like something someone can do pretty easily on the spur of the moment.", "speakerName": "Postdoc H" }, { "text": "Are you thinking about just asking one participant or all of them?", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "As many are willing to do it.", "speakerName": "Grad G" }, { "text": "Make it a voluntary thing,", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Yeah. Cuz you'll get cuz you'll get very different answers from everybody, right?", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "and then Yeah. That's why I was wondering.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "So.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Well, maybe one thing we could do is for the meetings we've already done I mean, I we didn't take minutes and we don't have summaries. But, uh, people could, like, listen to them a little bit and generate some queries.", "speakerName": "Grad G" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Postdoc H" }, { "text": "Of course Jane doesn't need to. I'm sure you have that meeting memorized by now.", "speakerName": "Grad G" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "But actually it would be an easy thing to just go around the room and say what was the most interesting thing you learned,", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "Mmm.", "speakerName": "Grad G" }, { "text": "Yeah. Yeah.", "speakerName": "Postdoc H" }, { "text": "for those pe people willing to stay.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "And that I think it would pick up the micro - structure, the some some of the little things that would be hidden.", "speakerName": "Postdoc H" }, { "text": "And and that might be something people are willing to stay for.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "Boy, I I don't know how we get at this.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "That would be interesting.", "speakerName": "Postdoc H" }, { "text": "Yeah, but when you go around the room you might just get the effect that somebody says something", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Or want to get up and leave.", "speakerName": "Grad G" }, { "text": "and then you go around the room and they say \" yeah, me too, I agree. \"", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Me too, me too, me too.", "speakerName": "Grad G" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "That's fine.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "So.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "On the other hand people might try and come up with different ones, right?", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Well.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "They might say \" oh, I was gonna say that one but now I have to think of something else \".", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Well, you have the other thing, that that they know why we're doing it. We'll I mean, we'll we'll be telling them that the reason we're trying to do this is is to d generate queries in the future, so try to pick things that other people didn't say.", "speakerName": "Grad G" }, { "text": "It's gonna take some thought. I mean, It seemed The kind of, uh, interest that I had in this thing initially was, uh, that i basically the form that you're doing something else later,", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "and you want to pick up something from this meeting related to the something else. So it's really the imp the the list of what's important's in the something else", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "rather than the.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "Mmm.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "And it might be something minor of minor importance to the meeting.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "Grad G" }, { "text": "Uh, in fact if if it was really major, if it's the thing that really stuck in your head, then you might not need to go back and and and check on it even. So it's it's that you're trying to find You're you've now You weren't interested Say I I said \" well, I wasn't that much interested in dialogue, I'm more of an acoustics person \".", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "But but thr three months from now if for some reason I get really interested in dialogue, and I'm \" well what is what was that part that that that, uh, Mari was saying? \"", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "Yeah, like Jim Bass says \" add a few lines on dialogue in your next perf \"", "speakerName": "Grad G" }, { "text": "Uh.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "Yeah. Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "And then I'm trying to fi I mean, that's that's when I look in general when I look things up most, is when it's something that didn't really stick in my head the first time around and but for some new reason I'm I'm I'm interested in in in the old stuff.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "But that that's gonna be very hard to generate.", "speakerName": "Grad G" }, { "text": "Well, I That's hard to generate", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "So, I don't I don't know.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Do we.", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "and and I think that's half of what i I would use it for. But I also a lot of times um, make you know, think to myself \" this is interesting,", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "I've gotta come back and follow up on it \".", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm. Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "So, things that I think are interesting, um, I would be, uh, wanting to do a query about. And also, I like the idea of going around the room, because if somebody else thought something was interesting, I'd kind of want to know about it and then I'd want to follow up on it.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "Hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Yeah. That that might get at some of what I was I was concerned about, uh, being interested in something later that w uh, I didn't consider to be important the first time, which for me is actually the dominant thing, because if I thought it was really important it tends to stick more than if I didn't, but some new task comes along that makes me want to look up.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "But But what's interesting to me may not b have been interesting to you.", "speakerName": "Grad G" }, { "text": "Yeah. So having multiple people might get at some of that.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "By so by going around Yeah.", "speakerName": "Grad G" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "Yeah, I I think you can't get at all of it,", "speakerName": "Grad G" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "right? W we just need to start somewhere.", "speakerName": "Grad G" }, { "text": "Yeah, and this is a starting point.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "Uh - huh.", "speakerName": "Postdoc H" }, { "text": "The question the question then is h h how much bias do we introduce by you know, introduce by saying, you know, this was important now and, you know, maybe tha something else is important later?", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "I mean, does it does the bias matter? I I don't know. I mean, uh, that's, I guess, a question for you guys. But.", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "Well, and and one thing, we we're saying \" important \" and we're saying \" interesting \".", "speakerName": "Postdoc H" }, { "text": "Uh, yeah, yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "And and those those can be two different things.", "speakerName": "Postdoc H" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "Sure, sure. But I I I guess that's the question, really, is that I mean,", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Postdoc H" }, { "text": "W", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "does building queries based on what's important now introduce an irreversible bias on being able to do what Morgan wants to do later?", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "Well, irreversible.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "OK, good.", "speakerName": "Postdoc H" }, { "text": "That's that's.", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "I I I mean, I guess what I what I I keep coming back to in my own mind is that, um, the soonest we can do it, we need to get up some kind of system", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Postdoc H" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "so that people who've been involved in the meeting can go back later, even if it's a poor system in some ways, and, uh and ask the questions that they actually want to know. If you know, if uh, as soon as we can get that going at any kind of level, then I think we'll have a much better handle on what kind of questions people want to ask than in any anything we do before that. But obviously we have to bootstrap somehow,", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "and.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "Sure.", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Postdoc H" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "I agree.", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "I will say that that I I chose \" interesting \" because I think it includes also \" important \" in some cases. But, um, I I I feel like the summary gets at a different type of information.", "speakerName": "Postdoc H" }, { "text": "I think \" important \" can often be uninteresting.", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "Mmm.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "Mmm. And \" interesting \" is more interesting than \" important \".", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Hmm.", "speakerName": "Grad G" }, { "text": "Well, and and also i it puts a lot of burden on the person to to evaluate. You know, I think inter \" interesting \" is is non - threatening in.", "speakerName": "Postdoc H" }, { "text": "OK - OK.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Postdoc H" }, { "text": "In the interest of, um,", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "Importance?", "speakerName": "Grad G" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Postdoc H" }, { "text": "generati generating an interesting summary, um.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm. Yeah.", "speakerName": "Postdoc H" }, { "text": "No, i in the interest of generating some minutes here, uh, and also moving on to action items and other things, let me just go through the things that I wrote down as being important, um, that we at least decided on. CrossPads we were going to try, um, if Landay can get the, uh get them to to you guys, um, and see if they're interesting. And if they are, then we'll try to get m do it more. Um, getting electronic summary from a note - taking person if they happen to do it anyway.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "Um, getting just, uh, digital pictures a couple digital pictures of the the table and boards to set the context of the meeting. Uh, and then going around the room at the end to just say qu ask people to mention something interesting that they learned. So rather than say the most interesting thing, something interesting,", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "k", "speakerName": "Postdoc H" }, { "text": "and that way you'll get more variety.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "Sure.", "speakerName": "Postdoc H" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "I wouldn't even say that \" that they learned \".", "speakerName": "Grad G" }, { "text": "That's good. I like that. I like that.", "speakerName": "Postdoc H" }, { "text": "OK.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Uh, you might want to mention something that that you brought up.", "speakerName": "Grad G" }, { "text": "\" Thing that was discussed. \" And then the last thing c would be for those people who are willing to stay afterwards and give an oral summary.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Postdoc H" }, { "text": "OK? Does that pretty much cover everything we talked about? That well, that we want to do?", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm. A And one and one qualification on on the oral summaries. They'd be s they'd be separate. They wouldn't be hearing each other's summaries.", "speakerName": "Postdoc H" }, { "text": "OK.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "Yeah, that's like n I think that's gonna predominantly end up being whoever takes down the equipment then.", "speakerName": "Grad G" }, { "text": "And and that would also be that the data would be included in the database.", "speakerName": "Postdoc H" }, { "text": "Yeah, that would be, let's see, me.", "speakerName": "Grad G" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Postdoc H" }, { "text": "I mean, there is still this hope that people might actually think of real queries they really want to ask at some point.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "OK.", "speakerName": "Postdoc H" }, { "text": "And that if if that ever should happen, then we should try and write them down.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Postdoc H" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Give them a reward, a dollar a query?", "speakerName": "Grad G" }, { "text": "Yeah, really.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "If they're real queries.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "OK. So.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "Well, and again, if we can figure out a way to jimmy a a a a very rough system, say in a year, then uh, so that in the second and third years we we actually have something to.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Postdoc H" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Grad G" }, { "text": "Play with and generate real queries from.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "ask queries.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "Right. OK.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Grad G" }, { "text": "So. Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "Uh.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "I think I just wanted to say one thing about queries. I mean, the level of the query could be, you know, very low - level or very high - level. And it gets fuzzier and fuzzier as you go up, right?", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Well, we're gonna.", "speakerName": "Grad G" }, { "text": "So you need to have some sort of if you start working with queries, some way of identifying what the you know, if this is something that requires a a one - word answer or it's one place in the recording versus was there general agreement on this issue of all the people who ha", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "You know, you can gen you can ask queries that are meaningful for people.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Yep.", "speakerName": "Grad G" }, { "text": "In fact, they're very meaningful cuz they're very high - level. But they won't exist anywhere in the a you know.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Absolutely. So I think we're gonna have to start with keywords", "speakerName": "Grad G" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Postdoc H" }, { "text": "and and if someone becomes more interested we could work our way up.", "speakerName": "Grad G" }, { "text": "I I'm I I'm not so sure I agree with that.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "It But it may well.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "But.", "speakerName": "Grad G" }, { "text": "Because uh, b because it depends on, uh, what our goal is.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "Really?", "speakerName": "Grad G" }, { "text": "If our goal is Wizard of Oz - ish, we might want to know what is it that people would really like to know about this data.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "Oh, that's true.", "speakerName": "Grad G" }, { "text": "And if it's if if it's something that we don't know how to do yet, th great,", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "that's, you know, research project for year four or something.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "Research, yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "You know?", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "Yeah, I was thinking about Wizard of Oz, but it requires the wizard to know all about the meetings.", "speakerName": "Grad G" }, { "text": "We'd have to listen to all the data.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Um, well, not maybe not true Wizard of Oz", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "So.", "speakerName": "Grad G" }, { "text": "because people are too", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "Oh, yeah. I I understand.", "speakerName": "Grad G" }, { "text": "uh, aware of what's going on.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "Well just imagine if.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "But but just.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "Get people to ask questions that they def the machine definitely can't answer at the moment,", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Yeah. w Just \" what would you like to know? \"", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "but.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Yep.", "speakerName": "Grad G" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "But that neither could anyone else, though, is what, uh, my point is.", "speakerName": "Grad G" }, { "text": "Yes.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "I I was wondering if if there might be one s more source of queries which is indicator phrases like \" action item \",", "speakerName": "Postdoc H" }, { "text": "OK.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "which could be obtained from the text from the transcript.", "speakerName": "Postdoc H" }, { "text": "Right. Since we have the transcript.", "speakerName": "Grad G" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Postdoc H" }, { "text": "Dates maybe. I don't know. That's something I always forget.", "speakerName": "Grad G" }, { "text": "Yeah, that's something to be determined, something to be specified,", "speakerName": "Postdoc H" }, { "text": "Well, probably if you have to sit there at the end of a meeting and say one thing you remember, it's probably whatever action item was assigned to you.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "but text - oriented.", "speakerName": "Postdoc H" }, { "text": "I mean, in gen that's all I remember from most meetings.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "That that's all I wrote down.", "speakerName": "Grad G" }, { "text": "I think you'd remember that, yeah.", "speakerName": "Postdoc H" }, { "text": "So, in general, I mean, that could be something you could say, right? I'm supposed to do this. It it doesn't.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Yeah, that's true. Well, but then you could you could prompt them to say, you know, \" other than your action item \", you know, whatever.", "speakerName": "Postdoc H" }, { "text": "Well.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "But but the action item would be a way to get, uh, maybe an additional query.", "speakerName": "Postdoc H" }, { "text": "I mean, that's realistically what people might well be remembering.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "So.", "speakerName": "Postdoc H" }, { "text": "So.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Hmm.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "Yeah. Well, but you know, but you could get again @ @.", "speakerName": "Postdoc H" }, { "text": "Well, we're piloting. We'll just do it and see what happens.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "Yeah. Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Postdoc H" }, { "text": "I usually don't remember my action items. But I'd I.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "OK - OK. Speaking of action items, can we move on to action items?", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "Yeah. Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "Sure. Can you hand me my note pad?", "speakerName": "Grad G" }, { "text": "Yeah. yeah.", "speakerName": "Postdoc H" }, { "text": "Um, or maybe we should wait until the summary of this until this meeting is transcribed and then we will hav", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "We we had I mean,", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "Yeah. Then we'll know.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Thanks.", "speakerName": "Grad G" }, { "text": "somewhere up there we had milestones, but I guess Did y did you get enough milestone, uh, from the description things?", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "I got Yeah. In fact, why don't you hand me those transparencies so that I remember to take them. eee,", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "OK.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "OK.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "And, you know, there's obviously detail behind each of those, as much as is needed. So, you just have to let us know.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "OK. What I have down for action items is we're supposed to find out about our human subject, um, requirements.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "Good.", "speakerName": "Postdoc H" }, { "text": "Uh,", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "Yep.", "speakerName": "Grad G" }, { "text": "people are supposed to send me U R for their for web pages, to c and I'll put together an overall cover. And you're s", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "Right. We.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Hmm?", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "we need to look at our web page", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "And and you also need to look at your web page", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "and make one that's that's p", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "and clean it up by mid - July.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "PDA - free.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "Grad G" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Um,", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "let's see. Choo - choo - choo. We.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "Mailing lists.", "speakerName": "Grad G" }, { "text": "Mailing list? Uh, you need to put together a mailing list.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "Three of them.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "Uh, I think w", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "Well I mean,", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "uh,", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "Um,", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "mostly together.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "uh, I need to email Adam or Jane, um, about getting the data. Who should I email?", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "Uh, how quickly do you want it?", "speakerName": "Grad G" }, { "text": "Um.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "My July is really very crowded. And so, uh.", "speakerName": "Grad G" }, { "text": "How about if I just c Uh, Right now all I want I personally only want text data. I think the only thing Jeff would do anything with right now But I'm just speaking fr based on a conversation with him two weeks ago I had in Turkey. But I think all he would want is the digits. Um, but I'll just speak for myself. I'm interested in getting the language model data. Eh, so I'm just interested in getting transcriptions.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Grad G" }, { "text": "So then just email you?", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "OK. So y Sure, sure, sure.", "speakerName": "Postdoc H" }, { "text": "OK.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "Wh", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "You could email to both of us, uh, just I mean, if you wanted to.", "speakerName": "Postdoc H" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "I mean, I don't think either of us would mind recei", "speakerName": "Postdoc H" }, { "text": "OK.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "i", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "That's right.", "speakerName": "Grad G" }, { "text": "but but in any case I'd be happy to send you the.", "speakerName": "Postdoc H" }, { "text": "And your email is?", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "i", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "Edwards at ICSI.", "speakerName": "Postdoc H" }, { "text": "OK.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "w", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "Dot Berkeley dot EDU, of course.", "speakerName": "Grad G" }, { "text": "And then.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "In in our phone call, uh, before, we we, uh It turns out the way we're gonna send the data is by, uh, And, uh and then what they're gonna do is take the CD - ROM and transfer it to analog tape and give it to a transcription service, uh, that will.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "Oh, is this IBM?", "speakerName": "Grad G" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "Yeah, using foot pedals", "speakerName": "Postdoc H" }, { "text": "Yeah, foot foot pedals", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "and.", "speakerName": "Postdoc H" }, { "text": "and.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "Uh, so do they How are they gonna do the multi - channel?", "speakerName": "Grad G" }, { "text": "See, that's a good question.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "Yeah. They they don't have a way.", "speakerName": "Postdoc H" }, { "text": "I thought so.", "speakerName": "Grad G" }, { "text": "No, I mean, it'll be", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "But they have a verification.", "speakerName": "Postdoc H" }, { "text": "probably about like you did,", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "Mix?", "speakerName": "Grad G" }, { "text": "and then there will be some things you know, many things that don't work out well. And that'll go back to IBM and they'll they'll, uh they run their aligner on it and it kicks out things that don't work well, which you know, the overlaps will certainly be examples of that. And, uh I mean, what w we will give them all of it. Right?", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "OK. That's, uh, my question.", "speakerName": "Grad G" }, { "text": "We'll give them all the the multi - channel stuff", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "So we'll give them all sixteen channels", "speakerName": "Grad G" }, { "text": "and.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "and they'll do whatever they want with it.", "speakerName": "Grad G" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "But you also should probably give them the mixed You know, equal sound - level.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Yeah. Good idea.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "I mean, they're not gonna easily be able to do that, probably.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "It's not hard.", "speakerName": "Grad G" }, { "text": "Well.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "Ah, yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "So.", "speakerName": "Grad G" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "It's also won't be adding much to the data to give them the mixed.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "But w", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "I", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "It's not.", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "Right. It doesn't it isn't difficult for us to do,", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "Yep. Absolutely.", "speakerName": "Grad G" }, { "text": "i You should Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "so we might as well just do it.", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "You should that may be all that they want to send off to their transcribers.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Absolutely. So, sure.", "speakerName": "Grad G" }, { "text": "OK. Related to to the conversation with Picheny, I need to email him, uh, my shipping address and you need to email them something which you already did.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "I did. I I m emailed them the Transcriber URL, um, the on - line, uh, data that Adam set up, The URL so they can click on an utterance and hear it. and I emailed them the str streamlined conventions which you got a copy of today.", "speakerName": "Postdoc H" }, { "text": "Right. And I was gonna m email them the which I haven't yet, a pointer to to the web pages that we that we currently have, cuz in particular they want to see the one with the the way the recording room is set up", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "Good.", "speakerName": "Postdoc H" }, { "text": "and so on, your your page on that.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "Oh, excellent. Good.", "speakerName": "Postdoc H" }, { "text": "And then p possibly.", "speakerName": "Grad G" }, { "text": "I C - I CC' ed Morgan. I should have sent I should have CC' ed you as well.", "speakerName": "Postdoc H" }, { "text": "OK.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "Not an immediate action item but something we do have to worry about is data formats for for higher - level information.", "speakerName": "Grad G" }, { "text": "OK.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "Oh, yeah. We were gonna.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "Well, or d or not even higher level, different level, prosody and all that sort of stuff. We're gonna have to figure out how we're gonna annotate that.", "speakerName": "Grad G" }, { "text": "Yeah. We never had our data format discussion.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "Yeah, we w Right.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "Oh, I thought we did. We discussed, uh, musi musical score notation", "speakerName": "Postdoc H" }, { "text": "Oh, OK.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "But that's not That's display.", "speakerName": "Grad G" }, { "text": "and and its XML.", "speakerName": "Postdoc H" }, { "text": "That's different than format.", "speakerName": "Grad G" }, { "text": "That's.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "Well, um.", "speakerName": "Postdoc H" }, { "text": "W My my u feeling right now on format is you guys have been doing all the work", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "Well uh, yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "and whatever you want, we're happy to live with.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Postdoc H" }, { "text": "Um,", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "OK, excellent.", "speakerName": "Postdoc H" }, { "text": "other people may not agree with that,", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "OK. So, what n important thing.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "but Cuz I'm not actually touching the data,", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "Well, it c", "speakerName": "Postdoc H" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "so I shouldn't be the one to talk. But.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "No, I think that's fine.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "So a key thing will be that you we tell you", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "Great.", "speakerName": "Postdoc H" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "what it is. Uh, we also had.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "\" Here's a mysterious file", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "and \"", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "We also had the, uh, uh that we were s uh, that you were gonna get us the eight - hundred number", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "Oh, yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "and we're all gonna we're gonna call up your Communicator thing and and we're gonna be good slash bad, depending on how you define it, uh, users.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "Now, something that I mentioned earlier to Mari and Liz is that it's probably important to get as many non - technical and non - speech people as possible in order to get some realistic users. So if you could ask other people to call and use our system, that'd be good. Cuz we don't want people who already know how to deal with dialogue systems,", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Yeah. Or, like if you have a.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "who know that you shouldn't hyper - articulate, for instance, and things like that.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Or, like if you have somebody who makes your your plane reservations for you,", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "So.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "um, which is", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "Yeah, we can do that.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "the n", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "Get my parents to do it.", "speakerName": "Grad G" }, { "text": "Yeah. Yeah. Seriously.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "Yeah, for instance.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "Your grandmother.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Hmm.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "Yeah. e You know, it could result in some good bloopers, which is always good for presentations. So Um, anyway.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "Yeah..", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "I think my father would last through the second prompt before he hang hung up.", "speakerName": "Grad G" }, { "text": "Mmm.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "My mother would have a very interesting conversation with it", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "He would never use it.", "speakerName": "Grad G" }, { "text": "but it wouldn't have anything to do with the travel.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "OK. Um, other.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "OK.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "Let's see, other action items. So I have the.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "We talked about that we're getting the recording equipment running at UW. And so it depends, w e e e they're you know, they're p m If that comes together within the next month, there at least will be, uh, uh, major communications between Dan and UW folks", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "Yeah. I mean,", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "I'm I'm shooting to try to get it done get it put together by the beginning of August.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "as to.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "we should talk about it, but.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Mmm.", "speakerName": "Postdoc H" }, { "text": "So, um, you know, if", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "But we have it it's it's pretty We don't know. I mean, he he s uh, he said that it was sitting in some room collecting dust", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "We don't know.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "and and so we don't know,", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "i It's probably unlikely that we'll pull this off,", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "i e", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "but a at least it's worth trying.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm. What is it?", "speakerName": "Grad G" }, { "text": "We don't know.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "Oh, OK.", "speakerName": "Grad G" }, { "text": "\" Recording equipment. \"", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "It's a tape recorder.", "speakerName": "Grad G" }, { "text": "W We know it's eight channels. Uh, we know it's digital.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "It's eight tape recorders.", "speakerName": "Grad G" }, { "text": "We don't even know if there're microphones. So, we'll find out.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "OK. Um, and I will email these notes Um, I'm not sure what to do about action items for the data stuff, although, then somebody I guess somebody needs to tell Landay that you want the pads.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "Yeah, OK. I'll do that.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "OK.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "Um, and he also said something about outside there that came up about the outside text sources, that he he may have", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Grad G" }, { "text": "Oh!", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "some text sources that are close enough to the sort of thing that we can play with them for a language model.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "Hmm.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Yeah, that was uh, that was What he was saying was this he this thing that, uh, Jason had been working on finds web pages that are thematically related to what you're talking about. Well, that's the idea. So that that that would be a source of text which is supposedly got the right vocabulary.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "But it's obviously very different material. It's not spoken material, for instance,", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Yeah. But it's p it might be.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "so.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "But but that's actually what I wanna do. That's that's what I wanna work with,", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "OK.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "is is things that s the wrong material but the right da the right source.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Grad G" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Un - unfortunately Landay told me that Jason is not gonna be working on that anymore.", "speakerName": "Grad G" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "He's switching to other stuff again.", "speakerName": "Grad G" }, { "text": "Yeah. He seemed when I asked him if he could actually supply data, he seemed a little bit more reluctant. So, I'll I'll send him email. I'll put it in an action item that I send him email about it. And if I get something, great. If I don't get something.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "Who? Landay or Jason?", "speakerName": "Grad G" }, { "text": "Landay. And, uh, um,", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "OK.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "OK.", "speakerName": "Grad G" }, { "text": "you know, otherwise, if you guys have any papers or I could I could use, uh I could use your web pages. That's what we could do. You've got all the web pages on the Meeting Recor", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "Yeah, why search for them?", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "Yeah!", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "They're we know where they are.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "True.", "speakerName": "Grad G" }, { "text": "Yeah, that's true.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "Absolutely.", "speakerName": "Grad G" }, { "text": "Oh, forget this!", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "Sure.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Well, but that's not very much.", "speakerName": "Grad G" }, { "text": "I One less action item. I can use what web pages there are out there on meeting recorders.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "Yep.", "speakerName": "Grad G" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "I mean, that that's Yeah. Basically what his software does is h it picks out keywords and does a Google - like search.", "speakerName": "Grad G" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "Yeah. Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Yeah. So we can we can we can do better than that.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "We can do that. Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "So you could.", "speakerName": "Grad G" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Grad G" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "There's there's some, uh, Carnegie Mellon stuff, right? On on meeting recording,", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "Yep.", "speakerName": "Grad G" }, { "text": "And Xerox.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "So, there's there's ICSI, Xerox,", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "and.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "And there's You should l look under, like, intelligent environments,", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "And Xerox. Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "smart rooms,", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Um, the \" Georgia Tech Classroom Two Thousand \" is a good one.", "speakerName": "Grad G" }, { "text": "um.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "CMU,", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "Right. And then Right. J There's th That's where I thought you would want to eventually be able to have a board or a camera,", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "because of all these classroom.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Well, Georgia Tech did a very elaborate instrumented room.", "speakerName": "Grad G" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "And I want to try to stay away from that. So.", "speakerName": "Grad G" }, { "text": "OK. Great. That solves that problem. One less action item. Um OK. I think that's good enou that's that's pretty much all I can think of.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "Can I ask, uh, one thing? It relates to data data collection and I and I'd and we mentioned earlier today, this question of um, so, um, I s I know that from with the near - field mikes some of the problems that come with overlapping speech, uh, are lessened. But I wonder if Uh, is that sufficient or should we consider maybe getting some data gathered in such a way that, um, u w we would c uh, p have a meeting with less overlap than would otherwise be the case? So either by rules of participation, or whatever.", "speakerName": "Postdoc H" }, { "text": "Oh, yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "Now, I mean, you know, it's true, I mean, we were discussing this earlier, that depending on the task so if you've got someone giving a report you're not gonna have as much overlap.", "speakerName": "Postdoc H" }, { "text": "Adam!", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "But, um, i i uh, so we're gonna have s you know, non - overlapping samples anyway. But, um, in a meeting which would otherwise be highly overlapping, is the near - field mike enough or should we have some rules of participation for some of our samples to lessen the overlap?", "speakerName": "Postdoc H" }, { "text": "Hmm.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "turn off", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "I don't think we should have rules of participation, but I think we should try to get a variety of meetings. That's something that if we get the the meeting stuff going at UW, that I probably can do more than you guys,", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "OK.", "speakerName": "Postdoc H" }, { "text": "cuz you guys are probably mostly going to get ICSI people here. But we can get anybody in EE, uh, over.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "and and possibly also some CS people, uh, over at UW. So, I think that that there's a good chance we could get more variety.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "OK. Just want to be sure there's enough data to.", "speakerName": "Postdoc H" }, { "text": "Um,", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "They're still gonna overlap,", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "OK, good.", "speakerName": "Postdoc H" }, { "text": "but Mark and others have said that there's quite a lot of found data from the discourse community that has this characteristic and also the political Y you know, anything that was televised for a third party has the characteristic of not very much overlap.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "Wasn - but w I think we were saying before also that the natural language group here had less overlap.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Postdoc H" }, { "text": "So.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "So it also depends on the style of the group of people.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "Like the, um, dominance relations of the people in the meeting.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm. On the task, and the task.", "speakerName": "Postdoc H" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Grad G" }, { "text": "It's just I just wanted to uh,", "speakerName": "Postdoc H" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "because you know, it is true people can modify the amount of overlap that they do if if they're asked to.", "speakerName": "Postdoc H" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "Not not entirely modify it, but lessen it if if it's desired. But if if that's sufficient data I just wanted to be sure that we will not be having a lot of data which can't be processed.", "speakerName": "Postdoc H" }, { "text": "OK. So I'm just writing here, we're not gonna try to specify rules of interaction but we're gonna try to get more variety by i using different groups of people", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "Time.", "speakerName": "Postdoc H" }, { "text": "and different sizes.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "Fine. And I you know, I I know that the near f near - field mikes will take care of also the problems to s to a certain degree.", "speakerName": "Postdoc H" }, { "text": "e e Yeah. And then the other thing might be, um, uh, technical versus administrative.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "I just wanted to be sure.", "speakerName": "Postdoc H" }, { "text": "Cuz if I recorded some administrative meetings then that may have less overlap, because you might have more overlap when you're doing something technical and disagreeing or whatever.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm. Mm - hmm. Well, I just as as as a contributary eh, so I I know that in l in legal depositions people are pr are prevented from overlapping. They'll just say, you know you know, \" wait till each person is finished before you say something \". So it is possible to lessen if we wanted to. But but these other factors are fine. I just wanted to raise the issue.", "speakerName": "Postdoc H" }, { "text": "Well, the reason why I didn't want to is be why I personally didn't want to is because I wanted it to be as, uh, unintrusive as possi", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm. Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Postdoc H" }, { "text": "as you could be with these things hanging on you.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "Oh, yeah. Yeah, I think that's always desired. I just want to be sure we don't that we're able to process, i u uh, you know, as much data as we can. Yeah.", "speakerName": "Postdoc H" }, { "text": "Yeah. Did they discuss any of that in the the meeting they had with L Liberman?", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "What.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "And there was a big division,", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "What what do they.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "so Liberman and others were interested in a lot of found data.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "So there's lots of recordings that They're not close - talk mike,", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "but And and there's lots of television, you know, stuff on, um, political debates and things like that, congre congressional hearings. Boring stuff like that. Um, and then the CMU folks and I were sort of on the other side in cuz they had collected a lot of meetings that were sort of like this and said that those are nothing like these meetings. Um, so there're really two different kinds of data. And, I guess we just left it as @ @ that if there's found data that can be transformed for use in speech recognition easily, then of course we would do it,", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "but newly collected data would would be natural meetings. So.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Actually, th @ @ the CMU folk have collected a lot of data. Is that is that going to be publicly available,", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "As far as I know, they h have not.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "or?", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "Um, but e", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "OK.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "It's also it's not it's not near - far, right?", "speakerName": "Grad G" }, { "text": "I'm not sure. Um, if people were interested they could talk to them, but I I got the feeling there was some politics involved.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "I think @ @ gonna add that to one of my action items.", "speakerName": "Grad G" }, { "text": "No.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Just to check.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "I I don't know.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Yeah. W we should know what's out there certainly.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Grad G" }, { "text": "I mean, the.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "Cuz I had thought they'd only done far - field,", "speakerName": "Grad G" }, { "text": "I think you need to talk to Waibel and.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "intelligent - room sorts of things.", "speakerName": "Grad G" }, { "text": "Oh, really? It's those guys.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "I hadn't known that then they'd done any more than that.", "speakerName": "Grad G" }, { "text": "Oh, they only did the far - field? I see.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Grad G" }, { "text": "But they had multiple mikes and they did do recognition, and they did do real conversations. But as far as I know they didn't offer that data to the community at this meeting.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Grad G" }, { "text": "But that could change cuz Mark you know, Mark's really into this. We should keep in touch with him.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Yeah. Well, once we send out.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "Yeah, I think.", "speakerName": "Postdoc H" }, { "text": "I mean, we still haven't sent out the first note saying \" hey, this list exists \". But but, uh, once we do that.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "Is that an action item?", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "Yeah. It's on I already added that one on my board to do that. So, uh uh, hopefully everybody here is on that list. We should at least check that everybody here?", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "I think everyone here is on the list.", "speakerName": "Grad G" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "I'm not.", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "u e e", "speakerName": "Postdoc H" }, { "text": "I think you are.", "speakerName": "Grad G" }, { "text": "We haven't sent anything to the list yet.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "Oh! OK.", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Postdoc H" }, { "text": "We're just compiling the list.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "I see.", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "I I added a few people who didn't who I knew had to be on it even though they didn't tell me.", "speakerName": "Grad G" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "Who specifically ask not to be.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Like Jane, for example.", "speakerName": "Grad G" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "You are on it, aren't you?", "speakerName": "Grad G" }, { "text": "Yeah, I am.", "speakerName": "Postdoc H" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "So, I w uh, just just for clarification. So \" found data \", they mean like established corpora of linguistics and and other fields, right?", "speakerName": "Postdoc H" }, { "text": "What they mean is stuff they don't have to fund to collect,", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "It sounds like such a t", "speakerName": "Postdoc H" }, { "text": "and especially good.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Yeah, OK.", "speakerName": "Postdoc H" }, { "text": "Well, I mean, \" found \" has, uh, also the meaning that's it very natural. It's things occur without any You know, the pe these people weren't wearing close - talking mikes, but they were recorded anyway, like the congressional hearings and, you know, for legal purposes or whatever.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "OK. But it includes like standard corpora that have been used for years in linguistics and other fields.", "speakerName": "Postdoc H" }, { "text": "Mark's aware of those, too.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "\" Hey, look what we found! \"", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "OK.", "speakerName": "Postdoc H" }, { "text": "That would be found data because they found it and it exists.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Hmm.", "speakerName": "Grad G" }, { "text": "Exactly.", "speakerName": "Postdoc H" }, { "text": "\" I found this great corpora. \" Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "They didn't have to collect it. Of course it's not \" found \" in the sense that at the time it was collected for the purpose.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "\" Psst. Want to buy a corpora? \"", "speakerName": "Grad G" }, { "text": "Yeah. OK, OK.", "speakerName": "Postdoc H" }, { "text": "But what he means is that You know, Mark was really a fan of getting as much data as possible from you know, reams and reams of stuff, of broadcast stuff,", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "That's interesting.", "speakerName": "Postdoc H" }, { "text": "web stuff,", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Postdoc H" }, { "text": "TV stuff, radio stuff. But he well understands that that's very different than these this type of meeting.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "It's not the same.", "speakerName": "Grad G" }, { "text": "But, so what? It's still it's interesting for other reasons.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "OK. Yeah. Just wanted to know.", "speakerName": "Postdoc H" }, { "text": "So, seems like we're winding down.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "Right? Many ways.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "You can tell by the prosody.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "So we should go go around and s", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "We should go around and say something interesting that happened at the meeting?", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Oh. Yes, we should do that.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "Rrrh!", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Now, I was already thinking about it, so.", "speakerName": "Grad G" }, { "text": "Oh! Good man.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "This is painful task.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Hmm.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "I.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "So, um, I really liked the idea of what I thought was interesting was the combination of the CrossPad and the speech. Especially, um, the interaction of them rather than just note - taking. So, can you determine the interesting points by who's writing? Can you do special gestures and so on that that have, uh, special meaning to the corpora? I really liked that.", "speakerName": "Grad G" }, { "text": "Well, I I just realized there's another category of interesting things which is that, um, I I found this discussion very, uh, i this this question of how you get at queries really interesting. And and the and I and the fact that it's sort of, uh, nebulous, what what that what kind of query it would be because it depends on what your purpose is. So I actually found that whole process of of trying to think of what that would involve to be interesting. But that's not really a specific fact. I just sort of thought we we went around a nice discussion of the factors involved there, which I thought was worthwhile.", "speakerName": "Postdoc H" }, { "text": "I had a real revelation about taking pictures. I don't know why I didn't do this before and I regret it. So that was very interesting for me.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Postdoc H" }, { "text": "Did you take pictures of the boards?", "speakerName": "Grad G" }, { "text": "Not that I.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Postdoc H" }, { "text": "The boards aren't really related to this meeting. I mean, I will take pictures of them, but.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "That's a good point.", "speakerName": "Postdoc H" }, { "text": "They're related to this morning's meeting.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "But.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Postdoc H" }, { "text": "To the pre previous meeting. That's right.", "speakerName": "Grad G" }, { "text": "OK. Well, that's why I'll take pictures of them, then.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "I'm gonna pass because I can't I mean, of the Jane took my answer.", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "Ah!", "speakerName": "Grad G" }, { "text": "So.", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "Oh.", "speakerName": "Postdoc H" }, { "text": "Um, so I'm gonna pass for the moment but y come come back to me.", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "For the moment.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Pass.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "I think I think \" pass \" is socially acceptable. But I will say uh, I will actually uh, a spin on different slightly different spin on what you said, this issue of, uh, realizing that we could take minutes, and that actually may be a goal. So that that may be kind of the test in a sense, test data, uh, the the template of what we want to test against, generating a summary. So that's an interesting new twist on what we can do with this data.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "I agree with Jane and Eric. I think the question of how to generate queries automatically was the most interesting question that came up, and it's something that, as you said, is a whole research topic in itself, so I don't think we'll be able to do anything on it because we don't have funding on it, uh, in this project. But, um, it's definitely something I would want to do something on.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "I wonder if work's already been done on it.", "speakerName": "Grad G" }, { "text": "Like e expert systems and stuff,", "speakerName": "Postdoc H" }, { "text": "Hmm.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "or? Uh - huh.", "speakerName": "Postdoc H" }, { "text": "Well, being more management lately than than research, I think the thing that impressed me most was the people dynamics and not any of the facts. That is, I I really enjoyed hanging out with this group of people today. So that's what really impressed me.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "How are we gonna find that in the data?", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Well, if we had people wearing the wireless mikes all the time.", "speakerName": "Grad G" }, { "text": "Oh, yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Yeah, I think.", "speakerName": "Grad G" }, { "text": "Well, I mean, one thing you could search for is were people laughing a lot.", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Right? So.", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "How happy were they?", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "I'd probably search for something like that.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "That actually has come up a couple times in queries. I was talking to Landay", "speakerName": "Grad G" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "and that was one of his examples.", "speakerName": "Grad G" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "When when did people laugh?", "speakerName": "Grad G" }, { "text": "That's great.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Find me a funny thing that Jeff said. Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "So we need a laugh detector.", "speakerName": "Grad G" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "Perfect.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Postdoc H" }, { "text": "Cuz that seems to be pretty common. Not in the congressional hearings.", "speakerName": "Grad G" }, { "text": "No.", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "Quiet sobbing.", "speakerName": "Grad G" }, { "text": "So I think we're done.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "OK.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "OK.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Great.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "Great.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "OK.", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "I think we're done.", "speakerName": "Grad G" }, { "text": "Great.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "h Do we need do I need to turn something off here, or I do unplug this, or?", "speakerName": "Postdoc H" }, { "text": "Now these we turn off. 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fd53c96c87574a0aa12e81d1d6d69306	{ "meetingId": "ES2008d", "transcriptSegments": [ { "text": "Okay um, welcome to our detailed design meeting. I'm pretty excited. Let's start it's approximately fifteen forty or something like that. Okay um the agenda we're gonna do an opening and then um I'll talk about the minutes from the last meeting, what we d discussed um, then we'll have the prototype presentation and a look at the evaluation criteria. We'll look at the finances and finally a do a production evaluation and close. So, starting off with the um last the last one, oh I don't have it here um, but we talked about energy, we're gonna use a kinetic battery um, we want to use a simple chip, because we're not gonna need a a shuffle um, we're gonna need a scroll um, we're choosing a latex case w in fruity colours that's curved and um we're using push buttons uh with a supplement of an on-screen menu. And it sounded like we had set um like eight or nine buttons, including five pre-set channels. Okay? Let's do the look and feel design presentation first.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Right, do you wanna start?", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Right, well we made three different prototypes and I guess we'll start with with this one. Um we have our colours not are not fixed, but this is the general shape. Um it's you hold it sort of either like like this in your left hand or you switch it over and uh it's easily adaptable to either hand. You can push the buttons with your thumb like a mobile phone, or you can push them with your index finger of your other hand, or even I mean there's a whole variety, you can hold it like this and press it with your same index finger. Uh we have the on off button at the tip, very visible, very big. We have our up and down buttons, which are also gonna be our channel selectors, and we have our little menu button here. If you push if you're just pushing these normally, they're the menu buttons, if uh the volume buttons rather. If you press select once, they become channel changing buttons. If we press select three times, the menu with the other features and pro possibly also with your T_V_ channel choices shows up, and you have your five presets down here. Um if people wanna grab hold of that, see how it feels in your hand. That's our number one prototype. Um do you wanna present the potato,", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "like a little lightning in it.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "or shall I present the Martian?", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Okay,", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "The little lightning bolt in it, very cute.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "um What We call that one the rhombus,", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "I could.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "The v the rhombus rhombus?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "uh the rhombus.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "That's the rhombus, yep.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Um this one is known as the potato, uh it's", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "it's a.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "how can I present it? It's an ergonomic shape, so it it fits in your hand nicely. Um it's designed to be used either in your left hand or or in your right hand. Um I've gone here just for just for four buttons on this one. Um the two blue buttons here are for adjusting the volume. So you've got volume up and volume down on the other side here. Um the red ones are for uh changing channels, channel up and channel down and that's um moves between your favourite channels that you've selected. Uh this middle button here brings up the on-screen menu and when you're working in the on-screen menu you use the other four buttons to navigate around the menu system and the middle button uh to select and that's basically it, that's the potato.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Um on, off?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Uh that would be one of your channels, basically,", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "so like channel zero would be t to switch switch the machine off,", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah we turn it off.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Could the middle button of the on-screen menu function as a power button?", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Um not really,", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "it would make it hard to turn the machine off, to turn your T_V_ off.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "If you pressed and held it maybe.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah yeah, that that'd be one way of doing it, yeah. That'd work, yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "If you like held it down, that would be on off.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah. On off, that's a possibility, yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "And then finally we have um the Martian or the pear, either way. Um it's a bit different, just a little bit more of a creative feel. Uh you have the on off toggle stem on the top. We have the five preset seeds.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "And then you have on the sides to make it a little bit more three-dimensional, you have your channel changing, volume changing buttons and your menu button right here in the middle. So, that's for your consideration as well, plus it's an interesting talking point to have standing up.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Let's pass.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "We figured it could stand up like this on your table, if you wanted it to, if I made the bot the bottom flat..", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Uh-huh..", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Sorry, what's the yellow one in the middle,", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Uh the menu select button..", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "I forgot.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Very interesting. I think that one's my favourite.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "So that's So that's our three prototypes. Um basically, in terms of making decisions, what we'd need to do is first of all decide on a form uh which of the three different shapes we want, then decide what kind of button layout we want, how many buttons, and then to choose what colours we want to make the buttons and if we wanna put any text on the device, like label on the buttons or put a brand name or or a logo on it or whatever.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "We were we were thinking that normally we'd go for fruity colours, but maybe we're also thinking that your sort of middle aged man, for an example customer, might not want a fruity coloured remote, so m maybe we'd have one version that's a bit toned down,", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Mm'kay.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "maybe with with less contrasts on it. Yeah, something still a little bright to make it hard to lose, but.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Would Yeah, but we don't want it to look like a kids' toy.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Now that was one thing that we brought up over email. I don't know if you picked up your email, but um the f the um feature that we considered for it not getting lost.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Right. Well we were we were talking about that a little bit when we got that email and we think that each of these are so distinctive, that it it's not just like another piece of technology around your house. It's gonna be somewhere that it can be seen.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "So we're we're not thinking that it's gonna be as critical to have the loss.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "But if it's like under covers or like in a couch you still can't see it.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "It's really Would it be very difficult to um just have an external device that like I dunno, you tape to your to your T_V_ um that when you press it you ha a little light beep goes off? Do you think that would be conceptually possible?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "I think.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "I think it would be difficult technologically,", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "because if your if your remote's lost it's probably under the settee and in that case you can't you can't send an infrared sing signal to it to find it,", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "s so it's I'm not quite sure how it would work", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "That's true, mm'kay.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "and then I wonder if it's if it's more just a gimmick then anything else. Uh I mean ho how many times do you really, seriously lose your remote control and would would a device like that actually help you to find it?", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "There might be something that you can do in the circuit board and the chip to make it make a noise or something, but it would take a lot more development than we have this afternoon.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm. Okay, that's a fair evaluation. Getting lost. Um we so we do we've decided not to worry about that for now. Okay'cause well, the designs are very bright, so you're right, they're gonna stick out, but um.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "So d do people have a preference as far as feel and functionality? Um.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "I feel like this is simil or it's sort of what already exists so if we're trying to think of something sort of like new and fun, even though this is like what you're init I'm initially drawn to, just'cause it's like comfortable and like not different. I sort of like this one, like I I don't know why, it just it's like small but still sort of like cute looking, I dunno. But I also like the b the side buttons on that one, like I think that's kind of neat.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "But I dunno how much any of this has to do with the fashionable, sort of cool looking thing that we also need to focus on.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Could we maybe have like an extra button on the top for on off? So then w we wouldn't have to have like a dual function?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm yeah,", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah, it's possible, yeah, yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Ah,", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "that's good, that's good.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "there we go.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Here, stick it on.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Put an extra the button on.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Sure.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Um uh why don't we do a product evaluation using your criteria, if you've developed some?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Well do we w like I think we're supposed to have one that we do it for.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Oh okay. Okay.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "That was.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "So where.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "I was a little vague on what exactly I'm supposed to do, but let me I have to like write something on the whiteboard, so.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Okay. Do you need this", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "or just write on the white board?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "No, I actually don't have like a PowerPointy thing,", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "'cause I think it would be redundant.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "I dunno.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "It's kind of like uh like a joystick kind of thing,", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Ooh.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "you know,", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Cool.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "kinda push it.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Hey.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "'Kay.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Maybe a little smaller than that.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "No, I kinda like it.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "That's hard to miss.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "It makes look more fruity as well.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Oh it does,", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "it's kind of like.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "It's like a deformed foot, I dunno..", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "There it could have a stem like that,'cause I do l kind of like the stem.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Like.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah. It almost helps you ge keep a grip too,'cause it goes in between fingers.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Interesting.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "I like this one.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Okay,", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Variety of colours are nice.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "is that where people are leaning then, the potato? I like the idea of the.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "I think I'm leaning towards the potato.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "I mean that's really gotten the simplicity of the buttons down, that one.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm. I am worried about like um using a menu. Um in that like i withing menus there are submenus, and so how do you get back to the main menu?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Hmm.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Well that on the iPod, for example, you just every time you wanna go back you hit the menu button again and it brings you back one level.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "But that has a menu button separate from a select button, whereas if this one's both the menu and the select button?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Good point.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "This is, it's the up and down buttons are used for scrolling up and down for a list of choices.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "You find the choice that you want and you press uh you press the right button uh.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Could these be used for going to submenus", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah. Yeah, so they're used for going into and out of your submenus, yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "or.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Maybe yeah,", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "maybe it can be one of those, if you press down and hold for two seconds, then it brings you back one level or something.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm. Okay. Well, as long as we have that in mind as we're designing it still, mm'kay.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Okay, so which one are we sort of roughly looking at to address whether or not it meets our s um necessities, the yellowy one is that.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "The potato? Are we leaning towards the potato?", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Potato.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "I think so.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Okay, well we can obviously change it after we go through each different one.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "So basically what we need to do is some of the things that we've talked about before we need to make sure that that remote actually does conform to the things that we said it was going to.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "So what we sort of wanna do is that we each need to separately rank each of the following things and then I'll tabulate an average just to make sure that it does meet that.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "So we'll just go through them one at a time and we'll just go around and each of you can tell me on a scale of one to seven with one being really extremely true and seven being not true at all, or false, if the remote that we've created conforms to the following criteria. So we can do this one first. First we wanna know if it meets the fancy look and feel um objective. So like in my opinion the for now at least, the yellow one is probably somewhere in the middle so I'm gonna say it's like a three. That's just my opinion.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "What does each of you.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "I I kind of think it's it's unique enough that I'd give it a one or a two.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Okay, well give it a number,", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "sorry.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "I will give it a one.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Um I dunno if it's it's creative. I dunno if fancy is the word I would use. I dunno if any of them are fancy in I'd say two, because c unique.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "I'll go for two.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "And two, awesome. Alright, and same sort of scale for functionality, is it functional? I think it's extremely functional, I'm gonna give it a one.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah, one.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "One?", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "I think it's it's functional, it's also pretty basic, so I'll give it a two.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Um functional. I think it'll get everything done, I think it might be a little confusing at first, um, I don't know if that's gonna be a later one.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Okay. Well there's some other ones, I will address that,", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Okay, then I'm gonna give it a two.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "yeah. Awesome, okay. Um we wanna know next if it's technologically innovative.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Did you give a functional?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah, she said it was one.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Um is it technologically innovative? Mm. Not really, I mean not so much,'cause we we don't have the L_C_D_ screen, we don't have fancy chip. Other than what it looks like, I dunno if it's really.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Well, the kinetic battery.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "In the battery, that's it.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "I kinetic battery is a big one, so.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "How many people would notice that, though?", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Mm. But it.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "But they'll notice it after like a year,", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "but we know it's there.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "they'll be like hey, I have never changed the battery.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "And if it's made of like latex, that whole idea, that's pretty cool.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Mm. Just the material.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "I'll give it a three.'Cause it we could've picked a lot of features that would've made it really.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah. I I would say that it's Yeah, like fancy versus creative it's it's different. But does that equal innovative? I dunno. I'll give it a three.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Alright. Everyone else?", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "I'd say it's technologically it's not it's not unique, I mean it's it's just it is just pushbuttons um, so I I'd give it a four.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Think I'm gonna go with the four as well.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm'kay.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "I really like that kinetic battery though.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Next, is it easy to use? Just so you know, easy to learn will be separate,", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Mm'kay.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "so don't overlap them.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "I think it's really easy to use. I'll give it a two.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Um I'll give it a one. Pretty hard to mess up.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "I'll say one.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Uh let's say two.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Alright. Um we next wanna see if it has a spongy quality", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "and if indeed it's made of latex or rubber I it's spongy all the way..", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Give it a one.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "I wonder if it bounces when you drop it.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Ooh, that you couldn't.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "it'd be harder to break,", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "harder to lose..", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "'Cause there would be less impact maybe,.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Iain, what do you give it?", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "I'd I'd give it a one.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Alright and the next is, does it integrate some notion of fruits and vegetables?", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Uh um.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Well, is it gonna be yellow?", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "It it might be,'cause that's our corporate colour, isn't it?", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "That's right, yeah, corporate colour, we didn't keep that in.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "um well", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "We might wanna keep it yellow.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "if we I know it would make it a little less c a little more confusing, but if we had all the buttons in black, and a design in and the outside in yellow, that'd be our corporate one and we could also have alternative colours, one a more conservative one, one that's more fruity.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah, but if you had like a silvery kind of white or something.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah,.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Um and can we have like an R_R_ inscribed on the bottom or something?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "If we had a yellow Sure.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Oh, yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Fruity, so fruity.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "So.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Alright, so I think it it's.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "it was inspired by the potato, so I think it's pretty fruity.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "I think i it's kind of mangoey too.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Oh, mango", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Mangoey is better, yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yes.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "I.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "that that.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "I like mangoes.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "okay, I'm giving it a one the mango put me over.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "That's a much more trendy than a potato.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "What are what's everyone's numbers?", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "one.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Uh two.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "One.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Alright um, and does the design match the appropriate behaviour? Remember earlier we discussed that people don't use a lot of buttons, that they use the channel flipping and the volume the most. I think we really took that into account a lot, so I'm gonna give it a one.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah, me too.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Uh one.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Did you say one, Rose?", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yes.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Okay um, also we talked earlier about R_S_I_ and wanting to prevent um any sort of like Carpal Tunnely kind of thing. Do we think that the latex sort of grip appropriately takes that into account? I think I'll give it a two,'cause I almost feel like no matter what you do, something is gonna happen.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "It's gonna be hard.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah, yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "And if it's repetitive movement it is gonna be only four buttons that you're constantly pushing, but um.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Um um worth the risk, I think.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "I like how it fits in the hand though so I I'd go with a two.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah. I'll I'll say two as well. Because older people that aren't used to like texting with the thumb might find it a bit at first,", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "'Kay.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "but.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah I'll I'll say two.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Alright, awesome. And the ease of learning it. I know you were saying that you're a little bit nervous about that, I dunno. It sort of reminds me of the iPod. I just got mine, I still haven't read the instruction book and I'm doing okay, so.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "and I'm not good at learning technology. So I'll give it a two.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "The menu system and the the fact that multiple buttons are used for different things might be a bit confusing, but I think if it's one it's one of those things that it might take you five minutes to figure out, but you'll have it afterwards.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "So I'd I think I'd give it a two I guess.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "I think it it's probably a little harder then most remotes to learn, because you have to you have to use the menu system and you have to tell it what your favourite channels are", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Oh, good point.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "and that could take a bit of learning at first, but", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "once you've, yeah once you'd learned how to use it, I think it is a lot easier. So I'd I'd give it a four.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "I think I'd give it a four too. It's a pretty high learning curve, it'll be easy once you've done it, but.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm. Alright, um also earlier we had something about losing it and so now we're not addressing that at all, so.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "We we.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "I think we can kind of say we addressed it with colour, but.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Okay, so in terms of not losing it, do you think that on a scale of one to seven, how easy or hard is it to lose? I'm gonna I'm gonna give it a four,'cause I think that you can still if it's in between somewhere where you can't see it, you're kind of not gonna find it,", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "but anywhere else it's gonna stand out.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Um I'd say I'd give it uh a three, I guess it depends on how tidy you are normally.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Mm I'd give it a four.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Um I'll give it a five'cause i it would be easy to lose something like that, yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Small too.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Alright, we also said simplicity, how w how well does it address just being simple?", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Simple to use or simple in design? Do you know?", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "I think overall,'cause we had said before our two main things were simplicity and fashion,", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "so those are the next two things we're gonna look at. Separate from fancy, like that sort of thing.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Um it like wants to be simple but it's not like totally totally simple, so I'm gonna give it a two.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "I'm give it a three I guess.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "I'll give it a two.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Three.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Alright, and fashionable?", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "It's totally fashionable. I'd give it a one.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "It's hot, I mean it's a mango, come on.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Mango.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "I mean how fashionable can you make a remote? I think it's bringing technology and fashion together real really well.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "I dunno.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "I don't think it's quite as fashionable as my robot remote", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "I do like uh the little Martian one..", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "or alien or whatever he was.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah, the toggle on off switch, it's really appealing.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Number.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Um two.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Three.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "One.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "And does it meet our like demographic need sort of for international appeal, that whole thing? Just that it would se serve our audience. I don't see why not.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm. I think as long if we offer in a in at least three different colour arrangements. Um yeah, that's good.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "So I'll give it a a two.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah, I'll say two.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Alright, did anyone have any other features that they think were important that we didn't talk about?", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Well um we didn't we didn't address the fact that it does need to b have a corporate logo, so let's let's make sure we keep that in mind that we ha that one of our colours concepts is corporate and has an R_R_ on it.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Shall we uh Well I think all of them should have an R_R_.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "All of them should have R_R_, yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "And so we're gonna do that, so it will address it,", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm. Mm'kay.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "fine. Okay.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Lovely.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "That's me.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Okay, now we're gonna look at finances. Um I have an Excel sheet that we're actually gonna calculate the cost um, so let me exit out of this first. Okay um.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Oh my..", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Whoa.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "I know. Let me one more space. Gonna zoom in real quick. Okay. Hand dynamo. We're using kinetic battery,", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Uh we're n using kinetic, yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "right? Um and we're having one per One, okay.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Um electronics.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Single.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Simple.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Simple, simple rather.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Simple.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Mm'kay. Um the case.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Uh uh uh double-curved.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Guess it's double-curved. It is pretty curvy.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "It's very curvy,", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "so okay..", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah I never did get a picture of those so I don't really know. Our case material supplements oops, we just skipped by them.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Well don't we need plastic, and.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "No, we we the plastic is the plastic for the inside is assumed. The supplement is.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Provided, okay.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "The wood?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Oh, I guess it was rubber rather than latex.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "I mean the rubber.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "It was rubber and special colour, right?", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm, okay.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Do we have more than one special colour?", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah, we're using we're gonna need at least two special colours.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Uh well.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Special colours, isn't it?", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Um.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "I don't know what the se the basic colour is though.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Per.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "I dunno where it yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Well, but we know that we're having at least three colours,", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "So let's y say three.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "so.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Well, are we talking about on each colour combination or are we, you know, we'll like we'll have yellow and black. Is that two special colours?", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah, I dunno. That I thi", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Or or is white and black, then two more or.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "I thought that would be under yours.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Uh. I guess it's three,", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "We'll just say three.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "three three.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Maybe the R_R_ will be in colour as well,", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Alright.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "so yeah. Interface, we're doing push buttons. And how many buttons do we have?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "We have six.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "We've got five.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Six.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Six, with the power.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Oh.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Oh", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "six.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "no, five..", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Anything else?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah. No. Oh, we'll do we wa Are the buttons in special colour, special f I didn't get information on.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Oh,", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Oh wait.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "buttons oh, so um. So the case material will just have one colour, right,", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Well,", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "but then the buttons will be in special colours?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "does it.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "but if we're making multiple varieties of this is where I'm getting confused.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "We're saying per unit.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "per unit, okay, okay.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah, per unit.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Okay, so each unit will only have one colour on their.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Alright, and each button s", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "but the case is could have up to thr I mean the buttons could ea could be up to three colours,'cause that how it's designed there.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "I like it like that.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "So.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah, okay.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Special form? They're all kind of just push button,", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "No,", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "right?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "I think they're fine.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Special material?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Material, we want them rubber as well probably, yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Uh. Oh do I have to do it per button, do I?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "No, I don't think so. I think they're.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "if they're all gonna be rubber then it that's what it matters.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah,'cause it wouldn't make sense otherwise,", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "'cause for the whole mat case material it's only one.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "It's I mean it's two to make it rubber.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Oh wait, so maybe.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Thirteen point seven.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Oh oh.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah, what can we reduce?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Okay, let's have our buttons all be one colour.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Mm, I kind of like the buttons.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Let's see what that would do. It's only gonna bring us down to thirteen point three anyway.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Alright.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Okay um, are we sure this is double-curved?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Uh.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Maybe it's single-curved,", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "We have no idea.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "we have no idea.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "I dunno, I didn't get any pictures. It's single curved.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "It's single curved.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Why not?", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Well it's not the yeah. Okay, it's the kinetic battery that's kind of expensive, but we have a simple chip, single curve,", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "case material is rubber and it's a special colour,", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "but that's important. Six buttons we have to have six buttons.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "That is important. How did it get more expensive, what did you just change?", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "What?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "It was it was thirteen and now it's fifteen.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "No, okay, maybe not. I don't know what just happened. Now it's twelve.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "We", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "What was our target price again?", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Twelve point five.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Twelve point five. Hey hey.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Twelve point five. So we're just just about there.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "So we're okay, I think.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "We're all set then.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Ish.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Okay, we're all set.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Alright.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Um save. I saved that to our um our big shared folder, so you know. Um okay, back to agenda. Um are the are the costs under twelve fifty Euro? Yes.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yes.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah, they are.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Let's move on to the project evaluation. Project process. Satisfaction with for example the room for creativity, leadership, teamwork, the means, any new ideas found. So I guess what we're gonna talk about here is just evaluating how we created this project, the information we got on the news, how we used it, if we were able to um, you know, use our creativity with the information, um how how well I guess I led it, um the how well we worked together as a team, um the digital pens, the whiteboard.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Well. I felt very creative..", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "I think we've been successful", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "I enjoyed making the prototypes.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "in that we've achieved almost all of the design goals that we've set.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "and we've come up with a finished project and we just about got cost.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "I think we could've done even better with a little bit more information,", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "like what's a single-curved case, how many colours, what do colours count", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "things, but given given what we had I think that we did we did really well. Um I think we worked together pretty well.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah, I mean if I'd had more market research on the fruits and vegetables, maybe we could've taken that into account.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "But the fruits and vegetables, they really my creativity, so.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "I know, I really did, the the whole mango idea was great.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Do you think we could.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "No, I mean I thought the pen was a little distracting for me personally, like its heaviness, and like just being so conscious of like turning the pages, I dunno. That was a bit of a distraction.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "That was the last one, like I chose not to do a PowerPoint'cause I didn't think it made sense to, so I liked that I had the option to do that and just to take my own notes and that whole sort of thing.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm. I think we all made um very significant contributions,", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "I don't think anybody dominated it, which I thought was really good, like each of us was able to um like each of you had your information and I uh I tried to facilitate it without like taking over, um.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "I like our little finished products.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Can we market this as the mango remote?", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "They're funny.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Really cute.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "I kind of want one.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Should we have that somewhere on the packaging? I have a little R_R_.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "I'm trying to think of a good pun that I could add there.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "I know,", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "let's think of it like a little jingle.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Um.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "I like the R_R_, that's gonna be etched in.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yes. Hopefully not with just my fingernail at some point but um it's quite a useful little gadget. All thanks to Iain for the design of that one.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": ". Okay um", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm. What did we find for new ideas?", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "new ideas found?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "People should really base their remotes on fruits and vegetables.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Definitely. Or or at least be c p creative enough to think of toggle switches mm", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "etcetera.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "I I am really into the idea of kinetic batteries now after reading about them.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Oh, I'm so excited.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "That was.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah, I didn't even know they existed.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "I I knew you can get watches that had them, like really quite expensive watches that just never need a battery,'cause you're always moving your wrist.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "But in other things, I think it'd be really good.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "I thi yeah, that's awesome. Um okay, closing. Are the costs within the budget? Is the project evaluated?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yes.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Now there's the final questionnaire and meeting summary. Um so, this is the great product kids, I think we've created something really interesting and that we have a market for it, um especially if we can produce it at twelve point three", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "which we hope um yeah. Make sure in your questionnaire to put down criticisms of both the process and the um the final results and.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah, Real Reaction.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "I do like the Martian remote.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "If we could choose more than one, that would be my second choice.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Oh, that would definitely be my second choice.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Although the tog toggle", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "I'm afraid I would.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "That's cool. Let's all let's all go for the yellow.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "I would break it. I would break it.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "It's cool. I think I would break it.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "It started because I wanted to have it as st as a stem", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Break the stem off.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "and then alright, so.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Oh that's funny.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Is it started as a pear, but then it started looking more and more like a Martian", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Oh", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "when I put the.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Kind of looks like a penguin, like with no eye.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Take me to your leader..", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "yeah, it's kind of a penguin.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "I like that it stands up.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Mm-mm.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Wow, maybe I should market it to some remote control company now.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "So are are.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "That was bound to happen.$", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Oh, sad.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "poor little thing..", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Mm'kay, congratulations. Um. Anything else to say?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Nothing will come up until after our meeting's supposed to be over,", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Alright.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "its all timed.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Um anybody have.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Oh.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Oh..", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "I got more master classes, anybody else wanna like take a master's class?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "It's really funny that you got spam in your work emails.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah, but check it out. So like there are all these like links, they don't go anywhere.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "But all that you need to keep in mind your knowledge management. Um just wanna make sure you do.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "No the first one that you sent like I didn't realise that it was a joke and I was like why did she send this to us?", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Oh.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "It's very it's very work relevant,", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "It is.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "'cause people send spam a lot.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yes definitely.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Let's see,", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "I'm very sad that I didn't get any links to the corporate website..", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Oh here you can you can view.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "what did I get through the corporate website? It's just inspiration about circuit boards.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "You can just see what's up.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Wow.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah it's it's really deep. Hold on. Takes a little while to get excited to load. That the Excel thing is pretty cool.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yes.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah, that is pretty neat.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "I love Excel,", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Here, like, basically", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "it's one of my favourite programs.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "it's like inspiration, basically I'm gonna give you two sentences on fashion and that kind of thing, see. You didn't miss out that much.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "I see, mm.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah, my inspiration from from last time is the in interior of a remote control being taken apart bit by bit, talking about circuit boards.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Spongy.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "I learned a lot actually.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "I could probably take apart a remote control now if I really needed to.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Oh wow. This one was cooler. I got a whole table and everything.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Now I have all about circuits and chips and transponders and I wrote it all down, because I thought it would be relevant, like all the different parts of the inside of a remote control, but then they're like, you don't actually need this you just need to talk about the case.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "That's like mine it was like, would you prefer an L_C_D_ screen or a multifunction remote control? And then it didn't have like any kind of table, like awesome, I'm glad they asked that question and didn't report the result.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "I I thought it was a little tricky having to hand around this thing.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "It's really interesting though. Yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "We had a lot of the um otherwise the technology today was kinda cool.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "I think. Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "That was really neat how I got emails", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "and.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "We didn't we didn't use the whiteboard that much.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "No.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "No.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Although I don't see how we could have very l at least for me", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "I yeah. If I'd gotten pictures of the different parts of the case, the different looks of the case, I would have probably drawn them up,", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "but.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "'Cause we weren't like voting on anything and I think usually, like whiteboards are good, you know like crossing out ideas, or like if we had had like a brainstorming period.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah, we could've put our brainstorming stuff up there rather than just talking about it,", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "but with only four people it doesn't really make sense.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "But I thought we were good orally.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "And with and with the PowerPoint that we can all look at, like you can do all those things pretty much on PowerPoint", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "I think if you had a larger group.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Get crazy.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "as that's not as necessary to have.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "And these might've made us more willing to like take notes than to like write up them here,", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "'cause we all needed them separately, kind of on the whiteboards in this room.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Because we're all gonna be working in different places.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "We if we were all gonna stay in here all the time, then having the notes up on the whiteboard would've been alright,", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "but everyone needs their own, like specific notes, I guess.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Now when you were um creating your um prototypes here, did you work together or did you like do separate projects?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Uh we we worked together,", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "um but we were making like we sort of made different shapes and then discussed how the how the buttons might work,", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "um and how we could like improve on the on the design.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "So it was a bit of both really, we just kind of started out by each taking a colour of clay and just fooling around with it and I came up with that rhombus shape", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "and he came up with the sort of potatoey, mangoey shape, and then just went from there really.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Cool.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "It was fun. So well done with the management, I felt well managed.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Oh thanks.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "I think we did well in first of all giving our meetings the time,", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "It's kinda fun.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "and second we actually we we did a good job of making firm decisions at the ends of the meetings.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "And I.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Sorry..", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "That happened to me all the time though.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "I know what happens sometimes is that you tend to sort of have meetings and then people sorta drift away without anything actually really being decided.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "But I think here we got we got clear and and decisive decisive points at the end of the meetings, so that we we knew where to go on from there.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah, I was quite worried at the end of the last meeting that we weren't getting we didn't really have enough information to make firm decisions,", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "but we were able to do it regardless, so. I'm not usually a very decisive person, so it helped to have people say this needs to be done in five minutes.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "This is what we'll do.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "I found that we did we could have used another five or ten minutes sometimes in the meetings.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Especially last time,", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah, for some of the meetings, yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah I think the last time we had a lot of information, but at the same time not quite enough,", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah,.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "you know what I mean,", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "like we we couldn't answer every single question.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Um but.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Right. And I I felt the first two meetings, that I was coming in with no information,", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "and not sort of made me really like, ooh I don't know, throwing together PowerPoint out of no no information and then last time it was like the opposite. I had so much information and so much to talk about.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "It was interesting what came out like later, like as I was doing the when I was doing the breakdown on the agenda that they gave me um, that more points came out from your presentation even.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah. Mm.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Um. I'm a little I am a little disappointed that we didn't do a um something for losing the remote, because that was kind of a big point.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah. that was something like in order to talk about that we would've had to have actual knowledge about circuit boards and things like.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "About yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Well the problem was, even when we just were creating from the Excel file, there wasn't like a option to select to somehow have it included,", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "so there was no we could be like yeah, it has it included.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "I think we were.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "There was no way for us to have", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Considered the re", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "written down that it was really there.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "I think we were just getting overenthusiastic with the task.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Well", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "it's interesting that they.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "I think we really got into it, I mean I got into it as the day went on and I got really like, ooh I'm designing a remote control, I dunno if that's just me,", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm, yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "but.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "It was interesting though that they put that fifty percent of people say they have frustration with losing their remote and yet they didn't provide us with information to um we weren't provided with information to discuss that.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "I know that like people people have like things they can put on their keys that you press it and it'll beep, but I but I'm sure that would require some kind of technology", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "that I just don't know what it is, but.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "I think there are some of those like infomercial remotes that have things so you won't lose them.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "I dunno. I mean we were talking about it and like i in my household at least, there's only about two places that the remote is ever", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Hmm.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "'cause there's only one T_V_ and there's only like three chairs.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "That's like saying you're never gonna lose your keys, and I always do, anyway. You'll lose'em in your pocket,", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "like you just will forget that or you like put it down somewhere that like made sense and then not remember,", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "there's always ways to lose things.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "It d yeah, it depends on how organised you are personally, but.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah, or like I guess what the setup of the house is too.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "But, I mean I am notorious for losing my keys,", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "I just I guess I've just never lost the remote. I put my keys in the refrigerator the other night and couldn't find them.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "'Cause I was putting groceries away.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "That's funny.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Oh.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "You you're taking stuff from a bag and putting them in the refrigerator and then go back to my room.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Can't get in..", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Can't get in, look all around the kitchen. Definitely in the vegetable drawer.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "That's funny.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "So.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "I always do that, leaving it in my coat, and then like using a different coat.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yep.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "But I guess it's'cause we don't carry remotes around that much.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah. Can't really take it into the other room.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah. Maybe with our little robot one we could've had him have a robot, alien, pear, whatever he is, have a little voice like, I am located.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Oh a G_P_S_ system, internal G_P_S_.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Oh man. Here you go.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "We should make one that walks by itself..", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Although if it's sitting still for too long. Yes I.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "That really could get up and walk away.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Or or like some crazy like electro-magnet, that you push it and it'll go zoom to the T_V_ and stick there..", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Or little Or just just a wheel, you know.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Just if you like you'd have a remote for your remote, that'll..", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Well, but if you could attach them to the T_V_, then you can.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "zoom Yeah. Hmm. All kinds of possibilities.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Mm. Okay. Sorry, I'm just um trying to update my minutes. I decided to you know how I sent you the email saying that PowerPoint minutes will be complimentary, rather than like repeating them.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Just gonna make I'm making full minutes, so that it'll include all of the agenda and all that.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Oh.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "'Cause that seems a little more useful.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Wow.'Cause you've had like the most typing and organising to do.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "But I didn't have like information to sloth through either, so.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah, I guess How much of your PowerPoint was already done for you, every meeting.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Most of it, mm-hmm. I added slides, um I added a couple slides each time,", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Oh.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "but that was about it.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Okay. Yeah, I didn't even think about adding slides,'cause I would just get slides with titles on them", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "and fill them all in w didn't even think about adding more.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Well, the thing was they would provide y an agenda with s like several points, but it wouldn't have a slide for each point. And that's the only way I remember that I need to go other that point.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Ah yeah..", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "I know personally when I do PowerPoint, that's what I do and so I had it once, even if it was just like the title of it, like the three presentations, and I would do your three.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "You have you have to have the slogan on it or can it just be like.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "The slogan on it?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "No, no, definitely not.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "No no no.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Okay good.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "We.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "'Cause I was like, it could go around the outside..", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "No, I don't think we need to.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "I think we just need the um the R_R_,", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "I think the R_ and R_, especially if the yellow and black one.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Is it yellow and blue?", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Or yellow and blue. Lemme go to the web page.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah, I was just kinda going by the web page,'cause they didn't give me any clear, like yellow, grey, or.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Oh I guess it is black, grey. Grey is better than black, doesn't look so bumblebeeish.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "I don't really like yellow in general.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Hey now I understand the random like newsclippings.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "But it.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Finish meeting now..", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Wasn't it interesting that um I thought it was interesting that our market marketing um expert did not agree with the marketing um", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yes.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "the marketing choices,", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "you know, like", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "I will", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "that was a bit of a conflict.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "I just feel like if you're really doing like a a really big market evaluation, you wouldn't just have like one set of source,", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "it's kind of an they were so not backed up, it would just be a sentence like we did a survey, this is what people said.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "S mm, I dunno.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "People are stupid.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "I guess it i it sort of a grey, isn't it? Yellow and grey, but then the slogan's in blue.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Well we got some grey and we got some blue buttons, we're good.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah. Well we don't have the right colour clay anyway.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Maybe, like I don't know. That could always be.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Well we're not, sadly, going to actually be producing this, so.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Oh.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "If they ever come out with potato.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Potato mango shaped remotes.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "I'm gonna have to.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "I'm claiming it intellectual property.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "I can't believe a whole day is gone. I don't feel like it's been that long.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "I know.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Get sucked in. 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{ "meetingId": "ES2003c", "transcriptSegments": [ { "text": "Alright, yeah. crack on. Okay so we'll start off with a quick overview of the minutes. I think to sum up the last meeting, would be to say um the requirements that we've um set out. Those are we were going to go for what seemed to be a fairly minimal design based on uh a small joystick, L_C_D_ and a couple of other buttons for navigation um with power being I suppose one of the main single purpose buttons. Um we were also going to use novelty of being able to locate the remote control again via a small transmitter with any luck, the idea to try and separate us and also because of the minimal design um looks like we'll be able to be fairly adventurous in the actual physical shape of our remote control with any luck. Um that pretty much sums up the last one. So we'll just crack on, um like to maybe start with the Industrial Designer if it's possible.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Uh uh okay.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Um uh the con today is the concep today.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "I'll just.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "This uh meeting is the conceptual design phase and is um Sorry about this.. And is to cover things like um what the parts might be made of, um, can we uh outsource these from elsewhere, um will we have to construct any items ourselves?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Uh I have a presentation I just saved it in the uh the folder.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah, okay well I'll just uh I'll load it up then. Um. Which one do y", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Uh.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Oh, interface concept?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah, that's me.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "That's you. We've got trend watching, that's you.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "It's uh Components design.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Components design.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": ".", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Alright. So Uh. The case uh le that's what I wrote first of all, could be plastic our plastic. Uh but later on we found out that um it can be rubber as well, or titanium or even wood. So uh we decide what it's gonna be. Probably plastic. Uh we need the infra-red transmitter. Get that off the shelf. Uh joystick we'll probably if we're gonna use it, um could be plastic w or rubber even as well. Um if you go on to the next slide. Uh If you go on to f uh findings, it's like two or three slides down.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Right. So, this is what I found we can use. Uh three different types of batteries. Um can either use a hand dynamo, or the kinetic type ones, you know that they use in watches, or else uh a solar powered one.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Okay. Now,", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Um.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "the kinetic one, we've'cause that's the ones where like you the movement causes it.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Cost is Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Um the bat uh the battery for a a watch wouldn't require a lot of power, would be my one query.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Is a kinetic one going to be able to supply enough power?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "There's also a watch moves around a great deal more.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Do you think?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Uh.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "W", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah, I don't think it would. Um. And solar cells, I dunno about that.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Uh. We should probably just use conventional batteries. Um, just like in usual remote controls.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Which I suppose as well would allow us to go off the shelf again, you'd say?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Um. Yeah. Um. And these are three different types of or two different types three different types of shapes you can have. Uh one is a flat one, and then more original ones are single curved one or one with a double curved. Um the materials are tha there as you can see, but uh you can't have a titanium one for a double curved,", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Titanium, the really strong metal, titanium?", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "uh which would be Yeah,", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Is it not also it's expensive?", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "and light. Uh, i think so as well, yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Um. Um.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "They make mountain bikes out of that, don't they. So it's really light as well.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Curious. Um, I don't know if you'd be able to off the top of your head or not, the single curved and double curved, would you be able to give an example?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Um. T yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Um could you maybe draw something? I you don't doesn't have to be perfect, it's just'cause I'm not quite sure if I understand the difference between the two.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Uh. Well for a curved, well I was thinking to f for to sit in your the palm of your hand. Uh maybe like this, with the uh joy pad here. Joystick here. And maybe um an okay button around here, so that the thumb can uh use it quite easily. Um I don't exactly Double curved. It probably means this is probably double curved. Uh whereas a single curved would be like that. I guess. Or not necessarily.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "So it might literally just be.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Two curves.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "okay.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah like that. Whereas this is two curves. Um so I guess that's what they mean by uh double curve.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Alright.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Um which obviously it looks better than the single curve, but uh you can't have it in titanium, which is uh a nice material. Uh", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "and for the buttons, um it can have the scroll wheel which they use in mouses for com P_C_s. Uh but um it requires a more expensive chip to use, and if you wanna use L_C_D_ it's even more expensive. So you have to decide, there's trade-offs there. Um if you want the buttons to be oh yeah, if you have a double curve uh control and it's rubber, then you have these rubber buttons as well. But you're gonna ha I reckon you're gonna have to have uh key a number keypad anyway for the amount of channels these days. You wouldn't want to just have to scroll through all the channels to get to the one you want. You wanna enter just the number of it, if you know it. So um I reckon we're gonna have to have a number keypad anyway. Do you think?", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Okay, that was definitely something we can talk about. Um so you've got a little bit about the the chip that we might require as well?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah. So, depends where gonna spend the money if you want the f fancy L_C_D_ display.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Um, do you have any idea so far, like when we're saying that we'd need an advanced chip for an L_C_D_, does that in shoot the cost up by a drastic amount? Or?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Need an advanced chip for the L_C_D_. Is that did I.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Well I think compared to say just pressing buttons.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yep.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Advanced, like three eight six advance.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "if you press a button that sends a certain transmission through the infra-red, whereas I think if we're controlling the L_C_D_ we definitely require a much more powerful chip. Just compared to the chip you would use for pushing buttons I think is the the point being made.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Okay. Okay, sure.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "If I've not over-stepped. Yeah?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah i", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Okay, um should I go on, or go back?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Um.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Mm, if we only have twelve Pounds fifty, twelve Euros, not even twelve Pounds. Twelve Euros, what's that, like eight pounds or something like that, nine Pounds?", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Well we'd also be relying on the um the bulk buying in producement and such. I assume.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Okay, that's good point.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "We have to look into the costs of those. So, sorry.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Uh the previous slides just explain what's in the internal components of the uh remote control. If you go to the one before that uh so it just says what it does, translate the key press into an infra-red signal and this is received by the T_V_. Uh the chip just needs to detect the signal or detect the key press and then uh it'll send it to the tr the amplifier.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "And uh then the next slide just shows how the uh copper wires uh interact with the buttons, the rubber buttons, uh to uh get sent to the chip. So that's just how the control works inside. Um we have to decide on what buttons we're gonna use.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": ".", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Um.. So in the information that you've been supplied, how feasible would you say that the idea of using an L_C_D_ looks?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Um I think we can do it if uh we use conventional batteries and not have solar cells or kinetic. Um and then maybe use single curved uh case. Because we might need it to be curved for the uh thumb to use the joyst joystick easily. Um and then you'll need the advanced chip obviously for the L_C_D_.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Um I mean that sounds like quite a good requirement to me. Um conventional battery would seem to make sense.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Um I'm not sure if there's any cost differences between single and double curved and I'm I don't know about anybody else, but plastic or rubber as a traditional form of casing would seem to be a good way forward?.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm. Um I'm actually gonna be bold and go oo go straight for rubber um for reasons I'll go into uh in more detail.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "I also have a preference for rubber.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Okay, well um.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Based on my research.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah, well will we move on to user interface, and.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": ".", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "yeah? Um sorry,", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "as long as were you? Yeah. Okay.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yep I'm finished.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Um and d d d interface concept.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yep. Now I'm gonna have to work between the uh the slides and the uh and the white board", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "'cause I actually I have some fairly concrete things this time. Uh um I was given a an H_T_M_L_ file giving um various ideas from uh from other previous remote control designs, and pretty much decided to just dump them all. I wasn't very impressed by them and they didn't seem to re uh nothing I saw seemed to meet the sorts of design specifications that we're going for today. Um so what I ra rather than looking at other remotes, uh ra oomp be better to simply look at the human hand. Um and try and f um and try and figure out a way of laying out the elements we've already decided on, um so that if r a if so that the finger is e each finger or thumb is wherever it needs to be already. Um so uh next slide, if you please. Um and what we've basically decided on was the the um the joy uh the joystick, two function buttons and the L_C_D_, just keep it paired down to the absolute minimum. I don't actually think we need the um the numeric keypad because if you m because one of the menus that we could have available um v via via the L_C_D_ is one where you scroll through channels, so if there's something f and be bear in mind since this isn't meant to work for um", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "digital.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "f f f for di for digital or um or for or for cable, whatever,", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Ah, okay.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "you're basically looking at four or five terrestrial channels, and then um your V_C_ uh and then the channel through your V_C_R_ and or D_V_D_ player. And or um box. So it's not I'm not really excessively concerned about that. You must have two two modes, basic mode, where um the joystick's uh left right left right for channels, up down for volume, um and the uh uh and the menu mode for uh further functions. Um now the reason I was particularly interested in using rubber for this is that if we're going to have a highly ergonomic design, um it needs to be ergonomic for left or right handed people. Um, so you", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Can I just jump in slightly there?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "That would suggest the double curved design's probably going to be most appropriate, then.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yes, absolutely.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "okay.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Um, basi basically what I basically what the what be having um, I would say, the the whole thing articulated at two points, so that if you if you're handing it from a lef uh left or right handed user you can adjust it so that the um the L_C_ the L_C_D_ and the uh The joystick would be in the right place. And also this is a rather nicer de uh design gimmick that the the um you know the whole thing you know it should have sort of organic feel to it", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "that it should be, you know, soft to touch and can be moved around all nice. Um okay", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "on to on to the next uh to the next slide.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Um, yeah. Just to let you know we'll probably be quite tight for time as well,", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "because I think you've probably got a lot you'd like to say, I guess.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah,'kay basically um I can add pretty pictures to this. The um Assuming the hand the hand to be in about sort of this position, um hol uh holding the remote, the um the joystick unit should rest over the uh the joint of the f of the uh four finger so that it's directly accessible for the thumb. Um and it would need t there would need to be a it would need to be articulated just below that so that it could be switched around for uh left or right handed users. So. You then have a grip section that can be more or less the same irrespective of handedness. You just have big two big buttons that cover most of the area so it can in the upper part, one for the four finger, one for the middle finger. Um, and that.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Is this the joystick?", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Th this part here is the joystick. This would be the actual grip. Probably where you'd want to have the battery as well.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "That would be probably the bulkiest part. And you then have, at the uh at the bottom, the L_C_D_, and this would need to be articulated as well. And basically I'd want this to rest here, right at the base of the wrist. So it would fit just nicely in the hand. And again, this part could be rotated, so it can So so so that it can be adjusted to either left or right handed user. Um So the t uh the top function button in basic mode would be the on off switch and menu mode would be the enter button. And then the bottom function buttons switches between between modes. Um now programming it actually thi this is one thing I've found with um the replacement remote control. Programming them can be a right pain. So I thought th the simplest way around that would be to have um a cable to connect it to the computer some some fair iv fairly fairly simple software on the computer just so that you on your computer just so that you could um pr program it at a rather in a rather more comfortable interface. And you could download programs for it from uh for uh T_V_s from all sort of main manufacturers. Um though you i it would be necessary to have uh have a m uh have a ha have a mode for programming it without the computer, uh just in case there are there are still people left out there who don't have them yet. Um. But uh. Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "That's that's my idea.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Okay. Excellent, right. Um uh.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm.'Kay.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "File open.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "We go.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Trend watching.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Okay. So uh to gather my research, two basic methods. We compared uh whether people want the remote control to do a lot of stuff or they want it to look cool. And then we we research uh fashion trends in Europe, what's what's the new black,", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "you know, as it goes. Next slide please. Uh we found, in order of importance, people want the remote control to look cool more than they want it to to be cool. As in they want it to do a lot of good s they want it to look like it does a lot, and if it does do a lot that's a bonus, but they don't care so much, you know. They want it to be that's sounds a bit like a contradiction. Technology technical technologically innovative. People want it to be that, but s still they care more about the way it looks than what it does. So like the interface is really important. And easy to use, it it just so happens that uh from the second point to the third point is twice as important I mean the second point is twice as important as the third point. People want it I is it has to be cooler than easy to use, you know, if it has the newest features, even if it's difficult to use, prefer it to have the newest features. And if it's easy to use that's a bonus. The fashion, now this is seems a bit odd to me, but fruit and veg is the new is the new black for furniture, for clothes, for shoes. How that relates to a remote control I don't know.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "But I I see I come on to that in the next in the next slide. Spongy. I've als I've been saying everything's the new black. Well spongy's the new black as well. So we have the choice between rubber and plastic. If it's the type of rubber that you can squeeze, you know, it's spongy, then can I skip the rest?", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Oh yeah, I forgot to mention that. The uh rubber material is the type of stress ball material, not just normal rubber.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Okay. Okay, so", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Forgot to say that.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "kinda spongy material.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "So um so my personal opinion? Um we want something fancy and techni technologically innovative, obviously. But what we what we need is something that looks like it's from the future that looks cool, that's that's different, you know, that's everyone has a white remote control, black remote control, you need something cool. Like, titanium is cool but it's expensive. And maybe it's a bit of overkill for a remote control. Um now the fruit and veg options, either we we go in that direction or we stay totally away from it. Um I mean the research did come up with fruit and veg, so maybe it is important for it's the up to the interface guy. So if we stay away from it, s you know stay away from it, but if we're gonna go along with it then it doesn't necessarily have to be like an apple or something like that, or a kiwi fruit. It could be something like, I say potato peeler but I'm sure you guys have a have a much cooler idea than I do. So I think cool is the key. Few questions about a spongy remote control. I've never seen one before. I've seen plastic remote controls. I think maybe they were I don't know, back in the day when they first came up with remote controls, they had a reason for it being", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "sturdy, you know. For being strong and sturdy. So um if we want something strong and sturdy, I say stay with plastic or titanium, but if we go with spongy, we can stress that you can drop this as many times as you want, it doesn't matter, it's spongy material, it's not gonna break, you know. I just don't know how the L_E_D_ and the lights are gonna fit into a spongy material because it's not gonna be completely squeezable. So how do things fit it? And if we are gonna use spongy, we can say it's long lasting, you know it's damage resistant and stuff like that, so. So just to summarise, people want stuff that's cool, that's that looks like it's cool, and if it is cool then that's a bonus doesn't have to be um people like fruit and veg. We can either go down that alley or stay totally away from it. People like spongy material. If we're gonna use spongy material we have to think of how practical it is, and how we can further promote that idea. And also, this was this year. So, things change all the time, every year you know they they always talk about this year, this is the new black. Well next year something else is gonna be the new black", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "and we're stuck with last year's fruit and veg type stuff.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "'Kay. That's me.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Well, um I would say that the most you could probably hope for is gaining a year's lead on most people anyway. You always have to bring out new designs, so if we can get next year then that's possibly a good place to start anyway. Um.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Seems like a a lot of the components could be off the shelf, so I don't exactly what cost would be incurred. Um I can see your point about the number keypad, but I've I would say that we can probably incorporate it into the menu system if you need to do traversal of a large number of channels.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "My feeling would be that even if at a later date this was to be taking control of um boxes as well um having the use of the L_C_D_ and the joystick would probably allow you to manipulate enough channel numbers for you to be.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah, actually if you've got a lot of channels, the number keypad can be quite annoying as well, becau it's you know if you're trying to remember what uh, you know, what number's the discovery channel or whatever. It's just irritating.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "That's a good point.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "But if you h but but but if you have a me but if you have a menu structure, then you can sub-group them.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "You can incorporate names into the menu. Okay.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "So you.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Even news, music. Like they do on uh sky digital kinda.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "So what it looks like to me is we'll use a large number of standard components, um, say something like um lithium ion battery, the kind that you find in most um small hand held devices now. Um Looks like we going for a double curved design. Um I don't know what cost implications there are in that. Um, looks like we're pretty much decided on some kind of flexible rubber. Though I'd have to say depending on how flexible it is, we might need to have some kind of inner frame.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah, I I would say definitely, I mean I mean I mean the the idea of having it sort of articulated i th there would be basically two points of articulation. W um one below and one above the m the uh the main sort of grip. So.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Do you think there's any way we could maybe remove the articulation? I can see why it looks appealing, but it could be a weak point in um the structure, do you think?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "That would be a worry of mine.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "If you're going with the fruit and veg thing, looks like a banana.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "I d I don't thi I don't think that it would be a a structural weakness,", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "..", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "F if you wanna design it that way..", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "I mean if you have a firm s sub-structure, you can then incorporate articulation into that. If you then have a sort of outer skin of mm flexible, spongy rubber then you have something that is you know very much you know organic, and I think would look rather co I mean mi rather cool. I mean my drawing there doesn't doesn't do it justice, it makes it makes it look more a little bit more like a vibrator than a than a uh than a remote control,", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "but uh.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah, we won't add that functionality.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Okay. Course not.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "However, one interesting point is, I don't know how serious you were there, but we if we take some of the ideas why don't we make the damn thing yellow to incorporate the des the colour of the logo?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Sure, yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "I dunno.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "It's an certainly a different colour from your average um.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Make it harder to lose, as well.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "That's true..", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Sure.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Was there anything in your research.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "The noise for when you lose the banana, um f yeah, for when you lose the remote control, it could be like a a monkey noise or something like that, rather than a standard beep beep.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Y you know, you lose the monkey the banana,", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "monkey.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "y you lose the banana, you press a button, and you hear like monkey screams or something like that to direct you towards the banana.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "I th uh I mean if it I think that's something that could perhaps be programmable, though maybe have monkey as default. Um.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "S oh, I was gonna talk about the programmable remote control. Now I think it'd be cool if you had one remote control that could work with all T_V_s, you know you s you click a button and it finds the frequency that works with your particular television.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "But why you'd need to program it like as as a standard feature, I I don't know.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Well basi basically the um for f for uh I mean e each manufacturer will have a partic will have a particular command set that uh the T_V_ responds to.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "It's not simply a matter of frequency.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "So um usually what's done is you have this big booklet full of different possi you'll have all of them sort of programmed in to the uh remote, and you'll have this little booklet of codes you then find your um ma uh find your manufacturer", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "and try the different codes that", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "come under that manufacturer's name'til you find the right one.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "That's because televisions, they don't give the remote control any type of feedback when you send it.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah, that's right.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "So that's that's quite annoying and we probably would still have to do that. But if we had um some sort of hook-up to your computer as an option, then if you've got a computer you can avoid that rather irritating thing.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "An interesting point is that if the person doesn't have the computer, we can still make the process easier because instead of having to look up codes, maybe we can have it that one of the options they have is that they look up the name of the company on the L_C_D_", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "and then they maybe look up different names of um different actual units that have been produced.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Or we have the remote control just go through them until it's like does this do the correct function, and such.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Is it is it actually a book of names to digits, or is it like a few pages?", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Um booklet. Some pages.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "I was just thinking, if we were to store this information, some type of mapping. This person probably need to use this feature like once, you know, when you first buy the remote control, or whenever they buy a new television, so", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Doesn't have to be used very often", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "once every s", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "that's right, yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah,", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah. But it's a but it's a nuisance.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "and it's.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "And it's a nuisance very close to the to um to actually purchasing it, so it's something that you're likely to be thinking about.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "If you if there's w i if there's one in the shop that's that says it can avoid much of that nuisance, you might be favourably inclined towards it. Um mm.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Okay, this just to give us a rough idea of what we're meant to be doing for the next stage.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "I'm pretty sure that you got that anyway. This is the conceptual one. Um. I think we've come up I think we've covered everything we need to here. Um I think we've decided on what, you know, decided on standard items for most of um rubber and such, so we're now looking at the detailed design and what we need to be doing for the next meeting. Um So for example, um I'll just start at the top, you've got yourself and the Industrial Designer gonna be working quite closely at this stage'cause it'll be hard not to, obviously. Um looking from prototyping of some des description using clay. Um I suppose you'll be told a lot more about that as uh progress. Um The user interface design, They're kind of it looks they're the idea I've pushed forward so far is maybe more of a physical one there, whereas possibly be more interested in maybe how the L_C_D_'s going to incorporate, do you think?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Or do you s perceive that most the design design decisions still need to be based on the physical layout?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Um well I I think other than ge getting a sort of more aesthetically pleasing form for it, um mo most of the sort of layout design decisions are are made, I would say. Um but then again, the um the menu structure to to a considerable extent that's gonna vary according to the model of television, and also any customisations that the user might wish to incorporate. So um and one of the nice things about having an L_C_D_ and a menu structure is that there is that flexibility to it.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm, that's very true. Um. Okay. Um got product evaluation as well. Um.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah, you see I don't some of these things kinda logically follow the others. How can t product evaluation, doesn't that come after actually seen a product prototype.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "I I think we'd be yeah, no, it'd be more a case of how do we envisage us performing the product evaluation once we have a model to test with.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Oh, that's the okay, sure sure sure.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Um so it'd be a case of do you think that just bringing users in to have them test it out, uh maybe putting a certain number of products into the field in certain places which I suppose is quite similar.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Or just kind of hitting the streets and you know saying this is a new remote control, what do you think of the look of it? Um.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Okay, sure. At this stage we still have no no target audience or.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "I think the target audience is pretty much anybody under the age of say maybe sixty or something ludicrous.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "'Kay.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Um the reason I'm saying that is we're just looking at a a replacement remote control, something that's stylish, so maybe you're even just maybe you're narrowing down your target audience simply by saying", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "And it's stylish.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "if they're buying it that often or they're maybe looking to replace something then, they've got a bit of free cash, so that puts them potentially in the younger age bracket.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Maybe even single, just for the reasons of um uh excess cash flow.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Although of course I mean at twenty five Euros, I don't think we're looking at charging the earth for the uh device.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yep. Okay.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Think that's well within the normal bracket. Um your idea of the U_S_B_ would I think would largely depend on the cost. U_S_B_'s definitely one of the cheapest interfaces out there, but it might push the cost of the overall unit up'cause it would require not just the connection but the chip for communicating with the rest of the system. That one might have to be based on.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Programmable memory as well.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "The U_S_B_ for which?", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "For the remote control.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "The the idea was that maybe it could connect up for um allowing a software interface on the P_C_ for a larger programming", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Oh right, okay.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "due to the fact that we've gone for such a nice, easy minimal design, normally. Um.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "We've w definitely talking some type of.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "But didn't they just say it's just for T_V_, or are we gonna.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "It's just for T_V_, but for", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Different.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "programming it to use your T_V_, you might hook it up to the P_C_.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Okay, yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "I'm not sure, but I'm thinking maybe that the additional cost of the U_S_B_ might be prohibitive.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "We don't know unless it would make sense to.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah,", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "But you're gonna need some type of flash memory or something.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "I mean it's.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Well something that doesn't.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "you wouldn't have to redo the whole thing once the batteries are changed, you know, once you turn off the power.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah. The other thing I mean it I mean it would need to ha it would need to have um some sort of on board memory anyway.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Um f for one for one thing because I do think that the menu system should be um uh I mean although you know, it's not going to be terribly complicated if it's just controlling one device, the menu system ought to be um o ought to be customisable and uh.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Different languages, uh different skins and stuff like that.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm. W", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm. How uh how uh how you want say the um the the menu structure for flicking through channels if you've got lots of channels. That sort of thing.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Sure. I if it was customisable as in different languages and stuff, that does open it is supposed to be international, right? So.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "It would make sense to. I would say to.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "It would make sense if you could.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Um and we'd better be careful about the time as well. We've already had the five minute warning,", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "so. Um. I would say yeah. International would make sense. Um you're gonna look at product evaluation. I'm I'd better start writing up a hell of a lot of crap. Um you're gonna look a bit more at the kind of the physical make up you say.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Um looks like we're gonna need a maybe a kind of prototype in clay. Uh we'll see how that goes. Um.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Are we going to be supplied with the clay is what I want to know.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "So um", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Where is the clay?", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "do I think we've got an idea of where we need to go for the next meeting, would you say?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "they're going with the fashion thing, like the design, spongy rubber.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "The fruit and veg. This one.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Mm. I th I think I would largely want to actually steer clear of the whole sort of fruit and veg thing.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah, I would s that would be my my feeling.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah..", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Bu but um but the spongy idea I like. I like it a lot.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "We seem to have quite a general consensus that the idea of the the r rubber could be quite.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "I having it i having it sort of br bright yellow I think that's quite a good idea, though maybe we could have options for colours as well..", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "and again this has the advantage of being harder to lose.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Sure. I mean we are trying to promote a remote control, but we wanna keep the company brand as well,", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "so.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "So we always need to remember that somewhere we're meant to be getting the slogan on. Possibly I'm think I'm not sure but I'm seeing a little bit of space around maybe the joystick area which could be used. Um.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm. Yeah. I was like like I said before I I think we should have the R_R_ on the uh on the top function button.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Okay. And I think that says it all really.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "I think so too.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Sa", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "See everybody in a half hour.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" } ] }

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Huh.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Well, I shouldn't say it's a good mike. All I really know is that the signal level is OK. I don't know if it's a the quality.", "speakerName": "Grad F" }, { "text": "Well, that's a", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Ugh! So I didn't send out agenda items because until five minutes ago we only had one agenda item and now we have two. So. And, uh.", "speakerName": "Grad F" }, { "text": "OK. So, just to repeat the thing bef that we said last week, it was there's this suggestion of alternating weeks on more, uh, automatic speech recognition related or not? Was that sort of the division?", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "Grad F" }, { "text": "So which week are we in?", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Well We haven't really started, but I thought we more we more or less did Meeting Recorder stuff last week, so I thought we could do, uh.", "speakerName": "Grad F" }, { "text": "I thought we had a thing about speech recognition last week too.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "But I figure also if they're short agenda items, we could also do a little bit of each.", "speakerName": "Grad F" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "So. I seem to be having difficulty getting this adjusted. Here we go.", "speakerName": "Grad F" }, { "text": "OK.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "So, uh, as most of you should know, I did send out the consent form thingies and, uh, so far no one has made any Ach! any comments on them. So, no on no one has bleeped out anything.", "speakerName": "Grad F" }, { "text": "Um. Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "So. I don't expect anyone to. But.", "speakerName": "Grad F" }, { "text": "Um. So, w what follows? At some point y you go around and get people to sign something?", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "No. We had spoken w about this before", "speakerName": "Grad F" }, { "text": "Yeah, but I've forgotten.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "and we had decided that they have they only needed to sign once. And the agreement that they already signed simply said that we would give them an opportunity. So as long as we do that, we're covered.", "speakerName": "Grad F" }, { "text": "And how long of an opportunity did you tell them?", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Uh, July fifteenth.", "speakerName": "Grad F" }, { "text": "July fifteenth. Oh, so they have a plenty of time, and y", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Yep.", "speakerName": "Grad F" }, { "text": "Given that it's that long, um, um Why was that date chosen? You just felt you wanted to?", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Jane told me July fifteenth. So, that's what I set it.", "speakerName": "Grad F" }, { "text": "Oh. I just meant that that was the release date that you had on the data.", "speakerName": "Postdoc A" }, { "text": "Oh, OK.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Oh. I I didn't understand that there was something specific.", "speakerName": "Grad F" }, { "text": "I, uh I thought.", "speakerName": "Postdoc A" }, { "text": "You y you had.", "speakerName": "Grad F" }, { "text": "I don't.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "I had heard July fifteenth, so that's what I put.", "speakerName": "Grad F" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Postdoc A" }, { "text": "No, the only th the only mention I recall about that was just that July fifteenth or so is when this meeting starts.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "So.", "speakerName": "Grad F" }, { "text": "That's right. That's why.", "speakerName": "Postdoc A" }, { "text": "Oh, I see.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "You said you wanted it to be available then.", "speakerName": "Postdoc A" }, { "text": "OK.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "I didn't mean it to be the hard deadline.", "speakerName": "Postdoc A" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "It's fine with me if it is, or we cou But I thought it might be good to remind people two weeks prior to that", "speakerName": "Postdoc A" }, { "text": "w", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "in case, uh you know, \" by the way this is your last \"", "speakerName": "Postdoc A" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Uh. Yeah.", "speakerName": "Postdoc A" }, { "text": "We probably should have talked about it, cuz i because if we wanna be able to give it to people July fifteenth, if somebody's gonna come back and say \" OK, I don't want this and this and this used \", uh, clearly we need some time to respond to that. Right?", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Yeah. As I said, we I just got one date", "speakerName": "Grad F" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Damn!", "speakerName": "PhD H" }, { "text": "and that's the one I used.", "speakerName": "Grad F" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "So. But I can send a follow - up. I mean, it's almost all us. I mean the people who are in the meeti this meeting was, uh, these the meetings that in are in set one.", "speakerName": "Grad F" }, { "text": "Was my was my response OK?", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "That's right.", "speakerName": "Postdoc A" }, { "text": "I just wrote you replied to the email saying they're all fine.", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "Right. I mean, that's fine.", "speakerName": "Grad F" }, { "text": "OK, good.", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "I we don't My understanding of what we had agreed upon when we had spoken about this months ago was that, uh, we don't actually need a reply.", "speakerName": "Grad F" }, { "text": "That makes it easy.", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "We just need to tell them that they can do it if they want.", "speakerName": "Grad F" }, { "text": "OK. I just didn't remember, but.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "And so no reply is no changes.", "speakerName": "Grad F" }, { "text": "And he's got it so that the default thing you see when you look at the page is \" OK \".", "speakerName": "Postdoc A" }, { "text": "OK.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "So that's very clear all the way down the page, \" OK \". And they have two options they can change it to. One of them is \" censor \", and the other one is \" incorrect \". Is it is your word is \" incorrect \"?", "speakerName": "Postdoc A" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "Grad F" }, { "text": "Which means also we get feedback on if um, there's something that they w that needs to be adjusted, because, I mean, these are very highly technical things. I mean, it's an added, uh, level of checking on the accuracy of the transcription, as I see it. But in any case, people can agree to things that are wrong.", "speakerName": "Postdoc A" }, { "text": "Well.", "speakerName": "Grad F" }, { "text": "So.", "speakerName": "Postdoc A" }, { "text": "Yeah. The reason I did that it was just so that people would not censor not ask to have stuff removed because it was transcribed incorrectly,", "speakerName": "Grad F" }, { "text": "And the reason I liked it was because.", "speakerName": "Postdoc A" }, { "text": "as opposed to, uh.", "speakerName": "Grad F" }, { "text": "was because it, um it gives them the option of, uh, being able to correct it.", "speakerName": "Postdoc A" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "Grad F" }, { "text": "Approve it and correct it. And um. So, you have it nicely set up so they email you and, uh.", "speakerName": "Postdoc A" }, { "text": "When they submit the form, it gets processed and emailed to me.", "speakerName": "Grad F" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm. Mm - hmm. And I wanted to say the meetings that are involved in that set are Robustness and Meeting Recorder.", "speakerName": "Postdoc A" }, { "text": "So.", "speakerName": "Grad F" }, { "text": "The German ones will be ready for next week. Those are three three of those. A different set of people. And we can impose.", "speakerName": "Postdoc A" }, { "text": "The German ones?", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "Uh, well.", "speakerName": "Postdoc A" }, { "text": "Yeah. Those uh.", "speakerName": "PhD H" }, { "text": "NSA.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "OK. I spoke loosely. The the German, French Sorry, the German, Dutch, and Spanish ones.", "speakerName": "Postdoc A" }, { "text": "Spanish. Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Grad F" }, { "text": "Oh, those are the NSA meetings?", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "The non - native.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Those are.", "speakerName": "PhD H" }, { "text": "Yeah. Uh - huh.", "speakerName": "Postdoc A" }, { "text": "German, Dutch, Swiss and Spanish.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Oh, oh! OK.", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "The all non - native.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "That's that's that's r", "speakerName": "Postdoc A" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Grad F" }, { "text": "Uh - huh.", "speakerName": "PhD H" }, { "text": "OK. I'd I d", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "Yeah. It's the other group.", "speakerName": "Postdoc A" }, { "text": "I It was the network network services group.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "OK.", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "Uh - huh. Yeah, exactly. Yeah.", "speakerName": "Postdoc A" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "I didn't mean to isolate them.", "speakerName": "Postdoc A" }, { "text": "Otherwise known as the German, Dutch, and Spanish.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Yeah. Sorry. It was it was not the best characterization.", "speakerName": "Postdoc A" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Grad F" }, { "text": "But what what I meant to say was that it's the other group that's not n no m no overlap with our present members. And then maybe it'd be good to set an explicit deadline, something like a week before that, uh, J July fifteenth date, or two weeks before.", "speakerName": "Postdoc A" }, { "text": "I mean, I would suggest we discuss I mean, if we're going to have a policy on it, that we discuss the length of time that we want to give people,", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Grad F" }, { "text": "so that we have a uniform thing. So, tha that's a month, which is fine. I mean, it seems.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Twelve hours.", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "Well, the only thing I said in the email is that the data is going to be released on the fifteenth. I didn't give any other deadline.", "speakerName": "Grad F" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Postdoc A" }, { "text": "So my feeling is if someone after the fifteenth says, \" wow I suddenly found something \", we'll delete it from our record. We just won't delete it from whatever's already been released.", "speakerName": "Grad F" }, { "text": "Hmm. That's a little bit difficult.", "speakerName": "Postdoc A" }, { "text": "What else can we do?", "speakerName": "Grad F" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Postdoc A" }, { "text": "If someone says \" hey, look, I found something in this meeting and it's libelous and I want it removed \". What can we do?", "speakerName": "Grad F" }, { "text": "Well. That's true.", "speakerName": "Postdoc A" }, { "text": "We have to remove it.", "speakerName": "Grad F" }, { "text": "I I agree with that part, but I think that it would it, uh we need to have, uh, a a a message to them very clearly that beyond this date, you can't make additional changes.", "speakerName": "Postdoc A" }, { "text": "I mean, um, I I i I think that somebody might request something even though we say that. But I think it's good to at least start some place like that.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm. Good.", "speakerName": "Postdoc A" }, { "text": "So if we agreed, OK, how long is a reasonable amount of time for people to have if we say two weeks, or if we say a month, I think we should just say that say that, you know, i a as um, \" per the the the, uh, page you signed, you have the ability to look over this stuff \" and so forth \" and, uh, because we w \" these, uh I would I would imagine some sort of generic thing that would say \" because we, uh, will continually be making these things available to other researchers, uh, this can't be open - ended and so, uh, uh, please give us back your response within this am you know, within this amount of time \", whatever time we agree upon.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Well, did you read the email and look at the pages I sent?", "speakerName": "Grad F" }, { "text": "Did I? No, I haven't yet. No, just.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "No. OK, well why don't you do that and then make comments on what you want me to change?", "speakerName": "Grad F" }, { "text": "No, no. I'm not saying that you should change anything. I I'm what I'm what I'm I'm trying to spark a discussion hopefully among people who have read it so that that you can you can, uh, decide on something.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Postdoc A" }, { "text": "So I'm not telling you what to decide.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Postdoc A" }, { "text": "I'm just saying you should decide something,", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "OK.", "speakerName": "Postdoc A" }, { "text": "and then.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "I already did decide something, and that's what's in the email.", "speakerName": "Grad F" }, { "text": "Yeah, yeah. OK, so.", "speakerName": "Postdoc A" }, { "text": "And if you disagree with it, why don't you read it and give me comments on it?", "speakerName": "Grad F" }, { "text": "Yeah. Well I I think that there's one missing line.", "speakerName": "Postdoc A" }, { "text": "Well, the one thing that I did read and that you just repeated to me was that you gave the specific date of July fifteenth.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Grad F" }, { "text": "And you also just said that the reason you said that was because someone said it to you. So what I'm telling you is that what you should do is come up with a length of time that you guys think is enough", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "Grad F" }, { "text": "and you should use that rather than this date that you just got from somewhere. That's all I'm saying.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "OK.", "speakerName": "Grad F" }, { "text": "OK?", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "I ha I have one question. This is in the summer period and presumably people may be out of town. But we can make the assumption, can't we? that, um, they will be receiving email, uh, most of the month. Right? Because if someone.", "speakerName": "Postdoc A" }, { "text": "It well, it well, you're right. Sometimes somebody will be away and, uh, you know, there's, uh for any length of time that you uh, choose there is some person sometime who will not end up reading it.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "OK.", "speakerName": "Postdoc A" }, { "text": "That's it's, you know, just a certain risk to take.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "S so maybe when Am I on, by the way?", "speakerName": "PhD H" }, { "text": "I don't know. You should be.", "speakerName": "Grad F" }, { "text": "Oh. Hello? Hello?", "speakerName": "PhD H" }, { "text": "You should be channel B.", "speakerName": "Grad F" }, { "text": "Oh, OK. Alright. So. The, um Maybe we should say in w you know, when the whole thing starts, when they sign the the agreement that you know, specify exactly uh, what, you know, how how they will be contacted and they can, you know they can be asked to give a phone number and an email address, or both. And, um, then.", "speakerName": "PhD H" }, { "text": "We did that, I I believe.", "speakerName": "Postdoc A" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "PhD H" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "So. A And, then, you know, say very clearly that if they don't if we don't hear from them, you know, as Morgan suggested, by a certain time or after a certain period after we contact them that is implicitly giving their agreement.", "speakerName": "PhD H" }, { "text": "Well, they've already signed a form.", "speakerName": "Grad F" }, { "text": "And the form says.", "speakerName": "Postdoc A" }, { "text": "And nobody nobody really reads it anyway.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "PhD H" }, { "text": "So. And the s and the form was approved by Human Subjects,", "speakerName": "Grad F" }, { "text": "Says that. Right.", "speakerName": "PhD H" }, { "text": "Uh, the f", "speakerName": "Postdoc A" }, { "text": "Well, if that's i tha if that's already if.", "speakerName": "PhD H" }, { "text": "so, eh, that's gonna be a little hard to modify.", "speakerName": "Grad F" }, { "text": "Well, the form Well, the form doesn't say, if uh, you know, \" if you don't respond by X number of days or X number of weeks \"", "speakerName": "Postdoc A" }, { "text": "I see. Uh Oh, OK. So what does it say about the the the process of of, uh y the review process?", "speakerName": "PhD H" }, { "text": "It doesn't have a time limit. That you'll be provided access to the transcripts and then, uh, allowed to remove things that you'd like to remove, before it goes to the general uh, larger audience.", "speakerName": "Postdoc A" }, { "text": "Oh, OK. Hmm. Right.", "speakerName": "PhD H" }, { "text": "Here.", "speakerName": "Grad F" }, { "text": "There you go.", "speakerName": "Postdoc A" }, { "text": "You can read what you already signed.", "speakerName": "Grad F" }, { "text": "Oh.", "speakerName": "PhD H" }, { "text": "I guess when I read it, um.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "OK.", "speakerName": "PhD H" }, { "text": "I'm not as diligent as Chuck, but I had the feeling I should probably respond and tell Adam, like, \" I got this and I will do it by this date, and if you don't hear from me by then \" You know, in other words responding to your email once, right away, saying \" as soon as you get this could you please respond. \"", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "Grad F" }, { "text": "And then if you if the person thinks they'll need more time because they're out of town or whatever, they can tell you at that point? Because.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Oh, I just I didn't wanna do that, because I don't wanna have a discussion with every person if I can avoid it.", "speakerName": "Grad F" }, { "text": "Well, it's.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "So what I wanted to do was just send it out and say \" on the fifteenth, the data is released,", "speakerName": "Grad F" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Postdoc A" }, { "text": "if you wanna do something about it, do something about it, but that's it \".", "speakerName": "Grad F" }, { "text": "I I kind of like this.", "speakerName": "Postdoc A" }, { "text": "Well.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Postdoc A" }, { "text": "OK. So, we're assuming that.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Well, that's that would be great if but you should probably have a legal person look at this and make sure it's OK. Because if you if you, uh, do this and you then there's a dispute later and, uh, some you know, someone who understands these matters concludes that they didn't have, uh, you know, enough opportunity to actually exercise their their right.", "speakerName": "PhD H" }, { "text": "Or they they might never have gotten the email, because although they signed this, they don't know by which date to expect your email. And so someone whose machine is down or whatever I mean, we have no.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "in internally we know that people are there,", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Well, OK. l Let me Let me reverse this.", "speakerName": "Grad F" }, { "text": "but we have no confirmation that they got the mail.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "So let's say someone I send this out, and someone doesn't respond. Do we delete every meeting that they were in?", "speakerName": "Grad F" }, { "text": "Well, then.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "I don't think so.", "speakerName": "Grad F" }, { "text": "It we're hoping that doesn't happen,", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "No.", "speakerName": "PhD H" }, { "text": "but that's why there's such a thing as registered mail", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "That will happen.", "speakerName": "Grad F" }, { "text": "or.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "That will happen.", "speakerName": "PhD H" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "That will absolutely happen. Because people don't read their email, or they'll read and say \" I don't care about that, I'm not gonna delete anything \" and they don just won't reply to it.", "speakerName": "Grad F" }, { "text": "Maybe uh, do we have mailing addresses for these people?", "speakerName": "PhD H" }, { "text": "No. We have what they put on the speaker form,", "speakerName": "Grad F" }, { "text": "No.", "speakerName": "PhD H" }, { "text": "Well Most.", "speakerName": "Postdoc A" }, { "text": "which was just generic contact information.", "speakerName": "Grad F" }, { "text": "Oh.", "speakerName": "PhD H" }, { "text": "But the ones that we're dealing with now are all local,", "speakerName": "Postdoc A" }, { "text": "Well, then.", "speakerName": "PhD H" }, { "text": "except the ones who I mean, we we're totally in contact with all the ones in those two groups.", "speakerName": "Postdoc A" }, { "text": "Mmm. OK.", "speakerName": "PhD H" }, { "text": "So maybe, uh, I you know, that's not that many people and if I if, uh i i there is an advantage to having them admit and if I can help with with processing that, I will. It's it's there is an advantage to having them be on record as having received the mail and indicating.", "speakerName": "Postdoc A" }, { "text": "Yeah. I mean I thought we had discussed this, like, a year ago.", "speakerName": "Grad F" }, { "text": "Yes, we did.", "speakerName": "Postdoc A" }, { "text": "And so it seems like this is a little odd for it to be coming up yet again.", "speakerName": "Grad F" }, { "text": "You're right. Well, I you know. But sometimes.", "speakerName": "Postdoc A" }, { "text": "Well, we we haven't experienced it before.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "So.", "speakerName": "Grad F" }, { "text": "That's right.", "speakerName": "Postdoc A" }, { "text": "Right? So.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "You'll either wonder at the beginning or you'll wonder at the end.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Need to get it right.", "speakerName": "Postdoc A" }, { "text": "I mean, there's no way to get around I It's pretty much the same am amount of work except for an additional email just saying they got the email.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Postdoc A" }, { "text": "And maybe it's better legally to wonder before you know, a little bit earlier than.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Well.", "speakerName": "Grad F" }, { "text": "It's much easier to explain this way.", "speakerName": "Postdoc A" }, { "text": "OK. Well, why don't you talk t", "speakerName": "Grad F" }, { "text": "T t to have it on record.", "speakerName": "Postdoc A" }, { "text": "Morgan, can you talk to our lawyer about it, and find out what the status is on this? Cuz I don't wanna do something that we don't need to.", "speakerName": "Grad F" }, { "text": "Yeah, but w Mmm.", "speakerName": "Postdoc A" }, { "text": "Because what I'm telling you, people won't respond to the email. No matter what you do, you there're gonna be people who you're gonna have to make a lot of effort to get in contact with.", "speakerName": "Grad F" }, { "text": "Well, then we make the effort.", "speakerName": "Postdoc A" }, { "text": "I mean, i it's k", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "And do we want to spend that effort?", "speakerName": "Grad F" }, { "text": "Hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD H" }, { "text": "We make the effort.", "speakerName": "Postdoc A" }, { "text": "It's kind of like signing up for a mailing list. They have opt in and opt out. And there are two different ways. I mean, and either way works probably, I mean.", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "Except I really think in this case I I'm agr I agree with Liz, that we need to be in the clear and not have to after the fact say \" oh, but I assumed \", and \" oh, I'm sorry that your email address was just accumulating mail without notifying you \", you know.", "speakerName": "Postdoc A" }, { "text": "If this is a purely administrative task, we can actually have administration do it.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Oh, excellent.", "speakerName": "Postdoc A" }, { "text": "But the thing is that, you know, I I I think, without going through a whole expensive thing with our lawyers, from my previous conversations with them, my my sense very much is that we would want something on record as indicating that they actually were aware of this.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Yes.", "speakerName": "Postdoc A" }, { "text": "Well, we had talked about this before", "speakerName": "Grad F" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "and I thought that we had even gone by the lawyers asking about that and they said you have to s they've already signed away the f with that form that they've already signed once.", "speakerName": "Grad F" }, { "text": "I don't remember that this issue of the time period allowed for response was ever covered.", "speakerName": "Postdoc A" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Grad F" }, { "text": "Yeah. We never really talked about that.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "OK.", "speakerName": "Grad F" }, { "text": "Or the date at which they would be receiving the email from you.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Or or how they would indicate.", "speakerName": "Postdoc A" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "They probably forgot all about it.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "We certainly didn't talk, uh, about with them at all about, uh, the manner of them being made the, uh, uh, materials available.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "We do it like with these.", "speakerName": "PhD H" }, { "text": "That was something that was sort of just within our implementation.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "OK.", "speakerName": "Grad F" }, { "text": "We can use it we can use a a ploy like they use to, um you know, that when they serve, like uh, uh, uh uh, you know, like dead - beat dads, they they they make it look like they won something in the lottery and then they open the envelope", "speakerName": "PhD H" }, { "text": "And they're served.", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "and that Right? Because and then the the the the thing is served. So you just make it, you know, \" oh, you won you know, go to this web site and you've, uh you're \"", "speakerName": "PhD H" }, { "text": "That's why you never open these things that come in the mail.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "That one.", "speakerName": "Postdoc A" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Well, it's just, we've gone from one extreme to the other, where at one point, a few months ago, Morgan was you were saying let's not do anything,", "speakerName": "Grad F" }, { "text": "Right. Right. No, it I it might.", "speakerName": "PhD H" }, { "text": "Well, it doesn't matter.", "speakerName": "Postdoc A" }, { "text": "i i it it might well be the case.", "speakerName": "PhD H" }, { "text": "and now we're we're saying we have to follow up each person and get a signature?", "speakerName": "Grad F" }, { "text": "it might Right.", "speakerName": "PhD H" }, { "text": "I mean, what are we gonna doing here?", "speakerName": "Grad F" }, { "text": "It might well be the case that that this is perfectly you know, this is enough to give us a basis t to just, eh, assume their consent if they don't reply.", "speakerName": "PhD H" }, { "text": "Well.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Grad F" }, { "text": "But, I'm not you know, me not being a lawyer, I wouldn't just wanna do that without having the the expert, uh, opinion on that.", "speakerName": "PhD H" }, { "text": "And how many people? Al - altogether we've got twenty people. These people are people who read their email almost all the time.", "speakerName": "Postdoc A" }, { "text": "Then I think we had better find out, so that we can find a.", "speakerName": "Grad F" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD H" }, { "text": "Let me look at this again.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "Grad F" }, { "text": "I I really don't see that it's a problem. I I think that it's a common courtesy to ask them uh, to expect for them to, uh, be able to have @ @ us try to contact them,", "speakerName": "Postdoc A" }, { "text": "For for th", "speakerName": "Grad F" }, { "text": "u just in case they hadn't gotten their email. I think they'd appreciate it.", "speakerName": "Postdoc A" }, { "text": "Yeah. My Adam, my my view before was about the nature of what was of the presentation,", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Grad F" }, { "text": "of of how my my the things that we're questioning were along the lines of how easy uh, h how m how much implication would there be that it's likely you're going to be changing something, as opposed to.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Grad F" }, { "text": "That was the kind of dispute I was making before.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm. I remember that.", "speakerName": "Postdoc A" }, { "text": "But, um, the attorneys, I uh, I can guarantee you, the attorneys will always come back with and we have to decide how stringent we want to be in these things, but they will always come back with saying that, um, you need to you want to have someth some paper trail or which includes electronic trail that they have, uh, in fact O K'd it.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Grad F" }, { "text": "So, um, I think that if you f i if we send the email as you have and if there's half the people, say, who don't respond at all by, you know, some period of time, we can just make a list of these people and hand it to, uh you know, just give it to me and I'll hand it to administrative staff or whatever,", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "Grad F" }, { "text": "and they'll just call them up and say, you know, \" have you Is is this OK? And would you please mail you know, mail Adam that it is, if i if it, you know, is or not. \" So, you know, we can we can do that.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "The other thing that there's a psychological effect that at least for most people, that if they've responded to your email saying \" yes, I will do it \" or \" yes, I got your email \", they're more likely to actually do it later than to just ignore it.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "And of course we don't want them to bleep things out, but it it's a little bit better if we're getting the their, uh, final response, once they've answered you once than if they never answer you'd at al at all. That's how these mailing houses work. So, I mean, it's not completely lost work because it might benefit us in terms of getting responses.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Postdoc A" }, { "text": "You know, an official OK from somebody is better than no answer, even if they responded that they got your email. And they're probably more likely to do that once they've responded that they got the email.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "I also think they'd just simply appreciate it. I think it's a good a good way of of fostering goodwill among our subjects. Well, our participants.", "speakerName": "Postdoc A" }, { "text": "I think the main thing is I mean, what lawyers do is they always look at worst cases.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Sending lots of spam.", "speakerName": "Grad F" }, { "text": "So they s so so Tha - that's what they're paid to do.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Yep.", "speakerName": "Grad F" }, { "text": "And so, it is certainly possible that, uh, somebody's server would be down or something and they wouldn't actually hear from us, and then they find this thing is in there and we've already distributed it to someone. So, what it says in there, in fact, is that they will be given an opportunity to blah - blah - blah,", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Postdoc A" }, { "text": "but if in fact if we sent them something or we thought we sent them something but they didn't actually receive it for some reason, um, then we haven't given them that.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Well, so how far do we have to go? Do we need to get someone's signature? Or, is email enough?", "speakerName": "Grad F" }, { "text": "I i i em email is enough.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Do we have to have it notarized? I mean OK.", "speakerName": "Grad F" }, { "text": "Yeah. I mean, I've been through this I mean, I'm not a lawyer, but I've been through these things a f things f like this a few times with lawyers now", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Grad F" }, { "text": "so I I I I'm pretty comfortable with that.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Do you track, um, when people log in to look at the?", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "Uh. If they submit the form, I get it.", "speakerName": "Grad F" }, { "text": "Uh - huh.", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "If they don't submit the form, it goes in the general web log. But that's not sufficient.", "speakerName": "Grad F" }, { "text": "Hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "Right? Cuz if someone just visits the web site that doesn't imply anything in particular.", "speakerName": "Grad F" }, { "text": "Except that you know they got the mail.", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm. That's right.", "speakerName": "Postdoc A" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "Grad F" }, { "text": "I I could get you on the notify list if you want me to.", "speakerName": "Postdoc A" }, { "text": "I'm already on it.", "speakerName": "Grad F" }, { "text": "For that directory? OK, great.", "speakerName": "Postdoc A" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Grad F" }, { "text": "So again, hopefully, um, this shouldn't be quite as odious a problem either way, uh, in any of the extremes we've talked about because uh, we're talking a pretty small number of people.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "W For this set, I'm not worried, because we basically know everyone on it.", "speakerName": "Grad F" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Hmm.", "speakerName": "Postdoc A" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "You know, they're all more or less here or it's it's Eric and Dan and so on. But for some of the others, you're talking about visitors who are gone from ICSI, whose email addresses may or may not work,", "speakerName": "Grad F" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Oh.", "speakerName": "Postdoc A" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "and So what are we gonna do when we run into someone that we can't get in touch with?", "speakerName": "Grad F" }, { "text": "I don't think, uh They're so recent, these visitors.", "speakerName": "Postdoc A" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Grad F" }, { "text": "I and and I they're also so.", "speakerName": "Postdoc A" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "They're prominent enough that they're easy to find through I I mean, I I w I'll be able to if you have any trouble finding them, I really think I could find them.", "speakerName": "Postdoc A" }, { "text": "Other methods? OK.", "speakerName": "Grad F" }, { "text": "Yeah. Cuz it what it what it really does promise here is that we will ask their permission. Um, and I think, you know, if you go into a room and close the door and and ask their permission and they're not there, it doesn't seem that that's the intent of, uh, meaning here. So.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Well, the qu the question is just whether how active it has to be. I mean, because they they filled out a contact information and that's where I'm sending the information.", "speakerName": "Grad F" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "And so far everyone has done email. There isn't anyone who did, uh, any other contact method.", "speakerName": "Grad F" }, { "text": "Well, the way ICSI goes, people, uh, who, uh, were here ten years ago still have acc have forwards to other accounts and so on.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Grad F" }, { "text": "So it's unusual that that they, uh.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "So my original impression was that that was sufficient, that if they give us contact information and that contact information isn't accurate that we fulfilled our burden.", "speakerName": "Grad F" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Then they just come back.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "All my files were still here.", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "Same as us.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "I just.", "speakerName": "Postdoc A" }, { "text": "So if we get to a boundary case like that then maybe I will call the attorney about it.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "OK.", "speakerName": "Grad F" }, { "text": "But, you know, hopefully we won't need to.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "I d I just don't think we will. For all the reasons that we've discussed.", "speakerName": "Postdoc A" }, { "text": "Alright.", "speakerName": "Grad F" }, { "text": "So we'll we'll see if we do or not.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Yep. And we'll see how many people respond to that email.", "speakerName": "Grad F" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Postdoc A" }, { "text": "So far, two people have.", "speakerName": "Grad F" }, { "text": "Yeah. I think very few people will", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "So.", "speakerName": "Grad F" }, { "text": "and and and, you know, people people see long emails about things that they don't think is gonna be high priority, they typically, uh, don't don't read it, or half read it.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "Grad F" }, { "text": "Cuz people are swamped.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "And actually,", "speakerName": "Postdoc A" }, { "text": "But.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "um, I I didn't anticipate this so I that's why I didn't give this comment, and it I this discussion has made me think it might be nice to have a follow - up email within the next couple of days saying \" by the way, you know, we wanna hear back from you by X date and please \", and then add what Liz said \" please, uh, respond to please indicate you received this mail. \"", "speakerName": "Postdoc A" }, { "text": "Uh, or e well, maybe even additionally, uh, um, \" Even if you've decided you have no changes you'd like to make, if you could tell us that \".", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Respond to the email. Yep.", "speakerName": "Grad F" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm. It is the first time through the cycle.", "speakerName": "Postdoc A" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Right. That would that would definitely work on me. You know, it makes you feel m like, um, if you were gonna p if you're predicting that you might not answer, you have a chance now to say that. Whereas, I I mean, I would be much more likely myself,", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "And the other th", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "given all my email, t to respond at that point, saying \" you know what, I'm probably not gonna get to it \" or whatever, rather than just having seen the email, thinking I might get to it, and never really, uh, pushing myself to actually do it until it's too late.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Yeah. I was I was thinking that it also lets them know that they don't have to go to the page to accept this.", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "Right. R Right. That's true.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "I mean, I I Yeah. So that way they could they can see from that email that if they just write back and say \" I got it, no changes \", they're off the hook.", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "They don't have to go to the web page", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "I mean, the other thing I've learned from dealing with dealing with people sending in reviews and so forth, uh, is, um, if you say \" you've got three months to do this review \", um, people do it, you know, two and seven eighths months from now.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "and.", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "Yeah. That's true.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "If you say \" you've got three weeks to do this review \", they do do it, you know, two and seven eighths weeks from now they do the review.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "Grad F" }, { "text": "And, um So, if we make it a little less time, I don't think it'll be that much.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Well, and also if we want it ready by the fifteenth, that means we better give them deadline of the first, if we have any prayer of actually getting everyone to respond in time.", "speakerName": "Grad F" }, { "text": "There's the responding part and there's also what if, uh, I mean, I hope this doesn't happen, what if there are a bunch of deletions that have to get put in and changes?", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "Grad F" }, { "text": "Then we actually have to deal with that", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm. Some lead time.", "speakerName": "Postdoc A" }, { "text": "if we want it to.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Ugh! Disk space,", "speakerName": "Grad F" }, { "text": "By the way, has has Jeremy signed the form?", "speakerName": "Postdoc A" }, { "text": "oh my god! I hadn't thought about that.", "speakerName": "Grad F" }, { "text": "OK.", "speakerName": "Postdoc A" }, { "text": "That for every meeting any meeting which has any bleeps in it we need yet another copy of.", "speakerName": "Grad F" }, { "text": "Oh.", "speakerName": "PhD H" }, { "text": "Just that channel.", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "Can't you just do that channel?", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "Oh, no. We have to do.", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "No, of course not.", "speakerName": "Grad F" }, { "text": "Yeah. You have to do all of them,", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "You need all the channels.", "speakerName": "Grad F" }, { "text": "Oh.", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "Do you have to do the other close - talking?", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "as well as all of these.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "You have to do all You could just do it in that time period, though,", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Yes. Absolutely. There's a lot of cross - talk.", "speakerName": "Grad F" }, { "text": "Wow.", "speakerName": "Grad G" }, { "text": "Well.", "speakerName": "Postdoc A" }, { "text": "but I guess it's a pain.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Well, but you have to copy the whole file.", "speakerName": "Grad F" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Right? Because we're gonna be releasing the whole file.", "speakerName": "Grad F" }, { "text": "Yeah. You're right.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Well I you know, I think at a certain point, that copy that has the deletions will become the master copy.", "speakerName": "Postdoc A" }, { "text": "Yeah. It's just I hate deleting any data. So I I don't want I really would rather make a copy of it, rather than bleep it out", "speakerName": "Grad F" }, { "text": "Are you del are you bleeping it by adding?", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "and then Overlapping. So, it's it's exactly a censor bleep. So what I really think is \" bleep \"", "speakerName": "Grad F" }, { "text": "I I I I understand, but is is it summing signals", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "and then I want to.", "speakerName": "Grad F" }, { "text": "or do you delete the old one and put the new one in?", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "I delete the old one, put the new one in.", "speakerName": "Grad F" }, { "text": "Oh, OK. Cuz.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "There's nothing left of the original signal.", "speakerName": "Grad F" }, { "text": "Oh. Cuz if you were summing, you could No. But anyway.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Yeah. It would be qui quite easy to get it back again.", "speakerName": "Grad F" }, { "text": "But And then w I was gonna say also that the they don't have to stay on the system, as you know,", "speakerName": "Postdoc A" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Then someday we can sell the unedited versions.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "cuz cuz the the ones.", "speakerName": "Postdoc A" }, { "text": "Say again?", "speakerName": "Grad F" }, { "text": "Once it's been successfully bleeped, can't you rely on the?", "speakerName": "Postdoc A" }, { "text": "Or we'll tell people the frequency of the beep", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "Encrypt it.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "and then they could subtract the beep out.", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "You can hide it. Yeah.", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "Can't you rely on the archiving to preserve the older version?", "speakerName": "Postdoc A" }, { "text": "Oh, yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD H" }, { "text": "It wouldn't be that hard to hide it.", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "Right. Exactly. I see.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Yeah, that's true. Yeah. Yep, that's true.", "speakerName": "Grad F" }, { "text": "See, this is good. I wanted to create some side conversations in these meetings.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "OK.", "speakerName": "Postdoc A" }, { "text": "Yeah. You could encrypt it, you know, with a with a two hundred bit thousand bit, uh.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "You can use spread spectrum.", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "Uh - huh.", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "Hide it.", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "So.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Here we go.", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "Yeah. Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Yeah, there you go.", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "Cuz we don't have enough asides.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "I have an idea. You reverse the signal,", "speakerName": "PhD H" }, { "text": "There you go.", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "so it it lets people say what they said backwards.", "speakerName": "PhD H" }, { "text": "Backwards.", "speakerName": "Grad F" }, { "text": "Then you have, like, subliminal, uh, messages,", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "But, ha you've seen the this the speech recognition system that reversed very short segments.", "speakerName": "Grad F" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD H" }, { "text": "like.", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "Did you read that paper? It wouldn't work.", "speakerName": "Grad F" }, { "text": "No.", "speakerName": "PhD H" }, { "text": "The speech recognizer still works.", "speakerName": "Grad F" }, { "text": "Yeah. And if you do it backward then.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "That's cuz they use forward - backward.", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "H - good old HMM.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Forward but backward. That's right.", "speakerName": "Grad F" }, { "text": "No, it's backward - forward.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Good point. A point. Well, I'm sorry if I sound a little peeved about this whole thing. It's just we've had meeting after meeting after meeting a on this and it seems like we've never gotten it resolved.", "speakerName": "Grad F" }, { "text": "Hmm.", "speakerName": "Postdoc A" }, { "text": "Well, but we never also we've also never done it.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Uh.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "So.", "speakerName": "Grad F" }, { "text": "This is the first cycle.", "speakerName": "Postdoc A" }, { "text": "If it makes.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Grad F" }, { "text": "There're bound to be some glitches the first time through.", "speakerName": "Postdoc A" }, { "text": "So. And, uh and I'm sorry responding without, uh, having much knowledge, but the thing is, uh, I am, like, one of these people who gets a gazillion mails and and stuff comes in as", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Well, and that's exactly why I did it the way I did it, which is the default is if you do nothing we're gonna release it.", "speakerName": "Grad F" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Because, you know, I have my stack of emails of to d to be done, that, you know, fifty or sixty long, and the ones at the top I'm never gonna get to.", "speakerName": "Grad F" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "And, uh So so.", "speakerName": "Grad F" }, { "text": "Move them to the bottom.", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "So so the only thing we're missing is is some way to respond to easily to say, uh, \" OK, go ahead \" or something.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Yeah, right. So, i this is gonna mean.", "speakerName": "Grad F" }, { "text": "Just re - mail them to yourself and then they're at the bottom.", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Grad F" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Postdoc A" }, { "text": "Yeah. That's actually definitely a good point. The m email doesn't specify that you can just reply to the email, as op as opposed to going to the form", "speakerName": "Grad F" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Postdoc A" }, { "text": "In.", "speakerName": "PhD H" }, { "text": "And it also doesn't give a a specific I didn't think of it.", "speakerName": "Postdoc A" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "and.", "speakerName": "Grad F" }, { "text": "S I think it's a good idea an ex explicit time by which this will be considered definite.", "speakerName": "Postdoc A" }, { "text": "Yeah, release.", "speakerName": "Grad F" }, { "text": "And and it has to be a time earlier than that endpoint.", "speakerName": "Postdoc A" }, { "text": "Yeah. It's converging.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Yeah. That's right.", "speakerName": "Postdoc A" }, { "text": "This um, I've seen this recently. Uh, I got email, and it i if I use a MIME - capable mail reader, it actually says, you know, click on this button to confirm receipt of the of the mail.", "speakerName": "PhD H" }, { "text": "Oh, that's interesting.", "speakerName": "Postdoc A" }, { "text": "Hmm.", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "So.", "speakerName": "PhD H" }, { "text": "You you can.", "speakerName": "Grad F" }, { "text": "It's like certified mail.", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "A lot of mailers support return receipt.", "speakerName": "Grad F" }, { "text": "Could do that.", "speakerName": "Postdoc A" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "PhD H" }, { "text": "But it doesn't confirm that they've read it.", "speakerName": "Grad F" }, { "text": "No, no, no. This is different. This is not So, I I know, you can tell, you know, the, uh, mail delivery agent to to confirm that the mail was delivered to your mailbox.", "speakerName": "PhD H" }, { "text": "Mmm.", "speakerName": "Postdoc A" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "Grad F" }, { "text": "But but, no. This was different. Ins - in the mail, there was a.", "speakerName": "PhD H" }, { "text": "Oh, just a button.", "speakerName": "Grad F" }, { "text": "uh, th there was a button that when you clicked on it, it would send, uh, you know, a actual acknowledgement to the sender that you had actually looked at the mail.", "speakerName": "PhD H" }, { "text": "Oh, yeah. Yeah. Unfor - Yeah, we could do that. But I hate that.", "speakerName": "Grad F" }, { "text": "But it o but it only works for, you know, MIME - capable you know, if you use Netscape or something like that for your n", "speakerName": "PhD H" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Grad F" }, { "text": "And.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "You might as well just respond to the mail.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "And we actually need a third thing.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "I mean", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "PhD H" }, { "text": "It's not that you've looked at it, it's that you've looked at it and and and agree with one of the possible actions.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "No, no. You can do that.", "speakerName": "PhD H" }, { "text": "Right?", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "You know, you can put this button anywhere you want,", "speakerName": "PhD H" }, { "text": "Oh? Oh, I see.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "and you can put it the bottom of the message and say \" here, by you know, by clicking on this, I I agree uh, you know, I acknowledge \"", "speakerName": "PhD H" }, { "text": "That i i my first - born children are yours, and Yeah. Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Quick question. Are, um.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Well, I could put a URL in there without any difficulty and even pretty simple MIME readers can do that. So.", "speakerName": "Grad F" }, { "text": "But why shouldn't they just email back? I don't see there's a problem.", "speakerName": "Postdoc A" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Yeah. Reply.", "speakerName": "Grad F" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "PhD H" }, { "text": "It's very nice. I I like the high - tech aspect of it,", "speakerName": "Postdoc A" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "but I think.", "speakerName": "Postdoc A" }, { "text": "No, no, no. I actually don't.", "speakerName": "PhD H" }, { "text": "I appreciate it.", "speakerName": "Postdoc A" }, { "text": "I'm just saying that", "speakerName": "PhD H" }, { "text": "Well, I cuz I use a text mail reader.", "speakerName": "Grad F" }, { "text": "if ev but I'm.", "speakerName": "PhD H" }, { "text": "Don't you use VI for your mai?", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD H" }, { "text": "Wow. That's that's my guy. Alright.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "You you read email in VI?", "speakerName": "Grad F" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD H" }, { "text": "Yeah. I like VI.", "speakerName": "Postdoc A" }, { "text": "So I i There's these logos that you can put at the bottom of your web page, like \" powered by VI \".", "speakerName": "PhD H" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "Wow.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "I see.", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "Anyway, quick question.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "You could put wed bugs in the email.", "speakerName": "Grad F" }, { "text": "How m", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD H" }, { "text": "Like, there were three meetings this time, or so", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Six.", "speakerName": "Postdoc A" }, { "text": "or how many? Six? But, no of different people. So I guess if you're in both these types of meetings, you'd have a lot. But How I mean, it also depends on how many Like, if we release this time it's a fairly small number of meetings, but what if we release, like, twenty - five meetings to people? In th", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Well, what my s expectation is, is that we'll send out one of these emails every time a meeting has been checked and is ready.", "speakerName": "Grad F" }, { "text": "I don't know. Oh. Oh, OK. So this time was just the first chunk. OK.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "So. Tha - that was my intention. It's just yeah that we just happened to have a bunch all at once.", "speakerName": "Grad F" }, { "text": "Well, that's a good idea.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "I mean, maybe Is that the way it's gonna be, you think, Jane?", "speakerName": "Grad F" }, { "text": "I agree with you. It's we could do it, uh I I could I'd be happy with either way, batch - wise What I was thinking Uh, so this one That was exactly right, that we had a uh, uh I I had wanted to get the entire set of twelve hours ready. Don't have it. But, uh, this was the biggest clump I could do by a time where I thought it was reasonable.", "speakerName": "Postdoc A" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "People would be able to check it and still have it ready by then. My, um I was thinking that with the NSA meetings, I'd like there are three of them, and they're uh, I I will have them done by Monday. Uh, unfortunately the time is later and I don't know how that's gonna work out, but I thought it'd be good to have that released as a clump, too, because then, you know, they're they they have a it it's in a category, it's not quite so distracting to them, is what I was thinking, and it's all in one chu But after that, when we're caught up a bit on this process, then, um, I could imagine sending them out periodically as they become available.", "speakerName": "Postdoc A" }, { "text": "OK.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "I could do it either way. I mean, it's a question of how distracting it is to the people who have to do the checking.", "speakerName": "Postdoc A" }, { "text": "We heard anything from IBM? at all?", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Uh. Let's see. We Yeah, right. So we got the transcript back from that one meeting. Everything seemed fine. Adam had a script that will put everything back together and there was Well, there was one small problem but it was a simple thing to fix. And then, um, we, uh I sent him a pointer to three more. And so he's off and working on those.", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "Yeah. Now we haven't actually had anyone go through that meeting, to see whether the transcript is correct and to see how much was missed and all that sort of stuff.", "speakerName": "Grad F" }, { "text": "That's on my list.", "speakerName": "Postdoc A" }, { "text": "So at some point we need to do that.", "speakerName": "Grad F" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "Well, that's on my list.", "speakerName": "Postdoc A" }, { "text": "Yeah. It's gonna have to go through our regular process.", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "I mean, the one thing I noticed is it did miss a lot of backchannels. There are a fair number of \" yeahs \" and \" uh - huhs \" that it's just that aren't in there. So.", "speakerName": "Grad F" }, { "text": "Hmm.", "speakerName": "Postdoc A" }, { "text": "But I think Yeah. Like you said, I mean, that's that's gonna be our standard proc that's what the transcribers are gonna be spending most of their time doing, I would imagine,", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm. Mm - hmm, mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Postdoc A" }, { "text": "once once we.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Yes, absolutely. Yeah.", "speakerName": "Grad F" }, { "text": "One question about the backchannels.", "speakerName": "Postdoc A" }, { "text": "It's gonna.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Do you suppose that was because they weren't caught by the pre - segmenter?", "speakerName": "Postdoc A" }, { "text": "Yes, absolutely. Absolutely.", "speakerName": "Grad F" }, { "text": "Oh, interesting. Oh, interesting. OK.", "speakerName": "Postdoc A" }, { "text": "Yeah. They're they're not in the segmented.", "speakerName": "Grad F" }, { "text": "OK.", "speakerName": "Postdoc A" }, { "text": "It's not that the IBM people didn't do it.", "speakerName": "Grad F" }, { "text": "OK.", "speakerName": "Postdoc A" }, { "text": "Just they didn't get marked.", "speakerName": "Grad F" }, { "text": "OK. So maybe when the detector for that gets better or something I w I There's another issue which is this we've been, uh, contacted by University of Washington now, of course, to, um We sent them the transcripts that correspond to those six meetings and they're downloading the audio files. So they'll be doing that. Chuck's Chuck's, uh, put that in.", "speakerName": "Postdoc A" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm. Yeah, I pointed them to the set that Andreas put, uh, on the web so th if they want to compare directly with his results they can. And, um, then once, uh, th we can also point them at the, um, uh, the original meetings and they can grab those, too, with SCP.", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "Wait. So you put the reference files?", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "No, no. They d they wanted the audio.", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "Or the?", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Jane sent them the, uh, transcripts.", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "No, I mean of the transcripts. Um. Well, we can talk about it off - line.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "There's another meeting in here, what, at four? Right? Yeah, so we have to finish by three forty - five.", "speakerName": "Grad F" }, { "text": "D d So, does Washi - does does UW wanna u do this wanna use this data for recognition or for something else?", "speakerName": "PhD H" }, { "text": "Uh, for recognition.", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "I think they're doing w", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Oh.", "speakerName": "PhD H" }, { "text": "didn't they want to do language modeling on, you know, recognition - compatible transcripts", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Oh. I see.", "speakerName": "PhD H" }, { "text": "This is to show you, uh, some of the things that turn up during the checking procedure.", "speakerName": "Postdoc A" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "or?", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Um @ @ So, this is from one of the NSA meetings and, uh, i if you're familiar with the diff format, the arrow to the left is what it was, and the arrow to the right is what it was changed to. So, um. And now the first one. \" OK. So, then we started a weekly meeting. The last time, uh \" And the transcriber thought \" little too much \" But, uh, really, um, it was \" we learned too much \", which makes more sense syntactically as well.", "speakerName": "Postdoc A" }, { "text": "And these the parentheses were f from.", "speakerName": "PhD H" }, { "text": "Then Oh, this that's the convention for indicating uncertain.", "speakerName": "Postdoc A" }, { "text": "U uncertains.", "speakerName": "Grad F" }, { "text": "So the transcriber was right.", "speakerName": "Postdoc A" }, { "text": "S", "speakerName": "PhD H" }, { "text": "You know, she was uncertain about that.", "speakerName": "Postdoc A" }, { "text": "OK.", "speakerName": "PhD H" }, { "text": "So she's right to be uncertain. And it's also a g a good indication of the of that.", "speakerName": "Postdoc A" }, { "text": "Oh. OK.", "speakerName": "PhD H" }, { "text": "The next one. This was about, uh, Claudia and she'd been really b busy with stuff, such as waivers. Uh, OK. Um, next one. Um. This was an interesting one. So the original was \" So that's not so Claudia's not the bad master here \", and then he laughs, but it really \" web master \".", "speakerName": "Postdoc A" }, { "text": "Web master.", "speakerName": "Grad F" }, { "text": "Oh. Uh - oh.", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "And then you see another type of uncertainty which is, you know, they just didn't know what to make out of that. So instead of \" split upon unknown \", it's \" split in principle \".", "speakerName": "Postdoc A" }, { "text": "Yep.", "speakerName": "Grad F" }, { "text": "Jane, these are from IBM?", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "Spit upon?", "speakerName": "Grad F" }, { "text": "The top lines?", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "No, no. These are these are our local transcriptions of the NSA meetings.", "speakerName": "Postdoc A" }, { "text": "No, these are ours.", "speakerName": "Grad F" }, { "text": "The transcribers transcriber's version ver versus the checked version.", "speakerName": "Postdoc A" }, { "text": "Oh. Oh, I see.", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "My my checked version, after I go through it.", "speakerName": "Postdoc A" }, { "text": "OK.", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "Um, then you get down here. Um. Sometimes some speakers will insert foreign language terms. That's the next example, the next one. The, uh, version beyond this is So instead of saying \" or \", especially those words, \" also \" and \" oder \" and some other ones. Those sneak in. Um, the next one.", "speakerName": "Postdoc A" }, { "text": "That's cool.", "speakerName": "Grad F" }, { "text": "Discourse markers.", "speakerName": "PhD H" }, { "text": "S", "speakerName": "Postdoc A" }, { "text": "Discourse markers.", "speakerName": "PhD H" }, { "text": "Sorry, what? Discourse markers? Sure. Sure, sure, sure.", "speakerName": "Postdoc A" }, { "text": "Discourse markers.", "speakerName": "PhD H" }, { "text": "And it's and it makes sense", "speakerName": "Postdoc A" }, { "text": "Yeah. Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD H" }, { "text": "cuz it's, like, below this it's a little subliminal there.", "speakerName": "Postdoc A" }, { "text": "Yeah. Yeah, yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD H" }, { "text": "Um. OK, the next one, uh, this is a term. The problem with terminology. Description with th the transcriber has \" X as an advance \". But really it's \" QS in advance \". I mean, I I've benefited from some of these, uh, cross - group meetings. OK, then you got, um, uh, instead of \" from something - or - other cards \", it's \" for multicast \". And instead of \" ANN system related \", it's \" end system related \". This was changed to an acronym initially and it should shouldn't have been. And then, you can see here \" GPS \" was misinterpreted. It's just totally understanda This is this is a lot of jargon. Um, and the final one, the transcriber had th \" in the core network itself or the exit unknown, not the internet unknown \". And it it comes through as \" in the core network itself of the access provider, not the internet backbone core \". Now this is a lot of terminology. And they're generally extremely good,", "speakerName": "Postdoc A" }, { "text": "Mmm.", "speakerName": "PhD H" }, { "text": "but, you know in this this area it really does pay to, um to double check and I'm hoping that when the checked versions are run through the recognizer that you'll see s substantial improvements in performance cuz the you know, there're a lot of these in there.", "speakerName": "Postdoc A" }, { "text": "Yeah. So how often?", "speakerName": "PhD H" }, { "text": "Yeah, but I bet I bet they're acoustically challenging parts anyway, though.", "speakerName": "Grad F" }, { "text": "No, actually no.", "speakerName": "Postdoc A" }, { "text": "Mmm.", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "Huh - uh.", "speakerName": "Postdoc A" }, { "text": "Oh, really? Uh, it's Oh, so it's just jargon.", "speakerName": "Grad F" }, { "text": "It's jargon. Yeah. I mean this is cuz, you know you don't realize in daily life how much you have top - down influences in what you're hearing.", "speakerName": "Postdoc A" }, { "text": "Well, but.", "speakerName": "PhD H" }, { "text": "And it's jar it's jargon coupled with a foreign accent.", "speakerName": "Postdoc A" }, { "text": "But but But we don't I mean, our language model right now doesn't know about these words anyhow. So,", "speakerName": "PhD H" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "you know, un until you actually get a decent language model, @ @ Adam's right.", "speakerName": "PhD H" }, { "text": "It probably won't do any better.", "speakerName": "Grad F" }, { "text": "You probably won't notice a difference. But it's I mean, it's definitely good that these are fixed. I mean, obviously.", "speakerName": "PhD H" }, { "text": "Well, also from the standpoint of getting people's approval,", "speakerName": "Postdoc A" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "cuz if someone sees a page full of uh, um, barely decipherable w you know, sentences, and then is asked to approve of it or not, it's, uh, uh.", "speakerName": "Postdoc A" }, { "text": "Did I say that?", "speakerName": "Grad F" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "OK.", "speakerName": "Postdoc A" }, { "text": "Yeah. That would be a shame if people said \" well, I don't approve it because the it's not what I said \".", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Well, that's exactly why I put the extra option in,", "speakerName": "Grad F" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Exactly. That's why we discussed that.", "speakerName": "Postdoc A" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "is that I was afraid people would say, \" let's censor that because it's wrong \",", "speakerName": "Grad F" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "and I don't want them to do that.", "speakerName": "Grad F" }, { "text": "And then I also the final thing I have for transcription is that I made a purchase of some other headphones", "speakerName": "Postdoc A" }, { "text": "C", "speakerName": "PhD H" }, { "text": "because of the problem of low gain in the originals. And and they very much appro they mu much prefer the new ones, and actually I I mean, I I think that there will be fewer things to correct because of the the choice. We'd originally chosen, uh, very expensive head headsets", "speakerName": "Postdoc A" }, { "text": "Yeah. Ugh!", "speakerName": "Grad F" }, { "text": "but, um, they're just not as good as these, um, in this with this respect to this particular task.", "speakerName": "Postdoc A" }, { "text": "Well, return the old ones.", "speakerName": "PhD H" }, { "text": "It's probably impedance matching problems.", "speakerName": "Grad F" }, { "text": "I don't know exactly,", "speakerName": "Postdoc A" }, { "text": "But.", "speakerName": "Grad F" }, { "text": "but we chose them because that's what's been used here by prominent projects in transcription.", "speakerName": "Postdoc A" }, { "text": "Could be.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "So it i we had every reason to think they would work.", "speakerName": "Postdoc A" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Grad F" }, { "text": "So you have spare headsets?", "speakerName": "PhD H" }, { "text": "Sorry, what?", "speakerName": "Postdoc A" }, { "text": "You have spare headsets?", "speakerName": "PhD H" }, { "text": "They're just earphones. They're not headsets. They're not microphones.", "speakerName": "Grad F" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "No, no. I mean, just earphones? Um, because I, uh, I could use one on my workstation, just to t because sometimes I have to listen to audio files and I don't have to b go borrow it from someone and.", "speakerName": "PhD H" }, { "text": "We have actua actually I have W Well, the thing is, that if we have four people come to work for a day, I was I was hanging on to the others for, eh for spares,", "speakerName": "Postdoc A" }, { "text": "Oh, OK.", "speakerName": "PhD H" }, { "text": "but I can tell you what I recommend.", "speakerName": "Postdoc A" }, { "text": "No, but you'd If you Yeah, w we should get it.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Sure. No problem.", "speakerName": "PhD H" }, { "text": "But if you need it, just get it.", "speakerName": "Grad F" }, { "text": "I just.", "speakerName": "PhD H" }, { "text": "Come on.", "speakerName": "Grad F" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "PhD H" }, { "text": "Yeah. If you need it.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD H" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "It'd just have to be a s a separate order an added order.", "speakerName": "Postdoc A" }, { "text": "Yeah, I still I still need to get a pair, too.", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "They're they're they're they're pretty inexpensive.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Yeah, that We should order a cou uh, t two or three or four, actually.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "I'm using one of these. Yeah.", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "We have.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "I think I have a pair that I brought from home, but it's f just for music listening", "speakerName": "PhD H" }, { "text": "No. Just just just just buy them.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Sh - Just get the model number", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "and it's not Nnn. Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD H" }, { "text": "Just buy them.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "and Where do you buy these from?", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD H" }, { "text": "Cambridge SoundWorks, just down the street.", "speakerName": "Postdoc A" }, { "text": "Like? You just b go and b", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Yeah. They always have them in stock.", "speakerName": "Postdoc A" }, { "text": "Oh.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "That'd be a good idea.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Anyway.", "speakerName": "PhD H" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "W uh, could you email out the brand?", "speakerName": "Grad F" }, { "text": "Oh, sure. Yeah. OK.", "speakerName": "Postdoc A" }, { "text": "Cuz I think sounds like people are interested.", "speakerName": "Grad F" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Definitely.", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "So.", "speakerName": "Grad F" }, { "text": "It's made a difference in in how easy. Yeah.", "speakerName": "Postdoc A" }, { "text": "I realized something I should talk about. So what's the other thing on the agenda actually?", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Uh, the only one was Don wanted to, uh, talk about disk space yet again.", "speakerName": "Grad F" }, { "text": "Yeah. u It's short. I mean, if you wanna go, we can just throw it in at the end.", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "No, no. Why don't you why don't you go ahead since it's short.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Um, well, uh.", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "Oh, I thought you meant the disk space. Yeah, we know disk space is short.", "speakerName": "Grad F" }, { "text": "The disk space was short. Yeah. That's what I thought too.", "speakerName": "PhD H" }, { "text": "That's a great ambiguity.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "It's one of these it's it's social", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "It's I i i it i", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "and, uh, discourse level", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "and.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Yeah, it's great. Yeah,", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Sorry.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "double double.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Yeah, it was really goo", "speakerName": "Grad F" }, { "text": "See, if I had that little scratch - pad, I would have made an X there.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Thank you, thank you.", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "Uh, well, we'll give you one then.", "speakerName": "Grad F" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Um. So, um, without thinking about it, when I offered up my hard drive last week.", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "Oh, no.", "speakerName": "Grad F" }, { "text": "Um, this is always a suspect phrase.", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "It was while I was out of town.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "But, um, no. I, uh I realized that we're going to be doing a lot of experiments, um, o for this, uh, paper we're writing, so we're probably gonna need a lot more We're probably gonna need that disk space that we had on that eighteen gig hard drive. But, um, we also have someone else coming in that's gonna help us out with some stuff.", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "We've just ordered a hundred gigabytes.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "So OK. We just need to.", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "I think we need, like, another eighteen gig disk to be safe.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Well, we're getting three thirty thirty - sixes.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "So.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Right?", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "OK.", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "That are going into the main f file server.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "OK.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "So.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Markham's ordering and they should be coming in soon.", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "W Well. So so.", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "Soon?", "speakerName": "Grad F" }, { "text": "Yeah. I mean, I guess the thing is is, all I need is to hang it off, like, the person who's coming in, Sonali's, computer.", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "Oh, so so, you mean the d the internal the disks on the machines that we just got?", "speakerName": "PhD H" }, { "text": "Whew. Or we can move them.", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "No.", "speakerName": "Grad F" }, { "text": "These are gonna go onto Abbott.", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "Ne - new disks.", "speakerName": "Grad F" }, { "text": "Or extra disk?", "speakerName": "PhD H" }, { "text": "Onto Abbott, the file server.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "So are we gonna move the stuff off of my hard drive onto that when those come in?", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "On.", "speakerName": "Grad F" }, { "text": "Oh, oh. OK.", "speakerName": "PhD H" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Grad F" }, { "text": "Uh, i", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Once they come in. Sure.", "speakerName": "Grad F" }, { "text": "OK. That's fine.", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "Do when when is this planned for roughly?", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "They should be I I imagine next week or something.", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "OK.", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "OK. So.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "If you're if you're desperate, I have some space on my drive.", "speakerName": "Grad F" }, { "text": "I think if I'm.", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "But I I vacillate between no space free and a few gig free.", "speakerName": "Grad F" }, { "text": "Yeah. I think I can find something if I'm desperate", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "So.", "speakerName": "Grad F" }, { "text": "and, um, in the meantime I'll just hold out.", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "OK.", "speakerName": "Grad F" }, { "text": "That was the only thing I wanted to bring up.", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "It should be soon. We we should.", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "OK.", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "So there's another hundred gig. So.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Alright. Great.", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD H" }, { "text": "OK. It's great to be able to do it,", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "That's it.", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "just say \" oh yeah, a hundred gig,", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Good.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "no big deal \".", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "Yeah. A hundred gig here, a hundred gig there.", "speakerName": "Grad F" }, { "text": "Well, each meeting is like a gig or something,", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "It's eventually real disk space.", "speakerName": "Grad F" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "so it's really.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Yeah. Um. Yeah. I was just going to comment that I I'm going to, uh, be on the phone with Mari tomorrow, late afternoon.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Oh, yeah.", "speakerName": "Grad F" }, { "text": "We're supposed to get together and talk about, uh, where we are on things. Uh, there's this meeting coming up, uh, and there's also an annual report. Now, I never actually I I was asking about this. I don't really quite understand this. She was re she was referring to it as I think this actually didn't just come from her, but this is what, uh, DARPA had asked for. Um, she's referring to it as the an annual report for the fiscal year. But of course the fiscal year starts in October, so I don't quite understand w w why we do an annual report that we're writing in July.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "She's either really late or really early.", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "Huh. Or she's getting a good early start.", "speakerName": "Grad F" }, { "text": "Uh, I think basically it it's none of those. It's that the meeting is in July so they so DARPA just said do an annual report. So. So. So anyway, I'll be putting together stuff. I'll do it, uh, you know, as much as I can without bothering people, just by looking at at papers and status reports. I mean, the status reports you do are very helpful.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD H" }, { "text": "Uh, so I can grab stuff there. And if, uh if I have some questions I'll.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "When we remember to fill them out.", "speakerName": "Grad F" }, { "text": "Yeah. If people could do it as soon as as you can, if you haven't done one si recently. Uh. Uh, but, you know, I'm I'm sure before it's all done, I'll end up bugging people for for more clarification about stuff. Um. But, um, I don't know, I guess I guess I know pretty much what people have been doing. We have these meetings and and there's the status reports. Uh. But, um. Um. Yeah. So that wasn't a long one. Just to tell you that. And if something hasn't, uh I'll be talking to her late tomorrow afternoon, and if something hasn't been in a status report and you think it's important thing to mention on this kind of thing, uh, uh, just pop me a one - liner and and and I'll I'll have it in front of me for the phone conversation.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "OK.", "speakerName": "PhD H" }, { "text": "Uh. I guess, uh, you you're still pecking away at the demos and all that, probably.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Yep. And Don is gonna be helping out with that.", "speakerName": "Grad F" }, { "text": "Oh, that's right.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "So.", "speakerName": "Grad F" }, { "text": "OK.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Did you wanna talk about that this afternoon?", "speakerName": "Grad F" }, { "text": "Um.", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "Not here, but later today?", "speakerName": "Grad F" }, { "text": "We should probably talk off - line about when we're gonna talk off - line.", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "OK. OK.", "speakerName": "Grad F" }, { "text": "OK. Yeah, I might want to get updated about it in about a week cuz, um, I'm actually gonna have a a few days off the following week, a after the after the picnic. So.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Oh, OK.", "speakerName": "Grad F" }, { "text": "That's all I had.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "So we were gonna do sort of status of speech transcription automatic transcription, but we're kind of running late. So.", "speakerName": "Grad F" }, { "text": "How long does it take you to save the data?", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Fifteen minutes.", "speakerName": "Grad F" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "So. If you wanna do a quick", "speakerName": "Grad F" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "ten minute.", "speakerName": "Grad F" }, { "text": "Guess we should stop, like, twenty of at the latest.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Uh.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "We we have another meeting coming in that they wanna record.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "And there's the digits to do.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "So.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "So maybe may maybe maybe.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Yeah. Well, we can skip the digits.", "speakerName": "Grad F" }, { "text": "We could. Fi - five minute report or something.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "It's up to you. I don't.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Yeah, yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Whatever you want.", "speakerName": "Grad F" }, { "text": "Well, I would love to hear about it,", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "What do you have to say?", "speakerName": "Grad F" }, { "text": "especially since.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "I'm interested, so.", "speakerName": "Grad F" }, { "text": "Yeah. Well, I'm gonna be on the phone tomorrow, so this is just a good example of the sort of thing I'd like to hear about.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Wait. Why is everybody looking at me?", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "I don't know.", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "Sorry.", "speakerName": "Grad F" }, { "text": "Cuz he looked at you", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "What?", "speakerName": "PhD H" }, { "text": "and says you're sketching.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Uh. I'm not sure what you were referring to.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "I I I I'm not actually, I'm not sure what? Are we supposed to have done something?", "speakerName": "PhD H" }, { "text": "No. We were just talking before about alternating the subject of the meeting.", "speakerName": "Grad F" }, { "text": "Oh.", "speakerName": "PhD H" }, { "text": "Uh - huh.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "And this week we were gonna try to do t automatic transcription status.", "speakerName": "Grad F" }, { "text": "Alternating.", "speakerName": "PhD H" }, { "text": "I wasn't here last week. Sorry.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Oh!", "speakerName": "PhD H" }, { "text": "Oh.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "But we sort of failed.", "speakerName": "Grad F" }, { "text": "We did that last week. Right?", "speakerName": "PhD H" }, { "text": "Hhh.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "No.", "speakerName": "Grad F" }, { "text": "I thought we did.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Did we? OK.", "speakerName": "Grad F" }, { "text": "Yeah. We did.", "speakerName": "PhD H" }, { "text": "OK. So now now we have the schedule. So next week we'll do automatic transcription status, plus anything that's real timely.", "speakerName": "Grad F" }, { "text": "OK.", "speakerName": "PhD H" }, { "text": "Oh. OK.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "OK.", "speakerName": "Postdoc A" }, { "text": "OK. Whew!", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Good update.", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "Whew!", "speakerName": "Grad F" }, { "text": "That was.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Dodged that bullet.", "speakerName": "Grad F" }, { "text": "Yeah. Nicely done, Liz.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "A woman of few words.", "speakerName": "Postdoc A" }, { "text": "But but lots of prosody. OK. OK.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Th", "speakerName": "Grad F" }, { "text": "Uh, I mean, we we really haven't done anything.", "speakerName": "PhD H" }, { "text": "Excuse me?", "speakerName": "Grad F" }, { "text": "Sorry.", "speakerName": "PhD H" }, { "text": "Well, since last week.", "speakerName": "Postdoc A" }, { "text": "Yeah, we're.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "I mean, the the next thing on our agenda is to go back and look at the, um the automatic alignments because, uh, I got some I I I learned from Thilo what data we can use as a benchmark to see how well we're doing on automatic alignments of the background speech or, of the foreground speech with background speech.", "speakerName": "PhD H" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Grad F" }, { "text": "So.", "speakerName": "PhD H" }, { "text": "And then, uh, I guess, the new data that Don will start to process.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "But, we haven't actually.", "speakerName": "PhD H" }, { "text": "the, um when he can get these You know, before we were working with these segments that were all synchronous and that caused a lot of problems", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Mmm.", "speakerName": "PhD H" }, { "text": "because you have timed sp at on either side.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Oh. Right, right. Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Grad F" }, { "text": "And so that's sort of a stage - two of trying the same kinds of alignments with the tighter boundaries with them is really the next step.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "Grad F" }, { "text": "I'll be interested.", "speakerName": "Postdoc A" }, { "text": "We did get our, um I guess, good news. We got our abstract accepted for this conference, um workshop, ISCA workshop, in, um, uh, New Jersey. And we sent in a very poor abstract, but they very poor, very quick. Um, but we're hoping to have a paper for that as well, which should be an interesting.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "When's it due?", "speakerName": "Grad F" }, { "text": "The t paper isn't due until August. The abstracts were already due. So it's that kind of workshop.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Grad F" }, { "text": "But, I mean, the good news is that that will have sort of the European experts in prosody sort of a different crowd, and I think we're the only people working on prosody in meetings so far, so that should be interesting.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "What's the name of the meeting?", "speakerName": "Postdoc A" }, { "text": "Uh, it's ISCA Workshop on Prosody in Speech Recognition and Understanding, or something like that.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "It's called Prosody to.", "speakerName": "PhD H" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Grad F" }, { "text": "Good.", "speakerName": "Postdoc A" }, { "text": "some generic Uh, so it's focused on using prosody in automatic systems and there's a um, a web page for it.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Y you going to, uh, Eurospeech? Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "I don't have a paper", "speakerName": "Grad F" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD H" }, { "text": "but I'd kinda like to go, if I could. Is that alright?", "speakerName": "Grad F" }, { "text": "We'll discuss it.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "OK. I guess that's \" no \".", "speakerName": "Grad F" }, { "text": "My my my car my car needs a good wash, by the way.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "OK. Well, that th Hey, if that's what it takes, that's fine with me.", "speakerName": "Grad F" }, { "text": "Um.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "I'll pick up your dry - cleaning, too. Should we do digits?", "speakerName": "Grad F" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Uh.", "speakerName": "Grad F" }, { "text": "Can I go next? Because I have to leave, actually.", "speakerName": "PhD H" }, { "text": "Yep. Go for it. Hmm! Thanks. Thank you.", "speakerName": "Grad F" }, { "text": "So you get to be the one who has all the paper rustling. Right?", "speakerName": "Professor B" } ] }

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Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "In fact, uh m my brother's a gerontological psychologist and he he uh came up with an an uh a uh body age test which uh gets down to sort of only three measurements that are good enough st statistical predictors of all the rest of it. And one of them is is the distance that you have to hold it at.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Give someone a piece of paper and then they Oh.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "We're we're live by the way, so we've got a good intro here", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "Oh. Yeah. About how old I am.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Yep.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "OK.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "We can edit that out if you want.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "Oh, that's optional.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "No, that's OK.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "OK. So. This time the form discussion should be very short,", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "You know.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "right?", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "It also should be later.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "OK.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "Because Jane uh is not here yet.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Good point.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "And uh she'll be most interested in that. Uh, she's probably least involved in the signal - processing stuff so maybe we can just just uh, I don't think we should go though an elaborate thing, but um uh Jose and I were just talking about the uh uh, speech e energy thing,", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "The @ @.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "and I uh.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "We didn't talk about the derivatives. But I think, you know, the the i if I can if you don't mind my my speaking for you for a bit, um Uh. Right now, that he's not really showing any kind of uh distinction, but uh but we discussed a couple of the possible things that uh he can look at. Um. And uh one is that uh this is all in log energy and log energy is basically compressing the distances uh between things. Um Another is that he needs to play with the the different uh uh temporal sizes. He was he he was taking everything over two hundred milliseconds uh, and uh he's going to vary that number and also look at moving windows, as we discussed before. Um And uh and the other thing is that the yeah doing the subtracting off the mean and the variance in the uh and dividing it by the standard deviation in the log domain, may not be the right thing to do.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Hi Jane!", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "Hi.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "We just started.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Could you take that mike there?", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "Are these the long term means? Like, over the whole I mean, the means of what?", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Thanks.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "Uh B Between between.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "All the frames in the conversation?", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "No.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Or of things that.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Between Neither. It's uh between the pauses uh for some segment.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "No.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Oh.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "And so i i his his He's making the constraint it has to be at least two hundred milliseconds.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Oh.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "And so you take that. And then he's he's uh measuring at the frame level still at the frame level, of what.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "and then and then just uh normalizing with that larger amount. um and But one thing he was pointing out is when he he looked at a bunch of examples in log domain, it is actually pretty hard to see the change. And you can sort of see that, because of j of just putting it on the board that if you sort of have log - X plus log - X, that's the log of X plus the log of two", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Yep.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Yeah, maybe it's not log distributed.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Mmm. Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "and it's just, you know, it it diminishes the effect of having two of them.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Um.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "But you could do like a C D F there instead? I mean, we don't know that the distribution here is normally.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Yes, right. So So what I was suggesting to him is that.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "So just some kind of a simple.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Actually, a PDF. But, you know, uh But, either way.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "PDF", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Yeah. Yeah, eith eith uh B", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Something like that where it's sort of data driven.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Yeah, but I think also u I think a good first indicator is when the the the researcher looks at examples of the data and can not see a change in how big the the signal is, when the two speaker.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Yeah. Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Then, that's a problem right there. So. I think you should at least be able,", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Oh yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "doing casual looking and can get the sense, \" Hey, there's something there. \" and then you can play around with the measures. And when he's looking in the log domain he's not really seeing it.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Oh yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "So. And when he's looking in straight energy he is, so that's a good place to start.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Um. So that was that was the discussion we just had. Um. The other thing Actually we ca had a question for Adam in this. Uh, when you did the sampling? uh over the speech segments or s or sampling over the the individual channels in order to do the e uh the amplitude equalization, did you do it over just the entire everything in the mike channels?", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "How.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "You didn't try to find speech?", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "No, I just took over the entire s uh entire channel um sampled ten minutes randomly.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "Right, OK. So then that means that someone who didn't speak very much would be largely represented by silence.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Yep.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "And someone who would who would be So the normalization factor probably is i i i is is.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Yeah, this was quite quick and dirty, and it was just for listening.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "And for listening it seems to work really well.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "OK.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "So.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "Yeah. But that's.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "But, it's not Not a good measure.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "Right. So th", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "OK. So yeah there there there There's a good chance then given that different people do talk different amounts that there is there there is still a lot more to be gained from gain norm normalization with some sort", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Yeah. Yeah. Mmm.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Yes, absolutely.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "if if we can figure out a way to do it.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Uh. But we were agreed that in addition to that uh there should be s stuff related to pitch and harmonics and so forth.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "So we didn't talk at all about uh the other derivatives, but uh again just just looking at Uh, I think uh Liz has a very good point, that in fact it would be much more graphic just to show Well, actually, you do have some distributions here, uh for these cases.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Yeah. Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "You have some histograms, um and uh, they don't look very separate.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "uh separated.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "This is the the first derivate of log of frame energy uh without any kind of normalization.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "What.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Log energy. Sorry.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "These the These are the the first experiments uh with comment uh", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Frame energy.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Except that it's hard to judge this because the they're not normalized. It's just number of frames.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "But yeah, even so.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "W I mean, what I meant is, even if you use linear, you know, raw measures, like raw energy or whatever,", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "\" Number \".", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "maybe we shouldn't make any assumptions about the distribution's shape, and just use you know, use the distribution to model the the mean, or what y you know, rather than the mean take some.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Yeah. But And so in in these he's got that.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "He's got some pictures. But he doesn't he doesn't in the he i", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "just in derivatives, but not in the.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Yeah. Oh.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "but he d but he doesn't doesn't.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Right. So, we don't know what they look like on the, tsk For the raw.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "But he didn't h have it for the energy. He had it for the derivatives. Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Yeah. So. I mean, there might be something there. I don't know.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Huh.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Interesting", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "Here I I", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Oh that yeah that's a good q", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "in No I I I haven't the result", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "did did you have this sort of thing, for just the just the l r uh the the unnormalized log energy? OK. Yeah. So she she's right.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "but it's the it's the the the following.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "That's a.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Well it might be just good to know what it looks like.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Yeah. That's That's uh cuz I'd mentioned scatter plots before but she's right,", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Cuz.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Huh?", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "I mean, even before you get the scatter plots, just looking at a single feature uh, looking at the distribution, is a good thing to do.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Yeah. Catal - uh Combining the different possibilities of uh the parameters. I I I I mean the the the scatter plot combining eh different n two combination.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Yeah, but but what she's saying is, which is right, is le", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "combination of two, of energy and derivate.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "I mean, let's start with the Before we get complicated, let's start with the most basic wh thing, which is we're arguing that if you take energy uh if you look at the energy, that, when two people are speaking at the same time, usually there'll be more energy than when one is right?", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "That's that sort of hypothesis.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "That's right.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "And the first way you'd look at that, uh s she's, you know, absolutely right, is that you would just take a look at the distribution of those two things, much as you've plotted them here,", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "You know, but just but just just uh do it.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Well in this case you have three. You have the silence, and that that's fine.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "So, uh with three colors or three shades or whatever, just just look at those distributions.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "And then, given that as a base, you can see if that gets improved, you know, or or or worsened by the looking at regular energy, looking at log energy, we were just proposing that maybe it's you know, it's harder to see with the log energy, um and uh also these different normalizations, does a particular choice of normalization make it better?", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "But I had maybe made it too complicated by suggesting early on, that you look at scatter plots because that's looking at a distribution in two dimensions. Let's start off just in one, uh, with this feature.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Yeah. Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "I think that's probably the most basic thing, before anything very complicated.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Um And then we w I think we're agreed that pitch - related things are are are going to be a a really likely candidate to help.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Yeah. I agree, yeah. Uh - huh.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Um But since uh your intuition from looking at some of the data, is that when you looked at the regular energy, that it did in fact usually go up, when two people were talking, that's eh you know, you should be able to come up with a measure which will match your intuition.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "OK. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah, yeah, yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "And she's right, that a that having a having having this table, with a whole bunch of things, with the standard deviation, the variance and so forth, it's it's it's harder to interpret than just looking at the the same kind of picture you have here.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "But Uh - huh. Yeah. But It it's curious but uh I f I found it in the in the mixed file, in one channel that eh in several oh e eh several times eh you have an speaker talking alone with a high level of energy", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm. Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "eh in the middle eh a zone of overlapping with mmm less energy", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "and eh come with another speaker with high energy", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "and the overlapping zone has eh less energy.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Yeah. So there'll be some cases for which.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Because there reach very many", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "But, the qu So So they'll be.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "This is I w want to point to visual things, But I mean they there'll be time There'll be overlap between the distributions, but the question is, \" If it's a reasonable feature at all, there's some separation. \"", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Yeah. Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Especially locally.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "So. Locally.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "just locally, yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "And I was just going to say that that right now we're just exploring.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "And the other thing is I Sorry. I.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "What you would imagine eventually, is that you'll feed all of these features into some discriminative system.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "And so even if if one of the features does a good job at one type of overlap, another feature might do a good job at another type of overlap.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Right. I mean the the reason I had suggested the scatter f p features is I used to do this a lot, when we had thirteen or fifteen or twenty features to look at.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Yeah, this is the.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "um Because something is a good feature uh by itself, you don't really know how it'll behave in combination and so it's nice to have as many as many together at the same time as possible in uh in some reasonable visual form. There's cool graphic things people have had sometimes to put together three or four in some funny funny way. But it's true that you shouldn't do any of that unless you know that the individual ones, at least, have have some uh some hope", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Well, especially for normalizing.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "I mean, it's really important to pick a normalization that matches the distribution for that feature.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "And it may not be the same for all the types of overlaps or the windows may not be the same. e Actually, I was wondering, right now you're taking a all of the speech, from the whole meeting, and you're trying to find points of overlap, but we don't really know which speaker is overlapping with which speaker,", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "right? So I mean another way would just be to take the speech from just, say, Morgan, And just Jane and then just their overlaps,", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "like but by hand, by cheating, and looking at you know, if you can detect something that way, because if we can't do it that way, there's no good way that we're going to be able to do it.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "No prayer.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "That You know, there might be something helpful and cleaner about looking at just individuals and then that combination alone.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Plus, I think it has more elegant e", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "The m the right model will be easier to see that way. So if I don't know, if you go through and you find Adam, cuz he has a lot of overlaps and some other speaker who also has e enough speech", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "and just sort of look at those three cases of Adam and the other person and the overlaps,", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "maybe and just look at the distributions, maybe there is a clear pattern", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "but we just can't see it because there's too many combinations of of people that can overlap.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Uh - huh. Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "I had the same intuition last last last week.", "speakerName": "Postdoc B" }, { "text": "So. Just seems sort of complex.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "I think it's to start with it's s your your idea of simplifying, starting with something that you can see eh you know without the extra layers of.", "speakerName": "Postdoc B" }, { "text": "Right. Cuz if energy doesn't matter there, like I don't think this is true, but what if", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "To study individual?", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Sorry, what?", "speakerName": "Postdoc B" }, { "text": "Hmm?", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "To study individual?", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Well, you you you don't have to study everybody individually", "speakerName": "Postdoc B" }, { "text": "Well, to study the simplest case to get rid of extra.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "The the the But Consider.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "but just simple case and the one that has the lot of data associated with it.", "speakerName": "Postdoc B" }, { "text": "Right. Cuz what if it's the case and I don't think this is true.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "That was a great overlap by the way.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "What if it's the case that when two people overlap they equate their you know, there's a conservation of energy and everybody both people talk more softly? I don't think this happens at all.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Or or what if what if the equipment what if the equipment adjusts somehow,", "speakerName": "Postdoc B" }, { "text": "Or they get louder.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "there's some equalizing in there?", "speakerName": "Postdoc B" }, { "text": "Yeah or.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Uh, no we don't have that.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "I mean.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Well, but But I think that's what I was saying about different types of overlap.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "OK.", "speakerName": "Postdoc B" }, { "text": "But.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Saturation.", "speakerName": "Postdoc B" }, { "text": "There are there are different types, and within those types, like as Jose was saying, that sounded like a backchannel overlap, meaning the kind that's a friendly encouragement, like \" Mm - hmm. \", \" Great! \", \" Yeah! \"", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "And it doesn't take you don't take the floor. Um, but, some of those, as you showed, I think can be discriminated by the duration of the overlap.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "So. It Actually the s new student, Don, who um Adam has met, and he was at one of our meetings He's getting his feet wet and then he'll be starting again in mid - January. He's interested in trying to distinguish the types of overlap. I don't know if he's talked with you yet. But in sort of honing in on these different types", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Yeah. I don't consi Now I don't consider that possibility.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "and So maybe.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "This is a s a general studio of the overlapping we're studying the i", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Yeah. Well I I I I would s actually still recommend that he do the overall thing", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "So it might be something that we can help by categorizing some of them and then, you know, look at that.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "because it would be the quickest thing for him to do. He could You see, he already has all his stuff in place,", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "he has the histogram mechanism, he has the stuff that subtracts out and all he has to do is change it uh uh from from log to plain energy and plot the histogram and look at it. And then he should go on and do the other stuff bec but But this will.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Yeah. Yeah, no. I didn't mean that that for you to do that, but I was thinking if if Don and I are trying to get categories", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm. Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "and we label some data for you, and we say this is what we think is going So you don't have to worry about it. And here's the three types of overlaps.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "And we'll we'll do the labelling for you.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Hm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Um.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Consider different class of overlap?", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Yeah, that we would be working on anyway.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "If there's time.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Then maybe you can try some different things for those three cases, and see if that helps, or.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Yeah. Yeah. This is the thing I I comment with you before, that uh we have a great variation of th situation of overlapping.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "And the behavior for energy is, uh log energy, is not uh the same all the time.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "And.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "But I guess I was just saying that that right now uh from the means that you gave, I don't have any sense of whether even, you know, there are any significant number of cases for which there is distinct and I would imagine there should be some you know, there should be The distributions should be somewhat separated.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Yeah. Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Uh and I I would still guess that if they are not separated at all, that there's some there's there's most likely something wrong in the way that we're measuring it.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Yeah. Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Um, but um For instance, I mean I wouldn't expect that it was very common overall, that when two people were talking at the same time, that it would that it really was lower,", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "although sometimes, as you say, it would.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "So. So.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Yeah, no, that was That was a jok", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "or a sort of, a case where where you would never know that unless you actually go and look at two individuals.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "I mean. No. It could it probably does happen sometimes.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "Yeah. Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Mind if I turned that light off?", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "So.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "The flickering is annoying me.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "OK.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "It might the case, though, that the significant energy, just as Jose was saying, comes in the non - backchannel cases. Because in back Most people when they're talking don't change their own energy when they get a backchannel, cuz they're not really predicting the backchannel.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "And sometimes it's a nod and sometimes it's an \" mm - hmm \".", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "And the \" mm - hmm \" is really usually very low energy.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "So maybe those don't actually have much difference in energy. But all the other cases might.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "e e and and again what they what difference there was would kind of be lost in taking the log,", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "and the backchannels are sort of easy to spot s in terms of their words or I mean, just listen to it.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "So.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "so, as well.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Well, it would be lost no matter what you do.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "But Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "It just.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Mmm, no, if it's if i if it's.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Tone", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "Well, it won't be as big.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "I mean, even if you take the log, you can your model just has a more sensitive measures.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Sure, but tone might be very", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "So.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Yeah, you're \" mm - hmm \" tone is going to be very different.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "Yeah. Right. Right.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "You could imagine doing specialized ones for different types of backchannels, if you could if you had a good model for it. Your \" mm - hmm \" detector.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "If if you're a I guess my point is, if you're doing essentially a linear separation, taking the log first does in fact make it harder to separate.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "So it's So, uh if you i i So i if there if there close to things it does", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "it's a nonlinear operation that does in fact change the distinction. If you're doing a non if you're doing some fancy thing then then yeah. And right now we're essentially doing this linear thing by looking across here and and saying we're going to cut it here. Um and that that's the indicator that we're getting. But anyway, yeah, we're not disagreeing on any of this, we should look at it more uh more finely, but uh uh I think that This often happens, you do fairly complicated things, and then you stand back from them and you realize that you haven't done something simple. So uh, if you generated something like that just for the energy and see, and then, a a a as as Liz says, when they g have uh uh smaller um, more coherent groups to look at, that would be another interesting thing later.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Uh - huh.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "And then that should give us some indication between those, should give us some indication of whether there's anything to be achieved f from energy at all.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Uh - huh.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "And then you can move on to the uh uh more pitch related stuff.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm. I I I think this is a good idea.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "OK.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Postdoc B" }, { "text": "Not consider the log energy.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Yeah. But then the Have you started looking at the pitch related stuff at all, or? Pitch related?", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "The?", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Harmonicity and so on?", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "I I'm preparing the the program but I don't I don't begin because eh I saw your email", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Preparing to Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "and I agree with you it's better to I suppose it's better to to consider the the energy this kind of parameter bef", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Yeah. Oh, that's not what I meant. No, no. I I I I Well, we certainly should see this but I I I I think that the harm I certainly wasn't saying this was better than the harmonicity and pitch related things I was just saying", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "I I go on with the with the pitch,", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "aha! OK.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Yeah, I was just saying.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "I I I I understood uh that eh I I had to finish by the moment with the and and concentrate my my energy in that problem.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "OK. OK. OK. But I think, like, all these derivatives and second derivatives and all these other very fancy things, I think I would just sort of look at the energy and then get into the harmonicity as as a suggestion.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "OK. I go on with the pitch.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Uh OK. So maybe uh since w we're trying to uh compress the meeting, um, I know Adam had some form stuff he wanted to talk about and did you have some?", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "I wanted to ask just s something on the end of this top topic. So, when I presented my results about the uh distribution of overlaps and the speakers and the profiles of the speakers, at the bottom of that I did have a proposal,", "speakerName": "Postdoc B" }, { "text": "Uh - huh.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "and I had plan to go through with it, of of co coding the types of overlaps that people were involved in s just with reference to speaker style so, you know, with reference.", "speakerName": "Postdoc B" }, { "text": "Oh.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "and you know I said that on my in my summary,", "speakerName": "Postdoc B" }, { "text": "That'd be great.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "that you know so it's like people may have different amounts of being overlapped with or overlapping", "speakerName": "Postdoc B" }, { "text": "Yeah, I remem Right.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "but that in itself is not informative without knowing what types of overlaps they're involved in so I was planning to do a taxonomy of types overlaps with reference to that.", "speakerName": "Postdoc B" }, { "text": "That would be great.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "So, but it you know it's like it sounds like you also have uh something in that direction.", "speakerName": "Postdoc B" }, { "text": "That would be really great.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Hmm.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "Is is it.", "speakerName": "Postdoc B" }, { "text": "We have nothing You know, basically, we got his environment set up. He's he's a double - E you know. So. It's mostly that, if we had to label it ourselves, we we would or we'd have to, to get started, but if It it would be much better if you can do it. You'd be much better at doing it also because you know, I I'm not I don't have a good feel for how they should be sorted out,", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Interesting.", "speakerName": "Postdoc B" }, { "text": "and I really didn't wanna go into that if I didn't have to. So if If you're w willing to do that or or.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "It would be interesting, though, to talk, maybe not at the meeting, but at some other time about what are the classes.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "Well maybe we can OK.", "speakerName": "Postdoc B" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Postdoc B" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Postdoc B" }, { "text": "I think that's a research effort in and of itself,", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Yeah, it would be interesting.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "because you can read the literature, but I don't know how it'll turn out", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "and, You know, it's always an interesting question.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "It seems like we also s with reference to a purpose, too, that we we'd want to have them coded.", "speakerName": "Postdoc B" }, { "text": "I would think it's interesting, yeah. Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "That'd be great.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Yep.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "OK.", "speakerName": "Postdoc B" }, { "text": "That'd be really great.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "I can do that.", "speakerName": "Postdoc B" }, { "text": "And we'd still have some funding for this project,", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "uh uh", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "like probably, if we had to hire some like an undergrad, because uh Don is being covered half time on something else.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Postdoc B" }, { "text": "I mean, he we're not paying him the full RA - ship for all the time. So. um If we got it to where we wanted we needed someone to do that I don't think there's really enough data where where.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm. Yeah, I see this as a prototype, to use the only the the already transcribed meeting as just a prototype.", "speakerName": "Postdoc B" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "I I think a a another parameter we c we we can consider is eh the duration.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "But.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "Another e e m besides eh the the class of overlap, the duration. Because is possible eh some s s um eh some classes eh has eh a type of a duration, eh, a duration very short uh when we have we have overlapping with speech.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Postdoc B" }, { "text": "Yeah, definitely.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Yeah, maybe It may be correlated. Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Postdoc B" }, { "text": "Is possible to have. And it's interesting, I think, to consider the the window of normalization, normalization window. Eh because eh if we have a type of, a kind of eh overlap, eh backchannel overlap, with a short duration, is possible eh to normali i i that if we normalize eh with eh eh consider only the the eh window eh by the left eh ri eh side on the right side overlapping with a a very eh oh a small window eh the if the fit of normalization is eh mmm bigger eh in that overlapping zone eh very short", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Postdoc B" }, { "text": "Yeah, that's true. The window shouldn't be larger than the backchannel.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "I I me I I understand. I mean that you have eh you have a backchannel, eh, eh you have a overlapping zone very short", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "and you consider eh n eh all the channel to normalize this very short eh.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm. Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "for example \" mmm mm - hmm hmm \" eh And the energy is not eh height eh I think if you consider all the channel to normalize and the channel is mmm bigger eh eh eh compared with the with the overlapping eh duration,", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "eh the effect is mmm stronger eh that I I mean the the e effect of the normalization eh with the mean and the and the variance eh is different that if you consider only a window compared eh with the n the duration of overlapping.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm. You you want it around the overlapping part.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Not Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "You want it to include something that's not in overlapping", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Postdoc B" }, { "text": "but but uh", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Yeah. I I don't know.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Is s If.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Well it's a sliding window, right? So if you take the the measure in the center of the overlapped piece, you know, there'd better be some something.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Yeah. Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "But if your window is really huge then yeah you're right you won't even.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Yeah, This is the This is the the idea, to consider only the the small window near near near the the overlapping zone.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "The portion of the of the backchannel won't won't effect anything. But you Yeah. So. You know, you shouldn't be more than like You should definitely not be three times as big as your as your backchannel.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Postdoc B" }, { "text": "Then you're gonna w have a wash. And hopefully it's more like on the order of.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "I'm not sure that's necessarily true.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Yeah?", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "It is an empirical question, it seems like.", "speakerName": "Postdoc B" }, { "text": "Because because it because um again if you're just compensating for the gain,", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Yea", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Postdoc B" }, { "text": "you know, the fact that this this gain thing was crude, and the gain wh if someone is speaking relatively at consistent level, just to to give a an extreme example, all you're doing is compensating for that. And then you still s And then if you look at the frame with respect to that, it still should should uh change", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Yeah, it depends how different your normalization is, as you slide your window across.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "I mean. That's something we don't know.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "It's possible to try it both ways,", "speakerName": "Postdoc B" }, { "text": "Well, I mean we're also talking about a couple of different things.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "isn't it? in this small", "speakerName": "Postdoc B" }, { "text": "I mean, one is your analysis window and then the other is any sort of normalization that you're doing.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "Yeah I was talking about the n normalization window.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "And the And they could be quite different.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "This was sort of where where we were last week.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Yep.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "Yeah. That's true. Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "But, anyway We we'll have to look at some core things.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "OK.", "speakerName": "Postdoc B" }, { "text": "Um. But that'd be great if if you're marking those", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "OK.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Great.", "speakerName": "Postdoc B" }, { "text": "and um.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "OK.", "speakerName": "Postdoc B" }, { "text": "But it is definitely true that we need to have the time marks,", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Postdoc B" }, { "text": "and I was assuming that will be inherited because, if you have the words and they're roughly aligned in time via forced alignment or whatever we end up using, then you know, this student and I would be looking at the time marks", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Yep, I agree. Mm - hmm. Coming off of the other.", "speakerName": "Postdoc B" }, { "text": "and classifying all the frames inside those as whatever labels Jane gave", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Good. So, it wouldn't be I wasn't planning to label the time marks.", "speakerName": "Postdoc B" }, { "text": "I can give you my transcription file,", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "I was thinking that that would come from the engineering side,", "speakerName": "Postdoc B" }, { "text": "I don't think you need to.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "no?", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "yeah.", "speakerName": "Postdoc B" }, { "text": "Yeah. That should be linked to the words which are linked to time somehow,", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "There you go.", "speakerName": "Postdoc B" }, { "text": "Well we're not any time soon going to get a forced alignment.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "right? Not now.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "So.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Um If it's not hand - marked then we're not going to get the times.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "Well, it's something that w Well, we we wouldn't be able to do any work without a forced alignment anyway,", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Yes", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "so somehow if once he gets going we're gonna hafta come up with one", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Yes.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "and Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "I mean w I guess we could do a very bad one with Broadcast News.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "Good. Good.", "speakerName": "Postdoc B" }, { "text": "So whatever you would label would be attached to the words, I think.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Great! Good, good. Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Postdoc B" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Well again for the close mike stuff, we could come up take a s take the Switchboard system or something,", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "That might be good enough. Yeah.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "and Um", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "It'd be worth a try. It would be interesting to see what we get.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "Just, you know, low - pass filter the speech and.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Cuz there's there's a lot of work you can't do without that, I mean, how how would you.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "You'd have to go in and measure every start and stop point next to a word", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Yep.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "It would be very inefficient.", "speakerName": "Postdoc B" }, { "text": "is y if you're interested in anything to do with words.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Postdoc B" }, { "text": "So. Anyway So that'd be great.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Good. OK.", "speakerName": "Postdoc B" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "There's something we should talk about later but maybe not just now. But, uh, should talk about our options as far as the uh uh transcription", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Yep, if IBM doesn't.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "But. Well, w But we'll do that later.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "OK. Good.", "speakerName": "Postdoc B" }, { "text": "Do we hafta turn.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Yeah. Let's do that later.", "speakerName": "Postdoc B" }, { "text": "Are we supposed to keep recording here?", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Yeah Right.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Postdoc B" }, { "text": "We'll talk about it later.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Postdoc B" }, { "text": "So uh Uh \" forms \".", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Forms Next iteration of forms.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "You had something on forms.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Oops.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "Oh! Oh good, OK.", "speakerName": "Postdoc B" }, { "text": "Um. Oh.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "How So it's two pages per person?", "speakerName": "Postdoc B" }, { "text": "Nope. One's a digit form, one's a speaker form.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "Oh!", "speakerName": "Postdoc B" }, { "text": "So one is a one time only speaker form and the other is the digits.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "Oh, I see.", "speakerName": "Postdoc B" }, { "text": "Oh it's the same. Oh no no. Is is new Is OK.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "So don't fill these out.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "Alright.", "speakerName": "Postdoc B" }, { "text": "This is just the suggestion for uh what the new forms would look like. So, they incorporate the changes that we talked about.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "Date and time. Uh why did you switch the order of the Date and Time fields? This is rather a low - level, but", "speakerName": "Postdoc B" }, { "text": "On which one?", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "On on the new one, Time comes first and then Date, but I thought.", "speakerName": "Postdoc B" }, { "text": "Oh you mean on the digit form?", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "This is this is rather a low level question, but but it used used to be Date came first.", "speakerName": "Postdoc B" }, { "text": "Uh, because the user fills out the first three fields and I fill out the rest.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "Oh I see.", "speakerName": "Postdoc B" }, { "text": "So it was intentional.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "Well, how would the How would the user know the time if they didn't know the date?", "speakerName": "Postdoc B" }, { "text": "It's an interesting observation, but it was intentional. Because the date is when you actually read the digits and the time and, excuse me, the time is when you actually read the digits, but I'm filling out the date beforehand. If you look at the form in front of you? that you're going to fill out when you read the digits? you'll see I've already filled in the date but not the time.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "Yeah. I always assumed So the time is supposed to be pretty exact, because I've just been taking beginning time time of the meeting.", "speakerName": "Postdoc B" }, { "text": "Yeah, me too.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Yeah, I've noticed that in the forms.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "Yeah, I yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "The the reason I put the time in, is so that the person who's extracting the digits, meaning me, will know where to look in the meeting, to try to find the digits.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "Me too. Oh!", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Oh dear. We've been we've been messing up your forms.", "speakerName": "Postdoc B" }, { "text": "But I am put I am putting the beginning of the meeting.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "I know.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "So you should call it, like, \" digits start time \". Or.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "And I haven't said anything. Yep.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "in on there.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Why What what were you putting in?", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Oh, well, I was saying if we started the meeting at two thirty,", "speakerName": "Postdoc B" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "I'd put two thirty, and I guess d e everyone was putting two thirty,", "speakerName": "Postdoc B" }, { "text": "Oh.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "No, it's about fifty fifty.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "and I didn't realize there was \" uh oh I'm about to read this and I should \".", "speakerName": "Postdoc B" }, { "text": "Actually it's about one third each. About one third of them are blank, about one third of them are when the digits are read, and about one third of them are when the meeting starts. So.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "Oh.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "This would be a radical suggestion but.", "speakerName": "Postdoc B" }, { "text": "I could put instructions? Nah.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "Ei - either that or maybe you could maybe write down when people start reading digits on that particular session.", "speakerName": "Postdoc B" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "But if I'm not at the meeting, I can't do that.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "I know, OK. That's a good point.", "speakerName": "Postdoc B" }, { "text": "Yeah, he's been setting stuff up and going away. So.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "I see. Good point good point.", "speakerName": "Postdoc B" }, { "text": "For some reason he doesn't want to sit through every meeting that's.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Yep, but that is the reason Name, Email and Time are where they are.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "Oh, OK. Alright.", "speakerName": "Postdoc B" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "I rest my.", "speakerName": "Postdoc B" }, { "text": "And then the others are later on.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "Uh - huh.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "OK. w", "speakerName": "Postdoc B" }, { "text": "And the Seat is this number?", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "Seat and Session.", "speakerName": "Postdoc B" }, { "text": "\" For official use only \" That's Well, he's very professional.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "\" use only \"", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Actually you could Well that does raise another question, which is why is the \" Professional use only \" line not higher? Why doesn't it come in at the point of Date and Seat? Oh. Because we're filling in other things.", "speakerName": "Postdoc B" }, { "text": "What?", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "What?", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Well, because If y your your professional use, you're gonna already have the date, and the s", "speakerName": "Postdoc B" }, { "text": "What which form are you talking about?", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "Well I'm comparing the new one with the old one. This is the digit form.", "speakerName": "Postdoc B" }, { "text": "Oh.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Oh you're talking about the digit form.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "Digit. Digit form.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "The digit form doesn't The digit.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "Oh! I wasn't supposed to.", "speakerName": "Postdoc B" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "No, that's alright.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "Sorry. Sorry.", "speakerName": "Postdoc B" }, { "text": "The digit form doesn't have a \" for official use only \" line. It just has a line, which is what you're supposed to read.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "That uh OK.", "speakerName": "Postdoc B" }, { "text": "So on the digits form, everything above the line is a fill - in form", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "Sorry about that. Yeah.", "speakerName": "Postdoc B" }, { "text": "and everything below the line is digits that the user reads.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "Yeah. OK. Alright s but I didn't mean to derail our discussion here, so you really wanted to start with this other form.", "speakerName": "Postdoc B" }, { "text": "No, either way is fine I just You just started talking about something, and I didn't know which form you were referring to.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "Alright yeah, I was comparing so th this is So I was looking at the change first. So it's like we started with this and now we've got a new version of it wi with reference to this. So the digit form, we had one already. Now the f the fields are slightly different.", "speakerName": "Postdoc B" }, { "text": "So the main thing that the person fills out um is the name and email and time?", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "You do the rest?", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Ah!", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Yep. Just as uh as I have for all the others.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "What And there's an addition of the native language, which is a bit redundant.", "speakerName": "Postdoc B" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "This one has Native Language and this one does too.", "speakerName": "Postdoc B" }, { "text": "That's because the one, the digit form that has native language is the old form not the new form.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "Oh! Thank you. Thank you, thank you. There we go.", "speakerName": "Postdoc B" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Oh, yeah. I'll catch up here. OK, I see.", "speakerName": "Postdoc B" }, { "text": "\" South Midland, North Midland \"", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "That's the old and that's the new.", "speakerName": "Postdoc B" }, { "text": "Yeah this was the problem with these categories, I I picked those categories from TIMIT. I don't know what those are.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "Actually, the only way I know is from working with the database and having to figure it out.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "What.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "With TIMIT, yeah?", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "uh - huh.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "So, I was gonna ask", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "What i", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "So is South Midland like Kansas?", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "wh w I mean.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "and North Midland like like uh Illinois, or?", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Well yeah. Nor - um.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "So so what accent are we speaking? Western?", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "By definition?", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "And for simple for for me?", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Well,", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Probably Western, yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Is mean my native language Spanish Spanish? eh The original is the center of Spain and the beca", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Yeah, I mean you could call it whatever you want. For the foreign language we couldn't classify every single one. So I just left it blank and you can put whatever you want.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "Because is different, the Span - uh the Spanish language from the the north of Spain, of the south, of the west and the.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Sure.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "But.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "So I'm not sure what to do about the Region field for English variety. You know, when I wrote I was writing those down, I was thinking, \" You know, these are great if you're a linguist \".", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "But I don't know how to I don't know how to I don't know how to categorize them.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Postdoc B" }, { "text": "Actually even if you t", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Postdoc B" }, { "text": "If you're if e if y", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "This wasn't developed by th these regions weren't.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "if you're a TI or MIT from nineteen eighty - five.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Yeah So I guess my only question was if if you were a South Midland speaking region, person? Would you know it?", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Is that what you would call yourself?", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "I don't know.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "You know, I think if you're talking if you're thinking in terms of places, as opposed to names different peop names people have given to different ways of talking, I would think North Midwest, and South Midwest would be more common than saying Midland, right, I mean, I I went to s", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Yeah. Now the usage Maybe we can give them a li like a little map? with the regions and they just No, I'm serious.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "No, that's not bad. Yeah.", "speakerName": "Postdoc B" }, { "text": "Because it takes less time, and it's sort of cute", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "i at this in that side in that side of the the paper.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "there's no figure.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Well.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Well just a little You know, it doesn't have all the detail, but you sort of.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "But what if you moved five times and and uh", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Well, I was thinking you could have ma multiple ones and then the amount of time.", "speakerName": "Postdoc B" }, { "text": "No, but you're categorized. That's the same.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "so, roughly. So. You could say, you know \" ten years on the east coast, five years on the west coast \" or something or other.", "speakerName": "Postdoc B" }, { "text": "Well, We I think we don't want to get that level of detail at this form. I think that's alright if we want to follow up. But.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "I guess we don't really know.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "I mean I As I said, I don't think there's a huge benefit to this region thing. It it gets The problem is that for some things it's really clear and usually listening to it you can tell right away if it's a New York or Boston accent, but New York and Boston are two well, I guess they have the NYC, but New England has a bunch of very different dialects and.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Postdoc B" }, { "text": "and so does um S So do other places.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Yeah, so I picked these regions cuz we had talked about TIMIT, and those are right from TIMIT.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "Right. And so these would be satisfying like a speech research community if we released the database,", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "So.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "but as to whether subjects know where they're from, I'm not sure because um I know that they had to fill this out for Switchboard. This is i almost exactly the same as Switchboard regions", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Oh. OK.", "speakerName": "Postdoc B" }, { "text": "or very close. Yeah. Um And I don't know how they filled that out. But th if Midland Yeah, Midland is the one that's difficult I guess.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "I think a lot of people Yeah.", "speakerName": "Postdoc B" }, { "text": "Also Northwest you've got Oreg - Washington and Oregon now which uh y people don't know if it's western or northern.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Yeah, I certainly don't. I mean, I was saying I don't even know what I speak.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "It's like Northwest", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Am I speaking Am I speaking Western?", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "Oh, what is Northern? Well and what and what's Northern?", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "I think originally it was North Northwest", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Northwest?", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "But.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Yeah, so this is a real problem. I don't know what to do about it.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "I wouldn't know how to characterize mine either. And and so I would think I would say, I've I've got a mix of California and Ohio.", "speakerName": "Postdoc B" }, { "text": "I c I think at the first level, for example, we speak the same.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "I don't know.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "our our dialects Or whatever you region are the same.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "Uh - huh.", "speakerName": "Postdoc B" }, { "text": "But I don't know what it is. So.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "Well, you have a like techno - speak accent I think.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "a techno - speak accent?", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "Yeah, you know?", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "A techno", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "A a geek region?", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "Well it's I mean I you can sort of identify", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Geek region.", "speakerName": "Postdoc B" }, { "text": "it f It's it's not not that that's.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Is different. Is different.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "but but maybe that maybe we could leave this and see what people See what people choose and then um let them just fill in if they don't I mean I don't know what else we can do, cuz That's North Midland.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "I'm wondering about a question like, \" Where are you from mostly? \"", "speakerName": "Postdoc B" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "But I I'm s I'm now that you mentioned it though, I am really am confused by \" Northern \".", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "I agree. I agree.", "speakerName": "Postdoc B" }, { "text": "I really am.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "I agree.", "speakerName": "Postdoc B" }, { "text": "I mean, if if you're in New England, that's North.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "If you're i if you're", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Scandinavian, the Minnesota area's north.", "speakerName": "Postdoc B" }, { "text": "Uh yeah. That's But that's also North Midland,", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Oh, @ @. OK.", "speakerName": "Postdoc B" }, { "text": "right?", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "And and and Oregon and and Oregon and Washington are are Western, but they're also Northern.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Yeah. Of course, that's very different from, like, Michigan, or.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Mmm.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Postdoc B" }, { "text": "uh, Idaho?", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Well there are hardly any subjects from Idaho.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Montana?", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "No problem.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "Just rule them out.", "speakerName": "Postdoc B" }, { "text": "There's only a few people in Idaho.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "There are hardly any subjects from \" beep \"", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Sorry.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Maybe Maybe we Maybe we should put a little map and say \" put an X on where you're from \",", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "No, that's.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "And is in those.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Yeah really.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "We could ask where they're from.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "And if you put.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "It'd be pretty simple, yeah.", "speakerName": "Postdoc B" }, { "text": "Yeah. But - We went back to that.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Yeah. If you put eh the state?", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Well well we sort of.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "Where are you from mostly?", "speakerName": "Postdoc B" }, { "text": "We we went we went around this and then a lot of people ended up saying that it.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Uh - huh. Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "You know.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Well, I like the idea of asking \" what variety of English do you speak \" as opposed to where you're from Because th if we start asking where we're from, again you have to start saying, \" well, is that the language you speak or is that just where you're from? \"", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Hmm?", "speakerName": "Postdoc B" }, { "text": "Right. Right.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Let's Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "I mean it gives us good information on where they're from, but that doesn't tell us anything.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "And.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "We could always ask them if they're from.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "well, enough about their.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "I mean. So so I would say Germany", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "like.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "You know am I speaking with German accent", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "Oh.", "speakerName": "Postdoc B" }, { "text": "I don't think so.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "Well, see, I'm thinking \" Where are you from mostly \"", "speakerName": "Postdoc B" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Oh, OK yeah.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "because, you know, then you have some some kind of subjective amount of time factored into it.", "speakerName": "Postdoc B" }, { "text": "Yeah. Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Yep. Yeah, I guess I could try to put squeeze in a little map.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "I mean there's not a lot of r of room", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "I'd say, uh, \" Boston, New York City, the South and Regular \".", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Well.", "speakerName": "Postdoc B" }, { "text": "Oh, I don't know.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "I think of those, Northern is the only one that I don't even know what they're meaning.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "Yeah. Yeah.", "speakerName": "Postdoc B" }, { "text": "And And Um And usually here people here know what is their kind of mmm lang English language?", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "That's a joke. That's.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "So let's make it up. S I mean, who cares. Right? We can make up our own So we can say \" Northwest \", \" Rest of West \" or something. You know. \" West \" and I mean.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Ye I don't think the Northwest people speak any differently than I do.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "It doesn't even Yeah, exactly. That's not really a region.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "I.", "speakerName": "Postdoc B" }, { "text": "\" Do you come from the Louisiana Purchase? \"", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "So we could take out \" North \" \" Northern \".", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "That that's exactly what we're arguing about.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "eh here Is easy for people to know?", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "That's Yeah, w It's In It's it's harder in America anywhere else, basically.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "We don't know.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "because you have.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "I mean some of them are very obvious. If you if you talk to someone speaking with Southern drawl, you know.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "N m Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Yeah, or Boston.", "speakerName": "Postdoc B" }, { "text": "Or Boston, yeah.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "I can't do it, but.", "speakerName": "Postdoc B" }, { "text": "Or Boston?", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "And those people, if you ask them to self - identify their accent they know.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Yeah, they do.", "speakerName": "Postdoc B" }, { "text": "They know very well.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Yeah I agree I agree. I agree.", "speakerName": "Postdoc B" }, { "text": "They know they don't speak the same as the", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "But is Boston New England?", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "And they're proud of it.", "speakerName": "Postdoc B" }, { "text": "day o", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Postdoc B" }, { "text": "Yeah, exactly.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "It's identity thing.", "speakerName": "Postdoc B" }, { "text": "And they're glad to tell you.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "style.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Well. Depends who you ask, I suppose.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "W I guess that's the problem with these categories.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "But that's why they have New York City but.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Well, we ca Well, why can't we just say characterize something like char characterize your accent", "speakerName": "Postdoc B" }, { "text": "Well, Boston's @ @, too.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Or \" Characterize your accent if you can. \"", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "and and so I would say, \" I don't know \".", "speakerName": "Postdoc B" }, { "text": "Yeah. Right, which probably means you have a very.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "But someone from Boston with a really strong coloration would know. And so would an R - less Maine or something,", "speakerName": "Postdoc B" }, { "text": "And that's actually good.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "yeah.", "speakerName": "Postdoc B" }, { "text": "I was I was thinking of something along that line", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "How", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Good.", "speakerName": "Postdoc B" }, { "text": "because if you don't know, then, you know, ruling out the fact that you're totally inept or something,", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Hmm.", "speakerName": "Postdoc B" }, { "text": "if somebody doesn't know, it probably means their accent isn't very strong compared to the sort of midwest standard.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Well, I mean, it wasn't that long ago that we had somebody here who was from Texas who was absolutely sure that he didn't have any accent left.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Hmm?", "speakerName": "Postdoc B" }, { "text": "And and had he had a pretty noticeable drawl.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "OK, so. I propose, take out Northern add, don't know.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "Oh. Yeah. I I would say more more sweepingly, \" how would you characterize your accent? \"", "speakerName": "Postdoc B" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "So you want to change the instructions also not just say region?", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "W", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Well, I think this discussion has made me think that's s something to consider.", "speakerName": "Postdoc B" }, { "text": "I don't know if I if I read this form, I think they're going to ask it they're going to answer the same way if you say, \" What's variety of English do you speak? Region. \" as if you say \" what variety of region region do you speak? Please characterize your accent? \" They're going to answer the same way.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "I guess Well, I was not sure that I.", "speakerName": "Postdoc B" }, { "text": "Mmm.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "So. I was suggesting not having the options, just having them.", "speakerName": "Postdoc B" }, { "text": "Oh, I see.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "Huh.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Well what we talked about with that is is so that they would understand the granularity.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "Yes, but if, as Liz is suggesting, people who have strong accents know that they do.", "speakerName": "Postdoc B" }, { "text": "I mean that's what I had before, and you told me to list the regions to list them.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "and are Well, I know.", "speakerName": "Postdoc B" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Each each one has pros and cons", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "So.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "That's true.", "speakerName": "Postdoc B" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "I mean we we.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Yeah last week last week I was sort of r arguing for having it wide open, but then everybody said \" Oh, no, but then it will be hard to interpret because some people will say Cincinnati and some will say Ohio \".", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "I mean I had it wide open last week and and you said TIMIT.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "And.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Postdoc B" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "What if we put in both?", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "That's what the \" Other \" is for.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "And Would people No, I mean what if we put in both ways of asking them? So. One is Region and the another one is \" if you had to characterize yourself your accent, what would you say? \"", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Won't they answer the same thing?", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "Well they might only answer only one of the questions but if", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Yeah that's fine.", "speakerName": "Postdoc B" }, { "text": "You know.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "They might say \" Other \" for Region because they don't know what category to use", "speakerName": "Postdoc B" }, { "text": "Actually.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "but they might have something.", "speakerName": "Postdoc B" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "because it is easier to have it open ended.", "speakerName": "Postdoc B" }, { "text": "It just And we we might learn from what they say, as to which one's a better way to ask it.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "W This is just a small thing", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "But I Cuz I really don't know..", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "but um It says \" Variety \" and then it gives things that e have American as one of the choices. But then it says \" Region \", but Region actually just applies to uh, US,", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "right?", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "I mean that's why I put the \" Other \" in.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "Well, we thought about it.", "speakerName": "Postdoc B" }, { "text": "Ah, OK.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Yeah, OK. We just We sort of thought, \" yes, \" y y I mean.", "speakerName": "Postdoc B" }, { "text": "S", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "At the last meeting, my recollection was that we felt people would have uh less that that there are so many types and varieties of these other languages and we are not going to have that many subjects from these different language groups", "speakerName": "Postdoc B" }, { "text": "Yep.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "and that it's a huge waste of of space.", "speakerName": "Postdoc B" }, { "text": "OK.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "So I mean, I I mean the way I had it last time was Region was blank,", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "That's what I thought.", "speakerName": "Postdoc B" }, { "text": "it just said Region colon.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Postdoc B" }, { "text": "And and I think that that's the best way to do it,", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Postdoc B" }, { "text": "because because of the problems we're talking about but what we said last week, was no, put in a list, so I put in a list. So should we go back to.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "Maybe we can make the list a little smaller.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Well, certainly dropping \" Northern \" I think is right, because none of us know what that is.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "Cuz, I mean And keeping \" Other \", and then maybe this North Midland, we call it \" North Midwest \". South Midwest, or just.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Yes I I I think so. Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "South Midwest. Does that make sense?", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "South Midwest?", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "That would help me.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "U unless you're from Midland, Kansas.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Yeah. Cuz Midland.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "But. Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "I don't know where Midland is", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "There's a Or Midland Midland.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Is \" Midwest \" one word?", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "Is it Midland Midland Midland, Texas or Midland, Kansas? I forget.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Y yeah, one w", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "But there's a town. in in there.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Oh.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "I forget what it is @ @.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "I don't think that's what they mean.", "speakerName": "Postdoc B" }, { "text": "But,", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "yeah. So. Kansas would be South Midland. Right?", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Y yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "And and wouldn't Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "And Colorado, right across the border, would be North Midland.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "So, th I'm from Kansas, actually.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Southern Midland..", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "And uh.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "Colora Oh, right. And then, the the dropping North, so it would be Western. It's just one big shebang, where, of course, you have huge variation in dialects,", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "But that's true of New England too.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "But you do in the others, too. So.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "but but so do you.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "So. I mean only one.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Yeah. Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Well, I shouldn't say that. I have no clue. I was going to say the only one that doesn't have a huge variety is New York City. But I have no idea whether it does or not.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "It does seem I mean. I I would think that these categories would be more w would be easier for an an analyst to put in rather than the subject himself.", "speakerName": "Postdoc B" }, { "text": "U", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "I think that that was what happened with TIMIT, was that it was an analyst.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "OK.", "speakerName": "Postdoc B" }, { "text": "Wait a minute. Where does Where does d w Where Where's where does uh New New York west of west of uh New York City and Pennsylvania uh and uh", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Yeah, I don't know how it came from.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "OK.", "speakerName": "Postdoc B" }, { "text": "New England", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "So. That's New England I think.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "N No, it's not.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Oh, no.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "I sort of thought they were part of the one of the Midlands.", "speakerName": "Postdoc B" }, { "text": "Oh no. No, no. No. Pennsylvania is not.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "\" Other \", it goes under \" Other \", definitely under \" Other \".", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "Well, you know, Pennsylvania has a pretty strong dialect and it's totally different than.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Pennsylvania Yeah. Pennsylvania is not New England. and uh New Jersey is not New England and Maryland is not New England and none of those are the South.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "OK. So. Another suggestion. Rather than have circle fill in forms, say \" Region, open paren, E G Southern comma Western comma close paren colon. \"", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "Yeah. OK.", "speakerName": "Postdoc B" }, { "text": "OK!", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Fine by me, fine by me.", "speakerName": "Postdoc B" }, { "text": "That's good. I like that.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Sure!", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Postdoc B" }, { "text": "We're all sufficiently tired of this that we're agreeing with you.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Let's just And we'll see what we get.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Be easier on the subjects. I think that's fine. No. I think.", "speakerName": "Postdoc B" }, { "text": "So.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "I like that. I like that.", "speakerName": "Postdoc B" }, { "text": "You like it?", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Yeah, I do.", "speakerName": "Postdoc B" }, { "text": "OK.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Actually, maybe we do one non - English one as well.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "Good.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Southern, Cockney?", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "Yeah, and.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Is that a real accent?", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "Sure, yeah!", "speakerName": "Postdoc B" }, { "text": "How do you spell it?", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "I think that's fine.", "speakerName": "Postdoc B" }, { "text": "Cockney?", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "N E", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "CO Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "You could say Liverpool.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Liverpuddlian.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Yeah. Alright.", "speakerName": "Postdoc B" }, { "text": "Actually, Liverpool doesn't l Yeah. It's I'm s I ha", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Well. Well. I mean, pure.", "speakerName": "Postdoc B" }, { "text": "OK, we'll do it that way. Actually, I like that a lot. Because that get's at both of the things we were trying to do,", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "OK.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "the granularity, and the person can just self - assess and we don't have to argue about what these regions are.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "That's right. And it's easy on the subjects.", "speakerName": "Postdoc B" }, { "text": "OK.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Yep.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "Now I have one suggestion on the next section.", "speakerName": "Postdoc B" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "So you have native language, you have region, and then you have time spent in English speaking country. Now, I wonder if it might be useful to have another open field saying \" which one parenthesis S paren closed parenthesis \". Cuz if they spent time in in Britain and America.", "speakerName": "Postdoc B" }, { "text": "Yes.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "It doesn't have to be ex all at all exact, just in the same open field format that you have.", "speakerName": "Postdoc B" }, { "text": "Yep, just which one. I think that's fine.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm. with a with an S", "speakerName": "Postdoc B" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "\" which one sss, optional S.", "speakerName": "Postdoc B" }, { "text": "OK.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Postdoc B" }, { "text": "We uh We done?", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Yep.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "Yeah, that's good.", "speakerName": "Postdoc B" }, { "text": "OK. um s e Any any other uh open mike topics or should we go right to the digits?", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Um, did you guys get my email on the multitrans? That OK.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "Isn't that wonderful! Yeah.", "speakerName": "Postdoc B" }, { "text": "Yeah. So. So. I I have a version also which actually displays all the channels.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "Excellent! Thank you!", "speakerName": "Postdoc B" }, { "text": "It's really great.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "But it's hideously slow.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "So you this is n Dan's patches, Dan Ellis's patches.", "speakerName": "Postdoc B" }, { "text": "The what the ones I applied, that you can actually do are Dan's, because it doesn't slow it down.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "M", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Fantastic!", "speakerName": "Postdoc B" }, { "text": "Just uses a lot of memory.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "So when you say \" slow \", does that mean to.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "No, the the one that's installed is fine. It's not slow at all. I wrote another version. Which, instead of having the one pane with the one view, It has multiple panes with the views.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "But the problem with it is the drawing of those waveforms is so slow that every time you do anything it just crawls.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Postdoc B" }, { "text": "It's really bad.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "It's So, it it's the redrawing of the w", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "That's a consideration.", "speakerName": "Postdoc B" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "oh uh - huh, w as you move.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "As you play, as you move, as you scroll. Just about anything, and it it was so slow it was not usable. So that's why I didn't install it and didn't pursue it.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "And this'll be a hav having the multiwave will be a big help cuz in terms of like disentangling overlaps and things, that'll be a big help.", "speakerName": "Postdoc B" }, { "text": "Oh yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "So. I think that the one Dan has is usable enough.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "It doesn't display the others. It displays just the mixed signal.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Postdoc B" }, { "text": "But you can listen to any of them.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "That's excellent. He also has version control which is another nice", "speakerName": "Postdoc B" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "e so you e the patches that you.", "speakerName": "Postdoc B" }, { "text": "No, he suggested that, but he didn't It's not installed.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "Oh, I thought it was in one of those patches.", "speakerName": "Postdoc B" }, { "text": "No. No.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "Oh OK. Well. Alright.", "speakerName": "Postdoc B" }, { "text": "So is there any hope for actually displaying the wave form?", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Um, not if we're going to use Tcl - TK At least not if we're going to use Snack.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "OK.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "I mean you would have to do something ourselves.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "Well, or use the one that crawls.", "speakerName": "Postdoc B" }, { "text": "OK. Well, I'm I probably would be trying to use the whatever's there. And it's useful to have the.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Why don't we we see how Dan's works and if it If we really need the display.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "Yeah. I mean. I wonder I'm just wondering if we can display things other than the wave form. So. Suppose we have a feature a feature stream. And it's just, you know, a a uni - dimensional feature, varying in time.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "And we want to plot that, instead of the whole wave form.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "I mean.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "That might be faster.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Right?", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "We we could do that but that would mean changing the code.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "So.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "I mean this isn't a program we wrote.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "This is a program that we got from someone else, and we've done patches on.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "OK.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Postdoc B" }, { "text": "OK. Well, I'll talk to you about it and we can see", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "So.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "Cou - i e I mean, y", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "but it's definitely great to have the other one.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "If there was some Is there some way to have someone write patches in something faster and and link it in, or something?", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "That's.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Not easily.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "Or is that.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "I mean y yes we could do that. You could you can write widgets in C. And try to do it that way but I just don't think it.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Let's try it with Dan's and if that isn't enough, we can do it otherwise.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "I think it is, cuz when I was playing with it, the mixed signal has it all in there. And so it's really It's not too bad to find places in the in the stream where things are happening.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "OK.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "So I I don't think it'll be bad.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "And it's also also the case that that uh this multi - wave thing is proposed to the.", "speakerName": "Postdoc B" }, { "text": "Hmm?", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "So. Dan proposed it to the Transcriber central people, and it's likely that uh So. And and they responded favorably looks as though it will be incorporated in the future version.", "speakerName": "Postdoc B" }, { "text": "Oh.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "They said that the only reason they hadn't had the multi the parallel uh stream one before was simply that they hadn't had time to do it. And uh so it's likely that this this may be entered into the ch this central @ @.", "speakerName": "Postdoc B" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "And if if.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "They may well have not had much demand for it.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Well that's that's that's true, too.", "speakerName": "Postdoc B" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "This is a a useful thing for us.", "speakerName": "Postdoc B" }, { "text": "So. You mean they could they could do it and it would be fast enough if they do it?", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Depends on how much work they did.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "Oh. No. I just mean I just mean that it's that that his.", "speakerName": "Postdoc B" }, { "text": "Or?", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Oh.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "So. This one that we now have does have the status of potentially being incorporated l likely being incorporated into the central code.", "speakerName": "Postdoc B" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm. OK.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Now, tha Now, if we develop further then, y uh, I don't.", "speakerName": "Postdoc B" }, { "text": "I think if if if one of us sat down and coded it, so that it could be displayed fast enough I'm sure they would be quite willing to incorporate it.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "I mean it's I think it's a nice feature to have it set that way. Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Postdoc B" }, { "text": "But it's not a trivial task.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm. Yeah.", "speakerName": "Postdoc B" }, { "text": "OK.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "I just like the idea of it being something that's, you know, tied back into the original, so that other people can benefit from it.", "speakerName": "Postdoc B" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "Yeah. However. I also understand that you can have widgets that are very useful for their purpose and that you don't need to always go that w route. Yeah.", "speakerName": "Postdoc B" }, { "text": "OK.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "anyway, shall we do digits?", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Postdoc B" }, { "text": "Yeah. Let's do digits, uh, and then we'll turn off the mikes, and then I have one other thing to discuss.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "OK.", "speakerName": "Postdoc B" }, { "text": "OK.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "I actually have to leave. So. Um. I mean I had to leave at three thirty,", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Uh - oh.", "speakerName": "Postdoc B" }, { "text": "OK.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "Oh.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "so I can Well, I can wait for the digits but I can't stay for the discussion", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Well, you want to go first? Or.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "I c I have to make a call.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "OK.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "So.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Well, should we e should we switch off the g", "speakerName": "Postdoc B" }, { "text": "Well, we'll talk to you about it Uh", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Do you wanna go do digits or do you wanna just skip digits?", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "Um. No, I can do digits if if But I don't wanna butt in, or something.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Then Alright. You go ahead.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "But if there's something on the rest of the I'm I'll be around just have to make call before quarter of. 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{ "meetingId": "education23", "transcriptSegments": [ { "text": "Good morning, everyone, and welcome to this morning's Children, Young People and Education Committee. We've received no apologies for absence. Can I ask Members who are present if they wish to declare any interests? Okay, thank you. Item 2 this morning is our final evidence session for our inquiry into targeted funding to improve educational outcomes. I'm very pleased to welcome Kirsty Williams AM, Cabinet Secretary for Education; Steve Davies, director of the education directorate; and Ruth Conway, deputy director, support for learners division. Welcome to all of you, and thank you for your attendance and also for the paper that you've provided in advance. If you're happy, we'll go straight into questions, and the first questions are from Llyr Gruffydd.", "speakerName": "Lynne Neagle AM" }, { "text": "Bore da. I just want to start by asking some questions around the targeting of the pupil development grant because, clearly, we've had a lot of evidence around this apparent blurring of eligibility to an extent. I'm just wondering how comfortable you are that the money is being targeted appropriately because, clearly, it's being targeted more widely than just those eligible for free school meals, from some of the evidence we've had, but also that it seems to be predominantly focused on low-attaining frees—pupils who are eligible for free school meals.", "speakerName": "Llyr Gruffydd AM" }, { "text": "Thank you, Llyr. I think it's important to be absolutely clear that when it comes to individual interventions, those individual interventions should only be targeted at those children who are eligible for free school meals. But in some cases, schools may use their PDG funding to provide a universal intervention, but we would want to—in challenge advisers' discussions in schools—we'd want to have evidence that that universal intervention would have a disproportionate effect on the outcomes for children on free school meals. So, for instance, if I give you an example in your own region, Llyr: at Brynteg County Primary School in Wrexham, if you look at that primary school in Wrexham, their results for free-school-meal children at the end of their primary school period in school are equivalent to their non-free-school-meal counterparts. So, there is no differentiation in those results. One of the things that they've used their PDG for is to really focus on the concept of growth mindset in school. So, that's a universal thing that they've trained all the teachers in, but what we know is that that has a disproportionate effect on those children who are on free school meals. So, if you're familiar with the concept of a growth mindset, it's about really challenging learners to think that,'I can do things. If sometimes I fail, I pick myself up, I'm more resilient.' Now, that has been, as I said, trained to all the teachers in the school—it's an ethos for the whole school—but we have seen that the impact on the free-school-meal children has been even greater, and now they're at the same level. So, that's the important distinction. Individual intervention per child has to be targeted at those children who are eligible for free school meals, but sometimes a school will employ a whole-school approach to train their staff, for instance, and that, then, has to demonstrate it has a disproportionate effect on free school meals. So, growth mindset; it may be attachment disorder training for staff, for instance, where we know it's of benefit to everybody, but will have particular benefits for that cohort of students. With regard to more able and talented, you know, Llyr, that this is an area of concern for me, generally, within the Welsh education system; that we've not been particularly good at identifying, supporting and driving attainment for those children. I'm absolutely clear that PDG needs to be used for those children who are eligible to drive potential, whatever the potential of that child is, including more able and talented. And again, I'll give you an example that has been seen as good practice in Pembrokeshire: a window on the world bus, again paid for by schools. I don't know if you're aware of it.", "speakerName": "Kirsty Williams AM" }, { "text": "We've heard about that.", "speakerName": "Llyr Gruffydd AM" }, { "text": "Oh, you've heard about it; well, it's a really good example the window on the world. And, again, that's very much targeted at raising aspirations and giving children who are more able and talented, who are eligible for PDG, those experiences, and to really push them. So, yes, I'm absolutely clear that PDG shouldn't just be seen to be getting individuals to the average. For those children who are more able and talented, it should be used to support them—", "speakerName": "Kirsty Williams AM" }, { "text": "And we all share those aspirations, I'm sure, and you pointed to examples of good practice, but of course, it's not universal, is it, so what I'm asking is: do you think that the guidance is sufficient as it is? Do you think that there's a great enough awareness of how the PDG should be used at the coalface? And also, are you confident that consortia and others have the measures in place to be able to demonstrate that it is being used properly?", "speakerName": "Llyr Gruffydd AM" }, { "text": "I think, if we look at what Estyn has said about PDG, it does actually recognise that the PDG is being used to push more able and talented children, but as always with the system, Llyr, it's whether we can be sure that that is strategic and that it's happening across all of our schools. So, you're—", "speakerName": "Kirsty Williams AM" }, { "text": "But not just in relation to more able and talented, I'm referring to the eligibility and the targeting.", "speakerName": "Llyr Gruffydd AM" }, { "text": "Oh, the eligibility. You'll be aware that, on the advice of Sir Alasdair, we have employed and appointed new PDG regional advisers, and I think their role is going to be absolutely crucial in spreading that good practice across the region, whether that's use of PDG for more able and talented, or ensuring that PDG is used in the appropriate way. So, that's there to provide strategic overall advice. And obviously, we have been very clear with regional challenge advisers, in the relationship and the conversations they're having with individual schools, that they're really challenging their schools about the use of PDG, not just in terms of targeting, but the programmes, what the money is being spent on, whether there is an evidence base for that and whether we are clear on impact. So, I think the new regional advisers are going to be crucial in enabling us to ensure more consistent practice across the regions.", "speakerName": "Kirsty Williams AM" }, { "text": "So, are you content that eligibility for free school meals is the best measure, really, of identifying which pupils to target?", "speakerName": "Llyr Gruffydd AM" }, { "text": "Llyr, in the absence of anything better. I'll be the first person to say that maybe it's not as absolutely focused, but in the absence of anything different to identify a proxy for need, I think it's probably the best that we've got at present. And we will continue to have discussions with local government about whether there are different ways. We have to be mindful. Some of the policy levers in this area are out of my hands, so if we look at the roll-out of universal credit, for instance, we've got officials working very hard at the moment to try and understand what universal credit is going to mean and where we are going to be able to identify relative need, going forward. We haven't had any additional resource as a result of this, but we're very mindful that, potentially, this has an impact, going forward. And, officials are working all of the time, I must say, in conjunction with the department in England, to understand their thinking in this area so that we are in a position to make some decisions about what a notional eligibility for free school meals will look like going forward, but before I make any decisions, I want to assure everybody that there will be a full public consultation on that.", "speakerName": "Kirsty Williams AM" }, { "text": "Okay. Finally for now, on this issue of once a year, in January, if you're eligible for free school meals, then you're in that group for that year. We've had some quite strong evidence about how difficult that makes longer term planning for a number of schools and we've also been pointed in the direction of what's happened in England with the Ever 6, and I'm just wondering whether you're giving any thought to maybe changing that a little bit.", "speakerName": "Llyr Gruffydd AM" }, { "text": "Well, we're certainly giving thought to flexibility. In conversations with Alasdair, who is our independent adviser on this agenda, and individual schools, we're actively giving thought to greater flexibility and maybe longer term projections, so that schools know, for a number of years ahead, what their allocation will be. There are advantages to that system, because you could give that flexibility, you could give that long-term approach, but then, how do you make that responsive if a school suddenly has more children? We do know that, actually, the number of free-school-meal pupils is dropping. But there can be changes, you know, regional working in areas of north Wales in tourism, or maybe in other areas at Christmas time, parents are able to get a period of work. So, how can we create a more flexible system? We're actively looking at that at the moment. I wouldn't use it as an Ever 6 concept, but as an'Ever 2' concept. We have looked at Ever 6, and I'm going to be absolutely blunt with you: to introduce an Ever 6 concept for Wales would mean in the region of identifying an additional £40 million. I'm going to be absolutely straight and blunt with you: we're not in a position at the moment to be able to identify an additional £40 million to introduce an Ever 6. But issues around flexibility, certainly, are actively under consideration. In fact, we'll be having a discussion later on today about decisions, going forward, for the next two years.", "speakerName": "Kirsty Williams AM" }, { "text": "Thank you.", "speakerName": "Llyr Gruffydd AM" }, { "text": "Darren on this.", "speakerName": "Lynne Neagle AM" }, { "text": "It's just a very brief point in response to the £40 million price ticket that you just put on that. That's, of course, assuming that you maintain the current level of PDG, yes? So, if you reduced the level of PDG slightly, but made it available to more individuals, if you like, via allocating it in a different way, then that £40 million price ticket wouldn't be there, would it?", "speakerName": "Darren Millar AM" }, { "text": "I was asked a question about had I ever considered an Ever 6. We have looked at that, we've priced that up. I have to make decisions in the envelope of resources that are available to me. We could, indeed, change the way in which we allocate PDG money, but we have to do it within the envelope that is available to me, over £90 million. That's a significant level of investment, but, of course, as always, Darren, we could cut the amount per pupil, but that might have quite challenging swings in allocations. What we have done—because what I am clear on is that there was evidence to suggest that in the secondary sector, a great deal of PDG was being focused on years 10 and 11, especially year 11, in catch-up provision, and you'll be aware, because we've said this in evidence to the committee in the papers, we've set a challenge to secondary schools to say,'Actually, the majority of your PDG allocation has to be used in key stage 3.' Now, we have to balance the needs, the moral hazard of turning round to children in years 10 and 11 and saying,'We're not going to provide catch-up opportunities for you,' because, clearly, those children need that support. But the evidence and the advice that we're receiving is: actually, strong focus on early years, primary and key stage 3, if we get that right, should negate the need for spending money on catch-up at years 10 and 11. That's why we, in our advice to local authorities and schools, say that we want to see evidence that they're spending this money earlier on in a child's career, rather than just a scramble at year 11 to say,'Right, we've got to get you through your exams.'", "speakerName": "Kirsty Williams AM" }, { "text": "Okay, but have you actively considered, then, reducing the level you have?", "speakerName": "Darren Millar AM" }, { "text": "We've—", "speakerName": "Kirsty Williams AM" }, { "text": "Sorry—I was just going to say that one of the things is looking at the scope of the definition, and I think it's about being more flexible with the definition, rather than reducing the amount per head.", "speakerName": "Ruth Conway" }, { "text": "Okay. Thank you.", "speakerName": "Darren Millar AM" }, { "text": "Thank you. If we can go on, then, to talk about some of the practical uses of the PDG, you write in your written paper that'the majority of schools are making well thought out and appropriate decisions' on how to use it. But Estyn reported that only two thirds of primary and secondary schools make effective use of the PDG. Given that we've had it now for six years, would you not have expected there to be a higher level of schools actually making good use of that funding?", "speakerName": "Lynne Neagle AM" }, { "text": "Well, to flip it on its head, the vast majority of schools, as identified by Estyn, are using this money to good effect. So, that's the way I like to see it—that the vast majority of schools are doing well. What Estyn has also indicated is the intrinsic link here to leadership within individual schools, and as you'll be aware, leadership, improving capacity in leadership and developing leadership talent in the Welsh education system is a key priority for me in our national mission. Of course, that's being developed in a different work stream. I think what's fair to say is that the use of PDG is evolving over time. I think we are seeing, increasingly, more and more schools understanding how best to deploy that money for best effect for students. So, if we're honest, when PDG first started, I think, in some schools it was spent on investing in tracking of children, because they'd never thought about tracking these children, they didn't have systems in place to look at the performance of these children, and to have a system in place. So we've moved now from spending money on the infrastructure around support for FSM children into actual inputs in terms of teaching and learning. We're also seeing from Estyn that, actually, in terms of money following the evidence of what we know works, Estyn says that PDG is probably the best example of schools following tried and tested and evidence-based interventions to deploy the money. But clearly we want all of this money to be deployed as well as it can be, and again we come back to the decision I've made to appoint regional PDG advisers so that we can get that better consistency of approach. We are, in the discussions that I have with the regional consortia about how they challenge individual schools on usage, looking for very clear evidence of schools using the Sutton Trust toolkit, and we could have a discussion about whether that's the right thing, because that's on my mind too. But we want to see schools demonstrating their evidence base, and if they're not, if a school isn't doing that, okay, so demonstrate to us why you've made those decisions and, crucially, what are you doing as the school to judge whether that decision is actually making a difference for your individual pupils. So, if you're moving away from tried and tested interventions, what we know works, if you're doing something different with your money, okay, you need to justify that and you need to explain how you're going to demonstrate impact. But I think what we're seeing is increasing good practice in this area as the PDG develops and as our understanding of our school-to-school working in our self-improving school system also develops. I think we're seeing better usage of the money year on year.", "speakerName": "Kirsty Williams AM" }, { "text": "Thank you. Llyr on this.", "speakerName": "Lynne Neagle AM" }, { "text": "You mentioned some schools will be moving from the tried-and-tested interventions, really, and I'm just wondering to what extent that evolution of use of PDG is being driven by cuts to core funding.", "speakerName": "Llyr Gruffydd AM" }, { "text": "No, I don't think it's being driven by cuts to core funding. I think there has been—. One of the biggest impacts of PDG has not been—well, I suppose it is the money in itself, because the money has concentrated the minds, hasn't it? So, one of the most important things that PDG has done is highlight the importance of this agenda within schools, and really raise this up in the thinking of leadership and senior management teams in our schools, and has driven a focus on scrutiny and accountability in the systems that are working with our schools. I think the changing use of PDG reflects the journeys that schools have been on, some of them from a very low base where this was not a priority for them, to better understanding, and as research and as intelligence grows over time in this area, both in Wales and outside of Wales, schools are increasingly learning to use that evidence to tailor approaches in their schools.", "speakerName": "Kirsty Williams AM" }, { "text": "So you wouldn't accept at all that some of this money's being used to paper over some funding cracks from elsewhere. Because the unions and some others have told us that, whether we like it or not, there is some of that going on.", "speakerName": "Llyr Gruffydd AM" }, { "text": "As I said, Llyr, we're very clear about the usage that this money can be spent on in terms of individuals or universal application within schools, and that forms an important part of the checks and balances that we have in our system. Can we continue to improve, and ensure that more and more of our schools are employing best practice? Yes, we can, and as I've said, we've taken steps to put in place the infrastructure to support that.", "speakerName": "Kirsty Williams AM" }, { "text": "Thank you. Mark's questions are next.", "speakerName": "Lynne Neagle AM" }, { "text": "Cabinet Secretary, how would you assess the impact of PDG on attendance and hopefully subsequent engagement with education from children who have free school meals?", "speakerName": "Mark Reckless AM" }, { "text": "I think what's important to note is that, as Estyn have themselves said, over the period of the last inspection report, we have seen improvements in attendance, but I do think we need to, again, look at how PDG can support this particular agenda. And as always in the Welsh education system, there are some excellent examples of how schools use the money to address this. Ysgol y Preseli in Pembrokeshire is a very good example of how they've deployed their money. Forgive me; I can't off the top of my head remember the name of the primary school I visited, again in north Wales, where the school has proactively used this money, and they actually send teaching assistants out of school in the morning before the start of the school day, and they actually have a walking bus. They call at homes for children, and they walk the children to the breakfast club. So, they're proactively going out into the community and making sure that those children are in the classrooms, because the teacher said,'We recognised we had a problem with attendance. We tried a variety of means of improving that, but in the end we have taken this quite bold step—we actually send the staff out and they create that walking bus, and they walk the children into school'. They say that they know that, for some of those children, because of the difficult circumstances they and their families are living in, they probably wouldn't be in school if it wasn't for that proactive approach. So, we're looking again at what more we can do to support this particular agenda in terms of improving attendance, because although, again, there are examples of good practice, there is still a gap between the attendance of free-school-meal pupils and non-free-school-meal pupils. And, of course, we can have the best curriculum in the world with really high-quality teaching, but unless the children are in the classes then we're not going to make the difference for them. Whilst that differential exists, then it's going to be hard to close the attainment gap for those children.", "speakerName": "Kirsty Williams AM" }, { "text": "I was actually quite shocked just reading in advance of this meeting that the proportion attending 95 per cent or more, who have pretty full attendance, was only 35 per cent for free-school-meal children at level 4, compared to 60 per cent for non-free-school-meal pupils. It still is an extraordinary difference. My colleague here showed me, I think, last week, a graph showing the link between attendance and attainment, in particular. When people were absent, a lot of the—. As I'm sure you're aware, there's a huge connection. What more can PDG do to deal with it? In the example you give I can see how a school with an awful lot of free-school-meal children could do that, but a lot of the free-school-meal children are actually in schools that don't have that high a proportion of free school meals, where it would be much more challenging to bring in that type of initiative.", "speakerName": "Mark Reckless AM" }, { "text": "Yes, indeed, and I think it gets more challenging the older the children get. I think it's more difficult to find interventions that are successful higher up, so key stage 4. So, you can do a walking bus with little ones, can't you, but I don't suppose your average 15 or 16-year-old is going to take very kindly to that. So, you do need a different approach to that. But again, we see in Ysgol y Preseli the employment of staff to directly work with families of older children to reinforce the messages around, as you quite rightly say, the linkage between attendance and attainment, and really work with individual families to understand the barriers to attendance: what's going on in the family that is preventing that child from going to school, and what more can the school do to address those situations. But you're absolutely right; there is more that we need to do to address this particular agenda of attainment. I don't know if there's anything extra you wanted to add, Steve.", "speakerName": "Kirsty Williams AM" }, { "text": "There is also another very good example—and I take what you say about where there are small numbers—but in our secondary schools where there are significant numbers, they're investing PDG in resources like a school nurse and a school counsellor, not just to work with the children but link to other agencies on whom the children and the families are dependent to support them in terms of working with schools. So, it's something, particularly in our most challenging areas, where it cannot just be delivered within the school. So, good use of that resource is being made to employ people to support them in those wider areas.", "speakerName": "Steve Davies" }, { "text": "Thank you. To what extent is PDG also used to seek to reduce the higher rates of exclusion for children entitled to free school meals?", "speakerName": "Mark Reckless AM" }, { "text": "So, if we looked at permanent exclusions, there isn't a differential, but if we look at temporary exclusions, there we see there is a disproportionate number of children on free school meals that are subject to those exclusions. Again, I think what schools employing best practice understand is that you need a multi-agency approach to supporting that particular child. Some of those exclusions can be as a result of the need to address other issues going on in a child's life. So, this is where we come back to the committee's work, for instance, on mental health and support for children, support for behaviour in school. So, again, it's a multi-agency approach that I think we need, and, in our good schools, our really, really good schools, there's a recognition of that need to have a whole team around a child to support that child in education. With EOTAS, we made some changes last year regarding PDG for EOTAS. So, for those children who do find themselves in education other than at school, we are providing additional support that previously was not available.", "speakerName": "Kirsty Williams AM" }, { "text": "Thank you.", "speakerName": "Mark Reckless AM" }, { "text": "Okay. We're going to move on now to talk about the impact of PDG on attainment. Hefin David has got some questions.", "speakerName": "Lynne Neagle AM" }, { "text": "It appears that the attainment gap at 2017 has actually widened, in spite of PDG levels. Is that correct?", "speakerName": "Hefin David AM" }, { "text": "Yes. So, if you look at it—with the usual caveats about whether you can make direct comparisons on level 2 plus between the exams the year before and the exams that we had last summer—on the face of it, the gap has increased. I think what's important to recognise, Hefin, is a direction of travel. I'm sure we all want to, because I want to, have a discussion about why children on free school meals were less resilient in the exam system last year. But, if we look at the period that we have been employing PDG, over that period, we have seen a narrowing of the gap. I think what's quite stark, if we think about it—. So, if we look at where we started from: in 2009, one in five children on free school meals got level 2 plus—one in five—by 2016, we had got that down to one in three. Obviously, there's still a way to go, but, Sir Alasdair, who knows about these things, says that that is a significant improvement. Last year, we got some challenges. We need to understand why that happened, but I do think it's—", "speakerName": "Kirsty Williams AM" }, { "text": "Why, do you think?", "speakerName": "Hefin David AM" }, { "text": "Why, do I think? What I do think is there is no one answer. There is no one answer to this. I think we could look at and we can have discussions around the move from BTEC to science GCSEs. I think we have supplied figures to the committee about the significant change in the number of children on free school meals who weren't doing a single science GCSE and are now doing science GCSEs. We can look at the unintended consequences of literature. Again, we've supplied figures. Where children have done language and literature, whether that be through the medium of English or through the medium of Welsh, there is more resilience. So, it's that exposure to literacy in all its forms that I think could potentially make a difference. So, I think there's no one answer to why free-school-meal children were not so resilient last year. We continue to have discussions with Qualifications Wales to get a better understanding of this. At my next ministerial policy board, in May, we'll be doing a deep dive into this particular subject.", "speakerName": "Kirsty Williams AM" }, { "text": "So, to what extent would exam boards be responsible for lack of grade stability?", "speakerName": "Hefin David AM" }, { "text": "It could be one of the contributory factors. What I think is important is that there is no one, single reason why there seems to be less resilience in this cohort of children.", "speakerName": "Kirsty Williams AM" }, { "text": "Will you be speaking to the exam boards about this and raising concerns?", "speakerName": "Hefin David AM" }, { "text": "I have written to Qualifications Wales, we've had discussions about it, but I've asked them to formally submit evidence ahead of my policy board for May, where, as I said, we will be doing a formal, deep-dive discussion across the department about these issues. But, again, Hefin, what we've got to be clear on is—while we look at overall factors, you know, our overall national statistic—we did see some schools last year whose FSM performance was better than it had been the year before. So, what was it in those schools that enabled those children to do really well, whereas, in other schools, the performance was different? Even in individual cities, you can see a huge variety of performance. So, take Cardiff and Swansea, our two biggest cities. You've got schools in those cities with comparative levels of free school meals. So, you could have really high-performing schools with a very small number of the cohort on free school meals. The difference between those performances in a single city—so, that's the same local education authority and the same regional consortium—you can see a massive change. There's one school I can talk to: their free-school-meal performance is 88 per cent. A similar school in the same city with the same proportion of children on free school meals, their performance is down in the 20 per cents. So, I think what's important is that we can't draw broad-brush conclusions. For me, the challenge is to go into individual schools and understand what was happening in that particular school that ensured that their children did really well. We've got one school in Swansea, their FSM performance at GCSE level 2 outperforms non-FSM pupils.", "speakerName": "Kirsty Williams AM" }, { "text": "But we still need to rely on the trends from a distance. If we take your argument that 2017 was an unusual year and the trends up to 2016 were positive, in a few years' time, when we will be looking back in two years' time, how are we going to measure this progress, say, in 2019? What are we likely to see and what methods are you going to use to measure progress that way?", "speakerName": "Hefin David AM" }, { "text": "Well, you'll be aware that we are moving away from level 2 plus as a performance measure anyway because of the—", "speakerName": "Kirsty Williams AM" }, { "text": "So, what performance measures will you use?", "speakerName": "Hefin David AM" }, { "text": "So, for the lack of sophistication around the level 2 plus, and for the unintended behaviours that that particular performance measure has driven within our schools. I'll be making a statement shortly to the Assembly around a new performance measure for schools. We were, at our most recent secondary heads conference, working with schools to develop that. What's important to me is that we have a more sophisticated model that looks at school performance for all children. What level 2 plus does is narrow, very much, the focus of schools on an individual part of the cohort, usually the C/D borderline, which is why then we have problems with the number of students getting a B grade or above. We have marked success in our schools by saying to schools that a C is good enough. Well, if a child gets a C but came to you in year 7 and they were destined to get an E, yes, indeed, a C is a success, because you've moved that child on; but, if that child came to you destined to get an A* and gets a C, then we haven't done a good job by that particular child. So, we need a performance measure that is much more sophisticated, looks at each individual child, tracks that progress, and measures the value added by that school in performance.", "speakerName": "Kirsty Williams AM" }, { "text": "Last question: therefore, should we have confidence in the data up to 2016? Is there a lack of confidence in that data?", "speakerName": "Hefin David AM" }, { "text": "No, it's not a lack of confidence in the data. The data is the data. What I'm saying is, using that as a performance measure and an accountability measure within our school system may have been right for the time. I think it is now right to have a different way of measuring success in schools. I think that particular set of performance measures has driven certain behaviours—not because Ministers wanted that to happen, but as an unintended consequence. I think we can work together with our school system, learning the lessons of international best practice, to develop much more sophisticated accountability and performance measures for individual schools, and, I should say, for the Government. So, you will be aware of my intention to issue the first national report card on Government performance later on this year. So, this is not about trying to avoid scrutiny. It's about trying to develop a more sophisticated way, which is in line with our national mission, where every child's education is valued, and where the impact of the school can be tracked more effectively.", "speakerName": "Kirsty Williams AM" }, { "text": "Okay, thank you. Can I just ask, Cabinet Secretary, are you still holding on to your target of 37 per cent of free-school-meal pupils achieving the level 2 threshold?", "speakerName": "Lynne Neagle AM" }, { "text": "Well, we're moving away from the level 2 threshold. So, that's the first thing to say. So, we will want to develop a new suite, in line with our new accountability measures, as we go forward. So, we will be absolutely continuing to track and evaluate the performance of free-school-meal pupils. When we announce our new accountability measures, I will be in a position to address how we'll measure the Government's performance, and national performance, going forward. But, given the fact that we're moving away from level 2 plus, then we will need a different set of performance indicators.", "speakerName": "Kirsty Williams AM" }, { "text": "Okay, thank you. The next questions are on looked-after children and adopted children, and I've got questions from Michelle then Mark.", "speakerName": "Lynne Neagle AM" }, { "text": "Thank you. Good morning—", "speakerName": "Michelle Brown AM" }, { "text": "I was to come in first, I think. I was about to ask about ICF consulting.", "speakerName": "Mark Reckless AM" }, { "text": "Go on then.", "speakerName": "Lynne Neagle AM" }, { "text": "I think my questions are first, but, Michelle, please do correct me if you were planning to come in before. The PDG for looked-after children doesn't quite seem to have the degree of visibility as the PDG for the free-school-meals. I think we had the MORI/WISERD survey—only 15 per cent of primary schools and 23 per cent of secondary schools were aware that PDG was targeted at looked-after children. I just wonder—can you clarify on the record here what is the role of schools with PDG for looked-after children as compared to the regional consortia in this field?", "speakerName": "Mark Reckless AM" }, { "text": "Okay. I think it is absolutely fair to say that most awareness around PDG is around free school meals. There is less awareness around the availability of PDG to support looked-after children. I think that's probably in the nature of the cohort, so, there are more children subject to free school meals than are subject to being looked after. So, I think that's part of the explanation. A decision was taken in 2015 to regionalise PDG for looked-after children. My understanding was that the thinking behind that at the time was around a greater strategic deployment of that resource and to try and drive a greater impact than how it was being used previously. So, looked-after PDG is held at a regional level. We have looked-after children PDG co-ordinators—they're in their second year this year—to look at a regional deployment of that resource. And that resource can be done in a variety of ways, through individual allocation to a school to support an individual child, through to capacity building for the whole system. So, for instance, if I give you an example, in Carmarthenshire, there's been a big emphasis on attachment disorder and training teachers with regard to the impact of attachment disorder. Carmarthenshire happens to be one of those local authorities that does quite well in terms of attainment for looked-after children. But, clearly, I have—not concerns.'Concerns' isn't the right word. But I have asked officials to give greater scrutiny to how that resource has been used in the last year. Steve, on my behalf, wrote out to the system, setting out our expectations, but also advising them of the fact we will be asking very detailed questions of accountability for that money. So, what has that money been used on and how can you account for the effect? But, Steve, maybe you can give some greater detail.", "speakerName": "Kirsty Williams AM" }, { "text": "I think the challenge that—. One of the rationales for shifting—not that all the money stays in the region, but having a regional strategic support—was that, historically, the money was going directly with that child to the school. Given the quite often rapid turnover of children in schools—the very nature of looked-after children is they do sometimes move through foster parents—historically, what happened, the money lands in the school, because, at that time in the year, when it's measured, the school gets the money and can spend it on some additional support for staff, but quite often that child moves on to another school and the money doesn't transfer. Some schools will go through quite a number of years without having a looked-after child and will not think strategically,'How do I need to support them?' So, that was the rationale of the shift. In terms of the implementation of the regional allocation, as of this financial year finishing, we are going into local authorities and regions to evaluate where they've located the resource, what the impact of that resource has been, so that is reinforced and shared more widely.", "speakerName": "Steve Davies" }, { "text": "And then, to reassure, it's not just internally that we're looking at this. We have a contract with an external agency to do an evaluation—", "speakerName": "Kirsty Williams AM" }, { "text": "That's ICF consulting.", "speakerName": "Mark Reckless AM" }, { "text": "Yes. Yes, so that was done in the autumn of last year, because, as I said, we had concerns about whether this was really having the effect that was intended. So, my expectation is that we will be in a position to receive that report later on this spring, and of course it would be my intention that that report would be made public for people to have a look at what—", "speakerName": "Kirsty Williams AM" }, { "text": "That was commissioned last autumn—", "speakerName": "Mark Reckless AM" }, { "text": "Yes, in November 2017.", "speakerName": "Kirsty Williams AM" }, { "text": "November 2017.", "speakerName": "Mark Reckless AM" }, { "text": "So, I'm hoping to have that published before the summer recess. I'm very reluctant to say months; I've learnt not to say months, because they move.", "speakerName": "Kirsty Williams AM" }, { "text": "I'm going to go to Michelle now, Mark, because—", "speakerName": "Lynne Neagle AM" }, { "text": "Sure. I will come back in if I have anything further to ask here after Michelle.", "speakerName": "Mark Reckless AM" }, { "text": "—both of you asked for these questions, and that's what the pre-meeting is for.", "speakerName": "Lynne Neagle AM" }, { "text": "Michelle, I defer to you.", "speakerName": "Mark Reckless AM" }, { "text": "Michelle.", "speakerName": "Lynne Neagle AM" }, { "text": "Okay, thank you. Would you be open, Cabinet Secretary, to the idea of adjusting the eligibility of the PDG so that pupils who have been looked after or adopted at any point within a previous given period of time would attract the PDG, rather than only if they're looked-after on a one-off date?", "speakerName": "Michelle Brown AM" }, { "text": "As I said earlier, in questions from, I think it was, Llyr, who was talking about concepts of concepts of Ever 6, we are constantly looking at how we can get that balance between focus and flexibility for this resource. Llyr opened with the question of,'How can you absolutely ensure that these children are getting the money?', but then there's also a tension about how can you create some flexibility around the school's usage of the grant. So, we will look at that. I think there is the issue of where a school would know of a child that was looked after. Issues around adoption are slightly more sensitive, because we couldn't force a family to tell a school that their child was an adopted child. So, a family may be very open and very keen to explain that to a school, but we can't necessarily track as closely children who have been adopted, especially if that adoption happens before the child goes to school. We can't be in a position of forcing families to disclose this information if they don't want to, but we certainly can, as I say, look to strengthen our monitoring arrangements around PDG support for looked-after children and the impact that that's having. I just think we need to be a bit mindful of people's privacy in some instances. If they don't want to divulge that, it wouldn't be my job to tell a family,'You have to let us know if your child is adopted.'", "speakerName": "Kirsty Williams AM" }, { "text": "Michelle.", "speakerName": "Lynne Neagle AM" }, { "text": "Fair enough; thank you for that answer. The EAS consortium's approach to using the looked-after and adopted PDG is to use it as part of a broader approach targeted at vulnerable learners in general. What are your views on that approach?", "speakerName": "Michelle Brown AM" }, { "text": "I'm a great believer in if we can get it right for our most vulnerable learners, we'll be getting it right for all of our learners. I gave the example earlier, for instance, of attachment disorder, and, Chair, you will know that I have had conversations. One of the emerging themes for me, as I go around visiting schools, is the impact and the growing awareness and the growing numbers of children who have attachment disorder, and how schools are best able to respond to that in their children. So, for instance, as I said about Carmarthenshire, there's been a huge effort to address that in the school sector in Carmarthenshire. Now, that has a disproportionate benefit for those children, because you're more likely to see attachment disorder in children who are care experienced, because of the nature of the lives that those children have lived, but that doesn't necessarily mean that attachment disorder is exclusively found in those children that are looked after. It can be found in other families as well. So, that vulnerable learner, regardless of their background, will benefit from having teachers who are better trained, understanding and have intervention strategies in place to be able to address that need.", "speakerName": "Kirsty Williams AM" }, { "text": "I think it's also important to add that this is not one region's approach; this is across four regions, so the others—. For example, ERW have run a significant programme looking at the impact of adverse childhood experiences on pupils, which has enabled teachers to detect some of the impact of some of those and then considers some of the work they need to do within the school but also with other agencies. So, it is something that's applied consistently across the four regions.", "speakerName": "Steve Davies" }, { "text": "I was in Pil Primary School recently where they use their PDG, both FSM PDG, and no doubt an element of PDG for looked-after, for nurture groups. So, for those children who really, really find it very difficult to be in the main classroom, they can have that nurture group experience to address issues around emotional behaviour, feelings, and it gets them in a position where they are able then to join the main classroom because issues around behaviour have been addressed and they're in a better position to learn. So, again, this is an example of how vulnerable learners in the wider sense can benefit.", "speakerName": "Kirsty Williams AM" }, { "text": "Okay. Mark, did you have anything you wanted to ask?", "speakerName": "Lynne Neagle AM" }, { "text": "Yes. Can I follow up on tracking adopted children? I entirely understand that you can't force parents to disclose that their child is adopted. However, my understanding was that, in England, there was a dataset with social services that was shared with schools in a way that I'm not clear is happening in Wales and how, if at all, that links to the pupil level annual school census data. Perhaps sort of linked to that, isn't there an argument for making the parents of adopted children in the schools, potentially, with adopted children more aware that adopted children who were previously looked after have this potential grant, and would they not be more willing to disclose this, at least confidentially to the school and Government, if they knew there was this upside of doing so?", "speakerName": "Mark Reckless AM" }, { "text": "We're actively looking at whether we should try and find a way of collecting this data, with the caveats that I just gave earlier. We can't force parents to divulge information that is a matter for them, nor would I want to. But there is an active discussion going on at the moment about whether we could create a dataset where people divulge this information and we can then track the children through. You're absolutely right. One of the ways in which we can often encourage take-up, for instance, of free school meals, especially in those communities where there is a sense of reluctance to apply for support—even though people are entitled to it, there's a reluctance to do it; sometimes we see this in rural areas—. Actually, appealing to the parents by saying,'Actually, this will mean more money for your child's school budget' is a much more compelling reason why people will apply for it then saying,'Actually, it's going to help you', because they don't want to be seen being dependent, they don't want to be seen being helped. But, if you say to them,'Actually, do you know that this means more money for your child's school?', they go,'Oh, all right then, I'll fill in the forms now.' So, you're right, I think there is something that we could do to make parents understand, in the round, that this has an impact. But we are actively looking at and discussing whether we could create a dataset around adopted children and how we can do that in line with data protection and data sharing. One of the things I am concerned about in the performance of looked-after children generally is how we can, across Government, work more closely together. We can't see the educational attainment of looked-after children just being a job of education. It's got to be a job of social services and the health service as well. There's got to be a joined-up approach to doing that. Now, officials were at the ministerial advisory group that's chaired by David Melding on prospects for looked-after children. They were there at the group last week. David tells me that the paper was very positively received by the group. I will be sitting down with David Melding to talk through what more we can do on the education side. I think there's really an appetite between me and the Minister for children to get a closer working relationship on this. We can't expect schools to do it on their own and alone. And there are things that we can do out there in local authorities to help improve outcomes. It's not just about the PDG; it is about, when social services are thinking about a placement, where does the discussion about where children are going to go to school—when does that take place? Do we talk about the placement, move a child and then think,'Oh my goodness me, what are we going to do about the schooling?' If you can imagine, the school could have been working really, really hard with a pupil to get them in a good place, to get them being able to access the curriculum, and then social services decide that the placement is being changed. So, we potentially lose all of that. So, a greater involvement in education and better linked-up working in local authorities will help us with this. It can't be just the job of the PDG. If we think we can crack this with just PDG, then we're being delusional. It has to be a cross-government approach at a national level, and at a local government level as well, to get this right. Sometimes, data protection—how can we break down some of these barriers between, you know, the school doesn't need to, schools shouldn't see, the entire social services report? Well, maybe the school does need to see some of that background information if they're going to have an impact for that child. So, there's more work to do, but it cannot be just the job of education on its own if we're going to make a difference, nor can it just be the job of the PDG to make a difference for those children.", "speakerName": "Kirsty Williams AM" }, { "text": "Thank you. Julie's got some more questions on the impact on adopted and looked-after children.", "speakerName": "Lynne Neagle AM" }, { "text": "Yes, before I go on to those, I just wanted to support, really, what Mark was saying about adopted children and how important it is, I think, that the adoptive parents feel able to speak to the school and to give information. Because certainly any evidence we've had from adoptive parents, and generally knowing about what adoptive parents do feel, is that they often feel that there's a degree of a lack of sensitivity in the school about the issues of adoption. I would certainly support some move towards ensuring that the atmosphere was open in a way that would encourage them to realise that it would be a help for the children if there was an awareness in the school. So, I just wanted to really reinforce that.", "speakerName": "Julie Morgan AM" }, { "text": "Yes, and that would chime with what I hear from many adoptive parents. I'm just trying to be sensitive by saying we can't force people to divulge this information if they don't want to.", "speakerName": "Kirsty Williams AM" }, { "text": "No, but they need to be given the opportunity.", "speakerName": "Julie Morgan AM" }, { "text": "Yes, you're right. We need to make sure that those parents feel that they can discuss this with school leaders and classroom teachers and explore how best those individual children can be supported, and how best we can support parents. Because, again—and I've said this a lot—after the quality of teaching, the second biggest impact on a child's educational outcome will be parental engagement. So, being able to create an environment where adoptive parents feel very confident and able to talk about their children's education is absolutely crucial if we're going to get that parental engagement that we need for all of our children.", "speakerName": "Kirsty Williams AM" }, { "text": "Yes. Thank you. Going on to looked-after children, you say that the latest data on looked-after children's attainment is extremely disappointing. Can you expand on that and what effect the PDG has had in this result, or not had?", "speakerName": "Julie Morgan AM" }, { "text": "Well, there's no getting away from it: the way in which we currently measure outcomes for looked-after children, the results are not good enough. It's a source of huge concern to me that we need to do better for those children. That's why officials are engaging with the group that David Melding is chairing, to make sure that education is integral to that group and it's not lost sight of. There's a discussion to be had about the cohort, whether it's right and correct to compare looked-after children to the main cohort, or whether these statistics are useful in any way. Sometimes as well—this is not to make an excuse because, as I've said in my paper, it's extremely disappointing, but sometimes it can be really difficult. Because the cohort sometimes can be very, very small, it can swing the statistics to look perhaps more dramatic.", "speakerName": "Kirsty Williams AM" }, { "text": "I think, generally, when you look at how looked-after children do—", "speakerName": "Julie Morgan AM" }, { "text": "It's not good.", "speakerName": "Kirsty Williams AM" }, { "text": "—in a much wider evaluation, they're not doing well, are they?", "speakerName": "Julie Morgan AM" }, { "text": "They're not doing well. So, that's why we've got the review, the independent review, into the impact of the PDG in this area. This is why Steve is doing the work that he is doing with the regional consortia because, clearly, at the moment, we are not doing what we need to do for that particular cohort of children. I would not make any bones about that at all.", "speakerName": "Kirsty Williams AM" }, { "text": "I think we will not move away from the fact that these children need good GCSEs to gain employment, so we'll continue to measure that. I think we need to look at more nuanced evaluations of the data at a lower level. So, for example, there were significant improvements in terms of PDG pupils who got three and four good GCSEs but didn't get past the threshold. That's not to cover anything that is not working in terms of improvement, but we will look at the full range and still hold on to the fact that we have to look at a measure that relates to the likelihood of these children going on to further education and training.", "speakerName": "Steve Davies" }, { "text": "And then just one more question about the exclusion rates amongst looked-after children. They are, I understand, over six times more likely to be given a fixed-term exclusion. So, is there any way of trying to address this? Is the PDG used for anything to do with exclusions?", "speakerName": "Julie Morgan AM" }, { "text": "We can look at exclusions. We also have to read across about how the whole system works, not just the PDG element of the system. So, we know, for example, that 66 per cent of looked-after learners have some additional learning need, so we can't just look at it in terms of this particular source of funding; we have to look at it at a wider level of support. So, given that the majority of those children will have an ALN, how can we make sure that our new ALN legislation and our new ALN regime meets the needs of these children? So, I think what we're looking at, again, is to say that it can't be just the job of the PDG. That's there as an additional level of support, but actually, we've got to get our ALN right. Unless we get our ALN right, lots and lots of these children are not going to get the support that they need day in, day out via that system. We do know that sometimes, if we're not addressing ALN, then we're not addressing behaviour issues that then potentially lead to an expulsion or potentially lead to non-attendance. So, we've got to look at it in the round and recognise the connections between the sometimes quite complex needs that these children have within the school setting, that are not just as a result of the fact that they're looked after; they have other needs as well.", "speakerName": "Kirsty Williams AM" }, { "text": "And investment in well-being—", "speakerName": "Steve Davies" }, { "text": "Absolutely. Steve is reminding me that that's why well-being is part of the national mission—to address issues around supporting children with their well-being, which is a way of keeping them in school.", "speakerName": "Kirsty Williams AM" }, { "text": "Thank you. We're going to move on to Schools Challenge Cymru now. Llyr.", "speakerName": "Lynne Neagle AM" }, { "text": "Thank you, Chair. I was just wondering what your assessment is as to why some schools made progress and others didn't.", "speakerName": "Llyr Gruffydd AM" }, { "text": "I think we have to recognise that the 39 schools that were part of the programme were in very, very different places. So, I think one of the reasons why some schools did well was because their needs were not so complex, not so deep-seated and a certain level of intervention was enough to get them moving forward. Some schools had very, very different needs. I think, talking to those involved in the programme, as always, we had some support advisers, challenge advisers working with those schools as part of the programme who were really, really excellent and really good, and were the right fit for the school and really drove the school onwards. We had other people employed in the programme who, perhaps, were less effective at driving change within those individual schools. So, what we have is a mixed bag of performance, again reflecting the very different challenges that those schools were facing, which led them to be chosen for the programme in the first place.", "speakerName": "Kirsty Williams AM" }, { "text": "Yes, okay—", "speakerName": "Llyr Gruffydd AM" }, { "text": "Sorry. One of the other key additional factors was the extent to which there had been recent appointment of a new headteacher to that school just before the programme had started, because—", "speakerName": "Steve Davies" }, { "text": "Leadership is all.", "speakerName": "Kirsty Williams AM" }, { "text": "And that was seen as a positive.", "speakerName": "Llyr Gruffydd AM" }, { "text": "A positive, yes. I think one of the challenges is that sometimes the time it takes to make changes in leadership can be protracted and can be a barrier, sometimes, to the speed with which you can move. But, for a significant minority of the schools, there had been recent new appointments of headteachers, which was seen to be contributing, when you looked at the evaluation, to the speed with which they were able to engage.", "speakerName": "Steve Davies" }, { "text": "The reason I was asking was I wanted to understand what lessons the Government is taking from that three-year investment, really, and how, maybe, you're applying some of those lessons to your wider school improvement programme. I know Professor Mel Ainscow identified six interconnected lessons, although I also note that the Cabinet Secretary didn't actually meet him for about six or seven months after coming into post. So, I'm just wondering, can you give us confidence that, actually, you are serious about taking lessons from Schools Challenge Cymru and applying them to the wider school improvement agenda?", "speakerName": "Llyr Gruffydd AM" }, { "text": "Well, absolutely, Llyr. I don't think anything should be read into when I met the individual concerned, because officials were meeting the individual concerned. Individual challenge advisers were meeting with the regions, there was crossover work with the FSM agenda as well, and we are absolutely determined that best practice and those interventions that drove school improvement are embedded in the new support that we have via the regional consortia. It's no coincidence that some of the best people that were employed by Schools Challenge Cymru are now in the employment of our regional consortia. So, those people that were really good and really made a difference don't work for the Schools Challenge Cymru scheme any more, they work for our regional school improvement services. So, we're absolutely determined. The things that we have learned, as always, are around leadership. It is absolutely key and crucial to have strong, capable school leadership as a driver for change within the system. We're looking at systems and processes, so, actually, has a school got in place comprehensive systems of tracking and processes within the school? We're looking at the teacher quality—how can we ensure that we have got consistent strategies in place to drive up pedagogy and teacher quality in the classroom? Collaborative activity—again, absolutely key. A school cannot see itself in isolation, and one of the key themes of the national mission is a self-improving system, so, collaborative working where schools are looking outside of each other, learning from best practice from other schools. So, there are lots of things that we've drawn from the evaluation that you will see as key themes running through the national mission, and, as I said, it's no coincidence that our really good people that were working in Schools Challenge Cymru are now working for the regional consortia, being able to use that expertise not just for a very small proportion of our schools—but that expertise is available to all our schools.", "speakerName": "Kirsty Williams AM" }, { "text": "Although Estyn has told us, of course, that you can't expect the consortia to really carry on with that level of intervention and the same kind of intensity as was provided previously, so I'm just wondering—", "speakerName": "Llyr Gruffydd AM" }, { "text": "In what way?", "speakerName": "Kirsty Williams AM" }, { "text": "Well, we were told by Estyn in evidence that they didn't necessarily think that we could expect the consortia to provide the same type of tailored support, and certainly the level of intensity with the improvement boards and everything—", "speakerName": "Llyr Gruffydd AM" }, { "text": "Well, the improvement boards are carrying on, so the improvement boards still exist, and I would—not that I want to argue with Estyn—", "speakerName": "Kirsty Williams AM" }, { "text": "Well, feel free; this is your opportunity to do so if you—", "speakerName": "Llyr Gruffydd AM" }, { "text": "What I would say is that those improvement boards are staying on, and our schools categorisation system is used to identify the level of support. Now, if you're a red school, that gives you the entitlement to 25 days of support. That is more than you would have got under the Schools Challenge Cymru programme, which would've been 20 days. So, actually, moving to this system allows us to really focus in on those schools that need that intensive level of support. And what's important for me, Llyr, in this, okay, is that those schools are not necessarily just the schools that were in the programme. Our system now of challenge, advice and support allows us to target resources across all of our schools and across all of our sectors, because you'll be aware that Schools Challenge was only available to secondary schools, not available to primary schools. What our system now allows us to do, via the schools categorisation, is to identify schools, wherever they are in Wales and whatever sector they're in, to have that intensive level of support that they need to make improvements.", "speakerName": "Kirsty Williams AM" }, { "text": "So, you're confident that that level of momentum is continuing through the consortia that was previously enjoyed by those particular schools, and you're also confident that there is minimal risk that they'll slip back to where they were, potentially, or at least part of the way back.", "speakerName": "Llyr Gruffydd AM" }, { "text": "Well, actually, there are some really good examples of some of the Schools Challenge Cymru schools making that sustained improvement now that the programme has come to an end. You only have to look at Tredegar, where we have seen continual improvement and moving up through the categorisation system. That school is now a green school, so they've been able to sustain their progress at the end of the programme. If we look at Armando in Eastern High School, again—gosh, my goodness me, we had lots of debates in a previous Chamber about the future of Eastern. There was one person that said that Eastern had to be closed and that the only way forward for that particular school was for it to be shut down, but what we have seen is investment via Schools Challenge Cymru, but ongoing, continual support from the regional consortium, and that school has come out of special measures. I pay absolute tribute to the staff of that school and that community that have done such a good job. So, I'm absolutely convinced that where we've got good leadership and good support, some of those schools are making continued, sustained progress even after the end of the programme. The challenge for me is for those schools that Schools Challenge Cymru didn't work for, and we haven't seen that progress—how we can use our school improvement system now to continue to work with those schools to give them the level of support that they need to make a difference. So that's what my focus is on now: a whole-system approach, rather than choosing 39 schools to get that level of support, when we recognise that there are schools everywhere, potentially, that need intervention, support and challenge, and in the primary sector as well.", "speakerName": "Kirsty Williams AM" }, { "text": "Okay. So, you wouldn't agree with a number of—well, the near-unanimous evidence that we've had from academics, some of whom are Government advisers from consortia et cetera, that this kind of programme such as Schools Challenge Cymru would probably need about five years to really have the impact that it was intended to have.", "speakerName": "Llyr Gruffydd AM" }, { "text": "What I would say is that, from my understanding, from the outset, it was a time-limited programme. The schools were aware of that. There were no surprises that it was supposed to be a time-limited programme. Evidence from across the UK showed that school challenge programmes have differed in time. So, for instance, Manchester's challenge was a three-year programme. So, there's no consensus about how many years you need to run a programme for. The previous Minister was quite clear about the time-limited nature of the programme. That's not to say it was the wrong decision, because what's important, and an ongoing legacy of the programme, was the investment in regional school improvement capacity, because at the time our school improvement services and the regions were young, in their infancy. The ability of individual local authorities to make a difference, with so many local authorities in an Estyn categorisation, was limited, so one of the ongoing legacies of the programme is that significant investment of over £10 million in the capacity of the regions to be able to continue this support and the school improvement work.", "speakerName": "Kirsty Williams AM" }, { "text": "So, how disappointed were you that the money for Schools Challenge Cymru went back into reserves and didn't stay in your envelope, as you described it earlier? I presume you made a pitch for it. Did you make a case for that money to stay within your department?", "speakerName": "Llyr Gruffydd AM" }, { "text": "Llyr, we are constantly having discussions with the Minister for Finance around support for the education budget. The Minister for Finance was quite clear that it was a time-limited programme. We were able to secure investment from the Finance Minister to be able to secure the programme and run it and phase it out to make sure there was transition support, so as we moved from the schools challenge programme into the regional consortia, there were resources to do that.", "speakerName": "Kirsty Williams AM" }, { "text": "Did you feel there was a case to be made to add to the consortia's resources and be able to continue that level of support that schools had previously had?", "speakerName": "Llyr Gruffydd AM" }, { "text": "Well, we did make resources available to the regional consortia to do that. As I say, from the outset, the previous Minister was very clear it was a time-limited programme. Certainly the schools that I talk to—. And I want to be absolutely clear: I have visited many, many Schools Challenge Cymru schools. I have used that opportunity to talk to them about—Heolddu being one of them, Hefin, which we went to visit, and Willows, for instance. I'm going to one this afternoon—I'm going to St Illtyd's this afternoon, and I always take—. I've been to Caergybi in Anglesey. I always take the opportunity to speak to those teachers about their experience of the programme and to understand and assure myself that they are getting ongoing support that they see as an appropriate level for them. I think I've done 19 of the schools.", "speakerName": "Kirsty Williams AM" }, { "text": "Hefin on this.", "speakerName": "Lynne Neagle AM" }, { "text": "With regard to it being a time-limited programme, the previous Minister was clear that it was a time-limited programme, but it wasn't quite as time-limited as you've decided to be. Is that fair to say?", "speakerName": "Hefin David AM" }, { "text": "No, it was supposed to be a three-year programme at the most. So, there's no differential between when I decided it was time-limited and the expectations—", "speakerName": "Kirsty Williams AM" }, { "text": "So the time limit was the same that the previous Minister put on it.", "speakerName": "Hefin David AM" }, { "text": "Yes. No change.", "speakerName": "Kirsty Williams AM" }, { "text": "But Mel Ainscow did tell us that there was a fade out in that third year—not that people were giving up, don't get me wrong, but clearly there wasn't that commitment coming from Government because the decision had been made, and people felt that it was just fizzling out a little bit, and that impacted on the momentum.", "speakerName": "Llyr Gruffydd AM" }, { "text": "I wouldn't characterise it as that. I think there certainly was a transition phase when we knew that the programme was moving and schools were moving into a different level of support, but I certainly wouldn't describe it as a fading out—not at all. As I said, we were aware that the programme was transitioning and we were determined to get that right for those individual schools, and to learn the lessons and, crucially, to be able to apply those lessons right across the board.", "speakerName": "Kirsty Williams AM" }, { "text": "I can see where the perception would come if a programme director like Mel was managing the programme right to the end of the three years exactly the same, and it falls off—not a cliff, but it falls off, then the readiness for schools and the readiness in the system to hand over—so part of the shift of focus was that working as a Government with the programme in those schools to working with the programme, those schools and the region. So, I think, inevitably, one party might see it as a decrease in terms of emphasis on their work, but it was necessary for the transition.", "speakerName": "Steve Davies" }, { "text": "But does that cast a bit of a shadow over the transition, then—that one key player within that process felt as such, or are you confident that that was managed well and effectively?", "speakerName": "Llyr Gruffydd AM" }, { "text": "I think it was managed well, and we were very clear to recognise success where success has been achieved, but not to gloss over where the programme had not made an impact, because that wouldn't be good for anybody. There was a formal event to close the programme, which gave everybody an opportunity to get together, to be formally thanked, and for, as I said, congratulations to be given to those people who had really made a difference and, crucially, key staff transferred over into the regional consortia. So, for those individuals, they were able to continue their work, but just be able to apply that work on a regional basis rather than just in an individual school. So, I don't see that there was any fading out, but there was a transition into a new system, and many of those key personnel transitioned into the system with us.", "speakerName": "Kirsty Williams AM" }, { "text": "Have you got any figures for the numbers of staff who went from the programme into the consortia?", "speakerName": "Lynne Neagle AM" }, { "text": "Not off the top of my head, but I can let you know.", "speakerName": "Kirsty Williams AM" }, { "text": "Okay. I've got Darren first, then Mark.", "speakerName": "Lynne Neagle AM" }, { "text": "And can I just say, I met with some of them? I met with a selection of those people who had been involved in the programme to get their feedback on what they felt had gone right, and what they didn't feel had gone right in the programme. So, I took the time not just to meet the figurehead of the programme, but actually to meet the people who were doing the work in the individual schools. Sorry.", "speakerName": "Kirsty Williams AM" }, { "text": "Yes, I just wanted to ask you, you mentioned the figurehead there, I assume by'the figurehead' you mean Professor Ainscow. And you've mentioned as well that you said you wanted to learn lessons from Schools Challenge Cymru, but he told us that nobody had been in touch with him since March of last year in order to have any sort of follow-up engagement, or to have a dialogue about his perspective on what worked, what didn't work, why there were failures in some areas and why there were successes in others. Why haven't you sought that level of engagement with the person who was responsible for running the programme?", "speakerName": "Darren Millar AM" }, { "text": "I've had that conversation with Mr Ainscow. We had the evaluation of the programme. We've spoken to the people who were actually involved in running the programme on a daily basis in individual schools. We've spoken to the regional consortia. We've spoken to local education authorities. We've spoken to a wide variety of people to get their insight into the lessons learned, what was valuable and what was not valuable. So, a wide variety of people have been involved in those conversations.", "speakerName": "Kirsty Williams AM" }, { "text": "But you've hardly engaged with Mr Ainscow—with Professor Ainscow himself.", "speakerName": "Darren Millar AM" }, { "text": "I would actually say that I have had meetings—", "speakerName": "Steve Davies" }, { "text": "Since March of last year.", "speakerName": "Darren Millar AM" }, { "text": "Yes, since March of last year. I haven't got the exact dates for you. I've had discussions with Mel Ainscow, and my line manager at the time, Owen Evans, also had meetings and discussions.", "speakerName": "Steve Davies" }, { "text": "So, when he told us,'Since last March, I literally have had no contact at all with anybody from Welsh Government', he was telling porky pies, was he?", "speakerName": "Darren Millar AM" }, { "text": "That's not my recollection. I'll go back and check for you.", "speakerName": "Steve Davies" }, { "text": "If you could check and let us know, that would be good. Mark.", "speakerName": "Lynne Neagle AM" }, { "text": "Yes, well, I just talked about the celebration event to formally mark the end of the programme. My understanding was that it was July of last year, so people were engaged in that. And this idea that somebody has been ignored or frozen out is not how I see or how I regard that situation.", "speakerName": "Kirsty Williams AM" }, { "text": "Mark.", "speakerName": "Lynne Neagle AM" }, { "text": "I have to say, with Professor Ainscow my impression was he took great, great pride in the work that he'd done with Schools Challenge Cymru, and I think he really enjoyed the engagement, the work and the positive relations with the Welsh Government. But I think there was just a degree of disappointment, perhaps, that at least he didn't feel that he'd been interrogated as much as he might have been about the lessons learned from the programme, and how perhaps to entrench those as well as possible with the regional consortia. I just wonder, Cabinet Secretary, if you could invite the professor in, perhaps to have a further debrief with you and take account of some of his thoughts and suggestions for what might help in this area.", "speakerName": "Mark Reckless AM" }, { "text": "Well, Mark, as I said, I just don't think it should be right to characterise this as a failure to engage with a single individual.", "speakerName": "Kirsty Williams AM" }, { "text": "I'm not characterising it that way, Cabinet Secretary.", "speakerName": "Mark Reckless AM" }, { "text": "As I said, I met with him, Steve has met with him, Owen Evans has met with him, my special policy adviser has met with him and had discussions. So, there has been an ongoing dialogue. But, Mark, I hope that I have demonstrated since I took on this job that I am willing to work with a wide variety of people and to tap into their expertise if it can help me to deliver on the national mission. And if the advice to me is that we haven't sufficiently learnt the lessons, then I'll gladly have another conversation. What I'm saying to you—and I'm absolutely confident—is that we have learnt the lessons, we are taking that work and the good practice forward, and we have done that with conversations with a wide variety of people who had a view on this, from individual schools that were involved in the programme, individual people who were working in those schools, local education authorities, some of which have been very scathing about the programme, I should say, regional consortia—. So, the lessons, I am confident, have been learnt.", "speakerName": "Kirsty Williams AM" }, { "text": "I'm glad to hear that, Cabinet Secretary, but I still say that, listening to Professor Ainscow's evidence, there was a perception, at least from him individually, that the programme should not be seen to be a failure, but a desire that the lessons should be learnt and a feeling or exception, at least on his part, that there was more that he still had to contribute to the process. And just to take one particular example, I think he referred to the Schools Challenge Cymru advisers being very successful in bringing in people who might not otherwise have contributed to this, and the regional consortia have had greater challenges in recruiting people, perhaps in some areas, of the same high standard of some particular individuals, but also from a wide range of different areas that the Schools Challenge Cymru do, and that there could be more to learn in that area as to how to support real excellence and a greater diversity of recruitment for those people. Is that something you could perhaps draw on his thoughts further about? Because I think he does feel that he has more to say to Welsh Government to help in this area.", "speakerName": "Mark Reckless AM" }, { "text": "Firstly, can I say that I have never described the programme as a failure? I would understand, as someone who has put so much personal investment into the brand of schools challenges, that he would not want anybody to characterise that particular approach to school improvement as a failure. And I want to be absolutely clear that I have never described the programme as a failure, and I want to reassure Mr Ainscow of that. As I've said, gosh, my goodness me, if you saw my e-mail inbox and you saw the letters that come in, people are never shy in coming forward to give me advice on what I need to do, what I need to do next, what I'm doing right, what I'm doing wrong, and, you know, our doors are always open to listen to people who have interesting things to say about how we can deliver our educational mission. So, people aren't slow in coming forward, I can assure you, with advice.", "speakerName": "Kirsty Williams AM" }, { "text": "Julie.", "speakerName": "Lynne Neagle AM" }, { "text": "Just very quickly. I'm sure the Minister is aware that Cardiff put extra funds of its own in to continue Schools Challenge Cymru advisers. So, obviously, they appreciated the value of the scheme, but it does query whether it should have gone on longer.", "speakerName": "Julie Morgan AM" }, { "text": "Julie, I think, to be fair, there are some people who think the scheme was absolutely fantastic. I've had feedback from people who didn't think the scheme was helpful at all—in fact, they felt it was a hindrance. I'm very much of the view that the scheme worked really well for some schools in some areas and had less impact in some areas. There is a mixed picture. What's important to me is that we understand what it was that led those schools to make those big changes, how we can—like Mark talked about, the expertise—how we can keep that expertise in the system, and how we can apply the lessons to all schools.", "speakerName": "Kirsty Williams AM" }, { "text": "The next questions, and the final questions, are from John. So, we're going to need succinct questions and succinct answers.", "speakerName": "Lynne Neagle AM" }, { "text": "Some questions on regional consortia, Cabinet Secretary, and, first of all, the role that you believe they should play and how schools use PDG.", "speakerName": "John Griffiths AM" }, { "text": "Well, it's an absolute—. It's one of the things that I have been very clear to the regional consortia that I expect their challenge and support advisers to be asking schools about. So, one of the conversations that they need to have when they are in schools is exploring, with that school, how they are using their PDG, and how they're demonstrating an impact for those resources. So, it's a fundamental role for the challenge and support advisers in the regional consortia in their school improvement work. It's crucial.", "speakerName": "Kirsty Williams AM" }, { "text": "That sort of brings to mind some of the research that's been done on the role of the challenge advisers, Cabinet Secretary, which suggested that they're not actually challenging schools in that way, and that there's very little evidence of schools changing their decisions on the use of PDG as a result of any challenge from those challenge advisers. So, how would you respond to those findings?", "speakerName": "John Griffiths AM" }, { "text": "Well, as I said, in my scrutiny of the role and success of our regional consortia, I specifically asked them about free-school-meal performance and the use of PDG within their particular region. I think there is increasing evidence to suggest that good use is being made of that resource, and I think that is being fed back into us. Estyn tell us that it's one of the areas of school expenditure that is closely linked to research and an evidence base. But, clearly, there is more to do, and that's why we have appointed the new regional advisers for PDG going forward, because we think there can be improvements in how this agenda can be supported at a regional level.", "speakerName": "Kirsty Williams AM" }, { "text": "Okay. So, you would recognise the findings from that research.", "speakerName": "John Griffiths AM" }, { "text": "Yes. There's always more that we can do, and we are strengthening that role by the appointment of the new regional PDG advisers, so that individual school challenge advisers know what they should be looking for, know what they should be doing, and there is a regional approach to good practice.", "speakerName": "Kirsty Williams AM" }, { "text": "Okay. Could you tell the committee, Cabinet Secretary, how effective you believe the relationship was between the Schools Challenge Cymru programme and the regional consortia's school improvement functions, and to what extent it varied by region?", "speakerName": "John Griffiths AM" }, { "text": "I think it's fair to say that, on occasion, I have received feedback that there was a conflict between what was going on at an individual school under the school improvement programme and whether, then, they welcomed support from the regional consortia as part of that. So, in some cases, if we're being absolutely honest, there could sometimes be tensions between the two, but in most cases, the relationship was very, very positive and there was continuous feedback between the work going on in the schools under the programme and the regional consortia challenge advisers. But I'm going to be blunt and honest with people—in some cases, it has been reported to me—it's only anecdotal evidence; I haven't got hard and fast evidence—that there sometimes was a conflict:'We're a school challenge school so we don't need to participate or listen to any advice that's coming from the regional consortia.' Or, a local education authority said to me,'We felt that we couldn't get involved in that school anymore because it was part of a different programme.' Those were isolated incidents, and, as I said, it's only anecdotal feedback. In most cases, the relationship was a very positive one.", "speakerName": "Kirsty Williams AM" }, { "text": "Just very quickly, I think that, across the board, it was more complex in the beginning, getting—[Inaudible.]. But when the programme itself recognised that they needed to work with the regions, and the regions needed to work with them—and I think Mel Ainscow in his evidence referred to this—it strengthened after some early challenges. I think Mel Ainscow was working in a number of regions—I can't remember which ones—so he's established relationships—[Interruption.] Sorry?", "speakerName": "Steve Davies" }, { "text": "Central south.", "speakerName": "Kirsty Williams AM" }, { "text": "Central south. He has already been working in that, so I think it possibly had a stronger springboard in terms of the early working.", "speakerName": "Steve Davies" }, { "text": "Because he already had relationships that he had already developed in that particular region. As always, with many of these things, it's about individuals and relationships.", "speakerName": "Kirsty Williams AM" }, { "text": "Okay. Finally from me, Cabinet Secretary: in 2015-16, Estyn reported on regional consortia not sufficiently focusing on particular groups of pupils and tracking their outcomes—for example, vulnerable pupils. I just wonder what you are able to tell us in terms of to what extent there has been necessary progress since 2015-16.", "speakerName": "John Griffiths AM" }, { "text": "Okay. Well, I think it's important to recognise that all four consortia underwent monitoring visits in the autumn of last year, of 2017, which weren't reflected in the Estyn annual report for 2015-16. Estyn, through these 2017 inspections, have said that three out of the four regional consortia are making strong progress in their particular work, and we are continuing, as Welsh Government, to work with the other regional consortia to address the findings of the Estyn report.", "speakerName": "Kirsty Williams AM" }, { "text": "And that would include these particular issues.", "speakerName": "John Griffiths AM" }, { "text": "Yes, absolutely. The committee probably hasn't had an opportunity to see, but, only this morning, Estyn has released a report on more able and talented, and has positive things to say in the field of more able and talented, which was being asked about earlier by Members—you know, evidence of improved working and support in that particular arena. But, again, we need to ensure a consistency across all the regions, and that the findings of Estyn's most recent reports into regional performance are followed through.", "speakerName": "Kirsty Williams AM" }, { "text": "Okay, thank you. As we've got a couple of minutes left, if I can just jump back to the issue of practical uses of the PDG—because it's the only thing we haven't really covered and it would be good to get on the record—can I ask to what extent you'd like to see the PDG used to track the progress of eligible pupils? And the committee's heard that there are several different tracking systems and tools used by schools. To what extent is that an issue to do with what the Welsh Government is promoting? Or is it down to consortia or individual schools? And do you think there needs to be a more centralised push on how the tracking is undertaken?", "speakerName": "Lynne Neagle AM" }, { "text": "Firstly, can I say it's absolutely crucial that we track performance, absolutely crucial? That's the bedrock. We don't dictate to individual schools the nature of the system that they should employ in their school. There are a number of different programmes that allow schools to do this, but we are absolutely clear, and best practice and evidence shows us, that individual pupil tracking is key and crucial. And, as I said in the beginning, where we weren't tracking pupils at all, initial investment in PDG was used to establish these systems within schools. Again, one of the outcomes from the schools challenge review, and one of the lessons learnt, was, again, the importance of individual tracking of pupils throughout their school career. But we don't dictate a single system.", "speakerName": "Kirsty Williams AM" }, { "text": "Okay, thank you.", "speakerName": "Lynne Neagle AM" }, { "text": "But the principle is a really important one.", "speakerName": "Kirsty Williams AM" }, { "text": "Okay, and you don't think there's more scope to look at what the best system is that can be recommended to schools.", "speakerName": "Lynne Neagle AM" }, { "text": "That's not something we're actively looking at. I am actively looking at developing a Welsh toolkit around good practice, evidence base and research. At the moment we use the Sutton Trust toolkit, which is fine and excellent, but we are having active discussions about whether we're in a position, now, to look at developing a suite of a Welsh toolkit to support this agenda, and that's under active consideration.", "speakerName": "Kirsty Williams AM" }, { "text": "Okay. Well, we've reached the end of our session. Can I thank the Cabinet Secretary and the officials for attending and for answering such a wide range of questions? As usual, you'll be sent a transcript to check for accuracy following the meeting, but thank you again for coming.", "speakerName": "Lynne Neagle AM" }, { "text": "Thank you very much.", "speakerName": "Kirsty Williams AM" }, { "text": "Thank you. Okay. Item 3, then, is papers to note. Paper to note 1 is a letter from the Minister for Children and Social Care on Families First funding. Paper to note 2 is a letter from the Cabinet Secretary for Education, updating us on the supply teacher issue. Paper to note 3—another letter from the Cabinet Secretary for Education, providing further information following our meeting on 15 February. Paper to note 4 is a letter from the WJEC on availability of textbooks. Paper to note 5—a letter from Qualifications Wales, also on availability of textbooks. And paper to note 6 is a letter from the Cabinet Secretary for Education to the Children's Commissioner for Wales, following up on the dialogue that they've been having about our inquiry. Are Members happy to note those? Thank you. Item 4, then, is for me to propose, in accordance with Standing Order 17.42, that the committee resolves to meet in private for the remainder of the meeting. Are Members content? Thank you.", "speakerName": "Lynne Neagle AM" } ] }

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This suggests that the next steps could involve gathering additional feedback and perspectives from stakeholders to inform future school improvement efforts.", "responseAttribution": { "indexRanges": [ { "startIndex": 136, "endIndex": 136 }, { "startIndex": 138, "endIndex": 138 } ] }, "queryMetadata": { "queryType": "QUERY_TYPE_YES_NO", "isUnanswerable": null, "isContextDependent": true } }, { "query": "Did the Schools Challenge Cymru program include a time-limited component?", "response": "* The Schools Challenge Cymru (SCC) program had a time-limited component.\n* The previous Minister for Education was clear that the program was intended to be a three-year program.\n* The Cabinet Secretary for Education confirmed that the time limit for the program was consistent with the expectations set by the previous Minister.", "responseAttribution": { "indexRanges": [ { "startIndex": 118, "endIndex": 118 } ] }, "queryMetadata": { "queryType": "QUERY_TYPE_YES_NO", "isUnanswerable": null, "isContextDependent": null } }, { "query": "Did anyone disagree with the Cabinet Secretary for Education's assessment that the Schools Challenge Cymru program was not a failure, but rather a valuable learning experience?", "response": "No, there were no dissenting opinions expressed in the meeting transcript regarding the Cabinet Secretary's assessment of the Schools Challenge Cymru program.", "responseAttribution": null, "queryMetadata": { "queryType": "QUERY_TYPE_YES_NO", "isUnanswerable": true, "isContextDependent": null } }, { "query": "Besides the Cabinet Secretary's assessment that the Schools Challenge Cymru program was not a failure, were there other perspectives discussed in the meeting?", "response": "* In addition to the Cabinet Secretary's perspective, the meeting transcript includes feedback from a variety of stakeholders involved in the Schools Challenge Cymru program.\n* These stakeholders included school staff, local education authorities, and regional consortia.\n* 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{ "meetingId": "TS3005b", "transcriptSegments": [ { "text": "Good morning, again.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "One question.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah..", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Send.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Choose a number?.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Submit..", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yep yep yep yep.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "All set?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm. Yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Good. Okay. Let's see what we can find here. Okay. A very warm welcome again to everyone.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Um here we are already at our uh functional design meeting. Um and this is what we are going to do. The opening, which we are doing now, um and the special note, I'm project manager but on the meetings I'm also the secretary, which means I will make uh minutes as I did of the previous meeting.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "And uh I also put these as fast as possible in the uh project folder, so you can see them and review what we have discussed. Um if I'm right, there are three presentations, I guess each one of you has prepared one? Good.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yes.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "And um we will also take a look at new project requirements, um if you haven't heard about them yet. And then of course we have to take a decision on the remote control functions and we have some more time, forty minutes. But I think we will need it. Um well I don't know who wants to go first with his presentation.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "I'll go first. Okay. I'll go first yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "You can go first, okay.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Well.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Well, shall I go first with the users?", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Well.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "I think well okay no problem..", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Is there an order? I haven't.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "everybody already has his presentation,", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Ja precies, ja precies, ja precies", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "so you can adjust it..", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "So. Huh? Okay, um.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "And one question, uh your name Denni, is it with a", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "E_I_E_.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "I_E_ E_I_E_, okay. Thank you.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Okay, um I wanted to explain the working design of the remote control. It's possibly very handy if you want to uh design one of those. Um well so it basically works uh as I uh uh r wrote down uh in this uh little uh summary. Uh when you press a button, uh that's when you do pr for example when you uh want to turn up the volume, um a little connection is made uh the the rubber uh button just presses on a", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Sorry..", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "on a little print plate uh which uh makes uh uh a connection that uh gives the chips, uh which is uh mounted beneath those uh that plastic of a rubber button. Uh senses that a connection has been made, and know and knows what button you pressed, becau uh for example the the volume up or volume down button. Um uh the the chip uh makes a Morse code uh like uh signal which uh then is si uh signalled to uh several transistors which makes uh which sends the signal to a little let. You know what a let is?", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Okay. And that makes uh the the infra-red lights signal which is sent to the television set. Uh which has a sensor in it to uh sense uh the signal of the infra-red. That's basically uh how it works. Um the findings uh uh that I found uh searching up some uh detailed information about the remote controls, are that uh they are very easy to produce, uh it is pis uh it's possible to uh make them in mass production because it is as eas it is as easy as uh printing a page, uh just uh fibreglass plate um is b uh is uh covered with uh some uh coatings and uh uh and chips.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Uh and the technology's already available, we don't have to find out how remote controls uh have to work or uh how that how uh to make some chips that are possible to uh to to transmit those uh signals. Uh I made a little uh uh animation of about how a tran our uh remote controller works.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Oh right.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Animation..", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "we tel", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "There is something turning.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "There.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah, it's a little bug it's in the in the smart board..", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Okay. Uh well", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "the sub-component, I suppose that you understand what a sub-component is, is f in this example it's the button. Uh when it is pressed down, um, the switch is ter is uh is switched on, so with uh the wire is sent to the to the chip in uh co-operation with the battery of course, because to make uh a a signal possible you have to have some sort of uh li uh a d ad uh electronic uh.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Infrared light.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yes, uh, okay. Um w after it's being composed by the chip uh the signal uh is transported uh to the infra-red bulb, and from there it signals a Morse code-like signal to the to the b to the bulb in uh in the television set. Okay. S Uh I wrote down some personal preferences about uh the remote control. Of course it is very handy if the remote control is hand held, so you don't have to uh uh wind it up or something, or just is it's it's very light to uh to make uh to use it. Uh I personally uh pref prefer that uh it would be p uh come available in the various colours, and uh easy to use buttons. But I suppose that the one of the other team members uh uh thought of that uh too..", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah, I've got it there too..", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "And it is possible for several designs and um easy to use b uh sorry, easy to use buttons. Perhaps soft touch, uh touch screen uh buttons because uh the rubber buttons are always uh uh they uh slightly uh they can be slightly damaged,", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "uh so the numbers on the buttons are not possible uh to read anymore. And uh well as I said uh before th uh we can uh make several designs..", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Okay, well, that's my contribution to this meeting, and uh", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "To this meeting..", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Okay, thank you.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "two of these this meeting. So.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Shall I go uh next?", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yep.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "'Kay.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Please.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "So.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Smoking.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Well uh, my name's, and I looked at uh technical functions design of the remote. Uh I did this by uh looking at examples of other remote controls, of how they uh they look, and information from the web that I found. Um well what I found was that uh th the actual use of the remote control is to send messages to television set, how you uh d what you described uh just early. And this can be all sorts of medsa messages, turn it on, turn it off, uh change the channel, adjust volume, that kind of thing. Uh play video, teletext, but also t uh play C_D_ if you use it your C_D_ player the remote control will that one. There are some uh examples of remote controls. You can see they are very different. The one has got all the functions that you could possibly need and an lot of uh buttons etcetera. And the other is uh more user friendly, little with big buttons. And uh not n all the the the the stuff you can do with it, but uh the the essential stuff is there. Um I guess you could better y you should look at a a user centred uh approach, because the customers have to use them and and if they don't think it's usable they won't uh buy it. A lot of buttons they may think from I don't need s as much as that. Uh, well perf personal preferences is is uh a simple remote, with uh the basic functions that you can need that you could use. But uh keep in mind the new functions of T_V_ what we discussed earlier, split screen and uh is that a function that you should have? Because all the T_V_s will have them. Or because of only a few and isn't really necessary. And then uh make it I would make so that you can could uh use it on more than one appliance. If you have one that uh uh does with the vi the the video, it could also work with uh with the stereo, because play is play and stop stop and that sort of thing. The shu c you could reuse the buttons so that you don't have to have a lot of buttons for uh anything. And it should be a user friendly, clear buttons, and not too much. And that is my presentation.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Okay, thank you.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Okay..", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "'Kay. Check..", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "You must still have it open.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Kijke'Kay, so. We're going to j discuss the functional requirements of the remote, that m that means that functions user n want to have on the remote control, or just Yeah, and the users, actually.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "The methods I I prefer is we're going to look which section of the users we are going to focus a l on more. Are the younger people going to buy the remote control or the elderly people? And then tho that section we're going to focus and adjust the remote more to that section than the whole user section. Okay. Some data. Younger people, from sixteen to thir forty five um years are more interested in fj features like L_C_D_ screens, speech recognition e etcetera. And we possess about two third of the market from in that range of age. The elderly people, from forty five years to sixty five years are not that much interested in features, and we possess less than two third, that's two fifth, of the market share in that area. Goed so.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Hmm.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "'Kay. Findings. Fifty percent of the users lose their remote often.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "So we don't have to make it very small, like uh like a mobile phone or something, but some somewhat bi bigger than small, so you don't lose it that much anymore. Seventy five percent of the users also find it ugly,", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "and fif seventy five of the users zap a lot, so the buttons sh should be that small, or shouldn't be that complex because we have to search for the buttons, which one are you going to use. Next. Important issues about the remote. I think it would be better with a personal reference, but okay. Remote control has to have to have a low power usage, because s w seventy five percent of the users only zap one time an hour, so the power usage is also one one time an hour, or so, with a high power usage we would use a lot of but batteries. The volume button and the channel buttons are the two most important buttons on the remote control, so those they those have to h be find very easily. And have to be somewhat like bigger etcetera. It has also be have to find easily when the label is gone. My colleague also announced it that labels should be scratched off", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Hmm.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "or would be s uh senden.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "okay. So uh if that's k uh if that's the problem, you also have to find it easily on the remote. Buttons. Like what all colleagues said, have to have to be minimalized. or should be covered, or in L_C_D_ screen. L_C_D_ screen is easy because we have the L_C_D_ screen, we have the various options. Put one option and then you have the all the buttons of that options, so the other options would be gone. And you don't see the buttons. So L_C_D_ screens should be easy, but an L_C_D_ screen, the problem with the L_ sc L_C_D_ screen is that elderly people fr from forty five to for sixty five years don't use the L_C_D_ screen a lot. So we have to that keep that in mind that if you're going to implement L_C_D_ screen, you don't have to make it that hard to learn or to use.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Uh L_C_D_ screen as in uh touch screen?", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah, touch screen, yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "The last but not least, younger people are more critical about the features. Because they use the remote control often more often, and are more technical than the ol older people. And the older people spend more money, and easily on a remote control.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "'Kay.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "So we have to keep in mind to to focus not a lot not that much on the younger pep younger people, but also somewhat on the elderly people. And on my personal preferences, I don't have any mo more time to come with that,", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "but like I said, L_C_D_ screen is easily to use", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "because you have you can implement a lot of buttons in one remote with not that much buttons. And it should be easy to use. Especially the volume buttons, the channel buttes buttons and the number buttons to zap through the channels. And that is it.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Okay,", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Okay..", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "thank you.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Oh right..", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Um, well thank you all, huh. I dunno uh did everyone receive an email with uh the new project requirements?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "No. Res I did not.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "No? Well,", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Perhaps the rest?", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "No.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "then I think it's a good thing that I made a separate slide of them", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Ja,.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "so you can all read them. Oh, well not in this presentation. Hmm", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Should be in there. Well, I can tell you them uh from my laptop. Um teletext does has become outdated since the popularity of the internet.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Oh. Mm.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "So that's uh the first thing we I think we should pay less attention to uh teletext. Uh the remote control should only be used for the television, otherwise the project becomes more complex, which endangers the time to market, and of course would make it more costly, I think. Um our current customers are within the age group of forty plus, and new product should reach a new market with customers that are younger than forty, and you talked about that before. And uh a last point, but also very important, our corporate image should stay recognisable in our products, which means that our uh corporate colour and slogan must be implemented in the new design. So we have to keep that in mind. Um well uh according to our agenda it's then time to take a decision on the remote control functions. So, who has any idea about what should be on it, and what shouldn't?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Well you said it should only uh work with one appliance?", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Be television.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Or with one uh d che only the T_V_?", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah. Only be used for television.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "And the video also, or not uh?.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Well it says only for television here, huh.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Only the television.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Oh. Alright. Okay..", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Makes it a lot easier, huh?.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "So yeah, then you can yeah. Requirements, no? Functions.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Then it should have uh on, off,", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah for.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "and uh.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Standby options,", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah, the basics then by a volume, channel, one till two zero numbers on it,", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "yeah? Uh yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah. And per perhaps uh.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "oh teletext doesn't have to be?", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "No.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Um other functions.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Well uh uh yes yes s sh A button where you can uh change from one number to two numbers.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah I had.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Two s two two digits,", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah, yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Can you.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "oh okay.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Don't know if that's got a name,", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah I understand what you mean. Yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "but.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "I think it's I think it's easy to implement a button with a s s what which especially do that, because some T_V_s, if you press the t one and then the two, it be between five secs it make twelve,", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "It makes it twelve, yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah. S", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Indeed. Okay.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "and that's that's not relaxed", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Well, not really.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "to user.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "And and there are some models that don't uh accommodate that function. So", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "d uh wh the Philip's television makes it possible in that indeed to uh press one and then two to make uh the uh tj to reach channel twelve.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "So that it easy and fast.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "But uh all the television makes uh use of those button where you first press that button and then press two digits to uh to get", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah. Yeah, so you should have that one on.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Uh yeah, think so.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Our main targets' age are? were? Forty five plus, or?", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Mute misschien also.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Uh well", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "new product should reach a market with customers that are younger than forty, and now we have current customers uh of forty plus.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Forties, okay because because younger people as Uh younger people have now, sixteen till to twenty five age, are f eighty one percent interested in L_C_D_ screen. From twenty six to thirty five have sixty six percent, and thirty six to forty five, fifty five percent, so I think to um Because on most recog remote controls um the print plate will be broken how much, two years. You have to press h very hard to go to the next channel.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "With the L_C_D_ screen it's easier because you only have to wipe the screen to uh for fingerprint,", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah, we we could yeah. But I think that uh that collides with our mission to make it very cheap.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "and then you can use it again.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Because L_C_D_ screens are very expensive.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah, okay.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "An", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "A touch screen uh probably uh even more.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah but a you don't know.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "So,", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "True.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "true, true.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "But uh Well um is it possible to make an L_C_D_ screen uh, how was the information?", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah, it only says that this perce percentage like L_C_D_ screen. Because, yeah and it says that younger age between sixteen and forty five highly interesting features more critical.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "So perhaps we should we should focus on that L_C_D_ screen.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "And if the only f Yeah, because our target is sixteen to forty five.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "But, do you.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah but uh will we not uh exceed our uh our uh production uh.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah you don't know how much it costs. Yeah, you don't know how much it costs, the L_C_D_ screen.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Is it possible to find out, anyway?", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "No, I don't have any costs here,", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "You know?", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "I only have percentages.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "But if you would do an L_C_D_ screen do we have don don't you have any buttons? Or because if it only directs at the T_V_, then you only have uh I don't know what you want to do with the L_C_D_ screen.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "No, an L_C_D_ screen's just like uh like a drawn here. Um just uh displays several buttons,", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah?", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "for example um if you wanted the minimal uh use b uh buttons, such as channel and volume, you just h uh displays four buttons on the screen", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Oh right, so you can.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "and it's possible to p uh press them down, just like a touch screen.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Oh, yeah alright. So you can adjust which buttons you want on that s screen.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah, we can make it possible to do that, yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah, if you want to adjust, like for example, adjust the audio settings, you press audio on the touchscreen", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "and you get the buttons for audio settings,", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah alright, oh right.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "so the other buttons are gone.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah, yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "So we're going for an L_C_D_ screen?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah. Would be yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "I think it's the most easier thing,", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "That's my uh.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "And hoping that when we produce a lot it won't be too expensive.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Well we had twelve fifty, I guess, for uh production?", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "No. Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Twelve fifty.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Um.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Any guesses?.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Well I suppose wi if the mar if our um if the i if the young people are interested in L_C_D_ screens, we should make'em.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Highly.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "And if that is our d uh market share to uh and our goal to uh deliver those uh remote controls.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "But But he also said that we should not only focus on the younger people, but also on the older, and will they use it if it only has an L_C_D_ screen?", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah, but Um, s forty six to forty five, thirty three percent, and sixty fifty six to sixty five twelve percent.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Oh, so still a little bit people.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "But our our our what's it, project requirements are the new products should be reached for new markets, to customers that are younger than forty.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah that's right. But you don't want to alienate the other uh.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "No, that not now, but, so.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "But if they also buy it then it's alright. I guess.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah, but market share fro for for forty years and younger is higher than that of sixty five and younger.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah. Alright.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Okay, so L_C_D_ it is?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "An Yes.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm. It's treasure.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "And what else?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "I hope we uh h and let's hope to reach those uh those sales.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah, i i if it Yeah, if it costs gets too much, too expensive, then yeah, we should be sticking to rubber buttons.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah, can you um uh s I think that that they will send you some information about uh the cost of L_C_D_ uh screens.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah..", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "N nothing, no costs at all.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "But perhaps later,", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Uh so if you uh.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "so uh.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah, so if you uh you receive an email about that, uh can you post it in the or shouldn't we post that in uh our projects mail uh folder.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah, in.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "I think that should yeah I think we all get the costs of everything.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "I don't.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Because you are the the Marketing uh Expert.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah, okay, I'll I'll post it.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "I uh.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Well perhaps we should have a backup plan that we would use buttons if it's uh too expensive.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah sure, sure.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah, okay. But for now it's L_C_D_. Okay.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Okay, L_C_D_, yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Then you have the seventy five percent of users find it r ugly.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "The L_C_D_? Oh that's a bit of a problem..", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah, and eighty percent of the users would spend more money with a when a remote would look fancy.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Oh, that's a bit of a problem.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Tha i l i it'll look fancy with L_C_D_ screen. Yeah..", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "It's looks fancy one yeah, of L_C_D_ screen.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah, but they don't they don't like it.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "They think it's ugly. When it has an L_C_D_ screen.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah, just a the plain remotes, not not specific L_C_D_ remotes.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Oh, alright, I thought that you said that.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah, and maybe you can make something fancy out of an L_C_D_ remote,", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "So.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "because it's new, as far as I know..", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Mm yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah, of course.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "And then not yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "And then you have the other thing, that seventy five percent zap a lot, but that's not a f question with the L_C_D_ screen.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Um. Yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Only thing you have to do is wipe the screen off once each time, to get all the fingerprints off it.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Mm. Okay?", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Okay, what else does our remote need?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "A mute button.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Um.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Mute button.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "I think. And.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "The most important things on a f on an on an uh remote control are channel selection, volume con selection,", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "and power s power usage.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "And a teletext, but that is not of the question.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "But But shouldn't you put a button of for teletext on the for the people who want to use it?", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Other things are Sorry?", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Remembering we have got a big remote that you have to fill..", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah, it could be. Yeah..", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm. Yeah, and we could make an a a separate menu on the L_C_D_ uh screen for teletext.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah, teletext.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "And there's also a.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "And other other less important things are screen settings, audio settings, and channel settings,", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah, they are less important, but I think they should be there,", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Less important.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "or not?", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah, should be there,", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "A sh", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "but not press.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "but in a sub sub-menu or something like that.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah, sub-menu, yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Uh I think it's also important to uh make it possible to um how do you call it in English, uh, to not use batteries, and use ac uh bat uh batteries to uh to be.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Like with a with a mouse, you have not, yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "yeah yeah sure. Indeed. So uh you can mount uh the the the uh", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah, in a breath it's.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "uh the remote control to um", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Charted.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "We should think of the twelve fifty we have", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "to refill the.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "but.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah,", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "I don't know how much that's going to uh.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "but we don't we don't have any costs now,", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah. Okay,", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "so Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "because i uh when you get an L_C_D_ screen, you run it on batteries,", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "the batteries will be uh empty very soon, very fast.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah e e power supply is one of the most important things.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "You should Perhaps you should be able to to switch the control off.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "If you have an L_C_D_ screen that's burns all the time I dunno.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah, yeah. Yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "You shouldn't on and off because that's ver extra, that you have t first you have to turn the remote on, and then you can uh.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "I don't know.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Uh.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah, I think it's it's not that easy because I don't think people will like it who who uh that you have to turn it on first and then use it,", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Nee that's that's uh yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "so I think it's better when th the T_V_ shuts down, the remote shuts down.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "But then you can't.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "And go to standby mode when you don't use it,", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "so that.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah yeah au automac matically, that it yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah, automatically. After two minutes or three minutes, something like that.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah. After two minutes, yeah two three minutes, yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah. And maybe a low battery indicator? On the screen.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah. Sure.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "And then b that uh", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "before an hour when its get again gets empty.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Then you have plenty of time to recharge it,", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "of put it in a recharger. Charger.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "So we are going for the for the recharger.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah, if it's. Uh.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "If it's sensible..", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah, because when you're watching T_V_, you're zapping and you have to put it in a recharger,", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah. Yeah, b when the batteries are low.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "No,", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "and I don't think it.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "when you when you're done with s uh w uh watching your television, you have to put it.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah, okay, but then we have to be sure that the the the the batteries go hours, six hours, five, six hours, then.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "But you'll also forget to put it in,", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah sure, of course.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "because you throw it on the couch", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah,", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah,", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "but.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "then you have a problem.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "and you don't remember.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "But you also forget to buy batteries,", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah. That's right.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "and then you can you can't use it,", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "so I.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Or we have to be sure that the batteries last couple of days when they're recharged.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Well I think the batteries should should w should work a lot longer than a couple of days,", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "So.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "or not?", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah because you have b", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "'Cause.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "but you have L_C_D_ screen.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah, that's right, but.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "High power usage.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "High power user cell, i uh it should be uh a standard move to to put your remote control in the charger when you're done watching television,", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yes.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "that's also a a a great advantage because you can't lose it anymore. Because you are obliged to uh put it in the charger and not to uh leave it in a couch uh between some cushions.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "True. Yeah. Yeah. True.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah. Right..", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah, you made a point there.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "But then you also have to s have somewhere where you can put a remo recharger near your couch", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah, also.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "because otherwise you have to walk a long way when you twoft want to turn on the T_V_.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah, otherwise all your yeah. Just a small device.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah. I think everything has it for and I guess.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah it hasn't It doesn't have to be big.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Plug it in, that's it. Yeah, like a like telephone charger or something.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah just just a cable, or a even a a a a a charger where you can mount it on. Something like that,", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah. Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "just u", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Alright.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Okay, well I've", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "It has to be easy to use also, or things. Uh market share, speaker re speech recognition.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah, you have some more", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "points.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Functional designs uh for the elderly uh you could make it possible to enlarge the screen,", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "I think.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "so make it possible to not uh display uh a button at ten points", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Also.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "uh, or.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Well I think that this should be standard. Large button large buttons.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah but it is uh one of the functions you have to uh specify.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah? Okay.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Because we can look at uh uh perhaps uh forty buttons at a screen, but the elderly only look at two buttons.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": ".", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "And you said something about speech recognition?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah,", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Speech recognition?", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "it says also.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Hello.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah,", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Twelve Euro", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "twelve fifty, twelve fifty..", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "twelve Euro fifty.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Twelve. That's an also ninety one percent sixteen to twenty five, twenty six to thirty five years, seventy six percent, and thirty six to forty five, thirty five percent.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "So it's pretty big.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Well, spread it by a big market.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "But then I I I.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Even bigger than for L_C_D_..", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah. W I know let's do a speech..", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Well", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "let's leave out all the remote controls and just put a microphone on top of the television to.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah. Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah. Ninety. Twenty five.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "You can clap or something..", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah Yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "channel.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Turn volume up.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Hey, that that's an idea..", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Now you shouldn't say the wrong thing, I dunno.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Okay, well", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah..", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "that should it has to be remote control, not.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah,", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "twelve.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "But they want to talk into the remo remote control, or something,", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Sure why not why not.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "or?.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Is this only would you would you pay more for speech recognition in a remote control. It's the only thing it says.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah, mm.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Oh, but do we want to implement that, or?", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "I think an L_C_D_ screen should be suf sufficient.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "But when you look at the percentages.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah, it says a lot, but.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Speech recognition scores even higher, huh?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Perhaps the options should be uh Why not?", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah, well,", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Why not?", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "maybe because of the cost, but uh nobody knows uh how much uh it will cost uh.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Let's hope uh to have some uh d", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "I know.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "No I think I think it's better to have L_ L_C_D_ screen, because in the area of tw thirty six to forty five, we have about thirty percent of the market share in in our hands, and fifty five of those people want L_C_D_ screen and thirty five want speech recognition. So I think it's better to keep it with L_C_D_ screen.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "But would it be useful to imple implement both?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "On one remote?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah, if the costs al allow it..", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Or.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Well.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah, I dunno.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "I don't know if that can be done with the cost of twelve fifty.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Nee.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "With that uh.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "If it should be done, if it could be done, I won't matter. Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah,", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "We should do it. Yeah. Sure.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "but how would you like to implement that, that you say volume up, and then it goes up,", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "or?", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Uh.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Certain systems already exist, I think.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Then you also have to have different languages if we go international. Then uh it's y it's yours to do a French and Dutch and English", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "True.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "True, yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah. True.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "But that should also be with f should be also with L_C_D_ screen.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "This should be uh accommodated with some software, uh, uh. Yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Because then I think in Chinese is different written, volume is different written than um Swahili or something.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah, that's right. Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Right. Swahili. Swahili.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah you can use icons for the", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "a speaker and uh.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Ja, well possible.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Indeed.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "But if that's better than language for the for the remote.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah, yeah yeah yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah. So we want to uh yeah it's international uh okay.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Then it's Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "'Kay, what else?", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "So, no speech recognition? Or.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Well, if it could be done, we.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah,", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Y it should be done. If it could be done, should be done.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "we have to keep Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah..", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah, and then we have different languages.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah, that should be uh anything matters.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "That's not so difficult at all,", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Okay, just make a separate remote for each uh.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "because I already use on several voice operated systems, and they are all possible to uh not all, but.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Well, you sh you should to adjust the thing.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "I think it's difficult. Every language of dialects.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "I think it's very differen difficult.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "And you have to speak the so that it can understand.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah. I think it can't be implemented, but maybe.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "You could use that n as an option, if you have money left, or something..", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah,'s an option, yes.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah, sure, indeed.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Fifty Euro cents.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Let's do speech.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "For speech recognition.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Okay, so we only do this when we have enough money left.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah..", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Okay. Well I've written down an an on or off button, volume selection, channel selection, uh the digits from one to zero, huh. Um or from zero to nine. Uh a digits button to switch uh between one and two digits, mute button, a separate menu for teletext, a battery indicator. Um we're going to use a docking station and uh probably L_C_D_ and if there's enough money, speech recognition. And uh the possibility to uh enlarge buttons or to have large buttons", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm. Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Mm, yes.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "in general.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "I With uh teletext if it wasn't ver very important, it was but.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "No, but.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "You also now have colours. I don't know if we should implement that. Yeah,", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Curved?", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "when you press the red button, you go to page one hundred two, and when you press the.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Uh yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "I don't know if we should implement that,", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Um.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "because it says that teletext not really important,", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "S Shortcuts. Uh.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "but yeah, the shortcut, and you can't go to sport.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "I think we should we could that we could also implement a audio settings, screen settings and channel settings, but as sub-menus.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "D Mainly if you turn the uh remote control on, you have to u you have to see from one till zero, channel and volume. And if you want to use teletext screen or audio, then you can press it.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Sh Yeah, just just sub-menu. Yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "It should be available but not", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "'Cause it should be there.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Not directly uh available.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "not Yeah. Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Okay, so not too much teletext support, but in a separate menu, and.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "So actually it is there but it's just not r ready there.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah, but s", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Directly available.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "So does it confuse uh the user?", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "You'll have to search for it..", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "They'd have to be easy to use.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Uh. I'll search um.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "If you want to use teletext, you can push the teletext button and then the options uh become available.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah. Yeah, that's a.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "The sign of it.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Okay, but no more buttons or functions, or?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "I guess not.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "No.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Uh, no. What else can you do with a television?", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "We've got anon", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Aren't we forgetting something very important?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Have got got two examples here, but I don't think there's anything we're missing.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Uh play, pause, doesn't n need to be there.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Well, we don't have the video orders.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yes, so this is your presentation. We could check the other remote controls with technical functions.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah, you could look here all the the.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Which ones were yours?", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Uh th th th th I don't know, technical functions.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Techni", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "They're a bit small, you can we should stretch them, because.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Ping.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Ja ja ja ja ja. Technical functions. Yeah okay.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "I guess we've got them all.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Uh I think I go to have volume, mute but I Yeah. Very slow. Yeah, the zoom buttons.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "And for a T_V_? Can you zoom in a T_V_?", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah, b wide screen, high screen, different things you have,", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Or that you can put'em on uh on on wide and.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "yeah different uh.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "But that should also be a sub then, a sub uh menu thing.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Menu.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah it should be available, but then in separate screen settings or something.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah, so we should also implement se screen settings.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah, screen settings, audio settings, teletext settings you have.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Oh right. Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Channel settings.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah, so you can program the.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "So those four, and of course the main.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah, so the first you see the main, and the other ones you can uh go to uh.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah. Yeah. Like tap screens or something", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "or, I dunno.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "I hope we can do this..", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Something.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "There are a lot of options depending uh on what kind of television you got.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah, if uh.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "'Cause if you don't got a wide screen television you don't need the uh the screen settings", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "No, you don't yu a no you then you don't no ni don't.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "uh for uh.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "then you don't use it.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah and if the television does not support such uh operations", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "We don't have to use that top. Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "So you leave it alone.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah. Or it could be possible to have a a standard version of the remote, an expanded version.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah. And do we want them in different colours, or.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "And and the buttons, should they have colours?", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Colours. Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Colours I think the main colour of the remote control is uh the colour of the L_C_D_ screen.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Oh but we don't have any buttons. Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "I Because we don't want a lot a devi yeah a device self s g", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah, then defines itself. Because uh how many percent? Eighty percent?", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "They think it's ugly, right?", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Would spend more money if it looks fancy.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Okay, so use uh very uh lot of peo.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Perhaps you can uh make adjustable fronts, like with the telephones.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Adjust with phones, yes.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "You can uh But I don't think that uh.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Okay. Twelve Euro fifty. Well, make it available in different colours, you mean?", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Sure.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah..", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Red, white, blue, black..", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "And a see-through uh", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Rasta colours.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Grey.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah sea view, yes, Simpson's versions and.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah, see through version. Yeah. If you press a button, it turns green.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Okay, well", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Leave..", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "that's the", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "A disco version.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "signal for las final five minutes.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Five minutes?", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Um so I have uh the things I just read. Um then we have uh separate menus for teletext, screen settings, audio settings, and what else?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Channel settings?", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Oh yeah, right.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Channel settings.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "So you can program the T_V_.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Perhaps you should you'd throw them on on in one pile. So, options, and then you sub them.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah. Could be possible.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Otherwise you have all those teletext, perhaps teletext not,", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "but.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Or like uh you have a menu button, you press.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "No, we said teletext also a separate menu.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah, but I.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah, or otherwise you have a menu button, press menu then you have uh main uh menu search uh all the all the settings.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah. Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Okay, but we can work that out later, I guess.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "But.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah, no problem. Yep.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "So we're having a a general menu with the most used functions, uh teletext, screen settings, audio settings, channel settings, and maybe there are options for the remote itself? Like uh large icons or small icons", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "I don't know.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "and I don't know what else,", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Um,", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "but.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "No.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "I think b because we don't have a lot of buttons on the one screen,", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Or do we have any buttons? On the remote.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "I think the buttons Yeah, but but or like you have", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Which one?", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "you only have channel button or volume button. Those buttons you can you can.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah, but on the L_C_D_,", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "But that's also in the L_C_D_,", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "huh?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "right?", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Right, yeah, okay..", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "So we don't have any normal buttons", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah, th", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "that uh.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "No, no normal buttons, yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "No, alright.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Maybe only the on and o on and off button.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yet on and off is p is perhaps you kno", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "But we don't need a special.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Uh not button.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "But I don't think.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "we don't need a special options menu for the remote itself.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "No, no.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Mm, no.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Oh well, you should be able to set which T_V_ you have. If you have if you have uh.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah sure, of course you need uh a settings button, uh or a settings option for the remote control.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah. But isn't idea to use uh uh what you said, uh normal on and off button for the T_V_, that you don't have to use a.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "No no no, because we we discussed that you could charge it, otherwise is it it jumps to stand-by mode automatically.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah but but not for the remote but for the T_V_, that you use.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah, but a T_V_ of course, th that's the I think that's a best thing is that to implement that one in the menu with the volume and channel.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "But a not as normal button, in the L_C_D_,", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "No.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Well maybe there should be a separate button apart from the L_C_D_,", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "because you can't turn it on when the L_C_D_ is off. So how do you turn the thing on? There has to be a on button on the remote,", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "No you just tap I think.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "huh?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Just tap it.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah, you tap.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Tap the thing. Okay.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Touch screen, yeah then it's turn turn off, turn on.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "And then the television is on also, or just the remote?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "No, just the remote.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "But.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "A television don't have to be on, that one you can press on,", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah, it should be in standby mode, but.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "yeah stand-by, then press on remote, press on and then T_V_ should be available. Or not.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah a yeah. I don't know whether it's handy to have a n a normal on button, a r just uh rubber uh for for T_V_,", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Separate.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "so you can turn it on and then you can choose the channel. Otherwise you I don't know whether or not that's.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "A A A normal button on the remote control,", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah, yeah. To turn it on.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "or norm?", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Of or you should put it in the L_C_D_ screen.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah, because uh when you touch the L_C_D_ screen when it is in standby mode, it should pop on.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah, I have,", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Okay, well.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Wh uh why would it be a a need to have a normal button?", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Well I I guess if you use the L_C_D_ screen, you first have to search where is the on button, then you uh you you then turn it, and then the T_V_ goes on. But if you have a normal on button on the on the remote, then you do the on, and then you search the channel which you want.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah, but I think the re the remote control, if you press tap the screen, it always should jump to the screen which has the volume button, channel button, and of course of also the on and off button.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Oh right.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "I think it looks a lot more fancy if you use uh if you don't have any buttons on the s on on remote control.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah, I think so too. Otherwise y wet e k Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "So actually we're going to create a a button-less uh remote. No buttons at all.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah..", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Okay, well that's might be a unique selling point, huh for a remote.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "If we can afford it..", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Okay, well I guess we have to", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Oh, okay.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah, if we can afford it. Yeah..", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "postpone further discussion to uh our next meeting, because we're running out of time. Um for now, we're having a lunch break,", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Oh.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "and then there will be uh half an hour for the uh next share of individual work. I will uh write uh minutes, if I can create them out of this. And uh put them in the the project documents uh folder.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "And here are the individual actions for the for the other roles. And of course specific instructions will be sent to you again by your uh personal coach.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Alright.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Luckily as we are. Okay, well", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "thank you very much, for now,", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "and uh have a nice lunch, huh?.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Lunch..", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Food..", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Should we put this back in our rooms, or uh?", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah, think so.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" } ] }

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They acknowledged that teletext is not a highly utilized feature, but they suggested implementing it as a separate menu option to satisfy the needs of those who still use it.", "responseAttribution": { "indexRanges": [ { "startIndex": 98, "endIndex": 100 }, { "startIndex": 287, "endIndex": 293 }, { "startIndex": 546, "endIndex": 550 } ] }, "queryMetadata": { "queryType": "QUERY_TYPE_GENERAL", "isUnanswerable": null, "isContextDependent": null } }, { "query": "In the meeting, were there any suggestions provided by the Industrial Designer for the design of the remote control’s subcomponents?", "response": "In the meeting, the industrial designer discussed the subcomponents of the remote control. They proposed using soft touch or touch screen buttons instead of rubber buttons to prevent damage and improve usability. They also suggested that the number buttons should be easily distinguishable and labeled.", "responseAttribution": { "indexRanges": [ { "startIndex": 47, "endIndex": 48 }, { "startIndex": 85, "endIndex": 85 } ] }, "queryMetadata": { "queryType": "QUERY_TYPE_YES_NO", "isUnanswerable": null, "isContextDependent": null } }, { "query": "What was the advantage of using a see-through material for the remote control?", "response": "The advantage of using a see-through material for the remote control mentioned in the meeting is that it would allow the buttons to light up, making them easier to see in low-light conditions.", "responseAttribution": { "indexRanges": [ { "startIndex": 660, "endIndex": 665 } ] }, "queryMetadata": { "queryType": "QUERY_TYPE_SPECIFIC", "isUnanswerable": null, "isContextDependent": null } }, { "query": "Can you summarize the results of their conversation about L_C_D. screens for the remote control?", "response": "In the meeting, the participants discussed the use of L_C.D. screens for the remote control. They considered the following factors:\n* L_C.D. screens are preferred by younger users, who are a target market for the new remote control.\n* L_C.D. screens can display multiple buttons on one screen, allowing for a more compact design.\n* L_C.D. screens can be used to display a variety of information, including menus, settings, and teletext.\n* L_C.D. screens may be more expensive than traditional button-based designs.", "responseAttribution": { "indexRanges": [ { "startIndex": 66, "endIndex": 66 }, { "startIndex": 150, "endIndex": 155 }, { "startIndex": 161, "endIndex": 161 }, { "startIndex": 170, "endIndex": 172 }, { "startIndex": 179, "endIndex": 187 }, { "startIndex": 292, "endIndex": 297 } ] }, "queryMetadata": { "queryType": "QUERY_TYPE_GENERAL", "isUnanswerable": null, "isContextDependent": null } }, { "query": "Did anyone present an opinion different from the user interface team's suggestion of placing teletext functionality in a separate menu?", "response": "The user interface team suggested implementing teletext functionality as a separate menu option on the remote control to satisfy those who still use it. 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I'm the Marketing Expert.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "And I am Hemant, the industrial designer.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Okay, very good. Thanks for being here. Um so let's have a look to the the agenda. So, we are going to go through this agenda uh and mainly first to uh to make to to be used to the tools uh available in this nice and smart meeting room we have here. Um then we'll go to uh the plans for project and have general discussions about it. So, the goal of this project is to uh developed a new remote control. Um it should be original, trendy, and also user friendly. As usual we will follow the the project method um that we are using in the in our company. It is in three step as you know. First the functional design. The second's a conceptual design, and then the detailed design. During each step uh of each design we wi you will work uh s separately, individually on uh your specific tasks and will m we will meet to um to discuss and take decisions about uh what you've you've you did and what uh we will do next. So first, we have to to train ourself with all the um the tools availables in the in this nice meeting room and uh particularly the the white board so uh we are going to go through the white board and take some um s some notes or do some drawings. So who want to start? Mister.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Ah well if no one else wants to, yeah. Okay so, want me to draw my favourite animal.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Let's see. Well, I don't really have a favourite animal, but um", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "You have one in mind?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "uh I think I have one in mind, so uh I'm gonna about the uh spider because you can actually draw it pretty well in the corner of a white board. The spider has a spider lives in a web and uh it has eight legs, and uh it can move all about the web in two dimensions. Unless it's a three dimensional web which y they have sometimes. There are some spiders that live in like that have like uh kind of a a big ball of a of a web. And uh the other thing is some spiders can actually uh fly like uh they have uh they let out like uh a stream of like the web building material but it's it acts like a parachute so they can actually kind of go and find new uh build a new web somewhere else. So I think they did this in uh in Charlotte's Web that movie that little uh well it's actually a book first but uh um at the end all the the spiders kinda flew away.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "So, that's my animal.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Th thank you. Very interesting. Guillermo you want to?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "'kay I dunno why, but when I was a child I I wanted to be a a panther", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "not a pink panther,", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "But don't you think it's very difficult to draw a panther?", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "or maybe yes.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "It would be very funny for us.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Uh yeah yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "So bad I don't like it..", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Oh.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Okay it's a friendly panther.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Maybe it's happy'cause it just ate someone.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah maybe.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Um. Actually, honestly I I I dunno what's what's his it's be behaviour, I dunno if if it's the male who who hunts or it's the female uh, I I I have watched that lions di didn't hunt it's the the female lions who who hunt, so but I like it because it's fast, and it's black as well, so it can he it can hide itself very easily and it's it's it looks like um powerful, strong, uh I dunno. I I watch a a film about a black panther when I was a child and I was in that age when everything was shocking me a lot..", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Okay. Thank you.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Hemant.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Um sure.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "So you don't like pink panthers?.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "I like it.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Oh yeah. Thanks. This lapel is coming out once in a while. It's not very strong. Okay. So, not the favourite animal, but I think I'll draw elephant.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "I'll try to draw elephant. It's a problem. Okay, thanks. Okay so, elephant goes like this, and then it has four feet. I don't know whether there's any dist there should be any distance or not, but I think this is the easiest. And then we have it's trunk. And yep something like this.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "An eye, cute.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah, so.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Poor elephant.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "and sometimes they have a hump. It seems that uh elephants are pretty friendly and they they have one very important way a different way of walking. So when they walk, wherever they are going to put their first feet, the second feet will always be. When they'll come to that position the second, the third feet will be there. That's the way they walk. And that's very peculiar about them. None of the other animals walk like this. And they are very useful to human beings. At least few few hundred years ago when there was no means of transportations or something, or when they had to carry huge um loads from one place to another, elephants were very useful. And they are found in um usually the warm countries. And um they are the biggest terrestrial animal. That's what I know about them. So, that's what I wanted to tell about elephants.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "So is this uh an Indian or an African elephant,'cause you haven't drawn the ears?", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "There are two kind of uh yeah, they are very different, Indian and African elephants. So Indian elephant is having one bump, I think, and the African have two. And then there's a difference in the trunk of the animals, these elephants who are Indian and So at some for some elephants it's the trunk is having one Do we have some message there?", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yes. We have to I have to catch you,", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Wind up", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "sorry. We have to to go through the meeting.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "? Okay, some other time.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Thank you.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Thank you.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "We can discuss that off-line.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah we'll discuss a f a fly or do we'll do another meeting abo on elephants.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Thanks.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "So.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "so another important part of the project is about money, uh and about so about finances. So we should target selling price of twenty-five Euro for this remote control and uh we have um which which would generate a profit of of um fifty million Euros, okay. And we should target the inter an international market.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "So could I just ask one question, um is this a stand-alone unit that we're gonna be selling? So it's gonna be you already have a T_V_ but you're buying an extra remote control for it or something?", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "O this is the next topic we have to discuss exactly,", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Okay, alright.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "so let's go to it. So um we should decide which kind of remote control we want to uh we want to uh we want to go. Should be should should it be um specific remote control to some specific device? Should it be a universal one? And uh etcetera. 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Uh we'll have a new meeting soon and uh so the work every every of you ha have t d to do. So um you have to work on the on the working design, you have to uh work on the technical functions, and uh you have to work on us user requirements specs, alright?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Um you will receive some information by emails, i as usual. Thanks for coming today.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Thanks.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Thanks.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Alright.", "speakerName": "User Interface" } ] }

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{ "meetingId": "IS1005b", "transcriptSegments": [ { "text": "So um nice to see you again. Uh. So, uh. Tod uh for this meeting I will take the notes and do the minutes. Uh so we will see our three presentations. Um we will start with the uh Manager Expert wi who will talk about uh user re requirements, whats user needs and what it desire for this devi device.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Okay, can I have the laptop over here, or?", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yep. Oh, I don't think so. I think you have to come here.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Okay. Have to get up..", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "I dunno. I think it should stay.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Excuse me.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah, that's it.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Should stay in the square here..", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Oh, maybe.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Okay, so basically I'm gonna present some findings of a study we conducted uh into uh what users want in this remote control.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Oh, you can put it here. Oh that's okay, it's jus", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Um so first of all we what we did is we um conducted a an experiment with a hundred test subjects. Um we put them in a in our um usability laboratory and got them to, you know, um play with remote controls, and also to complete, after they'd done that, to complete a questionnaire uh to tell us what they like and what they don't like in remote controls. So basically um the major things we found out was that um basically users don't like the look and feel of of most remote controls that are currently on the market. Um they, you know, seventy five percent of the people we we uh did the experiments on, found that rem remote the remote controls that they'd used in the past were ugly. Completely ugly. Um they they didn't match the operating behaviour of the user, that is, you know, the the way users use remote controls when they're watching T_V_. Um, that the layout of the remote controls didn't match they way that they used it. Um and thirdly they say that w half of the users that we um tested said that they only used ten percent of the buttons that uh are on remote controls. Um so we collect we also some collected some usage statistics uh based on how these test subjects were using their remote control. And from this we basically came up with the figure that the channel buttons, the channel selection buttons are the most by far the most used buttons on the remote control. Um and you can see they're used a hundred and sixty eight times per hour on average, um, while the user's watching T_V_.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Um the closest button that was used, well the cl the button that was used that was closest to the channel button was the teletext button, um which was used fourteen times per hour, followed by the volume button, which was four times per hour, um, all the other, all the other um buttons, such as ch um audio and picture selection um configuration buttons and things were used, you know, l approx well less than or equal to one times per hour. Um we also asked users um which buttons had the most importance to them, you know, which which buttons they felt were the most important buttons on on the remote control. And basically they came they said the channel, volume, and power buttons had the highest relevance to users, um note that only power was very infrequently used, it only had a b a a fr usage frequency of about one times per hour, but users ranked it as having a very very high relevance. Um and the audio and picture settings had a very that well the users thought that um w the audio and picture settings were very uh weren't very important to them um, and they used them very infrequently a as well. So we asked users what what um frustrates them the most about um current remote controls. And fifty percent of the users said that uh what frustrates them is losing the remote control um somewhere in the room and not being able to find it. Um they also said that it um it takes a lot of time to learn a new remote control, especially when there's many buttons and it's a, you know, a c a a unintuitive interface. Um and then thirdly, they some users commented on the fact that the the you know the way that you have to hold and press buttons on a remote control ar are bad and um cause u repetitive strain injury. We also asked some users about some specific features that they'd like to see in the on the remote control. In particular, do they want an L_C_D_ d display, and secondly, do they think speech recognition uh is a useful feature to have on a remote control.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Um basically our findings are that um amongst a younger age groups uh the answer is umv overwhelmingly yes. They want these features, they want these high technology features.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Um for instance, ninety one percent of pe of people aged between fifteen and twenty five said yes, they want these features. Whereas um the the trend was as users as users um became older and older uh they were less likely to want these sort of features in a um in a remote control. So I guess it depends on where we're focusing our our market. Um and as our company motto is putting fashion in electronics, um I think we're focusing on the younger younger um target demographic, and so maybe we should think about adding these sort of high technology features into our remote control.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Hmm.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "That's my dic that's my presentation. Thank you.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Thank you.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "So, um maybe now we can talk about a user interface and uh about the technical function of this device. So uh Pet Peter, can you talk say something about that?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Well, okay, yeah. Yeah, but the user user interface is responsible.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "No.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "B you think uh I I'm User Interface Manager.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Ah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Okay, so.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Sorry, I'm Sorry. Sorry.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Okay. Okay.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "If I could go there with this cable.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "You're scaring me with L_C_D_ man. And speech recognition in remote unit, it will be very e expensive.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah, it's true, but, you know, they're features that users want,", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "so it's.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "And our production cost of twelve fifty Euros per per unit is fairly high I think,", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "so I think we can afford to to add these sort of features into our remote.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "At least we have couple of months t to work on it so so it will be cheaper finally..", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Sh okay..", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "It is true.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Where's delete button? Okay. Oh I'm sorry..", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "That's the wrong one, I think.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah, it's still Bob Morris.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Oh. Presentation three?", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah you should have put yes.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Because you cancelled it. Yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Click on yes.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Oh..", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yep.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Okay, so here is my presentation about technical function design. I will talk about different components and s of system and how they react together. Okay, uh, first what is a remote control? Simply it's a device, as you know, for uh, for sending some commands by some waves to uh another device to to tell different commands uh with this device. And the main idea we don't use any cable and we can rec react simpler with the device. Uh i it has different blocks, different blocks. Uh first is remote control have sh ha should have some electric circuits uh making interface with uh keyboard and uh r reading uh keyboard and reading the keyboard uh commands. And then inter then make uh these keyboard commands, uh in interpret these int uh keyboard commands. And then there should be uh an electronic circuit making uh electronic signals according to these commands and uh finally there is a transmitter which is a cord or a a diode making uh making uh waves to transmit through the air and uh uh this air this uh wave uh will be received by the by the other device like a television or whatever, to uh r to realise the command. Okay, uh about what I found about uh different uh these different blocks are uh, usually there are two different methods uh to for designing a remote control. They are based on infra-red uh waves or uh uh radio waves.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "You still want me the presentation.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "There are two different uh uh solutions I mean. This is uh this can be uh uh the the differences the th between different kind of waves, infra-red or radio waves. And uh also as uh I understood, and uh I think it was a part of uh Bob, uh uh presentation, people prefer to have uh to have uh the remote control with less button. So for the electronic part, working and interfacing, with button, we should we should try to t try to design a remote control having uh some some simpler buttons or some rolling buttons to just to just to search between different options, and showing o something on T_V_ and putting less lesser stuff on the uh on the remote control. And uh personal preferences, uh uh uh uh certainly a remote control with uh working with radio waves is uh preferred because uh you can pr you can take it in any direction and you don't need to tune it any way. And uh uh again, using bigger buttons and less number of buttons are also preferred, as I see. Okay. That was my presentation.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Okay. I have a question.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Uh-huh.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Do you think radio waves um will interfere with other appliances in the home?", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Uh, I don't think so, because uh we can make uh we ca we can make this wave in a specific frequency. So they can be in a range which is not inter interfering with the with other devices inside the home.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "So can we use any any frequency?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah, it should be okay.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "We have the right to use any frequency?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Uh no but as I know, there is a range for uh for this uh f for for uh for this stuff, for designing this circuit. We can we can we can tune our uh transmitter to work in this range, and for this range we don't need to ask any permission.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Okay. And what happen with uh radio waves when two neighbours have the same have our remote control, for example? And so do they have the same frequency, or?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Uh for this I'm not uh I I don't know the solution, but one solution can be something like putting uh p password or something inside the wave, so the only your T_V_ can understand it", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Okay. A kind of identification,", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah, identification code inside the.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah f uh I know about this, since it's my it's exactly my field, so.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "okay. So.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "It's uh kind of handshaking, uh, when starting to uh when you start to communicate with the your T_V_ then then it's like an handshaking protocol with your your remote.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah. So.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "So so if two two devices are trying to go to communicate with the T_V_ set then the the the one which has the more energy in the wave is chosen. Well it can be a problem sometimes, but most of the time it works okay.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "The password may simply uh or uh i identification code may simply solve this problem. A specific uh remote control has a specific f", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah but we we don't have to think uh about this because I think as a function designer that we will use the already made uh circuits which we probably bu buy. It's worth to buy.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Hmm.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "And they have these problems solved so. So we don't have to think about these.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "So, maybe you can talk about the function, and.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yes. I have only a couple of things because I had I struggled a bit with the software that I'm supposed to use in this uh uh in this company. I was used to use Linux before, so. But I tried to tried to break through this too, I guess.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Open.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm. Ah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Okay. How to make it big?", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Slide show.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Five..", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Slide show. Okay, thanks..", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "It should work, so you can.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Okay. Oh so I will speak about working design. That's the first slide. Uh what uh I have to do? A look at what the other company Okay so uh presently I am looking what is possible to use, what circuits to use and stuff like that because uh I didn't work uh with these uh circuits so far so I have to look what what is a v a v available on the market for for the communication for the I_R_ circuits and so on, so I'm currently looking what is available on the web. And uh I wanted to ask you m maybe afterwards, after after our discussion, if we have some contacts in some companies, so, which can report on what is going on there, so, I would be glad if you can tell me about them.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Mm. Yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "So, you know. Uh, okay findings, that's the point that I'm working on currently but uh so far I I was uh looking what what are the blue circuit, I mean radio wave radio frequency circuits are available now,", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "but the prices I read are high. So, I know that uh the user interface people and these speak about radio frequency waves because you can you can uh you can make the T_V_ do what you want even if you are in the bathroom or so on,", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Hmm.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "but you know, when you are not close to the T_V_ you probably won't need to to change the program and so on and so I am I am voting for s to stick to the um infra-red control instead of R_W_ but we will discuss it later maybe. Uh. Components to use, I'm not exactly sure what I will use for the design of the circuit. It depends uh on whether we will use the L_C_D_ and mainly the speech recognition,", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "because the speech rec Yeah?", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Are we um are we planning to take an off the shelf an O_E_M_ component for the radio wave circuit, or are we planning to construct our own circuit board?", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "No no no no no. This we this we buy I think, because it's rather cheap nowadays and it's not worth to construct ourselves.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Okay s So we just buy a circuit board and.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Exactly.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "But I'm not sure about the circuit which is responsible for speech recognition. This I prefer that we should make ourselves.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "But it depends whether we take a decision to use it. Same thing. It's fairly expensive to use these circuits. So, speech recognition well, L_C_D_ it's okay because it's common nowadays to use L_C_D_,", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "so I agree on using any kind of L_C_D_, less buttons good for me as a as a designer of the circuit.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "But the speech recognition we have to compare whether the price and the what does it offer, you know.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah. So what do you think would be the price, it would be out of range?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah, I'm.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Or it would be maybe feasible?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Oh. I was not thinking too much about the price. But if we use the L_C_D_ uh even the radio frequency communication with the T_V_ set and the backlight and uh related things like the photo diodes and stuff, it should be okay. If we decide to use the speech recognition, then we probably could struggle but we'll see afterwards.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "It depends of you if if the M_E_ or U_I_D_,", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "I'm sorry about the names, I don't really know, uh want to have it like in metal or in plastic, these things, it it depends on you not Because the the the electronic device's price is not not so big in comparison to to the overall shape and stuff like that, so.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "We will discuss it afterwards. Oh, this is nothing. This is just my notes on what to use. And uh my personal preference is yes, I would like also preferably to use R_W_ circuit, but from the point of view uh of the design and price, I would stick to I_R_s. That's my opinion. Uh I mean if infra-red uh circuit not not the radio frequency.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Why? Because it's simpler?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Because because the the range where you can use it is fair.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah. Mm.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "It's okay I think. And the price is fairly cheap for this.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Okay. It's a a price matter.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Well, depends.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Jus just the price.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Otherwise I don't care what I put there because it's the chip which I buy or which we buy.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "So I I I think it's o y o.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "What how much more expensive? Are we talking three times more expensive?", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Well, three to three to five.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Or ten times more expensive? Or.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "N not ten times,", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "but it depends what what we.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah yeah. That's still a lot. I think it's it's probably not worth spending the extra money,", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Hmm. Yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "because I mean all the other remote controls on the market have infra-red, so people don't expect anything other than infra-red.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "So it's not worth spending the extra money.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Well I, oh.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Th they are used to use it when they can see the T_V_ so, I don't know.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "On the other side, we want to have something new.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "You know, where", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "we want to to have something new and So we I think we should still thinking about it. But maybe.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "But I think, based on my usability studies I th I feel that users are prioritise the look and the feel and the trendiness above, you know, the difference between infra-red or radio waves.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "So I think we're better off spending money in the usability phase.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "You the user interface, and management man, uh.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Okay. Yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Uh okay, that's it for me.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Okay, thank you Peter.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "'Kay.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "So um I have to inform you I receive an email from the management bon board today and they have new requirements for the for the remote control. Um", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "first um, they say that's uh about something about t teletext. Uh apparently it becomes from according to them it becomes out of date. Out-dated. And uh Because of the internet popularity and everybody has internet at home, and actually it's not useful to have teletext. Um. So I think we can avoid the teletext. Um the second thing is uh they suggest that that we should uh use the remote control only for T_V_, not for D_V_D_ and other devices, because it make it it makes it's too complex and uh because we have not much time for this project we should stay on T_V_ on the only specific T_V_ remote control.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "I agree..", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "The third the third one is uh about the the the image of the company. So um uh we should we should keep uh The the product should be recognisable. Uh, uh It's That mean we should use the colour of our company and maybe put somewhere the s the slogan of the company, which is uh, we put fashion of in electronics. So, when people see the the remote control, they should say oh it's from Real Reaction and he s they should recognise the company. So, um So now we we should take the decision what we are going to what function we will have on this uh on this remote control. So, mm, are we going to use L_C_D_, speech recognition? Uh.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Well, should we start with just the core, the basic functions that we need.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "And then we can move on to the more advanced features.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Mm. Yes.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Maybe, maybe.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Okay, so the available things are L_C_D_, the buttons and everything. Uh radio frequency depends. And, well the recognition it depends on you guys.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah but first maybe what is what are the usual function of a standard remote control?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "You should probably speak.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "I mean", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "what do.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Okay, well, I mean the obvious one is changing channels..", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah. Yeah..", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah..", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "I think we should stick on very useful functions, because we want less button.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "So, yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah, okay.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "So, turning channel, of course. Volume setting.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Uh just one note to the chan channel changing. Do we will we use only two buttons, or or like numbered buttons? I mean those nine plus one or two?", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "I think it would be a b.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Because it's many buttons and we were speaking about lowering the number.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm..", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "On the other side we have more and more channels, and if you want to pass through all the channels to get the channel you want, it's.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah, I.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Okay so so we keep all these all these buttons.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Maybe maybe we could think of something more betweens, like", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah yeah, at least nine, ten button.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "uh.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Like ten plus, five plus, one plus, one minus or something.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah. Maybe something like that.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Or using the names and the keyboard.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Ah yeah..", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Uh.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "I dunno.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Or.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Maybe.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Or something.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Oh I don't know. Oh. Maybe we could have key buttons, like uh discovery channe like documentary channel, and movies channel and.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "You mean like hierarchical structure.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "And inside this this thing you can move, maybe switch.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm. Okay. Like categorising channels.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "If you want to see a movie you click on the movie button so you have all the movie channels and after you've you plus plus plus.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Okay, so s", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Oh sorry.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "I It just an idea.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "I don't know what you think about that but.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "So it requires the use of L_C_D_ probably, to to tell you.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah, probably, yeah, yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "To have some feedback. Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Okay,", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "so I'll make a note on L_C_D_.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "We could maybe also c um incorporate Petre's idea of the um slider for the volume, with the channel.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "So we c you could quickly just through many channels.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah. Like roller for the Yeah. Okay.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "For the channels, perhaps.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Anything else?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "So we've got channel and volume. Um.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "So we are still s speaking about the common devices", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "or we are inviting the new one?", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "I think so.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "I think basically the core functions we want, and then more advanced ones.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "What about the settings of the T_V_? Because it's button we don't use very often, but it's we need it anyway. So.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "So uh we don't have any uh we don't have uh.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "we should just design the remote control and we sh we don't have any access to the to the T_V_ design or we can change some design. Because one solution for this um uh uh ch changing channels is to see a summary of all channels, some some preview of all channels and then you can.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "On the screen, you mean?", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah. Yeah b.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Not on the control, but on the screen.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Not on the control, on the screen, on the T_V_ screen.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Well, this would avoid L_C_D_, then.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "And then.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "I don't Oh, I don't but I don't think we're we're the ones. I mean this remote control we're developing is a generic control for all T_V_s, I think.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah, yeah. I don't know if it's possible to to watch something on T_V_.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Oh. W I I think it it would be better to to stick to the remote control and not to bother the T_V_ to to to print these things.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah. Yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Well it wi it will be still more expensive, but for the L_C_D_ and this stuff is no problem in the price.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "So, what are we doing with the settings? Because settings if we want to do settings we need buttons for that and we want less buttons, so. Maybe with the L_C_D_ we can do something with less buttons, but.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "But then you don't want to make the L_C_D_ display too complicated at the same time.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Mm..", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Two T_V_s.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "I mean there's always we can always have these l less often used functions hidden somewhere, under a cover or at the back of under a slide or some", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah. Oh yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Like ma", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Oh, the.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "We we could have for example two buttons like simple mode and advanced mode.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Or I dunno.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Or like children and grandfather's mode,", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "and the, well the the user", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "not the user, the man mana T_V_ manager mode. Ah, I dunno.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Okay. So we have five minutes left. Um.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Uh.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "So I think s the settings we th we are agreeing are agreed that they're required.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "It's just how to a", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "We should hide them somewhere.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Hide them, okay.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "In the menus of the L_C_D_ or in the back of the remote control, or something like that.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah. Okay. Yeah. Uh, okay, what else?", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Um. Yes.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "I mean a power button's obviously", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "This I was thinking. Do we need a power button at all?", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "uh required.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Should should shouldn't we do it like sleep mode after five minutes of not using it? Because generally.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "It's it's a kind of setting, I think. It should fit in those settings functions.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm. Settings.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Because it's not a very current useful function.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Uh, well I think when they say power button they mean to turn the T_V_ on and off.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "No, I think it's after after five minutes or something a timer.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yes. Well I I uh", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "I I think, no?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "But if you're watching T_V_ for two hours, you don't want your T_V_ to turn off after five five minute.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "You don't need to every five minutes to keep it alive.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Uh probably. Okay, so we should keep this button.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "I mean based on our usability studies again, um pe um people said that the power button was v a very relevant button.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Oh okay, yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Um, you know, it was nine out of ten", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Okay, so we we could p what we could probably do is to keep also to keep uh keep the L_C_D_ and all the buttons and stuff,", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "re relevance.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "we could make it like a opening opening style that if you open it you are you just turn on the T_V_ and if you close it, it will", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah. Yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "turn off the T_V_.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "If if you like this,.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Okay. B Okay.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Because, well it's maybe question for you t", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "I think we need to concentrate on the, you know, the major usage of the th of the control,", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "which is you sit down, you turn on your T_V_, you change channels, you change the volume, you turn the T_V_ off.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah. So s yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Um and all the other f functionality is", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah, they can yeah they can be hide somewhere by a cover or something like this.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "not used very often.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Like covering cu.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "On the back, or.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah. I mean like the.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah, like mobile phone covering.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah but since we have the L_C_D_, we didn't need too much button too many buttons. Um, okay, just um the decision of the power button.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Should we make it a button, or some some something which would be.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "For what?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Uh power button.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "I think a button.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "A button is better.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Ah oh yeah, yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "I think it should be a bu", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "If it if it's a button or.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah a button, yeah I guess so.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Its own button on the front.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Okay, one nice big button.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Old fashioned button, to satisfy the grandmothers.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Hmm.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "So, any other suggestions or functions?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "S What about things like the clock and um timers?", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Do we still have the time? I I just wonder.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah, we have still one or two minutes to talk, yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Okay. Oh. Well what w what was the question?", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Clock or.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Uh um, you know, some func some features on the control to display a time, or t to display.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Usually it's already on T_V_ or something like that.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yes.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah but since we want to control all the televisions, and and it would probably be worth to to set the timing on the remote,", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "no? Because if if the T_V_ turns on itself, it well you know, if the time The timer should be there.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah. Yeah. If we if we add the time, we have to have maybe a bigger display or something like that, and is it very useful? I mean, are users wants to have the time on the on the remote?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "This is the question.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Probably not.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Is it useful?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yes.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "It's a questi yeah, it's a trade-off.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "W In my opinion we should have only useful thing and Because apparently they want The simpler it's is better.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "'Kay.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Ah, yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Okay simple.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Did you did you ever use the like the timing of turning on the T_V_,", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "well And based on your.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Very, yeah okay, very occasionally.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "But I do use the I do use the display of the time quite often, but.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah but it can be on the display in in a corner all the time on the remote.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah that's okay, that's true. Okay, so no time button. Okay.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "No time on.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "And uh do we need to include anything about the speech recognition and the speech commands, or?", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yes yes.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "I think.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "I I thin I think it will not take lots of place, we just need a microphone and the software, so, and it sh and it will be a little bit new and interesting, so people may be attracted to buy this stuff and it's not very difficult to uh put a software inside the the electronic device and put a microphone. It doesn't take that much place and also that much It doesn't cost that much.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah but we we should be careful about the battery life, then. If we use the speech recognition.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "So maybe we think we can think more about that, and discuss that maybe last time next time.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "And uh yeah, now the meeting room is busy. Somebody booked the meeting room just for at one P_M_, and so we should leave. Uh. So, um. So now we are going for for a small lunch. It's uh funded by the company. And uh after we have uh thirteen minutes to to do indevel individual works. And uh I will do the minutes. And uh you are going to work on your individual works. And uh you will receive as usual your specific instruction and so on.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Okay,", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Thank you everybody.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "cool. Okay", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Thanks.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Thank you.", "speakerName": "Marketing" } ] }

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{ "meetingId": "IS1002d", "transcriptSegments": [ { "text": "Uh'kay. So.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "So so so.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Put on your mic.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "So you forgot how this works again?", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Boss.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yep.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Boss.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Maybe. Maybe maybe maybe.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Okay so we're here to talk about the detailed design of the product,'kay?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yep.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "And here's the agenda for this meeting. Uh I'm just gonna open, say a few boring words to start with again, and start taking minutes afterwards. You guys are gonna give us a presentation of our wonder product that I can see some demonstrations of over there. Looks cool. And then we're gonna evaluate it.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Bra", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Then we're gonna talk about finance, and I've got a lovely Excel spreadsheet that I knocked up in the last five minutes for this. And uh", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Hmm you knocked it up?", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "yep. And we're gonna evaluate the product and close.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Got forty minutes to do this in. We should be fine. Let's try and keep this one on schedule.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Alright.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "So.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Your thing is in where is it? Is it in.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Three, three.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Thi third third third. The end product thingy. Yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Who wants it?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Pedro can have it.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "I like.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": ".", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "I'll help talk.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Um yeah so what we ended up with. Production costs estimated by our manufacturing department and um the research department, which is us, is uh fifteen point eight Euros,", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "someone forgot the units there", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Unit price.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "yeah, uh unit price unit production price cost thing. Um we implemented the basic functions, which is just T_V_ functions plus the locator, which was one of the marketing things, cradle, scroll wheel for uh the the channels, and uh we implemented the f the the way of putting the new and revolutionary zapping, your favourite channels functionality, in the scroll.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Zapping your favourite channels, eh?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Scrolling through your favourites list.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Oh okay okay.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Zapping you know zapping.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Ah'kay okay, that's favourites.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Maybe it's just a Portuguese thing. And um yeah that was the result.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Ah'kay. I like the the the the logo on there as well.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "It's very prominent.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "It is very prominent. So this is the.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "So here I'll give you the so this is the cradle unit, and this is the actual remote itself. Um so the scroll bar is or the scroll wheel is this this green little scrolly guy here, um and then the volume controls are here and here.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Uh you've got the keypad which is the numbers uh f from zero to nine and then ten. This is the power button. Uh we have our um we have the enter button and uh what was the other button here? This is the teletext.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Start s the the start uh to to to", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "The programme button,", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "programme yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Ah, okay I see.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "yeah the programme button. So this bl this button will be used both for the favourites and for programming your uh the um the type of television you wanna use. So um the plastic is the white area of this of the model here, and the red area is like a rubber covering.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "It's pretty cool.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "So you can see that when it lays like this or like this and the buttons are all gonna be rubber, so it's pretty hard to actually damage it um.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Is that could that be easy to for the scroll wheel to be rotated if it lands on it?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah that might be a possible a mi uh possible problem, but if you drop it.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Not helping.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Oh well I guess it depends on the stiffness a little of it.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah and it depends on if it's sliding, but I think it's pretty ergonomic. You can feel it.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Mm. Feels good.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "I take it that this is gonna be slightly lighter in the final design as well.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah of course. Well this is clay.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah it's kinda cool. You have to reach a little bit don't you.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah the the power button is a bit of a reach, but I think we might scale down the final model a bit.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Ah yeah that wouldn't make sense.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "These this is a bit larger than it would be, but.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "It's cool. I'm impressed.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Don't have no one to handle that.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "And hold it so.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm that's.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "wh what's the marketing perspective?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "oh that's oh I like it. I mean you guys gave me more than I was asking for, so I'm happy because we've got some really marketable features in this. Yeah I think it's good. Good good good job.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Mm Pedro can demonstrate the the paging ability.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah. So you ha you have like the the base station with um the little button for the where's my remote.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Beep beep beep.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Uh pla", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "The locator function.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "I'm ha", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "It's great. That's great. It's a great feature.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Um beep beep beep.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Mm it's impressing.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Wicked isn't it?.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "So let me get it,", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "so.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "if I press this button.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "beep beep beep.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "I see. That's pretty cool. Hang on..", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "beep beep beep be shut up..", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "So you can take this ho take this home with you tonight and you can push that and he'll be across town.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Beep beep beep.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "I plan to do that as well.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "okay. Um no no no tha that's alri", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "So the the two blue are are those for the the it to charge off of in?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Exactly that's exactly what those are for.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Ah okay okay.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "And um there's one other feature that we were debating, but we decided to go against it, is um you could", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "beep beep beep.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "we were thinking that it might be interesting to have a trigger button here because you have this finger.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah it's the right shape isn't it?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "it it's it kinda feels like there should be something there, but we couldn't figure out what button is important enough to put there. And we we don't wanna accidentally be hitting the power button like that so.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "But maybe if you had a trigger plus the scroll then that would get past the the problem of it landing and scrolling,", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "'cause then it would need to be hit on both sides.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Right. So maybe in a final design phase we might tweak that a little bit,", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "but.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Uh, I can see that.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "But it's definitely got options for like different types of models and things as well based on that, hasn't it?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yep I like. Good job.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "So is that the the final colour scheme as well or?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "No no.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Oh no this is just what we had to work with at the time.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "So we'll leave the colour scheme up to the marketing people.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "The hmm.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Careful.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "It came off. The scroll wheels, a problem with them not being sort of.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "I don't think the user interface guy wants to touch it anymore.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Well I mean of course, I mean.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "My my s my suggestion is we're gonna go go to the silvers and blacks like most of the televisions.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "You know some blend of silvers and blacks.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Beep beep beep..", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Okay enough of that.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Well i it's cool guys.'Kay so are we done with the this presentation?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Ja.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Okay..", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Now now.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "So you're not gonna find my uh my folder up there I gotta do mine up at the board.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Have you? Okay.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah yeah. So.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Can I not get your get at stuff from your shared folder now?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "No it's not in there because I had the computer problem and I I I cou I couldn't create it.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Oh I see I see.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "I couldn't create it in the PowerPoint,", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "and I think I've got this really strange cable. So what I had, basically going from the PowerPoint format, is that uh yeah yeah I like this a lot. Is this one of the tests is to see how we can adapt to s changing situations in the in the meeting room?", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Nah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "So what we had is we had the method. That's not how you spell method, is it?", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "No way.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "No A_.. So this doesn't go so fast this way. And when I speak about method I speak about the marketing of the product huh. And uh to me with this product we got uh we got basically three things to market. We've got the features, we have the uh characteristics, and we have the I I don't know what we would call the other part what we call you know the the the corp corporate Help me. The the corporation stands behind the product, okay. So the features I think we got the scroll, we've got the uh the locator, we've got the durability, we've got the dependability,", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "It fell off.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "we've got you know the features that make this a unique product. Um", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Beep beep beep.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "the characteristics I talk about, we have reliability, we have comfort, we have ergonomics, we have environmentally s sensitive. Uh and the corporation, we're talking about we're we're a new we're a new company. We're wanting to make a name for ourself. We're wanting you to uh find our product so we're gonna give you a good product at a fair price. One thing I would want to to see is uh is can we can we get a lifetime uh guarantee on this product, a normal use guarantee, which means that this product, for the for the life of of the life use, if it should have a technical problem, that we could re replace it at no cost? That was something I would be interested in. Um so yeah without uh going into great details, we have a we have a product, it has the features and the characteristics, and the background, I believe, to make it marketable I believe at a cost of of of thirty thirty five to to fifty Euros. We're gonna be competitive, and we're gonna we're gonna have a market niche. Um w", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Do you would you a argue that that we're better going for the higher cost than bringing it down into twenty f five as we probably could, but lowering our profit margins?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "That that would be uh that would be I think a decision best made by corporate um I I m for my evaluation, based on what our competition is, I th I think that that we can go after this and and and go after more of the uh exclusivity sense than the mass market sense.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm. Mm'kay.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "But I'm sh I'm sure open to to market this in either direction. But you guys came up with a great product, and at that cost I think it uh there's nobody else that's putting this this combination of of ingredients together. The only limitations I see to this is that we're focused on television only. Uh that's the only that's the only drawback I see to this. But with all of these other features I think people c one thing I'm I'm hoping for is people are not gonna even notice. There's gonna be somebody going home and say oh sh this thing doesn't work for my D_V_D_ and my but I like these other things, so they keep it, they don't take it back.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "And we're actually quite open to be able to expand the product for a later version with those features quite simply anyway, aren't we? Th there's no fundamentally different technology to do that.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Well one of one of the thoughts that I had is can can this unit be be produced in a way that makes it upgradable?", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Hmm.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "You know uh like like a um a sim card in a in a um in a telephone. You know is there a card in th can we make a card and so after.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "W we need we need we need s some more buttons if it would to work on some other stuff, but.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm, but you follow what I'm s I'm s", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "We we w yeah we could get another version of it that actually works. But uh.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah'cause if if we can make this unit upgradable then we're yeah but then we talk about changing the warranty concept and everything, but that's that was just an idea I had. Uh to me the only additions.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah, the plus there's the the risk of making it unusable as well, or making it less b because at the moment it's actually very straightforward to look at all the buttons, you know what they do, it's very simple, and it just works.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Mm there's a risk of that.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yep. But anyway that's uh.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Okay so we can talk about finance now. So I have a little spreadsheet for us where I I was wondering, you when you talked about the fifteen point eight Euros, I was wondering how you came up with that figure?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Well, that was just just our technical team added up the um production costs of the individual units.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Okay so I have bit of a spreadsheet here for this. Now", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Oh.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Very co very colf colourful.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "I've made a f few assumptions here in that I'm assuming that our power adaptor we can make for a cost of four Euros,", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Uh-huh.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "equivalent to solar cells, which I think is probably fair considering that we have in-house manufacturing of power adaptors already.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Uh-huh.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Uh and I'm assuming that the locator beacon, the you know the.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "beep beep beep.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Can be made for it sounded different that time uh can be made for a similar price to uh an L_C_ display,", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Oh, sorry..", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "uh an uh Uh do you think that's fair coming from a m the manufacturing?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah um I do think we that we we uh don't need the events chip on print, we only need the uh the regular chip on print,", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": ". Okay.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "so there may have been a m miscalculation in there.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yep. Okay. So we're down to sixteen point four, yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "And we and we have a single-curved uh.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Is that a single-curved rather than a double-curved?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Uh I think that.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "We're not entirely sure what single-curve versus double-cur", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "We've got a we've got a curve and a droop. I don't know whether that.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "It's single-curved,", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "You think? Okay", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "I'm convinced. But we save one Euro that way, yeah? So we come bring it down to Fifteen point four.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "See it's a little bit more than f single-curved. So yeah it's fifteen point eight, that's where we came up with it.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Well hang on.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Do don't speak so it's in here, in that.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "w do we have any we have special form don't we?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah we do.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "So that's yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Ah. What do you know.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "But the the the we haven't talked about any special colour though uh I don't th", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Oh it's a that's not very special, it's pretty.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "if we're going for greys and silvers then I don't think we're O okay so we're.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "If th.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Push-button, scroll wheel, we're basically we have uh th", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "We don't.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "is this intended to be a button as well or just a scroll?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "That's a scroll.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "It's a scroll.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Just a scroll? It's not one of the scrolls where, for example, with this one you could push it down to be a button?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Uh no we just use it as a scroll.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Ooh.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Okay then we have fifteen point eight Euros.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "It was a pretty accurate estimate I would say.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "It wasn't bad.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yes.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "We're wicked. Awesome.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Okay so we're on to the.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "S's kind of s frighteningly accurate.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "We're on to the pat-on-the-back part of the presentation, where we have a look at the criterias th that Paul the criterion criteria that Paul has has given us, and we can use that to tell How's it going? Anyone got any thoughts?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "What?", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "How how have we done today?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "I think we did pretty well.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "I think we did pretty well too.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "That looks pretty spectacular.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "No, I think we come up with a with a attractive marketable um product and and concept.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Any other chang uh thoughts? Okay so th th what about um room for creativity?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Is it the.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "That was mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Sh I think there was plenty of room.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "I.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "I think we we ended up being quite creative there.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "We got a couple innovative i", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Couple innovative ideas.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "well we we we kinda broke we kinda at least adjusted every every criteria they gave us", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "because we d we still have the the teletext capability in this thing right,", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "No.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "we raised the price of it, we've added two t new technology to it.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "So you know you know if this thing flies then we've we've adjusted or broken every every idea they gave us.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Not every idea necessarily,", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Basically.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "it's still a remote control.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah yeah yeah yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Uh no yeah but we did we did break with the specs a little bit I guess,", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "but the uh.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "But I like I mean when I say we have we had I believe we have room for creativity'cause w this is we did it.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "'Kay leadership, what do we report back to the bosses? No th th I think they were r reasonably flexible with us over the whole changing the specs thing.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yep.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "It was more of a teamwork thing then really leadership based project was", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "I agree.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Teamwork.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Cohesive yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Synergy.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "There was a lot of synergy.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yes synergistic yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Teamwork, yeah he is uh.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "What did we think of the meeting room, I guess is an important thing here. Mm.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "These cables suck.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah, this falls off", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "and uh the white board worked really well without any pro", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yep.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "And that's.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "D you must have very long shirts. That's way far down lapel mic.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Mm-mm, lapel. Wha okay, oh, alright.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Lapel lapel lapel.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Lapel.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "That's almost a crotch mi cr.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "That's it's down, it's quite close.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "You know you know what they're gonna have on the recording in there from that microphone is your lunch digesting you know th.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Keep it, keep it calm. Oh dear. No more pizza for me.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Oh dear oh dear.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "So yeah the the pen came in alright and it's a little uncomfortable to use but I guess it works.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "'Cause this is you were using it o upside down. Still that.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "That's our boss.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Nah, I'm I'm not convinced of that at all.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "I've been wor I've been wondering about that all day, but see these look like they're that looks the oth that looks like it would be that way around,", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Use them like that.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Pedro's right.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "but it feels more comfortable, wh what you call upside-down.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Pedro's right.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "I don't care. Uh okay so that data might be slightly invalid. What new ideas have we found?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Oh wel", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "New ideas f uh for the product or for the the the the environment or.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Well let's do both then.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "what are we ta", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Uh for the product?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Well we had the favourites list, and the scroll bar, and we have the cradle, and the r uh remote call feature.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Oh.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah we came up with quite a bit.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Bunch of new ideas.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "And for the meeting room, Has anyone got any more.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah comfortable headsets would be nice.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah less sore on the ears.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Well I I mean.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "clearly remote control microphones would be the would be a nice solution to all these cables, but I'm sure that there's there's some justification for these things that I don't know about. And of course I did not have so much fun with my computer this afternoon.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "It's not been uh it's not been cooperating so well, but I don't think that's the that's avoidable.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Coulda been worse.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Okay so Are the costs within the budget?.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm n no.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Nope.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "No.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Oh hang on it really that's something we that the costs were under twelve fifty Euros. No requirements are changed. We're still under twenty Euros to build, so we're good.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "And the costs within the budget? Not the original budget, but they are now. Is the project evaluated? Mm I think so yeah, then celebration as it says.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Hooray.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Free coke provided at the cafeteria.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Oh I don't know how that got there.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "All right.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Uh anyway.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Who wrote that one?", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Thank", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Thanks guys.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "So we need to close this meeting,", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "yeah bravo. Congratulations.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Good job guys.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Cool.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "S I've got a lot of paperwork to catch up on so let's close this and come back and'kay.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah, I've got a lot of paperwork to catch up on too. Oh.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" } ] }

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{ "meetingId": "education21", "transcriptSegments": [ { "text": "Good morning, everyone, and welcome to today's meeting of the Children, Young People and Education Committee. We've received no apologies for absence. Can I ask Members whether there are any declarations of interest, please?", "speakerName": "Lynne Neagle AM" }, { "text": "Yes, I have a declaration of interest, Chair. I understand that my daughter features in one of the videos that is going to be used to contribute evidence to this inquiry. And, in addition, I'm a governor of one of the schools that features in the video.", "speakerName": "Darren Millar AM" }, { "text": "Thank you, Darren. So, item 2, then, today is our first session on the provision of textbooks and learning resources for pupils, which is a video of interviews with young people and teachers. The committee team has been out to take video evidence around Wales, and we're now going to watch the results of that on the screen. Okay. Well, I'm sure that the committee would want me to place on record our thanks to the young people and the teachers who took part in that very helpful and informative video. We'll move on now then to our evidence session, and I'm very pleased to welcome Gareth Pierce, chief executive of the WJEC, Mike Ebbsworth, assistant director educational support, WJEC, Philip Blaker, chief executive of Qualifications Wales, and Emyr George, associate director general qualifications at Qualifications Wales. So, thank you all of you for attending and thank you for the papers that you provided in advance as well. If you're happy, we'll go straight into questions now, and if I can just start by asking you to outline what you see as your role in ensuring that students and teachers in Wales have the resources that they need to pass general qualifications and what you think the role of commercial publishers and Welsh Government is.", "speakerName": "Lynne Neagle AM" }, { "text": "Shall I start? So, Qualifications Wales is the regulator of the awarding bodies, so we regulate awarding bodies. Our powers are structured around the regulating of awarding bodies. We don't regulate commercial publishers nor the provision of textbooks within that. In regulating the awarding body, our primary focus is also on the design of the qualifications and then the delivery of the assessment. So, it's much more around the assessment side than teaching resources. That said, when we are going through the design of the qualifications, we go through an approval process, so we develop approval criteria and we ask WJEC to submit their specifications against those approval criteria and sample assessment materials as well. So, our focus is very much on making sure that teachers are able, through the sample assessment materials and the specifications, to have a good understanding of what is going to be expected of them in the examinations and of their pupils in the examinations. So, that's setting out the knowledge, skills and understandings that will be assessed by WJEC when those exams are sat. We have in the past pulled together groups of people to look at issues like resources. So, during the last round of approvals, we pulled together interested parties in Welsh Government, regional consortia and WJEC to look at resources that would be available with a view to facilitating the discussion about who would be best placed to fill the gaps where there may be perceived to be gaps in resources. Our other primary role is in maintaining standards. So, as the regulator of qualifications, what we want to do is we want to make that the awards of qualifications—so, the grades that people get—are fair. One of the things we do is set out the way in which the awarding bodies will set grades—so, the awarding process, the methods that will be used—and then we monitor WJEC's award of grades against those processes. During a period of change, we prescribe the use of comparable outcomes as the primary approach, largely because comparable outcomes are designed for circumstances like this, where there's a change in a specification particularly, because there are any number of reasons, including resources, why performance may be different from one year to the next, but comparable outcomes is there to ensure that, all things being equal, if the cohorts have the same ability, the same grade should be awarded from one year to the next. We do recognise that there have been delays in textbooks. Much of that has been related to the timelines that we've all had to deliver new specifications against, which have been far from ideal for everybody involved. We think that particularly our role moving forward will be looking at the timelines for reforms that will be necessary for the new curriculum to make sure that this situation isn't repeated and that there is sufficient time in future reforms to allow for greater system readiness. In terms of the roles of others, Welsh Government have a role at the moment in terms of grant funding of translation of materials into Welsh medium. And there is, through the common model at the moment—and this is a model that is common between England and Wales—a reliance on commercial publishers to provide textbooks. Now, that's something that probably needs to be looked at in the future in terms of potential different models for how that might be achieved and also, potentially, around a paradigm shift in what's expected of those materials. So, I think that sets out Qualification Wales's position in particular.", "speakerName": "Philip Blaker" }, { "text": "Thank you. Gareth.", "speakerName": "Lynne Neagle AM" }, { "text": "Thank you very much. The WJEC does provide what's required in a regulatory sense, and there are two things there—the specification, which tends to be very comprehensive in providing guidance in terms of drawing up a programme of teaching, and also exemplar assessments, which include marking, and those go to the regulator before they are published. So, those samples go to the regulator. The WJEC also do invest a great deal in resources that we produce digitally in both languages simultaneously. Each new course has substantial teaching guidance, which includes a great deal of useful information for teachers and pupils. And we run a professional development programme for teachers that is free of charge when courses are new, and then annually there is some charge for those events. They are face-to-face events, or, increasingly, they are webinars. The WJEC also encourages publishers to take an interest in providing textbooks. We don't have a commercial agreement with publishers. Indeed, the regulations as they stand in Wales, Northern Ireland and England preclude examination bodies from having commercial links with providers of textbooks, but that is something that emerges from the three-nation regime that existed in terms of qualifications. So, that is one point that we noted as something that needs to be considered for Wales as we move forward, whether it would be possible—. As we are not talking about examination boards competing with each other in Wales for GCSE and A-levels, in passing, that is something that I would want to suggest may deserve review. We encourage publishers to take an interest. At the moment, these tend to be England-based—Hodder Education and Illuminate Education, for example—and then the Welsh Government does provide funding to the WJEC to support the process of providing Welsh-language versions for those textbooks. So, we use that funding to provide editorial support to the process, and also to pay for translation costs, and we give significant guidance in terms of terminology. We have a language services team including excellent editors and translators within the WJEC, and we work closely with external translators too, and we use translation technology increasingly, which facilitates a great many things. Beyond that, I think the WJEC does see the need for flexibility, particularly when difficulties arise, and you heard there of some of the methods used by Mike and others to get digital resources available earlier than the print versions. And I should also note perhaps that, as the WJEC is very much involved with stakeholders, we feel that we do have a contribution to make in terms of ideas for the future.", "speakerName": "Gareth Pierce" }, { "text": "Thank you. We heard in the video that teachers are spending a lot of their time actually translating materials. What is your view on that as a good use of teachers' time in Wales?", "speakerName": "Lynne Neagle AM" }, { "text": "I think the question of translation is an interesting one. There was talk about pupils translating and teachers translating. I think perhaps we need to understand what causes the need for that because, as I mentioned earlier, there are so many resources available digitally in both languages at the same time. Perhaps an interesting question is: is that source useful for teachers, being able to draw resources from two sources? Another interesting question, I think, is—. The Welsh language, of course, is a language that is used in an educational context, but we are in a big world that's an English language world. I'm very aware that many of the websites we refer to in our resources and many of the case studies, as was mentioned in that video—they are available in English only. Therefore, I think another interesting question is: can we discover what those additional resources are that are worth translating? And, certainly, it would be very unfortunate if there were a dozen Welsh-medium schools, for example, translating material from the same website independently of each other. If there are a few websites, or a few case studies, in this big external digital world that are worth translating, shouldn't we able to source those early? Because I don't think it's a good use of teachers' time. But I also think that the use of both languages is an interesting one. What is the vision in terms of teaching in a Welsh-medium class, in particular, perhaps, in the A-level classes? I'm sure that some teachers feel that there is a way of enriching the teaching by referring to terms in both languages, as well as explaining those terms in their own language. But the impression I got from the video was that there was quite a lot of mechanical translating happening, and perhaps there is a need to understand more of the context.", "speakerName": "Gareth Pierce" }, { "text": "Llyr on this.", "speakerName": "Lynne Neagle AM" }, { "text": "Just to pick up on your point on the additional materials, whose role would it be to asses this or to take that overview, and then to respond to the demand?", "speakerName": "Llyr Gruffydd AM" }, { "text": "Mike, in the WJEC, has conversations about resources in the team he's part of.", "speakerName": "Gareth Pierce" }, { "text": "Yes. That is extremely important—to identify, as Gareth has just said, those materials that need to be translated, and not everything needs to. We've made a lot of use recently of speaking with teachers and the consortia, and ensuring then that we are focusing on those things that need that attention.", "speakerName": "Mike Ebbsworth" }, { "text": "But would you—? The question I'm asking is: would you still see that as a core part of your work, although it's not necessarily essential in terms of the provision that you're required to provide?", "speakerName": "Llyr Gruffydd AM" }, { "text": "Yes, we invest substantially from the WJEC budget into digital resources. So, through the types of conversations that Mike mentioned, in terms of identifying needs, deciding on priorities with teachers in individual subject areas, that can provide very useful information for us in terms of prioritisation. Of course, the digital packages that we create are already based on conversations with teachers.", "speakerName": "Gareth Pierce" }, { "text": "So, it's already happening to a certain extent.", "speakerName": "Llyr Gruffydd AM" }, { "text": "Well, yes, but we could always go a step further.", "speakerName": "Gareth Pierce" }, { "text": "And do we need further resources for that?", "speakerName": "Llyr Gruffydd AM" }, { "text": "Well, it's an interesting question. The WJEC is doing as much as we can—", "speakerName": "Gareth Pierce" }, { "text": "Why isn't it happening to the extent that it needs to happen, then?", "speakerName": "Llyr Gruffydd AM" }, { "text": "One can always do more, of course. The WJEC is trying to use its budget prudently, and most of our funding comes from payments made by schools and colleges in terms of taking assessments. So, we do have a budget, but it's not a bottomless pit. So, we do need to make choices within the substantial budget we have in terms of the work that Mike is undertaking.", "speakerName": "Gareth Pierce" }, { "text": "There is a need to be careful as well in identifying resources and needs, and that those are suited towards the requirements. Quite often a teacher—and I've been a teacher myself—has this idea that there is a need to have everything. But, certainly, that's not always the case. Quite often, the focus is on different things. There has been a move towards different means of assessment over recent years, and we've moved our resources towards that to meet the needs of teachers on how to undertake that sort of assessment.", "speakerName": "Mike Ebbsworth" }, { "text": "Okay. Thank you.", "speakerName": "Llyr Gruffydd AM" }, { "text": "Did you want to come in on any of this?", "speakerName": "Lynne Neagle AM" }, { "text": "I'm just going to say one thing. Teachers will want to be creative in the use of resources, and, in doing that, they'll potentially want to adapt resources from either language. I think one of the things that we would be quite keen to try and establish moving forward is what is the common core that should by default be available bilingually, and then what sits around that that would be for schools to use creatively and adapt. And what I wouldn't want to see is a default position where all materials were bilingual—a wide range of resources that might be created from all sorts of diverse, different channels—because that may inhibit the creation of some of those materials that may be more creative, which could then be used by teachers as they see appropriate. But I think it is reasonable to expect for that core, common body of knowledge to be available bilingually by default, and for teachers not to have to spend time translating that.", "speakerName": "Philip Blaker" }, { "text": "Okay. Thank you. A final question from me, then. The £500,000 funding for Welsh-medium educational resource that's in the budget for 2018-19—are you able to share any information with the committee as to how that's going to be spent?", "speakerName": "Lynne Neagle AM" }, { "text": "Tthe WJEC has some information in terms of that budget. It is a Welsh Government budget, and they have annual discussions with us as to what resources we are likely to be working on along with publishers, and where we would like to make a claim against that grant to pay for the editorial and translation costs that we will have incurred. Now, there have been conversations recently about possible support from that grant for some research work into the use of various materials and resources, and also, although this would be a very small part, a contribution towards seminars for publishers. But that isn't a full picture of the £500,000; I think you would have to ask the Welsh Government about the exact allocation of that total fund. But there may be some flexibility. We've just started this financial year; I'm sure there is some flexibility in their thinking in terms of the use of some of this resource. Do you want to add anything, Mike?", "speakerName": "Gareth Pierce" }, { "text": "Certainly. We have contributed a list of publications, for example, that are ongoing, and they're aware of that, and a percentage of that funding then will go towards ensuring that those are there through the medium of Welsh.", "speakerName": "Mike Ebbsworth" }, { "text": "Thank you. Darren Millar.", "speakerName": "Lynne Neagle AM" }, { "text": "This is a huge mess, isn't it? It's a huge mess, which is causing lots of pressure and extra work for teachers, lots of pressure and extra work for learners, and is affecting the well-being of students, at a time when they need to be mentally fit, in order to go through the general stress that learners face when they have exams coming up. We know that the problems are not confined to Welsh-medium resources; they're also being experienced in English language resources as well, particularly in terms of the availability of textbooks. You've both mentioned—both of your organisations have mentioned that there needs to be some sort of common core of resources available for learners and teachers, and I would agree with you on that front. But isn't a textbook a pretty basic element of anybody's toolkit for supporting a child getting through the information that they need to learn, and swot up on, in advance of exams?", "speakerName": "Darren Millar AM" }, { "text": "I think that the evidence is that different learners see their requirements differently. And I agree that a textbook is part of the picture that should be available. But I think the evidence also shows that not every young person will use them; perhaps the teacher uses them. There is an emphasis, for example, from one pupil there, on that traditional model of revision, namely class notes and his own revision notes, but that he personally also wanted a textbook. So, certainly, the content of a textbook is going to be important, and that that's available in some form or other. It was very interesting to know, for example, that when he was describing the traditional model of revision, he felt that he'd had quite a lot of the content of the textbook through the classroom notes. Much of that digital content, of course, corresponds to the content areas of a textbook, but it's just in a different form. But, in general, there should be a textbook. And some of our frustration as well is that the timetables of some individual publishers don't always get us to the point where there is a textbook available in time. That doesn't happen so often in English medium, but we know about that gap in time in the Welsh provision.", "speakerName": "Gareth Pierce" }, { "text": "Well, it's happened fairly regularly in the English-medium textbook world, hasn't it? My daughter—she featured in that video—has got her RS qualifications coming up, and she only had a textbook over the Easter period. I mean, it's completely unacceptable. And many others in that video are also being affected. You mentioned digital resources; not everybody's got access to digital resources in their own homes, even, in Wales. So, aren't we giving a significant disadvantage to those learners who might need the traditional'swotting up from a textbook' method of revision and benefit from that?", "speakerName": "Darren Millar AM" }, { "text": "We do ensure that those digital resources include things that the teachers can also print. Most of these are resources for teachers so that the teachers can adapt them for their own use, to suit the learners who are in front of them at any given time. But certainly there are materials there. If there are activities, then those activities can be printed off and handed to pupils so that they can take them home. So, I would be sceptical about that comment. We are thinking of the totality, ultimately.", "speakerName": "Mike Ebbsworth" }, { "text": "I think you're right that the availability of technology is an important part of this big picture. The young people talk about websites and blogs, and we're talking about digital resources, so being able to reach those resources, I think, is vital in Wales. It's interesting to note two contradictory remarks from the teaching associations in the letters. One praises what's available digitally, whereas another teaching organisation sees this as more work for teachers. As Mike said, we've created those resources that can be adapted. One teaching organisation says that it just creates more work, while another organisation says that the digital resource is something that's very valuable. Of course, the headteacher at the end was praising the fact that, in a situation of crisis or unacceptable timetables, we have succeeded in creating some resources that will be in the textbook later, but available digitally at an early stage. But I agree with your core comment that technology is vital, and access to that, and also the content of a textbook in some form is vital as well.", "speakerName": "Gareth Pierce" }, { "text": "Mr Blaker, you would agree that a textbook should be an essential core piece of the resource pack available for each qualification.", "speakerName": "Darren Millar AM" }, { "text": "I think we wouldn't want to underplay the desirability of textbooks, recognising that different learners have different learning styles and may look to different resources. I think what I'd like to raise is a wider concern about textbooks in their current model, which is very much around the fact that every time there's a change in a specification, there's a new textbook, which is designed around that specification and is endorsed by an awarding body, which is a nice model for a publisher, because every time there's a change, there's an opportunity for a new textbook. There are two concerns that I'd like to raise on that. First, the focus on teaching and learning. Ofsted and also Estyn have raised concerns about the focus in teaching on teaching to the test as a common concern in both nations. I have a concern that having a textbook that is endorsed by the awarding body and is designed specifically around that specification may lead to some of that tendency. And also, there's the sustainability of the model. We know that we're about to go into another round of reforms associated with the curriculum change. That's going to lead to another round of textbooks that may need to be focused on qualifications. I think I'd much rather see that textbooks are seen as a curriculum resource that are broader than, perhaps, the model of endorsement and the current model of publication suggest.", "speakerName": "Philip Blaker" }, { "text": "So, you don't think that a textbook for each subject should be a core resource for pupils who are learning in advance of examinations.", "speakerName": "Darren Millar AM" }, { "text": "I'd just like to pick you up on that. I think a textbook for each subject is absolutely an essential part of the broad range of resources that you'd want to see available for people to choose what they prefer, but on a subject, perhaps, rather than a specific specification, because I think there's a tendency to conflate the two, and much of the underlying content that is assessed in one specification, or a new updated specification, will remain unchanged. It is true that there may be a different focus or emphasis, or a different style of questioning, but that can be picked up more nimbly through supplementary digital resources, for example, which can highlight that change, particularly to a teacher, so that they can shape their lesson planning around that. What we are looking at here are reformed GCSEs and reformed A-levels in subjects that are well-established, traditional subjects, and so whilst it is not necessarily the ideal, I think it's important to remember that there is already a good deal of pre-existing resources, including textbooks, out there in schools already. We're not for a moment saying that that is the situation that we would want everybody to be in. I think it might be preferable if the textbook was perfectly bespoke to the course and didn't contain any extraneous material, but that perhaps is an ideal picture and I think we do need to remember that there are already many resources out there that are available to teachers and to students.", "speakerName": "Emyr George" }, { "text": "But of course, unlike their peers in perhaps other parts of the UK, we have teachers who are having to go meticulously through some of these other resources that might be available to determine whether they're appropriate for use in the classroom, given that the specification is different in terms of the new qualifications. Can I just ask you about the disadvantage that some learners might face as a result of the lack of textbooks? Mr Blaker, I note that you sought to reassure the committee in some of your opening remarks about the fact that equivalent outcomes are what you aim to achieve in discussion with the WJEC in terms of the outcome of assessments, and I think that that's a very positive thing. But, how do you differentiate between the different learning styles of individual students who are in that cohort to ensure that the disadvantage that one faces because they're somebody who relies particularly heavily on textbook-type learning, traditional sort of swotting up for examinations, versus someone who is much more digitally aware and able to use digital resources—? How do you make sure that it's fair to the cohort as a whole, while still enabling some of these individuals for whom textbooks are important not to face disadvantage within that cohort?", "speakerName": "Darren Millar AM" }, { "text": "The systems that are in place are very much around making sure that awarding is fair across the whole cohort. It's very difficult—in fact, it would be impossible—to unpick all of the different factors that might affect performance, because you could well have a textbook that's been available for some time, it may be somebody's preferred leaning style to use a textbook, but did they use that textbook effectively? You know, did they open it in revision or did they not open it in revision? So, there are so many different factors that can affect individual performance. I think it's impossible to unpick a particular aspect like the availability of resources. Motivation would be one thing, an individual learner's motivation in the subject. The biggest input would be the quality of teaching. I think evidence has been provided to you by the regional consortia, which we saw yesterday. They particularly wanted to stress this point I think; that the quality of teaching is probably the most dominant and the most important factor in relation to a learner's ultimate performance in the examination.", "speakerName": "Philip Blaker" }, { "text": "I understand that, but you also understand that someone who doesn't have the resources that they feel are best suited to them face some element of a greater disadvantage than others for whom, perhaps, textbooks are less important.", "speakerName": "Darren Millar AM" }, { "text": "I think also, perhaps, related to that, it is important to mention digital literacy here. Every young person in Wales, I would hope, taking GCSE or A-level, should have that digital literacy in order to source the valuable materials available—that they should have those skills. Then, they have the choice whether they go down the digital route, or do they do as Mike suggested—much of the digital material can be printed—or do they then turn to textbooks, in the hope that those would be available? That would then allow for a pupil's personal learning choice to be reflected. It's also important for teachers to confirm that their ways of teaching do support these alternative approaches taken by pupils. Not every pupil will choose to learn or revise in exactly the same way. So, the flexibility for the pupil is very important, I think.", "speakerName": "Gareth Pierce" }, { "text": "I understand that, but I've got people in my constituency who haven't even got a broadband link at home, so there's a digital disadvantage as well. Can I just ask you about the reason why this has taking so long to sort out? It was back in 2015 that concerns were first raised about the availability of textbooks in both English and Welsh for the new qualifications. We're three years on, what on earth has been happening in the interim and why is it taking so long? If you've got these resources digitally, why can't they just be compounded into textbooks pretty straightforwardly?", "speakerName": "Darren Millar AM" }, { "text": "I think the main reason for that is that there are three series of reforms of qualifications that have happened. There were some in 2015, other subjects in 2016, and other subjects in 2017. Those three cycles of reform have all suffered from the short timetable that was between approving a qualification and publishers being able to start the work. Perhaps an interesting comparison would be a subject being taught for the first time in 2015—where that subject has reached now in terms of resources. I would hope that each one of those subjects have more available now in terms of resources, and therefore we are adding each year—not textbooks but digital resources. There are more past papers available, of course. We are working on sample work at the request of teachers. So, every subject is moving on over a period of time of five to six years while that specification is being studied. But those same difficulties have, unfortunately, affected 2015 subjects and 2017 subjects, and that's why we're discussing the same thing in 2018.", "speakerName": "Gareth Pierce" }, { "text": "So, it's the scale of the challenge and the volume of the work?", "speakerName": "Darren Millar AM" }, { "text": "Yes.", "speakerName": "Gareth Pierce" }, { "text": "I think Gareth, in the evidence that he has provided to the committee previously, has said about the timeline, the schedule, for reforms. Now, that's a schedule that we inherited and was largely dominated by the schedule for reforms in England. Now that we've reached a point of divergence in GCSEs and A-levels, between England and Wales, it gives us much more agency in the future to establish a timeline that doesn't place the pressures on the system. So, Gareth has quite rightly pointed out that there are three waves of reforms, but the pressures that build up in the first wave are consequential onto the next wave and the wave after that. So, the whole system has been pressured both from a regulatory perspective of the approval process, the awarding body preparing its submissions to use, and then system readiness thereafter.", "speakerName": "Philip Blaker" }, { "text": "That timeline was obviously set by the Welsh Government. I assume that advice was given by WJEC and Qualifications Wales and your predecessor organisation to the Welsh Government at that time protesting about the timescale that you were being expected to abide by.", "speakerName": "Darren Millar AM" }, { "text": "Yes, and similarly in England, the examination boards working in England would have provided the same advice to the Government there. And, of course, the Welsh Government programme was associated with the reform programme in England, in particularly for those A-level subjects, where there was a strong influence from the universities across the UK in terms of what they wanted to see differently in the A-level subjects. So, England and Wales have run on a very short timetable common to both countries, and I would say that every exam board and every publisher has seen this very challenging in Wales and England. But our advice is that there is a real need for between 18 months and two years from completing a specification that has been approved, then being able to work with teachers on what their needs and requirements will be, thinking about what the teaching programme will be, and then starting to work with publishers and get resources available—ideally, with a year of preparation then for the teacher before they start teaching. So, as they will know what resources will be available, we'll be able to discuss the use of those resources in our professional development programmes, and then that timeline is convenient for everybody.", "speakerName": "Gareth Pierce" }, { "text": "Okay. Darren, I've got to bring Llyr in now.", "speakerName": "Lynne Neagle AM" }, { "text": "Estyn, NAHT, UCAC, NASUWT, WJEC and Qualifications Wales have pointed to the way in which the Government has managed the reforms that have been happening over the past few years as one of the things that has led to some of these difficulties. You mentioned the fact that they come wave upon wave. Well, what about the tsunami of curriculum reform that we're currently facing? That is, how confident can we be that the situation won't deteriorate as the new curriculum is introduced—rather than improve?", "speakerName": "Llyr Gruffydd AM" }, { "text": "That is a very key question, isn't it? We have started to discuss this, specifically in particular in a forum that includes publishers in Wales, with the Welsh Government around the table and Qualifications Wales around the table. I think one of the very interesting questions and important questions is: what will the nature of the information available in April 2019 be in terms of the new curriculum? At what level of detail will it be? To what extent will it be adapted again after April 2019? Is it detailed enough, really, for teachers to start discussing their programmes of teaching, and that we then still have a role with publishers, even though this is for this curriculum and not for qualifications? WJEC has a tradition of publishing resources over the key stages and other key stages as well. I think there is a need to discuss the implications of the timetable as it starts to appear, because there is a need to start teaching the new curriculum in September 2022. If we're talking about a year of preparation, that brings us back to September 2021. If we're talking about working on resources available for that preparation year, we're talking about September 2020. So, the timetable does appear already tight, particularly if there's something that's not quite certain about that curriculum statement in 2019, and that there is a lot of work to turn that into teaching programmes. So, I think it is a key question, and I can't be confident at the moment that this is going to work.", "speakerName": "Gareth Pierce" }, { "text": "Did you want to come in, Philip?", "speakerName": "Lynne Neagle AM" }, { "text": "I think one of the big differences is it's a tsunami we can see coming. So, young people will be assessed for the first time, assuming linear exams, in the summer 2027, which is some way away, and, actually, given the reform process historically, this is probably the most foresight we've seen of a big change like this. There is a big dependency on the curriculum and the curriculum being described in such a way that we can relate qualifications to that curriculum, because qualifications should relate to the curriculum rather than drive the curriculum, so we do need to see something coming out of that. I think, for us, once we've seen the curriculum, and we've got better sight of it, we'll be able to plan things out. We've already started engagement with awarding bodies over the possible supply chain for these new qualifications, and, ultimately, there'll be a go/no-go decision that would need to be made, probably in 2023, which would be that if the conditions don't appear right for safe implementation, then we would make a recommendation to Welsh Government that these reforms are delayed in terms of the qualification, not in terms of the curriculum, for a year to allow the system to be able to catch up. So, we're starting to plan out not only the whole of the process, but also thinking about where we might have to make key decisions.", "speakerName": "Philip Blaker" }, { "text": "Just one very brief comment in that context: I think that the comment of the consortia jointly is important there. They emphasise, in the context of the curriculum, the importance of the autonomy of teachers in interpreting and providing, therefore I think we truly need to discuss that. Does that suggest that there won't be so much need for national resources, or are those resources required to support that autonomy in any case? We need to discuss that at an early stage and in detail, I think.", "speakerName": "Gareth Pierce" }, { "text": "Yes, certainly, and one is concerned that that conversation isn't already happening, but, yes, okay, you've made that point clearly. If I could return, therefore, to the commercial issue—clearly, there is a shortage of providers in Wales, and we are reliant on others. You suggested that the WJEC may be interested in stepping up and taking some sort of role if regulations were changed. I assume that that would be something that you would be eager to see happening in terms of the change to regulation in that context.", "speakerName": "Llyr Gruffydd AM" }, { "text": "Yes, and we've been part of starting that discussion amongst publishers in Wales. Certainly, there is interest. I think that I haven't described correctly the purpose of a seminar to encourage interest: the interest is there, but there needs to be an understanding of what the implications are of working towards that kind of timetable, what the implications are of working in two languages, what kind of business model, perhaps, would be suitable for the publishers in Wales, how much certainty could be given to them that there is a period of work, because they would want to build their teams, and develop skills within those teams, and to have enough certainty that this is worth doing. And therefore, those are the sort of issues that we're starting a discussion on, in the hope of having a discussion in June to move that forward. Of course, Welsh Government, Qualifications Wales and other stakeholders are part of this discussion, not only WJEC, but we've been part of initiating that discussion.", "speakerName": "Gareth Pierce" }, { "text": "Is this developing at the pace that you would like to see it developing?", "speakerName": "Llyr Gruffydd AM" }, { "text": "Yes, I think, and there is some enthusiasm. For example, a number of publishers in Wales are within an association describing itself as Cwlwm Cyhoeddwyr Cymru. Myrddin ap Dafydd is chair of Cwlwm at the moment, and there is enthusiasm and vision, certainly. So, there's a wonderful opportunity, I think, for Wales to interpret these possibilities swiftly and then hopefully take action on them.", "speakerName": "Gareth Pierce" }, { "text": "And we're talking here not just about translating but developing resources, and the point, I think, is an important one around some of the evidence that we've received about the importance of developing resources naturally bilingually from the very beginning, rather than having to translate something. Because there have been comments that translations are clunky, difficult to follow and not—I'm not saying that they're not fit for purpose, but certainly don't facilitate teaching, perhaps, as easily as one would wish.", "speakerName": "Llyr Gruffydd AM" }, { "text": "Yes, I would agee, and that begins with the authors, doesn't it? We must have the authors—", "speakerName": "Gareth Pierce" }, { "text": "So, the expertise, and the same capacty with the publishers as well.", "speakerName": "Llyr Gruffydd AM" }, { "text": "Yes, and we do want to nurture authors within Wales, particularly given that the new curriculum has to do justice to a Welsh dimension within the curriculum in so many different subjects. So, we need authors who can be developed, and authors who would be willing to work with the publishers. That's a very specific theme within one of the ideas of the seminars with publishers.", "speakerName": "Gareth Pierce" }, { "text": "Would that market be viable without any sort of subsidy, if it were to develop bilingually? Or do we have to accept that they have to have an element of public subsidy?", "speakerName": "Llyr Gruffydd AM" }, { "text": "Our view in the WJEC is that subsidy will be necessary. But we could rethink the model for the subsidy, perhaps. At the moment, the subsidy is described as a subsidy for the Welsh-medium version. Why not rethink that and think of a subsidy for producing resources in two languages for the Welsh curriculum? And perhaps we would need a little more funding for that. But there will be organisations such as the WJEC who will still be interested in contributing, because we are a charity, and within our mission is investment in various things that supports education in Wales.", "speakerName": "Gareth Pierce" }, { "text": "But in terms of where we are now, resources have to be translated. I struggle at times to understand why it takes so much time to translate a resource. I would like to know better, perhaps, what the main barriers are in that sense. But also, how long is acceptable to wait for a translation, in your view?", "speakerName": "Llyr Gruffydd AM" }, { "text": "We've done a great deal of work recently, over recent years, to ensure that that delay between having an English version and a Welsh version is reduced. We are highly aware of the fact that the best-case scenario is that the Welsh and the English are available simultaneously. In those terms, we've taken huge steps forward with the publishers that we've named this morning, so that we have discussed translation as the textbook is being produced. There is a risk there, of course. The nature of books is that the author may change his or her mind, or edit as he or she is writing. Well, with that model, we would have to ensure that we approved as we moved forward, chapter by chapter perhaps, so that there would be no changes to be made from then on. At the end of the process, then, the publishers in England have agreed to hold the English version back for a period of time until the Welsh version is available, and then to publish both simultaneously. Unless that timetable is followed throughout the process, there are inherent risks in that process, of course, as I've mentioned in terms of translation as we author materials, and in ensuring that that timetable is stuck to.", "speakerName": "Mike Ebbsworth" }, { "text": "And perhaps there is a need to emphasise that the process is translation and editing as a package, and that sometimes the same amount of time goes on the editing, how the Welsh works in terms of diagrams and things that aren't text necessarily—pictures and so forth. So, eight weeks, I think, is the time that we've succeeded in agreeing with the publishers so that we can turn around the Welsh version in that period of time.", "speakerName": "Gareth Pierce" }, { "text": "Okay, thank you. Darren.", "speakerName": "Lynne Neagle AM" }, { "text": "I just want to ask about this eight-week delay. So, you’re telling us, Mr Ebbsworth, that the WJEC has agreed with Hodder and Illuminate that, in future, even if an English textbook is available for publication, and it’s already late, you will further delay the availability of that textbook so that it can be published on the same day as the Welsh-medium textbook?", "speakerName": "Darren Millar AM" }, { "text": "We can only work on those books that are in the process of being developed. Naturally, if something is late in English, then that timetable would be affected in terms of a decision that will ultimately have to be taken. But that's the hope: that when new textbooks are produced in English and authored in English, we would look at that eight-week period as a turnaround.", "speakerName": "Mike Ebbsworth" }, { "text": "I understand the point that you made earlier about the chapter-by-chapter approach, which seems much more equitable. But to suggest that you will delay books that could be available for students and could be available for teachers to be able to access by two months because you haven't got the systems in place to be able to produce them on the same day, seems to be wholly inappropriate. Can I ask, also, why on earth it isn't possible to produce Welsh-medium textbooks first and then translate them to English on occasions?", "speakerName": "Darren Millar AM" }, { "text": "We're entirely open to that and to that sort of model.", "speakerName": "Mike Ebbsworth" }, { "text": "So, why has that never ever been done?", "speakerName": "Darren Millar AM" }, { "text": "Well, of course, it would happen with subjects that stem from Wales, but I think the problem is that we work with publishers and those publishers and their authors, therefore, tend to work through the medium of English. But, just to be clear, this idea of delaying an English version is something that the Welsh Government is eager for us to experiment with, but not with textbooks that are already late. They are within the new programme of textbooks that are contained within the grant that you mentioned of £500,000. So, in a way, this is an experiment and the Welsh Government wants to look at this as one way of responding to the complaint that there are different timetables available.", "speakerName": "Gareth Pierce" }, { "text": "So, you're being forced to do this by the Welsh Government, rather than—", "speakerName": "Darren Millar AM" }, { "text": "Well, we've agreed to do it in discussion with them.", "speakerName": "Gareth Pierce" }, { "text": "So, are you happy with that approach?", "speakerName": "Darren Millar AM" }, { "text": "Well, as long as the textbook isn't late in the first place, then yes; it's worth trying. There is a challenge on the eight weeks, there is a challenge in the publisher sticking to the timetable in terms of the English version first of all, but we are willing to use this as a test bed, and we're working on two specific textbooks on this.", "speakerName": "Gareth Pierce" }, { "text": "I think the committee is struggling with this idea, so what do you understand to be the rationale behind that, then? Is it that both sets of pupils should be equally disadvantaged?", "speakerName": "Lynne Neagle AM" }, { "text": "Well, no, in a way, it uses the same principle as we have regarding our use of digital resources. With the digital materials, the intention is that things are available in time and that they're available in both languages at the same time. So, trying to imitate that with printed text is what we're trying to do, but not with texts that are already late. So, if these books keep to the timetable, then they will be available in time in both languages, but that the English version has stayed before going out on the shelves.", "speakerName": "Gareth Pierce" }, { "text": "So, that's to say that the English version will be completed eight weeks beforehand so that you have eight weeks for translation.", "speakerName": "Llyr Gruffydd AM" }, { "text": "Well, ultimately, I may have used the wrong words in saying that we're holding the English back. The English version would still be in the process, just as the Welsh version would be, and then they would catch up as they approach the date for publication and printing. There is an element of editing the English as well as the Welsh and that would happen in that eight-week period. So, a draft form might be available, and we do ensure that our draft versions are available on our secure website as soon as possible, but then that has to be held up before publication.", "speakerName": "Mike Ebbsworth" }, { "text": "Thank you. John.", "speakerName": "Lynne Neagle AM" }, { "text": "Just on that, Chair, it's nonetheless the case, as we've heard, I think, and as the letter to the committee from Kirsty Williams has made clear, that there might be a situation where the English-language version of a textbook could be made available, but it isn't made available because there isn't a Welsh-language version. And, as the Chair said, is that about putting those students in Wales on the same footing, and if so, how does that relate to the fact that these students, including those who could have had earlier access to the English-language version, are competing with students over the border, as we heard on the video earlier, for those precious university places? Doesn't it place the English-language student using the English-language version at a potential disadvantage, compared to students over the border?", "speakerName": "John Griffiths AM" }, { "text": "I think this is a point for Qualifications Wales to a certain extent, but applicants for qualifications in Wales are assessed as a national cohort, if truth be told, so, each piece of information we have on the standards is evaluated for that national cohort. The standards stem from the three-nation system. So, in discussion with Qualifications Wales, we ensure that there is no disadvantage to any cohort in Wales in any subject, be that because of a textbook being unavailable or for any other reason.", "speakerName": "Gareth Pierce" }, { "text": "Certainly, from a comparable outcomes perspective, the fewer differences that there are that are differential—. So, the idea of textbooks being available in English and Welsh at different times could potentially create another dimension in terms of disparity. So, if we're looking at it strictly speaking from a comparable outcomes perspective, it makes the awarding easier if everybody's on a common playing field. It's worth remembering—we provided some evidence in our original letter particularly looking at religious studies on the basis that religious studies was a subject that had been mentioned. This subject has already been awarded at AS-level last year, so it has gone through an award and will go through the full A-level award this year. The comparable outcomes approach did protect those learners last year, in the absence of a textbook, and we saw stability in the results that came out of the cohort level. Similarly, with other subjects that have gone through reforms, we've seen it with the GCSEs that were awarded last year, ASs that were awarded last year and A-levels that were awarded last year: we saw good comparability year on year.", "speakerName": "Philip Blaker" }, { "text": "Go on then, Darren. Is that okay, John?", "speakerName": "Lynne Neagle AM" }, { "text": "Just a very brief follow-up on that, at the cohort level, yes, you suggest that there is some evidence that students were protected, but what you don't know and can't tell, because you're not able to drill down to the individual student level, is whether children, young people, were disadvantaged as a result of their learning style being more textbook orientated than that of their peers.", "speakerName": "Darren Millar AM" }, { "text": "I guess we're in a situation where there's no evidence either way that that—", "speakerName": "Philip Blaker" }, { "text": "The absence of evidence doesn't mean that it didn't happen.", "speakerName": "Darren Millar AM" }, { "text": "No, but there is no evidence to suggest that. We have no positive evidence to suggest that.", "speakerName": "Philip Blaker" }, { "text": "Well, I think you've seen plenty of evidence about the stress that it's causing, and the concern that learners have about their outcomes. I think it would be very interesting, actually, to take some teacher assessments and expected grades and compare those to the actual grade outcomes. Is that something that Qualifications Wales could do on a sample basis?", "speakerName": "Darren Millar AM" }, { "text": "Historically, that sort of evidence has been very unreliable. Gareth would probably have a stronger view on that than me. Predicted grades used to be provided. Certainly, back in my day at an awarding body they were provided, and there tended to be a very low correlation between the predicted grade and the actual achieved grade. I don't know if you've got anything on that, Gareth.", "speakerName": "Philip Blaker" }, { "text": "No, we agree with you that the comparisons are not that reliable, because there are so many factors. But I think, at the end of the day, what we see is, yes, I agree there is evidence of stress, but I think there's also evidence of young people and their teachers really using the available resources and the available skills in approaching revision and preparation, and tending to do that very well. That's the evidence that we've got, for example, in the AS religious studies last year, that the cohort did extremely well in fact. We can't disagree that there's evidence of stress, but I think we can also point towards resilience and excellent approaches to drawing together the various sources that they've got: classroom notes, revision notes, as they mentioned, and the various other materials that they referred to.", "speakerName": "Gareth Pierce" }, { "text": "Okay. John.", "speakerName": "Lynne Neagle AM" }, { "text": "Coming back to the effect of the lack of resources, we heard on the video, as you've just mentioned, Gareth, that pupils were experiencing a lot of stress and anxiety, and it affected their well-being in terms of their perception that they might be disadvantaged by the lack of resources, as we discussed. We know exam time is very, very stressful—I'm sure all of us would agree with that—in general, without any additional problems or perceptions of problems. So, with that sort of background, would you accept then that some students have been negatively affected by the lack of suitable support materials for general qualifications? I know we've discussed this in terms of it being difficult, perhaps, to show cause and effect, but I think most people watching that video would clearly come to the view that some students have been negatively impacted. Would you accept that?", "speakerName": "John Griffiths AM" }, { "text": "I'd have to agree. There is evidence of their concern, isn't there? But as Philip said, what we don't have is evidence that that anxiety then has an impact on their attainment, because there are so many factors, there are so many different kinds of resources that they've referred to—even those who want to see textbooks, they're also talking about so many other materials that are available to them. Of course, it's also clear that they are conscientious young people who have worked hard, so you have a picture there of young people who are concerned, yes, and as you've said, examinations are a stressful time in general, but they are also young people who are doing their level best, and usually do get the results that they have worked for. That's the evidence that we have: the results tend to be achieved.", "speakerName": "Gareth Pierce" }, { "text": "Okay. Coming back again to matters that we've already discussed, but just to put to you in a fairly focused way, would you accept that it isn't fair that some pupils are not having the support material that others are having, depending on whether their particular subject is involved and the language that they're studying through? Would you accept that that is a basic unfairness in the system as it currently exists?", "speakerName": "John Griffiths AM" }, { "text": "Ideally, resources, digital accessibility and digital literacy should be available for every pupil on an equal basis. But I think perhaps if we analysed this in much detail, different individuals would be able to say,'There are different types of unfairness.' You referred earlier to the digital inequalities. Is there an economic inequality? There is some evidence from the teaching unions that suggests that not every school is in the same situation as each other in terms of buying the resources that are available. So, I think your question drives at a very important point: what sort of inequality could be having an impact on young people in terms of their achievement during their school time? Ideally, each one of those elements of potential inequality should be levelled. So, I don't think I can go any further than acknowledging that any inequality is unfair, but there are so many different kinds and the textbook is not the only one, and therefore we're not going to be able to analyse the impact of that on its own.", "speakerName": "Gareth Pierce" }, { "text": "Could I put to you, finally then, what Estyn have said about reported delays in the production and distribution of educational resources such as textbooks, marking criteria and specimen papers, that that delay has impeded the ability of teachers to plan adequately, and that this effect on their ability to plan adequately is very likely to have had an impact on pupils' achievement? Would you accept that?", "speakerName": "John Griffiths AM" }, { "text": "It's interesting—they link three quite different things there, don't they? We've discussed the textbooks in some detail. When they refer to sample assessments, we have to provide those within the regulatory time frame, and they have to be approved. So, in every subject there are sample assessments and marking schemes, and they are statutorily available, in a way. When they talk about exemplars, there are different interpretations of that. One request that we receive often from schools is for exemplars in terms of the work of pupils that has been assessed and marked by us. Of course, they're not available until the young people have taken those exams for the very first time. We can make them available digitally, and through various other methods. But in some subjects the demand has been so strong that we have worked with schools in order to ensure that work is produced by pupils before that first examination, is marked by us, and is then made available. So, we can respond to that demand when it arises. I would like to have a conversation with Estyn, indeed, to interpret on a more detailed level some of the things that they refer to.", "speakerName": "Gareth Pierce" }, { "text": "May I offer a comment on that quote from Estyn? They talk about a reduction in attainment and that, to some extent, brings us back to the point in terms of the comparable outcomes method that we're talking about. That method is based on research and evidence that says that in a period of change to an exam or qualification, we know that performance in an exam can fall, and that is due to a number of different factors. Teachers aren't as familiar with the specification and the requirements of the exam. There are fewer past assessment resources available; there aren't any past papers, for example. Certainly, knowing that you're the first to sit that exam perhaps raises your concerns about that examination, and examinations are a matter of concern already. It's very difficult, if not impossible, to differentiate between those factors, but what we know on the whole is that they come together to have an impact on pupils' performance in an exam, and that's why, when it comes to awarding qualifications for the first time and looking at the grades, we look very carefully at what that the mark means in terms of the grade in order to try as best as we can, on the level of the whole national cohort, to eliminate as much unfairness as possible because they are the first cohort to sit the exam.", "speakerName": "Emyr George" }, { "text": "Could I just make a brief comment on the sample assessments? Now, interestingly, when the English, Welsh, maths, and maths and numeracy GCSEs were new, the Welsh Government were very eager that we invest in more sample assessment materials. We had to produce one for the regulator, but they wanted to see us produce far more, and we did that. But there are risks inherent in that, too. If we create more and more sample assessments, then does that create more risk of teaching to the test? And every time we produce one of these, of course, we are using robust assessment ideas, and they're out there to be used for test purposes. So, we need to be careful that we don't weaken the real assessment by providing too many of the examiners' good ideas in the sample material. So, it's an interesting theme, but it would be interesting to have a further conversation with Estyn on that.", "speakerName": "Gareth Pierce" }, { "text": "I just wanted to say, looking towards—. Reforms always throw up issues like this. It's almost an inevitability of any change that there will be impact. I think what we need to do is we need to think about the future reforms, particularly knowing that we've got some on the radar already, and to think about what this paradigm is and how we can isolate some of these factors in the future. So, if we look at resources and if we look particularly at textbooks as being a curriculum resource, rather than a qualification resource, I think we can change the timeline to which some of those materials are produced. So, going back to when I studied my A-levels in the 1980s, there was this common body of knowledge that was an A-level textbook in biology that wasn't focused around an individual awarding body. When we talked to unions about this on Monday, they said,'Yes, when we used to teach many years ago, there were curriculum resources like that, and then when a particular topic or a particular area of content dropped out of the qualification, we either did or didn't teach it according to whether it was in the curriculum'. That's a little bit worrying by virtue of the fact there might have been a component of that subject that didn't get taught because it was no longer in the text, despite the fact that it was in the common body of knowledge. But I think if we can shift this paradigm—and I would really like to a shift in the paradigm for resources particularly, away from the focus on the qualification and into more of a focus on the curriculum—then that provides an opportunity for, I would suggest, a much healthier model in the future. There are various ways of doing that. In the United States, for example, there are some states within the United States that produce a state textbook. Now, that can have issues, particularly if it's politically orientated—so, if politicians are seen to have a strong influence in the content that's taught. But if there is independence in that state model, then I think that can be quite strong model. Equally, if you look at somewhere like Hong Kong, they've actually tried to de-emphasise textbooks. So, Hong Kong, which is a very high-performing jurisdiction, is trying to move away from that model in the future.", "speakerName": "Philip Blaker" }, { "text": "Could I just add very, very briefly—", "speakerName": "Gareth Pierce" }, { "text": "Very briefly, because I want to bring Hefin in.", "speakerName": "Lynne Neagle AM" }, { "text": "I know that, in our letter to you, we emphasised that this is not just to do with the body of knowledge. The assessment objectives have shifted in many subjects towards analysis and evaluation. So, therefore, we really do need resources that support that way of working, and I'm sure that lots of the young people we've heard from—what they're really doing in their revision is actually not just studying the content, but thinking about how they respond analytically and evaluatively. In fact, an interesting question for us as an awarding body to debate with the qualifications regulator, maybe, is whether some of the content should actually be able to be taken into the assessment hall. Do young people need to remember all these terms and their precise definitions, sometimes in both languages if they've learnt it in that way? Shouldn't some of the reference material be more and more available in the assessment arena? And then you are really getting towards analysis and interpretation and evaluation.", "speakerName": "Gareth Pierce" }, { "text": "Thank you. Hefin.", "speakerName": "Lynne Neagle AM" }, { "text": "I want to welcome these particular comments, because having come from a higher education background, what I've tried to deliver in my courses are textbook-free modules, where you're relying on academic journal articles and you're piecing together the story yourself, based on the curriculum you develop yourself. So, curriculum-focused resources are very welcome. I fear that students who are nurtured on a textbook diet, when they go to university, they are not expected to repeat what's in the textbook; they're expected to do exactly as Gareth says and analyse and combine information into a discursive argument. So, therefore, I'm interested to know how you've worked with higher education to develop that approach. I also welcome what you've just said too.", "speakerName": "Hefin David AM" }, { "text": "Can I ask for brief answers, please?", "speakerName": "Lynne Neagle AM" }, { "text": "Yes, well some of the people who provide ideas into our digital resources certainly are either teachers who are very well aware of that progression to HE and therefore what their learners want or, in some cases, they are HE people themselves. We do draw on a body of expertise, and we are more than willing to emphasise the importance of that approach to the support resources we provide.", "speakerName": "Gareth Pierce" }, { "text": "I think the difficulty and the difference is that, at HE level, the kind of journal articles that are available are probably not consumable at GCSE level. That's part of the problem you have with that approach.", "speakerName": "Hefin David AM" }, { "text": "Yes. And I think, interestingly—I know we've pointed towards some of our religious studies resources as examples—I think some of the websites we point to are quite ambitious. They would be described as scholarly, and I think some of the young people on the video made that point, didn't they—that they need to engage with that material to understand some themes? But we need to assist them in doing so. We need to almost make those scholarly items that are worth including in their curriculum accessible and user friendly for them at their point of learning.", "speakerName": "Gareth Pierce" }, { "text": "Philip.", "speakerName": "Lynne Neagle AM" }, { "text": "It was just one point. We recently published a report on the Welsh baccalaureate and skills challenge certificate, and I think it's relevant to pull in at this point that the independent study that pupils would be expected to do through the skills challenge certificate in doing their project work is really designed to try and draw out some of those skills that would be relevant in higher education. Through the reforms that we are starting to think about for the skills challenge certificate, there's a real opportunity to start honing some of those skills, particularly at the advanced level bacc, to make people really HE-ready so that they're better able to engage with that different style of learning. So, I think there's a huge opportunity that shouldn't be diminished within the advanced Welsh bacc.", "speakerName": "Philip Blaker" }, { "text": "Thank you. Last questions from Mark then.", "speakerName": "Lynne Neagle AM" }, { "text": "Gareth, can I just put to you—? On the Estyn criticism, I think you've answered one aspect of their criticism that WJEC did not make as many sample assessment materials available as schools would have liked early on in the reform process, and I understand your position there, but they went on and said,'At times the sample assessment materials were provided with incorrect mark schemes' and also,'It would be helpful if the WJEC ensure that all necessary resources were made available before the start date of each qualification.' Do you have a response to those points?", "speakerName": "Mark Reckless AM" }, { "text": "Again, probably, I'd like a conversation with them about any problems with the specimen assessments and their mark schemes, because if they are the statutory regulatory ones they would have gone through Philip's team as well or his Welsh Government predecessors as regulators, depending on which qualifications they were. Obviously, we need to be spot-on with those. Very occasionally, somebody will identify an error, and obviously we then correct them, because these are available digitally online. So, if there is a problem, we want to hear about it and then we can correct it. But, yes, I agree with their fundamental premise, that ideally the whole package of resources should be available before teaching starts, including, as we mentioned earlier, so we can draw on that set of resources in the events we run as WJEC free of charge for teachers leading up to the first teaching. We need that information ourselves as well so we can talk about the use of these valuable resources in an appropriate pedagogical context in that preparatory year. So, the ideal is that everything is there 12 months ahead.", "speakerName": "Gareth Pierce" }, { "text": "So, what mechanism do you have for picking up on this type of criticisms from Estyn and having that conversation with them? Has that not happened?", "speakerName": "Mark Reckless AM" }, { "text": "We have met with Estyn a couple of times recently, actually—once when they were beginning their review of the key stage 4 qualifications that had been in place for two years and a bit, and also when they were planning a review of some of the A-level work. Because we do have regular meetings with them, we will have an opportunity to explore their comments here I'm sure.", "speakerName": "Gareth Pierce" }, { "text": "Looking at the structure and the relationship between Qualifications Wales and the WJEC—. I understand in the model in England—you've got Ofqual, the regulator, and you have various competing exam boards, some I think with for-profit motivation. We don't have that in Wales; there is a sole regulator and a single, dominant examination board. Does that mean that there's significant overlap and potentially cost duplication between the work of the two bodies, particularly given WJEC is a charity and seems to have many of the same objectives as you in Qualifications Wales have?", "speakerName": "Mark Reckless AM" }, { "text": "The roles are very distinct, so I'd tell you there's no overlap. What we try and do is try and make sure that there's a good connection between the work that we do. WJEC has very clear responsibilities around the delivery of qualifications. We have a role in monitoring to ensure that those qualifications are delivered securely and fairly. I would say a strength of the Welsh model is that there is an independent regulator and a single awarding body largely, because much of the work that Ofqual would need to do in terms of its maintenance of standards is about ensuring that the competition between awarding bodies doesn't lead to what's been termed in the past as a race to the bottom in terms of standards. Now, the opportunity that we have in Wales is, where we have a single awarding body, we can have a close and good working relationship with WJEC, but guarding very strongly to make sure that we keep that regulatory distance to make sure that we preserve our role as the regulator and look at WJEC as one of our regulated bodies.", "speakerName": "Philip Blaker" }, { "text": "Can I make a general point? Perhaps the important opportunity in Wales is to look anew at how national and regional organisations, such as the consortia, can collaborate to make a success of the broad range of resources and CPD that will be required to support the new curriculum, and also the next set of qualifications that will be reformed. We've referred to many organisations today, but there are others. The Welsh Books Council, for example, is part of this discussion. The Learned Society of Wales is a player that wants to introduce ideas into the Welsh dimension of the curriculum. There was mention of the HE sector earlier. Teachers' associations have very specific comments to make on some of these areas. There is a great opportunity for us to come together and to have a national approach. There will be a need for some financial resource from the Welsh Government—yes, certainly—and the WJEC can provide some resources, but I think we all want to collaborate in order to ensure the success of the next round of resources.", "speakerName": "Gareth Pierce" }, { "text": "But doesn't that national approach and collaboration preclude the model that Philip was talking about earlier, where we had textbooks based on the curriculum, and there's that core, but that was separate from what the exam body decided to do and the textbook wasn't there for the particular exam approach? If you have a single, dominant exam board, and you have a Welsh curriculum that's developed with that board, how do you then have this separation between textbook and exam?", "speakerName": "Mark Reckless AM" }, { "text": "So, if we look at qualification, a qualification should be based on the curriculum that's being offered, because learning should be based around the curriculum, and the role of the qualification is to measure attainment against knowledge of that curriculum—knowledge, skills and understanding, the dispositions that that curriculum is trying to develop. So, I think there are two very distinct things. Now, of course, what will inevitably happen is once the curriculum is known and developed, there will be a level of detail that comes across from what the qualification is looking for. I think what we're trying to say is, from an educational perspective, what we'd like to see is a broader focus on the curriculum and less of a narrow focus on the qualification and some of the problems that that can drive, so that, if a learner is well-versed in the curriculum and has been taught well and has acquired the knowledge, skills and dispositions that the curriculum is trying to create, they should succeed in the qualification.", "speakerName": "Philip Blaker" }, { "text": "And you suggested earlier that, if need be, the qualification could be pushed back a year, but not the curriculum. Does that mean that it would be possible to teach the new curriculum while keeping the old qualification?", "speakerName": "Mark Reckless AM" }, { "text": "It would be possible.", "speakerName": "Philip Blaker" }, { "text": "But satisfactory?", "speakerName": "Mark Reckless AM" }, { "text": "Because, if we're looking at qualifications predominantly being 14 to 16, what Professor Donaldson said at the very beginning, with'Successful Futures', was, actually, if the curriculum is preparing people better for that qualification stage, so that they're better versed as learners and better able to perform in those qualifications and we see a rise of attainment—. Ideally, you'd be in a position where you've got GCSEs that have been reformed to marry up to any change, but I don't see there being a huge problem in itself of a delay if we think that is the right thing to do. Clearly, we consider that to be a sub-optimal thing. We would much rather be in a position of having reforms, but, equally, I'd want to see any reforms delivered safely, and I wouldn't want to compromise fairness and safety of delivery of those qualifications on the basis of a timeline. But I think all too often the case is that a timeline dominates over doing what is the right thing and I think as we get further into this we'll have to really assess and keep a grip of what's the right thing to do.", "speakerName": "Philip Blaker" }, { "text": "Thank you.", "speakerName": "Mark Reckless AM" }, { "text": "Very briefly, Darren.", "speakerName": "Lynne Neagle AM" }, { "text": "Just on this issue of shaping the curriculum and making sure that we've got textbooks that can be used to support the delivery of the curriculum—. So, obviously, the WJEC's interested in the examinations and the qualifications. That's your role as well in terms of Qualifications Wales. So, who should be responsible for developing these curriculum resources?", "speakerName": "Darren Millar AM" }, { "text": "I think, for a new model, that needs to be determined. Welsh Government has a role in curriculum at the moment. They have responsibility for curriclum and they've already started work with the seminar last year, and then drawing people together now to look at a new model for the future. I think we need to evolve that approach, and I think Welsh Government taking a lead on some of this thinking about how things might be prepared for the future is probably a good position to be in at the moment.", "speakerName": "Philip Blaker" }, { "text": "Are there any other models that you can point us to in terms of how these things are done elsewhere?", "speakerName": "Darren Millar AM" }, { "text": "Yes, there are models where you can have—. For example, in Northern Ireland, you have the regulator, the awarding body and the curriculum body all under one roof. So, you can have a position where everything is tied together as it is in Northern Ireland with the Council for the Curriculum, Examinations and Assessment. Equally, if you look at somewhere like Hong Kong, you have very distinct bodies that are looking after each individual component. So, there are lots of different models that can be developed. But, of course, in Wales, and also previously in England, the qualifications regulator has also had a responsibility for curriculum. So, there has been that model in the past in Wales.", "speakerName": "Philip Blaker" }, { "text": "Just very briefly.", "speakerName": "Gareth Pierce" }, { "text": "Really quickly, please.", "speakerName": "Lynne Neagle AM" }, { "text": "Just one thing very briefly, in terms of the WJEC. I mentioned earlier that, in the past, the WJEC has produced a fair few resources in collaboration with publishers in key stage 3 and even at primary stages. Certainly, key stage 3 is closely linked to GCSE, and, therefore, if the WJEC continues to be a player—as I hope it will—in the area of resources for GCSE and A-level, then the WJEC is also well positioned in terms of our investment in editing, translating and the use of technology to contribute to key stage 3 most certainly and perhaps even the primary stages. So, I'm sure that the WJEC would want to offer itself as a national organisation that wants to contribute as best we can in this area.", "speakerName": "Gareth Pierce" }, { "text": "Okay. Thank you very much. Well, we're out of time, so can I thank you very much for attending this morning and for answering all our questions? I think it's been a very useful and informative session. As usual, you'll be sent a transcript to check for accuracy, following the meeting. But thank you very much, again, for your attendance.", "speakerName": "Lynne Neagle AM" }, { "text": "Thank you very much.", "speakerName": "Gareth Pierce" }, { "text": "Item 4 is papers to note. In view of the time, can I ask whether Members are happy to note all those papers in a block? Can I just flag that I would like to return to paper to note 3, which is the letter from the Cabinet Secretary for Education on minority ethnic, Gypsy, Roma and Traveller learners, when we go into private, if that's okay with Members? Item 5, then, is for me to propose, in accordance with Standing Order 17.42, that the committee resolves to meet in private for the remainder of the meeting. Are Members content? Thank you.", "speakerName": "Lynne Neagle AM" } ] }

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{ "meetingId": "Bmr009", "transcriptSegments": [ { "text": "Starts No. No.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "No. That's a different thing.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "There's another I don't know. It starts with a P or something. I forget the word for it, but it's it's um", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Oh.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Typically when you you're ab r starting around forty for most people, it starts to harden and then it's just harder for the lens to shift things", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Oh.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "and th the the symptom is typically that you you have to hold stuff uh uh further away to to see it.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Uh - huh. Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "In fact, uh m my brother's a gerontological psychologist and he he uh came up with an an uh a uh body age test which uh gets down to sort of only three measurements that are good enough st statistical predictors of all the rest of it. And one of them is is the distance that you have to hold it at.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Give someone a piece of paper and then they Oh.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "We're we're live by the way, so we've got a good intro here", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "Oh. Yeah. About how old I am.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Yep.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "OK.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "We can edit that out if you want.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "Oh, that's optional.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "No, that's OK.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "OK. So. This time the form discussion should be very short,", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "You know.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "right?", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "It also should be later.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "OK.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "Because Jane uh is not here yet.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Good point.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "And uh she'll be most interested in that. Uh, she's probably least involved in the signal - processing stuff so maybe we can just just uh, I don't think we should go though an elaborate thing, but um uh Jose and I were just talking about the uh uh, speech e energy thing,", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "The @ @.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "and I uh.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "We didn't talk about the derivatives. But I think, you know, the the i if I can if you don't mind my my speaking for you for a bit, um Uh. Right now, that he's not really showing any kind of uh distinction, but uh but we discussed a couple of the possible things that uh he can look at. Um. And uh one is that uh this is all in log energy and log energy is basically compressing the distances uh between things. Um Another is that he needs to play with the the different uh uh temporal sizes. He was he he was taking everything over two hundred milliseconds uh, and uh he's going to vary that number and also look at moving windows, as we discussed before. Um And uh and the other thing is that the yeah doing the subtracting off the mean and the variance in the uh and dividing it by the standard deviation in the log domain, may not be the right thing to do.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Hi Jane!", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "Hi.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "We just started.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Could you take that mike there?", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "Are these the long term means? Like, over the whole I mean, the means of what?", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Thanks.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "Uh B Between between.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "All the frames in the conversation?", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "No.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Or of things that.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Between Neither. It's uh between the pauses uh for some segment.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "No.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Oh.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "And so i i his his He's making the constraint it has to be at least two hundred milliseconds.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Oh.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "And so you take that. And then he's he's uh measuring at the frame level still at the frame level, of what.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "and then and then just uh normalizing with that larger amount. um and But one thing he was pointing out is when he he looked at a bunch of examples in log domain, it is actually pretty hard to see the change. And you can sort of see that, because of j of just putting it on the board that if you sort of have log - X plus log - X, that's the log of X plus the log of two", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Yep.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Yeah, maybe it's not log distributed.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Mmm. Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "and it's just, you know, it it diminishes the effect of having two of them.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Um.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "But you could do like a C D F there instead? I mean, we don't know that the distribution here is normally.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Yes, right. So So what I was suggesting to him is that.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "So just some kind of a simple.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Actually, a PDF. But, you know, uh But, either way.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "PDF", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Yeah. Yeah, eith eith uh B", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Something like that where it's sort of data driven.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Yeah, but I think also u I think a good first indicator is when the the the researcher looks at examples of the data and can not see a change in how big the the signal is, when the two speaker.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Yeah. Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Then, that's a problem right there. So. I think you should at least be able,", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Oh yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "doing casual looking and can get the sense, \" Hey, there's something there. \" and then you can play around with the measures. And when he's looking in the log domain he's not really seeing it.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Oh yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "So. And when he's looking in straight energy he is, so that's a good place to start.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Um. So that was that was the discussion we just had. Um. The other thing Actually we ca had a question for Adam in this. Uh, when you did the sampling? uh over the speech segments or s or sampling over the the individual channels in order to do the e uh the amplitude equalization, did you do it over just the entire everything in the mike channels?", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "How.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "You didn't try to find speech?", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "No, I just took over the entire s uh entire channel um sampled ten minutes randomly.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "Right, OK. So then that means that someone who didn't speak very much would be largely represented by silence.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Yep.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "And someone who would who would be So the normalization factor probably is i i i is is.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Yeah, this was quite quick and dirty, and it was just for listening.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "And for listening it seems to work really well.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "OK.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "So.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "Yeah. But that's.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "But, it's not Not a good measure.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "Right. So th", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "OK. So yeah there there there There's a good chance then given that different people do talk different amounts that there is there there is still a lot more to be gained from gain norm normalization with some sort", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Yeah. Yeah. Mmm.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Yes, absolutely.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "if if we can figure out a way to do it.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Uh. But we were agreed that in addition to that uh there should be s stuff related to pitch and harmonics and so forth.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "So we didn't talk at all about uh the other derivatives, but uh again just just looking at Uh, I think uh Liz has a very good point, that in fact it would be much more graphic just to show Well, actually, you do have some distributions here, uh for these cases.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Yeah. Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "You have some histograms, um and uh, they don't look very separate.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "uh separated.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "This is the the first derivate of log of frame energy uh without any kind of normalization.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "What.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Log energy. Sorry.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "These the These are the the first experiments uh with comment uh", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Frame energy.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Except that it's hard to judge this because the they're not normalized. It's just number of frames.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "But yeah, even so.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "W I mean, what I meant is, even if you use linear, you know, raw measures, like raw energy or whatever,", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "\" Number \".", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "maybe we shouldn't make any assumptions about the distribution's shape, and just use you know, use the distribution to model the the mean, or what y you know, rather than the mean take some.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Yeah. But And so in in these he's got that.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "He's got some pictures. But he doesn't he doesn't in the he i", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "just in derivatives, but not in the.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Yeah. Oh.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "but he d but he doesn't doesn't.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Right. So, we don't know what they look like on the, tsk For the raw.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "But he didn't h have it for the energy. He had it for the derivatives. Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Yeah. So. I mean, there might be something there. I don't know.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Huh.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Interesting", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "Here I I", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Oh that yeah that's a good q", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "in No I I I haven't the result", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "did did you have this sort of thing, for just the just the l r uh the the unnormalized log energy? OK. Yeah. So she she's right.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "but it's the it's the the the following.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "That's a.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Well it might be just good to know what it looks like.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Yeah. That's That's uh cuz I'd mentioned scatter plots before but she's right,", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Cuz.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Huh?", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "I mean, even before you get the scatter plots, just looking at a single feature uh, looking at the distribution, is a good thing to do.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Yeah. Catal - uh Combining the different possibilities of uh the parameters. I I I I mean the the the scatter plot combining eh different n two combination.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Yeah, but but what she's saying is, which is right, is le", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "combination of two, of energy and derivate.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "I mean, let's start with the Before we get complicated, let's start with the most basic wh thing, which is we're arguing that if you take energy uh if you look at the energy, that, when two people are speaking at the same time, usually there'll be more energy than when one is right?", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "That's that sort of hypothesis.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "That's right.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "And the first way you'd look at that, uh s she's, you know, absolutely right, is that you would just take a look at the distribution of those two things, much as you've plotted them here,", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "You know, but just but just just uh do it.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Well in this case you have three. You have the silence, and that that's fine.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "So, uh with three colors or three shades or whatever, just just look at those distributions.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "And then, given that as a base, you can see if that gets improved, you know, or or or worsened by the looking at regular energy, looking at log energy, we were just proposing that maybe it's you know, it's harder to see with the log energy, um and uh also these different normalizations, does a particular choice of normalization make it better?", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "But I had maybe made it too complicated by suggesting early on, that you look at scatter plots because that's looking at a distribution in two dimensions. Let's start off just in one, uh, with this feature.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Yeah. Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "I think that's probably the most basic thing, before anything very complicated.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Um And then we w I think we're agreed that pitch - related things are are are going to be a a really likely candidate to help.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Yeah. I agree, yeah. Uh - huh.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Um But since uh your intuition from looking at some of the data, is that when you looked at the regular energy, that it did in fact usually go up, when two people were talking, that's eh you know, you should be able to come up with a measure which will match your intuition.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "OK. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah, yeah, yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "And she's right, that a that having a having having this table, with a whole bunch of things, with the standard deviation, the variance and so forth, it's it's it's harder to interpret than just looking at the the same kind of picture you have here.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "But Uh - huh. Yeah. But It it's curious but uh I f I found it in the in the mixed file, in one channel that eh in several oh e eh several times eh you have an speaker talking alone with a high level of energy", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm. Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "eh in the middle eh a zone of overlapping with mmm less energy", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "and eh come with another speaker with high energy", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "and the overlapping zone has eh less energy.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Yeah. So there'll be some cases for which.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Because there reach very many", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "But, the qu So So they'll be.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "This is I w want to point to visual things, But I mean they there'll be time There'll be overlap between the distributions, but the question is, \" If it's a reasonable feature at all, there's some separation. \"", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Yeah. Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Especially locally.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "So. Locally.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "just locally, yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "And I was just going to say that that right now we're just exploring.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "And the other thing is I Sorry. I.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "What you would imagine eventually, is that you'll feed all of these features into some discriminative system.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "And so even if if one of the features does a good job at one type of overlap, another feature might do a good job at another type of overlap.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Right. I mean the the reason I had suggested the scatter f p features is I used to do this a lot, when we had thirteen or fifteen or twenty features to look at.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Yeah, this is the.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "um Because something is a good feature uh by itself, you don't really know how it'll behave in combination and so it's nice to have as many as many together at the same time as possible in uh in some reasonable visual form. There's cool graphic things people have had sometimes to put together three or four in some funny funny way. But it's true that you shouldn't do any of that unless you know that the individual ones, at least, have have some uh some hope", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Well, especially for normalizing.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "I mean, it's really important to pick a normalization that matches the distribution for that feature.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "And it may not be the same for all the types of overlaps or the windows may not be the same. e Actually, I was wondering, right now you're taking a all of the speech, from the whole meeting, and you're trying to find points of overlap, but we don't really know which speaker is overlapping with which speaker,", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "right? So I mean another way would just be to take the speech from just, say, Morgan, And just Jane and then just their overlaps,", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "like but by hand, by cheating, and looking at you know, if you can detect something that way, because if we can't do it that way, there's no good way that we're going to be able to do it.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "No prayer.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "That You know, there might be something helpful and cleaner about looking at just individuals and then that combination alone.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Plus, I think it has more elegant e", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "The m the right model will be easier to see that way. So if I don't know, if you go through and you find Adam, cuz he has a lot of overlaps and some other speaker who also has e enough speech", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "and just sort of look at those three cases of Adam and the other person and the overlaps,", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "maybe and just look at the distributions, maybe there is a clear pattern", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "but we just can't see it because there's too many combinations of of people that can overlap.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Uh - huh. Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "I had the same intuition last last last week.", "speakerName": "Postdoc B" }, { "text": "So. Just seems sort of complex.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "I think it's to start with it's s your your idea of simplifying, starting with something that you can see eh you know without the extra layers of.", "speakerName": "Postdoc B" }, { "text": "Right. Cuz if energy doesn't matter there, like I don't think this is true, but what if", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "To study individual?", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Sorry, what?", "speakerName": "Postdoc B" }, { "text": "Hmm?", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "To study individual?", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Well, you you you don't have to study everybody individually", "speakerName": "Postdoc B" }, { "text": "Well, to study the simplest case to get rid of extra.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "The the the But Consider.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "but just simple case and the one that has the lot of data associated with it.", "speakerName": "Postdoc B" }, { "text": "Right. Cuz what if it's the case and I don't think this is true.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "That was a great overlap by the way.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "What if it's the case that when two people overlap they equate their you know, there's a conservation of energy and everybody both people talk more softly? I don't think this happens at all.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Or or what if what if the equipment what if the equipment adjusts somehow,", "speakerName": "Postdoc B" }, { "text": "Or they get louder.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "there's some equalizing in there?", "speakerName": "Postdoc B" }, { "text": "Yeah or.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Uh, no we don't have that.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "I mean.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Well, but But I think that's what I was saying about different types of overlap.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "OK.", "speakerName": "Postdoc B" }, { "text": "But.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Saturation.", "speakerName": "Postdoc B" }, { "text": "There are there are different types, and within those types, like as Jose was saying, that sounded like a backchannel overlap, meaning the kind that's a friendly encouragement, like \" Mm - hmm. \", \" Great! \", \" Yeah! \"", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "And it doesn't take you don't take the floor. Um, but, some of those, as you showed, I think can be discriminated by the duration of the overlap.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "So. It Actually the s new student, Don, who um Adam has met, and he was at one of our meetings He's getting his feet wet and then he'll be starting again in mid - January. He's interested in trying to distinguish the types of overlap. I don't know if he's talked with you yet. But in sort of honing in on these different types", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Yeah. I don't consi Now I don't consider that possibility.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "and So maybe.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "This is a s a general studio of the overlapping we're studying the i", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Yeah. Well I I I I would s actually still recommend that he do the overall thing", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "So it might be something that we can help by categorizing some of them and then, you know, look at that.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "because it would be the quickest thing for him to do. He could You see, he already has all his stuff in place,", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "he has the histogram mechanism, he has the stuff that subtracts out and all he has to do is change it uh uh from from log to plain energy and plot the histogram and look at it. And then he should go on and do the other stuff bec but But this will.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Yeah. Yeah, no. I didn't mean that that for you to do that, but I was thinking if if Don and I are trying to get categories", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm. Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "and we label some data for you, and we say this is what we think is going So you don't have to worry about it. And here's the three types of overlaps.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "And we'll we'll do the labelling for you.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Hm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Um.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Consider different class of overlap?", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Yeah, that we would be working on anyway.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "If there's time.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Then maybe you can try some different things for those three cases, and see if that helps, or.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Yeah. Yeah. This is the thing I I comment with you before, that uh we have a great variation of th situation of overlapping.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "And the behavior for energy is, uh log energy, is not uh the same all the time.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "And.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "But I guess I was just saying that that right now uh from the means that you gave, I don't have any sense of whether even, you know, there are any significant number of cases for which there is distinct and I would imagine there should be some you know, there should be The distributions should be somewhat separated.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Yeah. Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Uh and I I would still guess that if they are not separated at all, that there's some there's there's most likely something wrong in the way that we're measuring it.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Yeah. Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Um, but um For instance, I mean I wouldn't expect that it was very common overall, that when two people were talking at the same time, that it would that it really was lower,", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "although sometimes, as you say, it would.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "So. So.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Yeah, no, that was That was a jok", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "or a sort of, a case where where you would never know that unless you actually go and look at two individuals.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "I mean. No. It could it probably does happen sometimes.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "Yeah. Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Mind if I turned that light off?", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "So.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "The flickering is annoying me.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "OK.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "It might the case, though, that the significant energy, just as Jose was saying, comes in the non - backchannel cases. Because in back Most people when they're talking don't change their own energy when they get a backchannel, cuz they're not really predicting the backchannel.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "And sometimes it's a nod and sometimes it's an \" mm - hmm \".", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "And the \" mm - hmm \" is really usually very low energy.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "So maybe those don't actually have much difference in energy. But all the other cases might.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "e e and and again what they what difference there was would kind of be lost in taking the log,", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "and the backchannels are sort of easy to spot s in terms of their words or I mean, just listen to it.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "So.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "so, as well.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Well, it would be lost no matter what you do.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "But Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "It just.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Mmm, no, if it's if i if it's.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Tone", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "Well, it won't be as big.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "I mean, even if you take the log, you can your model just has a more sensitive measures.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Sure, but tone might be very", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "So.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Yeah, you're \" mm - hmm \" tone is going to be very different.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "Yeah. Right. Right.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "You could imagine doing specialized ones for different types of backchannels, if you could if you had a good model for it. Your \" mm - hmm \" detector.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "If if you're a I guess my point is, if you're doing essentially a linear separation, taking the log first does in fact make it harder to separate.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "So it's So, uh if you i i So i if there if there close to things it does", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "it's a nonlinear operation that does in fact change the distinction. If you're doing a non if you're doing some fancy thing then then yeah. And right now we're essentially doing this linear thing by looking across here and and saying we're going to cut it here. Um and that that's the indicator that we're getting. But anyway, yeah, we're not disagreeing on any of this, we should look at it more uh more finely, but uh uh I think that This often happens, you do fairly complicated things, and then you stand back from them and you realize that you haven't done something simple. So uh, if you generated something like that just for the energy and see, and then, a a a as as Liz says, when they g have uh uh smaller um, more coherent groups to look at, that would be another interesting thing later.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Uh - huh.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "And then that should give us some indication between those, should give us some indication of whether there's anything to be achieved f from energy at all.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Uh - huh.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "And then you can move on to the uh uh more pitch related stuff.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm. I I I think this is a good idea.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "OK.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Postdoc B" }, { "text": "Not consider the log energy.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Yeah. But then the Have you started looking at the pitch related stuff at all, or? Pitch related?", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "The?", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Harmonicity and so on?", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "I I'm preparing the the program but I don't I don't begin because eh I saw your email", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Preparing to Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "and I agree with you it's better to I suppose it's better to to consider the the energy this kind of parameter bef", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Yeah. Oh, that's not what I meant. No, no. I I I I Well, we certainly should see this but I I I I think that the harm I certainly wasn't saying this was better than the harmonicity and pitch related things I was just saying", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "I I go on with the with the pitch,", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "aha! OK.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Yeah, I was just saying.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "I I I I understood uh that eh I I had to finish by the moment with the and and concentrate my my energy in that problem.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "OK. OK. OK. But I think, like, all these derivatives and second derivatives and all these other very fancy things, I think I would just sort of look at the energy and then get into the harmonicity as as a suggestion.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "OK. I go on with the pitch.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Uh OK. So maybe uh since w we're trying to uh compress the meeting, um, I know Adam had some form stuff he wanted to talk about and did you have some?", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "I wanted to ask just s something on the end of this top topic. So, when I presented my results about the uh distribution of overlaps and the speakers and the profiles of the speakers, at the bottom of that I did have a proposal,", "speakerName": "Postdoc B" }, { "text": "Uh - huh.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "and I had plan to go through with it, of of co coding the types of overlaps that people were involved in s just with reference to speaker style so, you know, with reference.", "speakerName": "Postdoc B" }, { "text": "Oh.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "and you know I said that on my in my summary,", "speakerName": "Postdoc B" }, { "text": "That'd be great.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "that you know so it's like people may have different amounts of being overlapped with or overlapping", "speakerName": "Postdoc B" }, { "text": "Yeah, I remem Right.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "but that in itself is not informative without knowing what types of overlaps they're involved in so I was planning to do a taxonomy of types overlaps with reference to that.", "speakerName": "Postdoc B" }, { "text": "That would be great.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "So, but it you know it's like it sounds like you also have uh something in that direction.", "speakerName": "Postdoc B" }, { "text": "That would be really great.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Hmm.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "Is is it.", "speakerName": "Postdoc B" }, { "text": "We have nothing You know, basically, we got his environment set up. He's he's a double - E you know. So. It's mostly that, if we had to label it ourselves, we we would or we'd have to, to get started, but if It it would be much better if you can do it. You'd be much better at doing it also because you know, I I'm not I don't have a good feel for how they should be sorted out,", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Interesting.", "speakerName": "Postdoc B" }, { "text": "and I really didn't wanna go into that if I didn't have to. So if If you're w willing to do that or or.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "It would be interesting, though, to talk, maybe not at the meeting, but at some other time about what are the classes.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "Well maybe we can OK.", "speakerName": "Postdoc B" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Postdoc B" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Postdoc B" }, { "text": "I think that's a research effort in and of itself,", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Yeah, it would be interesting.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "because you can read the literature, but I don't know how it'll turn out", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "and, You know, it's always an interesting question.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "It seems like we also s with reference to a purpose, too, that we we'd want to have them coded.", "speakerName": "Postdoc B" }, { "text": "I would think it's interesting, yeah. Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "That'd be great.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Yep.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "OK.", "speakerName": "Postdoc B" }, { "text": "That'd be really great.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "I can do that.", "speakerName": "Postdoc B" }, { "text": "And we'd still have some funding for this project,", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "uh uh", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "like probably, if we had to hire some like an undergrad, because uh Don is being covered half time on something else.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Postdoc B" }, { "text": "I mean, he we're not paying him the full RA - ship for all the time. So. um If we got it to where we wanted we needed someone to do that I don't think there's really enough data where where.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm. Yeah, I see this as a prototype, to use the only the the already transcribed meeting as just a prototype.", "speakerName": "Postdoc B" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "I I think a a another parameter we c we we can consider is eh the duration.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "But.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "Another e e m besides eh the the class of overlap, the duration. Because is possible eh some s s um eh some classes eh has eh a type of a duration, eh, a duration very short uh when we have we have overlapping with speech.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Postdoc B" }, { "text": "Yeah, definitely.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Yeah, maybe It may be correlated. Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Postdoc B" }, { "text": "Is possible to have. And it's interesting, I think, to consider the the window of normalization, normalization window. Eh because eh if we have a type of, a kind of eh overlap, eh backchannel overlap, with a short duration, is possible eh to normali i i that if we normalize eh with eh eh consider only the the eh window eh by the left eh ri eh side on the right side overlapping with a a very eh oh a small window eh the if the fit of normalization is eh mmm bigger eh in that overlapping zone eh very short", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Postdoc B" }, { "text": "Yeah, that's true. The window shouldn't be larger than the backchannel.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "I I me I I understand. I mean that you have eh you have a backchannel, eh, eh you have a overlapping zone very short", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "and you consider eh n eh all the channel to normalize this very short eh.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm. Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "for example \" mmm mm - hmm hmm \" eh And the energy is not eh height eh I think if you consider all the channel to normalize and the channel is mmm bigger eh eh eh compared with the with the overlapping eh duration,", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "eh the effect is mmm stronger eh that I I mean the the e effect of the normalization eh with the mean and the and the variance eh is different that if you consider only a window compared eh with the n the duration of overlapping.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm. You you want it around the overlapping part.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Not Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "You want it to include something that's not in overlapping", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Postdoc B" }, { "text": "but but uh", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Yeah. I I don't know.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Is s If.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Well it's a sliding window, right? So if you take the the measure in the center of the overlapped piece, you know, there'd better be some something.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Yeah. Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "But if your window is really huge then yeah you're right you won't even.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Yeah, This is the This is the the idea, to consider only the the small window near near near the the overlapping zone.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "The portion of the of the backchannel won't won't effect anything. But you Yeah. So. You know, you shouldn't be more than like You should definitely not be three times as big as your as your backchannel.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Postdoc B" }, { "text": "Then you're gonna w have a wash. And hopefully it's more like on the order of.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "I'm not sure that's necessarily true.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Yeah?", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "It is an empirical question, it seems like.", "speakerName": "Postdoc B" }, { "text": "Because because it because um again if you're just compensating for the gain,", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Yea", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Postdoc B" }, { "text": "you know, the fact that this this gain thing was crude, and the gain wh if someone is speaking relatively at consistent level, just to to give a an extreme example, all you're doing is compensating for that. And then you still s And then if you look at the frame with respect to that, it still should should uh change", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Yeah, it depends how different your normalization is, as you slide your window across.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "I mean. That's something we don't know.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "It's possible to try it both ways,", "speakerName": "Postdoc B" }, { "text": "Well, I mean we're also talking about a couple of different things.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "isn't it? in this small", "speakerName": "Postdoc B" }, { "text": "I mean, one is your analysis window and then the other is any sort of normalization that you're doing.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "Yeah I was talking about the n normalization window.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "And the And they could be quite different.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "This was sort of where where we were last week.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Yep.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "Yeah. That's true. Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "But, anyway We we'll have to look at some core things.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "OK.", "speakerName": "Postdoc B" }, { "text": "Um. But that'd be great if if you're marking those", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "OK.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Great.", "speakerName": "Postdoc B" }, { "text": "and um.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "OK.", "speakerName": "Postdoc B" }, { "text": "But it is definitely true that we need to have the time marks,", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Postdoc B" }, { "text": "and I was assuming that will be inherited because, if you have the words and they're roughly aligned in time via forced alignment or whatever we end up using, then you know, this student and I would be looking at the time marks", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Yep, I agree. Mm - hmm. Coming off of the other.", "speakerName": "Postdoc B" }, { "text": "and classifying all the frames inside those as whatever labels Jane gave", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Good. So, it wouldn't be I wasn't planning to label the time marks.", "speakerName": "Postdoc B" }, { "text": "I can give you my transcription file,", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "I was thinking that that would come from the engineering side,", "speakerName": "Postdoc B" }, { "text": "I don't think you need to.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "no?", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "yeah.", "speakerName": "Postdoc B" }, { "text": "Yeah. That should be linked to the words which are linked to time somehow,", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "There you go.", "speakerName": "Postdoc B" }, { "text": "Well we're not any time soon going to get a forced alignment.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "right? Not now.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "So.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Um If it's not hand - marked then we're not going to get the times.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "Well, it's something that w Well, we we wouldn't be able to do any work without a forced alignment anyway,", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Yes", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "so somehow if once he gets going we're gonna hafta come up with one", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Yes.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "and Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "I mean w I guess we could do a very bad one with Broadcast News.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "Good. Good.", "speakerName": "Postdoc B" }, { "text": "So whatever you would label would be attached to the words, I think.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Great! Good, good. Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Postdoc B" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Well again for the close mike stuff, we could come up take a s take the Switchboard system or something,", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "That might be good enough. Yeah.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "and Um", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "It'd be worth a try. It would be interesting to see what we get.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "Just, you know, low - pass filter the speech and.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Cuz there's there's a lot of work you can't do without that, I mean, how how would you.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "You'd have to go in and measure every start and stop point next to a word", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Yep.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "It would be very inefficient.", "speakerName": "Postdoc B" }, { "text": "is y if you're interested in anything to do with words.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Postdoc B" }, { "text": "So. Anyway So that'd be great.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Good. OK.", "speakerName": "Postdoc B" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "There's something we should talk about later but maybe not just now. But, uh, should talk about our options as far as the uh uh transcription", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Yep, if IBM doesn't.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "But. Well, w But we'll do that later.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "OK. Good.", "speakerName": "Postdoc B" }, { "text": "Do we hafta turn.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Yeah. Let's do that later.", "speakerName": "Postdoc B" }, { "text": "Are we supposed to keep recording here?", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Yeah Right.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Postdoc B" }, { "text": "We'll talk about it later.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Postdoc B" }, { "text": "So uh Uh \" forms \".", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Forms Next iteration of forms.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "You had something on forms.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Oops.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "Oh! Oh good, OK.", "speakerName": "Postdoc B" }, { "text": "Um. Oh.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "How So it's two pages per person?", "speakerName": "Postdoc B" }, { "text": "Nope. One's a digit form, one's a speaker form.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "Oh!", "speakerName": "Postdoc B" }, { "text": "So one is a one time only speaker form and the other is the digits.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "Oh, I see.", "speakerName": "Postdoc B" }, { "text": "Oh it's the same. Oh no no. Is is new Is OK.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "So don't fill these out.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "Alright.", "speakerName": "Postdoc B" }, { "text": "This is just the suggestion for uh what the new forms would look like. So, they incorporate the changes that we talked about.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "Date and time. Uh why did you switch the order of the Date and Time fields? This is rather a low - level, but", "speakerName": "Postdoc B" }, { "text": "On which one?", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "On on the new one, Time comes first and then Date, but I thought.", "speakerName": "Postdoc B" }, { "text": "Oh you mean on the digit form?", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "This is this is rather a low level question, but but it used used to be Date came first.", "speakerName": "Postdoc B" }, { "text": "Uh, because the user fills out the first three fields and I fill out the rest.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "Oh I see.", "speakerName": "Postdoc B" }, { "text": "So it was intentional.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "Well, how would the How would the user know the time if they didn't know the date?", "speakerName": "Postdoc B" }, { "text": "It's an interesting observation, but it was intentional. Because the date is when you actually read the digits and the time and, excuse me, the time is when you actually read the digits, but I'm filling out the date beforehand. If you look at the form in front of you? that you're going to fill out when you read the digits? you'll see I've already filled in the date but not the time.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "Yeah. I always assumed So the time is supposed to be pretty exact, because I've just been taking beginning time time of the meeting.", "speakerName": "Postdoc B" }, { "text": "Yeah, me too.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Yeah, I've noticed that in the forms.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "Yeah, I yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "The the reason I put the time in, is so that the person who's extracting the digits, meaning me, will know where to look in the meeting, to try to find the digits.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "Me too. Oh!", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Oh dear. We've been we've been messing up your forms.", "speakerName": "Postdoc B" }, { "text": "But I am put I am putting the beginning of the meeting.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "I know.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "So you should call it, like, \" digits start time \". Or.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "And I haven't said anything. Yep.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "in on there.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Why What what were you putting in?", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Oh, well, I was saying if we started the meeting at two thirty,", "speakerName": "Postdoc B" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "I'd put two thirty, and I guess d e everyone was putting two thirty,", "speakerName": "Postdoc B" }, { "text": "Oh.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "No, it's about fifty fifty.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "and I didn't realize there was \" uh oh I'm about to read this and I should \".", "speakerName": "Postdoc B" }, { "text": "Actually it's about one third each. About one third of them are blank, about one third of them are when the digits are read, and about one third of them are when the meeting starts. So.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "Oh.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "This would be a radical suggestion but.", "speakerName": "Postdoc B" }, { "text": "I could put instructions? Nah.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "Ei - either that or maybe you could maybe write down when people start reading digits on that particular session.", "speakerName": "Postdoc B" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "But if I'm not at the meeting, I can't do that.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "I know, OK. That's a good point.", "speakerName": "Postdoc B" }, { "text": "Yeah, he's been setting stuff up and going away. So.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "I see. Good point good point.", "speakerName": "Postdoc B" }, { "text": "For some reason he doesn't want to sit through every meeting that's.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Yep, but that is the reason Name, Email and Time are where they are.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "Oh, OK. Alright.", "speakerName": "Postdoc B" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "I rest my.", "speakerName": "Postdoc B" }, { "text": "And then the others are later on.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "Uh - huh.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "OK. w", "speakerName": "Postdoc B" }, { "text": "And the Seat is this number?", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "Seat and Session.", "speakerName": "Postdoc B" }, { "text": "\" For official use only \" That's Well, he's very professional.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "\" use only \"", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Actually you could Well that does raise another question, which is why is the \" Professional use only \" line not higher? Why doesn't it come in at the point of Date and Seat? Oh. Because we're filling in other things.", "speakerName": "Postdoc B" }, { "text": "What?", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "What?", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Well, because If y your your professional use, you're gonna already have the date, and the s", "speakerName": "Postdoc B" }, { "text": "What which form are you talking about?", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "Well I'm comparing the new one with the old one. This is the digit form.", "speakerName": "Postdoc B" }, { "text": "Oh.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Oh you're talking about the digit form.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "Digit. Digit form.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "The digit form doesn't The digit.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "Oh! I wasn't supposed to.", "speakerName": "Postdoc B" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "No, that's alright.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "Sorry. Sorry.", "speakerName": "Postdoc B" }, { "text": "The digit form doesn't have a \" for official use only \" line. It just has a line, which is what you're supposed to read.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "That uh OK.", "speakerName": "Postdoc B" }, { "text": "So on the digits form, everything above the line is a fill - in form", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "Sorry about that. Yeah.", "speakerName": "Postdoc B" }, { "text": "and everything below the line is digits that the user reads.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "Yeah. OK. Alright s but I didn't mean to derail our discussion here, so you really wanted to start with this other form.", "speakerName": "Postdoc B" }, { "text": "No, either way is fine I just You just started talking about something, and I didn't know which form you were referring to.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "Alright yeah, I was comparing so th this is So I was looking at the change first. So it's like we started with this and now we've got a new version of it wi with reference to this. So the digit form, we had one already. Now the f the fields are slightly different.", "speakerName": "Postdoc B" }, { "text": "So the main thing that the person fills out um is the name and email and time?", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "You do the rest?", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Ah!", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Yep. Just as uh as I have for all the others.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "What And there's an addition of the native language, which is a bit redundant.", "speakerName": "Postdoc B" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "This one has Native Language and this one does too.", "speakerName": "Postdoc B" }, { "text": "That's because the one, the digit form that has native language is the old form not the new form.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "Oh! Thank you. Thank you, thank you. There we go.", "speakerName": "Postdoc B" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Oh, yeah. I'll catch up here. OK, I see.", "speakerName": "Postdoc B" }, { "text": "\" South Midland, North Midland \"", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "That's the old and that's the new.", "speakerName": "Postdoc B" }, { "text": "Yeah this was the problem with these categories, I I picked those categories from TIMIT. I don't know what those are.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "Actually, the only way I know is from working with the database and having to figure it out.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "What.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "With TIMIT, yeah?", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "uh - huh.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "So, I was gonna ask", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "What i", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "So is South Midland like Kansas?", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "wh w I mean.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "and North Midland like like uh Illinois, or?", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Well yeah. Nor - um.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "So so what accent are we speaking? Western?", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "By definition?", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "And for simple for for me?", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Well,", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Probably Western, yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Is mean my native language Spanish Spanish? eh The original is the center of Spain and the beca", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Yeah, I mean you could call it whatever you want. For the foreign language we couldn't classify every single one. So I just left it blank and you can put whatever you want.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "Because is different, the Span - uh the Spanish language from the the north of Spain, of the south, of the west and the.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Sure.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "But.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "So I'm not sure what to do about the Region field for English variety. You know, when I wrote I was writing those down, I was thinking, \" You know, these are great if you're a linguist \".", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "But I don't know how to I don't know how to I don't know how to categorize them.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Postdoc B" }, { "text": "Actually even if you t", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Postdoc B" }, { "text": "If you're if e if y", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "This wasn't developed by th these regions weren't.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "if you're a TI or MIT from nineteen eighty - five.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Yeah So I guess my only question was if if you were a South Midland speaking region, person? Would you know it?", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Is that what you would call yourself?", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "I don't know.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "You know, I think if you're talking if you're thinking in terms of places, as opposed to names different peop names people have given to different ways of talking, I would think North Midwest, and South Midwest would be more common than saying Midland, right, I mean, I I went to s", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Yeah. Now the usage Maybe we can give them a li like a little map? with the regions and they just No, I'm serious.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "No, that's not bad. Yeah.", "speakerName": "Postdoc B" }, { "text": "Because it takes less time, and it's sort of cute", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "i at this in that side in that side of the the paper.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "there's no figure.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Well.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Well just a little You know, it doesn't have all the detail, but you sort of.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "But what if you moved five times and and uh", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Well, I was thinking you could have ma multiple ones and then the amount of time.", "speakerName": "Postdoc B" }, { "text": "No, but you're categorized. That's the same.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "so, roughly. So. You could say, you know \" ten years on the east coast, five years on the west coast \" or something or other.", "speakerName": "Postdoc B" }, { "text": "Well, We I think we don't want to get that level of detail at this form. I think that's alright if we want to follow up. But.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "I guess we don't really know.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "I mean I As I said, I don't think there's a huge benefit to this region thing. It it gets The problem is that for some things it's really clear and usually listening to it you can tell right away if it's a New York or Boston accent, but New York and Boston are two well, I guess they have the NYC, but New England has a bunch of very different dialects and.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Postdoc B" }, { "text": "and so does um S So do other places.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Yeah, so I picked these regions cuz we had talked about TIMIT, and those are right from TIMIT.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "Right. And so these would be satisfying like a speech research community if we released the database,", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "So.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "but as to whether subjects know where they're from, I'm not sure because um I know that they had to fill this out for Switchboard. This is i almost exactly the same as Switchboard regions", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Oh. OK.", "speakerName": "Postdoc B" }, { "text": "or very close. Yeah. Um And I don't know how they filled that out. But th if Midland Yeah, Midland is the one that's difficult I guess.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "I think a lot of people Yeah.", "speakerName": "Postdoc B" }, { "text": "Also Northwest you've got Oreg - Washington and Oregon now which uh y people don't know if it's western or northern.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Yeah, I certainly don't. I mean, I was saying I don't even know what I speak.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "It's like Northwest", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Am I speaking Am I speaking Western?", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "Oh, what is Northern? Well and what and what's Northern?", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "I think originally it was North Northwest", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Northwest?", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "But.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Yeah, so this is a real problem. I don't know what to do about it.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "I wouldn't know how to characterize mine either. And and so I would think I would say, I've I've got a mix of California and Ohio.", "speakerName": "Postdoc B" }, { "text": "I c I think at the first level, for example, we speak the same.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "I don't know.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "our our dialects Or whatever you region are the same.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "Uh - huh.", "speakerName": "Postdoc B" }, { "text": "But I don't know what it is. So.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "Well, you have a like techno - speak accent I think.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "a techno - speak accent?", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "Yeah, you know?", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "A techno", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "A a geek region?", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "Well it's I mean I you can sort of identify", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Geek region.", "speakerName": "Postdoc B" }, { "text": "it f It's it's not not that that's.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Is different. Is different.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "but but maybe that maybe we could leave this and see what people See what people choose and then um let them just fill in if they don't I mean I don't know what else we can do, cuz That's North Midland.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "I'm wondering about a question like, \" Where are you from mostly? \"", "speakerName": "Postdoc B" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "But I I'm s I'm now that you mentioned it though, I am really am confused by \" Northern \".", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "I agree. I agree.", "speakerName": "Postdoc B" }, { "text": "I really am.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "I agree.", "speakerName": "Postdoc B" }, { "text": "I mean, if if you're in New England, that's North.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "If you're i if you're", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Scandinavian, the Minnesota area's north.", "speakerName": "Postdoc B" }, { "text": "Uh yeah. That's But that's also North Midland,", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Oh, @ @. OK.", "speakerName": "Postdoc B" }, { "text": "right?", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "And and and Oregon and and Oregon and Washington are are Western, but they're also Northern.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Yeah. Of course, that's very different from, like, Michigan, or.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Mmm.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Postdoc B" }, { "text": "uh, Idaho?", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Well there are hardly any subjects from Idaho.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Montana?", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "No problem.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "Just rule them out.", "speakerName": "Postdoc B" }, { "text": "There's only a few people in Idaho.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "There are hardly any subjects from \" beep \"", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Sorry.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Maybe Maybe we Maybe we should put a little map and say \" put an X on where you're from \",", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "No, that's.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "And is in those.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Yeah really.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "We could ask where they're from.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "And if you put.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "It'd be pretty simple, yeah.", "speakerName": "Postdoc B" }, { "text": "Yeah. But - We went back to that.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Yeah. If you put eh the state?", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Well well we sort of.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "Where are you from mostly?", "speakerName": "Postdoc B" }, { "text": "We we went we went around this and then a lot of people ended up saying that it.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Uh - huh. Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "You know.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Well, I like the idea of asking \" what variety of English do you speak \" as opposed to where you're from Because th if we start asking where we're from, again you have to start saying, \" well, is that the language you speak or is that just where you're from? \"", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Hmm?", "speakerName": "Postdoc B" }, { "text": "Right. Right.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Let's Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "I mean it gives us good information on where they're from, but that doesn't tell us anything.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "And.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "We could always ask them if they're from.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "well, enough about their.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "I mean. So so I would say Germany", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "like.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "You know am I speaking with German accent", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "Oh.", "speakerName": "Postdoc B" }, { "text": "I don't think so.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "Well, see, I'm thinking \" Where are you from mostly \"", "speakerName": "Postdoc B" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Oh, OK yeah.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "because, you know, then you have some some kind of subjective amount of time factored into it.", "speakerName": "Postdoc B" }, { "text": "Yeah. Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Yep. Yeah, I guess I could try to put squeeze in a little map.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "I mean there's not a lot of r of room", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "I'd say, uh, \" Boston, New York City, the South and Regular \".", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Well.", "speakerName": "Postdoc B" }, { "text": "Oh, I don't know.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "I think of those, Northern is the only one that I don't even know what they're meaning.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "Yeah. Yeah.", "speakerName": "Postdoc B" }, { "text": "And And Um And usually here people here know what is their kind of mmm lang English language?", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "That's a joke. That's.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "So let's make it up. S I mean, who cares. Right? We can make up our own So we can say \" Northwest \", \" Rest of West \" or something. You know. \" West \" and I mean.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Ye I don't think the Northwest people speak any differently than I do.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "It doesn't even Yeah, exactly. That's not really a region.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "I.", "speakerName": "Postdoc B" }, { "text": "\" Do you come from the Louisiana Purchase? \"", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "So we could take out \" North \" \" Northern \".", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "That that's exactly what we're arguing about.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "eh here Is easy for people to know?", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "That's Yeah, w It's In It's it's harder in America anywhere else, basically.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "We don't know.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "because you have.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "I mean some of them are very obvious. If you if you talk to someone speaking with Southern drawl, you know.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "N m Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Yeah, or Boston.", "speakerName": "Postdoc B" }, { "text": "Or Boston, yeah.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "I can't do it, but.", "speakerName": "Postdoc B" }, { "text": "Or Boston?", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "And those people, if you ask them to self - identify their accent they know.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Yeah, they do.", "speakerName": "Postdoc B" }, { "text": "They know very well.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Yeah I agree I agree. I agree.", "speakerName": "Postdoc B" }, { "text": "They know they don't speak the same as the", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "But is Boston New England?", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "And they're proud of it.", "speakerName": "Postdoc B" }, { "text": "day o", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Postdoc B" }, { "text": "Yeah, exactly.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "It's identity thing.", "speakerName": "Postdoc B" }, { "text": "And they're glad to tell you.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "style.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Well. Depends who you ask, I suppose.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "W I guess that's the problem with these categories.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "But that's why they have New York City but.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Well, we ca Well, why can't we just say characterize something like char characterize your accent", "speakerName": "Postdoc B" }, { "text": "Well, Boston's @ @, too.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Or \" Characterize your accent if you can. \"", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "and and so I would say, \" I don't know \".", "speakerName": "Postdoc B" }, { "text": "Yeah. Right, which probably means you have a very.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "But someone from Boston with a really strong coloration would know. And so would an R - less Maine or something,", "speakerName": "Postdoc B" }, { "text": "And that's actually good.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "yeah.", "speakerName": "Postdoc B" }, { "text": "I was I was thinking of something along that line", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "How", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Good.", "speakerName": "Postdoc B" }, { "text": "because if you don't know, then, you know, ruling out the fact that you're totally inept or something,", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Hmm.", "speakerName": "Postdoc B" }, { "text": "if somebody doesn't know, it probably means their accent isn't very strong compared to the sort of midwest standard.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Well, I mean, it wasn't that long ago that we had somebody here who was from Texas who was absolutely sure that he didn't have any accent left.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Hmm?", "speakerName": "Postdoc B" }, { "text": "And and had he had a pretty noticeable drawl.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "OK, so. I propose, take out Northern add, don't know.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "Oh. Yeah. I I would say more more sweepingly, \" how would you characterize your accent? \"", "speakerName": "Postdoc B" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "So you want to change the instructions also not just say region?", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "W", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Well, I think this discussion has made me think that's s something to consider.", "speakerName": "Postdoc B" }, { "text": "I don't know if I if I read this form, I think they're going to ask it they're going to answer the same way if you say, \" What's variety of English do you speak? Region. \" as if you say \" what variety of region region do you speak? Please characterize your accent? \" They're going to answer the same way.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "I guess Well, I was not sure that I.", "speakerName": "Postdoc B" }, { "text": "Mmm.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "So. I was suggesting not having the options, just having them.", "speakerName": "Postdoc B" }, { "text": "Oh, I see.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "Huh.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Well what we talked about with that is is so that they would understand the granularity.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "Yes, but if, as Liz is suggesting, people who have strong accents know that they do.", "speakerName": "Postdoc B" }, { "text": "I mean that's what I had before, and you told me to list the regions to list them.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "and are Well, I know.", "speakerName": "Postdoc B" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Each each one has pros and cons", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "So.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "That's true.", "speakerName": "Postdoc B" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "I mean we we.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Yeah last week last week I was sort of r arguing for having it wide open, but then everybody said \" Oh, no, but then it will be hard to interpret because some people will say Cincinnati and some will say Ohio \".", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "I mean I had it wide open last week and and you said TIMIT.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "And.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Postdoc B" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "What if we put in both?", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "That's what the \" Other \" is for.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "And Would people No, I mean what if we put in both ways of asking them? So. One is Region and the another one is \" if you had to characterize yourself your accent, what would you say? \"", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Won't they answer the same thing?", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "Well they might only answer only one of the questions but if", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Yeah that's fine.", "speakerName": "Postdoc B" }, { "text": "You know.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "They might say \" Other \" for Region because they don't know what category to use", "speakerName": "Postdoc B" }, { "text": "Actually.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "but they might have something.", "speakerName": "Postdoc B" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "because it is easier to have it open ended.", "speakerName": "Postdoc B" }, { "text": "It just And we we might learn from what they say, as to which one's a better way to ask it.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "W This is just a small thing", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "But I Cuz I really don't know..", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "but um It says \" Variety \" and then it gives things that e have American as one of the choices. But then it says \" Region \", but Region actually just applies to uh, US,", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "right?", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "I mean that's why I put the \" Other \" in.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "Well, we thought about it.", "speakerName": "Postdoc B" }, { "text": "Ah, OK.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Yeah, OK. We just We sort of thought, \" yes, \" y y I mean.", "speakerName": "Postdoc B" }, { "text": "S", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "At the last meeting, my recollection was that we felt people would have uh less that that there are so many types and varieties of these other languages and we are not going to have that many subjects from these different language groups", "speakerName": "Postdoc B" }, { "text": "Yep.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "and that it's a huge waste of of space.", "speakerName": "Postdoc B" }, { "text": "OK.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "So I mean, I I mean the way I had it last time was Region was blank,", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "That's what I thought.", "speakerName": "Postdoc B" }, { "text": "it just said Region colon.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Postdoc B" }, { "text": "And and I think that that's the best way to do it,", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Postdoc B" }, { "text": "because because of the problems we're talking about but what we said last week, was no, put in a list, so I put in a list. So should we go back to.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "Maybe we can make the list a little smaller.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Well, certainly dropping \" Northern \" I think is right, because none of us know what that is.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "Cuz, I mean And keeping \" Other \", and then maybe this North Midland, we call it \" North Midwest \". South Midwest, or just.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Yes I I I think so. Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "South Midwest. Does that make sense?", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "South Midwest?", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "That would help me.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "U unless you're from Midland, Kansas.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Yeah. Cuz Midland.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "But. Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "I don't know where Midland is", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "There's a Or Midland Midland.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Is \" Midwest \" one word?", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "Is it Midland Midland Midland, Texas or Midland, Kansas? I forget.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Y yeah, one w", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "But there's a town. in in there.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Oh.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "I forget what it is @ @.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "I don't think that's what they mean.", "speakerName": "Postdoc B" }, { "text": "But,", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "yeah. So. Kansas would be South Midland. Right?", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Y yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "And and wouldn't Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "And Colorado, right across the border, would be North Midland.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "So, th I'm from Kansas, actually.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Southern Midland..", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "And uh.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "Colora Oh, right. And then, the the dropping North, so it would be Western. It's just one big shebang, where, of course, you have huge variation in dialects,", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "But that's true of New England too.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "But you do in the others, too. So.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "but but so do you.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "So. I mean only one.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Yeah. Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Well, I shouldn't say that. I have no clue. I was going to say the only one that doesn't have a huge variety is New York City. But I have no idea whether it does or not.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "It does seem I mean. I I would think that these categories would be more w would be easier for an an analyst to put in rather than the subject himself.", "speakerName": "Postdoc B" }, { "text": "U", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "I think that that was what happened with TIMIT, was that it was an analyst.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "OK.", "speakerName": "Postdoc B" }, { "text": "Wait a minute. Where does Where does d w Where Where's where does uh New New York west of west of uh New York City and Pennsylvania uh and uh", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Yeah, I don't know how it came from.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "OK.", "speakerName": "Postdoc B" }, { "text": "New England", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "So. That's New England I think.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "N No, it's not.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Oh, no.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "I sort of thought they were part of the one of the Midlands.", "speakerName": "Postdoc B" }, { "text": "Oh no. No, no. No. Pennsylvania is not.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "\" Other \", it goes under \" Other \", definitely under \" Other \".", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "Well, you know, Pennsylvania has a pretty strong dialect and it's totally different than.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Pennsylvania Yeah. Pennsylvania is not New England. and uh New Jersey is not New England and Maryland is not New England and none of those are the South.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "OK. So. Another suggestion. Rather than have circle fill in forms, say \" Region, open paren, E G Southern comma Western comma close paren colon. \"", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "Yeah. OK.", "speakerName": "Postdoc B" }, { "text": "OK!", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Fine by me, fine by me.", "speakerName": "Postdoc B" }, { "text": "That's good. I like that.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Sure!", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Postdoc B" }, { "text": "We're all sufficiently tired of this that we're agreeing with you.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Let's just And we'll see what we get.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Be easier on the subjects. I think that's fine. No. I think.", "speakerName": "Postdoc B" }, { "text": "So.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "I like that. I like that.", "speakerName": "Postdoc B" }, { "text": "You like it?", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Yeah, I do.", "speakerName": "Postdoc B" }, { "text": "OK.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Actually, maybe we do one non - English one as well.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "Good.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Southern, Cockney?", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "Yeah, and.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Is that a real accent?", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "Sure, yeah!", "speakerName": "Postdoc B" }, { "text": "How do you spell it?", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "I think that's fine.", "speakerName": "Postdoc B" }, { "text": "Cockney?", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "N E", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "CO Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "You could say Liverpool.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Liverpuddlian.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Yeah. Alright.", "speakerName": "Postdoc B" }, { "text": "Actually, Liverpool doesn't l Yeah. It's I'm s I ha", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Well. Well. I mean, pure.", "speakerName": "Postdoc B" }, { "text": "OK, we'll do it that way. Actually, I like that a lot. Because that get's at both of the things we were trying to do,", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "OK.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "the granularity, and the person can just self - assess and we don't have to argue about what these regions are.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "That's right. And it's easy on the subjects.", "speakerName": "Postdoc B" }, { "text": "OK.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Yep.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "Now I have one suggestion on the next section.", "speakerName": "Postdoc B" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "So you have native language, you have region, and then you have time spent in English speaking country. Now, I wonder if it might be useful to have another open field saying \" which one parenthesis S paren closed parenthesis \". Cuz if they spent time in in Britain and America.", "speakerName": "Postdoc B" }, { "text": "Yes.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "It doesn't have to be ex all at all exact, just in the same open field format that you have.", "speakerName": "Postdoc B" }, { "text": "Yep, just which one. I think that's fine.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm. with a with an S", "speakerName": "Postdoc B" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "\" which one sss, optional S.", "speakerName": "Postdoc B" }, { "text": "OK.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Postdoc B" }, { "text": "We uh We done?", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Yep.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "Yeah, that's good.", "speakerName": "Postdoc B" }, { "text": "OK. um s e Any any other uh open mike topics or should we go right to the digits?", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Um, did you guys get my email on the multitrans? That OK.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "Isn't that wonderful! Yeah.", "speakerName": "Postdoc B" }, { "text": "Yeah. So. So. I I have a version also which actually displays all the channels.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "Excellent! Thank you!", "speakerName": "Postdoc B" }, { "text": "It's really great.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "But it's hideously slow.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "So you this is n Dan's patches, Dan Ellis's patches.", "speakerName": "Postdoc B" }, { "text": "The what the ones I applied, that you can actually do are Dan's, because it doesn't slow it down.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "M", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Fantastic!", "speakerName": "Postdoc B" }, { "text": "Just uses a lot of memory.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "So when you say \" slow \", does that mean to.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "No, the the one that's installed is fine. It's not slow at all. I wrote another version. Which, instead of having the one pane with the one view, It has multiple panes with the views.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "But the problem with it is the drawing of those waveforms is so slow that every time you do anything it just crawls.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Postdoc B" }, { "text": "It's really bad.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "It's So, it it's the redrawing of the w", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "That's a consideration.", "speakerName": "Postdoc B" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "oh uh - huh, w as you move.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "As you play, as you move, as you scroll. Just about anything, and it it was so slow it was not usable. So that's why I didn't install it and didn't pursue it.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "And this'll be a hav having the multiwave will be a big help cuz in terms of like disentangling overlaps and things, that'll be a big help.", "speakerName": "Postdoc B" }, { "text": "Oh yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "So. I think that the one Dan has is usable enough.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "It doesn't display the others. It displays just the mixed signal.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Postdoc B" }, { "text": "But you can listen to any of them.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "That's excellent. He also has version control which is another nice", "speakerName": "Postdoc B" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "e so you e the patches that you.", "speakerName": "Postdoc B" }, { "text": "No, he suggested that, but he didn't It's not installed.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "Oh, I thought it was in one of those patches.", "speakerName": "Postdoc B" }, { "text": "No. No.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "Oh OK. Well. Alright.", "speakerName": "Postdoc B" }, { "text": "So is there any hope for actually displaying the wave form?", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Um, not if we're going to use Tcl - TK At least not if we're going to use Snack.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "OK.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "I mean you would have to do something ourselves.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "Well, or use the one that crawls.", "speakerName": "Postdoc B" }, { "text": "OK. Well, I'm I probably would be trying to use the whatever's there. And it's useful to have the.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Why don't we we see how Dan's works and if it If we really need the display.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "Yeah. I mean. I wonder I'm just wondering if we can display things other than the wave form. So. Suppose we have a feature a feature stream. And it's just, you know, a a uni - dimensional feature, varying in time.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "And we want to plot that, instead of the whole wave form.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "I mean.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "That might be faster.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Right?", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "We we could do that but that would mean changing the code.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "So.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "I mean this isn't a program we wrote.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "This is a program that we got from someone else, and we've done patches on.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "OK.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Postdoc B" }, { "text": "OK. Well, I'll talk to you about it and we can see", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "So.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "Cou - i e I mean, y", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "but it's definitely great to have the other one.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "If there was some Is there some way to have someone write patches in something faster and and link it in, or something?", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "That's.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Not easily.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "Or is that.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "I mean y yes we could do that. You could you can write widgets in C. And try to do it that way but I just don't think it.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Let's try it with Dan's and if that isn't enough, we can do it otherwise.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "I think it is, cuz when I was playing with it, the mixed signal has it all in there. And so it's really It's not too bad to find places in the in the stream where things are happening.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "OK.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "So I I don't think it'll be bad.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "And it's also also the case that that uh this multi - wave thing is proposed to the.", "speakerName": "Postdoc B" }, { "text": "Hmm?", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "So. Dan proposed it to the Transcriber central people, and it's likely that uh So. And and they responded favorably looks as though it will be incorporated in the future version.", "speakerName": "Postdoc B" }, { "text": "Oh.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "They said that the only reason they hadn't had the multi the parallel uh stream one before was simply that they hadn't had time to do it. And uh so it's likely that this this may be entered into the ch this central @ @.", "speakerName": "Postdoc B" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "And if if.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "They may well have not had much demand for it.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Well that's that's that's true, too.", "speakerName": "Postdoc B" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "This is a a useful thing for us.", "speakerName": "Postdoc B" }, { "text": "So. You mean they could they could do it and it would be fast enough if they do it?", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Depends on how much work they did.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "Oh. No. I just mean I just mean that it's that that his.", "speakerName": "Postdoc B" }, { "text": "Or?", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Oh.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "So. This one that we now have does have the status of potentially being incorporated l likely being incorporated into the central code.", "speakerName": "Postdoc B" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm. OK.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Now, tha Now, if we develop further then, y uh, I don't.", "speakerName": "Postdoc B" }, { "text": "I think if if if one of us sat down and coded it, so that it could be displayed fast enough I'm sure they would be quite willing to incorporate it.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "I mean it's I think it's a nice feature to have it set that way. Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Postdoc B" }, { "text": "But it's not a trivial task.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm. Yeah.", "speakerName": "Postdoc B" }, { "text": "OK.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "I just like the idea of it being something that's, you know, tied back into the original, so that other people can benefit from it.", "speakerName": "Postdoc B" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "Yeah. However. I also understand that you can have widgets that are very useful for their purpose and that you don't need to always go that w route. Yeah.", "speakerName": "Postdoc B" }, { "text": "OK.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "anyway, shall we do digits?", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Postdoc B" }, { "text": "Yeah. Let's do digits, uh, and then we'll turn off the mikes, and then I have one other thing to discuss.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "OK.", "speakerName": "Postdoc B" }, { "text": "OK.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "I actually have to leave. So. Um. I mean I had to leave at three thirty,", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Uh - oh.", "speakerName": "Postdoc B" }, { "text": "OK.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "Oh.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "so I can Well, I can wait for the digits but I can't stay for the discussion", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Well, you want to go first? Or.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "I c I have to make a call.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "OK.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "So.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Well, should we e should we switch off the g", "speakerName": "Postdoc B" }, { "text": "Well, we'll talk to you about it Uh", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Do you wanna go do digits or do you wanna just skip digits?", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "Um. No, I can do digits if if But I don't wanna butt in, or something.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Then Alright. You go ahead.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "But if there's something on the rest of the I'm I'll be around just have to make call before quarter of. So.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "So I Or we can talk about it.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Ke", "speakerName": "Postdoc B" }, { "text": "Why don't you read the digits?", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "Yeah, why don't you read the digits and then you can go.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "OK. Alright. Oh, this is the new one.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Yeah, don't Don't read the old one.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Alright. The And the time is. OK.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "OK", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "Turn it off.", "speakerName": "Postdoc B" }, { "text": "OK.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "But wait till he OK.", "speakerName": "Postdoc B" }, { "text": "And", "speakerName": "Grad A" } ] }

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{ "meetingId": "Bmr024", "transcriptSegments": [ { "text": "st", "speakerName": "Grad H" }, { "text": "So we're on.", "speakerName": "Grad F" }, { "text": "Yeah. That's better.", "speakerName": "Grad H" }, { "text": "And, somewhere is my agenda. I think the most important thing is Morgan wanted to talk about, uh, the ARPA demo.", "speakerName": "Grad F" }, { "text": "Well, so, here's the thing. Um, why don't we s again start off with with, uh, Yeah, I'll get it. I'll get the door. Um, I think we want to start off with the agenda. And then, given that, uh, Liz and Andreas are gonna be ten, fifteen minutes late, we can try to figure out what we can do most effectively without them here. So So so, one thing is, yeah, talk about demo,", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "OK. So, uh uh, IBM transcription status,", "speakerName": "Grad F" }, { "text": "IBM transcription. Uh, what else?", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "What's SmartKom? SmartKom?", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "Uh, we wanna talk about if w if we wanna add the data to the mar Meeting Recorder corpus.", "speakerName": "Grad F" }, { "text": "The data. The data which we are collecting here.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "What what what are we collecting here?", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "Data?", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "So why don't we have that on the agenda and we'll we'll get to it and talk about it?", "speakerName": "Grad F" }, { "text": "The SmartKom data?", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Yeah, right.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Uh, right. Uh.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "Uh, reorganization status.", "speakerName": "Grad F" }, { "text": "Reorganization status.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "Oh. Files and directories?", "speakerName": "Postdoc A" }, { "text": "Files and directories.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "Yep. Uh - huh. Absinthe, which is the multiprocessor UNIX Linux. I think it was Andreas wanted to talk about segmentation and recognition, and update on SRI recognition experiments.", "speakerName": "Grad F" }, { "text": "Um.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "And then if ti if there's time I wanted to talk about digits, but it looked like we were pretty full, so I can wait till next week.", "speakerName": "Grad F" }, { "text": "Right. OK. Well, let's see. I think the a certainly the segmentation and recognition we wanna maybe focus on when An - Andreas is here since that was particularly his thing.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "And also the SmartKom thing should b", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "SmartKom also, Andreas. Absinthe, I think also he has sort of been involved in a lot of those things.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "At least,", "speakerName": "Grad F" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "yeah, he'll t he'll probably be interested.", "speakerName": "Grad F" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "But.", "speakerName": "Grad F" }, { "text": "Um So, I mean, I think they'll be inter I'll be interested in all this, but but, uh, probably, if we had to pick something that we would talk on for ten minutes or so while they're coming here. Or I guess it would be, you think, reorganization status, or?", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "Yeah. I mean, I think, Chuck was the one who added out the agenda item. I don't really have anything to say other than that we still haven't done it.", "speakerName": "Grad F" }, { "text": "Well, I mean, I uh just basically that.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "So.", "speakerName": "Grad F" }, { "text": "maybe I said maybe we said this before just that we met and we talked about it and we sort of have a plan for getting things organized and.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "And I and I think a crucial part of that is the idea of of not wanting to do it until right before the next level zero back - up so that there won't be huge number of of added,", "speakerName": "Postdoc A" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "uh.", "speakerName": "Postdoc A" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "Grad F" }, { "text": "That that was basically it. Not not much @ @.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Although Dave basically said that if we wanna do it, just tell him and he'll do a d level zero then.", "speakerName": "Grad F" }, { "text": "Yeah. Uh - huh. Oh, excellent.", "speakerName": "Postdoc A" }, { "text": "So.", "speakerName": "Grad F" }, { "text": "Oh, good.", "speakerName": "Postdoc A" }, { "text": "Oh, so maybe we should just go ahead and get everything ready, and.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Yep. So, I think we do need to talk a little bit about Well, we don't need to do it during this meeting.", "speakerName": "Grad F" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "We have a little more to discuss. But, uh, we're we're basically ready to do it. And, uh, I have some web pages on ts more of the background. So, naming conventions and things like that, that I've been trying to keep actually up to date. So. And I've been sharing them with U - d UW folks also.", "speakerName": "Grad F" }, { "text": "I'm sorry, you've been what? Showing them?", "speakerName": "Postdoc A" }, { "text": "OK.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "Sharing them.", "speakerName": "Postdoc A" }, { "text": "Sharing them with the UW folks.", "speakerName": "Grad F" }, { "text": "OK. OK.", "speakerName": "Postdoc A" }, { "text": "OK. Well, maybe uh, since that that was a pretty short one, maybe we should talk about the IBM transcription status. Someone can fill in Liz and Andreas later. Uh", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "OK. So, we, uh we did another version of the beeps, where we separated each beeps with a spoken digit. Chuck came up here and recorded some di himself speaking some digits, and so it just goes \" beep one beep \" and then the phrase, and then \" beep two beep \" and then the phrase. And that seems pretty good. Um, I think they'll have a b easier time keeping track of where they are in the file.", "speakerName": "Grad F" }, { "text": "And we have done that on the automatic segmentations.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "And we did it with the automatic segmentation, and I don't think We ne we didn't look at it in detail. We just sent it to IBM. We we sorta spot - checked it.", "speakerName": "Grad F" }, { "text": "I listened to probably, uh, five or ten minutes of it from the beginning.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Oh, really?", "speakerName": "Grad F" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "OK.", "speakerName": "Grad F" }, { "text": "And.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "I sorta spot - checked here and there and it sounded pretty good. So. I think it'll work.", "speakerName": "Grad F" }, { "text": "OK.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "And, uh, we'll just hafta see what we get back from them. Uh.", "speakerName": "Grad F" }, { "text": "And the main thing will be if we can align what they give us with what we sent them. I mean, that's the crucial part.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "Grad F" }, { "text": "And I think we'll be able to do that at with this new beep format.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Yep. Well, I think it's also they are much less likely to d have errors.", "speakerName": "Grad F" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "I mean, so the problem wi last time is that there were errors in the transcripts where they put beeps where there weren't any, or and they put in extraneous beeps.", "speakerName": "Grad F" }, { "text": "Right. Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "And with the numbers there, it's much less likely.", "speakerName": "Grad F" }, { "text": "Yeah, one interesting note is uh, or problem I dunno if this was just because of how I play it back, I say, uh, SND - play and then the file, every once in a while, @ @ uh, like a beep sounds like it's cut into two beeps.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Yeah. Into two pieces.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Yeah, and I I dunno if that's an, uh, artifact of playback.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Yeah. Yep.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "bu uh, I don't think it's probably in the original file. Um, but, uh.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "I recognize that, too. Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Ha. That's interesting. I didn't hear that.", "speakerName": "Grad F" }, { "text": "Yeah. But with this new format, um, that hopefully they're not hearing that, and if they are, it shouldn't throw them.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Yep.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "So.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Well, maybe we better listen to it again, make sure, but, I mean, certainly the software shouldn't do that,", "speakerName": "Grad F" }, { "text": "Yeah. That's what I thought.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "so.", "speakerName": "Grad F" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Postdoc A" }, { "text": "I it's probably just, you know, mmm, somehow the audio device gets hung for a second,", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Yeah. Some latency or something.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Hiccups.", "speakerName": "Grad F" }, { "text": "Yeah?", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "As long as they have one number, and they know that there's only one beep maximum that goes with that number.", "speakerName": "Postdoc A" }, { "text": "or.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Yeah. Right.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Yeah. The only the only part that might be confusing is when Chuck is reading digits.", "speakerName": "Grad F" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Yep.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Well, you know, actually, are we having them.", "speakerName": "Postdoc A" }, { "text": "So th", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "\" Seven four eight beep seven beep eight three two \".", "speakerName": "Grad F" }, { "text": "Yeah, but are we having them do digits?", "speakerName": "Postdoc A" }, { "text": "Yes. Because, uh, we don't we didn't In order to cut them out we'd have to listen to it.", "speakerName": "Grad F" }, { "text": "We we didn't cut those out.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Yeah. They are not transcribed yet. So. Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "OK.", "speakerName": "Postdoc A" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "And we wanted to avoid doing that,", "speakerName": "Grad F" }, { "text": "OK.", "speakerName": "Postdoc A" }, { "text": "so we they are transcribing the digits.", "speakerName": "Grad F" }, { "text": "OK.", "speakerName": "Postdoc A" }, { "text": "We can we can ignore it when we get it back,", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Although we could tell them we could tell them, if you hear someone reading a digits string just say \" bracket digit bracket \"", "speakerName": "Grad F" }, { "text": "huh.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "and don't bother actually computing the di writing down the digits.", "speakerName": "Grad F" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "That'd be great. That'd be what I'm having the transcribers here do, cuz it can be extracted later.", "speakerName": "Postdoc A" }, { "text": "Yep. And then I wanted to talk about but as I said I we may not have time what we should do about digits. We have a whole pile of digits that haven't been transcribed.", "speakerName": "Grad F" }, { "text": "Le - let's talk about it, because that's that's something that I I know Andreas is less interested in than Liz is,", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "OK.", "speakerName": "Grad F" }, { "text": "so, you know. It's good.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "Do we have anything else to say about transcription? About IBM stuff?", "speakerName": "Grad F" }, { "text": "Uh, Brian I I sent bresset sent Brian a message about the meeting and I haven't heard back yet. So. I g hope he got it and hopefully he's.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "OK.", "speakerName": "Grad F" }, { "text": "Hmm.", "speakerName": "Postdoc A" }, { "text": "maybe he's gone, I dunno. He didn't even reply to my message. So. I should probably ping him just to make sure that he got it..", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Alright. So, we have a whole bunch of digits, if we wanna move on to digits.", "speakerName": "Grad F" }, { "text": "Actually, maybe I One one relate more related thing in transcription. So that's the IBM stuff. We've got that sorted out. Um, how're we doing on the on the rest of it?", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "We're doing well. I I hire I've hired two extra people already, expect to hire two more.", "speakerName": "Postdoc A" }, { "text": "Hmm.", "speakerName": "Grad F" }, { "text": "And, um, I've prepared, um, uh, a set of five which I'm which I'm calling set two, which are now being edited by my head transcriber, in terms of spelling errors and all that. She's also checking through and mar and and monitoring, um, the transcription of another transcriber. You know, I mean, she's going through and doing these kinds of checks.", "speakerName": "Postdoc A" }, { "text": "Uh - huh.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "And, I've moved on now to what I'm calling set three. I sort of thought if I do it in sets groups of five, then I can have, like, sort of a a parallel processing through through the the current.", "speakerName": "Postdoc A" }, { "text": "Uh - huh.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "And and you indicated to me that we have a g a goal now, for the for the, um, the, uh, DARPA demo, of twenty hours. So, I'm gonna go up to twenty hours, be sure that everything gets processed, and released, and and that's that's what my goal is. Package of twenty hours right now, and then once that's done, move on to the next.", "speakerName": "Postdoc A" }, { "text": "Yeah, uh, so twenty hours. But I guess the other thing is that, um, that that's kinda twenty hours ASAP because the longer before the demo we actually have the twenty hours, the more time it'll be for people to actually do cool things with it.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm. Good. I'm I'm hiring people who, uh, really are.", "speakerName": "Postdoc A" }, { "text": "So. OK.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "They would like to do it full - time, several of these people. And and I don't think it's possible, really, to do this full - time, but, that what it shows is motivation to do as many hours as possible.", "speakerName": "Postdoc A" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "It'll keep your accuracy up. Yep.", "speakerName": "Grad F" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "And they're really excellent.", "speakerName": "Postdoc A" }, { "text": "Yeah. Well, that's good.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "Yeah. Got a good core group now.", "speakerName": "Postdoc A" }, { "text": "Yeah, I mean, I guess the So the difference if if, um, if the IBM stuff works out, the difference in the job would be that they p primarily would be checking through things that were already done by someone else?", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "Again. Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Postdoc A" }, { "text": "Is that most of what it?", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "And correcting.", "speakerName": "Grad F" }, { "text": "I mean Correcting.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "Correcting. We'll we'll expect that they'll have to move some time bins and do some corrections.", "speakerName": "Grad F" }, { "text": "And I you know, I've also d uh, discovered So with the new transcriber I'm um So Uh, lemme say that my, uh So, um At present, um, the people have been doing these transcriptions a channel at a time. And, that sort of, um, is useful, and t you know, and then once in a while they'll have to refer to the other channels to clear something up. OK. Well, I realize that, um, w i we we're using the pre - segmented version, and, um, the pre - segmented version is extremely useful, and wouldn't it be, useful also to have the visual representation of those segments? And so I've uh, I, uh, uh, I've trained the new one uh, the new the newest one, to, um, use the visual from the channel that is gonna be transcribed at any given time. And that's just amazingly helpful. Because what happens then, is you scan across the signal and once in a while you'll find a blip that didn't show up in the pre - segmentation.", "speakerName": "Postdoc A" }, { "text": "Oh, right.", "speakerName": "Grad F" }, { "text": "And that'll be something like I it's ver it's interesting.", "speakerName": "Postdoc A" }, { "text": "I see what you mean. A backchannel, or.", "speakerName": "Grad F" }, { "text": "Once in a while it's a backchannel.", "speakerName": "Postdoc A" }, { "text": "Yep.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Sometimes it seems to be, um, similar to the ones that are being picked up.", "speakerName": "Postdoc A" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Grad F" }, { "text": "And they're rare events, but you can really go through a meeting very quickly. You just you just, you know, yo you s you scroll from screen to screen, looking for blips. And, I think that we're gonna end up with, uh better coverage of the backchannels,", "speakerName": "Postdoc A" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "but at the same time we're benefitting tremendously from the pre - segmentation because there are huge places where there is just absolutely no activity at all. And, uh, the audio quality is so good.", "speakerName": "Postdoc A" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "So they can they can, um, scroll through that pretty quick?", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Yeah. Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Postdoc A" }, { "text": "That's great.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Yeah. So I think that that's gonna, also eh, you know, speed the efficiency of this part of the process.", "speakerName": "Postdoc A" }, { "text": "Hmm. OK. Uh, yeah. So, uh Yeah. So let's talk about the digits, since they're not here yet.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "Uh, so, we have a whole bunch of digits that we've read and we have the forms and so on, um, but only a small number of that ha well, not a small number only a subset of that has been transcribed. And so we need to decide what we wanna do. And, uh, Liz and Andreas actually they're not here, but, they did say at one point that they thought they could do a pretty good job of just doing a forced alignment. And, again, I don't think we'll be able to do with that alone, because, um, sometimes people correct themselves and things like that. But so, I was just wondering what people thought about how automated can we make the process of finding where the people read the digits, doing a forced alignment, and doing the timing.", "speakerName": "Grad F" }, { "text": "Well, forced alignment would be one thing. What about just actually doing recognition?", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "Well, we we know what they read, because we have the forms.", "speakerName": "Grad F" }, { "text": "No, they make mistakes.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "Right. But, the point is that we wanna get a set of clean digits.", "speakerName": "Grad F" }, { "text": "You're talking about as a pre - processing step.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "Right, Morgan?", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Um.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "Is that what you're?", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Yeah, I'm I'm not quite sure what I'm talking about. I mean I I mean, uh, we're talking about digits now. And and so, um, there's a bunch of stuff that hasn't been marked yet. Uh. And, um, there's the issue that that they we know what what was said, but do we?", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "I mean, so one option i", "speakerName": "Grad F" }, { "text": "Because people make mistakes and stuff. I was just asking, just out of curiosity, if if with, uh uh, the SRI recognizer getting one percent word error, uh, would we would we do better? So, if you do a forced alignment but the force but the but the transcription you have is wrong because they actually made mistakes, uh, or false starts, it's it's much less c it's much less common than one percent?", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "But that's pretty uncommon. Um, if we could really get one percent on.", "speakerName": "Grad F" }, { "text": "We should be able to.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "Well, I guess yeah, I guess if we segmented it, we could get one percent on digits.", "speakerName": "Grad F" }, { "text": "Right?", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Yeah. So that's just my question. I'm not saying it should be one way or the other, but it's If.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "But, Well, there there're a couple different of doing it. We could use the tools I've already developed and transcribe it. Hire some people, or use the transcribers to do it. We could let IBM transcribe it. You know, they're doing it anyway, and unless we tell them different, they're gonna transcribe it. Um, or we could try some automated methods.", "speakerName": "Grad F" }, { "text": "Well.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "And my my tendency right now is, well, if IBM comes back with this meeting and the transcript is good, just let them do it.", "speakerName": "Grad F" }, { "text": "Yeah, it's Y you raised a point, kind of, uh, euphemistically but, I mean, m maybe it is a serious problem. Ho - what will they do when they go hear \" beep seven beep seven three five two \" I mean, you think they'll we'll get?", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "It's pretty distinct.", "speakerName": "Grad F" }, { "text": "Yeah?", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "The beeps are pre - recorded.", "speakerName": "Grad F" }, { "text": "It'll only be a problem for m for mine.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Well it it well, it'd be preceded by \" I'm reading transcript so - and - so \"?", "speakerName": "Postdoc A" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Yes.", "speakerName": "Grad F" }, { "text": "So, I think if they're processing it at.", "speakerName": "Postdoc A" }, { "text": "I mean, it'll be it will be in the midst of a digit string.", "speakerName": "Grad F" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "So I mean it sure, there there might be a place where it's \" beep seven beep eight beep eight beep \". But, you know, they they're they're gonna macros for inserting the beep marks. And so, I I don't think it'll be a problem. We'll have to see, but I don't think it's gonna be a problem.", "speakerName": "Grad F" }, { "text": "OK. Well, I I I dunno, I I think that that's if they are in fact going to transcribe these things, uh, certainly any process that we'd have to correct them, or whatever is needs to be much less elaborate for digits than for other stuff.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "Grad F" }, { "text": "So, why not? Sure. That was it?", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "That was it. Just, what do we do with digits?", "speakerName": "Grad F" }, { "text": "OK.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "We have so many of them, and it'd be nice to actually do something with them.", "speakerName": "Grad F" }, { "text": "Well, we we we wanna have them. Yeah, I.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "You mean there're more than ten?", "speakerName": "PhD I" }, { "text": "Anything else? Your mike is a little low there.", "speakerName": "Grad F" }, { "text": "I in Berkeley, yeah. So, uh You you have to go a little early, right? At twenty.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "Well, I can stay till about, uh, three forty.", "speakerName": "PhD I" }, { "text": "Alright. So le let's make sure we do the ones that that, uh, saved you.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "Yeah. Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD I" }, { "text": "So there was some Uh In in Adam's agenda list, he had something from you about segmentation this last recognition?", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "Well, yeah. So this is just partly to inform everybody, um, and and of course to get, um, input.", "speakerName": "PhD I" }, { "text": "Oops.", "speakerName": "Grad F" }, { "text": "Um, so, uh, we had a discussion Don and Liz and I had discussion last week about how to proceed with, uh, you know, with Don's work,", "speakerName": "PhD I" }, { "text": "Ch", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "and and and, uh, one of the obvious things that occur to us was that we're since we now have Thilo's segmenter and it works, you know, amazingly well, um, we should actually basically re - evaluate the recognition, um, results using you know, without cheating on the segmentations.", "speakerName": "PhD I" }, { "text": "So.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "And, that should be fairly.", "speakerName": "PhD I" }, { "text": "And how do we find the transcripts for those so that? Yeah. The references for for those segments?", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Oh, OK. So, there's actually.", "speakerName": "PhD I" }, { "text": "It's not that.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Why do you ask?", "speakerName": "PhD I" }, { "text": "I could.", "speakerName": "Grad F" }, { "text": "No, actually, um, NIST has, um m a fairly sophisticated scoring program that you can give a, um a time,", "speakerName": "PhD I" }, { "text": "Hand ones.", "speakerName": "Grad F" }, { "text": "Well.", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "OK.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "uh You know, you basically just give two time - marked sequences of words, and it computes the um the, uh you know, the the th", "speakerName": "PhD I" }, { "text": "It does all the work for you.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "it does all the work for you.", "speakerName": "PhD I" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "OK.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "So, it we just and we use that actually in Hub - five to do the scoring. Um. So what we've been using so far was sort of a simplified version of the scoring. And we can we can handle the the the type of problem we have here.", "speakerName": "PhD I" }, { "text": "So, basically you give some time constraints for for the references and for for the hypothesis,", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "So, we ha Yeah. Right.", "speakerName": "PhD I" }, { "text": "and Yeah, OK.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "PhD I" }, { "text": "Maybe the start of your speech and the end of it,", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "So do", "speakerName": "PhD I" }, { "text": "OK.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "or stuff like that.", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "Right. It does time - constrained word - alignment.", "speakerName": "PhD I" }, { "text": "OK.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "So. So that should be possible. I mean that shouldn't be a problem. Uh, so that was the one thing, and the other was that, um What was the other problem? Oh! That Thilo wanted to use the recognizer alignments to train up his, um, speech detector.", "speakerName": "PhD I" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Um, so that we could use, uh you know there wouldn't be so much hand labelling needed to, uh to generate training data for for the speech detector.", "speakerName": "PhD I" }, { "text": "Yeah. I'm just in progress of of doing that. So.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "And I think you're in the process of doing that.", "speakerName": "PhD I" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "So, you can you can.", "speakerName": "PhD I" }, { "text": "It'll give you a lot more data, too. Won't it?", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Yeah. So, it's basically s I think, eight meetings or something which which I'm using, and, it's before it was twenty minutes of one meeting.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD I" }, { "text": "So should be a little bit better.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "PhD I" }, { "text": "Great.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "That won't be perfect the alignments aren't perfect,", "speakerName": "PhD I" }, { "text": "Yeah. But.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "but, um, it's probably still better to have all this extra data, than.", "speakerName": "PhD I" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "Yeah. Yep.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD I" }, { "text": "We'll see that.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD I" }, { "text": "OK.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "Actually, I had a question about that. If you find that you can lower the false alarms that you get where there's no speech, that would be useful for us to know. So, um.", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "There were the false alarms.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Yeah. So, r right now you get f fal you know, false false, uh, speech regions when it's just like, um, breath or something like that,", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "OK. Yeah. Yep.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "and I'd be interested to know the wha if you retrain um,", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "do those actually go down or not? Because of.", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "Yeah. I'll can make an can, like, make a c comparison of of the old system to the to the new one, and then.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Yeah, just to see if by doing nothing in the modeling of just having that training data wh what happens.", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "Yeah. Yeah. Yep.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Um another one that we had on Adam's agenda that definitely involved you was s something about SmartKom?", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "Right. So, Rob Porzel eh, Porzel? and the, uh Porzel and the, uh, SmartKom group are collecting some dialogues.", "speakerName": "Grad F" }, { "text": "Porzel. Porzel.", "speakerName": "PhD I" }, { "text": "Basically they have one person sitting in here, looking at a picture, and a wizard sitting in another room somewhere. And, uh, they're doing a travel task. And, uh, it involves starting I believe starting with a It's it's always the wizard, but it starts where the wizard is pretending to be a computer and it goes through a, uh, speech generation system.", "speakerName": "Grad F" }, { "text": "Yeah. Actually, it's changed to a synthesis for for the first part now.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Synthesis system.", "speakerName": "Grad F" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Um, and then, it goes to a real wizard and they're evaluating that. And they wanted to use this equipment, and so the w question came up, is well, here's some more data. Should this be part of the corpus or not? And my attitude was yes, because there might be people who are using this corpus for acoustics, as opposed to just for language. Um, or also for dialogue of various sorts. Um, so it's not a meeting. Right? Because it's two people and they're not face to face.", "speakerName": "Grad F" }, { "text": "Wait a minute. So, I just wanted to understand it, cuz I I'm uh, hadn't quite followed this process.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Um. So, it's wizard in the sen usual sense that the person who is asking the questions doesn't know that it's, uh, a machi not a machine?", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "PhD I" }, { "text": "At the beginning.", "speakerName": "Grad F" }, { "text": "Actually actually, w w the the We do this I dunno who came up with it, but I think it's a really clever idea. We simulate a computer breakdown halfway through the session, and so then after that, the person's told that they're now talking to a, uh to a human.", "speakerName": "PhD I" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "It's a human operator.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "But of course they don't know that it's the same person both times.", "speakerName": "Grad F" }, { "text": "So, we we collect we collect both human - computer and human - human data, essentially, in the same session.", "speakerName": "PhD I" }, { "text": "You might wanna try collecting it the other way around sometime, saying that th the computer isn't up yet", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "Hmm.", "speakerName": "Postdoc A" }, { "text": "and then so then you can separate it out whether it's the beginning or end kind of effects.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "That's an idea.", "speakerName": "PhD I" }, { "text": "But, yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "Yep.", "speakerName": "Grad F" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD I" }, { "text": "That's a good idea.", "speakerName": "Postdoc A" }, { "text": "\" I have to go now. You can talk to the computer. \"", "speakerName": "Grad F" }, { "text": "It's a lot more believable, too,", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "\" No! \"", "speakerName": "Grad F" }, { "text": "if you tell them that they're the computer part is running on a Windows machine. And the whole breakdown thing kinda makes sense.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "O Just just reboot it.", "speakerName": "PhD I" }, { "text": "Abort abort, retry, fail?", "speakerName": "Grad F" }, { "text": "So did they actually save the far - field data?", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "Yes.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Well, this was this was the question.", "speakerName": "Grad F" }, { "text": "Cuz at first they weren't they weren't sa", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD I" }, { "text": "So so they were saying they were not going to,", "speakerName": "Grad F" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "OK.", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "and I said, \" well that's silly, if if we're gonna try to do it for a corpus, there might be people who are interested in acoustics. \"", "speakerName": "Grad F" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "Wow.", "speakerName": "PhD I" }, { "text": "No.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Or.", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "projector We were not saying we are not doing it.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "S", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "We wer we just wanted to do.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "No, the the question is do we save one or two far - field channels or all of them?", "speakerName": "PhD I" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "Yeah. Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "I I see no reason not to do all of them.", "speakerName": "Grad F" }, { "text": "Um.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "That that if we have someone who is doing acoustic studies, uh, it's nice to have the same for every recording.", "speakerName": "Grad F" }, { "text": "Nnn. Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "Hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD I" }, { "text": "So, what is the purpose of this recording?", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD I" }, { "text": "This is to get acoustic and language model training data for SmartKom. OK.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "It's to be traini to b training data and development data for the SmartKom system.", "speakerName": "PhD I" }, { "text": "The English system? Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Yeah. Right. Right.", "speakerName": "PhD I" }, { "text": "Where does this?", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Maybe we can have him vary the microphones, too,", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "Well,", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "B", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "or they're different s speakers.", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "Right. So so so for their usage, they don't need anything.", "speakerName": "Grad F" }, { "text": "so why not?", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Right?", "speakerName": "Grad F" }, { "text": "But but I'm not sure about the legal aspect of of that. Is is there some contract with SmartKom or something about the data?", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD I" }, { "text": "What they or, is is that our data which we are collecting here,", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "We've never signed anything that said that we couldn't use anything that we did.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "or? OK. OK.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "We weren't supposed to collect any data.", "speakerName": "PhD I" }, { "text": "So. OK.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "So. Yeah, th th that was the question.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "This was all.", "speakerName": "PhD I" }, { "text": "If if? Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD I" }, { "text": "No that's not a problem.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "Basically.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "I L look, it seems to me that if we're doing it anyway and we're doing it for these these purposes that we have, and we have these distant mikes, we definitely should re should save it all as long as we've got disk space,", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD I" }, { "text": "and disk is pretty cheap.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "OK.", "speakerName": "PhD I" }, { "text": "So should we save it?", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "And then.", "speakerName": "Grad F" }, { "text": "Now th Yeah. So we save it because it's it it's potentially useful. And now, what do we do with it is is a s separate question.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "Grad F" }, { "text": "I mean, anybody who's training something up could choose to put it eh, to u include this or not.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "PhD I" }, { "text": "I I would not say it was part of the meetings corpus. It isn't. But it's some other data we have, and if somebody doing experiment wants to train up including that then they can. Right?", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD I" }, { "text": "So it's It it I guess it the begs the question of what is the meeting corpus. So if, at UW they start recording two - person hallway conversations is that part of the meeting corpus?", "speakerName": "Grad F" }, { "text": "I think it's I I think I th think the idea of two or more people conversing with one another is key.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "Well, this has two or more people conversing with each other.", "speakerName": "Grad F" }, { "text": "Nnn, well", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Well this.", "speakerName": "Postdoc A" }, { "text": "They're just not face to face.", "speakerName": "Grad F" }, { "text": "What if we just give it a a name like we give these meetings a name?", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "No, it doesn't. Right? It has.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "I mean, that was my intention.", "speakerName": "Grad F" }, { "text": "And then later on some people will consider it a meeting and some people won't,", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "Well this.", "speakerName": "Postdoc A" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "That was my intention. So so s so part of the reason that I wanted to bring this up is, do we wanna handle it as a special case or do we wanna fold it in,", "speakerName": "Grad F" }, { "text": "and Just give it a title.", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "Oh.", "speakerName": "Postdoc A" }, { "text": "I think it is a s", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "we give everyone who's involved as their own user ID, give it session I Ds, let all the tools that handle Meeting Recorder handle it, or do we wanna special case it? And if we were gonna special case it, who's gonna do that?", "speakerName": "Grad F" }, { "text": "So.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Well, it it makes sense to handle it with the same infrastructure, since we don't want to duplicate things unnecessarily.", "speakerName": "PhD I" }, { "text": "It it it.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "I think.", "speakerName": "Postdoc A" }, { "text": "But as far as distributing it, we shouldn't label it as part of this meeting corpus.", "speakerName": "PhD I" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "We should let it be its own corp", "speakerName": "PhD I" }, { "text": "Well it's it well, because.", "speakerName": "Postdoc A" }, { "text": "I don't see why not. It's just a different topic.", "speakerName": "Grad F" }, { "text": "I ha I have an extra point, which is the naturalness issue. Because we have, like, meetings that have a reason. That's one of the reasons that we were talking about this. And and those and this sounds like it's more of an experimental setup.", "speakerName": "Postdoc A" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "It's got a different purpose.", "speakerName": "Postdoc A" }, { "text": "It's scenario - based, it's it's human - computer interface it's really pretty different.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Postdoc A" }, { "text": "But I I I have no problem with somebody folding it in for some experiment they're gonna do, but I don't think i it it doesn't match anything that we've described about meetings.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Grad F" }, { "text": "Whereas everything that we talked about them doing at at UW and so forth really does. They're actually talking.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "OK. So w so what does that mean for how we are gonna organize things?", "speakerName": "Grad F" }, { "text": "Hmm.", "speakerName": "Postdoc A" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "You can you can Again, as as I think Andreas was saying, if you wanna use the same tools and the same conventions, there's no problem with that. It's just that it's, you know, different directory, it's called something different, it's you know. It is different. You can't just fold it in as if it's I mean, digits are different, too. Right?", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "Yeah, but those are folded in,", "speakerName": "Grad F" }, { "text": "It might also be potentially confusing.", "speakerName": "PhD I" }, { "text": "and it's just you just mark the transcripts differently. So so one option is you fold it in,", "speakerName": "Grad F" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "PhD I" }, { "text": "and just simply in the file you mark somewhere that this is this type of interaction, rather than another type of interaction.", "speakerName": "Grad F" }, { "text": "Yeah, I th", "speakerName": "PhD I" }, { "text": "Well, I don I wouldn't call reading digits \" meetings \". Right? I mean, we we we were doing.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "Well, but but, I put it under the same directory tree.", "speakerName": "Grad F" }, { "text": "Well.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "You know, it's in \" user doctor speech data MR \".", "speakerName": "Grad F" }, { "text": "Can we just have a directory called, like, \" other stuff \"?", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "Other.", "speakerName": "Grad F" }, { "text": "And Well or, I dunno.", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "I mean, I don't care what directory tree you have it under.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "And and just, um, store it there.", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "Right? I mean that's just a.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "OK. My preference is to have a single procedure so that I don't have to think too much about things.", "speakerName": "Grad F" }, { "text": "Yes.", "speakerName": "PhD I" }, { "text": "I mean.", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "And, just have a marking.", "speakerName": "Grad F" }, { "text": "O - You you can use whatever procedure you want that's p convenient for you.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "If we do it any other way that means that we need a separate procedure, and someone has to do that.", "speakerName": "Grad F" }, { "text": "All I'm saying is that there's no way that we're gonna tell people that reading digits is meetings. And similarly we're not gonna tell them that someone talking to a computer to get travel information is meetings.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "Grad F" }, { "text": "Those aren't meetings. But if it makes it easier for you to pu fold them in the same procedures and have them under the same directory tree, knock yourself out.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "There's a couple other questions that I have too,", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "You know?", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "and and one of them is, what about, uh, consent issues? And the other one is, what about transcription? Are?", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Transcription is done in Munich.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "OK. So we don't have to worry about transcribing it?", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Alright.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "So, w we will hafta worry about format.", "speakerName": "Grad F" }, { "text": "That's a that's another argument to keep it separate, because it's gonna follow the SmartKom transcription conventions and not the ICSI meeting transcription conventions.", "speakerName": "PhD I" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Oh, OK.", "speakerName": "Grad F" }, { "text": "Ah. Good point.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "OK. Well, I didn't realize that. That's that's a.", "speakerName": "Grad F" }, { "text": "Good point. But I'm sure no one would have a problem with our folding it in for some acoustic modeling or or some things. Um. Do we h do we have, uh, um, American - born folk, uh, reading German German, uh, pla uh, place names and so forth? Is that?", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Exactly.", "speakerName": "PhD I" }, { "text": "Yeah, great.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Yep.", "speakerName": "Grad F" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD I" }, { "text": "They they even have a reading list.", "speakerName": "Grad F" }, { "text": "I bet that sounds good, huh?", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "It's pretty funny.", "speakerName": "Grad F" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD I" }, { "text": "You can do that if you want.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "OK.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "I dunno if you want that.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD I" }, { "text": "Hmm.", "speakerName": "Postdoc A" }, { "text": "Heidelberg", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "So.", "speakerName": "Grad F" }, { "text": "Exactly", "speakerName": "PhD I" }, { "text": "Disk might eventually be an issue so we might we we might need to, uh, get some more disk pretty soon.", "speakerName": "Grad F" }, { "text": "Do you wanna be a subject?", "speakerName": "PhD I" }, { "text": "Yeah, I be pretty good.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "We Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD I" }, { "text": "We're about we're about half halfway through our disk right now.", "speakerName": "Grad F" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "That was one of our concerns.", "speakerName": "PhD I" }, { "text": "Are we only half? I thought we were more than that.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "We're probably a little more than that because we're using up some space that we shouldn't be on. So, once everything gets converted over to the disks we're supposed to be using we'll be probably, uh, seventy - five percent.", "speakerName": "Grad F" }, { "text": "Well, when I was looking for space for Thilo, I found one disk that had, uh, I think it was nine gigs and another one had seventeen.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Yep.", "speakerName": "Grad F" }, { "text": "And everything else was sorta committed. Uh.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Were those backed - up or non - backed - up?", "speakerName": "Grad F" }, { "text": "Those were non - backed - up.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Non - back - up.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Right. So that's different.", "speakerName": "Grad F" }, { "text": "S oh, you're talking about backed - up.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "I'm much more concerned about the backed - up. The non - backed - up,", "speakerName": "Grad F" }, { "text": "I haven't looked to see how much of that we have.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "yeah, i is cheap. I mean, if we need to we can buy a disk, hang it off a s uh, workstation. If it's not backed - up the sysadmins don't care too much.", "speakerName": "Grad F" }, { "text": "Yeah. So, I mean, pretty much anytime we need a disk, we can get it at the rate that we're.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "You can I shouldn't be saying this, but, you can just you know, since the back - ups are every night, you can recycle the backed - up diskspace.", "speakerName": "PhD I" }, { "text": "Yeah. But that's that's that's risky.", "speakerName": "Grad F" }, { "text": "Yeah. You really shouldn't be saying.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "Mmm. Mmm.", "speakerName": "Grad F" }, { "text": "I didn't say that.", "speakerName": "PhD I" }, { "text": "Yeah, that's right.", "speakerName": "Grad F" }, { "text": "I didn't say that.", "speakerName": "PhD I" }, { "text": "Beep that out.", "speakerName": "Grad F" }, { "text": "Da - we had allowed Dave to listen to these these, uh, recordings.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "PhD I" }, { "text": "Um Yeah, I me and there's been this conversation going on about getting another file server, and and we can do that.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD I" }, { "text": "We'll take the opportunity and get another big raft of of disk, I guess.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "Yeah. It's really the back - up issue rather than the file server issue.", "speakerName": "Grad F" }, { "text": "Well, I think I think there's an argument for having you know, you could use our old file server for for disks that have data that is very rarely accessed, and then have a fast new file server for data that is, um, heavily accessed.", "speakerName": "PhD I" }, { "text": "Yeah. My understanding is, the issue isn't really the file server.", "speakerName": "Grad F" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD I" }, { "text": "We could always put more disks on.", "speakerName": "Grad F" }, { "text": "Yeah. It's the back it's the back - up capaci", "speakerName": "PhD I" }, { "text": "It's the back - up system.", "speakerName": "Grad F" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD I" }, { "text": "So which is near saturation, apparently. So.", "speakerName": "Grad F" }, { "text": "I think I think the file server could become an issue as we get a whole bunch more new compute machines.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Soon.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "And we've got, you know, fifty machines trying to access data off of Abbott at once.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Well, we're alright for now because the network's so slow.", "speakerName": "Grad F" }, { "text": "I mean, I think I think we've raised this before and someone said this is not a reliable way to do it, but the What about putting the stuff on, like, C - CD - ROM or DVD or something?", "speakerName": "PhD I" }, { "text": "Yeah. That was me. I was the one who said it was not reliable. The - they they wear out.", "speakerName": "Grad F" }, { "text": "OK. Oh, OK.", "speakerName": "PhD I" }, { "text": "Yeah. The the th", "speakerName": "Grad F" }, { "text": "But they wear out just from sitting on the shelf?", "speakerName": "PhD I" }, { "text": "Yep. Absolutely.", "speakerName": "Grad F" }, { "text": "Or from being read and read?", "speakerName": "PhD I" }, { "text": "No. Read and write don't hurt them too much unless you scratch them.", "speakerName": "Grad F" }, { "text": "Oh, OK.", "speakerName": "PhD I" }, { "text": "But the r the write once, and the read - writes, don't last. So you don't wa you don't wanna put ir un reproduceable data on them.", "speakerName": "Grad F" }, { "text": "Uh - huh.", "speakerName": "PhD I" }, { "text": "Wear out after what amount of time?", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Year or two.", "speakerName": "Grad F" }, { "text": "Would it be?", "speakerName": "Postdoc A" }, { "text": "Year or two?", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "Yep.", "speakerName": "Grad F" }, { "text": "Wow.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "Hmm.", "speakerName": "Postdoc A" }, { "text": "But if that then you would think you'd hear much more clamoring about data loss", "speakerName": "PhD I" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "and.", "speakerName": "PhD I" }, { "text": "I mean, yeah, all the L", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "I I don't know many people who do it on CD. I mean, they're the most fo", "speakerName": "Grad F" }, { "text": "LDC - all the LDC distributions are on CD - ROM.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "They're on CD, but they're not tha that's not the only source.", "speakerName": "Grad F" }, { "text": "Like.", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "They have them on disk. And they burn new ones every once in a while. But if you go if you go k", "speakerName": "Grad F" }, { "text": "But, you know, we have.", "speakerName": "PhD I" }, { "text": "But we have like thirty you know, from ten years ago?", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "We have all sorts of CD - ROMs from a long time ago.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "No.", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Yeah!", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "Well, th th OK.", "speakerName": "Grad F" }, { "text": "Ten years ago.", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "PhD I" }, { "text": "Ninety - one, and they're still all fine.", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "Were they burned or were they pressed?", "speakerName": "Grad H" }, { "text": "Uh, both. I've burned them and they're still OK.", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Grad H" }, { "text": "The the pressed ones last for", "speakerName": "Grad F" }, { "text": "I mean, usually they're.", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "well, not forever, they've been finding even those degrade.", "speakerName": "Grad F" }, { "text": "Oh, I see.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "But, uh, the burned ones I mean, when I say two or three years what I'm saying is that I have had disks which are gone in a year.", "speakerName": "Grad F" }, { "text": "That's what I.", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "On the average, it'll probably be three or four years. But, uh I I you don't want to per p have your only copy on a media that fails.", "speakerName": "Grad F" }, { "text": "Mmm.", "speakerName": "PhD I" }, { "text": "And they do. Um, if you have them professionally pressed, y you know, they're good for decades.", "speakerName": "Grad F" }, { "text": "So how about? So so how about putting them on that plus, like on a on on DAT or some other medium that isn't risky?", "speakerName": "PhD I" }, { "text": "I think th um, we can already put them on tape. And the tape is hi is very reliable.", "speakerName": "Grad F" }, { "text": "OK. Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD I" }, { "text": "So the the only issue is then if we need access to them. So that's fine f if we don't need access to them.", "speakerName": "Grad F" }, { "text": "Right. Well, if if if you if they last Say, they actually last, like, five years, huh, in in the typical case, and and occasionally you might need to recreate one, and then you get your tape out, but otherwise you don't. Can't you just you just put them on?", "speakerName": "PhD I" }, { "text": "So you just archive it on the tape, and then put it on CD as well?", "speakerName": "Grad H" }, { "text": "Yeah. Right.", "speakerName": "PhD I" }, { "text": "Oh. So you're just saying put them on C Ds for normal access.", "speakerName": "Grad F" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Grad H" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "PhD I" }, { "text": "What you.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Yeah. I mean, you can do that but that's pretty annoying, because the C Ds are so slow.", "speakerName": "Grad F" }, { "text": "See Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Grad H" }, { "text": "Mmm.", "speakerName": "PhD I" }, { "text": "What'd be nice is a system that re - burned the C Ds every year.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "H everytime it was a \" gonna \" \" gonna die \".", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "Well.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "Well, I mean, the C Ds are are an op", "speakerName": "Grad F" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "It's like like dynamic ra DRAM.", "speakerName": "PhD I" }, { "text": "Just before.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Just before they be before it goes bad, it burns them in.", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "The the CD is an alternative to tape.", "speakerName": "Grad F" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Grad H" }, { "text": "ICSI already has a perfectly good tape system and it's more reliable.", "speakerName": "Grad F" }, { "text": "You know I would think.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "So for archiving, we'll just use tape.", "speakerName": "Grad F" }, { "text": "One one thing I don't understand is, if you have the data if if you if the meeting data is put on disk exactly once, then it's backed - up once and the back - up system should never have to bother with it, uh, more than once.", "speakerName": "PhD I" }, { "text": "Well, regardless Well, first of all there was, um, a problem with the archive in that I was every once in a while doing a chmod on all the directories an or recursive chmod and chown, because they weren't getting set correctly every once in a while,", "speakerName": "Grad F" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD I" }, { "text": "and I was just, doing a minus R star, not realizing that that caused it to be re - backed - up.", "speakerName": "Grad F" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD I" }, { "text": "Ah.", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "But normally you're correct. But even without that, the back - up system is becoming saturated.", "speakerName": "Grad F" }, { "text": "But but this back - up system is smart enough to figure out that something hasn't changed and doesn't need to be backed - up again.", "speakerName": "PhD I" }, { "text": "The b I think th the at least the once tha that you put it on, it would it would kill that.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "Sure, but we still have enough changed that the nightly back - ups are starting to take too long.", "speakerName": "Grad F" }, { "text": "OK. So so then, if So so then, let's.", "speakerName": "PhD I" }, { "text": "So.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "It has nothing to do with the meeting. It's just the general ICSI back - up system is becoming saturated.", "speakerName": "Grad F" }, { "text": "Right. OK. Right. So, what if we buy, uh uh, what what do they call these, um high density?", "speakerName": "PhD I" }, { "text": "Well, why don't you have this have a this conversation with Dave Johnson tha rather than with me?", "speakerName": "Grad F" }, { "text": "No, no. Because this is maybe something that we can do without involving Dave, and and, putting more burden on him. How about we buy, uh uh uh, one of these high density tape drives? And we put the data actually on non - backed - up disks. And we do our own back - up once and for all all, and then and we don't have to bother this @ @ up?", "speakerName": "PhD I" }, { "text": "Actually, you know, we could do that just with the tape with the current tape.", "speakerName": "Grad F" }, { "text": "I dunno what the these tapes uh, at some point these I dunno. What kind of tape drive is it?", "speakerName": "PhD I" }, { "text": "I dunno but it's an automatic robot so it's very convenient.", "speakerName": "Grad F" }, { "text": "Is it is?", "speakerName": "PhD I" }, { "text": "Wh The o the one that we have?", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "You just run a program to restore them.", "speakerName": "Grad F" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "PhD I" }, { "text": "The I mean.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Grad F" }, { "text": "But it might interfere with their back - up schedule,", "speakerName": "PhD I" }, { "text": "But.", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "No, we have s we Don't we have our own?", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "eh.", "speakerName": "PhD I" }, { "text": "Something wi th that doesn't that isn't used by the back - up gang? Don't we have something downstairs?", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "Well they.", "speakerName": "Postdoc A" }, { "text": "What kinda tape drive?", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Just in? Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "Well but no, but Andreas's point is a good one. And we don't have to do anything ourselves to do that. They're already right now on tape.", "speakerName": "Grad F" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "PhD I" }, { "text": "Right. So your your point is, and I think it's a good one, that we could just get more disk and put it there.", "speakerName": "Grad F" }, { "text": "Mmm. On an XH uh, X X whatever partition.", "speakerName": "PhD I" }, { "text": "Yeah. That's not a bad idea.", "speakerName": "Grad F" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD I" }, { "text": "Yeah, that's basically what I was gonna say, is that a disk is is so cheap it's es essentially, you know, close to free. And the only thing that costs is the back - up issue, eh, to first order.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "So once it's on tape.", "speakerName": "Grad F" }, { "text": "Right. Right.", "speakerName": "PhD I" }, { "text": "And we can take care of that by putting it on non - back up drives and just backing it up once onto this tape.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD I" }, { "text": "I think that's a good idea.", "speakerName": "Grad F" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "PhD I" }, { "text": "Oh. Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "OK.", "speakerName": "PhD I" }, { "text": "Good. It's good.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "So, who's gonna do these back - ups? The people that collect it?", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "Uh Well, I'll talk to Dave, and and see what th how what the best way of doing that is.", "speakerName": "Grad F" }, { "text": "It's probably gonna n", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "There's a little utility that will manually burn a tape for you, and that's probably the right way to do it.", "speakerName": "Grad F" }, { "text": "Yeah, and we should probably make that part of the procedure for recording the meetings.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Well, s", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "Yep.", "speakerName": "Grad F" }, { "text": "Yeah. That's what I'm wondering, if.", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "Well we're g we're gonna automate that.", "speakerName": "Grad F" }, { "text": "OK.", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "My intention is to do a script that'll do everything.", "speakerName": "Grad F" }, { "text": "I mean, you don't have to physically put a tape in the drive?", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "No. It's all tape robot,", "speakerName": "Grad F" }, { "text": "Or s? s? Oh, OK.", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "so you just sit down at your computer and you type a command.", "speakerName": "Grad F" }, { "text": "So it's just Oh, OK.", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "Yeah, but then you're effectively using the resources of the back - up system. Or is that a different tape robot?", "speakerName": "PhD I" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Grad F" }, { "text": "But not at the same time.", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "But y but you would be anyway.", "speakerName": "Grad F" }, { "text": "No, no, no.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Right?", "speakerName": "Grad F" }, { "text": "He's saying get a whole different drive.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Because.", "speakerName": "Grad F" }, { "text": "No, no. See.", "speakerName": "PhD I" }, { "text": "But there's no reason to do that.", "speakerName": "Grad F" }, { "text": "Yeah, just give a dedi", "speakerName": "PhD I" }, { "text": "It we already have it there and it it's.", "speakerName": "Grad F" }, { "text": "Well, I'm saying is @ @ i if you go to Dave, and and and ask him \" can I use your tape robot? \", he will say, \" well that's gonna screw up our back - up operation. \"", "speakerName": "PhD I" }, { "text": "No, we won't. He'll say \" if if that means that it's not gonna be backed - up standardly, great. \"", "speakerName": "Grad F" }, { "text": "He - I Dave has has promoted this in the past. So I don't think he's actually against it.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "Yeah. It's it's definitely no problem.", "speakerName": "Grad F" }, { "text": "Oh, OK. Alright.", "speakerName": "PhD I" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "Alright.", "speakerName": "PhD I" }, { "text": "OK.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "Good.", "speakerName": "PhD I" }, { "text": "What about if the times overlap with the normal back - up time?", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "Um, it's it's just it's just a utility which queues up. It just queues it up and and when it's available, it will copy it.", "speakerName": "Grad F" }, { "text": "OK.", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "And then you can tell it to then remove it from the disk or you can, you know, do it a a few days later or whatever you wanna do, after you confirm that it's really backed - up.", "speakerName": "Grad F" }, { "text": "OK.", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "NW?", "speakerName": "Grad F" }, { "text": "You saying NW archive?", "speakerName": "Postdoc A" }, { "text": "NW archive.", "speakerName": "Grad F" }, { "text": "Yep And if you did that during the day it would never make it to the nightly back - ups.", "speakerName": "Postdoc A" }, { "text": "That's what it is.", "speakerName": "Grad F" }, { "text": "OK.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "Grad F" }, { "text": "And then there wouldn't be this extra load.", "speakerName": "Postdoc A" }, { "text": "Well, it if he you have to put the data on a on a non - backed - up disk to begin with.", "speakerName": "PhD I" }, { "text": "Well, but you can have it NW archive to you can have, uh, a non - backed - up disk NW archived,", "speakerName": "Postdoc A" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "Grad F" }, { "text": "So that so that otherwise you don't you.", "speakerName": "PhD I" }, { "text": "and it'll never show up on the nightly back - ups.", "speakerName": "Postdoc A" }, { "text": "Right. And then it never.", "speakerName": "Grad F" }, { "text": "Right. Right.", "speakerName": "PhD I" }, { "text": "Right. Which I'm sure would make ever the sysadmins very happy.", "speakerName": "Grad F" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "PhD I" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Postdoc A" }, { "text": "So, I think that's a good idea.", "speakerName": "Grad F" }, { "text": "OK.", "speakerName": "PhD I" }, { "text": "That's what we should do.", "speakerName": "Grad F" }, { "text": "OK.", "speakerName": "PhD I" }, { "text": "So, that means we'll probably wanna convert all all those files filesystems to non - backed - up media.", "speakerName": "Grad F" }, { "text": "That sounds good.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "Yep.", "speakerName": "Grad F" }, { "text": "Um, another, thing on the agenda said SRI recognition experiments? What's that?", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "SRI recognition? Oh.", "speakerName": "PhD I" }, { "text": "That wasn't me.", "speakerName": "Grad F" }, { "text": "Uh.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "Um. well,", "speakerName": "PhD I" }, { "text": "Who's that?", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "we have lots of them. Uh, I dunno. Chuck, do you have any any updates?", "speakerName": "PhD I" }, { "text": "N I'm successfully, uh, increasing the error rate. Uh.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "That's good.", "speakerName": "Grad F" }, { "text": "Mmm.", "speakerName": "Grad H" }, { "text": "Oh.", "speakerName": "PhD I" }, { "text": "Lift the Herve approach.", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "Yeah. So, I mean I'm just playing with, um, the number of Gaussians that we use in the the recognizer, and.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Well, you have to sa you have to tell people that you're you're doing you're trying the tandem features.", "speakerName": "PhD I" }, { "text": "Yes, I'm using tandem features.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Oh you are?", "speakerName": "Grad F" }, { "text": "And.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Cool.", "speakerName": "Grad F" }, { "text": "A and I'm still tinkering with the PLP features.", "speakerName": "PhD I" }, { "text": "Yeah, I got confused by the results. It sai because uh, the meeting before, you said \" OK, we got it down to where they're they're within a tenth of a percent \".", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "That was on males.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Right. That was that was before I tried it on the females.", "speakerName": "PhD I" }, { "text": "Oh.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "See, women are nothi are, trouble.", "speakerName": "PhD I" }, { "text": "It's the women are the problem. OK.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "Right? As we all know. So.", "speakerName": "PhD I" }, { "text": "Well, let's just say that men are simple.", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "So so, when So I I had I ha", "speakerName": "PhD I" }, { "text": "That was a quick response.", "speakerName": "Grad F" }, { "text": "So, we had reached the point where.", "speakerName": "PhD I" }, { "text": "I'm well rehearsed.", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "we had reached the point where, um, on the male portion of the development set, the, um or one of the development sets, I should say the, um the male error rate with, uh, ICSI PLP features was pretty much identical with, uh, SRI features. which are MFCC. So, um, then I thought, \" Oh, great. I'll j I'll just let's make sure everything works on the females. \" And the error rate you know, there was a three percent difference.", "speakerName": "PhD I" }, { "text": "Oh. Uh - huh.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "So,", "speakerName": "PhD I" }, { "text": "Is there less training data?", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "uh.", "speakerName": "PhD I" }, { "text": "I mean, we don", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "No, actually there's more training data.", "speakerName": "PhD I" }, { "text": "This is on just digits?", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "No.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "No, no.", "speakerName": "PhD I" }, { "text": "No.", "speakerName": "Grad F" }, { "text": "Hub - five.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "It's, uh, Swi", "speakerName": "Grad F" }, { "text": "Oh, sorry. OK. This is on.", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "This is Hub - five.", "speakerName": "PhD I" }, { "text": "Oh, OK.", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "Hub - five. Yeah.", "speakerName": "Grad F" }, { "text": "Yeah. Um, and the test data is CallHome and Switchboard. So, uh so then um Oh, and plus the the vocal tract length normalization didn't actually made things worse. So something's really seriously wrong. So Um.", "speakerName": "PhD I" }, { "text": "Aha! OK.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "So So.", "speakerName": "PhD I" }, { "text": "So but you see, now, between between the males and the females, there's certainly a much bigger difference in the scaling range, than there is, say, just within the males. And what you were using before was scaling factors that were just from the the m the SRI front - end. And that worked that worked fine.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "That's true. Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD I" }, { "text": "Uh, but now you're looking over a larger range and it may not be so fine.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "Well, um So I just d so the one thing that I then tried was to put in the low - pass filter, which we have in the So, most most Hub - five systems actually band - limit the uh, at about, uh, thirty - seven hundred, um, hertz.", "speakerName": "PhD I" }, { "text": "Uh - huh.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "Although, you know, normally, I mean, the channel goes to four four thousand. Right? So, um And that actually helped, uh uh, a little bit.", "speakerName": "PhD I" }, { "text": "Uh - huh.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "Um and it didn't hurt on the males either. So, um And I'm now, uh, trying the Oh, and suddenly, also the v the vocal tract length normalization only in the test se on the test data. So, you can do vocal tract length normalization on the test data only or on both the training and the test.", "speakerName": "PhD I" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "And you expect it to help a little bit if you do it only on the test, and s more if you do it on both training and test.", "speakerName": "PhD I" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "And so the It now helps, if you do it only on the test, and I'm currently retraining another set of models where it's both in the training and the test, and then we'll we'll have, hopefully, even better results. So But there's It looks like there will still be some difference, maybe between one and two percent, um, for the females.", "speakerName": "PhD I" }, { "text": "Huh.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "And so, um, you know, I'm open to suggestions.", "speakerName": "PhD I" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Grad F" }, { "text": "And it is true that the, uh that the you know, we are using the But it can't be just the VTL,", "speakerName": "PhD I" }, { "text": "Uh - huh.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "because if you don't do VTL in both systems, uh, you know, the the females are considerably worse in the with the PLP features.", "speakerName": "PhD I" }, { "text": "No no. I I remember that.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "It's much worse. Yeah.", "speakerName": "Grad F" }, { "text": "So there must be some something else going on.", "speakerName": "PhD I" }, { "text": "Well, what's the standard? Yeah, so I thought the performance was actually a little better on females than males.", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "That's what I thought, too.", "speakerName": "Grad F" }, { "text": "Um, that ye overall, yes, but on this particular development test set, they're actually a little worse. But that's beside the point. We're looking at the discrepancy between the SRI system and the SRI system when trained with ICSI features.", "speakerName": "PhD I" }, { "text": "Right. I'm just wondering if that if if you have any indication of your standard features,", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "What's Are the freq?", "speakerName": "Grad F" }, { "text": "you know, if that's also different or in the same direction or not.", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "You're This is lemme ask a q more basic que", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "Cuz.", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "I mean, is this, uh uh, iterative, Baum - Welch training?", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD I" }, { "text": "Or is it Viterbi training? Or?", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "It's Baum - Welch training.", "speakerName": "PhD I" }, { "text": "Baum - Welch training. And how do you determine when to to stop iterating?", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "Um Well, actually, we we just basically do a s a fixed number of iterations.", "speakerName": "PhD I" }, { "text": "Hmm.", "speakerName": "Grad F" }, { "text": "Uh, in this case four. Um, which Eh, we used to do only three, and then we found out we can squeeze And it was basically, we're s we're keeping it on the safe side. But you're d Right. It might be that one more iteration would would help, but it's sort of", "speakerName": "PhD I" }, { "text": "Or maybe or maybe you're doing one too many.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "you know.", "speakerName": "PhD I" }, { "text": "I mean it's it's.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "No, but with Baum - Welch, there shouldn't be an over - fitting issue, really.", "speakerName": "PhD I" }, { "text": "Uh. Well, there can be. Sure.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "Well, you can try each one on a cross - validation set,", "speakerName": "Grad F" }, { "text": "Um.", "speakerName": "PhD I" }, { "text": "It d if you if you remember some years ago Bill Byrne did a thing where he was he was looking at that,", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "can't you?", "speakerName": "Grad F" }, { "text": "and he showed that you could get it.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD I" }, { "text": "So. But but but, um.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "Well, yeah. We can Well, that's that's the easy one to check,", "speakerName": "PhD I" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "because we save all the intermediate models", "speakerName": "PhD I" }, { "text": "Do you?", "speakerName": "Grad F" }, { "text": "and we can.", "speakerName": "PhD I" }, { "text": "And in each case, ho", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "What?", "speakerName": "Grad F" }, { "text": "um, I'm sorry in each case how do you determine, you know, the the usual fudge factors? The, uh the, uh, language, uh, scaling, acoustic scaling, uh, uh.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "Um I uh I'm actually re - optimizing them. Although that hasn't shown to make a big difference.", "speakerName": "PhD I" }, { "text": "OK. And the pru the question he was asking at one point about pruning, uh Remember that one?", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "Pruning?", "speakerName": "PhD I" }, { "text": "Well, he was he's it looked like the probabil at one point he was looking at the probabilities he was getting out at the likelihoods he was getting out of PLP versus mel cepstrum, and they looked pretty different,", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "Pruning in the?", "speakerName": "PhD I" }, { "text": "Yeah, the likelihoods were lower for the PLP.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "as I recall.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "Oh.", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "And so, uh, there's the question.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "I you mean did you see this in the SRI system?", "speakerName": "PhD I" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm. Was just looking through the log files,", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Um. Well, the likelihoods are.", "speakerName": "PhD I" }, { "text": "and.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "You can't directly compare them, because, for every set of models you compute a new normalization. And so these log probabilities, they aren't directly comparable", "speakerName": "PhD I" }, { "text": "Oh.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "because you have a different normalization constants for each model you train.", "speakerName": "PhD I" }, { "text": "Hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "But, still it's a question.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "So.", "speakerName": "PhD I" }, { "text": "if you have some threshold somewhere in terms of beam search or something,", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "Well, yeah. That's what I was wondering.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "or?", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "W yeah. I mean Uh.", "speakerName": "PhD I" }, { "text": "I mean, if you have one threshold that works well because the range of your likelihoods is in this area.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "We prune very conservatively. I mean, as we saw with the meeting data, um we could probably tighten the pruning without really So we we basically we have a very open beam.", "speakerName": "PhD I" }, { "text": "But, you're only talking about a percent or two.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Right? Here we're - we're saying that we there gee, there's this b eh, there's this difference here. And it See cuz, i i there could be lots of things. Right? But but but but, um, let's suppose just for a second that, uh, we've sort of taken out a lot of the the major differences, uh, between the two.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "Right. Course. Mm - hmm. Right.", "speakerName": "PhD I" }, { "text": "I mean, we're already sort of using the mel scale and we're using the same style filter integration, and and, well, we're making sure that low and high.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "Actually, there is the difference in that. So, for the PLP features we use the triangular filter shapes. And for the in the SRI front - end we use the trapezoidal one.", "speakerName": "PhD I" }, { "text": "And what's the top frequency of each?", "speakerName": "Grad F" }, { "text": "Well, now it's the same. It's thirty thirty to seven hundred and sixty hertz.", "speakerName": "PhD I" }, { "text": "Yeah. Exp - one's triangular, one's trapezoidal. So.", "speakerName": "Grad F" }, { "text": "No, no. But.", "speakerName": "PhD I" }, { "text": "Before we i i th with straight PLP, it's trapezoidal also.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "Well But.", "speakerName": "PhD I" }, { "text": "But then we had a slight difference in the in the scale. Uh, so.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "Since currently the Feacalc program doesn't allow me to change the filter shape independently of the scale.", "speakerName": "PhD I" }, { "text": "Uh - huh.", "speakerName": "Grad F" }, { "text": "And, I did the experiment on the SRI front - end where I tried the y where the standard used to be to use trapezoidal filters. You can actually continuously vary it between the two. And so I wen I swi I tried the trap eh, triangular ones. And it did slightly worse, but it's really a small difference.", "speakerName": "PhD I" }, { "text": "Hmm.", "speakerName": "Grad F" }, { "text": "Coup - Couple tenths of a percent or something.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "So.", "speakerName": "PhD I" }, { "text": "OK.", "speakerName": "Grad F" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "So it's not just losing some frequency range.", "speakerName": "Grad F" }, { "text": "Yeah, exactly. So, it's not I don't think the filter shape by itself will make a huge difference.", "speakerName": "PhD I" }, { "text": "Yeah. Right. So the oth the other thing that.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Grad F" }, { "text": "So, f i We've always viewed it, anyway, as the major difference between the two, is actually in the smoothing, that the that the, um, PLP, and and the reason PLP has been advantageous in, uh, slightly noisy situations is because, PLP does the smoothing at the end by an auto - regressive model,", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm. Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD I" }, { "text": "and mel cepstrum does it by just computing the lower cepstral coefficients.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD I" }, { "text": "Um. So, um Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "OK. So one thing I haven't done yet is to actually do all of this with a much larger with our full training set. So right now, we're using a I don't know, forty? I i it's it's eh it's a f training set that's about, um, you know, by a factor of four smaller than what we use when we train the full system. So, some of these smoothing issues are over - fitting for that matter.", "speakerName": "PhD I" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "And the Baum - Welch should be much less of a factor, if you go full whole hog.", "speakerName": "PhD I" }, { "text": "Could be. Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "And so, w so, just um so the strategy is to first sort of treat things with fast turn - around on a smaller training set and then, when you've sort of, narrowed it down, you try it on a larger training set.", "speakerName": "PhD I" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "And so, we haven't done that yet.", "speakerName": "PhD I" }, { "text": "Now the other que related question, though, is is, uh, what's the boot models for these things?", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "Th - th the boot models are trained from scratch. So we compute, um So, we start with a, um, alil alignment that we computed with the b sort of the best system we have. And and then we train from scratch. So we com we do a, you know, w um We collect the uh, the observations from those alignments under each of the feature sets that that we train. And then, from there we do, um There's a lot of, actually The way it works, you first train a phonetically - tied mixture model. Um. You do a total of First you do a context - independent PTM model. Then you switch to a context You do two iterations of that. Then you do two iterations of of of context - dependent phonetically - tied mixtures. And then from that you you do the you you go to a state - clustered model,", "speakerName": "PhD I" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "and you do four iterations of that. So there's a lot of iterations overall between your original boot models and the final models. I don't think that Hmm. We have never seen big differences. Once I thought \" oh, I can Now I have these much better models. I'll re - generate my initial alignments. Then I'll get much better models at the end. \" Made no difference whatsoever. It's I think it's eh, i", "speakerName": "PhD I" }, { "text": "Right. Well, mis for making things better.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "the boot models are recur", "speakerName": "PhD I" }, { "text": "Yeah. But, this for making things worse. This it migh Th - the thought is is is possible another possible partial cause is if the boot models used a comple used a different feature set, that.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm. Mm - hmm. But there are no boot models, in fact. You you're not booting from initial models. You're booting from initial alignments.", "speakerName": "PhD I" }, { "text": "Which you got from a different feature set.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "That's correct.", "speakerName": "PhD I" }, { "text": "So, those features look at the data differently, actually.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "Yeah, but.", "speakerName": "PhD I" }, { "text": "I mean, you know, they they will find boundaries a little differently, though You know, all th all that sort of thing is actually slightly different. I'd expect it to be a minor effect,", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "But but but, what I'm what I'm saying is.", "speakerName": "PhD I" }, { "text": "but.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "So, we e w f w For a long time we had used boot alignments that had been trained with a with the same front - end but with acoustic models that were, like, fifteen percent worse than what we use now.", "speakerName": "PhD I" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "And with a dict different dictionary with a considerably different dictionary, which was much less detailed and much less well - suited.", "speakerName": "PhD I" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm. Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "And so, then we switched to new boot alignments, which which now had the benefit of all these improvements that we've made over two years in the system.", "speakerName": "PhD I" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "And, the result in the end was no different.", "speakerName": "PhD I" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "So, what I'm saying is, the exact nature of these boot alignments is probably not a big factor in the quality of the final models.", "speakerName": "PhD I" }, { "text": "Yeah, maybe not. But it it I st still see it as I mean, there's there's a history to this, too,", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD I" }, { "text": "but I uh, I don't wanna go into,", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD I" }, { "text": "but but I I I th I think it could be the things that it the data is being viewed in a certain way, uh, that a beginning is here rather than there and so forth,", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "Yeah. Right.", "speakerName": "PhD I" }, { "text": "because the actual signal - processing you're doing is slightly different.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "PhD I" }, { "text": "But, it's it's that's probably not it.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "Yeah. Anyway, I I I should really reserve, uh, any conclusions until we've done it on the large training set, um, and until we've seen the results with the with the VTL in training.", "speakerName": "PhD I" }, { "text": "Yeah. At some point you also might wanna take the same thing and try it on, uh, some Broadcast News data or something else that actually has has some noisy noisy components, so we can see if any conclusions we come to holds across different data.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "So. Yeah. Right.", "speakerName": "PhD I" }, { "text": "Uh.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "And, uh, with this, I have to leave.", "speakerName": "PhD I" }, { "text": "OK.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "Hmm!", "speakerName": "Grad H" }, { "text": "So, is there something quick about Absinthe that you?", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "With this said.", "speakerName": "PhD I" }, { "text": "Uh. Just what we were talking about before, which is that I ported a Blass library to Absinthe, and then got got it working with fast - forward, and got a speedup roughly proportional to the number of processors times the clock cycle.", "speakerName": "Grad F" }, { "text": "Oh.", "speakerName": "PhD I" }, { "text": "So, that's pretty good.", "speakerName": "Grad F" }, { "text": "Oh! Cool.", "speakerName": "PhD I" }, { "text": "Um, I'm in the process of doing it for Quicknet, but there's something going wrong and it's about half the speed that I was estimating it should be, and I'm not sure why.", "speakerName": "Grad F" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD I" }, { "text": "But I'll keep working on it. But the what it means is that it's likely that for net training and forward passes, we'll Absinthe will be a good machine. Especially if we get a few more processors and upgrade the processors.", "speakerName": "Grad F" }, { "text": "A few more processors? How many are you shooting for?", "speakerName": "PhD I" }, { "text": "There're five now. It can hold eight.", "speakerName": "Grad F" }, { "text": "Oh, OK.", "speakerName": "PhD I" }, { "text": "Yeah, we'll just go buy them, I guess.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "And it's also five - fifty megahertz and you can get a gigahertz.", "speakerName": "Grad F" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD I" }, { "text": "So.", "speakerName": "Grad F" }, { "text": "Can you mix t uh, processors of different speed?", "speakerName": "PhD I" }, { "text": "I don't think so. I think we'd have to do all.", "speakerName": "Grad F" }, { "text": "OK.", "speakerName": "PhD I" }, { "text": "Probably just throw away the old ones, and.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "Yep.", "speakerName": "Grad F" }, { "text": "Thank you for the box,", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "Oh, OK.", "speakerName": "PhD I" }, { "text": "and I'll just go buy their process.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "Hmm!", "speakerName": "Grad H" }, { "text": "Maybe we can stick them in another system. I dunno.", "speakerName": "PhD I" }, { "text": "We'd have to get a almost certainly have to get a, uh, Netfinity server.", "speakerName": "Grad F" }, { "text": "I see.", "speakerName": "PhD I" }, { "text": "They're pretty pretty specialized.", "speakerName": "Grad F" }, { "text": "Yeah. OK.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "OK.", "speakerName": "PhD I" }, { "text": "Is is Liz coming back, do you know, or? I dunno. Yeah. Oh, you don't. OK. Alright. Alright. See you. Um. Alright. So Uh, they're having tea out there. So I guess the other thing that we were gonna talk about is is, uh, demo. And, um, so, these are the demos for the uh, July, uh, meeting and, um DARPA mee", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "July what? Early July? Late July?", "speakerName": "Grad F" }, { "text": "Oh, I think it's July fifteenth.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "Sixteen to eighteen, I think.", "speakerName": "Postdoc A" }, { "text": "Is that it?", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "Roughly.", "speakerName": "Postdoc A" }, { "text": "Yeah, sixteenth, eighteenth. Yeah. So, we talked about getting something together for that, but maybe, uh maybe we'll just put that off for now, given that But I think maybe we should have a a sub - meeting, I think, uh, probably, uh, Adam and and, uh, Chuck and me should talk about should get together and talk about that sometime soon.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "Over a cappuccino tomorrow?", "speakerName": "Grad F" }, { "text": "Yeah something like that. Um, uh, you know, maybe maybe we'll involve Dan Ellis at some some level as well.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Grad F" }, { "text": "Um. OK. The the tea is is going, so, uh, I suggest we do, uh uh, a unison.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "A unison digits?", "speakerName": "Grad F" }, { "text": "OK.", "speakerName": "Postdoc A" }, { "text": "Yeah. Gets our.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "Which is gonna be a little hard for a couple people because we have different digits forms.", "speakerName": "Grad F" }, { "text": "Oops.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "We have a I found a couple of old ones.", "speakerName": "Grad F" }, { "text": "Oh.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "Hmm.", "speakerName": "Grad H" }, { "text": "Well, that'll be interesting. So, uh.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "Have you done digits before?", "speakerName": "Grad F" }, { "text": "No.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "I haven't done it.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "OK. So, uh, the idea is just to read each line with a short pause between lines,", "speakerName": "Grad F" }, { "text": "Alright.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "not between And, uh, since we're in a hurry, we were just gonna read everyone all at once. So, if you sorta plug your ears and read.", "speakerName": "Grad F" }, { "text": "OK.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "So first read the transcript number, and then start reading the digits.", "speakerName": "Grad F" }, { "text": "Sure.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "OK? One, two, three.", "speakerName": "Grad F" }, { "text": "OK we're done.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "And.", "speakerName": "Grad F" } ] }

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{ "meetingId": "ES2003a", "transcriptSegments": [ { "text": "Okay, well I think we're ready to begin. Right, my name's Adam Duguid, we're here because of real reaction, um, we have in the group", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Oh, Ebenezer Ademesoye. Would you like me to spell that?", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Um, yeah,", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "S", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "go for it mate.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Um, N_E_Z_", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "N_ E_ Z_.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "E_R_.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Ebenezer. And your role is?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "I'm the Marketing Expert.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "You're the Marketing Expert, okay. Next we have?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Tarik Rahman. T_A_R_I_K_.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "T_ R_ I_ K_. And your role in this is?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Industrial Designer.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Industrial Designer. And, lastly we have?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Uh, Dave Cochrane.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "And you're going to be the User Interface,", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "User Interface Defin Designer, yes.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "is it? Designer. Okay. Right. This is the agenda for today's meeting. As you can see, w opening, acquaintance, tool training, project plan discussion, and closing. Um, we already got n through opening, and partially through acquaintance. So, the reason we're here, we're gonna design a new remote control, as you probably all know. The very broad overview is original, trendy, and user-friendly. Course, we'll have to go into a bit more um detail than that, but uh personally I think that the original is gonna be a very key aspect to this design. Um, there's a lot of remote controls out there anyway, so we're gonna need something that's really gonna set it apart. This is how today seems to be going to work. We're gonna have the three kay phases, as you've probably already been told, the functional, architectural, and the detailed design. Um First one's gonna be covering the user requirement spec, technical functions, working design. Second seems to be conceptual components, properties, materials, and the last one is a detailed analysis of our design so far. Of course, you've all got the similar emails, I believe, right. What can I say? Ebenezer, you wanna have a you wanna draw your favourite animal?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Sure. Whiteboard.'Kay. S okay. I will make this quick, since we don't have much time. Um.'Kay, so it's not the best picture in the world.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Here we have an elephant. First point, begins with an E_, same like Ebenezer. Also, elephants have a very good memory, much like myself,", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "and I can't remember back when I used to live back in Nigeria, but I think I used to have a pet elephant. So elephants are big, strong and gentle, and they have great memories, and they begin with the letter E_, just like Ebenezer.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Brilliantly done. Thank you..", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Thank you.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Tarik, would you like to have a shot at a bit of artistry?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": ".", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Oh, um,", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Oh. Oh oh", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "you can clip them to your belt.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Do we take them off?", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "I think you ga", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Oh right,", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "You should also l um have your the lapel mic on as well.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "okay.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "The little The the.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Ah-ha.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Oh that's good, we can clip them on. Okay. Yeah,", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Now where do I put the.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Just um somewhere.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yep, the, it's just across there, that's it. Yep.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Is this supposed to be clipped as well?", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "I think so.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "It'll follow you if you.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah. There you go.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "You can probably just stick it in your pocket for now, I wouldn't worry too much. Should have good range.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Uh, destroying your elephant here.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Uh, here we have a tiger. Uh I've always loved tigers. They're just they're big, they're biggest cats, uh I did a project on cats in the wild when I was a kid and uh it was my favourite cat, just'cause it was looks the best, the stripes, orange. My dad used to talk about he's from Bangladesh so he used to tell me all about them when he was when I was a kid. And uh they're just the most feared of of uh animals in the wild. So uh that's why I like them. Didn't say an anything about me really but.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Excellent, thank you very much. Dave, if you'd like to uh have a dash.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Um Um, the monkey, um. The one f uh in fact this is a somewhat oblique reference in fact to uh well my I have a three uh three y year old daughter who h who who who is affectionately known as Miss Monkey. Um, monkeys have attitude. Which I think is a good thing. And I mean fr and from uh from the point of view of sort of the study of human evolution they and other primates are terribly interesting. Um, so I like monkeys. And and th th th th thi thi this one seems to have perhaps more attitude than most.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Cheers. Hardly what I'd call the best drawing in the world but it'll do for now. Also not quite as feared as your average tiger, but uh cats are one of my favourite animals, they're very independent, they're snotty as hell at the best of times, and uh, what can you say, you got to love those qualities in an animal. Right. I think we've all managed to master the whiteboard there by looks of it, so, on to it. Project finance. As you can see, twelve point five Euros per unit. That's not a terrible lot as far as I'm aware, and we're hoping to sell them for twenty five. If we're aiming for fifty million Euros we're gonna have to be selling an awful lot of them.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Oh, that was profiting, that was an amount, so that's the amount made,", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yep.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "okay.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Well, fifty million, and if you're making twelve point five Euros on each one, then, awful lot need to be sold.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Okay. Now we better actually just get on with the uh the meat of the project. So I'm gonna guess that we've all used remote controls. Any ideas of where you think a new remote control could go into this market?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Well, one thing I'm aware of is, th there uh um at the sort of v very high price end of the market there's there's a em emerging market for sort of touch screen L_C_D_ remotes that can be uh programmed in m much more sophisticated ways than sort of conventional models, so you get the sort of you get um you you can redesign the interface to your own needs, you can programme in macros, and you get a much greater degree um um I mean you get in these sort of three in one, five in one, whatevers, but you can get integration between the different uh the the the diff the different things that it's designed to control, to a much greater extent, and you can have one uh you know one macro to turn the uh you know turn the T_V_ to the right channel, get the uh re uh rewind the tape in the V_C_R_ and get it to play once it's rewound, for instance.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Um b it occurs to me there might be a niche for uh for a remote that aimed towards some of that sort of functionality but using a just conventional push button design. And therefore putting it into a um well much lower price bracket.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Okay, yeah, tha that's true, with the price range we're looking at, going for a touch screen would probably be possibly out of our.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Absolutely prohibitive,", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Oh.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "But you think uh again something to control multiple units in uh a simple fashion.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah, I mean I wouldn't like to say you g I mean you get ones that you can switch between multiple units, but something that could um operate between multiple units in a more integrated fashion. Some and ideally something into which it would have some at least limited facility for um running macros.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Would the the idea something along the lines of, one on button would turn on say the video recorder, the T_V_, maybe the sound system as well, all in one go, is that kind of.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "For instance, um let's say oh oh um, or um you know you pr uh you press uh say the play button for the D_V_D_ player and it turns the T_V_ on and onto the right channel as well, um", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Okay, that sounds like a a good strong idea. Um.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "'Kay", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Any takes on this?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Well um I've noticed that uh gaming c is becoming quite popular with television, um when I was younger we used to e play games using our cable, using the cable subscribed the cable providers,", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "but our remote controls would get worn out really easily, and the remote control was not a great kind of keyboar, um keypad, for playing games.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "So perhaps one that was more um specialised for game playing or interactive television. They they've recently brought out this new remote control, for people to set their favourite channels, or um to record things. Instead of people entering in what time things start, you simply stri slide a bar to say what time it begins,", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "and slide another bar to say what time it ends, you know that's.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah I've heard I've seen the bar-code design before,", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah, it's it's taken out the Y you don't have to be uh really clever to use a remote control. I think for gaming, you know you want you want some big buttons for up, down, left and right, shoot.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Uh, you wanna be able to change angles in interactive television, so you need buttons to change the television angle, the camera angles and stuff like that.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Okay, well", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "'Kay.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "we're beginning to run out of time now, so, we've got a couple of ideas,", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "we can we'll have to work fast, um, alright as you can see we've got thirty minutes until the next meeting, so we'll have to try and decide on some of the basic functionality, um, how the user interface might work, that'll be a key aspect especially if the idea of um some kind of macros facility because you have to program it, you have to have a lot of response back, or at least some kind. Um.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "And we're gonna maybe n try and have to figure out", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "What the user wants uh.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "what the user wants, yes.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Um, right. Has anybody got anything they'd like to add at this stage, anything they think that might have been missed so far?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Well when you're talking about gaming and stuff, do you think they should have some sort of stick on it, rather than buttons?", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Oh. Okay,.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Like uh control pads, you know of games, but.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "or is that a bit ridiculous?.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "I I don't see why not, almost everybody is probably used to a console by now, and all of them incorporate small keypads on them, in fact even the mobile phones these days are beginning to use them as well, so it's probably an interface that most people are used to. Um", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "and that could allow n easy navigation, used as a joystick as well.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm. The other key feature that uh that would be a good idea built into it is t is is to make something you know fairly sort of ergonomic, something that just fits fits as comfortably as possible into the hand. But of course, uh al al also allows for the possibility of a more sort of slightly unconventional or attractive uh sha shape for it overall,.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Okay. So,", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "A curve,", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "small, stylish, and something that's just a little different.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "mm-hmm. Something sort of sort of sl slightly sort of biomorphic in form, uh which it would need to be to sort of conform to the shape of the hand more efficiently anyway.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Okay. That's definitely something that we should be able to do quite easily. I would I would have hoped so anyway. Um, right. I'd say we finish this one up, we get started, I'll get in, I'll write up what we've um kind of quickly done, and I'll get that out to everybody. Yeah?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "'Kay. So.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Okay..", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": ".", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": ".", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Um, as far as I'm aware we leave the microphones here, um unless we get told otherwise, and just take the laptops with us.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" } ] }

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

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Y no, it's a slightly curved around the sides..", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Mm very nice.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Um, it's almost curved like up to the main display as well. And the little line at the bottom indicates the bit the panel that you pull down.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "And the extra function buttons are below that panel on the little line.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "And we've got the stick on the button with the company logo on.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "We also have a apple slash cherry design at the top.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "So it is, yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Cherry would be alright actually.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah,", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "it's a bit more fun, isn't it? 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Right.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "It it'd probably have to be labelled mute.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "They're thinking.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "But um, we didn't have anything small enough to write.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Uh-huh.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "For the first time, well it was hard to get the h um the actual labelling on the individual buttons.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Okay. Mm-hmm..", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah. Uh, we just chose simple shapes for all them.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Um, the important ones are the volume ones. So we made them a bit bigger. 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So, sh", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "We could do it as we d go along, the production costs, looking at the prototype.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Right..", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "'Kay this should be then.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Okay, so, by the fact that we've got uh the simple chip and the uh kinetic energy source, we've got a single curved case. We've got a rubber uh case materials supplements. So, we had decided that we're having rubber buttons and.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm. Have a push button interface.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Okay. W the button supplements.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Um.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Well, originally, I thought there would just be uh one in there because it was the one red apple. But.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Um.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "So the so the real w the real question then would come in. Do you make all the buttons.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Well do we'll do it on the prototype,", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "O", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "so do two, see how much it is.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Well, so we've got one special button form, which was the apple. Everything else is gonna be a standard.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "We've got special material, rubber, wood, titanium, et cetera and that,", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "And then we'd have.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "so, I was originally, I was thinking rubber wasn't special,", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "but according to this, maybe it is.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "So And the r I mean effectively we've got sixteen buttons that we're gonna have on there.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah. I think you just do one, don't you, for the.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "W I don't know is is is the sort of answer, is that meant to be all sixteen buttons, and therefore I mean, what's the op The option was maybe not to have rubber buttons, but just to have the one that was soft and spongy, and therefore.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "I think I think it's just it's just a one. Else.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Whereas it would be the special colour would be for the So you would only have the one special button that was rubber, whereas the rest would be hard plastic..", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "I thi I think I think the button supplement i is just a supplement for all the buttons made in a different material, rather than per button.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "I don't know though.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "I would Every design change is uh sound] I dunno,", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Hmm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "um Okay, um, if we just had all the buttons as standard, except for the one red apple, then that would take care of that, I guess. We'd have one special colour and one special button form.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "And when I plugged that in last time remember it has to be under twelve and a half. As far as I know, that um that took care of the uh of the various supplements.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "And if What happened?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "You've just gone off the window into another one. It's on the bottom row.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Maybe if you just minimise that one in the top right-hand corner of the little box.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Now, right..", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Okay, so, but the point would be that if we uh if we just did special Sorry, you were saying that it would be that one, that you would put in one there.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah. Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "So that's nine point one there so we've got some.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "So it Well, is it s is no, it's nine point seven I've got.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "'Kay.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Just give us a bit of.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "So, that would that would work out fine if uh uh as assuming your correction are are assuming that that one change covers all the buttons, then that would be fine.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm. Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "And there's nothing else as far as I can see that we we had uh planned to put on.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "S", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "I switching around those th um on the electronics we got the sample sensor. At the moment we've just got the simple chip, which costs one.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Uh-huh.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Um, I guess the sample sens sample speaker would be the voice recognition thing, which puts up to four?", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "We should be slightly over our budget but if we gather something else down to slightly lower standard, and maybe go with the one the special form buttons, then we could have the speech.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Well, hold on. Um, if we Okay, that gives us twelve point seven", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "So uh maybe if we got rid of like the maybe one of the special colours, kept them all the same colour, then we could have the voice recognition", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "But remember that the idea was to keep it the colour of the.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "without.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Oh, I see, so just take out the special colour for the apple and.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah, yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Um,. D wouldn't you have to keep the simple chip there as well? You know how you turn that one to a zero, wouldn't the chip and the sample speaker be separate things,", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah, we have to have it.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Oh possibly, yeah, yeah maybe.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "so you need both of them?", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Maybe um we'd be giving up on the kinetic. Um.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "And go for battery instead.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "That would give you one less.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "We should Yeah, that would save us one, though we'd still be slightly ov", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "But you reckon that i I mean the thing is that you wanted to a appeal to people and not have to replace batteries.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah, yeah. Well, since it's the through the whole technology type thing, um, you were saying in the market research that people like kind of interesting gadgets in them. Um, whether they would figure the the s uh sample senor and the sample speaker, voice recognition be sort of a worthwhile thing to have.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "And then still have the batteries,", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "or whatever they would prefer not uh You know what I mean? The the problem was the battery's running out and losing the um losing the remote.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "So you gotta decide which of those is more important to them.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "But which do you think or which do we think is the more important of the options? In a sense, at the moment, we've got a total which we need to reduce down by one point two.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "I think the voice recognition.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "At least. Remember that was a minimum requirement. The other option if we're planning on just going for something cheap and cheerful, would be to um make it originally, we're gonna make it a simple product.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Shall we shall we evaluate the prototype as we've got it now first, and then sort of make decisions about what needs to be changed after?", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm. Makes sense.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Okay", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Okay. Right um, I have a little thing. So, we've all got a note of it's thirteen point seven, isn't it, with everything we want on.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": ". Sorry, do you want that back up?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah, I just had a presentation to do..", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "But I do think uh the v uh voice recognition thing would be more impressive than the fact that it's got no battery.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Okay, but remember the main the only reason we were planning on having the voice recognition was so that they could find the remote if it got lost.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm. Mm. Right okay um, This is about the evaluation criteria that we use for the the prototype we've got here.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "And so the method is that the design team makes a prototype, and we evaluate the prototype against some criteria that we've formulated. And those ones are gonna be in response to sort of market research, and also finance, I guess. And do that on a scale from say true being one and false being seven, so if it's neither true nor false, then that's four. So, I got a set of criteria just based on the marketing that we need to add in a financial one as well, at the end. Um so, We have to say whether it's true or false that the product looks and feels fancy. Um The whether the product demonstrates technical innovation. Whether it's easy to use. Whether it's incorporating sort of the fashion element to attract the buyer. And whether it's a sort of recognisable Real Reaction product. And I have to go up onto the whiteboard and do this apparently,", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "so I'll go over here. Right. So the first one is um, does the product look and feel fancy. So if we do a sort of a one So.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Okay, well we have a single curve, which was maybe like the feel of the product's quite good.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "So uh.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Um, then we have the rubber kinda spongy feel, which was in at the time.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Um, sorry that'd be considered fancy.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah, I'd maybe give it a a two.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Of but I think What Is one false, or is t one true?", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "One's true.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "I forgot. One's true, and okay. Seven's fal", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "And a four is neutral.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Four is neutral, okay. So.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "So maybe maybe a two.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah,'cause we haven't got the double curve, so we can't like say it's completely true.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Go for one. Yep.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "But it's pretty close. We've got almost everything we can.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Okay. Right.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "I gonna put underneath so I've got some more space. So, false is seven, true is one, and So uh say about a two for fancy,", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "you think?", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah, why not not,", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "m m maybe nearer three.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Okay, well d you do an average at the end, I don't know. Um.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Two three. Well, it's just that uh saying something remember that when you look down, we've got solar power, we've got uh various other things you could have, and we're not going for these options.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Uh-huh. This this is just this is just for like the look. Does it sort of look fancy rather than functional. So.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm..", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah, I suppose that might be in the technical innovation bit.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah, so that so sh should we go for a a two on that?", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "'Kay. And I mean, how much does the product demonstrate technical innovation do you reckon?", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Um, deciding between the kinetic power or um the speech recognition, and if we had either of those for our budget, they both show a reasonable amount of speech recognition.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "D yeah. Okay. So, what about the pr The prototype as it is,", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Um.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "we've got we've got the speech recognition on it, haven't we.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "But not the kinetic.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "But not the kinetic.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Like the power.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "No.'Cause you can't afford that w we took that out too.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "No, we c ca yeah, we can't afford both.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Alright, so.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Didn't you? Or.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "So it doesn't It's pretty The prototype as it is isn't sort of um fulfilling the.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "No may is maybe about neutral", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Maybe a three.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "plus it it it's got something, but it hasn't got.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Okay. Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Well, wait a minute. In thirteen point seven we do have kinetic.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "I would give it more than a four.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "The problem is we have to reduce down from there to get it down to twelve point five.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "And one way of doing that would be to take out the kinetic.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "So, it's very much dependant on what you do with your options. And if you're definitely going for the sample sensor and sample speaker, then because that.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "'Kay.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Right, okay.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "the other functions we've got in are are more at the The special material, the rubber, wood, titanium, et cetera, if you go for that, th that's at the high end'cause that's point six, whereas down at uh just special colours uh is point two. Now you're trying to lose one point two, so it seems to me that if you're going for the sample sensors speaker, you're basically then having to go for the cheaper options on everything else.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "And and the simple way to do it would be to have a battery, to have your uh sample sensor speaker,", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Um.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "and then you're looking to uh take out uh point two,", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "S I'm just gonna check my email..", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "which would be come from the button supplements category.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "I'm just gonna check exactly what it said in the email for um the product.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "How much of a difference would it make if we made the case in plastic? Because we did say that we don't wanna follow the fashion too much. If the buttons are rubber that might be spongy enough.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Um, interface type um,", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "And then it stand the test of time better.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "well plastic rather than rubber..", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Okay. But I.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "That that that would make the significant difference. You could either you could have it If you have a in plastic rather than rubber, then that would uh enable you to get you could keep kinetic then, you could keep your sample sensor, and you'd be looking to take out point two. So you could uh fiddle that down your special form at the bottom, or your special colour at the bottom.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "And that would enable you to to do it.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "So it says if we make a slightly more fancy, then we lose points innovation, and if we make it more innovative innovative, then we lose points on it being fancy, so.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Ye", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": ", I just read the email again and it sort of says it's evaluate the design sort of as it is, I think, so I think we need to think about finance after we've sort of evaluated that design. I don't know whether we're doing it in the wrong order or something or.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Well, okay, but.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Well, I suppose it's rubber as it is, isn't it.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "It's rubber as it is, yes.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "So, I mean does this need to go up a bit or something,'cause we've got both the both the um the speech.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "We got we've we've got thirteen point seven", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "and we've got it in at the moment and if and basically, we're going to reduce down from that.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "But the current one, you'd say would be fancy, would be too.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah, yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah. Um, for for innovation, so we've got the speech the speech thing, and.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm. I would've said about a two as well.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Do you reckon a two?", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah, two or three. I'd be happy with a two.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Okay. Two.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Oh.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "And the next one is I'll have to get it back up now..", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "The next on Well, I can just sing about. Easy to use. I would've said yes. I would go for a one on that at this point in time.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah. Yeah,", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "I would say so as well.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Um, incorporates elements of fashion to attract buyer. Well, yeah it certainly has some.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Um.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": ".", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah, it's got the cherry and the sponginess.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "It does, yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Um.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yep.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Say about a three maybe?", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "I don't know.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah, m um.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Maybe two?", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah, it was just doing it quite well.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yep.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Um, I think we're gonna have to lose some of these, but the moment, as it stands, it's um.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah, I woulda said two would seem reasonable.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "It's a two.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "The product is a recognisable real r uh reaction product?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah, this is.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Uh the sensor using all of its all of its products, all of its buttons,", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "This.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "and it's got a fairly big label on the bottom saying where it comes from.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah, that's a bit rough at the minute..", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah. So this is about sort of the corporate image of like new sort of sleek technology and all that sort of thing, as well as having the logo on and all that.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Oh.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "So sort of Is it sort of a recognisable product.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Does it fit in with our other other products, which uh are sort of coffee makers and spacecraft..", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "S", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Uh, well it's got the same um speech feature as the coffee machine.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "What do y", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Also it's kind of spongy rubberiness is maybe bit more kinda comfortable than kinda sleek and new age.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Um, it depends which way you look at it.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Uh-huh.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Okay. So we're going for a two,", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "So.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Maybe a kind of three? Uh d", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "three?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah, two or three.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Two or three?", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Well, the logo would be more um recognisable on the actual thing. It's just that the pen wouldn't really write on that paper.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Sure.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "But um, I think the logo would definitely be recognisable.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "And it does have attributes that other products do. Two? Aye. Go for it.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Right, okay.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Two or three..", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Two.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "How.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Right, come on. That's that decided.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Two. Okay.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Right. So.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "So we're now on to changing it to get it to fit in with the budget requirements, and then.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "What does what do all them numbers mean then? Do we add them up and rate or anything?", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah we s yeah, I think we sort of add them up so sort of at an average is gonna be I'm just gonna do this in my head.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "About a two.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Two.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "One point eight isn't it or something. I think, anyway. So yeah, pretty close to a two.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah, so it's.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "So So it's I mean it's pretty good at the moment, but it's gonna get worse, isn't it.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yep.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "But we've gotta try and make sure it doesn't get too bad.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Two b two b two, yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "So should we get So are definite Was it thirteen point seven was the definite price rule if has.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yes.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Okay, so we need to.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Well, you can lose one point two and still meet the requirements.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Do you wanna plug it into yours so we can get up the the finances.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Okay, well I put it back on.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "So I guess this Is this the last stage once we sort out the finances part of it?", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "I'm not sure.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "we'll probably have to re-rate it.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yes, I would've thought so.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah, yeah we'll make the adjustments", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "and then see how are rates are going.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Okay, so what was it, control uh F_ eight, wasn't it?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Ah it's on.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "it's come on already.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Oh. Oh. How kind..", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Right, okay. So, you can see there that the If you want to keep kinetic, right, you've got a choice there of going down to battery, which would save you one. You've got the sample sensor and and sample speaker, which is your big item.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Oh actually we just have a plastic case, then we lose two points,", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "That's right.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "which gets us um In right within the budget range.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Which gets you.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yes.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah, I think that'd be fine. Because that was just a trend, and we do have rubber buttons anyway.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "So that's eleven point seven,", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "and then we could make sure we definitely had all the button supplements.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Alright.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Different different colours, yeah. Yeah, I was I was thinking that because maybe maybe the sort of rubber case is a bit less in sort of the corporate identity than the sort of you know sleeker plastic case.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Possibly, yeah. Um.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Okay, so.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "And that would allow us to have all the technical innovations. So we'd lose a little bit on the maybe kind of.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "So we're going for plastic, yes?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Lose a little bit on the fashion, yeah, but.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yep.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Oh yeah, and that would now be.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "And then.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah, that's that's within the budget. Um Do we actually have Do we just have one special uh special forms down here?", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Well, uh w uh there was debate as to how you would count them. You got special colour.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Um.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Well originally I was assuming we had the red apple, and therefore, that was the special colour.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "And we we've we've got we've got enough for another", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah, I think we should just imagine white buttons.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "we've got nought point eight left,", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "so we've got enough for another.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Well, we've got special form. Now that would be one button, and the question was was that all buttons or is that just one button.'Cause our plan really was to have one button only with a special.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah, um.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "So so no matter how you look at that, that would be the same.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "But the but but but the.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "The other thing would then be special material, rubber, wood, titanium.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "I think maybe the special colour, we've got three now just because the volume buttons are different,", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "I guess we'd have the ones which are blue at the moment would would just be the standard colour.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Alright. So, special colour, you want three in there.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah, which I think we should Yeah, they'll still be fine for the for the price.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Well I thin I think you you you just need two for the special colour'cause it's just two supplements, you know. One original colour and then sort of two supplements, I think maybe.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "That makes sense.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Okay, uh that's probably it.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Okay. So we only ne we only need two for that.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "'Cause I mean these these are moulded. The one colour's gonna be moulded out of a piece of plas uh of rubber, isn't it.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Okay. Yeah, I would agree with that, I think. And we've got special form is the one apple.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "The rest are all standard, although you could argue that should maybe be You were making these buttons down the bottom, I was presuming, bigger than the other ones, or were you? Was that the idea?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Ne uh.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah, the volume ones should stand out a bit.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Maybe that'll be a second supplement. Then there's a spe a second special form.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah, that.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Uh-huh. I would have thought that's probably about r well..", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Um Well you got you got twelve.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Okay, so tha", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "So I think that should still be okay. Yeah, that's twelve point three,", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "so we're still within budget on that. Um.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yep, that makes sense.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "So decide we've lost a little bit on the fashion and lost a bit on the fancy kinda side of it,", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yep.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "but generally speaking, we've kept the other attributes to the.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "I woulda said so. Yeah. So you'd maybe put fash fan uh fashion at three rather than two.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "That's without Yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "So shall we do a Well, um.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "And specially it definitely could fits the the real product What was the what's the company name?", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Real Reaction produ", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Real Reactions?", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "R yeah. Yeah, yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "I'm not quite sure, what does that mean?.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "I mean it still seems definitely fit that p so that's like if that's the new age kind of um inno innovative c type company, then um having the kinetic feature and the voice recognition is p quite high up on.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah, so Uh.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yep I would s", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "So it's w if we've if we've put in for another special form on a button, then maybe they could be a different shape. Like we got a cherry one. Maybe other ones could be something else shaped. I don't know. That would be poss seeing as seeing as it's cheaper to make them a different seeing as we've got, you know, we've made it a a special form, so", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "You mean of.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Um.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "And that would sort of maybe keep us close on the sort of the fashion type one. And it would sort of, you know, keep it quite fancy as well,", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Well you could argue you might do it once a year, you would change,", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "I don't know.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "because at the moment you're making a red apple. So next year you could make next year's model the same, but have it as a a yeah whate whatever, a lemon.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah so it's a.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Well you could Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Whatever fruit was in fashion next year..", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah, l a lemon lemon or something.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah, I mean the volume buttons could be lemons or something, maybe..", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "And that", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "amount.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Okay. So, we've what have we what have we rid of. We got rid of the plastic.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah, we've the main thing we've changed really is the casing isn't it?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Is it.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "That yeah, that was uh.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "The rubber.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "that was just about all.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "I think we've saved quite a bit because we've just got the push-button interface, which is by far the cheapest.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Um So maybe in a sense not having that, maybe we've lost some maybe lost something on the innovation side?", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "But uh.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "I dunno. And that is like the most standard type of button.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "So I mean, we've got we got rid of the rubber case, but we've now s we now sort of got an extra form, and an extra colour for the buttons. So maybe in terms of sort of fanciness and fashionability, we're pretty much the same, maybe.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "So, I mean we could maybe put two again on them.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "And everything else has stayed pretty much the same, so.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Well, ease has certainly stayed.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah, plus if anything that is special forms makes it slightly easier to to use.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah. And what about the sort of innovation?", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Um, well we've still got the kinetic energy. Um.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Do you think Okay.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "And the speech feature.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah, the speech feature.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "And then, the corporate identity.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "I think we've cut just about the same. We've maybe lost Hasn't it It's hard to tell how the rubber the rubber casing would really affect.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "How it would play out, yeah. Oh.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah. Whether whether that's considered to be sort of part of the corporate identity, I don't know..", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Um.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "I mean, it's maybe not. I mean.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "But I think more the the features of the actual control will be more important than maybe than the the actual aesthetics, but.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah. Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "But either way, I think we've made it fairly close to what.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah. Okay, well I mean.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah, I don't see how we could make it any more. Um, apart from maybe doing the whole thing in the kinda light shade of blue, like the casing.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "We cou Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "But then what colour would you make the R_s?", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "just the the company logo. So maybe there's like a set design which we get printed off.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Well, but you've got the company logo on there, which would effectively be a stick-on badge. So you're in a sense, you're comparing the product without the company logo.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "And then y but you've got the space for it to stick it on.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah, yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Hey, what what what's the company colour? Did you get told what the company colour is or.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "I'm still not quite sure we've established that.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "No,", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Don't think so.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "I just.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "But but i but in the sense that, as you saw with um the Windows logo badge, it doesn't really matter.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "We got the logo off the web browser.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Oh right.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "There's virtually n The way that you frame, you know, the Windows badge on there, it really doesn't matter what colour it is,", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Hmm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "so long as our company's logo is framed w in the same way as that with a like a black outline.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Fact, they've got black and white or black and silver. So basically, even if you had a silver the same colour of silver on your display, because you've got effectively a double edging on the uh on the logo, it means that it splits off what your logo is from the from the product.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm..", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "And that's actually quite a sneaky way of doing it.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Okay. Uh-huh.'Cause you've got sort of we've got point two to play with if you really wanted to.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "You could put in another.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Another colour.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Well, in this one, you've actually got three colours of buttons.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Or would that be t", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Well, we decided that the blue ones were the um the standard colour.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah. Okay.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "So you were talking about uh um We're assuming that all the buttons on the second panel, the hidden away panel, would all be standard.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Which m may or may not be the case.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Um.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Shall we save the point two for profitability then?.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Well, yeah. Bu but but uh was the was there not a button that you were thinking of on the um on the other opt you know, on the second page, as it were, that uh you were thinking of maybe having as a different colour?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Um, I don't think they would really need to be. I think if they were just all small round blue buttons, it'd be fine.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah, maybe we've m.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Needs to be an enter button, but could just be the same as well.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Maybe for the the one they're gonna see all the time, we make it look good, and um, fit the kind of idea of what they want.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Hmm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "And then for the more functional buttons, we don't worry too much about that and just have that as like a plus it's hidden away anyway, you're not gonna see it at the start.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah. I mean it's the sort of thing that, I mean, you wanna pick up the controller and just hit a button quickly to change the channel or volume.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah, well.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "So, if it's dead obvious, then that's fine. But if you're opening the panel and you're looking and you're tuning, then you're paying a bit more attention. So it may be sort of different colour buttons isn't so important.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Alright. Okay.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "'Cause you Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "So.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "So we just add that to profitability in effect..", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah, I mean so we've dropped the cost, but.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Right, so we're meant to finish up in five minutes.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Same sort of function? The criteria? It's alright.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "'Kay.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Just made a load of money..", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Shouldn't we maybe lose a point on fashion, go to a three?'Cause we've lost the overall spongy feel.'Cause it doesn't seem right that it just hasn't changed at all..", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Well, but I think we said that w Because you got rid of the rubber, we put an extra an extra sort of fruit um shape on one of the buttons.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Alright.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "le lemon sh", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Did we decide what that was, which button it was? On the volume ones?", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "I think well, we could have lemon shaped ones with the volume ones or something..", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Right..", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Uh,. That's good.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Or something like that. Yeah..", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Definitely lemon shaped.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Did did you have to have a rubber case, though, for rubber buttons? Or was it the other way around?", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "You had to have rubber buttons if you had the rubber case.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "So I think we can we're okay.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Right, okay.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "So we're okay this way around.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah. So that.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Until the design team comes in and says, get off.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "so we've saved.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "But you are the design team..", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Then we say it's fine, so it's all good.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Saved two Euros on that.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "So what bit are we on to?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Um, can I just check if that's a cherry or an apple? Did we decide against the apple because of Apple Mac? And did we make it a cherry officially?", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah. I th I th.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Oh. Right, okay.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Just in case we need that point two for lawsuits and such like..", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Oh drats, I've botched that, haven't I.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "So were we aiming for a certain target on that scale?", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Well, we're aiming for um one for all of them.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "M but it really has to fit into the budget, so I guess we just have to adjust things to get it i in the Which is fair enough..", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "And we seem to have least something in each criteria. We haven't completely left anything out, so.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah. Yeah, I think", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "As an overall product which has to be quite cheap, we've just about achieved everything.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "most Yeah. Yep.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "So do we have anything else to discuss?", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "I don't know. What's on the agenda?", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Right, okay um What's happened here? Right, okay um Mm. Right, okay um, Right. So we got So we've done the the finance bit and the Excel project and the We've done the redesign.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "We've got the closing.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "So we're now on to project process. Now satisfaction with, for example, room for creativity, leadership, teamwork, means, et cetera, whiteboard, digital pens, et cetera. So, we're actually now uh, in a sense, on to the evaluation of the course rather than the evaluation of the project is m my understanding of it.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Uh-huh.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "So what did you and remembering that nobody's just over the curtain..", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "So, um.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Finish your meeting now..", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "We should just go through this quickly and then.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Huh.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "So.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "I suppose the easiest way of doing it is to put some notes down, which I will do.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "So, uh I think I have to finish that page. Right, okay, so.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Oh..", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Project evaluation. So, um Creativity. Did you feel you got a chance to express yourselves well enough?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Um, yeah. Yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Well um.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "I thought some of the divisions though between sort of the individual meetings were a bit arbitrary.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Individual meetings. How do you mean?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah. Well, we were finding out various things in in be in-between the meetings,", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "In you on your own.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "and they didn't the one meeting didn't always follow on for the other one, you know, sort of we had things thrown in at the second meeting where, you know, you'd looked at the remote controls and seen the curviness, but in the first one you'd also looked at some remote controls and looked at the buttons,", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Um.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "and I don't understand why it would be in separate meetings that you'd do that. You know, you'd sort of you'd probably present it at one or something like that.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Mm, The only thing you find is in a manufacturing process, you would normally, you go to a meeting, you decide, right, you do this, you do that, you do that.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Then you go away. You find out information. You then come back. You then discuss it. You then go and change things around,", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Uh-huh.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "and then go back. So.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah, I suppose and then be going out and finding more information each time", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Whereas, this time, you're really getting it from a database source,", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "and then diff things will be relevant.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "so it's not uh well uh.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Anyway, so, what do you want to put down?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "I've put, seemed okay. Creativity, seemed okay. Um um flow of information on on any given subject given subject um sometimes disjointed..", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "I think it maybe could have been a slightly more creative project. I mean a remote control isn't the most um kind of fancy thing that you could imagine designing.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah, the thing itself.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Um.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "I can't think of a better example at the minute.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Have could have used a different example pel to increase create Creativity.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Is this go It kinda kis fits the purpose that it was something everyone knows about and then something we can at least look at and think how we can improve on.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "You have to do it within a set time frame is the other thing, so.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm. Yeah. But think like it was a bit restrictive just to say that you have to design a television remote control, in a way. I mean it depends what sort of business you're in, I guess. I mean this one seems. From the website it looks it's quite innovative, but we're coming up with some bucket shop product aren't we", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "that's, you know, fifteen quid..", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "one of those things. Like uh, companies can have like a range of products and.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "I th I uh d", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "I don't know how it works but I guess that something got sent out and have like a brief to kind of.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "But the other thing is that uh they're I'm guessing that they're trying to use this um software to to demonstrate how you could uh do a project. I mean, m my wife at the moment, for instance, is uh acting as a computer", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "um for um you normally, you got a problem, so you go to your tutor and find out information to see how to get it fixed.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "So what she's doing is she's having to spend a day at the computer terminal at one end so that any student that comes along can uh ask whatever question. And then you or the idea is that the whichever uh person's at the other end can point them in the right direction, show them where to either give them directly give them help, or secondly, point them in the right direction, either at the library, or uh or or come back, or go and see Joe Bloggs, or whatever. So uh, and that was a project I suspect similar to this, because they they were actually trying to debug the uh computer software to enable um to enable it to work. And of course, you had the machine crashing", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Hmm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "and various things going wrong. So.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Well, sh we look at the last slide,", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "see if it's got anything else.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Alright,", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "I think there's one one more to go.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "so we've got uh", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah. I mean if you look at their products on their website here, Real Reaction, I mean it's all pretty high-tech and cutting edge.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "New ideas found,", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "And.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "did we find any, no.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "It was quite good with this um the white board, having that and the digital pens.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Alright.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Like, that's something that made it a little easier.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah. Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Leadership, teamwork.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "we did find a new idea, I mean sort of a kinetic remote control. I've never seen one of them before. batteries, I think. So.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Does.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "voice recognition, especially not could.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "You've got voice recognition computers,", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "that's not remote controls.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Well it's a different application of it.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm. Okay,", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah, so it's just like the same products, but just put together in a different way.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "so how do you reckon teamwork went?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Um.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "That went okay, yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah, I guess we all had separate ideas and then discussed them.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm, yeah..", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "To uh go uh reasonably well. Okay.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "I don't think sort of the budget um allowed us to do anything.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Bit bit arbitrary..", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Well, I mean I don't think it I just don't think it fitted in with the rest of their products. I mean, they've got all these sort of, you know, high definition D_V_D_ and portable seven inch d um lightweight computer screens,", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "and uh I'm thinking, do you know, one cheap remote control doesn't really fit in.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "So, we're m we're meant to comment on leadership and the means, E_ G_ whiteboard, digital pens, et cetera.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Surely they they should produ", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "And and new i new ideas found was the the other thing.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Well leadership's a bit of a funny one, isn't it.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "But we can't really all fairly comment on leadership because you are the Project Manager.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "You were the leader. So our experience of leadership wasn't really as much as yours..", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah. Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Now, I'd much rather be in marketing.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "but I certainly didn't get this uh computer to work as well as I would have liked.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "However, um Alright uh means, so whiteboard um so really, it's uh equipment. Oh.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah. It worked.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah, very nice..", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Comput computers could be a bit difficult at times but.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "But I mean, I d I don't I'm not sure I see the value in these. I mean, they record what you're writing, and then what do you do with it? Where do you get the recording? Do you plug the computer or something?", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "I think there's a little there's a little um chi", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "So it's not just for us, it's for the experiment as a whole, so.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "There's a little there's a little chip, I think you must plug it into something", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Should we quickly look at the last slide?", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "and it produces a.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Sh.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Right. I think you watch a video of it kind of.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "I don't know. Whether it just produces a big image of sort of everything you've written or something, and Page after page.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Right. New ideas found, so one or two.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah. Kinetic powered remote control. Um, what was the other one?", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Voice um recognition thing.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Vo yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "um and uh voice", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "uh, was it voice activated um.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Voice recognition, yeah. S", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "recognition.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Almost.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Pretty much..", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "To fill in these fill in these questionnaires", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Right, so, uh are the costs within budget,", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Oh no.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "yes. Is the project evaluated, yes. Uh, don't forget to complete final questionnaire and meeting summary. 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{ "meetingId": "IS1009d", "transcriptSegments": [ { "text": "Well hi everyone again.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Hello.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Hello.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Hello", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Um like before we uh I have to redo the meetings from n th the minutes from the last meeting", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "and so here we go. Uh it was discussed in the last meeting uh which was opened by the presentation from the interface um designer that uh looks would be very important on this new remote", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Designer..", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "and um it is to send messages of course to the T_V_. It should have nine channel buttons, a next button, volume buttons, subtitle buttons, switch to control features, colour contrast, sharpness etcetera. It should have a memory switch, a mute button in case the telephone rings or something. Uh speech recognition is one of her very f favourite personal uh features she would like see d d to be integrated in this um in this new remote. Um. Should be child friendly design with few buttons, colourful maybe with s star shaped or other shaped buttons. Um she uh presented also an oversized remote which she guarantees nobody will ever be able to lose.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Um.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "And she was challenged on that point.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "that's right..", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yes..", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "But uh her very f personal favourite really she, she would very much like to see a speech recogniser integrated in this remote. The industrial designer um presented her uh thoughts on the issue. She would like a special case made out of plastic that is very strong, not using any harmful materials, should be recyclable and should be colourful. Should have an integrated circuit board that's highly sophisticated and temperature resistant. She would like to see a timer and or alarm facility integrated. Uh technically this thing would also have a resistor and a capacitor, diode transistor, resonator, and if possible a rechargeable battery. Uh and of course a circuit board. And how it would works, you press the button, the chip is morse morse code related relays the uh to the generat to the generator amplification and uh the circuit board is very inexpensive to build and so she thinks this is a great feature uh to to to consider.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "She would like uh this whole thing should be push buttons with a simple chip uh scrolling method is more expensive and not that practical anymore. Should be battery operated and of course she would have the special cases. The marketing expert uh who has to finally come up with to to to market this product has been watching the competition, has done some research on the internet and also has used h her personal observations to come up with the fact that such a remote sh should be small, easy to use and it should be eye catching. From her point of view of course one of the most important facts is that we should get to market before our competition does. To do that uh maybe one or two features should be developed on which we could dwell on or in other words on which our campaign could be built on. Too many new features or too many points would only confuse matter. So we prefer to have one or two features that can be really uh driven home. Um it should have a fruit and vegetable design and should have a soft feel. She feels that's really what people want today. And the decision that we took last time was that uh the special feature we would like to see is a speech recogniser, the energy should be battery uh should be on a chip, should be trendy design, compact and strong, and should have buttons. And that concludes the presentation from the last minutes from the last meeting. Now uh we are ready for the presentation of the prototype.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Just the look like, the button part I'll explain.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah. Uh so this is our what uh we have made. This is a model of the remote control which we are going to build.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Uh this is us in a snail shape so uh it it is attractive", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "um and it's it's blue in colour uh bright and uh it has yellow buttons and all the different colour buttons", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "so it is a uh uh a looks-wise it is beautiful.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Uh and also compact in shape.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Uh um and also i it it will be easily fit into into the hands and you can access all the buttons easily.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm. Mm-hmm. Mm-hmm. Good.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah,", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "oops, sorry..", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "You used to have all the buttons.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Um yeah and um uh the material which we are going to use for the case is uh plastic and uh w which which is s strong um uh and also uh for the Um the material is plastic and uh for the buttons it is uh s soft rubber um and als", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Oh that's good,", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "no, that's nice and friendly.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah because uh uh you'll be touching the buttons more so it is soft when you touch it.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm. Mm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm,", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "And then um uh for the for the led, for the light emitting diode it is a fluorescent green", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "and it's a a it is a bulb like an ordinary infrared.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "And and the button button's part uh will be explained by F Francina.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Now the um we decided upon including certain features on our remote. Now these features includes the s um signal emitting uh signal it's the led or L_E_D_ the infrared.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm,", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah, okay, mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Now uh we have included the switch on and off button.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Now we have included another feature that is the mute button", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "on the side of the model. Then we have included one to nine buttons", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "for controlling the programmes the different channels.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "We have also included two buttons for increasing or decreasing the volume.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "And we have also included two buttons for scrolling up and scrolling down the programme channels. Now our our model also contains a button which is called as the menu button.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "What kind of button?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Menu button.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Menu? Uh menu th menu, uh one one.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yes, menu.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Menu button..", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "At the centre", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "we have included a button which is fluorescent green colour and this is the menu button which will control the colour, sharpness, brightness", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm. Of the screen. Mm, mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "of this uh picture. We have also included a button which is called as the swapping button. Now this is uh a special, special feature which we have included. Now this button is an elongated shaped button and this is slightly flexible so if it is turned towards the right it will take to the previous channel, if it is turned towards the right it will take to the next channel. It will take the user to the previous and the next channel so this is a swapping button.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "The next channel in the numeric pattern, or.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "No, swapping is if if example you're you're watching the second channel and then you go to the tenth channel and if you want to go back to the second channel you can swap, this button.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah, mm-hmm. Mm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yes.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Okay, okay.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "And at the end, it this remote has inbuilt voice recogniser which c which will recognise the user's voice and then it'll act accordingly.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Okay. Mm-hmm. Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "So this is our proposed model.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Now the marketing expert has to", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Tell, yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "give her suggestion whether it'll be sellable or it'll be cost effective.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Okay, well um what what I really like a lot about it is that you can reach the whole thing with one thumb,", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yes, yes.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "that you can really hold it in one h you don't need two hands", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "and it's easily reachable even for somebody with a small hand, yeah?", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yes the buttons are all raised, right?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "The buttons are all raised", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Are raised, mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yes.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "and if you hold it in the centre of your hand you can even reach it over here so you don't have to turn it around, turn it upside down, move it up, up and down,", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Right. Or have two hands to operate it, yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "I really like that.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "You really did a good job on that, my little designers.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Um and um I like the idea that the on-off button is in a really prominent place. That's that's a really good good thing.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yes, and it sort of sticks up so that you really.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah, that's great.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "you don't have to g first go like oh yeah here it's on and yeah, mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Hmm. Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Abs okay.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "The colour's very attractive. Um the um these buttons uh around here are the mute", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "No, these the front buttons which are here, are the mute buttons.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "and these mm-hmm On both sides they're mute?", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yes, yes.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "So you can push either one?", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yes.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "So if you're left-handed or right-handed it doesn't matter.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "And this brings the menu up on the screen?", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Pardon me? This is the menu yes, yes.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "This brings the menu up on the screen and the orange ones are.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "A the the these these two are th to increase or decrease the volumes,", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "and these two are to uh scroll the programme channels.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "F f okay.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Scroll up or scroll down the channels.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Right, very good. Uh it looks mm looks like something I can sell.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Okay and now I'm supposed to.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Well, I have one question", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "uh will there be anything written on the buttons, like that people know, or they have to learn that from a piece of paper which button does what?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yes, it will have uh these buttons will have the numbers and all the rest of the buttons will have symbols.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Ah. Yeah, definitely.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Will have symbols so that that that the user really knows you know and doesn't have to first learn it.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yes, which can be easily recognised.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yes.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah. Yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Good point because we need the symbols'cause we're going into an international market we can't have anything that's language dependent.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yes.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah of course, and also.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yes.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Hmm.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah. But anyway it would ha i i i it has to have some kind of of symbols, text or something so that people kn", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yes.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah we can Text.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Symbols on it. Mm-hmm, mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yes.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Text that we can have on the case itself,", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "That's right.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yes.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "we can it will be printed on the case and symbols as well as the buttons. Yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Okay, yeah just wanted make sure of that mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "And and one more feature is we we have a holder for this remote which is an oyster shape.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Mm,'kay, mm. Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "A shell shape.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "For the snail, yeah, mm-hmm,", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Right, mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yes, yes.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah. So it is.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "we have the snail shell.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yes, snail shell.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "yeah,", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "He goes right back into his shell.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "yeah shell.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yes.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Well you know I think we could do something really funny with this too because the snail is known to be slow", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "and we could have some sort of little comic effect on our marketing about how this is a rapid snail or something like that", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Y Yes.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah, of course, yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "you know that would, that would really work.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Now what, what are our special features for the marketing?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "So.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "That's really the voice recognition that's really unusual.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "I think voice recognition is our big selling point", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Mm. Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "'cause nobody else seems to have that in in this price range.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "And then, and then the other thing would basically be sh shape or practicality of use.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yep", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "You know.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "uh well I think that everybody's gonna say their remote control is practical. I think we have to, we have to dwell on on on the appearance.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Colours. Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "We're really gonna have the be the", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Cutest.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "cutest remote control on the block.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "So I think we have to play with the image, play with the snail image um play with the visual and then the voice recognition.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "I think those are the two things to push. The look and the voice recognition. They're gonna be our two selling points.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Okay, now uh having said that.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "I'm supposed to make a little presentation, aren't I?", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "No, now this was our evaluation criteria which we uh just have done.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Now we're gonna talk about financing..", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Ah, but in my instructions I think it said I was supposed to go to the board and do something.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Well, there is a production evaluation.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "No?", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Is that you?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah, that's me.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "But that's after the financing.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Oh, okay.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "See? Fi see?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Sorry, sorry. Mm-mm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Um. Okay, we had looks and voice recognition. Okay now on the financing we bring up the mm there it is. Okay uh energy source we say that's battery, right?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "That's right.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Okay, now. So we I guess we use one.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yes.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "What? T cell or chart you are trying to change is protected. Well, that's nice. She told me I could just ch change it here and then it would It doesn't work. Hmm.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Can you just fill it in in the yellow boxes? Or.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Oh, okay yeah, okay,", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "let's see. Okay, one, okay.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yes.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Oh go away. Um kinetic source so that's in the energy source that's all we need.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Uh electronics, simple chip on print? Is that's what we're using?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yes.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah,", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "One of those?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Come on. Okay, one. Uh regular chip on print. No. That's all we need, the one", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "No. Yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "case, uncurved flat, single curved, double curved.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Well..", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "This is a.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Single curve? Mm.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "I guess it's double curved.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Double curved? One of those?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Case materi s supplements. Plastic we said, right?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Plastic.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Uh wood, rubber?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Rubber, because we're gonna have the soft buttons.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Uh but, yes but.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "I think uh that is uh f for rubbers that is uh yeah case material.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "That's just for the case material,", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Is this for the case? Yes.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "so special colours though, we having that,", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Oh okay, the mm-hmm, mm' kay.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "right?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yes.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "And then we have to interface push buttons.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yes.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Scroll wheel, no. Integrated scroll wheel, L_C_ display?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "No.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "No,", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Button.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "'cause we didn't put the clock in it after all, right?", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "No.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Uh, button supplement special colour?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Speci Yes", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Special form?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yes d we do have special form.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yes.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "And special material, rubber, wood, yes.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Okay. Total seven point six whatever that means.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Uh, I think that's the price.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "That's the price.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "One two three four five six seven eight nine", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Mm?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Maybe it is it just n", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Eight, eight point two. That's.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Nine points,", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "hmm?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "okay, yes.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Eight point two, right? So, we looks like we are well within budget.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Okay. I guess I should save this I suppose, huh?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Oops. Uh-huh huh huh.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "On the desktop.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "I just tried that. My documents, computer.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "AMI.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "My compu Ah oh here it is, yes.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "AMI should for", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Okay, fine. Save. Okay good, so that's the good news. We gonna be popular.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Um. So that uh I think financing was pretty simple.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Now we would like to have a presentation by the marketing expert on production evaluation.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Okay, I'll take my file down so you can bring it up.'Kay should be able to get it now.'Kay, why don't you move just to the next slide right away.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "You wanna go to the next slide?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah right away.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Okay, well uh obviously my method for uh s m the marketing of this thing is first to ask the big question, will it sell? And I think we should show this prototype to people from various age and socio-economic groups and see about any fine tuning that maybe little things we haven't thought of.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "We can't accept every suggestion of course, but maybe we just need to get a few.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "And show the the prototype to consumer research groups, we don't s want somebody to suddenly come to us and tell us that this button is toxic and you know some child will swallow it and then we won't sell any.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm. Mm.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "So we have to get some input from those people.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "And then after that we just have to go with our best intuition and you know we like it, we think it's good, we're gonna get behind it and sell it. Um, next slide please. Okay, now the things that I was thinking and th my wish list has really been realised in this prototype. I wanted the shape to be biomorphic, I didn't want anything with angles and all square, I wanted it to be comfy and roundy so we we've got that. The size is small, the colour's bright and warm which is what we wanted. We wanted the feel to be as soft as possible, we'll have the soft buttons", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "and the way this is shaped, even though it's gonna be hard plastic, it feels good in your hand so that's nice. And functionality I put last on my list because people aren't going to use it before they buy it.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "So paradoxically the other features, in other words, the look, the feel um and the shape, that's what people are gonna get in the store.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Fee selling.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "They don't have a television in the store, they can't play with it.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yes.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Um so they'll be our main selling points. So um th those have been fulfilled by your prototype and go ahead to the next slide please. Okay, so um the shape um I think is a a one. That's really, really excellent shape. The size is small um and th these points are in the importance for the, for the marketing, these aren't i in how I feel. I think that it's I think that it's plenty small enough to sell but I think we're sort of right the scale is one to seven. I think we're sort of right in the middle as far as c other competitors.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "And our colour I think is great. The colours are bright and warm and we really do great job there. And given um the constraints that we had I think we got it as soft as possible. And then functionality um I think you did a really good job on functionality, obviously we could have ad added different functions but then we'd disturb something else so I would say that we got to a five out of seven on on functionality.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "So I think that basically we've got a great product and we can get off and running with it.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Um I just realised one thing.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "In the financing there was no room for our voice recogniser.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yes.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yes.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Ah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "And uh I don't know how we can evaluate that or how we can include that, too.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Well, um we had what, eight eight euros twenty as our cost?", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Eight, eight twenty, yes.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Eight twenty so.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "And so we've got we've still got four euros to go to spend.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "We have um four euros, yeah", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "I mean maximum we have another four point three euros I mean four thirty.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm. Well um that's.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "But I mean we have no way of presenting that to management as you know as a f finished, as a finished product and saying okay with the voice recogniser that costs so much.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "So um we just have to beware of that. I mean and know whether the four thirty will really cover that.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Well as we know in today's technic technological world you can do just about anything at any price, the the the problem is quality.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "So we're just gonna have to settle for whatever quality that will buy us.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah,", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yes, yes.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "And um it may not be the greatest quality but it may sell anyway.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah, still.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "As we've seen with so many of these kinds of products..", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah..", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "I'm sorry to interrupt then but I just uh recog I just remembered that there was no that that was not um included uh that there was no room for any special features, okay?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Included, yeah. Hmm,", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah mm.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "hmm", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "So to beware of that. You wanna go to this next slide, marketing expert?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Uh, well I isn't this my last slide?", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "I dunno.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Maybe.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yes it is. Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Go ahead. I think that was my last slide, yeah. Um. Mm okay. And I'm supposed to present this scale on the whiteboard. Um and we're supposed to talk about those things as a team now, so if you put my last slide back up there.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Oh.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "I'm sorry I've um forgot to do that, um.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Why? Wh why you need that up?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Hmm? Well because I can't remember what I put on there. Okay.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Now I'm supposed to see how long my leash is here.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "I think you can make it there.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm'kay. You ready. So now we're all supposed to say what we think. Um okay so on shape I gave it a one. Wait what would you ra uh one being good and seven being the worst.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Worse, okay.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Um what do you think the shape is?", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "One.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "One, okay, and Be Betsy?", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yes I think uh shape is one.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah, even my yeah, shape is one.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Okay, uh-huh one, okay. And how about on size? On size.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "You you gave it a four.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "I gave it a four, yeah, I feel it's just average.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Um, I dunno. I think I would give it at least a two.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "One.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah, even I think it is one. It's quite small.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Okay. Okay.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "you're the designer, of course you wanna give it a one.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Um and then how about how we doing on colour?", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Colour uh I.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Colour, I gave it a one.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "One.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "I really like all those nice bright, warm colours.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "I I like the colours. One.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "One. Yes.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "One.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah, one.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "One, one, one, okay. And how about the feel? Taking into um consideration texture and comfort in the hand.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Uh, I think I would give it a two.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Okay, I gave it a three, two,", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "I'll give three.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "yeah? Three.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Uh maybe two,", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Two, okay.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "And the next is functionality where I I admit I was a little hard on our team here, but.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Well it's also you can't really try it out uh the other things you have have more is are more tangible so from that point of view", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah. Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "but um I'll give it a three.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Two.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Two, okay.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Uh three, mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Three? Okay. Well, um. It looks like we've got got ourselves a pretty good product. Um the functionality's the only place where maybe we have to think about m m maybe, heaven forbid, having another meeting.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah..", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "But um otherwise I think we're we're ready to go to go with this product. Anybody else have any other comments or any other things that we feel we should evaluate?", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Uh. Here is what we looking at uh satisfaction on for example room for creativity. Um. Is there more room for creativity or are we absolutely happy?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "We can always improve, yes.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Maybe we can yeah, include some more buttons and uh um", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yes, features.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "yeah features. We can make the buttons few buttons smaller. Uh I think they are quite big, so I think I I mean we can just have small buttons and more buttons in that case. If we want to have more features than that.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm. Well then again if we're gonna um do the speech recognition thing we're gon there gonna be some buttons that are gonna have to be added for that for the recording of the the speech.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah. Yeah, definitely.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yes. Voices.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "So that that's where we're gonna have to do maybe we can eliminate one of the mute buttons, instead of having two mute buttons.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah, definitely, yeah, two mu mute buttons.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yes. Yes.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "And um then maybe we can do something with the um the volume control. Maybe we can put that all on one button.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Hmm.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Um and a couple of other th maybe comp uh consolidate some of the usage an and see what we can do with that.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Y um al always bearing in mind that right now we are of course well within the budget", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "And maybe.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "and that we still you know we probably can't, with this particular item, we probably can't just uh add a whole lot of more things.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm. No.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Uh um we need uh you know we need to leave space money-wise for the voice recogniser.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yes.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Um.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "So th the question really is how do we feel with the project process? Uh, um are we happy with the creativity that has passed here or we're not happy with the new product we created or that was created? Uh I think personally I think uh I'm pretty happy.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "I'm pretty happy with it too, yeah um,", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Um an", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Even I'm happy.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "it's something I think I can market. Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "and then the next question is are we happy with the leadership of this project? Uh.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "I think you've done a good job, Miss leader..", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yes, yes you've done a good job.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah, yeah, definitely..", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "And I think team work I think was very very good, I think we really.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah I d I do too I think we worked well together as a team, yeah. Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "And uh I think we are we happy with the means we used? We used whiteboard, we didn't use digital p well digital pens I guess are these things.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah maybe we could've used the whiteboard a little bit more, yeah,", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Whiteboard more, yes, yes.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah, probably.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "we didn't use that enough.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yes, we could. Uh, it's maybe not in the best position in the room um you know like sometimes it's positioned so that it's much better visible for everybody and I think from that point of view we sort of ignored it a little bit.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yes.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "And we used the slide because it was better positioned.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yes, I think so, I think absolutely,", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "No.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Mm I think that's true mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "and fortunately we all had slides presentation which made it a little easier.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Hmm.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Um did we new did we find new ideas?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yes.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "I think we did.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah, many.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "I think we were we were very good, yeah, mm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "I think we we did, uh in more than one respect and uh so I think we did very well here.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm. Okay.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Are the costs within budget? Yes, yes. Uh is the project evaluated? Yes.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yes, yes.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Um then celebration..", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Celebration.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Cel celebration yes, yes..", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Ah..", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Today we have apple juice and after we sell m million of'em we have champagne..", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "So I I thank you all very much. Um, I think this was very good and um", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "I think we did come up with a new product that's uh feasible. Feasible from the production point of view and feasible from a marketing point of view.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm. Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "So, thank you.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Thank you.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Thank you very much.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Okay. Watch I I have my cord behind you here.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "I always get it on here, but getting it off is.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Do we do we have some time left? Uh you have.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "They say it's forty minutes.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Ah yes we have time later", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "But we we were told we could end the final meeting at any time, whenever we felt we were finished.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "but we don't.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Oh, alright.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "It'll take me the rest of the time to get my microphone out from my necklace. Oh, there we go.", "speakerName": "Marketing" } ] }

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So I cannot answer this question.", "responseAttribution": null, "queryMetadata": { "queryType": "QUERY_TYPE_SPECIFIC", "isUnanswerable": true, "isContextDependent": null } }, { "query": "What did they decide to do about the speech recognition feature?", "response": "The participants decided to include the speech recognition feature in the remote control, despite it not being included in the initial budget. They were willing to spend up to 4.3 euros to incorporate this feature.", "responseAttribution": { "indexRanges": [ { "startIndex": 346, "endIndex": 346 } ] }, "queryMetadata": { "queryType": "QUERY_TYPE_SPECIFIC", "isUnanswerable": null, "isContextDependent": null } }, { "query": "Why did Betsy think the remote control should have a soft feel?", "response": "Betsy believed that the remote control should have a soft feel because it would be touched frequently by the user. She wanted to ensure that the user had a positive experience when interacting with the remote control.", "responseAttribution": { "indexRanges": [ { "startIndex": 15, "endIndex": 15 }, { "startIndex": 248, "endIndex": 248 } ] }, "queryMetadata": { "queryType": "QUERY_TYPE_SPECIFIC", "isUnanswerable": null, "isContextDependent": null } }, { "query": "What queries were left unaddressed or concerns left unhandled during the meeting?", "response": "The meeting did not mention any queries or concerns that were left unaddressed or unhandled.", "responseAttribution": null, "queryMetadata": { "queryType": "QUERY_TYPE_SPECIFIC", "isUnanswerable": true, "isContextDependent": null } }, { "query": "Did Francina suggest using a touch screen instead of push buttons?", "response": "No, Francina did not suggest using a touch screen instead of push buttons during the meeting.", "responseAttribution": null, "queryMetadata": { "queryType": "QUERY_TYPE_YES_NO", "isUnanswerable": true, "isContextDependent": null } } ] }

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

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They brought up the point that if the remote control were to be sold separately, rather than bundled with other products, it would likely need to be a multi-device remote control in order to be appealing to consumers.", "responseAttribution": { "indexRanges": [ { "startIndex": 88, "endIndex": 98 } ] }, "queryMetadata": { "queryType": "QUERY_TYPE_YES_NO", "isUnanswerable": null, "isContextDependent": null } }, { "query": "Can you summarize the general consensus on the whistle tracking feature?", "response": "There was general agreement among the participants that the whistle tracking feature was an original and unique idea. However, they acknowledged that it would add to the cost of the remote control and needed to be carefully considered in terms of its practicality and market appeal.", "responseAttribution": { "indexRanges": [ { "startIndex": 154, "endIndex": 162 } ] }, "queryMetadata": { "queryType": "QUERY_TYPE_GENERAL", "isUnanswerable": null, "isContextDependent": null } }, { "query": "Rephrase this question: Were there any points brought up during the meeting that were not fully resolved?", "response": "Yes, there were several points brought up during the meeting that were not fully resolved. 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{ "meetingId": "IS1004b", "transcriptSegments": [ { "text": "Okay everybody is ready? Good morning again. So, today we are going to have a f second meeting. Oh Michael, hi.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yep.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "You're late. You have a good reason for that?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yes.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Very good. Okay, let's have a look to the agenda today. So, we are going to have a meeting about the functional design. Um so first before starting I w just going to uh to go quickly to through the minutes of previous meeting. So uh basically we we are not decided if w we should go for a universal or specific uh uh remote control, but I have new um new i inputs for about that topics. I goin I'm going to share with you. And uh basically we decided to um to uh go to individual actions for each of you uh so um Industrial Designer should wor was supposed to work on th on th on the working design. You showed us.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yep.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "you ar you you prepare something for us?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah. Yep.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "The U_I_ guy also uh work on that, yeah, and for the mar our Marketing Expert should deliver some specs.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Alright so so we are going to go through three of your individual presentations. But first I would like quickly to uh to decide of to give a name to the project. So, I just put d quickly Remo, but if you have any o other names that we co could decide for just to to keep something fun for our project we we should we could discuss quickly. Any ideas?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Uh the Powerstick.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Powerstick, yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "What else? What else?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Uh..", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Maybe a Spanish name would work well.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Mm I was thinking of the.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Especially if we're selling into the U_S_ market becasue there's a lot of Spanish speakers there. Maybe something that sounds cool in English but sounds funny in Spanish.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Mando.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Mando.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Mango? Mango?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "What is that?", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Mando.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Mando. M_A_? M_A_?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "A*_N_ yeah D_O.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "M_ D_O_. Mm, okay.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "It doesn't it doesn't sound cool for me,", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "What does it mean? Oh.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "but maybe for a Spanish for I for.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "What does it mean in Spanish?", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Control.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Control.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Hmm. Nice.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Okay.'Cause it also like in English it sounds like you know the man's tool you know because you know men like to have control of the remote", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "But mm, yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "so it might.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Mando sounds Latino..", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "The Mando.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "So, let's go for Mando? Yeah? No objection?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah, yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah that's.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Great. So.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "And we could have some like you d you could have the fonts you know special, so you have man in like in in uh in one o in one font and then the O_ as like.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Okay, I think this is.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Although you don't wanna cut uh cut women out of the uh potential buyers though,", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "do you? So.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah they are the most T_V_ watcher. So we should be careful.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Okay, I think this is more a question of of.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Marketing.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "But yeah", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "I I think this is more a question of of look and feel.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "it uh.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Something that should be addressed later We should we should go to other for the other topics.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah because if the product will be international.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Well that's the thing. We need to know who we're selling it to before we can really decide on a.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah okay, so let's stick f to Man Mando for the name", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Um.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "and we'll see for the for the look and feel later. So let's go for the three presentations right now. So, who want to start?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "So maybe we could start with the market, yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Maybe maybe I should uh start. Yeah. Mm. Okay.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Okay so I have your slides somewhere?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah. Should be in participant four.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Participant four. This one?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah, yeah. Uh.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "S that's coming. Uh.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "okay. Great.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yep.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Okay so yeah I will I will give a brief outline about what I what I prepared for this meeting.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "For the functional requirements and especially for the for the user requirements. I prepare a marketing report and we have to find the weaknesses and and the the improvements we could do to the current remote controls. And also I di I did a study with for the incorporation of new technologies it seems that the remote controls have been have remained the same for the last five, ten years. There is no no significant difference between the the b the first new controls and.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Okay. Sh next slide?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah. Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Well more most of the people think that remote controls are ugly, thoroughly. So and they they admit that the the they should uh s they would uh spend more money in a fancier remote control, which is which is good and it's interesting point. Also the people are worried about about the R*_S_I_ disease, which is if you repeat the sa the same movement, which is not a with a not very appropriate device, you you will have problems whe when you will get old. So s people are uh are worried about the the shape of the of the remote control. They are also they get angry very often because they lost the remote control very often, so I think it would be a good point to to l to to find a a solution to any beep any alarm or something incorporated to with the remote control every time it it get lost.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "And also I found that young people the the younger people are the more interested they are in incorporating new technologies in the in the remote control.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "So in my opinion the Mando this Mando shouldn't be very small because the smaller it is, the more like the the liklier it is to get lost. Liklier or more likely?", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "More likely..", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "likely. Okay. Uh people also complain because they they they all have the same size of the buttons for buttons who w which are not very use like f uh memorising channels or or this kind of actions which are not very often but they they shouldn't they shouldn't have the same importance in the in the uh in the remote cont in the remote control. Also the z the design should fit the hand shape. So it may be interesting to to think in a in both prototypes, for right and left handed people.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Well th the on the thing is though, most remote controls are used by more than one person. So unless you're kind of targeting single people you know you're gonna maybe", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "cut out some a lot of your market.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "I dunno I th Anyway I think it could be int interesting to to release some a a small fraction of of this remote controls.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Well maybe it could be a universal design.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Sorry?", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "A universal design, which is which is good for both the hands.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Still shaped for yeah for your hand but not for a particular hand, right?", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah? That's right, whether it's left hand or right hand,", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "but but don't you think that the two points are clashing, one thing you are saying design should fit the hand shape and it should not be very small?", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Sorry?", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "The first and the third point, they are clashing.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Well it can still be a, you can still extend past the hand.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Uh.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Like uh.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "So fitting the hand doesn't mean much then.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Well it means like, this remote here is kind of is very thin and long so instead of having you know you might have it kind of a bit bigger", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah, like.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "or, you know, with maybe some some finger molds or something.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm mm-hmm mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "So it means design should be similar to the traditional ones?", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Little sleek, longer?", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "And it should fit the hand.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "No no I was thinking of so like something.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Something with the shape of the palm?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm mm-hmm mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Some finger grips maybe.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "You could even have some buttons like you know on the sides and everything,", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "On the sides.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah yeah. It sh it shouldn't it shouldn't be symmetric symmetrical.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "but.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Mm-hm mm-hmm mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Not anymore. That's what yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "And then finally.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "And finally, the incorporation of a L_C_D_ or a speech recognition system in the remote control could also be interesting, but I don't know if the budget would be large enough.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah. First I'm just wondering about the L_C_D_ stuff because uh because.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "But most of yeah most of the young people to thirty to thirty years old were really interested in this kind of technology.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah, so maybe it's a good time for me to uh to bring you to some new uh new informations. We had the new requirements from the so uh from the head offices of the company, and so they wanted so they want to um they would like to be restricted to T_V_.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Okay, I dunno if you had this information already. No,", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "No.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "so they want us to restrict the remote control to T_V_ only because of time limitations. Um they want also uh.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Actually this marketing report is restricted to T_V_ remote controls.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Excellent. So we have also to focus more on the internet aspects because well well te teletext is outdated now and uh finally, it should be clear that the corporate image, that means colours and logos of the co our company should be clearly inde identified in the product. So.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "I was still uh I was still working on this uh twenty five Euro price point because I think actually having looked at some of the remotes out there, this is quite a low uh price if if we're maybe I can get to this in my presentation though,", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah yeah. Sure sure.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "but um yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "So maybe we can jump to your presentations, right now.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yep. Okay.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Okay so let's keep in mind about tha that that this last point about L_C_D_ and speech uh reco", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah. I think even even if it was within budget do a speech reco rec system it might be a bit difficult because if you think if you're watching T_V_ you're gonna have a lot of this uh background noise from the T_V_ which might interfere with the.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Sorry, what is your?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Uh participant three. You might have some background noise from the T_V_ which will make the speech recognition much uh harder, so.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah but you should be able to activate or disactivate, so yeah yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Oh you press a press a button to talk, and the the T_V_ the T_V_ sound turns off..", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah uh channel fifty.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "No it could be command control kind of thing.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "It requir recognises particular sequence and then it gets activated. Means you say you should say like does that, remote control being on or be on kind of thing, and then remote control comes in the picture for the speech recognition.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Because this kind of thing means speech is there from the T_V_ also.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "So there should be something command controlled, you start and then you stop.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Mm. Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "It's like V_I_ editor, you are having two modes similarly.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Otherwise it's just lying idle.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Okay Michael.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Okay, so, could I describe the mouse maybe be easier to.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Sorry?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "could I use the mouse, or.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Um yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm. Thanks. Okay.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "The wheel doesn't work.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Great.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Okay so um while uh researching this this topic I first of all just thought of a couple of things that I would like to see in a remote, and just uh looked to see if they're actually available in any current remotes, and then also searched for which are the top-rated uh remote controls on Epinions dot com, which is a a you know a a customer um written basically review site. So um there's a pretty wide range of uh remote controls these days and and uh this remote control on the right here is is one of the more extravagant, but it's not really it's by no means uh mm you know on it's own in being so expensive. There are a lot of expensive remote controls out there.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Looks like a P_D_A_?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "So yeah it doe it's well basically all the functions uh are controlled through through the L_C_D_ screen except for the really really kind of main functions, which have a couple of of their own buttons. Um and if you look at a lot of the universal remotes out um on the market, I know we're working on television remote, but a lot of the universal remotes out there have uh have these L_C_D_ screens which kind of helps when you're using multiple uh devices I suppose because you can have multiple kind of functions d different functions on the screen at different times. But um the thing that I find most interesting about this remote control, and it's kind of difficult to uh to see in the slide, but it has a scroll wheel on it, which is kind of like uh a mouse scroll wheel, which I think is it's a really kind of important design aspect um is it's'Cause the thing is what a what we the presen this presentation we had is what we want the remote control to actually do. And obviously the the simplest thing that a remote control does is it just change the change the channel.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Change the channels.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Now um", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "uh the I think that a scroll wheel is actually pretty a pretty handy way of of changing the channel.'Cause I know when I um when I use the remote to change the channel I very rarely use the numbers on the on the pad. I usually use the up and down", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Mmm-hmm mm-hmm. Yeah yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "because most channels are you know two digit numbers and you have to press you know a special button to enter a two-digit number, and then two numbers, so that's just uh it's annoying. So I think a scroll wheel is is quite handy. Now um the the scroll wheel is is much more useful if you have an L_C_D_ screen, and this brings us to the the point you were mentioning before about the internet uh capability.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "One possibility, if we now we need to still talk about the price point because obviously a lot of this stuff can't be done for twenty five Eu uh Euro, but one possibility is to download program information into the L_C_D_ screen so that instead of actually saying I want to I want to go to channel thirty seven because I know this programme's on, you know, often you don't know what ch what channel it's on, or you don't know what's on. If you have a list of of programs on your L_C_D_ screen you just scroll to that program rather than to a channel. So if you think about it's kind of like a you know in mobile phones now you don't use you don't remember people's phone number, you remember their name and you go find that name and ring it.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "So this would be pretty kind of a handy thing to have, but um we we really need t to discuss the price. So, I mean there are there are uh cheaper this is another multi kinda purpose remote control where it's it's it's very simple, there's only a few buttons, but al each of those buttons does something different in a different context. So this is something else we might wanna consider, is really kind of limiting the number of buttons, because this is the top rating uh universal remote control on on Epinions. It it's really uh maybe worth thinking about limiting the number of buttons as much as as possible um because really I think people want to be able to find the button they're looking for without even looking at the remote control. And was saying before about having different size buttons for different you know frequently used uh tasks, but I think also you know the location and and shape of the buttons is important, but also the number of buttons. So if you have too many buttons it it it increases the the difficulty of finding the one you want.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "But there is one problem then the user has to understand each of that functionality.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "So.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah well we w", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Because the same button is doing too many things.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah well we will have a bit of a simpler uh task in that we're only doing uh a television remote control. Um I think maybe one option is to have you know a little flip-open um door that uh that you have hidden most of the time, but contains the extra buttons like, say, the number buttons for instance. Um", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "I I would if I had my perfect remote control, I'd probably just have no numbers at all on it because they're just in the way.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "They don't really do anything. Maybe you know I although I do also find flip-open doors a bit of a pain because sometimes they can break off or or whatever, but maybe a door that you can you can permanantly remove or permanantly have on would be good.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Um but I think definitely you need to to keep the buttons down to a minimum, but not not let that kind of interfere with the functionality of of the device. Um.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "H I think I think that the tr the transition to this to this new remote control shouldn't be very very abrupt very hard because w if people see a remo see the see a remote control without numbers mm they will think it's very difficult to learn very difficult to very different build very different to the traditional.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "It does sampling out of the.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Well I guess that depends on how you market it. If you if you have the right advertisement showing how how how easy it is and how you can, you know, navigate to a program without the numbers, then people might say that looks pretty easy.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "If y", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Okay, can you continue, please Mi?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "So, but.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "yep. Um okay, so, I think um one of the really kind of useful things you can do with with internet connectivity would be to have this a programme driven interface rather than the channel number. So if we can have a higher priced uh remote control I think that would really be worth uh something that would be worth implementing. Um mm there's the L_C_D_ screen, um which maybe maybe is too expensive, um but I think also at the scroll wheel, I haven't mentioned it here, the scroll wheel could be used without an L_C_D_ screen, just for changing channel numbers easily. I think even that,", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "I mean, that would be a fairly cheap thing, compared to an L_C_D_ screen, to implement,", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "um but I think that would be quite useful as well. And the other thing, you say we need to we need to keep it just television, but I think one maybe one option, since this is supposed to be a kind of a fashionable device, is you know there's a certain kind of cool or wow factor that you can kind of you can have with technology, and maybe we wanna make it something that's extensible to do other tasks. Say you have like um a little another little kind of base unit that can also receive signals as well as the television where you can, say uh, change the lighting in the room. You know that would be something maybe you could sell as an extra, so that it doesn't have to be part of the initial development, but, you know, later on you could you can you know you also, selling the potential of the device. Then you say potentially you can then do other cool stuff like change the lights, I dunno, close the windows, whatever, turn the heating on, and um, I think that's something we may need to have as as at least as an optional extra to to kinda make our product cool, since we say we're putting the fashion in electronics.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Okay. Okay. Okay, thanks. you want to go?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yep. So yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "So most of the things which we are discussing about is speech recognition uh, that means on my own I.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "This one?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "yeah, it should be.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Great. No, not that one. you are two.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Two.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Alright..", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Okay so the working design is uh user i interface could be of two types, one is the usual press buttons which are there so that the user feels that he is knoing doing some he is knowing about that technology. So he is pretty comfortable if he wants to get this, and on top of that there there could be a speech recognition technology also being sitting on the on the remote. So the old kind of users who don't want to have any changes, it can it can be useful for them, and the new users, as uh our Marketing Expert was saying, they can use the new gizmo which is speech recognition kind of thing.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Okay, sorry to interrupt you, but we have seen before that there is a new way of interacting that use wheel.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "That's right. So anyway, that didn't come into my mind,", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "so th that is a possibility. These could be other kind of interfaces.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Means we can have, depending on the cost, how much we can afford, we can have different kind of interfaces. So spe buttons are something which is very everybody is familiar with. So if you go to the market and you say that buttons are there the people know what it is,", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "and on top of that if we are having extra functionality people are willing to shell that twenty-five Euros money which we are thinking. Otherwise we are just like others in the market. So anyway that is the first, user interface could be of more than one type, and uh yeah that means we can do the on-line changes which which cannot be done now actually. So apart from the speech, we can have the scroll kind of thing with the buttons. Now for buttons, normal requirements like bit coding and all those things are required. And for voice, limited vocabulary automatic speech recognition system is required and we require a microphone also to be sitting there on the remote.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah. That increases the the cost also.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Uh that's right. But uh means we have to see how much what kind of microphones and stuff like that.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Do you think that performance of such systems are enough to to target well of such technologies is enough?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Uh yes, if it is limited vocabulary usually it's enough.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah we we can uh target, means we can target ninety five percent accuracy or somewhere ninety seven perc", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Well wh uh I imagine also that the microphone will be an ambiance um a um an ambience microphones", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Hmm.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "because you are not going to speak into into th into the remote control.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "That's right. No it it could be little d yeah it could be.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "So it could be s a few centimetres.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Well one one other thing that that speech recognition could really blow out the price for is uh when you want to sell into other markets, though,", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "That's right. That's right.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "because, I'm not sure exactly where we're gonna sell this, but I presume it's not gonna just be English speaking countries.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "So then you have to s you know, you have to train models for.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm mm-hmm. Uh it's more like, means there are different speech technologies which are existing so D_T_W_ could be kind of which is the easiest. So you have to store some templates on the on the on the chip itself, and it's just dynamic time warping where you try to find out what it is, instead of having a model which has to be trained and being a micro-controller.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Okay. Okay we shou we should discuss this la later after after after this this uh slide.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah, that's right. Yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "This is a this is a this is a a very important uh issue in discussion.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "So we can That's right. Yep.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Okay, next. Uh that finished?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yep.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "No?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "No no. Components.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Components?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah. So, will you go to the next slide?", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yes sure.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah so this is the design which we are thinking so. We are having a power button and the switch, which is not much,", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "and then we are having the which is to indicate whether the power is on or not. And then there are two kind of things which can be so one is the button interface which has not been shown because because of lack of time.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "So we could not put that. So now where the A_S_R_ decoder is sitting, similarly there are different kind of interfaces which could be there. So there is A_S_R_ decoder which could be there, and then there could be another scroll button scroll scroller, and then there could be buttons, and all of them they will just do the decoding and put it in the math put it in the proper message format. And then there is there is the chip which is sitting, the green one, and it converts it into bit codes, and that bit codes are sent by the infrared device to the receiver.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "So this is the easiest design the there could be. So th an A_S_R_ decoder we can have things in. To have different technologies. So this was the my personal preference was that we can have A_S_R_ sitting there on the remote control.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "You know I guess you could actually train the remote control as you're using it by saying you know turn volume up, and you press the uh press the button", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "like uh s people teach sign language to kids f well, by speaking and doing.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah but uh as soon as you try to put the microchip kind of thing or something the price will go up.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "So these are the slight problems.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "So your your opinion is that we should go for special condition technologies?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Because yeah the reason is that if we go into the market means though I don't have much idea, but as he the uh Marketing Expert presentation was.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "I'm sure if you can sell a a speech recognition remote control for twenty five Euros everyo everyone will s will buy it.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Actually I'm not so sure", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "So if we go with just the.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "because I'm the.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "I'm sure.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "you know if I was using a remote control to, say, turn the volume up because I can't hear it very well, I don't really want to you know drown out what people are saying by talking you know when I'm when I'm instead of pressing up on on a remote control. You know if there's some there's some dialogue all of a sudden that I can't hear, I'm trying to actually find out what's being said,", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "so maybe speech recognition gets in the way more than it helps.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Okay so.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah but you know the the average frequency of pushing buttons, it's about.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Well it depends if it's a remote control th", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "it's about eighty eighty eighty pushes per hour, or something like that.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Maybe if the remote control is something that y you don't actually have to pick up anymore, that would be a a useful feature of the speech recogntion.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "If you can leave it sitting on the table and you don't actually have to find it, then that could be.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm. Mm-hmm. Mm-hmm. Mm-hmm. Mm-hmm. Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Okay gentlemens, we have to take some deci decisions right now.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Alright.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Um so if I if I kind of summarise everything we've de we we said. We are targeting T_V_. We need we need to have um um remote control which is fanc fancy, which is uh which is easy to to hand not too small, not too big. Um we have.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "With a good shape for the.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "or good shape, yes. We should bring new technologies for young peoples, and uh as we have uh also requirements to to use uh to to push thr toward the internet. Maybe this is something we can stick to it. And um also, a very interesting things I I I've seen on on on the one of the comp o our competitor is this wheel that we can use to navigate. So so my feeling is that re regarding costs budget we have an an an target price, it's not possible to go s to go to L_C_D_ and also to go to automatic speech recognition technologies. Uh first m m why not to go to L_C_D_. Because um in fact as we are targeting uh T_V_ in fact we can use T_V_ screen as a screen to feedback to to give some feedback informations about what we could have.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Well it depends though well it depends. If we we don't unless we have some input some video input to the T_V_ or we have control over the T_V_ then we can't actually display that. Like if we if we produce the T_V_s then then yeah we can put you know menus up up there, but otherwise we need to actually have some kind of something sitting in between the video signal and the and the T_V_ to superimpose those those menus. So that's an extra", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah that's right. Don don't you ha", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "cost.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "don't we have contacts with uh people on T_V_ or or well systems that exist that we can use?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Well this is this is another que we still haven't really defined the remote. Are we still you say we're focusing on T_V_, but is it still a kind of like a universal remote in that it's a replacement remote control, or is this something for our own line of of televisions?", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "'Cause that really makes a big difference.'Cause even if we have contacts we can't really produce a remote control that can bring up menus on other other companies' T_V_s. It's just there are too many T_V_s out there. It's it's not really gonna.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah. That's good point. What's what cou what could be the cost of uh well, could we fit the the targets uh in terms of cost uh if we go s to L_C_D_ on the remote control?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "For twenty five Euro? I think it's impossible.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "It's not possible. It's impossible.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "But but I dunno,", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "I think um it would be good to know if there is any leverage in that any leeway in that um that twenty five Euro because for twenty five Euro I think all we can really do is provide a very basic remote control, and that seems to be kind of against the philosophy of our company which is you know putting the fashion into electronics. So I would I would like to know if there's any chance of of increasing the uh", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Uh.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "of increasing the unit price.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "So you mean yo you mean we we should target something maybe which is which would be more expensive but re really fancy in terms to um in terms to had to have really an added value?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "What would be.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah. Yeah. Yeah", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Okay,", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "because yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "so regarding the automatic speech recognition, I think this is.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Wha but what would be one question, what would be the goal of putting an L_C_D_ in a remote control?", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Well th", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "What what kind of information?", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "'Cause you can have things like the programme name instead of the channel numbers, like an interactive programme guide.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah but mo most of the T_V_s nowadays show the show the", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "They have tele teletext. Well, because they have teletext on it.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "the n", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Th th you have a teletext sin signal that you can that you can uh that you can get thr through the channel.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah but yeah most of the T_V_s have teletext nowadays.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "They have t most of them have teletext, but we want to get rid well one of our requirements is to uh to move to teletext to uh to the use of internet.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "So to to uh", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "You can get a lot more information on it.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "to browse more easily the teletext. For instance through uh through your remote control.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "So what would what would appear in the in the L_C_D_?", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "So you could have the name of the programme, you could have um the start time you know where it's up to.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "The ti the start time, all the p all the programmes you could have uh o", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "You could have a l even a little image of you know the c you know the the m the main actors or something", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "so you can quickly just kind of even without reading.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Well I don't know if this information is available from teletext, also.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Well no, but there are the electronic programme guides out there. They may not have pictures, but maybe they do.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Are.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "There's dependi it also depends on the country.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Well because for the same reason that we cannot uh informations on the T_V_. We c we couldn't grab information information which is not there.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "No but I mean with the internet you have flexibility of where you get your information from. So it may be possible that there are people out there providing that. Uh.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "So so that mean w w we need an in an extra internet connection to use the remote control, if you want to browse, in addition to the T_V_, or uh or it should be a special T_V_ connected to.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "But Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Well I I think if we're gonna I think we would definitely need the internet connection because even with y I don't think you could even get teletext information from the T_V_ onto the remote control, especially if we don't control the T_V_.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "I dunno. We need to find that out.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Okay. We need to close the meeting. Um so.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "But just a small thing,", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Very quickly.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "what kind of market we are targeting? Is it that we are targeting the replacement remote market, or what? So the remote has gone bad and the person wants to buy a new remote or because the cost of L_C_D_ thing could be as high as the T_V_ itself.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "No.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "That is very important.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah, well people go to buy another remote control when they broke n broke their,", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "If it's a really small T_V_ maybe.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Broke. Okay. Okay.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "and they want to go t for universal one, and they take the fanciest they can have.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Okay. Okay. Okay. Okay.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "So this is that we z that that we should target. So the com the um the uh the committment is the following, we don't go for speech recognition technology. The L_C_D_ is still on disc is still open to discussion.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "It is up to you to go through this um uh this way and to to report report me back next meeting. So", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "I think that the speech recognition technology would be cheaper the than the L_C_D_.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "It's it's cheaper as compared to the L_C_D_.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah, but not sure. Maybe it's cheaper, but we have no.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Because with the L_C_D_ you need more requirements. You need a internet connection. You need m more things.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "But", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Well the thing is I think I think the type of peop", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "for the speech recognition you you don't need anything. You just say channel fifty, and that's it.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "I think the type of people that are gonna want to buy a very stylish rem r remote control with lots of new technologies are the kinda people that are gonna have you know a wireless internet connection maybe, or a you know.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "But then we should move to another target b because at twenty five Dollars,", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Means th yeah twenty five Euros is yeah, that's right.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Well this is what we need to find out.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "it's.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Can we can we increase the the price point of this remote control?'Cause otherwise we need.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Okay this is this is an open question for you. Yeah. This is uh up to you to tell us. But I'm definitely not keen on to to.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "To move to another target?", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "no no no, I'm no I'm definit definitely not keen on going to speech recognition technologies. I'm not confident enough. I'm not sure that that we'll have a product really that work. I uh that work.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "It's kind of hard to guarantee that you're gonna.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "It's real yeah. How to guarantee such performances is really hard.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "the expert uh said ninety five percent.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Well this is still is is very bad.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Ninety five percent is not good enough though..", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "So, this is the end of this discussion. Next meeting uh here are the task you have to work on. Um so you have to work on the component uh concept.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Uh you have to work on user interface, and you have to go through a trend watching. Okay. So the question is still open about the L_C_D_ thing. Um uh we I hope that next meeting we will uh we'll take some um decision that direction. Thanks. Bye.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yep.", "speakerName": "User Interface" } ] }

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Ergo, the classic off - by - one error.", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "But mine is correct.", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "Is it?", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "No.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "It's one. Channel one.", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "Your mike number is what we're t", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "Look at the back.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "Oh, oh, oh! Oh.", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "Ho!", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "So.", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "I've bested you again, Nancy.", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "But your p No, but the paper's correct.", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "The paper is correct.", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "Look at the paper.", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "I didn't det I was saying the microphone, not the paper.", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "Nnn,", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Oh.", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "it's n", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "OK.", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "It's always offset. Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Yes, you've bested me again. That's how I think of our continuing interaction. Damn! Foiled again!", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "So is Keith showing up? He's talking with George right now. Uh, is he gonna get a rip uh rip himself away from from that?", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "He'll probably come later.", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "What He - he he's probably not, is my guess.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Oh, then it's just gonna be the five of us?", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Well, he he was very affirmative in his way of saying he will be here at four. But you know, that was before he knew about that George lecture probably.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "Right. This this is not It's not bad for the project if Keith is talking to George. OK. So my suggestion is we just", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Forge ahead.", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "Forge ahead, yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Cool.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "Are you in charge?", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "Sure. Um. Well, I sort of had informal talks with most of you. So, Eva just reported she's really happy about the CBT's being in the same order in the XML as in the um be Java declaration format", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "Yeah. The e", "speakerName": "Grad F" }, { "text": "so you don't have to do too much in the style sheet transversion.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "Uh, yeah. Yeah, so.", "speakerName": "Grad F" }, { "text": "The uh, Java the embedded Bayes wants to take input uh, uh, a Bayes - net in in some Java notation and Eva is using the Xalan style sheet processor to convert the XML that's output by the Java Bayes for the into the, uh, E Bayes input.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "Mmm.", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "Actually, maybe I could try, like, emailing the guy and see if he has any something already.", "speakerName": "Grad F" }, { "text": "Sure.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Hmm.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "That'd be weird, that he has both the Java Bayes and the embedded Bayes in.", "speakerName": "Grad F" }, { "text": "But that's some sort of conversion program?", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "Yeah. Yeah. And put them into different formats. Oh.", "speakerName": "Grad F" }, { "text": "I think you should demand things from him.", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "Yep, he could do that, too.", "speakerName": "Grad F" }, { "text": "He charges so much. Right.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "No, I think it's a good idea that you may as well ask. Sure.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Grad F" }, { "text": "And, um, well pretty mu pretty much on t on the top of my list, I would have asked Keith how the \" where is X? \" hand parse is standing. Um. But we'll skip that. Uh, there's good news from Johno. The generation templates are done.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "So the trees for the XML trees for the for the gene for the synthesizer are written. So I just need to do the, uh write a new set of tree combining rules. But I think those'll be pretty similar to the old ones. So. Just gonna be you know.", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "Oh! You were gonna send me a note about hiring.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Yes.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "I didn't finish the sentence but he understood it.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "I know what he's talking about.", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "OK. But Nancy doesn't.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Hiring somebody.", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "We w um.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "The guy.", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "OK, so natural language generation produces not a just a surface string that is fed into a text - to - speech but, a surface string with a syntax tree that's fed into a concept - to - speech.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "No.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Yeah. Mm - hmm. Better.", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "Now and this concept - to - speech module has certain rules on how if you get the following syntactic structure, how to map this onto prosodic rules.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm. Sure. Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "And Fey has foolheartedly agreed to rewrite uh, the German concept uh syntax - to - prosody rules.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "I didn't know she spoke German.", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "No, she doesn't.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "Oh, OK.", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "But she speaks English.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "Oh. Rewrite the German ones into English. OK, got it.", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "Into English. And um therefore the, uh if it's OK that we give her a couple of more hours per week, then she'll do that.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "OK, got it.", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "What language is that written i Is that that Scheme thing that you showed me?", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "Yeah. That's the LISP - type scheme.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "She knows how to program in Scheme? I hope?", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "No, I My guess is I I asked for a commented version of that file? If we get that, then it's doable, even without getting into it, even though the Scheme li uh, stuff is really well documented in the Festival.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "Well, I guess if you're not used to functional programming, Scheme can be completely incomprehensible. Cuz, there's no Like there's lots of unnamed functions", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "Syntax. Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "and.", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "You know?", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "Anyway, it We'll sort this out. Um. But anyway, send me the note and then I'll - I'll check with, uh, Morgan on the money. I I don't anticipate any problem but we have to ask. Oh, so this was You know, on the generation thing, um if sh y she's really going to do that, then we should be able to get prosody as well. So it'll say it's nonsense with perfect intonation.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Are we gonna Can we change the voice of the of the thing, because right now the voice sounds like a murderer.", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "Yep. We ha we have to change the voice.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "Wh - Which one?", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "The the little Smarticus Smarticus sounds like a murderer.", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "Oh.", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "That's good to know.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "\" I have your reservations. \"", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "But I will not give them to you unless you come into my lair.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "It is Uh, we have the choice between the, uh, usual Festival voices, which I already told the SmartKom people we aren't gonna use because they're really bad.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "Festival?", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "It's the name of some program,", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Oh, oh. Got it. OK.", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "the the synthesizer.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "You know, the usual party voices.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "But, um", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "Yeah, I know. That doesn't sound, exactly right either.", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "OGI has, uh, crafted a couple of diphone type voices that are really nice and we're going to use that. We can still, um, d agree on a gender, if we want. So we still have male or female.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "I think Well, let's just pick whatever sounds best.", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "Hmm?", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "Whatever sounds best.", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "Uh.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "Unfortunately, probably male voices, a bit more research on.", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "Does OGI stand for? Original German Institute?", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "Orego", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "So.", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "Or", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Oregon.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "Oregon Graduate Insti", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "Oregon @ @ Graduate Institute", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Oh.", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "Try Oregon.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "Ah.", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "It turns out there's the long - standing links with these guys in the speech group.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Hmm!", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "Very long.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Hmm!", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "Hmm.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "In fact, there's this guy who's basically got a joint appointment, Hynek Hermansky. He's - spends a fair amount of time here. Anyway. Leave it. Won't be a problem.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "OK. And it's probably also absolutely uninteresting for all of you to, um learn that as of twenty minutes ago, David and I, per accident, uh managed to get the whole SmartKom system running on the uh, ICSI Linux machines with the ICSI NT machines thereby increasing the number of running SmartKom systems in this house from one on my laptop to three.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "Mmm, that's good.", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "How was this by accident?", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "Yeah, I know. Tha - that's the part I didn't understand.", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "Um, I suggested to try something that was really kind of even though against better knowledge shouldn't have worked, but it worked.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "Hmm!", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "Intuition.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "Will it work again,", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "Maybe maybe maybe a bit for the AI i intuition thing.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "or?", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "OK. And, um, we'll never found out why. It - it's just like why why the generation ma the presentation manager is now working?", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "Hmm! This is something you ha you get used to as a programmer, right?", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "Which", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "You know, and it's cool, it works out that way.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "Hmm. So, the the people at Saarbruecken and I decided not to touch it ever again. Yeah, that would work. OK. Um I was gonna ask you where something is and what we know about that.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "Where OK.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "Where the \" where is \" construction is.", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "What what thing is this?", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "Where is X?", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "OK.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "Oh, but by Uh, we can ask, uh, did you get to read all four hundred words?", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "I did.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Was it OK? Was it?", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "I I wa I was looking at it. It doesn't follow logically. It doesn't The first paragraph doesn't seem to have any link to the second paragraph.", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "And so on.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "Hmm. That.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "You know, i Yeah, it.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Each paragraph is good, though. I li", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "I i Yeah. Well, it it's fine.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "It was written by committee.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "Anyway. Um. But c the meeting looks like it's, it's gonna be good. So. I think it's uh.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "Yeah, I didn't know about it until Robert told me, like,.", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "Yeah, I I ra I ran across it in I don't even know where, you know some just some weird place. And, uh, yeah, I I'm surprised I didn't know about it", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Y yeah. Well, yeah. I was like, why didn't Dan tell me?", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "since we know all the invited speakers, an", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "Right, or some Anyway. So But anyway, yeah. I so I I did see that. Oh wha Yeah. Before we get started on this st so I also had a nice email correspondence with Daphne Kohler, who said yes indeed she would love to work with us on the, um, you know, using these structured belief - nets and stuff but starting in August, that she's also got a new student working on this and that we should get in touch with them again in August and then we'll figure out a way for you uh you to get seriously connected with, um their group. So that's, uh looks pretty good. And um Yeah, I'll say it now. So, um And it looks to me like we're now at a good point to do something start working on something really hard. We've been so far working on things that are easy.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Oh!", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "Uh, w Which is mental spaces and uh and - or.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Hmm!", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "It's hard. Yeah, it's hard.", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "Huh?", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "It's a hard puzzle. But the other part of it is the way they connect to these, uh, probabilistic relational models. So there's all the problems that the linguists know about, about mental spaces, and the cognitive linguists know about, but then there's this problem of the belief - net people have only done a moderately good job of dealing with temporal belief - nets. Uh, which they call dynamic they incorrectly call dynamic belief - nets.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Mmm.", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "So there's a term \" dynamic belief - net \", doesn't mean that. It means time slices. And Srini used those and people use them. Uh. But one of the things I w would like to do over the next, uh, month, it may take more, is to st understand to what extent we can not only figure out the constructions for them for multiple worlds and uh sort of what the formalism will look like and where the slots and fillers will be, but also what that would translate into in terms of belief - net and the inferences. So the story is that if you have these probabilistic relational models, they're set up, in principle, so that you can make new instances and instances connect to each other, and all that sort of stuff, so it should be feasible to set them up in such a way that if you've got the past tense and the present tense and each of those is a separate uh, belief structure that they do their inferences with just the couplings that are appropriate. But that's g that's, as far as I can tell, it's it's putting together two real hard problems. One is the linguistic part of what are the couplings and and when you have a certain, uh, construction, that implies certain couplings and other couplings, you know, between let's say between the past and the present, or any other one of these things and then we have this inference problem of exactly technically how does the belief - net work if it's got um, let's say one in in, you know, different tenses or my beliefs and your beliefs, or any of these other ones of of multiple models. So um you know, in the long run we need to solve both of those and my suggestion is that we start digging into them both, uh, in a way we that, you know, th hopefully turns out to be consistent, so that the Um. And sometimes it's actually easier to solve two hard problems than one", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "because they constrain each other. I mean if you've got huge ra huge range of possible choices um We'll see. But anyway, so that's, um.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Oh yeah, like uh, I solved the the problem of um we were talking about how do you various issues of how come a plural noun gets to quote \" count as a noun phrase \", you know, occur as an argument of a higher construction, but a bare singular stem doesn't get to act that way.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Um, and it would take a really long time to explain it now, but I'm about to write it up this evening. I solved that at the same time as \" how do we keep adjectives from floating to the left of determiners and how do we keep all of that from floating outside the noun phrase \" to get something like \" I the kicked dog \". Um. Did it did it at once.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "That's great.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "So maybe maybe it'll be a similar thing.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "Cool.", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "Yeah. No, I know, I th I I think that is gonna be sort of the key to this wh to th the big project of the summer of of getting the constructions right is that people do manage to do this so there probably are some, uh, relatively clean rules, they're just not context - free trees.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "And if we if the formalism is is good, then we should be able to have, you know, sort of moderate scale thing. And that by the way is is, Keith, what I encouraged George to be talking with you about. Not the formalism yet", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "but the phenomena.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "The p And Oh, another thing, um there was this, uh thing that Nancy agreed to in a in a weak moment this morning that", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Hmm!", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "I was really strong.", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "Hmm!", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "Hmm.", "speakerName": "Grad F" }, { "text": "Uh, sorry. In a in a friendly moment.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Same thing.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "Anyway, uh, that we were that we're gonna try to get a uh, first cut at the revised formalism by the end of next week.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Alright.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "OK? Probably skipping the mental spaces part.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Seems.", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "Right. I do.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "Uh, just trying to write up essentially what what you guys have worked out so that everybody has something to look at. We've talked about it, but only the innermost inner group currently, uh,", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm. Knows.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "knows, uh", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "OK.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "Yeah, and and not even all of them really do.", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "But like.", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "There's The group as a whole knows but no individual member kno", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "Well that that yeah th there's one of the advantages of a document, right?,", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "is is that it actually transfers from head to head.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "OK.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "So anyway. So um.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Ah, communication!", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "Huh?", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Communication.", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "Hunh!", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "Communication, documentation and stuff. Anyway, so, uh, with a little luck Uh l let's, let's have that as a goal anyway.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "So, uh, what was the date there?", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "And.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Monday or? It's a Friday.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "No, no, no. No, w uh we're talking about a week fr e end of next week.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "End of next week.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "But, uh, but but the two of us will probably talk to you at well before th", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "I thought you said beginning of n Yeah.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "I mean. Anyway, w let's talk separately about how t", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "Yeah, I have a busy weekend but after that Yeah, gung - ho.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "OK. Yeah, so so someti sometime next week.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Great,", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "Now if it turns out that that effort leads us into some big hole that's fine.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm. OK.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "You know, if you say we're we're dump dump dump. There's a really hard problem we haven't solved yet that, that's just fine.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "OK.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "But at at least sort of try and work out what the state of the art is right now.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "Right, t t if to the extent that we have it, let's write it", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "OK.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "and to the extent we don't, let's find out what we need to do.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "OK.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "So, uh", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Can we? Is it worth thinking of an example out of our tourism thing domain, that involves a a a decent mental space shift or setting up.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "I think it is, but uh but I interrupted before Keith got to tell us what happened with \" where is the Powder - Tower? \" or whatever", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "Well. Uh, what was supposed to happen? I've sort of been actually caught up in some other ones, so, um, you know, I don't have a write - up of or I haven't elaborated on the ideas that we were already talking about which were.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "Hmm, yeah. I think I think we already came to the conclusion that we have two alternative paths that we two alternative ways of representing it. One is sort of a has a um", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "It's gone.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "um", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "The question of whether the polysemy is sort of like in the construction or pragmatic.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "One of them was th Right.", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "or comes.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "is resolved later. Yeah.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "I think it has to be the the second case.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "Um, so d' you Is it clear what we're talking about here?", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "I agree.", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "The question is whether the construction is semantic or like ambiguous between asking for location and asking for path.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "Uh.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "So you might be yeah, y And asking for directions.", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "It's.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "Um or or whether the construction semantically, uh, is clearly only asking for location", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "Should we have a a a.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "Uh.", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "but pragmatically that's construed as meaning \" tell me how to get there \".", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm. Yep.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "So assume these are two, uh, nodes we can observe in the Bayes - net.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "So these are either true or false and it's also just true or false. If we encounter a phrase such as \" where is X? \", should that set this to true and this to true, and the Bayes - net figures out which under the c situation in general is more likely? Um, or should it just activate this, have this be false, and the Bayes - net figures out whether this actually now means?", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "Uh w that's a s", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Slightly different.", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "OK, so that's a that's a separate issue.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "OK.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "So I a I I th I agree with you that, um, it's a disaster to try to make separate constructions for every uh, pragmatic reading,", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "although there are some that will need to be there.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Good. Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "I mean, there there's some that.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Or have every construction list all the possible pragmatic implications of the same one.", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "You can't do that either.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Right. Yeah.", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "Yeah. But, you know, c um almost certainly \" can you pass the salt \" is a construction worth noting that there is this th this this this uh", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "Request.", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm. Yeah.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "Very yeah.", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "So right, this one is maybe in the gray area. Is it is it like that or is it just sort of obvious from world knowledge that no one you wouldn't want to know the location without wanting to know how to get there or whatever.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "Mmm.", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "Ri Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "One Or in some cases, it's it's quite definitely", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "s so that you just know wanna know where it is.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "Yeah. Well the question is basically, is this conventional or conversational implicature?", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "Exactly. Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Might be, yeah.", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "And I guess, see, the more important thing at this stage is that we should be able to know how we would handle it in ei f in the short run it's more important to know how we would treat technically what we would do if we decided A and what we would do if we decided B, than it is t to decide A or B r right now.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "OK, right.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "Right. Right.", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "Which of that is. Yeah, OK", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "Which one it is.", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "Hmm.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "Cuz there will be other k examples that are one way or the other. Right.", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "W we know for sure that we have to be able to do both.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "So I guess In the short run, let's let's be real clear on h what the two alternatives would be.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "OK.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "And then the we had another idea floating around um, which we wanted to, uh, get your input on, and that concerns the But the nice thing is w we would have a person that would like to work on it, and that's Ir - Irina Gurevich from EML who is going to be visiting us, uh, the week before, uh, August and a little bit into August. And she would like to apply the ontology that is, um being crafted at EML. That's not the one I sent you. The one I sent you was from GMD, out of a European CRUMPET.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "It was terrible.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Agreed. Um, and one of the reas one of the those ideas was, so, back to the old Johno observation that if y if you have a dialogue history and it said the word \" admission fee \" was uh, mentioned um, it's more likely that the person actually wants to enter than just take a picture of it from the outside. Now what could imagine to, you know, have a list for each construction of things that one should look up in the discourse history, yeah? That's the really stupid way. Then there is the really clever way that was suggested by Keith and then there is the, uh, middle way that I'm suggesting and that is you you get X, which is whatever, the castle. The ontology will tell us that castles have opening hours, that they have admission fees, they have whatever. And then, this is We go via a thesaurus and look up certain linguistic surface structures that are related to these concepts and feed those through the dialogue history and check dynamically for each e entity. We look it up check whether any of these were mentioned and then activate the corresponding nodes on the discourse side. But Keith suggested that a a much cleaner way would be is, you know, to keep track of the discourse in such a way that you if you know that something like that ha has been mentioned before, this just a continues to add up, you know, in th in a.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "So if someone mentions admission f fees, that activates an Enter schema which sticks around for a little while in your rep in the representation of what's being talked about. And then when someone asks \" where is X? \" you've already got the the Enter schema activated", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "Kind of a priming", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "and you're able to to conclude on it.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "priming a spreading activation", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "Right. Yeah. So that's certainly more realistic.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "I m I mean psychologically. Now technically", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "Um", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Well, uh, is it doesn't it seem like if you just managed the dialogue history with a a thread, that you know, kept track of ho of the activity of I mean, cuz it would the the thread would know what nodes like, needed to be activated, so it could just keep track of how long it's been since something's been mentioned, and automatically load it in.", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "Yeah. You could do that. Um. But here's here's a way in th in the bl Bayes - net you could you could think about it this way, that if um at the time \" admissions fee \" was mentioned you could increase the probability that someone wanted to enter.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Turn prior on.", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "We - yeah th th that's what I wa I wasn't I was I wasn't thinking in terms of Enter schemas. I was just.", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "Fair enough, OK, but, but, in terms of the c c the current implementation right? so that um", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "It would already be higher in the context.", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "th that th the the the conditional probability that someone So at the time you mentioned it This is this is essentially the Bayes - net equivalent of the spreading activation.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm. Yeah.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "It's In some ways it's not as good but it's the implementation we got.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Yeah, sure. No, I mean", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "We don't have a connectionist implementation. Now Now my guess is that it's not a question of time but it is a question of whether another intervening object has been mentioned.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Yeah, relevance.", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "I mean, we could look at dialo this is Of course the other thing we ha we do is, is we have this data coming", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "which probably will blow all our theories,", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Yeah, right.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "but but skipping that so so but my guess is what what'll probably will happen, Here's a here's a proposed design. is that there're certain constructions which, uh, for our purposes do change the probabilities of EVA decisions and various other kinds and th that the, uh, standard way that that the these contexts work is sort of stack - like or whatever, but that's sort of the most recent thing. And so it could be that when another uh, en tourist entity gets mentioned, you", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Renew", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "re re essentially re - initiali you know, re - i essentially re - initialize the state.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Mmm.", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "And of course i if we had a fancier one with multiple worlds you could have uh, you could keep track of what someone was uh saying about this and that.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "You know, \" I wanna go in the morning", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "\" Here's my plan for today.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "I wanna \"", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Here's my plan for tomorrow. \"", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "Yeah, or Yeah, in the morning morning I I'm planning t to go shopping,", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "hypothetically.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "in the afternoon to the Powder - Tower.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "Uh, tal so I'm talking about shopping and then you say, uh, you know, well, um \" What's it cost? \" or something.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "Or Anyway. So one could well imagine, but not yet.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "But I do th think that the It'll turn out that it's gonna be depend pretty much on whether there's been an override.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Yeah, I mean, if if you ask \" how much does a train ride and and cinema around the vineyards cost? \" and then somebody tells you it's sixty dollars and then you say \" OK How much is, uh I would like to visit the \" whatever, something completely different, \" then I go to, you know, Point Reyes \",", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "it it's not more likely that you want to enter anything, but it's, as a matter of fact, a complete rejection of entering by doing that.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "So when you admit have admission fee and it changes something, it's only for that particular It's relational, right? It's only for that particular object.", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "Yeah, I th th Yeah. Well, and and and the simple idea is that it's on it's only for m for the current uh, tourist e entity of instre interest.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "Yeah. But that's I mean this this function, so, has the current object been mentioned in in with a question about concerning its.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "No, no. It's it It goes the other d it goes in the other direction. Is When th When the this is mentioned, the uh probability of of, let's say, entering changes", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Of that object. For But.", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "changes.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "You could just hav uh, just basically, ob it It observes an er, it sets the a node for \" entered \" or \" true \" or something,", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "Yeah. Yeah. Now, uh But I think Ro - Robert's right, that to determine that, OK? you may well want to go through a th thesaurus", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "\" discourse enter \".", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "and and So, if the issue is, if so now th this construction has been matched and you say \" OK. Does this actually have any implications for our decisions? \" Then there's another piece of code that presumably does that computation.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "So, sort of forward chaining in a way, rather than backward.", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "Yeah. Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "OK.", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "But but what's Robert's saying is is, and I think he's right, is you don't want to try to build into the construction itself all the synonyms and all you know, all the wo Uh maybe. I'll have to think about that.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Hmm.", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "I don't know. I mean it th I can thi I can think of arguments in either direction on that. But somehow you want to do it.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm. Well, it's just another, sort of, construction side is how to get at the possible inferences we can draw from the discourse history or changing of the probabilities, and - or.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "Guess it's like I g The other thing is, whether you have a m m user model that has, you know, whatever, a current plan, whatever, plans that had been discussed, and I don't know, I mean.", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "What uh, what's the argument for putting it in the construction? Is it just that the s synonym selection is better, or?", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "Oh, wel Well, the ar the The argument is that you're gonna have the If you've recognized the word, you've recognized the word, which means you have a lexical construction for it, so you could just as well tag the lexical construction with the fact that it's a uh, you know, thirty percent increase in probability of entering. You So you could you could you could invert invert the whole thing, so you s you tag that information on to the lexicon", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Mmm. Oh, I see.", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "since you had to recognize it anyway. That that's the argument in the other direction. at at Yeah, and this is.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Even though uh the lexical construction itself out out of context, uh, won't do it. I mean, y you have to keep track whether the person says", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "\" But I but I'm not interested in the opening times \" is sort of a more a V type.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "Yeah there's, yeah ther there's that as well.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Yep. Hmm. So. But, we'll uh, we have time to This is a s just a sidetrack, but uh I think it's also something that people have not done before, is um, sort of abuse an ontology for these kinds of, uh, inferences, on whether anything relevant to the current something has been uh, has crept up in the dialogue history already, or not. And, um I have the, uh If we wanted to have that function in the dialogue hi dialogue module of SmartKom, I have the written consent of Jan to put it in there.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "Good. OK. Well, this this is highly relevant to someone's thesis.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Yes, um. That's uh, I'm I'm keeping on good terms with Jan.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "You've noticed that. OK.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "So the point is, it's very likely that Robert's thesis is going to be along these lines,", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Oh, s", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "and the local rules are if it's your thesis, you get to decide how it's done. OK. So if, you know if this is seriously, if this becomes part of your thesis, you can say, hey we're gonna do it this way, that's the way it's done.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Mmm.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "Yay, it's not me. It's always me when it's someone's thesis.", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "No, no, no! No, no. We've got a lot we've got a lot of theses going.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "There's a few of us around now.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "Now it's not. Yay! I know it is.", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "Yeah. Right.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Well, let's let's talk after Friday the twenty - ninth. Then we'll see how f f", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "Right. So h he's got a th he's got a meet meeting in Germany with his thesis advisor.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Yeah, he said he's gonna f finish his thesis by then.", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "Oh yeah.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "Yeah. I should try to finish it by then. Yeah.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "Oh, right.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "So.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "Um. Yeah. So I think in fact, That's the other thing. uh, this is this is, speaking of hard problems, this is a very good time um, to start trying to make explicit where construal comes in and you know, where c where the construction per - se ends and where construal comes in,", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "Yeah, we've we've done quite a bit of that.", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "cuz this is clearly part of th", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "We've been doing quite a bit of that.", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "Huh?", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "Well I said. But that's part of what the f", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "We have many jobs for you, Ro - Robert.", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "Yeah. Well, he's gonna need this.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Yeah, it seems to always land in your category.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "The conclusion.", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "You're lucky.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "Right. So. Right. So thing That's part of why we want the formalism,", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "is is because th it is gonna have implicit in it", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Was I? In the room?", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "No, you weren't there on purpose. Like.", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Made it much easier to make these decisions.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "Obviously.", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "Uh.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "Right. Well I That's tentative.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Yeah. Right, right, right.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "They aren't decisions, they're ju they're just proposals.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Yes. Excuse me.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "No, they're decisions. OK.", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "Yeah, that That's the point, is is th", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "Constraints. Let's call them constraints, around which one has to.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Actually, yeah. There's a problem with that word, too, though.", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "Yeah. Anyway. But so that's that's w Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Yeah, but it he the decisions I made wer had to do with my thesis. So consequently don't I get to decide then that it's Robert's job?", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "No.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Anyhow.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "Uh.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Well, I'll just pick a piece of the problem and then just push the hard stuff into the center and say it's Robert's. Like.", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "I've always been completely in favor of consensus decisions,", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "I can.", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "so we'll we'll find a way.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "Well, we we we will, but um", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "I haven't. OK.", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "not.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "It it might even be interesting then to say that I should be forced to um, sort of pull some of the ideas that have been floating in my head out of the, uh out of the top hat", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "Yes.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "and, um.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "Always good.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "Right. So", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "That metaphor is not going anywhere, you know.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "Ri - No. Absolutely. So, uh, wh you had you know you ha You had done one draft.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Yes, and, um, it's Ha - None of that is basically still around,", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "I didn't get", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "And a another draft OK.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "but it's.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "D i", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "That's normal.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "I i", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Oh, I guess it's good I didn't read it.", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "I this is I'm shocked. This is the first time I've seen a thesis proposal change. Right. Anyway, uh. So.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Really?", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "But, yeah, a second that would be great. So, uh, a sec I mean you're gonna need it anyway.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Hmm.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "and", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Yeah, and I would like to d discuss it and, you know, get you guys's input", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "and make it sort of bomb - proof.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "Bomb proof!", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "Yep.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Good.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "Bullet - proof.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "Oh! Oh, OK.", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "That's the word I was looking for.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "Both proof.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Either way.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "Both.", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Good luck. Really.", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "Uh So that, so th thi this I mean, so this is the point, is we we're going to have to cycle through this,", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "but th the draft of the p proposal on the constructions is is going to tell us a lot about what we think needs to be done by construal. And, um, we oughta be doing it.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "OK. Yeah, we need we need some Then we need to make some dates. Um.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "Meeting regular meeting time for the summer, we really haven't found one. We did Thursdays one for a while. I just talked to Ami. It's - it's a coincidence that he can't do couldn't do it today here.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "Usually, he can.", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "Usually he has no real constraints.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "And the NTL meeting moved to Wednesday,", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "So.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "cuz of of, uh", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Yeah, it was just an exception.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "Yeah, you weren't here, but but but s uh, And so, if that's OK with you,", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "It's i Is it staying basically at the Wednesday noon?", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "you would.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "OK. It was th off this week,", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "Yeah. I always thought it was staying.", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "Yeah, it was th", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "yeah.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "Yeah, I thought it was just this week that we were changing it.", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Mmm. Yeah.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "OK.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "And, um. How do we feel about doing it Wednesdays? Because it seems to me that this is sort of a time where when we have things to discuss with other people, there they seem to be s tons of people around.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "The only disadvantage is that it may interfere with other", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Or subgroup meetings", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "s you know, other other No, you Uh, people in this group connecting with with", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Those people who happen to be around.", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "those people who who might not be around so much. Uh, I don't care. I I uh you know I have no fixed.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "To tell you the truth, I'd rath I'd, I'd would like to avoid more than one ICSI meeting per day, if possible. But I mean. I don't know.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "OK.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Whatever.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "No, that's fine. I mean that.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "The I'd like to have them all in one day,", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "Yeah, I can understand that.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "Well p", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "so package them up and then.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "people people differ in their tastes in this matter.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "I I'm neutral.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "Yeah. I'm always here anyway,", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "It's OK, that.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "so It doesn't matter.", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "Yeah. @ @ That's Me too. I'm basically I'm here. So.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Well, if one sort of thing is, this room is taken at after three - thirty pr pretty much every day by the data collection.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "Oh.", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "So we have subjects anyway Except for this week, we have subjects in here.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "Oh.", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "That's why it was one.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "OK.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "So we just knew i", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "So did you just say that Ami can't make one o'", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "No, he can.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "Oh.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "Oh, OK.", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "So let's say Thursday one. But for next week, this is a bit late. So I would suggest that we need to to talk.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "Oh, oh, OK.", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "OK. About the c the th", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "Could we do Thursday at one - thirty? Would that that be horrible?", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "No. Yes.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "Oh really?", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "Because, uh, this room is again taken at two - thirty by Morgan.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "Oh, OK. OK. You didn't tell me that. OK, that's fine.", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "And the s meeting recorder meeting meeting meeting recording on meeting meetings.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "OK, OK, OK. OK. Yeah.", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "So.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "Ah, yeah.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "Interesting. So you're proposing that we meet Tuesday.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "How about that?", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "Next week.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "Well, we're meeting Tuesday.", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "I I could", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "I mean we usually meet Tuesday or l like, linguists um, at two.", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "Would it.", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "That's right.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "So. Do you want to meet again here bef", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "And the s Is the Speech - Gen meeting still at on Tuesdays?", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "I mean w Well, actually we w we we did scrap our Monday time just because Bhaskara couldn't come Monday.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "Hhh. Maybe I do need a Palm Pilot.", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "So there's Nothing's impeding Monday anymore either.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "That doesn't apply to a.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "Although I thought you wanted to go camping on Monday er, take off Mondays a lot so you could go camping.", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "Get a fresh start Yeah, that's another s thing. Yeah. But, um. I mean, there are also usually then holidays anyways. I mean like Sometimes it works out that way.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "Usually?", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "So. Hmm!", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "Well, I mean, the linguists' meeting i happens to be at two, but I think that's I mean.", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "That should be relatively flexible be", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "pretty flexible, I think.", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "Yeah. There's just sort of the two to four of us.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "So. The multiple meetings", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "Right? Yeah. So.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "yeah.", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "And, you know, of course Nancy and I are just sort of always talking anyway and sometimes we do it in that room.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "Right. Yeah.", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "So, you know, I mean.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "OK, so l forget about the b the camping thing. So let's eh, any other problems w w w? But, I suggested Monday. If that's a problem for me then I shouldn't suggest it.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "Ha - ha - ha.", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "OK.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "So.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "Um, all of the proposed times sound fine with me.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "Same here.", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "Monday?", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "OK, whate I mean What I think Robert's saying is that", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Earlier in the week", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "earlier we At least for next week, there's a lot of stuff we want to get done,", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm. Yeah.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "so why don't we plan to meet Monday", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Mmm.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "and we'll see if we want to meet any more than that.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "OK.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "What time?", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "OK.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "At o o o o one, two, three?", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "One, two, three? Three's too late.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "Oh, I i Yeah, I actually Two is the earliest I can meet on Monday.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Two - thirty? OK, two.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "Here I'm blissfully agreeing to things and realizing that I actually do have some stuff scheduled on Monday.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Sure. Sounds great. Uh, so that's the eighteenth.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "You guys will still remind me, right?", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "No way!", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "Y you'll come and take all the the headph the good headphones first and then remind me.", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "W why do you?", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "Yeah, exactly. Sorry, two PM.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "And", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "Why do I have this unless I'm gonna write?", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "do I get to see th uh, your formalism before that?", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "Fine. Yes. Uh. Would you like to?", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "OK. I was actually gonna work on it for tomorrow like this this weekend.", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "I wo I would like I would sort of get a get a notion of what what you guys have in store for me.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "Well m @ @ you know, w maybe Mond - Maybe we can put This is part of what we can do Monday, if we want.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Yeah. I OK.", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "Alright.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "I mean, I I I.", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "Is some some version", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "OK.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "Yeah, so there was like, you know, m m in my head the goal to have like an intermediate version, like, everything I know.", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "And then, w I would talk to you and figure out everything you know, that you know, see if they're consistent.", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "Yeah. OK. Why don't w Maybe you and I should meet sort of more or less first thing Monday morning and then we can work on this.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "Yes. Yeah. That's f fine with me.", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "OK.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "So. I might I might um,", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "You - y", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "s You said you're busy over th until the weekend, right?", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "Yeah, sort of through the weekend because Kate has a photography show.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "That's fine. So we might continue our email thing", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "and that might be fine, too. So, maybe I'll send you some.", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "Um, if you have time after this I'll show you the noun phrase thing.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "OK. That would be cool. So. OK, and we'll You wanna m", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "So the idea is on Monday at two we'll we'll see an intermediate version of the formalism for the constructions,", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "So that's OK for you.", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "and do an on - line merging with my construal ideas.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "Sure, sure.", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "Alright.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "OK.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "That's OK.", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "So it won't be, like, a for semi - formal presentation of my proposal. It'll be more like towards finalizing that proposal.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "OK.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "Cuz then you'll find out more of what we're making you do.", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "OK, that's fine. Yep, and then.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "Hmm, hmm.", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "Yikes.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "Oy, deadlines.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "We'll make a presentation of your propo of your proposal.", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "Perfect. Can you also write it up?", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "It's like, \" this is what we're doing.", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "Abso", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "And the complement is Robert. \"", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "I'll I'll send you I'll I'll send you a style file, right?", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "OK.", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "You just.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "I already sent you my fi my bib file. So.", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "OK. And, um. Sounds good.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "Someday we also have to we should probably talk about the other side of the \" where is X \" construction, which is the issue of, um, how do you simulate questions? What does the simspec look like for a question?", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "Because it's a little different.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "Yeah, now, we we w", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "We had to we had an idea for this which seemed like it would probably work.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "Great. OK. Yeah. Simspec may need we may n need to re - name that.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "I Yeah. I.", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "OK? So let's think of a name for for whatever the this intermediate structure is. Oh, we talked about semspec, for \" semantic spec specification \"", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Mmm.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "and that seems Um.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "It's more general", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "You know, so it's a m minimal change.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Only have to change one vowel. That's great.", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "Yeah. Just.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "All the old like graphs,", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "just change the just, like, mark out the.", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "Cool.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "Right, a little substi substi You know, that's what text substitution uh macros are for.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Yeah. It's good for you.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "Anyway, uh, so let's let's for the moment call it that until we think of something better.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "OK.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "And, yeah, we absolutely need to find Part of what was missing were markings of all sorts that weren't in there, incl including the questions.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "We didn't we never did figure out how we were gonna do emphasis in in uh, the semspec.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "Yeah, we've talked a little bit about that, too, which uh, uh, it's hard for me to figure out with sort of our general linguistic issues, how they map onto this particular one,", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "but OK, yeah, understood.", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "But that's part of the formalism is got to be uh, how things like that get marked.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "W do you have data, like the the You have preliminary data? Cuz I know, you know, we've been using this one easy sentence and I'm sure you guys have uh, maybe you are the one who've been looking at the rest of it.", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "Um, I", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "it'd it'd be useful for me, if we want to have it a little bit more data oriented.", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "To tell you the truth, what I've been looking at has not been the data so far,", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "Yeah. Mm - hmm mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "I just sort of said \" alright let's see if I can get noun phrases and, uh, major verb co uh, constructions out of the way first. \" And I have not gotten them out of the way yet.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "Surprise. So, um.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "So, I have not really approached a lot of the data, but I mean obviously like these the the question one, since we have this idea about the indefinite pronoun thing and all that, you know, I ca can try and, um run with that, you know, try and do some of the sentence constructions now. It would make sense.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "OK. Do you wanna run the indefinite pronoun idea past Jerry?", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "OK.", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "Oh yeah, the basic idea is that um, uh you know Uh, let's see if I can formulate this.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "So Mary fixed the car with a wrench.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "So you perform the mental sum and then, you know, \" who fixed the car with a wrench? \" You basically are told, to to do this In the in analogously to the way you would do \" someone fixed the car with a wrench \". And then you hand it back to your hippocampus and find out what that, you know,", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "Means.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "means, and then come up with that so who that someone was.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "The WH question has this as sort of extra thing which says \" and when you're done, tell me who fills that slot \" or w you know.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "So, um. And, you know, this is sort of a nice way to do it, the idea of sort of saying that you treat from the simulation point of view or whatever you treat, uh, WH constructions similarly to uh, indefinite pronouns like \" someone fixed the car \" because lots of languages, um, have WH questions with an indefinite pronoun in situ or whatever,", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "Use actually the same one.", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "and you just get intonation to tell you that it's a question. So it makes sense", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "Alright, which is", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "um", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "Skolemization.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Hmm?", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "Mmm.", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "In in logic, it's it's @ @ it's actual Huh?", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Right. Let's put a Skolem Skolem constant in,", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "Yeah. shko", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "What?", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Sure.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "yeah. Yeah. Right.", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "OK.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "That - that's not that's not saying it's bad,", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Right. Right. No. Of course.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "it's just that.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Mmm.", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "that that the logicians have have, uh.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "That's right. It makes sense from that point of view, too, which is actually better.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "come up with this", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "So yeah, um. Anyway, but just that kind of thing and we'll figure out exactly how to write that up and so on, but", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "Good.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Uh, no, all the focus stuff. We sort of just dropped that cuz it was too weird and we didn't even know, like, what we were talking about exactly, what the object of study was.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "Um - mmm.", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "So.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "Yeah. Well, if if I mean, i part of of what the exercise is, t by the end of next week, is to say what are the things that we just don't have answers for yet.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Yeah. Yep.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "That's fine. I mean", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "Well, if you if you do wanna discuss focus background and then get me into that because I mean, I wo I w scientifically worked on that for for almost two years.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "Yeah. OK, then certainly we will. Good.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "Yeah, you should definitely, um be on on that maybe maybe by after Monday we'll y you can see what things we are and aren't.", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "Yeah. w We should figure out what our questions are, for example, to ask you.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "Yeah. Yeah.", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "So.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "OK.", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "OK.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "Wel - then t Hans. Has I haven't seen Hans Boas?", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "He's been around.", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "Just maybe not today.", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "OK. So has he been been involved with this, or?", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Eh. with us?", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "I would say that tha that those discussions have been primarily, um, Keith and Keith and me, but um like in th the meeting I mean, he sort of I thin like the last meeting we had, I think we were all very much part of it", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "but um", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "Sometimes Hans has been sort of coming in there as sort of like a devil's advocate type role or something,", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "but different perspec Yeah.", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "like \" This make you know, I'm going to pretend I'm a linguist who has nothing to do with this. This makes no sense. \" And he'll just go off on parts of it which definitely need fixing", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "but aren't where we're at right now, so it's", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "Like like what you call certain things,", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "which we decided long ago we don't care that much right now.", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "But in a sense, it's good to know that he of all people.", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "OK.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "you know, like maybe a lot of people would have m much stronger reactions, so, you know, he's like a relatively friendly linguist", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "Yeah. Yeah.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "and yet a word like \" constraint \" causes a lot of problems. And, so. Right. So.", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "OK. This is consistent with um the role I had suggested that he he play,", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Ah.", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "OK, which was that o one of the things I would like to see happen is a paper that was tentatively called \" Towards a formal cognitive semantics \" which was addressed to these linguists uh who haven't been following this stuff at all.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "So it could be that he's actually, at some level, thinking about how am I going to communicate this story.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Yeah. Yeah.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "So, internally, we should just do whatever works,", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "cuz it's hard enough.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "But if he g if he turns is is really gonna turn around and help t to write this version that does connect with as many as possible of the other linguists in the world um then then it becomes important to use terminology that doesn't make it hard.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "Yeah. Yeah.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm. Sure.", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "I mean, it's gonna be plenty hard for for people to understand it as it is,", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "but y y you don't want to make it worse.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Yeah. No, right. I mean, tha that role is is, uh, indispensable", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "So.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "but that's not where sort of our heads were at in these meetings.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "It was a little strange.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "Yeah, yeah. No, that's fine. I just wanted t to I have to catch up with him, and I wanted t to get a feeling for that. OK.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "So I don't know what his take will be on these meetings exactly, you know.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "OK. Good.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Cuz sometimes he sort of sounds like we're talking a bunch of goobledy - gook from his point of view.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "I think it's good when we're when we're into data and looking at the some specific linguistic phenomenon in in English or in German, in particular, whatever, that's great,", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "and Ben and and Hans are, if if anything, more you know, they have more to say than, let's say, I would about some of these things.", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "But when it's like, well, w how do we capture these things, you know, I think it's definitely been Keith and I who have d you know, who have worried more about the.", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "Well, that's good. That's I I I think that should be the the core group", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "s Which is fine.", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "and um that's, you know, I think very close to the maximum number of people working together that can get something done.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "Yes. Yeah. We actually have I think we have been making progress,", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "and its sort of surprising.", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "I I I I definitely get that impression. Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "You know, like.", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "Yep.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "That's great.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Yeah. So anyone else would like uh ruin the balance of Anyway.", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "Well, but Well. But th th then w then we have to come back to the bigger group.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "Yeah. Great. And then we're gon we're gonna because of this other big thing we haven't talked about is actually implementing this stuff? So that I guess the three of us are gonna connect tomorrow about that.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Yeah, we could talk tomorrow. I was just gonna say, though, that, for instance, there was you know, out of a meeting with Johno came the suggestion that \" oh, could it be that the meaning constraints really aren't used for selection? \" which has sort of been implicit in the parsing strategy we talked about.", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "In which case we w we can just say that they're the effects or the bindings. Which uh, so far, in terms of like putting up all the constraints as, you know, pushing them into type constraints, the when I've, you know, propo then proposed it to linguists who haven't yet given me you know, we haven't yet thought of a reason that that wouldn't work. Right? As long as we allow our type constraints to be reasonably complex.", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "Well, it.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "So Anyway, to be to talk about later.", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "Yeah, it has to in the sense that you're gonna use them eventu it's you know, it's sort of a, um, generate and test kind of thing,", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm. Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "and if you over - generate then you'll have to do more. I mean, if there are some constraints that you hold back and don't use uh, in your initial matching then you'll match some things.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm. Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "I mean, I I d I don't think there's any way that it could completely fail. It it could be that uh, you wind up I mean The original bad idea of purely context - free grammars died because there were just vastly too many parses. You know, exponentially num num many parses. And so th the concern might be that not that it would totally fail, but that.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm. Mm - hmm. That it would still generate too many. Right? So by just having semantic even bringing semantics in for matching just in the form of j semantic types, right?", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "it would still genera", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Like \" conceptually these have to be construed as this, this, and this \" might still give us quite a few possibilities", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "that, you know And and it certainly helps a lot.", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "We don't know, but, yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "I mean, le let's put it that way. So.", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "No question. Yeah. And I think it's a it's a perfectly fine place to start. You know, and say, let let's see how far we can go this way.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm. Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "And, uh.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Well it definitely makes the problem easier.", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "I'm I'm in favor of that. Uh, cuz I think i I think it's As you know, I think it's real hard and if w if we Right.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "So Friday, Monday", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "Monday.", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "So. OK, that's Tuesday.", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "Like th that's the conclusion. OK.", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "So, you your dance card is completely filled now?", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "Shoot.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "Yeah, and I have nothing to do this weekend but work.", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "Why don't.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "No, that's not really true,", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "Bummer.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "but like.", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "What about What about DDR?", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "It's almost true.", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "Oh, I don't have it this weekend, so, tsk don't have to worry about that.", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "Mmm.", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "DDR, he asked?", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Speaking of dance, Dance Dance Revolution I can't believe I'm It's a it's like a game, but it's for, like, dancing. Hard to It's like karaoke, but for dancing, and they tell you what It's amazing. It's so much fun. Yeah, it's so good. My friend has a home version and he brought it over, and we are so into it. It's so amazing. Well, y you know of it? I i i it's one of your hobbies? It's great exercise, I must say. I can't wait to hear this. Uh - huh. Oh, definitely. They have, like, places instead of like Yeah, instead of karaoke bars now that have, like, DDR, like Yeah, yeah, I didn't until I started hanging out with this friend, who's like \" Oh, well, I can bring over the DDR if you want. \" Oh, oh, Dance Dance Revolution OK. He actually brought a clone called Stepping Selection, but it's just as good. So. Anyw", "speakerName": "Grad B" } ] }

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{ "meetingId": "ES2002b", "transcriptSegments": [ { "text": "Is that alright now? Okay. Sorry? Okay, everybody all set to start the meeting? Okay, we've got half an hour for this one um to uh discuss the um functional design.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Could you plug me in?", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Okay. Thanks.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "All ready to go? Okay.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Okay..", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Um so hopefully you've all been working away, and I've put the minutes of the last meeting in the project folder. Um so I guess just to to recap on uh what we did last time. Um kind of uh got to know each other a little bit and uh got familiar with all the equipment and started to discuss um a bit about the project, you know, cost-wise how much how much money we had to s Um just want to tell you that you have three new requirements, which is the The first one is that um uh the company's decided that teletext is outdated uh because of how popular the internet is. Nobody uses teletext very much anymore, so we don't really need to consider that in the functionality of the of the remote control.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "'Kay.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Um they've also suggested that we um we only use the remote control to control the television, not the V_C_R_, D_V_D_ or anything else. I think the worry is that if the project becomes too complex then it'll affect um how long it takes us to get it into into production, the time to market. So um, we're just gonna keep it simple and it'll just control the T_V_.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "And the other thing was that the company want the corporate colour and slogan to be implemented in the new design. Um I'm not entirely sure what the corporate colour is. It might be yellow, because there seems to be a lot of yellow everywhere.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "And the slogan, like the actual written slogan, or just to embody the idea of the slogan?", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Well that's the thing, I'm I'm not sure um uh th because on the the company website, uh what does it say Uh something.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "'Bout putting the fashion in electronics.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Mm yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah, I mean do they Is that something they want actually written on it,'cause it's quite long. Um or yeah, just the idea, but I'm not sure. So that's something we can discuss as well. So those are the three things, just not to worry about teletext, uh only control the T_V_, and um and uh incorporate the uh colour and slogan of the company. Um so is everybody okay with any of that, or do you want me to recap at all?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Nope, we're all set.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Right um, time for presentations then. Who would like to go first?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "I'll go first.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Okay, cool.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Sure.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Alright um, can I st steal this from the back of your laptop? Uh.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Oh yeah, of course, yeah. G go on ahead.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "so this is the technical functions design. Um Right to do the um the design I have I've had a look online, I've had a look at the homepage, which has given us um some insp inspiration from previous products.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Um I've had a look at the previous products to see what they offer and um I would like to ask you guys for um your ideas about the design at the end of the meeting. Um unfortunately we're not allowed to talk outside the meeting room, so.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Um, having a look at the existing products, I found out that um it tends to come in sort of two extremes, there's either um a very complicated one that's got lots of buttons, lots of colours, very confusing, you don't know what you're doing. Um in that case the the labelling tends to be very bad. Um there's an example I'll show you at the end, um sh show you now. Uh.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Alright.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "here um the button there and there. This one's prog. Sorry. That one's perg and that one's prog, and it doesn't really tell you what it does. Um, not sure if you had a a look at the other um control in that example. Um it's a very simple one. It's got only the basic functions mm but um it's the same size as the the hard to use one.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Oop.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Uh it looked a bit clunky. They're very big and not very much use for buttons. Um, and it's just very hard to access the advanced functions. There's there's nothing for instance for a slow motion button. Um, my own preferences, I prefer the the clunky one. Um it's very easy to use. Um but unfortunately it does lack the advanced functions which I I quite like having on the controls. Um so I believe the the advanced functions should maybe be hidden in a drawer, or something like tha from the bottom of it. So, now I'd like to ask for your preferences. Um not sure of how long we've got, uh.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Um. Well we can chat away for uh for five minutes or so I think at at most.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Just a couple of minutes anyway.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "M yeah, like a lot of a lot of what I've um read and prepared for this meeting fits in really closely with what with what Craig's just gone over. So in part I could I could give you some of my personal preferences but I could also th add some to this which is just about sort of um sort of market research.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "But anyway,", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Shall we sh well we'll stick to kind of your area for now.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "um we might come to that later.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Which which is the clunky one, the one on left or on the right?..", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Um, the clunky one is the one on the right.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Um clunky in what sense, like um h heavier? Larger?", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Um I think it's supposed to be the same size, but um it's got much fewer buttons. It's, you know, it's very spread out", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "I see, so it's more just basic.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Looks kind of Yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "and kind of you know", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Right, okay.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": ", I get the idea it'd be sort of about this size. got very few buttons on it and.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah. Sure.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Well I think it's a valid point. I mean like the one on the left looks quite um quite complicated, and that P_R_T_ p P_R_O_T_ thing is incredibly confusing. Um so I see I see why yo you know you might prefer the simpler design, but yeah you don't want to lose out on, you know, what it does, so maybe you know", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "you know you get a lot of remote controls where you kind of flip the thing open,", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "I think that's a good idea.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "I think it's a good idea..", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Um, do we have any functions that um we'd want on it?", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "I mean so far I've got um on and off, um switch the channel up and down, and put the volume up and down.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm. Uh-huh.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Um they're just the the very basics you could use for a T_V_.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Uh-huh, and then actual numbers for channels as well, yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Okay. Um, you say that's a h a required one or a requested one? Would you like", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Which was that?", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "um the channels like the the numbers on thing, um.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Up the numbers, or the up down?", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "God, I wou I would say that's required,", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "I mean there's no way anybody's gonna buy a remote control these days when if you can't actually individually select channels,", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "I mean would anybody disagree with that?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Um, what else, uh So don't need to worry about teletext,", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "don't need to worry about V_C_R_, uh any kind of like display controls at all do you think we need to worry about,", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "We don't? No?", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "you know like brightness and contrast?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah. Well I think I think es essentially what we're doing right now is we're categorising. We're saying well we want this to be a product that offers all the sort of more tricky features but we want them to be in another area?", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Is that right?", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Is that what we're we're doing?", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Um, yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "We're kind of like sorting them an Or are we actually eliminating things we just don't want the product to have?", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Um.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "I think are you are you maybe kind of thinking what we absolutely have to have and what would be nice?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Uh, to start with um sort of a bit both, um we need to find out exactly what we have to have", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "um and after that we can add things if they're possible.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Okay, right. Well, do you wanna maybe just, at this point decide on what we absolutely must have as a p as a function of this.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Um, so so far, just to recap you've got volume and channel control and.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yep.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "There's um on and off, um volume and channel, and skip to certain channels with the numbers.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Right okay. Um.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Well, one one way I would look at this um would be that we a approach the different controls in terms of um like control types, so that for the user it's very clear what they want to do where they go.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Uh and also think maybe a little bit about sorta w w what would just wanna be acc easily accessible.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Oka", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "For example if we had audio controls, those could be something people set up very rarely. Maybe they're un they're they're they're in a little area but covered up um,", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "things like channel and volume um are used all the time, so we just have them right out on top, um very just very sort of self-explanatory. Um so maybe we need to think about having three or more groupings of controls, you know like one which are just the the habitual ones that should be right within your natural grip. And others that are uh also available", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "and then others that are concealed.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Something like that.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Uh well, just to to wrap up quickly on this this little section Have I just lost Oh no. Um, uh do you think maybe that's the only kind of uh essential requirements, and then maybe just things that would be nice if it could do would be things like audio set up and display set up and things like that, maybe like a mute button, that sort of thing. Any of you anything to add to that at all?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "No.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "No.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "I'll add it later, I guess the presentation.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Okay, right.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm. Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Um okay,", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "if we can move on to next presentation then please. Um", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Sure.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Do you wanna.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Do you want to switch places?", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Can this can this pl reach? Can this plug come across?", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "No. No.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Probably not, actually.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "No.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "So why don't I just pick up and move then.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Here, I'll just Why don't I just.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Just just switch them.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Mm er, can you go up behind me? Kinda This is so This.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "bit complicated. It'd be nice if everything was wireless, wouldn't it?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "I'm all in a knot now.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Um. So I can I can say already, I dunno whether this is for good or for bad but there'll be a lot of kind of uh redundancy in the in the the issues and the the uh the things.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Oh, like overlap between what you said?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah, yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Oh well, for all you know that that'll happen.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Which is ma not necessarily a bad thing, but may what I've already started doing is cr I created a slide in in my presentation here so um so that we kind of think well what's the cumulative effect of what we've taken from your ideas and and mine, because certainly I I have a hard time separating separating things completely.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Mm hard to know what where your role ends, yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Obviously obviously what you've just told me what you've just told me impacts a lot on what um like market research mm that that I've been.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "So how do I how do I get this up?", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Um function F_ eight.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Uh pr yeah, press function and F_ eight, yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Okay. Okay. Alright. So F_ eight?", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Function, the blue button. Next to the control on the left. Yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Oh, and F_ eight. Okay.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "You have to push it together.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yep.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Okay, I think that that's doing it now.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Nope. Try that again.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Uh, again?", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Wait.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Think maybe the the wire in the back might be loose.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah, you wanna Oh oh here we go.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Um,", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yep, there we go.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "There you go.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "okay great. Okay. Just um Before I bring this up what I'll just say is um what I've what I've done is tried to collect some information so that I can then relay this to to you guys so that it's now becomes a collective thing. And then kind of lead us in the direction of deciding,'kay what what are our options, what should we decide and do you know what I mean, so.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Increase that'cause we can't see the.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Um.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "That's much better.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Right. Can you um.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "There you go.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Right, okay.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Okay. Alright. That would be Okay. So um does that make sense? So what I basically got is I just looked into some information and sort of th tried to think about how how we could review it and how we could and what kind of decisions we could take away from it and then maybe by the end of just looking at some of these things we can think about what are our priorities.'Cause certainly there's lots of different information to go through. So um I'm thinking here about uh primarily about customer needs, that we start with the customer, and w you know, what they want and what are issues with with um existing products. Uh to think about trends and also about try and connect that as you see with the company vision which is about fashion in electronics. Um and then, as I say uh w we'd like to prioritise our design features from this and um.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Bouncing on top..", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Dunno. Okay. Um.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "So this is what I've found here, um a lot of this is new to me, so we'll just read through together. Um, users dislike the look and feel of current remote controls. So they find them ugly. Most people find them ugly. Um the vast majority would spend more money for it to look fancy as well, we'll see later, the vast majority would spend more money for um slightly more intuitive control, such as voice recognition.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Okay I'm gonna we'll look at that in a second. Um most people use only a f a very slim portion of all the controls. So I guess what we're looking at here is people want this h technology, they tend to use the most simple controls and overall they find remote controls to be something they don't doesn't really appeal to them.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "So I think what we're doing is we're trying to take like if for me this is sorta like three different different um inspirations, you know, one is that we want uh something that's high-tech but we want it to seem easy. And in spite of the primitive side of it and the very high-tech side, we want it to just be an appealing piece of equipment in people's hands. Um, frustrations. They get lost a lot, s as it came up in our last meeting. Um, takes time to learn how to use them. This is uh why I mention when Craig was uh showing us some ideas that we actually try and group controls, so d it doesn't just look like a big panel, kinda like when you you look at, you know, a new computer keyboard, or something that is quite explanatory. If you want audio, if you want visual, then you have those. Um and I will admit I don't know what R_S_I_ stands for.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Repetitive strain injury.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Is installing a new remote control something that people.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Uh, no, that did not come up at all. Um so here here is another um sort of a a review here of the main things. I also found that most people would uh adults at least would pay more for voice recognition. Now apparently we do have access to all the tech cutting edge technology in remote control. So I dunno if that's possible we might consider getting into it. Um. And and again here as we sort of move m sort of thin start thinking about how we wanna sell and market this, I think a recurring theme here is the company wants it to be wants us to make something that's fashionable and sleek and trendy.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Um people uh additionally aren't aren't liking the appearance of their products, so we wanna think about as we take all the sort of the techie features how we can um put that into a unit which is which people like.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "You know, they like the aesthetics and the ergonomics.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "So want something that looks good and is easy to use, big priorities.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah, so you know just c looking at what what Craig um Craig's i uh ideas are s sorta tell me that maybe what we wanna do is try and um separate the different things that we wanna include in this. So if we do say well we want there to be all the technology will we try and make that almost be like optional technology. You know, it's like like I find a lot of T_V_s these days, something really like about'em is if you wanna just turn'em on and off you can, but they have little panels where you click and there's just like tons of features you go through.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Mm. So it you wanna group all the different kind of types of functions together, you know.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "That's I think it's a good idea.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah. That's s that's sort of the um But I I'm my hope here is that I'm putting out this information so that we can then say okay, well how do we collectively move on with it.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm. Okay.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Um I I haven't brought out one specific marketing idea, although my sense is that what we should try and think about is what are the current trends in materials and shapes and styles, and then use that.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "But not let that confine us technologically.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Okay. Right.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "So Alright? Any um comments on all of that?.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Well, um one of the things that we have to decide on by the end of the meeting is who we're gonna be um who's our our target audience, our target market.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "That's uh.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Um, so if we want something that that looks good and is easy to use, but has y is fairly powerful product, whatever, who do we really want to aim that at?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah. Okay.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "I mean.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Where's the money, maybe.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah, who wou who would have the money to spend. Well i if if like twenty five Euro is our is our selling price then you can imagine,", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah. And who watches T_V_. Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "well I don't I'm not really sure how much that will retail at.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "But you want it's somebody who's not gonna just use the remote that comes with their telly, I suppose, they're gonna actually go out and buy one.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "So, who do you think we're aiming this at?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Um, I think it'll be the mid range to the high end market, in terms of people.'Cause twenty five Euros for a remote, how much is that lo locally in pounds?", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "It's about sixteen, seventeen pounds, I think.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Is that too is that a lot of money to buy an extra remote or a replacement remote?", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah,", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "okay.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Um so maybe not the high end range, but maybe middle, middle up-ish. Kind of.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "You know how much? I dunno I guess you pay, what, ten ten quid for a remote?", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Like a simple replacement, right. I mean if you lost your remote and the first thing you just wanna go out and get,", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah. Yeah,", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "would you how much would you pay?", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "This this kinda touches on your comments there, David. These are the age groups which we have information on", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "and these are this is a table of h what people would pay more for a certain feature.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Okay", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Just gives us a rough idea of where the w the will to spend money on T_V_ equipment is.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mostly focused around the twenty five age group.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah, so do you think we're we're aiming at a fairly young market then?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yep.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Sort of young professional, kind of. Mm-hmm", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah, okay.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Um.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Um do you think then uh voice recognition is something we should really seriously consider? What what do you think, Craig?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Well, did you not say it was the the adults that were going for the the voice recognition? Sort of the the older group.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Uh, yeah, it's the Yep.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Uh f", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "It does it does fit with the market that we're sort of identifying,", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "N yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "in terms of.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "I think we are gonna have to narrow it down, to say let's target these people and give them what they want", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "and'cause you know, there needs to be some kind of selling point to it.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah. Sure. Sure.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "So um anybody anything there to add.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Just kind of young professionals, uh th like if we are going to include speech recognition, it's kind of between fifteen and thirty five seems to be like a really high response to that. So we could say that was our target.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "I I think twenty five to thirty five is is is fair to add that in as a group as well", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "because that's more than half your group of people who are willing to at least try and use your technology.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm. Yeah. Yeah, yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm. Okay, so fifteen to thirty five, look fairly young.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "You know, they have bit of expendable income to spend on this sort of thing.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "I think perhaps that age group is significant as well because those are people who use the computer,", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm. Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "who are familiar with their with computers in in their everyday work.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "I think people who are maybe about I wouldn't say thirty five,", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm. Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "but people who are about forty-ish and above now would not be so dependent and reliant on a computer or a mobile phone or something like that.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm. Mm-hmm. But yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah, sure.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "So these are people who are gadgety, right?", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "So.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "People who are u growing up used to, you know in schools and in universities,", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "when you go on to their working lives, people who would you know regular", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah. So they'll not sh not shy away from something quite high-tech.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah. Yeah. Mm.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "That that's that's a good point.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Um okay, so um.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "so shall we make the decision uh to include speech recognition", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "If we can.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "I I think one thing we should try not to avoid is not to say we have to use speech recognition right now,", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "if we can.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "because um, based on what you've go y everybody's saying, right, you want something simple.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Okay. Why is that?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "You want basic stuff and you want something that's easy to use. Speech recognition might not be the simplest thing for somebody to use.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Could it be an on off thing?", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Um,", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Like if you want it on.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "but what I'm saying is that we're we're trying to lock ourselves into a s particular kind of technology,", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Where you can activate it and deactivate it?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "rather than focusing on on exactly what are the features that we're gonna say, and then, you know, say speech recognition is good for this, speech recognition is not good for this.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah. Sure.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "So maybe we should.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Sure.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "I suggest that we think about speech recognition,", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah. Sure..", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "anyway it's a it's something that can be used to fulfil a function, but at end of the day we don't look at the technology, but we look at the function first.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Uh-huh.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Sure. Yep.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Uh okay, well do you wanna um give us your presentation", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Okay, sure.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "and then then we can I don't know.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yep.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "um might have been a good idea to all deliver our presentations and then discuss, but this is this is how we're.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah, it's good well it's good to get ideas out while they're fresh in mind.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah, exactly, yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Um.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Oh it's something that's just occurred to me as well is if we make it um speech reco if we incorporate speech recognition, that's appealing to people um maybe with a physical disability as well.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Not.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Um.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah. And not losing. And also it helps in terms of people not losing this,", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "you know they they're saying oh it's I lose it in the couch.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "like we're kind of what we're b sort of getting in into here is mating different uh design features together", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "that they.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "I reckon one problem with speech recognition is um I've actually seen one of them used and uh the technology that was in that one wasn't particularly amazing, so you end up yelling at the control for hours.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Really?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Channel up.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Oh really, you've seen one before.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Do you think maybe we need like further advances in that kind of area until it's worthwhile incorporating it though?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Um I think it'd probably quite expensive to put in.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Sorry, do you mind passing me my notepad.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Mm. Course not.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Thanks. Cool,", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "There you go.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "um. Okay. Um.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Well this is just the working design um.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Well this is just what how I would go about it. Um I guess I try to define like what we're doing now, try to define what we're trying to get done. Um I think in a practical way, we kind of know what it is.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "We've used it, we're familiar with it, but we're we can't n we haven't narrowed down um exactly what the things we're trying to fulfil, like Besides the basics, I think back in the back of our minds we know what the basics are. Has to change channels, has to change volume, but in like specifics, right, which one of the basics are you trying to target. Um are there certain parts of the basics that are more important or less important than the basics?", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Um and I just the idea is just to get everybody to um I usually have a have have a design that's there as a basic, so, you know, things that to start everything going. But I guess everybody does have some idea, so I don't think um there's a need for that. Um okay this finding things is a little bit confusing, so I'll go into the diagram first. It just explains how the process goes through, from a.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "from the basic technology point of view, the basic steps that you need um in the diagram and in this slide probably works better. Um okay, you need some power source.'Kay, a battery or something, to keep it going.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Um and that power source is important because it ties you down to um how long the device will last. Um it ties you down perhaps a bit later on in terms of the technologies", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Uh-huh.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "um how far you can transmit the signal or the complexity of the functions that you want.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Like for example, voice recognition, right. That might be constrained because that you might need to power a microphone, you might need to power other things, so that's one perhaps constraint there. Um Th Okay, the basic thing is there's a user interface where people punch a button or talk into it or smile to it or blink their eyes, whatever.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Hmm.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "You know, and that um picks up an input from a user, um uh a logic a series of logic has to decide what the user is telling the device, and the device has to r you know, based on you push button A_, so I will do something with button A_. So maybe button A_ is the power button, okay.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Um and then it needs to be able to send the signal out to the device itself which is the receiver here. Um and I think that's about it in terms of my design um. It's fairly general, um and I guess the purpose of this is also not to restrict you in in the way you're thinking,", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "like um voice recognition, right, um, if it's something which is important then we just add more power rather than having a thing that we don't have enough power. So it's not really a constraint in that sense,", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "but I mean these are functionally, you know, the base,", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm. Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "what the technology has to do.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Um so I guess the rest of it.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "I think we should maybe you you wanna go back to what the functions are? I think that's more relevant to a discussion?", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Uh.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "'Kay.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Well, do you wan do you wanna finish up your your whole presentation then?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Sure. Sure.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah, w I'm done.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Are you are you all done?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "More or less. Yeah. Ps Oh, it's just putting the rest of it into words, but it's essentially the same thing.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yep.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Um you have a transmitter, an input device, logic chip,", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "you know, stuff like that.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Um.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "And like on the means b", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "I guess this would be.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Since we're on the topic of the technology, uh are there any like what are our options?", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yep.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Alright, what's what i in Is this the only way that we go about it, or are there other thin", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Um, these these aren't technology options in that sense. This is just um", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "a basic principles and basic components that are needed.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "The basic principle of.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "'Kay.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "For example, if you needed um if you needed to add uh a voice recognition, right, then your user interface would be split,", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "broken down into more components, right,", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "which you have a microphone, the V_R_ and stuff like that.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Oh. So this just show how we're kind of modularising the whole thing.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Uh Yep. Yep. So each component represents one function,", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "but I think the basic functions are the logic, the transmitter, um and the receiver, okay,", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "and the power are things that you won't have to care about.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Um and those are things that based on what your user interface requires then we'll add more functionality to it.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah. Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Um there might be one other consideration which would be that the the transmission between the remote control and the T_V_ for example.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Okay, um are we gonna restrict ourselves to using the traditional technologies of infra-red thing?", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Because that's something you need to actually be physically be pointing to. Right.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Well well a worry that was was expressed in the new requirements was that if we made this too complex it would e it would effect um how long how long it took us to get this to market, so I th suspect it might be a good idea just to restrict our kind of our creative influence on this on the user interface and not worry so much about uh how we transmit it", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yep.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "um because I mean it it's tried and tested intra-red, so we could stay with tha", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "There might be one other problem with the transmission, um in particular right now, since we're talking about voice recognition. Um if somebody's gonna h talk to the device, you ideally want them to hold it to them.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "I it.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Oh, yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "you may not require that,", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "but you know, um it's it's", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "it's something very natural, I guess, you know, to hold it, to signal to the user,", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah, mm-hmm..", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "and push a button maybe to start s talking about it.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Then you need to send the signal out, so because if you're using infra-red, the line of sight um say the T_V_'s at that chair, and I'm standing in front of here and the transmitter is here, it blocks it.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Mm. Mm. Yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "So in that sense, there's not really a restriction", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "but it's something which you may have to think about later on in the process.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Not so much further down.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "And um just a clarification before we finish this. Uh does c is our controller is it have the option of being um on a standard uh frequency as all of the other equipment, so that the one controller can control several pieces of equipment?", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "There's there's not much specific specific information,", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "W", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "but I think that um one indication of infra-red mean that you're just targeting traditional devices. Because infra-red is something which everybody has.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah. W Well well we've um.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "In the new requirement spec they said just to focus on the T_V_,", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Just to T_V_, okay.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "so that's what we should do for now I think. Something I was wondering about was the power.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Um, is it worth considering like having like a charging unit as opposed to just regular batteries? I mean is that something we really want to go into, do you think,", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "There's a there's.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "or should we just consider running on regular batteries?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Okay, from from a from a component point of view there's added complexity, and you add cost to it,", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Uh-huh. Uh-huh.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "um and then there's probably the fact that you need another physical component. You need a docking cradle, for example, for you to put it in to charge.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm. Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Or you need to get the user to plug it in.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Okay,", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Um and most users are very f use already used to the idea of buying batteries and putting it into the controller.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "so Yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "But unless the controller's gonna consume a lot of batteries, like he's gonna run through like twenty batteries a month,", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "then I don't think rechargeable is something we should you know, we really need to care about.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Okay, so just stick to to regular.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Um.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Okay. Um, right. So basically the um I'm just gonna just recap uh what I said at the start, was that um the the whole point of this meeting was to f absolutely finalise who we're gonna aim this at,", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "and what exactly the product's gonna do.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "So um just to recap on.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Are we all happy about the idea of um aiming the product at um the fifteen to thirty five bracket? Um and also the funct the the actual functions of what it's gonna do.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah, that's good.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Do you wanna recap on that, Craig?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Um.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "I think we just say that it was gonna be the the most basic stuff possible. Um on off, up and down channels, up and down volume and uh skip to a channel.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Okay, right.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Ta.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "And is it going to include any of the uh the more advanced features, or are we gonna eliminate those?", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Um I think we include mute, but apart from that um I think we just we'll go for the simpleness.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Okay, I think", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Okay. R is it is it is it s is it not an option still that we include some things just as a sort of under like sort of under a door or some.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah, it's as optional functions.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "'Cause what what I'm I'd be a bit worried about is if someone was h had previously developed habits of expecting to control surround sound or this and that with their controller and then and then they, you know, w they get ours and w it's doesn't have that.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Okay..", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "I dunno if that'd be a problem.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Another thing that you were saying about categorising the controls? Um maybe I could suggest we we break them down into three simple categories.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "One would be audio controls,", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah. Okay.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "one would be video controls, and the other one would be a device.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Um this may not map very well to advanced functionality especially, but I think that um from a manufacturer's point of view, from a person designing the device,", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "but I think from a point of view of a person using the device, you know a T_V_ is something they see and something they hear,", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "um it's something they do other things to like turn it on and turn it off. I mean like so what we could have is like three buckets, right, where we could throw things into,", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "like if we want this feature, let's throw it into there, and then from there decide whether it's basic, or it's non-basic.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "I mean it might help with the visualisation.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "'Kay, okay. Like that. Okay.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "And it would actually help with the component build as well.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Okay, right.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm okay, great.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Um, okay well I gotta kind of got five minutes to wrap up now. Um next thing we're doing is having lunch. Whoohoo. Um and then we're gonna have thirty minutes of working on the next stage. Um so I'll be putting the minutes of this uh this meeting into the project documents folder. Um so uh I guess just to just to confirm that we know what we're doing in the next well in the thirty minutes after lunch anyway,", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm. Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "um for uh our Industrial Designer, you're gonna be thinking about the components concept. Um User Interface Designer gonna be thinking about our user interface, and marketing you're gonna be thinking about trend watching. Um and you'll all get specific instructions as well. So um I dunno, just just to to ask now if you've got anything else you've thought about while we've been talking.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Um, do you wanna start with David. Anything else to say at all?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm no, not really.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "No, okay. Andrew?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Um yeah, just I just wanted to ask then before we wrap up, shall we agree for sake of um sort of clarity and when we when we r resume that we'll u use this idea David's proposed, where we think of these three sort of buckets and anything anything we discuss about them is sort of, okay, we're talking about this.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah, yeah I think that's definitely a good idea.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Uh-huh.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Shall we do that, then?", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Okay, great.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Um just about the three buckets, um what would go in the the device functions one?", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Um things like on off. Because they don't have anything to do with what you see. I me mean in terms of picture and the entertainment value,", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "you know, um so um.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Um.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "And and channel.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "And channel. Because the on off also goes, you know, like on off like power, not on off sound.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Not on off video. Although you don't turn off the video on your T_V_, but um you might wanna you know turn off the sound,", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "say you wanna pick up the phone, there's a mute button, right, so you you have you have a choice of putting it on to um others or a device.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Device is basically anything which we can't categorise, right. We put it out.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Okay, so you're gonna have um audio which is gonna be like you know your bass settings and actual volume hi", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah, anything to do with what you hear, right. You you put that into audio.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "And then video is anything that you can see.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Okay, and then visual.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Okay, so brightness, contrast, things like that,", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Um. Yep.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "and then just actual device things,", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Colour, yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yep.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "like what channel you're watching, turning on an off,", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Sure. Sure.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yep.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "stuff like that.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Okay, um.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "And then k I suppose quite likely what would happen is in the d device category there might be some which are just like the habitual standard and then others which are maybe a bit more.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Like random which we have no other place to put, but we need it somewhere there.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah. Sure, okay. Okay.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Um even even if it doesn't map very clearly what happens is that people at least have some in their mind.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "It's easy to use, I think that's one thing that um and I guess from the component point of view it's easy to build as well", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "'cause things are like fixed..", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Um so yeah, I guess just things to think about are you know like the fact it's gotta look good,", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "because of who we're we're, you know, targeting this at. Um something maybe kind of quirky in design maybe. Make it kind of ergonomic kind of to hold,", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm. Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "you know, things like that. Um, so I guess I guess that's it. That's the meeting over.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Great.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Whoohoo.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Then we get to go find out what was picked up for lunch for us..", "speakerName": "Marketing" } ] }

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

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{ "meetingId": "IS1008d", "transcriptSegments": [ { "text": "Welcome back.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "I'm sorry to be late.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Welcome back everybody.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah. Thanks.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "So this meeting agenda will be the detailed design meeting. And uh opening and uh P_M_s of the meet minutes, uh prototype presentation from uh Christine and uh Agnes.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Agnes, yes.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yes and uh evaluation criteria. The finance, it's uh from my side, from the management, and uh production evaluation. Then uh closing. So we have forty minutes to discuss and uh finalise and close the product and project and to move further, okay, so Okay, let's talk about uh maybe first uh for the prototype.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm, okay.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "So I handle to.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "I've done a presentation, but it pretty much covers work that we've both done, so if I'm missing anything, Christine can just correct me.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "So shall I go to sorry.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Uh thank you, so you did a PowerPoint presentation, good for you..", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yep. S Okay, let's go to A_M_I_.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "It's not the biggest PowerPoint presentation in the world, but.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "So in two or three or.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Three. Um. No it's.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Probably. Technical pa I would think.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "think it's the last one. No, then this is the la yeah, that one, final design.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Ha.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "It is named appropriately, you just couldn't see the name.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Um okay, can I have the mouse?", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yes.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Thanks. Alright, so from when we were discussing specifying the case in the last meeting, we decided that we wanted an ergonomic shape, the material that we chose was wood, and uh the colour would be customisable,'cause you can stain the wood whatever colour. Um, so in terms of function, you have to be able to turn the T_V_ on and off, volume and channel control, menu control, voice recognition control, and we've incorporated the L_C_D_ screen on the flip panel as part of the design, if we figure out it's too expensive, well then you just take it off. Um, so to unveil our lovely product. This is our remote control, with the flip panel as you can see.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "So if you lift up the panel, you can see the lovely yellow L_C_D_ display. Um, this is actually hard to do. The yellow button you have is the on off button, so it's really big, hard to miss. You have the the red um triangles are the toggles for changing the volume. So up volume up, down volume down. The green are the channel changing. S And it's one of those very light, very touchable displays. And then you have the numeric pad in the dark blue at the bottom, and on the right-hand side you have the access to the menu on the T_V_, and on the left-hand side you have the the the ability to turn off the voice recognition. So this is pretty much what we had on the white board the last time.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "So.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Um and uh I could.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Oh yes.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah the d", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Additional feature on the back is that you can have your own customised backing and I suppose you could do the same thing on the flip case on the front. So that you can really make this a highly highly customisable remote control.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "We haven't um uh specified where the speaker or the microphone will be placed. That depends on the uh s design of the circuit board inside and uh what room is left um.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "I think the microphone is on on the top, uh on the middle, the under the flip.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yes, okay. Uh-huh.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "So that will be the safe, so p any the chip it's not on the chip because you need to have microphone to.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "No, I mean it depends on the design of the circuit board.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yes.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "But it shouldn't be under the flip either, because you can have the remote control closed, but you still might want to activate it by voice.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Uh it's it's Yeah, but uh uh my opinion I think it's better under the flip because whenever you want to uh the talk, okay, so then you can speak then you can close it. But if you put it on the on the flip, okay, then uh technical I don't think it's uh feasible,'cause most of the time you speak then it will be recognised.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "But if you've already got the remote control in your hand you need to open the flip to use the voice, why use the voice, why not just use your hand? I mean the whole point of the voice is that if the remote control is sitting there and I'm too lazy to reach over and pick it up, I can just use my voice.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Maybe I've got my hand in the popcorn bowl and I'm holding my cup of Coca-Cola in the other hand.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah. And you don't wanna let go of either one..", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "I don't wanna say. Louder. Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "I mean it doesn't have to be on the flip, it can be on the side somewhere.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Can also be on the side.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah, the sides maybe is good.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "So, I mean I can pass this around if anyone wants to.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yes. So it's maybe good idea.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah, y better you pass it around with a napkin..", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "No, because y you can easily put a microphone on the side that would have no problem would haven't been not be damaged or anything, and it'd be accessible all the time to voice.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yes. Yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah, exactly.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "So it's maybe good idea. S s", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "It's um It's um.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Compliments to the artist.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "You need to work on the weight a little bit..", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yes.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Uh.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Okay. S I'm fine, I'm satisfi", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "And maybe the shape of the buttons,", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "I'm satisfied.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "the little egg shapes aren't the most economical, but.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "We're glad you're satisfied.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Of course it's it's it's looks more heo heavy, but I think when it's completely maybe it's a less weight.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah. I mean this is plasticene.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yes.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "There's only so much you can do. We could have possibly made it a lot thinner as well. But And part of the thing is m a lot of people say that they don't like something that's too light, because they don't feel like they have enough control over it.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "So I mean maybe this is excessively heavy, but I think it needs to have some weight,", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yep.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "it needs to feel like you're still holding something. So that's pretty much it for our presentation actually.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "That's your uh prototype model?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Okay, that's good, thank you very much.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "So any comments or uh.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Well, the prototype is is very well within the design and ideas that we've we've talked about on the previous meetings.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Now it goes into this next phase as the financial uh marketing uh.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yes, that uh So I'll come back to the So evaluation criteria, I think uh that will be good, so then let's come to the finance uh, I have some uh calculations which I made uh as for uh the budget. So here you can uh look like uh the energy and uh dynamo and uh kinetic and solar cells. Uh it's optional, somewhat optional and Ed wants the chip on print, that's what uh we were talking about that.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "So then we have sample sensor and sample speaker, then uh we have the wood material, then special colour and push button. So it's uh actually, our budget was uh twelve point five Euro, but uh it's coming to nine point nine five Euro, so we are under uh below the budget, okay, so still we are saving some money. I think it's a good figure..", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yes, great I I'm surprised.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Congratulations..", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Than thank you..", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Well we haven't come to mine yet, so.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Oh, okay", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": ". It's gonna cost a long way to c you know, cost a lot of money to market it, is it?", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "we're gonna have a bit of difference of opinion, yes..", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "So maybe it's for some money we can utilise for our uh marketing, for the sales, okay, and uh.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Well, it just depends on if we're gonna add a o on this pr provisionary cost analysis, we do not have a L_C_ display. L_C_ display is gonna be very expensive,", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "No we do, but it's not filled in.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "it's gonna be.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "It's not.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Thirty.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "It's not it doesn't say.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "It's number thirty.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah. Yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "We don't have the price up there,", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Oh, yeah, yeah,", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah. Yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "you're right, sorry, yes.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "okay, so if we add approximately two to three Euro per remote, now we're up around about twelve, twelve and a half as to what uh the company had initially uh requested. Um.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "So that means we can put the uh the L_C_D_ in, yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Display in. But as far as production um I'm putting up a question because we're talking about profit also, and in mine you'll see uh the problem with uh our survey, the p the possibility that how many units can be sold, what percentage of the market, etcetera etcetera because that has to be taken in into consideration.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Uh this is just production cost, it is not uh advertising cost, it's not transportation cost uh.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yes, so still uh we have twelve point five Euro.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "And that will inflate quite a bit the cost of the uh the cost of the unit for the company.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yes. Yeah, but Yes. Yep.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Um-hmm.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "So to come up with what the company wants is a fifty million Pound profit, we're gonna have to go a long ways.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yes. This we are talking about one unit, okay, so when it go into the quantity, okay, and the cost will come down.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yes.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Although customisation, because this is being done, you know, the on on-order basis, it might be uh the the quantity won't m won't uh", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Slightly.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "It's gonna be very hard to reduce.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yes.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "the circuit board will b you're right, would be in producing quantity, but the cost of the case would uh be fixed at the Uh you got some pretty cheap labour that can do this case for one Euro.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "That's not bad..", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "That's really that's the cost of the material and lab wow, that's really outstanding.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yep. Yeah. But anyhow, still we are under control, okay, so what uh I will do is I will try to negotiate with the vendors, okay, to get uh the production cost less, okay, so then we can save some money, okay, to put into th our marketing or uh you know the promotions, whatever, okay, so that uh I will look after. I will speak to the management and how to get uh you know some more uh cost down.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "If we can go to to my display. And we'll come back to yours", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yes.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "just to give everybody an idea of the market. So now I'm gonna scare everybody out of this project..", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "If I'm still here.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "You're in four?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yep The four gives me it's gotta be uh TrendWatch.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "TrendWatch.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Is this the same one you did before?", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "No.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "It shouldn't be", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "That's no, I think it's the same one.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "if it's not it's not the right one. No, no we g no, that's the same one. You have to go back and find another one. Whatever name it popped up under.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Functional.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Uh functional, try functional, it might not be it either, but we'll see.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "It looks like it, there's S Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yep, that's it. So we'll go screen by screen.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Although since uh we need to have some type of idea on a market uh we had independent study that says it this this market has an availability to absorb eight mi eight million units per year. Okay? Our internal company evaluation puts it between eight to nine million which is approximately the same as the independent study.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yep..", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "So if we continue, we'll look at the findings. Next screen. Which means that uh if we have a target of two million would the company has to take twenty five percent of the market in the first year,", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "which is actually a tremendous amount.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah, no kidding..", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "No kidding, yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Mayb maybe they already expected something.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "So, if we put an inflated price of fifty Euro at a production cost that cannot exceed twenty-five Euro, okay, we're already in that that price, okay,", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yes.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "with transport, promotion, labour, because we hav gi included the promotion in the cost, transport for the material to the stores or whatever how however we're gonna break this down between our our retailers.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Um-hmm.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Twenty-five percent of the market to get to two million units. At two million units, we have to have a profit of twenty-five Euro per unit to get to the fifty million unit Eu Euro profit.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm. Yep.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Okay? So, obviously we w w I just did a run down the evaluation of the form, the fan uh the fancy stylishness of the of the unit, the ease of use, speech recognition, cost, we've gone through these. Now, the company must evaluate the feasibility of being able to take enough of the market to justify in production. Or we project this over two years, but being that the market changes very very quickly, maybe there's no more interest in buying this thing in eighteen months from now.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yes. Yep. Of course.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "So, now we have to come up with a decision.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Can the company sell two million units?", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yep.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Can it sell it for fifty Euros?", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Could could I go to findings?", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yep.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Uh uh um I would uh like to explore the possibility of using um alternative um delivery and sales channel which would be um to use the internet for promotion and ordering", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yes.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "I was thinking the same thing, yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "and then to drop-ship the p product to the customer's residence.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Directly.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "That way you have no storage, you have no um you do have transportation, still have the labour cost,", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Um-hmm.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "but you don't have the transport to the uh point of sale.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yes.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "The point of sale is online.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "To the agents.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah. You can do a shipping centre somewhere, or strategically place shipping centres to minimise distance costs.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Right, like Amazon. In fact, we should sell through Amazon,", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yes. Or eBay, or.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "don't you think? Or eBay, yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yes.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "There's an idea.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah, that's a good idea.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Going with um.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "To impro more profit and uh.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "S Upscale technology.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah, yes.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Ah, we we're do you know, selling a unique product uh..", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Well.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "That actually makes more sense if we're gonna make it so highly customisable,'cause on the web people can look at the different options they have, see maybe what other people have done, what the range of possibility as,", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "There are several companies that have gone that way.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "whereas if you're in a store, you can't unless you're a highly imaginative person, you may not really know what it is you want,", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "whereas on the web, if you have a bunch of pictures, it can sort of trigger ideas and.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm. And you can even have an a movie that you can rotate the object and look at the di the only thing that you're missing really is the weight.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah. The weight and feel.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Weight, the feel of the product, but.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "We're getting used to that. It's not quite like trying on a shoe, but people are getting used to buying things online that they can't touch before buying.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah. Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "There are several that have gone through with the watches, too. You can customise a watch, you can see how it is at the f at the end of the production,", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Uh-huh.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "you can change it uh There's a lot of online that's that is doing this now.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yes.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "And when you're rotating, you'll look behind and look this way uh it's possible to do with this, maybe there's a possibility of selling more than two million units in one year, which could you know, feasibili feasibility uh lower the price of the unit.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "We can.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Great.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "I don't think that's uh not possible, it's uh okay then, l uh let's wait for the production, okay, then uh you can evaluate the product, so how it looks like technically and uh how it look like uh the real.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "What turnaround time do we have?", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "T", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "'Cause I mean production evaluation can be very very quick or very very long.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Oh but Yes it's it's very quick, of course. It will uh come back in two weeks, okay, it will be ready in two weeks.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Works for me.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "For evaluation, okay.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Prototypes, you mean.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yes, the prototype uh prototype product evaluation.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "In um We probably should do some market tests uh once we have the prototypes and do some orders and things like that and test-market it.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yes. Yes. Yes.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Well, obviously.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm that'd have to be thrown out on the market for people to get an idea,", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "So you can take a minimum two weeks to a maximum four weeks.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "to see get get their.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm. Think minimum two weeks if we're gonna develop prototypes and then try to take them to different places and see how people use.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "it's not a trivial task.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah, because we we are not going to do it in uh our factory, okay, so we can give it a product evalua", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "No no. We definitely shouldn't do it in our factory..", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yes, yes.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "So we'll do it in the other place, and I don't think it's take more than four weeks time. Or uh Okay, so then the real production we will start once we product evaluation, okay, then uh it's approve from uh the technical team and uh your team, okay, uh from the management, then we can launch in the market. Hm?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Any outstanding?", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "S Any any other uh questions or uh comments to be discuss?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "No, I'm", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "What ab", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "go ahead.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "I think we pretty much covered everything.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Okay, so then uh.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Did you have something?", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Well I was just wondering about if we're gonna do a product evaluation then what about time for redesign if the users come back and tell us no this is bad, this is bad, we want this done differently.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Okay uh, let's take like this. Let's proceed with this model, okay, for the for the marketing direction, okay.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "So no more changes will be made, okay, in this the basic design. Okay? So we will introduce m this model and uh let's introduce in the market and let's take the feedback from the customers, then we can uh go for the", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Second generation.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "second generation.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Okay. There's no end, there's not limit.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "The problem is there might not be a second generation if the first generation flops for some silly reason that we haven't thought of.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Every every custom", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Well, then it may not be.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Okay. Well, every customer, okay, they have their own ideas, they have their own test, okay, so there's no end, there's no limit.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Like people don't like wood..", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "No, but there's a difference between releasing a product that has been minimally tested and fine-tuned to suit a general range of requirements versus releasing a product that we think will work but we don't really have anything to back it up.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "very specific.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah, so that's the reason you are here for uh the design, okay, I hope you made a good design.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yes, but I'm not everybody.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "I mean the whole point of user evaluation is to see what real people need. We have our own motivations in mind, we have our own ideas in mind, but that doesn't mean that that's what's gonna sell.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah, but uh see, we ought to take a few considerations, okay, one is the price consideration, one is future consideration, okay, like uh you can eat uh you can all eat more chi I can eat more chilli, okay, so i it's a depends on the individual taste, you know,", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "so we have we have to balance somewhere.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah, of course. I'm just trying to point out that I think that your evaluation and redesign turnaround time is too short well you have no redesign not you personally, but in the project we have no redesign time and.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yes.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Our project doesn't um", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Ed, d do you know what season of the year or time of the year is the most important for T_V_ remote control sales?", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Hmm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Would it be the Christmas season by any chance?", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "The sports time.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Sports season. Which sport season?", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Right before the Eur the World Cup. World soccer. World Cup soccer,", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Football.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "So so", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah..", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "they need those things that they have their hands g occupied and they need to be able to talk to the con remote control.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Football.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "maybe what.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "So I think what we need to do is perhaps to synchronise the final the the launch of a user-tested device with some special event.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yes. Yes.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "And and then um.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah, that's a good idea.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "so that gives us a little more time perhaps then we anticipated, because I don't know when the World Cup is, but I'm sure there's gonna be one.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Or any major sports.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Or another m major sports event. Probably not the um the football games coming up the end of January. I think that might be a little too aggressive um,", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yes.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "but, so, I'm just ig uh pointing out a uh a strategy to uh do some additional user testing", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Research.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "pri and then to launch um at a a major sports event", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yep.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "or uh perhaps to uh also.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "That's actually good place to advertise it too.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "And to work with motion pictures.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "There might be some motion pictures that are coming out um that are coming out on D_V_D_ that uh they need to have a m special remote control to work with it, so we could maybe work out a campaign with uh with Sony Pictures for example.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yes.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Maybe some management has got uh relationships there we can leverage.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yes, the that of course uh I will convince the management to do that, okay.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "That's great..", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "It's just something to to keep in mind,'cause it's really really important.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Sure, sure, yes.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "A lot of products have gone out there without being properly user-tested and completely flopped, when in fact it gets re-released a few years down the line with proper testing and it takes off like crazy.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Disposable diapers is an example of that in fact..", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Really?", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yes, it is one of the first consumer products that was launched about thirty years that was a disposable consumer product,", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "That I didn't know..", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "and uh people the market hadn't really gotten on to the concept that you could use something and then throw it away,'cause it wasn't uh.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "but then when they re-launched them thirty years later, they were virtually the same design,", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": ".", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "but people had gotten the throw-away, you know, paper cups and napki y all kinds of things that they hadn't um so, you're right, timing is very important,", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "but I think we've got a good product.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "That's the reason Ed is here.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "I think he can promote the the brand value and the product value.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "That's right. It's gonna be very important to the company..", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yes. We are behind the scene and he is the front screen, so.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yep.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "He's on the big screen.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah, I'm the one who takes the heat.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Exactly..", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Good luck, Ed.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "If it's a flop, it's the marketer..", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "You look very relaxed, considering h you know, the uh the weight on your shoulders, yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yes. Yes. Stress..", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Okay, so then uh let's come to the closing and uh are the costs within the budget", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Celebration..", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "and uh is the product evaluated, okay, so that will uh come soon. Okay for uh but our time being, so thanks for all your efforts and great work and uh great design and uh let's leave it to the Ed for later for once production is over and the meantime let's celebrate. So let's meet up uh this evening to hang up for some party.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Sounds good.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "'S good.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Thank you.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Very good.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Nice working with you.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Thank you very much.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Thank you. Thank you again for all.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Thanks", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "And see you in the evening for drinks.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Bye-bye. Yep, okay, see you later on..", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Bye.", "speakerName": "User Interface" } ] }

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Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "yeah. So presumably that might be an idea to put into.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "But but to sell it for twenty five you need a lot of neat features. For sure.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Slim.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah, yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Uh'cause I mean, what uh twenty five Euros, that's about I dunno, fifteen Pounds or so? And that's quite a lot for a remote control.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm, it's about that.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah, yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Um well my first thoughts would be most remote controls are grey or black. As you said they come with the T_V_ so it's normally just your basic grey black remote control functions,", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Uh-huh.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "so maybe we could think about colour?", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Make that might make it a bit different from the rest at least. Um, and as you say, we need to have some kind of gimmick, so um I thought maybe something like if you lose it and you can whistle,", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Okay. The the keyrings, yeah yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "you know those things? Because we always lose our remote control.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Uh yeah uh,", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Okay, that's cool.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "being as a Marketing Exper Expert I will like to say like before deciding the cost of this remote control or any other things we must see the market potential for this product like what is the competition in the market? What are the available prices of the other remote controls in the prices?", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "What speciality other remote controls are having and how complicated it is to use these remote controls as compared to other remote controls available in the market. So before deciding or before finalising this project, we must discuss all these things, like.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "and apart from this, it should be having a good look also, because people really li uh like to play with it when they are watching movies or playing with or playing with their C_D_ player, M_P_ three player like any electronic devices.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Mm. Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "They really want to have something good, having a good design in their hands,", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm. Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "so, yes,", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "'Kay.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "all this.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Uh, what do we think a.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "So, we're looking for'Kay.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "What do we think a good size would be for this?.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "We're.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "'Cause I I know as you add more buttons to the remote it sometimes gets so big and clunky", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Sorry, carry on..", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "and there's just like a hundred buttons on it,", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "or you could have a really small slim one but then you could lose it easily..", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah. Then you lose it, yeah..", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Kind of um, maybe more like a P_D_A_ kind of, just hand held, like,", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "For for uh", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "'cause.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "remember we're trying to make it for twelve Euros fifty..", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah. No, I wasn't, no sorry I wasn't thinking of the screen of like a P_D_A_", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Okay well right we'll have to um I'll.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "but", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "we're k having another meeting in half an hour so um", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "we should all look into a bit uh, oh actually, no, we'll allocate. So you do the looking around at other remote controls.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Um, if you could maybe come up with sort of shapes and suggested shades or whatever, and you could look into um basically how how it's made I_E_ like how you make it all in one, how what sort of materials are available to you whatever. And obviously, other instructions will come from the personal coach.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Which will probably just usurp what I said so.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "So you want me to look at shapes and everything you said?", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Shapes and colours and um basically how to make it attractive.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yep. Okay.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Uh.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "And you look at competition and design.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yep.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Cool..", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "So", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "we have uh.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Wait for emails?", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Uh.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Um.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Hmm.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Okay, groovy. And no doubt we'll get um.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Oh no,.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Sorry.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Sorry", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "We'll get um warnings for next meetings as well.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "it's okay. Okay, cool.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Okay. I shall I can't imagine these are worth much..", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Hmm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Okay. Fashion into electronic. Okay.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" } ] }

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B did you send us an email about this?", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Uh, not yet,", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "but if you want.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah, we we received an email about this uh d designs..", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Do you want do you want me to send you a mail?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Ah it's Okay..", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Or.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Or you can put it in the shared folder.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah, you see the email? You email. The v very no, no the first one.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "No, I didn't get it.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "It's inside.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Uh.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "This one.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "No, no.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "No.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "The third one. Oh, you didn't get anything.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "No,.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "It's strange. Mm..", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": ".", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "I got an email about the dis about the discussion. Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "You get email,..", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "I dunno from who.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah, from the account manager.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "From the account manager. You have received the same email, right?", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "I think it's for your guys to how to design it all the aspects so you need that information.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah, I think so.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah, so each of us has a role to do.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "S", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "I think assign your uh roles.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "In each.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "For each for each one.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "We already have our role.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "For each person, yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "'Kay, we can.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "So there are so we have three.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "So there are three kinds of designs, that's all.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "f yeah. We have functional design, conceptual design, and detail design.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Okay, alright..", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "So, who will be the the responsible for the functional design? Any any volunteer?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "I think our uh responsibilities will be assigned when we in our mail we received from the account manager.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah, yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Uh", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "I'm doing the interface.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "You are doing th", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "No, I'm doing the interface..", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": ".", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Are you using the you are doing the in.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah I I'm I'm Well, maybe we have okay so I industrial design. It was a little confusion about my uh.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Ah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "but it's alright.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Okay, I'll for industrial design.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Okay. And and you Norman?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm? Um working on i. User interface..", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "User.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "And And.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Uh, I'm into marketing.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "doing the marketing.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "yeah nothing much in the project.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Nothing related here to the.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Marketing in this design.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yes.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "A design is basically for industrial design and the user interface.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "You see the second mail? Yeah, it's inside. Go down. Appendix.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah, this is.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "See there's a role for everybody.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah, that's right,", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Even for the marketing.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "first. us user define.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Next.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "But look at your role, your marketing role.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "There's a trend watching.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "I don't know.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah, that's your role.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "I.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Well, I think we can have a little discussion about what has to be done", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "and what are your ideas about the.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "About the design or Maybe we'll discuss this later, no?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Well, w we want to have a new re remote control for for T_V_ distribution I guess.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "So we have to plan how how it would be developed and uh", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "how we can make it work.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yes.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "I mean working remotes we already have. This will be something different from the other remotes remote controls.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "What we we have to keep in mind the these characteristics.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah, I dunno I.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "And of course it should not be very costly.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah, that's right.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "So.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Well I I think that Norman and I would think about um the technical points and um we should discuss it in the next meeting, or", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Need to collect information..", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah..", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "About the about what?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Um. I I'm part of design, perhaps. Uh, what is most important in a in a remote control? What is the most important function aspect? Uh.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "You mean the external or.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Well, you have to make it work.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah of g of course.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "That's alright.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "That's the that's the big thing.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah, it should be easy to work with.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "We can think about an interface with uh well.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Uh. We maybe you can have a speech uh recognition interface. You just tell the television I want which channel.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "You won't.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Or or you can say for example, um I want uh to list all the programme tonight. Y you know, instead of uh remote control it's doing the some searching for you, so you don't have to look for the channel you want. Just say maybe I just want to press I wanna have a button for all the movies tonight. Or a button for all the magazines, all the information documentary tonight. And then you list a few, and I will choose from the list. So instead of pressing the channel number, I am choosing the programmes directly. Yeah, that's one way of uh making it useful.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah, yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "I I think if we include a lot of technology on the remote control it will be very costly.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "No, because no,", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "S.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "it's not very a lot. Th this information exists. For example you can get um.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Like s uh you you you say we can use speech.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "You can use uh well for example anything. The the idea of using speech to reduce the button, but uh and it's more natural. Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "I I think if you want t to choose uh from a list of programme or or something like that you you may have to to use uh w uh I dunno", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "I'm a okay.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah. Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "I mean the main uh function of remote control is to have something in the hand", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "In the hand.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "and we should be very careful about the size of the remote control.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "If we are going to add a speech interface, I'm not sure with trendy slim size of the remote control it would be able to put a speech recog", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah. Yes, possible.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "if you want to put a speech recognition system f interface for that I think the T_V_ itself could have it.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah. But.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "And I could talk to the T_V_ television itself.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Except if if you are far from the T_V_.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "I need not have an.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah..", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "I mean we have some or something, different technology but.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "This is it's.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah, yeah. But th the main idea I wanted to s I wanted to say is that um there should be a function, instead of choosing the ch T_V_ channel, there's a option you can choose, either T_V_ channels or or pr or the or the contain or the contents of the programme.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "On the content.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm, yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah, yeah it's it's a good idea it's a good idea", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "So it's more powerful. Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "but I I think that technically it would be um a little bit uh uh more tricky to to achieve this than just to.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "No. No, because you see now all the T_V_ programmes are available on the webs. They they are they are they are available in X_M_L_ format or whatever the format. We don't care. We just say that this are some content. We just want to retrieve the content and then classi sort them by the types of programmes. Some of the websites they already provide this service,", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "so we can just use the service available. Download it uh to the to this remote control.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "And then there's there are only six buttons for six categories, or sev seven. The most there are only seven buttons. So I just choose the category one and you reuse the same button, for example to to choose among the the sorted list the programme you want, so you don't have to choose among hundred channels, if you have hundred channels, you just have six buttons, seven buttons.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah we should also optimise the the number of buttons.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah, yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Well I I I I think that j just by using navigation buttons and the user interface on the screen we are able to uh navigate uh through the Well channel programme or contents or in an easy way, so.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "This is good idea.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah. Ah, yes. So. Yeah. Yeah, so you don't have to display here, just display on the T_V_ screen, right?", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah in the dis display on the T_V_ screen", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Good idea. Okay.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "and just uh with the with your remote control would just navigate through the f", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "I think I think that will be revol revolutionary.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Because all the T_V_ uh the the remote control have all numbers, lots of buttons and then you dunno what to choose in the end. Yeah. Alright..", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah, yeah. So I think for for the technical points we have to to to check how to gather the data from programme or contents and all this stuff", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "So we have five minutes to.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Ah w w we have sometimes to use the white-board.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Ah you can y you can you can use it if you so, can we", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Five minutes.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "And another interesting idea for this would be to have an light adaptation system depending upon the picture of.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Okay. Okay.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "So, I mean, if you're watching a movie and suddenly there is a dark uh some dark scene, the lights adapt themself.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "S", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "The lighting in the room changes.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah, but we are designing just remote control.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "You it.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "I mean, we have a option in the remote control. If we want to have that option, you press that button in the remote.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Oh right so.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Okay, do you want to have a conceptual remote control there, or you just want to put the function in?", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah. If if you you you can if you want you can use th the.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Please, Norman, draw uh.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Go on, draw something. Mm.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Oh, I'm afraid you forgot to put your lapel.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Where is it?", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "The lapel.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Or before the before the the design that says.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Ah, okay.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Where where is it? Here.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah, that one.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Norman.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Just plug it.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah, that's right.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Be before before writing you can uh sit and that says what we what we said", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "then after that you can you can use the. Yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Okay, alright. So so the most functional des mm the most important function is to ch choo buttons to choose the content. Right? We agree on that, right?", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Uh, uh first one is to uh buttons i or it could be anything with buttons. Uh to choose uh content s or channels.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "So we have both. The user can choose w which one they want, right?", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah, by content or by channel,", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "By content or by channel.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "it's a good idea.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Choose by contents or by channels. And then what did we say just now? Other than this.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "And uh we we have to find a way how to gather information about the contents.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Okay, so technically how the problems that how to do it is to how to get the content.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Challenge.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "I think i it's not very difficult to to browse by channel but it's a little bit tricky to browse by contents so.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Okay. Content. Okay, so these we have to work it out. So this one of the problem. And uh.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "I think that's the the things to do", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "The main thing.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "and uh to uh reflect about it", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Okay. Alright. Alright, okay.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "and uh discuss it in the next meeting.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "So we are we'll discuss it we will get some information in the next meeting, so for now we get uh the funct this is the functional designer? That's the first aspect. Right. We will get information and then we'll come back in..", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Okay. Thank you everybody..", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Okay..", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah, we'll come.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "So maybe we'll meet in maybe five minutes? And we'll discuss the other other aspects.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Alright. Alright, okay.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Okay..", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Okay. Well thank you all..", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Thank you, mis.", "speakerName": "User Interface" } ] }

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I would be confused with this thing.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "S", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm..", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "How is everyone?", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Hi.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Hi.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "So we are here for the detailed design meeting.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "So.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "we will uh I will first present what we are going to do in this meeting. Then uh I've I will also take notes during this meeting and I will send you uh a summary then as usual. We will then look at the evaluation criteria of the prototype presented by uh our two colleagues that make good work.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "And uh then we will see the financial aspects and the cost of the product. Then we will uh evaluate the product. And uh end with the conclusion of this project and see whether it fits with it fulf if it fulfil the requirement or not. So", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "d let's start with the cost aspect so so I look at the aspect discussed last time, that is to say uh to have a standard battery, to have a yellow banana shaped uh case with uh a rubber material around it", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "to be uh to feel spongy,", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Like a banana.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "and uh also at the different aspect like having a wheel etcetera.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "And the cost ended to be ten point seven Euros. So which is uh good, because we had a price gap of twelve point five Euros.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "So for the financial aspect it's okay, we can uh we can continue with this product uh as if,", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "and we are now going to see the project evaluation with uh our marketing expert.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah. Okay. So uh you can have my project in.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah. You have a presentation?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Uh yeah just a.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Participant four, yes.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Four. Evaluation.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Okay. Okay.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Okay. So you can go. We can go through.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "So I made an evaluation and the the evaluation criteria is made according to the users' requirements and the market trends we talked about uh during the previous uh meetings. So you can go through and.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "okay so uh we have uh six points. We we talked about before.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "So we we want to have a product fancy look and feel, technologically innovative, easy to use, fashion, easy to find in a room, and robust,", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "uh and uh uh I have a scale of uh seven points.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Okay. So I go through all the uh all the points here,", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "and uh according to what you think about the this project you can uh mm make a one point, two point or seven point. Okay?", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "And after we ha we have an an average, and uh we see.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "The okay? Uh so uh fancy look and feel, what do you think?", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Okay. Maybe you can presen.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "F between o one and seven.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "okay. Maybe hold it.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "So I think it's uh very uh very nice. What do you think?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "I give it a I give it a five.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah. So it's between one and seven? Seven is the highest uh?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah. Seven is the.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "I will give a six.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "I will give a a five.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "And you?", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "sorry.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Do you vote uh Christine?", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "eh?", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Do you also vote?", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "No, I just want to see something.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Maybe we all have to agree on a common.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Well, we can very easily.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Uh I think uh and need to as well.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "No problem. So", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Need to.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "this is your.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "uh I don't know if you we ha we have to put uh one uh f If it's better or.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "One is most.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "I.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Uh-uh.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Well, we can choose what we want.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Um. Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Okay, let's say that seven is the best.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Or maybe we can say s seven is the best mm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Okay. So so do note the grade we have five, six for me,", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Five.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "five. And what what's your choice?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Oh sorry..", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "How much would you give on the fancy aspect, on the fashionable aspect?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Six Uh s you can how much what?", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "How much would you you don't answer to this uh questionnaire?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Oh yes I mm I dunno mm, I think six, it's a good uh.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "So it will have five point five average.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Five point five average.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Wa can..", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Well, does it.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "I sorry.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Okay. So after, the technological aspect?", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Okay, techne technological aspect.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "So we we said uh we have uh a new technological uh thing with a wheel.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah, we have the wheel. We also have the rubber material,", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Uh.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "which make it uh like new also. I think I would give a five.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "It's four.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Four?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "A four also, because, except for the wheel, we don't have so much innovation.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "The rubber is.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Uh a four. I I.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "D are we including the voice are you glu are we including the voice in the end or not? Huh?", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "No.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "No. Okay.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "So", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "No.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "what's your uh grade?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Four.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Four? So we have four, four f and five?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "We can put four?", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah, four. Four, yeah, let's put four.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "For twenty five.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Everyone is okay or four poin Four.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Doesn't it.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Very easy to use. Do you think it's easy to use?", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah, I think so. Yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "I give a seven, I think.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Six.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "I would give a I would give a seven as well. It's very easy to use.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Six.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Mm, six for me also.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "So", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "'Kay.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Six point five..", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "six point five.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Six six six point five.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Okay. Is it fashion?.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Oh yeah,", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "its its f its fruit fruit shape.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Seven?.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "I would say seven. And is very very nice design.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah it's fashion, because it's a fruit,", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah, we can we can put a seven here.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "and we say that the.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah, seven.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "yeah, seven.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah. Seven, okay.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah. Well, we hope.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Easy to find.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Uh easy to find in a room?.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "I lost my banana..", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "I think you can't miss it.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah?", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Uh.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah, I think it's cool. I think we can put a six here.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "We have the lightning, or.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah, we have the.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "The lighting.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "we don't sesh especially have the lightning", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "So you'll make the material transparent", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "but.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "so that it uh lights up completely, or.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "So it's yellow. It's okay.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah..", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "I think it's very easy to.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Seven?", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "I would say seven. It's hard to miss it.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Six. Yeah, okay.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Is it is it robust?", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah, it's rubber, made of rubber,", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Uh f yeah, it's ru it's rubber.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "I think it's m it's uh more rubber than uh other remote control.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah..", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah the only problem there might be which know, i if it's very sensitive,", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "they will,", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "I don't know.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "But it is uh it is surrounded by rubber material.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah, okay.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "So maybe we can put a six.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Everybody is okay, six.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Six or five. Five.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Six is okay?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Six, yeah, for me.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Six.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah. Okay.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "S now um so.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Tadada. We have to sum up everything.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Twenty.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Thirteen uh, twenty, twenty six point five, uh seven, thirty two, thirty six.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Thirty. Thir", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "That's that's okay? Six.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Six is a good.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Good. Uh if we say that seven it's uh it's the better,", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah, the be.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah, the top.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "and when uh s six sit six are good it's a good uh p product, I think.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Okay, so six is a.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm. So will become eight soon?", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "So it's a good evaluation, I think. It's very promising.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah, well it's a bit biased..", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Huh.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "We have a good price and uh.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "So this prototype is quite nice..", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Good.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Because I saw uh some phones that were banana shaped, uh wireless phones not mobile ones, wireless for the house,", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah. Okay.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "uh quite big also,", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "and they were selling something like a hundred Euros, two hundred Euros.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Just a just a phone, wireless.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "So having this at twenty five Euros is uh quite attractive, I think.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "I think the.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "But almo also the complexity between a phone and a remote control is not cannot compare.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah. Yeah,", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "it's much more complex, but.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "So, I think, we can summarise. So we have seen the prototype. It's very nice according to the work of our two designer.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "The the the financial aspect were okay. We we have the cost below uh our threshold and so we could sell at twenty five Euros and make i make profit. The the evaluation give satisfying result as well. So I think we can move to the last part of the meeting.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "So the cost is in the budget, the evaluation is okay, so I th I think we can now uh open champagne and make a huge party.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Start to eat banana..", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "I don't know if it's provided by uh by the meeting staff.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Okay so congratulation. Nice product.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Congratulations to the team. Uh very well, we worked together fantastically.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "I think it was a good collaboration uh. Aspect.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "So what does the management say?", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Sorry?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "What does the management say?", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "I think we will have um much bigger project next time and a much bigger salary as well.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Ah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "All it depends on who watch this meeting.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah..", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "We don't know..", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Okay, so", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "good guys,", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "so see you for next uh successful project..", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Okay. Yeah. Fruits.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Mm'kay.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "User Interface" } ] }

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{ "meetingId": "Bro021", "transcriptSegments": [ { "text": "OK.", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "Uh. Somebody else should run this. I'm sick of being the one to sort of go through and say, \" Well, what do you think about this? \" You wanna?", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Should we take turns? You want me to run it today?", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "Yeah. Why don't you run it today? OK.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "OK. OK. Um. Let's see, maybe we should just get a list of items things that we should talk about. Um, I guess there's the usual updates, everybody going around and saying, uh, you know, what they're working on, the things that happened the last week. But aside from that is there anything in particular that anybody wants to bring up", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "Mmm.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "for today? No? OK. So why don't we just around and people can give updates.", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "Oh.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Uh, do you want to start, Stephane?", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "Alright. Um. Well, the first thing maybe is that the p Eurospeech paper is, uh, accepted. Um. Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "This is what what do you, uh what's in the paper there?", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "So it's the paper that describe basically the, um, system that were proposed for the Aurora.", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "The one that we s we submitted the last round?", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "Right, yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Uh - huh.", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "Um Yeah. So and the, fff comments seems from the reviewer are good. So.", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "Hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "Mmm Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "Where where's it gonna be this year?", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "It's, uh, Aalborg in Denmark. And it's,", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "Oh, OK.", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "yeah, September.", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "Mmm.", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "Mmm Yeah. Then, uh, whhh well, I've been working on on t mainly on on - line normalization this week. Uh, I've been trying different slightly slightly different approaches. Um, the first thing is trying to play a little bit again with the, um, time constant. Uh, second thing is, uh, the training of, uh, on - line normalization with two different means, one mean for the silence and one for the speech. Um, and so I have two recursions which are controlled by the, um, probability of the voice activity detector. Mmm. This actually don't s doesn't seem to help, although it doesn't hurt. So. But well, both on - line normalization approach seems equivalent. Well, they.", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "Are the means pretty different for the two?", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "Yeah. They can be very different. Yeah. Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "Hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "So do you maybe make errors in different places? Different kinds of errors?", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "I didn't look, uh, more closely. Um. It might be, yeah. Mm - hmm. Um. Well, eh, there is one thing that we can observe, is that the mean are more different for for C - zero and C - one than for the other coefficients. And Yeah. And Yeah, it the C - one is There are strange strange thing happening with C - one, is that when you have different kind of noises, the mean for the the silence portion is can be different. And.", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "Hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "So when you look at the trajectory of C - one, it's has a strange shape and I was expecting th the s that these two mean helps, especially because of the the strange C - ze C - one shape, uh, which can like, yo you can have, um, a trajectory for the speech and then when you are in the silence it goes somewhere, but if the noise is different it goes somewhere else.", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "Oh.", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "So which would mean that if we estimate the mean based on all the signal, even though we have frame dropping, but we don't frame ev uh, drop everything, but uh, this can hurts the estimation of the mean for speech, and Mmm. But I still have to investigate further, I think. Um, a third thing is, um, that instead of t having a fixed time constant, I try to have a time constant that's smaller at the beginning of the utterances to adapt more quickly to the r something that's closer to the right mean. T t um Yeah. And then this time constant increases and I have a threshold that.", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "well, if it's higher than a certain threshold, I keep it to this threshold to still, uh, adapt, um, the mean when if the utterance is, uh, long enough to to continue to adapt after, like, one second", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm. Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "or Mmm. Uh, well, this doesn't help neither, but this doesn't hurt. So, well. It seems pretty.", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "Wasn't there some experiment you were gonna try where you did something differently for each, um, uh I don't know whether it was each mel band or each, uh, um, FFT bin or someth There was something you were gonna uh, some parameter you were gonna vary depending on the frequency. I don't know if that was.", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "I guess it was I don't know. No. u Maybe it's this this idea of having different on - line normalization, um, tunings for the different MFCC's.", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "For each, uh.", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "But Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "Yeah. I I thought, Morgan, you brought it up a couple meetings ago. And then it was something about, uh, some and then somebody said \" yeah, it does seem like, you know, C - zero is the one that's, you know, the major one \" or, uh, s I can't remember exactly what it was now.", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "Mmm. Yeah. There uh, actually, yeah. S um, it's very important to normalize C - zero and much less to normalize the other coefficients. And, um, actu uh, well, at least with the current on - line normalization scheme. And we I think, we kind of know that normalizing C - one doesn't help with the current scheme. And and Yeah. In my idea, I I was thinking that the the the reason is maybe because of these funny things that happen between speech and silence which have different means. Um Yeah. But maybe it's not so so easy to.", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "Um, I I really would like to suggest looking, um, a little bit at the kinds of errors. I know you can get lost in that and go forever and not see too much, but sometimes,", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "but but, um, just seeing that each of these things didn't make things better may not be enough. It may be that they're making them better in some ways and worse in others,", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Yeah. Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "or increasing insertions and decreasing deletions, or or, um, um, you know, helping with noisy case but hurting in quiet case. And if you saw that then maybe you it would something would occur to you of how to deal with that.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm. Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "Hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Alright. Mmm. Yeah. W um, So that's it, I think, for the on - line normalization. Um Yeah. I've been playing a little bit with some kind of thresholding, and, mmm, as a first experiment, I think I Yeah. Well, what I did is t is to take, um to measure the average no, the maximum energy of s each utterance and then put a threshold Well, this for each mel band. Then put a threshold that's fifteen DB below well, uh, a couple of DB below this maximum,", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm. Mmm.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "and Actually it was not a threshold, it was just adding noise.", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "So I was adding a white noise energy, uh, that's fifteen DB below the maximum energy of the utterance. And Yeah. When we look at at the, um, MFCC that result from this, they are a lot more smoother. Um, when we compare, like, a channel zero and channel one utterance um, so a clean and, uh, the same noisy utterance well, there is almost no difference between the cepstral coefficients of the two.", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "Hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "Um. And Yeah. And the result that we have in term of speech recognition, actually it's not it's not worse, it's not better neither, but it's, um, kind of surprising that it's not worse", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "Hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "because basically you add noise that's fifteen DB just fifteen DB below the maximum energy.", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "Sorry.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "And at least.", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "So why does that m smooth things out? I don't I don't understand that.", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "Well, there's less difference. Right?", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "It's I think, it's whitening This the portion that are more silent,", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "Cuz it's.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "as you add a white noise that are has a very high energy, it whitens everything", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "Huh. Oh, OK.", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "and and the high - energy portion of the speech don't get much affected anyway by the other noise. And as the noise you add is the same is the shape, it's also the same.", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "Hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "So they have the trajectory are very, very similar. And and.", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "So, I mean, again, if you trained in one kind of noise and tested in the same kind of noise, you'd you know, given enough training data you don't do b do badly. The reason that we d that we have the problems we have is because it's different in training and test. Even if the general kind is the same, the exact instances are different. And and", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "so when you whiten it, then it's like you the the only noise to to first order, the only th noise that you have is white noise and you've added the same thing to training and test.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "So it's,", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "uh.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "So would that be similar to, like, doing the smoothing, then, over time or?", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "Well, it's a kind of smoothing,", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "I think it's I think it's different.", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "but.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "It's it's something that yeah, that affects more or less the silence portions because.", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "Well, anyway, the sp the portion of speech that ha have high energy are not ch a lot affected by the noises in the Aurora database.", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "If if you compare th the two shut channels of SpeechDat - Car during speech portion, it's n n n the MFCC are not very different. They are very different when energy's lower, like during fricatives or during speech pauses. And,", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "Yeah, but you're still getting more recognition errors,", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "uh.", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "which means that the differences, even though they look like they're not so big, are are hurting your recognition.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Ye", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "Right?", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Yeah. So it distort the speech. Right.", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Um.", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "So performance went down?", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "No. It didn't. But.", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "Oh.", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "Yeah. So, but in this case I I really expect that maybe the the two these two stream of features, they are very different. I mean, and maybe we could gain something by combining them", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "Well, the other thing is that you just picked one particular way of doing it.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "or.", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "Uh, I mean, first place it's fifteen DB, uh, down across the utterance. And maybe you'd want to have something that was a little more adaptive. Secondly, you happened to pick fifteen DB", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Mmm.", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "and maybe twenty'd be better,", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "or or twelve.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Yeah. Right.", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "So what was the what was the threshold part of it? Was the threshold, uh, how far down?", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "Yeah. Well, he yeah, he had to figure out how much to add. So he was looking he was looking at the peak value.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Uh - huh.", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "Right? And then.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Uh - huh.", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "And and so what's ho I don't understand. How does it go? If it if if the peak value's above some threshold, then you add the noise? Or if it's below s", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "I systematically add the noise, but the, um, noise level is just some kind of threshold below the peak.", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "Oh, oh. I see.", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "Mmm.", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "I see.", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Um. Yeah. Which is not really noise, actually. It's just adding a constant to each of the mel, uh, energy.", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "To each of the mel filter bank. Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "I see.", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "So, yeah, it's really, uh, white noise. I th", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "So then afterwards a log is taken, and that's so sort of why the the little variation tends to go away.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm. Um. Yeah. So may Well, the this threshold is still a factor that we have to look at. And I don't know, maybe a constant noise addition would would be fine also, or Um.", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "Or or not constant but but, uh, varying over time in fact is another way to go.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm. Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "Um.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Yeah. Um.", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "Were you using the the normalization in addition to this? I mean, what was the rest of the system?", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Um Yeah. It was it was, uh, the same system. Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "OK.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "It was the same system. Mmm. Oh, yeah. A third thing is that, um, I play a little bit with the, um finding what was different between, um, And there were a couple of differences, like the LDA filters were not the same. Um, he had the France Telecom blind equalization in the system. Um, the number o of MFCC that was were used was different. You used thirteen and we used fifteen. Well, a bunch of differences. And, um, actually the result that he he got were much better on TI - digits especially. So I'm kind of investigated to see what was the main factor for this difference. And it seems that the LDA filter is is was hurting. Um, so when we put s some noise compensation the, um, LDA filter that that's derived from noisy speech is not more anymore optimal. And it makes a big difference, um, on TI - digits trained on clean. Uh, if we use the the old LDA filter, I mean the LDA filter that was in the proposal, we have, like, eighty - two point seven percent recognition rate, um, on noisy speech when the system is trained on clean speech. But and when we use the filter that's derived from clean speech we jumped so from eighty - two point seven to eighty - five point one, which is a huge leap.", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Um. Yeah. So now the results are more similar, and I don't I will not, I think, investigate on the other differences, which is like the number of MFCC that we keep and other small things that we can I think optimize later on anyway.", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "Sure. But on the other hand if everybody is trying different kinds of noise suppression things and so forth, it might be good to standardize on the piece that we're not changing. Right? So if there's any particular reason to ha pick one or the other, I mean Which which one is closer to what the proposal was that was submitted to Aurora? Are they they both? Well, I mean.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "I think Yeah. I think th th uh, the new system that I tested is, I guess, closer because it doesn't have it have less of of France Telecom stuff,", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "You mean the.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "I.", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "The whatever you, uh, tested with recently. Right?", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Mmm? Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "Yeah?", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Well, no, I I'm I Yeah, you're trying to add in France Telecom.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "But, we.", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "Tell them about the rest of it. Like you said the number of filters might be different or something. Right? Or.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "The number of cepstral coefficients is what?", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Cep", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "Yeah. So, I mean, I think we'd wanna standardize there, wouldn't we?", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Yeah, yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "So, sh you guys should pick something", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "and Well, all th all three of you.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "I think we were gonna work with with this or this new system, or with.", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "Uh, so the the right now, the the system that is there in the what we have in the repositories, with uses fifteen.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "So Right. Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "Yeah, so Yeah, so Yep.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "But we will use the the LDA filters f derived from clean speech. Well, yeah, actually it's it's not the the LDA filter.", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "Yeah, yeah. So.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "It's something that's also short enough in in latency.", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "Yeah. Well.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "So.", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "Yeah. So, we haven't w we have been always using, uh, fifteen coefficients,", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "not thirteen?", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "Yeah. Well, uh, that's something's Um. Yeah. Then.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "I think as long as you guys agree on it, it doesn't matter.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "mmm.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "I think we have a maximum of sixty, uh, features that we're allowed. So.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "Yeah. Ma - maybe we can I mean, at least, um, I'll t s run some experiments to see whether once I have this noise compensation to see whether thirteen and fifteen really matters or not.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm. Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "Never tested it with the compensation, but without, uh, compensation it was like fifteen was s slightly better than thirteen,", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "so that's why we stuck to thirteen.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Yeah. And there is there is also this log energy versus C - zero.", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "Sorry, fifteen. Yeah, the log energy versus C - zero.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Well. W w if if.", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "Uh, that's that's the other thing. I mean, without noise compensation certainly C - zero is better than log energy. Be - I mean, because the there are more, uh, mismatched conditions than the matching conditions for testing.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "You know, always for the matched condition, you always get a slightly better performance for log energy than C - zero.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "But not for I mean, for matched and the clean condition both, you get log energy I mean you get a better performance with log energy.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "Well, um, maybe once we have this noise compensation, I don't know, we have to try that also, whether we want to go for C - zero or log energy.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "We can see that.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "Hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Mmm.", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "So do you have more, Stephane, or?", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "Uh, that's it, I think. Mmm.", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "Do you have anything, Morgan, or?", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "Uh, no. I'm just, you know, being a manager this week. So.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "How about you, Barry?", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "Um, still working on my my quals preparation stuff. Um, so I'm I'm thinking about, um, starting some, uh, cheating experiments to, uh, determine the, um the relative effectiveness of, um, some intermediate categories that I want to classify. So, for example, um, if I know where voicing occurs and everything, um, I would do a phone um, phone recognition experiment, um, somehow putting in the the, uh the perfect knowledge that I have about voicing. So, um, in particular I was thinking, um, in in the hybrid framework, just taking those LNA files, and, um, setting to zero those probabilities that, um that these phones are not voicing. So say, like, I know this particular segment is voicing, um, I would say, uh, go into the corresponding LNA file and zonk out the the posteriors for, um, those phonemes that, um, are not voiced,", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm. Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "and then see what kinds of improvements I get. And so this would be a useful thing, um, to know in terms of, like, which which, um which of these categories are are good for, um, speech recognition.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "Hmm. Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "So, that's I hope to get those, uh those experiments done by by the time quals come come around in July.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "So do you just take the probabilities of the other ones and spread them out evenly among the the remaining ones?", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "Yeah. I I I was thinking OK, so just set to set to some really low number, the the non - voiced, um, phones.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "Right? And then renormalize.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "Mmm.", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "Right. Yeah.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Cool. That will be really interesting to see, you know. So then you're gonna feed the those into some standard recognizer.", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "Uh, wh are you gonna do digits", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "Yeah, m Um, well, I'm gonna f work with TIMIT.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "or? With TIMIT. OK.", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "TIMIT uh, phone recognition with TIMIT.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "And, um.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "Oh, so then you'll feed those Sorry. So where do the outputs of the net go into if you're doing phone recognition?", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "Oh. Um, the outputs of the net go into the standard, h um, ICSI hybrid, um, recognizer. So maybe, um, Chronos", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "An - and you're gonna the you're gonna do phone recognition with that?", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "or Phone recognition. Right, right.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "OK, OK. I see.", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "So. And, uh, another thing would be to extend this to, uh, digits or something where I can look at whole words.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "And I would be able to see, uh, not just, like, phoneme events, but, um, inter - phoneme events. So, like, this is from a stop to to a vo a vocalic", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "segment. You know, so something that is transitional in nature.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "Cool. Great.", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "So that's that's it.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "Uh OK.", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "Um Let's see, I haven't done a whole lot on anything related to this this week. I've been focusing mainly on Meeting Recorder stuff.", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "Oh.", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "So, um, I guess I'll just pass it on to Dave.", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "Uh, OK. Well, in my lunch talk last week I I said I'd tried phase normalization and gotten garbage results using that l um, long - term mean subtraction approach. It turned out there was a bug in my Matlab code. So I tried it again, um, and, um, the results were were better. I got intelligible speech back. But they still weren't as good as just subtracting the magnitude the log magnitude means. And also I've been talking to, um, Andreas and Thilo about the, um, SmartKom language model and about coming up with a good model for, um, far mike use of the SmartKom system. So I'm gonna be working on, um, implementing this mean subtraction approach in the far - mike system for the SmartKom system, I mean. And, um, one of the experiments we're gonna do is, um, we're gonna, um, train the a Broadcast News net, which is because that's what we've been using so far, and, um, adapt it on some other data. Um, An - Andreas wants to use, um, data that resembles read speech, like these digit readings, because he feels that the SmartKom system interaction is not gonna be exactly conversational.", "speakerName": "Grad G" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "S so actually I was wondering, how long does it take to train that Broadcast News net?", "speakerName": "Grad G" }, { "text": "The big one takes a while. Yeah. That takes two, three weeks.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Two, three weeks.", "speakerName": "Grad G" }, { "text": "So but, you know, uh, you can get I don't know if you even want to run the big one, uh, um, in the in the final system, cuz, you know, it takes a little while to run it. So, um, you can scale it down by I'm sorry, it was two, three weeks for training up for the large Broadcast News test set training set. I don't know how much you'd be training on.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Oh.", "speakerName": "Grad G" }, { "text": "The full?", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "OK.", "speakerName": "Grad G" }, { "text": "Uh, i so if you trained on half as much and made the net, uh, uh, half as big, then it would be one fourth the amount of time", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "OK.", "speakerName": "Grad G" }, { "text": "and it'd be nearly as good. So.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "OK.", "speakerName": "Grad G" }, { "text": "Yeah. Also, I guess we had we've had these, uh, little di discussions I guess you ha haven't had a chance to work with it too much about about, uh uh, uh m other ways of taking care of the phase. So, I mean, I I guess that was something I could say would be that we've talked a little bit about", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Grad G" }, { "text": "you just doing it all with complex arithmetic and, uh and not not, uh, doing the polar representation with magnitude and phase. But it looks like there's ways that one could potentially just work with the complex numbers and and and in principle get rid of the effects of the average complex spectrum. But.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "And, um, actually, regarding the phase normalization So I did two experiments, and one is So, phases get added, modulo two pi, and because you only know the phase of the complex number t t to a value modulo two pi. And so I thought at first, um, that, uh, what I should do is unwrap the phase because that will undo that. Um, but I actually got worse results doing that unwrapping using the simple phase unwrapper that's in Matlab than I did not unwrapping at all.", "speakerName": "Grad G" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "Yeah. P So.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "And that's all I have to say.", "speakerName": "Grad G" }, { "text": "Hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "Yeah. So I'm I'm still hopeful that that I mean, we we don't even know if the phase is something the average phase is something that we do want to remove. I mean, maybe there's some deeper reason why it isn't the right thing to do. But, um, at least in principle it looks like there's there's, uh, a couple potential ways to do it. One one being to just work with the complex numbers, um, and, uh in rectangular kind of coordinates. And the other is to, uh, do a Taylor series Well. So you work with the complex numbers and then when you get the spectrum the average complex spectrum um, actually divide it out, um, as opposed to taking the log and subtracting. So then, um, um, you know, there might be some numerical issues. We don't really know that. The other thing we talked a little bit about was Taylor series expansion. And, um, uh, actually I was talking to Dick Karp about it a little bit, and and and, since I got thinking about it, and and, uh, so one thing is that y you'd have to do, I think, uh we may have to do this on a whiteboard, but I think you have to be a little careful about scaling the numbers that you're taking the complex numbers that you're taking the log of because the Taylor expansion for it has, you know, a square and a cube, and and so forth. And and so if if you have a a number that is modulus, you know, uh, very different from one It should be right around one, if it's cuz it's a expansion of log one one minus epsilon or o is is one plus epsilon, or is it one plus? Well, there's an epsilon squared over two and an epsilon cubed over three,", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "OK.", "speakerName": "Grad G" }, { "text": "and so forth. So if epsilon is bigger than one, then it diverges.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Oh.", "speakerName": "Grad G" }, { "text": "So you have to do some scaling. But that's not a big deal cuz it's the log of of K times a complex number, then you can just that's the same as log of K plus log of the complex number.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Oh.", "speakerName": "Grad G" }, { "text": "Uh, so there's.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "OK.", "speakerName": "Grad G" }, { "text": "converges. But.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Hmm. OK. How about you, Sunil?", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "So, um, I've been, uh, implementing this, uh, Wiener filtering for this Aurora task. And, uh, I I actually thought it was it was doing fine when I tested it once. I it's, like, using a small section of the code. And then I ran the whole recognition experiment with Italian and I got, like, worse results than not using it. Then I So, I've been trying to find where the problem came from. And then it looks like I have some problem in the way there is some some very silly bug somewhere. And, ugh! I I mean, i uh, it actually i it actually made the whole thing worse. I was looking at the spectrograms that I got and it's, like w it's it's very horrible. Like, when I.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "I I missed the v I'm sorry, I was I was distracted. I missed the very first sentence. So then, I'm a little lost on the rest.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Oh, I mean.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "What what what?", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Oh, yeah. I actually implemented the Wiener f f fil filtering as a module and then tested it out separately.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Yeah, I see. Oh, OK.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "And it it it gave, like I just got the signal out and it it was OK. So, I plugged it in somewhere and then I mean, it's like I had to remove some part and then plugging it in somewhere. And then I in that process I messed it up somewhere.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "OK.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "So. So, it was real I mean, I thought it was all fine and then I ran it, and I got something worse than not using it. So, I was like I'm trying to find where the m m problem came,", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Uh - huh.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "and it seems to be, like, somewhere.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "OK.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "some silly stuff. And, um, the other thing, uh, was, uh, uh Well, Hynek showed up one suddenly on one day and then I was t talking wi", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Right. Yeah. As as he is wont to do. Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Uh, yeah. So I was actually that day I was thinking about d doing something about the Wiener filtering, and then Carlos matter of stuff. And then he showed up and then I told him. And then he gave me a whole bunch of filters what Carlos used for his, uh, uh, thesis and then that was something which came up. And then, um So, uh, I'm actually, uh, thinking of using that also in this, uh, W Wiener filtering because that is a m modified Wiener filtering approach, where instead of using the current frame, it uses adjacent frames also in designing the Wiener filter. So instead of designing our own new Wiener filters, I may just use one of those Carlos filters in in this implementation", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "and see whether it it actually gives me something better than using just the current f current frame, which is in a way, uh, something like the smoothing the Wiener filter.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "but @ @ S so, I don't know, I was h I'm I'm I'm, like that so that is the next thing. Once this I once I sort this pro uh, problem out maybe I'll just go into that also. And the the other thing was about the subspace approach. So, um, I, like, plugged some groupings for computing this eigen uh, uh, uh, s values and eigenvectors. So just I just @ @ some small block of things which I needed to put together for the subspace approach. And I'm in the process of, like, building up that stuff. And, um, uh Yeah. I guess Yep. I guess that's it. And, uh, th th that's where I am right now. So.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Oh. How about you, Carmen?", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "Mmm. I'm working with VTS. Um, I do several experiment with the Spanish database first, only with VTS and nothing more. Not VAD, no LDA, nothing more.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "What what is VTS again?", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "New.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Eh, Vectorial Taylor Series.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Oh, yes.", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "To remove the noise too.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Right, right. I think I ask you that every single meeting, don't I?", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "What?", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "I ask you that question every meeting.", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "So, that'd be good from for analysis.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "If Well.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "It's good to have some, uh, cases of the same utterance at different different times.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "\" What is VTS? \"", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "VTS. I'm sor Well, um, the question is that Well. Remove some noise but not too much. And when we put the m m the, em, VAD, the result is better. And we put everything, the result is better, but it's not better than the result that we have without VTS. No, no.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "I see. So that @ @ given that you're using the VAD also, the effect of the VTS is not so far.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Is not.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Do you How much of that do you think is due to just the particular implementation and how much you're adjusting it? Or how much do you think is intrinsic to?", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Pfft. I don't know because.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Are you still using only the ten first frame for noise estimation", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "Hhh,", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "or? Or i?", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "Uh, I do the experiment using only the f onl eh, to use on only one fair estimation of the noise.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Yeah. Hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "And also I did some experiment, uh, doing, um, a lying estimation of the noise. And, well, it's a little bit better but not n", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Maybe you have to standardize this thing also, noise estimation, because all the thing that you are testing use a different They all need some some noise noise spectra", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "Mmm.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Mmm. No, I do that two t did two time.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "but they use every all use a different one.", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "I have an idea. If if, uh, uh, y you're right. I mean, each of these require this. Um, given that we're going to have for this test at least of uh, boundaries, what if initially we start off by using known sections of nonspeech for the estimation?", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Right? S so, e um,", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Yeah. Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "first place, I mean even if ultimately we wouldn't be given the boundaries, uh, this would be a good initial experiment to separate out the effects of things. I mean, how much is the poor you know, relatively, uh, unhelpful result that you're getting in this or this or this is due to some inherent limitation to the method for these tasks and how much of it is just due to the fact that you're not accurately finding enough regions that that are really n noise?", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Mmm.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "Um. So maybe if you tested it using that, you'd have more reliable stretches of nonspeech to do the estimation from and see if that helps.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Yeah. Another thing is the, em the codebook, the initial codebook. That maybe, well, it's too clean and.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Cuz it's a I don't know. The methods If you want, you c I can say something about the method.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Yeah. In the Because it's a little bit different of the other method. Well, we have If this if this is the noise signal, uh, in the log domain, we have something like this. Now, we have something like this. And the idea of these methods is to n given a, um.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "How do you say? I will read because it's better for my English. I i given is the estimate of the PDF of the noise signal when we have a, um, a statistic of the clean speech and an statistic of the noisy speech. And the clean speech the statistic of the clean speech is from a codebook. Mmm? This is the idea. Well, like, this relation is not linear. The methods propose to develop this in a vectorial Taylor series approximation.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "I I'm actually just confused about the equations you have up there. So, uh, the top equation is is is.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "No, this in the it's this is the log domain. I I must to say that.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Which is which is the log domain?", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Is the T is egual is equal to, uh, log of.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "And but Y is what? Y of the spectrum", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Uh, this this is this", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "or?", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "and this is this.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "No, no. The top Y is what?", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Is that power spectrum?", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Uh, this is the noisy speech.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "p s this.", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "No, is that power spectrum? Is it?", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Yeah. I guess it's the power spectrum of noisy speech.", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "Yeah. It's the power spectrum.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Oh, OK.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Yeah. And.", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "So that's uh.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "This is the noisy Yeah, it's.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "OK.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "of the value.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Yeah, OK. So this it's the magnitude squared or something.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "OK, so you have power spectrum added there and down here you have you you put the depends on T, but b all of this is just you just mean.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "w o Yeah. It's the same.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "you just mean the log of the of the one up above.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "And, uh, so that is X times,", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "uh,", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "One one plus N by X.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Yeah, maybe.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "o", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "But, n Well, y we can expre we can put this expression.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "X times one plus, uh, N uh, N N N minus X?", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "The Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "And then, uh So that's log of X plus log of one plus, uh.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "And the noise signal.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Well. Is that right? Log of.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "One plus N by X.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Well, mmm.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "I actually don't see how you get that. Uh.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Well, if we apply the log, we have E is n", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Mmm.", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "Uh, and.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "uh, log E is equal, oh, to log of X plus N.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "And, well,", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "And, log of.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "uh, we can say that E is equal to log of, um, exponential of X plus exponential of N.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Uh.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "No.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "No.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "That doesn't follow.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Well, if E restricts It is y", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Well, this is this is in the ti the time domain. Well, we have that, um We have first that, for example, X is equal, uh Well. This is the frequency domain", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "and we can put u that n the log domain log of X omega, but, well, in the time domain we have an exponential. No? No? Oh, maybe it's I am I'm problem.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Yeah. I mean, just never mind what they are. Uh, it's just if X and N are variables Right?", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "What is, uh?", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "The the the log of X plus N is not the same as the log of E to the X plus E to the N.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Yeah. But this i Well, I don't Well, uh,", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Maybe we can take it off - line,", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "maybe.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "but I I don't know.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "I I can do this incorrectly. Well, the expression that appear in the in the paper, is, uh.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "The log the Taylor series expansion for log one plus N by X is.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "OK.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Is it the first - order expansion?", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "is X.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "I i", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Yeah, the first one.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Yeah, I guess.", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "OK. Yeah. Cuz it doesn't just follow what's there.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Uh - huh.", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "It has to be some, uh, Taylor series.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Y yeah. If if you take log X into log one plus N by X, and then expand the log one plus N by X into Taylor series.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "Now, this is the and then.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Yeah, but the the second expression that you put is the first - order expansion of the nonlinear relation between.", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "Not exactly.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "No.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "No, no, no. It's not the first space. Well, we have pfft, uh, em Well, we can put that X is equal I is equal to log of, uh, mmm.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "That doesn't follow.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Mmm.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Well, we can put, uh, this?", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "No.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "That I mean, that the f top one does not imply the second one. Because cuz the log of a sum is not the same as th", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "The top?", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "I mean, as.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "But we can uh, we we know that, for example, the log of E plus B is equal to log of E plus log to B.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "And we can say here, it i", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Right. So you could s", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "What is that?", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "And we can, uh, put this inside.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "And then we can, uh,", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "N no,", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "you know.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "but.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "I don't see how you get the second expression from the top one.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Uh.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "The I mean, just more generally here, if you say \" log of, um, A plus B \", the log of log of A plus B is not or A plus B is not the, um, log of E to the A plus E to the B.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "No, no, no, no, no, no, no. This not.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Right? And that's what you seem to be saying.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "No. No. It's not. But this is the same oh.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Right? Cuz you cuz you up here you have the A plus B.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "No. I say if I apply log, I have, uh, log of E is equal to log of, uh in this side, is equal to log of X", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Plus N.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "plus N.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "No?", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "And then how do you go from there to the?", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "This is right. And then if I apply exponential, to have here E.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Look. OK, so let's I mean, C equals A plus B,", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "It's log o of capital Y. Yeah, right.", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "and then.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Capital Y.", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "X. X. This is X, inside.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "We have this, no?", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Yeah. That one's right.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "One and.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "S uh, i th we can put here the set transformation.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Oh. I see.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "No?", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "I see. OK, I understand now. Alright, thanks.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Yeah. In this case, well, we can put here a Y.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "OK. So, yeah. It's just by definition that the individual that the, uh So, capital X is by definition the same as E to the little X because she's saying that the little X is is the, uh is the log. Alright.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Now we can put this.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "No?", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Alright.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "And here we can multiply by X.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "I think these things are a lot clearer when you can use fonts different fonts there", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Oh, yes.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "so you know which is which. But I I under I understand what you mean now.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Yeah, yeah. That's true. That's true.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "OK.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "But this this is correct?", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Sure.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "And now I can do it, uh pfff! I can put log of EX plus log.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Oh. Yes. I understand now. And that's where it comes from.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "And this is.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Yeah. Right.", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Now it's correct.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Right. OK. Thanks.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Well. The idea Well, we have fixed this equa", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "OK. So now once you get that that one, then you then you do a first or second - order, or something, Taylor series expansion of this.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Yeah. This is another linear relation that this to develop this in vector s Taylor series.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Yeah, sure.", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm. And for that, well, the goal is to obtain, um est estimate a PDF for the noisy speech when we have a a statistic for clean speech and for the noisy speech. Mmm? And when w the way to obtain the PDF for the noisy speech is well, we know this statistic and we know the noisy st well, we can apply first order of the vector st Taylor series of the of the of well, the order that we want, increase the complexity of the problem.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "And then when we have a expression, uh, for the mean and variance of the noisy speech, we apply a technique of minimum mean - square estimation", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "to obtain the expected value of the clean speech given the this statistic for the noisy speech.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "the statistic for clean speech and the statistic of the noisy speech. This only that. But the idea is that.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "And the the model of clean speech is a codebook. Right?", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "u Yeah. We have our codebook with different density Gaussian.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "We can expre we can put that the PDF for the clean test, probability of the clean speech is equal to.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "So, um, how h how much in in the work they reported, how much noisy speech did you need to get, uh, good enough statistics for the to get this mapping?", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "I don't know exactly.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "I I need to s", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "I don't know exactly.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Cuz I think what's certainly characteristic of a lot of the data in this test is that, um, you don't have the the training set may not be a a great estimator for the noise in the test set. Sometimes it is and sometimes it's not.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Yeah. I the clean speech the codebook for clean speech, I am using TIMIT. And I have now, uh, sixty - four Gaus - Gaussian.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Uh - huh. And what are you using for the noisy? Y y doing that strictly.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Of the noise I estimate the noises wi", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Well, for the noises I only use one Gaussian.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "And and you and you train it up entirely from, uh, nonspeech sections in the test?", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "Uh, yes. The first experiment that I do it is solely to calculate the, mmm well, this value.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "uh, the compensation of the dictionary o one time using the the noise at the f beginning of the sentence.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "This is the first experiment.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "And I fix this for all the all the sentences. Uh, because well, the VTS methods In fact the first thing that I do is to to obtain, uh, an expression for E probability e expression of of E. That mean that the VTS mmm, with the VTS we obtain, uh well, we we obtain the means for each Gaussian and the variance.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "This is one. Eh, this is the composition of the dictionary.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "This one thing. And the other thing that this with these methods is to, uh, obtain to calculate this value.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Because we can write uh, we can write that the estimation of the clean speech is equal at an expected value of the clean speech conditional to, uh, the noise signal the probability f of the the statistic of the clean speech and the statistic of the noise.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm. Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "This is the methods that say that we're going obtain this.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "And we can put that this is equal to the estimated value of E minus a function that conditional to E to the T to the noise signal. Well, this is this function is the the term after develop this, the term that we we take. Give PX and, uh, P the noise.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "X K C noise.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Mmm.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "And I can put that this is equal to the noise signal minus Well, I put before this name, uh And I can calculate this.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "What is the first variable in that probability?", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Uh, this is the Gaussian.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "No, no. I'm sorry. In in the one you pointed at. What's that variable?", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "v Uh, this is the.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Weak. So probably it it would do that.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "like this,", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "It's one mixture of the model. Right?", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "but conditional. No, it's condition it's not exactly this. It's modify. Uh, if we have clean speech we have the dictionary for the clean speech, we have a probability f of our our weight for each Gaussian.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "OK.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "No. And now, this weight is different now", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Yes.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "because it's conditional. And this I need to to calcu I know this", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Uh - huh.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "and I know this because this is from the dictionary that you have.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Uh - huh.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "I need to calculate this.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Yes.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "And for calculate this, I have an I I can develop an expression that is", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "It's overlapping.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "that. I can calculate I can I calculated this value, uh, with the statistic of the noisy speech that I calculated before with the VTS approximation.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "And well, normalizing. And I know everything. Uh, with the, nnn when I develop this in s Taylor Taylor series, I can't, um, calculate the mean and the variance of the for each of the Gaussian of the dictionary for the noisy speech. Now. And this is fixed.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "If I never do an estimat a newer estimation of the noise, this mean as mean and the variance are fixed.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "And for each s uh, frame of the speech the only thing that I need to do is to calculate this in order to calculate the estimation of the clean speech given our noisy speech.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "So, I'm I'm not following this perfectly but, um, I Are you saying that all of these estimates are done using, um, estimates of the probability density for the noise that are calculated only from the first ten frames? And never change throughout anything else?", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Yeah. Never cha This is one of the approximations that I am doing.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Per per per utterance, or per?", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Per utterance. Yes.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Per utterance. OK.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Per utterance. Yes.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "So it's done it's done new for each new utterance.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "And th", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "So this changes the whole mapping for every utterance.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Yeah. It's not Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "OK.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Yeah. It's fixed, the dictionary.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "OK.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "And the other estimation is when I do the uh on - line estimation, I change the means and variance of th for the noisy speech", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Yeah?", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "each time that I detect noise.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "I do it uh again this develop. Estimate the new mean and the variance of the noisy speech. And with th with this new s new mean and variance I estimate again this.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "So you estimated, uh, f completely forgetting what you had before? Uh, or is there some adaptation?", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Um, no, no, no. It's not completely No, it's I am doing something like an adaptation of the noise.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "OK. Now do we know, either from their experience or from yours, that, uh, just having, uh, two parameters, the the mean and variance, is enough? Yeah. I mean, I know you don't have a lot of data to estimate with, but but, uh, um.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "I estimate mean and variance for each one of the Gaussian of the codebook.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "No, I'm talking about the noise.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Oh,", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "There's only one Gaussian.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "um. Well, only one I am only using only one.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "I don't know i", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "And you and and it's, uh, uh right, it's only it's only one Wait a minute. This is what's the dimensionality of the Gaussian? This is.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Uh, it's in after the mel filter bank.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "So this is twenty or something?", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Twenty - three.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Twenty? So it's Yeah. So it's actually forty numbers that you're getting. Yeah, maybe maybe you don't have a.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Uh, the original paper say that only one Gaussian for the noise.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Well, yeah. But, I mean, no no paper is is a Bible,", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Yeah, maybe isn't the right thing.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "you know. This is this is, uh.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Yeah, yeah, yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "The question is, um, whether it would be helpful, i particularly if you used if you had more So, suppose you did This is almost cheating. It certainly isn't real - time. But if y suppose you use the real boundaries that that you were in fact were given by the VAD and so forth or I I guess we're gonna be given even better boundaries than that. And you look you take all o all of the nonspeech components in an utterance, so you have a fair amount. Do you benefit from having a better model for the noise? That would be another question.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Maybe.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "So first question would be to what extent i are the errors that you're still seeing based on the fact that you have poor boundaries for the, uh, uh, nonspeech? And the second question might be, given that you have good boundaries, could you do better if you used more parameters to characterize the noise? Um. Also another question might be Um, they are doing they're using first term only of the vector Taylor series?", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Um, if you do a second term does it get too complicated cuz of the nonlinearity?", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Yeah. It's quite complicated.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Yeah, OK. No, I won't ask the next question then.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Oh, it's it's the for me it's the first time that I am working with VTS.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Yeah. No, it's interesting.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Uh.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Uh, w we haven't had anybody work with it before, so it's interesting to get your get your feedback about it.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "It's another type of approximation because i because it's a statistic statistic approximation to remove the noise. I don't know.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Great. OK. Well, I guess we're about done. Um, so some of the digit forms don't have digits. Uh, we ran out there were some blanks in there, so not everybody will be reading digits. But, um, I guess you've got some. Right, Morgan?", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "I have some.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "So, why don't you go ahead and start. And I think it's just us down here at this end that have them.", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "S", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "um", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "So.", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "Uh, OK.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "S so, we switch off with this", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Whenever you're ready.", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "or n?", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Uh, leave it on,", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "No. OK.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "uh,", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "They prefer to have them on", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "and the.", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "just so that they're continuing to get the distant, uh, information.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "OK. OK.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "OK.", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "OK. 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{ "meetingId": "ES2012b", "transcriptSegments": [ { "text": "Okay, welcome to the second meeting of this uh design group. Um I'll briefly go through the uh notes of the of the last meeting uh just done in in note form and I haven't attributed anything to individuals, because we're working strictly as a team here and uh n nobody's working equally,", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Sorry.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "so uh. Um we we s we saw that the the problems with existing remote controls were the uh b a boring shape and boring colour. Um and and we s we saw that the um what we needed to do was to to make sure the device um controls several items, that switching was easy, that you shouldn't need to point the thing at uh anything in particular, um that it need to be contoured to make it interesting, that the keys might be concave, simply because that hasn't been done before that we know of. Um should have interchangeable fascias so people can personalise it, um illuminated so that people can see it in dark rooms. Um and that people might want it as as in addition to their existing remote controls. Um and that it sh it should just always work, whenever you uh um mm uh use it. And that it shouldn't be too small, mm that it it gets lost. Um. Now uh uh I'll shortly ask for for three three presentations. Uh before I do that, however, I will go through some new project requirements that um the the management have placed on us and uh will be challenging in terms of what we discussed at the first meeting. Um the uh the ma the management has had it's own thoughts on this and uh the they don't necessarily agree with with what we uh we thought. Um and and then we'll as a result of that we will then talk through the the functions that we see the the device um actually b carrying out, and we have uh forty minutes to do this in and I uh Anyway. Okay. Now, the n the new requirements are um the the management team see that um teletext is no longer of any importance given the uh the rise of the internet. Um and and they want it only to cover televisions. Um now, what is not q quite clear from their directive is whether they mean th they don't want it to cover teletext or whether they don't want it to cover, you know, videos, D_V_D_s, um satellite boxes, which uh I mean we saw as being fundamental to the uh to the exercise. The um the actual wording of the directive is that it should cover television only. Um and on that basis um I I think we we need to bear that in mind, um but possibly uh keep at the backs of our minds that the reality that people even when they uh no longer they don't look at teletext anymore, they certainly do look at other things. Um the device has to incorporate the company logo and colours. Um the the logo uh being at b the bottom of the screen there, the the the two R_s in grey against uh a yellow background. Um now this doesn't necessarily mean that we have to give up some of our ideas about making it attractive to the t to the market. But uh do do introduce some some constraints as to how we might do that. Um it also has to be simple, which to some extent goes along w with the first one, and that we've already said that it must be simple'cause that's what people want anyway. Um but they also want it to be simple to get it to the market quickly, which um mm uh is is is their choice, but uh um we we need to talk that through. Um okay, so uh after the meeting it'll be summarised and uh", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "um notes sent out and uh etcetera. Okay, so we'll first of all mm have individual reports from everybody. Um again I there is no order of precedence here um so I I I'll leave it up to you to who who who thinks they would like to go go first?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Uh I don't mind..", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "P fine.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Uh can I steal the cable?", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Oh sorry, you can indeed.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Cheers.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "I got a how do I start there?", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Oh, if you click on the um uh the one that that looks like a projection screen, no the one to the right of that. That one.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "That one. Cool. Well these are functionality requirements from the our our guys down in the the research lab. Took hundred people and covered all the aspects of what um is needed by people and what they want to see. Um everything kinda from functionality and how individual functions are how mu how how often they're used and how much their necessary and stuff. And general opinions about current current remotes. See that, as we kinda noticed, seventy five percent of people find their remote controls ugly. So some kind of a new style should be incorporated that's less ugly. Uh along with um looking less ugly, if it looks better, eighty percent of people said they'd spend more money on it. Which is a a plus for us, if we can make it look better, it'd be uh more cost effective and we can put the price up. Current remote controls do not match the operating behaviour of the user. I can empl I kinda take that to mean as um they they don't uh they, yeah, they only use they only work for the television or yeah like as in in my flat I've got six remote controls for a stereo system, a digital box, a D_V_D_ player, a video player and T_V_. If it was uh I mean th my behaviour is to use multiple things at the same time and multiple remotes aren't really matched well to my behaviour. Uh again, seventy five percent is seventy five percent of users say they zap a lot. I took to mean that they just they use it a lot, they use it regularly rather than standing up and manually change channels or volume. And uh yeah, uh I think the big issue is fifty percent users only use ten percent of the buttons,'cause uh wh if we got a remote that like well we'll have some buttons taken off by the lack of teletext, but uh oh and we're going to see uh on the uh that some of the functions like audio settings aren't h hardly ever used and used very aren't considered relevant by the user. So I think maybe fewer buttons, which also make the design look sleeker, I dunno. Uh um yeah and uh frustrations of like people losing remote control.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "I dunno maybe some kind of system of you press a button on the T_V_ or maybe that's b it would have to incorporate, but like some kind of system where you can f use something else to find the remote control. Maybe like it'll beep or something. And um, yep, the uh time taken to learn new remote controls is Uh don't want to make it too complicated, easy to use for uh new like first time users and stuff. And uh repetitive strain injury, I suppose we should make it more comfortable and make ma possibly even use have to make it, yeah, fewer buttons, like I was saying about the whole mice the mouse idea of it feels more comfortable.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Maybe don't even have to hold it as such.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Gosh, must be some telly addicts out there if they get R_S_I_ from their television remote, is all I can say.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "But uh yeah. It also asked um if we would if people would pay more for speech recognition", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "and younger people say they would. And uh there was another section on our on the report for uh L_C_D_ displays, but the data wasn't there, so. I don't actually know what the results for that were,", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Mm. Right. Mm.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "so. May be incrementally emitting, but yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah, I must say that um the uh I c can't remember what um f you know phone service I was using the other day, but that had sorta speech recognition which worked uh remarkably well, so that is indeed a uh um a thought", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "And uh it would cut out the R_S_I_ as well if you.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "and it it cuts out uh I was was gonna say, you can't get a lot of R_S_I_,", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "j just get jaw ache. Okay, sorry..", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah, um oh yeah, so possibly the speech recognition is possibly something could add into the design. Oh, I've got some other things I couldn't fit onto this presentation. Um. You see this okay? Almost no? It's sorry it's a bit. I'll read out to you. Uh functionality, uh like people's opinions on functionality, the relevance to the remote and how often they're used. So um like the power. Using the using the d swi the power switch to switch on T_V_ is a high relevance of nine, but it's not frequently used. You see what I mean?", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah..", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Whereas channel selection, which is very high relevance", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "is used the most. So m we can maybe even start to cut down on or I was possibly even thinking of a design that maybe some of the buttons are hidden from everyday use. Maybe like uh a folding ledge or something. So that we can maybe go into the channel settings and the audio settings,", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "which are low relevance", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm. I mean.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "and rarely used. And keep the v volume selection and channel selection very easily.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "It could be oh uh I was just gonna say uh maybe like the flip phones that they use?", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Have you seen the new mo mobile phones", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "that flip out and they have the like texting, and then the numbers on one side,", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Oh yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "so", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "you could have the most used buttons on top and flip it out or something.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Hmm, hmm.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah, like the one that like slides back", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Uh. Should we actually bite the bullet here?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "and the buttons are concealed underneath.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "If people really don't use those buttons to any extent at all um remove them altogether.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Just remove them completely?", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "We we could actually have we could actually have a remote control with um.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "That might be the.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "I wonder whether we could get the remote control with no buttons at all if we went for voice recognition, given that um the Um now the the age structure we were looking at um I mean w we had usage by age structure, what we didn't have was what proportion of people using remotes were in those particular age groups. Now do we know whether they.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Uh yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Forty no sorry for forty five to fifty five age group, uh to put myself right in the middle of it, um u use remote controls to a great extent.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yes we.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Um no this is for pay more for speech recognition.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "That would've speech recogn right. So, we're looking at um well again, we don't know the relative proportion the relative numbers in the age groups.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah, that's true.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "If we wanted something different, truly different, then the buttonless remote control w would be it.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "P Well the only problem I can think of with that is if you've got a lot of people that don't wanna be bothered learning how to use new rem remote controls. If you just kind of take away everything that they're used to knowing, that's gonna be quite a change.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "But if you just lift it up and say, channel one or B_B_C_.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "It might.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Or even I mean you could even just have it left on.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Maybe i", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "You could just put it down once on top your T_V_ and never have to.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah, have a big kind of like the satellite box or the cable box", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "and have it just go on the T_V_ and then it doesn't matter where in the room you are,", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "you won't lose it.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "It c well it I can I can see technical problems with that in terms of the, you know, the sound from the television,", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "No.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "because if somebody actually on the television says uh uh, you know, I_T_V_ and you're watching B_B_C_ then then it might um change itself,", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "B_B_C_ one..", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah..", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Oh..", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "so it probably needs to be um possibly actually need a button on it", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah, that's true.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "just to activate it.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Oh yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Or or something just to identify that you've lifted it up and it's use. And and then just say, oh I don't know, a thought and and then.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "uh I mean that that would certainly be uh truly different. Um'cause uh you know audio settings, nought point eight percent. I mean if they weren't there, would people miss them?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm-mm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "But look at the importance of them. The volume settings.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Relevance of two out of ten,", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Vol volume,", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "yes um", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "They're not used often", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "th.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "but they are quite important when they're used.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "w we need to s identify things that people actually need", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "and and it's a function of frequency and relevance. And um I would say ignoring ig ignoring power for the moment, um the channel and volume", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "and th w w given given that we've been told to ignore teletext. Uh channel and volume are the only ones that", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "uh would appear to be essential.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Stand out.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Um. So if we can design something that that looks interesting, know, or looks different, um incorporates the the logo and and the colours and um we can still have our interchangeable fascias even if it's the yellow and grey, um and uh I dunno, buttons or or buttons as an option.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Uh I just had a thought actually, sorry to interrupt.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Do, please.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Uh you were saying about um it could technical problems of like uh someone on the television saying a channel number and it changed.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "we could maybe have like an activation word.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "You cer certainly could.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "'Cause I've seen I've seen this used on computers before, where you just you address the remote,", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Depe uh i depends whether um.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "you address the computer, and then give it a command.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "if we want to make this so simple that anybody can walk into the room and lift it up and say", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Oh I see. Oh yeah, I see.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "B_B_C_ one. Um okay, I mean you could print actually print it on the uh", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm, yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "device itself. Um.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "I mean I'm just thinking of the point of view of peop you could still like lose this remote.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "S th this I th that's always gonna be a problem I think.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Um and I I I s so I suppose one um could make it so desirable that if people lose it they immediately go out and buy another one.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Anyway, sorry, carry on. Do you want to just carry on with.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Oh no", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "or.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "I I interrupted you,", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "no no, no uh b I was in the middle of in the middle of your report there..", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "sorry. Oh okay. Um well, I was just kinda wrapping up there. Yeah,", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Mm okay..", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "I was thinking um, yeah, maybe such things are relevant. We could make things much more f I think the the eighty percent of people would spend more on uh a remote uh that looks better, combined with uh decrease the or take out the limited functio functions that we don't really use much. alright take out teletext, but as for channel settings and stuff it might it might um turn people somewhe peop some people that want the whole functionality away. But, since if we're marketing a more kind of fashionable approach then it'd it would be fashion and fashion over practicality.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm. S s we could we could make it dual function voice recognition and still have buttons on it um", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Oh, we could, yeah. We c yeah,", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "'cause we're.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "we could even have it as like a yeah the buttons control this and the voice functions control the f things that you would do all the time, so.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Certainly could. Yeah, yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "So uh yeah, if we could uh power on and channel selection and and volume selection, wouldn't have to really.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "The I mean the the advantage of doing away the buttons altogether is it makes the thing cheaper.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah and probably it would look better as well.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "No, it cou certainly opens up the possibility for making it uh, you know, visually very distinctive.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah. yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Um'cause you know, it does not have to be a oblong box.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Lined with numbered buttons and.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Mm, yeah. Okay, who sorry, have you have you finished there Andy?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Uh yeah, yeah, that's everything.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yep, yep. Um given that we've already had a extensive discussion uh.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Okay well, I can do mine.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Hmm.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Do you want the cable?", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah, let's see if I can make this work. Um.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Oh, you have to hit like function and F_ something.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Oh.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "F_ eight.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "F_ eight.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Is it doing.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Dunno.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Uh, give it about twenty seconds, or so.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Ah, there we go..", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Oh yeah, it's going.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Oh okay. Okay, so this is just about the technical functions.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Alright.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "So the method, I looked online for examples of other similar products and then just kind of was trying to brainstorm some possible design ideas and um identify what the necessary things are, what people are what you really wanna have a remote control do. Um and then there are two different kinds that I found. There's a user centred one and an engineering centred one which I will have pictures of and then we kinda have to decide which one this should be.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "So these are the two different ones. This one um this is the user centred, it has uh quite a few mm uh um fewer buttons", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "and then this is the engineering centred, which has a lot more buttons,", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "and probably this is one that people complain about, about having too many buttons that you don't use. So basically, what a remote control is is you it's to send messages to the television set, you know, turn on, off, switch the channels and the volume and things such as that. And so for this product it's gonna be television only, and then it has to have the uh logos for the company and the colours. And so, for my personal preferences, I think this one is easier to use and has quite a you know, fewer buttons. Um we want something that sends messages easily to the television and I was kind of wondering about this example that they have. It looks kind of narrow at the top, and I was thinking maybe if it were wider at the top,", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Mm, yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "then that would be easier. Um and so we have to decide what's gonna make our product different. E the unique style, maybe have it light up so it's visible in the dark, um the changeable face-plates, and the lighting up and visible I was when we were talking about havi losing it, maybe to have a button on the television that you press and it maybe if it makes a noise or lights up or something like that, so it's easier to find if someone has hidden under the couch or something like that. So that's my presentation. Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Okay, can I um I'm actually gonna use the um it's gonna cause great technical problems over here. I'm actually gonna use the.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "F they probably clip to you.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Oh yeah, they might be movable.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Oh yeah, they're all they're not connected to anything on the table, you just leave'em on and walk around with'em..", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yes, rather than the uh the the traditional in fact, um I won't even go that far. Um something like this shape, you know, sort of something that you can that's sort of a more vertical shape, um that you you sort of hold in your hand, um, well I'm trying to think uh uh uh l uh l such as I mean um something you hold up like that, possibly with a couple of buttons like that, but with the the entire top with the, you know, the uh the infrared or whatever source.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Uh so that you know, it's flying off in all directions,", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "so that uh um uh again the n need to look at the the the technicalities of um actually achieving that in terms of whether the, you know, the power requirements of the uh such a source, um you know, compromise the our our need for uh you know, it it being um mm permanently uh you know, available.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Uh whether whether different technology um I mean th all all these remotes are presumably infrared, and like they have been for a long time. Uh we we possibly need to be looking at at at something different, um you know, short range, not like the old uh radio remote controls where you'd change next door's telly when you change yours. Um", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "but uh uh I think basically i if we're going for i if minimum number of buttons is our priority, then we should, as I say, r know, really bite the bullets and and reduce the buttons to absolute minimum, you know, possibly with backup channel and volume buttons and on off. Um and nothing else. Um so that it can al it could uh almost end up like that, but again, except that um you know the risk of losing it. Um anyway okay um so Kate, wh what are your uh your thoughts on this?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yes, mm..", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Oh.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Which one does this plug into?", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Hmm I think it's all there.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "That one.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "H", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "I can't did you could you see it on you screen when it.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Oh yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "That's not cool..", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "That's kind of strange.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Oh well. Anyways. Um alright, yeah, so um I'll just do my presentation on the working design uh. Oh there we go. Okay um just at the m yeah the whole sort of method of how the remote control works. Uh the basic function of the remote control is to send messages to another sh system, the the T_V_ or the D_V_D_ player or whatever.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Um and it does this uh by well, you need to start off you need an energy source and this energy source will feed into an integrated circuit chip and the circuit chip is the part that actually composes the different messages uh within the remote um which will then be sent to the uh the television, the D_V_D_ to tell that what to do. Um and you need a user interface, which controls the chip and thus the messages and uh the user interface is that's basically just you kn the s sorta design of the actual remote which you hold in your hands and what buttons will be on it. Um Oh shoot. Okay. Uh just general findings. Uh what we need uh technically speaking for the remote control is some sort of energy source, uh some sort of user interface, which I think we've mostly been talking about the user interface and the design of that. Um a circuit chip within that to uh control and send the messages and um a sender and receiver. And um oops. Uh-huh. This is just sort of a little schematic diagram of what we're looking for. Uh this just kinda represents the energy source", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Hmm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "which feeds into the circuit chip uh which maybe then we could have that feed into a switch which would send signals f to um a subcomponent and on to a light bulb between so it'll light up once we start once you start pressing buttons. Um also send signals to the um infrared bulb, which will be the part that actually what? Sends signals to the the television. And then you've got your happy little T_V_ watcher there.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "And so my personal preferences I I just think we need sorta big uh energy source that won't die out, uh perhaps some sort of rechargeable battery or a battery dock you could place it in, so it'd constantly be charged, so you wouldn't have to uh be worrying about it running out of batteries and not changing channels for you. Uh a wide range uh sender-receiver, so that you can hit the buttons from basically anywhere in the room, and the channel'll still be changed. Uh also definitely a user-friendly interface um and I think we've all sort of mentioned adding a a locating device on it, so when it does get stuck under the couch cushions, as they inevitably do, you can find them easily. And that's pretty much it.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Okay. Uh it seems seems to me there are a number of fundamental decisions to make before we um.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm..", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "I think your point about the the big energy source is uh a very valid one.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Um I don't suppose we've got any statistics on the the life expectancy of uh remote controls, particularly sort of independent ones. Um given you know, the number of things you buy these days, which you know, have a a a lithium whatever battery in, that's uh, you know never needs replacing.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Um perhaps we should have the the disposable remote control, uh um you know, one some sort of typical usage. You know, the the the battery will last know, five, ten years. By which time I mean when all's said and done, the digital television will be taking over in that time scale. Um", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "uh uh p perhaps we should, know, reduce the uh, you know, the sort of moving parts even more by not even having a battery compartment and uh.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Just having one that's guaranteed to last five to ten years?", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah, and if if anybody manages to run it down, we'll we'll give'em a new one.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Oh, cool. Yeah, fair enough.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Um it's, you know, it's what it saves in cost and you know there there's a well, it's actually a marketing gimmick. I mean it's hardly a gimmick, it's uh it's totally practical. Uh so I th think you know the idea of a rechargeable one is um uh unless you're really high tech and it sort of just recharges itself if it's n by, you know, magnetic waves or whatever, if if it.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "It could have like uh know like a cordless phone in your house it s got like a base that sits there all the time.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah..", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm, mm.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Are are people really gonna use it though? Um.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah, people are pro", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "I suppose, yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Mm yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "I would think that people might forget.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "I I th I think.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "I mean people forget to put their cordless phones back on there,", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Mm-mm.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "so.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah, it's", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah..", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "um I mean I know that somei times my my wife goes out in the morning and says oh I should have put the phone on to charge", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "and then then she's had those for so long that if she hasn't worked that out by now. Um.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "'Cause I only remember to charge my cell phone uh when battery dies. And that's pretty much.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "When it yeah, wh when it's died is a problem.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "yeah. Yeah, when it turns itself off, that's when I plug it in,", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah, yeah, yeah, so uh um", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "yeah..", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "what so wh what what do we think about the um the the permanent mm battery?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah, think that's a good idea.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "No.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Uh. That sounds pretty good, yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Is the uh you know, we we we are really going for the ultimate in ex uh external simplicity here.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Um.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Um you know, cut cost within the manufacturing and uh you know, if we have a high tech interior, then then that that sh may well be cost effective.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Do they make batteries that last that long?", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "I mean th th certainly. Um I can't think of anything off the s top of my head,", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "They usually have the little light uh source,", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "but there are certainly things that you buy. I mean calculators for example.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "I dunno what the heck they're called,", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah, they have that little solar.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "the but", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Som well some do,", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "yeah, the little cells that.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "I mean th th but there are battery ones", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "that um are you know, sort of permanently sealed.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "In in fact I'd.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Most of them, don't they have sort of a combination of the two, like when there is light, they'll work off the light,", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah,", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "and if there isn't, they'll kick into this battery,", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "uh uh.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "so we can maybe do something like that whereas there is a battery, but if there's enough light, then it's using the light, so that it's not actually draining the battery all the time, but you will have the battery there for when you need it.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah, I I mean th th this needs going t into the technology a bit.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "I mean the the actual time that a remote control is actually operating", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "I would think is i is is probably, you know, no more than minutes in its entire life. Um..", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Oh, it depend if it's uh depends who who's using it, who's just sitting there clicking clicking clicking clicking,", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah, some people are.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "If, but I say if if people are getting R_S_I_ from it then uh then uh then then perhaps we're looking at the wrong market", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "yeah. Yeah, then they're clicking a lot, yeah..", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah. Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "W", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "n", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "like like this um this uh market research thing says number of times per hour that it's used, channel selection a hundred and sixty eight", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Per hour?", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "times per hour.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah. Yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Wow. That's a lot..", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Oh, I must admit I hadn't um I'd I'd missed that. That does sound excessive.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "But then again, if you think it of the amount of, you know amount of use it's like.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "That's it's less than a second, um.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah. Yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Well that's right, and and I I don't I don't even know whether the I don't even know whether the s the signal lasts as long as you actually keep the button pressed,", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "or whether it's just a", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "sorta tenth of a second, no matter how long you press it for, I don't know I don't actually know. Um.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Though I think with digital T_V_, like I know on my cable box, you're not supposed to do that because the channel can't keep up with it if you just press it like that,", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "so you're supposed to use the menu and go through the different", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "channels that way instead of.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Mm..", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Right, so I've got a message to say five minutes, I dunno how long ago that appeared. Um'cause we're we're getting", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Uh-oh.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "um right, so I'd I need to sum up very quickly here um. We're looking at extreme simplicity. We're looking at a radically different shape. Possibly no buttons at all um, but if you can incorporate um channel change and volume buttons um in into the design, then then that's fine. Um in the I mean the the role of the of the um the user interface des designer becomes b you know more important here, because, you know, shape is no longer an a uh um a serious constraint. But we clearly only need th the main buttons, although, uh if clearly only need the main functions. Um I don't see why we shouldn't go for voice recognition um and the the only buttons that I think we need are channel control, volume control and on off. Um it needs to incorporate the corporate logo, uh the the grey and yellow colour scheme and there's no reason why we can't introduce um interchangeable uh covers. Um uh d so does that accurately summarise what we've discussed?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yep. Hmm.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Um.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "So uh Yeah. We are doing just the television.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Oh I just have one question. So are we doing just the television or are we doing so not D_V_D_ players,", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "No.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "we okay, okay.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "I think that's quite clear from the the information that we've been given,", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "no?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah, like in the email of television only. In fact they're in the constraints email that I got.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Didn't you mention the teletext, just television only?", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Oh yeah well th that's one I s that's one I sent you,", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "which which was my interpretation of uh of the uh what came down from from head office. Um.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Oh okay. Oh yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah..", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Oh okay.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "That's that that that that's their uh their view.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Okay, so uh we can all give some thought to that uh for for the next meeting, thank you very much indeed.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Cool.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" } ] }

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You know how to toggle the display width function.", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "Well maybe she hadn't just started transcribing me yet.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "Wow.", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "Anyway.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "What is it?", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "Let me explain something to you.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "Um,", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "My laugh is better than yours.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "there.", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "I beg to differ.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "Yo.", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "Um, OK.", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "But you have to say something genuinely funny before you'll get an example.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "The thing is I don't know how to get to the next page. Here.", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "No. You should be at least be self - satisfied enough to laugh at your own jokes.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "Actually I thought.", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "No, it's a different laugh.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "There.", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "Ooh, wow!", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "How weird.", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "Oh! Holy mackerel.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "Wow. Whoa!", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "What?! Oh. OK. I wasn't even doing anything. OK.", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "Uh.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "Eva's got a laptop, she's trying to show it off.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "That was r actually Robert's idea. But anyhow. Um", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "O K. So, here we are.", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "Once again.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "Once again, right, together. Um, so we haven't had a meeting for a while, and and probably won't have one next week, I think a number of people are gone. Um, so Robert, why don't you bring us up to date on where we are with EDU?", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "Um, uh in a in a smaller group we had uh, talked and decided about continuation of the data collection. So Fey's time with us is almost officially over, and she brought us some thirty subjects and, t collected the data, and ten dialogues have been transcribed and can be looked at. If you're interested in that, talk to me. Um, and we found another uh, cogsci student who's interested in playing wizard for us. Here we're gonna make it a little bit more complicated for the subjects, uh this round. She's actually suggested to look um, at the psychology department students, because they have to partake in two experiments in order to fulfill some requirements. So they have to be subjected, before they can actually graduate. And um, we want to design it so that they really have to think about having some time, two days, for example, to plan certain things and figure out which can be done at what time, and, um, sort of package the whole thing in a in a re in a few more complicated um, structure. That's for the data collection. As for SmartKom, I'm the last SmartKom meeting I mentioned that we have some problems with the synthesis, which as of this morning should be resolved. And, so,", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "Good.", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "\" should be \" means they aren't yet, but but I think I have the info now that I need. Plus, Johno and I are meeting tomorrow, so maybe uh uh, when tomorrow is over, we're done. And ha n hav we'll never have to look at it again Maybe it'll take some more time, to be realistic, but at least we're we're seeing the end of the tunnel there. That was that. Um, the uh, uh I don't think we need to discuss the formalism that'll be done officially s once we're done. Um, something happened, in on Eva's side with the PRM that we're gonna look at today, and um, we have a visitor from Bruchsal from the International University. Andreas, I think you've met everyone except Nancy.", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "Sorry. Hi. Hi.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "Hi. Hi.", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "So when you said \" Andreas \" I thought you were talking about Stolcke.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "And, um,", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "Now I know that we aren't, OK.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "Andy, you actually go by Andy, right? Oh, OK.", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "Eh.", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "Cuz there is another Andreas around,", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "Hmm.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "so, to avoid some confusion.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "That will be Reuter? Oh, OK.", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "So my scientific director of the EML is also the dean of the International University, one of his many occupations that just contributes to the fact that he is very occupied. And, um, the um, he @ @ might tell us a little bit about what he's actually doing, and why it is s somewhat related, and by uh using maybe some of the same technologies that we are using. And um. Was that enough of an update?", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "I think so.", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "In what order shall we proceed?", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "OK.", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "Maybe you have your on - line.", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "Uh, yeah, sure. Um, so, I've be just been looking at, um, Ack! What are you doing? Yeah. OK. Um, I've been looking at the PRM stuff. Um, so, this is, sort of like the latest thing I have on it, and I sorta constructed a couple of classes. Like, a user class, a site class, and and you know, a time, a route, and then and a query class. And I tried to simplify it down a little bit, so that I can actually um, look at it more. It's the same paper that I gave to Jerry last time. Um, so basically I took out a lot of stuff, a lot of the decision nodes, and then tried to The red lines on the, um, graph are the um, relations between the different um, classes. Like, a user has like, a query, and then, also has, you know um, reference slots to its preferences, um, the special needs and, you know, money, and the user interest. And so this is more or less similar to the flat Bayes - net that I have, you know, with the input nodes and all that. And So I tried to construct the dependency models, and a lot of these stuff I got from the flat Bayes - net, and what they depend on, and it turns out, you know, the CPT's are really big, if I do that, so I tried to see how I can do, um put in the computational nodes in between. And what that would look like in a PRM. And so I ended up making several classes Actually, you know, a class of with different attributes that are the intermediate nodes, and one of them is like, time affordability money affordability, site availability, and the travel compatibility. And so some of these classes are s some of these attributes only depend on stuff from, say, the user, or s f just from, I don't know, like the site. S like, um, these here, it's only like, user, but, if you look at travel compatibility for each of these factors, you need to look at a pair of, you know, what the um, preference of the user is versus, you know, what type of an event it is, or you know, which form of transportation the user has and whether, you know, the onsite parking matters to the user, in that case. And that makes the scenario a little different in a PRM, because, um, then you have one - user objects and potentially you can have many different sites in in mind. And so for each of the site you'll come up with this rating, of travel compatibility. And, they all depend on the same users, but different sites, and that makes a I'm tr I w I wa have been trying to see whether the PRM would make it more efficient if we do inferencing like that. And so, I guess you end up having fewer number of nodes than in a flat Bayes - net, cuz otherwise you would c well, it's probably the same. But um, No, you would definitely have be able to re - use, like, um, all the user stuff, and not not having to recompute a lot of the stuff, because it's all from the user side. So if you changed sites, you you can, you know, save some work on that. But, you know, in the case where, it depends on both the user and the site, then I'm still having a hard time trying to see how um, using the PRM will help. Um, so anyhow, using those intermediate nodes then, this this would be the class that represent the intermediate nodes. And that would basically it's just another class in the model, with, you know, references to the user and the site and the time. And then, after you group them together this no the dependencies would of the queries would be reduced to this. And so, you know, it's easier to specify the CPT and all. Um, so I think that's about as far as I've gone on the PRM stuff.", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "Well", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "No. So y you didn't yet tell us what the output is.", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "The output.", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "So what decisions does this make?", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "OK. So it only makes two decisions, in this model. And one is basically how desirable a site is meaning, um, how good it matches the needs of a user. And the other is the mode of the visit, whether th It's the EVA decision. Um, so, instead of um, doing a lot of, you know, computation about, you know, which one site it wants of the user wants to visit, I'll come well, try to come up with like, sort of a list of sites. And for each site, you know, where h how how well it fits, and basically a rating of how well it fits and what to do with it. So. Anything else I missed?", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "So that was pretty quick. She's ac uh uh Eva's got a little write - up on it that uh, probably gives the the details to anybody who needs them. Um, so the You you didn't look at all yet to see if there's anybody has a implementation.", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "No, not yet, um.", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "OK. So one so one of the questions, you know, about these P R Ms is", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "uh, we aren't gonna build our own interpreter, so if if we can't find one, then we uh, go off and do something else and wait until s one appears. Uh, so one of the things that Eva's gonna do over the next few weeks is see if we can track that down. Uh, the people at Stanford write papers as if they had one, but, um, we'll see. So w Anyway. So that's a a major open issue. If there is an interpreter, it looks like you know, what Eva's got should run and we should be able to actually um, try to solve, you know, the problems, to actually take the data, and do it. Uh, and we'll see. Uh, I actually think it is cleaner, and the ability to instantiate, you know, instance of people and sites and stuff, um, will help in the expression. Whether the inference gets any faster or not I don't know. Uh, it wouldn't surprise me if it if it doesn't.", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "You know, it's the same kind of information. I think there are things that you can express this way which you can't express in a normal belief - net, uh, without going to some incredible hacking of sort of rebuilding it on the fly. I mean, the notion of instantiating your el elements from the ontology and stuff fits this very nicely and doesn't fit very well into the extended belief - net. So that was one of the main reasons for doing it. Um. I don't know. So, uh, people who have thought about the problem, like Robert i it looked to me like if Eva were able to come up with a you know, value for each of a number of uh, sites plus its EVA thing, that a travel planner should be able to take it from there. And you know, with some other information about how much time the person has and whatever, and then plan a route.", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "Um - hmm, um, well, first of all uh, uh, great looks, mu much cleaner, nnn, nnn, Certain certain beauty in it, so, um, if beauty is truth, then, uh we're in good shape. But, the um, as, uh, mentioned before we probably should look at t the details. So if you have a write - up then uh, I'd love to read it", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "and uh because, um, i Can you go all the way back to the the very top?", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "Um, uh these @ @ these w w when these are instantiated they take on the same values? that we had before?", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "I can't really see the whole thing.", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "or are they have they changed, in a sense?", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "Well I think I basically leave them to similar things.", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "Uh - huh.", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "Some of the things might that might be different, maybe like are that the hours for the site.", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "Hmm.", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "And, eventually I meant that to mean whether they're open at this hour or not.", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "Uh - huh.", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "And status would be, you know, more or less like, whether they're under construction, and and or stuff like that.", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "And the, uh, other question I would have is that presumably, from the way the Stanford people talk about it, you can put the probabilities also on the relations. If.", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "Which is the structural uncertainty?", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "Yeah. Yeah, I that's That I think was actually in the previous the Ubenth stuff. I don't remember whether they carried that over to this or not,", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "Mmm.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "uh, structural uncertainty.", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "It's sort of in the definition or in the in Daphne's definition of a PRM is that classes and relations,", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "OK.", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "and you're gonna have CPT's over the classes and their relations.", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "Alright.", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "More uncertainty, or or.", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "Uh,", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "I should say.", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "I remember them learning when, you know, you don't know the structure for sure,", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "but I don't remember reading how you specify", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "Yeah, that would be exactly my question.", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "wh to start with. Yeah.", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "Well.", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "Yeah. So, uh, the the plan is is when Daphne gets back, we'll get in touch and supposedly, um, we'll actually get s deep seriously connected to to their work and", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "Yep.", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "somebody'll Uh, you know If it's a group meeting once a week probably someone'll go down and, whatever. So, we'll actually figure all this out.", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "OK. OK. Then I think the w long term perspective is is pretty clear. We get rocking and rolling on this again, once we get a package, if, when, and how, then this becomes foregrounded", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "profiled, focused, again.", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "Designated?", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "Of course.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "And um, until then we'll come up with a something that's @ @ that's way more complicated for you. Right?", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "OK.", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "Because this was laughingly easy, right?", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "Actually I had to take out a lot of the complicated stuff, cuz I I made it really complicated in the beginning, and Jerry was like, \" this is just too much \".", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "Yeah. So, um, you could, from this, go on and say suppose there's a group of people traveling together and you wanted to plan something that somehow, with some Pareto optimal uh, uh, thing for.", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "That's good. That's definitely a job for artificial intelligence.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "uh, or.", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "Except for humans can't really solve it either, so.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "Well that's not not even something humans yeah.", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "Right. Right. Well that's the that would that would be a uh, you could sell it, as a.", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "OK, eh you don't have to fight about this, just give your preferences to the.", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "And then you can blame the computer.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "w Exactly.", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "So.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "Hmm. But what does it uh Would a pote potential result be to to split up and never talk to each other again? You know.", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "That should be one of them.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "Yeah. Right.", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "That'd be nice.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "Mmm.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "Anyway. So. So there i there are some some u uh, you know, uh, elaborations of this that you could try to put in to this structure, but I don't think it's worth it now. Because we're gonna see what what else uh what else we're gonna do. Anyway. But uh, it's good, yeah and and there were a couple other ideas of of uh, things for Eva to look at in in the interim.", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "Good. Then, we can move on and see what Andreas has got out his sleeve. Or Andy, for that matter?", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "OK. So uh, uh, well, thanks for having me here, first of all. Um, so maybe just a a little background on on my visit. So, uh, I'm not really involved in any project, that's uh that's relevant to you uh, a at the moment, uh, the the reason is really for me uh, to have an opportunity to talk to some other researchers in the field. And and so I'll just n sort of give you a real quick introduction to what I'm working on, and um, I just hope that you have some comments or, maybe you're interested in it to find out more, and and so I'll be uh, happy to talk to you and and uh, I'd also like to find out some more and and maybe I'll just walk around the office and and then and ask some some questions, uh, in a couple days. So I'll be here for uh, tomorrow and then uh, the remainder of uh, next week. OK, so, um, what I started looking at, uh, to begin with is just uh, content management systems uh, i i in general. So um, uh what's uh Sort of the state of the art there is to um uh you have a bunch of of uh documents or learning units or learning objects, um, and you store meta - data uh, associate to them. So there's some international standards like the I - triple - E, uh There's an I - triple - E, LON standard, and um, these fields are pretty straightforward, you have uh author information, you have uh, size information, format information and so on. Uh, but they're two uh fields that are um, more interesting. One is uh you store keywords associated with the uh with the document, and one is uh, you have sort of a, um, well, what is the document about? So it's some sort of taxonomic uh, ordering of of the of the units. Now, if you sort of put on your semantic glasses, uh you say, well that's not all that easy, because there's an implicit um, uh, assumption behind that is that uh, all the users of this system share the same interpretation of the keyword and the same interpretation of uh, whichever taxonomy is used, and uh, I think that's a that's a very that's a key point of these systems and they sort of always brush over this real quickly without really elaborating much of that and uh As a matter of fact, the only thing that m apparently really works out so far are library ordering codes, which are very, very coarse grain, so you have some like, science, biology, and then But that's really all that we have at the moment. So I think there's a huge, um, uh need for improvement there. Now, what this uh a standard like this would give us is we could um, sort of uh with a search engine just query uh, different repositories all over the world. But we can't really Um, so what I'm what I try to do is um, to have um, uh So. So the scenario is the following, you you're working on some sort of project and you encounter a certain problem. Now, what what we have at our university quite a bit is that uh, students um, try to u program a certain assignment, for example, they always run into the same problems, uh, and they always come running to us, and they'll say why's it not it's not working, and we always give out the same answer, so we thought, well, it'd be nice to have a system that could sort of take care of this, and so, what I want to build is basically a a smart F A Q system. Now, what you uh need to do here is you need to provide some context information which is more elaborate than \" I'm looking for this and this and this keyword. \" So. And I think that I don't need to tell you this. I'm I'm sure you have the same when when somebody utters a sentence in a certain, uh, context it, and and the same sentence in another context makes a huge difference. So, I want to be able to model information like, um, so in the in the context of in the context of developing distributed systems, of a at a computer science school, um, what kind of software is the person using, which homework assignment is he or she working on at the moment, um, maybe what's the background of that student's um, which um, which error message was encountered. So this sort of information I think should be transmitted, uh, when a certain document is retrieved. Now, um, basically giving this um Uh so we somehow need to have a formalized um, way of writing this down basically, and that's where the shared interpretation of of certain terms and keywords comes in again. And, using this and some some uh, knowledge about the domain I think you can do some some simple inferences. Like you know that when somebody's working about uh, working on on servlets for example, he's using Java, cuz servlets are used are written in Java. So some some inferences like that, now, um, u using this you can infer more information, and you could then match this to the meta - data of um off the documents you're you're searching against. So, uh what I wanna do is basically have some sort of um given these inputs, and then I can compute how many documents match, and use this as a metric in the search. Now, what I plan to do is I want to uh sort of do a uh uh try to improve the quality of the search results, and I want to do this by having a depth uh, um, um steepest descent approach. So if I knew which operating system the person was working on, would this improve my search result? And and having uh, uh a symbolic formalized model of this I could simply compute that, and find out which um which questions are worth um, asking. And that's what I then propagate back to the user, and and sort of try to optimize the search in this way. Now, the big problem that I'm facing right now is um, it's fairly easy to hack up a system uh quickly, that that works in the small domain, but the problem is obviously the scalability. And uh uh, so Robert was mentioning uh, earlier today is that uh, Microsoft for example with their printer set up program has a Bayesian network, which does exactly this, but there you face a problem that these are very hard to extend. And so, uh what I'm What I try to do is basically try to model this uh, in a way that you could really combine uh, knowledge from very different sources, and and um, sort of looking into some of the ideas that the semantic web community uh, came up with. Trying to to have uh, an approach how to integrate s uh certain uh representation of certain concepts and also some computational rules, um, what you can do with those. Um. What I'm also looking into is a probabilistic approach into this because document retrievals is a very fuzzy procedure, so it's probably not that easy to simply have a symbolic uh, computational model. That that probably isn't expressive enough. So. So that's another thing, um, which I think you're also uh, uh looking into right now. And then um, uh sort of as an add - on to this whole idea, um, uh that would be now, depending on what the search engine or the content repository depending on which um, uh, which uh, rules and which ontologies it it uses, or basically its view of the world, uh you can get very different results. So it might ma make a lot of sense to actually query a lot of different search engines. And there you could have an idea where you actually have sort of a a peer to peer approach, where we're all sort of carrying around our individual bookshelves, and um, if you have a question about a homework, it's probably makes sense to ask somebody who's in your class with you, sort of the guru in the certain area, rather than going to some Yahoo - like uh, search engine. So these are some of the just in a nutshell, some of the ideas. And I think a lot of the even though it's a it's a very different domain, but I think a lot of the, um, issues are are fairly similar. So. OK.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "And so some of the I don't know how much you know about the larger Heidelberg project, I Are you.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "Uh I know, yeah I know abou about it.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "So it seems like a lot of some of the issues are the same. It's like, um, you know, the c context - based factors that influence how you interpret,", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm. Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "um, s how to interpret. In in this case, infer in in knowing wanting to know what kinds of things to ask. We - we've kind of talked about that, but we haven't worried too much about that end of the discourse.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "But maybe you guys had that in the previous models.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "Well, in a in one t one s mmm, small difference in a in a way, is that he doesn't have to come up with an answer, but he wants to point to the places w w", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "Documents that have the answers.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "Yeah, so. So I'm I'm not I'm not building an expert.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "Uh, I want to build a smart librarian, basically", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "Right. Right.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "that can point you to the right reference. I don't wanna compute the answer, so it's a little bit easier for me.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "Well. Uh, you have to s still m understand what the content says about itself, and then match it to what you think the informational needs.", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "So you also don't have to figure out what the content is. You're just taking the keywords as a topic text, as.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "I I assume that that the there will be learning systems that that tag their their content.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "OK. Right.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "And um, um, m @ @ and basically what I what I envision is that you rather than just supplying a bunch of keywords you could basically for for an FAQ for example you could state sort of like a logic condition, when this document applies. So \" this document explains how to set up your uh, mail account on Linux \" or something like this.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "So. So something something very specific that you can then But the I think that the key point with these uh, learning systems is that uh, a learning system is only as good as uh the amount of content it it carries.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "Mmm, mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "You can have the best learning system with the best search interface, if there's no content inside of it, it's not very useful. So I think ultimately because um, uh developing these these rules and these inference uh inferences I think is very costly, so um, uh I think you must be able to reuse some some existing um, domain domain information, or or or ontologies that that uh other people wrote and then try to integrate them, and then also search the entire web basically, rather than just the small uh, content management system.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "OK. Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "So I think that's that's crucial for for the success of or @ @.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "So, you're not I guess I'm trying to figure out how how it maps to the kinds of things that we've talked about in this group, and, actually associated groups,", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "cuz some of us do pretty detailed linguistic analyses, and I'm guessing that you you won't be doing that? OK.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "No.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "Just checking. So, OK.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "Hmm.", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "No.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "So, you take the query, and and.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "On the other hand, uh, FrameNet could well be useful. So do you know the FrameNet story?", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "Um, yeah. Uh, not not too much,", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "OK.", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "but uh,", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "Oh. Th - that's another thing you might wanna look into while you're here.", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "I have a rough overview.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "Because, um, you know, the standard story is that keyworks keywords evoke frames, and the frames may well give you additional keywords or uh, if you know that that that a a bunch of keywords uh, indicate a frame, then you can find documents that actually have the whole frame, rather th than just uh, individual.", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "Mmm. Mmm.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "So there's a lot of stuff, and people are looking at that. Most of the work here is just trying to get the frames right. There's linguists and stuff and there's a lot of it and they're they're busily working away. But there are some application efforts trying to exploit it. And this looks t it seems to be that this is a place where you might be able to do that.", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. I'm sure I could learn a lot about um, yeah, just how to how to come up with these structures,", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "Mmm.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "cuz it's it's very easy to whip up something quickly, but it maybe then makes sense to to me, but not to anybody else, and and if we want to share and integrate things, they must well, they must be well designed really.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "Remember the uh, Prashant story?", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "The absolutely no no linguistic background person that the IU sent over here.", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "And Andreas and I tried to come up wi or we had come up actually with a eh with him working on an interface for FrameNet, as it was back then, that would p do some of the work for this machine,", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "Right. Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "which uh, never got done because Prashant found a happy occupation", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "W yeah, I know, I mean it it he w he did w what what he did was much more s sensible for him.", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "which in the Absolutely. Yeah.", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "I think uh,", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "But so I'm just saying, the uh, we had that idea", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "you know Yeah. The idea was there. Yeah, OK.", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "uh to to exploit FrameNet there as well.", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "Hmm.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "And um.", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "Yeah, actually you guys never.", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "And Srini's doing information extraction also, right?", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "with that FrameNet base.", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "Mmm.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "So you you guys never sent anybody else from I U.", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "Except except Prashant?", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "You were y no Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "Um,", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "Uh, this was supposedly an exchange program, and I we you know, it's fine. We don't care, but it just I'm a little surprised that uh, Andreas didn't come up with anyone else he wanted to send.", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "Hmm.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "Uh I don't know, I mean the uh.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "Alright. I mean I had forgotten a I To be honest with you, I'd totally forgotten we had a program.", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "Uh it's in the program?", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "Uh I I think it's it's really the lack of students uh, at IU at the moment.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "Yeah. Yeah. No, no. There was a whole co There was a little contract signed. It was Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "Yeah, yeah. I think it's ju it's more the lack of of students, really, and w we have all these sponsors that are always sort of eager to get some teams.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "Yeah, I know.", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "Mmm.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "But.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "Well I mean if if I were a student, I'd love to come here, rather than work for some German company, or.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "Yeah. Right.", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "You are being recorded right now, so beware.", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "Oh, right!", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "Well, I didn't say anybody to anything to offend well, except for the sponsors maybe, but.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "Right. Anyway. Right. So I thi tha that's that's one of the things that might be worth looking into while you're here.", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "Uh, unfortunately, Srini, who is heavily involved in DAML and all this sort of stuff is himself out of town.", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm. Well I'll go to the uh, Semantic Web Workshop, uh, in two weeks.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "Right, and Yeah, for for some reason he's not doing that.", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "Yeah. Well, he had other things to do.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "I don't know why he @ @ oh, I, who knows?", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "The uh.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "Anyway, s yeah, you'll see you'll certainly see a lot of the people there.", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "The other person I thought of is Dan Gildea? because he did some work on topic spotting", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "Yeah. St - statistical stuff. That would be a very good idea.", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "w um, which is, I mean, you I mean. I don't Depending on how well you wanna integrate with that end,", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "you know, like, taking the data and fig you said the learning systems that figure out We There's someone in ICSI who actually has been working on has worked on that kinda stuff, and he's worked with frame net, so you could talk to him about, you know, both of those things at once.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm. Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "So. And he just finished writing a draft of his thesis. So. I u Dan Gildea, GILDEA.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "So, uh, who is that again?", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "And, he's in one of the rooms on the fifth floor and stuff,", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "Who? I can take you to his office.", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "and.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "It's just around the corner.", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "OK, great.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "Hmm. Well, if you fal solve the problem, hope you can do one for us too.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "Alright, was there anything else for this? One of these times soon we're gonna hear about construal.", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "Yeah. I'm sure. I have um I think it was November two thousand three or some No. Wh - I had something in my calendar.", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "Oh, OK. Right.", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "Um,", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "Wait a second. That's a long way away.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "Good thinking!", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "Uh well, maybe I can I can bribe my way out of this. So. So I did some double checking and it seems like spring break in two thousand one.", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "Talk about changing the topic.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "No.", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "Well, no, but he's he's he's he's as you said, he's, like the state legislature, he's trying to offer us bribes.", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "At least this is a private meeting. Right, exactly, OK, that's the link.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "This uh Oh, they refused the budget again? Is it so about CITRIS? Yeah, still nothing.", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "Uh, this this this t the s we're, uh, involved in a literally three hundred million dollar uh, program. Uh, with the State of California. And, the State of California is now a month and a half behind its legis its legally required date to approve a budget. So the budget has not been approved. And two days ago There's two l you know, so, two branches of legislature. One branch approved it,", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "and, um, yesterdayday there was this uh uh I thought that the other branch would just approve it, but now there's actually a little back sliding to people who who approved it got flak from there, eh anyway. So, um Oh! I have to tell you a wonderful story about this, OK? And then we'll go. So, I it turns out I wound up having lunch today with a guy named Tom Kalil. KILL KALIL. And, uh, he now works at Berkeley. In fact he's hired to run a lot of CITRIS, even though we don't have the money they So they've been hiring people right and left, so, uh, they think the money's coming. So and he was, I think, the chief staffer to Clinton on technology matters. He was in the White House, I don't remember what he was saying. A anyway, like that. And, is now doing all the politics for CITRIS, but also, has a uh, a lot of interest in uh, actually doing things for society, so digital divide and stuff like that. So that's s interesting to me but maybe not to you. But the really interesting thing was, he st he s he s said something about, you know I'm interested in things that have high social multiplier, something that is of great social value. He said, \" for example \", this was his only example, \" if you had a adult literacy program that was as good as an individual tutor, and as compelling as a video game, then that would have a huge social impact \". I said, \" Oh great! That's a good problem to work on. \" Anyway. So it was nice that uh, he's got this view, of A, that's what you should try to do, and B, uh, language would be a good way to do it.", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "Mmm. Definitely.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "So that's So anyway, that's the end of the story.", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "But for adults and not for the children.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "This was Yeah. I didn't push him on the ch on the child thing,", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "Uh - huh.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "but, uh, you know, a again, if if you if you", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "Oh.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "um, and this was this was literacy, which actually is somewhat different problem.", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "Maybe easier. I don't know. So this is reading, rather than teaching Another project we started on, and and didn't get funded for was, uh, to try to build an automatic tutoring program, for kids whose first language wasn't English. Which is like half the school population in California. Something like that,", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "isn't it? Yeah. So, enormous problem in California, and the idea was if we're so smart about language understanding and speech understanding, couldn't we build uh, programs that would be tutors for the kids. We think we could. Anyway. So so But this is a slightly different problem,", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "and um, I know none of us have the spare time to look at it right now, but it i it's it's interesting and I may um, talk to him some more about is em somebody already doing this, and stuff like that. So anyway, that was that was today's little story.", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "Hmm.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "OK. So I I did manage to get pull my head out of the sling by sidetracking into CITRIS,", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "No, no.", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "but uh or a temporarily putting it out of the sling", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "but, I I'll volunteer to put it right back in by stating that I am n uh among some other things in the process of writing up stuff that we have been discussing at our daily meetings,", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "and also revising, thanks for all the comments, the c the original construal proposal. And, if I put one and one together, I may end up with a number that's greater than one and that I I can potentially present once you get back.", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "Greater than two?", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "You're good.", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "Nnn. s sometimes, you know the sum is not uh less than the.", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "Uh, right, right.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "Right. Right. Anyway. Yeah, so OK, so that'd be great, but I'd I think it's it's time again, right?", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "Absolutely. Yeah.", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "Yeah. OK.", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "But um, and hopefully all sidetracking um, other things will have disappeared, soon.", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "Good. Yep. Done?", "speakerName": "Professor F" } ] }

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{ "meetingId": "IS1004d", "transcriptSegments": [ { "text": "Okay. Good afternoon again.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "So we should have our final meeting about the detail designed of detail design of the product of the remote control. Um So here is the agenda for today. Uh uh just going to go quickly through the minutes of the last last uh meeting then we have a p presentation of prototype of you two, sounds interesting. And we'll have um presentation of evaluation crit criteria by ou our Marketing Experts. Then we'll have to go through finance evaluation of the of the cost of the thing and um hopefully uh we should fit the target o tw of twelve point five uh uh Euro. Okay. So let's go. Uh if I go quickly through the minutes of the last meeting. So we went through th uh w we took this following decisions. No L_C_D_, no speech recognition technology, okay, we went through a b to a banana look and feel for the remote control. We went through the use of wheels and but buttons. And also the use of a basis station for battery ch charging and uh also to um call the to call the mot mote remote control when it is lost. Okay. Um. Good. So guys let this uh wonderful thing.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Okay so we can go to the slides.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Oh yeah. Sorry. Um.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah. Number three. Oh number two sorry.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Which is.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "So final design. Final design. Okay so Michael you can go ahead.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah so uh following our decision to uh make a yellow well to make a banana", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah can you show it to the the camera maybe.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "remote okay so we actually have a.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "You can pull it out first, maybe.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "We've well first first of all we made a an attractive base station uh with a banana leaf uh look and feel um and uh", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm..", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "bana sit the banana sits in there k you know nicely weighted so that it's not gonna tip over and um this is the remote itself, it's kind of it's it's ergonomic, it fits in the hand uh rather well. We've got the two uh uh scroll wheels here which you know one on the the left for the uh volume and the one on the right for for the channel and uh underneath we have the uh the turbo button which is in like a nice uh trigger position for you know for pressing quite naturally.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "What's the use uh of the t turbo button already?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "This is when you when you uh are scrolling the uh through the channels you can tell it to to skip th past channels that you quickly rather th", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Ah yeah yeah an then you stop when you stop it stops.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah. Well when you stop scrolling the wheel it stops. But normally with uh it will just uh s stay on each station briefly so you can see the the picture.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Uh.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Uh-huh.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "And we we do have one more functionality. If you take the banana as such and uh you press the turbo button, so it switch ons the switch ons the T_V_.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "The T_V_ yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Which one?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "The s the turbo button.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "The turbo button.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "So rather than having uh an extra button for um for the on off switch you just use the turbo button.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Additional button.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "What this button for?", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "This is a teletext button. So once you press that then you get teletext", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "and you can use the the channel selector scroll wheel as uh.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "To navigate it through th through teletext.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "To navigate yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "But if you want to go to page seven hundred?", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "That's right, that's right.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "with the wheel it's easy.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "How man", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Well then you can you you have like a little uh number selection thing, you press the the the teletext button uh to move between uh the fields and then you can just scroll the number back and forth so you have s you go you scroll to seven and then zero zero and then you can uh.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "I don't understand it. Can you repeat it?.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Well you can you can press press the teletext button", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "and then you then you can you can f", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "So then then both the scroll buttons they are for teletext browsing.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "And you can tele", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Ah okay okay. Okay. Okay okay.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "yeah,", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Mm uh.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "once you press the teletext button then the scroll buttons they are more for teletext, they are no more for channel or vol volume.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Okay. I see. I see. Okay. Okay.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "And this is the uh the infrared uh port.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "That's right.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Also the top of the banana.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Excellent.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "So. And then we have", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "in the uh in the base station we have the the button at the front for uh for calling the uh the banana.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Calling. Excellent.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "And the the leaves plays the roles of of antennas?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Actually they do.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Oh.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "That's that's yeah that's uh that's form and function in the one in the one uh object.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah. So it always means, whatever the rays goes by they they get reflected and then you are having a better coverage.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "It's like antennas.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah. So.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "But yeah that's um that's just like that's an attractive um base station.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Great..", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "So.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "So, what else?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "And for the power source we are having solar cells and rechargeable batteries and this and uh the basis station is going to have the input from the mm power line for for charging the batteries.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Is it really weight? Is it light or.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "It is very light.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah, they're light.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "It's it's uh it's about the weight of a banana.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "You know, to give you the correct look and feel.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Ok", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "And we have put these different colours so that people don't mistake them mistake it as a banana.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Otherwise it's you know a child comes and so.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Okay. Yeah yeah yeah, I see. I under I understand.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "I think a child would try to eat it anyway, so maybe we should", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "consider that. maybe health and safety aspects.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Ah yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Oh we didn't think of that yet. Yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "So for the power source, apparently you still you you want to use both solar cells and batteries.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Oh yeah that's right.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Uh you mean okay. So.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "I don't really know if the solar cells are actually necessary any more if you have a recharging base station.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah, where are going to where are you are you going to place them?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm mm-hmm. It'll It'll be always at top somewhere at there.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "If I was gonna place them I'd put them on the on the top here since that's like uh the black bit", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "You have enough surface? You.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "but yeah I don't I really don't think it's necessary to have the solar cells anymore.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah because now we are having rechargeable batteries", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "so that that is.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "What will be the autonomy? Roughly?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "The what sorry?", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "The autonomy. Autonomy.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "What do you mean?", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Uh I mean how long does i how how how long can it be held off a station?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "How long the how long the bit the batteries long.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Ah. Ah. A long time.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah. A long.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "No no no,", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Eight to ten eight to ten hours.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "it can it should be weeks.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "N most no most of the time it's not being used.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah, so it's.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah but y people don't like to put it back in the base station all the time people leave wanna leave it on the couch so.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "So when when you are making it on.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "It's used only when you.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm. Mm-hmm. No eight or eight or ten hours of working.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Ah, okay.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "If you are just leaving like that it'll be much longer.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah. F weeks.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah. That's right.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Right. Next slide?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah. And we are having the speakers regular chip for control. Pricing is was a factor so that's why we have gone for a regular chip only not the advanced chip. And uh that's it.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Okay. Okay. Those really sounds very good.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "That's right.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Nothing else to add?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "It seems to be falling over.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "I l yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "I like I like it. Maybe the the thing that convince me the less is the the multifunctional buttons. Looks a bit.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "You want to have more functional buttons?", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Looks a bit puzzled uh I dunno how to say that.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "You are not convinced.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "You the the b the buttons change h h their function depending if y it's teletext or not.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Not not many, we we want to keep it simple. So that this button fo is for teletext which is usually also the case, that usually there is a teletext button and once you press that, the channel buttons, they baco become the scrolling buttons.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "And the volume button will will become.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "It's up to you, means.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Well in fact b both will be could be useful, navigating through teletext.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Now that Means let's say this this can move the the larger digits and this can move the smaller digits.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Or can move between positions in the in the number.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "That's right.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "And what about people who want to use digits? Butto real buttons?", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Wow.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah. So there was there was a constraint that the surface area which we have on this banana on one side because of the shape.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "So we are targeting a segment which is which is just very trendy kind of thing, they they don't care about the buttons any more. And anyway.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Okay. Because have you thought about configuration and all this kind of uh stuff?", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "It's all automatic.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "It's all automatic.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yep.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Okay. Okay yeah it's fine.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Very good uh yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "W we are living in a wonderful world..", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "you th yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Uh..", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Bananas everywhere.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Okay, so.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Automatically configure..", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "So we have to go through now evaluations.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Evalua yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "So your slides are ready?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "S", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Uh you're four I think.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "So this is one, which one is this one?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Okay. I I const I constructed a a list of criteria based on the on the general user requirements. And each criteria is will be evaluated it's uh logical criteria so we must users must say i if it's true or is or if it's false in a in a scale ranging from zero to seven.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Why this strange factor of seven?", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Because i I'm sorry. Sorry.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Usually I have seen that scales are from one to ten.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Ah yeah. It's from sorry, it's from one to seven. It's from from one to seven sorry. Because it should be an even it should be an even uh scale,", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Num number.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Okay. Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "and five is too short and nine is too long.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "I'm a I I'm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Okay fine, got the idea.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "So to have in order to have enough granularity.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Sorry?", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "it's in order to have enough granularity in the evaluation.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "The variance is mi it's is minimal.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Okay, okay, great.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "I'm um answering your question.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Okay. Yeah yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Go ahead.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "And that's the criteria I I found more useful. I think I sh I I could write the criteria in the on the whiteboard?", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm. Sure.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "And we all four could range", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Okay. Yeah yeah. Yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "could evaluate the.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "So you can say fancy, handy. Handy.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Okay let's let's evaluate if it's fancy or.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah, it's fancy, according to me.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Seven but.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah, six.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "S seven.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Seven. Seven by me.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Six.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "I would say seven.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "It's quite fancy.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "So you can add seven plus six plus seven plus.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "No, wait.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah uh five.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "What do you say seven? Five?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Five.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Five, maybe maybe maybe six it's it's I guess it's.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Okay, six point five.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Handy?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Again I'll give seven.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Seven.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "I'd give it a six like I'd I think it's probably more handy than my current remote,'cause of the scroll wheels", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Six.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yep.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "but maybe loses the point for not having you know the extra buttons when you reall if you do need them for some reason but you know you can always use your other remote.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "So seven, seven,", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Seven for me.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "six,", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Six.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "six point five. Functional..", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "I'll give five.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Four.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "I would say.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Well it depends when you say functional, do you mean it does what we want it to do, or d does what it does, you know, can it make you coffee?", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Everything ar", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Uh for a remote control, does he have all the.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "You know.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Mm everything.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah. Yeah..", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "you could expect.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "It's compared to the all", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "That's right.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "remote controls.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "That's before.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "That's right. The standards. What is available in the market off the shelf.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah. I have to say four.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Actually I don't know what are the r the real specification of a of a universal remote contro", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Well it's not a universal remote. Remember we're focus we're supposed to focus just on T_V_s.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "We.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Ah it's not an univer but it's for all kind of T_V_s?", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Well all T_V_s but only T_ only T_V_s I guess.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "So it's universal but for T_V_s. So s uh four?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Five.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Five?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Four.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Four.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Four. Four.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "So four point two?", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Just four.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Four.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "four..", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Obviously there are some outliers so.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "So four?", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Okay cool? Cool device.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "There I'll give it seven.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "It means cool features, like new features actually.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "That's right.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Which.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "For a T_V_ the most important feature which I felt was the locator which is a cool feature. And then the scroll buttons are again cool features. We don't have L_C_D_ for it but that we decided we don't want to have.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah. Seven.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "I would say five.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "I'll say five.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Six.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm. Seven.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Plus six, I say I said seven.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "So it's six.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "S yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "You said seven?.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "'Cause it's five five seven seven so.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Uh, okay, definitely easy to use.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Definitely seven.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Seven.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Seven. Seven. And you? Outl you are not lik outlier.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Five..", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Seven.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Okay okay okay okay.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Sorry, I have them.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Alright, now here's the sixty million Dollar question,", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "well, twenty five twenty five Euro question.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Of course I'll buy the banana..", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "What do you what do you guys reckon?", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Of cour Of course the most difficult question for the end..", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Well.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "I'll say five.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Hmm.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "I'll say five.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Twenty five Euros. Cheap.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "I find it quite cheap actually.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "I dunno. If i i it depends, if you live in in Switzerland or you live in.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah, so the target price is for all Europe, or only for rich countries? It's more targeting U_K_ or.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "I don't know. Wha the initial specifications were for the whole all Europe or.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Uh.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "So this is selling costs, not production costs.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah. Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah this is the the initial specifications.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah yeah sure. Um Five.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "I would say six. It's quite cheap actually.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "I'd say two.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Aw, should be nice in your.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Why?", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "I don't want a banana on my living room table, a banana remote.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "No but it's really handy actually if you see.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "It is handy, it's handy, but it it's terrible.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "It's it's so handy. And then.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "It's kitsch.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Anyb anybody who comes here anybody who comes to your home he'll at least ask once what is this.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah. Yeah, but it's not a positive thing.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "It's a very positive thing if you see like that.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Well, you know, it's it's handy, it's ergonomic, but it's a banana.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Well, don't forget well, don't for don't forget who we're targeting also who are f f who are wh", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Youngsters.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "yeah, youngst youngst", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah but it says I, I would buy this, so.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Actually maybe.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "No well yeah I if you would be young.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Not telling that you are young. Li li like a teenager for instance.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "No, it's I. I would buy.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Okay you're you're crazy teenager and you like fun things.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "You want to flaunt.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "You with your girlfriend or something.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah, you want to show the beautiful banana you have..", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "S s", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Or might be it does some other kind of thing but.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Still I I'd say two. I don't think I at any stage in my life I would want a banana remote control, really.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Uh yeah, crazy.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Okay so you s you give.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "I can say, maybe there is a market for it, I dunno.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "oh yeah yeah I know I know.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "So you say two.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "I say five.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "F I d I say five. You say?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "I change the question..", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "So what's the new question?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "And you have saved it?", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "So yeah upload the.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "You'll have to reload.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Uh yeah, I think so..", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Okay, so, it depends if uh.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah it's two different situations. If you really need an universal remote control or if you would change your remote control for a n for a new one.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah that's two different question.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "If I had t if I had to spend twenty five Euro, if that was like my limit, maybe I would buy it. Because the other twenty five Euro remote controls are probably gonna look", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Ugly.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "worse than a banana..", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "They're not going to be as And they they might not be a as easy as this.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "And it yeah this is gonna f you know handy to use.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "yeah. Yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "So? What now? What range?", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "I stick to five.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "S", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Although it still has it still has the word of course at the beginning.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "I go slightly up. Six.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Six.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "so I dunno. Um.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "W we have six, five.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "I'd give it I'd give it a", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Three.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "I give it a four now.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Six? Six?", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "So we are six, five, four.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Six, five, four.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Six, so it's uh five point five, or less.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah. So.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "So and last question, will I change my rem change my remote control from Mando banana. Um, zero. No uh we can't..", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "So one.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Actually yeah, I we.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Well if.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "No uh let's say I'll put two.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "I'd say three, I mean my remote control is kinda at home is pretty terrible. If it was change my remote control of my D_V_D_ player for a Mando banana then I would be more inclined to", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "It's for the T_V_.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "but uh'cause it's really bad but uh.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "I'd say a three..", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "I'll still give it five. Yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Five?", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Two three five two three fi and two.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "You are romantic, really.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "So it's somewhere three point five I think.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "I would say two.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "So it's r Yeah, three point five..", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Who is the outlier?", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Wh wh you said five?", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "No no you say five, he is the outlier.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "No I said five.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Okay just just do a sum.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "I don't know if it's a.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "It's not very promising but you know we're not young trendsetters..", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "No because there are more yeah, we shouldn't sum like that.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Well maybe we should we should uh have a look globally glob", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Because the the last two questions is much more important than the rest actually.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Otherwise we wouldn't we will not sell.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Is there some some formula you're using that says you have to sum them up?", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Uh no I didn't anything..", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Well just leave it at that then.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Oops.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "So maybe maybe w we can we should stick to general feeling. We can had uh have a out of these numbers, which which is that well we should go for it.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah, the uh Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Problem with connectors?.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Do you want me to sum", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "No.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah it's it's funny..", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "o I think it's not.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "I think it it kind of you just lose information if you sum it, so.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Okay. So let's move uh let's move on.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah, sure.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Okay, now now we have to mm to estimate uh the cost okay. So I prepare an Excel sh uh an Excel sheet. Um well we are going to calculate the production costs. We should we should be below twelve point five. So I already uh put some pu some numbers here, okay. We are going to go through so this is the number the mm number of components we need for this thing. So it appears that there were things that we didn't thought about. Uh and also things that I uh I d I forget to uh to put like solar cells.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Well we decided against the solar cells so.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Oh yeah finally we say no.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Solar cells, yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah, we said no to that.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Okay so let's let's go let's go let go through all the lines. So hand dynamo. This something we didn't thought about. But.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "You mean, charging it by shaking the banana.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "I think rechargeable batteries will take care of the power thing.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Okay so we we stick to battery, one.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "To bring the cost Yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "No kinetic also. I don't I don't see the difference between kinetic and dynamo.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Well maybe dynamo is like you have to actually.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Ah you have to ah okay I see so kinetic is really uh shaking the banana.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "S", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Crazy. Okay. So those banana is falling. Let's go ahead. So we we st only have one for battery. Uh then for electronics um so I didn't put anything for the.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "So we have the regular chip on the print, which is one.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah. Yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "And that's it.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Okay. No so we hin", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "And we have sample speaker.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah so one.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah. Yeah. the cost of that is very high.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Ooh ye ye ye the cost is increasing. So we are.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Well actually that that no that sample speaker is not we we're not using that, we're just using the the very beep simple beep,", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "The beep.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "that s that sample thing is like the voice recording and everything.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Uh-huh.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "That's what.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm. Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Okay so I'll remove it.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "So Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "S", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "I say that Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "So don't we need a.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "And we have sev", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Oh there is no listing for r radio frequency thing.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "So.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "So we we'll put some extras, if there is something.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah maybe. We'll see later.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Okay so in for the case um I put single curved.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Okay. To reduce the cost, it's okay.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Well, wait a second,", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Because we have two things.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "no, it's it's double curved, it's got a c, it's uh.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Oh it's got all the directions", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "No.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "so don't worry..", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Well d yeah it's monotonic but", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "It's got a direction..", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "it's got but if you hold it if you hold it that way that's two curved, one on this side, one on that side, but they're opposite sides.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Well. What a what i if I put one here.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "This is actually I mean this probably", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Actually what's the differen", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "this probably actually costs more than three", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah so let's put one here in the then instead of single", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "if you.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Okay. Okay.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "oka all right.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "So we stick to plastic, it cost nothing.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah. That's right.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Well no didn't we say we wanted to do a rubber.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "No, it's too no.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "if you drop it?", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Too expensive.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "It's too expensive. We're already at eleven.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Well when okay. Well we we'll come back we'll come back and see if we can fit it in.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Okay so I put rubber one. Okay so special colour, yellow.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Uh for the interface we have.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "We don't have any push buttons.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "No, we have two push buttons.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "We have three.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "No that is a scroll wheel itself, it'll be put in that.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Huh.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "No no. We have two scroll, and we have three push buttons.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Ah okay, okay.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Uh.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Okay, okay.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "And.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Okay it's gonna have to be plastic.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Actually whe whe when you wrote regular chip you should put two, because there is another chip here.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "No it's no chip. This is just radio frequency. Th This is no chip.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah but", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "No. There's no chip there.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "you need.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "It just emits the signal.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "It's just.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "And the receiver accepts it and that's it.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Fo i it does nothing actually?", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "No. Just only.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Just se sends the signal, that's it.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "It's a recharger thing and uh.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Okay w we didn't think a thought about uh integrated scroll wheel push buttons.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Well I actually did um think about it myself but I thought you know because you could potentially you know you could be pushing it down as you scroll it for a instead of a turbo button", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah,", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "but you know the turbo button does add that extra class.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "so Yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "You know. So I mean if we're if we're over budget then maybe we could we could rethink that.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Okay. So no L_C_D_, so for we have no button supplements, right?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yep. No.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Uh well in fact could we could not we consider this button as a button supplement because oh no, these are these are for colours, co and special forms, special colours and special materials.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah. No we're not.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "So.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "we don't need anything special for the buttons.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Okay so we are over budget.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah. So first thing which we should take care of is,", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Make it plastic instead of rubber.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "instead of rubber, let it be plastic.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "And then we're basically o on budget except for you know ten cents.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "And uh that much money will be required for the base station, which is not there.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "So mayb in fact n we have to put two here", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "because it cost nothing.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah well pl the base station is made out of m many units of plastic.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "That's right.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "So might be ninety centimes for the the remaining things which the cord and everything which'll go.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Exactly exactly so we have margin for that stuff.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Does that include charging circuitry and everything?.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "That's right.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah maybe. Okay good. Wha", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Excellent.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "So what do we do with the extra profits?", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Um we'll invest in R_ and D_.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "The next fruit.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah. So well we're under the the the cost. So we can go to through to project evaluation..", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Okay so now we have a product which nobody would would buy. Would yeah, would buy.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Sorry?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "No we have a product which none of us would buy..", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah because th th the evaluation project.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Which is different. Which is different. None of us will buy it.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "No it's people in in in Milan and uh in Paris that are gonna buy it.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Ah would buy, yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "We're n", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Massively, yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "yeah. We're not in Milan or Paris.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah. Okay. Uh you have been in Milan a couple of times, so.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "This is a battery..", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Actually there were a lot of.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "And you said the lowest.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "This is what we which you can mm.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "S Detachable battery.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "It did yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "That's'cause I'm sick of Milan.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah, for the batteries.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Extra battery, yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Okay so um project process.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Exac Well in fact I I did not know I didn't know really what to say here.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "If uh if you have any ideas of what we can we can say. So I don't I don't I don't understand what what they mean by satisfaction um and for and for example.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Should it be more like um like a status of of the these meetings in fact.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah well in fact uh we we use a little bit the white board and the digital pen, not that much.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "I dunno I think we had a fair bit of creativity.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Oh yeah it's really creative.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "And uh but I think one thing we m missed out of this whole process was a um like a focus group with the actual people we're targeting.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "We needed some of these kind of young trendsetters to come in and play with the banana and you know see if they", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "They like that.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "see if they like it.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah maybe we should go through, yeah an uh evaluation.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Because yeah the evaluation for us is is kind of pointless.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Biased.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "So maybe you should we should do a kinda evaluation in the streets like asking to young peoples well, do you like to have a banana as a remote control.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah. Because it it would also be interesting to uh you to know find out if we have a market in really young children as well, to see you know how to how to market this thing.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "'Cause you know if well I mean maybe you don't wanna give all your kids their own remote because they'll be changing the channel all the time but you know maybe in some households where there is you know a T_V_ for each kid, then you know, banana remote control could be fun for them as well.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Might have to draw a face on it. So but I think that's something we need to to work on next time is really finding out more about the target market.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yep. Any any new ideas we could uh we could investigate next time? Dunno, oranges?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah. The cost of the thing can be made more than might be. Because I think it's just the optimal, what we have done for the cost which we are looking forward to.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah. I think there are ways we could maybe simplify the.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Interface.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Well just the the the circuit board that we're using inside,", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "I'm not sure really how complicated our um", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "our needs are. I mean all we have is two push buttons and two scrollers, do we really need an integrated circuit to", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Hmm.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "you know to process that.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm. Mm-hmm. Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "So more general remote control instead of just focusing on uh on T_V_.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "That's right.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "The complexity shouldn't be much higher.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "For you said if it good for D_V_D_ then I would.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "And also fo you know for mood lighting and and stuff, that would be rather cool. I think that's actually something that should be in version two, is the ability to you know to control things other than the T_V_", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Integrate.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "and not just electronic equipment but you know the whole environment of the room.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Okay. Very good. So.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "So What else?", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Well done. I think we we can go", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Okay. Home?", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "home.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Happily satisfied..", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah. Maybe maybe we can hassle the the production department to to make a a real prototype that we can use at home to to evaluate.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Okay so thanks very much.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yep.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Bye.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Thank you.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Thank you.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Bye.", "speakerName": "Marketing" } ] }

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

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{ "meetingId": "ES2014b", "transcriptSegments": [ { "text": "Right uh. So um. So where's the PowerPoint presentation? Sorry? Microsoft PowerPoint, right. Right, okay. So. Right. Okay, so we've got uh so we've got new project requirements. Um. So basically we've got three things, and we've got forty minutes in which to uh for this meeting to uh to discuss the various options. Um. Three presentations.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "We have a I guess we have a presentation each,'cause I've got one. Um.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah,", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "I see, right.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "I've got one too.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "That's nice to know, one from each of you. Um new project requirements. Um so do we want to do the presentation first, or do we want to um W I I got um or or three things basically, um relating to the remote being only for T_V_. We discussed that last time", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "and in actual fact that was pr pretty well what we came up with anyway.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "So in fact it actually f we won't be forestalled in a sense.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Um we've got uh teletext outdated. Um did you get any information on that?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Uh we didn't, no.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "No.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Right and the corporate image was the uh final thing.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "I d I didn't personally.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Hmm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "So I I got that in email form.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Um. Right okay. So I guess if we go ahead with the uh with the three presentations. So we'll start with yourself on the basis that uh.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Okay that's fine. I'll just um I'll grab the wire out the back of this one.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Sorry, yep.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Oh..", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "What is it?", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "I'm not quite sure how it.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "I think you've got to do um control F_ eight.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Control Doesn't seem to be quite working at the moment.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Shift F_ eight..", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Alt function F_ eight. Again not doing anything.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "There's usually a little thing in the top right for the.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Oh.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Ah there,", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Oh hang on,", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "it's doing something.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "it's just coming on.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "pressed about five times now.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Okay, that's me. Okay, um I have to go again.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "it going?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Hopefully that should be it this time. Okay, I think we're there. That's good. Okay, um Okay I'm gonna be looking at the working design. Um of the of the remote control. Um I've just got three sections, first is the research I made on the on the remote control itself um. And then that involves the components required in it and the systems uh design of the actual the actual remote. Um so having researched the existing models within the market, um I found my research off the internet. Um I've established what the components required for the remote control to function, actually are. And then also the methods in which these components interact together for the remote to actually do what you want it to do and how it connects with the television. Um the basic components are an energy source which I guess um in most existing models would be a battery supply. Whether that'll be sort of two batteries, four batteries, um it may vary.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "We then have the user interface, which is basically the like the the buttons on the actual remote. Um the various functions used for changing channel, uh channel up and down, volume, things like that. Um there's also a chip inside the remote which does all the computer type things. And then the sender, which um is usually, I've found, an infra-red device which sends a signal to the actual television. Um and the last part is receiver which is important in the system but is not actually part of the remote itself, because that's obviously found in the television.. Um I'm gonna have to actually draw on the board because uh it was a little tricky on PowerPoint to get this working, so. I'll just go through there. S um um do we have a cloth to wipe this down with, or? Oh I'll j", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Uh there's the rubber on the right, I think.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "I think it's that little.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Oh I see. Oh okay. I'll get rid of the bear.$", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "it's magic..", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Okay that's great. Okay, so we start off with a um battery suppl Uh no, a power supply which we'd probably get it's probably gonna be the battery. Um we then have a particular button, which may be that's obviously there's lots and lots of different buttons. Um but this is how the basic system works. Um that sends after you press that that sends the message to the chip, which um then sends It sort of interprets which button you've pressed and then sends the appropriate message to the sender. Um. So that's. That's the remote in itself, that's the components of the remote and how they work together. So this is the uh user interface. Um this is the chip itself, which then, and that's the that's the infra-red sender. And then on the separate thing we have on the on the television we have a a receiver. And the sender sends a message to the receiver.'Kay.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "So the the top bit's the power source, yes?.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Ah yes, that's the power source. Um. going on to personal preferences, I've said that battery seems the best option for the actual remote, just because of the size. You don't want a a cable attached to the remote otherwise it's not it's not really a remote. Um and then the sender,", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "and infra-red um has been used quite successfully. If the battery's on reasonable power, they always seem to work fairly well. You don't have to be point directly at the television itself.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "So the battery is the in the sender.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Um Yes.'Kay and that's it for the moment.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Okay. So, now more design..", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Right. Thank you. Mine's not quite as complicated as all that.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "That's what we like to hear..", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Did I press function? Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Is it control function ei Oh, th there you go.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Oh. Um. Okay so I'm gonna talk a bit about the technical functions design. I'm Louisa, the User Interface Designer, as you know. Um so the m basic method of this is to send a signal from the remote to the television set, so that a desired function is performed. Um an example of the function could be to change the volume up or down, uh so obviously you need two different buttons for that. Um to change the channel, either by pressing the number that you want or by channel up or down. Um to switch the television on or off, maybe a standby button. Um here are two example remotes. Um by the look of it they both have um kind of play and fast forward, rewind functions, so I think they incorporate a kind of video function which we won't have to worry about. Uh but as you can see, the left remote is quite um quite busy looking, quite complicated. Um whereas the right remote is much simpler, it looks much more user friendly. Um so my personal preference would be the right remote. So, it's got nice big buttons, it's got a very limited number of buttons. Um they're nice, kinda clearly labelled. Um I like the use of the kind of um symbols like the triangles and the squares and the arrows as well as the words on the um kind of play functions and all that. So it's very very user friendly, and it's got a little splash of colour. Could maybe do with some more colour. Um.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Well there's a couple of things there. Um we have to remember that we have our own um logo and colour scheme. So basically we'd have to uh we'd have to be putting that on um the the product.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Hmm. Do we get to see that?", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "I haven't as yet, no.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Will you be presenting that in a bit?.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "But uh I got uh I got an email that basically said to uh make sure that uh whatever device we come up with at the end of the day had to incorporate um the corporate colour and slogan. So uh I'm guessing that uh uh I notice on the bottom there it's got uh what's that? A_P_O_G_E_E_ that might be the corporate colour scheme, although the only the only colour I can see in that is the red.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Hmm.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Would you be able to get rid of the the extra buttons here, the the sort of circular section, because that seems to be for a video as well. So we could dispense with that little bit as well and just get it down to just the numbers and the volume. Possibly?", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "What do you mean by the circular section?", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "J yeah yeah yeah j yeah", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Like all of that bottom bit?", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "just this little bit is that I think that's still um a video remote part,", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "so maybe we could get rid of that as well.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah. And I don't really think that you need nine numbers.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Well b uh w", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "I mean how often do you use seven, eight and nine? I think just one to six and then channel up and down should be enough.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Well th the on the.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Like how often do you hit nine?", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Well uh for for general television purposes obviously you have channels one to five at this point in time,", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "and we'd have to have some room for uh future such channels. But but.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "It's just people are used to seeing that, so if we didn't have them then they might think it's.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "But, well possibly but the the other thing is that with um the current expansion of uh channels uh in the process of taking place, certainly the button up and down, but uh I mean how many channels do we have to um actual television channels do we have to uh prepare for? I would have thought that uh it's forever expanding and at the moment we've got although you've onl you've got the five standard, you've got the B_B_C_ have come up with a further six", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "and uh there's uh I don't know exactly how many channels there are on uh when you take into account uh Sky and various other um various others.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Hmm.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "So I would've thought that we wouldn't, you know, rather.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Hmm.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Okay, if the time of flicking from one to other, but presumably it'll take a second", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "'cause you have to be able to stop it. Maybe you could have a fast forward on the on the channels that w and then you could dispense with more otherwise. Y you'd want you'd want to get fairly quickly to the channel that you wanted.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Um some remotes have kind of favourite options where if you always flick from channel one to channel six, um if that's a favourite you just like by-pass two to five.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah, I s I suppose in a sense you could have um if you've got a hundred channels then if you had sort of an easy way of getting rather than having to go one to a hundred, you could go one to one to ten, ten to twenty", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Hmm.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "and then have a second button to get you to the actual channel you want", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "and that would cut down your time.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm. Um.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Anyway.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "But I think a lot of um like Cable and Sky and stuff, that would be tuned to one channel, and then you'd have another remote for all of those channels.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Okay, yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Like to get to fifty five and the higher numbers.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Whatever.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Okay. Okay. Limit the number of buttons, user friendly.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "But I suppose nine's not really excessive.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "I suppose with nine you've got the the like the last one which makes the tenth means you uh it's like uh multiples you can put them together so you can make any number.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "I suppose it does make a good pattern.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "So with that we'd kind of by-pass any problems with.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah Well that's true, yeah,", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "you could get fifty by five and a zero or whatever, that that makes sense.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.'Cause that facilitates having all the numbers you could ever need.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Um.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Does.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "So w so what was the circular thing that you were.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Okay. Um I think that's just for a video, so we wouldn't need any of that at all.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "So we could get it down to what?", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "If it's just for T_V_, which is what it is at the moment.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "So we get to How many buttons have we got? We've just got ten, eleven twelve th We got fourteen that we need. I guess.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Um which isn't really too many. That'll be quite easy to make a user guide for a fourteen button remote.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm. Well we've we've got um that it's remote for T_V_ only otherwise project would become too complex with uh which would endanger the time to market was one of the considerations.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "'Kay.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "I'm I don't know d did you have that information behind the marketing,", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "or was I meant to give you that information?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Um I'm not sure. I had I've had some market information,", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "but not from the company, no.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Right, okay, so basically time to market seems to be important, therefore speed of delivery.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "'Kay.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "We've only got about another four hours left..", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Okay, so is everyone happy with that?", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Ah yes yes, that seems good.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Right well that's the end of my presentation.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "'Kay. I'm gonna pull this off..", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "I think if you just give it a second to maybe catch up.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah, I think she said twenty seconds to um.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Uh-huh.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "I'm sure we'll have by the end of today.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Okay. I'll give it another go. Yeah, there we go..", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Right, we've done some research into the functional requirements that people want out of their remote control. And first off we should state that th the remote control's for controlling the T_V_ and um how do people use it? We asked them sort of which buttons were useful for them. Um how d how does a remote control look and feel for them, and what improvements would would they like to remote control. And we did that by sort of giving them a questionnaire that we'd prepared and asking them to fill in the answers. And three quarters of them found that remote controls are ugly and that a sort of even higher proportion would spend more for a sort of s uh a fancier remote control And that of all the buttons on the remote control, the sort of setting buttons for sort of the picture picture and brightness and the audio settings, um they weren't used very often at all. People concentrated on the channel buttons and the volume buttons and the power buttons. Uh we also asked them about speech recognition uh for remote control. And young people were quite receptive to this, but as soon as we got sort of over about into a thirty five to forty age forty five age group and older, people people weren't quite so keen on speech recognition. There's a lot more th there's a lot lot more older people who didn't know whether they wanted it or not as well. Um we also asked what frustrated people about remote controls and the number one frustration was that the remote was lost somewhere else in the room and that they couldn't find it. And the second second biggest frustration what that if they got a new remote control, it was difficult to learn um all the buttons and all the functions, and to find your way around it. Okay, so My personal preferences from the marketing is that we need to come up with some sort of sleek sort of good looking high high-tech A design which looks high-tech, basically. Um and that we should come up with fewer buttons than most of the controls on the market, and we should sort of concentrate on the channels and sort of power, and also volume and that sort of thing, as as Louisa said. Um we could maybe come up with a menu, a sort of a an L_C_D_ menu for other functions on the remote control. That's worth thinking about. Um and maybe we could think about speech recognition as well, because um sort of young people are perhaps the ones that are gonna buy buy our new product if we aim it at sort of you know sort of a high-tech design. That that might be the market that we're we're looking for. And we could maybe think about using speech recogniti recognition as a way to find the remote control if it's lost in a room, rather than sort of um having it to speech recognition to change the channels.'Cause there's a problem with that in that the television makes noise, so it could end up talking to itself and changing its channel.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Okay um, and that's the end of the slide show. That's it. Cool.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "What was that last wee bit there?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Do a lot of um.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Um about speech recognition?", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Speech recognition,", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "But that was only for young people that preferred it, older people didn't.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Youn young people pref Yeah, they s they said that they'd be interested in a remote control which offered that possibility and as you go up through the age groups, people got less and less interested in sort of a a remote control that you could talk to, so.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "No what I maybe think is um it seems the technology would be quite advanced for that and they might end up costing more than our twelve fifty budget for for the speech recognition. Um.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Well that's right.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "And possibly the thing about the about the remote being lost we could have You know with your mobile phone, you lose that and you can ring it. Maybe we can have some kind of sensor which is kept somewhere where you can some kind of buzzer system between the two. So you can press a button which is always kept in one place", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "and then it maybe buzzes to somewhere else, wherever the remote actually is.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Uh-huh. Yeah. Yeah, we'd have t that would mean we'd have to put two products together as well,", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "That is true, yes.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "which which again would probably be a bit expensive, but.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Hmm.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "There's key rings um that you kind of whistle at or clap at, I can't remember, and then they whistle back, or something like that.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Sounds reasonable.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "That'd probably be really simple,", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "they're cheap.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah. So.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "So I guess it'd be something we could like attach to the or like the same technology could be put inside the inside the remote.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Well if you're trying to avoid having a second product'cause obviously you could have a second product that gave you the right pitch which would set the remote off to say here I am sort of thing, you know without sound recognition. But if you I know. Um I was gonna say a sharp noise, you know a clapping of hand or whatever. You'd want to try and av just have the one product that if.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah. Yeah if we if we could have it in the actual remote like everything in one one device.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm. Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah. Um I dunno um talking about vo I mean obviously if you've got voice recognition then you can do it in that way because it'll recognise the voice and you can give it a command, a set command whatever that happened to be.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "But you've then got the point if if you're not going with uh voice recognition then.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "you could have an option to turn it off. Or.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Perhaps, um.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "So that would solve the problems with the T_V_ kind of speaking to the remote and changing its own channels.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "So uh Any sugges Well, any conclusions?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Um would it take quite a while to sort of develop the speech recognition software in the remote control?", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Well if it does then we can't.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Considering.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "It's that simple,", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "because we've got uh th th three um primary um uh requisites from uh from and email uh that was sent to me whereby we had The design logo was one, which we've already mentioned. We've got um the remote was only for the television and not for because that would make it too complex and we have to get it market quickly.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "And the uh third thing was that um teletext uh as far as uh the management is concerned, um is becoming dated uh due to the popularity of the internet. So that means that uh.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "'Kay.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "so these are the sort of three um extra parameters that have been put on this uh project.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "So we're being focused effectively directly at a television and it seems to me that the management is uh wanting us to go down a narrow path and not opening out.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yes.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "So anything that uh is to be added, such as voice recognition et cetera has to be very simple and has to be very quick", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Has to be simple enough to.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "because time to market is is critical. S", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "I suppose if we could get something in which was quite quick and simple that would give us an advantage over the other remotes. Um.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "It would. But probably quick and simple is primary rather than added extras.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "'Kay.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Added extras would be nice, but the primary consideration is to get the project finished within uh this short time window, which effectively now is sort of four hours.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "So and if and we've gotta get to the end. Uh d d I think I think first and foremost we've gotta get to the end and then get to the end with um added extras if possible.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "So.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Right okay, uh so I need to Right. So I don't know how long we have left of our uh time. But we have to make the decisions on uh the remote control functions", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "About five minutes.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "and how we were planning to proceed so that at the next uh meeting each person that's got a a a task to do is clear from this meeting what that task is.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yes.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "We'll also know w when the next meeting is", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Um..", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "I um so we'll know how long we've got to complete that task. And then we can report back at the next meeting and say right okay yes, we've achieved this or we haven't achieved this, this is how far we've progressed. Does that make reasonable sense?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yes that seems right.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Okay, yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "So we have to come effectively to the decision on the remote functions so that you can decide what you're gonna be doing. And if dur between the time of this meeting finishing and the next meeting starting, if you get any additional information that uh only you have at that point in time you'd think would be relevant to other people in terms of their des decision making um process, then we should communicate that as quickly as possible and not wait until the next meeting.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Do it via the email", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Okay. Yep.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "so that rather than coming you know If you get the information just before the next meeting that's fine. Come along with it in the next meeting, we can discuss it then and take whatever action is appropriate.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "But if you get it well before the next meeting, let everybody else know'cause that might have an impact on their uh on what they come up with effectively at the next meeting.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Right, is there.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "So do we need to decide on the functions now? S", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "I would guess so.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Well I think it'd be really easy and it'd be a big advantage if we did have some sort of um kind of whistle back kind of function.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "'Cause that'll solve kind of the frustration of losing it.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah and Yeah and that was that was the number one sort of frustration that people said, so.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yep.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "I don't think there's anything else on the market that does that, so.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah. I don't really know about the voice recognition thing.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "I w well uh i", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Maybe we should concentrate just on the whistle back function at the moment,", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Something simple. Uh if if our primary consideration is to get it there in time, time's short,", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "and if something comes back.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "you want something to meet the major concerns of the consumer so that we can have that as a selling point for the product,", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "something that's quick and simple. So,", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "sounds good.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "And that wouldn't put off the kind of older generation either,'cause everyone can whistle or clap, and they wouldn't have to be kind of scared of this new technology.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Well, so maybe a clap rather than a whistle would be.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "On the basis that if we've got if we're catering to the whole age range, you want something that's easy to do,", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "now something that doesn't like whis uh", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "No not everyone can whistle, can they, though?.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Well I I I don't know. Well If you think that more people can whistle than clap then that's fine, then go for that option,", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "but if I would have thought that more people could clap rather than whistle,", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "No,", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "I'd go more.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "clapping, I think clapping,", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah, f more for clap.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "yeah. Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "so uh so clap option.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "'Kay we've already decided that we don't need a teletext button, haven't we?", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Uh. Ef effectively that's what the that's what they're saying,", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Is that one of the.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "that uh if uh if people are now using the internet then you don't need teletext,", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Hmm.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "so so take out teletext.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Taking out teletext, okay.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Did we decide on having the ten um the ten numbers", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "and then the the little digit next to it which kind of enabled you to put them together.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah, I think so, so zero to nine.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Mm. I think nowadays you can just get ones where it gives you a sort of a second or two to press another number,", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "so you can press any two and it'll sort of put them together.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Okay, ten numbers", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "and then some kind of device to allow uh.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "I'll put delay to allow um multiple numbers.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Or multiple digits.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Did we decide anything about um the other functions? As in setting the audio and tuning it and stuff like that? You had an had an idea about the menu?", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Uh we could possibly put an L_ a sort of a L_C_D_ menu in, but that again is probably an expense that.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "But just thinking um people probably I mean you don't have you only have to probably tune in the T_V_ once, but you have to be able to tune it that once.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "So and if finally the T_V_ breaks, you get a new one, you're gonna have to be able to tune it. You can't really avoid that.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "No.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Except the new digital markets which do it by themselves.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Hmm.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "But the but that's relying on the television market changing to an automatic", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "So that'll be in.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yes.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "and if it is at the moment, that's fine. But at the moment it's not, so it seems to me that you have to have a device that caters,'cause otherwise it would make it uh your device would become inoperable, or only operable in certain circumstances", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah. Yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "and the idea is to have an international market", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "which is.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "And it's also m it's the the product we've got is something that's at the I would have said the lower end of the s of the cost scale, so we're not really going for something that's uh terribly high-tech.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah. I s I suppose um if people are buying remotes, then they're probably buying it to replace another remote", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Possibly.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "'cause all most tellies come with remotes, so.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "That's right.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "I mean we're maybe talking about replacing remotes for slightly older televisions, so we maybe need to keep the the tuning function in..", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah. So how would this menu function work?", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Would you maybe have like one menu button, then you'd use the other buttons, maybe the number buttons to actually do the separate functions.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah,", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah,", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "like the volume or something.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "that would be a good idea, yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah,'cause you do need um kind of brightness and contrast and everything as well. My dad was watching a film the other week", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "and it was too dark, so I had to go through it and turn the brightness up.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "we're gonna have the the individual numbers", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Hmm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "and then a menu function and maybe sort of a slightly more advanced um instruction booklet to come with it, to guide Presu uh I think it'd be quite hard just for people to grasp um just off like the menu use different buttons you maybe have to have like some better instructions of how that would actually work.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Uh I'm not sure whether the sort of having people have a booklet'cause one the second most annoying thing that people found was having to learn the new one.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Right, okay um.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "So maybe next to each of the buttons, you know each of them could have a number and then also a function written next to it, so you're basically pressing.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "that also goes back to the original design when we saw those two, and there was the one on the left hand side which had all like the double functions and stuff which kind of looked too busy and had too much on it, so.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Okay, well.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Well, if we're trying to keep it slee sleek and sexy as well, have you seen those remotes where kind of um the bottom bit slides down, so there's kind of um everything else revealed?", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "So y Ah That's a very good idea.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "So you don't use it that much, you don't have to see it all the time. But it's all there if you need it.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "That is that is a good idea actually.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah, yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Sor sort of a second.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "So you keep um.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Like a hidden panel.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Right we've got five minutes before we wind up this meeting, so I've been told. I don't know if you've got the same.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Okay. Uh not quite, but I guess.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Okay. So so keep um keep detailed functions um hidden at the back.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Keep the other buttons but hide them away.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Hmm. And that'll be better for the older generation as well'cause, well my dad doesn't like anything that you've got to kinda flick through a menu,", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Ah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "but he can pretty much read a button if it's displayed properly.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "So.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "So um we're gonna have to have to work out what's gonna be on these other functions as as well. So we're gonna have like two separate two separate lists, I guess.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "That's right.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "data functions hidden at back. Can bring out when needed.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "So th the The detailed ones would be sort of brightness,", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "uh sorta.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "That's right so we're dis So you've got which ones are gonna be on the front and which ones are gonna be on the back. We have to decide.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "So sh Should we decide in the next couple of minutes, and then.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "I guess so.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "So on the.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "So on front,", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "about the number.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "numbers,", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Um the volume up and down.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "And the volume?", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "volume.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Shall we have a mute button as well?", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Um.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Sorry?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "A mute button as well.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah. Or.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah I think they're handy.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm. And probably a power one as well. Dunno.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "I know it's probably like um not an issue to raise here, but um the whole thing about not using your standby uh because of the like waste of electricity. Have you seen the adverts? Like if you boil the kettle that's full that's a waste.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "If you leave your telly on standby it powers Blackpool for a certain amount of time.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah..", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Like we should maybe try to discourage people from standby.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "But then they might not buy it if they haven't got one.'Cause people might just be too fickle and not want to change.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah, it's maybe too much of a big issue for here.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "So so are you having the stand-by on the front, then?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah..", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "We can send out a flier with the device saying that you shouldn't leave it on stand-by.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Uh-oh danger sign.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "I think you probably should.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah, but a little bit smaller.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Compromise.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Well.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Um are we gonna have the channel up and down as well as the number buttons?", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Um'cause yeah the market research said there is quite a lot of people do just zap around and flick, so.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Okay, so we'll have um.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "So we've got ten eleven twelve thirteen fourteen fifteen sixteen there?", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Channel up and down.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Um.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "What else have we got? What was that, sixteen?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Numbers is ten, volume is twelve,", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Volume button. How many volumes?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "th Yeah si One up, one down.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Right okay.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "On mute.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "And a mute, yeah. That's sixteen isn't it, yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Is there anything else? Um.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "I don't think so, no.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Power button, stand-by, channel, up and down. So is that it?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "so.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Okay. That's sixteen buttons, you reckon. And then at the back?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "You've got brightness and contrast.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Maybe if we're gonna run out of time, one of us should come up with a list of these and then get back at the next meeting just at the start and say what they're gonna be.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "And then.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Okay. So on the back it'll have brightness, contrast,", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "anything else? You're also gonna have the channel tuner, as it were.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Uh there's audio functions.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "So tuner up and down, I guess.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Tuner, would that have up and down?.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Um up Tune one way, tune the o", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "I think they normally do.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "okay. Okay.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "I I dunno I dunno possibly.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "And then maybe sort of an enter button for sort of s you know, saying that you want that particular thing tuned in. So you go up and down and then it pick it finds something and then you wanna press enter to select it, yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Oh yeah and th and a enter button just to select. Yeah, okay. Um I guess we're keeping s it simple. We don't really need any other audio funct uh functions because it's just volume up, volume down.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Um up volume, yeah, I would have thought so.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Um.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "So I think um there's quite a lot of like Dolby surround studio, surround sort of things.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Do they have their own do they have their own controls on their actual products, then,", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Um maybe for the younger market.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "or do you have to do it via the remote?", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Um I think they've got their own controls in this kind of like hidden panel.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah I suppose if we've got their if they've got their own controls then we can avoid it for ours just to keep it simple.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah. Yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Oh no, I mean um like there's kind of individual buttons for them, like on the T_V_ remote.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Oh, okay. Right.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "But I don't really know what they're for,", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "I've never used them.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Um.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "I just know they're something to do with Dolby.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Maybe unless something comes up then we should I think.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Well you might get some research..", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Well shall we look into that and just get back together.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Right so I'll do the minutes of uh this meeting.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "And we'll meet back at I'm not sure. Um forty minutes, I believe is the time.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "'Kay.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Okay..", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Come on.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" } ] }

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Y no, it's a slightly curved around the sides..", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Mm very nice.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Um, it's almost curved like up to the main display as well. And the little line at the bottom indicates the bit the panel that you pull down.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "And the extra function buttons are below that panel on the little line.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "And we've got the stick on the button with the company logo on.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "We also have a apple slash cherry design at the top.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "So it is, yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Cherry would be alright actually.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah,", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "it's a bit more fun, isn't it? And it's kinda not really at a kind of you think apple, you think computers, like Apple Mac.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah, yeah, we might get a.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm. Copyright, yeah. What's this this one?", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah, and cherries are fun, summery.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "What's that one there?", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Ah, that's the mute.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "For the M_..", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Oh, okay. Right.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "It it'd probably have to be labelled mute.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "They're thinking.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "But um, we didn't have anything small enough to write.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Uh-huh.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "For the first time, well it was hard to get the h um the actual labelling on the individual buttons.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Okay. Mm-hmm..", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah. Uh, we just chose simple shapes for all them.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Um, the important ones are the volume ones. So we made them a bit bigger. The mute could possibly be a bit smaller.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Hum, you separate off in colour the volume related buttons from the channel related buttons, so you've got the volume in orange on design there,", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "and the the channel is in blue.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "R right. Um,", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah, and we chose a V_ plus and V_ minus.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "all these things have cost implications. And so when I done my thing on cost a I had assumed that the only uh button that would be a different colour would be the uh the red apple button. So However, I've now. But um, yeah so uh but there would be a cost implication on that,", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "I'll see if I can find them.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "and uh as I suppose that so whether wanted to put in all these colours, would be uh open to debate, I suppose.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah, sis", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Well the colours wouldn't like that's they wouldn't be too important,", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Have.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "but we didn't have any white Play-Doh. So that's where the colour buttons came from..", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "An important consideration.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Right, okay so um And the second one underneath would be the idea for the.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yes, we'll have the slide-away.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Right, okay. So we've got um detail design meeting.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Bottom.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Right. So So, we've got prototype presentation, which we've just done, evaluation criteria, um and finance, so I guess w we have to evaluate if that meets the various uh aspects that we're looking for uh from um our previous meeting.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "So other than the fact that it doesn't have the second layer, but um obviously obviously it would.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "But other than that, we got the red apple. We got the buttons and the only thing that has really changed is the is the colouration of the buttons,", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yes, yes.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "and the bit after the evaluation criteria is uh is the finance. And the and the cost implication.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "The only snag about this is that uh the cost is probably kind of important. So um, and then the production evaluation, as to how easy that would be to uh to manufacture.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Um, and whether it would uh.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "So if you had to do a presentation or will you just work it on the prototype?", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "This this is a.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Uh, that's it..", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "yes, this is our presentation of the prototype.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "That's the pr", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Right, so uh as far as the the finance of it would be concern would be to make sure that the cost aye the production cost'cause you may remember that was one of the first uh considerations was to be in d under um uh twelve fifty or two and a half uh twelve and a half Euros.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "So, there's no redesign. So that should uh Right, so, seems to me that the thing that I have to do is is quickly find that uh.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Could we get this on the board just so we can see or do you mean do you have the figures there?", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "we should plug it in.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Do you wanna plu do you wanna plug it in into the the back of that one.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "'Kay, Alice. So, sh", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "We could do it as we d go along, the production costs, looking at the prototype.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Right..", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "'Kay this should be then.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Okay, so, by the fact that we've got uh the simple chip and the uh kinetic energy source, we've got a single curved case. We've got a rubber uh case materials supplements. So, we had decided that we're having rubber buttons and.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm. Have a push button interface.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Okay. W the button supplements.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Um.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Well, originally, I thought there would just be uh one in there because it was the one red apple. But.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Um.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "So the so the real w the real question then would come in. Do you make all the buttons.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Well do we'll do it on the prototype,", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "O", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "so do two, see how much it is.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Well, so we've got one special button form, which was the apple. Everything else is gonna be a standard.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "We've got special material, rubber, wood, titanium, et cetera and that,", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "And then we'd have.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "so, I was originally, I was thinking rubber wasn't special,", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "but according to this, maybe it is.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "So And the r I mean effectively we've got sixteen buttons that we're gonna have on there.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah. I think you just do one, don't you, for the.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "W I don't know is is is the sort of answer, is that meant to be all sixteen buttons, and therefore I mean, what's the op The option was maybe not to have rubber buttons, but just to have the one that was soft and spongy, and therefore.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "I think I think it's just it's just a one. Else.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Whereas it would be the special colour would be for the So you would only have the one special button that was rubber, whereas the rest would be hard plastic..", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "I thi I think I think the button supplement i is just a supplement for all the buttons made in a different material, rather than per button.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "I don't know though.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "I would Every design change is uh sound] I dunno,", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Hmm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "um Okay, um, if we just had all the buttons as standard, except for the one red apple, then that would take care of that, I guess. We'd have one special colour and one special button form.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "And when I plugged that in last time remember it has to be under twelve and a half. As far as I know, that um that took care of the uh of the various supplements.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "And if What happened?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "You've just gone off the window into another one. It's on the bottom row.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Maybe if you just minimise that one in the top right-hand corner of the little box.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Now, right..", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Okay, so, but the point would be that if we uh if we just did special Sorry, you were saying that it would be that one, that you would put in one there.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah. Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "So that's nine point one there so we've got some.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "So it Well, is it s is no, it's nine point seven I've got.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "'Kay.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Just give us a bit of.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "So, that would that would work out fine if uh uh as assuming your correction are are assuming that that one change covers all the buttons, then that would be fine.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm. Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "And there's nothing else as far as I can see that we we had uh planned to put on.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "S", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "I switching around those th um on the electronics we got the sample sensor. At the moment we've just got the simple chip, which costs one.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Uh-huh.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Um, I guess the sample sens sample speaker would be the voice recognition thing, which puts up to four?", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "We should be slightly over our budget but if we gather something else down to slightly lower standard, and maybe go with the one the special form buttons, then we could have the speech.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Well, hold on. Um, if we Okay, that gives us twelve point seven", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "So uh maybe if we got rid of like the maybe one of the special colours, kept them all the same colour, then we could have the voice recognition", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "But remember that the idea was to keep it the colour of the.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "without.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Oh, I see, so just take out the special colour for the apple and.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah, yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Um,. D wouldn't you have to keep the simple chip there as well? You know how you turn that one to a zero, wouldn't the chip and the sample speaker be separate things,", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah, we have to have it.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Oh possibly, yeah, yeah maybe.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "so you need both of them?", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Maybe um we'd be giving up on the kinetic. Um.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "And go for battery instead.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "That would give you one less.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "We should Yeah, that would save us one, though we'd still be slightly ov", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "But you reckon that i I mean the thing is that you wanted to a appeal to people and not have to replace batteries.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah, yeah. Well, since it's the through the whole technology type thing, um, you were saying in the market research that people like kind of interesting gadgets in them. Um, whether they would figure the the s uh sample senor and the sample speaker, voice recognition be sort of a worthwhile thing to have.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "And then still have the batteries,", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "or whatever they would prefer not uh You know what I mean? The the problem was the battery's running out and losing the um losing the remote.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "So you gotta decide which of those is more important to them.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "But which do you think or which do we think is the more important of the options? In a sense, at the moment, we've got a total which we need to reduce down by one point two.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "I think the voice recognition.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "At least. Remember that was a minimum requirement. The other option if we're planning on just going for something cheap and cheerful, would be to um make it originally, we're gonna make it a simple product.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Shall we shall we evaluate the prototype as we've got it now first, and then sort of make decisions about what needs to be changed after?", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm. Makes sense.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Okay", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Okay. Right um, I have a little thing. So, we've all got a note of it's thirteen point seven, isn't it, with everything we want on.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": ". Sorry, do you want that back up?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah, I just had a presentation to do..", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "But I do think uh the v uh voice recognition thing would be more impressive than the fact that it's got no battery.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Okay, but remember the main the only reason we were planning on having the voice recognition was so that they could find the remote if it got lost.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm. Mm. Right okay um, This is about the evaluation criteria that we use for the the prototype we've got here.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "And so the method is that the design team makes a prototype, and we evaluate the prototype against some criteria that we've formulated. And those ones are gonna be in response to sort of market research, and also finance, I guess. And do that on a scale from say true being one and false being seven, so if it's neither true nor false, then that's four. So, I got a set of criteria just based on the marketing that we need to add in a financial one as well, at the end. Um so, We have to say whether it's true or false that the product looks and feels fancy. Um The whether the product demonstrates technical innovation. Whether it's easy to use. Whether it's incorporating sort of the fashion element to attract the buyer. And whether it's a sort of recognisable Real Reaction product. And I have to go up onto the whiteboard and do this apparently,", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "so I'll go over here. Right. So the first one is um, does the product look and feel fancy. So if we do a sort of a one So.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Okay, well we have a single curve, which was maybe like the feel of the product's quite good.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "So uh.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Um, then we have the rubber kinda spongy feel, which was in at the time.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Um, sorry that'd be considered fancy.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah, I'd maybe give it a a two.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Of but I think What Is one false, or is t one true?", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "One's true.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "I forgot. One's true, and okay. Seven's fal", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "And a four is neutral.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Four is neutral, okay. So.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "So maybe maybe a two.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah,'cause we haven't got the double curve, so we can't like say it's completely true.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Go for one. Yep.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "But it's pretty close. We've got almost everything we can.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Okay. Right.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "I gonna put underneath so I've got some more space. So, false is seven, true is one, and So uh say about a two for fancy,", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "you think?", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah, why not not,", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "m m maybe nearer three.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Okay, well d you do an average at the end, I don't know. Um.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Two three. Well, it's just that uh saying something remember that when you look down, we've got solar power, we've got uh various other things you could have, and we're not going for these options.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Uh-huh. This this is just this is just for like the look. Does it sort of look fancy rather than functional. So.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm..", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah, I suppose that might be in the technical innovation bit.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah, so that so sh should we go for a a two on that?", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "'Kay. And I mean, how much does the product demonstrate technical innovation do you reckon?", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Um, deciding between the kinetic power or um the speech recognition, and if we had either of those for our budget, they both show a reasonable amount of speech recognition.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "D yeah. Okay. So, what about the pr The prototype as it is,", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Um.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "we've got we've got the speech recognition on it, haven't we.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "But not the kinetic.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "But not the kinetic.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Like the power.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "No.'Cause you can't afford that w we took that out too.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "No, we c ca yeah, we can't afford both.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Alright, so.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Didn't you? Or.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "So it doesn't It's pretty The prototype as it is isn't sort of um fulfilling the.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "No may is maybe about neutral", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Maybe a three.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "plus it it it's got something, but it hasn't got.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Okay. Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Well, wait a minute. In thirteen point seven we do have kinetic.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "I would give it more than a four.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "The problem is we have to reduce down from there to get it down to twelve point five.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "And one way of doing that would be to take out the kinetic.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "So, it's very much dependant on what you do with your options. And if you're definitely going for the sample sensor and sample speaker, then because that.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "'Kay.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Right, okay.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "the other functions we've got in are are more at the The special material, the rubber, wood, titanium, et cetera, if you go for that, th that's at the high end'cause that's point six, whereas down at uh just special colours uh is point two. Now you're trying to lose one point two, so it seems to me that if you're going for the sample sensors speaker, you're basically then having to go for the cheaper options on everything else.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "And and the simple way to do it would be to have a battery, to have your uh sample sensor speaker,", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Um.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "and then you're looking to uh take out uh point two,", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "S I'm just gonna check my email..", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "which would be come from the button supplements category.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "I'm just gonna check exactly what it said in the email for um the product.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "How much of a difference would it make if we made the case in plastic? Because we did say that we don't wanna follow the fashion too much. If the buttons are rubber that might be spongy enough.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Um, interface type um,", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "And then it stand the test of time better.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "well plastic rather than rubber..", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Okay. But I.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "That that that would make the significant difference. You could either you could have it If you have a in plastic rather than rubber, then that would uh enable you to get you could keep kinetic then, you could keep your sample sensor, and you'd be looking to take out point two. So you could uh fiddle that down your special form at the bottom, or your special colour at the bottom.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "And that would enable you to to do it.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "So it says if we make a slightly more fancy, then we lose points innovation, and if we make it more innovative innovative, then we lose points on it being fancy, so.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Ye", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": ", I just read the email again and it sort of says it's evaluate the design sort of as it is, I think, so I think we need to think about finance after we've sort of evaluated that design. I don't know whether we're doing it in the wrong order or something or.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Well, okay, but.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Well, I suppose it's rubber as it is, isn't it.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "It's rubber as it is, yes.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "So, I mean does this need to go up a bit or something,'cause we've got both the both the um the speech.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "We got we've we've got thirteen point seven", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "and we've got it in at the moment and if and basically, we're going to reduce down from that.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "But the current one, you'd say would be fancy, would be too.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah, yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah. Um, for for innovation, so we've got the speech the speech thing, and.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm. I would've said about a two as well.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Do you reckon a two?", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah, two or three. I'd be happy with a two.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Okay. Two.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Oh.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "And the next one is I'll have to get it back up now..", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "The next on Well, I can just sing about. Easy to use. I would've said yes. I would go for a one on that at this point in time.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah. Yeah,", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "I would say so as well.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Um, incorporates elements of fashion to attract buyer. Well, yeah it certainly has some.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Um.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": ".", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah, it's got the cherry and the sponginess.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "It does, yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Um.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yep.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Say about a three maybe?", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "I don't know.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah, m um.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Maybe two?", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah, it was just doing it quite well.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yep.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Um, I think we're gonna have to lose some of these, but the moment, as it stands, it's um.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah, I woulda said two would seem reasonable.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "It's a two.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "The product is a recognisable real r uh reaction product?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah, this is.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Uh the sensor using all of its all of its products, all of its buttons,", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "This.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "and it's got a fairly big label on the bottom saying where it comes from.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah, that's a bit rough at the minute..", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah. So this is about sort of the corporate image of like new sort of sleek technology and all that sort of thing, as well as having the logo on and all that.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Oh.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "So sort of Is it sort of a recognisable product.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Does it fit in with our other other products, which uh are sort of coffee makers and spacecraft..", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "S", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Uh, well it's got the same um speech feature as the coffee machine.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "What do y", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Also it's kind of spongy rubberiness is maybe bit more kinda comfortable than kinda sleek and new age.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Um, it depends which way you look at it.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Uh-huh.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Okay. So we're going for a two,", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "So.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Maybe a kind of three? Uh d", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "three?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah, two or three.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Two or three?", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Well, the logo would be more um recognisable on the actual thing. It's just that the pen wouldn't really write on that paper.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Sure.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "But um, I think the logo would definitely be recognisable.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "And it does have attributes that other products do. Two? Aye. Go for it.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Right, okay.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Two or three..", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Two.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "How.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Right, come on. That's that decided.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Two. Okay.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Right. So.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "So we're now on to changing it to get it to fit in with the budget requirements, and then.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "What does what do all them numbers mean then? Do we add them up and rate or anything?", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah we s yeah, I think we sort of add them up so sort of at an average is gonna be I'm just gonna do this in my head.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "About a two.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Two.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "One point eight isn't it or something. I think, anyway. So yeah, pretty close to a two.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah, so it's.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "So So it's I mean it's pretty good at the moment, but it's gonna get worse, isn't it.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yep.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "But we've gotta try and make sure it doesn't get too bad.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Two b two b two, yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "So should we get So are definite Was it thirteen point seven was the definite price rule if has.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yes.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Okay, so we need to.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Well, you can lose one point two and still meet the requirements.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Do you wanna plug it into yours so we can get up the the finances.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Okay, well I put it back on.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "So I guess this Is this the last stage once we sort out the finances part of it?", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "I'm not sure.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "we'll probably have to re-rate it.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yes, I would've thought so.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah, yeah we'll make the adjustments", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "and then see how are rates are going.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Okay, so what was it, control uh F_ eight, wasn't it?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Ah it's on.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "it's come on already.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Oh. Oh. How kind..", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Right, okay. So, you can see there that the If you want to keep kinetic, right, you've got a choice there of going down to battery, which would save you one. You've got the sample sensor and and sample speaker, which is your big item.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Oh actually we just have a plastic case, then we lose two points,", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "That's right.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "which gets us um In right within the budget range.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Which gets you.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yes.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah, I think that'd be fine. Because that was just a trend, and we do have rubber buttons anyway.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "So that's eleven point seven,", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "and then we could make sure we definitely had all the button supplements.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Alright.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Different different colours, yeah. Yeah, I was I was thinking that because maybe maybe the sort of rubber case is a bit less in sort of the corporate identity than the sort of you know sleeker plastic case.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Possibly, yeah. Um.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Okay, so.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "And that would allow us to have all the technical innovations. So we'd lose a little bit on the maybe kind of.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "So we're going for plastic, yes?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Lose a little bit on the fashion, yeah, but.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yep.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Oh yeah, and that would now be.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "And then.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah, that's that's within the budget. Um Do we actually have Do we just have one special uh special forms down here?", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Well, uh w uh there was debate as to how you would count them. You got special colour.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Um.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Well originally I was assuming we had the red apple, and therefore, that was the special colour.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "And we we've we've got we've got enough for another", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah, I think we should just imagine white buttons.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "we've got nought point eight left,", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "so we've got enough for another.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Well, we've got special form. Now that would be one button, and the question was was that all buttons or is that just one button.'Cause our plan really was to have one button only with a special.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah, um.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "So so no matter how you look at that, that would be the same.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "But the but but but the.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "The other thing would then be special material, rubber, wood, titanium.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "I think maybe the special colour, we've got three now just because the volume buttons are different,", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "I guess we'd have the ones which are blue at the moment would would just be the standard colour.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Alright. So, special colour, you want three in there.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah, which I think we should Yeah, they'll still be fine for the for the price.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Well I thin I think you you you just need two for the special colour'cause it's just two supplements, you know. One original colour and then sort of two supplements, I think maybe.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "That makes sense.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Okay, uh that's probably it.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Okay. So we only ne we only need two for that.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "'Cause I mean these these are moulded. The one colour's gonna be moulded out of a piece of plas uh of rubber, isn't it.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Okay. Yeah, I would agree with that, I think. And we've got special form is the one apple.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "The rest are all standard, although you could argue that should maybe be You were making these buttons down the bottom, I was presuming, bigger than the other ones, or were you? Was that the idea?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Ne uh.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah, the volume ones should stand out a bit.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Maybe that'll be a second supplement. Then there's a spe a second special form.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah, that.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Uh-huh. I would have thought that's probably about r well..", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Um Well you got you got twelve.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Okay, so tha", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "So I think that should still be okay. Yeah, that's twelve point three,", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "so we're still within budget on that. Um.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yep, that makes sense.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "So decide we've lost a little bit on the fashion and lost a bit on the fancy kinda side of it,", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yep.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "but generally speaking, we've kept the other attributes to the.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "I woulda said so. Yeah. So you'd maybe put fash fan uh fashion at three rather than two.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "That's without Yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "So shall we do a Well, um.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "And specially it definitely could fits the the real product What was the what's the company name?", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Real Reaction produ", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Real Reactions?", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "R yeah. Yeah, yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "I'm not quite sure, what does that mean?.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "I mean it still seems definitely fit that p so that's like if that's the new age kind of um inno innovative c type company, then um having the kinetic feature and the voice recognition is p quite high up on.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah, so Uh.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yep I would s", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "So it's w if we've if we've put in for another special form on a button, then maybe they could be a different shape. Like we got a cherry one. Maybe other ones could be something else shaped. I don't know. That would be poss seeing as seeing as it's cheaper to make them a different seeing as we've got, you know, we've made it a a special form, so", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "You mean of.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Um.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "And that would sort of maybe keep us close on the sort of the fashion type one. And it would sort of, you know, keep it quite fancy as well,", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Well you could argue you might do it once a year, you would change,", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "I don't know.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "because at the moment you're making a red apple. So next year you could make next year's model the same, but have it as a a yeah whate whatever, a lemon.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah so it's a.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Well you could Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Whatever fruit was in fashion next year..", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah, l a lemon lemon or something.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah, I mean the volume buttons could be lemons or something, maybe..", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "And that", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "amount.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Okay. So, we've what have we what have we rid of. We got rid of the plastic.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah, we've the main thing we've changed really is the casing isn't it?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Is it.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "That yeah, that was uh.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "The rubber.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "that was just about all.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "I think we've saved quite a bit because we've just got the push-button interface, which is by far the cheapest.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Um So maybe in a sense not having that, maybe we've lost some maybe lost something on the innovation side?", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "But uh.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "I dunno. And that is like the most standard type of button.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "So I mean, we've got we got rid of the rubber case, but we've now s we now sort of got an extra form, and an extra colour for the buttons. So maybe in terms of sort of fanciness and fashionability, we're pretty much the same, maybe.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "So, I mean we could maybe put two again on them.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "And everything else has stayed pretty much the same, so.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Well, ease has certainly stayed.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah, plus if anything that is special forms makes it slightly easier to to use.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah. And what about the sort of innovation?", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Um, well we've still got the kinetic energy. Um.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Do you think Okay.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "And the speech feature.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah, the speech feature.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "And then, the corporate identity.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "I think we've cut just about the same. We've maybe lost Hasn't it It's hard to tell how the rubber the rubber casing would really affect.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "How it would play out, yeah. Oh.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah. Whether whether that's considered to be sort of part of the corporate identity, I don't know..", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Um.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "I mean, it's maybe not. I mean.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "But I think more the the features of the actual control will be more important than maybe than the the actual aesthetics, but.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah. Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "But either way, I think we've made it fairly close to what.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah. Okay, well I mean.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah, I don't see how we could make it any more. Um, apart from maybe doing the whole thing in the kinda light shade of blue, like the casing.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "We cou Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "But then what colour would you make the R_s?", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "just the the company logo. So maybe there's like a set design which we get printed off.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Well, but you've got the company logo on there, which would effectively be a stick-on badge. So you're in a sense, you're comparing the product without the company logo.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "And then y but you've got the space for it to stick it on.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah, yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Hey, what what what's the company colour? Did you get told what the company colour is or.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "I'm still not quite sure we've established that.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "No,", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Don't think so.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "I just.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "But but i but in the sense that, as you saw with um the Windows logo badge, it doesn't really matter.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "We got the logo off the web browser.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Oh right.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "There's virtually n The way that you frame, you know, the Windows badge on there, it really doesn't matter what colour it is,", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Hmm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "so long as our company's logo is framed w in the same way as that with a like a black outline.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Fact, they've got black and white or black and silver. So basically, even if you had a silver the same colour of silver on your display, because you've got effectively a double edging on the uh on the logo, it means that it splits off what your logo is from the from the product.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm..", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "And that's actually quite a sneaky way of doing it.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Okay. Uh-huh.'Cause you've got sort of we've got point two to play with if you really wanted to.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "You could put in another.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Another colour.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Well, in this one, you've actually got three colours of buttons.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Or would that be t", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Well, we decided that the blue ones were the um the standard colour.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah. Okay.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "So you were talking about uh um We're assuming that all the buttons on the second panel, the hidden away panel, would all be standard.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Which m may or may not be the case.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Um.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Shall we save the point two for profitability then?.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Well, yeah. Bu but but uh was the was there not a button that you were thinking of on the um on the other opt you know, on the second page, as it were, that uh you were thinking of maybe having as a different colour?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Um, I don't think they would really need to be. I think if they were just all small round blue buttons, it'd be fine.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah, maybe we've m.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Needs to be an enter button, but could just be the same as well.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Maybe for the the one they're gonna see all the time, we make it look good, and um, fit the kind of idea of what they want.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Hmm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "And then for the more functional buttons, we don't worry too much about that and just have that as like a plus it's hidden away anyway, you're not gonna see it at the start.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah. I mean it's the sort of thing that, I mean, you wanna pick up the controller and just hit a button quickly to change the channel or volume.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah, well.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "So, if it's dead obvious, then that's fine. But if you're opening the panel and you're looking and you're tuning, then you're paying a bit more attention. So it may be sort of different colour buttons isn't so important.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Alright. Okay.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "'Cause you Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "So.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "So we just add that to profitability in effect..", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah, I mean so we've dropped the cost, but.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Right, so we're meant to finish up in five minutes.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Same sort of function? The criteria? It's alright.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "'Kay.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Just made a load of money..", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Shouldn't we maybe lose a point on fashion, go to a three?'Cause we've lost the overall spongy feel.'Cause it doesn't seem right that it just hasn't changed at all..", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Well, but I think we said that w Because you got rid of the rubber, we put an extra an extra sort of fruit um shape on one of the buttons.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Alright.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "le lemon sh", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Did we decide what that was, which button it was? On the volume ones?", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "I think well, we could have lemon shaped ones with the volume ones or something..", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Right..", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Uh,. That's good.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Or something like that. Yeah..", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Definitely lemon shaped.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Did did you have to have a rubber case, though, for rubber buttons? Or was it the other way around?", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "You had to have rubber buttons if you had the rubber case.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "So I think we can we're okay.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Right, okay.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "So we're okay this way around.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah. So that.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Until the design team comes in and says, get off.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "so we've saved.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "But you are the design team..", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Then we say it's fine, so it's all good.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Saved two Euros on that.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "So what bit are we on to?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Um, can I just check if that's a cherry or an apple? Did we decide against the apple because of Apple Mac? And did we make it a cherry officially?", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah. I th I th.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Oh. Right, okay.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Just in case we need that point two for lawsuits and such like..", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Oh drats, I've botched that, haven't I.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "So were we aiming for a certain target on that scale?", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Well, we're aiming for um one for all of them.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "M but it really has to fit into the budget, so I guess we just have to adjust things to get it i in the Which is fair enough..", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "And we seem to have least something in each criteria. We haven't completely left anything out, so.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah. Yeah, I think", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "As an overall product which has to be quite cheap, we've just about achieved everything.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "most Yeah. Yep.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "So do we have anything else to discuss?", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "I don't know. What's on the agenda?", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Right, okay um What's happened here? Right, okay um Mm. Right, okay um, Right. So we got So we've done the the finance bit and the Excel project and the We've done the redesign.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "We've got the closing.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "So we're now on to project process. Now satisfaction with, for example, room for creativity, leadership, teamwork, means, et cetera, whiteboard, digital pens, et cetera. So, we're actually now uh, in a sense, on to the evaluation of the course rather than the evaluation of the project is m my understanding of it.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Uh-huh.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "So what did you and remembering that nobody's just over the curtain..", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "So, um.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Finish your meeting now..", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "We should just go through this quickly and then.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Huh.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "So.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "I suppose the easiest way of doing it is to put some notes down, which I will do.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "So, uh I think I have to finish that page. Right, okay, so.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Oh..", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Project evaluation. So, um Creativity. Did you feel you got a chance to express yourselves well enough?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Um, yeah. Yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Well um.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "I thought some of the divisions though between sort of the individual meetings were a bit arbitrary.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Individual meetings. How do you mean?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah. Well, we were finding out various things in in be in-between the meetings,", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "In you on your own.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "and they didn't the one meeting didn't always follow on for the other one, you know, sort of we had things thrown in at the second meeting where, you know, you'd looked at the remote controls and seen the curviness, but in the first one you'd also looked at some remote controls and looked at the buttons,", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Um.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "and I don't understand why it would be in separate meetings that you'd do that. You know, you'd sort of you'd probably present it at one or something like that.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Mm, The only thing you find is in a manufacturing process, you would normally, you go to a meeting, you decide, right, you do this, you do that, you do that.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Then you go away. You find out information. You then come back. You then discuss it. You then go and change things around,", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Uh-huh.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "and then go back. So.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah, I suppose and then be going out and finding more information each time", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Whereas, this time, you're really getting it from a database source,", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "and then diff things will be relevant.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "so it's not uh well uh.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Anyway, so, what do you want to put down?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "I've put, seemed okay. Creativity, seemed okay. Um um flow of information on on any given subject given subject um sometimes disjointed..", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "I think it maybe could have been a slightly more creative project. I mean a remote control isn't the most um kind of fancy thing that you could imagine designing.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah, the thing itself.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Um.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "I can't think of a better example at the minute.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Have could have used a different example pel to increase create Creativity.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Is this go It kinda kis fits the purpose that it was something everyone knows about and then something we can at least look at and think how we can improve on.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "You have to do it within a set time frame is the other thing, so.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm. Yeah. But think like it was a bit restrictive just to say that you have to design a television remote control, in a way. I mean it depends what sort of business you're in, I guess. I mean this one seems. From the website it looks it's quite innovative, but we're coming up with some bucket shop product aren't we", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "that's, you know, fifteen quid..", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "one of those things. Like uh, companies can have like a range of products and.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "I th I uh d", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "I don't know how it works but I guess that something got sent out and have like a brief to kind of.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "But the other thing is that uh they're I'm guessing that they're trying to use this um software to to demonstrate how you could uh do a project. I mean, m my wife at the moment, for instance, is uh acting as a computer", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "um for um you normally, you got a problem, so you go to your tutor and find out information to see how to get it fixed.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "So what she's doing is she's having to spend a day at the computer terminal at one end so that any student that comes along can uh ask whatever question. And then you or the idea is that the whichever uh person's at the other end can point them in the right direction, show them where to either give them directly give them help, or secondly, point them in the right direction, either at the library, or uh or or come back, or go and see Joe Bloggs, or whatever. So uh, and that was a project I suspect similar to this, because they they were actually trying to debug the uh computer software to enable um to enable it to work. And of course, you had the machine crashing", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Hmm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "and various things going wrong. So.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Well, sh we look at the last slide,", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "see if it's got anything else.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Alright,", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "I think there's one one more to go.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "so we've got uh", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah. I mean if you look at their products on their website here, Real Reaction, I mean it's all pretty high-tech and cutting edge.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "New ideas found,", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "And.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "did we find any, no.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "It was quite good with this um the white board, having that and the digital pens.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Alright.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Like, that's something that made it a little easier.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah. Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Leadership, teamwork.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "we did find a new idea, I mean sort of a kinetic remote control. I've never seen one of them before. batteries, I think. So.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Does.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "voice recognition, especially not could.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "You've got voice recognition computers,", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "that's not remote controls.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Well it's a different application of it.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm. Okay,", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah, so it's just like the same products, but just put together in a different way.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "so how do you reckon teamwork went?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Um.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "That went okay, yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah, I guess we all had separate ideas and then discussed them.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm, yeah..", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "To uh go uh reasonably well. Okay.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "I don't think sort of the budget um allowed us to do anything.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Bit bit arbitrary..", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Well, I mean I don't think it I just don't think it fitted in with the rest of their products. I mean, they've got all these sort of, you know, high definition D_V_D_ and portable seven inch d um lightweight computer screens,", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "and uh I'm thinking, do you know, one cheap remote control doesn't really fit in.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "So, we're m we're meant to comment on leadership and the means, E_ G_ whiteboard, digital pens, et cetera.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Surely they they should produ", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "And and new i new ideas found was the the other thing.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Well leadership's a bit of a funny one, isn't it.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "But we can't really all fairly comment on leadership because you are the Project Manager.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "You were the leader. So our experience of leadership wasn't really as much as yours..", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah. Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Now, I'd much rather be in marketing.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "but I certainly didn't get this uh computer to work as well as I would have liked.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "However, um Alright uh means, so whiteboard um so really, it's uh equipment. Oh.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah. It worked.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah, very nice..", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Comput computers could be a bit difficult at times but.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "But I mean, I d I don't I'm not sure I see the value in these. I mean, they record what you're writing, and then what do you do with it? Where do you get the recording? Do you plug the computer or something?", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "I think there's a little there's a little um chi", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "So it's not just for us, it's for the experiment as a whole, so.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "There's a little there's a little chip, I think you must plug it into something", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Should we quickly look at the last slide?", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "and it produces a.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Sh.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Right. I think you watch a video of it kind of.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "I don't know. Whether it just produces a big image of sort of everything you've written or something, and Page after page.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Right. New ideas found, so one or two.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah. Kinetic powered remote control. Um, what was the other one?", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Voice um recognition thing.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Vo yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "um and uh voice", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "uh, was it voice activated um.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Voice recognition, yeah. S", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "recognition.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Almost.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Pretty much..", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "To fill in these fill in these questionnaires", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Right, so, uh are the costs within budget,", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Oh no.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "yes. Is the project evaluated, yes. Uh, don't forget to complete final questionnaire and meeting summary. 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And what you're uh drawing?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Uh sure my name is Agnes and I'm an user usability user interface designer.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "My name is Ed and I do accounting.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Uh how you spell your name uh?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "E_D_.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "E_D_ okay.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "And?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Do you also do marketing?", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "No.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "So only accounting? 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We have to define exactly what our product is, from uh.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yes, so can you explain uh what exactly the product is?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "From what I had in mind we're supposed to be marketing coffee, is that right?", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Oh I think uh, if I'm not wrong, we're making the remote control.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Um I was wondering.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Remote controls,'cause I had two different things. I had a first part of mine was to make a remote control for a new f remote control for television, and afterward I had a discussion about coffee so.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yes.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "we'll start with the remote control for television then. So we're have to design something that is very user friendly.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Something uh visual that has something that will will draw people to buy the product,", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "because I think everybody's experienced with uh remote controls, and some remote controls are are worth uh throwing out the window. Uh th most of them ar I don't know we're have to come up with a new idea on how to make it a lot easier to use,", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "'cause a lot of times uh spend uh half a day through the instruction book trying to figure out how to use it.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "And uh what abo uh Christine, what about your uh the industrial design plan? Are you have a design already on this product or uh you're still working on the design?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Um no, I I have not begun working on the design,", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "and um I uh I actually didn't know we were designing a remote control, I thought we were designing a new monitor. Um the website I went to look at had some announcements about an introduction of a um uh some sort of a seven inch um monitor, and um I understood that that was the project goal. So um I'm glad I didn't d do any work um ahead of time because uh I clearly didn't understand the project goal.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Um I just did s see that we were starting a new project together and there was going to be a four member team composed of these people, and um that's about uh that's.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "and I I read through the different steps, and what my responsibilities were relative to the steps.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "So uh you'll be leading the team for your design team or how many members is working in the team, for the design?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Uh for the industrial design?", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yes.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Um well, I would th think that depends on how much money you give us.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "That's.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Um because uh, you know, you can uh you can make it uh you have different choices with different financial models.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah, but uh before we talk about uh the finance, okay, uh do you have some idea how we can uh sell this product or project in the market and how much is going to benefit to the company and uh of course it's to the individual also.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Well, you know um, I kind of think that in general you have to do uh um y you have to have something that's very fashionable, that's uh very attractive that um people see and recognize uh its goal, and uh they immediately wanna have it uh have one of their own. So it would really would need to um something like the iPod would be good, seems to have caught on fairly well,", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "so um d uh you know, I don't care what it does, just so it looks cool.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Okay, but uh uh when you think you can give me like a kind of design on the functional design or the technical design?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Well, uh I've got a lot of other projects I'm doing right now um and so I'll have to wait and see how those uh how those go. If they uh go quickly then uh it could be a month. If um if I run into any problems in my other projects it might be six months.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah, but uh I need something in the writing, so like uh what's your functional design, what's your technical design, and uh how many people you need for this project, and what's the time frame you're looking, okay, and what is the budget, maybe uh initial budget you're looking, okay, and uh how is going to the market, okay,", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm. Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "so you've you've had to meet with the marketing team and how they're going to market and what are the marketing strategic plan, okay, when are you going to introduce, okay, and by the time you introduce the product and uh you know there there would be a competition, okay, so I need some kind of uh uh the plan in the writing from you. 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So, who are the people you need uh from the marketing or uh the technical side or uh the administration point of view, okay, to add in any documentation, or some technical point of view,", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "so just let me know so I can uh coordinate all the teams.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Okay, I'll get back to you on that.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yes. Thank you. Okay. And uh Ed uh so what's what do you think about uh this uh project for the remote control and d do you have some already planned something for your marketing strategy or uh the sales strategy?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Well not yet other than uh doing research and taking remote controls and looking what other companies have to do uh, what they're building, their designs, their ideas,", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Hmm..", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "uh also have to pinpoint which market we're gonna go into.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "It should be a fairly large market because uh the number of people that uh the competition,", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "uh th I agree it has to be something it has to be something new, it has to be something that that draws people saying eh, I like this. Whether it works or not, they have to first say I like this, I like the design, and then it's gotta be simple to use.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yes, so what I uh prefer maybe uh you need to interact uh more with the Christine, okay, because you know what she is going to do it, okay, and you know how to sell it. Okay, because uh she is doing the design, but you are the core because you are in the marketing, okay,", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "so because you need to sell and you're the responsible for the all the money, the finance, okay, tomorrow.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "So, what I prefer, okay, so you need to interact with the Christine more and uh within her team, okay, who is using the functional design or technical design, okay,", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "and uh you need to come up with some kind of plan, okay, how we are going to do the your sales plan, okay, th", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Do we already have a cost limit on this, th an idea of how much uh we want to market this for, how much it's gonna sell for,", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Th That that's", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "that's up that's up to us to decide, eh?.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yes, that's you have to decide, okay, so the best thing is you uh both of uh the Christine and you discuss with yourself, okay, and come up with the cost, and how we are going to compete in the market, okay, in the the technically, or in the sales wise, okay, the commercial wise, okay. Then uh we have to design, okay, how long it will take the whole project, okay, how much is going to cost us, and how much we are going to benefit for the company. Okay, of course it's it's uh of benefit for everybody individually. Okay, so I think it's uh maybe if we can uh give me some kind of your uh the sales plan, okay, including the technical what uh she's going to talk to you within the team, okay, then it will help me to discuss with the management for further, okay, and put it in the the proper project plan. Okay, and if you need uh any coordination in between uh compared to the maybe the some technical vendors or commercial vendors, okay, depends if you want to have some uh uh marketing plan or technical plan, okay, so you let me know.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Very good.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Okay, I can coordinate,", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Very good.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "or maybe uh, you are my coordinator, am I right?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Between uh all the coor", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Well, no, not exactly. I mean my job from what I understood was to look at the usability requirements and make sure that the product is usable, it's acceptable to the people who are gonna use it and look at the best ways to do that.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "So I think I'll have to interact with Christine and discuss with her, so that she's not designing something that my studies will show right off the bat that it's not going to work,", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Th Christine, yeah. Which is.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "and so it's sort of it's a loop that feeds in, but I don't think necessarily that I'm in a coordinating position for it.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yes. Yeah, so basically you need to interact with Christine more, okay, for the user acceptability, okay, and the testing, okay,", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah. Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "then you will.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Which will also feed into the marketing,", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yes.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "because depending on what users want, depends on how you sell it, what tag lines you attach to it, how you try to make it more attractive to users.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yes. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "So I think all three groups will need to interact quite a bit. Um, and then I guess build the plan based on all of that, because I think you need to take all the factors into account.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yep. But what I request, okay, keep Ed in the loop, okay, in between your uh meeting and Christine meeting, because uh he should know what's happening.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah, of course. Yeah, we can C_C_ him on any discussions or documents that are passed around.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yes. Okay and please please copy all the mails, okay, all the discussions to me, okay, so I need to submit to the management.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Sure. No problem.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "So any questions for uh time being?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "No.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "So, the immediate next step is to start determining the functional design, or", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yes.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "okay.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Okay. To come up with the functional design and uh to discuss with Ed, okay, and how it's going to be work, and uh first of all with your user acceptance, okay, how it looks like and how it's going to be work in the market, okay,", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "so then we can discuss about uh further things. So, we'll meet when the we'll discuss on the further meeting.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "It's okay? Thanks for coming.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Would you mind um at the conclusion of our meeting could could you send us a copy of your slides?", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yes, I will. Yes.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm, yeah, that would be useful.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "I'll copy, uh le let us keep all the emails and all the copies, okay, share each other, okay, so you know everybody what's happening, okay?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Sure.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "And if anything you need anytime so please either you can call me, or just send me email, or uh just come and uh knock my door, okay, so I'm available here. It's good? Okay, thanks for coming and uh I wish you a nice time then.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Thank you.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Thanks.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Okay, see you later. Bye.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Thank you.", "speakerName": "User Interface" } ] }

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

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{ "meetingId": "Bro003", "transcriptSegments": [ { "text": "Channel one.", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "Test.", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "Hello.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Channel three.", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "Test.", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "Uh - oh.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "So you think we're going now, yes? OK, good. Alright Going again Uh So we're gonna go around as before, and uh do do our digits. Uh transcript one three one one dash one three three zero. three two three four seven six five five three one six two four one six seven seven eight nine zero nine four zero zero three zero one five eight one seven three five three two six eight zero three six two four three zero seven four five zero six nine four seven four eight five seven nine six one five O seven eight O two zero nine six zero four zero zero one two Uh Yeah, you don't actually n need to say the name.", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "OK, this is Barry Chen and I am reading transcript", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "That'll probably be bleeped out.", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "OK.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "So. That's if these are anonymized, but Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "Oh. OK.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "uh I mean not that there's anything defamatory about uh eight five seven or or anything, but", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "OK.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "Uh, anyway. Uh so here's what I have for I I was just jotting down things I think th w that we should do today. Uh This is what I have for an agenda so far Um, We should talk a little bit about the plans for the uh the field trip next week. Uh a number of us are doing a field trip to uh Uh OGI And uh mostly uh First though about the logistics for it. Then maybe later on in the meeting we should talk about what we actually you know, might accomplish. Uh.", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "OK.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "Uh, in and kind of go around see what people have been doing talk about that, a r progress report. Um, Essentially. Um And then uh Another topic I had was that uh uh Uh Dave here had uh said uh \" Give me something to do. \" And I I have I have uh failed so far in doing that. And so maybe we can discuss that a little bit. If we find some holes in some things that that someone could use some help with, he's he's volunteering to help.", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "I've got to move a bunch of furniture.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "OK, always count on a serious comment from that corner. So, um, uh, and uh, then uh, talk a little bit about about disks and resource resource issues that that's starting to get worked out. And then, anything else anybody has that isn't in that list? Uh.", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "I was just wondering, does this mean the battery's dying and I should change it?", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "Uh I think that means the battery's O K..", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "Let me see.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "d do you", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "Oh OK, so th", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "Yeah, that's good. You're alright?", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "Cuz it's full.", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "Yeah. Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "Alright.", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "Yeah. Yeah. It looks full of electrons. OK. Plenty of electrons left there. OK, so, um, uh. OK, so, uh, I wanted to start this with this mundane thing. Um Uh I I it was it was kind of my bright idea to have us take a plane that leaves at seven twenty in the morning.", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "Oh, yeah, that's right.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "Um. Uh this is uh The reason I did it uh was because otherwise for those of us who have to come back the same day it is really not much of a of a visit. Uh So um the issue is how how how would we ever accomplish that? Uh what what what part of town do you live in?", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "Um, I live in, um, the corner of campus. The, um, southeast corner.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "OK. OK, so would it be easier those of you who are not, you know, used to this area, it can be very tricky to get to the airport at at uh, you know, six thirty. Um. So. Would it be easier for you if you came here and I drove you? Yeah? Yeah, yeah, OK.", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "Yeah, perhaps, yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "Yeah. Sure.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "OK, so if if everybody can get here at six.", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "At six.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Yeah, I'm afraid we need to do that to get there on time.", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "Six, OK.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "Yeah, so. Oh boy. Anyway, so.", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "Will that be enough time?", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "Yeah. Yeah, so I'll just pull up in front at six and just be out front. And, uh, and yeah, that'll be plenty of time. It'll take it it it won't be bad traffic that time of day and and uh", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "I guess once you get past the bridge that that would be the worst.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "Yeah, Oakland.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Going to Oakland.", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "Oakland.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "Once you get past the turnoff to the Bay Bridge.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "Bridge oh, the turnoff to the bridge", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "Won't even do that.", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "I mean, just go down Martin Luther King.", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "Yeah. OK. Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "And then Martin Luther King to nine - eighty to eight - eighty,", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "and it's it'd take us, tops uh thirty minutes to get there.", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "Oh, I.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "So that leaves us fifty minutes before the plane it'll just yeah. So Great, OK so that'll It's I mean, it's still not going to be really easy but well Particularly for for uh for Barry and me, we're not we're not staying overnight so we don't need to bring anything particularly except for uh a pad of paper and So, and, uh you, two have to bring a little bit", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "OK.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "but uh you know, don't don't bring a footlocker and we'll be OK So.", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "s So just.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "W you're staying overnight. I figured you wouldn't need a great big suitcase, yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "Oh yeah. Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "That's sort of one night. So. Anyway. OK.", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "So, s six AM, in front.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "Six AM in front.", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "OK.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "Uh, I'll be here. Uh I'll I'll I'll I'll give you my phone number, If I'm not here for a few m after a few minutes then", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "Wake you up.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "Nah, I'll be fine. I just, uh it for me it just means getting up a half an hour earlier than I usually do. Not not not a lot,", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "OK. Wednesday.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "so OK, that was the real real important stuff. Um, I I I figured maybe wait on the potential goals for the meeting uh until we talk about wh what's been going on. So, uh, what's been going on? Why don't we start start over here.", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "Um. Well, preparation of the French test data actually.", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "OK.", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "So, it means that um, well, it is, uh, a digit French database of microphone speech, downsampled to eight kilohertz and I've added noise to one part, with the actually the Aurora - two noises. And, @ @ so this is a training part. And then the remaining part, I use for testing and with other kind of noises. So we can So this is almost ready. I'm preparing the the HTK baseline for this task. And, yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "OK Uh, So the HTK base lines so this is using mel cepstra and so on, or? Yeah. OK.", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "And again, I guess the p the plan is, uh, to uh then given this What's the plan again?", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "The plan with these data?", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "With So So Does i Just remind me of what what you were going to do with the what what what what's y You just described what you've been doing. So if you could remind me of what you're going to be doing.", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "Oh, this is yeah, yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "Uh, yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "Tell him about the cube.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "Well. The cube? I should tell him about the cube?", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "Oh! Cube. Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "Fill in the cube.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Uh we actually we want to, mmm, Uh, uh, analyze three dimensions, the feature dimension, the training data dimension, and the test data dimension. Um. Well, what we want to do is first we have number for each uh task. So we have the um, TI - digit task, the Italian task, the French task and the Finnish task.", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "Yeah?", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "So we have numbers with uh systems I mean I mean neural networks trained on the task data. And then to have systems with neural networks trained on, uh, data from the same language, if possible, with, well, using a more generic database, which is phonetically phonetically balanced, and. Um.", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "So - so we had talked I guess we had talked at one point about maybe, the language ID corpus?", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "Yeah. So.", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "Is that a possibility for that?", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "Ye - uh Yeah, but, uh these corpus, w w there is a CallHome and a CallFriend also, The CallFriend is for language ind identification. Well, anyway, these corpus are all telephone speech. So, um. This could be a a problem for Why? Because uh, uh, the the SpeechDat databases are not telephone speech. They are downsampled to eight kilohertz but but they are not uh with telephone bandwidth.", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "Yeah. That's really funny isn't it? I mean cuz th this whole thing is for developing new standards for the telephone.", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "Telephone.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "Yeah, but the the idea is to compute the feature before the before sending them to the Well, you don't do not send speech, you send features, computed on th the the device,", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm. Yeah, I know, but the reason.", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "or Well.", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "Oh I see, so your point is that it's it's it's uh the features are computed locally, and so they aren't necessarily telephone bandwidth, uh or telephone distortions.", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "So you Yeah. Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "Did you happen to find out anything about the OGI multilingual database?", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "Yeah, that's wh that's wh that's what I meant.", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "Yeah, it's.", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "I said @ @, there's there's there's an OGI language ID, not the not the, uh the CallFriend is a is a, uh, LDC w thing, right?", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "Yea - Yeah, there are also two other databases. One they call the multi - language database, and another one is a twenty - two language, something like that. But it's also telephone speech.", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "Oh, they are? OK.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "Uh. Well, nnn.", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "But I'm not sure.", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "So.", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "I mean, we' r e e The bandwidth shouldn't be such an issue right? Because e e this is downsampled and and filtered, right? So it's just the fact that it's not telephone. And there are so many other differences between these different databases. I mean some of this stuff's recorded in the car, and some of it's I mean there's there's many different acoustic differences. So I'm not sure if. I mean, unless we're going to include a bunch of car recordings in the in the training database, I'm not sure if it's completely rules it out", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "if our if we if our major goal is to have phonetic context and you figure that there's gonna be a mismatch in acoustic conditions does it make it much worse f to sort of add another mismatch, if you will.", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "Mmm.", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "Uh, i i I I guess the question is how important is it to for us to get multiple languages uh, in there.", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "Yeah, but Mm - hmm. Um. Yeah. Well, actually, for the moment if we w do not want to use these phone databases, we we already have uh English, Spanish and French uh, with microphone speech..", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm. Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "So.", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "So that's what you're thinking of using is sort of the multi the equivalent of the multiple?", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "Well. Yeah, for the multilingual part we were thinking of using these three databases.", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "And for the difference in phonetic context that you? Provide that.", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "Well, this Uh, actually, these three databases are um generic databases.", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "So w f for for uh Italian, which is close to Spanish, French and, i i uh, TI - digits we have both uh, digits training data and also more general training data. So. Mmm.", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "Well, we also have this Broadcast News that we were talking about taking off the disk, which is is microphone data for for English.", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "Yeah. Yeah, perhaps yeah, there is also TIMIT.", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "We could use TIMIT.", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "Right. Yeah, so there's plenty of stuff around. OK, so anyway, th the basic plan is to, uh, test this cube. Yes.", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "To fill in the cube.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "To fill i fill it in, yeah. OK.", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "Yeah, and perhaps, um We were thinking that perhaps the cross - language issue is not, uh, so big of a issue. Well, w w we perhaps we should not focus too much on that cross - language stuff. I mean, uh, training training a net on a language and testing a for another language.", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "Uh - huh. But that's.", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "Mmm. Perhaps the most important is to have neural networks trained on the target languages. But, uh, with a general database general databases. u So that th Well, the the guy who has to develop an application with one language can use the net trained o on that language, or a generic net,", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "Uh, depen it depen it depends how you mean \" using the net \".", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "but not trained on a.", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "So, if you're talking about for producing these discriminative features that we're talking about you can't do that.", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "Mmm.", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "Because because the what they're asking for is is a feature set. Right? And so, uh, we're the ones who have been weird by by doing this training. But if we say, \" No, you have to have a different feature set for each language, \" I think this is ver gonna be very bad.", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "Oh.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "You think so.", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "That's.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "Oh.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "So Oh yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "Mmm.", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "Yeah. I mean, in principle, I mean conceptually, it's sort of like they want a re @ @ well, they want a replacement for mel cepstra.", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "Mmm.", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "So, we say \" OK, this is the year two thousand, we've got something much better than mel cepstra. It's, you know, gobbledy - gook. \" OK? And so we give them these gobbledy - gook features but these gobbledy - gook features are supposed to be good for any language.", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "Hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "Cuz you don't know who's gonna call, and you know, I mean so it's it's it's, uh, uh how do you know what language it is? Somebody picks up the phone. So thi this is their image. Someone picks up the phone, right?", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "Well, I chh.", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "And and he he picks up the ph", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "Yeah, but the the application is there is a target language for the application.", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "Yeah. y y y", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "So, if a.", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "Well. But, no but, y you you pick up the phone,", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "Well.", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "you talk on the phone,", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "Yeah?", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "and it sends features out. OK, so the phone doesn't know what a what what your language is.", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "Yeah, if Yeah. If it's th in the phone, but.", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "But that's the image that they have.", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "well, it that that could be th at the server's side,", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "It could be,", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "and, well. Mmm, yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "but that's the image they have, right? So that's that's I mean, one could argue all over the place about how things really will be in ten years. But the particular image that the cellular industry has right now is that it's distributed speech recognition, where the, uh, uh, probabilistic part, and and s semantics and so forth are all on the servers, and you compute features of the uh, on the phone. So that's that's what we're involved in. We might might or might not agree that that's the way it will be in ten years, but that's that's that's what they're asking for. So so I think that th th it is an important issue whether it works cross - language. Now, it's the OGI, uh, folks' perspective right now that probably that's not the biggest deal. And that the biggest deal is the, um envir acoustic - environment mismatch. And they may very well be right, but I I was hoping we could just do a test and determine if that was true. If that's true, we don't need to worry so much. Maybe maybe we have a couple languages in the training set and that gives us enough breadth uh, uh, that that that the rest doesn't matter. Um, the other thing is, uh, this notion of training to uh which I I guess they're starting to look at up there, training to something more like articulatory features. Uh, and if you have something that's just good for distinguishing different articulatory features that should just be good across, you know, a wide range of languages.", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "Uh, but Yeah, so I don't th I know unfortunately I don't I see what you're comi where you're coming from, I think, but I don't think we can ignore it.", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "So we we really have to do test with a real cross - language. I mean, tr for instance training on English and testing on Italian, or Or we can train or else, uh, can we train a net on, uh, a range of languages and which can include the test the test @ @ the target language,", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "Test on an unseen.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "or.", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "Yeah, so, um, there's there's, uh This is complex. So, ultimately, uh, as I was saying, I think it doesn't fit within their image that you switch nets based on language. Now, can you include, uh, the the target language?", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "Um, from a purist's standpoint it'd be nice not to because then you can say when because surely someone is going to say at some point, \" OK, so you put in the German and the Finnish.", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "Mmm.", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "Uh, now, what do you do, uh, when somebody has Portuguese? \" you know? Um, and Uh, however, you aren't it isn't actually a constraint in this evaluation. So I would say if it looks like there's a big difference to put it in, then we'd make note of it, and then we probably put in the other, because we have so many other problems in trying to get things to work well here that that, you know, it's not so bad as long as we we note it and say, \" Look, we did do this \".", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "Mmm?", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "And so, ideally, what you'd wanna do is you'd wanna run it with and without the target language and the training set for a wide range of languages.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "Uh. Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "Yeah, perhaps. Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "And that way you can say, \" Well, \" you know, \" we're gonna build it for what we think are the most common ones \",", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "but if that somebody uses it with a different language, you know, \" here's what's you're l here's what's likely to happen. \"", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "Yeah, cuz the truth is, is that it's it's not like there are I mean, al although there are thousands of languages, uh, from uh, uh, the point of view of cellular companies, there aren't.", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "There's you know, there's fifty or something, you know? So, uh, an and they aren't you know, with the exception of Finnish, which I guess it's pretty different from most most things. uh, it's it's, uh most of them are like at least some of the others. And so, our guess that Spanish is like Italian, and and so on. I guess Finnish is a is is a little bit like Hungarian, supposedly, right?", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "I don't know anything about Finnish.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "Or is I think well, I kn oh, well I know that H uh, H I mean, I'm not a linguist, but I guess Hungarian and Finnish and one of the one of the languages from the former Soviet Union are in this sort of same family.", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "Hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "But they're just these, you know, uh countries that are pretty far apart from one another, have I guess, people rode in on horses and brought their.", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "Hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "OK.", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "The Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "Oh, my turn.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "Your turn.", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "Oh, OK. Um, Let's see, I I spent the last week, uh, looking over Stephane's shoulder. And and understanding some of the data. I re - installed, um, um, HTK, the free version, so, um, everybody's now using three point O, which is the same version that, uh, OGI is using.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "Oh, good.", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "Yeah. So, without without any licensing big deals, or anything like that. And, um, so we've been talking about this this, uh, cube thing, and it's beginning more and more looking like the, uh, the Borge cube thing. It's really gargantuan. Um, but I I'm Am I.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "So are are you going to be assimilated?", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "Resistance is futile.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "Exactly. Um, yeah, so I I've been looking at, uh, uh, TIMIT stuff. Um, the the stuff that we've been working on with TIMIT, trying to get a, um a labels file so we can, uh, train up a train up a net on TIMIT and test, um, the difference between this net trained on TIMIT and a net trained on digits alone. Um, and seeing if if it hurts or helps.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "Anyway.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "And again, when y just to clarify, when you're talking about training up a net, you're talking about training up a net for a tandem approach?", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "Yeah, yeah. Um. Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "And and the inputs are PLP and delta and that sort of thing,", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "Well, the inputs are one dimension of the cube,", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "or?", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "which, um, we've talked about it being, uh, PLP, um, M F C Cs, um, J - JRASTA, JRASTA - LDA.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "Hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "Yeah, but your initial things you're making one choice there,", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "Yeah,", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "right?", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "right.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "Which is PLP, or something?", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "Um, I I haven't I haven't decided on on the initial thing.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "Probably probably something like PLP. Yeah.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "Hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "Yeah. Um, so so you take PLP and you you, uh, do it uh, you you, uh, use HTK with it with the transformed features using a neural net that's trained. And the training could either be from Digits itself or from TIMIT.", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "And that's the and, and th and then the testing would be these other things which which which might be foreign language.", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "Right. Right.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "I see. I I I get in the picture about the cube.", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "Yeah. Maybe.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "OK.", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "OK. Uh - huh.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "OK. Um, I mean, those listening to this will not have a picture either, so, um, I guess I'm I'm not any worse off. But but at some point somebody should just show me the cube. It sounds s I I get I think I get the general idea of it,", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "Yeah, yeah,", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "So, when you said that you were getting the labels for TIMIT, um, are y what do you mean by that?", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "b May Mm - hmm. Oh, I'm just I'm just, uh, transforming them from the, um, the standard TIMIT transcriptions into into a nice long huge P - file to do training.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "Mmm. Were the digits, um, hand - labeled for phones?", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "Um, the the digits.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "Or were they those labels automatically derived?", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "Oh yeah, those were those were automatically derived by by Dan using, um, embedded embedded training and alignment.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "Mmm.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "Ah, but which Dan?", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "Uh, Ellis. Right?", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "OK. OK.", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "Yeah. So.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "I was just wondering because that test you're t", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "Uh - huh.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "I I think you're doing this test because you want to determine whether or not, uh, having s general speech performs as well as having specific speech.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "That's right.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "Well, especially when you go over the different languages again, because you'd the different languages have different words for the different digits,", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm. And I was.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "so it's.", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "yeah, so I was just wondering if the fact that TIMIT you're using the hand - labeled stuff from TIMIT might be confuse the results that you get.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "I I think it would, but but on the other hand it might be better.", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "Right, but if it's better, it may be better because it was hand - labeled.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "Oh yeah, but still @ @ probably use it.", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "Yeah. OK.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "I mean, you know, I I I guess I'm sounding cavalier, but I mean, I think the point is you have, uh, a bunch of labels and and they're han hand uh hand - marked. Uh, I guess, actually, TIMIT was not entirely hand - marked. It was automatically first, and then hand hand - corrected.", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "Oh, OK.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "But but, um, uh, it it, um, it might be a better source. So, i it's you're right. It would be another interesting scientific question to ask, \" Is it because it's a broad source or because it was, you know, carefully? \"", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "uh. And that's something you could ask, but given limited time, I think the main thing is if it's a better thing for going across languages on this training tandem system,", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "Yeah. Right.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "then it's probably.", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "What about the differences in the phone sets?", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "Uh, between languages?", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "No, between TIMIT and the the digits.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "Oh, um, right. Well, there's a mapping from the sixty - one phonemes in TIMIT to to fifty - six, the ICSI fifty - six.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "Sixty - one.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Oh, OK. I see.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "And then the digits phonemes, um, there's about twenty twenty - two or twenty - four of them? Is that right?", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "Out of that fifty - six?", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "Yep.", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "Out of that fifty - six.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "Oh, OK.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "Yeah. So, it's it's definitely broader, yeah.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "But, actually, the issue of phoneti phon uh phone phoneme mappings will arise when we will do severa use several languages", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "because you Well, some phonemes are not, uh, in every languages, and So we plan to develop a subset of the phonemes, uh, that includes, uh, all the phonemes of our training languages,", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "and use a network with kind of one hundred outputs or something like that.", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm. You mean a superset, sort of.", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "Uh, yeah,", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "Yeah. Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "superset,", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "Yeah. I th I looks the SAMPA SAMPA phone.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "SAMPA phone? For English uh American English, and the the the language who have more phone are the English.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "Mmm.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "Of the these language. But n for example, in Spain, the Spanish have several phone that d doesn't appear in the E English and we thought to complete. But for that, it needs we must r h do a lot of work because we need to generate new tran transcription for the database that we have.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm. Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "Other than the language, is there a reason not to use the TIMIT phone set? Cuz it's larger? As opposed to the ICSI phone set?", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Oh, you mean why map the sixty - one to the fifty - six?", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "I don't know. I have.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "Um, I forget if that happened starting with you, or was it o or if it was Eric, afterwards who did that. But I think, basically, there were several of the phones that were just hardly ever there.", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "Yeah, and I think some of them, they were making distinctions between silence at the end and silence at the beginning, when really they're both silence.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "Oh.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "I th I think it was things like that that got it mapped down to fifty - six.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "OK.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Yeah, especially in a system like ours, which is a discriminative system. You know, you're really asking this net to learn.", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "It's it's kind of hard.", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "There's not much difference, really. And the ones that are gone, I think are I think there was they also in TIMIT had like a glottal stop, which was basically a short period of silence,", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "and so.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "Well, we have that now, too, right?", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "I don't know.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "So.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "i It's actually pretty common that a lot of the recognition systems people use have things like like, say thirty - nine, phone symbols, right? Uh, and then they get the variety by by bringing in the context, the phonetic context. Uh. So we actually have an unusually large number in in what we tend to use here. Um. So, a a actually maybe now you've got me sort of intrigued. What there's Can you describe what what's on the cube?", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "Yeah, w I th I think that's a good idea", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "I mean.", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "to to talk about the whole cube", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "Yeah, yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "Yeah. Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "and maybe we could sections in the cube for people to work on.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "Yeah. Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "Um, OK. Uh, do you wanna do it?", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "OK, so even even though the meeting recorder doesn't doesn't, uh and since you're not running a video camera we won't get this, but if you use a board it'll help us anyway.", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "OK.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "Uh, point out one of the limitations of this medium,", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "OK.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "but you've got the wireless on,", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "Yeah, I have the wireless.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "right? Yeah, so you can walk around.", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "OK. Can y can you walk around too? No. OK, well, um,", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "Uh, he can't, actually, but.", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "s basically, the the cube will have three dimensions.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "He's tethered.", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "The first dimension is the the features that we're going to use. And the second dimension, um, is the training corpus. And that's the training on the discriminant neural net. Um and the last dimension happens to be.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "Yeah and again Yeah. So the the training for HTK is always that's always set up for the individual test, right? That there's some training data and some test data. So that's different than this.", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "Right, right. This is this is for for ANN only. And, yeah, the training for the HTK models is always, uh, fixed for whatever language you're testing on.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "And then, there's the testing corpus. So, then I think it's probably instructive to go and and and show you the features that we were talking about. Um, so, let's see. Help me out with.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "PLP.", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "With what?", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "PLP.", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "PLP? OK.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "MSG.", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "MSG.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "Uh, JRASTA.", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "JRASTA.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "And JRASTA - LDA.", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "JRASTA - LDA.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "Um, multi - band.", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "Multi - band.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "So there would be multi - band before, um before our network, I mean.", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "Yeah, just the multi - band features, right?", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "And.", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "Uh - huh. Ah. Ah.", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "So, something like, uh, s TCT within bands and Well. And then multi - band after networks. Meaning that we would have, uh, neural networks, uh, discriminant neural networks for each band. Uh, yeah. And using the the outputs of these networks or the linear outputs or something like that. Uh, yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "What about mel cepstrum? Or is that.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "Oh, um.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "you don't include that because it's part of the base or something?", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "Yeah databases.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Well, y you do have a baseline system that's m that's mel cepstra,", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "right?", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "So.", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "But, uh, well, not for the the ANN. I mean.", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "OK.", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "So, yeah, we could we could add MFCC also.", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "We could add.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "Probably should. I mean at least at least conceptually, you know, it doesn't meant you actually have to do it,", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "but conceptually it makes sense as a as a base line.", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "It'd be an interesting test just to have just to do MFCC with the neural net", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "Without the.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "and everything else the same.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Compare that with just M - MFCC without the the net.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "I think I think Dan did some of that.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "Oh.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "Um, in his previous Aurora experiments. And with the net it's it's wonderful. Without the net it's just baseline.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "Um, I think OGI folks have been doing that, too. D Because I think that for a bunch of their experiments they used, uh, mel cepstra, actually.", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "Yeah. Yeah.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "Um, of course that's there and this is here and so on. OK?", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "OK. Um, for the training corpus corpus, um, we have, um, the the d digits from the various languages. Um, English Spanish um, French What else do we have?", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "And the Finnish.", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "Finnish.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "Where did th where did that come from?", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "And Italian.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Digits?", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "Uh, no, Italian no. Italian no.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Oh.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "Oh. Italian.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "I Italian yes. Italian?", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Italian.", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "Is that Was that distributed with Aurora, or?", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "One L or two L's?", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "Where did that?", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "The newer one.", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "So English, uh, Finnish and Italian are Aurora.", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "And Spanish and French is something that we can use in addition to Aurora. Uh, well.", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "Yeah, so Carmen brought the Spanish, and Stephane brought the French.", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "OK. And, um, oh yeah, and.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "Is it French French or Belgian French? There's a.", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "It's, uh, French French.", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "French French.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "Like Mexican Spain and Spain.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "Or Swiss.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "I think that is more important,", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Swiss - German.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Mexican Spain. Because more people.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Yeah. Yeah, probably so.", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Yeah. Yeah, Herve always insists that Belgian is i is absolutely pure French, has nothing to do with but he says those those those Parisians talk funny.", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "Yeah, yeah, yeah. They have an accent.", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "Yeah they they do, yeah. Yeah. But then he likes Belgian fries too, so. OK.", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "And then we have, uh, um, broader broader corpus, um, like TIMIT. TIMIT so far,", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "And Spanish too.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "right? Spanish Oh, Spanish stories?", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "Albayzin is the name.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "What about TI - digits?", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "Um, TI - digits uh all these Aurora f d data p data is from is derived from TI - digits.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "Uh - huh. Oh. Oh OK.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "Um, basically, they they corrupted it with, uh, different kinds of noises at different SNR levels.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "Ah. I see.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "y And I think Stephane was saying there's there's some broader s material in the French also?", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "Yeah, we cou we could use.", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "OK.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "Yeah. The French data.", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "Spanish stories?", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "No.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "No.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Sp - Not Spanish stories?", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "No. No. Albayz", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Spanish.", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "Spanish something.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "OK.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "Did the Aurora people actually corrupt it themselves, or just specify the signal and the signal - t", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "They they corrupted it, um, themselves,", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "OK.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "but they also included the the noise files for us, right? Or.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "so we can go ahead and corrupt other things.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "I'm just curious, Carmen I mean, I couldn't tell if you were joking or i Is it is it Mexican Spanish,", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "No no no no.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "or is it.", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "No no no no.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Oh, no, no. It's it's Spanish from Spain, Spanish.", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "Spanish from Spain.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Yeah, OK.", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "From Spain.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "Alright. Spanish from Spain. Yeah, we're really covered there now. OK.", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "OK.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "And the French from France.", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "Yeah, the No, the French is f yeah, from, uh, Paris,", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "Oh, from Paris, OK.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "And TIMIT's from lots of different places.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "OK.", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "From TI. From i It's from Texas. So may maybe it's.", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "From the deep South.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "So - s so it's not really from the US either.", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "Is that? OK.", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "Yeah. OK. And, um, with within the training corporas um, we're, uh, thinking about, um, training with noise. So, incorporating the same kinds of noises that, um, Aurora is in incorporating in their, um in their training corpus. Um, I don't think we we're given the, uh the unseen noise conditions, though, right?", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "I think what they were saying was that, um, for this next test there's gonna be some of the cases where they have the same type of noise as you were given before hand and some cases where you're not.", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "Like Mm - hmm. OK.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "So, presumably, that'll be part of the topic of analysis of the the test results, is how well you do when it's matching noise and how well you do where it's not.", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "I think that's right.", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "So, I guess we can't train on on the the unseen noise conditions.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "Well, not if it's not seen,", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "Right. If Not if it's unseen.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "OK. I mean, i i i i it does seem to me that a lot of times when you train with something that's at least a little bit noisy it can it can help you out in other kinds of noise even if it's not matching just because there's some more variance that you've built into things. But, but, uh,", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "uh, exactly how well it will work will depend on how near it is to what you had ahead of time. So. OK, so that's your training corpus,", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "and then your testing corpus?", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "Um, the testing corporas are, um, just, um, the same ones as Aurora testing. And, that includes, um, the English Spa - um, Italian. Finnish.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "Finnish.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Uh, we' r we're gonna get German, right? Ge - At the final test will have German.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "Well, so, yeah, the final test, on a guess, is supposed to be German and Danish,", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "Uh, yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "right?", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "The s yeah, the Spanish, perhaps,", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "Spanish. Oh yeah, we can we can test on s Spanish.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "we will have. Yeah. But the the Aurora Spanish, I mean.", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "Oh yeah. Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "Oh, there's a there's Spanish testing in the Aurora?", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "Uh, not yet, but, uh, yeah, uh, e", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "Yeah, it's preparing.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "pre they are preparing it,", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "They are preparing.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "and, well, according to Hynek it will be we will have this at the end of November, or Um.", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "OK, so, uh, something like seven things in each, uh each column.", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "So that's, uh, three hundred and forty - three, uh, different systems that are going to be developed. There's three of you.", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "Yeah. One hundred each, about.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "Uh, so that's hundred and hundred and fourteen each.", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "What a what about noise conditions?", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "What?", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "w Don't we need to put in the column for noise conditions?", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "Are you just trying to be difficult?", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "No, I just don't understand.", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "Well, th uh, when when I put these testings on there, I'm assumi", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "I'm just kidding. Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "There - there's three three tests. Um, type - A, type - B, and type - C. And they're all they're all gonna be test tested, um, with one training of the HTK system. Um, there's a script that tests all three different types of noise conditions. Test - A is like a matched noise. Test - B is a is a slightly mismatched. And test - C is a, um, mismatched channel.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "And do we do all our training on clean data?", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "Um, no, no,", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "Also, we can clean that.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "we're we're gonna be, um, training on the noise files that we do have.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "No.", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "So, um Yeah, so I guess the question is how long does it take to do a a training? I mean, it's not totally crazy t I mean, these are a lot of these are built - in things and we know we have programs that compute PLP, we have MSG, we have JRA you know, a lot of these things will just kind of happen, won't take uh a huge amount of development, it's just trying it out. So, we actually can do quite a few experiments.", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "But how how long does it take, do we think, for one of these trainings?", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "That's a good question.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "What about combinations of things?", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "Oh yeah, that's right. I mean, cuz, so, for instance, I think the major advantage of MSG.", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "Oh!", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "Yeah,", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "Och!", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "good point. A major advantage of MSG, I see, th that we've seen in the past is combined with PLP.", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Um.", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "Now, this is turning into a four - dimensional cube?", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "Well, you just select multiple things on the one dimension.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "Or you just add it to the features.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "No.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Just.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "Here.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Oh, yeah. OK.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "Yeah, so, I mean, you don't wanna, uh Let's see, seven choose two would be, uh, twenty - one different combinations. Um.", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "It's not a complete set of combinations, though,", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Probably.", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "right? It's not a complete set of combinations, though,", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "What?", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "right?", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "No.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "Yeah, I hope not. Yeah, there's.", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "That would be.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "Uh, yeah, so PLP and MSG I think we definitely wanna try cuz we've had a lot of good experience with putting those together.", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Um. Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "When you do that, you're increasing the size of the inputs to the net. Do you have to reduce the hidden layer, or something?", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "Well, so I mean, so i it doesn't increase the number of trainings.", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "No, no, I'm I'm just wondering about number of parameters in the net. Do you have to worry about keeping that the same, or?", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "Uh, I don't think so.", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "There's a computation limit, though, isn't there?", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Yeah, I mean, it's just more compu Excuse me?", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "Isn't there like a limit on the computation load, or d latency, or something like that for Aurora task?", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Oh yeah, we haven't talked about any of that at all, have we?", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "No.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "Yeah, so, there's not really a limit. What it is is that there's there's, uh it's just penalty, you know? That that if you're using, uh, a megabyte, then they'll say that's very nice, but, of course, it will never go on a cheap cell phone.", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "OK.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Um. And, u uh, I think the computation isn't so much of a problem. I think it's more the memory. Uh, and, expensive cell phones, exa expensive hand - helds, and so forth, are gonna have lots of memory. So it's just that, uh, these people see the the cheap cell phones as being still the biggest market, so.", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Um. But, yeah, I was just realizing that, actually, it doesn't explode out, um It's not really two to the seventh. But it's but but i i it doesn't really explode out the number of trainings cuz these were all trained individually. Right? So, uh, if you have all of these nets trained some place, then, uh, you can combine their outputs and do the KL transformation and so forth", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "and and, uh So, what it it blows out is the number of uh testings. And, you know and the number of times you do that last part. But that last part, I think, is so has gotta be pretty quick, so. Uh. Right? I mean, it's just running the data through.", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "Oh.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "But wh what about a net that's trained on multiple languages, though?", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "Well, you gotta do the KL transformation,", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "Eight y", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "but.", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "Is that just separate nets for each language then combined, or is that actually one net trained on?", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "Necessary to put in.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Good question.", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "Uh, probably one net. Well. Uh.", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "One would think one net,", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "So.", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "but we've I don't think we've tested that. Right?", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "So, in the broader training corpus we can we can use, uh, the three, or, a combination of of two two languages.", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "Database three.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "In one net. Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "Yeah, so, I guess the first thing is if w if we know how much a how long a a training takes, if we can train up all these these combinations, uh, then we can start working on testing of them individually, and in combination. Right?", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "Because the putting them in combination, I think, is not as much computationally as the r training of the nets in the first place. Right?", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "So y you do have to compute the KL transformation. Uh, which is a little bit, but it's not too much.", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "It's not too much,", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "no.", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "So it's.", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "But Yeah. But there is the testing also, which implies training, uh, the HTK models", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "The the model the HTK model.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "and, well,", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "Uh, right.", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "it's.", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "Right. So if you do have lots of combinations, it's.", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "yeah. But it's it's it's not so long. It @ @ Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "How long does it take for an, uh, HTK training?", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "It's around six hours, I think.", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "It depends on the.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "For training and testing, yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "More than six hours.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "More.", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "For the Italian, yes. Maybe one day.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "One day?", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "For HTK?", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "Well.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Really? Running on what?", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "Uh, M MFCC.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "No, I'm sorry, ru running on what machine?", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "Uh, Ravioli.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Uh, I don't know what Ravioli is. Is it is it an Ultra - five, or is it a?", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "mmm Um. Who is that?", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "I don't know.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "I don't know.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "I don't know.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "I don't know what a Ravioli is.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "I don't know.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "I don't know.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "We can check really quickly, I guess.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Yeah, I I think it's - it's - it's not so long because, well, the TI - digits test data is about, uh how many hours? Uh, th uh, thirty hours of speech, I think,", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "It's a few hours.", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "Hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Yeah. Right,", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "something like that. And it p Well.", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "so, I mean, clearly, there there's no way we can even begin to do an any significant amount here unless we use multiple machines.", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "It's six hours.", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "Right? So so w we I mean there's plenty of machines here and they're n they're often not in in a great great deal of use. So, I mean, I think it's it's key that that the that you look at, uh, you know, what machines are fast, what machines are used a lot Uh, are we still using P - make? Is that?", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "Oh, I don't know how w how we would P - make this, though. Um.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "Well, you have a I mean, once you get the basic thing set up, you have just all the uh, a all these combinations,", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "right?", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "Um. It's it's let's say it's six hours or eight hours, or something for the training of HTK. How long is it for training of of, uh, the neural net?", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "The neural net? Um.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "I would say two days.", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "Depends on the corpuses, right?", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "It depends.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "It s also depends on the net.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "Depends on the corpus.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "How big is the net?", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "For Albayzin I trained on neural network, uh, was, um, one day also.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Uh, but on what machine?", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "On a SPERT board.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "Uh. I I think the neural net SPERT.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Y you did a you did it on a SPERT board.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "Yes.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "OK, again, we do have a bunch of SPERT boards.", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "And I think there there there's I think you folks are probably go the ones using them right now.", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "Is it faster to do it on the SPERT, or?", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "Uh, don't know.", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "It's it's still a little faster on the", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "Used to be.", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "Is it?", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "Yeah, yeah. Ad - Adam Adam did some testing. Or either Adam or or Dan did some testing and they found that the SPERT board's still still faster.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "And the benefits is that, you know, you run out of SPERT and then you can do other things on your your computer,", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "and you don't.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "Yeah. So you could be we have quite a few SPERT boards. You could set up, uh, you know, ten different jobs, or something, to run on SPERT different SPERT boards and and have ten other jobs running on different computers. So, it's got to take that sort of thing, or or we're not going to get through any significant number of these.", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "So this is Yeah, I mean, I kind of like this because what it No.", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "OK.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "uh, no, what I like about it is we we we do have a problem that we have very limited time. You know, so, with very limited time, we actually have really quite a quite a bit of computational resource available if you, you know, get a look across the institute and how little things are being used. And uh, on the other hand, almost anything that really i you know, is is new, where we're saying, \" Well, let's look at, like we were talking before about, uh, uh, voiced - unvoiced - silence detection features and all those sort \" that's.", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "I think it's a great thing to go to. But if it's new, then we have this development and and and learning process t to to go through on top of just the the all the all the work. So, I I I don't see how we'd do it. So what I like about this is you basically have listed all the things that we already know how to do.", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "And and all the kinds of data that we, at this point, already have. And, uh, you're just saying let's look at the outer product of all of these things and see if we can calculate them. a a Am I am I interpreting this correctly? Is this sort of what what you're thinking of doing in the short term?", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "Mmm.", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "OK.", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "So so then I think it's just the the missing piece is that you need to, uh, you know you know, talk to talk to, uh, Chuck, talk to, uh, Adam, uh, sort out about, uh, what's the best way to really, you know, attack this as a as a as a mass problem in terms of using many machines. Uh, and uh, then, you know, set it up in terms of scripts and so forth, and uh, in in kind o some kind of structured way. Uh. Um, and, you know, when we go to, uh, OGI next week, uh, we can then present to them, you know, what it is that we're doing. And, uh, we can pull things out of this list that we think they are doing sufficiently,", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "Mmm. Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "that, you know, we're not we won't be contributing that much. Um. And, uh Then, uh, like, we're there.", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "How big are the nets you're using?", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Um, for the for nets trained on digits, um, we have been using, uh, four hundred order hidden units. And, um, for the broader class nets we're we're going to increase that because the, um, the digits nets only correspond to about twenty phonemes.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "Uh - huh.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "So.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "Broader class?", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "Um, the broader broader training corpus nets like TIMIT. Um, w we're gonna.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "Oh, it's not actually broader class, it's actually finer class, but you mean y You mean more classes.", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "Right. Right. Yeah. More classes. Right, right. More classes.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "That's what I mean.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "Yeah. Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm. And. Yeah.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "Carmen, did you do you have something else to add? We you haven't talked too much, and.", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "D I begin to work with the Italian database to nnn, to with the f front - end and with the HTK program and the @ @. And I trained eh, with the Spanish two neural network with PLP and with LogRASTA PLP. I don't know exactly what is better if if LogRASTA or JRASTA.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Well, um, JRASTA has the potential to do better, but it doesn't always. It's i i JRASTA is more complicated. It's it's, uh instead of doing RASTA with a log, you're doing RASTA with a log - like function that varies depending on a J parameter, uh, which is supposed to be sensitive to the amount of noise there is. So, it's sort of like the right transformation to do the filtering in, is dependent on how much noise there is.", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "Hm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "And so in JRASTA you attempt to do that. It's a little complicated because once you do that, you end up in some funny domain and you end up having to do a transformation afterwards, which requires some tables. And, uh,", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "Hm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "so it's it's it's a little messier, uh, there's more ways that it can go wrong, uh, but if if if you're careful with it, it can do better.", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "It's a bit I'll do better.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "So, it's So.", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "Um, and I think to to to recognize the Italian digits with the neural netw Spanish neural network, and also to train another neural network with the Spanish digits, the database of Spanish digits. And I working that.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "But prepa to prepare the the database are difficult. Was for me, n it was a difficult work last week with the labels because the the program with the label obtained that I have, the Albayzin, is different w to the label to train the neural network. And that is another work that we must to do, to to change.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "I I didn't understand.", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "Uh, for example Albayzin database was labeled automatically with HTK. It's not hand it's not labels by hand.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Oh, \" l labeled \".", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "Labels.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "I'm sorry,", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "I'm sorry,", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "I have a p I had a problem with the pronunciation.", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "I'm sorry. The labels. I'm sorry. The labels.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Yeah, OK.", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "Oh, also that.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "So, OK, so let's start over.", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "Yes.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "So, TI TIMI TIMIT's hand - labeled, and and you're saying about the Spanish?", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "The Spanish labels? That was in different format, that the format for the em the program to train the neural network.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Oh, I see.", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "I necessary to convert. And someti well.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "So you're just having a problem converting the labels.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "It's it's Yeah. Yeah, but n yes, because they have one program, Feacalc, but no, l LabeCut, l LabeCut, but don't doesn't, eh, include the HTK format to convert.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "Hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "And, I don't know what. I ask e even I ask to Dan Ellis what I can do that, and h they he say me that h he does doesn't any any s any form to to do that. And at the end, I think that with LabeCut I can transfer to ASCII format, and HTK is an ASCII format. And I m do another, uh, one program to put ASCII format of HTK to ase ay ac ASCII format to Exceed", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "and they used LabCut to to pass.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "OK, yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "Actually that was complicated,", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "So you", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "but well, I know how we can did that do that.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Sure. So it's just usual kind of uh sometimes say housekeeping, right? To get these get these things sorted out.", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "So it seems like there's there's some peculiarities of the, uh of each of these dimensions that are getting sorted out. And then, um, if if you work on getting the, uh, assembly lines together, and then the the pieces sort of get ready to go into the assembly line and gradually can start, you know, start turning the crank, more or less. And, uh, uh, we have a lot more computational capability here than they do at OGI, so I think that i if What's what's great about this is it sets it up in a very systematic way, so that, uh, once these all of these, you know, mundane but real problems get sorted out, we can just start turning the crank", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "and and push all of us through, and then finally figure out what's best.", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "Yeah. Um, I I was thinking two things. Uh, the first thing was, um we we actually had thought of this as sort of like, um not not in stages, but more along the the time axis. Just kind of like one stream at a time,", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "je - je - je - je - je check out the results and and go that way.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "Oh, yeah, yeah, sure. No, I'm just saying, I'm just thinking of it like loops,", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "Uh - huh.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "right? And so, y y y if you had three nested loops, that you have a choice for this, a choice for this, and a choice for that,", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "Yeah. Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "right? And you're going through them all. That that's what I meant.", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "Right, right.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "And, uh, the thing is that once you get a better handle on how much you can realistically do, uh, um, concurrently on different machines, different SPERTs, and so forth, uh, and you see how long it takes on what machine and so forth, you can stand back from it and say, \" OK, if we look at all these combinations we're talking about, and combinations of combinations, and so forth, \" you'll probably find you can't do it all.", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm. OK.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "OK, so then at that point, uh, we should sort out which ones do we throw away.", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "Which of the combinations across you know, what are the most likely ones, and And, uh, I still think we could do a lot of them. I mean, it wouldn't surprise me if we could do a hundred of them or something. But, probably when you include all the combinations, you're actually talking about a thousand of them or something, and that's probably more than we can do. Uh, but a hundred is a lot. And and, uh, um.", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "OK.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "Yeah, and the the second thing was about scratch space. And I think you sent an email about, um, e scratch space for for people to work on. And I know that, uh, Stephane's working from an NT machine, so his his home directory exists somewhere else.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "His his stuff is somewhere else, yeah. Yeah, I mean, my point I I want to Yeah, thanks for bring it back to that. My th I want to clarify my point about that that that Chuck repeated in his note. Um. We're over the next year or two, we're gonna be upgrading the networks in this place,", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "but right now they're still all te pretty much all ten megabit lines. And we have reached the this the machines are getting faster and faster. So, it actually has reached the point where it's a significant drag on the time for something to move the data from one place to another.", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "So, you you don't w especially in something with repetitive computation where you're going over it multiple times, you do don't want to have the the data that you're working on distant from where it's being where the computation's being done if you can help it.", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "Uh. Now, we are getting more disk for the central file server, which, since it's not a computational server, would seem to be a contradiction to what I just said. But the idea is that, uh, suppose you're working with, uh, this big bunch of multi multilingual databases. Um, you put them all in the central ser at the cen central file server.", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "Then, when you're working with something and accessing it many times, you copy the piece of it that you're working with over to some place that's close to where the computation is and then do all the work there. And then that way you you won't have the the network you won't be clogging the network for yourself and others.", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "Mmm.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "That's the idea. So, uh, it's gonna take us It may be too late for this, uh, p precise crunch we're in now, but, uh, we're, uh It's gonna take us a couple weeks at least to get the, uh, uh, the amount of disk we're gonna be getting. We're actually gonna get, uh, I think four more, uh, thirty - six gigabyte drives and, uh, put them on another another disk rack. We ran out of space on the disk rack that we had, so we're getting another disk rack and four more drives to share between, uh primarily between this project and the Meetings Meetings Project. Um. But, uh, we've put another I guess there's another eighteen gigabytes that's that's in there now to help us with the immediate crunch. But, uh, are you saying So I don't know where you're Stephane, where you're doing your computations. If i so, you're on an NT machine, so you're using some external machine", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "Yeah, it, uh Well, to It's Nutmeg and Mustard, I think,.", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "Do you know these yet?", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "I don't know what kind.", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "Nuh - uh.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "Yeah, OK. Uh, are these are these, uh, computational servers, or something? I'm I've been kind of out of it.", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "Yeah, I think, yeah. I think so.", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "Unfortunately, these days my idea of running comput of computa doing computation is running a spread sheet.", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "Mmm.", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "So.", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "Mmm.", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "Uh, haven't been haven't been doing much computing personally, so. Um. Yeah, so those are computational servers. So I guess the other question is what disk there i space there is there on the computational servers.", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "Right. Yeah, I'm not sure what's available on is it you said Nutmeg and what was the other one?", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "Mustard.", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "Mustard. OK.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "Huh.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Yeah, Well, you're the you're the disk czar now.", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "Right, right.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "So", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "Well, I'll check on that.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "Yeah. Yeah, so basically, uh, Chuck will be the one who will be sorting out what disk needs to be where, and so on, and I'll be the one who says, \" OK, spend the money. \" So. Which, I mean, n these days, uh, if you're talking about scratch space, it doesn't increase the, uh, need for backup, and, uh, I think it's not that big a d and the the disks themselves are not that expensive. Right now it's.", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "What you can do, when you're on that machine, is, uh, just go to the slash - scratch directory, and do a DF minus K, and it'll tell you if there's space available.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "Uh, and if there is then, uh.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "But wasn't it, uh I think Dave was saying that he preferred that people didn't put stuff in slash - scratch. It's more putting in d s XA or XB or,", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "Well, there's different there, um, there's.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "right?", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "Right. So there's the slash - X - whatever disks, and then there's slash - scratch. And both of those two kinds are not backed up. And if it's called \" slash - scratch \", it means it's probably an internal disk to the machine. Um. And so that's the kind of thing where, like if um, OK, if you don't have an NT, but you have a a a Unix workstation, and they attach an external disk, it'll be called \" slash - X - something \" uh, if it's not backed up and it'll be \" slash - D - something \" if it is backed up. And if it's inside the machine on the desk, it's called \" slash - scratch \". But the problem is, if you ever get a new machine, they take your machine away. It's easy to unhook the external disks, put them back on the new machine, but then your slash - scratch is gone. So, you don't wanna put anything in slash - scratch that you wanna keep around for a long period of time. But if it's a copy of, say, some data that's on a server, you can put it on slash - scratch because, um, first of all it's not backed up, and second it doesn't matter if that machine disappears and you get a new machine because you just recopy it to slash - scratch. So tha that's why I was saying you could check slash - scratch on those on on, um, Mustard and and Nutmeg to see if if there's space that you could use there.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "I see.", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "You could also use slash - X - whatever disks on Mustard and Nutmeg.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "Yeah, yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "Um. Yeah, and we do have I mean, yeah, so so you yeah, it's better to have things local if you're gonna run over them lots of times so you don't have to go to the network.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "Right, so es so especially if you're right, if you're if you're taking some piece of the training corpus, which usually resides in where Chuck is putting it all on the on the, uh, file server, uh, then, yeah, it's fine if it's not backed up because if it g g gets wiped out or something, y I mean it is backed up on the other disk. So,", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "yeah, OK.", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "Yeah, so, one of the things that I need to I've started looking at Uh, is this the appropriate time to talk about the disk space stuff?", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "Sure.", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "I've started looking at, um, disk space. Dan David, um, put a new, um, drive onto Abbott, that's an X disk, which means it's not backed up. So, um, I've been going through and copying data that is, you know, some kind of corpus stuff usually, that that we've got on a CD - ROM or something, onto that new disk to free up space on other disks. And, um, so far, um, I've copied a couple of Carmen's, um, databases over there. We haven't deleted them off of the slash - DC disk that they're on right now in Abbott, um, uh, but we I would like to go through sit down with you about some of these other ones and see if we can move them onto, um, this new disk also. There's there's a lot more space there,", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "Yeah, OK.", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "and it'll free up more space for doing the experiments and things. So, anything that that you don't need backed up, we can put on this new disk. Um, but if it's experiments and you're creating files and things that you're gonna need, you probably wanna have those on a disk that's backed up, just in case something goes wrong. So. Um So far I've I've copied a couple of things, but I haven't deleted anything off of the old disk to make room yet. Um, and I haven't looked at the any of the Aurora stuff, except for the Spanish. So I I guess I'll need to get together with you and see what data we can move onto the new disk.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "Yeah, OK.", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "Um, yeah, I I just an another question occurred to me is is what were you folks planning to do about normalization?", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "Um. Well, we were thinking about using this systematically for all the experiments. Um.", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "This being?", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "So, but Uh. So that this could be another dimension, but we think perhaps we can use the the best, uh, um, uh, normalization scheme as OGI is using, so, with parameters that they use there,.", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "Yeah, I think that's a good idea.", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "u u", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "I mean it's i i we we seem to have enough dimensions as it is. So probably if we sort of take their.", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "Yeah, yeah, yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "probably the on - line line normalization because then it it's if we do anything else, we're gonna end up having to do on - line normalization too, so we may as well just do on - line normalization.", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "So. Um. So that it's plausible for the final thing. Good. Um. So, I guess, yeah, th the other topic I maybe we're already there, or almost there, is goals for the for next week's meeting. Uh. i i i it seems to me that we wanna do is flush out what you put on the board here. Uh. You know, maybe, have it be somewhat visual, a little bit.", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "OK. Like a s like a slide?", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "Uh, so w we can say what we're doing,", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "OK.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "yeah. And, um, also, if you have sorted out, um, this information about how long i roughly how long it takes to do on what and, you know, what we can how many of these trainings, uh, uh, and testings and so forth that we can realistically do, uh, then one of the big goals of going there next week would be to to actually settle on which of them we're gonna do. And, uh, when we come back we can charge in and do it. Um. Anything else that I a a Actually started out this this field trip started off with with, uh, Stephane talking to Hynek, so you may have you may have had other goals, uh, for going up, and any anything else you can think of would be we should think about accomplishing? I mean, I'm just saying this because maybe there's things we need to do in preparation.", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "Oh, I think basically, this is this is, uh, yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "OK. OK. Uh. Alright. And uh and the other the the last topic I had here was, um, uh d Dave's fine offer to to, uh, do something on this. I mean he's doing he's working on other things, but to to do something on this project. So the question is, \" Where where could we, uh, uh, most use Dave's help? \"", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "Um, yeah, I was thinking perhaps if, um, additionally to all these experiments, which is not really research, well I mean it's, uh, running programs", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "and, um, trying to have a closer look at the perhaps the, um, speech, uh, noise detection or, uh, voiced - sound - unvoiced - sound detection and Which could be important in i for noise noise.", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "I think that would be a I think that's a big big deal. Because the you know, the thing that Sunil was talking about, uh, with the labels, uh, labeling the database when it got to the noisy stuff? The That that really throws things off. You know, having the noise all of a sudden, your your, um, speech detector, I mean the the, um What was it? What was happening with his thing?", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "He was running through these models very quickly. He was getting lots of, uh, uh insertions, is what it was, in his recognitions.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "The only problem I mean, maybe that's the right thing the only problem I have with it is exactly the same reason why you thought it'd be a good thing to do. Um, I I think that Let's fall back to that. But I think the first responsibility is sort of to figure out if there's something that, uh, an an additional Uh, that's a good thing you remove the mike. Go ahead, good. Uh, uh. What an additional clever person could help with when we're really in a crunch for time. Right? Cuz Dave's gonna be around for a long time,", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "right? He's he's gonna be here for years. And so, um,", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "over years, if he's if he's interested in, you know, voiced - unvoiced - silence, he could do a lot. But if there if in fact there's something else that he could be doing, that would help us when we're we're sort of uh strapped for time We have we we've, you know, only, uh, another another month or two to you know, with the holidays in the middle of it, um, to to get a lot done. If we can think of something some piece of this that's going to be The very fact that it is sort of just work, and i and it's running programs and so forth, is exactly why it's possible that it some piece of could be handed to someone to do, because it's not Uh, yeah, so that that's the question. And we don't have to solve it right this s second, but if we could think of some some piece that's that's well defined, that he could help with, he's expressing a will willingness to do that.", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "What about training up a, um, a multilingual net?", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "Uh.", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "Yes, maybe to, mmm, put together the the label the labels between TIMIT and Spanish or something like that.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Yeah. Yeah, so defining the superset,", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "Yes.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "and, uh, joining the data and Mmm.", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "Uh. Yeah, that's something that needs to be done in any event.", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "So what we were just saying is that that, um I was arguing for, if possible, coming up with something that that really was development and wasn't research because we we're we have a time crunch. And so, uh, if there's something that would would save some time that someone else could do on some other piece, then we should think of that first. See the thing with voiced - unvoiced - silence is I really think that that it's to do to do a a a a poor job is is pretty quick, uh, or, you know, a so - so job. You can you can you can throw in a couple fea we know what what kinds of features help with it.", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "Hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "You can throw something in. You can do pretty well. But I remember, in fact, when you were working on that, and you worked on for few months, as I recall, and you got to, say ninety - three percent, and getting to ninety - four really really hard.", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm. Another year.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "Yeah, yeah. So, um And th th the other tricky thing is, since we are, uh, even though we're not we don't have a strict prohibition on memory size, and and computational complexity, uh, clearly there's some limitation to it. So if we have to if we say we have to have a pitch detector, say, if we if we're trying to incorporate pitch information, or at least some kind of harmonic harmonicity, or something, this is another whole thing, take a while to develop. Anyway, it's a very very interesting topic. I mean, one I think one of the a lot of people would say, and I think Dan would also, uh, that one of the things wrong with current speech recognition is that we we really do throw away all the harmonicity information. Uh, we try to get spectral envelopes. Reason for doing that is that most of the information about the phonetic identity is in the spectral envelopes are not in the harmonic detail. But the harmonic detail does tell you something. Like the fact that there is harmonic detail is is real important. So. Um. So, uh. So I think Yeah. So wh that so the the other suggestion that just came up was, well what about having him work on the, uh, multilingual super f superset kind of thing. Uh, coming up with that and then, you know, training it training a net on that, say, um, from from, uh from TIMIT or something. Is that or uh, for multiple databases. What what would you what would you think it would wh what would this task consist of?", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "Yeah, it would consist in, uh, well, um, creating the the superset, and, uh, modifying the lab labels for matching the superset. Uh.", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "Uh, creating a superset from looking at the multiple languages,", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "Well, creating the mappings, actually.", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "and then creating i m changing labels on TIMIT?", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "Or on or on multiple language multiple languages?", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "No. The multiple language.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Yeah, yeah, with the @ @ three languages,", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "Maybe for the other language because TIMIT have more phone.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "So you'd have to create a mapping from each language to the superset.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "Uh.", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "Yeah. Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "From each language to the superset,", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "There's, um Carmen was talking about this SAMPA thing, and it's, um, it's an effort by linguists to come up with, um, a machine readable IPA, um, sort of thing, right? And, um, they they have a web site that Stephane was showing us that has, um has all the English phonemes and their SAMPA correspondent, um, phoneme,", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "and then, um, they have Spanish, they have German, they have all all sorts of languages, um, mapping mapping to the SAMPA phonemes, which.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "Yeah, the tr the transcription, though, for Albayzin is n the transcription are of SAMPA the same, uh, how you say, symbol that SAMPA appear.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "SAMPA? What does \" SAMPA \" mean?", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm. Hmm.", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "But I don't know if TIMIT o how is TIMIT.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "So, I mean.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "What.", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "I'm sorry.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Go ahead.", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "I was gonna say, does that mean IPA is not really international?", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "No, it's it's saying.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "It uses special diacritics and stuff, which you can't do with ASCII characters.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "y can't print on ASCII.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "So the SAMPA's just mapping those.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "Oh, I see. Got it.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "What, uh Has OGI done anything about this issue? Do they have Do they have any kind of superset that they already have?", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "I don't think so. Well, they they they're going actually the the other way, defining uh, phoneme clusters, apparently. Well.", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "Aha. That's right. Uh, and that's an interesting way to go too.", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "So they just throw the speech from all different languages together, then cluster it into sixty or fifty or whatever clusters?", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "I think they've not done it, uh, doing, uh, multiple language yet, but what they did is to training, uh, English nets with all the phonemes, and then training it in English nets with, uh, kind of seventeen, I think it was seventeen, uh, broad classes.", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "Automatically derived Mm - hmm. Automatically derived broad classes, or?", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "Yeah. Yeah, I think so.", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "Uh - huh.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "Uh, and, yeah. And the result was that apparently, when testing on cross - language it was better. I think so. But Hynek didn't add didn't have all the results when he showed me that, so, well.", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "So that does make an interesting question, though.", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "But.", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "Is there's some way that we should tie into that with this. Um. Right? I mean, if if in fact that is a better thing to do, should we leverage that, rather than doing, um, our own. Right? So, if i if if they s I mean, we have i we have the the trainings with our own categories. And now we're saying, \" Well, how do we handle cross - language? \" And one way is to come up with a superset, but they are als they're trying coming up with clustered, and do we think there's something wrong with that?", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "I think that there's something wrong", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "OK. What w", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "or Well, because Well, for the moment we are testing on digits, and e i perhaps u using broad phoneme classes, it's it's OK for um, uh classifying the digits, but as soon as you will have more words, well, words can differ with only a single phoneme, and which could be the same, uh, class.", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "I see.", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "Well. So.", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "Right. Although, you are not using this for the.", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "So, I'm", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "You're using this for the feature generation, though, not the.", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "Yeah, but you will ask the net to put one for th th the phoneme class", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "and So.", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "So you're saying that there may not be enough information coming out of the net to help you discriminate the words?", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "Well. Yeah, yeah. Mmm.", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "Fact, most confusions are within the phone phone classes, right? I think, uh, Larry was saying like obstruents are only confused with other obstruents, et cetera, et cetera.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "Hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "Yeah. Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "Yeah, this is another p yeah, another point.", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "So so, maybe we could look at articulatory type stuff,", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "But that's what I thought they were gonna.", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "right?", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "Did they not do that, or?", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "I don't think so. Well,", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "So.", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "they were talking about, perhaps, but they d", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "They're talking about it,", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "I d", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "but that's sort of a question whether they did", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "w Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "because that's that's the other route to go.", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "Instead of this, you know.", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "Superclass.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "Instead of the the the the superclass thing, which is to take So suppose y you don't really mark arti To really mark articulatory features, you really wanna look at the acoustics and and see where everything is, and we're not gonna do that. So, uh, the second class way of doing it is to look at the, uh, phones that are labeled and translate them into acoustic uh, uh articulatory, uh, uh, features. So it won't really be right. You won't really have these overlapping things and so forth,", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "So the targets of the net are these?", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "but.", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "Articulatory features.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "Articulatory feature.", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "But that implies that you can have more than one on at a time?", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "Right. That's right.", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "Ah. OK.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "You either do that or you have multiple nets.", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "I see.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "Um. And, um I don't know if our software this if the qu versions of the Quicknet that we're using allows for that. Do you know?", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "Allows for?", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "Multiple targets being one?", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "Oh, um, we have gotten soft targets to to work.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "OK. So that that'll work, yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "OK. So, um, that's another thing that could be done.", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "Um.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "is that we could we could, uh, just translate instead of translating to a superset, just translate to articulatory features, some set of articulatory features and train with that. Now the fact even though it's a smaller number, it's still fine because you have the the, uh, combinations. So, in fact, it has every, you know it had has has every distinction in it that you would have the other way.", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "But it should go across languages better.", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "We could do an interesting cheating experiment with that too. We could I don't know, if you had uh the phone labels, you could replace them by their articulatory features and then feed in a vector with those uh, things turned on based on what they're supposed to be for each phone to see if it if you get a big win. Do you know what I'm saying?", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "No.", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "So, um, I mean, if your net is gonna be outputting, uh, a vector of basically of well, it's gonna have probabilities, but let's say that they were ones and zeros, then y and you know for each, um, I don't know if you know this for your testing data, but if you know for your test data, you know, what the string of phones is and and you have them aligned, then you can just instead of going through the net, just create the vector for each phone and feed that in to see if that data helps. Eh, eh, what made me think about this is, I was talking with Hynek and he said that there was a guy at A T - andT who spent eighteen months working on a single feature. And because they had done some cheating experiments.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "This was the guy that we were just talking a that we saw on campus. So, this was Larry Saul who did this did this.", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "Oh, OK.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "He used sonorants.", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "Right, OK,", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "Was what he was doing.", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "right. And they they had done a cheating experiment or something, right?", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "and determined that.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "He he di he didn't mention that part.", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "Well, Hynek said that that, I guess before they had him work on this, they had done some experiment where if they could get that one feature right, it dramatically improved the result.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "But. I see. OK.", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "So I was thinking, you know it made me think about this, that if it'd be an interesting experiment just to see, you know, if you did get all of those right.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "Should be. Because if you get all of them in there, that defines all of the phones. So that's that's equivalent to saying that you've got got all the phones right.", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "So, if that doesn't help, there's.", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "Although, yeah, it would be make an interesting cheating experiment because we are using it in this funny way,", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "where we're converting it into features.", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "And then you also don't know what error they've got on the HTK side. You know? It sort of gives you your the best you could hope for, kind of.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "Mmm. Mmm, I see.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "The soft training of the nets still requires the vector to sum to one, though, right?", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "To sum up to one.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "So you can't really feed it, like, two articulatory features that are on at the same time with ones cuz it'll kind of normalize them down to one half or something like that, for instance.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "But perhaps you have the choice of the final nonl", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "Right. Nonlinearity?", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "uh, nonlinearity,", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "Um,", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "yeah. Is it always softmax", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "it's sig No, it's actually sigmoid - X", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "or? Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "for the.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "So if you choose sigmoid it's o it's OK?", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "You, um.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "Did we just run out of disk,", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "I think I think apparently, the, uh.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "or?", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "Why don't you just choose linear? Right?", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "What's that?", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "Linear outputs?", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Linear outputs?", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "Isn't that what you'll want?", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Um.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "If you're gonna do a KL Transform on it.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Right, right. Right, but during the training, we would train on sigmoid - X", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "Oh, you Yeah?", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "and then at the end just chop off the final nonlinearity.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "Hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "So, we're we're we're off the air, or? About to be off the air.", "speakerName": "Professor F" } ] }

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

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

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

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{ "meetingId": "TS3005b", "transcriptSegments": [ { "text": "Good morning, again.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "One question.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah..", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Send.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Choose a number?.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Submit..", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yep yep yep yep.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "All set?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm. Yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Good. Okay. Let's see what we can find here. Okay. A very warm welcome again to everyone.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Um here we are already at our uh functional design meeting. Um and this is what we are going to do. The opening, which we are doing now, um and the special note, I'm project manager but on the meetings I'm also the secretary, which means I will make uh minutes as I did of the previous meeting.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "And uh I also put these as fast as possible in the uh project folder, so you can see them and review what we have discussed. Um if I'm right, there are three presentations, I guess each one of you has prepared one? Good.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yes.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "And um we will also take a look at new project requirements, um if you haven't heard about them yet. And then of course we have to take a decision on the remote control functions and we have some more time, forty minutes. But I think we will need it. Um well I don't know who wants to go first with his presentation.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "I'll go first. Okay. I'll go first yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "You can go first, okay.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Well.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Well, shall I go first with the users?", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Well.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "I think well okay no problem..", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Is there an order? I haven't.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "everybody already has his presentation,", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Ja precies, ja precies, ja precies", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "so you can adjust it..", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "So. Huh? Okay, um.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "And one question, uh your name Denni, is it with a", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "E_I_E_.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "I_E_ E_I_E_, okay. Thank you.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Okay, um I wanted to explain the working design of the remote control. It's possibly very handy if you want to uh design one of those. Um well so it basically works uh as I uh uh r wrote down uh in this uh little uh summary. Uh when you press a button, uh that's when you do pr for example when you uh want to turn up the volume, um a little connection is made uh the the rubber uh button just presses on a", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Sorry..", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "on a little print plate uh which uh makes uh uh a connection that uh gives the chips, uh which is uh mounted beneath those uh that plastic of a rubber button. Uh senses that a connection has been made, and know and knows what button you pressed, becau uh for example the the volume up or volume down button. Um uh the the chip uh makes a Morse code uh like uh signal which uh then is si uh signalled to uh several transistors which makes uh which sends the signal to a little let. You know what a let is?", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Okay. And that makes uh the the infra-red lights signal which is sent to the television set. Uh which has a sensor in it to uh sense uh the signal of the infra-red. That's basically uh how it works. Um the findings uh uh that I found uh searching up some uh detailed information about the remote controls, are that uh they are very easy to produce, uh it is pis uh it's possible to uh make them in mass production because it is as eas it is as easy as uh printing a page, uh just uh fibreglass plate um is b uh is uh covered with uh some uh coatings and uh uh and chips.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Uh and the technology's already available, we don't have to find out how remote controls uh have to work or uh how that how uh to make some chips that are possible to uh to to transmit those uh signals. Uh I made a little uh uh animation of about how a tran our uh remote controller works.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Oh right.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Animation..", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "we tel", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "There is something turning.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "There.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah, it's a little bug it's in the in the smart board..", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Okay. Uh well", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "the sub-component, I suppose that you understand what a sub-component is, is f in this example it's the button. Uh when it is pressed down, um, the switch is ter is uh is switched on, so with uh the wire is sent to the to the chip in uh co-operation with the battery of course, because to make uh a a signal possible you have to have some sort of uh li uh a d ad uh electronic uh.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Infrared light.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yes, uh, okay. Um w after it's being composed by the chip uh the signal uh is transported uh to the infra-red bulb, and from there it signals a Morse code-like signal to the to the b to the bulb in uh in the television set. Okay. S Uh I wrote down some personal preferences about uh the remote control. Of course it is very handy if the remote control is hand held, so you don't have to uh uh wind it up or something, or just is it's it's very light to uh to make uh to use it. Uh I personally uh pref prefer that uh it would be p uh come available in the various colours, and uh easy to use buttons. But I suppose that the one of the other team members uh uh thought of that uh too..", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah, I've got it there too..", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "And it is possible for several designs and um easy to use b uh sorry, easy to use buttons. Perhaps soft touch, uh touch screen uh buttons because uh the rubber buttons are always uh uh they uh slightly uh they can be slightly damaged,", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "uh so the numbers on the buttons are not possible uh to read anymore. And uh well as I said uh before th uh we can uh make several designs..", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Okay, well, that's my contribution to this meeting, and uh", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "To this meeting..", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Okay, thank you.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "two of these this meeting. So.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Shall I go uh next?", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yep.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "'Kay.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Please.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "So.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Smoking.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Well uh, my name's, and I looked at uh technical functions design of the remote. Uh I did this by uh looking at examples of other remote controls, of how they uh they look, and information from the web that I found. Um well what I found was that uh th the actual use of the remote control is to send messages to television set, how you uh d what you described uh just early. And this can be all sorts of medsa messages, turn it on, turn it off, uh change the channel, adjust volume, that kind of thing. Uh play video, teletext, but also t uh play C_D_ if you use it your C_D_ player the remote control will that one. There are some uh examples of remote controls. You can see they are very different. The one has got all the functions that you could possibly need and an lot of uh buttons etcetera. And the other is uh more user friendly, little with big buttons. And uh not n all the the the the stuff you can do with it, but uh the the essential stuff is there. Um I guess you could better y you should look at a a user centred uh approach, because the customers have to use them and and if they don't think it's usable they won't uh buy it. A lot of buttons they may think from I don't need s as much as that. Uh, well perf personal preferences is is uh a simple remote, with uh the basic functions that you can need that you could use. But uh keep in mind the new functions of T_V_ what we discussed earlier, split screen and uh is that a function that you should have? Because all the T_V_s will have them. Or because of only a few and isn't really necessary. And then uh make it I would make so that you can could uh use it on more than one appliance. If you have one that uh uh does with the vi the the video, it could also work with uh with the stereo, because play is play and stop stop and that sort of thing. The shu c you could reuse the buttons so that you don't have to have a lot of buttons for uh anything. And it should be a user friendly, clear buttons, and not too much. And that is my presentation.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Okay, thank you.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Okay..", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "'Kay. Check..", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "You must still have it open.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Kijke'Kay, so. We're going to j discuss the functional requirements of the remote, that m that means that functions user n want to have on the remote control, or just Yeah, and the users, actually.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "The methods I I prefer is we're going to look which section of the users we are going to focus a l on more. Are the younger people going to buy the remote control or the elderly people? And then tho that section we're going to focus and adjust the remote more to that section than the whole user section. Okay. Some data. Younger people, from sixteen to thir forty five um years are more interested in fj features like L_C_D_ screens, speech recognition e etcetera. And we possess about two third of the market from in that range of age. The elderly people, from forty five years to sixty five years are not that much interested in features, and we possess less than two third, that's two fifth, of the market share in that area. Goed so.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Hmm.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "'Kay. Findings. Fifty percent of the users lose their remote often.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "So we don't have to make it very small, like uh like a mobile phone or something, but some somewhat bi bigger than small, so you don't lose it that much anymore. Seventy five percent of the users also find it ugly,", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "and fif seventy five of the users zap a lot, so the buttons sh should be that small, or shouldn't be that complex because we have to search for the buttons, which one are you going to use. Next. Important issues about the remote. I think it would be better with a personal reference, but okay. Remote control has to have to have a low power usage, because s w seventy five percent of the users only zap one time an hour, so the power usage is also one one time an hour, or so, with a high power usage we would use a lot of but batteries. The volume button and the channel buttons are the two most important buttons on the remote control, so those they those have to h be find very easily. And have to be somewhat like bigger etcetera. It has also be have to find easily when the label is gone. My colleague also announced it that labels should be scratched off", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Hmm.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "or would be s uh senden.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "okay. So uh if that's k uh if that's the problem, you also have to find it easily on the remote. Buttons. Like what all colleagues said, have to have to be minimalized. or should be covered, or in L_C_D_ screen. L_C_D_ screen is easy because we have the L_C_D_ screen, we have the various options. Put one option and then you have the all the buttons of that options, so the other options would be gone. And you don't see the buttons. So L_C_D_ screens should be easy, but an L_C_D_ screen, the problem with the L_ sc L_C_D_ screen is that elderly people fr from forty five to for sixty five years don't use the L_C_D_ screen a lot. So we have to that keep that in mind that if you're going to implement L_C_D_ screen, you don't have to make it that hard to learn or to use.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Uh L_C_D_ screen as in uh touch screen?", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah, touch screen, yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "The last but not least, younger people are more critical about the features. Because they use the remote control often more often, and are more technical than the ol older people. And the older people spend more money, and easily on a remote control.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "'Kay.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "So we have to keep in mind to to focus not a lot not that much on the younger pep younger people, but also somewhat on the elderly people. And on my personal preferences, I don't have any mo more time to come with that,", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "but like I said, L_C_D_ screen is easily to use", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "because you have you can implement a lot of buttons in one remote with not that much buttons. And it should be easy to use. Especially the volume buttons, the channel buttes buttons and the number buttons to zap through the channels. And that is it.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Okay,", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Okay..", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "thank you.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Oh right..", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Um, well thank you all, huh. I dunno uh did everyone receive an email with uh the new project requirements?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "No. Res I did not.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "No? Well,", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Perhaps the rest?", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "No.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "then I think it's a good thing that I made a separate slide of them", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Ja,.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "so you can all read them. Oh, well not in this presentation. Hmm", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Should be in there. Well, I can tell you them uh from my laptop. Um teletext does has become outdated since the popularity of the internet.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Oh. Mm.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "So that's uh the first thing we I think we should pay less attention to uh teletext. Uh the remote control should only be used for the television, otherwise the project becomes more complex, which endangers the time to market, and of course would make it more costly, I think. Um our current customers are within the age group of forty plus, and new product should reach a new market with customers that are younger than forty, and you talked about that before. And uh a last point, but also very important, our corporate image should stay recognisable in our products, which means that our uh corporate colour and slogan must be implemented in the new design. So we have to keep that in mind. Um well uh according to our agenda it's then time to take a decision on the remote control functions. So, who has any idea about what should be on it, and what shouldn't?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Well you said it should only uh work with one appliance?", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Be television.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Or with one uh d che only the T_V_?", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah. Only be used for television.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "And the video also, or not uh?.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Well it says only for television here, huh.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Only the television.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Oh. Alright. Okay..", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Makes it a lot easier, huh?.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "So yeah, then you can yeah. Requirements, no? Functions.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Then it should have uh on, off,", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah for.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "and uh.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Standby options,", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah, the basics then by a volume, channel, one till two zero numbers on it,", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "yeah? Uh yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah. And per perhaps uh.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "oh teletext doesn't have to be?", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "No.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Um other functions.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Well uh uh yes yes s sh A button where you can uh change from one number to two numbers.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah I had.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Two s two two digits,", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah, yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Can you.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "oh okay.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Don't know if that's got a name,", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah I understand what you mean. Yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "but.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "I think it's I think it's easy to implement a button with a s s what which especially do that, because some T_V_s, if you press the t one and then the two, it be between five secs it make twelve,", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "It makes it twelve, yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah. S", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Indeed. Okay.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "and that's that's not relaxed", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Well, not really.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "to user.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "And and there are some models that don't uh accommodate that function. So", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "d uh wh the Philip's television makes it possible in that indeed to uh press one and then two to make uh the uh tj to reach channel twelve.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "So that it easy and fast.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "But uh all the television makes uh use of those button where you first press that button and then press two digits to uh to get", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah. Yeah, so you should have that one on.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Uh yeah, think so.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Our main targets' age are? were? Forty five plus, or?", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Mute misschien also.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Uh well", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "new product should reach a market with customers that are younger than forty, and now we have current customers uh of forty plus.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Forties, okay because because younger people as Uh younger people have now, sixteen till to twenty five age, are f eighty one percent interested in L_C_D_ screen. From twenty six to thirty five have sixty six percent, and thirty six to forty five, fifty five percent, so I think to um Because on most recog remote controls um the print plate will be broken how much, two years. You have to press h very hard to go to the next channel.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "With the L_C_D_ screen it's easier because you only have to wipe the screen to uh for fingerprint,", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah, we we could yeah. But I think that uh that collides with our mission to make it very cheap.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "and then you can use it again.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Because L_C_D_ screens are very expensive.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah, okay.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "An", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "A touch screen uh probably uh even more.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah but a you don't know.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "So,", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "True.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "true, true.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "But uh Well um is it possible to make an L_C_D_ screen uh, how was the information?", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah, it only says that this perce percentage like L_C_D_ screen. Because, yeah and it says that younger age between sixteen and forty five highly interesting features more critical.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "So perhaps we should we should focus on that L_C_D_ screen.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "And if the only f Yeah, because our target is sixteen to forty five.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "But, do you.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah but uh will we not uh exceed our uh our uh production uh.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah you don't know how much it costs. Yeah, you don't know how much it costs, the L_C_D_ screen.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Is it possible to find out, anyway?", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "No, I don't have any costs here,", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "You know?", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "I only have percentages.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "But if you would do an L_C_D_ screen do we have don don't you have any buttons? Or because if it only directs at the T_V_, then you only have uh I don't know what you want to do with the L_C_D_ screen.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "No, an L_C_D_ screen's just like uh like a drawn here. Um just uh displays several buttons,", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah?", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "for example um if you wanted the minimal uh use b uh buttons, such as channel and volume, you just h uh displays four buttons on the screen", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Oh right, so you can.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "and it's possible to p uh press them down, just like a touch screen.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Oh, yeah alright. So you can adjust which buttons you want on that s screen.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah, we can make it possible to do that, yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah, if you want to adjust, like for example, adjust the audio settings, you press audio on the touchscreen", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "and you get the buttons for audio settings,", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah alright, oh right.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "so the other buttons are gone.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah, yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "So we're going for an L_C_D_ screen?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah. Would be yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "I think it's the most easier thing,", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "That's my uh.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "And hoping that when we produce a lot it won't be too expensive.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Well we had twelve fifty, I guess, for uh production?", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "No. Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Twelve fifty.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Um.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Any guesses?.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Well I suppose wi if the mar if our um if the i if the young people are interested in L_C_D_ screens, we should make'em.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Highly.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "And if that is our d uh market share to uh and our goal to uh deliver those uh remote controls.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "But But he also said that we should not only focus on the younger people, but also on the older, and will they use it if it only has an L_C_D_ screen?", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah, but Um, s forty six to forty five, thirty three percent, and sixty fifty six to sixty five twelve percent.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Oh, so still a little bit people.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "But our our our what's it, project requirements are the new products should be reached for new markets, to customers that are younger than forty.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah that's right. But you don't want to alienate the other uh.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "No, that not now, but, so.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "But if they also buy it then it's alright. I guess.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah, but market share fro for for forty years and younger is higher than that of sixty five and younger.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah. Alright.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Okay, so L_C_D_ it is?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "An Yes.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm. It's treasure.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "And what else?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "I hope we uh h and let's hope to reach those uh those sales.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah, i i if it Yeah, if it costs gets too much, too expensive, then yeah, we should be sticking to rubber buttons.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah, can you um uh s I think that that they will send you some information about uh the cost of L_C_D_ uh screens.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah..", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "N nothing, no costs at all.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "But perhaps later,", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Uh so if you uh.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "so uh.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah, so if you uh you receive an email about that, uh can you post it in the or shouldn't we post that in uh our projects mail uh folder.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah, in.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "I think that should yeah I think we all get the costs of everything.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "I don't.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Because you are the the Marketing uh Expert.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah, okay, I'll I'll post it.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "I uh.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Well perhaps we should have a backup plan that we would use buttons if it's uh too expensive.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah sure, sure.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah, okay. But for now it's L_C_D_. Okay.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Okay, L_C_D_, yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Then you have the seventy five percent of users find it r ugly.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "The L_C_D_? Oh that's a bit of a problem..", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah, and eighty percent of the users would spend more money with a when a remote would look fancy.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Oh, that's a bit of a problem.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Tha i l i it'll look fancy with L_C_D_ screen. Yeah..", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "It's looks fancy one yeah, of L_C_D_ screen.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah, but they don't they don't like it.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "They think it's ugly. When it has an L_C_D_ screen.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah, just a the plain remotes, not not specific L_C_D_ remotes.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Oh, alright, I thought that you said that.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah, and maybe you can make something fancy out of an L_C_D_ remote,", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "So.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "because it's new, as far as I know..", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Mm yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah, of course.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "And then not yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "And then you have the other thing, that seventy five percent zap a lot, but that's not a f question with the L_C_D_ screen.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Um. Yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Only thing you have to do is wipe the screen off once each time, to get all the fingerprints off it.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Mm. Okay?", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Okay, what else does our remote need?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "A mute button.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Um.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Mute button.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "I think. And.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "The most important things on a f on an on an uh remote control are channel selection, volume con selection,", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "and power s power usage.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "And a teletext, but that is not of the question.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "But But shouldn't you put a button of for teletext on the for the people who want to use it?", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Other things are Sorry?", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Remembering we have got a big remote that you have to fill..", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah, it could be. Yeah..", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm. Yeah, and we could make an a a separate menu on the L_C_D_ uh screen for teletext.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah, teletext.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "And there's also a.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "And other other less important things are screen settings, audio settings, and channel settings,", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah, they are less important, but I think they should be there,", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Less important.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "or not?", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah, should be there,", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "A sh", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "but not press.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "but in a sub sub-menu or something like that.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah, sub-menu, yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Uh I think it's also important to uh make it possible to um how do you call it in English, uh, to not use batteries, and use ac uh bat uh batteries to uh to be.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Like with a with a mouse, you have not, yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "yeah yeah sure. Indeed. So uh you can mount uh the the the uh", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah, in a breath it's.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "uh the remote control to um", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Charted.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "We should think of the twelve fifty we have", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "to refill the.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "but.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah,", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "I don't know how much that's going to uh.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "but we don't we don't have any costs now,", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah. Okay,", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "so Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "because i uh when you get an L_C_D_ screen, you run it on batteries,", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "the batteries will be uh empty very soon, very fast.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah e e power supply is one of the most important things.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "You should Perhaps you should be able to to switch the control off.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "If you have an L_C_D_ screen that's burns all the time I dunno.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah, yeah. Yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "You shouldn't on and off because that's ver extra, that you have t first you have to turn the remote on, and then you can uh.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "I don't know.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Uh.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah, I think it's it's not that easy because I don't think people will like it who who uh that you have to turn it on first and then use it,", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Nee that's that's uh yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "so I think it's better when th the T_V_ shuts down, the remote shuts down.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "But then you can't.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "And go to standby mode when you don't use it,", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "so that.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah yeah au automac matically, that it yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah, automatically. After two minutes or three minutes, something like that.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah. After two minutes, yeah two three minutes, yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah. And maybe a low battery indicator? On the screen.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah. Sure.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "And then b that uh", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "before an hour when its get again gets empty.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Then you have plenty of time to recharge it,", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "of put it in a recharger. Charger.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "So we are going for the for the recharger.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah, if it's. Uh.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "If it's sensible..", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah, because when you're watching T_V_, you're zapping and you have to put it in a recharger,", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah. Yeah, b when the batteries are low.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "No,", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "and I don't think it.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "when you when you're done with s uh w uh watching your television, you have to put it.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah, okay, but then we have to be sure that the the the the batteries go hours, six hours, five, six hours, then.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "But you'll also forget to put it in,", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah sure, of course.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "because you throw it on the couch", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah,", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah,", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "but.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "then you have a problem.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "and you don't remember.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "But you also forget to buy batteries,", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah. That's right.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "and then you can you can't use it,", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "so I.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Or we have to be sure that the batteries last couple of days when they're recharged.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Well I think the batteries should should w should work a lot longer than a couple of days,", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "So.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "or not?", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah because you have b", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "'Cause.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "but you have L_C_D_ screen.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah, that's right, but.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "High power usage.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "High power user cell, i uh it should be uh a standard move to to put your remote control in the charger when you're done watching television,", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yes.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "that's also a a a great advantage because you can't lose it anymore. Because you are obliged to uh put it in the charger and not to uh leave it in a couch uh between some cushions.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "True. Yeah. Yeah. True.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah. Right..", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah, you made a point there.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "But then you also have to s have somewhere where you can put a remo recharger near your couch", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah, also.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "because otherwise you have to walk a long way when you twoft want to turn on the T_V_.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah, otherwise all your yeah. Just a small device.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah. I think everything has it for and I guess.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah it hasn't It doesn't have to be big.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Plug it in, that's it. Yeah, like a like telephone charger or something.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah just just a cable, or a even a a a a a charger where you can mount it on. Something like that,", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah. Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "just u", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Alright.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Okay, well I've", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "It has to be easy to use also, or things. Uh market share, speaker re speech recognition.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah, you have some more", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "points.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Functional designs uh for the elderly uh you could make it possible to enlarge the screen,", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "I think.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "so make it possible to not uh display uh a button at ten points", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Also.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "uh, or.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Well I think that this should be standard. Large button large buttons.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah but it is uh one of the functions you have to uh specify.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah? Okay.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Because we can look at uh uh perhaps uh forty buttons at a screen, but the elderly only look at two buttons.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": ".", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "And you said something about speech recognition?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah,", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Speech recognition?", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "it says also.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Hello.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah,", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Twelve Euro", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "twelve fifty, twelve fifty..", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "twelve Euro fifty.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Twelve. That's an also ninety one percent sixteen to twenty five, twenty six to thirty five years, seventy six percent, and thirty six to forty five, thirty five percent.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "So it's pretty big.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Well, spread it by a big market.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "But then I I I.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Even bigger than for L_C_D_..", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah. W I know let's do a speech..", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Well", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "let's leave out all the remote controls and just put a microphone on top of the television to.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah. Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah. Ninety. Twenty five.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "You can clap or something..", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah Yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "channel.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Turn volume up.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Hey, that that's an idea..", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Now you shouldn't say the wrong thing, I dunno.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Okay, well", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah..", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "that should it has to be remote control, not.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah,", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "twelve.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "But they want to talk into the remo remote control, or something,", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Sure why not why not.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "or?.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Is this only would you would you pay more for speech recognition in a remote control. It's the only thing it says.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah, mm.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Oh, but do we want to implement that, or?", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "I think an L_C_D_ screen should be suf sufficient.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "But when you look at the percentages.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah, it says a lot, but.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Speech recognition scores even higher, huh?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Perhaps the options should be uh Why not?", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah, well,", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Why not?", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "maybe because of the cost, but uh nobody knows uh how much uh it will cost uh.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Let's hope uh to have some uh d", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "I know.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "No I think I think it's better to have L_ L_C_D_ screen, because in the area of tw thirty six to forty five, we have about thirty percent of the market share in in our hands, and fifty five of those people want L_C_D_ screen and thirty five want speech recognition. So I think it's better to keep it with L_C_D_ screen.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "But would it be useful to imple implement both?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "On one remote?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah, if the costs al allow it..", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Or.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Well.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah, I dunno.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "I don't know if that can be done with the cost of twelve fifty.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Nee.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "With that uh.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "If it should be done, if it could be done, I won't matter. Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah,", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "We should do it. Yeah. Sure.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "but how would you like to implement that, that you say volume up, and then it goes up,", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "or?", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Uh.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Certain systems already exist, I think.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Then you also have to have different languages if we go international. Then uh it's y it's yours to do a French and Dutch and English", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "True.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "True, yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah. True.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "But that should also be with f should be also with L_C_D_ screen.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "This should be uh accommodated with some software, uh, uh. Yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Because then I think in Chinese is different written, volume is different written than um Swahili or something.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah, that's right. Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Right. Swahili. Swahili.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah you can use icons for the", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "a speaker and uh.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Ja, well possible.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Indeed.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "But if that's better than language for the for the remote.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah, yeah yeah yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah. So we want to uh yeah it's international uh okay.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Then it's Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "'Kay, what else?", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "So, no speech recognition? Or.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Well, if it could be done, we.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah,", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Y it should be done. If it could be done, should be done.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "we have to keep Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah..", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah, and then we have different languages.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah, that should be uh anything matters.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "That's not so difficult at all,", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Okay, just make a separate remote for each uh.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "because I already use on several voice operated systems, and they are all possible to uh not all, but.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Well, you sh you should to adjust the thing.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "I think it's difficult. Every language of dialects.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "I think it's very differen difficult.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "And you have to speak the so that it can understand.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah. I think it can't be implemented, but maybe.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "You could use that n as an option, if you have money left, or something..", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah,'s an option, yes.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah, sure, indeed.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Fifty Euro cents.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Let's do speech.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "For speech recognition.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Okay, so we only do this when we have enough money left.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah..", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Okay. Well I've written down an an on or off button, volume selection, channel selection, uh the digits from one to zero, huh. Um or from zero to nine. Uh a digits button to switch uh between one and two digits, mute button, a separate menu for teletext, a battery indicator. Um we're going to use a docking station and uh probably L_C_D_ and if there's enough money, speech recognition. And uh the possibility to uh enlarge buttons or to have large buttons", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm. Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Mm, yes.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "in general.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "I With uh teletext if it wasn't ver very important, it was but.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "No, but.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "You also now have colours. I don't know if we should implement that. Yeah,", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Curved?", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "when you press the red button, you go to page one hundred two, and when you press the.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Uh yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "I don't know if we should implement that,", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Um.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "because it says that teletext not really important,", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "S Shortcuts. Uh.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "but yeah, the shortcut, and you can't go to sport.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "I think we should we could that we could also implement a audio settings, screen settings and channel settings, but as sub-menus.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "D Mainly if you turn the uh remote control on, you have to u you have to see from one till zero, channel and volume. And if you want to use teletext screen or audio, then you can press it.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Sh Yeah, just just sub-menu. Yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "It should be available but not", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "'Cause it should be there.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Not directly uh available.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "not Yeah. Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Okay, so not too much teletext support, but in a separate menu, and.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "So actually it is there but it's just not r ready there.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah, but s", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Directly available.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "So does it confuse uh the user?", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "You'll have to search for it..", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "They'd have to be easy to use.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Uh. I'll search um.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "If you want to use teletext, you can push the teletext button and then the options uh become available.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah. Yeah, that's a.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "The sign of it.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Okay, but no more buttons or functions, or?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "I guess not.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "No.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Uh, no. What else can you do with a television?", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "We've got anon", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Aren't we forgetting something very important?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Have got got two examples here, but I don't think there's anything we're missing.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Uh play, pause, doesn't n need to be there.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Well, we don't have the video orders.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yes, so this is your presentation. We could check the other remote controls with technical functions.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah, you could look here all the the.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Which ones were yours?", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Uh th th th th I don't know, technical functions.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Techni", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "They're a bit small, you can we should stretch them, because.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Ping.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Ja ja ja ja ja. Technical functions. Yeah okay.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "I guess we've got them all.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Uh I think I go to have volume, mute but I Yeah. Very slow. Yeah, the zoom buttons.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "And for a T_V_? Can you zoom in a T_V_?", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah, b wide screen, high screen, different things you have,", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Or that you can put'em on uh on on wide and.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "yeah different uh.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "But that should also be a sub then, a sub uh menu thing.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Menu.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah it should be available, but then in separate screen settings or something.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah, so we should also implement se screen settings.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah, screen settings, audio settings, teletext settings you have.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Oh right. Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Channel settings.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah, so you can program the.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "So those four, and of course the main.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah, so the first you see the main, and the other ones you can uh go to uh.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah. Yeah. Like tap screens or something", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "or, I dunno.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "I hope we can do this..", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Something.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "There are a lot of options depending uh on what kind of television you got.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah, if uh.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "'Cause if you don't got a wide screen television you don't need the uh the screen settings", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "No, you don't yu a no you then you don't no ni don't.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "uh for uh.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "then you don't use it.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah and if the television does not support such uh operations", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "We don't have to use that top. Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "So you leave it alone.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah. Or it could be possible to have a a standard version of the remote, an expanded version.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah. And do we want them in different colours, or.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "And and the buttons, should they have colours?", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Colours. Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Colours I think the main colour of the remote control is uh the colour of the L_C_D_ screen.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Oh but we don't have any buttons. Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "I Because we don't want a lot a devi yeah a device self s g", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah, then defines itself. Because uh how many percent? Eighty percent?", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "They think it's ugly, right?", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Would spend more money if it looks fancy.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Okay, so use uh very uh lot of peo.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Perhaps you can uh make adjustable fronts, like with the telephones.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Adjust with phones, yes.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "You can uh But I don't think that uh.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Okay. Twelve Euro fifty. Well, make it available in different colours, you mean?", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Sure.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah..", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Red, white, blue, black..", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "And a see-through uh", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Rasta colours.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Grey.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah sea view, yes, Simpson's versions and.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah, see through version. Yeah. If you press a button, it turns green.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Okay, well", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Leave..", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "that's the", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "A disco version.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "signal for las final five minutes.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Five minutes?", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Um so I have uh the things I just read. Um then we have uh separate menus for teletext, screen settings, audio settings, and what else?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Channel settings?", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Oh yeah, right.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Channel settings.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "So you can program the T_V_.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Perhaps you should you'd throw them on on in one pile. So, options, and then you sub them.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah. Could be possible.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Otherwise you have all those teletext, perhaps teletext not,", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "but.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Or like uh you have a menu button, you press.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "No, we said teletext also a separate menu.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah, but I.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah, or otherwise you have a menu button, press menu then you have uh main uh menu search uh all the all the settings.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah. Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Okay, but we can work that out later, I guess.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "But.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah, no problem. Yep.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "So we're having a a general menu with the most used functions, uh teletext, screen settings, audio settings, channel settings, and maybe there are options for the remote itself? Like uh large icons or small icons", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "I don't know.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "and I don't know what else,", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Um,", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "but.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "No.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "I think b because we don't have a lot of buttons on the one screen,", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Or do we have any buttons? On the remote.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "I think the buttons Yeah, but but or like you have", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Which one?", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "you only have channel button or volume button. Those buttons you can you can.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah, but on the L_C_D_,", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "But that's also in the L_C_D_,", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "huh?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "right?", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Right, yeah, okay..", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "So we don't have any normal buttons", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah, th", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "that uh.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "No, no normal buttons, yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "No, alright.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Maybe only the on and o on and off button.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yet on and off is p is perhaps you kno", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "But we don't need a special.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Uh not button.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "But I don't think.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "we don't need a special options menu for the remote itself.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "No, no.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Mm, no.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Oh well, you should be able to set which T_V_ you have. If you have if you have uh.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah sure, of course you need uh a settings button, uh or a settings option for the remote control.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah. But isn't idea to use uh uh what you said, uh normal on and off button for the T_V_, that you don't have to use a.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "No no no, because we we discussed that you could charge it, otherwise is it it jumps to stand-by mode automatically.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah but but not for the remote but for the T_V_, that you use.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah, but a T_V_ of course, th that's the I think that's a best thing is that to implement that one in the menu with the volume and channel.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "But a not as normal button, in the L_C_D_,", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "No.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Well maybe there should be a separate button apart from the L_C_D_,", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "because you can't turn it on when the L_C_D_ is off. So how do you turn the thing on? There has to be a on button on the remote,", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "No you just tap I think.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "huh?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Just tap it.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah, you tap.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Tap the thing. Okay.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Touch screen, yeah then it's turn turn off, turn on.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "And then the television is on also, or just the remote?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "No, just the remote.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "But.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "A television don't have to be on, that one you can press on,", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah, it should be in standby mode, but.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "yeah stand-by, then press on remote, press on and then T_V_ should be available. Or not.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah a yeah. I don't know whether it's handy to have a n a normal on button, a r just uh rubber uh for for T_V_,", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Separate.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "so you can turn it on and then you can choose the channel. Otherwise you I don't know whether or not that's.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "A A A normal button on the remote control,", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah, yeah. To turn it on.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "or norm?", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Of or you should put it in the L_C_D_ screen.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah, because uh when you touch the L_C_D_ screen when it is in standby mode, it should pop on.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah, I have,", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Okay, well.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Wh uh why would it be a a need to have a normal button?", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Well I I guess if you use the L_C_D_ screen, you first have to search where is the on button, then you uh you you then turn it, and then the T_V_ goes on. But if you have a normal on button on the on the remote, then you do the on, and then you search the channel which you want.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah, but I think the re the remote control, if you press tap the screen, it always should jump to the screen which has the volume button, channel button, and of course of also the on and off button.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Oh right.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "I think it looks a lot more fancy if you use uh if you don't have any buttons on the s on on remote control.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah, I think so too. Otherwise y wet e k Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "So actually we're going to create a a button-less uh remote. No buttons at all.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah..", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Okay, well that's might be a unique selling point, huh for a remote.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "If we can afford it..", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Okay, well I guess we have to", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Oh, okay.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah, if we can afford it. Yeah..", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "postpone further discussion to uh our next meeting, because we're running out of time. Um for now, we're having a lunch break,", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Oh.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "and then there will be uh half an hour for the uh next share of individual work. I will uh write uh minutes, if I can create them out of this. And uh put them in the the project documents uh folder.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "And here are the individual actions for the for the other roles. And of course specific instructions will be sent to you again by your uh personal coach.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Alright.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Luckily as we are. Okay, well", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "thank you very much, for now,", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "and uh have a nice lunch, huh?.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Lunch..", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Food..", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Should we put this back in our rooms, or uh?", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah, think so.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" } ] }

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{ "meetingId": "Bmr007", "transcriptSegments": [ { "text": "We're, I mean we We didn't have a house before.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Yeah. Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "OK.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "We're on again? OK.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm. That is really great.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "Yeah, so if uh So if anyone hasn't signed the consent form, please do so.", "speakerName": "Grad H" }, { "text": "That's terrific.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "Oh, yeah!", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "OK", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "The new consent form. The new and improved consent form.", "speakerName": "Grad H" }, { "text": "Now you won't be able to walk or ride your bike, huh?", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "OK.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "Uh.", "speakerName": "Postdoc F" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "OK.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "And uh, shall I go ahead and do some digits?", "speakerName": "Grad H" }, { "text": "Uh, we were gonna do that at the end, remember?", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "OK, whatever you want.", "speakerName": "Grad H" }, { "text": "Yeah. Just just to be consistent, from here on in at least, that that we'll do it at the end.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "The new consent form.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "It's uh Yeah, it doesn't matter. OK.", "speakerName": "Grad H" }, { "text": "OK Um Well, it ju I mean it might be that someone here has to go,", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "Testing, one, two, three.", "speakerName": "Postdoc F" }, { "text": "and Right? That was that was sort of the point. So, uh I had asked actually anybody who had any ideas for an agenda to send it to me and no one did. So,", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "So we all forgot.", "speakerName": "Grad H" }, { "text": "Uh,", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "From last time I wanted to Uh The An iss uh one topic from last time.", "speakerName": "Postdoc F" }, { "text": "Right, s OK, so one item for an agenda is uh Jane has some uh uh some research to talk about, research issues. Um and Uh, Adam has some short research issues.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "And I have some short research issues.", "speakerName": "Grad H" }, { "text": "Um, I have a list of things that I think were done over the last three months I was supposed to send off, uh and, um I I sent a note about it to uh to Adam and Jane but I think I'll just run through it also and see if someone thinks it's inaccurate or uh insufficient.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "A list that you have to send off to who?", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "Uh, to uh uh, IBM.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "Oh.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "OK. They're, you know.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "So. Um, So, uh so, I'll go through that. Um, And, Anything else? anyone wants to talk about?", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "What about the, um your trip, yesterday?", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "No. OK. Um. Sort of off - topic I guess.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "Oh, OK.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "Cuz that's Cuz that was all all about the, uh I I I can chat with you about that off - line. That's another thing. Um, And, Anything else? Nothing else? Uh, there's a I mean, there is a a, um uh telephone call tomorrow, which will be a conference call that some of us are involved in for uh a possible proposal. Um, we'll talk we'll talk about it next week if if something.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "Do you want me to be there for that? I noticed you C C' ed me, but I wasn't actually a recipient. I didn't quite know what to make of that.", "speakerName": "Grad H" }, { "text": "Uh Well, we'll talk talk about that after our meeting. OK.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "OK.", "speakerName": "Grad H" }, { "text": "Uh, OK. So it sounds like the the three main things that we have to talk about are, uh this list, uh Jane and Jane and Adam have some research items, and, other than that, anything, as usual, anything goes beyond that. OK, uh, Jane, since since you were sort of cut off last time why don't we start with yours, make sure we get to it.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "OK, it's it's very eh it's very brief, I mean just let me just hand these out. Oops.", "speakerName": "Postdoc F" }, { "text": "Is this the same as the email or different?", "speakerName": "Grad H" }, { "text": "Thanks.", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "It's slightly different. I basically the same.", "speakerName": "Postdoc F" }, { "text": "OK.", "speakerName": "Grad H" }, { "text": "Same idea?", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "But, same idea. So, if you've looked at this you've seen it before, so Basically, um as you know, uh part of the encoding includes a mark that indicates an overlap. It's not indicated with, um uh, tight precision, it's just indicated that OK, so, It's indicated to to so the people know what parts of sp which which stretches of speech were in the clear, versus being overlapped by others. So, I used this mark and, um and, uh uh, divided the I wrote a script which divides things into individual minutes, of which we ended up with forty five, and a little bit. And, uh you know, minute zero, of course, is the first minute up to sixty seconds.", "speakerName": "Postdoc F" }, { "text": "OK.", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "And, um What you can see is the number of overlaps and then to the right, whether they involve two speakers, three speakers, or more than three speakers. And, um and, what I was looking for sp sp specifically was the question of whether they're distributed evenly throughout or whether they're bursts of them. Um. And it looked to me as though uh, you know y this is just eh eh, this would this is not statistically verified, but it did look to me as though there are bursts throughout, rather than being localized to a particular region. The part down there, where there's the maximum number of of, um overlaps is an area where we were discussing whether or not it would be useful to indi to s to code stress, uh, sentence stress as possible indication of, uh information retrieval. So it's like, you know, rather, lively discussion there.", "speakerName": "Postdoc F" }, { "text": "What was what's the the parenthesized stuff that says, like e the first one that says six overlaps and then two point eight?", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "Oh, th That's the per cent.", "speakerName": "Postdoc F" }, { "text": "Mmm.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "So, six is, uh two point eight percent of the total number of overlaps in the session.", "speakerName": "Postdoc F" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Ah.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "At the very end, this is when people were, you know, packing up to go basically, there's this final stuff, I think we I don't remember where the digits fell. I'd have to look at that. But the final three there are no overlaps at all. And couple times there are not.", "speakerName": "Postdoc F" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "So, i it seems like it goes through bursts but, um that's kind of it.", "speakerName": "Postdoc F" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Now, Another question is is there are there individual differences in whether you're likely to be overlapped with or to overlap with others. And, again I want to emphasize this is just one particular um one particular meeting, and also there's been no statistical testing of it all, but I, um I took the coding of the I, you know, my I had this script figure out, um who was the first speaker, who was the second speaker involved in a two - person overlap, I didn't look at the ones involving three or more. And, um this is how it breaks down in the individual cells of who tended to be overlapping most often with who who else, and if you look at the marginal totals, which is the ones on the right side and across the bottom, you get the totals for an individual. So, um If you look at the bottom, those are the, um numbers of overlaps in which um Adam was involved as the person doing the overlapping and if you look I'm sorry, but you're o alphabetical, that's why I'm choosing you And then if you look across the right, then that's where he was the person who was the sp first speaker in the pair and got overlap overlapped with by somebody.", "speakerName": "Postdoc F" }, { "text": "Hmm!", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "And, then if you look down in the summary table, then you see that, um th they're differences in whether a person got overlapped with or overlapped by.", "speakerName": "Postdoc F" }, { "text": "Is this uh just raw counts or is it.", "speakerName": "Grad H" }, { "text": "Raw counts.", "speakerName": "Postdoc F" }, { "text": "So it would be interesting to see how much each person spoke.", "speakerName": "Grad H" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "Yeah Yeah", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Yes, very true very true", "speakerName": "Postdoc F" }, { "text": "Normalized to how much.", "speakerName": "Grad H" }, { "text": "it would be good to normalize with respect to that. Now on the table I did take one step toward, uh away from the raw frequencies by putting, uh percentages. So that the percentage of time of the of the times that a person spoke, what percentage eh, w so. Of the times a person spoke and furthermore was involved in a two two - person overlap, what percentage of the time were they the overlapper and what percent of the time were they th the overlappee? And there, it looks like you see some differences, um, that some people tend to be overlapped with more often than they're overlapped, but, of course, uh i e this is just one meeting, uh there's no statistical testing involved, and that would be required for a for a finding of any kind of scientific reliability.", "speakerName": "Postdoc F" }, { "text": "S so, i it would be statistically incorrect to conclude from this that Adam talked too much or something.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "No no actually, that would be actually statistically correct,", "speakerName": "Grad H" }, { "text": "Yeah, yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "No, no, no.", "speakerName": "Postdoc F" }, { "text": "Yeah, yeah. Yeah, yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "but", "speakerName": "Grad H" }, { "text": "Yeah, that's right.", "speakerName": "Postdoc F" }, { "text": "Yeah. Excuse me.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "That's right. And I'm you know, I'm I don't see a point of singling people out,", "speakerName": "Postdoc F" }, { "text": "B I I I rather enjoyed it, but but this", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "now, this is a case where obviously.", "speakerName": "Postdoc F" }, { "text": "But the numbers speak for themselves.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "He's Yeah, yeah, yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Well, you know, it's like I'm not I'm not saying on the tape who did better or worse", "speakerName": "Postdoc F" }, { "text": "Yes, that's right, so you don't nee OK.", "speakerName": "Grad H" }, { "text": "Sure.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "because I don't think that it's I you know, and and th here's a case where of course, human subjects people would say be sure that you anonymize the results, and and, so, might as well do this.", "speakerName": "Postdoc F" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "Yeah, when this is what This is actually when Jane sent this email first, is what caused me to start thinking about anonymizing the data.", "speakerName": "Grad H" }, { "text": "Well, fair enough. Fair enough.", "speakerName": "Postdoc F" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "And actually, you know, the point is not about an individual, it's the point about tendencies toward you know, different styles, different speaker styles.", "speakerName": "Postdoc F" }, { "text": "Oh sure.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "And it would be, you know of course, there's also the question of what type of overlap was this, and w what were they, and i and I and I know that I can distinguish at least three types and, probably more, I mean, the general cultural idea which w uh, the conversation analysts originally started with in the seventies was that we have this strict model where politeness involves that you let the person finish th before you start talking, and and you know, I mean, w we know that an and they've loosened up on that too s in the intervening time, that that that's that's viewed as being a culturally - relative thing, I mean, that you have the high - involvement style from the East Coast where people will overlap often as an indication of interest in what the other person is saying. And", "speakerName": "Postdoc F" }, { "text": "Uh - huh.", "speakerName": "Grad H" }, { "text": "Exactly!", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Yeah, exactly!", "speakerName": "Postdoc F" }, { "text": "Yeah", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Well, there you go. Fine, that's alright, that's OK. And and, you know, in contrast, so Deborah d and also Deborah Tannen's thesis she talked about differences of these types, that they're just different styles, and it's um you you can't impose a model of there of the ideal being no overlaps, and you know, conversational analysts also agree with that, so it's now, universally a ag agreed with. And and, als I mean, I can't say universally, but anyway, the people who used to say it was strict, um now, uh don't. I mean they they also you know, uh uh, ack acknowledge the influence of sub of subcultural norms and cross - cultural norms and things. So, um Then it beco though so just just superficially to give um a couple ideas of the types of overlaps involved, I have at the bottom several that I noticed. So, uh, there are backchannels, like what Adam just did now and, um um, anticipating the end of a question and simply answering it earlier, and there are several of those in this in these data where.", "speakerName": "Postdoc F" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "because we're people who've talked to each other, um we know basically what the topic is, what the possibilities are and w and we've spoken with each other so we know basically what the other person's style is likely to be and so and t there are a number of places where someone just answered early. No problem. And places also which I thought were interesting, where two or more people gave exactly th the same answer in unison different words of course but you know, the basically, you know everyone's saying \" yes \" or you know, or ev even more sp specific than that. So, uh, the point is that, um overlap's not necessarily a bad thing and that it would be im i useful to subdivide these further and see if there are individual differences in styles with respect to the types involved. And that's all I wanted to say on that, unless people have questions.", "speakerName": "Postdoc F" }, { "text": "Well, of course th the biggest, um result here, which is one we've we've talked about many times and isn't new to us, but which I think would be interesting to show someone who isn't familiar with this is just the sheer number of overlaps.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "Yep.", "speakerName": "Grad H" }, { "text": "That that Right? that that, um", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "Yes, yes!", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Oh, OK interesting.", "speakerName": "Postdoc F" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "here's a relatively short meeting, it's a forty forty plus minute meeting, and not only were there two hundred and fifteen overlaps but, uh I think there's one one minute there where there where where there wasn't any overlap?", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "Hundred ninety - seven.", "speakerName": "Grad H" }, { "text": "I mean, it's uh throughout this thing?", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "It'd be interesting.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "It's You have.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "Well, at the bottom, you have the bottom three.", "speakerName": "Postdoc F" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "S n are.", "speakerName": "Grad H" }, { "text": "So four four minutes all together with none none.", "speakerName": "Postdoc F" }, { "text": "But it w", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "Oh, so the bottom three did have s stuff going on? There was speech?", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "Yes, uh - huh. Yeah. But just no overlaps.", "speakerName": "Postdoc F" }, { "text": "OK, so if the this.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "It'd be interesting to see what the total amount of time is in the overlaps, versus.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "Yes, exactly and that's that's where Jose's pro project comes in.", "speakerName": "Postdoc F" }, { "text": "Yeah, yeah, I h I have this that infor I have th that information now.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "I was about to ask.", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "Hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Oh, about how much is it?", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "The the duration of eh of each of the overlaps.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "O oh, what's what's the what's the average length?", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "M I I haven't averaged it now but, uh I I will, uh I will do the the study of the with the with the program with the uh, the different, uh the, nnn, distribution of the duration of the overlaps.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "You don't know? OK, you you don you don't have a feeling for roughly how much it is? Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "mmm, Because the the uh, @ @ is @ @.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "The duration is, uh the variation the variation of the duration is uh, very big on the dat", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "I suspect that it will also differ, depending on the type of overlap involved.", "speakerName": "Postdoc F" }, { "text": "but eh.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Oh, I'm sure.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "So backchannels will be very brief", "speakerName": "Postdoc F" }, { "text": "Because, on your surface eh a bit of zone of overlapping with the duration eh, overlapped and another very very short.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "and.", "speakerName": "Postdoc F" }, { "text": "Yeah. Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "Uh, i probably it's very difficult to to because the the overlap is, uh on is only the in the final \" S \" of the of the the fin the the end the end word of the, um previous speaker with the the next word of the the new speaker.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "Um, I considered that's an overlap but it's very short, it's an \" X \" with a and the idea is probably, eh when eh when eh, we studied th th that zone, eh eh, we h we have eh eh confusion with eh eh noise.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "With eh that fricative sounds, but uh I have new information but I have to to study.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Yeah. Yeah, but I I'd u", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "Can I.", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "go ahead.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Postdoc F" }, { "text": "You split this by minute, um so if an overlap straddles the boundary between two minutes, that counts towards both of those minutes.", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "Yes. Mm - hmm. Actually, um um actually not. Uh, so le let's think about the case where A starts speaking and then B overlaps with A, and then the minute boundary happens. And let's say that after that minute boundary, um B is still speaking, and A overlaps with B, that would be a new overlap. But otherwise um, let's say B comes to the conclusion of of that turn without anyone overlapping with him or her, in which case there would be no overlap counted in that second minute.", "speakerName": "Postdoc F" }, { "text": "No, but suppose they both talk simultaneously both a a portion of it is in minute one and another portion of minute two.", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "OK. In that case, um my c the coding that I was using since we haven't, uh incorporated Adam's, uh coding of overlap yets, the coding of Yeah, \" yets \" is not a word. Uh since we haven't incorporated Adam's method of handling overl overlaps yet um then that would have fallen through the cra cracks. It would be an underestimate of the number of overlaps because, um I wou I wouldn't be able to pick it up from the way it was encoded so far.", "speakerName": "Postdoc F" }, { "text": "I I", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "We just haven't done th the precise second to sec you know, second to second coding of when they occur.", "speakerName": "Postdoc F" }, { "text": "I I I'm I'm I'm confused now. So l l let me restate what I thought Andreas was saying and and see.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "Uh - huh.", "speakerName": "Postdoc F" }, { "text": "Let's say that in in second fifty - seven of one minute, you start talking and I start talking and we ignore each other and keep on talking for six seconds.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "Yep. OK. Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Postdoc F" }, { "text": "So we go over So we were we were talking over one another, and it's just in each case, it's just sort of one interval. Right?", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm?", "speakerName": "Postdoc F" }, { "text": "So, um we talked over the minute boundary. Is this considered as one overlap in each of the minutes, the way you have done this.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "No, it wouldn't. It would be considered as an overlap in the first one.", "speakerName": "Postdoc F" }, { "text": "OK, so that's good, i I think, in the sense that I think Andreas meant the question,", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "That's that's good, yeah, cuz the overall rate is.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "Statistical.", "speakerName": "Grad H" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Postdoc F" }, { "text": "right?", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "Yeah. They're not double counted.", "speakerName": "Postdoc F" }, { "text": "Other - otherwise you'd get double counts, here and there.", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "Yep.", "speakerName": "Grad H" }, { "text": "Ah but, yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "And then it would be harder.", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "I should also say I did a simplifying, uh count in that if A was speaking B overlapped with A and then A came back again and overlapped with B again, I I didn't count that as a three - person overlap, I counted that as a two - person overlap, and it was A being overlapped with by D.", "speakerName": "Postdoc F" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Grad H" }, { "text": "Because the idea was the first speaker had the floor and the second person started speaking and then the f the first person reasserted the floor kind of thing.", "speakerName": "Postdoc F" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "These are simplifying assumptions, didn't happen very often, there may be like three overlaps affected that way in the whole thing.", "speakerName": "Postdoc F" }, { "text": "I want to go back and listen to minute forty - one.", "speakerName": "Grad H" }, { "text": "Yeah, yeah.", "speakerName": "Postdoc F" }, { "text": "Cuz i i I find it interesting that there were a large number of overlaps and they were all two - speaker.", "speakerName": "Grad H" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "I mean what I thought what I would have thought in is that when there were a large number of overlaps, it was because everyone was talking at once, but uh apparently not.", "speakerName": "Grad H" }, { "text": "That's interesting. That's interesting.", "speakerName": "Postdoc F" }, { "text": "Yeah. Yeah. Mmm.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "That's really neat.", "speakerName": "Grad H" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "Yeah, there's a lot of backchannel, a lot o a lot of.", "speakerName": "Postdoc F" }, { "text": "This is really interesting data.", "speakerName": "Grad H" }, { "text": "Yeah, it is.", "speakerName": "Postdoc F" }, { "text": "I think what's really interesting though, it is before d saying \" yes, meetings have a lot of overlaps \" is to actually find out how many more we have than two - party.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "I think so too, I think.", "speakerName": "Postdoc F" }, { "text": "Cuz in two - party conversations, like Switchboard, there's an awful lot too if you just look at backchannels, if you consider those overlaps? it's also ver it's huge. It's just that people haven't been looking at that because they've been doing single - channel processing for speech recognition.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Grad H" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm?", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "So, the question is, you know, how many more overlaps do you have of, say the two - person type, by adding more people. to a meeting, and it may be a lot more but i it may it may not be.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Well, but see, I find it interesting even if it wasn't any more,", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "So.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "because since we were dealing with this full duplex sort of thing in Switchboard where it was just all separated out we just everything was just nice,", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm?", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "so that so the issue is in in a situation where th that's.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "Well, it's not really \" nice \". It depends what you're doing. So if you were actually having, uh depends what you're doing, if Right now we're do we have individual mikes on the people in this meeting. So the question is, you know \" are there really more overlaps happening than there would be in a two - person party \".", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm?", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "And and there well may be, but.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Let let m let me rephrase what I'm saying cuz I don't think I'm getting it across. What what I what I shouldn't use words like \" nice \" because maybe that's too i too imprecise. But what I mean is that, um in Switchboard, despite the many many other problems that we have, one problem that we're not considering is overlap. And what we're doing now is, aside from the many other differences in the task, we are considering overlap and one of the reasons that we're considering it, you know, one of them not all of them, one of them is that w uh at least, you know I'm very interested in the scenario in which, uh both people talking are pretty much equally audible, and from a single microphone. And so, in that case, it does get mixed in, and it's pretty hard to jus to just ignore it, to just do processing on one and not on the other.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "I I agree that it's an issue here but it's also an issue for Switchboard and if you think of meetings being recorded over the telephone, which I think, you know, this whole point of studying meetings isn't just to have people in a room but to also have meetings over different phone lines.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "Maybe far field mike people wouldn't be interested in that but all the dialogue issues still apply,", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "so if each of us was calling and having a meeting that way you kn you know like a conference call. And, just the question is, y you know, in Switchboard you would think that's the simplest case of a meeting of more than one person,", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "and I'm wondering how much more overlap of the types that that Jane described happen with more people present. So it may be that having three people is very different from having two people or it may not be.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "That's an important question to ask.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "So.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "I think what I'm All I'm s really saying is that I don't think we were considering that in Switchboard.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "Not you, me. But uh but but", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Were you?", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "Though it wasn't in the design.", "speakerName": "Grad H" }, { "text": "Were you were you were you were you measuring it? I mean, w w were.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "There there's actually to tell you the truth, the reason why it's hard to measure is because of so, from the point of view of studying dialogue, I mean, which Dan Jurafsky and Andreas and I had some projects on, you want to know the sequence of turns.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "So what happens is if you're talking and I have a backchannel in the middle of your turn, and then you keep going what it looks like in a dialogue model is your turn and then my backchannel,", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "even though my backchannel occurred completely inside your turn.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Yeah?", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "So, for things like language modeling or dialogue modeling it's We know that that's wrong in real time.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Yeah?", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "But, because of the acoustic segmentations that were done and the fact that some of the acoustic data in Switchboard were missing, people couldn't study it, but that doesn't mean in the real world that people don't talk that way. So, it's um", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Yeah, I wasn't saying that. Right? I was just saying that w now we're looking at it.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "Well, we've als", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "And and and, you you maybe wanted to look at it before but, for these various technical reasons in terms of how the data was you weren't.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "Right. We're looking at it here.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "So that's why it's coming to us as new even though it may well be you know, if your if your hypothes The hypothesis you were offering eh.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "Um.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Right? if it's the null poth hypothesis, and if actually you have as much overlap in a two - person, we don't know the answer to that. The reason we don't know the answer to is cuz it wasn't studied and it wasn't studied because it wasn't set up. Right?", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "Yeah, all I meant is that if you're asking the question from the point of view of what's different about a meeting, studying meetings of, say, more than two people versus what kinds of questions you could ask with a two - person meeting.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm?", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "It's important to distinguish that, you know, this project is getting a lot of overlap but other projects were too, but we just couldn't study them. And and so uh", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "May have been. May have been. Right?", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "Well, there is a high rate,", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "We do kn we don't know the numbers.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "So. It's but I don't know how high, in fact", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Well, here I have a question.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "that would be interesting to know.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "See, I mean, i i le let me t I mean, my point was just if you wanted to say to somebody, \" what have we learned about overlaps here? \" just never mind comparison with something else,", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "what we've learned about is overlaps in this situation, is that the first the first - order thing I would say is that there's a lot of them. Right?", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "In in the sense that i if you said if i i i", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "Yeah, I I don't di I agree with that.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "In a way, I guess what I'm comparing to is more the common sense notion of how how much people overlap. Uh you know the fact that when when when, uh, Adam was looking for a stretch of of speech before, that didn't have any overlaps, and he w he was having such a hard time and now I look at this and I go, \" well, I can see why he was having such a hard time \".", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "Right. That's also true of Switchboard.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "It's happening a lot.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "It may not be.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "I wasn't saying it wasn't.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "Right. So it's just, um", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Right? I was commenting about this.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "OK. All I'm saying is that from the", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "I'm saying if I I'm saying if I have this complicated thing in front of me, and we sh which, you know we're gonna get much more sophisticated about when we get lots more data, But Then, if I was gonna describe to somebody what did you learn right here, about, you know, the the modest amount of data that was analyzed I'd say, \" Well, the first - order thing was there was a lot of overlaps \". In fact and it's not just an overlap bunch of overlaps second - order thing is it's not just a bunch of overlaps in one particular point, but that there's overlaps, uh throughout the thing.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "Grad H" }, { "text": "Right. No, I I agree with that.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "And that's interesting. That's all.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "I'm just saying that it may the reason you get overlaps may or may not be due to sort of the number of people in the meeting.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Oh yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "And that's all.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Yeah. Yeah, I wasn't making any statement about that.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "And and it would actually be interesting to find out", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "because some of the data say Switchboard, which isn't exactly the same kind of context, I mean these are two people who don't know each other and so forth, But we should still be able to somehow say what what is the added contra contribution to sort of overlap time of each additional person, or something like that.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Yep.", "speakerName": "Grad H" }, { "text": "Yeah, that would be good to know,", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "What.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "but w we.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "OK, now.", "speakerName": "Postdoc F" }, { "text": "I could certainly see it going either way.", "speakerName": "Grad H" }, { "text": "Wh - yeah, I I agree I agree with Adam.", "speakerName": "Postdoc F" }, { "text": "But yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "And the reason is because I think there's a limit there's an upper bound on how many you can have, simply from the standpoint of audibility. When we speak we we do make a judgment of \" can \" you know, as adults.", "speakerName": "Postdoc F" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "I mean, children don't adjust so well, I mean, if a truck goes rolling past, adults will well, depending, but mostly, adults will will will hold off to what to finish the end of the sentence till the till the noise is past.", "speakerName": "Postdoc F" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "And I think we generally do monitor things like that, about whether we whether our utterance will be in the clear or not.", "speakerName": "Postdoc F" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "And partly it's related to rhythmic structure in conversation, so, you know, you you t Yeah, this is d also um, people tend to time their their their, um when they come into the conversation based on the overall rhythmic, uh uh, ambient thing.", "speakerName": "Postdoc F" }, { "text": "Well.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "So you don't want to be c cross - cutting. And and, just to finish this, that um That I think that there may be an upper bound on how many overlaps you can have, simply from the standpoint of audibility and how loud the other people are who are already in the fray. But I you know, of certain types. Now if it's just backchannels, people may be doing that with less intention of being heard, just sort of spontaneously doing backchannels, in which case that those might there may be no upper bound on those.", "speakerName": "Postdoc F" }, { "text": "I I have a feeling that backchannels, which are the vast majority of overlaps in Switchboard, uh, don't play as big a role here, because it's very unnatural I think, to backchannel if in a multi - audience you know, in a multi - person audience.", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "If you can see them, actually. It's interesting, so if you watch people are going like Right right, like this here,", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "but That may not be the case if you couldn't see them.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "u", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "But but, it's sort of odd if one person's speaking and everybody's listening, and it's unusual to have everybody going \" uh - huh, uh - huh \"", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "Actually, I think I've done it a fair number of times today.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "But.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "There's a lot of head - nodding, in this", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Um.", "speakerName": "Grad H" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "Yep, we need to put trackers on it.", "speakerName": "Grad H" }, { "text": "In in the two - person.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "Yeah, yeah, yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "He could, he could.", "speakerName": "Postdoc F" }, { "text": "Plus plus plus the Yeah. So so actually, um That's in part because the nodding, if you have visual contact, the nodding has the same function, but on the phone, in Switchboard you you that wouldn't work. So so you need to use the backchannel.", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "Yeah, you don't have it. Your mike is.", "speakerName": "Grad H" }, { "text": "So, in the two - person conversations, when there's backchannel, is there a great deal of overlap in the speech?", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "That is an earphone, so if you just put it so it's on your ear.", "speakerName": "Grad H" }, { "text": "or Cuz my impression is sometimes it happens when there's a pause,", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "Yes.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "There you go.", "speakerName": "Grad H" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "E for example.", "speakerName": "Postdoc F" }, { "text": "Thank you.", "speakerName": "Grad H" }, { "text": "you know, like you you get a lot of backchannel, when somebody's pausing", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "Yes. Right.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "She's doing that.", "speakerName": "Postdoc F" }, { "text": "Sorry, what were you saying?", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "It's hard to do both, huh? Um no, when when when there's backchannel, I mean, just I was just listening, and and when there's two people talking and there's backchannel it seems like, um the backchannel happens when, you know, the pitch drops and the first person.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "Oh.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "and a lot of times, the first person actually stops talking and then there's a backchannel and then they start up again, and so I'm wondering about h I just wonder how much overlap there is. Is there a lot?", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "I think there's a lot of the kind that Jose was talking about, where I mean, this is called \" precision timing \" in conversation analysis, where they come in overlapping, but at a point where the information is mostly complete. So all you're missing is some last syllables or something or the last word or some highly predictable words.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Mmm. Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "So technically, it's an overlap.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "But maybe a just a small overlap?", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "But you know, from information flow point of view it's not an overlap in the predictable information.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "More, yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "It'd be interesting if we could do prediction.", "speakerName": "Grad H" }, { "text": "I was just thinking more in terms of alignment, alignment overlap.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Language model prediction of overlap, that would be really interesting.", "speakerName": "Grad H" }, { "text": "So so.", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "Well, that's exactly, exactly why we wanted to study the precise timing of overlaps ins in uh Switchboard,", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "Grad H" }, { "text": "say, because there's a lot of that.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "So so here's a here's a first interesting labeling task. Uh, to distinguish between, say, backchannels precision timing Sort of you know, benevolent overlaps, and and and w and and sort of, um I don't know, hostile overlaps, where someone is trying to grab the floor from someone else.", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm. Let's pick a different word.", "speakerName": "Grad H" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Uh, that that might be an interesting, um problem to look at.", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "Hostile takeovers.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "Yeah. Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Well, I mean you could do that. I ju I I think that in this meeting I really had the feeling that wasn't happening, that the hostile hostile type. These were these were benevolent types, as people finishing each other's sentences, and stuff.", "speakerName": "Postdoc F" }, { "text": "OK.", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Um, I could imagine that as there's a fair number of um cases where, and this is sort of, not really hostile, but sort of competitive, where one person is finishing something and you have, like, two or three people jumping trying to trying to trying to, uh grab the next turn.", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "Trying to get the floor.", "speakerName": "Grad H" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "And so it's not against the person who talks first because actually we're all waiting for that person to finish. But they all want to be next.", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "I have a feeling most of these things are that that are not a benevolent kind are are are, uh um are are competitive as opposed to real really really hostile.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "I wonder what determines who gets the floor?", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "But.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "Yeah, I agree. I agree.", "speakerName": "Postdoc F" }, { "text": "I mean.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "Well, there are various things, you you have the.", "speakerName": "Postdoc F" }, { "text": "Uh a vote vote in Florida.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "It's been studied a lot.", "speakerName": "Grad H" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "Voting for.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Um, o one thing I I wanted to or you can tell a good joke and then everybody's laughing and you get a chance to g break in.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "Seniority.", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "But. But. Um. You know, the other thing I was thinking was that, um these all these interesting questions are, of course, pretty hard to answer with, uh u you know, a small amount of data.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "Ach.", "speakerName": "Grad H" }, { "text": "So, um I wonder if what you're saying suggests that we should make a conscious attempt to have, um a a fair number of meetings with, uh a smaller number of people. Right? I mean we most of our meetings are uh, meetings currently with say five, six, seven, eight people Should we really try to have some two - person meetings, or some three - person meetings and re record them just to to to beef up the the statistics on that?", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "That's a control. Well, it seems like there are two possibilities there, I mean i it seems like if you have just two people it's not really, y like a meeting, w is not as similar as the rest of the of the sample. It depends on what you're after, of course, but It seems like that would be more a case of the control condition, compared to, uh an experimental condition, with more than two.", "speakerName": "Postdoc F" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Grad H" }, { "text": "Well, Liz was raising the question of of whether i it's the number there's a relationship between the number of people and the number of overlaps or type of overlaps there,", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Postdoc F" }, { "text": "and, um If you had two people meeting in this kind of circumstance then you'd still have the visuals. You wouldn't have that difference also that you have in the say, in Switchboard data. Uh", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm. Yeah, I'm just thinking that'd be more like a c control condition.", "speakerName": "Postdoc F" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Postdoc F" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Well, but from the acoustic point of view, it's all good.", "speakerName": "Grad H" }, { "text": "Is the same.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Yeah, acoustic is fine, but.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "If if the goal were to just look at overlap you would you could serve yourself save yourself a lot of time but not even transcri transcribe the words.", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "Well, I was thinking you should be able to do this from the acoustics, on the close - talking mikes,", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Yep.", "speakerName": "Grad H" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "Well, that's the that was my my status report,", "speakerName": "Grad H" }, { "text": "right?", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "You've been working on that.", "speakerName": "Postdoc F" }, { "text": "Right, I mean Adam was.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Postdoc F" }, { "text": "so Once we're done with this stuff discussing,", "speakerName": "Grad H" }, { "text": "right. I mean, not as well as what I mean, you wouldn't be able to have any kind of typology, obviously,", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "but you'd get some rough statistics.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Grad H" }, { "text": "So.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "But what what do you think about that? Do you think that would be useful? I'm just thinking that as an action item of whether we should try to record some two - person meetings or something.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "I guess my my first comment was, um only that um we should n not attribute overlaps only to meetings, but maybe that's obvious, maybe everybody knew that,", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "but that in normal conversation with two people there's an awful lot of the same kinds of overlap, and that it would be interesting to look at whether there are these kinds of constraints that Jane mentioned, that what maybe the additional people add to this competition that happens right after a turn,", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "you know, because now you can have five people trying to grab the turn, but pretty quickly there're they back off and you go back to this sort of only one person at a time with one person interrupting at a time.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "So, I don't know. To answer your question I it I don't think it's crucial to have controls but I think it's worth recording all the meetings we can.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Can.", "speakerName": "Grad H" }, { "text": "So, um you know.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Well, OK.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "I I have an idea.", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "D I wouldn't not record a two - person meeting just because it only has two people.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "Grad H" }, { "text": "Could we Could we, um we have have in the past and I think continue will continue to have a fair number of uh phone conference calls.", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "Uh - huh.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "And, uh, and as a to, um as another c c comparison condition, we could um see what what what happens in terms of overlap, when you don't have visual contact.", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "Yeah, we talked about this repeatedly.", "speakerName": "Grad H" }, { "text": "So, um.", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "Can we actually record?", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "It just seems like that's a very different thing than what we're doing.", "speakerName": "Grad H" }, { "text": "Uh Well, we'll have to set up for it.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "I mean physically can we record the o the other.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Yeah. Well, we're not really set up for it to do that. But.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "Or, this is getting a little extravagant, we could put up some kind of blinds or something to to remove, uh visual contact.", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "Barriers!", "speakerName": "Grad H" }, { "text": "That's what they did on Map Task, you know, this Map Task corpus? They ran exactly the same pairs of people with and without visual cues and it's quite interesting.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Well, we we record this meeting so regularly it wouldn't be that I mean a little strange.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "OK, we can record, but no one can look at each other.", "speakerName": "Grad H" }, { "text": "Well, we could just put b blindfolds on.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "Well y no you f", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "Close your eyes.", "speakerName": "Grad H" }, { "text": "Blindf", "speakerName": "Postdoc F" }, { "text": "Yeah, Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "Turn off the lights.", "speakerName": "Grad H" }, { "text": "and we'd take a picture of everybody sitting here with blindfolds. That would.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Oh, th that was the other thing, weren't we gonna take a picture at the beginning of each of these meetings?", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "Um, what I had thought we were gonna do is just take pictures of the whiteboards. rather than take pictures of the meeting.", "speakerName": "Grad H" }, { "text": "Well, linguistic.", "speakerName": "Postdoc F" }, { "text": "And, uh.", "speakerName": "Grad H" }, { "text": "Yes.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "Yeah. Linguistic anthropologists would would suggest it would be useful to also take a picture of the meeting.", "speakerName": "Postdoc F" }, { "text": "There's a head nodding here vigorously, yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "Why why do we want to have a picture of the meeting?", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "Ee - you mean, transc no.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "The because you get then the spatial relationship of the speakers.", "speakerName": "Postdoc F" }, { "text": "Yeah Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "And that could be", "speakerName": "Postdoc F" }, { "text": "Well, you could do that by just noting on the enrollment sheet the the seat number.", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Seat number, that's a good idea. I'll do that.", "speakerName": "Grad H" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "I'll do that on the next set of forms.", "speakerName": "Grad H" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "So you'd number them somehow.", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "Is possible to get information from the rhythmic f from the ge, eh uh, files.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "I finally remembered to put, uh put native language on the newer forms.", "speakerName": "Grad H" }, { "text": "We can can't you figure it out from the mike number?", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "No.", "speakerName": "Grad H" }, { "text": "OK.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "The wireless ones. And even the jacks, I mean, I'm sitting here and the jack is over in front of you.", "speakerName": "Grad H" }, { "text": "Oh.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "But probably from these you could've infer it.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Yeah, but It's it would be trivial.", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "It would be another task.", "speakerName": "Grad H" }, { "text": "It would be a research task.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Having having ground tu truth would be nice, so seat number would be good.", "speakerName": "Grad H" }, { "text": "You know where you could get it?", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "Yeah, yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Beam - forming during the digit uh stuff.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "So I'm gonna put little labels on all the chairs with the seat number.", "speakerName": "Grad H" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "That's a good idea.", "speakerName": "Grad H" }, { "text": "But you have to keep the chairs in the same pla like here.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Not the chairs. The chairs are Chairs are movable.", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "But, uh.", "speakerName": "Grad H" }, { "text": "Put them Like, put them on the table where they.", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "The chair Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Yep.", "speakerName": "Grad H" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "Yep.", "speakerName": "Grad H" }, { "text": "But you know, they the s the linguistic anthropologists would say it would be good to have a digital picture anyway,", "speakerName": "Postdoc F" }, { "text": "Just remembered a joke.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "because you get a sense also of posture. Posture, and we could like, you know, block out the person's face or whatever", "speakerName": "Postdoc F" }, { "text": "What people were wearing.", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Grad H" }, { "text": "The fashion statement.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "but but, you know, these are important cues,", "speakerName": "Postdoc F" }, { "text": "Oh, Andreas was.", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "How big their heads are.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "I mean the the how a person is sitting is.", "speakerName": "Postdoc F" }, { "text": "But if you just f But from one picture, I don't know that you really get that.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "Yeah. Andreas was wearing that same old sweater again.", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "Right? You'd want a video for that, I think.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "It'd be better than nothing, is is i Just from a single picture I think you can tell some aspects.", "speakerName": "Postdoc F" }, { "text": "A video, yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Think so?", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "I mean I I could tell you I mean, if I if I'm in certain meetings I notice that there are certain people who really do eh The body language is very uh is very interesting in terms of the dominance aspect.", "speakerName": "Postdoc F" }, { "text": "And And.", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "Hmm.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "Yeah. And and Morgan had that funny hair again.", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "Yeah. Well, I mean you black out the that part.", "speakerName": "Postdoc F" }, { "text": "Hmm.", "speakerName": "Grad H" }, { "text": "But it's just, you know, the the body", "speakerName": "Postdoc F" }, { "text": "He agreed.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "you know?", "speakerName": "Postdoc F" }, { "text": "Of course, the where we sit at the table, I find is very interesting, that we do tend to cong to gravitate to the same place each time.", "speakerName": "Grad H" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Postdoc F" }, { "text": "and it's somewhat coincidental. I'm sitting here so that I can run into the room if the hardware starts, you know, catching fire or something.", "speakerName": "Grad H" }, { "text": "Oh, no, you you just like to be in charge, that's why you're sitting.", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "I just want to be at the head of the table.", "speakerName": "Grad H" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "Take control.", "speakerName": "Grad H" }, { "text": "Speaking of taking control, you said you had some research to talk about.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "Yeah. Yeah.", "speakerName": "Postdoc F" }, { "text": "Yeah, I've been playing with, um uh, using the close - talking mike to do to try to figure out who's speaking. So my first attempt was just using thresholding and filtering, that we talked about about two weeks ago, and so I played with that a little bit, and it works O K, except that it's very sensitive to your choice of your filter width and your threshold. So if you fiddle around with it a little bit and you get good numbers you can actually do a pretty good job of segmenting when someone's talking and when they're not. But if you try to use the same paramenters on another speaker, it doesn't work anymore, even if you normalize it based on the absolute loudness.", "speakerName": "Grad H" }, { "text": "But does it work for that one speaker throughout the whole meeting?", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "It does work for the one speaker throughout the whole meeting. Um Pretty well.", "speakerName": "Grad H" }, { "text": "How did you do it Adam?", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "Pretty well. How did I do it?", "speakerName": "Grad H" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "What do you mean?", "speakerName": "Grad H" }, { "text": "I mean, wh what was the.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "The algorithm was, uh take o every frame that's over the threshold, and then median - filter it, and then look for runs.", "speakerName": "Grad H" }, { "text": "Yeah. Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "So there was a minimum run length,", "speakerName": "Grad H" }, { "text": "Every frame that's over what threshold?", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "so that A threshold that you pick.", "speakerName": "Grad H" }, { "text": "In terms of energy? Ah!", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Grad H" }, { "text": "OK.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "Say that again? Frame over fres threshold.", "speakerName": "Postdoc F" }, { "text": "So you take a each frame, and you compute the energy and if it's over the threshold you set it to one, and if it's under the threshold you set it to zero, so now you have a bit stream of zeros and ones.", "speakerName": "Grad H" }, { "text": "Hmm. OK.", "speakerName": "Postdoc F" }, { "text": "And then I median - filtered that using, um a fairly long filter length. Uh well, actually I guess depends on what you mean by long, you know, tenth of a second sorts of numbers. Um and that's to average out you know, pitch, you know, the pitch contours, and things like that. And then, uh looked for long runs.", "speakerName": "Grad H" }, { "text": "OK", "speakerName": "Postdoc F" }, { "text": "And that works O K, if you fil if you tune the filter parameters, if you tune how long your median filter is and how high you're looking for your thresholds.", "speakerName": "Grad H" }, { "text": "Did you ever try running the filter before you pick a threshold?", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "No. I certainly could though. But this was just I had the program mostly written already so it was easy to do. OK and then the other thing I did, was I took Javier's speaker - change detector acoustic - change detector, and I implemented that with the close - talking mikes, and unfortunately that's not working real well, and it looks like it's the problem is he does it in two passes, the first pass is to find candidate places to do a break. And he does that using a neural net doing broad phone classification and he has the the, uh one of the phone classes is silence. And so the possible breaks are where silence starts and ends. And then he has a second pass which is a modeling a Gaussian mixture model. Um looking for uh whether it improves or or degrades to split at one of those particular places. And what looks like it's happening is that the even on the close - talking mike the broad phone class classifier's doing a really bad job.", "speakerName": "Grad H" }, { "text": "Who was it trained on?", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "Uh, I have no idea.", "speakerName": "Grad H" }, { "text": "Hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "I don't remember. Does an do you remember, Morgan, was it Broadcast News?", "speakerName": "Grad H" }, { "text": "I think so, yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "Um So, at any rate, my next attempt, which I'm in the midst of and haven't quite finished yet was actually using the uh, thresholding as the way of generating the candidates. Because one of the things that definitely happens is if you put the threshold low you get lots of breaks. All of which are definitely acoustic events. They're definitely someone talking. But, like, it could be someone who isn't the person here, but the person over there or it can be the person breathing. And then feeding that into the acoustic change detector. And so I think that might work. But, I haven't gotten very far on that. But all of this is close - talking mike, so it's, uh just just trying to get some ground truth.", "speakerName": "Grad H" }, { "text": "Only with eh uh, but eh I I I think, eh when when, y I I saw the the the the speech from PDA and, eh close talker. I I think the there is a a great difference in the in the signal.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Oh, absolutely.", "speakerName": "Grad H" }, { "text": "Um but eh I but eh I I I mean that eh eh in the in the mixed file you can find, uh zone with, eh great different, eh level of energy.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "So s my intention for this is is as an aide for ground truth. not.", "speakerName": "Grad H" }, { "text": "Um I I think for, eh algorithm based on energy, eh, that um h mmm, more or less, eh, like eh eh, mmm, first sound energy detector.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Say it again?", "speakerName": "Grad H" }, { "text": "eh nnn. When y you the detect the the the first at at the end of of the detector of, ehm princ um. What is the the name in English? the the, mmm, the de detector of, ehm of a word in the in the s in an isolated word in in the background That, uh", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "I'm I'm not sure what you're saying, can you try.", "speakerName": "Grad H" }, { "text": "I mean that when when you use, eh eh any", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "I think he's saying the onset detector.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Onset detector, OK.", "speakerName": "Grad H" }, { "text": "I I think it's probably to work well eh, because, eh you have eh, in the mixed files a great level of energy. eh and great difference between the sp speaker. And probably is not so easy when you use the the PDA, eh that Because the signal is, eh the in the e energy level.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "Grad H" }, { "text": "in in that, eh eh speech file is, eh more similar. between the different eh, speaker, um I I think is eh, it will i is my opinion.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Right. But different speakers.", "speakerName": "Grad H" }, { "text": "It will be, eh more difficult to to detect bass - tone energy. the the change. I think that, um", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Ah, in the clo in the P D A, you mean?", "speakerName": "Grad H" }, { "text": "In the PDA.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Absolutely.", "speakerName": "Grad H" }, { "text": "Yeah. Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Yeah, no question. It'll be much harder.", "speakerName": "Grad H" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "Much harder.", "speakerName": "Grad H" }, { "text": "And the the another question, that when I review the the the work of Javier. I think the, nnn, the, nnn, that the idea of using a neural network to to get a broad class of phonetic, eh from, eh uh a candidate from the the the speech signal. If you have, eh uh, I'm considering, only because Javier, eh only consider, eh like candidate, the, nnn, eh the silence, because it is the the only model, eh eh, he used that, eh eh nnn, to detect the the possibility of a a change between the between the speaker,", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "Grad H" }, { "text": "Um another another research thing, different groups, eh working, eh on Broadcast News prefer to, eh to consider hypothesis eh between each phoneme.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm. Yeah, when a phone changes.", "speakerName": "Grad H" }, { "text": "Because, I I I think it's more realistic that, uh only consider the the the the silence between the speaker. Eh there there exists eh silence between between, eh a speaker. is is, eh eh acoustic, eh event, important to to consider.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm. Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "I I found that the, eh silence in in many occasions in the in the speech file, but, eh when you have, eh eh, two speakers together without enough silence between between them, eh I think eh is better to use the acoustic change detector basically and I I I IX or, mmm, BIC criterion for consider all the frames in my opinion.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm. Yeah, the you know, the reason that he, uh just used silence was not because he thought it was better, it was it was it was the place he was starting.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Yep.", "speakerName": "Grad H" }, { "text": "So, he was trying to get something going,", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "and, uh e e you know, as as as is in your case, if you're here for only a modest number of months you try to pick a realistic goal,", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Do something.", "speakerName": "Grad H" }, { "text": "But his his goal was always to proceed from there to then allow broad category change also.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "Uh - huh. But, eh do do you think that if you consider all the frames to apply the the, eh the BIC criterion to detect the the the different acoustic change, eh between speaker, without, uh with, uh silence or with overlapping, uh, I think like like, eh eh a general, eh eh way of process the the acoustic change.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "In a first step, I mean.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "An - and then, eh eh without considering the you you you, um you can consider the energy like a another parameter in the in the feature vector, eh.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Right. Absolutely.", "speakerName": "Grad H" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "This this is the idea. And if, if you do that, eh eh, with a BIC uh criterion for example, or with another kind of, eh of distance in a first step, and then you, eh you get the, eh the hypothesis to the this change acoustic, eh to po process", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "Grad H" }, { "text": "Because, eh eh, probably you you can find the the eh a small gap of silence between speaker with eh eh a ga mmm, small duration Less than, eh two hundred milliseconds for example", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "and apply another another algorithm, another approach like, eh eh detector of ene, eh detector of bass - tone energy to to consider that, eh that, eh zone. of s a small silence between speaker, or another algorithm to to process, eh the the segment between marks eh founded by the the the BIC criterion and applied for for each frame.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm. Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "I think is, eh nnn, it will be a an an a more general approach the if we compare with use, eh a neural net or another, eh speech recognizer with a broad class or or narrow class, because, in my opinion eh it's in my opinion, eh if you if you change the condition of the speech, I mean, if you adjust to your algorithm with a mixed speech file and to, eh to, eh adapt the neural net, eh used by Javier with a mixed file.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm. Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "uh With a m mixed file,", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "With the what file?", "speakerName": "Grad H" }, { "text": "\" Mixed \".", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "with a the mix, mix.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "\" Mixed. \"", "speakerName": "Postdoc F" }, { "text": "\" Mixed? \"", "speakerName": "Grad H" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "Sorry. And and then you you, eh you try to to apply that, eh, eh, eh, speech recognizer to that signal, to the PDA, eh speech file, I I think you will have problems, because the the the the condition you you will need t t I I suppose that you will need to to to retrain it.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Well, I I.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "Oh, absolutely. This is this is not what I was suggesting to do.", "speakerName": "Grad H" }, { "text": "u Look, I I think this is a One once It's a I used to work, like, on voiced on voice silence detection, you know, and this is this kind of thing.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "Really? Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Um If you have somebody who has some experience with this sort of thing, and they work on it for a couple months, they can come up with something that gets most of the cases fairly easily. Then you say, \" OK, I don't just wanna get most of the cases I want it to be really accurate. \" Then it gets really hard no matter what you do. So, the p the problem is is that if you say, \" Well I I have these other data over here, that I learn things from, either explicit training of neural nets or of Gaussian mixture models or whatever. \"", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Uh Suppose you don't use any of those things. You say you have looked for acoustic change. Well, what does that mean? That that means you set some thresholds somewhere or something,", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "right? and and so where do you get your thresholds from?", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "From something that you looked at. So you always have this problem, you're going to new data um H how are you going to adapt whatever you can very quickly learn about the new data? Uh, if it's gonna be different from old data that you have? And I think that's a problem with this.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "Well, also what I'm doing right now is not intended to be an acoustic change detector for far - field mikes. What I'm doing is trying to use the close - talking mike and just use Can - and just generate candidate and just try to get a first pass at something that sort of works.", "speakerName": "Grad H" }, { "text": "Yeah!", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "You have candidates.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "Actually actually actually.", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "the candidate.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "I.", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "to make marking easier. Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "Or.", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "and I haven't spent a lot of time on it and I'm not intending to spend a lot of time on it.", "speakerName": "Grad H" }, { "text": "OK. I um, I, unfortunately, have to run,", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "So.", "speakerName": "Grad H" }, { "text": "but, um I can imagine uh building a um model of speaker change detection that takes into account both the far - field and the uh actually, not just the close - talking mike for that speaker, but actually for all of th for all of the speakers.", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "Yep. Everyone else.", "speakerName": "Grad H" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "um If you model the the effect that me speaking has on your microphone and everybody else's microphone, as well as on that, and you build, um basically I think you'd you would build a an HMM that has as a state space all of the possible speaker combinations", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "All the Yep.", "speakerName": "Grad H" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "and, um you can control.", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "It's a little big.", "speakerName": "Grad H" }, { "text": "It's not that big actually, um", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "Two to the N. Two to the number of people in the meeting.", "speakerName": "Grad H" }, { "text": "But Actually, Andreas may maybe maybe just something simpler but but along the lines of what you're saying,", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "Anyway.", "speakerName": "Grad H" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "I was just realizing, I used to know this guy who used to build, uh um, mike mixers automatic mike mixers where, you know, t in order to able to turn up the gain, you know, uh as much as you can, you you you lower the gain on on the mikes of people who aren't talking,", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "Mmm.", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "Yeah Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Mmm. Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "right? And then he had some sort of reasonable way of doing that,", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "but uh, what if you were just looking at very simple measures like energy measures but you don't just compare it to some threshold overall but you compare it to the energy in the other microphones.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "I was thinking about doing that originally to find out who's the loudest, and that person is certainly talking.", "speakerName": "Grad H" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "But I also wanted to find threshold uh, excuse me, mol overlap.", "speakerName": "Grad H" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "So, not just just the loudest.", "speakerName": "Grad H" }, { "text": "But, eh", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Postdoc F" }, { "text": "I I Sorry. I I have found that when when I I analyzed the the speech files from the, eh mike, eh from the eh close eh microphone, eh I found zones with a a different level of energy.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Sorry, I have to go.", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "OK. Could you fill that out anyway? Just, put your name in. Are y you want me to do it? I'll do it.", "speakerName": "Grad H" }, { "text": "But he's not gonna even read that. Oh.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "I know.", "speakerName": "Grad H" }, { "text": "including overlap zone. including. because, eh eh depend on the position of the of the microph of the each speaker to, eh, to get more o or less energy i in the mixed sign in the signal. and then, if you consider energy to to detect overlapping in in, uh, and you process the the in the the the speech file from the the the mixed signals. The mixed signals, eh. I I think it's it's difficult, um only to en with energy to to consider that in that zone We have eh, eh, overlapping zone Eh, if you process only the the energy of the, of each frame.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Well, it's probably harder, but I I think what I was s nnn noting just when he when Andreas raised that, was that there's other information to be gained from looking at all of the microphones and you may not need to look at very sophisticated things,", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "because if there's if most of the overlaps you know, this doesn't cover, say, three, but if most of the overlaps, say, are two, if the distribution looks like there's a couple high ones and and the rest of them are low,", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "And everyone else is low, yeah.", "speakerName": "Grad H" }, { "text": "you know, what I mean,", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "there's some information there about their distribution even with very simple measures.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "Yeah. Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Uh, by the way, I had an idea with while I was watching Chuck nodding at a lot of these things, is that we can all wear little bells on our heads, so that then you'd know that.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Ding, ding, ding, ding.", "speakerName": "Grad H" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "\" Ding \". That's cute!", "speakerName": "Postdoc F" }, { "text": "I think that'd be really interesting too, with blindfolds. Then.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Nodding with blindfolds,", "speakerName": "Grad H" }, { "text": "Yeah. The question is, like whether.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "\" what are you nodding about? \"", "speakerName": "Grad H" }, { "text": "Well, trying with and with and without, yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "\" Sorry, I'm just I'm just going to sleep. \"", "speakerName": "Grad H" }, { "text": "But then there's just one @ @, like.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "Actually, I saw a uh a woman at the bus stop the other day who, um, was talking on her cell phone speaking Japanese, and was bowing. you know, profusely.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "Oh, yeah, that's really common.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "Yeah Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Just, kept.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Ah.", "speakerName": "Postdoc F" }, { "text": "Wow.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "It's very difficult if you try while you're trying, say, to convince somebody on the phone it's difficult not to move your hands. Not You know, if you watch people they'll actually do these things.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm?", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "So. I still think we should try a a meeting or two with the blindfolds, at least of this meeting that we have lots of recordings of", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Grad H" }, { "text": "Um, maybe for part of the meeting, we don't have to do it the whole meeting.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Yeah, I think th I think it's a great idea.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "That could be fun. It'll be too hard to make barriers, I was thinking because they have to go all the way", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "W Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "you know, I can see Chuck even if you put a barrier here.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Well, we could just turn out the lights.", "speakerName": "Grad H" }, { "text": "Actually well also I I can say I made barr barriers for so that the stuff I was doing with Collin wha which just used, um this kind of foam board.", "speakerName": "Postdoc F" }, { "text": "Y Yeah?", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "R really inexpensive. You can you can masking tape it together, these are you know, pretty l large partitions.", "speakerName": "Postdoc F" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "But then we also have these mikes, is the other thing I was thinking, so we need a barrier that doesn't disturb the sound,", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "It's true, it would disturb the, um the the long - range.", "speakerName": "Postdoc F" }, { "text": "The acoustics.", "speakerName": "Grad H" }, { "text": "um", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Blindfolds would be good.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "it would.", "speakerName": "Postdoc F" }, { "text": "I think, blindfolds.", "speakerName": "Grad H" }, { "text": "I mean, it sounds weird but but you know it's it's cheap and, uh Be interesting to have the camera going.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Probably we should wait until after Adam's set up the mikes, But.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "OK. I think we're going to have to work on the, uh on the human subjects form.", "speakerName": "Postdoc F" }, { "text": "I'll be peeking.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "Yeah, that's right, we didn't tell them we would be blindfolding.", "speakerName": "Grad H" }, { "text": "That's.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "\" Do you mind being blindfolded while you're interviewed? \"", "speakerName": "Postdoc F" }, { "text": "that's that's that's the one that we videotape. So. Um, I I wanna move this along. Uh I did have this other agenda item which is, uh @ @ it's uh a list which I sent to uh a couple folks, but um I wanted to get broader input on it, So this is the things that I think we did in the last three months obviously not everything we did but but sort of highlights that I can can tell s some outside person, you know, what what were you actually working on. Um in no particular order uh, one, uh, ten more hours of meeting r meetings recorded, something like that, you know from from, uh three months ago. Uh XML formats and other transcription aspects sorted out and uh sent to IBM. Um, pilot data put together and sent to IBM for transcription, uh next batch of recorded data put together on the CD - ROMs for shipment to IBM,", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "Hasn't been sent yet, but It's getting ready.", "speakerName": "Grad H" }, { "text": "But yeah, that's why I phrased it that way, yeah OK. Um human subjects approval on campus, uh and release forms worked out so the meeting participants have a chance to request audio pixelization of selected parts of the spee their speech. Um audio pixelization software written and tested. Um preliminary analysis of overlaps in the pilot data we have transcribed, and exploratory analysis of long - distance inferences for topic coherence, that was I was wasn't sure if those were the right way that was the right way to describe that because of that little exercise that that you and and Lokendra did.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "What was that called?", "speakerName": "Postdoc F" }, { "text": "I well, I I'm probably saying this wrong, but what I said was exploratory analysis of long - distance inferences for topic coherence.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "The, uh say again?", "speakerName": "Postdoc F" }, { "text": "Something like that. Um so, uh I a lot of that was from, you know, what what what you two were doing so I I sent it to you, and you know, please mail me, you know, the corrections or suggestions for changing", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Grad H" }, { "text": "I I don't want to make this twice it's length but but you know, just im improve it. Um Is there anything anybody.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "I I did a bunch of stuff for supporting of digits.", "speakerName": "Grad H" }, { "text": "\" Bunch of stuff for s \" OK, maybe maybe send me a sentence that's a little thought through about that.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "So, OK, I'll send you a sentence that doesn't just say \" a bunch of \"?", "speakerName": "Grad H" }, { "text": "\" Bunch of stuff \", yeah, \" stuff \" is probably bad too,", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "Yep. \" Stuff \" is not very technical.", "speakerName": "Grad H" }, { "text": "Yeah, well.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "I'll try to phrase it in passive voice.", "speakerName": "Grad H" }, { "text": "Yeah. Yeah, yeah,", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "Technical stuff.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "\" range of things \", yeah. Um and and you know, I sort of threw in what you did with what Jane did on in under the, uh uh preliminary analysis of overlaps. Uh uh Thilo, can you tell us about all the work you've done on this project in the last, uh last three months?", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "So what is what Um. Not really.", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "That's.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "It's too complicated.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "Um, I didn't get it. Wh - what is \" audio pixelization \"?", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "Uh, audio pix wh he did it, so why don't you explain it quickly?", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "It's just, uh beeping out parts that you don't want included in the meeting so, you know you can say things like, \" Well, this should probably not be on the record, but beep \"", "speakerName": "Grad H" }, { "text": "OK, OK. I got that.", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "Yeah. We we we spent a a a fair amount of time early on just talk dealing with this issue about op w e e we realized, \" well, people are speaking in an impromptu way and they might say something that would embarrass them or others later \", and, how do you get around that", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "OK.", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "so in the consent form it says, well you we will look at the transcripts later and if there's something that you're unhappy with, yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "OK, and you can say OK.", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "But you don't want to just totally excise it because um uh, well you have to be careful about excising it, how how you excise it keeping the timing right and so forth so that at the moment tho th the idea we're running with is is h putting the beep over it.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "OK.", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "Yeah, you can either beep or it can be silence. I I couldn't decide. which was the right way to do it.", "speakerName": "Grad H" }, { "text": "Ah, yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Beep is good auditorily,", "speakerName": "Grad H" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "if someone is listening to it, there's no mistake that it's been beeped out,", "speakerName": "Grad H" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "but for software it's probably better for it to be silence.", "speakerName": "Grad H" }, { "text": "No, no. You can you know, you could make a m as long as you keep using the same beep, people could make a model of that beep,", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "Hmm.", "speakerName": "Postdoc F" }, { "text": "and.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "I like that idea.", "speakerName": "Postdoc F" }, { "text": "Yep. And I use it's it's, uh it's an A below middle C beep,", "speakerName": "Grad H" }, { "text": "I think the beep is a really good idea.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "It's very clear. Then you don't think it's a long pause.", "speakerName": "Postdoc F" }, { "text": "Also.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Yeah, it's more obvious that there was something there than if there's just silence.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "so", "speakerName": "Grad H" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Postdoc F" }, { "text": "Yeah, that I mean, he's he's removing the old thing", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "Yeah", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "and and and.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "Yep.", "speakerName": "Grad H" }, { "text": "Yea - right. Right. But I mean if you just replaced it with silence, it's not clear whether that's really silence or.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "Yeah, it's not.", "speakerName": "Grad H" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Yeah, I agree.", "speakerName": "Postdoc F" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Yep.", "speakerName": "Grad H" }, { "text": "One one question. Do you do it on all channels?", "speakerName": "Postdoc F" }, { "text": "Of course.", "speakerName": "Grad H" }, { "text": "Interesting. I like that.", "speakerName": "Postdoc F" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "Yeah, I like that.", "speakerName": "Postdoc F" }, { "text": "Yeah you have to do it on all channels because it's, uh audible.", "speakerName": "Grad H" }, { "text": "Very clear. Very clear.", "speakerName": "Postdoc F" }, { "text": "Uh, it's it's potentially audible, you could potentially recover it.", "speakerName": "Grad H" }, { "text": "Ke - keep a back door.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "Well, the other thing that you know, I mean the the alternative might be to s", "speakerName": "Postdoc F" }, { "text": "Yeah. Well, I I haven't thrown away any of the meetings that I beeped. Actually yours is the only one that I beeped and then, uh the ar DARPA meeting.", "speakerName": "Grad H" }, { "text": "Notice how quiet I am.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Sorry, and then the DARPA meeting I just excised completely,", "speakerName": "Grad H" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Postdoc F" }, { "text": "so it's in a private directory.", "speakerName": "Grad H" }, { "text": "You have some people who only have beeps as their speech in these meetings.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "That's great. Yeah.", "speakerName": "Postdoc F" }, { "text": "OK.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "They're easy to find, then.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "Alright, so, uh I think we should, uh uh, go on to the digits?", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "I have one concept a t I I want to say, which is that I think it's nice that you're preserving the time relations,", "speakerName": "Postdoc F" }, { "text": "OK.", "speakerName": "Grad H" }, { "text": "s so you're you're not just cutting you're not doing scissor snips. You're you're keeping the, uh the time duration of a de - deleted deleted part.", "speakerName": "Postdoc F" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "Grad H" }, { "text": "Yeah, definitely.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "OK, good, digits.", "speakerName": "Postdoc F" }, { "text": "Yeah, since we wanna possibly synchronize these things as well. Oh, I should have done that.", "speakerName": "Grad H" }, { "text": "It's great.", "speakerName": "Postdoc F" }, { "text": "Shoot. Oh well.", "speakerName": "Grad H" }, { "text": "So I guess if there's an overlap, like, if I'm saying something that's bleepable and somebody else overlaps during it they also get bleeped, too?", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Yeah. Oh", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "You'll lose it. There's no way around that.", "speakerName": "Grad H" }, { "text": "Yeah. Um I d I did before we do the digits, I did also wanna remind people, uh please do send me, you know, uh thoughts for an agenda,", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "Agenda?", "speakerName": "Grad H" }, { "text": "yeah that that would be that'd be good.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "Good.", "speakerName": "Postdoc F" }, { "text": "Eh So that, uh, people's ideas don't get", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "Thursday crept up on me this week.", "speakerName": "Grad H" }, { "text": "yeah, well it does creep up, doesn't it?", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "And, I wanted to say, I think this is really interesting analysis.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "OK.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "Thank you.", "speakerName": "Postdoc F" }, { "text": "It's cool stuff, definitely.", "speakerName": "Grad H" }, { "text": "I meant to say that before I started off on the Switchboard stuff.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Thank you.", "speakerName": "Postdoc F" }, { "text": "I was gonna say \" can you do that for the other meetings,", "speakerName": "Grad H" }, { "text": "It's neat.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "can you do it for them? \"", "speakerName": "Grad H" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "And, no actually, you can't.", "speakerName": "Grad H" }, { "text": "Actually actually I I thought that's what you were giving us was another meeting and I was like, \" Oh, OK! \"", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "Does it take.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Thank you. Yeah.", "speakerName": "Postdoc F" }, { "text": "\" Ooo, cool! \"", "speakerName": "Grad H" }, { "text": "Aw, thanks.", "speakerName": "Postdoc F" }, { "text": "How long does it take, just briefly, like t to OK. to label the,", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "No. I have the script now, so, I mean, it can work off the, uh other thing,", "speakerName": "Postdoc F" }, { "text": "It's As soon as we get labels, yep.", "speakerName": "Grad H" }, { "text": "OK.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "But it has to be hand - labeled first?", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "but Uh, well, yeah. Because, uh well, I mean once his his algorithm is up and running then we can do it that way.", "speakerName": "Postdoc F" }, { "text": "If it works well enough. Right now it's not. Not quite to the point where it works.", "speakerName": "Grad H" }, { "text": "OK.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "But I I just worked off of my", "speakerName": "Postdoc F" }, { "text": "It's really neat.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "OK, go ahead", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "Thanks. Appreciate that. I think what I what this has, uh, caused me so this discussion caused me to wanna subdivide these further. I'm gonna take a look at the, uh backchannels, how much we have anal I hope to have that for next time.", "speakerName": "Postdoc F" }, { "text": "That'd be interesting.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "Yeah, my my algorithm worked great actually on these, but when you wear it like that or with the uh, lapel or if you have it very far from your face, that's when it starts failing.", "speakerName": "Grad H" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm. Oh.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "Well, I can wear it, I mean if you.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "It doesn't matter.", "speakerName": "Grad H" }, { "text": "OK.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "I mean, we want it to work,", "speakerName": "Grad H" }, { "text": "It's too late now.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "right? I I don't want to change the way we do the meeting.", "speakerName": "Grad H" }, { "text": "I feel like this troublemaker.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "It's uh so, it was just a comment on the software, not a comment on prescriptions on how you wear microphones.", "speakerName": "Grad H" }, { "text": "OK.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "OK, that's let's let's let's do digits.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "Get the bolts, \" whh whh \"", "speakerName": "Grad H" }, { "text": "Let's do it. OK.", "speakerName": "Postdoc F" }, { "text": "OK.", "speakerName": "Grad H" }, { "text": "I'm sorry.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "OK, thank you.", "speakerName": "Grad H" }, { "text": "Do you want us to put a mark on the bottom of these when they've actually been read, or do you just i i the only one that wasn't read is is known, so we don't do it. OK.", "speakerName": "Postdoc F" } ] }

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

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She further stated that the Welsh Baccalaureate is viewed as equivalent to A-level by all Welsh universities and is valued by them.", "responseAttribution": { "indexRanges": [ { "startIndex": 6, "endIndex": 6 }, { "startIndex": 12, "endIndex": 12 }, { "startIndex": 21, "endIndex": 24 }, { "startIndex": 43, "endIndex": 43 }, { "startIndex": 47, "endIndex": 47 }, { "startIndex": 61, "endIndex": 63 }, { "startIndex": 91, "endIndex": 91 }, { "startIndex": 96, "endIndex": 96 }, { "startIndex": 131, "endIndex": 131 } ] }, "queryMetadata": { "queryType": "QUERY_TYPE_SPECIFIC", "isUnanswerable": null, "isContextDependent": true } }, { "query": "What was Andrew Clark’s opinion on the variability across schools in delivering the Welsh Baccalaureate qualification?", "response": "Andrew Clark stated that there is variability in the way schools deliver the Welsh Baccalaureate qualification and that this is influenced by factors such as feeder schools and teaching methods. 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She mentioned that the qualification is undergoing a review process to address issues like teacher workload and assessment.", "responseAttribution": { "indexRanges": [ { "startIndex": 6, "endIndex": 6 }, { "startIndex": 12, "endIndex": 12 }, { "startIndex": 24, "endIndex": 24 }, { "startIndex": 102, "endIndex": 102 }, { "startIndex": 131, "endIndex": 131 } ] }, "queryMetadata": { "queryType": "QUERY_TYPE_SPECIFIC", "isUnanswerable": null, "isContextDependent": true } }, { "query": "Were there any next steps or actions items identified as a result of this meeting?", "response": "Kirsty Williams, Cabinet Secretary for Education, recognized concerns about variability and consistency in the teaching of the Welsh Baccalaureate qualification. Professional learning opportunities will be provided to teachers to help ensure consistency. The workload associated with the qualification is also being reviewed.", "responseAttribution": { "indexRanges": [ { "startIndex": 4, "endIndex": 4 }, { "startIndex": 6, "endIndex": 6 }, { "startIndex": 12, "endIndex": 12 }, { "startIndex": 24, "endIndex": 24 }, { "startIndex": 36, "endIndex": 36 }, { "startIndex": 114, "endIndex": 117 }, { "startIndex": 126, "endIndex": 126 } ] }, "queryMetadata": { "queryType": "QUERY_TYPE_YES_NO", "isUnanswerable": null, "isContextDependent": null } } ] }

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

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

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{ "meetingId": "IS1001b", "transcriptSegments": [ { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Okay everyone's ready.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Hello.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "So we are here for uh for uh functional design.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Okay? So we are here for the functional design meeting mm so first I will show the agenda so we will uh I will take notes during this meeting so I will try to summarise it and put that summary in the shared folder if you want to look at it afterwards", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "so then uh each of you will uh lead a presentation on the task that has been required last time so user requirement specification, technical function design and working design. Then I will uh present you some new project requirements I received from uh the management board. Then we will take uh the decision on on the remote control uh needed functions and then I will assign you the task for the next part of the meeting. Of the of the process. So uh who want to start the the presentation of what they did?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "F do you want to start?", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Make a start yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "You can start.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "So..", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Cable, camera.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "You have uh PowerPoint?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Should be in my in their folder no?", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Ah yeah maybe there. Okay.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Up.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Who are you?.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Um at three I think.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "No? Mm.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Ouch. And.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Okay..", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "We have a technical problem uh.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Do we think w s in the in the wrong folder maybe? It is possible.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "You put it on.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "No.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "It was somewhere in something like this. I don't remember the name actually must be something like messenger AMI or something.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "What do you have in short cut?", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Go up.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Participant two.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah go up.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Again. No. Go back.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "You have no.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Uh maybe messenger AMI. Messenger.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Over. Okay.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "No. There is nothing.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "There's no We have a technical problem.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Let's go and check.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "I'll go and check.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Otherwise, could you just describe by hand?", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "With the the whiteboard?", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "If you remember yeah", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah. Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "but that's.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "So uh. Basically what we want here is a remote control right.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "So um the question well first of all what to control. So most people want to have a a remote for their hi-fi and T_V_ and stuff like that.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "And but other people want th also remotes for controlling uh and toys like robotic pets and little robots and stuff", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "and other people also want to have remotes for controlling um whole house.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah, so there's a project I think called X_ house or something like that that does that, uh you can integrate your remote with uh computers stuff. So.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "there is one that is one thing. The other is the the finder feature yeah by whistling or whatever. Uh if you have the finder feature then you can also have", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "uh at the same time as and general voice commands if you want yeah. So I think it should be a package in that case.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Uh so the user interface will consist of two parts. One is the voice command part and on one is the actual buttons part. Uh and th the buttons part would be uh a set of buttons for choosing devices, a set of buttons for special navigation in space,", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm. Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "a set of buttons for linear access of medium and a set of buttons for random access.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah?", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "What do you mean by linear access then?", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Like a video tape goes forward, backwards, uh fast and stuff yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Ah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Okay so special navigation, linear access, random access", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Um.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "and there's a fourth one no?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm?", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "So the better now for special navigation?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah. For special navigation for example you might have a T_V_ in the menu and you going to change yeah?", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Okay. Then linear access", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Uh.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "then random access.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm. Yeah and also parameter changing.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Ah yeah parameter okay.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "So if there are common parameters maybe we should put special buttons for that um", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "or maybe we could have everything uh generic but uh there are a lot of uh remotes on the market right now and basically this is most of the almost everybody has this stuff.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Okay. Okay and and voice command did you uh.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Voice command w we could specify anything. We could assign any button a command to any button, if we have enough processing power,", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Okay. Okay.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "I guess so. Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "So that's uh that close your investigations?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Uh yeah I think so.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Not so far.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Maybe we can have a look at the user requirements with.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah. Um I dunno if you can open the.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "I dunno if I can open it. Maybe you can s", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "uh m is not here.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "It's.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Uh in yeah okay.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Messenger no?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "No. In document. Mm computer yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "In which folder?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Where did you put it?", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Here. Here.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Short-cut to AMI shared folder?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "mm.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "But it's not Um.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Maybe you can send it to me by email. Just to participant one. At AMI.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm. Yeah, I can do that.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "I will try to show it to everyone, that would be more comfortable.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Okay. Um.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "You send it?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "It's participant one?", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah. Uh this is this email.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "I'm designing the user interface..", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Okay. You can uh.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Okay. So maybe I can switch slides when you whenever you ask,", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "that will be more convenient. So okay, functional requirements.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Okay so you can you can go. Okay so in our usability lab we observed the remote control use among one hundred subjects", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "and the subjects also filled a questionnaire", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "okay? And here I have the results so you can see that um seventy five per cent of users find most remote controls ugly so we have to find something to make them more more nice, more kind. Eighty per cents of users would spend more money when the remote control would look fancy. Eighty hundred per cent of users would spend more money when the remote control would look.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "oh to it's not good. So okay.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "We can just keep doing that?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "So it's not in theory but I I can I can say yeah..", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Fifty f uh seventy five per cent of users say they s zap a lot. So mm we have to have a remote control uh very um out for that. Uh the buttons have are to be um uh uh like you say resist resisting to to shocks.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Um and fifty per cents of users say they only use uh ten per cents of but of the buttons in the in the remote control.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "So all the buttons we we have to put are have to to have um a use a real use", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "and not only or.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Okay, so fewer buttons maybe would be good?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah. F not many buttons, and uh and uh uh u useable buttons.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "But what kind of remote controls did you look at?", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Sorry?", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "What kind of task was it? It was a T_V_?", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah. Uh most for most is T_V_.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah. Yeah but in fact we it it seems that we are going to make a T_V_ remote control according to new requirements I received from the management", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Huh.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "bo I will present them in the following.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Uh-huh. Ah! Good.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "'Kay you can go so.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "So there are other frustrations expressed by users, so they said uh they lost uh often the remote control in in the room so they want to have a way to to", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah. To find it.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "to find it.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Um and um lot of the time they it takes too much time to learn how to use a new remote control.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "So they want something s really very simple and uh easy to use.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "And uh remote controls are bad for", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "What is her other side?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "R_S_I_ um.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Other side yeah, yo wa your wrist", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "I dunno.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "It i can become painful you can have tendonditis.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Oh yeah?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "I did not knew that.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "If you also up on a computer in a strange position.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Okay so you we have to make it uh more ergonomic yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Ergonomic. But uh.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Have to say ha ha..", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "It's your job.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Oh..", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Uh.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Uh sorry got a message from Microsoft..", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Okay um before that I I have some some some thing uh to say before um.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah. Yeah yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "We know that uh the user use uh a lot their um remote control um to to change channel.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Um and um to to change uh volume selection of the.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "and uh and not uh a lot for setting for setting the the channels and uh thing things like that.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "So it's better to put uh uh uh something very easy to set and uh and.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah. This function should be very uh accessible.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Very accessible yes.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah, okay. This is the main function okay.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "That's right. So then we asked some questions to them", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "and um we asked this question if they prefer an L_C_D_ screen or on their remultific function remotes control", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "and if they mm pay more for speech recognition in remote control", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "and you can go we have here the results of", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "The first question.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "of the questions. So you know that um", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "for the younger it's very important", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "To have L_C_D_ and voice.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "to have the s yes and speech recognition. And uh and the others is not so important but uh we know that uh uh people between fifteen and twenty five are people who watch a lot T_V_ and uh who who wh can use a lot this uh.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "So maybe we we can have a speech recognition in.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah maybe this this is important.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Moreover th maybe those uh like those teenager customer could advice their parents to buy this equipment and so we can.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "we have to take care of that point of view I think or so.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Okay and if there is th the conclusion now. So as we say before, I think uh um a remote control lightening in the dark it's it's a good thing.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Uh not to many mud buttons like we we said before,", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "e easy to use uh a way to find it easily in the room and uh uh resistant to to shock and to to.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "An I s no, yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Okay these are the user requi", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "I dunno if you see something else important or.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "I'm just thinking of some thing.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Um We want to have a no, I don't know if this is a good idea. We want to have a a general remote control for everything.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "No no no. We w it seems that we no want to have a T_V_ remote control. From the management board I receive an email.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Okay. Yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Cos it would be costly uh and and also it it would take more time to develop to have a a general generic remote control.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah. Yeah yeah. Yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Mm I it's not true I think. The the second claim that you put.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "No no..", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "That it would be too long to develop.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "I think that should be the same.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Oh yeah. Because I received that email from management board and they seems to tell that that if we want to be on the market as early as possible we should uh focus on T_V_ more where it seems that the market is more important. So maybe it's a good decision. I dunno. What's your opinion?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "I have uh I've no idea I mean I should know a bit more about how fast we can uh design it.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "I don't think.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Uh yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Finish tonight.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah. Okay. Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "But basically yeah maybe I can continue with my presentation, it would be al you you.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "but I think we have some technical problem or so. So I'm just going to describe briefly what we do in the remote control.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Maybe you can go to the whiteboard if you have some drawings to do", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "If fact.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "I don't know.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah but.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Do I have oh yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Now I have enough cables.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Like a you feel a bit like a dog with this stuff.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Okay so I'm just going to describe in fact for for a remote control this is quite easy. We just have.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "sorry, I'm going.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Are you okay?.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Like that. I'm just going to describe. Basically we have a a battery a power supply here. After that we just have um user interface. Let's say that um something like that, which could be um a L_C_D_ let's say or um an array of push button, something like that. Push button or a L_C_D_. After that we we feed that into um uh an electronic chip. So I say U_C_ and I feed that to uh L_E_D_ which is uh infrared um which is a an infrared um component. And so what we for for myself this for for us this is quite easy.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "U_C_ is the central unit?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Okay yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Y it's a it's this just a chip which does all the um numerical", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Computation.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "numerical computation according to your display.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "And so for us uh this is quite easy. We just need to take to define what we want to do when the user interface um wants something and after that we just do the coding to s and send that to to to the not the to the television.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "So for us this is quite easy.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Okay so this is quite easy. There is not that much constraints.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah. Um we just have to define the processing power that we need uh especially if we want to do some uh speech recognition, in that case that mean that we are going to use more for simple.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "This will think this will take more time to develop also.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah of course of course.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah..", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "And um but for a standard one this is really easy. It's a question of one month and so on s", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Soon.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "To have a you s you speak about with voi voice control?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "No no no no,", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Standard button one.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "I say yeah standard uh standard remote control takes maybe uh one month to to do that.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah. So the only time problem is the sp voice recognition.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Definitely.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "So do you have any idea of how long it would take to have voice recognition now?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Ten years.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "I would say.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "I would say uh about eight months to have the first results.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Okay so i it's a bit long yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah. I can Um.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "One month for the standard one with button.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Even if we have a L_C_D_ display?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah even. I mean that this is really standard devices now. Um eight. For uh speech recognition.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Okay yeah. Okay so we can take this into account. So who think it would be good to go for uh like speech recognition?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "But we don't have time to market.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah it will.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "And also how much uh I think", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "I think we should contact management.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "during the kickoff meeting you say that we we shouldn't we shouldn't go up to twelve point five Euro per unit", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Euros. Yeah, yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "so how many units should we sell to have a.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Well. Uh.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Well each unit is is sell uh twenty five Euros.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah but how many yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "How muc how much do you get how much do you if you buy one million units h no, one hundred thousand units.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Eh chips. We're gonna need chips right.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah. How much will it cost for one hundred thousand?", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Usually this is less tha at two dollars per chip.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Because we are.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "So you have any idea for a powerful one that has uh good enough for do speech recognition.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah,", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah? Okay.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "we can.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "So.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "It seems that that we want to sell like four million units from the first meeting.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "No it doesn't.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Okay. Four million..", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Okay. Maybe we can uh we can look at the new requirement I receive from the management board and discus discuss all function we want to have.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Um I just had a question uh do you want to continue with your presenta?", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah I I will continue.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Is it.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Well ask your question if you want.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Um you say that I don't remember by heart but thirty per cent", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Mm?", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "of the tested people say that's it's quite difficult to to to use the remote control.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Do they say that this is difficult but for the same reason or do they have other reason? To to.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Oh.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "maybe to keep in mind maybe to access to that menu you should do something like that.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Would j Uh yeah w I I think they they say that it's uh difficult to learn how to use it but i when you know how to use it, it's it's okay.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm. Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Okay. It's not intuitive first.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "And.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "But Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "But yeah maybe and what about if we design a remote control which can be configure as you want? You say that I want, I have six button.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Mh-hmm. A a lot of people are uh if you have the L_C_D_ screen if you can do it completely the way you want because the buttons also look the way you want them", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah. But, but also it seems that.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "but it will be hard to configure I mean imagine i uh.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "so it's really something for the expert user. So.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "I mean there are markets and markets. I think the young people are th uh are uh.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Christine here said uh you have a.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "uh it is yeah. So for our young people uh it will be cool, they can be able to use it. Th maybe their parents will not but they will configure it. I guess. I don't know if there is study about that.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah. Maybe it would be more complex to configure it to be simple than creating a simple product.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah. Yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "And there are another thing is that if we make something that's simple and easy to use that's bas to use immediately that means that it will be exactly the same as everything else.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "All right?", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah. Yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Otherwise, if it's different then of course everybody has somebody has to learn to use it first.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "But also we we see that that most people find it find remote controls too complex because they have too many buttons and they mainly use only channels and volume buttons.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "So we may just uh make a very easy to use remote control with mainly those buttons", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "and maybe also um some lightning stuff too because most people find also hard to to find the remote control. Losed lose it etcetera.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "These these are these two points are the main frustrations so maybe if we design something very simple and easy to uh find when lost it will uh add uh a serious competitive advantage without making something too complex and too long to develop.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "So but le let us see first the new requirement. So we don't have to so this this uh is uh is um in the this is in the same direction as we were speaking so we don't have to make a very complex remote controls to access teletext and stuff like that.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "But teletext is just one button.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah but then you have to you have to define the buttons to surf amongst pages and stuff.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "You you just write the write the numbers.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah. So well.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "So will you add with the channel keys, right?", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah. So anyway we don't have to include this feature because it's it's not used any more by users,", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "So..", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "they prefer to s", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "I am. I'm sure that uh it don't like but uh I don't see just one button.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah. I dunno.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "So.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "If i one button is still one more button. If if if we want to make it very simple we have to reduce number of buttons compared to th to our competitors.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Well anyway I have this point. We can discuss. Also um so as as I told before uh it would be better if it's only for the T_V_ um because we want to be quick on on the market. And then also we have to make very uh uh clear that this uh this remote control is is part of of our products and show our corporate uh logo and and colours on the on the design as well so that uh they identify it as one of our product. So this is the the key point.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "So before uh finishing we can uh define uh what would be the characteristic of the o th of the control of the remote control and which button do we need which function do we want etcetera.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Capital.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "So do you um so so from from the the Marketing Expert I think a key aspect is the easy to use aspect, it should be very simple and most button are never used", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "only ten per cent of the button are are used often so I think we have to do something very simple and I think we all agree on that point, no?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Well if it is going to be just a T_V_ remote control it is going to be very simple.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah okay. So yeah the key point here is simple. Maybe. So few buttons, channel, volume control and what el what function do you see in addition to that?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Well if it's going to be as simple as possible then just have the remote control, there is no other function that I can see", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "really.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Maybe switch T_V_ on and off.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Uh", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "no you want to keep television on so that the advertising can revenue can come back to us.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah. Yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Or something.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Volume, maybe a mute button, and then on off button.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "And that's all?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Uh I know that som you say that many people are doing plenty of a lot of zapping.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "I know tha I discovered that when I did a quick look, uh they do now som they do something which is quite nice now,", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "It's a memory, yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "you have a button, you you press it, and this is uh the previous channel which has come back.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Okay. Yeah this is cool. Maybe we can include that also. Previous previous channel button. So we have like channel button, the previous channel button, the volume button, plus a mute button, and uh just the the traditional on off button.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm. Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "And uh and of course the channel changing buttons.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm..", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah. I I talk about that, yeah?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "How should they how should we implement that? Because uh could be numerical only or could be also incremental.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah. Incremental definitely because zapping you you switch them.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Let's say that we can do something like that. This is uh incremental, but once you press it for a long time, you go five by five.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "We go faster?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "To go fa to go faster.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm. It's an interesting idea, that if you press it for a long time it does something else, in general. So if you you have your ten buttons for the for the numeric the numerical buttons and you have instead of having just one memory", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "you have if you press them for a long time No. Doesn't work does it.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Maybe we should have also a digit button.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Maybe we should have a complete keyboard and just type console commands.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Change channel to eight.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Maybe we have also to have digits or only incremental.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "No..", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "I dunno bec because if you have the.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Well if it's useful like if if you want to change between three channels for example then you h you cannot you cannot cannot work with just memory being incremental.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Uh. Yeah. Because you have your previous channel button if you have incremental only it's not uh it isn't worth it because the previous channel is eith either minus one or plus one.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "So I think we need also digits.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah..", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Maybe we we can make very obvious the channel and volume button button and smaller button down there with the the digits.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah when you zap usually you will have to press the same button all the time.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "and.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Or we can do something like that.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "We can design the remote control to have access. You know some remote control have uh protection", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "and so you you y", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Hey I just thought this thing.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "You.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "there is a I mean you know there is are some with a wheel like this. Instead of having the up down buttons for uh you can have the wheel.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah, a kind of joystick.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah. Maybe we can have a wheel for incremental.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "So have a wheel for incremental, have the digits uh on the lower side that can be closed so as you say protected,", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "and uh yeah I think this is the basi", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "On the lower side I think it you have to turn it.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "And do we do we have a.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "No? If we do that.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Or a or a ball, yeah, not a a wheel but a ball, and you say uh to.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "No, a wheel is better.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "I would say the wheel is better.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Because of that.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "What is the expert of uh.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "The channels change one by one.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "So you have to the user has to like to should feel the the the discrete sense a bit.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah, the.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah. That's a good idea.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Well also we have to decide uh so it should be lightening in the dark I think because most people lost their remote control.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "'S quite it's quite easy we do that w with back light on the on the wheel.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah. Even if i L_E_D_ uh or a if if it's the L_C_D_ feature uh", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "A blue a blue L_E_D_ and we sell that um.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah,", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "whatever, yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "and do we put an L_C_D_ display?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Because it was important for young customers if you remember.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "I think it's only put on if cou have multi function. If you do not multi function then there is no p point in having L_C_D_.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Just increase the cost.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "The user does not have an advantage really.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "So no L_C_D_?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Hmm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "And so no speech as well because it w it would delay too much the development process", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Well if it's going to delay yeah", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "but uh it will be cool. It would. Because a user could say C_N_N_ for example and it would go C_N_N_. Mm.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah. That would be cool. But eight months is really long", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "and Maybe we can just uh.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Ten years.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Okay. So um I I will uh I will so I we will move to next meeting so in after the lunch break uh here are the individual uh action uh you are required to do", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "but you will be uh recalled to the actions by uh email I think but you can take notes if you if you want but well the instruction will be sent. So thank you for uh your suggestion", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "and I I will make a summary of that meeting that I will put in the shared folder you can't see.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Okay. Okay.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "and uh and then you will um you will be able to to see what has been uh has been said on on this meeting and and what has been decided. Uh maybe for next meeting uh send me your presentation before by email so that we can see them uh altogether. That would be easier.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "What is the folder that you put yours in? And did it it did work?", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "No.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "No it did not work.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "No no.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "She send it to me by email.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Ah yeah. Mm.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "I dunno, I dunno it.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "So maybe this is better, to send it by email. Okay?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Okay what is your email?", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "So yeah I I'm it's in the first uh email so I'm participant one at AMI", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "At participant one. Okay.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "uh where is that, it's here. Participant one at AMI. Okay. So see you after lunch break.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Well during lunch break actually..", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "'Kay thank you.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "So next time we should have a fight.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "How about uh management or something. Who happens to be your friend.", "speakerName": "User Interface" } ] }

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

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{ "meetingId": "ES2003b", "transcriptSegments": [ { "text": "Just put it on the deskt desktop.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "No on the desktop you'll find you should find that there's a project documents link. A well actually just there.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Project documents,", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah. That's it.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "If you dump it in there.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "What's your username?", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Your username.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "What's your username and password? Mm-hmm. Sorry.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Okay. There we go.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Excellent. Right. Hopefully that's us ready to uh to go. So. Functional design meeting. We'll have to flesh out some of the uh stuff. Um we'll start with the minutes of the last meeting. Not a lot thankfully to say. We introduced ourselves, discussed the possibility of a macro facility, interac interacting the T_V_ a bit more, um mentioning of bar-code, joystick for user manipulation, um and ergonomics of the remote control as well. Um it's come to my attention the following. Teletext has become outdated due to the populat popularity of the internet. Remote control should only be used for the T_V_. Um due for uh time to market and possibly also cost issues. Um also key is the corporate image should stay recognisable, um f uh your colour and slogan of course is down at the bottom there. Um. Now. Just to say quickly uh I would have thought that only being used for a television the macro facility may now not be required.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Um or at l its functionality would have been of limited use. So to the point in my opinion anyway that it might not be worth pursuing. Um if anybody disagrees we can uh definitely say so. Um and hopefully we'll just crack on and we'll get everything going. Um I'd like to if possible hear from our Marketing Expert first, to help us gain an idea of where we're going to go.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "'Kay.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "So um I'll just load up your presentation from here if you want.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Sure. Um, sh would you like to I'll just do it from here.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yep. Sorry. Uh. Is yours the.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Um, try second one maybe. Try it, yeah maybe.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Oh sorry. Okay, right.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah. Okay. Oh, I thought I put in my last name, I guess not, but.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Uh if you that's all right. If you do you want me to just cycle through it for you or?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Okay. Oh yeah, that'd be fine, that'd be great.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Okay. Functional requirement by me Ebenezer..", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Okay, so um we did some research, we asked one hundred people their opinions on remote controls. We asked some uh open ended questions, just, what are your opinions on the remote control, got a lot of re responses, and we asked some very specific questions, and we got a lot of good feedback. Please bear in mind this is only a hundred people, so even when the groups are divided into fifteen to twenty five, twenty five to thirty five, there's only maybe ten people fifteen people in each group.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Okay. So we got some the bad stuff we got, remotes are often lost. I often lose my remote control, the back of the couch, some place, and even if it's not lost permanently, it takes me a few minutes to find it. Most buttons are not used any more, like you said, teletext is outdated now. I remember trying to load a D_V_D_ player recently, and there were so many buttons, it took me I don't know maybe ten minutes to to go through each button,'cause you have to press the shift button to access the yellow buttons, you know there's just a lot of stuff that no one really uses. And if they do, not very often. Takes too long to master the remote control. I've seen some remote controls that are big, they have a lot of buttons, you have to hold down more than one key at one time to do something, they're just not great to use. We just got a lot of bad complaints about remote controls, people do not like remote controls. Some of the good stuff we got. Between the age of uh fifteen and twenty five, most people would be willing to pay extra for voice recognition software. Now don't get excited yet, I've got more to say on that. Most people'd be willing to pay for that um most people want remote controls to be pretty, they want it to be fancy, th they they want it to be different, everybody has a white remote control with black buttons, and a red button and a green button, not everybody wants that. Finally, my opinion.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yep.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "The voice recognition thing is cool. And uh voice recognition, the software, open source software exist already. It's a bit sketchy at some times, uh, you're not gonna get good always accurate results, but for a very fixed number of words, you know you have, how many different words can you have for a remote control, up, down, left, right, channel five, channel seven, you know, how many, you can't have that many words. For a fixed vocabulary it works quite well. I'm pretty sure people would buy it. But after a while people may wanna return it, because if you have to to say som I mean most people use a remote control for switching to channels, and they say they do that about ninety eight percent of the time. Using the remote control, ninety eight percent of the time for changing channels, and that's for flickering through channels. So if you have to say up, up, up, up, if you have to do that all the time, then people might get a bit fed up with that and they may return it. However, oh, because the voice recognition software exists already, there's no need to spend money on research and development, but this does mean the need for microphones in the in the remote control, which is an unusual feature in my opinion. But if we do have the voice recognition thing, there's a lot of stuff that you can uh get rid of. See, you could there're two options. Either you have voice recognition by itself, which I think is a bit impractical for like night time if you wanna be watching television and you wanna be quiet, or I don't know you have a visitor coming round and the remote's only trained for you, it's a bit impractical to have just voice recognition by itself. So you can have voice recognition and a regular remote. But imagine you got rid of the regular remote part, then you can design the remote to look any way you want it to look, because there are no restrictions on physical size, or shape, it it could be as fancy as you want it to be, you know, it could be like a lollipop or something like that, something weird like that. As long as the voice recognition stuff works, that's that's fine.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Okay, yep.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "So we have the three birds, we have the design, that we have the the fancy bit, right, the voice recognition's fancy, it's cool, it's different, it's radical, so, and then we have an extra bit I don't remember so I'm pretty sure people will buy the remote, but is it practical to have a voice recognition system in a remote control, I think is a big question. Um, will people will people be willing to wait for the the period that it'll take to train the remote,'cause I think it will the remote will uh get better over time with the same user user, but for the first week or for the first two weeks are you willing to wait, are you willing to have a bad remote control. And uh what if you have visitors come round, they stay the night, they wanna use the T_V_, they can't use the remote because they speak differently to you. Um, how do you account for regional accents and stuff like that. Uh, will people return the remote control, I think a lot of young people will buy the remote control, if they have the money, you know, so,", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm. If you could uh", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "do our audience have the money, but would they return it after a while because it's not as fast as pressing a button, it's not a practical. So. These are things I think we should consider.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "sor", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "I think it's cool,", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "if you could speed it up a bit, yeah. If you could uh speed it up a bit please, yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "I'm sorry? Sure.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Sorry.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "I'm about to end, yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Cool.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "I think it's cool but there are definitely some considerations.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Okay. Excellent.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "So, yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Right. Um. Hear from the User Interface Designer now I think might be an idea.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Um, you've got your presentation now,", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "How did where did.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah, it's in the it's in the folder", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "is it on the.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "where did you get all your in information?", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "is it? Okay.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "There was uh a website, uh,", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Oh.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Technical functions?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "right here.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Ah, okay.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "No. Yeah. Okay.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Okay, this is a brief run through of the um of the technical functions of the remote. As um is uh the the the presentation is uh already slightly obsolete because I had in mind something that would uh be i be aimed at controlling multiple devices but uh there's still stuff of relevance, so", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "press on. I've looked at looked at a num uh couple of other uh remote control models just for an idea of basic design principles. Um and wasn't really satisfied by what I saw I have to say so this is more sort of springboard for uh how these could be improved on. Um um basically the job of the device is to send commands to an appliance, in this case the television set. Um to save you getting off your backside. Um and there's two main trends in th in the sort of design practice. On the one hand and this uh this particularly relates to its sort of earliest models where with you know i so so many buttons on it so about the size of the television set. Um giving you every possible function that the that the device has, the remote control controls. And most of these functions are not going to be used, it creates a rather user unfriendly interface. And on the other hand there's a user focused approach that pares things down to just what what is most likely to get used. Um With uh a and a and of course there is a certain amount of sort of loss of function here obviously, but mostly that's relatively peripheral functions. And so you go for something that's fairly intuitive to use, and um well f the for the most part for T_V_ remote it's uh tha that would be channel control and volume. Um and if you if you if you are wanting to incorporate uh control of a D_V_ D_V_D_ or uh V_C_R_ presumably into that then there's a play, pause, stop, rewind, fast-forward, record, so forth. Um. My own view is that we should definitely be going for a user focused design. Um but uh the pro I think the problem with a lot of the sort of user focused designs that are about is that they sort of make assumptions in advance about what uh what a given user's going to uh want mo want to do from want it to do most. So, something that's uh something that is more programmable, that uh perh perhaps has the full range of functions available to it but you can then specify yourself what you're most likely to want. Um so that those are then immediately accessible through fairly minimal number of controls, um I liked Ebenezer's idea of including a joystick in that and uh possibly a sort of fairly minimal number of sort of function buttons, and have a disp you then have some sort of basic display on it so that if you're um sort of cha changing from different modes for the device it'll tell you just exactly what uh you know each direction of the uh of the um joystick's going to do or wha or what each function button's going to do. Um, this is actually a again slightly taking inspiration off of uh games controllers, you know the Playstation control where you have four basic function buttons", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "that are just marked with um distinctive uh geometrical shapes but the and then dependent on what you're doing with it what game and so on um those uh those functions are then sort of further specified. And so it's taking taking the lead from that. Um.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Okay. Yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "That's it.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Right. Um, if we could hear from our Industrial engineer, or Designer.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah. Uh, I was still working on stuff, I hadn't got it finished. Um, alright. Click to save in where do I have to save it?", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "If you look on the desktop you'll find that there's a link to the project folder, or project documents. If you save it in there we can open it up from here.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Um, what I've done with it, I'm sorry. Shit. Um.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Are you finding it okay or?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "I'm just closing it now. where I've saved it.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Well like if you go to one, uh whichever one you were working.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "that's it there,", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "yeah,", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "and you just click file save as.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Oh right..", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Uh, right I'm responsible for working design, uh, this is basically the inside going on of the the uh remote control. So we have the energy source, we have the user interface, this this is what I've seen. Uh the sender will push the button, the chip will respond, uh and then the dig digital signal is sent to the T_V_. So uh uh, if you go to next slide, you'll see you'll see uh what do we need on the user interface. Do we need uh many buttons, or do we need l many light bulbs that could be easier to uh to realise which appliances are on or not. Um,, or would that take too much power, would we need more um components in there to supply the power? Um, the joystick is another thing, if we were gonna add that, um, there'd be more components to deal with that.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Um, so uh we need to I dunno exactly what That's the design of the the the layout of the uh electronic design, um obviously there'll be more details once we've decided what we're putting on the user interface.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "So, that'll be decided, I guess. Uh, and the next slide. Oh, yeah Um, if you go to the next slide then.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Oh. Yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "I just used the it was a mess, uh I was just putting adding it together at the end there. Uh.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Ah, don't worry about it at all mate..", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Uh so you have the energy source obviously connected to the chip, and the user interface obviously contains everything. You have the switch turn it on, infrared bulb, uh will contact the T_V_ and will have whatever device or D_V_D_ player, the bulb will turn on to say it's on. Uh, so do we need on the control uh different buttons to decide, or different light bulbs, would it be easier? Um, I dunno what we should decide on that.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Okay. Well. Oh sorry, I'm I'm interrupting you. Are you is it.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "No, it's finished, yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "yeah? Okay. Right. Um, right we can probably skip that for now. So, we've had some stuff put forward, um along with the new user requirements, um we've had a lot of kind of input I'd say so far. Um I hear what the Marketing Expert's saying about um voice activated control. However I've got a couple of worries about that. The power required, um and the ability to the cost, it seems like for uh an embedded system, this could cause us issues.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Cost. Mm.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Um for example you see that there's fairly robust services on uh computers via uh via voice, I_B_M_ do um drag and dictate, but these require a lot of memory", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "and usually um state quite advanced processor requirements. Um voice activation could be an interesting idea but I think that our Ind Industrial Designer would probably upon some research say that it's maybe not feasible.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "'Kay.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Um that's just my view right now,", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm..", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "however the idea of a joystick and then maybe an L_C_D_ which has been kind of put forward so far, it's almost like having a small T_ not T_V_ to say, but if you can control almost all of the functionality from the display, I don't know how much power an L_C_D_ would take, but it might be quite low?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm. I uh.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "L_C_D_ on the remote just telling you what's on, or uh, interactive L_C_D_ or.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Well literally um if you can imagine the display maybe slightly larger than um those on a a mobile phone,", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "something where you can read an an um fair amount of information, traverse maybe quite a few menus, if we maybe used mobile phones as a good example, they usually incorporate they have the keypad, and then evr all the other functionality is usually associated inside by traversing around.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "That could be one possibility. Um and then we could have like say the common buttons as you say, volume control, changing channels.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm. I I was thinking that the remote the um sort of default functions for the joystick would be up and down for uh volume, left and right for channels.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "We.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Do you think that people will get mixed up, like, they'll be looking at this screen and that screen and then, you know, trying to get everything working, would it be a bit confusing?", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Um I think probably for the first couple of hours of using it", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "um but you know muscle memory's a wonderful thing, um. And I think and I think that size of uh display was about what I had in mind.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Um though I mean I w I would say that uh we could probably probably be required to um mo most of the mobile phone displays you see these days are colour but we should probably try to stick to black and white.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "I would agree with you.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Si si simply to keep m keep the unit cost down. Um I mean colour could be a sort of subsequent development but uh you know cost a bit of extra money f w w w w w once everyone's got the first, you know, oh colour's out, we'll have to replace it won't we.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm..", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "It does nothing extra.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "That would be my feeling as well, I think we could possibly create quite a useful user interface. Um now I mean I don't.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Sure but the idea of a remote with a menu or and a joystick I think like I h if I was in the habit of buying remote controls then I would want one,", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "sorry, go for it.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "but I think we don't have a specific audience, you know, like what is our target audience, what niche are niche are we trying to market and corner. You know, you know what I'm saying, like, for whom is this intended? Everybody?", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "I think it could probably be aimed at most people who've used a mobile. And that might be just another way of saying try to target most people.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Most people, yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Um, if we are if we were to follow that avenue, we might be s you know um we're kind of almost relying on their experience with a mobile phone I suppose. But that does cover a very large section of the people out there.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm. Sure. I think that's fair yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Um, I mean I imagine as well that the actual L_C_D_ and maybe to a certain extent the joystick as well would be for the additional functionality. Which maybe doesn't get used as often, maybe it makes it easy for them to figure out how to um change the channels as in the frequencies and such for reprogramming it.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Um and you can still have the main buttons that allow the people to turn the machine on and off, d up and down, it depends, I mean maybe we have the fol um the joystick as a separate one for the other functions then, that there's just a a small number of as you were saying uh buttons that have already been defined.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "So like we go for the nice standard um up and down for and volume control. So that literally anybody can come along, pick up the remote and still know what do do. And they can completely ignore most of the functionality which would be for say the o actual owner of the the T_V_", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "and who would normally use the unit.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm. I th the thing I like about the uh the uh joystick", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "I dunno.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "is that uh you you you then basically you can then basically put it I mean for for T_ T_ for T_V_ remote alone, you could put um I mean there are like I say the the the main things people do with a T_V_ remote control is the volume and the channel. You can pack all that onto was onto a single control. Um.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "But uh but the but then o uh obviously if uh you know if you i if you wanted to access further functions i you you then get to sort of menu navigation. I mean with things like ch with things like tuning and channels um you know adjusting brightn uh brightness and fiddly things that no one really bothers with, most T_V_s these days actually have menus anyway so this would be a fairly rational way of integra.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "integrating the uh the remote with the device it's controlling. Um concern about our market. Um, if we are I mean most of the uh of the replacement remote market is sort of remote control rationalisation. Um, you've got twenty different devices in your living room,", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah. Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "you want one wo y you want one that'll do the job of all of them. Um, if all you're replacing is one of the you know however many remotes you have in your living room, um you know you still need separate remotes for everything else.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "I just think that uh possibly.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Well this is a requirement that we have to stick to I'm afraid,", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "mm.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "this isn't one that I've just arbitrarily decided on.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "So um this is this is one of the solid ones that has to be obeyed, for now.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "So I can understand your point, and I would agree with you, but this is our design spec for now.'Fraid to say. Um.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Does that um would that include um access to say interactive functions on digital or cable?", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "I would say so, yes, because then we have to be able to control the remote boxes, and that is a separate unit. Um I think that it I would say that the design spec we've been with is for the television only for now.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "And until we hear otherwise we should go with just that.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Hmm. Okay, specifically television.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Okay. Maybe we'll hear differently, but for now.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "So the joystick is just for differentness.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "It would be ease of manipulation of certain functions, yes. Um.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Just a thought. Um maybe then our market should be T_V_ manufacturers, rather than the public. Try and sell it t sell it to them to supply with um.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "There is that possibility, yes. B However I don't know exactly where we'll be going with that, but it might not even be the avenue of the Marketing Expert,", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm..", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "that might be sales, who are not in this meeting.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm. It's just, the way I figure it, twelve point five Euros per unit, we have to sell at least like three million or something like that,", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "not to account for all the the money we waste on remotes that no one buys, you know, like if we made a perf if we made a ks for every remote we made someone bought it, then we have to sell a lot of remote controls.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "We just Is this gonna be enough to to sell?", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Well, something else that you brought up was uh the ability to lose a remote, which as you said you've done, in fact we've probably all done.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Um, I don't know if it's a gimmick or not, but have any of you ever seen those odd little key rings where if you whistle, it will beep and you tell you where it is.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm, yeah, I've seen them.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "I had one of those, and my brother, and my dad, could have beat me up", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Um. Well", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "because it it went off all the time accidentally.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "the other option of course is that um the", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "The clapping one..", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "well I was going to say clapping, um Um digital telephones, uh for example, one unit has of course you have to have that base unit, somewhere where there's a button, but maybe it's a button that you attach to the T_V_.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "To a television..", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Something which you when you press that, it would beep to give its location away, on the remote unit.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah, I think that's a good idea.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "And that could be something could um separate us a bit.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah, that's a good idea.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "And that way, because we're attaching what would be a small button to the T_V_, again say what, it would be a small transmitter, um watch battery type scenario I would say, or something that if it was problems enough you could actually even just um I don't power that might be something that we could look into.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yep. Yeah, it's uh putting a lot on your shoulders there, so I mean that could be something that separates us a bit from the market as well.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "I think so, yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "So. To go on from here. Um we have to decide exactly what we're going to do with the remote. Before we leave this meeting, it would be best to say this is what we're going this is the design we're gonna try and get, this is how we're gonna make ourselves look unique.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Do we go for maybe a remote contro uh sorry, we're gonna go for a remote control obviously, do we go for a small joystick that would operate say changing channels, up and down, and then, what, another button that would say that it's now being used to manoeuvre round the L_C_D_.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm yeah. Yeah, I think that's.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "We're just saying volume. Should volume be important in the joystick, do you think?", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "We could use say the left and right for changing channels and the up and down for volume,", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "For volume.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "and.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "But we have a frequency of how what people use a remote control for most.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yep.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Um, power is used like once per hour,", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "I", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "channel selection is used a hundred and sixty eight per hour,", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "that's by far the biggest one, and then teletext, is still here, that's like fourteen,", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Vol Volume selection okay, yep,", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "and volume selection.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "the teletext we're gambling with, and we're gonna say it's dead, the way of the dodo.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "No, yeah, okay okay. Yeah, um.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "So we well, sorry, we could maybe even go as far as saying power button, small joystick, L_C_D_, and then what maybe is it one more button to say that you're using the menu system, and with the possibility of pushing down on the joystick to say okay? So we're having very very few buttons involved,", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Actually how.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "but navigation around a menu for most things.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Actually I would say maybe two two function buttons, the y we're now using the menus button and um and an og and an okay button. I mean certainly something I've found with the joystick on mo the joysticks on mobile phones is that a lot of the time th the device mistakes you trying to move it in one direction or the other for pushing down for okay.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Or vice versa.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "And that's really irritating.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "The o the o the other dis design constraint I think we should bear in mind is that people are you know very much used to using a remote control one handedly, um, so we need to make sure that e even with the joystick, you know something that can just sit comfortably in the palm of the hand and have the joystick just controlled by the thumb.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Okay. So um we're actually that sounds like a rough idea. Do we incorporate the idea of trying to f locate the remote control again via a beeping noise?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah, think so.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Do you mind looking?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Um, I think because it's so small it might be an uh I mean if we only have like two three buttons it might be essential to have to have that.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "The ability to locate it again.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "So that would require a um transmitter maybe attached to the T_V_, just so that it says find me, and what, a basically a small microphone um on the actual unit, can maybe hide it in the base.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Light bulb as well,", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Oh. So so", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "no?", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Sorry?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "a small speaker you mean.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Some speaker,", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Speaker.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "sorry, yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "And a light bulb? No. To flash. No.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Um.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Nah, you'd see it anyway, if you hear it.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "E us we might be better with the sound possibly we could maybe incorporate", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "W those little key-rings have both,", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "th e the true fact, considering the cost of an L_E_D_, we could just incorporate it anyway.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "so Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "The L_E_D_s can be surprisingly bright now.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah. Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm. Blue ones particularly.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Um. So", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Plus that's a nice wee design touch.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "by the sounds of it, with what we're suggesting so far, your design um the user interface is still quite open, you could go for quite an interesting design.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Because we're only going to have a very few key and you've got you know a small L_C_D_, joystick, e I think it leaves you open to a a potential wide range of shapes, something that can make it stand out slightly.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Um if you could look into what we've suggested so far, the feasibility of um small transmitter, um and such, maybe if an L_C_D_ screen requires too much power, or such. Ebenezer, um, Marketing Expert.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Well I can give you the frequency, what people what options people use most often, I guess that's gonna be important in the ts defining the the software side of the interface, right.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "If,", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "You want the stuff.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "yeah if you could maybe as well see what people think about the idea of this minimalist approach that we've taken, where of a joystick to control the very basic functions, and then the idea of manipulating it like you would a mobile.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "I don't know how easy that will be within the time frame,", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "but could be something we could maybe look into.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm. Sure. Sure.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Okay. Um any last comments that anybody would like to put forward? Anything that they think has been missed out. Bit of a wide open question there of course.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Feel free to email me if you think that uh we've screwed something up and wanna get it rectified as soon as possible.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Sure.'Kay. Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "So I should just look at um the speaker, the speaker and an L_E_D_.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Speaker and L_E_D_ for locating, um,", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "And.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Transmitter.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah, and a transmitter.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "transmitter.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Actually one one wee thought about that. Um, if we do end up trying to market this to television manufacturers then the um then the transmitter could actually be built into the television.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "getting the external power source, yep, that's quite true. Um, and something that we can can easily be adopted at the last minute as well I'd say.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "The electronics could be s either placed externally or internally, makes no difference to the final product of the actual remote control,", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "so that's good.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm. You know I think", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "'Kay.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "I mean if it w if we get a major television manufacturer to say y oh yeah we'll have that, save us the bother, then that's you know vast amounts of sales. Quite quickly.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "P", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Oh, one thing that we've almost not talked about at all, my apologies for that, um, user interface, we also need to maybe get the slogan in here, um it's,", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Fashion.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "I'm pointing at my laptop, what in God Real reaction, and such. So um.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "The slogan is.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Oh, sorry.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "yeah, the slogan's we put the fashion in electronics, isn't it?", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "My apologies. No it could well be, I've probably missed that. Um, I think that's l almost the last minute thing", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "'S also look cool.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "we can just incorporate into the actual plastic on top.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "So I'm not too concerned a that we haven't gone into depth about that. But it might be something you could consider when you're thinking about shapes?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "In fact we might like to put a slogan on, and um possibly the two R_s to signify the company. Rather than real reaction.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm. Mm. Yeah. I thought the uh the d the double arc could perhaps uh be the uh the enter button.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Sounds good.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": ".", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "And I'd say that that's us for now. Okay.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" } ] }

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

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{ "meetingId": "ES2014b", "transcriptSegments": [ { "text": "Right uh. So um. So where's the PowerPoint presentation? Sorry? Microsoft PowerPoint, right. Right, okay. So. Right. Okay, so we've got uh so we've got new project requirements. Um. So basically we've got three things, and we've got forty minutes in which to uh for this meeting to uh to discuss the various options. Um. Three presentations.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "We have a I guess we have a presentation each,'cause I've got one. Um.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah,", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "I see, right.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "I've got one too.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "That's nice to know, one from each of you. Um new project requirements. Um so do we want to do the presentation first, or do we want to um W I I got um or or three things basically, um relating to the remote being only for T_V_. We discussed that last time", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "and in actual fact that was pr pretty well what we came up with anyway.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "So in fact it actually f we won't be forestalled in a sense.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Um we've got uh teletext outdated. Um did you get any information on that?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Uh we didn't, no.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "No.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Right and the corporate image was the uh final thing.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "I d I didn't personally.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Hmm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "So I I got that in email form.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Um. Right okay. So I guess if we go ahead with the uh with the three presentations. So we'll start with yourself on the basis that uh.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Okay that's fine. I'll just um I'll grab the wire out the back of this one.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Sorry, yep.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Oh..", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "What is it?", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "I'm not quite sure how it.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "I think you've got to do um control F_ eight.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Control Doesn't seem to be quite working at the moment.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Shift F_ eight..", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Alt function F_ eight. Again not doing anything.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "There's usually a little thing in the top right for the.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Oh.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Ah there,", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Oh hang on,", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "it's doing something.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "it's just coming on.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "pressed about five times now.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Okay, that's me. Okay, um I have to go again.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "it going?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Hopefully that should be it this time. Okay, I think we're there. That's good. Okay, um Okay I'm gonna be looking at the working design. Um of the of the remote control. Um I've just got three sections, first is the research I made on the on the remote control itself um. And then that involves the components required in it and the systems uh design of the actual the actual remote. Um so having researched the existing models within the market, um I found my research off the internet. Um I've established what the components required for the remote control to function, actually are. And then also the methods in which these components interact together for the remote to actually do what you want it to do and how it connects with the television. Um the basic components are an energy source which I guess um in most existing models would be a battery supply. Whether that'll be sort of two batteries, four batteries, um it may vary.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "We then have the user interface, which is basically the like the the buttons on the actual remote. Um the various functions used for changing channel, uh channel up and down, volume, things like that. Um there's also a chip inside the remote which does all the computer type things. And then the sender, which um is usually, I've found, an infra-red device which sends a signal to the actual television. Um and the last part is receiver which is important in the system but is not actually part of the remote itself, because that's obviously found in the television.. Um I'm gonna have to actually draw on the board because uh it was a little tricky on PowerPoint to get this working, so. I'll just go through there. S um um do we have a cloth to wipe this down with, or? Oh I'll j", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Uh there's the rubber on the right, I think.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "I think it's that little.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Oh I see. Oh okay. I'll get rid of the bear.$", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "it's magic..", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Okay that's great. Okay, so we start off with a um battery suppl Uh no, a power supply which we'd probably get it's probably gonna be the battery. Um we then have a particular button, which may be that's obviously there's lots and lots of different buttons. Um but this is how the basic system works. Um that sends after you press that that sends the message to the chip, which um then sends It sort of interprets which button you've pressed and then sends the appropriate message to the sender. Um. So that's. That's the remote in itself, that's the components of the remote and how they work together. So this is the uh user interface. Um this is the chip itself, which then, and that's the that's the infra-red sender. And then on the separate thing we have on the on the television we have a a receiver. And the sender sends a message to the receiver.'Kay.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "So the the top bit's the power source, yes?.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Ah yes, that's the power source. Um. going on to personal preferences, I've said that battery seems the best option for the actual remote, just because of the size. You don't want a a cable attached to the remote otherwise it's not it's not really a remote. Um and then the sender,", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "and infra-red um has been used quite successfully. If the battery's on reasonable power, they always seem to work fairly well. You don't have to be point directly at the television itself.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "So the battery is the in the sender.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Um Yes.'Kay and that's it for the moment.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Okay. So, now more design..", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Right. Thank you. Mine's not quite as complicated as all that.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "That's what we like to hear..", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Did I press function? Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Is it control function ei Oh, th there you go.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Oh. Um. Okay so I'm gonna talk a bit about the technical functions design. I'm Louisa, the User Interface Designer, as you know. Um so the m basic method of this is to send a signal from the remote to the television set, so that a desired function is performed. Um an example of the function could be to change the volume up or down, uh so obviously you need two different buttons for that. Um to change the channel, either by pressing the number that you want or by channel up or down. Um to switch the television on or off, maybe a standby button. Um here are two example remotes. Um by the look of it they both have um kind of play and fast forward, rewind functions, so I think they incorporate a kind of video function which we won't have to worry about. Uh but as you can see, the left remote is quite um quite busy looking, quite complicated. Um whereas the right remote is much simpler, it looks much more user friendly. Um so my personal preference would be the right remote. So, it's got nice big buttons, it's got a very limited number of buttons. Um they're nice, kinda clearly labelled. Um I like the use of the kind of um symbols like the triangles and the squares and the arrows as well as the words on the um kind of play functions and all that. So it's very very user friendly, and it's got a little splash of colour. Could maybe do with some more colour. Um.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Well there's a couple of things there. Um we have to remember that we have our own um logo and colour scheme. So basically we'd have to uh we'd have to be putting that on um the the product.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Hmm. Do we get to see that?", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "I haven't as yet, no.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Will you be presenting that in a bit?.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "But uh I got uh I got an email that basically said to uh make sure that uh whatever device we come up with at the end of the day had to incorporate um the corporate colour and slogan. So uh I'm guessing that uh uh I notice on the bottom there it's got uh what's that? A_P_O_G_E_E_ that might be the corporate colour scheme, although the only the only colour I can see in that is the red.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Hmm.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Would you be able to get rid of the the extra buttons here, the the sort of circular section, because that seems to be for a video as well. So we could dispense with that little bit as well and just get it down to just the numbers and the volume. Possibly?", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "What do you mean by the circular section?", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "J yeah yeah yeah j yeah", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Like all of that bottom bit?", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "just this little bit is that I think that's still um a video remote part,", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "so maybe we could get rid of that as well.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah. And I don't really think that you need nine numbers.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Well b uh w", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "I mean how often do you use seven, eight and nine? I think just one to six and then channel up and down should be enough.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Well th the on the.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Like how often do you hit nine?", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Well uh for for general television purposes obviously you have channels one to five at this point in time,", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "and we'd have to have some room for uh future such channels. But but.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "It's just people are used to seeing that, so if we didn't have them then they might think it's.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "But, well possibly but the the other thing is that with um the current expansion of uh channels uh in the process of taking place, certainly the button up and down, but uh I mean how many channels do we have to um actual television channels do we have to uh prepare for? I would have thought that uh it's forever expanding and at the moment we've got although you've onl you've got the five standard, you've got the B_B_C_ have come up with a further six", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "and uh there's uh I don't know exactly how many channels there are on uh when you take into account uh Sky and various other um various others.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Hmm.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "So I would've thought that we wouldn't, you know, rather.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Hmm.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Okay, if the time of flicking from one to other, but presumably it'll take a second", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "'cause you have to be able to stop it. Maybe you could have a fast forward on the on the channels that w and then you could dispense with more otherwise. Y you'd want you'd want to get fairly quickly to the channel that you wanted.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Um some remotes have kind of favourite options where if you always flick from channel one to channel six, um if that's a favourite you just like by-pass two to five.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah, I s I suppose in a sense you could have um if you've got a hundred channels then if you had sort of an easy way of getting rather than having to go one to a hundred, you could go one to one to ten, ten to twenty", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Hmm.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "and then have a second button to get you to the actual channel you want", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "and that would cut down your time.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm. Um.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Anyway.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "But I think a lot of um like Cable and Sky and stuff, that would be tuned to one channel, and then you'd have another remote for all of those channels.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Okay, yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Like to get to fifty five and the higher numbers.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Whatever.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Okay. Okay. Limit the number of buttons, user friendly.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "But I suppose nine's not really excessive.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "I suppose with nine you've got the the like the last one which makes the tenth means you uh it's like uh multiples you can put them together so you can make any number.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "I suppose it does make a good pattern.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "So with that we'd kind of by-pass any problems with.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah Well that's true, yeah,", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "you could get fifty by five and a zero or whatever, that that makes sense.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.'Cause that facilitates having all the numbers you could ever need.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Um.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Does.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "So w so what was the circular thing that you were.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Okay. Um I think that's just for a video, so we wouldn't need any of that at all.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "So we could get it down to what?", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "If it's just for T_V_, which is what it is at the moment.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "So we get to How many buttons have we got? We've just got ten, eleven twelve th We got fourteen that we need. I guess.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Um which isn't really too many. That'll be quite easy to make a user guide for a fourteen button remote.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm. Well we've we've got um that it's remote for T_V_ only otherwise project would become too complex with uh which would endanger the time to market was one of the considerations.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "'Kay.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "I'm I don't know d did you have that information behind the marketing,", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "or was I meant to give you that information?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Um I'm not sure. I had I've had some market information,", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "but not from the company, no.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Right, okay, so basically time to market seems to be important, therefore speed of delivery.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "'Kay.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "We've only got about another four hours left..", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Okay, so is everyone happy with that?", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Ah yes yes, that seems good.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Right well that's the end of my presentation.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "'Kay. I'm gonna pull this off..", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "I think if you just give it a second to maybe catch up.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah, I think she said twenty seconds to um.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Uh-huh.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "I'm sure we'll have by the end of today.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Okay. I'll give it another go. Yeah, there we go..", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Right, we've done some research into the functional requirements that people want out of their remote control. And first off we should state that th the remote control's for controlling the T_V_ and um how do people use it? We asked them sort of which buttons were useful for them. Um how d how does a remote control look and feel for them, and what improvements would would they like to remote control. And we did that by sort of giving them a questionnaire that we'd prepared and asking them to fill in the answers. And three quarters of them found that remote controls are ugly and that a sort of even higher proportion would spend more for a sort of s uh a fancier remote control And that of all the buttons on the remote control, the sort of setting buttons for sort of the picture picture and brightness and the audio settings, um they weren't used very often at all. People concentrated on the channel buttons and the volume buttons and the power buttons. Uh we also asked them about speech recognition uh for remote control. And young people were quite receptive to this, but as soon as we got sort of over about into a thirty five to forty age forty five age group and older, people people weren't quite so keen on speech recognition. There's a lot more th there's a lot lot more older people who didn't know whether they wanted it or not as well. Um we also asked what frustrated people about remote controls and the number one frustration was that the remote was lost somewhere else in the room and that they couldn't find it. And the second second biggest frustration what that if they got a new remote control, it was difficult to learn um all the buttons and all the functions, and to find your way around it. Okay, so My personal preferences from the marketing is that we need to come up with some sort of sleek sort of good looking high high-tech A design which looks high-tech, basically. Um and that we should come up with fewer buttons than most of the controls on the market, and we should sort of concentrate on the channels and sort of power, and also volume and that sort of thing, as as Louisa said. Um we could maybe come up with a menu, a sort of a an L_C_D_ menu for other functions on the remote control. That's worth thinking about. Um and maybe we could think about speech recognition as well, because um sort of young people are perhaps the ones that are gonna buy buy our new product if we aim it at sort of you know sort of a high-tech design. That that might be the market that we're we're looking for. And we could maybe think about using speech recogniti recognition as a way to find the remote control if it's lost in a room, rather than sort of um having it to speech recognition to change the channels.'Cause there's a problem with that in that the television makes noise, so it could end up talking to itself and changing its channel.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Okay um, and that's the end of the slide show. That's it. Cool.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "What was that last wee bit there?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Do a lot of um.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Um about speech recognition?", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Speech recognition,", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "But that was only for young people that preferred it, older people didn't.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Youn young people pref Yeah, they s they said that they'd be interested in a remote control which offered that possibility and as you go up through the age groups, people got less and less interested in sort of a a remote control that you could talk to, so.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "No what I maybe think is um it seems the technology would be quite advanced for that and they might end up costing more than our twelve fifty budget for for the speech recognition. Um.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Well that's right.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "And possibly the thing about the about the remote being lost we could have You know with your mobile phone, you lose that and you can ring it. Maybe we can have some kind of sensor which is kept somewhere where you can some kind of buzzer system between the two. So you can press a button which is always kept in one place", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "and then it maybe buzzes to somewhere else, wherever the remote actually is.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Uh-huh. Yeah. Yeah, we'd have t that would mean we'd have to put two products together as well,", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "That is true, yes.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "which which again would probably be a bit expensive, but.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Hmm.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "There's key rings um that you kind of whistle at or clap at, I can't remember, and then they whistle back, or something like that.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Sounds reasonable.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "That'd probably be really simple,", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "they're cheap.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah. So.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "So I guess it'd be something we could like attach to the or like the same technology could be put inside the inside the remote.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Well if you're trying to avoid having a second product'cause obviously you could have a second product that gave you the right pitch which would set the remote off to say here I am sort of thing, you know without sound recognition. But if you I know. Um I was gonna say a sharp noise, you know a clapping of hand or whatever. You'd want to try and av just have the one product that if.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah. Yeah if we if we could have it in the actual remote like everything in one one device.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm. Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah. Um I dunno um talking about vo I mean obviously if you've got voice recognition then you can do it in that way because it'll recognise the voice and you can give it a command, a set command whatever that happened to be.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "But you've then got the point if if you're not going with uh voice recognition then.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "you could have an option to turn it off. Or.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Perhaps, um.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "So that would solve the problems with the T_V_ kind of speaking to the remote and changing its own channels.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "So uh Any sugges Well, any conclusions?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Um would it take quite a while to sort of develop the speech recognition software in the remote control?", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Well if it does then we can't.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Considering.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "It's that simple,", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "because we've got uh th th three um primary um uh requisites from uh from and email uh that was sent to me whereby we had The design logo was one, which we've already mentioned. We've got um the remote was only for the television and not for because that would make it too complex and we have to get it market quickly.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "And the uh third thing was that um teletext uh as far as uh the management is concerned, um is becoming dated uh due to the popularity of the internet. So that means that uh.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "'Kay.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "so these are the sort of three um extra parameters that have been put on this uh project.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "So we're being focused effectively directly at a television and it seems to me that the management is uh wanting us to go down a narrow path and not opening out.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yes.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "So anything that uh is to be added, such as voice recognition et cetera has to be very simple and has to be very quick", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Has to be simple enough to.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "because time to market is is critical. S", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "I suppose if we could get something in which was quite quick and simple that would give us an advantage over the other remotes. Um.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "It would. But probably quick and simple is primary rather than added extras.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "'Kay.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Added extras would be nice, but the primary consideration is to get the project finished within uh this short time window, which effectively now is sort of four hours.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "So and if and we've gotta get to the end. Uh d d I think I think first and foremost we've gotta get to the end and then get to the end with um added extras if possible.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "So.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Right okay, uh so I need to Right. So I don't know how long we have left of our uh time. But we have to make the decisions on uh the remote control functions", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "About five minutes.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "and how we were planning to proceed so that at the next uh meeting each person that's got a a a task to do is clear from this meeting what that task is.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yes.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "We'll also know w when the next meeting is", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Um..", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "I um so we'll know how long we've got to complete that task. And then we can report back at the next meeting and say right okay yes, we've achieved this or we haven't achieved this, this is how far we've progressed. Does that make reasonable sense?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yes that seems right.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Okay, yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "So we have to come effectively to the decision on the remote functions so that you can decide what you're gonna be doing. And if dur between the time of this meeting finishing and the next meeting starting, if you get any additional information that uh only you have at that point in time you'd think would be relevant to other people in terms of their des decision making um process, then we should communicate that as quickly as possible and not wait until the next meeting.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Do it via the email", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Okay. Yep.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "so that rather than coming you know If you get the information just before the next meeting that's fine. Come along with it in the next meeting, we can discuss it then and take whatever action is appropriate.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "But if you get it well before the next meeting, let everybody else know'cause that might have an impact on their uh on what they come up with effectively at the next meeting.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Right, is there.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "So do we need to decide on the functions now? S", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "I would guess so.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Well I think it'd be really easy and it'd be a big advantage if we did have some sort of um kind of whistle back kind of function.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "'Cause that'll solve kind of the frustration of losing it.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah and Yeah and that was that was the number one sort of frustration that people said, so.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yep.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "I don't think there's anything else on the market that does that, so.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah. I don't really know about the voice recognition thing.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "I w well uh i", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Maybe we should concentrate just on the whistle back function at the moment,", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Something simple. Uh if if our primary consideration is to get it there in time, time's short,", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "and if something comes back.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "you want something to meet the major concerns of the consumer so that we can have that as a selling point for the product,", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "something that's quick and simple. So,", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "sounds good.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "And that wouldn't put off the kind of older generation either,'cause everyone can whistle or clap, and they wouldn't have to be kind of scared of this new technology.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Well, so maybe a clap rather than a whistle would be.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "On the basis that if we've got if we're catering to the whole age range, you want something that's easy to do,", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "now something that doesn't like whis uh", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "No not everyone can whistle, can they, though?.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Well I I I don't know. Well If you think that more people can whistle than clap then that's fine, then go for that option,", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "but if I would have thought that more people could clap rather than whistle,", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "No,", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "I'd go more.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "clapping, I think clapping,", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah, f more for clap.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "yeah. Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "so uh so clap option.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "'Kay we've already decided that we don't need a teletext button, haven't we?", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Uh. Ef effectively that's what the that's what they're saying,", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Is that one of the.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "that uh if uh if people are now using the internet then you don't need teletext,", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Hmm.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "so so take out teletext.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Taking out teletext, okay.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Did we decide on having the ten um the ten numbers", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "and then the the little digit next to it which kind of enabled you to put them together.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah, I think so, so zero to nine.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Mm. I think nowadays you can just get ones where it gives you a sort of a second or two to press another number,", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "so you can press any two and it'll sort of put them together.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Okay, ten numbers", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "and then some kind of device to allow uh.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "I'll put delay to allow um multiple numbers.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Or multiple digits.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Did we decide anything about um the other functions? As in setting the audio and tuning it and stuff like that? You had an had an idea about the menu?", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Uh we could possibly put an L_ a sort of a L_C_D_ menu in, but that again is probably an expense that.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "But just thinking um people probably I mean you don't have you only have to probably tune in the T_V_ once, but you have to be able to tune it that once.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "So and if finally the T_V_ breaks, you get a new one, you're gonna have to be able to tune it. You can't really avoid that.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "No.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Except the new digital markets which do it by themselves.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Hmm.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "But the but that's relying on the television market changing to an automatic", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "So that'll be in.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yes.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "and if it is at the moment, that's fine. But at the moment it's not, so it seems to me that you have to have a device that caters,'cause otherwise it would make it uh your device would become inoperable, or only operable in certain circumstances", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah. Yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "and the idea is to have an international market", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "which is.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "And it's also m it's the the product we've got is something that's at the I would have said the lower end of the s of the cost scale, so we're not really going for something that's uh terribly high-tech.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah. I s I suppose um if people are buying remotes, then they're probably buying it to replace another remote", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Possibly.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "'cause all most tellies come with remotes, so.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "That's right.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "I mean we're maybe talking about replacing remotes for slightly older televisions, so we maybe need to keep the the tuning function in..", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah. So how would this menu function work?", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Would you maybe have like one menu button, then you'd use the other buttons, maybe the number buttons to actually do the separate functions.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah,", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah,", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "like the volume or something.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "that would be a good idea, yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah,'cause you do need um kind of brightness and contrast and everything as well. My dad was watching a film the other week", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "and it was too dark, so I had to go through it and turn the brightness up.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "we're gonna have the the individual numbers", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Hmm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "and then a menu function and maybe sort of a slightly more advanced um instruction booklet to come with it, to guide Presu uh I think it'd be quite hard just for people to grasp um just off like the menu use different buttons you maybe have to have like some better instructions of how that would actually work.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Uh I'm not sure whether the sort of having people have a booklet'cause one the second most annoying thing that people found was having to learn the new one.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Right, okay um.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "So maybe next to each of the buttons, you know each of them could have a number and then also a function written next to it, so you're basically pressing.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "that also goes back to the original design when we saw those two, and there was the one on the left hand side which had all like the double functions and stuff which kind of looked too busy and had too much on it, so.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Okay, well.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Well, if we're trying to keep it slee sleek and sexy as well, have you seen those remotes where kind of um the bottom bit slides down, so there's kind of um everything else revealed?", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "So y Ah That's a very good idea.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "So you don't use it that much, you don't have to see it all the time. But it's all there if you need it.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "That is that is a good idea actually.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah, yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Sor sort of a second.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "So you keep um.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Like a hidden panel.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Right we've got five minutes before we wind up this meeting, so I've been told. I don't know if you've got the same.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Okay. Uh not quite, but I guess.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Okay. So so keep um keep detailed functions um hidden at the back.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Keep the other buttons but hide them away.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Hmm. And that'll be better for the older generation as well'cause, well my dad doesn't like anything that you've got to kinda flick through a menu,", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Ah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "but he can pretty much read a button if it's displayed properly.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "So.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "So um we're gonna have to have to work out what's gonna be on these other functions as as well. So we're gonna have like two separate two separate lists, I guess.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "That's right.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "data functions hidden at back. Can bring out when needed.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "So th the The detailed ones would be sort of brightness,", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "uh sorta.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "That's right so we're dis So you've got which ones are gonna be on the front and which ones are gonna be on the back. We have to decide.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "So sh Should we decide in the next couple of minutes, and then.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "I guess so.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "So on the.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "So on front,", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "about the number.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "numbers,", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Um the volume up and down.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "And the volume?", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "volume.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Shall we have a mute button as well?", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Um.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Sorry?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "A mute button as well.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah. Or.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah I think they're handy.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm. And probably a power one as well. Dunno.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "I know it's probably like um not an issue to raise here, but um the whole thing about not using your standby uh because of the like waste of electricity. Have you seen the adverts? Like if you boil the kettle that's full that's a waste.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "If you leave your telly on standby it powers Blackpool for a certain amount of time.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah..", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Like we should maybe try to discourage people from standby.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "But then they might not buy it if they haven't got one.'Cause people might just be too fickle and not want to change.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah, it's maybe too much of a big issue for here.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "So so are you having the stand-by on the front, then?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah..", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "We can send out a flier with the device saying that you shouldn't leave it on stand-by.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Uh-oh danger sign.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "I think you probably should.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah, but a little bit smaller.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Compromise.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Well.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Um are we gonna have the channel up and down as well as the number buttons?", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Um'cause yeah the market research said there is quite a lot of people do just zap around and flick, so.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Okay, so we'll have um.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "So we've got ten eleven twelve thirteen fourteen fifteen sixteen there?", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Channel up and down.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Um.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "What else have we got? What was that, sixteen?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Numbers is ten, volume is twelve,", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Volume button. How many volumes?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "th Yeah si One up, one down.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Right okay.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "On mute.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "And a mute, yeah. That's sixteen isn't it, yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Is there anything else? Um.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "I don't think so, no.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Power button, stand-by, channel, up and down. So is that it?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "so.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Okay. That's sixteen buttons, you reckon. And then at the back?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "You've got brightness and contrast.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Maybe if we're gonna run out of time, one of us should come up with a list of these and then get back at the next meeting just at the start and say what they're gonna be.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "And then.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Okay. So on the back it'll have brightness, contrast,", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "anything else? You're also gonna have the channel tuner, as it were.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Uh there's audio functions.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "So tuner up and down, I guess.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Tuner, would that have up and down?.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Um up Tune one way, tune the o", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "I think they normally do.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "okay. Okay.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "I I dunno I dunno possibly.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "And then maybe sort of an enter button for sort of s you know, saying that you want that particular thing tuned in. So you go up and down and then it pick it finds something and then you wanna press enter to select it, yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Oh yeah and th and a enter button just to select. Yeah, okay. Um I guess we're keeping s it simple. We don't really need any other audio funct uh functions because it's just volume up, volume down.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Um up volume, yeah, I would have thought so.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Um.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "So I think um there's quite a lot of like Dolby surround studio, surround sort of things.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Do they have their own do they have their own controls on their actual products, then,", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Um maybe for the younger market.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "or do you have to do it via the remote?", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Um I think they've got their own controls in this kind of like hidden panel.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah I suppose if we've got their if they've got their own controls then we can avoid it for ours just to keep it simple.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah. Yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Oh no, I mean um like there's kind of individual buttons for them, like on the T_V_ remote.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Oh, okay. Right.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "But I don't really know what they're for,", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "I've never used them.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Um.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "I just know they're something to do with Dolby.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Maybe unless something comes up then we should I think.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Well you might get some research..", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Well shall we look into that and just get back together.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Right so I'll do the minutes of uh this meeting.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "And we'll meet back at I'm not sure. Um forty minutes, I believe is the time.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "'Kay.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Okay..", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Come on.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" } ] }

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{ "meetingId": "Bmr018", "transcriptSegments": [ { "text": "OK.", "speakerName": "Postdoc A" }, { "text": "How about channel", "speakerName": "Grad G" }, { "text": "Yeah, go ahead.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "We're recording.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "Alright.", "speakerName": "Grad G" }, { "text": "Alright, and no crash.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Hmm.", "speakerName": "Postdoc A" }, { "text": "I pre - crashed it.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Pre - crashed!", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "It never crashes on me.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "I think it's actually.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "What is what is that?", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "it depends on if the temp files are there or not, that at least that's my current working hypothesis,", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "Ah.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "that I think what happens is it tries to clear the temp files and if they're too big, it crashes.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "Ah.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "When the power went out the other day and I restarted it, it crashed the first time.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Oh, that's right.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "After the power out", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "So then there would be no temp files.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "OK. Hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Uh, no, it doesn't it doesn't clear those necessarily,", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "Oh wait It it doesn't clear them, OK.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "so.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "Hmm, no connection.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "It's i they're called temp files, but they're not actually in the temp directory they're in the scratch, so. They're not backed up, but they're not erased either on power failure.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "But that's usually the meeting that I recorded, and it neve it doesn't crash on me.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Well this wasn't Actually, this wasn't a before your meeting, this was, um, Tuesday afternoon when, um, uh, Robert just wanted to do a little recording,", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Oh well.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "Oh Oh, right.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "and the power had gone out earlier in the day.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "OK. Huh, OK.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "I don't know when would be a good excuse for it, but I just can't wait to be giving a talk t and and and use the example from last week with everybody t doing the digits at once.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "That was fun.", "speakerName": "Postdoc A" }, { "text": "I'd love to play somebody that.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "That was fun.", "speakerName": "Postdoc A" }, { "text": "It was quick.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "It was. It was really efficient.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Talk about a good noise shield. You know? You wanted to pe keep people from listening in, you could like have that playing outside the room. Nobody could listen in.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Well, I had this idea we could make our whole meeting faster that way.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Yeah. Everybody give the reports about what they were doing at exactly the same time,", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "And we'll just all leave,", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "And then we'll we'll go back later and review the individual channels,", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "and.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Yep, and then everyone can listen to it later.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "right?", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Yes. Absolutely.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "If you wanna know what.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Actually isn't that what we have been doing?", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "It's what it sounds like.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "Practically, huh. With all the overlaps.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Postdoc A" }, { "text": "What are we doing?", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "I Since I've been gone all week, I didn't send out a reminder for an agenda, so.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "Yeah, and I'm just.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Do we have anything to talk about or should we just read digits and go?", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "I wouldn't mind hearing how the conference was.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "What conference?", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Uh, I had one question about.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Yeah, really. It's all a blur.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "Aren't the UW folks coming this weekend?", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Yep.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "No. The next,", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "Next weekend?", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Next weekend, week from.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "right?", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "That is right. The next weekend.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Sorry, not not not the days coming up, but.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "It's like the.", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "A week from Saturday.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "Yeah,", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "That's when they're coming.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "within ten days.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "That's correct.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "So, are we do we have like an agenda or anything that we should be.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "No, but that would be a good idea.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "OK.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Why don't we w", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "So so the deal is that I can, um, uh, I can be available after, uh, like ten thirty or something. I don't know how s how early you wanted to.", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "They're not even gonna be here until eleven or so.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "That's good.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "Oh, OK. So.", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "Cuz they're flying up that day.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Wait, this is on on Sunday?", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Saturday.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Or Saturday?", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Saturday.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Saturday.", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "S Saturday.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "OK.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Well, y", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "Eurospeech is due on Friday and then I'm going down to San uh, San Jose Friday night, so, if you know, if we start nice and late Saturday that's a good thing.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "No, I mean, they're flying up from from.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Seattle.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "down from Seattle.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "They're flying from somewhere to somewhere,", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "Yeah, and they'll end up here. So b and also Brian Kingsbury is actually flying from, uh, the east coast on that that morning.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Excellent.", "speakerName": "Postdoc A" }, { "text": "So, i I I will be I mean, he's taking a very early flight", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Oh.", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "and we do have the time work difference running the right way, but I still think that there's no way we could start before eleven. It might end up really being twelve. So when we get closer we'll find people's plane schedules, and let everybody know. Uh, So. That's good.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "But, uh, yeah maybe an agenda, or at least some things to talk about would be a good idea.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "Well we can start gathering those those ideas, but then we we should firm it up by next next Thursday's meeting.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Will we have time to, um, to prepare something that we in the format we were planning for the IBM transcribers by then, or?", "speakerName": "Postdoc A" }, { "text": "Oh yeah. Absolutely.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "OK.", "speakerName": "Postdoc A" }, { "text": "So have you heard back from Brian about that, Chuck?", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "Yes, um, he's I I'm sorry, I should have forwarded that along. Uh, oh I I think I mentioned at the last meeting, he said that, um, he talked to them and it was fine with the beeps they would be That's easy for them to do.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Great. OK. So, uh, oh, though Thi - Thilo isn't here, um, but, uh, I I have the program to insert the beeps. What I don't have is something to parse the output of the channelized transcripts to find out where to put the beeps, but that should be really easy to do. So do we have a meeting that that's been done with,", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "He's he's.", "speakerName": "Postdoc A" }, { "text": "that we've tightened it up to the point where we can actually give it to IBM and have them try it out?", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "He generated, um, a channel - wise presegmented version of a meeting, but it was Robustness rather than EDU so I guess depends on whether we're willing to use Robustness?", "speakerName": "Postdoc A" }, { "text": "Well for this experiment I think we can use pre pretty much anything.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "OK.", "speakerName": "Postdoc A" }, { "text": "This experiment of just.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Well we had we had talked about doing maybe EDU as a good choice, though. Well, whatever we have.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "Well we've talked about that as being the next ones we wanted to transcribe.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "OK.", "speakerName": "Postdoc A" }, { "text": "But for the purpose of sending him a sample one to f", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Yeah, maybe it doesn't matter.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "Great.", "speakerName": "Postdoc A" }, { "text": "I I don't think it matte", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "I'll I'll I'll, um, get make that available.", "speakerName": "Postdoc A" }, { "text": "OK, and has it been corrected?", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "Oh, well, wait. Um.", "speakerName": "Postdoc A" }, { "text": "Hand - checked? Cuz that was one of the processes we were talking about as well.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "Right, so we need to run Thilo's thing on it,", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "That's right.", "speakerName": "Postdoc A" }, { "text": "and then we go in and adjust the boundaries.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Yeah that's right. Yeah, we haven't done that. I I could set someone on that tomorrow.", "speakerName": "Postdoc A" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "And time how long it takes.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "OK.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "I think they're coming.", "speakerName": "Postdoc A" }, { "text": "And we probably don't have to do necessarily a whole meeting for that if we just wanna send them a sample to try.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "OK. What would be a good number of minutes?", "speakerName": "Postdoc A" }, { "text": "I don't know, maybe we can figure out how long it'll take @ @ to to do.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Um, I don't know, it seems to me w we probably should go ahead and do a whole meeting because we'll have to transcribe the whole meeting anyway sometime.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "Yes except that if they had if there was a choice between having fifteen minutes that was fully the way you wanted it, and having a whole meeting that didn't get at what you wanted for them It's just dependent of how much.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Like I I mean I guess if we have to do it again anyway, but, uh", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "I guess, the only thing I'm not sure about is, um, how quickly can the transcribers scan over and fix the boundaries,", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Postdoc A" }, { "text": "and I mean, is it pretty easy?", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "I think it's gonna be one or two times real time at Wow, excuse me, two or more times real time, right? Cuz they have to at least listen to it.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "Can we pipeline it so that say there's, uh, the transcriber gets done with a quarter of the meeting and then we you run it through this other other stuff? Uh,", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Well the other stuff is I B I'm just thinking that from a data keeping - track - of - the - data point of view, it may be best to send them whole meetings at a time and not try to send them bits and pieces.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "OK, so. Oh, that's right. So the first thing is the automatic thing, and then it's then it's then it's the transcribers tightening stuff up,", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Postdoc A" }, { "text": "and then it's IBM.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm, mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Postdoc A" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "OK, so you might as well ha run the automatic thing over the entire meeting, and then and then, uh, you would give IBM whatever was fixed.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "And have them fix it over the entire meeting too?", "speakerName": "Postdoc A" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "Well, yeah, but start from the beginning and go to the end, right? So if they were only half way through then that's what you'd give IBM.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "OK.", "speakerName": "Postdoc A" }, { "text": "Right?", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "As of what point? I mean. The I guess the question on my mind is do we wait for the transcribers to adjust the marks for the whole meeting before we give anything to IBM, or do we go ahead and send them a sample? Let their.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Why wouldn't we s @ @ w i if they were going sequentially through it, why wouldn't we give them I mean i are we trying to get something done by the time Brian comes?", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Well I I I mean, I don't know.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "That was the question. Though.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "So if we if we were, then it seems like giving them something, whatever they had gotten up to, would be better than nothing.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Yeah. Uh. That I agree. I agree.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Well, I don't think I mean, h they they typically work for what, four hours, something like that?", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "Hmm, I gue hmm.", "speakerName": "Postdoc A" }, { "text": "I think the they should be able to get through a whole meeting in one sitting. I would think, unless it's a lot harder than we think it is, which it could be, certainly.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "If it's got like for speakers then I guess I mean if.", "speakerName": "Postdoc A" }, { "text": "We're just doing the individual channels,", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Or seven or eight.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "right?", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Individual channels. Yeah.", "speakerName": "Postdoc A" }, { "text": "So it's gonna be, depending on the number of people in the meeting, um,", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "I guess there is this issue of, you know, if if the segmenter thought there was no speech on on a particular stretch, on a particular channel,", "speakerName": "Postdoc A" }, { "text": "Well.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "and there really was, then, if it didn't show up in a mixed signal to verify, then it might be overlooked, so, I mean, the question is \" should should a transcriber listen to the entire thing or can it g can it be based on the mixed signal? \" And I th eh so far as I'm concerned it's fine to base it on the mixed signal at this point, and.", "speakerName": "Postdoc A" }, { "text": "That's what it seems to me too, in that if they need to, just like in the other cases, they can listen to the individual, if they need to.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "And that cuts down the time. Yeah.", "speakerName": "Postdoc A" }, { "text": "But they don't have to for most of it.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "Yeah, that's good. So. Yeah. Good, good, good.", "speakerName": "Postdoc A" }, { "text": "I don't see how that will work, though.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "What what aspect?", "speakerName": "Postdoc A" }, { "text": "So you're talking about tightening up time boundaries?", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "So how do you.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "So, they have the normal channeltrans interface where they have each individual speaker has their own line,", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "but you're listening to the mixed signal and you're tightening the boundaries, correcting the boundaries. You shouldn't have to tighten them too much because Thilo's program does that.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "Should be pretty good, yeah.", "speakerName": "Postdoc A" }, { "text": "Except for it doesn't do well on short things, remember.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Right, so so you'll have to I.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "It will miss them. It will miss most of the really short things.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Uh - huh.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "Like that.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "But those would be those would be.", "speakerName": "Postdoc A" }, { "text": "Uh - huh. It will it will miss.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Uh - huh!", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "Yeah, you have to say \" uh - huh \" more slowly to to get c", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Sorry.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "No, I'm s I'm actually serious.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "I'll work on that.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "So it will miss stuff like that which.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "I.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Well, so so that's something that the transcribers will have to have to do.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "Yeah, but presumably, most of those they should be able to hear from the mixed signal unless they're embedded in the heavil heavy overlap section when in which case they'd be listening to the channels anyway.", "speakerName": "Postdoc A" }, { "text": "That's that's what I'm I'm concerned about the part.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Right, and that's what I'm not sure about.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Yeah, I am too. And I think it's an empirical question.", "speakerName": "Postdoc A" }, { "text": "Can't we uh couldn't we just have, um, I don't know, maybe this just doesn't fit with the software, but I guess if I didn't know anything about Transcriber and I was gonna make something to let them adjust boundaries, I would just show them one channel at a time, with the marks, and let them adju", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Oh they can.", "speakerName": "Postdoc A" }, { "text": "Well, but then they have to do but then they for this meeting they would have to do seven times real time, and it would probably be more than that.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "Yeah, that's it. Yeah.", "speakerName": "Postdoc A" }, { "text": "Right? Because they'd have to at least listen to each channel all the way through.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "And if.", "speakerName": "Postdoc A" }, { "text": "But i but it's very quick,", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Uh - huh.", "speakerName": "Postdoc A" }, { "text": "right? I mean, you scan I mean, if you have a display of the waveform.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Postdoc A" }, { "text": "Oh, you're talking about visually.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "w Well, the other problem is the breaths", "speakerName": "Postdoc A" }, { "text": "I just don't think.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "cuz you also see the breaths on the waveform. I've I've looked at the int uh, s I've tried to do that with a single channel, and and you do see all sorts of other stuff besides just the voice.", "speakerName": "Postdoc A" }, { "text": "Uh - huh.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Yeah, and I I think that they're going much more on acoustics than they are on visuals.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "Well that that I'm not sure.", "speakerName": "Postdoc A" }, { "text": "So.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "What you the digital what the digital task that you had your interface? Um, I know for a fact that one of those sh she could really well she could judge what th what the number was based on the on the waveform.", "speakerName": "Postdoc A" }, { "text": "Yeah, that's actually true. Yeah, you're right. You're absolutely right. Yeah, I found the same thing that when I was scanning through the wave form I could see when someone started to read digits just by the shapes.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "Yeah, she could tell which one was seven.", "speakerName": "Postdoc A" }, { "text": "Um, maybe.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Postdoc A" }, { "text": "So I don't I'm I'm now entirely confused about what they do.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "But.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "So, they're they're looking at a mixed signal, or they're looking what what are they looking at visually?", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Well, they have a choice. They could choose any signal to look at. I've tried lookin but usually they look at the mixed. But I've I've tried looking at the single signal and and in order to judge when it when it was speech and when it wasn't,", "speakerName": "Postdoc A" }, { "text": "Oh.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "but the problem is then you have breaths which which show up on the signal.", "speakerName": "Postdoc A" }, { "text": "But the procedure that you're imagining, I mean, people vary from this, is that they have the mixed signal wave form in front of them,", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Yes.", "speakerName": "Postdoc A" }, { "text": "Yes.", "speakerName": "Postdoc A" }, { "text": "and they have multiple, uh, well, let's see, there isn't we don't have transcription yet. So but there's markers of some sort that have been happening automatically,", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Yes.", "speakerName": "Postdoc A" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "and those show up on the mixed signal?", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Oh,", "speakerName": "Postdoc A" }, { "text": "There's a @ @ clicks?", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "N the t", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "they show up on the separate ribbons. So you have a separate ribbon for each channel,", "speakerName": "Postdoc A" }, { "text": "There're separate ribbons.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "and and i i it'll be because it's being segmented as channel at a time with his with Thilo's new procedure, then you don't have the correspondence of the times across the bins uh across the ribbons uh you could have.", "speakerName": "Postdoc A" }, { "text": "And is there a line moving across the waveform as it goes?", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Yes.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "Yes.", "speakerName": "Postdoc A" }, { "text": "OK, so The way you're imaging is they kind of play it, and they see oh this happened, then this happened, then and if it's about right, they just sort of let it slide,", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Postdoc A" }, { "text": "Right. Right.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "and if it if it there's a question on something, they stop and maybe look at the individual wave form.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Oh, well not not \" look \".", "speakerName": "Postdoc A" }, { "text": "Right. Well, they wouldn't look at it at this point. They would just listen.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "They they might look at it, right?", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Well, the problem is that the the interface doesn't really allow you to switch visuals.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "Not very quickly.", "speakerName": "Postdoc A" }, { "text": "The problem is that that the Tcl - TK interface with the visuals, it's very slow to load waveforms.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "You can but it takes time. That's it.", "speakerName": "Postdoc A" }, { "text": "Uh - huh.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "And so when I tried that that was the first thing I tried when I first started it,", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "Oh, oh. Visually. You can you can switch quickly between the audio,", "speakerName": "Postdoc A" }, { "text": "right?", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "but you just can't get the visual display to show quickly. So you have to It takes, I don't know, three, four minutes to Well, I mean, it takes it takes long enough.", "speakerName": "Postdoc A" }, { "text": "Yeah, it's very slow to do that.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "It takes long enough cuz it has to reload the I I don't know exactly what it's doing frankly cuz but it t it takes long enough that it's just not a practical alternative.", "speakerName": "Postdoc A" }, { "text": "That w", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Well it it does some sort of shape pre - computation so that it can then scroll it quickly,", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "But you can cancel that.", "speakerName": "Grad G" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "yeah. But then you can't change the resolution or scroll quickly.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "Oh, really?", "speakerName": "Grad G" }, { "text": "Now you could set up multiple windows, each one with a different signal showing, and then look between the windows.", "speakerName": "Postdoc A" }, { "text": "So.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "Huh!", "speakerName": "Grad G" }, { "text": "Maybe that's the solution.", "speakerName": "Postdoc A" }, { "text": "I mean, we we could do different interfaces,", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "What if you preload them all?", "speakerName": "Grad G" }, { "text": "right? I mean, so so we could use like X Waves instead of Transcriber,", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Postdoc A" }, { "text": "and it loads faster, certainly.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "What if you were to preload all the channels or or initially.", "speakerName": "Grad G" }, { "text": "Well that's what I tried originally.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "like doesn't.", "speakerName": "Grad G" }, { "text": "So I I actually before, uh, Dave Gelbart did this, I did an interface which showed each waveform and ea a ribbon for each waveform,", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Grad G" }, { "text": "but the problem with it is even with just three waveforms it was just painfully slow to scroll. So you just scroll a screen and it would, you know go \" kur - chunk! \"", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "Oh, OK.", "speakerName": "Grad G" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Postdoc A" }, { "text": "And so it just was not doable with the current interface.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "You know, I am thinking if we have a meeting with only four speakers and, you know, you could fire up a Transcriber interface for, y you know, in different windows, multiple ones, one for each channel. And it's sort of a a hack but I mean it would be one way of seeing the visual form.", "speakerName": "Postdoc A" }, { "text": "I think that if we decide that we need that they need to see the visuals, we need to change the interface so that they can do that.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "Yeah. Yeah.", "speakerName": "Postdoc A" }, { "text": "So.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "That's actually what I thought of, loading the chopped up waveforms, I mean, you know, that that would make it faster.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "An But isn't.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "Hmm.", "speakerName": "Grad G" }, { "text": "The chopped up waveforms.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "The problem is if if anything's cut off, you can't expand it from the chopped up.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "So.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Isn't that.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "Grad G" }, { "text": "Right, but if you a at some point.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "And wouldn't that be the same as the mixed signal?", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "No, I mean the individual channels that were chopped up that it'd be nice to be able to go back and forth between those short segments.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Cuz you don't really nee like nine tenths of the time you're throwing most of them out, but what you need are tho that particular channel, or that particular location,", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "and,", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Postdoc A" }, { "text": "um, might be nice, cuz we save those out already, um, to be able to do that. But it won't work for IBM of course, it only works here cuz they're not saving out the individual channels.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Well, I I do think that this this will be a doable procedure,", "speakerName": "Postdoc A" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "and have them starting with mixed", "speakerName": "Postdoc A" }, { "text": "OK.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "and, um, then when they get into overlaps, just have them systematically check all the channels to be sure that there isn't something hidden from from audio view.", "speakerName": "Postdoc A" }, { "text": "Yeah. Yeah, hopefully, I mean The mixed signal, the overlaps are pretty audible because it is volume equalized. So I think they should be able to hear. The only problem is is, you know, counting how many and if they're really correct or not. So, I don't know.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "I don't know that you can locate them very well from the mixed signal,", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Right but but once once you know that they happen, you can at least listen to the close talking,", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "but you would know that they were there, and then you would switch. Right. And then you would switch into the other.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "so.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "But right now, to do this limitation, the switching is going to be switching of the audio? Is what she's saying.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Postdoc A" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "So.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Right, so so", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "so they're using their ears to do these markings anyway.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "did Dave Did Dave do that change where you can actually just click rather than having to go up to the menu to listen to the individual channels?", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "Yes. Yes.", "speakerName": "Postdoc A" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Click Um,", "speakerName": "Postdoc A" }, { "text": "I had suggested it before. I just don't know whether he did it or not.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "I'm not sure what click what click on the ribbon? Yeah, you can get that.", "speakerName": "Postdoc A" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "oh, oh, get you can get the, uh you can get it to switch audio? Uh, not last I tried,", "speakerName": "Postdoc A" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "but, um, maybe he's changed it again.", "speakerName": "Postdoc A" }, { "text": "We should get him to do that because, uh, I think that would be much, much faster than going to the menu.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "I disagree. There's a reason I disagree, and that is that, uh, you it's very good to have a dissociation between the visual and the audio. There're times when I wanna hear the mixed signal, bu but I want to transcribe on the single channel. So right now.", "speakerName": "Postdoc A" }, { "text": "Then maybe just buttons down at the bottom next to it.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "Maybe, I just don't I don't see that it's a.", "speakerName": "Postdoc A" }, { "text": "Just something so that it's not in the menu option so that you can do it much faster.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "Well, I mean, that's the i I I think that might be a personal style thing. I find it really convenient the way the way it's set up right now.", "speakerName": "Postdoc A" }, { "text": "Well it just seems to me that if you wanna quickly \" well was that Jane, no, was that Chuck, no, was that Morgan \", right now, you have to go up to the menu, and each time, go up to the menu, select it, listen to that channel then click below, and then go back to the menu, select the next one, and then click below.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "That's fine. Yeah, it's true.", "speakerName": "Postdoc A" }, { "text": "So you can definitely streamline that with the i with the interface.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "Yeah, it could be faster, but, you know, I mean, th in the ideal world Yeah.", "speakerName": "Postdoc A" }, { "text": "What?", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "No I I agree that'd be nice. Yeah. OK.", "speakerName": "Postdoc A" }, { "text": "OK.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "So, um, Done with that? Does any I forget, does anybody, uh, working on any any Eurospeech submission related to this?", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "I would like to try to do something on digits but I just don't know if we have time. I mean, it's due next Friday so we have to do the experiments and write the paper. So, I'm gonna try, but, uh, we'll just have to see. So actually I wanna get together with both Andreas and, uh, uh, Stephane with their respective systems.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "Yeah. Yeah there was that we that's right, we had that one conversation about, uh, what what what did it mean for, uh, one of those speakers to be pathological, was it a.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Right, and I haven't had s chance to sit down and listen.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "Oh, I haven't I haven't listened to them either,", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "I was going to do that this afternoon.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "but there must be something wrong, I mean,", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "Well, Morgan and I were were having a debate about that.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "unless our.", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "Whereas I think it it's probably something pathologic and actually Stephane's results, I think confirm that. He s he did the Aurora system also got very lousy average error, like fifteen or or, uh, fifteen to twenty percent average? But then he ran it just on the lapel, and got about five or six percent word error? So that that means to me that somewhere in the other recordings there are some pathological cases. But, you know, we th that may not be true. It may be just some of the segments they're just doing a lousy job on. So I'll I'll listen to it and find out since you'd actually split it up by segment.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "So I can actually listen to it.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "Did you run the Andreas the r SRI recognizer on the digits?", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Oh, I thought he had sent that around to everyone,", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "did you just sent that to me?", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "No, I d I didn't.", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "Oh.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "Since I considered those preliminary, I didn't.", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "I it wasn't.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "But, yeah, if you take.", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "It was bimodal.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "So if you Yeah, it's actually, um, it uh it was trimodal, actually.", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "Oh, was it trimodal, OK.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "trimodal, so", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "There's zero, a little bit, and a lot.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "there were t there was there was one h one bump at ze around zero, which were the native speakers,", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Zero percent error?", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "the non - pathological native speakers.", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "Y yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Then there was another bump at, um, oh, like fifteen or something.", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "This is error you're talking about?", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Oh was it fifteen?", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "whe", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "OK.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "Yeah. Those were the non - natives. And then there was another distinct bump at, like, a hundred, which must have been some problem.", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "Oh, wow! Oh, OK.", "speakerName": "Postdoc A" }, { "text": "I can't imagine that.", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "What is patho what do you mean by pathological?", "speakerName": "Grad G" }, { "text": "Just just something really wrong with.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "I'm sorry, I don't.", "speakerName": "Grad G" }, { "text": "A bug is what I mean,", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "In the recording", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "Oh.", "speakerName": "Grad G" }, { "text": "so that it's like.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "Oh, OK.", "speakerName": "Grad G" }, { "text": "And there was this one meeting, I forget which one it was, where like, uh, six out of the eight channels were all, like had a hundred percent error.", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "I see.", "speakerName": "Grad G" }, { "text": "Which probably means like there was a th the recording interface crashed,", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "Grad G" }, { "text": "or there was a short you know, someone was jiggling with a cord", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "But.", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "or, uh, I extracted it incorrectly,", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "But.", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "it was labeled.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Grad G" }, { "text": "it was transcribed incorrectly, something really bad happened, and I just haven't listened to it yet to find out what it was.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "OK.", "speakerName": "Grad G" }, { "text": "So, if I excluded the pathological ones, by definition, those that had like over ninety - five percent error rate, and the non - natives, then the average error rate was like one point four or something,", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "What we're calling.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Oh. Oh.", "speakerName": "Postdoc A" }, { "text": "which which seemed reasonable given that, you know, the models weren't tuned for for it.", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "Hmm!", "speakerName": "Grad G" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "And the grammar wasn't tuned either.", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "And it didn't matter whether it was the lapel or whether it was the.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "It was just a @ @. I haven't split it up that way,", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "But there's no overlap during the digit readings, so it shouldn't really matter.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "but it would be.", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "Grad G" }, { "text": "No, but there's a little difference,", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "So it should.", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "There's a lot.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "and we haven't looked at it for digits,", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "right?", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Yeah, so I was curious about that.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "And so, cuz because what he was what I was saying when I looked at those things is it it I was almost gonna call it quadrimodal because because there was a whole lot of cases where it was zero percent.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "They just plain got it all right. And then there and then there was another bunch that were couple percent or something.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Yeah. But if you p if you actually histogrammed it, and it was a nice uh, you know, it it was zero was the most of them,", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "A normal. Yeah.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "but then there were the others were sort of decaying from there.", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "Yeah, yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "And then there was the bump for the non - natives and then the pathological ones,", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "I see. I see.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "so.", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "Yeah, cuz some of our non - natives are pretty non - native. So.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "You did you have, uh, something in the report about, uh, about, uh, for f uh, forced alignment?", "speakerName": "Postdoc A" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Have you have you started on that?", "speakerName": "Postdoc A" }, { "text": "Oh, well, yeah, so I've been struggling with the forced alignments. Um. So the scheme that I drew on the board last time where we tried to, um allow reject models for the s speech from other speakers, um, most of the time it doesn't work very well. So, um, and the I haven't done I mean, the only way to check this right now was for me to actually load these into X Waves and, you know, plus the alignments, and s play them and see where the.", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "Hmm.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "And it looks And so I looked at all of the utterances from you, Chuck, in that one conversation, I don't know which You probably know which one I mean, it's where you were on the lapel and Morgan was sitting next to you and we can hear everything Morgan says.", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "Hmm.", "speakerName": "Postdoc A" }, { "text": "But and and some of what you I mean, you also appear quite a bit in that cross - talk. So, I actually went through all of those, there were I think fifty - five segments, um, in in X Waves, and and sort of did a crude check, and more often than not, it it gets it wrong. So there's either the beginning, mostly the beginning word, where th you, um, you know, Chuck talks somewhere into the segment, but the first, um, word of what he says, often \" I \" but it's very reduced \" I, \" that's just aligned to the beginning of someone else's speech, uh in that segment, which is cross - talk. So, um, I'm still tinkering with it, but it might well be that we can't get clean alignments out of this out of those, uh, channels, so.", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "Unless maybe we do this, uh, um, cancellation business.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Right, but that's I mean, that was our plan,", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Yeah, right.", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "but it's clear from Dan that this is not something you can do in a short amount of time.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Oh, the short amount of time thing, right.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "So so we you know, we had spent a lot of time, um, writing up the HLT paper and we wanted to use that, uh, kind of analysis,", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "but the HLT paper has, you know, it's a very crude measure of overlap. It's not really something you could scientifically say is overlap, it's just whether or not the, um, the segments that were all synchronized, whether there was some overlap somewhere.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "c High correlation.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "And, you know, that pointed out some differences, so he thought well if we can do something quick and dirty because Dan said the cross - cancellation, it's not straight - forward. If it were straight - forward then we would try it, but so, it's sort of good to hear that it was not straight - forward, thinking if we can get decent forced alignments, then at least we can do sort of a overall report of what happens with actual overlap in time, but, um.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "I didn't think that his message said it wasn't straight - forward.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Well if we'd just.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "Well", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "I thought he's just saying you have to look over a longer time window when you do it.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Um - hmm.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "and the but there are some issues of this timing, um, in the recordings", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "and.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "So you just have to look over longer time when you're trying to align the things, you can't you can't just look.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Well. are you talking about the fact that the recording software doesn't do time - synchronous? Is that what you're referring to?", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "That seems to me you can do that over the entire file and get a very accurate.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "I don't thi I d I don't think that was the issue.", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "I yeah, that was sort of a side issue.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "I didn't think so either.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "The issue was that you have to you have have you first have to have a pretty good speech detection on the individual channels.", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "And it's dynamic, so I guess it was more dynamic than some simple models would be able t to so so there are some things available, and I don't know too much about this area where if people aren't moving around much than you could apply them, and it should work pretty well if you took care of this recording time difference.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Right, which should be pretty straight forward.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "Which a at least is well defined, and", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "um, but then if you add the dynamic aspect of adapting distances, then it wasn't I guess it just wasn't something that he could do quickly and not in time for us to be able to do something by two weeks from now, so. Well less than a week. So um, so I don't know what we can do if anything, that's sort of worth, you know, a Eurospeech paper at this point.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Well, Andreas, how well did it work on the non - lapel stuff?", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Yeah. That's what I was gonna say.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "I haven't checked those yet.", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "C", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "It's very tedious to check these.", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "Mmm.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Um, we would really need, ideally, a transcriber to time mark the you know, the be at least the beginning and s ends of contiguous speech. Um, and, you know, then with the time marks, you can do an automatic comparison of your of your forced alignments.", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "Because really the the at least in terms of how we were gonna use this in our system was to get an ideal an idea, uh, for each channel about the start and end boundaries.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Oh, MNCM..", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "We don't really care about like intermediate word boundaries, so.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "No, that's how I've been looking at it.", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "I mean, I don't care that the individual words are aligned correctly,", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "but you don't wanna, uh, infer from the alignment that someone spoke who didn't.", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "Right, exactly. So that's why I was wondering if it.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "so, so.", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "I mean, maybe if it doesn't work for lapel stuff, we can just not use that", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "and.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "I haven't I ha just haven't had the time to, um, do the same procedure on one of the so I would need a k I would need a channel that has a speaker whose who has a lot of overlap but s you know, is a non - lapel mike. And, um, where preferably, also there's someone sitting next to them who talks a lot.", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "Hmm!", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "So, I.", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "So a meeting with me in it.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "maybe someone can help me find a good candidate and then I would be willing to", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "We c you know what? Maybe the best way to find that would be to look through these.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "you know, hand", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "Cuz you can see the seat numbers, and then you can see what type of mike they were using. And so we just look for, you know, somebody sitting next to Adam at one of the meetings.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Actually y we can tell from the data that we have,", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "From the insertions, maybe?", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "um, yeah, there's a way to tell.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "fr fr from the.", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "It might not be a single person who's always overlapping that person but any number of people,", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "and, um, if you align the two hypothesis files across the channels, you know, just word alignment, you'd be able to find that. So so I guess that's sort of a last ther there're sort of a few things we could do. One is just do like non - lapels if we can get good enough alignments. Another one was to try to get somehow align Thilo's energy segmentations with what we have. But then you have the problem of not knowing where the words are because these meetings were done before that segmentation. But maybe there's something that could be done.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "What what is why do you need the, um, the forced alignment for the HLT I mean for the Eurospeech paper?", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Well, I guess I I wanted to just do something not on recognition experiments because that's ju way too early, but to be able to report, you know, actual numbers. Like if we if we had hand - transcribed pe good alignments or hand - checked alignments, then we could do this paper. It's not that we need it to be automatic. But without knowing where the real words are, in time.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "So it was to get it was to get more data and better to to squeeze the boundaries in.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "To to know what an overlap really if it's really an overlap, or if it's just a a a segment correlated with an overlap,", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Ah, OK. Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "and I guess that's the difference to me between like a real paper and a sort of, promissory paper. So, um, if we d it might be possible to take Thilo's output and like if you have, um, like right now these meetings are all,", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Ugh! I forgot the digital camera again.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "um,", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Every meeting!", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "you know, they're time - aligned, so if these are two different channels and somebody's talking here and somebody else is talking here, just that word, if Thilo can tell us that there're boundaries here, we should be able to figure that out", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "because the only thing transcribed in this channel is this word. But, um, you know, if there are things.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Two words.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "Yeah, if you have two and they're at the edges, it's like here and here, and there's speech here, then it doesn't really help you, so, um.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Thilo's won't put down two separate marks in that case.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Well it w it would, but, um, we don't know exactly where the words are because the transcriber gave us two words in this time bin", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Thilo's will. But.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "and we don't really know, I mean,", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Well it's a merging problem. If you had a if you had a s if you had a script which would.", "speakerName": "Postdoc A" }, { "text": "yeah it's.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "I've thought about this, um, and I've discussed I've discussed it with Thilo,", "speakerName": "Postdoc A" }, { "text": "I mean, if you have any ideas. I would.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "um, the, I mean, I I in principle I could imagine writing a script which would approximate it to some degree, but there is this problem of slippage,", "speakerName": "Postdoc A" }, { "text": "Well maybe Maybe that will get enough of the cases to be useful.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "yeah.", "speakerName": "Postdoc A" }, { "text": "Right. I mean, that that would be really helpful. That was sort of another possibility.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "You know s cuz it seemed like most of the cases are in fact the single word sorts, or at least a single phrase", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "Well they they can be stretched.", "speakerName": "Postdoc A" }, { "text": "in most of the bins.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "Mmm.", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "I wouldn't make that generalization cuz sometimes people will say, \" And then I \" and there's a long pause", "speakerName": "Postdoc A" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "and finish the sentence and and sometimes it looks coherent and and the I mean it's it's not a simple problem. But it's really And then it's coupled with the problem that sometimes, you know, with with a fricative you might get the beginning of the word cut off and so it's coupled with the problem that Thilo's isn't perfect either. I mean, we've i th it's like you have a merging problem plus so merging plus this problem of, uh, not.", "speakerName": "Postdoc A" }, { "text": "Right. Hmm!", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "y i i if the speech - nonspeech were perfect to begin with, the detector, that would already be an improvement, but that's impossible, you know, i that's too much to ask.", "speakerName": "Postdoc A" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Yes.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "And so i and may you know, I mean, it's I think that there always th there would have to be some hand - tweaking, but it's possible that a script could be written to merge those two types of things. I've I've discussed it with Thilo and I mean in terms of not him doing it, but we we discussed some of the parameters of that and how hard it would be to in principle to write something that would do that.", "speakerName": "Postdoc A" }, { "text": "I mean, I guess in the future it won't be as much as an issue if transcribers are using the tightened boundaries to start with, then we have a good idea of where the forced alignment is constrained to.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Well, it's just, you know, a matter of we had the revolution we had the revolution of improved, uh, interface, um, one month too late,", "speakerName": "Postdoc A" }, { "text": "So I'm no I don't know if this", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Oh. Tools.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "but it's like, you know, it's wonderful to have the revolution,", "speakerName": "Postdoc A" }, { "text": "Oh it's it's a.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "so it's just a matter of of, you know, from now on we'll be able to have things channelized to begin with.", "speakerName": "Postdoc A" }, { "text": "yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Right. And we'll just have to see how hard that is.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "Yeah, that's right.", "speakerName": "Postdoc A" }, { "text": "So so whether the corrections take too much time.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "That's right.", "speakerName": "Postdoc A" }, { "text": "I was just thinking about the fact that if Thilo's missed these short segments, that might be quite time - consuming for them to insert them.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Good point.", "speakerName": "Postdoc A" }, { "text": "But he he also can adjust this minimum time duration constraint and then what you get is noises mostly,", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Postdoc A" }, { "text": "Spurious.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "but that might be OK, an", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "It might be easier to delete something that's wrong than to insert something that's missing.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "Right. And you can also see in the waveform exac", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "What do you think, Jane?", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "If you can feel confident that what the yeah, that there's actually something.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "that you're not gonna miss something,", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Yeah. Cuz then then you just delete it, and you don't have to pick a time.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "I think it's.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Well the problem is I you know I I it's a it's a really good question, and I really find it a pain in the neck to delete things because you have to get the mouse up there on the t on the text line and i and otherwise you just use an arrow to get down I mean, i it depends on how lar th there's so many extra things that would make it one of them harder than the other, or or vice versa. It's not a simple question. But, you know, I mean, in principle, like, you know, if one of them is easier then to bias it towards whichever one's easier.", "speakerName": "Postdoc A" }, { "text": "Yeah, I guess the semantics aren't clear when you delete a segment, right? Because you would say You would have to determine what the surroundings were.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "You could just say it's a noise, though, and write, you know, a post - processor will just all you have to do is just.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "If it's really a noise.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "or just say it's just put \" X, \" you know, like \" not speech \" or something,", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "I think it's easier to add than delete, frankly,", "speakerName": "Postdoc A" }, { "text": "and then you can get Yeah, or", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "because you have to, uh, maneuver around on the on both windows then.", "speakerName": "Postdoc A" }, { "text": "To add or to delete?", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "To delete.", "speakerName": "Postdoc A" }, { "text": "Anyways, so I I guess.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "OK. That Maybe that's an interface issue that might be addressable.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "It's possible.", "speakerName": "Postdoc A" }, { "text": "But I think it's the semantics that are that are questionable to me, that you delete something So let's say someone is talking to here, and then you have a little segment here. Well, is that part of the speech? Is it part of the nonspeech? I mean, w what do you embed it in?", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "There's something nice, though, about keeping, and this is probably another discussion, keeping the stuff that Thilo's detector detected as possible speech and just marking it as not speech than deleting it. Because then when you align it, then the alignment can you can put a reject model or whatever,", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Oh, I see. So then they could just like put Oh that's what you meant by just put an \" X \" there.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "and you're consistent with th the automatic system,", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Uh, that's an interesting idea.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "whereas if you delete it.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "So so all they So that all they would have to do is put like an \" X \" there.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "Yeah, or some, you know, dummy reject mod", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "So blank for blank for silence, \" S \" \" S \" for speech, \" X \" \" X \" for something else.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "whatever, yeah. That's actually a better way to do it cuz the a the forced alignment will probably be more consistent than.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Well, like, I think there's a complication which is that that you can have speech and noise in s", "speakerName": "Postdoc A" }, { "text": "I mean if it's just as easy, but.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "uh, you know, on the same channel, the same speaker, so now sometimes you get a ni microphone pop and, uh, I mean, there're these fuzzy hybrid cases, and then the problem with the boundaries that have to be shifted around. It's not a simple not a simple problem.", "speakerName": "Postdoc A" }, { "text": "Anyway, quick question, though, at a high level do people think, let's just say that we're moving to this new era of like using the, um, pre - segmented t you know, non - synchronous conversations, does it make sense to try to take what we have now, which are the ones that, you know, we have recognition on which are synchronous and not time - tightened, and try to get something out of those for sort of purposes of illustrating the structure and the nature of the meetings, or is it better to just, you know, forget that and tr I mean, it's.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Well, I think we'll have to, eventually. And my hope was that we would be able to use the forced alignment to get it.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "Right. That was everybody's hope.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "But if we can't.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "And maybe we can for the non - lapel, but", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "But if we can't, then maybe we just have to.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "is it worth if we can't then we can fake it even if we're we report, you know, we're wrong twenty percent of the time or ten percent of the time.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Well, I'm thinking are you talking about for a paper, or are talking about for the corpus.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "Uh uh, that's a good question actually.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "I mean cuz for the corpus it would be nice if everything were.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "Actually that's a good question because we'd have to completely redo those meetings, and we have like ten of them now.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "We wouldn't have to re - do them, we would just have to edit them.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "Well, and also, I mean, I still haven't I still haven't given up on forced alignment.", "speakerName": "Postdoc A" }, { "text": "No, you're right, actually.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "I think that when Brian comes, this'll be uh an interesting aspect to ask him as well b", "speakerName": "Postdoc A" }, { "text": "When.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "when Brian Kingsbury comes.", "speakerName": "Postdoc A" }, { "text": "Oh, Brian. You s I thought you said Ryan. And it's like, \" Who's Ryan? \"", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "Yeah, good question.", "speakerName": "Postdoc A" }, { "text": "OK.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "Well, Ryan could come.", "speakerName": "Postdoc A" }, { "text": "Uh, no, that's a good point, though, because for feature extraction like for prosody or something, I mean, the meetings we have now, it's a good chunk of data.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Yep.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "we need to get a decent f OK.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "That's what my hope has been,", "speakerName": "Postdoc A" }, { "text": "So we should at least try it even if we can't,", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "and that's what that's what you know, ever since the the February meeting that I transcribed from last year, forced alignment has been on the on the table as a way of cleaning them up later.", "speakerName": "Postdoc A" }, { "text": "right?", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "On the table, right?", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "And and so I'm hopeful that that's possible. I know that there's complication in the overlap sections and with the lapel mikes,", "speakerName": "Postdoc A" }, { "text": "There's.", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "but.", "speakerName": "Postdoc A" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "I mean, we might be able, at the very worst, we can get transcribers to correct the cases where I mean, you sort of have a good estimate where these places are because the recognition's so poor. Right?", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Yeah, we were never just gonna go with these as the final alignments.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "And so you're.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "I agree. I agree.", "speakerName": "Postdoc A" }, { "text": "We were always gonna run them past somebody.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Absolutely.", "speakerName": "Postdoc A" }, { "text": "So we need some way to push these first chunk of meetings into a state where we get good alignments.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "I'm probably going to spend another day or so trying to improve things by, um, by using, um, acoustic adaptation. Um, the Right now I'm using the unadapted models for the forced alignments, and it's possible that you get considerably better results if you, uh, manage to adapt the, uh, phone models to the speaker and the reject model to the to to all the other speech. Um, so", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "Could you could you at the same time adapt the reject model to the speech from all the other channels?", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "That's what he just said.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "That's what he was saying.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "That's what I just said.", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "Oh, not just the speech from that of the other people from that channel,", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "but the speech from the a actual other channels.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Oh, oh, I see. Um,", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "Oh.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "I don't think so. I don't think that would work,", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "No, it.", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "right? Because you'd A lot of it's dominated by channel properties.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "th Exactly.", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "But what you do wanna do is take the, even if it's klugey, take the segments the synchronous segments, the ones from the HLT paper, where only that speaker was talking.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "So you want to u", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "Use those for adaptation, cuz if you if you use everything, then you get all the cross - talk in the adaptation, and it's just sort of blurred.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "That's a good point.", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "If you.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Yep.", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "And that we know, I mean, we have that. And it's about roughly two - thirds, I mean, very roughly averaged.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "That's not completely negligible. Like a third of it is bad for adaptation or so.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "Cool. I thought it was higher than that, that's pr", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "It really it depends a lot. This is just sort of an overall.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "So.", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "Well I know what we're not turning in to Eurospeech, a redo of the HLT paper.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "That I don't wanna do that,", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Yeah, I'm doing that for AVIOS.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "but.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Yeah. But I think we're oh, Morgan's talk went very well, I think.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Bleep.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Uh, \" bleep \". Yeah, really.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "I think Morgan's talk went very well it woke.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Excellent.", "speakerName": "Postdoc A" }, { "text": "you know, it was really a well presented and got people laughing.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Postdoc A" }, { "text": "Some good jokes in it?", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "Especially the batteried meter popping up,", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "that was hilarious. Right when you were talking about that.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "You know, that wa that was the battery meter saying that it was fully charged,", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "It's full. Yeah.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "You said, \" Speaking about energy \", or something.", "speakerName": "Postdoc A" }, { "text": "But that was funny.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "That was very nice.", "speakerName": "Postdoc A" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "He he he was onto the bullet points about talking about the you know the little hand - held, and trying to get lower power and so on,", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "Po - low power", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "and Microsoft pops up a little window saying \" Your batteries are now fully charged. \"", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "That's great.", "speakerName": "Postdoc A" }, { "text": "Yeah, yeah, yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "I'm thinking about scripting that for my talk, you know, put put a little script in there to say \" Your batteries are low \" right when I'm saying that.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "Yeah. Yeah. No I mean, i in in your case, I mean, you were joking about it, but, I mean, your case the fact that your talking about similar things at a couple of conferences, it's not these are conferences that have d really different emphases. Whereas HLT and and Eurospeech, pretty pretty pretty similar, so I I I can't see really just putting in the same thing,", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Are too close, yeah.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "No, I d I don't think that paper is really.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "but.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "the HLT paper is really more of a introduction - to - the - project paper, and, um.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Yeah, for Eurospeech we want some results if we can get them.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "Well, yeah, it it's probably wouldn't make sense,", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Or some or some I mean, I would see Eurospeech if we have some Eurospeech papers, these will be paper p p uh, submissions.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "but.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "These will be things that are particular things, aspects of it that we're looking at, rather than, you know, attempt at a global paper about it.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Right, right.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Detail, yeah. Overall.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "I did go through one of these meetings. I had, uh, one of the transcribers go through and tighten up the bins on one of the, uh, NSA meetings, and then I went through afterwards and double - checked it so that one is really very very accurate.", "speakerName": "Postdoc A" }, { "text": "Oh.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "I men I mentioned the link. I sent You know that one?", "speakerName": "Postdoc A" }, { "text": "Oh, so.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "The which one? I'm sorry.", "speakerName": "Grad G" }, { "text": "Um, I'm trying to remember I don't remember the number off hand.", "speakerName": "Postdoc A" }, { "text": "Those are all.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "It's one of the NSA's. I sent email before the conference, before last week.", "speakerName": "Postdoc A" }, { "text": "Oh, OK.", "speakerName": "Grad G" }, { "text": "Bef - What I mean is Wednesday, Thursday.", "speakerName": "Postdoc A" }, { "text": "That might might have been the one one of the ones that we did.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Grad G" }, { "text": "I'm sure that that one's accurate, I've been through it myself.", "speakerName": "Postdoc A" }, { "text": "So that might actually be useful but they're all non - native speakers.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "So we could compare before and after", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "OK.", "speakerName": "Grad G" }, { "text": "and see.", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "Yeah. Yeah, that's what I was gonna say. The problem with those, they're all German.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "oh, Darn!", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "Yeah, that's the problem with the NSA speakers.", "speakerName": "Grad G" }, { "text": "And e and e and extremely hard to follow, like word - wise,", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "So.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "I bet the transcri I mean, I have no idea what they're talking about,", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Grad G" }, { "text": "I corrected it for a number of the words.", "speakerName": "Postdoc A" }, { "text": "so,", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "I'm sure that, um, they're they're accurate now.", "speakerName": "Postdoc A" }, { "text": "um,", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Uh, actually I have to to go.", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "I mean, this is tough for a language model probably.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "Grad G" }, { "text": "but but that might be useful just for speech.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Well.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "OK, Andreas is leaving leaving the building. Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "See ya.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "See ya. I don't think we'll go much longer.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Um, oh, before you l go I guess it's alright for you to talk a little without the mike I noticed you adjusting the mike a lot, did it not fit you well? Oh.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "Well I won I noticed when you turned your head, it would it would tilt.", "speakerName": "Postdoc A" }, { "text": "Maybe it wasn't just tightened enough, or.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "Maybe the yeah, the s thing that you have tightened @ @,", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Actually if if you have a larger head, that mike's gotta go farther away which means the the balance is gonna make it wanna tip down.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "oh.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "OK. Anyway.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "Yeah. OK, see ya.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Cuz, I'm just thinking, you know, we were we're we've been talking about changing the mikes, uh, for a while,", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Postdoc A" }, { "text": "and if these aren't acoustically they seem really good, but if they're not comfortable, we have the same problems we have with these stupid things.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "I think it's com This is the first time I've worn this, I find it very comfortable.", "speakerName": "Postdoc A" }, { "text": "I find it very comfortable too, but, uh, it looked like Andreas was having problems, and I think Morgan was saying it.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "Well, but I had it on I had it on this morning and it was fine.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Can I see that?", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Oh, oh you did wear it this morning?", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "OK, it's off, so you can put it on.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "I yeah, I don't want it on, I just I just want to, um, say what I think is a problem with this. If you are wearing this over your ears and you've got it all the way out here, then the balance is gonna want to pull it this way.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "Where as if somebody with a smaller head has it back here,", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "It's more balanced.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "right? Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Oh!", "speakerName": "Postdoc A" }, { "text": "Then it then it falls back this way so it's.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "So we have to", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Well wh what it's supposed to do is the backstrap is supposed to be under your crown, and so that should be should be.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "Ah.", "speakerName": "Postdoc A" }, { "text": "if it's right against your head there, which is what it's supposed to be, that balances it so it doesn't slide up.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "So this is supposed to be under that little protuberance.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Yep, right right below if you feel the back of your head, you feel a little lump,", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "um, and so it's supposed to be right under that.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "So it's really supposed to go more like this than like this.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Yes, exactly.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "But then isn't that going to Well, I guess you can control that.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "That that that tilts, right? In lots and lots of different ways.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "So I'm not saying anything about bias towards small headsize,", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "About heads?", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "but does seem, uh.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "It would be an advantage.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Well, wonder if it's if if he was wearing it over his hair instead of under his hair.", "speakerName": "Postdoc A" }, { "text": "Well, we should We shou we should work on compressing the heads, and.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "I think probably it was Yeah. It probably just wasn't tight enough to the back of his head. I mean, so the directions do talk about bending it to your size, which is not really what we want.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "The other thing that would do it would be to hang a five pound weight off the back.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Yeah", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "that's good!", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "What did you say?", "speakerName": "Postdoc A" }, { "text": "A little,", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "wh", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "Hang a five pound weight off the off the back.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Hang a five pound weight off the back.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "um,", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "We did that.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "Weight.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "We at Boeing I used I was doing augmented reality so they had head - mounts on, and we we had a little jury - rigged one with a welder's helmet,", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "Counter - balance.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "and we had just a bag with a bunch of marbles in it as a counter - balance.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "Or maybe this could be helpful just for evening the conversation between people. If people those who talk a lot have to wear heavier weights or something, and.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Yeah!", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "and um,", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Anyway.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "um, so, uh, what was I gonna say? Oh, yeah, I was gonna say, uh, I had these, uh, conversations with NIST folks also while I was there and and, uh, um, so they they have their their plan for a room, uh, with, um, mikes in the middle of the table, and, uh, close - mounted mikes,", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Yep.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "and they're talking about close - mounted and lapels, just cuz", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "And arrays,", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "sort of and the array.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "And arrays,", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "Yeah, so they were.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "which is the i interesting.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "yep. And cameras.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "And yeah, like multiple multiple video cameras coverin covering every everybody every place in the room,", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "and video, right.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "uh, the yeah the the mikes in the middle, the head - mounted mikes, the lapel mikes, the array, uh, with well, there's some discussion of fifty - nine,", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Fifty - nine elements.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "they might go down to fifty - seven Because, uh, there is, uh, some pressure from a couple people at the meeting for them to use a KEMAR head. I forget what KEMAR, uh, stands for,", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "but what it is is it's dummy head that is very specially designed,", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Oh, that's right.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "and and and, so what they're actually doing is they're really there's really two recording systems.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Yep.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "That's a great idea.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "So they may not be precisely synchronous, but the but there's two two recording systems, one with, I think, twenty - four channels, and one with sixty - four channels. And the sixty - four channel one is for the array, but they've got some empty channels there, and anyway they like they're saying they may give up a couple or something if for for the KEMAR head if they go go with that.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Right. Yeah, it is a good idea.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "So.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Yeah, h uh, J Jonathan Fiscus did say that, uh, they have lots of software for doing calibration for skew and offset between channels", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "and that they've found that's just not a big deal.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "So.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "Yeah, I'm not too worried about that. I was thinking.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "But they're still planning to do like fake.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Scenario - based.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "they have to do something like that,", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Y right.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "right.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Their their legal issues won't allow them to do otherwise.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "But it sounded like they were pretty well thought out", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "Yeah, th that's true.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "and they're they're gonna be real meetings,", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Postdoc A" }, { "text": "it's just that they're with str with people who would not be meeting otherwise.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "Did did they give a talk on this or was this informal?", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "So.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "No.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "No.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "No, we just had some discussions, various discussions with them.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "It's just informal.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm. Mm - hmm. Yeah.", "speakerName": "Postdoc A" }, { "text": "Yeah, I also sat and chatted with several of the NIST folks. They seemed like a good group.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "What was the, um the paper by, um, Lori Lamel that you mentioned?", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Um, yeah, we sh we should just have you have you read it, but, I mea ba i i uh, we've all got these little proceedings,", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Mmm, yeah.", "speakerName": "Postdoc A" }, { "text": "but, um, basically, it was about, um, uh, going to a new task where you have insufficient data and using using data from something else, and adapting, and how well that works. Uh, so in in fact it was pretty related to what Liz and Andreas did, uh, except that this was not with meeting stuff, it was with", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "uh, like I think they s didn't they start off with Broadcast News system? And then they went to.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "The - their Broadcast News was their acoustic models and then all the other tasks were much simpler.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "So they were command and control and that sort of thing.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "TI - digits was one of them, and, uh, Wall Street Journal.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Yep.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "What was their rough what was their conclusion?", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Yeah, read Wall Street Journal. It works.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Well, it's it's a good paper, I mean.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Yeah, yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Yeah. Yeah, that was one of the ones that I liked.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "Bring the.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "That It not only works, in some cases it was better, which I thought was pretty interesting, but that's cuz they didn't control for parameters. So.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "Probably.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "You know, the Broadcast News nets were not nets,", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Did they ever try going going the other direction from simpler task to more complicated tasks,", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "acoustic models were a lot more complex.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "or?", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "n Not in that paper.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "That might be hard.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Yeah, well, one of the big problems with that is is often the simpler task isn't fully doesn't have all the phones in it,", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "and that that makes it very hard.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "But I've done the same thing. I've been using Broadcast News nets for digits,", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "like for the spr speech proxy thing that I did? That's what I did.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "Yeah, sure.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "So. It works.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "Yeah. Yeah, and they have I mean they have better adaptation than we had than that that system,", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Yep.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "so they um,", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "You mean they have some.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "yeah, we should probably what would actually what we should do, uh, I haven't said anything about this, but probably the five of us should pick out a paper or two that that, uh, you know, got our interest, and we should go around the room at one of the Tuesday lunch meetings and say, you know, what what was good about the conference,", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Present. Yep. Do a trip report.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Well, the summarization stuff was interesting, I mean, I don't know anything about that field, but for this proposal on meeting summarization, um, I mean, it's sort of a far cry because they weren't working with meeting type data, but he got sort of an overview on some of the different approaches,", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "Do you remember who the groups were that we're doing?", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "so. Well there're this was the last day,", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "A lot of different ones.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "R I think Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Postdoc A" }, { "text": "but, I mean, there's that's a huge field and probably the groups there may not be representative of the field, I I don't know exactly that everyone submits to this particular conference,", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Was were there folks from BBN presenting?", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "but yet there was, let's see, this was on the last day, Mitre, BBN, and, um, Prager.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Mitre, BBN, IBM. Uh,", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "Maryland.", "speakerName": "Postdoc A" }, { "text": "um, I wo it was.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Columbia have anything? No.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "no it was.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Wasn't Who who who did the order one?", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "this was Wednesday morning. The sentence ordering one, was that Barselou, and these guys?", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Ugh! I'm just so bad at that.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "Oh.", "speakerName": "Postdoc A" }, { "text": "Anyway, I I it's in the program, I should have read it to remind myself, but that's sort of useful and I think like when Mari and Katrin and Jeff are here it'd be good to figure out some kinds of things that we can start doing maybe just on the transcripts cuz we already have.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Yeah, we do have word transcripts.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "you know, yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "So.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "Well, I like the idea that Adam had of of, um, z maybe generating minutes based on some of these things that we have because it would be easy to to to do that just, you know, and and", "speakerName": "Postdoc A" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "it has to be, though, someone from this group because of the technical nature of the thing.", "speakerName": "Postdoc A" }, { "text": "Someone who actually does take notes, um, I'm very bad at note - taking.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "But I think what's interesting is there's all these different evaluations, like just, you know, how do you evaluate whether the summary is good or not,", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "I always write down the wrong things.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "I do take notes.", "speakerName": "Postdoc A" }, { "text": "and that's what's was sort of interesting to me is that there's different ways to do it,", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "A judge.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "and.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Was SRA one of the groups talking about summarization, no?", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Yep.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "Hm - umm. No.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "It was an interesting session. One of those w", "speakerName": "Postdoc A" }, { "text": "And as I said, I like the Microsoft talk on scaling issues in, uh, word sense disambiguation,", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "that was interesting.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "Yeah, that was an interesting discussion,", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "The.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "uh, I", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "It it it was the only one It was the only one that had any sort of real disagreement about.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "The data issue comes up all the ti", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Well, I didn't have as much disagreement as I would have liked,", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "So.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "but I didn't wanna I wouldn I didn't wanna get into it because, uh, you know, it was the application was one I didn't know anything about,", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Yep.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "uh, it just would have been, you know, me getting up to be argumentative, but but, uh, I mean, the missing thi so so what they were saying it's one of these things is you know, all you need is more data, sort of But I mea i wh it @ @ that's that's dissing it, uh, improperly, I mean, it was a nice study. Uh, they were doing this it wasn't word - sense disambiguation, it was.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Yeah yeah yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Well, it sort of was.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "was it w was it word - sense? Yes.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "But it was it was a very simple case of \" to \" versus \" too \" versus \" two \" and \" there \", \" their \", \" they're \".", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "And there and their and.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Yeah, yeah. OK.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "and that you could do better with more data, I mean, that's clearly statistically.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "And so, what they did was they had these different kinds of learning machines, and they had different amounts of data, and so they did like, you know, eight different methods that everybody, you know, uh, argues about about, \" Oh my my kind of learning machine is better than your kind of learning machine. \" And, uh, they were started off with a million words that they used, which was evidently a number that a lot of people doing that particular kind of task had been using. So they went up, being Microsoft, they went up to a billion. And then they had this log scale showing a you know, and and naturally everything gets.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Them being beep, they went off to a billion.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "they well, it's a big company, I didn't I didn't mean it as a ne anything negative,", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "but i i i", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "You mean the bigger the company the more words they use for training?", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Well, I think the reason they can do that, is that they assumed that text that they get off the web, like from Wall Street Journal, is correct, and edit it.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "So that's what they used as training data. It's just saying if it's in this corpus it's correct.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "OK. But, I mean, yes. Of course there was the kind of effect that, you know, one would expect that uh that you got better and better performance with more and more data. Um, but the the real point was that the the different learning machines are sort of all over the place, and and by by going up significantly in data you can have much bigger effect then by switching learning machines and furthermore which learning machine was on top kind of depended on where you were in this picture, so,", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "This was my concern about the recognizer in Aurora.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "uh, That.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "That the differences we're seeing in the front - end is b", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Are irrelevant.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "are irrelevant once you get a real recognizer at the back - end.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "If you add more data? Or.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "You know?", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Huh.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Yeah, could well be. So so, I mean, that was that was kind of, you know, it's a good point, but the problem I had with it was that the implications out of this was that, uh, the kind of choices you make about learning machines were therefore irrelevant which is not at n t as for as I know in in tasks I'm more familiar with @ @ is not at all true. What i what is is true is that different learning machines have different properties, and you wanna know what those properties are. And someone else sort of implied that well we s you know, a all the study of learning machine we still don't know what those properties are. We don't know them perfectly, but we know that some kinds use more memory and and some other kinds use more computation and some are are hav have limited kind of discrimination, but are just easy to use, and others are.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "But doesn't their conclusion just sort of you could have guessed that before they even started? Because if you assume that these learning things get better and better and better,", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "You would guess.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "then as you approach there's a point where you can't get any better, right? You get everything right.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "It's just no.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "But.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "So they're all approaching.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "No, but there was still a spread. They weren't all up They weren't converging.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "But what I'm saying is that th they have to, as they all get better, they have to get closer together.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "It w", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "They were all still spread. But they Right, right. Sure. But they hadn't even come close to that point. All the tasks were still improving when they hit a billion.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "But they're all going the same way, right? So you have to get closer.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Eventually. O one would", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "But they didn't get closer.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "Oh they didn't?", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Well.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "They just switched position.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "well that's getting cl I mean, yeah, the spread was still pretty wide that's th that's true,", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Yep.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "but but, uh, I think it would be irntu intu intuition that this would be the case, but, uh, to really see it and to have the intuition is quite different, I mean, I think somebody w w let's see who was talking about earlier that the effect of having a lot more data is quite different in Switchboard than it is in in Broadcast News,", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Well it's different for different tasks.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Yeah. It was Liz. Yeah.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "So it depends a lot on whether, you know, it disambiguation is exactly the case where more data is better, right? You're you're you can assume similar distributions,", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "but if you wanted to do disambiguation on a different type of, uh, test data then your training data, then that extra data wouldn't generalize,", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "so.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "But, I think one of their p They they had a couple points. w Uh, I think one of them was that \" Well, maybe simpler algorithms and more data are is better \". Less memory, faster operation, simpler. Right? Because their simplest, most brain - dead algorithm did pretty darn well", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "when you got gave it a lot more data. And then also they were saying, \" Well, m You have access to a lot more data. Why are you sticking with a million words? \" I mean, their point was that this million - word corpus that everyone uses is apparently ten or fifteen years old. And everyone is still using it, so.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "Yeah. But anyway, I I I think it's it's just the the i it's it's it's not really the conclusion they came to so much, as the conclusion that some of the, uh, uh, commenters in the crowd came up with", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "But we could talk about this stuff, I think this would be fun to do. Right.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "that, uh, you know, this therefore is further evidence that, you know, more data is really all you should care about, and that I thought was just kind of going too far the other way,", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Machine - learning.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "and and the the, uh, one one person ga g g got up and made a a brief defense, uh, but it was a different kind of grounds, it was that that, uh, i w the reason people were not using so much data before was not because they were stupid or didn't realize data was important, but in fact th they didn't have it available. Um, but the other point to make a again is that, uh, machine learning still does matter, but it it matters more in some situations than in others, and it and also there's there's not just mattering or not mattering, but there's mattering in different ways. I mean, you might be in some situation where you care how much memory you're using, or you care, you know, what recall time is,", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "or you care, you know, and and.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Or you only have a million words for your some new task.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "Yeah, or or, uh.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Or done another language, or I mean, you so there's papers on portability and rapid prototyping and blah - blah - blah,", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Yep.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "and then there's people saying, \" Oh, just add more data. \"", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "And there's cost!", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "So, these are like two different religions, basically.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm. Cost.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "There's just plain cost,", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Yeah. That's a big one.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "you know, so so these, I mean th the in the in the speech side, the thing that @ @ always occurs to me is that if you if you uh one person has a system that requires ten thousand hours to train on, and the other only requires a hundred, and they both do about the same because the hundred hour one was smarter, that's that's gonna be better. because people, I mean, there isn't gonna be just one system that people train on", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Yep.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "and then that's it for the r for all of time. I mean, people are gonna be doing other different things, and so it these these things matters matter.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Yeah, that's it.", "speakerName": "Postdoc A" }, { "text": "Yeah, so that's one of the slides they put up.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "So, I mean, this was a very provocative slide. She put this up, and it was like this is this p people kept saying, \" Can I see that slide again? \"", "speakerName": "Postdoc A" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Yeah,", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "and then they'd make a comment, and one person said, well - known person said, um, you know, \" Before you dismiss forty - five years including my work \"", "speakerName": "Postdoc A" }, { "text": "yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Forty - five years of research.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Grad G" }, { "text": "But th you know, the same thing has happened in computational linguistics, right? You look at the ACL papers coming out, and now there's sort of a turn back towards, OK we've learned statistic you know, we're basically getting what we expect out of some statistical methods, and, you know, the there's arguments on both sides,", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Yep.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "so.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "I think the matters is the thing that that was misleading.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "That was very offending, very offending.", "speakerName": "Postdoc A" }, { "text": "Yeah, yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Is that all all of them are based on all the others, right? Just, you you can't say.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "Maybe they should have said \" focus \" or something.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Yeah. I mean, so. And I'm saying the same thing happened with speech recognition, right? For a long time people were hand - c coding linguistic rules and then they discovered machine - learning worked better. And now they're throwing more and more data and worrying perhaps worrying less and less about, uh, the exact details of the algorithms.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "And and then you hit this.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Except when they have a Eurospeech paper.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Postdoc A" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Anyway.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "Anyway, tea is tea is, uh, starting.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Shall we read some digits? Are we gonna do one at a time? Or should we read them all agai at once again.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "Let's do it all at once.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Yeah, that's good.", "speakerName": "Postdoc A" }, { "text": "We @ @ let's try that again.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Yes! So, and maybe we won't laugh this time also.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "OK. So remember to read the transcript number so that, uh, everyone knows that what it is. And ready?", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Postdoc A" }, { "text": "Three, two, one.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "Boy, is that ever efficient.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Yep. That's really fast.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "Yeah. Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor C" } ] }

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{ "meetingId": "Bro024", "transcriptSegments": [ { "text": "And we're on.", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "OK. Might wanna close the door so that Uh, Stephane will.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "I'll get it.", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "Yeah", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "Hey Dave? Could you go ahead and turn on, uh, Stephane's.", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "So that's the virtual Stephane over there.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "OK.", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "Do you use a PC for recording? Or.", "speakerName": "Professor G" }, { "text": "Uh, yeah, a Linux box. Yeah. It's got, uh, like sixteen channels going into it.", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "Uh - huh. Uh - huh. The quality is quite good? Or?", "speakerName": "Professor G" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm. Yeah, so far, it's been pretty good.", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Professor G" }, { "text": "Yeah. So, uh, yeah the suggestion was to have these guys start to.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "OK. Why don't you go ahead, Dave?", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "OK. Um, so, yeah, the this past week I've been main mainly occupied with, um, getting some results, u from the SRI system trained on this short Hub - five training set for the mean subtraction method. And, um, I ran some tests last night. But, um, c the results are suspicious. Um, it's, um, cuz they're the baseline results are worse than, um, Andreas than results Andreas got previously. And it could have something to do with, um.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "That's on digits?", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "That's on digits. It c it it could h it could have something to do with, um, downsampling.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "Hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "That's that's worth looking into. Um, d and, um, ap ap apart from that, I guess the the main thing I have t ta I have to talk is, um, where I'm planning to go over the next week. Um. So I've been working on integrating this mean subtraction approach into the SmartKom system. And there's this question of, well, so, um, in my tests before with HTK I found it worked it worked the best with about twelve seconds of data used to estimate the mean, but, we'll often have less in the SmartKom system. Um. So I think we'll use as much data as we have at a particular time, and we'll we'll concatenate utterances together, um, to get as much data as we possibly can from the user. But, um, there's a question of how to set up the models. So um, we could train the models. If we think twelve seconds is ideal we could train the models using twelve seconds to calculate the mean, to mean subtract the training data. Or we could, um, use some other amount. So like I did an experiment where I, um, was using six seconds in test, um, but, for I tried twelve seconds in train. And I tried, um, um, the same in train I'm a I tried six seconds in train. And six seconds in train was about point three percent better. Um, and um, it's not clear to me yet whether that's something significant. So I wanna do some tests and, um, actually make some plots of, um for a particular amount of data and test what happens if you vary the amount of data in train.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "Uh, Guenter, I don't know if you t followed this stuff but this is, uh, a uh, uh, long - term long - term window F F Yeah. Yeah, he you talked about it.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "Yeah, we we spoke about it already,", "speakerName": "Professor G" }, { "text": "Oh, OK. So you know what he's doing.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor G" }, { "text": "Alright.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "y s so I was I actually ran the experiments mostly and I I was I was hoping to have the plots with me today. I just didn't get to it. But, um yeah, I wou I would be curious about people's feedback on this cuz I'm @ @ I p I think there are some I think it's it's kind of like a a bit of a tricky engineering problem. I'm trying to figure out what's the optimal way to set this up. So, um, I'll try to make the plots and then put some postscript up on my on my web page. And I'll mention it in my status report if people wanna take a look.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "You could clarify something for me. You're saying point three percent, you take a point three percent hit, when the training and testing links are don't match or something?", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "Hello.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Is that what it is?", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "w Well, it c", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "Or?", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "I I don't think it it's just for any mismatch you take a hit.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "i In some cases it might be u better to have a mismatch. Like I think I saw something like like if you only have two seconds in test, or, um, maybe it was something like four seconds, you actually do a little better if you, um, train on six seconds than if you train on four seconds.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "Yeah. Right.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "Um, but the case, uh with the point three percent hit was using six seconds in test, um, comparing train on twelve seconds versus train on six seconds.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "And which was worse?", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "The train on twelve seconds.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "OK. But point three percent, uh, w from what to what? That's point three percent.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "On The the the accuracies w went from it was something vaguely like ninety - five point six accuracy, um, improved to ninety - five point nine wh when I.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "So four point four to four point one.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "OK.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "So yeah. So about a about an eight percent, uh, seven or eight percent relative?", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "OK.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "Uh, Yeah. Well, I think in a p You know, if if you were going for an evaluation system you'd care. But if you were doing a live system that people were actually using nobody would notice. It's uh, I think the thing is to get something that's practical, that that you could really use.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "Huh. That's that's interesting. Alright, the e uh, I see your point. I guess I was thinking of it as, um, an interesting research problem. The how to g I was thinking that for the ASRU paper we could have a section saying, \" For SmartKom, we we d in we tried this approach in, uh, interactive system \", which I don't think has been done before.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "Yeah. Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "And and then there was two research questions from that.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "And one is the k does it still work if you just use the past history?", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "Alright, and the other was this question of, um what I was just talking about now. So I guess that's why I thought it was interesting.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "I mean, a short - time FFT short - time cepstrum calculation, uh, mean u mean calculation work that people have in commercial systems, they do this all the time. They the they calculate it from previous utterances and then use it, you know.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "Yeah, um.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "But but, uh, as you say, there hasn't been that much with this long long - time, uh, spectra work.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "Oh, o Oh, OK.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "Uh,", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "So that's that's that's standard. Um.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "Yeah. Pretty common.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "OK.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "Yeah. Um, but, u uh, yes. No, it is interesting. And the other thing is, I mean, there's two sides to these really small, uh, gradations in performance. Um, I mean, on the one hand in a practical system if something is, uh, four point four percent error, four point one percent error, people won't really tell be able to tell the difference. On the other hand, when you're doing, uh, research, you may, eh you might find that the way that you build up a change from a ninety - five percent accurate system to a ninety - eight percent accurate system is through ten or twelve little things that you do that each are point three percent. So so the they they it's I don't mean to say that they're they're irrelevant. Uh, they are relevant. But, um, i for a demo, you won't see it.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm. Right. OK.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "And, um, Let's l let's see. Um, OK. And then there's um, another thing I wanna start looking at, um, wi is, um, the choice of the analysis window length. So I've just been using two seconds just because that's what Carlos did before. Uh, I wrote to him asking about he chose the two seconds. And it seemed like he chose it a bit informally. So, um, with the with the HTK set - up I should be able to do some experiments, on just varying that length, say between one and three seconds, in a few different reverberation conditions, um, say this room and also a few of the artificial impulse responses we have for reverberation, just, um, making some plots and seeing how they look. And, um, so, with the the sampling rate I was using, one second or two seconds or four seconds is at a power of two um, number of samples and, um, I'll I'll jus f for the ones in between I guess I'll just zero - pad.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm. I guess one thing that might also be an issue, uh, cuz part of what you're doing is you're getting a a spectrum over a bunch of different kinds of speech sounds. Um, and so it might matter how fast someone was talking for instance.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "Oh.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "You know, if you if if if there's a lot of phones in one second maybe you'll get a a really good sampling of all these different things, and and, uh, on the other hand if someone's talking slowly maybe you'd need more. So.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "Huh.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "I don't know if you have some samples of faster or slower speech but it might make a difference. I don't know.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "Uh, yeah, I don't I don't think the TI - digits data that I have, um, i is would be appropriate for that.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "Yeah, probably not. Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "But what do you What about if I w I fed it through some kind of, um, speech processing algorithm that changed the speech rate?", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "Yeah, but then you'll have the degradation of of, uh, whatever you do uh, added onto that. But maybe. Yeah, maybe if you get something that sounds that that's does a pretty job at that.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "Yeah. Well, uh, just if you think it's worth looking into.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "You could imagine that.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "I mean, it it is getting a little away from reverberation.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "Um, yeah. It's just that you're making a choice uh, I was thinking more from the system aspect, if you're making a choice for SmartKom, that that that it might be that it's it c the optimal number could be different, depending on.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "Yeah. Right.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "Could be. I don't know.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "And and th the third thing, um, uh, is, um, Barry explained LDA filtering to me yesterday. And so, um, Mike Shire in his thesis um, did a a series of experiments, um, training LDA filters in d on different conditions. And you were interested in having me repeat this for for this mean subtraction approach? Is is that right? Or for these long analysis windows, I guess, is the right way to put it.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "I guess, the the the issue I was the general issue I was bringing up was that if you're have a moving moving window, uh, a wa a a set of weights times things that, uh, move along, shift along in time, that you have in fact a linear time invariant filter. And you just happened to have picked a particular one by setting all the weights to be equal. And so the issue is what are some other filters that you could use, uh, in that sense of \" filter \"?", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "And, um, as I was saying, I think the simplest thing to do is not to train anything, but just to do some sort of, uh, uh, hamming or Hanning, uh, kind of window, kind of thing,", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "Right. Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "just sort of to de - emphasize the jarring. So I think that would sort of be the first thing to do. But then, yeah, the LDA i uh, is interesting because it would sort of say well, suppose you actually trained this up to do the best you could by some criterion, what would the filter look like then?", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "Uh - huh.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "Uh, and, um, that's sort of what we're doing in this Aur - Aurora stuff. And, uh, it's still not clear to me in the long run whether the best thing to do would be to do that or to have some stylized version of the filter that looks like these things you've trained up, because you always have the problem that it's trained up for one condition and it isn't quite right for another. So. uh that's that's why that's why RASTA filter has actually ended up lasting a long time, people still using it quite a bit, because y you don't change it. So doesn't get any worse. Uh,", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "Huh.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "Anyway.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "o OK. So, um, a actually I was just thinking about what I was asking about earlier, wi which is about having less than say twelve seconds in the SmartKom system to do the mean subtraction. You said in systems where you use cepstral mean subtraction, they concatenate utterances and, do you know how they address this issue of, um, testing versus training? Can.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "Go ahead.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "I think what they do is they do it always on - line, I mean, that you just take what you have from the past, that you calculate the mean of this and subtract the mean.", "speakerName": "Professor G" }, { "text": "OK. Um.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "And then you can yeah, you you can increase your window whi while you get while you are getting more samples.", "speakerName": "Professor G" }, { "text": "OK, um, and, um, so so in tha in that case, wh what do they do when they're t um, performing the cepstral mean subtraction on the training data? So because you'd have hours and hours of training data. So do they cut it off and start over? At intervals? Or?", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "So do you have uh, you you mean you have files which are hours of hours long? Or?", "speakerName": "Professor G" }, { "text": "Oh, well, no. I guess not. But.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "Yeah. I mean, usually you have in the training set you have similar conditions, I mean, file lengths are, I guess the same order or in the same size as for test data, or aren't they?", "speakerName": "Professor G" }, { "text": "OK. But it's OK. So if someone's interacting with the system, though, uh, Morgan uh, Morgan said that you would tend to, um, chain utterances together um, r", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "Well, I think what I was s I thought what I was saying was that, um, at any given point you are gonna start off with what you had from before.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "Oh.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "From and so if you're splitting things up into utterances So, for instance, in a dialogue system, where you're gonna be asking, uh, you know, th for some information, there's some initial th something. And, you know, the first time out you you might have some general average. But you you d you don't have very much information yet. But at after they've given one utterance you've got something. You can compute your mean cepstra from that,", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "and then can use it for the next thing that they say, uh, so that, you know, the performance should be better that second time. Um, and I think the heuristics of exactly how people handle that and how they handle their training I'm sure vary from place to place. But I think the ideally, it seems to me anyway, that you you would wanna do the same thing in training as you do in test. But that's that's just, uh, a prejudice. And I think anybody working on this with some particular task would experiment.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "Right. I g I guess the question I had was, um, amount of data e u was the amount of data that you'd give it to, um update this estimate. Because say you if you have say five thousand utterances in your training set, um, and you you keep the mean from the last utterance, by the time it gets to the five thousandth utterance.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "No, but those are all different people with different I mean, i in y So for instance, in in the in a telephone task, these are different phone calls. So you don't wanna @ @ chain it together from a from a different phone call.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "OK, so so so they would g s", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "So it's within speaker, within phone call,", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor G" }, { "text": "if it's a dialogue system, it's within whatever this characteristic you're trying to get rid of is expected to be consistent over,", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "Hmm.", "speakerName": "Professor G" }, { "text": "r and it.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "right?", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "right. OK, so you'd you and so in training you would start over at at every new phone call or at every new speaker. Yeah,", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "OK.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "Yeah. Now, you know, maybe you'd use something from the others just because at the beginning of a call you don't know anything, and so you might have some kind of general thing that's your best guess to start with. But So, s I I you know, a lot of these things are proprietary so we're doing a little bit of guesswork here. I mean, what do comp what do people do who really face these problems in the field? Well, they have companies and they don't tell other people exactly what they do.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "R right.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "But but I mean, when you the the hints that you get from what they when they talk about it are that they do they all do something like this.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "Right, OK. I see. Bec - because I so this SmartKom task first off, it's this TV and movie information system.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "Yeah, but you might have somebody who's using it", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "And Yeah.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "and then later you might have somebody else who's using it.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "Yeah. Right. Right. I I see.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "And so you'd wanna set some.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "I was I was about to say. So if if you ask it \" What what movies are on TV tonight? \",", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "Yeah. Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "if I look at my wristwatch when I say that it's about two seconds. The way I currently have the mean subtraction, um, set up, the the analysis window is two seconds.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "So what you just said, about what do you start with, raises a question of what do I start with then?", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "I guess it because.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "Well, w OK, so in that situation, though, th maybe what's a little different there, is I think you're talking about there's only one it it it also depends we're getting a little off track here.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "Oh, right.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "r But but but Uh, there's been some discussion about whether the work we're doing in that project is gonna be for the kiosk or for the mobile or for both. And I think for this kind of discussion it matters. If it's in the kiosk, then the physical situation is the same. It's gonna you know, the exact interaction of the microphone's gonna differ depending on the person and so forth. But at least the basic acoustics are gonna be the same. So f if it's really in one kiosk, then I think that you could just chain together and and you know, as much as much speech as possible to because what you're really trying to get at is the is the reverberation characteristic.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "But in in the case of the mobile, uh, presumably the acoustic's changing all over the place.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "And in that case you probably don't wanna have it be endless because you wanna have some sort of it's it's not a question of how long do you think it's you can get an approximation to a stationary something, given that it's not really stationary.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "Right. Right.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "So.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "Hmm.", "speakerName": "Professor G" }, { "text": "And I I g I guess I s just started thinking of another question, which is, for for the very first frame, w what what do I do if I'm if I take if I use that frame to calculate the mean, then I'm just gonna get n nothing.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "Um,", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "so I should probably have some kind of default mean for the first f couple of frames?", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "Yeah. Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "OK.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "Yeah. Or subtract nothing. I mean, it's.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "Or subtract nothing. And and that's that's I guess that's something that's p people have figured out how to deal with in cepstral mean subtraction as well?", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "Yeah, yeah. Yeah, people do something. They they, uh, they have some, um, uh, in in cepstral mean subtraction, for short - term window analysis windows, as is usually done, you're trying to get rid of some very general characteristic. And so, uh, if you have any other information about what a general kind of characteristic would be, then you you can do it there.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "You can also you can also reflect the data. So you take, uh you know, I'm not sure how many frames you need.", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "Uh - huh.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "But you take that many from the front and flip it around to a as the negative value.", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "Yeah, that's Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "So you can always.", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "The other thing is that and and I I remember B B N doing this, is that if you have a multi - pass system, um, if the first pass ta it takes most of the computation, the second and the third pass could be very, very quick,", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "Mmm.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "just looking at a relatively small n small, uh, space of hypotheses.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "Uh - huh.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "Then you can do your first pass without any subtraction at all.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "Oh.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "And then your second pass, uh, uh, eliminates those most of those hypotheses by, uh by having an improved improved version o of the analysis.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "OK. OK.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "So.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "OK. So that was all I had, for now.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "Do you wanna go, Barry?", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "Yeah, OK. Um, so for the past, uh, week an or two, I've been just writing my, uh, formal thesis proposal. Um, so I'm taking this qualifier exam that's coming up in two weeks. And I I finish writing a proposal and submit it to the committee. Um. And uh, should I should I explain, uh, more about what what I'm proposing to do, and s and stuff?", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "Yes, briefly.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "Yeah briefly.", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "OK. Um, so briefly, I'm proposing to do a n a new p approach to speech recognition using um, a combination of, uh, multi - band ideas and ideas, um, about the uh, acoustic phonec phonetic approach to speech recognition. Um, so I will be using these graphical models that um, that implement the multi - band approach to recognize a set of intermediate categories that might involve, uh, things like phonetic features or other other f feature things that are more closely related to the acoustic signal itself. Um, and the hope in all of this is that by going multi - band and by going into these, um intermediate classifications, that we can get a system that's more robust to to unseen noises, and situations like that. Um, and so, some of the research issues involved in this are, um, one, what kind of intermediate categories do we need to classify? Um, another one is um, what what other types of structures in these multi - band graphical models should we consider in order to um, combine evidence from the sub - bands? And, uh, the third one is how do we how do we merge all the, uh, information from the individual uh, multi - band classifiers to come up with word word recognition or or phone recognition things. Um, so basically that's that's what I've been doing. And,", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "So you've got two weeks, huh?", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "I got two weeks to brush up on d um, presentation stuff and, um,", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "Oh, I thought you were finishing your thesis in two weeks.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "But. Oh, that too.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "Are you gonna do any dry runs for your thing,", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "Yes.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "or are you just gonna.", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "Yes. I, um I'm I'm gonna do some. Would you be interested? To help out?", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "Sure.", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "OK.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "Sure.", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "Thanks. Yeah.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "Is that it?", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "That's it.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "Hhh. OK. Uh. Hhh. Let's see. So we've got forty minutes left, and it seems like there's a lot of material. An - any suggestions about where we where we should go next?", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "Mmm, @ @.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Uh. Do you wanna go, Sunil? Maybe we'll just start with you.", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "Yeah. But I actually stuck most of this in our m last meeting with Guenter. Um, but I'll just Um, so the last week, uh, I showed some results with only SpeechDat - Car which was like some fifty - six percent. And, uh, I didn't h I mean, I I found that the results I mean, I wasn't getting that r results on the TI - digit. So I was like looking into \" why, what is wrong with the TI - digits? \". Why why I was not getting it. And I found that, the noise estimation is a reason for the TI - digits to perform worse than the baseline. So, uh, I actually, picked th I mean, the first thing I did was I just scaled the noise estimate by a factor which is less than one to see if that because I found there are a lot of zeros in the spectrogram for the TI - digits when I used this approach. So the first thing I did was I just scaled the noise estimate. And I found So the the results that I've shown here are the complete results using the new Well, the n the new technique is nothing but the noise estimate scaled by a factor of point five. So it's just an ad - hoc I mean, some intermediate result, because it's not optimized for anything. So the results The trend the only trend I could see from those results was like the the p the current noise estimation or the, uh, noise composition scheme is working good for like the car noise type of thing. Because I've the only only p very good result in the TI - digits is the noise car noise condition for their test - A, which is like the best I could see that uh, for any non - stationary noise like \" Babble \" or \" Subway \" or any \" Street \", some \" Restaurant \" noise, it's like it's not performing w very well. So, the So that that's the first thing I c uh, I could make out from this stuff. And.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Yeah, I think what is important to see is that there is a big difference between the training modes.", "speakerName": "Professor G" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Uh - huh. If you have clean training, you get also a fifty percent improvement.", "speakerName": "Professor G" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "But if you have muddy condition training you get only twenty percent.", "speakerName": "Professor G" }, { "text": "Yeah. Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Uh, and in that twenty percent @ @ it's very inconsistent across different noise conditions.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm. Mmm.", "speakerName": "Professor G" }, { "text": "So I have like a forty - five percent for \" Car noise \" and then there's a minus five percent for the \" Babble \",", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Mmm.", "speakerName": "Professor G" }, { "text": "and there's this thirty - three for the \" Station \". And so it's it's not it's not actually very consistent across. So. The only correlation between the SpeechDat - Car and this performance is the c stationarity of the noise that is there in these conditions and the SpeechDat - Car.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Professor G" }, { "text": "And, uh so so the overall result is like in the last page, which is like forty - seven, which is still very imbalanced because there are like fifty - six percent on the SpeechDat - Car and thirty - five percent on the TI - digits. And uh, ps the fifty - six percent is like comparable to what the French Telecom gets, but the thirty - five percent is way off.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "I'm sort of confused but this I'm looking on the second page,", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "Oh, yep.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "and it says \" fifty percent \" looking in the lower right - hand corner, \" fifty percent relative performance \".", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "For the clean training.", "speakerName": "Professor G" }, { "text": "Is that.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "u And if you if you look.", "speakerName": "Professor G" }, { "text": "is that fifty percent improvement?", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "Yeah. For that's for the clean training and the noisy testing for the TI - digits.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor G" }, { "text": "So it's improvement over the baseline mel cepstrum?", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "Yeah. Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "But the baseline mel cepstrum under those training doesn't do as well I I'm I'm trying to understand why it's it's eighty percent That's an accuracy number, I guess,", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "Yeah, yeah, yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "right? So that's not as good as the one up above.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "No.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "But the fifty is better than the one up above,", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "so I'm confused.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "Uh, actually the noise compensation whatever, uh, we are put in it works very well for the high mismatch condition. I mean, it's consistent in the SpeechDat - Car and in the clean training also it gives it But this fifty percent is is that the the high mismatch performance equivalent to the high mismatch performance in the speech.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "So n s So since the high mismatch performance is much worse to begin with, it's easier to get a better relative improvement.", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "Yeah. Yeah. I do. Yeah, yeah. So by putting this noise.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Yeah. Yeah, if we look at the figures on the right, we see that the reference system is very bad.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Oh.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "Yeah. The reference drops like a very fast.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "Like for clean clean training condition.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "I see.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "I see.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "Nnn.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "This is this is TI digits we're looking at?", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "Yeah. Yeah. Oh.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "This whole page is TI - digits", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "Oh. Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "or this is?", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "It's not written anywhere. Yeah, it's TI - digits. The first r spreadsheet is TI - digits.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Mmm. How does clean training do for the, uh, \" Car \"", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "Hmm.", "speakerName": "Professor G" }, { "text": "The \" Car \"?", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "stuff?", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "Oh. Still it still, uh that that's still consistent. I mean, I get the best performance in the case of \" Car \", which is the third column in the A condition.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "No. I mean, this is added noise. I mean, this is TI - digits. I'm sorry. I meant in in the in the, uh, multi - language, uh, uh, Finnish and.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "Uh.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "This is next next page.", "speakerName": "Professor G" }, { "text": "That's the next next spreadsheet, is.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Hmm.", "speakerName": "Professor G" }, { "text": "So that is the performance for Italian, Finnish and Spanish.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "\" Training condition \" Oh, right. So \" clean \" corresponds to \" high mismatch \".", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "And \" increase \", That's increase e", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "Improvement.", "speakerName": "Professor G" }, { "text": "Improvement. That's \" Percentage increase \" is the percentage improvement over the baseline.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Yeah. It's it's a.", "speakerName": "Professor G" }, { "text": "So that's.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Which means decrease in word error rate?", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "OK, so \" percentage increase \" means decrease?", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "Yeah, yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "OK.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "Yeah. The the w there was a very long discussion about this on on the on the, uh, Amsterdam meeting.", "speakerName": "Professor G" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "How to how to calculate it then.", "speakerName": "Professor G" }, { "text": "Yeah. There's there's a.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "I I I guess you are using finally this the scheme which they.", "speakerName": "Professor G" }, { "text": "Which is there in the spreadsheet.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "OK.", "speakerName": "Professor G" }, { "text": "I'm not changing anything in there.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Mmm.", "speakerName": "Professor G" }, { "text": "Alright.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "So. Uh, yeah. So all the hi H M numbers are w very good, in the sense, they are better than what the French Telecom gets. So. But the the only number that's still I mean, which Stephane also got in his result was that medium mismatch of the Finnish, which is very which is a very strange situation where we used the we changed the proto for initializing the HMM I mean, this this is basically because it gets stuck in some local minimum in the training. That seventy - five point seven nine in the Finnish mismatch which is that the eleven point nine six what we see.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Uh - huh.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "Mmm.", "speakerName": "Professor G" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "So we have to jiggle it somehow?", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "Yeah so we start with that different proto and it becomes eighty - eight, which is like some fifty percent improvement.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "S Wait a minute. Start with a different what?", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "Different prototype, which is like a different initialization for the, uh, s transition probabilities. It's just that right now, the initialization is to stay more in the current state, which is point four point six, right? Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "And if it changes to point five point five, which is equal @ @ for transition and self loop where it becomes eighty - eight percent.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Well, but that involves mucking with the back - end,", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "Yeah. We can't do it.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "which is not allowed.", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Mmm.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "So.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "I mean, it uh, like, i i i It is well known, this this medium match condition of the Finnish data has some strange effects.", "speakerName": "Professor G" }, { "text": "Very s", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "It has a very few at uh, actually, c uh, tran I mean, words also.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "I mean, that is Yeah,", "speakerName": "Professor G" }, { "text": "It's a very, very small set, actually.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "that too. Yeah. Uh - huh.", "speakerName": "Professor G" }, { "text": "So there is.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "There is a l a There is a lot of Uh, there are a lot of utterances with music in with music in the background.", "speakerName": "Professor G" }, { "text": "Yeah. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Mmm.", "speakerName": "Professor G" }, { "text": "Uh - huh.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "Yeah. It has some music also. I mean, very horrible music like like I know.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "So maybe for that one you need a much smarter VAD? Mmm,", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "Uh.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "if it's music.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "So, that that's the that's about the results. And, uh, the summary is like OK. So there are the other thing what I tried was, which I explained in the last meeting, is using the channel zero for, uh, for both dropping and estimating the noise. And that's like just to f n get a feel of how good it is. I guess the fifty - six percent improvement in the SpeechDat - Car becomes like sixty - seven percent. Like ten percent better. But that's that's not a that's a cheating experiment. So. That's just So, m w", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "But the but the, uh, forty - seven point nine percent which you have now, that's already a remarkable improvement in comparison to the first proposal.", "speakerName": "Professor G" }, { "text": "Yeah. So we had forty - four percent in the first proposal.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "OK.", "speakerName": "Professor G" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Professor G" }, { "text": "We have f a big im So the major improvement that we got was in all the high mismatch cases, because all those numbers were in sixties and seventies because we never had any noise compensations.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Mmm.", "speakerName": "Professor G" }, { "text": "So that's where the biggest improvement came up. Not much in the well match and the medium match and TI - digits also right now. So this is still at three or four percent improvement over the first proposal.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Mmm. Mmm.", "speakerName": "Professor G" }, { "text": "Yeah, so that's good.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "Yeah. So.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Then if we can improve the noise estimation, then it should get better.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "Yeah, I I started thinking about also I mean yeah, uh, I discovered the same problem when I started working on uh, on this Aurora task almost two years ago, that you have the problem with this mulit a at the beginning we had only this multi condition training of the TI - digits.", "speakerName": "Professor G" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "And, uh, I I found the same problem. Just taking um, what we were used to u use, I mean, uh, some type of spectral subtraction, y you get even worse results than the basis", "speakerName": "Professor G" }, { "text": "Yeah. Yeah,", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "and uh.", "speakerName": "Professor G" }, { "text": "yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "I I tried to find an explanation for it,", "speakerName": "Professor G" }, { "text": "Mmm.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "so.", "speakerName": "Professor G" }, { "text": "So. Yes. Stephane also has the same experience of using the spectral subtraction right?", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Mmm.", "speakerName": "Professor G" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Yeah. So here here I mean, I found that it's if I changed the noise estimate I could get an improvement.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "So that's so it's something which I can actually pursue, is the noise estimate.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Professor G" }, { "text": "And.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Yeah, I think what you do is in when when you have the the this multi - condition training mode, um then you have then you can train models for the speech, for the words, as well as for the pauses where you really have all information about the noise available.", "speakerName": "Professor G" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "And it was surprising At the beginning it was not surprising to me that you get really the best results on doing it this way, I mean, in comparison to any type of training on clean data and any type of processing. But it was So, u u it it seems to be the best what wh wh what what we can do in this moment is multi - condition training. And every when we now start introducing some some noise reduction technique we we introduce also somehow artificial distortions.", "speakerName": "Professor G" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "And these artificial distortions uh, I have the feeling that they are the reason why why we have the problems in this multi - condition training. That means the H M Ms we trained, they are they are based on Gaussians,", "speakerName": "Professor G" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "and on modeling Gaussians. And if you Can I move a little bit with this? Yeah. And if we introduce now this this u spectral subtraction, or Wiener filtering stuff So, usually what you have is maybe, um I'm I'm showing now an envelope um maybe you'll f for this time. So usually you have maybe in clean condition you have something which looks like this. And if it is noisy it is somewhere here. And then you try to subtract it or Wiener filter or whatever. And what you get is you have always these problems, that you have this these these these zeros in there.", "speakerName": "Professor G" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "And you have to do something if you get these negative values. I mean, this is your noise estimate and you somehow subtract it or do whatever. Uh, and then you have And then I think what you do is you introduce some some artificial distribution in this uh in in the models. I mean, i you you train it also this way but, i somehow there is u u there is no longer a a Gaussian distribution. It is somehow a strange distribution which we introduce with these artificial distortions. And and I was thinking that that might be the reason why you get these problems in the especially in the multi - condition training mode.", "speakerName": "Professor G" }, { "text": "Yeah, yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "Th - That's true. Yeah the c the models are not complex enough to absorb that additional variability that you're introducing.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "s", "speakerName": "Professor G" }, { "text": "Thanks Adam.", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "Yeah. Yes.", "speakerName": "Professor G" }, { "text": "Well, that's Yeah. So.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "I also have the feeling that um, the reason ye why it doesn't work is yeah, that the models are much are t um, not complex enough. Because I actually I als always had a good experience with spectral subtraction, just a straight spectral subtraction algorithm when I was using neural networks, big neural networks, which maybe are more able to model strange distributions and.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Professor G" }, { "text": "But Yeah. Then I tried the same exactly the same spectral subtraction algorithm on these Aurora tasks and it simply doesn't work. It's even it, uh, hurts even.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Hmm.", "speakerName": "Professor G" }, { "text": "So.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "We probably should at some point here try the tandem the the the system - two kind of stuff with this, with the spectral subtraction for that reason.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "Hmm.", "speakerName": "Professor G" }, { "text": "Cuz again, it should do a transformation to a domain where it maybe looks more Gaussian.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Professor G" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Hmm. Yeah, y I I was whe w w just yesterday when I was thinking about it um w what what we could try to do, or do about it I mean, if you if you get at this in this situation that you get this this negative values and you simply set it to zero or to a constant or whatever if we if we would use there a somehow, um a random generator which which has a certain distribution, u not a certain yeah, a special distribution we should see we we have to think about it.", "speakerName": "Professor G" }, { "text": "It's.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "And that we, so, introduce again some natural behavior in this trajectory.", "speakerName": "Professor G" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm. Very different from speech. Still, I mean, it shouldn't confuse the.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Yeah, I mean, similar to what what you see really u in in the real um noisy situation.", "speakerName": "Professor G" }, { "text": "OK. Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Or i in the clean situation. But but somehow a a natural distribution.", "speakerName": "Professor G" }, { "text": "But isn't that s again sort of the idea of the additive thing, if it as as we had in the J stuff? I mean, basically if if you have random data, um, in in the time domain, then when you look at the s spectrum it's gonna be pretty flat. And and,", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Professor G" }, { "text": "uh, so just add something everywhere rather than just in those places. It's just a constant, right?", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Yeah. I think e yeah. It's it's just especially in these segments, I mean, you introduce, um, very artificial behavior.", "speakerName": "Professor G" }, { "text": "Yeah. Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "And.", "speakerName": "Professor G" }, { "text": "Well, see if you add something everywhere, it has almost no effect up up up on on top. And it and it and it has significant effect down there.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "That was, sort of the idea.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Professor G" }, { "text": "Hmm. Yeah the that's true. That those those regions are the cause for this @ @ those negative values or whatever you get.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "I Mm - hmm. Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Professor G" }, { "text": "Yeah. So.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "I mean, we we could trit uh, we we could think how w what what we could try.", "speakerName": "Professor G" }, { "text": "Yeah. Yeah, yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "I mean, it it was just an idea.", "speakerName": "Professor G" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "I mean, we.", "speakerName": "Professor G" }, { "text": "I think when it's noisy people should just speak up.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "to Mmm.", "speakerName": "Professor G" }, { "text": "So.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "If we look at the France Telecom proposal, they use some kind of noise addition. They have a random number generator, right? And they add noise on the trajectory of, uh, the log energy only, right?", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Oh, they do!", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "Yep.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Oh.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "C - z C - zero and log energy also, yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Yeah. Um, But I don't know how much effect it this have, but they do that.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Now?", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Oh.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Uh - huh.", "speakerName": "Professor G" }, { "text": "Hmm.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "So it it it it it is l somehow similar to what.", "speakerName": "Professor G" }, { "text": "I think because they have th log energy, yeah, and then just generate random number. They have some kind of mean and variance, and they add this number to to the log energy simply. Um.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Yeah the the log energy, the after the clean cleaning up.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "To the l", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "So they add a random random noise to it.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "To the just the energy, or to the mel uh, to the mel filter?", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "No. On - only to the log energy.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Only Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Oh.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "Uh - huh.", "speakerName": "Professor G" }, { "text": "So it Cuz I mean, I think this is most interesting for the mel filters. Right?", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "Uh - huh.", "speakerName": "Professor G" }, { "text": "Or or F F one or the other.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "But but they do not apply filtering of the log energy or what.", "speakerName": "Professor G" }, { "text": "Like, uh I mean.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "like like a spectral subtraction or.", "speakerName": "Professor G" }, { "text": "No their filter is not M domain. S so they did filter their time signal", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Yeah. I kn", "speakerName": "Professor G" }, { "text": "and then what @ @ u", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "And then they calculate from this, the log energy", "speakerName": "Professor G" }, { "text": "Yeah then after that it is s almost the same as the baseline prop system.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "or? Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Professor G" }, { "text": "And then the final log energy that they that they get, that to the to that they add some random noise.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Yeah, but again, that's just log energy as opposed to filter bank energy.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "Yeah. So it's not the mel.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Mmm.", "speakerName": "Professor G" }, { "text": "You know, it's not the mel filter bank output.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "These are log energy computed from the time s domain signal,", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Professor G" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "not from the mel filter banks. So did.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Hmm.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "Maybe it's just a way to decrease the importance of this particular parameter in the in the world feature vector cu if you add noise to one of the parameters, you widen the distributions", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Hmm.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "Becomes flat. The variance, yeah, reduces,", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "and.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "so. Hmm, yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Eee - sss - uh.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "So it could reduce the dependence on the amplitude and so on. Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Yeah. Although.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Maybe.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "So is, uh Is that about it?", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "Uh, so the.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Or?", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "OK. So the other thing is the I'm just looking at a little bit on the delay issue where the delay of the system is like a hundred and eighty millisecond. So I just just tried another sk system I mean, another filter which I've like shown at the end. Which is very similar to the existing uh, filter. Only Uh, only thing is that the phase is is like a totally nonlinear phase because it's a it's not a symmetric filter anymore.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "This is for the LDA?", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "Yeah so so this this is like So this makes the delay like zero for LDA because it's completely causal.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Oh.", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "So So I got actually just the results for the Italian for that and that's like So the fifty - one point O nine has become forty - eight point O six, which is like three percent relative degradation. So I have like the fifty - one point O nine", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "and So. I don't know it f fares for the other conditions. So it's just like it's like a three percent relative degradation, with the.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "But but is there is there a problem with the one hundred eighty milliseconds? Or?", "speakerName": "Professor G" }, { "text": "u Uh, may", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Th - Well, this is.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "Yeah, I mean, I talked to to uh, I ta Uh, I talked, uh, about it with with Hynek. I mean, there is.", "speakerName": "Professor G" }, { "text": "This is So So, basically our our position is that, um, we shouldn't be unduly constraining the latency at this point because we're all still experimenting with trying to make the performance better in the presence of noise. Uh, there is a minority in that group who is a arguing who are arguing for um, uh, having a further constraining of the latency. So we're s just continuing to keep aware of what the trade - offs are and, you know, what what do we gain from having longer or shorter latencies?", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "Mmm.", "speakerName": "Professor G" }, { "text": "But since we always seem to at least get something out of longer latencies not being so constrained, we're tending to go with that if we're not told we can't do it.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "What where was the, um the smallest latency of all the systems last time?", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Professor G" }, { "text": "The French Telecom.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Well, France Telecom was was was very short latency", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "It's.", "speakerName": "Professor G" }, { "text": "and they had a very good result.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "What what was it?", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "It was thirty - five.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "It was in the order of thirty milliseconds", "speakerName": "Professor G" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "or.", "speakerName": "Professor G" }, { "text": "Thirteen?", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "th th", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "Thirty.", "speakerName": "Professor G" }, { "text": "Thirty.", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "Thirty - four.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor G" }, { "text": "Yeah, so it's possible to get very short latency.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "But, again, we're the the approaches that we're using are ones that take advantage of.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "Yeah. I was just curious about where we are compared to, you know, the shortest that people have done.", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "But but I think this thirty milliseconds they they did it did not include the the delta calculation.", "speakerName": "Professor G" }, { "text": "Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "And this is included now,", "speakerName": "Professor G" }, { "text": "Yeah. Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "you know?", "speakerName": "Professor G" }, { "text": "So if they include the delta, it will be an additional forty millisecond.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "Yeah. I I don't remember the i th They were not using the HTK delta?", "speakerName": "Professor G" }, { "text": "No, they're using a nine - point window, which is like a four on either side,", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Nine - point.", "speakerName": "Professor G" }, { "text": "which is like.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "OK.", "speakerName": "Professor G" }, { "text": "f so.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Mmm.", "speakerName": "Professor G" }, { "text": "they didn't include that.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Professor G" }, { "text": "So.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Where does the comprish compression in decoding delay comes from?", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "OK.", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "That's the way the the the frames are packed, like you have to wait for one more frame to pack. Because it's the CRC is computed for two frames always.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Well, that the they would need that forty milliseconds also.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "No. They actually changed the compression scheme altogether.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Right?", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "So they have their own compression and decoding scheme and they I don't know what they have.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Oh.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "But they have coded zero delay for that. Because they ch I know they changed it, their compression. They have their own CRC, their their own error correction mechanism.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Oh.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "So they don't have to wait more than one more frame to know whether the current frame is in error.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Oh, OK.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "So they changed the whole thing so that there's no delay for that compression and part also.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Hmm.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Professor G" }, { "text": "Even you have reported actually zero delay for the compression. I thought maybe you also have some different.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Mmm. Mmm. No, I think I I used this scheme as it was before.", "speakerName": "Professor G" }, { "text": "OK. Ah. Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "OK, we've got twenty minutes so we should probably try to move along. Uh, did you wanna go next, Stephane?", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "I can go next. Yeah. Mmm.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Oh. Wait a minute. It's.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "It's Yeah, we have to take.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Wait a minute. I think I'm confused.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "Well OK.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Alright.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "So you have w w one sheet? This one is you don't need it, alright.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Uh.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "So you have to take the whole the five. There should be five sheets.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "OK,", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "I have four now because I left one with Dave because I thought I was dropping one off and passing the others on. So, no, we're not. OK.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "Thanks.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Please give me one.", "speakerName": "PhD H" }, { "text": "Ah, we need one more over here.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "OK, maybe there's not enough for everybody.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "I can share with Barry.", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "Oh, OK.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "But Can we look at this?", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "OK.", "speakerName": "Professor G" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "So, yeah, there are two figures showing actually the, mmm, um, performance of the current VAD. So it's a n neural network based on PLP parameters, uh, which estimate silence probabilities, and then I just put a median filtering on this to smooth the probabilities, right? Um I didn't use the the scheme that's currently in the proposal because I don't want to In the proposal Well, in in the system we want to add like speech frame before every word and a little bit of of, uh, s a couple of frames after also. Uh, but to estimate the performance of the VAD, we don't want to do that, because it would artificially increase the um the false alarm rate of speech detection. Right? Um, so, there is u normally a figure for the Finnish and one for Italian. And maybe someone has two for the Italian because I'm missing one figure here.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "No.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Well Well, whatever. Uh Yeah, so one surprising thing that we can notice first is that apparently the speech miss rate is uh, higher than the false alarm rate. So. It means.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "So so what is the lower curve and the upper curve?", "speakerName": "Professor G" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm. Yeah, there are two curves. One curve's for the close - talking microphone, which is the lower curve.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor G" }, { "text": "And the other one is for the distant microphone", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Ah, OK.", "speakerName": "Professor G" }, { "text": "which has more noise so, it's logical that it performs worse. So as I was saying, the miss rate is quite important uh, which means that we tend to label speech as as a silence. And, uh, I didn't analyze further yet, but I think it's it may be due to the fricative sounds which may be in noisy condition maybe label labelled as silence. And it may also be due to the alignment because well, the reference alignment. Because right now I just use an alignment obtained from from a system trained on channel zero. And I checked it a little bit but there might be alignment errors. Um, yeah, e like the fact that the the models tend to align their first state on silence and their last state o on silence also. So the reference reference alignment would label as speech some silence frame before speech and after speech. This is something that we already noticed before when mmm, So this cus this could also explain, uh, the high miss rate maybe. Uh.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "And and this this curves are the average over the whole database, so.", "speakerName": "Professor G" }, { "text": "Yeah. Right.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Mmm.", "speakerName": "Professor G" }, { "text": "Um Yeah, and the different points of the curves are for five uh, thresholds on the probability uh from point three to point seven.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "So that threshold.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm. Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "OK. S OK so d the detection threshold is very.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "So the v", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Yeah, yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "The VAD? Yeah. There first, a threshold on the probability @ @ That puts all the values to zero or one.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Mmm.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "And then the median filtering.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Yeah, so the median filtering is fixed. You just change the threshold?", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Yeah. It's fixed,", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "yeah. Mm - hmm. So, going from channel zero to channel one, uh, almost double the error rate. Um, Yeah. Well, so it's a reference performance that we can you know, if we want to to work on the VAD, we can work on this basis", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "and.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "OK.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Is this is this VAD a MLP?", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "OK. How how big is it?", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "It's a very big one. I don't remember.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "So three three hundred and fifty inputs,", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "m", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "uh, six thousand hidden nodes and two outputs. t t", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "OK.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Middle - sized one.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Yeah. Uh, ppp. I don't know, you have questions about that, or suggestions?", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Mmm. S so.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "It seems the performance seems worse in Finnish, which.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Well, it's not trained on Finnish.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "uh.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "It's worse.", "speakerName": "PhD H" }, { "text": "It's not trained on Finnish, yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "What's it trained on?", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "I mean, the MLP's not trained on Finnish.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Right, what's it trained on?", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "Oh oh. Sorry. Uh, it's Italian TI - digits.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Yeah. Oh, it's trained on Italian?", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Yeah, OK.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm. And.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "That's right.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "OK.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "And also there are like funny noises on Finnish more than on Italian. I mean, like music", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Professor G" }, { "text": "Yeah. Yeah, the Yeah, it's true.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "and um So, yeah, we were looking at this. But for most of the noises, noises are um, I don't know if we want to talk about that. But, well, the the \" Car \" noises are below like five hundred hertz. And we were looking at the \" Music \" utterances and in this case the noise is more about two thousand hertz.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Well, the music energy's very low apparently. Uh, uh, from zero to two two thousand hertz. So maybe just looking at this frequency range for from five hundred to two thousand would improve somewhat the VAD", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Mmm.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "and.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Mmm.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "So there are like some some s some parameters you wanted to use or something?", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Yeah, but Yes.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Or Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm. Uh, the next, um Oh, it's there.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "So is the is the is the training is the training based on these labels files which you take as reference here?", "speakerName": "Professor G" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Wh - when you train the neural net y y you.", "speakerName": "Professor G" }, { "text": "No. It's not. It's it was trained on some alignment obtained um, uh For the Italian data, I think we trained the neural network on with embedded training. So re - estimation of the alignment using the neural network, I guess. That's right?", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Yeah. We actually trained, uh, the on the Italian training part.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "We we had another system with u", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "So it was a f f a phonetic classification system for the Italian Aurora data.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Yeah. It must be somewhere. Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "For the Aurora data that it was trained on, it was different. Like, for TI - digits you used a a previous system that you had, I guess.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "What No it Yeah, yeah. That's true.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "So the alignments from the different database that are used for training came from different system.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Syste Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Then we put them tog together. Well, you put them together and trained the VAD on them.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Mmm.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Hmm.", "speakerName": "Professor G" }, { "text": "Uh, But did you use channel did you align channel one also? Or.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "I just took their entire Italian training part.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "So it was both channel zero plus channel one.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "So di Yeah. So the alignments might be wrong then on channel one, right?", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "On one. Possible.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "So we might,", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "We can do a realignment.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "yeah,", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "That's true.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "at least want to retrain on these alignments, which should be better because they come from close - talking microphone.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Yeah, the that was my idea. I mean, if if it ha if it is not the same labeling which is taking the spaces.", "speakerName": "Professor G" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "OK.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Yeah, possible.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Mmm.", "speakerName": "Professor G" }, { "text": "I mean, it so the system.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "so the VAD was trained on maybe different set of labels for channel zero and channel one", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "and.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Professor G" }, { "text": "was the alignments were w were different for s certainly different because they were independently trained.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "We didn't copy the channel zero alignments to channel one.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Professor G" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "But for the new alignments what you generated, you just copied the channel zero to channel one, right? Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Right. Yeah. Um. And eh, hhh actually when we look at at the VAD, for some utterances it's almost perfect, I mean, it just dropped one frame, the first frame of speech or So there are some utterances where it's almost one hundred percent VAD performance.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Hmm.", "speakerName": "Professor G" }, { "text": "Uh, but Yeah. Mmm Yep. So the next thing is um, I have the spreadsheet for three different system. But for this you only have to look right now on the SpeechDat - Car performance uh, because I didn't test so I didn't test the spectral subtraction on TI - digits yet. Uh, so you have three she sheets. One is the um proposal - one system. Actually, it's not exe exactly proposal - one. It's the system that Sunil just described. Um, but with uh, Wiener filtering from um, France Telecom included. Um, so this gives like fifty - seven point seven percent, uh, s uh, error rate reduction on the SpeechDat - Car data. Mmm, and then I have two sheets where it's for a system where uh, so it's again the same system. But in this case we have spectral subtraction with a maximum overestimation factor of two point five. Uh, there is smoothing of the gain trajectory with some kind of uh, low - pass filter, which has forty milliseconds latency. And then, after subtraction um, I add a constant to the energies and I have two cases d where The first case is where the constant is twenty - five DB below the mean speech energy and the other is thirty DB below. Um, and for these s two system we have like fifty - five point, uh, five - percent improvement, and fifty - eight point one. So again, it's around fifty - six, fifty - seven. Uh.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Cuz I notice the TI - digits number is exactly the same for these last two?", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "Yeah, because I didn't For the France Telecom uh, spectral subtraction included in the our system, the TI - digits number are the right one, but not for the other system because I didn't test it yet this system, including with spectral subtraction on the TI - digits data. I just tested it on SpeechDat - Car.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Ah! So so that means the only thing.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm. So so so these numbers are simply.", "speakerName": "Professor G" }, { "text": "This, we have to Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "But this number.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor G" }, { "text": "So you so you just should look at that fifty - eight perc point O nine percent and so on.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "Yes.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "OK.", "speakerName": "Professor G" }, { "text": "Right. Right.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "OK. Good.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm. Um, Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "So this So by uh, by by reducing the noise a a decent threshold like minus thirty DB, it's like Uh, you are like r r reducing the floor of the noisy regions, right?", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "s", "speakerName": "Professor G" }, { "text": "Yeah. Yeah. The floor is lower. Um,", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Uh - huh.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "I'm sorry. So when you say minus twenty - five or minus thirty DB, with respect to what?", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "To the average um, speech energy which is estimated on the world database.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "OK, so basically you're creating a signal - to - noise ratio of twenty - five or thirty DB?", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "uh r", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "But it's not.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "I I I think what you do is this.", "speakerName": "Professor G" }, { "text": "it it's.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "i When when you have this, after you subtracted it, I mean, then you get something w w with this, uh, where you set the values to zero and then you simply add an additive constant again.", "speakerName": "Professor G" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "So you shift it somehow. This this whole curve is shifted again.", "speakerName": "Professor G" }, { "text": "But did you do that before the thresholding to zero,", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "Right. It's.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "or?", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "But, it's after the thresholding.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Oh,", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "So,", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "so you'd really want to do it before,", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "maybe.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "right?", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "maybe we might do it before,", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Yeah, because then the then you would have less of that phenomenon.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "yeah. Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "I think.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "Uh.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "E Hhh.", "speakerName": "Professor G" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "c", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "But still, when you do this and you take the log after that, it it reduce the the variance.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Yeah, it it Right.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "But Mmm,", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Yeah, that will reduce the variance. That'll help. But maybe if you does do it before you get less of these funny - looking things he's drawing.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Professor G" }, { "text": "Um,", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "So before it's like adding this, col to the to the o exi original.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "But but.", "speakerName": "Professor G" }, { "text": "We would.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Right at the point where you've done the subtraction.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "OK.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Um, essentially you're adding a constant into everything.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "But the way Stephane did it, it is exactly the way I have implemented in the phone, so.", "speakerName": "Professor G" }, { "text": "Oh, yeah, better do it different, then. Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "Um.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Just you you just ta you just set it for a particular signal - to - noise ratio that you want?", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Yeah I I made s similar investigations like Stephane did here, just uh, adding this constant and and looking how dependent is it on the value of the constant", "speakerName": "Professor G" }, { "text": "Yeah. Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "and then, must choose them somehow to give on average the best results for a certain range of the signal - to - noise ratios.", "speakerName": "Professor G" }, { "text": "Uh - huh.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "Yeah. Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "So.", "speakerName": "Professor G" }, { "text": "Oh, it's clear. I should have gi given other results. Also it's clear when you don't add noise, it's much worse. Like, around five percent worse I guess.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Uh - huh.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "And if you add too much noise it get worse also. And it seems that right now this this is c a constant that does not depend on on anything that you can learn from the utterance. It's just a constant noise addition. Um. And I I think w w", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "I I'm sorry. Then then I'm confused.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "I think.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "I thought you're saying it doesn't depend on the utterance but I thought you were adding an amount that was twenty - five DB down from the signal energy.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "Yeah, so the way I did that, i I just measured the average speech energy of the all the Italian data.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Oh!", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "And then I I have I used this as mean speech energy. Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Oh, it's just a constant amount over all.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "Yeah. And.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "OK.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "wha what I observed is that for Italian and Spanish, when you go to thirty and twenty - five DB, uh it it's good.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Oh.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "It stays In this range, it's, uh, the p u well, the performance of the this algorithm is quite good. But for Finnish, you have a degradation already when you go from thirty - five to thirty and then from thirty to twenty - five. And I have the feeling that maybe it's because just Finnish has a mean energy that's lower than than the other databases. And due to this the thresholds should be.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "the the a the noise addition should be lower", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "But in I mean, in the real thing you're not gonna be able to measure what people are doing over half an hour or an hour, or anything, right?", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "and.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "So you have to come up with this number from something else.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "Yeah. So.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Uh, but you are not doing it now language dependent? Or?", "speakerName": "Professor G" }, { "text": "It's not. It's just something that's fixed.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "No. It's overall.", "speakerName": "Professor G" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "OK.", "speakerName": "Professor G" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm. Um.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "But what he is doing language dependent is measuring what that number i reference is that he comes down twenty - five down from.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "Yeah, so I g No. It No.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "No?", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "Because I did it I started working on Italian. I obtained this average energy", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "and then I used this one.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "For all the languages. OK.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "So it's sort of arbitrary.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "I mean, so if y if Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "Yep.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "Um, yeah, so the next thing is to use this as as maybe initialization", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Uh - huh.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "and then use something on - line.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Something more adaptive,", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "But And I expect improvement at least in Finnish because eh the way.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "yeah. OK.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "Well, um, for Italian and Spanish it's th this value works good but not necessarily for Finnish. Mmm. But unfortunately there is, like, this forty millisecond latency and, um Yeah, so I would try to somewhat reduce this @ @. I already know that if I completely remove this latency, so. um, it um there is a three percent hit on Italian.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Professor G" }, { "text": "d Does latency.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "i", "speakerName": "Professor G" }, { "text": "Sorry. Go ahead.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Yeah. Your your smoothing was @ @ uh, over this s so to say, the the factor of the Wiener. And then it's, uh What was it? This.", "speakerName": "Professor G" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "this smoothing, it was over the subtraction factor, so to say.", "speakerName": "Professor G" }, { "text": "It's a smoothing over the the gain of the subtraction algorithm.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Was this done Mm - hmm. And and you are looking into the future, into the past.", "speakerName": "Professor G" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "And smoothing.", "speakerName": "Professor G" }, { "text": "So, to smooth this thing.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Professor G" }, { "text": "Yeah. Um.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "And did did you try simply to smooth um to smooth the the t to to smooth stronger the the envelope?", "speakerName": "Professor G" }, { "text": "Um, no, I did not.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Mmm.", "speakerName": "Professor G" }, { "text": "Mmm.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Because I mean, it should have a similar effect if you.", "speakerName": "Professor G" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "I mean, you you have now several stages of smoothing, so to say. You start up. As far as I remember you you smooth somehow the envelope, you smooth somehow the noise estimate,", "speakerName": "Professor G" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm. Mmm.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "and and later on you smooth also this subtraction factor.", "speakerName": "Professor G" }, { "text": "Uh, no, it's it's just the gain that's smoothed actually", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Uh, actually I d I do all the smoothing.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "but it's smoothed.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Ah. Oh, it w it was you.", "speakerName": "Professor G" }, { "text": "Yeah, yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Uh Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor G" }, { "text": "Yeah. No, in this case it's just the gain.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor G" }, { "text": "And.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Uh - huh.", "speakerName": "Professor G" }, { "text": "But the way it's done is that um, for low gain, there is this non nonlinear smoothing actually. For low gains um, I use the smoothed sm uh, smoothed version but for high gain @ @ it's I don't smooth.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Uh. Mm - hmm. I just, uh it Experience shows you, if if you do the The best is to do the smoo smoothing as early as possible.", "speakerName": "Professor G" }, { "text": "Uh - huh.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "So w when you start up. I mean, you start up with the with the somehow with the noisy envelope.", "speakerName": "Professor G" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "And, best is to smooth this somehow.", "speakerName": "Professor G" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm. Uh, yeah, I could try this. Um.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "And.", "speakerName": "Professor G" }, { "text": "So, before estimating the SNR, @ @ smooth the envelope.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Yeah. Yeah. Uh - huh.", "speakerName": "Professor G" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm. But Yeah. Then I I would need to find a way to like smooth less also when there is high energy. Cuz I noticed that it it helps a little bit to s like smooth more during low energy portions and less during speech,", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Yes, y", "speakerName": "Professor G" }, { "text": "because if you smooth then y you kind of distort the speech.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Yeah. Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor G" }, { "text": "Um.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "Professor G" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Yeah, I think when w you you could do it in this way that you say, if you if I'm you have somehow a noise estimate,", "speakerName": "Professor G" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "and, if you say I'm I'm with my envelope I'm close to this noise estimate,", "speakerName": "Professor G" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "then you have a bad signal - to - noise ratio and then you you would like to have a stronger smoothing.", "speakerName": "Professor G" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "So you could you could base it on your estimation of the signal - to - noise ratio on your actual.", "speakerName": "Professor G" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm. Mm - hmm. Mmm.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Yeah, or some silence probability from the VAD if you have.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Um, yeah, but I don't trust the current VAD. So.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Yeah, uh, so not not right now maybe.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Well, maybe.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "The VAD later will be much better.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "Maybe.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Yeah. So. I see.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "So is that it?", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "Uh, fff I think that's it. Yeah. Uh.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "s So to summarize the performance of these, SpeechDat - Car results is similar than than yours so to say.", "speakerName": "Professor G" }, { "text": "Yeah, so the fifty - eight is like the be some fifty - six point.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Y you have you have fifty - six point four", "speakerName": "Professor G" }, { "text": "Yeah, that's true.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "and and and dependent on this additive constant, it is s better or or worse.", "speakerName": "Professor G" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Slightly better.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": ".", "speakerName": "PhD H" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor G" }, { "text": "And, yeah, i i i the condition where it's better than your approach, it's it just because maybe it's better on well matched and that the weight on well matched is is bigger,", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Yeah. Yeah, you you caught up.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "because.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Yep, that's true.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "if you don't weigh differently the different condition, you can see that your well, the win the two - stage Wiener filtering is maybe better or.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "It's better for high mismatch, right?", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Yeah, it's better for high mismatch.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm. But a little bit worse for well matched.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "So over all it gets, yeah, worse for the well matched condition, so y", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Uh - huh.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "So we need to combine these two.", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "Uh, that's that's the best thing, is like the French Telecom system is optimized for the well matched condition. They c", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Yeah. So they know that the weighting is good for the well matched, and so there's everywhere the well matched's s s performance is very good for the French Telecom.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Professor G" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "T we are we may also have to do something similar @ @.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Well, our tradition here has always been to focus on the mismatched.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "Um the.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Cuz it's more interesting.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "Mu - my mine was it too, I mean.", "speakerName": "Professor G" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "Before I started working on this Aurora.", "speakerName": "Professor G" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "so.", "speakerName": "Professor G" }, { "text": "Yeah. Yeah. OK.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "Carmen? Do you, uh.", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "Well, I only say that the this is, a summary of the of all the VTS experiments and say that the result in the last um, for Italian the last experiment for Italian, are bad. I make a mistake when I write. Up at D I copy one of the bad result.", "speakerName": "PhD H" }, { "text": "So you.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "And There. You know, this. Um, well. If we put everything, we improve a lot u the spectral use of the VTS but the final result are not still mmm, good like the Wiener filter for example. I don't know. Maybe it's @ @ it's possible to to have the same result.", "speakerName": "PhD H" }, { "text": "That's somewhere.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "I don't know exactly. Mmm. Because I have, mmm, worse result in medium mismatch and high mismatch.", "speakerName": "PhD H" }, { "text": "You s you have a better r Yeah. You have some results that are good for the high mismatch.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "And Yeah. I someti are more or less similar but but are worse. And still I don't have the result for TI - digits. The program is training. Maybe for this weekend I will have result TI - digits and I can complete that s like this. Well.", "speakerName": "PhD H" }, { "text": "Uh. Right.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "One thing that I note are not here in this result but are speak are spoken before with Sunil I I improve my result using clean LDA filter.", "speakerName": "PhD H" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "If I use, eh, the LDA filter that are training with the noisy speech, that hurts the res my results.", "speakerName": "PhD H" }, { "text": "So what are these numbers here? Are these with the clean or with the noisy?", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "This is with the clean.", "speakerName": "PhD H" }, { "text": "OK.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "With the noise I have worse result, that if I doesn't use it.", "speakerName": "PhD H" }, { "text": "Uh - huh.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "But m that may be because with this technique we are using really really clean speech. The speech the representation that go to the HTK is really clean speech because it's from the dictionary, the code book and maybe from that. I don't know.", "speakerName": "PhD H" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Because I think that you did some experiments using the two the two LDA filter, clean and noi and noise,", "speakerName": "PhD H" }, { "text": "It's.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "and it doesn't matter too much.", "speakerName": "PhD H" }, { "text": "Um, yeah, I did that but it doesn't matter on SpeechDat - Car, but, it matters, uh, a lot on TI - digits.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Using the clean filter.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "It's better to use clean.", "speakerName": "PhD H" }, { "text": "Yeah, d uh, it's much better when you we used the clean derived LDA filter.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm. Maybe you can do d also this.", "speakerName": "PhD H" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "To use clean speech.", "speakerName": "PhD H" }, { "text": "Yeah, I'll try.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Uh, but, yeah, Sunil in in your result it's.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "I I'll try the cle No, I I my result is with the noisy noisy LDA.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "It's with the noisy one. Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Oh!", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "It's with the noisy. Yeah. It's it's not the clean LDA.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "So.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Um.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "It's In in the front sheet, I have like like the summary. Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "And and your result is with the.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "It's with the clean LDA.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Oh. This is Your results are all with the clean LDA result?", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Yeah, with the clean LDA.", "speakerName": "PhD H" }, { "text": "OK. @ @.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "And in your case it's all all noisy,", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Is that the reason?", "speakerName": "PhD H" }, { "text": "All noisy, yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "yeah. But.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "And.", "speakerName": "PhD H" }, { "text": "Uh.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Uh.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "But I observe my case it's in, uh, uh, at least on SpeechDat - Car it doesn't matter but TI - digits it's like two or three percent absolute, uh, better.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "On TI - digits this matters. Absolute. Uh.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "So you really might wanna try the clean I think.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "So if.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Yeah, I I I will have to look at it. Yeah, that's true.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Yeah. Yeah, that could be sizeable right there.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "And this is everything.", "speakerName": "PhD H" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor G" }, { "text": "OK.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "Maybe you you are leaving in in about two weeks Carmen. No?", "speakerName": "Professor G" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD H" }, { "text": "Yeah. So I mean, if if if I would put it put on the head of a project mana manager I I I I would say, uh, um I mean there is not so much time left now.", "speakerName": "Professor G" }, { "text": "Be my guest.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "I mean, if um, what what I would do is I I I would pick @ @ the best consolation, which you think, and c create create all the results for the whole database that you get to the final number as as Sunil did it", "speakerName": "Professor G" }, { "text": "And prepare at the s", "speakerName": "PhD H" }, { "text": "and um and maybe also to to write somehow a document where you describe your approach, and what you have done.", "speakerName": "Professor G" }, { "text": "Yeah, I was thinking to do that next week.", "speakerName": "PhD H" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor G" }, { "text": "Yeah, I'll I'll borrow the head back and and agree. Yeah,", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "Yeah, I wi I I will do that next week.", "speakerName": "PhD H" }, { "text": "that's that's Right. In fact, actually I g I guess the, uh the Spanish government, uh, requires that anyway. They want some kind of report from everybody who's in the program.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD H" }, { "text": "So. And of course I'd we'd we'd like to see it too. So,", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "OK.", "speakerName": "PhD H" }, { "text": "yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "So, um, what's Do you think we, uh, should do the digits or skip it? Or what are what do you think?", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "Uh, we have them now?", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "Yeah, got them.", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "Uh, why don why don't we do it?", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "OK.", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "Just just take a minute.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "I can send yet.", "speakerName": "PhD H" }, { "text": "Would you pass those down?", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "Oh! Sorry.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "OK, um, so I guess I'll go ahead. Um,", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "Seat?", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "Dave? Is it the channel, or the mike? I don't remember. It's the mike?", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Mike?", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "It's not four.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "This is date and time. No. On the channel, channel.", "speakerName": "PhD H" }, { "text": "What is this?", "speakerName": "Professor G" }, { "text": "t", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "OK, if you could just leave, um, your mike on top of your, uh, digit form I can fill in any information that's missing.", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "OK.", "speakerName": "Professor G" }, { "text": "That's uh I didn't get a chance to fill them out ahead of time. Yeah, we're gonna have to fix that. Uh, let's see, it starts with one here, and then goes around and ends with nine here.", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "Seven. So I I'm eight,", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "So he's eight,", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "you're seven.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "you're seven,", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Grad A" } ] }

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So well it is important for him to be here uh.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "He he he.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "So what can you?", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "You did work together didn't you?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah we will yeah, so I will be able to to summarize uh our meeting,", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yes.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "but still I think uh it would be in very important if the uh as um main designer. I think we can put on the here.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yes. Yes.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Uh basically w yeah we we designed the two uh items.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Mm. Um yes", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Um, can we have a phone,", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "but w we.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "can someone.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yes, maybe we should phone him. Um well Um,", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "it's really w well designed.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Mm. Mm, object tracking..", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "when he is not here we will just we just have to continue. Um so just for record I I will take uh notes again.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "And um well first thing uh I was uh uh I got an email from uh from my superior again that we really should stay within the budget of the uh twelve Euro and fifty cents.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "'Kay.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "when you stay in it's good, when you don't stay in you have to redesign. There is no uh no negotiation uh possible in this matter. So we have to consider that. Good.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yep.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Um so maybe Anna, you can have your presentation.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Well we can't no we can't do evaluation'til we have a design.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Okay Matthew. Nice uh you are here.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Great.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Great. Great. Oh ma maybe then you can start now with mm presenting your uh your designs.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yep. So I will start by the the basic one that uh fits into uh eight Euros actually, right, seven eight Euros,", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "and uh well first for both they have um a special shape, maybe the designer can uh explain better than me, but uh it's like a surf board.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Mm'kay.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "And you you are supposed to surf to browse to surf T_V_, maybe the web, and uh it's kind of interesting shape because um unconsciously people want to s to surf when they see this stuff.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Or browse.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "And also it's not too far from um a mobile.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "So people are used to that kind of shape,", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "right. Don't take care too much about the colour because w yeah we don't take.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Now we are supposed to give some oper offers right now.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "yeah. So here would be basically the the the infrared uh uh led", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Eye.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "I yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "yeah L_A_ L_A_ L_E_D_,", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "L_E_D_.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "the on-off button, in red.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Here would be the volume. On the on the left,", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Oh yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Uh-huh.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "okay, so.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm, hmm.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yes.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "easy to turn on t and off. And um so this is a very cheap version so there are maybe you can carry on uh Matthew.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Also so you have uh uh browsing the channels, actually", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "so you can go up and down the channels,", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "uh, if you have a video or something you can forward, back.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "How can you change from V_C_R_ to uh T_V_, by the way?", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Oh no no no, this is a single this this is a model with just the T_V_ one.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Okay yeah. Yeah yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Ah, okay.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "No no just sorry, this is a standard T_V_ one, we are not talking about that. So and then we have usually there twelve keys but we know that we rel that we have only ten digits.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "The extra two are for uh having or giving an option for uh having more than one channel. And the other one is for the teletext or something you want to browse through from that. Actually.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Okay so", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "it's it's t a very basic remote then, it's only.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "It's a very basic minimal thing", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "which you can which is which is also available in the market, actually that's what it that it i", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "and would cost us to build it about eight Euros.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Seven, eight, ei eight Euros.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Exce except for the for the special shape, the surfing board, it has a quite a a conventional layout of buttons uh.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah. Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "So this one model", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Can I see?", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "and uh yeah. Sure.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Thanks. Okay I like the volume control, that's good.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Th this is a magic one but I know we don't want to talk about that,", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "you know like.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "uh i i i it is a very futuristic, it's like uh it's like a brain machine interface and all this stuff we are thinking about in the future, it can come.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Uh-huh.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "So it doesn't actually have buttons.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "So that uh then what we look t", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Did you wanna see?", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm. Yeah no you can carry on,", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "This is a model,", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "I just look how it feels all.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yes it really feels like like like a mobile phone.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yep.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Just I'm.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah actually, yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "I really want to talk to it.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "It won't talk back..", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "But.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "So but but continue with your uh", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Uh so well", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "then the this is the a more a little uh smooth", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "and it gives a lot of functionality, uh in this way, so all we have uh th you see there are only six keys, but don't worry they are ma they are doing the job of twelve keys actually here.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "And so they have more space actually", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "and uh it's easy to uh use this and uh you have um so this is a standard uh uh infrared eye, and then you have a power button, which l volume, what you have,", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "and then other than that you have uh channel up and down and uh f slow pause or s slow lo", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Play, pause.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "yeah s pause or stop, and uh then uh you can uh you have a L_C_D_ display, here", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "and uh y this is a functional thing which can change like it's a toggle switch which could change the function say, y you press it.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "From D_V_D_ player to television or something.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Exactly yeah. To audio and to video on demand.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah. I really can change it,", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yes.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "so.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Instead of having many switches, y.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yes and and and then you get feedback via the L_C_D_ yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "The L_C_D_ can display what is that on that,", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yes.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "and uh well you can have a integrated microphone over here,", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "This is the orange button, the microphone.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "or in the button th here,", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "so which can uh basically you want to do a speech recognition and uh that channel a lot of information can be di displayed here directly on the um on your on your display.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "An yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "And here is a small L_E_D_ which is like blinking one,", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "which tells you like uh are you running out of the battery, and which is can be useful for the locating as I was talking earlier", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "okay. And uh well then we have a cover basically, basically you don't need much of the time this,", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "when you need you can use it, and this gives additional functionality that tomorrow you want you can add a tactile thing to this cover", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Mm. Yeah", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Crazy dis designer,", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "you know.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "okay..", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Design enter.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "but but but but uh i in there uh when this is closed, will it also uh cover up the L_C_D_ screen?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah yeah yeah yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah. It's basically to do that.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "But but the L_C_D_ screen I mean is a very uh well an eye-attracting feature", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "which shouldn't be shouldn't be.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Actually when you are watching the T_V_, when you are watching anything or listening to them, you hardly care about what is getting displayed here,", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Oh actually well.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "That th that's true.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "you know, uh you want to uh and this gives a protection to the L_C_D_ actually, giving a cover to that actually. Gives a protection", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "because when it falls down or something it it is it is is is it gives a protec", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm. Mm-hmm. Yes. Yes, more robust.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "it's more robust that way. Uh yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yes okay.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "And you have very good chances.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "It's low weight. You have to see yeah yeah the the components we put inside is very low weight.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "So the the cost is actually a bit more, it's uh it's it's sixteen Francs.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "It Sixteen Euros.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Sixteen Euros sorry.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "So it's well outside the budget then.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Then it's out of budget.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "But w", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "But the the main point we we talk about that with our uh manufacturer. And they say basically that the S_R_ system would be uh something like three Francs per item.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "so", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Three Euros.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "three Euros sorry. And um.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "That's on top of the sixteen, or is it part of that?", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "No no no, part of that, yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Part of that.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "So that takes it down to thirteen Euros without the speech recognition.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah, yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Mm'kay. Hmm..", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Well uh if you we can have if you have new more ideas we can add new more uh some more keys if you want to you know.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Well I think th th yeah we should stick with uh a number of keys", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "because if we add too much then", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "it's too.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "it it should not be cluttering up everything.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "What's this one on the side?", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Ah that's for the it's kind of a L_E_D_ for indicating your battery", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Locati. Location.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Ah okay.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "and as well as it's like a blinking one", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm. Mm'kay.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "you know", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "you can keep it aside.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "I like the shape of them, I do like the the size and the the shape.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Well well Mm.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Be before ta talking about the money and what's possible and what is not possible, maybe Anna you can uh give our uh give us your um.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm. Okay. And maybe we run the evaluation on both of the products, both of these two.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yes. Evalua evaluation and also the evaluation criteria, so what what is important to look at.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Okay. Basically this is what we've talked about already, um, from the marketing point of view.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "We just wanna make sure that we've taken into account.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Well", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yep.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "just do it quickly if if we al already.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "So it's just a shortlist of criteria on um the things that we've identified as being important to selling the product.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Um we just go through these and rate them as a group and then at the end we'll make an evaluation based on that, so just average the score of those items, so These are the things we identified as being important. Um the three things were look and feel, innovation and ease of use, were the three important components", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "um appealing to the correct demographic so using those things in the right way to appeal to our demographic. And then goin following the company motto, following the fashion trends and putting that into the product as well. So well do you wanna go through and put through those on the the two products now or do we wanna discuss them further and then evaluate them?", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Um, n no why not why not discuss uh discuss it now,.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Okay. So f just go through onto the whiteboard I guess. Not sure how this is gonna come out. So the first one was really very far below budget, would you want to take the price down of the end product according to that or just have the high profit on it?'Cause if we're only going to make it for eight Euros then we have a.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Mm, well my my personal view is uh w when when this one is eight Euros we must think how can we improve it.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "And then I mean w w w you must just see it we can still spend this four and a half Euro", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm. Yep.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "and to r because th th th the the selling price is already prite fik uh uh quite fixed on twenty five Euros", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "so we just have to offer as much as as well value for the for the customer uh he can have for twenty five Euro.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Functionality.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Okay so look and feel, innovation.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "And now it easy to use.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Easy to use.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "target.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm. And trends. Oh, you following the idea of using the um removable covers on these? Is that part of both of them or?", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Um well w w we can still discuss that.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "So um, and together with evaluating this uh we we might come with new ideas", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "I mean adding things or uh removing uh of options because they are too expensive,", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "but um I've received uh a framework which we can do this. I mean did you have this this Excel sheet?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "No.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "No.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "No.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "No okay, this is these are the the the latest prices of our production uh uh production unit for several components,", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "so we can uh see whether the the price is is within the twelve Euro uh fifty cents uh.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm. Okay.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "So maybe we can start with this, uh, calling this one..", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Okay. Yep. So it's the pink.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Th th this is the first design.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "And the other one's green. Okay, so", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yes.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "look and feel? Where um one is I've broken the pen again. S", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Uh there is another pen.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "yeah. Get that one. Um w one's bad and seven's the best. Sorry, one's true and seven's false. One's the best.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "So on a scale of one to seven?", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "'Kay. Okay. So. Look and feel. Well you already feel that uh pretty much I think.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "In i in my opinion purely feel is is is very good, is very good in your hand,", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm. Mm-hmm, yeah. Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "so I I I would consider two or or may maybe even one for feel.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "But that's just half, we should also consider look,", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "and then i it looks quite conventional.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Don't you agree?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "On the scale u it's between functional and fancy basically we're looking at,", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "So maybe two. Hmm. Hmm. Ma ma ma ma maybe say say five", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "so.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "I It's my opinion, but I don't know what what", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Well I will give it maybe we have anyways the way we have designed it's like the surf as you say.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "you know. It though the look is fine but uh still I will give four in that case", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah. Four maybe.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "you know.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Four? Okay.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Four, four.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Four yeah", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Now we th th", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "that.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "then we settle on four.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah. I will gi yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "'Kay. Can you maybe fix the other.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Uh. Yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "If you press like this not like this then you.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "No that's the.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "No.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "ink's dried.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "C can you get the batteries? No no the battery has fallen down,", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Battery's low, isn't it the ink?", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "that's i", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "The b that's the that that one?", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "battery there.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "But.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "No no it's not that, it's how to close a battery.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Okay? Now it should be.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Mm. No I think it's lost a battery.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Mm, try it, just try it.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "No it's It would still write", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Oh it will not", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "but it wouldn't pick it up with the sensors.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "ri mm, mm.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Is there another battery there? Oh yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "You got a second?", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Try a.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Well we won't be able to tell.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yes, it it has a mm.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Perfect.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Is that working?", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Did it come out? Good. Okay.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Good. Good.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Because we'll be able to see it still even if it wasn't working, it's just a normal whiteboard marker", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah, yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "but it wouldn't be picked up on the the actual whiteboard.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yep.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Okay. So then then.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "And the other one?", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Wow.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "I think it's slightly better, um,", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Ah. Mm.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "it's hard to tell from just the plasticine,", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "I I I.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "but.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "When we want to include I I I'm doubting about this this component.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "It it it it breaks in your.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "'Kay", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "maybe.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "No actually this is this is not going to protrude actually,", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "it it's n i it is jus", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "It's not a button it's a led, it's a.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "It's a led actually which which'll be covering in a curve.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Ac actually yeah it should be embedded.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Mm, yes I see, mm okay.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm. Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "It's will be embedded there", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah. Oh", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "so it won't be really you know protruding or something.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "you can push push it again, you can push it.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah. The other thing is, is the left hand one protruding?", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "'Cause if people are left handed they want to use the other hand,", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah. Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "maybe it won't work so well.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "No you it it not protruding actually, it will go in better into that.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Well r r", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "I'd say two or three for that one, personally.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Probably more towards three than two.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "I think the look is better", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "but the feel is is is worse. So so I would also say this is four.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "But w w do you what do you think?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Uh it's fine I think. My just that um the feel is that um you right now you you don't see the feel because right uh for example if you press it quite inside now like this, now it's embedded one.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Mm. Mm. Yes.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "This is how embedded one will.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yes, it basically is the same shape.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah. It's a bas basically the same thing actually.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm. Mm.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "You will be Except that in this c", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "And the L_C_D_ makes it better. Yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "And you might have a slight thing for to forward and.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Mm, okay. Yeah", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "So I will say two.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "it's d it's definitely more fancier than that one.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yes, okay.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah, yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "I would say two, three.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "So, consensus? Two or three?", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Two?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Two?", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Mm. Two's good", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yep.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "yes.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "looking like.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Um,'kay. Innovation. The first one, not really muc", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Basically there is no innovation in the first one compared to what exists in the market,", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Mm. Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "right?", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Do we.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "No but except for the design of the surf.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah. The surf uh design.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "What What features are we actually including?", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "You should be rea.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Are we including like a location kind of thing like trying to find it?", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Uh no", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "There's nothing like that?", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "I think it's more of the feel.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "But th is there any there's no actual innovation in that at all, it's just a straight-out remote control.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah, yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm. Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "The only innova innovation is the shape.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Say about that.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "S so that.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "So there's no this uh look and feel thing, though that's not a technological innovation.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah. You're right.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "So I'd be up for seven for innovation.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah. And the And the second one is really uh state of the art, uh in terms of innovation.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yep.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "And um with many more functionalities, and can open and close the the bottom part.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah, it gives it.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yes. A and the L_C_D_ screen is.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "That's that's that's well it's quite innovative.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "And all the scrolling uh buttons and menu and pro programmable device behind this.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Uh could put it at one or two I would say. Personally.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah. Mm. Mm. Mm. Mm.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yep.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "So what is it, what are the innovations with this? Got the L_C_D_ screen.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Uh Yeah automatic speech recognition.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Is that in this one though? Is this'cause this is the Th th there were different options we discussed then,", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "No, we ha", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "we discussed the one that was in budget and the one that was out of budget.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "We just diske discuss it as you designed it", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "and then we will will try to get it in the budget.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "So the cost for these were.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "So.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "what was the cost for the first one? Eight Euros?", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Eight.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Eight. Well actually we have yeah to check again yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah, eight Euros yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "And this one was sixteen Euros.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yes.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Sixteen.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Sixteen Euros.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Okay. So. Innovation for this one is two? One?", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "It's a two, I would say two.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Two?", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Two.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "W W un to be one what would do we nee actually, yeah, I don't see.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Why it is one.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "okay, one would would be without buttons,.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "A man w w", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm. Well", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "the speech recognition is a very good innovation I believe it,", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yes.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Bu", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "so.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah. So maybe we can put one.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "This this is it w with the speech recognition?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "It's using speech recognition, yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Well.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Okay yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Gi given that that it works,", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Give it a one?", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah, one, yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yep.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "then it's I think one.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Ease of use?", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Uh.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "So the first one is really standard,", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "so everybody i including our grandmothers can use it,", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "He is used to it act", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "right?", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "They are used to it actually.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yep. So that's maybe a a two for ease of use.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Here there may.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Um, the other one is quite easy, tho though.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Uh, though it has more functionality I think it shouldn't be for the user to learn it actually. It shouldn't be diffi", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Okay. So maybe a three or a four.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Hmm.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Uh yeah, actually in fact I think it will be.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "One me um we hope.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "maybe sometimes people get uh scared with the number of buttons.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah but y", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "And there is a like I would say three. Or maybe four.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Okay. Consensus? Three or four?", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Well we have reduced the keys actually you see.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Three, I would. Three.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Three? Okay.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah, yeah", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Three is fine with me.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "because it's n uh it's not like a big one with uh one hundred buttons or so,.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah it's a.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "No.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "actually the user has to put some effort to do use that actually,", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "it's not so easy, like this one the normal.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah. Yes but then when when he is used to it, i i it is quite easy.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Is quite easy yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "So so I think th three is good. Yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Initially there there is a lot of effort, yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Good.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "So three's", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "What's the next?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "uh how well it goes to the target demographic. So we're d we're still thinking twenty to forty year olds?", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "So.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Twe twenty to forty, yes that's.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "That's.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "This one would be uh for grandmothers.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Oh no, this would I", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "No.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "I would I would give this model to the old people actually.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah, grandmothers, yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "So sh completely changed our demographic there,", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "And.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "it's not part of the the funky young thing.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Well exce except for the surfing shape. I mean that's that's something which which has an appeal on this group I think,", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah that's true. Yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah. If it was the very bottom price range or it was like between this and another one we did the same thing then I can imagine it being applying to the the demographic", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "but.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "yeah. That's it's still Ye", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Mm w w w we after this we can can consider uh for instance, making this more attractive to to the demographic", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm.'Cause we have got room, we've got some budget there to add a few things to it,", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "that's right.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "But as it is now, I w would say mm, six, something.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Oh yeah,.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "And.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Do you agree?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "I.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah because it's so important it's i it was written that it really so important, the um the the look and uh taking care of its it targets, the right range of people,", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Well I think.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "right?", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah. Uh yeah but but if you sell it in the market it's going to be cheap, actually.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "But it's going to be cheap whatever though,", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "But w", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "So.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "it was set with i we've got a set price.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "And people can still decide to use the cheaper one", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "instead of a.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "But for us it's yeah we have a constraint that we need to sell at twenty five Euros.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Mm, yeah, indeed.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah. There's nothing that would make me spend an extra k few Euros on that one rather than another one.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Ju just think, twenty five Euros, I mean it's not going to be cheaper.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Okay. So in that case well it's fine then.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Okay. Um", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Mm. Mm. Okay.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "We can yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "and the demokraphi demographic of the second one?", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "And the demographics of.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "It's got the got the the toys in it, it's got the L_C_D_ screen", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah tha tha tha tha tha that's.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "and.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "I think it's better,", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "because of the L_C_D_ screen which is really an appeal on the on the on the", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "on the and on the.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah. And if you want to target yeah if we we wish to to sell four millions of this, I think for this audience we need absolutely the L_C_D_ screen.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Mm. So, the L_C_D_ screen uh attracts,", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "yes.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "I think especially if we're gonna n have an L_C_D_ screen on a low range product then that's good.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Because it Mm, ma maybe that's something to consider, yes,", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Mm. Okay.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "so. Wh what what.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "I'd probably go with three again for that one.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah I think it's uh it has more market actually.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Or even Even one and two. Or two.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "No s say t two.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Y yeah, you know.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Okay. So, two, yeah?", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "two.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Two?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah. Two yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah two yeah. Because tomorrow this will be more appealing because you can add lot of sophistication on that.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Because then you you have it uh d you have lot of things which you can include", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah. Yep. And especially I guess'cause this has the speech recognition as well,", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "for the people to.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "and that makes it more appealing, it's more of a a new fun toy.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "We have to practically test it.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "The field test will tell you how good..", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Okay, the final point, trends.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "And following the trends.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "The trends.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "So the trends were the fruit and vegetables and the spongy feel.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Mm. Mm..", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "So as it is, not really doing either of them.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "I think.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Spongy, uh, that means that it goes in in the water..", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Well,", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "the spongy could be part of the the feel of the buttons as well,", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "I know some have you tried the mobile phones that have got the kinda spongy buttons and not not exactly spongy but I'm thinking one of the Nokias that's got like you ca it hasn't got individual buttons", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Uh okay.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "it's got just a one bit on it", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah I know.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "and so you can that feels kinda spongy.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "But this one includes this feature, right? Spongy buttons.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "So it's sort of, yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah. We we we we we yeah, it's the way they are going to be, actually.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Mm. Okay.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "So Uh", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "the maybe in the colour we can make it uh fruit and and veggie.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "But that's if you're using the covers.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "And the then we can al", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Or is it just one.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "yes. We can we can consider uh uh is it possible do you think, to to make a cover for s such a phone? I mean.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Well they make it for mobiles, it can't be that much more complicated.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "But why do you want to cover that actually? In that uh w in the mod", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Well just with the with the flexible plastic uh.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "So you got the option of having different colours or different textures.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah. This is possible.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "I th I th I think.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Uh uh y are you sure? Yeah I think yeah it should be possible like what we do with the mobile phone, yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "O o or just two things which can be put on each other.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm..", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah exactly like Nokia phones.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yes, exactly like it.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yep.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Uh, so Maybe we can but we have to decide it, we can put the the the fancy f look of vegetables for instance, to to these covers", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "and s now try to invest in the in in the features.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "I think the if we do the cover that's really going with the company's philosophy of having the fashion in in electronics, it lets people have the latest fashion", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "even next year when fruit and vegetables might be out, you'll still be able to put a new cover on it and then it'll still be in fashion.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Mm mm mm mm mm.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.'Cause sometimes look at this computer, th this laptop, it's all black,", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "and uh it's quite conventional, and sometimes people don't like too much flashy colours like this one presented here.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Mm. Mm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "So maybe we could do like in the range the set of what we propose a black one, very standard one, that meets the the requirements of th such people that want really standard uh things.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Mm. Yep.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm. Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yep. Mm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Mm. Mm.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "And then you have the option of having the different colours, different covers.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yes. So so so that that would make the trends equal,", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "so we we we really have don't have,", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm. There's n yeah.'Cause that's the that's the feature that could be included in either of them.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "I mean.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Although it is more with the spongy buttons on the um on the other one.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yes, indeed.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah, so a a point better for the for the number two.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Okay. So. Two and three, or one and two?", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yes.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah, it's one.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Say, say one and two. One and two.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "So le le let's see. So d", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "this one has spongy but buttons?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah, the blue one uh spongy.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah, it says a.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Mm, I see, yes okay. Good.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Okay so the average of that is three six nine divided by five, so five mm nine by five, one point s eight?", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Just add it.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Nine.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "You know. Three, six, seven.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "One point six, one point.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "One point eight yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "This one, eleven thirteen nineteen twenty one, divided by five is four point two", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Four point Uh four point two.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "yep.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Very good.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Okay. But we still got a very different price for those two so they're not really comparable yet anyway.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm. We we must try to get them closer.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah, it's right, yeah that's right.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yep.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Both in i i", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Wow.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "or we just have to choose. And adapt.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yep.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Because, when we choose for this one we have to we have to make it more attractive", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "and w when we to d for this one we have to make it more cheap.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Well it's easier to just make that one cheaper by just taking the speech recognition out.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yes, well.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "That'll basically take us down to the budget.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "But I'm now did y did you work with the same prices that I have here?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "So I I give yeah I just give a call with the manufacturer uh and uh I explained them and they told me this could be possible for sixteen Fr Euros.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Uh unfortunately we didn't see this chip, uh Matthew,", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah. Yep.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Mm, tha", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "so maybe we have to recap with this one.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Maybe we ought to reconsider everything with this, yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Well yes, well uh re reconsider it. So let's let's try to to model this this phone in this sheet,", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "uh what kind of energy source uh I I we didn't speak about that. It's a it's a normal battery, or.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah, it migh It it'll need uh more than a conventional one, it won't be uh just maybe you might use a A_A_ battery actually. What do you say, Mael?", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "For this one it's a normal battery.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yes. Just so one battery.'Kay. Electronics. given speech recognition I think w you should go for the less fancy chip.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Uh sample speaker, yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah, yes, or sample sensor, yes.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Sample, yeah, this one.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yes, this one. Okay. Case? Um,", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "So.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Curved. Double curved yeah right.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "I see I", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "It's uh.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Double curve.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah, it's gonna be more than just the biggest case, definitely.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "So which one are we talking to?", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Are you talking about this or that?", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Well.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Either of them.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Oh yes, we are talking about, but they have the same shape,", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Mm. They're both going to be not basic cases.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "but, actually bu", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "So th th this would be double curves?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "'Kay. Uh, plastic would be the material.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah. The basic one, yep.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Is it zero Franc?.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "A special colour?.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Uh special colour, now we leave it to the covers.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Uh.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "So now we're either going button or L_C_D_s, L_C_D_ display.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Push. Mm, yes, but.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "L_C_D_ is. It's okay. Just say L_C_D_.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Is that price per unit, or for the whole thing?", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah th now this is per per unit, this number of components.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Ah good.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "So it would need twelve buttons.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah, we might need a scroll wheel, right, for that?", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "No but for this one it's twelve Euro.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "No, for that one also.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "There are twelve?", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "So, one, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine,", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah that's a scroll.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "t Yes. Twelve I believe. So this comes to eighteen.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm. And that's without any special button supplements.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah, one scroll wheel you might need.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "So.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "So we'd have a special colour, special form and special material on all of them. They're not just standard buttons.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Uh.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "So I think but th do you agree th that thi", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Wait a minute, it's not it's not double curved, it's single curved, right? Because it's there is no like.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "But I thought it would be curved on two.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yes I", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "it's like it's curved on the sides and curved on the top and bottom as well, that's what I thought.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yes I'm I'm no I'm no I'm not sh sure.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Well", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yes I kno undes I understand what you mean, yes.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "it's you know this curve like this so, it's w there is only is is is there is nothing like y you know in the other stuff there are.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "You talking about concave curves?", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Uh-huh.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "yeah concave.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Both.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "So I think we can put um.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "You think a single curved?", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "the single curved in the sixteen. That makes uh seventeen. And what are just The bt buttons, we have twelve buttons, are you sure? Yeah..", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yes. Uh.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "We have more, we've got those the scroll wheel on the side", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "So", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "and yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "I had a bad uh bad estimation.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Bad estimate,", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "The sc", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "W d.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "right?", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "we have we haven't talk about a, but that's no a is very exp inexpensive I believe", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "but it is not in the list.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "We've got a scroll wheel for the volume don't we, or is it some other thing that's not on there.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "W ho h is this a scroll wheel or is this a a a sort of button which can be pressed on two sides uh so for higher and lower?.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "No no no.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "'Kay we've only got five minutes left guys so we need to wrap it up pretty fast.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yes, a kind of scroll wheel.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "So this is even more than the um than the cost you gave, the sixteen Euros.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Mm. Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Okay,", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "so based on that, yeah, um where is the es okay sample speaker.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "That is the sample sensor and sample speaker.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "So um.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "But still, yeah it.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "We just need that actually. We need one.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "We're We We could go for the for the for the for the for a simple chip, but then we can't have the the speech recognition, yes? Yes?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "No we cannot, yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "So so w when we w a", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "So.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "S", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "this would this would be cutting the speech recognition.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "But the um Yeah but if you have the near the L_C_D_ you can um choose select between um you know like uni universal between audio, T_V_ and V_C_R_, and this needs a needs a advanced chip.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Transti", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Right, Matthew?", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Oh I i it.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Or regular chip?", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "I think it's going to be y y", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "I think yeah regular, today we you can do that with regular chip.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "yeah it's th with the regular chip, yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Say say it's regular, regular chip,", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah. Okay. Okay.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "and we still on fifteen,", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "so.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "So. And what about the number of buttons buttons uh my Matthew?", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yes but that maybe Well we can just say", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Uh.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "one.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "When you look at this w, this u uh item,.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Ca l we are just when we just want to uh to cut the number of buttons we have to make seven to to fit in in twelve twelve fifty.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "But.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "So is it possible?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "But that's seven basic buttons right, seven buttons without any adds-on, without special colours or form or material.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "That'll be then we have uh have to ask the user to press it several times.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "You cannot make a phone to your boss saying twelve fifty is really really low,", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "No no,", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Well.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "he he he I I", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "no?", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "So the L_C_D_ display is is three Francs, sorry three Euros, by itself.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "And uh we don't want to to change that right? We we really want a L_C_D_", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Uh.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "other otherwise we w wouldn not get the market.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Otherwise y you ha you have a s ve very normal uh thing like this.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "It's evident.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "So twelve Euro fifty, we got two off of the battery,", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "And I dunno.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "we can't do anything about that, so ten fifty, if we want an L_C_D_ dispra display, that's seven fifty um, so we've got seven fifty to use for the case and for the buttons. And the chip.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Sorry the chip's up there already.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm, mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "So we're gonna have to scale this down to get within budget, there's no doubt about that.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "A", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "So wha what what each of us think about the because it's measure point the L_C_D_, um Do you think it's important?", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Or we could even replace them by buttons actually.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Because sometimes whe when you watch the T_V_ in fact, you have a big display and maybe you don't need one more in your hands? I dunno, I'm just asking.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "A actually it depends, it depends what kind of functionalities you want to add into it,", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yep.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "for example if you add two more functionalities then better you add two more buttons, or and you'll have L_C_D_ display which is that is going to bring the cost by two two Euros at least.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Mm. Yeah. I think, unless we can really drive these prices down we need to get rid of the L_C_D_ display.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Okay so we can get rid of it", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah, it's true yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "and then add a couple of buttons.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "But uh, do we want that? On the market point of view, yeah. What do you think uh, L_C_D_ is a major feature, or?", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Mm. I", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "For the price, it's gonna be what we can afford, and it's looking like we can't afford the L_C_D_ display, there's no way we can get it in there. Mm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "I think we have to come to a decision now, just I I think we we what we just do i is vote about the uh the L_C_D_ uh display", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "so.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "You assume, you want a democratic voyt vote,", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yes.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "right? Okay.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yes. Yes. One man one vote.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "S so who thinks the the L_C_D_ disply display should be i should be in it?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "I th I'd like t it to be in but I can't see it happening. I can't see it fitting in.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Mm. Mm-hmm mm-hmm..", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "I think but.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "We need to be..", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Bu y you're a power voter uh veto anyway as Project Manager.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm, I know, but.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah..", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah but the only thing is that what is the multiple functionalities you want to include with that.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "well we have to make a decision now, that's it.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yes.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "So uh uh having an L_C_D_ s display is just uh uh have very very limited amount of buttons. Is that acceptable? Ca can I have can the functions be implement in an.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yes.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "You've you you agree.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "W I I I just.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "So hav hav having seven buttons, instead of twelve.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "So that wou would be cutting cutting suh say about these buttons.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Because one yeah th show me that uh actually we could in fact we move these three buttons and have three uh possibilities for each of the three here. Here one, at the middle, and at the bottom.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm. I think then we we're really losing ease of use.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Okay,.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "That will create another problem. For the people to use it. It's not going to be easy. Doing that.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Mm. So um", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "I I think we should we should cut the L_C_D_ screen. That that's that's my opinion.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "No, it's okay, you uh cut the L_C_D_ screen", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Just.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "and introduce two more buttons.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Okay. So L_C_D_'s out, is speech rec out now? We've.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "The speech recognition is out. Because of the budget, yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yep.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Uh where, L_C_.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yep.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Okay w we now we can just uh.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "So are we basically back to the original one now, back to the first version? Which turns out to be on budget exactly, pretty much. With these new costings.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yes.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "So just look at forget that one and look at that one now.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yes. Yes. I th I th I think w we just go for this one", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "and that that now twelve Euros is the is is the price,", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yep.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "okay.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Okay. Well that's that's.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "My m my supervisor will be glad that it's fifty cents cheaper than he expected.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yep.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Actually yeah,", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "So.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "we we we will not need the really uh expert designers um because the amount, yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yep. So w we can go back and l talk to the suppliers maybe", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "and see if we can drive the prices down to add a few more things in but that's all we can do with the restrictions we have at the moment.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Okay, good. Then we the same. Thank you.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "That was it..", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Thanks.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "That's it. Cool.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Marketing" } ] }

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Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "uh, the uh The best kind of number we have on the English uh on near microphone only is is uh three or four percent.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "And uh it's significantly better than that, using fairly simple front - ends on on the uh uh, with the SRI system.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "So I th I think that the uh But that's that's using uh a a pretty huge amount of data, mostly not digits, of course, but but then again Well, yeah. In fact, mostly not digits for the actual training the H M Ms whereas uh in this case we're just using digits for training the H M", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "Yeah. Right.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Did anybody mention about whether the the SRI system is a is is doing the digits um the wor as a word model or as uh a sub s sub - phone states?", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "I guess it's it's uh allophone models,", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Yeah. Probably.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "so, well.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Huh?", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "Yeah. I think so, because it's their very d huge, their huge system.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "And. But. So. There is one difference Well, the SRI system the result for the SRI system that are represented here are with adaptation. So there is It's their complete system and including on - line uh unsupervised adaptation.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "That's true.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "And if you don't use adaptation, the error rate is around fifty percent worse, I think, if I remember.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "OK.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "It's tha it's that much, huh?", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "Nnn. It's Yeah. It's quite significant.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Oh. OK.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Still.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "But but uh what what I think I'd be interested to do given that, is that we we should uh take I guess that somebody's gonna do this, right? is to take some of these tandem things and feed it into the SRI system, right?", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "We can do something like that.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Yeah. Because.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "Yeah. But But I guess the main point is the data because uh I am not sure. Our back - end is is fairly simple but until now, well, the attempts to improve it or have fail Ah, well, I mean uh what Chuck tried to to to do", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Yeah, but he's doing it with the same data, right? I mean so to So there's there's there's two things being affected.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "Yeah. So it's Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "I mean. One is that that, you know, there's something simple that's wrong with the back - end. We've been playing a number of states", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "uh I I don't know if he got to the point of playing with the uh number of Gaussians yet", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "but but uh, uh, you know. But, yeah, so far he hadn't gotten any big improvement,", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "but that's all with the same amount of data which is pretty small.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "And um.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "Mmm. So, yeah, we could retrain some of these tandem on on huge.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Well, you could do that, but I'm saying even with it not with that part not retrained, just just using having the H M Ms much better H M", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "Ah, yeah. Just f for the HMM models.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "Yeah. Mm - hmm. Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Um. But just train those H M Ms using different features, the features coming from our Aurora stuff.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "So.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "Yeah. But what would be interesting to see also is what what perhaps it's not related, the amount of data but the um recording conditions. I don't know. Because it's probably not a problem of noise, because our features are supposed to be robust to noise.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Well, yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "It's not a problem of channel, because there is um normalization with respect to the channel. So.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "I I I'm sorry. What what is the problem that you're trying to explain?", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "The the fact that the result with the tandem and Aurora system are uh so much worse.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "That the Oh. So much worse? Oh.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "I uh but I'm I'm almost certain that it it I mean, that it has to do with the um amount of training data.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "It.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "It it's it's orders of magnitude off.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "Yeah but Yeah. Yeah but we train only on digits and it's it's a digit task, so. Well.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "But but having a huge If if you look at what commercial places do, they use a huge amount of data.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "It Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "This is a modest amount of data.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "Alright. Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "So. I mean, ordinarily you would say \" well, given that you have enough occurrences of the digits, you can just train with digits rather than with, you know \".", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm. Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "But the thing is, if you have a huge in other words, do word models But if you have a huge amount of data then you're going to have many occurrences of similar uh allophones.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "Right. Mmm.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "And that's just a huge amount of training for it.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "So it's um I I think it has to be that, because, as you say, this is, you know, this is near - microphone,", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "it's really pretty clean data.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Um. Now, some of it could be the fact that uh let's see, in the in these multi - train things did we include noisy data in the training?", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "I mean, that could be hurting us actually, for the clean case.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "Yeah. Well, actually we see that the clean train for the Aurora proposals are are better than the multi - train,", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "It is if Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Yeah. Cuz this is clean data, and so that's not too surprising.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "But um. Uh. So.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "Well, o I guess what I meant is that well, let's say if we if we add enough data to train on the um on the Meeting Recorder digits, I guess we could have better results than this.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Uh - huh. Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "And. What I meant is that perhaps we can learn something uh from this, what's what's wrong uh what what is different between TI - digits and these digits and.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "What kind of numbers are we getting on TI - digits?", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "It's point eight percent, so.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Oh. I see.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "Four - Fourier.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "So in the actual TI - digits database we're getting point eight percent,", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "Yeah. Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "and here we're getting three or four three, let's see, three for this?", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Yeah. Sure, but I mean, um point eight percent is something like double uh or triple what people have gotten who've worked very hard at doing that.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "And and also, as you point out, there's adaptation in these numbers also. So if you, you know, put the ad adap take the adaptation off, then it for the English - Near you get something like two percent.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "Mmm.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "And here you had, you know, something like three point four. And I could easily see that difference coming from this huge amount of data that it was trained on.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "So it's.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "You know, I don't think there's anything magical here.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "It's, you know, we used a simple HTK system with a modest amount of data. And this is a a, you know, modern uh system uh has has a lot of nice points to it.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "Yeah. Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Um. So. I mean, the HTK is an older HTK, even. So. Yeah it it's not that surprising.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "But to me it just it just meant a practical point that um if we want to publish results on digits that that people pay attention to we probably should uh Cuz we've had the problem before that you get show some nice improvement on something that's that's uh, uh it seems like too large a number, and uh uh people don't necessarily take it so seriously.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Um. Yeah. Yeah. So the three point four percent for this uh is is uh So why is it It's an interesting question though, still. Why is why is it three point four percent for the d the digits recorded in this environment as opposed to the uh point eight percent for for for the original TI - digits database? Um.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "Yeah. th that's th that's my point", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Given given the same Yeah. So ignore ignoring the the the SRI system for a moment,", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "I I I don't I Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "just looking at the TI - di the uh tandem system, if we're getting point eight percent, which, yes, it's high. It's, you know, it it's not awfully high,", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "but it's, you know it's it's high. Um. Why is it uh four times as high, or more?", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "Yeah, I guess.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Right? I mean, there's even though it's close - miked there's still there really is background noise.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Um. And uh I suspect when the TI - digits were recorded if somebody fumbled or said something wrong or something that they probably made them take it over.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "It was not I mean there was no attempt to have it be realistic in any in any sense at all.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "Well. Yeah. And acoustically, it's q it's I listened. It's quite different. TI - digit is it's very, very clean and it's like studio recording", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "whereas these Meeting Recorder digits sometimes you have breath noise and Mmm.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Right. Yeah. So I think they were.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "It's not controlled at all, I mean.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Bless you.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "Thanks.", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "I Yeah. I think it's it's So. Yes.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm. But", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "It's I think it's it's the indication it's harder.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Uh. Yeah and again, you know, i that's true either way. I mean so take a look at the uh um, the SRI results. I mean, they're much much better, but still you're getting something like one point three percent for uh things that are same data as in T TI - digits the same same text.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Uh. And uh, I'm sure the same same system would would get, you know, point point three or point four or something on the actual TI - digits. So this I think, on both systems the these digits are showing up as harder.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "Mmm.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Um.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Which I find sort of interesting cause I think this is closer to uh I mean it's still read. But I still think it's much closer to to what what people actually face, um when they're they're dealing with people saying digits over the telephone. I mean. I don't think uh I mean, I'm sure they wouldn't release the numbers, but I don't think that uh the uh the the companies that that do telephone speech get anything like point four percent on their digits. I'm I'm I'm sure they get Uh, I mean, for one thing people do phone up who don't have uh uh Middle America accents and it's a we we it's it's it's US.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "it has has many people who sound in many different ways. So. Um. I mean. OK. That was that topic. What else we got?", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "Um.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Did we end up giving up on on, any Eurospeech submissions,", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "But.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "or? I know Thilo and Dan Ellis are are submitting something, but uh.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "Yeah. I I guess e the only thing with these the Meeting Recorder and, well, So, I think, yeah I think we basically gave up.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Um. Now, actually for the for the Aur - uh", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "But.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "we do have stuff for Aurora, right? Because because we have ano an extra month or something.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. So. Yeah, for sure we will do something for the special session.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Yeah. Well, that's fine. So th so so we have a couple a couple little things on Meeting Recorder", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "Yeah. Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "and we have We don't we don't have to flood it with papers. We're not trying to prove anything to anybody. so. That's fine. Um. Anything else?", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "Yeah. Well. So. Perhaps the point is that we've been working on is, yeah, we have put the um the good VAD in the system and it really makes a huge difference. Um. So, yeah. I think, yeah, this is perhaps one of the reason why our system was not not the best, because with the new VAD, it's very the results are similar to the France Telecom results and perhaps even better sometimes.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Hmm.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "Huh.", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "Um. So there is this point. Uh. The problem is that it's very big and we still have to think how to where to put it and um,", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "because it it well, this VAD uh either some delay and we if we put it on the server side, it doesn't work, because on the server side features you already have LDA applied from the f from the terminal side and so you accumulate the delay so the VAD should be before the LDA which means perhaps on the terminal side and then smaller and", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "So wha where did this good VAD come from?", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "So. It's um from OGI. So it's the network trained it's the network with the huge amounts on hidden of hidden units, and um nine input frames compared to the VAD that was in the proposal which has a very small amount of hidden units and fewer inputs.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "This is the one they had originally?", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Oh. Yeah, but they had to get rid of it because of the space, didn't they?", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "Yeah. So. Yeah. But the abso assumption is that we will be able to make a VAD that's small and that works fine. And. So we can.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Well. So that's a problem. Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "Yeah but nnn.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "But the other thing is uh to use a different VAD entirely. I mean, uh i if if there's a if if I I don't know what the thinking was amongst the the the the ETSI folk but um if everybody agreed sure let's use this VAD and take that out of there.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm. Mm - hmm. They just want, apparently they don't want to fix the VAD because they think there is some interaction between feature extraction and and VAD or frame dropping But they still want to just to give some um requirement for this VAD because it's it will not be part of they don't want it to be part of the standard.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "OK.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "So. So it must be at least uh somewhat fixed but not completely. So there just will be some requirements that are still not uh not yet uh ready I think.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Determined. I see. But I was thinking that that uh s \" Sure, there may be some interaction,", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "Nnn.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "but I don't think we need to be stuck on using our or OGI's VAD. We could use somebody else's if it's smaller or.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "You know, as long as it did the job.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "So that's good.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "Uh. So there is this thing. There is um Yeah. Uh I designed a new a new filter because when I designed other filters with shorter delay from the LDA filters, there was one filter with fif sixty millisecond delay and the other with ten milliseconds", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "and uh Hynek suggested that both could have sixty - five sixty - s I think it's sixty - five.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "Yeah. Both should have sixty - five because.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "You didn't gain anything, right?", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "Yeah. And. So I did that and uh it's running. So, let's see what will happen. Uh but the filter is of course closer to the reference filter.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "Mmm. Um. Yeah. I think.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "So that means logically, in principle, it should be better. So probably it'll be worse.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "Yeah", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Or in the basic perverse nature uh of reality. Yeah. OK.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "Yeah. Sure.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "OK.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "Yeah, and then we've started to work with this of um voiced - unvoiced stuff.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "And next week I think we will perhaps try to have um a new system with uh uh MSG stream also see what what happens. So, something that's similar to the proposal too, but with MSG stream.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm. Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "Mmm.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "OK.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "No, I w I begin to play with Matlab and to found some parameter robust for voiced - unvoiced decision. But only to play. And we they we found that maybe w is a classical parameter, the sq the variance between the um FFT of the signal and the small spectrum of time we after the um mel filter bank.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Uh - huh.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "And, well, is more or less robust. Is good for clean speech. Is quite good for noisy speech.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Huh? Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "but um we must to have bigger statistic with TIMIT,", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "and is not ready yet to use on,", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "well, I don't know.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "Yeah. So, basically we wa want to look at something like the ex the ex excitation signal and.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "which are the variance of it and.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "I have here. I have here for one signal, for one frame.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Mmm.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Yeah. Uh - huh.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "The the mix of the two, noise and unnoise, and the signal is this. Clean, and this noise.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Uh.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "These are the two the mixed, the big signal is for clean.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Well, I'm s uh There's None of these axes are labeled, so I don't know what this What's this axis?", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "Uh this is uh this axis is nnn, \" frame \".", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Frame.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "And what's th what this?", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "Uh, this is uh energy, log - energy of the spectrum. Of the this is the variance, the difference between the spectrum of the signal and FFT of each frame of the signal and this mouth spectrum of time after the f may fit for the two,", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "For this one. For the noi", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "this big, to here, they are to signal. This is for clean and this is for noise.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Oh. There's two things on the same graph.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "Yeah. I don't know. I I think that I have d another graph, but I'm not sure.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "So w which is clean and which is noise?", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "Yeah. I think the lower one is noise.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "The lower is noise and the height is clean.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "OK. So it's harder to distinguish", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "It's height.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "but it but it g", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "with noise of course but but.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "Oh. I must to have.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Uh.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "Pity, but I don't have two different", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "And presumably when there's a a.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "So this should the the the t voiced portions.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Uh - huh.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "Yeah, it is the height is voiced portion.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "The p the peaks should be voiced portion.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "And this is the noise portion.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Uh - huh.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "And this is more or less like this. But I meant to have see @ @ two two the picture.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Yeah. Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "This is, for example, for one frame.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Yeah", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "the the spectrum of the signal. And this is the small version of the spectrum after ML mel filter bank.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Yeah. And this is the difference?", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "And this is I don't know. This is not the different. This is trying to obtain with LPC model the spectrum but using Matlab without going factor and s", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "No pre - emphasis? Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "Not pre - emphasis. Nothing.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Yeah so it's doesn't do too well there.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "And the I think that this is good. This is quite similar. this is this is another frame. ho how I obtained the envelope, this envelope, with the mel filter bank.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Right. So now I wonder I mean, do you want to I know you want to get at something orthogonal from what you get with the smooth spectrum Um. But if you were to really try and get a voiced - unvoiced, do you do you want to totally ignore that? I mean, do you do you I mean, clearly a a very big very big cues for voiced - unvoiced come from uh spectral slope and so on, right?", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Um.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "Yeah. Well, this would be this would be perhaps an additional parameter,", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "simply isn't.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "I see.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Yeah because when did noise clear in these section is clear", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Uh.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "if s @ @ val value is indicative that is a voice frame and it's low values", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Yeah. Yeah. Well, you probably want I mean, certainly if you want to do good voiced - unvoiced detection, you need a few features. Each each feature is by itself not enough. But, you know, people look at at slope and uh first auto - correlation coefficient, divided by power.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "Mmm.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Or or uh um there's uh I guess we prob probably don't have enough computation to do a simple pitch detector or something? I mean with a pitch detector you could have a have a an estimate of of what the.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "Mmm.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Uh. Or maybe you could you just do it going through the P FFT's figuring out some um probable um harmonic structure. Right. And and uh.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "Mmm.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "you have read up and you have a paper, the paper that you s give me yesterday. they say that yesterday they are some problem", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Oh, yeah. But Yeah, but it's not it's, yeah, it's it's another problem.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "and the Is another problem.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Yeah Um. Yeah, there is th this fact actually. If you look at this um spectrum,", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "What's this again? Is it the mel - filters?", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Yeah like this. Of kind like this.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Yeah. OK. So the envelope here is the output of the mel - filters", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "and what we clearly see is that in some cases, and it clearly appears here, and the the harmonics are resolved by the f Well, there are still appear after mel - filtering,", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "and it happens for high pitched voice because the width of the lower frequency mel - filters is sometimes even smaller than the pitch.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "It's around one hundred, one hundred and fifty hertz Nnn.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "And so what happens is that this uh, add additional variability to this envelope and um", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "so we were thinking to modify the mel - spectrum to have something that that's smoother on low frequencies.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "That's as as a separate thing.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "i", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "Yeah. This is a separate thing.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Separate thing?", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "And.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Yeah. Maybe so. Um. Yeah. So, what Yeah. What I was talking about was just, starting with the FFT you could you could uh do a very rough thing to estimate estimate uh pitch.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "Yeah. Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "And uh uh, given you know, given that, uh you could uh uh come up with some kind of estimate of how much of the low frequency energy was was explained by by uh uh those harmonics.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Uh. It's uh a variant on what you're s what you're doing. The I mean, the the the mel does give a smooth thing. But as you say it's not that smooth here. And and so if you if you just you know subtracted off uh your guess of the harmonics then something like this would end up with quite a bit lower energy in the first fifteen hundred hertz or so and and our first kilohertz, even.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "And um if was uh noisy, the proportion that it would go down would be if it was if it was unvoiced or something.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "So you oughta be able to pick out voiced segments. At least it should be another another cue. So. Anyway.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "OK? That's what's going on. Uh. What's up with you?", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "Um our t I went to talk with uh Mike Jordan this this week", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "um and uh shared with him the ideas about um extending the Larry Saul work and um I asked him some questions about factorial H M so like later down the line when we've come up with these these feature detectors, how do we how do we uh you know, uh model the time series that that happens um and and we talked a little bit about factorial H M Ms and how um when you're doing inference or w when you're doing recognition, there's like simple Viterbi stuff that you can do for for these H M and the uh the great advantages that um a lot of times the factorial H M Ms don't um don't over - alert the problem there they have a limited number of parameters and they focus directly on on uh the sub - problems at hand so you can imagine um five or so parallel um features um transitioning independently and then at the end you you uh couple these factorial H M Ms with uh with uh undirected links um based on based on some more data.", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "Hmm.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "So he he seemed he seemed like really interested in in um in this and said said this is this is something very do - able and can learn a lot and um yeah, I've just been continue reading um about certain things.", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "um thinking of maybe using um um m modulation spectrum stuff to um as features um also in the in the sub - bands", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "because it seems like the modulation um spectrum tells you a lot about the intelligibility of of certain um words and stuff So, um. Yeah. Just that's about it.", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "OK.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "OK. And um so I've been looking at Avendano's work and um uh I'll try to write up in my next stat status report a nice description of what he's doing, but it's it's an approach to deal with reverberation or that the aspect of his work that I'm interested in the idea is that um normally an analysis frames are um too short to encompass reverberation effects um in full. You miss most of the reverberation tail in a ten millisecond window and so you you'd like it to be that um the reverberation responses um simply convolved um in, but it's not really with these ten millisecond frames cuz you j But if you take, say, a two millisecond um window I'm sorry a two second window then in a room like this, most of the reverberation response is included in the window and the then it um then things are l more linear. It is it is more like the reverberation response is simply c convolved and um and you can use channel normalization techniques like uh in his thesis he's assuming that the reverberation response is fixed. He just does um mean subtraction, which is like removing the DC component of the modulation spectrum and that's supposed to d um deal uh deal pretty well with the um reverberation and um the neat thing is you can't take these two second frames and feed them to a speech recognizer um so he does this um method training trading the um the spectral resolution for time resolution and um come ca uh synthesizes a new representation which is with say ten second frames but a lower s um frequency resolution. So I don't really know the theory. I guess it's these are called \" time frequency representations \" and h he's making the the time sh um finer grained and the frequency resolution um less fine grained.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "s so I'm I guess my first stab actually in continuing his work is to um re - implement this this thing which um changes the time and frequency resolutions cuz he doesn't have code for me. So that that'll take some reading about the theory. I don't really know the theory.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Oh, and um, another f first step is um, so the the way I want to extend his work is make it able to deal with a time varying reverberation response um and um we don't really know how fast the um the reverberation response is varying the Meeting Recorder data um so um we we have this um block least squares um imp echo canceller implementation and um I want to try finding the the response, say, between a near mike and the table mike for someone using the echo canceller and looking at the echo canceller taps and then see how fast that varies from block to block.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "That should give an idea of how fast the reverberation response is changing.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "OK. Um. I think we're sort of done.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "So let's read our digits and go home.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "Um. S so um y you do I think you read some of the the zeros as O's and some as zeros.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "Is there a particular way we're supposed to read them?", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "There are only zeros here. Well.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "No. \" O \" \" O \" \" O \" \" O \" \" O \" \" O \" and \" zero \" are two ways that we say that digit.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "Eee. Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "So it's.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "Ha!", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "But.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "so it's i", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "Perhaps in the sheets there should be another sign for the if we want to the the guy to say \" O \" or", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "No. I mean. I think people will do what they say.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "It's.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "It's OK.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "I mean in digit recognition we've done before, you have you have two pronunciations for that value, \" O \" and \" zero \".", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "Alright.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "OK.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "OK.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "But it's perhaps more difficult for the people to prepare the database then, if because here you only have zeros", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "No, they just write.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "and and people pronounce \" O \" or zero.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "they they write down OH. or they write down ZERO a and they and they each have their own pronunciation.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "Yeah but if the sh the sheet was prepared with a different sign for the \" O \".", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "But people wouldn't know what that wa I mean there is no convention for it.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "OK. Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "See. I mean, you'd have to tell them \" OK when we write this, say it tha \",", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "OK.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "you know, and you just They just want people to read the digits as you ordinarily would", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm. Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "and and people say it different ways.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "Yep.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "OK. Is this a change from the last batch of of um forms? Because in the last batch it was spelled out which one you should read.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "Yeah, it was orthographic, so.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Yes. That's right. It was it was spelled out, and they decided they wanted to get at more the way people would really say things.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "Oh. OK.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "That's also why they're they're bunched together in these different groups. So so it's.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "OK.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "Yeah. So it's it's Everything's fine.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "OK.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "OK. Actually, let me just s since since you brought it up, I was just it was hard not to be self - conscious about that when it after we since we just discussed it. But I realized that that um when I'm talking on the phone, certainly, and and saying these numbers, I almost always say zero. And uh cuz because uh i it's two syllables. It's it's more likely they'll understand what I said. So that that that's the habit I'm in, but some people say \" O \" and.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "Yeah I normally say \" O \" cuz it's easier to say.", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "Yeah it's shorter. Yeah. So it's So. So uh.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "\" O \"", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "Now, don't think about it.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "Oh, no!", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "OK. We're done.", "speakerName": "Professor A" } ] }

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{ "meetingId": "ES2002a", "transcriptSegments": [ { "text": "Okay Right Um well this is the kick-off meeting for our our project. Um and um this is just what we're gonna be doing over the next twenty five minutes. Um so first of all, just to kind of make sure that we all know each other,", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "I'm Laura and I'm the project manager. Do you want to introduce yourself again?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Great.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Hi, I'm David and I'm supposed to be an industrial designer.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "And I'm Andrew and I'm uh our marketing", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Um I'm Craig and I'm User Interface.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "expert.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Great. Okay. Um so we're designing a new remote control and um Oh I have to record who's here actually. So that's David, Andrew and Craig, isn't it? And you all arrived on time. Um yeah so des uh design a new remote control. Um, as you can see it's supposed to be original, trendy and user friendly. Um so that's kind of our our brief, as it were. Um and so there are three different stages to the design. Um I'm not really sure what what you guys have already received um in your emails. What did you get?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Um, I just got the project announcement about what the project is.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Designing a remote control.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "That's about it, didn't get anything else.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm. Yeah, that's that's it.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Is that what everybody got?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Did you get the same thing?", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Um. So we're gonna have like individual work and then a meeting about it. And repeat that process three times. Um and at this point we get try out the whiteboard over there. Um. So uh you get to draw your favourite animal and sum up your favourite characteristics of it. So who would like to go first?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "I will go. That's fine.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Very good..", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Alright. So This one here, right?", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Okay. Very nice. Alright. My favourite animal is like A beagle.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Um charac favourite characteristics of it? Is that right?", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah. Yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Uh, right, well basically um high priority for any animal for me is that they be willing to take a lot of physical affection from their family. And, yeah that they have lots of personality and uh be fit and in robust good health.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "So this is blue. Blue beagle. My family's beagle.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Lovely..", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Well, my favourite animal would be a monkey.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Then they're small cute and furry, and uh when planet of the apes becomes real, I'm gonna be up there with them.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Cool.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "There's too much gear..", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "You can take as long over this as you like, because we haven't got an awful lot to discuss.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Ok oh we do we do", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Don't feel like you're in a rush, anyway.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "I coulda told you a whole lot more about beagles.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Ach why not.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Boy, let me tell you..", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "We might have to get you up again then.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "I don't know what mine is. I'm gonna have to think on the spot now.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Impressionist.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Can't draw..", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Um.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Is that a whale?.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah. Um, well anyway, I don't know, it's just the first animal I can think off the top of my head. Um. Yes. Big reason is'cause I'm allergic to most animals. Allergic to animal fur,", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Ah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "so um fish was a natural choice. Um, yeah, and I kind of like whales. They come in and go eat everything in sight..", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "And they're quite harmless and mild and interesting.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Alright. Mm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Okay. God, I still don't know what I'm gonna write about. Um.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Superb sketch, by the way.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Tail's a bit big, I think..", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "I was gonna choose a dog as well.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "But I'll just draw a different kind of dog.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yep.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "M my favourite animal is my own dog at home. Um That doesn't really look like him, actually. He looks more like a pig, actually. Ah well.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "I see a dog in there.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Do you?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Oh that's very good of you.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yep. Now I see a rooster.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Uh.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "What kind is it?", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Um he's a mixture of uh various things. Um and what do I like about him, um That's just to suggest that his tail wags.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Um he's very friendly and cheery and always pleased to see you, and very kind of affectionate and um uh and he's quite quite wee as well so you know he can doesn't take up too much space.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Um and uh And he does a funny thing where he chases his tail as well,", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "which is quite amusing, so.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Is he aware that th it's his own cha tail he's chasing?", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "It is. I think it is. He only does it after he's had his dinner", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "and um he'll just all of a sudden just get up and start chasing his tail'round the living room.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "It's an after dinner dog then.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Hmm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah, so uh.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Probably when he was little he got lots of attention for doing it and has forever been conditioned.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah, maybe. Maybe. Right, um where did you find this?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Just down here? Yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Okay. Um what are we doing next? Uh um. Okay, uh we now need to discuss the project finance. Um so according to the brief um we're gonna be selling this remote control for twenty five Euro, um and we're aiming to make fifty million Euro. Um so we're gonna be selling this on an international scale. And uh we don't want it to cost any more than uh twelve fifty Euros, so fifty percent of the selling price.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "'Kay. Um, can we just go over that again?", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Sure.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Uh, so bas at twel Alright, yeah. Okay. So cost like production cost is twelve fifty,", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "All together.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "but selling price is is that wholesale or retail? Like on the shelf.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Um I dunno. I imagine That's a good question.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Our sale our sale anyway.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "I imagine it probably is our sale actually", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah, okay okay.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "because it's probably up to the the um the retailer to uh sell it for whatever price they want. Um.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Okay. Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "But I I don't know,", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Alright.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "I mean do you think the fact that it's going to be sold internationally will have a bearing on how we design it at all?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yes..", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Think it will? Um.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm. Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Hmm.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Well right away I'm wondering if there's um th th uh, like with D_V_D_ players, if there are zones.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Oh yeah, regions and stuff, yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Um f frequencies or something", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah. Okay.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "um as well as uh characters, um different uh keypad styles and s symbols.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Hmm.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah. Well for a remote control, do you think that will be.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Um.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "I suppose it's depends on how complicated our remote control is.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "I don't know. Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "It does make sense from maybe the design point of view'cause you have more complicated characters like European languages, then you need more buttons.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah, yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "So, possibly.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "And then a and then al the other thing international is on top of the price. I'm thinking the price might might appeal to a certain market in one region, whereas in another it'll be different, so.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "What, just like in terms of like the wealth of the country?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Just a chara just a characteristic of the.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Like how much money people have to spend on things like?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Just Or just like, basic product podi positioning, the twenty five Euro remote control might be a big hit in London, might not be such a big hit in Greece, who knows,", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Aye, I see what you mean, yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "something like that, yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Marketing. Good marketing thoughts.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yep.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Oh gosh, I should be writing all this down. Um.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Right away I'm making some kind of assumptions about what what information we're given here,", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "thinking,'kay trendy probably means something other than just basic,", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "something other than just standard. Um so I'm wondering right away, is selling twenty five Euros, is that sort of the thi is this gonna to be like the premium product kinda thing or.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah, yeah. Like how much does, you know, a remote control cost.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Uh-huh.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Well twenty five Euro, I mean that's um that's about like eighteen pounds or something, isn't it? Or no, is it as much as that?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Sixteen seventeen eighteen pounds.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yep. Yeah, I'd say so, yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Um, I dunno, I've never bought a remote control, so I don't know how how good a remote control that would get you. Um.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "No. Yeah, yeah..", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "But yeah, I suppose it has to look kind of cool and gimmicky.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Um right, okay. Let me just scoot on ahead here. Okay. Um well d Does anybody have anything to add to uh to the finance issue at all? Thin", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Do we have any other background information on like how that compares to other", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "No, actually. That would be useful, though,", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "other.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "wouldn't it, if you knew like what your money would get you now.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Hmm.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm. Yeah, interesting thing about discussing um production of a remote control for me is that l as you point out, I just don't think of remote controls as somethin something people consciously assess in their purchasing habits.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah, yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "It's just like getting shoelaces with shoes or something.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Oh. Five minutes to end of meeting.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "It just comes along.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Oh, okay. We're a bit behind.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Do you know what I mean?", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Like so sort of like how do you I I mean one one way of looking at it would be, well the people producing television sets, maybe they have to buy remote controls. Or another way is maybe people who have T_V_ sets are really fed up with their remote control and they really want a better one or something.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "I know um My parents went out and bought um remote controls because um they got fed up of having four or five different remote controls for each things the house.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "But Right. Right.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "So um for them it was just how many devices control.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Okay so Right, so in function one of the priorities might be to combine as many uses.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah. Right, so do you think that should be like a main design aim of our remote control d you know,", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "I think so.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "do your your satellite and your regular telly and your V_C_R_ and everything?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah, yeah. Yeah. Well like um, maybe what we could use is a sort of like a example of a successful other piece technology is palm palm pilots. They're gone from being just like little sort of scribble boards to cameras, M_P_ three players, telephones,", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "everything, agenda. So, like, I wonder if we might add something new to the to the remote control market,", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "such as the lighting in your house, or um.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Or even like, you know, notes about um what you wanna watch. Like you might put in there oh I want to watch such and such and look a", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah, yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Oh that's a good idea. So extra functionalities.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "An Yeah. Like, p personally for me, at home I've I've combined the um the audio video of my television set and my D_V_D_ player and my C_D_ player. So they w all work actually function together but I have different remote controls for each of them.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "So it's sort of ironic that that then they're in there um you know, the sound and everything it's just one system.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Hmm.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "But each one's got its own little part.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Um okay, uh I'd wel we're gonna have to wrap up pretty quickly in the next couple of minutes. Um I'll just check we've nothing else. Okay. Um so anything else anybody wants to add about what they don't like about remote controls they've used, what they would really like to be part of this new one at all?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "And you keep losing them.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "You keep losing them.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Finding them is really a pain, you know.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Mm. Mm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "I mean it's usually quite small, or when you want it right, it slipped behind the couch", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm. Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "or it's kicked under the table.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "W You get those ones where you can, if you like, whistle or make a really high pitched noise they beep.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "You know.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "That's just really good id Yep.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "There I mean is that something we'd want to include, do you think?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Uh,.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Dunno.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "sure..", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Okay maybe..", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "I remember when the first remote control my my family had was on a cable. Actually had a cable between it and the T_V_", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "and big like buttons that sort of like, like on a blender or something.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "My goodness.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "And um, you know, when I think about what they are now, it's better, but actually it's still kind of, I dunno, like a massive junky thing on the table.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Still feels quite primitive.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Maybe we could think about how, could be more, you know, streamlined. S", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Maybe like a touch screen or something?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Something like that, yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Or whatever would be technologically reasonable.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Uh-huh, okay. Well I guess that's up to our industrial designer.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "'Cause it could b it could it could be that f it could be that functionally that doesn't make it any better, but that just the appeal of of not having.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "It looks better.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "You know, these days there's a r pe things in people's homes are becoming more and more like chic, you know.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Um, nicer materials", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "and might be", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "be worth exploring anyway.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Uh.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Right, well um so just to wrap up the next meeting's gonna be in thirty minutes. So that's about um about ten to twelve by my watch. Um so inbetween now and then, um as the industrial designer, you're gonna be working on you know the actual working design of it", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yep.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "so y you know what you're doing there. Um for user interface, technical functions, I guess that's you know like what we've been talking about, what it'll actually do. Um and uh marketing executive, you'll be just thinking about what it actually what, you know, what requirements it has to has to fulfil and you'll all get instructions emailed to you, I guess.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Um.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah, so it's th the functional design stage is next, I guess. And uh and that's the end of the meeting. So I got that little message a lot sooner than I thought I would, so.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Um. Before we wrap up, just to make sure we're all on the same page here,", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "um, do we We were given sort of an example of a coffee machine or something,", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Uh-huh, yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "right? Well, um are we at ma right now on the assumption that our television remote control may have features which go beyond the television? Or are we keeping sort of like a a design commitment to television features?", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Th Okay, well just very quickly", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "I I don't know.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "'cause this we're supposed to finish now. Um I guess that's up to us,", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yep. Yeah, sure.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "I mean you probably want some kind of unique selling point of it, so um, you know.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "I think one factor would be production cost.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Okay, yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Because there's a cap there,", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "so um depends on how much you can cram into that price. Um.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "I think that that's the main factor.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah. Okay.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Right, okay, we'll that's that's the end of the meeting, then. Um", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Alright..", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "So, uh", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "thank you all for coming..", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Cool.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" } ] }

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{ "meetingId": "TS3008b", "transcriptSegments": [ { "text": "Here we go again.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "My mouse is not working anymore.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Oh.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "He's uh.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Oh.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "when I put it in, is is going to beep beep beep.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Oh, I got a nice little screen here over here.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "I got like this big black border uh on every side.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm, okay.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Everybody ready?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "I'll I'll fix it.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah, it's okay.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Welcome at the functional design meeting, again presented by Maarten.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah, whatever.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Uh this is the agenda, the opening. Uh, we've got three presentations. And I'm gonna show you some of the new projects requirements that were sent to me. And we're gonna make a decision on the remote control functions. We have uh forty minutes.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yes.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Oh, well this is the the closing already.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "So uh well we start off with the th the first presentation then. Uh, I think um in uh we have to do it in uh in right order.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Maybe the.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "I don't know what the right order is. So.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Well, it.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "No.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Huh.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Oh that. It won't doesn't Maybe we should start with the the technical functions.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Okay,", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "how can I get this on the whiteboard?", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Well it's you dumped the file in the uh in the sh in the project document folder.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "In project.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Okay, I've done that.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "You've already done that?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "No can that open.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yes.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Well let's close this one. We'll just uh open a new one.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Open it there.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Uh, well. Yes. Uh-oh. New thing. Oh yeah, uh I have to say something. Uh, due to some uh technical problems I haven't uh digitized the last uh the meeting minutes. But I'll uh make sure that uh happens next time.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Okay. About the get.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "And I'll get this one uh in digital uh form too.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "'Kay, we're going to um uh talk about working design. Um, the method of the remote control is uh electrical energy, it activates a chip uh in the remote. It's an electrical circuit which compose uh messages in the form of uh uh infrared signals to control the television. Mm, it's a nowadays very uh known, a known uh uh technology. Um, the known technology can make a cost very low. Uh, it's a wild uh a wide sale uh of uh remote controls in the world. And and the components are very uh very cheap. Um, Uh, diodes, uh bat batteries and uh uh LED lights, they're needed and they're uh everywhere available. Uh, again, it's a fair price. It's a common uh technology uh, like I told um Uh, the circuit board, it's the most um important uh um part of the remote control. Uh, we can use for that uh fibreglass with copper wires, it's it is uh can be made as fast as printing paper. It's uh it's all very uh.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah, they're making it uh all the time. Uh,", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "and it's not uh very specialised uh technology. I haven't come to here, but um I've got uh some uh images of uh remote controls. They were not uh very uh trendy or just uh just a remote control like everyone knows. So I don't know uh why I should put it here. Uh.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Okay. But it's the technical side of the remote control.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yes, but uh I uh haven't made it because uh of the time.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Oh. Okay. Well, we'll we'll have to skip that part then.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "What?", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "But you don't think it's a problem um to design uh the technical part of the remote control? It's gonna be easy?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "No. Yes.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "But nothing restricted for user interface?", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah. M", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "With technical.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Um, no, it's uh it's just a part of uh a known technology, yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "I don't know.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "'Kay.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Remote control is nothing special nowadays.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "R regardless of what type of functions we want to implement. Doesn't really matter.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Um.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "But I kind of uh.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "I don't think so,", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Okay. Yeah, okay.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "because of the all the televisions uh there are a few maybe a couple of televisions with the new functions,", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yes. Uh.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "but is it useful to put them on a on a standard uh remote?", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Well, we'll see. We'll see later on.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Well, the technical functions. Um, well I don't know if you got the same uh pictures as I got,", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "No.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "but uh I got these two,", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "No.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "and I think they're we have to focus uh on uh the uh one hand the expert view or the novice user. th I think it's it's very much uh depending on the user requirements, I don't s uh know who's doing t", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Well, uh will there be some uh user requirements later on? The ones I I've uh received from the account manager.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah, but it I think that's very important to watch uh what kind of functions there we want to uh put in a remote control.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah. Well, we'll keep this in mind, and then discuss it later on.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah, well y we can put functions in it when uh yeah, when we uh get the user requirements uh and we can update it.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Uh-huh. Okay, but this real this uh big d uh distinction between this type of remote. we should we should choose one uh we should not compromise but uh really choose for uh expert viewer or novice v", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yes, I agree. Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah? Well, what that's what you want trying to say.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Well, yeah w if you want try a a a huge market, if you want to reach a huge market, uh like elderly people and we have to choose for novice user.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Okay. Okay.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "But I don't know. It's it's really um depending on how how how far the the the remote controls are already in n um in use.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah, well some of these Uh, yeah. Well, some of that will Yeah, but i but it will be more clear when we come to the uh u uh some of the new requirements.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah, probably, yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yes.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "So.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Uh well, there are l at least uh basic functions, uh like just th the channels uh one till nine, uh on and off switch, which must be clear with a red button or something like that. Um, most standard uh have volume, of course, and a mute function, and, of course, the next and previous channel. I think that's just basic what we need.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "And from that on we can user requirements what we need more. Uh Yeah, I just um um I thought Joost was looking at the trendy the trends in the markets, and I don't know if there uh are any um uh if you put more functions, more buttons, maybe it's com becoming less trendy or something like that.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yes.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "M you can just you can k.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "I haven't really found a conclusion like that.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "you can keep it in mind that.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "I don't know. Uh, I th I thought the the with less buttons you can make a more trendier uh.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Design.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "yeah, more trendier design, I think. I think.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Sounds interesting.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah?", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Uh, well, that's all I have to say, I think.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah, that was it.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Alright.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Well, then the Marketing expert can uh tell us something about the current market.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yes.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": ".", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah. It's alright. Um Alright, I've done some research for functional requirements. Um yes. The working method um there were hundred uh uh w h one hundred people, uh how do you say uh, f watched using remote controls in the usability lab and they also uh filled out a questionnaire uh with a few questions. Uh, I've lined them up here. Uh, ask whether um common remote control looks good or not, about willingness to spend money on remote control, about zapping behaviour, and uh and stuff like that. I uh have found some interesting things. We do we do got a market. Um, three out of four people claim m uh to find remote controls ugly. So if we make a trendy design, we sure have seventy fi seventy five percent of the market, which you can reach. Um, three out of four users uh zaps a lot, as I uh quoted here from the uh results. Zap buttons are used one hundred and sixty eight times per hour. That's quite a lot. Um, relevant options are, of course, power buttons. Although, only used once per hour. Uh, channel selection, volume and buttons for text, and the more um, yeah, other functions, like audio settings, video settings, sound settings are not said to be very important and uh very much used. Furthermore, fifty percent says uh they only use ten percent of the buttons on a remote control. That doesn't say we got we can leave ninety percent off. But it sure um says we shouldn't make it too uh complicated. Fifty percent also claims uh to have lost a remote control very often in the room. And um an important thing here, the most important customers uh, which is over seventy percent of our market, is in the age range of thirty six to sixty five years old. And uh elderly people, our market, are less interested in uh nice features, but more willingly to spend more money on remote controls. So, what I was thinking oh, wrong side. We shouldn't implement too much features on uh on our remote control, because elderly people will get th lost. Group features for a higher usability, uh what I was claiming in the previous meeting. Um, all the settings, about audio settings, video settings and channel settings, which are not very often used, we could group them uh on one button and make them accessible uh in one menu button or whatever, because they are used very rarely and well, it uh there are a lot of options there, so we can really make uh yeah, how do you say, we can spare at buttons over there.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "And um, if you want to implement V_C_R_ and D_V_D_ options, group them in the button, not too uh Yeah. Small buttons, so they won't be very um, how do you say.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Visually presents.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yes, won't be very present, thank you. And a trendy look, well uh, although seventy percent of the market is uh consists of elderly people uh who don't really care for trendy looks or whatever, I guess it can do no harm to make it trendy for the other thirty percent. That was kind of what I found.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Well, then we I'm gonna show you some of the new project requirements and then we gonna discuss on uh what features we find important.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yes.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Uh, well some of the uh new requirements make some of your findings quite uh irrelevant, I think.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Because um uh s decided to put They have decide to put two additional requirements forward. Well, now I see four.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Two?.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "That's kinda strange. Well, they say tele teletext becomes outdated since the popularity of the internet. Well, I think that may be so, but well, we can't just leave the teletext button off.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Well.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "It's impossible, I think.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "No way.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "No uh, I agree, I agree.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "So the compromise we could make is just to make one teletext button, you know, like on and off, and don't make a lot of special put a lot of special features on it to make it transparent or.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Not too much, no.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "You know, it's just you want you want to be able to make use of teletext, but not to play with it that much.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "So we have to think of that. The remote control should only be used for television. Otherwise, the project becomes more complex, which endangers the time t t ma uh the time to market. So maybe we should leave all D_V_D_ and V_C_R_ related features off completely.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "I don't know. I think that uh that's what they're trying to say.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Uh, our current customers are within the age group of forty plus. New products should reach a new market with customers that are younger than forty. So you uh talked about the elderly who were willing to spend more on a remote control and who were interested.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "But, well, they're not relevant because we are aiming at a younger.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "I don't really agree actually, to be honest. It's a very small market which we will approach then if we uh want to reach customers younger than forty. It's only like thirty percent of the total market.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah, but it is it's is a dif it's a fact that the th th that bigger market you're talking about, we already cover that.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mayb yeah?", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Our company already sells remote control to the older people, but we we also want, you know, a new customer group. That's the one we haven't covered yet. So I think that's what the problem is. We haven't got remote controls for uh.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Well I think, yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Maybe maybe we can compromise a little bit.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah, I think so. Maybe if it's.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Not too much then, bu alright.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "no no, but I think we have to just keep in mind what the older age group wants. So maybe we can make a remote control that's primarily interesting for the younger group, but isn't that bad for an older person either.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yes.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Uh, our corporate image sh should stay recognisable in our products. Our product's corporate colour and slogan must be implemented in the new design. Okay, something else nice to know.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "But what's our slogan?", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Sorry? Yeah, you will have to look that up..", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "The slogan uh.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah, I'll have a look.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "I think it's something about the.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Puts fashion in electronics..", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "We put the fashion in electronics.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Oh, okay. I thought it w might be, let's make things better or something, but.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Sense simplicity..", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Sense and simplicity..", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Okay well, let's go back to the the agenda. So we've now had to the three presentations. We know about the new project requirements. That means we can uh well d yeah, discuss on the remote control functions. Well, if I can uh make a start, I think it's becoming more clear what kind of remote control it's gonna be, and I already talked about the maybe you have a f familiar with the rem remote control that has the the can opener underneath it. I think we're we're looking for some.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah, we we're looking for a really simple remote control with only basic T_V_ functions. Y well, that.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Well, to be honest, if um our uh aim group is uh till forty, not older than forty, maybe that's not very uh yeah, we don't really need to have a simple remote control.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah. Yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "I think we can implement more functions then, because um basically uh the younger people are more able to adapt to new technology", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah, but wha", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah, yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "and therefore will be a more.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "M yeah, that's why um well a lot of um the use the requirements the the account manager sent me, I think they are are c are contradicting each other,", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "But.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "because they want a simpler design, and no uh other uh s functions than just T_V_, but they s do aim at a younger.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yes..", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Well, ma", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah, but you sai you said that that a lot of functions aren't used.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "So why should j we put this function in?", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Well, I think.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "I think more I think uh people younger people are more looking for just a trendy look than uh more functions.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "But I think uh you we can make some discuss uh distinctions in uh what kin in the, know, th th in functions you have Y Well you have different kind of uh equipment in your room, like a t T_V_ and a D_V_D_ player.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yes.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "You can uh, know, you you can make very d you can put very detailed functions regarding the T_V_ set on your remote control uh with the with uh the, you know, audio settings and uh v uh screen settings. We don't want that. I think that was that became clear. We don't want. But w maybe we should put some func uh, I know that the younger people will most likely have a D_V_D_ player they want to, you know, they want to uh", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah, control.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah, but uh you said.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "control, remotely.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah, d yeah, but th the functions are not in the remote control we're making.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "No, yeah, th th the user requirements of the the The new project requirements told us not to.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "It's n Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "But maybe w Yeah. I think we maybe should.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah, well we should uh put some functions for other maybe for other equipment on it. But just the basic functions. Maybe like rewind and wind,", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "or n what d what do you guys think?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "But you can put them under the same button.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Not much more than that.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah, if as far as possible.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yep. Or we can u u we could put'em behind the flip-flap or whatever.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "But what do you think?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "So t", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Do th should we implement features that uh uh or functions that to control other devices?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "No.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "No, you don't think so?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "No, new requirements say no.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah, the new requirements say so.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "So.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "But you can put a play and stop and and rewind.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Well, maybe it's.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "maybe there there there is something th m most of the time these functions don't support the particular device as well as their their own remote control.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah, but.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "You know, a lot of D_V_D_ players have some tricky settings with.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yes, but we.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "I i if it's too simple uh th they won't use the remote control, they use their own th th with lot more functions.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Y yes.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yep, exactly. That's that's wha", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "But but for for example, V_C_R_, that's better example in this case. I think on a remote control for television you don't need to be able to programme uh the V_C_R_ to start recording at three P_M_ or whatever,", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "No no, you don't No no, you don't need it. No, no.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "No, no. Exactly.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Huh.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "just play, stop, rewind and uh fast forward.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Okay, but we have to think uh w we have to think D_V_D_ I th uh, I guess,", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah, I know, but uh.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "so um but uh from my experience it's kinda a lot of D_V_D_ players, you know, like forwarding, goes differently. Uh, you get two speed or eight speed or sixteen speed. It's c sometimes a bit difficult.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm, yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Maybe if we just leave the D_V_D_ functional m uh Well, I was thinking about putting it in, but concerning the project requirements and what you just said, I think we m should focus on the T_V_ then.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yes.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah, but just keep it simple and look more at th", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "And uh and it's just an uh a complimentary remote and not a universal one. If you want to keep it simple, you can make a universal remote.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "No. It's only for television. So.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Okay. It's just a s it it should be something that is like a gadget on your coffee table,", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yes, but there are there are.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "and it's just for when you you you jump on the couch, you pick up the the the nice remote, the simple one, just to put on the television, nothing more.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah, nothing more. Exactly.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Alright.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Um, but what televis", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "But how wi how will you be able to handle a whole market? There are uh a dozen of uh dozens of of remote controls that have.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah, we we'll make w this one trendy.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "And simple.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "The user interface is easy.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Well, we we will come to that, but ju first on the on the functions. So we should put uh zap buttons on it. Um, also numbers, to uh to go to the specific channels.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "And the basic yeah, basic functions, yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yes, definitely, yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Uh,", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "It's too much integrated in the other.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Okay, a t a teletext button should be there. But just one big teletext button, on and off.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Probably.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah, and maybe two or three other options, but not nothing more than that. I think stop function is very useful. If you have a uh a page which consists of more pages, and you are not a very quick reader,", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Oh, okay.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "then I think it's very irritating if the next page shows up, but.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah, but uh I think that becomes too difficult, it's not a very common function and people will have to read up on their remote then.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Well, I use it very regularly, the action. I re I use it quite often.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah, yeah, but maybe you s yeah yeah, maybe y you do, but I've never heard of it in the first place. And", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Will you look.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "we have to well t yeah, and t and teletext is becoming outdated.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Look at the market.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "We just want to see what programmes are on and what time it is probably. Yeah. I don't know. I think that that's kin getting too complex for our remote.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Well.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "I don't know what you th guys think.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Might be. Might be.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah, I uh, it's Sunday I always use it for the uh yeah, for the soccer uh.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah, but do you like to have a such a s stop button? Or do you think it uh I think it's a kind of uh uh very rare and special function.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Well, uh when you uh uh when you look uh for example um, a couple of weeks ago I looked at the for the flights, and there are a lot of flights in one page, so if if th", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah. Okay, it goes Yeah, but that's kind of stuff we should do on the internet right now. That's why it was uh said in the in the use in the r new requirements.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yes, but you could put", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah, but.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "on the z on the zap buttons you can put it to uh to uh access all the same pages.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Well yeah uh,", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "If you have seven pages, you can go up and down.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "lots of new televisions can store pages, you know, and then you can just skip manually through them using.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yes.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "I think we should just put one teletext button on it.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "True.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Then we meet uh the new requirements. we also meet the other thin y you sh you just re we have to choose for the the simple design, I guess.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "A simple yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Okay. Um, well, what functions do we have to decide on? Or do we uh I dunno if we have t stif specifically name all the functions we n we want. We have the zap and uh the volume. Should we do m make them very big? The the the zap button. D d", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yes.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "I think the plus and the minus button should be uh quite present,", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Th that's that's that's considered to be trendy also.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "But trendy, yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "yep.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Or maybe you should place them on a uh, in a special way?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "I don't know.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Maybe we can make uh a kind of a joystick.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah, something or uh somethin special way to to zap through the it has to s it has to be yeah, and quick. You have to use it very quickly.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Original. It was uh.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yep.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "True.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "If you grab the remote, your hands should be on top of the plus.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah, and it the buttons should make it um possible to to zap through your channels in a rapid at a rapid pace.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yes.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Oh, what should we decide on then? I think in a in a case of this simple remote control, the technical aspects which uh weren't worked out already, but it w shouldn't be a problem then.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "But.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "No, it's o just signals uh and the television d uh does the rest.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yep.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Maybe uh.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "No, okay, but we don't have to uh, when we don't want to uh control other devices, I think it makes it even more simple.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "No.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Uh maybe we uh uh the batteries maybe. If you use large batteries or small batter batteries.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "I think", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "The most standard batteries.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "I think that we should use uh d", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah?.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "I think double A_.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "yeah, not not uh the b the watch kind", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yep.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "th the most uh Well, it has to be simple, and I wi", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "The most ordinary uh batteries.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Which are most likely to be found somewhere in the house, you know.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yep.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Oh. How much time do we ha we have left uh? M m m more than thirty minutes?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "I think about twenty minutes.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Uh ten twenty minutes. Well, uh these these shouldn't.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Early break.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "But i in a way we have to be uh uh special.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah. Yeah, okay. But that's that's Do you uh have you have you think about tha thought about that? How we can what the extra touch can be. Do you suggest design or the shape or some gadget f f kind of feature or.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Maybe th m", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Well, it was something about how we lose them. Maybe it should be a remote control when you you clap you hands it makes some noise or some gadget kind of thing.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "I think that's n that's more for a for an age range or uh ten to twelve or whatever..", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "To find him. That's maybe yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah. I don't know. I don't know.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Nah, um a lot of people like to have such kind kind of kind of gay kind of things. It w it w should be like a birthday present or something that you give someone, and it is i has something nice.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah, yeah, that's good one, yep.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Or maybe it w should have a big uh light that can flash or something on it,", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "or maybe it should or an or the like the the can opener. Maybe it contains some feature that you don't normally link to a remote control. I think it's very impor because we're gonna make such a basic remote control, we have to do something to make it special.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "It's gonna cost twenty five Euros.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Ye I think the can opener i is a brilliant idea actually, because television and beer is not a rare combination..", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah, but the well, it's already been done.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah, but that's yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Nah. Yeah, that's true. But and I think it's gonna be uh very uh it has to be sturdy or something, so maybe with with bouncing pads so that you can just throw it on the floor or something.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yes.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "it has to be used something special,", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "and you really it has to,", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yep.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "you know y not s people, when they buy it, they have to think, well this one lasts for a long time. We're really gonna use them. Not some thing you you throw away next week, you know.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "No, that's true.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "So maybe uh that's i I think that's when uh when we decide on these type of functions, know, basic functions, uh it's very important to find something like this. So there's a very important task for you. And maybe we can all think about it.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Be original, yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Uh, also for you maybe, when t you it's very nice when you can be entra when you can be trendy, and and uh and al as in a friend use friendly as well, you know.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm. And use friendly, yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "So big buttons, flashy design, and maybe some kind of gadget kind of thing.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Uh-huh.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Must brain-storm.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah, a swapable front or whatever.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah, or just different colours would be uh I don't know if people also wanna spend more money on fronts for their uh remote control.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Well.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "For the remote control..", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "It could be be Yeah, you never know, but.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Why not?", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah..", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "More money for us.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "But it and I think we have to make it quite big.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah. Quite big. Yeah, you think?", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah,", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yes, definitely, definitely.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "people.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "That's to be uh a formed for your hand.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "So, and and also because uh it is expensive. If you want it to be something, you know, it's ha doesn't have much functions.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "want to be you don't want to get it l make it.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yes, it it it should be f be visible nearly anywhere in the room. As I uh as I said during my presentation, fifty percent uh o", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm. And shou and should ni look nice when you put it on a table. I I think you m might wanna put it uh.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "A standard or something.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "yeah, that it it it it stands up. Yeah, you have to put it on its So it's like a vase or uh something you put on a table.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah. A face?", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "no no, put stuff inside it. But, it's like like a statue or something.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Or uh yeah, yeah. Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "More like a joystick then.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah, yeah, I see what you mean, yep.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "It's like you have uh four phones. Something like that.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah yeah, but yeah, but you also can put it somewhere near the window in.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "If you do that, but I don't know if that's possible within the production cost of twelve and a half Euros.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "That it's it's fashionable.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "I I don't.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "I in in the base we could like make uh a button, and if you push it, the remote control itself s makes noise.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Oh, yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "That's probably stupid, but uh as I found here uh, fifty percent, was it fifty?", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "But that's that's fun for the first time, and then the second.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Uh fifty percent fifty percent often loses remote control.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah, but but when you when it gets lost, how can you press the button to make it.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "No uh, of the base the the the the the the the thing you put it in.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Oh, okay.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "On the television.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Uh, that's kind of nice.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Oh, like this.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "If an a button in in that uh.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "And then also you don't even need batteries, because you can make it uh chargeable..", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Or you can.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "A char chargeable. Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah, you can ma make rechargeable one, yeah. Why not.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah..", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah, that w yeah, but yeah, the pro No, well I think that it might be t p Well, nee but we don't Yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Why not.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Maybe you, but we don't know much about production cost, but when you you can imagine that when you spend twenty five Euros on a remote control and it's a basic remote control, then the then the money there must be money to spend on that kind of st you know, rechargeable units.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "With recharger.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "It should only cost twelve and a half Euros, of course. Aye?", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah, but we would d ma we'd do it in Taiwan and So, it's not gonna be that expen", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Production..", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah, okay..", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Uh I I think it's a great idea.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "It should be possible. I think it's a good idea.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "S some kind of be I've never seen that before, and you make it uh um be uh, you see it with uh the mo the mouses nowadays.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "To make a base or something?", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yes. Yes, definitely. Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yes, but is that handy?", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Well, I well it's really ch you can recharge it, so you ha never have the battery problem. That's one.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "It's it's it's it's", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "And uh you can always find your remote control up.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "it's not the purpose to be handy, it's", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "But but remote controls remote controls nowadays can can last uh two years, three years, with with t two batteries.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Uh, okay. Well, maybe yeah, you could when that's when it's too costly, you could probably skip the recharger,", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "And then you.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "but you will you do need uh also an uh, also you would need a battery in the the base unit as well, you know. Does it makes it kinda.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yes. Or.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Well y you you could connect that to two hundred to twenty volts, of course.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Mm. Yeah, but that's not it's ugly, I think.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah, yeah. Okay. Yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "I don't know.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah, but then it's very easy to make it also a rechargeab I don't think that is gonna cost much to make it also a recharge function in it.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "No.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "On the other hand, if you don't do it, we can also make a nice bay. I mean, it looks trendy and still still put a bleep function in it,", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "but um I think the bay is definitely uh.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "I think it's a good idea. And make it, you know, we we um Well, we uh it's it isn't a t a most uh costly uh remote control. We can save on the on the functions. We just put some simple button in, make it big and sturdy, nothing more, and just make s sure there's some noise that it can make, or probably some kind of cheap light thing around it or that it uh that it lights up,", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Sure, why not. Yep.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "it's also nice. And if you put it away, I think it's uh w we have to we uh that's uh.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "it's not a easy market.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "We have to something special. And for twenty five Euros people want something remote c special from your mote control,", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "True.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "and we can't deliver that in r with uh regards to the functions,", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Definitely.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "because we aren't gonna put.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "With eye candy, ear candy, whatever. Yeah, definitely.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah. And then uh when make it, you know, nice looking shape and this and then you also you got the stand-up thing. Yeah. I think I think it's a good idea..", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah, it must be must be a gadget to have.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Definitely, yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Oh, if it let's well, we will see what's possible concerning the the costs, and if it's possible we'll do that. And we even try to save up on other stuff to make sure we can do such a thing.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "And the first thing we the most likeable thing to to n to skip is then probably the recharge function or something. If that's too expensive, we won't do that.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah, we c", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "But it would be nice.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "It would be nice, yes.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "It's the idea. I know that batteries last long nowadays. And and what people just think about, well, I'll never have to buy any r batteries again, so y b because it's very annoying when your battery is empty. And you know then when you haven't batteries around, and probably for two weeks, your remo I've experienced that that.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Most televisions break down before the battery pack is empty, so yes.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah, okay. So, easy functions. Well, we will we will I think we'll work that out, zapping, numbers on it, bi", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Or just give a beep when the battery's out or uh down.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah. But it's also annoying.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah, why not.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "'cause as long as it stays as it ke keeps working, you're not very motivated to do something about it.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Hmm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah. true.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Then it beeps all the time and.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "No, that's true.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "You don't want to have ever have those problems, and you won't have if if you have the rechargeable. And you don't have to use the unit, you can also put it on the side if people don't like it. Uh, i i in the in the ma", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Why not.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "But you pay for it.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah, but it w I mean, if if they pay for it because they think, oh, that's a great idea, I'm gonna use it. And when it, you know, when time goes by and they think, well, I'll never put him in the recharger, I think last long enough, then they put it on side and they can use it now and then. Then when they look get m I I I know for sure that everybody who buys this remote control, within a couple of months of they will be in the situation that they they're seeking for the remote control, they wanna see something quick and uh just push the button and th uh,", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "I think it's brilliant.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Bleep bleep bleep, oh there it is, yeah. Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah, I've never it's so simple, but I've never seen it.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "M maybe we should really do this.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "And you can leave it just there.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "No. Nearly.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah..", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Okay now, well, how much time have we got left? These clocks aren't uh synched.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yes..", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Oh, now I've put uh well, it is twenty p", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah, I'll.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Okay, so we have ten minutes or something?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Something like that, yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah, but we're uh we're done. I think.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Uh fifteen minutes.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "We've decided on the functions. Well, there is some oh. There is a closing sheet. We have lunch break, and then we have thirty minutes of individual work.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Oh.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Oh okay, I'll make sure I'll I had some problems with uh the digitising the the first minutes, the the s the next minutes won't be a problem, but I'll try to make sure the first one will be in the folder too, but maybe it won't work, but you'll see. I think these are more important than the first ones, so.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "We'll see.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Can you make an uh uh a part of f folder for the minutes maybe?", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": ".", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "That not not everything in one one uh folder.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Maarten, five minutes.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Oh, five minutes. Yeah, because uh I I d I did uh the first minutes I did were were were a bit scratchy, you know. Then I did a s second one with a nicer layout, which I could uh, know, use for the other ones well, but uh I d think uh I forgot to do put done under the first one, and when you go write a second uh it's get it's not working when you try to write second uh paper or something.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah. Maybe.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "No, that's true uh, yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "And then you you had to overwrite it or someth I don't know. Becau I d uh, it was not my uh pen.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Should we by the way draw um", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "this kind of looks you like.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "on our nice whiteboard, um a little uh idea of.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Of the shape.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah, probably, it would be nice.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Or the sh", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "I dunno. Has anyone got um a little bit detailed ideas about the shape?", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Do you get an idea of the shape?", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "I don't, for one.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Maybe like this pen.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "A bit bigger I guess, but.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "No, bigger.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "A little bit bigger, yeah but.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "The shape is nice, it's um something different, and we want we want that.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "It has to feel nice in your hand.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Well, I I I have to say, I have this uh can opening remote control in my head most of all,", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "or I think some maybe we should no, that will be too costly.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Oh, uh look uh look at the pictures.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "We shou we could also, that was a would also be an idea, but I don't think it I don't know if it exists already, you should like make Alessi or something design it.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Okay, yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "That would also be nice. But that's gonna then you c then you don't", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah, but twelve and a half Euros? Uh.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah, but then you don't have t yeah it that's not something i that's in the production cost a one it's a one time, you know s was it's a single cost.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah, m but but then you can nah, I don't thin I think that it would be more expensive, because I've bought the Alessi stuff more often and even small pencil holders or something are more expensive.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah, that's true.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Would be a nice idea though. I don't know. I think it uh has to be a r it has to have round forms or something. Like something like that or so or so", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Something like that is very ergonomic.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "And on th and then uh s a base unit underneath it. It's also round.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "So.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Put it in there uh wire on it.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Maybe uh, I don't know, some some lights, a big but well..", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah, flash lights at the side. At the side, or something like that.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Volume and programme, yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yes, volume and programme should be there I guess, because you hands wi uh y your hands will be in the smaller part.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "And some of the extra funct Some of the extra functions over here. Numbers.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah, and the numbers on top, I guess.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "And and lights? How we're g well, maybe uh s a ring of no, no, you have to Maybe on the side of it.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Maybe ro roun rounds", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah, side of it.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "uh uh l sorry.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Along the side uh strip of yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Just two LEDs or something on the side. Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Maybe lights also around the volume and the p the plus minus programme buttons..", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah, but I also meant the the blinking li w you know, the ones that also blink when you try to uh uh locate your remote.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Oh. Okay.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Well, theys have to be.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Well, uh probably at the side. You know look at the front, but.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah. Yeah, yeah. Exactly. When you you see it from the side, then it would look just like that. And then you have a strip of uh lights or something", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah, exactly, and then there is yeah. Yeah, something like that, yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Okay, yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Well, uh I think it's nice, for one thing. maybe put something on top of it or, you know, like that's looks funny.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "No. No.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "I don't know. Or some bump.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "I think I think that'll be too big tha too big then.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Maybe some Yeah?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Bumper or something.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "We'll have to think about it. I think we're we're done.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yes, we are.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "We can save this one.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Lunch break.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Alright. Yes, I guess it's lunch time.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Okay then.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Mm mm..", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "I don't know.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Half and hour?", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Okay, five uh.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "I thought our next uh next individual round was half an hour.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah, that was what uh.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "I don't know about the lunch break.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Mm, we'll hear about it.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Well.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Oh...", "speakerName": "User Interface" } ] }

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Um on the left we've got the scroll for the volume, on the right we have buttons for the channels up and down and that kinda so you can hold it and scroll, or you can hold it and and push.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Uh this is the power key, um it's kinda like the biggest so you know how to turn on.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Uh-huh.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Uh that's the little menu key. This is the infra-red section so you g it'll be sending rays and if you're you know pointing it like that it can send it,", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yep,", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "or if you hold it up like that it'll send it.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "yeah, good, good.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Uh we got a microphone there which for all the voice commands", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Uh-huh.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "so you can you know talk to it like that", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yep,", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "and it'll still understand.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "right.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Um the logo is down down there um", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Uh-huh.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "and has the cover on it", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "S", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "and you can see like it just kinda goes the red bit's the cover and it kinda goes over everything", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yep, yep,", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "and then there's holes for the buttons to come through. Um.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "And so we figured it would be kind of you know a light weight plastic,", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Uh-huh.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "just kind of a light non-descript grey", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yep yep.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "so that people'll wanna buy the covers", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yep.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "and then the covers will be that sort of rubbery material like they make iPod covers,", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "showing me age,", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "so they kinda just stretch over.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "I don't know what i c iPod covers are like.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah, well", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "I I didn't know that but yeah they're kind of it's just kind of a rubbery.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Uh-huh.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "and that way you know", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Okay,", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "spongy like is something that people wanted", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "yep, right.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "and it just sort of stretches over", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "and that way I think probably helps protect it a little bit too as well", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "But it's also e e easier to put on versus like mobile covers", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "and.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "you actually have to screw them on and stuff and you kinda sometimes have to get someone to do that for you. This is very much you should be able to stretch it over yourself", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yep.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "just kinda stretch it over", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "and it'll be fine.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Okay, good yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "and it'll just stay on", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "and then the buttons come through and so and then the each one of'em on the very end will have the logo with the yellow circle and the R_R_.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yep, right.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Li that'll be the covers as well, yeah yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah, yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "I mean tha it's it's a detailed point, I just wondered I mean h how will people put these down I wonder?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Like that.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Right. Okay for some strange re reason I had it in my mind that they'd put them down vertically", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah it could stand, yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "but uh uh.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Oh.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Well we could broaden the broaden it out a bit", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah, uh no", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "so it would stand like that.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "because particularly if they've dif if they're gonna have it as a you know as a fashion item", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah, standing.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "uh I mean it it's uh it it's just I mean it's just a minor detailed point, but um as you say you can just make the base a little bit bigger and uh.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah, we could just widen it out uh", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah and uh it just needs another uh another logo somewhere is is is is all it gives gives people the option and if if say if they've got them um.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm. Mm.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "because actually have several upon the uh.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Could have one for your stereo, one for your D_V_ player.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Mm, yeah, yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah, well.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Have to if we just lengthen it I guess", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "so it comes down to the base of the hand", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah,", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "but that that's uh but uh", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "just kind of.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "and then flatten it out", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "no", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "and could sit there.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "the the the overall uh the overall concept is uh.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah, mm.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Or just make it little.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "yeah yeah,", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah. Yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Somewhere like that", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "no no, I mean that's these uh.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "so it just sort of.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "We might have to lengthen it", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah I kinda had a a kinda a natural kind of a idea", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "so it kinda your hand still holds it and have it there,", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "yeah, yeah, yeah like that, like that. Yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "where it's like more of a kind of like a kinda maybe slightly like thinner,", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Bu", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "yeah, kinda like that kinda like a flower or a plant", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "But uh yeah but no th but the yeah the the the.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "for the more natural kinda.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": ".", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah, yeah, yeah,", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "The final product would actually stand up, yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "I mean it it's uh wouldn't", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "fall over.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "wouldn't do that, indeed yeah. But th th but th yeah th b the", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "these were all minor minor uh minor details,", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah, yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "I think the uh the basic concept i i is is absolutely bang on", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": ".'S a little longer.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "and the i", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Wee.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "it certainly meets our criteria of being uh of you know looking different.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Um, so", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "good that's that that's excellent.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Um right let us um What's on the next one? Oh right yes, let's have a look at the um f finance. Um, now we're given a a clear design brief, uh if I get the uh spreadsheet up. Oh.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Uh yeah, just click there.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": ".", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Uh the the maximise button.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Oh right. Ah. Good, this is why we need to make these things simple so that the uh the the the boss can understand.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Now I've um this is the company's uh uh costing for for various uh uh aspects of design and I I I've treated some of these slightly uh liberally given the constraints placed on us, um I wouldn't know for in for instance if if they require us to have it in the corporate colours, then that is not a special colour, that's a that's a standard colour. Uh, so we're just simply on batteries, the the one th the one decision I've had to make is that um we're we will have to find a s a regular standard chip to to do this with and I I um I'm I'm I'm certain that they they are around so, um that I don't think is a a serious problem. The uh the the voice sensor is is expensive but we we made a a basic decision that that was absolutely fundamental to the to the design so that that has to stay. Um then again the the the the shape of the case means that it's it's expensive to uh um l to make'cause of the the th the double curves but on the other hand because of our overall fashion concept um we we should exceed the the sales targets. Um it's simply made of plastic so th that's uh that's no problem and uh um just because the whole the colour of the the whole thing that's uh uh there's some cost there. Um and uh we haven't actually got a scroll wheel we we we got push buttons and and a simple uh um slider so um and the and the the buttons are uh uh well I do don't know that they're special colour. Anyway the the costings uh come in at exactly on target at twelve point five uh but I thi I think we have a a very strong case to argue that uh what what we've got is is so in innovative and uh and different that um any any slight compromise we have to make on on cost is is offset by the uh you know the uh you know the the the the concept of it being a a fashion accessory and and having the the interchangeable covers", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "so uh um you know the if if if the management expect us to be techno again fail again technologically innovative um that they they have to accept that we we can't operate absolutely within uh the constraints that they give,", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "so uh we we we present this as the uh the company's uh the the company's way forward and uh uh I I think we can argue that we we have uh come in on on budget. Um. Okay, uh. So um. Does anybody want to uh uh Andrew do you want what do you want to say about um the uh yeah the evaluation", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Evaluation.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "where where you know well where where we're where where we're at?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "The the product or the project?.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "The the the well the I meant the product.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Um, well well my presentation just now?", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Sure, uh can I get the.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Oh sorry yeah um, mm.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm. More loud clicks in the microphone.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Cheers. There we go, oh. Method of evaluation testing the product was to just if it met all the criteria all the conditions that we set out to set out to solve, from the point of view of the the consumer and the management. So what I've been asked to do is, on the whiteboard", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "um gauge our team response to these questions. So, on a scale of one to seven, one being true and seven being being false.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Seven being a nice round number to work to.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah. And then at the end just take an average", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Tr On for true and seven for flase. Yes.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yes.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "So uh. So, look at these questions. Is the device f flashy and fashionable?", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Well I think most definitely.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah I'd say definitely a one yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "I think it is yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "So uh and also uh technologically innovative?", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yes the voice technology indeed.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah, defi yeah, yeah", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Easy to use?", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "I don't see we could've made it any easier.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Uh suitable for the consumer? That was um.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Totally.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah definitely.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah I think it made we met all of the consumer", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "wants.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Uh is it complicated?", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "No.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "No.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Doing pretty well so far aren't we? Uh functional?", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah definitely.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Um. Where are we?", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "found easily. yeah", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "We've b built in the the speech, where are you, function.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "I mean that's that's.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah. Yeah. Yeah, mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Uh-huh.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Does it take long to learn to use? Shouldn't.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "No, not at all.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm. And uh, what else? The R_S_I_ compares to the current standards,", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Less buttons so it must be.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Uh.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "well. We we", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "uh yeah it was our it was a.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "it is sorta the the handle more ergonomically correct as well.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "we made an actual effort to.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "So yeah, um um.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Um will device appeal to all age groups?", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "I think it will because I mean uh old older people who can't manage the buttons anyway will actually probably like the like like the voice bit so.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "I think so.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah,", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "uh that's a good call, yeah. Well we had the we had the data saying that old people will be less likely to pay extra money but the funct the increased functionality, the e ease of use of the device might make up for that.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "And it's it's it's.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "well I don't think we're actually charging a particular premium anyway, in the end, so.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "I I I think it will tend to appeal more to younger aged groups", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "just'cause we have gone with the fashion focus", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah. Yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "and the younger people tend to would be more conscious of that aspect of it, but um I think it should still appeal on a certain level to everybody, yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "It will appeal f for dif for different reasons but it's it's uh.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah, yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah I think just the simplicity of it", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "yeah yeah", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah, yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "and", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "so I I yeah I.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "not having to learn to programme", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "and not having you know a million buttons.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah, so I think we can reasonably say it's another another one,", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "why not?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Uh can you just click the my mouse to move onto next page? Uh, yeah and what h did we make the management's.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "in in in in my interpretation of management's instructions uh is that yes it it meets the requirement", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "is t it's television only,", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yep.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "it's it's simple to use,", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "um it's it's it's within budget,", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Under the cost.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm. Yep.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "um I it's uh yes an an any minor points we we we argue.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Um.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "So uh I I think we've done an amazing job", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yep.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "in uh", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Well done us.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "coming up with what.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "So uh one two three four five six seven eight nine ten eleven. Eleven divided by eleven's one so equals average of one.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah,.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Need a need a calculator for that.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "And that roughly concludes my evaluation of the of the product.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Okay,", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Excellent.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "nick the cable back then.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Oh no", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "I mixed up the colours a little bit.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "that's.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "I think I all wrong.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Ooh. Right do um either of you want to uh say anything?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Uh.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Before I uh.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Ps I don't think so,", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "No.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": ".", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "I mean I think we worked well together", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "and looked really at what the consumers wanted and what we were trying to make", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "and you know, seemed to discuss things pretty well", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "and come to group consensus and.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Well that's right, I mean th this this slide here I mean the satisfaction with uh room for creativity, I mean", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm. Yeah, definitely.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "I think we've allowed ourselves uh as much creativity as the uh the the the product uh allows.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Um I won't comment on leadership, uh teamwork I think we've uh I think everybody's uh worked pretty well together.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Um we've just about coped with the whiteboard and digital pens, uh I think the results speak for itself", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "and new ideas found, um, again gi no given relatively everyday product, I think we've v very uh very effectively come up with a a new uh", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yep.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "uh a new approach. Um are the costs within budget? Yes. Is the project evaluated? We're we're all happy that it it meets all the criteria, um", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yep.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Thank you very much indeed, I think that I think that's uh.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Cool, thank you,", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Alright.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "I think we can go f for an early bath.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "So I call the meeting closed.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Not sure how far ahead of schedule we were there.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" } ] }

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{ "meetingId": "ES2016a", "transcriptSegments": [ { "text": "Okay. Oh, that's not gonna work. Oh, alright. Okay. Okay. Um alright.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Uh, uh, um.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "I'll just put that there. Uh as you all know we're here to create a brand new fantastic remote. Uh I'm Nick Debusk, I'm the Project Manager. Uh we'll just get started with everyone kind of letting each other know who they are and what you're doing, what your what your role is um. Go ahead.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Okay. I am Corinne Whiting and I will be the Marketing Expert and in each of the three phases I will have a different role. In the function design phase I will be talking about user requirement specification, and this means what needs and desires are to be fulfilled, and I'll be doing research to figure this out. In the conceptual design phase I will be dealing with trend watching and I'll be doing marketing research on the web. And then finally in the um detailed design phase I will be doing product evaluation and so I will be collecting the requirements and ranking all the requirements to see how we did.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "'Kay.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Hiya, I'm Ryan. Um I'm the User Interface Designer. Um likewise I've three different roles for each stage of design. Um the functional design is looking at the tex technical functions of a remote control. Um in the concept design, the user interface, how the user reacts with the the product. And the detailed design um sort of like the user interface design, what they might be looking for, uh things like fashions, what makes wha how we're gonna make it special. That's about it.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Right. I'm Manuel and I'm the Industrial Designer in in this project um. In the functional design phase I'm I'll be dealing mostly with the requirements, um we'll discuss what the prog what functions the the product has to fulfil and so and so on. Um I suppose we'll work pretty much together on that one. Um um in the conceptual design um I'll be pro mostly dealing with properties and materials um of our product.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "And uh the detailed design in the detailed design I'll be concerned with the look and feel of the product itself, um so we're pretty much working together obviously on the design front here. Okay..", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Okay. Um so we've got our opening, our our agenda is the opening, uh acquaintance which we've kinda done. Uh tool training, project plan discussion and then closing.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Uh grand total of twenty five minutes we have here. Um so we are putting together a new remote control. Um we want it to be something original. Um of course we're a not only a electronics company but a fashion um conscious electronics company, so we want it to be trendy um and we want it to be easy to use. Um we've got the functional design, conceptual design and detailed design um which basically is is the three of you um. And w uh well um functional design um. Um do we have um any ideas of of maybe d let's just throw out some ideas of what kind of remote control we want to have, and then we can go into how we're gonna design it and and how we're gonna do the detailing on it.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah. Well uh s function of remote control is just just you know, change channels is its main function.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "So we want it to be um a T_V_ remote or I I mean do we want it to to do other things besides just be a a television remote?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Oh right. I suppose you c try make it a universal remote", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "'Kay.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "for could work on all sort of electrical products in in one person's house. But, you know, they all sorta have the same role changing channels, volumes and then programming.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.'Kay.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "I think they all work on the same prin principle as well sorta like I don't actually know. But is it just infra-red? Is that standard?", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "I I think yeah, yeah, r universal remote.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Ye yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Um this is my first uh go-round with creating a remote control,", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Huh..", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "so.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Ours too..", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "I think we're all in the same boat here. Um.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Um one thing I thought of with the remote control is you always lose'em.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "So if there's a g a way of finding it quite easily, I thought that'd be quite good quite a good feature.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Mm. Ch", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "So we should we should set our remote control up to where it has a uh", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Like a tracking device?.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "like a tracking device or or like a a.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Oh you can get those key well you could whistle or make a noise", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "It makes a noise,", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "and it'd beep.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "there's a button on the T_V_ that you press", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm, mm.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "and.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "'Kay.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Be good.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "So.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Generally, all remotes are sort of quite similar in their appearance.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah. Do we want.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Just long.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "so they're kinda like long and rectangular.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Do we want something crazy?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Black usually.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "You know, we want something new that's gonna stand out.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Lot more modern.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "A m a modern so our remote should be.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "I think so. Maybe sorta spherical or something. A ball.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Maybe like user-friendly, like a little", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "you know, where you can use both hands, like a little keyboard type thing.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "People.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "I thought maybe, because people always tend to throw a remote control about the place to one another if it was in a ball,", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "'Kay.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "and maybe the actual controls are inside or something.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Um.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Well there are of course certain restrictions, you can't have it be any form and fulfil all functions at the same time,", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "so there are always the some restrictions we have to apply here. Um however um one question is how stable is that thing supposed to be, that refers to the material, pretty much um. What are we gonna build that thing out of?", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "How sturdy is it gonna be? Do we want it to last longer or rather have people whatever, have to buy one every half a year?", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Okay so yeah, so we want it to be sturdy,", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "we want it to to hold up to somebody's child, you know, throwing it across the room or, as you said, people kinda throw it, so ball-shaped, uh you know, if it were ball-shaped maybe,", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "then it.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "It could be cased on the outside and t everything could be inside.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "'Kay. Um so we want it to be modern, fun, sturdy, um So our form and our function. Um we want it to be um easy to find. Um What else it what else do we want it to to do? So we want it to be universal. It's something that we're supposed to sell for about twenty five Euros um and you know, goals for profits are I think somewhere around uh fifty million Euros, what they wanna make on it, so.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm. Also since we're partners of the International Remote Control Association, maybe we wanna make it something that would globally appeal.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "'Kay.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "That's more on the research end, but the marketing.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "So marketing, you know, how maybe uh marketing, you could s find out what is the most universally um appealing remote control out there.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "And maybe as far as design goes, maybe we could have different ones for different target audiences,", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "'Kay.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "'cause maybe one won't apply to all of the countries we're targeting.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Ye Small.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Um Do you guys have any ideas for what it should look like? Maybe we could draw it up on the on the board over there. Some ideas? We want it to be a b a ball,", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "I'd I could draw sorta the ball idea.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "you know, we'll draw up we'll draw up the ball and maybe th um where the buttons are located.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "My original idea was just simply sort of a sphere, where maybe you this is where it's connected together, and then when you open it out, it could fol it could be maybe flip, like a flip phone, and then when you fold it out the middle Maybe a hinge that'll have to be the strongest part of it. If that if we did use a hinge, or if it was just two parts,", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "and then you'd have just sorta you you you know, your buttons. Thing is inside I think, sometimes remotes have too many buttons, so maybe as simple as possible, um as few buttons inside as possible. Um, I dunno, what's the idea for. Just something maybe if you ha if it had like if some kind of like light or something or lights around it. It's looking a bit like something out of Star Wars at the moment though, to be fair.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "But yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Futuristic..", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "That was that was a sorta simple idea I had", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Uh-huh.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "and then you know you could about Right, it would almost be like a ball. So that was just just an idea I had. I don't know whether anybody else has other ideas?", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Right. One problem you'd get with this design is um the ball is a nice idea because of it's stability really,", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "but of course, since it's a ball, it'll roll, so we'd have to have it flat on one side at least, down here somewhere,", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah. Maybe f yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "take away that part. That's one of the big issues. Also also you risk the hinges here. That's that's um a problem.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah, that's g that's a good idea. Yeah. The idea it didn't have to necessarily be f a hinge,", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "That's that's interesting of course,", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "that was just one idea though.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "but that's of course a weak point, yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "How would we go about um making you know getting rid of our weak points? What I mean would we just have a flat spot on the bottom of the ball?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Not to put you on the spot,", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "E No no,", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "but.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "uh uh.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "What did you say your title was again?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "N n", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "You're the the Industrial Designer.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Uh, I'm your Industrial Designer,", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "so i b well,", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "the point is that well maybe I dunno. The shape is perhaps not the most ideal.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "As as stable as it is, there must be a compromise between um stability and design here, so.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Well I I suppose that things become design. But I mean i", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm..", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "I was trying to think of like the design of others. I can't think of anything other than a long rectangle for remote,", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "maybe small, sort of fatter ones, but there's nothing being done sort of out of left field, yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "It's not new, it's not innovative, it's you know, everybody does long remote because it's easy,", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "it's it's stable um.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "'Kay, I'll draw something..", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "So if.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "What?.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "no, go ahead.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "My idea was just to have it be kind of like a keyboard type shape, you know, like video games", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "l so. But maybe I mean that would be kinda big and bulky. We could also try to do the hinge thing, so it could like flip out that way. I don't know. That's my idea.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "I think definitely doing something different", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "is a good idea.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "I mean maybe design something, that's sort of like suppose not everybody's everybody's hand's the same, but something that would maybe fit in the hand easier.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Something with a grip.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm. Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah, with a grip.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah. Because even I suppose even with the ball", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "It still might be hard to.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "it's.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "it still not the ho easiest thing to hold, yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "it might not be the easiest to hold onto um.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "So perhaps the the joystick the the keyboard idea might work better.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Like yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "But then again, people like to use one hand to flip and one hand to hold their soda, so maybe maybe we.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "True.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "It's d yeah. I think it's definitely got to be a a one-handed a one-handed job.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "I feel like I'm just shooting everything down here.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "That's fine.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Uh um.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "You're the boss, you're allowed to.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Well with the one-handed design you also have the the problem of the size w'cause you know from cell phones, they can be too small. So if the remote is too small it.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "if it's small it probably looks better, but may not be th as functional. So for that there's.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Okay, so", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "So.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "unfortunately we've got about five minutes here to come up with our um remote control idea and start rolling with it. Um we've talked about our experiences with remote control and um we've got a couple ideas um. Let's see here. What if we had what if we had not only um say we went with the ball the ball function um, but maybe we give it sort of grips along the side s um to make it easier to hold on to. So you know um s so it's easier to hold onto that way.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Course that'll then remove some of our our ball. Unless this unless this part were raised, so say the cover flips over and covers that part. So the grip is No, that wouldn't work either um. But if we're gonna make it flat on the bottom, then that eliminates our ball anyways. So if it were flat on the bottom and then had the sorta grips on the side here I guess, um and then flat uh And then we have the problem with the hinge. So if we're flat on the bottom, it's not gonna roll away, it'll stay where we want.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "The question is also, I dunno, d do you really always want to open that thing when you have to use it?", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Mm, that's true.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "It's probably going to lie around opened all the time anyway, so I don't know if a lid is a good idea. From stabil stability point of view uh it certainly is, but also you have to face it and take into account the more of these things break by accident, uh the more we sell. So it's don't make it too stable uh.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "So we don't have it flip open. We just have a ball.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "But then maybe to go back to the to th s something along those things then.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "To the other design.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Okay, so then we forget the ball.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "It looks cool..", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Looks cool though.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "It looks cool, but it's really not it's not functional um.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Uh functional.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "So we've got our sort of keyboard kind. What if we flipped it around here, so that it were um Sorry, that doesn't look anything like what you had there. Um so it's up and down, you hold it this way.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Course then it's it's like the rectangular again, only with a couple of jutting out points..", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Right. Right.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "But it's one-handed um.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Question is what makes those game pads functional? W I think that's pretty much the form for full hand. So it's a round shape underneath that makes it comfy,", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "right,", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "makes it nice, so that's the essential part. Except for that I think we'll not probably not get a get away from some longer design.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah..", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "'Cause you also have to know which way around to point this thing.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah,", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "You know, all", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "because it doesn't have a cord, like joysticks do.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "that dif batteries right, and Batteries go weak as well, so um after a while you have to point it towards the uh towards the equipment you wanna control with it, right? So, have to m show which is the front, which is the back.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Is it possible to have it to where it would work with a like a sensor on either side? So that either way you're pointing it it would work.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "I suppose you could do that. O of course the more technology you stick in that, the more it'll cost, so.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "More expensive and yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Course you can do that.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "'Kay. Um.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "I mean of course it'll be evident after a while or if you look at it, it'll it'll be evident which way around to point it, since you have the the numbers and the and the the buttons and stuff,", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "True.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "but um it's rather about an instinctual thing,", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Put it.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "like you just grab it, you don't have to s look at it, you know, which way around to point it. Otherwise the design of or the the point of putting two sensors on both sides um would probably work.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Even if you designed it in some in a way that you know, isn't a rectangle, but still pointed in a direction that had definite points. So if that's your thing and you got something like that instead,", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah..", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "and there's your s you kn you know which way you're gonna pointing it.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "'Kay.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Um.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Sorry to interrupt, but we have a warning to finish.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Are we out of time?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Okay, well, just to finish up, should we s go with this plan, start making some Are good ideas, what are not.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Let's.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Does it say what does it say for n", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Obviously.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "it says on there what we need to do for the next meeting, I think.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Uh. Must finish now, so.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "T", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "And then marketing will look and see what uh what people want.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Alright.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Great.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Okay. And Project Manager will design a better meeting for next time around, be a little bit more prepared.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "And uh alright, good meeting.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" } ] }

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{ "meetingId": "IS1009d", "transcriptSegments": [ { "text": "Well hi everyone again.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Hello.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Hello.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Hello", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Um like before we uh I have to redo the meetings from n th the minutes from the last meeting", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "and so here we go. Uh it was discussed in the last meeting uh which was opened by the presentation from the interface um designer that uh looks would be very important on this new remote", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Designer..", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "and um it is to send messages of course to the T_V_. It should have nine channel buttons, a next button, volume buttons, subtitle buttons, switch to control features, colour contrast, sharpness etcetera. It should have a memory switch, a mute button in case the telephone rings or something. Uh speech recognition is one of her very f favourite personal uh features she would like see d d to be integrated in this um in this new remote. Um. Should be child friendly design with few buttons, colourful maybe with s star shaped or other shaped buttons. Um she uh presented also an oversized remote which she guarantees nobody will ever be able to lose.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Um.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "And she was challenged on that point.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "that's right..", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yes..", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "But uh her very f personal favourite really she, she would very much like to see a speech recogniser integrated in this remote. The industrial designer um presented her uh thoughts on the issue. She would like a special case made out of plastic that is very strong, not using any harmful materials, should be recyclable and should be colourful. Should have an integrated circuit board that's highly sophisticated and temperature resistant. She would like to see a timer and or alarm facility integrated. Uh technically this thing would also have a resistor and a capacitor, diode transistor, resonator, and if possible a rechargeable battery. Uh and of course a circuit board. And how it would works, you press the button, the chip is morse morse code related relays the uh to the generat to the generator amplification and uh the circuit board is very inexpensive to build and so she thinks this is a great feature uh to to to consider.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "She would like uh this whole thing should be push buttons with a simple chip uh scrolling method is more expensive and not that practical anymore. Should be battery operated and of course she would have the special cases. The marketing expert uh who has to finally come up with to to to market this product has been watching the competition, has done some research on the internet and also has used h her personal observations to come up with the fact that such a remote sh should be small, easy to use and it should be eye catching. From her point of view of course one of the most important facts is that we should get to market before our competition does. To do that uh maybe one or two features should be developed on which we could dwell on or in other words on which our campaign could be built on. Too many new features or too many points would only confuse matter. So we prefer to have one or two features that can be really uh driven home. Um it should have a fruit and vegetable design and should have a soft feel. She feels that's really what people want today. And the decision that we took last time was that uh the special feature we would like to see is a speech recogniser, the energy should be battery uh should be on a chip, should be trendy design, compact and strong, and should have buttons. And that concludes the presentation from the last minutes from the last meeting. Now uh we are ready for the presentation of the prototype.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Just the look like, the button part I'll explain.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah. Uh so this is our what uh we have made. This is a model of the remote control which we are going to build.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Uh this is us in a snail shape so uh it it is attractive", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "um and it's it's blue in colour uh bright and uh it has yellow buttons and all the different colour buttons", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "so it is a uh uh a looks-wise it is beautiful.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Uh and also compact in shape.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Uh um and also i it it will be easily fit into into the hands and you can access all the buttons easily.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm. Mm-hmm. Mm-hmm. Good.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah,", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "oops, sorry..", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "You used to have all the buttons.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Um yeah and um uh the material which we are going to use for the case is uh plastic and uh w which which is s strong um uh and also uh for the Um the material is plastic and uh for the buttons it is uh s soft rubber um and als", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Oh that's good,", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "no, that's nice and friendly.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah because uh uh you'll be touching the buttons more so it is soft when you touch it.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm. Mm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm,", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "And then um uh for the for the led, for the light emitting diode it is a fluorescent green", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "and it's a a it is a bulb like an ordinary infrared.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "And and the button button's part uh will be explained by F Francina.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Now the um we decided upon including certain features on our remote. Now these features includes the s um signal emitting uh signal it's the led or L_E_D_ the infrared.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm,", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah, okay, mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Now uh we have included the switch on and off button.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Now we have included another feature that is the mute button", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "on the side of the model. Then we have included one to nine buttons", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "for controlling the programmes the different channels.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "We have also included two buttons for increasing or decreasing the volume.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "And we have also included two buttons for scrolling up and scrolling down the programme channels. Now our our model also contains a button which is called as the menu button.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "What kind of button?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Menu button.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Menu? Uh menu th menu, uh one one.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yes, menu.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Menu button..", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "At the centre", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "we have included a button which is fluorescent green colour and this is the menu button which will control the colour, sharpness, brightness", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm. Of the screen. Mm, mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "of this uh picture. We have also included a button which is called as the swapping button. Now this is uh a special, special feature which we have included. Now this button is an elongated shaped button and this is slightly flexible so if it is turned towards the right it will take to the previous channel, if it is turned towards the right it will take to the next channel. It will take the user to the previous and the next channel so this is a swapping button.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "The next channel in the numeric pattern, or.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "No, swapping is if if example you're you're watching the second channel and then you go to the tenth channel and if you want to go back to the second channel you can swap, this button.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah, mm-hmm. Mm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yes.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Okay, okay.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "And at the end, it this remote has inbuilt voice recogniser which c which will recognise the user's voice and then it'll act accordingly.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Okay. Mm-hmm. Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "So this is our proposed model.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Now the marketing expert has to", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Tell, yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "give her suggestion whether it'll be sellable or it'll be cost effective.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Okay, well um what what I really like a lot about it is that you can reach the whole thing with one thumb,", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yes, yes.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "that you can really hold it in one h you don't need two hands", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "and it's easily reachable even for somebody with a small hand, yeah?", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yes the buttons are all raised, right?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "The buttons are all raised", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Are raised, mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yes.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "and if you hold it in the centre of your hand you can even reach it over here so you don't have to turn it around, turn it upside down, move it up, up and down,", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Right. Or have two hands to operate it, yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "I really like that.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "You really did a good job on that, my little designers.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Um and um I like the idea that the on-off button is in a really prominent place. That's that's a really good good thing.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yes, and it sort of sticks up so that you really.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah, that's great.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "you don't have to g first go like oh yeah here it's on and yeah, mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Hmm. Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Abs okay.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "The colour's very attractive. Um the um these buttons uh around here are the mute", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "No, these the front buttons which are here, are the mute buttons.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "and these mm-hmm On both sides they're mute?", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yes, yes.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "So you can push either one?", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yes.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "So if you're left-handed or right-handed it doesn't matter.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "And this brings the menu up on the screen?", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Pardon me? This is the menu yes, yes.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "This brings the menu up on the screen and the orange ones are.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "A the the these these two are th to increase or decrease the volumes,", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "and these two are to uh scroll the programme channels.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "F f okay.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Scroll up or scroll down the channels.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Right, very good. Uh it looks mm looks like something I can sell.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Okay and now I'm supposed to.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Well, I have one question", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "uh will there be anything written on the buttons, like that people know, or they have to learn that from a piece of paper which button does what?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yes, it will have uh these buttons will have the numbers and all the rest of the buttons will have symbols.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Ah. Yeah, definitely.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Will have symbols so that that that the user really knows you know and doesn't have to first learn it.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yes, which can be easily recognised.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yes.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah. Yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Good point because we need the symbols'cause we're going into an international market we can't have anything that's language dependent.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yes.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah of course, and also.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yes.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Hmm.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah. But anyway it would ha i i i it has to have some kind of of symbols, text or something so that people kn", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yes.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah we can Text.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Symbols on it. Mm-hmm, mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yes.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Text that we can have on the case itself,", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "That's right.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yes.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "we can it will be printed on the case and symbols as well as the buttons. Yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Okay, yeah just wanted make sure of that mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "And and one more feature is we we have a holder for this remote which is an oyster shape.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Mm,'kay, mm. Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "A shell shape.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "For the snail, yeah, mm-hmm,", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Right, mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yes, yes.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah. So it is.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "we have the snail shell.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yes, snail shell.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "yeah,", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "He goes right back into his shell.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "yeah shell.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yes.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Well you know I think we could do something really funny with this too because the snail is known to be slow", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "and we could have some sort of little comic effect on our marketing about how this is a rapid snail or something like that", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Y Yes.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah, of course, yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "you know that would, that would really work.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Now what, what are our special features for the marketing?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "So.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "That's really the voice recognition that's really unusual.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "I think voice recognition is our big selling point", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Mm. Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "'cause nobody else seems to have that in in this price range.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "And then, and then the other thing would basically be sh shape or practicality of use.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yep", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "You know.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "uh well I think that everybody's gonna say their remote control is practical. I think we have to, we have to dwell on on on the appearance.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Colours. Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "We're really gonna have the be the", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Cutest.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "cutest remote control on the block.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "So I think we have to play with the image, play with the snail image um play with the visual and then the voice recognition.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "I think those are the two things to push. The look and the voice recognition. They're gonna be our two selling points.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Okay, now uh having said that.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "I'm supposed to make a little presentation, aren't I?", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "No, now this was our evaluation criteria which we uh just have done.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Now we're gonna talk about financing..", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Ah, but in my instructions I think it said I was supposed to go to the board and do something.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Well, there is a production evaluation.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "No?", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Is that you?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah, that's me.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "But that's after the financing.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Oh, okay.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "See? Fi see?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Sorry, sorry. Mm-mm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Um. Okay, we had looks and voice recognition. Okay now on the financing we bring up the mm there it is. Okay uh energy source we say that's battery, right?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "That's right.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Okay, now. So we I guess we use one.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yes.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "What? T cell or chart you are trying to change is protected. Well, that's nice. She told me I could just ch change it here and then it would It doesn't work. Hmm.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Can you just fill it in in the yellow boxes? Or.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Oh, okay yeah, okay,", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "let's see. Okay, one, okay.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yes.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Oh go away. Um kinetic source so that's in the energy source that's all we need.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Uh electronics, simple chip on print? Is that's what we're using?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yes.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah,", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "One of those?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Come on. Okay, one. Uh regular chip on print. No. That's all we need, the one", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "No. Yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "case, uncurved flat, single curved, double curved.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Well..", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "This is a.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Single curve? Mm.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "I guess it's double curved.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Double curved? One of those?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Case materi s supplements. Plastic we said, right?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Plastic.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Uh wood, rubber?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Rubber, because we're gonna have the soft buttons.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Uh but, yes but.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "I think uh that is uh f for rubbers that is uh yeah case material.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "That's just for the case material,", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Is this for the case? Yes.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "so special colours though, we having that,", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Oh okay, the mm-hmm, mm' kay.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "right?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yes.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "And then we have to interface push buttons.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yes.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Scroll wheel, no. Integrated scroll wheel, L_C_ display?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "No.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "No,", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Button.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "'cause we didn't put the clock in it after all, right?", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "No.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Uh, button supplement special colour?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Speci Yes", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Special form?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yes d we do have special form.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yes.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "And special material, rubber, wood, yes.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Okay. Total seven point six whatever that means.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Uh, I think that's the price.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "That's the price.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "One two three four five six seven eight nine", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Mm?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Maybe it is it just n", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Eight, eight point two. That's.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Nine points,", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "hmm?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "okay, yes.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Eight point two, right? So, we looks like we are well within budget.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Okay. I guess I should save this I suppose, huh?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Oops. Uh-huh huh huh.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "On the desktop.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "I just tried that. My documents, computer.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "AMI.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "My compu Ah oh here it is, yes.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "AMI should for", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Okay, fine. Save. Okay good, so that's the good news. We gonna be popular.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Um. So that uh I think financing was pretty simple.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Now we would like to have a presentation by the marketing expert on production evaluation.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Okay, I'll take my file down so you can bring it up.'Kay should be able to get it now.'Kay, why don't you move just to the next slide right away.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "You wanna go to the next slide?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah right away.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Okay, well uh obviously my method for uh s m the marketing of this thing is first to ask the big question, will it sell? And I think we should show this prototype to people from various age and socio-economic groups and see about any fine tuning that maybe little things we haven't thought of.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "We can't accept every suggestion of course, but maybe we just need to get a few.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "And show the the prototype to consumer research groups, we don't s want somebody to suddenly come to us and tell us that this button is toxic and you know some child will swallow it and then we won't sell any.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm. Mm.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "So we have to get some input from those people.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "And then after that we just have to go with our best intuition and you know we like it, we think it's good, we're gonna get behind it and sell it. Um, next slide please. Okay, now the things that I was thinking and th my wish list has really been realised in this prototype. I wanted the shape to be biomorphic, I didn't want anything with angles and all square, I wanted it to be comfy and roundy so we we've got that. The size is small, the colour's bright and warm which is what we wanted. We wanted the feel to be as soft as possible, we'll have the soft buttons", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "and the way this is shaped, even though it's gonna be hard plastic, it feels good in your hand so that's nice. And functionality I put last on my list because people aren't going to use it before they buy it.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "So paradoxically the other features, in other words, the look, the feel um and the shape, that's what people are gonna get in the store.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Fee selling.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "They don't have a television in the store, they can't play with it.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yes.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Um so they'll be our main selling points. So um th those have been fulfilled by your prototype and go ahead to the next slide please. Okay, so um the shape um I think is a a one. That's really, really excellent shape. The size is small um and th these points are in the importance for the, for the marketing, these aren't i in how I feel. I think that it's I think that it's plenty small enough to sell but I think we're sort of right the scale is one to seven. I think we're sort of right in the middle as far as c other competitors.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "And our colour I think is great. The colours are bright and warm and we really do great job there. And given um the constraints that we had I think we got it as soft as possible. And then functionality um I think you did a really good job on functionality, obviously we could have ad added different functions but then we'd disturb something else so I would say that we got to a five out of seven on on functionality.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "So I think that basically we've got a great product and we can get off and running with it.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Um I just realised one thing.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "In the financing there was no room for our voice recogniser.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yes.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yes.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Ah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "And uh I don't know how we can evaluate that or how we can include that, too.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Well, um we had what, eight eight euros twenty as our cost?", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Eight, eight twenty, yes.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Eight twenty so.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "And so we've got we've still got four euros to go to spend.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "We have um four euros, yeah", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "I mean maximum we have another four point three euros I mean four thirty.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm. Well um that's.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "But I mean we have no way of presenting that to management as you know as a f finished, as a finished product and saying okay with the voice recogniser that costs so much.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "So um we just have to beware of that. I mean and know whether the four thirty will really cover that.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Well as we know in today's technic technological world you can do just about anything at any price, the the the problem is quality.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "So we're just gonna have to settle for whatever quality that will buy us.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah,", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yes, yes.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "And um it may not be the greatest quality but it may sell anyway.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah, still.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "As we've seen with so many of these kinds of products..", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah..", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "I'm sorry to interrupt then but I just uh recog I just remembered that there was no that that was not um included uh that there was no room for any special features, okay?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Included, yeah. Hmm,", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah mm.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "hmm", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "So to beware of that. You wanna go to this next slide, marketing expert?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Uh, well I isn't this my last slide?", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "I dunno.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Maybe.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yes it is. Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Go ahead. I think that was my last slide, yeah. Um. Mm okay. And I'm supposed to present this scale on the whiteboard. Um and we're supposed to talk about those things as a team now, so if you put my last slide back up there.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Oh.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "I'm sorry I've um forgot to do that, um.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Why? Wh why you need that up?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Hmm? Well because I can't remember what I put on there. Okay.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Now I'm supposed to see how long my leash is here.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "I think you can make it there.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm'kay. You ready. So now we're all supposed to say what we think. Um okay so on shape I gave it a one. Wait what would you ra uh one being good and seven being the worst.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Worse, okay.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Um what do you think the shape is?", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "One.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "One, okay, and Be Betsy?", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yes I think uh shape is one.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah, even my yeah, shape is one.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Okay, uh-huh one, okay. And how about on size? On size.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "You you gave it a four.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "I gave it a four, yeah, I feel it's just average.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Um, I dunno. I think I would give it at least a two.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "One.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah, even I think it is one. It's quite small.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Okay. Okay.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "you're the designer, of course you wanna give it a one.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Um and then how about how we doing on colour?", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Colour uh I.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Colour, I gave it a one.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "One.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "I really like all those nice bright, warm colours.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "I I like the colours. One.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "One. Yes.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "One.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah, one.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "One, one, one, okay. And how about the feel? Taking into um consideration texture and comfort in the hand.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Uh, I think I would give it a two.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Okay, I gave it a three, two,", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "I'll give three.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "yeah? Three.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Uh maybe two,", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Two, okay.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "And the next is functionality where I I admit I was a little hard on our team here, but.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Well it's also you can't really try it out uh the other things you have have more is are more tangible so from that point of view", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah. Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "but um I'll give it a three.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Two.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Two, okay.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Uh three, mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Three? Okay. Well, um. It looks like we've got got ourselves a pretty good product. Um the functionality's the only place where maybe we have to think about m m maybe, heaven forbid, having another meeting.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah..", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "But um otherwise I think we're we're ready to go to go with this product. Anybody else have any other comments or any other things that we feel we should evaluate?", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Uh. Here is what we looking at uh satisfaction on for example room for creativity. Um. Is there more room for creativity or are we absolutely happy?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "We can always improve, yes.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Maybe we can yeah, include some more buttons and uh um", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yes, features.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "yeah features. We can make the buttons few buttons smaller. Uh I think they are quite big, so I think I I mean we can just have small buttons and more buttons in that case. If we want to have more features than that.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm. Well then again if we're gonna um do the speech recognition thing we're gon there gonna be some buttons that are gonna have to be added for that for the recording of the the speech.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah. Yeah, definitely.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yes. Voices.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "So that that's where we're gonna have to do maybe we can eliminate one of the mute buttons, instead of having two mute buttons.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah, definitely, yeah, two mu mute buttons.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yes. Yes.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "And um then maybe we can do something with the um the volume control. Maybe we can put that all on one button.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Hmm.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Um and a couple of other th maybe comp uh consolidate some of the usage an and see what we can do with that.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Y um al always bearing in mind that right now we are of course well within the budget", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "And maybe.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "and that we still you know we probably can't, with this particular item, we probably can't just uh add a whole lot of more things.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm. No.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Uh um we need uh you know we need to leave space money-wise for the voice recogniser.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yes.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Um.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "So th the question really is how do we feel with the project process? Uh, um are we happy with the creativity that has passed here or we're not happy with the new product we created or that was created? Uh I think personally I think uh I'm pretty happy.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "I'm pretty happy with it too, yeah um,", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Um an", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Even I'm happy.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "it's something I think I can market. Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "and then the next question is are we happy with the leadership of this project? Uh.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "I think you've done a good job, Miss leader..", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yes, yes you've done a good job.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah, yeah, definitely..", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "And I think team work I think was very very good, I think we really.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah I d I do too I think we worked well together as a team, yeah. Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "And uh I think we are we happy with the means we used? We used whiteboard, we didn't use digital p well digital pens I guess are these things.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah maybe we could've used the whiteboard a little bit more, yeah,", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Whiteboard more, yes, yes.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah, probably.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "we didn't use that enough.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yes, we could. Uh, it's maybe not in the best position in the room um you know like sometimes it's positioned so that it's much better visible for everybody and I think from that point of view we sort of ignored it a little bit.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yes.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "And we used the slide because it was better positioned.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yes, I think so, I think absolutely,", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "No.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Mm I think that's true mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "and fortunately we all had slides presentation which made it a little easier.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Hmm.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Um did we new did we find new ideas?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yes.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "I think we did.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah, many.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "I think we were we were very good, yeah, mm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "I think we we did, uh in more than one respect and uh so I think we did very well here.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm. Okay.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Are the costs within budget? Yes, yes. Uh is the project evaluated? Yes.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yes, yes.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Um then celebration..", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Celebration.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Cel celebration yes, yes..", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Ah..", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Today we have apple juice and after we sell m million of'em we have champagne..", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "So I I thank you all very much. Um, I think this was very good and um", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "I think we did come up with a new product that's uh feasible. Feasible from the production point of view and feasible from a marketing point of view.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm. Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "So, thank you.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Thank you.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Thank you very much.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Okay. Watch I I have my cord behind you here.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "I always get it on here, but getting it off is.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Do we do we have some time left? Uh you have.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "They say it's forty minutes.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Ah yes we have time later", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "But we we were told we could end the final meeting at any time, whenever we felt we were finished.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "but we don't.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Oh, alright.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "It'll take me the rest of the time to get my microphone out from my necklace. Oh, there we go.", "speakerName": "Marketing" } ] }

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English.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Just kidding.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": ".", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "So annoying.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Break is over.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Ooh it works.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Whoo.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Spicy.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Spicy.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Where are are all the other presentations?", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "I just put it in the in the shared folder so it should be.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "The conceptual or.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "yeah I think so. Yeah, conceptual design. What or whatever does it.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Ah. Because I see only my own presentation.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "No no no, can you go back one?", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Uh'cause it has to be PowerPoint pre yeah components design, that's it.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "This? I'll just put it in there.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "So, he's coming.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": ". I did get a bit more done than the last time,", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Or not.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Oh okay.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "'cause I knew that I didn't have time so I just copy and paste everything into the.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Ah,", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Ah. She.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "I can't cut and paste it into the other folder but.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "You can look at the final report,'cause I have to record everything we are deciding and such, so I'm trying to write it down between everything else.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Move to meeting room.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Sometimes I have these pop-ups or these sounds and there's nothing there,", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Oh.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "and also with I don't know how to use PowerPoint, so it takes me forever to get something done with it.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah me too,.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "I I've got the same problem as well..", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Here we go again. Welcome. Uh we have again three presentations and then we have to decide on what concepts the mobile phone has to uh f the remote control has to support.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Thi", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "So who wants go.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yes.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yes?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Who wants to start?", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Me first again or.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah sure. Doesn't matter.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Oh. No. Yeah. No problem", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "yeah. Alright. Did you open it already or.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "No.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "no. Ah. Ah. Yes. So welcome to the marketing presentation once again. Um this time about trendwatching. Uh well there has been inv investigation again, in the in the remote control market. Uh it shows a number of developments. Uh I will address them uh in a moment. Um fashion watch watchers uh have detected the trends for young public, because that's our public. Um well fruit and vegetables will be will be the most important theme for clothing, uh shoes and furniture. And the feel of the material is expected to be spongey. So um the developments I will address them.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "oh yeah well this is the fruit and vegetables looks of fresh bright colours. So to give you an idea. Um well the developments? Uh development one. Uh well most important aspect for remote control happens to be a fancy look-and-feel. Instead of the current uh functional look-and-feel. Um well fancy stands for an original look-and-feel of the case and the interface. And the second most important aspect is that a remote control should be technological uh innovative. Um well it stands for the use of technical features that do not exist in current remote controls. I think we pretty much covered that with our screen and um and speech recognition,", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Sound. Yeah yeah uh uh.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "so I don't expect that to be a problem. And the third development um is that the remote control should be easy to use. Um Well the first aspect uh was twice as important as the second aspect,w which was twice as important as the third aspect.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "So um that kind of gets you this ratios. So fancy look-and-feel uh is the most important uh point of attention.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": ".", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Uh so the fruits and vegetables in combination with the spongey material. Um well technolog technological innovation, we've covered that pretty much I guess. Um and easy to use, I don't think that will be problem. So my point of attention is especially this part.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "That this will be a crux. So that was the marketing uh presentation. I had only one document left.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "And shall I go first?", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah. No. I I don't mi I don't mind.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "So I.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "That's.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah yeah sure. No.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "So kind of this.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Do you want to go first? Okay.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah?", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "So a k a small example.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Kind of this this look.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Uh nothing about the buttons but just sponge kind of thing, and and some fruit and colours", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "I dunno. Just made a quick design.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Cool. Yeah you're just the user interface hmm?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "It's better than than my uh drawing..", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Alright.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Alright..", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah okay but I have to design the.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Uh components.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah layout.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah okay.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Oh no.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah. It's okay.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "You probably opened it.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah true. Um.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "F_ five.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "F_ five.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Alright. So.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "I'm dealing with the components design. Um let's see. I uh used some design examples we had uh from similar products. And I used uh possibilities from our manufacturing department about current components which will have to be implemented in the design. That's why I had to, wanted to go first. Well they gave me um an idea about what people want. We're f mainly focusing on this group, but I want to make the distinction clear. Uh I could not drag the pictures into the the slides so s so I don't have examples of how it looks like. But it comes down to what you uh what you think we should do with the spongey and the fruity looking uh type. If you, the young dynamic people want soft primary colours uh, which looks like fruits you know, you can and shapes that are curved and not uh solid straight lines anymore. So this basically um yeah goes on to what you were mentioning earlier. There is a lot of um factors involved in choosing the components.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "There's a lot of options that we have to discuss. Uh for example the energy source. we have four types. The basic battery. Uh we have a hand dynamo, which we yeah we Dutch refer to it as the kneipgatt.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Uh the kinetic provision of energy which means if you move the thing, if you shake it.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Which will be fun for toddlers right, if they wanna use the.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "And uh of course solar cells. But I dunno how we would use that into the design of the actual product.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Wi an indoors.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "So uh my.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah okay.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Oh.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Calculator's can do it.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "yeah also also in you know countries where there's n isn't much light like in Scandinavia, they wouldn't be y able to use it half of the year you know.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "So that's not cool either. So um for the uh a case, there's uh the traditional uncurved flat hard case. Single curved, which means that it has uh curves in one dimension. Or the double curved. Um I wasn't able to finish my uh personal preferences sheet, but well you know that we will have to go for the double curved'cause it's daring and different from what we have now. Uh the case materials.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Well we have all kinds of hard uh materials like the the hard plastic, the wood and the titanium. I would definitely go for rubber'cause it fits most in what people wanna see nowadays.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Um poo, this is a lot of text. I wasn't able to organise this yet. We have yeah several uh interface designs. Uh we can use a scroll buttons for the menus, but we already kind of decided to go for the f for the pushbuttons, for the the arrow buttons.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah. Pushbuttons. Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "So that's not really interesting.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Electronics? Yeah, maybe we wanna decide on what electronics to use the advanced chip I think is easiest to implement uh for the production,'cause they they can print it better. Um Yeah. I think this is about it. Yeah I was working on some per personal preferences. I first uh chose for the battery,'cause yeah I'm traditional and that's the most obvious, easiest choice to go to. But I really think that we should maybe uh think about the kinetic energy,", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "where you have to move the thing to be able to use it.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "As an optional uh feature.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Or combine uh both with a with one uh", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Uh I think you can only fit one uh source of energy on the.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah maybe we.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "I guess we can only choose one.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "I can imagine that the kinetic uh type energy source would be more expensive to make. But it is more longlasting, that the people don't have to ever buy batteries again.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah. And it's more fun.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "I didn't receive any info uh.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "And it's also more fun yeah. I always chuck my uh remote control around, so.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah, just playing with it", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "and especially when the material's rubber. It can be done, I mean, you can't harm it,", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "S yeah it's safe.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "And throw it.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah y exactly.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "so it's a perfect combination I guess.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "You don't have to be scared about bouncing it off the g floor and breaking it or whatever.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "So that's the end of it.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "So.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "'Kay next.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Uh go ahead.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "So double curved is like this, this, this, or.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "No it means curved in two dimensions. So uh w single curved? Uh let's say would be a b square box, but then with curves on one dimension.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "And double curved would means that it would have curves curves in every direction. Like three D_. Yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah. Also in in height?", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Uh.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah okay.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Okay. Can we uh.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah. One one uh very important thing I was uh yeah thinking about is the speech uh option. We were going to use that.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah. So um Yeah um yeah that's one thing uh which I'm not sure uh of how to implement it uh into the remote control.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Well the visual representation is not there with speech", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Design?", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "No okay but it has to be combined with with the menu uh for functions and.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "but you can Yeah. Just yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "So okay.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "I think you can just uh match the speech commands with the functions that are already present.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "So I don't think you have to design anything else for that.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah with the programme.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "But do uh j do we uh do the speech just for the basic options, for the simple buttons?", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Both.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "For for everything,", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "also for the advanced options? Okay. Uh we have this very uh basic uh trendy design. Everybody says it so that's what's uh yeah um Yeah in the in the last uh meeting we uh we were yeah putting the the simple and the advanced options separated. That's yeah obvious. Um yeah. Pressing the the menu option uh will disable uh all other options on your uh remote control. And only the the L_C_D_ panel will uh light up and then you can only uh change the yeah the options.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "And and the and the buttons that you need to control it, I guess.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah. Um yeah design has to be very attractive but that's your your op your yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "you have to uh delete this but this is the the the simple uh layout.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Uh display on the upper side with the the menu button and maybe a some sort of cancel button or save button.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "That would be the back.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "I'm The back.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Back and okay.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Back and okay yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Back and okay.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "You did read the minutes I wrote?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Uh.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "You did read the minutes I wrote?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "What? A little bit I think but not not everything w", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "I.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Oh okay'cause I pretty much summed up all the buttons there were. So.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Okay. Oh I uh didn't read that.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "I hate doing work for nothing..", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "But But this is the the basic uh design uh for the for the m yeah for the buttons.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Um I wanted to to categorise everything. Uh with a speech display uh yeah, sound, everything you you noted in your uh minutes. Um every pushbutton has uh has its own uh LED light.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "So you can uh yeah change uh m make it more trendy for for younger people. And uh if there are older people they wanted more uh yeah more uh luxurous so that's an a also an option. Um that was it.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "That was it?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Okay. Uh again. Ugh. Okay so what we have to decide is what kind of components do we use? Uh energy source, chip type, case type. And user interface. But I didn't see a clear distinction between these so I think what we have is okay. So we only, we already decided that kinetic would be the choice for energy.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "No.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Uh the case would be doubly curved. So.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "And rubber. Rubber material.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Rubber material.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Rubber material. And that's the only thing we have left.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah we need the the chip on print to be able to support the the screen and uh and f audio function.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Oh okay. No it's easy..", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "So that's uh is that is that the advanced chip?.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah. Yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Advanced chip. Okay.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Otherwise you would have a simple chip, just for pressing buttons. But we need more.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Wow. Yeah. Alright.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "I'm just thinking, this is not my department, but I I'm not sure what this is gonna cost,", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Kinetic. Double curved.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Too.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "to be able to m", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Uh I didn't get any info on this. So.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": ".", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "So'cause we need to sell it for twenty five Euro a piece.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "That's gonna be difficult huh?", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "The cost of making it should be twelve and a half?", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "I have total here.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah I don't know.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah yeah yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "I didn't get any information about that so.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": ". We're going to produce it in uh China so it's no problem.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Child labour man, we love it.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah, so it's cheap.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Who doesn't. Uh let's see. Is there a new thing?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Um well the interface type supplements.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah the interface, maybe can.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Uh it's it's quite difficult because we we haven't got all the options uh yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Ooh. No. Uh do you have a picture of doubly curved case? And could you put that in the group folder? Of the project folder.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Um let me see. Wait a sec.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "If you go to your homepage or something, you should", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah I'm going there now.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "get your own information.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Inspiration.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "I got my fresh and fyoo fruity uh picture uh also uh over there, so.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Ah you didn't draw it yourself.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Well.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "No.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Ah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Too less time.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Um yeah maybe it's.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah, also the menu.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah that that w", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "This is the the menu I was uh looking uh at.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah. Yeah I was thinking of that also, with with a with a uh arrow.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Maybe it's easier.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Arrow.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Arrow yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "So that indicates that there's an menu under that menu.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah. Yeah perfect.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "So.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": ".'S the target group.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Maybe it's easier if you guys come over here.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "S yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah sure..", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "S see this is the the the standard traditional type, where the form uh yeah serves the function, you know.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Oh yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "It's like really basic. But this m is more appealing to old people and we don't want that.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah..", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "This is what we're looking for. And th that means curved in both dire dire uh dimensions.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Oh okay. I see.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Not only like this but it has to be.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah also like this. So you can hold it.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "exactly. It has to be kind of instead of the PlayStation, the module. It has to be like the the Game Cube, you know,", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "where your thumbs would be laying in the instrument and it has to be nice to hold. And.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "But it has also to it it has also to be uh luxurous uh for for yeah rich people.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": ".", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Th this looks a little bit like like for only for children. So.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "It ha", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "The children's story. Yeah I've got it.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah but that's that's the the problem uh yeah the dilemma actually,", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Distinction. Yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "'cause we wanna appeal to the to the young public with fancy with flashy colours, and with a lot of shape. And.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah, and the and the rubber, it it will look cheap always,", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "The colour Yeah. Okay but the the colours, you you can make it uh make the colours with LEDs uh beneath the the buttons.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "you know, with the.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "If you press a button and you can disable the the colour LEDs for for people that don't like it.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "There is mobile phones, in which you can change the colour also of the lights.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Maybe we should consider this function.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "To customise it and so I mean kids can make it look more flashy with different kinds of colours", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "and people who want something, you know, different, or more uh design, they can go for one colour", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Different. Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "like uh for example this uh photo th camera.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Camera.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah. Cool. S underwater uh.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah submarine..", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Personally I think it's really ugly.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Well.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Just give me the thing that it's inside there.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah but this this the is for the.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Very cheap uh cheap look.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "maybe I'm too old for this stuff.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Okay. Uh.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "So those I think are all my.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": ".", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "oh.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Ah yeah bright colours.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah. Also a kind of rubber uh.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "And this is, this is with the curved that I mean.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "That's singly curved.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah. Yeah?", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "That should be nice.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Well we could make a compromise between that. But I don't know if it's worth the effort.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "A compromise between what?", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Uh instead of doubly curved we take a single curved. So to appeal a little more to the all the public.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "So s", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "This, this would be uh single curved uh?", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah there's only in in this dimension.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Like this. So curvy or not.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Also.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah. Exactly. Exactly.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah so we keep it singly c single curved then?", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah that would be an option. I don't know what you think.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "I think the.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "I mean our aim is to make something different right? To make something new.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "I would go for the double curved.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Okay. Yeah I'd agree.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "And I I'm I'm thinking uh you know uh a drawing palette, where you have the shape for your thumb.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "So it kind of holds nicely, something like that.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah but if you if you make it more curved we we can make more and more options for buttons.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Well this is really your decision but.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "If you have uh it have it in your hand, you you you are not only um yeah you don't need one dimension but you can use other dimensions for pressing the the buttons.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah. As well. You can make a trigger button or something like that.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah. Something to shoot at your television.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah or that that is the confirmation button or something,", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "that you scroll with your thumb, with the arrows, and then confirm.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "That's yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "That would be a nice way to use it but I mean, yeah, I'm thinking big already, and we need something that well that that you can able to use in one hand I think.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Different. Stands out. Or Oh yeah a one hand uh solution.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "So from top view it looks kinda like this. But from the side you you can have it also in a kind of shape.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "can turn it maybe.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Maybe because the the screen is on top you can have.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "To switch from buttons to interface hmm. If you turn it a little..", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": ".", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Maybe you can c have this kind of shape. A little upwards. So that the screen is more", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Oh yeah. Least you can easily see it.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "towards yourself, so you can easily see your screen.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "How about.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Well well you have it in your hand so it's a kind of an angle from your eyes to the screen. So then you have double double curved in some way. So this this is so the screen is positioned over here.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Oh. Something like that. And the buttons are more, well it's very thick now but.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah I understand what you mean.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "That's uh that's.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "How about we do a uh a pop-up screen, like the laptop.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "If you can uh flip.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "So that the only the simple functions will be visible at first.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah? That that you can press it and then it comes up? Or.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "And then if you want.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Uh so you have a the the side view.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah. Something like that.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "But then the side view can be straight. If you have a pop-up screen. But I dunno if that's too expensive.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "So and you want to be able to", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "I mean maybe it's too much.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "make this", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "No uh like.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": ".", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "I would draw it like this. Let's say this is the side view. That you have a a screen that will come up here, and can go down that way. If you know what I mean.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Okay. Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "So that it would come up like that.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Okay so the buttons are on top here, and you flip it over that way.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah or preferably even keep the simple buttons here, and then under the screen even you could put more more advanced buttons.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah. Oh yeah. Yeah yeah yeah yeah. Right. Yeah that's good idea.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Oh the advanced buttons. Right.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "That's the the more advanced options were uh for the for the menu.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "But you you want.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "F for the L_C_D_ menu right?", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "okay. You just want to hide them all?", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "So w w", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "No not all because you need most of them, the arrow buttons.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "The oh.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "But you can hide the okay and the back uh button.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah yeah yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "And the menu button also because when you flip it open.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "and you can maybe even drop the menu button because maybe if you flip it open it will auto activate amauto uh uh automatically.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Oh.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Activate and th the yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "So okay b but you have t you need some button to flip this open.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Why? You could just make it mechanical.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "True. True. But you can make a, yeah, you can make a trigger here. You know a simple uh with a.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah. Yeah and it says menu and it flips open and then you have the buttons to control it, in combination with your.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "That's but it's it's not", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah. Exactly.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "it's not very uh very strong uh yeah if you drop it one time.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "True. It uh c it can go open.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Well yeah the the idea of it was, is that because you close it, you cover the L_C_D_ screen and it won't be vulnerable to scratches or whatever.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "If you cover it with rubber. Mm.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "An adv an adv and it will be covered in some kind of uh thin rubber layer or something like that.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "And.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah. So it can bounce.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Exactly. Exactly. We just have to make sure that the closing mechanism won't break.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah, uh It's very no it's very strong.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Th it's very solid yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah okay so that that may work.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "That actually will offer some extra protection for the.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Okay but then we still have the the the thing of the the the shape. Yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "What kind of.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah I was thinking, if if you have your hand, it this is your th", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Harder.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah the lower part doesn't work I guess, so maybe you should try it over there.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": ".", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Okay. If this is your thumb, and this is your hand like that. With your uh wrist.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "That you, that it would be kind of shape like this, you know. So it's easier to hold in your hand, to y f", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "But when you are left-handed, that's that's a problem.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Uh yeah. Yeah of course.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Maybe can design two versions.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah then w then you would have to to make it like this.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "But that's that's very expensive uh.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Like like you drew here.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "And maybe th then make this thicker also than the centre.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Give it.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "And ergonomical shape. Yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "I would give it a female shape", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "but uh yeah. Anyway.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah..", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "The female shape yeah. With two uh.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Obviously. Make it more appealing to guys.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "We we could make some some rubber uh some rubber uh yeah mouse, with which you can change uh.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "I mean.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Oh yeah. Some uh k esk uh yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "and so if you Yeah..", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah but but that's optional for later I guess.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "I mean, we have to make.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah but we have hardware inside, which is so it has to have some sort of basic shape.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Some yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah we we better so choose one.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "And also the screen, you cannot mould it.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "No no no no..", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "You know kind of thing.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah so okay we should better choose one sh one shape.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "But that's the kind of the idea,", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "And then you can.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "so it lays good in the hand, and then on on the side with with your thumb,", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "You can place the screen here, which can come.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "you you can you can use,", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "yeah, you can use the button option.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "So the keywords are primary co colours, spongey?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "And but then I w I would.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Spongey.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "I would do the arrows here, kind of thing.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Spongey can be reached by means of.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Those buttons? And the simple buttons here,", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": ".", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "so that.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah. And and the and the control thngs in the middle? The the the arrows?", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "I Uh y eah that's what I mean.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "No the arrow's over here.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "The arrows over here,", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "and here the s simple uh.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah and then numbers.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Buttons. Okay.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah. Alright.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "I think that uh it's a nice design.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Uh pretty nice design. Yeah..", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "It's cool..", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah it looks uh pretty fancy.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "or do we wanna make its shape look like a banana or something?", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "I dunno.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": ".", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah that's.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Uh bananas wierd shape and other fruits also,", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "so it's better to have um some sort of basic print and then a fruit print in some primary uh colours.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah we could make.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "I don't know what what colours should the basic print be like? Like some soft green or something?", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Orange or something.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Or and then.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Or blue? Dark blue or.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Oh yeah yeah, dark blue", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "We should use.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "and then and then very bright, uh a yellow banana, an orange, uh a green apple, stuff like that,", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "with very uh bright tones I guess.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah w we need very primary colours, like bright red, bright yellow.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "So you have something like.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah but the primary colours w we can uh create with the with the LEDs on the on the remote control.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah. Yeah okay yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "If you we uh yeah. If you make it uh just a yeah bl give it a blue colour, then it's just a neutral colour,", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "also for the for the more uh yeah for the people.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Huh cool.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm. That doesn't really work. To draw, I guess.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "No it's.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Oh. What's this?", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah it's text.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "N no you have to exit..", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Hm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "You could also make line with uh.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "So that's.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah. Two hours further.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah..", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "thickness. Oh.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "So that's blue.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Oh. Wh why not go for the twenty?", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Mm. Yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah. That's what I call painting.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Y.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "So that's that's a dark blue basic colour I guess.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah and then on top of that.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "It's pretty nice. And then uh Oh.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Some yellow.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah with some some yellow banana.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Banana colour.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "And how about some uh some flashing standby lights?", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Like..", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Like you have on the Samsung, well I don't like to call brands phones,", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "the you know that'cause I remember from one of our first meetings that uh people lose their uh remote controls often.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah?", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "So it not not only in in the colours of the LEDs, that we want something to keep it visible at all times, or.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "How do you mean?", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah if you if flashing colour so you can't lose it, basically.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Um.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Some some.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah. Exactly.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Well I think it's a bit too much but.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Maybe a.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah an orange. Well alright well this is more like purple I guess,", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah. Yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "but it's should be more real dark blue, so the contrast with the with the fruit objects is uh pretty high.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "So uh yeah. That would be a nice uh nice device I guess.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "And which which colour should uh should I give the the display? Uh.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Who?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Or.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "I mean, the the colour of the background of the display?", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah. Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Ah well I don't guess it s has to be a sixty uh sixty six five thousand uh colour, so yeah too expensive.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "And then you can use yellow or semething. Why not? Aye.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "So just just a a blue blue backlight or something like that.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Mm. Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Green is too old-fashioned. But blue, blue's okay. J", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "As long as you loo use uh high contrast between the the background and the foreground colour.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Like this.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "maybe a maybe a white a white backlight?", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "So that people with uh with", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "White backlight, and dark.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Dark uh letters, yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah. Whatever which is visible.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "I know you sh you should test it under uh under a light conditions. I mean it's hard to tell uh I dunno.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "And also for people who are a bit colourblind.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Colourblind yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah. True.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "No so that's mostly red and green I believe.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Which which uh colour should the buttons be?", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "That's adjustable.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Woah. All all buttons?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Why adjustable?", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah? Or not.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "No uh.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "That's how we are going to make it uh more trendy. Or is it uh too expensive?.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "But maybe I mean they have to they have to have some colour right?", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "It's difficult.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "And if the background is very dark blue.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Blue. Maybe green.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "But don't we wanna make the background the the bright colo colours? So th the total of the thing is very bright?", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah you can.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Like the pictures I showed you guys. Those things were all like like bright red, bright red, flashy.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah?", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm flashy.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "So more like.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Mm bzz.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Doesn't work very well. Uh. More like this colour.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah something like that, something that stands out more.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "And then then yellow and orange and red objects on it or something.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "But then then again, which colour should the buttons be? The the press buttons. Should they be white or black or.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Red maybe.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "And it it looks quite cheap, that colour I think.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Uh.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Black.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "It's it's not.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "The green?", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Why?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah. I dunno.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah but it's pretty fresh, on the other side.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah. So.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "It's actually a pretty trendy colour at the moment.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "It's it's trendy okay. But.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "My couch is in that colour.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Ooh...", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Well it works pretty well.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "And then time was up.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Uh not yet.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Uh.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Do you get a pop-up if we.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": ".", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah within five minutes yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "That you have five minutes left or.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Alright.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Y left yeah left and then uh I have to kick you out.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "So something like this.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "That should be pretty nice colour. But maybe the buttons, all buttons in red is maybe a bad contrast for colourblind people.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "No that's actu", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Because the of the green.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "But the but the buttons have their own LEDs or not?", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "They have LEDs but they have a colour.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Red and green are actually the b the easiest to discriminate. Even for colourblind.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah?", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "They will see one of each as grey. But if you use uh green on blue, those kind of colours will look the same.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "I think.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "So red buttons are okay?", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "I think so.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "You can make them red.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Okay. That that's a default uh setting. The the red buttons.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah. But I think you need to keep in mind that the LEDs are just extra light..", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "How do you mean?", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Uh they they don't determine the colour that much, I think.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Okay. Yeah I I was think about a red uh red LEDs and blue LEDs and.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "'Cause you have to print on them you have a background", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "No that's that's too busy I guess.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Each number is transparent.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Uh partly but you have to print on the number. Or the the sign.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "So you can't change the colour so.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "You better bet better better keep the LED and the button itself in the same colour I guess.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "So just an extra", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Bit of light.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "You can.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "bit of light and attention.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Bit of feedback.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "what we should do I think is is make kind of a see-through plastic button, with uh one coloured LED behind it.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "So that the whole button will shine", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "as the colour the And if you think about easy to use buttons, we have to, well we have to make it the shape so that it's easy to hold f for both hands,", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "but also that you can reach the buttons with your thumb, if you hold the machine.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Okay with Uh Don't mean to discourage you but uh basically you two are going to work on the smartboard. Next thirty minutes to design something so.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Ah, right.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Alright.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "And the You will do the evaluation.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Of the product?", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Which we don't have yet.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah uh about.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "So wh how should I do that?", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah I don't know. You probably get a mail.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Oh okay. Or you you or you send it to me. Or just.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah. Once they are finished. Yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "because you are going to design it on this board right?", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah but maybe you can do the evaluation you don't have to evaluate yet but you can make a procedure which to follow. I don't know.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah. I I probably get instruction on that, how to do that,", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "so I make another presentation I guess.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "I kn I know what's gonna happen in in yeah so.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "About. Yeah. You have the basic idea.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "I've a basic idea.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "And you two uh are going to do this. Look-and-feel and.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "So we're gonna work here? On this sketchboard?", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Good luck.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Alright. Thanks.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah. Alright so that's uh.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "So I uh make new page and uh be creative.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "But we have to do it at this moment, after th this meeting?", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Alright.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah you have uh", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Thirty minutes.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "thirty minutes.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Then we have to uh see something which we can uh", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Alright.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "show to the management.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Ah so this is basically the what what we are thinking about?", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "I would yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Shall we uh make a new uh.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah l let's just uh delete all these uh or.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Next.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": ".", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah, I just make a new one.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Oh, next.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Oh and save this uh board.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Alright.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Just save it.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Huh? Yeah I'll just I'll just keep it there.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah okay but just press save and uh.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "It'll be fine.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "On the left. S so, yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Uh sorry.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "You can also include clip-art..", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "So if you'll rather draw in paint or something.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Current colour?", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "So um.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Okay. Uh.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Shall we make some outline sketches of the basic shape first?", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah. And then after that we can make the user uh inter interface.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Because I I.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "then look.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah'cause I have to uh focus on the on the basic look-and-feel design.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "This?", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "So how it's gonna look. And you have to think uh how we're gonna put the screen in it and those kind of things.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Uh pretty accurate.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "So if I'm drawing and you think okay I'm not gonna be able to put a screen in there, you have to correct.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Oh we skip this I guess. Sound button press.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yep.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Uh do you mind if I draw in black then? For normal sketches.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "You can also include it. It's not much work.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Oh no it's it's okay.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Light only button user ca user interaction.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "so we kind of want the girlish", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "That's included.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah okay.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "figure.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "So the pl the plastic plastic buttons also help uh because of um they are only lit during interaction. So.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "I'm not so good at drawing. Excuse me?", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Well it's a good thing that the buttons aren't um, well that they are plastic, because then you can light up the light on when when they are usable.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah. Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "No uh uh.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Maybe you should draw it very large like this.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah but this part isn't uh functioning properly.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah. Sensitive.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Oh right.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "How do we uh uh", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Erase?", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "or insert text?", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "I dunno. Maybe just start typing.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "It's a bit uh large..", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Oh that's a bit big. Yeah..", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "You also do the other sides. Not only on the front si uh the top side but also the the side view.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": ".", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah. Ex exactly.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "L let's make first the the the all the views. The the front view, side view and the back view.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Uh.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Uh..", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Uh I thought for the side view, that the w the basic section would be rather uh a bit thicker than the middle, where you're holding it with your.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Jesus. What do I write down?.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Why can't I work here? This is much easier..", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Much easier, yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "'cause your fingers have to fit underneath and.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "The middle has to be very small so you can have it in your hand.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "I don't see a sign that the meeting is over yet but.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Exactly but the uh but the upper side has to be a bit more like that I think.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "No so I just work here a few minutes..", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah the display,", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Uh don't you think?", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "we yeah we can put a display.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "So the display we will put in here, the basic uh functions in here, where it's most reachable.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "The.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "The the arrow functions. Yeah. Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "The th Exactly. Oh. This is hard.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "What do don't have to draw it exactly do we?", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "No it's it's uh it's okay.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Wait. Let me try it one more time. Maybe I've uh it's easier if I draw it in once. Okay, of course it will become way more ugly..", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "You can make it m larger. Maybe it's easier to to draw uh.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah. This'll take forever. It's fun to work with this pen.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Um so, larger.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Oh.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah that's that's the basic idea. Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "And.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Wrong one.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "yeah. So side.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Five minutes left before the meeting ends.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "'Kay. Um other views?", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Alright.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah only if you are going to put buttons on the side of the unit.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Uh.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "That's the question.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah. Let's fill i fill in the buttons later.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "But we we.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "So this is gonna be from the", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "I is it if if this is from the side.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "uh from.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "From the.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "woah. Steady.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "yeah yeah. Sorry.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Because there the screen goes up like that right?", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "So then it's like this,", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah?", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "or that's not convenient because then you have the screen like this and look like the it's better to have it somewhat like this. Or does it flip all the way?", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah I'm I'm.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "The the idea is that it has to flip up to here.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "May maybe it's it's easier to to integrate the the the L_C_D_ screen just into this this bubble. Because it do doesn't have to flip then.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Because we have en enough space for for making a an L_C_D.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah. Yeah yeah yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Because here.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "It's better to to have this like this I guess, and then flip it like this.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "True.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "But why why do we need uh the flipping uh.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "you can adjust the angle to which it flips. So it can also from this angle, it can flip all the way up to there.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Okay. Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "You can flip it up to there if you want.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah. So w yeah. But we still keep the flipping mechanism.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah we keep the flip?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Think so.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Keep the flip live.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah because I think it will feel weird if you would make this smaller and this bigger or something that.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "I dunno.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Uh the the shape is okay but yeah? I don't see the the yeah why why we should use the the flipping uh mechanism.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "I thought it would be cool..", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Because we Okay yeah. It's it's for for for more trendy uh.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah but maybe Yeah but maybe we we should then.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Because we have enough space. H here we got uh the basic functions, the the arrow uh yeah button.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah there the middle Sh sh shouldn't we integrate it?", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah and then h we sh mm.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "And then like i oh th.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "doh. Come on. So this is the shape. Oh. It hasn't.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": ". It doesn't aim so well.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Okay but the screen is a bit lower because if it falls on the other side, it doesn't fall on the screen.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah, then it's.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "So there's a layer of rubber on the side.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah yeah yeah. Definitely.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "So no flipping but just.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "No flipping or.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "No flipping?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "no.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "you wanted the flipping so.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah I guess but uh I mean most votes count right?", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "But if you if you If you drop it it it just breaks. And it has to be very strong because of the. Yeah kind of.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "It's shaking.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Throwing and the kinetics. Oh. We better make we better make it like this. Eventually.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah true true.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah just light on top.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "And it's also for the for the children, it's yeah for people not sixteen years.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah if you if you're going for the kinetics.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Safer. Mm. Yeah okay that the target group.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "But there are more.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Uh they are responsible enough to have a mobile phone, so also to to deal with their uh remote uh control. Yes.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah okay. That's true. Okay. Yeah?", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Well. I just uh ended the meeting.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah. I'm just thinking totally different designs also.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "You two go design.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Okay wi", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Remember that the weird pocketphone thingy which looked like kind of a Gameboy.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Oh. By the way. Um.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Maybe we should try something like that. But yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "I uh thought up a name for our product. Yeah. It's called uh the Real Remote.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Oh right.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah?", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "With a copyright sign after Real..", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Ooh..", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Alright.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "The Real Remote.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah. Alright.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah. I like it.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "So maybe you can include that somewhere.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Okay. This can go.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Good. Yeah. We should work in our own room right? Or not?", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah..", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Oh yeah we have to f uh include that in our design as well.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "I don't see any power cables here so.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Let's see.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah. Yes.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "What the hell's that?", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "'Kay.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "I think uh it's the sensors.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "See you two in half an hour uh.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Uh.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Good luck..", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yep. Okay that's the side. Ah it's it's okay. But do we want uh options on the on the side with the with the buttons?", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah. I think we do.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Or just leave it? Uh could make an uh a volume button uh scroll, volume button.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah or j or also scrolling for the m yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "For menu. Or.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah? I dunno. We w kind of wanted to stick with the.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah. No, yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah I'm just thinking, if we i we wanna make something different", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "right? So the with the scroll is is more futuristic than the standard arrow buttons.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "I think.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Mm. Yeah you are going to design it so.", "speakerName": "User Interface" } ] }

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Uh, in combination with the finance I um uh I received uh a an uh an Excel uh file", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Hmm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "which we have to fill in later on. Um, you see. Uh, and then we must see uh if we uh stay under the twelve and a half Euro.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Hmm. Interesting. Ah, okay.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "So, that's uh that's a big", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Oops.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Cool..", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm. That's gonna be t problem.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "l so let's uh wait it uh um", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "we have we have must uh,", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Some creative uh.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "we must have uh some time for that uh because it will be uh yeah, quite a lot of mathematics.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Oh. Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "And after that, uh uh an evaluation of uh the process how we uh how we have done it here with the SMARTboard, with the with our laptops, with the all uh all this. And uh afterwards, uh we closing. Once again, forty minutes, so uh let's start.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Ok okay.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "I would g give the word to um G_ and G_ for the prototype presentation.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Shall I give a short introduction and then uh.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah, well sure.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "J_ and J_.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "J_ and J_.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Okay. J_ and J_, okay.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Jane and Jane.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "'Kay guys, take it away.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Take it away.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Hi.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Um, this was our first concept. We decided to use a single touch-screen. So, we've worked out this concepts, how to how to hold it, where to put the buttons and and stuff. And um, well, we began with uh with a form of shape, that is uh is easy to hold w in one hand, left or right handed.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "So, we made i it a little bit less thick and uh it has some ar artistic meaning. No? This uh isn't nothing..", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Idea maybe uh is better.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Um well, during the meeting I showed you the concept of uh placing the buttons on top, usable with your thumb, and uh the menu structure, uh if necessary, with your other hand, so it's just gonna hold it easily.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "And it has to be acce accessible with your uh other hand too, of course.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "So we began uh working out a concept.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah, uh well, and as you saw, we would just have the basic remote with the panel L_C_D_ uh screen. Well, these would be the main buttons, h you could uh change them later on in your own profile if you want to. But, well it's standard they will be delivered with this kind of uh set-up. We have the more advanced menu uh setting right here. We have the sub-menus and stu stuff. We made a top oh, or a front view. Just so like you wanna uh back view. As you can see, this uh there, there are uh two uh weird bumps in it.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "This is for uh the added uh effect of uh well uh y youth and dynamic. And uh this is for the artistic effect.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Well, what we figured is uh we'll show you a picture later on you have more b a better idea after that. But, idea is for to stay in balance with these two uh with these two.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Hmm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "And so when you put it on the table, it will just lay down. It won't uh roll around or stuff. But it will lie more in your hand like an old telephone maybe, or like these old uh phones.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Y you you may get the idea. So thi this is about uh how we figured it should be. The s panel we g you would hide with some more uh rubber layers, like we discussed early on. Uh, you would s you wouldn't see the uh straight panel, but more fluidly and round.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah, the panel just uh of course goes like this.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "But the overlaying layer is uh a little bit uh curved and stuff.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "No, okay.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "And uh, in these bumps you could actually uh put some electronics uh that would you can make a more thinner uh design,", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "and that would actually look very nice, yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "And uh, about the colour, what have.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah. Oh, we added that this um can be held with your hands for this maximum is om yeah, one and a half centimetres. So, you have room here for your battery and maybe even other um electronic chips. S and you can just be the the layer of the touchscreen and some have some wires underneath it to make it as uh thin as possible in the middle for good grip.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Okay. Hmm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah, f uh, as colours, do you do you have the picture in uh.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Oh yeah. Now, well this is the idea about uh the bumps. Uh, you can see there's a v a very uh youthful uh dynamic uh exterior. It uh you just want to hold it you uh you are young and uh dynamic like us.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "'S l it's like an uh Easter egg.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah, it's like an e but this is for children. We we want a more adult version. But, this is like a remote control for children.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "It's called a weemote.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": ". A weemote.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Weemote.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Weemote.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah. Hey, that's actually a brilliant uh marketing stand.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah..", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Uh, but.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Wait what I w got in mind..", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "So this actually basic the idea. We we just want to build a more uh adult vers adult version of of this.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah, I can imagine that.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "And and for colours, we we figured starting with basic colours like uh white or metallic grey. Those are the technological colours actually,", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah. It would be best to to appeal to a broad public and make the covers exchangeable,", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "so it d", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "so the young people will buy an orange and a red and blue and a purple,", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Or blue or whatever.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "but when the o older people uh go in the shop and they see uh an orange um remote control, it would be less appealing than a white one. And young people, we think, are a little bit more flexible,", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Hmm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "they think, ah I'll buy for a couple of Euros some noi nice hip uh.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Hmm. Maybe it's an idea to sell it without a cover, so that you can pick a cover in the in the shop.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Well, um I think a cover is necessary,'cause als otherwise you'll just have the L_C_D_ screen.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah, okay. Yeah, okay.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "So, there must be some cheap standard cover, um maybe white or something,", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Hmm. Mm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "that's could comes with it and you can buy, so we can make extra money.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah, but uh you d you mustn't forget that uh our target aim is younger people.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Oui okay.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Uh, we had decided to uh put uh some flashy fruity colours in it, uh and uh in the survey from uh Milan and Paris uh it uh it came out that uh uh the d the older people are uh more willing to uh to spend money on extra features. So I think uh it will be a better idea to have some uh flashy fruity colours as as a standard,", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Okay. The other way around, you mean.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Oh yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "and for the people who uh really want uh a more sophisticated, more traditional look, they're willing to pay uh that.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Uh-huh.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "They want uh they want more luxury stuff,", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "but they have the money to do it and they want to b to buy that.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "So, maybe it's an idea to put that as an extra and not as a standard.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah. Yeah, maybe yeah, perhaps you're right. Uh, I I would I would actually agree with this sounds logical.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Okay, yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "An another idea. Uh, maybe we could uh develop a cover uh with wood style.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "They'll please the elder users as well.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Well yeah, a colour of a wood style, a white c and uh a couple of h hip uh fruity colours.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "And lea uh l delivered standard with a fruity colour, but not too not too much.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Nah. Yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yes. Not not too uh yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "This is banana and mango, not not purple or p orange and yellow.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah, exactly.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah. But, the mai I think th uh the standard must be some kind of uh uh attractive flashy colours.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah. Or blue or.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Not too, but w a little,", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Ah. Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "because that's our aim.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah,", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "li like like this like this.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "This isn't this isn't too much, is it?", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah, okay. No. Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "I f", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": ".", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Well, the buttons don't have to be uh all uh all of.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah. The buttons,", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Well I I I think so.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "I.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah, except for the buttons it's it could be a standard model.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "yeah. It Yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah, uh something like this would be nice.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Okay, that's that's it from us.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Thank you.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "'Kay, it's my time now.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "It's my turn.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "The Marketing Expert.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Uh-oh.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "During the.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Oh. During the design uh design life-cycle we uh", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Sorry.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "we made lot of requirements and trend analysis and stuff. Um, now is the time to uh evaluate our prototype concept to uh to the past requirements. So we are going to evaluate the design according to the past user requirements and trends analysis. Um, we're going to do that with a seven point scale. Opening a Word document now. Okay. One oh, okay, uh I have to expla explain something. We have to uh be consensive about about things. So, it has to be a group uh group decision.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Okay,", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Okay?", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "so we gon we gonna evaluate the", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Uh We're going to vote. We.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah, the the thing we saw.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "yeah? The prototype.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Okay, just saw.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah. Okay, one. The remote control is designed for people with age below forty.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah. Seven?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Seven is false.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Uh, true. Sorry.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah, b one or.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah, one I think.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Why?", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Most true?", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah, it's not just uh designed for people under the age of forty. It's also designed for people above forty.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah,", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "so.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "So.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "so a o one is appropriate?", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "No no, a little more in the middle.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Or, more like a four.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "No, uh three or yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "I have I've.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Three.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah, two or three, because it's not just uh the qu question is aimed at is it designed for people with age below forty.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "But it's also designed for people of age above forty. So,", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Ah, exactly. Exactly.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "I'll say it's about three.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah,", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "it will be primary appealing to to m minus forty, but also appealing to.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Three.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah. But also for yeah, okay. Uh, second. The remote control is beautiful.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah..", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "It's.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Wow.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah, acco according to us, it's one? Or.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah..", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah,", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah, I I think.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "it's the marketing uh angle on television.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah..", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah,", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "We have a wonderful.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "p s Of c of course you have to be uh very positive and uh enthusiastic about your own product.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Well, it's also fancy then.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Three. Uh, the remote control looks fancy.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yes.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "One?", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yep.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Of course. We have a perfect remote.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yes.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Good. Four. The remote control has big, clear channel switching buttons.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yes. Yeah yeah, oh they have to agree but.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yes.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Leads to user face, yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "I'm the User Interface uh Expert..", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Daniel. Uh, teletext buttons and volume buttons?", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Um, uh no.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "No teletext buttons. Teletext is in the menu.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "You you've different menu.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah, false.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "False?", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "And volume is impo", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "And volume?", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Volume is true.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "True.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Uh, hmm.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Big and clear?", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah, the they are big and clear..", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah yeah, big and clear.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah, big and clear.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "But you could make a teletext button uh six.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Hey.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Otherwise, the people who read this uh are gonna think we have no teletext button.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Hey. Hide.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah, but but the teletext button. Yeah, you can ch That's in a menu.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "It's it's not.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "So, it's w yeah, it it it", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "yeah, it.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "it isn't entirely unclear,", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "J", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "but So, I wouldn't give it a seven.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "No.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "I would give it a more a five or a six.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Five?", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Uh, I don I don't know.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "What do you think, uh Mister Project Manager?", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah, it's it's yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Oh, okay. Well, I agree. I was thinking very black and white.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Hmm.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Black and red..", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Thank you J_..", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Okay, don't forget to save it. Uh.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Red. Okay. Volume. The remote control is easy to be found.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Uh well, when we put in fancy colours, yeah", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Fruity..", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "and.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah, it has these all these fruity colours and it has a strange shape.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "So, if you so if you have trouble finding it.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "But, um it it's not making any sound uh,", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "have we deciding?", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Oh, okay,", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "So.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "but If you put uh your normal uh remote control under your bed, or you throw this remote control under your bed, is it better findable?", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "It'll make a difference. We have the better re I don't know. Yeah, I think so. My remote control's black.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "A li little bit maybe?", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "A little bit, but yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah. Well, we p we can do it glow in the dark.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Four?", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Uh.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Fi", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "So, if it's in the dark place, you still see it glowing.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "K yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "I.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Fo fo yeah fo five is.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Ah, I I I think five. It's it's it doesn't really make a lot of.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Well, then uh then I'll go for four.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Four?", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Because uh four is between three and uh uh also between between true and false.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah, okay, you're right.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Uh,", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yes, but five is between four and six..", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "I think.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "so I'll I'll go for four.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Ah, you must see it as uh, w uh according to uh the the other uh remote controls, there may uh uh be there in your uh T_V_ room, this one will stand out, I think.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Wha", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "B_.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah. Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah, that that's a better question actually.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah,", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Exa I think that that's what it's about.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "it it's.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "If your uh fifteen remotes in a drawer, uh you find it, yeah?", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "If it if this lying on your couch, you're you're you think what's that for kinda orange uh thing.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah, yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "So.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "But but the survey under users was that they uh really lost it.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah, that's stupid..", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Like, no not uh not seeing it, but lost it in the house or something.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Uh, but when you lost it you're just not.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "But, okay.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Well, if i if you see a strange shape lying somewhere, uh then you'd uh recognise it as, whoa, that is strange.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "That's our remote control..", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah, mostly when you lose your remote control, it it's under your.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah, okay. Yeah, I I agree, I agree.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah. Yeah, what is that. Uh,", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Most of times when you lose it you're sitting on it. Uh.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "so it's.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Okay. Eight, the remote control has fresh, fruity colours.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "True..", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Um I would call uh choose two,", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "'cause we decided not to make two f uh fresh colours, as it would not.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah, yeah, not too flashy.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "The remote control is made of soft material.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Um,", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah, rubber, is kind of soft.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah, but not too soft we have decided.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "kinda soft, but but not this. Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Three?", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Three, yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah. Yeah yeah, easy to use,", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Easy to use. One.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "very afford.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Easy to use?", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah, can it be zero?.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Well, I don yeah, it is kind of.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Top easy to use?", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "It.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "It's it's not the most easy to use.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "No, you can do two, because um", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "No. Uh.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "It can be easier.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "it can be easier. But then you're l", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "It could yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Jus just with ten buttons, that's the easiest.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "yeah, but then you'll lose.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "function f yeah, functionality and our fancy uh look, so.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Functional ability.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah, but the most uh easy to use is just with one button", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "But It is r it is rather easy to use, because you have the primary buttons always visible.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "on t Yeah, okay, but easy n not not the most easy to use, I think.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": ".", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "No.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "No, it's it I I'll go for two. My vote's on two..", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Two?", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Okay, two. Yeah, two.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah, m mine too.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "We also have to compare it to the uh to the remote controls on the market nowadays. So.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah, but waits just a minutes. Inspiration.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "What's the time? We also have uh to do the evaluation, uh the production costs and uh stuff.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "These are the m regular remotes.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah yeah, I'm uh hurrying.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Okay, eleven. The remote control is innovative.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yes, true, one.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yes.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "You're agree, Tim?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "A very of course.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "You haven't seen a more innovative uh thing in uh Paris?.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "The remote control has m remova removable from Multilux.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yes, one. Very multifunctional.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "No.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "The remote control, i it has speech recognition.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "False.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yes,", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "False.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "it.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "This is used with speech recognition, this.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "The remote control has built-in games?", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yes. But uh, maybe make it two, because the games are in a sub-menu and not uh it's not an entire game.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah, but they are built in, so it's one.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah, they are built in.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah, okay.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Okay..", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Not down.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "And the last, paren parental advisory function..", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "You really like the parental advisory..", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yes.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Freak..", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yes, I do.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Th did you make this or the.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Bu", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Save as.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah, he made it..", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah, It changes it maybe.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Okay, I will uh", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Oh yay.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "do the the math.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Oh dear.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Now it's your turn.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Okay, thank you..", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "We'll see.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Hmm?", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Mm. Okay, we have now to c uh to calculate the production cost. If it's under uh twelve and half Euro, then it's uh ok uh okay. But i is it if it is b Huh? No, this isn't right. Okay so,. Redesign.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "If they're under twelve fifty.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Oh yeah, if they under Yeah. No. Oh yeah. Yeah, it's.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah? Cau'cause so it's okay.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "sorry. Yeah, if the costs are under twelve and a half Euro, uh then we uh can uh ra uh move on to the project evaluation, as we have uh experienced it. Otherwise, we have uh do uh have to do a little uh redesign uh thingy. So Uh, we have to fill in the numbers of the component uh components. We have to uh fil uh, want to uh do it in and uh see uh if we stay under the twelve and a half Euro. So, do we have uh a hand dynamo? No.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "No.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "That's zero.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Me, too.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Battery, yes. One.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Battery, one?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yes.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "One, yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Okay. Kinetic, one?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Kinetic, one.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah. Yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Okay, solar cells, zero.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah..", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Okay, uh simple chip on print?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Uh, n no.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "No.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "No? No, advanced chip.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "No.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "No.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Advanced chip.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yes.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Sample sensor sample speaker?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "No, the advanced chip is uh.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "No.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Advanced chip is three.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Three?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Three Euros, yep.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah uh, but it it's one one thing, it's three Euro.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Uh, we have one. We have one.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Okay, one piece, yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": ".", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Uh, what's the sample sensor?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "No, sev zero.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "No.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Well, that's um.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Speech recognition, I think.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah, you give it a sample, uh one.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "yeah, speech recognition", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "and s", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Zero. Uh, uncurved flat.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "No.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "No.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "A zero.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "No.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "But is it s it's not made from a single uncurved thingy and then uh and then uh.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "You no.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "No.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "No. No.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Thingy..", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "no? Okay. So it's only uh once double-curved.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah,", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yes,", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "'cause um the layer around it fits around the bubbles on the o on the uh the back of the.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "three. Eight.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Okay. We're now in a problem,'cause uh we have uh reached eleven Euro yet.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Uh, we don't have anything else. So.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Okay, go on. Just go on.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Okay, but uh we have.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Just go on. Then we'll see uh we'll we'll see uh wha how much we are over budget.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Could you step a little to the right ma", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Two.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah. Oh, sorry.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Two.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Uh, rubber.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Or.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "You.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Zero.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Titanium, no?.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "And zero. Special uh is the special colour?", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Special colour?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "I don't think so. No, this is a standard colour.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "No.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah, but we want to make uh the wood colours, uh that uh.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "S", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yes, this is a special colour..", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah, if if you're honest, we'll uh type one, special colour.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah, but but D but Daniel, tha that's that's another brand.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "That's an add-on.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah, one.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "That's another article to sell.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah, but we we going to yeah yeah, that's true. But yeah, it's it's it.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Uh, j maybe we'll finish uh the the list first and then look back, aye?", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "That doesn't account for this. Producing this.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Okay, the push-button, no.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "No. Scroll wheel, no.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Scroll-wheel, no.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "No.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "No. Oh, no. Yes, one.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Uh, button, no.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "One, yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "No, the the.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "No.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "No.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Mm, is it.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "we don't have a s", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "No. No.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "These three.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "no. Okay.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Well, we're only four Euro over budget.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "No.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Oh, okay. So, um what's the thing we can change?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "So.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "But.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "No. No.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Well, other case, we can make it single-curved or uncurved.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Uh, can I uh I say something?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm, single-curves.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "No, can I say something uh as Project Manager?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah, of course..", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "The kinetic thing, can we just skip it,", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Just cut off the kine yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "because uh you have to shake it, but that's not really innovative.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Or.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah. Okay, sure.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "yeah. Yeah, we just put a good battery it it.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Mobile phones nowadays.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Daniel. Daniel,", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yo. Sorry,", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "what do you think about Here.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "yeah, yes..", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "What do you think about uh putting a battery in it, but also selling like uh the covers, a docking station", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "just apart from the from the thing, so that you can uh put uh", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "rechargeable batteries in it and just.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "But you can use rechargeable batteries anyway, just you s you have to recharge them manual.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah, and not really.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah, yeah, okay.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "But we if you forget about the kinetic,", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Just an idea.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah, that's a cost reduc", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah, sure.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "well if we do that, we shall.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Ah..", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Okay,", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "So um.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "well you you can go from double-curved to single-curved.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah, of course.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "And that would solve the budget problem.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Uh, b but i but the single-curved is just oh.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah, so we have to bake the ba back flat, and then.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "No, it's it's just one curve and not a back uh curved I think. Or.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "It's just yeah well, the single-curve that.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Oh, okay, okay.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah. Exactly, yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "So that's wh tha that's one option.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Or are these two curves? Uh.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "And then w yeah, and then we could have it, but uh it's its' well it's it's r it is the main point of the the the the look.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah,.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah, but what else uh do we have to cut out? No advanced chip, uh that's a little bit of problem.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "We going to cut.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "No, tho uh that that can be done.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "So uh,", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Although, can we make it with a regular chip?", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "okay, a little less uh conversation.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Curvy.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Hey, those ar arcs, why are there for?", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Sorry?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "The blue blue uh", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Fill in Just a", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Explanation.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "explanation.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Twelve fifty.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "I can delete it for you if you want.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Well.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "No, no no.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "So, if we do this, uh we're on uh twelve and a half Euro. And we're done.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah, but does it fit with our design?", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Uh well, the only uh thing that don't.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Do we have to u adapt it? It's single-curves.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah, single-curved, but there's a curve in it. So.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "W Could we just make the bubbles uh cut off the back, and then we're uh has.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah, we just make it flat.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "But, you do l", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "But, wha'Kay, look, what is the uh If you make it double-curved, it costs one Euro more.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "More. Yeah. You make it optional.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "But No, but does it have a lot of extra uh.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Function.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Functional.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "fun function more like.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Worth, does it have added worth?", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Uh, there's an a a athe aesthetic value, but not functionality.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "No, um.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah, it's really a static value. Yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah, uh aesthetic. I mean, uh you make like eleven and a half Euros profit instead of twelve and a half. But I don't know if twelve and a half is uh a fixed uh fixed price.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah, it is. Oh.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah, well let's assume it is.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "No, we can't go above that.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "We we should assume it i that it is.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah?", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah, okay.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "But I I figured that the kinetic would be a marketing promotion.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah, okay. Then it's okay.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "R if you uh promote a kinetic um I kinetic remote control, I mean, that would b sell better than an a normal remote control.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Do you think? Well, now you can shake your remote control..", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah, I think so.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "No, well, y I mean uh, y you can go into your neighbour and tell him, ha, my k uh remote control is kinetic.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Kinetic.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "You have standard old battery control uh remote con", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "What a what about all the m the environment freaks?", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah, but it doesn't fit in our co cost profile. So.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Not freaks,", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "the envi No.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "True.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "I I think it's it's It look like this one.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "You ma can make an an especialised extra gold version.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah? Who because if you want to go to kinetic, you're uh you're on thirteen and a half and you must go to flat,", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "and I think now it's it's more of uh a compromise", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "thing.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "And if you make the single curve ha just a big curve, then it's uh then it's uh.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah, just one big curve..", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "yeah, one big good curve.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "I was going to uh say nasty words, but I don't.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "This is strange by the way.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Wood is m is is is cheaper than rubber. We thought that wood would be more expensive.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Uh, this uh American figures. You just cut down some trees..", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah, maybe. But uh that this is this is it? Yeah. Okay, this is it.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "This is it.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Whoever makes uh a remote control out of titanium.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "I'm gonna save it. Yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yes..", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "It is possible, but you can't use double uh curves for titanium.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "No.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "That's one of the functionability uh.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Okay, well, considering we have.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Ah no, we have to do all those hours again.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Go back. One back? Costs on uh No redesign..", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Well, we were above, so we did a little redesign.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "We sue. We Yeah, we'll start her all o all over again.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah, okay, yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Okay, um now uh it's about time to uh talk about uh this project. Uh, some uh things. Were there uh room for uh was there room for creativity in our meetings or in your individual meetings?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Um.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Hmm. I I didn't think so. That there was a lot of room for it. But, that's mainly because uh of the information that was delivered to us.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "It was just fixed information and get your stuff from there, and I couldn't go on on i on the internet and search my own stuff. Bu", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah. Yeah, yeah, yeah. That's true. I agree with that.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Well, I th I think you two, uh especially you and uh and uh Daniel, you d you you both had uh the less creative uh roles in the project.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah. That's true.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "For us, there was a lot of creativity.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "'Cause I think m", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "We could just sign up an uh remote if we liked.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah, that's true.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "I think Jeroen and I, we had a more design we could have more we had more room for creativity than than you two.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah. Yeah, that's true.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Okay. Uh how about the leadership?.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Uh.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Ha.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Leadership was uh crappy.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Crappy. Cra", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Nah, the leadership wasn't crappy, it was the leader that was crappy.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Okay, thank you very much.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah..", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Nah. No, the leadership was okay..", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Now we're done..", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah, example of crappy leadershi", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "No, leadership was uh", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Okay, yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah, it was good.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Okay, I thought uh the first meeting was a little bit of unstructured meeting.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah, that's true.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Uh, you could have but uh, it was your first, no uh no disrespect or something,", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "but you could have uh structure it a l little bit more.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "So like, I I was talking most of the time the first meeting meeting, and.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "You could of said, shut up you fool..", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah. I notice it too.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "But.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "I was a I was also very uh unhappy, uh very unsatisfied uh about the", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "About me..", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "about the first meeting.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "So, uh I hope uh uh the the the other meetings uh", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Try to learn from your mistake. And we will never do it again..", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah, you made up..", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "get better and uh I think the the last two meetings uh also we we reached uh some good decisions about uh talk.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "No, it you did better.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah, more more consensus.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Ev everybody w was agreeing every.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah. Much more constructive.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Okay, so uh that's cool.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Uh, teamwork? Well, maybe that's uh only Yeah well, it's for us, because uh.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Well, we work together on a project, but everybody has his own task.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah. Yeah and it's wo more like presentation and some points were discussed.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "So, it is a little bit.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "But, really teamwork were you two uh.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah. No Well, it went okay.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Two guys.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "The.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah, that went w it went well.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "It's it's just uh.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Stupid stupid pen, but uh.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "No hard feelings.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Nah. Yeah, we we had some trouble with the pen, but.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah. Now you you must push a little while.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah, but but draw something uh difficult.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah, but us.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "D uh just write your name right now.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Try to write your name,", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "in in writing letters, of course, yeah? Yeah, normally, uh this uh the w Block letter sign it, yeah?", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "O Just uh.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Just just write your name in in one line.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "okay.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "If it's a little bit too small bit quicker now.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "You can be you can go quicker,'cause then it it won't notice it.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "It didn't Uh he he knows how it works, yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Oh.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "I follow the Master class for the SMARTboard, so I think that's the that's the main issue.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Um, so uh about this one you were uh you're dealing with,", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Means.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "um the the the the digital pen.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Y well, yeah. Th the i The idea is great, but it doesn't work properly. Uh.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Okay. Yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Digital pen, I thought uh th the first time I did individual work, I used it.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "But, a and the first two meetings I brought it with me, but I didn't use it at all after the first the first meeting.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "No.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "No, I have it working. But, uh yeah, well uh.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "It's it's not real real use for me.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "No, it doesn't have that much added value to the.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Huh. Well.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Nee. As uh as I said a m a c few moments ago, it I would like, myself, to write with a normal pen, because must um Yeah, it's almost the same concept, but you can just sim more simply put it on our scanner.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "I it's the same concept as the pen, where you f have to download the software or s uh very uh slow.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "M yeah. Yeah. And it is still your own handwriting uh popping up in uh Word.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yes. No, and it doesn't give any added value.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "No, uh that's true. No.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Not really, no.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "And uh the SMARTboard is uh useful, but the the pen is I uh not user-friendly, I think.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah, not user-friendly.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Be it it takes a lot of time to draw things and to write things,", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah, and it's it's not very precise.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "and that's the.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "We're trying to m to.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah, like when you do this.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah, it may um Yeah, and tr try to wri write your name uh in a in a normal uh size, yeah. Smaller.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Smaller?", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah, smaller. Just like when you're writing on a letter.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah, but that's not th the the you when you at a foreign audience, you b don't gonna wr uh write uh small.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "No, a as you saw on on this drawing, just open open this one or that one. It's uh th it it Yeah, uh we had more problems even here when we trying to draw these buttons, it's almost impossible to get clear uh when you're uh.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Oh. Sorry.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "But maybe there's some function with no, it isn't. With uh.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "And the eraser was another problem. It w t is is this large. And when you try to erase this line, y.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah. Well, I'm gonna erase my uh name..", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "I'm gonna erase my name there.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah, it's a big uh big eraser.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Okay. New ideas?", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "M Abo What kind of new ideas?", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Um Well, the the idea of the touch-screen is uh.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Do you?", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah, uh.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Go on..", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "I'm just uh.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "New ideas about uh the working of this software, about about the project, about the remote controls or.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah. Mm, yeah, I think so.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "I don't know what what I mean. No.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Hello.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Did you heard what he said?", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Know what I mean..", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "I don't I don't know what I mean. Oh, I have some figure.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Here.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Oh.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "The eva the evaluation,", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Oh yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "the mm the mean uh number is uh one point eight one point eight six.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "That's interesting.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "So that's fairly uh fairly good, I think.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Okay,", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "because what does it mean?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "So true.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Uh, that uh", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "All the mo yeah, are between one and two.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "all the requirements uh are true or very true, right. Yep.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah. Oh, okay. Yeah, okay. Thank you, expert.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "But the new ideas found for uh wi with working with this uh software?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Not really, just they have to improve it.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Not really, yeah?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Uh, the concept is okay,", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah, I think.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "but it has to be quicker. Uh, it is still opening my programme, n almo almost uh my entire computer is locked up during the process", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "and it, yeah, just takes too many time. People will still feel the need to to write it quickly on uh a page and not download it and save it, and.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah. You had expected it to to be uh more more uh.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "More user-friendly.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "'Cause when you use a pen, you can just draw like you d draw normally,", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "and you do", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "May maybe the idea you proposed is uh a screen here.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "And draw it, and it's it's placed over there.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah, that l", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Would be easier. Or at least when you you don't have to adapt to the technology, just you can write in the way you normally write. And now you have to um keep constantly in mind that you're drawing on this screen.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Hmm? No.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "And that's a very bad concept.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yep, yep. Yeah, that's true.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Ah, very bad.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Nah, okay, I I it's my opinion that I.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "But I think this is better than regular flip-overs, but.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah, it's can be saved easier.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "But if you're in normal flip-over you a lot of people write text. There's no text option.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "And writing text uh, yeah, you've gotta really do your best to write some.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah, and and maybe some uh functions for uh uh uh circle or uh a square. You have to draw it yourself now.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah. Or maybe even insert picture.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "If you have uh some presentation, and you have some f", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Or text function. Just t t type text, and that that would be uh excellent.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mean.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah, but insert image isn't available?", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "'Cause then you could.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Here. Picture from scanner, clip-art.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah, that that can be done already.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Oh, okay.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "But not the the the the predefined uh squares I think uh.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "So you can.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Hyperlink? Hey, what if you do like hyperlink?", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "With uh W_W_ dot Google dot com.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Type type it?", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Oh yeah. Maybe.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Re Real Reaction dot N_L_.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Hmm? Sorry?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yes, is now is okay. Okay?", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "You'll just make a link in Yeah..", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Huh.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Well, that's nice.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "There's one way to uh.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Is it.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "'Kay, double-click it.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Maybe if if you're not using the eraser.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Here. oh. Oh, sorry.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "You're erasing.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Something else th Yeah, arrow.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah. Here, that.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Double-click it.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "So you have.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Well, it's.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "as you saw, you have a little uh Oh, you can Yeah, thank you. You can go uh", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah, okay.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "there. So there the the the functionality is there, but it's not it's not ideal,", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "But.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "and it's it's very.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": ".", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "it costs a lot of time to uh", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "To use, yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "to use. And that's a pity,", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "if you uh if you have uh thirty, forty minutes uh for this kind of things,", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "and we are now with four people,", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "And that's m", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "but it well, imagine you are here you're with the ten people and everyone uh.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "That's mostly the case, from the over here with the managements you get two minutes to make your case,", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "and if you have to do all this kind.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Two minutes of drawing, yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "You'll rather use PowerPoint and work it out in advance.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yep.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "And th the one or two things you have to draw when you're there, just use a flip-board.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "What I really miss also is uh", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "is a d is a turtle.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "is a decision uh decision system like um With the evaluation, you have to Polls like, what do you want, a one, a two,", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "maybe a a l a little application like uh uh give your own number and click one two three four five six seven.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah, just like he said with the with the a screen which you can write, also uh a kind of voting uh mechanism.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah, j ju ju yeah, v voting application.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Oh.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Just a little group group decision application.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "But uh, problem is, well you can't discuss anything well you you ca uh you can, but you will discuss a lot less than l like we did now. We I mean uh w w w one one person s maybe said three.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "But, well uh I we said uh, no I w th think two, because this and this, and then you can react uh on it.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah, okay.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "But if you you put a three on it, uh just figure well, everybody knows what I'm knowing, so they'll all just put a two on.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah, of course. But, uh you can still discuss about it,", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah, but it would yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "but but click it in an application, that's a lot easier to process.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah okay, the for processing part.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "The digit. Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "But then uh, I think the idea of one person entering it and the rest uh discussing it, that uh isn't that bad idea, actually.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah..", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Not that your opinion isn't valued, but but still.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah. Okay, so.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yo, manager.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "That's it?", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Uh well, just about,", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "When are w", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "because uh", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "When are we going to produce it?", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah, tomorrow? Uh, the costs are within the budget.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Celebration.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Uh, the project is evaluated.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "But, before we going to celebrate, uh I have uh a little question which you can't answer,", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "because uh there must be some kind of end report. I am busy with the end report right now. You might thinking what the hell was he doing uh.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "What is an end report?", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Uh about all the meetings, what we have decided, a r r a report of this day.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah. Yeah, yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Uh, that must be made, but I don't know, here is uh standing uh whoa, we can celebrate now, but the end report is.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Oh, you ha you have ten minutes left, I uh read.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Oh.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "You have now ten minutes left to finish up the end report.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Okay well, that uh that can be done. Maybe we can do it uh together. You can see what I've uh yeah?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "So I I s I will uh put it on a story-board.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah, sure.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "You can see it. Because I think it will uh it must be uh.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Um You you already made a beta version, or.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah, it's a three uh with seventy five uh.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Pages..", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah, just about.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Y yikes. Seventy five pages.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Well, just a moment. End report.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Okay, Daniel.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Do you want a chair maybe?", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "A chairman..", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "No no no,", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Hey?", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "I'm just uh.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Oh, okay.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "you can s you can read it and uh here here it is. End report.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "So you you finished it actually, and so we just have to read it and say yes or no?", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Well, this not nit it.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yes..", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "read-only. But it's not uh fully finished yet.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Five minutes for finishing.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Um, this is about the functional design, the things yeah yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Management Expert, you have to change that.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Oh yeah. I'm uh when I said it, I remember I had it here.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Marketing.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "It's a read-only version.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah, but you can save it u the under another name.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Oh, okay.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Marketing Expert, okay. Um about the three functions where uh which are most used and uh which must uh immediately be visible on our uh remote control. Um, it must be uh simple to use, very clear what to do, and at the younger people. So, this is really about wh uh what kind things uh must be in it and uh yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Maybe um the.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Uh.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah, I understand you, I can talk a little bit Dutch..", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "The Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "You Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "No, you have to put uh, switch channels uh at the top, because that's the most used function and teletext at the second.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Oka okay, okay, I I really didn't knew that.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Oh nay, a volume changing, second.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "So, this one's first.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "S switch, yes.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "You go there and you go there. So, okay.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah. Okay, go on.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Well, maybe I can then do it one two three.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yes, very good.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "One two three.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "If the order is in uh is is uh important,", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah. Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "that's the word for.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "The order.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Uh,", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "then the conceptual design. Uh, well all the things we have uh discussed, uh the energy, which uh turn out to be uh batteries, so that's.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah. Well, okay, maybe you can add it later that we decided in the end because of the cost.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah, because yeah. Uh, he here it is still double-curve, the rubber, the flashy, the fruity, the removable.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Single-curves..", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Uh, the buttons", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "It's not double.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Hmm?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "A single-curved.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Uh, it's not double anymore, eh?", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Not double anymore.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "No, okay.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Nay but that this is what um.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah, okay.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Was initial, the plan. The initial plan.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "And the the added functions like Tetris snake, it's under the parental control, the touch-screen.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "So, it's uh just a summary of what uh we had discussed uh.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "On thing uh One small thing uh, the added functions. Uh, was it included in the cost? I don't think so, eh?", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Ah, it's very cheap.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Uh, it's very cheap,", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "It's very cheap..", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "you you maybe you you you you come at uh.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "No, it's it's not very cheap, but that.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "It's very necessary.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "no, but it's a development inside corporation. Like, uh w we don't have to buy parental control. Our own people can make that, I think.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah, but it still has some.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah, it it has some cost, but.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "yeah. Okay, but so we can discuss that uh", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "He'll do it in his free time. So uh.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "we can discuss that kind of things I think with the with the the board of uh.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Of directur or directors.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "What's it what's the company called? I just keep forgetting it.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Real Reaction.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Real Real Reaction.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Real Reaction, yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "You can ask your personal.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Okay, so uh anybody uh misses something here about uh.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah, the end conclusion.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah, okay,", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "But uh.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "that's that's what I'm gonna write b between now.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Okay. Still the end conclusion. That's all, I think.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "But, i in here nothing uh.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Um, the decision to make um the buttons on the top, and the menu on the", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm. Yes.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "on the bottom. And clearly Yeah, touch-screen you've mentioned.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah, touch-screen I've mentioned.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah, but but the the decisions are put in the uh conclusion, I think.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Why we decided to use a flat uh L_C_D_.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Okay, this n yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah, okay, well I gonna redesign uh something now. No.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah. Um.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Party party.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Because I think it will Oh, five minutes from to finish meeting.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Oh, before you change anything maybe you um save it first.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Save it.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "You can't.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Hmm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "you can select file and export and then those J_ PEG files.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah, but then you had the same thing.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Well, eight. And we have uh, another blank one.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Example of children remote.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Did we change anything?.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Oh wait. Wait..", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Wow.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah..", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "It's a new uh commercial logo.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Hmm. That's a pity.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Don't save it, aye?", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Oh, that's cool, Tim. Finish meeting now.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Uh,", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Well, I'm I'm", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "why are only the first five SMARTboard files", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "I'm going to finish my end report.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "saved?", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Okay, um hereby is the meeting is finished..", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "You declare..", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "I am the one who can say that. Yeah? 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{ "meetingId": "ES2013a", "transcriptSegments": [ { "text": "Is this okay?", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Uh yeah. Fine now. Oh, it's not liking us, it went that-a-way. Computer adjusting. Oh. Uh. Okay. So. Right. You ready back there? Uh okay. Welcome everyone. Um this is the kick-off meeting for the day. Um we're the new group uh to create a new remote control for Real Reaction. As you can see our agenda is to open up the meeting, um become acquainted with each other, um have a little training on tools, uh create a plan, discuss things and and we only have twenty minut twenty five minutes total. Okay. The new remote control is to be original, trendy and user-friendly. That, Steph, is your part, is the user-friendliness. The originality um is gonna take all of us. Um the trendiness we'll probably go look at for some marketing research information from you, Sarah. Um and we'll get on with it. Okay, so we'll have a functional design individual work um with meeting and then conceptual design t and then detailed design. Okay? Right. Everybody's supposed to try out the whiteboard. Kate, why don't you try it first, if you can either bring your things with you, I guess.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Uh yeah, if I can pick up with all these bits and pieces, hang on.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "And while you're doing that we'll try and figure out how to hook these things on as well,'cause we're all gonna have to be able to walk around.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Uh right, so you want an animal and the characteristics of that animal..", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Do you have to be able to recognise what animal it is? Um.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Uh I do not think so,", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Are we all gonna draw a cat?", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "I think it's just to try out the whiteboard. Ah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Only animal I could thin I could draw.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "I know.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Its a sort of bunny rabbit cat..", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "You can tell it's not a bunny rabbit by the ears.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Uh-huh.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Um I suppose it should have a mouth as well, sort of.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Right, yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Great. And the characteristics?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Um the favourite characteristics of the cat um the whiskers I think, um because they're the easiest to draw.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Uh-huh.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "In fact, I'll give it some more.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Oh, and the tail", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Fantastic. Since you're handy as well, why don't you do yours next, Steph. I think it's to get us used to using the pen.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yes. Um sure it's not to test our artistic.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Uh no. A mouse-y?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "It's a mouse.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "That's not a mouse-y, no.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "No it's not a mouse. It's a wombat.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Oh.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "It's a ratty.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Argh.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "A what?", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Rat.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "A ratty.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Not a mouse, a rat.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "A webbed foot. Webbed f.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "It's clothes. That's it's clothes..", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Oh right.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "It's a ratty with a with a with a very long tail.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "And your favourite characteristics of that animal.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "I love whiskers. Uh they're intelligent and they're cheeky and uh fantastic pets", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Oh.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "and very friendly.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Okay. Kate?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "And they sit on your shoulder and whisper the answers to your homework in your ear when you're doing your homework.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Thanks.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Oh, a fish.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Gosh,", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "A shark?", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "why didn't I think of fish? That's even easier to draw than cat..", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Mm this is very representational fish..", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Oh, okay.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Fine.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Um I like them because they're sleek", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Favourite characteristics?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "and they have a lot of freedom but they also do n uh swim in groups,", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "'Kay.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "so.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "So they have team elements..", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Do you have a favourite one?", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "I'm afraid I'm with Steph. And I think your pen's running out of whatever. But I'm afraid I take the coward's way out, and the cat's looking the other way..", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "He's hiding.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Um cats are sometimes very independent. My parents had cats. Uh and they can mm decide for themselves what is best. Okay. Now um we have to get down to the nitty-gritty of how to make this and this remote control has to be sold um we're to sell it for twenty five Euros, with a profit aim ultimately of fifty million Euros. That tells you something about how many um we have to sell on an international scale. Um would be an awful lot of these, would be like what, a hundred million of them um to make twenty five Euros on each one and to make a total profit of fifty million. Um the production is to only cost twelve and a half Euros per item. Now if they cost twelve and a half, you're selling it for twenty five, you're making twelve and a half Euros each. Um and we're to make a profit of fifty million, that's t uh can you do the maths and how many are we selling?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Uh yeah. I was just wondering if that's the um If fifty percent is normal.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Mark-up?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "B yeah. Um I would think would be more like sixty percent. But um let me.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "I have two thoughts. One hundred, fifty percent.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "And and your question is how many do we have to sell?", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yes,'cause our market um is international and your problem is has to do with marketing of you know, you gotta know how many we're going to be selling to know how big a market you have to target and who is that.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "At twenty five. Mm-hmm. Yeah, that's um.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "To give you a pretty good idea of where you're looking.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "So that's four million of them?", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Something like that? Okay.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "That's fifty million Euros. In order to make fifty million Euros, and you're only getting twelve and a half each.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "And if we make Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "That's a lot of selling. Two four.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah. Four million.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "To be fifty, be four million. You'd have to sell four million.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Hmm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Okay? Right. Experience with a remote control. Any of you use of remote control for a television or D_V_D_ or something? You're both nodding,", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "That that that's the sorta product we're talking about, one that will work for a in a home environment, for a T_V_s and.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "all three. Well I've seen some remote controls that are for more than one device at a time, but I also have heard about them not working well or not well co-ordinated and you wind up working with this one for thi this three and then this one over here for another.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "It is true that you always sit around you know, you're sitting on your sofa and you wanna change something, there's five different remotes, and one for the D_V_D_ and one for the video and one for cable and one for whatever else.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm. Y yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "And they don't always talk to each other.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "But I presume this is t I presume this is just for television.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Don't know. Okay.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Are there any um ideas for the remote? What would it be for and what group would be be for? We have to think about that one.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "We could make a Hello Kitty", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "themed remote.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "I think one in b bright colours would be good..", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "I think one that works would be good..", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "We could totally go for the Japan-a-mation. Well I mean there's also the cachet that um uh the Japanese make great products. Electrical their industrial design is very good.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "I think one that doesn't have lots of superfluous functions. Like I've got one at home that has well, apart from the obvious, channels, channel up, channel down, volume,", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "you know, subtitles, mute, there's a lotta buttons that I've got no idea what they do, like.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Well, that's a really good point,", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "because I think one of the things that being somewhat computer literate, we tend to um go to menus and then make choices, you know, so if it's like an uh volume button, you know, you can go in and say mute or or volume. We don't need to have like the l the numbers if we also have uh uh channel up channel down.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Mm. Okay.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm. We can make it smart like an iPod, you know, make everything menus.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Ooh, closing the meeting.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah. Um I know this sounds like it was very quick,", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "That was quick.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "but the I think that's the industrial design is the first one,", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "that's Kate, for the working design.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "And user, that's you S Steph, for the technical functions design, and for marketing the user requirements specification. I think there's going to be a lot of we have to help each other and work through this as a group, and I think we all, you know, we like our kitty-cat and our rat and our fish, but I think we all have to like each other um to get this done. Uh as it says, we're gonna get individual instructions, but uh I don't think they allowed a lot of extra time, so I think a little bit of less of this and more at do will set us in good stead. Do you all agree?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Alright. Um then I don't see any reason to prolong it and f we should finish this meeting at ni right now and go into other things. Alright, so this is the end of the first meeting.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "'Kay.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Thank you all.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" } ] }

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Um.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "Well, one thing that came up in the morning in the morning was the, um, i uh, if he I, um if he has s I I don't remember, Mister Lan - Doctor Landry?", "speakerName": "Postdoc H" }, { "text": "Landay. James.", "speakerName": "Grad G" }, { "text": "La - Landay? So he has, um, these, uh, um, tsk note - taking things,", "speakerName": "Postdoc H" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "then that would sort of be a summary which you wouldn't have to solicit. y if if we were able to to do that.", "speakerName": "Postdoc H" }, { "text": "Well, if if you actually take notes as a summary as opposed to n take notes in the sense of taking advantage of the time - stamps. So action item or uh, reminder to send this to so - and - so, blah - blah - blah.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Postdoc H" }, { "text": "So that wouldn't be a summary. That would just be that would b relate to the query side.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "But if we had the CrossPads, we could ask people, you know, if if something comes up write it down and mark it somehow,", "speakerName": "Grad G" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Postdoc H" }, { "text": "Right. I mean, we because you'd have several people with these pads, you could collect different things.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "you know.", "speakerName": "Grad G" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "I mean, cuz I tend to take notes which are summaries. And so, you know.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "I mean, the down - side to that is that he sort of indicated that the, uh, quality of the handwriting recognition was quite poor.", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "Well.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "But that's alright. I don't think there'd be so many that you couldn't have someone clean it up", "speakerName": "Grad G" }, { "text": "So.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "pretty easily.", "speakerName": "Grad G" }, { "text": "Yeah. We also could come up with some code for things that people want to do so that for frequent things.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "And the other things, people can write whatever they want. I mean, it's to some extent, uh, for his benefit. So, if that you know, if if we just keep it simple then maybe it's still useful.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Grad G" }, { "text": "I just realized we skipped the part that we were saying we were gonna do at the front where we each said who we were.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "The roll call.", "speakerName": "Postdoc H" }, { "text": "Right. I thought you did that on purpose.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "Roll call.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "But anyway, shall we do the roll call?", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "No, not a No, I just My mind went elsewhere. So, uh, yeah, I'm Morgan, and where am I? I'm on channel three.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "And I'm Adam Janin on channel A.", "speakerName": "Grad G" }, { "text": "I'm Jane Edwards, I think on channel B.", "speakerName": "Postdoc H" }, { "text": "I'm Dan Ellis.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Eric on channel nine.", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "Liz, on channel one.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Mari on channel zero.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "Katrin on channel two.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Should we have used pseudo - names? Should we do it a second time with pseudo No. No.", "speakerName": "Postdoc H" }, { "text": "I'm Rocky Raccoon on channel.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "Let me, uh, turn that off.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "And, uh, do you want to do the P D As and the P Z", "speakerName": "Grad G" }, { "text": "Oh. PZM nearest, nearest, next nearest. Next one.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Next nearest.", "speakerName": "Postdoc H" }, { "text": "Furthest.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Far.", "speakerName": "Grad G" }, { "text": "PDM - right, PZA - right PDA - right, PDA - left.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "OK.", "speakerName": "Postdoc H" }, { "text": "Thanks.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Yeah, and eventually once this room gets a little more organized, the Jimlets will be mounted under the table, and these guys will be permanently mounted somehow. You know, probably with double - sided tape, but So. You So we won't have to go through that.", "speakerName": "Grad G" }, { "text": "Hmm.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "I have a question on protocol in these meetings, which is when you say \" Jimlet \" and the person listening won't know what that is, sh shou How how do we get Is that important information? You know, the Jimlet I mean, the box that contains the.", "speakerName": "Postdoc H" }, { "text": "Well, I mean, suppose we broaden out and go to a range of meetings besides just these internal ones. There's gonna be lots of things that any group of people who know each other have in column common that we will not know.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Postdoc H" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "OK.", "speakerName": "Postdoc H" }, { "text": "So the there will be jargon that we he There'll be transcription errors.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "Good.", "speakerName": "Postdoc H" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "OK.", "speakerName": "Postdoc H" }, { "text": "I mean, we we were originally gonna do this with VLSI design, and and and the reason we didn't go straight to that was because immediately ninety percent of what we heard would be jargon to to us. So.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "Well, that was just one of the reasons. But, yeah, definitely.", "speakerName": "Grad G" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "OK. Good.", "speakerName": "Postdoc H" }, { "text": "That that's right. There were others of course. Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "OK, so we were on the data collection and the summary issue.", "speakerName": "Postdoc H" }, { "text": "Right. We can go back.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "So, uh, u u So, actually there's kind of three issues. There's the CrossPad issue. Should we do it and, if so, what'll we have them do? Um, do we have s people write summaries? Everybody or one person? And then, do we ask people for how they would query things? Is that.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "There's there're sub - problems in that, in that where or when do you actually ask them about that?", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "I mean, that was One thing I was thinking about was is that Dan said earlier that, you know, maybe two weeks later, which is when you would want to query these things, you might ask them then.", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "But there's a problem with that in that if you're not If you don't have an interactive system, it's gonna be hard to go beyond sort of the first level of question.", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "Right. And furth id explore the data further.", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "So.", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "There's there's another problem", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "And.", "speakerName": "Grad G" }, { "text": "which is, um, we certainly do want to branch out beyond, uh, uh, recording meetings about Meeting Recorder. And, uh, once we get out beyond our little group, the people's motivation factor, uh, reduces enormously. And if we start giving them a bunch of other things to do, how you know, we we did n you know another meeting here for another group and and, uh, they were fine with it. But if we'd said, \" OK, now all eight of you have to have to come up with, uh, the summar \"", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "Well, I asked them to and none of them did.", "speakerName": "Grad G" }, { "text": "t See? There we go.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "So, I I asked them to send me ideas for queries after the meeting", "speakerName": "Grad G" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Postdoc H" }, { "text": "They.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "and no one ever did.", "speakerName": "Grad G" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "I didn't follow up either.", "speakerName": "Grad G" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "So I didn't track them down and say \" please do th do it now \". But, uh, no one spontaneously provided anything.", "speakerName": "Grad G" }, { "text": "I I'm worried that if you did even if you did push them into it, it it it might be semi - random,", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "uh, as opposed to what you'd really want to know if you were gonna use this thing.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "OK.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "I just don't know how else to generate the queries other than getting an expert to actually listen to the meeting and say \" that's important, that might be a query \".", "speakerName": "Grad G" }, { "text": "Tsk. Well, there is this other thing which y which you were alluding to earlier, which is, um, there are certain key words like, you know, \" action item \" and things like that, which could be used in, uh, t to some degree finding the structure.", "speakerName": "Postdoc H" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "Although.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "W", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "And and I also, um, was thinking, with reference to the n uh, note - taking, the advantage there is that you get structure without the person having to do something artificial later. And the fir third thing I wanted to say is the summaries afterwards, um, I think they should be recorded instead of written because I think that, um, it would take so long for people to write that I think you wouldn't get as good a summary.", "speakerName": "Postdoc H" }, { "text": "How about this idea? That normally at most meetings somebody is delegated to be a note - taker.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "Yeah, good. Good point.", "speakerName": "Postdoc H" }, { "text": "And So why don't we just use the notes that somebody takes?", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Postdoc H" }, { "text": "I mean, that gives you a summary but it doesn't really How do you generate queries from that?", "speakerName": "Grad G" }, { "text": "Well. But, I mean, maybe a summary is one of the things we'd want from the output of the system.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Postdoc H" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "Right? I mean, they're something. It's a a kind of output you'd like.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Actually And so.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Uh, James and I were talking about this during one of the breaks. And the problem with that is, I'm definitely going to do something with information retrieval even if it's sort of not full full - bore what I'm gonna do for my thesis.", "speakerName": "Grad G" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "I'm gonna do something. I'm not gonna do anything with summarization. And so if someone wants to do that, that's fine, but it's not gonna be me.", "speakerName": "Grad G" }, { "text": "Well, I think that we I mean, the the f the core thing is that you know once we get some of these issues nailed down, we need to do a bunch of recordings", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "Well.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "and send them off to IBM and get a bunch of transcriptions even if they're slightly flawed", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "Yep.", "speakerName": "Grad G" }, { "text": "or need some other And then we'll have some data there.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "And then, i i we can start l looking and thinking, what do we want to know about these things and at the very least.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "I actually want to say something about the note pad. So, if you could sense just when people are writing, and you tell them not to doodle, or try not to be using that for other purposes, and each person has a note pad. They just get it when they come in the room. Then you c you can just have a fff plot of wh you know, who's writing when.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Hmm.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "That's all you.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Activity. Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "And, you can also have notes of the meeting. But I bet that's that will allow you to go into the sort of the hot places where people are writing things down.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "Oh, I see.", "speakerName": "Grad G" }, { "text": "I mean, you can tell when you're in a meeting when everybody stops to write something down that something was just said.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "It may not be kept in the later summary, but at that point in time is was something that was important.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Postdoc H" }, { "text": "And that wouldn't take any extra.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "That's a nice idea.", "speakerName": "Postdoc H" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "Or someone could just pu you could just put your hand on the pad", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "It.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "and go like that if you want to. It's.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "That's a good idea but that doesn't Maybe I'm missing something, but that doesn't get to the question of how we come up with queries, right?", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "Well, what it does.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "Well, then you can go to the points where the you could actually go to those points in time and find out what they were talking about. And you r", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Well, what it does is provide a different.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "And.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Uh, y", "speakerName": "Grad G" }, { "text": "I I think it's an interesting thing. I don't think it gets at the the queries per - se, but it does give us an information fusion sort of thing that, you know, you wanna i say \" what were the hot - points of the meeting? \"", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "That that's what I mean, is that I think it gets at something interesting but if we were asking the question, which I thought we were, of of of, um, \" how do we figure out what's the nature of the queries that people are gonna want to ask of such a system? \", knowing what's important doesn't tell you what people are going to be asking.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "But I bet it's a good superset of it.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Does it?", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "Well, yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "Well, see, there are th", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "I think you could say they're gonna ask about, uh, when uh, when did so - and - so s talk about blah. And at least that gives you the word that they might run a query on.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "At least you can find the locations where there are maybe keywords", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Maybe.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "I mean, i this would tell you what the hit is,", "speakerName": "Grad G" }, { "text": "and.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "not what the query is.", "speakerName": "Grad G" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "Right, right.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "What.", "speakerName": "Grad G" }, { "text": "It'll tell you the hit but not the query.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "But I think I think thinking about queries is a little bit dangerous right now.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "And so you could you can generate a query from the hits,", "speakerName": "Grad G" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "but.", "speakerName": "Grad G" }, { "text": "We don't even know what I mean, if you want to find out what any user will use, that might be true for one domain and one user,", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "but I mean a different domain and a different user.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Postdoc H" }, { "text": "Yeah, but we're just looking for a place to start with that", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "Um.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "because, you know, th what what what James is gonna be doing is looking at the user - interface and he's looking at the query in in i We we have five hours of pilot data of the other stuff but we have zero hours of of of queries. So he's just sort of going \" where where do I where do I start? \"", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "w Well, th you could do I think the summaries actually may help get us there,", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "OK.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "for a couple reasons. One, if you have a summary if you have a bunch of summaries, you can do a word frequency count and see what words come up in different types of meetings.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "So \" action item \" is gonna come up whether it's a VLSI meeting, or speech meeting, or whatever. So words that come up in different types of meetings may be something that you would want to query about.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Grad G" }, { "text": "Um, the second thing you could possibly do with it is just run a little pilot experiment with somebody saying \" here's a summary of a meeting, what questions might you want to ask about it to go back? \"", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "Yeah, I think that's difficult because then they're not gonna ask the questions that are in the summary.", "speakerName": "Grad G" }, { "text": "Well.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "But, I think it would give.", "speakerName": "Grad G" }, { "text": "That's one possi one possible scenario, though, is you have the summary,", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Grad G" }, { "text": "and you want to ask questions to get more detail.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "th Yeah, I think it has to be a participant. Well, it doesn't have to be. OK. So that that is another use of Meeting Recorder that we haven't really talked about, which is for someone else, as opposed to as a remembrance agent, which is what had been my primary thought in the information retrieval part of it would be. But, uh, I guess if you had a meeting participant, they could use the summary to refresh themselves about the meeting and then make up queries. But it's not.", "speakerName": "Grad G" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "I don't know how to do it if until you have a system.", "speakerName": "Grad G" }, { "text": "The summary is actually gonna drive the queries then.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Mmm.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "I mean, your research is going to be very circular.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "Yeah, that that's what I was saying.", "speakerName": "Grad G" }, { "text": "But th there is this, um There is this class of queries, which are the things that you didn't realize were important at the time but some in retrospect you think \" oh, hang on, didn't we talk about that? \" And it's something that didn't appear in the summary but you.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "And that's kind of what this kind of, uh, complete data capture is kind of nicest for.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Right. Right.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Cuz it's the things that you wouldn't have bothered to make an effort to record but they get recorded. So, I mean And th there's no way of generating those, u u until we just until they actually occur.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "But you could always post - hoc label them.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "You know, it's like Right, right. Exactly.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Yeah. Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "But I mean, it's difficult to sort of say \" and if I was gonna ask four questions about this, what would they be? \" Those aren't the kind of things that come up.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "But at least it would get us started.", "speakerName": "Grad G" }, { "text": "Oh, yeah. Yeah, sure.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "I also think that w if if you can use the summaries as an indication of the important points of the of the meeting, then you might get something like y So if th if the obscure item you want to know more about was some form of data collection, you know, maybe the summary would say, you know, \" we discussed types of na data collection \". And, you know And and maybe you could get to it by that. If you if you had the the larger structure of the of the discourse, then if you can categorize what it is that you're looking for with reference to those l those larger headings, then you can find it even if you don't have a direct route to that.", "speakerName": "Postdoc H" }, { "text": "Mmm. Although it seems like that's, um, a high burden on the note - taker.", "speakerName": "Grad G" }, { "text": "I think that.", "speakerName": "Postdoc H" }, { "text": "That's a pretty fine grain that the note - taker will have to take.", "speakerName": "Grad G" }, { "text": "Maybe Landay can put a student in to be a note - taker.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "I th No. I think you got to have somebody who knows the pro knows the topic or you know, whose job it is delegated to be the note - taker.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "No?", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "Somebody who's part of the meeting.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "No, I mean, but someone who can come sit in on the meetings and then takes the notes with them that the real note - taker.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "But they.", "speakerName": "Grad G" }, { "text": "And that way that one student has, you know, a rough idea of what was going on, and they can use it for their research. I mean, this isn't really necessarily what you would do in a real system,", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Grad G" }, { "text": "because that that's a lot of trouble", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "and maybe it's not the best way to do it. But if he has some students that want to study that then they should sort of get to know the people and attend those meetings,", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "and get the notes from the note - taker or something.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "Grad G" }, { "text": "Hmm.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "Well, I think that's a little bit of a problem. Their sort of note - taking application stuff they've been doing for the last couple of years, and I don't think anyone is still working on it.", "speakerName": "Grad G" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "I think they're done. Um, so I'm not sure that they have anyone currently working on notes. So what we'd have to interest someone in is the combination of note and speech.", "speakerName": "Grad G" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "And so the question is \" is there such a person? \" And I think right now, the answer is \" no \".", "speakerName": "Grad G" }, { "text": "Well", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "I've b been thinking.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "We'll just have to see.", "speakerName": "Grad G" }, { "text": "I've been thinking about it a little bit here about the uh, th this, e um I think that the now I'm thinking that the summary a summary, uh, is actually a reasonable, uh, bootstrap into this into what we'd like to get at. It's it's not ideal, but we you know, we we have to get started someplace. So I was I was just thinking about, um, suppose we wanted to get w We have this collection of meeting. We have five hours of stuff. Uh, we get that transcribed. So now we have five hours of meetings and, uh, you ask me, uh, uh, \" Morgan, what d you know, what kind of questions do you want to ask? \" Uh, I wouldn't have any idea what kind of questions I want to ask. I'd have to get started someplace. So in fact if I looked at summary of it, I'd go \" oh, yeah, I was in that meeting, I remember that, um, what was the part that \" And and th I think that might then help me to think of things even things that aren't listed in the summary, but just as a as a as a refresh of what the general thing was going on in the meeting.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Grad G" }, { "text": "I think it serves two purpo purposes. One, as sort of a refresh to help bootstrap queries,", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm. Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "but also, I mean, maybe we do want to generate summaries. And then it's you know, it's kind of a key.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "Well, yeah. That's true too.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "Hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Yeah, absolutely. Then you want to have it.", "speakerName": "Grad G" }, { "text": "Uh.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "So how does the summary get generated?", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Well, i i?", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "I'm not against the idea of a summary,", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "By hand.", "speakerName": "Grad G" }, { "text": "but I wanted to think carefully about who's generating it", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Or, d o", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "and how because the summary will drive the queries.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "What I I think, you know, in most meetings,", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "So.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "this one being different, but in most meetings that I attend, there's somebody t explicitly taking notes, frequently on a laptop Um, you can just make it be on a laptop,", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "so then yo you're dealing with ASCII and not somebody you don't have to go through handwriting recognition. Um, and then they post - edit it into, uh, a summary and they email it out for minutes. I mean, that happens in most meetings.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "I I I think that, um, there's we're using \" summary \" in two different ways. So what you just described I would describe as \" minutes \".", "speakerName": "Postdoc H" }, { "text": "Minutes.", "speakerName": "Grad G" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "And what I originally thought was, um, if you asked someone \" what was the meeting about? \"", "speakerName": "Postdoc H" }, { "text": "OK.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Hmm.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "And then they would say \" well, we talked about this and then we talked about that, and so - and - so talked about \" And then you'd have, like I e My thought was to have multiple people summarize it, on recording rather than writing because writing takes time and you get irrelevant other things that u take time, that.", "speakerName": "Postdoc H" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "Whereas if you just say it immediately after the meeting, you know, a two - minute summary of what the meeting was about, I think you would get, uh, with mult See, I I also worry about having a single note - taker because that's just one person's perception. And, um, you know, it it's releva it's relative to what you're focus was on that meeting,", "speakerName": "Postdoc H" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "and and people have different major topics that they're interested in.", "speakerName": "Postdoc H" }, { "text": "A", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "So, my proposal would be that it may be worth considering both of those types, you know, the note - taking and a spontaneous oral summary afterwards,", "speakerName": "Postdoc H" }, { "text": "OK.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "no longer than two minutes,", "speakerName": "Postdoc H" }, { "text": "Adam, you can.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "from multiple people.", "speakerName": "Postdoc H" }, { "text": "you can correct me on this,", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Postdoc H" }, { "text": "but but, uh, my impression was that, uh, pretty much, uh, true that the meetings here, nobody sits with a w uh, with a laptop", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "Never.", "speakerName": "Grad G" }, { "text": "and.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "Never. I've never seen it at ICSI. Does anyone?", "speakerName": "Grad G" }, { "text": "Dan?", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "I", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "I mean, Dan is the one who who most frequently would take notes,", "speakerName": "Grad G" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "and.", "speakerName": "Grad G" }, { "text": "I've d When we when we have other meetings. When I have meetings on the European projects, we have someone taking notes.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Oh, really?", "speakerName": "Grad G" }, { "text": "Yeah, but those are bigger deal things.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "In fact, I often do it.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Right? Where you've got fifteen peo", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "I mean, most th this is one of the larger meetings. Most of the meetings we have are four or five people", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "That's true are four or five people.", "speakerName": "Grad G" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "and you're not you don't have somebody sitting and taking minutes for it.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "You just get together and talk about where you are.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "So, I think it depends on whether it's a business meeting or a technical discussion.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "Culture.", "speakerName": "Grad G" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "And I agree,", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "technical discussions you don't usually have somebody taking notes.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "Yeah. Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "The IRAM meeting, they they take notes every.", "speakerName": "Grad G" }, { "text": "Do they?", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "There's uh a person with a laptop at each meeting.", "speakerName": "Grad G" }, { "text": "How many people are those meetings?", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "There are more. I mean, there are ten - ish.", "speakerName": "Grad G" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Y you should also have a record of what's on the board.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "They're very sparse.", "speakerName": "Grad G" }, { "text": "I mean, I find it very hard to reconstruct what's going on. I I don't know how.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Yeah. This is something early in the project we talked a lot about.", "speakerName": "Grad G" }, { "text": "I don't know how, but for instance, I mean, the outline is sort of up here and that's what people are seeing. And if you have a Or you shou could tell people not to to use the boards. But there's sort of this missing information otherwise.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "We sh we should.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "I agree, but but you you just you g end up with video,", "speakerName": "Grad G" }, { "text": "I agree.", "speakerName": "Postdoc H" }, { "text": "Well, I don't know.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "and and instrumented rooms. And that's a different project, I think.", "speakerName": "Grad G" }, { "text": "f u I think for this data capture, it would be nice to have a digital camera", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Yeah, different.", "speakerName": "Grad G" }, { "text": "Uh, y", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "just to take pictures of who's there, where the microphones are, and then we could also put in what's on the board. You know, like three or four snaps for every.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "I agree.", "speakerName": "Postdoc H" }, { "text": "Yeah. People who were never at the meeting will have a very hard time understanding it otherwise.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "for every meeting.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "That's wonderful.", "speakerName": "Postdoc H" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "But don't you think that's Don't you think that But.", "speakerName": "Grad G" }, { "text": "I agree.", "speakerName": "Postdoc H" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Even people who were at the meeting.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Well, no. I mean, I I just think I mean, I think that right now we don't make a record of where people are sitting on the tables.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "Huh.", "speakerName": "Grad G" }, { "text": "And that the at some point that might be awfully useful.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Right. But I think adding photographs adds a whole nother level of problems.", "speakerName": "Grad G" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Postdoc H" }, { "text": "Mmm.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "Yeah. We n uh,", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "It's just a digital record.", "speakerName": "Postdoc H" }, { "text": "Not not as part of the not as a part of the data that you have to recover.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "I don't mean that you model it.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Just just in terms of.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "We should just Like archiving it or storing it.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Yes, I agree. I agree.", "speakerName": "Postdoc H" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "It's i because discourse is about things,", "speakerName": "Postdoc H" }, { "text": "Because someone.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "and then you have the things that are about, and it's recoverable.", "speakerName": "Postdoc H" }, { "text": "someone later might be able to take these and say \" OK, they, you know at least these are the people who were there", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "So.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "and here's sort of what they started talking about, and \" and just.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Yes. And it's so simple.", "speakerName": "Postdoc H" }, { "text": "Li", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "Like you said, three snapshots", "speakerName": "Postdoc H" }, { "text": "uh, L L L", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "and.", "speakerName": "Postdoc H" }, { "text": "Liz, you.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "Just to archive.", "speakerName": "Postdoc H" }, { "text": "u uh, Liz, you sa you sat in on the, uh, subcommittee meeting or whatever.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "Actually.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "uh, on you on the subcommittee meeting for for at the, uh that workshop we were at that, uh, uh, Mark Liberman was was having. So I I wasn't there. They they they they h must have had some discussion about video and the visual aspect, and all that.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "Big, big interest. Huge.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "I mean, it personally, I don't I would never want to deal with it. But I'm just saying first of all there's a whole bunch of fusion issues that DARPA's interested in.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Yeah. Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "You know, fusing gesture and face recognition,", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "even lip movement and things like that, for this kind of task. And there's also I think a personal interest on the part of Mark Liberman in this kind of in storing these images in any data we collect", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "so that later we can do other things with it.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Yeah. So so to address what what Adam's saying,", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "Mmm. Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Postdoc H" }, { "text": "And.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "I mean, I think you uh, that the key thing there is that this is a description of database collection effort that they're talking about doing.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Grad G" }, { "text": "And if the database exists and includes some visual information that doesn't mean that an individual researcher is going to make any use of it. Right?", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Postdoc H" }, { "text": "So, uh.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "But that it's gonna be a lot of effort on our part to create it, and store it, and get all the standards, and to do anything with it.", "speakerName": "Grad G" }, { "text": "Right. So we're gonna So we're gonna do what we're gonna do, whatever's reasonable for us.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Grad G" }, { "text": "I think even doing something very crude.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "But having.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "Like I know with ATIS, we just had a tape recorder running all the time.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Grad G" }, { "text": "And later on it turned out it was really good that you had a tape recorder of what was happening, even though you w you just got the speech from the machine. So if you can find some really, you know, low, uh, perplexity,", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Low fidelity.", "speakerName": "Grad G" }, { "text": "yeah, way of of doing that, I think it would be worthwhile.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Grad G" }, { "text": "I agree. And if it's simple as I mean, as simple as just the digital.", "speakerName": "Postdoc H" }, { "text": "Otherwise you'd you lose it.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Well, minimally, I mean, what what Dan is referring to at least having some representation of the p the spatial position of the people,", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Postdoc H" }, { "text": "cuz we are interested in some spatial processing.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Postdoc H" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "And so.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "Grad G" }, { "text": "so, um.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "Well, once the room is a little more fixed that's a little easier", "speakerName": "Grad G" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "cuz you'll.", "speakerName": "Grad G" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "Well, the wireless.", "speakerName": "Grad G" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "But.", "speakerName": "Grad G" }, { "text": "Also CMU has been doing this and they were the most vocal at this meeting, Alex Waibel's group. And they have said, I talked to the student who had done this, that with two fairly inexpensive cameras they they just recorded all the time", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "and were able to get all the information from or maybe it was three from all the parts of the room. So I think we would be we might lose the chance to use this data for somebody later who wants to do some kind of processing on it if we don't collect it at all.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Yeah. I I I don't disagree. I think that if you have that, then people who are interested in vision can use this database. The problem with it is you'll have more people who don't want to be filmed than who don't want to be recorded.", "speakerName": "Grad G" }, { "text": "Mmm.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "So that there's going to be another group of people who are gonna say \" I won't participate \".", "speakerName": "Grad G" }, { "text": "Well, she's not making.", "speakerName": "Postdoc H" }, { "text": "That's true.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "Or you could put a paper bag over everybody's head", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Um.", "speakerName": "Grad G" }, { "text": "and not look at each other and not look at boards, and just all be sitting talking.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Uh - huh.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "That would be an interes Bu", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Well.", "speakerName": "Postdoc H" }, { "text": "Great idea.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "Well, there's that'd be the the parallel, yeah. But I think y she's we're just proposing a minimal preservation of things on boards,", "speakerName": "Postdoc H" }, { "text": "Yeah. I definitely won't participate if there's a camera.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "sp spatial organization And you could anonymize the faces for that matter. You know, I mean, this is.", "speakerName": "Postdoc H" }, { "text": "But, you know, that's a lot of infrastructure and work.", "speakerName": "Grad G" }, { "text": "We can talk about the.", "speakerName": "Postdoc H" }, { "text": "To set it up and then anonymize it?", "speakerName": "Grad G" }, { "text": "It's just one snapshot.", "speakerName": "Postdoc H" }, { "text": "No, it wa n not, um.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "No, no, no, no.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "We're not talking about a movie.", "speakerName": "Postdoc H" }, { "text": "So.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "Not for not for CMU.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "We're talking about a snapshot.", "speakerName": "Postdoc H" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Grad G" }, { "text": "They have a pretty crude set - up. And they had.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Grad G" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Postdoc H" }, { "text": "they just turn on these cameras. They were they were not moving or anything.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Couldn't find it?", "speakerName": "Grad G" }, { "text": "And stored it on analog media.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Hmm?", "speakerName": "Grad G" }, { "text": "Hmm.", "speakerName": "Postdoc H" }, { "text": "And they they didn't actually align it or anything. They just they have it, though.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Yeah. Well, it's worth considering. Maybe we don't want to spend that much more time discussing it,", "speakerName": "Postdoc H" }, { "text": "Did they store it digitally, or?", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "but.", "speakerName": "Postdoc H" }, { "text": "Hmm - mm. I think they just.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "or just put it on videotape?", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "I think they just had the videotapes with a c you know, a counter or something. Um,", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm. Well, I think for I mean, for our purposes we probably will d", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "I'm not sure.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "we we might try that some and and we certainly already have some recordings that don't have that, uh, which, you know, we we'll we'll get other value out of, I think.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Postdoc H" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Th The thing is, if it's easy to collect it it th then I think it's a wise thing to do because once it's gone it's gone. And.", "speakerName": "Postdoc H" }, { "text": "I'm just The community If LDC collects this data u I mean, and L - if Mark Liberman is a strong proponent of how they collect it and what they collect, there will probably be some video data in there.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "There you go.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "And so that could argue for us not doing it or it could argue for us doing it. The only place where it sort of overlaps is when some of the summarization issues are actually could be, um, easier made easier if you had the video.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "I think at the moment we should be determining this on the basis of our own, uh, interests and needs rather than hypothetical ones from a community thing.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Postdoc H" }, { "text": "As you say, if they if they decide it's really critical then they will collect a lot more data than we can afford to, uh, and and will include all that.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "Mmm.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Um,", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "e", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "I I I'm not worried about the cost of setting it up. I'm worried about the cost of people looking at it. In other words, it's it it'd be kind of silly to collect it all and not look at it at all. And so I I I think that we do have to do some picking and choosing of the stuff that we're doing. But I I am int I do think that we m minimally want something we might want to look at at some some, uh, subsets of that. Like for a meeting like this, at least, uh, take a Polaroid of the of the of the boards,", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "Of the board.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Postdoc H" }, { "text": "Or at least make sure that the note - taker takes a sh you know, a snapshot of the board.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "and.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "Exactly.", "speakerName": "Postdoc H" }, { "text": "a and know the position of the people.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "That'll make it a lot easier for meetings that are structured.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Exactly.", "speakerName": "Postdoc H" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "I mean, otherwise later on if nobody wrote this stuff on the board down we'd have a harder time summarizing it or agreeing on a summary.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "We And it Especially since this is common knowledge. I mean, this is shared knowledge among all the participants, and it's a shame to keep it off the recording.", "speakerName": "Postdoc H" }, { "text": "Uh, except in.", "speakerName": "Grad G" }, { "text": "s", "speakerName": "Postdoc H" }, { "text": "er, if we weren't recording this, this this would get lost. Right?", "speakerName": "Grad G" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "Well, I don't understand that point. I mean, I just think that the.", "speakerName": "Postdoc H" }, { "text": "The point is that we're not saving it anyway. Right? In in our real - life setting.", "speakerName": "Grad G" }, { "text": "Well.", "speakerName": "Postdoc H" }, { "text": "What do you mean we're not saving it anyway? I've written all of this down and it's getting emailed to you.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "And you're gonna send it out by email, too.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Well, uh, in that case we don't need to take pictures of it.", "speakerName": "Grad G" }, { "text": "Right. That would be the other alternative, to make sure that anything that was on the board, um, is in the record.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Well.", "speakerName": "Postdoc H" }, { "text": "Well, that's why that's why I'm saying that I think the note - taking would be I think in many for many meetings there will be some sort of note - taking, in which case, that's a useful thing to have Uh, I mean, we uh, we don't need to require it. Just like the.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Grad G" }, { "text": "I mean, I think it would be great if we try to get a picture with every meeting. Um,", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "I agree.", "speakerName": "Postdoc H" }, { "text": "so so we won't worry about requiring these things, but the more things that we can get it for, the more useful it will be for various applications. So.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "So So, I mean, departing for the moment from the data collection question but actually talking about, you know, this group and what we actually want to do, uh, so I guess that's th the way what you were figuring on doing was was was, uh, putting together some notes and sending them to to everybody from from today? OK. So. Um.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "That's great.", "speakerName": "Postdoc H" }, { "text": "So so the question that that we started with was whether there was anything else we should do during during th during the collection.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "Ow.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "And I guess the CrossPads was certainly one idea, uh, and we'll get them from him and we'll just do that. Right? And then the next thing we talked about was the was the summaries and are we gonna do anything about that.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "Well, before we leave the CrossPads and and call it done.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "Oh, OK.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "So, if I'm collecting data then there is this question of do I use CrossPads?", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "So, I think that if we really seriously have me collect data and I can't use CrossPads, it's probably less useful for you guys to go to the trouble of using it, um, unless you think that the CrossPads are gonna n I'm not I'm not sure what they're gonna do. But but having a small percentage of the data with it, I'm not sure whether that's useful or not. Maybe maybe it's no big deal.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "What.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "Maybe we just do it and see what happens.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "I guess the point was to try again, to try to collect more information that could be useful later for for the UI stuff.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "So it's sort of Landay supplying it so that Landay's stuff can be easier to do.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "So it it Right now he's g operating from zero,", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "Nothing.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "and so even if we didn't get it done from UW, it seems like that would could still You shou", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "OK.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "I mean, at least try it.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "I think it'd be useful to have a small amount of it just as a proof of concept.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "It will.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Right. OK.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "You know, what you can do with things.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "And and they seem to not be able to give enough of them away, so we could probably get more as well.", "speakerName": "Grad G" }, { "text": "Yeah. But not not to rely on them for basic modeling.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "That's true. So if it if it seems to be really useful to you guys, we could probably get a donation to me.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "Yeah, I'm not sure. I think it it it will again depend on Landay, and if he has a student who's interested, and how much infrastructure we'll need. I mean, if it's easy, we can just do it.", "speakerName": "Grad G" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "Um, but if it requires a lot of our time, we probably won't do it.", "speakerName": "Grad G" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "I guess a lot of the stuff we're doing now really is pilot in one sense or another.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "Yeah. Yeah, we have to sort of figure out what we're gonna do.", "speakerName": "Grad G" }, { "text": "And so we try it out and see how it works.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "Grad G" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "I just wouldn't base any of the modeling on having those.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Right. I ag I think I agree with that.", "speakerName": "Grad G" }, { "text": "It's just.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Right. OK.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "I think, though, the importance marking is a good idea, though. That if if people have something in front of them.", "speakerName": "Grad G" }, { "text": "I'd be sort of cool. I mean, it would Yeah. That w shouldn't be hard for.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Yeah. Do it on pilots or laptops or something. OK, if something's important everyone clap.", "speakerName": "Grad G" }, { "text": "OK. So CrossPads, we're just gonna try it and see what happens.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "OK.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "Yeah. Um, I think that's right.", "speakerName": "Grad G" }, { "text": "OK.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "OK.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "The note - taking So, I I think that this is gonna be useful. So if we record data I will definitely ask for it. So, I j I think we should just say this is not we don't want to put any extra burden on people, but if they happen to generate minutes, could could they send it to us?", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "Yeah. Oh, OK. That's fine. Absolutely.", "speakerName": "Grad G" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "And then.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "Yeah. What I was gonna say is that I don't want to ask people to do something they wouldn't normally do in a meeting. It's ver I just want to keep away from the artificiality.", "speakerName": "Grad G" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "But I think it definitely if they exist. And then Jane's idea of summarization afterward I think is not a bad one. Um, picking out basically to let you pick out keywords, um, and, uh, construct queries.", "speakerName": "Grad G" }, { "text": "So who who does this summarization?", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "Yeah, I'm thinking that.", "speakerName": "Postdoc H" }, { "text": "People in the meeting.", "speakerName": "Grad G" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Postdoc H" }, { "text": "You know, just at at the end of the meeting, before you go,", "speakerName": "Grad G" }, { "text": "Uh - huh.", "speakerName": "Postdoc H" }, { "text": "Without hearing each other though, probably.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "go around the table.", "speakerName": "Grad G" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Or even just have one or two people stay behind.", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "Yeah. Ugh. Yeah.", "speakerName": "Grad G" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "People with radio mikes can go into separate rooms and continue recording without hearing each other. That's the nice thing.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Well, then you should try them a few weeks later", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "How fascinating.", "speakerName": "Postdoc H" }, { "text": "and They have all these memory experiments about how little you actually retain", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "And see score them?", "speakerName": "Grad G" }, { "text": "That's right. Well, that's the interesting thing, though.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "and wasn't.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "If we do if we collect four different summaries, you know, we're gonna get all this weird data about how people perceive things differently.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Oh.", "speakerName": "Grad G" }, { "text": "It's like this is not what we meant to research.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Hmm.", "speakerName": "Grad G" }, { "text": "Right, right.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Oh. Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "That could be very interesting.", "speakerName": "Postdoc H" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "Hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Postdoc H" }, { "text": "But but again, like the CrossPads, I don't think I would base a lot of stuff on it,", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "Ru", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "I d yeah, I don't know how you would do it, though.", "speakerName": "Grad G" }, { "text": "because I think I know when I see the the clock coming near the end of the meeting, I'm like inching towards the door.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm. Running to Yeah,", "speakerName": "Grad G" }, { "text": "So,", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "fff!", "speakerName": "Grad G" }, { "text": "Hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "you're probably not gonna get a lot of people wanting to do this.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "Maybe e Is email easier?", "speakerName": "Grad G" }, { "text": "Well, I think if.", "speakerName": "Postdoc H" }, { "text": "I mean, I when you first said do do it, um, spoken, what I was thinking is, oh then people have to come up", "speakerName": "Grad G" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Postdoc H" }, { "text": "and you have to hook them up to the recorder. So, if they're already here I think that's good,", "speakerName": "Grad G" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "but if they're not already here for I'd rather do email. I'm much faster typing than anything else.", "speakerName": "Grad G" }, { "text": "Yeah, I'd just try Well, however the least intrusive and and quickest way is, and th and closest to the meeting time too, cuz people will start to forget it as soon as they l leave.", "speakerName": "Postdoc H" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Grad G" }, { "text": "Yeah. I think that I think doing it orally at the end of the meeting is the best time.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "I don't know. At.", "speakerName": "Grad G" }, { "text": "I just don't.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Postdoc H" }, { "text": "because they're kind of a captive audience. Once they leave,", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Grad G" }, { "text": "you know, forget it. But but i", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "Yeah, read the digits, do the summary.", "speakerName": "Grad G" }, { "text": "Right. But, uh, I don't think that they'll necessarily you'll you'll get many people willing to stay.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "Hmm.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "But, you know, if you get even one.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "w", "speakerName": "Postdoc H" }, { "text": "Well, I think it's like the note - taking thing,", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "I would s Yeah.", "speakerName": "Postdoc H" }, { "text": "that that y that you can't certainly can't require it or people aren't gonna want to do this. But but if there's some cases where they will, then it would be helpful.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "Hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "And I'm also wondering, couldn't that be included in the data sample so that you could increase the num you know, the words that are, uh, recognized by a particular individual? If you could include the person's meeting stuff and also the person's summary stuff, maybe that would be uh,", "speakerName": "Postdoc H" }, { "text": "Yeah. It's kind of nice.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "an ad addition to their database.", "speakerName": "Postdoc H" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Hmm.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "Under the same acoustic circumstance, cuz if they just walk next door with their set - up, nothing's changed,", "speakerName": "Postdoc H" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "just.", "speakerName": "Postdoc H" }, { "text": "So I have a question about queries,", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "God, that's bugging me.", "speakerName": "Grad G" }, { "text": "which is, um,", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "Can we turn that light off?", "speakerName": "Grad G" }, { "text": "You turn.", "speakerName": "Postdoc H" }, { "text": "uh.", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "If can we turn that just that that let.", "speakerName": "Grad G" }, { "text": "The fl the fluorescent light is flickering.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "Uh, let the record show the light is flickering.", "speakerName": "Postdoc H" }, { "text": "I don't know.", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "Yeah, there's a.", "speakerName": "Grad G" }, { "text": "Oh, it is it is like OK.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "Very annoying.", "speakerName": "Grad G" }, { "text": "There you go. OK.", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "Oh, much better.", "speakerName": "Grad G" }, { "text": "For a little while I thought it was just that I was really tired.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "Oh, yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "That's better.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Good.", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "That and y Too much caffeine and really tired,", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "Too much caffeine.", "speakerName": "Grad G" }, { "text": "but then I thought \" no, maybe that's real \".", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "OK.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "So,", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "I thought it was the projector for a moment. It was like, \" what's going on? \"", "speakerName": "Grad G" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "the question I had about queries was, um, so what we're planning to do is have people look at the summaries and then generate queries? Are are we gonna try and o", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "We we've just been talking, how do we generate queries?", "speakerName": "Grad G" }, { "text": "Yeah. Well, I mean,", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "And so that was one suggestion.", "speakerName": "Grad G" }, { "text": "so, the question I had is is have we given any thought to how we would generate queries automatically given a summary? I mean, I think that's a whole research topic un unto itself,", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "Mmm.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "so that it may not be a feasible thing. But.", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "Hello. Dan here.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "n", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "Shouldn't Landay and his group be in charge of figuring out how to do this?", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "I mean, this is an issue that goes a little bit beyond where we are right now.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "OK.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "They're the expert", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Mari?", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Yeah?", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "Someone wants to know when you're getting picked up. Is someone picking you up?", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Um, what's our schedule?", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "Well, you still wanted to talk with Liz.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "Let's see, you and I need dis Uh, no, we did the Liz talk.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "And you and I need to Oh, oh. You already did the Liz talk.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "Yeah. So so that was the prosody thing.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "OK.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "We - I don't remember it.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Um, we need to finish the.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "Oh, OK.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "It's already four - fifteen.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "I have like no recall memory.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Uh, after.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "We need to finish this discussion, and you and I need a little time for wrap - up and quad chart. So,", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "And what?", "speakerName": "Grad G" }, { "text": "um.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "I'm at your disposal. So, up to you.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "Um, what what's the plan for this discussion? We should.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "Um, I think we should be able to wind up in another half - hour or something, you think?", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "At least. Yeah.", "speakerName": "Grad G" }, { "text": "Uh, less.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "m i Even if that much?", "speakerName": "Grad G" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "Less?", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "Less.", "speakerName": "Grad G" }, { "text": "So, I think.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "It's interesting that he's got, like, this discussion free", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Well, I mean, we still haven't talked about the action items from here and so on.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "Action Yeah. So,", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "yet it's separate.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "And.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "e e why don't you say five - thirty? I don't.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "OK, five - thirty.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Is that OK? We'll probably hit horrible traffic.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "Sounds OK. h Thanks, bye.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "That's not a lot of time,", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "That's that.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "but.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "Well, in answer to \" is it Landay's problem? \", um, he doesn't have a student who's interested right now in doing anything. So he has very little manpower. Um, there's very little allocated for him and also he's pretty focused on user interface. So I don't think he wants to do information retrieval, query generation, that sort of stuff.", "speakerName": "Grad G" }, { "text": "Yeah, well there's gonna be these student projects that can do some things but it can't be, yeah, very deep. u I I actually think that that, uh, again, just as a bootstrap, if we do have something like summaries, then having the people who are involved in the meetings themselves, who are cooperative and willing to do yet more, come up with with with queries, uh, could at least give give Landay an idea of the kind of things that people might want to know. I mean, ye Right? If he doesn't know anything about the area, and the people are talking about and and, uh.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "But the people will just look at the summaries or the minutes and re and sort of back - generate the queries. That's what I'm worried about. So you might as well just give him the summaries.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "And.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Maybe.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "Well, I'm not sure I'm not sure that's a solved problem.", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "y Well, but I think.", "speakerName": "Grad G" }, { "text": "Oh, OK.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Right? Of how to how to generate queries from a.", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "How to do this from the summary.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "I, uh.", "speakerName": "Grad G" }, { "text": "That was sort of what my question was aimed towards.", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "So what you want to h to do is, people who were there, who later see, uh, minutes and s put in summary form, which is not gonna be at the same time as the meeting. There's no way that can happen. Are we gonna later go over it", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Hmm.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "Grad G" }, { "text": "and, like, make up some stuff to which these notes would be an answer, or or a deeper Yeah. I mean.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Or or just a memory refresher.", "speakerName": "Grad G" }, { "text": "But that's done off they have to do that off - line.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Yep. I agree.", "speakerName": "Grad G" }, { "text": "You", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "I'm also wondering if we could ask the the people a a question which would be \" what was the most interesting thing you got out of this meeting? \" Becau - in terms of like informativeness,", "speakerName": "Postdoc H" }, { "text": "That's a good one.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "it might be, you know, that the summary would would not in even include what the person thought was the most interesting fact.", "speakerName": "Postdoc H" }, { "text": "I would think that would be the most likely thing.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "Dan doesn't know what sex he is.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Yeah, really.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "But actually I would say that's a better thing to ask than have them summarize the meeting.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "I think you get two different types of information.", "speakerName": "Postdoc H" }, { "text": "You get two Yeah, that's true.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Because you get, like, the general structure of important points and what the what the meeting was about.", "speakerName": "Postdoc H" }, { "text": "Hey.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "Ah", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "We're still here.", "speakerName": "Grad G" }, { "text": "So you get the general structure, the important points of what the meeting was about with the summary. But with the \" what's the most interesting thing you learned? \" Uh, so the fact that, uh, I know that Transcriber uses Snack is something that I thought was interesting", "speakerName": "Postdoc H" }, { "text": "Going to see the kids.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "You you can keep it on.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "and that and that Dan worked on on that. So I thought that was really you know. So, I mean, you could ge pick up some of the micro items that wouldn't even occur as major headings", "speakerName": "Postdoc H" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "but could be very informative.", "speakerName": "Postdoc H" }, { "text": "Yeah, that's actually a really good idea.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "I think it wouldn't be too, uh, uh, cost - intensive either. You know, I mean, it's like something someone can do pretty easily on the spur of the moment.", "speakerName": "Postdoc H" }, { "text": "Are you thinking about just asking one participant or all of them?", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "As many are willing to do it.", "speakerName": "Grad G" }, { "text": "Make it a voluntary thing,", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Yeah. Cuz you'll get cuz you'll get very different answers from everybody, right?", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "and then Yeah. That's why I was wondering.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "So.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Well, maybe one thing we could do is for the meetings we've already done I mean, I we didn't take minutes and we don't have summaries. But, uh, people could, like, listen to them a little bit and generate some queries.", "speakerName": "Grad G" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Postdoc H" }, { "text": "Of course Jane doesn't need to. I'm sure you have that meeting memorized by now.", "speakerName": "Grad G" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "But actually it would be an easy thing to just go around the room and say what was the most interesting thing you learned,", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "Mmm.", "speakerName": "Grad G" }, { "text": "Yeah. Yeah.", "speakerName": "Postdoc H" }, { "text": "for those pe people willing to stay.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "And that I think it would pick up the micro - structure, the some some of the little things that would be hidden.", "speakerName": "Postdoc H" }, { "text": "And and that might be something people are willing to stay for.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "Boy, I I don't know how we get at this.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "That would be interesting.", "speakerName": "Postdoc H" }, { "text": "Yeah, but when you go around the room you might just get the effect that somebody says something", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Or want to get up and leave.", "speakerName": "Grad G" }, { "text": "and then you go around the room and they say \" yeah, me too, I agree. \"", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Me too, me too, me too.", "speakerName": "Grad G" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "That's fine.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "So.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "On the other hand people might try and come up with different ones, right?", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Well.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "They might say \" oh, I was gonna say that one but now I have to think of something else \".", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Well, you have the other thing, that that they know why we're doing it. We'll I mean, we'll we'll be telling them that the reason we're trying to do this is is to d generate queries in the future, so try to pick things that other people didn't say.", "speakerName": "Grad G" }, { "text": "It's gonna take some thought. I mean, It seemed The kind of, uh, interest that I had in this thing initially was, uh, that i basically the form that you're doing something else later,", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "and you want to pick up something from this meeting related to the something else. So it's really the imp the the list of what's important's in the something else", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "rather than the.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "Mmm.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "And it might be something minor of minor importance to the meeting.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "Grad G" }, { "text": "Uh, in fact if if it was really major, if it's the thing that really stuck in your head, then you might not need to go back and and and check on it even. So it's it's that you're trying to find You're you've now You weren't interested Say I I said \" well, I wasn't that much interested in dialogue, I'm more of an acoustics person \".", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "But but thr three months from now if for some reason I get really interested in dialogue, and I'm \" well what is what was that part that that that, uh, Mari was saying? \"", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "Yeah, like Jim Bass says \" add a few lines on dialogue in your next perf \"", "speakerName": "Grad G" }, { "text": "Uh.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "Yeah. Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "And then I'm trying to fi I mean, that's that's when I look in general when I look things up most, is when it's something that didn't really stick in my head the first time around and but for some new reason I'm I'm I'm interested in in in the old stuff.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "But that that's gonna be very hard to generate.", "speakerName": "Grad G" }, { "text": "Well, I That's hard to generate", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "So, I don't I don't know.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Do we.", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "and and I think that's half of what i I would use it for. But I also a lot of times um, make you know, think to myself \" this is interesting,", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "I've gotta come back and follow up on it \".", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm. Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "So, things that I think are interesting, um, I would be, uh, wanting to do a query about. And also, I like the idea of going around the room, because if somebody else thought something was interesting, I'd kind of want to know about it and then I'd want to follow up on it.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "Hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Yeah. That that might get at some of what I was I was concerned about, uh, being interested in something later that w uh, I didn't consider to be important the first time, which for me is actually the dominant thing, because if I thought it was really important it tends to stick more than if I didn't, but some new task comes along that makes me want to look up.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "But But what's interesting to me may not b have been interesting to you.", "speakerName": "Grad G" }, { "text": "Yeah. So having multiple people might get at some of that.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "By so by going around Yeah.", "speakerName": "Grad G" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "Yeah, I I think you can't get at all of it,", "speakerName": "Grad G" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "right? W we just need to start somewhere.", "speakerName": "Grad G" }, { "text": "Yeah, and this is a starting point.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "Uh - huh.", "speakerName": "Postdoc H" }, { "text": "The question the question then is h h how much bias do we introduce by you know, introduce by saying, you know, this was important now and, you know, maybe tha something else is important later?", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "I mean, does it does the bias matter? I I don't know. I mean, uh, that's, I guess, a question for you guys. But.", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "Well, and and one thing, we we're saying \" important \" and we're saying \" interesting \".", "speakerName": "Postdoc H" }, { "text": "Uh, yeah, yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "And and those those can be two different things.", "speakerName": "Postdoc H" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "Sure, sure. But I I I guess that's the question, really, is that I mean,", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Postdoc H" }, { "text": "W", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "does building queries based on what's important now introduce an irreversible bias on being able to do what Morgan wants to do later?", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "Well, irreversible.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "OK, good.", "speakerName": "Postdoc H" }, { "text": "That's that's.", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "I I I mean, I guess what I what I I keep coming back to in my own mind is that, um, the soonest we can do it, we need to get up some kind of system", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Postdoc H" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "so that people who've been involved in the meeting can go back later, even if it's a poor system in some ways, and, uh and ask the questions that they actually want to know. If you know, if uh, as soon as we can get that going at any kind of level, then I think we'll have a much better handle on what kind of questions people want to ask than in any anything we do before that. But obviously we have to bootstrap somehow,", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "and.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "Sure.", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Postdoc H" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "I agree.", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "I will say that that I I chose \" interesting \" because I think it includes also \" important \" in some cases. But, um, I I I feel like the summary gets at a different type of information.", "speakerName": "Postdoc H" }, { "text": "I think \" important \" can often be uninteresting.", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "Mmm.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "Mmm. And \" interesting \" is more interesting than \" important \".", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Hmm.", "speakerName": "Grad G" }, { "text": "Well, and and also i it puts a lot of burden on the person to to evaluate. You know, I think inter \" interesting \" is is non - threatening in.", "speakerName": "Postdoc H" }, { "text": "OK - OK.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Postdoc H" }, { "text": "In the interest of, um,", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "Importance?", "speakerName": "Grad G" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Postdoc H" }, { "text": "generati generating an interesting summary, um.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm. Yeah.", "speakerName": "Postdoc H" }, { "text": "No, i in the interest of generating some minutes here, uh, and also moving on to action items and other things, let me just go through the things that I wrote down as being important, um, that we at least decided on. CrossPads we were going to try, um, if Landay can get the, uh get them to to you guys, um, and see if they're interesting. And if they are, then we'll try to get m do it more. Um, getting electronic summary from a note - taking person if they happen to do it anyway.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "Um, getting just, uh, digital pictures a couple digital pictures of the the table and boards to set the context of the meeting. Uh, and then going around the room at the end to just say qu ask people to mention something interesting that they learned. So rather than say the most interesting thing, something interesting,", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "k", "speakerName": "Postdoc H" }, { "text": "and that way you'll get more variety.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "Sure.", "speakerName": "Postdoc H" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "I wouldn't even say that \" that they learned \".", "speakerName": "Grad G" }, { "text": "That's good. I like that. I like that.", "speakerName": "Postdoc H" }, { "text": "OK.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Uh, you might want to mention something that that you brought up.", "speakerName": "Grad G" }, { "text": "\" Thing that was discussed. \" And then the last thing c would be for those people who are willing to stay afterwards and give an oral summary.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Postdoc H" }, { "text": "OK? Does that pretty much cover everything we talked about? That well, that we want to do?", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm. A And one and one qualification on on the oral summaries. They'd be s they'd be separate. They wouldn't be hearing each other's summaries.", "speakerName": "Postdoc H" }, { "text": "OK.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "Yeah, that's like n I think that's gonna predominantly end up being whoever takes down the equipment then.", "speakerName": "Grad G" }, { "text": "And and that would also be that the data would be included in the database.", "speakerName": "Postdoc H" }, { "text": "Yeah, that would be, let's see, me.", "speakerName": "Grad G" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Postdoc H" }, { "text": "I mean, there is still this hope that people might actually think of real queries they really want to ask at some point.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "OK.", "speakerName": "Postdoc H" }, { "text": "And that if if that ever should happen, then we should try and write them down.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Postdoc H" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Give them a reward, a dollar a query?", "speakerName": "Grad G" }, { "text": "Yeah, really.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "If they're real queries.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "OK. So.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "Well, and again, if we can figure out a way to jimmy a a a a very rough system, say in a year, then uh, so that in the second and third years we we actually have something to.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Postdoc H" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Grad G" }, { "text": "Play with and generate real queries from.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "ask queries.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "Right. OK.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Grad G" }, { "text": "So. Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "Uh.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "I think I just wanted to say one thing about queries. I mean, the level of the query could be, you know, very low - level or very high - level. And it gets fuzzier and fuzzier as you go up, right?", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Well, we're gonna.", "speakerName": "Grad G" }, { "text": "So you need to have some sort of if you start working with queries, some way of identifying what the you know, if this is something that requires a a one - word answer or it's one place in the recording versus was there general agreement on this issue of all the people who ha", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "You know, you can gen you can ask queries that are meaningful for people.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Yep.", "speakerName": "Grad G" }, { "text": "In fact, they're very meaningful cuz they're very high - level. But they won't exist anywhere in the a you know.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Absolutely. So I think we're gonna have to start with keywords", "speakerName": "Grad G" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Postdoc H" }, { "text": "and and if someone becomes more interested we could work our way up.", "speakerName": "Grad G" }, { "text": "I I'm I I'm not so sure I agree with that.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "It But it may well.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "But.", "speakerName": "Grad G" }, { "text": "Because uh, b because it depends on, uh, what our goal is.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "Really?", "speakerName": "Grad G" }, { "text": "If our goal is Wizard of Oz - ish, we might want to know what is it that people would really like to know about this data.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "Oh, that's true.", "speakerName": "Grad G" }, { "text": "And if it's if if it's something that we don't know how to do yet, th great,", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "that's, you know, research project for year four or something.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "Research, yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "You know?", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "Yeah, I was thinking about Wizard of Oz, but it requires the wizard to know all about the meetings.", "speakerName": "Grad G" }, { "text": "We'd have to listen to all the data.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Um, well, not maybe not true Wizard of Oz", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "So.", "speakerName": "Grad G" }, { "text": "because people are too", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "Oh, yeah. I I understand.", "speakerName": "Grad G" }, { "text": "uh, aware of what's going on.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "Well just imagine if.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "But but just.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "Get people to ask questions that they def the machine definitely can't answer at the moment,", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Yeah. w Just \" what would you like to know? \"", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "but.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Yep.", "speakerName": "Grad G" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "But that neither could anyone else, though, is what, uh, my point is.", "speakerName": "Grad G" }, { "text": "Yes.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "I I was wondering if if there might be one s more source of queries which is indicator phrases like \" action item \",", "speakerName": "Postdoc H" }, { "text": "OK.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "which could be obtained from the text from the transcript.", "speakerName": "Postdoc H" }, { "text": "Right. Since we have the transcript.", "speakerName": "Grad G" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Postdoc H" }, { "text": "Dates maybe. I don't know. That's something I always forget.", "speakerName": "Grad G" }, { "text": "Yeah, that's something to be determined, something to be specified,", "speakerName": "Postdoc H" }, { "text": "Well, probably if you have to sit there at the end of a meeting and say one thing you remember, it's probably whatever action item was assigned to you.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "but text - oriented.", "speakerName": "Postdoc H" }, { "text": "I mean, in gen that's all I remember from most meetings.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "That that's all I wrote down.", "speakerName": "Grad G" }, { "text": "I think you'd remember that, yeah.", "speakerName": "Postdoc H" }, { "text": "So, in general, I mean, that could be something you could say, right? I'm supposed to do this. It it doesn't.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Yeah, that's true. Well, but then you could you could prompt them to say, you know, \" other than your action item \", you know, whatever.", "speakerName": "Postdoc H" }, { "text": "Well.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "But but the action item would be a way to get, uh, maybe an additional query.", "speakerName": "Postdoc H" }, { "text": "I mean, that's realistically what people might well be remembering.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "So.", "speakerName": "Postdoc H" }, { "text": "So.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Hmm.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "Yeah. Well, but you know, but you could get again @ @.", "speakerName": "Postdoc H" }, { "text": "Well, we're piloting. We'll just do it and see what happens.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "Yeah. Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Postdoc H" }, { "text": "I usually don't remember my action items. But I'd I.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "OK - OK. Speaking of action items, can we move on to action items?", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "Yeah. Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "Sure. Can you hand me my note pad?", "speakerName": "Grad G" }, { "text": "Yeah. yeah.", "speakerName": "Postdoc H" }, { "text": "Um, or maybe we should wait until the summary of this until this meeting is transcribed and then we will hav", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "We we had I mean,", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "Yeah. Then we'll know.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Thanks.", "speakerName": "Grad G" }, { "text": "somewhere up there we had milestones, but I guess Did y did you get enough milestone, uh, from the description things?", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "I got Yeah. In fact, why don't you hand me those transparencies so that I remember to take them. eee,", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "OK.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "OK.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "And, you know, there's obviously detail behind each of those, as much as is needed. So, you just have to let us know.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "OK. What I have down for action items is we're supposed to find out about our human subject, um, requirements.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "Good.", "speakerName": "Postdoc H" }, { "text": "Uh,", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "Yep.", "speakerName": "Grad G" }, { "text": "people are supposed to send me U R for their for web pages, to c and I'll put together an overall cover. And you're s", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "Right. We.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Hmm?", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "we need to look at our web page", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "And and you also need to look at your web page", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "and make one that's that's p", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "and clean it up by mid - July.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "PDA - free.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "Grad G" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Um,", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "let's see. Choo - choo - choo. We.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "Mailing lists.", "speakerName": "Grad G" }, { "text": "Mailing list? Uh, you need to put together a mailing list.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "Three of them.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "Uh, I think w", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "Well I mean,", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "uh,", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "Um,", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "mostly together.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "uh, I need to email Adam or Jane, um, about getting the data. Who should I email?", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "Uh, how quickly do you want it?", "speakerName": "Grad G" }, { "text": "Um.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "My July is really very crowded. And so, uh.", "speakerName": "Grad G" }, { "text": "How about if I just c Uh, Right now all I want I personally only want text data. I think the only thing Jeff would do anything with right now But I'm just speaking fr based on a conversation with him two weeks ago I had in Turkey. But I think all he would want is the digits. Um, but I'll just speak for myself. I'm interested in getting the language model data. Eh, so I'm just interested in getting transcriptions.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Grad G" }, { "text": "So then just email you?", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "OK. So y Sure, sure, sure.", "speakerName": "Postdoc H" }, { "text": "OK.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "Wh", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "You could email to both of us, uh, just I mean, if you wanted to.", "speakerName": "Postdoc H" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "I mean, I don't think either of us would mind recei", "speakerName": "Postdoc H" }, { "text": "OK.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "i", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "That's right.", "speakerName": "Grad G" }, { "text": "but but in any case I'd be happy to send you the.", "speakerName": "Postdoc H" }, { "text": "And your email is?", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "i", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "Edwards at ICSI.", "speakerName": "Postdoc H" }, { "text": "OK.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "w", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "Dot Berkeley dot EDU, of course.", "speakerName": "Grad G" }, { "text": "And then.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "In in our phone call, uh, before, we we, uh It turns out the way we're gonna send the data is by, uh, And, uh and then what they're gonna do is take the CD - ROM and transfer it to analog tape and give it to a transcription service, uh, that will.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "Oh, is this IBM?", "speakerName": "Grad G" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "Yeah, using foot pedals", "speakerName": "Postdoc H" }, { "text": "Yeah, foot foot pedals", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "and.", "speakerName": "Postdoc H" }, { "text": "and.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "Uh, so do they How are they gonna do the multi - channel?", "speakerName": "Grad G" }, { "text": "See, that's a good question.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "Yeah. They they don't have a way.", "speakerName": "Postdoc H" }, { "text": "I thought so.", "speakerName": "Grad G" }, { "text": "No, I mean, it'll be", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "But they have a verification.", "speakerName": "Postdoc H" }, { "text": "probably about like you did,", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "Mix?", "speakerName": "Grad G" }, { "text": "and then there will be some things you know, many things that don't work out well. And that'll go back to IBM and they'll they'll, uh they run their aligner on it and it kicks out things that don't work well, which you know, the overlaps will certainly be examples of that. And, uh I mean, what w we will give them all of it. Right?", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "OK. That's, uh, my question.", "speakerName": "Grad G" }, { "text": "We'll give them all the the multi - channel stuff", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "So we'll give them all sixteen channels", "speakerName": "Grad G" }, { "text": "and.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "and they'll do whatever they want with it.", "speakerName": "Grad G" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "But you also should probably give them the mixed You know, equal sound - level.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Yeah. Good idea.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "I mean, they're not gonna easily be able to do that, probably.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "It's not hard.", "speakerName": "Grad G" }, { "text": "Well.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "Ah, yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "So.", "speakerName": "Grad G" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "It's also won't be adding much to the data to give them the mixed.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "But w", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "I", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "It's not.", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "Right. It doesn't it isn't difficult for us to do,", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "Yep. Absolutely.", "speakerName": "Grad G" }, { "text": "i You should Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "so we might as well just do it.", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "You should that may be all that they want to send off to their transcribers.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Absolutely. So, sure.", "speakerName": "Grad G" }, { "text": "OK. Related to to the conversation with Picheny, I need to email him, uh, my shipping address and you need to email them something which you already did.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "I did. I I m emailed them the Transcriber URL, um, the on - line, uh, data that Adam set up, The URL so they can click on an utterance and hear it. and I emailed them the str streamlined conventions which you got a copy of today.", "speakerName": "Postdoc H" }, { "text": "Right. And I was gonna m email them the which I haven't yet, a pointer to to the web pages that we that we currently have, cuz in particular they want to see the one with the the way the recording room is set up", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "Good.", "speakerName": "Postdoc H" }, { "text": "and so on, your your page on that.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "Oh, excellent. Good.", "speakerName": "Postdoc H" }, { "text": "And then p possibly.", "speakerName": "Grad G" }, { "text": "I C - I CC' ed Morgan. I should have sent I should have CC' ed you as well.", "speakerName": "Postdoc H" }, { "text": "OK.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "Not an immediate action item but something we do have to worry about is data formats for for higher - level information.", "speakerName": "Grad G" }, { "text": "OK.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "Oh, yeah. We were gonna.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "Well, or d or not even higher level, different level, prosody and all that sort of stuff. We're gonna have to figure out how we're gonna annotate that.", "speakerName": "Grad G" }, { "text": "Yeah. We never had our data format discussion.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "Yeah, we w Right.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "Oh, I thought we did. We discussed, uh, musi musical score notation", "speakerName": "Postdoc H" }, { "text": "Oh, OK.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "But that's not That's display.", "speakerName": "Grad G" }, { "text": "and and its XML.", "speakerName": "Postdoc H" }, { "text": "That's different than format.", "speakerName": "Grad G" }, { "text": "That's.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "Well, um.", "speakerName": "Postdoc H" }, { "text": "W My my u feeling right now on format is you guys have been doing all the work", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "Well uh, yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "and whatever you want, we're happy to live with.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Postdoc H" }, { "text": "Um,", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "OK, excellent.", "speakerName": "Postdoc H" }, { "text": "other people may not agree with that,", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "OK. So, what n important thing.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "but Cuz I'm not actually touching the data,", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "Well, it c", "speakerName": "Postdoc H" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "so I shouldn't be the one to talk. But.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "No, I think that's fine.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "So a key thing will be that you we tell you", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "Great.", "speakerName": "Postdoc H" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "what it is. Uh, we also had.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "\" Here's a mysterious file", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "and \"", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "We also had the, uh, uh that we were s uh, that you were gonna get us the eight - hundred number", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "Oh, yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "and we're all gonna we're gonna call up your Communicator thing and and we're gonna be good slash bad, depending on how you define it, uh, users.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "Now, something that I mentioned earlier to Mari and Liz is that it's probably important to get as many non - technical and non - speech people as possible in order to get some realistic users. So if you could ask other people to call and use our system, that'd be good. Cuz we don't want people who already know how to deal with dialogue systems,", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Yeah. Or, like if you have a.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "who know that you shouldn't hyper - articulate, for instance, and things like that.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Or, like if you have somebody who makes your your plane reservations for you,", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "So.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "um, which is", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "Yeah, we can do that.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "the n", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "Get my parents to do it.", "speakerName": "Grad G" }, { "text": "Yeah. Yeah. Seriously.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "Yeah, for instance.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "Your grandmother.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Hmm.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "Yeah. e You know, it could result in some good bloopers, which is always good for presentations. So Um, anyway.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "Yeah..", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "I think my father would last through the second prompt before he hang hung up.", "speakerName": "Grad G" }, { "text": "Mmm.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "My mother would have a very interesting conversation with it", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "He would never use it.", "speakerName": "Grad G" }, { "text": "but it wouldn't have anything to do with the travel.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "OK. Um, other.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "OK.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "Let's see, other action items. So I have the.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "We talked about that we're getting the recording equipment running at UW. And so it depends, w e e e they're you know, they're p m If that comes together within the next month, there at least will be, uh, uh, major communications between Dan and UW folks", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "Yeah. I mean,", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "I'm I'm shooting to try to get it done get it put together by the beginning of August.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "as to.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "we should talk about it, but.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Mmm.", "speakerName": "Postdoc H" }, { "text": "So, um, you know, if", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "But we have it it's it's pretty We don't know. I mean, he he s uh, he said that it was sitting in some room collecting dust", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "We don't know.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "and and so we don't know,", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "i It's probably unlikely that we'll pull this off,", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "i e", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "but a at least it's worth trying.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm. What is it?", "speakerName": "Grad G" }, { "text": "We don't know.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "Oh, OK.", "speakerName": "Grad G" }, { "text": "\" Recording equipment. \"", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "It's a tape recorder.", "speakerName": "Grad G" }, { "text": "W We know it's eight channels. Uh, we know it's digital.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "It's eight tape recorders.", "speakerName": "Grad G" }, { "text": "We don't even know if there're microphones. So, we'll find out.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "OK. Um, and I will email these notes Um, I'm not sure what to do about action items for the data stuff, although, then somebody I guess somebody needs to tell Landay that you want the pads.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "Yeah, OK. I'll do that.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "OK.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "Um, and he also said something about outside there that came up about the outside text sources, that he he may have", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Grad G" }, { "text": "Oh!", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "some text sources that are close enough to the sort of thing that we can play with them for a language model.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "Hmm.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Yeah, that was uh, that was What he was saying was this he this thing that, uh, Jason had been working on finds web pages that are thematically related to what you're talking about. Well, that's the idea. So that that that would be a source of text which is supposedly got the right vocabulary.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "But it's obviously very different material. It's not spoken material, for instance,", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Yeah. But it's p it might be.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "so.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "But but that's actually what I wanna do. That's that's what I wanna work with,", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "OK.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "is is things that s the wrong material but the right da the right source.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Grad G" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Un - unfortunately Landay told me that Jason is not gonna be working on that anymore.", "speakerName": "Grad G" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "He's switching to other stuff again.", "speakerName": "Grad G" }, { "text": "Yeah. He seemed when I asked him if he could actually supply data, he seemed a little bit more reluctant. So, I'll I'll send him email. I'll put it in an action item that I send him email about it. And if I get something, great. If I don't get something.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "Who? Landay or Jason?", "speakerName": "Grad G" }, { "text": "Landay. And, uh, um,", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "OK.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "OK.", "speakerName": "Grad G" }, { "text": "you know, otherwise, if you guys have any papers or I could I could use, uh I could use your web pages. That's what we could do. You've got all the web pages on the Meeting Recor", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "Yeah, why search for them?", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "Yeah!", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "They're we know where they are.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "True.", "speakerName": "Grad G" }, { "text": "Yeah, that's true.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "Absolutely.", "speakerName": "Grad G" }, { "text": "Oh, forget this!", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "Sure.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Well, but that's not very much.", "speakerName": "Grad G" }, { "text": "I One less action item. I can use what web pages there are out there on meeting recorders.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "Yep.", "speakerName": "Grad G" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "I mean, that that's Yeah. Basically what his software does is h it picks out keywords and does a Google - like search.", "speakerName": "Grad G" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "Yeah. Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Yeah. So we can we can we can do better than that.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "We can do that. Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "So you could.", "speakerName": "Grad G" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Grad G" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "There's there's some, uh, Carnegie Mellon stuff, right? On on meeting recording,", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "Yep.", "speakerName": "Grad G" }, { "text": "And Xerox.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "So, there's there's ICSI, Xerox,", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "and.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "And there's You should l look under, like, intelligent environments,", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "And Xerox. Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "smart rooms,", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Um, the \" Georgia Tech Classroom Two Thousand \" is a good one.", "speakerName": "Grad G" }, { "text": "um.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "CMU,", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "Right. And then Right. J There's th That's where I thought you would want to eventually be able to have a board or a camera,", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "because of all these classroom.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Well, Georgia Tech did a very elaborate instrumented room.", "speakerName": "Grad G" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "And I want to try to stay away from that. So.", "speakerName": "Grad G" }, { "text": "OK. Great. That solves that problem. One less action item. Um OK. I think that's good enou that's that's pretty much all I can think of.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "Can I ask, uh, one thing? It relates to data data collection and I and I'd and we mentioned earlier today, this question of um, so, um, I s I know that from with the near - field mikes some of the problems that come with overlapping speech, uh, are lessened. But I wonder if Uh, is that sufficient or should we consider maybe getting some data gathered in such a way that, um, u w we would c uh, p have a meeting with less overlap than would otherwise be the case? So either by rules of participation, or whatever.", "speakerName": "Postdoc H" }, { "text": "Oh, yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "Now, I mean, you know, it's true, I mean, we were discussing this earlier, that depending on the task so if you've got someone giving a report you're not gonna have as much overlap.", "speakerName": "Postdoc H" }, { "text": "Adam!", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "But, um, i i uh, so we're gonna have s you know, non - overlapping samples anyway. But, um, in a meeting which would otherwise be highly overlapping, is the near - field mike enough or should we have some rules of participation for some of our samples to lessen the overlap?", "speakerName": "Postdoc H" }, { "text": "Hmm.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "turn off", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "I don't think we should have rules of participation, but I think we should try to get a variety of meetings. That's something that if we get the the meeting stuff going at UW, that I probably can do more than you guys,", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "OK.", "speakerName": "Postdoc H" }, { "text": "cuz you guys are probably mostly going to get ICSI people here. But we can get anybody in EE, uh, over.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "and and possibly also some CS people, uh, over at UW. So, I think that that there's a good chance we could get more variety.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "OK. Just want to be sure there's enough data to.", "speakerName": "Postdoc H" }, { "text": "Um,", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "They're still gonna overlap,", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "OK, good.", "speakerName": "Postdoc H" }, { "text": "but Mark and others have said that there's quite a lot of found data from the discourse community that has this characteristic and also the political Y you know, anything that was televised for a third party has the characteristic of not very much overlap.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "Wasn - but w I think we were saying before also that the natural language group here had less overlap.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Postdoc H" }, { "text": "So.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "So it also depends on the style of the group of people.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "Like the, um, dominance relations of the people in the meeting.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm. On the task, and the task.", "speakerName": "Postdoc H" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Grad G" }, { "text": "It's just I just wanted to uh,", "speakerName": "Postdoc H" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "because you know, it is true people can modify the amount of overlap that they do if if they're asked to.", "speakerName": "Postdoc H" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "Not not entirely modify it, but lessen it if if it's desired. But if if that's sufficient data I just wanted to be sure that we will not be having a lot of data which can't be processed.", "speakerName": "Postdoc H" }, { "text": "OK. So I'm just writing here, we're not gonna try to specify rules of interaction but we're gonna try to get more variety by i using different groups of people", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "Time.", "speakerName": "Postdoc H" }, { "text": "and different sizes.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "Fine. And I you know, I I know that the near f near - field mikes will take care of also the problems to s to a certain degree.", "speakerName": "Postdoc H" }, { "text": "e e Yeah. And then the other thing might be, um, uh, technical versus administrative.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "I just wanted to be sure.", "speakerName": "Postdoc H" }, { "text": "Cuz if I recorded some administrative meetings then that may have less overlap, because you might have more overlap when you're doing something technical and disagreeing or whatever.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm. Mm - hmm. Well, I just as as as a contributary eh, so I I know that in l in legal depositions people are pr are prevented from overlapping. They'll just say, you know you know, \" wait till each person is finished before you say something \". So it is possible to lessen if we wanted to. But but these other factors are fine. I just wanted to raise the issue.", "speakerName": "Postdoc H" }, { "text": "Well, the reason why I didn't want to is be why I personally didn't want to is because I wanted it to be as, uh, unintrusive as possi", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm. Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Postdoc H" }, { "text": "as you could be with these things hanging on you.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "Oh, yeah. Yeah, I think that's always desired. I just want to be sure we don't that we're able to process, i u uh, you know, as much data as we can. Yeah.", "speakerName": "Postdoc H" }, { "text": "Yeah. Did they discuss any of that in the the meeting they had with L Liberman?", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "What.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "And there was a big division,", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "What what do they.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "so Liberman and others were interested in a lot of found data.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "So there's lots of recordings that They're not close - talk mike,", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "but And and there's lots of television, you know, stuff on, um, political debates and things like that, congre congressional hearings. Boring stuff like that. Um, and then the CMU folks and I were sort of on the other side in cuz they had collected a lot of meetings that were sort of like this and said that those are nothing like these meetings. Um, so there're really two different kinds of data. And, I guess we just left it as @ @ that if there's found data that can be transformed for use in speech recognition easily, then of course we would do it,", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "but newly collected data would would be natural meetings. So.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Actually, th @ @ the CMU folk have collected a lot of data. Is that is that going to be publicly available,", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "As far as I know, they h have not.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "or?", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "Um, but e", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "OK.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "It's also it's not it's not near - far, right?", "speakerName": "Grad G" }, { "text": "I'm not sure. Um, if people were interested they could talk to them, but I I got the feeling there was some politics involved.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "I think @ @ gonna add that to one of my action items.", "speakerName": "Grad G" }, { "text": "No.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Just to check.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "I I don't know.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Yeah. W we should know what's out there certainly.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Grad G" }, { "text": "I mean, the.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "Cuz I had thought they'd only done far - field,", "speakerName": "Grad G" }, { "text": "I think you need to talk to Waibel and.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "intelligent - room sorts of things.", "speakerName": "Grad G" }, { "text": "Oh, really? It's those guys.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "I hadn't known that then they'd done any more than that.", "speakerName": "Grad G" }, { "text": "Oh, they only did the far - field? I see.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Grad G" }, { "text": "But they had multiple mikes and they did do recognition, and they did do real conversations. But as far as I know they didn't offer that data to the community at this meeting.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Grad G" }, { "text": "But that could change cuz Mark you know, Mark's really into this. We should keep in touch with him.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Yeah. Well, once we send out.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "Yeah, I think.", "speakerName": "Postdoc H" }, { "text": "I mean, we still haven't sent out the first note saying \" hey, this list exists \". But but, uh, once we do that.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "Is that an action item?", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "Yeah. It's on I already added that one on my board to do that. So, uh uh, hopefully everybody here is on that list. We should at least check that everybody here?", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "I think everyone here is on the list.", "speakerName": "Grad G" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "I'm not.", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "u e e", "speakerName": "Postdoc H" }, { "text": "I think you are.", "speakerName": "Grad G" }, { "text": "We haven't sent anything to the list yet.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "Oh! OK.", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Postdoc H" }, { "text": "We're just compiling the list.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "I see.", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "I I added a few people who didn't who I knew had to be on it even though they didn't tell me.", "speakerName": "Grad G" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "Who specifically ask not to be.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Like Jane, for example.", "speakerName": "Grad G" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "You are on it, aren't you?", "speakerName": "Grad G" }, { "text": "Yeah, I am.", "speakerName": "Postdoc H" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "So, I w uh, just just for clarification. So \" found data \", they mean like established corpora of linguistics and and other fields, right?", "speakerName": "Postdoc H" }, { "text": "What they mean is stuff they don't have to fund to collect,", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "It sounds like such a t", "speakerName": "Postdoc H" }, { "text": "and especially good.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Yeah, OK.", "speakerName": "Postdoc H" }, { "text": "Well, I mean, \" found \" has, uh, also the meaning that's it very natural. It's things occur without any You know, the pe these people weren't wearing close - talking mikes, but they were recorded anyway, like the congressional hearings and, you know, for legal purposes or whatever.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "OK. But it includes like standard corpora that have been used for years in linguistics and other fields.", "speakerName": "Postdoc H" }, { "text": "Mark's aware of those, too.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "\" Hey, look what we found! \"", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "OK.", "speakerName": "Postdoc H" }, { "text": "That would be found data because they found it and it exists.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Hmm.", "speakerName": "Grad G" }, { "text": "Exactly.", "speakerName": "Postdoc H" }, { "text": "\" I found this great corpora. \" Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "They didn't have to collect it. Of course it's not \" found \" in the sense that at the time it was collected for the purpose.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "\" Psst. Want to buy a corpora? \"", "speakerName": "Grad G" }, { "text": "Yeah. OK, OK.", "speakerName": "Postdoc H" }, { "text": "But what he means is that You know, Mark was really a fan of getting as much data as possible from you know, reams and reams of stuff, of broadcast stuff,", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "That's interesting.", "speakerName": "Postdoc H" }, { "text": "web stuff,", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Postdoc H" }, { "text": "TV stuff, radio stuff. But he well understands that that's very different than these this type of meeting.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "It's not the same.", "speakerName": "Grad G" }, { "text": "But, so what? It's still it's interesting for other reasons.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "OK. Yeah. Just wanted to know.", "speakerName": "Postdoc H" }, { "text": "So, seems like we're winding down.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "Right? Many ways.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "You can tell by the prosody.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "So we should go go around and s", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "We should go around and say something interesting that happened at the meeting?", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Oh. Yes, we should do that.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "Rrrh!", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Now, I was already thinking about it, so.", "speakerName": "Grad G" }, { "text": "Oh! Good man.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "This is painful task.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Hmm.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "I.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "So, um, I really liked the idea of what I thought was interesting was the combination of the CrossPad and the speech. Especially, um, the interaction of them rather than just note - taking. So, can you determine the interesting points by who's writing? Can you do special gestures and so on that that have, uh, special meaning to the corpora? I really liked that.", "speakerName": "Grad G" }, { "text": "Well, I I just realized there's another category of interesting things which is that, um, I I found this discussion very, uh, i this this question of how you get at queries really interesting. And and the and I and the fact that it's sort of, uh, nebulous, what what that what kind of query it would be because it depends on what your purpose is. So I actually found that whole process of of trying to think of what that would involve to be interesting. But that's not really a specific fact. I just sort of thought we we went around a nice discussion of the factors involved there, which I thought was worthwhile.", "speakerName": "Postdoc H" }, { "text": "I had a real revelation about taking pictures. I don't know why I didn't do this before and I regret it. So that was very interesting for me.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Postdoc H" }, { "text": "Did you take pictures of the boards?", "speakerName": "Grad G" }, { "text": "Not that I.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Postdoc H" }, { "text": "The boards aren't really related to this meeting. I mean, I will take pictures of them, but.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "That's a good point.", "speakerName": "Postdoc H" }, { "text": "They're related to this morning's meeting.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "But.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Postdoc H" }, { "text": "To the pre previous meeting. That's right.", "speakerName": "Grad G" }, { "text": "OK. Well, that's why I'll take pictures of them, then.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "I'm gonna pass because I can't I mean, of the Jane took my answer.", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "Ah!", "speakerName": "Grad G" }, { "text": "So.", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "Oh.", "speakerName": "Postdoc H" }, { "text": "Um, so I'm gonna pass for the moment but y come come back to me.", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "For the moment.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Pass.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "I think I think \" pass \" is socially acceptable. But I will say uh, I will actually uh, a spin on different slightly different spin on what you said, this issue of, uh, realizing that we could take minutes, and that actually may be a goal. So that that may be kind of the test in a sense, test data, uh, the the template of what we want to test against, generating a summary. So that's an interesting new twist on what we can do with this data.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "I agree with Jane and Eric. I think the question of how to generate queries automatically was the most interesting question that came up, and it's something that, as you said, is a whole research topic in itself, so I don't think we'll be able to do anything on it because we don't have funding on it, uh, in this project. But, um, it's definitely something I would want to do something on.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "I wonder if work's already been done on it.", "speakerName": "Grad G" }, { "text": "Like e expert systems and stuff,", "speakerName": "Postdoc H" }, { "text": "Hmm.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "or? Uh - huh.", "speakerName": "Postdoc H" }, { "text": "Well, being more management lately than than research, I think the thing that impressed me most was the people dynamics and not any of the facts. That is, I I really enjoyed hanging out with this group of people today. So that's what really impressed me.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "How are we gonna find that in the data?", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Well, if we had people wearing the wireless mikes all the time.", "speakerName": "Grad G" }, { "text": "Oh, yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Yeah, I think.", "speakerName": "Grad G" }, { "text": "Well, I mean, one thing you could search for is were people laughing a lot.", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Right? So.", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "How happy were they?", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "I'd probably search for something like that.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "That actually has come up a couple times in queries. I was talking to Landay", "speakerName": "Grad G" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "and that was one of his examples.", "speakerName": "Grad G" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "When when did people laugh?", "speakerName": "Grad G" }, { "text": "That's great.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Find me a funny thing that Jeff said. Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "So we need a laugh detector.", "speakerName": "Grad G" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "Perfect.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Postdoc H" }, { "text": "Cuz that seems to be pretty common. Not in the congressional hearings.", "speakerName": "Grad G" }, { "text": "No.", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "Quiet sobbing.", "speakerName": "Grad G" }, { "text": "So I think we're done.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "OK.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "OK.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Great.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "Great.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "OK.", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "I think we're done.", "speakerName": "Grad G" }, { "text": "Great.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "h Do we need do I need to turn something off here, or I do unplug this, or?", "speakerName": "Postdoc H" }, { "text": "Now these we turn off. Right?", "speakerName": "Professor D" } ] }

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

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Okay, just hang on a second everybody. I haven't actually looked at this yet.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Ah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "um.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Very nice.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "I haven't looked at it, but let's just start it off and we'll see what happens. If you're all ready.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "So is the agenda? Opening, acquaintance, tool training and project plan, discussion and then closing. Project aim is a new remote control. It's original, uh trendy and it's user-friendly.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "'Kay.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Project method, functional design, individual work, another meeting, conceptual design, individual work, and a meeting of details design, individual work and a meeting. Tool training. Try out the whiteboard, every participant should draw their favourite animal and sum up their favourite characteristics of that animal.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Um. Uh Miss Industrial Designer, would you like to go first?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Okay. So are we supposed to bring the little things for the.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah, why don't you just c, I think just clip on clip", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "do you have a belt?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Clip.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Or put'em in your pocket, yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah. okay. So my favourite animal.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah, what's your favourite animal?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "'Kay um.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Ah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Is it rude?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "It's an elephant..", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "That's a very good elephant.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "The back end of an elephant.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Oh my gosh, I'm never gonna be able to draw that well..", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "'Kay, and you want to write up on there, it says you've gotta sum up your f f your favourite characteristics of that animal.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Um okay, it's big, it's got a great memory.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Does it? Oh.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Supposed to have a great memory, we say an elephant never forgets.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "And uh dunno know why but looks like nice to me.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Okay. Wonderful, well done.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Nice animal.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Do you want to use the wipe the m the wiper and wipe it off?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "And Mister aesthetics designer do you wanna go next?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Aesthetic yep, sure.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "I have no idea what my favourite animal is.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "'Kay, my favourite animal,", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "uh let's see.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Oh.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Dunno if any of you have seen Napoleon Dynamite before.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "It's.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "It's a liger,", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "No.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "A what?", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "a combination of a lion and tiger.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Alright.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Have you not seen Napoleon Dynamite?", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "How.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "No.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "No.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Oh it's a hilarious movie.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "No.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "You have to see it. And and it's best characteristic is it's pretty much the awesomest animal. But you have to see the movie to fully appreciate it..", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Okay, well done.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Great. Me?", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah. Miss mar Miss Marketing?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Okay. Not quite sure how this is gonna work.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "There go.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Cool. Uh well I'll try my best to draw. Can I just draw the face?", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Um yeah, I think you can just draw the face, but then you'll have to describe in writing how the rest of it looks..", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Ooh. It's a cat.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "That's a very pr pretty cat.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Which also has what? A big fat body and big and a long tail.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Okay, do y do you wanna do some write.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Why?", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "you wanna just write some words about it?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Because um cuddly. And usually cats are very friendly. Usually. And they're healing as well. They heal. And they can feel when a human's got problems so.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Wow, so they're kinda spiritual.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "So, that's why I like cats.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Well done.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "There we are, that's me..", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Um, I don't actually have a favourite animal,", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "but for the for th for this meeting I'll s draw a little.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Uh. I honestly can't draw for toffee. Uh.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Really?", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Oh that's a.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "no", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "A prairie dog?", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "no uh.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Oh a squirrel?", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "That's exactly what it is.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Uh not a very good one.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Not bad I would say.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah, that's pretty good.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Okay, well, you got it's a s It's a squirrel, and I like them, because they're cute and stupid.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Very good.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Ah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Alright.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Right. Okay, so, I guess that was the test to see if this equipment is all working.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm. Let's move on to the next page. Okay, project finance, selling price twenty five Euros, profit aim fifty million Euros.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Market range internationally sold.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah. Production cost, ah right it's gotta be can't cost any more than twelve fifty to make.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Ah right okay.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "experience with with remote control, so talk about who who's used what. Any ideas? Stuff like that. Next meeting starts in thirty minutes. At quarter to twelve..", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "So I think before we close uh, we are expected I mean the last slide wanted us to maybe discuss longer what our what our ideas where. I mean if you wanna go back to the last slide. Uh.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "S", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah, I think we're I mean before we close the meeting, we're supposed to come up with some ideas for.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Oh k so we're actually supposed to be doing this discussion like right now are we or.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "oh okay.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "I thought this was just t giving us instructions for the re to do next, but.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah, I think this is just the preliminary, get some rough ideas for what our experiences with remote controls have been and and what we would roughly what we would incorporate into a new one maybe.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Okay. Right, who's got experiences with remote controls then? Pretty much everybody.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah, I think we've all got.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Uh..", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Um.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Is this a T_V_ one we are supposed to make?", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah. Yeah it's a T_V_ remote control.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "'Kay um.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Well..", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "T", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "A new remote control for T_V_. What would I like? Um.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "W what You want it big do you want it small. Are we are we going for like like telephones are going little teeny tiny things or we are going for something that's that's big and.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Medium.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Mm. Yeah it seems like there's like there's sort of a tension between two ideas, I mean, you want you want one remote that maybe can work uh all all of the functions of T_V_ and if you have whatever associated with T_V_ the D_V_D_ player, or something like that,", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Video and ts hi-fi and stuff.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "but like at the same time you don't wanna really busy remote with a thousand buttons on it or something.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Maybe you yeah", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "now th that's the other thing is it's gotta be cheap.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "'Cause I I I mean I was thinking something that's got different like maybe a a an L_C_D_ display on it that's got different pages for different devices,", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "but that would p that would probably be quite expensive.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "But how do we know how much uh, I mean, how much do we have per how much?", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Twelve fifty.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Twelve fifty..", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "It g can't be more than twelve fifty per unit.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Each.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Per unit, yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Cost.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "So do we have to be realistic within the budget or.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Well at the moment we could, wa I mean we.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Close pr I don't know how much it would cost. Yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Guess.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "'cause we this is what we th what we're doing at the moment is just saying what what we'd like, and then after we after we've found out what we can like, some different ideas, we can then go and do the research to find out if these any of these ideas are feasible or not.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "So would be nice to have something that that controls lots of different things.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Um.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Couldn't we have like one that comes out? Like so you have one in like mm", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "it doesn't have to be really thick. I mean remote controls can be thin bits. And then you have one for your D_V_D_ and you sort of slide it out, and then you have another one, you slide it out.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "'Kay.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "have slides. And then it all comes compact", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Okay, that's.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "into one. So it's not you actually just putting three or four different remotes together but making them thinner, and um into one basically.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Th that's an idea.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "So you just flip them out.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Um have uh one very complicated one on one side with all the D_V_D_ and V_C_R_ access and stuff, and then on the other side o one uh a remote control that would be very very simple with just the channel, program plus and minus, and the just the mute button, for example. I can real keep it really really simple on one side and the other side be very complicated.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "One side for kids, one side for adults.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "I'm not sure if that's like.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Or grandma as well, you know it's like what is the mute button.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "I'm not sure if it's a good idea to have a two sided remote though,'cause it would be very hard to use in the way that you mani manipulate it.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "No, but you would slide it into uh someth like something on the back would hold like you wouldn't be able to press the buttons, but.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Oh.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Like it.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Oh okay.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "or something like a flip telephone, something like that maybe..", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah. Okay.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "That would be cool.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "F flip it open and you've got all the buttons, or you flip it closed and you've just got the basic buttons on the outside maybe.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "I was thinking that like a flip.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Um, oh we've got five minutes left.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Start breaking up.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "But okay.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Okay. Um.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Well we've got a k we've got a few ideas there.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah, we should uh.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": ".", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "I guess by the end of this meeting we should have at least a a rough conception you know stage one was technical functions design, what effect the apparatus should have. Okay. Um so I mean we still have time in our next meeting to come up with the actual concept for the user interface, but the the functions that we're sure that we want are that it can control the T_V_, but also devices connected to the to the T_V_, I mean, be able to operate", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "D_V_D_ players, things like that.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "I have got I think we should also have a back-up plan of I'cause I I I just think that it might be expensive to make something that I mean we don't, we haven't been told it has to be something that will control everything. We should have a back-up plan of just a really good television remote control, that just that is just for a T_V_, but it's just a really good, nice one.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Okay. Right.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "What do you reckon? See'cause, I'm just thinking bearing in mind th we've gotta we have to have something that's cheap to make.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah, I mean. Yeah, that's true, maybe we should just concentrate on having a a good T_V_ remote, and have it be um", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "I think we'll be able to come up with ideas and stuff a lot quicker.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "have it be like ergonomic so it's comfortable to use,", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "uh simple to use, and looks decent and.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "May w you know, maybe even.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "But what'll make it what'll make it interesting for people to buy though?", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Or maybe even so something that's for disabled people", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "I mean if it's if it's just like.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "or so people that uh b don't see very well or big buttons for touchy buttons for.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Sorta find a niche for our remote, like market it to a certain kind of p kind of people,", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Or just one that looks really fucking cool.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "certain certain demographic.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Could be really light or, I dunno, something special.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah, no I think you're right. Yeah, rathe rather than focus on.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Otherwise we'll be we'll be here all day talking about do this let's do that n I think we sh I think we should.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Y Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah,'cause at the end of the day if it says just T_V_ remote, doesn't say com combination with all all the r.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah. I mean obviously everyone we're uh you know uh sounds like we're all a bit sort of gadget heads and we like things that do everything at once, but you know, that's.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Remotes spinning out from other remotes and having little nested remotes inside..", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah, that's right. Yeah. I mean I'd like one that makes tea as well, but that's not gonna happen.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "I think a flip up thing,'cause you always have this problem of like if it's on this well I did anyway, like we had five or six remotes and they would be lying on the c on the coach, and you'd come and sit down and ooh, the telephone's the television switched on or something. So maybe something that like does have a lid or closes, so you don't accidentally press a button or record button for something.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Okay, like a lock f like a lock functs function on it like you have on your telephones, yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah. But make it like really snazzy and cool people will want it. So make it Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah, it's gotta be sellable. Yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah, that's true what you were saying, I mean it doesn't have to have a flip function, it can just have a lock function, so that it's not uh not usable when you don't want it to be usable.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "And even for kids as well. It's um it's safer for them, I guess. Like they don't flick onto channels and all that sl flick onto..", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "No porn channel for children.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Okay. Um alright,", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "so we've got some ideas, we've got um.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "I guess that's good good for now.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Let's move on.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Oops, let's close that. Next meeting, uh okay.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "W What does I_D_V_I_D_N_M_E_ stand for?", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Industrial Designer um which is.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Ah ri okay. these are requirement specification.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Um.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "That's Mm.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "And I'm marketing.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah, there you go. So User Interface Designer, that's that's", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "That's me. Okay.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "that's you, so you gotta you go, you're you're gonna be the one that's working out what what buttons we need. Um.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Right. Right.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Industrial Designer, you are the one, you know, you're gonna be working out kind of box it goes in, I guess so, um whether it's what goes into the box, somehow.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm. Har how it works an", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "And in marketing.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Bu", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "These are requirement specification.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "User requirements specifications.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "So what the user requires", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah, what.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Do you think our two kind of overlap, because.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "in a remote.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Right, okay, yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah, it does seem like our our responsibilities have some overlap.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "I guess that's what it says.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "You two you two are gonna be just, I think, you just double up, you know, you working together.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "You're the one that's gotta go and find out do th do the research, see what people want in a remote, what buttons are used more often, and s stuff like that.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Oh, we've been warned to finish the meeting now. Okay. Okay everyone, well done.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Good meeting.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Alright, see you in thirty minutes.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "So, do we take these off?", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "I don't.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" } ] }

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

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{ "meetingId": "ES2016d", "transcriptSegments": [ { "text": "Yep. Soon as I get this. Okay. This is our last meeting. Um I'll go ahead and go through the minutes from the previous meeting. Uh and then we'll have a, the prototype presentation. Um then we will um do an evaluation. Uh or we'll see what, what we need to have under the criteria for the evaluation. Then we'll go through the finance and see if we fall within the budget. Um then we'll do the evaluation, and then we can finish up after that with um any changes that we'll need to make, or hopefully everything will fall right in line. Um let's see, minutes from the last meeting. Um we looked at uh the the trends. We had uh the fashion trends that people want a fancy look-and-feel. It was twice as important as anything else. Um they liked fruit and vegetables in the new styles. Um and a spongy feel. So we were talking about trying to incorporate those into our prototype. Um they wanted limited buttons and simplicity. Um then we looked at the uh the method for coming up with our own remote. Um looking at other other devices. Um the iPod, we really liked the look of that. Um we also had uh the kid's remote for a simple idea. Um a two part remote, which was what were were originally looking at. Uh and then um there was talk of spee uh speech recognition um becoming more uh predominant and easier to use. But I think we've still decided not to go with that. Then we looked at the components um the materials for the case, the different energy sources, the different types of chips, um and made a decision on what we were going to use to make our remote. Um and basically how, what were making for the prototype. So I'm going to leave it at that and let you guys take over.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "The prototype discussion.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "The prototype yeah. Do you need a this?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "No..", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Can try to plug that in there", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "There is our remo the banana.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "but.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Um yeah basically we we st went with the colour yellow. Um working on the principle of a fruit which was mentioned, it's basically designed around a banana.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Um but it would be held in such a fashion,", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "where it is, obviously it wouldn't be that floppy'cause this would be hard plastic. These would be like the rubber, the rubber grips. So that's so that would hopefully help with grip, or like the ergonomics of it. Um but all the controlling would be done with this scroll wheel. You have to use your imagination a little bit. And this here represents the screen, where you, where you'd go through.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Very nice.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "And the the simplest functions would be um almost identical to an iPod, where that one way ch through channels, that way th other way through channels. Volume up and down. And then to access the more complicated functions you'd you sorta go, you press that and go through the menus. It's that that simple. That just represents the infrared uh beam. That's a simple on and off switch. Um I don't know, we could use the voice. T that blue bits should be yellow, that that'd be where the batteries would be I suppose. And um that's about it. It's as simple as you, we could make it really.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Is there anything you want to add?", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "That's what we have there. That's plastic. Plastic covered with rubber. We might uh add some more underneath here. Maybe give it, give it a form. I mean you're supposed to hold it like that, but um just if you grab it, take it from somewhere,", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "so yeah,", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Doesn't make much make much difference.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "you have some rub yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "You could work left-handed or right-handed I suppose.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Exactly, use both. Might as well think about.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "T the actual thing might be smaller.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Th think about the button as well. Like either put either one one on either side or", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "What but what's that button?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "not do it at all. It's a quick on-off button.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Just the on and off.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Uh,'kay.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "That's um", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "yeah I think it's pretty important. So you don't have to fiddle with that.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "'Kay.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Right? Um that's not um.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "I'd say a bit smaller would probably be nice. You wanna play with that over there.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "There you go.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "It's you know it's flimsy'cause it's made out of heavy Play-Doh,", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Would you like to uh.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "but.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Pretty impressive.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Well done.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Kind of a banana.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "And whether or not it would fall into the cost everything I suppose. With the scroll and the L_C_D_.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Well luckily we are going to find out. Or not luckily. Um do you have a marketing presentation for us.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "I do. Okay. You guys are gonna help me do an evaluation of the criteria. Um. Okay. So first I'll just discuss some of the criteria that I found. Just based on the past trend reports that I was looking at earlier. And then we'll do a group evaluation of the prototype. And then we will calculate the average score to see how we did. Um so the criteria we're gonna be looking at are the complaints um that we heard from the users who were interviewed earlier. So we're gonna be doing it based on a seven point scale. And one is going to mean true, that we did actually achieve that. With seven being false, we did not achieve that.. Okay. So for the first one, we need to decide, did we solved the problem of the users who complained about an ugly remote?.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": ".", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "I think it's definitely different than anything else out there.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "So if they think that what is out there is ugly, then yes I would say, I would say most definitely.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "I would.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "It's bright.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "It's bright. It's.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "It still has your traditional black.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "It's curved. It's not there's no sharp", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "angles to it.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yep, not angular.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "I'd say, when it comes to the ergonomics, the form and stuff, yes that's definitely more beautiful than your average.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "However the colour, we don't have a say in that.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah I think the colours detract a little bit..", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Some people might say it. Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "That has been, that has been dictated pretty much by the company.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "So uh to answer that honestly I would rather say like uh, we have not solved the problem completely with the ugly remote because the colour is ugly, definitely.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yep.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "That's true. Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "'S nothing you can say about that. I mean I much prefer something like brushed chrome with that form.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "But.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah something more modern to go a a modern colour to go with the modern form.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Right. Right. It's different. You don't want your uh three feet huge L_C_D_ dis display in your living room that's hanging from the wall to be controlled with something like that.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Um okay so, do you think, since we This was a a sign criteria, do you think maybe we should put it somewhere in the middle then?", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Does that sound good?", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "What do you think? Three? Four?", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "I would say", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Five?", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "four..", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah..", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Four is fair. Okay.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Very non-committal, four.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Okay, the second one. Did we make it simple for new users?", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "It's very intuitive, I think yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah. I think that was the main aim, one of the main aims that we had.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "S give it a one.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "One,", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "'kay. Okay. Um, do the controls now match the operating behaviour of the users?", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Uh yeah.'Cause we've we've brought it down to basically four controls most common, which are channel and volume.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "I'd say that.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "And then the other ones are just a matter of just going, just scrolling further.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "S scrolling through and selecting a few.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Right. So that's a one.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "So one?", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "I think that's a one.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah? Okay. Okay um the fourth one. How about the problem of a remote being easily lost? One of the number one complaints.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Something that big and that yellow you just don't lose anymore.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Whether you want to or not, you're not gonna lose it..", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "It's bright yellow.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Bright yellow's hard to lose. But um if we were to, if we were, that, the speech recognition. That, we could maybe just use that solely for the the finding thing. That was what we'd we'd mentioned.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "So if we incorporate speech recognition into it then it could.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Just just to use, to find it when it was lost. But like I said, like I don't think you'd lose something so yellow so easily.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Oops. Hmm.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "And it's not gonna fall, like a rectangle would slip down behind things. That's gonna be a difficult shape to.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Well what.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "And it is quite bright and.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Maybe in the middle again, three or four or something?", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Uh.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "S", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "I mean you know loo losing things is one of those things that people can lose, I mean a million ways.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "You can pick it up and walk away with it and then you've lost it.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "That's true.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "But if we do go with the, with the speech recognition, then it, then our scale goes up quite a bit I think.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Oh yeah. You probably.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Probably two. You know. If we eliminate the fact that you know it's impossible to guarantee that it's not gonna be lost then", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "I'd say two.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "With the speech recognition, which of course may be changed depending on budget.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Y you could add an extra feature actually. Which makes this thing raise hell when you remove it too far from the television.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "We could add that but that's nothing we have thought of so far.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Which, which may be cheaper than speech recognition if it were just a.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yes.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah true. But I mean d just those whistling, clapping key rings you have. They're cheap.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Annoying alarm or something?", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "It's it's.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "So it can't be that", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Um the it's based on this anti anti-theft technology for suitcases and stuff,", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "expensive.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Some sort of proximity.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "where you have one piece that's attached to your luggage, another piece that starts beeping. That can't cost much.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "So that can also easily be integrated because these things are small enough to to hide, so you have one piece, you have to glue somewhere behind your stick it behind your T_V_ and the other.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "stick it on the T_V_.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Pray that you don't accidentally lose that piece..", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "That'd be tough then. Well also your remote would uh alarm you if somebody stole you t your television, yeah. Ran off with it without taking the beautiful remote control.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah..", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "So. Are we adding one of these two features?", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Let's add one of those features and say yes..", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "gonna say okay.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "So we're back to a one?", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Two.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Or a two?", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Two.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Two.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Two,'kay. Okay. Are we technologically innovative?", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Uh.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "I'd say so.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Uh don't get many mo remote controls with", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "It's all just.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "screens on.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "It's all just stolen technology when it comes down to.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah it's stolen technology.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "From iPod yeah..", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "It's.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "But we have.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "But there's not a lot of yellow, there's not a lotta yellow.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "right", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "But for remotes yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Course that wasn't really.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "right", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Fa", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "right right.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "we were kinda forced to take that colour.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Two? Three?", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "'cause it's stolen.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "I don't know that we are that innovative, to tell you the truth..", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "No maybe not.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah not really.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "But how many remotes do you see like this?", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "If we added the screaming factor then we go up.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Not so many.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Um I would say we're probably at four.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Really? Okay. That's gonna hurt us.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Okay. Um spongy material?", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah well you have that, kind of, sort of.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "We have some spongy, yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah as much as as needed, I think.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "'Kay.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "It's not a one though.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "No.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "One would be the whole thing", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah. Because it's only got what, these parts are the grips and perhaps the back side the bottom the underneath on the back.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "to fold and stuff. Yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "So that's a four at most.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Probably a four at most. Possibly even a five.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "And lastly, did we put the fashion in electronics?", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Y yes.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "I'd say we did.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "If your fashion is b is Carmen Miranda, you betcha..", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "More.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah..", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Well the recent fashion is rather displayed in the in the L_C_D_ and the way you operate it than the form and the colour,", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "On the.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "It's true.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "but it definitely is.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Be what we were told, and they'd say yeah, definitely.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": ".", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "'Kay. Alright. Now we just gotta calculate. Six eight twelve sixteen. Seventeen divided by s", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": ".", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Seven is.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Eight.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Two point.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "two point four?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Is that some long division? No.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Something.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Well I haven't done math in years.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "What two.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "I dunno.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Just, I'm sure there's a.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Okay we'll say two point four two. Right? How does that look?", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "I'm impressed. I can't do that without a calculator..", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "No I can't do long.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "It's been a while.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "very impressive.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "And what what is the acceptable criteria? Is there like a scale that we have to hit?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Oh no. They just told me to", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "pick my own criteria and have you guys evaluate it basically.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Alright then.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "So that's that.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Okay. Well, let's see.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Now we get to do the budget numbers. You didn't know that you were gonna have a budget. But we do. Okay.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah. Yeah so. You'd been going a long time dividing that. It's two point four two eight five se it just keeps going on.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Oh my god.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Two point four two basically.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Okay. Yeah we'll go with that.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "So I have here an.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Fifty percent, you're kidding.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Not too shabby.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "P", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "We want a fifty percent profit on this. Oh you can't really see that very well.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Charge about three hundred quid for it.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Twelve and a half Euros is what supposed to cost us. Okay, so.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "It's too much.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Well let's see.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Um.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "The f the Wonder if I can make this.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Uh.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "What the Oh it won't let me do that. Okay. Alright so at top, I don't know if you guys can read that or not. I can't'cause I don't have my glasses on,", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "but so we've got the energy source. There's uh four, five, six categories.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Battery.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "We have energy source, electronics, case. Then we have case material supplements, interface type, and then button supplements. Okay so Uh first of all energy source, we picked battery. Um and how many batteries do we think this will probably take?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Probably some e either two or four.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Two.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Two? Like it..", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "At four it's gonna be too heavy, so that that's not our problem. People can change it every month.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Excellent.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "They won't know until after they bought it.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "This is consumerism.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Alright so for the electronics our choices are simpl simple chip-on-print, regular chip-on-print, advanced chip-on-print, sample sensor, sample speaker.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": ".", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "We're advanced chip are we?", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "That's the advanced chip-on-print, yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "'Kay, we have one of those.'Kay then the case is a Probably it's double curved.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Double curved, yes.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Case materials are", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Plastic.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "plastic. Um I guess it's two, since one for the top, one for the bottom.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "N no.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Is that right or is it just one?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "No that's just one.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Maybe it's one because of the.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "It's just one mo single mould, we can do that.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "'Kay.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Right..", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "I guess it doesn't matter'cause the price on that one is zero, which is nice.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Exactly, right.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Oh.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Special colour?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "That's not a special colour. It's a specially ugly colour, but it's not special.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Bright yellow.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Interface type. We have pushbutton, scroll-wheel interface, integrated scroll-wheel pushbutton, and an L_C_D_ display.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "S", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "S.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "That's Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "So we actually have the L_C_D_ display", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "And then.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "and then is it the integrated or is it.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "I'd say the integrated.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yes unfortunately.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "'Kay. Button supplement? Special colour?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Um special form? Special material.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "We could of course make the buttons wood.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Say mahogany or so", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "It'd look really lovely.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Or titanium.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm or titanium.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "They cost us all the same.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "remote control.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Well we only have one button so really we shouldn't be charged,", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Uh just.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "we shouldn't be charged anything for the the button supplements.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "No that's getting a bit tiny.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Um.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "I'd ignore that.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Leave it blank.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Okay. We're gonna leave that one blank because we run on a L_C_D_ and scroll. So our total is fifteen point five. Which I believe is", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah that's too much.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "by three Euros over.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "It's hard to believe. So we'll go for the hand dynamo huh?.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "So the only thing better than um a banana-shaped remote is one that you shake.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "If it w What if we completely took out the the one single button we've got on.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "And just had a scroll wheel interface. And the L_C_D_ display. I suppose the L_C_D_ C_ display's the one that's pushing it up a bit though.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah'cause the.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Well'cause we have to have both right?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "I mean let's let's face it, it also depends on the software on the on the television.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "You can have the the information that this thing transmits be being displayed on the on the screen.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "So s yeah let's take away the.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah you could maybe take out the L_C_D_ dis display even,", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah. Yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "if it if it comes up on the computer itsel on the T_V_ itself.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "So we may not need the L_C_D_ display?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Uh that is possible yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Right. We may not need it. There you go.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Well there we go.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Perfect.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Twelve point five.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "There we go.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Perfect.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Okay. So we just remove our.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Screen.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "screen here.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Make it a bigger dial.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Easier to use. Even easier to use then.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Okay, the.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Besides look at what the L_C_D_ does to our lovely remote.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Back to the design room boys.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "So we can just take away a heck of a lot of the.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": ".", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "there you go. central?", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "What's the blue part?", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "That was just.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Oh that's just.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "we ran out of yellow..", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Oh that's the batteries.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Okay..", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "There you go", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "There you go.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": ". Oops.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Even simpler.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Looks more like a banana.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "There you go.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "For all those fruit lovers out there.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "One more criteria.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Okay so the costs under twelve point five Euro. Was no. We redesigned it. Now it's yes.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Next slide. Project evaluation. Uh project process, satisfaction with, for example, room for creativity, leadership, teamwork, means, new ideas found. Um So I guess that Let's see here. I think that perhaps the project evaluation's just supposed to be completed by me. But I'd like to hear your thoughts.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Fair enough..", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Trying to fill in some time there..", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Uh h what did you think of our project process?.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Great..", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "I think we did yeah I think we did quite well. Um.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Good.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Good teamwork..", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Just half a day, you have a remote. There you go.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah. Right from the start of the day.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah I think.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "We sort of knew where we were going straight away I thought.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "we st we started off a little little weak. Our leadership was quite weak in the beginning.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Um um.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "But as the day went along we had more idea of what we were doing. Um room for creativity? There was that. Um I think we tried a lotta different things and um I think it was um interesting as you guys brought up more um information and studies that we were right on with a lot of those things. Um you guys worked together well as a team. And um the means? Which was the whiteboard and the pens.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah. We've used the whiteboard.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Super super.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "I had some problem with the pen I think, but minus your p", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Minus your PowerPoint fiasco.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Well that's not my fault. That's obviously the people I work for uh that work for me,", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "No I know. I'm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Well.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "yeah. Incom.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "uh they've just you know.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Have a.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Heads are gonna roll, believe me.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "we have a list of employees that you would like fired.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yes yes.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Okay. N new ideas found? Um.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm. Kinda.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yes for the remote. Maybe no not f for", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Technology used.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "technology. Alright. Closing. Costs are within the budget. Project is evaluated. Um complete the final questionnaire and meeting summary. That's it.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Excellent.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "And I still have to do my minutes for the last meeting..", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Actually. Um so there will probably be another questionnaire coming up. And then we'll have to check with the main boss whether we can, what goes on after that.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "We might have a while though.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": ".", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "But that's the end of our meeting.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" } ] }

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Hello everybody.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Hello.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Back again for another wonderful meeting.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": ".", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Is uh everyone ready?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Almost..", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Okay, we c we can hold on for a minute.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Oh my gosh..", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "I figured with the spam thing, if you can't beat it, join in..", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "That's the kind of spam that everybody likes to receive.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Mm'kay.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Are you ready? Okay, right, well, I take it that you are all ready now.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Um alright first off we'll just uh recap from our last meeting. Um which was we got together just to basically decide on well to talk about what it is that we were actually uh supposed to be doing,", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "and who we all are and stuff like that, mm get bit more of an idea together of what's going on. Um what we are gonna talk about in this meeting is um now that we know what it is that we are doing, now we know that it's a T_V_ remote and stuff and you guys have just been off doing some some uh R_ and D_ for that, that's research and development for those that haven't heard that before,", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "see I'm learning all sorts of new technologi terms in technology today. Um yeah, we're gonna hear your uh th three little presentations,", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "whether they be on computer or on the whiteboard or whatever you want.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Hmm. Do you have any preference uh of order?", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Um I'd like to um hear", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "o I'd like to hear who's g who's on the um from from uh Catherine actually first. I want what I'd like to hear about is uh if we've finally decided on um what sort of energy we're gonna be using and", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Batteries.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "I think she is still finishing her..", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "No no no no, it's fine I'm just preparing.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "It's just that yeah, let's let's hear from you first.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Hmm.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Where is that thing?", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Okay, it's uh.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "It's here.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Oh sorry, couldn't see.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Would that work?", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Get yourself in position..", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Okay, so that's me again.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Ah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Um so um for the energy sources we can have a basic battery, a hand dynamo which is which was used uh in the fifties for torches, if you remember that kind of which wouldn't be v wouldn't be v v", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "I don't think any of us remember the fifties.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Is it like a crank thing or something.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "yeah, yeah. It wouldn't be very fancy.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "You can have a kinetic provision of energy, which is used on some watches these days. So if you have just a bit of gentle movement that it will give it the energy to work.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Or you can use solar cells, but I'm not sure about that indoors, really, but.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Well, there's sometimes combinations, I mean, like calculators do combinations of battery with but also using some solar power.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Do sol solar panel things, do they have to work from the sun or can they work from a light bulb?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Does anybody know?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "I dunno actually.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Uh I think, it has to be on the on the solar energy, but I don't know.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "I dunno. Um. Think the the uh what would cost the less would be the basic battery, really.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "And uh if we want something fancier, I think the kinetic provision of energy could be nice,", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "but I don't know if it's worth the cost. So we've got to discuss that.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Mm. Okay, jolly good.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "For the case of the remotes itself, um they can be a general case, which is just a flat one. You can have uh a curved one or a double curved one, if you know what I mean, so.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "What's a double curved one?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "You know, kind of more ergonomic, that kind of suits the palm of your hand, that kind of thing.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "So Um then the case material itself, so it can be uh uh either plastic or latex, uh rubber, wood, or titanium. And th for each of them you have uh cases where for example titanium, you can't use it for if you if we're choosing a double curved case, we can't choose titanium. And if we are choosing um solar cells then we can't choose latex for the case material, so we just have to take that into account. But if we're choosing just the flat case then we can go for anything. And I think we discussed earlier on the R_ S_ I_ problem thing, so we could uh.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "So that might be an idea of using the rubber,", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "but then it should, you know.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Let's have a squeezable remote..", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah. And also it doesn't break as easily maybe,", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "when a T_V_ programme's got one.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "I dunno.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "watching the match and your team's just lost, you can fuzz it across the room and it'll bounce off the wall back at you.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah, I like that idea.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "So rubber would be Okay.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "I think rubber's.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Rubber, we're all we're all going we're all liking that idea? You think you can market that?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "But after my after my fashion thing, I think you'll realise that rubber is more.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Ooh, we like rubber, ooh..", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Uh s so if d", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "People..", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "okay. And then there are the push-buttons, so you can have basic push-buttons or a scroll-wheels, like you have on a mouse, um or you could have um L_C_D_, which gives you a display. Um scroll buttons, as well.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Uh-huh.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "So if you use a rubber double curved case, you must use rubber push-buttons. So if we're going for rubber then we have to decide for the case. Um and if we choose double curved then we have to go for rubber push-buttons.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Well, we're gonna go with I think we've decided that it's gonna be a rubber case so.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "So it's a constraint. Yeah, but is it a double curved one or not? If it's not a double curved, then we've got the choice for the push-buttons, if it's a double curve, we've gotta go for rubber push-buttons. If that makes sense.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "push buttons instead of the wheel?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah..", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "If it's rubber, isn't it malleable anyway, it doesn't matter if it's double I mean isn't a rubber case, mean it's completely flexed, I mean, it it flexes to whatever they want it to? Mean so what's the difference between a normal rubber case and a rubble doub double rubber double curved case?.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "rubble double double..", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "No, but na le you see, you've got, okay, the energy that's one thing,", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "I'll have a Big Mac, please..", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "then you have the case is uh, whether it's flat or curved. And that's we don't care if it's rub rubber or not, but then we've decided that we going for rubber for the case material. So if we've chosen rub rubber and if now we have the choice for the case whether it's flat, single curved or double curved. And I'm just saying if it if we choose it to be double curved then we need to go I dunno why, but we need to go for uh rubber push-buttons. So, either.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "I dunno we just need to decide on the on the case.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Let's have rubber push buttons, hey.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Okay. Go rubber. Go rubber the whole way.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Let's go crazy. And then, do I have a last slide? Yes, I do. Um so the push-buttons themselves they can be just simple or they can be so that's just the electronics between the but behind the push-buttons.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Um and the price that go with it with it, so the simple push-buttons are gonna be the cheapest. Uh if we get a scroll-wheel, that's a higher price range. If we get an advanced chip which is um used for the L_C_D_, the display thing, then that's even more expensive.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Simple, yeah. Chip on print. It's a bit. Okay, uh what I'm not understanding here", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "is uh, okay, advanced chip on print, which I presume is like one P_C_B_ and that's got all the electronics on one board including the um infra-red sender?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": ". Yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "The infra-red. Yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Right. Um what a what alternatives do we have to that? Y um what alternatives do we have to the chip on print?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Well, if if it's not chip on print then, I guess, you get different chip components, and you build them separately and doesn't include the infra-red. It's less expensive mm.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "so it sounds.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Technically speaking, it's not as advanced, but it does the job, too..", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "So, why would we not go for that? If it's something that's inside the the unit. I it doesn't affects whether the customer's gonna buy it or not.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Fo It doesn't, yeah, yeah, yeah. Totally. Yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Um we wanna go for an i i all.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "So let's not go for the.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "so long as it works,", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah, yeah. I agree.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "you know. So let's not let's uh not bother with the chip on print.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "So it's either um the scroll-wheel or the push-buttons.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah. S yeah, push buttons.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "What about the just developed uh sample sensor?", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "I think push-buttons is.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "What about what?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "G there, the sample sensor, sample speaker thing.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Well.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Well, what do we need a speaker for in a remote control unit?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm, I dunno. Be cool.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "It'd be it'd be cool, but they are saying they've just developed it,", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Channel two..", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "I'm just guessing. But it's gonna be the most expensive option, probably and.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "S", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Th the the speech recognition um option is it doesn't seem really very promising for us uh,", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah. It's not something that we wanna t go into with this product.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "'cause uh The yeah the example that they're already using it for is with the coffee machine, where, basically, you can program a sample wi um That when you say something it will give a response, and you program the response as well. Just uh clips of tha that you record yourself. So you can program your coffee-maker that when you say, good morning, to it it says, hello Rick, or whatever.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah..", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "But, I mean, it's not.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Hm.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "it would be one thing if it was speech recognition where you say something and it turns the T_V_ on like, turn the T_V_ on, and i turns comes on, but it's not that. It just gives you a it just gives you a verbal response.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Oh, it just gives an answer.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "So, yeah, I mean, like what's the point of saying, Hello remote, I mean, hello, how how are you?.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Oh, then then.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah. Yeah..", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Just if you are really lonely, maybe..", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "I thought I thought it was when they said.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah, if you're really lonely, it is it's.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "I thought when they said, voice recognition, they meant um like,", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Channel five. And then it switches on.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "channel five, and it will change.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "No, tha that w that w that would be more promising.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Like you talk to it. Can I have channel five?", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "It it's just a remote that talks to you.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah. Yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Uh. I mean to certain cues.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Oh, then forget about it. Oh right okay.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Okay, so I'll go back, maybe, to the previous slide and we can decide for each problem, what we should choose. So for the energy source, do we go for the battery or the.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "'Kay. Yeah, I'm fine with the basic battery.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Basic battery.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "It's cheap, it's cheerful, it's worked, does work.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Hmm.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Cheaper option. Are you happy with that?", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Mm. Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Okay. So we'll go for the battery. Then the case, do you want it flat or curved or sing or double curved?", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "We were go we were going with the late with the the R_S_I_ rubber, weren't we?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah, so we want it rub rubber double curved..", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "The the.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "So it will look like something like this.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Double?", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "The double whopper, please.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Okay, so then if we use double curved case, then we have to u choose rubber push-buttons,", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yep, but we're going for the simple buttons.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "So rubber rubber keys, yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "and that's fine?", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "And it's cheapest all round, it sounds kinda funky, and we can also market it", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "P", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "as i'cause we were s saying earl you were saying earlier in your research that um the the people have the R_ people were getting the complaining about R_S_I_, and this is anti-R_S_I_.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": ".", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "So that's another marketing point that we can use.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Well the rubber push-buttons. Don't you have to move your.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "But anything is gonna have buttons.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Even if it's a jog wheel, it's still repetitive. You.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "I thought they would give an option of flat buttons or a.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "You see, you can still get it does you still get repetitive strain injury, whether you are pressing a button or pressing a flat bit of screen.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "That they don't..", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "It's the v it's the fact that you are pressing the same doing the same movement.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": ".", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "It's not actually what you are doing.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "But the fact that this this rubber i is actually used in these anti-R_S_I_ ps specific.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah, the rubber's good.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "We're giving them a way to burn off steam, basically, yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah, so they can sit there and go like.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Not that watching T_V_ should be that stressful.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "And you know, yeah, you can fuzz it across the room and throw it at throw it at your children yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Oh yeah, I guess T_V_ can be stressful, yeah, if you're watching sports.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Alright, that's me done.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Okay, Gabriel. Let's um let's let's hear from you about the um it's the interface.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Alright. Alright. Yeah, some of what I have to say ties into what Catherine was just talking about.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Great.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Sorry.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Okay, so I'm continuing with the user interface uh topic. And so basically I consulted with our manufacturing division. It sounded like Catherine was also speaking with them. Uh I also took uh Reissa's marketing findings from the last meeting into consideration um,'cause I think that's that's crucial as far as uh what keys we're going to inc inclu what buttons we are going to include and and how they're laid out.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Uh and so the manufacturing division uh sent some some samples of of uh interface components that we might be interested in using that have been used in other products, uh like the coffee machine. So I already mentioned the speech recognition interface.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "I guess, we we basically vetoed that idea. It's it's pointless.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Uh it's just a sample sensor sample output. It would just be probably the most expensive part of our remote without any actual interesting functionality as far as operating the T_V_. Uh so yeah, they they also give the uh they they suggested the idea of using a spinning wheel like you use on the side of an M_P_ three player like iPod.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Um so we've already addressed that and I think that would actually be worse for something like R_S_I_ I mean you got that thumb movement that you're constantly doing.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Um the other suggestion,", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "That does get annoying.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "and I I have a feeling that we're interested in in something more general, but they suggested uh, you know, going i a little bit into a a niche, like either gearing our remote towards kids, where you could have lot of colours um, the keys might be you know, funny or or,", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "or uh something for the elderly, where the remote's very large and the buttons are very large and there's only a few buttons. But you know we can we can discuss this, but it sounded like from our last meeting we really wanted something that was general, but done well.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Uh um So, the key layout and design are really crucial. You don't want uh you want people to be able to quickly access the buttons that they use a lot without uh always pressing the wrong one um. And I didn't mention that we need a power button in our last I can give you an example here of uh, good layout and bad layout", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "uh from our manufacturing department. So this would be an example of bad layout, where you have volume up and volume down, but they have a V_ on both of them, so uh", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah. Yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "it's sort of confusing for the user. Uh this is the example of the giant remote that's impossible to lose.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Do we have an uh example of a good one? Brilliant.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Uh-huh. Well.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "And for something for kids. Yeah. Um.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "And so, yeah, I th I think my personal preferences of we've all kind of talked about and seemed to be on the same page um. Uh so I was against the speech recognition and against going uh towards anything in in a niche sense. I think it should be more general.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "I didn't I didn't think the spinning-wheel or the uh L_C_ display were were crucial for us. And, yeah, that's it for me.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Okay. Well let's um so w what are our definite decisions on this then as a team? The um The the um the interface type we're going for.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "So we're we're not gonna have any sort of display I think uh.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Just the simple s simple straight set of buttons.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "So, yeah, it's just gonna be just gonna be push-buttons. Um. I think we shall have a limited number of buttons,", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "ideally, I mean a a power, channel up, channel down, volume up, volume down, and a numerical keypad.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Uh. And some sort of it will either have a a lock button like we mentioned or or a cover or something like that.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "I guess it's to the point where we need to decide about that.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Okay, and we're not yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Well now that we've decided on our.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Are we gonna hav hav an are we d", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "have we decided on whether w we're gonna s supplement it with anything, you know, colours or particular gimmicky bits to it, we're not we're just gonna go for something.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Um it seems like we wouldn't wanna make it too busy and too sort of gaudy,", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "We're.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Maybe we can.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "but um Yeah, I would say mayb maybe a couple of colours like uh like a black with with yellow and somewhere, like maybe the R_R_ can be yellow, or something like that.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah. Yeah. Okay. Okey-dokey. Yeah, I don't have any other questions on this. Let's move over to.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "I I guess the fact uh also that we are having a rubber case uh would prevent us from having the cover function that we thought of before.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah, sure.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "I mean,'cause uh s so if we wanna have a lock of some sort it would have to be a button.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": ".", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "But I think that should be I mean um, I can speak with the button department, but uh I think that it should be easy to have a button that just prevents prevents the other uh the other buttons from operating.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah, the button that just does that, yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "So that should be simple.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Cool.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Right. Well, I'm just basically letting you know what's happening in the markets", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Mm yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "and what the fashions are for next year. Um. So yes, so from looking at this year's trends and fashions", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "and also recent investigation that we've done in the remote control market, we have found that for the remote control market these are like most important aspects like that we really need to.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "which we've already probably discussed. Um the most important aspect is look and feel. So the remote control has to look and feel fancier than the ones that already that we already have. So it has to be.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah, why should people buy this when they're already got a remote that came with the T_V_?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yep.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Exactly.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Um second, uh it should be technologically innovative innovative. So.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "What's that mean?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Technologically it should be like um work, basically, I guess. It should work.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Well it should be it should be maybe cutting edge in some sense,", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Should.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "I mean have something that's little more technologically advanced than what's on the market.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "That's new.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Okay, now the trouble is is we've already decided that we're going with the stuff that works already, that's cheap.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah. Yeah. Actually, I mean, these first two points we've already sort of gone away from,", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "'cause our rubber one is not fancy.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "I mean it's different, but I wouldn't say like a rubber remote is fancy. If that's what people want then we maybe we're going in the wrong direction. And it's it's not technologically innovative either.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Maybe we could um.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "So, no loose.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "That's why I was thinking, Bluetooth,'cause if you like put up Bluetooth, and it's like a Bluetooth remote control, everybody's gonna like, oh,'cause Bluetooth is the in thing nowadays, like it really is, like people and um when it comes to marketing like that's what people go for, they don't really care whether, you know, at the end of the day whether it works properly or not.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Of course, they do.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Well, they do, but it's like it's not.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "One hundred per cent, that's your first thing, you go, oh I'm not gonna buy that,'cause I dunno if it works or not.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah, but it looks good. If it looks good and it's it can just be there for decoration..", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Okay, well, what do you two think about this?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "So is is the advantage of Bluetooth that you can just like synchronise it with other", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "But like.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah, what I don't understand what m", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "electronics?", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "You could always insert, yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah, that's basically what it allows you to do,", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah,", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "right?", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "and it this is just gonna all this is being used for is your television.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah, but, I mean, people like.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "It would that would mean you'd need a television that has Bluetooth in it, which no no television does,", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Well, if you're looking at if you looking at something that's going to be bought by people, you have to make it new, you have to make it state of the art.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Well.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "does it? That would mean we'd have to make a television as well.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Bluetooth would, for example, enable you, I think, to um um connect for example you if you get a w call on your mobile phone, but your mobile phone is downstairs or something, you would get on your television you're being called by this person right now. Things like that.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "No, that would be your telephone in with your television.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "No i", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah, the that wouldn't be the remote so much,", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah,", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "I mean.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "and i", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "No, but if you get Bluetooth on the remote, you'd be able to.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Nah, the televi the television would have to be a Bluetooth compatible, basically.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "I with the television, yeah. I was just trying to find an advantage. Wha what w what advantage would you get for the.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Well, it doesn't.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "An and there is no there is no such thing", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Like it doesn't have to be, you know, Bluetooth, that was just an idea, but like it needs do something that, you know, is new. Whether it's a battery it could be something really really minor, you know, like but I think we are really keeping to what is already out there, and people've already seen it, people've already got it.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "If we want something new, we need to move away from what we already have and um just go creative.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Maybe the kinetic mo provision of energy then. It's been done for watches, but I haven't seen that for remotes, yet.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Okay. Yeah, this that's that's very good.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "And then you can market it. Never have to change a battery again..", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Change the batteries ever again.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "And and this is all tying in very nicely.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "The fact that it's made out of this rubber, we can throw it about. Th we should encourage people to throw their remote controls about, because it charges itself up by doing it.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah, well, and in little characters you say, yeah, but not too much..", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yes, so can.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "But yeah, by the squeezing it the.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "I think, safety s", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah, we can make the squeezing of the rubber be the be the generating like the energy generator.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah, that's a great idea. Well done.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah. Third most important aspect uh is it's easy to use.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "we're all about that.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "And I think we've all um worked that out. Um okay, in the fashion, how it's supposed to look. Next year's fashion i very much in fruit and vegetables are thm are like the theme for cloths, shoes and furniture. So next year people will be buying, I found this really funny, you know, strawberry shaped chairs,", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Okay, so we could have keys that are like a b like a broccoli key and a uh and an avocado key on them.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "I wanna watch the pineapple channel..", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Rubber things. Um and as it's rubber the feel which is in this year is spongy, so it's it's not quite spongy, but spongy, I would say is.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": ".", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Well spongy, that's where. Yeah, we're we're ahead of the game there.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah, that's great for us.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "yeah, so we're in.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah. And so personal what I was just saying like move away from the current remote controls uh like the look and the feel of the current ones and change the look and feel, while still keeping to the company's image, basically. So yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": ". I had to say.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "So we're moving in the right direction like.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Alright, yeah, no, this i this is good,", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "so through all that we've we go we're right, we're gonna go go back to um going with the kinetic thing,", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yep.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah, that's great.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "that's great, using the spongy rubber that we were talking about that anti-R_S_I_ you can as you squeeze it you are not only therapeuticising yourself, you are charging the batteries,", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "and um I'm not sure about the buttons being in the shape of fruit though.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "No vegetables.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah, I don't know how we incorporate.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": ".", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "We don't have to follow every trend, I guess.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Maybe make it like fruity colours or something.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Uh-huh.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Some sort. Or.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "The power button could be like a big apple or something.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Well yeah, but Apple would sue you for that.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah, this is true..", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "They don they don't own all images of apples..", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "sued the Beatles so.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Okay, we'll make it a uh pomegranate, a big pomegranate.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Well, okay, it seems like the only thing that we haven't really finally um agreed on is its image. Like, yeah, we're we're saying no we don't want it to be fruit and vegetables, but we dunno what it should be,", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": ".", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "or like are we going yeah it looks slick, but what do what do we mean by slick sort of thing?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Well I think, if it's rubber it needs to be", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "I mean you said earlier on i it should be funky.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "different. I think, it's it should be I mean, what do you associate with rubber? You know like", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "L keep it clean, keep it clean..", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "really different colours basically.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Okay, sor I sorry, I used the wrong word, what do you associate with the mate the material that material? Um.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Um like I'm just thinking bright colours.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Bright natural colours, nothing too.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Bright, but not too bright..", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Bright, but too not yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Like no lime green or bright yellow or bright pink. Wanna make it different colours so anybody can choo like like.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Like the volume buttons should be the all the same colour and the d and the the channel buttons should be one colour and stuff like that, do you mean?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah. And on the back of it have the logo.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Okay, what?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Sure.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Why not?", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Okay. Tha", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "The one thing I'm wondering about, I hope that we're not going like too much down a gimmicky road of of having.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah, I mean we that's we we.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "I mean if somebody go goes into the store they're gonna see like three or four normal remotes, and then a big spongy pink t tomato uh remote.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "This is the remote control tomato..", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "I mean what are ninety per cent of people gonna take?.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Well I can say in this country, you'll get, you know, lots of people wanting something really funky and cool. Like and kids will be walking in with their parents saying, Mummy I wanna buy that one.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "And uh parents will see the will see the pro as well, because it's um like kids won't break it, it's not breakable if you throw it around.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Especially with younger kids, you know they can pick it up and and Yeah. The only thing is is that really small kids might chew on it, but.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Well, it's it's gotta be chew proof..", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "I'm gonna write that down.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "So.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "so it's rea it's quite", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "it's quite like um user friendly", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "and also for different families, like like family use as well, so for little kids and for old ki like teenagers will like it, I think. Especially maybe younger girls if it's in pink they'll be like pink remote control for their room something.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "So, what are you saying, maybe we should market it in different colours for different.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "so we could do like the pink range, the blue range, the green range, the.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "That's yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "So like you walk in, you're like, oh I like that remote control, because it's so bright, and then, and then the shop assistant comes up and says, oh what colour would you like? and then they go like, oh I can choose the colour wow. So it puts, I think, even the customer into more control over what they're buying instead of, you've got all colour it's either that or nothing. So they also get to pick. Well, personally I like walking into a shop and choosing a colour.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah I mean, that that seems to work well with for products like iPod,", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "It's um.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "where, you know, you have a variety of colours, that people feel like they're customising it when they buy it, even, you know, just just by the fact of choosing.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah. Mm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Although I'd be curious to see how many uh.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "D you've got the.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "You know, there are some colours that I wouldn I would never choose, and I would be curious how many people choose that colour.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Well that's that can be down to bit of market researching you know,", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "if that's easy enough to find out what colours are more popular.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "And produce less of the silly colours, maybe.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Okay. Alright. Well um, we'll alright let's what we're gonna aim to get together by the next meeting then um is from you Catherine wi your y y you know you're gonna be working on the the look and feel design.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yep.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Um Gabriel, you're gonna be working on, you know come up with the the user interface design. Then basically, you two are gonna be working together on this. You won't be going off to your separate offices.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Alright.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Um and I think you are gonna get a chance to play with some clay.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Oh right.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "I think, yeah, it's gonna you know,", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "come up ki you know, be ab for the next meeting be able to come in and show us some some i some physical ideas.'Cause at the moment, uh you know, it's it's hard.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Cool.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "We were kinda going, yeah, it's gotta feel nice, it's gotta look cool and that it's.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "It is.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "you know now we can actually start, you know, s some sort of physical something or other.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "That sounds good.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Um and you're gonna be working on the product evaluation.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Evaluation.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Um. And I will be uh", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "talking to the bosses, basically, and uh", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "f fielding off some more spam and uh", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Great.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "that's it really. Keeping things t well, uh you know, ho hopefully uh keeping things together. Um. Yeah, that's This is this is uh good. So we know for definite we know we've we've now got some definite things going on. We definitely know how it's powered,", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "we definitely know that um it's gonna be a simple buttons, we're not gonna be going for the new technological chip on print expensive things, so we've we're keeping the costs down. It's this rubber casing that we can sell as um fun and funky. Don't know of any other remote controls that are made out of this stuff.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "People, you know, people are saying, oh, standard stuff gives you repetitive strain injury, well this remote control is designed to do the complete opposite,", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "It's supposed to fix it rather than cause it. Um. you know, we're gonna we we're gonna as a sort of extra something on it, you know what what extra things are there extra things this product have? We'll look into this lock key", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "facility, although whether or not it happens, or is possible, I don't know, but something to look into. Okay. I think that's um well done everybody. Anyone have any uh any questions,", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Alright.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "everyone know what they're doing?'Cause if you don't, you'll I'm sure you'll soon get an e-mail about it.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah..", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Mm, I think we all know what we need to do now.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "S This gives you all the details?", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Okay. right well.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "It's um we're we've still couple of minutes until our meeting's due to finish. But um I got a note saying that you two who are gonna be working together.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "so bef before you all disappear off just", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Okay, I'll stay in here.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "um.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "hold hold fire. Um.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Does the pay-raise immediately come into effect on our next pay-check, or is that.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Um I think, it's uh, yeah, I think, it's gonna be par part more of a profit sharing on the product.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "So we're buying fut I mean, we're getting futures in the company..", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah, I think i I think that's I think that's the way it's gonna happen at the moment..", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "So we really have a incentive to make this remote work.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah. Yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "I'd like to share in the coffee machine profits, because that's really doing well.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "I want a share in the space rocket. Did you see that this k that this company we've made a spaceship.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah..", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah..", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "This company has its its fingers in a lot of different pots..", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah. Yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah, we're definitely not in the money making department.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": ".", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Well I I did notice looking at I mean, they told you that they wanted whatev our product to represent the the R_R_ brand and and to be immediately noticeable.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "I mean, if you look like at the coffee maker at the at the corporate web page, it's not obvious.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "R_R_. Well it is to us, because we we worked worked here for years and we use that coffee machine, but it's doesn't have the colour scheme of of the of the company anywhere on it obviously it's just sil silver and black.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "That's true.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "And the spaceship doesn't have the R_ have a massive R_ and R_ down the side of it", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "No.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Doesn't.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "but I still want one..", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm..", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Okay. Um I've just had a sign flashing up saying, finish the meeting.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Uh.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Right, well, I guess that's us.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah. It's not telling it's not saying do anything in particular just yet. So maybe you should go back to your own offices.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Okay. Right.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Are we taking these off?", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah. Yeah, it says you two.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" } ] }

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{ "meetingId": "IS1000c", "transcriptSegments": [ { "text": "Right first time this time. Nu There we go. It's not that complicated, but I get it wrong every time..", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Okay so we are just waiting for Matthew.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "For Matthew, yep.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Mm. Uh So I suggest we start the meeting uh without Matthew uh", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Mm'kay.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "he's uh obviously late for some reason. Good. Um. Today uh we will uh talk about uh conceptual design. I hope uh you both did some uh some work uh concerning a uh conceptual design.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Um this will be the uh agenda for the meeting uh. Uh I will take some minutes uh again.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Um we will have the presentations of y of you different team members,", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yep.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yep.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "and then try to come to decisions uh about the concepts uh you have presented. So and that uh will uh.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "we have some uh forty minutes uh to complete this uh.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "So um who has the fir do you ha Anna do you have your presentation ready?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "I have a presentation, I'm just making this.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah I think yeah the Matthew it is it's important that Matthew yeah is here", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Okay. Ah", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "because it's really a a team uh project with a team", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "there is Matthew.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "and if someone is not here then we cannot.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Sorry.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "but it's okay it's good..", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Okay I'll just email you this file, my presentation.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "So. Good. Do presentation ready?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm I'm just emailing it to you.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Oh okay.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "So.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "So did you manage uh.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah I sent you the slides, you didn't see them?", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Oh yes I see him, good yes.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Okay..", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "No.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "So'Kay.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Okay it should've gone through to you.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Okay mm yes I have it.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm. Okay so this is just a presentation on uh the trends that we're gonna use to make the product stand out from the rest of the products out there at the moment. Um can I just put this on? So we have to work out a way what we can do with our product to make it stand out and make it so people wanna buy it. Um. This is to do this I will not remove my microphone. We basically used um some focus group surveys which I went through with you last time, the main results of that, and um some research on the current design um and fashion trends that are out there at the moment um,", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "and as part of this The important aspects that came out were things that we've already discussed really. The most important by far was the look and feel of it. It needs to be something that's very different from everything else out there. It needs to stand out. It needs to be not functional like the rest of the things out there at the moment. Most people find remote controls boring at the moment, we need to have something that looks interesting, that looks exciting, that will stand out. People will wanna buy it. Um That was twice as i important as the next item on here which is that it has to be technologically innovative has to have something else, apart from just the look of it. People have to then think about it and say got something there that I want. That's a really cool feature, and it has to make them wanna buy it again. Third on the list, and again innovative was twice as important as this last um aspect, it has to be easy to use. So they have to be able to be able to look at it and have some intuitive idea of how to use it um. Drawing on the fashion trends at the moment, uh fruit and vegetables um. This is basically talking about just the the feel of it, so probably not the smell of it, but the bright colours, um eye-catching, really bold designs, and a spongy feel.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Um I had a talk to the design people about this, but having a remote that's tactile, that feels different, that would be really cool. That would make it stand out. Um.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Hmm.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "So can you repeat and be more precise about what you just said?", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Spongy feel?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Uh about the feeling yeah uh yo", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Well", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "You can.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "ma make it not necessar sp spongy is the current thing. Spongy is the current texture, but basically there are no reports no remotes at the moment which are spongy or tactile at all, so if we make it like maybe furry or soft or something, that'll be something that sets it apart,", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "rather than just bare plastic which they all are at the moment.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "So as far as the design goes, the very most important aspect was the design, to the customers. So going with the fruit and vegetable idea, we've got the bright colours, so makes it stand out, the oranges and the the bright yellows and the florescent colours, part of the fruit and vegetables um. Going back to the idea of taking inspiration from mobile phones, they've all got those a lot of them have the changeable covers, so they can choose what colour the outside is. That's one way of looking at it um. Textured feel we just talked about. Maybe it's another way of doing that.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "So if it's part of the the changeable covers then may maybe they can choose a different texture, a spongy one or a soft one or something like that. So they can choose it li as they want to to maybe to fit in with their decor in their living room, or just what they like, their sports team or whatever.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah that's a very good idea, yeah. Yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Um and yeah, still taking the inspiration from the mobile phone design so functionality, the way the mobile phones work, the way the keypad looks. Also just the way that a lot of industrial design is going into mobile phones at the moment. They're big selling items. People put a lot of thought into that so we can leverage off that, and we can start using some of their ideas. Um back to technological in in innovation, not quite as important, but still a big issue. Um we talked about having a way of finding a remote control if it's been lost, uh that's one thing we could look at. There are other aspects like L_C_D_ screens and speech recognition which weren't I don't think, in my personal opinion, gonna be worth the extra expense and the extra effort that will go into them. I think we're better doing something basic like this", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "which is very important and very will be a really cool feature to put in. And use. I had no real specific ideas for this, maybe we just, the basic idea of having your core functions big and at the top maybe, by themselves,", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Mm. Yes well", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "and then.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "maybe Matthew can can give some more information on the.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "yeah", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "and then th th the finer details of buttons you don't use as much either hidden away or completely separate.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yep and that's the presentation.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Voila.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Okay good, that's very clear.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah very clear.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "'Kay. Um. Uh.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "So does anyone have any comments or ideas on that? I think you.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Maybe we yes well we maybe can decide later on um the l the the look and feel of uh I've it was a good idea maybe to to.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "To let the people choose, you mean?", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yes the the the there are changeable covers,", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "but on the other hand I I don't know whether my superiors would be so glad with it because you have to introduce a complete uh uh new l line of uh of supplies", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Hmm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "uh it would be uh very complicated uh organisational.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Well we're selling so many units of this. This is gonna be a mass marketed product, we can afford to have two or three different designs at least.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Hmm. Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah a range of uh yeah, a set of three, four different aspects.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Mm mm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yes. Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Sure that fits the.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yes and of course it will be a we we get a if it works we can get uh after-sales", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "I mean that would would be very good I mean those covers could go for for three, five Euro.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "That's a very good idea um And then uh maybe uh we can go a th Matthew's presentation because", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "s", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "the.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "then we could discuss later like we can put all ideas together.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Together indeed uh,", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "It should be easier with that.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "because you ma might have some some information on the the easy to use,", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah yeah I agree.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm, yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "what you were already mentioning.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "So.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "And your part is very related to mine", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "because when you suggest something then it has to be integrated inside.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah so I'll I'll go with that actually", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "so um Okay so m so then the the idea of uh having a remote is generally you have uh different keys and uh different structures, different forms, and uh they could be like buttons and um they could be of uh a varying sizes if you want to to uh basically emphasize a particular key more than the other, and uh maybe like you can have different colours for example having the r red for the on off switching on and off the button. So this this is the general trend to ha the method they do..", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "So what I have found was that uh currently uh the they are mostly that the T_V_, V_C_R_, music system operated ones actually, and they are very specific to each other, but there are some common keys for example if you want to follow the V_C_R_ and if you want to follow the uh g uh s some uh soundtrack on the w w see they have the common thing actually you can have", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "and uh There is also um a speech recognition to store channel information, names, like You can basically if you have a multiple functionality, say T_V_, V_C_R_ or something I say it to the T_V_ and the T_V_, and you can programme the keys if you want to, certain keys are even the channel information.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Mm. Mm. I like the idea though of having speech recognition for like the n the name of a channel like B_B_C_, rather than having to remember the the number of it on the keypad. That's a good idea.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah yeah so you you you can just uh because uh as more and more channels come then you have more and more problems to remember the v v exact channel numbers ex exactly,", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": ".", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "even if you arrange it by however you arrange it, you still have the problem to remember exactly which channel you want to.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Hmm. Mm. Yeah I really like that idea.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "So what functionalities do you suggest for that? For facing this problem?", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "So it it it's like it limited one. In the present market I saw it that says something like they are looking for eighty word thing, eighty word,", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "which shouldn't be th that difficult to implement, like eighty to hundred word. Basically you want you don't want to store all the channels in the remote control,", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "you want to st store your favourite channel.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Maybe ten channels, yeah at the most.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah some ten twelve channel information. You know you don't want to st store all the hundred channel information into that.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "And uh basically uh it depends like the remote with L_C_D_ display for browsing because you have multiple functionalities for example you are watching a movie, and uh uh you are having a universal remote control and you want to uh you don't know really which functionality is now, so I am using the T_V_ so every time I use it, it could be like, for example I can use a simple toggle switch, and a display, so I press it so the display says, okay, I'm in T_V_ or D_V_D_ or whatever it is, instead of having three keys separately for four keys,", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm. Oh yeah yeah yeah mm.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "to model the functionalities will increase actually,", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "and for you and you might want.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "you don't want separate keys for all of them. You can't. And uh well there can be children friendly where you can programme your remote so that they they are not allowed uh to browse certain channels which you can block them, and you can operate them. So these are the things presently which are seen in the market scenarios at present.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "I personally would look at things like having a u universal remote, is uh um is a good idea, like instead of having unusual ones for all of them you can think of having, um with multiple functionality possibly with speech recognition.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "I got a mail from the the coffee machine interface unit that uh they have uh integrated the s speech recognition into a into the coffee machine,", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Mm b", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "and so if you say hello coffee machine, it say hi Joe, or something like that, you know, and uh.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "But a coffee machine, there's not too many words they'd be using with that it's a it's a small vocabulary.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah you you won't be using it, so it's a limited vocabulary mm thing, and very isolated word", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Mm. Mm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "and it's uh it is interesting, and basically storing the channel through voice or other ways of programming your keys, on the display for the browsing", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "which is again and maybe having something like a blinking thing, like uh it could indicate you're uh it it could indicate what is cal like the uh whether uh you you have enough battery in your in your uh remote, the blinking.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "At the same time, if it's a dark room, it can be used to locate the remote also", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "or.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "And you want okay for coming back to one point", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Two thirty five supposed to finish.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "y you want to let the user to programming the keys? Some of them?", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah you can let them to do that.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "And uh isn't that too difficult for the we want w I don't know if we still want the um R_C_ to be easy to use,", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Hmm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "that's the compromise.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "N no but the if you give it d depends on the easiness like the user how much effort he can put.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Hmm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Like for example uh I would like to store in certain way, so if you want to give the full freedom to the user", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "or you want to keep some constraints and let the user use it with that constraint.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah. Mm. I think you can do it both ways.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "So it de", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "You can have it so it's easy they can pick it up and use it straight away without doing anythi without customizing it,", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "A standard.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "or if they want to they have the option of using these extra features.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Um yes but but I do.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "So.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "maybe you can give a hand to us because I I'm not sure whether that that we can implement that for twelve Euro and fifty cents.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "So.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Hmm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "I'm sorry to have Every time I have to come down on this price again", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Hmm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "to so this might be a little limiting for your creativity,", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Hmm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "but it's it's it's the real We have to consider it. S so.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "do we think these ideas an and my uh sp speech recognition, I mean maybe it's possible for for twelve Euro but then then it will be at cost of other functionality we might implement like the uh uh the the the furry uh uh case of the.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm. Hmm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm yeah like I would say that for programming uh keys, you said, uh it could be uh easily uh done within the the package of twel twelve Euros,", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "but for the A_S_R_ system, uh I'm not sure if it's feasible to have this", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "We well we can still look at we can talk with the coffee unit", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "We.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "and you can uh check how much how much they.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Exactly yeah i if if it's a low vocabulary it's already implemented,", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "yeah yeah", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "and w how much it's cost, maybe with a f cheap chip.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Maybe we can come we we can talk to them, and we can come with that,", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Mm mm.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "you know.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "And also well you can think of having uh since you have a you know something maybe if you added little bit of display, you might need the to che keep checking the battery, so you really need a some kind of indicator,", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Hmm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "so it could be a blinking option of L_E_D_.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Hmm.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "it could actually be used to detect also.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "If it's in a dark room you can basically detect it also.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Mm. Hmm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Hmm.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "I like the idea too of being able to use the remote in the dark,", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "So.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "so either having the buttons so you can feel the difference between them or if they if they light up or something.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "No actually i if i it is like you know it tells you um, it can be for two purposes,", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "like if you have an L_C_D_ display and all those things it's not going to be the standard remote,", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Mm. Hmm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "which is having uh which need just uh six six volt uh th sorry three volts um of D_C_.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "It may need more actually, so y you you may need to check your battery usage it and then you need that, some functionality to indicate the battery limit.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Hmm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "And then if the battery limit is indicated, if it could be ind indicated through a blinking something", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "It's true.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "and it can change the colour depending on your uh how much is the battery, well that is good enough to even locate even if you want to.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "You know.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "'Kay good.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": ".", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah so.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "I don't know how if if I have time to talk about the.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Mm yes um I would.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "You you have time some more? Yep.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yes yes you can you can still. We have time.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Sure you can you know.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Okay. So what I'm gonna present here is very uh um yeah basic knowledge about the all the the components that are inside a a R_C_ a remote control, and how is it manufactured h what is the process, just to explain you.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "So the method is ther there is a a set of components in a in a remote control like, and uh what cost the the components in themself do not cost a lot but the the way to assemble everything costs obviously, and I will uh show you my preferences uh uh at the end. So there are two uh different types of uh um Two different ways of using the the components for making a a remote control.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Nice..", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Hmm.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Uh the basic way is to use a an integrated circuit and some uh transistors with an that aims at communicating uh uh the message and to to send the message to the um to the led that will uh transmit to the receiver. And uh yeah the other components and the circuit board buttons, infrared, led, etcetera, for the components um. So you finding, just to say that the chip can detect uh when a key is pressed, and then it translate to the key, to a sequence, something like morse code, as you know, uh with a different sequence for each key,", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "and uh uh that's, with the components we will use, we will have different uh messages, different sequences, and the chips sends that signal signal to the transistor that amplify to make it stronger um. So electronic parts are assembled onto uh printed boards uh because it's easier to mass produce and assemble. And uh so I think for our design we want some b uh programmable uh you know V_ V_L_S_I_ or F_P_G_A_ uh high technology,", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah mm mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "and this is important, and also we'll use uh yeah like in any uh high-tech uh devices a chip of fi fibreglass to them and connect them.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "So my personal design we need to find a solution what um what is the material of the cover we want to use. If it's plastic", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "or you said that yeah you had some ideas uh like fruit, veg or.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Well well", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "I dunno..", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "m m maybe m maybe we can give the uh the uh the case a very uh uh normal a v very normal case but, with the changeable covers to fancy it up.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yes. Yes.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "So like a normal cheap plastic case which can be covered up in, for instance, a wooden case.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yes.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Mm just have a yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah like they do in with cars I think. Yeah inside the car", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Just the veneer on it, yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "yeah. So they also emailed me that uh they have available a bunch of different buttons, a scroll wheels, integrated push buttons s such as a computer mouse. And uh very cheap L_C_D_s, so liquid crystal displays,", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "so I'm wondering, I think we might be able to integrate L_C_D_ into our R_C_. And the final point okay is um we have yeah there are some uh compromise to to do.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Hmm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "So we have to know that the push button requires a simple chip, but the scroll wheel uh and that kind of higher high-tech stuff needs more money um which is a higher price range alright. And the display requires an advanced chip, which in turns is more expensive than the regular chip, but I think uh with twelve Euros um and if it's uh uh made for mm four million uh items, then I think w we could be able to handle that.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "So to to sum up um we need yeah so I I just said that the components uh the list of components uh has to be uh yeah listed and um and um assembly is a an important process that has to be taken into account. And uh for the designing of the cove uh uh cover layout then it's better to to to maybe see that with uh the the U_R_ exp U_R_I_ Expert", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Sorry.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "so that we can it's really a team-working uh. So", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "I I cannot design something without your agreement,", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "No of course.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah so", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "right?", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "of course for example uh I wanted to know like if you want to have a a fo if you want to have the L_C_D_ display over there,", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yes.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "or if you want to store a programmes with a keys What kind of things you'll need inside your thin inside W wh what.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah it's kind of um simple pro progra programmable device, and we have to insert.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "W what Okay. Okay.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "I think we could insert one that could underlie several functions", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Okay so", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "of.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "in that case you can even look at the technology what the mobile phone is trying to use with the card.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Exactly yeah, for customizing and yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah where they do all the wi with with them actually. How f cost effective it would be to put that car chip into it and do the programmable things.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "So.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah. Yeah good idea.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "So I f I think we we should come to some decisions now uh a about this.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah..", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Um so I understand uh when we want a display we need a expensive chip, but when we want a scrolling wheel w we also need the expensive chip, so can we use same chip, so with one expensive chip we can uh implement several complicated uh or advanced features.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Exactly yeah that's a very good idea,", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yes.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "we could have uh one main chip uh that could handle, uh it's called F_P_G_A_ chip, that could handle both uh like scrolling wheels as well as uh L_C_D_", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "and", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "So", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "when the more expensive chip you mentioned there is is possible in the in the given budget, uh maybe we should go for for the more expensive chip, so all features uh which you mentioned can be implemented based on the same chip.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yes.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "D well.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Do you think that's feasible?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Well I don't know if it'll fit into our cost of twelve point five Euro you know.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Uh You th you think it's possible.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Is it possible to fit in to that?", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah also thinking, I think both uh if we had a budget of twenty twenty uh Euros, it will be okay,", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Sorry.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Hmm.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "but uh.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Well maybe we need specific costings then. Actually do maybe two designs and then cost them out and see which one is gonna fit in our budget better.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Mm yes", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah that's an excellent idea.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "wh when you make a a design ca you can next meeting you can give an quite an exact cost price.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah yeah. Yeah", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "That w that would be a very good idea.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "because right now I don't have price in in head", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "but for next meeting I'm sure yeah be able to do that.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Good good.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah that's uh that's something which I wanted to ask you also, like what will be the each individually the cost of it. For example if f if you want to put wood I wouldn't suggest for wood", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "uh'cause it's I think it's m much easier to use a plastic or a rubber rather than wood.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Okay. I agree on that. Yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "It will be much ch much expensive th though it's the most natural thing, but.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yes but I can I think uh I think we can just use more cheap plastic for a kind of basic edition, and then people can fancy it up with with more expensive materials", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Hmm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah. Yeah", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "which which come with a with another price.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "it's uh Yeah we we can give a preference to them, but it is but with plastic or the rubber or whatever it is it's much better with that rather than going for.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Do do you agree?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm yeah sure.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah but i it's a detailed uh yeah yeah uh plastic versus uh wood,", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "and we need maybe to centre our description on uh the the really the what buttons what uh functionality we want to offer to the user, and maybe with uh graphs or I don't know uh.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "User Interface Designer you could maybe uh help us on that.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Ma I I think uh for next meeting we c you two can present a real design. Uh so drawing it on the board.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yea", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Perfect yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "And then we now sh only have to t to decide the general function uh. So um Let let's say next meeting w you produce two designs, one one one less advanced and one more advanced and with the cost price.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah sure. Yeah we will uh Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Uh furthermore we go for the for the uh basic plastic case", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Uh.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "which can be later uh fancied up with uh with addit uh additional uh, how do you call them, these like like mobile telephones you can put a cover over it.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "But that that that that can be done later.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "We now can concentrate on the on the basic remote control.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": ".", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah customized.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Um.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Okay. We can give them smooth keys, you know. Smooth keys with bigger s uh So that you know The the problem most of the time we've seen, the keys is that it's small,", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "and every time we have to be very but if i the if we if we go to a different ways of designing those keys, then you can merge them together", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "So is there any of these that you're looking at particularly", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "to.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "or is this just ideas?", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Oh you can actually, for example, if you see, they are they are they are quite small over here,", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "and uh now you can, for example, as I was if you make them big, it may change the look of the thing also to the people.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Hmm. Mm. Mm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "At the same time, it is m more uh like it would be more interesting for people who are having this R_S_I_ and all problem.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Mm yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yes yes yes bi big keys is is good thing I think.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Uh big keys may better for them actually and uh.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "You see?", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "I agree yeah,", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "and not too m too many keys of course yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Mm well", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "No no.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "one I've had before, a r r remote control we have at home is one that's actually got a cover on the bottom", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "so the bottom bit is just, covers half the keys most of the time, and then you can slide the cover back to get to the the more advanced keys.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Mm mm mm.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Mm w but then you have still have uh when you don't use it you have such a a an extent of your remote control", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "which you don't use. So maybe it's possible uh, I don't know whether you can can indicate this, that you can elsewhere open your remote control and on the inside are uh buttons you don't use that much.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Mm. Yeah. Um yeah I've seen that before too. Anoth another like b", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "it flips up and then you've got another layer of buttons underneath.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yes.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yes. Yeah so it's something like this, the model here", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "s you can put the keys.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "But I've seen also with keys and buttons on the top of here as well.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "That's what you mean?", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yes I I th that's what I mean", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah. Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "so I mean something like like a book.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "I like this one. I like the shape of this one.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Can we have can we think about maybe having a a non-recta non non-rectangular one, so with not just the straight little box", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah I like also this one.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "that's a maybe curved or something.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah, mm.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah, the point is w maybe we need to also to make a decision on how how how big we want to be and how many buttons like n we should dec decide numbers or.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Mm mm'kay. Is this for the next meeting though?", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "We should make a.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "I think we might be out of time out of time for this meeting.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah that yeah next meeting we should be.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Ju just make two designs,", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah that would depend upon us actually.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah yeah yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "and the we we can decide decide between th those designs.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yep.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah okay.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "I think that would be a good idea. So", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Perfect.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "anyone uh any questions for now?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "No no. I don't have.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "No. So is this is there anything else I need to do from a marketing point of view for the next meeting?", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Um yes I come to that uh uh.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Maybe it would be interesting if you could look um for the cost inventories of other devices, if you're using speech recognition or something like that.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yes well m maybe uh, I don't know whether that's possible,", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "maybe you can start evaluating uh their work somehow.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Okay well is this me designing a way to evaluate it so Thinking about how to set up test groups and things?", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "I don't know whether that's possible uh in the given time", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "but a as far as possible.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Okay. Yep.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "So uh you two will be together w working on a o on two prototypes", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Exactly.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Mm..", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "and further instructions will be uh will be sent to you by uh by email.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Two or three prototypes?", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Two.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Two.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "One for like cost and the one with like higher-end", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Two?", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "I.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Mm and then.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "so that then we can be easily comparing them", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Hmm..", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "or you know find a compromise between both of them,", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "and find maybe a compromise.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Hmm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yes okay.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "yeah that's how it is.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Perfect yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yep.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Okay let's call this to an end.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm'kay.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Thanks guys.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Thanks.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "So we are done for now..", "speakerName": "User Interface" } ] }

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{ "meetingId": "IS1000c", "transcriptSegments": [ { "text": "Right first time this time. Nu There we go. It's not that complicated, but I get it wrong every time..", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Okay so we are just waiting for Matthew.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "For Matthew, yep.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Mm. Uh So I suggest we start the meeting uh without Matthew uh", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Mm'kay.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "he's uh obviously late for some reason. Good. Um. Today uh we will uh talk about uh conceptual design. I hope uh you both did some uh some work uh concerning a uh conceptual design.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Um this will be the uh agenda for the meeting uh. Uh I will take some minutes uh again.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Um we will have the presentations of y of you different team members,", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yep.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yep.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "and then try to come to decisions uh about the concepts uh you have presented. So and that uh will uh.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "we have some uh forty minutes uh to complete this uh.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "So um who has the fir do you ha Anna do you have your presentation ready?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "I have a presentation, I'm just making this.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah I think yeah the Matthew it is it's important that Matthew yeah is here", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Okay. Ah", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "because it's really a a team uh project with a team", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "there is Matthew.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "and if someone is not here then we cannot.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Sorry.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "but it's okay it's good..", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Okay I'll just email you this file, my presentation.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "So. Good. Do presentation ready?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm I'm just emailing it to you.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Oh okay.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "So.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "So did you manage uh.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah I sent you the slides, you didn't see them?", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Oh yes I see him, good yes.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Okay..", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "No.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "So'Kay.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Okay it should've gone through to you.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Okay mm yes I have it.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm. Okay so this is just a presentation on uh the trends that we're gonna use to make the product stand out from the rest of the products out there at the moment. Um can I just put this on? So we have to work out a way what we can do with our product to make it stand out and make it so people wanna buy it. Um. This is to do this I will not remove my microphone. We basically used um some focus group surveys which I went through with you last time, the main results of that, and um some research on the current design um and fashion trends that are out there at the moment um,", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "and as part of this The important aspects that came out were things that we've already discussed really. The most important by far was the look and feel of it. It needs to be something that's very different from everything else out there. It needs to stand out. It needs to be not functional like the rest of the things out there at the moment. Most people find remote controls boring at the moment, we need to have something that looks interesting, that looks exciting, that will stand out. People will wanna buy it. Um That was twice as i important as the next item on here which is that it has to be technologically innovative has to have something else, apart from just the look of it. People have to then think about it and say got something there that I want. That's a really cool feature, and it has to make them wanna buy it again. Third on the list, and again innovative was twice as important as this last um aspect, it has to be easy to use. So they have to be able to be able to look at it and have some intuitive idea of how to use it um. Drawing on the fashion trends at the moment, uh fruit and vegetables um. This is basically talking about just the the feel of it, so probably not the smell of it, but the bright colours, um eye-catching, really bold designs, and a spongy feel.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Um I had a talk to the design people about this, but having a remote that's tactile, that feels different, that would be really cool. That would make it stand out. Um.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Hmm.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "So can you repeat and be more precise about what you just said?", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Spongy feel?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Uh about the feeling yeah uh yo", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Well", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "You can.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "ma make it not necessar sp spongy is the current thing. Spongy is the current texture, but basically there are no reports no remotes at the moment which are spongy or tactile at all, so if we make it like maybe furry or soft or something, that'll be something that sets it apart,", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "rather than just bare plastic which they all are at the moment.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "So as far as the design goes, the very most important aspect was the design, to the customers. So going with the fruit and vegetable idea, we've got the bright colours, so makes it stand out, the oranges and the the bright yellows and the florescent colours, part of the fruit and vegetables um. Going back to the idea of taking inspiration from mobile phones, they've all got those a lot of them have the changeable covers, so they can choose what colour the outside is. That's one way of looking at it um. Textured feel we just talked about. Maybe it's another way of doing that.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "So if it's part of the the changeable covers then may maybe they can choose a different texture, a spongy one or a soft one or something like that. So they can choose it li as they want to to maybe to fit in with their decor in their living room, or just what they like, their sports team or whatever.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah that's a very good idea, yeah. Yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Um and yeah, still taking the inspiration from the mobile phone design so functionality, the way the mobile phones work, the way the keypad looks. Also just the way that a lot of industrial design is going into mobile phones at the moment. They're big selling items. People put a lot of thought into that so we can leverage off that, and we can start using some of their ideas. Um back to technological in in innovation, not quite as important, but still a big issue. Um we talked about having a way of finding a remote control if it's been lost, uh that's one thing we could look at. There are other aspects like L_C_D_ screens and speech recognition which weren't I don't think, in my personal opinion, gonna be worth the extra expense and the extra effort that will go into them. I think we're better doing something basic like this", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "which is very important and very will be a really cool feature to put in. And use. I had no real specific ideas for this, maybe we just, the basic idea of having your core functions big and at the top maybe, by themselves,", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Mm. Yes well", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "and then.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "maybe Matthew can can give some more information on the.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "yeah", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "and then th th the finer details of buttons you don't use as much either hidden away or completely separate.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yep and that's the presentation.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Voila.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Okay good, that's very clear.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah very clear.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "'Kay. Um. Uh.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "So does anyone have any comments or ideas on that? I think you.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Maybe we yes well we maybe can decide later on um the l the the look and feel of uh I've it was a good idea maybe to to.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "To let the people choose, you mean?", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yes the the the there are changeable covers,", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "but on the other hand I I don't know whether my superiors would be so glad with it because you have to introduce a complete uh uh new l line of uh of supplies", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Hmm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "uh it would be uh very complicated uh organisational.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Well we're selling so many units of this. This is gonna be a mass marketed product, we can afford to have two or three different designs at least.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Hmm. Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah a range of uh yeah, a set of three, four different aspects.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Mm mm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yes. Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Sure that fits the.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yes and of course it will be a we we get a if it works we can get uh after-sales", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "I mean that would would be very good I mean those covers could go for for three, five Euro.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "That's a very good idea um And then uh maybe uh we can go a th Matthew's presentation because", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "s", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "the.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "then we could discuss later like we can put all ideas together.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Together indeed uh,", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "It should be easier with that.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "because you ma might have some some information on the the easy to use,", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah yeah I agree.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm, yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "what you were already mentioning.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "So.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "And your part is very related to mine", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "because when you suggest something then it has to be integrated inside.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah so I'll I'll go with that actually", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "so um Okay so m so then the the idea of uh having a remote is generally you have uh different keys and uh different structures, different forms, and uh they could be like buttons and um they could be of uh a varying sizes if you want to to uh basically emphasize a particular key more than the other, and uh maybe like you can have different colours for example having the r red for the on off switching on and off the button. So this this is the general trend to ha the method they do..", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "So what I have found was that uh currently uh the they are mostly that the T_V_, V_C_R_, music system operated ones actually, and they are very specific to each other, but there are some common keys for example if you want to follow the V_C_R_ and if you want to follow the uh g uh s some uh soundtrack on the w w see they have the common thing actually you can have", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "and uh There is also um a speech recognition to store channel information, names, like You can basically if you have a multiple functionality, say T_V_, V_C_R_ or something I say it to the T_V_ and the T_V_, and you can programme the keys if you want to, certain keys are even the channel information.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Mm. Mm. I like the idea though of having speech recognition for like the n the name of a channel like B_B_C_, rather than having to remember the the number of it on the keypad. That's a good idea.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah yeah so you you you can just uh because uh as more and more channels come then you have more and more problems to remember the v v exact channel numbers ex exactly,", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": ".", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "even if you arrange it by however you arrange it, you still have the problem to remember exactly which channel you want to.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Hmm. Mm. Yeah I really like that idea.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "So what functionalities do you suggest for that? For facing this problem?", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "So it it it's like it limited one. In the present market I saw it that says something like they are looking for eighty word thing, eighty word,", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "which shouldn't be th that difficult to implement, like eighty to hundred word. Basically you want you don't want to store all the channels in the remote control,", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "you want to st store your favourite channel.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Maybe ten channels, yeah at the most.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah some ten twelve channel information. You know you don't want to st store all the hundred channel information into that.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "And uh basically uh it depends like the remote with L_C_D_ display for browsing because you have multiple functionalities for example you are watching a movie, and uh uh you are having a universal remote control and you want to uh you don't know really which functionality is now, so I am using the T_V_ so every time I use it, it could be like, for example I can use a simple toggle switch, and a display, so I press it so the display says, okay, I'm in T_V_ or D_V_D_ or whatever it is, instead of having three keys separately for four keys,", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm. Oh yeah yeah yeah mm.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "to model the functionalities will increase actually,", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "and for you and you might want.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "you don't want separate keys for all of them. You can't. And uh well there can be children friendly where you can programme your remote so that they they are not allowed uh to browse certain channels which you can block them, and you can operate them. So these are the things presently which are seen in the market scenarios at present.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "I personally would look at things like having a u universal remote, is uh um is a good idea, like instead of having unusual ones for all of them you can think of having, um with multiple functionality possibly with speech recognition.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "I got a mail from the the coffee machine interface unit that uh they have uh integrated the s speech recognition into a into the coffee machine,", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Mm b", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "and so if you say hello coffee machine, it say hi Joe, or something like that, you know, and uh.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "But a coffee machine, there's not too many words they'd be using with that it's a it's a small vocabulary.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah you you won't be using it, so it's a limited vocabulary mm thing, and very isolated word", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Mm. Mm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "and it's uh it is interesting, and basically storing the channel through voice or other ways of programming your keys, on the display for the browsing", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "which is again and maybe having something like a blinking thing, like uh it could indicate you're uh it it could indicate what is cal like the uh whether uh you you have enough battery in your in your uh remote, the blinking.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "At the same time, if it's a dark room, it can be used to locate the remote also", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "or.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "And you want okay for coming back to one point", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Two thirty five supposed to finish.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "y you want to let the user to programming the keys? Some of them?", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah you can let them to do that.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "And uh isn't that too difficult for the we want w I don't know if we still want the um R_C_ to be easy to use,", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Hmm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "that's the compromise.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "N no but the if you give it d depends on the easiness like the user how much effort he can put.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Hmm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Like for example uh I would like to store in certain way, so if you want to give the full freedom to the user", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "or you want to keep some constraints and let the user use it with that constraint.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah. Mm. I think you can do it both ways.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "So it de", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "You can have it so it's easy they can pick it up and use it straight away without doing anythi without customizing it,", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "A standard.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "or if they want to they have the option of using these extra features.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Um yes but but I do.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "So.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "maybe you can give a hand to us because I I'm not sure whether that that we can implement that for twelve Euro and fifty cents.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "So.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Hmm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "I'm sorry to have Every time I have to come down on this price again", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Hmm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "to so this might be a little limiting for your creativity,", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Hmm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "but it's it's it's the real We have to consider it. S so.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "do we think these ideas an and my uh sp speech recognition, I mean maybe it's possible for for twelve Euro but then then it will be at cost of other functionality we might implement like the uh uh the the the furry uh uh case of the.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm. Hmm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm yeah like I would say that for programming uh keys, you said, uh it could be uh easily uh done within the the package of twel twelve Euros,", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "but for the A_S_R_ system, uh I'm not sure if it's feasible to have this", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "We well we can still look at we can talk with the coffee unit", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "We.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "and you can uh check how much how much they.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Exactly yeah i if if it's a low vocabulary it's already implemented,", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "yeah yeah", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "and w how much it's cost, maybe with a f cheap chip.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Maybe we can come we we can talk to them, and we can come with that,", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Mm mm.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "you know.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "And also well you can think of having uh since you have a you know something maybe if you added little bit of display, you might need the to che keep checking the battery, so you really need a some kind of indicator,", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Hmm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "so it could be a blinking option of L_E_D_.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Hmm.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "it could actually be used to detect also.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "If it's in a dark room you can basically detect it also.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Mm. Hmm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Hmm.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "I like the idea too of being able to use the remote in the dark,", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "So.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "so either having the buttons so you can feel the difference between them or if they if they light up or something.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "No actually i if i it is like you know it tells you um, it can be for two purposes,", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "like if you have an L_C_D_ display and all those things it's not going to be the standard remote,", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Mm. Hmm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "which is having uh which need just uh six six volt uh th sorry three volts um of D_C_.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "It may need more actually, so y you you may need to check your battery usage it and then you need that, some functionality to indicate the battery limit.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Hmm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "And then if the battery limit is indicated, if it could be ind indicated through a blinking something", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "It's true.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "and it can change the colour depending on your uh how much is the battery, well that is good enough to even locate even if you want to.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "You know.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "'Kay good.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": ".", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah so.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "I don't know how if if I have time to talk about the.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Mm yes um I would.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "You you have time some more? Yep.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yes yes you can you can still. We have time.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Sure you can you know.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Okay. So what I'm gonna present here is very uh um yeah basic knowledge about the all the the components that are inside a a R_C_ a remote control, and how is it manufactured h what is the process, just to explain you.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "So the method is ther there is a a set of components in a in a remote control like, and uh what cost the the components in themself do not cost a lot but the the way to assemble everything costs obviously, and I will uh show you my preferences uh uh at the end. So there are two uh different types of uh um Two different ways of using the the components for making a a remote control.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Nice..", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Hmm.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Uh the basic way is to use a an integrated circuit and some uh transistors with an that aims at communicating uh uh the message and to to send the message to the um to the led that will uh transmit to the receiver. And uh yeah the other components and the circuit board buttons, infrared, led, etcetera, for the components um. So you finding, just to say that the chip can detect uh when a key is pressed, and then it translate to the key, to a sequence, something like morse code, as you know, uh with a different sequence for each key,", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "and uh uh that's, with the components we will use, we will have different uh messages, different sequences, and the chips sends that signal signal to the transistor that amplify to make it stronger um. So electronic parts are assembled onto uh printed boards uh because it's easier to mass produce and assemble. And uh so I think for our design we want some b uh programmable uh you know V_ V_L_S_I_ or F_P_G_A_ uh high technology,", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah mm mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "and this is important, and also we'll use uh yeah like in any uh high-tech uh devices a chip of fi fibreglass to them and connect them.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "So my personal design we need to find a solution what um what is the material of the cover we want to use. If it's plastic", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "or you said that yeah you had some ideas uh like fruit, veg or.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Well well", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "I dunno..", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "m m maybe m maybe we can give the uh the uh the case a very uh uh normal a v very normal case but, with the changeable covers to fancy it up.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yes. Yes.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "So like a normal cheap plastic case which can be covered up in, for instance, a wooden case.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yes.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Mm just have a yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah like they do in with cars I think. Yeah inside the car", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Just the veneer on it, yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "yeah. So they also emailed me that uh they have available a bunch of different buttons, a scroll wheels, integrated push buttons s such as a computer mouse. And uh very cheap L_C_D_s, so liquid crystal displays,", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "so I'm wondering, I think we might be able to integrate L_C_D_ into our R_C_. And the final point okay is um we have yeah there are some uh compromise to to do.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Hmm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "So we have to know that the push button requires a simple chip, but the scroll wheel uh and that kind of higher high-tech stuff needs more money um which is a higher price range alright. And the display requires an advanced chip, which in turns is more expensive than the regular chip, but I think uh with twelve Euros um and if it's uh uh made for mm four million uh items, then I think w we could be able to handle that.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "So to to sum up um we need yeah so I I just said that the components uh the list of components uh has to be uh yeah listed and um and um assembly is a an important process that has to be taken into account. And uh for the designing of the cove uh uh cover layout then it's better to to to maybe see that with uh the the U_R_ exp U_R_I_ Expert", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Sorry.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "so that we can it's really a team-working uh. So", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "I I cannot design something without your agreement,", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "No of course.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah so", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "right?", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "of course for example uh I wanted to know like if you want to have a a fo if you want to have the L_C_D_ display over there,", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yes.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "or if you want to store a programmes with a keys What kind of things you'll need inside your thin inside W wh what.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah it's kind of um simple pro progra programmable device, and we have to insert.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "W what Okay. Okay.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "I think we could insert one that could underlie several functions", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Okay so", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "of.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "in that case you can even look at the technology what the mobile phone is trying to use with the card.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Exactly yeah, for customizing and yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah where they do all the wi with with them actually. How f cost effective it would be to put that car chip into it and do the programmable things.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "So.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah. Yeah good idea.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "So I f I think we we should come to some decisions now uh a about this.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah..", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Um so I understand uh when we want a display we need a expensive chip, but when we want a scrolling wheel w we also need the expensive chip, so can we use same chip, so with one expensive chip we can uh implement several complicated uh or advanced features.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Exactly yeah that's a very good idea,", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yes.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "we could have uh one main chip uh that could handle, uh it's called F_P_G_A_ chip, that could handle both uh like scrolling wheels as well as uh L_C_D_", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "and", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "So", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "when the more expensive chip you mentioned there is is possible in the in the given budget, uh maybe we should go for for the more expensive chip, so all features uh which you mentioned can be implemented based on the same chip.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yes.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "D well.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Do you think that's feasible?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Well I don't know if it'll fit into our cost of twelve point five Euro you know.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Uh You th you think it's possible.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Is it possible to fit in to that?", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah also thinking, I think both uh if we had a budget of twenty twenty uh Euros, it will be okay,", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Sorry.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Hmm.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "but uh.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Well maybe we need specific costings then. Actually do maybe two designs and then cost them out and see which one is gonna fit in our budget better.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Mm yes", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah that's an excellent idea.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "wh when you make a a design ca you can next meeting you can give an quite an exact cost price.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah yeah. Yeah", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "That w that would be a very good idea.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "because right now I don't have price in in head", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "but for next meeting I'm sure yeah be able to do that.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Good good.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah that's uh that's something which I wanted to ask you also, like what will be the each individually the cost of it. For example if f if you want to put wood I wouldn't suggest for wood", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "uh'cause it's I think it's m much easier to use a plastic or a rubber rather than wood.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Okay. I agree on that. Yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "It will be much ch much expensive th though it's the most natural thing, but.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yes but I can I think uh I think we can just use more cheap plastic for a kind of basic edition, and then people can fancy it up with with more expensive materials", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Hmm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah. Yeah", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "which which come with a with another price.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "it's uh Yeah we we can give a preference to them, but it is but with plastic or the rubber or whatever it is it's much better with that rather than going for.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Do do you agree?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm yeah sure.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah but i it's a detailed uh yeah yeah uh plastic versus uh wood,", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "and we need maybe to centre our description on uh the the really the what buttons what uh functionality we want to offer to the user, and maybe with uh graphs or I don't know uh.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "User Interface Designer you could maybe uh help us on that.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Ma I I think uh for next meeting we c you two can present a real design. Uh so drawing it on the board.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yea", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Perfect yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "And then we now sh only have to t to decide the general function uh. So um Let let's say next meeting w you produce two designs, one one one less advanced and one more advanced and with the cost price.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah sure. Yeah we will uh Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Uh furthermore we go for the for the uh basic plastic case", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Uh.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "which can be later uh fancied up with uh with addit uh additional uh, how do you call them, these like like mobile telephones you can put a cover over it.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "But that that that that can be done later.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "We now can concentrate on the on the basic remote control.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": ".", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah customized.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Um.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Okay. We can give them smooth keys, you know. Smooth keys with bigger s uh So that you know The the problem most of the time we've seen, the keys is that it's small,", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "and every time we have to be very but if i the if we if we go to a different ways of designing those keys, then you can merge them together", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "So is there any of these that you're looking at particularly", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "to.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "or is this just ideas?", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Oh you can actually, for example, if you see, they are they are they are quite small over here,", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "and uh now you can, for example, as I was if you make them big, it may change the look of the thing also to the people.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Hmm. Mm. Mm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "At the same time, it is m more uh like it would be more interesting for people who are having this R_S_I_ and all problem.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Mm yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yes yes yes bi big keys is is good thing I think.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Uh big keys may better for them actually and uh.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "You see?", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "I agree yeah,", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "and not too m too many keys of course yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Mm well", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "No no.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "one I've had before, a r r remote control we have at home is one that's actually got a cover on the bottom", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "so the bottom bit is just, covers half the keys most of the time, and then you can slide the cover back to get to the the more advanced keys.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Mm mm mm.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Mm w but then you have still have uh when you don't use it you have such a a an extent of your remote control", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "which you don't use. So maybe it's possible uh, I don't know whether you can can indicate this, that you can elsewhere open your remote control and on the inside are uh buttons you don't use that much.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Mm. Yeah. Um yeah I've seen that before too. Anoth another like b", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "it flips up and then you've got another layer of buttons underneath.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yes.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yes. Yeah so it's something like this, the model here", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "s you can put the keys.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "But I've seen also with keys and buttons on the top of here as well.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "That's what you mean?", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yes I I th that's what I mean", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah. Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "so I mean something like like a book.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "I like this one. I like the shape of this one.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Can we have can we think about maybe having a a non-recta non non-rectangular one, so with not just the straight little box", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah I like also this one.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "that's a maybe curved or something.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah, mm.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah, the point is w maybe we need to also to make a decision on how how how big we want to be and how many buttons like n we should dec decide numbers or.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Mm mm'kay. Is this for the next meeting though?", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "We should make a.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "I think we might be out of time out of time for this meeting.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah that yeah next meeting we should be.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Ju just make two designs,", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah that would depend upon us actually.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah yeah yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "and the we we can decide decide between th those designs.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yep.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah okay.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "I think that would be a good idea. So", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Perfect.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "anyone uh any questions for now?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "No no. I don't have.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "No. So is this is there anything else I need to do from a marketing point of view for the next meeting?", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Um yes I come to that uh uh.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Maybe it would be interesting if you could look um for the cost inventories of other devices, if you're using speech recognition or something like that.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yes well m maybe uh, I don't know whether that's possible,", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "maybe you can start evaluating uh their work somehow.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Okay well is this me designing a way to evaluate it so Thinking about how to set up test groups and things?", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "I don't know whether that's possible uh in the given time", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "but a as far as possible.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Okay. Yep.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "So uh you two will be together w working on a o on two prototypes", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Exactly.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Mm..", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "and further instructions will be uh will be sent to you by uh by email.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Two or three prototypes?", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Two.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Two.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "One for like cost and the one with like higher-end", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Two?", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "I.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Mm and then.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "so that then we can be easily comparing them", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Hmm..", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "or you know find a compromise between both of them,", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "and find maybe a compromise.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Hmm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yes okay.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "yeah that's how it is.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Perfect yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yep.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Okay let's call this to an end.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm'kay.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Thanks guys.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Thanks.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "So we are done for now..", "speakerName": "User Interface" } ] }

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

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{ "meetingId": "IS1002b", "transcriptSegments": [ { "text": "So we are here to talk about functional design. Now hopefully we've all got a better idea from than we did f leaving the last meeting as to what it is we are up to now. So here's an agenda. Uh I'll open. Um you should know that I'll be taking minutes during all the meetings, as I was struggling to our last time uh and that'll be easier for me now because I'm not actually giving the whole presentation. Uh the additional points are just the stuff that we sent and that I forwarded on from upper management having a few bright ideas to make our lives painful.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Um now you can all give your presentations. We can talk about the requirements and hopefully come to some decisions. Right, forty minutes for this meeting, so a bit more time than the last one. Here's the additional points I just wanted to put those in there to see if you guys had any comments on them. Uh did you all receive that email?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yep.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "So does anyone have any overall.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Well uh what comes up for me is that if we're gonna if we're gonna be marketing a product that is going to be uh having no teletext, people are very comfortable with the idea of having teletext and using teletext, and so we're not we're gonna be a new product without something that people are very comfortable having right now.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Mm. Mm. Yep.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "So that's, from a marketing perspective I I see I see a lack.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "And so we have to go, I think, in the other direction. What are we gonna have that makes this thing better than.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Well tha that first point could uh also be an op opportunity because in seeing that teletext is becoming outdated, some sort remote control that can work with the Internet there is the opportunity that's presented, I guess.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Right. Yeah. No, I I agree with you.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "So what I'm talking about is I see that one side we're eliminating something so we have to come up with another side which is, what are we gonna be targeting our market uh that identifies our product as better than because it doesn't have teletext it has ta-ta-ta-ta-ta.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "So that's that's that was my reactions.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah. but but we are sort of being dictated that this should only be for the television.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "So we're quite fixed. So we're really probably, in terms of marketing, are looking for that's uh that's a cost winner rather than a fantastic new feature product.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yep.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah bu but we we're designing only the remote,", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "we not design the T_V_.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Hmm.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "So uh we're gonna be removing the teletext out of any T_V_ that we people use our remote with.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah.'Kay.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Hmm.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "That's right.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "So it's kind of a stupid decision.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "I think we take with you.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "But there's also the potential for mark there's a market here for our lost teletext.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "For example someone that just goes to the shop that wants a replacement wants it as cheap as possible. Twenty-five Euros is the selling price, we really have to innovate here I guess.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "That's what I'm that's what I'm talking about is is that we have to find something that is gonna be very attractive about this product'cause somebody, some people are gonna be hap unhappy'cause it took they can't ac access their teletext.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Okay.'Cause we're talking about eighty percent or ninety percent or ninety-five percent of the televisions out there are are teletext.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "K yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "So so it's it's not that I'm criticizing the product at all. It's just when we eliminate that then what do we bring? What are we bringing in to take the place of this,", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Mm'kay.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "and we have to d in my opinion we have to double up.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "If we lose one we need to bring two or three.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Okay. Okay I think that the last point is probably quite uh straightforward. Obviously the the w it has to be branded.'Kay.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "So then the double R_ will be our our.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "On the product yeah. Can you handle that black and yellow?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "I think one of.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "I tho I tho I thou I think Rol Ro Rolls-Royce might mind, but don't worry.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "I think w, yeah, one of the things that we should also keep in mind um when we're doing this I mean our company's slogan is we put the fashion in electronics, right. So I think our kind of our target here is to have some kind of very like sleek nice look remote and we want it to be functional as well, but I think one of the main selling points is that we don't want it to be clunky like like this thing here.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "You know we don't wanna a big clunker. We want something that looks nice and it's fashionable and so.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "So you have this?", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Nah. So we have three presentations, and I think we'll go in order of participant number here. So we can have a look at the working design first from participant two. That's Okay.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yes.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "That's fine. Okay so", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Mm it's enough. But uh click it on off?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "so you all know me, I'm the Industrial Designer. And we've some basic components that um our remote is gonna need, just basically every remote'll need'em.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "We need some kinda of power d power source. Um we have to decide on our our user interface, which is his department, but the in user interface is also a major component. Um we need a programmable digital signal processor to um to take the input from the user and translate that into uh into electronic signal, which we pass to the infra-red L_E_D_, which you aim at the television uh which and it receives that signal. You need a on-off switch um I don't know how that got in there. And uh we also need to um have the if we want a universal remote we need to have encryption codes for the different makes of T_V_s. So we need to know all the different you know all the different signals and so that'll require some memory as well. Um so here's just a basic layout of how how the remote would work. You ha the v the power source is in the upper right-hand corner there, and you can see that uh we have the user interface here which is connected to the chip which does all our signal processing, and then passes that signal on to the infra-red L_E_D_ and that signal is then emitted and received by the television at the photo-transistor. So those are the basic components that need to go into this and everything else is pretty much uh open to move around.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Now is would this be considered just a standard uh um.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "I think any des", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "This is not this is not cutting edge technology we're talking here.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "No.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "We're talking about existing technology.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Right I think.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Nothing is being modified or upgraded or new discoveries.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah this is just this is just a basic layout of ev of all the components that w w are gonna be absolutely necessary f to have a working remote. We can add things in like if we wanted some voice recognition, I mean that I mean that you can kinda say would would fall under the user interface and the digital signal processing chip.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Okay. Okay.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Do we have an idea of costs of different components?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Um well the most the most costly components are gonna be the chip and the uh th it could als basically the user interface and the casing are gonna be expensive as well.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "'Kay.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Um the L_E_D_ and the the transistors and everything else are you know they're they're pretty cheap. So depending on what we want our functionality to be, um the chip could be expensive or it could be cheap.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Mm'kay.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Um depending on the n amount of memory we need in there and stuff like that and h and h you know how much power.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Do we have any ballpark figures for that yet? No.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Uh I don't have any figures right now.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "'Kay.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "We uh we have to wait until we get to a more specific design phase for that.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Um but and I think a significant part of the cost could be the actual the actual casing itself and and you know the the b the buttons and things like that, I think.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "N okay. Mm. Mm the shell?", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah. Basically yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "So yeah. That's all I have really.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Okay. Thanks. And we have participant three, which I believe is Pedro.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "I.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "I can give you that to click on.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Hey mouse.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Open..", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "And you wanna get.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "When we're fighting over it's also more lot more fun..", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "View a slide show, that's what you wanna do, yeah? Just go up to view.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Click, don't Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Uh.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Mm'kay", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "This doesn't work. So yeah function design. Um you guys know me, Pedro, and um what I found is we want to do fashion and I think, honestly, we should keep technology low and just simple basically and try to aim for design. If basically a case will will cost the same if it looks good or bad so we ma we have to make it look good. Um something cute and small. The big chunky remotes are died in the eighties. So we should just go for something that people will like to actually look at.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "And um although mo most people will buy s televisions and everything for uh that have loads of loads of little functions and everything and they mostly end up using simple functions and little things and most the people won't won't get too mad of actually having to go the to the s to the television to, for instance, tune in their the stations. There's no need to have that in the remote. So um um as for what I would recommend for uh the the interface design, and uh I will change the colours on the on the logo, but um we should go for the user-oriented device, so simple controls and good ergonomics. Um and uh although I th I th I'm still here recommending the teletext so I'll remove that, I guess, but um we should go for the.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "But I t I think what the the management recommendation was less that there's a worry that teletext will become outdated rather than we shouldn't have it. So I I still think if it's cheap enough functionality-wise to include, it really should be in there.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Because otherwise we're just going to I mean even if it's necessary or not, if you if you're given the choice between a t a remote with teletext or without uh when it really if it i if it isn't more expensive for us to k make because as far as I understand it, it can be operated with the same set of buttons, yeah? So it should be in there.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Right as far as.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "i it's just uh the cost of an extra button. I mean software-wise there's really no difference.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah. Okay. Isn't.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "I think.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "I have maybe a silly question. I in the very beginning it said with the with the advent of computers there's gonna be the it's gonna be out-moded teletext. I I don't understand how those two things are connected. How does how does computers and teletext h how why is one eliminating the need of the other? I don't understand that.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Well maybe what we're getting into here is the the idea of uh Internet through the T_V_ for example. So that might play on what we can do.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah the they're basically aiming at saying that you would use you know a couple of years ago teletext to be the easiest way to check like for uh uh the scheduling and the next programme and stuff like that", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Scheduling. Um to find out what what you're watching even if there's commercials you know.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "and now Yeah", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "and now you can c look it over Internet. But I still think teletext is way more convenient until until we have the same commodities.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "I think I ha I agree.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah'cause, yeah, I just I don't see the cross-over between computers and television. I mean I do see the cross-over in some sense,", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah, but it's not happen yet. Yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "but but but but with the the remote is is used for television, okay.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Well for me.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Well you have digital T_V_ still already.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "So so if we make the cross-over and we're gonna view television on computers then we're then we're losing the the necessity of the remote. S", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Unless you have a.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Well there there is a for example on digital T_V_ systems you have you can press a button and you can buy things in adverts,", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "and you can uh you can view through a catalogue for example.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "A a family member of mine has got a system where you just um you can Yeah, and there's other features for example on other systems where you can pause live T_V_ and things like that. They're just features from the Internet uh from computers are are coming into the T_V_ sort of under the covers, but you still use it through a teletext.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "So now the things to think here are that that there's gonna be more functionality, potentially that we can handle.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah but we we don't we're not aiming a command for that. That's the thing. And all of those require the other commands with more complexity and more software and.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "I think a lot of that's proprietary anyways. You're not gonna be able to, you, like command a TiVo with our remote. I don't think.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Mm. But still there there's an opportunity. If if it's, for example, a trainable one then we're just simply having like an up, down, left, right, an okay button or something like that might might do as well in future proofing it..", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah but we would increase the price to try to make it a trainable one, so.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Mm. Okay.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Well I dunno. One way the other teletext was there but I guess we can remove it or, you know, make two separate interface designs.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "I think if it's possible you should try to you know have a talk with management about that. Just you know.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah I don't I don't see the logic.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "I I don't see the logic in elimination of teletext, I just I I.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah, and neither do I in fact.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "but I'm not a tech-mind either. I just don't see the cross-over between computers and and and", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Bu uh.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "'Cause we are designing something for a television, okay.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "I'll communicate that back to those guys there a a and th the message really we wanna be sending to them is that, although teletext may become outdated w there's no l logic in not having it in there anyway i if it doesn't affect the price.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Right it's just not", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Um but I I think what they're pushing us towards here is in terms of thinking of ways to future-proof our system for future systems that have something else other than teletext maybe.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "We are selling it to an existing market.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "I dunno I'm.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah but we're not putting some there's no no putting anything in in the place of teletext.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "That's.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Mm'kay.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah,", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "That's the problem.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "and and, yeah, and and we're also marketing a product. It's what I'm seeing is a is a mid-range cost product.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "So so w we can't go and pump a whole bunch of technology into this thing", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "because all of a sudden we are gonna have cost overruns. So if we drop if we are gonna choose to drop teletext, again what are we adding to the product that makes it marketable?", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Hmm. So if we're keeping it basic we're loo loo what we're looking to sell it basically is it's uh just being very easy to use, looking exceptionally good, that sort of thing.'Cause we really don't have anything else there, do we?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "I don't I don't see it, and to me if I'm gonna market a product for b for beauty for for design I'm gonna I'm gonna try to market it at a much higher price. I need to make it special with a high price tag. I don't want to make it economically uh g uh competitive.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "I want I want to market it as exclusive. So I would market this product it at eighty-nine Euros and come up with some really beautiful exterior design or something th but but I don't think we have that flexibility.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "But i if design if design is cheap and functionality is basic, then twenty-five Euros is probably a high price for a commoner garden stan standard T_V_ so the place uh remote the then the place we're going to justify that cost is through through design through making it a a sleek elegant high-priced basic remote. Does that make sense, huh?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "No I no I I understand what you say,", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "but what I'm what I'm, okay we probably need to move along,", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah we probably should.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "but my my concern is trying to find a marketing niche for this product,", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "We we're doing alright for time.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "and if I'm coming in with a with with twenty-five Euros, which is mid-market price, um then what am I going to give these people for this?", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "So that's just my question, but we can keep talking.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Okay. Sorry that kinda cut into you there.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "No just I I would I would advocate for continuing teletext and those would be the basic commands. Um as for, you know, the the case design uh maybe I'll come up with more concrete ideas. Right now it's just the idea of simplicity and slickness, cute and small um.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Right. I'm just thinking you know with all these universal remotes that are out there, how many people how many people actually use every feature that ar you know i like these trainable remotes and things like that, where, you know, it's just so confusing to do to use all these functions. Where I think the largest portion of the market is just gonna you know they lost their T_V_ remote, they need another one that'll work with their T_V_. They want something that looks nice, that that that isn't gonna break when they drop it, that you know that maybe it's it's ergonomic, it feels good in your hand, something like that.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "I think that's gonna be where you're gonna find the biggest, you know, market share.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "So we are looking for something that looks good and just works, rather than looking for any special features. Is that.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "I think the more bells and whistles we add, it's just gonna cut into our into our profits.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Because I think as we as we add costs for things like uh for like if we add the voice recognition and things like that, I think you know what percentage of the of the um of the market is actually gonna use that?", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Maybe five percent, you know,", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah mm.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "But we can talk a little bit more potentially in the marketing marketing presentation about this.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "and how much Right. Yeah okay.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Be a good idea.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "I'm sorry.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Uh sorry, I didn't mean to cut in.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Sorry boss.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "I'm not the boss. Okay.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Oh P Pedro, I just want to say quickly I I would really like it when you can come up with some more bells and whistles, eh.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "You know sell uh things come to my mind is uh uh something that's uh um voice-activated. I know we're getting into some, I hope, some big money on this thing, but.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "I think that's probably a question more for for this guy here, yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Is that for over here?", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah. Well it's kinda both of us.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Okay, alright.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Is it?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Us us user interface.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "That's.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "'Cause uh and I think of voice-activated I think of of how many times I've I've lost my my remote and I can't find it. So some way that I can I can find my remote by clapping my hands or something", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm. I was thinking about that. Then your lights would go off, though..", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "uh and and so so um.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "But this's just something. I'm trying to find some bells and whistles'cause when they talk about tel taking out teletext, it's like, what are we gonna put in? What makes this thing attractive? And it's only for televisions. So we everyth our our competition out there has got these these multiple adaptors where they can use'em for their V_C_R_s, their D_V_D_s, their their televisions and we're coming out with one remote for television only. And so to me we have to make this a really special product", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "I I I don't s I really have to say I don't see the market niche for this product. At this price I don't see it yet. I'm I I go along with this, because this is what we're given to try to market, but I I don't see the market niche for this product without without some really sort of something really special to identify it as as unique in the market.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Hmm.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "But we th that should be design.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "That should be the design basically.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "I think technology we'd we we're not in the price range to do it. We don't have the money to do it towards t f technology so we should we should aim at design.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Okay. Have to do you have to do it in the box?", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah. Yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Okay well, so so that's up to you then to to make this box in something that's absolutely extraordinary.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Maybe make it in the form of a gun. We can sell it in United States.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "I have a question uh for you. Does any of the um the features that Pedro's spoken about here have any implications we might not have thought about on in terms of just pure functionality? In terms of making it work or the cost of that or.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "I don't I think all these things are pretty standard. I think we'll be okay.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Okay.'Kay. Cheers. Onto participant four..", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Well you know for marketing f marketing for me is uh and uh how do I go here? Okay.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Mm you can just click.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Go go.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "No no no", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Is that right?", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "you just get off that. You just click anywhere.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Ah-ha. Yeah, what for me is it um I d I don't know what I'm marketing right now, okay,'til you spoke and when I wrote this, I don't know what I'm marketing. I just know that I I was identified as a a we identified ourselves as a as a developer, as a manufacturer, and as a as a um distributor t to other wholesalers. And so the th the twenty-five Euros that we've identified as the sale price is a wholesale price rather than a retail price.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "That's what we decided here. Um so what I did is I I decided that that this this needs to be a product in a in a sense can market itself. So what we've identified here as our main marketing stratagem is is in design. We're making the most beautiful attractive uh whatever we decide it is. So that means we have about seven more minutes or ten minutes left.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Um so I would like to have a product that that we can sell easily. So I say inspiration, so having something beauty, something attractive, uh something that in a sense will sell itself.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Uh innovation I think fits into what we're talking about here with design. Uh cutting edge technology, I don't think we're gonna have that, these were ideas I was putting together, um unless we come up with some New Age product a as far as the casing is concerned. I I wanna make this thing something that I can identify as special in some way, so maybe we can have some I I talked about environmentally sensitive, uh maybe we have a product that can be identified in some way as advantageous in a home. I don't know. These are just thoughts. Uh I wanted to talk about uh who we are as a as a corporation, that we're new, we're aggressive, we're competitive, we're we're trying to provide a product from a new perspective rather than from an old corporate line. So to me it's about selling d uh our identity our corporate identity along with the product. Um what I found is that the projected costs are competitive.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Uh we're kind of in the middle of the market, but what I'm seeing is that the market is ready for I I identified new technology, but again, because what I see is budget restrictions and limitations, I don't know that we can bring any new technology into this thing. If if we could have a technological something.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "I have an idea.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Mm p please.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "And it's kind of along the s lines of environmentally sensitive, and it may even fit into ergonomics, and even kind of address the issue of losing losing the remote, what we were saying it's a common issue.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Um what we can do is, well you know that batteries throwing a aw remotes run through batteries like crazy. Right?", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Solar..", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "And s for some people Yeah. Well maybe not a solar remote but instead what about if we had like a power cradle?", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "But solar.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Like a a cradle that is is there to hold the remote when you're not using it, so you'll always know where the remote is'cause you have to put it back there to charge the remote, and we can, instead of having instead of having, you know, replaceable batteries we'll just have a power cell that stays there for the life of the remote. You never have to get go through the go through uh all these different batteries. And also you can I I think it's a good opportunity for the user design or for not just for the user design, but also for the just for the look and feel of the remote as as a whole. You know you could have some kind of neat little, you know, a sexy design for d a cradle and the remote itself.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Blah, I like it. I like the idea, but we're talking about in cost is gonna probably double.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "It w it would increase the cost.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "But boy, we can sell this thing, because there's no batteries, it's environmentally sensitive, i we can identify it as a safer product in some form.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "And you could page the remote if you lose it. Maybe there's a button on the cradle.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yep, that's right. I really see", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Now the the question is can we make this for less than twelve-fifty per?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "But the cost i No no. No no, we have t we have to change the end cost.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "We we well do we necessarily have to change the end cost because uh Can we dl can we do that without uh changing it twelve-fifty per product, if we basically can sell more based on this?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "There's uh I mean I don't see it anyway. Yeah, that's gonna be up to these guys.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Well", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "I my reaction is no, but", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "what I can do is I can d look into ho well Pedro and I can look into how much this might increase our our costs", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "and you can look into what kind of effect an increased cost is gonna have on our on our final numbers.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah we we can certainly push for a more expensive product if that's gonna be.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Well, see I I see I I'm an advocate to make this an exclusive product. You know, let's let's sell this wholesale for for fifty Euros, sixty Euros. Let's make this thing really exclusive, environmentally sensitive, uh high-tech design, uh ergonomics, all of this. Just make this thing uh, yeah, the the the Rolls Royce of of remote controls.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "I I.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Every home's got to have it. If you don't have one, hey what kind of remote do you have? Oh you've got one of those, oh fantastic, I want one of those too.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "I just don't have enough money right now.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "I just don't know about that, because in order to do that in order to price it at that kind of level I think we'd need to have every functionality that all the other competitors are offering like being able to operate, you know, the D_V_D_ player and, you know, the stereo system and all that. Which is a pretty basic function that w we've opted out of. And additionally we're m maybe not supporting teletext um.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Nah, I think we can say with certainty now that we are supporting teletext.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "But I do think there are some basic features that we don't have that a lot of other remotes are going to have.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yep, one one thing I don't understand is h they've they've given us this package, okay.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Now uh in my opinion we need to give them a package back, okay. They say they say okay here you go. They gave us a fundament a foundation of of what they want,", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "and and w it's our place to kinda analyse and evaluate. I don't think it's our place to create their product for them, maybe it is. I don't know what kind of role we have in this in the corporate ladder uh, but to me it's like, okay, you have got your here's our ideas, okay.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "And then let them look at those ideas and they say, yeah well, we can we can raise the price twenty percent, you know we like this idea, this idea no, but to me it's it's about a choice, do we follow their directives or do we make uh presentations back and and then and then discuss? beca I I do not I do not see the market niche for the product that they're handing f handing us right now.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "I don I I d", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "I don't see it.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "I have to disagree though. I think our market niche is basically people who need who have lost their remote or uh who've broken their remote and don't wanna send back to the manufacturer, they just wanna run out to the store and get a remote, and then they're gonna look on the shelf and they're gonna see ours is the nicest looking remote. It does what they need. These aren't I I think that it.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "And and th to get to back to another point, sorry uh uh for cutting in but, I th I think it's important to remember that that this remote has to work with multiple T_V_s, yeah,'cause it's selling on its own.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "It's not going to be specifically for Hitachi T_V_s or or whatever.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "No I understand that.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "So technologically, if I understand it, uh T_V_s T_V_ remote's working exactly the same way as video remotes and D_V_D_ remotes. All you need to do is train them to the individual one, all you need to do is is know the the f like some four-digit code.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "So saying that it works with all T_V_s is equivalent to saying that it'll work with D_V_D_s and other things.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Nope, they've identified the product as not working for anything but televisions.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Oh okay okay.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah y y you you wouldn't.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "They've identified this product limita", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "We have done this.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "That's why I say I don't I don't see the market niche for this.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "The interface will be different.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "I see.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "If we if w if we were going to have a product that worked for D_V_D_s, V_C_R_s and everything, then I can see the market niche,", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "but we we're only identified as going for televisions without teletext.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "And it's like whoa we ha in my opinion we have to go with something that's extremely exclusive to make this thing marketable,", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Well here's.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "And I I'd.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "because who wants just a television remote?", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Mm sorry.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Right. We he well here's my thing about that.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "I don't..", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "If you're in the market for this ultimate remote, you're not gonna go for just a television remote. If it can't control if it can't control your your D_V_D_ player and a al if y if you can't get that all-in-one ultimate remote, that just you can throw all your other remotes away. I'm not gonna buy a d seventy-five Euro remote.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "That's right. I I I have a tendency to agree with you. I really do.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "So we really can't chase that.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "That's why I say I quest I q I question the marketability of the product. I really question where we create the demand.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "So I think what we.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "We're really looking for something basic.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "So that's what I'm saying.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "The the one thing that that that you said really struck a chord with me here in that we're we're carrying the corporate identity with the product, but we're actually looking for a large profit at the same time where I'd be inclined to go back to upper-level management and say like let's just cut down our profit expected on this product because we are actually branding our company here. We're selling more than just the product. We're trying to get mind-share about uh Real Reaction to to the people who are gonna buy consumer electronics. We want people to eventually say, oh that's that's Real Reaction that's a good m make. It's reliable. And and we're gonna make it we're gonna win mind-share by uh either being a fantastic product", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "or for it working, it just being good, reasonable-priced, and solid. So if we can make if we can put an emphasis here on it not breaking I think that's in itself an extremely big thing.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm. I think that's big.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "W okay if you if you drop the cost, now if you make if you make go to the other side of the cost scale, and you make it less expensive, then all of a sudden now we're going into an a a new market area. So we can say low-cost uh uh um uh good design, beautiful, wa-da-da-da-da-da.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Good design.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "We only have a few minutes left.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "But what I'm saying is right now we're middle market.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Is twenty-five Euros a mid-market price for a remote?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "I think so, yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "for for multi for a multi-function remote, that's a mid-market price. In a discount right now you can buy'em on sale sometimes for about about uh eighteen, nineteen Euro,", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "and that's for the multi-functions, uh D_V_D_, V_C_R_, uh catch-alls. And and they have'em in a little box in the middle, and and this is the consciousness that most people have about replacement remote controls. So to me, to market this a t only a television remote control we have to change consciousness. We have to have something that will change people's thinking to identify this as advantageous, and I don't know what that is. It's gotta be low-cost or high-cost with with special design features.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Well I'd be inclined to say, if we can make the design better than any comparable remote while reducing the cost, then that's the way we really should play it. If we can take it down to you know fifteen rather than twenty-five and make a low profit-margin on it,", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "but we're really doing that to sell the brand. Yep we have five minutes left. Uh rather th uh to to to sell for Real Reactions.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Or my d.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "And I can communicate this to to the more senior uh mm people within the company here to to get a reaction..", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "What about um the idea that I had with the cradle? How do you feel about that?", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Well how does everybody feel?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Or how does everybody feel?", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "I mean I I well we g we're talking about the other end now.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "I I think.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "I like it.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "No, but I that's the thing I I don't think it's necessarily the other end.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "I like the idea, but we have t we have to find out.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "The other the o the problem with that in my mind I just think off-hand as a as a consumer, would I wanna buy that? And I think maybe not because I've got a remote and I'll take it to different chairs, I'll take it to different.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "I w I don't wanna go over somewhere and put it down. It i if it is gonna be somewhere that you put it down then it needs to be at the side of your armchair,", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "and that implies that there's only one T_V_ user. So it's very good for some people but it's not a like.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Well it lasts it would last for several hours on its own power, but when you're done with it you put it back in the cradle.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "But it it takes away the ease of use of the remote to a certain extent.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "You have to l sort of remember.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "well it Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "You have to d shift down the side of the couch to find it and put it back and.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Well..", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "I d I d I d I think it it in my mind it doesn't seem like something that oh I'd really want uh because of that fact.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "But I I don't know, that's just my opinion.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Well, I think again it's it we have a cost issue here. You know if we're gonna go in this direction, to me we're going to the other side of the cost range.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Are we gonna make this selling selling the cost as a high high-tech uh um environmentally sensitive whatever, or are we gonna go to the lower side of the range? Again I don't see our market niche in the middle for our product yet.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "'Kay.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "I don't see it yet.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "So what do we think maybe we should Pedro, do you have any opinion on it?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Uh we should keep it simple, mm medium-low cost mar um cost area and uh make it look good.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "W a question I have in in a'cause I I I think I agree with you on, we gotta make it a box. The box is gonna sell it I think, the outside, the casing.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Really need to wrap up now.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Can can can we have multiple designs? Have a modern, have a traditional, have a you know, and so so instead of them all looking the same, people can have maybe four or five different designs they can choose from. I don't know what that creates cost, or.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Well the the problem with that is we may end up with a whole bunch of inventory of a of a poor design you know. So.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yep one over another. Yeah, okay, I hear that.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah, complicated but.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Um but what we could do is some kind of well I mean Yeah we we need to, I mean, have a few designs to look at and then come up with something that I think we all agree is, you know, the best fit. I think w what's really important is it has to look good, it has to feel it has to feel good in your hand,", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "it has to be durable, it has to a and I think it's really important that it doesn't look cheap. I think I think we have to make sure people look at it an and feel like it its like a quality remote. Even though the cost may be low.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "What ab what ab what about a a remote that's that doesn't maybe look like a remote? Just an idea.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Just just okay'cause I mean we all know what a remote looks like on the outside. They're selling these things everywhere. Maybe that could be part of our design exclusivity, is we make a remote that doesn't even look like a remote it it opens like a telephone.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Or what if it looks like a pen?", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Doesn't matter, yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "I'm just jus I talking about some something to make this thing unique.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "A pointer?", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "It That's the thing, I'm gonna keep thumping on.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "I'll sell whatever you guys design.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "I don't have a problem selling a product, that's not the issue. I give you ideas, you guys create the product. Once you have the finished product I'll find a way to sell it. Don't worry about it. I just give you these things now, because these are my thoughts and feelings.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "So", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "just to touch on m my point one last time that I had brought up. Um I really un unless you guys are die-hard against the fact that um it's possible like it reduces the usability of the remote b and the fact that you can't lose it on your own, I think it still might be a good idea to investigate having like a power cradle.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Okay. Yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Because I really think i in a certain sense it almost like for me I would want to have that just, because I know at the end of when I'm done watching T_V_ that when I'm done, oh I better go find the remote and put it back where it belongs. Maybe th th th that's just some people that like that.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "I mean there's al there's also remote controls I remember that that worked uh, this hasn't been done in a while I think, but th as a as a watch.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "A lot of people.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "No no.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "As a watch?", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah, there is remote control watches um,", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm'kay.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "but I think they're a sorta eighties thing, so it might not be easy to market in it uh but the the technologies came along and it might be cheaper to make now.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah they are not simple.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Those things may have been inexpensive for all I know.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "One thing I just thought about when you were saying that, is that the p our target market is gonna be someone who has lost or broken.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "That's what I was saying.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "We gotta stop?", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Gotta cut up.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Who's lost or broken their their remote. So how many remotes do they wanna buy? Can we p can we sell them a remote that can maybe guarantee they will not need to buy another one?", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Exactly.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "And so with with with this kind of system or locator or something, to to think about, how have people been been losing or breaking their remote?", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm. Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "How does this happen?", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "The last remote you'll ever buy.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "And also presumably they've.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "And and then and then design the product, maybe some component of the product that can identify this as the last one you'll ever need to buy.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Well if if we're going down that then we can we don't need to go the.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Exactly.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "it it strikes me that the locator feature might actually be uh quite expensive to make.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Whereas actually just putting it in a power cradle might not be too expensive at all because that's just done with mobile phones", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "True.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "you can just n we we have said we have actually similar products that we can take from and potentially cut costs there.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Right. Yeah. The locator'll definitely be more expensive. Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Um need to look into whether we can do that but uh I think we we have some m mobile phone-based products uh checking quickly our Internet. We really need to finish up here. But uh.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "uh we can make it in the shape of a coffee pot..", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah we have the the power-adaptor products. We sell power-adaptor products. So for example there's nothing stopping us using that technology.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "It's uh just it's that I think it's telling us to stop our meeting.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah..", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "So we have the c we probably have have on-line in our in our system, we have the ability to create this, we're talking about.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah I think so,", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "A charging system.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "without it being too In fact we can cut costs through using the manufacturing that's already gonna be in place here.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "If if we can create this we have probably five or six or seven really strong marketing characteristics.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "I think one of the things that we can put right on the box is, never buy another battery.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yep.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "You know, something like that.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "'Kay. Thanks guys.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yep.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "No that's not what I want, I want Oh look it here.", "speakerName": "Marketing" } ] }

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

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{ "meetingId": "TS3005c", "transcriptSegments": [ { "text": "Okay, welcome everyone to our next meeting. I'm busy writing and busy leading the meeting, but um I've prepared a little presentation once again um or at least an agenda I think uh the biggest part of the presentation will be uh on your side. Um we are here at the conceptual design meeting, which is hereby opened. Um once again I will try to uh write some minutes which I just from the previous meeting uh placed inside our project folder, which was quite some typing. Um today we once again have uh three presentations, if I'm right, and after that we will take a decision on the remote control concepts. And just as the last time we have forty minutes to accomplish that. Okay, well", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "I'd say let's start with the first presentation.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "'Kay.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Um in the same order as last time?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "W sure.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Mm. Alright.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Okay. Well, take it away.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Okay uh welcome you all.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Components design, um uh first of all uh I would like to uh uh accommodate some of those uh things I uh uh elaborate some of the things I did. I I elaborated on the concept. What should be um uh said about uh the components, uh its properties and what kind of materials should we use to uh to make uh one of those r remote controls. Uh well first of all I've uh d subtracted some of the components that is that are used uh are w w um you know from what uh the remote control's formed. Uh first of all, the case, the case, the surrounding of the of the the remote control. I would like to uh give you an idea of uh how I thought about.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Don't destroy my giraffe.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Giraffe's gone now.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Okay um the case was is made from rubber, I suppose. There's one of the because when you use a remote control a lot of people uh will uh will uh drop their remote control", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Drop it.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Hmm.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "and they break uh becau the uh titanium was also an option. But uh it's a very expensive material. Uh rubber is, I think, uh the best suitable uh material uh to use uh for our uh for our remote control. Um it's poss it's also possible to uh create fancy colours with rubber. Uh rubber l makes it easy to uh to to it lets lets itself colour. Uh titanium uh you have to paint it and with that uh it's possible to scratch it or uh yeah make it ugly. Uh rubber uh the total uh piece of rubber that's sor uh that's that's used uh to make the case is uh the same colour, so if you scratch it it's still the same colour, perhaps uh it's a little bit damaged. But it's a very strong material. Um I h I had an idea single covered uh curved, sorry, single curved.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Uh so it's t two dimensional. I think it's uh it's best to draw oh", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "It's a colour..", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "green.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Bright colour. Fancy colour. Forward.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Uh New. Blank. Okay.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "You have to go t", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Let's make it uh black. Okay. I thought of an idea like this. Oh that. Um delete. Blank. Okay. So it also looks nice when it's on your table.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "So you get uh it doesn't lay flat down on the table, but it's c it's stands.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Oh it's a side view.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Side view yes it's side view so uh I I'm not technically good at th three D_ modelling,", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "but.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Um uh it's just an idea I had so it's uh it's very uh so its also looks nice when it's on the table. Um the graphical user interface and the buttons, uh we also thought about that already. Uh I thought about uh the L_C_D_ touch screen, which is uh is easy to clean too. One of the great uh advantages of the L_C_D_ screen you just use some or uh another uh cleaning uh uh cl some cleaning stuff.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "And um it should be made of strong plastic and it should be bright. Well I already uh s uh explained some properties of that material and I think uh well we also we almost concluded about that uh this should uh be uh our uh button component.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "True.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "So uh uh that's all about uh the buttons. Uh the batteries, uh we also thought about that already, uh will be chargeable with uh uh an option for a mount station so you can uh put the uh the remote control in a mount station so its charges itself up instead of uh plugging it in or something like that. Questions,?", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "No..", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "No no no no no. Just looking.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "And they should be long lasting, not uh not be empty uh in about uh two minutes or uh thirty minutes or forty minutes of use. And next step is the chip uh th the component that's uh makes or transmits the signal to the television. Uh there was an option to use s a rather simple chip but I think uh because uh of our uh highly uh requiring uh requirements, there should be an advanced chip in it", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "with uh also the ability to uh facilitate speaker speech recognition uh which unfortunately is still in a test phase, so uh there should be some more uh investigation on that side. Uh my personal preferences uh I also overheard in the last meeting that there shou we should use uh our own business colours. That was correct, wasn't it?", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Okay. I think they are rather boring for um for use with rubber.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Well, business colours I thought it was the the slogan and uh the corporate image, so yeah, it needs colour,", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Okay they should be m sh they should be in mind,", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "but I don't think you have to make the entire thing in the corporate colour..", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "wasn't it? Okay so it d it doesn't says uh to uh have the slogan?", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "It must be recognisable.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Okay okay. Well that's possible of course.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "You can put the R_ and R_..", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "We could make a little R_ and R_ on the top of the machine. Uh so they are pretty boring, I suggest, because just the availability with rubber to make fantastic colours uh and also in a lot of possible colours, so it's possible to make very uh fancy uh remote controls which peopl uh who people in which people will find they're uh interesting. And uh will buy uh them faster when they look at the same old grey or black uh colours. Uh s as I said uh before rubber is uh is impossible to damage severely imp instead of uh of course you can break it when you you when you break it in s for example with a pair of scissors or something like that, but i if you drop it it's not uh broken uh right away s instead of using uh plastic, hard plastic or uh titanium. And I personally liked uh the single curved uh remote control, because it yeah it makes sense.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Okay. Well that's all about my uh my findings.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Alright.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Okay, thank you.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "I will go next.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Mm mm mm. Next.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Alright so", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "I thought a little bit about the interface. Uh how it should look. And uh uh we uh determined that will not be no buttons, but only an L_C_D_ screen, so I had to uh look on that. And the design is therefore based on what we just uh uh thought of. Uh first there are some new findings and new technology for speech recognition. And this is that uh um uh uh you you ask you give a question through through the device and it answers you. And they already uh put this in an in a coffee maker. And so that it you say uh good morning, uh coffee maker, and it says t says to you back good morning Joe or what's your name.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "This uh and there's an easy way to uh program that uh you say record into the device into the speaker and then you say the question and three seconds later you say the answer and then when you say the question it gives you the answer. Um perhaps it's useful,", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "perhaps for because people um lose the remote,", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "they can yell uh remote where are you and calls or something.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "It's true.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "And perhaps we could uh implement that.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "And then I have to go out of the presentation because I tried to make some kind of a a idea of how it should look like", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Oh my God..", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "but I can't draw, so uh don't make too much of it. I tried to uh the L_C_D_ screen I tried to sort of to draw. I thought uh at least uh the icon for the volume. I don't know if there is an icon for the program, but", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Not just a P_.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "P_ yeah, just a P_.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "So uh", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "....", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "and then the buttons above and uh below", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "the and the and the mute button also recognisable as an icon. Um.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Where's where's the button for two?", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "I forgot that one. I thought I forgot something,", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "but uh.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "And uh and uh the numbers, that should be a bit larger I think it's not really on scale and and so forth.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Ah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Doesn't matter.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Um an options button. And I thought the the button for teletext apar uh apart because it's not really options, I think. It's uh options is the settings of the remote and of the T_V_ and that kind of uh thing.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "No.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "So could call it settings or something.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yep.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "But this is a bit uh how I thought it. And uh the L_C_D_ uh somewhere on the remote. Perhaps we could be more curvy the remote perhaps should, so that it's better in your hand or something uh.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Oh okay,", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "But uh and and uh a microph microphone for the speech uh recognition if we want to implement that.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Uh and then uh if you press the op options button, now we have an example of and then you should get the other options with what what you could do and that you could do with something like this this.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Oh yeah,.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "And uh it's also uh I thought think we discussed uh earlier that uh older people don't really want to use uh these extra settings. And older people a also don't really want to use this uh th this kind of option menus. So they want to u use one button and then something happens, and not choose with uh this kind of uh And you could put in a an a really s little scrolling device on the side of your uh remote,", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "so you could scroll scroll uh across these uh things.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Mm. Okay.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "That's an option. And that was my uh finding dinge.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Thanks.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Okay..", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Now our third", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Go Danny, go Danny..", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "team member with his presentation.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Okay, I'm going to tell you something about a trend watching. The trends from the past years, what the people like, what the youngsters like, what the elderly people liked about shapes, colours, material and stuff.'Kay. The method I used was Like I told I watched the trends from the past years about colours, shapes, material they wanted uh from elderly and young people. So we can keep that in mind for designing f uh the device itself. Findings I made. The most important thing people liked last year was that the remote control should be look look fancy. The second important thing that w should be if inv in innov innovative, okay, like the L_C_D_ screen that's quite innovative so that should be great meeting for this. And the third thing is it should be easy to use. I think with only one menu, four button, channel, volume, it should also be enough for easy to use. The personal preferences for the young people, they liked fruity colours like uh banana yellow, uh strawberry red and stuff.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Fruity?.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Grass green.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Fruity..", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah. Like that. The round shapes, and soft material m materials like the rubber.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Mm. Okay.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "It should be soft uh i it should feeling spongy or s Sponge Bob like things.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Let's build it into a sponge.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Th Elderly people like au colours which y are being seen in autumn like um woods um dark brown, red, deep reds and stuff. They liked square shapes with round edges. And hard materials like wood, um titanium. They those kind of materials they liked. This is a bit like the young peoples like the fruity colours, innovative, all the colours you see, the blue, the red, the white, the yellow, that stuff. And then I th I I personally thought the front side of the shape should be something for the youngsters like like", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Oh y.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "this or something. It's it's a bit like a banana. And the colour should be yellow, or something.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "And for the elderly people just plain old. Because we decided to have two kind of remotes, two designs, or was it two colours?", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "It was one remote, I think,", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Different colours, yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "different colours.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "We should decide whether it's going to be with round shapes. I think like my colleague, you said, is that's e better, or for the elderly people something like like the iPod or something, with round squares. Simple but", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "easy to use.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "So that's it.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "So for the older people, a more traditional uh form.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "That is my Yeah, like the older o older colours I can maybe.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "You could you could uh change the colours, that was also the idea. I don't know which shape you should should take,", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "but.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Colours th the elderly people.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah, I guess changing colours will be easier than changing uh", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Changing just the shape of the uh remote control?", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "the shape of it.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Perhaps you could find something in the middle. Round but square..", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah, s", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "round corners, but s but square, yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "But maybe then both groups won't buy it.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Uh i i if you do it uh uh square, with round corners but a little uh in the middle of it uh i Do you know what I mean?", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah I know what you mean, kind of like a..", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "wait, like like this uh a bit.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "So it's a bit square, but it's also a bit uh round.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Kinda like a beer glass. Yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "So but then.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "I know what you mean.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Same sides. But that's uh.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "It's also easy to to have to to put in your hand.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah but that's also how other remotes are shaped, so that's uh But perhaps that's a good thing,", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "so that's easy to use. People know the.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Will recognise that's as a remote control.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Uh Look something like that. Autumn colours like red, brown.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Uh when I saw your d Oh.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "They liked the wood a lot.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Huh.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "So maybe we could give it like wooden loo look look or something in that colour.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah, kinda like old cars, uh.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "And a bit bit old school style renaissance, medieval kind of things.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah..", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Swords..", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Let's put it all together.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Those kind of Yeah, those kind of things. So you see the big difference between the young people? Fresh, exciting.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "And the old people, old and boring.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "But that's easily to do with the colour, I think.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "So Sorry?", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "That's easy to do with the colours, I think.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah I think it's it's easier to do in colour than in shape.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah we think so too.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Uh.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Because otherwise we have to get different shapes, and colour way easier than yeah the shapes. In material yeah rubber, rubber is, like I said, young people like more soft materials and spongy ones", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "and the old people like plain wood.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "So we have to decide if we're going to use real hard rubber, or soft rubber. Or something something between that.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah think uh Also in between..", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Soft rubber.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah soft rubber", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "which you can you can feel in it.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah I know what you Um.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "I don't think you should be able to mould it,", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Or.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "but.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "It should shouldn't be.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "No. Or or wh what's something harder. No no no but but you have to like like like a a eraser or something. That's the bit you can press it in,", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "or something harder.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Uh.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Bit like this kind of rubber. This uh.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah, something like this, yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "But it's quite hard, this.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah it's quite hard but you can press it in.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "It's feels kind s spongy.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Spongy.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Hmm.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Something..", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "I don't think it's rubber.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "No. N n n", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "So we need a spongy feeling..", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Uh did you have something about uh.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Are you going to invite Sponge Bob, maybe he can.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "So we should first decide about shape, I think.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Ding ding.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Which uh.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah I think that's the better thing to do..", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Then you can fit the L_C_D_ screen in it,", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "and can decide uh.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Um I also s uh can't help but notice that you uh used an you had a remote control.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "and the L_C_D_ screen was uh rather small. Um.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "w I think that L_C_D_ screen should be like.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "it it's supposed to be bit s bit s bit", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "... This was your size,", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "but I think it should be larger.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah three quarter of the of the.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah, three quarters. So uh so you don't have to put your oh.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah the buttons won't get that small when the L_C_D_ screen is.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Uh new, blank. So uh when you get this uh.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Ooh.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Uh kinda like this.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Or should it be larger?", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Larger I think.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Larger? Because you want to put your hands.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "But if you pu", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Now you can put your hand there and then you won't touch the screen.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "You want", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "becau because you have.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Perhaps that's best.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah okay, true, true, true true.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Your thumb here.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "But not on the screen because Yeah", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "that's uh that's an idea.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Looks a bit like a Game Boy now..", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Because when you put your f Yeah but if yo if you make the the L_C_D_ screen as large as the remote control itself, uh you'll you'll always get some.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "You always touch it,", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "You.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah yeah yeah yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Going to be very greasy and stuff.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "But it won't get that small because you have how much? Nine ten eleven twelve thirteen fourteen fifteen buttons on the screen.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "One to zero, the two digit,.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah you don't want it too small. How yeah how large.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "You have to you have to Because some fat people with d thick fingers will press three buttons at same time.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah they have thick fingers. But if you wanna make it in international, Japanese uh people got uh rather small hands", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah true,", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "and we got these large.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "but Yeah, we have we have the zoom option, right?", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Zoom opt Ah yeah of course, yeah. You can make it larger to to uh to uh with accompanying uh greater fields to push the button.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah. And we won't include a a pen, or something to point,", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "hey, we we want to do it with our fingers,", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "No.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "right?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Your fingers, yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Y you could include a pen", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "You don't want uh.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Because if you lose the pen uh if you lose the pen uh you can't use.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Use a pen You you c you can lose the pen.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah but I think people want to use a remote with with their fingers because th they're used to that", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah the fingers, yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah o yeah, if they think it's handy to use a pen.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "and.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah I think this uh this is a good size for the screen. I don't know how how large the actual remote should be but a little bit like this, or something.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "And maybe we have to add a tissue to remove the grease from all the fingers, huh..", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah You can do whatever uh any uh cloth.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah but that that can be with plain soft tissue. Yeah,", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Okay well", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "you can buy those at.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "maybe, if I can interrupt you, maybe I should uh should show some points on which we uh should take a decision.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Sure.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "So we can discuss these points. those points um energy question mark. How how should we uh supply the thing with energy and how are we going to do it with separate docking station and then put in it. Uh chip on print and case. Those are points my uh coach advised me to discuss here, but I hope you have ideas about them.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "I think energy were batteries and then uh and uh.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "The docking station.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah. So that's the the the first point.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Maybe it's better to to include rechargeable batteries", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "We already decided that on the previous meeting.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "W.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah. Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "which you can recharge through the docking station.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah. Just like with the telephone.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "So if the badg the batteries are dead", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "I kinda like your.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "then you can re you can uh change them.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah you got some uh some of those uh uh wireless uh mice? Mouse. Computer mouse.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah yeah yeah like those.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Kinda like those kind of batteries.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "but it should be th I think normal batteries,", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yep..", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "not not like two or two uh.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah, normal plain you No normal plain batteries you can buy at the supermarket or retail shop. Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Simple rechargeable uh batteries.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah. Um what was with the chip on print?", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "The chip on print? Um Uh you gotta f Yeah. I think so. Chip on print with a with a simple uh a sim not a simple but a.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Print plate.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "We also discussed that. Didn't we?.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah but how did this how does that with a L_C_D_ screen? You still have a print plate.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Uh.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah yeah yeah. You always have a print plate.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Beg your pardon?", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "You always have a print plate,", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah sure, of course, yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "right? Always, so I dunno what w what we have to decide about that.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah well it's a good question.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "It just was in there", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Well uh", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "and I didn't have any information about it,", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "chip on print, I think what they mean uh with the regular rubber buttons that you got, uh it's always clear for the remote control when you press uh a certain button.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "but Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "But when you got a L_C_D_ screen, with no uh with not the buttons are not always on the same place,", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah, okay. But.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "for example if you enlarge a button, or if you got several options uh appearing on your screen, uh the co-ordinations aren't always the same.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "When you got a regular button, th the button of stand-by is always on the same place and you got on the and on the.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah okay, but the p print plate of L_ L_C_D_ screen is more advanced than a normal print plate,", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "so that that's not of any discussion, I think.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Well you need some kind of C_P_U_, I guess.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "I suppose so.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Mm, I don't I dunno I don't think that's.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "It is a simple C_P_U_ but it doesn't.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah yeah okay but I d I I don't know if nor o s it's quite a simple L_C_D_.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah because it has to uh b", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah, it's quite a simple L_C_D_ screen. I think they don't need that big of C_P_U_.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah but it the the remote control has to know whether you're in a settings menu or just uh you just want to turn up the volume.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah, okay, true true. True.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "So it has to have some kind of a calculation unit or C_P_U_", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "to know uh in which state you are and uh which button you are pressing in at the right moment.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm. Because we're projecting projecting the buttons on the L_C_D_ screen.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "And a touch screen makes it uh possible to uh to get the co-ordination of your finger on the screen.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "And the case, yeah we already discussed the case,", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "It's rubber.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "we wanted to make it from rubber", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah but but a hard rubber like this?", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "and uh.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Or softer rubber or.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Uh hard rubber I think.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "That's the easy to ha uh to to uh.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "It bounces back from the floor where you throw it.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah. Yeah sure, look.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "We have different colours.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah yeah this in different colours?", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "D", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "So the shapes is something between the square shapes with round colo corners and a round shapes? No I don't think, I think it's more round than square..", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah it's a bit. But I think it should be a bit longer, perhaps.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "So it meets I think it meets more the young people than the older people.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah. But that's what we want,.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah. I think so too.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah, that's our target. Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "It's our main target.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Lower than forty years, I think", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Well and how about my idea uh of making it um with one single curve?", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "it was.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "So i", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Oh yeah that that I think I thought that was a quite good", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Because it's a gadget and you want to show it off, of course.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah yeah you have a fancy design, then, right away.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Uh.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "So.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Because it", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "You can put it on your table with the L_C_D_ screen,", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "you don't have to put it get it in your hand, you can put it next to you", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "and then dive it in", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah, that's a good idea.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "and. Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "It's a lot easier.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah, alright.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "So, so", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "So.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Okay so.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "you got uh.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "And then.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Did you write that down? Uh got a single curved uh rubber f uh fancy coloured remote control..", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "You can't you You can't oh, you c you can draw it on your paper and then load it on the", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah, you can uh.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah but I wrote it down..", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "It's pretty easy but And.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "And load it on the the user the server.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "What about the user interface, there are also some some questions uh about the concepts I think you have some ideas on that.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah,", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "You you showed your drawing.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "I had what I just uh I should again. I miss a few buttons, but. Well. At least uh what we should also have on, I just remembered, um a menu to go back through the first uh if if you touch options, you can't go back to this uh right away now.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm. Yeah, you have to go back. Yeah uh uh.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "This.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Isn't it better to have the sound and the general buttons horizontal?", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "I don't know.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "With the minus and the plus.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "I think it's.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "I think it's easier than.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "I don't know. I I thought it was uh easier to handle this way,", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "but I don't know what they think.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Sorry?.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Would you like the the buttons horizontal or v vertical?", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "For sound and channel.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Th", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Depends on the screen. If you make the screen vertical it doesn't matter. If you make it uh in a rectangle.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Right well if we make it like this, I think if you", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "I so it's it's it's it's.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "put it like this.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Square..", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "I think it's it's easier to have it something like Oh a button uh minus here, plus over here. A minus here, plus over here.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Oh, okay.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "And on here.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "The other buttons and on here the top.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "The options and then you have something like uh the P_ over here,", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "But I think I wou", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "and the sound.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "I think that's a matter of what you're used to.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Something uh.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "I think I would put a plus and a min uh here. And then the P_ in the mid in the middle and the sound uh in the middle.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Uh..", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Something like.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Sh", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Take your time..", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Plus minus plus uh.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Almost..", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "minus.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "but I think when you are holding it, you could press the minus and the plus and with the other finger the minus and the plus.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah I think you're going to s you're going to use it with one thumb.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah but I think Yeah I don't know. Perhaps I have some examples.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "W", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "I don't know.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "We'll leave that to the usability engineering then..", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Who's the usability engineering?", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "That's me.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "She is..", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "But I'm going to look if I've got some examples", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "'cause perhaps you should choose what's most often used.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Oh.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "The'Cause they can use that better.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Um.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Consistency.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Oh I have that those s numbers.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "I Here is our here are uh", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Or a good watch.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "I don't really know.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "B", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Everybody's searching in his data.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Channel selection. Per hour one hundred and sixty eight. Volume selection four times an hour", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah but But I mean if it's usually plus or min above each other or next to each other on a normal remote.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah. So not how much n not how often it's used, but.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Uh.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "W what's what's usual or normal.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah, that depends on on on the remote.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yes I'm looking here. But here's it's below,", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Uh.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "here also, and now here's here's next to each other.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "I think it's it's a.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "I think because I have two televisions at home. One is horizontal, one is vertical,", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah it does it doesn't really matter,", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "so it depends.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "but.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah. Depends.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Uh.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "I think the the the volume was usually uh above each other, because you go higher and down.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah, lower.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "And the the pay the the the program is next to each other, because you would go further and back.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "That's how it's is usually when I look here", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "True.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "that's what I see.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Okay, um. Let's cut to the chase..", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "It's got to change.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah well I think we have we don't have to decide about that now how where we will put the buttons", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "I don't know.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "just the", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah is it is user interface.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "concepts.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Component.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "This concept is in the actual design, but you should know where you would place a.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Okay, well le Yeah. Interface, yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "And the speech uh shall we implement that? Or uh.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah well we just heard about the new uh technology, huh?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Technologies, uh.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah I think it's it's easy for that, where are you, but then it says I'm here.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah. But then you should also find a place.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Makes it possible to.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "You could if you do it like this you could put it in a corner or something. You can talk into the corner.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah, a microphone, yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Not even necessary,", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "because a lotta you can make a very sensitive microphone, so it makes it possible to uh just put it arou uh underneath it or on the on the bottom of the uh remote.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah maybe at the bottom where you can can hel hold it with you hand that there's also a microphone uh", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah. But Yeah, that's also.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "over there.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "So, in the middle or something.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "But that's not import I think that's not im very important", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah, yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "because yeah, it doesn't matter where the microphone is.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "but you should uh decide where you want to put it.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Ah okay, sure, okay,", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Right?.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "well tha", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Um I think where it isn't seen", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Underneath? Indeed. It shouldn't be uh very uh visible.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "the most.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "You could p you could put it in a logo of the company..", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Inside.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah. Well", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah sure, why no", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "maybe just in the the spot you just pointed out", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "I i between the round of the R_.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah..", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "because I think it should be in a in an important position where people can see it,", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "because it is the the unique uh idea of our remote, huh, the the speech control.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah. So where do you want to put it?", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah, okay.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Well maybe where the one hand.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah but it doesn't makes it uh any more fancy because you get to see uh.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah actually it does because it you can you can find it better if you use it.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah. Yeah", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "It's a way for you to uh.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "bu but.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Uh.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "So it makes more sense just'cause other remotes don't have that.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah, okay.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "But are we talking about the button, or about the microphone?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "About a microphone,", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah because a microphone is very small thing,", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "there is no button.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "but you can make it look like it's big so as its its really an important function of the remote.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "I think the left s under corner should be the best.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Where isn't i it isn't most in sight.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Okay. Well put it there. I don't mind..", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "I think.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "That doesn't doesn't really matter.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "No. Actually doesn't.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Okay. So?", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Alright. Any more uh.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "So well uh", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Interface type.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "type, supplements, anything. Yeah, well we already s discussed that, huh, the the L_C_D_", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "The L_C_D_ yeah,", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "and.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "uh supplements well the supplement is to.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "I think I thought the, like you said, like scroll next to the remote isn't that handy.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah..", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "I think it's better to just up what you'd like to do on the screen. If you want to go back you have to back button go back,", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "if you want to choose audio settings you press audio settings and it goes to that s sub-menu.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Hey,", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Um yeah. Yeah", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "..", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "the the young people do like uh scroll uh", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Use the scroll. Yeah I think so too.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah? You do like it?", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "So why not, on on side.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Or at least Yeah I don't know if it's really the scroll, but the menu they like most, and I think you can never get through a menu great with a scroll uh.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Fast, yeah. So if you've got a settings, if you.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah I think it is is faster. Becau I think the scroll's easier if you have a lot of options,", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yes..", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "but if you don't have a lot of option then.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "But you have it's f uh", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "You have a lot of options,", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "we have five or four or something.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "because when you use Yeah you get w when you use uh the settings menu for example to look up some uh uh some channels on your uh on your television, you should scroll scroll down uh on a menu which probably does not fit on your screen.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Y", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Uh-huh. Yeah, okay, true.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "So then it's uh very handy to to scroll down,", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "you make just a rubber just like uh on your mouse or. Just put it on the side and it's very easy to use.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Okay, no problem.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "And I think I would it would make even more fancy because you have another interesting thing on the side", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah, yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "which you can touch", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah..", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "and.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "It's also different..", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Okay. Well there's our five minutes uh warning. Um any more uh questions about about the design or the user interface or different components, everyone?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Um. No, colours are clear,", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Everybody think they can can", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "shape is clear, material is clear.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Okay, what's the standard colour?", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "work for that?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "And a standard,", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Is there a standard colour?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "yeah we don't.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "I I", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "no we have different colour.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "You got you got different colours,", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "How many colours are we going to.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "You should you should have a black one", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "but you should have a standard colour.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "because uh I think black is standard.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Black. Yeah, black I think is is the standard.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Black? With the with the yellow uh.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "But if you want to be different, then uh.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Dark grey, something like this this colour or something.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Just a regular uh remote colour.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah like like yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "And then have uh different covers uh to use.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Or or silver. I think it's better to have silver nowadays.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Silver.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Silver, yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "I think you see more silver than black.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "You see a lot of t uh silver televisions.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "But still silver and black are well", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Silver rubber..", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah the the silver black are our main colours. Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "silver is new but also traditional, so uh.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "I think we have silver, black and between those is like I dunno s five colours between them or something.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah w what about a yellow thing, I mean it", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah y I think it's better to.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah yeah yeah it'll be a banana yellow, we have.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "could be ugly, but it's definitely fancy.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "But", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "R red.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah th yeah. That's right.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "But if you use uh silver, uh rubber s silver rubber isn't fancy.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Green, wood, brown. Yeah. True.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "When you use titanium, silver is fancy,", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "but when you use silver rubber, it isn't fancy. Silver has to shine, and rubber doesn't shine.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Especially when it's made of soft rubber like this.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "You understand?.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah, I understand.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah I would think about colours like uh red, yellow, green, blue,", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah o of course.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "just.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "The fruity colours and the autumn colours, like red and brown, dark red and brown.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Just all kind of colour.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Fruity. Fruity loops.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm. Maroon. Yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Okay, so.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "And and do we have to have a normal black one, or uh.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Who's pinging?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Is it.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "You are pingin", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "No.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Okay. I thought we", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "You ping..", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Okay, so uh that wraps it up? Everybody knows uh what to do?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Well I wrote it down here. I wrote it down here what to do um.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Well I don't know what to do,", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Well not what to do. Not what to do.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "but..", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "The next meeting is once again in thirty minutes. Um here are the individual actions,", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "and especially notice that uh the Industrial Designer and the User Interface Designer are going to work together on a prototype drawing on a smart board,", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Ooh. Right.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "S", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "and of course to all four of us uh specific instructions will be emailed by our personal coach.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "tough. We'll be available.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "But do we have to We'll work together, but do we have to stay here, or do we.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Well I I'd say just wait uh for email and uh find out.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "I don't know..", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yes. Okay..", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Thin I think we should work.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Okay well that was what I had to say, uh,", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah I think.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "final thoughts from anyone, or?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "No.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "We're finished.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "No.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Okay, well thank you very much.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Thank you very much.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Finished.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "So we have to keep talking English now?.", "speakerName": "User Interface" } ] }

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

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The participants aimed to improve the efficiency and accuracy of the system by addressing these challenges.", "responseAttribution": { "indexRanges": [ { "startIndex": 296, "endIndex": 313 } ] }, "queryMetadata": { "queryType": "QUERY_TYPE_GENERAL", "isUnanswerable": null, "isContextDependent": null } }, { "query": "What did Grad A say regarding the changes needed in the dialogue for Litonya?", "response": "Grad A did not say anything regarding the changes needed in the dialogue for Litonya.", "responseAttribution": null, "queryMetadata": { "queryType": "QUERY_TYPE_SPECIFIC", "isUnanswerable": true, "isContextDependent": null } }, { "query": "What did Professor B say regarding suggestions for enhanced interface design in the meeting?", "response": "The meeting transcript did not explicitly provide the information that Professor B said regarding suggestions for enhanced interface design in the meeting.", "responseAttribution": null, "queryMetadata": { "queryType": "QUERY_TYPE_SPECIFIC", "isUnanswerable": true, "isContextDependent": null } }, { "query": "What did Grad D say regarding belief-net enhancement in the meeting?", "response": "Grad D did not say anything regarding belief-net enhancement in the meeting.", "responseAttribution": null, "queryMetadata": { "queryType": "QUERY_TYPE_SPECIFIC", "isUnanswerable": true, "isContextDependent": null } } ] }

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{ "meetingId": "Bmr015", "transcriptSegments": [ { "text": "OK.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "OK we're on and we seem to be working.", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "Yes.", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "OK.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "We didn't crash we're not crashing anymore", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "One, two, three, four, f", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "and it really bothers me.", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "Yeah?", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "No crashing.", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "I do. I crashed when I started this morning.", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "You crashed crashed this morning? I did not crash this morning.", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "Yeah?", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "Oh! Well maybe it's just, you know, how many t u u u u how many times you crash in a day.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "Really? Yeah. Maybe, yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "First time first time in the day, you know.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "Or maybe it's once you've done enough meetings it won't crash on you anymore.", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "No?", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Postdoc F" }, { "text": "It's a matter of experience.", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "Self - learning, yeah.", "speakerName": "Postdoc F" }, { "text": "That's that's great.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "Uh.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "Do we have an agenda? Liz Liz and Andreas can't sh can't uh, can't come.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "I do.", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "So, they won't be here.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "I have agenda and it's all me.", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "Did.", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "Cuz no one sent me anything else.", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "Did they send, uh, the messages to you about the meeting today?", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "I have no idea but I just got it a few minutes ago.", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "Oh.", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "Right when you were in my office it arrived.", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "Oh. OK, cuz I checked my mail. I didn't have anything.", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "So, does anyone have any a agenda items other than me? I actually have one more also which is to talk about the digits.", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "Uh, right, so so I I was just gonna talk briefly about the NSF ITR.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm. Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "Oh, great.", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "Uh, and then, you have.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "Can w", "speakerName": "Postdoc F" }, { "text": "I mean, I won't say much, but uh, but then, uh, you said wanna talk about digits?", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "I have a short thing about digits and then uh I wanna talk a little bit about naming conventions, although it's unclear whether this is the right place to talk about it. So maybe just talk about it very briefly and take the details to the people who for whom it's relevant.", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "I could always say something about transcription. I've been but but uh, well.", "speakerName": "Postdoc F" }, { "text": "Well if we Yeah, we shouldn't add things in just to add things in. I'm actually pretty busy today,", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Postdoc F" }, { "text": "so if we can we.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "Yeah, yeah, yeah.", "speakerName": "Postdoc F" }, { "text": "a short meeting would be fine.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "This does sound like we're doing fine, yeah. That won't do.", "speakerName": "Postdoc F" }, { "text": "So the only thing I wanna say about digits is, we are pretty much done with the first test set. There are probably forms here and there that are marked as having been read that weren't really read. So I won't really know until I go through all the transcriber forms and extract out pieces that are in error. So I wa Uh. Two things. The first is what should we do about digits that were misread? My opinion is, um, we should just throw them out completely, and have them read again by someone else. You know, the grouping is completely random,", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "Uh - huh.", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "so it it's perfectly fine to put a a group together again of errors and have them re - read, just to finish out the test set.", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "Oh! By throw them out completely?", "speakerName": "Postdoc F" }, { "text": "Um, the other thing you could do is change the transcript to match what they really said. So those are those are the two options.", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Postdoc F" }, { "text": "But there's often things where people do false starts. I know I've done it, where I say say a.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "What the transcribers did with that is if they did a correction, and they eventually did read the right string, you extract the right string.", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "Oh, you're talking about where they completely read the wrong string and didn't correct it?", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Yeah. And didn't notice. Which happens in a few places.", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Ah.", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "So so.", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "Well, and s and you're talking string - wise, you're not talking about the entire page?", "speakerName": "Postdoc F" }, { "text": "Correct.", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "I get it.", "speakerName": "Postdoc F" }, { "text": "And so the the two options are change the transcript to match what they really said, but then but then the transcript isn't the Aurora test set anymore. I don't think that really matters because the conditions are so different. And that would be a little easier.", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "Well how many are how how often does that happen?", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "Mmm, five or six times.", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "Oh, so it's not very much.", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "No, it's not much at all.", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "Seems like we should just change the transcripts", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "OK.", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "to match.", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "Yeah, it's five or six times out of thousands?", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "Four thousand.", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "Four thousand?", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "Four thous Ah! Four thousand.", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "Yeah, it's.", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "Yeah, I would, uh, tak do the easy way,", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "OK.", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "It it's kinda nice I mean, wh who knows what studies people will be doing on on speaker - dependent things", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "Mmm.", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "and so I think having having it all.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "the speakers who we had is is at least interesting.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "So you um, how many digits have been transcribed now?", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "Four thousand lines. And each line is between one and about ten digits.", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "Four thousand lines?", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "I didn't I didn't compute the average. I think the average was around four or five.", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "So that's a couple hours of of, uh, speech, probably.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "Wow.", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "Yep. Yep.", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "Which is a yeah reasonable reasonable test set.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "And, Jane, I do have a set of forms which I think you have copies of somewhere.", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm. Yeah, true.", "speakerName": "Postdoc F" }, { "text": "Oh you do? Oh OK, good, good.", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm. Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Postdoc F" }, { "text": "Yeah, I was just wond I thought I had had all of them back from you. And then the other thing is that, uh, the forms in front of us here that we're gonna read later, were suggested by Liz", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "No, not yet.", "speakerName": "Postdoc F" }, { "text": "because she wanted to elicit some different prosodics from digits. And so, uh, I just wanted people to, take a quick look at the instructions", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm..", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "Eight eight two two two nine.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "and the way it wa worked and see if it makes sense and if anyone has any comments on it.", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "I see. And the decision here, uh, was to continue with uh the words rather than the the numerics.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "Uh, yes, although we could switch it back. The problem was O and zero. Although we could switch it back and tell them always to say \" zero \" or always to say \" O \".", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "Oh.", "speakerName": "Postdoc F" }, { "text": "Or neither.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "But it's just two thing ways that you can say it.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "Right?", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "Sure.", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "Oh.", "speakerName": "Postdoc F" }, { "text": "Um um,", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "that's the only thought I have because if you t start talking about these, you know u tr She's trying to get at natural groupings, but it there's there's nothing natural about reading numbers this way.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "I mean if you saw a telephone number you would never see it this way.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "The the problem also is she did want to stick with digits. I mean I'm speaking for her since she's not here.", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "But, um, the other problem we were thinking about is if you just put the numerals, they might say forty - three instead of four three.", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Mmm.", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "Well, if there's space, though, between them. I mean, you can With when you space them out they don't look like, uh, forty - three anymore.", "speakerName": "Postdoc F" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Well, she and I were talking about it,", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "and she felt that it's very, very natural to do that sort of chunking.", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "She's right. It's it it's a different problem. I mean it's a it's a it's an interesting problem I mean, we've done stuff with numbers before, and yeah sometimes people If you say s \" three nine eight one \" sometimes people will say \" thirty - nine eighty - one \" or \" three hundred three hundred eighty - nine one \", or I don't think they'd say that,", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "but but th", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "Not very frequently", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "no.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "but, they certainly could.", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "But Yeah. Uh, th thirty - eight ninety - one is probably how they'd do it.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "So. I mean, this is something that Liz and I spoke about", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "But I see.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "and, since this was something that Liz asked for specifically, I think we need to defer to her.", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "OK. Well, we're probably gonna be collecting meetings for a while and if we decide we still wanna do some digits later we might be able to do some different ver different versions,", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "Do something different,", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "but this is the next suggestion,", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "yeah.", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "so. OK. OK, so uh e l I guess, let me, uh, get my my short thing out about the NSF. I sent this actually this is maybe a little side thing. Um, I I sent to what I thought we had, uh, in some previous mail, as the right joint thing to send to, which was \" M MTG RCDR hyphen joint \".", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "It was. Joint. Yep.", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "But then I got some sort of funny mail saying that the moderator was going to.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "It's That's because they set the one up at UW.", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "that's not on our side, that's on the U - dub side.", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "Oh.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "And so U - UW set it up as a moderated list.", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Postdoc F" }, { "text": "Oh, OK.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "And, I have no idea whether it actually ever goes to anyone so you might just wanna mail to Mari", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "No no, th I got I got, uh, little excited notes from Mari and Jeff and so on,", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "and.", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "so it's.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "OK, good.", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "So the moderator actually did repost it.", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "Cuz I had sent one earlier Actually the same thing happened to me I had sent one earlier. The message says, \" You'll be informed \" and then I was never informed but I got replies from people indicating that they had gotten it, so.", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "It's just to prevent spam.", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "I see. Yeah so O OK. Well, anyway, I guess everybody here Are y are you are on that list, right? So you got the note?", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "Yeah? OK.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "Um, so this was, uh, a, uh, proposal that we put in before on on more more higher level, uh, issues in meetings, from I guess higher level from my point of view. Uh, and, uh, meeting mappings, and, uh so is i for it was a proposal for the ITR program, uh, Information Technology Research program's part of National Science Foundation. It's the second year of their doing, uh, these grants. They're they're a lot of them are some of them anyway, are larger larger grants than the usual, small NSF grants, and. So, they're very competitive, and they have a first phase where you put in pre - proposals, and we we, uh, got through that. And so th the the next phase will be we'll actually be doing a larger proposal. And I'm I I hope to be doing very little of it. And uh, which was also true for the pre - proposal, so. Uh, there'll be bunch of people working on it. So.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "When's when's the full proposal due?", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "Uh, I think April ninth, or something. So it's about a month.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "p s", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Um.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "Yep. And they said end of business day you could check on the reviewer forms,", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "u", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "is that.", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "Tomorrow.", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "Tomorrow. March second, I said.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "Tomorrow?", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "I've been a day off all week.", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "Tomorrow.", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "I guess that's a good thing cuz that way I got my papers done early.", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "It would be interesting.", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "So that's amazing you showed up at this meeting!", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "It is. It is actually quite amazing.", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "It'll be interesting to see the reviewer's comments.", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "Yeah. Yeah. My favorite is was when when when one reviewer says, uh, \" you know, this should be far more detailed \", and the nex the next reviewer says, \" you know, there's way too much detail \".", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "Yep. Or \" this is way too general \", and the other reviewer says, \" this is way too specific \".", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "\" This is way too hard \", \" way too easy \".", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "We'll see. Maybe there'll be something useful. And and, uh.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "Well it sounded like they they the first gate was pretty easy. Is that right? That they didn't reject a lot of the pre - proposals?", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "Do you know anything about the numbers?", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "No. Just just th", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "It's just from his message it sounded like that.", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "Yeah. Yeah. I said something, yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Gary Strong's.", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "I", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "there was a sentence at the end of one of his paragraphs", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "I.", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "I should go back and look. I didn't I don't think that's true.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "Yeah, OK.", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "Mmm. He said the next phase'll be very, competitive", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "Very very,", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "because we didn't want to weed out much in the first phase.", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "yeah. Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Well we'll have to see what the numbers are.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "Or something like that,", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "so.", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "Hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "Yeah. But they they have to weed out enough so that they have enough reviewers.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "So, uh, you know, maybe they didn't r weed out as much as usual, but it's it's usually a pretty But it Yeah. It's it's certainly not I'm sure that it's not down to one in two or something of what's left.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "I'm sure it's, you know.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "How how many awards are there, do you know?", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "Well there's different numbers of w awards for different size They have three size grants. This one there's, um See the small ones are less than five hundred thousand total over three years and that they have a fair number of them. Um, and the large ones are, uh, boy, I forget, I think, more than, uh, more than a million and a half, more than two million or something like that. And and we're in the middle middle category.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "I think we're, uh, uh, I forget what it was. But, um Uh, I don't remember, but it's pr probably along the li I I could be wrong on this yeah, but probably along the lines of fifteen or that they'll fund, or twenty. I mean when they Do you do you know how many they funded when they f in in Chuck's, that he got last year?", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "I don't I don't know.", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "I thought it was smaller, that it was like four or five, wasn't it?", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "Well they fund.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "I I'm.", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "they.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "I don't remember.", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "yeah. I mean.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "Uh it doesn't matter, we'll find out one way or another.", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "Yeah. I mean last time I think they just had two categories, small and big,", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "and this time they came up with a middle one, so it'll there'll be more of them that they fund than of the big.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "If we end up getting this, um, what will it mean to ICSI in terms of, w wh where will the money go to, what would we be doing with it?", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "Uh.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "Exactly what we say in the proposal.", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "I I mean uh which part is ICSI though.", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "You know, it i None of it will go for those yachts that we've talking about.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "I mean Dang!", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "Um, well, no, I mean it's u It.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "It's just for the research to continue the research on the Meeting Recorder stuff?", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "It's extending the research, right? Because the other.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "Yeah it's go higher level stuff than we've been talking about for Meeting Recorder.", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "Yeah. Yeah the other things that we have, uh, been working on with, uh, the c with Communicator uh, especially with the newer things with the more acoustically - oriented things are are are are lower level. And, this is dealing with, uh, mapping on the level of of, um, the conversation of mapping the conversations", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm. Right, right.", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "to different kind of planes. So. Um. But, um. So it's all it's all stuff that none none of us are doing right now, or none of us are funded for, so it's so it's it would be new.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "So assuming everybody's completely busy now, it means we're gonna hafta, hire more students, or, something?", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "Well there's evenings, and there's weekends, and Uh. Yeah, there there would be there would be new hires, and and there there would be expansion, but, also, there's always for everybody there's there's always things that are dropping off, grants that are ending, or other things that are ending, so,", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "there's there's a continual need to to bring in new things.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "Yep.", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "But but there definitely would be new new new, uh, students,", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "I see.", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "and so forth, both at at UW and here.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "Are there any students in your class who are expressing interest?", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "Um, not clear yet. Not clear yet.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "Other than the one who's already here.", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "I mean we got we have yeah, two of them are two in the c There're two in the class already here, and then and and, uh uh, then there's a third who's doing a project here, who, uh But he he he won't be in the country that long,", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "and, maybe another will end up.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "Yep.", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "Actually there is one other guy who's looking that that's that guy, uh, Jeremy? I think.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm..", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "Anyway, yeah that's that's all I was gonna say is that that that's you know, that's nice and we're sorta preceding to the next step, and, it'll mean some more work, uh, you know, in in March in getting the proposal out, and then, it's, uh, you know We'll see what happens. Uh, the last one was that you had there, was about naming?", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "Yep. It just, uh we've been cutting up sound files, in for ba both digits and for, uh, doing recognition. And Liz had some suggestions on naming and it just brought up the whole issue that hasn't really been resolved about naming. So, uh, one thing she would like to have is for all the names to be the same length so that sorting is easier. Um,", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "same number of characters so that when you're sorting filenames you can easily extract out bits and pieces that you want. And that's easy enough to do. And I don't think we have so many meetings that that's a big deal just to change the names. So that means, uh, instead of calling it \" MR one \", \" MR two \", you'd call it \" MRM zero zero one \", \" MRM zero zero two \", things like that. Just so that they're they're all the same length.", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "But, you know, when you, do things like that you can always as long as you have uh, you can always search from the beginning or the end of the string.", "speakerName": "Postdoc F" }, { "text": "The problem is that they're a lot of fields.", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "You know, so \" zero zero two \".", "speakerName": "Postdoc F" }, { "text": "Alright,", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Postdoc F" }, { "text": "so we we have th we're gonna have the speaker ID, the session, uh uh, information on the microphones,", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "Yeah, well, your example was really.", "speakerName": "Postdoc F" }, { "text": "information on the speak on the channels and all that.", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "Uh - huh.", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "i", "speakerName": "Postdoc F" }, { "text": "And so if each one of those is a fixed length, the sorting becomes a lot easier.", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "OK.", "speakerName": "Postdoc F" }, { "text": "She wanted to keep them the same lengths across different meetings also. So like, the NSA meeting lengths, all filenames are gonna be the same length as the Meeting Recorder meeting names?", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "Yep. And as I said, the it's we just don't have that many that that's a big deal.", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "Cuz of digits.", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "And so, uh, um, at some point we have to sort of take a few days off, let the transcribers have a few days off, make sure no one's touching the data and reorganize the file structures. And when we do that we can also rationalize some of the naming.", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "I I would think though that the transcribe the transcripts themselves wouldn't need to have such lengthy names.", "speakerName": "Postdoc F" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "So, I mean, you're dealing with a different domain there, and with start and end times and all that, and channels and stuff,", "speakerName": "Postdoc F" }, { "text": "Right. So the only thing that would change with that is just the directory names,", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "so, it's a different set.", "speakerName": "Postdoc F" }, { "text": "I would change them to match. So instead of being MR one it would be MRM zero zero one. But I don't think that's a big deal.", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "Fine. Fine.", "speakerName": "Postdoc F" }, { "text": "So for for m the meetings we were thinking about three letters and three numbers for meeting I Ds. Uh, for speakers, M or F and then three numbers, For, uh and, uh, that also brings up the point that we have to start assembling a speaker database so that we get those links back and forth and keep it consistent. Um, and then, uh, the microphone issues. We want some way of specifying, more than looking in the \" key \" file, what channel and what mike. What channel, what mike, and what broadcaster. Or I don't know how to s say it. So I mean with this one it's this particular headset with this particular transmitter w as a wireless.", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "Yep.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "And you know that one is a different headset and different channel. And so we just need some naming conventions on that.", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "And, uh,", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "Uh - huh.", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "that's gonna become especially important once we start changing the microphone set - up. We have some new microphones that I'd like to start trying out, um, once I test them. And then we'll we'll need to specify that somewhere. So I was just gonna do a fixed list of, uh, microphones and types.", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "So, as I said.", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "OK.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "That sounds good.", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "Um, since we have such a short agenda list I guess I wi I will ask how how are the transcriptions going? Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "The the news is that I've I uh s So in s um So I've switched to Start my new sentence. I I switched to doing the channel - by - channel transcriptions to provide, uh, the uh, tighter time bins for partly for use in Thilo's work and also it's of relevance to other people in the project. And, um, I discovered in the process a couple of of interesting things, which, um, one of them is that, um, it seems that there are time lags involved in doing this, uh, uh, using an interface that has so much more complexity to it. And I and I wanted to maybe ask, uh, Chuck to help me with some of the questions of efficiency. Maybe I was thinking maybe the best way to do this in the long run may be to give them single channel parts and then piece them together later. And I I have a script, I can piece them together. I mean, so it's like, I I know that I can take them apart and put them together and I'll end up with the representation which is where the real power of that interface is.", "speakerName": "Postdoc F" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "And it may be that it's faster to transcribe a channel at a time with only one, uh, sound file and one, uh, set of of, uh, utterances to check through.", "speakerName": "Postdoc F" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "I'm a little confused. I thought that that one of the reason we thought we were so much faster than than, uh, the the other transcription, uh, thing was that that we were using the mixed file.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "Oh, yes. OK. But, um, with the mixed, when you have an overlap, you only have a a choice of one start and end time for that entire overlap, which means that you're not tightly, uh, tuning the individual parts th of that overlap by different speakers.", "speakerName": "Postdoc F" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm. Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "So someone may have only said two words in that entire big chunk of overlap.", "speakerName": "Postdoc F" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "And for purposes of of, uh, things like well, so things like training the speech - nonspeech segmentation thing.", "speakerName": "Postdoc F" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Th - it's necessary to have it more tightly tuned than that.", "speakerName": "Postdoc F" }, { "text": "OK.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "And w and w and, you know, is a It would be wonderful if, uh, it's possible then to use that algorithm to more tightly tie in all the channels after that but, um, you know, I've th the So, I I don't know exactly where that's going at this point. But m I was experimenting with doing this by hand and I really do think that it's wise that we've had them start the way we have with, uh, m y working off the mixed signal, um, having the interface that doesn't require them to do the ti uh, the time bins for every single channel at a t uh, through the entire interaction.", "speakerName": "Postdoc F" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "Um, I did discover a couple other things by doing this though, and one of them is that, um, um, once in a while a backchannel will be overlooked by the transcriber.", "speakerName": "Postdoc F" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "As you might expect,", "speakerName": "Postdoc F" }, { "text": "Sure.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "because when it's a b backchannel could well happen in a very densely populated overlap. And if we're gonna study types of overlaps, which is what I wanna do, an analysis of that, then that really does require listening to every single channel all the way through the entire length for all the different speakers. Now, for only four speakers, that's not gonna be too much time, but if it's nine speakers, then that i that is more time. So it's li you know, kind of wondering And I think again it's like this it's really valuable that Thilo's working on the speech - nonspeech segmentation because maybe, um, we can close in on that wi without having to actually go to the time that it would take to listen to every single channel from start to finish through every single meeting.", "speakerName": "Postdoc F" }, { "text": "Yeah, but those backchannels will always be a problem I think. Uh especially if they're really short and they're not very loud and so it it can it it will always happen that also the automatic s detection system will miss some of them, so.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "OK. Well so then then, maybe the answer is to, uh, listen especially densely in places of overlap,", "speakerName": "Postdoc F" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "just so that they're they're not being overlooked because of that, and count on accuracy during the sparser phases.", "speakerName": "Postdoc F" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Cuz there are large s spaces of the That's a good point. There are large spaces where there's no overlap at all. Someone's giving a presentation,", "speakerName": "Postdoc F" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "or whatever. That's that's a good that's a good thought. And, um, let's see, there was one other thing I was gonna say. I I think it's really interesting data to work with, I have to say, it's very enjoyable. I really, not not a problem spending time with these data. Really interesting. And not just because I'm in there. No, it's real interesting.", "speakerName": "Postdoc F" }, { "text": "Uh, well I think it's a short meeting. Uh, you're you're you're still in the midst of what you're doing from what you described last time, I assume,", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "Is true.", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "and.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "I haven't results, eh, yet", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "but, eh, I I'm continue working with the mixed signal now, after the the last experience.", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "Yeah. Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "And and I'm tried to to, uh, adjust the to to improve, eh, an harmonicity, eh, detector that, eh, I I implement.", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "But I have problem because, eh, I get, eh, eh, very much harmonics now.", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "Um, harmonic possi possible harmonics, uh, eh, and now I'm I'm I'm trying to to find, eh, some kind of a, um of h of help, eh, using the energy to to distinguish between possible harmonics, and and other fre frequency peaks, that, eh, corres not harmonics. And, eh, I have to to talk with y with you, with the group, eh, about the instantaneous frequency, because I have, eh, an algorithm, and, I get, mmm, eh, t t results similar results, like, eh, the paper, eh, that I I am following. But, eh, the the rules, eh, that, eh, people used in the paper to to distinguish the harmonics, is doesn't work well.", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "And I I I I not sure that i eh, the the way o to ob the way to obtain the the instantaneous frequency is right, or it's it's not right. Eh,", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "I haven't enough file feeling to to to distinguish what happened.", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "Yeah, I'd like to talk with you about it. If if if, uh If I don't have enough time and y you wanna discuss with someone else some someone else besides us that you might want to talk to, uh, might be Stephane.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "Yeah. I talked with Stephane and and Thilo", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "Yeah and and Thilo, yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "and,", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "Yeah, but.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "they nnn they they they didn't.", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "I'm not too experienced with harmonics", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "I see.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "they think that the experience is not enough to.", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "and.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Is is this the algorithm where you hypothesize a fundamental, and then get the energy for all the harmonics of that fundamental?", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "No, no it's No No. No.", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "And then hypothesize a new fundamental and get the energy.", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "Yeah, that's wh", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "No. I I I I don't proth process the the fundamental. I I, ehm I calculate the the phase derivate using the FFT.", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "And The algorithm said that, eh, if you if you change the the the, eh, nnn the X - the frequency \" X \", eh, using the in the instantaneous frequency, you can find, eh, how, eh, in several frequencies that proba probably the the harmonics, eh,", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "Uh - huh.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "the errors of peaks the frequency peaks, eh, eh, move around these, eh eh frequency harmonic the frequency of the harmonic. And, eh, if you if you compare the the instantaneous frequency, eh, of the of the, eh, continuous, eh, eh, filters, that, eh that, eh, they used eh, to to to get, eh, the the instantaneous frequency,", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "it probably too, you can find, eh, that the instantaneous frequency for the continuous, eh, eh the output of the continuous filters are very near. And in my case i in equal with our signal, it doesn't happened.", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "Yeah. I'd hafta look at that and think about it.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "And.", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "It's it's it's I haven't worked with that either so I'm not sure The way the simple - minded way I suggested was what Chuck was just saying, is that you could make a a sieve. You know, y you actually say that here is.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "Let's let's hypothesize that it's this frequency or that frequency, and and, uh, maybe you maybe you could use some other cute methods to, uh, short cut it by by uh, making some guesses,", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "but but uh uh uh, I would, uh I mean you could make some guesses from, uh from the auto - correlation or something but but then, given those guesses, try, um, uh, only looking at the energy at multiples of the of that frequency, and and see how much of the take the one that's maximum. Call that the.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "But.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "Using the energy of the of the multiple of the frequency.", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "Of all the harmonics of that. Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "Do you hafta do some kind of, uh, low - pass filter before you do that?", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "I don't use.", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "Or.", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "But, I I know many people use, eh, low - pass filter to to to get, eh, the pitch.", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "No. To get the pitch, yes.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "I don't use. To get the pitch, yes.", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "To get the pitch, yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "But the harmonic, no.", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "But i But the harmonics are gonna be, uh, uh, I don't know what the right word is. Um, they're gonna be dampened by the uh, vocal tract, right? The response of the vocal tract.", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "Yeah?", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "Yeah?", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "And so just looking at the energy on those at the harmonics, is that gonna?", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "Well so the thing is that the This is for, uh, a, um.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "I m what you'd like to do is get rid of the effect of the vocal tract. Right?", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "And just look at the at at the signal coming out of the glottis.", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "Yeah. Uh, well, yeah that'd be good.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "But, uh but I but but I don't know that you need to.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "Open wide!", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "but I don't need you know if you need to get rid of it. I mean that'd that'd be nice but I don't know if it's ess if it's essential. Um, I mean cuz I think the main thing is that, uh, you're trying.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "Uh - huh.", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "wha what are you doing this for? You're trying distinguish between the case where there is, uh where where there are more than uh, where there's more than one speaker and the case where there's only one speaker.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "Sorry.", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "So if there's more than one speaker, um yeah I guess you could I guess yeah you're so you're not distinguished between voiced and unvoiced, so so, i if you don't if you don't care about that.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "See, if you also wanna just determine if you also wanna determine whether it's unvoiced, then I think you want to look look at high frequencies also, because the f the fact that there's more energy in the high frequencies is gonna be an ob sort of obvious cue that it's unvoiced.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "But, i i uh I mean i i but, um, other than that I guess as far as the one person versus two persons, it would be primarily a low frequency phenomenon. And if you looked at the low frequencies, yes the higher frequencies are gonna there's gonna be a spectral slope. The higher frequencies will be lower energy. But so what. I mean that's that's w", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "I will prepare for the next week eh, all my results about the harmonicity and will will try to come in and to discuss here, because, eh, I haven't enough feeling to to u many time to to understand what happened with the with, eh, so many peaks, eh, eh, and I I see the harmonics there many time but, eh, there are a lot of peaks, eh, that, eh, they are not harmonics.", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "Um, I have to discover what what is the the w the best way to to to c to use them", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "Well, but yeah I don't think you can I mean you're not gonna be able to look at every frame, so I mean I I mean I I really I I really thought that the best way to do it, and I'm speaking with no experience on this particular point, but, my impression was that the best way to do it was however you You've used instantaneous frequency, whatever. However you've come up you with your candidates, you wanna see how much of the energy is in that", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "Yeah. Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "as coppo as opposed to all of the all the total energy. And, um, if it's voiced, I guess so so y I think maybe you do need a voiced - unvoiced determination too. But if it's voiced,", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "um, and the, uh e the fraction of the energy that's in the harmonic sequence that you're looking at is relatively low, then it should be then it's more likely to be an overlap.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "Is height. Yeah. This this is the idea the idea I I I had to to compare the the ratio of the the energy of the harmonics with the eh, with the, eh, total energy in the spectrum and try to get a ratio to to distinguish between overlapping and speech. Mmm.", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "But you're looking a y you're looking at Let's take a second with this. Uh, uh, you're looking at f at the phase derivative, um, in in, uh, what domain? I mean this is this is in in in in bands? Or or.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "No, no, no.", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "Just just overall.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "It's a it's a o i w the band the band is, eh, from zero to to four kilohertz. And I I ot I.", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "And you just take the instantaneous frequency?", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "Yeah. I u m t I I used two m two method two methods. Eh, one, eh, based on the F eh, FTT. to FFT to to obtain the or to study the harmonics from from the spectrum directly,", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "and to study the energy and the multiples of", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "frequency. And another another algorithm I have is the in the instantaneous frequency, based on on on the FFT to to to calculate the the phase derivate in the time. Eh, uh n the d I mean I I have two two algorithms.", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "But, eh, in m i in my opinion the the the instantaneous frequency, the the the behavior, eh, was th it was very interesting. Because I I saw eh, how the spectrum concentrate, eh,", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "Oh!", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "around the the harmonic. But then when I apply the the rule, eh, of the in the the instantaneous frequency of the ne of the continuous filter in the the near filter, the the rule that, eh, people propose in the paper doesn't work. And I don't know why.", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "But the instantaneous frequency, wouldn't that give you something more like the central frequency of the you know, of the where most of the energy is? I mean, I think if you Does i does it Why would it correspond to pitch?", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "Yeah. I I I not sure. I I I try to to.", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "When first I I calculate, eh, using the FFT,", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "Di - digital camera.", "speakerName": "Postdoc F" }, { "text": "the the.", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "Keep forgetting.", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "I get the the spectrum,", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "and I represent all the frequency.", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "And when ou I obtained the instantaneous frequency. And I change the the the @ @, using the instantaneous frequency, here.", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "Oh, so you scale you s you do a a scaling along that axis according to instantaneous.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "I use Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "It's a kinda normalization.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "Yeah. Yeah. Because when when.", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "OK.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "eh, when i I I use these these frequency, eh, the range is different, and the resolution is different.", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "And I observe more more or less, thing like this. And the paper said that, eh, these frequencies are probably, eh, harmonics.", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "I see. Huh.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "But, eh, they used, eh, a rule, eh, based in the in the because to to calculate the instantaneous frequency, they use a Hanning window.", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "And, they said that, eh, if these peak are, eh, harmonics, the f instantaneous frequency, of the contiguous, eh w eh eh, filters are very near, or have to be very near. But, eh, phh! I don't I I I I don I I and I don't know what is the what is the distance. And I tried to to put different distance, eh, to put difference, eh eh, length of the window, eh, different front sieve, Pfff! and I I not sure what happened.", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "OK, yeah well I I guess I'm not following it enough. I'll probably gonna hafta look at the paper, but which I'm not gonna have time to do in the next few days, but but I'm I'm curious about it.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "Um, uh, OK.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "I I did i it did occur to me that this is uh, the return to the transcription, that there's one third thing I wanted to to ex raise as a to as an issue which is, um, how to handle breaths. So, I wanted to raise the question of whether people in speech recognition want to know where the breaths are. And the reason I ask the question is, um, aside from the fact that they're obviously very time - consuming to encode, uh, the fact that there was some I had the indication from Dan Ellis in the email that I sent to you,", "speakerName": "Postdoc F" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "and you know about, that in principle we might be able to, um, handle breaths by accessi by using cross - talk from the other things, be able that in principle, maybe we could get rid of them, so maybe And I was I I don't know, I mean we had this an and I didn't couldn't get back to you,", "speakerName": "Postdoc F" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "but the question of whether it'd be possible to eliminate them from the audio signal, which would be the ideal situation,", "speakerName": "Postdoc F" }, { "text": "I don't know think it'd be ideal.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "cuz.", "speakerName": "Postdoc F" }, { "text": "Uh - uh.", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "We - See, we're we're dealing with real speech and we're trying to have it be as real as possible", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "and breaths are part of real speech.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "Well, except that these are really truly I mean, ther there's a segment in o the one I did n the first one that I did for i for this,", "speakerName": "Postdoc F" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "where truly w we're hearing you breathing like as if we're you're in our ear, you know, and it's like it's like.", "speakerName": "Postdoc F" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "I y i I mean, breath is natural, but not", "speakerName": "Postdoc F" }, { "text": "It is but it is if you record it.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "Except that we're we're trying to mimic Oh, I see what you're saying. You're saying that the PDA application would have uh, have to cope with breath.", "speakerName": "Postdoc F" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "Well", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "No.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "But.", "speakerName": "Postdoc F" }, { "text": "An - any application may have to.", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "The P D A might not have to,", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "No i", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "but more people than just PDA users are interested in this corpus.", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "So so mean you're right", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "OK, then the then I have two questions.", "speakerName": "Postdoc F" }, { "text": "we could remove it,", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "Yeah?", "speakerName": "Postdoc F" }, { "text": "but I I think we don't wanna w remove it from the corpus, in terms of delivering it because the people will want it in there.", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "Yeah. If it gets.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "OK, so maybe the question is notating it. Yeah?", "speakerName": "Postdoc F" }, { "text": "Yeah i Right. If if it gets in the way of what somebody is doing with it then you might wanna have some method which will allow you to block it, but you it's real data. You don't wanna b but you don't.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "OK, well.", "speakerName": "Postdoc F" }, { "text": "If s you know, if there's a little bit of noise out there, and somebody is is talking about something they're doing, that's part of what we accept as part of a real meeting, even And we have the f uh the uh the the fan and the in the projector up there, and, uh, this is it's this is actual stuff that we we wanna work with.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "Well this is in very interesting", "speakerName": "Postdoc F" }, { "text": "So.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "because i it basically has a i it shows very clearly the contrast between, uh, speech recognition research and discourse research because in in discourse and linguistic research, what counts is what's communit communicative.", "speakerName": "Postdoc F" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "And breath, you know, everyone breathes, they breathe all the time. And once in a while breath is communicative, but r very rarely. OK, so now, I had a discussion with Chuck about the data structure", "speakerName": "Postdoc F" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "and the idea is that the transcripts will that get stored as a master there'll be a master transcript which has in it everything that's needed for both of these uses.", "speakerName": "Postdoc F" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "And the one that's used for speech recognition will be processed via scripts. You know, like, Don's been writing scripts", "speakerName": "Postdoc F" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "and and, uh, to process it for the speech recognition side. Discourse side will have this this side over he the we we'll have a s ch Sorry, not being very fluent here. But, um, this the discourse side will have a script which will stri strip away the things which are non - communicative. OK. So then the then let's let's think about the practicalities of how we get to that master copy with reference to breaths. So what I would r r what I would wonder is would it be possible to encode those automatically? Could we get a breath detector?", "speakerName": "Postdoc F" }, { "text": "Oh, just to save the transcribers time.", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "Well, I mean, you just have no idea. I mean, if you're getting a breath several times every minute,", "speakerName": "Postdoc F" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "and just simply the keystrokes it takes to negotiate, to put the boundaries in, to to type it in, i it's just a huge amount of time.", "speakerName": "Postdoc F" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "Oops.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Wh - what.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "And you wanna be sure it's used, and you wanna be sure it's done as efficiently as possible, and if it can be done automatically, that would be ideal.", "speakerName": "Postdoc F" }, { "text": "what if you put it in but didn't put the boundaries?", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "Well, but.", "speakerName": "Postdoc F" }, { "text": "So you just know it's between these other things,", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "Well, OK. So now there's there's another another possibility", "speakerName": "Postdoc F" }, { "text": "right?", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "which is, um, the time boundaries could mark off words from nonwords. And that would be extremely time - effective, if that's sufficient.", "speakerName": "Postdoc F" }, { "text": "Yeah I mean I'm think if it's too if it's too hard for us to annotate the breaths per se, we are gonna be building up models for these things and these things are somewhat self - aligning, so if so, we i i if we say there is some kind of a thing which we call a \" breath \" or a \" breath - in \" or \" breath - out \", the models will learn that sort of thing. Uh, so but you but you do want them to point them at some region where where the breaths really are. So.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "OK. But that would maybe include a pause as well,", "speakerName": "Postdoc F" }, { "text": "Well, there's a there's.", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "and that wouldn't be a problem to have it, uh, pause plus breath plus laugh plus sneeze?", "speakerName": "Postdoc F" }, { "text": "Yeah, i You know there is there's this dynamic tension between between marking absolutely everything, as you know, and and and marking just a little bit and counting on the statistical methods. Basically the more we can mark the better. But if there seems to be a lot of effort for a small amount of reward in some area, and this might be one like this Although I I I'd be interested to h get get input from Liz and Andreas on this to see if they Cuz they've - they've got lots of experience with the breaths in in, uh, uh, their transcripts.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "They have lots of experience with breathing?", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "I.", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "Actually Well, yes they do, but we we can handle that without them here. But but but, uh, you were gonna say something about.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "Yeah, I I think, um, one possible way that we could handle it is that, um, you know, as the transcribers are going through, and if they get a hunk of speech that they're gonna transcribe, u th they're gonna transcribe it because there's words in there or whatnot. If there's a breath in there, they could transcribe that.", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "Yeah. Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "That's what they've been doing. So, within an overlap segment, they they do this.", "speakerName": "Postdoc F" }, { "text": "Right. But Right. But if there's a big hunk of speech, let's say on Morgan's mike where he's not talking at all, um, don't don't worry about that.", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "So what we're saying is, there's no guarantee that, um So for the chunks that are transcribed, everything's transcribed. But outside of those boundaries, there could have been stuff that wasn't transcribed. So you just somebody can't rely on that data and say \" that's perfectly clean data \". Uh do you see what I'm saying?", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "Yeah, you're saying it's uncharted territory.", "speakerName": "Postdoc F" }, { "text": "So I would say don't tell them to transcribe anything that's outside of a grouping of words.", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "That sounds like a reasonable reasonable compromise.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "Yeah, and that's that that quite co corresponds to the way I I try to train the speech - nonspeech detector, as I really try to not to detect those breaths which are not within a speech chunk but with which are just in in a silence region.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "And they so they hopefully won't be marked in in those channel - specific files.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "u I I wanted to comment a little more just for clarification about this business about the different purposes.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "But.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Yeah, so.", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Postdoc F" }, { "text": "See, in a in a way this is a really key point, that for speech recognition, uh, research, uh, um, e a it's not just a minor part. In fact, the I think I would say the core thing that we're trying to do is to recognize the actual, meaningful components in the midst of other things that are not meaningful. So it's critical it's not just incidental it's critical for us to get these other components that are not meaningful. Because that's what we're trying to pull the other out of. That's our problem. If we had nothing.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Postdoc F" }, { "text": "if we had only linguistically - relevant things if if we only had changes in the spectrum that were associated with words, with different spectral components, and, uh, we we didn't have noise, we didn't have convolutional errors, we didn't have extraneous, uh, behaviors, and so forth, and moving your head and all these sorts of things, then, actually speech recognition i i isn't that bad right now. I mean you can you know it's it's the technology's come along pretty well.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "The the the reason we still complain about it is because is when when you have more realistic conditions then then things fall apart.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "OK, fair enough. I guess, um, I uh, what I was wondering is what what at what level does the breathing aspect enter into the problem? Because if it were likely that a PDA would be able to be built which would get rid of the breathing, so it wouldn't even have to be processed at thi at this computational le well, let me see, it'd have to be computationally processed to get rid of it, but if there were, uh, like likely on the frontier, a good breath extractor then, um, and then you'd have to.", "speakerName": "Postdoc F" }, { "text": "But that's a research question, you know? And so.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "Yeah, well, see and that's what I wouldn't know.", "speakerName": "Postdoc F" }, { "text": "that And we don't either. I mean so so the thing is it's it right now it's just raw d it's just data that we're collecting, and so we don't wanna presuppose that people will be able to get rid of particular degradations because that's actually the research that we're trying to feed. So, you know, an and maybe maybe in five years it'll work really well,", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "OK.", "speakerName": "Postdoc F" }, { "text": "and and it'll only mess - up ten percent of the time, but then we would still want to account for that ten percent, so.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "I guess there's another aspect which is that as we've improved our microphone technique, we have a lot less breath in the in the more recent, uh, recordings, so it's in a way it's an artifact that there's so much on the on the earlier ones.", "speakerName": "Postdoc F" }, { "text": "Uh - huh. I see.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "One of the um, just to add to this one of the ways that we will be able to get rid of breath is by having models for them. I mean, that's what a lot of people do nowadays.", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "And so in order to build the model you need to have some amount of it marked, so that you know where the boundaries are.", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "Hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "So I mean, I don't think we need to worry a lot about breaths that are happening outside of a, you know, conversation. We don't have to go and search for them to to mark them at all, but, I mean, if they're there while they're transcribing some hunk of words, I'd say put them in if possible.", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "OK, and it's also the fact that they differ a lot from one channel to the other because of the way the microphone's adjusted.", "speakerName": "Postdoc F" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "OK.", "speakerName": "Postdoc F" }, { "text": "Should we do the digits?", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "Yep. OK.", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "OK.", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "Mmm. Alright.", "speakerName": "Grad D" } ] }

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{ "meetingId": "ES2007b", "transcriptSegments": [ { "text": "Think we can first.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Right it was function F_ eight or something.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Tha", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "This one right there.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Who is gonna do a PowerPoint presentation?", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Think we all.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "You will as well?", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Huh. Oh I thought we all were.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah, I have one too, okay.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": ".", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "S", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yep.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": ".", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Whoops I forgot to put the thing on.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Right. I just wanna'cause basically I can't re I've really crap at remembering everyone's name so I just wanna rather than going uh Miss Marketing and Miss this and Miss that wanted to know your names again.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Okay I'm.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "just gonna leave this up here'cause I'll you know. So.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah. Sure, that's a good idea.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "I'm Catherine with a C_. C_A_T_H_ E_R_ I_N_E_.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Okay, and", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Uh Gabriel.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Gabriel. E_L_ is it?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "E_L_.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "'Kay. And you're s r R_E_I_S_S_.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "I am Reissa. R_E_I_S_S_A_. Double S_ A_, yeah yeah. Sorry.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "'S just a bit nicer calling people by their names I think.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "True.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Uh, right.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm'kay.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Okay, right, welcome to meeting B_. Um this is gonna go a lot better than the last meeting, basically,", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "uh'cause I know what I'm supposed to be doing now.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "I am your Project Manager, and, uh yeah, I'm just here to", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "sort of liaise between the three of you and get things going, get people talking and and I'm gonna be making notes and sending them off to the powers that be and stuff basically. Um right, this for the purposes of this meeting what this meeting is all about is um I'm gonna have some presentations from all three of you, what you've been working on for the last wee while, when you haven't been getting hit with spam on your computers and and, you know, filling out silly questionnaires and things.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "But hopefully you've been actually been doing something productive. So we're gonna each of you gonna give us a litt a little presentation. Um.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Then we're gonna work, you know, from each of your presentations. We'll we'll uh talk about what we actually need as a final coming together of it all. Um and then we'll, yeah, we'll sort of conclude anything else comes up at the end of it.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "How long is the meeting?", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "This meeting it's not very long. It's uh probably down to about thirty five minutes now. So I want each of your presentations to not be too long, five five minutes, something like that.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Okay. No problem..", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Um if you haven't done a PowerPoint thingy, it doesn't matter, it it just it just says that you it's that's just one particular medium. If you haven't had time to prepare one, you can draw stuff on the noteboard, you can talk to us, you can you know however you want to do your little presentation, basically, you can. Don't feel pressurised into using this thing.'Cause I don't.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Uh okay. So um. You okay over there? Reissa,", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "I'm fine. Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "are you uh b are you joining in with this meeting here", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "I uh yeah, yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "or are y or are y or are you are you just are you just uh doing some Internet shopping there?.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Think she's finishing up her presentation.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "D I mean, I I'm finishing off my presentation.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "No no. Uh I'm done. Okay.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Okay, jolly good. Alright, let's have um well, we all know that it's it's a remote control that we're gonna be dealing with.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "I think the first thing we should look at is um probably the um what it is that it is actually supposed to be. So that's gonna be you Catherine,", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "if we wanna hear from you first.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Okay. Um just connecting this.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "You don't have to worry about screwing it in just.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Are we getting i Really?", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "there you go.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Okay. Cool. Okay. So I've got a very quick uh Uh. Okay.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "So the working design, I've got a very quick presentation on this, so um I've oh no, you can't see a thing. Oh well, I'm gonna draw it on the board then. It's in blue uh, and I couldn't change it.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Oh..", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Ah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "We it's fine on my screen, but never mind. So um the idea is that we've got the energy source um, which in our case will pr, oh well okay, never mind. So um I think maybe uh two batteries, I dunno what they're called six, or something like that.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Uh and then um then on the uh remote control itself will have um the sender for the signal, which could be uh an infra-red signal, um which will be sent by an electronic chip. And uh the chip will be controlled by the user interface. So we'll hear about that later from Gabriel.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "And uh the sender will send to the telly itself an infra-red signal to tell it to switch on or switch channels. Um and that's it really for the working design.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Great. Okay.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Sorry the presentation wasn't very uh clear but.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "I prefer the pe I prefer the human touch personally.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Really? Cool.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Um, should I erase this or.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Do you wanna just give us a moment, I just wanna copy this down.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Um I dunno if you guys have got any questions for Catherine on any of this?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Fine. Or suggestions?", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Is a battery like the only way of.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Well, it's just, you don't want it plugged in really, s", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah, alternate energy source, like win wind power or.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah, you blow on it and i.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "In indoors..", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "No, no.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Bicycle power.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "No I meant like.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "No'cause like cha'cause always changing um um batteries can get like annoying.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "The battery's down and maybe, I dunno, solar charged?.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "I dunno, swi I th I th I think changing your batteries once every six months is not really a pain, but.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah, it's worked for the last fifty years you know.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm. Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "One question I have, and I don't know how much control we have over this is um, as far as the infra-red signal, do we have control over, you know, how far away you can be from the receiving unit, the the T_V_, and still have it be operational? I mean, maybe we want one with a strong signal stream.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "How far away is your television?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "It's never gonna be more than it's never gonna be, you kno unless you've got a T_V_ the size of a football pitch, it's not doesn't have to go that far,", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Uh.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Well, the thing is uh you you don't.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "does it? Doesn't have to go through a wall, because you're not gonna be looking through a wall.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "That's true.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah, but if like you're on the phone in the other room and you need turn television off or something and you don't really want to go into the put the telephone down, and go into the other room..", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Well, we can make the the signal strong enough to go through walls if if you fancy it. I didn't think about that but.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "How about Bluetooth? Instead of using infra-red, use Bluetooth.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Why not? I just think that it's it's gonna cost more", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Isn't that a better signal?", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah, yeah I d it sounds like you you w don't wanna overcomplicate things.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "and I'm I'm not sure it's you're gonna use it.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "You know we don't need it.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "It's a fancy idea uh it's quite nice, but then I don't th I dunno, either you if you wanna watch the telly you're in the room,", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah, exactly.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "you are gonna.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Basically, we're we're desi we're designing and marketing a television remote control unit.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "But.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "We're not w w w w designing something that you can plug in a headset to and and you know connect to your laptop computer and stuff. It's uh.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Oh, we can we can keep the idea if you i We can see at a later stage, maybe, I don't.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "'S just an idea.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Okay. Right, well done, Catherine. Um Gab Gabriel let's uh let's hear from you on on on such things.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Do you need the border?", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Uh I'm just gonna use the PowerPoint uh.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Okay. Sorry.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Technical. Okay.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Okay, so, while this is warming up,", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Adjusting.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "there it is uh.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "So I'm doing the user interface design.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah, and basically uh, as far as methods, I was I was looking looking at looking at uh already existing remotes, trying to find some inspiration from designs that are already out there. Thinking of what we can retain, what we can do away with, uh what we what we can perfect a little bit as far as design um. we don't want to do something that's too radical of a change, I guess, I mean people want a remote that's familiar, that has their favourite functionalities um and and does the basics, but.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Mm yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Um so we can improve what's out there and maintain that, the basic functionality that people want. Um so things that seem like absolute must-haves uh would be a volume control, um so up-down keys for that, uh channel keys up-down, but then also a numerical key pad so that they can just key directly to the channel that they want, rather than doing up-down, and uh a mute button. Uh one thing that I didn't include here, that I forgot that we talked about last time, was doing um some sort of lock uh function.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Uh, I don't I dunno, uh that's one possibility. And so in the research that I was doing there's basically two types of remotes, ones that are engineering centred and ones that are more user centred, which I don't know if I can access the web page from here, but I can show you uh. Yeah. So this is a engineer centred one, so you see it's rather busy, but it also lets you play your movie, stop your movie, fast-forward, all this, um freeze frame.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Uh and this is a user centred one. Uh it's it's easier to g just glance at this and see what's possible to do,", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "you're not gonna be staring at it for five minutes.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Great.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "And I judging from what what we all talked about during our last meeting I kind of gathered that that's what we were going after, uh or the direction we were going in at least. Um. So, the engineering centred ones uh provide a lot of functionality, but it can be a little bit overwhelming, so the user centred ones just focus on ease of use. Uh and this sort of overlaps with what the marketing person uh, Reissa,", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "because uh we we need to find out what what people want before we make firm decisions on this.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "..", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "So uh, yeah, that's me.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Great. Okay. Now that's I just have a q a q question for you. This w um research that you've been doing looki looking at other, you know, existing units stuff. Um have you found that anyone else has do has looked into the locking function or.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "No that that that seemed like a novel idea as f as far as I know. I mean obviously another exists like you like you said in in mobile phones.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "That was sort of the inspiration for it. Um I've never seen that with in in all my years in in the remote business.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah..", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "I've, haven't I've never seen a locking functionality. I dunno, what uh do you guys have a a yea or nay on that a feeling about whether that's really necessary?", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Um I would say it's If it's simple to do, which I think it probably should be,", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "even if it's a physical, you know, a f a like a f a physical switch or a physical cover for the remote, even something like that, um then yes,", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.'Kay.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "it's like, you know, like s you said earlier on ab ab ab a flip thing, something like that,", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "but you know being physical. Look into. Um I've had word down from head office that something that we should be centred well, something we should take into account is um we've gotta keep the corporate image within this remote control unit. It's gotta d look like it's in the R_ and R_.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "You know, the the company it's it's, from what I can see from our other products, are yellow with blue writing on them. Um.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Right. And our motto is is we put the fashion in electronics.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "We put the fashion in electronics. There you go.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "I think I think we have to carry that mental.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "So it's kinda gotta look it's gotta look new and s you know something fashionable. If if remote control well, if telephones can be fashionable, then maybe remote control units can be.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Well yeah these, I think, we can so we talked about the layout in my presentation and what I didn't mention yet really is is the sort of like the ergonomic design.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah. Because we need.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "I t I think we can make big improvements over these two that you see here, I mean.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah. Great.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Uh, everything is going t ergonomic, you know, there's you know mice for your computers that are very ergonomic and keyboards and that could be one of our niches p sort of uh uh in the market, I guess. Um.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Okay, fantastic.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Right, well done, Gabriel.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": ".", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Um Reissa. Let's plug you in, baby.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Where does it go into?", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": ".", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Here?", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "The blue thing.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Uh, yeah, this is getting all.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Mm..", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": ".", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah, then you just have to do function F_ eight and it should come up.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Well, function F_ eight. No.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah, w it it just takes a wee while.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah, it just takes a second uh.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "oh. Come on. Right. Okay.. Okay. Well, for our marketing report uh we observed remote control users in a usability lab, and also gave so this is research and we also gave participants um questionnaires to fill out. Um total number of people tested were a hundred just so you know, so that hundred people were tested and these were the findings. So seventy five per cent of users find the remote control ugly. Okay, so they don't like the look of the remote control. Um eighty f eighty per cent of them would spend more money if the rem remote control looked really cool and fancy. So I think we all agree with that. Um current remote controls do not match well with the operating behaviour of the user. So, they don't like like the way they operate it doesn't like match how people behave. Um per cent of the users say that they only use ten per cent of the buttons on a remote, so probably if you have like one, two, three, four, five, the whole up to z ten, they probably don't use those, they only use the up and down channel.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "'Cause we've only got five channels..", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "exactly.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "That's another thing. Um seventy five per cent of users say they zap. Not quite sure what they mean, zap, goes like.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "I think that's k flicking quickly between channels.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah, you wanna navigate the channels quickly I guess.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm. Um takes too much time to learn how to use a new remote. I think especially for uh the older generation. I know my grandmother doesn't like mobile phones, takes ages to work how to use. Anyway um and they also remotes often get lost in the room, so nobody can find them.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "So maybe tracking devices is a good idea.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Wow.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Um personal preferences..", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "You are a child of technology, aren't you?.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Um so yeah um I was thinking something easy to use, especially for older people. Um has to look really cool, flashy groovy for people to buy it. And it's easy to find, so I don't know whether maybe and also we asked them whether they wanted whether they'd be interested in um voice activating.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "So voice activation. So and this was what we came up with. Then if you look fifteen to twenty five this is age, sorry, age groups. So fifteen to twenty five said like ninety two ninety one per cent of them said yes.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "So there you go, yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Um so basically the majority except for the forty five to fifty five year olds for some reason didn't want a voice activated one. And neither did the older generation, but the younger generation who we are catering for, like who have most of the money nowadays, do want a voice act speech recognition in a remote.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Uh but do the younger generation have the money? They they don't.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "No I would I would say the older the older people, yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "It's older generation, they're the ones that have gone out and.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Well the twenty five to thirty five year old, and thirty five, and the thirty five to forty five, forty five point seven per cent say no, so.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "People people from the age of thirty f there's a big drop off there.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "For people up to the age of thirty five, you're kinda saying, yeah, they want it. Um but no they're not sort of most people that have the money are people from the age of thirty five to fifty five,", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah, that would be my guess as well.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "uh'cause they're the ones that have been working for twenty years.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "So they don't.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Um d and tha", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Well.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "and that's a that's quite a minority there, so yeah, it's not even like fifty fifty that's th thirty five per cent.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "These guys are growing up..", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "What about just from the the prospective of our manufacturing cost? I mean if if it's twelve fifty per unit.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "I mean, okay, there's.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Voice activation might not be the best.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "I would say scra I'd say scrap that straight off.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Uh.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Um also with um with buttons, a thing called R_S_I_, so wrist sense.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Repetitive strain uh rep repetitive strain injury", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Huh?", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "or like from doing.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah, repetitive strains injury, so they don't I think people who watch T_V_ maybe too often, keep changing channel hurts their wrist.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Well maybe they shouldn't watch so much T_V_ then..", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "I don't think so..", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "So y so it's so it's so you got.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "so that's something we should have a look into then i when desi when designing the ergonomics of.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "maybe not so hard.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "see have a look if um there's any w any medical background we can find out about this.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Maybe it could be, instead of pressing button it could be just touching a.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Let's jus.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Maybe.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "we just want need to cover our arses so that people aren't gonna sue us in ten years' time, say your remote control gave me repetitive strain injury.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah, we should probably consult with our legal department uh.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah. They're having a lunch break at the moment, but yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "I'll see if I can get see if I can get hold of them for the next meeting.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah. I think we can do some really in in that department, the the ergonomic department, we can make some some really good improvements.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm. Maybe th the buttons not so high up so you don't have to press so much,", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "or we just like flat buttons, something. Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "So that is me.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "That's great, thank you very much for that, Reissa. Um okay, so we've basically we've decide we've d we've decided that it's gonna be, you know uh, we're going for a basic television remote. It's gotta be safe to use, it's gotta look cool.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "It's gotta be cheap. S um.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Now going back to the uh industrial design of it, you know, we were looking at whether to use maybe infra-red or Bluetooth. I think, we should just go with the simplest option on everything, uh and that would be infra-red, energy source, that would be batteries. Uh mean we we can look into using the s, you know, the little tiny weeny batteries, all like special long-lasting batteries. Um. But a in there's no I don't think there's any point in making a remote control unit that's gonna last for fifty years, because technology will have changed and, you know, we won't have televisions in ten years' time. So.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yep.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "I think we're all um pretty sussed on that. Um anyone have any questions? Everybody happy in their work?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah, it seems like we're all on the pretty much on the same page.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Now this is good, we've got a good structure going on. We all know where we're going to. Have you been ge has have any of you lot been getting loads of crap spam on your computers?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Oh it's probably just you,'cause you're the project manager..", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": ".", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Well, just questionnaires.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Sell trying to sell your things..", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah, stuff.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Um okay. Do oh have you guys found out if we can if we can e-mail stuff to each other?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah, you can.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Right. Do all you all know my e-mail address?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Okay. No I don't. I.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Well, in the project announcement, you've got the addresses, I think.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "I think he's participant one, aren't you?", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "So Project Manager, it's participant one at A_M_I_..", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Uh Oh, it's just participant one oh okay. Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Can you all d e-mail me your e-mail addresses?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": ".", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "You have them i you have them,", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Well it's just w it's just it's just par participant one, participant two..", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "but we'll send you an e-mail.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Send me, yeah", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "You want to have friends, don't you?", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "yeah, okay.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "So are we headed towards like a b a big yellow and black remote as far as maybe that's our next meeting that we discuss that.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Is it yellow and black or is it yellow and blue? I I kind of thought it was blue writing on a yellow background, but I might be just going a bit.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Well, it's like white on i white and blue on a black background with white with yellow borders.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Maybe that's like getting ahead of ourselves.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Well, maybe you can come up with a few with a couple of different ideas?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "It wouldn't be.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Can't we have different colours in the remotes, so somebody can choose different col", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Well, see the thing is is we've gotta keep the company image.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "like does it have to be of a certain?", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "It's gotta say people have gotta look at this remote control and instantly recognise that it's a Real Reaction i product.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "But if it's a R_R_, it would be Real Reaction,", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "There's loads of companies that called R_R_.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "like if it had a symbol on it.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "This is slog but this is the slogan, this is the the the the type.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Whoa.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "And this is something that came on down from from the higher ups,", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "so, I mean, we are sort of beholden to them.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "So we have to have it one colour.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Well, not necessarily. But we have to incorporate it.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Not one colour, but the pattern needs to be recognisable.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Not necessarily even if i it just has to ye but you have to look at the product and instantly know that it's one of our products", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Well you could.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "as opposed to a Sony product or a, you know, a Panasonic product.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "It's got to so maybe, so you can have a look at our our other products and see if they all follow a s similar vein, perhaps.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "It could come But it could come in different colours and have the R_R_ colours just somewhere", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "like just around the lock button could be the R_R_ logo or colours and.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "If.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Quite poss yeah. Well this is all your department. Mm okay. Well, well done everybody.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": ".", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "And um, I think we uh stop for lunch now.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah, pretty soon I think, I guess that's now.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Are we are we finished ahead of schedule?", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "We might possibly have done.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Cool.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Alright, see you all soon.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "If we've if we've finished at five minutes before the meeting's supposed to finish, then that means we get an extra five minutes for lunch.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "'Kay uh.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah, there you go. Right. I just have to there's a few little bits and pieces I have to write down, but Take your headsets off, kick back, smoke'em if you got'em..", "speakerName": "Project Manager" } ] }

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You or me?", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Y you read that stuff, since you wrote it.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Okay. Well, since our materials aren't exactly what we were going for, I'm just gonna translate what this all means for you.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "I'll be the Vanna.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "The base is gonna be gunmetal gray, which is what we had decided, and it's gonna be plastic. Um then there's the latex cover, which is what you see as red. Um because it can be replaceable, we just kinda went with the colour.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Um and then the buttons are actually kind of poking through rather than on top. Um and the buttons will be a l much lighter blue, almost see-through.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Hmm.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "It's just sort of a very pale blue and a light-up yellow.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "That's nice.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "The whole thing lights up if you press any button, rather than it just that one button will light up.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Good.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Um and then at the bottom we have our logo. Um bright yellow sort of design with the R_R_ which will actually look like our logo.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Great.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "And then on the side you have the buttons. They're one button, but they kind of push up and down.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "I don't think they're scrolling.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "No. They're just buttons.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Right, yeah. And then yeah, the buttons.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "On off switch will be here and as you've noticed on our prototype um they've ended up with a curvature kind of, by concave sort of thing, except for, you know, can't see underneath.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "So I'm hoping that when we get to production we can actually make them like that, because they're very nice to stock you know, stick your finger in. Um the two squared buttons are are two probably least used, menu, mute,", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Thumb-shaped.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "and then these are the numbers, so our channel and our volume will be on either side.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah. And then the last thing is just that it'll be black labelling on top, just which we didn't do..", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Okay. And did you determine um the curvature of the bottom part of it for the hand, is it gonna be a single or a double?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "I'd say a single.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Single. Single sounds good,", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Single.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "'cause it's not big enough to really constitute a double.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah, it's only actually the size of my hand.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Great. Great. I think you did an awesome job.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah, I think it's a beautiful.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "It is beautiful, and it's everything that we discussed.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah. Good job, you guys.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Good job.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Whoohoo.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Oh thank you..", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Those are really good.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Alright.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "what's next in our agenda? Um we're gonna discuss the evaluation criteria, and that's with Courtney.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Okay, it's a PowerPoint presentation. I don't really know exactly what we should uh talk about. It's under evaluation.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Alright. Um so these are the criteria we're gonna ask, is it easy to use, is it fashionable uh yeah, I guess we should write these down so we can reference them.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Feel good meaning what?", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Like does it feel good, like.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Physically,", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "okay.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "yeah, physically.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Sqi.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "That's just for current trend.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "It doesn't really count, you guys.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah, it was a little difficult to incorporate the cover with the cherry fruit on it.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah. But it's so we do have removable covers, right?", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yes.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah, well then that's covered.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "'Kay.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "And so we n k everybody have that?", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "I'll wait.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah, she's got it.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "It's good. Yeah. Okay so, we're using the criteria uh for a seven point scale, and so we need to discuss how we feel. It falls within this range, so for easy to use, do we feel it's very easy to use?", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Are we going to indi", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "True or false, easy to use.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "I say we individually rate what do you say?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "You guys.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Just orally.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Why not? We have okay.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Um easy to use. I vote six.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Oh wait, that's false.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Oh,", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "two.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "I'd say two as well.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah, two.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Two. That's what I say.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Uh hello, we're great.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Okay, fashionable?", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Um one.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "At the moment, no.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "No.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "No. I mean like no, I think it's very fashionable.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Me too, very chic..", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "I thi I would give it a one.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "One, I give it a one.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "I'll give it a two, because at the moment it's not looking that way.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Oh, and ma it's a prototype,", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Well, that's that's just like that's a clay, it's a prototype.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "right.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm I don't think it's that fashionable.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "What do you think?", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "I'd give it like three or four.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Well, now I'm.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "So, the average is about a two.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "But then I'm not fashionable, so", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah, it's a two.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Two or three. Two point five.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "don't use my opinion.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "That's okay. Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Neither are all o all the customers we have, either.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Um", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "does it feel good?", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Imagine, since we obviously don't have that.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Does it feel good?", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "I feel like.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Uh the shape of it actually does uh.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "And it's i it is very ergonomically designed. It's gonna be curved.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah, it's gonna be thicker.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Depth.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "I think it feels good.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "I think so too.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "I'll give it a two.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "'Kay. Two.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "I'll give it a one.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "What do you say?", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "I'd say a two.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Alright, average is two.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Is it technologically innovative? Oh sorry I'm taking over your job here.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Oh no, it's fine,", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Go right ahead..", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "you're I mean you're Project Manager.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Um yeah, I mean and it does it have voice I mean the phrase recognition on it?", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yes. Right? We were able to do it with that kind of chip.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Oh right, the.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "We could do it with the chip, yes. It wasn't we have no reflection of it on the prototype,", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "And there's no way you can represent it on here. Y", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah, right.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "but that's because it's only two dimensions, really.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "That was'kay. And we discussed that being included.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah, so.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Then yes, then I would well it isn't what else would it need for it to be technologically innovative?", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "It.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Well we don' have the you know, we can't say channel, and it changes the channel, channel eight.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "And it doesn't cover anything other then T_V_,", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "so I'd probably give it a three.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Even though it is for just a T_V_ remote it's uh very advanced. But it is just a T_V_ remote.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah. I'd go for a three or four on that one, so.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah I go four.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "okay, let's go for a three point five.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Three and an half.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Alright, and the last criteria is it is it um.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Squishy and fruity.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Well yeah, so I'd give it a two.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Well, we've covered that with the", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "It's just trendy, basically.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "trendy. Sure. Capable. Very capable.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "It's capable of being squishy and fruity.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Oh, it's very capable of being squishy and fruity.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "And it's very important.'Kay, there we go.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "So.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Okay, next.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Next..", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "So um our re model slightly resembling a giant delicious cookie appears to be a winner,", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "and uh hopefully we'll sell millions. Good job, team..", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "How did you get that in there?", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "What?", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "The slightly resembling a giant delicious cookie.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "It does.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "It it does..", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "That was good.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Very good.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Thanks.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Alright, let's go back to this No, that's it. Hmm. Oops. Okay, so now uh we're moving on to finance, okay. I'm gonna show you an Excel spreadsheet and we're going to fill it in together based on what components we're including in our remote and see if it's under twelve fifty Euro. If so, we can proceed, if not, we need to go back to the drawing board a little bit.'Kay? So let me bring that up. Here we go. Alright. Um it's not hand dynamo, it's powered by battery, so we give it a.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yep.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Two.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Number of components you plan to use. Do I just put quantity being one battery, or Yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Mm'kay.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "But if it's a do you wanna go for this is where we need to make a final call on if it's a lithium or do we wanna go triple A_s,'cause triple A_s we're gonna have t do more than one battery. Oh, let's just go for a lithium. What do you say?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah,", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah, let's let's do a lithium.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "I think uh I think the people who purchase this are gonna be technologically", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "it's.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "We're gon that's gon Nologically advanced,", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "right.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Okay, down to the electronics um section. We're gonna need this kind, correct, if we do the voice sensor,", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yep.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "so one of those. It is a single-curved, so one of those.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Uh.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Oh. What's that? Yeah, that's correct.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "'Kay, down here, case material.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "It's plastic.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "We.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Plastic.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "plastic.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "And special colour.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "And special colour.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "'Kay. Down here, interface type. We're gonna have the integrated scroll scroll wheel.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "No, we don't have the scroll.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Isn't.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "oh those are just regular buttons.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Well, that's the push-button too, right there.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Buttons.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "But it's Yeah,", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "This?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "but i so i", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Integrated scroll-wheel or push-button.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "We're really having just push-button interface.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Okay, so we can just go um.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "But will we w actually we'll need two, won't we? One for the top and then one for the s one e for each side.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "But it that just covers the type of button we're having. Because we're not doing a scroll on the side, it's still push-button.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Oh like the twenty nine means like you have both scrolls and", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Push-button.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Right I think she's.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "But we just have push", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "push-buttons.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "But we don't have any scrolls.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "I think what Courtney's talking about is do we need to put two here?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Like because there's like one interface right here and then because it's not gonna be on the same plane when you press the button.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "There's gonna have to be additional signals on the sides.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah. Okay.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "So is that gonna be an extra one on each side?", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "I don't know, they might put us well, let's just.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Two interfaces, is that what w should we s say?", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Two or would it be three?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Let's call it th", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Or three, because of one on each side and one on top.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Okay, fine. Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "I mean it's fine'cause it comes out the same as twenty nine. Well less than twenty nine even.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Okay", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "and we're gonna.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "button supplements the buttons are no uh okay.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "They're a special colour. Um they're uh they're a special form,'cause they're indented.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Are they? Oh, right.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "And then s", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "And, they're a special material.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Mm. Well, we're under cost then. Alright.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "We're over?", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "No, we're under.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Grand.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "We're under.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Twelve point five is our limit.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "We've got eleven point two.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Oh, I see.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Alright.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "So we can go to production.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "We can go to I dunno what I just did. Okay. Now we're gonna talk about the project process um and whether or not we're satisfied with the whole process and the result. Um did we have a lot of room for creativity? Did we have a lot of room for individual leadership, um teamwork, and the means, meaning the technology that we used to produce our little guy there, and if we found any new ideas. Now, question is, how do we do this?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Go back.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "I think we just discuss it.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Discuss, sure.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Previous.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Alright. Who want who would like to go first?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "We think we got stifled for cri creativity by the company itself, in restricting us only to using a T_V_ remote, initially.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "We didn't have a whiteboard.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Hmm. Hmm.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Oh that's true.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "And no internet.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah. No, yeah, that's a good point.'Cause I'd forgotten that that wasn't our decision, yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "And how did you feel about the whole the whole process though?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Oh, overall I mean I thought we did a good job like.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "We got to choose basically we had control over minus it being just merely a T_V_ remote we got to choose what we wanted to do with it.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Right, and we got say over what how technologically advanced it should be and also how fashionable, which I kind of like.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "And we're a fashion forward technology company.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "we yep. You know it.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "right.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Um what about um the teamwork aspect? How did you guys enjoy making the model, the prototype?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "I think we did well.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "I think ya' did. Did you work well together in there, and.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yep..", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "'kay.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Well, no, there was there was scratching and fighting, but no.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Minus that one fight.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Gouges.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Oh my God,", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "and we've all been a pretty congenial team here, I think.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "We hadn't had any ma fallings out.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah. I mean minus you guys being wha what is it, the survey, annoying or what is it?", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Irritating.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Irritating..", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Irritating.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Irritating, yeah. Wow that's a it's definitely a strong one.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "The means, the whiteboard didn't work..", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "And no internet.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "I have to knock that one down a couple notches.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "A and our friend here really feels strongly about the internet..", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah, and no internet.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Misses. I do.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "There's so much available.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "And the digital the digital pens", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Like it's information", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah, digital pens.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "I really appreciated those, yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "were they were pretty cool.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "They were fine.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah they were fun, even though I'm not really sure what I could do with them, but they are awesome..", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "The use of the laptops for receiving everything.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Right, laptops are extremely handy,", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "It was wireless too, so.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "wireless. And that we have a shared network where we can put all of the.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "And these things whoa.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "And let's not forget the sexy dual microphones everyone gets to wear.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah. And Big Brother.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Big brother.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah..", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "'Kay, have we found any new ideas through this process?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Um we are really gonna sell this.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Ta-da.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "For something that looks cool and also has what I want it to b do technologically.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "And that's your right brain taking over, w wanting the artistic, the fashionable, the hip, you know.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "If we all just went out and bought useful things, I don't think I mean that's not what technology.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Well, that's why I don't like uh Macs or Apples, just'cause I look at it, and I know it's probably a very good computer, but I look at it, and I'm taken back to elementary school,'cause they look the same.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "They look like they did when I was in elementary school,", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "and that's so old-fashioned to me.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah,'cause they're pretty and just like.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "The Toronto district school would only use his Macs with their kids.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Exactly, so I associate them with like really low-tech, really cheap, bad.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah. Just the Mac font bothers me even.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Uh yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "But I do like iPods, go figure.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah, no, iPods They want all those words for presentation, even the plugs.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Well, i iPods are now quite trendy,", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "and they come in different colours.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Colours. Exactly. I mean how many people went out and bough a Nokia phone, back when we were like in high school, just so they could get the changeable face plates.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Oh yeah, everybody.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Anyway, so that is definitely at work.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Not me.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Mine is amber.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "I didn't have a phone'til university.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "But the my but my one issue is just like the whole it's for T_V_ only.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Oh.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "I was like who's gonna buy a remote just for the T_V_ unless they've lost theirs.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Look at it..", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Fashionable chic people will.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "You're kidding.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "That is a piece of work.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "No, no.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Wow. Marketing Director says yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "No, marketing has to actually create the desire for it..", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Fashionable people will buy it. Oh, I will create desire..", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "That's okay. We can create a commercial where they think that all their needs will be met. This will help them find the one.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Ri They'll be sexy with it..", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Hmm.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "That's right.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "We could have like an Adam and Eve type commercial, and that's the fig-leaf.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Oh right.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Mm. That'll sell.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "And so the serpent says, use our remote..", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "There you go, marketing.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Let you loose.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Alright.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah, no.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah..", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Okay, we're gonna wrap this up now. Um the costs are within the budget, we evaluated the project,", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "and now we're gonna complete the final questionnaire and meeting summary, and then we're going to have a big giant party, apparently, according to this, so. Alright, thank you team,", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Whoohoo. Margaritas for everyone..", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "you did a great job, it was lovely working with you.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Good.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "You too.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yay. Thanks to the Project Leader.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Now we know w", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" } ] }

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

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{ "meetingId": "IS1008b", "transcriptSegments": [ { "text": "Okay uh Agnes, you can help me for the slide when.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yep. Sure.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "okay. Okay, welcome back. I hope uh you have a fresh head and a fresh time. How t now the meeting actually we gathering here to discuss about the functional design meeting. Okay, and uh we'll issue some information from uh all of you. And it's in the, I think uh, in the sharing folder. And uh I will invite uh the Christine and the Ed and uh Agnes to discuss about on the various subjects. So can you go to the next slide? Yeah uh the agenda of the meeting is opening. Then uh I'm going to talk about uh the project management, what I'm going to do, and uh, of course, I'm doing the project management and secretary both, okay, to take the minutes of the meeting. And there are three presentations. One is uh new project requirements. And the second one about uh decision on remote control functions. And uh finally we are closing. Uh and the meeting time will be uh forty minutes, so you have to be very quick. And I have come up with the management come with the new proposal, okay, and I have to discuss a few points on this. Uh both says new insights in the aim of your project. Uh the one is uh the teletext becomes uh outmoded, okay because if uh because of the computer systems and the new technology. So we don't need to consider really about the teletext all in our new project design. And the second one is about uh the remote control. Should be used only for the T_V_. That's what our uh management says. And the third point, it's very very important to establish our uh marketing or uh corporate image, okay, with this new project or new product. Okay. So I will invite uh Agnes, can you go to the third slide?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "No, this is the third slide.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Okay,. So, I'll invite uh Christine to discuss about uh the functional design.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "'Kay, do you wanna open the.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Sure. Um. You're participant s", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "I'm number two.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Two?", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "That's it.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Do you want the mouse, or do you want me to.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "I'll do the notes. Yeah, thanks.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "So um well I I figured uh we should um identify some user requirements, and from my experience, I wanna uh, and from research I did, uh the the device has to turn the television on and off the first time you press on the big button, you can't uh can't have like uh waffling on this point, you know.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Really have It needs to be able y y have to be able to find it. Because one of the biggest problems with remote controls is finding them. So uh, I also, since we have to establish our corporate image on the basis of this new product, thought we better look at things that are popular and um ex go beyond those, and, as I said in the first meeting, um and then uh we might wanna talk eventually about the materials that are appropriate to use in uh in the construction, especially in the the uh the outside of the product", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "so that it gives the appearance, and it is reliable, and so forth. I did a little history on uh the the uh remote controls and when they were invented and so forth, so, I guess this guy Zenith uh created the Flashmatic, which I kinda like the idea,'cause it made me think of um um maybe the remote control made a big flash when uh you turn the T_V_ on and off, that might be interesting. And um so it was highly directional flash light that uh you could turn the picture on and off, and the sound on and off, and change channels c so I think um those are still requirements we have today, uh fifty years later.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "And uh it was really a pioneering innovation, but it was uh sensitive to the sun, so that uh it would get would start off by the you'd get it would easily cause um problems. So, uh I in addition to uh looking at the um uh the functional requir so all these devices are examples of where uh mm they represent examples that are available today which I think the one in the middle is r um really uh something to keep in mind.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Fantastic..", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "It'd be easy to find. And um it would uh y you'd you could throw it at things if if the T_V_ didn't turn on and off, you could use it for something else. And since I'm not really um Industrial Designer, I didn't really know what to do with this slide. But um I just took some different uh schematics and I put them into this, and I guess this is what a slide might look like if you were drawing a circuit board. I don't know why um we were asked to do this. So, uh personal preferences, um", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "I think we could uh I I'm really thinking outside the box here, and I think that we should consider perhaps having an an an a a size uh a remote control that changes in size depending on the user preference.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "So something that's very very flexible and inflatable and then you could shrink it. I think um it could either be you could go either one extreme, be very colourful, or you could make it clear, and um kind of blend in with things, so you didn't have to um uh have a problem with the th the decoration of the of the user's home. Um I think uh it needs to be waterproof, because uh sometimes they fall into cups", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "and, you know, it might be out by the swimming pool or something like that. Um if you uh mi one of one of my requirements was about needs t to tell you when it's done its job or not, because half the time, I keep pushing on the remote control, and I don't know if it's actually understood my message, so I think it should give you some sort of an oral cue. And uh, course I never wanna replace the battery. So,", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "that's those are my f preferences, and that's my presentation.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah, let me uh interrupt you uh if you can add other facility, other feature, like uh unbreakable.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yes.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Okay, because uh especially today, you know, you have the family and the kids,", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "okay, and the kids throw it and they they play with their remotes and.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Run over it with a car.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yes. Okay, so if you can add the feature, okay, for your uh fabric whatever in your outline design okay, with unbreakable, okay, I think that will give a lot of advantage for our product, if I'm not wrong. Maybe you can uh add it in that.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Good idea. Good idea, I'll I'll uh um Yes, very good.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Okay, uh thank you Christine, and uh uh any questions or uh clarifications, or any discussion on the functional design?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Do you have any preconceived ideas in terms of materials?'Cause, for example, in the unbreakable thing, doing something plastic would be harder,", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Hmm.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "whereas having something like, I dunno, steel or titanium isn't really economically viable..", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Titanium. Titanium would be be heavy, too,", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Titanium..", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "wouldn't it?", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "No, I haven't really um I wanted feedback, I think we need to rate rank these, but we'll see what your uh personal preferences are and your thoughts.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah. Sure, yeah. No, I just wondering whether that you had any sort of.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "I like titanium. It's light.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Uh yeah", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Expensive.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "The marketing comes out..", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "but uh who who said who said we were,", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yes.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "you know, nobody told me how mu what our financial objective is, so um.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah so.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "It'd be hard to inflate something ou made out of titanium though.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah the the I'm sorry because uh the last meeting we supposed to discuss about the financial thing.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Uh let me go quickly, maybe if I can go back. I know the project plan and the budget. So I can close this, not sure. Was in uh S This. So let me see where is this file.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "That's Christine's.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "This is Christine..", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "And that's mine, I think.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "That's yours, okay. Saving.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "In modified.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "I don't know,", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Okay, uh", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "I think verbally we can we can pretty much sell.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "I will I will send you a mail, okay? The project may be the the project aim, okay. At the end of the day, the company uh wants to make at least uh the fifty million Euro. Okay, and uh of course the price will be very reasonable on the the sales side. Okay, that maybe Eddie will talk to you about uh how much uh the price and uh what's uh how much its cost for the manufacturing and how much it's going to be we sell in the market. Okay. Then uh you can come back with your feedback. And I I have one maybe the suggestion or opinion. This remote control, okay, it can be for like universal, to use for any T_V_. Okay, and it will be slim, okay, and uh.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Not fat?", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Not fat.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Not fat, huh.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Might be hard to find, though.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yep. But let's try it, okay, with the different uh the designs, okay, the functional designs.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Hmm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Oh, okay.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Okay? So any other questions?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Uh from her side, I don't think uh there's too many more questions.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Okay. Thank you Christine for uh time being,", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "If you can come to the.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "so then uh Ed, so can you tell about.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Okay, from the marketing yeah, from the marketing side, just to to give an idea what the management is looking for, I was looking for a a remote control to have a s", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "S'scuse me for one sec.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "I have a sales price of twenty-five Euro, with a production price of uh twelve and a half Euro. For what uh I think from what we're trying to find, we're tr we're looking for, I don't think that price is exactly in the market. Okay?", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "I'll explain myself here now in the sense that uh in a in the recent surveys, uh from the ages fr from fifteen to thirty-five, eighty percent are willing to spend more money for something as fancy as trendy.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Twenty-five Euros, uh that's that's a preson reasonable price. That's a market price right now. Now if we're gonna take a risk, and push this up a bit, make it more expensive,", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yep.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "but give them added things that they don't have now,", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yep.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "then it w it could possibly sell. Obviously the risk is there. Too expensive, they're not gonna buy. But, I think uh there's one other thing interesting two things that are interesting is that uh from the fifteen to thirty-five year-old group, which always spends more money on trendy new things, speech recognition is requested.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Speech recognition?.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "And we're talking between seventy-five to ninety percent of this group is willing to pay for speech recognition on a remote.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Obviously, we can't make a remote into a computer, but maybe simple commands. I dunno, louder, softer, on, off. That might be a possibility, even though it costs more, to be the first on the market to produce this.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Thirty-five percent say they're too difficult to use. So we have to figure out a way of making it um more user friendly. Uh fifty percent say they can't find the remote half the time..", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "So maybe one word speech recognition commands, say remote, and there's a beep beep beep, and they can find it through, you know, ten tons of newspapers, magazines, whatever you have at home.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "But, in the cost that uh the management is looking for, that's not gonna be possible. But if it's trendy, if it's fancy, it's got some colour to it, if it's very easy easy to use, if it's got simple remote speech remote uh control, like I said, louder, softer, change channel, on, off, remote, it goes beep beep, I can find my my remote without spending half a day looking for it and getting all upset'cause I can't turn the T_V_ on. So we're gonna have to look at it in a in this global idea, with the ideas of the industrial uh design.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "But, price obviously we have to talk about.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yep. So what do you think about uh the design? Do you think you can make it or uh.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "D uh I'm sorry?.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "What do you think about uh the design, uh what he was talking about of the speech recognition?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Speech recognition.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Well, uh training is always an issue with uh commands.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "So um might uh we can perhaps um do it if the user is willing to spend some time in the training process, uh it could reduce th th uh the overall um cost. Not sure how. But um anyway, um I I think also that uh this might impact the battery life. And um so, maybe what we'll have to do is um add something where you can um recharge it wirelessly so that uh y you know sen send power to it. So uh or maybe uh set it out in the sun and it uh, you know, gets uh, from the light, um a a solar cell inside there", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Hmm.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "so that uh you have enough uh juice to do all these fancy things.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "It seems also like with the speech recognition, yeah, it's a great feature, but if you're watching T_V_, there's a lot of ambient sound, and it's words. It's not just, you know, noises like something hitting. It's actual speech, so then you have to make sure that the speech recognizer is good enough to filter out the T_V_ speech, and the the user's speech. Otherwise, you can say remote.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Off..", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "But if someone on the screen is saying the same thing, all of a sudden, you have someone in a movie saying off and your screen dies, because they've triggered the remote control and it's turned off your T_V_. So, I think if we can find a speech recognizer that can handle those types of problems, then yeah, it'd be a really good marketing gimmick.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "But, I think we seriously need to consider how that would impact the situation.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Very good point.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Because tha w with speech recognition uh th I'm not that good at that idea", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "but th if it's a one-word recognition,'cause I know with telephones and cars and things I've seen in the States,", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "a friend of mine says call Mom, and it calls up Mom.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "'Kay the radio can be on and everything.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yep.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Because I think s with speech recognition, if uh the the remote or like the telephone it has a exact word that it has to hear.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "I don't think it would come through a sentence in a television. If somebody's speaking on the se the television, they're not gonna stop and say remote,", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "okay. So I think that uh something could be designed to recognise single word.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Oh yeah. Yeah. No, I think it's a great idea if we can design it to to suit those requirements.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Like the t like the telephone. No because I this is this is years ago in the United States where we're driving down and he said call home, and the telephone called immediately.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah..", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "so well, that's kinda cute..", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Well, what I can uh suggest to you, Christine, okay, uh if you need some uh the technical feedback, or some training, okay, about uh this facility, especially for the speech recognition, I can recommend you some companies like uh Intel or I_B_M_, okay, because they're already in this uh speech recognition part, okay. And uh you can maybe have some uh technical backup from them, some kind of a technical tie-up. Okay, and uh if you want, I can coordinate, okay, to get some information, okay, and uh you can uh let me know, okay, so what kind of uh the details you require okay, to add this feature in this project. I don't think it's uh the difficult. And uh we need to know how much is the timeframe you need to develop, apart from uh what today.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Okay, we'll find that out.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yep.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "From from your side uh, you're gonna have to go back the management and s be more s precise.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yes.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "What do they want?", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yes.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Uh, a risk, take a risk on the market? Something that's gonna cost more, but could very easily s make a boom in the market?", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yes. Yep.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Because it has to be something totally different, has to be total totally new. Something that nobody has right now.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah but", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "And it's gonna cost.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "but end of the day, you're the sales guy, so I will come back and sit on your head because uh you are going to give your sales projection,", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "okay. It's uh of course it's uh good to uh tell the management how much it's cost us", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "and how much you are going to benefit,", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Sure. Sure.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "okay. And uh, so I don't mind to convince, okay, the management to spend some more money on the project, okay, if you can make out of", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Obviously.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "the money from this project.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "If the bottom line is positive..", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yes, okay I don't mind to convince the the management,", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "okay.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "The management says, okay, so they they don't want certain facilities, which it's already worked, okay, they want something uh new, okay. I think uh like uh speech recognit definitely they will agree, I don't think they'll say no for that, okay. And uh I hope I can convince the management on that, okay. So if you have any uh new ideas, okay, for uh your you can always come up and uh you can tell me if you need any uh s special, okay, coordination, okay, between any uh technical companies, which you can uh hide their technology backup, okay, for your uh functional design or technical design, okay, then I am ready to do that. And uh what's your comments about uh.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Um well, I mean, maybe if I go through my presentation, you can sort of see what the user perspective is, and how it ties into the other two comments.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah, so you are finish, Ed, uh so I can uh.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yes. Mm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Okay, I'll uh hand over to Agnes. Just gonna close this. T Uh where are you, here?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm participant three.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Participant three.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Nope, here.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Okay, so I'll yep. Okay.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Good.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Is it okay?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Thanks.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Alri", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah, and that's fine. Okay. So, basically, the method that we usually use in the user interface design is that we need to look at what people like and what people don't like about existing products. So, in our case, existing remote controls. And then, what the good ideas are, and what the bad ideas are, and why they're bad and good, which isn't always as obvious. We seem to have intuitions about why things are good or things are bad, but when you look, technically, at how it works, sometimes that's not the case. Then we need to decide what functionalities we really want to keep,'cause that'll feed into both Ed's work and Christine's work. Um and then what the remote control should look like, obviously, once we've got a good idea of what the functionalities are. So, in terms of the functionalities that we need, you obviously need to be able to turn the T_V_ on and off. You need to change channels, both by directly going to a specific channel or by channel surfing. You need to be able to control the volume and then control any menus on the T_V_ to regulate contrast or whatever. So, the problems that people have expressed is that there's too many buttons on remote controls, in general. The buttons it's not clear what they're supposed to do. Um often, you need to know specific button sequences to get certain functionalities done, um which you don't necessarily always remember, especially if it's a functionality that you don't use very often. And that the buttons are too small. So, here we've got two examples where here on the left-hand side, you can see a remote control that has lots and lots of buttons.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "The buttons, in a lot of cases, are tiny. Um they're hard to see, and okay, they're labelled, but the labels don't necessarily tell you too much. Whereas, on the other side, you have a much simpler remote control that I think basically has the minimum functionalities that are needed. And it sort of looks simpler and just less imposing when you first look at it. So, I would be inclined to go sort of towards this, in terms of design, rather than this. And if there's specific functionalities that require more buttons, then we can figure out how to do it with existing um buttons. So my personal preferences are to keep the number of buttons to a limit, or to a minimum, sorry, make frequently used buttons bigger and more strategically placed, so like the on button being really obvious one, the channel changing and the volume, and to keep the design basically sleek and simple.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Click mm.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Which, I think ties into what Christine and Ed have both said fairly reasonably. Um so, that's pretty much it, an I don't know if you guys have any questions or.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Oh, it's um, seems very understandable. Clearly your research and uh and ours uh heading in the same direction,", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yep.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "and um uh the only thing that I saw missing from uh your your research that we found was this uh ability to find the doggone thing when you need it.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yes, that's true. Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "So uh, you know, but that's okay. That's why we're all here at the table, so that if we think of it and our research indicates certain things and um w we it's complementary.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "I also think that um uh th f the the feel of it is uh, when you hold it, is something that um uh was expressed more in in in in my uh design", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm. Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "and that's logical and normal'cause those are the parameters that an Industrial Designer's more thinking about, th th the look and the feel,", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "and uh, you're.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Oh, that's definitely a very important factor, especially to users who are gonna be buying the thing and then using it almost on an daily basis in a lot of cases, I think.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "First. Yep. Mm-hmm. Okay, so I don't have any questions. Sounds good.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "So for anybody need uh any help, for time being, on this uh subjects, okay, so please come back to me,", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Oh.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "and uh Christine, maybe I can uh try to help you to get some uh the technical uh the companies to help you for uh make a design uh slim, okay, and to add some features, like we are talking about, the speech recognition and all.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Should we maybe make a decision about what features we actually want to include,", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "'cause we've thrown a lot of features onto the table, but do we actually want to incorporate all of them, or have we missed anything?", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Hmm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Do you wanna go back and look at the closing slide, maybe that would provide some guidance?", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Sure.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Doesn't really tell us.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "So not really this one we are talk ab", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Individual actions..", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Well it says individual actions,", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yep.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "it says user interf so I'm supposed to do the components concept, supposed to work on the user interface concept,", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "and you're supposed to keep watching the trends. Um and specific instructions will be sent by our our coach. I think we should do as many features as uh start with all of them right now", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "I thought.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "and eliminate them later in the process, that's my suggestion.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Okay, that will be great. And uh I'll send you the the minutes of meet", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "You can object if you want to.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "No, I I'm just thinking in terms of time,", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "She's objecting..", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "like if.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yes, now I'm objecting. No, I mean, I was just thinking is it really practical to start designing something with features that we're just gonna end up throwing away? I mean, it takes a lot of time and effort for everyone to consider different features, um and s if we spend that time and effort on features that we're not gonna use, maybe it's better to spend it on the f thinking more about features that we actually do want, but.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "I think we should take that as an action item for after the meeting,", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Oh th we s we still have.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "guess.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "'cause w our meeting time has run out.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Somebody else has go to use this room,", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Sure.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "and, you know, we can't hang out here", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "and talk about this, so.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah. Sure.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Okay, what we'll do is now we'll take for lunch break, okay, then uh we can discuss furthermore, okay, with our areas, and uh then we will come back again in the in the next meeting. So thanks for coming and uh I'll send you minutes of meeting, and uh please put your all information in the sharing folder so everybody can share the information. Okay?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "So let's go for lunch then. Thank you.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Thank you very much.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Agreed..", "speakerName": "Marketing" } ] }

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{ "meetingId": "education3", "transcriptSegments": [ { "text": "Good morning, everyone. Welcome to the Children, Young People and Education Committee this morning. I've received no apologies for absence. Can I ask Members if there are any declarations of interest, please? No. Okay, thank you. Item 2 this morning is our scrutiny session on Estyn's annual report 2018-19. I'm very pleased to welcome Meilyr Rowlands, Her Majesty's Chief Inspector, Estyn; Jassa Scott, strategic director at Estyn; and Claire Morgan, strategic director at Estyn. Thank you all for attending. We're looking forward to hearing what you've got to say. We'll go straight into questions from Suzy Davies.", "speakerName": "Lynne Neagle AM" }, { "text": "Bore da. Good morning, everybody. Thank you for the papers upfront, in which you say that the most striking feature of the education system, looking forward, of course is the curriculum and the change that that's bringing. How can we be sure that, during this period of change, standards don't slip? And also, from the point of view of scrutiny, will we be back in a situation where we're being told,'You can't compare one set of results against the previous year's results, because of the nature of the change'?", "speakerName": "Suzy Davies AM" }, { "text": "Bore da, bawb. Thank you for the invitation to come here. I think that's a good question. I think any kind of major educational reform has got risks attached to it, particularly if those changes were made too quickly. I think this process of reform has been going on in the background for a few years now, so I think there is a track record of standards and provision not slipping. We've seen small incremental improvements. So, overall, I think we can be fairly confident that standards won't slip during this period of preparation.", "speakerName": "Meilyr Rowlands" }, { "text": "Can I just ask: is that based on your evidence around primary schools, where the sort of ethos that we've seen in the curriculum has been already articulated through the foundation phase?", "speakerName": "Suzy Davies AM" }, { "text": "The track record I'm talking about is across the board, so it's very difficult to think of anything that's actually got worse over the last three or four years, so it's difficult to say that standards of provision is slipping. It might not be improving as quickly as we would like, but the purpose of major curriculum and, more generally, educational reform is to make sure that we do get a more substantial sort of improvement. I think we should congratulate the profession for the work they've been doing. A large number of schools and teachers and leaders have been part of preparing the new curriculum and all the associated work, as well as doing the day job. I think their commitment and their engagement with curriculum reform, and engagement with wider education reform, is to be congratulated. So, I think going forward, we must make sure that that is continued; that this process that's called co-construction—engaging with the profession, making sure that they're behind all the changes—continues. I think that's what's going to make sure that we don't see any slippage.", "speakerName": "Meilyr Rowlands" }, { "text": "Okay, and on that point of comparing year on year, we will be able to make those comparisons legitimately then?", "speakerName": "Suzy Davies AM" }, { "text": "Yes, certainly, in terms of our inspection outcomes and our inspection work, yes.", "speakerName": "Meilyr Rowlands" }, { "text": "Okay. That's great, thank you. Can I just ask you then about the difference in preparedness between primary and secondary schools, which I've just mentioned previously, and also what your views are on the impact of funding for schools on that as well? Because we're in a situation where a number of primary schools have got surplus funds, sometimes that's because of end of year additional funds just being magicked up, but there is a serious worry that so many secondary schools are in deficit and that, overall, secondary schools are in deficit. Is there a correlation between those two positions, that secondary schools may be less ready for this than primary schools?", "speakerName": "Suzy Davies AM" }, { "text": "I think it's probably true to say that secondary schools have a greater challenge than primary schools generally in terms of preparedness for the new curriculum. I think that's why we welcomed the phasing in of the new curriculum. With any sort of education reform, you've got that danger of people wanting to see change as soon as possible on the one hand, and on the other hand you need time to pilot things, to make sure that people have the right professional learning and make sure that there's opportunity for evaluation and thinking and so forth. So, we've got to get that balance right.", "speakerName": "Meilyr Rowlands" }, { "text": "Sorry, that could be difficult to do if a school doesn't have money to create that space, couldn't it?", "speakerName": "Suzy Davies AM" }, { "text": "Yes. You raised two issues, I think. One, about the difference between primary and secondary: I think what I'm saying there is I think the fact that the new curriculum is going to be brought in for all the years in primary, but it's going to be phased in year by year for secondary is a recognition of that difference. In terms of funding, probably everyone in this room, and certainly me included, would like to see more money for the education system—any educationalist would like to see that. But, you know, that is a decision for local and central Government to decide how much they can afford. I think there is an argument for saying that the funding has become more challenging for schools over time.", "speakerName": "Meilyr Rowlands" }, { "text": "Can I ask, just to keep it on track, are you finding that that's having an impact on secondary schools particularly—their ability to make space to get their heads around the curriculum?", "speakerName": "Suzy Davies AM" }, { "text": "I don't think you can make that straightforward correlation. But if you do look at surpluses and reserves, they have been more or less constant for primary schools over a long period of time, but they have declined for secondary schools. So, I think there probably is an argument for saying that we need to look at the funding of secondary schools in particular because, overall, they're in deficit now. So, I think there is an argument for looking at that. The other thing that's worth saying about funding is that even a small decrease in real terms can be disproportionately time consuming to manage. So, you know, if you have a large school and you have to maybe make one member of staff redundant, it can have a real big effect on the morale in the school. But also the time it takes for the headteacher and the senior staff to make those decisions can take their eye off the educational ball because they're looking at these financial and staffing issues.", "speakerName": "Meilyr Rowlands" }, { "text": "Okay, thank you. Siân might develop that a little bit further on. The final question from me is: there's a general concern about the number of teachers that we have in the system at the moment, particularly at secondary level and in particular subjects as well. How do you think we can improve that? What impact is it likely to have on the ability of secondary schools to really get a grip on this?", "speakerName": "Suzy Davies AM" }, { "text": "Obviously, the most important resource for the education system is the teachers. So, it is a concern that recruitment is getting more and more difficult and that targets for initial teacher training are not being hit. And we're not seeing them hit, if I remember correctly, even in primary, let alone secondary. So, there is a challenge, and I think we've got to look at this in the round. We've got to make sure that we have both a long-term strategy and a shorter term strategy for this. So, long term, we've got to make sure that education is an attractive option for young people and more mature people to want to go into. So, that is partly to do with workload and staff well-being. I think there's a general acceptance now that that needs to be higher up on the agenda, that people need to take that seriously, and there's work going on regarding the workload issue.", "speakerName": "Meilyr Rowlands" }, { "text": "I suppose what I'm coming to, and I will finish with this, Chair, is, we're asking our existing workforce to undertake a fair bit of continuous professional development—let's call it that—in order to get ready for this curriculum when they've barely got time for lunch as it is. Do you think that's going to have an impact on the ability of secondary schools to get to grips with this, albeit that there'll be a phasing in?", "speakerName": "Suzy Davies AM" }, { "text": "Yes. I think it will have an effect, but I think it'll have a positive effect. I think the new curriculum, one of the things about the new curriculum is that it re-professionalises the profession. It gives back agency and ownership to teachers. I think it's really important. And one of the reasons why teaching maybe hasn't been that attractive a profession is that teachers in the past have just been delivering a set curriculum, and now they've got a much more creative part in deciding for themselves how to teach something and what to teach. So, I think that is a very important part of attracting intelligent people into the profession. There are short-term things we need to do, of course, as well. I think we need to have a much more varied set of routes into teaching, so I welcome some of the part-time Open University courses, for example. So, there are lots of ways—we were talking about maybe converting people from primary into secondary, particularly in Welsh-medium, where there's a shortage. So, all those kinds of varied routes, I think, into teaching, are important as well.", "speakerName": "Meilyr Rowlands" }, { "text": "Degree apprenticeships, potentially.", "speakerName": "Suzy Davies AM" }, { "text": "Yes, I think it's well worth exploring that. Yes.", "speakerName": "Meilyr Rowlands" }, { "text": "Lovely. Thank you. Thank you, Chair.", "speakerName": "Suzy Davies AM" }, { "text": "Okay. Siân Gwenllian now has some questions on secondary schools causing concern. Siân.", "speakerName": "Lynne Neagle AM" }, { "text": "Yes. Just before going on to that, just to pick up on that last point that you made about the shortage of teachers and losing teachers during the first year of their training. Has Estyn done any themed work on that particular issue, or do you intend to do anything on that? Also, looking at the financial incentives and how they compare with the situation in England, for example; do we need, perhaps, to think about financial incentives, not just for specific subjects, but for going to schools where there are particular issues, perhaps?", "speakerName": "Sian Gwenllian AM" }, { "text": "Well, yes, there are currently discussions ongoing between us and the Government about working in those early years for teachers. It's possible that we will be undertaking work in the near future on that. I know that Professor Mick Waters is looking at this currently, and we've had the discussion with him. And I think we would welcome the opportunity to look at this particular period. Now, we are, of course, looking at initial teacher training, but we haven't looked at the first couple of years for many a year.", "speakerName": "Meilyr Rowlands" }, { "text": "Right, thank you very much. And for your information, I've commissioned a piece of work on that particular issue, and that work will be published in due course. So, I hope to have a discussion with you about that.", "speakerName": "Sian Gwenllian AM" }, { "text": "Thank you very much. Yes.", "speakerName": "Meilyr Rowlands" }, { "text": "In terms of the secondary schools, that’s where the problem lies, isn’t it, rather than the primary sector. How much of a concern is it to you that children’s chances of going to a secondary school that is good or better appear to be 50:50, and that, indeed, over 10 per cent of secondary schools are judged to be failing and 12 per cent are under Estyn review? How much of a concern is that to you?", "speakerName": "Sian Gwenllian AM" }, { "text": "Well, it is of concern to us, of course. I hope that we will have an opportunity to talk about the positive aspects of the education system in Wales, because there are a number of good things we can report also. The primary sector, the special sector, post-16—there are many sectors that are doing well, and I think a story that's particularly positive this year is that we have seen pupil referral units improving. We have seen examples of excellent practice in that sector for the first time in many a year, and we've also seen excellent practice in independent special schools, which is also a sector—. Because these are two sectors where there are very, very vulnerable children in attendance. So, I think that's very encouraging. But, you're right, of course, the biggest concern for the system, I would say, is secondary schools, and that is an issue of leadership, and also of the quality of the teaching and learning. Those are the recommendations that we make most often in our inspection reports. So, I believe that there is a need to find a long-term solution, as I mentioned previously, and also a short-term solution to this problem. In the long term, to improve the quality of teaching and learning—well, that’s the main aim of the new curriculum. So, I am confident that that strategy is the right strategy. It will take time, as we mentioned previously; it will take longer in secondary schools, and that's for a number of reasons, and I have discussed the challenges that are additional for secondary schools in previous annual reports. So, there are many reasons why secondary schools find it more difficult, possibly, than primary schools. The children themselves are older and they have greater challenges. Life is more complicated for them, possibly. It’s more difficult to engage with the parents of older children than younger children, and that’s an important factor. That’s one of the reasons why I believe it’s important that we do have community schools that ensure that the parents are part of the school’s life and take an interest in the education of their children. We also know that qualifications take a very prominent role in secondary schools’ mindsets, and, in some cases, perhaps excessively so. So, we need to ensure that those qualifications are reformed as a result of the reform of the curriculum, and, of course, Qualifications Wales is carrying out that work currently. And also, we need to change the measures that we use to measure the schools’ successes. Now, there is work ongoing on that as well. But there are all kinds of variations and differences between the primary and secondary sectors. In primary schools, for example, the greatest and most obvious difference, I would say, is that you’ve got one teacher who looks after a child for a whole year, and that teacher can identify the needs of the pupil very well over a period of time, getting to know the child and, possibly, the family very well. It’s much more complicated for secondary school to do that; there have to be systems put in place for that. So, there are many long-term things that we need to respond to. But in the short term, what is important is that those schools that cause concern receive much more support, and that is why I am glad and do welcome what's being piloted currently, which is a system of supporting these schools, the multi-agency approach, that is. So, that is something that we have been calling for for quite a long period of time and piloted ourselves a few years ago. So, I'm very glad that we are doing this in secondary schools throughout Wales. I believe there are about 12 schools that are in that pilot scheme.", "speakerName": "Meilyr Rowlands" }, { "text": "You said previously that it's a cause of concern for you that these schools that are failing or underachieving are not identified early enough. Are there signs that that's improving?", "speakerName": "Sian Gwenllian AM" }, { "text": "Well, one of the things that's very positive about this pilot scheme is that it's not just the schools that are officially causing concern that are a part of the pilot scheme, that is, the schools that we have identified, through inspections, as needing to be put in a statutory category. So, there are schools involved in the pilot scheme that the authorities and the consortia have identified themselves as schools that are at risk of causing concern. I believe that it's fair to say that we have not reached a point yet where we have a system of agreed criteria in relation to identifying these schools yet. I think that there has been initial work that has been commissioned or that is about to arrive in relation to that, and the types of measures you would expect us to take account of would be dissatisfaction from parents, staff leaving, a change in leadership. We use surveys with the children, for instance, and that gives you quite a good idea of whether a school is possibly facing difficulties. So, there's not one single criteria alone that will tell you,'This is a school that is at risk of causing concern', but taken together, having a set of criteria that everyone has agreed would be a good way of monitoring schools, I believe.", "speakerName": "Meilyr Rowlands" }, { "text": "Okay. Well, we'll be coming on to that middle tier later on, and perhaps that's where the problem lies, namely that if there isn't an agreed system from consortia and yourselves, perhaps that's where the focus needs to be.", "speakerName": "Sian Gwenllian AM" }, { "text": "I would say that it's not the identification of the schools that is the greatest problem. The greatest problem is ensuring that there is support for them and that the support is multi-agency support, where all the agencies that support these schools are working together.", "speakerName": "Meilyr Rowlands" }, { "text": "Well, how long does it take, therefore, for a school to move from an improvement category, in terms of special measures, to be escalated then? Because one sees sometimes that there's an excellent school, and within five years' time, it's in the red. So, there's a great deal of variance in that.", "speakerName": "Sian Gwenllian AM" }, { "text": "Well, that would be something quite unusual—to move from excellent to red.", "speakerName": "Meilyr Rowlands" }, { "text": "Yes, well, gradually, perhaps.", "speakerName": "Sian Gwenllian AM" }, { "text": "Yes. Perhaps Claire can respond to this.", "speakerName": "Meilyr Rowlands" }, { "text": "On average, secondary schools that are in need of special measures take just over two years, on average. Some are shorter; some are quite a considerable amount longer. It's a little less for schools that go into significant improvement. With primary schools, of course, it's much shorter because the issues are far less complex; it's easier to bring about improvements in teaching. When you've got large numbers of staff, you've got large secondary schools, it takes time to actually bring about those improvements, but it is a long time, just over two years, when you think that some pupils, maybe in key stage 4 for the two years—. Certainly, we want to see schools coming out of category much quicker, and this is where the multi-agency approach certainly is a positive step. All partners involved in supporting the school are involved in these improvement boards. They focus on bringing about improvement in the areas of the school that are weakest, and it is the responsibility of everybody involved—that is: ourselves, the regions, local authorities, the schools themselves and their governing bodies—to look at how they can best support the school to bring about that improvement. So, it's getting an agreement on what the issues are, and then planning the support so that we avoid duplication, but that we support the school in the areas they need more support. And we hope that this then will accelerate the improvement of the schools that find themselves in category. But, as Meilyr already said, there are some schools involved in that particular pilot that are at danger of causing serious concern. So, the pilot is trying out those two different approaches as well.", "speakerName": "Claire Morgan" }, { "text": "Okay, thank you. And just finally from me, for the time being at least, the financial situation; we've spoken about that already this morning. If you could—. If funding was injected into the system tomorrow, say, what would you spend it on? What aspects would benefit from that additional funding?", "speakerName": "Sian Gwenllian AM" }, { "text": "Were you asking about something specific there?", "speakerName": "Meilyr Rowlands" }, { "text": "In the schools themselves, if you were a school leader, what would you—", "speakerName": "Sian Gwenllian AM" }, { "text": "Oh, if I were a school leader.", "speakerName": "Meilyr Rowlands" }, { "text": "Yes. How would you use any additional funding that would flow into the school?", "speakerName": "Sian Gwenllian AM" }, { "text": "It's difficult to make that decision, because every school is different. It is important, of course, that leaders do have the power and the ability to make those decisions themselves. But, certainly, in the short term, the type of thing I would have thought would be to prepare for the new curriculum. That means freeing up teachers to think about what the new curriculum means to them. The schools that have been a part of developing the curriculum have been in a fortunate position in that they've had plenty of time to think about this. So, it's now time—and this was the chief message of my annual report this year—for every school in Wales to start to think. Because I think that the new curriculum is truly an opportunity to take a forward step in terms of how we teach and learn within schools. But that means that time is needed for schools to think this through and, in that thinking, to contact the community, to talk to their children as well, to see what the community in its broader sense would like to see being in the new curriculum, because it's up to every school. Although the new curriculum sets a framework, it is up to each and every school to decide what they're going to teach, and what they're teaching in order to prepare their young people for this new world that we have in the twenty-first century. Therefore, to give you a somewhat superficial answer, I would be setting time aside for the training of teachers.", "speakerName": "Meilyr Rowlands" }, { "text": "Can I just add one thing there? I think what we've seen over the years recently is that local authorities, to some extent, have safeguarded the funding that goes to the schools, but the effect of that is that we've seen less funding going into some of the local authority services; for example, those services that support well-being, that promote attendance, and that perhaps support behaviour and assistance for schools. So, I think that all of those factors contribute to how schools can support and assist their pupils, and to improve themselves. So, I think that side of things is important as well—in the school or in the local authority, if funding is available, it should be allocated to all of those things so that those services can also support the children to succeed.", "speakerName": "Jassa Scott" }, { "text": "Thank you.", "speakerName": "Sian Gwenllian AM" }, { "text": "Just before we move on to the middle tier, if I can just ask about the quality of teaching? There's been a consistent message from Estyn that that is the weakest part of the system in Wales. The Government recognises that and has invested a very significant amount of money in that area, yet it's still an issue again in your annual report. You haven't said whether it's getting better or going in the right direction. What is your assessment of whether we are seeing the improvements we need to see in the quality of teaching?", "speakerName": "Lynne Neagle AM" }, { "text": "I think, in nearly all the elements of our framework, the picture is fairly similar. So, in terms of quality of teaching, we have seen gradual but quite small-scale improvements in primary. So, you can feel that that is going in the right direction. In secondary, it's more or less level; we haven't seen it getting particularly better or particularly worse. One of the things that's really important to realise is that the curriculum is about the quality of teaching. It is about the teaching and learning; those are two sides of the same coin, if you like. What's important is the learning experience that our pupils get in school. From the perspective of the pupil, it's the learning; from the perspective of the teacher, it's the teaching. They are two sides to the same coin. I think there's no doubt and I think there's general agreement that, in order to have a step change in the quality of teaching and learning—. I think it was Einstein who said that if you keep on doing the same thing, you'll get the same result. So, you're going to have to change something, and what's changing is the curriculum. I think there's general consensus that this is the right approach to improve the quality of teaching. And that's exactly what all schools need to do now: to think how does this new curriculum affect them in their particular school, in their particular circumstances, in the context of their particular children. How can they use this opportunity now to improve the teaching and learning in their school?", "speakerName": "Meilyr Rowlands" }, { "text": "Siân.", "speakerName": "Lynne Neagle AM" }, { "text": "It does cause one concern, because if the teaching and learning standards just stay the same in the secondary sector, and we know that 12 per cent of secondary schools are under Estyn review and 11 per cent of them are in special measures, we're talking about half of the schools almost, and no improvement in the teaching quality in general. So, there is a major cohort of children captured in that situation, and then there's a new curriculum that comes in. I see the opportunities, but these schools that are doing well are going to go,'Wow, up there', but schools are there in the bottom layer and one is genuinely concerned about those children in those schools. Isn't that where the focus should be and any additional funding that's allocated? You talked about releasing teachers for training, but perhaps it's in those particular schools that we need to focus.", "speakerName": "Sian Gwenllian AM" }, { "text": "I do agree that the best schools will welcome the opportunities and that their standards will improve even more. But then, with regard to the other schools, in a way, there are two very broad categories, which are those that need only a little support just to help them to improve—. And I believe that the new curriculum and the general support that's going to be surrounding that will be the solution for those schools. It's going to be an opportunity for the quality of the teaching and the learning to improve. But you're right to say that there is another smaller cohort that has a much greater need for support, and they're going to find coping with the new curriculum difficult, because they'll also have many other problems. So, I do agree—. And you're not talking about a huge number of schools—some 200 secondary schools is what we have in Wales, so that percentage is relatively small, the number is relatively small—but they need much greater support. That is why this pilot scheme of the multi-agency approach of supporting those schools is important. I do believe that you're right to say that there are funding implications to supporting those schools. I don't think it's enormous, but certainly there's a certain amount of funding that is needed to offer those schools that support.", "speakerName": "Meilyr Rowlands" }, { "text": "Thank you. Janet.", "speakerName": "Lynne Neagle AM" }, { "text": "Thank you, Chair. The Minister recently told the committee that a number of recent Estyn inspections of local authorities' education services have been disappointing. Do you agree? That, of course, is based on the inspections carried out under the current cycle.", "speakerName": "Janet Finch-Saunders AM" }, { "text": "Yes, indeed. I think we've done nine inspections of local authorities' education services so far this cycle. We've got another two this academic year. We'll have done half of them by the end of the academic year. We'll then evaluate how things have gone. But of those nine we've put three into category—we've identified them as causing concern—and they're Pembrokeshire, Powys and Wrexham. So, we do have concerns about those authorities. So, we'll be supporting those authorities, moving forward. But I think a common factor in those inspections was secondary schools. So, we've talking quite a bit about secondary schools this morning, and I think that, again, is a factor in those local authorities.", "speakerName": "Meilyr Rowlands" }, { "text": "Thank you. You say that the proportion of secondary schools causing concern is a challenge for several local authorities and for the system as a whole. Which local authorities are these—you've probably named them all—and have these been inspected yet under the current cycle?", "speakerName": "Janet Finch-Saunders AM" }, { "text": "I think you're taking about three secondary schools in a category in Pembrokeshire, Wrexham and Torfaen. So, we've inspected Pembrokeshire and Wrexham already, but we haven't inspected Torfaen yet. And two schools in a category in Powys, Newport and Gwynedd. And we've inspected Powys and Newport, but we haven't inspected Gwynedd yet. So, in answer to your question: we've inspected most of those, but not all of them.", "speakerName": "Meilyr Rowlands" }, { "text": "Okay. What is your latest assessment of how well the regional consortia are supporting and driving school improvement? Does this vary across the different regions?", "speakerName": "Janet Finch-Saunders AM" }, { "text": "It certainly does vary, but I'll ask Jassa to go into more detail.", "speakerName": "Meilyr Rowlands" }, { "text": "We haven't directly inspected the regional consortia since—I think 2017 was the last time we did some direct monitoring with them. But I think, over the last three years, we do feel that they've improved their knowledge. They're still relatively new in the big scheme of things. So, they did take a little while to embed, and I think that came across when we did the work that we did with them back in 2017. But, more recently, they've improved their knowledge of individual schools' strengths and areas for improvement, and they are using this knowledge better to support and challenge schools, and particularly schools causing concern. But obviously, as we've been talking about this morning, there's still work to do. I think they've prioritised well the work that schools are doing around literacy and numeracy, but their support for schools to develop digital competence has been a bit weaker. Even though we've had the framework as an early part of the curriculum developments there, we haven't seen quite the focus that we've seen on other areas. I think for schools causing concern, what we found—and we do look at their work through our local authority inspection, so we are getting some first-hand evidence of their impact through that—they're not always focused, in those schools causing concern, on improving teaching and learning, so actually getting in and looking and working with teachers and with staff to actually make improvements there. I think, generally, their support for secondary schools has had less impact across the consortia than it has for primary schools, and I think sometimes that's because they're struggling to recruit appropriate specialists, to support with secondary, or perhaps they don't have the depth of strong practice that we talked about earlier within their region. So, they're having to work a bit harder to find effective practice, to share practice and to get the secondary expertise and knowledge to support those schools. We will be, over the next year, looking specifically at the work of consortia to support curriculum reform work. Well, we think we will be—we haven’t had our remit letter yet. But that's one of the areas we've discussed, about doing some specific work on over the next year to look in a bit more depth.", "speakerName": "Jassa Scott" }, { "text": "So, what is the cycle of inspections for regional consortia, and how robust are those inspections? What areas do you cover?", "speakerName": "Janet Finch-Saunders AM" }, { "text": "Well, regional consortia aren't actually statutory entities at the moment, and we don't have specific inspection powers relating to regional consortia. What we have are powers to inspect school improvement. So, on each of our local authority inspections, there will be, usually, an area that we're looking at that relates to school improvement, and that would involve us looking at the work of the consortia that the local authority has commissioned. What we've agreed with Welsh Government is that, over the next few years, we will take a thematic approach. So, the first area that we've said is that we'll look specifically at how each of them is supporting curriculum reform, and report on that. So, that will report specifically on the different ones, but it wouldn't be the same as doing an inspection of their work at this time.", "speakerName": "Jassa Scott" }, { "text": "Should they be on a statutory footing?", "speakerName": "Janet Finch-Saunders AM" }, { "text": "Well, I think that's something to be discussed over the next few years. There's, obviously, local government legislation that has been debated recently, which has the potential to create corporate joint committees, and school improvement was one of the areas that is being considered there. So, there may be an opportunity, if that's created, to think how we then adapt inspection to look specifically at that. So, I think there is an opportunity. I think we do get a handle on their work through the local authority and, ultimately, it's looking at what that consortia brings to that local authority and to the schools and the pupils in that area that's the important bit, I think, ultimately, to see the impact there. So, we are looking at them in that way, and then taking that thematic approach, but we'll keep reviewing it over the next couple of years.", "speakerName": "Jassa Scott" }, { "text": "Thank you. And what are Estyn's views on the latest position regarding regional working in south-west and mid Wales? Would it be preferable for school improvement advisers to be based in the consortium, Education through Regional Work, rather than each local authority employing their own, as is the case at present?", "speakerName": "Janet Finch-Saunders AM" }, { "text": "If I can just go back to the last question as well, what we did in order to inspect regions was we paused our local authority inspection cycle back in 2014, I think, for about three years. So, then, we spent time looking at regions, basically, because we didn't have the resource to do both at the same time. So, we're in negotiation with Welsh Government currently, so that, going forward, we can look at local authorities and regions at the same time. If regions become statutory entities, that would be in legislation, and then you could have legislation that gives us directly the powers to inspect them, which we don't currently have. So, we have to, effectively, wait for Welsh Government to ask us to do that work. But, as Jassa said, currently, what we intend to do in the short is to do some thematic work on that. In terms of ERW, they were the region that, at the end of the last cycle of regional inspections, we were still monitoring. We are concerned about their progress, particularly in the light of recent developments. So, for example, the chair of the joint committee has resigned, the managing director remains a temporary appointment and there are no clear plans for a permanent leadership. Some of the leadership team have left—the capacity has gone down—and various staff that were appointed last summer have already left. The budget has not been agreed and certain key meetings—executive board and joint committee meetings—have been cancelled. So, we are particularly worried about ERW, and, because of that, we will be going in to visit them in April—next month—and we'll be visiting all of the authorities to make sure that they do have a plan for an appropriate school improvement service going forward. But, Jassa, probably, can say a little bit more about our plans there.", "speakerName": "Meilyr Rowlands" }, { "text": "Yes, I think you asked a specific question about, you know, which is better. I think our view has been that, generally, the local authorities are too small to deliver that whole range of school improvement services, particularly given the national reform agenda at the moment. We felt last summer, when we went to ERW, that they'd managed to reach the best possible model, given the constraint they've placed, collectively, on themselves—that they want to deliver aspects of school improvement locally, through the local authorities, and have some central capacity. So, we felt that, given that they wanted to do some locally and some centrally, enough thought had been put into that structure last summer and that it could be workable. There were key aspects such as support for secondary schools causing concern and there was some capacity centrally that could support areas such as Powys. Unfortunately, as Meilyr has described, some of those aspects have since been disbanded or those staff who were on secondment have gone back, so I think it is a key risk, particularly for some of those authorities you've talked about that are causing concern, such as Powys or Pembrokeshire—that they haven't necessarily got that local capacity to support their schools causing concern. So, you've got some concerns within school capacity and you've got concerns about local authority capacity, and what you don't have there now is that collective capacity centrally that might support them. So, that's why we're going to go and do a slightly more detailed link visit to try to understand how they are mitigating the risks that we see are arising as a result of some of those things that have happened recently. Our understanding is that there's a joint committee meeting of ERW on 19 March, so, hopefully, after that point, we'll have a little bit more information about how they're planning to manage that collective set of services going forward—it's a little bit of an unknown at the moment.", "speakerName": "Jassa Scott" }, { "text": "You were asking,'Would it be better for every authority to have their own team?' But, before regions were invented, if you like, we were saying consistently that they tended to be too small. What happened in practice was that authorities did come together voluntarily to have joint advisory services. So, you had Cynnal in the north west, you had the Education and School Improvement Service, you had Gwent—so, they naturally did come together in groups, maybe a little bit smaller than the current regions, but they, of their own accord, produced something not very dissimilar to a region.", "speakerName": "Meilyr Rowlands" }, { "text": "Siân, did you have a supplementary?", "speakerName": "Lynne Neagle AM" }, { "text": "Yes, just on ERW. Does the fact that there is a dispute on the highest level feed down to the school and to the children? Are the children in south-west and mid Wales affected by this? Are standards decreasing in that part of Wales?", "speakerName": "Sian Gwenllian AM" }, { "text": "Well, it's difficult to say directly, but we have inspected nine authorities and two of those are in that area, so, the lack of support at that level, as Jassa was saying, may be the reason why those authorities are suffering difficulties.", "speakerName": "Meilyr Rowlands" }, { "text": "And it is clear that many people across that area are expending energy and time discussing these issues. Any reorganisation does take energy out of the system, so it is clear that that time isn't then being spent, perhaps, on investment in improving schools and supporting staff in schools. So, as Meilyr says, it's not clear, but a lot of energy is being expended in that particular discussion that is ongoing.", "speakerName": "Jassa Scott" }, { "text": "Janet.", "speakerName": "Lynne Neagle AM" }, { "text": "What disadvantages could there be from Neath Port Talbot's intention to withdraw from regional working via ERW? And I've got to be honest, up in the north, I know that there are concerns about regional consortia, and when local authorities are under pressure financially, it questions, sometimes, the value of regional consortia. So, what disadvantages could there be from Neath Port Talbot's intention to withdraw from regional working via ERW?", "speakerName": "Janet Finch-Saunders AM" }, { "text": "I think we've talked in general terms and we feel that local authorities probably are too small on their own. In general terms, you can't say that any particular authority couldn't, maybe, put things together in such a way that it's effective. Also, it has a knock-on effect on the rest of the consortium, if one withdraws. I don't know whether, Jassa, you've got anything to add to the general points we've made.", "speakerName": "Meilyr Rowlands" }, { "text": "I mean, I think, what you've alluded to there, it has the potential to be a destabilising factor across the whole of the national model that we've got for supporting school improvement at a time where Welsh Government are kind of relying heavily on that consortium model to help support curriculum reform and to drive professional learning and be the conduit for lots of the aspects of reform that we've talked about. So, I think that potential risk of any destabilising across the system is a disadvantage generally. I think—. Clearly, we've talked about that capacity at a local level. There is that aspect of what that means in terms of the joint capacity across the other authorities there. And I think it's just what I've already talked about in terms of being a distraction at a crucial time for support where schools need to feel that they're confident in where they need to go for support. I should say that we're planning, as part of that visit that we do in April, to survey schools in that region about the support that they're getting, be that from their authority or from the central teams in ERW. That's something we did at the time when we did the inspections previously, and we thought it would be helpful to get some first-hand views of any disadvantages or impact that they might be feeling, really.", "speakerName": "Jassa Scott" }, { "text": "Okay, thank you. And then, finally, for me:what involvement has Estyn had with the strategic education delivery group chaired by Professor Dylan Jones and what are your expectations for how it will improve the work of the middle tier?", "speakerName": "Suzy Davies AM" }, { "text": "We've been members of that group right from the beginning. I personally am on it and colleagues are on it as well, and I'm a member of the sub-group that does some of the background work for that group as well, and Estyn has given several presentations to that group. I think the group is important. I remember commenting the first time it met that it was welcoming. The rather obvious thing is that you get all the strategic educational organisations together in one room, but it had never been done before, as far as I know. So, it was a really important step forward for that to happen. I'm a very firm believer in making those relationships, building those relationships, so that people understand what each of us contributes to the whole of the education system. We need to have that forum to be able to make sure that we're clear about what each of our roles is.", "speakerName": "Meilyr Rowlands" }, { "text": "Okay, thanks.", "speakerName": "Janet Finch-Saunders AM" }, { "text": "Okay, thank you. We've got some questions now from Dawn Bowden.", "speakerName": "Lynne Neagle AM" }, { "text": "Thank you, Chair. Morning, all. In your report you talked about in early settings where skills development is less effective, that children begin to feel at a very early age that they can't do certain things. I don't know whether that is anecdotal evidence or is that specific outcome-based evidence—whatever, it's quite worrying. But what do you think the long-term effect on a child's development has in that respect?", "speakerName": "Dawn Bowden AM" }, { "text": "It's probably worth saying that skill development is a strength in about three quarters of our schools—primary schools and early years settings. But in a minority of schools and settings, as you've picked up, children are often introduced to things too early. So, they're introduced to phonics, they're introduced to learning to read, when they're not at that developmental stage. And really, long term, it means the children lose confidence, because if they're introduced to these things too early they don't succeed, they tend to need additional support, and it can give them a negative impression, it can give them negative thoughts about their ability. So, we need to address that, and really it's about—", "speakerName": "Claire Morgan" }, { "text": "Sorry, what sort of age range are we talking about here?", "speakerName": "Dawn Bowden AM" }, { "text": "These would be children from three to five.", "speakerName": "Claire Morgan" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Dawn Bowden AM" }, { "text": "So, this is very, very early on.", "speakerName": "Claire Morgan" }, { "text": "And is there something, then, in that—and I don't think there's much we can do about that, but it may be in terms of the way that the schools or the early learning settings address this—you will have children at a very young age that have almost a year's difference in their age group, so they're born just before 1 September or just after 1 September? So, that's a huge gap, isn't it, at that point in their development?", "speakerName": "Dawn Bowden AM" }, { "text": "Yes.", "speakerName": "Claire Morgan" }, { "text": "Is that not being addressed in a way that those children are being taught and approached at that age?", "speakerName": "Dawn Bowden AM" }, { "text": "Yes.", "speakerName": "Claire Morgan" }, { "text": "Right, okay. That's fine. In terms of reading and literacy skills, we still remain quite low in the Programme for International Student Assessment ratings for reading, and I know there is a particular concern about the impact on boys in that regard. What do you think are the most pressing priorities that face them around reading and literacy?", "speakerName": "Dawn Bowden AM" }, { "text": "I think literacy has been, and still is, and still needs to be a top priority. I mean, literacy clearly is something that underpins the rest of education, so it really does need to be a top priority. I think it has been a high priority, but we need to continue prioritising it. We've seen some improvements over the years. For example, we've given a lot of attention to writing over the years, and making sure that children get the opportunity to write in an extended way, not just short sentences, but having the opportunity to have extended writing, and there's some evidence that that now is beginning to have an effect. But almost ironically, the same sort of issue is true of reading. So, it's not just reading small little snippets—we need to encourage children to have a love for reading and read whole books. So, I gave a little bit of attention to that in the annual report—that that needs attention. I think the other thing I would emphasise is that this is not just for the foundation phase, it's not just for very young children—it's really important at key stage 2 and in secondary school. One of the things we have been worried about, and I think there was some reflection of this in PISA, is that there are strengths in reading in Wales. So, PISA, for example, said that children in Wales are very good at comparing lots of little snippets, but what they're saying, and they're saying this themselves, is that the love of books is decreasing, and the number of children who read regularly whole books. So, I think there is something there for teachers to set and model a good example, to show their own interest in reading, to encourage children to read themselves.", "speakerName": "Meilyr Rowlands" }, { "text": "It's probably a wider societal problem as well, isn't it? I'm thinking about gaming, electronic gaming, computers.", "speakerName": "Dawn Bowden AM" }, { "text": "Absolutely. I think there is some sort of link with the digital world, and the way people read—the actual technique of reading, is evolving. But I think reading is so important, and developing a complex vocabulary is so important in being able to communicate, in order to get a good job, to have enjoyment out of life—all of those things are so important. We ourselves are going to give this quite a lot of priority in future, so we're doing a major piece of work on language acquisition, which will cover some of this next year. Every year one of our thematics is the major bit of work we do, and we try to support that with a conference. So, that will be the focus that we give to our work next year—it is on language acquisition.", "speakerName": "Meilyr Rowlands" }, { "text": "Okay, thank you for that. Just one other supplementary on that, I guess, is whether you have a good idea of how many young people are coming out of school at 16—so, those that are not staying on to do A-levels—and are coming out with an inability to read or white. Do we know what the figure is for that?", "speakerName": "Dawn Bowden AM" }, { "text": "I can't tell you that off the top of my head, but I'm sure that there will be evidence. That's not something we inspect as such.", "speakerName": "Meilyr Rowlands" }, { "text": "No, no, but there should be evidence around that. Okay.", "speakerName": "Dawn Bowden AM" }, { "text": "There has been a shift in that there's been continued emphasis in post-16 education and training around literacy and picking that up. For example, anyone who's studying in a further education college will have to do resits. There's an aim to try and get everyone to a basic level. In apprenticeships they'll use essential skills and so on to try and get that basic level of literacy as well, so there is an emphasis. I think one of the worrying indications, maybe, that post-16 sectors find is that sometimes even when learners are coming out with a basic qualification in a GCSE, potentially in English or a literature subject, they don't necessarily have a really good foundation of some of the basic skills as well. So, there is a lot of work to do in this area.", "speakerName": "Jassa Scott" }, { "text": "Okay, all right. Could I just move you on—? Sorry—", "speakerName": "Dawn Bowden AM" }, { "text": "The only thing I would add to that is, I guess, it's quite small, the number of people who don't have basic reading. I think one of the things we need to emphasise is that learning reading is something you do throughout your life, and what we need to do is to develop, in particular, pupils' higher level reading skills. The fact that they can just read isn't the end of the story; they need to be developing those higher level reading skills and continuing to widen the range of things they read, and be able to develop their vocabulary at a higher level.", "speakerName": "Meilyr Rowlands" }, { "text": "And their comprehension, I guess.", "speakerName": "Dawn Bowden AM" }, { "text": "Sorry?", "speakerName": "Meilyr Rowlands" }, { "text": "And their comprehension as well.", "speakerName": "Dawn Bowden AM" }, { "text": "Absolutely, yes—those higher level skills of comprehension and inference and those sorts of things.", "speakerName": "Meilyr Rowlands" }, { "text": "Sure, okay. Can I just move you on, then, to numeracy and whether you can tell us if you're satisfied with the progress in numeracy, because I think we were doing better on the PISA results in maths in Wales than we did previously? So, what are your thoughts on that?", "speakerName": "Dawn Bowden AM" }, { "text": "I think there is a fairly clear good news story here. PISA shows improvements and a lot of that can be attributed, I think, to the new GCSE mathematics numeracy. I think there's much less predictability in that work; you can't approach it in a formulaic way, either the pupils or the teachers in terms of teaching it. There's much more problem solving. It's about applying what you've learnt in the core mathematics lessons to new situations in subjects across the curriculum. I think that that GCSE numeracy has built on the work that's been done lower down on the national numeracy framework, which has the same philosophy of applying that mathematics knowledge in a problem-solving situation. That has been a really good news story, really.", "speakerName": "Meilyr Rowlands" }, { "text": "That's something to be positive about, anyway. That's good. My final question, Chair, is: in your view, to what extent is Wales on track to meet the target of 500 points in each of the domains in the 2020-1 cycle for PISA?", "speakerName": "Dawn Bowden AM" }, { "text": "I think that that target is somewhat arbitrary, but assuming that we continue on this journey that we are on—the current change programme of the new curriculum and so forth—I think we would expect to see those improvements we've seen in science and in mathematics to continue. We've talked about reading and I think we will be giving more attention to reading. I think the education system more generally, hopefully, will give more attention to reading. So, I would hope to see improvements there as well. The only other thing I would add is that there is some research that indicates or suggests that the effect of schools is greater on mathematics and science than on reading, and the reason for that is you don't do a lot mathematics or science in the home. But the attitude towards reading is very much dependent on family and community factors, more so, maybe, than mathematics and science. So, I think that's another reason why I think a community-school approach is really important. You need to get everybody on board; it's not just what the teacher does in the classroom—it's important that the whole family and the community thinks that reading is important.", "speakerName": "Meilyr Rowlands" }, { "text": "Just on numeracy, it was interesting because one of the schools in my constituency have actually contacted my office and a number of other organisations across the constituency to ask us how we use maths in our work. So, they're obviously trying to relate that now to everyday life and working, which I thought was quite good.", "speakerName": "Dawn Bowden AM" }, { "text": "That's good.", "speakerName": "Meilyr Rowlands" }, { "text": "We've got some questions now around progress of specific groups of pupils. If I can start and ask you how concerning is it that the gap between pupils eligible for free school meals and other pupils has not narrowed in the last 10 years, especially given the £475 million pupil deprivation grant investment.", "speakerName": "Lynne Neagle AM" }, { "text": "Yes. I think secondary schools and the issue of poverty were the two things I've noted in the annual report. So, I think it is a concern to us. I think it is worth also remembering that compared to other countries, for example, in PISA, we do compare quite well in terms of equity. There's also an argument that maybe poverty and austerity have increased, so that we're in a way running to keep still. And I think also, as I was suggesting about the reading, poverty really is a social phenomenon. Schools can't solve that on their own. So, there are a lot of caveats to be made around the fact that that poverty gap hasn't closed, but that's not to say that schools can't do something about it, and I've suggested in the annual report a sort of a two-pronged approach. One is the new curriculum. I think there is evidence in the international research that teaching and learning, better teaching and learning, helps disadvantaged poor pupils disproportionately. So, they gain more from it that their peers. So, I think improving teaching and learning, and we discussed that earlier this morning about how the new curriculum is really all about improving the quality of teaching and learning in the classroom. So, that's one approach, and then the other approach, which I've also mentioned earlier, is having a community-focused approach to schools. The schools that do more successfully tackle the poverty gap are the schools that take that kind of approach. It means helping the pupils. It means helping their families. It's about making pupil well-being really high on the agenda. It's very difficult for children to do well in school if they've got all kinds of things happening in their background. So, it's important that schools can maybe signpost those families to other services that can support them and help them. So, it's quite a complex—. It's challenging for schools to go down this route, and I think the more help we can give schools to take that approach, the better. But the schools that do do it do benefit a lot from it. They have better engagement from parents, from the families, and that then reflects back on the work of the children.", "speakerName": "Meilyr Rowlands" }, { "text": "And we've just published a collection of good practice about how schools support vulnerable learners, and we'll be teasing out the aspects around community-focused schools a lot more in a report that we'll publish in the next couple of months. So, we've kind of drilled down and looked at what some schools are doing in that area in a bit more detail.", "speakerName": "Jassa Scott" }, { "text": "Thank you. Suzy, on this.", "speakerName": "Lynne Neagle AM" }, { "text": "Yes, just quickly. Obviously, I think we've all been to schools where the PDG is actually used to engage parents more for exactly the reasons you say. But I just wanted to interrogate the deprivation gap a little bit, because, of course, even though, as you say, there's perhaps more equity in Wales, one of the reasons for that is because our children from better-off backgrounds do less well, and considerably less well than their peers in the other parts of the United Kingdom. So, whereas their attainment gaps are pretty dreadful, that's one of the reasons—that our better-off children aren't doing as well as perhaps they might do. Is that a concern as well? We don't want this rush to the middle, do we?", "speakerName": "Suzy Davies AM" }, { "text": "I think it's essential that all groups of pupils do as well as they possibly can, absolutely. So, it's not quite the same issue, but we've talked about the importance of making sure that more able and talented children do well.", "speakerName": "Meilyr Rowlands" }, { "text": "They're not the same.", "speakerName": "Suzy Davies AM" }, { "text": "They're not the same, clearly, because you have more able and talented children from poor backgrounds. Differentiation is a challenge for schools, but it's absolutely essential that all groups of children do as well as they possibly can. So, in things like PISA, in terms of reading, for example, we can't just say it's that group that needs to improve—all the groups need to improve. And I think that's why something like the new curriculum gives schools more scope to tailor their teaching and learning to the particular groups that they have, whether they’re more able, whether they're advantaged or whether they're disadvantaged.", "speakerName": "Meilyr Rowlands" }, { "text": "Okay, thanks. Thank you, Lynne.", "speakerName": "Suzy Davies AM" }, { "text": "Okay. Pupils' confidence in their school's ability to help them with their emotional and mental well-being is much less at secondary school and that's been a consistent theme as well from your reports. Why do you think that is?", "speakerName": "Lynne Neagle AM" }, { "text": "Yes, you're right. As we mentioned earlier, we do pupil surveys before all our inspections, and across a number of those indicators, like,'How well does the school listen? Do adults in school care about me? How well does the school deal with bullying?'—quite a lot those ones around well-being do tail off. Nine out of 10 pupils at key stage 2 have that confidence, down to half at key stage 4, as you say. And I think there are a number of factors that we think contribute to that: I think one of the factors is that pupils face, sometimes, more challenges as they get older in those teenage years, but they also become more reflective and perhaps more discerning. And I think what we find in secondary schools is perhaps secondary school pupils notice sometimes the differences between their everyday life that they experience in school and perhaps the messages that they're getting about well-being in terms of their lessons, in terms of assemblies and in terms of school policies and so on. So, they are probably more discerning in noticing those differences and maybe there are some of those differences also there in primary school, but the pupils don't notice. I think we've already touched upon things like the differences in the way that, at primary school, you would tend to have a go-to adult, which is your teacher. The best secondary schools find ways to make sure that pupils do feel that level of support and feel there are trusted people, but it's more of a challenge to make sure that that happens, because of the way they're operating. We still have some concerns about personal and social education and the health and well-being support, which we've made a recommendation about in the past in some of our thematic reports, but also recently in some of our secondary school inspection reports. And I think I already touched upon the fact that sometimes, when the budget is tight, it can be some of those—they're not peripheral in their importance, but they're not the teacher in the classroom: well-being support assistants and so on and family liaison workers—staff in the school who perhaps really support that pastoral care that the school as a whole can provide—it may be that those are the roles that are less prevalent at times of less funding. So, I think there are some great members of staff doing a really good job, but perhaps they're not those members of staff who can support teachers and support pupils in creating that kind of caring environment. Maybe there a fewer of them around. So, I think there's not an obvious answer and part of it is that they do become more discerning and perhaps more vocal in those responses generally, as they get older. So, you might have a truer reflection of opinions than perhaps—. And that might explain some of the difference with primary, where, generally, they're quite positive about everything across most of the schools that we ask.", "speakerName": "Jassa Scott" }, { "text": "So, it's not that secondary schools—because you've said that in a previous inspection report—are just not as good at prioritising mental health and well-being.", "speakerName": "Lynne Neagle AM" }, { "text": "I think there's an element that it's more of a challenge for a secondary school to provide an effective set of support from that whole-staff awareness of some of the challenges. And one of the pieces of work we've done recently is around adverse childhood experiences, and we have found that primary schools have taken that and embraced it. Once you've trained your staff, then they've got that knowledge. They're the ones who are working day to day with the schools. Secondary schools haven't always taken a whole-school approach to that. They might have trained a set of staff. So, maybe not every member of staff has the same level of understanding, but also those staff aren't spending the same amount of time with pupils. So, in terms of getting to know pupils, picking up on signs that they may be struggling, or that there might be concerns—it's much more of a challenge. You've got to work a lot harder as a secondary school to make sure that staff have that knowledge and that you've got the tracking systems that can put those different bits of information together to actually mean that you can target support where it's needed.", "speakerName": "Jassa Scott" }, { "text": "Thank you. Suzy.", "speakerName": "Lynne Neagle AM" }, { "text": "I'm just thinking again about specific groups of pupils. Obviously, we've had one case in north Wales, in an independent school, where there were serious concerns. What's that done to your desire to monitor and check what's going on in these independent schools? Are they regulated sufficiently?", "speakerName": "Suzy Davies AM" }, { "text": "I'll pick up on that as well. Just to explain how we work with independent schools, initially, to give the context. So, there are different kinds of independent schools. So, some have boarding provision, and where they have boarding provision, Care Inspectorate Wales would look at the boarding side of it, we'd look at the educational side of it. There are others where they may have a linked children's home, which can be another room in the same house, or it can be a number of miles away, and similarly there CIW would look at the residential aspects of the care and we'd look at the school. So, I think, there's a focus in the independent school standards regulations, which is a minimum that all schools have to meet to maintain a registration. There is a focus in that on how that school looks after and cares for its pupils, and there are focuses on that element of boarding provision where relevant, and the national minimum standards that the care inspectorate look at that have aspects around supporting well-being as well. What we do find in our inspections is that, overall, we generally find that pupils' well-being develops, they make good progress, and that care, support and guidance that schools give is good. What we mean by that, really, practically, is that they are developing their resilience and their self-esteem. In special schools, this might mean particularly that those pupils learn to manage their anxieties better so that they improve their behaviour, which may be one of the reasons why they're in that specialist setting. In mainstream independent schools, what we find is that people develop their tenacity, their curiosity for learning—their resilience in that way. But there are shortcomings sometimes. For example, there was one school where we found that they weren't making appropriate referrals to child and adolescent mental health services. So, these schools do operate independently by their nature, and their awareness, perhaps, of some of the guidance and support that is out there—sometimes, maybe, there can be more to be done, and I think we've talked to Welsh Government about that.", "speakerName": "Jassa Scott" }, { "text": "What's Estyn's role in that—to bring that level of awareness to those schools?", "speakerName": "Suzy Davies AM" }, { "text": "I think we do through our inspection guidance, and the independent school standards do refer to Welsh Government guidance—it's something like'Keeping learners safe', which is a really key document, which supports safeguarding and caring across schools. That's regularly discussed and talked about and referred to with those schools. So, I think the other area is that sometimes we don't have the intelligence about what—. So, for example, if there's been a safeguarding referral from a school, we don't necessarily always get that information, which means that when we do go to inspect, we may not have the full picture to help us tailor our inspection activity. So, that's something we've raised—", "speakerName": "Jassa Scott" }, { "text": "[Inaudible.]—be brief and brief in answers.", "speakerName": "Lynne Neagle AM" }, { "text": "Al right, okay. Do you mind if I move on to the next question?", "speakerName": "Suzy Davies AM" }, { "text": "We're going to have to skip those, I'm afraid, and talk to the last set of questions, just because of the time pressures. Hefin.", "speakerName": "Lynne Neagle AM" }, { "text": "I'd like to ask in Welsh, please. What role, if any, did Estyn have in the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development's latest review of progress in school improvement when they visited Wales in late 2019?", "speakerName": "Hefin David AM" }, { "text": "Well, we were interviewed. Therefore, the three of us had an interview with the OECD officials and we offered evidence to them. And I think that, when the report is published, you will see that the OECD does draw on our broader evidence and will be quoting our reports—the annual report and some of our thematic reports. That is the part that we played in that work.", "speakerName": "Meilyr Rowlands" }, { "text": "Thanks. How significant a role do you believe the national evaluation and improvement resource will play in raising school standards?", "speakerName": "Hefin David AM" }, { "text": "I think that it's very important. It's Claire who has been specifically tasked with that, so I'll ask Claire to speak about it.", "speakerName": "Meilyr Rowlands" }, { "text": "I think working together with the practitioners, the regions and representatives from local authorities is a great opportunity to develop a national approach, because we know across Wales there's some excellent practice, but we know there are schools that struggle to bring about improvement. So, this national resource has the potential to provide schools with detailed guidance on how they can approach not only self-evaluation, but, more importantly, how they can bring about that improvement. So, it will be a resource that develops over time. It's starting—we're piloting currently with around 40 schools. Half of those have been involved in developing the tools and approaches right from the start, and 22 new schools have come on board this year. But we anticipate that there will be lots of tools and approaches within that resource that schools can use to improve the quality of self-evaluation throughout the school, primaries, secondaries, PRUs and special schools. But it will focus on establishing a culture within the school that focuses on improvement, that establishes a reflective culture where all staff are involved in development. So, we're hoping that this tool—it's still currently in development, but we hope that that will support schools really well.", "speakerName": "Claire Morgan" }, { "text": "So, it's an evolving piece of work.", "speakerName": "Hefin David AM" }, { "text": "Yes, it is.", "speakerName": "Claire Morgan" }, { "text": "Okay. And, with regard to comparison of performance, does the lack of comparative attainment data raise difficulties when you're inspecting and drawing conclusions and standards in schools?", "speakerName": "Hefin David AM" }, { "text": "Not really, no. I think there was a bit of a myth that a lot of this performance data was just for Estyn, but actually it never has been. When we inspect, we look at a whole range of aspects of the work. We look at standards, we look at teaching and learning in the classroom, we look at well-being, we look at care support and guidance, we look at leadership, we look at all of these things, and we look at it based on first-hand evidence—what we actually see in the classroom. So, we're quite happy to continue to inspect schools, and we in fact support having less emphasis on data because, although data is useful, and we hope that schools will continue to analyse their data and use that data to help them self-improve and self-evaluate, we don't actually need it and it has actually created a bit of a high-stakes culture. So, I think stepping back from that culture is a good idea.", "speakerName": "Meilyr Rowlands" }, { "text": "Okay, thank you very much. We've come to the end of our time, so can I thank you all for your attendance? As usual, you'll receive a transcript to check for accuracy following the meeting. But thank you very much again for coming in this morning.", "speakerName": "Lynne Neagle AM" }, { "text": "Diolch yn fawr—thank you.", "speakerName": "Meilyr Rowlands" }, { "text": "Item 3, then, is papers to note. Paper to note 1 is a ministerial update on the emotional and mental health of children and young people in Wales—next steps for'Mind over matter'. Paper to note 2 is a letter from the Minister for Housing and Local Government regarding teachers' pay and pensions, and paper to note 3 is a letter to the Minister for Education from us regarding the school funding review. Are Members happy to note those? Thank you. Can I then propose under Standing Order 17.42 that the committee resolves to meet in private for the remainder of the meeting? Are Members content? Great. Okay. Thank you.", "speakerName": "Lynne Neagle AM" } ] }

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

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They are committed to providing financial stability and flexibility, including potentially reprofiling the way in which money is allocated to institutions, to help them navigate the immediate and long-term effects of the pandemic.", "responseAttribution": { "indexRanges": [ { "startIndex": 86, "endIndex": 86 } ] }, "queryMetadata": { "queryType": "QUERY_TYPE_SPECIFIC", "isUnanswerable": null, "isContextDependent": null } }, { "query": "What was decided regarding the cancellation of physical exams and grading policies for the students?", "response": "Due to the cancellation of physical examinations, a process for awarding grades to students was established. Teachers will provide a predicted grade for each student, based on their coursework, mock exams, and other relevant data. These grades will then undergo a moderation process to ensure fairness and maintain the integrity of the qualifications system.", "responseAttribution": { "indexRanges": [ { "startIndex": 67, "endIndex": 69 } ] }, "queryMetadata": { "queryType": "QUERY_TYPE_SPECIFIC", "isUnanswerable": null, "isContextDependent": null } }, { "query": "Why did Kirsty Williams express the importance of having guiding principles in place before considering the reopening of schools?", "response": "Kirsty Williams emphasized the significance of having guiding principles in place before considering the reopening of schools, as these principles will help guide decision-making and ensure a safe and orderly return to in-person education. 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Yeah I received an email so I thought I I can't mail you so I thought I'd just drop it in the folder, but.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah pretty much.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Hey what's wrong with my computer?", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Is it unlocked?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "No.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": ".", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Mm. Yeah that's my presentation..", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Woah. I uh kind of opened it.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Huh?", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Mm?", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Uh.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "What the.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Oh right.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "I think you have to uh change your desktop uh", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "size.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Ooh..", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "'Kay. Everybody ready?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Not really.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Well.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Sorry.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "No no no. Yes yes yes.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "computer is uh not functioning?", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Alright.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Okay. Where do I find this? I'm not so g display huh?", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Uh display.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "And then uh settings?", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Appearance?", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Huh.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Mm I'm not sure I.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "You read the newsflash?.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "'Kay. Can we get started", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "No.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "No what was it about?", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Hmm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "or is there some pressing issue?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah my computer is not functioning properly.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Oh no pressing.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Did you plug in the power cable when you come back?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah yeah. No but my screen is reduced in size..", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah. That's difficult. Yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "What?.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Feedback.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Hmm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "alt delete..", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Format..", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Format save.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": ". So it doesn't draw the attention away.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "This is dreadful.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "I made uh uh my own map.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Oh yeah sure.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "No not this, but the task.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "It's a.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "You have Playstation also?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah. No that's okay. No I just flapped it, closed it, took it here and then this happened. Ah. Uh where was it? In settings? Okay. Alright. Thank you.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Huh.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Do you guys like your tasks?", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah..", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "I spent a lot of time thinking about what I was gonna do and then a couple of minutes before this I get my function you know the information that I need.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah wa wa you actually Yeah. But it it's not clear what you have to to to type uh type in your presentation.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "So frustrating.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "So.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah. I I had a whole idea and then just was typing it and then oh. I have to do that so switch.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah Yeah exactly. This presentation is mainly based on my own ideas'cause I hadn't time to intergrate tha the information yet so.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Really annoying.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Okay. So there we are again.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "By your humble P_M_.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Okay this is the agenda. Um we have three presentations, I heard.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Really..", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah really. So who wants to start?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah that's fine.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "We have to start it right away?.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah. Uh this is you?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Functional? Yeah functional requirements.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "'Kay.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Alright. I'm gonna talk about functional requirements. Um Well uh some research has be done uh has been done. Uh observing of one hundred uh subjects in the usability lab using a remote control. Uh and they also filled in a questionnaire. The findings were um, well you can see them for yourself. They disliked the look-and-feel of current remotes controls. Users think they're ugly. Um they do not match the the operating behaviour of the users. So they they d they don't match what they want to have on it. Um they are often lost somewhere in the room. Um it takes too much time to learn how to use a new remote control. And they're bad for R_S_I_. I don't know uh how a user can reach that but okay. Um.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Ts", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "there is also uh was also some research on uh the most relevant and and and irrelevant uh f functions. Uh most irrelevant and less used were audio settings, mono, stereo, uh pitch, bass. Um screen settings for brightness and colour and stuff like that. Um but they are used. I mean the.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "So they do need to be in the.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah they do need to be on the on the remote control.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Alright.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "I mean if you can't control the the sound settings I mean if you dislike a very uh loud bass or something, you you need to change that.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "often.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "So um yeah we have to.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "By the way my T_V_ doesn't have an equ equaliser but", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "We c we c Yeah I mean w we can't.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Next generation does..", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "okay.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "my my T_V_ has,", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "No. Alright.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "but we we can leave them uh away. Uh most relevant, uh most used functions, uh they speak for themselves I guess. Uh power button, uh channel, volume selection. Uh teletext but we can skip that because I saw the newsflash, and teletext is so outdated that it it's i should not be used uh any more in the future.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "N not used anymore.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "So forget this one.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Uh channel settings, so for programming uh your channels in in the right order.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "By the way where did you guys get that newsflash from?", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah. I was wondering uh.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "I didn't get anything.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah, on on the project uh.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah. Not by mail. I receiv the mail but you don't. So.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "But you you've got more information than uh.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "No so it's a text file n in the project folder. So teletext can be skipped.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "That's in the presentation, so.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Alright.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Um there was some research on new features in a remote control. Uh about an L_C_D_ screen uh and speech recognition. Well we got an update for the for the audience. Or the the the targeted group. So it's above forty I guess.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Uh below I believe.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "The new product? Or below.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah below forty.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "because that's pretty relevant.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "I thought I read a.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Our current customers are in the age group forty plus.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah?", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "And the new product should reach new markets, which is the customers below forty.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Below? Okay well.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "But where did you get uh that information?", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "That's in a newsflash.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "that's that's in the newsfla", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Okay..", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "okay that's a good to know. Um because you see see a clear distinction between the age groups, concerning the features.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "I mean uh above forty people are not so interested uh not so interested in a screen or speech recognition. Uh but below that age they uh they pretty much are. So I think we can build that in. Um Yeah well we can skip this part as well, because I thought I read above forty so we could skip the features, but we just have to build them in because uh they find it very interesting. Um well we have to keep all the classic functions but make the buttons as user-friendly as possible. Um and and also there's so not only the design of the bus uh buttons but o how you can push them, and stuff like that. So the physical uh aspect of it. Um And I think and certainly for for the for the lower age groups, uh nice design, which uh does not make the remote control in your room.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "It's it's actually a part of your interior, of of your design in your room. So it's the people can say, well what's that, well that's my remote control, so it's d it has to look nice and feel nice, and and have all the functions that uh.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah. But it also needs to have corporate identity.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah so the the logo has to be", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Present and the colours.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "uh present yeah, and the colours as well.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "So we can't change much of that.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Do we have uh yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah so but I I don't think that's that's a problem because the thing has to have a colour anyway, and most of the times there is a brand present on it.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm. Mm-hmm. Yeah. Yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "So I think that's not gonna gonna affect it very uh very much.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Well that are the the consequences uh on a marketing uh part.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "'Kay.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Alright.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yes.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "It's open already so you can use to", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": ".", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "find yours.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm. It's.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "F_ five.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "F_ five. Okay.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Go Jurgen.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Oh. What is this?", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Oh no..", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "How do I uh.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "You pressed alt F_ four?.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "No no no. I pressed the mouse button.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Oh great..", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "It's th that's the self-destruct button.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah. Okay.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Uh maybe you can do it from your computer so talk us through it.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Okay. Um if you all go stand around uh.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah. Just yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah..", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Computer.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Alright.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Sure.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Um.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "That's nice..", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "No.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "F_ five. Yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Alright.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "I uh had uh two examples.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Um this one is the the yeah the advanced one with a lot of options and functions and buttons.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "This the easy one", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "I think we have to to combine them. And uh yeah merge the best functions of all examples.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Um but yeah the the age is uh under forty?", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "The mm yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah and and and marketing research stated that that that kind of users are not afraid of of a lot of functions.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "So we Okay so so we have the option for more functions.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "So not not too much but yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Um yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "And we do have to integrate the screen and the the speech.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "And the speech recognition yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "alright.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Uh yeah this this one we can remove for kids. It's just only for adults so uh we can uh use some advanced options. But.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah from age of sixteen so yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah but I prefer we we uh use the the basic options uh yeah. We have to to make them very easy so for just uh zapping around the channels you can just push one button.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "But if you want to to use your your video recorder or something else, you should use use an uh an advanced option.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah but uh the the newsflash also stated that it should control only one device, only your television.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Okay one device.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah. So n it's very easy.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Okay. I didn't see.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "So w", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Now yeah it's okay.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Okay and I also uh yeah. W yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "So there are not extra options in this case, but uh.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "We have to make it fashionable. Like you uh said uh before.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Uh yeah the basic functions. Um yeah only use a extra function if they are really needed.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah so maybe you can hide them or something.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah well what what we can do with the screen is is all the the configuration options, you can put that in the screen.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah you make a screen menu or something.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "And the and the yeah screen menu to to to uh to do that,", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "and then the basic function just on the device itself.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "So it looks very simple and all the advanced features are hidden in the screen, uh with a clear menu.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah and the other oth other uh functionality is the screen.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "What does the screen do?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Did I uh.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Alright.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Uh. What are wh", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah. It's low power.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "did I break it?.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "What.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "So what does the screen do? They said they needed it but what does it do? What do they want with the screen?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "For for the advanced functions I think.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah that's what we make it up.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah well it yeah it didn't", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "So but what did the marketing.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "it didn't say what they want to do with the screen.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "No.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Well I, my guess is it's it's pretty handy for advanced uh advanced functions.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah okay it's handy. With no predefined uh.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Like searching for channels and.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Ah look.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah searching for channels, programming them.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "We have your uh oh never mind..", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "We're back online..", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Okay. That's uh I'm al I'm almost finished so.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Okay..", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Um the we have to to to watch out for the i if we make it f very fashionable, it it the functional functionality will go down. So we have to make uh a compromise between functionality and fashional fashionable", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm. Content and form.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "yeah content and form.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": ".", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Now that that was uh was the end.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "That was the end. Okay.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yes.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Well my presentation is a bit uh sucky..", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Well you can improvise right?", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Uh which one is it? Technical functions?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah a little bit.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "This one?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Uh no. No no..", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Functional requirements?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah I think that would be it then..", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "No.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "You didn't put it in? Or.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "I have no idea.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "So we we can go for.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "That w.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "it's not really English..", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Let me check. I know.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Uh kick off. Oh working design I got it.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "So we can go for the look-and-feel of the the left example, and then a screen on top of it.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Here you go.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Alright how do I uh skip pages?", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Just uh press uh yeah. Yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "The keys yeah?", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Alright. Um yeah well I was working on this before I got my information. So I was just working off the top of my head and using my colin common knowledge about uh remote controls.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "And well the info on the website which came too late.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Um so I didn't really know what kind of functions we had to put into it yet.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "So uh uh this is basically an overview of what we discussed in our last uh meeting. Those were my uh starting points.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Uh I was working on a s yeah on a schedule, and I was supposed to do it like this. But um yeah then uh the information came and it was kind of exact with all the steps in the remote control that I had to follow, so I was trying to organise them for myself.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "And then make the", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Design yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "the design, a the actual design,", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Design? Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "but I never came around to do that. So I'm not really sure what I'm supposed to say about it.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "I mean everything speaks for itself I guess. Mean you press a button um the it tru goes, it sends a signal to a chip,", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "which uh translates it into infrared signal of certin spatial frequencies.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah frequency. Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "And uh or temporal fr frequencies actually. And then uh through a uh transformer, it the signal gets boosted and then sent to the to the receiver on the T_V_", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah decoder.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "and the T_V_ will translate it into a function. Um Yeah well this was actually all I got around to do.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Blank. Yeah okay.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "I mean I dunno if I'm too slow for this stuff, but uh.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Work harder.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Okay shou should we make a list of the of all the functions we want uh.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah. Whatever.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah. Uh.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah we want to incorporate in uh into it.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "'Kay. Um for those that didn't see yet um the basic new requirements of the management were no teletext, only for T_V_. Uh it should be designed for a use g uh group below forty, but I don't think it's w wrong if we can uh target the current customer group as well.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "And uh the corporate identity should be clear in the design of the remote control. And we have to decide on the functions, and on the, let's see what was it, uh the target group. We have to make be clear what that is.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "group of users, or.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah users.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "because it says below forty I mean..", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah so I think it's easy but.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "I guess that's that's the tar yeah uh or male and female.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "But uh it's it's also for children or just uh.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah it's below forty so we can decide where to.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Uh six the marketing research started on s on the age of sixteen.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Okay. Okay.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Sixteen to twenty five, twenty five to thirty five, thirty five to forty five, something like that.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Okay. So below forty is okay.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "So um.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "But we need an lower level which to s uh focus.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "How do you mean?", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "So is it from sixteen to forty? Is it from twenty to forty? Is it from thirty?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Uh sixteen to forty.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah?'Kay.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah. We we have to.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Well I I guess people of sixteen are are quite used to technology.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "So they they adapt to it pretty soon I guess.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "And if we have a larger public we have uh yeah more options to to uh sell our product.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah so what we might wanna do is uh yeah cust I have customised the screen functions, if you know what I mean.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "The uh younger users are more acquainted with these kind of machines so they can use more advanced functions. But maybe elderly people don't understand it so well, so they need a simpler remote.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Design. Mm.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "And yeah that you can choose what the design displays, or wha whatever.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah that's that's why uh I wanted to to make yeah two uh different uh yeah groups of functions. The the simple functions for for the the whole public, and the the advanced options for the younger people yeah who are more yeah experienced with uh.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm. And maybe y", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Experienced yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "But uh all incorporated in the screen or or just on the remote itself?", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Na I w I should uh put uh the the yeah the extra advanced options on the onto the onscreen display.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "like like you have a visual of the of the brightness with with a kind of sliding bar and a bus and and stuff like that for sound and and vis and and visuals?", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah. So is you should have a menu for all the the functions you don't use regular and which are.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Uh you can make a if you make a drawing.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah. Aye yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Uh Uh.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Shall I uh.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Uh black's okay. And draw it very big.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah. It's okay.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Oh. Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "no, it doesn't have line control, so.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah..", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah we get the.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah well, this is basically uh it's.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "The remote?", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "The remote, yeah?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "alright the remote? Um well usually the power button is on top I guess.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Basic. Is on top. Which should be easy, easily reached with the thumb.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah so it should fit right in into your hand.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah. L left top or right uh top?", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "T I s should said right.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Right. Right.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah, right.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Right top.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "I most people are right-handed so.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah definitely.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "maybe left-handed special addition, but okay.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "If you put it like like here. Or something. I dunno. Um then you could put a screen, like on a mobile phone, also on top I guess.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah but if you are using the the normal functions, the the basic functions, you normally press them on the u yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Do the also with the thumb. So it should be a little bit longer so that you can put your uh thumb, also reach the middle. Or you should screen at the bottom and then you can see it very clearly.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Okay so y yeah you have you have it in your hand, and the screen is below, and the buttons are in the middle.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "You you need to be able to hold it so.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Okay for example if you put the screen here, it's more about the functions now than the than the layout.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah okay that's true. Layout. That's for the.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Doesn't work too well. It's uh it's bent.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "I can't help it..", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": ".", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "You broke it..", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah..", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": ".", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Man..", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah okay..", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Okay you get it. Uh for example if y if you put all the.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "You want the normal piece of paper? And you have a pen?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "And might be easier huh?", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Maybe this. kind of works.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Like if you have like uh ten buttons for for all the for all the channels,", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm. Uh.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "um and here one for for", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "And the for flipping up and down.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah yeah. And volume control.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah that that usually uh like here, here, here, here.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah I.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "So you have up and down for the for the channels, and left and right for the volume uh.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "And left to right. And those can also be used for the menu.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah exactly. I thought but this is really your department, that we need just the functional display and four cursors.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah okay but this is function so if you can use them for multiple things.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "And you you have.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "And.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "most of the time you have one button in the middle. It says menu,", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah okay.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "For the menu. Yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "and then if you press it you the screen gets activated and then you can use these buttons to scroll up and down and left and right to go into functon", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "and then just.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "mo most of the time this menu button is also like okay, to to confirm a a kind of action.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "So you scroll into it, okay. You select a function like v like uh bass. You just adjust it with these two buttons.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Then okay to confirm, and then uh on on each on each screen there's there should be an option to go back to a to a upper level.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "And then finally say okay, exit. Or or one button to exit it.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Uh in one time I dunno, that's not really my department.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "And do we need a a logo on our uh remote control, or.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "That's more your uh your department to to uh to.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah. But it should be if the screen is here then the logo should be like on on top,", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "On the left uh top yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "yeah. I mean it's uh.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah but that depends on where you put the screen.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "But it's essential that there is a screen.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah. Yeah I mean the position of the screen is also more essential than I mean we we look where we have space left and then put the logo over there.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah. And for the speech uh recognition part, if we want to incorporate that, we need a microphone.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "But um Yeah so it should be I mean if you have it in your hand here, should be on top somewhere, maybe.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah. This would be uh.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Why did we wanna put the display in the bottom?", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "I mean i", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "No that's not s sure so.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "That's not sure", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "uh we need a display.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "but it's.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah may maybe because you're.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Because yeah if you use the functions your hand will block the display.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah okay but only for the basic functi if you're going to use the advanced option, you're going to press the the menu button and then yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah I mean a screen on top looks more lo logical to me.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Normal for logical t", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Also because people use m mobile phones and they also have the screen on top.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah they're used to it.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Okay the yeah. That's possible.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "So you you just have to reach a little bit for the power button.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "I mean if you grab it.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "On once it's on it's on. You don't need the power button.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "But most most of the times if a if if a T_V_'s on standby people just press a channel to put it on.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah, okay. Okay we put it on top.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "So we put this on top, and then make the corporate logo", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "like over here. R_R_. And j and the microphone, I mean it can be very small. If you look at your mobile phones are some stripes, little little holes.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Maybe on the top or even on the side.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah maybe on the side. I mean if the if the microphone is good.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah but then it's possible that you cover it with your hand so.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "True.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah okay. So on the on the top is better.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "I think that top is the best option.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "But if you uh if you hold the ma the remote like this, if you put it on the top on the side.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah okay.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "I dunno. Should be able to work.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah..", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Depends on the sensitivity of the microphone, but I think that's okay.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Never mind. Can we leave this up to you?.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah it doesn't matter that much. So but um the screen is on top? Which functions did we have left? I mean this is basically numbers, volume, uh channel up and down.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Volume. Up. Channel up and down, and the control of the advanced options.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Screen is over there.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "So maybe it, we should decide what advanced options we want to put in the L_C_D_ screen.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah. If we.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah. Yeah. That's uh that's a good one.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah so we we needed to integrate the sound and uh and image options right?", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah so sounds?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Like uh bass uh.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah. Sound?", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "so we need kind of an equaliser. If you.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah. Equaliser. So if you have sound But not too advanced. I mean most T_V_s use only treble and bass.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah it it's just a remote control so.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "and they're.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah treble, middl middle, bass or something.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "They're not used often so.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah. It's uh pretty hard to write.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Ah as.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah just.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": ".", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Mm. Okay but you have sound?", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah sounds.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah just.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "oh y you have digital uh.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": ".", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "better write it down over there yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Of course. I'm just a secretary.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "So you have sound.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Coffee?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Uh yeah sound and then within sound I guess treble and bass?", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yes please.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Treble bass.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "the mono stereo option?", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah. Also.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Uh.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "And there there was something else also.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Pitch I believe, yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "And then pitch.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Pitch. Yeah. But pitch, isn't that yeah that's the the height of the tone.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "The fr yeah the frequency of the tones, yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah okay,", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah and mono stereo.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "wh why would you use that?", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah isn't that that depends on the on the signal of the of what program you're watching.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "If people like talk like uh.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "And also the tuning part?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Programming part.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah programming. So channel programming?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Uh so we have sound, yeah? Channel programming.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "And yeah in the functionality of the", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Television uh itself uh.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "no no of the remote uh do do we want uh the buttons to make sound when you press them? As a confirmation or whatever you know?", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "I dunno.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "I think it g it gets annoying.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "I mean most mobile phones used that in the beginning but.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "We we could make an option for it, but uh you can disable s", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Under the a yeah advanced option menu you can put those things.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah. But uh the the television itself has also the the options brightness and uh screen colour etcetera. So.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Contrast yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah but people don't want to sit on their knees on their knees in front of their television with only three buttons then it's very hard to", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Mm. No. Uh, so contrast,", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "y yeah contrast and brightness?", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "bright,", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah those are the most used I guess. If you look at your monitor.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "uh And the others were in your presentation right? So I can just copy those?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Well yeah well I guess that these were the only ones, I guess.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Okay. It's easy..", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "But so we have we have T_V_ options, which is all this.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah. I will look it up.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah the button options and the L_C_D_ options.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "The sound, sound and image. And you have in that uh the indeed the remote control options.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Indeed.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "So we need two menus kind of thing.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah you have basically a button menu, which you can use directly, uh according to the old principle.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Uh-huh.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "And the L_C_D_ options are activated by some some software options, thats communicates with the infrared uh decoder yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah with the chip and then I mean.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "So you You have an additional processor and and software part.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Uh yeah. Well yeah we have power button, whether that's present.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Compared to o", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Alright.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Channel volume selection present. Uh numbers present. Yeah a audio settings, mono, stereo, pitch, bass, treble. Screen settings, brightness and colour.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "L_ s Yeah. Colour. Yeah I I call it contrast.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah con contrast is.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah I make it c colour.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah okay, colour and brightness.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Um and what you say, channel settings or channel programming? So you you have an option to to start scanning all the frequencies, and when it encounters one, well it shows on your T_V_. And then you can um.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah and automatically um Mm-hmm..", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Uh and then you can select uh a number in your remote on which you want to save it.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah so I've g channel program is autoseek?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah, autoseek.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Uh name a channel, or.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Well most T_V_s automatically display the name, which they get through the cable.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Oh they get automatic names, okay.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah. So you only have to choose the position on your", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": ".", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "It only has to match the the channel frequency on your T_V_, with with the with the position on your T_V_ and and so your remote.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah. Yeah but can you also say I want f uh Veronica on the channel number uh five or.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Help.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "If you already programmed it.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "If you want to move it. Yeah that should be possible too.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah. How do you call that?.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah how do you call that? Mm? Wait you you should be able to to browse through a list or something, which w displays all the all the values, all the channels which are possible.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Channels? Yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "I mean like one to f thirty of or ninety or whatever.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Ninety nine or something. Yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Just browse through it and then um in some kind of way see if it if it if it is programmed.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "S swap channels? Can I call it that?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah. Swap channels.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Swap's good option. Okay. Uh other functions?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "So you most of the time if you if you swap it S uh let's say for example you have uh R_T_L_ five on on channel five. And Veronica on channel eight and you want to move Veronica to channel five, most of the times you override the previous uh the previous one.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm. Okay. Well that's's up to uh Mister User Interface Designer.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah. It's it's pretty uh.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "yeah I mean you have to look on on the menu", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "working design. Doch.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Also.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "on the T_V_.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "That's you're.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "He only has to figure out how it has to look.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah but also, which buttons you have to press to get a certain result?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "And how", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "to use.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "And the working design was to specify how ph the physical interation between the components was, as I believe.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah okay. But You did your homework. But um yeah. Okay.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Or or is it too hard to to ju to just do it all on your remote? To programme the channels?", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "No I don't think so.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "No no. It should be able to do any remote.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "No that's.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Uh.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "But I think the communication with the television is difficult. But that's not our part.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "We don't have to design a protocol so.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "No.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "No.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "That's true. That's true.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Thank god.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah. So we have a figure a figure out a way to to do that easily. I mean th the autoseek is is not a problem.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "No that's the.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "I mean you uh you uh current channel and then then it just says, uh on which number do you want to save this, and you just press a number on your remote, and then say confirm, okay, and then it's it's saved. It's easier, it's it's it's harder to, if you have already programmed it, to to swap.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah. So but.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "So we have to think of something for that.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Um The User Interface Designer can design a menu for all these function I put them on the.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah k kind of structure into layers.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "On the uh yeah can you i make a a map with with all the yeah'cause it's now there are lots and lots of documents", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": ". Yeah. Yeah I can.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "and.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "I'll just try to reorganise uh things. Um.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "So.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "So you design the basic function menu for the L_C_D_ screen? Uh um I think.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "And and the layout of of the thing itself.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "th I think the yeah the layout of the screen", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "The the layout of the remote control?", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "and I think you can concentrate more on the button placement and the placement of the uh screen itself on the.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": ".", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Isn't that more the the u uh the user interface part?", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": ". No I d I think that's more in.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Uh all the functional uh aspects of the remote I think are in my department.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Maybe more on.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "I have to know what it has to do, so if you wanna you know the changing the channels kind of s thing is, I have to integrate that in the design.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Okay. So he's layout and you're function.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Form function okay..", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "I think that's a that's a good separation.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "But do I have to to uh to yeah to make the the menu layout also? Or.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Are you going to do that?", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah. Yeah I guess so.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah? I I'm going to make.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "I think i that's your department yes,", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "yeah o okay.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "because w he already knows what.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah we have to kind of work together.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "If if I make the the the yeah the menu like, I have to state which function has to be in the menu,", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "But we're not allowed..", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "and then you have to decide, it's, in a in a way that b is user-friendly.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah. Okay. Y you you are going to make a list of what functions are uh are going to to be on the the screen, the menu screen.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "And I'm going to make a a nice menu uh with with pages and yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "I think yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "With with some l with some layers in it.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah and also make clear which buttons to press to get certain result,", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "So some menus.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "because that's always the difficulty.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Every device has its own.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah. Well I guess this this button, the the the okay,", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Menu okay.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "menu okay. Or you can incorporate two uh difference uh different buttons. Uh like uh for your mobile phone. Um so this is only for to get in the menu, or to exit it.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "And then one to confirm, and one to go one step back.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Back. Yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "So it's like the the save button on your your mobile phone, if you have a Nokia or like that. Or the or the no button.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "To go one step back you it's only two extra buttons,", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah. W we.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "but if it if it's very clear that they are for the screen.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Uh I think we have to to group, to make two groups. Um the one group for the for the display, and one group for the basic functions, and.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah but they're incorporated? Up and down is.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah okay but we we have a m", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah because this this is used for both.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "yeah but maybe that's that's not uh.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Smart?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "yeah if you're if you're z zapping uh with your uh yeah remote control, you can press the the menu button, and then you are suddenly into the the yeah the display.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Into your screen. Okay. So you", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "You wanna separate uh.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "l should leave the menu button out of here.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "And and just put it under the screen, the screen.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Put it on top.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah j just just group group the yeah we make these the advanced functions and these the basic functions.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "So we make a yeah a line between them.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah. But we should place the screen on top, right?", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Well.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "F oh yeah. Okay yeah we swap uh Okay.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "But that's uh J Jurgen's department.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah. So we make it a.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah. You just you just find out and.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "You just make the layout. You.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "do we do the extra two buttons or not?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Uh.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "I think you should.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "It's easier. If you put too many functions in one button it gets confusing.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah okay. That's true.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah. So we have a a menu button and a s", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "And to, okay and back, also.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Okay. Okay and back button.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah. Yeah, or confirm and back. Whatever.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "And of course the four arrows.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "No.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "But those are still y doubly used. Both the L_C_D_.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Should we save this picture, or or you know what it looks like?", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah I'm I'm not s clear about uh the the extra two buttons. We have a menu button and.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah. That that just to to activate the screen. So.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "That's the the one with the yeah okay.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Menu button access the menu in the L_C_D_ screen.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "And then with these buttons, woa, y you navigate.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "You can navigate.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "But you can also navigate the channels. And the volume.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Okay so that that's not uh Yeah that Those are", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Those are both both.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "multifunctional.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Hey is it interesting for users if we put LED lights under the buttons? So that if you uh press on the menu function that only the buttons that are used for the menu are ligh li light up.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah. L l litten up yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Oh five minutes.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "That's very good idea.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "N", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Alright.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Light uh.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah that's a good idea because then it becomes clear which buttons are active now, which you can use.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah and then it's also easier to integrate several functions in one button.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah sure.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Um.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "So.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Anything else?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Those buttons are are lit up.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "I think not.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "But just one thing. Should we use those two? Them? Or only this to to scroll?", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "I've.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "And then use the two functional buttons to confirm, to go into something? Oh no we have to use this to adjust some some bars?", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Volume.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah..", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah keep it optional'cause maybe you can you know go left to right and up and down in a in one menu.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah. And maybe we should use this also as an okay button, still. And then just only a back button.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Well we have those buttons. We use all four.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "No.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "The pr the problem with the okay button in the middle is, sorry", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah okay go ahead.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah?", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "sorry, uh is uh if you're pressing up and down, you can easily press the okay once you, when you're not already at your choice.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah. So maybe make one uh one okay button and and one navigation button.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah that was already decided.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "And one back.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah the with with the the channel and the volume uh yeah m a multifunctional navigation button.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Okay that's what we decided earlier on.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah okay. Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Right okay. So.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "You wanna close down huh?.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "yeah I wanna close down.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "I have to, sorry.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "it's not because I don't like you but.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "That's okay.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "yh we have lunch break,", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Already.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "and then we can work for thirty minutes, and I have to write very fast to make the minich min minutes. And then uh we'll see.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Alright. How m how long is the lunchbreak?", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "I don't know. Nobody told me..", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "We have to ask..", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "But do we have to write uh to write down uh the our stuff now? Or first lunchbreak?", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "No I th believe there's first lunch break.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Because I I've everything in my head now so.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah. Or you can just.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "'Kay.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yes.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "I think you can put uh the laptop back in the room and.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "'Kay.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "This is.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yes sir..", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Time pressure.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "'Kay. Yeah it's a lot of pressure.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah. Sorry for my uh not finished presentation uh.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "That's okay. Oh yeah..", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Oh no no..", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah we'll kick your ass later. No. Uh.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Bring it on.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "I don't know if it works but it should be saved.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Aye Y you saved it? Does it save automatically in the project folder? Or.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah. It's uh.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Okay. We'll see.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Should be here. Smart board.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Just put back my laptop.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Don't know if you can use it but.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Alright.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah you can open it with the picture preview or stuff like that.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "And uh we have to make uh some maps with uh with the all the the data we uh gathered.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah. I try to organise it by these three.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": ". It's it's just my own map so I put everything into the.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah yeah yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "I don't really mind. I just put the minutes here and we'll see.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "But you got some extra information uh.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah that's in the functional design uh folder.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah. Yeah that's just basically what I just showed.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "But where do you did you get the newsflash?", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah. Yeah I got it by.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "You're the only one uh okay.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "yeah. I'm gonna get kicked if I don't do it so.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "internet.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Alright.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Alright.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Make me proud.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "I'll try to.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "So first we have a lunchbreak now?", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Alright.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "I believe so. just ask..", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm. I dunno where she.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" } ] }

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

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{ "meetingId": "Bed009", "transcriptSegments": [ { "text": "Hmm. Testing channel two.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "Two, two..", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "Two.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "Two. Oh.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "Hello?", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "Hmm? Yeah Thank You. OK Well, so Ralf and Tilman are here.", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "OK. Great. Great.", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "Made it safely.", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "So the what w we h have been doing i they would like us all to read these digits. But we don't all read them but a couple people read them.", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "OK.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "Uh, wanna give them all with German accents today or?", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "Sure.", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "OK.", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "OK and the way you do it is you just read the numbers not as uh each single, so just like I do it.", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "OK. First you read the transcript number. Turn.", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "OK, uh What's.", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "OK. Let's be done with this.", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "OK.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "OK. this is Ami, who And this is Tilman and Ralf.", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "Hi. Uh - huh. Nice to meet you.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "Hi.", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "Hi. OK. So we're gonna try to finish by five so people who want to can go hear Nancy Chang's talk, uh downstairs.", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "Hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "And you guys are g giving talks on tomorrow and Wednesday lunch times,", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "Yes.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "Mmm.", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "right? That's great. OK so, do y do you know what we're gonna do?", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "I thought two things uh we'll introduce ourselves and what we do. And um we already talked with Andreas, Thilo and David and some lines of code were already written today and almost tested and just gonna say we have um again the recognizer to parser thing where we're working on and that should be no problem and then that can be sort of developed uh as needed when we get enter the tourism domain. em we have talked this morning with the with Tilman about the generator.", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "S", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "and um There one of our diligent workers has to sort of volunteer to look over Tilman's shoulder while he is changing the grammars to English", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "because w we have we face two ways. Either we do a syllable concatenating um grammar for the English generation which is sort of starting from scratch and doing it the easy way, or we simply adopt the ah um more in - depth um style that is implemented in the German system and um are then able not only to produce strings but also the syntactic parse uh not parse not the syntactic tree that is underneath in the syntactic structure which is the way we decided we were gonna go because A, it's easier in the beginning", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "and um it does require some some knowledge of of those grammars and and and some ling linguistic background. But um it shouldn't be a problem for anyone.", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "OK So That sounds good. Johno, are you gonna have some time t to do that uh w with these guys?", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "Sure.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "cuz y you're the grammar maven.", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "OK.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "I mean it makes sense,", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "doesn't it? Yeah Good. OK. So, I think that's probably the the right way to do that. And an Yeah, so I I actually wanna f to find out about it too, but I may not have time to get in.", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "the the ultimate goal is that before they leave we we can run through the entire system input through output on at least one or two sample things. And um and by virtue of doing that then in this case Johno will have acquired the knowledge of how to extend it. Ad infinitum. When needed, if needed, when wanted and so forth.", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "OK that sounds great.", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "And um also um Ralf has hooked up with David and you're gonna continue either all through tonight or tomorrow on whatever to get the er parser interface working.", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "Mmm.", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "They are thinning out and thickening out lattices and doing this kind of stuff to see what works best.", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "Mmm, yep.", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "Great. So, you guys enjoy your weekend?", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "Yes, very much so.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "Yeah, very much", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "OK, before before you got put to work?", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "Yeah", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "Great. OK, so that's Sort of one branch is to get us caught up on what's going on. Also of course it would be really nice to know what the plans are, in addition to what's sort of already in code.", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "Yes.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "and we can d I dunno w w was there uh a time when we were set up to do that? It probably will work better if we do it later in the week, after we actually understand uh better what's going on.", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "Yes.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "Hmm.", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "So when do you guys leave?", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "Um we're here through Sunday,", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "Oh", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "so All through Friday would be fine.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "Oh, OK, so OK, So so anyt we'll find a time later in the week to uh get together and talk about your understanding of what SmartKom plans are.", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "and how we can change them.", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "Yes. Sure.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "Uh,", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "Should we already set a date for that? Might be beneficial while we're all here.", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "OK? um What what does not work for me is Thursday afternoon. I can do earlier in the day on Thursday, or um most of the time on Friday, not all.", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "Thursday morning sounds fine?", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "Wha - but, Johno,", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "what are your constraints?", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "um Thursday afternoon doesn't work for me, but.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "Neither does Thursday morning, no?", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "Uh Thursday morning should be fine.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "OK.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "Eleven? Eleven on Thursday?", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "I was just thinking I w I will have leavened by eleven.", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "Right. Right. This is then out of deference to our non - morning people.", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm. OK. So at eleven?", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "Hmm.", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "Thursday around eleven? OK.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "Yeah. And actually we can invite um Andreas as well.", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "Uh he will be in Washington, though.", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "Oh that's true. He's off off on his trip already.", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "but um David is here and he's actually knows everything about the SmartKom recognizer.", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "Thilo. OK well yeah maybe we'll see if David could make it. That would be good.", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "OK so facing to to what we've sort of been doing here um well for one thing we're also using this room to collect data.", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "Yeah obviously.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "um um Not this type of data,", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "Oh, OK.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "no not meeting data but sort of sort ah our version of a wizard experiment such not like the ones in Munich but pretty close to it.", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "The major difference to the Munich ones is that we do it via the telephone", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "OK.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "even though all the recording is done here and so it's a sort of a computer call system that gives you tourist information", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "tells you how to get places. And it breaks halfway through the experiment and a human operator comes on. and part of that is sort of trying to find out whether people change their linguistic verbal behavior when first thinking they speak to a machine and then to a human.", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "and we're setting it up so that we can we hope to implant certain intentions in people. For example um we have first looked at a simple sentence that \" How do I get to the Powder - Tower? \" OK so you have the castle of Heidelberg", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "OK.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "and there is a tower and it's called Powder - Tower.", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "Oh, OK. Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "and um so What will you parse out of that sentence? Probably something that we specified in M - three - L, that is @ @ \" action go to whatever domain, object whatever Powder - Tower \".", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "Mmm.", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "And maybe some model will tell us, some GPS module, in the mobile scenario where the person is at the moment. And um we've sort of gone through that once before in the Deep Mail project and we noticed that first of all what are I should've brought some slides, but what our So here's the tower. Think of this as a two - dimensional representation of the tower. And our system led people here, to a point where they were facing a wall in front of the tower. There is no entrance there, but it just happens to be the closest point of the road network to the geometric center Because that's how the algorithm works. So we took out that part of the road network as a hack and then it found actually the way to the entrance. which was now the closest point of the road network to", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "OK, geometric center. But what we actually observed in Heidelberg is that most people when they want to go there they actually don't want to enter, because it's not really interesting. They wanna go to a completely different point where they can look at it and take a picture.", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "Oh, OK.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "Hmm.", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "And so what uh uh a s you s let's say a simple parse from a s from an utterance won't really give us is what the person actually wants. Does he wanna go there to see it? Does he wanna go there now? Later? How does the person wanna go there? Is that person more likely to want to walk there? Walk a scenic route? and so forth. There are all kinds of decisions that we have identified in terms of getting to places and in terms of finding information about things. And we are constructing and then we've identified more or less the extra - linguistic parameters that may f play a role. Information related to the user and information related to the situation. And we also want to look closely on the linguistic information that what we can get from the utterance. That's part of why we implant these intentions in the data collection to see whether people actually phrase things differently whether they want to enter in order to buy something or whether they just wanna go there to look at it. And um so the idea is to construct uh um suitable interfaces and a belief - net for a module that actually tries to guess what the underlying intention was. And then enrich or augment the M - three - L structures with what it thought what more it sort of got out of that utterance. So if it can make a good suggestion, \" Hey! \" you know, \" that person doesn't wanna enter. That person just wants to take a picture, \" cuz he just bought film, or \" that person wants to enter because he discussed the admission fee before \". Or \" that person wants to enter because he wants to buy something and that you usually do inside of buildings \" and so forth. These ah these types of uh these bits of additional information are going to be embedded into the M - three - L structure in an sort of subfield that we have reserved. And if the action planner does something with it, great. If not you know, then that's also something um that we can't really at least we want to offer the extra information. We don't really um we're not too worried.", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "Hmm.", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "I mean t s Ultimately if you have if you can offer that information, somebody's gonna s do something with it sooner or later. That's sort of part of our belief.", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "What was he saying?", "speakerName": "Grad E" }, { "text": "Um, for example, right now I know the GIS from email is not able to calculate these viewpoints. So that's a functionality that doesn't exist yet to do that dynamically,", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "but if we can offer it that distinction, maybe somebody will go ahead and implement it. Surely nobody's gonna go ahead and implement it if it's never gonna be used, so. What have I forgotten about? Oh yeah, how we do it,", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "Well th uh", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "yeah that's the", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "No no. It's a good time to pause. I s I see questions on peoples' faces, so why don't.", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "Oh", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "let's let's Let's hear.", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "Well the obvious one would be if if you envision this as a module within SmartKom, where exactly would that Sit? That's the d", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "um so far I've thought of it as sort of adding it onto the modeler knowledge module.", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "OK, yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "So this is one that already adds additional information to the", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "Hmm.", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "Makes perfect sense. Yes.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "Hmm, ah.", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "but it could sit anywhere in the attention - recognition I mean basically this is what attention - recognition literally sort of can.", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "Well it's supposed to do. Yeah", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "Mmm.", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "That's what it should do.", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "Right,", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "Huh.", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "Well f from my understanding of what the people at Phillips were originally trying to do doesn't seem to quite fit into SmartKom currently so what they're really doing right now is only selecting among the alternatives, the hypotheses that they're given enriched by the domain knowledge and the um discourse modeler and so on.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "So if if this is additional information that could be merged in by them.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "And then it would be available to action planning and and others.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "Yeah. the.", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "let's let's That w OK that was one question. Is there other other things that cuz we wanna not Pa - pass over any you know, questions or concerns that you have.", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "Well there're there're two levels of of giving an answer and I guess on both levels I don't have any um further questions.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "Mmm. Mmm.", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "uh the the two levels will be as far as I'm concerned as uh standing here for the generation module", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "Mmm.", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "and the other is is my understanding of what SmartKom uh is supposed to be", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "and I I think that fits in perfectly", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "So well, let me Let me s expand on that a little bit from the point of view of the generation.", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "Hmm.", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "So the idea is that we've actually got this all laid out an and we could show it to you ig um Robert didn't bring it today but there's a a belief - net which is There's a first cut at a belief - net that that doesn't it isn't fully uh instantiated, and in particular some of the the combination rules and ways of getting the the conditional probabilities aren't there. But we believe that we have laid out the fundamental decisions in this little space", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "and the things that influence them. So one of the decisions is what we call this AVE thing. Do you want to um access, view or enter a thing.", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "Hmm.", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "So that's a a discrete decision.", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "There are only three possibilities and the uh what one would like is for this uh, knowledge modeling module to add which of those it is and give it to the planner.", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "But, uh th the current design suggests that if it seems to be an important decision and if the belief - net is equivocal so that it doesn't say that one of these is much more probable than the other, then an option is to go back and ask for the information you want.", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "Alright? Now there are two ways one can go a imagine doing that. For the debugging we'll probably just have a a drop - down menu and the while you're debugging you will just OK. But for a full system, then one might very well formulate a query,", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "give it to the dialogue planner and say this, you know ar are you know you are you planning to enter? Or whatever it whatever that might be. So that's under that model then, There would be a uh um a loop in which this thing would formulate a query,", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "Yes.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "presumably give it to you. That would get expressed and then hopefully you know, you'd get an answer back.", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "Yep.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "And that would of course the answer would have to be parsed.", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "Mmm. Yep.", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "right and.", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "Yes.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "OK so, th that uh, We probably won't do this early on, because the current focus is more on the decision making and stuff like that.", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "Yep.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "But While we're on the subject I just wanted to give you a sort of head's up that it could be that some months from now we said \" OK we're now ready to try to close that loop \" in terms of querying about some of these decisions.", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm. Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "Hmm.", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "Yep. So my suggestion then is that you um look into the currently ongoing discussion about how the action plans are supposed to look like. And they're currently um Agreeing or or in the process of agreeing on an X M L - ification of um something like a state - transition network of how dialogues would proceed. and The these um transition networks uh will be what the action planner interprets in a sense.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "Hmm. D did you know this Robert?", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "uh Michael is doing that, right?", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "Well uh Marcus Lerkult is actually implementing that stuff and Marcus and Michael together are um leading the discussion there, yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "OK.", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "So we ha we have to get in on that.", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "Yep.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "Mmm.", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "because um partly those are like X - schemas.", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "Definitely.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "the transition diagrams.", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "Hmm.", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "And it may be that that um we should early on make sure that they have the flexibility that we need.", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "Hmm. But they uh Have I understood this right? They they govern more or less the the dialogue behavior or the action.", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "It's not really what you do with the content of the dialogue but it's So, I mean there is this this this nice interf", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "uh, No, it's it's also a quantrant uh uh.", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "i Is it.", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "So there's ac so there th the word \" action \", OK, is is what's ambiguous here.", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "I think. Hmm.", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "Yes.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "So, um one thing is there's an actual planner that tells the person in the tourist domain now,", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "OK.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "per tells the person how to go, \" First go here,", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "first go there uh, you know, take a bus \", whatever it is. So that's that form of planning, and action, and a route planner and GIS, all sort of stuff. uh But I think that isn't what you mean.", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "No. No, in SmartKom terminology that's um called a function that's modeled by a function modeler. And it's th that's completely um encapsulated from th the dialogue system. That's simply a functionality that you give data as in a query and then you get back from that mmm, a functioning model um which might be a planner or a VCR or whatever. um some result and that's then then used.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "Well, OK, so that's what I thought. So action he action here means dia uh speech ac uh you know dialogue act.", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "Yeah, yeah. Yeah, in that in that sense", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "Mmm.", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "yes, dialogue act,", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "Um, I think tha I think it's not going to I think that's not going to be good enough. I I don what uh what I meant by that. So I think the idea of having a, you know, transition diagram for the grammar of conversations is a good idea.", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "OK? And I think that we do hav definitely have to get in on it and find out OK. But I think that um when so, when you get to the tourist domain it's not just an information retrieval system.", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm. Clearly. Yes.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "Right? So this i this is where I think this people are gonna have to think this through a bit more carefully.", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "So, if it's only like in in the in the film and T V thing, OK, you can do this. And you just get information and give it to people. But what happens when you actually get them moving and so forth and so on", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "Yep.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "Uh, y y your I d I think the notion of this as a self contained uh module you know th the functional module that that interacts with with where the tourism g stuff is going probably is too restrictive.", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "Yep.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "Now I dunno how much people have thought ahead to the tourist domain in this", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "Probably not enough, I mean an another uh more basic point there is that the current um tasks and therefore th the concepts in this ac what's called the action plan and what's really the dialogue manager.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "Yeah", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "um is based on slots that have to be filled and the um kind of values in these slots would be fixed things like the a time or a movie title or something like this", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm. Right.", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "whereas in the a um tourist domain it might be an entire route. Set - based, or even very complex structured information in these slots", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "Indeed. Right.", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "and I'm not sure if if complex slots of that type are really um being taken into consideration.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "OK.", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "So that's that's really something we", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "Could you could you put a message into the right place to see if we can at least ask that question?", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "Yep.", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "I mean nothing's being completely settled there", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "rea yep", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "so this is really an ongoing discussion", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "and that's", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "yeah and um it might actually OK ah also because um again in in Deep Map we have faced and implemented those problems once already", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "maybe we can even shuffle some know how from there to to Markus and Michael.", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "Yes.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "Mmm.", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "Yep.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "And um mmm You don't know OK th I'll I'll talk to Michael it's what I do anyway. Who How far is the uh the the M - three - L specification for for the la natural language input gone on the the uh I haven't seen anything for the uh tourist path domain.", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "Yeah, it's it's not defined yet.", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "And um you are probably also involved in that,", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "Um Yeah.", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "right? uh together with the usual gang, um Petra and Jan", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "Mmm. Yeah, there's a meeting next next week I think", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "OK because That's Those are the I think the the true key issues is how does the whatever comes out of the language input pipeline look like and then what the action planner does with it and how that is uh specified. I didn't think of the internal working of the uh the action planner and the language uh the function model as sort of relevant. Because what what they take is sort of this this fixed representation of a of an intention.", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "And that can be as detailed or as crude as you want it to be. But um the internal workings of of the whether you know there're dialogue action planners that work with belief - nets that are action planners that work with you know state automata. So that shouldn't really matter too much. I mean it does matter because it does have to keep track of you we are on part six of r a route that consists of eight steps and so forth", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "Yeah, th there there I think there are a lot of reasons why it matters. OK, so that uh, for example, the i it's the action planner is going to take some spec and s make some suggestions about what the user should do. What the user says after that is going to be very much caught up with what the action planner told it.", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "Yes.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "If the If the parser and the language end doesn't know what the person's been told OK th it's you're making your life much more difficult than it has to be.", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "Right? So if someone says the best t to uh go there is by taxi, let's say. Now the planner comes out and says you wanna get there fast, take a taxi. OK. And the language end doesn't know that. OK, there's all sorts of dialogues that won't make any sense which would be just fine.", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "hmm", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "uh", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "That would b but that I think that that uh point has been realized and it's it's not really um been defined yet but there's gonna be some kind of feedback and input from uh the action planner into all the analysis modules, telling them what to expect and what the current state of the discourse is.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "Mmm.", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "Beyond what's currently being implemented which is just word lists.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "Yeah, but this is not the st this is not just the state of the discourse.", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "Of of special interest.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "This is actually the state of the plan. That's why", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "Yes, Yes, Mm - hmm yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "OK so it z and s uh, It's great if people are already taking that into account. But One would have t have to see see the details.", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "The specifics aren't really there yet. Yes. So, there's work to do there.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "Yeah. So anyway, Robert, that's why I was thinking that", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "um I think you're gonna need We talked about this several times that that the the input end is gonna need a fair amount of feedback from the planning end.", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "hmm", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "In in one of these things which are are much more continuous than the just the dialogue over movies and stuff.", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "Mmm.", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "And even on on a more basic level the the action planner actually needs to be able to have um an expressive power that can deal with these structures. And not just um say um um the dialogue um will consist of ten possible states and th these states really are fixed in in a certain sense.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "Hmm?", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "You have to.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "Would there be any chance of getting the terminology changed so that the dialogue planner was called a \" dialogue planner \"? Because there's this other thing The o There's this other thing in in the tourist domain which is gonna be a route planner", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "That'd be nice.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "or It's really gonna be an action planner. And i it.", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "It oughta be called a a dialogue manager. cuz that's what everybody else calls it.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "I would think,", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "Mmm.", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "Huh? So, s So what would happen if we sent a note saying \" Gee we've talked about this and couldn't we change this uh th the whole word? \" I have no idea how complicated these things are.", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "Probably close to impossible.", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "Depends on who you talk to how. We'll see. I'll go check, cause I completely agree. Yeah,", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "Mmm.", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "and I think this is just for historical reasons within uh, the preparation phase of the project and not because somebody actually believes it ought to be action planner. So if there is resistance against changing it, that's just because \" Oh, We don't want to change things. \" That that not deep reason", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "OK, anyway. I if if that c in persists then we're gonna need another term. for the thing that actually does the planning of the uh routes and whatever we are doing for the tourist.", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "That's external services.", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "Yeah, but that's not g eh tha That ha has all the wrong connotations. it's it sounds like it's you know stand alone. It doesn't interact, it doesn't That's why I'm saying. I think you can't it's fine for looking up when T you know when the show's on TV. You go to th but I I I I think it's really really wrong headed for something that you that has a lot of state, it's gonna interact co in a complicated way with the uh understanding parts.", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "Yeah. Yeah I think just the the spatial planner and the route planner I showed you once the interac action between them among them in the deep map system", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "so a printout of the communication between those two fills up I don't know how many pages", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "Hmm", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "and that's just part of how do I get to one place. It's really insane. and uh but um so this is um definitely a good point to get uh Michael into the discussion. Or to enter his discussion, actually.", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "Yeah, Marcus.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "That's the way around. Markus", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "Wh - where's?", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "Is he new in the in the?", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "Yeah, he's he started um I think January.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "And he's gonna be responsible for the implementation of this action planner. Dialogue manager.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "Is he gonna continue with the old uh thing?", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "No, no he's completely gonna rewrite everything. In Java.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "OK.", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "OK so that's interesting.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "Yes I was just that's my next question", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "hmm", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "whether we're we're gonna stick to Prolog or not.", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "No. No, that's gonna be phased out.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "OK But I do think the the function modeling concept has a certain makes sense in a in a certain light", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "because the action planner should not be or the dialogue manager in that case should not um w have to worry about whether it's interfacing with um something that does route planning in this way or that way", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "I I totally agree.", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "huh,", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "Sure.", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "it j", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "Yeah I I agree. There is there's a logic to dialogue which which is is separable. I Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "and it cant sort of formulate its what it wants in a in a rather a abstract uh way, you know f \" Find me a good route for this. \"", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "It doesn't really have to worry ab how route planner A or how route planner B actually wants it. So this is seemed like a good idea. In the beginning.", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "It's tricky. It's tricky because one could well imagine I think it will turn out to be the case that uh, this thing we're talking about, th the extended n uh knowledge modeler will fill in some parameters about what the person wants. One could well imagine that the next thing that's trying to fill out the detailed uh, route planning, let's say, will also have questions that it would like to ask the user. You could well imagine you get to a point where it's got a a choice to make and it just doesn't know something.", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "And so y you would like it t also be able to uh formulate a query. And to run that back through uh. the dialogue manager and to the output module and back around.", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "hmm", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "And a I a a good design would would allow that to happen.", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "a lot of, yeah", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "Mmm.", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "If if you know if if you can't make it happen then you you do your best.", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "Yeah but that doesn't necessarily contradict um an architecture where there really is a pers a def well - defined interface. and and", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "I totally agree. But but what it nee but th what the point is the in that case the dialogue manager is sort of event driven. So the dialogue manager may think it's in a dialogue state of one sort,", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "and this one of these planning modules comes along and says \" hey, right now we need to ask a question \". So that forces the dialogue manager to change state.", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "Yes", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "OK.", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "Sure,", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "It could be y", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "ye yeah I I think that's that's the um concept that people have,", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "Yeah, yeah it it.", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "yep.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "OK.", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "And and the the underlying idea of course is that there is something like kernel modules with kernel functionality that you can plug uh certain applications like tourist information or um the home scenario with uh controlling a VCR and so on. And then extend it to an arbitrary number of applications eventually. So wouldn't That's an additional reason to have this well - defined interface and keep these things like uh tourist information external.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "Oh, yeah, yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "And then call it external services.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "Hmm.", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "But of course the the more complex.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "Yeah, there is another philosophical issue that I think you know you can evade", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "yep.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "but, at at least it makes sense to me that sooner or later uh a service is gonna come and describe itself to you. and that's sort of what Srini is working on in in in the DAML uh project where um you you find a GIS about that gives you information on Berkeley,", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "and it's it's gonna be there and tell you what it can do and how it wants to do things. and so you can actually interface to such a system without ever having met it before and the function modeler and a self - description of the um external service haggle it out", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "Hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "and you can use the same language core, understanding core to interface with planner - A, planner - B, planner - C and so forth.", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "Hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "Mmm.", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "Which is, you know, uh uh utopian completely utopian at the moment, but slowly, you know, getting into the realm of the uh contingent.", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "Hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "But we are facing of course much more um realistic problems. And language input for example, is of course uh crucial you know also when you do the sort of deep understanding analysis that we envision. um Then of course, the uh um, you know what is it poverty of the stimulus, yet the m uh the less we get of that the better. and um so we we're thinking, for example how much syntactic analysis actually happens already in the parser. and whether one could interface to that potentially", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "Hmm. Yeah, are there currently is uh no syntactic analysis but in the next release there will be some.", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "Hmm.", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "unless", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "How's it.", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "and it's um uh you can access this", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "S so uh y we we looked at the e current pattern matching thing.", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "Hmm.", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "And as you say it's just a surface pattern matcher. Uh, So what are what are the plans roughly?", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "um it's to to integrate and syntactic analysis. and um add some more features like segmentation. So then an utter more than one utterance is There um there's often uh pause between it and a segmentation occurs. um", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "So, the um So the idea is to uh have a pa y y a particular.", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "yeah", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "Do you have a particular parser in mind? Is it uh partic d I mean have you thought through? Is it an HPSG parser? Is it a whatever?", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "No no it's uh I think it's it's totally complicated for it's just one one person", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "OK.", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "and so I have to keep the.", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "Oh, you have to do it. You have to do it,", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "Yeah,", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "ah and so things must be simpler", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "I see,", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "but uh, Miel syntactic analysis with um finite state transducers.", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "so But the people at D F Yeah. People at DFKI have written a fair number of parsers. Other you know, people over the years. uh have written various parsers at DFKI. None of them are suitable? I I I d I'm asking. I don't know.", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "Yeah, uh the problem is th that it has to be very fast because um if you want to for more than one path anywhere", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "OK.", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "what's in the latches from the speech recognizer", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "so it's speed is crucial. uh And they are not fast enough.", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "And they also have to be very robust. cuz of um speech recognition errors and", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "OK. So, um So there was a chunk parser in Verbmobil, that was one of the uh branchers. You know they d th I c There were these various uh, competing uh syntax modules. And I know one of them was a chunk parser and I don't remember who did that.", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "A Alan?", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "I think it's that might, at Tuebingen I thought.", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "Yeah I d I don't remember.", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "was Do you know something about that?", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "Tubingen was at least involved in putting the chunks together", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "In Tub - at.", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "I can't quite recall whether they actually produced the chunks in the first place.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "oh", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "Uh. I see. Yeah, that's right.", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "Or wh", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "Oh from from Stuttgart,", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "There w That's right. They w They had There were This was done with a two phase thing, where the chunk parser itself was pretty stupid", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "yeah, also", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "and then there was a kind of trying to fit them together that h used more context.", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "Right. Yeah", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "Right?", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "Well you s and and especially you did some some um, l um was a learning - based approach which learned from a big corpus of of trees.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "And yes the it the chunk parser was a finite - state machine that um Mark Light originally w worked on in while he was in Tuebingen", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "and then somebody else in Tuebingen picked that up. So it was done in Tuebingen, yeah. Definitely.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "But is that the kind of thing y It sounds like the kind of thing that you were thinking of.", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "Yeah I guess it's similar.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "yeah. yeah that's In this direction, yes", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "What?", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "Yeah, it's in in this direction.", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "The.", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "Hmm.", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "From Michael Strube, I've heard very good stuff about the chunk parser that is done by FORWISS, uh, which is in embassy doing the parsing.", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "So this is sort of came as a surprise to me that you know, embassy s is featuring a nice parser but it's what I hear. One could also look at that and see whether there is some synergy possible.", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm, yeah, it would be very interesting, Mm - hmm. Mmm, yeah.", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "And they're doing chunk parsing and it's uh I I can give you the names of the people who do it there. But um. Then there is of course more ways of parsing things.", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "Of course. But But uh given th the constraints, that you want it to be small and fast and so forth, my guess is you're probably into some kind of chunk parsing. And uh I'm not a big believer in this um statistical you know, cleaning up uh It That seems to me kind of a last resort if uh you can't do it any other way. uh but I dunno.", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "Hmm.", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "It may i i may be that's what you guys finally decide do. Uh. And have you looked uh just again for context.", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "There is this this one that they did at SRI some years ago Fastus?", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "um", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "a.", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "yeah, I've I've looked at it but but it's no not much uh information available. I found,", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "ah!", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "but it's also finite - state transducers, I thought.", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "It is. Yeah. I mean it's it was pretty ambitious.", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "and", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "And of course it was English oriented,", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "Yeah, and and Purely finite - state transducers are not so good for German since there's um", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "um w Right.", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "The word order is is uh not fixed", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "Yeah, I guess that's the point is is all the morphology and stuff. And English is all th all word order. And it makes a lot more sense.", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "And e Yeah, OK. Good point. So in in in German you've got uh most of this done with", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm. Also it's uh it's um Yes, uh the um choice between uh this processing and that processing and my template matcher.", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "Right. Right.", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "So what about Um Did y like Morfix? a a e y you've got stemmers? Or is that something that.", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "Um, yeah but it's all in the in the lexicon. So it's.", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "But did you have that?", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "Yeah th the information is available.", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "OK. I see. So, but.", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "So.", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "So y you just connect to the lexicon", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "Yeah", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "and uh at least for German you have all all of the uh the stemming information.", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "Yeah, we can, oh yeah. We have knowledge bases from from Verbmobil system we can use", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "Yep.", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "and so.", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "Right. But it it it doesn't look like i you're using it. I didn't n see it being used in the current template uh parser. I I didn't see any Uh of course we l actually only looked at the English.", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "It um", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "Did we look at the German? I don't remember.", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "Yeah, but but it's used for for stem forms.", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "So w wha", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "n Well I think I think there's some misunderstanding here", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "i", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "it's Morphix is not used on - line.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "Oh, OK.", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "s so the lexicon might be derived by Morphix", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "What?", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "but What what's happening on - line is just um um a a retrieval from the lexicon which would give all the stemming information", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "Hmm.", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "so it would be a full foreign lexicon.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "And that's what you have.", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "Yep.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "Yeah", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "OK.", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "We threw out all the forms.", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "What uh I didn't reme", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "We threw out all the forms", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "Huh?", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "because, you know, English, well.", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "Oh OK, so it yeah, s s I thought I'd.", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "So in German then you actually do case matching and things like in the in the pattern matcher or not?", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "um Not yet but it's planned to do that.", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "OK. Cuz I r I didn't reme I didn't think I saw it.", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "Yeah", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "Have we looked at the German? Oh, I haven yeah that's getting it from the lexicon is just fine.", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "Sure, right.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "Oh yes.", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "Yeah, yeah, yeah. No problem with that. um Yeah and here's the case where the English and the German might really be significantly different. In terms of if you're trying to build some fast parser and so forth and You really might wanna do it in a significantly different way. I don't know. So you've you guys have looked at this? also? in terms of You know, w if you're doing this for English as well as German Um Do you think now that it would be this doing it similarly?", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "um Yeah, it's um I think it's um yes, it's it's um possible to to do list processing. and Maybe this is um more adequate for English and in German um set processing is used.", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "Set.", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "Maybe yeah. Some extensions uh have to be made. For for a English version", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "Mmm. OK. Interesting. Not easy.", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "Well there's m I'm sure there's gonna be more discussion on that after your talk.", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm,", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "We're just gonna foreshadow what we saw that", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "yeah.", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "Right. Right.", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "and um", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "Now actually, um Are you guys free at five? Or Do you have to go somewhere at five o' clock tonight? W in ten minutes?", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "Ah.", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "uh uh I think we're expect.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "mmm. No. Oder there was an talk?", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "Yeah, there there's the um practice talk.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "uh Mmm, yeah.", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "Great. So you're going to that.", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "Yeah, that that's what we were planning to do.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "That's good, because that will uh tell you a fair amount about The form of semantic construction grammar that we're using.", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "Yeah. Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "so So I th I think that probably as good an introduction as you'll get.", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "Ah.", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "Uh to the form of of uh conceptual grammar that that w we have in mind for this.", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "Mmm, ah.", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "It won't talk particularly about how that relates to what uh Robert was saying at the beginning. But let me give you a very short version of this. So we talked about the fact that There're going to be a certain number of decisions That you want the knowledge modeler to make, that will be then fed to the function module, that does uh, route planning. It's called the \" route planner \" or something.", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "So there are these decisions. And then one half of this we talked about at little bit is how if you had the right information, if you knew something about what was said and about th the something about was the agent a tourist or a native or a business person or uh young or old, whatever. That information, and also about the Uh, what we're calling \" the entity \", Is it a castle, is it a bank? Is it a s town square, is it a statue? Whatever. So all that kind of information could be combined into decision networks and give you decisions. But the other half of the problem is How would you get that kind of information from the parsed input? So, um So what you might try to do is just build more templates, saying uh we're trying to build a templ you know build a template that w uh somehow would capture the fact that he wants to take a picture.", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "Mmm.", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "OK? And and we could you could do this. And it's a small enough domain that probably you, you know.", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "Mmm.", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "OK. You could do this. But uh from our point of view this is also a research project and there are a couple of people not here for various reasons who are doing doctoral dissertations on this,", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "and the idea that we're really after is a very deep semantics based on cognitive linguistics and the notion that there are a relatively small number of primitive conceptual schemas that characterize a lot of activity. So a typical one in this formulation is a container. So this is a static thing. And the notion is that all sorts of physical situations are characterized in terms of containers. Going in and out the portals and con", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "Mmm.", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "OK. But also, importantly for Lakoff and these guys is all sorts of metaphorical things are also characterized this way. You get in trouble and you know et cetera", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "Mmm.", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "and so s So, what we're really trying to do is to map from the discourse to the conceptual semantics level. And from there to the appropriate decisions.", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "So another one of these primitive, what are called \" image schemas \", is uh goal seeking. So this a notion of a source, path, goal, trajector, possibly obstacles.", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "And the idea is this is another conceptual primitive.", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "And that all sorts of things, particularly in the tourist domain, can be represented in terms of uh source, path and goal. So the idea would be could we build an analyser that would take an utterance and say \" Aha! th this utterance is talking about an attempt to reach a goal. The goal is this, the pers the, uh traveller is that, uh the sor w where we are at now is is this, they've mentioned possible obstacles, et cetera. \" So th the and this is an again attempt to get very wide coverage. So if you can do this, then the notion would be that across a very large range of domains, you could use this deep conceptual basis as the interface.", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm. Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "And then, uh The processing of that, both on the input end, recognizing that certain words in a language talk about containers or goals, et cetera, and on the output end, given this kind of information, you can then uh make decisions about what actions to take. Provides, they claim, a very powerful, general notion of deep semantics. So that's what we're really doing.", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "And Nancy is going to Her talk is going to be not about using this in applications, but about modeling how children might learn this kind of uh deep semantic grammar.", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm. Yep, yep. And how do you envision um the the um this deep semantic to be worked with. Would it be highly ambiguous if and then there would be another module that takes that um highly underspecified deep semantic construction and map it onto the current context to find out what the person really was talking about in that context. or or a.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "Well that's that's that's where the belief - net comes in. So th the idea is, let's take this business about going to the Powder - Tower.", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "So part of what you'll get out of this will be the fact tha w if it works right, OK, that this is an agent that wants to go to this place and that's their goal", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "and there will be additional situational information.", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "Oh, OK.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "Uh, OK,", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "th", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "part of it comes from the ontology. The tower is this kind of object.", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm. Yeah, OK.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "Part of it comes from the user model.", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "And the idea of the belief - net is it combines the information from the dialogue which comes across in this general way,", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "you know this is a this is a goal seeking behavior, along with specific information from the ontology about the kinds of objects involved", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "Yeah OK, Yeah, yep yep yep yep", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "and about the situation about \" Is it raining? \" I don't know. Whatever it is. And so that's the belief - net that we've laid out.", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "And so th the coupling to the situation comes in this model from, at th at th at the belief - net, combining evidence from the dialogue with the ontology with the situation.", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "Hmm.", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "But Nancy isn't gonna talk about that,", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "Yeah, oh yeah, I see,", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "just about the um", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "yeah yeah, really.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "First steps.", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "Right. The the construction grammar.", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "And she's gonna start in a minute.", "speakerName": "Grad B" }, { "text": "In a minute.", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "Ah, OK.", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "OK.", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "Is it i in, then, your place, in five five - A?", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "Alright.", "speakerName": "PhD A" } ] }

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{ "meetingId": "Bmr024", "transcriptSegments": [ { "text": "st", "speakerName": "Grad H" }, { "text": "So we're on.", "speakerName": "Grad F" }, { "text": "Yeah. That's better.", "speakerName": "Grad H" }, { "text": "And, somewhere is my agenda. I think the most important thing is Morgan wanted to talk about, uh, the ARPA demo.", "speakerName": "Grad F" }, { "text": "Well, so, here's the thing. Um, why don't we s again start off with with, uh, Yeah, I'll get it. I'll get the door. Um, I think we want to start off with the agenda. And then, given that, uh, Liz and Andreas are gonna be ten, fifteen minutes late, we can try to figure out what we can do most effectively without them here. So So so, one thing is, yeah, talk about demo,", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "OK. So, uh uh, IBM transcription status,", "speakerName": "Grad F" }, { "text": "IBM transcription. Uh, what else?", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "What's SmartKom? SmartKom?", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "Uh, we wanna talk about if w if we wanna add the data to the mar Meeting Recorder corpus.", "speakerName": "Grad F" }, { "text": "The data. The data which we are collecting here.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "What what what are we collecting here?", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "Data?", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "So why don't we have that on the agenda and we'll we'll get to it and talk about it?", "speakerName": "Grad F" }, { "text": "The SmartKom data?", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Yeah, right.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Uh, right. Uh.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "Uh, reorganization status.", "speakerName": "Grad F" }, { "text": "Reorganization status.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "Oh. Files and directories?", "speakerName": "Postdoc A" }, { "text": "Files and directories.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "Yep. Uh - huh. Absinthe, which is the multiprocessor UNIX Linux. I think it was Andreas wanted to talk about segmentation and recognition, and update on SRI recognition experiments.", "speakerName": "Grad F" }, { "text": "Um.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "And then if ti if there's time I wanted to talk about digits, but it looked like we were pretty full, so I can wait till next week.", "speakerName": "Grad F" }, { "text": "Right. OK. Well, let's see. I think the a certainly the segmentation and recognition we wanna maybe focus on when An - Andreas is here since that was particularly his thing.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "And also the SmartKom thing should b", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "SmartKom also, Andreas. Absinthe, I think also he has sort of been involved in a lot of those things.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "At least,", "speakerName": "Grad F" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "yeah, he'll t he'll probably be interested.", "speakerName": "Grad F" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "But.", "speakerName": "Grad F" }, { "text": "Um So, I mean, I think they'll be inter I'll be interested in all this, but but, uh, probably, if we had to pick something that we would talk on for ten minutes or so while they're coming here. Or I guess it would be, you think, reorganization status, or?", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "Yeah. I mean, I think, Chuck was the one who added out the agenda item. I don't really have anything to say other than that we still haven't done it.", "speakerName": "Grad F" }, { "text": "Well, I mean, I uh just basically that.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "So.", "speakerName": "Grad F" }, { "text": "maybe I said maybe we said this before just that we met and we talked about it and we sort of have a plan for getting things organized and.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "And I and I think a crucial part of that is the idea of of not wanting to do it until right before the next level zero back - up so that there won't be huge number of of added,", "speakerName": "Postdoc A" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "uh.", "speakerName": "Postdoc A" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "Grad F" }, { "text": "That that was basically it. Not not much @ @.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Although Dave basically said that if we wanna do it, just tell him and he'll do a d level zero then.", "speakerName": "Grad F" }, { "text": "Yeah. Uh - huh. Oh, excellent.", "speakerName": "Postdoc A" }, { "text": "So.", "speakerName": "Grad F" }, { "text": "Oh, good.", "speakerName": "Postdoc A" }, { "text": "Oh, so maybe we should just go ahead and get everything ready, and.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Yep. So, I think we do need to talk a little bit about Well, we don't need to do it during this meeting.", "speakerName": "Grad F" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "We have a little more to discuss. But, uh, we're we're basically ready to do it. And, uh, I have some web pages on ts more of the background. So, naming conventions and things like that, that I've been trying to keep actually up to date. So. And I've been sharing them with U - d UW folks also.", "speakerName": "Grad F" }, { "text": "I'm sorry, you've been what? Showing them?", "speakerName": "Postdoc A" }, { "text": "OK.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "Sharing them.", "speakerName": "Postdoc A" }, { "text": "Sharing them with the UW folks.", "speakerName": "Grad F" }, { "text": "OK. OK.", "speakerName": "Postdoc A" }, { "text": "OK. Well, maybe uh, since that that was a pretty short one, maybe we should talk about the IBM transcription status. Someone can fill in Liz and Andreas later. Uh", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "OK. So, we, uh we did another version of the beeps, where we separated each beeps with a spoken digit. Chuck came up here and recorded some di himself speaking some digits, and so it just goes \" beep one beep \" and then the phrase, and then \" beep two beep \" and then the phrase. And that seems pretty good. Um, I think they'll have a b easier time keeping track of where they are in the file.", "speakerName": "Grad F" }, { "text": "And we have done that on the automatic segmentations.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "And we did it with the automatic segmentation, and I don't think We ne we didn't look at it in detail. We just sent it to IBM. We we sorta spot - checked it.", "speakerName": "Grad F" }, { "text": "I listened to probably, uh, five or ten minutes of it from the beginning.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Oh, really?", "speakerName": "Grad F" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "OK.", "speakerName": "Grad F" }, { "text": "And.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "I sorta spot - checked here and there and it sounded pretty good. So. I think it'll work.", "speakerName": "Grad F" }, { "text": "OK.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "And, uh, we'll just hafta see what we get back from them. Uh.", "speakerName": "Grad F" }, { "text": "And the main thing will be if we can align what they give us with what we sent them. I mean, that's the crucial part.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "Grad F" }, { "text": "And I think we'll be able to do that at with this new beep format.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Yep. Well, I think it's also they are much less likely to d have errors.", "speakerName": "Grad F" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "I mean, so the problem wi last time is that there were errors in the transcripts where they put beeps where there weren't any, or and they put in extraneous beeps.", "speakerName": "Grad F" }, { "text": "Right. Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "And with the numbers there, it's much less likely.", "speakerName": "Grad F" }, { "text": "Yeah, one interesting note is uh, or problem I dunno if this was just because of how I play it back, I say, uh, SND - play and then the file, every once in a while, @ @ uh, like a beep sounds like it's cut into two beeps.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Yeah. Into two pieces.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Yeah, and I I dunno if that's an, uh, artifact of playback.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Yeah. Yep.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "bu uh, I don't think it's probably in the original file. Um, but, uh.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "I recognize that, too. Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Ha. That's interesting. I didn't hear that.", "speakerName": "Grad F" }, { "text": "Yeah. But with this new format, um, that hopefully they're not hearing that, and if they are, it shouldn't throw them.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Yep.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "So.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Well, maybe we better listen to it again, make sure, but, I mean, certainly the software shouldn't do that,", "speakerName": "Grad F" }, { "text": "Yeah. That's what I thought.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "so.", "speakerName": "Grad F" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Postdoc A" }, { "text": "I it's probably just, you know, mmm, somehow the audio device gets hung for a second,", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Yeah. Some latency or something.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Hiccups.", "speakerName": "Grad F" }, { "text": "Yeah?", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "As long as they have one number, and they know that there's only one beep maximum that goes with that number.", "speakerName": "Postdoc A" }, { "text": "or.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Yeah. Right.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Yeah. The only the only part that might be confusing is when Chuck is reading digits.", "speakerName": "Grad F" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Yep.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Well, you know, actually, are we having them.", "speakerName": "Postdoc A" }, { "text": "So th", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "\" Seven four eight beep seven beep eight three two \".", "speakerName": "Grad F" }, { "text": "Yeah, but are we having them do digits?", "speakerName": "Postdoc A" }, { "text": "Yes. Because, uh, we don't we didn't In order to cut them out we'd have to listen to it.", "speakerName": "Grad F" }, { "text": "We we didn't cut those out.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Yeah. They are not transcribed yet. So. Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "OK.", "speakerName": "Postdoc A" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "And we wanted to avoid doing that,", "speakerName": "Grad F" }, { "text": "OK.", "speakerName": "Postdoc A" }, { "text": "so we they are transcribing the digits.", "speakerName": "Grad F" }, { "text": "OK.", "speakerName": "Postdoc A" }, { "text": "We can we can ignore it when we get it back,", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Although we could tell them we could tell them, if you hear someone reading a digits string just say \" bracket digit bracket \"", "speakerName": "Grad F" }, { "text": "huh.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "and don't bother actually computing the di writing down the digits.", "speakerName": "Grad F" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "That'd be great. That'd be what I'm having the transcribers here do, cuz it can be extracted later.", "speakerName": "Postdoc A" }, { "text": "Yep. And then I wanted to talk about but as I said I we may not have time what we should do about digits. We have a whole pile of digits that haven't been transcribed.", "speakerName": "Grad F" }, { "text": "Le - let's talk about it, because that's that's something that I I know Andreas is less interested in than Liz is,", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "OK.", "speakerName": "Grad F" }, { "text": "so, you know. It's good.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "Do we have anything else to say about transcription? About IBM stuff?", "speakerName": "Grad F" }, { "text": "Uh, Brian I I sent bresset sent Brian a message about the meeting and I haven't heard back yet. So. I g hope he got it and hopefully he's.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "OK.", "speakerName": "Grad F" }, { "text": "Hmm.", "speakerName": "Postdoc A" }, { "text": "maybe he's gone, I dunno. He didn't even reply to my message. So. I should probably ping him just to make sure that he got it..", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Alright. So, we have a whole bunch of digits, if we wanna move on to digits.", "speakerName": "Grad F" }, { "text": "Actually, maybe I One one relate more related thing in transcription. So that's the IBM stuff. We've got that sorted out. Um, how're we doing on the on the rest of it?", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "We're doing well. I I hire I've hired two extra people already, expect to hire two more.", "speakerName": "Postdoc A" }, { "text": "Hmm.", "speakerName": "Grad F" }, { "text": "And, um, I've prepared, um, uh, a set of five which I'm which I'm calling set two, which are now being edited by my head transcriber, in terms of spelling errors and all that. She's also checking through and mar and and monitoring, um, the transcription of another transcriber. You know, I mean, she's going through and doing these kinds of checks.", "speakerName": "Postdoc A" }, { "text": "Uh - huh.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "And, I've moved on now to what I'm calling set three. I sort of thought if I do it in sets groups of five, then I can have, like, sort of a a parallel processing through through the the current.", "speakerName": "Postdoc A" }, { "text": "Uh - huh.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "And and you indicated to me that we have a g a goal now, for the for the, um, the, uh, DARPA demo, of twenty hours. So, I'm gonna go up to twenty hours, be sure that everything gets processed, and released, and and that's that's what my goal is. Package of twenty hours right now, and then once that's done, move on to the next.", "speakerName": "Postdoc A" }, { "text": "Yeah, uh, so twenty hours. But I guess the other thing is that, um, that that's kinda twenty hours ASAP because the longer before the demo we actually have the twenty hours, the more time it'll be for people to actually do cool things with it.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm. Good. I'm I'm hiring people who, uh, really are.", "speakerName": "Postdoc A" }, { "text": "So. OK.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "They would like to do it full - time, several of these people. And and I don't think it's possible, really, to do this full - time, but, that what it shows is motivation to do as many hours as possible.", "speakerName": "Postdoc A" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "It'll keep your accuracy up. Yep.", "speakerName": "Grad F" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "And they're really excellent.", "speakerName": "Postdoc A" }, { "text": "Yeah. Well, that's good.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "Yeah. Got a good core group now.", "speakerName": "Postdoc A" }, { "text": "Yeah, I mean, I guess the So the difference if if, um, if the IBM stuff works out, the difference in the job would be that they p primarily would be checking through things that were already done by someone else?", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "Again. Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Postdoc A" }, { "text": "Is that most of what it?", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "And correcting.", "speakerName": "Grad F" }, { "text": "I mean Correcting.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "Correcting. We'll we'll expect that they'll have to move some time bins and do some corrections.", "speakerName": "Grad F" }, { "text": "And I you know, I've also d uh, discovered So with the new transcriber I'm um So Uh, lemme say that my, uh So, um At present, um, the people have been doing these transcriptions a channel at a time. And, that sort of, um, is useful, and t you know, and then once in a while they'll have to refer to the other channels to clear something up. OK. Well, I realize that, um, w i we we're using the pre - segmented version, and, um, the pre - segmented version is extremely useful, and wouldn't it be, useful also to have the visual representation of those segments? And so I've uh, I, uh, uh, I've trained the new one uh, the new the newest one, to, um, use the visual from the channel that is gonna be transcribed at any given time. And that's just amazingly helpful. Because what happens then, is you scan across the signal and once in a while you'll find a blip that didn't show up in the pre - segmentation.", "speakerName": "Postdoc A" }, { "text": "Oh, right.", "speakerName": "Grad F" }, { "text": "And that'll be something like I it's ver it's interesting.", "speakerName": "Postdoc A" }, { "text": "I see what you mean. A backchannel, or.", "speakerName": "Grad F" }, { "text": "Once in a while it's a backchannel.", "speakerName": "Postdoc A" }, { "text": "Yep.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Sometimes it seems to be, um, similar to the ones that are being picked up.", "speakerName": "Postdoc A" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Grad F" }, { "text": "And they're rare events, but you can really go through a meeting very quickly. You just you just, you know, yo you s you scroll from screen to screen, looking for blips. And, I think that we're gonna end up with, uh better coverage of the backchannels,", "speakerName": "Postdoc A" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "but at the same time we're benefitting tremendously from the pre - segmentation because there are huge places where there is just absolutely no activity at all. And, uh, the audio quality is so good.", "speakerName": "Postdoc A" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "So they can they can, um, scroll through that pretty quick?", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Yeah. Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Postdoc A" }, { "text": "That's great.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Yeah. So I think that that's gonna, also eh, you know, speed the efficiency of this part of the process.", "speakerName": "Postdoc A" }, { "text": "Hmm. OK. Uh, yeah. So, uh Yeah. So let's talk about the digits, since they're not here yet.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "Uh, so, we have a whole bunch of digits that we've read and we have the forms and so on, um, but only a small number of that ha well, not a small number only a subset of that has been transcribed. And so we need to decide what we wanna do. And, uh, Liz and Andreas actually they're not here, but, they did say at one point that they thought they could do a pretty good job of just doing a forced alignment. And, again, I don't think we'll be able to do with that alone, because, um, sometimes people correct themselves and things like that. But so, I was just wondering what people thought about how automated can we make the process of finding where the people read the digits, doing a forced alignment, and doing the timing.", "speakerName": "Grad F" }, { "text": "Well, forced alignment would be one thing. What about just actually doing recognition?", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "Well, we we know what they read, because we have the forms.", "speakerName": "Grad F" }, { "text": "No, they make mistakes.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "Right. But, the point is that we wanna get a set of clean digits.", "speakerName": "Grad F" }, { "text": "You're talking about as a pre - processing step.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "Right, Morgan?", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Um.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "Is that what you're?", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Yeah, I'm I'm not quite sure what I'm talking about. I mean I I mean, uh, we're talking about digits now. And and so, um, there's a bunch of stuff that hasn't been marked yet. Uh. And, um, there's the issue that that they we know what what was said, but do we?", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "I mean, so one option i", "speakerName": "Grad F" }, { "text": "Because people make mistakes and stuff. I was just asking, just out of curiosity, if if with, uh uh, the SRI recognizer getting one percent word error, uh, would we would we do better? So, if you do a forced alignment but the force but the but the transcription you have is wrong because they actually made mistakes, uh, or false starts, it's it's much less c it's much less common than one percent?", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "But that's pretty uncommon. Um, if we could really get one percent on.", "speakerName": "Grad F" }, { "text": "We should be able to.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "Well, I guess yeah, I guess if we segmented it, we could get one percent on digits.", "speakerName": "Grad F" }, { "text": "Right?", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Yeah. So that's just my question. I'm not saying it should be one way or the other, but it's If.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "But, Well, there there're a couple different of doing it. We could use the tools I've already developed and transcribe it. Hire some people, or use the transcribers to do it. We could let IBM transcribe it. You know, they're doing it anyway, and unless we tell them different, they're gonna transcribe it. Um, or we could try some automated methods.", "speakerName": "Grad F" }, { "text": "Well.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "And my my tendency right now is, well, if IBM comes back with this meeting and the transcript is good, just let them do it.", "speakerName": "Grad F" }, { "text": "Yeah, it's Y you raised a point, kind of, uh, euphemistically but, I mean, m maybe it is a serious problem. Ho - what will they do when they go hear \" beep seven beep seven three five two \" I mean, you think they'll we'll get?", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "It's pretty distinct.", "speakerName": "Grad F" }, { "text": "Yeah?", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "The beeps are pre - recorded.", "speakerName": "Grad F" }, { "text": "It'll only be a problem for m for mine.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Well it it well, it'd be preceded by \" I'm reading transcript so - and - so \"?", "speakerName": "Postdoc A" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Yes.", "speakerName": "Grad F" }, { "text": "So, I think if they're processing it at.", "speakerName": "Postdoc A" }, { "text": "I mean, it'll be it will be in the midst of a digit string.", "speakerName": "Grad F" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "So I mean it sure, there there might be a place where it's \" beep seven beep eight beep eight beep \". But, you know, they they're they're gonna macros for inserting the beep marks. And so, I I don't think it'll be a problem. We'll have to see, but I don't think it's gonna be a problem.", "speakerName": "Grad F" }, { "text": "OK. Well, I I I dunno, I I think that that's if they are in fact going to transcribe these things, uh, certainly any process that we'd have to correct them, or whatever is needs to be much less elaborate for digits than for other stuff.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "Grad F" }, { "text": "So, why not? Sure. That was it?", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "That was it. Just, what do we do with digits?", "speakerName": "Grad F" }, { "text": "OK.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "We have so many of them, and it'd be nice to actually do something with them.", "speakerName": "Grad F" }, { "text": "Well, we we we wanna have them. Yeah, I.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "You mean there're more than ten?", "speakerName": "PhD I" }, { "text": "Anything else? Your mike is a little low there.", "speakerName": "Grad F" }, { "text": "I in Berkeley, yeah. So, uh You you have to go a little early, right? At twenty.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "Well, I can stay till about, uh, three forty.", "speakerName": "PhD I" }, { "text": "Alright. So le let's make sure we do the ones that that, uh, saved you.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "Yeah. Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD I" }, { "text": "So there was some Uh In in Adam's agenda list, he had something from you about segmentation this last recognition?", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "Well, yeah. So this is just partly to inform everybody, um, and and of course to get, um, input.", "speakerName": "PhD I" }, { "text": "Oops.", "speakerName": "Grad F" }, { "text": "Um, so, uh, we had a discussion Don and Liz and I had discussion last week about how to proceed with, uh, you know, with Don's work,", "speakerName": "PhD I" }, { "text": "Ch", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "and and and, uh, one of the obvious things that occur to us was that we're since we now have Thilo's segmenter and it works, you know, amazingly well, um, we should actually basically re - evaluate the recognition, um, results using you know, without cheating on the segmentations.", "speakerName": "PhD I" }, { "text": "So.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "And, that should be fairly.", "speakerName": "PhD I" }, { "text": "And how do we find the transcripts for those so that? Yeah. The references for for those segments?", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Oh, OK. So, there's actually.", "speakerName": "PhD I" }, { "text": "It's not that.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Why do you ask?", "speakerName": "PhD I" }, { "text": "I could.", "speakerName": "Grad F" }, { "text": "No, actually, um, NIST has, um m a fairly sophisticated scoring program that you can give a, um a time,", "speakerName": "PhD I" }, { "text": "Hand ones.", "speakerName": "Grad F" }, { "text": "Well.", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "OK.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "uh You know, you basically just give two time - marked sequences of words, and it computes the um the, uh you know, the the th", "speakerName": "PhD I" }, { "text": "It does all the work for you.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "it does all the work for you.", "speakerName": "PhD I" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "OK.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "So, it we just and we use that actually in Hub - five to do the scoring. Um. So what we've been using so far was sort of a simplified version of the scoring. And we can we can handle the the the type of problem we have here.", "speakerName": "PhD I" }, { "text": "So, basically you give some time constraints for for the references and for for the hypothesis,", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "So, we ha Yeah. Right.", "speakerName": "PhD I" }, { "text": "and Yeah, OK.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "PhD I" }, { "text": "Maybe the start of your speech and the end of it,", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "So do", "speakerName": "PhD I" }, { "text": "OK.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "or stuff like that.", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "Right. It does time - constrained word - alignment.", "speakerName": "PhD I" }, { "text": "OK.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "So. So that should be possible. I mean that shouldn't be a problem. Uh, so that was the one thing, and the other was that, um What was the other problem? Oh! That Thilo wanted to use the recognizer alignments to train up his, um, speech detector.", "speakerName": "PhD I" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Um, so that we could use, uh you know there wouldn't be so much hand labelling needed to, uh to generate training data for for the speech detector.", "speakerName": "PhD I" }, { "text": "Yeah. I'm just in progress of of doing that. So.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "And I think you're in the process of doing that.", "speakerName": "PhD I" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "So, you can you can.", "speakerName": "PhD I" }, { "text": "It'll give you a lot more data, too. Won't it?", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Yeah. So, it's basically s I think, eight meetings or something which which I'm using, and, it's before it was twenty minutes of one meeting.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD I" }, { "text": "So should be a little bit better.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "PhD I" }, { "text": "Great.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "That won't be perfect the alignments aren't perfect,", "speakerName": "PhD I" }, { "text": "Yeah. But.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "but, um, it's probably still better to have all this extra data, than.", "speakerName": "PhD I" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "Yeah. Yep.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD I" }, { "text": "We'll see that.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD I" }, { "text": "OK.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "Actually, I had a question about that. If you find that you can lower the false alarms that you get where there's no speech, that would be useful for us to know. So, um.", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "There were the false alarms.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Yeah. So, r right now you get f fal you know, false false, uh, speech regions when it's just like, um, breath or something like that,", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "OK. Yeah. Yep.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "and I'd be interested to know the wha if you retrain um,", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "do those actually go down or not? Because of.", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "Yeah. I'll can make an can, like, make a c comparison of of the old system to the to the new one, and then.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Yeah, just to see if by doing nothing in the modeling of just having that training data wh what happens.", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "Yeah. Yeah. Yep.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Um another one that we had on Adam's agenda that definitely involved you was s something about SmartKom?", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "Right. So, Rob Porzel eh, Porzel? and the, uh Porzel and the, uh, SmartKom group are collecting some dialogues.", "speakerName": "Grad F" }, { "text": "Porzel. Porzel.", "speakerName": "PhD I" }, { "text": "Basically they have one person sitting in here, looking at a picture, and a wizard sitting in another room somewhere. And, uh, they're doing a travel task. And, uh, it involves starting I believe starting with a It's it's always the wizard, but it starts where the wizard is pretending to be a computer and it goes through a, uh, speech generation system.", "speakerName": "Grad F" }, { "text": "Yeah. Actually, it's changed to a synthesis for for the first part now.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Synthesis system.", "speakerName": "Grad F" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Um, and then, it goes to a real wizard and they're evaluating that. And they wanted to use this equipment, and so the w question came up, is well, here's some more data. Should this be part of the corpus or not? And my attitude was yes, because there might be people who are using this corpus for acoustics, as opposed to just for language. Um, or also for dialogue of various sorts. Um, so it's not a meeting. Right? Because it's two people and they're not face to face.", "speakerName": "Grad F" }, { "text": "Wait a minute. So, I just wanted to understand it, cuz I I'm uh, hadn't quite followed this process.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Um. So, it's wizard in the sen usual sense that the person who is asking the questions doesn't know that it's, uh, a machi not a machine?", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "PhD I" }, { "text": "At the beginning.", "speakerName": "Grad F" }, { "text": "Actually actually, w w the the We do this I dunno who came up with it, but I think it's a really clever idea. We simulate a computer breakdown halfway through the session, and so then after that, the person's told that they're now talking to a, uh to a human.", "speakerName": "PhD I" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "It's a human operator.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "But of course they don't know that it's the same person both times.", "speakerName": "Grad F" }, { "text": "So, we we collect we collect both human - computer and human - human data, essentially, in the same session.", "speakerName": "PhD I" }, { "text": "You might wanna try collecting it the other way around sometime, saying that th the computer isn't up yet", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "Hmm.", "speakerName": "Postdoc A" }, { "text": "and then so then you can separate it out whether it's the beginning or end kind of effects.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "That's an idea.", "speakerName": "PhD I" }, { "text": "But, yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "Yep.", "speakerName": "Grad F" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD I" }, { "text": "That's a good idea.", "speakerName": "Postdoc A" }, { "text": "\" I have to go now. You can talk to the computer. \"", "speakerName": "Grad F" }, { "text": "It's a lot more believable, too,", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "\" No! \"", "speakerName": "Grad F" }, { "text": "if you tell them that they're the computer part is running on a Windows machine. And the whole breakdown thing kinda makes sense.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "O Just just reboot it.", "speakerName": "PhD I" }, { "text": "Abort abort, retry, fail?", "speakerName": "Grad F" }, { "text": "So did they actually save the far - field data?", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "Yes.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Well, this was this was the question.", "speakerName": "Grad F" }, { "text": "Cuz at first they weren't they weren't sa", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD I" }, { "text": "So so they were saying they were not going to,", "speakerName": "Grad F" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "OK.", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "and I said, \" well that's silly, if if we're gonna try to do it for a corpus, there might be people who are interested in acoustics. \"", "speakerName": "Grad F" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "Wow.", "speakerName": "PhD I" }, { "text": "No.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Or.", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "projector We were not saying we are not doing it.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "S", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "We wer we just wanted to do.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "No, the the question is do we save one or two far - field channels or all of them?", "speakerName": "PhD I" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "Yeah. Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "I I see no reason not to do all of them.", "speakerName": "Grad F" }, { "text": "Um.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "That that if we have someone who is doing acoustic studies, uh, it's nice to have the same for every recording.", "speakerName": "Grad F" }, { "text": "Nnn. Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "Hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD I" }, { "text": "So, what is the purpose of this recording?", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD I" }, { "text": "This is to get acoustic and language model training data for SmartKom. OK.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "It's to be traini to b training data and development data for the SmartKom system.", "speakerName": "PhD I" }, { "text": "The English system? Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Yeah. Right. Right.", "speakerName": "PhD I" }, { "text": "Where does this?", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Maybe we can have him vary the microphones, too,", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "Well,", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "B", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "or they're different s speakers.", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "Right. So so so for their usage, they don't need anything.", "speakerName": "Grad F" }, { "text": "so why not?", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Right?", "speakerName": "Grad F" }, { "text": "But but I'm not sure about the legal aspect of of that. Is is there some contract with SmartKom or something about the data?", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD I" }, { "text": "What they or, is is that our data which we are collecting here,", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "We've never signed anything that said that we couldn't use anything that we did.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "or? OK. OK.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "We weren't supposed to collect any data.", "speakerName": "PhD I" }, { "text": "So. OK.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "So. Yeah, th th that was the question.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "This was all.", "speakerName": "PhD I" }, { "text": "If if? Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD I" }, { "text": "No that's not a problem.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "Basically.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "I L look, it seems to me that if we're doing it anyway and we're doing it for these these purposes that we have, and we have these distant mikes, we definitely should re should save it all as long as we've got disk space,", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD I" }, { "text": "and disk is pretty cheap.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "OK.", "speakerName": "PhD I" }, { "text": "So should we save it?", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "And then.", "speakerName": "Grad F" }, { "text": "Now th Yeah. So we save it because it's it it's potentially useful. And now, what do we do with it is is a s separate question.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "Grad F" }, { "text": "I mean, anybody who's training something up could choose to put it eh, to u include this or not.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "PhD I" }, { "text": "I I would not say it was part of the meetings corpus. It isn't. But it's some other data we have, and if somebody doing experiment wants to train up including that then they can. Right?", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD I" }, { "text": "So it's It it I guess it the begs the question of what is the meeting corpus. So if, at UW they start recording two - person hallway conversations is that part of the meeting corpus?", "speakerName": "Grad F" }, { "text": "I think it's I I think I th think the idea of two or more people conversing with one another is key.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "Well, this has two or more people conversing with each other.", "speakerName": "Grad F" }, { "text": "Nnn, well", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Well this.", "speakerName": "Postdoc A" }, { "text": "They're just not face to face.", "speakerName": "Grad F" }, { "text": "What if we just give it a a name like we give these meetings a name?", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "No, it doesn't. Right? It has.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "I mean, that was my intention.", "speakerName": "Grad F" }, { "text": "And then later on some people will consider it a meeting and some people won't,", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "Well this.", "speakerName": "Postdoc A" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "That was my intention. So so s so part of the reason that I wanted to bring this up is, do we wanna handle it as a special case or do we wanna fold it in,", "speakerName": "Grad F" }, { "text": "and Just give it a title.", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "Oh.", "speakerName": "Postdoc A" }, { "text": "I think it is a s", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "we give everyone who's involved as their own user ID, give it session I Ds, let all the tools that handle Meeting Recorder handle it, or do we wanna special case it? And if we were gonna special case it, who's gonna do that?", "speakerName": "Grad F" }, { "text": "So.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Well, it it makes sense to handle it with the same infrastructure, since we don't want to duplicate things unnecessarily.", "speakerName": "PhD I" }, { "text": "It it it.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "I think.", "speakerName": "Postdoc A" }, { "text": "But as far as distributing it, we shouldn't label it as part of this meeting corpus.", "speakerName": "PhD I" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "We should let it be its own corp", "speakerName": "PhD I" }, { "text": "Well it's it well, because.", "speakerName": "Postdoc A" }, { "text": "I don't see why not. It's just a different topic.", "speakerName": "Grad F" }, { "text": "I ha I have an extra point, which is the naturalness issue. Because we have, like, meetings that have a reason. That's one of the reasons that we were talking about this. And and those and this sounds like it's more of an experimental setup.", "speakerName": "Postdoc A" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "It's got a different purpose.", "speakerName": "Postdoc A" }, { "text": "It's scenario - based, it's it's human - computer interface it's really pretty different.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Postdoc A" }, { "text": "But I I I have no problem with somebody folding it in for some experiment they're gonna do, but I don't think i it it doesn't match anything that we've described about meetings.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Grad F" }, { "text": "Whereas everything that we talked about them doing at at UW and so forth really does. They're actually talking.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "OK. So w so what does that mean for how we are gonna organize things?", "speakerName": "Grad F" }, { "text": "Hmm.", "speakerName": "Postdoc A" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "You can you can Again, as as I think Andreas was saying, if you wanna use the same tools and the same conventions, there's no problem with that. It's just that it's, you know, different directory, it's called something different, it's you know. It is different. You can't just fold it in as if it's I mean, digits are different, too. Right?", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "Yeah, but those are folded in,", "speakerName": "Grad F" }, { "text": "It might also be potentially confusing.", "speakerName": "PhD I" }, { "text": "and it's just you just mark the transcripts differently. So so one option is you fold it in,", "speakerName": "Grad F" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "PhD I" }, { "text": "and just simply in the file you mark somewhere that this is this type of interaction, rather than another type of interaction.", "speakerName": "Grad F" }, { "text": "Yeah, I th", "speakerName": "PhD I" }, { "text": "Well, I don I wouldn't call reading digits \" meetings \". Right? I mean, we we we were doing.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "Well, but but, I put it under the same directory tree.", "speakerName": "Grad F" }, { "text": "Well.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "You know, it's in \" user doctor speech data MR \".", "speakerName": "Grad F" }, { "text": "Can we just have a directory called, like, \" other stuff \"?", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "Other.", "speakerName": "Grad F" }, { "text": "And Well or, I dunno.", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "I mean, I don't care what directory tree you have it under.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "And and just, um, store it there.", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "Right? I mean that's just a.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "OK. My preference is to have a single procedure so that I don't have to think too much about things.", "speakerName": "Grad F" }, { "text": "Yes.", "speakerName": "PhD I" }, { "text": "I mean.", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "And, just have a marking.", "speakerName": "Grad F" }, { "text": "O - You you can use whatever procedure you want that's p convenient for you.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "If we do it any other way that means that we need a separate procedure, and someone has to do that.", "speakerName": "Grad F" }, { "text": "All I'm saying is that there's no way that we're gonna tell people that reading digits is meetings. And similarly we're not gonna tell them that someone talking to a computer to get travel information is meetings.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "Grad F" }, { "text": "Those aren't meetings. But if it makes it easier for you to pu fold them in the same procedures and have them under the same directory tree, knock yourself out.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "There's a couple other questions that I have too,", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "You know?", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "and and one of them is, what about, uh, consent issues? And the other one is, what about transcription? Are?", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Transcription is done in Munich.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "OK. So we don't have to worry about transcribing it?", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Alright.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "So, w we will hafta worry about format.", "speakerName": "Grad F" }, { "text": "That's a that's another argument to keep it separate, because it's gonna follow the SmartKom transcription conventions and not the ICSI meeting transcription conventions.", "speakerName": "PhD I" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Oh, OK.", "speakerName": "Grad F" }, { "text": "Ah. Good point.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "OK. Well, I didn't realize that. That's that's a.", "speakerName": "Grad F" }, { "text": "Good point. But I'm sure no one would have a problem with our folding it in for some acoustic modeling or or some things. Um. Do we h do we have, uh, um, American - born folk, uh, reading German German, uh, pla uh, place names and so forth? Is that?", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Exactly.", "speakerName": "PhD I" }, { "text": "Yeah, great.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Yep.", "speakerName": "Grad F" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD I" }, { "text": "They they even have a reading list.", "speakerName": "Grad F" }, { "text": "I bet that sounds good, huh?", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "It's pretty funny.", "speakerName": "Grad F" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD I" }, { "text": "You can do that if you want.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "OK.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "I dunno if you want that.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD I" }, { "text": "Hmm.", "speakerName": "Postdoc A" }, { "text": "Heidelberg", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "So.", "speakerName": "Grad F" }, { "text": "Exactly", "speakerName": "PhD I" }, { "text": "Disk might eventually be an issue so we might we we might need to, uh, get some more disk pretty soon.", "speakerName": "Grad F" }, { "text": "Do you wanna be a subject?", "speakerName": "PhD I" }, { "text": "Yeah, I be pretty good.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "We Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD I" }, { "text": "We're about we're about half halfway through our disk right now.", "speakerName": "Grad F" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "That was one of our concerns.", "speakerName": "PhD I" }, { "text": "Are we only half? I thought we were more than that.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "We're probably a little more than that because we're using up some space that we shouldn't be on. So, once everything gets converted over to the disks we're supposed to be using we'll be probably, uh, seventy - five percent.", "speakerName": "Grad F" }, { "text": "Well, when I was looking for space for Thilo, I found one disk that had, uh, I think it was nine gigs and another one had seventeen.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Yep.", "speakerName": "Grad F" }, { "text": "And everything else was sorta committed. Uh.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Were those backed - up or non - backed - up?", "speakerName": "Grad F" }, { "text": "Those were non - backed - up.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Non - back - up.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Right. So that's different.", "speakerName": "Grad F" }, { "text": "S oh, you're talking about backed - up.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "I'm much more concerned about the backed - up. The non - backed - up,", "speakerName": "Grad F" }, { "text": "I haven't looked to see how much of that we have.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "yeah, i is cheap. I mean, if we need to we can buy a disk, hang it off a s uh, workstation. If it's not backed - up the sysadmins don't care too much.", "speakerName": "Grad F" }, { "text": "Yeah. So, I mean, pretty much anytime we need a disk, we can get it at the rate that we're.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "You can I shouldn't be saying this, but, you can just you know, since the back - ups are every night, you can recycle the backed - up diskspace.", "speakerName": "PhD I" }, { "text": "Yeah. But that's that's that's risky.", "speakerName": "Grad F" }, { "text": "Yeah. You really shouldn't be saying.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "Mmm. Mmm.", "speakerName": "Grad F" }, { "text": "I didn't say that.", "speakerName": "PhD I" }, { "text": "Yeah, that's right.", "speakerName": "Grad F" }, { "text": "I didn't say that.", "speakerName": "PhD I" }, { "text": "Beep that out.", "speakerName": "Grad F" }, { "text": "Da - we had allowed Dave to listen to these these, uh, recordings.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "PhD I" }, { "text": "Um Yeah, I me and there's been this conversation going on about getting another file server, and and we can do that.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD I" }, { "text": "We'll take the opportunity and get another big raft of of disk, I guess.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "Yeah. It's really the back - up issue rather than the file server issue.", "speakerName": "Grad F" }, { "text": "Well, I think I think there's an argument for having you know, you could use our old file server for for disks that have data that is very rarely accessed, and then have a fast new file server for data that is, um, heavily accessed.", "speakerName": "PhD I" }, { "text": "Yeah. My understanding is, the issue isn't really the file server.", "speakerName": "Grad F" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD I" }, { "text": "We could always put more disks on.", "speakerName": "Grad F" }, { "text": "Yeah. It's the back it's the back - up capaci", "speakerName": "PhD I" }, { "text": "It's the back - up system.", "speakerName": "Grad F" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD I" }, { "text": "So which is near saturation, apparently. So.", "speakerName": "Grad F" }, { "text": "I think I think the file server could become an issue as we get a whole bunch more new compute machines.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Soon.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "And we've got, you know, fifty machines trying to access data off of Abbott at once.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Well, we're alright for now because the network's so slow.", "speakerName": "Grad F" }, { "text": "I mean, I think I think we've raised this before and someone said this is not a reliable way to do it, but the What about putting the stuff on, like, C - CD - ROM or DVD or something?", "speakerName": "PhD I" }, { "text": "Yeah. That was me. I was the one who said it was not reliable. The - they they wear out.", "speakerName": "Grad F" }, { "text": "OK. Oh, OK.", "speakerName": "PhD I" }, { "text": "Yeah. The the th", "speakerName": "Grad F" }, { "text": "But they wear out just from sitting on the shelf?", "speakerName": "PhD I" }, { "text": "Yep. Absolutely.", "speakerName": "Grad F" }, { "text": "Or from being read and read?", "speakerName": "PhD I" }, { "text": "No. Read and write don't hurt them too much unless you scratch them.", "speakerName": "Grad F" }, { "text": "Oh, OK.", "speakerName": "PhD I" }, { "text": "But the r the write once, and the read - writes, don't last. So you don't wa you don't wanna put ir un reproduceable data on them.", "speakerName": "Grad F" }, { "text": "Uh - huh.", "speakerName": "PhD I" }, { "text": "Wear out after what amount of time?", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Year or two.", "speakerName": "Grad F" }, { "text": "Would it be?", "speakerName": "Postdoc A" }, { "text": "Year or two?", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "Yep.", "speakerName": "Grad F" }, { "text": "Wow.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "Hmm.", "speakerName": "Postdoc A" }, { "text": "But if that then you would think you'd hear much more clamoring about data loss", "speakerName": "PhD I" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "and.", "speakerName": "PhD I" }, { "text": "I mean, yeah, all the L", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "I I don't know many people who do it on CD. I mean, they're the most fo", "speakerName": "Grad F" }, { "text": "LDC - all the LDC distributions are on CD - ROM.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "They're on CD, but they're not tha that's not the only source.", "speakerName": "Grad F" }, { "text": "Like.", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "They have them on disk. And they burn new ones every once in a while. But if you go if you go k", "speakerName": "Grad F" }, { "text": "But, you know, we have.", "speakerName": "PhD I" }, { "text": "But we have like thirty you know, from ten years ago?", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "We have all sorts of CD - ROMs from a long time ago.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "No.", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Yeah!", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "Well, th th OK.", "speakerName": "Grad F" }, { "text": "Ten years ago.", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "PhD I" }, { "text": "Ninety - one, and they're still all fine.", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "Were they burned or were they pressed?", "speakerName": "Grad H" }, { "text": "Uh, both. I've burned them and they're still OK.", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Grad H" }, { "text": "The the pressed ones last for", "speakerName": "Grad F" }, { "text": "I mean, usually they're.", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "well, not forever, they've been finding even those degrade.", "speakerName": "Grad F" }, { "text": "Oh, I see.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "But, uh, the burned ones I mean, when I say two or three years what I'm saying is that I have had disks which are gone in a year.", "speakerName": "Grad F" }, { "text": "That's what I.", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "On the average, it'll probably be three or four years. But, uh I I you don't want to per p have your only copy on a media that fails.", "speakerName": "Grad F" }, { "text": "Mmm.", "speakerName": "PhD I" }, { "text": "And they do. Um, if you have them professionally pressed, y you know, they're good for decades.", "speakerName": "Grad F" }, { "text": "So how about? So so how about putting them on that plus, like on a on on DAT or some other medium that isn't risky?", "speakerName": "PhD I" }, { "text": "I think th um, we can already put them on tape. And the tape is hi is very reliable.", "speakerName": "Grad F" }, { "text": "OK. Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD I" }, { "text": "So the the only issue is then if we need access to them. So that's fine f if we don't need access to them.", "speakerName": "Grad F" }, { "text": "Right. Well, if if if you if they last Say, they actually last, like, five years, huh, in in the typical case, and and occasionally you might need to recreate one, and then you get your tape out, but otherwise you don't. Can't you just you just put them on?", "speakerName": "PhD I" }, { "text": "So you just archive it on the tape, and then put it on CD as well?", "speakerName": "Grad H" }, { "text": "Yeah. Right.", "speakerName": "PhD I" }, { "text": "Oh. So you're just saying put them on C Ds for normal access.", "speakerName": "Grad F" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Grad H" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "PhD I" }, { "text": "What you.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Yeah. I mean, you can do that but that's pretty annoying, because the C Ds are so slow.", "speakerName": "Grad F" }, { "text": "See Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Grad H" }, { "text": "Mmm.", "speakerName": "PhD I" }, { "text": "What'd be nice is a system that re - burned the C Ds every year.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "H everytime it was a \" gonna \" \" gonna die \".", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "Well.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "Well, I mean, the C Ds are are an op", "speakerName": "Grad F" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "It's like like dynamic ra DRAM.", "speakerName": "PhD I" }, { "text": "Just before.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Just before they be before it goes bad, it burns them in.", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "The the CD is an alternative to tape.", "speakerName": "Grad F" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Grad H" }, { "text": "ICSI already has a perfectly good tape system and it's more reliable.", "speakerName": "Grad F" }, { "text": "You know I would think.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "So for archiving, we'll just use tape.", "speakerName": "Grad F" }, { "text": "One one thing I don't understand is, if you have the data if if you if the meeting data is put on disk exactly once, then it's backed - up once and the back - up system should never have to bother with it, uh, more than once.", "speakerName": "PhD I" }, { "text": "Well, regardless Well, first of all there was, um, a problem with the archive in that I was every once in a while doing a chmod on all the directories an or recursive chmod and chown, because they weren't getting set correctly every once in a while,", "speakerName": "Grad F" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD I" }, { "text": "and I was just, doing a minus R star, not realizing that that caused it to be re - backed - up.", "speakerName": "Grad F" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD I" }, { "text": "Ah.", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "But normally you're correct. But even without that, the back - up system is becoming saturated.", "speakerName": "Grad F" }, { "text": "But but this back - up system is smart enough to figure out that something hasn't changed and doesn't need to be backed - up again.", "speakerName": "PhD I" }, { "text": "The b I think th the at least the once tha that you put it on, it would it would kill that.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "Sure, but we still have enough changed that the nightly back - ups are starting to take too long.", "speakerName": "Grad F" }, { "text": "OK. So so then, if So so then, let's.", "speakerName": "PhD I" }, { "text": "So.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "It has nothing to do with the meeting. It's just the general ICSI back - up system is becoming saturated.", "speakerName": "Grad F" }, { "text": "Right. OK. Right. So, what if we buy, uh uh, what what do they call these, um high density?", "speakerName": "PhD I" }, { "text": "Well, why don't you have this have a this conversation with Dave Johnson tha rather than with me?", "speakerName": "Grad F" }, { "text": "No, no. Because this is maybe something that we can do without involving Dave, and and, putting more burden on him. How about we buy, uh uh uh, one of these high density tape drives? And we put the data actually on non - backed - up disks. And we do our own back - up once and for all all, and then and we don't have to bother this @ @ up?", "speakerName": "PhD I" }, { "text": "Actually, you know, we could do that just with the tape with the current tape.", "speakerName": "Grad F" }, { "text": "I dunno what the these tapes uh, at some point these I dunno. What kind of tape drive is it?", "speakerName": "PhD I" }, { "text": "I dunno but it's an automatic robot so it's very convenient.", "speakerName": "Grad F" }, { "text": "Is it is?", "speakerName": "PhD I" }, { "text": "Wh The o the one that we have?", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "You just run a program to restore them.", "speakerName": "Grad F" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "PhD I" }, { "text": "The I mean.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Grad F" }, { "text": "But it might interfere with their back - up schedule,", "speakerName": "PhD I" }, { "text": "But.", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "No, we have s we Don't we have our own?", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "eh.", "speakerName": "PhD I" }, { "text": "Something wi th that doesn't that isn't used by the back - up gang? Don't we have something downstairs?", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "Well they.", "speakerName": "Postdoc A" }, { "text": "What kinda tape drive?", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Just in? Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "Well but no, but Andreas's point is a good one. And we don't have to do anything ourselves to do that. They're already right now on tape.", "speakerName": "Grad F" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "PhD I" }, { "text": "Right. So your your point is, and I think it's a good one, that we could just get more disk and put it there.", "speakerName": "Grad F" }, { "text": "Mmm. On an XH uh, X X whatever partition.", "speakerName": "PhD I" }, { "text": "Yeah. That's not a bad idea.", "speakerName": "Grad F" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD I" }, { "text": "Yeah, that's basically what I was gonna say, is that a disk is is so cheap it's es essentially, you know, close to free. And the only thing that costs is the back - up issue, eh, to first order.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "So once it's on tape.", "speakerName": "Grad F" }, { "text": "Right. Right.", "speakerName": "PhD I" }, { "text": "And we can take care of that by putting it on non - back up drives and just backing it up once onto this tape.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD I" }, { "text": "I think that's a good idea.", "speakerName": "Grad F" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "PhD I" }, { "text": "Oh. Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "OK.", "speakerName": "PhD I" }, { "text": "Good. It's good.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "So, who's gonna do these back - ups? The people that collect it?", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "Uh Well, I'll talk to Dave, and and see what th how what the best way of doing that is.", "speakerName": "Grad F" }, { "text": "It's probably gonna n", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "There's a little utility that will manually burn a tape for you, and that's probably the right way to do it.", "speakerName": "Grad F" }, { "text": "Yeah, and we should probably make that part of the procedure for recording the meetings.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Well, s", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "Yep.", "speakerName": "Grad F" }, { "text": "Yeah. That's what I'm wondering, if.", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "Well we're g we're gonna automate that.", "speakerName": "Grad F" }, { "text": "OK.", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "My intention is to do a script that'll do everything.", "speakerName": "Grad F" }, { "text": "I mean, you don't have to physically put a tape in the drive?", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "No. It's all tape robot,", "speakerName": "Grad F" }, { "text": "Or s? s? Oh, OK.", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "so you just sit down at your computer and you type a command.", "speakerName": "Grad F" }, { "text": "So it's just Oh, OK.", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "Yeah, but then you're effectively using the resources of the back - up system. Or is that a different tape robot?", "speakerName": "PhD I" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Grad F" }, { "text": "But not at the same time.", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "But y but you would be anyway.", "speakerName": "Grad F" }, { "text": "No, no, no.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Right?", "speakerName": "Grad F" }, { "text": "He's saying get a whole different drive.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Because.", "speakerName": "Grad F" }, { "text": "No, no. See.", "speakerName": "PhD I" }, { "text": "But there's no reason to do that.", "speakerName": "Grad F" }, { "text": "Yeah, just give a dedi", "speakerName": "PhD I" }, { "text": "It we already have it there and it it's.", "speakerName": "Grad F" }, { "text": "Well, I'm saying is @ @ i if you go to Dave, and and and ask him \" can I use your tape robot? \", he will say, \" well that's gonna screw up our back - up operation. \"", "speakerName": "PhD I" }, { "text": "No, we won't. He'll say \" if if that means that it's not gonna be backed - up standardly, great. \"", "speakerName": "Grad F" }, { "text": "He - I Dave has has promoted this in the past. So I don't think he's actually against it.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "Yeah. It's it's definitely no problem.", "speakerName": "Grad F" }, { "text": "Oh, OK. Alright.", "speakerName": "PhD I" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "Alright.", "speakerName": "PhD I" }, { "text": "OK.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "Good.", "speakerName": "PhD I" }, { "text": "What about if the times overlap with the normal back - up time?", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "Um, it's it's just it's just a utility which queues up. It just queues it up and and when it's available, it will copy it.", "speakerName": "Grad F" }, { "text": "OK.", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "And then you can tell it to then remove it from the disk or you can, you know, do it a a few days later or whatever you wanna do, after you confirm that it's really backed - up.", "speakerName": "Grad F" }, { "text": "OK.", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "NW?", "speakerName": "Grad F" }, { "text": "You saying NW archive?", "speakerName": "Postdoc A" }, { "text": "NW archive.", "speakerName": "Grad F" }, { "text": "Yep And if you did that during the day it would never make it to the nightly back - ups.", "speakerName": "Postdoc A" }, { "text": "That's what it is.", "speakerName": "Grad F" }, { "text": "OK.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "Grad F" }, { "text": "And then there wouldn't be this extra load.", "speakerName": "Postdoc A" }, { "text": "Well, it if he you have to put the data on a on a non - backed - up disk to begin with.", "speakerName": "PhD I" }, { "text": "Well, but you can have it NW archive to you can have, uh, a non - backed - up disk NW archived,", "speakerName": "Postdoc A" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "Grad F" }, { "text": "So that so that otherwise you don't you.", "speakerName": "PhD I" }, { "text": "and it'll never show up on the nightly back - ups.", "speakerName": "Postdoc A" }, { "text": "Right. And then it never.", "speakerName": "Grad F" }, { "text": "Right. Right.", "speakerName": "PhD I" }, { "text": "Right. Which I'm sure would make ever the sysadmins very happy.", "speakerName": "Grad F" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "PhD I" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Postdoc A" }, { "text": "So, I think that's a good idea.", "speakerName": "Grad F" }, { "text": "OK.", "speakerName": "PhD I" }, { "text": "That's what we should do.", "speakerName": "Grad F" }, { "text": "OK.", "speakerName": "PhD I" }, { "text": "So, that means we'll probably wanna convert all all those files filesystems to non - backed - up media.", "speakerName": "Grad F" }, { "text": "That sounds good.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "Yep.", "speakerName": "Grad F" }, { "text": "Um, another, thing on the agenda said SRI recognition experiments? What's that?", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "SRI recognition? Oh.", "speakerName": "PhD I" }, { "text": "That wasn't me.", "speakerName": "Grad F" }, { "text": "Uh.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "Um. well,", "speakerName": "PhD I" }, { "text": "Who's that?", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "we have lots of them. Uh, I dunno. Chuck, do you have any any updates?", "speakerName": "PhD I" }, { "text": "N I'm successfully, uh, increasing the error rate. Uh.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "That's good.", "speakerName": "Grad F" }, { "text": "Mmm.", "speakerName": "Grad H" }, { "text": "Oh.", "speakerName": "PhD I" }, { "text": "Lift the Herve approach.", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "Yeah. So, I mean I'm just playing with, um, the number of Gaussians that we use in the the recognizer, and.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Well, you have to sa you have to tell people that you're you're doing you're trying the tandem features.", "speakerName": "PhD I" }, { "text": "Yes, I'm using tandem features.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Oh you are?", "speakerName": "Grad F" }, { "text": "And.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Cool.", "speakerName": "Grad F" }, { "text": "A and I'm still tinkering with the PLP features.", "speakerName": "PhD I" }, { "text": "Yeah, I got confused by the results. It sai because uh, the meeting before, you said \" OK, we got it down to where they're they're within a tenth of a percent \".", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "That was on males.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Right. That was that was before I tried it on the females.", "speakerName": "PhD I" }, { "text": "Oh.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "See, women are nothi are, trouble.", "speakerName": "PhD I" }, { "text": "It's the women are the problem. OK.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "Right? As we all know. So.", "speakerName": "PhD I" }, { "text": "Well, let's just say that men are simple.", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "So so, when So I I had I ha", "speakerName": "PhD I" }, { "text": "That was a quick response.", "speakerName": "Grad F" }, { "text": "So, we had reached the point where.", "speakerName": "PhD I" }, { "text": "I'm well rehearsed.", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "we had reached the point where, um, on the male portion of the development set, the, um or one of the development sets, I should say the, um the male error rate with, uh, ICSI PLP features was pretty much identical with, uh, SRI features. which are MFCC. So, um, then I thought, \" Oh, great. I'll j I'll just let's make sure everything works on the females. \" And the error rate you know, there was a three percent difference.", "speakerName": "PhD I" }, { "text": "Oh. Uh - huh.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "So,", "speakerName": "PhD I" }, { "text": "Is there less training data?", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "uh.", "speakerName": "PhD I" }, { "text": "I mean, we don", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "No, actually there's more training data.", "speakerName": "PhD I" }, { "text": "This is on just digits?", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "No.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "No, no.", "speakerName": "PhD I" }, { "text": "No.", "speakerName": "Grad F" }, { "text": "Hub - five.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "It's, uh, Swi", "speakerName": "Grad F" }, { "text": "Oh, sorry. OK. This is on.", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "This is Hub - five.", "speakerName": "PhD I" }, { "text": "Oh, OK.", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "Hub - five. Yeah.", "speakerName": "Grad F" }, { "text": "Yeah. Um, and the test data is CallHome and Switchboard. So, uh so then um Oh, and plus the the vocal tract length normalization didn't actually made things worse. So something's really seriously wrong. So Um.", "speakerName": "PhD I" }, { "text": "Aha! OK.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "So So.", "speakerName": "PhD I" }, { "text": "So but you see, now, between between the males and the females, there's certainly a much bigger difference in the scaling range, than there is, say, just within the males. And what you were using before was scaling factors that were just from the the m the SRI front - end. And that worked that worked fine.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "That's true. Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD I" }, { "text": "Uh, but now you're looking over a larger range and it may not be so fine.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "Well, um So I just d so the one thing that I then tried was to put in the low - pass filter, which we have in the So, most most Hub - five systems actually band - limit the uh, at about, uh, thirty - seven hundred, um, hertz.", "speakerName": "PhD I" }, { "text": "Uh - huh.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "Although, you know, normally, I mean, the channel goes to four four thousand. Right? So, um And that actually helped, uh uh, a little bit.", "speakerName": "PhD I" }, { "text": "Uh - huh.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "Um and it didn't hurt on the males either. So, um And I'm now, uh, trying the Oh, and suddenly, also the v the vocal tract length normalization only in the test se on the test data. So, you can do vocal tract length normalization on the test data only or on both the training and the test.", "speakerName": "PhD I" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "And you expect it to help a little bit if you do it only on the test, and s more if you do it on both training and test.", "speakerName": "PhD I" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "And so the It now helps, if you do it only on the test, and I'm currently retraining another set of models where it's both in the training and the test, and then we'll we'll have, hopefully, even better results. So But there's It looks like there will still be some difference, maybe between one and two percent, um, for the females.", "speakerName": "PhD I" }, { "text": "Huh.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "And so, um, you know, I'm open to suggestions.", "speakerName": "PhD I" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Grad F" }, { "text": "And it is true that the, uh that the you know, we are using the But it can't be just the VTL,", "speakerName": "PhD I" }, { "text": "Uh - huh.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "because if you don't do VTL in both systems, uh, you know, the the females are considerably worse in the with the PLP features.", "speakerName": "PhD I" }, { "text": "No no. I I remember that.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "It's much worse. Yeah.", "speakerName": "Grad F" }, { "text": "So there must be some something else going on.", "speakerName": "PhD I" }, { "text": "Well, what's the standard? Yeah, so I thought the performance was actually a little better on females than males.", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "That's what I thought, too.", "speakerName": "Grad F" }, { "text": "Um, that ye overall, yes, but on this particular development test set, they're actually a little worse. But that's beside the point. We're looking at the discrepancy between the SRI system and the SRI system when trained with ICSI features.", "speakerName": "PhD I" }, { "text": "Right. I'm just wondering if that if if you have any indication of your standard features,", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "What's Are the freq?", "speakerName": "Grad F" }, { "text": "you know, if that's also different or in the same direction or not.", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "You're This is lemme ask a q more basic que", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "Cuz.", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "I mean, is this, uh uh, iterative, Baum - Welch training?", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD I" }, { "text": "Or is it Viterbi training? Or?", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "It's Baum - Welch training.", "speakerName": "PhD I" }, { "text": "Baum - Welch training. And how do you determine when to to stop iterating?", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "Um Well, actually, we we just basically do a s a fixed number of iterations.", "speakerName": "PhD I" }, { "text": "Hmm.", "speakerName": "Grad F" }, { "text": "Uh, in this case four. Um, which Eh, we used to do only three, and then we found out we can squeeze And it was basically, we're s we're keeping it on the safe side. But you're d Right. It might be that one more iteration would would help, but it's sort of", "speakerName": "PhD I" }, { "text": "Or maybe or maybe you're doing one too many.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "you know.", "speakerName": "PhD I" }, { "text": "I mean it's it's.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "No, but with Baum - Welch, there shouldn't be an over - fitting issue, really.", "speakerName": "PhD I" }, { "text": "Uh. Well, there can be. Sure.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "Well, you can try each one on a cross - validation set,", "speakerName": "Grad F" }, { "text": "Um.", "speakerName": "PhD I" }, { "text": "It d if you if you remember some years ago Bill Byrne did a thing where he was he was looking at that,", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "can't you?", "speakerName": "Grad F" }, { "text": "and he showed that you could get it.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD I" }, { "text": "So. But but but, um.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "Well, yeah. We can Well, that's that's the easy one to check,", "speakerName": "PhD I" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "because we save all the intermediate models", "speakerName": "PhD I" }, { "text": "Do you?", "speakerName": "Grad F" }, { "text": "and we can.", "speakerName": "PhD I" }, { "text": "And in each case, ho", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "What?", "speakerName": "Grad F" }, { "text": "um, I'm sorry in each case how do you determine, you know, the the usual fudge factors? The, uh the, uh, language, uh, scaling, acoustic scaling, uh, uh.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "Um I uh I'm actually re - optimizing them. Although that hasn't shown to make a big difference.", "speakerName": "PhD I" }, { "text": "OK. And the pru the question he was asking at one point about pruning, uh Remember that one?", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "Pruning?", "speakerName": "PhD I" }, { "text": "Well, he was he's it looked like the probabil at one point he was looking at the probabilities he was getting out at the likelihoods he was getting out of PLP versus mel cepstrum, and they looked pretty different,", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "Pruning in the?", "speakerName": "PhD I" }, { "text": "Yeah, the likelihoods were lower for the PLP.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "as I recall.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "Oh.", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "And so, uh, there's the question.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "I you mean did you see this in the SRI system?", "speakerName": "PhD I" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm. Was just looking through the log files,", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Um. Well, the likelihoods are.", "speakerName": "PhD I" }, { "text": "and.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "You can't directly compare them, because, for every set of models you compute a new normalization. And so these log probabilities, they aren't directly comparable", "speakerName": "PhD I" }, { "text": "Oh.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "because you have a different normalization constants for each model you train.", "speakerName": "PhD I" }, { "text": "Hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "But, still it's a question.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "So.", "speakerName": "PhD I" }, { "text": "if you have some threshold somewhere in terms of beam search or something,", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "Well, yeah. That's what I was wondering.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "or?", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "W yeah. I mean Uh.", "speakerName": "PhD I" }, { "text": "I mean, if you have one threshold that works well because the range of your likelihoods is in this area.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "We prune very conservatively. I mean, as we saw with the meeting data, um we could probably tighten the pruning without really So we we basically we have a very open beam.", "speakerName": "PhD I" }, { "text": "But, you're only talking about a percent or two.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Right? Here we're - we're saying that we there gee, there's this b eh, there's this difference here. And it See cuz, i i there could be lots of things. Right? But but but but, um, let's suppose just for a second that, uh, we've sort of taken out a lot of the the major differences, uh, between the two.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "Right. Course. Mm - hmm. Right.", "speakerName": "PhD I" }, { "text": "I mean, we're already sort of using the mel scale and we're using the same style filter integration, and and, well, we're making sure that low and high.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "Actually, there is the difference in that. So, for the PLP features we use the triangular filter shapes. And for the in the SRI front - end we use the trapezoidal one.", "speakerName": "PhD I" }, { "text": "And what's the top frequency of each?", "speakerName": "Grad F" }, { "text": "Well, now it's the same. It's thirty thirty to seven hundred and sixty hertz.", "speakerName": "PhD I" }, { "text": "Yeah. Exp - one's triangular, one's trapezoidal. So.", "speakerName": "Grad F" }, { "text": "No, no. But.", "speakerName": "PhD I" }, { "text": "Before we i i th with straight PLP, it's trapezoidal also.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "Well But.", "speakerName": "PhD I" }, { "text": "But then we had a slight difference in the in the scale. Uh, so.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "Since currently the Feacalc program doesn't allow me to change the filter shape independently of the scale.", "speakerName": "PhD I" }, { "text": "Uh - huh.", "speakerName": "Grad F" }, { "text": "And, I did the experiment on the SRI front - end where I tried the y where the standard used to be to use trapezoidal filters. You can actually continuously vary it between the two. And so I wen I swi I tried the trap eh, triangular ones. And it did slightly worse, but it's really a small difference.", "speakerName": "PhD I" }, { "text": "Hmm.", "speakerName": "Grad F" }, { "text": "Coup - Couple tenths of a percent or something.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "So.", "speakerName": "PhD I" }, { "text": "OK.", "speakerName": "Grad F" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "So it's not just losing some frequency range.", "speakerName": "Grad F" }, { "text": "Yeah, exactly. So, it's not I don't think the filter shape by itself will make a huge difference.", "speakerName": "PhD I" }, { "text": "Yeah. Right. So the oth the other thing that.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Grad F" }, { "text": "So, f i We've always viewed it, anyway, as the major difference between the two, is actually in the smoothing, that the that the, um, PLP, and and the reason PLP has been advantageous in, uh, slightly noisy situations is because, PLP does the smoothing at the end by an auto - regressive model,", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm. Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD I" }, { "text": "and mel cepstrum does it by just computing the lower cepstral coefficients.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD I" }, { "text": "Um. So, um Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "OK. So one thing I haven't done yet is to actually do all of this with a much larger with our full training set. So right now, we're using a I don't know, forty? I i it's it's eh it's a f training set that's about, um, you know, by a factor of four smaller than what we use when we train the full system. So, some of these smoothing issues are over - fitting for that matter.", "speakerName": "PhD I" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "And the Baum - Welch should be much less of a factor, if you go full whole hog.", "speakerName": "PhD I" }, { "text": "Could be. Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "And so, w so, just um so the strategy is to first sort of treat things with fast turn - around on a smaller training set and then, when you've sort of, narrowed it down, you try it on a larger training set.", "speakerName": "PhD I" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "And so, we haven't done that yet.", "speakerName": "PhD I" }, { "text": "Now the other que related question, though, is is, uh, what's the boot models for these things?", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "Th - th the boot models are trained from scratch. So we compute, um So, we start with a, um, alil alignment that we computed with the b sort of the best system we have. And and then we train from scratch. So we com we do a, you know, w um We collect the uh, the observations from those alignments under each of the feature sets that that we train. And then, from there we do, um There's a lot of, actually The way it works, you first train a phonetically - tied mixture model. Um. You do a total of First you do a context - independent PTM model. Then you switch to a context You do two iterations of that. Then you do two iterations of of of context - dependent phonetically - tied mixtures. And then from that you you do the you you go to a state - clustered model,", "speakerName": "PhD I" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "and you do four iterations of that. So there's a lot of iterations overall between your original boot models and the final models. I don't think that Hmm. We have never seen big differences. Once I thought \" oh, I can Now I have these much better models. I'll re - generate my initial alignments. Then I'll get much better models at the end. \" Made no difference whatsoever. It's I think it's eh, i", "speakerName": "PhD I" }, { "text": "Right. Well, mis for making things better.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "the boot models are recur", "speakerName": "PhD I" }, { "text": "Yeah. But, this for making things worse. This it migh Th - the thought is is is possible another possible partial cause is if the boot models used a comple used a different feature set, that.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm. Mm - hmm. But there are no boot models, in fact. You you're not booting from initial models. You're booting from initial alignments.", "speakerName": "PhD I" }, { "text": "Which you got from a different feature set.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "That's correct.", "speakerName": "PhD I" }, { "text": "So, those features look at the data differently, actually.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "Yeah, but.", "speakerName": "PhD I" }, { "text": "I mean, you know, they they will find boundaries a little differently, though You know, all th all that sort of thing is actually slightly different. I'd expect it to be a minor effect,", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "But but but, what I'm what I'm saying is.", "speakerName": "PhD I" }, { "text": "but.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "So, we e w f w For a long time we had used boot alignments that had been trained with a with the same front - end but with acoustic models that were, like, fifteen percent worse than what we use now.", "speakerName": "PhD I" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "And with a dict different dictionary with a considerably different dictionary, which was much less detailed and much less well - suited.", "speakerName": "PhD I" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm. Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "And so, then we switched to new boot alignments, which which now had the benefit of all these improvements that we've made over two years in the system.", "speakerName": "PhD I" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "And, the result in the end was no different.", "speakerName": "PhD I" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "So, what I'm saying is, the exact nature of these boot alignments is probably not a big factor in the quality of the final models.", "speakerName": "PhD I" }, { "text": "Yeah, maybe not. But it it I st still see it as I mean, there's there's a history to this, too,", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD I" }, { "text": "but I uh, I don't wanna go into,", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD I" }, { "text": "but but I I I th I think it could be the things that it the data is being viewed in a certain way, uh, that a beginning is here rather than there and so forth,", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "Yeah. Right.", "speakerName": "PhD I" }, { "text": "because the actual signal - processing you're doing is slightly different.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "PhD I" }, { "text": "But, it's it's that's probably not it.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "Yeah. Anyway, I I I should really reserve, uh, any conclusions until we've done it on the large training set, um, and until we've seen the results with the with the VTL in training.", "speakerName": "PhD I" }, { "text": "Yeah. At some point you also might wanna take the same thing and try it on, uh, some Broadcast News data or something else that actually has has some noisy noisy components, so we can see if any conclusions we come to holds across different data.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "So. Yeah. Right.", "speakerName": "PhD I" }, { "text": "Uh.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "And, uh, with this, I have to leave.", "speakerName": "PhD I" }, { "text": "OK.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "Hmm!", "speakerName": "Grad H" }, { "text": "So, is there something quick about Absinthe that you?", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "With this said.", "speakerName": "PhD I" }, { "text": "Uh. Just what we were talking about before, which is that I ported a Blass library to Absinthe, and then got got it working with fast - forward, and got a speedup roughly proportional to the number of processors times the clock cycle.", "speakerName": "Grad F" }, { "text": "Oh.", "speakerName": "PhD I" }, { "text": "So, that's pretty good.", "speakerName": "Grad F" }, { "text": "Oh! Cool.", "speakerName": "PhD I" }, { "text": "Um, I'm in the process of doing it for Quicknet, but there's something going wrong and it's about half the speed that I was estimating it should be, and I'm not sure why.", "speakerName": "Grad F" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD I" }, { "text": "But I'll keep working on it. But the what it means is that it's likely that for net training and forward passes, we'll Absinthe will be a good machine. Especially if we get a few more processors and upgrade the processors.", "speakerName": "Grad F" }, { "text": "A few more processors? How many are you shooting for?", "speakerName": "PhD I" }, { "text": "There're five now. It can hold eight.", "speakerName": "Grad F" }, { "text": "Oh, OK.", "speakerName": "PhD I" }, { "text": "Yeah, we'll just go buy them, I guess.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "And it's also five - fifty megahertz and you can get a gigahertz.", "speakerName": "Grad F" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD I" }, { "text": "So.", "speakerName": "Grad F" }, { "text": "Can you mix t uh, processors of different speed?", "speakerName": "PhD I" }, { "text": "I don't think so. I think we'd have to do all.", "speakerName": "Grad F" }, { "text": "OK.", "speakerName": "PhD I" }, { "text": "Probably just throw away the old ones, and.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "Yep.", "speakerName": "Grad F" }, { "text": "Thank you for the box,", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "Oh, OK.", "speakerName": "PhD I" }, { "text": "and I'll just go buy their process.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "Hmm!", "speakerName": "Grad H" }, { "text": "Maybe we can stick them in another system. I dunno.", "speakerName": "PhD I" }, { "text": "We'd have to get a almost certainly have to get a, uh, Netfinity server.", "speakerName": "Grad F" }, { "text": "I see.", "speakerName": "PhD I" }, { "text": "They're pretty pretty specialized.", "speakerName": "Grad F" }, { "text": "Yeah. OK.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "OK.", "speakerName": "PhD I" }, { "text": "Is is Liz coming back, do you know, or? I dunno. Yeah. Oh, you don't. OK. Alright. Alright. See you. Um. Alright. So Uh, they're having tea out there. So I guess the other thing that we were gonna talk about is is, uh, demo. And, um, so, these are the demos for the uh, July, uh, meeting and, um DARPA mee", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "July what? Early July? Late July?", "speakerName": "Grad F" }, { "text": "Oh, I think it's July fifteenth.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "Sixteen to eighteen, I think.", "speakerName": "Postdoc A" }, { "text": "Is that it?", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "Roughly.", "speakerName": "Postdoc A" }, { "text": "Yeah, sixteenth, eighteenth. Yeah. So, we talked about getting something together for that, but maybe, uh maybe we'll just put that off for now, given that But I think maybe we should have a a sub - meeting, I think, uh, probably, uh, Adam and and, uh, Chuck and me should talk about should get together and talk about that sometime soon.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "Over a cappuccino tomorrow?", "speakerName": "Grad F" }, { "text": "Yeah something like that. Um, uh, you know, maybe maybe we'll involve Dan Ellis at some some level as well.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Grad F" }, { "text": "Um. OK. The the tea is is going, so, uh, I suggest we do, uh uh, a unison.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "A unison digits?", "speakerName": "Grad F" }, { "text": "OK.", "speakerName": "Postdoc A" }, { "text": "Yeah. Gets our.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "Which is gonna be a little hard for a couple people because we have different digits forms.", "speakerName": "Grad F" }, { "text": "Oops.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "We have a I found a couple of old ones.", "speakerName": "Grad F" }, { "text": "Oh.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "Hmm.", "speakerName": "Grad H" }, { "text": "Well, that'll be interesting. So, uh.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "Have you done digits before?", "speakerName": "Grad F" }, { "text": "No.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "I haven't done it.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "OK. So, uh, the idea is just to read each line with a short pause between lines,", "speakerName": "Grad F" }, { "text": "Alright.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "not between And, uh, since we're in a hurry, we were just gonna read everyone all at once. So, if you sorta plug your ears and read.", "speakerName": "Grad F" }, { "text": "OK.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "So first read the transcript number, and then start reading the digits.", "speakerName": "Grad F" }, { "text": "Sure.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "OK? One, two, three.", "speakerName": "Grad F" }, { "text": "OK we're done.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "And.", "speakerName": "Grad F" } ] }

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{ "meetingId": "Bmr016", "transcriptSegments": [ { "text": "And we already got the crash out of the way. It did crash, so I feel much better, earlier.", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "Interesting. Hmm.", "speakerName": "Postdoc E" }, { "text": "Will you get the door, and?.", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "OK, so um.", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "OK. You collected an agenda, huh?", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "I did collect an agenda. So I'm gonna go first. Mwa - ha - ha! It shouldn't take too long.", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Postdoc E" }, { "text": "Um, so we're pretty much out of digits. We've gone once through the set. Um, so the only thing I have to do", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "No there's only ten.", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "Yeah, that's right. so I I just have to go through them", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "Well, OK.", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "and uh pick out the ones that have problems, and either correct them or have them re - read. So we probably have like four or five more forms to be read, to be once through the set. I've also extracted out about an hour's worth. We have about two hours worth. I extracted out about an hour's worth which are the f digits with for which whose speaker have speaker forms, have filled out speaker forms. Not everyone's filled out a speaker form. So I extracted one for speakers who have speaker forms and for meetings in which the \" key \" file and the transcript files are parsable. Some of the early key files, it looks like, were done by hand, and so they're not automatically parsable and I have to go back and fix those. So what that means is we have about an hour of transcribed digits that we can play with. Um, Liz.", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "So you think two you think two hours is the is the total that we have?", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "Yep, yeah.", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "And you think we th uh, I I didn't quite catch all these different things that are not quite right, but you think we'll be able to retrieve the other hour, reasonably?", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "Yes, absolutely.", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "OK.", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "So it's just a question of a little hand - editing of some files and then waiting for more people to turn in their speaker forms. I have this web - based speaker form, and I sent mail to everyone who hadn't filled out a speaker form, and they're slowly s trickling in.", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "So the relevance of the speaker form here, s", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "It's for labeling the extracted audio files.", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "Oh, OK.", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "By speaker ID and microphone type.", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "Wasn't like whether they were giving us permission to use their digits or something.", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "No, I spoke with Jane about that and we sort of decided that it's probably not an issue that We edit out any of the errors anyway. Right? So the there are no errors in the digits,", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "you'll always read the string correctly. So I can't imagine why anyone would care. So the other topic with digits is uh, Liz would like to elicit different prosodics, and so we tried last week with them written out in English. And it just didn't work at all because no one grouped them together. So it just sounded like many many more lines instead of anything else. So in conversations with Liz and uh Jane we decided that if you wrote them out as numbers instead of words it would elicit more phone number, social security number - like readings. The problem with that is it becomes numbers instead of digits. When I look at this, that first line is \" sixty one, sixty two, eighteen, eighty six, ten. \" Um, and so the question is does anyone care? Um, I've already spoken with Liz and she feels that, correct me if I'm wrong, that for her, connected numbers is fine,", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Postdoc E" }, { "text": "as opposed to connected digits. Um, I think two hours is probably fine for a test set, but it may be a little short if we actually wanna do training and adaptation and all that other stuff.", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "Yeah Um, do um you want different prosodics, so if you always had the same groupings you wouldn't like that? Is that correct?", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "Well, we actually figured out a way to.", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "Yeah, the the.", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "the the groupings are randomly generated.", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "No but, I was asking if that was something you really cared about because if it wasn't, it seems to me if you made it really specifically telephone groupings that maybe people wouldn't, uh, go and do numbers so much. You know if it if it's.", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "Uh.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "I think they may still do it, um,", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "Maybe some, but I probably not so much.", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "What about putting a hyphen between the numbers in the group?", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "And.", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "Right? So if you if if you have uh", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "Six dash one, you mean?", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "if you go six six six uh dash uh two nine three one.", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "I well OK I it might help, I would like to g get away from having only one specific grouping.", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "That's what I was asking, yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "Um, so if that's your question,", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "but I mean it seems to me that, at least for us, we can learn to read them as digits", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Postdoc E" }, { "text": "if that's what people want. I I'm", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Postdoc E" }, { "text": "don't think that'd be that hard to read them as single digits.", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "I agree.", "speakerName": "Postdoc E" }, { "text": "Um, and it seems like that might be better for you guys since then you'll have just more digit data,", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "and that's always a good thing.", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "Yep.", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "It's a little bit better for me too because the digits are easier to recognize. They're better trained than the numbers.", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "So we could just, uh, put in the instructions \" read them as digits \".", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "Right. Right, read them as single digits, so sixty - one w is read as six one,", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Postdoc E" }, { "text": "and if people make a mistake we.", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "How about \" O \" versus \" zero \"?", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "I mean, the other thing is we could just bag it because it's it's it's - I'm not worrying about it I mean, because we do have digits training data that we have from uh from OGI. I'm sorry, digits numbers training that we have from OGI, we've done lots and lots of studies with that. And um.", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "But it's nice to get it in this room with the acous", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "I mean for it's.", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "No, no, I guess what I'm saying is that", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "Just let them read it how they read it.", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "to some extent maybe we could just read them have them read how how they read it and it just means that we have to expand our our vocabulary out to stuff that we already have.", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "Right. Well that's fine with me as long as It's just that I didn't want to cause the people who would have been collecting digits the other way to not have the digits.", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "Yeah. We can go back to the other thing later.", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "So.", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "I mean we s we we've We can do this for awhile", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "OK.", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "and then go back to digits for awhile, or um. Do yo I mean, do you want do you want this Do you need training data or adaptation data out of this?", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "OK.", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "How much of this do you need? with uh the.", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "It's actually unclear right now. I just thought well we're if we're collec collecting digits, and Adam had said we were running out of the TI forms, I thought it'd be nice to have them in groups, and probably, all else being equal, it'd be better for me to just have single digits", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "OK.", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "since it's, you know, a recognizer's gonna do better on those anyway, um, and it's more predictable. So we can know from the transcript what the person said and the transcriber, in general.", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "OK, well if you pre", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "But if they make mistakes, it's no big deal if the people say a hundred instead of \" one OO \". and also w maybe we can just let them choose \" zero \" versus \" O \" as they as they like because even the same person c sometimes says \" O \" and sometimes says \" zero \" in different context,", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "and that's sort of interesting. So I don't have a Specific need cuz if I did I'd probably try to collect it, you know, without bothering this group, but If we can try it.", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "OK so so I can just add to the instructions to read it as digits not as connected numbers.", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Postdoc E" }, { "text": "Right, and you can give an example like, you know, \" six sixty - one would be read as six one \".", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm. And i actually it's no more artificial than what we've been doing with words.", "speakerName": "Postdoc E" }, { "text": "And I think people will get it.", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "I'm sure people can adapt to this, read it single.", "speakerName": "Postdoc E" }, { "text": "Right, right.", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "The spaces already bias it toward being separated.", "speakerName": "Postdoc E" }, { "text": "It's just easier to read.", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "And I know I'm gonna find this easier than words.", "speakerName": "Postdoc E" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "Oh yeah, absolutely, cognitively it's much easier.", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "OK I also had a hard hard time with the words,", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "but then we went back and forth on that. OK, so let's give that a try", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "OK. And is the spacing alright or do you think there should be more space between digits and groups?", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "OK.", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "and.", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "Or is that alright?", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "I mean what do other people think cuz you guys are reading them.", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "I think that i it's fine.", "speakerName": "Postdoc E" }, { "text": "OK.", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "I it it to me it looks like you've got the func the idea of grouping and you have the grou the idea of separation", "speakerName": "Postdoc E" }, { "text": "OK.", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "and, you know, it's just a matter of u i the instructions, that's all.", "speakerName": "Postdoc E" }, { "text": "Great. OK.", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "And I think there are about ten different gouping patterns", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "Let's try it.", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "Well let's give it a try.", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "isn't that right, Liz? That we did.", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "Righ - right, and you just they're randomly generated and randomly assigned to digits.", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "I did Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Postdoc E" }, { "text": "So we have.", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "Go ahead.", "speakerName": "Postdoc E" }, { "text": "Sorry, I I was just gonna say, so we have in the vicinity of forty hours of of recordings now. And you're saying two hours, uh, is digits, so that's roughly the ratio then,", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "Yep.", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "something like twenty twenty to one. Which I guess makes makes sense. So if we did another forty hours of recordings then we could get another couple hours of this.", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "Um, yeah like you say, I think a couple hours for a for a for a test test set's OK. It'd be nice to get, you know, more later because we'll we might use use this up, uh, in some sense,", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Postdoc E" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "but but uh.", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "Yeah, I also would like to argue for that cuz it it seems to me that, um, there's a real strength in having the same test replicated in a whole bunch of times and adding to that basic test bank.", "speakerName": "Postdoc E" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "Hmm? Cuz then you have, you know, more and more, u chances to get away from random errors. And I think, um, the other thing too is that right now we have sort of a stratified sample with reference to dialect groups, and it might be there might be an argument to be made for having uh f for replicating all of the digits that we've done, which were done by non - native speakers so that we have a core that totally replicates the original data set, which is totally American speakers, and then we have these stratified additional language groups overlapping certain aspects of the database.", "speakerName": "Postdoc E" }, { "text": "Right. I think that uh trying to duplicate, spending too much effort trying to duplicate the existing TI - digits probably isn't too worthwhile because the recording situation is so different.", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "It's gonna be very hard to be comparable.", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "Except that if you have the stimuli comparable, then it says something about the the contribution of setting", "speakerName": "Postdoc E" }, { "text": "No it's it's not the same.", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "and.", "speakerName": "Postdoc E" }, { "text": "A little bit, but the other differences are so major.", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "Yeah I mean read versus not.", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "OK.", "speakerName": "Postdoc E" }, { "text": "They're such major sources of variance that it's it's it's uh.", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "What's an example of a of m some of the other differences? Any other a difference?", "speakerName": "Postdoc E" }, { "text": "Well i i individual human glottis is going to be different for each one,", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "OK.", "speakerName": "Postdoc E" }, { "text": "you know, it's just There's so many things.", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "Well, and not just that,", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "OK.", "speakerName": "Postdoc E" }, { "text": "it's it and and enunciation.", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "I mean the uh the corpus itself. I mean, we're collecting it in a read digit in a particular list, and I'm sure that they're doing more specific stuff. I mean if I remember correctly it was like postman reading zipcodes and things like that.", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "TI - digits was?", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "I thought so.", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "I thought I thought it was read.", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "Was it read?", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "Yeah, I think the reading zipcode stuff you're thinking of would be OGI.", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "Oh, I may well be.", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "Yeah, no TI - digits was read in th in read in the studio I believe.", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "I haven't ever listened to TI - digits. So I don't really know how it compares.", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "Yeah. Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "But but regardless it's gonna it's hard to compare cross - corpus.", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "But it but It - it's different people is the is the core thing.", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "So.", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "OK, fine.", "speakerName": "Postdoc E" }, { "text": "And they're different circumstances with different recording environment and so forth, so it's it's it's really pretty different. But I think the idea of using a set thing was just to give you some sort of framework, so that even though you couldn't do exact comparisons, it wouldn't be s valid scientifically at least it'd give you some kind of uh frame of reference. Uh, you know it's not.", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "Hey Liz, What what do the groupings represent?", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "OK.", "speakerName": "Postdoc E" }, { "text": "You said there's like ten different groupings?", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Right, just groupings in terms of number of groups in a line, and number of digits in a group, and the pattern of groupings.", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm. Are the patterns like are they based on anything or", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Um, I I just roughly looked at what kinds of digit strings are out there, and they're usually grouped into either two, three, or four, four digits at a time.", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "Oh.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "And they can have, I mean, actually, things are getting longer and longer. In the old days you probably only had three sequences, and telephone numbers were less, and so forth. So, there's between, um Well if you look at it, there are between like three and five groups, and each one has between two and four groupings and I purposely didn't want them to look like they were in any kind of pattern.", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "Mmm.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "So", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "And which group appears is picked randomly, and what the numbers are are picked randomly.", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "So unlike the previous one, which I d simply replicated TI - digits, this is generated randomly.", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "Oh OK.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "Mmm, oh, OK.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "But I think it'd be great i to be able to compare digits, whether it's these digits or TI - digits, to speakers, um, and compare that to their spontaneous speech, and then we do need you know a fair amount of of digit data because you might be wearing a different microphone", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "and, I mean so it's it's nice to have the digits you know, replicated many times. Especially for speakers that don't talk a lot.", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "So um, for adaptation. No, I'm serious,", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "Yeah all we have for some people is digits.", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "so we have a problem with acoustic adaptation, and we're not using the digit data now, but you know.", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "Oh, you're not.", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "Not for adaptation, nope. v W we're not we were running adaptation only on the data that we ran recognition on and I'd As soon as someone started to read transcript number, that's read speech and I thought \" well, we're gonna do better on that,", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "Oh I see.", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "that's not fair to use \".", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "Oh yeah that's true, absolutely.", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "OK.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "But, it might be fair to use the data for adaptation, so. So those speakers who are very quiet, shy.", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "That would be interesting to see whether that helps.", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "r Right.", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "Like Adam?", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Do you think that would help adapting on Yeah. Yeah, I have a real problem with that.", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "Well, it sh I mean it's the same micropho see the nice thing is we have that in the in the same meeting,", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "Right. Same same acoustics,", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "and so you don't get.", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "same microphone,", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "same channel.", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "Right, and so I still like the idea of having some kind of digit data.", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "OK. Good.", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "Yeah I mean, for the for the um acoustic research, for the signal - processing, farfield stuff, I see it as as as the place that we start. But, th I mean, it'd be nice to have twenty hours of digits data, but but uh the truth is I'm hoping that we we through the the stuff that that you guys have been doing as you continue that, we get, uh, the best we can do on the spontaneous stuff uh, uh nearfield, and then um, we do a lot of the testing of the algorithms on the digits for the farfield, and at some point when we feel it's mature and we understand what's going on with it then we we have to move on to the spontaneous data with the farfield. So.", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "Great.", "speakerName": "Postdoc E" }, { "text": "The only thing that we don't have, I know this sounds weird, and maybe it's completely stupid, but we don't have any overlapping digits.", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "Yeah, we talked about that a couple times.", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "An - yea I know it's weird, but um.", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "Overlapping digits!", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "The the problem I see with trying to do overlapping digits is the cognitive load.", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "Alright everybody's laughing. OK.", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "Dueling digits.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "No it's it's not stupid, it's just I mean, try to do it.", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "I'm just talkin for the stuff that like Dan Ellis is gonna try,", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "I mean, here, let's try it.", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "you know, cross - talk cancellation.", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "You read the last line, I'll read the first line.", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "Let's try it.", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "OK.", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "Oh!", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "Wait oh it these are all the same forms.", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "Sixty - one.", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "OK So but.", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "So so you read the last line, I'll read the first line.", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "No, I'll p", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "So you plu you plug your ears.", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "Oh I guess if you plug you're ears you could do it, but then you don't get the the same effects.", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "Well, what I mean is actually no not the overlaps that are well - governed linguistically, but the actual fact that there is speech coming from two people", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "and the beam - forming stuf all the acoustic stuff that like Dan Ellis and and company want to do.", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "Oh I see.", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "Digits are nice and well behaved, I mean", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "I guess we could try.", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "Anyway, it's just a thought.", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "We could try doing some.", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "It it would go faster.", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "Parallel.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "It would take one around amount of ti", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "It's the P - make of digit reading.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Well Well OK. Well let's try it.", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "That's right. I I mea I'm I was sort of serious, but I really, I mean, I'm I don't feel strongly enough that it's a good idea,", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "See, y", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "You do the last line, I'll do the first line.", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "so.", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "OK.", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "O. That's not bad.", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "No, I can do it.", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "I couldn't understand a single thing you guys were saying.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "A and that prosody was great, by the way.", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "I think it was numbers, but I'm not sure.", "speakerName": "Postdoc E" }, { "text": "It it sort of sounded like a duet, or something.", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "Performance art.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Alright, let's try three at once you you pick one in the middle.", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "The Aurora theater.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "OK.", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "Go.", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "I'm sorry. I'm mean I think it's doable,", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "The poor transcribers", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "I'm just.", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "they're gonna hate us.", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "So, we we could have a round like where you do two at a time, and then the next person picks up when the first guy's done, or something.", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "So pairwise.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "Oh like a round, yeah, like in a a.", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "Like a,", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "Yeah, just pairwise,", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "what do you call it?", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "or yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "Round.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "A round.", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "Row, row, row your boat.", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "Li - a r like.", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "yeah, like that.", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "OK.", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "It's gonna require some coordination.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Then it would go like h twice as fast, or a third as fast.", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "You have to have a similar pace.", "speakerName": "Postdoc E" }, { "text": "Anyway, it's just a thought.", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "I'm actually sort of serious if it would help people do that kind o but the people who wanna work on it we should talk to them.", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "I don't think we're gonna collect vast amounts of data that way,", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "So.", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "Mmm.", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "but I think having a little bit might at least be fun for somebody like Dan to play around with,", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "OK.", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "I think maybe if we wanted to do that we would do it as a separate session,", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "something like that rather than doing it during a real meeting and you know, do two people at a time then three people at a time and things like that. So.", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "Can try it out.", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "See see what Dan thinks.", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "If we have nothing if we have no agenda we could do it some week.", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "Yeah, right.", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "Yeah, yeah. Spend the whole time reading digits with different qu quantities.", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "OK.", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "I thought this was gonna be fast.", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "c c Can I can I have an another another question w about this?", "speakerName": "Postdoc E" }, { "text": "Oh well.", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "So, um, there are these digits, which are detached digits, but there are other words that contain the same general phon phoneme sequences. Like \" wonderful \" has \" one \" in it and and Victor Borge had a had a piece on this where he inflated the digits. Well, I wonder if there's, um, an if there would be a value in having digits that are in essence embedded in real words to compare in terms of like the articulation of \" one \" in \" wonderful \" versus \" one \" as a digit being read.", "speakerName": "Postdoc E" }, { "text": "That's \" two \" bad. Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "I'm all \" four \" it.", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "There you go.", "speakerName": "Postdoc E" }, { "text": "Not after I \" eight \" though.", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "Uh, they don't all work as well, do they? Hmm. What does nine work in?", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "Nein!", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "Uh.", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "Uh,", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "You scream it.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "Nein! You have to be German,", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "Oh. In German,", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "That's German, yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "It's great for the Germans.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "yeah.", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "Oh, oh!", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "Nein.", "speakerName": "Postdoc E" }, { "text": "That's right!", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "Oh!", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "It only sounds w good when you scream it, though. So.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "I think everybody's a little punchy here today.", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "Well, I mean, I just wanted to offer that as a possible task", "speakerName": "Postdoc E" }, { "text": "Yes.", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "because, you know, if we were to each read his embedded numbers words in sent in sentences cuz it's like an entire sketch he does and I wouldn't take the inflated version. So he talks about the woman being \" two - derful \", and and a But, you know, if it were to be deflated, just the normal word, it would be like a little story that we could read.", "speakerName": "Postdoc E" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "I don't know if it would be useful for comparison, but it's embedded numbers.", "speakerName": "Postdoc E" }, { "text": "I think for something like that we'd be better off doing like uh TIMIT.", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "Well I don't know. Well I think the question is what the research is, so I mean, I presume that the reason that you wanted to have these digits this way is because you wanted to actually do some research looking at the prosodic form here.", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "Hmm.", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "Yeah OK.", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "Right, yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "So if somebody wanted to do that, if they wanted to look at the the the difference of the uh phones in the digits in the context of a word versus uh the digits a a non - digit word versus in digit word, uh that would be a good thing to do, but I think someone would have to express interest in that.", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "I see. OK.", "speakerName": "Postdoc E" }, { "text": "I think, to I mean if you were interested in it then we could do it, for instance.", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "OK, thank you.", "speakerName": "Postdoc E" }, { "text": "OK, are we done with digits?", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "Huh.", "speakerName": "Postdoc E" }, { "text": "Um, We have ASR results from Liz, transcript status from Jane, and disk space and storage formats from Don. Does do we have any prefer preference on which way we wanna we wanna go?", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "Well I was actually gonna skip the ASR results part, in favor of getting the transcription stuff talked about", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "since I think that's more important to moving forward, but I mean Morgan has this paper copy and if people have questions, um, it's pretty preliminary in terms of ASR results because we didn't do anything fancy, but I think e just having the results there, and pointing out some main conclusions like it's not the speaking style that differs, it's the fact that there's overlap that causes recognition errors. And then, the fact that it's almost all insertion errors, which you would expect but you might also think that in the overlapped regions you would get substitutions and so forth, um, leads us to believe that doing a better segmentation, like your channel - based segmentation, or some kind of uh, echo cancellation to get basically back down to the individual speaker utterances would be probably all that we would need to be able to do good recognition on the on the close - talking mikes.", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "So these.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "Um, why don't you, if you have a hard copy, why don't you email it to the list.", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "So, that's about the summary But this is Morgan has this paper.", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "Yeah, yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "Oh it's in the paper.", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "Yeah, so it's the same thing?", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "I mean he he.", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "It's the same thing I mailed to every everybody that w where it was,", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "it it's that paper.", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "OK.", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "Yeah, yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "OK then, it's already been mailed.", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "So, we basically, um, did a lot of work on that", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "and it's Let's see, th I guess the other neat thing is it shows for sure w that the lapel, you know within speaker is bad.", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "Horrible?", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "And it's bad because it picks up the overlapping speech.", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "So, your your ASR results were run on the channels synchronized,", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "Yes, cuz that's all that w had been transcribed at the time,", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "OK. OK. OK.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "um but as we I mean I wanted to here more about the transcription. If we can get the channel asynchronous or the.", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "the closer t that would be very interesting for us", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "So if.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "because we.", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "Yeah, that's that's why I only used the part from use", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "which we had uh about uh about the alt over all the channels", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "Right. That's.", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "Yeah sure. Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "or mixed channel", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "rather mixed signal.", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "So if there was a segment of speech this long", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "cuz.", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "and oh and someone said \" oh, \" the whole thing was passed to the recognizer?", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "And someone said \" oh \" in the front in the middle.", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "There were several speakers in it, yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "That's right. In fact I I pulled out a couple classic examples in case you wanna u use them in your talk of", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "That's why there's so many insertion errors?", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "Chuck on the lapel, so Chuck wore the lapel three out of four times.", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "Mmm.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "I noticed that Chuck was wearing the lapel a lot.", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "Early on, yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Um, yeah, and I wore the lapel once, and for me the lapel was OK. I mean I still and I don't know why. I'm But um,", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "Probably how you wear it wore it I would guess.", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "for you it was Or who was next to me or something like that.", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "Yeah, where you were sitting probably affected it.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "Right, but when Chuck wore the lapel and Morgan was talking there're a couple really long utterances where Chuck is saying a few things inside, and it's picking up all of Morgan's words pretty well and so the rec you know, there're error rates because of insertion Insertions aren't bounded, so with a one - word utterance and ten insertions you know you got huge error rate.", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "Uh - huh.", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "And that's that's where the problems come in. So I this is sort of what we expected, but it's nice to be able to to show it.", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "And also I just wanted to mention briefly that, um, uh Andreas and I called up Dan Ellis who's still stuck in Switzerland, and we were gonna ask him if if there're you know, what's out there in terms of echo cancellation and things like that. Not that we were gonna do it, but we wanted to know what would need to be done.", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "And he said, \" Lots lots lots lots. \"", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "And he We've given him the data we have so far, so these sychronous cases where there are overlap.", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "Yep.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "And he's gonna look into trying to run some things that are out there and see how well it can do", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "So.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "because right now we're not able to actually report on recognition in a real paper, like a Eurospeech paper, because it would look sort of premature.", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "So So the idea is that you would take this big hunk where somebody's only speaking a small amount in it, and then try to figure out where they're speaking based on the other peopl", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Right. Or who's At any point in time who's the foreground speaker, who's the background speaker.", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "So yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "I thought we were just gonna move the boundaries in.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Yeah, should it.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "So.", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "Well that's with the hand stuff.", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "So there's like.", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "But how would you do that automatically?", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "Well ther there's.", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "Uh, I've actually done some experiments with cross - correlation", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "and it seems to work pretty well to to get rid of those those overlaps,", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "I mean that that's the sort of thing that you would do.", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "So.", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "Yeah. Exactly, so it's it's a.", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "So why do you want to do echo cancellation?", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Um, it would be techniques used from adaptive adaptive echo cancellation which I don't know enough about to talk about.", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "Uh - huh.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "It just it just to r to remove cross - talk.", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "Um.", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "But, right, um, and that would be similar to what you're also trying to do, but using um, you know, more than energy.", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "I I don't know what exactly would go into it.", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "Yeah, sure.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "So it would be.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "So the idea is to basically run this on the whole meeting. and get the locations, which gives you also the time boundaries of the individual speak", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "OK. So do sort of what he's already what he's trying to do.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Right. Except that there are many techniques for the kinds of cues, um, that you can use to do that.", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "Yeah, in another way,", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "OK, I s I see.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "yeah. Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "Yeah. I see.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Yeah, Dave Dave uh is, um, also gonna be doin usin playing around with echo cancellation for the nearfield farfield stuff,", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "So.", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "so we'll be.", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "And I guess Espen? This is uh is he here too?", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "May also be working So it would just be ver that's really the next step because we can't do too much, you know, on term in terms of recognition results knowing that this is a big problem", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "um, until we can do that kind of processing. And so, once we have some some of yours,", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "OK. Yeah I'm working on it.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "and @ @ we'll move on.", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "I think this also ties into one of the things that Jane is gonna talk about too.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Um,", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "OK.", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "I also wanted to say I have done all this chopping up of digits,", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm. Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Postdoc E" }, { "text": "so I have some naming conventions that we should try to agree on. So let's do that off - line,", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "Oh right.", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "we don't need to do it during the meeting.", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "OK.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "Right. Definitely.", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "And and I have scripts that will extract it out from \" key \" files", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "Uh, and Don should.", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "and and do all the naming automatically,", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "OK.", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "Alright.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "so you don't have to do it by hand.", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "Great.", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "You've compiled the list of, uh, speaker names?", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "So that that's it for the.", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "Speakers and OK.", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "Not names, but I Ds.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "Yep. Yeah, names names in the names to I Ds,", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "OK.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "so you", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "Great.", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "and it does all sorts of matches because the way people filled out names is different on every single file so it does a very fuzzy sort of match.", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "Cool.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "So at this point we can sort of finalize the naming, and so forth,", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "Yep.", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "and we're gonna basically re rewrite out these waveforms that we did because as you notice in the paper your \" M O in one meeting and \" M O - two \" in another meeting and it's we just need to standardize the", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "Yeah. That was my fault.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "um, no it's it's.", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "No, I didn't notice that actually..", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "um, that's why those comments are s are in there.", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "Yeah. Then disregard it then.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "Yep. So th I now have a script that you can just say basically look up Morgan,", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "So.", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "Right. OK.", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "and it will give you his ID.", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "Great, great.", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "OK.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "So. Um,", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "Terrific.", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "alright. Do we Don, you had disk space and storage formats. Is that something we need to talk about at the meeting, or should you just talk with Chuck at some other time?", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "Um, I had some general questions just about the compression algorithms of shortening waveforms and I don't know exactly who to ask. I thought that maybe you would be the the person to talk to. So, is it a lossless compression when you compress,", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "so.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "Entropy coding.", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "It just uses entropy coding?", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "So.", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "OK. So, I mean, I guess my question would be is I just got this new eighteen gig drive installed. Um, yeah, which is.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "And I assume half of it is scratch and half of it is?", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "I'm not exactly sure how they partitioned it.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "Probably, yeah.", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "But um,", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "That's typical, huh.", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "yeah, I don't know what's typical here, but um, it's local though, so.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "That doesn't matter.", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "But.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "You can access it from anywhere in ICSI. N.", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "OK. Alright. How do you do that?", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "In fact, this is an eighteen gig drive, or is it a thirty six gig drive with eighteen.", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "N.", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "Eighteen.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "Eigh - eighteen. It was a spare that Dave had around.", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "Slash N slash machine name, slash X A in all likelihood.", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "Oh OK.", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "Oh I see. OK. Alright, I did know that.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "Um, so the the only question is how much of it The distinction between scratch and non - scratch is whether it's backed up or not.", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm. Right.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "So what you wanna do is use the scratch for stuff that you can regenerate.", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "OK.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "So, the stuff that isn't backed up is not a big deal because disks don't crash very frequently,", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "as long as you can regenerate it.", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "Right. I mean all of this stuff can be regenerated,", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "Yeah it's.", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "it's just a question.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "Then put it all on scratch", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "Well the.", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "because we're ICSI is is bottlenecked by backup.", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm, very good point.", "speakerName": "Postdoc E" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "OK.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "So we wanna put.", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "Well I'd leave all the All the transcript stuff shouldn't should be backed up,", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Postdoc E" }, { "text": "but all the waveform Sound files should not be backed up,", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "Yeah, I guess Right.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "the ones that you write out.", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "OK. So, I mean, I guess th the other question was then, should we shorten them, downsample them, or keep them in their original form? Um.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "It just depends on your tools. I mean, because it's not backed up and it's just on scratch, if your sc tools can't take shortened format, I would leave them expanded,", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "so you don't have to unshorten them every single time you wanna do anything.", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "OK.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "We can downsample them,", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "Do you think that'd be OK?", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "so.", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "To downsample them?", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "Yeah. Yeah, we get the same performance.", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "OK.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "I mean the r the front - end on the SRI recognizer just downsamples them on the fly,", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "Yeah, I guess the only argument against downsampling is to preserve just the original files in case we want to experiment with different filtering techniques.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "so So that's.", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "I I I'm sorry.", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "Yeah, if", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "Yeah, l I mean over all our data, we we want to not downsample.", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "fe You'd you wanna not. OK.", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "So we're what we're doing is we're writing out I mean, this is just a question. We're writing out these individual segments, that wherever there's a time boundary from Thilo, or or Jane's transcribers, you know, we we chop it there.", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "Yeah. Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "And the reason is so that we can feed it to the recognizer,", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "and throw out ones that we're not using and so forth.", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "And those are the ones that we're storing.", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "Yeah, as I said, since that's it's regeneratable, what I would do is take downsample it,", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "So Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "and compress it however you're e the SRI recognizer wants to take it in.", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "ye", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "So we can't shorten them,", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "but we can downsample them.", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "Yeah, I mean yeah, I'm sorry.", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "So.", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "As yeah, as long as there is a a form that we can come from again, that is not downsampled, then,", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "r Yeah.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "Oh yeah th", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "Yeah those are gonna be kept.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "Yeah. Yeah. That that's why we need more disk space", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "uuu", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "cuz we're basically duplicating the originals, um.", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "Then it's fine. But for for fu future research we'll be doing it with different microphone positions and so on", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "Oh yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "Yep.", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "No. We always have the original long ones.", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "we would like to.", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "So the SRI front - end won't take a uh an an a large audio file name and then a a list of segments to chop out from that large audio file?", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "They actually have to be chopped out already?", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Um, it's better if they're chopped out,", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "Uh - huh.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "and and it it will be yeah, y we could probably write something to do that, but it's actually convenient to have them chopped out cuz you can run them, you know, in different orders. You c you can actually move them around.", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "And that's the whole point about the naming conventions", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "Uh, you can get rid of", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "is that you could run all the English speaking,", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "Yeah, it it's a lot faster.", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "all the native speakers, and all the non - native speakers,", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "Right. You can grab everything with the word \" the \" in it,", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "and all the men, and all the women. Yeah.", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "and it's That's a lot quicker than actually trying to access the wavefile each time, find the time boundaries and So in principle, yeah, you could do that,", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "I don't I don't think that's really right.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "but it's but it's um.", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "\" That's just not right, man. \" The the point.", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "These are long These are long.", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "So so s For example, what if you wanted to run run all the native speakers.", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "You know. This is an hour of speech.", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "Right, so if if you did it that way you would have to generate a program that looks in the database somewhere, extracts out the language, finds the time - marks for that particular one, do it that way. The way they're doing it, you have that already extracted and it's embedded in the file name. And so, you know, you just say.", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "We - yeah that's so that's part of it", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "y so you just say you know \" asterisk E asterisk dot wave \", and you get what you want.", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "is Right. And the other part is just that once they're written out it it is a lot faster to to process them.", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "Rather than doing seeks through the file.", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "So. Otherwise, you're just accessing.", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "This is all just temporary access, so I don't I think it's all just It's fine. You know. Fine to do it however is convenient.", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "I mean it just depends how big the file is. If the file sits in memory you can do extremely fast seeks", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "Right. The other thing is that, believe it or not I mean, we have some.", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "but.", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "Yeah and they don't. Two gig?", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "So we're also looking at these in Waves like for the alignments and so forth. You can't load an hour of speech into X Waves.", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "You need to s have these small files, and in fact, even for the Transcriber program Um.", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "Yes you can.", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "Yeah, you you can give Waves a start and an end time. And middle.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Yeah, if you try to load s really long waveform into X Waves, you'll be waiting there for.", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "No, I I'm not suggesting you load a long wave file,", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Oh", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "I'm just saying you give it a start and an end time. And it'll just go and pull out that section.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "I th w The transcribers didn't have any problem with that did they Jane?", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "What's th u w in what respect?", "speakerName": "Postdoc E" }, { "text": "Loading the long.", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "No, with the Transcriber tool, it's no problem.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "They loaded they loaded the long long files into X Waves.", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "It takes a very long ti", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "Yeah just to load a transcription", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "In the in Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Postdoc E" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "takes a long time,", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "It takes a l very long time.", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "but not for the wavefile. The wavefile is there immediately.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm. Yeah.", "speakerName": "Postdoc E" }, { "text": "Are you talking about Transcriber or X Waves?", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "Huh.", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "Yeah. Oh, I'm tr talking about Transcriber.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "Actually, you're talking about Transcriber, right?", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "Because because i we used X Waves to do the digits.", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "It was also true of the digits task which was X Waves.", "speakerName": "Postdoc E" }, { "text": "And they were loading the full mixed files then,", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "Yeah. Very quickly.", "speakerName": "Postdoc E" }, { "text": "and it didn't seem to be any problem.", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "I agree.", "speakerName": "Postdoc E" }, { "text": "Huh. Well we we have a problem with that, you know, time - wise on a It - it's a lot slower to load in a long file,", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "Hmm. Seemed really fast.", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "and also to check the file, so if you have a transcript, um,", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "Well regardless, it's.", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "I mean it's I I think overall you could get everything to work by accessing the same waveform and trying to find two you know, the begin and end times. Um, but I think it's more efficient, if we have the storage space, to have the small ones.", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "and, it's no problem, right?", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "Yeah, it's.", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "Because it's not backed up.", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "So we just.", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "It's it's just.", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "If we don't have a spare disk sitting around we go out and we buy ourselves an eighty gigabyte drive and make it all scratch space. You know, it's not a big deal.", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "You're right about the backup being a bottleneck.", "speakerName": "Postdoc E" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "It's good to think towards scratch.", "speakerName": "Postdoc E" }, { "text": "Yeah, so these wouldn't be backed up, the.", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Postdoc E" }, { "text": "Yep.", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "So remind me afterward", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "And.", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "and I'll and we'll look at your disk and see where to put stuff.", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "OK. Alright. I mean, I could just u do a DU on it right? And just see which how much is on each So.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "Yep. Each partition. And you wanna use, either XA or scratch.", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "OK.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "Well X question mark, anything starting with X is scratch.", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "OK.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "With two two digits.", "speakerName": "Postdoc E" }, { "text": "Two digits, right, XA, XB, XC. OK?", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "So, @ @.", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "Jane?", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "OK. So I got a little print - out here. So three on this side, three on this side. And I stapled them. OK. Alright so, first of all, um, there was a an interest in the transcribe transcription, uh, checking procedures and and I can tell you first, uh, to go through the steps although you've probably seen them. Um, as you might imagine, when you're dealing with, um, r really c a fair number of words, and uh, @ @ natural speech which means s self - repairs and all these other factors, that there're lots of things to be, um, s standardized and streamlined and checked on. And, um, so, I did a bunch of checks, and the first thing I did was obviously a spell - check. And at that point I discovered certain things like, um, \" accommodate \" with one \" M \", that kind of thing. And then, in addition to that, I did an exhaustive listing of the forms in the data file, which included n detecting things like f faulty punctuation and things.", "speakerName": "Postdoc E" }, { "text": "I'm I'm sorry to interrupt", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Yeah?", "speakerName": "Postdoc E" }, { "text": "you could could I just back up a little bit", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Sure, please,", "speakerName": "Postdoc E" }, { "text": "and.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "yeah, please, please.", "speakerName": "Postdoc E" }, { "text": "So you're doing these So the whole process is that the transcribers get the conversation", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Yeah, yeah, yeah.", "speakerName": "Postdoc E" }, { "text": "and they do their pass over it.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Yes.", "speakerName": "Postdoc E" }, { "text": "And then when they're finished with it, it comes to you,", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "That's right.", "speakerName": "Postdoc E" }, { "text": "and you begin these sanit these quality checks.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Exactly. I do these checks.", "speakerName": "Postdoc E" }, { "text": "OK.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Uh - huh.", "speakerName": "Postdoc E" }, { "text": "OK.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Exactly. Yeah. Thank you. And so, uh, I do a an exhaustive listing of the forms Actually, I will go through this in in order, so if if we could maybe wait and stick keep that for a second cuz we're not ready for that.", "speakerName": "Postdoc E" }, { "text": "So on the fifth page, seven down.", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Exactly! Exactly! Alright so, a spelling check first then an exhaustive listing of the, uh all the forms in the data with the punctuation attached and at that point I pick up things like, oh, you know, word followed by two commas. And th and then another check involves, uh, being sure that every utterance has an identifiable speaker. And if not, then that gets checked. Then there's this issue of glossing s w so - called \" spoken - forms \". So there mo for the most part, we're keeping it standard wo word level transcription. But there's w And that that's done with the assumption that pronunciation variants can be handled. So for things like \" and \", the fact that someone doesn't say the \" D \", uh that's not important enough to capture in the transcription because a a good pronunciation, uh, you know, model would be able to handle that. However, things like \" cuz \" where you're lacking an entire very prominent first syllable, and furthermore, it's a form that's specific to spoken language, those are r reasons f for those reasons I I kept that separate, and used the convention of using \" CUZ \" for that form, however, glossing it so that it's possible with the script to plug in the full orthographic form for that one, and a couple of others, not many. So \" wanna \" is another one, \" going \" uh, \" gonna \" is another one, with just the assumption, again, that this th these are things which it's not really fair to a c consider expect that a pronunciation model, to handle. And Chuck, you in you indicated that \" cuz \" is is one of those that's handled in a different way also, didn't you? Did I.", "speakerName": "Postdoc E" }, { "text": "I don't remember.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "OK. So so it might not have been It might not have been you,", "speakerName": "Postdoc E" }, { "text": "Hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "but someone told me that in fact \" cuz \" is treated differently in, um, i u in this context because of that r reason that, um, it's a little bit farther than a pronunciation variant. OK, so after that, let's see,", "speakerName": "Postdoc E" }, { "text": "So that was part of the spell - check, or was that that was after the spell - check?", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "um. Well so when I get the exhau So the spell - check picks up those words because they're not in the dictionary.", "speakerName": "Postdoc E" }, { "text": "Uh - huh.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "So it gets \" cuz \" and \" wanna \" and that.", "speakerName": "Postdoc E" }, { "text": "And then you gloss them?", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "Yeah, mm - hmm. Run it through I have a sed You know, so I do sed script saying whenever you see \" gonna \" you know, \" convert it to gonna \", you know, \" gloss equals quote going - to quote \", you know. And with all these things being in curly brackets", "speakerName": "Postdoc E" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "so they're always distinctive. OK, I also wrote a script which will, um, retrieve anything in curly brackets, or anything which I've classified as an acronym, and a pronounced acronym. And the way I tag ac pronounced acronyms is that I have underscores between the components. So if it's \" ACL \" then it's \" A \" underscore \" C \" underscore \" L \".", "speakerName": "Postdoc E" }, { "text": "And so so your list here, are these ones that actually occurred in the meetings?", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "And the th Yes. Uh - huh, yeah.", "speakerName": "Postdoc E" }, { "text": "Whew!", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "OK, so now. Uh and a", "speakerName": "Postdoc E" }, { "text": "We are acronym - loaded.", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "Um, can I ask a question about the glossing, uh before we go on?", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Postdoc E" }, { "text": "So, for a word like \" because \" is it that it's always predictably \" because \"? I mean, is \" CUZ \" always meaning \" because \"?", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "Yes, but not the reverse. So sometimes people will say \" because \" in the meeting, and if if they actually said \" because \", then it's written as \" because \" with no w \" cuz \" doesn't even figure into the equation.", "speakerName": "Postdoc E" }, { "text": "But but in our meetings people don't say \" hey cuz how you doing? \"", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "Beca - because Right. Right.", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "Except right there.", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Postdoc E" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "Um, so, I guess So, from the point of view of.", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "That's a good point.", "speakerName": "Postdoc E" }, { "text": "The the only problem is that with for the recognition we we map it to \" because \",", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "Well,", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "and so if we know that \" CUZ \".", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "That's fine.", "speakerName": "Postdoc E" }, { "text": "but they have the gloss.", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "Well Don has a script.", "speakerName": "Postdoc E" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "but, we don't.", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "You have the gloss form so you always replace it.", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "Exactly.", "speakerName": "Postdoc E" }, { "text": "If that's how what you wanna do.", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "Uh - huh. And Don knows this,", "speakerName": "Postdoc E" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "and he's bee he has a glo he has a script that.", "speakerName": "Postdoc E" }, { "text": "I replace the \" cuz \" with \" because \" if it's glossed.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "S Right. But, if it's OK.", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "And.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "But then there are other glosses that we don't replace, right? Because.", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "Yes. And that's why there're different tags on the glosses,", "speakerName": "Postdoc E" }, { "text": "OK. So, then it's fine.", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "on the different on the different types of comments, which we'll which we'll see in just a second.", "speakerName": "Postdoc E" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "OK.", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "So the pronounceable acronyms get underscores, the things in curly brackets are viewed as comments. There're comments of four types. So this is a good time to introduce that. The four types. w And maybe we'll expand that", "speakerName": "Postdoc E" }, { "text": "Um.", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "but the but the comments are, um, of four types mainly right now. One of them is, um, the gloss type we just mentioned.", "speakerName": "Postdoc E" }, { "text": "Can ca", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "Another type is, um.", "speakerName": "Postdoc E" }, { "text": "So a are we done with acronyms? Cuz I had a question on what what this meant.", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "I'm still doing the overview. I haven't actually gotten here yet.", "speakerName": "Postdoc E" }, { "text": "Oh I'm sorry.", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "OK so, gloss is things like replacing the full form u with the, um, more abbreviated one to the left. Uh, then you have if it's uh, there're a couple different types of elements that can happen that aren't really properly words, and wo some of them are laughs and breathes, so we have uh that's prepended with a v a tag of \" VOC \".", "speakerName": "Postdoc E" }, { "text": "Whew!.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "And the non - vocal ones are like door - slams and tappings, and that's prepended with a no non - vocalization.", "speakerName": "Postdoc E" }, { "text": "So then it just an ending curly brace there, or is there something else in there.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Oh yeah, so i e this would.", "speakerName": "Postdoc E" }, { "text": "A comment, basically.", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "Let's just take one example.", "speakerName": "Postdoc E" }, { "text": "Oh, oh, oh.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "And then the no non - vocalization would be something like a door - slam. They always end. So it's like they're paired curly brackets. And then the third type right now, uh, is m things that fall in the category of comments about what's happening. So it could be something like, you know, \" referring to so - and - so \", \" talking about such - and - such \", uh, you know, \" looking at so - and - so \".", "speakerName": "Postdoc E" }, { "text": "So on the m", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Postdoc E" }, { "text": "on the middle t So, in the first case that gloss applies to the word to the left. But in the middle two Th - it's not applying to anything, right?", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Yeah, and this gets substituted here.", "speakerName": "Postdoc E" }, { "text": "They're impulsive.", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "OK.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Huh - uh. No, they're events.", "speakerName": "Postdoc E" }, { "text": "OK.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Well the \" QUAL \" can be The \" QUAL \" is applying to the left.", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "They're actually They have the status of events.", "speakerName": "Postdoc E" }, { "text": "Right, I just meant the middle two ones, yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Yep.", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "Well, and actually, um, it is true that, with respect to \" laugh \", there's another one which is \" while laughing \",", "speakerName": "Postdoc E" }, { "text": "\" While laughing \".", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "and that is, uh, i i An argument could be made for this tur turning that into a qualitative statement because it's talking about the thing that preceded it, but at present we haven't been, um, uh, coding the exact scope of laughing, you know, and so to have \" while laughing \", you know that it happened somewhere in there which could well mean that it occurred separately and following, or, you know, including some of the utterances to the left. Haven't been awfully precise about that, but I have here, now we're about to get to the to this now, I have frequencies. So you'll see how often these different things occur. But, um, uh, the very front page deals with this, uh, final c pa uh, uh, aspect of the standardization which has to do with the spoken forms like \" mm - hmm \" and \" mm - hmm \" and \" ha \" and \" uh - uh \" and all these different types. And, um, uh, someone pointed out to me, this might have been Chuck, about, um about how a recognizer, if it's looking for \" mm - hmmm \" with three M's, and it's transcribed with two M's, that it might uh, that it might increase the error rate which is which would really be a shame because um, I p I personally w would not be able to make a claim that those are dr dramatically different items. So, right now I've standardized across all the existing data with these spoken forms.", "speakerName": "Postdoc E" }, { "text": "Oh good.", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "I I should say", "speakerName": "Postdoc E" }, { "text": "So it's a small list.", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "all existing data except thirty minutes which got found today. So, I'm gonna I'm gonna I'm gonna check.", "speakerName": "Postdoc E" }, { "text": "That that's known as \" found data \".", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "Yeah, yeah. Acsu - actually yeah. I got It was stored in a place I didn't expect,", "speakerName": "Postdoc E" }, { "text": "It's like the z Zapruder Film.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "so and and um, w we, uh, sh yea reconstructed how that happened.", "speakerName": "Postdoc E" }, { "text": "I wanna work with lost data.", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "Yeah. It's much easier.", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "And this is this'll be great. So I'll I'll be able to get through that tonight, and then everyth i well, actually later today probably.", "speakerName": "Postdoc E" }, { "text": "Hmm.", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "And so then we'll have everything following these conventions. But you notice it's really rather a small set of these kinds of things.", "speakerName": "Postdoc E" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "And I made it so that these are, um, with a couple exceptions but, things that you wouldn't find in the spell - checker so that they'll show up really easily. And, um.", "speakerName": "Postdoc E" }, { "text": "Jane, can I ask you a question? What's that very last one correspond to?", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "Sure.", "speakerName": "Postdoc E" }, { "text": "I don't even know how to pronounce that.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "Well, yeah. Now that that s only occurs once,", "speakerName": "Postdoc E" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "and I'm thinking of changing that.", "speakerName": "Postdoc E" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "Uh, is that like someone's like burning or some such thing?", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "So - c I haven't listened to it so I don't know.", "speakerName": "Postdoc E" }, { "text": "Like their hair's on fire?", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "I haven't heard it actually. I n I need to listen to that one.", "speakerName": "Postdoc E" }, { "text": "Ah!", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "It's the Castle of Ah!", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "Actually we we gave this to our pronunciation person,", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "Uh, it looks like that.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "she's like, \" I don't know what that is either \". So.", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "Did she hear the th did she actually hear it? Cuz I haven't heard it.", "speakerName": "Postdoc E" }, { "text": "No, we just gave her a list of words that, you know, weren't in our dictionary and so of course it picked up stuff like this, and she just didn't listen so she didn't know. We just we're waiting on that just to do the alignments.", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "Yeah. Yeah I'm curious to se hear what it is, but I didn't know wanna change it to something else until I knew.", "speakerName": "Postdoc E" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "Maybe it's \" argh \"?", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "Well, sss, you know.", "speakerName": "Postdoc E" }, { "text": "But that's not really like.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "Hhh.", "speakerName": "Postdoc E" }, { "text": "No one really says \" argh, \" you know,", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "Yeah. Right, no one say", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "it's not.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "Well, you just did.", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "Except for now!", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Well, there's another there's another word error.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "Yeah. That's right.", "speakerName": "Postdoc E" }, { "text": "Yes, that's right. We're gonna have a big problem when we talk about that.", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "Cha - ching.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "Ah.", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "We're gonna never recognize this meeting.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "In Monty Python you say \" argh \" a lot.", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "OK.", "speakerName": "Postdoc E" }, { "text": "Oh yeah?", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "So. Well, or if you're a C programmer.", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "Mmm.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "You say arg - C and arg - V all the time.", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "Yeah, that's right.", "speakerName": "Postdoc E" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "That's right.", "speakerName": "Postdoc E" }, { "text": "That's true.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Postdoc E" }, { "text": "Yeah", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "But it has a different prosody.", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "Arg.", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "It does.", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "Arg arg - max, arg - min, yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "Ah!", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "Uh,", "speakerName": "Postdoc E" }, { "text": "So, Jane, what's the d", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "Maybe he died while dictating.", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "so.", "speakerName": "Postdoc E" }, { "text": "I have one question about the the \" EH \" versus like the \" AH \" and the \" UH \".", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "That's partly a nonnative - native thing,", "speakerName": "Postdoc E" }, { "text": "OK.", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "but I have found \" EH \" in native speakers too.", "speakerName": "Postdoc E" }, { "text": "But it's mostly non - native.", "speakerName": "Postdoc E" }, { "text": "H", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "That's \" eh \" versus \" ah \"?", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "S OK.", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "Eh.", "speakerName": "Postdoc E" }, { "text": "Eh?", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "\" Eh, \" yeah right, cuz there were were some speakers that did definite \" eh's \"", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Postdoc E" }, { "text": "but right now we.", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "They were the Canadians, right?", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Canadians, yeah, yeah, yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "That's right.", "speakerName": "Postdoc E" }, { "text": "So, it it's actually probably good for us to know the difference between the real \" eh \" and the one that's just like \" uh \" or transcribed \" aaa \"", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "Exactly.", "speakerName": "Postdoc E" }, { "text": "cuz in like in Switchboard, you would see e all of these forms, but they all were like \" uh \".", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "You mean just the single letter \" a \" as in the particle?", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "The transcription or.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "Article.", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "No, no, I mean like the the \" UH \",", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "\" UH \".", "speakerName": "Postdoc E" }, { "text": "Oh.", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "or the \" UH \", \" EH \", \" AH \" were all the same. And then, we have this additional non - native version of uh, like \" eeh \".", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "All the \" EH \"'s I've seen have been like that. They've been like \" eh \" like that have bee has been transcribed to \" EH \". And sometimes it's stronger,", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm, that's right.", "speakerName": "Postdoc E" }, { "text": "like \" eeh \" which is like closer to \" EH \".", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "Mmm.", "speakerName": "Postdoc E" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "But.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "I'm just these poor transcribers, they're gonna hate this meeting.", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Postdoc E" }, { "text": "I know. We should go off - line.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "Well, we're not doing We're not doing length.", "speakerName": "Postdoc E" }, { "text": "Quick Thilo, do a do a filled pause for us.", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "Yeah, that's right.", "speakerName": "Postdoc E" }, { "text": "Ooo no.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "But you're a native German speaker so it's not a not a issue for.", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "It's only.", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "Them Canadians.", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "Onl yeah. No, only if you don't have lax vowels, I guess.", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "Oh.", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "This makes sense.", "speakerName": "Postdoc E" }, { "text": "So it's like Japanese and Spanish", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "Yeah I I think you've uh - huh, yeah.", "speakerName": "Postdoc E" }, { "text": "Oh I see.", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "Uh - huh.", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "and.", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "I didn't get that,", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "That makes sense.", "speakerName": "Postdoc E" }, { "text": "OK.", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "Yeah, and so, you know, I mean, th th I have there are some, um, Americans who who are using this \" eh \" too, and I haven't listened to it systematically, maybe with some of them, uh, they'd end up being \" uh's \" but, uh, I my spot - checking has made me think that we do have \" eh \" in also, um, American e e data represented here. But any case, that's the this is reduced down from really quite a long a much longer list,", "speakerName": "Postdoc E" }, { "text": "Yeah this is great.", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "Yeah, it's good,", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "and this is", "speakerName": "Postdoc E" }, { "text": "yeah.", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "This is really really helpful.", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "functionally pretty, you know, also It was fascinating, I was listening to some of these, uh, I guess two nights ago, and it's just hilarious to liste to to do a search for the \" mm - hmm's \". And you get \" mm - hmm \" and diff everybody's doing it.", "speakerName": "Postdoc E" }, { "text": "And just listen to them? Yeah.", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "Just I wanted to say I w think it would be fun to make a montage of it because there's a \" Mm - hmm. Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Postdoc E" }, { "text": "Performance art,", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm. \"", "speakerName": "Postdoc E" }, { "text": "just extract them all.", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "It's really it's really fun to listen to.", "speakerName": "Postdoc E" }, { "text": "Morgan can make a song out of it.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "All these different vocal tracts, you know, but it's it's the same item. It's very interesting. OK. Uh, then the acronyms y and the ones in parentheses are ones which the transcriber wasn't sure of,", "speakerName": "Postdoc E" }, { "text": "Oh I see.", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "and I haven't been able to listen to to to clarify, but you can see that the parenthesis convention makes it very easy to find them", "speakerName": "Postdoc E" }, { "text": "o How about question mark?", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "cuz it's the only place where where they're used.", "speakerName": "Postdoc E" }, { "text": "The question marks, yeah. What are those?", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "Question mark is punctuation. So it they said that @ @.", "speakerName": "Postdoc E" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "Oh.", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "um, \" DC? \"", "speakerName": "Postdoc E" }, { "text": "Ah.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "So they so it's \" PLP? \"", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "Exactly. Exactly. Yeah, so the only Well, and I do have a stress marker here. Sometimes the contrastive stress is showing up, and, um.", "speakerName": "Postdoc E" }, { "text": "I'm sorry, I I got lost here. What - w what's the difference between the parenthesized acronym and the non - parenthesized?", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "The parenthesized is something that the transcriber thought was ANN, but wasn't entirely sure. So I'd need to go back or someone needs to go back, and say, you know, yes or no,", "speakerName": "Postdoc E" }, { "text": "Ah.", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "and then get rid of the parentheses.", "speakerName": "Postdoc E" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "But the parentheses are used only in that context in the transcripts, of of noti noticing that there's something uncertain.", "speakerName": "Postdoc E" }, { "text": "Yeah, P - make is.", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "Yeah I mean cuz they they have no idea,", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "That's a good one. That's correct.", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "right. If you hear CTPD, I mean, they do pretty well", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "but it's.", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "I I don't recognize a lot of these.", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "you know how are how are they gonna know?", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "I know! I I was saying that I think a lot of them are the Networks meeting.", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "I.", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "I think that's true.", "speakerName": "Postdoc E" }, { "text": "Maybe.", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "Yeah, absolutely.", "speakerName": "Postdoc E" }, { "text": "I see a few.", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "NSA,", "speakerName": "Postdoc E" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "a lot of these are are coming from them. I listened to some of that.", "speakerName": "Postdoc E" }, { "text": "Yeah, we don't have that many acronyms comparatively in this meeting.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "Although I see I see plenty of uh", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "Yeah. Yeah. I agree.", "speakerName": "Postdoc E" }, { "text": "It's not so bad.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "And Robustness has a fair amount,", "speakerName": "Postdoc E" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "Mmm.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "but the NSA group is just very very many.", "speakerName": "Postdoc E" }, { "text": "The recognizer, it is funny. Kept getting PTA for PDA.", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "Yeah, that's pretty close.", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "This is close, right,", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "That's not bad.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "and the PTA was in these, uh, topics about children,", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Postdoc E" }, { "text": "so, anyway.", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "That's interesting.", "speakerName": "Postdoc E" }, { "text": "Is the P - PTA working?", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "Right and sometimes, I mean, you see a couple of these that are actually \" OK's \" so it's it's may be that they got to the point where I mean it was low enough understandable understandability that they weren't entirely sure the person said \" OK. \" You know, so it isn't really necessarily a an undecipherable acronym,", "speakerName": "Postdoc E" }, { "text": "There's a lot of \" OK's \".", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "but just n needs to be double checked. Now we get to the comments. This.", "speakerName": "Postdoc E" }, { "text": "The number to the left is the number of incidences?", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "Count. Yep.", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "Number of times out of the entire database,", "speakerName": "Postdoc E" }, { "text": "Uh - huh.", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "w except for that last thirty minutes I haven't checked yet.", "speakerName": "Postdoc E" }, { "text": "So CTS is really big here,", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "Yeah, I wonder what it is.", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "yeah. Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "So what is the difference between \" papers rustling \" and \" rustling papers \"?", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "IP, I know what IP is.", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "I'd have to listen. I I I agree. I w I'd like to standardize these down farther but, um, uh, uh, to me that sounds equivalent.", "speakerName": "Postdoc E" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "But, I I'm a little hesitant to to collapse across categories unless I actually listen to them.", "speakerName": "Postdoc E" }, { "text": "Seems so.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "OK.", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "Oh I'm sure we've said XML more than five times.", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "Well, then, at least now.", "speakerName": "Postdoc E" }, { "text": "Now it's at least six times, yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "S s six now, yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "Yeah. Six. OK well.", "speakerName": "Postdoc E" }, { "text": "Wh - the self - referential aspect of these these p", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "I'm wai", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "Yes, it's very bad.", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "Well this is exactly how people will prove that these meetings do differ because we're recording, right?", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "Yes.", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "Y no normally you don't go around saying, \" Now you've said it six times.", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "Yeah that's right.", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "Now you've said \"", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "But did you notice that there were seven hundred and eighty five instances of \" OK \"?", "speakerName": "Postdoc E" }, { "text": "Seven hundred eighty - five instances.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "And that's just without the without punc punctuation.", "speakerName": "Postdoc E" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "Yep.", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "No, I didn't. Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "And that's an underestimate", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "Extra forty one if it's questioned.", "speakerName": "Postdoc E" }, { "text": "Where's that?", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "cuz they're Yep.", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "So th", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "On the page two of acronyms.", "speakerName": "Postdoc E" }, { "text": "Is this after like did you do some uh replacements for all the different form of \" OK \" to this?", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "Yeah. Seven hundred eighty.", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "Yeah. Of \" OK \", yes.", "speakerName": "Postdoc E" }, { "text": "OK.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm. So that's the single existing convention for \" OK \".", "speakerName": "Postdoc E" }, { "text": "Wait a minute, w s", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "So now we're up to seven hundred and eighty eight.", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "Yeah that's.", "speakerName": "Postdoc E" }, { "text": "Although, what's there's one with a slash after it. That's kind of disturbing.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Postdoc E" }, { "text": "Yeah, we'll have to look at it you know.", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "That's that's I looked for that one.", "speakerName": "Postdoc E" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "Anyway.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "I actually explicitly looked for that one,", "speakerName": "Postdoc E" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "and I think that, um, I I'm not exactly sure about that.", "speakerName": "Postdoc E" }, { "text": "Was that somewhere where they were gonna say \" new speaker \" or something?", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "No, I looked for that, but that doesn't actually exist. And it may be, I don't I can't explain that.", "speakerName": "Postdoc E" }, { "text": "That's alright. I'm just pointing that out.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "I i it's the only.", "speakerName": "Postdoc E" }, { "text": "There's.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "it's the only pattern that has a slash after it, and I think it's it's an epiphenomenon.", "speakerName": "Postdoc E" }, { "text": "Well there's not @ @.", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "So I'll just I was just looking at the bottom of page three there, is that \" to be \" or \" not to be \".", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Postdoc E" }, { "text": "There's no tilde in front of it,", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Oh that's cute.", "speakerName": "Postdoc E" }, { "text": "so.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "That's funny. Yeah.", "speakerName": "Postdoc E" }, { "text": "OK anyways, sorry.", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "OK.", "speakerName": "Postdoc E" }, { "text": "\" Try to stay on topic, Adam. \"", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "There is th one Y well, no, that's r that's legitimate. So now, uh, comments, you can see they're listed again, same deal, with exhaustive listing of everything found in everything except for these final th thirty minutes.", "speakerName": "Postdoc E" }, { "text": "OK so, um, on some of these QUALs,", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Postdoc E" }, { "text": "are they really QUALs, or are they glosses? So like there's a \" QUAL TCL \".", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "\" TCL \". Where do you see that?", "speakerName": "Postdoc E" }, { "text": "Uh", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "Oh, oh. The reason is because w it was said \" tickle \".", "speakerName": "Postdoc E" }, { "text": "What's a QUAL?", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "Oh I see, I see.", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "Hmm.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "So it's not gloss. OK, I see.", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "Yep.", "speakerName": "Postdoc E" }, { "text": "Sh - shouldn't it be \" QUAL TICKLE \" or something?", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "It wasn't said \" TCL \". Of course.", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "Like it's not.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "On the in the actual script in the actual transcript, I s I So this this happens in the very first one.", "speakerName": "Postdoc E" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "I actually wrote it as \" tickle \".", "speakerName": "Postdoc E" }, { "text": "OK.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "Because we they didn't say \" TCL \", they said \" tickle \".", "speakerName": "Postdoc E" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "And then, following that is \" QUAL TCL \".", "speakerName": "Postdoc E" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "Oh I see. OK.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "I f I forget, what's QUAL?", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "Qual - qualifier.", "speakerName": "Postdoc E" }, { "text": "It's just comment about what they said.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "Comment.", "speakerName": "Postdoc E" }, { "text": "It's not something you wanna replace with", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "Comment or contextual comment.", "speakerName": "Postdoc E" }, { "text": "So they didn't mean \" tickle \" as in Elmo,", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "but.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "Tickle?", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "they meant \" tickle \" as in.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "Huh.", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "But at some point I mean, we probably shoul", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "We'll probably add it to the language model.", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "But we should add it to the dictionar", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "No, to the pronunciation model.", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "What did I say?", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "To the language model model.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "Language, uh.", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "Well both.", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "Add what, Liz?", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "We can go on lan lan add it to both dictionary and language model.", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "Oh lan Oh OK - we OK", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "it's in the language model, w yeah, but it so it's the pronunciation model that has to have a pronunciation of \" tickle \".", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "Well \" tickle \" was pronounced \" tickle \". Right?", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "\" tickle \" is pronounced \" tickle \"?", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "What are you saying?", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "It's pronounced the same it's pronounced the same as the verb.", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "I'm sorry!", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "So I think it's the language model that makes it different.", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "Oh, sorry. What I meant is that there should be a pronunciation \" tickle \" for TCL as a word.", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "Oh I see.", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "And that word in the in, you know, it stays in the language model wherever it was.", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "Right. Right.", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "Yeah you never would put \" tickle \" in the language model in that form,", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "yeah. Right. There's actually a bunch of cases like this with people's names and.", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "So how w there'd be a problem for doing the language modeling then with our transcripts the way they are.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Yes. Yeah. Yeah so th th there there's a few cases like that where the um, the word needs to be spelled out in in a consistent way as it would appear in the language, but there's not very many of these. Tcl's one of them.", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "And and you'll ha you'll have to do it sychronously.", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "Um, y yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "Right, so y so, whoever's creating the new models, will have to also go through the transcripts and change them synchronously.", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "It's just disturbing.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "Hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Right. We have this there is this thing I was gonna talk to you about at some point about, you know, what do we do with the dictionary as we're up updating the dictionary, these changes have to be consistent with what's in the Like spelling people's names and so forth. If we make a spelling correction to their name, like someone had Deborah Tannen's name mispelled, and since we know who that is, you know, we could correct it,", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "You can correct it. Yeah.", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "but but we need to make sure we have the mispel If it doesn't get corrected we have to have a pronunciation as a mispelled word in the dictionary.", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Postdoc E" }, { "text": "Things like that.", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "These are so funny to read.", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "Well, of course now the the Tannen corre the spelling c change.", "speakerName": "Postdoc E" }, { "text": "So.", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "Uh, that's what gets I I picked those up in the frequency check.", "speakerName": "Postdoc E" }, { "text": "Right. Right. So if there's things that get corrected before we get them, it's it's not an issue,", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Postdoc E" }, { "text": "but if there's things that um, we change later, then we always have to keep our the dictionary up to date. And then, yeah, in the case of \" tickle \" I guess we would just have a, you know, word \" TCL \" which.", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "You add it to the dictionary.", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "which normally would be an acronym, you know, \" TCL \"", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "but just has another pronunciation.", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "Yep.", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "\" ICSI \" is is one of those that sometimes people pronounce and sometimes they say \" ICSI. \"", "speakerName": "Postdoc E" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "So, those that are l are listed in the acronyms, I actually know", "speakerName": "Postdoc E" }, { "text": "Oh yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "they were said as letters. The others, um, e those really do need to be listened to cuz I haven't been able to go to all the IC ICSI things,", "speakerName": "Postdoc E" }, { "text": "Right, exactly.", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "and and until they've been listened to they stay as \" ICSI \".", "speakerName": "Postdoc E" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "Don and I were just noticing, love this one over on page three, \" vocal vocal gesture mimicking sound of screwing something into head to hold mike in place. \"", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "That's great.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "It's this, \" rrre - rrre - rrre \". It was me.", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "It was! In fact, it was! Yeah!", "speakerName": "Postdoc E" }, { "text": "A lot of these are me the the \" beep is said with a high pit high pitch and lengthening. \"", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "He he s he said he said get.", "speakerName": "Postdoc E" }, { "text": "To head.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "That was the I was imitating uh, beeping out.", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "Yeah, that's it.", "speakerName": "Postdoc E" }, { "text": "Beep.", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "Perfect. Yeah that's it.", "speakerName": "Postdoc E" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "Oh there is something spelled out \" BEEEEEEP \"", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "Um.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "That's it.", "speakerName": "Postdoc E" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "Yeah, that's that's been changed.", "speakerName": "Postdoc E" }, { "text": "in the old Thank you. Because he was saying, \" How many E's do I have to allow for? \"", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "You need a lot of.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "What I meant was \" beep \".", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "You need a lot of qualification Adam.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "I guess so.", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "That's been changed. So, exactly, that's where the lengthening comment c came in.", "speakerName": "Postdoc E" }, { "text": "Subtext.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "Anyway.", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "s chan brought it down.", "speakerName": "Postdoc E" }, { "text": "Right, thanks, yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "So they're vocalization,", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "And those of course get get picked up in the frequency check", "speakerName": "Postdoc E" }, { "text": "glosses.", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "because you see \" beep \"", "speakerName": "Postdoc E" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "and you know I mean it gets kicked out in the spelling, and it also gets kicked out in the, uh, freq frequency listing.", "speakerName": "Postdoc E" }, { "text": "Right. Right.", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "I have the there're various things like \" breathe \" versus \" breath \" versus \" inhale \" and, hhh, you know, I don't know. I I think they don't have any implications for anything else so it's like I'm tempted to leave them for now an and It's easy enough to find them when they're in curly brackets. We can always get an exhaustive listing of these things and find them and change them.", "speakerName": "Postdoc E" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "\" Sings finale - type song \"", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "Yeah, that was in the first meeting.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "that's that's good.", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "Um,", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "Yeah, but I don't actually remember what it was. But that was Eric did that.", "speakerName": "Postdoc E" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "So on.", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Postdoc E" }, { "text": "Tah - dah! I don't know.", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "I think maybe something like that.", "speakerName": "Postdoc E" }, { "text": "Something like that maybe, yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "Well, that'd qualify.", "speakerName": "Postdoc E" }, { "text": "On the glosses for numbers,", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Postdoc E" }, { "text": "it seems like there are lots of different ways it's being done.", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "OK. Interesting question.", "speakerName": "Postdoc E" }, { "text": "There's a.", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "Yes. OK, now first of all Ooo - ooo! Very important.", "speakerName": "Postdoc E" }, { "text": "\" Ooo - ooo. \"", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "Uh Chuck Chuck led to a refinement here which is to add \" NUMS \" if these are parts of the read numbers. Now you already know i that I had, uh, in places where they hadn't transcribed numbers, I put \" numbers \" in place of any kind of numbers, but there are places where they, um, it th this convention came later an and at the very first digits task in some transcripts they actually transcribed numbers. And, um, d Chuck pointed out that this is read speech, and it's nice to have the option of ignoring it for certain other prob uh p uh, things. And that's why there's this other tag here which occurs a hundred and five or three hundred and five times right now which is just well n n \" NUMS \" by itself", "speakerName": "Postdoc E" }, { "text": "\" NUMS \", yeah.", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "which means this is part of the numbers task. I may change it to \" digits \". I mean, i with the sed command you can really just change it however you want because it's systematically encoded, you know?", "speakerName": "Postdoc E" }, { "text": "Yep.", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "Have to think about what's the best for for the overall purposes, but in any case, um, \" numbers \" and \" NUMS \" are a part of this digits task thing. Um, now th Then I have these numbers that have quotation marks around them. Um, I didn't want to put them in as gloss comments because then you get the substitution. And actually, th um, the reason I b did it this way was because I initially started out with the other version, you have the numbers and you have the full form and the parentheses, however sometimes people stumble over these numbers they're saying. So you say, \" Seve - seventy eight point two \", or whatever. And there's no way of capturing that if you're putting the numbers off to the side. You can't have the seven and.", "speakerName": "Postdoc E" }, { "text": "So what's to the left of these?", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "The left is i so example the very first one,", "speakerName": "Postdoc E" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "it would be, spelled out in words, \" point five \".", "speakerName": "Postdoc E" }, { "text": "OK, that's what I was asking. Right.", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "Only it's spelled out in words.", "speakerName": "Postdoc E" }, { "text": "Point FIVE, yeah.", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "So i this is also spelled out in in words. \" Point five. \"", "speakerName": "Postdoc E" }, { "text": "Good.", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "And then, in here, \" NUMS \", so it's not going to be mistaken as a gloss. It comes out as \" NUMS quote dot five \".", "speakerName": "Postdoc E" }, { "text": "OK now, the other example is, in the glosses right there,", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "Thank you.", "speakerName": "Postdoc E" }, { "text": "\" gloss one one one dash one three zero \".", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "What what's to the left of that?", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "Well now In that case it's people saying things like \" one one one dash so - and - so \" or they're saying uh \" two I mean zero \" whatever.", "speakerName": "Postdoc E" }, { "text": "OK.", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "And in that case, it's part of the numbers task, and it's not gonna be included in the read digits anyway,", "speakerName": "Postdoc E" }, { "text": "So there will be a \" NUMS \" tag on those lines?", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "so I m in the uh There is.", "speakerName": "Postdoc E" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Yeah. I've added that all now too.", "speakerName": "Postdoc E" }, { "text": "There's a \" numbers \" tag.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "Good.", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "I'm sorry I'm I didn't follow that last thing.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "Wait.", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "So, so gloss in the same line that would have \" gloss quote one one one dash one thirty \", you'd have a gloss at the end of the line saying, uh, \" curly bracket NUMS curly bracket \".", "speakerName": "Postdoc E" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "So if you if you did a, uh, a \" grep minus V nums \"", "speakerName": "Postdoc E" }, { "text": "Oh, so you could do \" grep minus V nums \".", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "and you get rid of anything that was read.", "speakerName": "Postdoc E" }, { "text": "So that's the yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "OK.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "So there wouldn't be something like i if somebody said something like, \" Boy, I'm really tired, OK. \" and then started reading that would be on a separate line?", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "Yes.", "speakerName": "Postdoc E" }, { "text": "OK great. Cuz I was doing the \" grep minus V \" quick and dirty and looked like that was working OK,", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm. Good.", "speakerName": "Postdoc E" }, { "text": "but.", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "Yep.", "speakerName": "Postdoc E" }, { "text": "Great. Now why do we what's the reason for having like the point five have the \" NUMS \" on it? Is that just like when they're talking about their data or something?", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "This is more because.", "speakerName": "Postdoc E" }, { "text": "Or.", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "Yeah. Oh these are all these, the \" NUMS point \", this all where they're saying \" point \" something or other.", "speakerName": "Postdoc E" }, { "text": "These are all like inside the spontaneous.", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "And the other thing too is for readability of the transcript. I mean if you're trying to follow this while you're reading it it's really hard to read, you know eh, \" so in the data column five has \", you know, \" one point five compared to seventy nine point six \", it's like when you see the words it's really hard to follow the argument. And this is just really a a way of someone who would handle th the data in a more discourse - y way to be able to follow what's being said.", "speakerName": "Postdoc E" }, { "text": "Label it.", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "Oh OK.", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "So this is where Chuck's, um, overall h architecture comes in,", "speakerName": "Postdoc E" }, { "text": "I see.", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "where we're gonna have a master file of the channelized data. Um, there will be scripts that are written to convert it into these t these main two uses and th some scripts will take it down th e into a f a for ta take it to a format that's usable for the recognizer an uh, other scripts will take it to a form that's usable for the for linguistics an and discourse analysis. And, um, the implication that that I have is that th the master copy will stay unchanged. These will just be things that are generated,", "speakerName": "Postdoc E" }, { "text": "Right", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "and e by using scripts.", "speakerName": "Postdoc E" }, { "text": "OK.", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "Master copies of superset.", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "When things change then the the script will cham change but the but there won't be stored copies of in different versions of things.", "speakerName": "Postdoc E" }, { "text": "Good.", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "So, I guess I'd have one request here which is just, um, maybe to make it more robust, th that the tag, whatever you would choose for this type of \" NUMS \" where it's inside the spontaneous speech, is different than the tag that you use for the read speech.", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "Right. Right. That would argue for changing the other ones to be \" digits \" or something.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Um, that way w if we make a mistake parsing, or something, we don't see the \" point five \", or or it's not there, then we", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "a Just an And actually for things like \" seven eighths \", or people do fractions too I guess, you maybe you want one overall tag for sort of that would be similar to that,", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "Except.", "speakerName": "Postdoc E" }, { "text": "or As long as they're sep as they're different strings that we that'll make our p sort of processing more robust.", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "Well.", "speakerName": "Postdoc E" }, { "text": "Cuz we really will get rid of everything that has the \" NUMS \" string in it.", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "I suppose what you could do is just make sure that you get rid of everything that has \" curly brace NUMS curly brace \".", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Well Ex - exactly.", "speakerName": "Postdoc E" }, { "text": "I mean that would be the.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Exactly. That was that was my motivation. And i these can be changed, like I said.", "speakerName": "Postdoc E" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "You know, I mean, as I said I was considering changing it to \" digits \". And, it just i you know, it's just a matter of deciding on whatever it is, and being sure the scripts know.", "speakerName": "Postdoc E" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "It would probably be safer, if you're willing, to have a separate tag just because um, then we know for sure. And we can also do counts on them without having to do the processing. But you're right, we could do it this way, it it should work. Um,", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "Yeah, and it makes it I guess the thing about.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "but it it's probably not hard for a person to tell the difference", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "because one's in the context of a you know, a transcribed word string,", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "The other thing is you can get really so minute with these things", "speakerName": "Postdoc E" }, { "text": "and So.", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "and increase the size of the files and the re and decrease the readability to such an extent by simply something like \" percent \". Now I I could have adopted a similar convention for \" percent \", but somehow percent is not so hard, you know?", "speakerName": "Postdoc E" }, { "text": "Hmm.", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "i It's just when you have these points and you're trying to figure out where the decimal places are And we could always add it later. Percent's easy to detect. Point however is is uh a word that has a couple different meanings. And you'll find both of those in one of these meetings, where he's saying \" well the first point I wanna make is so - and - so \" and he goes through four points, and also has all these decimals.", "speakerName": "Postdoc E" }, { "text": "So Liz, what does the recognizer do,", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "So.", "speakerName": "Postdoc E" }, { "text": "uh,", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Hmm.", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "what does the SRI recognizer output for things like that? \" seven point five \". Does it output the word.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "\" Seven point five \".", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "Right, the word \" seven \"?", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Well, the numbers?", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "The number \" seven \"?", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "The word.", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "The word \" seven \", OK.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "So I'd so \" I'd like I'd like to talk about point five \".", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "And and actually, you know the language.", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "it's the same point, actually, the the p you know, the word \" to \" and the word y th \" going to \" and \" to go to \" those are two different \" to's \" and so there's no distinction there.", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "It's just just the word \" point \" has Yeah, every word has only one, yeah e one version even if even if it's A actually even like the word \" read \" and \" read \" Those are two different words. They're spelled the same way, right?", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "And they're still gonna be transcribed as READ.", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "So, yeah, I I like the idea of having this in there, I just I was a little bit worried that, um, the tag for removing the read speech because i What if we have like \" read letters \" or, I don't know,", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "We might wanna just a separate tag that says it's read.", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "like \" read something \" like \" read \"", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "yeah, basically. But other than that I it sounds great.", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "Yeah. OK? Are we done?", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "Well I wanted to say also regarding the channelized data,", "speakerName": "Postdoc E" }, { "text": "Oh, I guess we're not done.", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "that, um, Thilo requested, um, that we ge get some segments done by hand to e e s reduce the size of the time bins wh like was Chuc - Chuck was mentioning earlier that, um, that, um, if you if you said, \" Oh \" and it was in part of a really long, s complex, overlapping segment, that the same start and end times would be held for that one", "speakerName": "Postdoc E" }, { "text": "Well.", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "as for the longer utterances,", "speakerName": "Postdoc E" }, { "text": "We did that for one meeting, right,", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "and.", "speakerName": "Postdoc E" }, { "text": "so you have that data don't you?", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "Yeah, that's the training data.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "And he requested that there be, uh, similar, uh, samples done for five minute stretches c involving a variety of speakers and overlapping secti sections.", "speakerName": "Postdoc E" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "He gave me he did the very nice, he he did some shopping through the data and found segments that would be useful. And at this point, all four of the ones that he specified have been done. In addition the I've I have the transcribers expanding the amount that they're doing actually.", "speakerName": "Postdoc E" }, { "text": "Oh great.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "So right now, um, I know that as of today we got an extra fifteen minutes of that type, and I'm having them expand the realm on either side of these places where they've already started.", "speakerName": "Postdoc E" }, { "text": "Oh great. OK.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "But if if you know, and I and he's gonna give me some more sections that that he thinks would be useful for this purpose.", "speakerName": "Postdoc E" }, { "text": "Yeah. Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "Because it's true, I mean, if we could do the the more fine grained tuning of this, uh, using an algorithm, that would be so much more efficient. And, um. So this is gonna be useful to expand this.", "speakerName": "Postdoc E" }, { "text": "So I I thought we we sh we sh perhaps we should try to to start with those channelized versions just to just to try it. Give it Give one tr transcriber the the channelized version of of my speech - nonspeech detection and look if if that's helpful for them, or just let them try if if that's better or If they if they can.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "You mean to start from scratch f in a brand new transcript?", "speakerName": "Postdoc E" }, { "text": "Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD A" }, { "text": "That'd be excellent. Yeah, that'd be really great. As it stands we're still in the phase of sort of, um, cleaning up the existing data getting things, uh, in i m more tight tightly time uh, aligned. I also wanna tell um, I also wanted to r raise the issue that OK so, there's this idea we're gonna have this master copy of the transcript, it's gonna be modified by scripts t into these two different functions. And actually the master.", "speakerName": "Postdoc E" }, { "text": "Two or more. Two or more different functions.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Two two or more. And that the master is gonna be the channelized version.", "speakerName": "Postdoc E" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "So right now we've taken this i initial one, it was a single channel basically the way it was input. And now, uh, thanks to the advances made in the interface, we can from now on use the channelized part, and, um, any changes that are made get made in the channelized version kind of thing. But I wanted to get all the finished all the checks.", "speakerName": "Postdoc E" }, { "text": "Yeah, so that has implications for your script.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Yeah. So, uh, have those e e the vis the ten hours that have been transcribed already, have those been channelized? And I know I've seen @ @ I've seen they've been channelized,", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "Yes, they have.", "speakerName": "Postdoc E" }, { "text": "All ten hours?", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "but", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "Except for the missing thirty minutes.", "speakerName": "Postdoc E" }, { "text": "have they uh have they been has the time have the time markings been adjusted, uh, p on a per channel.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "Great.", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "Uh, for for a total of like twenty m f for a total of Let's see, four times total of about an thirty minutes. That's that's been the case.", "speakerName": "Postdoc E" }, { "text": "So,", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "And plus the training, whatever you have.", "speakerName": "Postdoc E" }, { "text": "I guess, I mean, I don't know if we should talk about this now, or not, but I", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "Well it's just we're missing tea.", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "Yeah, I know.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "So.", "speakerName": "Grad D" }, { "text": "No, but I mean my question is like should I wait until all of those are processed, and channelized, like the time markings are adjusted before I do all the processing, and we start like branching off into the into the our layer of uh transcripts.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "Well, you know the problem the problem is that some some of the adjustments that they're making are to bring are to combine bins that were time bins which were previously separate. And the reason they do that is sometimes there's a word that's cut off.", "speakerName": "Postdoc E" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "And so, i i i it's true that it's likely to be adjusted in the way that the words are more complete. And,", "speakerName": "Postdoc E" }, { "text": "OK. No I know I know that adjusting those things are gonna is gonna make it better.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "so I it's gonna be a more reliable thing and I'm not sure.", "speakerName": "Postdoc E" }, { "text": "I mean I'm sure about that,", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Postdoc E" }, { "text": "but do you have like a time frame when you can expect like all of it to be done, or when you expect them to finish it, or.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "Well partly it depends on how um, how e effective it will be to apply an algorithm because i this takes time,", "speakerName": "Postdoc E" }, { "text": "Yeah. Yeah.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "you know, it takes a couple hours t to do, uh, ten minutes.", "speakerName": "Postdoc E" }, { "text": "Yeah, I don't doubt it. Um, so.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "So right now the what you're doing is you're taking the uh, the o original version and you're sort of channelizing yourself, right?", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Yeah. I'm doing it myself. I mean i if the time markings aren't different across channels, like the channelized version really doesn't have any more information.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "So, I was just I mean, originally I had done before like the channelized versions were coming out.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "Right. Right.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Um,", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "So I I th I think probably the way it'll go is that, you know, when we make this first general version and then start working on the script, that script @ @ that will be ma you know primarily come from what you've done, um, we'll need to work on a channelized version of those originals.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "and so it's a question of like what Mm - hmm. Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Postdoc E" }, { "text": "And so it should be pretty much identical to what you have t except for the one that they've already tightened the boundaries on.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Yep. Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Postdoc E" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "Um, So", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Yeah, I mean.", "speakerName": "Postdoc E" }, { "text": "uh, and then probably what will happen is as the transcribers finish tightening more and more, you know, that original version will get updated", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "yeah.", "speakerName": "Postdoc E" }, { "text": "and then we'll rerun the script and produce better uh versions.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "OK.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "But the I guess the ef the effect for you guys, because you're pulling out the little wave forms into separate ones, that would mean these boundaries are constantly changing you'd have to constantly re rerun that,", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "I know.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "so, maybe.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "But that.", "speakerName": "Postdoc E" }, { "text": "But that that's not hard.", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Postdoc E" }, { "text": "No.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "I I think the harder part is making sure that the transc the transcription.", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "OK.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "So if you b merge two things, then you know that it's the sum of the transcripts, but if you split inside something, you don't where the word which words moved.", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm. Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "And that's wh that's where it becomes a little bit uh, having to rerun the processing.", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "The cutting of the waveforms is pretty trivial.", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "Yeah. I mean as long as it can all be done automatically, I mean, then that's not a concern.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "You know, if I just have to run three scripts to extract it all and let it run on my computer for an hour and a half, or however long it takes to parse and create all the reference file, that's not a problem.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "PhD G" }, { "text": "Yeah. Uh - huh. Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Um, so yeah. As long as we're at that point. And I know exactly like what the steps will work what's going on, in the editing process,", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "so. OK.", "speakerName": "Grad C" }, { "text": "So that's I I mean I could there were other checks that I did, but it's I think that we've unless you think there's anything else, I think that I've covered it.", "speakerName": "Postdoc E" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "I can't think of any of the other ones.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "OK. Great.", "speakerName": "Postdoc E" }, { "text": "OK.", "speakerName": "Professor F" }, { "text": "Oop! Man!", "speakerName": "Grad D" } ] }

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{ "meetingId": "ES2005c", "transcriptSegments": [ { "text": "Um we are So the meeting will have about the same format as the last time. So switching over I've just left uh my first two screens.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Um mailed you the minutes of the last meeting uh just to save time.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Okay. Cool.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Um and is there any questions you have that arised from last meeting that are particularly bothering you? N", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm um. No, I don't think so.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "No? Okay, cool.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "No.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Then we shall start with a presentation from Raj.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah. Hi, me Raj, again. Uh in this meeting I I'm going to discuss about the trend watching, uh how these trends is going to affect our market potential and how important is this. So we have to look on this. First of all methodology. The met methodology to find out the trend was incl uh was done in a way We have done a rec not only a recent remote control market survey, but we also considered the latest fre fashion trends of the market, because we think that this is also a factor which will affect our sales and profit. So what are our findings? In our uh in our findings we have seen that when we did our remote control market survey we found that uh people l uh people do have preference for tho fancy mobi uh f remote controls which look and feel very good, rather than having a functional look and feel uh good. So this sh this clearly indicates their preference for the design their outlook of the remote controls. So we should take into uh we should consider this factor as the most important factor, because this factor is twice as important, the second factor which is further ti twice the as important as the sec as uh the third factor. So this factor becomes the most important factor in our surv uh uh in our mark uh means in take in designing our rem uh remote controls.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "The last one is the most important one, is it?", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "No the first one is the", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Oh, sorry.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "uh the outlook of the mobile, the it should have a fancy outlook,", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "the fancy design uh rather than just having a functional look and feel good, it should have a fancy look and foo feel good.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "The second most important aspect is that remote control should be a technologically uh innovative. We must have some technological advancement in the remote control tha rather than just putting it as it is as the other remo uh remote controls are. So it uh should be technologically innovative like glow-in-the-dark or speech recognition, something like that.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "So that indicates our technological advancement. And the third most important aspect in the ta to take into consideration is that it should be easy to use,", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "like it shouldn't be too much co complicated,", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "there shouldn't be too many buttons on this mobi uh remote control, it shouldn't be too complicated uh like this way. And it should be uh and customers should be provided with manuals that is easy to understand in their local language, something. So that they could know how to use these remote controls. When we did uh f fashions uh, recent fashion uh our recent fashion update shows that.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Sorry.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Ah yeah?.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "I was just reading fruit and vegetables.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Hard to know how we are going to incorporate that..", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Y yeah uh yeah, we have to, because uh d you can see how people have related their clothes, shoes, and everything with fruits and vegetables,", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "because the g world is now changing it's trend towards organic, becoming more and more organic,", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Okay. Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "We should make a big sponge lemon,", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "becoming.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "and then it'd be it would be yellow.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah..", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "It's.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "So.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Th that's very good.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah. So something like that we we should do.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Glow-in-the-dark. Okay.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "And people uh the f feel of the material is expected to be spongy rather than just having a plastic look, hard look.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Mm..", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Well, that's good.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah. Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "That's what we kind of predicted anyway.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "So so that they could play with it while handi uh while handling it. So that should also be taken into consideration.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Okay. Okay.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "So these are my views.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "So.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Okay, the spongy, not real spongy, you can.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "No it ca y a.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Do you think like rubber would be good or does it really want to be like gel kind of stuff?", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "The rubber which is good for health and which is quite disposable that we can take into co", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Okay. Quite disposable.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah.'Cause we It shouldn't be have any harm to the environment also,", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "because our company is very well for taking all these concerns into consideration,", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Alright, okay.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Oh okay.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "so we don't want to have any harm to the society,", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Uh-huh. Okay.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "so.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Fashion.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm'kay.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Cool.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "So that's all..", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Fruit and veg, well there you go.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Just what I think of when I think of a remote control..", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "A remote control? Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "And were there any factors that weren't important in the survey, that they said we don't want?", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "S uh we didn't find out any such point.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Or was it just Okay..", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Uh yes, there could be, but we couldn't find out any, so.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Mm-mm-mm-mm.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Cool.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Mm-mm-mm-mm-mm.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "F_, what is it? Um.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Function F_ eight.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Hmm.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah..", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Oh no,.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "No signal. Is that?", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "No, it's got it's got it.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah, uh yeah, uh yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah..", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Excuse me.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Okay, and then F_ five, right?", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Uh, yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Okay. Um okay, so the interface concept um. Yeah. The interface specification, what people um how they interact with it basically, I think. Um so the method, we looked at existing designs, what are the what's good about them, what's bad about them, um I looked at their flaws, so we're going to look at their flaws, everything. Um and what the survey told us and what we think would be good, so a bit of imagination.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Mm'kay.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Uh the findings, I've got some pictures to show you as well.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "either..", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Hmm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah. Okay, so most remote controls use graphical interface, where you um have got s buttons and you point it rather than having the output as a a stream of text or something.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Uh okay.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Um and we also found that there's inconsistent layout, which makes it confusing. So I think for our remote control There is some inconsistency already in ec existing in between remote controls, but I think standard kind of um shape and uh play and those kind of but buttons like the the top right for on and off or something,", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Right, okay. Yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "I think, people find that important,'cause then it's easy to use.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "And we've got some pictures of some uh new remote controls to show you.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Excellent.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Do I press Escape F_ five? Or just.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Uh no just escape should uh.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Escape, okay. Um, oh I still haven't got my glasses on. Yeah, okay. So these are the some of the pictures of existing ones.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Wow.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "I'll just walk you through them. This one is a voice recognition.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "'Kay.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "And that's the kind of idea we're going for.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Looks pretty complicated.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "There's um an L_C_D_ thing, which we thought could I thought could get a bit confusing and a bit expensive as well for us.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Right, okay.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "This one is got a kind of scroll like a mouse,", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm, like the middle button.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "which Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Um and But I'm not exactly sure how you'd use that,", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Ah it's kinda like scrolling.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "like would the computer come.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "uh right, well, if I s if I'm thinking of the right one, I've got the same thing in front of my monitor, you scroll it and the when you reach the sort of um menu item that you require, you press the middle of the scroll.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Uh-huh, that's like the L_C_D_ one,", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Right, okay.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "is it? But the one below that has got like a little scroll function on the side. But I presume that the functions must come up on the T_V_ screen.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah, presumably.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "I think that's what that is. So these are just a few ideas. Again that's just quite boring shape, grey, looks quite space-agey, but too many buttons, I think on that one.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Uh it looks threatening.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah, looks like uh looks like something out of a jet..", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah, it does look kind of dangerous.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "It looks like yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Hmm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Um this one I thought was really cool. It's w it's got the programmability function that we talked about.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "You can put it in there, it's for your kids, and it's quite an organic shape and the little circle around there is pretty cool.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "And that's really easy to use, bright, so I like this one lot for our design. I think something like that would be good.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Wow.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah, I m I mean the one thing I think about about these ones is um these kl uh secured areas um, I've seen a lot of them with the the cover missing.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Of course yellow..", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "So like have it hinge rather than sort of clip on or whatever.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Right, yeah. Yeah, that's true. Yeah. Um so maybe that could be built into one of the things and it comes up on the T_V_ or something. And this one, the over-sized one, I don't know about you, but I think it's a bit too gimmicky.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "I don't think that will sell very well.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "I mean is that not sort of to assist the blind or something, is it?.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "I guess so. I don't know.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Then d blind don't watch T_V_..", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Strange..", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "I think that's a bit Yeah exactly.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "No they do, they do.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "They do?.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "They listen to it. Yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah. And um this one is just pointing out. I like some of these things um the the raised symbols and everything, but pointing out um that this one the volume it is kind of pressing down, but it would actually go up, because of the shape.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Right, okay.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "So that could that's a bit confusing. Um but the buttons on this I think are it's just showing you how you can have different different um buttons. They don't have to be all the same. So that's quite cool. Um.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "'Kay but people tend to recognise certain shapes to do certain things anyway, don't they?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah, exactly. Um F_ five. Yes. So there are some of the findings. So we need to combine those ones um", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "and I've just got an e-mail from our technical department saying that they have broken through with some new speech recognition software that you can program in.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Brilliant. That's handy..", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Um yeah it is, just in time, very handy. Um so I think maybe incorporating that in our design would be good.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "It's you program it like you say, record, um and then, play, and then, record, play machine, and stuff like that, so that's And it's much Yeah. So that's quite cool. Uh personal preferences just some imagination, the raised symbols I thought were good, the L_C_D_, it does look smart, but I think maybe for our budget, do you think that would be a bit too expensive to have the.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "The L_C_D_", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "and the other stuff uh, I think.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "And the speech recognition,'cause I think we're definitely going for the speech recognition,", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "But in our market survey we have seen that people are willing to pay more,", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "are we?", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "but they want the quality, they want f fancy look, they want some new design, something new.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Uh-huh.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Uh yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Uh-huh. But our budget, we've.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "It's still it's still got to get within our twelve fifty, you know.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "So even if we increase our cost little bit, within uh some limits, and we give something new technological advancement as well as new design with fancy outlook, I think we will meet the requirements and we will be able to have a good sales in the market.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Uh-huh. Okay.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "I'm not sure if the if for twenty five Euros uh per uh twelve Euros fifty m manufacturing cost,.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Ben bana", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah. I can't see tha Although, th I mean to be to be sure they have got I mean they are going crazy with the L_C_D_ technology now,", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "The L_C_D_.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "so that you've got your L_C_D_ T_V_s and everything so maybe the small.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "But I mean like I I the black and white, I guess, it just doesn't look funky enough.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Um but, I mean, like even mobile phones or whatever have now have colour L_C_D_ screens,", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "No.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Hmm.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "w I ju I mean", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah. S", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "I wouldn't know about the costs of them.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Uh-huh.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "But uh price price not withstanding um, is it too complicated, is it gonna be too much just overload?", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "And the.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Twelve fifty.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Uh i it will be easy because there will be, on L_C_D_ s screen, there will be different frent icons, they can just click ok okay, whatever they wa", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Possibly.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah, that's the thing, because.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "But but the thing is when you use a remote control, you never look at it, right? You're looking at the T_V_", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "and and it's uh.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "That's true, yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "It just seems kind of like a a needless th", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "And one of the survey findings was that they want it easy to use, so I think I'm not sure about the L_C_D_.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "It's a it's great, it's a good idea, but for our budget and for the thing we're trying to go for eas easy to use, it's not the thing we should go for, I think. Child-friendly, I thought this was good, as you pointed out the um the bit, it often goes missing especially with children, but it's a good shape and the organic is kind of we could make a vegetabley kind of round shape, I think.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "So which vegetable?.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Well I mean we could make a.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah, I know, carrot.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah..", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Okay..", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Well, si since we're going for the uh the k the sort of company colours, I think your lemon wasn't that far s.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "The the lemon. Well what are the options?", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "And if it doesn't work you know, we've just made a lemon..", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "But we don't want it to be Yeah. Um the child-friendly, yeah. Easy to use, it seems quite easy to use. I like the d the different shapes of the buttons and stuff.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm. I like I like the colourful buttons as well.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "I think that's a good idea to go for. Yeah. And the mouse one, I thought it was a good idea, because people use mo mice mouses now with the scrolling thing. Um.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah. I mean we are marketing to sort of twenty five to thirty five,", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "so most people will have come in contact with that kind of use.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "S yeah. So they'd be able to use that um, as I said I think i I'd presume it would come up on the screen.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Um so there you go.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "And that means tha that means you get to bump that bit to the T_V_ maker, so.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Oh.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "So that's um the user interface", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "'Kay.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "design.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "So okay, I'll take this out now then.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Um so", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "There you go.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "I guess there are a lot of options that we're gonna have to choose from among,", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah, looks like it.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "and I'll I'll give you the uh, I guess, technical considerations for those.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Uh.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "And I'm gonna use the whiteboard, just'cause we haven't used it.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah, I was just thinking the self same thing..", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Right. So, the way I'm gonna do this is uh we're gonna take a look at some old remote controls, see how they work, uh reuse the the vital kind of um essential pieces of it,", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "and then we'll throw in our new innovations um and keep it all within budget.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Magic man.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "So uh yeah, looking inside a a very simple remote control. Um this is what they sent me.'Kay. Here's uh the competition, I suppose.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Um you open it up, there's a circuit board inside,", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "um and there's a a chip, a processor, the T_A_ one one eight three five, which um receives input from the buttons, and ch", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "So this is a standard off the shelf kind of a chip, is it?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Right, it's very they're very cheap remote. This remote costs nothing, you know. Um so that takes a signals from the buttons and translates it into a sequence of pulses that it then sends to the to the amplifier, which is made of some transistors and amplifiers, op-amps, and then that gets sent to the uh to the L_E_D_ light, which I can kinda see is that little red light bulb at the end,", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "and that sends out the infrared uh light signal to the television.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Oh here it is. Um so this is kind of the the bear essentials that we need to have in our remote control, because it it defines the uh.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Okay. So can we make them to pretty much any size we like or is there a minimum or?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "R Um no, I mean this is a very old one, so now with the new technology this is a a minimally small and cheap thing to make.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "They gotta be Almost a key-ring..", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Right. So this is what we need to have for certain.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Um. So you know, as we said, we got the outer casing, which we have to decide, you know, what's it gonna be, um the board we have to use basically uh the same set-up, processor, um we'll probably use the more advanced processor than they had, amplifier and transmitter are all standard. Um so for the casing, uh this an e-mail I got from our manufacturing team uh, you know, we have a bunch of options from wood, titanium, rubber, plastic, whatnot, um latex, double-curved, curved. So lots of choices,", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "'Kay.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "what do we think? Uh or sponge, I guess, isn't on there, right.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Well.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm. I'm not sure about the sponge.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Organic sponge..", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Well, I mean like la latex has a kinda spongy feeling to it, doesn't it.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Uh yeah, it's very elasticy for sure.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Um Yeah. And that would k also give it kinda durability", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "and", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Um.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "and ther that's also f sorta relatively cheap to cast.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah so.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Um so maybe s uh a sort of uh plastic initial plastic with a a latex kinda sheath?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Okay so, here are a a plastic, uh latex.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "I like the rubber, the stress balls, I think,", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Oh right, okay.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "you know, that could be a bit of a gimmick like it's good to hold and.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Oh right.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "I don't know what that stuff is..", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "So something with give to it.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Okay. And", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "And that might be quite durable and easy to chuck around.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "and the colour is yellow, right?", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah,", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Or at least incorporating, yeah..", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "y yellow incorporated, yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yellow, okay. Um.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "I mean I forgot i we're sort of uh I don't know what other standard silver kind of.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "I think.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Other parts or uh.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm. Yeah, the buttons w like,'cause there's gonna be the the cover the the rubber or the plastic casing and then the buttons in probably two different colours", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm' kay.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "or i if we're having buttons actually,", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "So yellow for the body,", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "I don", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Um.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "and then what colour for the buttons?", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Um I quite like the multi-coloured buttons myself.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "So multi-coloured buttons.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "You do have ones like um play could be green or on and off is red, and stuff like that, yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah or yeah a limit uh maybe even just a limited multi-colour so it it doesn't look too childish, perhaps.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Makes it easy to use. Yeah, that's true, because that blue one did look quite hardish.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah. Although I mean this uh uh also comes to shape as well. I mean if we are gonna make it a novel I mean double-curved sounds good to me if we're talking about sorta ergonomic and easy use,", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm. Mm-hmm. Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "a bit comfier, you know.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Mm'kay so the shape we wanna go Um how exactly? Maybe double.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Like uh an hour glass kind of figure, is that what you're thinking of,", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah it's uh, yeah, that that'd be that's sort of comfortable to hold, easy to hold so you don't drop it.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "or just like a It's not.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "What about a banana?", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "We could make novelty remote controls.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah? Okay, like we could have a big banana shaped remote control,", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Well, yeah, I mean like.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "'cause it's yellow fruit,", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "right?", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah, yeah. Mm and a lemon might be a little hard to grip. Yeah..", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah. But then how would you point it?", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Ah", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "yeah. Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "How would you point it?", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Oh i it doesn't matter which end you point, I guess.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "What.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "We could have a little L_E_D_s on each end.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah, I appreciate this idea,", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "They only cost pennies.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "because then this this will help us in our advertisement also", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "and we can relate with fruits and vegetables, the people's choices. That what our data shows that, so this w this w", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Huh?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "y I'm I'm not sure about the banana idea.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Um.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "So a spongy banana re.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "I mean that that th.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Rubber banana.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "does", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "it does seem a bit uh again childish maybe..", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Okay, okay.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "I think maybe just draw on the kind of fruit and vegetable shape. And what else did you say about fashions? What was trendy?", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Uh the fashion trend shows that fruits and vegetables,", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "S", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "See.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "like people uh now.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "And sponginess.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "So maybe an an unidentifiable fruit or fiable fruit or vegetable", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "And spongy, yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Spongy.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "like so it would have a stem perhaps", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "and a", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Maybe, yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "maybe a it'd be s axially symmetric.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Huh.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Like what's what's that, I don't even know the name of it, some kind of, you know where it's like looks like a little snowman kind of thing. I don't know the name of that.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "So it'd look like this kinda.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah, that's what I was thinking.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Like a gourd almost, or a squash of some sort?", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Uh.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah, maybe that's what they are.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "'Cause that you can hold it in like the bottom bit", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah,", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "and.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "and it has a a clear top and bottom so y so you could say, you know, it transmits from this end.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah, why the hell not. Let's that'll make us fifty million Euros.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "I don't know. What do you guy What do you think?", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Um. Well, I guess it's kind of dra uh you don't necessarily have to have it sort of clearly identified as a fruit just to have that kind of fruitish shape,", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "No.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "yeah?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah, then only we can relate it with something.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah, we can relate it by advertising or.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah. Exactly.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Okay, so double-curved, single-curved, what do we feel?", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Or we can do something, we can design two three shapes and we can have a public survey, let the public choose what they want.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Uh-huh.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "There's a good man. There's a good idea.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Okay um, I guess, since you're the marketing guy.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah, sure. I will be happy to do that.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "We'll uh Okay, we could do that. Um.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Okay. And buttons would, did we say? Uh different shapes of buttons?", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Um I l I su I mean for the specific functions, you know, up and down, uh play, stop.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Okay, so", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "They've got, I mean, they've got standard sort of intuitive um", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "so buttons.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "things that are always used.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Okay, just like that.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "That's cool.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "I like it.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Um..", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "With the scroll-wheel or no?", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah, what about the scroll wheel and speech recognition?.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Uh speech recognition, I think, so we need a microphone presumably.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Okay uh I could put the microphone here..", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Okay there's the microphone.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Where should I put the microphone?", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "I mean ho h h wel are we sure that scroll wheel does give ease of use?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah, I'm not sure. Um I mean those ideas I saw were just for inspiration, I think.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Glad, we're not doing this for real.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Um yeah, I can no I'm not sure.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Okay, well we can do some user test with scroll-wheels, right?", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "I couldn Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "And uh I think if this this new software for the sound recognition is the microphone.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "So should the microphone be just anywhere on it or.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "I would put it sort of sub-centrally, so it's Yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "'Kay there's the mic.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "So it can be sort of held and w.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "That's cool.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "We really need really gonna need to hold it, if it's gonna be voice recognition.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Um n well we can Whoops..", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Oops..", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Um.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Um.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "So let's not use the whiteboard any more..", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Um.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Upsidaisy..", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Oops, sorry. Okay.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "And uh so what else was there? Um the.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "What about the glow-in-the-dark thing, the strip around it?", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "I s I still like it.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Are we just gonna leave that?", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Um but that's me..", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "You still like it.'Cause we've got the uh technological innovation with the speech recognition system.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yes, or maybe it's just going a bit uh too far. I mean we are pushing it probably with funny fruit shapes.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "'Cause um it could Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Um don't wanna sort of overkill.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Especially with yellow. Mm. I dunno.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Hmm.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "'Cause I mean like uh if we I mean how good is the speech recognition thing? Do we want to go for buttons at all, do we want to just have a device that maybe sits and pretends it's a fruit?.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Then you put it in the fruit bowl?", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "They can work from a.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah, you know, and then you just tal", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "You don't have to hold it.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "I mean like everybody's got fruit bowl in front of the telly.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah..", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm..", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "I it could even encourage healthier habits for television watchers,", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Um..", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "you know they have uh fruits all round them.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah. Make them make them think of fruit, yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Now just make sure they don't eat the remote.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "I mean uh some uh I", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah, do we need buttons?", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "l like think of a fruit that could sit sort of independently on its own like uh, I dunno, an apple.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Then it's just apple so sort of.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah..", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Uh, yellow apples though Hmm..", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "I quite like the shape. I quite like the design of that, uh'cause that could sit on its own and it's quite got a quite steady base.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah. Okay, yeah, that's good.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Okay. But yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Groovy.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Um", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "and as we say we n we don't wanna be too ridiculous with the fruit things you know.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah,..", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "But yeah, about the speech thing, it doesn't have to be hand held or close.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "It can sit at a distance and pick it up still.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah. So I mean like you could actually.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Or we can.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah, gives you the options.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "we can do one thing, we can just have a remote control and casings of different different shapes, different fruit shapes in such a way that a any casing can be could be fit into this mobile general piece.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "So whatever people want, like if somebody want it in banana shape, we will put that casing onto that mobile phone, okay,", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "So a selection of casings.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "it will look l Uh yeah. In that w", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "It kind of fi it fits with f fits with marketing um.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah,'cause you said about disposable,", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "S s sorry?", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "didn't you? You said about disposable earli people want disposable things", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Uh like if this is a like if this is a mobile phone uh we will design casing in such a way like half of, we need not to have a full cover, we will just have a half of cover,", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "so we could do that, like have a choice. Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "okay? If somebody wants it i in banana shape, we will fit banana shape casing onto that, so it will give a banana shape look.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Like like mobiles, yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "If somebody wanted in apple shape we will design that, we will put we will put apple shape casing on that. It will give apple shape look. So in that way you can have any, that means whatever you want,", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "without uh yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "We still need the buttons in the same places thought,", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah, button will be on the upper side, buttons will be the on the upper side.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "don't we?", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "You can standardise those, I mean.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah, buttons will be on the upper side, lower side we will just put the casing,", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Oh, that's the other side. Oh, okay.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "so half of that will be look the.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Oh, half a fruit. Oh, okay, okay.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah, not not the upper side. So from lower you can, it means while you are holding of from this side you c you can have banana look or apple look, whatever.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Okay, okay.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "So in that way we need not to d have different different shape mobiles everything, we will just design casings fruit shape.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "And.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "I think tho I think if you're gonna have a facia then you'd want to have it so that it does go over the buttons,", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "'cause when if you think about it if they're wanting it,'cause they want to look at it, if they're using it, and what they want to look at is facing away from them. It doesn't really.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm mm.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "You know'cause that'd be in the palm of their hand and they wouldn't be able to see it,", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "unless you have sort of you got the buttons options on one side, and you get the facia on the other side with a microphone so that you can place it face down. And you've got the facia, and you can just talk at the.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Maybe..", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Okay, um so.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "So you've narrowed it down to half a dozen options.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah,", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "s I guess we decided on material, right? So that that spongy latex rubber everything feel,", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "and the colours we got down,", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "and the shape, maybe we'll just make it kinda mix and match type of shape or.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah. Well, um because Well, I I'm not sure if we should go so far in the whole fruit thing, because I think we should maybe just take the inspiration from the fruit and uh because what.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Okay, so we stick with what we've got there.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah, w I think wh wha would we're trying to get to twenty five, thirty five year olds who want it quite trendy as well they said. They wanted something that looks fancy and I think maybe fruit could be a bit of a too much of a gimmick, but something ergonomically shaped and organic, like good to hold, based on fruits and natural things like that,", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Mm'kay.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "because al already we're going a bit gaudy with the yellow, you know.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm..", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "I mean we could make it nice pale yellow.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Well, it's kind of gotta be our company's yellow..", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "So again I mean like we could have, uh I mean, we could quite easily have the the main body be a different", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Okay. Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "colour, but have.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Maybe we could have that pale yellow and then an outside bit bright yellow with, you said, the logan the slogan.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "kinda going round, yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Um I mean e even if.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Because.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "I mean not necessarily that the um the whole body has to be of the company colour, so you know um blue and yellow tend to go to we well together.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "So you have the main body blue with the yellow logo and slogan running up one side of it kind of thing.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah. Yeah. Uh-huh.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "W sort of.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Great. Um as for the energy source um, you know, almost every remote control uses just batteries, but we don't have to be limited by that. We can use a hand-dynamo. Um I don't know what that means, we crank it?.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Uh It's I think it's basically the more you move i it, it's got a wee thing inside that just kinda powers it.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Right, it's like those watches that you c", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Uh yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "So, this might be an idea for something that people really wanna grab, you can shake it if it's out of power.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Oh, a d a dynamo?", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah,.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah, I like that, yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah, like with those watches that you kind of twist.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah that's quite cool.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Okay. So if it if it's not working, I guess people's natural reaction anyway is to just shake the thing..", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "But.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Okay. You shake it and scream at it.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "But but do you think that it will be a good idea to use dynamo, tha these type of cells?", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah, it is, yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Because then people have to, well like if the cell is out of bat", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "It does leave them with an obligation to.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah, to mo Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Especially if they want to use it uh uh sp uh specifically as um voice activated.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah,", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "because most of the people.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Then if it's just sitting on the.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah, then they have to pick it up and then activate it and then Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah..", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Okay, okay.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "That's true.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Right um what are the other options?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Uh there's solar power. Um.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Uh, solar power will w also not be a good idea, because then they have to keep m their mobiles outside in solar energy,", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "and the days when there is no sola sunlight.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "I'm I'm with uh Raj on that,", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Okay, so probably just.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah. Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "I think, you know,", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "What we w", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "I've got I've got no I've got a north facing house, there's not really ever sun coming in my window.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "yeah. I think we should a rechargeable battery will be a good idea.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "But w like just normal light?", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Oh that's true.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "They can they can recharge it.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "I mean I w I w uh", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "that idea that I thought um just on the basis of like ridding them of batteries and that kind of bother", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "is having a,", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "And we're a very environmentally friendly company, aren't we as well?", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "yeah,", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "having a rechargeable stand, so that not only it doubles as a stand, but um for using it as uh recharging it, but also for using it as sound recognition.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "'Kay.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Like like a hand like one of those portable phones kind of thing.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah, that's Yeah, exactly.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah that kind of thing.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Okay. So uh a rechargeable battery.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Okay. Um the user interface, the buttons, I guess we talked about this already.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Rechargeable.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Um.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": ". What's chip on print? What's.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Hmm?", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Sorry, never mind..", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Uh th the uh the electronics um, basically the more features we add um Oops, this one. So the more features we add the fancier chips we need to buy and put in,", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "which adds to the cost as you can expect.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Um. But uh I think we can keep it all under budget. So uh yes, so the speech thing you said our our techno our research and development department came up with some break-through.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "So just in time..", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah, and if we if we're just having buttons and the speech then we're getting our cheapest option of chipping.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Just in time.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Right, right.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "That's good.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah,", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Uh woah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "and keeping the L_C_D_ screen out..", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Okay, we're we're kind of uh we're kind of um Excuse m I've just deleted that whole thing. Um we're kind of running out of time, so if you could Uh. Was that you?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Huh?", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Um that was your bit's covered,", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Oh yeah that was that was it.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "I just dele I just accidentally deleted what I was supposed to say next.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Uh excuse me, Bri", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Um, yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "So control F_ eight, right?", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Oh, yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah, mine seems to have turned off.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "And I just touch the pad.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "I can't do anything.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "You just touch the pad, yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "No.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "No?", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "It's actually shut down.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "It's on, but there's nothing on the screen.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Okay, um now what we have.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Try uh flipping the screen down.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "uh our next meeting's in half an hour", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "'Kay.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "and what I would like you guys to do is work on giving me a model in clay.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Oh,", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "I get to do it, too.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah. It's you guys. Yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Oh neat.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Cool..", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "So um, you know I mean, luckily we chose a nice simple shape.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah, yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah. Mm.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Um and further instructions will be sent by your personal coaches.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Okay. Save everything to the shared documents, is that right?", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "That's great.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Uh yeah, I hope I can recover this,'cause I've accidentally deleted it.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Which doesn't really help me much.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "I think, I've saved mine already.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah, can you save that uh send that last one again, please, Raj,", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "as I still can't find it on the.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Uh it was under a different name.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "I will show you, in shared documents.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Uh working components. Oh, you didn't get that. I will send new.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "No. Okay, thank you.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Uh I'll put it in shared documents, again.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Um yeah, Project, Project Documents.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Project documents, sorry, I put it in the shared documents.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Uh right,", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Uh yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "that's that's the that it goes there automatically if you put it in Project Documents. Project Documents is on the um desktop.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Right, that's great. But I cou can't open that, because it w asks uh for some username or password.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Oh.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Really?.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "I'll show you.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Uh these lapel mics are trouble.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Ts", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Oh right, I think um.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Sorry.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Hold on.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Uh.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah, I don't know if y it it just ca it just came up on my um on my agenda. S Um presumably there's clay somewhere. Um. Four.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah, that's great.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Whoops. Light, light, please. Light. Right, there you go.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah, th thank you.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah, quite. And we're using this our basic chip set, so it's all good..", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Oh sorry.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Are we done with our meeting?", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Uh excuse me, Brian.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Um I think we're almost done, yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "You have to keep your pen separate, because I used your pen.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Oh oops.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "S.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Sorry man. Uh okay, still didn't manage to get down all the last bits so we had rechargeable and Uh. Apples. Mm-mm-mm-mm-mm.'Kay, so we came up with that, that's okay. What's supplements? Supplements. Uh uh. See..", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Cool. Fun.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "I shoulda something like that. If I kn see I I knew that. I shoulda sort of engineered it so we k ended up making a diffi difficult shape.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Hmm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Just for cruelty..", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Hmm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah. Star fruit..", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "I wonder if they mean like literally make it, sort of buttons and everything.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "So sh should Should we leave now, Brian?", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "No. Oh yeah, we can do buttons.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Or we are going to discuss something?", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Um. Uh no, I think that's us our discussion over unless anybody's got questions or confusions,", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "No I'm good.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "'cause I'm confused.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Huh?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Excuse me..", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Um uh we'll probably get questionnaire in a minute, it's a.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Sorry. Thank you. Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "There we go. Warning, finish meeting now.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "So.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "I rounded it up far too fast. Um. Where are we going? My Documents, that's not what I want. My Project Documents. There we go.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" } ] }

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

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{ "meetingId": "ES2015c", "transcriptSegments": [ { "text": "Is everyone ready to start?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah..", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yes.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Okay. Great. Well, welcome to the third meeting of conceptual design. I'll just get the PowerPoint presentation up and running. Okay. Um, on the agenda for this, um, for this particular meeting, we'll have your three presentations on what you've done since our last meeting, after we came up with um some general ideas of our design. And, um, then we have to make some key decisions on, on our remote control concept, and how we're gonna make it, what uh materials we're gonna use, and that sort of thing.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "The meeting will be forty minutes long.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "And um we will once again have Poppy as our first presenter.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Alright, and I will switch up PowerPoint.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Thank you.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Should be just loading. Okay. Oh, although I can't see it on my screen. That says go here. Okay. I've been doing some research into the different components that we could use, um what's available to us f to actually make the remote control. Um, first of all we have to look at how the remote control is actually made, and what is it happens inside the casing, which is more your field. Um, thes main internal feature is a circuit board, which contains all the elec electronics and also the contacts with the power source.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Which is not necessarily a battery, as we're about to see. Um, there are several components of, um, the circuit board that we need to consider, where we'll be getting them from, what they'll be made of. Um, including the integrated circuit, which is also known as the chip. Which is where all the main information is uh contained. Um, diodes, transistors, resonators, resistors, and capacit capacitors all need to be considered as well. Um, and all their positioning in the circuit.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Um Are they all included, like mandatorily, or r are these different options?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Uh, these, they're all different options, they're all separate, apart from the chip, which we will probable decide whether we buy a simple, a regular, advanced.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "We can go into that later. Um, all the other things are individual components that we'd have to get in separately, and work out the most, like, effective um circuit, including all the wires and everything like that. And the L_E_D_ of course, that's a light emitting diode. So, we could, so we've got flex flexibility with colours and things, with that as well.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Okay, there are lots of different possibilities for the energy source. We could use a basic battery, but that brings with it, like they need to be recharged and the bulk, the size of it as well. And they're not so great to dispose of, environmentally. There's a hand-powered dynamo which is a sort of thing that was used for torches fifty years ago. A bit out of date. Kinetic energy is something that's been recently developed.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Um What is a hand-powered dynamo?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Um, where you manually charge up the power.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Just every, every once in a while?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Like you wind up something.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Just every once in a while or constantly?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Sorry? Yeah. Every once in a while I think", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Alright. It'd be kind of strange to always be cranking it I think.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": ". But it's Yeah. It would be like going a step back in time.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "I don't think it would really be with kind of cutting edge technology.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "No..", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Whereas kinetic energy is a new idea that's being used by some watches and other devices, where you just shake the device and it gives it power. I mean, the kinetic energy is transformed into power to make the circuit work. Um, or there's solar power, which we've been considering inside a building, which is where it's gonna be used, might not be quite so useful.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "But, good to look into, renewable energy, always the way. Um, lots of considerations for the case, like what sort of shape it would be, curved or flat. That's got a lot to do with the ergonomics. Like how it's comfortable and s sits in the hand. We don't want something that's huge and you can't pick up. Or too small. Or too slidy. I know I've had a remote control before which you couldn't tell which was the front and the back,", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "'cause it had so many buttons on, and the shape was so symmetrical that I'd be pressing like a volume button instead of the on button.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Because you can't really see which way round it is.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Um, we also can choose what materials um, the we could use metal, we could use rubber which might be more um ideal for the anti-R_S_I_. It's like the same sort of rubber that's used in stress balls and things like that, so it's very like soft, not so stressful on your hands.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Wood.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Um, again, stepping back in time again there.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "I don't think that's quite up to date with what we're looking for here.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Um, titanium is not gonna be possible, even though it just it beyond our budget really. But, would've been maybe for future projects. Um right our choice for buttons as well. We've developed some we've got some good advances in technology, with our research team have found some uh new multiple um option scroll buttons. I think that was brought up for, um, they're basically quite a flexible design, modern, you don't have to use individual buttons. You can just slide up and down. I'm sure we're all quite familiar with those on mobiles or computer laptop pads.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Um one thing with the scroll buttons though. It, it.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "we would have to have an L_C_D_ um", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah. That's true.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "display, and the glow in the dark thing might be difficult.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "And that would lead to an advanced yeah. If we have yeah. We're going on to that later with the advanc with the L_C_D_ that means we'd need a really advanced chip.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "And it's unlikely that that's gonna be in our budget.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Um, also we've got the integrated pushbutton, which is what we're most familiar with. It's the most straightforward. But you can in like incorporate that with a scroll button as well.. Got decisions to make there. And this is what I was just saying before. Linked in the different depends on what type of buttons we have and the inputs. Um simple would go with the pushbutton. Um, regular you could link with the scroll button. And the advanced we'd have to go with a L_C_D_ s display.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "My personal preferences? I think we could go for the kinetic energy source. I don't, I think that's quite um an advanced kind of technology. It's not been seen before, so it could be quite a, a novelty factor, attractive as well. And also energy saving'cause you're producing the energy, you don't need an external sort of battery supply or solar panels. You just give it a shake.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Sounds brilliant to me.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Uh.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Rubber casing I thing would probably the best, if we're going for the anti-R_S_I_ and like more choice with um aesthetics. Like it could be pretty much any colour we want. Um, and gives you, yeah, more flexibility there. And probably the regular chip as opposed to the simple,", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "then we could possibly have the scroll and the push, but no L_C_D_,'cause we probably can't afford that one.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah. Um, one concern with the rubber casing is that it would be rubber encapsulating all of these chips and diodes and delicate technology as", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "like as the exterior. This is the one thing that's protecting its innards.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "I think that would, uh there would be an in sort of more internal casing. And the rubber would just be the, what's in contact with the human.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah. Another thing is it might be more difficult if it's a rubber exterior talking about putting on interchangeable plates.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Um, is it.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "I don't see how a like a rubber plate going on top it would stay there. Like if it was sort of like a clip-on plastic plate. It would work that way.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Maybe if the, um, if it was just kind of a, more of a rubber coating which was on to a case.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "W", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "So, it was kind of, the whole thing would be removable.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Like plastic with rubber, kind of on top", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Like I can't think of what.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Well, there's, there is a certain phone that has like a rubber casing,", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah. Or like an.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "b like a Nokia it is.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "you can get sort of outer casing for iPods and something, that's just it's protective as well.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "It's yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Like the skin?", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "It, it stops it, I mean,", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "it would reduce the impact if it was dropped or something, as well,'cause it wouldn't damage itself so easily.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Alright. So maybe the.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "I think i maybe a mixture of both there, maybe.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "So the actual remote would be hard plastic and the casings rubber.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "And then yeah. Yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "And the buttons obviously are rubber.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "That sounds good. I, um, is it possible to put designs onto this type of rubber?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "As far as I know. It should be.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Okay,", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "we'll just say yeah..", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yes, just why not.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah. Yeah, yeah..", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Alright. I like the kinetic energy source idea.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Um, I don't know when people will, um, be moving a remote around a lot.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "I thought that was.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "But I think that it's worth it, kinetety, kinetic um", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah, tha", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "energy source. It could make an we could have any kind of style.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "It wouldn't be as heavy or bulky, and.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah. Just for environmental reasons.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "I guess it's a bit scary'cause it hasn't been done before.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "So it seems we'd have to do more research on it.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Or I dunno if you could have a battery pack.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Like as a backup for something.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Backup. Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah so there's there is a one battery, because most remotes use two batteries I believe.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "So, if it was running off of one battery as a.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "That would be good yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah. Some alternative just in case something went wrong.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Maybe we could you were saying about um solar power ma maybe not working indoors, but a lot of calculators, yeah, have solar power.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "That's true. I just thought of that.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah. Yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "So maybe that could be incorporated as.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "May maybe that could be the backup.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Instead of a battery.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Like solar backup.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Although it needs some light, doesn't it?", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah. I suppose", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah, you can watch a T_V_ in the dark then.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Do, do those calculators.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "s but some.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "So, if we're doing.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "yeah. If we're.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "But thing is, it's not you don't need the solar all the time.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "I don't know how it works.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "It can be stored. It can be like you can have the solar energy and then it can store that energy and use it.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "It just needs to be in light for a certain amount of time per day.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Like a few hours a day..", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "I think that might be a little impractical though.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah. I think sometimes it's just shoved under, under a cushion,", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "and yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "That's true. It could easily.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Like people don't wanna have to worry about that.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "I suppose it would be really annoying if you get to think, oh no, I forgot to charge my remote today.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Like if the kinetic thing, I think what's best about that is that it's instant energy.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "You don't have to, you know, you can shake it a few times, or whatever.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "And it works.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Or just like pick it up when you're gonna use it.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah. Instead of you don't have to like make sure it's in the right place to charge and.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah, I suppose.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Alright. Cool.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "K okay.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "'S that the end of your presentation.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Alright.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Thank you.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "There we go.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Thanks. Oh. It's not on my screen.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "it wasn't on mine either.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Why?.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "I don't know why. I think, I just, I just used the mouse on there.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "You don't know why? Oh okay. Is it that one?", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah. That's um.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Um, I'm just gonna go through the interface concept with yous now. Uh, first of all I'll explain what a user interface is. It's the aspects of a computer system which can be seen or otherwise perceived, for example, heard or felt maybe, or by the human user. And it's also the commands that the user uses to control its operation and to input data. Um, there are two types of user interfaces. There's the graphical user interface, which emphasises the use of pictures for output and a pointing device, for example a mouse for input control. So that's sort of like the scroll thing we were talking about.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Oh. Okay. Yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah. I'm not really sure about the pictures that maybe that's on an L_C_D_ screen.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Or maybe it's the the buttons or pictures or something..", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Hmm.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Do you think it's.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah,'cause.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "So I suppose sometime.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "I'm sorry?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "after you..", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Um, because command interface requires you to type textual commands and input at a keyboard, so the numbers are sort of like a keyboard. You're pressing the numbers for, um, for what you want.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah. Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "So you must, for the graphical user you must need some kind of presentation for the graphics.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "I s I suppose where um mm on some buttons you would have like the power would be s some kind of symbol.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Like an L_C_D_ screen.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "And if you wanted to go onto teletext or,", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "I know we're not having that, but I mean a similar thing,", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "you, they have there's a like little picture with a screen with lines across it, which I suppose it's that sort of thing like the, the symbol on the button.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah. Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "But if we're having a simplified display anyway, w that, we probably won't have to focus so much on that.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah, we'll be doing.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "It'll be more the on the numbers and the volume.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah. It'd be more a command interface, and then.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "I suppose we need to think of symbols for like the volume, display, and stuff like that.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "So it's just draf graphical for the pointing aspect?", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "I.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "The infrared is like, that's considered a.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Hmm?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "No I think it's to do with the actual symbols that are on the, that's on the buttons of the remote control, and per", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Okay. So when it says pointing device that doesn't include.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "For inp", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Well it could be a wee scroller thing, and something could come up on the screen.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah. I think they're talking about L_C_D_ type things.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "But um I think we're gonna go with the command interface anyway,", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "to make it more simplistic. But the, we could incorporate some of the graphical user um points,", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "as in just to make it m um nicer to look at maybe..", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "What do you mean?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Like I can't think of an example, but Sort of like little pictures rather than.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Oh yeah, like how the buttons.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Like a little sound. Instead of saying volume, like a little speaker or something.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah, as a button though.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah, something y", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "So, it's a keyboard in the shape of it, right?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah m perha yeah. Yeah. Maybe.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Okay. Yeah. I like that idea.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Um, the co uh we've decided that the command interface would be the most useful for a remote control. As it would be less complicated, and the controls would be more user-friendly. Um, the remote control would be cheaper to design, so that we'd have more money in the budget to, um, target the design area of the interface. You know, make it more trendy and original. We'll have more money if we keep it simple.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah. I'm sure i like kinetic energy would probably dip into the budget. A bit more too, yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah..", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah. Seeing as it's quite a new technology. Um We, we also have to keep in mind when we're designing our, um, more user-friendly remote control, that a lot of interfaces consist of a clutter of buttons, that, um, that their functions, colours and forms aren't always helpful.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah. That's true. That's in like the buttons with all the different like colours for different choices and things.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "It can be a bit, yeah, overwhelming..", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah. And that all interfaces are different. So, um, that doesn't improve the use of the produ product, so we need to come up with something that's easy to understand. And maybe learn from the mistakes of other interfaces that can be too complicated for people to use.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yep.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Does anyone have any questions?", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Do you think that we should keep all the buttons to one same colour, just to keep it, give it a simplistic look.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "I think if we go with the um design plate thing, we'll have to. Just because of colour clashing,", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "and if we wanted to,", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "so and, and we might, I mean, depending on what comes out of the design, we might have to stick to just black buttons.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "But um.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "But what about the lighting up effect?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "You mean different colours for the lighting or.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Um, well, um, I thought we had um decided that we would if you touched one of the buttons they'd all light up. And so if they were black, it wouldn't be possible for them to light up.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm. Oh I see what you're saying.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "If they were white they would glow, probably.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Well y", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "If they were made out of rubber.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Oh so you're picturing the light is coming from the back. I kinda pictured it as kind of coming from the sides and lighting it up frontwards.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Oh.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Oh.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "But, but I guess, you mean from the back.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Where would the light come from?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "I'd assume, like, an internal light, that comes through.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "So there would have to, have to be some parts maybe transparent around the buttons, or something.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah,", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "and well rubber is a more translucent product too,", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah, yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "so we have that taken care of.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "It should be able to.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "In the phone that I was thinking of as well, when you change the um covers of it, the, the little buttons that actually, you know, that contro control stuff, are behind the rubber.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Li yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "So you can change the buttons when you're changing the faces. Do you know what I mean?", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Oh.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Oh.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "'Cause it's just the wee control,", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah. They, they insert over.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "yeah, thing that's behind it.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "So I mean, we don't have to decide on one colour. Each face could have its own colour of buttons maybe?", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Well, if they're raised up buttons. So that you can feel them.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "We were talking about it being more um, a lot more tangible.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "T", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Um, it might be more difficult to do. If they're, if they're sticking up.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "If it's flat then, like o like on a cellphone or a mobile phone, it's like all very flat, and you just have to sort of press down on these tiny little buttons, but.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "I think it would be possible. I don't think it would make that much difference. I mean, the uh the dimensions of it.'Cause if it's just like constructed in the same way as like the front cover of a mobile phone. You can like take off the hard cover and then there's the like say the buttons. And then you get to the circuit. I don't think it would matter that the buttons were bigger through the, the top casing. I'm sure you could f work it out to fit in the casing, without causing too much difficulty.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah. Okay.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "I'm sure that'd be fine..", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Alright. If it's do-able we can do.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah, sounds good to me.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "So that's everything, then?", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Alright, thank you.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Okay is that my turn then?", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "That means you're up. Yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Alright. I have a shorter report for you today. Um, it took a while to get this, uh Uh.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "You're not plugged in yet.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Oh.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "That's a very good point.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Okay, so um, this report is about uh trend-watching. Um, basically so we can live up to our, our uh purpose of having a very fashionable remote control. Sorry. There we go. Um So, just so you know, my method was mainly web web-based research this time around. I also spoke with fashion experts in Milan, New York and Paris. And I looked at the design reports from previous years, here at Real Remote. Um, just so c we can work off of them, see how fashions have changed. Um, so I'll list the three most important aspects that I've come across. Um, and they, they're each more important than the one that comes after it. Uh, the first one is that there should be a fancy look-and-feel, instead of the current functional look-and-feel. Um, this should be our priority, as we've been saying. The second most important aspect is that a remote sh that the remote control should be technologically innovative. So, I think we've done a lot of talking about that, just with lighting and the buttons and the face-plates. Um, so it looks like we'll be able to keep on track with that. And the third most important aspect is that the remote control should be easy to use. So, pretty basic there. And the recent fashion update, uh, according to fashion-watchers in Paris and Milan, is that fruit and vegetables will be the most important theme for clothes, shoes and furniture. Um, also, in contra uh in contrast to last year, the feel of the material is expected to be spongy. Again, we've already discussed that with rubber versus hard plastic buttons. Um So, my personal preferences here, um of course, as we, we've already talked about the personal face-plates in this meeting, and I'd like to stick to that. The fruits and vegetable themes, I don't know if that's going to work for us. It sounds something that you'd use on kitchenware.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "I don't know if we wanna do it on remotes.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "It could be one of the options.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Maybe for the television that people have in their kitchen. Um, the temporary light-up idea, sounds like we're gonna stick to that. And then, uh, tying in a trendy look with user-friendliness.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah. Yeah, it's the fruits and vegetables is the only area that I find rather jarring. Everything else we can really, we can really", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "It is strange.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "um, do, according to our plans already, given the market. But fruits and vegetables seems a very strange idea for a remote control.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "It's, it's a little but it, it's everywhere.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Well.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "So maybe we I've seen a lot of purses with olives on them, you know.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "But I I think, I think if we stick to T_V_ based, you know, maybe T_V_ shows, or.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "But they still need to um fit into people's decor though.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Or colour schemes.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "We I think we possibly could take a more abstract design.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Like look at the basic shapes of different fruits and vegetables. And then just really like strip it down to like really basic shapes. I mean we don't have to make something in the shape of a strawberry, but it could have the curves of a strawberry, or something.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Or a strawberry seed or a leaf.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah, yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "The The essence of strawberry. Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Or just like you know really make it a quite abstract, if that's fits in more with what we're doing. Instead of fruits and vegetables,", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "just if you look at it straightforward, it's a bit yeah. It doesn't s quite fit in with the trendy well, obviously it does, if that's the current theme.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah..", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "But may maybe we could go more directly, I don't know.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "But initially, I dunno. I think if we just sort of tone it down a bit.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Tone it down. Yeah,", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah and like not, not.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "I guess, yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "like more like photos of fruit, on, on our product.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Or banana-shaped..", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "One thing I was thinking though is.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "I dunno if you all remember from our kickoff meeting, we talked about our favourite animals.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah..", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "So maybe there could be animal-based, you know. Because a lot of people have a house cat. Or, or a dog.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Um, that might be getting, you know, too specific, and we should see what the success of the first face-plates are. But it's something to keep in mind.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "And, did you have any questions? Pretty straightforward?", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah um.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Alright, given that information, we need to start making some more specific decisions. So I'll need to um hook up the PowerPoint again.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "There you go. Have you guys been saving your PowerPoint presentations to the.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "I didn't for the first one. But I have now.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "okay.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "But it's still around right?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah. Uh, hopefully", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Where do you have to save it to?", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": ". Project documents I think.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Okay. I'm just trying to make this pop up now. Alright. Here we go. Okay so we have to uh decide now exactly what we are going to do. So energy, we.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "oh. Oh no I can't write it in when it's in this setting.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "'Kay.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Does anyone know how to take it out of Um,", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Just escape I think.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "The PowerPoint?", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "yeah. Yeah. Okay. Um, so back to decisions. Energy, we've decided on kinetic, right?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Kinetic yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Okay, so that's good.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Are we going to have a backup?", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Hmm.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Or do we just.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "But would a backup really be necessary? I mean will people just use the battery if there's no, if there's,", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "I think maybe we could just go for the kinetic energy,", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "if there is backup.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "and be bold and innovative,", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "and hope this works, and well hope that it works.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "I think.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "There's like no reason why it wouldn't work, right?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "yeah. I think no. I, I think we should just like take uh advantage of like using this to its full potential.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "So.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah. It could even be one of our selling points.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Go for it. It could be.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "fully kinetic energy.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Environmentally conscious or something.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Is everyone happy with that?", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "So if it's not working they just have to shake it a bit and that revitalises it?", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Hope so..", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Alright, the next um decision is chip on print. I don't exactly know what that means.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Um, it was whether we went for the simple, the regular, or the advanced chip. And that linked in with what buttons we would gonna have, so.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Right, and we were going for more simplistic style, right?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah, it was.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "so that was without the L_C_D_. So that means we're not doing the advanced.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "So it depends on whether we wanted the scroll buttons or just the push buttons.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "I think we decided on the pushbuttons, right?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Uh, so that's the simple.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah. I don", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Would we need a more advanced one for uh the lighting, the interior lighting system?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah possibly.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "So, it's probably gonna be the regular chip that we're going to need.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "So it's a medium.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "That's called medium, or regular?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "So regular chip. Regular sorry..", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "'Kay.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Regular chip.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Oh, is regular not simple?", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Lighting.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah if we.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "It's for the lighting, yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "because of the lighting that we've decided to put in as well.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Right right right.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Okay, and cases. Um, does this, is this dependent on shape, or what it's made of, or what?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "So th I think this is just like gonna be the a very outer case, which we will decide on rubber.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah. Well, I guess plastic and coated in rubber.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Rubber.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Plastic with rubber", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Plastic rubber coat.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "plastic coat.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "coating and interchangeable um", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Interchangeable, yeah. Still going for that.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "yeah, interchangeable plates.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Okay. User interface concept. This is your time to shine.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "We decided on the component. I, I I'm sorry, I've lost my um PowerPoint thing, so I can't remember what it's ca it's the component.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Your screen?", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Think it was called command interface.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Was it.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Oh, yeah. Yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Command interface,.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "The command inter", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Command interface.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Ouch.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "The command line interface yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Did you say command line? Okay.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Line interface.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Alright, and supplements. What's that all about?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Um, I think that is.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "well we haven't really made any decisions about what we're gonna do about the cluster of button functions, colours and forms, in the in consistent use. Like what what are ideas to combat these problems?", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Um.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "You know how um different interfaces are very different, and can be confusing because because of their difference, and because of the different clusters of buttons that they have.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "We haven't really decided what to do about that.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Um, what are our choices here?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Well it's just um w where where shall we locate the buttons. What kind of functions wi shall we have?", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "You mean like we'll have the numbers of the channels, and we'll have the channel-changer, and volume, and power?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "The power. Volume.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Um.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "So pretty just just the basic button functions.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah. Like I don't know if we should go into like adjusting light levels, things like that, because different televisions will have.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "May yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Um, yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Tone, contrast, and things. That's a bit.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "That was on, um one of my presentations. About how often it was used.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yep.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah, it was minima", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Do you remember that?", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "well, it wasn't the l", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah, it was hardly ever used really.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "I w Should I bring it up?", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah. And most televisions will come with a remote.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah. That would be good. Yeah, and surely that would be like quite specific to the individual television,", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah, each television.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "so.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "'Kay, well we know we want numbers.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "The ch t Screen settings was used um zero point five times an hour. So tw twice every once every two hours. Um, and it was considered a one point five relevance, on a scale of ten. That's brightness, colour, tone, all that.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Mm. I think most of that comes like on the i individual television set itself,", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "You don't change that often, yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "doesn't it? I'm sure it has its own buttons, so you don't necessarily need to have it on remote.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah, it does.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah, and different televisions.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Like we, I don't know if we can make a remote that would be universal to all the different kinds of", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "changes like that.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "So we're just going for power, channels, volume,", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Volume.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "The other one was audio settings. Mono, stereo, pitch. I mean I sometimes use that. Some T_V_s will have the option of like living room style, movie style, um.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "and that, they say that's used zero point eight times an hour, which is actually somewhat high. Like almost once an hour.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Um, relevance of two.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Oh. We have five minutes to finish our meeting.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Crap. Okay, um, let's do this fast. Um.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Well that didn't some up on mine.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Should we have audio? It only comes up on mine usually.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "It w it would seem silly if we'd having anything else, just have an audio button though.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Oh.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah,", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Do you know?", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "I don't, I it's, it's a problem with the international uh appeal, I think. Um, if we have audio because we don't know how other televisions work. But we know that everyone has this and it's the same.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "But we.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "I've.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah I guess that it affects the marketing,'cause it, mm it is a good sales ploy to say, aren't you annoyed with remote controls that have all these buttons.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "This one has channel, volume and your channe and your power.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah, that's it. We can just go for, make it a selling point that it is just the basic.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "That could be a sales pitch.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Simple and.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah uh I.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Alright.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "brilliant.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Good. And, okay, in closing,'cause we only have five minutes. We'll be meeting again in thirty minutes. Um, you'll be working, Poppy will be working on the look-and-feel design. Wait a minute. Is that right?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yep, and um the user interface design, so this is where the trendy stuff comes in. And you'll be evaluating the product. Um, Poppy and Tara will have to work together, using modelling clay.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "And, um, your personal coach will give you the rest of the information of what needs to happen.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Alright. So, anyone else have something to say?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Um, I just have one question about the whole fruit and vegetable aspect.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah. Yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Are we seeing as that was the most popular thing that came up out of your market research, I thi I think we should keep to that rather than moving to animals or something, because even if that may not seem obvious to us, if that's what the surveys brought out, I think that we should probably go along with that.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah. Yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Um, so I suppose that'll come out in our dev design development. But you're happy to go ahead with the fruit and veg?", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Now do you guys need want an idea of how many uh are you gonna come up with casing ideas?", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Y Yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Like f five different.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "five..", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "What I What I was thinking what do yous think of this? Um, having the numbers kind of like, not a bunch of grapes, but you know like purple and kind of in a triangle.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Like grapes. Like that's kind of fruity or something.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah you can have some fun with the buttons, it's true.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "That's just.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "We can have a look at those ideas, yeah..", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "I guess what you i ideally you'd kind of think of age markets as well.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "So it's a something that will, you know, appeal to the fifteen to twenty five year olds. Something that your granny would want on her remote control.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Um, and international tastes as well, so.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Tricky. A lot of things to consider. Hm.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Not easy..", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah. Lots of.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "yeah. Alright.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "'Kay we'll stick to the fruit and veggie theme then.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Alright. And, um, we'll reconvene in thirty minutes.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "'Kay.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Bye.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Thank you..", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "I'll see you later. Oh, what did I just do. Okay.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" } ] }

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{ "meetingId": "IS1001b", "transcriptSegments": [ { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Okay everyone's ready.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Hello.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "So we are here for uh for uh functional design.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Okay? So we are here for the functional design meeting mm so first I will show the agenda so we will uh I will take notes during this meeting so I will try to summarise it and put that summary in the shared folder if you want to look at it afterwards", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "so then uh each of you will uh lead a presentation on the task that has been required last time so user requirement specification, technical function design and working design. Then I will uh present you some new project requirements I received from uh the management board. Then we will take uh the decision on on the remote control uh needed functions and then I will assign you the task for the next part of the meeting. Of the of the process. So uh who want to start the the presentation of what they did?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "F do you want to start?", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Make a start yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "You can start.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "So..", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Cable, camera.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "You have uh PowerPoint?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Should be in my in their folder no?", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Ah yeah maybe there. Okay.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Up.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Who are you?.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Um at three I think.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "No? Mm.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Ouch. And.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Okay..", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "We have a technical problem uh.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Do we think w s in the in the wrong folder maybe? It is possible.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "You put it on.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "No.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "It was somewhere in something like this. I don't remember the name actually must be something like messenger AMI or something.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "What do you have in short cut?", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Go up.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Participant two.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah go up.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Again. No. Go back.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "You have no.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Uh maybe messenger AMI. Messenger.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Over. Okay.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "No. There is nothing.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "There's no We have a technical problem.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Let's go and check.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "I'll go and check.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Otherwise, could you just describe by hand?", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "With the the whiteboard?", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "If you remember yeah", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah. Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "but that's.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "So uh. Basically what we want here is a remote control right.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "So um the question well first of all what to control. So most people want to have a a remote for their hi-fi and T_V_ and stuff like that.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "And but other people want th also remotes for controlling uh and toys like robotic pets and little robots and stuff", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "and other people also want to have remotes for controlling um whole house.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah, so there's a project I think called X_ house or something like that that does that, uh you can integrate your remote with uh computers stuff. So.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "there is one that is one thing. The other is the the finder feature yeah by whistling or whatever. Uh if you have the finder feature then you can also have", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "uh at the same time as and general voice commands if you want yeah. So I think it should be a package in that case.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Uh so the user interface will consist of two parts. One is the voice command part and on one is the actual buttons part. Uh and th the buttons part would be uh a set of buttons for choosing devices, a set of buttons for special navigation in space,", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm. Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "a set of buttons for linear access of medium and a set of buttons for random access.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah?", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "What do you mean by linear access then?", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Like a video tape goes forward, backwards, uh fast and stuff yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Ah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Okay so special navigation, linear access, random access", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Um.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "and there's a fourth one no?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm?", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "So the better now for special navigation?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah. For special navigation for example you might have a T_V_ in the menu and you going to change yeah?", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Okay. Then linear access", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Uh.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "then random access.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm. Yeah and also parameter changing.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Ah yeah parameter okay.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "So if there are common parameters maybe we should put special buttons for that um", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "or maybe we could have everything uh generic but uh there are a lot of uh remotes on the market right now and basically this is most of the almost everybody has this stuff.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Okay. Okay and and voice command did you uh.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Voice command w we could specify anything. We could assign any button a command to any button, if we have enough processing power,", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Okay. Okay.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "I guess so. Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "So that's uh that close your investigations?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Uh yeah I think so.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Not so far.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Maybe we can have a look at the user requirements with.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah. Um I dunno if you can open the.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "I dunno if I can open it. Maybe you can s", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "uh m is not here.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "It's.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Uh in yeah okay.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Messenger no?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "No. In document. Mm computer yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "In which folder?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Where did you put it?", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Here. Here.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Short-cut to AMI shared folder?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "mm.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "But it's not Um.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Maybe you can send it to me by email. Just to participant one. At AMI.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm. Yeah, I can do that.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "I will try to show it to everyone, that would be more comfortable.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Okay. Um.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "You send it?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "It's participant one?", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah. Uh this is this email.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "I'm designing the user interface..", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Okay. You can uh.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Okay. So maybe I can switch slides when you whenever you ask,", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "that will be more convenient. So okay, functional requirements.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Okay so you can you can go. Okay so in our usability lab we observed the remote control use among one hundred subjects", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "and the subjects also filled a questionnaire", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "okay? And here I have the results so you can see that um seventy five per cent of users find most remote controls ugly so we have to find something to make them more more nice, more kind. Eighty per cents of users would spend more money when the remote control would look fancy. Eighty hundred per cent of users would spend more money when the remote control would look.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "oh to it's not good. So okay.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "We can just keep doing that?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "So it's not in theory but I I can I can say yeah..", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Fifty f uh seventy five per cent of users say they s zap a lot. So mm we have to have a remote control uh very um out for that. Uh the buttons have are to be um uh uh like you say resist resisting to to shocks.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Um and fifty per cents of users say they only use uh ten per cents of but of the buttons in the in the remote control.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "So all the buttons we we have to put are have to to have um a use a real use", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "and not only or.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Okay, so fewer buttons maybe would be good?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah. F not many buttons, and uh and uh uh u useable buttons.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "But what kind of remote controls did you look at?", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Sorry?", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "What kind of task was it? It was a T_V_?", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah. Uh most for most is T_V_.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah. Yeah but in fact we it it seems that we are going to make a T_V_ remote control according to new requirements I received from the management", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Huh.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "bo I will present them in the following.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Uh-huh. Ah! Good.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "'Kay you can go so.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "So there are other frustrations expressed by users, so they said uh they lost uh often the remote control in in the room so they want to have a way to to", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah. To find it.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "to find it.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Um and um lot of the time they it takes too much time to learn how to use a new remote control.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "So they want something s really very simple and uh easy to use.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "And uh remote controls are bad for", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "What is her other side?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "R_S_I_ um.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Other side yeah, yo wa your wrist", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "I dunno.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "It i can become painful you can have tendonditis.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Oh yeah?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "I did not knew that.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "If you also up on a computer in a strange position.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Okay so you we have to make it uh more ergonomic yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Ergonomic. But uh.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Have to say ha ha..", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "It's your job.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Oh..", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Uh.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Uh sorry got a message from Microsoft..", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Okay um before that I I have some some some thing uh to say before um.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah. Yeah yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "We know that uh the user use uh a lot their um remote control um to to change channel.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Um and um to to change uh volume selection of the.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "and uh and not uh a lot for setting for setting the the channels and uh thing things like that.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "So it's better to put uh uh uh something very easy to set and uh and.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah. This function should be very uh accessible.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Very accessible yes.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah, okay. This is the main function okay.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "That's right. So then we asked some questions to them", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "and um we asked this question if they prefer an L_C_D_ screen or on their remultific function remotes control", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "and if they mm pay more for speech recognition in remote control", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "and you can go we have here the results of", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "The first question.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "of the questions. So you know that um", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "for the younger it's very important", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "To have L_C_D_ and voice.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "to have the s yes and speech recognition. And uh and the others is not so important but uh we know that uh uh people between fifteen and twenty five are people who watch a lot T_V_ and uh who who wh can use a lot this uh.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "So maybe we we can have a speech recognition in.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah maybe this this is important.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Moreover th maybe those uh like those teenager customer could advice their parents to buy this equipment and so we can.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "we have to take care of that point of view I think or so.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Okay and if there is th the conclusion now. So as we say before, I think uh um a remote control lightening in the dark it's it's a good thing.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Uh not to many mud buttons like we we said before,", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "e easy to use uh a way to find it easily in the room and uh uh resistant to to shock and to to.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "An I s no, yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Okay these are the user requi", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "I dunno if you see something else important or.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "I'm just thinking of some thing.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Um We want to have a no, I don't know if this is a good idea. We want to have a a general remote control for everything.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "No no no. We w it seems that we no want to have a T_V_ remote control. From the management board I receive an email.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Okay. Yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Cos it would be costly uh and and also it it would take more time to develop to have a a general generic remote control.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah. Yeah yeah. Yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Mm I it's not true I think. The the second claim that you put.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "No no..", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "That it would be too long to develop.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "I think that should be the same.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Oh yeah. Because I received that email from management board and they seems to tell that that if we want to be on the market as early as possible we should uh focus on T_V_ more where it seems that the market is more important. So maybe it's a good decision. I dunno. What's your opinion?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "I have uh I've no idea I mean I should know a bit more about how fast we can uh design it.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "I don't think.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Uh yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Finish tonight.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah. Okay. Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "But basically yeah maybe I can continue with my presentation, it would be al you you.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "but I think we have some technical problem or so. So I'm just going to describe briefly what we do in the remote control.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Maybe you can go to the whiteboard if you have some drawings to do", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "If fact.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "I don't know.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah but.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Do I have oh yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Now I have enough cables.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Like a you feel a bit like a dog with this stuff.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Okay so I'm just going to describe in fact for for a remote control this is quite easy. We just have.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "sorry, I'm going.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Are you okay?.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Like that. I'm just going to describe. Basically we have a a battery a power supply here. After that we just have um user interface. Let's say that um something like that, which could be um a L_C_D_ let's say or um an array of push button, something like that. Push button or a L_C_D_. After that we we feed that into um uh an electronic chip. So I say U_C_ and I feed that to uh L_E_D_ which is uh infrared um which is a an infrared um component. And so what we for for myself this for for us this is quite easy.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "U_C_ is the central unit?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Okay yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Y it's a it's this just a chip which does all the um numerical", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Computation.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "numerical computation according to your display.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "And so for us uh this is quite easy. We just need to take to define what we want to do when the user interface um wants something and after that we just do the coding to s and send that to to to the not the to the television.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "So for us this is quite easy.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Okay so this is quite easy. There is not that much constraints.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah. Um we just have to define the processing power that we need uh especially if we want to do some uh speech recognition, in that case that mean that we are going to use more for simple.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "This will think this will take more time to develop also.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah of course of course.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah..", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "And um but for a standard one this is really easy. It's a question of one month and so on s", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Soon.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "To have a you s you speak about with voi voice control?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "No no no no,", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Standard button one.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "I say yeah standard uh standard remote control takes maybe uh one month to to do that.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah. So the only time problem is the sp voice recognition.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Definitely.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "So do you have any idea of how long it would take to have voice recognition now?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Ten years.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "I would say.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "I would say uh about eight months to have the first results.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Okay so i it's a bit long yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah. I can Um.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "One month for the standard one with button.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Even if we have a L_C_D_ display?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah even. I mean that this is really standard devices now. Um eight. For uh speech recognition.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Okay yeah. Okay so we can take this into account. So who think it would be good to go for uh like speech recognition?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "But we don't have time to market.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah it will.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "And also how much uh I think", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "I think we should contact management.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "during the kickoff meeting you say that we we shouldn't we shouldn't go up to twelve point five Euro per unit", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Euros. Yeah, yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "so how many units should we sell to have a.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Well. Uh.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Well each unit is is sell uh twenty five Euros.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah but how many yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "How muc how much do you get how much do you if you buy one million units h no, one hundred thousand units.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Eh chips. We're gonna need chips right.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah. How much will it cost for one hundred thousand?", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Usually this is less tha at two dollars per chip.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Because we are.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "So you have any idea for a powerful one that has uh good enough for do speech recognition.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah,", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah? Okay.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "we can.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "So.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "It seems that that we want to sell like four million units from the first meeting.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "No it doesn't.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Okay. Four million..", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Okay. Maybe we can uh we can look at the new requirement I receive from the management board and discus discuss all function we want to have.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Um I just had a question uh do you want to continue with your presenta?", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah I I will continue.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Is it.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Well ask your question if you want.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Um you say that I don't remember by heart but thirty per cent", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Mm?", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "of the tested people say that's it's quite difficult to to to use the remote control.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Do they say that this is difficult but for the same reason or do they have other reason? To to.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Oh.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "maybe to keep in mind maybe to access to that menu you should do something like that.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Would j Uh yeah w I I think they they say that it's uh difficult to learn how to use it but i when you know how to use it, it's it's okay.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm. Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Okay. It's not intuitive first.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "And.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "But Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "But yeah maybe and what about if we design a remote control which can be configure as you want? You say that I want, I have six button.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Mh-hmm. A a lot of people are uh if you have the L_C_D_ screen if you can do it completely the way you want because the buttons also look the way you want them", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah. But, but also it seems that.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "but it will be hard to configure I mean imagine i uh.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "so it's really something for the expert user. So.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "I mean there are markets and markets. I think the young people are th uh are uh.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Christine here said uh you have a.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "uh it is yeah. So for our young people uh it will be cool, they can be able to use it. Th maybe their parents will not but they will configure it. I guess. I don't know if there is study about that.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah. Maybe it would be more complex to configure it to be simple than creating a simple product.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah. Yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "And there are another thing is that if we make something that's simple and easy to use that's bas to use immediately that means that it will be exactly the same as everything else.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "All right?", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah. Yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Otherwise, if it's different then of course everybody has somebody has to learn to use it first.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "But also we we see that that most people find it find remote controls too complex because they have too many buttons and they mainly use only channels and volume buttons.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "So we may just uh make a very easy to use remote control with mainly those buttons", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "and maybe also um some lightning stuff too because most people find also hard to to find the remote control. Losed lose it etcetera.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "These these are these two points are the main frustrations so maybe if we design something very simple and easy to uh find when lost it will uh add uh a serious competitive advantage without making something too complex and too long to develop.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "So but le let us see first the new requirement. So we don't have to so this this uh is uh is um in the this is in the same direction as we were speaking so we don't have to make a very complex remote controls to access teletext and stuff like that.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "But teletext is just one button.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah but then you have to you have to define the buttons to surf amongst pages and stuff.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "You you just write the write the numbers.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah. So well.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "So will you add with the channel keys, right?", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah. So anyway we don't have to include this feature because it's it's not used any more by users,", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "So..", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "they prefer to s", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "I am. I'm sure that uh it don't like but uh I don't see just one button.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah. I dunno.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "So.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "If i one button is still one more button. If if if we want to make it very simple we have to reduce number of buttons compared to th to our competitors.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Well anyway I have this point. We can discuss. Also um so as as I told before uh it would be better if it's only for the T_V_ um because we want to be quick on on the market. And then also we have to make very uh uh clear that this uh this remote control is is part of of our products and show our corporate uh logo and and colours on the on the design as well so that uh they identify it as one of our product. So this is the the key point.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "So before uh finishing we can uh define uh what would be the characteristic of the o th of the control of the remote control and which button do we need which function do we want etcetera.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Capital.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "So do you um so so from from the the Marketing Expert I think a key aspect is the easy to use aspect, it should be very simple and most button are never used", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "only ten per cent of the button are are used often so I think we have to do something very simple and I think we all agree on that point, no?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Well if it is going to be just a T_V_ remote control it is going to be very simple.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah okay. So yeah the key point here is simple. Maybe. So few buttons, channel, volume control and what el what function do you see in addition to that?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Well if it's going to be as simple as possible then just have the remote control, there is no other function that I can see", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "really.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Maybe switch T_V_ on and off.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Uh", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "no you want to keep television on so that the advertising can revenue can come back to us.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah. Yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Or something.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Volume, maybe a mute button, and then on off button.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "And that's all?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Uh I know that som you say that many people are doing plenty of a lot of zapping.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "I know tha I discovered that when I did a quick look, uh they do now som they do something which is quite nice now,", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "It's a memory, yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "you have a button, you you press it, and this is uh the previous channel which has come back.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Okay. Yeah this is cool. Maybe we can include that also. Previous previous channel button. So we have like channel button, the previous channel button, the volume button, plus a mute button, and uh just the the traditional on off button.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm. Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "And uh and of course the channel changing buttons.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm..", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah. I I talk about that, yeah?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "How should they how should we implement that? Because uh could be numerical only or could be also incremental.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah. Incremental definitely because zapping you you switch them.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Let's say that we can do something like that. This is uh incremental, but once you press it for a long time, you go five by five.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "We go faster?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "To go fa to go faster.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm. It's an interesting idea, that if you press it for a long time it does something else, in general. So if you you have your ten buttons for the for the numeric the numerical buttons and you have instead of having just one memory", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "you have if you press them for a long time No. Doesn't work does it.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Maybe we should have also a digit button.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Maybe we should have a complete keyboard and just type console commands.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Change channel to eight.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Maybe we have also to have digits or only incremental.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "No..", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "I dunno bec because if you have the.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Well if it's useful like if if you want to change between three channels for example then you h you cannot you cannot cannot work with just memory being incremental.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Uh. Yeah. Because you have your previous channel button if you have incremental only it's not uh it isn't worth it because the previous channel is eith either minus one or plus one.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "So I think we need also digits.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah..", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Maybe we we can make very obvious the channel and volume button button and smaller button down there with the the digits.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah when you zap usually you will have to press the same button all the time.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "and.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Or we can do something like that.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "We can design the remote control to have access. You know some remote control have uh protection", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "and so you you y", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Hey I just thought this thing.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "You.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "there is a I mean you know there is are some with a wheel like this. Instead of having the up down buttons for uh you can have the wheel.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah, a kind of joystick.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah. Maybe we can have a wheel for incremental.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "So have a wheel for incremental, have the digits uh on the lower side that can be closed so as you say protected,", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "and uh yeah I think this is the basi", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "On the lower side I think it you have to turn it.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "And do we do we have a.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "No? If we do that.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Or a or a ball, yeah, not a a wheel but a ball, and you say uh to.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "No, a wheel is better.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "I would say the wheel is better.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Because of that.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "What is the expert of uh.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "The channels change one by one.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "So you have to the user has to like to should feel the the the discrete sense a bit.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah, the.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah. That's a good idea.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Well also we have to decide uh so it should be lightening in the dark I think because most people lost their remote control.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "'S quite it's quite easy we do that w with back light on the on the wheel.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah. Even if i L_E_D_ uh or a if if it's the L_C_D_ feature uh", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "A blue a blue L_E_D_ and we sell that um.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah,", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "whatever, yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "and do we put an L_C_D_ display?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Because it was important for young customers if you remember.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "I think it's only put on if cou have multi function. If you do not multi function then there is no p point in having L_C_D_.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Just increase the cost.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "The user does not have an advantage really.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "So no L_C_D_?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Hmm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "And so no speech as well because it w it would delay too much the development process", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Well if it's going to delay yeah", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "but uh it will be cool. It would. Because a user could say C_N_N_ for example and it would go C_N_N_. Mm.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah. That would be cool. But eight months is really long", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "and Maybe we can just uh.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Ten years.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Okay. So um I I will uh I will so I we will move to next meeting so in after the lunch break uh here are the individual uh action uh you are required to do", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "but you will be uh recalled to the actions by uh email I think but you can take notes if you if you want but well the instruction will be sent. So thank you for uh your suggestion", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "and I I will make a summary of that meeting that I will put in the shared folder you can't see.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Okay. Okay.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "and uh and then you will um you will be able to to see what has been uh has been said on on this meeting and and what has been decided. Uh maybe for next meeting uh send me your presentation before by email so that we can see them uh altogether. That would be easier.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "What is the folder that you put yours in? And did it it did work?", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "No.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "No it did not work.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "No no.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "She send it to me by email.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Ah yeah. Mm.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "I dunno, I dunno it.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "So maybe this is better, to send it by email. Okay?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Okay what is your email?", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "So yeah I I'm it's in the first uh email so I'm participant one at AMI", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "At participant one. Okay.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "uh where is that, it's here. Participant one at AMI. Okay. So see you after lunch break.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Well during lunch break actually..", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "'Kay thank you.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "So next time we should have a fight.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "How about uh management or something. Who happens to be your friend.", "speakerName": "User Interface" } ] }

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{ "meetingId": "education11", "transcriptSegments": [ { "text": "Good morning, everyone, and welcome to the Children, Young People and Education committee this morning. We've received apologies for absence from Siân Gwenllian and there is no substitute this morning. Can I ask if Members have got any declarations of interest they'd like to make, please? No? Okay. Thank you. Item 2 this morning, then, is a further session on our follow-up on our'Mind over matter' report. I'm very pleased to welcome Carol Shillabeer, who is chief executive of Powys Teaching Health Board, and who manages the Together for Children and Young People programme. Thank you very much for attending, and thank you for the written update that you provided in advance to the committee. We've got a lot of ground that we want to cover this morning, so if it's okay we'll go straight into questions. If I can just start and ask you if you're satisfied with the progress that's been made since the programme was established in 2015.", "speakerName": "Lynne Neagle AM" }, { "text": "Thank you very much for that question, Chair. I've got to say'yes', in many regards. So, the key focus of the programme in the early stages was about improving access to specialist child and adolescent mental health services. We developed the windscreen model—or we lifted the windscreen model. Other models that are very similar have been talked about as well, and our big focus was on ensuring that we could make immediate progress around access to specialist CAMHS. It's some years ago now since this committee did the original report, and obviously Healthcare Inspectorate Wales and the Wales Audit Office had done reports in the past, and I think there was a need for a programme that could focus on action. You'll see in the written update that we covered quite a large number of areas, and so therefore had to make a prioritisation. The prioritisation was at the specialist CAMHS end. We have provided the committee with a red, amber or green rating of where we feel that we were, and that was just before submission of the evidence. Overall I would say we have made progress. I recognise you recognise that in your'Mind over matter' report, and that is pleasing. What I would say, though, is that there's a still a lot to be done. Certainly over the last nine months or so, we've seen a real momentum around the whole-school approach work, which we're not actually leading now as a programme, although we facilitated the workshop held in September. But that's got a real momentum, and the absolute priority now is the early help and enhanced support part of the work moving forward, and I'm sure we will come on to that in more detail. But we know there is more community workforce in specialist CAMHS, we know we're seeing children in a shorter time frame, and we know we're accepting more referrals, so our indicators are telling us we are making progress.", "speakerName": "Carol Shillabeer" }, { "text": "Thank you. And you referred to the work on the whole-school approach, which is very welcome, and I recognise that the programme has been involved in driving that as well. But I'm sure you'll also recognise the emphasis that the committee has placed on this being a whole-system approach to children and young people's mental health, and we feel very strongly that if any of the areas get out of balance, then it will jeopardise the progress in other parts of the programme. Are there any particular areas where you feel you haven't made enough progress that you'd like to draw the committee's attention to?", "speakerName": "Lynne Neagle AM" }, { "text": "This is maybe about what the programme's done, but really around the broader sense as well. I'm going to be very straight and say we should have made more progress on psychological therapies. I'm disappointed that we haven't. I'm assured that we've got capacity in place now and the drive in place to get the Matrics Cymru framework developed for children and young people. I've had discussions with the national psychological therapies committee, who have owned this, and we're working together more on this area. That's not to say for one minute that health boards and local areas haven't been working on psychological therapy service provision and changing the models, but that is an area we should have made, I think, earlier progress on. There's been a general reflection from myself and the Together for Children and Young People programme board over the phase of the programme. I think we started very strongly; I think we probably had a bit of a lull in the middle, if I'm truthful about that—we had a change of personnel, and we really gathered a momentum over the last year or 18 months, and that has helped to push us from a focus on specialist CAMHS into that whole-school approach. But, if I could just agree with your comments about the whole system, it has to be the whole system and that's why the real focus now on early help and enhanced support is critical. If I can just say, in case I don't get a chance to say this later, I was delighted to see the focus on youth work yesterday, because what is clear is for that part, the early help and enhanced support, this isn't just about the NHS and it's not just about education, it's about every part of the system, really, which does make it more complex. But I just wanted to say that I think that youth work has perhaps not have the recognition that it's needed and yesterday was a positive step.", "speakerName": "Carol Shillabeer" }, { "text": "Okay, thank you. We've got some questions now on early help and enhanced support from Janet Finch-Saunders.", "speakerName": "Lynne Neagle AM" }, { "text": "Thank you. Good morning. In terms of local primary mental health support services, what is your understanding of the issues leading to some health boards not meeting the Mental Health (Wales) Measure 2010 targets for assessment and therapy for children and young people, and how much of this is due to an increase in demand?", "speakerName": "Janet Finch-Saunders AM" }, { "text": "Yes, thanks very much. So, it's important to say, I think, at the outset, just by way of reminder, that the target, quite rightly, changed for children and young people. The target changed some years ago for adults, so it was only right that there was an equalisation around children. So, the services were working, a couple of years ago, with significant demand and then a change in the standard. I think you're absolutely right; your question alludes to the fact that some health boards are struggling to maintain the full performance around seeing children, particularly within the 28 days. I would say—. And we've had some discussion about whether the impact of the mental health Measure has actually drawn perhaps some of the workforce, the staff, who would have been working at that earlier stage in local primary mental health, into a bit more of the secondary element, which is why the review being undertaken by the NHS delivery unit into primary care CAMHS is so critical, because, actually, if we don't have—and I believe we don't have—enough capacity in that part of the system, then referrals will move towards the more specialist end of this. So, I think we will have seen, by the evidence submission, that demand has increased, not just in Wales but in the UK, and it has increased significantly. We are doing reasonably well at meeting that demand—so, we have more contacts, more staff, shorter access times, so that is a good news story. We've not got it completely sustained at this stage, and therefore the focus of the delivery unit's primary care CAMHS report is what more can we do in that part of the system to help to see children and young people or provide consultation and liaison to others and support people at that level of intervention.", "speakerName": "Carol Shillabeer" }, { "text": "Thank you. I know, from my own experience as a constituency AM, I have families who tell me that they can't get into the early interventions and eventually things just become so—they end up in the more specialist ones and believe that that's—. And I don't like to put it in resource terms, but it's false economy in terms of the impact on the child and the family, but, obviously, in terms of cost as well. Do you find that that's a common theme across Wales?", "speakerName": "Janet Finch-Saunders AM" }, { "text": "Yes. I think that the thrust of that is absolutely right. So, we absolutely need to see children and families at the earliest intervention and that's why this is a whole system, not compartmentalised. I think there have been really good attempts in a couple of areas of that greater reach out and that earlier help—hot clinics and those sorts of initiatives that help people not to get in a long queue for specialist CAMHS, but can be supported, often by telephone, at that earlier stage. My sense of where we go next, in terms of, you know, you talk about early help and enhanced support for all the'missing middle', as you referred to it in your report, is to make sure we've got a fully joined-up, multi-agency team approach to that. And I think that will need some resourcing to support that, yet to be fully determined. But yesterday's announcement about youth work, the Government's commitment to primary care, CAMHS, et cetera—that's all going to be very helpful to prevent those young people having to go into specialist CAMHS. And just a final note on that, if I may—at the beginning of the programme, we had a report from Hafal called'Making Sense' and there were 10 key asks, if you like, of the system and the service from young people who had experience of the service. They said,'Please don't medicalise it'—I'm paraphrasing now, of course—'Please don't medicalise it; please focus on supporting teachers and others who can support us at an earlier stage and then, when we really need help, please ensure that it is there at that more specialist level.' That's been a bit of a guiding principle for the programme. So, that reflects the questions that you were asking, really.", "speakerName": "Carol Shillabeer" }, { "text": "Thank you. What are the outcomes of the stakeholder workshop held last week on early help and enhanced support? And how are the actions going to be taken forward and implemented? And also, given that the Together for Children and Young People programme comes to an end in October of this year, who, in your view, is best placed to forward this work stream, and what will be the biggest challenges? It's a bit of a long question, so, break it up however you like.", "speakerName": "Janet Finch-Saunders AM" }, { "text": "That's absolutely fine.", "speakerName": "Carol Shillabeer" }, { "text": "And what will be the biggest challenges that they will face?", "speakerName": "Janet Finch-Saunders AM" }, { "text": "Yes, I think that's helpfully laid out in three stages. So, you're absolutely right, there was a highly successful workshop last week really focusing on early help and enhanced support. It brought all of the agencies together, which was—and actually had a bit of a waiting list, apparently, for places. So, there was a lot of demand and a lot of interest in this. In relation to the next steps, there is a planning group reflection in early July, in terms of the outcomes of the workshop or the outputs of the workshop, and there are three commitments that have been made to this stage. One is that we develop those values-led approaches that will bring multiple agencies together to have that common purpose. The second one is to develop the ingredients for successful working in this area, and then, thirdly, to determine or propose priorities and sequencing of next steps. So, that's the next stage of that. I'm pretty sure we'll come on shortly—or hopefully—to the potential of the regional partnership boards. There is some work that we are doing as a programme with the children's commissioner in terms of working more with the regional partnership boards in taking forward this work. So, that will run alongside. But during the summer, then, we will be developing that framework approach, and we will be participating in the Association of Directors of Social Services conference in September, and then a follow-up workshop in October on this matter. On your question of'Well, what happens after the programme?' we are currently working on legacy arrangements for the programme. I'm pretty secure on the specialist CAMHS element. That will move, most likely, to the CAMHS network, which is part of the NHS mental health network. I actually chair the mental health network and that's one part of that. The whole-school approach element is already settled in Government and we've got a connection in to that. The question that's outstanding is where the early help and enhanced support and the neurodevelopmental will go. I am currently in discussions with Welsh Government officials around that. I can be very clear of my own view that there needs to be a confident and clear legacy arrangement for this work. We cannot afford that we've come so far for this not now to proceed. I think there's a huge momentum behind this. I don't see there would be any obstacles—I hope—in getting that commitment translated into a strong approach, as we move forward. So, I'm not in a position to say,'And the legacy arrangements will be—', but I am in a position to say that I'm having those discussions with Welsh Government officials. They know my view that we've got to put something in place that is strong and secure as we move forward, and I believe that they are supportive of that.", "speakerName": "Carol Shillabeer" }, { "text": "Thank you.", "speakerName": "Janet Finch-Saunders AM" }, { "text": "Janet, I think those two questions have been touched on, the remaining questions. We are going to discuss in more detail the legacy arrangements, but if I could just ask on psychological therapies: you referred to the fact that you were a bit disappointed with progress in this area, and the area hasn't been directly led on by the Together for Children and Young People programme. Do you think that means now that there is more of a threat to progress in this area, because, you know, we've got different compartmentalising of actions, and this is absolutely key, isn't it, really?", "speakerName": "Lynne Neagle AM" }, { "text": "Yes. I think there's—. There is some refinement to be done, I think, in making sure the connections are there. So, I think, as we move to programme end, we'll want to be absolutely assured that there are no strands left hanging, so to speak. I am confident—I mentioned the mental health network board that I chair—that we have those strands nailed down, but recognising that the early help and enhanced support and the provision of psychological support is beyond the NHS. So, this will be an area that needs to be very much seen as a key part of that. My own sense is that—. There's been quite a lot of other developments through the life of the programme. So, in the evidence that I've provided, you'll see the First 1000 days, all the adverse childhood experiences work, the Cymru Well Wales partnership, et cetera, et cetera. So, there is a bit of what I would call tidying up of the landscape to be done, and this is the ideal opportunity to do that.", "speakerName": "Carol Shillabeer" }, { "text": "Okay. Thank you. We've got some questions now on specialist CAMHS—if I can just ask about the impact of the specialist CAMHS framework, and how effective you feel that has been in promoting a consistent delivery of care for young people.", "speakerName": "Lynne Neagle AM" }, { "text": "Thanks very much for that. Without wanting to go back too far in history, I remember coming into this area back in 2014 as I was asked to establish a CAMHS network. My observation was there wasn't really a strong and well-connected clinical community in this area. When we spin forward five years, I can confidently say that there is a strong and well-connected clinical community around specialist CAMHS. The programme has helped; the emphasis and the focus of the programme has helped to bring people together with that more common endeavour to understand, actually, there is a good case for consistency in the main, with local variation. There has been a case for much greater learning between organisations. If I just give you an example—you'll know that the community intensive service teams were put in place in 2015-ish. Some areas have them, but a lot of areas didn't. We do have inconsistency in that, but the consistent part is there is a service now right the way across Wales for more intensive support to children and young people and their families in their own homes, which helps to prevent admissions and then, where there are admissions, helps to support people to be at home. They're all called slightly different things. So, I might have referred in my papers to CITT, CATT, COT and CITE. So, they've all got slightly different names and they've got slightly different opening hours. The key thrust of this is that there is a backbone, if you like, of a consistent approach with that local variation. We have to check. So, things like frameworks for improvement—there is a coming together of the clinicians and the professionals to agree what that framework for improvement is. That then gets implemented, with some local variation. So, I think the process of moving in that way has been extremely helpful. There will be some variation. We want some variation, to some extent, as places try new things and evaluate new things. So, if I just refer to the previous question that I had, and I talked about hot clinics and different ways of reaching out; that's been tried in one area, been evaluated—let's see the spread of that. So, you'll know my view on internet counselling, for example; I feel that is quite a strong offer for children—not necessarily in the specialist end. If that works in one area, why aren't we rolling that out to other areas? So, I think the framework for improvement has provided a vehicle for those clinicians and professionals to come together. It's in a stronger place—a much stronger place—than it was five years ago.", "speakerName": "Carol Shillabeer" }, { "text": "Okay, thank you. You've referred to there being some inconsistencies in terms of crisis care, but are you able to assure the committee that all young people are now getting at least a consistent service, especially in terms of interventions in the instances of young people self-harming. Wherever you live in Wales, is that help there for you now?", "speakerName": "Lynne Neagle AM" }, { "text": "Well, in your work to produce the'Mind over matter' report, I clearly listened to the views from the police and the recommendations in relation to the police. We've taken that as a further piece of work under the specialist CAMHS umbrella, to truly understand what the experiences of the police are and what some of the root issues may be in relation to that. For example, is it that because the CIT, CAT, COT, CITE—the community intensive service—closes at 10 o'clock in a certain area, that actually it's after that that the network of support isn't as strong, and, if that is the case, what are we going to do about that? There's certainly potential in working more regionally or even working between adults' and children's in terms of the crisis resolution services that work beyond those hours. So, we are taking an extra look at this, because I could not be 100 per cent confident that, throughout the 24-hour period, we've got this fully settled. I continue to hear some stories from the police that they are picking up young people and feeling that they've not got that solid place to go, and we're following those through.", "speakerName": "Carol Shillabeer" }, { "text": "Okay, thank you. We've got some questions now from Hefin David on neurodevelopmental services.", "speakerName": "Lynne Neagle AM" }, { "text": "I think, Chair, I should have declared an interest here, as my daughter has been diagnosed with autism and is currently going through the process of receiving neurodevelopmental speech and language support particularly. We're seeing an increase in neurodevelopmental referrals, and that will increase further in the future. Can you give us an explanation as to why this demand is growing and how we're going to meet capacity to deliver and for support for those children?", "speakerName": "Hefin David AM" }, { "text": "Thank you. They're very big questions in terms of'why'. I'm not sure that anyone really knows why, if I'm honest, although there is a lot of academic research going on. What we do know is that we are starting to see the scale of those referrals coming through. So, in the information provided, I refer to the NHS digital prevalence report in England, which indicates that about 5.5 per cent of two to four-year-olds have a mental disorder. Now, that sounds a bit shocking when we say that, but that's in the international classification scaling, and, of that, certainly, 2.5 per cent is around autism. I can just testify, in real life, that demand is absolutely growing. So, if I just take my own health board for a moment, we usually have about 75 referrals per year. Last year we had 300. So, that has felt very difficult to manage. If I can just give you a sense of what we've done so far and then what I think is next, I want to recognise the work of Dr Cath Norton and the steering group that's been established on neurodevelopmental issues under the programme. They had a standing start. They've done a lot of very, very good work. We now have seven teams in place across Wales. We now have a national pathway. We now have a community-of-practice-type environment, and we're really getting into this. Good progress has been made. More people have been seen. More people have been assessed. So, we have made progress. But I've got a long list of considerations that I think respond to your question. One is that most referrals that come through, the clinicians tell me, are seeking support to move through what they perceive to be a gateway for educational support. So, that is often the reason why people come. Now, that is obviously going to be linked to the whole-school approach and how we can support that. Demand is outstripping supply. So, our clinical teams are concerned about how do they keep up. So, if I just take my own example of 300 in the last year, we're looking to try and put some additional capacity in to support seeing those families, but also then to understand what the long-term trajectory is going to be. Because we've put these teams in, because we've got the new pathway, has that opened a gate and we've got a lot of backlog or is that the pattern?", "speakerName": "Carol Shillabeer" }, { "text": "Can I just ask a question there?", "speakerName": "Hefin David AM" }, { "text": "Yes.", "speakerName": "Carol Shillabeer" }, { "text": "So, with regard to the 75 to 300 increase—in the space of a year was that?", "speakerName": "Hefin David AM" }, { "text": "In a year, yes.", "speakerName": "Carol Shillabeer" }, { "text": "Did you anticipate that or was that something that just came totally unexpected?", "speakerName": "Hefin David AM" }, { "text": "I think we anticipated a few more, and just to say that in my—", "speakerName": "Carol Shillabeer" }, { "text": "But not on that scale.", "speakerName": "Hefin David AM" }, { "text": "No, not on that scale. And in my own health board—I'm just referring to my own, and I'm happy to share the information on this—we already had a service in place. So, it wasn't as if we had nothing in place previously. We had a NICE-compliant service already in place, but we knew we needed to expand that, which we have done, but we didn't anticipate 300. So, this is happening not just across Wales, actually, but across the UK—so, this greater recognition, the desire for families coming forward to access that support and them seeing this as a route, which is really important. What I would also say, and this is part of the bigger picture that we need to consider going forward, is that only about 40 per cent to 50 per cent of those families that come forward have what I would call or the clinicians would call a diagnosis—so, a threshold or whatever term you want to use that takes people through to that educational support. So, we've got a lot of people who are under that threshold, but that's a lot of people who still need help and support. I'm trying to very fairly and, I hope, appropriately represent the very strong views coming from the group—the workstream under the programme. We've got to tackle all of that. It's not going to be good enough for us just to focus our attention on those children and young people and their families who reach a threshold, because there are needs elsewhere as well, and some of that will overlap with the early help and enhanced support. Some of that overlaps with learning disability services. Can I just mention a few more things, as I'm on roll on neurodevelopmental?", "speakerName": "Carol Shillabeer" }, { "text": "It's up to the Chair.", "speakerName": "Hefin David AM" }, { "text": "Yes, go on.", "speakerName": "Lynne Neagle AM" }, { "text": "Is that all right? Sorry, I know it's a very long answer. There is a concern from the neurodevelopmental group to get across that whilst there has been a lot of focus on autism—and we recognise the private Member's Bill—there are other neurodevelopmental presentations and there's a real—. Having the broadest view would be advised by them, and I think they're particularly keen to understand what a future vision and what we call, say, a'perfect world' would look like. That's the piece of work that we're wanting to do now. In terms of giving advice at the end of the programme and into legacy arrangements, about what the big, big things are, we are still needing to tackle.", "speakerName": "Carol Shillabeer" }, { "text": "I mean, I personally took a very personal decision when it came to the Member's Bill on autism you were talking about—and that was the advice I received. You need to look at the wider symptoms that are presented beyond autism and other neurological conditions. So, I'm glad you said that, because it gives me—. Because I didn't vote for that Bill, and I'm glad you said that because it gives me some personal reassurance there. But what I do have concerns about is if the increase wasn't anticipated to the extent that it was and that the Together for Children and Young People programme has a duty to review capacity, after October who's going to make sure that that capacity's reviewed on a strategic basis?", "speakerName": "Hefin David AM" }, { "text": "So, I should have probably added in that we've got a piece of work under way at the moment—Welsh Government commissioned it—by a person called Patrick Holton, and he is specifically looking at the demands on capacity in relation to neurodevelopmental. I think getting that slightly more independent view of what we think the trends are going to be over the long term will mean we can plan for the long term. We know that money's been put into this and it has had an important impact, but we now need to be planning for the next three, five, 10 and many years beyond that. There is the integrated autism service. I think there are some conversations, when I talk about the landscape being quite busy, about the sense of where this links as we support people through their lives with a neurodevelopmental issue. So, it's not just about a childhood thing; as people move through, we've got to get much better at that long-term planning. So, that piece of work is really important. We will get the report of that over the next couple of months in order for this sort of perfect-world picture that we want to try to describe to be informed by that. It also connects to the early help and enhanced support, because recognising if we just say half of the people who come for an assessment don't meet a threshold for a certain category, that's a lot of people who will need help and support to manage and cope with their condition and their situation.", "speakerName": "Carol Shillabeer" }, { "text": "Okay, thank you. If we can just move on now to in-patient care, and if I can just ask you what the programme has been doing to address some of the challenges and opportunities we face in terms of CAMHS in-patient care, particularly in light of the restrictions that are in place in Abergele and Tŷ Llidiard.", "speakerName": "Lynne Neagle AM" }, { "text": "Yes, thank you very much for that question. Again, quite a lot of progress has been made in the early part of the programme around in-patients, and you are very well aware of the challenges over the last year or 18 months in relation to both units. I think, certainly, there is some recovery in the position in north Wales, and the programme did a peer review visit to north Wales, which I think was very helpful. In terms of where the programme has been on this issue, there is some work under way, at quite an advanced stage, around the art of the possible around enhancing the scope of the services. This was quite a tricky thing to start off when you're in a position where, actually, there've been some restrictions, to then ask the service to think about going even further, but we really wanted to see what the art of the possible would be if we could attract the right workforce, get the right environment, et cetera, et cetera—so, that piece of work, the review of the specification about what could be possible. Clearly, we work very closely with Welsh Health Specialised Services Committee as the commissioner, so we don't commission that. We neither performance manage those environments. But, if I can just say, probably the most important part of moving forward now is the longer term work between health and social care in terms of having a much more integrated and joined up approach for children. We believe there would probably be about 100 children who have experienced care in multiple settings. We haven't got that mature approach in terms of these being joined-up teams; we've got social care and we've got healthcare. There is a growing appetite to do something different. There is a meeting with the children's commissioner on 9 July to explore that. I've previously had conversations with the chief inspector of Care Inspectorate Wales, for example, and we have now got, I think, a consensus growing that we need to do something very different for children and young people who are in this sort of need for the future. We also know that there've been some high-profile legal cases as well. So, we've got to move to that step now. It has been largely successful, the work that has taken place over recent years, but not without its key challenges.", "speakerName": "Carol Shillabeer" }, { "text": "Thank you. And, just briefly on the new specification that WHSSC are developing, that will enable admissions at weekends and out of hours. How concerned should we be about that being a challenge, particularly in Abergele, where staffing has been a major issue?", "speakerName": "Lynne Neagle AM" }, { "text": "Yes. I think we need to be very mindful of ensuring that the right workforce are in place before that gets implemented. The peer review highlighted the challenge of the physical environment, where the unit is, the challenge across north Wales of the workforce. These are issues well known by the health board, by the way, so it wasn't a surprise to them. But that dialogue about how do we ensure that we've got the right workforce, because that unit, potentially, could—you know, it's an isolated unit, and they’ve been risk-managing. They've been managing the types of young people that they can take bearing in mind the workforce that they've got available, and that's been entirely the right thing to do. But the downside of that is it's not as accessible as we would want.", "speakerName": "Carol Shillabeer" }, { "text": "Okay, thank you. Hefin David has got some questions on workforce now.", "speakerName": "Lynne Neagle AM" }, { "text": "Yes. With regard to the increased CAMHS posts that have been made available between 2016 and 2018—a 62 per cent increase in CAMHS posts—we know that there's likely to be labour market demand, high labour market demand, in those instances, so are the vacancy rates higher in Wales than elsewhere, given the increase in those posts to be filled?", "speakerName": "Hefin David AM" }, { "text": "So, you're absolutely right. There's been quite a lot of investment, and there have been quite a lot of new recruits coming to the service. We had in the early days a situation where we were largely robbing Peter to pay Paul, to be quite frank. So, as new services were being developed, people would move from one part of the system to the other. So, in the early days there was little net gain. That has improved slightly, but we're in a national context, particularly around nursing and around some specialties in medicine, of a national shortage, so this is not a quick fix. We are starting to see a greater diversity of workforce. So, if I can mention psychology assistants, for example, my own health board is employing more psychology assistants as part of a skill mix team, rather than going to where we might have been more traditionally based. We see some of that through the NHS benchmarking, particularly with England. They have more of that. We're perhaps a little bit—", "speakerName": "Carol Shillabeer" }, { "text": "More of what?", "speakerName": "Hefin David AM" }, { "text": "They have more skill mix in their workforce. We're catching up a bit more on that now.", "speakerName": "Carol Shillabeer" }, { "text": "Just to clarify there, what you're referring to—there are more nursing and medical staff in the Wales system and more psychological staff, experts, in the UK picture. Is that—?", "speakerName": "Hefin David AM" }, { "text": "In the England picture. So, England had a programme called IAPT, which is about psychological therapies, and had therefore looked at the skill mix. Some of that was—. We've chatted to colleagues in England, trying to learn—we're all trying to make improvements in this area, of course; it's a UK and international issue—what were their experiences of this psychological therapies approach. Because of their vacancies they had to skill mix, and because of the money that they had available—they didn't have as much of a cash injection as perhaps we've been able to secure. So, they skill mixed much earlier; we're skill mixing now. We're using different types of roles, for example. And if I can just make a plea, really, around recognising the input of the third sector—so, it doesn't always have to be an NHS-employed person to work in service provision, direct front-line service provision, and the third sector are offering a significant contribution in a number of areas of our services. And that is one that we will need to cultivate, because, to be quite frank, our recruitment challenges won't be solved overnight. We've recognised that the commissioning numbers for nursing and other professionals have gone up over recent times, but, with the training time, it's not a quick fix.", "speakerName": "Carol Shillabeer" }, { "text": "Does the workforce profile remain different, or are they starting to—?", "speakerName": "Hefin David AM" }, { "text": "They're starting to come together. There is a—graph 13 in terms of the CAMHS profile. Each year we do the NHS benchmarking, and we can see where we are compared to others, and I would expect over the next year or two that we see a bit more narrowing.", "speakerName": "Carol Shillabeer" }, { "text": "So, if you compare a child in Wales with a child in England in the last two years who's been through this, would they have had a different experience as a result, and different clinical advice as a result, or is there consistency despite the difference in workforce profile?", "speakerName": "Hefin David AM" }, { "text": "That's quite a big question. Hand on heart, could I tell you I absolutely know the detail of that? No, I couldn't. The practice in this area is guided by National Institute for Health and Care Excellence guidance, so it's pretty much guided. We would expect all of our practitioners to be able to work to NICE guidance. When you skill mix a team, you enable the right referrals to go to the right person, so you wouldn't necessarily have a child or young person with particularly complex needs—well, you would match them to the right practitioner for their needs. So, it does—. And we've seen some of that; if I just make reference to the panel approach in Gwent that's been developed, a multi-agency panel come together, a referral comes in, it's then about matching the right service and the right person to the needs that are being presented. So, we can be much more flexible in relation to that, and we have to be careful to use the right resource for the right person, because, if we've got a resource that is highly specialist, we want them to be dealing with those children and young people.", "speakerName": "Carol Shillabeer" }, { "text": "And one of the things you're able to do—because there's a lot about the labour market you can't control, but one of the things you can control is workforce development and ongoing workforce development. You've mentioned communities of practice. What other things are being done in addition, and how do the communities of practice work might be a good question, but what else is being done in order to upskill and develop and grow the existing workforce that is presented to you?", "speakerName": "Hefin David AM" }, { "text": "Thank you for that. So, there's a couple of things around—. I think there's a huge focus on staff retention now, not just in Wales but across the UK. So, we've got recruitment but we've got retention. What are the factors that affect retention? Actually, well-being, well-being at work—and you'll know that within'A Healthier Wales' the focus on staff engagement, staff well-being, has been laid out—the ability to work well in teams and the culture of organisations and services, and, then, as you rightly say, training and development and career opportunities. So, the developments over the last few years have brought training opportunities and career development opportunities as well. I think the community of practice—it's something that has become a bit of a standard now across these areas—actually brings people together doing collective audit, doing collective reflection on service improvement, and being very clear about learning from one another. And, if you're a clinician, that gives you a lot of motivation to keep driving forward. So, I think we have the fundamental building blocks in place, but there is more to do around the environment in which our practitioners and our staff operate.", "speakerName": "Carol Shillabeer" }, { "text": "What about the Welsh language in the health board?", "speakerName": "Hefin David AM" }, { "text": "Thank you very much. There are two elements, if I may, just on that. In your report of last year you highlighted the need to do further work on the use of the Welsh language, and have we got enough Welsh language practitioners where we need them. We are doing that piece of work. I'm pleased to say that, over the last few years, I think all health boards have really stepped up in terms of being able to understand the levels of Welsh speaking amongst employed staff and where their Welsh-speaking communities are. We're particularly looking at it in terms of in-patient CAMHS and community intensive services, because, particularly when people are feeling at their most vulnerable, they would choose the language they wish to choose. So, we know we need to respond to that. So, we will be in a position to, by the end of this programme, provide that position statement on what happens next. I would also say, of course, we've got the Welsh language standards that we are all working on at the moment, and we've got a very clear programme of when we have to be compliant with those standards. So, that element is very high on the priority list.", "speakerName": "Carol Shillabeer" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Hefin David AM" }, { "text": "Thank you. Suzy Davies has a question about looked-after children.", "speakerName": "Lynne Neagle AM" }, { "text": "Yes. Thank you, Chair. Obviously, everything you've been speaking about already, particularly about workforce development, applies to children in care as well, where there's other work also going on in terms of support. Can you give us some indication about how the programme intersects, then, with the outcomes for the children in care work programme?", "speakerName": "Suzy Davies AM" }, { "text": "Thanks very much for that. So, we have one of our members of the programme board also sitting on the outcomes for children ministerial group, which is good. So, we've got that cross-link. We also have a director of social services on our programme board and, obviously, they're very clearly linked in to the outcomes for children. I just made reference to, under the question on specialist CAMHS in-patients, the need to bring those services together, and that, really, is the need for much stronger working between the outcomes for children group and the Together for Children and Young People programme and the constituent parts. So, I'm confident that that has been pegged now. We've got a way forward and there is a consensus that we need to do things together on that.", "speakerName": "Carol Shillabeer" }, { "text": "Can you just perhaps give us an example of how that then looks on the ground? Because it's great that people are talking together, but how would that affect, I don't know, individual members of the workforce, or, indeed, the children we're talking about?", "speakerName": "Suzy Davies AM" }, { "text": "Yes. So, if I just give an example of a unit in south Wales that is a social care unit, we've been having discussions about,'Well, actually, shouldn't you have a psychologist and good access to psychological therapies, et cetera, et cetera, et cetera?' So, we haven't yet got an agreed position on how we're going to do this, but the position is that something needs to be done, and there is an appetite for and an understanding of the case for change, I believe. But what it will mean, I think, in practice, is that you get much more fluid roles moving across sectors, or we could be designing services that are fully integrated. Now, there may be challenges in that, but, you know, let's get them out on the table. So, in terms of this seamless health and social care system for Wales, this is one of the tests of that, I would say: can we, within the next five years, 10 years, really bring that together? That will take quite a lot of work and commitment. On the looked-after children specifically, we have picked that up, particularly following your previous report, looking specifically at the assessment of young people who are care experienced who are in the system. Absolutely, part of the health assessment is emotional health and mental health. We are questioning whether that needs to be a greater part and what the level of support needs to be, particularly because of the backgrounds of children that have led them to be in those circumstances. That's a core piece of work under the early help and enhanced support work stream, and we'll be ensuring that that is complete by the end of the programme.", "speakerName": "Carol Shillabeer" }, { "text": "Okay. And you're confident that that will reach children who are being fostered and perhaps don't have very frequent looked-after children reviews, because, from all other perspectives, things are going fairly well.", "speakerName": "Suzy Davies AM" }, { "text": "Yes. And, of course, there's the edge-of-care work that the Government have been supporting, and, certainly in my own area, under the regional partnership board, we have a Start Well programme, which is the old Children and Young People's Partnership programme, where there's a significant investment in supporting children and young people, families, on the edge of care, which does pick up fostering.", "speakerName": "Carol Shillabeer" }, { "text": "Ah, lovely. Thank you. Thank you, Chair.", "speakerName": "Suzy Davies AM" }, { "text": "Dawn has a question on transition.", "speakerName": "Lynne Neagle AM" }, { "text": "Yes. Thank you, Chair. We've heard, not necessarily just in the context of this report, because we've heard similar evidence around transition arrangements in another committee report when we did the suicide prevention, and I've in fact only recently—well, just this week, actually—met with community mental health teams in my constituency, and there is still some concern about transitional arrangements from children into adult services. Now, I know we had the—. The transition guidance was published a couple of years ago now, and the programme was involved in developing that guidance. But what's your assessment of the impact that it's had? Because we clearly are still seeing people falling through the gaps, aren't we?", "speakerName": "Dawn Bowden AM" }, { "text": "Yes, thank you for that. You're absolutely right; we developed that guidance and we are currently in the process of the evaluation of that. And, in particular, I know that the children's commissioner is very focused on transition, not just around children in receipt of emotional mental health support, but children in paediatric wards, and there is a working group with Welsh Government looking at this. The children's commissioner has used our guidance to put that on the table to say,'Well, if this works, this needs to be considered as a model for using elsewhere'. But the big question there is'if'. So, we do want to get evaluation. If I were just to give an estimate of where I think this will land, I think it will have made improvements, but there may well be some further work to do in enhancing, supporting, auditing that every child is supported in line with that guidance. So, I talked about community practice and clinical audit: is this something that we make, then, a mandatory audit, each year, that we do that double check? Because it's one of those things where we know when a child is 14, 15, 16, 17, so what's stopping us? If indeed the evaluation says it's not happening everywhere, it's not happening early enough, what is stopping us? We really need to get underneath that. So, my sense will be it will show us, it will be better, but there's some further work to do, and following that up in terms of audit and making sure that we've got a systematic approach to dealing with those who haven't had the guidance fully implemented, because it can make a real difference.", "speakerName": "Carol Shillabeer" }, { "text": "Yes, and it seems to me—you've just talked about having a systematic approach, and it does seem to me that it is a systematic process, isn't it? So, it shouldn't be difficult. I know we're talking about in the health service things shouldn't be difficult and they are, and one of the gripes—I had a meeting with the community health team—was the problems of the new IT systems and so on—let's not go there at the moment. But, really, this is just about referring children and having a smooth transition from the service being provided to them as a child and then just shifting it over to the adult services. It shouldn't be difficult. It's really difficult to get my head around why that is such a problem and why that needs to be so difficult.", "speakerName": "Dawn Bowden AM" }, { "text": "Can I add one other dimension in, which I think is going to be quite interesting? We talk about transitions being an issue—and we know it's not just in mental health, but it's elsewhere—then you start to think,'What if we could reduce transitions?', so you reduce the number of transitions and you manage them better. We are doing a piece of work with Government on the potential to explore what a 0-25-type service would be. We know that in different places they have approached that—in Australia and places in the UK. There are probably some pros and cons, but should we be moving to a 0-25. That is moving the transition at the age of 25, but at least it's not at the eighteenth birthday. What's the argument around what adolescent, young people and young adults services are, for example? That piece of research and understanding—", "speakerName": "Carol Shillabeer" }, { "text": "You could probably have a gradual transition, then, couldn't you?", "speakerName": "Dawn Bowden AM" }, { "text": "Quite potentially. I've got some people who have joined my own health board who've worked in that 0-25-type service, and we're catching up—'Tell me what was good about it? Tell me what was not so good about it? What did the young people themselves think about that?'. Because if we can manage down the numbers of transitions, there really should be no excuse not to get transitions right, then.", "speakerName": "Carol Shillabeer" }, { "text": "Okay, thank you. Thank you, Chair.", "speakerName": "Dawn Bowden AM" }, { "text": "Okay. We've got some really important questions now about legacy, because throughout the session this morning you've referred to ongoing work, really, and that is a major concern for the committee. Suzy Davies.", "speakerName": "Lynne Neagle AM" }, { "text": "Yes, thank you, Chair, we are a little bit worried that this programme is coming to an end in a matter of months when perhaps its work's not been completed. Obviously, we've got the Welsh Government's strategy for mental health running until 2022, which is a few years longer. Can you tell me whether you think your programme needs to continue, perhaps even if it's just for the same length of time as Together for Mental Health, or is its work done and it needs to be picked up now by a different system?", "speakerName": "Suzy Davies AM" }, { "text": "Thank you for that. Can I just say, I've given this so much thought over the time, because I think you might have asked me this question when I came previously? There are two ways to look at this. I'm absolutely sure that the issue of children's emotional and mental health will be one that will be with us for a very long time. We have made a lot of progress, I think, as a society, in talking about this now. We talk about mental health so much more than we ever used to. When I was a child, we never talked about it. I talk to my own children and say,'What's going on in your lives at school?', and they talk about this. This is not an issue, if you like, that I believe you can pick up and solve literally in five years. This is one for the long term for us. So, on the one hand, I think my view last year was that, when you have a programme of work, you should have a start, a middle and end, really—otherwise it's not a programme of work, it's almost forever—and there is a moment to refresh and reflect on whether that mechanism has done all it should and it should move into a different mechanism. So, my position last year was,'This will have been running for five years—we've done a lot of work and made progress on specialist CAMHS, we have made progress on the whole-school approach and there is a different mechanism for this' et cetera. My position now is I want to just be really sure and secure that there is a strong arrangement going forward that takes this work, if this programme is going to close.", "speakerName": "Carol Shillabeer" }, { "text": "Are you sure?", "speakerName": "Suzy Davies AM" }, { "text": "Not yet. So, I think, in an earlier question I indicated dialogue going on between myself and Welsh Government officials. I don't think there's a barrier—people aren't saying,'No, it all needs to just stop; we've solved the issue', but the exact nature of the legacy arrangements, particularly for early help and enhanced support, are not yet fully determined, or for neurodevelopmental. If it was a choice between nothing being there and continuing this programme, I would be supporting continuing the programme. I don't think we can stop now.", "speakerName": "Carol Shillabeer" }, { "text": "Well, I don't think any of us would disagree with that, but I suppose there might be a level of concern that the Welsh Government's preferred route from now on would be through the regional partnership boards and public services boards. You mentioned that you've done that work in Gwent, down in the south-east of your patch there. It's quite difficult for us to try and get a picture of how that will work successfully for the whole of Wales. I know you've got your experience in Gwent, but have you thought a bit more about how it might look elsewhere, if that's the route that Government decides to pursue?", "speakerName": "Suzy Davies AM" }, { "text": "Yes. I think the key question in my own mind is: are the regional partnership boards yet ready and mature enough to take this forward? I'm the chair of the Powys regional partnership board, so I should declare that. There's a lot being asked of the regional partnership boards at the moment—", "speakerName": "Carol Shillabeer" }, { "text": "Well, we'll be asking them to go with the'Mind over matter' report, to make sure that that's delivered upon.", "speakerName": "Suzy Davies AM" }, { "text": "There's a lot, you know,'A Healthier Wales'—. Everyone does feel that the regional partnership boards are a route to really secure multi-agency working, so there is quite a high expectation. My understanding—and this is a rather informal understanding—is that different RPBs are in different places. So, some have retained what used to be the old children and young people partnerships, and perhaps where they have been retained, they may be in a more progressed position. Some are looking to have to re-establish those. So, my sense of this is that, I think, possibly the RPBs aren't yet in that position to be ready. Our piece of work on early help and enhanced support, in terms of your earlier question about what's the commitment—that feels that that may well be another year or 18 months of development work, alongside the RPB development work, to get that ready, before we can then more confidently say where we can hand over.", "speakerName": "Carol Shillabeer" }, { "text": "You may not feel able to say it, then, but would be wrong in saying that, actually, it would be quite a good idea to extend the current programme, just to make sure that anyone else who might be able to run on with component parts of it is in the position to do that to our satisfaction?", "speakerName": "Suzy Davies AM" }, { "text": "I'm happy to respond to it. My sense is that, whether it's the programme or whether it's something else, something needs to be there. The next stage is really multi-agency, so it may well be that the programme currently has been NHS-led—maybe it needs to be led elsewhere, maybe not. I think there's a view that this needs to continue. I'm less wedded to it having to be the Together for Children and Young People programme. It may be seen as a convenient mechanism—it's already established, we've got a programme team et cetera, so it may be seen as a ready sort of solution. I'm not wedded to that. What I feel strongly about is that we've got to have the right mechanism to take it forward.", "speakerName": "Carol Shillabeer" }, { "text": "Can I just push you on one thing there? You mentioned, perhaps, the NHS could lead on the work, for example. Is there a risk of fragmentation if we start looking—? I'm just thinking—I mean, we've got the elements here: we've got the NHS, there's the whole-school approach, early help and enhanced support and intervention, as you mentioned earlier. If that goes to one of the players in that multi-agency approach, is there a risk that they might become too dominant, inadvertently—?", "speakerName": "Suzy Davies AM" }, { "text": "If I can just clarify—apologies if I wasn't clear. I said the current programme has been NHS-led, and that might be a reason to change.", "speakerName": "Carol Shillabeer" }, { "text": "To mix it up a bit. Oh, right, okay. Anything else you want me to pursue on that—?", "speakerName": "Suzy Davies AM" }, { "text": "Can I just clarify for the record, Carol—because we put this to the Minister last week—are you looking at asking the regional partnership boards to take this work over from October 2019? Are you saying clearly to the committee that you do not feel that all regional partnership boards are ready for that challenge at this point?", "speakerName": "Lynne Neagle AM" }, { "text": "I'm saying that on a more, if you like it, uniformed and informal basis, we're doing some work with the children's commissioner now in terms of—. I know the children's commissioner's very interested in how RPBs are managing, developing and dealing with the issues of children and young people's concerns. We're working with her to understand and to mirror alongside her the understanding of the RPBs. What I would say is that there has been some preparatory work by Government around supporting RPBs. So, for example, in the integrated care fund guidance last year, there was a specific reference to child and adolescent emotional mental health, which I welcomed. I've also welcomed, literally last week, a letter to all RPB chairs giving an allocation of £200,000 per RPB to support this further work in terms of child and adolescent emotional and mental health and the early help and support element. So, all of these things are in the right direction. My sense, and I need to stress it's a sense because we haven't done that piece of work, is different RPBs are in different places. So, how confident can we be at the October date that we could hand over? My sense is, just to safeguard, having a mechanism in place for the next 12 to 18 months to guide this through might be advisable, and that's what I'm talking to officials about.", "speakerName": "Carol Shillabeer" }, { "text": "And that would either be an extension of the Together for Children and Young People programme or something else. Okay, thank you.", "speakerName": "Lynne Neagle AM" }, { "text": "Thank you. Because I think there is a question, isn't there, about whether the RPBs will make this enough of a priority? I'm a bit nervous that it might get lost in that huge amount of work you said they might have. Just a final question from me: how are you establishing what the young people themselves think about the end of the programme? Are they bothered about the structure of this at all or are they just concerned that they're getting help? How's the stakeholder group feeding into this?", "speakerName": "Suzy Davies AM" }, { "text": "I've not been blown over in the rush of people saying,'Don't go anywhere.' [Laughter.] It's a really important matter for young people. I know that later on you're meeting with the Youth Parliament, you're having a joint session, which is fantastic. We've had contact with the Youth Parliament because we know it's one of their top three issues. So, it runs in the vein of that this is going to be a long-term matter for young people, I think. Whether they have a specific view on the programme, I don't know. I've not heard that. But I'm pretty sure they will be vocal in saying,'We have to have these developments continue.' It is a major issue, we're not there yet—maybe some progress has been made but there's still a lot to do—and I think we'll need to be able to respond to that.", "speakerName": "Carol Shillabeer" }, { "text": "Anything particularly you want in addition to that?", "speakerName": "Suzy Davies AM" }, { "text": "No, I think that's fine. And if I can just say that it was really great last week at the early help and enhanced day to see young people so central to the day all the way through. It was very, very important and very welcome.", "speakerName": "Lynne Neagle AM" }, { "text": "Carol, thank you for that. Thank you, Chair.", "speakerName": "Suzy Davies AM" }, { "text": "Okay. we have come to the end of our time. We had a lot of things that we wanted to cover with you. We might need to drop you a line about a couple of things that we haven't covered, but can I thank you for your attendance this morning? As usual, you'll be sent a transcript to check for accuracy following the meeting, but thank you very much for your time.", "speakerName": "Lynne Neagle AM" }, { "text": "Thank you, all.", "speakerName": "Carol Shillabeer" }, { "text": "Item 3, then, is papers to note. Paper to note 1 is a letter from the Welsh Youth Parliament—invitation to engagement events. Paper to note 2 is a letter from the Minister for Education clarifying some issues around the Welsh network of healthy schools scheme, following the task and finish group. Paper to note 3: letter from the Minister for Education on the implementation of the Diamond reforms, and that's ahead of our session on 4 July. Papers to note 4 and 5 are a letter from me to the children's commissioner and the Minister for Education seeking the update we agreed on the issue of elective home education. And then paper to note 6, paper to note 7 and paper to note 8 are all letters regarding the concerns that we discussed about the expectation of a target being set for looked-after children, to the First Minister, Children's Commissioner for Wales and the Association of Directors of Social Services. Are Members happy to note those? Thank you very much. Item 4, then, is a motion under Standing Order 17.42 to resolve to exclude the public for the remainder of the meeting. Are Members content? Okay.", "speakerName": "Lynne Neagle AM" } ] }

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This would enable CAMHS services to attract the right workforce, get the right environment and manage the types of young people they can take, bearing in mind the workforce they have available.", "responseAttribution": { "indexRanges": [ { "startIndex": 1, "endIndex": 1 }, { "startIndex": 6, "endIndex": 6 }, { "startIndex": 37, "endIndex": 40 } ] }, "queryMetadata": { "queryType": "QUERY_TYPE_SPECIFIC", "isUnanswerable": null, "isContextDependent": null } }, { "query": "How long does Carol anticipate it will take for the improvement work to be completed?", "response": "Carol anticipates that it will take another year or 18 months of development work to complete the improvement work.", "responseAttribution": { "indexRanges": [ { "startIndex": 80, "endIndex": 80 } ] }, "queryMetadata": { "queryType": "QUERY_TYPE_SPECIFIC", "isUnanswerable": null, "isContextDependent": null } }, { "query": "Is the Together for Children and Young People programme expected to continue beyond October 2019?", "response": "It was not stated in the meeting whether the Together for Children and Young People programme would continue beyond October 2019. However, Carol mentioned that a legacy arrangement for the programme needs to be in place, and if there isn't one, the programme would continue.", "responseAttribution": { "indexRanges": [ { "startIndex": 76, "endIndex": 76 }, { "startIndex": 86, "endIndex": 87 } ] }, "queryMetadata": { "queryType": "QUERY_TYPE_YES_NO", "isUnanswerable": null, "isContextDependent": null } }, { "query": "What conclusion did they come to in regards to neurodevelopmental disorders?", "response": "The participants concluded that there is a need to broaden their view to include all neurodevelopmental presentations, and not just focus on autism. Additionally, a perfect-world picture that would tackle the needs and challenges of neurodevelopmental presentations needs to be drawn.", "responseAttribution": { "indexRanges": [ { "startIndex": 32, "endIndex": 36 } ] }, "queryMetadata": { "queryType": "QUERY_TYPE_GENERAL", "isUnanswerable": null, "isContextDependent": null } }, { "query": "Can you provide a brief recap of the main concerns that were raised during the meeting?", "response": "The participants raised concerns regarding the following:\n* Psychological therapies were not making enough progress\n* Specialists CAMHS services had a lull in the middle of the program, but gathered momentum over the last year or 18 months.\n* Early help and enhanced support was not just about the NHS and education, but every part of the system, making it more complex.\n* All young people are not getting at least a consistent service, especially in terms of interventions in the instances of young people self-harming.\n* Demand was outstripping supply for neurodevelopmental services.", "responseAttribution": { "indexRanges": [ { "startIndex": 2, "endIndex": 4 }, { "startIndex": 18, "endIndex": 18 }, { "startIndex": 20, "endIndex": 22 } ] }, "queryMetadata": { "queryType": "QUERY_TYPE_GENERAL", "isUnanswerable": null, "isContextDependent": null } }, { "query": "Can you provide a summary of the concerns that were raised about the Diamond reforms?", "response": "I apologize, but the provided meeting transcript does not contain any information about the Diamond reforms. Therefore, I am unable to provide a summary of the concerns that were raised about the Diamond reforms.", "responseAttribution": null, "queryMetadata": { "queryType": "QUERY_TYPE_GENERAL", "isUnanswerable": true, "isContextDependent": null } }, { "query": "Can you specify which questions raised during the meeting were left unresolved by the end of the meeting?", "response": "The committee concluded that although progress was made since 2015, there is still more to be done. Some of the outstanding questions are:\n* How to ensure that psychological therapies are making progress.\n* How to guarantee that all young people are receiving a consistent service, especially regarding self-harm.\n* How to meet the increasing demand for neurodevelopmental services.\n* Where the early help and enhanced support and neurodevelopment workstreams should be taken after October 2019.", "responseAttribution": { "indexRanges": [ { "startIndex": null, "endIndex": 5 }, { "startIndex": 14, "endIndex": 14 }, { "startIndex": 18, "endIndex": 18 }, { "startIndex": 20, "endIndex": 22 }, { "startIndex": 83, "endIndex": 86 } ] }, "queryMetadata": { "queryType": "QUERY_TYPE_SPECIFIC", "isUnanswerable": null, "isContextDependent": null } }, { "query": "Did any of the participants express disagreement with Carol's comments about the early help and enhanced support element being critical?", "response": "No, the transcript provided does not specify any disagreements from the participants regarding the importance of the early help and enhanced support element.", "responseAttribution": null, "queryMetadata": { "queryType": "QUERY_TYPE_YES_NO", "isUnanswerable": true, "isContextDependent": null } }, { "query": "Besides the legacy arrangements, what other difficulties was Carol anticipating with the conclusion of the Together for Children and Young People program?", "response": "Carol mentioned that they were still needing to tackle all of the children and young people who are under the threshold for educational support but still need help with their conditions. She also highlighted the need for long-term planning, as only about 40% to 50% of those families that come forward have a diagnosis.", "responseAttribution": { "indexRanges": [ { "startIndex": 30, "endIndex": 30 }, { "startIndex": 35, "endIndex": 35 } ] }, "queryMetadata": { "queryType": "QUERY_TYPE_SPECIFIC", "isUnanswerable": null, "isContextDependent": null } } ] }

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{ "meetingId": "Bro017", "transcriptSegments": [ { "text": "Is it starting now?", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Yep.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "So what what from what.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Hello?", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "Whatever we say from now on, it can be held against us, right?", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "That's right.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "and uh", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "It's your right to remain silent.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "Yeah. So I I the the problem is that I actually don't know how th these held meetings are held, if they are very informal and sort of just people are say what's going on", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "and", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Yeah, that's usually what we do.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "OK.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "We just sorta go around and people say what's going on, what's the latest uh.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Yeah. OK. So I guess that what may be a reasonable is if I uh first make a report on what's happening in Aurora in general, at least what from my perspective.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Yeah. That would be great.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "And and uh so, I I think that Carmen and Stephane reported on uh Amsterdam meeting,", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Uh o", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "which was kind of interesting because it was for the first time we realized we are not friends really, but we are competitors. Cuz until then it was sort of like everything was like wonderful and.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Yeah. It seemed like there were still some issues,", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "right? that they were trying to decide?", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "There is a plenty of there're plenty of issues.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Like the voice activity detector,", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Well and what happened was that they realized that if two leading proposals, which was French Telecom Alcatel, and us both had uh voice activity detector. And I said \" well big surprise, I mean we could have told you that n n n four months ago, except we didn't because nobody else was bringing it up \".", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Obviously French Telecom didn't volunteer this information either, cuz we were working on mainly on voice activity detector for past uh several months", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "because that's buying us the most uh thing. And everybody said \" Well but this is not fair. We didn't know that. \" And of course uh the it's not working on features really. And be I agreed.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "I said \" well yeah, you are absolutely right, I mean if I wish that you provided better end point at speech because uh or at least that if we could modify the recognizer, uh to account for these long silences, because otherwise uh that that th that wasn't a correct thing. \" And so then ev ev everybody else says \" well we should we need to do a new eval evaluation without voice activity detector, or we have to do something about it \".", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "And in principle I uh I we agreed.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "We said uh \" yeah \". Because uh but in that case, uh we would like to change the uh the algorithm because uh if we are working on different data, we probably will use a different set of tricks.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "But unfortunately nobody ever officially can somehow acknowledge that this can be done, because French Telecom was saying \" no, no, no, now everybody has access to our code, so everybody is going to copy what we did. \" Yeah well our argument was everybody ha has access to our code, and everybody always had access to our code. We never uh uh denied that. We thought that people are honest, that if you copy something and if it is protected protected by patent then you negotiate, or something,", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Yeah. Right.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "right? I mean, if you find our technique useful, we are very happy.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "But And French Telecom was saying \" no, no, no,", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "there is a lot of little tricks which uh sort of uh cannot be protected and you guys will take them, \" which probably is also true. I mean, you know, it might be that people will take uh uh th the algorithms apart and use the blocks from that. But I somehow think that it wouldn't be so bad, as long as people are happy abou uh uh uh honest about it.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "And I think they have to be honest in the long run, because winning proposal again uh what will be available th is will be a code. So the uh the people can go to code and say \" well listen this is what you stole from me \"", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "you know?", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "\" so let's deal with that \".", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "So I don't see the problem. The biggest problem of course is that f that Alcatel French Telecom cl claims \" well we fulfilled the conditions. We are the best. Uh. We are the standard. \" And e and other people don't feel that, because they so they now decided that that is the whole thing will be done on well - endpointed data, essentially that somebody will endpoint the data based on clean speech, because most of this the SpeechDat - Car has the also close speaking mike and endpoints will be provided.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm. Ah.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "And uh we will run again still not clear if we are going to run the if we are allowed to run uh uh new algorithms, but I assume so. Because uh we would fight for that, really. uh but since uh u u n u at least our experience is that only endpointing a a mel cepstrum gets uh gets you twenty - one percent improvement overall and twenty - seven improvement on SpeechDat - Car", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "then obvious the database uh I mean the the the uh the baseline will go up. And nobody can then achieve fifty percent improvement.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "So they agreed that uh there will be a twenty - five percent improvement required on on uh h u m bad mis badly mismatched.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "But wait a minute, I thought the endpointing really only helped in the noisy cases.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "It uh.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Oh, but you still have that with the MFCC.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Y yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "OK.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Yeah but you have the same prob I mean MFCC basically has an enormous number of uh insertions.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Yeah. Right. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "And so, so now they want to say \" we we will require fifty percent improvement only for well matched condition, and only twenty - five percent for the serial cases. \"", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "And uh and they almost agreed on that except that it wasn't a hundred percent agreed. And so last time uh during the meeting, I just uh brought up the issue, I said \" well you know uh quite frankly I'm surprised how lightly you are making these decisions because this is a major decision. For two years we are fighting for fifty percent improvement and suddenly you are saying \" oh no we we will do something less \", but maybe we should discuss that. And everybody said \" oh we discussed that and you were not a mee there \" and I said \" well a lot of other people were not there because not everybody participates at these teleconferencing c things. \" Then they said \" oh no no no because uh everybody is invited. \" However, there is only ten or fifteen lines, so people can't even con you know participate. So eh they agreed, and so they said \" OK, we will discuss that. \" Immediately Nokia uh raised the question and they said \" oh yeah we agree this is not good to to uh dissolve the uh uh the uh the criterion. \"", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "So now officially, Nokia is uh uh complaining and said they they are looking for support, uh I think QualComm is uh saying, too \" we shouldn't abandon the fifty percent yet. We should at least try once again, one more round. \"", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "So this is where we are.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "I hope that I hope that this is going to be a adopted.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Next Wednesday we are going to have uh another uh teleconferencing call, so we'll see what uh where it goes.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "So what about the issue of um the weights on the for the different systems, the well - matched, and medium - mismatched and.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Yeah, that's what that's a g very good uh point, because David says \" well you know we ca we can manipulate this number by choosing the right weights anyways. \" So while you are right but uh you know but", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Uh yeah, if of course if you put a zero uh weight zero on a mismatched condition, or highly mismatched then then you are done.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "But weights were also deter already decided uh half a year ago. So.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "And they're the staying the same?", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Well, of course people will not like it. Now What is happening now is that I th I think that people try to match the criterion to solution.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "They have solution. Now they want to make sure their criterion is.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "And I think that this is not the right way.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Uh it may be that that Eventually it may ha may ha it may have to happen. But it's should happen at a point where everybody feels comfortable that we did all what we could.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "And I don't think we did.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Basically, I think that that this test was a little bit bogus because of the data and uh essentially there were these arbitrary decisions made, and and everything. So, so so this is so this is where it is. So what we are doing at OGI now is uh uh uh working basically on our parts which we I think a little bit neglected, like noise separation. Uh so we are looking in ways is in uh which uh with which we can provide better initial estimate of the mel spectrum basically, which would be a l uh, f more robust to noise, and so far not much uh success.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "We tried uh things which uh a long time ago Bill Byrne suggested, instead of using Fourier spectrum, from Fourier transform, use the spectrum from LPC model. Their argument there was the LPC model fits the peaks of the spectrum, so it may be m naturally more robust in noise. And I thought \" well, that makes sense, \" but so far we can't get much much out of it.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "uh we may try some standard techniques like spectral subtraction and.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "You haven't tried that yet?", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "not not not much. Or even I was thinking about uh looking back into these totally ad - hoc techniques", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "like for instance uh Dennis Klatt was suggesting uh the one way to uh deal with noisy speech is to add noise to everything.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Hmm!", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "So. I mean, uh uh add moderate amount of noise to all data.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Oh!", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "So that makes uh th any additive noise less addi less a a effective,", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "I see.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "right? Because you already uh had the noise uh in a.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "And it was working at the time. It was kind of like one of these things, you know, but if you think about it, it's actually pretty ingenious. So well, you know, just take a take a spectrum and and and add of the constant, C, to every every value.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Well you're you're basically y Yeah. So you're making all your training data more uniform.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Exactly. And if if then if this data becomes noisy, it b it becomes eff effectively becomes less noisy basically.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "But of course you cannot add too much noise because then you'll s then you're clean recognition goes down, but I mean it's yet to be seen how much, it's a very simple technique.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Yes indeed it's a very simple technique, you just take your spectrum and and use whatever is coming from FFT, add constant,", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "you know? on onto power spectrum. That that Or the other thing is of course if you have a spectrum, what you can s start doing, you can leave start leaving out the p the parts which are uh uh low in energy and then perhaps uh one could try to find a a all - pole model to such a spectrum. Because a all - pole model will still try to to to put the the continuation basically of the of the model into these parts where the issue set to zero. That's what we want to try. I have a visitor from Brno. He's a kind of like young faculty. pretty hard - working so he so he's so he's looking into that.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "And then most of the effort is uh now also aimed at this e e TRAP recognition. This uh this is this recognition from temporal patterns.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Hmm! What is that?", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Ah, you don't know about TRAPS!", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Hmm.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "The TRAPS sound familiar, I but I don't.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Yeah I mean tha This is familiar like sort of because we gave you the name, but, what it is, is that normally what you do is that you recognize uh speech based on a shortened spectrum.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm. Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Essentially L P - LPC, mel cepstrum, uh, everything starts with a spectral slice. Uh so if you s So, given the spectrogram you essentially are sliding sliding the spectrogram along the uh f frequency axis", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "and you keep shifting this thing, and you have a spectrogram.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "So you can say \" well you can also take the time trajectory of the energy at a given frequency \", and what you get is then, that you get a p vector.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "And this vector can be a a s assigned to s some phoneme. Namely you can say i it I will I will say that this vector will eh will will describe the phoneme which is in the center of the vector. And you can try to classify based on that.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "And you so you classi so it's a very different vector, very different properties, we don't know much about it, but the truth is.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Hmm. But you have many of those vectors per phoneme,", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Well, so you get many decisions.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "right? Uh - huh.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "And then you can start dec thinking about how to combine these decisions. Exactly, that's what yeah, that's what it is.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Hmm. Hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Because if you run this uh recognition, you get you still get about twenty percent error uh twenty percent correct. You know,", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "on on like for the frame by frame basis, so uh uh so it's much better than chance.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "How wide are the uh frequency bands?", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "That's another thing. Well c currently we start I mean we start always with critical band spectrum. For various reasons. But uh the latest uh observation uh is that you you you are you can get quite a big advantage of using two critical bands at the same time.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Are they adjacent, or are they s", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "Adjacent, adjacent.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "OK.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "And the reasons there are some reasons for that. Because there are some reasons I can I could talk about, will have to tell you about things like masking experiments which uh uh uh uh yield critical bands, and also experiments with release of masking, which actually tell you that something is happening across critical bands, across bands. And.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Well how do you how do you uh convert this uh energy over time in a particular frequency band into a vector of numbers?", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "It's uh uh uh I mean time T - zero is one number, time t", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Yeah but what's the number? Is it just the.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "It's a spectral energy, logarithmic spectral energy,", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "it's just the amount of energy in that band from f in that time interval.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "yeah. Yes, yes. Yes, yes.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "OK.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "And that's what that's what I'm saying then, so this is a this is a starting vector. It's just like shortened f spectrum, or something. But now we are trying to understand what this vector actually represents,", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "for instance a question is like \" how correlated are the elements of this vector? \" Turns out they are quite correlated, because I mean, especially the neighboring ones, right? They they represent the same almost the same configuration of the vocal tract.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Yeah. Yeah. Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "So there's a very high correlation. So the classifiers which use the diagonal covariance matrix don't like it. So we're thinking about de - correlating them.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Then the question is uh \" can you describe elements of this vector by Gaussian distributions \", or to what extent? Because uh And and and so on and so on. So we are learning quite a lot about that. And then another issue is how many vectors we should be using,", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "I mean the so the minimum is one.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "But I mean is the is the critical band the right uh uh dimension? So we somehow made arbitrary decision, \" yes \". Then but then now we are thinking a lot how to uh how to use at least the neighboring band because that seems to be happening This I somehow start to believe that's what's happening in recognition. Cuz a lot of experiments point to the fact that people can split the signal into critical bands, but then oh uh uh so you can you are quite capable of processing a signal in uh uh independently in individual critical bands. That's what masking experiments tell you. But at the same time you most likely pay attention to at least neighboring bands when you are making any decisions, you compare what's happening in in this band to what's happening to the band to to to the to the neighboring bands. And that's how you make uh decisions. That's why the articulatory events, which uh F F Fletcher talks about, they are about two critical bands. You need at least two, basically. You need some relative, relative relation.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Hmm.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "Absolute number doesn't tell you the right thing.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "You need to you need to compare it to something else, what's happening but it's what's happening in the in the close neighborhood. So if you are making decision what's happening at one kilohertz, you want to know what's happening at nine hundred hertz and it and maybe at eleven hundred hertz, but you don't much care what's happening at three kilohertz.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "So it's really w It's sort of like saying that what's happening at one kilohertz depends on what's happening around it. It's sort of relative to it.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "To some extent, it that is also true. Yeah. But it's but for but for instance, th uh uh what what uh humans are very much capable of doing is that if th if they are exactly the same thing happening in two neighboring critical bands, recognition can discard it.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Is what's happening.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Hey!", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "Hey! OK, we need us another another voice here.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Hey Stephane.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Yeah, I think so. Yeah?", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Yep. Sure. Go ahead.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "And so so so for instance if you d if you a if you add the noise that normally masks masks the uh the the signal right?", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "and you can show that in that if the if you add the noise outside the critical band, that doesn't affect the the decisions you're making about a signal within a critical band.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Unless this noise is modulated. If the noise is modulated, with the same modulation frequency as the noise in a critical band, the amount of masking is less. The moment you moment you provide the noise in n neighboring critical bands.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Mmm.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "So the s m masking curve, normally it looks like sort of I start from from here, so you you have uh no noise then you you you are expanding the critical band, so the amount of maching is increasing. And when you e hit a certain point, which is a critical band, then the amount of masking is the same.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Mmm.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "So that's the famous experiment of Fletcher, a long time ago. Like that's where people started thinking \" wow this is interesting! \" So.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "But, if you if you if you modulate the noise, the masking goes up and the moment you start hitting the another critical band, the masking goes down. So essentially essentially that's a very clear indication that that that cognition can take uh uh into consideration what's happening in the neighboring bands. But if you go too far in a in a if you if the noise is very broad, you are not increasing much more, so so if you if you are far away from the signal uh from the signal f uh the frequency at which the signal is, then the m even the when the noise is co - modulated it it's not helping you much.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm. Yeah. Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Hmm.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "So. So things like this we are kind of playing with with with the hope that perhaps we could eventually u use this in a in a real recognizer.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "Like uh partially of course we promised to do this under the the the Aurora uh program.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "But you probably won't have anything before the next time we have to evaluate,", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Probably not.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "right?", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Well, maybe, most likely we will not have anything which c would comply with the rules.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Yeah. Ah.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "like because uh uh", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Latency and things.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "latency currently chops the require uh significant uh latency amount of processing,", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "because uh we don't know any better, yet, than to use the neural net classifiers, uh and uh and uh TRAPS.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "Though the the work which uh everybody is looking at now aims at s trying to find out what to do with these vectors, so that a g simple Gaussian classifier would be happier with it.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "or to what extent a Gaussian classifier should be unhappy uh that, and how to Gaussian - ize the vectors, and.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "So this is uh what's happening. Then Sunil is uh uh uh asked me f for one month's vacation and since he did not take any vacation for two years, I had no I didn't have heart to tell him no. So he's in India.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Wow.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "And uh.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Is he getting married or something?", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Uh well, he may be looking for a girl, for for I don't I don't I don't ask. I know that Naran - when last time Narayanan did that he came back engaged.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Right. Well, I mean, I've known other friends who they they go to Ind - they go back home to India for a month, they come back married,", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Yeah. I know. I know, I know,", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "you know, huh.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "and then of course then what happened with Narayanan was that he start pushing me that he needs to get a PHD because they wouldn't give him his wife. And she's very pretty and he loves her and so so we had to really.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "So he finally had some incentive to finish,", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Oh yeah. We had well I had a incentive because he he always had this plan except he never told me.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "huh?", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Sort of figured that That was a uh that he uh he told me the day when we did very well at our NIST evaluations of speaker recognition, the technology, and he was involved there.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Oh.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "We were after presentation we were driving home and he told me.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "When he knew you were happy,", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Yeah. So I I said \" well, yeah, OK \" so he took another another three quarter of the year but uh he was out.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "huh?", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "So I wouldn't surprise me if he has a plan like that, though though uh Pratibha still needs to get out first.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Cuz Pratibha is there a a year earlier.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "And S and Satya needs to get out very first because he's he already has uh four years served, though one year he was getting masters. So. So.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "So have the um when is the next uh evaluation? June or something?", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Which? Speaker recognition?", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "No, for uh Aurora?", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Uh there, we don't know about evaluation, next meeting is in June.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "And uh uh but like getting get together.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Oh, OK. Are people supposed to rerun their systems,", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Nobody said that yet.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "or?", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "I assume so. Uh yes, uh, but nobody even set up yet the date for uh delivering uh endpointed data.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Hmm. Wow.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "And this uh that that sort of stuff. But I uh, yeah, what I think would be of course extremely useful, if we can come to our next meeting and say \" well you know we did get fifty percent improvement. If if you are interested we eventually can tell you how \", but uh we can get fifty percent improvement.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Because people will s will be saying it's impossible.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Hmm. Do you know what the new baseline is? Oh, I guess if you don't have.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Twenty - two t twenty twenty - two percent better than the old baseline.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Using your uh voice activity detector?", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "u Yes. Yes. But I assume that it will be similar, I don't I I don't see the reason why it shouldn't be.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Similar, yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "I d I don't see reason why it should be worse.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Cuz if it is worse, then we will raise the objection,", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "we say \" well you know how come? \" Because eh if we just use our voice activity detector, which we don't claim even that it's wonderful, it's just like one of them.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "We get this sort of improvement, how come that we don't see it on on on on your endpointed data?", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Yeah. I guess it could be even better,", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "I think so.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "because the voice activity detector that I choosed is something that cheating, it's using the alignment of the speech recognition system,", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "Yeah. C yeah uh", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "and only the alignment on the clean channel, and then mapped this alignment to the noisy channel.", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "and on clean speech data. Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Oh, OK.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Well David told me David told me yesterday or Harry actually he told Harry from QualComm and Harry uh brought up the suggestion we should still go for fifty percent he says are you aware that your system does only thirty percent uh comparing to to endpointed baselines? So they must have run already something.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "Hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "So. And Harry said \" Yeah. But I mean we think that we we didn't say the last word yet, that we have other other things which we can try. \"", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "So. So there's a lot of discussion now about this uh new criterion. Because Nokia was objecting, with uh QualComm's we basically supported that, we said \" yes \".", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm. Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "Now everybody else is saying \" well you guys might must be out of your mind. \" uh The Guenter Hirsch who d doesn't speak for Ericsson anymore because he is not with Ericsson and Ericsson may not may withdraw from the whole Aurora activity because they have so many troubles now.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Wow.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Ericsson's laying off twenty percent of people.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Wow.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "Where's uh Guenter going?", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Well Guenter is already he got the job uh already was working on it for past two years or three years.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "he got a job uh at some some Fachschule, the technical college not too far from Aachen.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Hmm!", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "So it's like professor u university professor", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "you know, not quite a university, not quite a sort of it's not Aachen University, but it's a good school and he he's happy.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm. Hmm!", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "And he well, he was hoping to work uh with Ericsson like on t uh like consulting basis, but right now he says says it doesn't look like that anybody is even thinking about speech recognition.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "They think about survival.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Wow!", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "So. So. But this is being now discussed right now, and it's possible that uh that that it may get through, that we will still stick to fifty percent.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "But that means that nobody will probably get this im this improvement. yet, wi with the current system. Which event es essentially I think that we should be happy with because that that would mean that at least people may be forced to look into alternative solutions", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "and.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm. But maybe I I mean we are not too far from from fifty percent, from the new baseline.", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "Uh, but not.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Which would mean like sixty percent over the current baseline, which is.", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "Yeah. Yes. Yes. We we getting we getting there, right.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Well. We are around fifty, fifty - five.", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "So.", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "Is it like sort of is How did you come up with this number? If you improve twenty by twenty percent the c the f the all baselines, it's just a quick c comp co computation?", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Yeah. I don't know exactly if it's.", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "Uh - huh. I think it's about right.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Yeah, because it de it depends on the weightings", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "Yeah, yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "and Yeah. But. Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "Hmm. How's your documentation or whatever it w what was it you guys were working on last week?", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Yeah, finally we we've not finished with this. We stopped.", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "More or less it's finished.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "Ma - nec to need a little more time to improve the English, and maybe s to fill in something some small detail, something like that,", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "Hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "but it's more or less ready.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Yeah. Well, we have a document that explain a big part of the experiments,", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "Necessary to to include the bi the bibliography.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "but", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "it's not, yeah, finished yet. Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "So have you been running some new experiments? I I thought I saw some jobs of yours running on some of the machine.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Yeah. Right. We've fff done some strange things like removing C - zero or C - one from the the vector of parameters, and we noticed that C - one is almost not useful at all. You can remove it from the vector, it doesn't hurt.", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "Really?! That has no effect?", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Um.", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "Eh Is this in the baseline? or in uh.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "In the No, in the proposal.", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "in uh - huh, uh - huh.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "So we were just discussing, since you mentioned that, in it w", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "driving in the car with Morgan this morning, we were discussing a good experiment for b for beginning graduate student who wants to run a lot of who wants to get a lot of numbers on something", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "which is, like, \" imagine that you will you will start putting every co any coefficient, which you are using in your vector, in some general power.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "In some what?", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "General pow power. Like sort of you take a s power of two, or take a square root, or something.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "So suppose that you are working with a s C - zer C - one.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "So if you put it in a s square root, that effectively makes your model half as efficient. Because uh your uh Gaussian mixture model, right? computes the mean.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "And and uh i i i but it's the mean is an exponent of the whatever, the the this Gaussian function.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "You're compressing the range,", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "So you're compressing the range of this coefficient, so it's becoming less efficient.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "right? of that.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Right?", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "So. So. Morgan was @ @ and he was he was saying well this might be the alternative way how to play with a with a fudge factor, you know, uh in the.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Oh.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "you know, just compress the whole vector.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "And I said \" well in that case why don't we just start compressing individual elements, like when when because in old days we were doing when when people still were doing template matching and Euclidean distances, we were doing this liftering of parameters, right?", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Uh - huh.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "because we observed that uh higher parameters were more important than lower for recognition. And basically the the C - ze C - one contributes mainly slope,", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "and it's highly affected by uh frequency response of the of the recording equipment and that sort of thing,", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "so so we were coming with all these f various lifters.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "uh Bell Labs had he this uh uh r raised cosine lifter which still I think is built into H HTK for reasons n unknown to anybody, but but uh we had exponential lifter, or triangle lifter, basic number of lifters.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "And. But so they may be a way to to fiddle with the f with the f", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Insertions.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Insertions, deletions, or the the giving a relative uh basically modifying relative importance of the various parameters.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "The only of course problem is that there's an infinite number of combinations and if the if you s if y", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Oh. Uh - huh. You need like a some kind of a.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Yeah, you need a lot of graduate students, and a lot of computing power.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "You need to have a genetic algorithm, that basically tries random permutations of these things.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "I know. Exactly. Oh. If you were at Bell Labs or I d d I shouldn't be saying this in on on a mike, right? Or I uh IBM, that's what maybe that's what somebody would be doing.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Hmm.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "Oh, I mean, I mean the places which have a lot of computing power, so because it is really it's a p it's a it's it will be reasonable search", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm. Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "uh but I wonder if there isn't some way of doing this uh search like when we are searching say for best discriminants.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "You know actually, I don't know that this wouldn't be all that bad. I mean you you compute the features once,", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Yeah. Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "right? And then these exponents are just applied to that.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Absolutely. And hev everything is fixed.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "So.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Everything is fixed. Each each.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "And is this something that you would adjust for training? or only recognition?", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "For both, you would have to do. Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "You would do it on both.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "You have to do bo both.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "So you'd actually.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Because essentially you are saying \" uh this feature is not important \".", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Or less important, so that's th that's a that's a painful one, yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "So for each uh set of exponents that you would try, it would require a training and a recognition?", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Yeah. But but wait a minute. You may not need to re uh uh retrain the m model. You just may n may need to c uh give uh less weight to to uh a mod uh a component of the model which represents this particular feature. You don't have to retrain it.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Oh. So if you Instead of altering the feature vectors themselves, you you modify the the the Gaussians in the models.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "You just multiply. Yeah. Yep. You modify the Gaussian in the model, but in the in the test data you would have to put it in the power, but in a training what you c in a training uh in trained model, all you would have to do is to multiply a model by appropriate constant.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Uh - huh. But why if you're if you're multi if you're altering the model, why w in the test data, why would you have to muck with the uh cepstral coefficients?", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Because in uh test in uh test data you ca don't have a model. You have uh only data. But in a in a tr", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "No. But you're running your data through that same model.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "That is true, but w I mean, so what you want to do You want to say if uh obs you if you observe something like Stephane observes, that C - one is not important, you can do two things.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm. Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "If you have a trained trained recognizer, in the model, you know the the the the component which I I mean di dimension wh", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm. All of the all of the mean and variances that correspond to C - one, you put them to zero.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "To the s you you know it. But what I'm proposing now, if it is important but not as important, you multiply it by point one in a model.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "But but but.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "But what are you multiplying? Cuz those are means, right?", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "You're multiplying the standard deviation?", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "I mean you're.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "So it's.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "I think that you multiply the I would I would have to look in the in the math, I mean how how does the model uh.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "I think you.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Yeah, I think you'd have to modify the standard deviation or something, so that you make it wider or narrower.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Cuz Yeah.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "Effectively, that's that that's I Exactly. That's what you do. That's what you do, you you you modify the standard deviation as it was trained.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "Effectively you, you know y in f in front of the of the model, you put a constant. S yeah effectively what you're doing is you is you are modifying the the the deviation. Right?", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "The spread,", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "Oop.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "right.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "Sorry.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Yeah, the spread.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "It's the same same mean,", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "So.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "right?", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "And and and.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "So by making th the standard deviation narrower, uh your scores get worse for.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "unless it's exactly right on the mean.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Your als No. By making it narrower,", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Right?", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "uh y your.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "I mean there's you're you're allowing for less variance.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "Yes, so you making this particular dimension less important. Because see what you are fitting is the multidimensional Gaussian, right?", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "It's a it has it has uh thirty - nine dimensions, or thirteen dimensions if you g ignore deltas and double - deltas.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm. Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "So in order if you in order to make dimension which which Stephane sees uh less important, uh uh I mean not not useful, less important, what you do is that this particular component in the model you can multiply by w you can you can basically de - weight it in the model. But you can't do it in a in a test data because you don't have a model for th I mean uh when the test comes, but what you can do is that you put this particular component in and and you compress it. That becomes uh th gets less variance, subsequently becomes less important.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Couldn't you just do that to the test data and not do anything with your training data?", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "That would be very bad, because uh your t your model was trained uh expecting uh, that wouldn't work. Because your model was trained expecting a certain var variance on C - one.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Uh - huh.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "And because the model thinks C - one is important. After you train the model, you sort of y you could do you could do still what I was proposing initially, that during the training you you compress C - one that becomes then it becomes less important in a training.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "But if you have if you want to run e ex extensive experiment without retraining the model, you don't have to retrain the model. You train it on the original vector. But after, you wh when you are doing this parametric study of importance of C - one you will de - weight the C - one component in the model, and you will put in the you will compress the this component in a in the test data. s by the same amount.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Could you also if you wanted to if you wanted to try an experiment uh by leaving out say, C - one, couldn't you, in your test data, uh modify the all of the C - one values to be um way outside of the normal range of the Gaussian for C - one that was trained in the model? So that effectively, the C - one never really contributes to the score?", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "No, that would be a severe mismatch,", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Do you know what I'm say", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "right? what you are proposing? N no you don't want that.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Yeah, someth", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Because that would then your model would be unlikely. Your likelihood would be low, right? Because you would be providing severe mismatch.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm. But what if you set if to the mean of the model, then? And it was a cons you set all C - ones coming in through your test data, you you change whatever value that was there to the mean that your model had.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "No that would be very good match, right?", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "That you would.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Which Well, yeah, but we have several means. So.", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "I see what you are sa saying,", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Right?", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "Saying.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "but uh, no, no I don't think that it would be the same. I mean, no, the If you set it to a mean, that would No, you can't do that. Y you ca you ca Ch - Chuck, you can't do that.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Oh, that's true, right, yeah, because you you have.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Wait. Which.", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "Because that would be a really f fiddling with the data,", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "you can't do that.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm. Mm - hmm..", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "But what you can do, I'm confident you ca", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "well, I'm reasonably confident and I putting it on the record, right? I mean y people will listen to it for for centuries now, is what you can do, is you train the model uh with the with the original data.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "Then you decide that you want to see how important C C - one is. So what you will do is that a component in the model for C - one, you will divide it by by two. And you will compress your test data by square root.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Then you will still have a perfect m match. Except that this component of C - one will be half as important in a in a overall score.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm. Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Then you divide it by four and you take a square, f fourth root. Then if you think that some component is more is more important then th th th it then then uh uh i it is, based on training, then you uh multiply this particular component in the model by by by.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "You're talking about the standard deviation?", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Yeah, multiply this component uh i it by number b larger than one,", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "and you put your data in power higher than one. Then it becomes more important. In the overall score, I believe.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Yeah, but, at the.", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "But don't you have to do something to the mean, also?", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "No.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "No.", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "No.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "But I think it's uh the The variance is on on the denominator in the in the Gaussian equation. So. I think it's maybe it's the contrary. If you want to decrease the importance of a c parameter, you have to increase it's variance.", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "Yes. Right. Yes.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Multiply.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "Exactly. Yeah. So you so you may want to do it other way around,", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Hmm. That's right. OK.", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "But if your If your um original data for C - one had a mean of two.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Uh - huh.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "And now you're you're you're changing that by squaring it. Now your mean of your C - one original data has is four. But your model still has a mean of two. So even though you've expended the range, your mean doesn't match anymore.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "Let's see.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Do you see what I mean?", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "I think What I see What could be done is you don't change your features, which are computed once for all,", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "Uh - huh.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "but you just tune the model. So. You have your features. You train your your model on these features.", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "And then if you want to decrease the importance of C - one you just take the variance of the C - one component in the in the model and increase it if you want to decrease the importance of C - one or decrease it.", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Yeah. You would have to modify the mean in the model. I you I agree with you. Yeah. Yeah, but I mean, but it's it's i it's do - able,", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Well.", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "Yeah, so y", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "right? I mean, it's predictable. Uh. Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "It's predictable, yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Yeah. Yeah, it's predictable.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Mmm.", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "Yeah. But as a simple thing, you could just just muck with the variance.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Just adjust the model, yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "to get uh this uh this the effect I think that you're talking about,", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "right?", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "It might be.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Could increase the variance to decrease the importance.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "Yeah, because if you had a huge variance, you're dividing by a large number, you get a very small contribution.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Doesn't matter.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "Yeah, it becomes more flat", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "and.", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Yeah, the sharper the variance, the more more important to get that one right.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "Hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Yeah, you know actually, this reminds me of something that happened uh when I was at BBN. We were playing with putting um pitch into the Mandarin recognizer.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "And this particular pitch algorithm um when it didn't think there was any voicing, was spitting out zeros. So we were getting uh when we did clustering, we were getting groups uh of features", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "p Pretty new outliers, interesting outliers, right?", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "yeah, with with a mean of zero and basically zero variance.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Variance.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "So, when ener when anytime any one of those vectors came in that had a zero in it, we got a great score. I mean it was just, you know, incredibly high score, and so that was throwing everything off.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "So if you have very small variance you get really good scores when you get something that matches.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "So. So that's a way, yeah, yeah That's a way to increase the yeah, n That's interesting. So in fact, that would be That doesn't require any retraining.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Yeah. No. No.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "No, that's right. So it's", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "So that means it's just", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "just tuning the models and testing, actually.", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "recognitions.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "It would be quick.", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "You you have a step where you you modify the models, make a d copy of your models with whatever variance modifications you make, and rerun recognition.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "And then do a whole bunch of those.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "That could be set up fairly easily I think, and you have a whole bunch of you know.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Chuck is getting himself in trouble.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "That's an interesting idea, actually. For testing the Yeah. Huh!", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Didn't you say you got these uh HTK's set up on the new Linux boxes?", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "That's right.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "Hey!", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "In fact, and and they're just t right now they're installing uh increasing the memory on that uh the Linux box.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "And Chuck is sort of really fishing for how to keep his computer busy,", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "right?", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Yeah. Absinthe.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Well, you know, that's.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Absinthe. We've got five processors on that.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Oh yeah.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "that's yeah, that's a good thing", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "That's right.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "because then y you just write the \" do \" - loops and then you pretend that you are working while you are sort of you c you can go fishing.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "And two gigs of memory.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Pretend, yeah.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "Exactly. Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Go fishing.", "speakerName": "PhD D" }, { "text": "See how many cycles we used?", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Yeah. Then you are sort of in this mode like all of those ARPA people are, right?", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Uh, since it is on the record, I can't say uh which company it was, but it was reported to me that uh somebody visited a company and during a d during a discussion, there was this guy who was always hitting the carriage returns uh on a computer.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Uh - huh.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "So after two hours uh the visitor said \" wh why are you hitting this carriage return? \" And he said \" well you know, we are being paid by a computer ty I mean we are we have a government contract. And they pay us by by amount of computer time we use. \" It was in old days when there were uh of PDP - eights and that sort of thing.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Oh, my gosh! So he had to make it look like.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Because so they had a they literally had to c monitor at the time at the time on a computer how much time is being spent I i i or on on this particular project.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Yeah. How Idle time.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Nobody was looking even at what was coming out.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Have you ever seen those little um It's it's this thing that's the shape of a bird and it has a red ball and its beak dips into the water?", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Yeah, I know, right.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "So if you could hook that up so it hit the keyboard.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "That's an interesting experiment.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "It would be similar similar to I knew some people who were uh that was in old Communist uh Czechoslovakia, right? so we were watching for American airplanes, coming to spy on on uh on us at the time,", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm. Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "so there were three guys uh uh stationed in the middle of the woods on one l lonely uh watching tower, pretty much spending a year and a half there because there was this service right? And so they very quickly they made friends with local girls and local people in the village", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Ugh!", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "and.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "and so but they there was one plane flying over s always uh uh above, and so that was the only work which they had. They like four in the afternoon they had to report there was a plane from Prague to Brno Basically f flying there,", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "so they f very q f first thing was that they would always run back and and at four o' clock and and quickly make a call, \" this plane is uh uh passing \" then a second thing was that they they took the line from this u u post to uh uh a local pub. And they were calling from the pub. And they but third thing which they made, and when they screwed up, they finally they had to p the the p the pub owner to make these phone calls because they didn't even bother to be there anymore. And one day there was there was no plane. At least they were sort of smart enough that they looked if the plane is flying there, right? And the pub owner says \" oh my four o' clock, OK, quickly p pick up the phone, call that there's a plane flying. \"", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "There was no plane for some reason,", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "And there wasn't?", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "it was downed, or and so they got in trouble. But. But uh.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Huh! Well that's that's a really i", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "So. So. Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "That wouldn't be too difficult to try.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Maybe I could set that up.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "And we'll just.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Well, at least go test the s test the uh assumption about C - C - one I mean to begin with. But then of course one can then think about some predictable result to change all of them.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "It's just like we used to do these uh these uh um the the uh distance measures. It might be that uh.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Yeah, so the first set of uh variance weighting vectors would be just you know one modifying one and leaving the others the same.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Yeah. Maybe.", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "And and do that for each one.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Because you see, I mean, what is happening here in a in a in a in such a model is that it's tells you yeah what has a low variance uh is uh is uh is more reliable,", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "That would be one set of experiment.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "right? How do we.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Wh - yeah, when the data matches that, then you get really.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Yeah. Right.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "How do we know, especially when it comes to noise?", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "But there could just naturally be low variance.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Yeah?", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Because I Like, I've noticed in the higher cepstral coefficients, the numbers seem to get smaller, right? So d", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "They t", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "I mean, just naturally.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "Yeah, th that's.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "They have smaller means, also. Uh.", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "Yeah. Exactly. And so it seems like they're already sort of compressed.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Uh - huh.", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "The range of values.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Yeah that's why uh people used these lifters were inverse variance weighting lifters basically that makes uh uh Euclidean distance more like uh Mahalanobis distance with a diagonal covariance when you knew what all the variances were over the old data.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm. Mm - hmm. Hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "What they would do is that they would weight each coefficient by inverse of the variance. Turns out that uh the variance decreases at least at fast, I believe, as the index of the cepstral coefficients. I think you can show that uh uh analytically.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "So typically what happens is that you you need to weight the uh weight the higher coefficients more than uh the lower coefficients.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Hmm. Mm - hmm. Hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "So.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Mmm.", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "When Yeah. When we talked about Aurora still I wanted to m make a plea uh encourage for uh more communication between between uh uh different uh parts of the distributed uh uh center. Uh even when there is absolutely nothing to to s to say but the weather is good in Ore - in in Berkeley. I'm sure that it's being appreciated in Oregon and maybe it will generate similar responses down here, like, uh.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "We can set up a webcam maybe.", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "What you know, nowadays, yeah. It's actually do - able, almost.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Is the um if we mail to \" Aurora - inhouse \", does that go up to you guys also?", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "I don't think so. No.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "No.", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "OK.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "So we should do that.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "So i What is it.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "We should definitely set up.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Yeah we sh Do we have a mailing list that includes uh the OGI people?", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Uh no. We don't have.", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "Uh - huh.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Oh! Maybe we should set that up. That would make it much easier.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Yeah. Yeah. Yeah, that would make it easier.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "So maybe just call it \" Aurora \" or something that would.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Yeah. Yeah. And then we also can send the the dis to the same address right, and it goes to everybody", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm. Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "OK. Maybe we can set that up.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Because what's happening naturally in research, I know, is that people essentially start working on something and they don't want to be much bothered, right? but what the the then the danger is in a group like this, is that two people are working on the same thing and i c of course both of them come with the s very good solution, but it could have been done somehow in half of the effort or something.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Oh, there's another thing which I wanted to uh uh report. Lucash, I think, uh wrote the software for this Aurora - two system. reasonably uh good one, because he's doing it for Intel, but I trust that we have uh rights to uh use it uh or distribute it and everything. Cuz Intel's intentions originally was to distribute it free of charge anyways.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Hmm!", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "u s And so so uh we we will make sure that at least you can see the software and if if if if it is of any use. Just uh.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "It might be a reasonable point for p perhaps uh start converging.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "Because Morgan's point is that He is an experienced guy. He says \" well you know it's very difficult to collaborate if you are working with supposedly the same thing, in quotes, except which is not s is not the same.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Which which uh uh one is using that set of hurdles, another one set is using another set of hurdles. So. And And then it's difficult to c compare.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "What about Harry? Uh. We received a mail last week and you are starting to to do some experiments.", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "He got the he got the software. Yeah. They sent the release.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "And use this Intel version.", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "Yeah because Intel paid us uh should I say on a microphone? uh some amount of money, not much. Not much I can say on a microphone. Much less then we should have gotten for this amount of work. And they wanted uh to to have software so that they can also play with it, which means that it has to be in a certain environment.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "they use actu actually some Intel libraries, but in the process, Lucash just rewrote the whole thing because he figured rather than trying to f make sense uh of uh including ICSI software uh not for training on the nets", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Oh.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "but I think he rewrote the the the or so maybe somehow reused over the parts of the thing so that so that the whole thing, including MLP, trained MLP is one piece of uh software.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm. Wow!", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Is it useful?", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Ye - Yeah.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "Yeah?", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "I mean, I remember when we were trying to put together all the ICSI software for the submission.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "Or That's what he was saying, right. He said that it was like it was like just so many libraries and nobody knew what was used when, and and so that's where he started and that's where he realized that it needs to be needs to be uh uh at least cleaned up,", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "and so I think it this is available.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Hmm.", "speakerName": "Grad A" }, { "text": "So.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Yeah. Well, the the only thing I would check is if he does he use Intel math libraries,", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "uh e ev", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "because if it's the case, it's maybe not so easy to use it on another architecture.", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "n not maybe Maybe not in a first maybe not in a first ap approximation because I think he started first just with a plain C C or C - plus - plus or something before.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Ah yeah. Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "I I can check on that. Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "Hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "And uh in otherwise the Intel libraries, I think they are available free of f freely. But they may be running only on on uh on uh Windows.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Yeah..", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "Or on on the.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "On Intel architecture maybe.", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "Yeah, on Intel architecture, may not run in SUN.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "I'm Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "That is p that is that is possible. That's why Intel of course is distributing it,", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Well.", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "right? Or That's.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Yeah. Well there are at least there are optimized version for their architecture.", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "I don't know. I never checked carefully these sorts of.", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "I know there was some issues that initially of course we d do all the development on Linux but we use we don't have we have only three uh uh uh uh s SUNs and we have them only because they have a SPERT board in. Otherwise otherwise we t almost exclusively are working with uh PC's now, with Intel. In that way Intel succeeded with us, because they gave us too many good machines for very little money or nothing.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "So. So. So we run everything on Intel.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Wow!", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "And.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Hmm. Does anybody have anything else? to Shall we read some digits?", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD C" }, { "text": "Yes. I have to take my glasses.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "So. Hynek, I don't know if you've ever done this.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "No.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "The way that it works is each person goes around in turn, and uh you say the transcript number and then you read the digits, the the strings of numbers as individual digits.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "So you don't say \" eight hundred and fifty \", you say \" eight five oh \", and so forth.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "OK. OK. So can maybe can I t maybe start then?", "speakerName": "Professor B" }, { "text": "Um. Sure.", "speakerName": "PhD E" } ] }

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{ "meetingId": "ES2010b", "transcriptSegments": [ { "text": "Okay. Um welcome to our second meeting. This is the functional design meeting. And I hope you all had a good individual working time. Okay, let's get started. Okay, here's the agenda for the meeting. After the opening um I am going to fulfil the role of secretary, take the meeting minutes. And we're gonna have three presentations, one from each of you. Then we're gonna discuss some new project requirements. Um gonna come to a decision on the functions of the remote control. And then we're gonna close up the meeting. And we're gonna do this all in about forty minutes. Okay. First I want to discuss the goals of this meeting. First we need to determine the user requirements and the question that we can ask ourselves is what needs and desires are to be fulfilled by this remote control. And then we're going to determine the technical functions, what is the effect of the apparatus, what actually is it supposed to do, what do people pick up the remote and use it for. And then lastly we're going to determine its working design, how exactly will it perform its functions, that's the whole technical side of'Kay I'll just give you a minute,'cause it looks like you're making some notes.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "'Kay. Oh, well let's go ahead and,", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "back, previous.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "So what I wanna do right now is hear from all three of you, on your research that you just did. Who would like to start us off?'Kay.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "I don't mind going first.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Okay. Um do you have a PowerPoint or no?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah, it's in the should be in the m Project.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Do you want us to do our PowerPoints now or.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "You know you could you could do it yourself actually.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Oh.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Did you send it?", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Save it in the project documents.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Put it in Project Documents,", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Mm-mm-mm. This one?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Sure..", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Okay. Great.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Okay. Um well, the function of a remote control, as what uh we've been informed, is basically to send messages to the television set, for example, switch it on, switch it off, go to this channel, go to channel nine, turn the volume up, etcetera. Um some of the considerations is just um for example the what it needs to include it's the numbers, you know, zero to nine, so you can move to a channel, the power button on slash off, the channel going up and down, volume going up and down, and then mute, a mute function. And then functions for V_H_S_, D_V_D_, for example, play, rewind, fast-forward, stop, pause, enter. And enter would be for like, you know, the menus. And then other menus for D_V_ as well as T_V_, whether that means like um we can go and decide the brightness of the screen, things like that, all the more complicated functions of menus.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "And we can decide if that's what we want,, um if we want to include that on the remote, if that's something that would stay on the T_V_ itself, for example.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Okay. Okay.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "These are two examples. Um and you can see on the left, it's got a lot more buttons,", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "and I don't know if you can read it, but it says, step, go to, freeze, um slow, repeat, program, mute, and so those are some of the buttons and so it gives you an idea of s one example. And then on the right, it's a lot more simpler, it's got volume, it's got the play the like circle set, which is play, rewind, but it's also what is fast-forward is also like next on a menu. So you have functions that are d uh duplicating.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "And you have a mute button and then the numbers and the eject, and the power button. So that gives you two different kinds, a more complex and more simple version. Okay.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Ready.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "And then lastly, it's just the questions that we want to consider like what functions do we want it to include, and how simple, complex it should be? And what functions it needs to complete. Uh, what are needed to complete insulation process,'cause, you know, that's something that also has to be considered and it's gonna be hopefully a one-time thing, when you set it up it should be set to go, but we have to include the functions that can allow it to set up i in the first place.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "So that's it.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Alright. Very good presentation. Thank you. You speak with such authority on the matter.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm. Left.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Okay. Who would like to um follow that one up? Now, that we've discussed.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "I can go.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Okay. Do you want me to run it or you wanna.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah, you should run it.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Okay. Functional requirements.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm yes.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "'Kay. Alright. Now we have Courtney with the functional requirements.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yes, okay so we tested a hundred subjects in our lab, and we just we watched them and we also made them fill out a questionnaire, and we found that the users are not typically happy with current remote controls. Seventy five percent think they're ugly. Eighty percent want they've are willing to spend more, which is good news for us um if we make it look fancier, and basically w we just need something that really I mean there's some other points up there, but they it needs to be snazzy and it but yet simple.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Wait.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "So that's really what we need to do. And we need we need it to be simple, yet it needs to be high-tech looking. So.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "And that meaning what?", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Like They like I guess use the buttons a lot.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "I don't know. It's from my uh research.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Okay, what do you m", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "My team wasn't very clear.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Oh, I'm sorry.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Only use ten percent of the buttons.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "What do you mean by um the current remote controls do not match well with the operating behaviour of the user, like they have to press the buttons.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "That's okay. I I think it's like the engineering versus user,", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "whereas like the engineering she showed that the engineering ones are more complex", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Oh, right.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "and users don't really need all of the buttons that are contained on there, because they only use ten percent of the buttons really.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "The buttons. Okay.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah. Okay.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "We only use ten per cent of our brains..", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Good point.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "It works.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "It's a necessary evil.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Ready for the next slide?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm. And so people say that they typically lose it, as you yourself know, because you probably lose your remote control all the time,", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Hmm.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "much like any small appliance like a cellphone,", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Lost.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "and they we need something simple, because most people, well thirty four percent say that it's just too much time to learn how to use a new one, and we don't want to go we don't want to vary too far from the normal standard remote,", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "S", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "but I mean they do need to be able to identify it, and R_S_I_, I'm not very sure what that is.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "It's okay. It's very important..", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yes, it is important for the remote control world.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Wait, is that like your ergonomics like your hand movements or something?", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Sh", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Could be, yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Uh possibly.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Do we really need t to provide more information on what R_S_I_ is?", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Like.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Oh.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Uh yeah, that's what my web site said, I", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Channel, volume, power.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "I think that's a pretty good guess though.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "don't know.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah, I would assume so.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "It's like if you're holding it.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "I think we're supposed to know it as remote control experts.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah. It's okay..", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "But also s so the channel, the volume and the power buttons are the most important on our company website you can find like the specific statistics concerning to how much each button is used, but those are the definitely the top ones.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Okay. Next slide?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yes. And so personally I think that we need a modern eye-catching design, but it it really needs to be simple. So saying from y your slide, your presentation, the engineering versus the user-specified remotes, I think that we should go with something that's more user-friendly.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "User-friendly.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Where the engineering ones, the boxes, tend to make it look more complicated than it really is. Um the functionality of the product really needs to be considered as to like what type of buttons do we really need on it. And it needs to be open to a wide range of consumers, so even though we need a small number of buttons, we also need to take in like are most people going to be using it for a D_V_D_ player, a TiVo, what what exactly are we using it for, as well as the age range. So we need a hip, but not a corny marketing scheme for promoting our product.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "And also we found our team found that speech recognition is it's like an up-and-coming thing they really consumers are really interested in it, and since our findings found that people are willing to pay more money for a remote for it to be more high-class we could consider it.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "And so just to just to clarify by speech recognition you mean they would say, channel five, and the thing would go to channel five?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "I guess so, yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "to just say, where are you, and thing beeps, you know..", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Oh, that'd be lovely.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah, I guess we can interpret it like, we can just try out different types of speech recognition within our remote programme.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Didn't they um didn't our rival companies manufacture a remote that you would press the button on the T_V_ and it would the remote would beep so if you have lost it.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "It's kinda like what the remote phone used to do.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Mm. Oh, yeah, that's true.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "You know like go to the base.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "We could definitely include that if we wanted to.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "If it's within our price. Okay. Are we ready for our last presentation, Amber?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah, I'm just trying to move it.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "'Kay. I think it should be there, working design.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Working design.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "There we go.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "'Kay.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "'Kay. Uh I didn't get a chance to complete this one,'cause some of the tools that I was given were frustrating.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Oh my bad..", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Oh that's fine.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Uh okay, so method method of our design, I think I just start listing th some of the things that we actually need to put into this.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Help me.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "We need a power source, we're gonna need a smart chip if we're gonna make it multi-functional. Um extra functions will probably need an additional chip. Either that or the smart chip will have to be extremely smart.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "What exactly is a smart chip?", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Usually a smart chip is just a chip that's been programmed and designed so that it can complete a fair range of functions.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Well, how much extra would the additional chip be? Is that gonna push us over our production costs?", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "I wouldn't think so,'cause we could probably get it from like, in bulk, from a a newer company. And they tend to sell their chips pretty cheap.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Okay. Ready?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Um yep, nothing here.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "That's okay.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Um power source, I figured, batteries,'cause they're easily available. Typically a remote has either two double A_s or four triple A_s, sometimes three. Uh it really kinda depends on the size of the actual remote itself.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Um a large on-off button, demographically we're moving towards an older generation of people, so a large on-off button would probably be good.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Hmm.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Selection button for various entertainment devices, so you want something that will permit you to select the D_V_D_ player or the T_V_ or the stereo system. Um smart chip that perverts uh that permits, sorry, universal application again, something that'll allow us to skip over between devices, and that's kinda it.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Uh this is my fifty second design.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Power source over here. We're gonna have a switch obviously between the power source and the rest of it, and you're gonna need the switch. Um extra bulb could just be for flashiness, um subcomponent which would be like a way of diverting the power to different parts of the the device. Um the chip and of course the infra-red bulb, so it can communicate with the various devices that it needs to talk to.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "So what exactly we are looking at, is this like the front of the remote?", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "This is just like a rough schematic.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "So this would be the front?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "So this is the internal workings.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "So the red would be the front of the remote though, right?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Oh okay.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah, that's gonna be what's communicating with the T_V_, but the other bulb, I think, is good to just to indicate, I'm doing something, it's sort of like a reassurance.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "The l the light up kind of.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah, so you don't have to stare at that infra-red,", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Like that we know the battery's working.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "'cause you know when the battery starts dying in your remote currently, you have to actually stare at that bulb and go, okay, when I push this button, is it working?", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Hmm. It'd probably be lighting up the key too,", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "We can skip that whole thing.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "right?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yep.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "'Kay.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "So you can put it in the dark..", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "The buttons.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah, and that's good.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "We should make it glow in the dark..", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah, definitely.'Kay nex R Ready?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah, that's it.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "'Kay, any p'Kay?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm'kay.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Anything you wanna add for personal preferences though, you f you said already that we needed a large on-off button, you think. Anything else?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "I think that that's a good idea, because you know that's one of the most important buttons.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Just.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Well, should it be larger buttons in general, you know like uh the examples that I had, they were swi quite small. So should we try and go for something that has l larger buttons?", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "I think we should. Like I think that would be in a as in like in for the design, sorry, um. I think we should definitely go with buttons that don't look like a normal remote,'cause most remotes have small square buttons,", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "I think we should do something like maybe bigger and round like bubbles.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Ovals. Yeah, yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Okay. Okay, let's talk about all of our We'll come to decision later about all the components that we need to include, let's um wrap up this one, and I'm gonna go back to my PowerPoint,'cause we need to discuss the new project requirements which you might've already seen flashed up on the screen a bit earlier. Wait, come back. Alright. Sorry, let's go through this. Alright. Here we go. New product requirements. First it's only going to be a T_V_ remote. We're trying not to over-complicate things. So no D_V_D_, no TiVo, no stereo.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "It's not gonna be multi-functional.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Hey. And we th need to promote our company more, so we need to somehow include our colour and our company slogan on the remote. We're trying to get our name out there in the world. Okay.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "And you know what teletext is?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "in States we don't have it, but um it's like they just have this channel where just has news and weather, kind of sports,", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "I know.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "What is it?", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "it's very um bland looking, it's just text on the screen,", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah,", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "not even.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "it's like black, black and white kind of.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah, just black with just text.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Like running along the bottom?", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "You can also get the kind of the T_V_ guide so.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "It'll give you the sports.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Wait, is it like the Weather Channel where it's got like the ticker running on the bottom or something?", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Kind of.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Except the entire screen.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah it's the whole screen.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "It's the entire screen is just running information at random.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "So anyway.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "You can pick sports, you can pick the news, you entertainment,", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Seemingly.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "you know it's like.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "So it's like a separate channel from like what you're watching?", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Right. But it's becoming out-dated now, because of the Internet.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Nobody needs to go to the teletext channel to check the news, and we have twenty four hour news channels now too, so Those are our new product requirements. Alright. Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "So, do we have to include the company colour within that?", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yes. It's part of the logo. Okay.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Company colour being yellow..", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "What we're going to do right now is come to some decisions, definitive that we can all agree on, about um the target group and the functions and just definite things that we need to do and then we'll close up the meeting. So. Alright. Whatever. Okay. So our target group is You mentioned um older people? Would it just be universal for everyone, you think?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Because I think even if something has large buttons, as long as they are not childishly large, like even technically.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "It's gonna make it nicer. Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "non-technically challenged people are gonna use it. I mean they want something user-friendly, so.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm well, even if we kept the regular standard size of remote, if we reduced the buttons down to the ones that people are saying that they use the most often and a couple extra,", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "'cause they're saying they only use ten per cent of them,", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "then we should be able to accommodate fairly decent sized buttons.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Okay, so we want um for our target group would we say, I mean, young and old, all age ranges, all um, not kids obviously, right? Or kids?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "No, kids need to know how to use a remote, I would think.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Most of them will intuitively pick it up though.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "They gotta change between Disney Channel, Cartoon Network.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Okay, so we're going to go anywhere from kids to adult in the age range.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah, I think we need it all.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Um what about technic technical um specifications, like how how technically literate are these people who are going to be using our remote?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Um I would say we should say dumber than the average person.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "We should go for the lowest denominator.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Right, okay. So so they need no technical experience to operate.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "High school educated.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "how'bout little to no, because there is no way that you are gonna be able to make it no.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Okay. And we also need to determine the specific functions of this, just to get it all out on paper. So we said it needs to send messages to the T_V_, needs to change the channel, turn on and off, just basic simple stuff like this. So if you have something just say it and we'll add it to my meeting minutes.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Well it's channel, on-off button, volume, mute.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm, volume.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "And channel. Yeah. Those are the most important ones.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Right. And we wanna keep um I'll make a note here that we wanna keep the number of buttons down. Correct, because people only use ten percent.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "'Kay. Hey, what else?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Um.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Um.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Do we want this thing to be able to be found easily?", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "I think so. What do you.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Sure, yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "A finding kind of device or.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "And", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "I need we we need a like homing device.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah, ho homing device..", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "like if this is gonna get lost underneath the coach, how are we going to accommodate the quick ability to find it?", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Oh right yeah okay.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Mm'kay.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Tracking.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Because people really are looking for a remote that's more high-tech.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "What if we gave it a charger? And on the charger, just like a phone, like you get a portable phone and it's got a charger, and if you d leave your phone somewhere, you push the button to find it, and it finds th the phone beeps for you.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "But you got a base.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Do you think people'll really go for that though?", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "It's useful for the remote phone.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Because.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Hmm.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Would that add to our costs at all, I wonder?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "I would think so, because you'd have to develop a base.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Well, if you have the base, you could start putting in a charger and then you have a different kind of battery.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Hmm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Rechargeable batteries are cheaper usually.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Okay. I I think we can make a decision about that later. Uh we'll still put that as a point that we need to discuss. So that would include battery source Power source rather. Is it going to have a charger, or is it going to be run strictly off batteries? And we also need to deal with the issue you mentioned of speech recognition, if we want that.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Well, then we could.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Do w", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "If we have the speech recognition then we can start aiming at a like another kind of more handicapped disabled uh demo demographic.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Well, th there's the people who desire speech recognition, there's the different demog demographics have different desires, I don't know if you guys ge", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "You could um we could hook it up.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "It wouldn't copy onto the the thing'cause it's black,", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Oh.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "but all the different age groups have different desires for speech recognition. So basically older people don't really care.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "It's really the people twenty five to thirty five. I feel those are the people that really watch a lot of T_V_ though.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "They're the ones that get addicted to soap operas and", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "And if and if we introduced it when they're this age, they're going to probably always buy a remote that has.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Well.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "just sitcoms and stuff. Right.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Well, then then do you put the voice recognition do you put the r like receiver on the actual television, in the base, or in the actual remote,", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "So.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "'cause then you've already got remote in your hand, why you just gonna speak to the remote,", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "whereas if you just speak in general and you don't have to have the remote in your hand and like talk at it.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah. and the speech recognition could be part of the lost and found device, too. If we said, find remote, locate remote, or something.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "A certain phrase then it could beep. I dunno. Just throwing it out there.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Well.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Still fifteen minutes.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Okay, anything else we wanna discuss?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Um. Well, do we wanna include the numbers like zero through nine? Can we conceive of leaving them out?", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Um.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Wait, on the remote itself?", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah, like you have one, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine, zero.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "How how,", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Well, we definitely need those.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "yeah, how would you leave those out?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Well, I don't know, I mean, if you can like well.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Unless you could say the channel.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "I don't know, if there's just a way of leaving them out?", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "I think people would find that too foreign.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah, that's true.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "And also remember that in this day in age we need, you know, like a hundred button, too.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "You definitely need.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "I used to have a remote that did not even go up past like fifty. So I couldn't whenever I got cable, I had to get a new T_V_.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "It's when we get satellite.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Mm. get your own remote, or digital cable.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "'Kay. Um. I guess, we're gonna discuss the project financing later, making sure that we can fit all of the stuff that we want to on our budget. Um.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah,'cause I don't have any material pricing information available to me at the moment, so.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "'Kay. And don't forget we need to include the colour of our company and the logo.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "The colour being yellow?", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Wait.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "I'm guessing. And the R_R_.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "And how do we.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "I feel like a ye I feel like a yellow one would be too garish.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "R_ the double R_.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "We could just have the logo in yellow,", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Can't make it entirely.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "or maybe a yellow light for the keys.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Or is the l", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Or put like stripes, oh yeah, yellow lights.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah, yellow could be and it could doesn't have to be huge.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Well if you have like a.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Hang on. If you have this sort of strip kind of down at the bottom the base of it, just like yellow with the R_R_.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Right. So we've simplified, we don't need all those um play, fast-forward, rewind,", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Right, yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "or no menu buttons.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "So we've pretty much pared it down to on-off, volume, mute, channel up and down, um the numbers Yeah..", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Um can we go back to I'm gonna look really quickly back at those", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Two examples.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "examples and see if there is anything.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Which one is yours, technical functions or functional requirement?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Oh, it's a Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah, audi audio settings and screen settings, we need those like audio settings mono, stereo, pitch, screen settings like brightness, colour, or do we just want that accessed accessed from the television itself?", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "The T_V_. I think that that's fine just for the T_V_. I mean how often does the average user need to do that kind of stuff?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Well, the other option is sort of like down at the bottom, like farther away, you just have this sort of box inset where it's like the buttons that you don't use as much, but occasionally you will use.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Hmm.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "and so it's like.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah,'cause we need to we definitely need to have buttons for like sub-titles and things like that. It's'cause the foreign film market is expanding and stuff, and like on television like I know f k living in Los Angeles it's tons of Spanish network television if it has English sub-titles it's definitely helpful.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Couldn't we do that all through one button, something, a menu button, that pops up with a menu on the T_V_ that says, you know, audio, video, whatever, language,", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "I don't well, I don't know.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "you know?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "So we need up, down, and side-to-side buttons.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "For the menus.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Well, that could be No you could just double up with like the channel or the volume buttons.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "That's true.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Channel is just up and down.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah, okay. Okay, yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "And then add a.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Something that looks mayb you know.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Such as, yeah, the one the one over there on the left the engineering centred one.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Y right, right right right.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "That one?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "So we just have it like add a menu button then for the various things needed,", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "including v voice recognition if we have any like settings for voice recognition now", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "In the middle perhaps.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "included in the menu.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yep.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Ooh, I just got an idea for a design.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "good. Anybody have anything else they'd like to bring up in this meeting?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "I had something, but I forgot.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Okay. get out of here. Let's go back to the meeting closure then and see what we need to do next. Mm. Alright. After this meeting we're gonna be sent a questionnaire and summary again which we need to reply to that e-mail. And then we're gonna have lunch break. And after lunch thirty minutes of individual work time. Um I'm gonna put the minutes I put the minutes for the first meeting already in the project documents folder, if you'd like to review them. And I'm gonna type up the minutes for this one as well. Um here's what we're each going to do. The I_D_ is going to work on the components concept, um U_I_D_ the user interface concept, and you're going to do some trend watching.'Kay. Specific instructions will be sent to you by your personal coach. And if anybody has anything they would like to add? No? Okay, well, this meeting is officially over. Thank you all.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" } ] }

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{ "meetingId": "ES2007d", "transcriptSegments": [ { "text": "It's Play-Doh.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Play-Doh's edible. Did you know that? It's definitely.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Because kids yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "I used to eat it.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "I've, I've definitely eaten it before. I didn't know was edible..", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah. It's it's chew proof..", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "But um, it's it's made edible'cause, yeah. It's made edible'cause kids eat it,", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "and if it's wasn't edible then Well, normal babies..", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Actually that makes sense, because I remember like, peopl I dunno if my Mom ever did it but I remember other people's Moms making like home-made Play-Doh where you just like make the colouring and make some sort of sort of dough.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Oh yeah it is, yeah. Oh yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Everybody everybody ready?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yep.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Okay, let's have your um let's get have the uh presentation?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "We've got some.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "We've got a cool prototype.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah, it's pretty exciting. So, everything uh that we wanted we wanted it to be ergonomic and to be made out of rubber, very simple and easy to use,", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Double curved.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Nice.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "yeah, double curved,", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "um but also something that was gonna jump out at people, something that would be different uh, separate it from the other remotes out on the market. So uh I think if you put this in the palm of your hand, you'll see what a nice thing we have going here.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "That is cool.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "So, basically, if you hold it like that, the one on your thumb, yeah, the thumb button is the power button.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm. Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Your index finger is channel up, middle finger is channel down, ring finger is volume up, your pinkie is volume down.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "What's the big blue thing?", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "That's the lock button, has a L_ L_ on it", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Oh cool.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "and then the M_ is a mute button. And then it also has digit", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "what button? Um. Oh mute.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "For muting the uh.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "And mute.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Um and then then you can also there's a numeric keypad on the top so you can key directly to the to the channel if you want.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "So it's really basic functionalities as far as what keys are available, but we think it's very comfortable and very innovative and it looks different.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "That certainly does.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "So all the, I mean the important keys are right at your f f you know right at uh at a convenient place for you to to access them.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Which is ant anti-R_S_I_.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "So you don't you Yeah. It should be.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "And it's also conformable to the size of your hand. I mean if that's too big, it's a rubber remote, so you can, you know", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah.'S great.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "change that. So d does that uh what mesh with what you guys were hoping and for and expecting or does it.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Oh it's so cute.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "I have one thing about it, but it's a small thing, but it'd mean we'd have to make a right-handed one and a left-handed one.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Oh right, yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Ah, that's good thinking, yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "But, that's I don't see why that's not possible.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah, if we build rocket ships why can't we build left-handed and right-handed uh remotes.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah. They make left-handed scissors, you know..", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah, I didn't I didn't think about that, but I'd yeah,.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah, but then but then you can learn to use your right h like I was just thinking if there's left-handers and right-handers in the family, what, they have two remotes?", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yes s", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah, I know I know people who have left-handed and right-handed people in the family and they all use the computer for the whole the same computer the fes family and they have a mouse, and everybody is using right-handed mouse.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Mm. Sure. Sure.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah, I'm sure they'll be able to.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Uh-huh.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "I mean it's only pressing buttons, you don't have to do anything, you know, extraordinary. I think everybody can press a button with their left and right hand so.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Imagine d are you right handed?", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Imagine you're doing it with your left hand, I don't think it's too.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah, it's not.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "But we can have both uh.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah. Have them in stock.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Make'em more appealing as well.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "But um other than that, I mean uh and that's um, you know, that's just something, I think I think it's great, yeah, great idea.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Do you think it says R_R_?", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "I think it does..", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "I think it's, well, if the R_R_ motto is, we bring fashion to to electronics, I'd say that could be quite fashionable.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Fashion to electronics. Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah. And it's got the b the black and yellow and blue.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Plus red, which is sort of a a fruit and vegetable uh uh.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "..", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "There you go.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "So that's that's our end of things wha uh.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah, very good, yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "That's.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "It's come up with what we've you know, the things that's what we've what we were looking at doing, hasn't it, all seems to be there.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Well done.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "And all the playing around is uh.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Um before we move on.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah, I'm just do you wanna plug in?", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "I need that cable.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Thank you. Yeah. Um. One thing I do need to do we need to look at, is the costs.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "The costs, was that what you said?", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Play-Doh is very cheap..", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Well, yeah..", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "um.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Play-Doh won't last very long everybody'll go like, oops, it's gone..", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "But it's edible.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm. Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Chew proof.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Well, they'll buy more of them if you eat them,.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "That was the main criteria from the last meeting, it had to be chew proof.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah. Uh right. Okay, now I think we'll do this I could do you know, I can do this o on my own or I could do it with you,", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Oh ho-ho.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "but it's just easy enough to go through it with you, so we're going for the kinetic power.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yep.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "And the electronics, we decided on it being just a simple, the easiest thing that's inside it. Ooh.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "So the case, we've gone for the double curved. Um and it's made out of rubber. The interface is push-buttons. And button supplements well they're in diff special colours, aren't they?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "So special colours.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "It's better for.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Special form, yeah, they're a special form there in shapes and stuff.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah, I mean, these these ones on the side are curved kind of, so.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "And special material.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yep. Yeah. Um. Are they made out of any special material?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Rubber.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "No they're not. They're not made out of wood or titanium or rubber or anything, they're just simple.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "The buttons are rubber.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Well they're rubber, aren't they?", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Okay. Right.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "So let's see if that comes within budget. And it does. That is gonna cost uh.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": ".", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "We're under budget.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah. That's gonna cost ten ten Euro seventy cents a unit to make. And our target was it had to come in at under twelve fifty.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "That's cool. Yeah. Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "So,", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "And we're actua actually making a better profit than we expected.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "this is all very very good. The bosses will be very pleased.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Okay, let's just save this so I can e-mail it to you. Uh.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Save it in save it in the uh my documents.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "It's already saved, I think.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Splendid. Okay. So uh, that's done with this with this um doodah, so you're. Gonna do what you were gonna do,", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Thank you. Mm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "your evaluation.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Oh, yeah. This is where we all get to I get to write on the, oops, on the board. Right.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Oh.'S function.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "F_ eight.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "I love the smell of that Play-Doh.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah,", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "I cou..", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "have some have some.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Okay. So, evaluation. We're gonna do it all together so we evaluate each criteria. I've got the criterias. And we have to do it on a scale of one to seven, one being true, so it's it's more like it's fits the criteria, and seven being as in it doesn't fit the criteria. And the criterias are, and I'll draw this up on the board so we have a box. And this is false, this is just like to keep you informed. So seven's here and one's here and then you've got in the middle. So the first criteria. Do you all get what we're doing?", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Okay, cool. Okay, first criteria, look and feel. So the does remote look and feel fashionable to what we talked about? As it is it colour-wise and is it spongy?", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "So what mark should we give for that?", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "I would give it a seven.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "As in it's not.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Oh sorry, one, d yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Oh, sorry, one..", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "A one.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "A one a one. So I'll just write criteria criteria one we get one. Second criteria, new technology. Have we implemented new technology? As in the new high-tech.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Well, the kinetic thing, yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah. That was our main technological innovation w every everything else was fairly simple, but the fact that we used the kinetic energy was new.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": ".", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "So it's. So we'll give it a.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Well so the um.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "It's ergonomic,", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "but that's not that's that's a design that's a des that's a design thing, yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah, but that's not a technological thing, that's another thing, i that's another marketing thing.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. True.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "So on the technical side of it it.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah. I'd say it's about a a twoish?", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Two.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "It's about in the mid in the middle somewhere,", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Two.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "maybe, yeah, I dunno.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Three.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Maybe three, yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "three. So criteria three is is it easy to use?", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Easy to use.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "I think it's a one, I think.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "I'd say it's I wouldn't.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "not if you're left-handed it's not. I would give it a I would give it a two,", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Two,", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "'cause i i it i it i it is more geared for right-handed people than left-handed people, but.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "so it's.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "But if we make a right-handed and a left-handed then?", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "If we're gonna have one left-handed and one right-handed then I would give it a one, but otherwise otherwise a two.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Give it a t give it a two.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah, okay.'Kay, criteria four is costs..", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Cost. It's come in under budget.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "'s great.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "So that's a definite one.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah. That was great.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Amount of buttons.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Like the amount of buttons,", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Contains only the necessary buttons.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "'cause people like a lot le like So it's a one?", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Um criteria six. R_S_I_ is it good against?", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yes s yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yes. Very good.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "So it's anti-R_S_I_.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "It's one. And criteria seven, which is the last one, does it get lost?", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "It's yellow.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Is it easy to get lost?", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "I don't think it's gonna get lost easily.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "It is very bright, yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "No? But it is smallish.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Two.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "It's not the kinda thing that's gonna slip like between a couch cushion or something, you know. Maybe it will. Uh.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "T", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Mm. I think i it would, could be, could get lost.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "You think it could lost.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "two.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm. Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "I mean it.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "I mean it's not fully it's not fully like you can't say.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "No, I mean", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "I mean, it's not a one, definitely.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "I mean, you could still flush it down the toilet theoretically, but.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Okay. Yeah, anything, I mean. Okay. It's bigger than the average mobile, I guess.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "But, yeah, it can get lost.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "The mobiles get lost all the time.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah. Okay, yeah, two is fine.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "But then you ring'em and you find them. So.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Mm. Mm.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah, yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah. So, that's that. So that's the evaluation, so I'd say Yay.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Alright it's all all systems go.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "We've, we've done well.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "It's like like a number one. Um.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Number one product.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "We can't fail.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "All done, thanks. We fitted all the criterias..", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": ".", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah, so.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Well done, Reissa.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "So that's that one.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Okay, I I think um I just wanna put in as Project Manager the you know, little bit of praise for everybody here for how they've worked on it,", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "you know, both individually and as a team. You know you've w everyone's come up with their own individual ideas in their own different departments, um and then come together and worked in, you know, integrally, you know, at the right times, psp, you know, especially you two.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "That's all, you know, gone very very well", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "and and and be you know, has been good communication going on..", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah, during our design I mean there was some s some heated heated discussion,", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "but we we kept we tried to keep it cool and and", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Did you have to go down to the the corporate squash court and bash a few balls about?.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "just just.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Well.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "We just had to we just had to squeeze our product a little bit and.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "You know.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Fantastic.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "It is.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Now you guys have been a a great team. Think we're the we're the envy of all the of all the other R_R_ teams,.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "been cool.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "I think So", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "I I, you know, and I think we've co we have come we've come up with something new, something that hasn't been done before, we haven't we're not just rehashing an old design.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "In four diff in in four meetings.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Funny, all designer meetings could be this quick.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "You know, maybe this isn't a simulation, maybe this is actually so it's like Sony or someone like that they're they're just, yeah, they get.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah I think they're actually trying to find ideas for a ideal remote..", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "They're using our ideas.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah. Yeah, two years' time this will be on the market.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Ex exactly that product", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "um thum we'll go, yeah, we designed that and no-one will believe us.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "But um.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "So at this stage, I mean, is this the last meeting of the project? We don't uh have another one after it's gone gone to marke market or something?", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "No,", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "I think when this meeting's finished like officially, there b we'll get a uh questionnaire to fill in.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Y Oh really?", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Or six, uh.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Just start summarising now. You can reply to the same message.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "I haven't got message.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "See summary, there. If you just reply to that one.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "So there's no way to like predict what our'Cause we had a we originally had a As far as our financial uh um goals, we had a specific number for profits that we wanted. It was fifty mil fifty million.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Was it was it fifty or five?", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "I don't remember. But there's not a way to compute that, I mean, since we saved on the on the production cost, do we know how much we're making on profit?", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "It gets handed over to another department.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Depends how much we sell.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Uh.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "What our what our project was was to come up with the product, basically.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Hmm.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "the for the and just basically is it it come can is it within budget. When it c when it comes to all the other things of how to sell it and, you know, the b the profits and all that that's other departments it's another team that actually work out the mai the.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "But we have a vested interest.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "oh yeah, the all the guys in the profit sharing, yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "prof profit sharing.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Um. Yeah, that's it. You know, we've we've we've made i we've made", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "We finished an hour earlier..", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "we've designed the product, we've ma we've got the prototype, it's within budget, it's does everything that we wanted it to do. It's new, it's it's um something that uh that isn't out there already.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "I think actually and one advantage of of this is that after the uh, you know, after this fad of fruit and vegetables passes this will still be c a cool remote, you know.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "We're not we're not you know, tying tying our cart to that one horse..", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Well, this is very marketable in that it is it's it's something that's kind of new and looks a bit quirky for people who want that,", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Definitely.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "it's that it's um, hang on, I wrote it down here somewhere.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Oh no I thi I put it in one of my e-mails that I sent off. Um that, you know, it's marketable in the sense that it's whilst all these other remotes uh actually do give you repetitive strain injury, our one does the complete opposite, you know,", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm. Mm.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "so that's something that's new, which is one of the criteria they asked us to come up with something with something new.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm. It make watching T_V_ healthy.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah, and if you're not having a good time with the T_V_, you can f throw it about, you know.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "It's fine, it's kid proof.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Just don't sh don't throw it at any of the ornaments and break them.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Uh.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Well, you can break the ornaments, but you won't break that.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "No.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah. So all in all, I think we've done very well.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm yep.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Well done everybody.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Right, you too.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yay.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Um. Drinks are on the company.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Cool.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "In the corporate bar that's next to the corporate swimming pool on the top floor that we're that've all just gained access to.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm..", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Glad to hear that.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah. That's it.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "That's it.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Well, as far as I t as far as I know. Um.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yep. We haven't got the five minute left thing yet.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "No. Anyone wanna play I spy?.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm mm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "I guess it's probably better that we wrap it up than have five minutes of silence. Should we call the day then?", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah, I guess. I mean we're gonna get asked to fill out another questionnaire.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Uh, right.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Um. It's probably gonna be the same as one we've done before.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "But I'm not the authority to say that it is.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "In project.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Um how does everyone feel about the technology that's been used in this? The sort of using of the the pens and writing on these special pads and all that?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "I love it. I love it. I think it's cool.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Being all wired up and a vibrating pen and it's cool.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Being watched. Um.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Your moment to shine.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Wow.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "I thi you know, I'd I'd n yeah, as we said earlier, I've not never seen that before. something that t the whiteboard", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "thingy, that's great. Um, but a p a pen with a camera on it, I don't think it's such a new thing. I mean it's i or in such a new idea. It would be different if it was sort of hand writing recognition stuff, but as it's not.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "it's literally that'll come up on a computer screen as a picture file rather than actual text.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Right, I think they do want to do hand writing recognition on that, it's just the first step.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah. Yeah. Mm.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Logitech.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "I guess we should end this, since we're off off topic. So. Shall we.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah. Meeting adjourned.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" } ] }

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And what you're uh drawing?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Uh sure my name is Agnes and I'm an user usability user interface designer.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "My name is Ed and I do accounting.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Uh how you spell your name uh?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "E_D_.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "E_D_ okay.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "And?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Do you also do marketing?", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "No.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "So only accounting? Okay.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Accounting, yes.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "And?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "And I'm Christine,", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "and my role in this uh scenario is to be the industrial designer.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Industrial designer.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "But I'm not really one.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "So who is uh marketing, nobody in the market", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Marketing is uh, is me.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "It's you, okay. So thanks for coming for the meeting first of all, and uh we have a long time, just twenty-five minutes to discuss about uh this project and the the project initiation. First of all I want to ask uh Mister Ed about your uh marketing plan and your product plan and uh.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Well I think that we'll see that throughout the day in how we're going to put this together as a marketing to to market the product. We'll have to see on a through discussion on where we're gonna go from here and from with this.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm but uh do you already have like a functional design or a technical design or.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Uh for the moment not yet.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Oh for the moment not yet, okay, but uh what's what's your uh do you have some project plan, something with you or.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Good question. No, this is like I said that we have to be discussed between all of us and we'll go from there. We'll have to simply we'll have to work on it together.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm. Okay, so uh by when you think you can uh give me some kind of uh project plan, okay, a discussion with uh.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Certainly by the next meeting.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "By next meeting, okay that will be great. Uh Okay, so there's any questions or uh first of all about uh this project?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "What is the goal of the project?", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Uh the goal of the project I think maybe I'll uh hand out to the Ed, okay, so to explain uh what is the project because he's in the sales and the accounting.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "I'm in the sales I'm supposed to explain them what to do. We have to define exactly what our product is, from uh.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yes, so can you explain uh what exactly the product is?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "From what I had in mind we're supposed to be marketing coffee, is that right?", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Oh I think uh, if I'm not wrong, we're making the remote control.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Um I was wondering.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Remote controls,'cause I had two different things. I had a first part of mine was to make a remote control for a new f remote control for television, and afterward I had a discussion about coffee so.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yes.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "we'll start with the remote control for television then. So we're have to design something that is very user friendly.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Something uh visual that has something that will will draw people to buy the product,", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "because I think everybody's experienced with uh remote controls, and some remote controls are are worth uh throwing out the window. Uh th most of them ar I don't know we're have to come up with a new idea on how to make it a lot easier to use,", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "'cause a lot of times uh spend uh half a day through the instruction book trying to figure out how to use it.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "And uh what abo uh Christine, what about your uh the industrial design plan? Are you have a design already on this product or uh you're still working on the design?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Um no, I I have not begun working on the design,", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "and um I uh I actually didn't know we were designing a remote control, I thought we were designing a new monitor. Um the website I went to look at had some announcements about an introduction of a um uh some sort of a seven inch um monitor, and um I understood that that was the project goal. So um I'm glad I didn't d do any work um ahead of time because uh I clearly didn't understand the project goal.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Um I just did s see that we were starting a new project together and there was going to be a four member team composed of these people, and um that's about uh that's.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "and I I read through the different steps, and what my responsibilities were relative to the steps.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "So uh you'll be leading the team for your design team or how many members is working in the team, for the design?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Uh for the industrial design?", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yes.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Um well, I would th think that depends on how much money you give us.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "That's.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Um because uh, you know, you can uh you can make it uh you have different choices with different financial models.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah, but uh before we talk about uh the finance, okay, uh do you have some idea how we can uh sell this product or project in the market and how much is going to benefit to the company and uh of course it's to the individual also.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Well, you know um, I kind of think that in general you have to do uh um y you have to have something that's very fashionable, that's uh very attractive that um people see and recognize uh its goal, and uh they immediately wanna have it uh have one of their own. So it would really would need to um something like the iPod would be good, seems to have caught on fairly well,", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "so um d uh you know, I don't care what it does, just so it looks cool.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Okay, but uh uh when you think you can give me like a kind of design on the functional design or the technical design?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Well, uh I've got a lot of other projects I'm doing right now um and so I'll have to wait and see how those uh how those go. If they uh go quickly then uh it could be a month. If um if I run into any problems in my other projects it might be six months.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah, but uh I need something in the writing, so like uh what's your functional design, what's your technical design, and uh how many people you need for this project, and what's the time frame you're looking, okay, and what is the budget, maybe uh initial budget you're looking, okay, and uh how is going to the market, okay,", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm. Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "so you've you've had to meet with the marketing team and how they're going to market and what are the marketing strategic plan, okay, when are you going to introduce, okay, and by the time you introduce the product and uh you know there there would be a competition, okay, so I need some kind of uh uh the plan in the writing from you. Okay, and it's po", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "And when would you like that?", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "B as soon as possible.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Uh well if uh if we have enough time uh then d do you think um two weeks is a is close enough?", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yes I think uh that would be good, because I need to go to the management and uh tell them what we are going to do, and uh what cost is, okay, and what's the time frame and what's the project plan, because uh without any uh documentations, I cannot go to the management and say, so we are going to do this and we need this much money, okay, so then it's it's difficult for me to say, okay, that's the reason I need uh some kind of plan from you, initially, okay, then we can have the further discussion again.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Uh are there other people who will be contributing to the plan?", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yes, of course, if you need some help, uh so let me know. So, who are the people you need uh from the marketing or uh the technical side or uh the administration point of view, okay, to add in any documentation, or some technical point of view,", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "so just let me know so I can uh coordinate all the teams.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Okay, I'll get back to you on that.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yes. Thank you. Okay. And uh Ed uh so what's what do you think about uh this uh project for the remote control and d do you have some already planned something for your marketing strategy or uh the sales strategy?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Well not yet other than uh doing research and taking remote controls and looking what other companies have to do uh, what they're building, their designs, their ideas,", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Hmm..", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "uh also have to pinpoint which market we're gonna go into.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "It should be a fairly large market because uh the number of people that uh the competition,", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "uh th I agree it has to be something it has to be something new, it has to be something that that draws people saying eh, I like this. Whether it works or not, they have to first say I like this, I like the design, and then it's gotta be simple to use.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yes, so what I uh prefer maybe uh you need to interact uh more with the Christine, okay, because you know what she is going to do it, okay, and you know how to sell it. Okay, because uh she is doing the design, but you are the core because you are in the marketing, okay,", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "so because you need to sell and you're the responsible for the all the money, the finance, okay, tomorrow.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "So, what I prefer, okay, so you need to interact with the Christine more and uh within her team, okay, who is using the functional design or technical design, okay,", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "and uh you need to come up with some kind of plan, okay, how we are going to do the your sales plan, okay, th", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Do we already have a cost limit on this, th an idea of how much uh we want to market this for, how much it's gonna sell for,", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Th That that's", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "that's up that's up to us to decide, eh?.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yes, that's you have to decide, okay, so the best thing is you uh both of uh the Christine and you discuss with yourself, okay, and come up with the cost, and how we are going to compete in the market, okay, in the the technically, or in the sales wise, okay, the commercial wise, okay. Then uh we have to design, okay, how long it will take the whole project, okay, how much is going to cost us, and how much we are going to benefit for the company. Okay, of course it's it's uh of benefit for everybody individually. Okay, so I think it's uh maybe if we can uh give me some kind of your uh the sales plan, okay, including the technical what uh she's going to talk to you within the team, okay, then it will help me to discuss with the management for further, okay, and put it in the the proper project plan. Okay, and if you need uh any coordination in between uh compared to the maybe the some technical vendors or commercial vendors, okay, depends if you want to have some uh uh marketing plan or technical plan, okay, so you let me know.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Very good.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Okay, I can coordinate,", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Very good.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "or maybe uh, you are my coordinator, am I right?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Between uh all the coor", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Well, no, not exactly. I mean my job from what I understood was to look at the usability requirements and make sure that the product is usable, it's acceptable to the people who are gonna use it and look at the best ways to do that.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "So I think I'll have to interact with Christine and discuss with her, so that she's not designing something that my studies will show right off the bat that it's not going to work,", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Th Christine, yeah. Which is.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "and so it's sort of it's a loop that feeds in, but I don't think necessarily that I'm in a coordinating position for it.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yes. Yeah, so basically you need to interact with Christine more, okay, for the user acceptability, okay, and the testing, okay,", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah. Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "then you will.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Which will also feed into the marketing,", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yes.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "because depending on what users want, depends on how you sell it, what tag lines you attach to it, how you try to make it more attractive to users.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yes. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "So I think all three groups will need to interact quite a bit. Um, and then I guess build the plan based on all of that, because I think you need to take all the factors into account.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yep. But what I request, okay, keep Ed in the loop, okay, in between your uh meeting and Christine meeting, because uh he should know what's happening.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah, of course. Yeah, we can C_C_ him on any discussions or documents that are passed around.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yes. Okay and please please copy all the mails, okay, all the discussions to me, okay, so I need to submit to the management.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Sure. No problem.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "So any questions for uh time being?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "No.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "So, the immediate next step is to start determining the functional design, or", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yes.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "okay.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Okay. To come up with the functional design and uh to discuss with Ed, okay, and how it's going to be work, and uh first of all with your user acceptance, okay, how it looks like and how it's going to be work in the market, okay,", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "so then we can discuss about uh further things. So, we'll meet when the we'll discuss on the further meeting.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "It's okay? Thanks for coming.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Would you mind um at the conclusion of our meeting could could you send us a copy of your slides?", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yes, I will. Yes.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm, yeah, that would be useful.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "I'll copy, uh le let us keep all the emails and all the copies, okay, share each other, okay, so you know everybody what's happening, okay?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Sure.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "And if anything you need anytime so please either you can call me, or just send me email, or uh just come and uh knock my door, okay, so I'm available here. It's good? Okay, thanks for coming and uh I wish you a nice time then.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Thank you.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Thanks.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Okay, see you later. Bye.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Thank you.", "speakerName": "User Interface" } ] }

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

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{ "meetingId": "covid10", "transcriptSegments": [ { "text": "I call the meeting to order. Welcome to the third meeting of the House of Commons Special Committee on the COVID-19 Pandemic. Pursuant to the order of reference of Monday, April20, the committee is meeting for the purposes of considering ministerial announcements, allowing members to present petitions, and questioning ministers of the crown, including the Prime Minister, in respect of the COVID-19 pandemic. I understand there's an agreement to observe a moment of silence in memory of the six members of the Canadian Armed Forces who lost their lives last Wednesday in a helicopter crash off the coast of Greece. We'll return to order. Colleagues, we meet today to continue our discussion about how our country is dealing with the COVID-19 pandemic. As we do, Canadians, like everyone around the world, are doing their best to live their lives until things improve. Meanwhile, as we look towards the future, I believe that it is also important to remember our past and to continue to mark the important moments in our shared history. At this very moment, the Dominion Carillonneur, Dr. Andrea McCrady, is performing a special recital to commemorate the 75th anniversary of the liberation of the Netherlands by the Canadian Forces. In May 1945, Canadian Forces played a major role in liberating the Dutch people from Nazi occupation. May 5 is now a national holiday in the Netherlands that commemorates the event and the great friendship that now exists between our two countries. Today's meeting is taking place by video conference. The proceedings will be made available via the House of Commons website. Please be aware that the webcast will always show the person speaking rather than the entire committee. Let me remind you that, as in the House or in committee, members may not take photographs of their colleagues or film the proceedings. In order to facilitate the work of our interpreters and ensure orderly meetings, I will outline a few rules. Interpretation of this video conference will be done as it is at normal committee meetings and in the House. At the bottom of your screen, you can choose floor, English or French. As you have seen, I change as I am speaking. I have now switched over to English in order to speak English. If you look at the bottom, you have a little flag that indicates whether it's English or French, and that's how we will be speaking. It makes it easier. That was where we had a little bit of a glitch in the last session. I understand that there are no statements by ministers. We can now proceed to presenting petitions for a period not exceeding 15 minutes. I would like to remind members that petitions presented during a meeting of the special committee must already have been certified by the clerk of petitions. In addition, to ensure that the petition is considered to have been properly presented, the certificate of the petition and each page of the petition for petitions certified in a previous Parliament should be emailed to the committee no later than 6 p.m. on the day before the committee. I thank all the members for their usual co-operation. Thank you all. Now we'll proceed to presenting petitions. Our first petition comes from the honourable member for Sherwood ParkFort Saskatchewan, Mr. Genuis.", "speakerName": "The Chair (Hon. Anthony Rota (NipissingTimiskaming, Lib.))" }, { "text": "Mr. Chair, I'm pleased to be presenting two petitions today. The first petition is with respect to government Bill C-7. Petitioners raised concerns that this bill removes safeguards from the current euthanasia regime. It includes removing the mandatory 10-day reflection period and the number of required witnesses who will witness a person's consent. The petitioners urge the House of Commons to immediately discontinue the removal of safeguards for people requesting euthanasia, and to put in place additional measures to protect vulnerable people. This would require that bill to be amended or not passed. The second petition is with respect to Senate public bill S-204. This is on organ harvesting and trafficking. Petitioners call on members of the House, and hopefully the Senate as well, to support Bill S-204, which would make it a criminal offence for a person to go abroad and receive an organ for which there has not been consent. It would also create provisions under which a person could be made inadmissible to Canada if they had been involved in organ harvesting or trafficking. Thank you very much.", "speakerName": "Mr. Garnett Genuis (Sherwood ParkFort Saskatchewan, CPC)" }, { "text": "Thank you. I want to remind all the members that there are specific headsets that have been mandated to all of us. If you don't have one, please talk to your IT ambassador and they will get one to you as quickly as possible. The reason for them is not so much for what you hear, but that our interpreters are working and there are work conditions that really make it difficult. Part of that is not having the appropriate boom on your headset, which will make it very difficult for them to hear and interpret for our members. Now we go to the member for BeachesEast York, Mr. Erskine-Smith.", "speakerName": "The Chair" }, { "text": "Mr. Chair, I had to learn how to tie my tie all over again. It's been so long. I want to thank Jenna Robar, who's led this petition e-2453. The petitioners have noted that there are approximately 60 indigenous languages in Canada and that 2019, last year, was declared by the UN to be the year of indigenous languages. They draw attention to article 13 of the UNDRIP and to the TRC's calls to action numbers 13 to 16. Fundamentally, they call upon the Government of Canada to recognize indigenous languages as being official languages of Canada and to have each language recognized nationally, with implementations on regional and provincial levels, acknowledging that many regions have different languages.", "speakerName": "Mr. Nathaniel Erskine-Smith (BeachesEast York, Lib.)" }, { "text": "Mr. Chair, I am proud to present a petition on behalf of one of my constituents, Myles Lynch of St. Andrews West in my riding. Myles made history as the first Canadian ever to survive three double-lung transplants. Myles lives with cystic fibrosis and has had three lung transplants in the last five years, and he's only 22 years old. Myles created a documentary called 8 Thousand Myles, which had a few showings in my riding. It documented his journey across Canada. One thing Myles has been advocating for is the creation of a national opt-out program for organ donation. Myles asked me how he could help raise awareness of that issue. I mentioned to him e-petitions online and getting people across the country to sign them. I am proud to have this certified today, with 1,318 signatures, asking the Standing Committee on Health to launch a study into the feasibility of the creation of a national opt-out program. I give kudos to Myles not only for his strength personally but also for his advocacy for others and for saving lives in our country by advocating for a better and an improved organ donation system. Kudos to Myles. I'm proud to present this petition today.", "speakerName": "Mr. Eric Duncan (StormontDundasSouth Glengarry, CPC)" }, { "text": "Mr. Chair, I'm very pleased to present this certified petition on behalf of several dozen residents of Toronto, Mississauga and Brampton, Ontario, who add their voices to those of the thousands upon thousands of Canadians who have signed similar petitions. Given that Canadians are living through unprecedented, catastrophic climate events, and at the same time our society, as you know, is suffering from worsening social and economic inequalitieshalf of Canadian families are only $200 away from insolvency in any given monthand particularly given the pandemic that we are currently experiencing, these petitioners are calling on the Government of Canada to support motion M-1, a made-in-Canada green new deal that I am presenting in front of the House of Commons. It calls on Canada to take bold and rapid action to tackle the climate emergency, and to put in place a shift to a clean and renewable energy economy.", "speakerName": "Mr. Peter Julian (New WestminsterBurnaby, NDP)" }, { "text": "Mr. Chair, it's an honour to table a petition on behalf of constituents from CourtenayAlberni. They are concerned, obviously, about fentanyl-related deaths. Over 12,000 Canadians have died over the last four years due to fentanyl-poisoned sources. They cite that the current war on drugs has been costly and grossly ineffective; that it has resulted in widespread stigma towards addiction and against those who use illicit drugs; and that criminalization of particular substances has resulted in the establishment of a drug trade that now trafficks dangerous and lethal products such as fentanyl. They are citing that regulating to ensure safe sources, with proper measures and bylaws, will reduce the criminal element associated with street drugs. Problematic substance use is a health issue and is not resolved through criminalization of personal possession and consumption. They are calling on the Government of Canada to declare the current opioid overdose and fenanyl poisoning crisis a national public health emergency under the Emergencies Act. They are calling for the government to reform current drug policy to decriminalize personal possession, as has been done in Portugal and other countries, and to create with urgency and immediacy a system to provide safe and unadulterated access to substances so that people who use substances experimentally, recreationally or chronically are not at imminent risk of overdose due to a contaminated source.", "speakerName": "Mr. Gord Johns (CourtenayAlberni, NDP)" }, { "text": "Mr. Chair, I'm presenting a petition today that contains the concerns of Canadians in my riding with the government's approach to firearms legislation and regulation. The petition highlights that the Liberal government's December 5, 2019, Speech from the Throne contains numerous inaccuracies about current firearms legislation and regulation; that the term military-style assault rifles is a political phrase undefined in Canadian law; that municipalities are constitutionally unable to enact criminal law to ban handguns in their jurisdictions; that the experts, including chiefs of police, agree that banning firearms and requiring law-abiding gun owners to follow more unnecessary red tape will not increase public safety; that the majority of guns used in violent crimes are smuggled into Canada from the United States; and that the Liberal government continues to target law-abiding firearms owners instead of the gangs, drug traffickers and illegal gun traffickers responsible for violence in our communities. The petitioners in MissionMatsquiFraser Canyon are calling on the government to stop targeting law-abiding firearms owners; to cancel all plans to confiscate firearms legally owned by federally licensed, RCMP-vetted Canadians; and to focus our limited resources on anti-gang enforcement, on reducing the involvement of at-risk youth and gangs, on mental health and on providing the Canada Border Services Agency with the tools they need to do their job effectively.", "speakerName": "Mr. Brad Vis (MissionMatsquiFraser Canyon, CPC)" }, { "text": "Very good. That's all for petitions today. We will now proceed to the questioning of ministers. I would like to remind honourable members that no member shall be recognized for more than five minutes at a time and that members may split their time with one or more members by so indicating to the chair. Ministers responding to the question should do so by simply turning on their mike and speaking. I want to again remind honourable members to use the boom on the official headsets so that everything runs smoothly, not only for ourselves but also for the interpreters. We start the question period with Mr.Paul-Hus.", "speakerName": "The Chair" }, { "text": "Thank you, Mr.Chair. Although we are right in the middle of a pandemic and the government has agreed to set aside all parliamentary business in order to concentrate solely on eliminating the virus in Canada and its impacts, the Prime Minister is deceiving Canadians by introducing measures to punish law-abiding firearm owners. Why?", "speakerName": "Mr. Pierre Paul-Hus (CharlesbourgHaute-Saint-Charles, CPC)" }, { "text": "Mr.Chair, I feel that all Canadians were affected by the massacre in Nova Scotia. Once again, too many families are facing tragedy and tremendous grief. During the last election campaign, we promised to ban military-style assault weapons, and that is exactly what we have done. We will be working with members from all parties in order to continue strengthening gun control. It is a shame that, once more, the Conservatives do not want to strengthen gun control in the country.", "speakerName": "Right Hon. Justin Trudeau (Prime Minister)" }, { "text": "Mr.Chair, I understand the Prime Minister's reply. However, I would like to know whether he considers that, with this order in council, organized crime, street gangs and other criminals are simply going to turn in their weapons.", "speakerName": "Mr. Pierre Paul-Hus" }, { "text": "This is indeed only a first step, but it is an important one. We are doing other things to eliminate or restrict handguns in our municipalities, to strengthen the control at our borders, and to implement other measures. I am pleased to hear the hon. member speak of those measures, because we are going to work together in the House to strengthen gun control. I hope that the Conservative Party will be part of that discussion in a positive way, in order to keep Canadians safe.", "speakerName": "Right Hon. Justin Trudeau" }, { "text": "Mr.Chair, I can simply say to the Prime Minister that the Conservative Party has always been committed to battling criminals, not law-abiding citizens. Speaking of criminals, we know that, even before the pandemic, the Prime Minister had asked the Parole Board of Canada to release prisoners more easily and more quickly. Now we are learning that, because of the pandemic, some releases are happening very quickly. The Minister of Public Safety told us that the people were approaching the end of their sentences or were older, but we are learning in the media that some dangerous criminals are being released. Can the Prime Minister give us an explanation?", "speakerName": "Mr. Pierre Paul-Hus" }, { "text": "The protection, the safety and the health of all Canadians are important for the government. This is why we have taken additional measures in our correctional services to ensure that guards and inmates are protected. We have indeed opened the doors to some more speedy releases, but only in very specific cases that present little or no danger for Canadians. We have managed to find the right balance. We must protect Canadians and we must also ensure that they are safe. Those two things go hand-in-hand.", "speakerName": "Right Hon. Justin Trudeau" }, { "text": "So is the Prime Minister confirming to us that no dangerous criminals have been precipitously released so that they do not have to experience COVID-19 within the walls?", "speakerName": "Mr. Pierre Paul-Hus" }, { "text": "There are very strict rules and principles to ensure that people posing a threat to society are not released.", "speakerName": "Right Hon. Justin Trudeau" }, { "text": "Mr.Paul-Hus, you have one minute left.", "speakerName": "The Chair" }, { "text": "Thank you, Mr.Chair. The Chinese government has not been transparent with the rest of the world about the coronavirus. Australia asked for an in-depth investigation, but has received threats from the communist regime. Is Canada going to stand by its allies in the Five Eyes and demand that the Chinese government be completely transparent?", "speakerName": "Mr. Pierre Paul-Hus" }, { "text": "We continue to stand in solidarity with our allies, including the Five Eyes, as they have stood in solidarity with Canada in terms of the two Canadians who have been unjustly detained for a long time in China. In the coming months and years, we expect to obtain answers to all our questions about the origin of this pandemic, including questions that are important for China. At the same time, we are going to work hard to ensure that all Canadians have the equipment and the protection they need to get through this pandemic.", "speakerName": "Right Hon. Justin Trudeau" }, { "text": "We now move to Mr.Blanchet.", "speakerName": "The Chair" }, { "text": "Thank you, Mr.Chair. I am sorry that I do not have my official headset. I was elsewhere, and I did not bring it with me. I hope that you can still hear me properly. For some days, discussions have been going on between people from the Bloc Qubcois and people from the government with a view to collaboratively coming up with a proposal for seniors in Quebec and Canada. The gist of our proposal is to temporarily increase the old age security by about $25per week, or $110per month. By the way, I hate the term \"old age security. I prefer \"senior security. The discussion has been going on for some time and it's a proposal that we made in the election campaign. We are asking for it to be done at this point, at least temporarily. Parliament stopped sitting in the middle of March. We are now in May, and seniors still have nothing. They are impatient themselves, and we spend a good part of our days answering them. Given that impatience, I realized I should not be the one answering them, it should be the Prime Minister. So here is my question for the Prime Minister: what are you doing to seek a solution that will increase the purchasing power of seniors in Quebec and Canada in the very short term?", "speakerName": "Mr. Yves-Franois Blanchet (BeloeilChambly, BQ)" }, { "text": "Clearly, seniors need support and significant services from us because of COVID-19. Our priority was to implement income replacement benefits for workers who have lost their jobs because of COVID-19. Then we announced different measures, including measures for seniors. The most vulnerable seniors are going to receive reimbursement of the GST, which will help them very quickly. We have also reduced by 25% the minimum amount that must be withdrawn from registered retirement income funds. We have also channelled $9million through the United Way, to help the most vulnerable seniors. Absolutely, I recognize that more must be done. I am very pleased that we have been able to work with other parliamentarians, including those in the Bloc Qubcois, to hear these concerns and to find the best way to help seniors in the short term. In terms of the pandemic, they have concerns about their physical security, but also about their financial security. We will have more to say about this soon.", "speakerName": "Right Hon. Justin Trudeau" }, { "text": "In the last few hours, the Prime Minister has indicated that he could need the cooperation of other parties, including the Bloc Qubcois, on a completely different matter. We are very open to that discussion, but we want the same openness when we are asking for something to serve the people of Quebec. The cost of a basket of groceries has increased for seniors, as it has for everyone else. It's true for all seniors over 65years old, of course. The current old age pension represents less than half of the Canada emergency student benefit. It represents less than one third of the basic Canada emergency response benefit. Seniors in my constituency, as in any other of the 338constituencies, are asking what we are doing. They are asking how there can be nothing for them. When will there be something for them? I want to be able to give them an answer of some kind. What is the Prime Minister's answer? I will repeat it to them.", "speakerName": "Mr. Yves-Franois Blanchet" }, { "text": "There will be announcements in the coming days on the way in which we will be able to help seniors, particularly the most vulnerable seniors. We recognize that the cost of a basket of groceries is increasing for everyone. That is why we have to do better for our seniors. There are horror stories, whether about the CHSLDs, or about our most vulnerable seniors across the country. Far too many families are experiencing tremendous grief. There are seniors who are alone, seniors who are afraid of falling ill without ever seeing their grandchildren or their children again. We have to be there for those who belong to that great generation that fought for us during the second world war. Now we have to fight for them in their homes. That is exactly what we are going to do.", "speakerName": "Right Hon. Justin Trudeau" }, { "text": "We'll go to the next question. Ms. Collins.", "speakerName": "The Chair" }, { "text": "Mr. Chair, every day I hear from people who are struggling to pay their bills and to keep a roof over their head. Instead of making sure that Canadians get the help they need, the government has created complicated programs that are still letting people fall through the cracks. If the Prime Minister won't commit to a universal benefit, will he at least commit to removing the restrictive eligibility criteria that are leaving the most vulnerable people behind?", "speakerName": "Ms. Laurel Collins (Victoria, NDP)" }, { "text": "Mr. Chair, we knew, when this pandemic hit, that we needed to help Canadians who were suffering from coast to coast to coast, particularly the most vulnerable. That is why we moved forward rapidly with the Canada emergency response benefit, which has helped over seven million individual Canadians and has made a huge difference. We had to move very quickly to get this money out to people, and that is exactly what we did. We also recognized that there would be a need to do more. That is why since that moment, we have continually worked on reaching out to the most vulnerable and supporting them as well. We have more to do, but we knew that targeted approaches were what was most needed.", "speakerName": "Right Hon. Justin Trudeau" }, { "text": "Mr. Chair, the government continues to leave people behind. I spoke to a woman in my riding who was homeless last year. She recently found a job and a place to live. However, because she didn't make $5,000 last year, when the pandemic hit she didn't qualify for any benefits. She didn't qualify, but she is one of the people who need it the most. I'm wondering why the Prime Minister doesn't think she deserves our support.", "speakerName": "Ms. Laurel Collins" }, { "text": "Mr. Chair, our focus throughout this crisis has been on helping the most vulnerable with targeted measures that will lift Canadians out of poverty and will support them. Over the past five years, we've lifted over a million people out of poverty in this country, and we've continued to put the most vulnerable at the heart of everything we're doing. We will continue to. We've put significant investments forward to charitable organizations and foundations that are helping the most vulnerable. At the same time, we will continue to look for more ways to help even more than the seven million Canadians who successfully receive the CERB. We recognize there's more to do, and we will continue trying to do everything we can in this unprecedented situation.", "speakerName": "Right Hon. Justin Trudeau" }, { "text": "Mr. Chair, the government is weirdly committed to eligibility criteria that result in regular people not getting the support they need, but not so committed to criteria for corporations and billionaires who get our help. If a company is cheating the public, using offshore tax havens not to pay its fair share, it should not be eligible for government bailouts or benefits. Other countries, like Poland, Denmark and France, have made this commitment, and if they can do it, so can we. The Prime Minister said one thing one day and another the next. Will he commit now that if a company has money in offshore tax havens, it will not receive public funds?", "speakerName": "Ms. Laurel Collins" }, { "text": "Mr. Chair, the measures we've put forward are focused on helping workers who lose their jobs, regardless of the companies they work for. It is a shame to hear the NDP, which used to be the party of workers, choosing to judge workers by which multinational they work for. We have moved forward with a wage subsidy such that the employers are obliged to pass every single penny on to the workers. That is not help for the companies. That is help for the workers, and that has been our focus all the way through: ordinary Canadians who need support because they are unable to work because of COVID-19. That has been our priority, and that is what Canadians need right now. Of course, we continue to have very strong measures to fight against tax avoidance and tax evasion. We spent a billion dollars to strengthen our Ms. Laurel Collins: Mr. Chair, can I ask my last question? Right Hon. Justin Trudeau: We will continue to do that.", "speakerName": "Right Hon. Justin Trudeau" }, { "text": "I'm just going to pause the time for a moment. I want to remind honourable members that we're trying to stay within committee rules, which state that the length of a question and the length of an answer should be approximately the same amount of time. I just want to remind our members of that. I'll go back to Ms. Collins. She has about 45 seconds left, and hopefully that's about half and half for the question and the answer. Ms. Collins.", "speakerName": "The Chair" }, { "text": "Thanks so much, Mr. Chair. My last question is about housing and homelessness. My community was facing a crisis long before the pandemic hit, and now people who are living on the streets or in parks don't have the luxury of following public health advice and just staying home. In Victoria, the province and the municipality have stepped up with solutions to house people, at least for the short term, in local hotels. Will the federal government respond to this immediate crisis and provide the needed investments in long-term, stable housing?", "speakerName": "Ms. Laurel Collins" }, { "text": "The right honourable Prime Minister, in 25 seconds or less, please.", "speakerName": "The Chair" }, { "text": "Yes, Mr. Chair, we have moved forward with a historic national housing strategy that puts $40 billion toward housing. Working with partners, we have reduced poverty by over a million people in this country, but there is more to do. We are reducing homelessness by half with historic investments. We recognize that during this pandemic there's even more to do for vulnerable Canadians, and we are partnering with orders of government to make sure that happens.", "speakerName": "Right Hon. Justin Trudeau" }, { "text": "A point of order, Mr.Chair.", "speakerName": "Mr. Jol Godin (PortneufJacques-Cartier, CPC)" }, { "text": "Order. Mr.Godin has a point of order.", "speakerName": "The Chair" }, { "text": "Mr.Chair, I cannot hear the French interpretation. Could we please check so that I can hear in French what the Prime Minister is saying?", "speakerName": "Mr. Jol Godin" }, { "text": "Okay. Can we check that?", "speakerName": "The Chair" }, { "text": "Thank you.", "speakerName": "Mr. Jol Godin" }, { "text": "I can try speaking English. I believe I was on the English tab, as is important. Are you hearing the translation now?", "speakerName": "Right Hon. Justin Trudeau" }, { "text": "That is exactly what the issue was. I just want to point that out to all the members. I'm speaking English right now and I'm on the English toggle at the bottom of the screen. It does create a bit of a disjoint when we're speaking, but it's the way to get around that so we have interpretation that works for everyone. The next question will go to the Leader of the Opposition, Mr. Scheer.", "speakerName": "The Chair" }, { "text": "Mr. Chair, as this is our first opportunity to meet in any forum, I want to take this opportunity to express my condolences to the families of the brave men and women who lost their lives in the helicopter crash. I know that I speak for all parliamentarians when I extend our sympathy to their families and loved ones. Mr. Chair, I want to raise with the Prime Minister an issue that I've raised several times before, and that is a gap in the wage subsidy program. There is a company in my riding that employs thousands of people across the country. Last year, they acquired another company. Those companies separately would qualify for the wage subsidy, but because of rules that the government designed, together they do not. Even though collectively they have experienced a massive drop in revenue and would otherwise be eligible, so far they've been unable to get confirmation that they will be able to access the program. As a result, thousands of jobs are threatened. Will the Prime Minister be able to deliver some good news to people who work for Brandt Tractor all across the country?", "speakerName": "Hon. Andrew Scheer (Leader of the Opposition)" }, { "text": "I thank the honourable member for his question and for his advocacy for his community and businesses in his riding. As I told him when we spoke directly, Finance officials have been directly in contact with the company in his riding. We recognize that there are particular elements in regard to this company that are challenging around application for the wage subsidy, but I know that Finance officials are working very hard to try to make sure that everyone who needs the subsidy gets it, so that the workers in his community can get the support they need.", "speakerName": "Right Hon. Justin Trudeau" }, { "text": "The Prime Minister knows that there are many companies across the country that fall into this category as well, so we're hoping for some good news. Just flagging the time and date, it is well into May now and important decisions have to be made in very short order. There are other aspects of the government's plans to help get people through this crisis that are also causing people to fall through the cracks. The plan to help businesses with rent applies only after a business has lost 70% of their revenue. As provinces start to open up, many companies are going to be faced with a very difficult decision of operating at perhaps 35% or 45% of regular revenues. They will not be able to access these programs and, in many cases, there is going to be a disincentive to reopen and put people back to work. Will the Prime Minister amend these programs to provide for more flexibility so that more and more Canadians can start to return to work in the weeks ahead?", "speakerName": "Hon. Andrew Scheer" }, { "text": "Mr. Chair, we are in an unprecedented crisis and we had to move quickly to support workers and to support families across the country, and that's exactly what we did. We're going to continue to work to try to respond to the reality that people and businesses are facing right across the country. I am eager to be faced with the challenge of how to ease off in these measures so that people can get back to work. We are getting closer to that point, but we are not there yet. We are still focused very much on giving the supports to workers and families that are so necessary in this time of crisis. As different provinces move forward towards reopening, as we look at different paths forward, I know that I will be able to count on all members in the House and, indeed, on Canadians from coast to coast to coast to figure out together what the best way will be to move forward on keeping us safe and restoring economic activity in the right way. That will be good to work on together once we get there.", "speakerName": "Right Hon. Justin Trudeau" }, { "text": "We have about a minute left for maybe a 30-second question and a 30-second answer. Mr. Scheer.", "speakerName": "The Chair" }, { "text": "Mr. Chair, no one is disputing the need to move quickly. We are now in May, though, and these programs have been announced for weeks. Canadians have been accessing them. The problems with them have been flagged for the government for weeks as well, but we're also going to see an additional challenge, where people who are receiving the emergency response benefit, who may have the option to go back to work and work some hours, are faced with a hard cap of $1,000 a month before they lose the CERB. Conservatives are proposing a progressive system, a more flexible system, where people will be able to earn more without losing their benefits as businesses ramp up but before normal working hours are restored. Again, will the Prime Minister build in some flexibility to lift the restrictive ceiling on what people can earn before losing benefits so that it always pays more to work?", "speakerName": "Hon. Andrew Scheer" }, { "text": "I believe the timer is telling all of us that the time is up, but I'll give the right honourable Prime Minister about 30 seconds to answer that, please.", "speakerName": "The Chair" }, { "text": "Thank you, Mr. Chair. Our priority was getting support for Canadians right across the country with the CERB, with the wage subsidy and with other measures for students, for seniors, for farmers and for agricultural producers. That has been our priority, and that's what we have worked on. I hear the concerns that the Conservative Party has around disincentives. We are going to work with communities and with industry as we look to reopen, to make sure that people have opportunities to work and are not penalized for it. However, our overarching priority was allowing Canadians to be confident in their ability to stay home, care for their loved ones, buy groceries and pay their rent so that we could keep safe during this pandemic. That's exactly what we did.", "speakerName": "Right Hon. Justin Trudeau" }, { "text": "We'll go to Ms. Gladu now.", "speakerName": "The Chair" }, { "text": "Mr. Chair, seniors in my riding are struggling. We've heard the Prime Minister admit that fixed incomes for some of them are down, rent is increasing and the price of groceries is increasing. He's been saying for weeks that in the coming days, something would be announced for seniors. The fact is that the Liberals ran on an election promise to increase the old age security. Which of the days in the coming weeks will they keep their promise to seniors?", "speakerName": "Ms. Marilyn Gladu (SarniaLambton, CPC)" }, { "text": "Mr. Chair, after a lifetime of hard work, of course Canadians deserve peace of mind when it comes to their retirement security. COVID-19 is definitely having a disproportionate impact on seniors. They have a greater need for services and supports. Happily, their pensions and their benefits are still flowing, unlike for so many of those who have lost their jobs, but it's still tough. We introduced measures Ms. Marilyn Gladu: Which day? Hon. Deb Schulte: at the beginning of April. People received a GST credit, a supplementary payment that was $400 on average for single seniors and $600 for couples. That was of significant help to low- and moderate-income seniors.", "speakerName": "Hon. Deb Schulte (Minister of Seniors)" }, { "text": "We have a point of order from Ms. Gladu.", "speakerName": "The Chair" }, { "text": "Yes, Mr. Chair. I think you had reminded us as members that the amount of time for the answer should be similar to the amount of time for the question. I would just ask the minister to keep to that. I would like to go to my second question.", "speakerName": "Ms. Marilyn Gladu" }, { "text": "I want to remind all honourable members to keep their answers as well as their questions as concise as possible. Ms. Gladu.", "speakerName": "The Chair" }, { "text": "Very good, Mr. Chair. My riding is on the border of Canada and the U.S. We see a number of inconsistencies in what is considered essential travel with regard to the U.S. and actually in the interpretation of different CBSA agents. While we have Americans coming over to buy cheaper prescription medications and to fish, individuals in my riding who are trying to get auditors over so that they can be approved for export businesses are being declined. We have people who have purchased masts from Canadian producers for their boats, and who want to come and pick them up, who are not being allowed to do that. People trying to sell plasma into the U.S. are being denied. When will they clarify the rules to the CBSA agents so that essential travel and trade and commerce, including individual commerce, is understood?", "speakerName": "Ms. Marilyn Gladu" }, { "text": "Mr. Chair, we have implemented very rigorous rules that have been well documented and understood by CBSA to stop all non-essential travel. Those measures have been very successful. We've seen a 99% reduction in international travel coming into Canada. At the same time, we recognize the importance of maintaining essential supply routes so that goods and services could reach Canada and we could put groceries on our shelves. We also recognize the important work that essential workers do on both sides of the border. We have provided CBSA with clarification. Their interpretation of those rules has been broadly consistent. I've heard from a number of our colleagues in caucus with concerns about individual cases. When we receive those inquiries, we follow up immediately. I want to assure the member that we'll continue to do that. The work we are doing to stop non-essential travel has been important for the health and safety of Canadians, and we will continue with that work.", "speakerName": "Hon. Bill Blair (Minister of Public Safety and Emergency Preparedness)" }, { "text": "Mr. Chair, my next question has to do with sole proprietor businesses. We see that many of them are not eligible for any of the benefit packages that have been rolled outEI, CERB, the wage subsidy, etc. What is the government going to do to address sole proprietors who are currently falling through the cracks?", "speakerName": "Ms. Marilyn Gladu" }, { "text": "Mr. Chair, first, let me say that we absolutely recognize there are businesses across the country of all sizes that are finding this to be extremely difficult. The intent of the measures we put forward is obviously not only to give individuals a bridge but to give businesses a bridge. We are looking at ways that we can ensure that the Canada emergency business account has the broadest possible application. More than 500,000 businesses have already been approved for these loans, representing over $20 billion. We are looking at ways we can consider that eligibility process, recognizing that we need to make sure that the program continues to have its desired impact, and we will have more to say on that.", "speakerName": "Hon. Bill Morneau (Minister of Finance)" }, { "text": "The next question will go to Mr. Arnold.", "speakerName": "The Chair" }, { "text": "Mr. Chair, this is my first appearance, so I hope you can hear me okay.", "speakerName": "Mr. Mel Arnold (North OkanaganShuswap, CPC)" }, { "text": "We can hear you fine. Please proceed.", "speakerName": "The Chair" }, { "text": "Thank you, Mr. Chair. It's good to see everyone's faces. On April 3, the fisheries minister said opening dates would be determined by harvesters. Since then the minister has overruled the will of harvesters in Prince Edward Island and in the gulf who voted to start their seasons on time, but she has allowed harvesters from her own riding to proceed with their seasons as scheduled, giving them access to markets weeks before their competitors. This double standard is severely unfair and Atlantic harvesters are furious, as demonstrated during the protests on the Canso Causeway yesterday. When will the minister stop abusing her position and start respecting fish harvesters by opening up lobster fishing areas 23, 24 and 26?", "speakerName": "Mr. Mel Arnold" }, { "text": "Mr. Chair, when making decisions with regard to when seasons open, a number of factors are taken into account. They are complex decisions that take into account what is necessary for processors to be ready for the season, what is necessary for harvesters to be ready for the season, as well socio-economic impacts on the area. We're looking at all of those measures when we make these decisions. We do not make them lightly. They are difficult decisions to make. In the decisions we've made around the gulf, one of the main things we heard from all of those areas is that it was very important for them to start on the same date. That is why the decision was made to start on the 15th of May. We're looking forward to seeing the harvesters out on the water. We're looking forward to the product that they bring in. We'll continue do everything we can to support the industry.", "speakerName": "Hon. Bernadette Jordan (Minister of Fisheries, Oceans and the Canadian Coast Guard)" }, { "text": "Thank you, Minister. I believe the time", "speakerName": "Mr. Mel Arnold" }, { "text": "Excuse me. No, the hon. minister had another 15 seconds coming to her. I'd like to remind hon. members not to interrupt a person while they are speaking. I'll do my best to try to keep it about level. Maybe I'll start muting if it's necessary, but interrupting is not going to solve anything. Mr. Arnold, I'll let you continue. You have three minutes and nine seconds left.", "speakerName": "The Chair" }, { "text": "Thank you, Mr. Chair. West coast fishing tourism is a key economic driver in British Columbia, especially in coastal communities, and yet the public fishery gets no respect from the government. Last year, the public fishery was weakened by restrictions based on ideology and not science. A year later, the fisheries minister refuses even to discuss viable, science-based solutions to conserve B.C.'s public fisheries. Does the minister and her government have a will and a plan to support Canada's west coast fisheries and the communities they sustain?", "speakerName": "Mr. Mel Arnold" }, { "text": "The hon. minister in 30 seconds, please.", "speakerName": "The Chair" }, { "text": "Mr. Chair, the fishery is important in every coastal community. I recognize its value for our economy, as well as what it means to our coastal communities. That's why we continue to work with those communities and with the fisheries to make sure that we're doing everything we possibly can to support them. During these extremely difficult times, we're working on measures with the fishery in B.C., as well as on the Atlantic coast and eastern Quebec, to make sure that we're delivering for them and that all of the issues they're having are being addressed.", "speakerName": "Hon. Bernadette Jordan" }, { "text": "Mr. Arnold.", "speakerName": "The Chair" }, { "text": "Mr. Chair, Canada's seniors, especially those on basic incomes, are being hard hit by the COVID-19 crisis as they face new rising costs and scarcity of services. Seniors require adequate caregiver supports, physical safety and freedom to access their savings to reinforce their financial security. Why has the government failed to recognize the increasing challenges that seniors are facing? Will the government support Canada's senior citizens?", "speakerName": "Mr. Mel Arnold" }, { "text": "The hon. minister in 30 seconds or less, please.", "speakerName": "The Chair" }, { "text": "Mr. Chair, I want to assure my hon. colleague that the government has been focused on seniors during this challenging time. We have provided a GST credit supplement of $400 for single seniors and $600 for couples, for low- and modest-income seniors. We have also ensured that the Canada emergency response benefit is there for seniors who have lost income due to COVID-19. We've made them eligible.", "speakerName": "Hon. Bernadette Jordan" }, { "text": "We'll go back to Mr. Arnold. Mr. Arnold, you have a minutehopefully a 30-second question and a 30-second answer.", "speakerName": "The Chair" }, { "text": "Thank you, Mr. Chair. On April 23, my colleagues and I called on the government to create a program that would match students seeking employment with employers in Canada's essential food supply chains. What has the government done to match students and other Canadians seeking employment with employers in the agriculture and agri-food sectors, including those in the fish and seafood sector?", "speakerName": "Mr. Mel Arnold" }, { "text": "Mr. Chair, we're doing all we can to make sure, using our existing employment programs, that we create opportunities for students to work and get work experience this summer. We know that this is going to be really tough, especially in areas like agriculture, so we have dedicated streams for agriculture sector employers to access students with help from the government, and a number of different initiatives including Canada summer jobs, which I'm really excited to see the results of in the coming days.", "speakerName": "Hon. Carla Qualtrough (Minister of Employment, Workforce Development and Disability Inclusion)" }, { "text": "Now we'll go on to the next question from Ms. Harder. Ms. Rempel, do you have a point of order?", "speakerName": "The Chair" }, { "text": "Thank you, Mr. Chair. With my colleague, Mr. Arnold, it's the second time that I note you've threatened to cut off a Conservative microphone. I'm just wondering, given that this isn't the House of Commons and it's structured as a committee, what standing order would give you the right to cut off a member of Parliament using a mute button. It seems a little dictatorial, and I was just wondering whether you could clarify that, based on the Standing Orders.", "speakerName": "Hon. Michelle Rempel Garner (Calgary Nose Hill, CPC)" }, { "text": "I don't think I threatened to use mute, but thank you for bringing that up. I am trying to keep the rules where the questions and the answers are equal, so that there are no interruptions on either side. That's how we're going to continue. I didn't use the mute. I did it verbally and I think that's a little more civil way of doing it. I hope you approve. I'm not asking you to comment on that. We'll go over to Ms. Harder. Thank you.", "speakerName": "The Chair" }, { "text": "But, on the point of order, Mr. Chair, you actually, to me, last week, and to Mr. Arnold, did suggest that you were going to use the mute button.", "speakerName": "Hon. Michelle Rempel Garner" }, { "text": "I believe that if we take everything out and go over it.... Bring the papers with the actual verbiage on it where I threatened, and we'll go over it, but I don't think this is the venue to do that. If you want to bring forward a point of order, I'm all in favour of it.", "speakerName": "The Chair" }, { "text": "Well, I am bringing forward a point of order. I've asked you to clarify", "speakerName": "Hon. Michelle Rempel Garner" }, { "text": "Very good. We'll look into it and get back to you. Thank you. We'll go on to Ms. Harder.", "speakerName": "The Chair" }, { "text": "Canadians have outrightly expressed outrage and disappointment with the government's initiative to put a gun ban in place. Does the minister stand by his comment that these changes would have prevented the tragedy in Nova Scotia?", "speakerName": "Ms. Rachael Harder (Lethbridge, CPC)" }, { "text": "The honourable minister in 15 seconds or less, please.", "speakerName": "The Chair" }, { "text": "We have heard from health professionals, women's rights organizations, victims groups and the police and our unions. They're all very supportive of the government's measure to ban weapons that have no place in a civil society and were designed to kill people.", "speakerName": "Hon. Bill Blair" }, { "text": "It's interesting that the minister is misleading Canadians in that comment because the Canadian Association of Chiefs of Police has actually said that a gun ban will do nothing of the sort, that it actually will not protect Canadians. So I'd be curious. How many criminals will see guns seized because of the changes that have been implemented by the Liberal government?", "speakerName": "Ms. Rachael Harder" }, { "text": "Yes, let's actually quote what the police have said. The Ontario Association of Chiefs of Police said that they support a prohibition on all military-designed assault rifles. The chief in Toronto said that taking those assault rifles off the streets contributes to public safety, and the Canadian Association of Police Chiefs has declared that military assault rifles are produced for the sole purpose of killing people in large numbers and they urged successive governments to enact legislation to ban all military assault rifles.", "speakerName": "Hon. Bill Blair" }, { "text": "The answer to that question is zero. Absolutely no criminals will see their guns seized based on the Liberals' legislation that's coming forward because it actually goes after those who legally own and use their firearms. Can the Prime Minister please tell us why he decided to go after law-abiding citizens instead of actually going after criminals who have gotten their firearms in an illegal manner and then used them to commit crimes?", "speakerName": "Ms. Rachael Harder" }, { "text": "The honourable minister in 25 seconds or less, please.", "speakerName": "The Chair" }, { "text": "Yes, to be very clear, the order in council actually is targeted at weapons, weapons that were designed for military use, and in their design and in their intent, to kill people, they've actually been used in this country, at cole Polytechnique; in Moncton; at a Quebec City mosque; in Fredericton; at Mayerthorpe and most recently in Nova Scotia. These are weapons that really have no place.... They are being used and have been used in Canada and around the world to commit mass murder, and in the interest of public safety and at the urging", "speakerName": "Hon. Bill Blair" }, { "text": "We'll go on to Ms. Harder.", "speakerName": "The Chair" }, { "text": "Thank you. Now I understand the Prime Minister has his food prepared for him at 24 Sussex Drive and then it's delivered to him at the cottage where he lives. Contrary to his privileged understanding, food actually originates with farmers. Now, they're in a crisis right now, which means that regular Canadians are actually at risk of not having food available for them at the grocery stores where they purchase theirs. The Canadian Federation of Agriculture requested $2.6 billion to help them out. Today, the government announced one-tenth of this amount. Why doesn't the Prime Minister care about the women and the men who work incredibly hard to keep Canada fed?", "speakerName": "Ms. Rachael Harder" }, { "text": "Mr. Chair, let me assure the hon. member that our government cares very, very much about the women and men who work so hard to feed our country. Let me just say I am grateful to all the farmers, like my dad, who are out in their fields right now getting ready for seeding. We, as Canadians, are lucky to be citizens of an agricultural superpower, and our government believes in supporting our farmers and ranchers.", "speakerName": "Hon. Chrystia Freeland (Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Intergovernmental Affairs)" }, { "text": "I'm confused as to why the Prime Minister didn't take my question, and at a bare minimum as to why the agriculture minister doesn't feel it's important enough for her to be a part of this discussion today. When we have farmers who produce for Canadians on a daily basis and they're asking some serious and some very important questions, and we don't even have a minister who's willing to come to the table and engage in this conversation, that's shameful. Several meat-packing plants have been forced to shut down because of COVID-19 and, as a result, farmers are forced to hold stock longer than expected. Cattle producers in my region are spending more than $60,000 a day to keep their livestock fed while they wait for processing plants to reopen. The amount that was announced today by the federal government is a drop in the bucket. It's a crumb. When will the government take this seriously and at least implement a set-aside program for those who are beef producers in Canada?", "speakerName": "Ms. Rachael Harder" }, { "text": "Mr. Chair, let me just say that I feel there is nothing shameful at all in having me, the Deputy Prime Minister, answer questions about agriculture. I am actually very proud to speak up for Canada's amazing farmers, for our country's amazing ranchers, for our amazing pork producers and our poultry producers. I feel so close to our farmers. I love them and our government supports them. Today, we announced $252 million of support for our producers. They need it. They deserve it. We're here for them.", "speakerName": "Hon. Chrystia Freeland" }, { "text": "Now we'll go on to Mr. Bezan.", "speakerName": "The Chair" }, { "text": "Thank you, Mr. Chair. I too would like to express my sincere condolences to the families and friends of the six military heroes who lost their lives at sea last week. I'm sure that all members of the House stand shoulder to shoulder with the families, with the crew of the HMCS Fredericton and, indeed, with the entire Canadian Armed Forces community during this time of grief. Can the Minister of National Defence give us an update as to the Cyclone helicopter crash off the coast of Greece last week?", "speakerName": "Mr. James Bezan (SelkirkInterlakeEastman, CPC)" }, { "text": "Mr. Chair, the deaths of the Canadian Armed Forces members are felt by all, and especially the families. Our condolences go out to them. Our number one priority is to make sure that we look after them, and that's exactly what we are doing. Currently, the investigation is ongoing. Our investigative team is currently on the ground. I actually spoke with the Italian minister of defence and he promised full support for this investigation and any support that's required.", "speakerName": "Hon. Harjit S. Sajjan (Minister of National Defence)" }, { "text": "I'm afraid I'm going to have to cut you off there, if we're going by the rules that were pointed out by the House. Mr. Bezan.", "speakerName": "The Chair" }, { "text": "Thank you, Mr. Chair. Through you to Minister Sajjan again, I'm going to change gears a bit. I know that back in early January, military intelligence through CF Intelligence Command was reporting, through the chain of command, the novel coronavirus and the outbreak in Wuhan. On what date was he, as Minister of National Defence, given his first intelligence briefing on the outbreak and the pandemic in China?", "speakerName": "Mr. James Bezan" }, { "text": "Mr. Chair, we have been following this crisis from day one. We work with our Five Eyes intelligence sources and this has been a whole-of-government effort, right from the beginning. I can assure you that our response to this pandemic has been with all the necessary information. Obviously, I can't discuss the intelligence in this forum, but I can assure you that our response has been well informed with the correct information.", "speakerName": "Hon. Harjit S. Sajjan" }, { "text": "Minister Sajjan, we know that intelligence was going up the chain of command in National Defence. It was reported in the media that in early January the hierarchy within the Canadian Armed Forces was being made aware of the coronavirus outbreak. I asked you, Minister, when you became aware of it and what you did with that intelligence.", "speakerName": "Mr. James Bezan" }, { "text": "Mr. Chair, I get regular briefings on intelligence. Yes, I was made aware of this in January. As with all our intelligence, we work together from a whole-of-government perspective with all of our intelligence agencies. One thing I can assure you is that our response has been well informed with all the correct information that is provided to me and other members of cabinet.", "speakerName": "Hon. Harjit S. Sajjan" }, { "text": "What was that timeline? From the time you were first told, Minister Sajjan, about the coronavirus outbreak in Wuhan, what did you do with that intelligence? When did you give it to the Prime Minister or to Minister Hajdu as the Minister of Health?", "speakerName": "Mr. James Bezan" }, { "text": "Mr. Chair, let me say that our government's response to this global pandemic has of course been informed by the excellent work of Canadian intelligence agencies throughout. We have been working on this from very early on. On January 2, PHAC first spoke with provincial health authorities to alert them to the situation. On January 14, it convened a meeting of all provincial health authorities. In January, the Prime Minister convened a meeting of the incident response group, and in January we increased screening at all major airports. All of these actions were informed by the work of our excellent intelligence community, and of course our work with our Five Eyes, NATO and NORAD allies.", "speakerName": "Hon. Chrystia Freeland" }, { "text": "I want to come back", "speakerName": "Mr. James Bezan" }, { "text": "We now move to Mr.Ste-Marie.", "speakerName": "The Chair" }, { "text": "I still have 30 seconds left.", "speakerName": "Mr. James Bezan" }, { "text": "Can I go ahead, Mr.Chair?", "speakerName": "Mr. Gabriel Ste-Marie (Joliette, BQ)" }, { "text": "Yes, go ahead.", "speakerName": "The Chair" }, { "text": "Thank you, Mr.Chair. In an interview with Grald Fillion, tax expert Andr Lareau, who specializes in tax havens, pointed out that $350billion Canadian is parked in just 12tax havens. Companies are using tax havens for financing, operations and intellectual property activities. Mr.Lareau also notes that the government is aware that all of this Canadian money is stashed in tax havens but is doing nothing about it. He said that it's time for Canada to tackle the problem given that it has a $250-billion deficit, and that if it doesn't act now to change things, it never will. Is the government going to seize this opportunity to outlaw the corporate use of tax havens?", "speakerName": "Mr. Gabriel Ste-Marie" }, { "text": "Mr.Chair, as soon as we took office, in 2015, our government made cracking down on tax evaders in Canada and abroad a priority. That's precisely why we put nearly a billion dollars towards that effort. I realize that my fellow member is impatient, but he has to understand that this is a very complex issue. Under our leadership, in three years, the Canada Revenue Agency has undertaken twice as many audits related to offshore tax evasion as it did in the 10years the Conservatives were in power. As we speak, the agency is conducting more than 50criminal investigations tied to international tax evasion. I repeat, this is a top priority for our government.", "speakerName": "Hon. Diane Lebouthillier (Minister of National Revenue)" }, { "text": "You're right, I am very impatient, because whenever I bring up the fact that companies are using tax havens legally, the minister misses the point and tells me that she is going after fraudsters. I am talking about the legal use of tax havens by companies. Since Parliament began sitting virtually, it's been mentioned a few times that Denmark and Poland have decided to deal with the issue. Even France's finance minister, Bruno LeMaire, said that companies with subsidiaries in tax havens would not be eligible for public assistance. We hear thePrime Minister and other government officials say all the time that the wage subsidies are going to workers, so I'd like to cite another examplebanks. The government is injecting huge amounts of cash into the financial system and repurchasing troubled assets in massive quantities, and yet, the five major banks in Toronto, alone, are continuing to save billions of dollars every year by artificially redirecting their profits to tax havens. This is unacceptable. This has nothing to do with wages for workers, and everything to do with the repurchase of troubled assets, cash flow and billions of dollars that the government could be going after. Is the government going to seize this opportunity to make the corporate use of tax havens illegal?", "speakerName": "Mr. Gabriel Ste-Marie" }, { "text": "Mr.Chair, our government is taking unprecedented steps through the Canada emergency wage subsidy measure to support businesses and workers affected by COVID-19. This is largely a trust-based program, and we will not tolerate abuse. Anyone who tries to bypass the rules will face serious consequences. Applicants have to designate an individual to attest to the truth of their claim. What's more, any employer receiving the subsidy who is deemed ineligible will have to repay the full amount. Anyone who abuses the program could face a fine of up to 225% of the wage subsidy amount and up to five years in prison. The Canada Revenue Agency also has a myriad of tools at its disposal to detect a fraudulent claim. As I mentioned, cracking down on tax evasion is a priority for our government.", "speakerName": "Hon. Diane Lebouthillier" }, { "text": "Mr.Ste-Marie, you have about 30seconds to ask your question, and about the same for the answer.", "speakerName": "The Chair" }, { "text": "Thank you, Mr.Chair. That's an excellent answer, but it has nothing to do with my question. The Minister of Finance has the power to fix the problem now. Although completely immoral, the use of tax havens by companies is legal under section5907 of the Income Tax Regulations. Through simple regulatory amendments, the finance minister could put an end to this kind of abuse. We are going to have a $250-billion deficit to pay off, and everyone is going to have to chip in, including the rich who are currently taking advantage of the system.", "speakerName": "Mr. Gabriel Ste-Marie" }, { "text": "Mr.Chair, thanks to a historic billion-dollar investment, our government has given the agency the resources it needs to do the job, and we are starting to see results. I set up an expert advisory committee to provide us with guidance and recommendations. We tightened the rules for the voluntary disclosures program. We signed tax information exchange agreements with a number of countries. We audit four jurisdictions a year. We also work closely with the OECD.", "speakerName": "Hon. Diane Lebouthillier" }, { "text": "We now move on to another member. The next questioner is Mr. Rogers.", "speakerName": "The Chair" }, { "text": "Mr. Chair, I'm sharing my time slot with the member for SurreyNewton. In the wake of COVID-19, so many Canadians have been affected in so many ways. Financial loss and other burdens are having a huge impact on families across our country. I'm proud of how the Government of Canada has been beside Canadians through every step of this pandemic and has supported Canadians when they needed it most. In BonavistaBurinTrinity and across our country, our commercial fishery has seen many challenges and impacts. Last week, my colleague, the Minister of Fisheries and Oceans, announced an investment that will ensure resilience of the food system by allowing Canada's fish and seafood processing sector to safely and efficiently process, store, package and distribute healthy, high-quality products on to the plates of Canadians. The fish harvesters in my riding are fearful of what will happen within this industry and their immediate futures. They are facing a reduction in available markets and market prices. They are asking what our government is putting in place to assist in these extremely challenging times. When can we expect to hear an answer to our harvesters' requests for assistance?", "speakerName": "Mr. Churence Rogers (BonavistaBurinTrinity, Lib.)" }, { "text": "Mr. Chair, I want to thank my colleague from BonavistaBurinTrinity for keeping us well aware of what's happening in his riding with harvesters and with processors. We know how important the fish and seafood sector is to our rural communities, our coastal communities. It's the backbone and the lifeblood of our communities and that's why we want to be there to support them. We've already taken steps by making sure that the CERB is now able to be accessed by people who are seasonal workers. As well, we are making sure that people who are running out of fishers EI are also able to qualify for it. We also have made an investment of $62.5 million to support our processors to make sure they are able to be ready for the challenges that they are going to face because of COVID-19. We know there is more to do. We know that the harvesters need support. We are working with our partners across industry to make sure we're hearing what their major concerns are. We know they are going to have some very challenging times this season. We will have more to say about that and what we will be able to do in the coming days.", "speakerName": "Hon. Bernadette Jordan" }, { "text": "The next questioner is Mr. Dhaliwal.", "speakerName": "The Chair" }, { "text": "Mr. Chair, in my riding of SurreyNewton, I'm in close contact with businesses that represent all", "speakerName": "Mr. Sukh Dhaliwal (SurreyNewton, Lib.)" }, { "text": "We have a point of order. Mr. Kurek.", "speakerName": "The Chair" }, { "text": "Sorry, but there seems to be an issue with the audio. I'm unable to hear the honourable member.", "speakerName": "Mr. Damien Kurek (Battle RiverCrowfoot, CPC)" }, { "text": "It is very faint. Mr. Dhaliwal, can you check your audio to make sure everything's working well?", "speakerName": "The Chair" }, { "text": "It was", "speakerName": "Mr. Sukh Dhaliwal" }, { "text": "There we go. It's fine now. I think what happened was the boom had fallen down and it wasn't being picked up. There you go. Very good.", "speakerName": "The Chair" }, { "text": "Mr. Chair, in my riding of SurreyNewton, I'm in close contact with businesses that represent all vantage points in the supply chainfrom manufacturers to retailers, transport companies to warehousing. With provinces and territories moving at different speeds and implementing different protocols for reopening the economy, there is a lot of confusion in my local business community on the timing and logistics of how this will happen. With so many different parts of the supply chain operating in different jurisdictions, and with each business serving unique roles on this spectrum, how can the federal government serve to best coordinate with the provinces and territories so that the supply chain can be implemented smoothly as we embark on our economic recovery?", "speakerName": "Mr. Sukh Dhaliwal" }, { "text": "Mr. Chair, I'd like to thank my colleague for his question and for his hard work. One of the most important things the federal government can do when it comes to the reopening of the Canadian economy is to work in close collaboration with the premiers of the provinces and territories. That's why I was so pleased that last week the Prime Minister, together with all the first ministers of the country, was able to issue a statement around the principles that will be guiding our entire country as we move towards a restart. This is so important because, as my colleague has pointed out, all of our business, our economic activity, happens across the country. It happens across provincial and territorial boundaries. I would really also like to take this opportunity to thank the first ministers across the country. They belong to different parties, but everyone has really been able to put partisanship aside. We have been able to work together in fighting coronavirus, and we are going to work together in the future to keep on fighting coronavirus and to reopen Canada. Thank you.", "speakerName": "Hon. Chrystia Freeland" }, { "text": "The next question goes to Ms. McPherson.", "speakerName": "The Chair" }, { "text": "Thank you, Mr. Chair, for the opportunity to represent my constituents virtually during this challenging period of physical distancing. I'd like to start by asking about supports for workers. In Alberta, meat-packing plants are directly responsible for nearly a quarter of all COVID-19 cases. The government and management ignored the pleas of workers and did not put effective safety protocols in place to deal with COVID-19. Now, two workers are dead, at least six more are in intensive care and COVID-19 is spreading like wildfire through these communities. There are over 1,400 cases. Yesterday, employees were forced back to work even though their concerns had not been addressed. On March 27, regarding the CERB, the Minister of Finance said that if workers don't feel comfortable in their work, if they decide to stay home, they can apply for the benefit, yet the website says differently. Will the minister guarantee that every Canadian receiving CERB, EI or the CESB will not lose their benefits if they refuse to return to work or to accept work that is unsafe due to COVID-19?", "speakerName": "Ms. Heather McPherson (Edmonton Strathcona, NDP)" }, { "text": "Let me thank the member, first of all, for her really very important question. I think all of us share the concern for Canada's essential workers who are keeping us safe, putting food on our tables and often working in difficult conditions. When it comes to the Cargill plant, this is an issue that our government has been very closely engaged in. My colleague, the Minister of Agriculture, has spoken with her provincial counterpart and the head of the plant. The decisions about suspending and reopening are taken by local and provincial health authorities. To the question my colleague asked about workers, it is absolutely the case that no Canadian should feel they need to work in an environment that is unsafe, and it is also very much the case that any Canadian who is feeling unwell should stay at home. This is the way that collectively we take care of ourselves and we take care", "speakerName": "Hon. Chrystia Freeland" }, { "text": "We will go on to Ms. McPherson for the next question.", "speakerName": "The Chair" }, { "text": "I just want to be clear, because I'm not a hundred per cent sure that I got an answer in that response, so I'll try one more time. Knowing that workers have a fundamental right to refuse unsafe work, can the minister confirm one hundred per cent that if workers refuse unsafe work, they will be able to access the CERB, or was the Minister of Finance incorrect when he spoke on March 27?", "speakerName": "Ms. Heather McPherson" }, { "text": "The honourable minister.", "speakerName": "The Chair" }, { "text": "I'm sorry, but I was struggling with my mute button. I apologize. Let me just be very clear. No Canadian worker at any time should feel obliged to go to work in unsafe conditions.", "speakerName": "Hon. Chrystia Freeland" }, { "text": "But then could they access the CERB?", "speakerName": "Ms. Heather McPherson" }, { "text": "In a time of coronavirus that is even more the case, and the government of course should not penalize workers for doing the right thing and declining to go to work in unsafe conditions.", "speakerName": "Hon. Chrystia Freeland" }, { "text": "I want to remind the honourable members to place their questions through the Chair to avoid back and forth, just to try to keep some order in the meeting. Ms. McPherson, please continue.", "speakerName": "The Chair" }, { "text": "I'm sorry, Chair. I have another question on the protection for workers. At the meat-packing plant, workers are calling for the plant to be shut down. In fact, we know that 85% of workers are afraid for their safety. If the provincial government won't shut down the plant, will the federal government shut down unsafe plants through the Canadian Food Inspection Agency?", "speakerName": "Ms. Heather McPherson" }, { "text": "Mr. Chair, on the Canadian Food Inspection Agency, let me be very clear that my colleague, the Minister of Agriculture, has been in touch with provincial authorities. She has been in touch with the plant. The duties of the food inspection agency, of course, are to ensure that the food produced at the plant is safe. That is what inspectors are trained to do and what they are focused on. We are working closely with provincial authorities and with health authorities to ensure that", "speakerName": "Hon. Chrystia Freeland" }, { "text": "We will go back to Ms. McPherson.", "speakerName": "The Chair" }, { "text": "Mr. Chair, this will be one of my final questions on the meat-packing plant in Alberta. Can the finance minister please let us know if Cargill, a company that is owned by billionaires, with business in Luxembourg, a known tax haven, has received any federal funding this year for COVID-related support?", "speakerName": "Ms. Heather McPherson" }, { "text": "This is a tough time for Canadians, and our government is doing everything it can to support them. More than 7million Canadians have applied for the Canada emergency response benefit, which the Canada Revenue Agency and Service Canada administer. I want to say how proud I am of the work the agency is doing; staff worked tirelessly to get the program up and running in record time. MinisterQualtrough is responsible for developing the eligibility criteria and processing the claims.", "speakerName": "Hon. Diane Lebouthillier" }, { "text": "We are moving on to the next question. We'll continue now with Mr. Bragdon.", "speakerName": "The Chair" }, { "text": "Thank you, Mr. Chair. My question today is for the Prime Minister. Potato farmers in New Brunswick and across Canada are sitting on massive stores of potatoes that were destined for the restaurant industry, but due to the pandemic, they now have no customers. It's estimated that there is $300 million worth of potatoes still sitting in storage. What is the Prime Minister's plan for the helping farmers offload these potatoes so that they are ready for the 2020 season?", "speakerName": "Mr. Richard Bragdon (TobiqueMactaquac, CPC)" }, { "text": "Mr. Chair, I think all of us as Canadians are proud of the great potato farmers across the country. We are aware that the coronavirus, by keeping us away from restaurants where we eat french fries, has had a profound effect on the market for potatoes. The program announced today by the Prime Minister and my colleague, the Minister of Agriculture, will be very helpful for potato farmers, including with the surplus food program that starts with a $50 million fund, and that", "speakerName": "Hon. Chrystia Freeland" }, { "text": "We'll go back to Mr. Bragdon now.", "speakerName": "The Chair" }, { "text": "Mr. Chair, thank you. With an estimated $300 million worth of potatoes in storage, the announced funding from the government today simply doesn't go far enough. In 2018 the New Brunswick potato industry lost over $20 million. It is estimated this year that the financial loss will exceed $40 million. For many producers still recovering from the hit they took in 2018, another major loss is totally unacceptable. How does the Prime Minister plan to mitigate these shortfalls and allow farmers to continue to grow the food we so desperately need?", "speakerName": "Mr. Richard Bragdon" }, { "text": "Mr. Chair, the honourable member spoke about farmers generally. The program today is $252 million, which comes on top of the broad range of other programs that farmers, of course, have access to. On potato farmers, in particular, I agree with the honourable member that this is a specific area of concern. I think all Canadians would like to see those potatoes not be wasted but be used, and that's why the $50 million for surplus food purchase is going to be so helpful.", "speakerName": "Hon. Chrystia Freeland" }, { "text": "Mr. Chair, farmers across all agricultural sectors are hurting during this pandemic. The $16-billion beef industry is expected to take a massive hit due to the closures and reduced production of the meat-packing plants. Does the government truly believe that the announced $125 million that is shared between beef, poultry and pork producers will be enough to support these multi-billion dollar industries so they can put food on the tables of Canadians?", "speakerName": "Mr. Richard Bragdon" }, { "text": "Mr. Chair, I absolutely agree with the honourable member that our beef, pork and poultry producers are absolutely essential for our country. I am very pleased as a Canadian that we have security that comes from being a country that produces not only enough food for ourselves, but also enough food to feed the world. That is why the $125 million specifically to support our beef, pork and poultry producers is going to be so helpful.", "speakerName": "Hon. Chrystia Freeland" }, { "text": "Mr. Chair, the government's announcement of $252 million for the agriculture sector falls well short of the Canadian Federation of Agriculture's request for immediate government relief for farmers. The president of the Canadian Federation of Agriculture, Mary Robinson, put it today something like this: that if the farmhouse is on fire, the government has offered the equivalent of a bucket of water. This will not go nearly far enough to help those in a desperate situation. Does the government have a plan to offer more than just crumbs to keep the vital agriculture sector operating and providing the food we so desperately need? When will the government finally make those who literally keep our land and grow our food a priority in this time of crisis?", "speakerName": "Mr. Richard Bragdon" }, { "text": "Mr. Chair, I don't know about the honourable member, but where I come from, $252 million is not just crumbs. I know that Canadian farmers don't feel that $252 million is nothing, either. I would like to take this opportunity to highlight two other aspects of the essential support for farmers that we announced today: the $77 million to support food processors, which will not only be important for the processors, but helpful for the farmers who produce products that go to them; and the $250 million that we would like to add to the Canadian Dairy Commission's line of credit to raise it to half a billion dollars, which will be very helpful to our essential dairy farmers.", "speakerName": "Hon. Chrystia Freeland" }, { "text": "Now we'll go to the next question. Go ahead, Mrs. Wagantall.", "speakerName": "The Chair" }, { "text": "Mr. Chair, a couple in my riding has had to shut down their business, and they are on CERB. They were shocked when their 16-year-old son also qualified, and he is receiving $8,000 on the basis of part-time work throughout the school year. Why is the government handing out a windfall to teenagers who are living at home while denying university students and ignoring seniors on fixed incomes?", "speakerName": "Mrs. Cathay Wagantall (YorktonMelville, CPC)" }, { "text": "Mr. Chair, any individual who has lost work for COVID reasons is eligible for the CERB, regardless of their personal circumstances. If you made $5,000 in the past year and are a resident of Canada, you qualify for the CERB. This is not a matter of differentiating between the personal circumstances of individuals but of acknowledging that many workers in different situations have lost their work or have had their work significantly reduced because of COVID.", "speakerName": "Hon. Carla Qualtrough" }, { "text": "Clearly, high school students would not have the same needs as university students and our seniors who are suffering at this time. The government's own findings on banning handguns and assault firearms state, In all cases the data does not conclusively demonstrate that these handgun or assault weapon bans have led to reductions in gun violence. Why is the Prime Minister so bent on penalizing law-abiding firearms owners when he should be focusing on funding our CBSA officers first, giving them the resources they need to seize smuggled firearms at our borders?", "speakerName": "Mrs. Cathay Wagantall" }, { "text": "Mr. Chair, I note with some interest that when we brought forward legislation in a budget in the last two years to increase the number of officers at the border, the member opposite voted against it. I'm very pleased to hear that she now supports it. Let us be very clear. The evidence is overwhelming that these weapons are designed to be used, and have been used, to kill innocent people. Countries that adopt sensible gun policiesplaces like New Zealand, Australia, the United Kingdomhave all recognized that there's no place for these weapons in a civil society. We promised Canadians that we would act on that concern. There have been far too many people killed with these weapons, and even most recently, to honour and respect the terrible tragedy in Nova Scotia, the time to act is now, and we've acted.", "speakerName": "Hon. Bill Blair" }, { "text": "Last week the Minister of Agriculture said, Step by step we are giving our farmers...the tools they need to continue their...work. On April 30, the Canadian Federation of Agriculture called on the minister to create a $2.6-billion fund to maintain food security in Canada. This morning, the Prime Minister announced $252 million, hit-and-miss, across the agriculture sector. With all due respect, this is a slap in the face to our farmers and the agri-food sector. Instead of being here to speak to this announcement, the minister has chosen to do a press conference. This certainly reveals how seriously the minister takes this virtual sitting and parliamentary accountability. If the deputy minister is going to answer the question in her place, how does she see it is right to be providing $9 billion to students and only crumbs to our agriculture sector?", "speakerName": "Mrs. Cathay Wagantall" }, { "text": "Mr. Chair, first of all, let me say I do not, as has now been suggested by two members opposite, consider it in any way shameful that I should be answering questions about our support for the agricultural sector. Our government strongly supports our farmers. I have to say I personally very strongly support our farmers and have a strong personal connection to them. The $252 million of support is real and meaningful, and it is directed exactly where it is needed. It is directed at food processors, beef and pork producers and the dairy sector. As to the question about students, let me just point out that farm kids are students too, and farm kids will be benefiting from the support for students. I know they, their parents and grandparents are very", "speakerName": "Hon. Chrystia Freeland" }, { "text": "Time is up.", "speakerName": "Mrs. Cathay Wagantall" }, { "text": "Mr.Lehoux, the next question goes to you.", "speakerName": "The Chair" }, { "text": "Thank you, Mr.Chair. Meat packing plants like Quebec-based Olymel are extremely worried that they won't be able to stay open throughout the pandemic. In the summer, these plants rely on students to do overtime and fill in for full-time employees on vacation. However, the Canada emergency student benefit makes it possible for these much-needed workers to stay home while still collecting the same amount of money. That's why the government must adjust its current summer job program for students in the agriculture and agri-food sectors. When is the government going to make these critical changes?", "speakerName": "Mr. Richard Lehoux (Beauce, CPC)" }, { "text": "I can assure you that we are doing our best efforts to not disincentivize work. We know we need to support students with income support, but we also need to create jobs. We are looking at ways we can create additional jobs through Canada summer jobs, through the", "speakerName": "Hon. Carla Qualtrough" }, { "text": "There is a point of order.", "speakerName": "The Chair" }, { "text": "Mr.Chair, what the minister is saying is not being interpreted.", "speakerName": "Mrs. Claude DeBellefeuille (SalaberrySurot, BQ)" }, { "text": "We'll just check to see how the technology is going. Is everything okay now?", "speakerName": "The Chair" }, { "text": "Yes, it's working.", "speakerName": "Mrs. Claude DeBellefeuille" }, { "text": "Let's try that again, Minister.", "speakerName": "The Chair" }, { "text": "Last week, as part of the measures announced around supporting our students, we announced the creation of 76,000 additional jobs, including jobs in the agriculture and processing sectors. We know we need to work directly with employers to ensure they have the people they need. This is exactly what we're doing through our youth employment and skills strategy, and that's what we'll continue to do. We won't apologize for supporting students with income support in these difficult times.", "speakerName": "Hon. Carla Qualtrough" }, { "text": "I'm not sure the minister understood my question about the Canada emergency student benefit. I am very concerned about the agricultural sector, but the tourist and horticultural sectors are also on my mind. A number of business owners in my riding have reached out to me because the shortage of student workers is forcing them to shut down for the summer. This government has pulled the rug out from under them with the benefit it introduced for students. Minister, what do you have to say to those business owners in the tourist and horticultural sectors whom you are not helping?", "speakerName": "Mr. Richard Lehoux" }, { "text": "Mr. Chair, with all due respect, I believe we are helping students. We've heard very clearly from the students that they want to work and want to serve in their communities in this time of crisis. That's why we're creating additional employment opportunities and an income support mechanism that allows them to work. We're going to continue to look at ways we can support them through additional opportunities this summer. We know they want to work and they want to serve.", "speakerName": "Hon. Carla Qualtrough" }, { "text": "I hope that we'll see some concrete results. Pork and beef producers are feeling the impact of the country's shutdown triggered by the pandemic. Processing plants are suspending operations and buyers are tearing up their contracts. For the past five years, the government has been saying that the programs to help producers will be improved. Now more than ever, producers need these programs. However, the programs haven't been reviewed yet. When will the government make these changes, including the changes to agristability, and when can producers access them?", "speakerName": "Mr. Richard Lehoux" }, { "text": "We announced over $77 million in assistance for food processors to help them protect their workers and deal with the costs associated with the coronavirus. To help livestock and pork producers, we established agrirecovery, a national initiative that will provide $125million to help producers adapt to market changes. We're launching", "speakerName": "Hon. Chrystia Freeland" }, { "text": "Mr.Lehoux has the floor.", "speakerName": "The Chair" }, { "text": "Thank you, Mr.Chair. I understand some of what the minister is saying. The measures announced at noon today received a very cold reception from the entire agriculture and agri-food sector, since the sector had asked for about $2.6billion. I think that it's important to support our agri-food industry and our farms, given the significant need for sovereignty. Many Canadians in the agriculture and agri-food sector have made this clear, as I was saying earlier. Something must be done quickly, before our country becomes completely dependent on its neighbours. Has the government considered making significant changes to the various programs currently in place?", "speakerName": "Mr. Richard Lehoux" }, { "text": "Our country, Canada, will never depend on its neighbours or any other country for food. Canada is a major beef, pork and grain producer. Canada is an agricultural superpower and we should all take pride in that. I want to mention another significant part of our announcement today, which is the $50million surplus food purchase program. This is very significant. I think that all Canadians must support this initiative.", "speakerName": "Hon. Chrystia Freeland" }, { "text": "We'll now move on to the next question. Mr.Calkins, the member for RedDeerLacombe, has the floor.", "speakerName": "The Acting Chair (Mrs. Alexandra Mends (BrossardSaint-Lambert, Lib.))" }, { "text": "Madam Chair, how will the government's forced confiscation of law-abiding firearms owners' property prevent criminals from illegally acquiring firearms from the United States?", "speakerName": "Mr. Blaine Calkins (Red DeerLacombe, CPC)" }, { "text": "Madam Chair, in response to that, I would simply remind the member that we have made it very clear that these weapons have no place in civil society, so we have prohibited military-style assault weapons that have been designed to be used to kill people and have been used to kill people. I would also advise the member we will bring forward legislation to deal more effectively at the border. We'll make significant new investments in border services officers and in police. We'll bring forward new authorities, new offences, new penalties to deal with people who smuggle weapons across the border. We're also bringing in new regulations for the storage of weapons to make it more difficult for people to steal these guns. To deal with people who purchase them illegally and sell them illegally, there will be new offences and penalties to make ensure that they face the consequences.", "speakerName": "Hon. Bill Blair" }, { "text": "The government previously has said that decisions like classifying firearms should be left to experts. The recent decision was purely political and it flies in the face of evidence-based policy. A legal opinion that's already been obtained says that the bore of a 12-gauge shotgun with the choke removed is in excess of 20 millimetres. That means every 12-gauge shotgun with a choke in it with that choke removed is now prohibited. That is the same firearm that Olympic trap shooters, Olympic skeet shooters, duck hunters and geese hunters all across our country use on a very regular basis. Why did the government abandon an evidence-based policy?", "speakerName": "Mr. Blaine Calkins" }, { "text": "Madam Chair, I'm pleased to have the opportunity to correct the member. First of all, we have prohibited large-bore weapons, such as grenade launchers, but with reference to the 10-gauge shotgun and the 12-gauge shotgun, I would simply remind the member that the bore of a 10-gauge shotgun is 19.69 millimetres in width and the bore of a 12-gauge shotgun is 18.53 millimetres in width, both of them under the size for prohibition and therefore not covered in the new prohibitions that the government introduced on Friday. I'm afraid his expert opinion is wrong.", "speakerName": "Hon. Bill Blair" }, { "text": "Madam Chair, the opinion is that of one of the foremost experts we have in Canada when it comes to firearms legislation. If the entirety of the barrel length is considered, then the removal of the choke makes that barrel in excess of 20 millimetres. I would appreciate the minister clarifying that for law-abiding firearms owners. There is no plan for a buyback program in this policy, and law-abiding firearms owners are not able currently to surrender their firearms. Given this, and the fact that law-abiding firearms owners aren't committing any gun violence, what was the government's immediate benefit of making this announcement on May 1?", "speakerName": "Mr. Blaine Calkins" }, { "text": "Thank you, and I'm very grateful for the opportunity to clarify. Along with the prohibition that we have put in place, we have also, using the order in council, established an amnesty period, but the amnesty period is non-permissive grandfathering of those weapons. They cannot be used, they can't be taken to the range for shooting, they can't be used for hunting, they can't be sold and they can't be transferred, so we have put in strong measures to ensure that these weapons will not be available for use. We have also put in an amnesty period that will allow us to bring forward the legislation and a budget in order to effect a responsible, safe and effective buyback program to remove these weapons from society. I look forward to the member's support for those measures as we go forward.", "speakerName": "Hon. Bill Blair" }, { "text": "Madam Chair, since January 1, 2002, any law-abiding citizen who was issued with a firearms licence by the government would have been cross-referenced with a continuous eligibility check 6,695 times up until May 1 of this year. How many times was this most recent mass murderer here in Canada checked against a criminal database since January 2002?", "speakerName": "Mr. Blaine Calkins" }, { "text": "As the member is probably aware, there is a very extensive investigation currently being conducted into that individual and how he acquired his firearms, and it's not appropriate to discuss that. However, I think what is appropriate is to recognize that the weapons that this individual had available to him are weapons that were not designed for target shooting or hunting purposes or any sporting purposes. They were designed for soldiers to kill soldiers. In the hands of someone who is intent on mass murder, they represent an unacceptable and deadly risk to Canadians, and that's why we have prohibited them. I'd also remind the member that other countries that have adopted sensible gun control laws, such as New Zealand, Australia and the United Kingdom, have also implemented very similar bans.", "speakerName": "Hon. Bill Blair" }, { "text": "Now we will go to the hon. member for NanaimoLadysmith, Mr. Manly.", "speakerName": "The Acting Chair (Mrs. Alexandra Mends)" }, { "text": "Thank you, Madam Chair. I'd like to start by giving my condolences for the crew from the HMCS Fredericton who died, and in particular to the family of Captain Kevin Hagen. He was originally a constituent from NanaimoLadysmith. Other countries are strongly recommending that all citizens wear masks wherever people gather indoors, including in schools, on public transit and in stores. Taiwan has effectively stopped the spread of the coronavirus by supplying people with masks and installing dispensers of hand sanitizer throughout public spaces. The Taiwanese do not do a lot of testing or contact tracing. They do not have a lockdown. Taiwan started in the top 10 countries affected by COVID-19, and today it is number 119. Will Canada follow Taiwan's example so we can lift the lockdown safely and get Canadians back to work?", "speakerName": "Mr. Paul Manly (NanaimoLadysmith, GP)" }, { "text": "Thank you very much, Madam Chair, and I thank the member for his question. There's no doubt that masks can play a role in a layered approach to protecting Canadians' health and safety, but as the member has mentioned, there are many other aspects to ensuring that Canadians are safe no matter where they go. For example, it is of utmost importance that Canadians practise social distancing. Social distancing can provide the most protection, in fact, when you're out in public or you're in another place where there are other people. Wearing a non-medical mask can add a layer of protection, and certainly Dr. Tam has said that when physical distancing is not an option, Canadians should consider wearing a mask.", "speakerName": "Hon. Patty Hajdu (Minister of Health)" }, { "text": "Thank you. I'd like to give a shout-out to Martha and her team, who are doing a fundraiser for the SPCA by making masks for citizens in my riding. Madam Chair, many people are falling through the cracks in the pandemic relief plan, including seniors who face an increase in the cost of living and a loss of retirement investment income. Will the government make the CERB a universal benefit to ensure that all Canadians who need help get help? If not, will the government increase old age security and allow seniors to withdraw funds from their RRSP without penalties so that they can pay their bills?", "speakerName": "Mr. Paul Manly" }, { "text": "Thank you very much, and I really appreciate the question. We do recognize that OAS and GIS are very important parts of the retirement income of Canadians, particularly lower-income seniors. We've already introduced measures like the GST credit supplement to help seniors. The CERB is there for working seniors who have lost income as a result of COVID-19. We've also reduced the mandatory retirement withdrawals by 25%, and we've also spent half a billion dollars to support organizations that assist vulnerable Canadians, including seniors", "speakerName": "Hon. Deb Schulte" }, { "text": "We are going back to Mr. Manly. Thank you.", "speakerName": "The Acting Chair (Mrs. Alexandra Mends)" }, { "text": "I do recognize that there's more to be done. Thank you.", "speakerName": "Hon. Deb Schulte" }, { "text": "Many small businesses do not meet the eligibility requirements for the various relief programs on offer, particularly sole proprietorships. I have a long list of businesses in my riding that are missing out. At the same time, we have large companies in this country that use tax havens and loopholes to avoid paying their fair share of public services. Will the government ensure that the needs of small businesses are met and withhold relief from corporations that use tax havens to avoid paying taxes in Canada?", "speakerName": "Mr. Paul Manly" }, { "text": "I want to thank the hon. member for the question. Small businesses are indeed incredibly important to all of our communities across the country. That is why we have implemented many measures to help them weather this difficult period in COVID-19. Whether it is a small business loan, a wage subsidy or commercial rent assistance, or just lowering the cost by deferring GST or HST or customs duties, many measures have been put forward to help our small businesses through this very difficult time.", "speakerName": "Hon. Mary Ng (Minister of Small Business, Export Promotion and International Trade)" }, { "text": "Mr. Manly, you may have a very short question.", "speakerName": "The Acting Chair (Mrs. Alexandra Mends)" }, { "text": "Thank you, Madam Chair. As we navigate this pandemic crisis, we are also in the middle of another major crisis: the climate emergency. Will this government develop its economic recovery plan for the pandemic with the climate emergency at the forefront of its planning?", "speakerName": "Mr. Paul Manly" }, { "text": "The hon. minister has 15 seconds.", "speakerName": "The Acting Chair (Mrs. Alexandra Mends)" }, { "text": "Thank you for the question. The focus of the government at the present time is on combatting the virus and on steps to start to relax some of the measures that have been taken. As we look forward, we need to learn from the experiences of this crisis as well as look forward to some of the looming crises on the horizon. Climate change is one of those, and we certainly intend to reflect on resilience for the economy as we move forward.", "speakerName": "Hon. Jonathan Wilkinson (Minister of Environment and Climate Change)" }, { "text": "Now we will go to Ms. Ashton.", "speakerName": "The Acting Chair (Mrs. Alexandra Mends)" }, { "text": "Thank you, Madam Chair. My question is to the Minister of Indigenous Services. First nations across northern Manitoba and many others across the country have been doing everything possible to keep COVID-19 out of their communities. Many here have implemented strict lockdowns or travel restrictions, but the federal government has done virtually nothing to deal with the chronic issues that have made them vulnerable in the first place, such as overcrowded housing and the lack of hospitals. We have to be very concerned about a possible second deadly wave of COVID-19. What is your government doing to support communities in the face of that possibility? Why isn't the government supporting the call for a ventilation centre in Berens River, a hospital in Cross Lake, a hospital in the Island Lake region? If the government couldn't act in time for this first wave of the pandemic, can it at least act in time for a potential second wave?", "speakerName": "Ms. Niki Ashton (ChurchillKeewatinook Aski, NDP)" }, { "text": "Indeed, Madam Chair, one of the reflections we have in coming out of this global pandemic is that we don't want to go into the next one with the same social determinants of health that have made indigenous communities more vulnerable and more susceptible to contracting and then spreading COVID-19. A lot of the historic housing funds that we have mobilized in order to address overcrowding in particular are cold comfort to those communities that are still finding themselves in overcrowded situations. In the staged approach to the epidemic and the onset of COVID-19, there are many measures that Indigenous Services Canada and as a whole of government we will deploy, including surge capacity, increased PPE, and nurses and doctors. Obviously, we are looking for a medical solution to a medical problem, and that is what we will spare no expense or resource to address as indigenous communities continue to face the looming threat of a second wave of COVID-19 as they start to relax some of their confinement procedures.", "speakerName": "Hon. Marc Miller (Minister of Indigenous Services)" }, { "text": "Again, Madam Chair, to the Minister of Indigenous Services, many of us across northern Canada are deeply concerned by the outbreak taking place in northern Saskatchewan, centred in La Loche. The outbreak started from a worker who came back from a work camp in Fort McMurray. These camps are making workers sick, and they are proving deadly for first nations and northern communities. These work camps put public health at risk during a pandemic. Your government says it's committed to doing everything it can to keep first nations safe, yet nothing has been done to support calls for pandemic shutdowns. Will you support first nations in their call for shutdowns during this pandemic to save lives now?", "speakerName": "Ms. Niki Ashton" }, { "text": "Madam Chair, the situation in La Loche is a very pressing concern. Members won't be surprised to know that that number will only increase as the days go on and as we implement aggressive testing and contact tracing. We are working with surrounding first nations and communities and with the Mtis and Dene communities in La Loche to ensure that medical precautions are being put into place and that strict social distancing is being put into effect. This is a situation that is very much evolving minute by minute, and it is something for which we have deployed additional resources, along with Meadow Lake and the Northern Inter-Tribal Health Authority to ensure that there is a health response to a health problem. Clearly, we need coordination with the provinces to ensure that we have a seamless approach", "speakerName": "Hon. Marc Miller" }, { "text": "My question referred to La Loche, but this is a broader issue. There are many work camps, including here in our north, that first nations are extremely concerned about. Will your government step in to support their calls for temporary shutdowns at this time?", "speakerName": "Ms. Niki Ashton" }, { "text": "One of the things we see as we see the evolving dynamic and the potential spreads, particularly the fear of clusters as communities, provinces, territories may choose to relax certain measures, is the need to have a more targeted approach as to how the economy reacts and deals with it, particularly in northern and vulnerable communities. This is something for which we will need to have a serious approach, with both the Minister of Natural Resources and also our provincial counterparts, to make sure that we aren't taking hasty measures to reopen the economy while we're trying to protectand this is our most important goalindigenous communities from getting exposed and spreading COVID-19.", "speakerName": "Hon. Marc Miller" }, { "text": "Madam Chair, my question is for the Minister of Fisheries. Hundreds of fishers and their families here in Manitoba who work with the Freshwater Fish Marketing Corporation are desperately calling for emergency support. Many are calling on the federal government to also work with them and the FFMC to redirect their product to domestic markets and communities here at home to address the growing food insecurity people are facing. When will your government announce support for inland fishers, including here in Manitoba, and will you work to ensure that their product, healthy fish, can be provided here at home for people who need it?", "speakerName": "Ms. Niki Ashton" }, { "text": "Madam Chair, we know that COVID-19 is having extreme impacts on northern first nations communities, especially with regard to fisheries in areas that rely on it for not only their livelihoods but also for the cultural importance. Indigenous harvesters are able to access through the aboriginal financial institutions the $306 million we've put in for support for indigenous small and medium-sized businesses. The funding allows for short-term interest-free loans as well as for non-repayable contributions. We also announced earlier that the Canadian Northern Economic Development Agency has made available $15 million in non-repayable support for businesses. We know that there's more that needs to be done to support our first nations communities as well as our harvesters. We're doing everything we can and we will continue to make sure that we address those needs.", "speakerName": "Hon. Bernadette Jordan" }, { "text": "I need to interrupt you. We'll now hear from ClaudeDeBellefeuille.", "speakerName": "The Acting Chair (Mrs. Alexandra Mends)" }, { "text": "Thank you, MadamChair. I don't want to talk about tax cheats. I don't want to talk about the $1billion that the government used to track down tax cheats. I want to ask the minister why she isn't taking this opportunity to learn from countries that are putting an end to tax avoidance in tax havens, a legal but immoral practice in this day and age. Can she explain why she isn't showing leadership by convincing cabinet to change course and eliminate the legal measure known as tax avoidance, which enables companies to avoid paying taxes and put money in tax havens?", "speakerName": "Mrs. Claude DeBellefeuille" }, { "text": "MadamChair, as soon as our government took office in 2015, we made it a priority to crack down on tax cheats. Our government's historic investments of almost $1 billion have ensured that the agency can access the necessary resources for its work. We're already starting to see the results. As I was saying, I established an expert advisory committee to advise us. We've also been working on tightening the rules of the voluntary disclosures program. We've entered into country-by-country agreements that make it possible to share information. We're auditing four countries a year. We're working with the OECD. Currently, over 50 criminal investigations are related to international tax evasion.", "speakerName": "Hon. Diane Lebouthillier" }, { "text": "Ms.DeBellefeuille has the floor.", "speakerName": "The Acting Chair (Mrs. Alexandra Mends)" }, { "text": "MadamChair, does the minister realize that she's being filmed and recorded and that she isn't answering my question? I don't want to talk about cheats. I want to talk about companies that use a legal mechanism to avoid paying taxes and to put their money in tax havens. I can see that she doesn't want to answer my question. I'll ask her another question. Can she tell me how many companies legally take advantage of tax avoidance in tax havens? How much money escapes taxation through this legal mechanism? The government could invest this money in its economic recovery post-COVID-19.", "speakerName": "Mrs. Claude DeBellefeuille" }, { "text": "MadamChair, I completely understand my colleague's impatience. However, she must understand that this type of issue is very complex. Under the former Conservative government, the issue wasn't a priority at all. Regarding tax evasion abroad, our leadership made it possible for the agency to conduct twice as many audits in three years as it conducted in 10 years under the Conservatives. Over 50criminal investigations related to international tax evasion are ongoing.", "speakerName": "Hon. Diane Lebouthillier" }, { "text": "Go ahead, Madame DeBellefeuille.", "speakerName": "The Acting Chair (Mrs. Alexandra Mends)" }, { "text": "MadamChair, I'm not impatient. However, I don't understand the government's lack of willingness to eliminate this mechanism, which is legal but completely immoral. Our questions remain unanswered. My next question is for the Minister of Finance. The Fdration de la relve agricole du Qubec and the UPA approached the Minister of Finance two weeks ago and still haven't received a response regarding the following issue. We know that many farms don't pay wages. As a result, these farms are being penalized because they aren't eligible for the $40,000 in loans available through the Canada emergency business account. To qualify for these loans, the farms needed a payroll of $20,000 to $1.5million in 2019. Does the Minister of Finance plan to respond to the farmers who want to access the $40,000 in loans?", "speakerName": "Mrs. Claude DeBellefeuille" }, { "text": "Thank you, Ms.DeBellefeuille. We know that the Canada emergency response benefit must be made available to the people who need it.", "speakerName": "Hon. Bill Morneau" }, { "text": "On a point of order", "speakerName": "Mr. Damien Kurek" }, { "text": "That's why we're considering our approach. Of course", "speakerName": "Hon. Bill Morneau" }, { "text": "I have a point of order.", "speakerName": "Mr. Damien Kurek" }, { "text": "MinisterMorneau, please wait a moment. A member is raising a point of order. Mr. Kurek, do you have a point of order? You have to unmute yourself.", "speakerName": "The Acting Chair (Mrs. Alexandra Mends)" }, { "text": "Yes. It's that the translation is at the same volume as the minister.", "speakerName": "Mr. Damien Kurek" }, { "text": "You'll have to put yourself on English. Rather, the minister has to put himself on French.", "speakerName": "The Acting Chair (Mrs. Alexandra Mends)" }, { "text": "Sorry. I was on the English channel. We know that the people who need the Canada emergency response benefit must have access to it. That's why we're considering the challenges each time. If I receive a letter, I'll look at it. Once we have a response, we'll pass it directly on to the member.", "speakerName": "Hon. Bill Morneau" }, { "text": "The next question will go to Mr. Richards.", "speakerName": "The Chair" }, { "text": "This question is for the tourism minister. The tourism ministry was one of the first and hardest-hit industries during this crisis, yet despite the Prime Minister's announcement over three weeks ago now of a plan to bring forward a tourism-specific aid package to help the businesses who employ millions of unemployed Canadians who work in tourism, there's still been nothing from this government. When will the government finally act to provide help to this nearly crippled industry?", "speakerName": "Mr. Blake Richards (BanffAirdrie, CPC)" }, { "text": "Mr. Chair, obviously we know that the tourism sector has been deeply impacted. I had the chance to talk to many of the leaders in the sector, and clearly there's a lot of anxiety. We also had the chance to work with all the G20 ministers of tourism all together, and we know we have to act", "speakerName": "Hon. Mlanie Joly (Minister of Economic Development and Official Languages)" }, { "text": "We'll now go back to Mr. Richards.", "speakerName": "The Chair" }, { "text": "I didn't really get much of an answer there. I hear a lot about talking and not much on action. Tourism-based communities like the ones in Banff and Canmore, which I represent, are tourism-based economies and have unemployment rates of 85% or higher. They also don't qualify for a lot of the programs because they're seasonal businesses and make most or all of their revenues for the year from May to October, so they're at risk of losing their entire season. I have a couple of very specific questions. Will the government consider making changes to the programs to make sure that seasonal businesses can get help? What does the government plan to do to help the tourism industry recover after the pandemic?", "speakerName": "Mr. Blake Richards" }, { "text": "Thank you. Obviously, the tourism sector has access to many measures, including the CEBA account, the $40,000 account. They also have access to the wage subsidy. They have access to rent relief. They will be having access also to funding through the regional development agencies, and we'll be coming up with the details soon. Of course, in my colleague's riding of Banff, which is a fantastic place and a tourism gem, they will have access to the support through WD, western economic diversification. If there are particular cases you would like to raise with me, I would be more than happy to talk to you to see how, on the ground, we can help the tourism operators.", "speakerName": "Hon. Mlanie Joly" }, { "text": "Mr. Chair, clearly the tourism minister hasn't been listening. She says she's talking to the industry. She's not hearing their concerns. What she just said does not address many of the concerns they have about being seasonal industries. It doesn't address anything about their concerns about the hard economic recovery they'll have after the pandemic. Let's try another minister and see if we can get some answers. Another industry that's very hard hit in my province and my riding is the oil and gas industry. It's another industry the Prime Minister has promised to help, but there hasn't been anything. Clearly there's a pattern here. The only so-called assistance there's been to help hurting Albertans in the oil patch has been measures to speed up the death of the industry that they work in. Will the Liberal government ever show any concern for Albertans? Will they bring forward a plan to preserve Canadian jobs? Will they put forward a plan to ensure the use of Canadian oil before oil coming in from places like Saudi Arabia?", "speakerName": "Mr. Blake Richards" }, { "text": "In fact, Mr. Chair, the federal government has taken several steps in recent weeks that will meaningfully support workers and communities that depend on this industry. We have the Canada emergency wage subsidy, which covers 75% of an employee's wages for the employer. We have more liquidity for oil and gas companies through new loans of $15 million to $60 million from the Business Development Bank of Canada. We continue to step forward in our response to the impacts of COVID-19 on my province here in Newfoundland and Labrador and on Alberta and Saskatchewan. These three provinces are being hit by two crises at the same time, a crisis of demand for oil and gas on the world markets and of course a crisis of public health with COVID-19.", "speakerName": "Hon. Seamus O'Regan (Minister of Natural Resources)" }, { "text": "Mr. Chair, a lot of these things we're hearing about aren't going to actually help the industry to recover. What we need to see is the government give the industry and the private sector the opportunity to succeed. Maybe what they could do is consider expediting the approval of billions of dollars of private sector projects that would put thousands and thousands of Canadians back to work. Will the government consider looking at ways that we can expedite projects? Will they look at ways that we can encourage the use of Canadian oil before the use of oil coming in from places like Saudi Arabia?", "speakerName": "Mr. Blake Richards" }, { "text": "Mr. Chair, we have been working with our provincial partners. We have been working with businesses of all sizes in the oil and gas industry. We have been working with labour, concentrating on workers and concentrating on the companies that support those jobs to make sure that they remain whole and those jobs will be there for those workers. We're particularly proud of our orphan wells program, which was launched by the Alberta government in conjunction with us. It was launched last week. I am pleased to inform this House that the uptake on applications for that program is significantly higher than even we expected.", "speakerName": "Hon. Seamus O'Regan" }, { "text": "That's all the time we have for questions today. I want to thank all the members for taking part. The committee stands adjourned until tomorrow at noon. The committee stands adjourned until tomorrow at noon. Thank you.", "speakerName": "The Chair" } ] }

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

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{ "meetingId": "IS1009b", "transcriptSegments": [ { "text": "Okay, is everybody ready?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah?", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah I'd to just put on my microphone here and I'll be right with you.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Okay?", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Um I take it you all have received instructions as to what you were supposed to do", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm?", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yes.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "and um I think the Marketing Manager probably should go first, addressing the needs and desires.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Okay you want me to start right now?", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah, mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Well, could you um put my slides up'cause I think it might be helpful if uh we looked at the slides at the same time.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Okay. You're participant four.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "I'm participant four I believe. Yes uh-huh.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Okay, and now I can uh full screen.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "'Kay.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Open.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Uh, okay, okay.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "There we go. Okay well I think we have introduced ourselves,", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "And then full screen.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "so the functional requirements are is is part of my goal but why don't we pass right to the second slide. Cause that's where m my discussion starts. Right well um since I'm in charge of trying to figure out what we should put on this thing since I have to try to sell it.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Um I thought that the method I should follow would be gather suggestions from everybody, and th the reason I just put that there like that is that uh in the init in the initial stage I think I should just be open to lots of suggestions. You know you can say anything you want no matter how silly it sounds you know it should run your car, it should heat up your motor if should um turn on your C_D_ whatever you want it to do.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "'Kay.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "um and then as we go on what we'll have to do is accept and eliminate these suggestions according to um design and budget feasibility. So I'll be coming to you um frequently as the Industrial Expert to tell me how hard it's gonna be to add a feature or how expensive it's gonna be or if your time, if it takes five years to develop this it's just something we can't do.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Hmm hmm. Mm.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "So in the beginning just have a big puddle of things that we anybody can th throw anything in", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "and then just weed things out that can't be done for one reason or another, and then the things that seem the most attractive that to uh to a customer we'll try to then prioritise those.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm. Yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "So that was um what I meant there, and as I said on the slide there consulting the Industrial Engineer about that and the other thing is timing is really gonna be as important as money, because if we're gonna sell this thing, I think the best time to sell it is as a Christmas present. Twenty five Euros makes a nice little present, and we want it to be an impulse purchase,", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "we want somebody to see it and think it's, gee I just gotta have that. And take out their wallet and buy it. So it's gotta be really attractive and it but it's gotta go to market by September,'cause anything that you don't already have out there in September showing it around, isn't gonna sell for Christmas.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Um and then I'll be coming to you as the User Interface person to try to tell me from your point of view what are the most friendly features that we could put on it and try to prior help me with that prioritising of uh of the features and of the the look and the colour", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "and I'll be coming back to you to help weed out those suggestions from that point of view.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "So I'll be coming to you for how much is it gonna cost us and how long is it gonna take you,", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Mm mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "and I'll be coming to you to tell me what's gonna make somebody take out their wallet you know,", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "What features.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "what what's what's gonna really be what they call a sizzle,", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "S sellable. Yes.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "'cause we gotta sell this sizzle.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "A lot of times the thing that works the best from an engineering point of view isn't the thing that somebody's really just gonna take out their wallet and buy for Christmas for for their child or for their husband or whatever.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yes.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Okay can we go to the next slide please? Alright I I already did a little bit of research after our first meeting where we threw out some ideas and it looks to me that within the budget that we're looking at the uh the whole house idea really isn't gonna be possible. So I'd like your suggestions to come back to the other slide where I was saying we we could suggest anything.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "I'd like the suggestions to be really specific, so that we'll have a list of things we can cross off, not something like you know whole house control what'll be And then I found on the internet from from my research that some extended electronic entertainment control should be possible. At the budget that we're looking at and at the price point we're looking at, we should be able to make it work the T_V_, the V_C_R_, the stereo set um maybe something else cute like a coffee pot or one other appliance or maybe a lamp.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Uh okay, can can I at this point interject um something?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "I have to wind up? Yeah, sure.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Um we have received instruction from higher up that certain things should not be uh considered. Um the one thing for example something to eliminate maybe that's the teletext,", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "because that's sort of outdated with the internet,", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "and according to to higher management the it should only control the T_V_,", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "mostly because they feel that it's too comp complex a task to um to to include other things,", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Complicated, yeah, of course.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "and they are concerned with the time to market.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Of course, yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Um and the.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Okay, so that's something.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "and the third thing that they wanna make sure um that their that the corporate image is being maintained, and that the corporate colour and design are being used on the product, so that it's easy that that that they can be easily identified as a product of of of the company, and that there's no mistake that it could be somebody else who is bringing this out.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "So I just wanted to interject this here so we're not getting too much off track here with uh with the things we wanna look at. These were instructions from higher up so we have to eliminate uh these things, so it's only gonna be T_V_,", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Okay so.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "but the one thing maybe that could be um eliminated is the teletext uh idea.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Mm'kay.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Alright, thanks for that. Um alright now other things that I found out on in my research is that the complaints that people have about the remote controls that are out there now.'Cause a lot of them take too much time to learn how to use, and that was thirty four percent but even more important the thing that we did address in our last meeting that frequently it's lost somewhere in the room. Um so those are two things that we definitely do wanna address, uh we wanna s make it as simple as possible, we wanna make it um obvious and intuitive to use, and then the things about finding it we talked about the a light emitting thing as well as uh maybe a beep, and I think that those are things after my research that we definitely wanna try to incorporate.'Kay can we go to the next slide please? Okay, so, my personal preferences in this um project are really have to concentrate on the sizzle. That is the selling point, the thing that's gonna make it an impulse purchase. Uh because once there's no be-back, well in sales they always say you know, be-backs don't come back.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "If somebody says, oh I'll come back and get it next week you're dead. They're never gonna come back and buy it. You've gotta make it attractive enough so they buy it now now now w now is a big word in in my book for selling this thing. And, in order to make it really sellable we've gotta shorten the learning curve, make sure it's really intuitive and easy to use. We have to have as few buttons as possible, because more buttons is more confusion, so that's why I'm saying, simplicity is good. Finding it's important, obviously you can't use it if you can't find it. So we've gotta concentrate on the features that help you find it, and I've already said this several times but I put it down in writing here, it should be an attractive impulse purchase at twenty five Euros. So it has to have enough value that when somebody looks at it they say, uh twenty five Euros I'm not gonna take that. Has to be so great that they're gonna say, uh twenty five Euros isn't much. Um and then maybe a motto, like we put fashion in electronics might be something we can use in our marketing campaign.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Okay that's uh about it for me right now.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Okay. And uh who would be next, uh, I guess that would be you. Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah'kay.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "You want me to get your slide show up?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah yeah sure.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Thank you.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "And you are number three?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Number two,", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Number two.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "yeah. Yeah exactly.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Okay. Okay.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Uh can you make it uh full screen please?", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm. Yep.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "No, it's like a well you you have to press here. The cup cup shape here?", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah yeah, uh-huh.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "The thir third.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "There, mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah exactly. Uh so today I'm going to talk about the working design of the remote controller. Um can you go to the next sli slide please?", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "The metal is like uh in a remote controller you have a chip integrated circuit which is like a brain of the remote controller. It takes the power from a battery say a battery it it can be a elec an electric supply like you have to uh like uh switch connec connect connect your remote controller to uh power supply from the you know electricity or something like that. It should be a battery because uh uh remote controller should be like you you you should take it t to wherever you want and then um uh th", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "this integrated circuitry takes energy from the power source and whatever like if you press a button it's like a input for the remote controller and it takes the input and it it transforms into a infro infrared bits and it sends it into the device, like a T_V_ or a air conditioner, something like that so. Uh a remote controller is specifically designed to a single device. If you want to design it for multiple devices then you should make all the devices compatible with the frequency like uh th the remote controller it sends some bits some uh waves like with a particular frequency the device should know what the frequency is. It should re re recognise the uh waves which are coming from the remote controller and it should take the action like if you press a button channel or something like that then uh the remote uh remote controller will send a send a se send a signal,", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Signal.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "and the T_V_ it should translate that into like change the channel or something like that, change the volume control", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Receive.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "and uh so uh I think it's hard to design a remote controller for multiple uh devices.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Multi-purpose.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yo and it's.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah well that's already been eliminated by management, so we're off the hook.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "yeah but it's so.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Uh yeah..", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yep.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Um. So uh user interface controls the chip and accordingly the messages like there should be a user user in interface like you know switch pad or something like that buttons should be there. So uh you can control whatever you want, you want to change the channel you want to control the volume you you want to uh mute uh mute the uh T_V_ or you want to have a child lock or you want to do some operations there's a there should be some device to tell what to do to the uh in uh integrated circuit so that the integrated circuit can s send the signals and T_V_ can perform the actions.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Mm okay.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "So can you go to the next slide please?", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "So I I just would like to uh add some extra features to the remote controller um I think these are the very simple features and uh they don't take much uh uh much of the um um investment also,", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "it's like el the text or buttons which uh which are there on the uh remote controller they those we can make uh um like fluorescent uh they'll be like light emitting if it is dark so that you can find your remote controller if it is dark.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "And ther there should be a beep if many buttons are pressed if suppose a child is playing with the remote controller and a and she she or he is pressing the buttons all at the time then there should be a beep saying that it's this this is not a a you know a a action, there can be no action taking to that so. And there should be a child lock, like uh uh you should be able to lock your remote controller so that uh um whatever buttons are pressed by a child they can't be like y you i you if you have ki kids and all then they'll be pl playing with the remote controllers so can lock the remote controller. If make it useable for more than one device it's a it's hard but I think it's possible", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah well yeah well that has been e that has been eliminated, so that's that's unfortunately a moot point now. Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "but it uh", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Well we already eliminated that.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "yeah yeah yeah", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Eliminated.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "so it's it's okay, yeah, yeah. And uh different shapes that we can do like uh we can have you know a all animals shapes or you know comfortable uh whi which can fit into your hands", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "and um so that uh.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Now that's good from a marketing point of view, the fun the fun shape.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah, yeah, yeah and colours also, different colours, and.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah I.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm colours.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "And that you you say that won't add too much to the budget?", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "No no no, it won't uh I don't think it will be like,", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "To d the shape is uh.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "you can have you know for uh if you want ther there to be more.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "It just build a mould basically and uh you know.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yes exactly.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "It's it's just a s shape so it doesn't matter.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "As the budget we're looking at if you build one mould I don't think that's going to make a big difference whether it's gonna be square or.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Do you think there's any chance of um having ser in having basically the same machine with the same buttons but maybe several different shapes?", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah that is also possible I uh yeah I I yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Oh yes.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Is that gonna be a possible?", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yes.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "I think.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "'Cause that might help with the marketing.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "I think we will have to look at the budget on that", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah that will be.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "but I think in principle that that would be that would be kind of fun, you know.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Because we had something sort of sexy for adults and we could have something sort of", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Silly for children.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah, for children, yeah exactly.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "silly for children", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Like an animal or.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "or a little animal shape or in a or a little elephant so they can remember where it is..", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Like a doll, or.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah, that's what, yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah, exactly. Yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yes.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "And and the butto buttons also I think if you want to have more features in your remote controller then there should be more buttons. If there are more buttons then it will be more complicated. If you have less features then your remote controller won't be attractive, so I think uh we need to make some buttons which are which are like um uh f in uh in intended for two or three operations, like if you press one button in one mode then it will change the channel, if you press the other button in another mode it will change the colour. So if you want to have less buttons we can have that option but I think it will complicate the matter more I think so.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Mm. Well, I think I think that that's something that we'll have to discuss um with the User Interface person", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yes.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yep, yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "because I think there's a lot of argument to be made for one button for one feature. Because I think one of the things were complaining about in my what I found out in my research is when they complained about how hard it is to learn a new one.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "The changing modes was something.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah, it's like you know yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "I mean you and I, all f all four of us we work with computers all the time,", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah. Yeah, yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "changing modes is nothing for us, but people who.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah, a little elderly, a little arthritic hand you know,", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "N and.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "and and it's a small button and and it they don't press it exactly", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm. Yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "you know something else happens n not their favourite channel comes up but something else", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah, yes.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "and they're very frustrated you know.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Something else.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "And that's and that's the kind of thing people learn by feel, and um you don't feel the mode change.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah, yeah you don't us yeah yeah, usually. Yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "So um maybe having buttons be various shapes might be a help too.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah shapes also, different shapes.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "You know, like the a triangle is for the volume and a square is for changing channels, so that people can uh develop a tactile sense of it.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah that will Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Channels.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah. Yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Mm, mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah,", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "But we'll get to that with you.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yes.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "yeah, and also text should be very clear so that there there won't be any ambiguities and uh.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "That's right, yeah. Now that's a good point. Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yes.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "So yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "And uh display clock i if you want more features then we can display a clock it I I don't think it will take any money extra money because anyway we have an integrated circuit I think we can just definitely fit that feature into the circuit so it's.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah, that's that's a good that's a good one,", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm, mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah, and we display a clock.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "because the clock would be really friendly,", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yes.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "and and when is your favourite show coming on", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yes.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah, and then you can just see your remote controller yeah yeah yeah so.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah you're sitting there already or maybe you have no other uh.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yes.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "and Yeah, and a lot of time there's not a clock on the screen, and you have to go somewhere but you just wanna look at the news for a minute.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah that's that's good, the clock is good.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah. Uh can you go to the next slide please?", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Uh components uh the main components we need for uh it ha like buttons and uh underneath that there should be switch. And uh bulbs. Like uh we can have a bulb like whenever we are operating a remote controller or uh whenever the T_V_ is on suppose,", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Hmm.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "then the remote controller should automatically have a b s light.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Then it will be like if you switch on your T_V_ through anoth another source, not from through a remote remote controller and you you lost your remote controller maybe you can find with the light.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Maybe we can have that. Whenever the T_V_ is on, remote controller will have a light.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "And then uh infrared bulbs. Um this is like uh when it is dark.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah, mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "And battery, there should be a battery for power supply,", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "and a chip,", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "chip which is like a brain to the remote controller which does all the operations,", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "and wires connecting all chips, which is uh lights, everything,", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "so there should be wires. And uh uh of course there should be a case where we can keep all the things and, you know different shapes or whatever it is there should be a case to put to give a shape.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "To keep the remote? Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Case.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "A case holder. A holder remote holder.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah, holder.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Holder, yeah, mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Um uh can you move onto the next slide. Um next sli slide please. Um I have referred the site uh the homepage of the um our website, uh from where I have uh uh I got s few points.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "That's it, that's it from me now.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "So it um we should visit this site and have a look at uh what's up there? Or.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Um.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Well, you don't have to.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Uh it's not like that, I have referred the page to get new ideas or like what can be the working design to how it works and all and so and so.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Okay. Okay. So it might be helpful if we had a look at that.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah if you want. Yeah, it's okay.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Okay, thank you. Could you go back to that slide where she had that uh s slide up Betsy?", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Uh, it's actually there now, there on the screen.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "This one?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah, okay, thank you.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "And Francine?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Participant two.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "You are number two?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yes. No no, I'm three.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "You're three. Would you want it full full screen?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "I can make it full? Yes yes yes.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm? Okay.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Okay. As uh User Interface Designer I did a little research to find out what are the features which a user would like to have on their remote.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah can you please go onto the next slide?", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "So I found out that uh but uh the main purpose of a remote is to uh f control the function of a television at a far off distance at remote distance. Now for that, uh a remote controller should have a switch on off button by which a user can sit anywhere in the room in front of the T_V_ and he can control the functionalities different functionalities of the T_V_.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "There should be a signal uh something like a radio wave or a infrared light or a LED which can be used to change the different functionalities in the television if the user wants to uh change the channels or increase the volume he can change it.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Now there should be some timer to set for viewing a particular a particular programme or switching on and off a uh a particular programme according to the user choice.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "On the on on the remote. Yeah, mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yes. Yes. So if if he want to view a particular programme at say nine o'clock he can set the time, and the T_V_ will automatically it will switch on at that particular time.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm. Mm-hmm. Right. Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "So he can use that kind of uh uh properties of features and then there should be a child lock system if a particular channel is not to be viewed by a particular uh for a certain age, then the parents can lock that particular channel so that the ch children cannot view that channel.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yes. By your child, mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "And uh the uh the uh and the one of the feature a user would like to have is the compactness of the co remote.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Uh t the remote should be compact and it should ha it should have as many buttons as possible for controlling different functionalities of the T_V_ television. And um uh as uh uh this is my personal preference that it should be in the shape of a T_ in alphabet for more compactability.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "And uh and uh and it is one more point which I noted it down, like uh the material which which which is used for remotes should be human friendly it should not cause any skin disease or something some al allergy to either children or to um ad adult person.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm. Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm,'kay.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "And it should have an uh it can have an alarm clock a a person if some if somebody wants to get up at around eight eight P_M_ then he can set the time and it can be used as an alarm clock,", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "and I don't think it will cost much to set an alarm clock inside a remote.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah, sure.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "If there is a clock then there can be a alarm clock.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yes,", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "And an alarm clock, yeah that should that should be okay.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "and as John Reece said the buttons can be, uh can me we can use the fluorescence to light up the buttons so different uh buttons will glow differently. So in even in the dark the user can know what buttons to use to switch on a particular channel. And uh uh the design of the uh um remote should be in such a way that there should not be any sharp projections so that if a child plays with a remote, he uh he should not be harmed in any way.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Hmm.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "And findings, uh I found out uh y um on different sites that uh there are different remotes which can be used, there are remotes which use the infrared for controlling the different functionalities, there are remotes which use the radio waves to control the functions and there are uh So uh there you have different uh types of remotes for different light source which are used which can be used for controlling the different functionalities of a television. Next slide. And these are my few personal preferences like it can be used for a multipurpose use. Not, uh no uh like it can it can be used as a T_V_ control as plus an alarm clock to set an alarm a timing and it should have a child lock, and then to save electricity uh there should not be uh much s move uh lots of circuits and all that. And if a person if if if parents wants the television to be switched off by ten o'clock then it should be switched off ten o at ten o'clock automatically, so that nobody else comes later and use it.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "It's like a t okay, it's like a timer it's like a lock to the television.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Timer, yeah, mm-hmm, mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Timer. Yeah and then you can use a timer as well. Yes. Yeah that's it.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Uh okay, now I have On my slide show basically we already we have already done the agenda, and uh on the closing uh basically there will be lunch break and all that. However uh the decision we have to take in this meeting is who is our target group. And uh what function, working design, how how does it work.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "So these are the two things we should come up wit with. So uh the first thing is pro maybe a little easier on uh who is our target group. Um. I guess in many ways everybody. Everybody who has a T_V_.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm, T_V_, yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "T_V_ television we was.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah, and I think today there are probably not many people who don't have a T_V_.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Don't T_V_, yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "There are a few but in general not. Now, talking about the target group which is in a sense everybody, but I think within the target group we have subgroups. We have we have earlier it was mentioned about um for example elderly people who have limited function with their fingers and hands,", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "so I think that's uh one group that's certainly important.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Hmm.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Um then we have just the nervous people who can never press a little button on anything um unless it's really very clear.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "And uh I don't know how much we want to cater to children's use. I mean that's a question um whether that's important that children can really use it or not.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "So this these are just some thoughts I have on it, and um I dunno what you feel about whether we can just say we have one target group and for this one target group we're gonna design this one thing.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "or whether we're looking at what we like we we talking about different shapes, whether that different shape also includes maybe different uh buttons uh for different groups.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm. Well you know there's the old motto, children under six never shop alone.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "So if you've designed something that's very attractive to children um the mummy please mummy please um you know we want it now we wanna go to the store and see it um that has uh a lot of marketing pull.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "That has a lot of that has a lot of appeal but I think uh I'm I'm talking about the functionality now on it whether we're looking at different groups.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "I think the children issue can be addressed with the shape and with colours.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "You know, like you make it nice and pink, fluorescent, banana colour or whatever you know", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Different colours.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "That's right.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yes.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "You can make a banana shaped one..", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "yeah, for example you know.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah. Mm.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "But the question is really, who is our target group.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Do we look at one target group? And with the twenty five Euros you know can we can we afford to have uh I'm asking the technical people here whether um to look at sort of subgroups with maybe different buttons for each group how much would that throw us out of the cost we are supposed to respect?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Respect. Mm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Okay. No uh generally we can we can design a remote which is mainly for people with uh f age from ten to um forty", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "and and then we can add on uh specific functional buttons for children as well as the elderly people or the people wit with who have nervous problems, yes.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "With with Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "We can design different remotes for different people, like for aged people there will be big buttons and you know.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Well that's that's.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "But in a family in a family there will be a aged person, children and a middle aged but they cannot buy three different remotes.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "yeah. Children and everybody, yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "They would like to buy just one and um just one which can be used all the three uh.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah of course that we can do, but specifically if y if like elderly people want big buttons then you can't really make a bi big remote controller so maybe specifically you can design a big con remote controller for elderly and for children, like in a different you know.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "What about the electronics? That's not really gonna change much, is it?", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Cost effective.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "No, it it doesn't cost, yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "No.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "That that w that won't change much, will it uh?", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah. Doesn't doesn't doesn't matter.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "The the quest the question to be addressed here is only who is the target group and how will it function,", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "I d I wouldn't think so.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "and I think the how will it function is probably the question of the buttons you know, within the target group or subgroups.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm. Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "The question is only whether our budget will allow to have more than one design in a sense. I mean the basic design I understand will be the same,", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "but the question is how much will that set us back if let's say uh forty percent we make large buttons and the rest we make regular buttons for example.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah..", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "So that remains to s to be seen but uh the target group as a whole is is basically everybody with a T_V_.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "That's right,", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yes.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "and can we can we is it even feasible to make one one remote control with something for everyone, or would we have to use the same electronics and make three different shapes?", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah, well that's that's the question.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Um the same electronics and basically all that's gonna be different is the plastic case.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Hmm hmm.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "And in that case we could probabl moulded plastic isn't all that expensive is it?", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Uh no. Mm, I I I don't think no. It's not.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Um you as an industrial person?", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Well maybe there's there's an idea you know t the new for example new portable phones?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "They have like removable plastic cases, so you can have a striped one or you can have a fluorescent blue one, or whatever,", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah. Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "and maybe something like that,", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "that in each package you know you have you you have you have for example uh you have let's say a fluorescent blue on it but then you have uh another colour or stripe whatever that already comes in a package.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Well there's a real idea yeah. Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Hmm.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "And then if people really want more colours they can buy it separately.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "You know,", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah, like for mobile phones we have uh different you know covers, like designs and all so that w we can have that.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Um.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "yes.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "That's right,", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yes.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "and but like if if then everybody is is is tired of the fluorescent blue and of the striped or whatever they have as another one in the package,", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Uh yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "then they can go to the store and for a few uh Francs or Euros whatever they can buy", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "An alternate package.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "an alternate package with another two colours in it you know for example you know.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah. Okay.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "But uh yeah I I have a doubt like will it be cost wise effective if we if we design a remote having all the uh different features for different people or designing three different um remotes for three different categories of people.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Well I think I think the idea here is to uh to to d design one remote", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah, but uh.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Well I think we can only aff, yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "and what the only change is gonna be um", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "the funct d t yeah uh.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Cosmetic.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Of th okay.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "the functional functional cosmetics if you want to put it that way,", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "um having maybe larger buttons or buttons that light up or buttons that are slightly differently shaped for people uh either for children um.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Five minutes that was I guess tha that's the old message.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Warning, finish meeting now..", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Finish meeting now. Um um.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Well we may have to come back to one or two of these points at our next meeting but um.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah, maybe, yeah, yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "But I think.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "If we do some more research, maybe we.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "I I think to sum it up the target group is basically everybody. If money permits we can address some features for some subgroups within that.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Okay,", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Hmm yeah,", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Do we agree, do we?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "I think maybe seventy percent is a unique uh uh remote controller and thirty percent is yeah it's sort of like yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Okay but we have to l", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Do we agree on on that in principle, like money will tell whether we will be able to do that or not.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah, yeah, of course, yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yes.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Okay, fair enough.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Okay? So now I understand it's lunch break.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "And um. So that's what we will do.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "So hank you very much.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Thank you.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "And we'll see you after lunch.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" } ] }

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Okay.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "And I'm a marketing person. I wanna figure out how to sell them.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm. And your name is?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "My name is Eileen.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah. Uh I'm Jeanne-Oui. Um uh my role is industrial designer and my responsibilities are uh uh um deal with the technical-functional designs and specifications of user interface and dealing with user interface design.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Very good. And as you already know I am Betty. I am the project manager for today. So why don't we look at the presentation to see what we really are supposed to do. Um.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yes y opening, acquaintance, tool training well, the tools are, I think, we already I guess the tool is really our the computer, as far as I can see.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Uh we get ins each of us will get instructions and we'll take it from there. Project plan, that falls under the same heading pretty much. Um, I don't think we have any great discussion at this point.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "No.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Um. Here is what this thing should be. This thing we are gonna um uh design is a new remote control. Uh should be original, trendy, and, of course, user friendly.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm..", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "So maybe you wanna make some notes of that.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Okay?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "All right. Here is what the functional design is supposed to achieve. Um. That is it's gonna be individual work and then at the meeting we'll discuss what uh we have come up with. The same goes for the conceptual design, there will be individual work whic and then discussion afterwards. Detailed design, same thing basically.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm'kay so Three different types of design that we're gonna be concerned with okay.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm. Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Functional, conception and detailed.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "I can't write with this thing..", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Maybe we should redesign it..", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yes..", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "After we've finished the remote control we'll get to that.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah, okay. All right? Then, tool training try out the white board, participant can draw their favourite animal. Does anybody want to go and see how the white board works? So that in case we have to, in the next meeting, present something on the white board. You wanna go Eileen and.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Okay, I'll see what I can do.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Whether you without hanging yourself..", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "See if I r See if I remember how to draw a kitty cat or a rabbit or something..", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "And remember you have to press so it works.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "So that it will record okay.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Um uh um traditional kitty cat.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Fat, a fat cat..", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "I've a very fat cat.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "And it likes to sit like that.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "And you're Francine, right? Would you like s like just to see um how it feels, so that you have a little idea?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yes, I'm Francina. Yes, sure..", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "In.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Am I supposed to wipe off that or.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "No, no. No, that's okay.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "No, Okay.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "okay.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "I don't know, we'll get to that later.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "What should I draw?.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Snake.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "I'm going to draw a snake..", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "How does it look like?.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Uh, okay.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "I hope the kitty cat is hungry'cause I don't like snakes..", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Here's the project finance uh which, of course, we all have to think about when we design this thing. Um selling price is supposed to be twenty five Euro. Uh profit aim for the company is fifty million Euro,", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm..", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "the market range unlimited meaning international", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "and the production cost should not exceed hopefully should be less than twelve fifty Euro.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm'kay that should keep everybody on their toes and challenged.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Profit. Um is fifty mm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "So these are all things, of course, to remember with the budget and when you design to materials, cost, etcetera. Now, uh the discussion I guess is um does anyone of you have experience with remote control?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Oops.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "I exp I s'cause we we use'em we use'em, right, everyday.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah, of course, using remote control. Yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yes.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "And um now having used a remote control for years does anybody already have like an idea like things you didn't like with it, things you would like to change, things you would like to improve with this thing ye any first ideas? Would you like it to be smaller, bigger,", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Uh.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "have more have more buttons on it or maybe clearly better marked buttons, you know, things like that?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah, I.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yes, I I feel that all the remote should be very compact.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Small, right. Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah, those which we get here nowadays it's very long.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "And um and it should have multi-purpose. Like uh the remote control which we use for T_V_, it shou uh it should be used f uh for some other purpose also, like controlling the uh temperature inside the house or for air-conditioners, or for heating system.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Audio player. Oh. Okay.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "So it should be a multi-functional uh gadget that would um control all your household uh uh machines basically.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yes, exactly Yes.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Hmm.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yes.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Divides us.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah. Exactly.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah. Yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "At um twelve fifty Euros per.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Well.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Well who knows if we get a really good designer maybe we can do that.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "We certainly can try to I agree with her that to market something successfully it should do some more things.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "It should be something new it should be s it it should do something different than than just what we have.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "That's right.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Now, of course, the other thing to think there is maybe the design.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah, of course.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah, design should be, yeah it should be different. All the almost all the remotes.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Like trendy no like f for earlier we saw maybe it should be something trendy you know. Maybe it should different colours or materials or you know.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yes, exactly.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah, maybe ten I do yeah, colours", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Are different shapes.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "and al shapes also. Yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yes.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Um so yeah shapes right, you know, like kidney shape feels better in your hand or something, you know.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yes.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah of course yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah okay, friendly shape, that would help.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "I think another thing that would help is um if it beeps when you clap,", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yes.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "because I think one of the big things that happens is people lose them. They can't find it.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "That is true,", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "because they put a newspaper or they put it behind a plant or, we you know, whatever.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah..", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "And and they suddenly the phone rings and they want to turn the T_V_ off and they say, where the hell is my my remote control yeah?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Well or yeah or if it's really, if it's really in a dark spot that it gives out a a sound or a signal.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "So some.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah, some beep or something like that,", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah. Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Or a b", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Uh so, so it's really the beep or, or a light should blink.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "so that we can go.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "So if lost If lost uh signal with b throw signal, you know.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Should ha", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "A fluorescent signal, yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Mm'kay.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah, maybe it should have a light so that we can, we can just recognise where it is.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Exactly, I mean just that's what I'm saying.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah, yeah. May not be beep.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "I'm just saying throw signal meaning just whether it's a beep or whether a light or.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Beep or uh it's a light, maybe it's a light.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "And do you think a good c c um clue for that is that it would respond to a clap or it would respond to your voice or it would respond what what should you have to do to make it beep or blink?", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Okay, my my idea is maybe that the minute it's really hidden, in in other words if it's like in a dark spot, uh meaning you know like a newspaper is on top, a sweater is on top or it it's behind a plant, at that moment it's it's like, it's like um, what you call it a light s sensors, you know?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm. Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "In in that moment it has a sensor, i it it gets a certain darkness, it ge has a sensor and it gives out a signal whether that be a light signal or a beep,", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Okay so.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yes.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "I mean, that we can discuss that later, you know.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah, probably yeah, probably it's a yeah, yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah. And uh.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "So the light sensor would activate the signal.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "That's right. You know there would be.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "right you have to have some kind of sensor and I I think uh voice or clapping it's not specific enough. Uh I know there are the lamps and stuff, you know, you can clap on and off,", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yes.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "but I think they only work to certain degree and.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "But it could be someplace really obvious and you still wouldn't be able to find it.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "What with.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah, of course, that didn't.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Then, in that case.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Well, because you're s because you're silly. Because people are silly.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "I i we can't do it.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Oh yeah well, but then those people we can't help everybody..", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "I mean it could be on well, i if it were like on top of your bookcase and you usually kept it on the coffee table", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "um,", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Okay we have uh.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "you know, well maybe we have to move along, okay.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "yeah, we have to move along, but I think we have some good good points to start with here.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah, good point.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Okay, the next meeting will be in thirty minutes. I think you all did you get uh notices on your computer for this? Okay so well, you got the notice um", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Me yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yes.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "uh. The working design, I guess that's the function I_D_ uh who is this? The industrial designer That's you.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah. Yeah, it's functional de yeah, exactly, technical.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Okay. So, we looking for a working design when we come back.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Uh working design, yeah, it's it's uh mainly technical-functional design.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Then And then the technical funct you are the technical function,", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah, functional design,", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "so so you are the working design.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "and you.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "So you have a working design and then a functional design.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "And the marketing manager is coming up with some user requirement specification, like friendliness, and what we just discussed in general. That would be your idea. And, of course, price. That it, that it, that the price is a good price. I mean, the price is given, but, that was.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm. We have to justify that price by having sufficient features to make it sell at that price.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "That's right. That's right.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "And, you know, specifi you you will get specific um instructions for that. I think that's the end of the show. Yeah. So um we have well, we have a twen two two two three minutes. Um any questions at this point? Or uh suggestions?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "I think basically basically you will get instructions to work with and if you have any questions uh, uh I guess, you can uh.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Okay, I think I have enough to think about'til our next meeting.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah, even I have.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "How about you people?", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yes.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah, even I have, I think, yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Really? 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It gives you a headache, like if you On your temple.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Temple squeezers.", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Yep.", "speakerName": "Grad G" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "But I definitely haven't figured it out.", "speakerName": "Grad G" }, { "text": "Um, Meeting Recorder meeting.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "I guess I have to d stop doing this sigh of contentment, you know, after sipping cappuccino or something.", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "Yeah, with the We kno I know.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "\" Sip, sigh. \"", "speakerName": "Grad G" }, { "text": "We know exactly how much you have left in your cup.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "I was just noticing a big s", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "So are we recording now? Is this.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Oh! We're we're we're live. OK.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "So, uh, what were we gonna talk about again? So we said we said data collection, which we're doing.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "Were we gonna do digits?", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "OK. Do we do th do you go around the room and do names or anything?", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "I think that.", "speakerName": "Grad G" }, { "text": "It's a good idea.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "u usually we've done that and also we've s done digits as well, but I forgot to print any out. So. 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Sort of it's it helps if it points sort of upwards.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Whoops.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "Sort of it you know.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Would it m", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "w u", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "So that thing the little th that part should be pointing upwards.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "So Oh, this thing.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "That's it. Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "Otherwise you just get a heartbeats.", "speakerName": "Postdoc H" }, { "text": "It's kind of.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "Oh, yeah, the element, yeah, n should be as close to you your mouth as possible.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "Yeah. OK.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "That's good. That kind of thing is good.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "It's a.", "speakerName": "Postdoc H" }, { "text": "This w Alright.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "How's that working?", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "Oh, yeah. It's a It's working.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "OK.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "Alright. 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I don't think there'd be so many that you couldn't have someone clean it up", "speakerName": "Grad G" }, { "text": "So.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "pretty easily.", "speakerName": "Grad G" }, { "text": "Yeah. We also could come up with some code for things that people want to do so that for frequent things.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "And the other things, people can write whatever they want. I mean, it's to some extent, uh, for his benefit. So, if that you know, if if we just keep it simple then maybe it's still useful.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Grad G" }, { "text": "I just realized we skipped the part that we were saying we were gonna do at the front where we each said who we were.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "The roll call.", "speakerName": "Postdoc H" }, { "text": "Right. I thought you did that on purpose.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "Roll call.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "But anyway, shall we do the roll call?", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "No, not a No, I just My mind went elsewhere. So, uh, yeah, I'm Morgan, and where am I? I'm on channel three.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "And I'm Adam Janin on channel A.", "speakerName": "Grad G" }, { "text": "I'm Jane Edwards, I think on channel B.", "speakerName": "Postdoc H" }, { "text": "I'm Dan Ellis.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Eric on channel nine.", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "Liz, on channel one.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Mari on channel zero.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "Katrin on channel two.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Should we have used pseudo - names? Should we do it a second time with pseudo No. No.", "speakerName": "Postdoc H" }, { "text": "I'm Rocky Raccoon on channel.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "Let me, uh, turn that off.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "And, uh, do you want to do the P D As and the P Z", "speakerName": "Grad G" }, { "text": "Oh. PZM nearest, nearest, next nearest. Next one.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Next nearest.", "speakerName": "Postdoc H" }, { "text": "Furthest.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Far.", "speakerName": "Grad G" }, { "text": "PDM - right, PZA - right PDA - right, PDA - left.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "OK.", "speakerName": "Postdoc H" }, { "text": "Thanks.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Yeah, and eventually once this room gets a little more organized, the Jimlets will be mounted under the table, and these guys will be permanently mounted somehow. You know, probably with double - sided tape, but So. You So we won't have to go through that.", "speakerName": "Grad G" }, { "text": "Hmm.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "I have a question on protocol in these meetings, which is when you say \" Jimlet \" and the person listening won't know what that is, sh shou How how do we get Is that important information? You know, the Jimlet I mean, the box that contains the.", "speakerName": "Postdoc H" }, { "text": "Well, I mean, suppose we broaden out and go to a range of meetings besides just these internal ones. There's gonna be lots of things that any group of people who know each other have in column common that we will not know.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Postdoc H" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "OK.", "speakerName": "Postdoc H" }, { "text": "So the there will be jargon that we he There'll be transcription errors.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "Good.", "speakerName": "Postdoc H" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "OK.", "speakerName": "Postdoc H" }, { "text": "I mean, we we were originally gonna do this with VLSI design, and and and the reason we didn't go straight to that was because immediately ninety percent of what we heard would be jargon to to us. So.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "Well, that was just one of the reasons. But, yeah, definitely.", "speakerName": "Grad G" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "OK. Good.", "speakerName": "Postdoc H" }, { "text": "That that's right. There were others of course. Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "OK, so we were on the data collection and the summary issue.", "speakerName": "Postdoc H" }, { "text": "Right. We can go back.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "So, uh, u u So, actually there's kind of three issues. There's the CrossPad issue. Should we do it and, if so, what'll we have them do? Um, do we have s people write summaries? Everybody or one person? And then, do we ask people for how they would query things? Is that.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "There's there're sub - problems in that, in that where or when do you actually ask them about that?", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "I mean, that was One thing I was thinking about was is that Dan said earlier that, you know, maybe two weeks later, which is when you would want to query these things, you might ask them then.", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "But there's a problem with that in that if you're not If you don't have an interactive system, it's gonna be hard to go beyond sort of the first level of question.", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "Right. And furth id explore the data further.", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "So.", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "There's there's another problem", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "And.", "speakerName": "Grad G" }, { "text": "which is, um, we certainly do want to branch out beyond, uh, uh, recording meetings about Meeting Recorder. And, uh, once we get out beyond our little group, the people's motivation factor, uh, reduces enormously. And if we start giving them a bunch of other things to do, how you know, we we did n you know another meeting here for another group and and, uh, they were fine with it. But if we'd said, \" OK, now all eight of you have to have to come up with, uh, the summar \"", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "Well, I asked them to and none of them did.", "speakerName": "Grad G" }, { "text": "t See? There we go.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "So, I I asked them to send me ideas for queries after the meeting", "speakerName": "Grad G" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Postdoc H" }, { "text": "They.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "and no one ever did.", "speakerName": "Grad G" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "I didn't follow up either.", "speakerName": "Grad G" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "So I didn't track them down and say \" please do th do it now \". But, uh, no one spontaneously provided anything.", "speakerName": "Grad G" }, { "text": "I I'm worried that if you did even if you did push them into it, it it it might be semi - random,", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "uh, as opposed to what you'd really want to know if you were gonna use this thing.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "OK.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "I just don't know how else to generate the queries other than getting an expert to actually listen to the meeting and say \" that's important, that might be a query \".", "speakerName": "Grad G" }, { "text": "Tsk. Well, there is this other thing which y which you were alluding to earlier, which is, um, there are certain key words like, you know, \" action item \" and things like that, which could be used in, uh, t to some degree finding the structure.", "speakerName": "Postdoc H" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "Although.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "W", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "And and I also, um, was thinking, with reference to the n uh, note - taking, the advantage there is that you get structure without the person having to do something artificial later. And the fir third thing I wanted to say is the summaries afterwards, um, I think they should be recorded instead of written because I think that, um, it would take so long for people to write that I think you wouldn't get as good a summary.", "speakerName": "Postdoc H" }, { "text": "How about this idea? That normally at most meetings somebody is delegated to be a note - taker.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "Yeah, good. Good point.", "speakerName": "Postdoc H" }, { "text": "And So why don't we just use the notes that somebody takes?", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Postdoc H" }, { "text": "I mean, that gives you a summary but it doesn't really How do you generate queries from that?", "speakerName": "Grad G" }, { "text": "Well. But, I mean, maybe a summary is one of the things we'd want from the output of the system.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Postdoc H" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "Right? I mean, they're something. It's a a kind of output you'd like.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Actually And so.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Uh, James and I were talking about this during one of the breaks. And the problem with that is, I'm definitely going to do something with information retrieval even if it's sort of not full full - bore what I'm gonna do for my thesis.", "speakerName": "Grad G" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "I'm gonna do something. I'm not gonna do anything with summarization. And so if someone wants to do that, that's fine, but it's not gonna be me.", "speakerName": "Grad G" }, { "text": "Well, I think that we I mean, the the f the core thing is that you know once we get some of these issues nailed down, we need to do a bunch of recordings", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "Well.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "and send them off to IBM and get a bunch of transcriptions even if they're slightly flawed", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "Yep.", "speakerName": "Grad G" }, { "text": "or need some other And then we'll have some data there.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "And then, i i we can start l looking and thinking, what do we want to know about these things and at the very least.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "I actually want to say something about the note pad. So, if you could sense just when people are writing, and you tell them not to doodle, or try not to be using that for other purposes, and each person has a note pad. They just get it when they come in the room. Then you c you can just have a fff plot of wh you know, who's writing when.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Hmm.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "That's all you.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Activity. Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "And, you can also have notes of the meeting. But I bet that's that will allow you to go into the sort of the hot places where people are writing things down.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "Oh, I see.", "speakerName": "Grad G" }, { "text": "I mean, you can tell when you're in a meeting when everybody stops to write something down that something was just said.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "It may not be kept in the later summary, but at that point in time is was something that was important.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Postdoc H" }, { "text": "And that wouldn't take any extra.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "That's a nice idea.", "speakerName": "Postdoc H" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "Or someone could just pu you could just put your hand on the pad", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "It.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "and go like that if you want to. It's.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "That's a good idea but that doesn't Maybe I'm missing something, but that doesn't get to the question of how we come up with queries, right?", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "Well, what it does.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "Well, then you can go to the points where the you could actually go to those points in time and find out what they were talking about. And you r", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Well, what it does is provide a different.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "And.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Uh, y", "speakerName": "Grad G" }, { "text": "I I think it's an interesting thing. I don't think it gets at the the queries per - se, but it does give us an information fusion sort of thing that, you know, you wanna i say \" what were the hot - points of the meeting? \"", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "That that's what I mean, is that I think it gets at something interesting but if we were asking the question, which I thought we were, of of of, um, \" how do we figure out what's the nature of the queries that people are gonna want to ask of such a system? \", knowing what's important doesn't tell you what people are going to be asking.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "But I bet it's a good superset of it.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Does it?", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "Well, yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "Well, see, there are th", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "I think you could say they're gonna ask about, uh, when uh, when did so - and - so s talk about blah. And at least that gives you the word that they might run a query on.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "At least you can find the locations where there are maybe keywords", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Maybe.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "I mean, i this would tell you what the hit is,", "speakerName": "Grad G" }, { "text": "and.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "not what the query is.", "speakerName": "Grad G" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "Right, right.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "What.", "speakerName": "Grad G" }, { "text": "It'll tell you the hit but not the query.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "But I think I think thinking about queries is a little bit dangerous right now.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "And so you could you can generate a query from the hits,", "speakerName": "Grad G" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "but.", "speakerName": "Grad G" }, { "text": "We don't even know what I mean, if you want to find out what any user will use, that might be true for one domain and one user,", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "but I mean a different domain and a different user.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Postdoc H" }, { "text": "Yeah, but we're just looking for a place to start with that", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "Um.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "because, you know, th what what what James is gonna be doing is looking at the user - interface and he's looking at the query in in i We we have five hours of pilot data of the other stuff but we have zero hours of of of queries. So he's just sort of going \" where where do I where do I start? \"", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "w Well, th you could do I think the summaries actually may help get us there,", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "OK.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "for a couple reasons. One, if you have a summary if you have a bunch of summaries, you can do a word frequency count and see what words come up in different types of meetings.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "So \" action item \" is gonna come up whether it's a VLSI meeting, or speech meeting, or whatever. So words that come up in different types of meetings may be something that you would want to query about.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Grad G" }, { "text": "Um, the second thing you could possibly do with it is just run a little pilot experiment with somebody saying \" here's a summary of a meeting, what questions might you want to ask about it to go back? \"", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "Yeah, I think that's difficult because then they're not gonna ask the questions that are in the summary.", "speakerName": "Grad G" }, { "text": "Well.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "But, I think it would give.", "speakerName": "Grad G" }, { "text": "That's one possi one possible scenario, though, is you have the summary,", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Grad G" }, { "text": "and you want to ask questions to get more detail.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "th Yeah, I think it has to be a participant. Well, it doesn't have to be. OK. So that that is another use of Meeting Recorder that we haven't really talked about, which is for someone else, as opposed to as a remembrance agent, which is what had been my primary thought in the information retrieval part of it would be. But, uh, I guess if you had a meeting participant, they could use the summary to refresh themselves about the meeting and then make up queries. But it's not.", "speakerName": "Grad G" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "I don't know how to do it if until you have a system.", "speakerName": "Grad G" }, { "text": "The summary is actually gonna drive the queries then.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Mmm.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "I mean, your research is going to be very circular.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "Yeah, that that's what I was saying.", "speakerName": "Grad G" }, { "text": "But th there is this, um There is this class of queries, which are the things that you didn't realize were important at the time but some in retrospect you think \" oh, hang on, didn't we talk about that? \" And it's something that didn't appear in the summary but you.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "And that's kind of what this kind of, uh, complete data capture is kind of nicest for.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Right. Right.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Cuz it's the things that you wouldn't have bothered to make an effort to record but they get recorded. So, I mean And th there's no way of generating those, u u until we just until they actually occur.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "But you could always post - hoc label them.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "You know, it's like Right, right. Exactly.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Yeah. Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "But I mean, it's difficult to sort of say \" and if I was gonna ask four questions about this, what would they be? \" Those aren't the kind of things that come up.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "But at least it would get us started.", "speakerName": "Grad G" }, { "text": "Oh, yeah. Yeah, sure.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "I also think that w if if you can use the summaries as an indication of the important points of the of the meeting, then you might get something like y So if th if the obscure item you want to know more about was some form of data collection, you know, maybe the summary would say, you know, \" we discussed types of na data collection \". And, you know And and maybe you could get to it by that. If you if you had the the larger structure of the of the discourse, then if you can categorize what it is that you're looking for with reference to those l those larger headings, then you can find it even if you don't have a direct route to that.", "speakerName": "Postdoc H" }, { "text": "Mmm. Although it seems like that's, um, a high burden on the note - taker.", "speakerName": "Grad G" }, { "text": "I think that.", "speakerName": "Postdoc H" }, { "text": "That's a pretty fine grain that the note - taker will have to take.", "speakerName": "Grad G" }, { "text": "Maybe Landay can put a student in to be a note - taker.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "I th No. I think you got to have somebody who knows the pro knows the topic or you know, whose job it is delegated to be the note - taker.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "No?", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "Somebody who's part of the meeting.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "No, I mean, but someone who can come sit in on the meetings and then takes the notes with them that the real note - taker.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "But they.", "speakerName": "Grad G" }, { "text": "And that way that one student has, you know, a rough idea of what was going on, and they can use it for their research. I mean, this isn't really necessarily what you would do in a real system,", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Grad G" }, { "text": "because that that's a lot of trouble", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "and maybe it's not the best way to do it. But if he has some students that want to study that then they should sort of get to know the people and attend those meetings,", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "and get the notes from the note - taker or something.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "Grad G" }, { "text": "Hmm.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "Well, I think that's a little bit of a problem. Their sort of note - taking application stuff they've been doing for the last couple of years, and I don't think anyone is still working on it.", "speakerName": "Grad G" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "I think they're done. Um, so I'm not sure that they have anyone currently working on notes. So what we'd have to interest someone in is the combination of note and speech.", "speakerName": "Grad G" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "And so the question is \" is there such a person? \" And I think right now, the answer is \" no \".", "speakerName": "Grad G" }, { "text": "Well", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "I've b been thinking.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "We'll just have to see.", "speakerName": "Grad G" }, { "text": "I've been thinking about it a little bit here about the uh, th this, e um I think that the now I'm thinking that the summary a summary, uh, is actually a reasonable, uh, bootstrap into this into what we'd like to get at. It's it's not ideal, but we you know, we we have to get started someplace. So I was I was just thinking about, um, suppose we wanted to get w We have this collection of meeting. We have five hours of stuff. Uh, we get that transcribed. So now we have five hours of meetings and, uh, you ask me, uh, uh, \" Morgan, what d you know, what kind of questions do you want to ask? \" Uh, I wouldn't have any idea what kind of questions I want to ask. I'd have to get started someplace. So in fact if I looked at summary of it, I'd go \" oh, yeah, I was in that meeting, I remember that, um, what was the part that \" And and th I think that might then help me to think of things even things that aren't listed in the summary, but just as a as a as a refresh of what the general thing was going on in the meeting.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Grad G" }, { "text": "I think it serves two purpo purposes. One, as sort of a refresh to help bootstrap queries,", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm. Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "but also, I mean, maybe we do want to generate summaries. And then it's you know, it's kind of a key.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "Well, yeah. That's true too.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "Hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Yeah, absolutely. Then you want to have it.", "speakerName": "Grad G" }, { "text": "Uh.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "So how does the summary get generated?", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Well, i i?", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "I'm not against the idea of a summary,", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "By hand.", "speakerName": "Grad G" }, { "text": "but I wanted to think carefully about who's generating it", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Or, d o", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "and how because the summary will drive the queries.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "What I I think, you know, in most meetings,", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "So.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "this one being different, but in most meetings that I attend, there's somebody t explicitly taking notes, frequently on a laptop Um, you can just make it be on a laptop,", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "so then yo you're dealing with ASCII and not somebody you don't have to go through handwriting recognition. Um, and then they post - edit it into, uh, a summary and they email it out for minutes. I mean, that happens in most meetings.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "I I I think that, um, there's we're using \" summary \" in two different ways. So what you just described I would describe as \" minutes \".", "speakerName": "Postdoc H" }, { "text": "Minutes.", "speakerName": "Grad G" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "And what I originally thought was, um, if you asked someone \" what was the meeting about? \"", "speakerName": "Postdoc H" }, { "text": "OK.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Hmm.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "And then they would say \" well, we talked about this and then we talked about that, and so - and - so talked about \" And then you'd have, like I e My thought was to have multiple people summarize it, on recording rather than writing because writing takes time and you get irrelevant other things that u take time, that.", "speakerName": "Postdoc H" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "Whereas if you just say it immediately after the meeting, you know, a two - minute summary of what the meeting was about, I think you would get, uh, with mult See, I I also worry about having a single note - taker because that's just one person's perception. And, um, you know, it it's releva it's relative to what you're focus was on that meeting,", "speakerName": "Postdoc H" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "and and people have different major topics that they're interested in.", "speakerName": "Postdoc H" }, { "text": "A", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "So, my proposal would be that it may be worth considering both of those types, you know, the note - taking and a spontaneous oral summary afterwards,", "speakerName": "Postdoc H" }, { "text": "OK.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "no longer than two minutes,", "speakerName": "Postdoc H" }, { "text": "Adam, you can.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "from multiple people.", "speakerName": "Postdoc H" }, { "text": "you can correct me on this,", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Postdoc H" }, { "text": "but but, uh, my impression was that, uh, pretty much, uh, true that the meetings here, nobody sits with a w uh, with a laptop", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "Never.", "speakerName": "Grad G" }, { "text": "and.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "Never. I've never seen it at ICSI. Does anyone?", "speakerName": "Grad G" }, { "text": "Dan?", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "I", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "I mean, Dan is the one who who most frequently would take notes,", "speakerName": "Grad G" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "and.", "speakerName": "Grad G" }, { "text": "I've d When we when we have other meetings. When I have meetings on the European projects, we have someone taking notes.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Oh, really?", "speakerName": "Grad G" }, { "text": "Yeah, but those are bigger deal things.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "In fact, I often do it.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Right? Where you've got fifteen peo", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "I mean, most th this is one of the larger meetings. Most of the meetings we have are four or five people", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "That's true are four or five people.", "speakerName": "Grad G" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "and you're not you don't have somebody sitting and taking minutes for it.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "You just get together and talk about where you are.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "So, I think it depends on whether it's a business meeting or a technical discussion.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "Culture.", "speakerName": "Grad G" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "And I agree,", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "technical discussions you don't usually have somebody taking notes.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "Yeah. Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "The IRAM meeting, they they take notes every.", "speakerName": "Grad G" }, { "text": "Do they?", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "There's uh a person with a laptop at each meeting.", "speakerName": "Grad G" }, { "text": "How many people are those meetings?", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "There are more. I mean, there are ten - ish.", "speakerName": "Grad G" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Y you should also have a record of what's on the board.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "They're very sparse.", "speakerName": "Grad G" }, { "text": "I mean, I find it very hard to reconstruct what's going on. I I don't know how.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Yeah. This is something early in the project we talked a lot about.", "speakerName": "Grad G" }, { "text": "I don't know how, but for instance, I mean, the outline is sort of up here and that's what people are seeing. And if you have a Or you shou could tell people not to to use the boards. But there's sort of this missing information otherwise.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "We sh we should.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "I agree, but but you you just you g end up with video,", "speakerName": "Grad G" }, { "text": "I agree.", "speakerName": "Postdoc H" }, { "text": "Well, I don't know.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "and and instrumented rooms. And that's a different project, I think.", "speakerName": "Grad G" }, { "text": "f u I think for this data capture, it would be nice to have a digital camera", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Yeah, different.", "speakerName": "Grad G" }, { "text": "Uh, y", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "just to take pictures of who's there, where the microphones are, and then we could also put in what's on the board. You know, like three or four snaps for every.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "I agree.", "speakerName": "Postdoc H" }, { "text": "Yeah. People who were never at the meeting will have a very hard time understanding it otherwise.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "for every meeting.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "That's wonderful.", "speakerName": "Postdoc H" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "But don't you think that's Don't you think that But.", "speakerName": "Grad G" }, { "text": "I agree.", "speakerName": "Postdoc H" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Even people who were at the meeting.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Well, no. I mean, I I just think I mean, I think that right now we don't make a record of where people are sitting on the tables.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "Huh.", "speakerName": "Grad G" }, { "text": "And that the at some point that might be awfully useful.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Right. But I think adding photographs adds a whole nother level of problems.", "speakerName": "Grad G" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Postdoc H" }, { "text": "Mmm.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "Yeah. We n uh,", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "It's just a digital record.", "speakerName": "Postdoc H" }, { "text": "Not not as part of the not as a part of the data that you have to recover.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "I don't mean that you model it.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Just just in terms of.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "We should just Like archiving it or storing it.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Yes, I agree. I agree.", "speakerName": "Postdoc H" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "It's i because discourse is about things,", "speakerName": "Postdoc H" }, { "text": "Because someone.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "and then you have the things that are about, and it's recoverable.", "speakerName": "Postdoc H" }, { "text": "someone later might be able to take these and say \" OK, they, you know at least these are the people who were there", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "So.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "and here's sort of what they started talking about, and \" and just.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Yes. And it's so simple.", "speakerName": "Postdoc H" }, { "text": "Li", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "Like you said, three snapshots", "speakerName": "Postdoc H" }, { "text": "uh, L L L", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "and.", "speakerName": "Postdoc H" }, { "text": "Liz, you.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "Just to archive.", "speakerName": "Postdoc H" }, { "text": "u uh, Liz, you sa you sat in on the, uh, subcommittee meeting or whatever.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "Actually.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "uh, on you on the subcommittee meeting for for at the, uh that workshop we were at that, uh, uh, Mark Liberman was was having. So I I wasn't there. They they they they h must have had some discussion about video and the visual aspect, and all that.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "Big, big interest. Huge.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "I mean, it personally, I don't I would never want to deal with it. But I'm just saying first of all there's a whole bunch of fusion issues that DARPA's interested in.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Yeah. Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "You know, fusing gesture and face recognition,", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "even lip movement and things like that, for this kind of task. And there's also I think a personal interest on the part of Mark Liberman in this kind of in storing these images in any data we collect", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "so that later we can do other things with it.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Yeah. So so to address what what Adam's saying,", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "Mmm. Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Postdoc H" }, { "text": "And.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "I mean, I think you uh, that the key thing there is that this is a description of database collection effort that they're talking about doing.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Grad G" }, { "text": "And if the database exists and includes some visual information that doesn't mean that an individual researcher is going to make any use of it. Right?", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Postdoc H" }, { "text": "So, uh.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "But that it's gonna be a lot of effort on our part to create it, and store it, and get all the standards, and to do anything with it.", "speakerName": "Grad G" }, { "text": "Right. So we're gonna So we're gonna do what we're gonna do, whatever's reasonable for us.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Grad G" }, { "text": "I think even doing something very crude.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "But having.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "Like I know with ATIS, we just had a tape recorder running all the time.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Grad G" }, { "text": "And later on it turned out it was really good that you had a tape recorder of what was happening, even though you w you just got the speech from the machine. So if you can find some really, you know, low, uh, perplexity,", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Low fidelity.", "speakerName": "Grad G" }, { "text": "yeah, way of of doing that, I think it would be worthwhile.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Grad G" }, { "text": "I agree. And if it's simple as I mean, as simple as just the digital.", "speakerName": "Postdoc H" }, { "text": "Otherwise you'd you lose it.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Well, minimally, I mean, what what Dan is referring to at least having some representation of the p the spatial position of the people,", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Postdoc H" }, { "text": "cuz we are interested in some spatial processing.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Postdoc H" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "And so.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "Grad G" }, { "text": "so, um.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "Well, once the room is a little more fixed that's a little easier", "speakerName": "Grad G" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "cuz you'll.", "speakerName": "Grad G" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "Well, the wireless.", "speakerName": "Grad G" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "But.", "speakerName": "Grad G" }, { "text": "Also CMU has been doing this and they were the most vocal at this meeting, Alex Waibel's group. And they have said, I talked to the student who had done this, that with two fairly inexpensive cameras they they just recorded all the time", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "and were able to get all the information from or maybe it was three from all the parts of the room. So I think we would be we might lose the chance to use this data for somebody later who wants to do some kind of processing on it if we don't collect it at all.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Yeah. I I I don't disagree. I think that if you have that, then people who are interested in vision can use this database. The problem with it is you'll have more people who don't want to be filmed than who don't want to be recorded.", "speakerName": "Grad G" }, { "text": "Mmm.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "So that there's going to be another group of people who are gonna say \" I won't participate \".", "speakerName": "Grad G" }, { "text": "Well, she's not making.", "speakerName": "Postdoc H" }, { "text": "That's true.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "Or you could put a paper bag over everybody's head", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Um.", "speakerName": "Grad G" }, { "text": "and not look at each other and not look at boards, and just all be sitting talking.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Uh - huh.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "That would be an interes Bu", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Well.", "speakerName": "Postdoc H" }, { "text": "Great idea.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "Well, there's that'd be the the parallel, yeah. But I think y she's we're just proposing a minimal preservation of things on boards,", "speakerName": "Postdoc H" }, { "text": "Yeah. I definitely won't participate if there's a camera.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "sp spatial organization And you could anonymize the faces for that matter. You know, I mean, this is.", "speakerName": "Postdoc H" }, { "text": "But, you know, that's a lot of infrastructure and work.", "speakerName": "Grad G" }, { "text": "We can talk about the.", "speakerName": "Postdoc H" }, { "text": "To set it up and then anonymize it?", "speakerName": "Grad G" }, { "text": "It's just one snapshot.", "speakerName": "Postdoc H" }, { "text": "No, it wa n not, um.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "No, no, no, no.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "We're not talking about a movie.", "speakerName": "Postdoc H" }, { "text": "So.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "Not for not for CMU.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "We're talking about a snapshot.", "speakerName": "Postdoc H" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Grad G" }, { "text": "They have a pretty crude set - up. And they had.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Grad G" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Postdoc H" }, { "text": "they just turn on these cameras. They were they were not moving or anything.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Couldn't find it?", "speakerName": "Grad G" }, { "text": "And stored it on analog media.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Hmm?", "speakerName": "Grad G" }, { "text": "Hmm.", "speakerName": "Postdoc H" }, { "text": "And they they didn't actually align it or anything. They just they have it, though.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Yeah. Well, it's worth considering. Maybe we don't want to spend that much more time discussing it,", "speakerName": "Postdoc H" }, { "text": "Did they store it digitally, or?", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "but.", "speakerName": "Postdoc H" }, { "text": "Hmm - mm. I think they just.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "or just put it on videotape?", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "I think they just had the videotapes with a c you know, a counter or something. Um,", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm. Well, I think for I mean, for our purposes we probably will d", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "I'm not sure.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "we we might try that some and and we certainly already have some recordings that don't have that, uh, which, you know, we we'll we'll get other value out of, I think.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Postdoc H" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Th The thing is, if it's easy to collect it it th then I think it's a wise thing to do because once it's gone it's gone. And.", "speakerName": "Postdoc H" }, { "text": "I'm just The community If LDC collects this data u I mean, and L - if Mark Liberman is a strong proponent of how they collect it and what they collect, there will probably be some video data in there.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "There you go.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "And so that could argue for us not doing it or it could argue for us doing it. The only place where it sort of overlaps is when some of the summarization issues are actually could be, um, easier made easier if you had the video.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "I think at the moment we should be determining this on the basis of our own, uh, interests and needs rather than hypothetical ones from a community thing.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Postdoc H" }, { "text": "As you say, if they if they decide it's really critical then they will collect a lot more data than we can afford to, uh, and and will include all that.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "Mmm.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Um,", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "e", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "I I I'm not worried about the cost of setting it up. I'm worried about the cost of people looking at it. In other words, it's it it'd be kind of silly to collect it all and not look at it at all. And so I I I think that we do have to do some picking and choosing of the stuff that we're doing. But I I am int I do think that we m minimally want something we might want to look at at some some, uh, subsets of that. Like for a meeting like this, at least, uh, take a Polaroid of the of the of the boards,", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "Of the board.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Postdoc H" }, { "text": "Or at least make sure that the note - taker takes a sh you know, a snapshot of the board.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "and.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "Exactly.", "speakerName": "Postdoc H" }, { "text": "a and know the position of the people.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "That'll make it a lot easier for meetings that are structured.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Exactly.", "speakerName": "Postdoc H" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "I mean, otherwise later on if nobody wrote this stuff on the board down we'd have a harder time summarizing it or agreeing on a summary.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "We And it Especially since this is common knowledge. I mean, this is shared knowledge among all the participants, and it's a shame to keep it off the recording.", "speakerName": "Postdoc H" }, { "text": "Uh, except in.", "speakerName": "Grad G" }, { "text": "s", "speakerName": "Postdoc H" }, { "text": "er, if we weren't recording this, this this would get lost. Right?", "speakerName": "Grad G" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "Well, I don't understand that point. I mean, I just think that the.", "speakerName": "Postdoc H" }, { "text": "The point is that we're not saving it anyway. Right? In in our real - life setting.", "speakerName": "Grad G" }, { "text": "Well.", "speakerName": "Postdoc H" }, { "text": "What do you mean we're not saving it anyway? I've written all of this down and it's getting emailed to you.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "And you're gonna send it out by email, too.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Well, uh, in that case we don't need to take pictures of it.", "speakerName": "Grad G" }, { "text": "Right. That would be the other alternative, to make sure that anything that was on the board, um, is in the record.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Well.", "speakerName": "Postdoc H" }, { "text": "Well, that's why that's why I'm saying that I think the note - taking would be I think in many for many meetings there will be some sort of note - taking, in which case, that's a useful thing to have Uh, I mean, we uh, we don't need to require it. Just like the.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Grad G" }, { "text": "I mean, I think it would be great if we try to get a picture with every meeting. Um,", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "I agree.", "speakerName": "Postdoc H" }, { "text": "so so we won't worry about requiring these things, but the more things that we can get it for, the more useful it will be for various applications. So.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "So So, I mean, departing for the moment from the data collection question but actually talking about, you know, this group and what we actually want to do, uh, so I guess that's th the way what you were figuring on doing was was was, uh, putting together some notes and sending them to to everybody from from today? OK. So. Um.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "That's great.", "speakerName": "Postdoc H" }, { "text": "So so the question that that we started with was whether there was anything else we should do during during th during the collection.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "Ow.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "And I guess the CrossPads was certainly one idea, uh, and we'll get them from him and we'll just do that. Right? And then the next thing we talked about was the was the summaries and are we gonna do anything about that.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "Well, before we leave the CrossPads and and call it done.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "Oh, OK.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "So, if I'm collecting data then there is this question of do I use CrossPads?", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "So, I think that if we really seriously have me collect data and I can't use CrossPads, it's probably less useful for you guys to go to the trouble of using it, um, unless you think that the CrossPads are gonna n I'm not I'm not sure what they're gonna do. But but having a small percentage of the data with it, I'm not sure whether that's useful or not. Maybe maybe it's no big deal.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "What.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "Maybe we just do it and see what happens.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "I guess the point was to try again, to try to collect more information that could be useful later for for the UI stuff.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "So it's sort of Landay supplying it so that Landay's stuff can be easier to do.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "So it it Right now he's g operating from zero,", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "Nothing.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "and so even if we didn't get it done from UW, it seems like that would could still You shou", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "OK.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "I mean, at least try it.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "I think it'd be useful to have a small amount of it just as a proof of concept.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "It will.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Right. OK.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "You know, what you can do with things.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "And and they seem to not be able to give enough of them away, so we could probably get more as well.", "speakerName": "Grad G" }, { "text": "Yeah. But not not to rely on them for basic modeling.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "That's true. So if it if it seems to be really useful to you guys, we could probably get a donation to me.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "Yeah, I'm not sure. I think it it it will again depend on Landay, and if he has a student who's interested, and how much infrastructure we'll need. I mean, if it's easy, we can just do it.", "speakerName": "Grad G" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "Um, but if it requires a lot of our time, we probably won't do it.", "speakerName": "Grad G" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "I guess a lot of the stuff we're doing now really is pilot in one sense or another.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "Yeah. Yeah, we have to sort of figure out what we're gonna do.", "speakerName": "Grad G" }, { "text": "And so we try it out and see how it works.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "Grad G" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "I just wouldn't base any of the modeling on having those.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Right. I ag I think I agree with that.", "speakerName": "Grad G" }, { "text": "It's just.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Right. OK.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "I think, though, the importance marking is a good idea, though. That if if people have something in front of them.", "speakerName": "Grad G" }, { "text": "I'd be sort of cool. I mean, it would Yeah. That w shouldn't be hard for.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Yeah. Do it on pilots or laptops or something. OK, if something's important everyone clap.", "speakerName": "Grad G" }, { "text": "OK. So CrossPads, we're just gonna try it and see what happens.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "OK.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "Yeah. Um, I think that's right.", "speakerName": "Grad G" }, { "text": "OK.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "OK.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "The note - taking So, I I think that this is gonna be useful. So if we record data I will definitely ask for it. So, I j I think we should just say this is not we don't want to put any extra burden on people, but if they happen to generate minutes, could could they send it to us?", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "Yeah. Oh, OK. That's fine. Absolutely.", "speakerName": "Grad G" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "And then.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "Yeah. What I was gonna say is that I don't want to ask people to do something they wouldn't normally do in a meeting. It's ver I just want to keep away from the artificiality.", "speakerName": "Grad G" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "But I think it definitely if they exist. And then Jane's idea of summarization afterward I think is not a bad one. Um, picking out basically to let you pick out keywords, um, and, uh, construct queries.", "speakerName": "Grad G" }, { "text": "So who who does this summarization?", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "Yeah, I'm thinking that.", "speakerName": "Postdoc H" }, { "text": "People in the meeting.", "speakerName": "Grad G" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Postdoc H" }, { "text": "You know, just at at the end of the meeting, before you go,", "speakerName": "Grad G" }, { "text": "Uh - huh.", "speakerName": "Postdoc H" }, { "text": "Without hearing each other though, probably.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "go around the table.", "speakerName": "Grad G" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Or even just have one or two people stay behind.", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "Yeah. Ugh. Yeah.", "speakerName": "Grad G" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "People with radio mikes can go into separate rooms and continue recording without hearing each other. That's the nice thing.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Well, then you should try them a few weeks later", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "How fascinating.", "speakerName": "Postdoc H" }, { "text": "and They have all these memory experiments about how little you actually retain", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "And see score them?", "speakerName": "Grad G" }, { "text": "That's right. Well, that's the interesting thing, though.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "and wasn't.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "If we do if we collect four different summaries, you know, we're gonna get all this weird data about how people perceive things differently.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Oh.", "speakerName": "Grad G" }, { "text": "It's like this is not what we meant to research.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Hmm.", "speakerName": "Grad G" }, { "text": "Right, right.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Oh. Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "That could be very interesting.", "speakerName": "Postdoc H" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "Hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Postdoc H" }, { "text": "But but again, like the CrossPads, I don't think I would base a lot of stuff on it,", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "Ru", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "I d yeah, I don't know how you would do it, though.", "speakerName": "Grad G" }, { "text": "because I think I know when I see the the clock coming near the end of the meeting, I'm like inching towards the door.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm. Running to Yeah,", "speakerName": "Grad G" }, { "text": "So,", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "fff!", "speakerName": "Grad G" }, { "text": "Hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "you're probably not gonna get a lot of people wanting to do this.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "Maybe e Is email easier?", "speakerName": "Grad G" }, { "text": "Well, I think if.", "speakerName": "Postdoc H" }, { "text": "I mean, I when you first said do do it, um, spoken, what I was thinking is, oh then people have to come up", "speakerName": "Grad G" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Postdoc H" }, { "text": "and you have to hook them up to the recorder. So, if they're already here I think that's good,", "speakerName": "Grad G" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "but if they're not already here for I'd rather do email. I'm much faster typing than anything else.", "speakerName": "Grad G" }, { "text": "Yeah, I'd just try Well, however the least intrusive and and quickest way is, and th and closest to the meeting time too, cuz people will start to forget it as soon as they l leave.", "speakerName": "Postdoc H" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Grad G" }, { "text": "Yeah. I think that I think doing it orally at the end of the meeting is the best time.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "I don't know. At.", "speakerName": "Grad G" }, { "text": "I just don't.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Postdoc H" }, { "text": "because they're kind of a captive audience. Once they leave,", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Grad G" }, { "text": "you know, forget it. But but i", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "Yeah, read the digits, do the summary.", "speakerName": "Grad G" }, { "text": "Right. But, uh, I don't think that they'll necessarily you'll you'll get many people willing to stay.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "Hmm.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "But, you know, if you get even one.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "w", "speakerName": "Postdoc H" }, { "text": "Well, I think it's like the note - taking thing,", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "I would s Yeah.", "speakerName": "Postdoc H" }, { "text": "that that y that you can't certainly can't require it or people aren't gonna want to do this. But but if there's some cases where they will, then it would be helpful.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "Hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "And I'm also wondering, couldn't that be included in the data sample so that you could increase the num you know, the words that are, uh, recognized by a particular individual? If you could include the person's meeting stuff and also the person's summary stuff, maybe that would be uh,", "speakerName": "Postdoc H" }, { "text": "Yeah. It's kind of nice.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "an ad addition to their database.", "speakerName": "Postdoc H" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Hmm.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "Under the same acoustic circumstance, cuz if they just walk next door with their set - up, nothing's changed,", "speakerName": "Postdoc H" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "just.", "speakerName": "Postdoc H" }, { "text": "So I have a question about queries,", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "God, that's bugging me.", "speakerName": "Grad G" }, { "text": "which is, um,", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "Can we turn that light off?", "speakerName": "Grad G" }, { "text": "You turn.", "speakerName": "Postdoc H" }, { "text": "uh.", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "If can we turn that just that that let.", "speakerName": "Grad G" }, { "text": "The fl the fluorescent light is flickering.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "Uh, let the record show the light is flickering.", "speakerName": "Postdoc H" }, { "text": "I don't know.", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "Yeah, there's a.", "speakerName": "Grad G" }, { "text": "Oh, it is it is like OK.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "Very annoying.", "speakerName": "Grad G" }, { "text": "There you go. OK.", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "Oh, much better.", "speakerName": "Grad G" }, { "text": "For a little while I thought it was just that I was really tired.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "Oh, yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "That's better.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Good.", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "That and y Too much caffeine and really tired,", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "Too much caffeine.", "speakerName": "Grad G" }, { "text": "but then I thought \" no, maybe that's real \".", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "OK.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "So,", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "I thought it was the projector for a moment. It was like, \" what's going on? \"", "speakerName": "Grad G" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "the question I had about queries was, um, so what we're planning to do is have people look at the summaries and then generate queries? Are are we gonna try and o", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "We we've just been talking, how do we generate queries?", "speakerName": "Grad G" }, { "text": "Yeah. Well, I mean,", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "And so that was one suggestion.", "speakerName": "Grad G" }, { "text": "so, the question I had is is have we given any thought to how we would generate queries automatically given a summary? I mean, I think that's a whole research topic un unto itself,", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "Mmm.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "so that it may not be a feasible thing. But.", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "Hello. Dan here.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "n", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "Shouldn't Landay and his group be in charge of figuring out how to do this?", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "I mean, this is an issue that goes a little bit beyond where we are right now.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "OK.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "They're the expert", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Mari?", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Yeah?", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "Someone wants to know when you're getting picked up. Is someone picking you up?", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Um, what's our schedule?", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "Well, you still wanted to talk with Liz.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "Let's see, you and I need dis Uh, no, we did the Liz talk.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "And you and I need to Oh, oh. You already did the Liz talk.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "Yeah. So so that was the prosody thing.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "OK.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "We - I don't remember it.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Um, we need to finish the.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "Oh, OK.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "It's already four - fifteen.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "I have like no recall memory.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Uh, after.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "We need to finish this discussion, and you and I need a little time for wrap - up and quad chart. So,", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "And what?", "speakerName": "Grad G" }, { "text": "um.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "I'm at your disposal. So, up to you.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "Um, what what's the plan for this discussion? We should.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "Um, I think we should be able to wind up in another half - hour or something, you think?", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "At least. Yeah.", "speakerName": "Grad G" }, { "text": "Uh, less.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "m i Even if that much?", "speakerName": "Grad G" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "Less?", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "Less.", "speakerName": "Grad G" }, { "text": "So, I think.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "It's interesting that he's got, like, this discussion free", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Well, I mean, we still haven't talked about the action items from here and so on.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "Action Yeah. So,", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "yet it's separate.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "And.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "e e why don't you say five - thirty? I don't.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "OK, five - thirty.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Is that OK? We'll probably hit horrible traffic.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "Sounds OK. h Thanks, bye.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "That's not a lot of time,", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "That's that.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "but.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "Well, in answer to \" is it Landay's problem? \", um, he doesn't have a student who's interested right now in doing anything. So he has very little manpower. Um, there's very little allocated for him and also he's pretty focused on user interface. So I don't think he wants to do information retrieval, query generation, that sort of stuff.", "speakerName": "Grad G" }, { "text": "Yeah, well there's gonna be these student projects that can do some things but it can't be, yeah, very deep. u I I actually think that that, uh, again, just as a bootstrap, if we do have something like summaries, then having the people who are involved in the meetings themselves, who are cooperative and willing to do yet more, come up with with with queries, uh, could at least give give Landay an idea of the kind of things that people might want to know. I mean, ye Right? If he doesn't know anything about the area, and the people are talking about and and, uh.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "But the people will just look at the summaries or the minutes and re and sort of back - generate the queries. That's what I'm worried about. So you might as well just give him the summaries.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "And.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Maybe.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "Well, I'm not sure I'm not sure that's a solved problem.", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "y Well, but I think.", "speakerName": "Grad G" }, { "text": "Oh, OK.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Right? Of how to how to generate queries from a.", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "How to do this from the summary.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "I, uh.", "speakerName": "Grad G" }, { "text": "That was sort of what my question was aimed towards.", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "So what you want to h to do is, people who were there, who later see, uh, minutes and s put in summary form, which is not gonna be at the same time as the meeting. There's no way that can happen. Are we gonna later go over it", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Hmm.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "Grad G" }, { "text": "and, like, make up some stuff to which these notes would be an answer, or or a deeper Yeah. I mean.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Or or just a memory refresher.", "speakerName": "Grad G" }, { "text": "But that's done off they have to do that off - line.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Yep. I agree.", "speakerName": "Grad G" }, { "text": "You", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "I'm also wondering if we could ask the the people a a question which would be \" what was the most interesting thing you got out of this meeting? \" Becau - in terms of like informativeness,", "speakerName": "Postdoc H" }, { "text": "That's a good one.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "it might be, you know, that the summary would would not in even include what the person thought was the most interesting fact.", "speakerName": "Postdoc H" }, { "text": "I would think that would be the most likely thing.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "Dan doesn't know what sex he is.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Yeah, really.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "But actually I would say that's a better thing to ask than have them summarize the meeting.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "I think you get two different types of information.", "speakerName": "Postdoc H" }, { "text": "You get two Yeah, that's true.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Because you get, like, the general structure of important points and what the what the meeting was about.", "speakerName": "Postdoc H" }, { "text": "Hey.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "Ah", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "We're still here.", "speakerName": "Grad G" }, { "text": "So you get the general structure, the important points of what the meeting was about with the summary. But with the \" what's the most interesting thing you learned? \" Uh, so the fact that, uh, I know that Transcriber uses Snack is something that I thought was interesting", "speakerName": "Postdoc H" }, { "text": "Going to see the kids.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "You you can keep it on.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "and that and that Dan worked on on that. So I thought that was really you know. So, I mean, you could ge pick up some of the micro items that wouldn't even occur as major headings", "speakerName": "Postdoc H" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "but could be very informative.", "speakerName": "Postdoc H" }, { "text": "Yeah, that's actually a really good idea.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "I think it wouldn't be too, uh, uh, cost - intensive either. You know, I mean, it's like something someone can do pretty easily on the spur of the moment.", "speakerName": "Postdoc H" }, { "text": "Are you thinking about just asking one participant or all of them?", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "As many are willing to do it.", "speakerName": "Grad G" }, { "text": "Make it a voluntary thing,", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Yeah. Cuz you'll get cuz you'll get very different answers from everybody, right?", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "and then Yeah. That's why I was wondering.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "So.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Well, maybe one thing we could do is for the meetings we've already done I mean, I we didn't take minutes and we don't have summaries. But, uh, people could, like, listen to them a little bit and generate some queries.", "speakerName": "Grad G" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Postdoc H" }, { "text": "Of course Jane doesn't need to. I'm sure you have that meeting memorized by now.", "speakerName": "Grad G" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "But actually it would be an easy thing to just go around the room and say what was the most interesting thing you learned,", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "Mmm.", "speakerName": "Grad G" }, { "text": "Yeah. Yeah.", "speakerName": "Postdoc H" }, { "text": "for those pe people willing to stay.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "And that I think it would pick up the micro - structure, the some some of the little things that would be hidden.", "speakerName": "Postdoc H" }, { "text": "And and that might be something people are willing to stay for.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "Boy, I I don't know how we get at this.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "That would be interesting.", "speakerName": "Postdoc H" }, { "text": "Yeah, but when you go around the room you might just get the effect that somebody says something", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Or want to get up and leave.", "speakerName": "Grad G" }, { "text": "and then you go around the room and they say \" yeah, me too, I agree. \"", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Me too, me too, me too.", "speakerName": "Grad G" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "That's fine.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "So.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "On the other hand people might try and come up with different ones, right?", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Well.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "They might say \" oh, I was gonna say that one but now I have to think of something else \".", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Well, you have the other thing, that that they know why we're doing it. We'll I mean, we'll we'll be telling them that the reason we're trying to do this is is to d generate queries in the future, so try to pick things that other people didn't say.", "speakerName": "Grad G" }, { "text": "It's gonna take some thought. I mean, It seemed The kind of, uh, interest that I had in this thing initially was, uh, that i basically the form that you're doing something else later,", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "and you want to pick up something from this meeting related to the something else. So it's really the imp the the list of what's important's in the something else", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "rather than the.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "Mmm.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "And it might be something minor of minor importance to the meeting.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "Grad G" }, { "text": "Uh, in fact if if it was really major, if it's the thing that really stuck in your head, then you might not need to go back and and and check on it even. So it's it's that you're trying to find You're you've now You weren't interested Say I I said \" well, I wasn't that much interested in dialogue, I'm more of an acoustics person \".", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "But but thr three months from now if for some reason I get really interested in dialogue, and I'm \" well what is what was that part that that that, uh, Mari was saying? \"", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "Yeah, like Jim Bass says \" add a few lines on dialogue in your next perf \"", "speakerName": "Grad G" }, { "text": "Uh.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "Yeah. Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "And then I'm trying to fi I mean, that's that's when I look in general when I look things up most, is when it's something that didn't really stick in my head the first time around and but for some new reason I'm I'm I'm interested in in in the old stuff.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "But that that's gonna be very hard to generate.", "speakerName": "Grad G" }, { "text": "Well, I That's hard to generate", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "So, I don't I don't know.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Do we.", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "and and I think that's half of what i I would use it for. But I also a lot of times um, make you know, think to myself \" this is interesting,", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "I've gotta come back and follow up on it \".", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm. Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "So, things that I think are interesting, um, I would be, uh, wanting to do a query about. And also, I like the idea of going around the room, because if somebody else thought something was interesting, I'd kind of want to know about it and then I'd want to follow up on it.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "Hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Yeah. That that might get at some of what I was I was concerned about, uh, being interested in something later that w uh, I didn't consider to be important the first time, which for me is actually the dominant thing, because if I thought it was really important it tends to stick more than if I didn't, but some new task comes along that makes me want to look up.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "But But what's interesting to me may not b have been interesting to you.", "speakerName": "Grad G" }, { "text": "Yeah. So having multiple people might get at some of that.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "By so by going around Yeah.", "speakerName": "Grad G" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "Yeah, I I think you can't get at all of it,", "speakerName": "Grad G" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "right? W we just need to start somewhere.", "speakerName": "Grad G" }, { "text": "Yeah, and this is a starting point.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "Uh - huh.", "speakerName": "Postdoc H" }, { "text": "The question the question then is h h how much bias do we introduce by you know, introduce by saying, you know, this was important now and, you know, maybe tha something else is important later?", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "I mean, does it does the bias matter? I I don't know. I mean, uh, that's, I guess, a question for you guys. But.", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "Well, and and one thing, we we're saying \" important \" and we're saying \" interesting \".", "speakerName": "Postdoc H" }, { "text": "Uh, yeah, yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "And and those those can be two different things.", "speakerName": "Postdoc H" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "Sure, sure. But I I I guess that's the question, really, is that I mean,", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Postdoc H" }, { "text": "W", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "does building queries based on what's important now introduce an irreversible bias on being able to do what Morgan wants to do later?", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "Well, irreversible.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "OK, good.", "speakerName": "Postdoc H" }, { "text": "That's that's.", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "I I I mean, I guess what I what I I keep coming back to in my own mind is that, um, the soonest we can do it, we need to get up some kind of system", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Postdoc H" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "so that people who've been involved in the meeting can go back later, even if it's a poor system in some ways, and, uh and ask the questions that they actually want to know. If you know, if uh, as soon as we can get that going at any kind of level, then I think we'll have a much better handle on what kind of questions people want to ask than in any anything we do before that. But obviously we have to bootstrap somehow,", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "and.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "Sure.", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Postdoc H" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "I agree.", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "I will say that that I I chose \" interesting \" because I think it includes also \" important \" in some cases. But, um, I I I feel like the summary gets at a different type of information.", "speakerName": "Postdoc H" }, { "text": "I think \" important \" can often be uninteresting.", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "Mmm.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "Mmm. And \" interesting \" is more interesting than \" important \".", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Hmm.", "speakerName": "Grad G" }, { "text": "Well, and and also i it puts a lot of burden on the person to to evaluate. You know, I think inter \" interesting \" is is non - threatening in.", "speakerName": "Postdoc H" }, { "text": "OK - OK.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Postdoc H" }, { "text": "In the interest of, um,", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "Importance?", "speakerName": "Grad G" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Postdoc H" }, { "text": "generati generating an interesting summary, um.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm. Yeah.", "speakerName": "Postdoc H" }, { "text": "No, i in the interest of generating some minutes here, uh, and also moving on to action items and other things, let me just go through the things that I wrote down as being important, um, that we at least decided on. CrossPads we were going to try, um, if Landay can get the, uh get them to to you guys, um, and see if they're interesting. And if they are, then we'll try to get m do it more. Um, getting electronic summary from a note - taking person if they happen to do it anyway.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "Um, getting just, uh, digital pictures a couple digital pictures of the the table and boards to set the context of the meeting. Uh, and then going around the room at the end to just say qu ask people to mention something interesting that they learned. So rather than say the most interesting thing, something interesting,", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "k", "speakerName": "Postdoc H" }, { "text": "and that way you'll get more variety.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "Sure.", "speakerName": "Postdoc H" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "I wouldn't even say that \" that they learned \".", "speakerName": "Grad G" }, { "text": "That's good. I like that. I like that.", "speakerName": "Postdoc H" }, { "text": "OK.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Uh, you might want to mention something that that you brought up.", "speakerName": "Grad G" }, { "text": "\" Thing that was discussed. \" And then the last thing c would be for those people who are willing to stay afterwards and give an oral summary.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Postdoc H" }, { "text": "OK? Does that pretty much cover everything we talked about? That well, that we want to do?", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm. A And one and one qualification on on the oral summaries. They'd be s they'd be separate. They wouldn't be hearing each other's summaries.", "speakerName": "Postdoc H" }, { "text": "OK.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "Yeah, that's like n I think that's gonna predominantly end up being whoever takes down the equipment then.", "speakerName": "Grad G" }, { "text": "And and that would also be that the data would be included in the database.", "speakerName": "Postdoc H" }, { "text": "Yeah, that would be, let's see, me.", "speakerName": "Grad G" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Postdoc H" }, { "text": "I mean, there is still this hope that people might actually think of real queries they really want to ask at some point.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "OK.", "speakerName": "Postdoc H" }, { "text": "And that if if that ever should happen, then we should try and write them down.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Postdoc H" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Give them a reward, a dollar a query?", "speakerName": "Grad G" }, { "text": "Yeah, really.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "If they're real queries.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "OK. So.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "Well, and again, if we can figure out a way to jimmy a a a a very rough system, say in a year, then uh, so that in the second and third years we we actually have something to.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Postdoc H" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Grad G" }, { "text": "Play with and generate real queries from.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "ask queries.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "Right. OK.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Grad G" }, { "text": "So. Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "Uh.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "I think I just wanted to say one thing about queries. I mean, the level of the query could be, you know, very low - level or very high - level. And it gets fuzzier and fuzzier as you go up, right?", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Well, we're gonna.", "speakerName": "Grad G" }, { "text": "So you need to have some sort of if you start working with queries, some way of identifying what the you know, if this is something that requires a a one - word answer or it's one place in the recording versus was there general agreement on this issue of all the people who ha", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "You know, you can gen you can ask queries that are meaningful for people.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Yep.", "speakerName": "Grad G" }, { "text": "In fact, they're very meaningful cuz they're very high - level. But they won't exist anywhere in the a you know.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Absolutely. So I think we're gonna have to start with keywords", "speakerName": "Grad G" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Postdoc H" }, { "text": "and and if someone becomes more interested we could work our way up.", "speakerName": "Grad G" }, { "text": "I I'm I I'm not so sure I agree with that.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "It But it may well.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "But.", "speakerName": "Grad G" }, { "text": "Because uh, b because it depends on, uh, what our goal is.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "Really?", "speakerName": "Grad G" }, { "text": "If our goal is Wizard of Oz - ish, we might want to know what is it that people would really like to know about this data.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "Oh, that's true.", "speakerName": "Grad G" }, { "text": "And if it's if if it's something that we don't know how to do yet, th great,", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "that's, you know, research project for year four or something.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "Research, yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "You know?", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "Yeah, I was thinking about Wizard of Oz, but it requires the wizard to know all about the meetings.", "speakerName": "Grad G" }, { "text": "We'd have to listen to all the data.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Um, well, not maybe not true Wizard of Oz", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "So.", "speakerName": "Grad G" }, { "text": "because people are too", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "Oh, yeah. I I understand.", "speakerName": "Grad G" }, { "text": "uh, aware of what's going on.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "Well just imagine if.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "But but just.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "Get people to ask questions that they def the machine definitely can't answer at the moment,", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Yeah. w Just \" what would you like to know? \"", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "but.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Yep.", "speakerName": "Grad G" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "But that neither could anyone else, though, is what, uh, my point is.", "speakerName": "Grad G" }, { "text": "Yes.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "I I was wondering if if there might be one s more source of queries which is indicator phrases like \" action item \",", "speakerName": "Postdoc H" }, { "text": "OK.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "which could be obtained from the text from the transcript.", "speakerName": "Postdoc H" }, { "text": "Right. Since we have the transcript.", "speakerName": "Grad G" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Postdoc H" }, { "text": "Dates maybe. I don't know. That's something I always forget.", "speakerName": "Grad G" }, { "text": "Yeah, that's something to be determined, something to be specified,", "speakerName": "Postdoc H" }, { "text": "Well, probably if you have to sit there at the end of a meeting and say one thing you remember, it's probably whatever action item was assigned to you.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "but text - oriented.", "speakerName": "Postdoc H" }, { "text": "I mean, in gen that's all I remember from most meetings.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "That that's all I wrote down.", "speakerName": "Grad G" }, { "text": "I think you'd remember that, yeah.", "speakerName": "Postdoc H" }, { "text": "So, in general, I mean, that could be something you could say, right? I'm supposed to do this. It it doesn't.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Yeah, that's true. Well, but then you could you could prompt them to say, you know, \" other than your action item \", you know, whatever.", "speakerName": "Postdoc H" }, { "text": "Well.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "But but the action item would be a way to get, uh, maybe an additional query.", "speakerName": "Postdoc H" }, { "text": "I mean, that's realistically what people might well be remembering.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "So.", "speakerName": "Postdoc H" }, { "text": "So.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Hmm.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "Yeah. Well, but you know, but you could get again @ @.", "speakerName": "Postdoc H" }, { "text": "Well, we're piloting. We'll just do it and see what happens.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "Yeah. Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Postdoc H" }, { "text": "I usually don't remember my action items. But I'd I.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "OK - OK. Speaking of action items, can we move on to action items?", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "Yeah. Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "Sure. Can you hand me my note pad?", "speakerName": "Grad G" }, { "text": "Yeah. yeah.", "speakerName": "Postdoc H" }, { "text": "Um, or maybe we should wait until the summary of this until this meeting is transcribed and then we will hav", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "We we had I mean,", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "Yeah. Then we'll know.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Thanks.", "speakerName": "Grad G" }, { "text": "somewhere up there we had milestones, but I guess Did y did you get enough milestone, uh, from the description things?", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "I got Yeah. In fact, why don't you hand me those transparencies so that I remember to take them. eee,", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "OK.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "OK.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "And, you know, there's obviously detail behind each of those, as much as is needed. So, you just have to let us know.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "OK. What I have down for action items is we're supposed to find out about our human subject, um, requirements.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "Good.", "speakerName": "Postdoc H" }, { "text": "Uh,", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "Yep.", "speakerName": "Grad G" }, { "text": "people are supposed to send me U R for their for web pages, to c and I'll put together an overall cover. And you're s", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "Right. We.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Hmm?", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "we need to look at our web page", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "And and you also need to look at your web page", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "and make one that's that's p", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "and clean it up by mid - July.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "PDA - free.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "Grad G" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Um,", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "let's see. Choo - choo - choo. We.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "Mailing lists.", "speakerName": "Grad G" }, { "text": "Mailing list? Uh, you need to put together a mailing list.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "Three of them.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "Uh, I think w", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "Well I mean,", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "uh,", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "Um,", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "mostly together.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "uh, I need to email Adam or Jane, um, about getting the data. Who should I email?", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "Uh, how quickly do you want it?", "speakerName": "Grad G" }, { "text": "Um.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "My July is really very crowded. And so, uh.", "speakerName": "Grad G" }, { "text": "How about if I just c Uh, Right now all I want I personally only want text data. I think the only thing Jeff would do anything with right now But I'm just speaking fr based on a conversation with him two weeks ago I had in Turkey. But I think all he would want is the digits. Um, but I'll just speak for myself. I'm interested in getting the language model data. Eh, so I'm just interested in getting transcriptions.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Grad G" }, { "text": "So then just email you?", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "OK. So y Sure, sure, sure.", "speakerName": "Postdoc H" }, { "text": "OK.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "Wh", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "You could email to both of us, uh, just I mean, if you wanted to.", "speakerName": "Postdoc H" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "I mean, I don't think either of us would mind recei", "speakerName": "Postdoc H" }, { "text": "OK.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "i", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "That's right.", "speakerName": "Grad G" }, { "text": "but but in any case I'd be happy to send you the.", "speakerName": "Postdoc H" }, { "text": "And your email is?", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "i", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "Edwards at ICSI.", "speakerName": "Postdoc H" }, { "text": "OK.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "w", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "Dot Berkeley dot EDU, of course.", "speakerName": "Grad G" }, { "text": "And then.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "In in our phone call, uh, before, we we, uh It turns out the way we're gonna send the data is by, uh, And, uh and then what they're gonna do is take the CD - ROM and transfer it to analog tape and give it to a transcription service, uh, that will.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "Oh, is this IBM?", "speakerName": "Grad G" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "Yeah, using foot pedals", "speakerName": "Postdoc H" }, { "text": "Yeah, foot foot pedals", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "and.", "speakerName": "Postdoc H" }, { "text": "and.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "Uh, so do they How are they gonna do the multi - channel?", "speakerName": "Grad G" }, { "text": "See, that's a good question.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "Yeah. They they don't have a way.", "speakerName": "Postdoc H" }, { "text": "I thought so.", "speakerName": "Grad G" }, { "text": "No, I mean, it'll be", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "But they have a verification.", "speakerName": "Postdoc H" }, { "text": "probably about like you did,", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "Mix?", "speakerName": "Grad G" }, { "text": "and then there will be some things you know, many things that don't work out well. And that'll go back to IBM and they'll they'll, uh they run their aligner on it and it kicks out things that don't work well, which you know, the overlaps will certainly be examples of that. And, uh I mean, what w we will give them all of it. Right?", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "OK. That's, uh, my question.", "speakerName": "Grad G" }, { "text": "We'll give them all the the multi - channel stuff", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "So we'll give them all sixteen channels", "speakerName": "Grad G" }, { "text": "and.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "and they'll do whatever they want with it.", "speakerName": "Grad G" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "But you also should probably give them the mixed You know, equal sound - level.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Yeah. Good idea.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "I mean, they're not gonna easily be able to do that, probably.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "It's not hard.", "speakerName": "Grad G" }, { "text": "Well.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "Ah, yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "So.", "speakerName": "Grad G" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "It's also won't be adding much to the data to give them the mixed.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "But w", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "I", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "It's not.", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "Right. It doesn't it isn't difficult for us to do,", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "Yep. Absolutely.", "speakerName": "Grad G" }, { "text": "i You should Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "so we might as well just do it.", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "You should that may be all that they want to send off to their transcribers.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Absolutely. So, sure.", "speakerName": "Grad G" }, { "text": "OK. Related to to the conversation with Picheny, I need to email him, uh, my shipping address and you need to email them something which you already did.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "I did. I I m emailed them the Transcriber URL, um, the on - line, uh, data that Adam set up, The URL so they can click on an utterance and hear it. and I emailed them the str streamlined conventions which you got a copy of today.", "speakerName": "Postdoc H" }, { "text": "Right. And I was gonna m email them the which I haven't yet, a pointer to to the web pages that we that we currently have, cuz in particular they want to see the one with the the way the recording room is set up", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "Good.", "speakerName": "Postdoc H" }, { "text": "and so on, your your page on that.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "Oh, excellent. Good.", "speakerName": "Postdoc H" }, { "text": "And then p possibly.", "speakerName": "Grad G" }, { "text": "I C - I CC' ed Morgan. I should have sent I should have CC' ed you as well.", "speakerName": "Postdoc H" }, { "text": "OK.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "Not an immediate action item but something we do have to worry about is data formats for for higher - level information.", "speakerName": "Grad G" }, { "text": "OK.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "Oh, yeah. We were gonna.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "Well, or d or not even higher level, different level, prosody and all that sort of stuff. We're gonna have to figure out how we're gonna annotate that.", "speakerName": "Grad G" }, { "text": "Yeah. We never had our data format discussion.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "Yeah, we w Right.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "Oh, I thought we did. We discussed, uh, musi musical score notation", "speakerName": "Postdoc H" }, { "text": "Oh, OK.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "But that's not That's display.", "speakerName": "Grad G" }, { "text": "and and its XML.", "speakerName": "Postdoc H" }, { "text": "That's different than format.", "speakerName": "Grad G" }, { "text": "That's.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "Well, um.", "speakerName": "Postdoc H" }, { "text": "W My my u feeling right now on format is you guys have been doing all the work", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "Well uh, yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "and whatever you want, we're happy to live with.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Postdoc H" }, { "text": "Um,", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "OK, excellent.", "speakerName": "Postdoc H" }, { "text": "other people may not agree with that,", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "OK. So, what n important thing.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "but Cuz I'm not actually touching the data,", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "Well, it c", "speakerName": "Postdoc H" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "so I shouldn't be the one to talk. But.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "No, I think that's fine.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "So a key thing will be that you we tell you", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "Great.", "speakerName": "Postdoc H" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "what it is. Uh, we also had.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "\" Here's a mysterious file", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "and \"", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "We also had the, uh, uh that we were s uh, that you were gonna get us the eight - hundred number", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "Oh, yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "and we're all gonna we're gonna call up your Communicator thing and and we're gonna be good slash bad, depending on how you define it, uh, users.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "Now, something that I mentioned earlier to Mari and Liz is that it's probably important to get as many non - technical and non - speech people as possible in order to get some realistic users. So if you could ask other people to call and use our system, that'd be good. Cuz we don't want people who already know how to deal with dialogue systems,", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Yeah. Or, like if you have a.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "who know that you shouldn't hyper - articulate, for instance, and things like that.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Or, like if you have somebody who makes your your plane reservations for you,", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "So.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "um, which is", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "Yeah, we can do that.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "the n", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "Get my parents to do it.", "speakerName": "Grad G" }, { "text": "Yeah. Yeah. Seriously.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "Yeah, for instance.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "Your grandmother.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Hmm.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "Yeah. e You know, it could result in some good bloopers, which is always good for presentations. So Um, anyway.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "Yeah..", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "I think my father would last through the second prompt before he hang hung up.", "speakerName": "Grad G" }, { "text": "Mmm.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "My mother would have a very interesting conversation with it", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "He would never use it.", "speakerName": "Grad G" }, { "text": "but it wouldn't have anything to do with the travel.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "OK. Um, other.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "OK.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "Let's see, other action items. So I have the.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "We talked about that we're getting the recording equipment running at UW. And so it depends, w e e e they're you know, they're p m If that comes together within the next month, there at least will be, uh, uh, major communications between Dan and UW folks", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "Yeah. I mean,", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "I'm I'm shooting to try to get it done get it put together by the beginning of August.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "as to.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "we should talk about it, but.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Mmm.", "speakerName": "Postdoc H" }, { "text": "So, um, you know, if", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "But we have it it's it's pretty We don't know. I mean, he he s uh, he said that it was sitting in some room collecting dust", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "We don't know.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "and and so we don't know,", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "i It's probably unlikely that we'll pull this off,", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "i e", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "but a at least it's worth trying.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm. What is it?", "speakerName": "Grad G" }, { "text": "We don't know.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "Oh, OK.", "speakerName": "Grad G" }, { "text": "\" Recording equipment. \"", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "It's a tape recorder.", "speakerName": "Grad G" }, { "text": "W We know it's eight channels. Uh, we know it's digital.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "It's eight tape recorders.", "speakerName": "Grad G" }, { "text": "We don't even know if there're microphones. So, we'll find out.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "OK. Um, and I will email these notes Um, I'm not sure what to do about action items for the data stuff, although, then somebody I guess somebody needs to tell Landay that you want the pads.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "Yeah, OK. I'll do that.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "OK.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "Um, and he also said something about outside there that came up about the outside text sources, that he he may have", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Grad G" }, { "text": "Oh!", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "some text sources that are close enough to the sort of thing that we can play with them for a language model.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "Hmm.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "Yeah, that was uh, that was What he was saying was this he this thing that, uh, Jason had been working on finds web pages that are thematically related to what you're talking about. Well, that's the idea. So that that that would be a source of text which is supposedly got the right vocabulary.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "But it's obviously very different material. It's not spoken material, for instance,", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Yeah. But it's p it might be.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "so.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "But but that's actually what I wanna do. That's that's what I wanna work with,", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "OK.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "is is things that s the wrong material but the right da the right source.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Grad G" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Un - unfortunately Landay told me that Jason is not gonna be working on that anymore.", "speakerName": "Grad G" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "He's switching to other stuff again.", "speakerName": "Grad G" }, { "text": "Yeah. He seemed when I asked him if he could actually supply data, he seemed a little bit more reluctant. So, I'll I'll send him email. I'll put it in an action item that I send him email about it. And if I get something, great. If I don't get something.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "Who? Landay or Jason?", "speakerName": "Grad G" }, { "text": "Landay. And, uh, um,", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "OK.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "OK.", "speakerName": "Grad G" }, { "text": "you know, otherwise, if you guys have any papers or I could I could use, uh I could use your web pages. That's what we could do. You've got all the web pages on the Meeting Recor", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "Yeah, why search for them?", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "Yeah!", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "They're we know where they are.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "True.", "speakerName": "Grad G" }, { "text": "Yeah, that's true.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "Absolutely.", "speakerName": "Grad G" }, { "text": "Oh, forget this!", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "Sure.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Well, but that's not very much.", "speakerName": "Grad G" }, { "text": "I One less action item. I can use what web pages there are out there on meeting recorders.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "Yep.", "speakerName": "Grad G" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "I mean, that that's Yeah. Basically what his software does is h it picks out keywords and does a Google - like search.", "speakerName": "Grad G" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "Yeah. Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Yeah. So we can we can we can do better than that.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "We can do that. Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "So you could.", "speakerName": "Grad G" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Grad G" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "There's there's some, uh, Carnegie Mellon stuff, right? On on meeting recording,", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "Yep.", "speakerName": "Grad G" }, { "text": "And Xerox.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "So, there's there's ICSI, Xerox,", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "and.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "And there's You should l look under, like, intelligent environments,", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "And Xerox. Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "smart rooms,", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Um, the \" Georgia Tech Classroom Two Thousand \" is a good one.", "speakerName": "Grad G" }, { "text": "um.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "CMU,", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "Right. And then Right. J There's th That's where I thought you would want to eventually be able to have a board or a camera,", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "because of all these classroom.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Well, Georgia Tech did a very elaborate instrumented room.", "speakerName": "Grad G" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "And I want to try to stay away from that. So.", "speakerName": "Grad G" }, { "text": "OK. Great. That solves that problem. One less action item. Um OK. I think that's good enou that's that's pretty much all I can think of.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "Can I ask, uh, one thing? It relates to data data collection and I and I'd and we mentioned earlier today, this question of um, so, um, I s I know that from with the near - field mikes some of the problems that come with overlapping speech, uh, are lessened. But I wonder if Uh, is that sufficient or should we consider maybe getting some data gathered in such a way that, um, u w we would c uh, p have a meeting with less overlap than would otherwise be the case? So either by rules of participation, or whatever.", "speakerName": "Postdoc H" }, { "text": "Oh, yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "Now, I mean, you know, it's true, I mean, we were discussing this earlier, that depending on the task so if you've got someone giving a report you're not gonna have as much overlap.", "speakerName": "Postdoc H" }, { "text": "Adam!", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "But, um, i i uh, so we're gonna have s you know, non - overlapping samples anyway. But, um, in a meeting which would otherwise be highly overlapping, is the near - field mike enough or should we have some rules of participation for some of our samples to lessen the overlap?", "speakerName": "Postdoc H" }, { "text": "Hmm.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "turn off", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "I don't think we should have rules of participation, but I think we should try to get a variety of meetings. That's something that if we get the the meeting stuff going at UW, that I probably can do more than you guys,", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "OK.", "speakerName": "Postdoc H" }, { "text": "cuz you guys are probably mostly going to get ICSI people here. But we can get anybody in EE, uh, over.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "and and possibly also some CS people, uh, over at UW. So, I think that that there's a good chance we could get more variety.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "OK. Just want to be sure there's enough data to.", "speakerName": "Postdoc H" }, { "text": "Um,", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "They're still gonna overlap,", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "OK, good.", "speakerName": "Postdoc H" }, { "text": "but Mark and others have said that there's quite a lot of found data from the discourse community that has this characteristic and also the political Y you know, anything that was televised for a third party has the characteristic of not very much overlap.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "Wasn - but w I think we were saying before also that the natural language group here had less overlap.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Postdoc H" }, { "text": "So.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "So it also depends on the style of the group of people.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "Like the, um, dominance relations of the people in the meeting.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm. On the task, and the task.", "speakerName": "Postdoc H" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Grad G" }, { "text": "It's just I just wanted to uh,", "speakerName": "Postdoc H" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "because you know, it is true people can modify the amount of overlap that they do if if they're asked to.", "speakerName": "Postdoc H" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "Not not entirely modify it, but lessen it if if it's desired. But if if that's sufficient data I just wanted to be sure that we will not be having a lot of data which can't be processed.", "speakerName": "Postdoc H" }, { "text": "OK. So I'm just writing here, we're not gonna try to specify rules of interaction but we're gonna try to get more variety by i using different groups of people", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "Time.", "speakerName": "Postdoc H" }, { "text": "and different sizes.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "Fine. And I you know, I I know that the near f near - field mikes will take care of also the problems to s to a certain degree.", "speakerName": "Postdoc H" }, { "text": "e e Yeah. And then the other thing might be, um, uh, technical versus administrative.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "I just wanted to be sure.", "speakerName": "Postdoc H" }, { "text": "Cuz if I recorded some administrative meetings then that may have less overlap, because you might have more overlap when you're doing something technical and disagreeing or whatever.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm. Mm - hmm. Well, I just as as as a contributary eh, so I I know that in l in legal depositions people are pr are prevented from overlapping. They'll just say, you know you know, \" wait till each person is finished before you say something \". So it is possible to lessen if we wanted to. But but these other factors are fine. I just wanted to raise the issue.", "speakerName": "Postdoc H" }, { "text": "Well, the reason why I didn't want to is be why I personally didn't want to is because I wanted it to be as, uh, unintrusive as possi", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm. Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Postdoc H" }, { "text": "as you could be with these things hanging on you.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "Oh, yeah. Yeah, I think that's always desired. I just want to be sure we don't that we're able to process, i u uh, you know, as much data as we can. Yeah.", "speakerName": "Postdoc H" }, { "text": "Yeah. Did they discuss any of that in the the meeting they had with L Liberman?", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "What.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "And there was a big division,", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "What what do they.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "so Liberman and others were interested in a lot of found data.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "So there's lots of recordings that They're not close - talk mike,", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "but And and there's lots of television, you know, stuff on, um, political debates and things like that, congre congressional hearings. Boring stuff like that. Um, and then the CMU folks and I were sort of on the other side in cuz they had collected a lot of meetings that were sort of like this and said that those are nothing like these meetings. Um, so there're really two different kinds of data. And, I guess we just left it as @ @ that if there's found data that can be transformed for use in speech recognition easily, then of course we would do it,", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "but newly collected data would would be natural meetings. So.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Actually, th @ @ the CMU folk have collected a lot of data. Is that is that going to be publicly available,", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "As far as I know, they h have not.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "or?", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "Um, but e", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "OK.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "It's also it's not it's not near - far, right?", "speakerName": "Grad G" }, { "text": "I'm not sure. Um, if people were interested they could talk to them, but I I got the feeling there was some politics involved.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "I think @ @ gonna add that to one of my action items.", "speakerName": "Grad G" }, { "text": "No.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Just to check.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "I I don't know.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Yeah. W we should know what's out there certainly.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Grad G" }, { "text": "I mean, the.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "Cuz I had thought they'd only done far - field,", "speakerName": "Grad G" }, { "text": "I think you need to talk to Waibel and.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "intelligent - room sorts of things.", "speakerName": "Grad G" }, { "text": "Oh, really? It's those guys.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "I hadn't known that then they'd done any more than that.", "speakerName": "Grad G" }, { "text": "Oh, they only did the far - field? I see.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Grad G" }, { "text": "But they had multiple mikes and they did do recognition, and they did do real conversations. But as far as I know they didn't offer that data to the community at this meeting.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Grad G" }, { "text": "But that could change cuz Mark you know, Mark's really into this. We should keep in touch with him.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Yeah. Well, once we send out.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "Yeah, I think.", "speakerName": "Postdoc H" }, { "text": "I mean, we still haven't sent out the first note saying \" hey, this list exists \". But but, uh, once we do that.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "Is that an action item?", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "Yeah. It's on I already added that one on my board to do that. So, uh uh, hopefully everybody here is on that list. We should at least check that everybody here?", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "I think everyone here is on the list.", "speakerName": "Grad G" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "I'm not.", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "u e e", "speakerName": "Postdoc H" }, { "text": "I think you are.", "speakerName": "Grad G" }, { "text": "We haven't sent anything to the list yet.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "Oh! OK.", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Postdoc H" }, { "text": "We're just compiling the list.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "I see.", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "I I added a few people who didn't who I knew had to be on it even though they didn't tell me.", "speakerName": "Grad G" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "Who specifically ask not to be.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Like Jane, for example.", "speakerName": "Grad G" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "You are on it, aren't you?", "speakerName": "Grad G" }, { "text": "Yeah, I am.", "speakerName": "Postdoc H" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "So, I w uh, just just for clarification. So \" found data \", they mean like established corpora of linguistics and and other fields, right?", "speakerName": "Postdoc H" }, { "text": "What they mean is stuff they don't have to fund to collect,", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "It sounds like such a t", "speakerName": "Postdoc H" }, { "text": "and especially good.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Yeah, OK.", "speakerName": "Postdoc H" }, { "text": "Well, I mean, \" found \" has, uh, also the meaning that's it very natural. It's things occur without any You know, the pe these people weren't wearing close - talking mikes, but they were recorded anyway, like the congressional hearings and, you know, for legal purposes or whatever.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "OK. But it includes like standard corpora that have been used for years in linguistics and other fields.", "speakerName": "Postdoc H" }, { "text": "Mark's aware of those, too.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "\" Hey, look what we found! \"", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "OK.", "speakerName": "Postdoc H" }, { "text": "That would be found data because they found it and it exists.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Hmm.", "speakerName": "Grad G" }, { "text": "Exactly.", "speakerName": "Postdoc H" }, { "text": "\" I found this great corpora. \" Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "They didn't have to collect it. Of course it's not \" found \" in the sense that at the time it was collected for the purpose.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "\" Psst. Want to buy a corpora? \"", "speakerName": "Grad G" }, { "text": "Yeah. OK, OK.", "speakerName": "Postdoc H" }, { "text": "But what he means is that You know, Mark was really a fan of getting as much data as possible from you know, reams and reams of stuff, of broadcast stuff,", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "That's interesting.", "speakerName": "Postdoc H" }, { "text": "web stuff,", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Postdoc H" }, { "text": "TV stuff, radio stuff. But he well understands that that's very different than these this type of meeting.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "It's not the same.", "speakerName": "Grad G" }, { "text": "But, so what? It's still it's interesting for other reasons.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "OK. Yeah. Just wanted to know.", "speakerName": "Postdoc H" }, { "text": "So, seems like we're winding down.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "Right? Many ways.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "You can tell by the prosody.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "So we should go go around and s", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "We should go around and say something interesting that happened at the meeting?", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Oh. Yes, we should do that.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "Rrrh!", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Now, I was already thinking about it, so.", "speakerName": "Grad G" }, { "text": "Oh! Good man.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "This is painful task.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "Hmm.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "I.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "So, um, I really liked the idea of what I thought was interesting was the combination of the CrossPad and the speech. Especially, um, the interaction of them rather than just note - taking. So, can you determine the interesting points by who's writing? Can you do special gestures and so on that that have, uh, special meaning to the corpora? I really liked that.", "speakerName": "Grad G" }, { "text": "Well, I I just realized there's another category of interesting things which is that, um, I I found this discussion very, uh, i this this question of how you get at queries really interesting. And and the and I and the fact that it's sort of, uh, nebulous, what what that what kind of query it would be because it depends on what your purpose is. So I actually found that whole process of of trying to think of what that would involve to be interesting. But that's not really a specific fact. I just sort of thought we we went around a nice discussion of the factors involved there, which I thought was worthwhile.", "speakerName": "Postdoc H" }, { "text": "I had a real revelation about taking pictures. I don't know why I didn't do this before and I regret it. So that was very interesting for me.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Postdoc H" }, { "text": "Did you take pictures of the boards?", "speakerName": "Grad G" }, { "text": "Not that I.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Postdoc H" }, { "text": "The boards aren't really related to this meeting. I mean, I will take pictures of them, but.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "That's a good point.", "speakerName": "Postdoc H" }, { "text": "They're related to this morning's meeting.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "But.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Postdoc H" }, { "text": "To the pre previous meeting. That's right.", "speakerName": "Grad G" }, { "text": "OK. Well, that's why I'll take pictures of them, then.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "I'm gonna pass because I can't I mean, of the Jane took my answer.", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "Ah!", "speakerName": "Grad G" }, { "text": "So.", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "Oh.", "speakerName": "Postdoc H" }, { "text": "Um, so I'm gonna pass for the moment but y come come back to me.", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "For the moment.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Pass.", "speakerName": "PhD B" }, { "text": "I think I think \" pass \" is socially acceptable. But I will say uh, I will actually uh, a spin on different slightly different spin on what you said, this issue of, uh, realizing that we could take minutes, and that actually may be a goal. So that that may be kind of the test in a sense, test data, uh, the the template of what we want to test against, generating a summary. So that's an interesting new twist on what we can do with this data.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "I agree with Jane and Eric. I think the question of how to generate queries automatically was the most interesting question that came up, and it's something that, as you said, is a whole research topic in itself, so I don't think we'll be able to do anything on it because we don't have funding on it, uh, in this project. But, um, it's definitely something I would want to do something on.", "speakerName": "Professor C" }, { "text": "I wonder if work's already been done on it.", "speakerName": "Grad G" }, { "text": "Like e expert systems and stuff,", "speakerName": "Postdoc H" }, { "text": "Hmm.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "or? Uh - huh.", "speakerName": "Postdoc H" }, { "text": "Well, being more management lately than than research, I think the thing that impressed me most was the people dynamics and not any of the facts. That is, I I really enjoyed hanging out with this group of people today. So that's what really impressed me.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "How are we gonna find that in the data?", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Well, if we had people wearing the wireless mikes all the time.", "speakerName": "Grad G" }, { "text": "Oh, yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Yeah, I think.", "speakerName": "Grad G" }, { "text": "Well, I mean, one thing you could search for is were people laughing a lot.", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Right? So.", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "How happy were they?", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "I'd probably search for something like that.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "That actually has come up a couple times in queries. I was talking to Landay", "speakerName": "Grad G" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "and that was one of his examples.", "speakerName": "Grad G" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "When when did people laugh?", "speakerName": "Grad G" }, { "text": "That's great.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Find me a funny thing that Jeff said. Yeah.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "So we need a laugh detector.", "speakerName": "Grad G" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Mm - hmm.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "Perfect.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Postdoc H" }, { "text": "Cuz that seems to be pretty common. Not in the congressional hearings.", "speakerName": "Grad G" }, { "text": "No.", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "Quiet sobbing.", "speakerName": "Grad G" }, { "text": "So I think we're done.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "OK.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "OK.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "Great.", "speakerName": "Professor A" }, { "text": "Great.", "speakerName": "PhD E" }, { "text": "OK.", "speakerName": "PhD F" }, { "text": "I think we're done.", "speakerName": "Grad G" }, { "text": "Great.", "speakerName": "Professor D" }, { "text": "h Do we need do I need to turn something off here, or I do unplug this, or?", "speakerName": "Postdoc H" }, { "text": "Now these we turn off. Right?", "speakerName": "Professor D" } ] }

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{ "meetingId": "ES2008d", "transcriptSegments": [ { "text": "Okay um, welcome to our detailed design meeting. I'm pretty excited. Let's start it's approximately fifteen forty or something like that. Okay um the agenda we're gonna do an opening and then um I'll talk about the minutes from the last meeting, what we d discussed um, then we'll have the prototype presentation and a look at the evaluation criteria. We'll look at the finances and finally a do a production evaluation and close. So, starting off with the um last the last one, oh I don't have it here um, but we talked about energy, we're gonna use a kinetic battery um, we want to use a simple chip, because we're not gonna need a a shuffle um, we're gonna need a scroll um, we're choosing a latex case w in fruity colours that's curved and um we're using push buttons uh with a supplement of an on-screen menu. And it sounded like we had set um like eight or nine buttons, including five pre-set channels. Okay? Let's do the look and feel design presentation first.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Right, do you wanna start?", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Right, well we made three different prototypes and I guess we'll start with with this one. Um we have our colours not are not fixed, but this is the general shape. Um it's you hold it sort of either like like this in your left hand or you switch it over and uh it's easily adaptable to either hand. You can push the buttons with your thumb like a mobile phone, or you can push them with your index finger of your other hand, or even I mean there's a whole variety, you can hold it like this and press it with your same index finger. Uh we have the on off button at the tip, very visible, very big. We have our up and down buttons, which are also gonna be our channel selectors, and we have our little menu button here. If you push if you're just pushing these normally, they're the menu buttons, if uh the volume buttons rather. If you press select once, they become channel changing buttons. If we press select three times, the menu with the other features and pro possibly also with your T_V_ channel choices shows up, and you have your five presets down here. Um if people wanna grab hold of that, see how it feels in your hand. That's our number one prototype. Um do you wanna present the potato,", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "like a little lightning in it.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "or shall I present the Martian?", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Okay,", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "The little lightning bolt in it, very cute.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "um What We call that one the rhombus,", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "I could.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "The v the rhombus rhombus?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "uh the rhombus.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "That's the rhombus, yep.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Um this one is known as the potato, uh it's", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "it's a.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "how can I present it? It's an ergonomic shape, so it it fits in your hand nicely. Um it's designed to be used either in your left hand or or in your right hand. Um I've gone here just for just for four buttons on this one. Um the two blue buttons here are for adjusting the volume. So you've got volume up and volume down on the other side here. Um the red ones are for uh changing channels, channel up and channel down and that's um moves between your favourite channels that you've selected. Uh this middle button here brings up the on-screen menu and when you're working in the on-screen menu you use the other four buttons to navigate around the menu system and the middle button uh to select and that's basically it, that's the potato.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Um on, off?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Uh that would be one of your channels, basically,", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "so like channel zero would be t to switch switch the machine off,", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah we turn it off.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Could the middle button of the on-screen menu function as a power button?", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Um not really,", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "it would make it hard to turn the machine off, to turn your T_V_ off.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "If you pressed and held it maybe.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah yeah, that that'd be one way of doing it, yeah. That'd work, yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "If you like held it down, that would be on off.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah. On off, that's a possibility, yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "And then finally we have um the Martian or the pear, either way. Um it's a bit different, just a little bit more of a creative feel. Uh you have the on off toggle stem on the top. We have the five preset seeds.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "And then you have on the sides to make it a little bit more three-dimensional, you have your channel changing, volume changing buttons and your menu button right here in the middle. So, that's for your consideration as well, plus it's an interesting talking point to have standing up.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Let's pass.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "We figured it could stand up like this on your table, if you wanted it to, if I made the bot the bottom flat..", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Uh-huh..", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Sorry, what's the yellow one in the middle,", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Uh the menu select button..", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "I forgot.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Very interesting. I think that one's my favourite.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "So that's So that's our three prototypes. Um basically, in terms of making decisions, what we'd need to do is first of all decide on a form uh which of the three different shapes we want, then decide what kind of button layout we want, how many buttons, and then to choose what colours we want to make the buttons and if we wanna put any text on the device, like label on the buttons or put a brand name or or a logo on it or whatever.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "We were we were thinking that normally we'd go for fruity colours, but maybe we're also thinking that your sort of middle aged man, for an example customer, might not want a fruity coloured remote, so m maybe we'd have one version that's a bit toned down,", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Mm'kay.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "maybe with with less contrasts on it. Yeah, something still a little bright to make it hard to lose, but.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Would Yeah, but we don't want it to look like a kids' toy.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Now that was one thing that we brought up over email. I don't know if you picked up your email, but um the f the um feature that we considered for it not getting lost.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Right. Well we were we were talking about that a little bit when we got that email and we think that each of these are so distinctive, that it it's not just like another piece of technology around your house. It's gonna be somewhere that it can be seen.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "So we're we're not thinking that it's gonna be as critical to have the loss.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "But if it's like under covers or like in a couch you still can't see it.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "It's really Would it be very difficult to um just have an external device that like I dunno, you tape to your to your T_V_ um that when you press it you ha a little light beep goes off? Do you think that would be conceptually possible?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "I think.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "I think it would be difficult technologically,", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "because if your if your remote's lost it's probably under the settee and in that case you can't you can't send an infrared sing signal to it to find it,", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "s so it's I'm not quite sure how it would work", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "That's true, mm'kay.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "and then I wonder if it's if it's more just a gimmick then anything else. Uh I mean ho how many times do you really, seriously lose your remote control and would would a device like that actually help you to find it?", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "There might be something that you can do in the circuit board and the chip to make it make a noise or something, but it would take a lot more development than we have this afternoon.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm. Okay, that's a fair evaluation. Getting lost. Um we so we do we've decided not to worry about that for now. Okay'cause well, the designs are very bright, so you're right, they're gonna stick out, but um.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "So d do people have a preference as far as feel and functionality? Um.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "I feel like this is simil or it's sort of what already exists so if we're trying to think of something sort of like new and fun, even though this is like what you're init I'm initially drawn to, just'cause it's like comfortable and like not different. I sort of like this one, like I I don't know why, it just it's like small but still sort of like cute looking, I dunno. But I also like the b the side buttons on that one, like I think that's kind of neat.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "But I dunno how much any of this has to do with the fashionable, sort of cool looking thing that we also need to focus on.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Could we maybe have like an extra button on the top for on off? So then w we wouldn't have to have like a dual function?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm yeah,", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah, it's possible, yeah, yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Ah,", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "that's good, that's good.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "there we go.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Here, stick it on.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Put an extra the button on.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Sure.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Um uh why don't we do a product evaluation using your criteria, if you've developed some?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Well do we w like I think we're supposed to have one that we do it for.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Oh okay. Okay.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "That was.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "So where.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "I was a little vague on what exactly I'm supposed to do, but let me I have to like write something on the whiteboard, so.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Okay. Do you need this", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "or just write on the white board?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "No, I actually don't have like a PowerPointy thing,", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "'cause I think it would be redundant.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "I dunno.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "It's kind of like uh like a joystick kind of thing,", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Ooh.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "you know,", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Cool.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "kinda push it.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Hey.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "'Kay.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Maybe a little smaller than that.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "No, I kinda like it.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "That's hard to miss.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "It makes look more fruity as well.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Oh it does,", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "it's kind of like.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "It's like a deformed foot, I dunno..", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "There it could have a stem like that,'cause I do l kind of like the stem.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Like.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah. It almost helps you ge keep a grip too,'cause it goes in between fingers.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Interesting.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "I like this one.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Okay,", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Variety of colours are nice.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "is that where people are leaning then, the potato? I like the idea of the.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "I think I'm leaning towards the potato.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "I mean that's really gotten the simplicity of the buttons down, that one.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm. I am worried about like um using a menu. Um in that like i withing menus there are submenus, and so how do you get back to the main menu?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Hmm.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Well that on the iPod, for example, you just every time you wanna go back you hit the menu button again and it brings you back one level.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "But that has a menu button separate from a select button, whereas if this one's both the menu and the select button?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Good point.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "This is, it's the up and down buttons are used for scrolling up and down for a list of choices.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "You find the choice that you want and you press uh you press the right button uh.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Could these be used for going to submenus", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah. Yeah, so they're used for going into and out of your submenus, yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "or.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Maybe yeah,", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "maybe it can be one of those, if you press down and hold for two seconds, then it brings you back one level or something.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm. Okay. Well, as long as we have that in mind as we're designing it still, mm'kay.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Okay, so which one are we sort of roughly looking at to address whether or not it meets our s um necessities, the yellowy one is that.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "The potato? Are we leaning towards the potato?", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Potato.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "I think so.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Okay, well we can obviously change it after we go through each different one.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "So basically what we need to do is some of the things that we've talked about before we need to make sure that that remote actually does conform to the things that we said it was going to.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "So what we sort of wanna do is that we each need to separately rank each of the following things and then I'll tabulate an average just to make sure that it does meet that.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "So we'll just go through them one at a time and we'll just go around and each of you can tell me on a scale of one to seven with one being really extremely true and seven being not true at all, or false, if the remote that we've created conforms to the following criteria. So we can do this one first. First we wanna know if it meets the fancy look and feel um objective. So like in my opinion the for now at least, the yellow one is probably somewhere in the middle so I'm gonna say it's like a three. That's just my opinion.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "What does each of you.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "I I kind of think it's it's unique enough that I'd give it a one or a two.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Okay, well give it a number,", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "sorry.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "I will give it a one.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Um I dunno if it's it's creative. I dunno if fancy is the word I would use. I dunno if any of them are fancy in I'd say two, because c unique.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "I'll go for two.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "And two, awesome. Alright, and same sort of scale for functionality, is it functional? I think it's extremely functional, I'm gonna give it a one.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah, one.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "One?", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "I think it's it's functional, it's also pretty basic, so I'll give it a two.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Um functional. I think it'll get everything done, I think it might be a little confusing at first, um, I don't know if that's gonna be a later one.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Okay. Well there's some other ones, I will address that,", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Okay, then I'm gonna give it a two.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "yeah. Awesome, okay. Um we wanna know next if it's technologically innovative.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Did you give a functional?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah, she said it was one.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Um is it technologically innovative? Mm. Not really, I mean not so much,'cause we we don't have the L_C_D_ screen, we don't have fancy chip. Other than what it looks like, I dunno if it's really.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Well, the kinetic battery.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "In the battery, that's it.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "I kinetic battery is a big one, so.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "How many people would notice that, though?", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Mm. But it.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "But they'll notice it after like a year,", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "but we know it's there.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "they'll be like hey, I have never changed the battery.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "And if it's made of like latex, that whole idea, that's pretty cool.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Mm. Just the material.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "I'll give it a three.'Cause it we could've picked a lot of features that would've made it really.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah. I I would say that it's Yeah, like fancy versus creative it's it's different. But does that equal innovative? I dunno. I'll give it a three.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Alright. Everyone else?", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "I'd say it's technologically it's not it's not unique, I mean it's it's just it is just pushbuttons um, so I I'd give it a four.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Think I'm gonna go with the four as well.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm'kay.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "I really like that kinetic battery though.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Next, is it easy to use? Just so you know, easy to learn will be separate,", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Mm'kay.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "so don't overlap them.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "I think it's really easy to use. I'll give it a two.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Um I'll give it a one. Pretty hard to mess up.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "I'll say one.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Uh let's say two.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Alright. Um we next wanna see if it has a spongy quality", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "and if indeed it's made of latex or rubber I it's spongy all the way..", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Give it a one.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "I wonder if it bounces when you drop it.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Ooh, that you couldn't.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "it'd be harder to break,", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "harder to lose..", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "'Cause there would be less impact maybe,.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Iain, what do you give it?", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "I'd I'd give it a one.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Alright and the next is, does it integrate some notion of fruits and vegetables?", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Uh um.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Well, is it gonna be yellow?", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "It it might be,'cause that's our corporate colour, isn't it?", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "That's right, yeah, corporate colour, we didn't keep that in.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "um well", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "We might wanna keep it yellow.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "if we I know it would make it a little less c a little more confusing, but if we had all the buttons in black, and a design in and the outside in yellow, that'd be our corporate one and we could also have alternative colours, one a more conservative one, one that's more fruity.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah, but if you had like a silvery kind of white or something.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah,.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Um and can we have like an R_R_ inscribed on the bottom or something?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "If we had a yellow Sure.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Oh, yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Fruity, so fruity.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "So.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Alright, so I think it it's.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "it was inspired by the potato, so I think it's pretty fruity.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "I think i it's kind of mangoey too.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Oh, mango", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Mangoey is better, yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yes.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "I.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "that that.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "I like mangoes.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "okay, I'm giving it a one the mango put me over.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "That's a much more trendy than a potato.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "What are what's everyone's numbers?", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "one.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Uh two.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "One.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Alright um, and does the design match the appropriate behaviour? Remember earlier we discussed that people don't use a lot of buttons, that they use the channel flipping and the volume the most. I think we really took that into account a lot, so I'm gonna give it a one.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah, me too.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Uh one.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Did you say one, Rose?", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yes.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Okay um, also we talked earlier about R_S_I_ and wanting to prevent um any sort of like Carpal Tunnely kind of thing. Do we think that the latex sort of grip appropriately takes that into account? I think I'll give it a two,'cause I almost feel like no matter what you do, something is gonna happen.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "It's gonna be hard.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah, yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "And if it's repetitive movement it is gonna be only four buttons that you're constantly pushing, but um.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Um um worth the risk, I think.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "I like how it fits in the hand though so I I'd go with a two.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah. I'll I'll say two as well. Because older people that aren't used to like texting with the thumb might find it a bit at first,", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "'Kay.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "but.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah I'll I'll say two.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Alright, awesome. And the ease of learning it. I know you were saying that you're a little bit nervous about that, I dunno. It sort of reminds me of the iPod. I just got mine, I still haven't read the instruction book and I'm doing okay, so.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "and I'm not good at learning technology. So I'll give it a two.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "The menu system and the the fact that multiple buttons are used for different things might be a bit confusing, but I think if it's one it's one of those things that it might take you five minutes to figure out, but you'll have it afterwards.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "So I'd I think I'd give it a two I guess.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "I think it it's probably a little harder then most remotes to learn, because you have to you have to use the menu system and you have to tell it what your favourite channels are", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Oh, good point.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "and that could take a bit of learning at first, but", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "once you've, yeah once you'd learned how to use it, I think it is a lot easier. So I'd I'd give it a four.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "I think I'd give it a four too. It's a pretty high learning curve, it'll be easy once you've done it, but.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm. Alright, um also earlier we had something about losing it and so now we're not addressing that at all, so.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "We we.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "I think we can kind of say we addressed it with colour, but.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Okay, so in terms of not losing it, do you think that on a scale of one to seven, how easy or hard is it to lose? I'm gonna I'm gonna give it a four,'cause I think that you can still if it's in between somewhere where you can't see it, you're kind of not gonna find it,", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "but anywhere else it's gonna stand out.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Um I'd say I'd give it uh a three, I guess it depends on how tidy you are normally.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Mm I'd give it a four.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Um I'll give it a five'cause i it would be easy to lose something like that, yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Small too.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Alright, we also said simplicity, how w how well does it address just being simple?", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Simple to use or simple in design? Do you know?", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "I think overall,'cause we had said before our two main things were simplicity and fashion,", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "so those are the next two things we're gonna look at. Separate from fancy, like that sort of thing.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Um it like wants to be simple but it's not like totally totally simple, so I'm gonna give it a two.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "I'm give it a three I guess.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "I'll give it a two.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Three.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Alright, and fashionable?", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "It's totally fashionable. I'd give it a one.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "It's hot, I mean it's a mango, come on.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Mango.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "I mean how fashionable can you make a remote? I think it's bringing technology and fashion together real really well.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "I dunno.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "I don't think it's quite as fashionable as my robot remote", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "I do like uh the little Martian one..", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "or alien or whatever he was.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah, the toggle on off switch, it's really appealing.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Number.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Um two.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Three.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "One.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "And does it meet our like demographic need sort of for international appeal, that whole thing? Just that it would se serve our audience. I don't see why not.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm. I think as long if we offer in a in at least three different colour arrangements. Um yeah, that's good.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "So I'll give it a a two.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah, I'll say two.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Alright, did anyone have any other features that they think were important that we didn't talk about?", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Well um we didn't we didn't address the fact that it does need to b have a corporate logo, so let's let's make sure we keep that in mind that we ha that one of our colours concepts is corporate and has an R_R_ on it.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Shall we uh Well I think all of them should have an R_R_.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "All of them should have R_R_, yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "And so we're gonna do that, so it will address it,", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm. Mm'kay.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "fine. Okay.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Lovely.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "That's me.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Okay, now we're gonna look at finances. Um I have an Excel sheet that we're actually gonna calculate the cost um, so let me exit out of this first. Okay um.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Oh my..", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Whoa.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "I know. Let me one more space. Gonna zoom in real quick. Okay. Hand dynamo. We're using kinetic battery,", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Uh we're n using kinetic, yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "right? Um and we're having one per One, okay.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Um electronics.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Single.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Simple.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Simple, simple rather.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Simple.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Mm'kay. Um the case.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Uh uh uh double-curved.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Guess it's double-curved. It is pretty curvy.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "It's very curvy,", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "so okay..", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah I never did get a picture of those so I don't really know. Our case material supplements oops, we just skipped by them.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Well don't we need plastic, and.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "No, we we the plastic is the plastic for the inside is assumed. The supplement is.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Provided, okay.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "The wood?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Oh, I guess it was rubber rather than latex.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "I mean the rubber.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "It was rubber and special colour, right?", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm, okay.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Do we have more than one special colour?", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah, we're using we're gonna need at least two special colours.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Uh well.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Special colours, isn't it?", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Um.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "I don't know what the se the basic colour is though.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Per.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "I dunno where it yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Well, but we know that we're having at least three colours,", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "So let's y say three.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "so.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Well, are we talking about on each colour combination or are we, you know, we'll like we'll have yellow and black. Is that two special colours?", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah, I dunno. That I thi", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Or or is white and black, then two more or.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "I thought that would be under yours.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Uh. I guess it's three,", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "We'll just say three.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "three three.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Maybe the R_R_ will be in colour as well,", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Alright.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "so yeah. Interface, we're doing push buttons. And how many buttons do we have?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "We have six.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "We've got five.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Six.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Six, with the power.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Oh.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Oh", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "six.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "no, five..", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Anything else?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah. No. Oh, we'll do we wa Are the buttons in special colour, special f I didn't get information on.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Oh,", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Oh wait.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "buttons oh, so um. So the case material will just have one colour, right,", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Well,", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "but then the buttons will be in special colours?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "does it.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "but if we're making multiple varieties of this is where I'm getting confused.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "We're saying per unit.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "per unit, okay, okay.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah, per unit.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Okay, so each unit will only have one colour on their.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Alright, and each button s", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "but the case is could have up to thr I mean the buttons could ea could be up to three colours,'cause that how it's designed there.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "I like it like that.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "So.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah, okay.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Special form? They're all kind of just push button,", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "No,", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "right?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "I think they're fine.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Special material?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Material, we want them rubber as well probably, yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Uh. Oh do I have to do it per button, do I?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "No, I don't think so. I think they're.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "if they're all gonna be rubber then it that's what it matters.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah,'cause it wouldn't make sense otherwise,", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "'cause for the whole mat case material it's only one.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "It's I mean it's two to make it rubber.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Oh wait, so maybe.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Thirteen point seven.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Oh oh.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah, what can we reduce?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Okay, let's have our buttons all be one colour.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Mm, I kind of like the buttons.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Let's see what that would do. It's only gonna bring us down to thirteen point three anyway.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Alright.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Okay um, are we sure this is double-curved?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Uh.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Maybe it's single-curved,", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "We have no idea.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "we have no idea.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "I dunno, I didn't get any pictures. It's single curved.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "It's single curved.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Why not?", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Well it's not the yeah. Okay, it's the kinetic battery that's kind of expensive, but we have a simple chip, single curve,", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "case material is rubber and it's a special colour,", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "but that's important. Six buttons we have to have six buttons.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "That is important. How did it get more expensive, what did you just change?", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "What?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "It was it was thirteen and now it's fifteen.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "No, okay, maybe not. I don't know what just happened. Now it's twelve.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "We", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "What was our target price again?", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Twelve point five.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Twelve point five. Hey hey.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Twelve point five. So we're just just about there.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "So we're okay, I think.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "We're all set then.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Ish.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Okay, we're all set.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Alright.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Um save. I saved that to our um our big shared folder, so you know. Um okay, back to agenda. Um are the are the costs under twelve fifty Euro? Yes.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yes.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah, they are.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Let's move on to the project evaluation. Project process. Satisfaction with for example the room for creativity, leadership, teamwork, the means, any new ideas found. So I guess what we're gonna talk about here is just evaluating how we created this project, the information we got on the news, how we used it, if we were able to um, you know, use our creativity with the information, um how how well I guess I led it, um the how well we worked together as a team, um the digital pens, the whiteboard.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Okay.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Well. I felt very creative..", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "I think we've been successful", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "I enjoyed making the prototypes.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "in that we've achieved almost all of the design goals that we've set.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "and we've come up with a finished project and we just about got cost.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "I think we could've done even better with a little bit more information,", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "like what's a single-curved case, how many colours, what do colours count", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "things, but given given what we had I think that we did we did really well. Um I think we worked together pretty well.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah, I mean if I'd had more market research on the fruits and vegetables, maybe we could've taken that into account.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "But the fruits and vegetables, they really my creativity, so.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "I know, I really did, the the whole mango idea was great.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Do you think we could.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "No, I mean I thought the pen was a little distracting for me personally, like its heaviness, and like just being so conscious of like turning the pages, I dunno. That was a bit of a distraction.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "That was the last one, like I chose not to do a PowerPoint'cause I didn't think it made sense to, so I liked that I had the option to do that and just to take my own notes and that whole sort of thing.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm. I think we all made um very significant contributions,", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "I don't think anybody dominated it, which I thought was really good, like each of us was able to um like each of you had your information and I uh I tried to facilitate it without like taking over, um.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "I like our little finished products.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Can we market this as the mango remote?", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "They're funny.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Really cute.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "I kind of want one.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Should we have that somewhere on the packaging? I have a little R_R_.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "I'm trying to think of a good pun that I could add there.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "I know,", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "let's think of it like a little jingle.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Um.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "I like the R_R_, that's gonna be etched in.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yes. Hopefully not with just my fingernail at some point but um it's quite a useful little gadget. All thanks to Iain for the design of that one.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": ". Okay um", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm. What did we find for new ideas?", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "new ideas found?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "People should really base their remotes on fruits and vegetables.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Definitely. Or or at least be c p creative enough to think of toggle switches mm", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "etcetera.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "I I am really into the idea of kinetic batteries now after reading about them.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Oh, I'm so excited.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "That was.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah, I didn't even know they existed.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "I I knew you can get watches that had them, like really quite expensive watches that just never need a battery,'cause you're always moving your wrist.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "But in other things, I think it'd be really good.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "I thi yeah, that's awesome. Um okay, closing. Are the costs within the budget? Is the project evaluated?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yes.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Now there's the final questionnaire and meeting summary. Um so, this is the great product kids, I think we've created something really interesting and that we have a market for it, um especially if we can produce it at twelve point three", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "which we hope um yeah. Make sure in your questionnaire to put down criticisms of both the process and the um the final results and.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah, Real Reaction.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "I do like the Martian remote.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "If we could choose more than one, that would be my second choice.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Oh, that would definitely be my second choice.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Although the tog toggle", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "I'm afraid I would.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "That's cool. Let's all let's all go for the yellow.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "I would break it. I would break it.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "It's cool. I think I would break it.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "It started because I wanted to have it as st as a stem", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Break the stem off.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "and then alright, so.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Oh that's funny.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Is it started as a pear, but then it started looking more and more like a Martian", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Oh", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "when I put the.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Kind of looks like a penguin, like with no eye.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Take me to your leader..", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "yeah, it's kind of a penguin.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "I like that it stands up.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Mm-mm.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Wow, maybe I should market it to some remote control company now.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "So are are.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "That was bound to happen.$", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Oh, sad.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "poor little thing..", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Mm'kay, congratulations. Um. Anything else to say?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Nothing will come up until after our meeting's supposed to be over,", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Alright.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "its all timed.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Um anybody have.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Oh.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Oh..", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "I got more master classes, anybody else wanna like take a master's class?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "It's really funny that you got spam in your work emails.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah, but check it out. So like there are all these like links, they don't go anywhere.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "But all that you need to keep in mind your knowledge management. Um just wanna make sure you do.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "No the first one that you sent like I didn't realise that it was a joke and I was like why did she send this to us?", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Oh.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "It's very it's very work relevant,", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "It is.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "'cause people send spam a lot.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yes definitely.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Let's see,", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "I'm very sad that I didn't get any links to the corporate website..", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Oh here you can you can view.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "what did I get through the corporate website? It's just inspiration about circuit boards.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "You can just see what's up.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Wow.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah it's it's really deep. Hold on. Takes a little while to get excited to load. That the Excel thing is pretty cool.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yes.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah, that is pretty neat.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "I love Excel,", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Here, like, basically", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "it's one of my favourite programs.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "it's like inspiration, basically I'm gonna give you two sentences on fashion and that kind of thing, see. You didn't miss out that much.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "I see, mm.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah, my inspiration from from last time is the in interior of a remote control being taken apart bit by bit, talking about circuit boards.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Spongy.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "I learned a lot actually.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "I could probably take apart a remote control now if I really needed to.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Oh wow. This one was cooler. I got a whole table and everything.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Now I have all about circuits and chips and transponders and I wrote it all down, because I thought it would be relevant, like all the different parts of the inside of a remote control, but then they're like, you don't actually need this you just need to talk about the case.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "That's like mine it was like, would you prefer an L_C_D_ screen or a multifunction remote control? And then it didn't have like any kind of table, like awesome, I'm glad they asked that question and didn't report the result.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "I I thought it was a little tricky having to hand around this thing.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "It's really interesting though. Yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "We had a lot of the um otherwise the technology today was kinda cool.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "I think. Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "That was really neat how I got emails", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "and.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "We didn't we didn't use the whiteboard that much.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "No.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "No.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Although I don't see how we could have very l at least for me", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "I yeah. If I'd gotten pictures of the different parts of the case, the different looks of the case, I would have probably drawn them up,", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "but.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "'Cause we weren't like voting on anything and I think usually, like whiteboards are good, you know like crossing out ideas, or like if we had had like a brainstorming period.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah, we could've put our brainstorming stuff up there rather than just talking about it,", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "but with only four people it doesn't really make sense.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "But I thought we were good orally.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "And with and with the PowerPoint that we can all look at, like you can do all those things pretty much on PowerPoint", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "I think if you had a larger group.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Get crazy.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "as that's not as necessary to have.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "And these might've made us more willing to like take notes than to like write up them here,", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "'cause we all needed them separately, kind of on the whiteboards in this room.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Because we're all gonna be working in different places.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "We if we were all gonna stay in here all the time, then having the notes up on the whiteboard would've been alright,", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "but everyone needs their own, like specific notes, I guess.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Now when you were um creating your um prototypes here, did you work together or did you like do separate projects?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Uh we we worked together,", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "um but we were making like we sort of made different shapes and then discussed how the how the buttons might work,", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "um and how we could like improve on the on the design.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "So it was a bit of both really, we just kind of started out by each taking a colour of clay and just fooling around with it and I came up with that rhombus shape", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "and he came up with the sort of potatoey, mangoey shape, and then just went from there really.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Cool.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "It was fun. So well done with the management, I felt well managed.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Oh thanks.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "I think we did well in first of all giving our meetings the time,", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "It's kinda fun.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "and second we actually we we did a good job of making firm decisions at the ends of the meetings.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "And I.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Sorry..", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "That happened to me all the time though.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "I know what happens sometimes is that you tend to sort of have meetings and then people sorta drift away without anything actually really being decided.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "But I think here we got we got clear and and decisive decisive points at the end of the meetings, so that we we knew where to go on from there.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Yeah, I was quite worried at the end of the last meeting that we weren't getting we didn't really have enough information to make firm decisions,", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "but we were able to do it regardless, so. I'm not usually a very decisive person, so it helped to have people say this needs to be done in five minutes.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "This is what we'll do.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "I found that we did we could have used another five or ten minutes sometimes in the meetings.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Especially last time,", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah, for some of the meetings, yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah I think the last time we had a lot of information, but at the same time not quite enough,", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah,.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "you know what I mean,", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "like we we couldn't answer every single question.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Um but.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Right. And I I felt the first two meetings, that I was coming in with no information,", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "and not sort of made me really like, ooh I don't know, throwing together PowerPoint out of no no information and then last time it was like the opposite. I had so much information and so much to talk about.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "It was interesting what came out like later, like as I was doing the when I was doing the breakdown on the agenda that they gave me um, that more points came out from your presentation even.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah. Mm.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Um. I'm a little I am a little disappointed that we didn't do a um something for losing the remote, because that was kind of a big point.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah. that was something like in order to talk about that we would've had to have actual knowledge about circuit boards and things like.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "About yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Well the problem was, even when we just were creating from the Excel file, there wasn't like a option to select to somehow have it included,", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "so there was no we could be like yeah, it has it included.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "I think we were.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "There was no way for us to have", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Considered the re", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "written down that it was really there.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "I think we were just getting overenthusiastic with the task.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Well", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "it's interesting that they.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "I think we really got into it, I mean I got into it as the day went on and I got really like, ooh I'm designing a remote control, I dunno if that's just me,", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm, yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "but.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "It was interesting though that they put that fifty percent of people say they have frustration with losing their remote and yet they didn't provide us with information to um we weren't provided with information to discuss that.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "I know that like people people have like things they can put on their keys that you press it and it'll beep, but I but I'm sure that would require some kind of technology", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "that I just don't know what it is, but.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "I think there are some of those like infomercial remotes that have things so you won't lose them.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "I dunno. I mean we were talking about it and like i in my household at least, there's only about two places that the remote is ever", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Hmm.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "'cause there's only one T_V_ and there's only like three chairs.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "That's like saying you're never gonna lose your keys, and I always do, anyway. You'll lose'em in your pocket,", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "like you just will forget that or you like put it down somewhere that like made sense and then not remember,", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "there's always ways to lose things.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "It d yeah, it depends on how organised you are personally, but.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah, or like I guess what the setup of the house is too.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "But, I mean I am notorious for losing my keys,", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "I just I guess I've just never lost the remote. I put my keys in the refrigerator the other night and couldn't find them.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "'Cause I was putting groceries away.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "That's funny.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Oh.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "You you're taking stuff from a bag and putting them in the refrigerator and then go back to my room.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Can't get in..", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Can't get in, look all around the kitchen. Definitely in the vegetable drawer.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "That's funny.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "So.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "I always do that, leaving it in my coat, and then like using a different coat.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yep.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "But I guess it's'cause we don't carry remotes around that much.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah. Can't really take it into the other room.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah. Maybe with our little robot one we could've had him have a robot, alien, pear, whatever he is, have a little voice like, I am located.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Oh a G_P_S_ system, internal G_P_S_.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Oh man. Here you go.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "We should make one that walks by itself..", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Although if it's sitting still for too long. Yes I.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "That really could get up and walk away.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Or or like some crazy like electro-magnet, that you push it and it'll go zoom to the T_V_ and stick there..", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Or little Or just just a wheel, you know.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Just if you like you'd have a remote for your remote, that'll..", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "User Interface" }, { "text": "Well, but if you could attach them to the T_V_, then you can.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "zoom Yeah. Hmm. All kinds of possibilities.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Mm. Okay. Sorry, I'm just um trying to update my minutes. I decided to you know how I sent you the email saying that PowerPoint minutes will be complimentary, rather than like repeating them.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Just gonna make I'm making full minutes, so that it'll include all of the agenda and all that.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Oh.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "'Cause that seems a little more useful.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Wow.'Cause you've had like the most typing and organising to do.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "But I didn't have like information to sloth through either, so.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah, I guess How much of your PowerPoint was already done for you, every meeting.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Most of it, mm-hmm. I added slides, um I added a couple slides each time,", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Oh.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "but that was about it.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Okay. Yeah, I didn't even think about adding slides,'cause I would just get slides with titles on them", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Mm.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "and fill them all in w didn't even think about adding more.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Well, the thing was they would provide y an agenda with s like several points, but it wouldn't have a slide for each point. And that's the only way I remember that I need to go other that point.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Ah yeah..", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "I know personally when I do PowerPoint, that's what I do and so I had it once, even if it was just like the title of it, like the three presentations, and I would do your three.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Right.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "You have you have to have the slogan on it or can it just be like.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "The slogan on it?", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "No, no, definitely not.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "No no no.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Okay good.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "We.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "'Cause I was like, it could go around the outside..", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "No, I don't think we need to.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "I think we just need the um the R_R_,", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "I think the R_ and R_, especially if the yellow and black one.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "yeah.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Is it yellow and blue?", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Or yellow and blue. Lemme go to the web page.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Yeah, I was just kinda going by the web page,'cause they didn't give me any clear, like yellow, grey, or.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Oh I guess it is black, grey. Grey is better than black, doesn't look so bumblebeeish.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "I don't really like yellow in general.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Hey now I understand the random like newsclippings.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "But it.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Finish meeting now..", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Wasn't it interesting that um I thought it was interesting that our market marketing um expert did not agree with the marketing um", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yes.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "the marketing choices,", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "you know, like", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "I will", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "that was a bit of a conflict.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "I just feel like if you're really doing like a a really big market evaluation, you wouldn't just have like one set of source,", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "it's kind of an they were so not backed up, it would just be a sentence like we did a survey, this is what people said.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "S mm, I dunno.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "People are stupid.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "I guess it i it sort of a grey, isn't it? Yellow and grey, but then the slogan's in blue.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Well we got some grey and we got some blue buttons, we're good.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Yeah. Well we don't have the right colour clay anyway.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Maybe, like I don't know. That could always be.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Well we're not, sadly, going to actually be producing this, so.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "Oh.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "If they ever come out with potato.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Potato mango shaped remotes.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "I'm gonna have to.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "I'm claiming it intellectual property.", "speakerName": "Project Manager" }, { "text": "Yeah.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "I can't believe a whole day is gone. I don't feel like it's been that long.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" }, { "text": "I know.", "speakerName": "Marketing" }, { "text": "Get sucked in. Mm I haven't gotten questionnaire eight yet.", "speakerName": "Industrial Designer" } ] }

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